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Chapter Ten
Ivan slid out of his bed and walked out of his room at the inn. It was late, and everyone else had already gotten up and eaten breakfast. Gust appeared on Ivan's head and said, "Race you down the stairs!" Ivan muttered as he saw Gust fly quickly down the stairs. He didn't feel like racing. Slowly Ivan walked down the stairs and out the door, where he saw Isaac and Garet playing with Phobos and Gust, who had already made it outside. Gust turned to face Ivan and yelled, "I win!" Ivan groaned and sluggishly made his way over to where the other two boys were playing with the djinni. "Good morning," he muttered. Isaac looked at Ivan in a funny way and asked, "Are you alright? You're normally so speedy, but this morning you were the last one up!" Ivan muttered something to himself and shook his head. "Something feels wrong... I'm not sure what is is," he said aloud, but quietly. Isaac sighed and suggested that Ivan go back to bed. Ivan shook his head. "Not tired," he said. Isaac shook it off and went back to playing with Phobos. Grabbing the Mars djinn, Isaac ran around in circles yelling, "I'm flying, I'm flying!" Ivan smiled faintly and walked into the marketplace to buy something to eat. In the market, Ivan ran into Alex who was stocking up on various types of food. "Eat a lot?" asked Ivan. Alex grinned sheepishly and nodded, and then continued to another food stand. Ivan grinned to himself and looked for the fruit. After looking around for a few minutes, Ivan saw what he was looking for: peaches. Ivan walked up to the stand and bought a few peaches, and then looked for his friends again so he could eat.
"Phobos!" called Garet, "Phobos?" Garet was playing hide-and-seek with Isaac and the djinni. "Gotcha Isaac!" said Garet, triumphantly, tagging Isaac, "Now I just gotta find Phobos!" Isaac watched as Garet ran off. He sighed. Gust was going to be "it" next and he knew there was no way to avoid a wind djinn. No doubt about it, Gust had been caught entirely for the purpose of becoming it. Just then, Ivan walked by, a big juicy peach in his mouth. His face and hands were a sticky mess. Isaac yelled over to Ivan to join him. Ivan walked over and offered Isaac a peach, even though Isaac couldn't perfectly understand what he had said until he repeated it several times, as Ivan's mouth was still full of peach. Isaac gladly took a peach and shoved it into his mouth. After having finished his peach, Isaac asked Ivan, "You want to play hide-and- seek with Garet, Phobos, and Gust?" Ivan nodded his head and replied, "Sure I'll play, if you want me to..." Isaac sighed. "I still think there is something wrong with you," he said. Ivan shook his head. "I'm fine!" he said, "Really, I am." Isaac responded, "Well, ok." Suddenly, Phobos ran around the corner of a house with Garet hot on his tail. "He's after me, he's after me!" he yelled, and Garet sped up. Ivan sat down and reached for another peach, and then told Isaac to eat as many as he wanted. "After all," he said, "I used your money to buy them." Isaac looked shocked. "You WHAT?" he yelled. Ivan retorted, "Can't you hear? I told you plainly and clearly, I used your money to buy them." Isaac growled as his hand slowly went for Ivan's pocket. Isaac withdrew the money pouch and realized that it was indeed his own. Isaac said loudly, "You aren't supposed to use my money! It's mine! Now you owe me some of yours! You little..." but then stopped and started laughing.
Several minutes later, Garet came running around the same corner he had come around earlier, Phobos in his hand. "Ivan is going to play with us now," said Isaac. Garet nodded in approval and asked, "Anyone seen Gust?" Ivan and Isaac both shook their heads and Garet left to look for him. Only a few seconds after Garet had left, Gust appeared next to the boys. "Looking for me?" he asked. Ivan nodded. "You're it next," said Isaac. Gust laughed. "So, Garet finally caught Phobos? I think that Mars djinn is the only one who'll give me any sort of trouble at all, considering myself to be a Jupiter djinn, I can move much faster than any of the rest of you, even you, Ivan." Gust chuckled to himself and disappeared again. Garet had come back by that time, having heard the conversation. Gust reappeared on the roof of a nearby house, and Phobos suggested that they don't use their abilities to disappear and reappear somewhere quite different, and Gust agreed. He started counting, and the others ran away quickly, Phobos as a mere blur. Ivan hid in his room at the inn, under his bed. Only a few minutes after hiding, he saw Gust standing next to him. Not having expected to see him, Ivan let out a shriek. Gust reached out to touch Ivan, but before he was able to, Ivan had disappeared. Gust muttered and walked out from under the bed, just in time to see Ivan disappear out the door of his room. 'Wow,' he thought to himself, 'he sure didn't want to race earlier, but I believe he's got his speed back atleast.' Gust climbed up to the window, which is how he had actually gotten in, and flew back to the ground, just as Ivan disappeared around the corner of the inn. Gust ran as fast as he could, and within a few minutes, he had caught up to Ivan, who had circled around and came back to his spot under his bed at the inn. Gust chuckled to himself as he crawled quietly under the bed and touched Ivan, who hadn't noticed him this time. "Don't you ever learn?" asked Gust with a chuckle, "You're it." Ivan sighed and came out from under the bed. But when Ivan looked down where he thought Gust was, he didn't see the little djinn. He thought he heard feet on the windowsill, and sure enough, when he looked over to the window, it was wide open. Ivan climbed down the stairs to wait for the next game. As he walked out the door, he saw Garet run by yelling, "Aaah!!" and when he looked behind him, he saw a purple blur gaining on him fast. Ivan chuckled as he watched the djinn slam into Garet's back and he went flying to the ground. Ivan laughed, and said, "Don't worry, Garet, I'm already it." Garet groaned and replied, "I'm not worried about being it, I'm worried about my back surviving throughout the day!" Ivan laughed again and teased, "I thought you were the big, mighty Garet, who couldn't be defeated by anything, and here you are worrying that a four-inch tall djinn is going to break your back!" Garet just muttered and stood back up.
Gust flew along. 'Where is that boy?' he asked himself, 'I thought for sure he wouldn't be any trouble to find, after all, he's an earth adept.' Gust whirled around as he heard someone ask, "You looking for me?" followed by a laugh. In front of him stood Isaac. Gust charged at Isaac, but before he hit him, he jumped to the side. Isaac taunted, "I thought only Phobos was going to give you trouble, haha!" Gust bit his lip and flew at Isaac again, who simply stepped aside, and laughed harder. Gust was beginning to get annoyed, and this time when he flew at Isaac, he pretended he was going straight at him, but he turned at the last second. Isaac had stepped in the opposite direction from which way Gust had turned, and was easily avoided. Gust glared into space for a second and then flew at Isaac again, turning right before hitting Isaac. This time, Isaac hadn't even moved. Isaac was now beside himself with laughter. Gust muttered, and after a few more tries, was finally able to tag him.
'Now, only Phobos left,' thought Gust. 'This is when it gets hard.' However, Gust had absolutely no trouble finding Phobos, he was simply sitting on the roof of a house, the very same postion in which he was when Garet first saw him. Gust flew at Phobos, but before he hit, Phobos disappeared. Gust muttered and said, "Phobos, come out, we decided not to use our abilities, remember?" Silence. Gust muttered and looked around for the Mars djinn, but to no avail. Gust used reveal, and located Phobos inside of a barrel. Pretending he had no idea where he was, Gust tried a few nearby places pretending he thought Phobos might be hiding there, but he kept a close eye on the barrel. Suddenly, Gust disappeared and reappeared inside the barrel behind Phobos. Gust tried to compress a laugh, seeing the little djinn curled up in a ball. "Boo," he said. Phobos muttered and turned around to face the wind djinn. Gust had a frown on his face and he said, "Well, well, well, what happened to the rule we made?" Phobos snickered and disappeared again. Gust muttered, and decided he should have tagged him first. Concentrating on where Phobos was, Gust was able to figure it out using his psynergy. He dematerialized and appeared right behind Phobos, who was now in the market, again curled up in a little ball atop the tomatoes, pretending to be one himself. Gust laughed to himself and tagged him. Phobos stood up and said, "You win."
Alex was thoroughly enjoying his meal. 'Perhaps I should go to see Kraden,' he thought, 'I've known him for quite a while, and he ought to know about Bilibin. Maybe he'll even let me live with him, or perhaps I should stay with these young adepts. Though they are not that powerful right now, I believe that they will become extremely powerful, and if I ever ran into this "Felix" again, they may be able to help me fight him.' Alex was sitting in his room at the inn, trying to decide what he should do next. After finishing his meal, he went to see Kraden. Kraden was an old man, and though he was old, and could not run very fast, nor was he very strong physically, he was a Jupiter adept. Before Alex even knocked on the door of Kraden's house, he heard his voice from inside. "Come in, Alex," he said. Alex opened the door and entered the little house. Kraden was sitting in a chair, reading a book about psynergy. Alex could tell from the look on his face that he was not very happy. "Alex," he said. "I sence trouble in Sol Sanctum. Ten years ago, I would have gone myself to see what is wrong, but now, I am too old." Here Kraden stopped to clear his throat. "I was wondering if you and your friends would be willing to go there and find out what is wrong." Alex nodded. "I'll ask them," he said. Kraden looked up from his book in time to see a blue blur rise up through the ceiling, and Alex was gone.
Alex found the others sitting in Isaac's room at the inn, panting. They were eating stew, and talking about what to do next. Alex smiled at Isaac and said, "An old friend of mine lives here in this city. Though I did not tell you, this city is very important, as it holds the Elemental Stars. These "stars" are in a large sanctum, called Sol Sanctum. My friend, Kraden, is a powerful Jupiter adept. He sences that something is not right in the sanctum. He also wishes that we go to the sanctum and discover what is wrong. If the stars were stolen, and something happened to the sanctum, it could change the world to be a much more evil place than it already is." Garet looked up at Alex, a bite of stew halfway to his mouth. "What do the stars do?" he asked. Alex chuckled. "What do the stars do," he repeated, "what do the stars do... The stars protect the world. If they were removed, or somehow damage, the entire sanctum could collapse, Vale might be destroyed, and nearly infinite power could be given to the person who removed the stars. What are the stars? The stars are everything." Garet shuddered at the thought of someone evil having infinite power, and immediately agreed to investigate. Isaac and Ivan, though not quite as eager as Garet, agreed to come as well. Alex closed his eyes, and within a few seconds, the four adepts and the two djinn stood outside of Sol Sanctum.
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Chapter Ten
Ivan slid out of his bed and walked out of his room at the inn. It was late, and everyone else had already gotten up and eaten breakfast. Gust appeared on Ivan's head and said, "Race you down the stairs!" Ivan muttered as he saw Gust fly quickly down the stairs. He didn't feel like racing. Slowly Ivan walked down the stairs and out the door, where he saw Isaac and Garet playing with Phobos and Gust, who had already made it outside. Gust turned to face Ivan and yelled, "I win!" Ivan groaned and sluggishly made his way over to where the other two boys were playing with the djinni. "Good morning," he muttered. Isaac looked at Ivan in a funny way and asked, "Are you alright? You're normally so speedy, but this morning you were the last one up!" Ivan muttered something to himself and shook his head. "Something feels wrong... I'm not sure what is is," he said aloud, but quietly. Isaac sighed and suggested that Ivan go back to bed. Ivan shook his head. "Not tired," he said. Isaac shook it off and went back to playing with Phobos. Grabbing the Mars djinn, Isaac ran around in circles yelling, "I'm flying, I'm flying!" Ivan smiled faintly and walked into the marketplace to buy something to eat. In the market, Ivan ran into Alex who was stocking up on various types of food. "Eat a lot?" asked Ivan. Alex grinned sheepishly and nodded, and then continued to another food stand. Ivan grinned to himself and looked for the fruit. After looking around for a few minutes, Ivan saw what he was looking for: peaches. Ivan walked up to the stand and bought a few peaches, and then looked for his friends again so he could eat.
"Phobos!" called Garet, "Phobos?" Garet was playing hide-and-seek with Isaac and the djinni. "Gotcha Isaac!" said Garet, triumphantly, tagging Isaac, "Now I just gotta find Phobos!" Isaac watched as Garet ran off. He sighed. Gust was going to be "it" next and he knew there was no way to avoid a wind djinn. No doubt about it, Gust had been caught entirely for the purpose of becoming it. Just then, Ivan walked by, a big juicy peach in his mouth. His face and hands were a sticky mess. Isaac yelled over to Ivan to join him. Ivan walked over and offered Isaac a peach, even though Isaac couldn't perfectly understand what he had said until he repeated it several times, as Ivan's mouth was still full of peach. Isaac gladly took a peach and shoved it into his mouth. After having finished his peach, Isaac asked Ivan, "You want to play hide-and- seek with Garet, Phobos, and Gust?" Ivan nodded his head and replied, "Sure I'll play, if you want me to..." Isaac sighed. "I still think there is something wrong with you," he said. Ivan shook his head. "I'm fine!" he said, "Really, I am." Isaac responded, "Well, ok." Suddenly, Phobos ran around the corner of a house with Garet hot on his tail. "He's after me, he's after me!" he yelled, and Garet sped up. Ivan sat down and reached for another peach, and then told Isaac to eat as many as he wanted. "After all," he said, "I used your money to buy them." Isaac looked shocked. "You WHAT?" he yelled. Ivan retorted, "Can't you hear? I told you plainly and clearly, I used your money to buy them." Isaac growled as his hand slowly went for Ivan's pocket. Isaac withdrew the money pouch and realized that it was indeed his own. Isaac said loudly, "You aren't supposed to use my money! It's mine! Now you owe me some of yours! You little..." but then stopped and started laughing.
Several minutes later, Garet came running around the same corner he had come around earlier, Phobos in his hand. "Ivan is going to play with us now," said Isaac. Garet nodded in approval and asked, "Anyone seen Gust?" Ivan and Isaac both shook their heads and Garet left to look for him. Only a few seconds after Garet had left, Gust appeared next to the boys. "Looking for me?" he asked. Ivan nodded. "You're it next," said Isaac. Gust laughed. "So, Garet finally caught Phobos? I think that Mars djinn is the only one who'll give me any sort of trouble at all, considering myself to be a Jupiter djinn, I can move much faster than any of the rest of you, even you, Ivan." Gust chuckled to himself and disappeared again. Garet had come back by that time, having heard the conversation. Gust reappeared on the roof of a nearby house, and Phobos suggested that they don't use their abilities to disappear and reappear somewhere quite different, and Gust agreed. He started counting, and the others ran away quickly, Phobos as a mere blur. Ivan hid in his room at the inn, under his bed. Only a few minutes after hiding, he saw Gust standing next to him. Not having expected to see him, Ivan let out a shriek. Gust reached out to touch Ivan, but before he was able to, Ivan had disappeared. Gust muttered and walked out from under the bed, just in time to see Ivan disappear out the door of his room. 'Wow,' he thought to himself, 'he sure didn't want to race earlier, but I believe he's got his speed back atleast.' Gust climbed up to the window, which is how he had actually gotten in, and flew back to the ground, just as Ivan disappeared around the corner of the inn. Gust ran as fast as he could, and within a few minutes, he had caught up to Ivan, who had circled around and came back to his spot under his bed at the inn. Gust chuckled to himself as he crawled quietly under the bed and touched Ivan, who hadn't noticed him this time. "Don't you ever learn?" asked Gust with a chuckle, "You're it." Ivan sighed and came out from under the bed. But when Ivan looked down where he thought Gust was, he didn't see the little djinn. He thought he heard feet on the windowsill, and sure enough, when he looked over to the window, it was wide open. Ivan climbed down the stairs to wait for the next game. As he walked out the door, he saw Garet run by yelling, "Aaah!!" and when he looked behind him, he saw a purple blur gaining on him fast. Ivan chuckled as he watched the djinn slam into Garet's back and he went flying to the ground. Ivan laughed, and said, "Don't worry, Garet, I'm already it." Garet groaned and replied, "I'm not worried about being it, I'm worried about my back surviving throughout the day!" Ivan laughed again and teased, "I thought you were the big, mighty Garet, who couldn't be defeated by anything, and here you are worrying that a four-inch tall djinn is going to break your back!" Garet just muttered and stood back up.
Gust flew along. 'Where is that boy?' he asked himself, 'I thought for sure he wouldn't be any trouble to find, after all, he's an earth adept.' Gust whirled around as he heard someone ask, "You looking for me?" followed by a laugh. In front of him stood Isaac. Gust charged at Isaac, but before he hit him, he jumped to the side. Isaac taunted, "I thought only Phobos was going to give you trouble, haha!" Gust bit his lip and flew at Isaac again, who simply stepped aside, and laughed harder. Gust was beginning to get annoyed, and this time when he flew at Isaac, he pretended he was going straight at him, but he turned at the last second. Isaac had stepped in the opposite direction from which way Gust had turned, and was easily avoided. Gust glared into space for a second and then flew at Isaac again, turning right before hitting Isaac. This time, Isaac hadn't even moved. Isaac was now beside himself with laughter. Gust muttered, and after a few more tries, was finally able to tag him.
'Now, only Phobos left,' thought Gust. 'This is when it gets hard.' However, Gust had absolutely no trouble finding Phobos, he was simply sitting on the roof of a house, the very same postion in which he was when Garet first saw him. Gust flew at Phobos, but before he hit, Phobos disappeared. Gust muttered and said, "Phobos, come out, we decided not to use our abilities, remember?" Silence. Gust muttered and looked around for the Mars djinn, but to no avail. Gust used reveal, and located Phobos inside of a barrel. Pretending he had no idea where he was, Gust tried a few nearby places pretending he thought Phobos might be hiding there, but he kept a close eye on the barrel. Suddenly, Gust disappeared and reappeared inside the barrel behind Phobos. Gust tried to compress a laugh, seeing the little djinn curled up in a ball. "Boo," he said. Phobos muttered and turned around to face the wind djinn. Gust had a frown on his face and he said, "Well, well, well, what happened to the rule we made?" Phobos snickered and disappeared again. Gust muttered, and decided he should have tagged him first. Concentrating on where Phobos was, Gust was able to figure it out using his psynergy. He dematerialized and appeared right behind Phobos, who was now in the market, again curled up in a little ball atop the tomatoes, pretending to be one himself. Gust laughed to himself and tagged him. Phobos stood up and said, "You win."
Alex was thoroughly enjoying his meal. 'Perhaps I should go to see Kraden,' he thought, 'I've known him for quite a while, and he ought to know about Bilibin. Maybe he'll even let me live with him, or perhaps I should stay with these young adepts. Though they are not that powerful right now, I believe that they will become extremely powerful, and if I ever ran into this "Felix" again, they may be able to help me fight him.' Alex was sitting in his room at the inn, trying to decide what he should do next. After finishing his meal, he went to see Kraden. Kraden was an old man, and though he was old, and could not run very fast, nor was he very strong physically, he was a Jupiter adept. Before Alex even knocked on the door of Kraden's house, he heard his voice from inside. "Come in, Alex," he said. Alex opened the door and entered the little house. Kraden was sitting in a chair, reading a book about psynergy. Alex could tell from the look on his face that he was not very happy. "Alex," he said. "I sence trouble in Sol Sanctum. Ten years ago, I would have gone myself to see what is wrong, but now, I am too old." Here Kraden stopped to clear his throat. "I was wondering if you and your friends would be willing to go there and find out what is wrong." Alex nodded. "I'll ask them," he said. Kraden looked up from his book in time to see a blue blur rise up through the ceiling, and Alex was gone.
Alex found the others sitting in Isaac's room at the inn, panting. They were eating stew, and talking about what to do next. Alex smiled at Isaac and said, "An old friend of mine lives here in this city. Though I did not tell you, this city is very important, as it holds the Elemental Stars. These "stars" are in a large sanctum, called Sol Sanctum. My friend, Kraden, is a powerful Jupiter adept. He sences that something is not right in the sanctum. He also wishes that we go to the sanctum and discover what is wrong. If the stars were stolen, and something happened to the sanctum, it could change the world to be a much more evil place than it already is." Garet looked up at Alex, a bite of stew halfway to his mouth. "What do the stars do?" he asked. Alex chuckled. "What do the stars do," he repeated, "what do the stars do... The stars protect the world. If they were removed, or somehow damage, the entire sanctum could collapse, Vale might be destroyed, and nearly infinite power could be given to the person who removed the stars. What are the stars? The stars are everything." Garet shuddered at the thought of someone evil having infinite power, and immediately agreed to investigate. Isaac and Ivan, though not quite as eager as Garet, agreed to come as well. Alex closed his eyes, and within a few seconds, the four adepts and the two djinn stood outside of Sol Sanctum.
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