A/N: It's been awhile folks. I can't remember if I addressed the 3 people who reviewed this story. Thanks for the good reviews. You've encouraged me to go on (although I wasn't actually discouraged from continuing), your reviews made me happy.
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I finally finished this chapter that I've been working on for so long. It's been like 2 years since I started this and I couldn't decide between point A and point B. I've decided to leave what I wanted to happen in this chapter until Chapter 14 since this chapter leads up to that. Also I posted Chapter 13 along with this chapter. Enjoy
P.S.: I'll be going back to proofread and fix some spelling/grammar errors in the next few days.
Disclaimer: I do not own Chrono Trigger. Square Enix does. I do however own the characters that do not show up in the game and the names of nameless characters that show up in the game.
Chapter 12: Fantasizing & Fighting
Ayla, Crono, and Lucca walked in cautiously; trying to avoid any traps there may be or loose rock. It was so hot in the volcano that they could hardly breath. Crono struggled to breathed, but collapsed onto the ground and landed on his hands and knees. Of course the ground was burning hot and Crono had just taken of his gloves so his hands were burned.
"YEEOUCH!" Crono yelled in pain.
He jumped to his feet and started blowing his breath on his hands to cool them off. Ayla flung around and jumped over to him, covering his mouth with her hands.
"Crono quiet!" she whispered. "Akoi catch us if they hear!"
"Shh! Someone's coming!" Lucca warned.
The party hid behind a big rock as 4 Akoi fighters came out of a cave on a ledge above. The grumbled among themselves with their bad English and looked around. After a few minutes of looking, they returned through the cave of which they came.
"That was close." Lucca Said. She glared at Crono.
"Don't give me that look. The ground burned my hands!" Crono whined.
"Crono come!" Ayla said.
They all walked further into the networks of caves. The came upon many dead-ends and even circled around many times. Many times they went through caves that led outside to small ledges. At those times they took in fresh air. They found it strange that there were few guards, and that they hardly ever had to hide.
"Where are all the guards?" Crono asked. "There were more Akoi attacking the Ioka village than there are here."
"Ayla no know." Ayla answered.
"What'd she say?" Crono asked.
"She-does-not-know." Lucca said slowly.
"We do!" said a sinister voice from nowhere.
Ayla, Crono, and Lucca looked around in confusion, but still on guard, ready to draw their weapons. The volcano rumbled and the ground in front of the party erupted. As the flames cleared 2 people floated over where the ground was. Tsunusko and Mii. Mii snapped her fingers and a rock wall opening up. Akoi fighters came out and surrounded the area.
A flash of anger entered Ayla's eyes.
"Ayla remember you! Where Ayla daughter?" she demanded.
"Ayla of the Ioka-as expected." Tsunusko calmly said.
"Can we just get this over with?" Mii asked. "I'm not an exterminator so I really don't want to waste too much time on these pests."
Ayla glared, Lucca pulled her gun, and Crono…drooled. Lucca noticed this and hit Crono over the head with her gun. He came back from whatever fantasy he was having about Mii and drew his blade – The Rainbow.
"Bring it!" Crono yelled.
"ATTACK!" Tsunusko yelled.
The Akoi fighters surrounding the trio charged at full force. They were upon Crono and Lucca before they could act. Ayla however jumped into the air and dropped down upon 3 Akoi fighters. She kicked two of them into a lava pit below, but the third came behind her and put her in a headlock.
Meanwhile, an Akoi soldier grabbed the blade of the Rainbow. Crono released the handle and hit him in the eyes with a quick Lightning spell. Lucca also lost the use of her gun so she pulled out her Hypno transmitter, which released a Hypno Wave and put the enemies to sleep.
Crono ran to stab an Akoi, but the blade barely scratched the fighter, which was a girl. The female Akoi member snatched the sword and broke the blade in half. This shocked Crono and he stood their speechless. In no time at all, the Akoi woman appeared behind him and put him in a headlock. He was losing oxygen fast, not just because of the headlock, but also because of the sweltering heat. He had little options. He couldn't muster up the energy to cast a magic spell and the Akoi fighter was way stronger than him.
Ayla managed to break free from the headlock by flipping her body up and grabbing her attacker's head between her legs, and then snapping his neck. She looked over to see Lucca blasting her sleeping enemies bodies into a lava pit with her Fire 2 spell. She turned around to see Crono in danger. She rushed at the enemy with her club, but arrived too late. Crono had broken free by surprising the enemy. Actually, what he had done was pull down the cloth covering her upper body and grabbed her chest. She was surprised and broke away quickly. During the time she spent being embarrassed, Crono used his Lightning 2 spell to knock her into a pool of lava nearby.
Ayla and Lucca stood surprised by this – Lucca more pissed than surprised.
"That pervert! Wait until Marle hears about this!" she thought.
Her thought process was interrupted quickly by two words.
"Heat Wave!"
Mii had just finished casting this spell. The temperature grew from broiling to highly unbearable. The trio's body couldn't handle it any longer. Crono and Lucca were the first to pass out. Ayla struggled to get up. She managed to and charged at Mii. She leaped, raising her club, but was hit from behind by a small jolt of electricity. She fell face first into a rock where she passed out.