Hello everybody, this is my first fanfiction submitted to the CC and it's based off a dream I had last night about CT...enjoy!
Note...this takes place in the Lavos timeline at first, but changes to the keystone timeline.
Chaper 1: A Seemingly normal afternoon
It was a sunny day in 1999 A.D., just a day before the terror known as Lavos would surface and cause the Apocalypse. A man named Maxus was out in his garden watering his plants, watching everybody talk busily in the sunlight of Arris Dome. He looked up to see his wife walking over to him, smiling brilliantly.
"Emilia!" he cried out, "Good morning! Did you have a nice sleep, dear?" Emilia nodded sharply and said, "Yes, hon, I was just going to a mall to buy some groceries." Maxus nodded, thinking about going to Bangor Dome to Arris Square to celebrate Guardia's 2000th anniversary.
"Hmm...I think I'm going to go to Arris Square, dear. His wife, Emilia, smiled slightly and nodded, her black hair swaying with the wind, "Okay, hon, just be back by lunch"
"Alright, sweetie, will do." As Maxus turned and walked over to his hover car and started it up, he had no idea his life would soon change completely.
As he drove away, he turned on to his favorite radio station and listened to the news.
"Today we learn that another tremendous tremor shocked the city of Medina today, which leaves its citizens posiively frightened. Hopefully we don't see too many more of these, but I doubt that we won't."
Maxus turned off the radio and sighed, wondering why the quakes have gotten so violent lately. He shook the question off his chest and continued driving towards Arris Square.
5 hours later, after he was done with his business at the 2nd Millenial Fair, he was driving back to his dome, hurriedly, having missed his lunch. Suddenly, time seemed to freeze, as did Maxus' car. He shut it off and walked out, stunned by what just happened.
Then, a figure clad in white appeared in a flash of light, making Maxus stumble. The figure approached Maxus, an said in a mystical voice as he walked out, "Do not be afraid, Maxus. I have come here to warn you about the threat of a being called Lavos. Tomorrow he will destroy the world and nearly all of it's inhabitants. I want you and you alone to escape this world of desolation."
Awestricken, Maxus looked up in confusion, then a look of panic started to grow on his face.
"What...what must I do, enlightened stranger?" The figure looked at him with a glint in his glowing eyes and said, "You must look where you live, the answer lies there, in the form of a scroll, Maxus, NOW GO!"
As the figure disappeared, and time resumed, Maxus suddenly ound himself home.
"I-I must find this scroll at all costs!" he said as his face grew red with sweat and tension.
"E-EMILIA!" he yelled as loud as he could, "Have you seen a scroll anywhwere?" His wife didn't respond, and he started to feel anxious. He looked everywhere through the house, and finally found her, downstairs, laying on the ground, a bloody mess, holding a scroll in her dead hand..
"EMILIA? EMILIA?! EMILIA!!! WHY??? WHYYY!!!" After he stopped crying over her death, he took the scroll and opened it. He examined it to find it was an arcane magic scroll forged for one lucky enough to find it. Maxus asked the mystics about it the next day, and he discovered it would take him to an alternate world.
"H-how is this possible, sages?!"
"Maxus...we came from a timeline known as the keystone timeline. It's a timeline of a bright future, one whose future is not ruined or destroyed by the terrible threat of Lavos. We come from the future of the keystone timeline."
As he listened, Maxus was astounded by what hwe was hearing.
"How far into the future, wise sages?" he asked
"Exactly 1,301 years, Maxus. Stay with us in Medina. There is nothing left for you here in Truce Dome, so come...we must depart."
The next day, after a restless sleep, Maxus found the three sages in a hurry. As he watched them hurry around and pack their stuff, Maxus looked at them questioningly.
"Uh...what's the rush, guys?" When Maxus looked at them, their faces were wide with terror.
"LAVOS WILL RISE NEXT TO US IN EXACTLY ONE MINUTE, MAXUS!!! THERE'S NO TIME, WE MUST RETURN TO THE KEYSTONE TIMELINE, AND YOU'RE COMING WITH!"
Maxus immediately grew panicked and felt like hurling...but he couldn't. Right when he ran to the bathroom, a devastating quake shook the house, and it grew larger and larger, not receding, until, right outside their window, a spiked creature with a funny thing that looked like it's mouth was right outside.
"OH, NO! MAXUS, IT'S LAVOS! WE MUST HURRY!"
