Serac: NA doesn't own Golden Sun. Get it through your thick heads already.
Nightmare Alex: Hey! Things are going great. After having escaped to my second home, just moments before my house was completely incinerated I guess (looks at The Faction's Lord.)
Serac: Yeah, you're lucky I warned you he was probably going to do that!
Nightmare Alex: Yes I am! Chocolate chip muffins to QueenDragonGoddess, golden emperor, and Serac.
Serac: ME?!
Nightmare Alex: Yes you! I am giving you The Faction's Lord's muffin because he tried to cripple me! So you can have it. If The Faction's Lord is good, and doesn't try to kill me again, maybe he'll get some more too.
Serac: YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
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Golden Sun: The Alchemy Wars
Chapter XVII: No Rest For the Weary
Dark Garet stood, motionless. He had been standing in the very same spot since the retreat of the Vale army. He was tallying up the losses. Growing frustrated, he finally decided to hell with it all. He was strong enough to take down Felix, he could take Sheba. And the soldiers were so much weaker than her.
"MARCH NOW!" Dark Garet commanded, breaking the silence. The few remaining people of Imil began to trudge off in the direction of Lunpa. Dark Garet stayed behind.
"Why did you do that?!" a voice snapped from behind him.
"Forgive me. . ." Dark Garet replied, turning round.
"You completely lost your head!" Alex scolded, showing his temper for the first time in ages. "You just destroyed almost all of your own army!"
"They cannot stand against me!" Dark Garet replied. "Not even all of them combined can stop my might!"
"Yes, this is true. . ." Alex ran through the numbers in his head. "But watch out for Sheba. . ."
"She is nothing but a puny bug!" Dark Garet sneered.
"Do not be so sure. . ." Alex cautioned. "She has much knowledge of Psynergy. She might go down with more of a fight then you think. Oh well, I'm off to check on the progress at Anemos. . ."
And so he left, teleporting off to an undisclosed location, leaving Dark Garet to wonder about his warning.
Sheba woke up, never realizing she had fallen asleep. Instantly, she wished she still was. The memories of Felix dying, the hopeless situation, Garet lost in darkness. . . They all came flooding back.
"Why me?" she mumbled to herself. "Why does something bad always have to happen?"
"Sheba? Lady Sheba?" a knock came from her door. "Are you all right in there? We need to get ready for another attack. They say that the Imil army is on the move again!"
Sheba blew the door off it's hinges with a gust of wind, her hatred for the people of Imil consuming her for a moment. Stepping out of her room, she noticed a soldier slammed against the wall.
"Ooooooops. . ." she said slowly. "Sorry, I didn't know you were right behind there. . ."
"Quite. . . all. . . right. . ." the soldier grunted, slowly getting on his feet. "But we need to get moving. They are very close. We have already dug a trench. We even have some booby traps set up. But we need you to rally the men, and bring them some morale."
"Yes" Sheba said distantly, "I suppose so. . ."
"Dear God!" Isaac cried in horror, watching another platoon of good soldiers sent flying, mortally burnt by a spark plasma attack. "This is impossible!"
"Don't say that!" Mia snapped, ducking behind a boulder. "We have at least injured one!" She pointed to the foremost Sentinel.
Isaac followed her finger. Looking carefully, he saw a cut at the Sentinels midsection.
"I would hardly call that an injury. . ." he grumbled. "AND our Psynergy can't effect them!"
"Listen up, blockhead" Mia explained. "Use Megiddo, and you could cut it in half!"
"Oh" Isaac said, realization dawning on his face. "Right, maybe we can win."
"Right" Mia planned. "I'll jump out and distract it, you have to unleash Megiddo on it. Ready?"
"Sure thing!" Isaac replied.
"GO!" Mia jumped out from behind a boulder, and used a bramble seed. The sentinel was covered in thick thorn bushes, but easily broke them.
Isaac was just about to jump out, when suddenly, a screaming voice erupted in his head.
"ISAAC!" it roared. "I CANNOT STAY WITH YOU ANY FURTHER! IT IS I, THE WISE ONE!"
"Wise One!" Isaac called, "I cannot see you!"
"THIS IS MY LAST MESSAGE!" it continued. "ALEX HAS DESTROYED ME, SO I LEAVE TO YOU THE DUTY OF WEYARD'S PROTECTOR!"
"Isaac!" Mia screamed frantically, "where are you?!" she dodged a searing beam, and tried to retreat, but was caught in the heel by a plasma bolt. She fell to the ground, one of her legs useless because she could not put any weight on her foot.
Isaac could not hear her. "Wise One! What do you mean? How can I possibly protect Weyard?"
"YOU MUST!" the voice cried, then, with the message still echoing throughout his head, he realized that the Wise One truly was gone.
"ISAAC!" Mia screamed again, as the Sentinel closed on her, preparing a searing beam. "PLEASE, HELP!"
"Mia!" Isaac heard her this time, and rushing out in front of her, swung his Sol Blade with all his might.
"MEGIDDO!" the strike hit home, and the Sentinel crumbled in half, then fell to pieces.
The other Sentinel turned it's head over to it's fallen comrade, and then to Isaac and Mia.
"Hold on Mia!" Isaac instructed, picking her up. "RETREAT! RETREAT!"
The army took off, carrying what wounded they could, attempting to dodge the Psynergy that the Sentinel was firing at them.
They successfully made it back into Contigo, where they cared for the wounded.
"Mia" Isaac said, slowly. "The Wise One is dead." He let it sink in. "He was destroyed by Alex."
Mia's eyes grew wide. "What happens now?" she asked softly.
"I have been assigned as protector of Weyard from now on. . ." he trailed off. "Whatever it may mean, I intend to try and fufill my duty!"
Mia was about to speak, when metallic creaking and heavy thuds of footsteps began to echo across the plain.
"It looks like we're not quite done yet" Isaac smiled, in his ready-to-meet-anything kind of way. Looking out he window, he saw three Sentinels advancing upon Contigo.
"I think we will have to retreat" he advised. "Maybe we could try and hold out at Jupiter Lighthouse? The Contigans Psynergy would be very strong!"
"Sounds like it's the best we can do" Mia answered, having just finished healing herself.
They went out to gather the troops and retreat to Jupiter Lighthouse.
"So, you came to check on me?" the Anemian king laughed. "Alex, everything is going as planned!"
"What of Isaac and Mia?" Alex questioned, eager to hear the news. "The Sentinels are going to take care of them any minute now. Only one has been destroyed."
"Well then my puppet, I assume I can leave you?" Alex asked. "Knowing that you will succeed?"
Dark Stalfas laughed again. "Of course. They are merely bugs!"
"What is it with Dark Garet and you?" Alex grinned. "All you ever talk about is bugs!"
He laughed aloud, obviously cracked up. Dark Stalfas rolled his eyes.
"Goodbye, my liege" he said, watching Alex teleport away again.
Dark Stalfas set his eyes upon his war map. Ages old, it was still fairly accurate. If he was correct, the next stop for his army should be. . . Jupiter Lighthouse.
"It's too early to fight" Sheba grumbled, then realized that no one was there to listen to her. She wiped tears out of her eyes, remembering how Ivan had always listened to her.
"Come on, Sheba!" she said to herself. "Now is not the time."
Glancing up, she caught sight of a giant figure standing before the gates of Lunpa.
"There here!" she caught the attention of the army in the trenches behind the wall. "Wait for them to enter!"
As she watched, some blue-haired soldiers gathered round Dark Garet.
"Is that all they have left?" she wondered aloud. She knew that a great many had fallen victim to Dark Garet's insane power, but this was incredible. That few left?
Suddenly, am explosion sparked from Dark Garet's fingertips, blowing the gate right off of its hinges, and lighting the entire wall on fire.
"ATTACK!" Dark Garet bellowed, and the few soldiers from Imil that were left advanced through the inferno, determined to finish what they had started. . .
Isaac, Mia, and both of the armies had made it safely to Jupiter Lighthouse. The three Sentinels were in view, and almost in Psynergy range.
"PREPARE YOURSELVES!" Isaac commanded. "We still have a long way to go. . ."
Nightmare Alex: Hey! Things are going great. After having escaped to my second home, just moments before my house was completely incinerated I guess (looks at The Faction's Lord.)
Serac: Yeah, you're lucky I warned you he was probably going to do that!
Nightmare Alex: Yes I am! Chocolate chip muffins to QueenDragonGoddess, golden emperor, and Serac.
Serac: ME?!
Nightmare Alex: Yes you! I am giving you The Faction's Lord's muffin because he tried to cripple me! So you can have it. If The Faction's Lord is good, and doesn't try to kill me again, maybe he'll get some more too.
Serac: YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
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Golden Sun: The Alchemy Wars
Chapter XVII: No Rest For the Weary
Dark Garet stood, motionless. He had been standing in the very same spot since the retreat of the Vale army. He was tallying up the losses. Growing frustrated, he finally decided to hell with it all. He was strong enough to take down Felix, he could take Sheba. And the soldiers were so much weaker than her.
"MARCH NOW!" Dark Garet commanded, breaking the silence. The few remaining people of Imil began to trudge off in the direction of Lunpa. Dark Garet stayed behind.
"Why did you do that?!" a voice snapped from behind him.
"Forgive me. . ." Dark Garet replied, turning round.
"You completely lost your head!" Alex scolded, showing his temper for the first time in ages. "You just destroyed almost all of your own army!"
"They cannot stand against me!" Dark Garet replied. "Not even all of them combined can stop my might!"
"Yes, this is true. . ." Alex ran through the numbers in his head. "But watch out for Sheba. . ."
"She is nothing but a puny bug!" Dark Garet sneered.
"Do not be so sure. . ." Alex cautioned. "She has much knowledge of Psynergy. She might go down with more of a fight then you think. Oh well, I'm off to check on the progress at Anemos. . ."
And so he left, teleporting off to an undisclosed location, leaving Dark Garet to wonder about his warning.
Sheba woke up, never realizing she had fallen asleep. Instantly, she wished she still was. The memories of Felix dying, the hopeless situation, Garet lost in darkness. . . They all came flooding back.
"Why me?" she mumbled to herself. "Why does something bad always have to happen?"
"Sheba? Lady Sheba?" a knock came from her door. "Are you all right in there? We need to get ready for another attack. They say that the Imil army is on the move again!"
Sheba blew the door off it's hinges with a gust of wind, her hatred for the people of Imil consuming her for a moment. Stepping out of her room, she noticed a soldier slammed against the wall.
"Ooooooops. . ." she said slowly. "Sorry, I didn't know you were right behind there. . ."
"Quite. . . all. . . right. . ." the soldier grunted, slowly getting on his feet. "But we need to get moving. They are very close. We have already dug a trench. We even have some booby traps set up. But we need you to rally the men, and bring them some morale."
"Yes" Sheba said distantly, "I suppose so. . ."
"Dear God!" Isaac cried in horror, watching another platoon of good soldiers sent flying, mortally burnt by a spark plasma attack. "This is impossible!"
"Don't say that!" Mia snapped, ducking behind a boulder. "We have at least injured one!" She pointed to the foremost Sentinel.
Isaac followed her finger. Looking carefully, he saw a cut at the Sentinels midsection.
"I would hardly call that an injury. . ." he grumbled. "AND our Psynergy can't effect them!"
"Listen up, blockhead" Mia explained. "Use Megiddo, and you could cut it in half!"
"Oh" Isaac said, realization dawning on his face. "Right, maybe we can win."
"Right" Mia planned. "I'll jump out and distract it, you have to unleash Megiddo on it. Ready?"
"Sure thing!" Isaac replied.
"GO!" Mia jumped out from behind a boulder, and used a bramble seed. The sentinel was covered in thick thorn bushes, but easily broke them.
Isaac was just about to jump out, when suddenly, a screaming voice erupted in his head.
"ISAAC!" it roared. "I CANNOT STAY WITH YOU ANY FURTHER! IT IS I, THE WISE ONE!"
"Wise One!" Isaac called, "I cannot see you!"
"THIS IS MY LAST MESSAGE!" it continued. "ALEX HAS DESTROYED ME, SO I LEAVE TO YOU THE DUTY OF WEYARD'S PROTECTOR!"
"Isaac!" Mia screamed frantically, "where are you?!" she dodged a searing beam, and tried to retreat, but was caught in the heel by a plasma bolt. She fell to the ground, one of her legs useless because she could not put any weight on her foot.
Isaac could not hear her. "Wise One! What do you mean? How can I possibly protect Weyard?"
"YOU MUST!" the voice cried, then, with the message still echoing throughout his head, he realized that the Wise One truly was gone.
"ISAAC!" Mia screamed again, as the Sentinel closed on her, preparing a searing beam. "PLEASE, HELP!"
"Mia!" Isaac heard her this time, and rushing out in front of her, swung his Sol Blade with all his might.
"MEGIDDO!" the strike hit home, and the Sentinel crumbled in half, then fell to pieces.
The other Sentinel turned it's head over to it's fallen comrade, and then to Isaac and Mia.
"Hold on Mia!" Isaac instructed, picking her up. "RETREAT! RETREAT!"
The army took off, carrying what wounded they could, attempting to dodge the Psynergy that the Sentinel was firing at them.
They successfully made it back into Contigo, where they cared for the wounded.
"Mia" Isaac said, slowly. "The Wise One is dead." He let it sink in. "He was destroyed by Alex."
Mia's eyes grew wide. "What happens now?" she asked softly.
"I have been assigned as protector of Weyard from now on. . ." he trailed off. "Whatever it may mean, I intend to try and fufill my duty!"
Mia was about to speak, when metallic creaking and heavy thuds of footsteps began to echo across the plain.
"It looks like we're not quite done yet" Isaac smiled, in his ready-to-meet-anything kind of way. Looking out he window, he saw three Sentinels advancing upon Contigo.
"I think we will have to retreat" he advised. "Maybe we could try and hold out at Jupiter Lighthouse? The Contigans Psynergy would be very strong!"
"Sounds like it's the best we can do" Mia answered, having just finished healing herself.
They went out to gather the troops and retreat to Jupiter Lighthouse.
"So, you came to check on me?" the Anemian king laughed. "Alex, everything is going as planned!"
"What of Isaac and Mia?" Alex questioned, eager to hear the news. "The Sentinels are going to take care of them any minute now. Only one has been destroyed."
"Well then my puppet, I assume I can leave you?" Alex asked. "Knowing that you will succeed?"
Dark Stalfas laughed again. "Of course. They are merely bugs!"
"What is it with Dark Garet and you?" Alex grinned. "All you ever talk about is bugs!"
He laughed aloud, obviously cracked up. Dark Stalfas rolled his eyes.
"Goodbye, my liege" he said, watching Alex teleport away again.
Dark Stalfas set his eyes upon his war map. Ages old, it was still fairly accurate. If he was correct, the next stop for his army should be. . . Jupiter Lighthouse.
"It's too early to fight" Sheba grumbled, then realized that no one was there to listen to her. She wiped tears out of her eyes, remembering how Ivan had always listened to her.
"Come on, Sheba!" she said to herself. "Now is not the time."
Glancing up, she caught sight of a giant figure standing before the gates of Lunpa.
"There here!" she caught the attention of the army in the trenches behind the wall. "Wait for them to enter!"
As she watched, some blue-haired soldiers gathered round Dark Garet.
"Is that all they have left?" she wondered aloud. She knew that a great many had fallen victim to Dark Garet's insane power, but this was incredible. That few left?
Suddenly, am explosion sparked from Dark Garet's fingertips, blowing the gate right off of its hinges, and lighting the entire wall on fire.
"ATTACK!" Dark Garet bellowed, and the few soldiers from Imil that were left advanced through the inferno, determined to finish what they had started. . .
Isaac, Mia, and both of the armies had made it safely to Jupiter Lighthouse. The three Sentinels were in view, and almost in Psynergy range.
"PREPARE YOURSELVES!" Isaac commanded. "We still have a long way to go. . ."