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P/N: Ooooh. This is such a sweet and fluffy little story! It's great!! You should read it!!! GET TO IT!
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Whistling Mia
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Here's a Mudshipping one-shot from I, Kyarorain! ^_^ A bit of Flameshipping in the mix as well, but mainly Mudshipping.
And just so we don't get sued, Camelot owns Golden Sun!
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His name was Isaac, he was tall, but not as tall as his best friend, Garet, and he travelled in a big group. He had spiky dirty blond hair and sky blue eyes, and he was so handsome that he of course had female admirers. He came from Vale as well, and helped to save Weyard.
Her name was Mia, she was small but not as small as the Wind Adepts, Ivan and Sheba, and she also travelled with Isaac. She had long aquamarine hair and matching eyes, and people like to call her an angel. Men were constantly falling for her. Mia was a healer from Imil.
One fine day, while on the Lemurian ship on the way to Prox, Isaac and Mia fell in love. It happened like so.
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Mia was in the kitchen, slicing up food for lunch. She was alone in the kitchen, for everybody was doing something else. Felix was steering the ship as always and complaining to himself about how he always had to man the tiller, Jenna was burning one of Kraden's books in the privacy of her room, Sheba was in the crow's nest and pretending to look out, Picard was supposedly maintaining the ship but a rumour was going around that he was really swimming in the infamous 'Aquahydra Pool'. It had dried up when he used Parch, but he and Mia had later done a joint Dousing to fill it up again. Garet and Ivan were sparring on the deck because Ivan had called Garet stupid and Garet called Ivan a midget.
Chop, chop, chop... It was an unbreakable rhythm, and Mia even found herself moving and humming quietly in tune to the knife. She did not notice Isaac enter the kitchen, watching her intensely with his warm, serious gaze. Isaac should not have spoken, but nobody had ever told him how to act when watching people chop up food, so how was he supposed to know?
"Hi, Mia," Isaac greeted her, his voice pouring out like golden syrup filled with warmth and emotion. Mia was jolted from her reverie and the knife accidentally nicked her finger. Mia gasped and clutched her finger protectively to her chest, squeezing it so it would not bleed too badly.
"Mia, are you alright?" Isaac almost panicked as he rushed to her and looked concernedly at her wound.
"I'm fine, Isaac," Mia looked up at him, blinking rapidly. Their gazes locked, the warmth of Venus flowing with the chill of Mercury, and it was as if an electric current had passed between them, that jerked them together. The next thing they knew, they were all over each other, well, not everywhere, kissing each other feverishly, only needing each other.
Unfortunately for the two, a certain old man whose presence had been unaccounted for had decided to enter the kitchen at that particular moment. Rather than being astonished by what Isaac and Mia were doing, the old man known as Kraden decided to start rambling on and on about something that nobody really needed to know in that situation.
"Water is a fluid that is composed of 2 Hydrogen atoms and 1 Oxygen atom, giving it the chemical name H2O. It is also in the air in the form of water vapour that we cannot feel. The air is part oxygen, part carbon dioxide..."
Isaac and Mia jumped apart, blushing bright red. Mia coughed nervously, then she automatically went back to cutting up the food while Isaac turned and bravely took on Kraden, leading him out of the kitchen and looking for the nearest room which had a lock. After that, since everybody became so busy with having to rush here and there for this summon, that weapon and some djinn, so Isaac and Mia did not have another chance.
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Perhaps it would be more prudent to say they did not have another chance until some time later. Finally, the brave Adepts were on the way to the Mars Lighthouse beacon, praying that nothing would delay them from saving the world. Anybody who needed to answer a call of nature would be told 'You should have gone before we left' and that was final.
Before everybody was to teleport to the beacon, they allowed time for some talking. Everybody was highly strung, remembering how Hama had told them of that force that did not want Mars lit. Isaac took Mia to the side, a safe distance away from the group, and started talking.
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"Mia," Isaac placed his hands on her shoulders and gave her a compassionate look which made her heart melt. "I love you more than anything, do you feel the same way as I do?"
"Oh, Isaac!" Mia gushed, her eyes welling up with happy tears. "Yes! Yes! I love you so much, every strand of my being aches to be with you forever! I could never stand to be away from you for a second!"
"I am actually worried of that," Isaac cleared his throat. Mia looked worried but he kept going. "We do not know what this force is, and we do not know if we'll survive against it, if it comes to a fight. Mia, I hope we never wind up apart, but if we do by some cruel twist of fate... then... uh..." His eyes misted over and he looked away, trying to think. His eyes lit up and he turned his gaze back to Mia, a proud smile on his face. "We will whistle!"
"Whistle?" Mia was too happy to ask why. "Okay! I do hope we never end up apart..."
"If we are parted, whistle, and one of us will come running, either me or you," Isaac explained. "Now, Mia, do you know how to whistle?"
"Yes," Mia nodded eagerly. "In Imil, when we were children, we used to build snowmen, hide behind them and whistle so that it looked like the snowmen were actually whistling."
"Mia," Isaac released his grip and fell to his knee, looking up at her, his bright blue eyes filled with love and trust.
"Yes, my dear Isaac-chan?" Mia clasped her hands together, looking at Isaac with a similar expression.
"Would you do me the honour of..." Isaac broke off and took a deep breath, as if willing himself to do something that was extremely daring.
"What?" Mia's voice had dropped to a whisper and her heart was hammering against her chest as wild fantasies ran through her mind, fantasies of what Isaac was going to ask her.
"Teaching me how to whistle?" Isaac beamed, giving her huge puppy dog eyes. Mia gaped, and then fell to the ground with a loud crash. "Mia!"
"Ok..." Mia mumbled into the floor and lifted her head, nodding. "I'll do that. I promise."
Isaac helped Mia up and they rejoined the group, discovering that Garet was about to say something to Jenna and making a big show of it. He had just rudely ordered everybody else to shut up, and amazingly, even Kraden had obeyed.
"Jenna," Garet grabbed her hand and held it in his, looking at her with immense longing. "I wish to tell you that you are the most beautiful woman ever, even when you are in a crabby, foul mood, and that I love you more than anything!"
"Alright, time's up!" Felix exclaimed, glaring at Garet poisonously. "We're going up now-"
"Shut up, Felix," Jenna ordered, shooting a glare at him and then turning back to Garet, beaming. "Oh, Garet, I am so glad you feel that way about me. I... I love you too, Garet, and I want us to be together for as long as we live!"
And then, Garet and Jenna started kissing wildly, passionately, their hearts soaring as one. However, it was soon over because Felix's loud coughing was extremely annoying and Kraden had started talking again.
"So, are we ready to go up?" Picard asked curiously. He noticed Felix pull Garet aside and grinned. "I guess not."
"With any luck, sometime tomorrow," Ivan assured everybody as Felix threatened Garet and gave him typical Dire Warnings.
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At last, they did go up to the beacon and fight the Doom Dragon. After that the rest was history. Isaac and Mia had a grand wedding with many guests (and fortunately none of Isaac's enemies) and it was something to remember. Especially when Garet, the best man, had been asked to present the rings and presented a packet of hoop shaped potato chips instead. Fortunately, he DID have the rings in another pocket and everything went well.
Isaac and Mia went together all the time, hand in hand, and Mia did teach Isaac to whistle as she had promised. They moved up to Imil and had a house right on the coast, so every day they could hear the sound of the sea crashing against the rocks. Isaac and Mia also had a daughter named Isia who was both beautiful and intelligent, and when old enough, went to Tolbi to become a female scholar. Isaac and Mia ever since blamed it on the time they had let Kraden come to visit when Isia was about five years old and very impressionable.
Garet and Jenna also got married and they lived in the rebuilt Vale, and they had many children who were all loud, noisy and red headed. Isaac, Mia, Garet and Jenna frequently visited each other, even with the long distance between them. Well, the Teleport Lapis had its uses.
One day however, it seemed that tragedy had struck. Isaac had been on one of his usual early morning walks outside, always careful never to go too far from the house because he could not stand being too far away from Mia, and then he just disappeared.
Every morning after that, Mia would retrace Isaac's steps, listening to the roaring of the sea in her ears, and she would call out his name and whistle loudly for him, in the hope that he would whistle back. There was never an answering whistle, but of course Mia never gave up whistling. She remained in the house where she had lived with Isaac, refusing to leave even when Isia, Garet and Jenna asked. They were all concerned for her, but Mia lived a long healthy life even when parted from her soulmate.
After a while, people began to talk of 'Whistling Mia' who always walked along the path by the coastal cliff, calling out one name alone and whistling for the one she called for. Every morning, they could hear the familiar Tweet-tweet and Isaac! and continued to talk, but Mia did not care what the people said behind her back, she refused to give up on him.
One morning passed, which was unlike the other mornings. Mia was now 70 years old, her body was still lean and supple and did not show the wear of age. Her hair had faded to a pale wintry blue and she had it tied back in a bun on the top of her head. Mia treaded down the familiar path, her feet slipping comfortably into the worn grooves where she had walked, and Isaac before he was lost.
"Isaac!" Mia called loudly, desperately. "Isaac!" The next thing she did as she stepped up to the cliff was to whistle loudly, piercingly, expecting no response as usual, so what happened next was completely unexpected.
"Mia!" Tweet!
Mia gasped as she saw the Isaac of the past, young, happy and 17 reaching his arms out for her. Then Mia was the same as he was, also 17, as she leaped into his arms and they enfolded each other in their clutches, never to be apart again.
That is how the legend of Whistling Mia ends. People claim that she simply disappeared, just like Isaac did, for same as with Isaac, they had never found Mia's body. Mia had vanished without a trace. The friends of Isaac and Mia, and Isia, their only child ever, held an honorary funeral in their memory, happy because now Isaac and Mia were together again.
However, the memory of Isaac and Mia has not completely faded from Weyard. If somebody happened to be walking along the coastal path and was listening very carefully, they would hear a low, shrill whistle. If the person continued to listen carefully, they would just be able to hear a second answering whistle.
The legend of Whistling Mia still lives on, the story of how two lovers were separated, and their whistling signals eventually brought them back into each other's clutches after many years apart.
