[FFML] [oneshot][dark][Chrono Trigger] In the Infinite Moment

[Peter Gallagher]

Well done.  I could definitely feel the angst here and can picture
this scene in the game exactly as you wrote it.   Luckily there was a
happier ending, eh?

Overall a beautiful little character piece into our hero's head.  Now
get back to Fire in the Water!  It's good too!

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:21 PM, The Eternal Lost Lurker
<lurkerdrome at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> --One among you--
>
>  This isn't how I expected it to be.
>
>  --What do you expect to do--
>
>  My body...I can barely move it. It hurts...
>
>  --will shortly perish--
>
>  The words spoken by the dour child echo in the infinite, the shape of the
>  small mouth forming that portent of death looming like a spectre,
>
>  --The black wind howls--
>
>  superimposed over the nightmarish being that fills my vision.
>
>  --with that battered body of yours?--
>
>  This is really the end. My body hurts. The pain...it's like Hell itself
>  poured every molecule of its existence into me.
>
>  --The black wind howls--
>
>  Perhaps it did.
>
>  --One among you--
>
>  But I'm not ready yet. It's not time.
>
>  --What do you expect to do--
>
>  I have things to take care of first. I have to finish this. I have to
>
>  --will shortly perish--
>
>  save the world. Save my friends.
>
>  --with that battered body of yours?--
>
>  Marle...Lucca...everyone...
>
>  --Crono...--
>
>  I'm sorry. I thought I could save the world...but I couldn't even save my
>  precious friends.
>
>  --One among you--
>
>  No. I refuse to allow you to die here.
>
>  --What do you expect to do--
>
>  There's not much strength left in me. I can barely hold my sword.
>
>  --Crono!!--
>
>  And this power...it's so far beyond anything I imagined...
>
>  --The black wind howls--
>
>  I can't stop. I can't let it end this way.
>
>  --will shortly perish--
>
>  If I can just buy time...just one more minute...
>
>  --with that battered body of yours?--
>
>  Everyone...please escape this place. Please...find somewhere in time, live
>  out your lives in peace...
>
>  --One among you--
>
>  Don't die. Please. For me.
>
>  --The black wind howls--
>
>  Magus...I understand you now. I know what you were trying to do.
>
>  --What do you expect to do--
>
>  All that power...it was for this, wasn't it? But even you...
>
>  --will shortly perish--
>
>  There's nothing any of us can do, is there?
>
>  --with that battered body of yours?--
>
>  The future...it isn't going to change.
>
>  --The black wind howls--
>
>  Everyone...
>
>  --Crono...!--
>
>  I'm sorry...
>
>  --Crono!!--
>
>  I couldn't save you.
>
>  --CRONO!!--
>
>  It hurts...
>
>
>
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>
>
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