Chapter 2: I Wish I Never Wished This Wish!
The group sat talking about many things while the Wise One was gone.
"What do you think about being called together by the Wise One?" Mia asked the group.
"I really am worried that we're going to have to go on another mission... I haven't even recovered from the last one." Ivan said, his purple eyes looking at Mia with weariness.
"I don't want to do another stupid thing for that Rock! I've had it up to here with him! If he has so much power, why doesn't he do things for himself?" Jenna said, hands on her hips.
The Wise One appeared behind Jenna, and said, "Who are you calling a Rock?"
Jenna screamed and jumped into the air, whirling around and facing the giant one eyed rock, her fists raised, ready to strike.
The Wise One chuckled, and floated away from her, and dropped Garet in front of the group.
"So, now that we're all here... Let me tell you why I've gathered you all." The Wise One said.
"I just want to restate that I don't want to go on another mission." Garet said.
"Well... When I said that I wasn't going to ask you to do another mission, I lied... I have to send you to Prox again... It seems that they are having problems at the lighthouse... So, I chose you to go." The Wise One said, his tone dry and emotionless.
"Damnit! I wish this whole damn thing had never happened! This all started because we blew up mount Aleph!" Garet whined.
"Fine... I'll show you what would have happened if you never did this 'whole thing' Garet! That will teach you to disobey me!" The Wise One snapped.
The Wise One had gotten so sick of Garet's incessant whining, and was going to show Garet a piece of his mind.
The others where staring at Garet and the Wise One in awe.
"I... What?" Garet said.
"I'll grant you your wish! But let me tell you, you're not going to like it! And you can't back out of it! You need to learn to stop complaining!" The Wise One and Garet vanished, and the group stared at the place they had been standing (well, floating in the case of the Wise One).
"What just happened?" Sheba asked, shaking her head, and looking back to where Garet had been, but he still wasn't there.
"I think Garet is getting taught a lesson by the Wise One." Jenna said, looking a little afraid.
(With Garet and the Wise One)
"First, let me tell you that you are going to see Weyard as it would be had you not lit the beacons... Alex would have eventually lit them, but he also would have gotten the power of the Golden Sun... He is now the overlord of all Weyard... Be prepared, because what you're going to see is going to make you wish that you'd never wished this wish..." The Wise One said.
Garet just stared at the Wise One, and then the world began to come back into focus, and they appeared in a town.
Garet looked around, and found the place in ruins.
"Where is this?" Garet asked shocked at the complete destruction of a place that looked a lot like Vale.
"This is Vale... Or should I say, what's left of it... Alex came here, and killed almost everyone, including Felix. You see those graves... Go look at them." The Wise One said.
Garet went to the graves, and found things that shocked him.
He found his parent's graves, and his sister and brother's as well.
He fell to his knees, and looked down at the graves, tears gushing from his eyes.
"They put up a valiant fight, but Alex was to strong for them." The Wise One said, as he eyed the destruction around them.
Next Garet looked, and saw a grave with a single red flower on it.
He got up, and found that the grave belonged to Felix.
He wiped his eyes and looked at the Wise One.
"Who put that flower there?" He asked.
"Jenna. She's still alive, but she's dead to the world... Let me show you..."
"NO! I don't want to see!" Garet covered his eyes, tears dripping from between his fingers.
"You must go... I want you to see the full effect of what would have happened had you nine not lit the beacons."
"Please... I just want to go home!" Garet was absolutely distraught and afraid by now, but the Wise One knew that showing him might help him understand that he was helping the world, and though he had saved the world, there where consequences and other problems that had to be dealt with.
"Come now Garet, this isn't real... This is a reality that will never befall Weyard. I just want to show you the importance of what you did... This is as much a pat on the back, as it is a consequence for your complaining. Let me show you the other things."
Garet stood, and he felt a pain he never hoped to feel, but he knew he needed to go.
"Fine..." He said, his voice crackling with the sorrow he felt.
"Good." The Wise One glowed with a soft eerie light, and they vanished from the rubble that used to be Vale.
They appeared in a castle next, and outside the windows a huge storm was raging, rain slashed the windows and lightening and thunder shook the ground.
"This is Alex's castle... Jenna is here." The Wise One said.
"J-jenna?" Garet said.
"Yes... Alex took her for his wife... He has completely destroyed her spirit... She now does what he tells her to do, whether she wants to or not..." The Wise One let the sentence fall on Garet like a sack of bricks.
"She's... She's not the Jenna I knew?"
"No... not any more." The Wise One replied.
"I'm going to find Alex and kill him! He has no right to do this!" Garet said, his outrage getting the better of him.
"You don't stand a chance... With him holding the power of the Golden Sun, and being a Mercury Adept, and you being a Mars Adept, you'd be a sitting duck to him."
"I need to find Jenna!" Garet said.
Just then Jenna walked in, dressed in a maid's outfit, and carrying a platter with what smelled like food on it.
"JENNA!" Garet said loudly, but she did not respond, she just kept walking.
Garet followed her.
"Jenna? What's up?" He continued, and when he went to put his hand on her shoulder, it passed right through her.
"Oh my GOODNESS!!! SHE'S A GHOST!!" Garet shouted, retracting his hand quickly.
"No, she's merely a figment of your imagination." The Wise One said his mirth uncalled for in Garet's plight.
"You suck..." Garet said, chasing after Jenna.
After about five minutes of following her, she stood in front of a large wooden door, and knocked.
"Master? Master, are you awake?" She asked in a quite voice.
"Oh my... She called him 'master'? That's not like her!" Garet said, hatred for Alex growing by the minute.
"Ah, yes my love, come in." Came Alex's voice from behind the door.
"Her will has been broken, she no longer fights him, and now she just meekly does what he wants..." The Wise One said, his eye narrowing to a slit, and Garet could tell that the Wise One was not too happy about it either.
"Even...?" Garet didn't finish his sentence, because the idea of Alex using Jenna like that made his blood boil.
"Yes... Even that." The Wise One said in a solemn tone.
"Get me out of here!" Garet said, almost wanting to throw up, from anger and disgust.
"Fine... I have a few more things to show you." The Wise One said, nodding at Garet.
"I don't want to know any more... Next thing you'll show me is some other horrid thing that my friends are going through, and I'll want to help them, but I won't be able to... I don't want to go through that again." Garet said, choking a little on his words.
"Well, this is not all... Please come."
"Fine... I can't argue with you, so I'll do it." Garet said, his heart sinking, as he knew there was no way out.
"We go to Imil next." The Wise One said, his voice melancholy.