Disclaimer: Listen, I DON'T OWN GOLDEN SUN! If I did...well, let's say there'd be some major changes.

A/N: A short one again. Don't worry, the next one ought to be long...I hope, anyways.

Another one done!

Inside, we battled a lot of monsters-too bad they were all the type that's undead. What I wouldn't have done for some wolf meat. My stomach rumbled.

We met a man in the cave.

"Good morning...afternoon...evening...I'm not sure what time it is." I smiled apologetically.

"Did you see something strange over there?" the man demanded, pointing to a nearby ledge. "I fought it, but it fled. When I returned, I saw it again... I wonder if it likes this place."

"That's another Djinni!" Flint informed me, now on standby. "A Mars Djinni! Get him!"
"I can't reach him from here!" I protested. "Here." I pushed the stone pillar into place.

I hopped across a gap and headed down some stairs. After what seemed like an hour, we reached a dead end. I used Move on the stump and pushed it off the platform, hoping it went somewhere useful.

As we walked, I thought about what the other group was doing. Where were they? Would we ever catch up to them? I imagined what Jenna was doing right now...probably walking, just like us. What was she thinking about? Me? Felix? Saturos and Menardi? Something else?

What was Felix doing? What was he thinking? What could he possibly be thinking? Maybe he was sorry about pulling Jenna into this, I thought as I absentmindedly summoned Venus.

I wondered where they were. They might be anywhere! But since they'd just recently left Vault, like us...maybe they were just barely ahead of us. Maybe they were even in the cave with us.

I shivered, and it wasn't because of the frosty air in the cave. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. They wouldn't have been able to enter without a Jupiter Adept, unless they had followed us in here...

Garet nudged me. "Isaac! Heads up! Skeletons at 10 o' clock!"

I looked up immediately at the skeleton warriors battling Ivan. "Sorry!" I called to Ivan, knocking off one of the skulls with the flat of my blade.

"If...you're...helping...it's...all right..." he panted back, parrying a blow.

Garet finally called to us, "Stand back!"

We retreated from the skeletons. Our swords weren't doing any good-if you knocked off a skeleton's head, it just reached down and picked it up again.

"Fire." he muttered, waving his arms. A fireball zoomed from his outstretched hands to the warriors, successfully cremating them.

"How'd you do that?" I asked, breathless.

"I don't really know," he said, shrugging. "It just...came to me."

Finally, we hopped over to the Djinni.

"Hi!" squeaked Flint. He turned to us. "To tell you the truth," he added in a low whisper, "I don't know who that is."

"Why not?" Garet asked curiously. "I mean, you're a Djinni!"

"I don't know Mars Djinn as well as Venus Djinn," he answered haughtily.

"M-mars Djinn?" Garet sounded horrified. I smiled back at him.

"Now you'll know what it's like," I said, trying to hide my amused expression.

"I'll-" Garet started, but I never found out what he was going to do, because just then...the Djinni attacked!

I blocked the attempted blow to Ivan, then got ready to summon Venus. Ivan used a Whirlwind, and the Djinni spun around dizzily.

"Flint!"

The Djinni winced at the summon, but it attacked Garet.

"Hey!" said Garet indignantly. "I'm a Mars Adept! What have you got against me?"

He hit the Djinni back in retaliation. Ivan glared back at the Djinni and hit it also.

"Earthquake." I said quietly. The ground shook, tossing the Djinni against the wall. The Mars Djinni cast a Flare and burnt Ivan pretty badly.

I'm set!

"Ray," mumured Ivan, and the Djinni was promptly electrocuted.

"Fine," the Djinni muttered sulkily. "I'll join you."

Flint suddenly put himself on standby. "Oh, it's you, Forge!" he cried excitedly.

Forge looked about like he might just fight us again, but then slumped. "Hi, Flint."

He dragged himself over to Garet. Garet looked relieved at the fact that Forge was nowhere near as talkative.

"What do you do?" Garet asked him. Forge looked up at him. "I boost party attack with flame's fury." he said dully.

He yawned, then told Garet, "If it's ok to you, I want to go on set." From the look on Garet's face, I could tell he had not been listening to Flint's speech on Djinn.

"Sure..." said Garet nervously. Forge closed his eyes and disappeared. Garet gulped and ran his fingers through his hair. "It feels weird..."

Ivan looked rather nervous, too. "I hope Jupiter Djinn aren't too bad."

"Oh...well, they're a bit...obsessive, sometimes, but really they're ok!" Flint assured him.

Ivan did not seem reassured by this statement.

Flint promptly disappeared on set, commenting, I hope you'll find another Venus Djinni soon!

The horror must have shown on my face, because Ivan asked, "What did he say?"

"He said he hopes I can get another Venus Djinni soon. I guess we better get moving."

Ivan and Garet followed me up the stairs. I used Move to get a stump out of my way, then continued on. Over a rickety bridge...

Outside, the sunlight burned my eyes. It was late afternoon, I figured, as we stood around, soaking up the warmth and adjusting our eyes to the light. I could see Bilibin just a short walk away.

"I guess we better head to Bilibin," said Garet finally.

"Yeah," I agreed. "Let's go."