Love Line
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Chapter Four - Menacing Monstrocity Meets Meal
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If you haven't noticed by now, most of my titles have patterns (note all M's in this one). Anywho...

Before I do a little talking, please note that Dragona is not related to me in anyway; She is in fact a student at my school, and the little joke that I threw into a story once has made some think that she is something of mine. Just clearing this up...

I have GS2, and it /is/ Isaac/Jenna Garet/Mia!!! Yahooo!! And I have met up with Isaac and crew, and was disapointed when I learned about someone close to Ivan. I will not spoil it now, for many of you either haven't got it yet (shame on you) or you haven't gotten there yet. Be warned, the puzzles are decicively harder, and transfering your previous characters full stats really helps later on. Trust me.

I have yet to fully beat it yet, as I lack a few summon tablets and dijjin (and thus I wait to finish until I have them). So while my brain catches up, let me get into this chapter.

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Isaac seethed with rage as the blasted creature doged his attacks. The warrior that beat a possesed tree, delt Saturos the wounding blow, slayed the giant ape, and found a missing rod, was now being bested by stupid desert rats. Before, various wolves and misshapened pig warriors had fought him and lost, and he was now loosing...

Nearby, Mia and Ivan stood close, casting various psynergies at the little cretins, while Garet again triped over his fallen axe, which had loged itself into another rock after the oaf threw it at a rat. The heat had taken a toll on the four adepts, as none of them were used to the insane heat. Garet's weapons only added to his suffering with their tremendous weight, and Ivan's garments pulled heat into them, not letting any of it out. Worst of all was Mia, whose northern attire had been stripped down to just the outer layers, leaving the thermal innards to travel on Garets back (oddly enough, at his suggestion). If not for the aid of Master Hamma, the few oasis pools would've never been found, and they would've died.

Approaching another cave entrance, the group settled down to cool in the shady mouth. Garet helped Mia to a rock, while Ivan took over guard duty. Isaac stood nearby, watching to see if any of the stupid rats followed him, intent on humiliating him.

"...ey like each other?"

Looking at Ivan, Isaac gave a quizical look.

"Is it just me, or do they like each other?" quipped the small teen.

Glancing at Garet and Mia, Isaac shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe..."

"Thinking of Jenna again?"

"Yeah..." Isaac sighed. "Why did this have to happen? Felix... damn you. Why'd you do it...?"

"Holy Gawd!"

Turning around with hopes to see Saturos and Felix, Isaac instead saw a massive beast looming above him. At least eight feet high, the creature had the body of a dog, the head of a lion, and the stinger of a scorpion on a tail that nearly stabbed Garet. Drawing his blade, Isaac made a dash towards the beast's right fore-paw. Blade slicing through meat, the creature greeted him with a swipe of a tale, throwing him into the wall of the cave.

Ivan backpeddled, casting various bolts of psynergy, while Mia sewed mists of healing water towards Garet, who dashed at the head of the beast, axe waving madly.

Arms bleeding, he shethed his blade and called upon his earthern powers to hold the beast, letting Ivan and Garet get a shot in.

Garet's axe met the chest of the beast, blood spilling onto his firey hair. Ivan shot the beast in the back, hoping to distract it. But the wounded creature instead hit the only vulnerable member of the team:

Mia.

Stinger dripping with poisonous fluids, the needle-sharp point landed in her arm, sending her flying into a wall...

...and Garet ran towards her...

...leaving Ivan helpless to the beasts.

Growling, Isaac again drew his blade and ran at the monster, only to see it strike out towards the kneeling Garet. Knocking it's head aside with his axe, Garet grabed a spare long sword and drove it into the creature's head, sealing the roof of the mouth to the jaw.

Seeing opportunity, Isaac ran under the beast, slicing into it's chest, causing the creature to retreat to lick it's wounds.

Ivan walked up to Isaac. "Seems that it knows when to give up, huh? I won..."

Wondering why Ivan paused, Isaac turned...

...and saw a crazy Garet pumping the last of the antidotes into Mia. The crazy son of a gun had used all of the antidotes, herbs, and elixers to cure the blow, which looked to be more the poison's doing than the stinger.

And despite his friend's apparent crisis, Isaac smiled. Garet had found a girl that he liked, and there was a good chance that she liked him...

...and if Garet could get a girl, then Isaac could save Jenna, no question.

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I would do another Felix-view, but after playing GS2, I can't do to the fact that not many have played it yet, and I would draw from info from late in the game.

This chap. came to me as I tried to go to sleep, but failed until this idea hit me. And apparently, I just might have to move "Pencive Pencil" into this story, given the rate at which I reference it.

Go ahead and Review, as the input makes me feel good. And if you flame, I'll try to correct my errors. Thanks again!

--Mikaa, Lord of the Flypaper