Guys, I'm so sorry for not updating earlier. I've been working on other fanfics too. But now, I'm back in action.

I believe you can stop sending names. The ones I have, I'm gonna use and the others I'll make up.

Thank you, Mercury Gold. I like your story too.

I am pleased to hear that you think Celestia is cool, Akachi, but even more that Celcior is mysterious. That's the exact image I wanted you guys to have. I hope I can reveal a bit of his story, and still keep him somewhat special.

And thank you, few reviewers. You've just made a humble author very happy.

The first 'few' lines will be a preparation for battle. If you do not want to read it, skip it. But there might be some clues in it, and an author has to write this kind of stuff too.

I do not own Golden Sun, but I do own Celcior, Celestia and this story- line.

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Chapter 8: Defending Vale

"What?" The mayor jumped out of his chair.

"In three hours, Vale will be under attack. And not by the smallest attack force in existence."

"But. . . but are you sure? I mean we must be able to discus this." Felix shook his head.

The tallest Venus Adept looked out the window and observed the village walls. Most of the guards were busy and running around.

"I believe that the only choice we have is to defend our self. Isaac." Felix nodded to his fellow earth adept.

"Yes, Felix. I believe that we should at least try. Maybe we could split up the warriors we have. I'd say we split our warriors in 2, for two guard shifts. But still leave two or three to train all the villagers who can lift a sword, and aim a bow."

Mia agreed and continued their plan. "And I will train the women to use herbs, and organise a medic base. Piers could help, too. He has a lot of healing psynergy, and he can help me defend the hospital."

The mayor just returned to his seat. He couldn't believe this was happening. "Very well. I will leave this up to you. Isaac, you and Felix are in charge of defence. Decide witch one takes what shift. Ivan, Jenna. Could you two start with training the villagers? And Mia and Piers will begin with the hospital. Right?" The two mercury adepts nodded.

"And what about me?" Hothead Garret asked. He wanted to be in charge of something too.

"You and Sheba can help the others. I don't know what to do." Garret regretted his words. It was his own grandpa he was yelling at.

"Sir, yes Sir." Sheba mockingly saluted the mayor, an attempt to lighten the mood.

It did not work.

They just walked out to inform the villagers. All the inhabitants were already there, since they all heard the alarm. The mayor cleared his throat, and began to speak.

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"Now, all we can do is defend our self. Felix and Isaac are in charge of the two Guarding Patrols. Jenna and Ivan will teach you young man to use weapons and the woman and children will follow Mia and Piers for a speed course on using medicines. Garret and Sheba are going to make an inventory and the elders will help them with it. Afterwards, our two hero adepts will aid in guarding and training. Now, will all of you who are qualified for defending line up on my right? And healers will join Mia to my left." The mayor finished his speech.

Everybody quickly joined their respective lines. Their village was at stake. Isaac was pleased when he saw his fellow villagers determined faces. And then, he noticed two people still standing in the middle.

Celcior and Celestia.

"We are sorry that you are involved in this." Felix said, also noticing the two travellers. "But I'm afraid there is no escape route."

The visitors looked at each other, and suddenly split up. Celestia walked to the healer section, and Celcior to the warriors and apprentice guards.

He faced Isaac. "I will help you defend your town."

The two Venus Adepts welcomed him in their group, even though they did not know what he could do. Mia told them that he was a great swordsman. Or so, Celestia had told her. Now, they would find out.

"He's coming back!"

Everybody looked up. On the wall, a guard was calling for them. "It's him. That man is coming over to us."

The eight adepts hurried themselves to where the guard was standing.

The man was indeed coming towards them. He stopped just before the stone line of defence.

"Ahoy up there."

"What do you want?" Garret yelled.

"I would like to know what you have decided. When will I get my gold?"

"You're not getting it. We will defend our self."

The man shook his head. "Pity. That was the same thing Tolbi said. What a shame."

The adepts were shocked. What did he mean, Tolbi said that too. Isaac returned his attention to the monsters' leader. "What are you talking about. What did you do to Tolbi?"

The man chuckled. "Oh, nothing much. I just burned it down, annihilated its soldiers and killed all of its inhabitants. Oh, and of course took the treasures they had."

This couldn't be. Tolbi was the single strongest town in all of Weyard. Well, excluding Lemuria who could compete for the title, but that didn't count.

"You monster!" Sheba yelled. She was kidnapped and held hostage there, but that was just Babi. Tolbi did not deserve such a fate.

"Oh, I'm no monster. They are." He pointed to his army. The wolves howled, the wyverins roared and the bird monsters screeched. It was obvious that they wanted to fight. The man turned around. "Very well. I would give you a last chance to change your mind, but I know that you people wouldn't even consider it."

He walked away, leaving the Valeians nervously waiting.

They would have to fight soon.

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Felix had the first shift. He and his patrol were spread out across the wall. Sheba and Garret returned with the inventory.

"Felix, we have checked every storage room Vale has built ,every shop and every cave we have used for the rest of our stuff. Here's the rapport." Felix took the sheet of paper from Sheba.

Weapons: -70 short swords. -20 long swords. -30 battle axes. -20 wood chopping axes. -60 battle maces. -20 staffs -40 long bows. -10 cross bows. -1068 arrows.

Healing Items: -100 potions. -510 herbs. -30 psy crystals. -20 antidotes.

"It is not enough." Felix said, after checking the list. "It may look impressive, but since we have so many opponents this will not do at all."

Garret turned away. "Use psynergy. It will help. We still have the Psynergy stone." He disappeared.

Felix turned to Sheba. He asked if she could go and check with Ivan. And afterwards if she could bring the inventory to Mia and the Mayor. She complied.

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"And then you put a bandage on it and voila, its done." Mia smiled as she saw that the woman understood.

"Miss Mia, miss Mia. What if the poison is not drained after all of that?" The youngest girl asked.

"Don't worry. It will be gone if you follow the steps I just taught you." Just then, Sheba appeared. They were sitting in the centre of the camp. All around them, tents with beds were placed, and one of the few buildings that had been rebuilt was also prepared for any wounded.

"Hey, Mia. Felix told me to give you this." She passed the piece of paper. Mia looked at it, and nodded.

"I believe this is okay. Where are the items?"

"They are in storage tent nr. 3 and 5, and the herbs are located near the field."

"I thank you. I will send the children to collect it, how are Ivan and Jenna doing?"

Sheba told her, while children were running up and down from the storage tents to medic base. Suddenly, a voice interrupted their conversation.

"Say, Mia. you are an adept, right?" It was Celestia.

"Yes, Celestia."

"I believe you are a healing Mercury adept."

"You are correct, but how do you know?"

Celestia shrugged. "I know you are an adept because people talk about you non-stop here. How you healed them; and stuff. And you look like you're from the mercury clan."

"You know my clan?" Mia asked, surprised that this woman knew so much about her.

"I've visited Imil, and they were talking about you. Thus, I knew you would be an adept. And I visited the lighthouse. The inscriptions told me about the Mercury clan."

"The inscriptions? You mean. . .you can read the walls of Mercury Lighthouse,"

Celestia nodded, looking confused. "What's wrong?"

"The walls are supposedly written in an ancient language. How do you know it?"

Celestia looked stunned for a moment, but then smiled again. "I learned a bit on my trip."

Mia accepted the answer. It was war, after all. No time to argue about something like this. She just made a mental note to ask Celestia when this was over.

A guard came running down. "It begins, it begins. Prepare yourself, attack. They are attacking!"

Isaac hurried out of the tavern-tent. He was eating with some of his guards. They went for the tower. Once up there, they caught up with Felix.

"Felix, what is happening?"

Felix turned to the plains in front of Vale. "Look for yourself."

Isaac did just that, and saw that the alarm was called out for a reason.

All of the monsters were approaching Vale. In the back was the only human of the attackers. He stayed in his tent.

Isaac turned to his friends, and began to prepare a counter attack.

"Okay, archers, spread out over the wall, but stay low until I order otherwise. First, all who can use psynergy, and I mean destructive psynergy, prepare to fire it as soon as they are within range. Felix will tell you when they are."

All of the adepts (not just the eight we are familiar with) from Vale spread out over the wall. And so did the archers.

Felix took command, and Isaac placed himself among his men. Celcior was standing next to him.

"Are you an archer?" Isaac asked.

"No." Celcior replied.

"So, you're an adept? You know some destructive psynergy?"

Celcior shuddered. "I prefer not to call it 'destructive', rather defensive psynergy. Not to be used, unless no other choice."

Isaac blinked. "Yeah, whatever." So he was an adept. This was interesting. Now to see if he was trustworthy. Isaac still had not forgotten about the over-a-thousand-coins-for-a-place-to-sleep thing. No man was that desperate, no?

"Here they come. . ."

All the warriors prepared themselves. Felix orders were quit, but not silent enough to not hear them.

"Take your aim."

Everybody chose a target.

"Prepare to fire the psynergy."

The adepts started to focus their mind.

"Archers, you'll aim to block their retreat ways."

The archers pulled out an arrow. The monsters where very close by.

"FIRE!" Felix shouted, and he opened with a mother Gaia attack.

All the adepts attacked as well. Isaac saw several flares leaving the wall and torching the monsters. He himself used Ragnarok. The monster was destroyed. He looked and saw that Celcior just fired a fire wall like thing. 'A fire adept.' He sighted. As long as he wasn't as foolish as his best friend. He returned to the fight. Several arrows flew trough the sky.

The monsters fell down. Several were killed, but a few stood up again. They were hit in the leg, or in their tale.

Isaac noticed that the monsters kept on coming.

"Their strength lies in their numbers. Try to make every hit count."

A fire lizard approached them. It was of the same type as they had encountered.

Isaac saw that his archers tried to take it down, but the arrows bounced of its scales.

Isaac focused himself, and let out a Ragnarok. The lizard just shrugged it off.

"Damn." He thought out loud. "That thing can only be killed with water attacks."

Suddenly, a loud roar could be heard.

Isaac looked up and saw the fire lizard crumpling. A strong Ice attack had silenced it.

"Who did that?" He turned around, but he didn't see Mia or Piers. No Mercury adepts on his side of the wall. He heard a scream and saw one of his men fall down from the wall. A huge needle stuck trough his neck, the blood gulping out.

"Hang on, I'll help you!" Isaac heard, as one of the medics rushed forward. He noticed that some of them had moved to the wall. A firs aid post, until the victims would be moved to the base.

No Mia or Piers.

Another scream. This time, one of the adepts had been grasped by an extended claw, and pulled down the wall, down the side of their opponents.

Nothing could be done for the poor soul. He was shredded to pieces by four monsters, while his cries slowly faded.

Isaac returned to the fight and ordered the archers to reopen fire.

Felix let out an earthquake, and they noticed how all the monsters fell down for a few seconds. Enough to aim and kill rather easily.

Isaac wanted to try that too, and he let out another earthquake. All the monsters within reach were thrown in the air, and landed back on the ground.

They were dead already.

His allies turned to him. "A powerful earthquake attack, master Isaac." One of them said. "But you probably used too much psynergy. That attack was too powered up."

Isaac didn't understand. He used as much psynergy as he used too.

"Aaagh!!!" One of his archers screamed. He was hit by a fireball and fell down.

Luckily for him, the medics had placed a net down to break his fall. The healers quickly ran over with buckets of water, as more fell down.

They were losing.

"We need more men!" Isaac shouted. He noticed that it was getting dark. They might use it against them.

"We don't have any more." Felix answered.

"We need more time." Nearly two third of the original defenders were in the hospital. And half of the men still standing had a cast on, or several bruises and burn wounds.

"Almost."

Isaac and Felix turned and saw that it was Celcior. He was looking at the sky.

The sunset was halfway.

Isaac was about to ask what was going on, when Celcior looked down and sighted. He turned away and slowly walked to the battlements.

He looked sad.

Isaac was about to walk over to him, when Celcior suddenly took something out of his coat.

It was an instrument, existing out of small, wooden pipes.

He put the instrument to his lips and started to breath air in them.

Isaac's eyes widened when he recognised the tune.

Slowly, the guards stopped firing arrows, and the adepts stopped casting their psynergy.

They listened to the song, and Felix turned. The monsters had stopped attacking, too. No more fireballs, no more claws reaching over to them. They were just standing there, listening to the music.

Celcior's music.

The music that had saved Isaac's life before.

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Phew, that was something. No??? I know it took me a while to update, but it was vacation for me, and I was busy. I got my exams back, my grandpa is ill and I needed to buy some stuff and share the computer with my great, fabulous sister. (Just in case she reads this. Now I'm covered from her wrath -who would have known that 2 year younger sisters could still do harm to ya.- o_~ No, she's not really that bad.). I know, this must sound like bad excuses, but believe me, they are not.

They are good excuses, since I got away with them.

Wait, what are you doing with that bat? No, stay away from me. . .Aaaghhhuurgllll. . .

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