#frozen flame

Haven't gotten around to write anything in Musescore yet but been playing and figuring out how to arrange Frozen Flame from Chrono Cross on piano!

Yeah, that's just going to be the title for the new story. It's stuck now. Anyway, idk why I'm doing this when I was going to work on more of "Their Sacred Vow" today. But I'm also running on little sleep and just haven't been sleeping well in general recently, tbh.

Gonna put them under the cut because they're going to be long. And starting with my "caretaker" character because, tbh, those characters don't get as much love as the whumpees or even as much as whumpers do sometimes. So I wanna give her some time to shine, too (though she's also a whumpee, to be fair, but still).

Brief overlook: Queen Adelina [age 27] is a silver dragonborn (which in this world means she's human but can shift into a dragon and dragon form that's silver in color) with fire magic and my Caretaker character; Princess Valerie [age 25] is a naiad+winged whumpee with water magic and my Whumpee character

Now, onto the backstories

My OC Amyras!!

There are something I can talk about for hours because I love talking about them - Majora's Mask, Evangelion, One Piece, and Chrono Cross. I love the needlessly complex story of Chrono Cross, and I get the feeling that most people DON'T get it.

So, he's the MAIN PLOT of Chrono Cross explained. (SPOILERS, obviously)

Despite what some people might tell you, YES, Chrono Cross is a sequel to Chrono Trigger, and and it is intertwined with the original, and there's an explanation why it feels so disconnected. It starts, like all great stories do, at the beginning:

Lavos crashes into the Earth in 65 Million years BC.

Lavos is a unique creature that I theorize exists outside of normal space. What we see in both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross is just a “shadow” of its real body outside of our dimension.

So, when it arrives, sensing there was a possibility of defeat, Lavos decided to create a back up plan. It used its power over time to drag a copy of itself from the far future into the past. That "Shard of Lavos" was known as the Frozen Flame and was located in a super advanced city known as Chronopolis. Lavos had brought the entire city back in time with the "Shard of Lavos." This way, if the original Lavos was destroyed, the Frozen Flame would be its back up.

Coincidentally, “The Entity” (The spirit of the The Planet) sensed something was wrong, so it was able to open up its own timewarp, and drag another super advanced race to destroy Chronopolis and the "Frozen Flame" and from a timeline where Reptites ruled.

The time displaced people of both cities, didn't get what was going on at first, so they went to war with each other. Ultimately, Chronopolis wins, and they figure out what happened.

The scientist at Chronoplis realize they need to preserve the timeline so they create a plan. They decide to terraform the area, and jut blend in like they were always there. I mean its 12000 BC, no one's gonna know they weren't there before. So, they create a bunch of islands, El Nido Archipelago, and brainwash all of their own citizens to forget about the future.

And they can do that because Chronopolis contains a super advanced computer called FATE, that can run the city by itself, and it constantly mind controls people by using the Save Points scattered. And they hid the city behind a high cliff, strong sea currents, and storms, to keep people away. The Brainwashing keeps the people from wanting to go to the mainland of CT where they could potentially alter the timeline.

Sidenote: When they fought Dinopolis, it had a super weapon called the Dragon God. It was divided into six weaker Dragons by the scientists of Chronopolis and this became part of Lavos's plan, too. If he ever needed an emergency power-up, he could reassemble the Dragon God, and add himself to it, to make a substitute body, because when he was reduced to a "shard" he was relatively vulnerable. That comes into play at the very end.

So, the main idea was the no one is supposed to mess with the timeline of Chrono Trigger, but no one realized Lavos had created his backup plan in El Nido. But, there was another actor that neither Lavos or anyone else considered - Schala.

Schala had disappeared into the time stream during the events of Chrono Trigger and had ended up with the REAL Lavos.

Remember that Lavos is a creature that exists outside of regular space. Both the Lavos from CT and the "Frozen Flame" from CC are just "shadows" of the real creature that exists between dimension / timelines.

Schala was able to do two things... she created a clone of herself which would become "Kid," and she caused a MASSIVE electrical storm that for one night opened up Chronopolis. Coincidentally, on that night, Serge and his father end up inside Chronopolis, and long story short, Serge unknowingly becomes only person able to use the computers at Chronopolis, and FATE doesn't realize this until the next day.

FATE needs to get control back because suddenly the brainwashing is turned off, and who knows how that could affect the timeline. FATE starts its own plan to switch bodies with Serge to regain control, this is why he's acting as Lynx and searching for the Dragon's Tear.

Unknown to them, the Frozen Flame realizes that the body from Chrono Trigger is already destroyed, so it wants to reassemble the Dragon God, to be at full power and destroy these people that tried to destroy it. To do this, during the night of the storm, a secret agent was also born, Harley the "7th Dragon."

Haley is pretending to be an ally of Lynx, hoping to obtain the Frozen Flame, and get it to the dragons to unleash Lavos's revenge.

So, that's what's going on as you play through Chrono Cross. In the end, the only way to really kill Lavos is to destroy the real body in between dimensions. So, in the final battle, you gotta use the Chrono Cross to collapse the dimensions.

Finally, I still don't know why that works.

I sail through void

Lonely and cold.

I don't remember how or why

Just how lonely I am.

But what is this?

In the distance, a sapphire shimmers

In a matching azure halo.

It calls to me, I must oblige

I shall introduce it to my deep ruby.

They will become friends.

This sapphire is vast and grand

Its surface is alive and kissed by the sun.

It is my instinct to crawl up inside of it

To seek shelter, in its molten womb.

There is a patch of liquid hot earth

The perfect place to enter the blue star...

But oh!! My ruby!! It came off and I have lost it

...My concentration lost with it, I crash

Not into molten rock, but a strange construct near it.

The landing is painful, and the light is too bright.

I seek shelter, down where it is safe.

Protected...

Warm...

Dark...

...I drift to sleep.

I begin to dream...

In my dreams, I can see my jewel.

Become it.

The small creatures of this world can grow

Get better from it.

Grow!! Yes, grow!!

This is an exciting dream, to have such an impact on the world.

It makes me feel good.

Before long, we have all found myself again,

Slumbering away.

They feed on me now

as if I a suckling mother.

As the ground beneath them lifts away

From the ice and towards the sun

I feel so proud, yet the feeding begins to hurt.

They finally bite too hard, and now?

I am stirred from my slumber.

I crawl to the surface, but

The flying island exists no more.

I wonder if it ever did.

...and then I see her.

The lifeform so kind to me.

I think she was the mother

Of she who spoke to my ruby.

If she approves, I must be doing right.

Satisfied, I drift to sleep once more

...

I slumber again.

My next dream is less pleasant, though.

One of these creatures bothers me.

Demands me.

They have grown venomous, and hostile.

As soon as I arrive as requested, I destroy it.

I have to. I must continue my dream.

I must watch my world grow again.

I grow anxious...

I ask myself why I do good things.

Do I do them purely for the sake of these lifeforms?

Or because it makes me feel good?

Is kindness truly so selfish?

My long slumber comes to an end.

My hunger grows and I quickly have my answer

I love them, but now it is time to harvest.

What took thousands of days to rebuild...

Gone again in the blink of an eye.

I feel engorged...

satisfied.

Swollen ...pregnant.

I get it now.

My babies will leave this nest I have made for myself...

they will find other wombs out there to nurture and protect them... just like this womb protected me.

..

...The day comes.

The last life flitters away from this womb, and it is time for my babies to leave. I watch them depart, feeling sad to see them go, yet...

...so...

...proud....

I feel tired.

Alone in my rapidly cooling womb, I...

Drift...

To... sleep... again...

...for the last time.

...goodbye...