Author's Note:


First I would like to acknowledge my reviewers. Thank you all!

Akachi: I am glad you liked it. I personally don't like Menardi/Saturos but your views are your own. Tell me if you like the second chapter!

Mare Serenitatis: (cool name) Thank you for your insight! I was wondering who would catch that parallel! ^.^

Jupiter Sprite: Thank you for giving the story a chance even though the pairing was one you weren't comfortable with! It means a lot.

Azusasan: ^.^ My favorite Golden Sun author likes my fic. *feints* Thank you so much for reviewing!

Torrid: Yes, Saturos will die *cries*. But is he really gone or is he still among us? You tell me!

And a special thank you to my best friend and fellow author UmbrielBluethorn! She was the inspiration for this fic and she is my constant suport...even though she likes randomness a bit too much.


Do me a favor and if you are just joining the fic, go back and read the Author's note for the first chapter if you didn't already. There is only one thing to add to that and I don't feel like repeating myself.


The one thing that must be added:

Parings: Jenna/Saturos (main pairing), Alex/Mia, and Felix/Picard(mention)

If you have a problem with any of the three pairings use your brain when deciding if you want to read this fic. None of the pairings are and will not be graphic, but please do not flame me about my pairing decisions.


Now that the formalities are over, sit back and enjoy the second chapter of Fantasies!


Fantasies: Tomegathericon Dreams


Heat lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the dark clouded night for a second's time. Below in the rather large village Kibombo, torches were lit and blazing, casting an eerie light into the shadows. Doors had been closed and windows locked. Candles had been lit in front of the doorways of every home. The village entrance was quiet as all of the Kibombo people were crowed in reverence around the statue of the Great Gomba. Only the chanting of the Kibombo warriors could be heard, using a language that only the Kibombo understood.

Felix was sitting behind the statue, attempting to meditate. Yes, attempting was the key word. It was hard enough with the chanting of the warriors and the curses of the supposed witch doctor, but the arguing of his companions didn't help either. Well only two of them were arguing. Picard and Kraden were arguing about how to get into the Gomba statue. Sheba was trying to stop the argument before they were noticed, which was unlikely as the witch doctor seemed to have his hands full at the moment. And Jenna was leaning against part of the rock wall scowling. Felix's eyes flickered over his sister's frame. For some reason after the Venus Lighthouse she had changed. Black leather and blood red silk had replaced the vibrant red and purple clothing she had worn before. A sarcastic, edgy temper had replaced the innocent girl he had known before. Strangely enough this started after her 17th birthday, the age when she would have been eligible to become engaged in Vale. Of course the chances now that she would be forced to mary were slim because their parents weren't exactly able to arrange a marriage for her. In truth Felix was stumped, he would have never guessed what was wrong with Jenna, but for some reason Alex either knew or guessed. Felix's mind raced back to the encounter at Alhafra, when Alex had detained Felix after seeing what Jenna had become. "Watch her closely." Alex had told him. Felix had tried to ask what Alex meant but all Alex would talk about was a girl called Mia. Felix hadn't seen the connection then, and he still didn't now.


Sighing, Felix got up from where he had been sitting on a rock off to the side of the Great Gomba. Walking over to where Picard and Kraden were arguing he unceremoniously grabbed both of them and hauled them over to where there were four rocks arranged in a circular shape. Holding his hand out over the patch of dirt in the middle he felt the familiar tug of Psyenergy as a ghostly hand parted from his fingertips and plowed downward into the earth, scooping out a large section of dirt and revealing a ladder leading down into a passageway.

"And you couldn't have done this before, why?" Picard asked Felix pointedly.

Felix shrugged, climbing down into the ladder silently. Felix was a man of few words, actions spoke more anyway.


The heat of the sun rained down upon Jenna's prone body. She felt the slight drift of the current pulling the island towards some unknown area and could hear Kraden babbling about something to her but nothing registered. It didn't really matter after all what Kraden said. It wouldn't change what had happened. It wouldn't change that Saturos was dead.

One of Kraden's words infiltrated the haze if Jenna's thoughts. Hungry? How could he be hungry at a time like this? What an idiot. Jenna longed to just tell him to leave her alone but he already thought she was in a bad mood today anyway. And why wouldn't she be? Saturos was dead. Dead. As in gone from this realm of existence. He was probably at the entrance to Hades right now. Silently Jenna prayed to the Dark God of the Underworld that Saturos would not be put in the seventh ring. Surely he didn't deserve that.


"JENNA!"

Jenna started, her eyes focusing on the blond girl in front of her. "What is it Sheba?" she asked, sounding more cross than she meant to. Why was it that she couldn't let go? Saturos was gone. She had been through crushes before, so why did she still see him whenever she let her guard down? Why did she still hear his voice talking? Why did she keep reliving the pain she felt when she learned of his death? The only logical answer was that she loved him in more than the school-girl crush way. But that information didn't help her now, or did it?

"Felix found a way into the Gomba statue. Everyone already went inside...I thought you would want to come too..."

Yes she had definitely been to cross when she had answered the girl. Smiling lightly she moved away from the rock she had been leaning on. "Thank you Sheba. I was...thinking."

Even though the smile had been forced on Jenna's part, Sheba's slightly hurt look evaporated into the childish innocent look that she most always wore. Not feeling much remorse Jenna tuned out what Sheba was saying as they descended into the statue. The cultures of these people fascinated Jenna. Their beliefs were so different than the Gods that she knew of. These people actually believed that the statue, that she now saw was filled with gears and was not a spiritual guide at all, would respond to whatever that witch doctor was doing. Returning back to reality Jenna was glad that Sheba appeared to know where she was going, or at least that Sheba had good navigational skills because Jenna hadn't paid any attention to where they were. Following Sheba around a corner she saw Felix picking up a battered Djinni while Picard was busy taking a rather large brier thorn out of his left arm. Jenna hissed when she saw how deeply it was imbedded but Picard didn't seem to mind as a bluish glow surrounded him and he pulled the thorn out as if it was just an offending thing that he wanted to get rid of, more of an annoyance than a painful object.

Sheba called out to them waving a hand in the air. Seeing the two of them Kraden made some comment about "at last you caught up" which Jenna purposely didn't listen to.

For the rest of the trip Jenna was lost in her own world, pulled out of her trance one when they needed Lash to hold a gear in place, and once when Sheba asked if anything was wrong.

What Jenna didn't know was that Felix was watching her. Alex's words had struck a cord in his brotherly instincts. He wanted to know what Jenna was so depressed about but she gave no clues as to what was wrong. The only spark of interest he saw was when she saw the room behind the Great Gomba's eyes. After they figured out the mechanism Jenna was all for some Pounding, so Sheba, Kraden, Felix, and Picard moved off to the side as she went about pounding in the floor tiles. She went slowly and carefully, as if she wanted to make sure that there were no mistakes. But Felix saw a grim look of satisfaction cross her face whenever the booming Pound rang out across the chamber.

She had just finished the path for the blue generator when shouting caught their attention. Sheba and Picard when to the Great Gomba's eye sockets and reported that the witch doctor was trying to appeal to the Great Gomba. Felix watched Picard's eyes narrow as he saw the black jewel-like orb being lifted up to the statue's mouth.

The movement of black clothing caught Felix's eye as he saw Jenna cross to the eye windows of the Gomba statue. There was a strange look on her face, almost eager. But what had Jenna figured out that no one else had.

Felix had his answer when fire shot out of the Gomba statue causing the witch doctor to run around crazily before yelling at the warriors to pray louder. Felix caught Jenna's eye as she turned away from the spectacle. Raising an eyebrow, he watched a smile cross her face. A genuine smile, the first he had seen from her since the Venus Lighthouse.


When both the generators' paths had been completed the Gomba statue "accepted" the Black Orb and the strange witch doctor entered the statue. Jenna watched with interest as the spirit of the Statue talked to them. Sheba watched the older girl, watched a gleam in the girl's reddish eyes appear as the spirit spoke of the powers which that witch doctor (what was his name again? no one had really paid any attention) had left behind. It had troubled her but she had no time to check as Jenna had disappeared for the rest of the night and Kraden had insisted that Jenna be left alone and that Sheba join in the festivities that went on through the night.

And the festivities had gone on until the early hours of the morning when the sun was just peeking through the trees. Dancing, partying, feasting. The people of Kibombo had spared no expense for their rejoicing. And everyone welcomed four extra travelers as long as the travelers were willing to rejoice with them. Picard had remarked that the food had well made up for the insolence of the witch doctor and all the hocus pocus of the Gomba Statue.

Sheba was now getting ready to go to bed, even though it was morning. She pulled down the curtain over the one eastern window, noting almost sadly the bed that Jenna would have occupied were she here. Climbing into bed, sleep was just about to take over her when a hand over her mouth caused her to start in surprise.

"It's okay. It's just me." Sheba relaxed, recognizing the speaker to be Jenna. Jenna moved away from Sheba's bed and over to where Felix had placed her bad. She started rummaging through it as Sheba got up.

"Where were you all night?" Sheba asked.

"Just out looking around." Jenna answered easily but Sheba's Mind Read knew that Jenna was lying. "I need your help with something."

"What?" Sheba asked, interested in spite of herself. Jenna turned back towards the girl sitting upright in bed. The Mars Adept held a whitish chip in her hands that glowed with a psyenergetic light. Sheba felt her own power drawn to it as Jenna walked over to where she was sitting.

"Do you remember what that spirit said about more magic that the witch doctor should have had?" Jenna asked. When Sheba nodded Jenna went on. "Well, there's a cave underneath the Gomba Statue. I don't know how far deep it is but I need your help to get to the end of the cave."

"Why? You have more Psyenergy than I do-"

"But it's not the right kind. See, Sheba, this is what's called a Cyclone Chip. I-err- borrowed it from the mayor back in Madra. I need to use Cyclone to get around the cave but since I'm not a Jupiter Adept..."

Sheba thought about it. She didn't want to help. In Sheba's opinion taking what was meant for the witch doctor was wrong but this was the first time Jenna was really excited about something. Then Jenna said the one thing that made all the difference.

"There's a Djinni in the cave."

"I'm in." Sheba said quickly. Getting out of bed and hurriedly dressing Sheba followed Jenna out of the inn towards the Gomba Statue.


Felix tossed and turned in his sleep. Hands rolled over Felix's body, calloused seamen's hands that sent Felix's body through heaven and hell at the same time. Felix rode the waves of ecstasy when-

Thud. Brown eyes flashed open to glare at the wood of the floorboards. Groan. What was going on with those dreams? They had been haunting Felix since, well, since the first night at Madra. But he never knew who it was.

Felix pulled himself back on top of his bed and was attempting to go back to sleep when more thuds of flesh on wood broke his concentration. The knocking ceased and the door opened to reveal Picard. The Mercury Adept looked worried as he stood in the doorway.

"Get up. Sheba and Jenna have disappeared."

Felix bolted upright. "What?"

"You heard me. Get up. Kraden said he thinks he knows where they are."


Jenna looked at the book in her hands. It was a black volume, not to thick, with red lettering on the cover...blood red lettering. Tomegathericon. The book held her in a trance so compelling that she vaguely heard Sheba saying something about going to find the Djinn and then coming back.

The Fire Adept nodded and heard the footsteps of the Jupiter Adept fade away as she sat down, back against the Gomba statue's alter and opened the book. Strangely there were no letters on the page, only pictures. Pictures of Fire, Chaos, Destruction. Pictures that showed the dead walking into Hades. The Book, even though it was from a seemingly different religion still pictured the Underworld as the way Jenna's religion saw it. Briefly Jenna wondered if the Book modified its pages to whoever was reading it but the tug of the book was to strong and she could only watch as the pages turned on their own accord. Pictures flashed of the seven rings of Hades, the river Styx, the undead who were doomed to walk the earth forever. As she watched a glow surrounded her, an erie, black and red glow that pulled her from her seating position to stand in the center of the ground before the golden alter. The Book flew from her hands to levitate in front of her as the pictures, now imbedded in her mind, wove themselves into spells. Zombie. Fiery Abyss. Condemn. They all seemed like child's play now. And the even darker spells made themselves known the the once Mars Adept. Spells to control the dead of Hades, spells that were the very difference between life and death.

Jenna felt, rather than saw, her hair whip free from her ponytail that she wore, the tips now died black. The very strands braided themselves into long little cornbraids, each one ending with a black or red beads which flew from the jewels of the alter behind her to the braids.

With a final flash of black light the book dropped to the ground and dissolved, sinking into the earth and disappearing. Jenna's eyes were unfocused as she looked around what had been an empty room. White, transparent, figures drifted through the walls to look at her, quietly whispering to each other. In shock she realized what they were and blinked. In that instant the luster faded and they disappeared. But Jenna knew what she had seen.

A smug smile on the girl's face, Jenna walked away from the alter. A dark power now ran through her veins, coursed through her soul, and shielded her mind. Jenna was now a Dark Mage. And now there was no going back.


A.N. So what do you think? Can anyone guess what will happen next?