Ozzie's entrance & The Hero
When I woke up I realized that my body felt so light that I could fly away.
"Crono dear, come down I made a big breakfast for you."
I rubbed my stomach because I hadn't slept too well last night and walked past the table and leaned against the fridge.
"I don't know mom…after everything I've been through the last thing that's on my mind right now is food. And besides I'm meeting up with marle and lucca not too long from now."
Her eyes shifted from mine to Robo.
"Um dear, what exactly is that thing by you? He's not alive is he?"
Robo took a step forward and knelt on his knee, "Don't be frightened ma'am, I may be big, but I have a big heart as well."
She took a breath of relief and said, "Well crono maybe you could learn a thing or two from him."
I rolled my eyes and rummaged around the fridge until I came across a half eaten muffin and stuffed it in my mouth.
"Crono, how many times must I tell you food is for eating? It isn't for making a mess out of!"
Robo and I headed out a few minutes later right after I got out of the bathroom.
We all decided to meet up at the fair since that's where the closest telepod was located.
"Hey crono, what do you think about all this news about lavos? Doesn't it seem like we don't have a chance against it?"
I thought about it for a second and right before I responded Marle and Lucca showed up.
"Hey guys, so what's the plan? Are we going to head out now while the sun is still up?" marle asked.
"What are you talking about; it's 10:45am. We have all the time in the world." I said.
Lucca looked up at the clock tower and adjusted her watch so it would match that of the tower.
"Well whatever we do let's do it soon, that way we'll find out more on what we're after."
We all grabbed some food and headed for the display.
By the time we got there the sun was right over us.
"That's the thing about going back to different locations, is that it get hotter the farther back we go!" marle cried.
"Easy there girl, if it makes you feel better I brought along some water." Lucca said.
By the time we climbed to the bottom of the mountain we were already winded. We decided to not head straight to the castle, but instead, over across the bridge that we never really noticed before. As we approached it we heard guns going off and a cry for help.
Apparently a battle had broken out between guardia's forces and magus's troops.
"Hey it's that guy we're after!" lucca shouted. "Do you think we could kill him off now?"
"Are you insane Lucca, that guy is a powerful wizard. There's no telling what he could pull on us while we're here."
The knight of the troops approached us, "Well has the food rations arrived from the castle?"
Confused I looked at everyone else and shrugged, "We just arrived here, we don't know what the situation is sir."
He started to explain when a soldier frantically was crawling back, "Sir Magus's troops have launched a full scale attack; they're breaking through the defense!"
"Quit your sniveling, it shames the troops of the round table." He took a deep breath and looked around, "This is our last line; do NOT let anyone through do you understand?"
"Yes sir! We will bring honor back to the kingdom!"
"As you can see Crono, we aren't in the best situation right now. Would you do the troops a huge favor and go get the food rations from the castle? When you arrive also I would be in your debt if you would help us fight back the troops."
I looked back at everyone; they didn't know what to say.
They all looked at me like I had to make all the decisions from now on.
"Alright captain, we will assume responsibilities for what happens after this point."
"Oh thank you very much Crono, the castle owes you too much. Please take this golden helmet; it's the least I can give you right now."
I shook his hand and started to head back towards the castle. When we entered it took the guards a couple of seconds to remember exactly who we were.
"Hey you're that kid with the punk hair do. What brings you back here?"
Out of breath and exhausted I said, "No time to talk, the knight ordered us back here to collect the food rations for the troops. Magus's army has launched a full scale attack apparently."
"Well then," they said, "It looks like you're the new head honcho here. You better get going otherwise we'll all be doomed!"
We reached the kitchen just as the cook was finishing up. "Oh is it time already for the food? Take this and tell that fool that he had better come back alive…Crono, since he is my brother…do me a favor and wish him luck."
It felt like we were running on a hamster wheel with no breaks. The more and more we moved, the more we felt as if our bodies were going to shut down.
By the time we got back magus's army had just about reached where the knight was standing.
"Captain, take this, you brother wishes you luck."
"The cook…he has saved us all! Crono if I don't make it back, tell him I'm sorry for everything I said before. Now please go assist my men, they can not hold back any further."
We ran up to where the soldiers were standing and then a mysterious figure appeared in the mist of all the action.
"Well now it looks like we have some competition instead of these toys! Let me introduce myself as Ozzie, Magus's top general!" he snarled. "This is just an appetizer of things to come, after this you'll be begging me to stop the pain!"
Every time we moved so much farther ahead, he would disappear and more soldiers would be formed in the shape of guardia's fallen.
"Hey now, you know you're not supposed to be winning right?" he said. "If you did then how would the great Magus respond to this?"
"Well then I guess you better get your act together Ozzie before we make you go crawling back to him for mercy!" I yelled.
After a few minor rounds we reached the other side of the bridge, Ozzie had nowhere else to go. "Alright that does it! I'm done with being patient, now I shall release Zombor onto you hahahaha!"
We turned around and watched as four skeletons connected to each other and appeared into a tremendously large beast. It roared as though it had been stabbed in the side.
"Go Zombor, feast on these enemies that we wish to do away with!"
The air around us felt as if it was being sucked away from us making it harder to breath.
It took one step forward and out came a large skeleton hand which grabbed robo and threw him into the center of the creature.
"Crono what are we going to do! He's going to die if we don't distract him!"
"Well since it's made out of bones, ice should be hard enough to break it apart. Marle quick use your ice power!"
She raised her hands up and repeated the chant, "Ice from the heavens above, release the fury of false love!"
Suddenly a small piece of ice appeared above the creature and dropped down on it causing it to give out a loud cry.
I ran up to it and slashed it as hard as I could across the middle causing the lower half to disappear.
"Alright crono, let's show this medieval piece of garbage how we do things guardia style!" marle said.
She gave me the thumbs up as she performed another ice spell. Little did we know that after she did this the creature opened his mouth up and shot out a large beam of light at her knocking her unconscious? Afterwards the beast collapsed and Ozzie was left standing alone.
"Don't think this is over small fry, we WILL get our revenge!"
He disappeared as well.
"Oh boy…um…let's go talk to the captain so we can see what to do now. Robo you stay next to marle until we have our orders."
When we got back the captain was bandaging up his arm from a strong blow he took earlier.
"It's my entire fault Crono, if I hadn't risked my mens lives we wouldn't have succeeded and gained nothing. Unless we defeat Magus…this would have been all for nothing."
He heard what happened to marle and called for a carriage to come and take her back to the castle.
"Crono, the least we can do is asking you to stay the night at the castle. I'm sure things will look better in the morning.
When we arrived, the castle was in frenzy about some hero that had just arrived.
"The hero, he has arrived we are saved!" one townsperson said.
We went up to the kings room to ask him about the situation.
"Oh crono did you not hear? The legendary hero was just here not too long ago. I think he said something about going to the Denadoro mountains to look for the mystical sword, masamune. You had better go there just to make sure he is alright."
"What about you your majesty? We can't leave the castle defenseless."
"Don't you worry; you have helped us out enough. When you come back from this mission we shall have a celebration in your honor."
I thanked him enough and we went down to where we would be staying.
"So what do you make of all this lucca?" I asked.
"Well so far we seem to be doing quite alright on our own. However we must be more careful with our magic, you saw what happened to marle earlier. The least we want right now is more casualties."
I nodded my head and took a bite out of an apple that was being served to us.
"Yeah…it's as spekkio warned us, we must use magic for good. Not for revenge or greed."
The sun had just set on another fair day in Guardia Castle.