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Ebony: rolls eyes Why the hell do I have to? What's the point? Haven't the makers made it clear only they own Golden Sun, I mean---"
Princess Viv: Just do it.
Ebony: Princess Viv DOESN'T damn own Golden Sun, or anything else for that matter, I mean, why should she? The only things she owns are us (the djinn, Yami, Yami plushie, Yugi, Chikomon and Leafmon, WE ARE HER MUSES), her privacy (which is interrupted by us), and blackmail for her brother!
Princess Viv: Yeah, yeah, calm down now, and I thought I wad the fanatic around here.
Ebony: Well, guess what? You're wrong.
Princess Viv: Well, ANYWAY, on with the story… Golden Sun: The Fight for the StarsChapter 8: The Luna adepts
(And Luna is sending them a warning and helping them, she isn't angry.)
Isaac was afraid. Not of the storm, but for his friends, and especially, Mia. Who could blame him?
Suddenly, everyone felt the ship lurch once more. "I feel ill again." Aaron groaned.
Felix looked nervously at the younger adept. "Just don't throw up all over me again, okay?"
For the rest of the night, the storm raged. No one was able to get to sleep at the beginning, except Garet, who was snoring a lot, annoying his girlfriend and the rest of the crew.
"I said he could sleep through anything." Jenna muttered, though a little amused.
People took turns in controlling the ship, but once again, Garet didn't contribute. This was due to the fact he wasn't very good with the orb, and he was asleep, not to be awoken. Kay and Aaron also didn't help, because Isaac didn't trust them enough, and they might have made the ship crash into a cliff or something.
Ivan and Sheba did their best to tame the storm, but it was too wild, so they eventually gave up the idea and decided to conserve their energy.
After a few hours though, most of them fell asleep, due to exhaustion or boredom.
Some more hours later…"Hey guys!" Mia shook everyone awake. "Guys! It's morning! We've been washed up to Lemuria! Wake up!"
Isaac was the first to open his eyes blearily. Then Ivan, Sheba, Pyra, Felix, Jenna, Kay, Aaron and, of course, Garet. But he only awoke when Jenna, Kay and Aaron threw water over him.
"Waaa--" Garet spluttered, while the others giggled.
"Wow." Isaac ran onto the deck, to find their ship had lodged itself onto a shore in Lemuria. "We are lucky. That storm was so strong, we were blown to here!"
Pyra smiled. "I got it all wrong." She murmured. "It was a blessing. She saved us time."
"Let's go find Piers." Mia seemed eager to see her brother again.
At the palace…Piers greeted Isaac and co., along with Sapphia. "Hello everyone." He beamed, his eyes wandering over to Kay and Aaron, then Pyra. "I see your siblings have decided to join us, Garet."
"Please Piers, don't remind me." Garet groaned.
"And this is?" Piers asked, as Isaac and co. parted to let him approach Pyra.
"I am Pyra, your Highness. I am the cousin of Saturos and Agatio, and am a Mars adept." Pyra certainly knew her manners, because she began to kneel.
"Please, don't. There is no need. And call me Piers." Pyra smiled. "So, you are their cousin. I don't even have to ask if you're on our side, because otherwise, you wouldn't be here with my friends. I welcome you warmly to Lemuria."
An hour later in a dining room…After a long time, Isaac and co. had said their story. Now, Piers was talking. "So you see, Sapphia wishes to come to." he explained to his friends, who were listening intently.
"She is welcome to." Isaac said, some of his companions nodded in agreement. "But is she willing to risk her life like we once did?"
Sapphia smiled gently, but confidently beside Piers. "I will always be willing to risk my life for what I believe in. My friends, family, and of course, the world."
"Okay." Isaac nodded. "So, when shall we depart?"
"Excuse me for interrupting." Pyra suddenly disrupted, "But I advise we leave immediately, or as soon as possible. Every second is precious."
Piers nodded his approval. "Of course, you are right. We have already packed our stuff, and my father will also supply endless food and water rations. We are ready to leave. But before we do so, I have a surprise for you, Mia." Piers gave his sister a smile, earning a puzzled and curious look from her.
"Children, come in." Piers called to a door. It opened and two people walked in. Mia gasped, tears welling up in her eyes. She stood up and ran to them.
"Megan! Justin! Oh, I've missed you two so much." Mia embraced them tightly, like they were her own siblings.
"We've missed you too Mia." The two fourteen-year-olds mumbled as they were almost crushed.
Megan and Justin were twin siblings and Mia's former apprentices while she lived in Imil. She had been the healer there, and had also trained them to become just like her. They had both grown taller, now almost Sheba's height, even though they were two years younger than her. Megan and Justin both had fair hair, but Megan's was long and tied in two plaits, whilst Justin's was short, and they both had sky blue eyes.
"Oh, how did you two get here?" Mia broke her hug and smiled.
"We decided to visit Lemuria." Megan grinned, glancing at Piers. "We were invited. Then Piers told us about this, well, um, problem, and we chose to stay and wait till you arrived. We haven't seen you for a while."
"But what about Imil?" Mia asked, concerned.
"Don't worry about that." Justin ran his hands through his fair hair. "Meg and I are training three little helpers!" he winked.
"Who?" Mia asked.
"Hayley, who is twelve, and her sister, Carrie, who is ten." Megan replied.
"And finally, Sammy, the only boy." Justin added. "He's twelve. The three will handle things fine while we're away."
"Sounds good." Mia smiled proudly at her two former friends and apprentices.
"Yeah. But we have another reason for staying here for longer too, Mia." Megan became serious.
"Yeah?" Mia frowned, and started to feel a little suspicious.
"We want to come with you and Isaac." Justin said boldly. "We feel we should do something to help."
"What!?" Mia exclaimed.
"But Justin, Megan, I---" Isaac began to protest.
"No Isaac." Megan looked at him, determination in her eyes, suddenly looking a little like Mia.
"We are coming, whether you like it or not!" Justin declared, and as quick as lightning, he unsheathed a sword attached to his belt, and charged at Isaac.
"Justin! What are you doing?" Mia cried, too late to stop him. Megan just looked on. She wasn't worried.
Before Isaac could react, Justin was already less than one metre away from him. Isaac quickly pulled out his own Sol Blade, and the two swords met and sparks flew out on contact.
"And Megan and I can help you practice your sword and Psynergy skills. You'll need it, from what I see. Oh, and your reflexes." Justin grinned.
"Wow." Isaac smiled as both he and Justin replaced their swords. "You are getting good now."
Justin smiled modestly. "Oh, well, I practise a lot. Like Mia used to say, practise makes perfect." He looked over to her and his twin sister. Mia was relieved Justin wasn't actually going to slash Isaac.
"But another thing." Ivan stepped forward. Before he started to speak, he acknowledged the two youngsters with a nod of his head. "You aren't adepts. This will make the journey more perilous for you, especially."
Megan cocked her head to the side and grinned. "Did Mia never tell you? We are Mercury adepts."
"You are?" Jenna was surprised.
Justin confirmed the fact by nodding. "But please Mia." He turned back to his former teacher. "Please let us come. Anyway, it wouldn't be fair if you let them have all the fun." He grinned to Kay and Aaron standing in a corner. Kay blushed slightly, while Aaron looked at Justin with obvious respect. "They're younger than us too."
"Well…um…fine." Mia sighed. "But don't regret anything."
"We won't. Thanks." Megan smiled, hugging Mia tightly. "But I don't think we've been fully introduced to everybody yet." Megan's eyes landed on Pyra, not recognising her.
"Oh, well, this is Pyra."
Nearing the shore where the boat is…Everybody walked towards the boat. After saying their farewells to the King and his wife, Isaac and co., now extended to sixteen members, were ready to go. As they neared the shore, however, Pyra's sharp ears overheard something.
"Shhh." Pyra shushed everyone. They all ceased walking. "Listen."
"Help! Please, somebody help us!" the voice was faint, but it was coming from the place where the Lemurian boat was, and it was obviously a young girl.
"I can hear it too!" Mia exclaimed.
"Someone's in trouble." Isaac's eyes narrowed. "Let's go."
Everyone ran to the shore, where they saw two objects in the water, quite far away. The things were only specks, but they could all see that they were people.
"We must help them!" Jenna yelled.
"Onto the ship everyone!" Felix called. Since the hair dye incident, he had been talking a lot more. Even shouting. Piers and Sapphia stared at him for a moment or so, then quickly boarded the ship.
"I'll control the ship." Piers' statement wasn't an offer, it was a demand.
Slowly, the crew felt the ship move away slowly from the shore as Garet, Felix and Isaac pulled up the anchor.
"Hurry!" Sheba shouted to Piers. "I think they can't stay there any longer! They're getting fatigued!"
"What does fatigued mean?" Garet asked.
"It's a posh word for tired, dumbo." Jenna rolled her eyes, but smiled.
"I don't think we can just lift them out of the water, because they would probably drag us into the sea as well; we can't get them to climb a rope or ladder. They look too tired. I think we'll have to get out best swimmers down there." Sheba was analysing the situation in her head. As usual. "Hey guys!" she bawled to the others, "We need out best swimmers down there to get those people, now!"
"How many people do we need?" Ivan asked her.
"Um…probably about three to each person." Sheba frowned as she observed the two strangers in the water. She could now see better because slowly, Piers had steered the ship closer and closer. "Their body size from here tells me so…but I may be wrong."
"We'll trust you." Mia stripped her cloak off instantly, eyes shining with fortitude. "I think we'll need our water adepts down there. Don't need to explain why, I hope."
"Why?" Garet asked, scratching his head.
"Because they're water adepts, you idiot!" Jenna was practically screaming at him. "And they're best suited in water!!!"
"Oh yeah." Garet laughed sheepishly.
"Garet sure hasn't changed much." Megan whispered to Justin.
Mia jumped into the water. Sapphia did too. Megan and Justin followed. "Hello! We need two more people!!!" Sheba screamed, frustrated.
"Kay, get your lazy butt down there! You're a Mercury adept too, remember?" Felix grinned.
"Great." Kay groaned.
"If this is how your reaction to fishing a few poor, innocent people is, then I don't think you're cut out to be trying to help us save the world after all!" Felix looked at his fingernails, and whistled.
"Oh shut up. If you're so great and almighty, you land obssessor, why don't you go down there?" Kay retorted, and not waiting for an answer from Felix, she dived into the sea.
Sheba watched Mia, Sapphia and Megan drag one person back. She couldn't see the individual perfectly, because the head was bowed, but Sheba guessed it was a female. She had jet-black hair up to her waist, but that was all to be seen. "I think we need one more person!" Sheba called, as she looked at Justin and Kay struggle bringing the next person back to the ship. "We shouldn't have left two kids doing that! Why didn't either Mia or Sapphia help with the other?" she added, wringing her hands.
Ivan placed a hand on hers. "Don't worry." He soothed. "I'll sort this out." Before Sheba could say anything, he had run off to Piers. He whispered to him for a few seconds, before taking over the black orb, while Piers jumped over the side of the ship.
Isaac, Felix and Pyra were ready at the ship to receive when Mia, Sapphia and Megan helped the first person up. She was definitely a girl, and her build and height suggested that she was about seventeen to eighteen. They laid her down on the deck.
Meanwhile, the other person was being taken on board, this time assisted by Jenna, Garet and Sheba. Aaron was ordered to get some blankets. Sheba was surprised to find that this one was also a girl, same height and build, and same length and colour of hair. "I think they're twins" she said as she glanced at the girl rescued first.
Mia flicked the hair out of the first girl's face gently, while Jenna did the same for the second, so they could see their faces clearly. "You were right Sheba." Isaac said. "They are twins."
Half an hour later…Both girls opened their eyes groggily at the same time, and groaned. "Where are we?" asked the first one, looking at her surroundings. Her hair was dry. She was in one of the dorms in the ship, lying on a bed. Both girls sat up.
"Careful." Mia said, standing up.
The second girl spoke up, with exactly the same voice as the first, "Who are you?" she looked at Mia, Isaac, Sapphia, Sheba and Piers.
The introductions were made. "Well, I'm Lola." The first girl smiled, though her pretty face was etched with worry; her grey eyes also told the same story.
"And I'm Lulu. We're seventeen, by the way." The other also smiled. An identical smile the Lola's. She also had the same eyes.
"Thank you for saving us." Lola said.
"You're welcome." Isaac smiled.
"So, why were you in the water?" Ivan frowned.
"Well," Lulu sighed, "I guess it began like this…"
Lola started. "We come from the island of Lunara." Eyes widened at this. Yes. I presume you know something about this island. Yesterday, at dawn, Lu and I went out in two boats with our parents to go fishing. We do this everyday at every dawn because we sell fish for a living."
"Then," Lulu took off where Lola had ended, "it was nearing about noon. We were beginning to get hungry, so Mum, Lo and I headed off home to grab a bite to eat. Dad wanted to stay. He didn't want other fishermen taking his spot. So we promised to bring him back his lunch."
Lola started again, "After an hour, we returned to the fishing spot with our other boat, and Dad's tea. But we couldn't find him. So we searched for a few hours. It was then that Lu noticed the sky turning rapidly black and grey. We hadn't realised that it was approaching evening, and at Lunara, no one is safe at night. The winds blow and howl. Some have died because of this treacherous weather." She shivered.
Lulu continued for her twin, "But we refused to stop looking for Dad. We were worried more about him. Mum was the most reluctant to go, but she told us that we should return, leaving her to search. We declined. So for another half hour, we looked, but of no avail. Suddenly, everything got worse. There was thunder and lighting, and the winds were becoming typhoons."
Lola picked up again, "We tried to row back to shore, but the sea had turned against us. We tried, but failed, so we let the water take us wherever. Hopefully, we would find Dad on the way. But after the while, the small boat could take it no longer. It broke. We all fell into the sea. It was very dark, and the weather continued to grow gradually worse. We all knew how to swim, but it was freezing cold. Then, a huge tidal wave was coming for us. Lu and I were holding hands, so we weren't separated. But Mum was swept away." At this point, a small teardrop rolled off her face.
Lulu smiled encouragingly at her sister, and didn't stop talking, "From there, we grabbed onto a piece of driftwood, trying to stay warm and alive. We had been wandering for, perhaps, half a day. We then saw a large island in the distance. Lo recognised it as Lemuria."
"Our parents told us about Lemuria." Lola tried to smile. "Then, Lu fell unconscious and I began to call for help. For five minutes, no one came. But then, you did. I do know that Mia, Sapphia and another girl here rescued me first, but I was barely conscious myself then. While they helped me, a boy was steadying Lu, and I saw another girl on her way. It was then I blacked out."
"And now we're here." Lulu seemed relieved. "Alive." She added.
"Oh my god…" Mia murmured. "That's a terrible ordeal you've just been through."
Lola nodded. "It has been bad. But I'm also worried about something else too. I hope you've heard of the growing unrest of this man known as the Sol Lord." Everyone was surprised, then regained themselves, and nodded. "We, as the Luna lighthouse guardians, are scared that something will happen to the lighthouse while we're away."
"You are the guardians?" Sheba asked. "So…are you adepts? Like us?"
Lulu nodded in confirmation. "Yes, we are Luna adepts."
Everyone gasped.
Princess Viv: Um…not sure about that chapter…I think it's better than the last one though, cos that one was truly crap! Hopefully, this one is more enhanced.
Please review! I beg of you!
Chapter 9: Ambushed