Alright guys this fanfic is all about what would happen if Isaac was taken by Saturous and Menardi after the boulder incident rather than Felix. It'll be really dark, as I don't mind being sadistic to my characters, and looong. If you don't like long fanfics, turn back now. Also, this is my first fanfic so don't be too hard on it. Also, you might be wondering why I'm doing a long one. This'uns been on the drawing board for a while and gone through 3 revisions so I hope you like it. Review please )
It was a winter's night in Vale, and Jenna couldn't sleep, except for perhaps Garet, she thought to herself, chuckling, who was in the next room. In fact, all of the village's young teenagers had crashed at her family's house after the Mercury festival that cold night on Mt. Aleph. No one minded. Vale had that small village mentality that they were all one big family. Shivering, Jenna pulled her legs against her chest and stared out into the rain from her window. That rain was why no one could sleep. The Mercury festival, held each year at the winter solstice, was meant to honor the element Mercury. However, if a storm had come, then it was a powerful omen of bad things to come. She had heard her parents whispering in scared voices in the next room. The last time rain had come after the solstice was 150 years before. News filtered slowly up through the continent but after it finally reached tiny Vale it had become apparent that most of northern Gondawan and lower Angara had been wiped out by what came to be known as the Great Flood. Fed up with staring out at the rain in the dark, Jenna lit her lantern with a small flare from her fingertips and plopped down on her bed. Even though the rain was keeping her awake, she was still dog tired after the partying at the festival.
"No," she thought, "Not the partying. Having to physically restrain Felix from that chocolate is much tougher than any partying there was to be had."
Letting out a huge sigh, she said out loud "Brothers!" Next door, from the room Isaac, Garet, and Jenna's favorite chocoholic shared, there was a sound of pulling up sheets and sure enough, Felix burst in a few seconds later.
"Couldn't sleep either huh?" he asked.
"No, even though tying you to a chair does take a beating our of one's energy"
"Hey, shut up! At least I don't have a little problem with drinking beer!" Felix managed to say while trying to keep a straight face
Jenna picked up her pillow and started chasing Felix around the small room, shrieking "You put that alcohol in my drink and you know it. Someday I am gonna get you for letting me wake up on Garet's sofa in the morning covered in puke!"
The last shriek of "puke!" defied the laws of physics and actually woke Garet. The burly Mars adept lumbered out of the room blinking sleepily
"Wha' time is eht?" Garet mumbled sleepily.
Dropping the pillow he had picked up in self defense, Felix managed to get out between bursts of laughter "Wow I'm impressed. You woke Garet but not Isaac? Garet may as well be dead when he sleeps but Isaac gets up for anything. Geez, when'd you learn that trick?"
"Hey, that's not fair! Anyone could get up if they hear the word pu--"
And suddenly a huge sound rose over the room, drowning out Jenna. The sound of a huge wave. Jenna never knew what happened next, but since her house was built over water, she knew that the sound couldn't be good. The sound continued toward the house from what they could hear and plunged into what seemed to be the boy's room. What happened next was a blur of froth, mud, broken house, and bubbles as the walls of Jenna's house imploded inwards and showered the formerly happy trio of adepts with said froth, mud, and broken house. Jenna opened her mouth to scream, but it filled with water and she knew no more.
When Jenna came too, she was lying on debris from her house on the riverbank, her soft red nightclothes caked in mud and what looked like blood. After coming to, she simply stared down at the wreckage until a dull ache broke her trance and she looked down at her side to see that he nightclothes and the skin underneath were cut by what must have been a broken spar of wood.
"Lucky its not worse," she thought to herself. "Could have wound up in the state my house is in. Good thing the boys aren't around, they might actuall—wait, where are the boys?" she remembered as her memories fell slowly back in place.
"SHIT!" she screamed as she manically started to tear through the wreckage she was lying on, looking for a flash of red, black, or blonde hair from one of the boys.
Suddenly, a call came from the top of the hill.
"Jennaaaaa! Jennnaaaaaaaa! Answer me Jenna!" Yelled Felix as his untidy mop of black hair appeared over the hill.
"Here Felix!" Jenna yelled, waving her arms and running for him, wreckage now forgotten.
"Get over here, you need to see what happened"
"I'm
coming, I'm coming."
Jenna reached the top of the hill only to find a horrible sight, for Isaac was evidently unconscious in the swollen river, the only thing keeping him from drowning being his trademark yellow scarf, now soaked in a small bit of blood and caught around a small spar of wood. As she watched, he evidently woke up, for his eyes fluttered open and he took a big gasp in shock which turned to gagging as he got a big mouth full of muddy water.
Dashing for the bridge which led to the other side, Felix yelled after her "Careful! The elder's are saying that the storm dislodged the Mt. Aleph Boulder. They're holding it back right now!"
"Isaac, are you alright?" she huffed, reaching the spot closest to the blonde boy.
"What do you think Jenna?" He said, poking fun at her even though his normally warm blue eyes were filled with terror.
"We're going to get you out Isaac!" she screamed helplessly as a big rumbling noise filled the air to the north.
"Jenna, get back. That boulder is going to come straight down this river." He said calmly and simply. "I won't let you die with me."
"Stop it Isaac, your not going to die! Your like my brother, I can't just leave you here!"
"Jenna, you have to get out. What you say can't change that. I guess this is the bad thing the storm was foretelling. Ah well" he sighed as he started to untie his scarf, the same one that held him to the pole he depended on.
"Isaac! What are you doing!?"
"Saving you Jenna. I can't be saved. But you can. Your going to stay here until its absolutely certain I'm dead or that boulder comes down and kills both of us. I'll choose the first option." And with that, he released the scarf and was taken by the current.
"FELIX, KYLE, HELP ME!!" Jenna screamed as she stumbled in horror back from the bank."
Kyle, looking up from where he was tending toward Garet, started to sprint toward Jenna but never got the chance. As he reached the middle of the bridge, the boulder took that moment to strike. In what looked like slow motion, the bridge blew apart, sending Kyle's seemingly tiny, clearly dead body up and away into the night. But Jenna never saw where the body landed. She was too busy staring in horror and awe downstream as the river swept Kyle and his son down into the depths, and the rain came pouring down.
Isaac came to in a strange bed, staring at a strange ceiling. His first thought: "The floor is moving." The second: "Why is it so cold?" The third: "OH SH--! Where is everybody?" Exploding out of the cramped bed he dashed over to the window. Or should I say porthole. Isaac stared out into the waves for the half second it took for his near-death experience to catch up with him and make him slump down on the bed in pain and exhaustion. Isaac's mind was already fogging up to go back to sleep when the door opened and a quartet of humans filed in. At least they looked close too human. With their scaled skin, they could have passed for the bastards of a dragon.
"I see our hostage is awake." said the tallest, a blue haired man who carried a natural aura of leadership around him like a big cloak.
"I don't care whether he wakes or not, we simply need the Stars. I personally would kill him, it's his town's stupid temple that killed our fellows." said a bizarrely green tinged man.
"Silence Agatio! That was our fault. That storm was not the fault of the town."
"Huh," thought Isaac dazedly as he faded out again "They did it. Wonder why?"
Isaac's half dead mind was beyond caring that they could have killed Jenna and probably did kill many others. He simply wanted to sleep………….
How was it? I'd love constructive criticism, things I did well, etc so please R&R if you would be so kind. Maybe I'll get the next part out sooner!
R.P.