I told you I'd have a new chapter up quickly, or at least quicker than usual. What happened to all the fans of the story, I've only gotten two reviews so far. Like I said before if you'd like to know when the story is updated tell me and leave your e-mail address with your review and I'll e-mail you when I post a new chapter.
A New Sun
Chapter 9: Change of Heart
By Daikar
"Thank Saturn you guys are here. This guy just started attacking me for no particular reason other than the fact that I saw his ship." Daray explained.
"He's probably just angry because you broke in here. He probably thinks you're trying to steal his ship. At least you found the captain." Nerrissa said.
"Speaking of which, you only had to send up sparks not plunge the entire town into darkness." Alexis said.
"You don't get it. He's not the captain but an Adept, from Lemuria no less. He saw me when I was cloaked, that's why I used 'Dusk', then he said he had to kill me because I saw his boat. I'm lucky you guys got here when you did, he was fit to kill me when you attacked. The strangest part was that he's Mercury aligned." Daray explained.
"That is strange, Adepts of Mercury are generally pacifists who abhor violence. And he's definitely a Mercury Adept." Kith asked.
"Most definitely, he attacked me with his water psynergy." Daray said.
"You'll live to regret that!" Zale said emerging from the water.
"We'll have to attack him together, that blast of psynergy alone wasn't powerful enough." Kith said.
"I can't, I used up all my psynergy trying to defend myself before you all got here." Daray said.
"Oh, here I got this for you, it's an Adept Ring, it restores psynergy." Lilithan said and tossed the ring to Daray.
"Thanks Lily, it's great." Daray said and slid the ring onto his middle finger.
He raised his fist and the ring began glowing bright red. Light flowed into Daray and he could feel some of his psynergy returning to him.
A.N. This isn't like a normal battle so it's not in italics. Psynergy being used will be in italics.
"Alexis, can you lend me freeze? To see if I can get more damaging psynergy." Daray shouted.
"I suppose, I haven't gotten anything so maybe you will." Alexis said.
Alexis released Freeze and he shot up out of view, seconds later a snowfall of ice blue psynergy orbs fell onto Daray. Daray could feel the power of the Djinni flowing through him.
"Cheers. Now lets see if it made a difference." Daray said concentrating on the power he just received. "Some new psynergy I can feel it. Night Frost!"
A small drift of ice built up around Zale then shattered. It barely left a scratch on him.
"Solar Ray!" From out of nowhere a beam of sunlight shone down into the building, as it passed by Daray he could feel the intense heat of it. It headed for Zale and stayed shining on him before disappearing again.
"Ply!" A small angel appeared above Zale and showered light particles on him healing him. "Froth Spiral!" A whole load of frenzied frothing bubbles rained down on the entire group causing great damage.
"Blade Flare!" Once he recovered Kith let out another sword of silvery psynergy. It crashed into Zale sending him flying back.
"Kith keep attacking, your psynergy seems to be hurting him the most." Daray said. "Freeze, I call upon you, come forth and release you power!"
Freeze appeared again and hovered above Daray for a split second before a shower of ice shards launched themselves at Zale delaying his recovery.
"Blade Flare!" Zale was thrown back further but forced himself to get up again.
"Ply Well!" Zale healed himself with more powerful psynergy.
"He keeps healing himself. This all seems pointless, oh well. Low Tide!" Lilithan said.
A small wave came crashing out of the water onto Zale. Throwing him against one of the walls.
"Cease this foolishness at once, I can not fight another Adept of Mercury." Zale said.
"What is he talking about? There are no other Mercury Adepts here. Unless, oh, he thinks that Lily is, ha." Daray said and began to laugh.
"Daray, be quiet for once in your life!" Kith said relieved the battle had ended.
"I am so sorry for the trouble I have caused you. Allow me to properly introduce myself, I am Zale, a Mercury Adept of Lemuria. Now could you do me the honor of telling me your name?" Zale said getting down on one knee and kissing a bemused Lilithan's hand.
"I'm Lilithan of Vale." Lilithan said snapping herself out of the trance.
"And your friends, their names?"
"That's Daray, but I gather you two have already met. They are Kith, Nerrissa and Alexis."
"Nice to meet all of you. I am so sorry for attacking all of you, but no one is supposed to see my boat."
"How did you get to Lalivero from Lemuria?" Nerrissa asked.
"I was out sailing one day when a terrible storm picked up. I was knocked out when one of the sails swung around and hit me. When I woke I was here."
"That's terrible." Lilithan said.
"Yes, but not as terrible as what I have done to you and your companions. Is there any way I can make it up to you? Before I leave, that is."
"When are you leaving?" Daray asked.
"As soon as I can, I was going to leave when I saw you. Now is there anything I can do to express my sorrow."
"It's all right really, you don't need to-" Lilithan started.
"Actually there is something you could do, for another Mercury Adept that is." Daray began. "We need to get to Hesperia to find our friends but we don't have a boat."
"You can come on my boat of course, I could use another Mercury Adept on my ship. Make your preparations and meet me back here at sun down." Zale said and went off to tend to the ship.
Outside the building containing the ship the Adepts were talking quietly amongst themselves.
"Daray! How could you take advantage of Zale's kindness?" Lilithan said.
"Me, I didn't here you deny your being a Mercury Adept." Daray said but Lilithan couldn't answer. "Besides he was going to kill me it was the least he could do to apologize. Anyway this is perfect; sailing with a Mercury Adept would be a lot better than sailing with anyone else."
"He has a point Lily, I think we were all thinking we could hitch a ride with him if he thought you were a Mercury Adept." Nerrissa said and everyone nodded in agreement.
"It's the principle of it though. I didn't deny being a Mercury Adept but I never intended on taking advantage of his kind and noble nature. Anyway what's done is done we'd better get ready for the departure at sun down. We'll have a long journey ahead of us and who knows what beasts we could face on the open sea." Lilithan said.
"We should all check out the weapon shop, you should see some of the great weapons they have, some of them even unleash elemental power, but they cost a bomb." Kith said.
"Let's go take a look anyway, we won't need to buy anything for a while so we might as well buy some good weapons." Daray said.
They walked towards the Armoury and moments later they arrived. They went inside. They spent at least an hour looking at all the weapons, when they finally decided which ones they wanted they spent another half an hour haggling with the shop owner. They all got tired of trying to get the owner to budge but ended up paying the original price, except for Daray whose stubbornness finally came in handy and he got his sword for half the original price. He chose the cursed weapon Muramasa, which had no effect on him. Alexis bought an Arctic Blade, Kith a Swift Sword, Nerrissa a Zodiac Wand and Lilithan a Longbow as she had spent a lot of money buying healing implements. Once they had made all their preparations they headed back to Zale's boat but Zale was nowhere to be found.
"He probably just popped out to buy something from the item shop, Lily, I'm sure he's fine." Daray said.
"Daray is probably right for once, he's fine." Kith said.
"Of course he is, he's a strong warrior he'll be fine. But what if he doesn't come back then I'll never see-I mean we'll never get to Lemuria." Lilithan said quickly covering the secret that she almost let out.
"He'll be back don't worry we'll get to Lemuria one way or another. Nothing can stop us once we put our minds to it, especially when Daray puts his mind to something." Nerrissa said.
"What's with all the jokes at my expense?" Daray said pretending to be hurt.
"It's all right Daray, we all love you really." Nerrissa said winking to the rest of the group.
"Aw, thanks, hey I saw you winking." Daray said.
"Okay maybe we should stop the Daray bashing," Kith began.
"Yeah, Kith's right." Daray said.
"We can do it when he's not here." Kith said laughing.
Just at that moment an official looking man entered the building and looked around. When he spotted the Adepts he walked over to them.
"Excuse me, you will all have to leave. This boat has been stolen and we need to search the ship for the thief, perhaps you've seen him. He is a tall man with long, pale blue hair. He is dressed in a purple tunic and white pants. He wears bluish purple boots on his feet and has a purple cape over his back. He also has blue eyes." The man said describing the missing boat thief.
"Neptune's trident it's Zale." Lilithan blurted out.
"Pardon me, who and how do you know his name?" the man asked.
"His name is Zale. He told us he'd let us sail with him on his boat because, uh, we uh," Daray began but realised he couldn't say because Lilithan was a Mercury Adept, "we helped him out with something."
"Helped him out with what?"
"Em, I can't tell you. Perhaps we should leave." Daray said sheepishly and signalling to the group to run.
"You must be co-conspirators of this Zale, I'm afraid you'll have to come with me to the town jail." The man said leaving the Adepts with stunned looks on their faces.
End of chapter 9.
Oh the anxiety, I don't even know how its going to turn out but it shouldn't take too long to find out. In the meantime the reviews should come pouring in (hopefully).
To hnilmik, good to see you have returned, I've been missing your reviews. In your next one could you please give me an accurate and detailed description of a Neptune Djinni because sooner or later they'll start to appear. Also I'm going to give Lilithan some new psynergy that will help some time in the future. I won't say what it's called since that would ruin one of my story lines, I hope you don't mind. I hope you don't think that I'm making Lilithan into a healer from all her herb buying and stuff, I'm actually making her into a dependable character who is ready for everything, if you don't mind that. I added in something in this chapter that you mentioned in the personality of Lilithan.
