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Adepts Through the Ages – Explosions

Setting – August 24, 79 – Pompeii, Italy

"W-what's with all these earthq-quakes?" Jenna chattered through her teeth. The ground continued to shake. Then it stilled. "Damn 'quakes, messing me up." She walked to the nearest hut. "Hey, are there always earthquakes around here?" she asked the occupants.

A small woman walked out. "No, they've just started recently. In fact," she squinted suspiciously at Jenna, "They started about when you arrived."

Jenna put two and two together and got blond-hair. She stomped off to go have a little chat with Isaac.

"What's with all the earthquakes?!" Jenna shouted as she walked through the doorway into the little house she was sharing with Isaac.

Isaac sat and blinked innocently. "It's not me, I swear!" Seeing she didn't believe him, he added quickly, "They're completely natural! I think it's the volcano."

"Right…Well, if there are any more earthquakes today, you're in big trouble," threatened Jenna. "I am trying to do something and your quakes keep interrupting!" She left fuming. The tendril of smoke rising from her hair probably wasn't a good sign.

Isaac relaxed. She had no idea it was him. And if it was the volcano causing the earthquakes, then there would continue to be earthquakes no matter what, right?

Isaac chuckled and returned to working out his Master Plan. It was fun being the bad guy for once. He could see where Felix got a kick out of it. Probably why he didn't explain anything before Jupiter Lighthouse.

Back to working on her Evil Master Plan, Jenna tried to figure out what she could do. All the good evil plans had been taken already. So she sat and pondered for a while. Then another little earthquake occurred. Furious, Jenna stood and planned vengeance on Isaac as she returned to the hut.

Walking indoors, she noticed Isaac had "Master Plan" written in the dirt. The scoundrel was stealing her ideas! She marched up to him and pulled him up by the yellow scarf he still insisted on wearing.

Ignoring whatever Jenna was yelling about this time, he concentrated on causing another earthquake without alerting her to what he was doing. Succeeding, he grinned at Jenna. "Why, if you wanted the earthquakes to stop, all you had to do was ask."

This proceeded to irritate Jenna further as she dragged him outside and pushed him into a conveniently placed mud puddle. Her temper mounted as the volcano behind her started to smoke.

"Uh, Jenna?" Isaac interjected.

"What?!" He pointed behind her. "Oh shi—"

"No time for cursing, Jenna!" Isaac picked her up and ran. "We gotta get out of here! There's no floating rock to protect us this time!" He fled for the coast as smoke belched out of the volcano. Jumping into a ship on the bay, the two headed out for open water, away from the erupting volcano.

Isaac glared at Jenna.

"What?" she defended. "It's not my fault! It was you and those earthquakes!"

He was appalled. His quakes cause an eruption? "I was in perfect control. You're the one who let her temper get the better of her."

"I'm aligned with fire," she said exasperatedly. "Of course my temper's going to run wild. Haven't you learned that yet?"

They sat in silence until they were rescued by Roman ships investigating the eruption.

Ivan teleported into the remains of the house Isaac and Jenna had lived in. "Hi guys. I'm ba—" He choked off. Everything was destroyed and covered in ashes. Sighing, he wondered why those two didn't split up. Everywhere they went, something ended up destroyed.

Ivan coughed; some ash had gotten into his throat. Holding up the Teleport Lapis, he went back to Rome. Why couldn't they ever stop fighting?

A/N: Meh. If you see romance in that, then good for you. Not caring. Based off frustration at the beginning of the first game when Jenna keeps telling me to go get the Elemental Stars and I keep saying no. Never-ending cycle. Why did Isaac keep getting dragged into things though he said he didn't want to? And yes, I like short sections with lots of lines.