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Can anybody hear me? Ivan? Sheba? Jenna? Felix? … Isaac? Anyone? Help…
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"Isaac? Isaac wake up."
It was still early to midmorning in Vault and Isaac was still asleep. While everyone else, including Garet, were up and working. Isaac usually slept in for a while, but then again, he never got up very early either.
"ISAAC GET UP!!!"
"Gaagh" SMACK!!! Isaac rolled his head into a rock. His mother could make her voice so loud that it could wake the dead. Isaac sat up, still half asleep, rubbed his eyes (and his head) and yawned loudly. He started to dress in his work clothes then reached for his armor. But then he remembered that he didn't need it anymore.
It had been four days since he returned home from Prox, the Mars Clan to the North's home, and he still reached for his armor in the morning. He left Prox five days before arriving and even then there was no need for them. So instead he put on his rust red leather breastplate, just incase and out of habit.
"ISAAC, ARE YOU UP YET? YOUR BREAKFAST IS GETTING COLD!" came his mother's voice through the tent flap, slightly quieter than before.
"I'm up, I'm up." He said lazily.
"Oh," said his mother, suddenly calm, "Take your time then."
Make up your mind, Mom. Geez. He thought. He walked out of his tent and went over to where his mother and a rose hair woman were cooking outside. The aroma of his breakfast filled his nostrils.
"Ah, pancakes," Isaac said as his mother handed him a plate. He looked around the campsite, "Where's Dad and the others?"
"They got up early so they could start rebuilding Vale before the heat of the day," said his mother. "Now hurry up and help them or I'll make you clean up their mess," she pointed to a large stack of plates.
"And those are only Garet's." the rose haired woman said. Before Isaac's mother turned to look back at him, he had started to sneak away.
"Hold it right there!" she said sternly.
Isaac stopped. "What now?" he asked.
His mother walked over to him…with a wooden hairbrush. "Let me brush your hair, it keeps sticking up in the back and the right." She pulled Isaac down by his tunic.
"Ack! Mom *Ow* quit it!" He said, "I can brush my *Ugh* own hair and I *Ouch* like it this way." He pushed her away.
"Well, you don't have to be so rude about it. Your hair is knotted everywhere, just let me –"
"NO!" He wormed away from her reach and started to run off. Isaac waved good-bye to his mom and went to help build the houses. How on Weyard did Garet get up before me anyway? He thought. He usually gets up at least an hour after I do.
By the time he left Vault, where he was staying temporarily, and made it to the place where Vale was being rebuilt, it was getting late in the afternoon. There were unfinished buildings everywhere but not many were like the one he was working on, the last wall of a house that he and his friends were building was about completed.
Isaac looked over at it and saw 5 people working on it, Kyle, Isaac's father, Felix, his friend, Jenna, Felix's sister, Piers, a Lemurian, and Mia, a Healer from Imil. They were just about to take a brake when he arrived panting.
Piers looked over at Isaac. "Well, good morning sunshine," The blue haired man said with a grin.
"*Gasp* Why didn't *Pant* anyone *Pant* wake me up?"
"We tried to," Kyle said in a quiet tone, "but Dora wouldn't let us."
"Well she just ran her lips off telling me to get up and how I'm always a late riser, and how –"
"We get the idea Isaac," Felix said. "But you arrived a little too late, we just ran out of materials."
"Well, let's go get more!" Isaac exclaimed.
The young, garnet haired girl sat down on a stool, the others followed suit. "Nah, Garet and Ivan went to Kalay in the Ship to get more," she said. "They should be back in about an hour."
"I still can't believe how nice the other towns were giving us all these materials," said Kyle. "Were getting stuff from Vault, Bilibin, Kolima, and Kalay. Isaac you must have been doing a lot of good things for these people."
This time Mia, the aquamarine haired girl, spoke. "Well he did catch some thieves in Vault, he lifted the curse from the people of Kolima and Bilibin and we helped rescue Hamlet from Dodonpa."
…The Elements, she's smart and so beautiful. Isaac thought dreamy eyed. I still can't believe that I always blush when I'm near her and when she speaks, accept after a while of course. He was awoken out of his daze by Jenna's voice.
"Hellooooooooo!! Weyard to Isaac?" She was inches from his face. He was so startled out of his daze that he fell of the stump he was using as a chair. She stood over him. "Isaac were you listening?"
Isaac stood up quickly. "Of course I was, I uh… was just spacing out that's all, yeah just spacing out…"
Jenna and Felix rose and eyebrow at this, "Whatever, just go help Mia get some straw for the roof." Jenna pointed at Mia, "Since you just got here and we're exhausted from putting up that wall."
Isaac looked at Mia and she looked back. Feeling his face turning red, he looked down and stood up. He noticed Mia walking toward him, so he, by instinct, froze. She passed by him and just as she did the wind picked up, blowing her ponytail right into Isaac's face. For that brief moment, he was in paradise. He took in the sent of her hair, thick with the aroma of the flowers in her ribbon she used to tie her hair back, it made her look younger. The deep color so close up was all he could see.
Then Mia appeared in his mind, with the background being her perfect hair and concealing some of the more private areas of her figure was the same blue of her hair. He wanted to give her a hug and kiss here then and there. That brief instant seemed to last several minutes to Isaac, but it was only a fraction of a second. Mia continued to walk on.
He could hear laughter in his temporary state of bliss. Then he understood why. He quickly turned to follow Mia as he heard Felix howling with laughter, Jenna giggling softly, and Piers and his father chuckling to themselves. He adjusted himself so that it wouldn't attract attention and quickened his pace to catch up to Mia. When he caught up to her he noticed that she was smiling as well.
"Well, what are you so pleased about?" Isaac asked in a slightly angry, slightly embarrassed voice. He could still hear them laugh.
"Oh, nothing," Mia said. She looked as though she didn't have a care in the world. "Just thinking about something Felix said to me before you arrived."
"And what was that?" Isaac asked still in a bad mood. They had walked by two other houses under construction and the straw bails were four more houses down.
Mia smiled, "He said that you had been talking in your sleep and that you have been saying things about me and Jenna that you haven't had the courage to say to either of us." She giggled for a second and smiled strait into his face.
Isaac's face turned into a tomato. He had been thinking of her for the past few days and was finally searching his heart for feelings for both Mia and Jenna. He loved them both, but he couldn't tell their feelings for him. Jenna seemed to like him enough, but she had seemed close to Garet the past couple of days. And Mia seemed to be dropping subtle hints but she also acted as though some things were troubling her and she seemed to evade Isaac at times. Although he felt close to both of them, he also didn't want to hurt the other if he had to choose.
How was HE of all people awake to hear that? Isaac thought.
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Mia? Isaac? Is that you! Please help…
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Isaac stopped. "Did you say something Mia?" he asked.
Mia looked confused. "All I said was that Felix was talking about you talking in your sleep," she said.
"Oh, um…did he…go into specifics?" Asked Isaac. He was looking at her from the corner of his eye and she was still pretty form that angle.
"No," she said, "he didn't, but he did say that you said, 'I love you' twice."
TWICE!!! Oh no… even in my sleep I can't make a decision. How pathetic am I? I can't even envision life with one of them without the other being in huge amounts of pain. I'm going to kill Felix when I get back…
"Just don't tell him I told you," Mia said, "if he finds out he'll be furious. I shouldn't even be telling you this."
Damn, Isaac thought. "Alright alright, I won't tell him that I know what he did," he said. "But when we get back I'm going to hit him with something for listening to me."
Mia laughed at this. "Ha ha, you're so funny Isaac." She said, as they reached the straw piles.
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Mia? Isaac? Can either of you hear me? Help… help please…
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"Garet? … GARET!" A young blonde teen shouted in the streets of the already very busy Kalay Square. "Where is that giant nimrod?"
"Who's a nimrod?" said a voice.
The blonde boy spun around, he saw the person he was looking for. "Nobody," he said, "Nobody at all."
The rust hair colored teen eyed the blond boy suspiciously. "Then why," he said, moving closer to the boy and bending at the waist, "were you calling my name just now, hmm?"
The blonde teen made a face at the much taller person standing over him. The tall one stood erect and put his hands on his hips as he always did. "Well, what do you need me for anyway?" He asked.
"Just where the hell have you been Garet? They've almost finished putting all the extra supplies in the flying ship," the blonde said, pointing to Kalay's main entrance.
Garet's eyes widened. "Aw, shi-oot," he caught himself, "Ivan," Garet said to the blonde teen, "I'll be just a few more minutes, I have one more errand to run!" With that he turned from Ivan and headed toward Kalay Palace.
"Garet wait! Oh damn him…" Ivan half shouted. That guy can be so fast at times…ah, I'll wait for him at the ship. Ivan turned around and headed off to the ship.
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Ivan? Garet? Can't anyone hear me? Wait! Who's that? Who are you? Why are you trying to contact me?
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At the palace the Guards recognized Garet from his last visit 3 days before, when he first came for supplies. They let him in and Garet followed the passage to the Main Merchant, and Founder of Kalay, Hamlet's main hall.
"Hamlet!" Garet called, "I'm here to pick up my order!"
Just then a chubby man with long brown hair and a long beard and moustache came from behind Garet.
"Ah, yes. Hello Garet. You're here for them now," said Hamlet. " You came in time to both get supplies and your order. Please follow me, they are in the safest place in the palace."
Garet followed Hamlet to the basement with a safe in the wall. It was behind a cabinet made out of ebony, it took both Garet and Hamlet to move it and it only moved when they used all their energy. Behind this cabinet, there was a hole in the wall with a safe in it. Hamlet opened the safe and revealed 3 little boxes. He took those out and handed them to Garet.
"Thanks Hamlet!" Garet said with glee. "You'll be hearing from me again soon."
"If all goes well, I won't expect any less than good news from you," Hamlet replied. They pushed the cabinet back into place and Garet left the palace.
Outside Garet looked to the south and saw that the ship was loaded and even from that distance he could tell that Ivan was getting annoyed with him being late. He ran over to his friend who was standing by the rope ladder they used when Piers wasn't around. He wouldn't let them touch his stuff on the boat. Ivan looked quite annoyed with the habits of his friend…
"Can we go now?" Ivan asked.
"Sorry, I had to get something from Hamlet." Garet said.
"I was just there," Ivan said holding out his arms, "I could have gotten it for you!"
"It was a little more personal than that Ivan!" Garet said sounding annoyed. "I wouldn't trust it with you if my life depended on it! Not that your not trustworthy, I just wouldn't trust anyone with something so valuable."
"What is it?" Ivan asked.
"It's not your business, Ivan!" Garet said starting to climb the ladder. Ivan notted that Garet was blushing…
Ivan shrugged and followed his friend. Once they were aboard the ship, Ivan was just about to pull in the rope ladder when he heard a voice call out to him. He looked over at Garet who was waiting to get going at the wheel. He looked over to Kalay and saw a figure run over to him.
"IVAN!" The person called from a distance. It was a woman… It didn't take Ivan long to see who it was.
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So you are going to help me? Thank you... Just don't tell them why yet... I don't think they are ready to know... Especially Isaac and Mia... They will not understand...
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"Why hello," Garet said as the woman approached. "It's great to see you again. Ivan has been talking nonstop about his shock since we last met."
Ivan looked angry, "Shut up…" he said.
The woman smiled, "I missed you Ivan…" she said. She gave her little brother a hug and kissed him on the cheek. "I wanted our reunion to be a little more personal from the start, but I knew all things I had to do had to come first."
They held the embrace for a little more than half a minute. Hamma had been, most of her life, bound to be serious, but now that all was peaceful, she could show her real emotions. Ivan looked into his sister's eyes. He had wanted to hug his sister when he first learned that she was weeks ago.
When they let go Ivan was the first to speak. "That was nice…" he said. "But what brings you to Kalay?"
Hamma hesitated. She could not tell the real reason why she came, not yet anyway. "I came to get reacquainted with you Ivan," She said. "The only real memories I have of you are when you were in diapers."
Garet snickered. "Well we could bring you to Vale, we're rebuilding it after Mt. Aleph collapsed. There we could all be together…" Garet said.
Ivan turned back to his sister. "Yeah, let's go to Vale, we can get there fast with the ship!"
Hamma smiled, "That is partly the reason I came, I want to help out…" she said. "I also heard in my meditation that something good would happen. I want to see what that may be."
Ivan jumped in excitement. "Let's go then," he said. He looked around the edge of the ship. "Everyone ready?" he called to the other workers from Vale. "Let's go back to Vale!"
The ship lurched and the wings flapped to raise the ship and keep it stable. They headed northwest, back to where Vale was being rebuilt.
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I cannot thank you enough for agreeing to help, I must rest now... When I am awake again, please tell me were you are... I will be waiting for you... I need to explain everything before I die... Thank you...
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Sheba: Where am I?
Ah, You….Uh… I forgot where I put you…
Sheba: WHAT!?!?
Heh heh heh, no I do have a place for you… You just don't play as big a part in
the story as in my last one…
Sheba: Meh. So does Isaac like Jenna or Mia?
Not telling…
Alex: What about me?
Where'd you come from? Well anyways, Find out next chapter!!! Now leave me alone, Alex was supposed to join in here later…
Sheba: What?
He will be able to talk AFTER the chapter ends. Now to the reviews if there are any…
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Sheba: o.o that's a lot of reviews…
Didn't see that coming…
Sheba: Well TELL ME WHERE I AM!!!
No!
Sheba: Please?
No!
Sheba: *seductively and looking well…* Pleeeeeeeeeeease?
…Aren't you smitten with someone else?
Sheba: Well… *looks over at Alex*
Alex: O_O Uh… *sweating* um…
Sheba: *looks back* No…(Alex: Phew…)
Riiiight…. no. You'll find out.
Sheba: *sigh* what's the use… *turns away and walks off. Then grabs Alex and Drags him off by his Hair* I heard what you said… you must be punished…
Alex: O_O NOOOOOOOOOOO *THWACK!* @_@ *Sheba drags him into another room*
o.o Ok, Owning Golden Sun is a pleasure I do not have, nor do I have the pleasure of owning Nintendo or Camelot. This story is mine though…
Sheba: *walks out briefly in black leather clothing* Just Review so you can shut him up…
Alex: *From the room* SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!
Sheba: QUIET! *Walks back in where much screams of pain are heard*
Just where did he come from? … _
Need lots of reviews….
(NOTE: The next installment will take longer, 1) Because I'll be in Mexico. 2) I am by no means a fast writer, 3) I get distracted easily and 4) I can't write well without a computer/laptop (Yes, I am picky))