Yamabuki: Hooray for half days! I got to finish this chapter!
Suzu: You take forever to update...
Yamabuki: I try Suzu-chan. I try.
Suzu: o_o' ????
Yamabuki: Tee hee hee!
Suzu: Did anyone ever tell you you're weird?
Yamabuki: A lot. Now you killing my happy buzz so give the disclaimer!
Suzu: Yamabuki does not own Golden Sun or Golden Sun: The Lost Age. If she did making a Golden Sun 3 would be top priority.Chapter 3
Grunting, Nathan sat up and stared at his ribs happily. He stood and stooped down, clutching at Mia's upper arm. He pulled her up rather easily; she was malnourished, so she didn't weigh much. Mia had a far off look in her eyes, there was a bit of wonder and fear in their depths. Suddenly, Mia snapped to attention realizing Nathan had been talking for awhile.
"Umm… What..?" she asked.
"I was just talking to myself until you came out of shock. You seemed to need a while to yourself, and anyway speaking kindly always helps. If you ever want to hear the story I was telling, ask and I'll tell you at a better time" he shrugged.
"R-right." Mia was still shaken. She was a devout follower of Mercury, but never had the Goddess answered her prayers. At best, Mia had felt a swirl of peace around her, but never this. What did it mean? Mia shook her head wearily; this was starting to giver her a headache. "Let's go."
Nathan looked around. We need to leave this are quickly, you never know what could have heard this commotion, the blood alone will probably attract the "guard dogs" he looked around deciding on which hallway to take, "This way looks best. Let's go!"
What does he mean what could have heard this commotion? Mia shrugged helplessly and followed him into the corridor. It was much darker than the previous area they had been in; all of the torches had been extinguished. Taking another step, Mia's foot crunched when it came down. Mia looked down and gasped in minute horror. Bones lay everywhere across the floor, many had been broken and gnawed on, as the marrow had been sucked out. There were piles of bone dust where they had been crushed. Bugs the size of Mia's hand scuttled across the floor among the bones, searching for scraps of food. Mia scuttled back, now, completely horrified. She tripped over a skull and crashed down causing bones to fly everywhere. Nathan rushed over to her and helped pull her up.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yes. But we need to get out here quickly. I sense an evil presence emanating from all over this room. We must leave quickly!" By the end of her very small speech she was quivering with terror. Nathan looked at her quizzically. She seemed sane enough.
Grrrrr… arrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggg… *pant* *whine*
The two whirled towards the sound paling when their eyes fell upon the creature that stood in the deepest shadows. Muscles bulged underneath its thick hide; fur was matted to the monsters' side with blood. Its claws ripped into the cobblestones beneath its paws. Cracking beneath the overwhelming weight placed upon them, the cobblestones broke easily.
"Well now we know why the bones are broken and powderfied…" Nathan joked weakly.
Hearing Nathan's voice, the monster snapped its head towards the pair. Its lip curled back revealing long fangs as thick as Mia's arm. Thick bands of saliva oozed onto the floor sending wet splashing sounds reverberating around the corridor. Red eyes flashing, the monster lowered its head and stalked menacingly slowly towards Mia and Nathan. When it stepped into the poor light they gasped in horror, it had two heads. A Cerebus.
Not good, not good at all. Cerebus were highly resistant to Jupiter and Mercury Psynergy. Nathan took his fighter's stance and loosed his sword. Mia backed away a bit and sighed, wishing she could call upon her staff. (A/N: You can ponder about this for awhile, I'm still deciding if I want to put this in here. If not I'll fix this up later). Nathan placed one hand upon his blade.
"Shine Plasma!"
"Why in the name of all that is holy didn't you use spark plasma?!" Mia screamed at him.
"I wanted to see how strong it was." he said lamely.
"And you couldn't use a stronger spell?!"
"I didn't want to waste Psynergy…" he trailed of when he felt Mia's gaze on him.
IDIOT! You're supposed to be smarter than this. ' I wanted to save Psynergy' KEH!
"Hey! I can hear you you know."
Just then the Cerebus chose to attack; it ran towards Nathan, eyes glowing manically. Nearing, it leapt into the air closing the ten foot gap in seconds. Startled Nathan tried to jump back, but it was too late. The Cerebus landed scant centimeters away and started to attack. It raised its heads in unison and chomped together on Nathan's torso causing blood to run freely down to the floor. Before bounding back to its starting position, the Cerebus' violet tongues darted up to lap up some blood.
"That was its' double fang attack! It's not too deadly unless the bite gets you in the right area," Mia called.
"I think it got pretty damn close Mia" Nathan muttered.
Mia chose to ignore Nathan. Well my attacks aren't going to be as strong as usual with my being weaponless, so I'd best use a djinni for now… Serac would be best, but I can't finish off the attack since I don't have a weapon. There really isn't any point in boosting our stats since we're resistant to the Cerebus' attacks. Well the MAJORITY anyway… hmmm… Oh! I know!
Stepping forward, Mia called out, "Sour!" A swirl of mist and fog twisted around the Cerebus before it faded to a gray color. "Woo! Its stats dropped!" Mia cheered.
The Cerebus shook itself briefly before returning to the fray. It dug its claws into the cobblestones, causing more of them to crack, in preparation for its next attack. Opening its maws wide, it unleashed an icy breath. The ice blessing did almost nothing to Mia, she stood there and looked bored. Nathan pulled his blade in front of his face and hunkered down. Ice cascaded around him, scratching him and causing lines of blood to appear on his limbs and tears to form on his clothes.
After the attack finished, Nathan released one hand from his sword and shook the ice from his hair. When he was sure nothing would get into his eyes he launched his attack. Nathan ran forward without bothering to use Psynergy, it would probably be useless anyway. When he deemed himself close enough, he launched himself into the air. At the height of his leap his Excalibur let out a howl. Goddammit. Nathan landed a little too close for comfort and launched himself backwards. When he was far enough away he unleashed the attack.
"LEGEND!"
A rune filled circle appeared over the Cerebus before five incorporeal, but very solid, swords slammed into the Cerebus. Turquoise fur flew about in rather large clumps. Nathan accidentally inhaled one of these clumps and started coughing violently. After coughing for twenty seconds without taking a break, Mia took pity on Nathan and smacked him on the back. Turquoise fur flew out of the lavender-haired mans' mouth. Tears streaming down his face, Nathan doubled over trying to catch his breath. While Nathan was occupied with trying to catch his breath, Mia attacked.
"Plume edge!"
A deluge of water fell from the sky, knocking the great monster down. The Cerebus tried to get up, but the pressure was too great. It struggled violently, flinging its body every which way in its attempts. Finally the beast got truly angry and opened its mouth to let out an irate roar. It got out a noise that sounded like a chirp before water filled the Cerebus' mouth. The beast frantically tried to escape the deluge, but it couldn't. Finally, the attack ended. But the Cerebus didn't get up.
Mia cautiously walked up to the Cerebus, suspecting a trick. She stooped down and felt for a pulse; it slowly faded beneath her fingertips. Dead, the beast disintegrated with a little roar. It had drowned.
"When did you learn that attack?" Nathan asked, "Most adepts can only learn the most basic attacks."
"When one travels by themselves, it is best to learn every possible attack and practice before going to sleep." Mia answered smoothly.
"… Let's go."
Mia and Nathan stepped away from the scene of the battle and towards the end of the corridor. Just as Mia placed her hand on the door to the next room, an ominous growl sounded down the long hallway. The two whirled around and cast their eyes around, trying to find what had joined them in the room/
"Great. It had a mate." Nathan sighed mournfully.
Yamabuki: Yeah! It was longer than usual! Did you know that they want to make a Goldne Sun 3, but Camelot is too busy? I pray for Camelot to be un-busy quickly.
Suzu: They took way too long to kill that thing.
Yamabuki: Not everbody can be as sweet as you Suzu-chan.
Suzu: True.
Yamabuki: Please comment! I really appreciate it! See you soon!
Suzu: (Hopefully)
