Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun, but as long as I use this disclaimer, I can torture the characters at my own expense.

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Snowbound

Isaac's midnight blue eyes snapped open as a searing pain raced through his head. 'Man, that hurts,' he thought to nobody in particular.

Slowly, he pulled himself up and tested for any broken bones, which fortunately he did not have. After he checked his body, he headed to his wagon to check on the ancient merchant. What he found was horrifying to say the least. The greedy man was lying in a pool of his own blood with one of the horses sprawled on his chest.

'Rest well old man,' Isaac motioned his respects and stood.

Just a little further down the hill, he could see the remains of another wagon.

'That must be what caused the wreck,' he deduced on his mind.

He soon started hiking towards it searching for survivors along the way.

The other wagon was in worse condition than his was. It had rolled a mile further downhill and was burning to a state of complete blackness. Isaac could see three bodies partially submerged in the snow. The first he came upon was under the wagon itself and obviously dead. The second man Isaac reached was dressed in clothes of royalty and looked to be very important. The mass of light blue hair was soaked to a dark purple in areas from the four shafts of wood driven through.

'Poor guy,' Isaac thought as he saw where one particular stake had hit the man. Realizing that the storm was coming back to a new intensity, Isaac ran to the next body.

He let out a soundless gasp in surprise as he brushed the snow off the person. Before him was the very image of an angel. Even though she was dressed in a slave's rags, Isaac still thought so. He nervously reached his hand to her neck to check for a pulse, and felt a faint but steady beat.

Isaac cautiously lifted her up in his arms, careful not to let her blue green hair catch itself in the snow. The storm around him started to intensify and Isaac quickly looked about for some shelter. He started to loose hope, as he could find nothing nearby, when lightning illuminated a small cabin a very short distance away. Setting his eyes on the dark shadow of the shelter, Isaac made a mad dash towards it.

What Isaac had thought was a cabin was really a small shack. It was barely large enough for two people to sit beside each other in. With a soundless sigh, he set the girl on the floor and quickly casted about for something to keep warm with. After a speedy search, he found only one blanket.

'At least one of us should be warm,' he thought as he peeled of the girl's wet clothing, without looking, and wrapped the blanket around her pale body.

The blush that crept onto his face soon disappeared as he gathered the girl in his arms and laid against one side of the shack. He soon fell into a restlessly cold sleep.

Mia soon awoke and gasped at her surprisingly warm surroundings. She was not expecting to wake up in a cabin, let alone, wrapped naked in a blanket with a stranger cradling her. Mia reached up and touched her saviors pale blue face.

"He's freezing," she whispered.

She slowly scooted out of his arms, bringing the blanket with her. Mia quickly peeled off the individual pieces of wet armor and clothing from his body, averting her eyes from a certain area. Soon after, she wrapped herself and the blanket around him to fight off the cold.

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Yet another chapter. Again, I have no guarantees on when I will update, but I will eventually. I would also like to thank these people for reviewing:

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