Just some opening notes on this story. It's loosely based on the Chrono universe with some vague tie ins in the beginning, and you may be thinking that it's an original fiction. But as the story progresses, links to CT and CC will become clearer. Also, I expect reviews or I won't continue it. BWUAHAHA! </bitch>
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Prologue: Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
Bubbles. Droplets of Power. Droplets that splash and sent ripples in the river of time. This is the Chrono Trigger, which freezes, bends, and diverts the river of time, leading it to new oceans of destiny and new lands of fate. First the enigmatic egg. Pure potential that put as much effort into it's work as it's user, then there was the child. The Arbiter who would undo the work of his predecessor.
Back in forth, in an endless loop, These two stones of power battle over the river, and in the end, nothing reallys changes. But there shall come a third. A third who will bring Compassion to this Wisdom and Power, and will even shock Doreen of Dreams, bested at her own game of kindness.
And a single woman is caught in the middle, watching this battle, as her tears caused by the loss of her life and love, converges and forms the river of which they do battle. The Chrono Triggers fighting over the river, and the river being created by the fighting. Where did it begin, and where shall it end? Is this world just a whimsy?
But I digress. But who am I, you ask? I am Aura. I am that which seeks and guides all on it's way. I am the planet, which is part of my greater self. I am the Universe. I am the Entity whom controls time and space, and does battle with the Great Consumer across my creation. But this is not my story, nor that of the Chrono Triggers and their trophy maiden, but of that of a new life. A new life, a new saga, and a new world of possibilities.
A Flash of Light. Followed by wailing and crying....not. "Congradulations, Mr. and Mrs. Cassady, it's a boy! Not much of one...but..." Mr. Cassady, a tall and thick man with lush black hair and a distinquished mustache, furrowed his brow. "And what do you mean by that?" "He has Down Syndrome, and underdeveloped genitalia. He's no more a boy than a girl, to be technical; And he's already showing signs of autism. He's not crying."
The doctor handed the baby to Mrs. Cassady. She was a skinny, wrinkled woman with messy brown hair. Although she was still in the ripe years of her life, she was already scarred with weariness and fatigue. "He's beautiful." She stroked the baby. Indeed, he was underdeveloped, and although he clinged to his mother, he looked away into the corner, as if seeing something no-one else could. As if he was lost in a living dream of which no one could pull him out of.
"He sure is. Who's is he?" "Huh? What do you mean?" "Dawn, don't play stupid! We haven't had sex since Carissa was born, and yet we have three kids! What the hell?" "They look like you! How can there be any other explaination? I haven't left the house since I married you!"
The yelling and arguing continued, and outside were two children. A little girl and a little boy, roughly the same age, but the girl probably has a couple years on the boy. These were siblings Carissa and Joel of the Cassady lineage. Carissa had bright, straight, shiny blonde hair and was bursting with energy, while the little boy seemed to be her opposite, lethargic with dark hair like his father.
Carissa was having a conversation with her silent brother, no matter how one-sided it may be. "Hey Joey, what do you think the new baby will be like? Mommy and Daddy said I'd get to name it! Hee! If it's a girl...I'll pick Cynthia! And if it's a boy...um..." She grinned, remembering her favorite childhood movie, the Labrynth. "Ooh! Jareth, the Goblin King! I'll name him Jared! Jared Jared!"
Joel only nodded as his sister kept talking, and he walked over to the door of the room where his little brother was. Peeking in through the crack, he saw what transpired. No! Mommy and Daddy were fighting again! They were never like this when the new baby wasn't here! But ever since Mommy said she was expecting (In the mail, she said) Everything got worse. He hated it! He hated the new baby.
He began sobbing and ran over to his sister and clung to her, all the while, an invisible, silent black gust swirled throughout the hospital, and there stood a maiden with blue eyes and matching hair, donned in golden jewelry and purple robes. She seemed to be clutching a green pendant, unnoticed by the people going about their lives as they seemed to phase through her if she were in their way. Was she a ghost, a specter from the other side, or something much more ghastly? "The Black Wind. It is howling."
She turned her back to the family. What a shame. A light unlike anything ever seen, parrallel to the darkness of Lavos, would bring such a terrible darkness unto the cursed family unro which he was born. "What irony is this? For I was the only one who cared for the Earthbounders, submitting my family to Darkness as I was alone in the Light, and my legacy continues on in my heir, repeating the same tragic fate with him. Why must I be cursed so?"
"Why must good always suffer for their cause? For evil, however short-lived it may be, earns the priveledge of basking in happiness, while good must be damned to a fate of tragedy and strife. And yet, I sense something different in the boy across the Darkness before me. The Black Wind, who howls for all when the chill of death comes for them, dare not approacheth this child. What sets him apart, besides that which is laid out for him? Is he the fate who shall shatter his own shackles, or is he a toy of the Wind? An Arbiter to the Burning Ice of strife?" And she vanished, and was not missed.
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Wow, that really sucked o.o >.< Read and Review.
