I paid great attention to hnilmik's review and decided she was right and I couldn't leave the story at a cliffhanger, at least not one like that. So I'm continuing this story, I'm not really much of a person to let people down, and to leave things unfinished. As to Firestorm's review mentioning about making Zale evil, I've changed his character around so many times in my head, he's been evil, then good, then evil, then good and most recently evil, who knows what he's going to be in this chapter. Prepare to see what the argument from chapter 12 was about. So now enjoy the long (ish) chapter because I'm going to have to make the story a lot shorter than originally planned, if no one is interested that is.

Disclaimer: Ah hell I'll throw one in for the crack, although if I actually owned Golden Sun you'd be seeing all of this stuff in a game. Anyway, I do not own Golden Sun or any of the characters associated with it, I only own the stuff that sounds new and weird, and of course Daray and his Djinn, the other characters and Djinn belong to their respective creators.

A New Sun

Chapter 14: A New Continent

By NeoBlitz

A single Adept stood in the small room admiring his handiwork. Five Adepts, each with his or her own element (I may change that, since their psynergy isn't elemental), all contained in specially designed containers. He himself had made these psynergy chambers and all he needed was the essence of their individual elements for these chambers to hold Adepts and have the desired effect. Now that his plan had been enacted Zale retired to his cabin.

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A crowd of wise looking figures stood by the seashore. Each had a staff, and long purple hair that was blowing in the breeze. One of them appeared to be totally enraptured by the wind and went into a trance-like state. The breeze became a wind and whipped around the gathering. Then quickly it died down again as the oldest looking man returned to his colleagues.

"It is indeed as we imagined, he is returning to this land." He proclaimed.

"Then we must expel him from the island as we did before." Another said.

"It is not that simple, there are others. Powerful Adepts with skills one would never imagine in one's wildest dreams. We must stop them before they reach us, prepare the defences!" he ordered.

"You mean…surely you must be kidding…the…" someone stuttered, not bearing to imagine how powerful these forces drawing ever closer to the continent could be.

"I am afraid I am not kidding, release the winged forces, the ancient ones, the Pegasi, guardians of this island." He ordered.

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The sea was becoming rough and the waves were bashing against the ship, the deck had a thin layer of water flowing over it. Zale was sleeping in his cabin when a wave shook the ship and sent water flooding into the lower decks of the ship. Zale was woken by the splash of the water on the bed. He jumped out of the bed and rushed to the deck, he climbed up the steps and was nearly knocked over by the fierce winds. He made his way to the wheel to steer the boat around another wave coming towards him.

What could be making the sea so rough? He thought to himself.

He looked forward to the horizon. He thought he could see a flock of seagulls flying in his direction.

They're too big to be seagulls, what could they be? He asked himself and suddenly something clicked in his head. The Pegasi! They must have foreseen my arrival, I'll have to make a few alterations to my plan now.

He made his way back to his cabin, he stood in front of the door and stamped his feet on the wood below. The trap door fell through and allowed him entry into the secret room. He climbed down the steps and walked over to a pedestal in the centre of the room, as he reached another wave shook the room and sent him flying against a wall. He went back to the pedestal and murmured some words. As he did the elemental power trapping the Adepts in the chambers seeped away. The Adepts all woke with a start and Zale lowered the tubes so that the Adepts could free themselves of the chambers.

"What happened? Why are we down here?" Lilithan said drowsily.

"The last thing I remember was I was cleaning up after breakfast." Kith said.

"Remember later," a gruff voice said, "right now we must defend ourselves and this ship from the Pegasi."

Everyone turned to face the voice and Zale.

"The what? What are Pegasi?" Daray said.

"The Pegasi are the guardians of Sereath, the town of Jupiter. It is also the quickest route to Jupiter Lighthouse, which is why we are here. It is most likely that your friends will have come here. But it is guarded by the Pegasi, ancient winged horses bestowed with the powers of Jupiter himself." Zale said.

"Why do they have Jupiter's power?" Daray asked.

"Because Jupiter is the one who created the Pegasi to watch over his lighthouse and protect it from evil." Zale said.

"Okay, so now that we understand that, what were those chambers that we were in?" Kith asked.

"Psynergy chambers. They have the ability to strengthen psynergy, which is why you were in there. I knew that it wouldn't be easy to reach Sereath, but I didn't expect them to tell of our arrival so soon. You haven't been strengthened enough to defend yourselves against the warriors of Sereath but you should be able to defeat the Pegasi. I'll have to man the wheel so it will be up to the five of you to fight the Pegasi." Zale explained and ran to the wheel leaving the five friends to decide what to do.

"Should we, I mean they are ancient beasts, would it be right to fight them?" Alexis asked.

"I know what you mean Alexis, but you heard what Zale said, Isaac and the others might be here, we have to get to them." Daray said and the others all nodded their heads in agreement.

"May Jupiter forgive us! Let's go!" Alexis said.

On the deck Zale was sending frothing bubbles at some of the Pegasi that had already reached the ship.

~*~*~

"Ice Star!" Alexis said and an enormous block of ice materialised and came crashing down onto the Pegasi, killing one of them.

"Lure!" Kith said and he began to glow silver and the Pegasi came toward him.

"That was a bit dumb don't you think, now they're going to keep pestering you." Daray said swinging his sword at another Pegasus while talking to Kith.

"That's kinda the point, then you can stop them without them pestering you. Anyway I can keep them away with my sword." Kith replied and demonstrated by slashing a Pegasus with his sword.

"Good plan! Hydra!" Lilithan said.

Five beams of water shot out of the ocean and blasted the Pegasi and knocked three of them to the ground and stunning them.

"Now! While they're on the ground!"

"Barrage!" Kith cast the psynergy.

Blades shot out of the 'ground' all around the Pegasi and one by one dug into them, destroying them.

"That's three down and about 8 more to go. Let's see what they think of an Evil Mist!" As normal mist appeared and engulfed the Pegasi before vanishing as mysteriously as it appeared. Another Pegasus fell to the power of the Adepts.

The Pegasi gathered together, combining their power into one large blast of lightning, which then split into six smaller bolts and fired at the Adepts. The Adepts quickly shook it off and returned to the fight.

"Solar Ray!" A beam of sunlight directed itself at the Pegasi leaving them with nasty sun burns (pun intended). Two more fell leaving five.

"Black Beam!" Dark light surrounded three of the Pegasi putting them to sleep. "Dark Spell!" The sleeping Pegasi looked like they were having a fit before they exploded in darkness.

The Pegasi shot bolts of lightning at Daray, enraged by the destruction of their comrades. Daray dodged the first but was knocked down below deck by the second.

"Aquatic Beast!" Zale shouted before morphing into a serpent and showering the remaining Pegasi with water, shooting them into the water where they soon drowned.

~*~*~

"Thank you for helping." Zale said as he returned to his usual form.

"We only helped because if those beasts had destroyed this ship we would have no way of getting to Lemuria and finding Isaac." Kith said.

"And now that they're gone, you can tell us why you knocked us unconscious and put us in those chambers?" Daray said climbing up from beneath, his memory now returning to him.

"I don't owe you anything, like you just said you only helped because it benefited you to help." Zale said walking away.

In a flash Daray was standing in front of Zale with his sword stuck up against Zale's throat.

"Whether you owe us or not, you had better tell us why you did it!" Daray said and pressed the blade at Zale's neck even harder. "Now speak."

"Okay, okay, just remove your sword from neck." Zale said and Daray lowered his sword but never sheathed it. "Much better, now as I told you earlier, the chambers strengthened your psynergy."

"But why, and why did you have to knock us unconscious?" Nerrissa said.

"I'll answer your second question first as the second takes a little more explaining. If you were conscious when being entered into the chambers the power would have flooded your minds and killed you, but being unconscious it could only seep in." Zale explained. "The reason I had to do it was because of the elders of Sereath. I was once travelling past Sereath when I was attacked by one of their more prominent figures. Naturally I countered his attack and in the end I could hold my own better than he, so I ended up killing him.

"The elders of Sereath discovered this and banned me from their village. I assumed that they would try to stop us from entering the village, but I never thought they would try to stop us from reaching the shore. That's why they sent the Pegasi, they must have sensed our arrival. So I had to arouse you from your chambers earlier than planned."

"That must be the explanation to end all explanations." Lilithan said laughing.

"I understand why you did it, but why couldn't you tell us instead of going about it in secret?" Alexis asked.

"But I did tell you, two days ago in fact. Needless to say you all didn't take it very well," he said and looked at Daray, "so that night I wiped all your minds of it and then cast a spell over Daray so that he could help me."

Hearing this Daray drove his sword back up against Zale's neck.

"Leave him Daray, he may be of some use to us." Kith said. "Now bring us to Sereath."

Zale hurried to the wheel and commenced turning the ship towards Sereath. While he did this, the others discussed what they would do when they reached Sereath.

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The hooded figures were now seated in a great hall celebrating their victory over Zale, unaware of the full story. Suddenly the main doors were thrown open and someone rushed towards the elders. He was wearing full plated armour, and his purple hair was held underneath his helm with only his fringe overhanging his eyes. He wore a shimmering purple cloak, which covered his shield and he had a sword sitting in a scabbard at his side.

"Why do you disturb our celebration? Do you bear news of the Pegasi?" the man seated in the centre of the table asked.

"I do sir. They have failed." The warrior said with a very grim face.

"How can this be? The Pegasi have never failed us before!" the man said flying into a rage.

"It seems those accompanying Zale were more powerful than even you could sense. The Pegasi have all fallen to their power and now they draw ever closer to the town." The warrior said.

"Very well, prepare the army, capture these Adepts as soon as they touch share, and bring them to us." The man said and the warrior exited.

~~~

"We have nearly arrived on the shores of Sereath. Be prepared for a fight." Zale said.

It wasn't long at all, the Adepts could soon see the land of Lemuria, but unfortunately they saw no sign of a boat, meaning Isaac, Garet, Ivan and Mia hadn't been that way. Minutes later they were landing at the shore. The area seemed eerily calm and quiet.

"I don't like this, it's way too quiet." Zale said. "There should be someone here to greet us, so to speak."

"Nonsense, they probably still think their little pets defeated us." Kith said.

"Kith's probably right. Come on let's get to the town so we can make our way to the lighthouse." Daray said and continued on.

A rustle in the bushes was heard, then suddenly the warriors of Sereath appeared before the Adepts. A strong wind picked up and knocked the Adepts to the ground but they quickly picked themselves up and got ready for a fight.

~*~*~

"We're kind of outnumbered here Daray." Alexis said.

"Well, a true Adept never goes down without a fight. Evil Mist!" The whole beach was shrouded in mist leaving.

"Typhoon!" The Jupiter Adepts blew the mist away before it could do any damage.

"So that's the way you want to play! Hydra!" Lilithan sent nine torrents of water at the warriors of Jupiter.

"Please. Typhoon!" The water was blown into puddles.

"Puddles! Frost!" Alexis froze the puddles into huge pillars of ice, blocking the attackers off.

"Spark Plasma!" Showers of lightning bolts appeared from the sky and slowly beat down the pillars of ice until they were puddles again.

The lightning bolts didn't stop there; they made their way to the Adepts and knocked them all out. The warriors then chained the Adepts together and brought them back to Sereath.

End of chapter 14.