Above All Odds

"ANESTHESIA!"

Out of nowhere everyone begins to look at their feet. They are rising off of the ground, as if gravity ceased to exist.

"Everyone grab something attached to the ground!", commands Mia. The group grabbed anything attaching itself to the dirt to prevent themselves from being projected up into the infinite space. Unfortunately, Laike's body couldn't do a damn thing, so it just rose into the atmosphere, never to be seen again.

"Kyle, help me!" Jessica begins losing her grip from some dead bushes. Kyle reaches over with one hand and grabs her wrist. He places her hand on a part of his sword handle that is above the ground. But, the extra pull from Jess is now causing the sword to slip out from the dirt as well.

Luckily, Crono had an idea. He gripped his sword tighter with his free hand. Being only a few yards away he would toss the sword horizontally towards Ghaleon, just low enough so by the time it began rising it would slice his throat.

The sword is tossed. The blade end gliding toward Ghaleon. He takes notice of this and realizes the sword will decapitate him if he doesn't do something. He terminates the spell and raises his right forearm up to block the sword. It strikes his armor, piercing his flesh, deep enough that the sword stays lodged in his arm as blood rushes out. The party lands with a thud but immediately break up into their respective groups.................

"Kyle, frog, Crono, Jess, you go after Magus. Me, Mia, Nash and Marle will finish off Ghaleon."

"All right, its time to WHUP ASS!", Kyle excitedly bequeaths as he picks up his sword.

Crono runs at Ghaleon and withdraws his sword from its target and runs back while Ghaleon writhes in pain.

..............................

START MUSIC

A determined Magus launches a barrage of elemental attacks, each narrowly missing their targets.

Kyle out of breath, "Huff...huff, this guy is good, frog. Do you have any ideas? Crono! Look out!!!!!"

A lightning bolt explodes where they just stood notbut a second ago. Kyle rushes toward Magus with full teeth exposing and screaming a war cry. Frog begins a high bounce and begins to descend with his sword pointed at Magus's skull. Crono does the same while Jess has her claws slashing erratically.

Magus ceases spellcasting and raises his shield just at the right moment. The whole party connects at the same time and ricochet off the transparent shield. Everybody lands shaken. Magus lowers his shield again and launches a fire spell. All roll out of the way but Kyle gets toasted on his rear. Jess runs over and begins casting heal litany on his ass.

Magus launches another spell of fire, but this time frog counteracts with a water spell. They neutralize within a cloud of steam. Kyle and Crono bumrush Magus again, only to feel the sudden impact the shield again.

"Damn fools. They do not understand that this shield is invincible.", Magus thinks to himself as he lowers his shield once again, this time casing out a dark mist upon his attackers.

"Jess, frog, Crono, where are you?", Kyle asks as he slashes blindly, just missing Crono's arm.

"Uhh!" Frog is pushed down by Magus and drops his sword. "Fowl play demon."

"Ouch! Ahhhh! Help!" Are the only things heard by Magus within the cloud of fog. Magus stands on the outside of it randomly throwing in elemental spells.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! And another. And another." Magus continues his moment of play and relishes in their pitiful screams of pain.

.........................

Alex and Marle run toward their bleeding enemy. Ghaleon stands up straight again, ignoring the blood dripping from his arm and begins to cast spells to retaliate.

"Dive!"

Marle and Alex fly toward the ground and roll as they just miss an overhead fireball.

Nash and Mia let out a flurry of incantations, each on target. But they merely bounce off Ghaleon's midnight black armor. Ghaleon now throws them back their own spells and connect with deadly accuracy.

"Miaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Mia was struck in the ribcage and is now on the ground doubled over. Nash craws his way over to her, lacking feeling in his own legs. Alex gets up and starts swinging at Ghaleon from arms' length. Quick maneuvering prevents any solid strikes upon Ghaleon. Marle launches a crossbow fury of arrows, but they just connect with his armor and drop to the ground lifelessly.

"Nash...help me...the..pain......is to much..."

"Don't worry, Mia, I'll protect you.", speaking doubtfully because of his own situation. Blood comes out of Mia's mouth, forcing her to kneel and face the floor.

Marle turns around and sees what is happening. She runs over to them and casts her cure spells. "There, that should heal her in about a minute." She then turns over to Nash and repeats the process.

"Listen, Alex. You have no chance of defeating me by yourself, or with anyone else for that matter. Just give up and I might kill you painlessly."

"Never!", as he takes a straight thrust at Ghaleon.

"Foolish boy.", Ghaleon says as he blocks Alex's sword with his necromancer cane and then jabs it into his stomach, forcing him to bend over breathless.

Meanwhile, the other three had an idea while Alex was distracting him.

"Got it.", Mia and Marle answer simultaneously.

.........................

As the dark mist clears, Magus finds his enemies scattered all over the area the mist held. He slowly glides toward them unprotected to make sure.

"Throw it now!"

Frog tosses his sword at Magus's head. He raises his shield, this time being a bit on the slow side. The sword gets half lodged inside the shield and stands vertically above Magus. Crono then unleashes his elemental specialty, "SPIRE!"

A lightning bolt falls from the heavens and strikes the handle of the sword and streaks through it, expelling within the inside of the capsule. An eye-blinding white aura is created and Magus screams in pain as millions of volts of electricity stream through his body.

"Get him Jess, while his shield is lowered."

Jess runs at a singed Magus, clawing and shredding at his wounded body. She mercilessly slashes back and forth with the ferocity of a raging demon. He is unable to retaliate with any effectiveness. She backs away.

"X-STRIKE!"

As Magus is now standing in a stupor he sees Crono and frog running full speed at him with swords horizontally tilted at him. They crossover in front of him, piercing each side of his abdomen. They finish up behind him watching him double over holding his blood-soaking sides. He is also breathing heavily and his vision is starting to fade.

'Now, the coup de grace!" Kyle announces as he leaps into the air.

Magus now notices a shadow right next to his feet. Someone is above him with a sword extended. Out of nowhere, the shadow multiplies into three more, creating a total of four swords enclosing a circle of shadows.

"SYBILLIUM SWORD!"

Flesh is the only thing heard as four blades sear through flesh like a hot knife through butter. Magus screams out in absolute agony. The real Kyle covers his hears in pain as his dopplegangers disappear. His body lands face down in a pool of red. His cape and clothing shredded to nothing and his scythe broken in two. The Crono Trigger drops out of its hiding spot and exposes itself to everyone.

"This is what I have been looking for." says Crono as he picks it up and prepares to smash it.

"Thy kingdom hath been avenged my liege.", frog praises as he kneels and thanks the heavens.

Crono throws the Trigger at a rock, shattering it into thousands of tiny particles. The instantly disappear, along with Magus's body.

................................

"BYE-BYE AIR!"

Ghaleon suddenly finds himself at a loss for oxygen. He starts choking and gagging but retains enough strength to dispel it. In sheer anger and frustration he unleashes his strongest lightning spell. It flies out hitting random areas of ground, leaving multi-foot holes with smoke and soot in its wake.

Mia casts a protective spell over her and Nash, while Marle casts her spell off in the distance.

"ICE2!!"

Ghaleon faces toward the sky and notices the sun go out of view. He sees nothing but a glacier begin its descent toward him. He focuses his last few resources on trying to split that glacier in half. He succeeds in doing it, but finds himself vulnerable for a second. Just long enough to feel Alex's sword pierce his stomach and back. He looks down to see Alex's face right up in his. Fallen to his knees, as Alex pulls his sword out, he knows that was the fatal blow. "Quite tactical, young Alex. you do have potential after all. Ugh....ahhhhhh..." Ghaleon begins to physically fade from existence. His Trigger falls out and hits the grass. Alex crushes it with his foot and it shatters in the same manner as the former.

"Nooooooooooooooo............................"