A Shadow Of Evil Chapter 1
By Icy Brian
The next day...
"What do you mean he's gone!" screamed Lucca. "I just saw him yesterday! How did this happen?" She was speaking with Crono's mom in the kitchen. Crono's mom was sitting at the table with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know. He had just gotten home minutes before the storm began." She picked up a tissue and then continued. "He was carrying something with him, but I couldn't tell what it was. He went straight to his room and closed the door, without saying a word. I assumed that something was wrong, but decided not to bother him. A few minutes later the storm began. When it finally stopped, I saw someone outside. I had walked to the stairs to tell Crono, and I heard him scream. I ran up the stairs to see what had happened, but he wasn't there, and his room was wrecked and covered in a thick smoke." She picked up another tissue. Lucca now had fire in her eyes.
"Did you see who it was?"
"No, all I saw was his shadow. The strange thing was, I could see his eyes. One was a fiery red, while the other looked like it was glass. Other than that, I couldn't make anything out."
"I'm going to look upstairs." Lucca said. Without waiting for a response she went up to Crono's room. "Oh my god." It was in shambles. Everything was overturned, and the window was shattered. Unable to look at the sight any longer, she began to leave when the sun reflected off of something shiny in the corner. She walked over to it and realized that it was a golden staff with a note attached. She pulled off the note. It read:
Lucca, I am assuming that this is in your hands. If you want to see Crono alive, come to North Cape in 12,000 B.C. with your friends and Magus. Then we'll talk. For his sake, you had better not waste time.
"Great. Just great." she murmured. She picked up the staff and examined it. Engraved on it were symbols that she couldn't decipher. She placed it in her bag and raced out the door saying that she had to leave.Crono's mom was better off not knowing the truth.
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"He's missing!" It was Marle. Lucca had just arrived at the castle to explain to her what was going on.
"Well, yes. But, I know where he is." Lucca pulled out the note and handed it to Marle, who read it aloud.
"...For his sake, you had better not waste time. Oh no! Who is this guy? What does he want?"
"I don't know. Do you know anyone who has one red eye and one glass eye?" Marle looked up from the note with a puzzled look on her face.
"What? Why?"
"Well, Crono's mom said that she saw somebody outside their house with a red eye and a glass eye just before Crono disappeared. Odds are, that's the guy who did it." Marle nodded, tears forming in her eyes. They quickly vanished as her sadness turned to rage. She handed the note back to Lucca and grabbed her crossbow.
"What are you waiting for? Let's get going!" Marle ran out of the castle with Lucca at her heels. They ran all the way back to Lucca's house without stopping once. Marle jumped in the Epoch, as Lucca ran in her house to grab her gun. She hurried out and jumped in the Epoch with Marle. She set the time gauge to 2300 A.D. and they disappeared in a flash...