Sorry for the delay with this chapter but I've been busy organizing my new interactive story, Heirs of Psynergy, by the way if anybody applied for this story but didn't get in e-mail me your character info and I'll put you into it. My e-mail is trunksmtk@hotmail.com. Lately I've been wondering is there any point in continuing this story because nobody seems to be interested in it, not even the people who have characters in it. I might end this story if nobody's interested, which is a shame because I've enjoyed writing this story. Read on those who are interested.

A New Sun

Chapter 12: Stormy Seas Ahead

By Daikar

Lilithan quickly scanned the deck, no one was there, thank Neptune. Lately, since she was knocked off the boat by Flood's whirlpool, the others wouldn't let her anywhere near the ship's side. Luckily there was nobody around so she walked to the side and stared out at the serene scene of the ocean before her. It always calmed her down and eased her soul to look at bodies of water since she was a child. Her parents would bring her for walks at a lake near Vale whenever she got upset, and as she got older she would go there to get away from everything. She stood there letting all her troubles blow away with the winds.

She had only been standing there for a few moments when she was interrupted by some loud shouting coming from below deck. The voices were getting louder each second, she realized that whoever was shouting was coming towards her. She quickly ran away from the ship's side and stood by the mast. Just as she reached the mast Daray and Zale appeared.

"What?!? And why are you only telling us this now?" Daray roared.

Lilithan could see Zale had said something to anger Daray. Behind him she could see Nerrissa, Kith and Alexis, all with embarrassed looks on their faces. Nerrissa rushed to Daray's side when she noticed Daray taking his sword out of its scabbard.

"Daray, calm down. There's no need to start a fight." Nerrissa said pushing the sword back in.

"Don't tell…!" Daray shouted, then noticing it was Nerrissa lowered his voice. "Don't tell me to calm down, he's the one who should have told us this in the first place."

Lilithan seeing the seriousness of the situation and the fire in Daray's eyes walked over to them to find out the cause of the dispute. Daray just stood glaring at Zale while Lilithan asked Zale what was going on. Zale was about to tell her when Daray butt in and began to explain the situation.

"It seems our good friend Zale has, over the course of this voyage, neglected to tell us something which seems rather important to just forget like that." Daray said snapping his fingers.

"If you'd just give me a minute to explain…" Zale began but was cut off again by Daray.

"What is there to explain? You didn't bother to tell us and that's all there is to it. There's nothing you can say to excuse not telling us." Daray was getting really annoyed.

Unbeknownst to anyone darkness was surrounding them and the waves were beginning to bash against the ship.

"Daray, shut up and let Zale explain why he never told us whatever it is he didn't tell us." Lilithan said finding she herself was getting annoyed too, but for different reasons.

Now the waves were crashing all over the ship but the group still hadn't noticed a thing. It was almost pitch black and there was no evidence that it had been a beautiful calm day before. Suddenly a huge wave that had built up was coming towards the ship.

"Uh…guys." Alexis began but nobody heard her with all the shouting.

"Guys!" she shouted.

"What!" they shouted back.

"Oh, nothing. I just thought you'd like to know that there's a huge wave coming towards the ship." Alexis said casually before getting worked up.

They all turned their heads to where Lilithan was pointing an their faces all turned from expressions of anger to ones of shock.

"What are you telling us for? Freeze it with your psynergy." Daray said.

"I don't have enough power to freeze that huge thing. This calls for a watery Adept." Alexis said looking at Lilithan and Zale.

"Don't look at me, I don't have any psynergy to deal with a situation like this." Lilithan said.

"Of course you do, all users of Neptune's power have the power to calm water." Zale said surprised at Lilithan's statement.

"I honestly don't."

"You do, you probably have never had need to call on it before, but you're going to need it now. It is the power of 'Subside', surely you have heard of it before." Zale said.

"I can't say that I have. My parents don't possess any psynergy, they believe I got it from my great-grandparents." Lilithan replied.

"Well, it is easy to master, I myself was thought it many years ago and I am not even a Neptune Adept. Just relax both your body and your mind and aim your power at the water it should cause the waves to subside." Zale said demonstrating for Lilithan causing the wave to decrease in size so that it caused very little damage.

Lilithan stepped carefully over to Zale. She held out her hands over the water, closed her eyes and relaxed herself. Almost instantly she could feel power flowing through her body before releasing itself over the waves.

"That was amazing Lily. You should have seen it, you hands began to glow then the light drove down the waves." Nerrissa said.

"We must continue, we're in constant danger while these waves are knocking off the boat. The rest of you prepare yourselves in case it's a monster causing this." Zale ordered.

They did what he said, some more reluctantly than others. Lilithan and Zale stayed at the ship's edge driving down the waves. Soon the water had calmed down and most of the waves were no higher than normal. But the group was baffled by the darkness that was surrounding them.

"It's way too early to be this dark, it couldn't be any later than midday." Nerrissa said.

"She's right. What could have caused this?" Zale said.

"You didn't have anything to do with this, did you Daray?" Lilithan asked.

"Nope, at least I don't think so." Daray said trying to remember if he had used any psynergy.

"Whatever did this probably caused the sea to be so rough." Zale said.

"I have heard stories, but I don't know if they're true." Kith began. "They said that when an Adept gets angry, really angry, they lose control of their psynergy and it affects the world around him, that might be what happened here. Daray was mad with Zale and inadvertently he surrounded us with darkness, and Zale was angry so that would explain the sea being rough."

"I've heard of that myself but I never thought it might be true." Daray said.

"How do we fix it?" Nerrissa asked.

"I don't know, maybe if Daray calms down the darkness will disappear." Kith suggested.

"Good luck trying to get him to calm down, that could take ages." Alexis said.

"I'm sure your insults aren't going to help calm me down." Daray said.

"She might have a point though, you remember what the mayor used to say about you." Nerrissa said.

"I know, 'Daray, he's quick to anger slow to calm down, a lot like my Garet.' I've heard that so many times I don't know how I could forget it." Daray said.

"Maybe if you went to sleep or rested it might calm you down." Zale said.

"Maybe. But don't think I've given up, we'll settle this dispute when I wake up." Daray said and walked to his cabin.

Daray slept for a good few hours, but the darkness didn't seem to be disappearing. The darkness surrounding them was making the group feel tired so they retreated to bed.

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Late that night everybody was fast asleep…except for Zale. He crept over to Daray who was sound asleep. He reached into a pocket in his trousers and pulled out a small pouch. He untied the string and pulled out some glittering substance. He sprinkled it over Daray while muttering something under his breath, he did this until the pouch was almost empty. He then left the cabin and walked into Kith and Nerrissa's one. He took out some more of the powder and sprinkled a little on each of them, but this time he said nothing. He then did the same on Alexis and Lilithan before creeping back into his own bed and going asleep.

End of chapter 12.