Golden Sun: Nightmares
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Chapter 3 "Departure."
"Are you ready yet?" called Jenna to Mia.
"Yeah." Mia called back. She walked out, with her staff in hand, and walked along side Jenna.
"What do you have there, Mia" asked Jenna, regarding Mia's pack.
It looked like it carried a few number of items, and looked like the bag was going to burst any second. "This? I just brought a few potions. Just incase. And I also stocked up on Psy Crystals." Mia explained for the heavy bulk.
"You call that a few?" Jenna asked. It was amazing how many potions, Psy Crystals and herbs you could fit into one bag.
Mia shifted the bag, and chuckled. "I guess I should have gone light on the items, but you never know. I mean...We might have to fight Isaac..."
At this statement, both girls grew quiet. Sure, they knew that they would eventually catch up to Isaac, and try to stop him from lighting the Celestial Lighthouse, but they didn't think they would really have to fight Isaac.
"Yeah...We probably will..." Jenna agreed. Though she knew what had happened to Isaac, she was still confused on how such a strong teen as Isaac, could be taken advantage of so easily. "But I doubt he will be able to cause enough damage to kill us. After all, we do have about 6 Adepts with us."
"Even so..." Mia said. "You have to consider that he has Alchemy running through his veins. Therefore he will have new attacks that we might not be able to defend ourselves against."
"Oh...Right..." Jenna said, cringing slightly. She'd almost forgotten that Isaac was the wielder of Alchemy, and therefore, he controlled all the elements, therefore, making him stronger then all of them put together.
Mia quickly changed the subject after a few moments of silence. "Are you upset about Garet?"
Jenna looked to the ground. "Yeah...I'm worried. What if he doesn't make it?"
Mia smiled warmly. "Of course he will. He has been able to pull through tougher things then this. He's as stubborn as a ox."
"Yeah. And he's also as stupid as one!" Jenna retorted.
At her statement, they both laughed heartily. Jenna felt her spirits lift with the thought of Garet pulling through. I can't believe I even thought he wouldn't make it!
"That reminds me." Jenna said, remembering what she was going ask Mia before. "Did you tell Isaac before he went...You know...Before he went nuts?"
"Told him what?" Mia asked, pausing in her tracks.
"How dense can you get?" Jenna said, slightly exasperated. Mia was obviously confused. "I mean, did you tell Isaac that you loved him?"
Mia turned crimson. "Wha-I don't know what you're talking about!" Mia said quickly. Just thinking about him made her heart thump madly.
"Oh, come on!" Jenna sighed. "It is so obvious that you like him! Even Garet, as dense as he is, could tell that you liked him when you first saw him!"
Mia suddenly became very interested at her feet.
"I knew it!" Jenna shrieked, pointing a finger at her. "So did you tell him?"
"Well...Not really..." Mia said, wringing her fingers nervously. "I never really had a chance to get him alone..."
Jenna sighed. "Don't worry Mia! I'll help you!" she said happily. She slapped a hand onto Mia's shoulder. "We'll get you two hooked up, and then you'll be happy as a daisy!"
With that, she pulled Mia behind her, urging her towards the boat so that they could get going.
"What's a daisy?" Mia asked.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Where were you two?" Felix asked as they entered the boat.
The boat rocked softly against the waves that washed up against its hull. It was a large ship that belonged to Picard. It was a Lemurian ship that could only be steered by Adepts. If any other person besides an Adept tried to steer it, it wouldn't even move.
"Sorry Felix." Jenna said, throwing her own pack onto the floor. "Mia and I had a little, discussion." She winked secretly to Mia. She blushed.
"Oh well, what matters is that you're on the ship." Picard said quickly. "We should get going before it gets dark, don't you think Felix?"
Felix nodded.
He thrust a thumb to the small cabin and said, "Go put your stuff in one of the rooms." Both of the girls nodded.
They went to the lower parts of the ship, went into any room, threw their stuff in, and walked back up the surface. By the time they reached the top, they were already floating along the coast of Angara.
"If we're heading to Mars Lighthouse, then we'll have to pass through the Gondowan Cliffs, and then after we pass through, we can go and rest at Contigo."
When Felix said this, Ivan's face lit up. He would finally, after a year, be able to see his sister Hamma.
"And after Contigo, we go straight to Prox. Understood?"
They all nodded.
"Then we're off!" Picard said.
The boat slowly lifted from the water, and floated for a while, and then began to drift across the sea, going much faster then they had ever gone before. Felix took to the steering, and tried to control the ship at the speed it was going, and seemed to be doing a very good job of it.
The wind sailed through them, making them feel refreshed; it had been a while since they had gone out to sea.
The sea was calm, and the sky showed no signs of brewing a storm onto them.
That was until they reached the coast of South Gondowan…
* * * * * * * * * *
Isaac lifted his arms to the sky, and let his hands illuminate with a soft violet glow. As he did this, the clouds around the area he was in-namely, a hill-began to rumble, and quickly fade from white to a black so pitch, no sunlight was able to get through.
Wind began to gather around him, and started to circle clockwise, making the clouds also spin. The sky rumbled, as though whole armies tramped around on the clouds. Rain poured out from the clouds, the wind ripping out whole sections of the hill.
He pointed a finger towards the sea, where he knew that Felix and the rest of them were sailing, and pointed another finger towards Kibombo, and another towards Daila, which was right behind him.
He parted the clouds into three sections, and hissed, "Go…"
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Meanwhile, the winds in the area the others were sailing in, were starting to get rough. The sea was starting to boil, the waves gathering in height and strength. A wave hurled itself to the hull of the ship, making it rock violently.
"Was that a wave?" shouted Ivan over the roar of the wind.
"Yes!" Picard yelled back, looking at the sea around them. He, currently, was in the crow's nest, trying to navigate their way through the storm that had suddenly unleashed upon them.
"How could it reach up to our height?" asked Jenna.
"This isn't a normal storm!" Felix yelled, the realization popping into his head suddenly. "Isaac must have created this storm!"
Mia looked to the west, and saw the other area were perfectly normal and dry. "Felix is right! All the other areas are perfectly dry!"
As she said this, a wave rose up west of them, and washed over them. Mia, Sheba, Jenna, and Ivan were pushed up against the side of the boat. They all stood up shakily, surprised by the strength of the wave.
"Are you guys alright?" shouted Felix over his shoulder. He looked worriedly at them all, looking them from head to toe.
"We're fine Felix!" Sheba called back. She wiped her damp hair away from her eyes, and shouted to Felix, "Watch out!"
Felix snapped his head back, noticing the wall of water about to ram into them. Felix tried to turn the steering wheel as fast as he could, noticing that the wave was beginning to curl at the top.
But he wasn't fast enough.
The wave rammed into them, with such rage, it threw Felix, and the rest of them, into the side of the boat. It even managed to hit Picard in the crow's nest, and was even able to pull him off, and into the sea.
When they all recovered from the blow, The mast, where the crow's nest was, had cracked in half, and had sent it into the ocean.
"How's everybody?" asked Mia shakily. They all nodded, showing that they were fine.
"Where's Picard?" asked Jenna.
They all ran to the side of the ship, except Felix, who went back to try and steer the boat closer to land.
The found Picard, hanging desperately onto a piece of wood that had been discarded by the crow's nest. "Picard!" Ivan called. "We'll be right back! We're going to help you!"
He looked up, and waved a hand, showing that he had understood, and heard their cry.
Sheba ran to the cabin, and came out with a rope in hand. Jenna grabbed an end of the rope, and rushed to what was left of the mast, and tied it to the mast, making sure that the rope was on tightly.
Then she ran to grab hold onto the rope, and helped to pull up Picard.
Picard quickly grabbed hold of the rope that was thrown to him, and proceeded to wrap the rope around his hand a few times, and then grabbed it with both hands. He was slowly pulled up the side of the boat.
As they were doing this, Felix was trying desperately to keep the boat steady. Even though they were floating off the water, the waves still managed to wash over them over and over again.
How much more can this ship take? He looked at the hull, and was shocked to see a huge crack running up, and almost reaching to where he was. "Apparently…Not much…" he muttered to himself.
He had to get out of this storm. If he wasn't able to do so in a few more minutes, all that would be left of the ship would be a few splinters.
It seems like Isaac isn't his usual cheery self… Felix thought bitterly. He looked straight ahead, and gasped.
There was Isaac…
* * * * * * * * * *
Isaac watched from a small distance, smiling at their misfortune. As he watched, he saw that Felix had discovered that he was there.
"It seems like Felix has found us…" Alex said. He saw Felix's face light up with the features of surprise.
"Yes…" Isaac, said calmly. The thought of knowing that Felix had seen them didn't seem to bother him. "I know…Just what I wanted…"
* * * * * * * * * *
What's Isaac doing here? Felix thought, his calm reserves slowly being pushed away, and being replaced by panic.
He saw Isaac's face light up with a smile, but it wasn't a warm smile. It was a smile devoid of feeling, flashing across his face lightly. Even from the distance they were at, Felix could see Isaac's eyes flashing with crimson.
This isn't going to be pretty… Felix thought, as he docked the ship onto the beach.
He stepped off, and faced Isaac, who used to be his friend. Isaac smiled, and clapped his hands. "Well done. I didn't think you would survive that storm I gave you…"
Isaac looked behind Felix, and saw Jenna, Picard, Mia, Ivan, and Sheba standing behind him. "Garet's not with you I see…" He let out a cold laugh. "I guess I must have really hurt him." He stared into Jenna's eyes. "How'd you like that gift I gave you Jenna?"
She looked livid, brandishing her Tisiphone Edge. (1)
"Oh. You want to fight?" Isaac asked, looking mildly surprised.
Alex smiled, and said, "I'll leave them for your care…"
"Alright. They'll be fun to kill…" Isaac unsheathed his Sol Blade, the crimson glinting off the blade.
Jenna clenched her fists on the hilt of her weapon. That Sol Blade was stained with the blood of her friend. Even her own blood was clinging onto that sword, and the blood of who knows how many others.
"Isaac…I don't want to fight you. Neither of us do." Felix said, also brandishing his Fire Brand. "But if this is the only way to get you back to normal, then I'll have to do this, even if it pains me to do so…"
All the others also brandished their own weapons. Mia took out her Dracomace, Ivan brandished his Phaeton's Blade, Picard took out his Masamune, and Sheba took out her Meditation Rod.
"Foolish friends…" Isaac hissed. He waved his Sol Blade to his side, and watched as fresh blood leaked onto the grass. He turned his head back to them. "Do you not know how many I have killed already in such a short time?"
All of them frowned, not wanting to hear the answer.
"Even I don't know." Isaac said coldly. "But I will give you a hint. How many people do you think there were in Kalay and Vault? If you knew, the answer would add up to how many have been slain at my hands."
"You…You mean to tell me, that you destroyed Vault and Kalay…?" Mia said faintly. She couldn't believe that the man she loved, had destroyed, and killed so many.
"No!" Ivan cried. "Master Hammet!" Even though Master Hammet wasn't his actual father, he had grown close to him. It couldn't be that he was gone.
"Oh…Don't worry little Ivan…" Isaac hissed. "He was spared. He was lucky not to be in Kalay at the time…Very lucky…"
"What's wrong with you?" Sheba cried. "You're not Isaac! He would never have done all this! He would never try and kill his friends!"
"Then you'll have to be content with the new Isaac." He said coldly. He brandished his sword, and said, "Now…I believe that we're done talking…"
He lifted a hand, and yelled out, "Storm!"
A ring black clouds formed over them, and fire rained from the heavens, all headed straight towards them. Picard stepped out, and called out, "Shade!"
A small creature, with yellow eyes and blue scales leaped into the air, and spewed out millions of bubbles, and netted them all tightly together, and formed a sturdy barrier all around them.
The balls of fire rained on them, but missed them entirely. The balls all formed a circle around them, and sunk into the ground.
"What's going on?" Ivan asked.
Picard frowned, and called back Shade. It would be better to save him for later. "He missed us!" Jenna said.
"Think again…" Isaac, said coolly.
A wall of fire sprang up all around them, and quickly formed a tornado. They were all sucked up, unprotected by Shade; Picard didn't even have time to call out Shade again. They continued to spin, the fire burning them badly. A bolt of lightning then shot straight through the tornado, striking them all, and paralyzing then with pain.
The tornado suddenly disappeared, crashing them onto the ground.
They all lay motionless, their bodies too wracked with pain to even move. "That-that was a fire and…and wind attack put together…!" Felix gasped out.
Isaac walked up to them, his arms crossed across his chest. He was smiling evilly at them. "Did you like my attack? I guess it surprised you all…didn't it…?"
Jenna stood up weakly, her knees weak.
They all also started to stand up, but very slowly; the attack had weakened them tremendously.
"Haven't had enough?" Isaac asked. He lifted a hand, and yelled, "Gaia-"
He felt something slam into him, and send his sprawling to the ground. He lay on the ground, completely shocked. How could it be that someone was able to get so close to him without him noticing?
He sat up, and saw a very smug looking Mia.
She held up a vile, and the realization hit him. A Potion…
Isaac gritted his teeth, and stood up. He looked around, and saw that everybody else was also getting up. It looked like Mia had been smart to get out of the way before she was hit by the attack.
"No matter…" he said in a low voice. "You still won't be able to destroy me…Or kill me…"
He stood up, laughed softly. "I'm glad you all prepared well…Stocking up on Potions, and Psy Crystals…Because I'm sure you're going to need all the help you can get…"
"I've had enough of this!" Felix shouted, his anger coursing through his body. They all looked at Felix in surprise, even Isaac. Felix was never one to get angry so easily.
He lifted his hand, and cried out, "Odyssey!"
A warm glow of golden light surrounded Felix, blinding them all slightly. The light split into 3 sections, each one of them forming into a massive sword of light. He pointed his hand towards Isaac, the swords of light shooting towards Isaac at incredible speed.
Isaac smirked, and held up his hands, and called out, "Granite!"
A small creature with blue eyes and brown scales leaped out, and dove into the ground. Vines shot up from the ground, and formed a wall all around Isaac.
The swords struck the wall, and the whole area exploded in golden light. They all covered their eyes from the blinding spectacle. When the light cleared, the wall of vines was still standing, but it had a few holes in it.
The vines then were brought back into the ground, revealing an empty space behind it. "Where'd he go?" Sheba asked. They all looked around, checking everywhere, but finding nothing.
"He managed to escape…" Picard said.
"That was a great show of power Felix." Said a familiar cold voice.
They all looked up, and saw Isaac standing on a hill. "You're lucky I didn't attack you when I had the chance." He smiled. "But I have better things to do…"
He looked away from them, and watched something in the distance. He looked as though he were calculating something. "Tell me…" he asked them. "How long do you think it will take you to get to Contigo?"
They all looked at each other.
"About 4 days…" Mia said softly. Isaac smirked, and said, "Well…I hope you'll be able to get there before I get there." He laughed softly. "Because if you get there after I've been there, I think all you'll find is a whole bunch of burning bodies and houses."
"No…" Ivan said shakily. "You…You wouldn't…"
Isaac smile widened. "Try me." He then looked at the large crack in the hull of their ship. "I suggest you get that fixed. But remember, it could delay your departure to Contigo…"
With that, he turned, and walked away from them, leaving them all stunned by his words. It couldn't be that he had changed that much? How could he destroy Vault, Kalay, and then try and destroy Contigo?
"We have to leave right away!" Ivan said desperately. He couldn't bear to know that his hometown would be destroyed, along with his sister Hamma. "We can't let Isaac beat us to Contigo!"
"We know that you're worried about Hamma." Jenna said quietly. "But I don't think there's anything we can do…"
Yay! Another chapter down! And who knows how many to go! Yes, short chapter, but I wanted to leave it at a good ending, and this probably isn't it, but oh well! ^_^
So what do you think will happen? Will they make it to Contigo on time? Will they only find another massacre there? Who knows! I certainly don't! And if you have time, please R & R. It's not a lot to ask! ^_^
And in response to Net Strife's question, yes. This will have a little of Mia/Isaac romance. And maybe a little of Garet/Jenna, and Ivan/Sheba. Who knows! I don't know either!
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(1) All their weapons are based on my game.