Hero's Medal & A Piece of History

With the thought of marle and the king injured, I had no time to sleep during the night. More so the thought of what Glenn was doing with all this happening made me decide that we would go get him the next morning.

"Alright you guys let's get going, the king needs us to find the person holding the hero's medal and make sure that everything is going alright." I said as they had just wakened up.

"Ah come on crono, do we have to do it so early? I doubt he'll be up at this time, not to mention we still need to eat."
"Yes!" I said pulling the blankets off of them, "We need Glenn's help to gather more information about the hero's medal."

We got up and around before anyone else was around and headed out not even saying so much as a goodbye to the doormen.

The trip to Glenn's house wasn't the most convenient. More so it was a mess with all the enemies, mosquitoes, swamps, and streams that we had to cross.

"And I thought getting to Magus was bad enough!" Lucca complained.

"Oh just think of it as a huge playground in the back of your yard! We could all use some exercising right now!"

Everyone looked at me and pushed me into the water and went on.

Ok so things weren't perfect, however when we arrived, the place where he lived wasn't exactly in plain view.

You had to go down a set of bushes before falling midway off the ladder and landing in the dirt in darkness.

"What huh; who goes there! Who dare disturbs my slumber!" a voice called out. He leaped down from above us and took out his sword.

"It's me, Crono, I've come to talk to you Glenn. The king has been injured! We must set out to find magus!"

"The king…I have left down my duty, I have disgraced thee. Besides the hero medal is required to beat magus, which I have no right to possess, please be on your way now."

As he step aside there a container opened up in which a shining object rested in.

Robo went over to it and picked it up. "Well it seems to be quite dusty, there's something written on it. I can't quite read it but I'll have my sensors scan it then we'll know… … … r i o h c l e m…that doesn't make any sense. Oh wait my scanners misread, it says Melchoir.

"You mean that guy from medina village, the sword dealer? Crono what do you think this means?"

Glenn was in no mood to talk so we left without disturbing him and headed for the one spot that everyone seemed to be talking about the Denadoro Mountains. As we approached it an eagle screamed overhead and flew up to the peak leaving us at the bottom.

"Are we sure we want to do this right now? I'm sure we'd be better off doing it when we're completely rested!" Marle said trying to get out of it.

"No can do, either we do this or chances are we'll never get that hero's medal."

Suddenly a young boy came running towards and knocking marle down, he was very much out of breath.

"You guys had better leave while you can, this place is horrible!"

Two ogres came down as he left, one had a hammer, and the other used his fists.

"Crono, use fire, all goblins like creatures are scared of it!" Lucca yelled.

I did as she said and they disappeared. The road ahead looked very jagged with rocks in the path and bridges that were about to collapse. I remember what Glenn said about making sure that we go to the top. Legend has it that two young mystics protect a sword that only a few are worthy of wielding. As we got about half way up we came to a clearing where a sheep stood looking out over the sea.

"Here" he said, "Take this magic container; it'll increase your magic by one point."

We thanked him and headed on only to encounter a bird throwing stones at us.

"What the hell gives, why is this thing throwing at us!" I said covering my head.

"Maybe you should've thought about that before we came here you fool!" marle cried.

We decided to make a dash for it up the ladder; one stone hit Lucca on the arm and bruising it pretty badly. Soon we made it into a small cave.

"Listen, do you hear that?" I asked.

Two children ran around a sword which was cemented in the ground. I walked up to them and tried to walk passed, but one of them stood in my way.

"Hey wait a minute, you think that if you take the sword that'll make you a hero? You humans are so silly; it's not who uses the sword, but how you use it! Wait a minute alright, hey brother come here?"

"Huh who's there? Oh it's you guys, so you've heard the story of the Masamune? I take it you know now that we must test you before you have the right to use it!"

We stood back and watched them as they slid passed each other and formed into two mystical creatures. They wasted no time in cornering us then cross slashing into me knocking me against the wall. Marle tried firing an arrow at them but it simply bounced off one of them.

"Ok these are kids, why are we fighting them again?" I asked.

"Crono look at it like this, either we beat them and get the sword, or we end up like all the others who failed this far." Lucca said.

I agreed with her and held my sword up high and threw a lightning strike at them which took about a fourth of their energy away.

"Alright, they're vulnerable to magic let's get busy!"

Marle and Lucca each casted their ice and fire attacks. One of the boys fell while the other became more aggressive and started spinning around us which collected the dirt up making it harder for us to see.

"Ah my eyes!" I yelled. "Lucca, finish them off!"

"I can't crono I have no more strength; that stone is still killing me!" she yelled.

I looked at Marle, "Well what about you? We don't have a lot of time left!"

"I have one more spell in me, and if that doesn't do it then I don't know what will!"

She raised her hands up and cast the spell on it. The creature fell then got back up. The other one did as well and they fused together into one mighty beast. The roar that came out of it was heard throughout the entire mountain and beyond!

"Oh my god, um, crono what are we going to do now?" Lucca asked.

I was shocked to death myself, knowing we had very little left.

"Ok you guys this is the plan, we're going to surround it, but be careful that you don't get in his way. Let's all move around to confuse him. Chances are he'll be just as easy to use magic on as before."

We took our positions and watched as it was in rage and started throwing full size boulders at us. One of those would surely kill us in one hit, even if we had full strength.

Suddenly Robo jumped in and yelled, "Lucca takes a break, I got this one covered for you."

I could tell she would thank him afterwards by the way she limped off to the corner.

"Crono, help me with my shoulder charge attack!"

I jumped on top of him and jumped off just as he got full energy and rammed the beast while I followed up with a strong hook across the chest that took off a huge chunk of his points.

"That's what I'm talking about," he said, "Ok marle now let's you and I finish him off with an ice bubble!"

She smiled as he said this and was glad to cast a spell that entrapped Robo in a bubble which sent him hurling over the crimpled beast and snapped making Robo land right on top of him.

The impact was so intense that the two younger children came screaming out of it and collided against each other on the floor.

"Wow that was some ride!" Masa yelled.

"I guess they definitely beat us, only Cyrus was the other to do it as well. Well congratulations you guys, sorry we had to be rough with you, but that's just the way these things work. The sword is yours, now allow us to help you out of this cave and back into the valley."

"Wait before you do that, what do we do with the other broken piece that we found?"

They both looked at each other and said the name Melchoir at the same time.

"He'll help you out, just take both pieces to him and he'll tell you if he has the right equipment to put it back together." Mune said.

As we ascended out of the mountain I was glad that we could take some time to rest up and figure out our new strategy.

"Hey crono I completely forgot about that boy we saw earlier, I think he had the hero's medal." Lucca said. "We must find him right away; let's check out that town down below."

I agreed and we started heading down.

"Robo, I wanted to thank you as well for saving me back there. If you hadn't come in I don't think I would've lived much longer…you're a true friend." She said.

"If you weren't injured then I would've had no reason to come in, and besides, that's what friends are for." He said.

We reached the town as the sun was at its last. One of the doors was open in a local house so we peaked inside.

"Oh please come inside my dear folks. It gives me great pride to let you into the house of the hero himself!" a middle aged man bragged.

We looked around the room to find the boy we saw before facing the wall.

I walked up behind him and placed my hand on his shoulder, and suddenly he tugged away knowing it would be me.

"Here you take the stupid medal, I'm sorry about earlier, but I'm no hero. Some frog guy dropped it in a bar before and when I picked it up everyone started to call me a hero. How can you be so sure of something that hasn't been proven yet?"

As soon as the boy said this is father came running over and threw his arms up in the air, "Are you serious, you mean to say that all this time you were lying? I was a fool to think you truly were a hero, from now on I'm keeping my feet on the ground!"

We felt kind of awkward being there so we took the medal and headed back for Glenn's house.

"Have thou returned to practice any swordplay?"

We showed him the medal and he jumped back. "The hero's medal, how did you find it?" he asked.

"That's not important right now; you must come with us to Melchoir. We attained both pieces of the masamune so you may have your revenge against Magus. We are counting on you!"

He thought deep and long about it and said, "Maybe I was a bit harsh about what I said earlier, would you please stay the night so I may think it over?"

We agreed knowing we could use the rest to our advantage. Glenn however did not have a good night, in fact when we woke up he had barely moved from the spot we left him in.

"Let's head to Melchoir's house so we may know how to fuse the sword together." He said.

As we got out of the time warp we headed out of the nice peoples house and headed west just in front of the mountains was his house.

"Well hello there, have you come to buy new swords?" he asked cheerfully."

Instead I pulled out the two broken pieces.

"What have we here…the masamune…how did you find BOTH pieces?"

"Why else would your name be on it?" marle asked.

"Well it's a long story…you do want to hear it don't you?"

We all yelled yes.

"Alright…well…" he started.