Alright, so I've announced it for a while, and here it is. It's gone through a lot of revising and editing from me since I had made it first person view from Isaac's point of view then I realized that it wouldn't work with the plan so anyways, here it is, after the intensive editing: Raiders of Weyard.

To avoid any confusion, this takes place three years after the original story of Outlaws.

Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun.

Chapter 1: Prelude

It began so long ago, when the world was first created. The inhabitants of our past were named Ancients. They were believed to be Sol's greatest creations. They were just like us. They were adepts. After a few elemental conflicts, they split into clans. A war broke out, putting the opposing elements against one another. They built the lighthouses, scattered close to their capital cities to protect their people and to foretell the attacks of their enemies. The Gods, the four masters of all matter, also took part into this quarrel. Without the knowledge of Sol, they each crafted and offered to the leaders of the clans a powerful glowing stone they called the Elemental Stars. With the power of the stars, the battles became fiercer and the deaths, even more morbid than before.

Sol, master of all, found out about the treachery of the gods. It pained him so much, that he forbade the four maidens of the sun to shine upon the only source of light of the day. Three years of darkness and three years of peace followed this decision. No one dared to fight, led only by light of Luna. But Sol's spouse grew tired of forever shining the moon and convinced Sol to start showing the sun once again.

Sol realized his mistake, he had made the Ancients too powerful. And with the Elemental Stars, they had only grown stronger. After a long period of thinking, Sol decided to take away the powerful stars and hide them where no mortal could get their hands on them. He created an entity named The Wise One to protect the stones as well. When the lighthouses were once again unlit, the faculties of the Ancients returned to their former extent. But Sol didn't find the beings that had caused so much chaos into his world worthy of the wonderful gift that is alchemy. He ordered the four gods of Elemental Power, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, to take away their powers of psynergy for them to remain living as regular people.

The race of the Ancients lived and died out, and from the children that had came out of this age, only a few had been blessed by Sol and Luna with alchemy. The clans were reformed, but were assigned by the gods to protect the lighthouses, while one special people were assigned to protect the Mount where Sol had hidden the source of all power that alimented alchemy.

But one day, this hiding place was disrupted and the elemental stars were robbed and taken away. Defied by the gods, a group of adepts sought to release the true power of alchemy upon the world. In a struggling effort, two young boys were sent away from Mt. Aleph to recover the stolen star, having only managed to save the Mars star. After failing to stop Mercury, Venus and Jupiter to be lit, they joined forces with those seeking to light the ancient lighthouses.

It was there that they learned about the threat which Weyard was exposed to. Without alchemy, the world would just wither away and die, eaten by the great Gaia Falls. Risking everything, they lit the final lighthouse together, and after many struggles, brought peace back to the world.

Sadly, an awful and mysterious epidemic hit the heroes, whom all fell at its hands. The last one standing, their leader, then sealed alchemy once again, persuaded the threat had been born from there. He hoped the world could turn long enough until someone else would figure out what was needed to be done to save it.

But their exploits and alchemy were soon forgotten after their death for mankind evolved into invention and technology. And only after centuries, had gone from an era of medievalism to an era of industrialism.

The only relic which remained of their age was Sol Sanctum, the lighthouses, and eight children whom Sol had crafted their faces into. This time, he had seen the end years sooner than he had before. Those eight children, I am one of them…

But with no training whatsoever related to psynergy, we couldn't save the world, let alone know anything about our past. The Wise One acted for us. Using his strong powers, he revived the eight heroes, our ancestors, and our images. After lighting the lighthouses once again, they made us their pupils and for weeks we were locked in Sol Sanctum, learning all they knew.

Then too soon, the problems started. We had to sail to Lemuria, the heart of the Eastern Sea. And only there did we learn the truth; it was then that we learnt why we were so important…

There is this poem a late seer of Lemuria has written which Queen Anaya has given us. It's driven us to where we are today…but where are we heading for with only two verses uncovered? Where do we go from here…?

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"It's heading for the port!"

Jenna ran after the beast while awaiting backup from the ship. From the shadow it cast, she could see that it was huge. She tightened her grip on her sword and continued her pace.

"Jenna," came Felix's voice from the ear-talkie, "don't move. Backup is on the way."

Jenna stopped in her tracks and eyed the creature from around a corner. It would wreck the ships; she didn't have anytime to wait.

"They'll just have to meet me there." she replied, turning off the ear-talkie.

Jenna ran behind the creature and moved her blade in front of her. "Hey fluffy! Wanna be my one hundred and fiftieth monster kill?"

The foe turned around and pounced on Jenna, who sidestepped and avoided serious damage. Her eyes remained focused on its clawed paws and its teeth. One wound from those and she'd be confined to bed until she recovered.

She attacked it fiercely, making a gash right above the left eye. It grew even more violent. It began to attack Jenna in series of teeth movements and claws flying. She evaded its attacks with agility but she knew she couldn't last long like this. Jenna swung her sword and hit a paw. It began to bleed but it didn't stop it from trying to tear her from limb to limb.

She kept up with its movements desperately. She was waiting for the backup Felix had promised, slightly regretting her reckless actions. Just as she was about to run, some sort of golden light shot at the beast, making it freeze in midair. Jenna looked at it in a confused manner before looking up at the sky. Four parachutes were coming down from the twilit sky, the Lemurian ship hovering above them.

"Are you alright?" asked Isaac, landing next to her.

"Of course!" she replied.

The three other parachutes landed close by and three young adepts stepped in, weapons in hand and looking ready for a fight.

"Captain?" inquired a young brown haired boy, looking at Jenna.

"Surround it. Isaac, can you unfreeze it on my signal?"

Isaac nodded. The five warriors surrounded the monster, weapons at the ready.

"Alright," said Jenna, "now!"

Isaac waved his hand lightly and the beast became movable again. Everyone expected it to try and run for it, but instead, filled with bad temper, it pounced on Jenna, who taken by surprise was knocked on the ground. The beast sank its teeth into her shoulder. The fire adept let out a low gasp of pain.

"Paws off. She's mine." said Isaac. "Celestial Ordeal"

The beast was simply turned to ashes and was scattered in the wind. Jenna began to stand up, putting a hand on her wounded shoulder to stem the flow of the bleeding.

Isaac ripped a part of his cloak and wrapped it around the gash. Jenna looked at him for a moment and smiled. There was a sudden instant of silence where they both wanted to feel each other's lips against theirs.

"We…should get back to the ship." said Jenna. She turned the ear-talkie back on by pressing a button on the device. "Felix, bring her down. Mission complete."

There was a rush of wind as the wings of the ship beat hard and slowly went down to the docks.

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"For Sol's sake, Jenna! You're a Captain. You're expected to give a good example to our recruits."

"Did you want all of the boats Champa has to be torn to pieces by an evil wolf like creature?" she said as Mia removed the piece of cloth used as a bandage over her wound.

Jenna was sitting on Mia's operating table aboard the Lemurian Ship. Felix was standing in front of them, upset at his sister's recklessness.

"You could have waited for backup." said Felix.

"Oh stop worrying so much, I'm a big girl now." Jenna stifled a gasp of pain as Mia placed a cloth of disinfectant on her shoulder.

Felix was about to reply but Piers appeared in the doorway. "She handled it pretty well before Isaac and the kids arrived. I'd know, I was the one piloting. Stop being so stiff."

Felix sighed, slightly smiled at his sister as to congratulate her and turned on his heel to leave the healing sector. He suddenly stopped in his tracks and bent down, his whole body trembling.

"Felix!" exclaimed Jenna and Mia, both rushing to his side.

Piers had caught his friend and was now placing two fingers on his right temple, sending calm to his head.

We call it Alcrestemia. Turns out that our mentors suffered from the same thing. It's an illness which appears when the level of alchemy is too high into the blood system of an adept. Our teachers, who would always heal themselves using psynergy and were constantly exposed to high alchemical rays had suffered from the same disease.

"It's my fault, isn't it?" asked Jenna as Felix collapsed into Piers' arms.

"No, it has nothing to do with you." said Piers, lifting up Felix's limp form and placing him on a bed.

A few years ago, Felix suffered a deadly wound from Alex's ancient form atop of Mercury Lighthouse and the only one who could save him from death was Kera. In the end, she had to use so much power that Felix's whole body reacted. He now has moments like these, when his mind just blocks…and then he becomes weak for a few days, but he doesn't like to show it. Sol, show him mercy and let him live…

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"Aren't we heading back to Vale?" asked Garet as Piers stirred the ship east towards the ocean rather than northwest back to their hometown.

"I'm afraid we can't. We just got a high psynergy alert from Izumo. Felix told me to check it out after we were done with the beast in Champa."

"Again?" said Sheba, raising her eyebrows. "Can't they give us a break?"

"I'd say…" said Isaac, sitting on one of the chairs in the navigation room. "I thought things would be peaceful when we turned the Great Serpent back into a statue."

"Guess there's already another problem." said Garet. "You know, sometimes I wish we could all warp like you, Isaac. It would make things easier."

"Easier? You're forgetting the time I left my leg behind." said Isaac with a grimace as he stood up. "I'll go check on Jenna."

"You guys better get some sleep." said Piers, putting the ship on autopilot. "We won't be in Izumo until morning. We all need rest."

We renovated the ship, thanks to Lemuria's best technicians. It's much bigger and more efficient now. We even gave it a name that would suit us: the Valean.

And the kids, they're adepts too. There's only about fifteen of them, but they've been a big help. We're traveling a bit everywhere around Weyard, tracking down adepts, monsters, and sometimes even Proxian soldiers. Since the face down at Mercury Lighthouse, we haven't seen much of 'Kraden' or Alex, but we know he's still out there, planning whatever he plans on doing.

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"Are you sure you're alright?" asked Isaac for about the hundredth time that night.

"Yes!" said Jenna stiffly as she got into bed. "Felix might have told me he didn't want me to land in Izumo with everyone else tomorrow but that doesn't mean I'm not alright."

"I'll believe it when I'll see you holding your sword normally." said Isaac, taking off his shirt and getting in bed next to her. "That's why Felix asked you to stay behind."

Jenna frowned and turned her back to him. This only made Isaac chuckle. He loved her fiery temper. He slowly put an arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him.

"Hey, we're all just a bit worried that's all." he whispered into her hair. "If I know you as well as I think I do, you'll be able to lift that forty-five pounder sword in the morning."

Jenna's injured shoulder twitched involuntarily underneath its bandage. "'Least there was no venom." she mumbled sleepily. "…wait a second. Isaac!"

"What?" asked her lover innocently.

"You know very well what! You're using your anesthetic psynergy to make me sleepy again!"

Jenna fought against Isaac's arms. "No I'm not…" he said in the same mock innocent voice, adding another dose of his power. Jenna fell limp.

"Sorry, Jenna…you needed rest, and since you wouldn't sleep on your own…"

Isaac knew she'd be angry when she woke up, probably enough to give him the silent treatment for a few days…but he'd make it up to her once they were back in Vale. For now, he could only think about what was big enough to give off a psynergy signal when they were leagues away from Izumo…

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Gold light oozed into the med center, making Felix open his eyes slightly. Was it dawn already? He made it to sit up but a hand pushed him back down.

"You shouldn't stand yet, Felix." said a melodious voice. Felix recognized it at once.

"Kera…" he whispered with a smile.

"I'm sorry I haven't been to see you in a while…there's been much going in Gods' Lands." she said, tracing the contour of his face with her gentle fingers. Felix took her hand in his and brought it to his lips.

"How're our elders doing?" he asked.

"Very busy…they've been trying to track down Kraden, but it's been useless with all of those monsters running loose. But they smile about it…I can't understand why but they told me 'feels just like old times'."

"Of course…" whispered Felix. "It's like reliving again for them. Monsters everywhere, getting in the way. I guess that in a way it makes them happy to find old feelings they felt when they were alive."

"You're young, yet you know so much…" said Kera. She suddenly withdrew her hand from his. "I'm sorry Felix, I have to go. Mars figured out I've escaped."

She turned to leave but Felix, who had sat up, caught her by the wrist.

"Are you eluding the gods to come here?" he asked sturdily.

"Yes…I knew you wouldn't agree." she said, her head down.

"I'm not worth you putting your life in danger. You told me that you were going with our elders to be safe…so that we could be together when –"

Kera interrupted him by pressing her lips against Felix's. "Love makes you do reckless things." she whispered. "Now, I have to go back." However, Kera made no action to move. Felix wrapped his arms around her.

"Don't come back. Please…for your own sake, don't come back until all of the augury's words have come true." he whispered pleadingly.

"You'll need me later on to play my part. I love you Felix…" and with that she warped out of their world, as though she had melted through Felix's hands.

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"You know, I might die out there." said Isaac mockingly. He was on the bridge with Jenna. She was standing with her back to him, looking out at the island of Izumo that was growing larger by the minute. Isaac was making another attempt for Jenna to talk to him. So far, he couldn't get a word out of her.

"I know you're angry at me, but think about it! With me around, you don't need sleeping pills!" he said, putting a hand on her shoulder. Jenna shrugged it off.

"You know very well I can't stay mad at you." said Jenna finally.

Isaac laughed. "I think I broke a record." he said.

"And what's that?" asked Jenna.

"It usually takes me more than five hours to get you to talk to me again." said Isaac with a smile. Jenna punched him on the shoulder.

"I'm in love with an idiot." she said, kissing Isaac lightly on the lips.

"Alright, lovebirds." said Felix, coming on the bridge with everyone else, including a few of the younger adepts. "Time to go."

Jenna and Isaac broke apart. "Be careful." she whispered as he left to join Felix.

It felt strange to see everyone leave without her. Jenna sighed as soon as they had set foot on the island and went back below deck.

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"It feels a bit odd to be known around here." said Garet.

"What can I say? They're all adepts. The other people who we help can't know who we are." said Isaac.

"And why is it that normal people can't see who we are again?" asked Felix.

"Because it's the code of honor of the Outlaws." said Isaac.

"I swear on the honor of my friends," began Garet and Isaac, placing a hand over their heart "to continue causing havoc upon our surroundings, to have no remorse, to never put a fellow outlaw in danger, and to never reveal the identity of the Outlaws to the rest of the world."

"Didn't Jenna break that oath by telling me who you were?" said Felix.

"Technically, yes." said Garet. "But in order to recruit Ivan, Sheba, and Mia, she burned the official contract."

Everyone laughed at this remark, even Felix cracked a smile. He hadn't been for the Outlaws at first, but seeing that they had been at it since grade school and had never been caught, he began to trust their judgment. They never did reveal their identity in their senior year of high school, and they had graduated with a bang. Somewhere inside himself, Felix felt proud of his sister.

"Alright, so why are we here again?" asked Ivan, stretching.

"We got a high psynergy read on this place last night." said Felix. "Izume told me this morning by phone that she and the other inhabitants felt the shake right about when we were in Champa and that the phenomenon happened again around dawn."

"So our job is to figure out what's doing it?" asked Garet.

"That, and to stop the cause." said Felix.

Isaac sighed and looked at the sky. If it hadn't been for this mission, he would be back in Vale with Jenna…maybe he would have warped them on the Apojii Islands for the day…

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Jenna was spinning in one of the office chairs in the command center. When they first had started their whole heroic act, she never thought she would have been bored aboard the Valean.

It's kinda nice being alone for once…she thought, closing her eyes. She hadn't really had a moment without someone around her in a few weeks. The Outlaws had been as busy as ever lately. In between their missions, their training, Isaac, and college, Jenna had found it hard to find a moment to herself lately.

BAM

Jenna's chair collided with the nearby bookshelf, sending her and a few books flying off. After shaking her head a few times to rid herself of the slight shock, she began to pick up what had been dropped. As her hand made contact with the last book on the floor, she felt a sudden urge to open it. Setting the pile of books aside, Jenna sat at the desk and opened the leather-bound book. It was some sort of diary. As she turned the pages, she read certain excerpts of the augury and notes that the owner has written on them. It took Jenna a while to figure out that the round lettered words that had been scribbled on the pages belonged to Isaac.

"I can't believe I haven't thought even more about that old poem since Imil three years ago…" she said to herself as her eyes traveled through Isaac's notes. According to her boyfriend, Imil wasn't safe from destruction just yet. There was a last verse which he had written at least three pages on. "See the three ancient kings multiplied by three."

They had overlooked this…had their struggles in mercury lighthouse been all in vain? Was something bigger and stronger heading towards Imil? Jenna would have to ask Isaac as soon as they got back. In the meantime, she placed the books back, including her lover's journal, and decided to check on the kids that had stayed behind on the ship.

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"People live underground here, don't they?" asked Felix, pointing to a ladder leading into the ground.

"Yes," answered Izume, who was escorting them to Mt. Mikage to check on the Great Serpent, "but they've been evacuated until further notice. Luckily, no one was seriously injured in the earthquakes."

Isaac grew suddenly rigid. Something had caught his attention underground.

"What is it?" asked Garet, who was starting to get used to Isaac's sharp senses.

"There's something underground…" said Isaac, focusing on it.

Felix stood for a long time rooted to the ground, thinking about what he should do.

"We'll split." said Felix. "Piers, Cameron, and I will go to Mt. Mikage with Izume to check if everything is alright."

The three individuals nodded. "The rest of you, go down to the underground inhabitations and investigate there. Isaac, you're in command."

Felix, Piers, and the young earth adept Cameron turned and left towards the mountain, lead by Izume.

"Well, you heard the chief, let's go!" said Isaac, excited to lead alone for once.

The underground district of Izumo was the poor part of the island. Not many natives could afford the houses so they bought apartments under the earth. It was a giant tunnel maze in which most people got lost the first few times.

"It's here." said Isaac as soon as his feet touched the ground from the ladder.

"What is?" asked Mizuki, a young and curious fire adept.

"The serpent." said Isaac, pulling out his sword from his back and hurrying to follow the reptile's trail.

"Isn't it stone? Why would it be here?" asked Mia.

"I don't know, but Isaac's never been wrong before." said Garet, picking up his pace to catch up his friend. The rest of the party had no choice but to follow them.

"Slow down." said Isaac, stopping.

"What is it?" asked Sheba.

"Be quiet." said Isaac, raising a hand. The tunnel above them began to tremble.

"GET DOWN!" yelled the earth adept, raising his hands to make a barrier around his friends.

Sheba dragged Mizuki and the other cadet, Arnon, on the ground just in time. The tunnel collapsed, leaving the team unarmed thanks to Isaac's psynergy.

"Well, we won't be getting around that way…" said Ivan, looking in front of him.

"Damn it…" said Isaac, punching the nearby wall. "We were so close!"

"Isaac, since we're stuck here, why don't you tell us what's going on?" said Mia, sitting down and beaconing everyone to do so.

Isaac sighed and sat down with the rest. "I think the serpent is being controlled by him."

No one spoke for a while; they sat there, gapping at Isaac.

"How can you be sure?" asked Garet.

"It's obvious." said Isaac. "No one could have broken the seal we used to stabilize the serpent a year back. Only Kraden would have been able to. And even so, it's not smart enough to get out of his mountain without being seen, come into these tunnels, hide out for a while and try to come out right now, without being seen."

"But why?" asked Ivan.

"Use your brain." said Isaac. "That serpent is one big foe. If he has it on his side, then there's no telling what he could do."

There was a beast-like scream far ahead. Everyone turned their heads towards the source of the noise.

"It's trying to rejoin its master." said Isaac, getting up. "We need to contact Felix and tell him what's going on. He should at least try to stop it before it reaches the sea."

Garet connected his earpiece and began to try to contact Felix.

"Damn it!" he said taking off the earpiece.

"What is it?" asked Isaac.

"We're too far under." said Garet. "The radio waves aren't reaching Felix on Mt. Mikage."

"Then we'll have to take care of it ourselves." said Isaac, touching the rock blocking his way. "Jenna's alone on the ship with a bunch of cadets. The serpent is probably ready to destroy anything in its path."

"You can't be thinking about using your powers to get us all out of here!" said Sheba. "You won't be of any use afterwards!"

"How do you suppose we get out of here?" asked Isaac, angry.

"With this." said Garet, pulling out a metal tube from his pack.

"What the hell is that?" asked Ivan.

"That is a high pressure explosive. One little spark opens the tube and makes the gun powder inside go boom." said Garet, sounding excited.

"Are you sure that thing's safe?" asked Isaac.

"If you make a barrier around everyone when I blast it open." said Garet.

"What about you?" asked Isaac.

"I'm fire-resistant." said Garet.

"No you're not." said Isaac.

"No, but you won't need me to fight that serpent. You can take it on without anyone else. The blow won't kill me so you can just come back for me afterwards." said Garet.

"No, I'm not letting you do this." said Isaac.

"It's the only way out without you exhausting yourself and leaving everyone to their doom." said Garet. "And Mia'll just patch me up afterwards, right hun?"

Mia simply bit her lip. "He's right Isaac, it's the only way to get out of here." she said.

"You're going to let your boyfriend do this?" asked Isaac.

"He'll be fine, you should know that Garet is made tougher than anyone else here." said Mia. "Just trust him."

Isaac looked away. "Alright, but it's the first and last time you do this to yourself."

Isaac regrouped everyone behind him and nodded to Garet. He was shaking as much as he had been shaking in his first battle atop mercury lighthouse. Jenna would punch him for this later…

He materialized the barrier and looked away. The blast came shortly after. He heard Mia screaming Garet's name and then nothing. Isaac opened his eyes. Dust was flying everywhere and daylight was finding its way down to them. He let down the barrier and ran towards his best friend. He was severely injured but he was breathing. His eyes were half open. He was still conscious after the blast!

"You can contact Felix now. You should hurry." said Garet.

"Isaac, we saw your blast. Jenna is coming to pick you up with the ship. The serpent reached the sea." said Felix voice in Garet's earpiece.

"Come for me after." said Garet.

"We're not leaving you behind." said Isaac. He connected his earpiece to the ship.

"Jenna, come down to ground level with the ship. Garet won't be able to climb the ladder."

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?" she yelled so loud that Isaac winced.

"We'll explain later." said Ivan to stop the argument.

The Valean made a slow decent towards the hole. Felix came out to help Garet inside the ship. Isaac felt that he would be blamed for his friend's recklessness.

"Sorry…" said Isaac to Felix before climbing on board. "He saved us all, you know."

Woosh.

Sorry for the crappy ending of the first chapter. I had to cut it short. It was starting to get a bit too long.

So anyways, tell me what you think about this. I need as much opinions as possible to mold this.

Until chapter 2 everyone!

Miyu.Lara