Golden Sun: A New Saga
Chapter 2
On the Lemurian ship, the holders of the mirrors noticed some unknown carvings on the mirrors'
borders. "What's this? I can't make it out," Isaac said. Piers said, "I know what is says. These
are ancient inscriptions. Let me see them." So Isaac, Garet, and Ivan gave Piers the other 3
Elemental Mirrors. Piers read them. "The earth mirror says, 'I am the power of earth, lying
within a mountain.' The water mirror says, 'I am the essence of water's many forms, resting
within an icy cave.' The wind mirror reads, 'I am the wind's fury, bound in a temple near the
raging winds.' Lastly, the fire mirror reads, 'I am the fire's strength, dormant inside
an ancient volcano.'" "Those inscriptions must be the sanctums' locations," said Felix.
Piers said, "I also know that there are four pillars of light and they are to be lit
in the sanctums to open the door to another world. A jeweled orb is required to light the
rays. And also, only the adepts of the same element as a specific sanctum may enter."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Garet shouted.
Part One: Venus Sanctum
The ship flew to the bottom-right corner of the world, where Venus Sanctum was nestled away.
Felix and Isaac disembarked there. "Kraden! Drop the others off by the proper sanctums, and stop
by Mercury Sanctum! When Piers and Mia have completed the trials, the others should be done
as well! Good luck!" Felix called out to Kraden. The ship left the island.
Venus Sanctum was in the center of a sandy desert, with rivers of flowing sand on its edges
and a huge mountain in the horizon. Both walked up to the door. The symbol of Venus was glowing
on the door. Felix and Isaac placed their hands on the symbol, and the door opened.
Inside, they found a hall and an orb made of citrine standing on an altar. "That must be the
orb," Isaac whispered to Felix. Isaac walked to the altar. "Stop, Isaac!" Felix warned.
"Why?" Isaac pondred.
"It might be a trap."
"But then, if we don't get past the traps, we can't enter the trials!"
"You're right, Isaac."
"I guess I'd better take it carefully."
"I'll take it, Isaac."
Felix cautiously took the orb off the altar. "Well, that wasn't too complicated," Isaac said.
"I guess not," Felix replied. Both of them started walking down the hall when the floor
and wall tiles began moving in a forward direction. "Aah! What's happening, Felix!?" Isaac
cried. "No time for that, Isaac. JUMP!" Felix and Isaac jumped off the first tile. Then
more tiles began moving. "JUMP!"
Both Earth Adepts had escaped in one piece. "Pant...pant...Phew! That was close." Isaac said
in relief. "That must have been the first trap," Felix said. "There might be a second one.
We'd better be careful. There's the exit into the trials. We can make it if we sneak out of
here." "Alright. I wonder why the floor is filled with sand..." Isaac wondered. But as soon
as he and Felix took a few steps away from the entrance into the room, the entrance
door sealed shut, and the exit door sank more than halfway into the sand. "What happened!?"
cried Isaac. "I don't know. Maybe if we crawl, we can make it out of here." Suddenly all
the walls started moving inward. Isaac said, "I think you spoke too sooon, Felix!" Felix
said, "We won't make it even if we crawl." Isaac said, "Can't we push the walls back!?"
Felix said, "No. But I have an idea. Isaac, hold my hand." "Okay..." Isaac held Felix's
hand. "Sand!!!" All of a sudden, both had vanished under the sand. Both had crawled out of
the room through the sand. Then they reached solid ground. "Phew! Hope there aren't anymore
traps." Isaac said, climbing out of the sand. Felix, climbing out as well, said, "I think
that was the last one. Now's the trials." The Trials room was a place with sandfalls.
Isaac tried climbing up the sandfall, but he slipped. Felix said, "Wait. Hold my
hand again Isaac. SAND!!" Both had climbed up the sand fall. There at the top was the exit,
but it was blocked by another sandfall. But there was also a block on top of a pillar.
Felix said, "Wait. Stand back." He walked up to the pillar. "TREMOR!!!!!" The block was
pushed off by a tremor. Felix and Isaac both pushed the block into an area of the sandfall.
The exit door was revealed, and they walked through. An altar was in the center of the room.
A voice said to Felix, "Come..." "It's like the orb is talking to me..." Felix said.
"Place the orb on the altar..." And then Felix placed the orb on the altar. A pillar
of orange light shone out of a hole in the ceiling. Felix said, "Alright. We got that out of the
way. Let's return to the entrance and wait for Kraden."
Part Two: Mars Sanctum
Garet and Jenna had disembarked at an island in the south-west edge of Weyard. The Mars Sanctum
was bordered by land with torches and a volcano in the horizon. They saw the Mars symbol on
the door. Both of them touched the symbol and entered. A ruby orb sat on a pillar with flames
on its back. "Hey there's the orb! Let's take it." Garet exclaimed. "No," Jenna replied.
"I'll take it." So Jenna took it. But as soon as they started heading down the hall...
"Eek!" Jenna cried. "Flaming arrows! Run!" Garet and Jenna ran and dodged the flaming arrows.
"That was a close call," Garet said, after he and Jenna had escaped. Suddenly huge flaming
walls started closing in on them. "We're going to be roasted to a crisp if we don't hurry!"
Jenna exclaimed. Both she and Garet fled out of the room. "Phew. I'm just glad we survived. Now
comes the trials." The trials were a room where a great wall of fire blocked the entrance.
Jenna said, "We've got to get that flaming wall out of the way." In a hidden corridor was a
switch. Garet flipped it and the wall of fire vanished. As the two Fire Adepts walked to the
exit, there was a torch...and a huge block of red ice. "Red ice?" Garet wondered. "No prob."
But Garet could not break the ice with his sword. Jenna said, "Wait. Stand back." Garet stood
back. "Blaze!!!" But Jenna's Blaze magic could not melt the ice. Jenna said, "Strange..."
Suddenly a voice called out to Jenna and Garet, "Find the blue flame." "The blue flame?"
Garet asked. "To light the torch with the blue flame, you will need a candle." A candle appeared
at Garet's feet. Jenna said, "Okay, we need to find this blue flame." There was a passage, but
a block was blocking the way. Garet said, "Wait, Jenna. Move!!" Garet moved the block out of the
way. Both entered the room. A blue fire was on the torch. Garet lit the candle with its fire.
Both returned to the room with the exit, and Garet lit the torch. Jenna said, "Stand back,
Garet. Blaze!!!!" A stream of blue fire emanated from the torch, and melted the red ice.
The area was a path inside a volcano. "Be careful," Jenna said. They reached a place with a
hole with fire in the center. "Throw the orb into the pit," the orb seemed to say to Jenna.
Jenna threw the orb in the fire pit, but instead of the orb being destroyed, the fires
turned as red as the orb and a red beacon shone out of the volcano's hole. "Let's go
back to the entrance," Garet said.
Part Three: Jupiter Sanctum
On the way to Jupiter Sanctum, in the northwest corner of Weyard, a huge tornado suddenly
appeared. Ivan and Sheba were nearly blown off the ship and were hanging on to the edges.
"Quickly, Kraden! Make your way out of here!" Ivan shouted. As the ship left the storm,
Sheba was blown away. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Ivan, help!!!!!" "Sheba!!!" Ivan yelled,and wnt after
her. Both were caught in the cyclone and fell into the sea. When they woke up, they found
themselves washed ashore. The Jupiter Sanctum was surronded by pillars of electricity. The
symbol of Jupiter appeared on the door and Ivan and Sheba touched it. They entered, and saw an
amethyst orbsuspended in midair. "We'd better be careful taking this," Sheba said. Sheba took
the orb, but as the two Wind Adepts headed down the hall, lightning bolts crashed down. "Run!!"
Ivan yelled. The both of them ran, dodging the bolts.
"That was close," Ivan said, as they stepped in the next room. Both started walking down the
passage when wind gusts blew, pushing them to the side. Spikes popped out of the walls.
"Quickly, crouch!" Sheba yelled. Both crouched, and missed the spikes. "We'll crawl out of here,"
Ivan said. So they crawled out the passage against the wind currents. The trials were a passage
where at the end were two pillars, one at each side. "We can't cross the gap," said Ivan.
"We'll have to find a switch or something." So they found a switch. Ivan pulled it, and then
they headed back down, but couldn't find the pillar. "That's odd," Ivan said. "Either that
switch was a red herring or the pillar must be invisible." Sheba got an idea. "Invisible!
That's it! Reveal!!!" The pillar became visible, and both hopped across to the exit.
Inside, a voice said to Sheba, "Place the orb on the altar." Sheba did so, and when the
sun shone on it, a pink beam emanated out of the sanctum. The tornado vanished as well.
"Let's go," Ivan said.
Part Four: Mercury Sanctum
Piers and Mia disembarked at an island in the northeast edge of Weyard. The Mercury
Sanctum was bordered by clear, streaming rivers and a waterfall in the horizon. The Mercury
symbol appeared on the door, and both touched it, and entered.
A sapphire orb sat atop an icy pillar. Mia took it cautiosly, and both headed down the
passage. "Ha ha! Well, just look at that! We're here in one piece!" Mia said joyfully.
Then she looked up. "Hmm? What's that? That's one huge icicle." Piers cried, "That's not
an icicle, that's a huge ice crystal! Run!" Then more ice crystals crashed down. Both
ran into the next room. "Pant...wheeze...I should've known that was a trap." Mia said.
Both tried to sneak into the door, but the entrance door closed. "What in the world!?"
Piers exclaimed. "Well, we can still make it." But the exit closed as well. "So then...
we're trapped here forever?" Mia asked. Suddenly, the room started flooding. "I think
we'll drown before 'forever' comes!" Piers shouted. "Search for an exit, Mia!"
"Ugh...I can't!"
Piers and Mia were up to their shoulders in the water. Piers exclaimed, "Quickly, Mia!
Touch the panel down there!" Mia dove and touched the panel, and both were washed out of the
room. The trials were full of waterfalls, lakes and a huge glacier that not even Piers could
burst. "We have to find a way to break part of the glacier away!" Piers exclaimed. Mia saw
a switch underneath a small lake. "Okay, Mia. Parch!!" Piers had drained all the water out of the
small lake. Mia climbed down and flipped the switch. A huge portion of the glacier bursted.
Piers went to the glacier. "BURST!!" A small opening bursted. Mia and Piers exited the trials,
and entered a room with a small pool of water. "Throw the orb into the water," a voice said
to Mia. She threw the orb into the water, and a blue beam shone out of the sanctum. But something
else occured. Mia was standing still and stared at the beam, as if in a trance. "Mia?" Piers asked.
Mia saw Alex within a cascading waterfall. "Alex..."
"Mia?..."
"I'm glad you're okay, Alex. Come with me. Let's go home together."
But suddenly, Alex vanished.
"Alex! NO!!!!!!!!"
An evil voice said, "Muahahahahaha!!!!!!"
Mia seemed to be falling. "Nooooooooooo!!!!!"
Mia found herself in a mysterious place. She suddenly floated up, and
then saw Alex inside a crystal.
"Alex!"
The evil voice said, "Ahahaha!! Soon you and your pathetic friends will end up this way
and will helplessly do nothing, as we destroy the world!!"
"No!!!!!!!!"
"Mia?" Piers asked.
Mia turned around and looked up at Piers. Her eyes no longer shone with the radiance
and gentleness of her soul, but were dull as if she had been drained of her very essence.
"Piers..." Suddenly she fainted. "Mia!" Piers held the unconscious Mia in his arms.
"There is nothing I can do for her here. I'd better board the ship."
TO BE CONTINUED.....
Chapter 2
On the Lemurian ship, the holders of the mirrors noticed some unknown carvings on the mirrors'
borders. "What's this? I can't make it out," Isaac said. Piers said, "I know what is says. These
are ancient inscriptions. Let me see them." So Isaac, Garet, and Ivan gave Piers the other 3
Elemental Mirrors. Piers read them. "The earth mirror says, 'I am the power of earth, lying
within a mountain.' The water mirror says, 'I am the essence of water's many forms, resting
within an icy cave.' The wind mirror reads, 'I am the wind's fury, bound in a temple near the
raging winds.' Lastly, the fire mirror reads, 'I am the fire's strength, dormant inside
an ancient volcano.'" "Those inscriptions must be the sanctums' locations," said Felix.
Piers said, "I also know that there are four pillars of light and they are to be lit
in the sanctums to open the door to another world. A jeweled orb is required to light the
rays. And also, only the adepts of the same element as a specific sanctum may enter."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Garet shouted.
Part One: Venus Sanctum
The ship flew to the bottom-right corner of the world, where Venus Sanctum was nestled away.
Felix and Isaac disembarked there. "Kraden! Drop the others off by the proper sanctums, and stop
by Mercury Sanctum! When Piers and Mia have completed the trials, the others should be done
as well! Good luck!" Felix called out to Kraden. The ship left the island.
Venus Sanctum was in the center of a sandy desert, with rivers of flowing sand on its edges
and a huge mountain in the horizon. Both walked up to the door. The symbol of Venus was glowing
on the door. Felix and Isaac placed their hands on the symbol, and the door opened.
Inside, they found a hall and an orb made of citrine standing on an altar. "That must be the
orb," Isaac whispered to Felix. Isaac walked to the altar. "Stop, Isaac!" Felix warned.
"Why?" Isaac pondred.
"It might be a trap."
"But then, if we don't get past the traps, we can't enter the trials!"
"You're right, Isaac."
"I guess I'd better take it carefully."
"I'll take it, Isaac."
Felix cautiously took the orb off the altar. "Well, that wasn't too complicated," Isaac said.
"I guess not," Felix replied. Both of them started walking down the hall when the floor
and wall tiles began moving in a forward direction. "Aah! What's happening, Felix!?" Isaac
cried. "No time for that, Isaac. JUMP!" Felix and Isaac jumped off the first tile. Then
more tiles began moving. "JUMP!"
Both Earth Adepts had escaped in one piece. "Pant...pant...Phew! That was close." Isaac said
in relief. "That must have been the first trap," Felix said. "There might be a second one.
We'd better be careful. There's the exit into the trials. We can make it if we sneak out of
here." "Alright. I wonder why the floor is filled with sand..." Isaac wondered. But as soon
as he and Felix took a few steps away from the entrance into the room, the entrance
door sealed shut, and the exit door sank more than halfway into the sand. "What happened!?"
cried Isaac. "I don't know. Maybe if we crawl, we can make it out of here." Suddenly all
the walls started moving inward. Isaac said, "I think you spoke too sooon, Felix!" Felix
said, "We won't make it even if we crawl." Isaac said, "Can't we push the walls back!?"
Felix said, "No. But I have an idea. Isaac, hold my hand." "Okay..." Isaac held Felix's
hand. "Sand!!!" All of a sudden, both had vanished under the sand. Both had crawled out of
the room through the sand. Then they reached solid ground. "Phew! Hope there aren't anymore
traps." Isaac said, climbing out of the sand. Felix, climbing out as well, said, "I think
that was the last one. Now's the trials." The Trials room was a place with sandfalls.
Isaac tried climbing up the sandfall, but he slipped. Felix said, "Wait. Hold my
hand again Isaac. SAND!!" Both had climbed up the sand fall. There at the top was the exit,
but it was blocked by another sandfall. But there was also a block on top of a pillar.
Felix said, "Wait. Stand back." He walked up to the pillar. "TREMOR!!!!!" The block was
pushed off by a tremor. Felix and Isaac both pushed the block into an area of the sandfall.
The exit door was revealed, and they walked through. An altar was in the center of the room.
A voice said to Felix, "Come..." "It's like the orb is talking to me..." Felix said.
"Place the orb on the altar..." And then Felix placed the orb on the altar. A pillar
of orange light shone out of a hole in the ceiling. Felix said, "Alright. We got that out of the
way. Let's return to the entrance and wait for Kraden."
Part Two: Mars Sanctum
Garet and Jenna had disembarked at an island in the south-west edge of Weyard. The Mars Sanctum
was bordered by land with torches and a volcano in the horizon. They saw the Mars symbol on
the door. Both of them touched the symbol and entered. A ruby orb sat on a pillar with flames
on its back. "Hey there's the orb! Let's take it." Garet exclaimed. "No," Jenna replied.
"I'll take it." So Jenna took it. But as soon as they started heading down the hall...
"Eek!" Jenna cried. "Flaming arrows! Run!" Garet and Jenna ran and dodged the flaming arrows.
"That was a close call," Garet said, after he and Jenna had escaped. Suddenly huge flaming
walls started closing in on them. "We're going to be roasted to a crisp if we don't hurry!"
Jenna exclaimed. Both she and Garet fled out of the room. "Phew. I'm just glad we survived. Now
comes the trials." The trials were a room where a great wall of fire blocked the entrance.
Jenna said, "We've got to get that flaming wall out of the way." In a hidden corridor was a
switch. Garet flipped it and the wall of fire vanished. As the two Fire Adepts walked to the
exit, there was a torch...and a huge block of red ice. "Red ice?" Garet wondered. "No prob."
But Garet could not break the ice with his sword. Jenna said, "Wait. Stand back." Garet stood
back. "Blaze!!!" But Jenna's Blaze magic could not melt the ice. Jenna said, "Strange..."
Suddenly a voice called out to Jenna and Garet, "Find the blue flame." "The blue flame?"
Garet asked. "To light the torch with the blue flame, you will need a candle." A candle appeared
at Garet's feet. Jenna said, "Okay, we need to find this blue flame." There was a passage, but
a block was blocking the way. Garet said, "Wait, Jenna. Move!!" Garet moved the block out of the
way. Both entered the room. A blue fire was on the torch. Garet lit the candle with its fire.
Both returned to the room with the exit, and Garet lit the torch. Jenna said, "Stand back,
Garet. Blaze!!!!" A stream of blue fire emanated from the torch, and melted the red ice.
The area was a path inside a volcano. "Be careful," Jenna said. They reached a place with a
hole with fire in the center. "Throw the orb into the pit," the orb seemed to say to Jenna.
Jenna threw the orb in the fire pit, but instead of the orb being destroyed, the fires
turned as red as the orb and a red beacon shone out of the volcano's hole. "Let's go
back to the entrance," Garet said.
Part Three: Jupiter Sanctum
On the way to Jupiter Sanctum, in the northwest corner of Weyard, a huge tornado suddenly
appeared. Ivan and Sheba were nearly blown off the ship and were hanging on to the edges.
"Quickly, Kraden! Make your way out of here!" Ivan shouted. As the ship left the storm,
Sheba was blown away. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Ivan, help!!!!!" "Sheba!!!" Ivan yelled,and wnt after
her. Both were caught in the cyclone and fell into the sea. When they woke up, they found
themselves washed ashore. The Jupiter Sanctum was surronded by pillars of electricity. The
symbol of Jupiter appeared on the door and Ivan and Sheba touched it. They entered, and saw an
amethyst orbsuspended in midair. "We'd better be careful taking this," Sheba said. Sheba took
the orb, but as the two Wind Adepts headed down the hall, lightning bolts crashed down. "Run!!"
Ivan yelled. The both of them ran, dodging the bolts.
"That was close," Ivan said, as they stepped in the next room. Both started walking down the
passage when wind gusts blew, pushing them to the side. Spikes popped out of the walls.
"Quickly, crouch!" Sheba yelled. Both crouched, and missed the spikes. "We'll crawl out of here,"
Ivan said. So they crawled out the passage against the wind currents. The trials were a passage
where at the end were two pillars, one at each side. "We can't cross the gap," said Ivan.
"We'll have to find a switch or something." So they found a switch. Ivan pulled it, and then
they headed back down, but couldn't find the pillar. "That's odd," Ivan said. "Either that
switch was a red herring or the pillar must be invisible." Sheba got an idea. "Invisible!
That's it! Reveal!!!" The pillar became visible, and both hopped across to the exit.
Inside, a voice said to Sheba, "Place the orb on the altar." Sheba did so, and when the
sun shone on it, a pink beam emanated out of the sanctum. The tornado vanished as well.
"Let's go," Ivan said.
Part Four: Mercury Sanctum
Piers and Mia disembarked at an island in the northeast edge of Weyard. The Mercury
Sanctum was bordered by clear, streaming rivers and a waterfall in the horizon. The Mercury
symbol appeared on the door, and both touched it, and entered.
A sapphire orb sat atop an icy pillar. Mia took it cautiosly, and both headed down the
passage. "Ha ha! Well, just look at that! We're here in one piece!" Mia said joyfully.
Then she looked up. "Hmm? What's that? That's one huge icicle." Piers cried, "That's not
an icicle, that's a huge ice crystal! Run!" Then more ice crystals crashed down. Both
ran into the next room. "Pant...wheeze...I should've known that was a trap." Mia said.
Both tried to sneak into the door, but the entrance door closed. "What in the world!?"
Piers exclaimed. "Well, we can still make it." But the exit closed as well. "So then...
we're trapped here forever?" Mia asked. Suddenly, the room started flooding. "I think
we'll drown before 'forever' comes!" Piers shouted. "Search for an exit, Mia!"
"Ugh...I can't!"
Piers and Mia were up to their shoulders in the water. Piers exclaimed, "Quickly, Mia!
Touch the panel down there!" Mia dove and touched the panel, and both were washed out of the
room. The trials were full of waterfalls, lakes and a huge glacier that not even Piers could
burst. "We have to find a way to break part of the glacier away!" Piers exclaimed. Mia saw
a switch underneath a small lake. "Okay, Mia. Parch!!" Piers had drained all the water out of the
small lake. Mia climbed down and flipped the switch. A huge portion of the glacier bursted.
Piers went to the glacier. "BURST!!" A small opening bursted. Mia and Piers exited the trials,
and entered a room with a small pool of water. "Throw the orb into the water," a voice said
to Mia. She threw the orb into the water, and a blue beam shone out of the sanctum. But something
else occured. Mia was standing still and stared at the beam, as if in a trance. "Mia?" Piers asked.
Mia saw Alex within a cascading waterfall. "Alex..."
"Mia?..."
"I'm glad you're okay, Alex. Come with me. Let's go home together."
But suddenly, Alex vanished.
"Alex! NO!!!!!!!!"
An evil voice said, "Muahahahahaha!!!!!!"
Mia seemed to be falling. "Nooooooooooo!!!!!"
Mia found herself in a mysterious place. She suddenly floated up, and
then saw Alex inside a crystal.
"Alex!"
The evil voice said, "Ahahaha!! Soon you and your pathetic friends will end up this way
and will helplessly do nothing, as we destroy the world!!"
"No!!!!!!!!"
"Mia?" Piers asked.
Mia turned around and looked up at Piers. Her eyes no longer shone with the radiance
and gentleness of her soul, but were dull as if she had been drained of her very essence.
"Piers..." Suddenly she fainted. "Mia!" Piers held the unconscious Mia in his arms.
"There is nothing I can do for her here. I'd better board the ship."
TO BE CONTINUED.....