Disclaimer: I do not assume to own any of the characters, ideas or situations in this fic, including this chapter and all of the following chapters.
A/N: This is the big chapter, and currently one of my favorites. I plan on developing Summoning a lot later on in the second half of the story, so if you like this chapter, look forward to future updates containing summoning.
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Isaac sat alone outside on guard duty. Anybody seeing him would have thought he had fallen asleep, but Isaac was even more aware of his surroundings than usual as he talked with his djinn.
"So, the more of you I use, the more powerful the attack?" Isaac asked inside of his head.
"Yes, Master," Flint responded, the other djinn around him nodding.
"How powerful can these summons get?"
"There are four levels. At your current psynergy level, you can only use level three summons. Ivan and Garet can use level two, and Mia can still only use level one." Flint said.
"How do you know what level we can use?"
"We can tell by the strength of your psynergy and spirit. Summoning is dangerous for lower levels because once you call an elemental spirit, the summon must be completed. If you do not have enough psynergy, it will draw on your life-force to finish casting, and if it draws too much, your spirit will break." Granite spoke this time.
"So... You can use all of the four levels?" Isaac asked, still curious but more solemn.
"Yes, you can use all of the levels, but you can only safely use level three. If you used a level four, you would most likely end up hurting your friends with the attack as well... Since it would draw on your life spirit, the shield that would normally protect you all would shrink and only cover you to use less energy. While it might save you, your friends would get hit by the attack as well." Flint answered again.
Isaac nodded, "And what happens if I use more than four of you?"
"The attack would grow greatly in power for each one, but it would draw even more of your power..."
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Chapter Four – Sailing the Karagol
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After setting sail, Isaac and the others relaxed in the cabins they were given as the ship's protectors. Since they didn't have a lot of spare rooms, they were only given two. While this wasn't uncommon in the group, the people on the ship would find it highly inappropriate for a guy to share a room with Mia, so Isaac, Garet and Ivan were all stuck in one room.
"Well this sucks," Garet said, while falling back into his bed, "Now it's crowded again,"
"Relax, Garet. Once we are back on land, Isaac and Mia can share a tent again..." Ivan trailed off suggestively as he flopped down on his own bed, looking at the earth adept who was laying on the ground.
"Yeah, Isaac, what do you two lovebirds do in there?" Garet asked suggestively, causing Isaac to blush a bit.
"Nothing!" Isaac was quick to defend Mia's honor, "But what about you two? Why do we sometimes hear strange noises from your tent?"
This caused Garet's face to contort in disgust, causing Isaac to laugh. "We don't do anything like tha-"
"Monsters!" somebody called above deck, cutting Garet off. Immediately, the three stopped joking and jumped out of their beds, racing to the oarsmen. By the time they reached the oarsmen, however, one was already knocked unconscious.
"Isaac, attack those monsters!" Isaac nodded and stepped forward with the others to attack.
Two battles later and with a total of three replacement rowers, the ship was again underway.
"What's with all of the monsters attacking us?" Mia wondered as the four sat around on the beds in the boy's room.
"Yeah, and evil forest, an evil desert and now and evil sea?" Ivan asked.
"Back!" Garet called, walking into the room.
"So who'd you pick this time?" Isaac asked.
"One of those Merchant guys," Garet said, "He looked strong enough."
Isaac and Ivan shook their heads at him while Mia giggled a little behind her hand.
"What?" Garet asked, looking in between his friends.
"Nothing Garet," Ivan smiled, remembering his teammate's other odd choices. He had first chosen two ladies, an old guy then his most current choice, one of the tour guides. Giving up on finding out, Garet walked past them and when the back of his head was showing, everybody burst out laughing.
"What!?" Garet asked again, this time determined to get an answer. Mia gently strolled over while still giggling and pulled the sea kelp out of his hair. "Where the heck did that come from?" Garet asked, rubbing the back of his head, trying to dislodge anything else that managed to get stuck in his hair.
"That last Man 'o War we fought... Remember when you charged him at the end?" Isaac asked while Ivan and Mia giggled again.
Just as Garet was about to speak, the boat began to rock violently as if it was under attack again. Running to the oarsmen, they thought they made it before the monsters came below.
Just as they were wondering what was going on, Kaja came down, "Isaac, we need your help!"
Isaac and the others ran up the stairs and out onto the deck, finding Sean knocked unconscious. After a deafening roar, Ouranos fell down after him. Everyone looked back and faced the new enemy.
"What is that?" Garet asked.
"I've heard of something like it before... I believe it is a Kraken." Ivan responded while slowly puling out his Psynergy Rod.
"Whatever it is, we have to defeat it is we are going anywhere," Isaac said, "Let's go!"
Everyone nodded and approached the beast, preparing for a long fight.
"It's healing itself again!" Mia called as she herself cast her newest healing spell on the group while standing slightly behind the others, "Wish!" Her aura flashed out and engulfed her other three companions, healing everyone as the Kraken swung out its tentacle.
Ivan saw it coming and quickly dodged, "Storm Ray!" he called, sending out a strong ray of lightning and frying the Kraken again.
On the other side of the Kraken, Isaac jumped and dodged the tentacles while using his djinn to attack, "Flint!" Just as Isaac was about to unleash Flint, he heard Mia scream. Looking over, he froze when he saw the Kraken's tentacle glow purple with its psynergy and seem to target Mia relentlessly. "Mia!" Isaac called as he saw another tentacle come out and trip her while the one glowing with psynergy lashed out and struck her, throwing her down to the deck below. Isaac ran after her, trusting Garet and Ivan to hold off the Kraken. When he reached Mia, she was still on the ground. Quickly, Isaac concentrated his psynergy into his palms until they burned with a golden hue, then placed them on Mia, "Cure Well!"
Mia coughed up a bit of blood as her wounds were healed, but otherwise did not wake back up. Anger burned in Isaac even though he knew she was still alive and would be okay. As he worked to heal her fully, anger started taking over him, causing him to think irrationally. Despite the drain on his psynergy, the sight of Mia hurt made it feel as if he had only cast a single cure spell. Looking back, Isaac watched as Ivan and Garet attacked again, but the Kraken's tentacles blocked their attacks as it healed itself again. The Kraken roared, sending its tentacles out and striking Ivan and Garet as they tried to dodge.
His anger getting the better of him, Isaac slowly stood up and, not caring that they were on a ship, slowly raised his hands. Closing his eyes, he called his djinn out. He felt himself weaken as each djinni detached itself from him and surrounded him. When all of them were surrounding him, he focused on them, telling them what he wanted them to do.
"But master! You are still not ready to summon the fourth level! You'll hurt your friends and sink the ship!" Flint squawked in his head, trying to make Isaac see reason, but reason had left Isaac's mind long ago from seeing Mia cough up blood.
"You once said that you would do whatever I command you to do, did you not?" Isaac thought, a moment of clarity falling on him.
"Y...Yes, master..." Flint hesitantly agreed. "We will do as you request."
Isaac gave Flint the equivalent of a mental smile before anger overcame him again when he heard the Kraken's roar. Opening his eyes, Isaac saw his djinn form a circle around him and start spinning. As they spun faster, they began to glow with a psynergetic light, the light getting brighter the faster they spun. 'I have only summoned once before, but that was only with Flint...' Isaac thought as the djinn continued spinning, forming what looked like a lens made of pure Venus power in the middle of the djinn circle. 'Back then, I reflected my power through flint himself to summon, but now...' Isaac looked on as the lens completed and the djinn pulsed, waiting for him to begin. Quickly, Isaac focused on them and asked, "What is the name of the summon?"
"Judgment, master."
Isaac smiled slightly, 'How fitting...' he thought as his anger peaked and he raised his head...
Mia groaned as she slowly opened her eyes only to close them again, 'What's that bright light?' she wondered. Slowly cracking her eyes open, her mind slowly registered Isaac. 'What's he doing?' Looking further up, Mia saw what appeared to be Isaac's djinn spinning around above him. 'Isaac..?'
The djinn spun faster and faster as they rose slowly until they were floating slightly above Isaac. Between the djinn, Mia saw a giant disk of Venus energy form, something she had never seen happen before, having only seen single djinni summons. As the lens completed, she saw the djinn begin to pulse slowly, signaling that they were ready. Raising his head, Isaac called upon Venus's ultimate power.
"Come!" Isaac shouted, the voices of his djinn calling with him, deafening everyone aboard and resounding over the ocean, "JUDGMENT!"
At Isaac's cry, he felt a great power rise from his chest and shoot through his outstretched arms to his djinn. The djinn glowed brighter as they amplified Isaac's power and shot a golden beam into the heavens.
Slowly, a warrior clad in armor descended from the skies where the beam broke through the clouds that had gathered. Once he was completely visible, the light from the beam bent back down, creating a dome around Isaac that slowly expanding outwards and encompassed the ship while keeping the Kraken stuck on the outside. Once the field was in place, the warrior pointed his right hand downward and a blue sphere grew in his palm. Once the sphere was the size of his hand, it was launched downward at an incredible speed off to the side of the ship. Isaac watched the ball of energy descend slowly with awe even as he felt his strength waning. Bringing the picture of Mia back to the front of his mind, his anger rose, giving him strength, strength enough to hold the barrier for a while longer...
The blue and white ball seemed to gently fall from the sky because of how high up the warrior was. As the group watched it get lower, it seemed to pick up speed until the moment it touched the sea where it exploded outward, washing over everything and blinding everyone with bright white and blue light. When the attack ended, the Kraken was no longer anywhere to be seen. Isaac was drained after expending all of his energy to summon and he collapsed to his knees, breathing heavily. Shortly afterwords, he felt a wave of earth psynergy flow into him as well as his djinn reattaching themselves to him, revitalizing his power completely.
When he regained his breath, he crawled over to check on Mia. He was shocked to find Mia's eyes open and staring at him.
"Mi-"
"Why?" Mia asked in a small voice before Isaac could finish.
"Why what?"
"Why did you use that attack?" the question caught Isaac off guard.
"Because the Kraken hurt y-everyone and I wanted to end it," Isaac caught himself, his cheeks turning a slight pink, though he tried to control it.
Mia nodded, knowing he wasn't saying something but she was too tired to care or find out. Certain of her safety now that Isaac was with her, she slowly fell asleep. Ivan and Garet rushed over to Isaac as he picked up Mia and began walking to their rooms.
"That was amazing!" Ivan said, staring at Isaac with awe, "What kind of psynergy was that?"
"It was a summon," Isaac answered, walking down the stairs.
"How do you do it?"
"I can't explain... If you are ready, your djinn will teach it to you," Isaac said, walking into Mia's room and closing the door.
Ivan was going to protest, demanding that Isaac tell him, but Garet put a hand on his shoulder, "Let him take care of Mia, he is the only one now that can heal people. Besides, we have to check up on the oarsmen."
Ivan reluctantly nodded and followed Garet down.
After sailing for what seemed like hours, Isaac finally fell asleep while watching over Mia. A few hours later, the ship came to a stop off the coast of an island. The sudden stopping of the ship woke up Mia. As she slowly came to, she noticed she was on a bed. 'Where am I? The last thing I remember was getting knocked down by the Kraken and... Isaac!' Mia's eyes snapped open, letting her see the dark room, 'What was that power?'
"It was a summon, Lady Mia," Fizz spoke into her mind.
"Where did he get they power to summon?" Mia asked, remembering the enormous ray of psynergetic light that had summoned the warrior. "And who was that warrior that Isaac summoned?"
"He got the power form his djinn, and because his psynergy reached the level where he could sustain the summoning beam long enough to complete the summon and then create and retain the shield to protect you." Fizz answered at length, "The warrior was the general of Venus's army."
"How much psynergy does it take do a summon?"
"It is different for the different levels of power you summon, but Isaac summoned a level four. That requires a tremendous amount of psynergy," Fizz explained, "He should not have been able to summon Judgment at his current level, at least not summon it and live."
Mia was about to ask another question when movement at the side of her bed drew her attention. Looking over, she saw a familiar blond head peeking out from the edge. Mia smiled, instantly forgetting about what Fizz said as she gently got up and covered Isaac with a blanket. Leaving the room, Mia stopped by the doorway and looked back at Isaac, "Because the Kraken hurt y-everyone..."
"Because the Kraken hurt you..."
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A/N: So, What did you think of the summon? Should I devote more time to it or make it a lesser part of the story?