Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun, but if I did, there would be more evidence of Mud-shipping in it.

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An Archaic Legend

After many hours of hiking, through the burning sands, the adepts made it to one final sand waterfall. With hopes of no manticores behind it, Garet raised Ivan's hand while Ivan concentrated. The world's colors faded into shadows and the sand waterfall slowly disappeared, revealing nothing.

The burning ruins of Kalay rose over the hills with the coming dawn as Isaac, Mia, Ivan, and Garet journeyed through the countryside. Painful moans were quickly silenced by death as Sol rose over the horizon.

Each adept stood shocked at the destruction, but Ivan ran in front of the others with only one thought in mind, 'Home.'

The other adepts followed him as he ran through the charcoaled streets to the center of town, where a great blaze rose into the red sky. Ivan collapsed on his knees and lost himself in a sea of despair.

Isaac and Mia acted quickly as they came upon the scene. Both glowed as dirt and water smothered the blazing blaze. Garet hung back; his own Mars psynergy was useless in this situation.

After the fire receded into the earth, Mia turned away from the smoldering ruble and knelt beside the grieving Ivan, trying to comfort him. A soundless command pierced the air as both Garet and Isaac searched for survivors.

Isaac wondered through the scorched town, keeping an eye out for anyone still alive. Walls seemed to disappear completely as he walked through the ruins of an inn to the crumbling architecture of an ancient armory. Isaac did not notice the displacement in stone the floor, that is, until he tripped over it.

He slowly stood and brushed the soot from his clothes. He eyed the small outset of the floor before seeing the hidden door beneath. Isaac squatted down and pulled up with great force until the antediluvian hinge swung open haughtily and landed with a bang. Isaac pulled out a torch, lit it and descended into the deep recess.

The torchlight illuminated the steps as Isaac descended steadily. The staircase suddenly ceased and the floor evened out. Isaac stood in a small room with books cluttering the primordial shelves around him.

An empty sword pedestal stood in the center of the cement room, bearing the markings of light and darkness in an eternal battle if equality. A black book sat a few feet away on an old wooden stand.

The pale pages were held open to a page that attracted Isaac's attention. The picture of a two pronged sword, one blade dark and one blade light, bearing the same markings as the marble stand. The title seemed to jump out at him as he read the antique text.

'The Equator Blade,' he read the title to himself before continuing 'a blade that can separate both light and darkness. This blade is the bane of any entity that has a darker side. Though this blade cannot cut, it has power over the spirit of any assailant.'

Isaac was halted by Mia though, "Isaac!"

The yell traveled through the dark corridors and broke Isaac from his book. He closed it gently and hurriedly pocketed it in his tunic, but not before seeing the cover.

'The Tomegathericon,' he thought aloud, forgetting his link with Mia.

"The what?" she stopped him as he walked up the steps.

'Oh, nothing, don't worry about it Mia.'

Thunder rolled and dark clouds formed as an archaic ship left the primeval docks. Hard rain and harsh winds tore at the ship while all of the sails were brought in. The old ship volleyed back and forth on the tidal waves of the raging sea as the occupants fought to keep their constitutions.

After one great wave, the ship hit a new depth, colliding with something soft, yet firm. A monstrous eye snapped open, bathing the sea with its yellow glow and with one sweep of its multi-appendaged body; it raced in pursuit of the ship.

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Sorry for the short chapter, but my job is killing me, literally. -_-

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