Blind Foresight

Blind Foresight

By: IsaacGaretMia

Disclaimer: I do not own golden sun, nor its trademarks, nor its property, nor do I own Nintendo, nor Camelot, nor any of its games, nor any of its characters. If I did, we would have seen golden sun 5 by now. On with the story.

A boy stood on the path leading to the mountain. A breeze swept by, but he hardly noticed. Lost in memories, he looked upon the sacred mountain of Vale. To think, that this mountain had started that nightmare… The boy suddenly flinched, as he heard the sound of running behind him.

Sand…

A blond boy ran up to the path. He had a simple tunic, and an ornate sword slung on his back. Just looking at it, you could feel the searing heat of a meteor bearing down on you. He stopped, confused. The guys down at the plaza had said he would be here, and he could have sworn that he had felt a presence here as he ran…

"Felix, where are you?"

The boy looked down, seeing a disturbed patch of ground in front of him… Did Felix really think he could hide from him?

Scoop…

A ghostly hand reached down into the earth. The boy called Felix was pulled from the ground with singular ease. He seemed amused, letting out a rare bout of laughter.

"Isaac, what are you doing here?"

"Someone told me you'd be here. I came to ask you about something."

"What's wrong?"

"Have you seen the lapis?"

Felix remembered the small stone recovered from the lighthouse. It had an unusual psynergy inside of it… Who would take it? Isaac must have thought that he had taken it.

"No… it's missing?"

"Piers was looking after it, and he said he couldn't find it anywhere."

Felix was puzzled… did someone from the village steal it? Wait… he remembered that morning, Sheba was headed to the inn where the non-Valeans were staying… She seemed distant, her eyes, normally crystalline, were dull and unfocussed. She had not noticed him as she ran past. Could she have…?

"Isaac… I have to go… now."

"Wha-?"

But Felix was already down the path, heading back toward the village. Why would Sheba take it without telling us? His djinn, normally on standby in case something were happening to the village, were lazily sleeping inside of him. One by one, he set them to a more ready position. His steps grew faster and faster every few steps. As his last djinni was set, he came to the terrace above the New Vale plaza, where the psynergy stone was still standing. It was the symbol of the old Vale, as well as the New Vale. It had not fallen when the Golden Sun rose. Without stopping, he leapt easily on top of the crystal. His mind was charged, his psynergy working overtime. The villagers were too busy to see him, as blue psynergetic rings engulfed his body. He could feel the earth, and he could feel… someone heading to the forest outside the village. He leapt to the ground and sprinted out the gate. The rings dissipated upon contact with the ground. What was going on?

Sheba left the small town feeling down. She had just taken the lapis from Piers' pouch, and the cyclone chip was already in her possession. She had to know… Where did she come from? She was about to take a big step, and she hoped her friends would forgive her. She felt sad not telling them… especially Felix. She had grown to like him during their journey. She felt she could tell him anything. But this was just too much. She had to do this on her own. Suddenly, she felt a tug in her mind, her vision blurred, her mind opened to see, something… was coming. She leapt, nearly flew, to the middle branches of a nearby tree. A dark haired boy walked down the path from the village.

"Sheba. Come out… We need to talk."

It was just Felix… She fell from the tree with singular grace, and landed with the slightest of taps. What was he doing here?

"What about, Felix?"

"Why did you steal the lapis? Why are you outside the village? Why are you leaving us…?"

"I'm sorry Felix… I have to know. I hope you will forgive me."

As she said that last sentence, her eyes closed as her mind opened, releasing bands of psynergy that would activate the lapis. As the last ring formed, and the bands started to pull her in every direction, she cried one single tear for what she had done. She had forced herself away from the one person who cared for her. Felix had leapt from the top of a lighthouse to save her from drowning, why couldn't she tell him? Why?

Felix was dumbfounded. Sheba was disappearing before his eyes, heading off for some journey, without telling any of them where she was going. Not even him, the person who had leapt from the top of Venus to save her! He didn't know if it was psynergy, or his mind working faster than normal, but time itself seemed to slow. He ran as fast as he could towards her, but the teleportation spell was already in motion. He was surprised to feel psynergy flowing through him again. What was happening? By sheer dumb luck he managed to grab onto her shoulder before the psynergy ripped them from their bodies and carried them across Weyard.

When he woke up, he was outside of Contigo. An old town said to be descendant of the Anemos. Sheba was nowhere in sight. He had a feeling she was heading towards the one place she seemed attached to. Felix detached himself from the ground, and limped towards the lighthouse. It had taken all of his psynergy strength to keep his connection with Sheba solid. By the end, it had almost completely been drained, and he was flung from her as they landed. Somehow, he still ended up close enough to Jupiter Lighthouse to feel its effects upon him. He felt weak, nearly devoid of strength. He stopped… remembering the creatures they had fought near here. He remembered when he found the Sol Blade in mars lighthouse. He had tossed it without hesitation to Isaac in exchange for the Gaia Blade. He was fond of it, as it embodied his elemental power. He remembered that Venus was a power of creation. He summoned up his last dregs of psynergy, and…

Gaia Blade… The Gaia Blade seemed to rise from the earth in front of him. He continued with newfound determination towards the lighthouse. What could she possibly be thinking? She wasn't suicidal… was she?

Sheba wiped a tear from her eye as she stood in front of the Lighthouse. Felix was gone, and she couldn't go back. She walked to the entrance, feeling the familiar surge of strength that she normally felt when using psynergy. The beacon would make climbing to the aerie a breeze. Literally. She didn't feel like using the elevator, she needed to mentally prepare herself for the ordeal she was about to put herself through. She would climb to the aerie, and… feel something? She didn't quite know what exactly she was doing. She had a vision of the lighthouse beacon, and the light reminded her of something she had never known: her family.

"What have I done?" She muttered to herself. The lighthouse opened it's doors to her touch. She cast cyclone over and over, leaping to the top of the lighthouse in a matter of hours. The creatures feeding on the raw elemental energy of the beacon were no match for her psynergy. They received a smart Spark Plasma to the face for their insolence. She reached the door to the aerie, and sighed one more time.

"It's time. I have to know."

She walked into the sunset streaming through the door. Out into the light never-ending breeze of the aerie. Out into her destiny.

Felix reached the base in an hour. He glanced up, gazing at the tower… and saw small gusts of wind spouting from the lighthouse in odd spots, always rising… Sheba! He was in time! He raced to the ladder, and climbed up it as fast as he could. He ran to the elevator, but it was obviously not at ground right now. Sol! How could he summon the elevator? He suspected a wind based psynergy would be involved… It looked as if he would have to give up. As if at that moment, Sol was watching him, a gust from the lighthouse blew at the statue next to him. It glowed slightly, and bands of psynergy rose around it. The elevator descended. He leapt on it, thinking of how lucky he had been. As he slowly ascended to the heavens, he wondered what Sheba was thinking. The raw power could kill her! He flinched, thinking, it could kill him! He had followed Sheba without thought… He reflected on his feelings for her… She was the holy one, the jewel of the group. She was never allowed to be harmed. She always got the best of everything they could give her, armor, weapons, even the rooms at the inn. The others all thought it was just because they had promised Lalivero before they left that they would keep her safe, but Felix had always thought her as more than a jewel. He… loved her.

Sheba stood in front of the beacon. Contemplating what to do… In her vision, she was… touching the beacon, but surely that would be suicidal…

"Sheba."

She nearly died from the shock. Was she seeing a ghost? Felix stood at the stairs, looking at her with more than just concern…

Mind Read…

You don't have to read my mind to see what I'm thinking, Sheba.

"Just ask me."

"Why are you here, Felix?"

"Why are you? Don't you realize how dangerous this place is?"

"I do… but I have to know."

"Know what?"

"Where I came from… The answer is here. You won't stop me from learning about myself, will you?"

"The beacon will kill you before you learn one thing, Sheba. You know that. I won't let you kill yourself!"

"I'm sorry Felix."

She hated herself for shunning Felix. But she had to know, she was obsessed. Her hand twitched. She had to… Her hand rose. Felix suddenly raced towards her, but it was too late. Her five fingers touched the beacon. The light suddenly rippled from her fingertips. The five ripples merged into one psynergetic ring. It grew until it was the size of her body, and then it engulfed her. As the ring rushed past her body horizontally, she glowed with Jupiter power. She… was… omniscient.

Felix couldn't believe it. She was going to throw away her life just for a chance to know her origin. Her hand twitched. No! He wouldn't let her die! Just like last time, time seemed to slow. But too late, he was not strong enough. A psynergetic band released from the beacon, engulfing her. The shockwave was enormous. He was thrown into the air by a force unlike he had ever seen. His muscles tensed. Sheba seemed to glow with psynergetic might. The gale grew stronger. He was being bound by the Jupiter beacon. He struggled as long as he could to break free, but he couldn't. The last thing he saw before he blacked out was one crystalline jewel after another, opening and gazing right through him.

Darkness was all around him. He couldn't see his hand if it was in front of his face. The only light was from a statue, with golden hair that shimmered and radiated pure light. A statue with crystalline violet eyes. It was Sheba. He ran without moving, his mind felt the movement but his body did not react. As hard as he ran Sheba never got closer. He suddenly noticed that she was looking at something. His mind seemed to turn as his body would have. There, in front of him, was the moon. But he realized that it wasn't. The Anemos were said to have ascended to the heavens when Alchemy was sealed. He saw a city worthy of being called heaven. This couldn't be… The city was barren, empty. Devoid of life. He only saw a girl, about five years old, looking up. He looked up and saw Weyard. He could see the crater where they first cast the spell that would take their city to the sky. He could see the lighthouse. He could see Gaia Falls, and the continents drifting. Wait, what was the girl doing? A ball of energy was emanating from her palm. Was this… Alchemy? The ball grew translucent, and a whirlwind could be seen inside. It was growing to freakish size, until the ball could not contain it anymore. The young Sheba (for it had been her) shed a tear, and burst the ball with passion. The ball was thrown to the ground, releasing the maelstrom. The tornado lifted her off her feet. Two more balls of energy, the tornado reversed direction. Instead of falling back to the ground, gravity itself seemed to shift. The girl seemed to fall headfirst to Weyard. He saw she was headed straight to Lalivero, confirming his suspicions. This was where Sheba was from. She had survived the fall of the Anemos, and fled to a better world. She must not have remembered it from the shock of the landing. Or maybe it was because she was so young at the time… Suddenly, the statue next to him moved its head. He could move again, not that it would help him. One look into Sheba's eyes, and a shock hit him squarely in the chest. He flew back, and before he landed, Sheba's eyes bored into his soul, suspending his body in midair.

Sheba couldn't believe what she was seeing. She was descendant of the Anemos. She had come from the empty city in the sky. Her realization just gave her more questions. Why? Why did she jump, why did the Anemos leave, and why couldn't she remember?! Then she noticed Felix. She did not feel joy, she did not feel anger… She felt empty. She decided to learn what truly made him come. Without even intending to, she activated her psynergy. A ball of lightning appeared at his chest. She was surprised, and released it as quick as it had appeared, and yet she continued. She pierced him with the force of ten mind reads at once. Later, she would not recall how she used that psynergy, but here… She could do anything.

Soul Search…

She saw right through him. She saw what had made him jump from the lighthouse, what had made him give her preferential treatment over the others, what had made him so silent in her presence. Felix loved her. Sheba was surprised at how he kept it hidden so well, and yet she saw how obvious it was from the start. The one thing that surprised her the most, is that she loved him back. She resented that she was the one who got the best of everything, but she could not resist anything that he offered. He was the one who protected her when Saturos and Menardi yelled at her. She reveled at every time he stood up for her. Every monster in the field that even came close to hurting him received a smart Ray or Spark Plasma in the face for it. Even the dead ones received a gift, when the party was out of sight. How could she not have seen? She had been blind in her foresight. In her mind, she withdrew her glare. Her eyes closed, and the last thing she saw before her mind drifted off to sleep, was a vision of her and Felix in New Vale, together. They would be together after all…

"Sheba… Sheba wake up!"

He begged her to get up. He paid no attention to the fact that she was taller and older. He only saw her face, with her golden hair strands across her eyes. He implored her to wake, he feared that the lighthouse had shocked her so much that she would be in a coma. He would be without her, forever. Just as he began to lose hope and despair, Sheba groaned.

"Ohhhhhh…"

"Sheba! Are you ok?"

"I don't know… where are we?"

"The aerie… you… you touched the beacon."

"I remember… Felix… can I ask you something?"

"Why not read my mind and find out that way?"

He did not know why he was being so cold. Maybe it was to further hide the reason he came. Why did he not just tell her of his love? Because she was 15, too young to understand. Vale would shun him if he married a girl before she was old enough to feel love. He would wait until she was old enough to understand his feelings.

"Felix… I promise never to read your mind again."

He was surprised. This was totally unlike her. The Chosen One of Lalivero would never relinquish something she loved so much. He stood up, shaking. Then he noticed, Sheba was taller. She looked… older. Her hair was longer.

"Sheba… look at yourself."

"What?"

He watched her get up and look herself over. She jumped in shock. The lighthouse had aged her!

"How old are you now?"

"I don't kn-…" Psynergetic rings pulsed around her. "18."

Felix's mind raced. Her body may have changed, but was she still that young child at heart? No… she had never been a child. Whether it was her raising or her Jupiter foresight, she grew past her childhood fast. Still, she had never experienced love before.

"Sheba… I have never spoken like this to anyone else…"

"Felix?"

"Sheba…" He paused, looking at her a moment. Her eyes gleamed with anticipation. "I love you."

"I love you too, Felix. From the day that I was captured, you were always there for me. You leapt from the lighthouse aerie to save me. You are my love Felix, and I want to be with you forever."

"Let's go home, Sheba."

Sheba ran at him and embraced him lovingly. He kissed her, and he had never felt happier in his whole life.

"Alright, tough guy. I'll take you home. I suppose you can't help at all because of the beacon."

"For you, I would fight Saturos, Menardi, Karst, and Agatio myself right in front of the lighthouse for you. I'll manage."

They embraced again. And if an Adept could see them, they would see Psynergy bands surrounding them both, as their psynergy merged and grew. They were one.

Thats all folks. Please review if you have the time. I appreciate any and all criticism of my work as it is my first fanfic.