Author's Note: Just putting this on . You can see the spacebattles thread here: threads/0-zntxchrono-trigger.311417/

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Time bends to no one

No matter how a life tries it fails

For time is omnipotent

Invincible

Untouchable

And yet

Even it bows to the end

However...

It does not mean it follows a set path

It branches and flows endlessly

And thus it's origin lost

A point no one can go

And that is why

History is unpredictable

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Tristain Magic Academy

~Present Day~

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Why? Why do I see this?

Each time my eyes close and I drift into slumber I see this.

Death... Endless and countless. People screaming for mercy as they burned and die in embers. Various individuals in gruesome states as various wounds covered their body as they screamed in pain. Others impaled by objects and fixtures from their own homes, dead before they know of it. I see the earth crack and flames bubble from below. Fiery rock blows and rains as people stumble for safety.

Gruesome... endless... disturbing... frightening...

But the dreams does not answer why do I have them. Even as a child they were there. Wraiths that scared me to wake. Specters of despair that drove me in tears. I never told anyone, not even the sister I adore. I whimpered alone, keeping the mask I slowly created. False strength in the sight of none.

There were even whispers. Whisper of dark deeds sowed into my ears. Orders to kill, to devour to destroy...

'You were created my herald... to give this world pain enough to heed my arrival.'

I shiver beneath my covers, tears in my eyes asking the great founder why. Is it because I'm a failure? Is it because I'm useless? I pondered it as I curled in fright adding to my nerves for the event for tomorrow...

The one that would truly judge if that was truly my fate...

The one thing that I hope would be my salvation.

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Chapter 0:

Foreshadowing

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Louise glared at the summoning circle. Upset as she was and more than not demoralized, she put up a brave front. Ignoring the jeers and insults hurled at her she looked at the professor... the professor who probably was the only one who believed in her. At his nod she steeled herself once more and began to chant. Sweat began to form as the words flowed from here...

-AAAAHHHHH-

Terror gripped her heart fearing her failure and the consequences therefore...

-HELP! HELP!- -THE END HAS COME!- -MOTHER! IT HURTS MOTHER!-

She stopped, suddenly as a different kind of fear began to envelope her heart. She ignored it at first but...

"Miss Valliere please continue."

Hearing the words of her professor, she only nodded and promptly ignored the voices... And once more her words began to weave the spell...

*The earth cracked and the wind raged. She feel doom in the air and death it promised. Flames erupted from the ground as land she knew... despite looking so foreign, knew that it was her home. Her birthplace being ripped apart as the world cracked...*

She gasped and began to shake. When she attempted the Familiar Summoning a scant while ago this did not happen. The voices and now the visions is to terrible to ignore. To frightening to forget... What was it?! Why was it happening. Why now of all times! She collapse, paled faced and hyper-ventilating.

"Miss Valiere! Are you alright?!" In an instant her professor was beside her. Worry etched deeply upon his face. She wanted to say no. She wanted to say what was going wrong. But she had already failed thrice now... she could fail no more. She gulped and steeled herself despite her face showing the contrary...

"Sorry professor it's just nerves." It was lie, and the professor saw through it. But she was stubborn and he knew that he wouldn't be able to persuade her from stopping. After all, he had already witnessed her failures and knew that her fate was hanging on a thin thread.

"Alright. But if something is wrong please tell me." She wouldn't he knew, and she knew that as well. Nodding and moving away, she rose to her feet and dusted herself before trying once more...

*The earth raged in fury that was for sure and it took it out on everyone in sight. The ground broke and flames raged with the voices of the dying was too hard to ignore...*

She sweated heavily as she grit her teeth, she was too afraid but decided to continue, she can't fail.

*She watched her brethren, her fellow Halkegenian's die a horrible death. She watched her home wither and break...*

She couldn't fail...

*She could see it, the deaths... the devastation...*

She must not fail...

*The horror! It was too much...*

She couldn't! SHE MUSN'T!

Darkness enveloped her vision, and her head began to spin. The feelings could no longer ignored and it came to her in full vengeance. She folded onto herself and began to shiver uncontrollably. She then began to throw up as the feelings welled up as she could no longer bear it. Within that period of time she noticed it. It was too quiet, and too dark. Where was the jeers, the insults? Where was the worried professor? Where was she?

She stood up and looked about. Despite the darkness she recognized the field that they did the summoning ritual... but... the grass looked wild and traces of anyone was absent. She turned and saw the academy and gasped. It not only looked old but it was in ruins. In fact she could clearly see that only part of the walls and main building were intact and only one of the towers stood. Frantic she began to look around and saw a sea of trees in the twilight and the silent plains in beyond... And on the horizon... Was large shadows with the occasional lights. Giant towers she could not comprehend their meaning.

And then she felt it. The cold, the unmerciful cold and the slow and silent snow. She finally noticed most of the grass looked dead and part of the sea of trees had no leaves... What could have happened? What nightmare was this?! She began to panic again. She had experienced this many times... but never liked this!

But before she could panic more the rumbling began. The violent shaking earth announcing something terrifying ascending it's depths. She screamed but she could not move as the earth broke and the flames came. As the dark environs lit up she could see it...

The demon, the monster. Something beyond her, beyond anyone. It's spiked shell came first, looking like a demonic mountain of steel and death. Then came the horrific wail and the promise of death. The winds raged and the sky burned as the earth busted open little by little. Then came the face... or the gigantic maw. Looking like a bizarre bud that split in three showing rows and rows of deathly teeth. It she had a presence of mind she would have thought that the horrific creature looked like a demented turtle.

But the rain of death that heralded it's coming long with the death of the world took center stage in her mind. And then in the next few minutes she witnessed the end. The end of everything... The death of all...

And with that she was back. Eyes wide in fright and shaking like a leaf she could only stare at the empty plain. She ignored her professor shaking her, she ignored the now curious and sympathetic cries of her classmates she fell into a sitting position staring at thin air. It was horrible, it was frightening... it was the end.

Was it a vision? A vision of the coming end? Was the great Brimir telling her something. Something significant to all. Was he warning of the upcoming end. Or was it just the whispers... the specters that plagued her. Taunting her... mocking her... It was too much, too much for her to bear.

"A Healer! Get the healer quick!"

"What's wrong with her?" "What's with the zero?" "Look she's really frightened!" "What?! What did she see?"

Everything she thought. Everything wrong. She wanted to go home, she didn't care no more. She just wanted to be in the embrace of her beloved sister. The protection of her stern mother. Heck, she even wanted to hear the jeers of her mighty eldest sister. But it was not to be.

Before anything could be done it happened. From the empty space of the circle it came. At first it just just small bolts of lightning, cracking uselessly in the air doing nothing. This they became stronger and began converging into a wicked looking sphere of lighting. It then began to roar in intensity as it grew larger, stronger... threatening to engulf all in it's way.

"What's that?" "The zero's delayed spell?!" "But she wasn't able to fini-"

"Everyone back!" "Quick run!"

Panic has risen in the students. Each and everyone began to run, to evacuate the deadly area. As the sphere began to bulge to change. Slowly it turned into a dark hole... a tear in the sky. It then began to suck in everything in vicinity. It then became a struggle to stay on the ground, as they began to hold on to anything that would prevent them to get swept away. Thankfully the majority of them had already got away but for one particular student however... it was too late.

Frightened and weak the pink haired girl began to claw on the ground as she was slowly but surely being pulled in. Her professor noticing her plight discarded his own safety to rush to her side. But as said, it was already late for her. Even before her professor could seize her, she was pulled in. Pulled into dark hole that vaguely resembled her spells, the explosions. But it was not, it was hole... A hole in time. And the professor would not know of it. No one in the field would not know it. They could only watch as the girl was sucked in, and then gone...

*break*

As for the girl, she screamed. She screamed her lungs off. She flailed her arms. She tried to hold the air. She wanted to grab on to something. To hold on a lifeline as she was swept into the currents of time. Swept into a land far away, and to a fate no one knows... For the only one who could answer that, was the girl herself...