A Dark Cloud 2 Fanfic
Chapter 2: The Ever-Changing Present----By The Several
The Several: I saw your comment, Pug Dragon. Whoops, sorry! I forgot to mention that Pug Dragon's fanfic, An Unmentioned Coupling,was the inspiration to my story. Ahem! (reads from script) Pug Dragon. Is. The. One. Who. Started. All. Of. This… Without. Pug Dragon. I. Wouldn't. Have. Written. This. Fanfic. At. All... Pug Dragon. Is. The… (wait, what is this? Oww! Okay, okay!)… Is. The. Greatest. Everything. Ever. (did I read this right?)
There! I wrote your recognition of power! Don't burn me!
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"What?" Gerald asks in surprise.
"You heard us. We want the Atlamillia," said the male stranger in reply.
'Is this what father warned me about? The greedy ones who wanted the stone?' Gerald thought as the strangers came closer. "There's no way you're getting your hands on this!"
The female stranger then spoke: "Oh, don't worry. You're coming with us." With a quick dash, the nameless girl poised to take the stone from him. Gerald was too taken by surprise to evade that the stranger was able to get her hands on the Atlamillia.
But at that moment, the stone flashed and flashed with the brightness of the sun, surprising both Gerald and the two strangers. In an instant, the female attacker was strongly repelled back, as if a force field suddenly enveloped the boy and his father's stone.
The male stranger smirked. "…So it's the real thing."
The female looked at her hand that touched the stone, as she felt like it was lightly burnt. "It would appear so. The same thing happened to me when I touched yours."
"Yours?" Gerald asks confusingly.
The male stranger nodded at Gerald, as he shows a similar stone with a blue color. Gerald gasps in shock and awe.
"A… Another Atlamillia?"
"That's right," replied the female stranger. "We hold one of the three Atlamillias. Only the ones chosen by the Atlamillia can touch it. He and you were chosen by the Moon Atlamillias, which is why—"
"--I know exactly how this works now!" Gerald interrupted. "Since you can't touch my stone, then there's absolutely no way you can get it! I'm not going to give up my father's stone!"
The male stranger sighed to his female partner. "We have no time for this…"
The female stranger replied, "You should have known it wasn't going to be so easy."
"Which is why we're going to have to take him with us!" the nameless man replies as he dashes over to Gerald. "As a chosen one, I also have the power to touch your Atlamillia! So you're going to have to come with us forcefully… conscious or not!"
His attacker tries to hit him in the face to knock him down, but as he was expecting an attack this time, he quickly out-maneuvers him and evades sideways.
"You're pretty fast… So I guess I have to resort to this!" The stranger takes out his knightsword and aims it at Gerald with a clash. With a quick dash, he aims for Gerald's head with the blunt side of his sword to strike him unconscious.
Gerald, unable to block, instead, uses his Atlamillia to block his attack. With a bright red light, the male stranger was thrown away to the ground by the deflecting force field. The stranger tries to get back up, and try again.
"Stop that, you two!" said the strange girl as she got in-between them. "We have no time for this!"
"How do you suggest we handle this then?" asked her partner as he crossed his arms.
"I'll handle this," she says as she walks closer to Gerald.
"Stay back!" Gerald shouts at her as he backs off step by step.
"Please… Don't run away," she tried to reply as softly as she could. "We can explain."
"You're friend there tried to knock me out with his sword and you have the nerve to try and explain?"
The girl looks back at her partner, as he was still groggy from the Atlamillia's deflection. She looks back to Gerald and says, "He's not usually like that. He's just… frustrated."
"You and me both," Gerald sighed. "Alright… I'll hear whatever you have to say."
"Good!" the girl replied, much cheerful than she was before. "Now… First off, we're from the future."
"….."
"……"
"….That's it! I'm outta here!" Gerald stomps off.
"No, wait! I'm serious!" replies the girl desperately.
Gerald looks back to her. "And how can you prove that? Hmmm?"
"We can't prove that right now. Not yet."
Gerald felt insulted far enough and starts to walk away again. "Then I guess this discussion's over."
As Gerald walks away, he replies, "I can't believe anyone like you could be so insensitive! I just lost my dad and you want to take his keepsake!… And all that nonsense about the future!… Just leave me alone…"
Before he gets far, the girl stops him by the arm. He looks back as the girl replies, "Please… If you'd allow us, we can prove to you what we claim…"
Gerald thinks about it for a minute, and then sighs. "Alright… I can't resist pretty girls anyway."
He then looks to the two strangers. "At least… tell me your names."
The male stranger stands up and the two nods at each other and introduces themselves.
"My name is Basil, heir to the Reybrandt throne."
"And I'm Elena, an elite from the ChronoCommand."
"And we're here… to change history."
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NEXT CHAPTER: The two strangers' identities are finally revealed… as Monica's father and Max's mother! How can they prove they're from the future, and what is Gerald's involvement with it?
The Several: I'm not sure if they gave Monica's father an actual name, so I made my own. If anyone knows his real name (if there actually is), please tell me, and I'll change it right away.