Here is chapter 2, continuing from the one, but in something less strange. Sorry for the lousy title and summary, but I suck badly when it comes to that, also forgive me for grammar mistakes, english is not my mother language, so It ´s really hard to writte, especially descriptions of places, people and fights.
Well I hope you like it. I don ´t own Golden Sun.
GOLDEN SUN III
Rise of The Silver Moon
Chapter 2: A Simple Shadow:Two red eyes opened abruptly in the darkness. Soren looked at the roof of the room where he was for some moments as he heavily breathed. He sat on the bed and looked around, noticing he was on a small room that only had his bed, a wardrobe and a desk. Everything was clean and in order, and a single candle lighted the room. Nobody was there.
"Where am I?" he thought.
The memories of the young man were spawned in his mind for a moment, making him to place his hand on his head because of the pain.
"Who...?"
The memory of the girl in the garden comes to his mind, and her last words.
"Soren... That ´s my name?"
He stayed in the bed, searching every place of his mind... Only to find shards of the memory of the young man, the small moment with that girl and his nightmare.
"Everything... That's everything inside my mind..."
He looked at his hands.
"I can ´t remember anything else..."
He remained silent. It was cold and he started to shudder, finally getting up. He walked to the desk and found a note that wrote:
¿So you already woke up?
Use the things in the wardrobe, at least until we get you something better.
Wait for me I will come back in a while.
He left the note on the desk and opened the wardrobe, black clothes and a dark red scarf were there, along with a middle sized iron sword. Soren got dressed, took the sword and walked out of the room.
"What the?" he thought as he saw the rest of the place: the room was the only thing untouched, while the rest of the house was completely destroyed. The corridors were devastated and many corpses laid there.
Soren approached to the one of a man, he had no wounds, no pain nor fear was reflected on his face, however without doubt he was dead.
Soren looked around the house, seeing everything on a similar state. He continued walking through the corridors until he got out of the house. The whole place was a very small village, with no more than ten houses. All of them on the side of a hill in a snowy place. He walked stairs down to the snowy valley. But suddenly, darkness sprouted from the floor, and the same creatures of his nightmare appeared in front of him.
Soren looked around to see many of them gathering around him. He unsheathed the sword and tried to fight them. The creatures tried to slash Soren with his claws, Soren managed to dodge and counterattack, however his sword just passed through the creature, without inflicting any damage.
"What?" he thought, as he found him defenseless, trying to escape from the creature attacks. He finally got cornered, trapped between them.
"What I am going to do?" he thought scared... "What?"
The memories of the young man came to his mind once more, he was there with another boy, a little girl and an old man. The old man talked to them revealed the most important secret.
"Psyenergy?" asked Soren in loud voice.
One of the creatures jumped to him. A purple aura covered Soren ´s body and the creature was repelled. Soren looked at them serious, and raised his hand. Arrows of a shining blood red color were materialized around him and were shot to the creatures destroying many of them.
The creatures didn't stop and attacked again. Soren raised his sword and enchanted it with psyenergy, making the blade to turn into a blood red color too. He slashed one of the creatures, leaving a red streak where the blade passed, and this time he could cut it. The creature faded away, and Soren charged to the others.
The battle was hard, but after minutes all the creatures were gone, leaving Soren exhausted and alone in the snow.
"God...what was all...that?" he managed to say.
Suddenly after some moments of silence a female voice talked to him.
"Well, well! An Adept! And an unusual one too!"
Soren looked around and saw a girl, sitting on the roof of one of the houses. She had purple hair, a weird symbols under her eyes and had eyes of the same color as Soren. She was wearing black clothes too, but a skirt continued by pants. Soren looked at her, but didn't say anything.
"Too many questions to ask? I bet you don ´t know where to start!"
Soren stayed in guard and looked serious at her.
"Is something wrong?"
"Were you the one who made all this?"
The girl walked a little, looking around with an expression like nothing happened.
"Yep! I did!"
Soren looked at her serious.
"Hold right there! Why aren't you straight with me and tell everything you have to say?"
"Okay... Can you tell me where are we? Who am I? And what the hell you did?"
The girl walked around again.
"Mmmmm... Nope! I don ´t want to!"
Soren got angered by the answer and pointed his sword to the girl.
"Don ´t play with me! Or I ´ll have to hurt you!"
"Woow! I see we are a little nervous! Well then...!" she replied as she materialized knives of a bloody red color between her fingers and a purple aura surrounded her body "Try!"
Soren stayed on guard, while the girl played with her knives. Soren charged forward, the girl threw one of her knives at him, but he dodged it and slashed. The girl jumped over Soren and attacked his face, he moved and dodged. Tried to slash and the girl blocked the attack, countering with her other hand scratching Soren ´s face. She jumped backwards.
"Boy! You really stink!"
"Shut up!" replied Soren.
The arrows materialized around Soren once again and were sent to the girl. The girl just smiled as shards of crystal appeared and formed a mirror in front of her. Soren could see his image for a moment before the attack would break the mirror. When the mirror broke the arrows were going towards Soren. He barely dodged his own attack, but then the girl slashed his shoulder and a his hand making Soren let go of his sword and fall in the snow.
He stared at the girl, panting, who was pointing his face.
"Way too easy!" the girl said.
Soren didn ´t say anything and just stared at her, angry and afraid. The girl giggled.
"Good-Bye!" she exclaimed and was ready to kill Soren when a light shined at her feet, a seal appeared and a small pillar of light sent her flying backwards. Even so, she stood up quickly.
"What was that?" she asked but suddenly saw something that impressed her. Soren noticed that and turned around. A man was walking slowly to them, he had long blue hair and was wearing a white uniform, with a sky blue cloak, that was using only as a cape. His sky blue eyes where piercing the girl. Soren noticed how nervous the girl was, when he drew two daggers he was carrying.
"You had to show up!" exclaimed the girl.
"Get out!" replied the man. "Or I will take you out myself!"
The girl looked angry at Soren.
"You ´re lucky your daddy came to save your butt!" she exclaimed suddenly.
Darkness sprouted from the ground, engulfed her and a moment later she was gone.
The man walked towards Soren and both looked at each other in silence.
Something in his memory...
Filled with fear and anger...
I dreamed about him once again...
We slowly see Isaac battling fiercely monsters, Saturos, Menardi. And them the time where the elemental stars were stolen from Sol Sanctum.
Who is he...?
Who was the man who saved me...?
The last gaze of the man floating in the air.
Does it belong to me?
Is this feeling mine?
Hatred sprouted from the deepest of my heart...
The image of a dead Kyle, Felix and Jenna ´s cry.
Why...?
Something in me hated...
But something inside me also needed him...
It trusted him...
Were those feelings mine?
It was me who knew him...?
The last vision of the day they ran away from Sol Sanctum
Alex...
End of chapter 2, I assume many of who read already deduced who is Soren and who is the man (It ´s pretty obvious really.)
Sorry for taking something as cliché and unoriginal as amnesia to make my main character more "mysterious", but I can tell you that the plot isn´t that sucky later on. Another thing, Soren is not our typical dark, cool and silent character... You will find out how he really is on the next chapter, because, you can ´t feel very friendly in his situation.
Was the little girl annoying? If it was it means that the character was a success!
The sided letters are Soren ´s thoughts (I like when I do that), by the way.
Well, guys I hope you review...You know if you don ´t like something or you think that something should be fixed tell me (It ´s better than not knowing what other people think.)
Anyways I hope you enjoyed and see you later!