Golden Sun 4... yeah, about that...

All jokes aside, this is my own continuation of what happened after Dark Dawn. Enjoy!

"What is that?"

Karis, with a hint of uneasiness in her voice, replied, "That's the Mourning Moon! Remember? It comes out every ten years!"

The humongous Psynergy Vortex ominously loomed above them, and much to the trio's concern, their parents were nowhere to be found. Matthew ran towards the Lookout Cabin, where he found a note on the door, which read: "Went out to shop for food in Carver's Camp. Will be back soon. - Isaac and Garet"

Breathing a sigh of relief, Matthew went back to Tyrell and Karis before saying, "They're fine!"

Karis wiped her forehead in relief, while Tyrell, who hadn't moved since they had first come across the Mourning Moon, exhaled before saying, "Well, where are they? And can we please get a move on?"

"Carver's Camp."

"Great! Then that's where we're going!"

Taking off in a run, Tyrell quickly made his way down the Goma Plateau, with Matthew and Karis on his heels. For the Mars Adept, the appearance of that Psynergy Vortex in particular was especially personal.

Isaac cracked open a bottle of Proxian beer and handed the drink to Garet, who was trying to numb his mind from the fact that his son probably wouldn't be home for quite awhile, while the Venus Adept asked Carver for one of his own, and he slid twenty gold coins across the table. Deciding to make the most out of the fact that he and Garet were effectively stuck in the main building, as Carver had prohibited anyone from leaving once word had spread that the Mourning Moon had risen once more, he was about to take a hearty swill before he heard a loud knock. Walking to the door, he looked through the window and saw the kids with looks of worry on their faces.

Isaac yelled to the back, "Carver, it's the kids! Should I let them in?"

Carver's gruff voice came out from the back with a nonchalant, "Sure." But his voice quickly changed to a more concerned tone as he said, "Make sure they're alright, okay?" Isaac flashed a thumbs up, and opened the door. Matthew, Tyrell, and Karis walked in, with Matthew pausing to hug his father before joining the others. Isaac walked back to the table where Garet was sitting at, where he saw his best friend pulling Tyrell into a bearhug.

Once Garet had let go, he asked his son, "Did you get the feather?"

Tyrell, now rummaging through his pack, grunted out, "As a matter of fact..." Pulling out the Roc Feather, he triumphantly exclaimed, "We did!"

Karis nodded, proudly adding, "Tyrell was the one who beat the Roc as well, he took it out with Eruption!"

Flushing with pride, the younger Mars Adept said, "Aw, c'mon, Karis, it's not that impressive, considering everything else after that..."

The two older Adepts repeated, "Everything else?"

Matthew, who had been silent since entering the building, quietly said, "The Grave Eclipse. Did you see a dark fog at any point?"

Isaac nodded, before asking his son, "How did it end?"

"The former king of Belinsk gave his life to fire the Apollo Lens."

"Volechek... shame, I liked him." Something clicked in Isaac's head and he asked, "Weren't you traveling with the current queen?" Matthew nodded, and Isaac continued, "What was she like?"

Matthew simply replied, "She was polite. Quiet and shy as well."

As Isaac continued asking Matthew about his journey, Karis, meanwhile, had dumped all of Kraden's notes on Psynergy Vortexes onto the table that Garet was sitting at, and she said, "Maybe these'll be of some help!"

Tyrell looked through the notes, and after a bit of thinking, asked Karis, "Wait... wasn't there that weird machine in the Konpa Ruins?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Doesn't that mean that the Vortexes can be artificially made as well?"

Karis, in realization, exclaimed, "Jenei above, Tyrell, you're right!" Running over to Isaac, she exclaimed, "We need to go to the Konpa Ruins! Tyrell just said something smart!"

Ignoring Tyrell's indignant shout, Isaac said, "I'll ask Carver if you can leave tomorrow morning. And also, why?" Karis told Isaac what Tyrell had just said, and the Venus Adept's face hardened, saying, "Change of plans. If that's really true, then I think you should go there as soon as you're ready to go-"

Matthew, having finished polishing the Sol Blade, grunted, "We're ready to go." Resheathing the longsword, he stepped towards the door, motioning for Tyrell and Karis to step through once he had opened it. Once Karis had left along with Tyrell, he ran back, gave his dad one more hug, and said, "Guess you ended up seeing me off regardless, huh?" With a sad laugh, Matthew stepped through the door and joined Karis and Tyrell, leaving Isaac alone with Garet. Standing up, Isaac took a huge gulp of the alcohol he had purchased before going to one of the rooms upstairs to write a letter to Jenna.

The walk to the Konpa Ruins Gate was surprisingly easy, with very few monsters. As Karis rang the bell to request entry into the ruins, Tyrell looked to his best friend, and asked, "Hey Matt, are you sure that you're not hung up on Sveta?" Matthew's cheeks flushed, and he denied it with a quick shake of his head, which Tyrell didn't buy. Laughing in triumph, Tyrell exclaimed, "I knew it!"

The gate opened, and Tyrell, along with a very embarrassed Matthew, followed Karis on the path to the ruins. Looking back, she saw that Matthew's face was a bright shade of red. Turning around, she teasingly asked Matthew, "Are you thinking about Sveta again?"

Matthew, in a tone of voice that convinced absolutely no one, answered, "Nope!"

Giving him a light slap on the back, Tyrell said, "Aw, come on, Matt, everyone knew that you liked her from the moment the two of you danced at her coronation."

Karis laughed, but also turned slightly pink as she had danced with Tyrell at said ceremony... and he turned out to be a pretty good dancer, despite his clumsiness with everything else.

Just as she set foot on the stairs that led to the ruins, however, a crossbow bolt flew right in front of her, missing her face by a few centimeters. Matthew and Tyrell ran towards Karis, and looked up to see a squad of Tuaparang elite soldiers, all of them equipped with at least a dozen Psy Grenades on their belts. One of the soldiers pulled out a walkie-talkie, and said, "Commander Pentis, we've found the Adepts that killed the Chaos Beast."

A feminine voice came through the walkie-talkie, and said, "Oh, wonderful! Commander Stavos will be on his way shortly."

The Tua soldiers unclipped one grenade from their belts and threw it at the party, but Matthew used Chasm, and the Venus Djinn absorbed the waves of anti-Psynergy that were released from the grenades' explosions.

Once Chasm had done its job, Tyrell pulled out his Herculean Axe, Karis pulled out her Sagittarius Bow, and Matthew unsheathed the Sol Blade. With a wave of his hand, Matthew used Stone Spire, causing an avalanche of rocks to fall on top of three of the Tuaparang soldiers. One of the soldiers fired a crossbow bolt, but Karis used Whirlwind to redirect the arrow back at the soldier, and the arrow embedded itself right in his head.

Tyrell, with a battle cry, used Arid Scorch, the resulting blast of hot air knocking away a couple of soldiers, before turning his axe onto the soldier that had almost killed Karis. With a glint in his eye, Tyrell unleashed Olympus Rage, the resulting explosion sending the Tua elite flying into a rock face. Turning towards the five or so Tua soldiers that remained, the Mars Adept roared, "WHO WANTS SOME MORE?!"

The soldiers retreated, using their grappling hooks to scale the mountain, and Tyrell walked into the ruins, Matthew and Karis following close behind.

"...and that's what happened, sir."

Stavos, leaning on his Excalibur, asked, "You said their names were Matthew, Tyrell, and Karis?"

"That is correct, Commander Stavos."

"And that they were heading to the Konpa Ruins?"

"Yes, sir."

A split-second of shock was apparent in the Tua commander's eyes, before he said, "Very well. Your squad... or what remains of it, is dismissed."

Going back to his quarters, Stavos took off his hood and removed his half-mask.

Felix, now on his bed, was thinking long and hard about the names of the three Adepts. It had been fifteen years since he had last seen any of the three, as well as Isaac, Garet, Mia, Ivan, Piers, and his sister. Once he had put his mask back on and pulled up his hood, Felix used Teleport, and he vanished in a swirl of Psynergetic particles.

Matthew had just lopped the head off a Umbra-imbued Bone Soldier, and he watched as the blade that the skeleton was holding embedded itself right in its head. Walking into the room where the machine was the first time they visited the ruins, he saw that it was still there, fully intact. Looking at Tyrell, he asked, "What did you say about these machines?"

Tyrell, standing on the other side, replied, "I think it can create a Psynergy Vortex!"

Matthew looked back at the device, and saw a gold and a purple button. Out of curiosity, he tapped the purple one, and sure enough, an average-sized Psynergy Vortex appeared above Matthew, who immediately felt his strength draining. Quickly, he hammered the golden button, and the vortex disappeared, almost like it had never been there. Hopping back over to Karis and Tyrell, Matthew asked, "Okay, now that we know that the Tuaparang have been making the Psynergy Vortexes, what do we do now?"

Tyrell, his face stone-cold, said, "I say we take 'em down."

This had unnerved both Matthew and Karis, because Tyrell had just spoken in a calm tone that he otherwise never used.

Before the three of them could say anything, a voice behind them said, "I'm afraid you'll find that to be quite impossible."

Turning around, Matthew, Tyrell, and Karis found themselves staring at a man with a purple hood and cape, whose face was obscured by a mask. Commander Stavos, in his cold, even voice, said, "The Tuaparang are already moving as I speak. They look to place machines like these at Ayuthay, Belinsk, Champa, Bilibin, Kalay, and Yamata. Soon, all the Alchemical power from the Golden Sun will be drained from this doomed world, and we, the Tuaparang, will be the masters of all Psynergy. Why else do you think that the Mourning Moon reoccurs every ten years?"

Tyrell's eyes had narrowed with each word the Tuaparang commander had uttered, and once Stavos had finished his explanation, he said, "So you're the reason my mom's gone, then..."

Matthew, in a voice of concern, said, "Tyrell..." Karis also said the same thing, but now, Tyrell was too far gone.

Even the commander looked taken aback for a second, as he echoed, "Your mother...?"

The nagging voice in the back of Tyrell's head told him, "You have the chance to avenge your mother, act on it right now, consequences be damned!"

Regaining his composure, Stavos continued, "Sure, the Warriors of Vale might be able to stop us, but-"

He didn't finish that sentence, as Tyrell leaped right at Stavos, bringing down the Herculean Axe, dead set on bringing the Tuaparang to justice. Stavos dodged, and attempted to shackle Tyrell's legs with Growth. However, Tyrell's rage had fueled his Psynergy to new heights, and he began burning the vines as soon as they coiled around his ankles. Tyrell then used Crush, resulting in a Psynergetic hand slamming into the wall, causing a small avalanche of rocks to fall down on top of the Tua commander. After a moment of silence, the pile of rocks burst apart, and Stavos, with a lazy flick of his hand, sent the rocks at Tyrell. The Mars Adept jammed his axe into the ground and used Pyroclasm to melt the rocks, sending hot lava everywhere.

Hefting his axe out of the ground, Tyrell unleashed Olympus Rage, but Stavos dodged the explosion and instead shackled Tyrell's arms and legs in a Stone Spire. Again, Tyrell melted the rocks, and, ignoring the fact that his axe was embedded in the ground, lunged in to punch the commander. Stavos sidestepped before using Sleep, and the Mars Adept collapsed to the floor.

Matthew and Karis looked around at the carnage Tyrell had left in his short fight with the Tua commander. There was cooling magma all over the cave, a portion of the wall had been caved in, and there were numerous gashes where Tyrell had struck with his axe. Stavos' voice interrupted them, saying, "I'd recommend taking your friend and his weapon with you, and I don't want any citizens to get hurt, so I suggest that you begin warning the towns."

Stavos walked towards the northern exit, and Matthew yelled, "Wait! Who are you?!"

"You should know by now... Matthew."

With a swish of his cape, Stavos was gone. Matthew and Karis looked at each other, and Karis mouthed, "How does he know your name?"

Matthew shrugged helplessly, and went to retrieve Tyrell and his axe.

Once Felix stepped through the northern exit, he removed the mask and wiped his brow in exhaustion. He hated to admit it, but Garet, the buffoon of his and Isaac's journey thirty years ago, had raised a damn good son and an even more impressive fighter. The walkie-talkie on his belt went off, and he picked it up, asking, "Hello?"

Pentis' voice came through, asking, "What happened, Stavos?"

"You can drop the act, Sheba."

Sheba let out an annoyed "Hmph!" before asking, "What happened, Felix?"

"I ran into Isaac, Garet, and Ivan's kids."

Sheba gasped in excitement, but Felix said, "Don't get too excited, Sheba... we don't even remember where Gail is, right?"

Sheba's voice was a little more annoyed as she replied, "I don't understand why you left our daughter in Kalay-"

"My sister's there."

"Oh. She'll be fine, then! Anyways, what were you saying about the kids?"

With a thin smile, Felix said, "I think they just might be the ticket to destroying the Tuaparang..."

You know, I feel like Tyrell gets mocked a little too much when it comes to Dark Dawn-related fanfics.

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