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I don’t own Chrono Cross
The Plan
“Alright buddy. You got sixty seconds to tell us what you know, otherwise my bow here will finally get some action,” Marle took out her crossbow. Serge took two steps back. Crono shook his head.
“Marle, I think he was about to tell us anyway,” he said in a somewhat tired, but patient tone. Marle lowered her crossbow and sighed.
“Sorry,” she mumbled. She looked at Serge right in the eye. “Please, we’re looking for a friend.”
“So am I,” said Serge. His mind twitched. It was funny how he was calling a girl from his dreams a friend.
“Well?”
Serge sighed. “I really don’t know,” he confessed. Marle’s face dropped.
“Well this has been great! We went all across the world, looking for Lucca, and we can’t find her! The kingdom’s dying, and there’s not a damn thing we can do-“
“Marle.” Marle shut her mouth tight. She looked at Crono again. “Sorry,” she repeated once more.
“The person I’m looking for may know how to find…Lucca, is that her name?” said Serge. Marle looked furious.
“Yes! That’s her name! And how are you so sure?”
“You’re Marle…”faltered Serge. He looked at Crono. “And you’re Crono.”
“What are you saying from that?” Crono asked before Marle could yell again.
“You fought It didn’t you? Lavos?” Marle gasped.
“H-how did you know? No one was suppose to know. I thought time-“
“There’s a crack in the whole time thing,” said Serge. Where was he getting this?
Crono frowned. Somehow, the entire humidity of the area just raised. Everything felt so dense. Marle could swear that everyone could hear her heart beat. She put her crossbow away.
As for Serge, he couldn’t figure out how all these words were coming out. “I’m knowing things that I shouldn’t know. And you guys…I don’t even think we’re suppose to meet. Lavos…I don’t really get it. But I have some idea of a person who knows. Maybe it’s your friend Lucca. Maybe it’s the person I’m looking for.”
“And who are you looking for?” asked Marle.
“I don’t know…some Kid.”
“Okay, so we’re looking for the same thing,” said Crono. Serge and Marle looked at him confused.
“We are? How can we? We don’t even know what we’re looking for,” said Marle.
“Exactly,” said Crono. “We’re looking for answers. Serge, I think you’d better come with us. That whole thing you explained to us, you didn’t kept that in your mind, did you?”
“No,” admitted Serge. “It just kinda popped into my head.”
“Thought so,” said Crono.
“Yeah!” exclaimed Marle, whose entire face just brightened. “You should come with us! In case you have anymore..uh…eurekas!” Was this the same girl who threatened to attack him with a crossbow?
Serge didn’t know what to do.
But Grace kept screaming non-stop. Why wasn’t anyone coming out to save them?
Finally, Schala dragged Grace with her and the two started to run. She looked in the classroom windows. All the students were still looking at the teacher and all the teachers were still teaching. Grace was still screaming. What was going on?
“I think,” she whispered. “I think we’re cut off from time.” Grace stopped screaming. Tears streamed her cheeks.
“What?” she sobbed.
Poor girl. She has no idea what was going on. “Grace, it’s okay, it won’t find us here.”
“How do you know?
Uh…because I know these monsters and I know that they’re stupid and I know that they can’t even see. What I don’t know is why you’re cut out from time with me and how that monster got here.
“I just know. Let’s go, maybe we can find some help.”
“They can’t hear us. Why can’t they hear us? Do they know we’re gone? What are we gonna do?” Grace’s voice got shriller and shriller.
“Sh… It’ll be okay.”
“NO IT WON’T! YOU’RE LYING!”
“Hey, what’s going on?”
The girls turned they’re backs.
“Serge!” Grace sobbed.
Schala frowned. Why could he see them, when no one else can? “Did you ask to leave class?” Serge shook his head.
“During 6th period, I just sat there. And then, I felt as if I disappeared from the world or something, all of a sudden. I raised my hand to answer a question like twenty times, and the teacher never called me. Then I yelled out “hey!” and she still ignored me. Then I yelled some other things, stuff I shouldn’t mention, and she still didn’t say anything. Finally, I just walked out.”
Schala frowned even more. “Grace has been screaming for a while,” she explained. “Just to see if anyone would answer it,” she quickly added, so Grace wouldn’t be embarrassed. “No one even looked at the windows.”
“You forgot about the monster,” chirped Grace.
“Monster?” Serge looked alarmed.
“Something’s chasing us. We have to figure out a way to get rid of it.”
“What the hell is going on?” Grace yelled.
“Grace, everything will be okay,” reassured Schala. “But we need something to kill that thing.” Because there’s no such thing as magic here.
Kid slowly raised herself from the bed that looked like Doc’s. “We in Guldove?”
“Yeah.” Doc sat right beside her. “Orhla’s doing her shift, but she’ll be with you soon.”
“Did ya hav’ ta carry me here?” Silly question.
Doc laughed. “Actually, you walked here by yourself. Once you got on bed, you collapsed.”
Kid frowned at herself. “How long hav’ I been out?”
“Only a day. Not bad for someone who got strangled by a superhuman.”
“FATE. Why da hell is FATE here? Next thing ya know, we gon’ see some mates we shouldn’t see,” said Kid, thinking of Serge.
“We should see Serge,” suggested Doc.
“I’ve ben’ tryin’ to look for him, mate. I can’t. Something’s blockin’ me.”
“Did you try his village?” Kid could almost smack herself.
“Bugger, why the hell didn’t I think of that??” Then something hit her. “I couldn’t.”
Doc arched an eyebrow. “Why?”
“I walked past Arni Village a million times. It’s not there.” It was true. She remembered when Schala walked to Opassa Beach. She couldn’t even catch a glimpse of the village. “That proves it.”
“Proves what? Sorry Kid, but you’re more familiar with this whole thing than I am,” Doc said. Kid ignored the apology.
“That proves that something’s up with the time stream. There has to. You’re not suppose to remember me, neither Orhla. I was searching this world with Schala, then somehow she transformed herself so that I could take over. When we met Magus, she left me, probably to another time dimension. Magus, why is he here? And since nothing in the present’s changed, Schala musta gone to da future. Then I met Harle, then FATE.” Kid took a breath. Doc wouldn’t stop frowning.
“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”
Kid sighed. Well, it ain’t his fault that time’s so damn complicated. “I’ll say it again when Orhla comes…” Her mind began to drift.
“And what do you plan to do after explaining?”
Kid was starting to get aggravated. “I’m thinkin’ of a plan.” Doc nodded and walked away to give her some privacy. Kid grabbed for her astral amulet. It still glowed as if it was new. It’s time to fight time again, she thought with a mental sigh.
“Okay,” Serge said simply. She didn’t need to take that thing so seriously. It’s not like he holds grudges over little things like that. Besides, he feels as if he’s been through worse.
Marle grinned. “But hey! Who said we won’t have fun? Besides, I can’t wait to see you fight! That’s a pretty cool looking weapon you got there!”
Serge looked at his swallow. Strange. It seemed different when he left the village. What are you? He thought.
Mastermune.