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[[File:Rainbow_Shell_Sprite.png|left]]The Rainbow Shell is a very colorful very large shell that can be forged into [[Crono]]'s Ultimate SNES weapon, [[Rainbow]]. It can be found in [[Giant's Claw]] in [[600 AD]] after the defeat of the [[Rust Tyranno]]. Due to its size and weight, however, it cannot actually be lifted by your party (not even [[Robo]] is able to lift it), and is thusly never actually added to your inventory. It is, however, carried back to [[Guardia Castle]] by the King's knights as a form of repayment for all your party had done to assist them.

The Giant's Claw is an optional [[sidequest]]. The side-quest is completed when the party requests the shell to be moved and stored until the year [[1000 AD]]. Additionally, the completion of this side-quest opens a second side-quest, dealing with the trial of the King in the year 1000 AD. [[File:RainbowShell2.png|thumb|Rainbow Shell in Giant's Claw]]

[[Marle]] finds a letter attached to the Rainbow Shell in [[1000 AD]] from [[Queen Leene]], saying that family is permanent. The contents implied that at some point in her life she figured out that Marle is her descendant.

The Rainbow Shell is seemingly the fossil of an ancient, huge sea creature, compressed and refined by the unreal powers of [[Lavos]]'s crashing into the planet. The result of this refinement is an incredibly strong and powerful mineral, imbued with elemental abilities and the subject of much myth and legend. It was apparently in the possession of the [[Reptite]]s, whose [[Tyranno Lair]] was crushed by Lavos; the shell subsequently was reduced to a place of residence far below the planet's crust. It may have been visited by citizens of [[Zeal]], or legends of it were passed through generations by the [[Ioka]]ns or [[Larubans]]; regardless, accounts of its power and beauty appear in Zeal's tomes, and even filter into the treasure hunting cliques of [[600 A.D.]], evident in [[Toma]]'s own desire to hunt the shell and the Dorino Elder's interest in it. Toma did eventually locate it in the [[Giant's Claw]], which is the [[Tyranno Lair]]'s second incarnation as an island that briefly appears in the Middle Ages. He was unable to procure the shell from its resting place, but in the [[Keystone Dimension|Keystone Timelines]], he informed [[Crono]] and the heroes of time of its location. It was subsequently recovered by knights of the [[Kingdom of Guardia]], where it lay in its treasury for four hundred years, planned to be unveiled at the [[Moonlight Parade]]. [[File:RainbowShell3.png|left|thumb|Rainbow Shell in the Vault.]]

The acquisition of the Rainbow Shell had a temporarily negative effect on the royal family, as [[Yakra XIII]] was able to forge documents detailing a transaction that supposedly entailed [[King Guardia XXXIII]]'s selling the heirloom to a trader. The plot was foiled when a piece of the Rainbow Shell was taken from its resting place in the treasury, which was overrun by Yakra's henchmen, and brought to the trial of the king by [[Marle]]. This [[Prism Shard]] proved the king's innocence. Soon after, [[Melchior]], probably the only person capable of doing so, assisted the party in creating new weapons and items for the party from the shell, including the Rainbow, Prism Dress, and Prism Helm. The Rainbow Shell's fate afterward is unknown, perhaps falling victim to the [[Fall of Guardia]] and being stolen by [[Porre]].