A/N This story starts near the end of Golden Sun's story-line
In a lonely shop on the road to Lalivero a store clerk was sitting in a chair waiting for four customers to be done with their business so he could close up the shop and finally return home to his cottage and be done with the day.
The door opened, ringing the bell attached to its hinge, "Welcome to my store, how may I help you today?" he asked eight men in armor.
"We'll just be taking all of your money and everything in the shop," one of the thieves put the blade of an axe against his shoulder, "Try to run or yell for help, and my friend cleaves your neck off your shoulder."
"Please, take anything you want!" he whispered to them.
"I'm glad we're agreeing," the head thief turned to the other thief, "You. Round up those kids."
The thief walked to a young man with blonde hair and a yellow-green scarf looking at some swords, "You. Put your hands up!"
The young man held his attention on the largest sword standing, "HEY! You got a death wish!?"
He focused on the thief and saw the group of men at the store, "Yes?"
"Put your hands up!"
"Wait, are you robbing me?"
"YES!"
"Ohhh,"
The head thief was watching the shopkeeper gather all of the money wondering how far he could launch him with his halberd when he heard his man screaming and a crash through the wall. Every thief in the store turned to the blonde young man as energy built in his gauntlets, "Garet! Ivan! Mia! We have company!"
"Issac! If you can't afford the sword, you don't take it!"
"That's not the problem, Mia!" Isaac yelled at his medic, "We have thieves!"
The head thief pulled his halberd out, "Okay. Men, I'm going to kill this punk. Make sure you keep the shopkeeper busy." Isaac watched the head thief point his halberd at him, "Ok kid. Hold still. I'll make this easy-
Isaac kicked the ground, throwing the thief through the wall with a pillar of earth. "Sorry. I couldn't quite hear you over your screaming," Isaac jumped out of the store as the thieves ran to their boss, "Anymore of you want some of this?"
One of the thieves drew his sword and charged at Isaac, but before Isaac could draw his sword, a bolt of lightning shot the thief, "Ivan. Couldn't let me have all the fun?"
Smoke rose from the short blonde magician, "No because that would've wasted your psynergy. Besides didn't we stop here because you were running low?"
"No, we stopped because Iodem needed to use the bathroom,"
"Do you need me to read your mind, Isaac?"
"No I need you to get rid of these guys!"
The thieves watched the two warriors argue, with confusion and slight amusement, while their leader was less than amused, "All of you. Kill them and then burn this shop down!"
The thieves nodded their heads and charged at the shop, stopping at a rising wall of fire, "These guys! What kind of kids are they?!"
"Garet you could have burned them instead of, making a wall of fire," Mia criticised Garet.
"Well, I uh. Listen, I-
"You're inept at your job, we understand," Ivan insulted the Fire Adept.
"Mia you haven't done anything! Why don't you get rid of them?" Garet challenged her.
Mia drew her rod, "I will."
The Mercury Adept drew water from the air, and cast a wave of water at the thieves, sweeping them farther away from the shop. The head thief wiped water from his eyes, rage building within him.
"Men! Kill these brats in the next thirty seconds, or I'll get rid of all of you!" he ordered.
The thieves charged at the four Adepts. Garet and Ivan gripped the hilts to their swords, but Isaac stopped them.
"You guys don't need to fight these clowns. I got this," Isaac ran to the group of thieves, pulling his sword from the sheath on his back.
The thieves were no match for the Venus Swordsman. He disarmed and slashed their armor in half as he ran through their group. Once they found their armor and weapons destroyed, they ran away from Isaac.
The leader of the group spit in their direction, "Can't get good help these days, can I?"
"Well I found these three and they've been pretty good, so you must be looking in the wrong places-
Isaac was caught off by the halberd smashing into the ground. Isaac gathered the psynergy inside him and cast a giant sword on the halberd's shaft, splitting it in half. The head thief looked at his damaged weapon and at the swordsman approaching him.
"GET AWAY FROM ME! YOU CAN HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT!" he screamed while he fled from the shop.
Isaac watched him run away and shrugged, "I'm glad we agree but a little more resistance would have been fun."
Iodem stepped out of the bathroom, "WHAT DID YOU GUYS DO IN HERE!"
"Isaac broke the walls, Iodem," Ivan answered.
"Shut up, Ivan! There were thieves!"
A few hours later, Isaac, Garet, Ivan, Mia, and Iodem stood on a hill looking at the Venus Lighthouse, "So. That's the Lighthouse," Isaac remarked, "It hasn't been lit yet. Which means Saturos and Menardi shouldn't be far off."
"Right. I can sense them. They're very close, Isaac," Ivan informed him.
"Do you sense Alex with them?" Mia asked.
"Yes. I sense seven people in that Lighthouse,"
Iodem stepped before them, "We must go to the Lighthouse immediately."
Isaac nodded and followed the chief minister of Tolbi to the Venus Lighthouse.
An hour had passed and the group had found the road to the Lighthouse covered with burnt corpses of Tolbi's soldiers. Ivan covered his mouth when he smelled their charred remains while Mia fought to keep her tears back. Garet avoided looking at the corpses and Isaac ignored them, gripping his gloves.
"Ivan. Can you sense them? How close are we?" Isaac walked down the road, his group following him.
Ivan closed his eyes and focused, "We're close. We are very close to them, Isaac."
Isaac stared at the Venus Lighthouse, its top obscured by the clouds.
"At long last. The Venus Lighthouse is before us," Saturos smiled gripping onto the Venus Star, "Once we light this Beacon, only Jupiter and Mars will remain."
"No. Once we light this, only Jupiter remains," Menardi stated.
Saturos glanced at this partner and laughed, "True. Only Jupiter remains."
"I see our plan is coming together," Saturos and Menardi saw Felix walking toward them with Jenna and Kraden behind him.
"Felix! Why aren't you and the others at Idejima?!" Saturos demanded.
"I had some unfinished business," Felix stepped in front of Sheba, "I'm taking Sheba with me."
Saturos' minor amusement was replaced with annoyance, "Felix. Please, enlighten me why you plan this act of rebellion?"
"Because I have a promise to keep. I promised I would keep Sheba safe. And if she's here, she's in danger of being hurt,"
"You don't trust us to keep her safe?" Menardi questioned him.
He avoided eye contact with her, "I trust myself more than I trust you two wither her."
Saturos reached for his sword, "Choose your words carefully, Felix."
"You don't trust me with, Sheba?" Felix asked.
Menardi pulled her scythe out, "A moment ago if you asked us, we would have let you take Sheba. But now you have given us reasons to mistrust you."
Felix looked at the stairs behind Saturos and Menardi, watching Isaac and his group walking on the Beacon, "Isaac, you've arrived."
Saturos turned to see Isaac, "So boy. You've chased us all the way from Imil. I commend you for your efforts."
Isaac unsheathed his sword, the Gaia Blade, "Saturos. Menardi, you two have caused so much misery and destruction in this land, and for what? I don't know," Isaac gripped the sword with his hands, "But, you two will pay for your crimes. We will end you both, right here, right now."
Isaac charged at the Mars Adepts, preparing his sword to strike them down. Felix appeared before Isaac and clashed with the fellow Venus Adept.
"Felix! What are you doing?!" Isaac demanded.
Felix pushed him back with his strength, pointing his blade at Isaac, "I don't need you anybody else to save me, Isaac! You can watch while I deal with these two!"
"Felix," he heard Saturos' voice and turned to the man in blue armor, "If I understand, you wish to free Sheba and?"
"Take her to the Jupiter Lighthouse, then take her home,"
"Interesting," Saturos unsheathed his sword, "Step back, and let us take on these fools, and I'll grant you that request."
Ivan had moved a few feet near Saturos, his sword drawn to kill the Proxian. Neither Saturos and Menardi had seen his movements, except Felix when he blocked Ivan's assassination attempt, "Saturos, I like your offer. But, I refuse," Felix created a spire of earth that threw Ivan back at their group, "Here's my offer. I help you and Menardi fight Isaac, and when we win, Sheba's protection will be entrusted to me."
Saturos laughed with joy, "Felix, you have learned well on your journey with us. I accept your deal."
"So the apprentice has finally impressed the master," Menardi remarked.
"It would appear so, Menardi," Saturos glared at the Adepts before him, "What's wrong? Having second thoughts against fighting us, Isaac? I thought you were so eager to clash with us?"
Garet stepped in front of his friends, "Garet, what are you doing?" asked Mia.
"Think of something while I distract them," he whispered as he stood before Saturos and Menardi, "So. You guys are Fire Adepts?"
"In case you haven't figured that out by now, yes we're aligned with Mars," Menardi humored him.
"So you're like me then?"
Saturos laughed at the young Mars Swordsman, "We are nothing like you. Our power is so great, we make you look like a candle flame!"
Garet smiled and reached for his katana, Muramasa, "Well, let's see if you're right about that," he pulled the cursed blade, as it attached itself to his hand, and with both hands thrusted the sword forward.
Muramasa and Garet had been building energy within the blade. When Garet thrusted the sword forward, the blade unleashed a blast of fire at the opposing warriors. For a brief moment, he thought the fire was overpowering them, but he saw Saturos and Menardi using their weapons to dissipate the fire blast.
The fire blast disappeared and they were both left unscathed, "You are a flicker of a flame, and we are bonfires," Menardi snarled as she charged with her scythe ready to strike.
Mia created a thick ice shield for Garet, trapping Menardi's scythe in the ice, "You clever brat. You're only delaying the inevitable!"
Ivan focused on his psynergy and fired a thunderbolt at Menardi. She grabbed the bolt and absorbed the energy through her gloves.
"Menardi, you are doing an excellent job holding off these weaklings. But could you please finish them off quicker?" Saturos joked.
"Bite me, Saturos. Why don't you help me kill these brats?"
"What a coincidence. I was going to ask Felix to help after he made such bold promises a few moments ago," he glanced at Felix, "What are you doing anyway, Felix?"
Felix, crouched on the ground, feeling the Lighthouse's structure, "The power of this Lighthouse is, incredible. Even unlit, I am granted so much power, I am almost as strong as you, Saturos."
He narrowed his eyes at him, "Please. Demonstrate this power you brag about."
Felix gazed at Isaac, "Gladly," he raised his fist, empowering it with psynergy and punching the ground creating an earthquake on the Beacon.
The earthquake affected only Isaac's team, tossing them off the Lighthouse, "There, I have taken care of your problem, Saturos."
Felix walked to Sheba who had been hiding behind one of the statutes near the beacon and offered her his hand, "I wonder. Do you hate yourself now for killing not one, but two of your childhood friends?"
"They were in the way of lighting the lighthouse. You would have done the same," he walked with Sheba to Kraden and Jenna.
"What will they think of you, Felix? Surely you aren't cold enough to not let their hatred bother you?" Menardi asked.
Felix saw Jenna and Kraden's faces. Their faces were the same looks they gave to Saturos and Menardi.
Isaac was falling with his friends. The wind stung his eyes, making it hard to see. But he could see his friends.
"Everyone! Grab onto me!"
"Isaac! I know what you're thinking! Do you think it'll work?!" Ivan yelled at him.
"Just hold on!" Isaac grabbed his friends with one arm, and with psynergy grabbed onto the Lighthouse, slowing their fall.
Once he felt their descent had slowed down, he created a platform of earth for them to land on, "Ok. Is everyone alright?!"
"Nothing seems broken. That's a good sign," Garet sighed.
"Garet it looks like you're suffering from internal bleeding," Mia noted.
"WHAT?!"
"She's lying, Garet," Ivan poked his own head, "But Mia, you should heal us. We'll need everything we got to stand up to those guys."
"Right. Good idea," Mia casted a mass healing spell on her group as they rose to the top of the Venus Lighthouse once more.
At the Beacon, Menardi pulled the Venus Star from her bag, "Saturos. Will you please do the honor?"
Saturos held the earth orb in his hand, "Of course. It would be my pleasure," he held the Star over the Beacon's hole.
"STOP IT NOW SATUROS!" Isaac and his friends jumped and charged at the Proxians but found an ice wall in front of him.
A man in blue robes floated in the air with water surrounding him, "Enough with these shenanigans. Saturos, light the Lighthouse."
"Of course, Alex. Time to end this charade,"
Isaac watched Saturos approach the Beacon, "I can't let this happen. I can't!" Isaac launched himself over the ice wall with a pillar of earth.
He dodged Menardi's scythe, but as he moved his sword to stab Saturos, Felix created a quake at the Beacon.
"FELIX YOU FOOL, YOU'LL HIT SATUROS!" Menardi screamed at him.
Jennna saw Isaac fall into the Beacon, "Isaac," she whispered, "Kraden. Isaac's dead."
The old sage turned his head from their former friend as Jenna on his robe. Garet had seen his friend falling, and he crumbled to his knees.
"Isaac. You, idiot!"
Saturos had moved from the earthquake to a safer area and returned to the Beacon, "Wait. Where's the Venus Star? What did I do with it?"
"Looking for this," it had been quiet, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear at the top of the Lighthouse.
Saturos looked down at the Beacon's hole, Isaac struggling to keep himself up with one arm, while the other held the Venus Star, "You really are that desperate to keep me from lighting this, aren't you?"
"I climbed this tower twice just to fight you, what do you think?"
Saturos grinned, "I'll make you an offer. You can either fall and light the lighthouse with your death. Or I pull you up and throw the star in there."
"How do I know you won't kill me after you're done?"
"It's me. Or fall,"
Isaac looked down at the dark abyss and back at Saturos' hand. He exhaled and showed his hand to the Fire Adept. He pulled Isaac by his arm and held him in the air by it.
"Now, Isaac. The Star, if you please,"
Isaac looked at the Star within his hand and smiled, "Sorry, Saturos. I chose neither of your offers."
Isaac crushed the Star and let the wind carry the remains out of his grasp. Saturos changed from amused to enraged in a matter of seconds. He threw Isaac at the ice wall while he and Menardi scrambled to gather its remains.
"There, good luck lighting all the Lighthouses now," Isaac taunted them before Menardi wrapped her blade around his neck.
"You have no concept of what you've just done, have you?!" she snarled at him.
"Isaac, do you know what you've done!?" Kraden shouted at him, "No one has ever been stupid enough to destroy the Stars! There's no telling what could happen now!"
Alex glanced at the glowing remains of the star at his feet, "Is this something the Star can do?"
From Lalivero, it looked like an orb of light had consumed the top of the Venus Lighthouse.
"Alright, gotta find where he went, hey. That light looks pretty," Ruby Rose watched it, "Wonder what it is."
