Serac: NA doesn't own Golden Sun, got it?
Nightmare Alex: Hoooray! Inspiration everywhere! Today was a snow day, so my chapter is longer than usual, cuz I had more time, and more ideas.
Serac: WAY LONGER!
Nightmare Alex: Well, it's long but it's good!
Serac: I guess. . .
Nightmare Alex: Oh hush up! Anyways, The Faction's Lord receives a bucket of chocolate-chip cookie dough! Do what you will with it! Personally, I think I wouldn't even bother to bake before eating. . .
Serac: Disgusting!
Nightmare Alex: It tastes better! A lot more sweet and sugary!
Serac: Oooooh. Mmmmmmm.
Nightmare Alex: Anyway, here's the chapter, and sorry The Faction's Lord. You'll know what I mean by that after reading it.
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Golden Sun: The Alchemy Wars
Chapter XVI: Battle Is Joined, Another Hero Falls
The Contingan/Tolbian army ran straight into the streets of Anemos, in between vast sprawling buildings, hundreds of stories high, almost as tall as the lighthouses.
"It's incredible. . ." Isaac gasped in awe, and the entire army stopped, looking at the impressive architecture.
"ISAAC!" Mia cried a warning. "ICE MISSILE!" Giant shards of ice appeared out of nowhere and shot through an alley near Isaac, impaling a not-so-fierce looking warrior in Anemian armor. "Keep on your guard!" Mia commanded.
"Thanks" Isaac said, still looking kind of shaken. "All right troops, keep on your guard, and kill all that you see! They probably aren't going to be that strong, but they will have a lot of Psynergy!"
Just as spoke, enormous thunder clouds started to roll across the landscape. "Uh oh." In the distance, hundreds of warriors were approaching at an enormous rate, aided by their extreme agility. In a matter of seconds, the two sides met, and complete chaos erupted across the city.
Isaac dodged a plasma, then ran his Sol Blade straight through the warrior who had cast it, quickly sidestepping a swift onslaught of sword swipes from yet another soldier.
Mia froze several soldiers in their tracks with a glacier attack, then took the life of another warrior with her Lachesis' Rule. "Keep it up, push them back!" she tried to encourage all of the soldiers near her.
Shine plasmas began to riddle the landscape, and huge tornadoes raged throughout the city. Buildings fell, killing many Anemians, Contigans, and Tolbians.
"At this rate" Isaac thought aloud, "there won't even be an Anemos!" he jumped behind a piece of rubble as another plasma shot went straight through where he had been standing previously.
"COME ON, PUSH THEM BACK!" Isaac led his army on. "GRAND GAIA!" The earth split open, and several Anemians were consumed instantly by the torrent of rock which burst from the ground.
The army, their confidence renewed after seeing such mighty feats by Mia and Isaac rallied, and pushed back the Anemians. Despite heavy casualties on both sides, the Anemians were the ones to fall back.
Isaac cheered, seeing the last of the quick warriors disappear from the battlefield. His happiness was short-lived, however. The sound of booming footsteps, and creaking metal grew closer.
"What could possibly make that noise?" Mia asked in wonder.
"Beats me" Isaac answered, watching for any sign of the new threat.
From around the corner emerged a gigantic warrior, a creature not of mortal strength. The army gasped, they had never seen anything like it before.
"A SENTINEL?!" Isaac let the words escape from his mouth.
"But, I remember destroying it!" she exclaimed. "We defeated it to get Catastrophe, remember?"
"Yeah" Isaac replied, readying for the fight of his life. "I do. I wish the djinn hadn't decided to go back into Mt. Aleph. Just because it was originally what they wanted us for doesn't mean I thought that it was really going to happen. . ."
"I agree" Mia said. "A summon would be nice about now."
Suddenly, another Sentinel emerged from behind a building.
"THERE'S TWO?" Mia burst out, unbelieving. They might have been a match for one, but two? It seemed impossible. "I think that we are going to need some help. . ."
"No time for that now!" Isaac yelled, noticing the wind picking up. "It looks like it's already begun! EVERYONE, GET DOWN!"
The soldiers that heard Isaac dived out of the way just in time. Those unlucky enough to remain standing were charred beyond recognition by a mighty spark plasma.
"Things are not looking up. Care to join me, Mia? LET'S GO TROOPS, CHARGE!" Isaac ran forward, Mia at his side, the army following behind, in what seemed to be a suicide assault.
In Bilibin, Felix watched with fierce intensity as the Imil army came closer. He had but one goal: Take out the leader. It was absolutely necessary. Without a leader, the people of Imil would probably retreat.
When the people of Imil were just yards away, Sheba began the attack. "NOW"
Hundreds of earthquakes rippled across the landscape, sending Adepts flying to their doom in all directions. Spires crunched unwitting warriors into oblivion. The people of Imil were caught completely by surprise.
They regrouped quickly however, and soon prisms, ice horns, and frosts were flying across the landscape into the city.
Sheba kept cheering on the army, casting protective spells to shield them from Psynergy. But, before long, the people of Imil would be within sword range, and then she could not offer any protection. Glancing around, she noticed that Felix wasn't anywhere nearby.
"What!" she cursed under her breath. "Where the heck are you?" she dodged a prism, and fired back a plasma shot, eyes racing across the landscape, until they fell upon a lone figure going up a hill next to the Imil army.
"What could he possibly be doing?" she wondered aloud.
"Lady Sheba!" a soldier called out. "The people of Imil are fighting hand-to-hand now! We need you on the right flank, it's starting to fail!"
Sheba took off running, all thoughts of Felix eliminated from her mind. She had to keep the Imil army from taking Bilibin, or else they might be completely elimated without Felix.
Bringing her strength to bear, she joined the fray, Psynergy crackling at her fingertips.
Felix army crawled his way past the attackers, until he saw one lone figure, black as night, standing perfectly motionless atop the hill, no other soldiers even remotely close.
"I've found him" Felix whispered. "It's time to finish this."
"Hey! You there!' Felix called out to Dark Garet. "Whoever you may be, I will destroy you!"
Dark Garet did not move.
"Hey! I said that I would destroy you!" Felix yelled. "Aren't you going to do anything?"
Slowly, the mammoth figure turned it's eyes upon Felix. Felix stared into them, they were red and yellow, the eyes of a demon, looking like portals into hell itself. Felix felt as though he had been pierced by a sword. He breathed heavily. There was something unnatural about this creature.
Felix flew backward, a sharp pain in his jaw. He hit a tree with such force that it burst.
"Ughhhhh. . ." Felix moaned. "What happened?" Looking down at his jaw, he saw tiny incisions, slowly dripping blood. Looking back to Dark Garet, he saw his knuckles were spiked, and gleaming his fresh blood.
"He punched me and I didn't even see it!" Felix cursed himself. "I should've never looked into his eyes!"
Felix started to rush Dark Garet, but every swing was easily blocked by the mammoth Darksword that he carried.
"It's impossible!" Felix cried. "No one has enough strength to fight with that huge sword for this long!"
"Worms deserve to DIE!" an evil voice floated from the Dark Garet's helmet.
"What?!" Felix cried, barely blocking Dark Garet's sword. He tried to dodge the follow-up punch, but was a second too slow. He felt evil, seething metal tear into his stomach.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he fell, clutching his gut, to the ground.
Both armies stopped fighting. They turned to see what had happened. When the people of Vale saw that Felix was down, they were ready to flee.
"Potent Cure" Felix mumbled, then wounds healed, returned to his feet.
The people of Vale breathed a sigh of relief, and the battle stopped as everyone watched this duel between their epic leaders.
"You won't be so lucky this time!" Felix taunted, calling forth his Psynergy. "ODYSSEY!"
Dark Garet stood his ground, channeling his Psynergy into his blade. He dodged one jumped one sword, rolled beneath the second, and then, gathering his momentum and Psynergy together, clashed his own sword with the third, gigantic one, completely shattering the Psynergetic blade.
"Wha-What?" Felix stuttered, not believing what he was seeing.
"How do you feel now, human!" Dark Garet spoke, the last word dripping with malice. He rushed in, and in three quick strikes, knocked Felix back with his sword, swept him off his feet with a kick, and then did an uppercut straight into Felix's back while he was falling.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!" Felix fell to the ground, then coughed up thick, red blood. "I cannot fail. . ."
Inside of Dark Garet, Garet was trying to take over. YOU CAN'T DO THIS! he screamed in his mind. I WON'T LET YOU KILL FELIX TOO!
Dark Garet convulsed on the outside, then uttered two words, in a voice Felix found most familiar.
"Run. . . Felix. . ." Then the convulsions stopped, and Dark Garet regained his senses.
"Garet?" Felix said, shocked. "What happened? Garet!" he rolled aside just in time, as Dark Garet's blade put a flaming slash through the ground.
"Alex. . . Dark Garet. . . Felix. . . Run. . . NOW!" Dark Garet convulsed again, but soon stopped.
Felix tried to get up, but was nailed in the chest by Dark Garet's fist.
Felix coughed up more blood, and saw Dark Garet raising his sword for the final blow.
"SPARK PLASMA!" bolts of plasma rained upon Dark Garet, but astonishingly, he dodged them all.
"Sheba. . . get back. . ." Felix tried to get Sheba away. "It's. . . Garet. . ."
"Garet?" Sheba asked incredulously.
"Dark. . . Garet. . . Run. . ." Felix uttered.
"No way!" Sheba replied stubbornly. "I'm saving y-"
Her words were cut short as Felix let out a final scream, Dark Garet's sword protruding from his chest. He had thrown it straight at Felix when the spark plasma had worn off, and it was a perfect shot.
"F-Felix?" Sheba stood in disbelief.
"What a little bug!" Dark Garet laughed aloud, the sound akin to a thousand souls screaming their death cries.
"RETREAT!" Sheba yelled, running with God-like speed away from Dark Garet. The army ran right behind her. The people of Imil followed, determined to catch them.
Dark Garet, lost in madness, called forth all of his Psynergy.
"COME WITH ME TO HELL!" he exclaimed. "INFERNO!"
Thousands of fireballs shot out of him, and the temperature rose dramatically. They shot everywhere, indiscriminate in their targets, roasting both the people of Imil and the people of Vale.
Sheba dodged three right off the bat, then dived to the ground, avoiding a fourth. She turned and saw hundreds of figures running, burning, skeletons smoking on the ground, and people with their skin bubbling off.
Those who had not been hit ran even faster than before, trying to escape the horror.
After the battle, Sheba locked herself in the inn at Lunpa. There she fell to her knees and began to sob. Felix was dead now, and she was next. Of the eight of them that had lit the lighthouses, only half remained, and one was lost in darkness. Things looked hopeless. She laid on her bed, weeping her troubles away.
At the ravaged town of Bilibin, Dark Garet looked upon exactly what he had done. In his madness, he had eliminated half of Vale's army. He had also eliminated three fourths of his own.
Dark Garet growled at himself. Now they were less in number than the people of Vale. But, he corrected himself, he had taken one person of more worth than the entire army. Felix was dead, and it was only a matter of time before he caught up with Sheba. . .
Nightmare Alex: Hoooray! Inspiration everywhere! Today was a snow day, so my chapter is longer than usual, cuz I had more time, and more ideas.
Serac: WAY LONGER!
Nightmare Alex: Well, it's long but it's good!
Serac: I guess. . .
Nightmare Alex: Oh hush up! Anyways, The Faction's Lord receives a bucket of chocolate-chip cookie dough! Do what you will with it! Personally, I think I wouldn't even bother to bake before eating. . .
Serac: Disgusting!
Nightmare Alex: It tastes better! A lot more sweet and sugary!
Serac: Oooooh. Mmmmmmm.
Nightmare Alex: Anyway, here's the chapter, and sorry The Faction's Lord. You'll know what I mean by that after reading it.
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Golden Sun: The Alchemy Wars
Chapter XVI: Battle Is Joined, Another Hero Falls
The Contingan/Tolbian army ran straight into the streets of Anemos, in between vast sprawling buildings, hundreds of stories high, almost as tall as the lighthouses.
"It's incredible. . ." Isaac gasped in awe, and the entire army stopped, looking at the impressive architecture.
"ISAAC!" Mia cried a warning. "ICE MISSILE!" Giant shards of ice appeared out of nowhere and shot through an alley near Isaac, impaling a not-so-fierce looking warrior in Anemian armor. "Keep on your guard!" Mia commanded.
"Thanks" Isaac said, still looking kind of shaken. "All right troops, keep on your guard, and kill all that you see! They probably aren't going to be that strong, but they will have a lot of Psynergy!"
Just as spoke, enormous thunder clouds started to roll across the landscape. "Uh oh." In the distance, hundreds of warriors were approaching at an enormous rate, aided by their extreme agility. In a matter of seconds, the two sides met, and complete chaos erupted across the city.
Isaac dodged a plasma, then ran his Sol Blade straight through the warrior who had cast it, quickly sidestepping a swift onslaught of sword swipes from yet another soldier.
Mia froze several soldiers in their tracks with a glacier attack, then took the life of another warrior with her Lachesis' Rule. "Keep it up, push them back!" she tried to encourage all of the soldiers near her.
Shine plasmas began to riddle the landscape, and huge tornadoes raged throughout the city. Buildings fell, killing many Anemians, Contigans, and Tolbians.
"At this rate" Isaac thought aloud, "there won't even be an Anemos!" he jumped behind a piece of rubble as another plasma shot went straight through where he had been standing previously.
"COME ON, PUSH THEM BACK!" Isaac led his army on. "GRAND GAIA!" The earth split open, and several Anemians were consumed instantly by the torrent of rock which burst from the ground.
The army, their confidence renewed after seeing such mighty feats by Mia and Isaac rallied, and pushed back the Anemians. Despite heavy casualties on both sides, the Anemians were the ones to fall back.
Isaac cheered, seeing the last of the quick warriors disappear from the battlefield. His happiness was short-lived, however. The sound of booming footsteps, and creaking metal grew closer.
"What could possibly make that noise?" Mia asked in wonder.
"Beats me" Isaac answered, watching for any sign of the new threat.
From around the corner emerged a gigantic warrior, a creature not of mortal strength. The army gasped, they had never seen anything like it before.
"A SENTINEL?!" Isaac let the words escape from his mouth.
"But, I remember destroying it!" she exclaimed. "We defeated it to get Catastrophe, remember?"
"Yeah" Isaac replied, readying for the fight of his life. "I do. I wish the djinn hadn't decided to go back into Mt. Aleph. Just because it was originally what they wanted us for doesn't mean I thought that it was really going to happen. . ."
"I agree" Mia said. "A summon would be nice about now."
Suddenly, another Sentinel emerged from behind a building.
"THERE'S TWO?" Mia burst out, unbelieving. They might have been a match for one, but two? It seemed impossible. "I think that we are going to need some help. . ."
"No time for that now!" Isaac yelled, noticing the wind picking up. "It looks like it's already begun! EVERYONE, GET DOWN!"
The soldiers that heard Isaac dived out of the way just in time. Those unlucky enough to remain standing were charred beyond recognition by a mighty spark plasma.
"Things are not looking up. Care to join me, Mia? LET'S GO TROOPS, CHARGE!" Isaac ran forward, Mia at his side, the army following behind, in what seemed to be a suicide assault.
In Bilibin, Felix watched with fierce intensity as the Imil army came closer. He had but one goal: Take out the leader. It was absolutely necessary. Without a leader, the people of Imil would probably retreat.
When the people of Imil were just yards away, Sheba began the attack. "NOW"
Hundreds of earthquakes rippled across the landscape, sending Adepts flying to their doom in all directions. Spires crunched unwitting warriors into oblivion. The people of Imil were caught completely by surprise.
They regrouped quickly however, and soon prisms, ice horns, and frosts were flying across the landscape into the city.
Sheba kept cheering on the army, casting protective spells to shield them from Psynergy. But, before long, the people of Imil would be within sword range, and then she could not offer any protection. Glancing around, she noticed that Felix wasn't anywhere nearby.
"What!" she cursed under her breath. "Where the heck are you?" she dodged a prism, and fired back a plasma shot, eyes racing across the landscape, until they fell upon a lone figure going up a hill next to the Imil army.
"What could he possibly be doing?" she wondered aloud.
"Lady Sheba!" a soldier called out. "The people of Imil are fighting hand-to-hand now! We need you on the right flank, it's starting to fail!"
Sheba took off running, all thoughts of Felix eliminated from her mind. She had to keep the Imil army from taking Bilibin, or else they might be completely elimated without Felix.
Bringing her strength to bear, she joined the fray, Psynergy crackling at her fingertips.
Felix army crawled his way past the attackers, until he saw one lone figure, black as night, standing perfectly motionless atop the hill, no other soldiers even remotely close.
"I've found him" Felix whispered. "It's time to finish this."
"Hey! You there!' Felix called out to Dark Garet. "Whoever you may be, I will destroy you!"
Dark Garet did not move.
"Hey! I said that I would destroy you!" Felix yelled. "Aren't you going to do anything?"
Slowly, the mammoth figure turned it's eyes upon Felix. Felix stared into them, they were red and yellow, the eyes of a demon, looking like portals into hell itself. Felix felt as though he had been pierced by a sword. He breathed heavily. There was something unnatural about this creature.
Felix flew backward, a sharp pain in his jaw. He hit a tree with such force that it burst.
"Ughhhhh. . ." Felix moaned. "What happened?" Looking down at his jaw, he saw tiny incisions, slowly dripping blood. Looking back to Dark Garet, he saw his knuckles were spiked, and gleaming his fresh blood.
"He punched me and I didn't even see it!" Felix cursed himself. "I should've never looked into his eyes!"
Felix started to rush Dark Garet, but every swing was easily blocked by the mammoth Darksword that he carried.
"It's impossible!" Felix cried. "No one has enough strength to fight with that huge sword for this long!"
"Worms deserve to DIE!" an evil voice floated from the Dark Garet's helmet.
"What?!" Felix cried, barely blocking Dark Garet's sword. He tried to dodge the follow-up punch, but was a second too slow. He felt evil, seething metal tear into his stomach.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he fell, clutching his gut, to the ground.
Both armies stopped fighting. They turned to see what had happened. When the people of Vale saw that Felix was down, they were ready to flee.
"Potent Cure" Felix mumbled, then wounds healed, returned to his feet.
The people of Vale breathed a sigh of relief, and the battle stopped as everyone watched this duel between their epic leaders.
"You won't be so lucky this time!" Felix taunted, calling forth his Psynergy. "ODYSSEY!"
Dark Garet stood his ground, channeling his Psynergy into his blade. He dodged one jumped one sword, rolled beneath the second, and then, gathering his momentum and Psynergy together, clashed his own sword with the third, gigantic one, completely shattering the Psynergetic blade.
"Wha-What?" Felix stuttered, not believing what he was seeing.
"How do you feel now, human!" Dark Garet spoke, the last word dripping with malice. He rushed in, and in three quick strikes, knocked Felix back with his sword, swept him off his feet with a kick, and then did an uppercut straight into Felix's back while he was falling.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!" Felix fell to the ground, then coughed up thick, red blood. "I cannot fail. . ."
Inside of Dark Garet, Garet was trying to take over. YOU CAN'T DO THIS! he screamed in his mind. I WON'T LET YOU KILL FELIX TOO!
Dark Garet convulsed on the outside, then uttered two words, in a voice Felix found most familiar.
"Run. . . Felix. . ." Then the convulsions stopped, and Dark Garet regained his senses.
"Garet?" Felix said, shocked. "What happened? Garet!" he rolled aside just in time, as Dark Garet's blade put a flaming slash through the ground.
"Alex. . . Dark Garet. . . Felix. . . Run. . . NOW!" Dark Garet convulsed again, but soon stopped.
Felix tried to get up, but was nailed in the chest by Dark Garet's fist.
Felix coughed up more blood, and saw Dark Garet raising his sword for the final blow.
"SPARK PLASMA!" bolts of plasma rained upon Dark Garet, but astonishingly, he dodged them all.
"Sheba. . . get back. . ." Felix tried to get Sheba away. "It's. . . Garet. . ."
"Garet?" Sheba asked incredulously.
"Dark. . . Garet. . . Run. . ." Felix uttered.
"No way!" Sheba replied stubbornly. "I'm saving y-"
Her words were cut short as Felix let out a final scream, Dark Garet's sword protruding from his chest. He had thrown it straight at Felix when the spark plasma had worn off, and it was a perfect shot.
"F-Felix?" Sheba stood in disbelief.
"What a little bug!" Dark Garet laughed aloud, the sound akin to a thousand souls screaming their death cries.
"RETREAT!" Sheba yelled, running with God-like speed away from Dark Garet. The army ran right behind her. The people of Imil followed, determined to catch them.
Dark Garet, lost in madness, called forth all of his Psynergy.
"COME WITH ME TO HELL!" he exclaimed. "INFERNO!"
Thousands of fireballs shot out of him, and the temperature rose dramatically. They shot everywhere, indiscriminate in their targets, roasting both the people of Imil and the people of Vale.
Sheba dodged three right off the bat, then dived to the ground, avoiding a fourth. She turned and saw hundreds of figures running, burning, skeletons smoking on the ground, and people with their skin bubbling off.
Those who had not been hit ran even faster than before, trying to escape the horror.
After the battle, Sheba locked herself in the inn at Lunpa. There she fell to her knees and began to sob. Felix was dead now, and she was next. Of the eight of them that had lit the lighthouses, only half remained, and one was lost in darkness. Things looked hopeless. She laid on her bed, weeping her troubles away.
At the ravaged town of Bilibin, Dark Garet looked upon exactly what he had done. In his madness, he had eliminated half of Vale's army. He had also eliminated three fourths of his own.
Dark Garet growled at himself. Now they were less in number than the people of Vale. But, he corrected himself, he had taken one person of more worth than the entire army. Felix was dead, and it was only a matter of time before he caught up with Sheba. . .