Golden Sun: The Alchemy Wars
Chapter II: A Mad Plan
Isaac stumbled back, horrified. Jenna reeled away in fear, and the rest of the group quickly caught them.
"Isaac, Isaac, hey buddy, don't worry, we won't let anything happen to Jenna. I swear it personally, as your best and oldest friend, Jenna will not die." Garet said reassuringly.
Felix tried to comfort Jenna. "It's all right sister, nothing will happen to you. It's just like Garet said, we won't let it happen. And you know it won't happen. Together, we took down the Wise One's own chosen miracle."
Jenna could not be calmed. "We had Piers with us then, there were eight of us! Now there are only seven! And soon only six. . ."
Jenna broke down into tears, as Isaac, his confidence renewed, made an attempt to calm her.
Mia, however, turned to Sheba, and with tears in her eyes, silently asked "And who after Jenna?"
Sheba replied softly, "The order was: Kraden, Piers, Jenna, Ivan, Felix, me, Garet, you, and lastly, Isaac. But even he fell."
Mia's face fell. She would not allow anyone to die, but especially not Garet before her. That was unthinkable. He always was so strong, always could bring a smile to their faces. She silently vowed to never let Garet die as long as she lived.
Jenna had finally calmed down. They had to form a plan. After hours of thought, they finally came to a solution.
They would create a militia, and a town guard. Now that everyone was seemingly a master of some element of Psynergy, they should be able to muster a mighty force. The idea was that, if they had an army to hold off an attack by any of the armies that would surely form after Conservato marched upon the world, then any one of them was enough to stop any petty person or two that got through.
But just as a precaution, one person was to remain with Jenna at all times. The next few days the group was busy scouting out every person in town, even the children, and teaching them how to use their certain Psynergetic powers.
Felix and Isaac took the Earth Adepts, and Garet and Jenna took the Fire Adepts. The town of Vale was mainly a Fire and Earth province, so they had their hands full. But every once in a while, when it was not quite so busy on the Earth Adept end, Isaac would go help out Jenna, and then Garet could go see how Mia, with her three visiting Water Adepts, was doing.
By the end of two weeks, they had a functioning militia, as well as a substantial town guard.
Not long after, reports began coming from different towns of a huge army that had come out of nowhere and attacked Izumo, then proceeded to search Gaia Rock for any powerful artifacts they could find.
Isaac and the others knew that it would not be long before common Adepts started to band together. So it was not surprising, when the people of the Apoji Islands joined with the Lemurian army, or when the surviving werewolves of Garoh fled to Contigo after their defeat by the Lemurians.
What was unusual, however, was when Agatio and Karst made a stop at Vale.
They said that Prox had formed an army of Fire Adepts, and that many had flocked to Prox in order to join and protect themselves. They asked if anyone from their town would like to come.
"No" said Felix coolly, "we have a town militia, and do not intend to participate in this war if we do not have to."
"Very well" replied Agatio.
Karst added, "But if you are in trouble, you can always join with us, that is, unless you would stop us from obtaining the power of Alchemy."
At this, Felix became infuriated. "No one deserves the power of Alchemy all to themselves, and you two should know that! If you have gone mad with power, then be gone, lest you want to see what unbinding Alchemy's power has done to my own!"
Soon, the only talk going on anywhere was of what the people were beginning to call, "The Alchemy Wars."
The Lemurians army had briefly clashed with the Contigan army, in a bloody clash which left quite a few casualties on both sides. Though the battle was indecisive, the Lemurian army decided not to stay and finish the job.
Reports showed that it was moving closer and closer to Angara. There were already tales being told that Tolbi and their Earth Adepts had been attacked. A few weeks later, the official report had come.
The Tolbian army had retreated across the Karagol Sea and taken refuge in the mountains. But the Lemurians had followed, and were now camped on Crossbone Island.
Isaac and Garet called a meeting of the rest of the group. They plotted out the probable course of the Lemurian army, and either way that they went, they would either wind up in Imil, to try and recruit more Mercury Adepts, or go directly north. As everyone thought about this info, they began to grow uneasy.
It looked like either way, the Lemurian army was coming for Vale. And they had to be prepared.
Mia and Garet sent orders to the townspeople to double the watch, and put the militia on standby. Isaac was determined not to let Vale fall, and as he reached down to squeeze Jenna's hand reassuringly, he renewed his vow to not let her go.
Chapter II: A Mad Plan
Isaac stumbled back, horrified. Jenna reeled away in fear, and the rest of the group quickly caught them.
"Isaac, Isaac, hey buddy, don't worry, we won't let anything happen to Jenna. I swear it personally, as your best and oldest friend, Jenna will not die." Garet said reassuringly.
Felix tried to comfort Jenna. "It's all right sister, nothing will happen to you. It's just like Garet said, we won't let it happen. And you know it won't happen. Together, we took down the Wise One's own chosen miracle."
Jenna could not be calmed. "We had Piers with us then, there were eight of us! Now there are only seven! And soon only six. . ."
Jenna broke down into tears, as Isaac, his confidence renewed, made an attempt to calm her.
Mia, however, turned to Sheba, and with tears in her eyes, silently asked "And who after Jenna?"
Sheba replied softly, "The order was: Kraden, Piers, Jenna, Ivan, Felix, me, Garet, you, and lastly, Isaac. But even he fell."
Mia's face fell. She would not allow anyone to die, but especially not Garet before her. That was unthinkable. He always was so strong, always could bring a smile to their faces. She silently vowed to never let Garet die as long as she lived.
Jenna had finally calmed down. They had to form a plan. After hours of thought, they finally came to a solution.
They would create a militia, and a town guard. Now that everyone was seemingly a master of some element of Psynergy, they should be able to muster a mighty force. The idea was that, if they had an army to hold off an attack by any of the armies that would surely form after Conservato marched upon the world, then any one of them was enough to stop any petty person or two that got through.
But just as a precaution, one person was to remain with Jenna at all times. The next few days the group was busy scouting out every person in town, even the children, and teaching them how to use their certain Psynergetic powers.
Felix and Isaac took the Earth Adepts, and Garet and Jenna took the Fire Adepts. The town of Vale was mainly a Fire and Earth province, so they had their hands full. But every once in a while, when it was not quite so busy on the Earth Adept end, Isaac would go help out Jenna, and then Garet could go see how Mia, with her three visiting Water Adepts, was doing.
By the end of two weeks, they had a functioning militia, as well as a substantial town guard.
Not long after, reports began coming from different towns of a huge army that had come out of nowhere and attacked Izumo, then proceeded to search Gaia Rock for any powerful artifacts they could find.
Isaac and the others knew that it would not be long before common Adepts started to band together. So it was not surprising, when the people of the Apoji Islands joined with the Lemurian army, or when the surviving werewolves of Garoh fled to Contigo after their defeat by the Lemurians.
What was unusual, however, was when Agatio and Karst made a stop at Vale.
They said that Prox had formed an army of Fire Adepts, and that many had flocked to Prox in order to join and protect themselves. They asked if anyone from their town would like to come.
"No" said Felix coolly, "we have a town militia, and do not intend to participate in this war if we do not have to."
"Very well" replied Agatio.
Karst added, "But if you are in trouble, you can always join with us, that is, unless you would stop us from obtaining the power of Alchemy."
At this, Felix became infuriated. "No one deserves the power of Alchemy all to themselves, and you two should know that! If you have gone mad with power, then be gone, lest you want to see what unbinding Alchemy's power has done to my own!"
Soon, the only talk going on anywhere was of what the people were beginning to call, "The Alchemy Wars."
The Lemurians army had briefly clashed with the Contigan army, in a bloody clash which left quite a few casualties on both sides. Though the battle was indecisive, the Lemurian army decided not to stay and finish the job.
Reports showed that it was moving closer and closer to Angara. There were already tales being told that Tolbi and their Earth Adepts had been attacked. A few weeks later, the official report had come.
The Tolbian army had retreated across the Karagol Sea and taken refuge in the mountains. But the Lemurians had followed, and were now camped on Crossbone Island.
Isaac and Garet called a meeting of the rest of the group. They plotted out the probable course of the Lemurian army, and either way that they went, they would either wind up in Imil, to try and recruit more Mercury Adepts, or go directly north. As everyone thought about this info, they began to grow uneasy.
It looked like either way, the Lemurian army was coming for Vale. And they had to be prepared.
Mia and Garet sent orders to the townspeople to double the watch, and put the militia on standby. Isaac was determined not to let Vale fall, and as he reached down to squeeze Jenna's hand reassuringly, he renewed his vow to not let her go.