A/n: Sweet, I got uno review for chapter 9. XD I'm sure the other reviewers will review soon or something. But in the mean time, I'm giving out chapter 10! mwahaha
Felix: ugh. My head...
Fart head. Go away.
Isaac: D: Felix isn't a fart head.
Shut your mouth, peanut.
Isaac: ...I like peanuts! So I herd u liek mudkipz...
Oh f—k l33t speak! Ahhhh (dies)
Isaac: XD XD Anyways, Roy-Chibi doesn't own Golden Sun, Legend of Zelda, or Breath of Fire! She's just using its characters! So dun sue. And and... when are we gonna see some YAOI?
Shut it! Dx I'm getting thur!
Isaac: Oh...
Since when did you get interested in yaoi?
Isaac: Ever since my fans started typing yaoi stories...with me in them...
...Makes sense. Anyways, chappy time.
Another night passed, and our heroes were up to four now, adding Ryu to the party. Though while things seemed to be at peace, something entered the mind of Felix...
"Felix."
"nrgh... not now Jenna...zzzz"
"Felix, wake up. It is I, the Wise One."
"mmhmm... Wise One... WISE ONE?"
The in-dream Felix snapped out of whatever he was in and shot up abruptly, looking around for the floating, gray rock...He turned his head, and found it, standing to his feet and facing it. "Wise...One?"
"Yes, child. This dimension is very difficult to keep in touch with you, it's been a while, I know."
"Just about five days... you're keeping up with us quite well. So, what is it now? Are you finally giving in to my plea and going to help now?"
"Of course not. I came here to warn you. Your friend Ryu is a very special boy."
"I could sense it the moment I saw him."
"Just be careful when being around him... You could die and that wouldn't be great news to your family..."
"Well gee, I wonder why..." Felix stated sarcastically. The gray rock continued.
"You also need to watch for Isaac more closer than ever. I fear something terrible may happen, and you need to be there to prevent it. Do not, and I repeat, NOT let him touch any of the chrysm ore."
"Hey... Ryu told us about chrysm. What will it do to him?"
"The beast you both became will change. There may never be a cure for him to escape it. He has not fully acquired use of the piece of the Golden Sun in him. If he even gets near it..."
Felix swallowed at those words. He did not want anything horrible to happen to his younger peer. He nodded his head to it. "It'll be lethal. I will do my utmost best to not even let him get near it. I cannot imagine what I would do if he were to become... unable to be tamed... or whatever it is."
"...I have your word, Felix. I will continue to keep in touch with you." The gray rock was about to fade off, but then haulted its leave. Felix raised an eyebrow in confusion. "What? You're unable to leave?"
"No, it's not that. Here." Out of nowhere, more Venus djinn appeared, which were probably the rest of Isaac's bunch, and a psynergy rock. Felix grabbed the psynergy rock, the djinn and nodded to the rock. "Thanks. You're pretty useful when you aren't speaking in riddles..."
"Think nothing of it." The Wise One said, before really fading off this time, causing the real Felix to wake slowly from his interrupted dream. He had to get the Wise One from doing that... it was getting rather annoying.
Oh no... the djinn! Felix sat up fast, and noticed Isaac's djinn, sleeping near him, and the psynergy rock next to them. He sighed and decided to get back to sleep in the least. It's too early to get up...
The sun was rising, rather slowly, but still rising. By instinct, Link woke up right when the sun's rays beamed on the inside of his tent. Yawning, he crawled out of his tent, stood up and stretched his body for about a minute. After he finished his morning stretch, he went for his boots and cap that were along in the briars Isaac set up the night before.
"I think I'll go exploring for a bit. They're all asleep anyways..." the hylian said to himself quietly, touching the briars gently, and they unfolded by the touch of his hand. Link raised an eyebrow in confusion. What was that all about...? Hunh... that was rather odd...Oh well...
He quietly put them on, grabbed his sword and shield, then left the campsite for his exploring adventure. Looking around, he saw plenty of wildlife, green top trees, many types of birds, and other animals. Hmm. This place isn't so bad after all. I think I'll get used to this perhaps. Reminds me so much of home. Link said, stretching again, feeling the laid-back sense of this world. He stopped when he saw a mere sign standing right outside an area covered by trees. The hylian walked over to it to read it:
Ogre Road Ahead.
Be very cautious! Weretiger appears here!
"Hunh? Weretiger? What is that?" he asked nobody in particular, scratching his head. "Hunh. Well, I guess I should go ask Ryu about this 'weretiger' thing..." Link decided to end his little cruise around for the time being, and headed back to camp. Along the way, he came across an apple tree. Smiling, he whipped out his bow and arrows, shooting down 4 of them.
"Fresh and ripe, just how I like them. I hope apples with soup makes a great breakfast..." Link said, picking them up and wasting them inside a small bag he brought along. He quickly made for the camp site, hoping to make something nice when the other three awoke.
Mmm apples and cow meat... Apple soup... why am I smelling apples in my dream? Felix woke up again, just a tad later than earlier on. What he smelled was true: the scent of apples. The brunette slowly rose from his sleeping position, yawning and stretching like Link before, and taking a good look around him. The djinn and psynergy stone were still there. Thank goodness.
"...why do I smell apples? Maybe this wolf thing has me smelling things better..." he whispered to himself, deciding to finally wake and get up. Crawling out of the tent, he was met with three pairs of nice eyes in the shade of blue.
"Well well, look who decided to wake up from his dreams." Link smiled, offering Felix a bowl of hot applesauce soup. The brunette chuckled and taking it while sitting down next to Ryu.
"Mornin' Felix." Isaac said, laughing a little, and handing him a spoon.
Felix took it as well, then looked at him. "What's so funny?" Ryu smiled himself, and Isaac pointing and laughing evilly. Really, what is so damn funny?
"...Felix your hair..." Link pointed out, imitating to brush his hair back with his hand, trying to let Felix know that some of his hair was lopsided and disoriented. The brunette figured it out and took his hand to smooth his messy long hair.
"Ah thanks..." Felix said, then glanced over to Ryu, who said nothing the whole time. He wondered, but thought about leaving it alone. Once breakfast was done, the bluenette volunteered to take them to the nearest river and wash them out. He took the bowls and silverware and headed the direction of the river he mentioned. As he left, the trio took down camp. One thing had Felix up and he wanted to get it off his shoulders.
"Don't you two think Ryu is a tad odd?"
Link and Isaac blinked, exchanged looks, then turned to the brunette.
"Well... I haven't really been paying too much attention, to be honest. I think he's pretty normal to me. Why do you ask, Felix?" Link spoke up first, taking down his tent carefully.
"I don't think he's too strange, Something bothering you, Felix?" the blonde adept questioned his peer, looking at him while putting the fire out. Felix blinked, frowning a bit before answering: "I was just wondering what you two thought you know. It's always a good idea to know what your allies think. And nothing's really bothering me..."
"Oh. For a second there, you sounded like you knew Ryu had some secret like you mentioned last night..."
"Actually, I do know, Isaac. Thanks for brushing up on that."
"Oh... um, you're welcome...?" Isaac tilted his head in slight confusion, not knowing whether or not Felix was praising him or making a sarcastic comment. Link blinked then decided to break the sudden silence they were making with a "how about we finish taking camp down?" remark. The two adepts agreed, folding down their tents neatly and stashing them in Link's other handy bag. Which reminded Felix how he was able to stash everything into one small bag anyways...
"Well camp's down and Ryu's not back yet. Shall we go search for him?" the hylian suggested, seeing as their place was as clean as they could get it. Felix nodded in agreement; "It would be wise if we did search for our lonesome friend. Let's go look for him." As they went the direction Ryu went earlier, something from a distance was following them...
"Ryu! Heeeeey where are youuuu?" Isaac called out first, shouting the name loudly. Link and Felix kept the grounds searching every which way they crossed, making sure they didn't miss out on a stack of blue hair anywhere. Just as they were nearing a rather unusual clearing, Midna popped up from nowhere, stopping the trio suddenly.
"What's the matter Midna?" Link asked, very surprised she actually came out of his shadow for once the entire morning.
"Something or someone is following you..." she said, trying to get a clear picture with her mind, sensing for the object of their interference. Felix closed his eyes, listening to anything that would touch the ground's soil near them. Isaac, on the other hand, used the trees to listen to the leaves blowing in the wind to feel any suspicious air coming to them. Link, much like both adepts, listened as well, using his sensitive and useful hearing of the hylian ears. He and Midna both heard it together, and he turned around near Felix, shooting an arrow past the Venus adept. The brunette opened his eyes suddenly as the arrow passed him, unsheathing his sword, Isaac following.
Whatever Link shot, it groaned and attacked the foursome. They all dodged it easily, and Midna reunited with Link's shadow.
"What is that thing!?" Felix yelled, his hand glowing bright yellow, ready to cast some Venus psynergy.
"I don't know... but whatever it is, it's ugly and furry!" Isaac bellowed.
Link blinked, then remembered the sign he saw earlier...
"Hey. This must be that weretiger that sign read." he finally spoke up.
"Weretiger?" Isaac and Felix responded together, repeating Link. The hylian nodded, barely dodging an attack by the beast. It was yellow, had brown-ish stripes over it's body and its hair was a mean orange-y color. It's claws looked no fun either, as well as its fangs and piercing golden eyes, which screamed "bloody murder!!" at the threesome now.
"Ragnorak!" Felix used his sword to shoot a parallel of the psynergetic sword of Venus energy right at the weretiger, who retaliated with clean swipe at the brunette. Well so much for the psyenergy plan of his...
"Ugh... not good." he said, seeing that his good wear of armor was torn slightly. Isaac saw that manuver his older peer pulled off and decided against using psynergy himself. Instead, a full head on charge attack might do the trick. Isaac readied his sword and went along with his plan.
"Take this!" he yelled, pummeling into the beast, slamming onto its back with the flat side of his blade. Too bad for him, as it once again retaliated with a clean swipe at Isaac, with its tail instead! The blonde adept was whapped off, sliding across the ground, almost hitting a tree. Link quickly pulled out his bow and thought his arrows were better off since he shot it the first time. He aimed and fired, but the weretiger was faster this time, appeared before Link with great speed and clawed him aside like fish.
All three stood up, determined to win this fight, despite its great speed and high chance of counterattacking. They looked at each quickly glancing, and as if they understood their own nods and eyesight glances, went into their "plan". Isaac and Felix ran up to the beast, each distracting it with their bright psynergy spells.
"Ragnorak!" both yelled, and two psynergetic swords came down together, which then formed into one huge sword of Venus energy, striking the weretiger. Link took out a bomb and an arrow, fusing them together to make his famous bomb arrow and shot it straight at the beast as the psynergy faded around it.
"Did we beat it?" Isaac panted, looking at the fading smoke.
"I don't know... I hope we did." Felix said, panting himself, as he hadn't used his psynergy in a while like that.
"I hope we did too..." Link walked over to them, breathing hard himself, sweating a little.
Just as their hope was rising, it faded, as poor Felix was suddenly slammed into tree by the weretiger. The force swept into the brunette so much, it took the wind out of him and he passed out just there quickly. The other two were shocked and ran over to Felix.
"Felix! Hey! Wake up!!" Link shook him, but getting no response whatsoever. Isaac looked so terrified, that it nearly paralyzed him on the spot. The hylian used his fairy on Felix which it seemed it was doing something, but not a lot. The weretiger was readying to attack them, and it did, aiming for the distracted Link. The hylian noticed and couldn't do anything since he was so busy with Felix...
In a clash of steel and claw, Isaac's sword met with the weretiger's fierce nails, trying to drive back the beast.
"Hurry. Take Felix somewhere else! I don't know how long I can keep this thing!" he cried, using most of his strength to hold it as long as he could. Link nodded, easily picked up Felix and headed a little ways away from the adept's hold off. As soon as they were far enough, Isaac let go, dodging the oncoming attack with the second claw. He knew this was going to be an impossible fight, but he was going to try anyways.
"I hope you like to eat rocks for dinner!" He said, casting Stone Spire, then unleashed his djinn called Flint to at least obstruct massive damage on it. The beast did look like it was taking serious damage, but it swept off Flint's attack like it was nothing. It chraged at Isaac, who barely dodged.
Oh my gods! That should've at least knocked it down!! He screamed in his mind, dodging most of the attacks it threw at him and attacking whenever he had the chance, which was slim almost the entire time. This occurred for a long time, and Isaac was getting worn out. The extended use of him using psynergy with his djinn weren't enough, but he still thought he needed to keep going.
This is my last shot. If this doesn't work, I'm done in. He thought once again. The weretiger was building up power, readying itself to finish Isaac for good; the adept stood to his feet, and raised his arms, absorbing the energy the ground below him and the trees around him gave. Whatever it was, the beast wasn't going to let it happen, so of course, it charged Isaac again, only to get repelled by his small energy bubble force field.
One shot... just one shot... Isaac closed his eyes for a second, taking a deep breath. He reopened his eyes, shining bright yellow with his aura-glowing body. "JUDGMENT!!"
Four of his djinn swarmed together, creating a massive armored knight of Venus energy. It held up its giant blade, collecting energy and then blasted the entire place with it. Isaac placed all of his hope of victory on this move, as it drained him completely as well as his four djinn he used. Once the whole flashing light was carried off, apparently, none of the trees or ground were destroyed but that one little spot where the weretiger should've been was.
...Did...did I kill it? He wondered, panting and staying absolutely still to hear anything suspicious near him. It was that split second he was sent flying from the side, sharp claws digging into his light red and gold armor. It pierced through it easily, tearing the adept's tunic abruptly. Once its claws were into his skin, it dragged Isaac all around the ground harshly, slamming him into various boulders, trees, anything destructive it could find to utterly destroy Isaac.
Isaac's clothes were tearing apart, and he couldn't fight it enough to let it go of his lower abdomen. He struggled for something to grab onto to break free, but that deepened the beast's clutch it had on him, digging even further into his body, drawing out as much blood from the boy that it wanted. The Venus adept stop struggling, knowing it was no use and his end was coming closer. His heartbeat raced, trying to find some answer or something...
Before he knew it, the other claw of the weretiger dug into his body as well, his left thigh. Isaac yelped loudly, and the sound of it made the ground level up and cause an earthquake around the two. It didn't care, as it was quite used to the energy both adepts used on it earlier. Link rushed back immeditately, knowing he had to help Isaac now.
"Isaac! Hold on!!" Link cried, drawing his sword and rushing towards the beast.
Fortunately, Isaac's yelp reached not only Link but another source...
Link slashed at the beast with all his might, which in turn caught off guard and released a bloody Isaac from its grip. The hylian caused it to actually bleed too, which was a good sign for him. Isaac casted a weak Cure Well on himself, healing up majority of his bruises, but he couldn't stand up to assist Link at all.
A ray of light shot the weretiger, and the twosome didn't know where it came from. But, they did hope it was Ryu that did it.
"I seriously hope Ryu did that..." Link said, scooting back to where Isaac was, ready to defend him if necessary.
"...me too..." Isaac said, tired and growing a bit pale. Link looked down, giving Isaac the fairy treatment like he did to Felix. "You two both pale out when you're really hurt..." he mentioned.
"n-not our faults..."
Link looked around, still nothing with the ray of light-shooter. The weretiger was out cold for some time, which helped Isaac enough. I seriously want to know who did that...
"Are you guys alright?"
Link turned around suddenly, and Isaac looked over with his eyes. The young man standing in front of them was none other than Ryu, but for some reason he looked different... his eyes were beaming red and his hair was as golden as Isaac's. How strange...
"Whoa, Ryu..." Link blurted first.
"Yes...?"
"You look... different... what happened?"
"...well you see I--" he was interrupted with a loud roar, which meant the weretiger was nowhere near being defeated. The hylian readied himself, but was stopped by Ryu. He smiled, nodding his head.
"Let me handle this..." he said softly. Link blinked, then noticed that Ryu was quite serious about the whole issue. He stood straight and sheathed his sword. "Okay... just be careful."
"I will, thanks." Ryu turned and face his opponent, who looked meaner than usual. When it spotted Ryu, it roared again, glowing. Link blinked, not believing his eyes when the glowing stopped, it was a tiger-looking man, very similar to the weretiger they were fighting all this time. He had on orange-brown pants on, bandaged looking things on both of his bottom arms, and had something similar over his forehead. His eyes, were the same color as his fur color: gold. The minor exception, is that they didn't pierce your soul or screamed "bloody murder!!" though.
"Rei..." Ryu spoke up. The tiger-man looked at Ryu, and then cheered up some more.
"Hey! I haven't seen you in a long time. I thought you went to investigate something near Dauna Mines again..."
"I did... but you attacked my friends."
"...oh... those other humans were your friends? Oops..." Rei, who he was called, sweatdropped and looked in the direction of Isaac and Link, who then gave hard glares at him. It was that time that Felix returned from wherever Link left him to aid Isaac.
"Where's that weretiger?" the brunette asked rather abruptly, looking angry and ready to murder. Link and Isaac both pointed at Rei, and Felix faced him, looking confused. "Wha..."
"...eheheheh... um..." Rei started, smiling uncomfortably, then looked to Ryu with a "please-help-me-out-here" look. The youth understood, closing his eyes for a moment and returning to his normal "colors".
"How about we discuss this matter first before trying to slay anyone..." Ryu suggested before Felix had a chance to draw his blade and have a chance to slice at Rei.
Five minutes afterwards, everything was, as said earlier, discussed and taken care of. The threesome listened to Rei's and Ryu's words, getting their minds filled with information. Of course, in the midst of it, all of them were healed by Ryu himself, surprisingly, their torn clothes were "sewn" back together too.
"I deeply apologize for the damage I caused to you three. I thought you were all after Ryu, so I was only protecting him like real family would do." the weretiger said again, apologizing for his earlier act. "If I had known that you were allies of his, I wouldn't have attacked..."
"It's... fine... Rei." Isaac said, smiling. "I'm sure you had every reason to do that. I would've done the same thing too."
"Fairly agreed." Felix replied after, still trying to recover then damage done mentally.
"I guess there's no blaming anyone here. It was an act of self-and family-defense." Link nodded, "but I must admit Rei, you are one strong opponent."
"Well thank you, Link. You three sure put up a fight though, especially the spiky-haired one... Isaac, right?"
The blonde adept looked at Rei to respond to his name at the end. He blinked, as he wasn't necessarily focusing too much on the topic; instead his mind wandered a bit. "Hunh? You called me?"
"I said you three put up a fight, especially you, til the end naturally when Ryu showed up and beamed me." Rei repeated himself.
Isaac's face changed and he replied; "Oh. Yeah I did try with Judgment... Guess I'm not strong enough then... heheh. And sorry, my mind kinda wandered..."
"Not a problem. Mine does that too." Isaac, Link, Ryu and Rei all chuckled at the last statement the weretiger said. Felix smiled only, then retained his normal face; which always looked like he was angry at something, and most of the time he was. Something still bothered him, and it was the fact that Ryu didn't speak up and touch on it like he should've. Of course, he has a hunch of what it is, but Link and Isaac don't.
"Felix, what's the matter?" Isaac pointed into his face, blue eyes staring at him. Felix, using his sudden reflexes of being surprised, pushed Isaac away from his face. "Don't do that, you scared me."
"Ouch. Sorry...but really, what's wrong? You look so glum."
"...It's that Ryu hasn't told us about that power he has. It's got me puzzled and worried. Nobody just comes from nowhere, having yellow hair and red eyes and amazing abilities. It's some sort of godly power that he's not speaking up about." the brunette turned to Ryu, who then looked at him back; the same shade of blue eyes like Isaac's were staring at him. "I would like to know what it is you're hiding. And if you won't say anything, I can just ask Rei over there."
"uh...why am I included in this anyways?" Rei asked out of nowhere, and getting no response other than shrugs from Link and Isaac.
"Well?" Felix burned the question into the poor bluenette. He sighed, then turned to Link and Isaac together.
"It's not godly powers. I'm actually a dragon."
"Dragon?" Link was more puzzled than anyone there. The two adepts have faced many sorts of dragons in their time, it seemed nothing too new. Well, except Isaac's little surprised face for a moment. And of course, it didn't surprise Rei, as he had lived with Ryu nearly his entire life span, and already knew.
"Yes. I'm now the last of the dragon clan called the Brood, if you remember, I told you three of their fate when were in the mines yesterday. Remember when I also said about her defeating them? That her guardians did kill them? Well, the ones that survived all gave up their powers to live in seclusion in the town called Dragnier."
"Yeah... Myria. You told us this too...I remember" Link said, with Isaac nodding in agreement.
"So... where is she anyways?" Felix asked, looking determined.
"Dead. We killed her." Rei said sternly and proud. Ryu followed up behind him. "Rei used his weretiger form, Momo, my other friend who is living in Wyndia now, helped us with her assist magic, and I used my dragon form. The one you saw me in was my Infinity form, which is extremely powerful and basically my 'ultimate' guise."
"Neat." Isaac gleamed, wanting to know more, so he asked, "Is that your only form or are there more of them?"
"There's a lot more. I have the basic dragon whelp forms; Thunder, Fire, Water, Light, Shadow, Wind. There's so many of the genes though that I can splice together to create a new form to change into..."
"Splice? What's splice do?" Link asked next, thinking it was merely someone taking a knife and cutting something weird in halves and forcing them to merge together.
"Oh, it's a very difficult-to-explain process... but it's when I merge two or three of my dragon genes together to make something more powerful to transform into... If that's somewhat understanable. If it's not, I apologize. I'm not really sure how I even do it myself... It's just a natural habit to me..." Ryu smiled, sweatdropping a little.
"hmm maybe if we see it in action, then maybe it'll become more clear?"
"I would hazard a guess that is correct. But in any case, are you satisfied with knowing this information, Felix?" Ryu now questioned the brunette, who was absorbing the new information Link managed to pull out like water to grass.
"Yes. I am very satisfied... that I managed to pull this out from your ass... Now I can officially move on and don't have to worry about my comrades hiding things from me. It's irritating and bothersome..." he said, thinking about their next course of action as well. Ryu slightly chuckled at the comment, as well as thinking of their next plan.
One thing's for sure, they needed to move ahead. Now the new addition in their team, Rei, who will basically be a tank for the others while Ryu is the main powerhouse. Two from Weyard, two from Hyrule and two from this world. With this all in mind, it kept the brunette thinking...
This test... is going to be the longest one ever... I'd rather fight 3 Doom Dragons at once than this... Felix thought to himself, closing his eyes for meditation.
A/N: And there you have it folks. A chapter that does NOT end in a...a what's it called...? Oh yeah, a CLIFFHANGER. man now I know I've strayed away from this site for a looong time if I couldn't even remember THAT word. XD
Isaac: Nuuuu not those!
Marth: (preoccupied with Brawl)
No Isaac! Wrong! I said it WASN'T a cliffhanger! Idiot Adept! ...hey that's a cool nickname for you now. XD
Isaac: T.T
Well anyways, sorry it's lately short. As you can see, Marth is playing the game I wanna play now on my new Wii! Yaaay. I wish Isaac was a playable character... oh well. They remixed the Doom Dragon music in it, so that helps. Review this and maybe I'll stick in chapter 11 soon sometime! 8D