Where are we now?
By: Padfoot-chan
You will be happy to know that I did not die but I was merely indisposed for a very long time. I finally got off my big fat (nonexistent) butt and decided to get back to writing. Sorry for the long delay but now that my summer break has started I will work on many of my stories.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Golden Sun characters or Kanata and Aoshi. Kanata belongs to Hoshi-chan (aka Felix-chan) and Aoshi belongs to Ivan. I only own Okami and Yoru.
Read and Review please. Alex makes an appearance and Felix and Picard get their fluff 'n stuff moment. If I remember correctly, aculeus means sting.
It was Robin's fault that he had been trapped in that stone prison in the first place. If Robin had never gotten involved he would have gotten what he had wanted in the first place. He cursed the name Robin. If he ever managed to find his way to the surface again, he would personally destroy Robin the only way he knew how. By getting to Robin's beloved little Jupiter Energist, Ivan of the Anemos Clan.
His plan was perfect. Even a blind fool could see that this Ivan was special to Robin, more than a friend or companion, much more than that. If he could get his hands on the Anemos boy, he would be able to reek his revenge on Robin for stealing what he had wanted the most; Power.
He was laughing. A strained, blood hacking laugh, but it was laughter nonetheless. A laugh that would make ones blood run cold. Even the darkness around him seemed to shrink back from the sound of this laughter. No one would be safe from him now. He had nearly succeed but Robin had been there to stop him without knowing it but no one would be there this time, not if he was going to do anything about it.
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'I must be dead or something,' thought Felix as he pressed his hand to his forehead to try to halt that throbbing in his head. His thoughts wondered to what had happened before he woke up, back on Mars Lighthouse with everyone. He had thrown the Mars Star into the aerie after they had fought against the Doom Dragon, against his and Jenna's parents, as well as Robin's father.
The look on his former best friend's face…he had never seen Robin so down. He probably should not have taken it out on him. And Ivan…he had never seen Ivan yell at anyone before, least of all at him. Felix had always thought of Ivan as the submissive one, letting the others take care of things for him and he would be there as backup or something. How wrong he had been.
Felix finally opened one russet eye, looking around the clearing. He was lying under a strange looking tree, the massive green leaves rustling in the gentle breeze. The sun was out, bathing the glade around him in a warm light. This was his kind of weather. Ever since that storm almost four years ago back at Haidia Village, he had always felt uncomfortable during a rainstorm, as if something devastatingly bad was going to happen any second and there was nothing he could do to stop it from happening.
Felix pulled himself off the ground and rested his back against the tree, taking a better look around the large glade he had he seemed to have been dropped in. In all his travels he had never seen a place such as this, giant, snow peeked mountains off to his right, a vast lake off in the distance in front of him and a huge sky above him that seemed to go on for miles. He pushed his bangs out of his eyes and exhaled a deep breath, closing his eyes against the alien sight in front of him.
The Venus Energist stretched out his arms and legs and slumped against the tree, rubbing the bridge of his nose lazily and yawning widely. "Jeez, Felix, just because you think no one is watching you, does not mean that you can throw all manners aside, does it? You great big slob. Should I start calling you Gerald?" A laughing, silky smooth voice said from above Felix. He turned his head up quickly, smacking the back of his head against the hard bark of the tree.
"Ouch!" The person dropped out of the tree lightly and knelt down next to Felix, one cool hand holding the side of his face while the other checked the back of his head where a large bump was beginning to form. "You had better kiss it and make it better, Picard, unless you want me to run you through with my sword." The Mercury Energist made a quick clicking noise with his tongue before turning Felix's head roughly toward him. There were those golden eyes that Felix had fallen in love with.
"Kiss it and make it better?" asked Picard, laughing before a serious expression took over his face, "I think I can do a little better than that, don't you?" He bent down a little further and brought his lips to Felix's, his tongue dancing along the bottom of the Venus Energist's lip for a moment before the younger man opened his mouth to deepen the kiss. Felix grabbed onto Picard's shoulders and pulled him down on top of them, both men falling to the ground. They remained like that for a long moment before Picard pulled away, gasping for air.
"That was nice." Mumbled Felix making Picard smirk and reach over to tap the bump on his head. The Venus Energist flinched visibly and started to say something to Picard when the older man kissed him on the lips again, silencing him successfully. Picard pulled away again, smirking down at Felix, a light blush creeping onto his pale cheeks. The Mercury Energist's smirk was replaced by an apologetic smile and he reached around and lightly tapped the bump on the back of Felix's head, healing it with a quick Ply. "Thanks."
"It was my fault that you got that thing in the first place." Laughed Picard as he rolled off Felix and folding his arms behind his head, gazing off at the leaves above them. "So, do you know where we are?" Felix shook his head, closing his eyes and sighing. "We should really start looking for the others, you know? They could be hurt or something."
"There isn't much either of us can do if the other are seriously injured." Reasoned Felix, opening his eyes again and turning to Picard, "We aren't very good at healing. Only surface wounds and the like, but if there are any broken bones or internal bleeding…"
"I know, but still, we cannot just leave it up to Mary, Jenna, and Okami to heal those wounds, can we?" asked Picard, "We could at least find them so that we are not separated any more. We could still be of help for the surface wounds, too, you know?" Felix sat up, looking down at Picard as the breeze blew his long hair to the side.
"Where would you have us look? Do you want us running around all day looking for them in this strange place? Okami and Robin are the ones with the Teleportation skill and then only the Jupiter Energists can communicate telepathically with the others so what does that leave us with? We are up a creak without a paddle, Picard, and you know it. The best thing that we can do is rest up and then we can start looking for the others." They watched each other for a minute before finally settling on going with Felix's idea.
Felix dropped back onto the ground, reaching over without looking at Picard and pulling the Lemurian over to him. "Can I ask you a question?" Picard rested his head against Felix's chest, shrugging his shoulders as he closed his golden eyes, taking a deep breath, reveling in the familiar scent that was the Venus Energist's own, "When did you figure out that you loved me?"
"I guess it sort of just snuck up on me." Admitted Picard, drumming his fingers on Felix's chest. "At first, I was confused about my feelings for you. I knew that there was something different about you and my feelings for you were more than healthy, or considered pure by any law." He laughed at this, "I guess it was when we went to Lemuria, when I found out that my mother died from heart failure. The others were are Lunpa's then but you came to me to make sure that I did not do anything foolish like taking my own life in my grief. No one ever showed me that kind of compassion before, no one outside of my family that is. It surprised me a little and it started to scare me when I thought back to just how nice you were being to me. I confess that you were sort of driving me a little crazy.
"I knew that my feelings for you were wrong, I was always taught that people of the same sex were never meant to love, but then why did I have such strong feelings for you? If I was never intended to love someone of the same sex, then why would I like you in that way in the first place? I toiled with those questions day and night, letting them run around in my mind until I was almost at the breaking point and I thought that if I had to live another moment in a world without you that I would throw myself from the first elemental lighthouse we arrived at." Picard laughed softly as Felix began to play with his hair, "That is when you came to me and started to ask me questions about my childhood, what I could remember of it…every little detail. It confused me and even made me a little angry to find that you wanted to know so much about me, when you would tell me nothing of your past. I was beginning to feel a little jealous of that fact, that I would tell you just about everything and you would relent nothing to me, almost as if you were doing this on purpose. I am easy to anger because of that. That is when I started to call you a spoiled brat that always got his way."
"I remember that…we got into a huge fistfight on the ship and nearly run aground before Jenna and Sheba managed to tear us apart." Commented Felix, pausing in his movements before he started again.
"I started to have feelings for you long before I admitted that they were there, but you were always on my mind ever since I first meet you. Not in Madra, of course, I was too busy being thinking about how long the Mayor would take before he would be able to release me from that cell."
"You left a lasting impression on me." Started Felix, "Even if I did not realize it then, I was always thinking about you after I met you in Madra. Your eyes, that's what I remembered the most. They aren't the same as Yoru's eyes, yours are…I don't know how to put this but…I don't know, just different."
"You blabbering again, Felix." Teased Picard, poking Felix's nose. The younger man when to say something to this but Picard interrupted him again, pressing a finger to Felix's lips to stop him from speaking, "Weren't you mad that I was a constant thought in your mind? That the memory of me never seemed to leave you?"
"Not really, it was sort of comforting to think that no matter where I was or what I was doing the thought of your would always come back to me, and each time it was all the sweeter. I started to wonder what you were like and that pushed me to get you out of that jail cell all the sooner." Laughed Felix, "When we returned to Madra and found that you had left for Gondowan, I was a little perturbed. We had gone through all of that trouble just to find that you had already left."
"Well, I did not really have a choice, now did I? I had to try and retrieve my Black Orb from Kibombo."
"Yeah, I know but still…I really wanted to see you again. I was so happy when we found you there, a little surprised…but happy nonetheless." Picard smiled, turning his head slightly so he could look up at Felix. "That seems so long ago, now, though, but I remember is with such clarity…"
"As do I." The Mercury Energist brought himself up a little bit and pressed his lips to Felix's for a sweet, chaste kiss before he rested his head on his lover's shoulder and closed his eyes, slowly drifting off to a peaceful sleep.
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A door opened in the darkness, smoke drifting out from within the depths of the room. A woman stood in front of the door, holding out a long black outfit, gloves, a headdress, black leather boots, and a large sword wrapped in blood red cloth. A tall man stumbled out of the doorway, pausing in the middle to lean around the wood and rest his head in his hand, groaning as the woman took a step toward him.
Cold, lifeless green eyes quickly turned to the woman, freezing her in place. "Where am I?" asked the man, watching her carefully. The woman turned her head away from the man, thrusting out her arms to hand him the garment and sword. He reached out for the sword, laying it against the wall before slipping on the clothes.
"I-in Tundaria." Stuttered the woman as the man dressed. He narrowed his eyes at her once he was finished dressing and picked up his sword, unwrapping it from the cloth.
"Why was I awoken from my slumber?"
"To…destroy Weyard, of course." The man stared at her again before laughing, a cold sound that made the woman shiver in fright. "Why do you laugh? That it what the Apocalypse Energist was born for, to destroy Weyard once all of the elemental lighthouses are lit and the yamis of those lighthouses are sacrificed to the gods and goddesses of the four elements. I summoned you! You are to do my bidding and I command you to destroy Weyard!"
The man stopped laughing, setting his cold gaze on the woman once more. He moved forward and in a matter of seconds had the woman pinned against the wall, his sword pressed against her neck, already drawing blood. "I take orders from no one, woman. Do you think you could control my power? I am stronger than you can even fathom, do not dare belittle me." He pulled away and the woman let out a sigh only to have the man turn back and slice off her head.
The man stared down at the blood on his sword and on the ground before he bent down, lifted the blood red cloth from the ground and wrapped it around his sword again. He licked his lips as he stepped over the woman's body, the heel of his boot splashing lightly in the blood. "It seems that I have finally awaked after a thousand year slumber. It is time to have fun with the Savior once more, I wonder how much the Savior has changed since the last time we fought."
-TBC-
Who is this man? Who is the Savior? Are Picard and Felix ever going to grow up and stop screwing around? Who was the bloody figure in the beginning? Want to know? Keep reading WAWN to find out!
Alex: …Freak of unholy nature.
That's my line…