A/N: It's been so long since I've been writing for Never Let Go. Sigh. I've had too many ideas for other fanfics that I'll probably start and never finish. Sad, ain't it? Oh well, it's the holidays so I decided I should start writing again and stop playing Dark Dawn too much. Stupid Chaos Chimera. Anywho, Never Let Go is back in the writing! Lol…. Not very funny, hey? Fine. Ignore me and read on. =D

"You leave tomorrow."

Isaac and Garet jerked back to reality.

"Tomorrow? Grandfather… isn't that a little… early?" Garet protested, whining.

The Mayor of Vale frowned at his grandson. "What has gotten into you, Garet?" he exclaimed. "You have been given a duty from Vale's protector, the holy Wise One, and that duty is to retrieve the Elemental Stars! And, of course, a personal duty to rescue Jenna and Kraden and to dupe Felix into returning to Vale with you! And yet you complain? Young man, you are lucky I have not sent you off right now—" the Mayor broke into a coughing fit, his face red from anger. Dora rushed forward and helped Garet's grandfather to regain his stance. She shot Isaac and Garet a look.

"The Mayor is right. You shall leave tomorrow. Go and pack immediately and get some rest." Dora gave a longing look at her son. "Isaac, a word? After I help the Mayor return home?"

Isaac nodded slowly.

"Good." With that, Dora left the sanctum, supporting the Mayor back to Garet's home. The two teens stood there, alone. Garet threw his best friend a cheesy grin.

"Well, we've got a long day tomorrow. Gotta get some sleep. Catch you tomorrow, 'kay?"

"Tomorrow…" Isaac echoed, "Garet, I—"

He found himself talking to an empty room.

The word barely left his lips. "Tomorrow…" he whispered. "Wait for me, Jenna. I'm coming for you tomorrow."

"Have a safe journey, Isaac, Garet," the Mayor pronounced. "Good luck in your travels, complete the Wise One's quest for you and bring Jenna, Felix and Kraden back while you're at it, okay?"

The boys nodded.

"Good. Don't let us down," said the Great Healer. "Vale's got complete faith in you."

"Well," Garet felt his throat dry as he looked on Vale and his family. "Mother, Father—"

Isaac's lips curled into a smile. "We'll be back before you know it. Please tell Mother that."

Sarah, Garet's mother, let out a sigh and smiled. "Of course. You'll be all grown up we won't even recognise you!"

Garet snorted.

Isaac laughed bitterly. "Come on, Garet. We've got an adventure before us!" he clenched his best friend's fist and punched the air while throwing his own hand up. "To Vale!" he bellowed, startling the villagers. They quickly recovered from the sudden exclaim from the calm and quiet Venus adept and grinned at each other.

"TO VALE!" the villagers all echoed with enthusiasm (including Garet). Isaac winced from the bolstering call of enthusiasm. Ouch. I'm not deaf or anything. That may have been a bit much.

"Next stop is Vault," Isaac declared with a clear and leader-like voice.

"Vault?" Garet shot Isaac a look of unease. "Why Vault? Why can't we go further?"

Kay sighed at her naïve younger brother's stupidness and lack of common sense. Unlike Isaac and Jenna. They always kept the douche bag in line with what goes on in the world. "Garet, you dolt! Vault's—"

She was cut off by her youngest brother Aaron. "Garet is an idiot! Vault is the closest town to Vale!"

Isaac chuckled at Garet's family and their constant conflicts and arguments that make life seem less boring. He gripped the Catch Beads, something Aaron had passed to him for Dora, harder, as if he was trying to beat Garet in a hand-squeezing war (something they loved to do when they where kids). Without his consent, his mind slowly drifted over to Jenna….

"Don't drink anything that smells funny, Garet!"

"I know not to drink stagnant water, Sis!"

"Ahem. Sorry to cut through this, but I think we should take our leave, Garet," Isaac whispered to his buddy.

"Of course," said the Great Healer, smiling warmly, "Don't worry; Vale'll still be here when you come back, so you can take your time if you have to."

Isaac and Garet nodded, and took their first steps out of their hometown.

Little did they know, what the Great Healer had said was very, very wrong…

"A butterfly? In this time of the year?" Isaac pondered (its autumn/fall or whatever Americans call it).

"Hey Isaac! Stop playing with the critter 'cause we sort of have to get to Vault by sun down, you know!" Garet called out to his dazed buddy, only to be taken aback when the 'critter' grew larger and into a funny looking creature. The hell? Funny looking thing if you ask me. It was something neither of them had ever seen before. Plain weird.

"I ain't no creature! I'm the mighty Venus djinn Flint so take that, human! Wait…. you're… an adept?"

"Djinn? Never heard of it. You, Garet?" Isaac stared at the 'djinn' before him.

"It doesn't surprise me, actually. You lot from Vale, right?" Flint didn't wait for a reply. "I believe us djinn only reappeared on Weyard since the eruption of Mt Aleph…"

"Man! I'm jealous of you! You always get it all! The looks, the girls, the brains, the djinn even!" Garet whined to his best friend.

"The girls?"

"You know what I mean," Garet replied, waving his hand like it didn't really matter (though when he did that, it meant it really did matter to him). But Garet was right. Isaac did know what he was talking about. He had to admit all the young ladies from Vale (his age or around) couldn't take their eyes off him, Felix to a lesser extent, but Garet? Maybe a couple did go for the spiky red head, though possibly only wanting to know the secret to keeping his hair up like that. Isaac wondered how Jenna was faring. He knew that over-protective brother Felix would be the mother hen, and even old man scholar of Alchemy Kraden would do his best to fend for his favourite pupil. Menardi? Let's just say that he even had faith in Menardi. Somehow he knew a burden was being placed upon the stranger, and that she was really actually quite delicate under that mask of battle concealing a nice young lady. Isaac knew that Saturos knew that Jenna was actually more the bait that Kraden was, so he would keep her safe. That's right, Isaac had absolute trust in Kraden, Vale's traitor Felix and the Proxian duo Saturos and Menardi whom had to be stopped. He was only afraid about that blue-haired man….

Alex.

"I say we take this 'Jenna' and Kraden with us. If those two weaklings survive, they'll definitely come looking for them! And then we'll force them to hand over the Star."

The tone he had said 'Jenna' in more or less had freaked Isaac out. It sounded like Jenna had intrigued Alex. It sounded like Jenna had indeed interested Alex.

It sounded like that Alex had taken a liking to Jenna.

Oh shit.

"Um… Gaia to Isaac? Hello? Anyone home?" Garet's loud and obnoxious voice had interrupted the blonde's train of thought and woke him out of his dazed mode.

"Huh? What? Are we in Vault now?" Isaac yawned, tired from to trip from town to town.

Garet managed a half nod. "We should head to the inn and rest up for tomorrow, correct, Fearless Leader?" he joked, supporting himself on his long sword.

Isaac shook his head. "We should head over to greet the mayor first. I think it's polite to visit the leader of very town or village to be updated on things like… current… politics."

"So you've lost the Shaman's pole thingy and your name is Avan and you're a Saturn adept?" Garet asked, not quite clear on the details. Isaac calmly gripped the sheath of his sword and wacked Garet on the head with the hilt.

"Correction: it's the SHAMAN'S ROD, his name is IVAN and SATURN ADEPTS don't exist! He's a JUPITER ADEPT!"

"Ouch!" Garet cried, rubbing his head where a bump had formed. "Sheesh, Isaac. Why are you so grumpy today?"

Isaac shot his best friend a death-glare and muttered, "I'm tired, and I'm going to check in at the Inn, thieves or not." With that, Isaac really did take his leave, shutting the door of the Mayor's house with a little more force than need be. Garet's smile faded. He sighed and his face turned serious.

"Isaac, why are you so mad right now?" Garet turned to gaze out the nearby window, clearly taking no notice of Ivan anymore. "Jenna," he whispered, "Isaac wouldn't be like this if you were here, right? Not if you weren't kidnapped by Saturos and Menardi, right?"

Ivan's eyes narrowed, and he concentrated his Psynergy.

You're ready my mind now, aren't you?

Well, looks like you've figured it out.

I'm not as dense as I might seem, Ivan.

I know.

Then why are you reading my mind?

Because…

Well?

Who is Jenna?

Garet sighed again, and let Ivan invade his mind and memories of Jenna.

Jenna… Isaac and I miss you… and… I'd hate to admit it, but… also… Felix…

A/N: How was that? I'm incredibly sorry for the long wait, IF you were actually waiting for Never Let Go to be updated. If you were, that's GREAT! If you weren't, well, here it is anyway. Haha. Now, the chapters of Never Let Go will alternate between Isaac and Jenna's POV, third-person. For now, Happy reading! I will go and get something to eat… like two minute noodles… I know that this chap seem a bit short, but oh well. At least it's finally up. I mean i have different fanfics on different computers so yea. I know that it's beginning to sound like a novelization, but it will change. (I hope!) Happy reading! Please R&R I mean just press that pretty little button there and it doesn't hurt to press it!