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 4: Elemental Stars

We continued along the hallway's path, defeating the shrimp monsters whenever we ran into them.

"I don't like the fact that you have people you don't like behind you.." Garet complained I nodded in agreement.
In a moment, we came to a path where you could go either right or left.

"Which way do we go?" Jenna asked. I started to head to the path on the left.

"It's just a hunch, but we should hurry." Everyone nodded and followed.
Just about half-a-minute later, we ran into a fork consisting of 3 different paths.

"This is getting annoying." Jenna commented. Garet nodded in agreement.
"We go left." Kanata directed. I jumped; I had almost forgotten that Kanata was with us.
"Good idea, Kanata. No need in messing up now." Kraden commented.
So, left we went, only to run into a dead end and a treasure chest.

"Open it, Isaac, we'll need what's inside." Kanata advised. I looked back at her and nodded.
I walked over to the chest and pulled it open. I picked up an Eye-shaped jewel. Kanata nodded and headed back. I stuck the jewel in my pocket and followed, not wanting to be left behind. Garet and the others followed my lead.

"It's been best in your interest that you should follow me. We'll need all the time we need, and who knows how close Saturos and Menardi have gotten to us." We all nodded and followed Kanata.
"You sure do know a lot about this place, Kanata." Jenna complimented. I had to agree. It did seem like Kanata knew almost everything about this place. But, she had said before that she was... different then mainly all of the Adepts. I didn't know why she had said that... But..

"Isaac, snap out of it!" Garet waved a hand in front of my face, and I jumped.

"What happened?" I asked, looking around. Kraden sighed. "It seems that you've drifted off. We need the Jewel you found before." I looked in front of us and saw a bullhead with a jewel in it's left eye. I looked around the room and saw a lot of statues and small paths with a distance of using Psynergy. I jumped over to the bullhead and placed the jewel in.
Once again, the ground shook as if an earthquake had hit. I had thought I heard something move, shift, or something of the sort. I jumped back and looked at the opposite end of the room.

"Something shifted." I stated as Garet walked over to the opposite end. We all followed and watched as Garet moved the statue to reveal a doorway.

"Thought so!" He said, cheerfully. He walked into the newly covered room and we all followed.
As we walked on, we came to yet another forked path.

"This is getting old... I wish they just made it one straight path!" Jenna complained as Kanata smiled. "We're almost there. We just go through this hallway here and then head to the right." She directed. Kraden seemed happy.

"Finally, after all of the commotion that we've had!"
I wasn't too sure. I had a feeling that something bad was ahead of us, something that we've already run into. As we walked in towards the heart of the Sanctum, I noticed a small figure sitting in the middle of the room.

"Hey, isn't that.." Garet asked, also noticing.

Kanata nodded, "It's Amiko."
We all ran into the room and saw Alex against the wall. Amiko stood up.

"Isaac, Kanata, guys!" Amiko was clearly glad to see us. She ran over to us and looked back at Alex.

"Now what do we do?" Garet asked, a bit conserved of what we should do. Alex stood up straight.
"Go. Just go on ahead and continue your trip. I'll wait here." Kanata nodded; she looked back over at us. "We should continue on upstairs." I looked from Alex towards Kanata. I could tell by the look in her eye that we could trust Alex for the short moment that we were given.

"Let's hurry," I stated, running over to the next room.
"Whoa.." I stopped in the middle of the room, followed by Kraden.

"Wh-What is this room?" Kraden asked himself, looking around the deep-blue room.

"There's a moon in the center, under Isaac's feet... A picture of Luna." He looked towards Garet and Jenna, "This must symbolize night..." He turned his gazed up at the only light in the room, which was right above my head. "These rooms are connected somehow, don't you think, Isaac?" I nodded, also looking up. "Luna and Sol... These rooms must hide some secret. But, what could it be?" Jenna, Amiko and Garet all walked up towards the center of the room, where I was standing.
"It's pretty.." Jenna commented, smiling up at the beautiful light display the room held.

"Isaac, will you and the others look further up the passage?" Kraden asked. I looked down and at Kraden, nodding.

"Of course," I smiled, "What else is there to do?"
"Let me know what you find." Kraden walked off towards the wall between two blue torches.

We all headed out of the room from the southern pathway, and climbed up the stairs.

"I don't feel right leaving Kraden back there knowing Alex is just right there..." I commented, coming out from the stairway.
"Yeah, I know how you feel. I just don't trust him." Jenna agreed, looking around the room. We checked the room just to the south, and found a Psynergy Stone. We then headed back north, and found the Luna symbol in the middle of the floor.
"It's here, too.." Garet said, looking into the room to the left of us.

Kanata shook her head, "I didn't even know about this. I guess I was only needed to go as far as down stairs."
Both Garet and Amiko headed into the next room.

"Look, Garet, the Sol symbol's here, too." Garet nodded.

"Yeah..."

"What wrong, Garet?" She asked, titling her head in confusion.
"The statue's... it looks like that they don't belong there." Garet said, pointing it out.
"They look fine to me." I commented, coming in behind Garet. Surprised, Garet turned around, hand on the hilt of his sword. I threw up my hands innocently.

"Whoa, Garet, it's me!" Garet sighed, relieved.
"Don't scare me like that! I thought you were Alex!"
Amiko had gone to one of the statues and started to push on it.

"I think... Garet's right." She said as she pushed it into place. A beam of light game from its jar and shone on the floor.
"That seems a bit odd..." Kanata said, examining it from where she stood. Jenna nodded in agreement. "Yeah, it does... Garet, be a help and push the other one!" Jenna yelled over to Garet. Garet looked over at Jenna.
"Why me?" Jenna shrugged. Garet moaned, but did as he was asked.
The second statue was pushed into place, and another beam of light shot from it. With both rays of light hitting the floor, a hole appeared where they met. The statue that was in the top middle had fell through the hole, and we all heard a rumbling sound. We had also heard a click, as if some switch was flipped. We all looked at each other for a moment.
"M-Maybe that was supposed to happen?" Jenna suggested.
I shrugged. "Could be... But, those Statues look out-of-place as well.." I noted, pointing to the ones in the previous room.
"Covered." Kanata was already pushing one. And as she did, a beam of light came from it and shot at the bottom-left tile.

The sound of Thunder could be heard down below, but there were no storm clouds. Shocked, Kraden turned around.

"Wha-What's.... What's happening?" He asked aloud, voice shaky. As he looked on, the bottom-left tile of the Luna room changed into a piece of the Sol. "Isaac and the others must have found something!" He rushed towards the stairs.

We all waited as we heard footsteps. Garet and Amiko headed over to the Luna room and waited with us. We all stood there waiting while standing on the tiles... Like that would make any sense..
"You found it, Isaac!" Kraden's voice said excitedly. I sighed, glad that it was Kraden. He looked over into the Sol room and nodded.

"Excellent work, Isaac, everyone!" He looked over at the Sol room again. "Where did that hole come from?" He asked, turning to me.
"When Amiko and I moved those statues, two beams of light shot from them, and then this hole appeared in the floor." Garet explained, "And then the big statue just fell into it."
"Hmm... Good work, everyone!" He said again.

"So the statue puzzle was a trap..." Kraden commented as she shook his head.
"...And that other statue was there to... disarm the trap." Confused, we all looked at each other, hoping one of us would know what he was talking about. "And now that you've disarmed it, we should be alright." We all nodded, "I'll observe from the Luna room, where it's safe. You handle the rest!" And with that, he left back downstairs.
"We should move the of them into place," I suggested.
"Good idea, I'll help." Jenna jumped off the tiles and ran over to the northern-most left statue and pushed it into place. The same reaction happened again. I pushed the third, and Garet pushed the forth.
"Hey, look," Amiko pointed at the four tiles, "The picture changed!" I looked closer and noticed that the four beams of light had caused the Luna to change into Sol.
"Maybe the same happened downstairs?" I shrugged at the thought. Maybe it did, but, then wouldn't the opposite happen to the Sol rooms?
"Well, now, we won't find out as long as we stand around here." Kanata said, heading off.
"Right."

We all followed Kanata back downstairs and into the Luna Room, or... the Sol room. Kraden jumped with excitement.

"Look, Isaac! The picture of Luna changed to Sol!"
"Yeah, we know, it happened upstairs, too.." I explained.
"It did? Hmm... But other then that, nothing looks different..." Nothing else? Strange...
"That's strange... The went to the trouble of putting a trap here... And this is all that happens?" Kraden shook his head, "Somewhere, something else must've changed. We must find it." We all nodded and headed back into the Sol Room, now the Luna Room.

"Welcome back," Saturos greeted.
We all froze as we came into the room.

"What do you want?" I asked, stepping up.
Menardi grinned, "Nothing more then the Elemental Stars."
"However, we'll only be able to get four of them." Alex interrupted. Kanata looked back at Amiko.
"'Only'? There ARE four of them!" Saturos protested. Alex shook his head.
"No, my friend, another Star was created within the past three years." Alex explained.

"I see, then we'll just get it later, then." Saturos commented, looking back at all of us.
"We tried to open the portal, but it seems that only the ones who made it appear can open it," Fiona explained, touching the wall. They all moved back and made a path way for us to go on.
"Kanata, be so kind into opening it," Fiona asked, glancing over at her friend.
Kanata nodded, and took her time into going over to the beam of light. She placed her hand onto the spot where the beam shown, and muttered something. The beam disappeared in a dim light, and in its place came a portal.
"I hope you're satisfied, now." Kanata began to walk back over to us, but Alex stopped her by grabbing her wrist.
"You can't leave, not yet. Your friends must get us the Elemental Stars." Alex glanced over to both Garet and myself.
"W-why us?" I asked, a question that I know we would all liked answered.
"You wouldn't want to make Kanata get them, would you? Without an extremely good reason, she can't get the Stars. Anyone else, with a pure heart, however, can."
"In you go!" Saturos motioned all of us in.

'Now I wish that this were only a dream..' I though, wanting to wake up and be in my bed with my mother..

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Now inside the Elemental Star Room, Kraden had given us four Mythril Bags.
"You'll need to put each of the stars in one bag, and then bring them back." I nodded and handed two of them to Garet.
"Let's go."