Curse of the Sages

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Chapter 6 - Price of Survival

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Well, The Love Line has ended... For now...

Tell Nintendo that I do not own Golden Sun or Camelot or them so that I can get on with my insanity and story.

Here is what I have to say to my... hey, why are there only two reviews?! It was doing so well!! Ah, the curse of a damned life... Wait, that's the story's idea...

Anyway:

Kyarorain - I probably should tell you that names like yours take me usually a month to remember how to spell, so my remembering it in such a short span (about two weeks of constant replying with both this and the forum) is saying something. Feel honored, it's a good thing... Anyway, you did bring up a good question - how does one kill the Wise One? Simple - I dunno...

Rain Child - Uh, my demonic creations aside, what do you think of the story?

And now - to the story!

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Wind blowing accross her form, Mia nuzzled next to her father's chest. For some reason beyond her knowledge, the winds seemed to be picking up. Why, she did not know. She did not know the people beyond her sight, but she heard their voices. In fact, they had been keeping her from sleeping, a rude bunch they were.

She glanced at her father's face, curious as to what he was looking at. To her puzzlement, he was staring at something behind her back. His face seemed pale, more so than she had ever seen in a person before. Was this something to do with the other voices? Rude, indeed...

Barely three, she didn't fully understand their thoughts, but she quickly picked up the tones of their voices. They seemed... afraid. But of what? Her dad wouldn't have her out here if there was danger. Then it dawned on her:

they were afraid of her dad.

Yes, that was it. Her dad was invincible, no doubt.

With that thought in mind, she nuzzled against his blue robes, slowly drifting into a sound sleep...

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The Wise One rested within the walls of what once was the home of the Elemental Stars. True, the Stars themselves were not within the crumbled walls, but they would be soon. And soon, he would slay two Venusians and a Mercury adept. He always did, every cycle, era after era. It was not a pleasent task, but one that needed doing, in order to keep the planet in balance.

He recalled a period once where he did not need to do such a massive task. Then he was just a rock, only aware of his immediate surroundings. And fate being cruel, his resting place had been atop Aleph Mountain when the Lighthouses were sealed, allowing some of the excess energy to infuse with his form, turning him into the rock of wisdom that he now was.

He scoffed at the thought. "Rock of wisdom," indeed. Now they didn't even call it Aleph Mountain, but instead Mt. Aleph, an inferior name to the original, lacking the meaning of the old words. Aleph once meant "Center," and Lemuria was once a place of bussling commerce. But thanks to his lack of knowledge of how the bloodlines were affected by the seal, he himself cursed the world to a damned existance.

He had not realized it until Alexi's daughter had to be slain, for she had learned far more than any other before her. She knew the true cause of the cycle, of how to end it.

But he had to protect the people without Alchemy-influenced powers. And releasing the seal fully would not only damn himself, but the whole of Weyard itself. And the only way to end the cycle would lack a protector to seal the power once it became abused.

So many descisions, so little room for error. He had not the means to decide what to do, for he was tired. Tired of so many meaningless eons of suffering. He longed for the days that he rolled around, driven by the psynergy of the winds, to feel the flow of clensing water, the smooth dust of earth, the heat of the firey sun... Too long has he waited to know such joys again...

But for now, he had to stick to his goals, to save Weyard, no matter what happened to him.

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On board a boat bound for the Kalay harbor, a stowed-away Hama secretly thanked the powers of psynergy that she had the powers to hide herself with illusions. She did not know what drew her to that source of energy, or why she allowed herself to go there, but it felt, like something was needed, something missing...

But what?

She did not know, and her impatience was a risk that she dared not expose herself to. Summoning a light sleep spell, she dozed her thoughts, allowing her to think at a slower pace, clensing herself of her childhood "qualities."

Somewhere nearby, her brother was being cared for by the master of the boat, some merchant who was traveling the world. She knew what her "parents" had said to him, but she altered the thougts that he had. Instead of allowing him to leave at a suddon period of catastrophy, he now was going to keep him with him, to train him to be a merchant.

She knew not why she did this, but having read the mind of the one who killed her parents had informed her that a change was on its way, an end to some sort of dilemma.

Without knowing why she did as she did, she dozed off, falling into a light sleep...

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What do you think? Granted, these events took place at the same time as last chapter, but still...

Feel free to guess what will happen! And tell me what you like of this chapter!! I need some input!!

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