Epilogue: Whenever, Wherever
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Schala appeared in the year 1999 A.D. just as Gasper had told her to do. She looked around at the scene before. Everything was frozen in time, so no one could move, let alone knew she was there. In the sky, the mighty Lavos loomed above them. However, he was frozen in time, so he posed no real threat. On the ground were the dead bodies of Frog, Ayla, and Magus. Further on was Chrono, his eyes closed shut as Lavos was about ot hit him. He held Marle, who was on the verge of death, in his arms.
Schala shook her head at the whole scene. "Okay, Gasper! I'm here!" she called out with her mind. "Just what do you want me to do with them?"
"Bring the red head and the blonde he's holding back home," Gasper replied.
Schala walked over to Chrono and Marle. She looked at his face and smirked. Then, she looked at Marle. "You made a good choice," she whispered. "He's cute." Of course, she knew that Marle couldn't hear her. She placed a hand on each of their heads and closed her eyes. As she faded away into thin air, Chrono and Marle faded with her.
o O o
END OF TIME
They reapeared right next to Gasper, who was leaning up against his lamp post, just like always. "Good work Schala."
"It was no problem... Just how are you going to help them defeat Lavos?"
"I'm not."
"What?"
"Lavos is way too powerful. There's no way any of us can defeat it... And that's why Magus was supposed to be executed long before he had the chance to summon the thing." He looked at Marle. "But, thanks to this young lady here, the course of history has been dramatically changed."
"Well, what are you going to do?"
Gasper smiled. "I have a plan for these two..."
o O o
2000 A.D.
Chrono waited in the dancing area of gymnasium. Everyone was dancing and singing, but Chrono was sitting in a corner, his stomach in knots. He and Marle had been best friends forever and he had really grown to love her very much. He bit his lip as he reached into his pocket, making sure that the little box he was concealing was still there. Inside the box was a ring. "Okay, I'll try this again," he said to himself as he silently cleared his throat. "Marle, I really love you and... Will you marry me?" He nodded. "Yeah! That sounds good enough?" As he stood up to go and greet the girls when they arrived, he heard a femanine voice speak:
"Hi, Chrono."
He turned around and smiled. "Hi girls. You're a little late."
Lucca scoffed. "At least we got here."
Ayla chuckled. "Has anyone seen Kino?"
"He's waiting by the punch bowl with Glenn," Chrono replied.
Ayla grinned as she made her way over to the punch bowl. "Oh, Kino..." she said in a sing-song voice.
Lucca and Marle just chuckled. "She's been after him forever... Well, I'm gonna go find Glenn." Lucca followed Ayla.
Chrono took Marle's hand. "Wanna dance?"
"Sure."
They both walked out to the dance floor just as a slwo song was beginning to play. "What are your plans after high school Marle?" Chrono asked.
Marle shrugged. "Actually, I really don't know for sure." She leaned against his chest and smiled. "But I'll come up with something."
Chrono gulped as he reached into his pocket. "Marle, there's something I wanna ask you..."
o O o
END OF TIME
"I don't get it!" Schala exclaimed as she looked in the bucket of water. "What did you do?"
Gasper laughed. "Well, here's what happened: I erased their memories of everything that happened to them and rewound time for them. At first, I plunked them all back in their origional time zones, but there was a bit of a problem."
"What problem?"
"Chrono and Marle... Yes, I rewound time for them so that they could start over. But then, I looked ahead into the future of that time. Remember, Marle was Princess Nadia. And her father, the king, would not have approved her marrying a peasent boy. There would have been this big contreversy. I figured that in another time and place, everything would have been fine. So, that's just what I did: plunked them in another time and place."
"What about Lucca, Ayla, and Glenn?"
"Well, after everything they had been through, I just didn't have the heart to break them all up again. So, I rearanged a few events in time and vuala! They were all born in the same era, and are now celebrating the new millenium together! And they all have bright futures too!" He smiled wider. "Lucca's gonna go off to college to become a science professor; Glenn -- who we once knew as Frog -- is going to become a karate teacher; Ayla and Kino are going to get married and start a clothing store together called 'K&A Boutique.' And Chrono and Marle will have three children and live a wonderful life together."
Schala gulped before asking her next question. "What about Magus?"
Gasper shook his head. "There was no hope for that one," he pointed out. "I left him in the year 600 A.D. and let history take it from there. And that means that when he tried to kidnap Queen Leene, he was, in fact, executed."
"But how? He seemed so powerful! How did anyone catch up with him?"
Gasper smirked. "That's where I helped a little bit. I froze time in a few places and rearanged a few circumstances. I practically handed the guy over to the Guardian forces."
Schala gulped. "Are you sure we're allowed to do all this?"
"Not really."
Schala was surprised by his answer.
He chuckled. "Would you feel more comfortable if I put them all back in their own times?"
Schala looked back into the bucket of water and watched everyone dance. Then, she saw Marle's happy reaction to Chrono's proposal. She smiled and shook her head. "No... I think we should just keep things the way they are now."
Gasper nodded as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "I agree. Everyone looks so happy together."
"To tell the truth, I think you could have picked any particular time zone for them, and they still would have been happy together."
Gasper smiled wider. "I agree, Schala. It looks to me like it doesn't really matter what time they're all in. They were all just meant to be together."
Whenever, Wherever
We're meant to be together
I'll be there and you'll be near
And that's the deal, my dear
Thereover, hereunder
You'll never have to wonder
We can always play by ear
But that's the deal my dear
Whenever, Wherever
We're meant to be together
I'll be there and you'll be near
And that's the deal my dear
Thereover, hereunder
You've got me head over heals
There's nothing left to fear
If you really feel the way I feel
The End