Golden sun 3:

The world of Miracles

Prologue

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Isaac watched as number one of the Organization prepared for his next attack. He gave the signal to Jordan and he immediately cast Whirlwind to throw off the hooded man's attack. Before he could recover, Isaac held him down. The man's hood fell off as he struggled. Isaac jumped back in surprise, as if a strong blow of Psynergy had hit him. The man got up. The others looked in shock as they gazed upon the man's too-familiar face. "Z—" was all Isaac was able to get out of his mouth.

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Isaac and the others were shocked. They were speechless. They couldn't believe it. They haven't seen this much food on one table at all! None of them! "You didn't have to do this for us," Isaac said. "But I'm sure glad that they did!" said Garet, whose mouth was quickly filling with drool. "When the Wise One told us about Mt. Aleph," said Isaac's mother, "he also told us that you were coming back, so we had to prepare a celebration!" Isaac tuned to say something to Garet, but he, along with Ivan, Jenna, and Piers, started helping themselves, no, GORGING themselves to the great feast. "Leave some for the rest of us, guys!" yelled Sheba as she ran to the table and sat next to Ivan.

Everybody else started running to the huge table except for two people: Isaac, who didn't move because of fear of being trampled, and Mia, who walked to the table. She was very mindful about manners. Mia was about to sit down next to Garet, but he got up. Mia thought he was leaving because she was going to sit there, and was filled with anger for a moment, but instead, he pulled out the chair that Mia was about to sit in and said in a fancy accent, "Would you care to sit next to me, Miss Mia?" they both laughed and Mia said in the same accent, "Oh, I would love to!" Then she said (normally), "I'm glad you at least have some manners." They laughed again. Then Garet eyed his favorite: Salisbury steak. "You want some?" Garet said to Mia. She nodded. He started cutting the meat in half, but he cheated and sliced it unevenly. He forked the bigger half and handed it to Mia. "Here you go," he said. "But this is the bigger half," said Mia surprised. He would never give the bigger half of a Salisbury steak to anyone else, she thought. Garet smiled warmly, "I know." This was unusual. When they met in Imil, he pretended to be cool and stuff like that, and in the light house, he tried to show off and failed to pull off anything he tried to do and messed things up. Every time Garet made a mistake, Isaac would fix it. Garet also made the worst jokes. She had originally had a crush on Isaac and hated Garet, but ever since Jupiter Lighthouse, when he risked his life to save hers, she felt differently about Garet, something good. Mia smiled back. "Take those gloves off," Garet said. "They're going to get dirty." She then took off her gloves, and started eating like a pig. They then overheard Piers who was about to tell one of his funniest jokes.

Ivan was REALLY enjoying his plate(s) of mashed potatoes, corn, steak, chicken, and a side salad. When Sheba joined him, she noticed that Ivan was shaping the potatoes to look like a piece of pie so that it would not touch the corn or the steak, or "contaminating" the steak/corn/potatoes he would say. Sheba rolled her eyes. (Usually, there was a person in a group of friends on a TV show or something who was a control freak and too organized. In this case, that person had split into two people: Mia, the control freak, and Ivan, Mr. Organized.) Sheba took her finger and scooped and licked a little potato from Ivan's plate. Ivan looked terrified. "You ate the tip of my 'potato pie'!" Ivan yelled. Sheba laughed. "Get over it, Ivan!" she said. "At least the corn isn't contaminating your steak or something," Sheba said. They both laughed. "You're horrible!" said Ivan. "I know, right?" Sheba said. Ivan hadn't realized he was staring at her while she was eating until Hamma, his sister, said, "Earth to Ivan! Come in, Ivan!" He turned to see his sister laughing. He had been so used to being alone (and sometimes preferred it, referencing to the time when he refused Isaac's offer to help rescue Hammet, Ivan's caretaker, when he was kidnapped) that he forgot that he most certainly was not alone. Master Hammet and his wife Lady Layana were sitting across from him, Hamma was sitting next to Ivan, and Jenna was sitting across from her. "What's so funny?" asked Ivan. "You're face!" said Jenna and continued laughing. Ivan was still confused. "What's going on?" asked Isaac, who had just joined them. "Ivan was just staring at Sheba!" Jenna told him. "Hmm, really??" Isaac said as he made a nudging gesture toward Ivan. Ivan blushed. (Note: Sheba was not at all embarrassed and was laughing, too. Ivan, however, was embarrassed) "That's RIGHT!" said Jenna. "He gave Sheba that exact same face! Well, he was smiling." They all continued laughing. Ivan wanted to disappear from the scene, but Kraden, the town's scholar who traveled with them, had the Cloak Ball. Suddenly, he felt a grasp on his hand and a kiss on his right cheek. It wasn't from Hamma because she was sitting on his left. He turned to see Sheba smiling at him. "Now THAT was the exact same face!" said Jenna. He then quickly turned his head toward his friends and sister. Then they all laughed.

After the stampede was over, Isaac just stood there looking around, suddenly appreciating everything that he had. The first thing he noticed was Garet and Mia. They were actually talking to each other without throwing stuff at each other. (Garet had red hair and always carried his favorite axe around since he started forging in Imil, shortly after they met Mia. He was really rash and, as mentioned earlier, his jokes were bad. When this started, he was a slacker who almost cared about nothing but himself. But later, his laziness revealed shortcuts and answers to riddles along the way. Also, he has grown in character to be loyal to his friends and to care more about the people he cares about most, especially at the Jupiter Lighthouse with Mia. Unnecessary Note: he had sort of a Tolbian accent [Italian-American accent on our world for he was from Tolbi down south. Mia is a beautiful young maiden from the Northern town of Imil. She is the last of the Mercury Tribe, a tribe of people that can control water. She was an excellent healer and thus assumed the job of the healer of Imil. She had long, shining blue hair and almost always wears robe because it's a tradition for her tribe.) Knowing these two, it would've been impossible to think of them becoming friends, or even more…

Anyway, Isaac walked over to sit next to Jenna to have an eventful dinner (see above paragraph for details) when he realized he hadn't even eaten. 'Looks like there are going to be some chicken left,' Isaac thought, drooling. He reached out for the chicken (after taking off his gloves, of course) when he overheard Piers making jokes. They were a little hard to understand because he was still getting used to Piers' Lemurian (British in ours) accent. Piers had short blue hair and wore a Lemurian headdress, which was a decorated cloth on a metal ring, worn like a veil worn backwards. In fact, it almost made his hair look long. "They were all best friends, so they had their funeral on the same day and at the same place," said Piers, enjoying the attention. "and the Xian person's wife said, 'if I had known that he didn't want…" In Isaac's mind, Pier's voice trailed off. He didn't feel in the mood for jokes. The trip back home was tiring. He continued eating.

He suddenly remembered that he had forgotten something. Something important… oh, well. It probably wasn't important if Isaac himself couldn't remember.