So I've decided to write another story that isn't a oneshot.

Sol Sanctum set in motion a chain of events impossible to stop, changing the world and the destiny of those in it forever. This is the story of 8 adepts and their journey through Weyard where friendships are forged, relationships are tested, and the bonds of fate are revealed.

It begins in the Mogall Forest shortly after Mia joins the party.

I have no timetable set up for this story so I'll release chapters as I write them. Hope you enjoy!

How to read dialogue in my stories:

- "Quote" marks means someone is speaking

- Italics indicate thoughts

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- I don't own Golden Sun or the affiliate characters

Chapter 1: Through The Mogall Forest

It was another hot day on the continent of Angara and the cerulean haired water adept Mia still wasn't used to the drastic change in temperature from her home town of Imil. She had left the town and its perpetual winter just two weeks ago with Isaac, Garet, and Ivan after the elemental lighthouse of Mercury was lit despite her best efforts to protect it.

In some sense, joining the three boys on their quest was atonement for her failure to protect the lighthouse. Even though it was too late to prevent the lighting of the elemental lighthouse in Imil, Mia felt obligated to join Issac, Garet, and Ivan and help prevent the reaming three from meeting the same fate.

So here she was traversing Angara in their party of four, trying to save the world from the threat of alchemy. Mia was glad to see her new companions had readily accepted her to the group and that they were all easy to get along with despite having vastly different personalities.

Garet was definitely the joker of the group. As a tall and sturdy fire adept, he's the kind of person always willing to share a laugh with his friends but that could become deadly serious when needed or if a situation involved food.

Ivan was the youngest of the party, but he has brilliance beyond his years. As the all star of puzzle solving, he got the group out of quite a few sticky situations.

Isaac was the figurehead of the group and the unofficial leader. Everyone else usually respects and defers to his decisions due to his ability to remain calm and collected in all kinds of situations.

This line of thought inevitably lead Mia to ponder her own role in the party. The obvious answer is that she was the healer, the one with the most medical knowledge as well as a specialty in healing psynergy, but that wasn't the main point. How does my personality mesh with theirs and what do they think about me as a person instead of just a healer? She wondered. They all have their own unique traits that define them...but I'm just a shy girl from Imil. I don't think I really have anything that defines me in the way they do.

A loud cracking sound broke her out of her thoughts as Garet gave the group a goofy grin, clearly enjoying navigating the Mogall Forest with the new psynergy he has just learned called "Force." Hitting tree stumps with psynergy in order to locate the right pathways in the twisted maze of a forest by scaring the apes into running the correct way had to be the most bizarre form of navigation the group had ever encountered. Surprisingly it actually seemed to be working, and Garet had been obsessed with his new psynergy since learning it at the Fuchin Temple.

Isaac hopped across another gap in the river after the group had pushed a log into place to reach the other side and then extended his hand back to Mia to help her across. The cerulean haired girl flushed pink in embarrassment, before taking his hand and hopping across the log herself.

Maybe the blonde haired boy didn't notice himself doing it, but he had occasionally started offering Mia assistance jumping across logs ever since the one time she tripped on her robe right before jumping and took a fairly ungracious fall into the waters of the Kolima Forest. She had only been with the group for a few days at that point and she was completely humiliated by the misstep. Garet and Ivan had found it hilarious and Isaac gave her a smile that indicated his amusement as well, though he managed not to laugh.

Despite the embarrassment, the situation did bring some measure of good because it served as her "initiation." Before the incident it was clear that the boys didn't quite know what to think of her, but after her fall they fully embraced her into the fold; unafraid to poke fun or make jokes at her expense.

So far nobody else had commented on Isaac offering her help and she was glad that nobody seemed to notice it at all. Garet and then Ivan both followed them across the river and finally to what looked like an exit from the forest. There was one last tree stump in their path and when they approached, an ape hopped out fled toward the exit.

Garet habitually hit the stump with his Force psynergy, once again causing a resounding cracking sound, though nothing happened at all. Shrugging, Garet turned toward the exit and everyone began to follow him out of the forest. Just as they were about the leave the tree line Isaac yelled out.

"Watch out!" he exclaimed, and pushed Mia out of the way as a giant blue ape took a swing at her from behind. Somehow the beast had managed to sneak up on the party as they were leaving and now posed an immediate threat. Enraged at missing its first strike, the ape let out a war cry loud enough to hurt the ears of the adepts and cause them to quickly block out the sound with their hands.

As the shout died down, the adepts quickly got into a battle formation and prepared to face off against their new foe. Ivan led the counterattack with a blast of lightning that drew the ape's attention and provided an opening for Isaac and Garet to get in close. Isaac took a swing with his sword drawing a roar of pain while Garet used a blast attack to scorch the beast. Angered, the ape went into a fury and took three quick swipes at Garet. Though he managed to block two with his blade, the third hit the fire adept in the shoulder and caused him to stumble backward.

Mia cast a healing spell on Garet, closing up the wound and repairing the damage as Isaac summoned some vines to slow the Ape's movement and give Garet more time to recover. With a nod of thanks at Mia, Garet said, "It seems to be weak to fire guys!"

Isaac processed this new information in a matter of seconds and devised a new strategy for the battle. "Garet, try casting your fire psynergy from a distance while I distract him up close. Ivan, Mia: Provide support and stop the ape from getting to Garet when I have to back off," Isaac said, readying his sword.

Accepting this strategy with a nod, Garet backed off a bit to a safer place to cast his spells while Mia called on her Djinni to attack. "Sleet!" she yelled out, conjuring the little blue creature and watching it spew shards of ice at the ape. Ivan followed up her attack with a whirlwind that made it difficult for the beast to swing at Isaac. Garet cast his signature Heat Wave ability and sent a wall of fire crashing into the ape, inflicting heavy damage.

This caused the ape to roar again, throwing the adepts off balance as the sound assaulted their minds. Isaac was a bit shaken from the sounds but managed to roll out of the way of the ape's follow up swing and get away with only a minor cut.

Mia healed it back up again for Isaac as Garet used a flare attack to daze the creature from the bright light and do some damage. Isaac took a swing at the beast while he had an opportunity and connected with its leg, tearing a deep gash and soaking his blade in blood. Mia unleashed the pure elemental power of mercury in the form of light blue blasts that knocked the ape off balance. After that all it took was another lightning attack from Ivan and Heat Wave from Garet to finally fell the beast.

Isaac wiped the blood off his sword on the grass and sheathed his weapon before turning back to the group. "That was well executed guys. We took that thing down with only minor injuries despite how strong it was," he said with a smile.

"I'm just glad we can finally leave this forest," Ivan said. "Following random apes around isn't exactly my idea of a logical form of navigation..." he muttered, turning toward the exit. Mia grinned and Garet laughed at his discomfort as they turned to follow him.

"Let's get some distance between ourselves and this forest before setting up camp for the night," Isaac suggested, joining the rest of the group and earning a snicker from Ivan. "What?" Isaac asked the younger blonde boy who waved it off. "Nothing, nothing..." Ivan said, turning with a smile and heading for the exit.

"You have a bit of ape blood on your face," Mia explained to Isaac with a giggle, reaching up to wipe off the stray drop of red with her finger. "There," she said after it was gone, and started to follow the others out of the forest.

Garet just shrugged at the scene and nonchalantly said, "I thought it suited you nicely. I wasn't going to mention it."

"Thanks for actually telling me Mia...unlike some people," Isaac said turning to stare at Garet in mock irritation. The fiery haired adept turned and flashed him a grin and a thumbs up as Isaac fell into step and the group exited the forest.

Despite being tired from navigating the forest and the fight with the final ape, the group of adepts walked on for a while so they wouldn't be too close to the forest at night. When they had traveled enough they stopped and began to set up tents as well as build a fire to cook dinner on. It didn't take long to get ready and after a few minutes Isaac and Mia were cooking dinner for the group on the fire.

Tonight they were making a stew and it had to simmer for a bit before eating so Garet made up an excuse to get his growling stomach away from the delicious smell of food by saying, "I'm going to go check out our surroundings and make sure we're safe."

Ivan volunteered to go with him and watch his back, "To make sure he doesn't do anything stupid," leaving Isaac and Mia to finish up the stew. Isaac was stirring the pot while Mia chopped up vegetables and herbs to add some flavor to the mixture. They worked for a while in silence to make the stew until Isaac's hand slipped and he burned himself on the hot pot.

"Ah..." Isaac let out in pain, pulling his hand away from the fire quickly and examining the burned skin on his hand. Before Isaac could heal it up, Mia had grabbed his hand and was inspecting it. "Are you okay?" she asked in concern while simultaneously casting a healing spell on the burn.

Isaac smiled as the pain washed away and the spell took effect. "Yes, I think it will be fine. It wasn't too bad in the first place," he reassured Mia.

She let out a sigh of relief and decided to scold him a bit. "You should be more careful Isaac," Mia admonished. "You guys all get plenty of injuries in combat so you should try to minimize the ones like this from careless mistakes," she added.

Isaac just smiled at her and replied with, "Thanks for healing it Mia."

"You're welcome. Just...be careful okay? I don't want to have to tell Garet and Ivan you can't fight tomorrow because you burned your hand making stew you know," she said.

"Oh god, Garet's complaining would be legendary. You know he'd complain about having to do extra work to make up for my injury or something," Isaac thought out loud.

Mia laughed at Isaac's serious expression and held out the spoon to him. "Exactly. And I don't want to listen to that so help me dish up this stew...and be careful this time," she added.

Isaac took the spoon and the bowls Mia handed to him. "Yes...point taken. I think I'll be extra careful," he said with a smile.

Garet and Ivan made their reappearance at exactly the right time as Mia took the full bowls and began to distribute them among party members. Feeling the need to at least report something back, Garet said, "Looks like there isn't too much around, but we did take care of some wolves that were nearby."

Ivan indicated Garet's arm as he accepted his bowl of stew from Mia. "You might want to check that out though, one of them actually got a bite on him," he said.

Mia frowned and said, "Let's see it," when she walked up to Garet and the tall red haired boy sheepishly extended his arm for her to inspect. A quick Ply was all it took to mend the skin, but Mia still had questions for him. "How did that even happen?" she asked, confused at the thought of a wolf actually getting the upper hand on Garet.

Isaac sat down and took a sip of his stew, prepared for the show that was about to unfold. Garet squirmed slightly and said, "I was fighting them and misjudged the reach of the big one so he bit me when I didn't expect it."

Mia looked at him quizzically, not really believing it and Ivan snorted. "More like you were entertained by herding the wolves with fire and forgot they like to bite you," he said.

"Oh shut up," Garet said to Ivan. "At least I wasn't making them dizzy with whirlwinds and watching them try to run after spinning around."

"But I didn't get bit," the blonde boy retorted smugly.

Mia let out a heavy sigh. "You two are both idiots," she said, causing Isaac to laugh as he watched from the sidelines. "Don't think I forgot about you," Mia said, rounding on Isaac who had to finish the spoonful of stew he had before raising his arms in surrender.

"To be fair, I only burned my hand slightly on the pot. It's not like I was purposely toying with wolves," Isaac pointed out.

Mia gave up and sat down with the rest to eat her stew. "Sometimes I find it hard to believe that Isaac was able to handle all your random mishaps himself before I came along," she said shaking her head slowly with a fake incredulous look at each of them.

Garet wasn't about to let it go though. "Oh? Is it only our mishaps? Is that why Isaac had to help you across the logs today?" he asked, revealing his trump card with a huge grin.

Mia went red for a second, reliving the embarrassment of tripping and falling into the water once again and stuttered when she replied, unable to deny the accusation. "T-That was...I didn't think anyone noticed that..." she said softly, causing the boys to all crack up.

Isaac smiled at her. "It's okay. We all have our embarrassing moments as you very well know," he said.

Mia decided to just make herself busy with eating and after a few more quips, the rest of the adepts noticed their hunger and wolfed down their food as well.

Garet was the first done and gave the group a wave. "Well I'm going to go pass out. I'm tired as hell and don't have a watch tonight," he said. Isaac, Mia, and Ivan told him goodnight as he disappeared into his tent. Ivan followed suit shortly after, asking to be woken up when it was his turn for watch.

Isaac turned to Mia and said, "You should get some rest too. It's been a long day. I'll wake you up when it's your turn."

Mia nodded and said goodnight to Isaac before ducking into their tent and laying down on her bedroll. Their tent. It still sounded funny to say the tent belonged to both herself and Isaac, as normally a situation like that would never be permissible. I suppose it's just another oddity of our journey, the cerulean haired girl mused. At first it was totally weird and I was skeptical about the situation but I guess I got used to it. It even seems sort of normal now...

It's only been a few weeks so far and already my whole life is changing, she thought. It's nerve inducing and exciting at the same time. Even though this quest is a serious matter...its fun to travel the world with my new friends, Mia smiled as those thoughts carried her off to sleep.

I hope you enjoyed reading the first chapter as much as I did writing it. This is sort of an into chapter just to give you a feel for the mood and camaraderie between characters before I jump deeper into the plot so expect a lot more to come!