Golden Sun: Nightmares

Okay...The second last chapter here folks! Not including the epilogue! ^o^ Anyway, hope you like it! Sorry for the delay again, but as you know, high school is a b*tch. (Unless most of you are in elementary school still…)

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Chapter 8 "Fight for Weyard."

Isaac stood in front of them , not moving, or doing anything. Felix found this strange, but before he could voice his concern, Jenna was running towards him, about to stab him. Felix saw Isaac's eyes glow crimson, and he shouted in fear for his sister, "Jenna! Look out!"

She skidded to a halt, and tried to stab Isaac in the stomach, but he was too fast for her. He jumped over her, and came up from behind her. Jenna turned around wildly, just to receive a punch to her stomach.

She let out a sort of strained gasp, and was blown away, nearly falling off the edge. "Jenna!" Mia cried, running to heal Jenna.

She was about to reach Jenna, when she felt arms wrap around her body. She froze, unwilling to even breath, because she was afraid to see who it was.

"Don't try to help her..." Isaac whispered in her ear. She gulped, and squirmed in his arms. His arms held tight, refusing to let her go. "Unless you want to die..." Mia frowned, and said in a whisper, "But...She could be really hurt..." Isaac breathed on her neck, and she could see his crimson eyes staring her down from the corner of her eye.

At that time, Picard jumped in, trying to help Mia, along with Felix. Isaac noticed this effort, and pushed her away from him. She fell just inches from the edge. Isaac leaped away from them, and held out his hand. "Spout!"

A large stream of water formed in front of him, and shot towards Felix and Picard. They were able to get out of the way before it hit them, and lunged at Isaac at the same time. Isaac saw Felix call out Meld, and smirked. "Futile..."

Felix and Picard swung at the same time, aiming for Isaac's chest, but Isaac dropped to one knee. They gasped in surprise. How could he be fast? Isaac held both hands, and shouted, "Twin Edger!" Two beams of gold light shot out from his palms, and slammed into both Felix and Picard. They went flying, crashing into statues.

Mia helped Jenna up, just in time to hear an ear splitting crash. Jenna looked up in fear. "Felix! Picard!" Mia went running towards them both, casting Pure Ply on both of them. She glared at Isaac. How can you be so cold? Why are you doing this to both of your friends?

Jenna ran towards her brother, and asked in a frantic voice, "Are you alright?" Felix stood up, and spit out some blood that was in his mouth. "I'm fine." he answered, just as a thin tendril of blood trickled from his forehead. "How can you say that's you're alright?" Jenna shrieked, nearly panicking from fear.

Picard stood up as well, and wiped some blood from the corner of his mouth.

"We have to attack together..." Ivan said in a soft voice. Sheba nodded in agreement. "If we all attack with our strongest attacks at the same time, we should be able to confuse him. At least for a moment."

"Good idea!" Jenna said happily. She prepared to attack, as did everyone else.

Isaac stared at them, hiding a small smile. Do they think they can hide this from me...? They don't realize that I can read their every thought...

Felix went first, and called out, "Grand Gaia!" Picard came after him, and summoned, "Megacool!" Both Sheba and Ivan called out, "Spark Plasma!" Jenna summoned, "Dragon Fume!" Mia cast her strongest attack, "Glacier!"

They all combined together, and shot towards Isaac as though the very elements were angry with his madness. Isaac smiled, and he held out a glowing hand. The attacks struck dead on, following with a great explosion and a giant cloud of smoke. They covered their eyes, and tried to see through the smoke.

Suddenly a great wind ripped through them, and cleared the smoke away. They looked towards where Isaac was standing, and were shocked to see him standing there, completely untouched. He smiled at them with a cold smile. "That was quite the attack..."

The looks of shock lingered on their faces, looking like they weren't going to recover any time soon, so Isaac decided to take his chance. He leaped into the air, and called forward, "Hellfire!" A large ring of fire appeared from his arm, and then continued to grow, leading straight towards them.

Picard recovered from the shock, and looked up, seeing a large ring of fire headed straight towards them. "Look out!" He yelled, bringing them out of their stares of shock.

They came to their senses, and managed to slip by, just as the ring crashed into the floor. It exploded, and when the smoke blew away with the wind, there was a large gaping hole that led straight through the Celestial Lighthouse. Then a large explosion and a rain of marble, and small flaming rocks shot out of the whole.

Isaac landed gracefully, and watched them to see their reactions. "Wow…" Ivan said through his gritted teeth. They knew that Alchemy was a powerful tool, but they didn't think it was as strong as Isaac made it seem.

"Do you still think you can defeat me?" asked Isaac quietly, gripping the hilt of his sword. Mia could almost see desperation in Isaac's eyes, pleading them not to fight anymore, because he didn't want to hurt them. Just when she was going to voice this, Felix stepped forward, and said firmly, "We don't care if we have to hurt you, Isaac. All that matters is if we manage to stop you!"

Isaac laughed softly, and stepped forwards as well. At this, Felix lunged towards Isaac, his sword pointed right at Isaac's head. Isaac sidestepped him, and slashed Felix right across the back. Then he sent a blow from his sword into Felix's side. Felix let out a small grunt of pain, and landed on the ground, his chest heaving with pain. Blood flowed all around him, his fingers clutching desperately at his side.

Isaac, Felix, and all the others knew that if Felix kept on bleeding as much as he was right now, he probably wouldn't survive. Felix focussed to cast Potent Cure, but he couldn't concentrate. The pain was closing off his concentration, clouding his thoughts and mind with dizziness.

Mia tried to move to Felix's side, but Isaac stepped in her way. "If you want to help him, you have to go through me." Mia bit her lip, unsure of what to do. If she didn't fight Isaac, then she wouldn't be able to save Felix, but if she did, she could very well end up dead, or she might hurt Isaac…

Before she could do anything, Isaac leaped at her, and hit her in the chest with the hilt of his sword. The breath was knocked out of her, and she was sent sprawling, her DracoMace spinning out of her reach. Isaac stood over her, and held the cold steel to her neck. She peered into the cold, icy eyes that were once filled with joy, and calmness, but now, they were filled with malice, and coldness.

The steel edged ever closer to her skin, until it finally managed to pierce her skin, sending a small trickle of blood down her neck. When she closed her eyes to receive the blow, there was nothing. She reopened her eyes, and saw Isaac still staring down into her eyes, but now they were filled with conflict, as though he couldn't bring himself to kill her. Mia took her chance, and pushed Isaac off her.

She reached towards her DracoMace, grabbed it, and held it steady towards Isaac's form on the floor. She called to the side, not taking her eyes off Isaac, "Picard! Go and heal Felix!"

Isaac smiled, and stood up steadily, watching Mia's DracoMace lazily, as though the thought of spikes digging into his body didn't bother him. There was a small flash of blue light, and Mia saw out of the corner of her eyes, Felix standing up, with a little help of Picard. Isaac then pushed Mia's mace away from him.

"That was a clever trick, Mia…" he said softly, still staring into her eyes. His crimson eyes boring into her eyes, made Mia uncomfortable; it was though Isaac was staring into her very soul. "Isaac…" Mia said, a little unsteadily. "I don't want to hurt you."

Isaac laughed, and said to her, "You won't be able to stop me alone."

"I could very well." Mia said, a little angry by Isaac's statement. It didn't matter that she was a girl, just as long as she could fight. "You don't know that."

"Then why don't we find out?" he asked, picking up his fallen Sol Blade. Mia stepped back a little, still holding the mace ready to strike if the need to.

It was then, a giant fireball went crashing into Isaac, catching him off guard, and sending him nearly over the edge. He crashed into a statue, and managed to stop himself before he fell. Jenna came running over, along with Sheba. "Are you alright?" she asked, slightly frantic. Mia nodded. "I'm fine."

She sent a quivering hand towards her neck, and could feel the moist blood soak into her gloves. She took them away, and held them in front of her eyes. Blood clung to her fingers, leaving her gloves sticky, and stained crimson. She took them off, and dropped them on the floor.

At that time, Isaac was standing up, a few small cuts on his body. There was a large cut going from the bottom of the eye, to nearly his neck. He smiled, and held a hand to his cheek. "You won't draw blood from me." He said, in a near whisper. "I won't allow you to."

His body pulsed with purple light, and then with red light. In his left hand, fire was forming, and in his right hand, blue lightning started to gather. Felix turned to Picard. "We can't take a chance. You have to call out, Shade."

"I'm not sure that is such a good idea, Felix." Picard said a little nervously. "Shade is to tired from protecting us from the other room."

"We have no choice!" Felix barked back at Picard, without meaning to. It was just to see their friend and leader attacking them was getting them all worried they would have to kill Isaac if he didn't revert to normal.

Picard clenched his teeth, and called out Shade in his mind. He heard a small squeak in his head, and then Shade leaped out, and protected them with the usual shield of bubbles. At this time, a ball of lightning formed in Isaac's outstretched palm with fire exploding off of it. He smiled evilly, and let the ball fly without a word.

It flew with a great roar, as though it were a monster, not a ball, running at them. They all tried their best to protect themselves, because they knew that Shade wouldn't be able to protect them for long.

As soon as the ball of lightning and fire hit the shield, it expanded, and slowly began to swallow them. Bolts of fire, and lightning struck the shield, slowly devouring the protective bubbles. Felix growled softly in his throat. If this kept up, the shield would collapse, and they would be seriously injured.

But the attack suddenly went out, like a gust of wind put it out. They looked up, and saw that Isaac was staring at them with a hard expression. "What just happened?" asked Ivan quietly, afraid that Isaac would suddenly attack them again.

"Let the shields down." Isaac demanded, staring at Picard with a cold face. "Now." Picard glared at Isaac, and hesitantly let the shield evaporate.

"What are you planning, Isaac?" shouted Sheba, though her face held a small look of fear. "It would be disgraceful to let you die in such a harmless way." Isaac said in a near whisper. "I'd rather kill you with my own hands and sword."

"That's heartless!" Jenna spat out, without meaning to. But seeing Isaac the way he was made her want to go over there, and slap him until he came back to his senses. Isaac smiled at her, the smile not even reaching his cold eyes. "I don't care if you think it's heartless or not…"

He paced in front of them, refusing to look at them in the eye. Mia didn't know why he didn't, but she had a feeling…

Isaac finally looked up, and held his sword towards them, the blood almost blinding them. "I want to fight only one of you." He said, glaring at them; his eyes flickered towards Mia a few times, she was certain of it. "Only one of us?" asked Jenna, looking at Isaac with a glare of suspicion. Isaac nodded.

He sheathed his sword, and said, "I'll give you a chance to decide. And if I defeat the one you send, then I'll fight another." He smirked at them. "Choose carefully." Felix turned to the others, turning his back reluctantly to Isaac. "We have to decide who we're going to send to fight Isaac."

"But we can't agree to this!" Sheba said in a hurried tone. "We can't afford to lose someone!" Picard shook his head.

He sneaked a look at Isaac, and saw that he was staring at the blood red sun that was starting to set. "I'm afraid we have no choice." Picard said after Isaac looked towards them with no feeling shown in his face.

"We…" Mia said timidly. "Could fool Isaac into thinking that there is only one person he's fighting." Ivan stared at Mia for a few moments, and then said, "That's a good idea."

"Then who do we send?" asked Jenna finally after a few moments of silence. "How about Mia?" said Felix. The others stared at Felix with disbelief in their eyes. "What?" stammered Picard, his eyes widening. "Mia?"

Mia glared at Picard. "Do you think I can't handle it?" she asked angrily, her temper getting the better of her. Picard held his hands in front of his defensively. "N-No!" he stammered, clearly scared Mia was going to attack him at anytime. "O-Of course not, Mia!"

"Then we have a plan." Sheba said, sneaking another look at Isaac. Felix frowned, and said, "We can't think of this, do you understand? Isaac can read our minds, and if he knows what we're planning, it might ruin the whole thing."

"Right." They all said at the same time.

They towards Isaac, and Felix said, "We've decided who we're going to send to fight you." Isaac smirked. "We're going to send Mia to fight you." Felix said, pushing Mia gently to the front.

Isaac stared at Mia with cold eyes. "This is the best you can do." Felix frowned. "You said we could send whoever we wanted to. Does that it matter if we send Mia?" Isaac chuckled. "Not at all. As a matter of fact…I'll quite enjoy this." He unsheathed his Sol Sword. Mia brandished her DracoMace.

Isaac smiled, and stood in place, staring at Mia with red eyes. Mia gulped, and asked herself, What's he thinking? Suddenly, Isaac lunged at Mia, the tip of his blade directed straight towards her throat. Mia had no time to think, and acted purely on instinct. She held her mace up, and blocked the stroke of the blade with a clang.

She looked straight into Isaac's soulless, crimson eyes, which seemed to reflect all the blood he had shed. She stared at herself in his eyes, taking in her scared looking face, and her shaking arms. Isaac smiled, and whispered, "You're afraid…"

Mia frowned, and pushed against him, slightly surprising him. She brought her staff down, ready to cast a spell, when he suddenly took hold of her wrists. She, slightly surprised, nearly dropped her staff, but kept a firm grip on it.

He stared deeply into her eyes, and smirked, "You really shouldn't think about your plans so openly, Mia." Mia gasped, and shouted at Felix who was beginning to cast a spell behind Isaac, "Felix! Watch out!"

Isaac spun around, pushing Mia to the ground, and shouted, pointing a hand towards Felix, "Dark Inferno!" Large flumes of black fire shot out of Isaac's hand, and exploded upon impact with Felix's body. Felix was caught off guard, and crashed into a statue, and then landed into a wall. He fell to the ground, unmoving.

"Felix!" Jenna cried, running to Felix, and cradling his motionless form in her arms. "Felix! Please be alright!" Mia watched numbly at the scene unfolding in front of her eyes. It was all her fault that Felix was hurt, and possibly dead. If only she hadn't thought about Felix behind Isaac the whole time…

She felt her vision blur, and she felt tears flow down her cheeks, and land on the floor. If only…

Fury: I have to say…That even for you, that was actually pretty deep…

Uh…Thanks I guess…

Fury: Why is this so short?

**Groan** Oh no…Don't start…

Fury: Tell me! I bet other people are thinking that too! I don't think you want to leave people waiting for the final chapter of the story.

Drop it, OK Fury? Anyway, moving on…I guess I really do have to apologize for keeping you guys waiting for so long, but high school is slowly, but surely, killing me. But I'll try and get the last two parts up as quick as I can. Ok?

Review Responses

Kyarorain: I LOVE your name! And I'll try my best!

Capito Celcior: **Sniff** As much as I don't want this story to end, all stories have to end eventually. **Sniff** And you're most very welcome, AND YOU HAD BETTER! **much happier now**

Net Strife: You really think this is a good plot…? Hmmm…Here's the update anyway! Hope you enjoy! Yay! MAYBE and update! And…Gee…I hope your alright, and that no one in your family was hurt! o.O

QueenDragonGoddess: Hmmm…I wonder if I should have a vote on who likes cliffhangers, or not…But I guess I shouldn't 'cause your dragons will probably be angry with the responses. And I hope you liked this…SMALL…Battle…Hmm…

Dragoon Knight: Fury wants to know what you want to make a bet on. **Whispering** He could REALLY use the money…I never really thought about how the GS crew would feel about fighting their leader and friend. Maybe I should put in the epilogue how they all felt…But like you said, WHO REALLY CARES?

MercuryAdept: Ha! As long as this story continues, there will be cliffies! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And here's the update!

Windflame: You're kinda close, but I'm not telling what's going to happen. But I will say, you're KINDA close with the third idea. (Everybody who wants to see how close windflame was to getting the end of the story, go and check out the review!)

Procne: I've always loved that name…Isn't Isaac scaring everybody here? **All of the Reveiwers cowering in a corner** Hmmm…

Fury: Do people actually read these things?

I do. Anyway, I guess there's a question I need to ask you all. Who should Isaac fight in the next chapter? It can either be…

Mia or Alex?

I probably won't go with the responses you people vote on, but I just want to see what ya'll think. Ok, that's all I wanted to say. Ciao peeps!

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