King Ranter: Chapter 2-1 - Learning of the Past

Chrono looked around at the urban chaos around him. Quickly, he darted through the streets towards the towering beast that threatened this massive city. The demon stood on it's hind legs, and was red and furry. It swung it's massive paws at the buildings around it, seemingly causing chaos for it's own fun and games. A red, soft aura surrounded it as it stomped through the streets, knocking over buildings like toy blocks. Chrono ran up the side of a falling building and leaped off the corner of the roof at the great beast, fists clenched. He pulled back his right arm, and as the giant red monster looks around at him with a fierce look in it's eyes, Chrono punched it right across the nose, and landed on the wall of another building and slid down to the ground. The demon staggered, hardly able to keep it's balance, and Chrono looked up at him fiercely, and ran towards it. He jumped high into the air and tacked the monster square in it's belly, and leapt off of it and onto another wall, where he jumped off again even higher and landed on the beast's head. The beast looked around for Chrono, and shook his head fiercely to shake him off. Chrono jumped into the air and came crashing back down on the monster's head fist first, knocking it out cold.

Chrono walked along the unconscious beast's spine and to it's large, furry tail. He grabbed the base of it, ripped it off, and threw it past it's feet. Then he walked back up to it's head and hopped down onto the ground. He turned around and opened one of it's eyes, and looked into it for a moment. Without letting go of it's eyelid, he looked around at the people looking at him fearfully. Many of them were crying because of the destruction of the city, others looked like they were in shock from the great beast tumbling down like he did. Chrono looked around, and brushed his faded green shirt from the demon's blood. There was a circle with a horizontal line through it, made up by many white, unidentifiable symbols. Chrono looked around at everyone one last time and cried "Your beast is dead," and then he clawed up his fingers and shoved his arm through the beast's eye. He left it there for a moment, and then it's head exploded out the other side in flames, and he pulled his arm back out. Then he pushed a few buttons on his watched, aimed it at the body of the beast, and a small green laser came out. The monster was shrouded in green light, and then it disappeared. Nothing was left of it besides the crater in the ground that it created when it fell over, and the tail that Chrono ripped off.

Chrono went to pick up the tail. "Who's in charge of this City?" he cried. There was no response. Everyone seemed to still be in shock. Suddenly, a short, stocky came forward from the crowd. He wore a tuxedo, a monocle, and a tall top hat. Classic.

"I am." He said in a sort of silly sounding voice.

Chrono walked over to him and handed him the huge tail. "Mount this high up somewhere. It'll ward away other monsters. The sight of this will frighten any threat away." The mayor eyed him curiously, and folded the tail over in his arms. Chrono walked to the center of the crater. "I'll fix up your town for you personally," he said. Then he crouched down and launched himself up a few hundred feet in the air and levitated there for a few seconds. Then he curled his arms and legs up into a ball, for a few more seconds, and he began to glow. The townsfolk watched wondrously while witnessing this strange event. Then, Chrono spread out his limbs and the glowing light shone far and wide, and the rubble of the destroyed buildings began to levitate and return to the buildings that they were before. Then Chrono dropped to the ground and landed safely on his feet, and looked around at the townsfolk once more. "Take care now," he said, and then touched his watch a few more times and he disappeared in a green flash of light.

Chrono reappeared in Zinc's lab. Zinc was standing at a table with a few scraps of metal, working away and what could have been anything. The giant, dead monster was floating inside the giant cylinder in the corner. "Did you like my present?" asked Chrono, sarcastically.

"You don't mean that was you who sent that thing, do you?" returned Zinc in the same sarcastic tone. "What happened to the tail?"

"I gave it to the city that bastard was wrecking. They need to have something to warn other monsters what's at hand. Not that there actually is, but it would be nice not to have to visit that town too often. It's sort of a boring atmosphere. Not very much colour."

"I don't care about that. Don't you know that the tail you gave them is a very strong power catalyst?"

"You mean, I should have kept it for myself?"

"You should have taken-"