Disclaimer: I don't own Golden Sun. Obviously. Just my character Videll.
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It was early morning on the ocean, nearly a month after the lighting of the Venus lighthouse beacon, and the only living thing to be seen was Isaac. He sat alone on the deck of the Lemurian ship, thinking about the storm in Vale three years ago. I wonder - what if I had trained harder before that night? Would things have been different? And my father...
"You don't have to keep obsessing over that," said a quiet voice off to his right. "There was nothing you could do." Isaac looked up into a pair of startling violet eyes. "Ivan - when did you wake up?"
"Long before you," added a deeper voice behind him. Isaac turned to see his other two friends and fellow Adepts - Garet and Mia - standing side by side in front of the cabin doors.
"What have you been doing out here?" asked Mia, looking worried. "You were so zoned out, you couldn't even tell Ivan was reading your mind!"
Isaac was silent for a long moment. "Just... thinking," he said finally.
"Well, you've thought long enough," Garet chided. "Let's eat!" His three friends rolled their eyes.
"Trust Garet to think of his stomach," laughed Isaac, put out of his gloomy mood. "It would be nice to eat, though."
The four friends walked into the cabin and down the stairs to where they ate, all looking happy and refreshed - except Ivan, who looked worried. After breakfast, they set out once more. But as they sailed, they were moving closer and closer to the danger that would put their mission - and even their lives - in jeopardy.
On a small island not far from where Isaac and his friends were sailing, a young girl paced, her long, dark purple hair shifting in the breeze, her violet eyes troubled. She knew what was in store for Isaac and company. But she couldn't warn them! Her power to see the future was a great gift, but at 15, her powers had not yet developed enough to actually communicate with the ones she saw.
All I can do is wait, she decided. I'll be ready to help when the time comes.
There were others besides this girl who were troubled. Back on the ship, Ivan sat restless, uneasy. Something's coming, he thought. Something very bad is coming.
"What's wrong, Ivan?" Mia's voice broke through his thoughts. "You've been acting strange all day. It's not like you." Ivan was silent. Mia brushed a gleaming strand of her bright blue hair back from her face, patiently waiting for an answer. Finally Ivan told her what had been troubling him.
"I don't know why I know these things," he finished. "But I know something bad is going to happen." Mia had the answer right away.
"Remember master Hama, Ivan?" She inquired. Ivan nodded - how could he forget? "Well, before master Hama taught you reveal," Mia continued, "she told us that you had the power to see the future, even though you didn't know it yet."
Ivan's eyes widened. "That worries me even more!" he told her. "We'd better get ready for battle. Can you warn the others? I have to get my Djinn set up."
But it was too late to prepare. As Mia hurried toward Isaac and Garet, a huge shadow fell over the ship.
The girl stopped her pacing and faced the water, her eyes wide, staring out to sea.
This is it, she thought. The kraken has arrived.
Just as Mia reached the other two boys, the shadow fell. All four Adepts slowly lifted their gaze up, up, and up further still. The giant kraken glared down at them for a moment, then lifted its tentacles up toward the sky, summoning a tremendous water funnel that steadily moved toward the ship, cutting through the water more quickly than the ship could move away. Then it let out an enraged battle cry, and began to lash wildly at the Adepts with a tentacle twice as long as the ship's mast. Isaac and Mia quickly ducked behind a pile of crates on the deck, pulling the slower Garet with them, the blow missing its target by inches. Ivan, however, had nowhere to run.
The last thing the three heard before the kraken's funnel took them was Ivan's scream as tentacle hit flesh, the last thing they saw before the world went black the red of blood in the funnel as it claimed Ivan as well.
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