Return of Anemos
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Chapter 13 - Visions
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Isaac opened his eyes upon smelling the ash in the air. Recalling that the last thing he was doing was sleeping, he surveyed the surroundings. It was Vale, that much he could tell at first glance. But it was not the Vale that he knew; it was the smoldering ruins of what had once been the rebuilt Vale. Small fires burned after what appeared to be some battle. Walking towards the ruins, he surveyed the area, looking for bodies, worried at not seeing any.
As he passed into the town square, he felt his boot step onto something other than the debris and mud. Stepping back, he looked into the smashed face of Jenna, her skull...her ey..
He quickly fell to his knees, vomiting uncontrollibly. The horror of what he had just witnessed causing him to heave for over thirty minutes before he managed to supress the image. Looking upwards, he noticed that many more bodies had suddenly appeared, and he immediately recognized them. Felix, Sheba, Alex, Mia, Jasmine...
Several other bodies appeared, but for the most part, he was unable to identify them. Unfamiliar though they were, he noted that they were all killed...by what? They weren't burned, fried, frozen, or crushed. It was almost like... they dropped down like dolls. What...?
Looking around, he noted that a golden mountain suddenly appeared. Unsure as to what it was, he ran towards it, only to find that he was suddenly upon the peak, witnessing a man bathed in a pillar of light. Shading his eyes, Isaac tried to see who it was, feeling that he somehow knew the person...
The man pointed a finger at Isaac, and a sharp ray of light shot out, piercing Isaac's chest, causing his heart to stall. Isaac fought the feeling, but as he did, the man was whisked away, vanishing as quick as a gale of wind...
Isaac, one-time hero of Vale, cried in despair...
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Opening his eyes, Isaac found himself in the small cot that he had set up within the Sanctum. His mind raced as he tried to take in his dream, and the thought of Jenna's smashed face soon dominated his mind. Scrambling to his knees, one hand cradled his stomach and chest, the other trying to keep the vile substance down. He was far from suprised when he noted that some vomit already had found its way to the floor.
Was it a dream? Or some vision? Were the heads of Anemia playing a sick joke on him...?
It was then that Isaac realized that he was not alone...
[The first vision is always the worst...]
Looking to the back of the Sanctum, Isaac tried to figure out how the ten-or-so feet high hulk of a beast had found its way inside the less-than-seven foot door... Of course, teleportation would do it... It was how he and Jenna had rescued Alex...
Jenna... That name reminded him of the horror of her face...
[That vision was one that you should not have seen... Visions typically reflect the skill of the one having the vision, yet you had one in such depth that only one that had trained for decades should have...]
"Well, you tell me why I had it... Why I saw her..." A tear fell down his face; his childhood friend, his closest friend next to Hamma, dead! Her face smashed!
[I belive your power increase at the meeting had something to do with this... You seem almost as strong as that old goat Kolar...]
"But the vision... Her face... It was so real..."
[It hurts, I know. And it will hurt. It is unfortunate that the first vision you had was that damaging. The first one always leaves an impression.]
*That doesn't help, pal...*
[The truth is the truth; noone can change that.]
Isaac shot a stare at Nani, noting that the creature had once again picked at his mind. "You do know that we don't like having you pick our minds like that."
[It is the only way that I can learn what it is like to be human.]
Isaac, despite the horrors that he dreampt of (or was it envisioned?), raised both head and eyebrows at that comment. "How do you mean...?"
[The only way I can experiance what it is to be human is to draw on the thoughts from others. The feel of the air across the hair-coated arms, the sent of fresh spring grass, the thought of giving birth...]
"You're a woman?"
The head seemed to shake itself, probably saying no.
"Then...?"
[I do not know who or what I used to be. Therefore, I try to experiance everything. Even the feeling of walking in on your parents at the age of eleven and then running into the dar-]
"How did you..? I forgot that years ago!"
[I can read the minds of humans with ease. Warded, strong, weak, new. They are like tomes of information. I know of your crush on Jenna years ago, how you onetime sneaked into her room to give her that shoe she left at your house, only to find Felix in bed. I know of you and Hamma, and how she was seperated from you. I know of when you aided Jenna in saving Alex, and of how you were thinking of Mia and Garet when you saw him. Though powerful you may be, I can easily peer into your head. Not even the old mage Kolar could shield himself from me.]
"Kolar... You've mentioned him twice now... Who is he?"
[A very old mage back when Anemia was at its peak, prior to the revolts and rebellions. He was the overseer of my observations, and studied me. I doubt he ever realized that I had read his mind... But then, like I said...]
"Describe him..."
[At the time I saw him last, he was nearing a hundred fifty; long golden-grey hair, about your height. His mind was usually torn between his fear of Anemos falling and of his son Zeus joining the military. He also-]
"Wait, you said his son was Zeus?"
[Yes... Ah, so the Zeus you know is the same one that was Kolar's son, eh? Your memmory of him seems to match the child I recall. Amusing.]
"What?"
[Their plan worked... To freeze most of themselves within the capital and escape. I never thought they would do it... Kolar must have convinced them...]
More confused than he had been before, Isaac found that somehow, this conversation had made him forget about Jenna's...
Oops.
[It will take time to heal those scars. No medicine or tricks can undo the damage you have sustained. But maybe I know someone's presence that might aid... I take my leave of you now.]
Isaac felt Nani leave, the creature teleporting out. He looked towards the door, and felt his jaw drop as he saw the person that Nani had spoke of...
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Walking along the outer edge of Vale, Zeus reflected on recent events. Upon first arriving, he almost thought that he had the wrong city. It certainly wasn't the same town that he remembered. After the shock wore off, a red-headed woman greeted them, directing Hamma to where Isaac was presumably residing. After they departed, he had traveled around the town, his mind always finding itself at the same point:
Why?
Why did he do this deed? Why did he come to that choice? Simple. The Council had become corrupted. Why had the council become corrupted? Rumors spoke of the leader controlling the whole council. But if that was true, why was he unaffected? Because he was a Jupitarian? That was a bogus explination. Of course, his actions would work in favor of the council. He could almost hear Kolar declairing him as a traitor and a criminal. Then again, the little baka had nothing better to do...
Taking a deep breath, he tried to clear his mind. But there was something in the air... Something that he knew... But the last time he smelled that was when...
Whirling around, he faced the source of the sent. "What the hell are you doing here, Nani?"
The huld shifted, gazing at him with the black orbs it called eyes. [Zeus... Last I saw you, you were a soldier-in-training. What brings you to this village?]
Waving his hand, Zeus made way to stride away. "Why should I tell you? You probably have already pulled it from my head."
[You knew of that?]
Turning back to the creature, Zeus frowned. "Who didn't? We all could tell what you were doing."
[And you didn't stop me why...?]
"*I* didn't have a choice in the manner. Kolar was the head of the project. Whatever he had in store for you, I never found out."
Despite the anger that it surely sensed from him, Nani seemed to shake its head. [Why do you never accept him as your father?]
His face burning in anger, Zeus proceeded to storm off. He half expected Nani to give chase, but he didn't sense either a teleport or the shaking of the ground. Probably for the better, too. Kolar, or rather, the Kolar that Zeus had called father, had been a kind, caring man. He had been an advisor to the ruler of the ancient Anemos, and always put the citizens first.
Then something changed.
What had happened, he didn't know. Kolar became recluse, insisting on paying each of the Lighthouses and Rocks. What he had hoped to find, noone knew. But each time he visited, he cared less about others and more for himself. His trip to the sacred town of Valeph had ended in the slaughter of over half of the village before the army arrived to try to stop him. Had Zeus been in that squad, it might have been differient, but as it was...
...the squad was all but slaughtered, and back up corps were too late. Whatever Kolar had hoped to find, he had found it, and somehow became... tame. He denied any involvment or knowlege of what happened, stating that he had been out the whole time.
But Zeus knew differient.
Somehow, he knew that his dad had been involved in something more than he would admit. Had he been at Valeph, he might have been able to find out, and prevent it. But he was unable to, and mere days later, scores of military troops suddenly rebelled, claiming that Anemos had become tyrranical. He had ignored such insults, having taken a vow to fight to protect Anemos. But as the rogues fought, Anemos lost ground. Kolar's mutation forces were not being deployed, but rather, sealed away in Imilia, for what reason he didn't know. And then Kolar announced that the entire remaining Anemians that were loyal would be sealed in the capital, then would return when the world was ready.
Zeus had no idea what he meant, until he recieved word that each of the Lighthouses were being sealed, collecting the energies of Alchemy within Valeph's mountain range. He had not wished to do so, but he didn't become the commander of the Anemian forces without knowing when they were loosing...
*If only she hadn't been killed along with them...*
[She who?]
Whirling around, Zeus hadn't noticed that Nani had approached him. The hulk of a creature stared at him, trying to read his mind.
But Zeus wouldn't let it learn of his love that way.
"Don't bother, Nani. It would be best for us to not unearth that."
For the first time since Zeus had known it, he saw Nani's fleshy eyelids close partway, giving the appearance of a glare. For a moment, Zeus thought that Nani would try to intrude into his thoughts.
But it didn't. Instead, Nani simply backed off, gesturing towards Vale. [Would be best if we returned; it is getting dark, and I doubt you are calm enough to handle a teleport.]
Zeus shot a glare, only then realizing how right the beast was.
Despite the horrorific look of it, Nani was actually intelligent...
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IVan stared at the blonde warrior before him. At close range, he could see slight differences between the warrior before him and the one that he knew. But it still blew his mind as to what he saw...
The warrior, calling himself Robin, had arrived with a massive army nearly a day ago, yet Ivan was still shocked. The resemblence to Isaac was so strong, one would think they were twins seperated at birth. That thought aside, he paced around the table where the leaders of Prox conferred. They were ready to accep the "defectors," but Ivan was weary of them. It was his belief that when you switch sides once, what was to prevent you from doing it again?
For his part, Robin had been brutally honest, even admitting that a "monster" force would attack them within a week. Agatio had been weary of this as well, but the rest of the council seemed to believe that it was a real threat.
What Ivan wanted to know, and what Robin hadn't revealed, was why Anemos wanted Mars Lighthouse in the first place. Of course, there was the chance that he didn't know, but the warrior had to suspect SOMETHING...
Releasing a sigh, he looked outside. Tents were being set up around the town for the new warriors, which now seemed to number close to three hundred. Three hundred that wanted to leave Anemos to fight against this monster force? Doubtful.
Ivan sighed. If Agatio would allow him, he would greatly like to read the Venusian's mind, to see what he could find. Sadly, the dozen citizens had decided that such an action would possibly offend their new ally.
But after listening for the talks for over two hours, Ivan made polite excuses to leave to go home. Along the way, he surveyed the tents. He sensed adepts of all kinds, with mostly Mars and Jupitarians (and was it him, or more Jupitarians then any other?). There were few Venusians, and even fewer Mercury Adepts.
Come to think of it, there weren't any Mercury Adepts at ALL.
Wasn't that odd?
There were women among the men, but no Mercury Adepts? That was odd...
VERY odd...
Shaking his thoughts, he made his way to his house, intent on giving his wife a big hug and kiss.
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Deep witin the Sleeping chambers, Jasper shook his head. It was three days since Robin was supposed to transmit the updates on the Council's latest plans. And if that wasn't bad enough, another source informed him that Robin, and the whole army for that matter, had recieved a death sentence pending capture.
How his brother had gotten into this, he didn't know. But if the whole army was marked, then maybe he convinced them to leave. But if so, why didn't he come to the Shelter?
Stroking his long red braids back, he sighted. Gracie was supposed to be awaiting the latest news from their other informant, and hopefully some new information would arrive.
But he wouldn't bet money on it.
Staring into the empty Sleeping hall, he waited.
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Sheba - 0_0
Karst - Gracie and Jasper?? What the hell are you doing now?
Agatio - Wait, Jasper sounds like Jasm..mphh!
=D Silence! I do not want my plans revealed. All in due time! And now - to the reviews!
Forgotten Souls - Careful what you say about the site... They will get you... Seriously, thanks! And thanks for the assistance! How is this monster of a chapter?
Dragon Empress - 0_0 Monkeys? I fear no stinking monkeys! Why? I HAVE FURY!!! *cough* Sorry, this is what I get for restarting Mario and Luigi... That, and playing old NES Mega Man games on my GP32... But that aside... Dang... I know that I tend to ramble, but this is overkill... Thanks for the review!!!
darkness127 - Am I on your Fav Author list as well? The Stats page keeps up with those, and if I ever get around to it, all of those with me on their Author Fave list will begin to recieve RoA BETAs... Yes, it is a promo thing... And to everyone who reads these things, RoA will apparently exceed my longest story by a good bit: Icy Blaze may have ended with 19 chapters, but this one will be arond THIRTY at the MINIMUM!!! *cough* I need to work on this rambling problem... Thanks for the review!
Darkcomet - 0_0 Thanks for catching up! And how is this lengthly chapter? *goes to next review to keep from endless rambling...*
??? - Nice name. For future reference to those who leave notes like this, leave some kind of a name or e-mail. Don't make me end up like Ashton!!! That aside, if the person who left this review is reading this, read Icy Blaze (provided that you are of the correct age to read it... If not, that's your problem.), then read RoA. If that doesn't do it, check out my Bio page.
Gay Witch - Does this chapter answer that question? And I assume you will enjoy the bit with Zeus...
And unless some last minute reviews pop-up, this is all!
And as I close...
Sheba - HE DOES NOT OWN GOLDEN SUN!!
Agatio - REVIEW!!!
...expect to see more of Gracie and Jasper... ^_^
Sheba/Agatio - X_X
Now Karst, if you would...
Karst - READ AND REVIEW!!! HE DOES NOT OWN GOLDEN SUN!!!
Sheba/Agatio - *gives Karst the death glare*
Karst - 0_o *runs*
Oh hell... Here we go again...
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Chapter 13 - Visions
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Isaac opened his eyes upon smelling the ash in the air. Recalling that the last thing he was doing was sleeping, he surveyed the surroundings. It was Vale, that much he could tell at first glance. But it was not the Vale that he knew; it was the smoldering ruins of what had once been the rebuilt Vale. Small fires burned after what appeared to be some battle. Walking towards the ruins, he surveyed the area, looking for bodies, worried at not seeing any.
As he passed into the town square, he felt his boot step onto something other than the debris and mud. Stepping back, he looked into the smashed face of Jenna, her skull...her ey..
He quickly fell to his knees, vomiting uncontrollibly. The horror of what he had just witnessed causing him to heave for over thirty minutes before he managed to supress the image. Looking upwards, he noticed that many more bodies had suddenly appeared, and he immediately recognized them. Felix, Sheba, Alex, Mia, Jasmine...
Several other bodies appeared, but for the most part, he was unable to identify them. Unfamiliar though they were, he noted that they were all killed...by what? They weren't burned, fried, frozen, or crushed. It was almost like... they dropped down like dolls. What...?
Looking around, he noted that a golden mountain suddenly appeared. Unsure as to what it was, he ran towards it, only to find that he was suddenly upon the peak, witnessing a man bathed in a pillar of light. Shading his eyes, Isaac tried to see who it was, feeling that he somehow knew the person...
The man pointed a finger at Isaac, and a sharp ray of light shot out, piercing Isaac's chest, causing his heart to stall. Isaac fought the feeling, but as he did, the man was whisked away, vanishing as quick as a gale of wind...
Isaac, one-time hero of Vale, cried in despair...
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Opening his eyes, Isaac found himself in the small cot that he had set up within the Sanctum. His mind raced as he tried to take in his dream, and the thought of Jenna's smashed face soon dominated his mind. Scrambling to his knees, one hand cradled his stomach and chest, the other trying to keep the vile substance down. He was far from suprised when he noted that some vomit already had found its way to the floor.
Was it a dream? Or some vision? Were the heads of Anemia playing a sick joke on him...?
It was then that Isaac realized that he was not alone...
[The first vision is always the worst...]
Looking to the back of the Sanctum, Isaac tried to figure out how the ten-or-so feet high hulk of a beast had found its way inside the less-than-seven foot door... Of course, teleportation would do it... It was how he and Jenna had rescued Alex...
Jenna... That name reminded him of the horror of her face...
[That vision was one that you should not have seen... Visions typically reflect the skill of the one having the vision, yet you had one in such depth that only one that had trained for decades should have...]
"Well, you tell me why I had it... Why I saw her..." A tear fell down his face; his childhood friend, his closest friend next to Hamma, dead! Her face smashed!
[I belive your power increase at the meeting had something to do with this... You seem almost as strong as that old goat Kolar...]
"But the vision... Her face... It was so real..."
[It hurts, I know. And it will hurt. It is unfortunate that the first vision you had was that damaging. The first one always leaves an impression.]
*That doesn't help, pal...*
[The truth is the truth; noone can change that.]
Isaac shot a stare at Nani, noting that the creature had once again picked at his mind. "You do know that we don't like having you pick our minds like that."
[It is the only way that I can learn what it is like to be human.]
Isaac, despite the horrors that he dreampt of (or was it envisioned?), raised both head and eyebrows at that comment. "How do you mean...?"
[The only way I can experiance what it is to be human is to draw on the thoughts from others. The feel of the air across the hair-coated arms, the sent of fresh spring grass, the thought of giving birth...]
"You're a woman?"
The head seemed to shake itself, probably saying no.
"Then...?"
[I do not know who or what I used to be. Therefore, I try to experiance everything. Even the feeling of walking in on your parents at the age of eleven and then running into the dar-]
"How did you..? I forgot that years ago!"
[I can read the minds of humans with ease. Warded, strong, weak, new. They are like tomes of information. I know of your crush on Jenna years ago, how you onetime sneaked into her room to give her that shoe she left at your house, only to find Felix in bed. I know of you and Hamma, and how she was seperated from you. I know of when you aided Jenna in saving Alex, and of how you were thinking of Mia and Garet when you saw him. Though powerful you may be, I can easily peer into your head. Not even the old mage Kolar could shield himself from me.]
"Kolar... You've mentioned him twice now... Who is he?"
[A very old mage back when Anemia was at its peak, prior to the revolts and rebellions. He was the overseer of my observations, and studied me. I doubt he ever realized that I had read his mind... But then, like I said...]
"Describe him..."
[At the time I saw him last, he was nearing a hundred fifty; long golden-grey hair, about your height. His mind was usually torn between his fear of Anemos falling and of his son Zeus joining the military. He also-]
"Wait, you said his son was Zeus?"
[Yes... Ah, so the Zeus you know is the same one that was Kolar's son, eh? Your memmory of him seems to match the child I recall. Amusing.]
"What?"
[Their plan worked... To freeze most of themselves within the capital and escape. I never thought they would do it... Kolar must have convinced them...]
More confused than he had been before, Isaac found that somehow, this conversation had made him forget about Jenna's...
Oops.
[It will take time to heal those scars. No medicine or tricks can undo the damage you have sustained. But maybe I know someone's presence that might aid... I take my leave of you now.]
Isaac felt Nani leave, the creature teleporting out. He looked towards the door, and felt his jaw drop as he saw the person that Nani had spoke of...
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Walking along the outer edge of Vale, Zeus reflected on recent events. Upon first arriving, he almost thought that he had the wrong city. It certainly wasn't the same town that he remembered. After the shock wore off, a red-headed woman greeted them, directing Hamma to where Isaac was presumably residing. After they departed, he had traveled around the town, his mind always finding itself at the same point:
Why?
Why did he do this deed? Why did he come to that choice? Simple. The Council had become corrupted. Why had the council become corrupted? Rumors spoke of the leader controlling the whole council. But if that was true, why was he unaffected? Because he was a Jupitarian? That was a bogus explination. Of course, his actions would work in favor of the council. He could almost hear Kolar declairing him as a traitor and a criminal. Then again, the little baka had nothing better to do...
Taking a deep breath, he tried to clear his mind. But there was something in the air... Something that he knew... But the last time he smelled that was when...
Whirling around, he faced the source of the sent. "What the hell are you doing here, Nani?"
The huld shifted, gazing at him with the black orbs it called eyes. [Zeus... Last I saw you, you were a soldier-in-training. What brings you to this village?]
Waving his hand, Zeus made way to stride away. "Why should I tell you? You probably have already pulled it from my head."
[You knew of that?]
Turning back to the creature, Zeus frowned. "Who didn't? We all could tell what you were doing."
[And you didn't stop me why...?]
"*I* didn't have a choice in the manner. Kolar was the head of the project. Whatever he had in store for you, I never found out."
Despite the anger that it surely sensed from him, Nani seemed to shake its head. [Why do you never accept him as your father?]
His face burning in anger, Zeus proceeded to storm off. He half expected Nani to give chase, but he didn't sense either a teleport or the shaking of the ground. Probably for the better, too. Kolar, or rather, the Kolar that Zeus had called father, had been a kind, caring man. He had been an advisor to the ruler of the ancient Anemos, and always put the citizens first.
Then something changed.
What had happened, he didn't know. Kolar became recluse, insisting on paying each of the Lighthouses and Rocks. What he had hoped to find, noone knew. But each time he visited, he cared less about others and more for himself. His trip to the sacred town of Valeph had ended in the slaughter of over half of the village before the army arrived to try to stop him. Had Zeus been in that squad, it might have been differient, but as it was...
...the squad was all but slaughtered, and back up corps were too late. Whatever Kolar had hoped to find, he had found it, and somehow became... tame. He denied any involvment or knowlege of what happened, stating that he had been out the whole time.
But Zeus knew differient.
Somehow, he knew that his dad had been involved in something more than he would admit. Had he been at Valeph, he might have been able to find out, and prevent it. But he was unable to, and mere days later, scores of military troops suddenly rebelled, claiming that Anemos had become tyrranical. He had ignored such insults, having taken a vow to fight to protect Anemos. But as the rogues fought, Anemos lost ground. Kolar's mutation forces were not being deployed, but rather, sealed away in Imilia, for what reason he didn't know. And then Kolar announced that the entire remaining Anemians that were loyal would be sealed in the capital, then would return when the world was ready.
Zeus had no idea what he meant, until he recieved word that each of the Lighthouses were being sealed, collecting the energies of Alchemy within Valeph's mountain range. He had not wished to do so, but he didn't become the commander of the Anemian forces without knowing when they were loosing...
*If only she hadn't been killed along with them...*
[She who?]
Whirling around, Zeus hadn't noticed that Nani had approached him. The hulk of a creature stared at him, trying to read his mind.
But Zeus wouldn't let it learn of his love that way.
"Don't bother, Nani. It would be best for us to not unearth that."
For the first time since Zeus had known it, he saw Nani's fleshy eyelids close partway, giving the appearance of a glare. For a moment, Zeus thought that Nani would try to intrude into his thoughts.
But it didn't. Instead, Nani simply backed off, gesturing towards Vale. [Would be best if we returned; it is getting dark, and I doubt you are calm enough to handle a teleport.]
Zeus shot a glare, only then realizing how right the beast was.
Despite the horrorific look of it, Nani was actually intelligent...
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IVan stared at the blonde warrior before him. At close range, he could see slight differences between the warrior before him and the one that he knew. But it still blew his mind as to what he saw...
The warrior, calling himself Robin, had arrived with a massive army nearly a day ago, yet Ivan was still shocked. The resemblence to Isaac was so strong, one would think they were twins seperated at birth. That thought aside, he paced around the table where the leaders of Prox conferred. They were ready to accep the "defectors," but Ivan was weary of them. It was his belief that when you switch sides once, what was to prevent you from doing it again?
For his part, Robin had been brutally honest, even admitting that a "monster" force would attack them within a week. Agatio had been weary of this as well, but the rest of the council seemed to believe that it was a real threat.
What Ivan wanted to know, and what Robin hadn't revealed, was why Anemos wanted Mars Lighthouse in the first place. Of course, there was the chance that he didn't know, but the warrior had to suspect SOMETHING...
Releasing a sigh, he looked outside. Tents were being set up around the town for the new warriors, which now seemed to number close to three hundred. Three hundred that wanted to leave Anemos to fight against this monster force? Doubtful.
Ivan sighed. If Agatio would allow him, he would greatly like to read the Venusian's mind, to see what he could find. Sadly, the dozen citizens had decided that such an action would possibly offend their new ally.
But after listening for the talks for over two hours, Ivan made polite excuses to leave to go home. Along the way, he surveyed the tents. He sensed adepts of all kinds, with mostly Mars and Jupitarians (and was it him, or more Jupitarians then any other?). There were few Venusians, and even fewer Mercury Adepts.
Come to think of it, there weren't any Mercury Adepts at ALL.
Wasn't that odd?
There were women among the men, but no Mercury Adepts? That was odd...
VERY odd...
Shaking his thoughts, he made his way to his house, intent on giving his wife a big hug and kiss.
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Deep witin the Sleeping chambers, Jasper shook his head. It was three days since Robin was supposed to transmit the updates on the Council's latest plans. And if that wasn't bad enough, another source informed him that Robin, and the whole army for that matter, had recieved a death sentence pending capture.
How his brother had gotten into this, he didn't know. But if the whole army was marked, then maybe he convinced them to leave. But if so, why didn't he come to the Shelter?
Stroking his long red braids back, he sighted. Gracie was supposed to be awaiting the latest news from their other informant, and hopefully some new information would arrive.
But he wouldn't bet money on it.
Staring into the empty Sleeping hall, he waited.
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Sheba - 0_0
Karst - Gracie and Jasper?? What the hell are you doing now?
Agatio - Wait, Jasper sounds like Jasm..mphh!
=D Silence! I do not want my plans revealed. All in due time! And now - to the reviews!
Forgotten Souls - Careful what you say about the site... They will get you... Seriously, thanks! And thanks for the assistance! How is this monster of a chapter?
Dragon Empress - 0_0 Monkeys? I fear no stinking monkeys! Why? I HAVE FURY!!! *cough* Sorry, this is what I get for restarting Mario and Luigi... That, and playing old NES Mega Man games on my GP32... But that aside... Dang... I know that I tend to ramble, but this is overkill... Thanks for the review!!!
darkness127 - Am I on your Fav Author list as well? The Stats page keeps up with those, and if I ever get around to it, all of those with me on their Author Fave list will begin to recieve RoA BETAs... Yes, it is a promo thing... And to everyone who reads these things, RoA will apparently exceed my longest story by a good bit: Icy Blaze may have ended with 19 chapters, but this one will be arond THIRTY at the MINIMUM!!! *cough* I need to work on this rambling problem... Thanks for the review!
Darkcomet - 0_0 Thanks for catching up! And how is this lengthly chapter? *goes to next review to keep from endless rambling...*
??? - Nice name. For future reference to those who leave notes like this, leave some kind of a name or e-mail. Don't make me end up like Ashton!!! That aside, if the person who left this review is reading this, read Icy Blaze (provided that you are of the correct age to read it... If not, that's your problem.), then read RoA. If that doesn't do it, check out my Bio page.
Gay Witch - Does this chapter answer that question? And I assume you will enjoy the bit with Zeus...
And unless some last minute reviews pop-up, this is all!
And as I close...
Sheba - HE DOES NOT OWN GOLDEN SUN!!
Agatio - REVIEW!!!
...expect to see more of Gracie and Jasper... ^_^
Sheba/Agatio - X_X
Now Karst, if you would...
Karst - READ AND REVIEW!!! HE DOES NOT OWN GOLDEN SUN!!!
Sheba/Agatio - *gives Karst the death glare*
Karst - 0_o *runs*
Oh hell... Here we go again...