The New Kid 2
Chapter 1
Okay, so I lied about working on my other stories first. But I'm currently stuck in them, can't for the life of me get back into the mindset needed to write them, and I've been getting ideas from certain people about writing side-stories for the characters in the NK series. In short, I'm stuck in the NK mindset.
Aaaaaaaannnndddd… I can't think of anything else to say at the moment. So, before Uber Spoonz hunts me down and steals my laptop, here's the first chapter of the sequel of "The New Kid" (and "New Kid 2" is just a working title until I think of something else). Jenna?
Jenna: For the love of too many hot chocolates this week alone and the hyperactive sugar high that comes with it, Yuja doesn't own Golden Sun.
JENNA!
Jenna: She also has nothing to do with Wikipedia, even if it was where she got the idea for Kraden's lecture and diagram. Don't try quoting her on the alchemy stuff either, it kinda got rearranged as needed to fit this story.
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"He's open! He kicks! And he scores! The crowd goes wild!" Garet cupped his hands around his mouth and made a noise that sounded surprisingly like the cheers of a large stadium audience, only muffled.
"Yeah, yeah. It's a wonderful day in the world of amateur soccer, I'm sure," said Felix in mock disappointment.
"Oh, you're just upset that I finally beat you." Garet was grinning from ear to ear.
"You wish." Felix crossed his arms.
They were at the usual spot in the park, and Garet had just gotten his first score and win against Felix in a game of soccer. Mia and Jenna sat on one of the benches reading books for English class, Ivan and Sheba chatted away on the other bench, and Isaac just sat contently next to the two bookworms as he watched the game.
Garet and Felix walked over to the benches, and Garet grinned at Isaac as Felix took a seat next to Ivan and Sheba on the other bench. "Care for a game of soccer, Isaac?"
The Venus Adept smiled back. "Are you sure you can keep up?"
"Oh, come on! That's what Felix said just before I skunked him!"
Isaac laughed and stood. "All right, all right." He and Garet walked back to the makeshift field.
"First to score 10 wins the game, OK?" Isaac nodded, focusing on the soccer ball between them. In the end, Isaac won 10 to 4.
"You were just lucky, that's all," said Garet in a huff, putting the ball under one arm as they walked back to the others, pretending to be mad with Isaac. Any stranger to the group would almost think that the two were brothers if it weren't for the different appearances.
Isaac just grinned back. "Want a rematch then?"
"Nah. I'll just let you be the victor for a day. Consider yourself lucky."
Isaac cocked an eyebrow. "Thanks. I'll keep that in mind."
Isaac.
"Huh?" Isaac stopped walking to listen. The now very familiar whispers of the earth surrounded him, but a strange voice seemed to stand out from the rest.
A great power. It grows with you. The power of the earth itself.
Garet turned around to see his friend a few steps behind him. "Isaac? You okay?" Isaac didn't respond, but continued to glance around and into empty space.
Power. Energy. It grows stronger. We want it.
Garet took a step closer to the Venus Adept. "Isaac?"
The power of the Golden Sun. We want it. We need it!
A spasm of pain started in his chest and shot through his body. Isaac gave a pained gasp and fell to his knees, clutching at his chest with one hand. "Isaac!" Garet ran and knelt beside him as the others jumped up from the benches and hurried over as well. As they got close, though, giant vines shot up from the ground, twisting and blocking their path.
"What the? What is this?" shouted Felix, pulling Jenna back as a vine lashed out at her.
"Isaac? Can you hear me?" Garet reached out to support Isaac by the shoulder, but another hand grabbed his arm and stopped him. Isaac looked up at him, tears threatening to form.
"I… can't control it. Just get out of here," he gasped.
"How many times do I have to tell you? We're not going anywhere!"
The vines shot forward and wrapped around each of their friends before dragging them screaming back under the ground. "Please…just go!"
"Not happening, pal." He started to stand, raising Isaac up with him.
"Garet-" Just then, the ground started to vibrate, and a crack opened up under the red head so that he slipped and tumbled down the crevice that seemed to lead to the very center of the Earth itself. "Garet!" Without Garet's support, Isaac fell back to the ground, the pain now threatening to tear him apart.
And then, adding insult to injury, it all stopped. The crevice closed up, the vibrations ceased, and the pain was gone. And Isaac found himself alone all over again.
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Isaac woke with a start. A nightmare; it had been another nightmare. Why did this keep happening to him? Why did he keep seeing his Psynergy grow out of control, and always with the worst consequences? He wasn't sure how much more he could take.
A shiver ran up his back, and he realized he had broken into another cold sweat during the night. Why was this happening?
Pulling back his covers, Isaac swung himself out of bed and proceeded to get dressed. Light was just starting to glow through his window blinds, but he knew he couldn't go back to sleep. Nothing seemed to work. He had even tried sleeping aides. And if he wasn't going back to sleep this fine Saturday morning, then he knew just where he could go to take his mind off his horrible nightmares.
It was a twenty minute walk to Kraden's house, though it seemed a lot easier without many cars to worry about as Isaac crossed the roads. Isaac checked his watch when he came to the front door. 6:41. He knocked and waited. Kraden was usually awake by six, and if he wasn't then he would most likely be grateful for the wake up call.
"Isaac? By Sol, what kind of normal high school senior are you to be here at this hour?" Isaac looked up to see the door now open, Kraden standing there looking both curious and amused in full mad scientist garb. His remaining bed hair even matched the imaged. Or maybe that's how he always meant it to look.
The boy only hesitated a little in answering. "What did you mean last week? When you said my Psynergy wasn't out of the woods yet?"
Whatever Kraden had expected to hear, that wasn't it. "Oh, d-did I say that? Oh, well now… Let's see." He left the doorway open as he started walking away, but this wasn't new and Isaac closed the door behind him after stepping inside. "Have to admit, Isaac, I never thought I'd regret having a student who actually listened to me. Anything to drink?"
The Adept tore his gaze from the large painting hanging over the living room fireplace, and shook his head before they moved on. Didn't matter how many times he saw that painting, it had to be the weirdest idea of a lighthouse ever, with large curly waves in the foreground and what looked like a hovering yellow ball of light separate from the top of the tower. He never could figure out what the four other, smaller orbs circling around the large one were supposed to be, aside from added color.
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The weekend passed as usual, and Isaac soon found himself sitting in class again Monday morning, doodling idly in the side margins to his notes. Kraden meanwhile was carrying on at the front of the room, sometimes scratching important names from the history lesson on the chalkboard. Whoever had agreed to give the elder both the history and chemistry teaching positions had a cruel sense of humor against the senior class, since that was the majority of the doctor's students.
"…and before we have Aristotle's alchemy, we have the philosopher Empedocles' theory of the four elements. These became the classical Greek elements, and they are, of course: water," Kraden drew a box on the board and wrote the element at one corner, "fire," the element was written at the opposite corner, "air, and last but not least, earth." The last two elements were written at opposite free corners. He then scribbled "wet" between air and water, "dry" on the opposite side between earth and fire, "hot" between air and fire, and "cold" between earth and water. "These would later become known at the four humors in some regions. In others, a fifth element might be added, whether it be 'void,' 'metal,' you get the idea. Aristotle yet so far as to identify aether, or ether, as a fifth element completely separate from the main four, also based in part on his teacher Plato's…"
Kraden was going more and more into one of his oblivious ramblings when there was a knock at the door. The professor stopped mid sentence, something about Luna and Sol, and turned disappointed to the offending noise. Garet snickered quietly from the desk beside Isaac and slipped over a piece of paper.
it's the kid in the candy store pout
Isaac bit back a laugh, and looked over at his friend to see Garet facing forward and trying hard to look serious. He wasn't exactly succeeding. Jenna rolled her eyes from the next desk over. Going back to his doodle masterpiece, Isaac didn't notice what was going on in the room or who had just entered until Garet leaned over and whispered, "Looks like we've got a new kid again, and she doesn't look half bad."
Isaac raised an eyebrow at Garet before looking forward, and everything seemed to slow and go quiet when he caught sight of the girl. She was standing at the front waiting on Kraden to enter her into his records and tell her what to do, the vice principal having already left, and Isaac could do nothing but stare stunned as she twirled a piece of her long, purple hair around her index finger. The only word that could escape the sudden lump in Isaac's throat was a whisper of the name, "F… Feizhi?"
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XD How many thought I had gone insane and was bringing in some sappy Mary Sue OC with that last paragraph? And for those who still have some Mary Sue concerns: don't worry, Isaac's just in shock to see Feizhi there after so many years.
And that's it for chapter 1! If the style seemed to change about halfway through, it's because the nightmare sequence at the start was written a while ago. It was originally intended for using in "The New Kid" as a way of foreshadowing the sequel, but didn't fit in the way I wanted it to at the time. So instead it's getting put to use now. Let me know what you think of this sequel so far by clicking that little "review" button. It makes me write quicker. n.n