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I don't own Golden Sun or Golden Sun: The Lost Age, but if I did I'd make lots of sequels...
Chapter 1: The Stranger
Jenna waved farewell to her parents as she, Isaac, Mia, and her brother, Felix, walked out of the town gate. In New Vale, it was becoming painfully apparent that there was a definite shortage of food since the rise of the Golden Sun. All of the town's food stocks where destroyed as Mt. Aleph sank into the burning earth and they didn't have near enough gold to buy it from Vault or Biblin.
It was then that Lord Hammet of Kalay offered to relieve their woes temporarily, and Jenna and the group where, even though they where only about 18, hardened adventurers and eagerly took the responsibility of heading to Kalay and escorting the relief caravan to their hometown.
She looked forward at her brother Felix. He was extremely overprotective of her and took it upon himself to see that she would be allowed to date when she was, as he said, dead and buried. This line of logic would normally give Felix the survival quotient of jellyfish in a blast furnace, but since he was her brother, she couldn't hurt him too badly.
Jenna looked backwards, at Isaac and Mia. She trailed their arms to the point where they met. Ever since the entire lighthouse incident, the two had been, as Sheba said, an item. Jenna didn't like it for a while, since that was when she also had feelings for him...
This brought up the thoughts that Jenna hated to think about, how she was relatively alone. She partly blamed Felix, and partly blamed herself, mainly for not talking too much to the young men she encountered on her journey. Jenna inwardly moaned as her conscious constantly told her that there was an empty space inside of her heart...
Jenna was also cursed with the belief of Fate. She believed that, somewhere out there; was her soulmate, the man she was destined for. It was because of this that she felt so alone. Jenna was also a traditionalist. She planned to just hang around until some young man saved her life, at which point she would marry him and then...
She unceremoniously walked into Felix's back as she was lost in her fantasies. She heard Felix mumbling curses.
"What's wrong," she asked, looking over his shoulder. He didn't answer.
The bridge that was rebuilt only a short while before, the one that headed towards Kalay, had a twenty foot section missing from the center of it.
"mumblemumblemumble," Felix said.
"I can't hear you Felix," Jenna sighed, rolling her eyes.
"We'll have to take the long way ar..." he was quickly cut off as he heard a scream from behind him. As one, they both turned around to see Mia casting Glacier at a very large and likely very agitated chimera. Normally this battle wouldn't have been too difficult, but the creatures grew quite a bit stronger since the rise of the Golden Sun as well. Isaac was already down and Mia was knocked unconscious by the time Felix and Jenna got there to aid her. Felix, who wasn't operating at his best since he was forced to leave the house just as he woke up, was also felled within the first few seconds of combat.
Jenna simply stood in sheer terror as the monster advance towards her. Her eyes snapped shut as she said a quick prayer and prepared for quite a bit of pain...
One could imagine how surprised she had been when the chimera let out a bone chilling cry and turned around quickly. She was even more surprised at the explosion of red that resulted when the creature's sharp tail sliced her left leg. She shouted in pain and fell prone; instinctively clutching the wound as she attempted to discern what caused the chimera to react so.
What she saw took her breath away...
It was a man, and judging by the youth in his eyes, had to be no older that nineteen. He wore a short sleeved black leather vest over a soft but rather tight looking black bodysuit. The outfit was definitely designed for fast movement. The pants where nothing special, they appeared to be simple black slacks and he wore leather boots.
Jenna rather liked the pitch black hooded cloak that concealed the lower part of his face. It gave him a sense of mystery. Jenna put the mystery boy under her mental category 'Heartthrob'. Something in his arm gave made her think of...toothpicks...
Of course, a bow fired...well...basically...sharpened toothpicks that hurt more if they slipped between your tooth and your gums.
At this point, a word manifested in Jenna's mind that she thought of often, but could never really put a meaning to as she stared at the young man in stunned admiration...
The word was 'soulmate'...
