Well, I'm back. Thanks for all the reviews and such. I'm glad you like the disclaimers; I have fun making them up. As for Hamma, all will be revealed (no pun intended) in time.

In other news, Gullible Bob got a lawyer, so I have to deliver a formal apology. Here goes:

Disclaimer: I, Evil Bob, who does not own Golden Sun or Bob Marley, am not Bob Marley, as stated in the presence of whoever is reading this.

Secrets of the Adepts, Chapter 10:

The Lemurian ship coasted through the sky above Treasure Isle. Not having found Sheba or Ivan in any of the cities she new of, Mia had taken to looking for new cities. So far, she hadn't found any.

Watching her from the top of one of the pillars, obscured by the fog, was a long-haired man dressed entirely in blue. He laughed to himself, "She'll never find them that way." And then he was gone, faster than the wind could carry a ghost of the sound of his voice to the ship.

Isaac stared at the empty dock. It was all so strange. First Ivan and Sheba had disappeared to some sort of city, and now Mia had stolen the ship and left. Did they know something he didn't? And what was with all these new adepts popping up all over the place? Alchemy being released was fine, but he couldn't shake the feeling that there was something missing, one piece of the big jigsaw puzzle that he and his friends seemed to be caught up in.

Mia's first encounter with Anemos was a very solid one. Literally. Luckily, the half of the ship that she was on came to rest on a ledge, from which she was able to climb up to the city. Anemos was huge. It was much bigger than even Tolbi, and Vale could have fit inside it several times. The growth of Anemos had been a strange one. After the people of Anemos had isolated themselves from the rest of humanity in hopes of keeping Alchemy's secrets alive, they had quickly run out of space to build in. The only thing they could do was build on top of existing structures. When Anemos had gone into a decline during the so-called "Dark Age", many of the buildings had been abandoned. Most of the population now resides in the upper levels. So, when Mia first entered Anemos, most of the buildings she saw were abandoned.

She peeked into an old warehouse. "Hello? Is anyone there?" She called. Mia heard something move. She walked in to investigate. "Hello?" She called again. Suddenly the noise stopped. Mia looked around, and suddenly realized that the whole building was alight with Psynergetic power. She was standing in a circle that burned bright with water psyenergy. Suddenly she was doused in a pillar of water. Everything went black.

Halfway across the city, in a brightly lit room Master Hamma looked blankly at a man. He was hideous; half of his head was burned to a crisp. Hs left eye was gone and an empty socket stared out of the burned flesh. His formerly long silky blue hair was burned and ratted. His left arm and leg were mangled and useless, and you got the feeling that the left half of his body had a hole through it that was covered up by his clothing. It was obvious that he should have been dead. He smiled, but it looked more like a grimace. "One down, seven to go." He said, and crossed Mia's name off a list on the table in from of him.