Heya, everybody, I'm back with yet another chapter!  I hope you all liked the last one, and sorry about the shortness of all of the chapters- I wrote the whole fic out first and am now copying and pasting sections of it into individual chapters. It makes for good chapters, but damn, are they short! -.-; Well, here's number 6! Enjoy! Oh, yeah, and Happy Anniversary, mom and dad!

WARNING: This fic is more mature than what I usually write. It's more mature than PG-13 (T), but I don't think it's enough to be rated an R (M). This meaning, there is no lemon, but there are innuendoes and mature conversations in existence. If you feel that the rating needs to go up, please tell me so in either a review or an e-mail.

WARNING 2: Ummm, I don't think that there's any other stuff in here… Except Chrono getting hit in the head… (Blinks, wondering if she should tell them to skip this chapter or not)

Disclaimer: See chapter 1 or chapter 5.

Return to Times of Yore
By GundamWingFanatic90
Submitted: 19 October 2005

Present Day, Chrono

"Elder, how's it going?" I asked as I poked my head into the old man's lab, a tray of food balanced on one of my hands. He poked his head out of the large machine that he was working on, a triumphant grin on his face.

"Terrific!" he crowed. "After six months, I have finally managed to trace Rosette's Astral signal back to the day before you came and kidnapped- for lack of better word- Magdalene, and I've built a machine that can send you, my boy, back after her and bring her here again!" I nearly dropped the tray in shock.

"REALLY?" I shouted. I was ecstatic as the Elder nodded.

"Yes. I just have to test it, now… but what with?" he mused to himself. I thought for a second, and then, with an excited gasp, began to unload the tray onto a nearby table.

"Use this, Elder!" I exclaimed. He laughed, and powered up the machine as I tied a rope around the tray. A white, glowing portal opened up in the center of the room, and, with the Elder's nod, I threw the sheet of wood into the portal, keeping a hold of the end of the long rope. In a second, I felt a sharp tug, and I pulled on the line, bringing it back, only to have it crash into my face, sopping wet. When the dull pain in my nose subsided, I pulled the serving dish off of my face to look at it, only to be met with shock as there appeared a ring, caught on the tied part of the twine.

"What is it, what is it?" the Elder asked excitedly behind me. I pulled the ring off and showed it to him.

"I lost this ring at Eden… 54 years ago."

Okay, another shortie there. I think I'll post the next one, too, just 'cause this one was so very short. And for anyone who is wondering how the ring came back through with the tray, it got caught onone of the knots in the rope. Okay, hope that cleared everything up.Please click the clicker on that little clickery button in the bottom-left hand corner of the screen, mmmkay?

-Fanatic