April 13th, 2014 - Tick, Tock; Pause, Stop. (Pt. 1 written by Klock/Kuro)Chronor Event Pt. I- Klockwork…I am never going partying again. No matter what Estra says. I'm not doing it.
So. Waking up this morning, everyone is pretty much spent from the night before, all that crazy stuff apparently tired everyone out.
I woke up on Estra's bed, finding her asleep, and Moon begins yelling into the headset system, some crazy stuff about aliens, which ultimately amounted to her saying, "Never mind, they're guildies."
A few minutes later, once Estra finally woke up, we left to go find Razon, as I had to talk to him about… things. We figured we would find him in some 'classic' diner somewhere, which we did, named Axsi.
We began to talk to Razon, but after a few minutes this random guy walks up to us, addressing Razon and I by name, immediately pointing himself out to be a Chronor. This put Razon and I immediately on defense, and we prepared to attack… then he grabbed Estra, reducing her timeline's speed to nil, and proceeded to taunt us saying he'd release her when Razon and I agreed to come home, which we didn't.
Bad idea.
As soon as we made it obvious we wouldn't leave, Moon and her troupe showed up, consisting of the Lunar Escelare, whom had been in the ship, Star, Gl!tch, and Rhythm. Once they showed up, this character must have gotten scared because he proceeded to just take Estra and leave, disappearing back to Pendulum, the home village Razon and I share.
As we pondered what to do, Sethos appeared from one of the booths, offering his help, very out of character. Oddly though, no one argued this point and allowed him to join us. We came to the conclusion we needed to perform an infiltration operation into Pendulum, to retrieve Estra, and to put The Chronor Clan back on track, purging the corruption that had befallen them.
We left immediately, arriving just outside the walls to Pendulum. We quickly made our way to the Libero Compound, after some direction from Razon. We split into 3 teams from there, Rhythm, Gl!tch, and I would take the Kavir Compound, Razon, Sethos, and Star would take the Protus Compound, and Moon and Escelare would take the Libero Compound.
My squad infiltrated the Kavir Compound. It was easy enough, they always leave the windows open in the barracks, and we simply slipped in through there. We advanced slowly through the second floor, sticking to the shadows, killing any Kavir we came across, or came across us.
We managed to make it up the stairs little to no problem, though UP stairs was a different story. We ran into trouble when a trio of Kavir attempted to drop from the rafters, Gl!tch stopping them by magnetizing the rafters they dropped from, their weapons clinging to the metal. I told her no survivors… and she listened. Her eyes went red, and all you could hear was the sound of twisting metal and the pained groans and yells of the poor souls above.
From there, we finally entered… Syphona's chambers, the leader of The Kavir Family. I tried to keep a straight face, and show my respect for my leader but… she wasn't just my leader… she was my mother. As soon as I stood, I broke and just hugged her, crying. She hadn't been responsible for the things done to me by The Chronor, she hadn't been able to do anything at all.
She had been overthrown by officers she placed in charge. They removed her from power in the Kavir, rendering anything she tried to do useless. She apologized to me, and I… I just lost it. I couldn't handle myself. But that's when… '
it' started.
Kavir Guards began to leak into the room, and she sent myself, Rhythm, and Gl!tch out of the house, back into the street below. What followed next… horrified me. She used her forbidden power.
The Chronus Sphere.
I-I watched in pure agony… temporal power gathered i-into the Kavir house, increasing the magical pressure in the house ten fold, a-and could even be felt throughout the e-entire village. Temporal Energy began to swirl around the mansion as it's physical image began to t-twist and pull, until… it all just stopped, and with an e-eternal wind, the building began to dissolve from existence… and with it…
m-my mother....
... I sit here, now a broken man.
I don't know what to do...
Gods, help me… what do I do..?
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Chronor Event Pt. II - RazonGetting into the Protus compound was not a problem. It seemed that perhaps bringing Sethos along wasn't such a bad idea, as he had easily and (somewhat) quietly dispatched every single guard we encountered...
..Although, I did notice, he was lagging behind a bit after he took down the guards. I need to keep an eye on him. We worked our way into the compound and towards the dungeons. We would rescue Estra first before going to face Elken..
It was when Sethos, Star and I entered the dungeons of the Protus compound when I felt the strange pressure around the entire village
Could it have been...? No, no. That power is forbidden...and nobody would be desperate enough to use it...
I tried to clear my head as I, Star and Sethos searched the dungeons for Estra. I knew she had to be around here somewhere...
...That's when Starlight told me that Klock was asking for me via the Headsets...and when I spoke to him...He told me that Syphona had used...The Chronus Sphere...
No...
...This has escalated too far...The Chronor clan had to be stopped. Now. I told the other two to search the dungeons faster, and we soon found Estra and freed her.
Now all that was left was to deal with Elken...
I lead the four upstairs quickly towards Elken's main chamber, and the closer we got, the more anger, rage and hate I felt build up within me...
...But I couldn't let that get to me...not now. I had to remain calm..
As we entered the chamber, We all saw Elken there, sitting upon his throne like he owned the world. Once again, I felt the anger within make my chest tighten and my vision blur...
Elken Protus...My father. I hated him just as much as he hated me.
Shortly after entering, he demanded to know why I had betrayed him, and why I had left and ignored his 'offers' to make me come back....
Rgh...this man...why did I have to the son of
THIS man..
After his comment about offering me a chance to 'beg' him to come back, I couldn't take it anymore, I wanted to get rid of him. Once and for all...I would take out all my anger, hate and rage on this man....
He summoned up his shield, "Cloc Haul" and it began there...
Coward...he was using his powers over time to get the upper hand...and usually he's always complaining that there's not enough restrains on time...makes me sick...
I was so angry, the fight seemed such a blur to me...I know Estra, Star and Sethos joined in to help me but...It didn't do much good once he used the countdown...
Twelve slashes from his Greatsword. All hitting me at once. I-I had never felt so much pain before...I n-never though I would be the one he would be performing t-this maneuver on...
D-does he really hate me this m-m-much...?
...I...I couldn't give up...I-I had to keep fighting him...
The only thing that was keeping me going by t-this point was all the anger...all the hate...
At this point, I couldn't take it anymore...He wanted me to lie down an die...t-that wasnt going t-to happen...
He didn't deserve p-power...or r-respect...
...C-coward hiding behind his po-powers over time...
H-he doesn't deserve t-those powers...or this family...
He doesn't..
d-deserve...
ME'Dagr Meteoryn' T-that's what I call it...
Every drop of anger...of hate...of pain was p-poured into that attack...I watched it rip him apart..
B-but as much as I w-wanted to...I-I couldn't let it finish him off...
I c-cut the attack short and stumbled over to him, anger still seeping from the v-very core of my being...u-until it was all gone...
a-and all that was left was a empty hole...
I collapsed by my father...and he asked me why...w-why did I hate him...
I-I hated him...b-because he made me h-hurt innocent people..
b-be-because he hurt me...because h-he hated m-me...I-I was nothing m-more than a stain on this family, according to him..
But...then he told me...that he was wrong...and that...h-he was a stain too...a-and that b-before I am a P-protus...
...I-I am his son...
D-dad...
D-da-dad...why...w-why dad....why.........
n-nothing left...n-no anger
no...hate...
just darkness...______________________________________________________________________________
Chronor Event Pt. III - Moonlight...What was that? I know I wasn't the only one who felt that pressure. Guh...Why is time so weird?
All this weirdness started with Esce and I getting turned into little kids again once we arrived here with Razon, Klock and the others...
I really hope this'll wear off...I don't like being four feet tall. Well, at least Esce and I are in the same boat.
Anyways, getting into the Libero compound wasn't that hard...
*ahem* i had to kill a guard but lets not get into details...Anyways, as we made our way into the base, we felt this huge pressure outside...We had no idea what it was, so I called up Klock on the headphones...Something about some Sphere...And Sethos dissappearing with some rings? Klock also said they were sending over Rhy for back up...
Anyways...I didn't have much time to listen because all the guards were up in a frenzy over whatever it was. Thanks to Esce's illusion powers, we were able to avoid being caught right away.
I have to admit though. I love Esce's "war face" Heheh...
We did get caught by the guards after the 'war face' maneuver though...Lucky for us, Rhy showed up just in time and tased the guard about to attack us.
Afterwards, Esce and I proceeded to taking down the few remaining guards before heading to a large door at the end of the hall....
Nothing screams "battle time" louder than a pair of double doors at the end of a hallway.
When we stepped inside, we entered a round arena with a giant "8" on the floor. Although, nobody was there...
Maybe they fled...And we won?
Of course, nothing is
EVER that easy when it comes to us
Tamir was standing in the doorway as we turned to leave. At first it seemed like we'd be able to talk our way out...but of course...what was I thinking? We prepared for the fight of all time
*cough* no pun intended...The moment the battle started, Tamir took out some hourglass and started using it for her powers...or so we thought. Rhy managed to snag it from her and run while Esce and I fought.
Eventually we got into a tight spot and Rhythm threatened to break the hourglass.
...That is, Until Tamir said that doing that would kill us all. Then attempted to kill us and/or break the hourglass herself.
The battle only got worse from there until eventually, Tamir started aging the entire arena into dust...
...We all made a mad dash for the door, I looked up in terror as the top of the arena was enveloped in energy and began aging into nothingness...
...Maybe if we threw the hourglass at it...they would cancel each other out...since they're both time magic...
So, I told Rhy to throw it.
........
What happened next I could only describe as the end of time.
Everything began speeding up and slowing down all at the same time.
It was like running through pudding. and slipping on ice...
everything just...
faded...
To nothing....
T-tick Tock....
Time to s-st-stop....______________________________________________________________________________
Chronor Event - Conclusion Well, what a light show, man. Spectacular.
These rings are pretty nice too. Not sure what happened but it looks like the guild may be down by three members, one of them being their leader.
Pity...
But, I decided to stay behind to see what fire these little eventful sparks would start.
Klocks, Razzy, Glitchy girl, fleabag and my Scarlet Sister stormed the last building in the compound....and I gotta say, it was quiiite the show. Lots of blood and body parts everywhere.
Hah...I gotta get them that upset one day to the point where they go all out on
me. Now
that would be fun...
Hm...either way, it looks like they managed to bring The moon, little star and boombox back from the dead. afterwards, the little 'full of feels' group blinked back to the parlor only thirty seconds later and had a bunch of sappy crap happen that I won't repeat for the sake of my lunch.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some new rings to test out
Heheh..