A/N: I don't own Golden Sun or anything... so don't sue me! The only peoples I own are Kanata and Amiko. Fiona belongs to Heather.

Chapter Two: Fiona's Voluntary Capture

Kanata smiled. She and I both walked up to the doors first.
"We've got to push." Kanata said. I nodded. We leaned against the door, and pushed hard. Slowly, the doors started to open. Small pecks on rubble came off from the top of the door and landed on the ground, or me. After the doors had been opened enough, I sighed.
"Stupid pebbles fall on my head." I said, rubbing my hair making sure no rocks were still in it. Garet laughed.
"You look like a dog scratching!" He exclaimed.
"Ha ha, Garet. Let's go before someone finds us." I said. I went inside the entrance hall after Kanata did. Kraden, Jenna and Garet followed.
Kraden jumped. "This is the entrance to the Sol Sanctum," He explained. "This is the first time for most of you, right?" He asked. Garet, Jenna and myself nodded. "It's an important relic of our past. Take a good look at it." He said. Garet walked over to a near-by wall. He examined it closely. Jenna shook her said and sighed.
"That's not what he meant. Stop being stupid, Garet." Jenna said. Garet laughed nervously.
"Yeah, I guess I should." I raised an eyebrow.
"You guess? So you were acting?" I asked. Garet rubbed the bad of his neck.
"We've better get moving." Kanata said. I nodded. "Coming." I said, sprinting over towards Kanata and Kraden. We walked through the door way and into another room.

* * * *

Amiko dragged behind. She couldn't believe that Saturos would rather take his way in then sneak it, as she'd figured Kanata and co. did. Felix put a hand on Amiko's shoulder.
"I promise you we won't harm them, Amiko." Felix said in a calming voice.
"That's what they said last time..." Amiko murmured. She looked up to see that Saturos and Menardi have stopped. She noticed that Saturos tightened his grip on his sword. Amiko hesitated. She feared that he had heard what'd she had said, but they didn't.
"Why is it that we've stopped?" Felix asked. Saturos looked over his shoulder.
"Someone's following us." He said coldly. Amiko froze.
"Any friends of yours?" Menardi asked in a harsh voice. Amiko shook her head.
"N-None." She replied.
"Hold it, Saturos!" came a voice. Amiko spun around, hoping it would be Kanata, but it wasn't. Menardi and Saturos were now fully turned around.
"Fiona!" Amiko cried.
"Saturos, what is the business that you need with a child?" Fiona asked. Fiona narrowed her eyes. Her white hair lifted in the breeze.
"Why do you need to know, Fiona? Besides, you know the cost of following us, as we've told you before." Saturos spat. Amiko didn't like one bit of what was going on. She tried backing out of it all, but Menardi stopped her. She knew it as plain as day that they were going to kill her, or something worse. 'Nothing's worse then killing me.... Kanata would've lost herself if that happened.' Amiko thought. Fiona shrugged.
"So, I do." She admitted. "But, still," She went on.
"You're not suppose to hold someone as small as me captive!" Amiko blurted out. She tried running on ahead of her towards Fiona, but Menardi grabbed her as she left. Amiko. 'I hate Fire...' She thought. Menardi's grip never loosened. It was as painful as she though it would be, as well it was burning Amiko.
"Let her go this instant!" Fiona warned. Saturos laughed. Amiko hated the sound. She remembered. 'I've heard this laugh before!' She thought, alarmed.
"You did it!!" She cried out, tears now flowing down her cheeks. Saturos stopped laughing and turned towards Amiko. "What did I do?" He asked.
"You killed my parents!" She exclaimed. Fiona froze, as did Felix.
"John and Sara were killed by...?!" Fiona said, startled at the shocking news. Amiko fought out of Menardi's grasp. "And if we did...?" Menardi asked.
"If? IF? There's no if about it!" Amiko declared, holding onto her injured arm.
"There was a Fire, and it came from nowhere. It came from a Fire Adept, and you both fit the description!" Amiko exclaimed.
"Humph." Saturos said simply. He looked up towards the sky.
"Hey, Alex, we've got a little bug for you here." He shouted.
Within the moment's silence, a tall, blue-haired man appeared behind Amiko. "W-What do you want, Alex?" She asked, trying to keep up her courage.

* * * *

Garet sighed. "This whole room is one big puzzle!" He exclaimed.
"You're that hard-headed, Garet?" I joked.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Jenna asked. I shook my head. "Nothing, forget it." I replied. I do admit, the tiles that were floating on the water did seem like a puzzle, as Garet stated earlier, but then again, it appeared that it wouldn't support much weight at all. But, I would never know. Sol Sanctum is really full of surprises. I sighed.
"By the time we actually get across, Saturos and Menardi would be right along side with us." I commented. Garet tilted his head.
"I believe that's one thing we don't want to happen." Jenna said. I nodded.
"Of course we don't want it to happen," I turned towards the puzzle-like pathway. "Okay, so if we just..." I jumped on the tile to the far left. "Hey, it holds!" I said, surprised. I grinned. "Lemme find a path first, then I'll give word, okay?" I asked. Everyone nodded. "Okay." I turned and faced the other tiles. "Up!" I jumped across and came to a longer tile. I walked a cross it to its end. I then jumped and landed on another long tile. I scratched my head. "Long path." I said to myself. I shrugged and jumped to the tile on the left. Left again, down, down, left, up, and up. I made it to the other side that was a good thing. I sighed and turned around. "Okay, start coming!" I shouted. Garet stepped up.
"Okay, me first!" He declared. Garet jumped on the same one on which I had started out. He followed my path perfectly, without fault, until her got to the turn. Garet jumped, and slipped, and fell in the water. "Man, I'm soaked!" He wined. I laughed a little.
"Just walk then."
Garet moaned and started to walk he way to the end of the path.
"I hate falling it like that! I keep doing that when it comes to water..." Garet moaned.
"Stop being such a baby, Garet!" At this point, we've all gotten across and went into the next room, waiting on Garet.
"I'm not a baby!" Kanata shook her head.
"Let's do this fast. GUST!" A gust came out from now where and blew Garet dry. Apparently, Kanata didn't want to be too far behind.
"That'll do?" Garet stood up and wiped himself off.

****

"If it isn't Amiko. Why, I haven't seen you for 5 years, how have you been?" Alex asked, as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on. Amiko wanted to run to Fiona, but Alex was standing in between her and her goal. Amiko clutched her fists.
"I'll ask again." She said, voice-gaining strength. "What do you want with me?" Amiko could here Saturos in the background.
"Why else? Why do you think you're here? With us?" Amiko froze. Alex nodded.
"Exactly why we hold you. We all know Kanata has a weakness for you, and we're going to use it against her." Alex explained. He shrugged.
"But now that you know, you can do a thing about it. Amiko stole a glance at Felix; he head was glancing at the ground. 'I need a distraction.... I think I have one, but it WILL cost...' Storm peeped out of Amiko's pocket to see what was going on. He looked up at Amiko and saw the look in her eyes.
"Got it." He whispered. The ground began to shake violently. Everyone stumbled to regain balance all expect Amiko. She fell off-balance after the last shock wave.

Felix lent a hand t help Amiko up.
"Thank you, Felix." Amiko took Felix's hand, and stood up. And ice shard was shot at Amiko's back. Felix caught her before she fell. The ground around Alex lifted.
"SPARK PLASMA!" Fiona yelled. The purple lighting bolts came down and struck Alex. "You do not attack children, not matter the cost, Alex. Why has your heart gone bitter cold? I can sense it.." Alex laughed coldly.
"You needn't know."
"WHY did you just do that? Are you trying to protest against me?" Alex asked. 'Say it.... "I'm surround by my element." C'mon, Amiko, say it!'
"I am surround by my element! And let alone not the only one!" She burst out.

*****

Garet got up. "Let's go." We nodded and continued off into the hallway. We quietly talked amongst ourselves, until we ran into a vast group of Vermin. I drew out my sword first and attacked the lead Vermin. To me, only a minor cut was done, but I ignored it. I'd killed their leader with only strikes. Garet and Jenna both took one out with their attacks. Kanata withdrew her scythe and cut one in half, without the strongest swing. We managed to take out four of the nine. Now only the five were remaining lay in our way.
"Again!" I shouted. They all nodded. Garet and Jenna each took one. Jenna was the only one who managed to kill it. Garet, however, only weakened his. Now that let us with a small number of four.
"We'll each take one," I insisted. "Help each other out if needed." Again, they nodded. At once, as if in perfect unison, we attacked. Luckily we destroyed them all in one assault.
"Yeah! High-Five!" Jenna made a high-five with Garet. I sighed. The Vermin were finally out of the way. I sheathed my sword and looked back at Kraden.
"You okay?" I asked. He nodded.
"All thanks to you guys."

We continued down the hallway, hoping not to run into any more monsters. We can to a dead corner and took the only available path we had--Right. Again, Kanata drew her scythe.
"What's wrong, Kanata?" I asked. I looked back and saw a pressing look in her eyes. I looked back ahead and, slowly, drew my sword.
As Garet and I began to turn the corner ahead of us, a--what seems like--a school of bats appeared.
"Um... Isaac... What now?" Jenna asked.
"Easy!" Garet commented. He, too, as I had done earlier, drew his sword. He held his sheath, which was behind him at his waist, in case he needed it. Slowly, Jenna nodded.
"O-Okay..." Jenna took a step closer behind me. "Isaac, I hate bats." I looked at Jenna and blinked.
"You.... what?" I asked. Garet covered his mouth to keep from laughing.
"Now, now.." Kraden insisted. "We can't fight each other now... 'Cause the bats... ARE COMMING! RUUUNNN~!" Kraden yelled as he ran back and hid behind the corner.
'And he tells us not to be afraid....' I thought sarcastically.
"Lookout~!" Jenna warned.
"ICE MISSLE!" Kanata shouted. Missiles of Ice came raining down at the attacking bats. I gripped my sword and held it up, ready to attack. Garet lead and charged on the remaining blood-thirty bats. Soon, I followed. A step behind him, I sliced my way through the bats. Jenna, from time-to-time, used her Flare Psynergy to burn the bats from attacking us surprisingly, or going to get Kraden.
"Aiiii..... Ya!" Garet shouted as he brought down his sword and killed another bat.
Soon, all were either dead or too wounded to get up.
"Man! I got blood on my sword!" Garet complained as the dead bats vanished into thin air. A few coins lay here and there.
Finally relieved, Kraden came from his hiding spot and quickly gathered the coins.
"Swing your sword at the wall, Garet." Kanata advised sheathing her scythe. Both Garet and I started at Kanata with confusing looks.
"Why should I?" He asked. Kanata quickly walked past us.
"Just do it and see for yourself." She said as she walked by. I looked down at my own sword, and also saw blood on it. However, it was much different from Garet's. Mine was almost completely covered in it. Garet looked at me. I shrugged and took Kanata's advice. Hearing the "whoosh" like sound as I did so, all the blood came off it. Jenna walked over and noticed my sword was clean as if it were newly-made.
"How did she know?" Jenna asked me.
"Don't know...." I mustered to say. I looked over at Garet. He was swinging his sword but only little came off.
"Stupid blood won't come off." I sighed. I sheathed my sword and walked over to Garet. Jenna and Kraden followed. Kanata was leaning against the wall of the huge-open door, waiting. I blinked, wondering what was on Kanata's mind.
"Isaac!" Garet called. I jumped out of my thoughts and looked at Garet's out-stretched blade. I bent down for a closer look.
"It's dry." I sarcastically to Garet.
"Whaddya mean 'It's Dry,' Isaac?"
I stood up, shaking my head. "Blood dried up, idiot. It's simple that the blood of the bats you killed had the ability to dry quickly." I explained.
"We'd better hurry up or someone will find us." Jenna insisted. Garet frowned, but nodded. He sheathed he sword and walked on.

****

Alex smirked. "I'm sure you are. However, you're still not in my level of power, fighting you would be a waste of everyone's time." Amiko looked up at Mt. Aleph and saw a small, purple flicker go off. She smiled. Felix had been watching Amiko's action since Menardi grabbed her.
"But..." Saturos interrupted. "Your Djinni friend may be able to warn Kanata and her friends, but it'll be too late." Amiko looked at Saturos in shock. 'H-How did he...?'
Fiona ran up to the group and held out he axe. "You will not take Amiko. You'll have to go through me, first."
"No, Miss Fiona, please don't!" Amiko protested. Menardi watched Amiko and Fiona. "Amiko's right. We would hate to push Kanata too far." She insisted. Amiko and Fiona looked at Menardi with puzzled looks.
While she was distracted, Alex disappeared and reappeared right behind Amiko. He grabbed her and smirked. "Saturos, I'll go and see if I can get her Djinni before it's too late."
Saturos nodded, grabbing his sword. "Good. I hope that no damage will be done. Thank you, Alex." Saturos shifted his gaze from the now disappearing Alex to Fiona. Menardi held up her scythe, and both were soon ready to strike.
"Wait," Felix interrupted. "Can't this wait? Besides, there are many other ways for them to give us the Stars..." Saturos looked at Felix, then Menardi.
"All right, fine. Fiona.." Saturos pointed his blade at her. "You are to come with us. Any hesitation will result in a terrible injury." Muted, Fiona nodded.
"Felix, give her a mask.. We don't want them to know." Saturos said as she walked off towards Mt. Aleph. Felix nodded and pulled out a purple mask from his pack. He tossed it to Fiona and put his on. Menardi went on after Saturos after Fiona put on the mask.
"Sorry to drag you into this.. Again." Felix whispered. Unseen, Fiona smiled.
"Don't worry. I'm sure from the bottom of her heart she'll know I did this for her." Fiona said sweetly.