The Golden Sun One-Shot Panoply (if the Bold lettering doesn't work this time, I give up)

By Various and Numerous Authors, a list of which you can find on Page One.

P/N: And on a lighter note…This chapter is by the one and only Akiko! (Wonderful DD piccy, Akiko!!) It's sort of happy insanity. You'll love it, I promise.

Triad, Kadevi, Midnight, Wolfy129, Yuriko the Chaotic Slurpee, and Griffinkhan: Thanks from all of us for the reviews! (Those of you to whom this applies *coughTriadcough*, get started!)

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Uses of a Daisy Chain

 
By:  Akiko          
 
"Hey, Alex, what's wrong?" Jenna asked.
            
The Mercury Adept looked up at her and sighed.  "I'm just...depressed."
 
"Is there anything I can do?" she sat next to him.  
 
"No," Alex sighed.  "I don't think there's anything anyone can do."
            
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At the very moment that Jenna was trying to console Alex, Isaac and Garet were fighting.  
 
Okay, they weren't fighting, but it got your attention anyway.  What they were actually doing was almost as challenging as fighting for Isaac and Garet, but it isn't nearly so interesting for you.  
            
Sheba and Mia were teaching them how to make daisy chains.
            
"Then you loop the stem around..." Sheba showed Isaac the step very carefully.  She had done so at least a dozen times, but the Venus Adept just didn't get it.  "And then you put it through here, and there you go! You have another link in the chain!"
            
Isaac fumbled with his daisy, only managing to destroy it.  "Ah...nut bunnies."
            
Garet was having a much easier time than Isaac, surprisingly.  While Isaac could only make the daisies grow, the Mars Adept had mastered the technique of daisy chain making.
            
"Mr. Rabbit hops around the tree..." he was muttering.
            
"Wow, Garet, you're really good at this," Mia straitened the crown he had made for her.  "But...don't over do it, alright?"
            
"Yeah," Garet continued to lengthen his chain.  It had reached a very good length already, but he was VERY focused.
                       
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Picard and Ivan were fighting.  No, really this time.  They were practicing for the next big adventure that was sure to be coming there way at some point in time, while Felix watched them.
            
Jenna broke it up completely.
            
"GUYS!" she shrieked, nearly getting thrown into the air by Ivan's Tempest and being beheaded by Picard's Ice Missile.  "I need you help!"
            
"What is it, Jenna?" Felix jumped to his feet, ready to defend his sister with his very life if it came to it.
            
"It's Alex, he's depressed," Jenna explained.
            
"Who cares," Felix's attention went from his sister to a passing butterfly.
            
"Alex is depressed?" Ivan asked.
            
"Yeah," Jenna nodded.  "I wanted to do something to help him snap out of it."
            
"Let's go find the others," Picard suggested.  "We can make a plan from there."
            
"Fine, whatever," Felix left his butterfly watching to follow them down the grassy slope.
 
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It wasn't hard to find Isaac, Garet, Mia, Sheba, and their gigantic patch of newly grown daisies.  Garet had outdone himself, and the entire ground was covered with one gigantic daisy chain.
            
"Guys, we need your help," Jenna stepped carefully over the many coils of the daisy chain and sat next to Mia.  "Alex is depressed, and we want to cheer him up."
            
"Correction, YOU want to cheer him up," Felix glared.  "I want him to go away."
            
"Felix," Mia glared at him.  Felix shuddered and immediately became interested in a passing bird.  "Well, Jenna, what do you suggest we do?"
            
"I don't know, that's the problem," Jenna moaned.
            
"I know!" Sheba clapped her hands.  "We could have a party!"
            
"A party sounds like a good plan," Picard looked very determined to make the "mission" a success.  "We can use this gigantic daisy chain and everything!"
            
"Okay, here's what we do," Mia began planning excitedly.
 
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It was later in the evening, and Alex was still depressed.
            
"Come on, Alex," Jenna grabbed his hand. "Let's go for a walk."
            
So they did.  Jenna led him over the next grassy hill, right into the middle of the planned party.
            
"SURPRISE!" everyone yelled.  Jenna pulled two daisy chain crowns from a hook and put one on Alex's head and the other on her own.  All of the Adepts were there, all of them wearing daisy chain crowns, and all of them very happy.  The entire little wooded area was covered in Garet's enormous daisy chain.  
            
"Here you go, Alex!" Mia led him to the place of honor, a chair.  She sat him down and brought him a plate of food.  "Eat up!"
            
"So, are you depressed now?" Jenna asked.      
            
"Not nearly so much," Alex smiled.
 
The End ^_^

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P/N: My apologies for the way this seems all stretched out. Entirely my fault (though I'm not sure how) and not at all Akiko's.

Now go push that pretty purplish-blue button down there…