Me: Back to my djinn conversation.
Mud: Hurray! What should we talk about?
Me: I don't know.
Serac: Where the heck Agiatio and Karst went?
Me: I don't know. Read and find out.
Flower: Is Alex going to get pure alchemy?
Me: I hope not.
Forge: I notice they are no special adepts for these new lighthouses. What is up with that.
Me: I purposely didn't make special adepts. They may have different element but they have parallel to the original elements.

The ground shook so hard that the adepts lost their balance. Rocks were floating into the sky and falling down onto the vulnerable adepts. Everybody dodged in the nick of time. Garet wasn't very lucky. His reaction time was slow but he managed to cast pyroclasm. The flame psynergy destroyed the rock into a million pieces. Garet left out a huge sigh. Jenna came to his side and pulled him up. The ground began to shake harder and more rocks came crashing down. It was getting harder and harder to dodge the rocks. A rock, the size of a golf ball hit Garet in the head. He got so pissed and yelled,
" Get out there, flash. Do your defensive thingie." Flash jumped out of his pack and created a ray of light that surrounded the adepts. When the rocks touched the wall it was reflected back. The wall didn't last long. Flash lost most of it's energy and returned back to it's master. The rocks began to rain down again. Isaac thought of a good idea. If he could create a rock barrier around them than the rocks will hit the other rocks instead. The only psynergy that could achieve this was grand gaia. Columns of rocks surrounded the adepts and circled around them to make a perfect shield. It also stabilized the ground a little because it took a lot of the ground's energy to create this. The adepts quickly made it towards the lighthouse.
The lighthouse was monstrous. The black covering created an evil atmosphere. The lighthouse already showed its powers outside. How much harder could it get in the inside? The adepts entered into the lighthouse with no qualms. As they entered, Felix crouched down and grabbed his chest. Isaac was breathing very heavily and was losing psynergy power rapidly. Piers picked Felix up and put him up in standing position. Felix uttered,
" The powers in this lighthouse are strange. I'm not feeling at my full power." Ivan asked Isaac,
" Are you feeling the same thing as Felix?" Isaac replied,
" Yes, my power is dwindling the more I stay in this lighthouse. Yet, we must persevere. Felix and me can handle it." Felix coughed,
" Yes, we must hurry to stop Alex." The adepts continued through the lobby room. Piers held Felix's shoulder to prevent him from falling again. Isaac walked slowly to prevent expending too much energy. The adepts reached the tablet and it said,
" Ye who seeks to climb this lighthouse must have these following qualities: strength, boldness, compatibility, and endurance. Failure to do so, we lead you to death. Uranus will be waiting for you at each challenge. Farewell, adepts of the renown."
The tablet disappeared. The adepts rushed on to the next room. The door shut behind them. The room they were in was huge. The staircase leading to the next floor was 40 feet above them. To reach the stairs, they needed to solve a carry puzzle. After that, they would jump the platforms to the next floor.
Ivan studied the puzzle carefully. Any misplaced piece would lead them to start over and waste precious time and psynergy. Ivan took out a piece of paper and wrote down the possible combinations. Piers was by Ivan's shoulders to check his solution. While they were frantically searching for a solution, Garet was flexing his muscles. He needed to be ready for using his psynergy to carry the pieces. He was rolling his shoulders and kissing of what he said were beautiful muscles (trying to be funny). Mia and Jenna were caretaking Isaac and Felix. The both cast healing spells to alleviate the pain. Felix could now stand up and walk on his own accord. Isaac's breath began to calm down and was almost reverting back to full psynergy power. Mia kissed Isaac and cheek and Isaac kissed back (I'm actually a valeshipper but so many people in fan fiction are mudshippers. I don't want to be flamed!). Ivan finally solved the puzzle. Piers verified the solution and said it was going to work. Garet asked,
" I'm ready. So what blocks do I have to carry?" Garet was twitching his fingers and was ready to cast psynergy. Ivan told Garet to push the block forward into the indent. Garet did just that. Garet then carried another block on top of the first block. He repeated the steps until the adepts reached to the top ceiling.
Garet was famished. He never exerted so much psynergy in his life. Usually Felix and Isaac helped him in these kinds of puzzles but they were severely weakened by the lighthouse's power. The adepts proceeded into the next room.
An eerie voice rang in their eyes. It said,
" I'm Uranus the all mighty god and husband to Gaia. Very good for passing the first challenge. Your next challenge involves passing this corridor. Failure is not an option. I will await you on the next floor. Good luck adepts of the renown." The corridor they had to pass through wasn't very inviting. Rocks bellowed from the ground and created holes throughout the ground. The holes were an abyss and falling into them would lead to death. To make avoiding these holes even harder, were the spires appearing out of the ceiling and falling down towards the grounds. Garet said,
" Fuck! I just used Flash outside of this lighthouse. My djinn is still recovering."
" Shade, get out there now." Piers yelled. The light blue djinn appeared and created a barrier around the adepts. The adepts traversed the terrain. They were careful not to step into a hole. Shade's power began to wane by the relentless pounding of spires. Shade retracted the barrier and returned to it's master. The adepts were trapped in the middle of a dangerous corridor. Everybody was forced to avoid the spires along with the holes. Ivan raced across towards the stairs. He was almost there when a spire of rock pinned his foot. Ivan immediately fell face forward and was screaming in agony. Blood flowed freely from his skin. Ivan couldn't move because the spire was locked into the ground. Ivan tried to pull out the spire but to no avail. The only thing he could do was to dodge other spires from pinning his exposed body. Garet took out his sword and started slashing the rocks. To everybody's surprise, the spires actually split in half and disintegrated into the ground. Felix and Piers followed suit and started to slash at the rocks ferociously while moving forward. Isaac leaped forward towards Ivan's position. He told Ivan,
" I know this will hurt a lot but you have to calm down before I can take this spire out of your skin." Ivan replied,
" You got it. Just hurry up!" Isacc used his lift psynergy. The spire of rock freed Ivan's foot. Isacc used his hand and cast cure on the foot. Ivan's foot wounds disappeared but the loss of blood wasn't fixed. Ivan stood up and limped towards the stairs. Isaac followed. The adepts finally reached the second set of stairs. They rushed towards their next challenge. Uranus spoke again,
" Impressive! Most adepts would crumble in my torture chamber. You must be a special group of adepts. Yet I still have more challenges awaiting you. You will figure out this one on your own." The voice faded. The adepts observed the room. There were pillars everywhere. They were all blocking a sand path under the ring of rocks. Only one wasn't blocked so it only seemed natural to start there. Felix breathed heavily and yelled, "sand". The adepts' bodies turned into grains of sands and they slithered towards the pillar. The adepts reappeared on the other side of the rocks. Garet instinctively pushed the pillar into the indent. Another sand path was opened. This wasn't going to be a hard challenge after all.

The adepts reached a fork. They had two pillars to push but weren't which one led to the next stairs. The left pillar seemed like a promising one, so Garet pushed the left pillar into the indent or so they thought. 4 huge stone walls surrounded the adepts. Rocks seemed to be the theme of the day. Yet again, rocks pounded the trapped adepts into oblivion. Blood was gushing from each and every one of them. Everybody was groaning by the surprise attack of rocks. Mia and Jenna were too injured to heal. Isaac went into crawling position and revived the others. His psynergy was tapped. He finally succumbed to the effects of this lighthouse. His body was weakening and pain was all that he could feel. Mia stirred and noticed Isaac's pain. Mia took out a purple gem. Isaac touched the gem and his psynergy was slightly restored. Isaac's smile widened. Mia and Isaac hugged for a long time. Everybody stirred and Felix cast sand to the next set of stairs (When I have time, I will think of more challenges for them).

The adepts proceeded into the next room. They were met by a gray- bluish figure. He had a buff body with hair all over skin (imagine sexy guys naked). He had a long beard. He spoke in a godly voice,
" You have passed all my challenges and I'm really surprised. I still can't grant you passage though. I must protect this beacon from being lit." Isaac replied,
" This is what exactly we are trying to do. Let us through so we can stop another person from lighting this beacon."
" How can I trust you? You are the only group adepts that have reached this close to the aerie." Everybody was surprised by the word "only". This meant Alex wasn't here or that he was behind them. Everybody rejoiced. Isaac wasn't convinced and said,
" Let us through! We'll guard the beacon for you." Uranus replied,
" I can't let you do it, unless you can defeat me in battle." Mia tried to stop Isaac but Isaac said,
" I accept your challenge!"
" Come on mortal! Show me what you got." Uranus said.
Uranus cast earthquake. The ground shook violently and almost threw Isaac off balance. Isaac took out his Sol blade. Garet threw his Excalibur to Isaac and wished him luck. None of the other adepts wanted to challenge Uranus. Isaac jumped high into the air and stabbed Uranus in the back. Uranus cried but landed a fist in Isaac's gut. Isaac bellowed blood from the blow but recovered. Isaac put his hands together and cast relentless stone spires on Uranus. The spires pinned Uranus. Uranus got pissed and retaliated with his own stone spires. Isaac dodged and leaped with 2 swords in the front and stabbed Uranus in the stomach. Uranus panted and said,
" Amazing skills! I was quick to misjudge you, savior. Your next luna djinn resides under this lighthouse. Good luck, savior." Uranus disappeared into thin air. The door to the aerie was revealed. The adepts congratulated Isaac for the defeat of Uranus. They quickly ran up the stairs towards the beacon. The adepts were stunned to hear,
" You're late Isaac."

Who loves cliffhangers? I do. This is Christmas break right now. I'm going to ski for a while so I can't update my story during the break. I will try to quicken the pace of this story in the later chapters.