Hello, it's me CrypticElf, and one of my reviewers pointed out that Mia
would have been braver and would have told Isaac that she was in love with
him. Well, that is defiantly true, but remember that Mia had to return to
lighthouse?
Hail: Our master would never be the coward that you make her out to be!
Well, of course we all know that Mia isn't as afraid to tell Isaac the truth, but like I said, she was being called by the lighthouse and couldn't really be with him if she wanted to.
Gust: I say that you let me write the stories!
Uh, try no.
Hail: What? There is no way that I'm going to let you be the boss, you little Wind Djinn!
Sleet: Hold it up! If someone's going to be the boss, it might as well be me.
Gust: Yeah, right.
Sleet: You want to repeat that again punk?
Gust: 0.o oh, I mean, you go right on ahead, and I'll just go over here.... Do, do, do....
Hail: Great, a girl is going to write the story, how groovy!
Sleet: I'm not going to write, just make sure that neither of you to get put anything in it. You guys suck at writing.
Hail: That is NOT true!
Sleet: What about that love letter you wrote me?
Oh, oh, I want to read it! Please, pretty please!
Sleet: Sure, here it is.
(Sleet hands the author piece of paper.)
Hail: NO! DON'T READ IT!
Oh....
(CrypticElf starts to laugh, at the end of the letter is howling with laughter and rolling the ground.)
Can't breathe....!
Sleet: I told you it was bad.
Hail: O.O How dare say it was bad? I put my heart and soul into that poem!
Sleet: Why are you so angry now? I've already told you that I hated it.
Hail: .....
Sleet: Whatever, CrypticElf owns nothing of GoldenSun and never will, because she's a loser.
How nice of you to point that out.
Hail: On with the fic, and don't forget to review, reviewers! Oh, and make sure to read the author's profile, it has some weird new stuff on it. That is if you haven't read already.
That makes no sense.
Gust: Nothing that he says ever makes sense.
Sleet: Did I say that you could come back?
Gust: Currently going to the other side of room....
Sleet: Good boy.
By the way people, in this story, well, Mia says something bad. I obviously can't tell you what, but this chapter is a little gross. To some of you it might be R, to others it might just still be Pg-13, but it's just a little scene, so I don't think that I have to change the rating.
Chapter Two: Frozen Heart
A bitter blizzard kept most of Imil inside, but a stranger wearing a blue cape and thick dress against the cold came trudging through the snow. They were holding a wand with a blue crystal built into the top of it, and small blue creatures hid under their hood. They went through the snow with slow steps, the wind beat against them, determined to knock them off their feet. But they kept on going, trying to travel as fast as they could to the town to escape the freezing snow. One of the town's children looked out the window, and saw this small blue figure outside in the horrific storm.
"Daddy, there's someone out there in the snow!"
"Don't be ridicules; no one would possibly go out into the storm."
"But there is someone, I can them!"
The father walked over to the window and looked out while pointing his finger out the window.
"Look, there is... oh my, there really is somebody out there!"
He leapt up and ran and got his coat, pulling it on he raced out the door and over to help whoever this stranger was.
"Hello out there, do you need help?"
The blue figure kept on going, and he walked forward as fast as the wind would let him and then grabbed the strangers shoulder. They whizzed around and pointed a wand at his face, but then quickly put it down.
"Do you need help?" he screamed, the stranger nodded and so he signaled for them to follow him. The stranger followed him slowly, tired from their journey. It seemed to take forever to get back to his small home, but they finally did. He opened the door and let the stranger walk in first and then followed after and then slammed the door shut. He took off his coat and then went over and put near the fire on a hanger to dry. The stranger paced around trying to gain their body heat back, and went back over to them.
"Excuse me, but would let me take your cloak? And go over and sit by the fire to warm yourself up."
The stranger lifted their hood off and to the man's amazement it was the town's healer, Mia, guardian of the Mercury Lighthouse.
"Mia, you're finally back! I thought that you were never going to come back here after being gone for so long, come and sit by the fire!"
Mia nodded, her skin was as blue as her hair was, and her lips bled from the cold. Small odd creatures on her shoulder hopped off of her and they all ran to the fire shivering. She followed them, shaking as well; her face was covered with frost even though she had had her hood on. She sat as close to the fire as she could, rubbing her arms. All of the creatures jumped back to her and sat on her lap, they were so clustered together that they just looked like a huge ball of dark blue and purple. The little boy that had been watching her at the window ran over to her and gave her a big hug.
"Mia! You're back!"
Mia patted his head, her teeth shaking too much for her to say anything. The wife of the house came out of a room to see what all of the commotion was about, when she saw Mia, she also ran forward. She placed her hands on the young girls shivering face with concerned eyes.
"Goodness Mia, is that really you? You must be freezing traveling out there in the cold, and hungry too, let me get you something to eat!"
The wife jumped back up and ran over to the kitchen and began grabbing things to make soup with. The little boy was still hugging Mia, and husband was shaking out her cloak. Once he finished shaking most of the snow out he hung it next to his coat, he went over and got a huge fur blanket. He draped it over Mia's shoulders, and the boy moved out of the way. Mia used one hand to pull the blanket closer around her and used the other to pick up her shivering creatures. She took her arm and wrapped it around herself and her creatures went around her arm to snuggle in between it and her breasts.
"Mia," said the man of the house as the wife began boiling the soup as fast as she could. "What are you doing here? You must have completed your journey!"
"Oh, she's freezing." Cried the wife from the kitchen, "let her warm up before she speaks!"
The man quieted and put a pipe in his mouth and lit it. The little boy sat down next to Mia and was looking at her face. Mia shivered and shook, her creatures doing the same. The wife came over with some soup, bread, and water and placed it in front of Mia. Mia tried to say thank you, but she was still shaking too much, the wife nodded to her with a smile in an understanding way. Mia smiled and then put her creatures took the bowl of soup and began eating as fast as she could. Once she finished it she took her bread and began tearing it and then gave it to the hungry critters on her lap. The wife gave her more bread and Mia ate half of it and gave the rest to the creatures on her lap. She sat there for a while until her shivers settled, and then chose to speak.
"Th-thank you Charles, and of course Lily, and Thom." The husband Charles nodded the wife Lily smiled, and the little boy Thom smiled and gave Mia hug.
"So," asked Charles, "You've come back? Why so late?"
"W-well, th-the town w-where those two boys I-Isaac and Garet are from got d-destroyed, and s-so I stayed t-to help rebuild it. I-I actually left early, but I-I am s-sorry for coming s-so late."
"Just as long as you're back, you didn't even write!"
Mia looked over to him and smiled without showing her teeth.
"I-I d-didn't stay in o-one spot l-long enough to wr-write a letter. And in V-Vale, the town was still a-a little messed up, so I-I couldn't y- you see."
"Ahh, yes, just as long as you're fine Miss Mia, this town thought something bad had happened to you."
Mia smiled again and then crept closer to the fire; she lifted her hands up and sighed gratefully as the heat hit them.
"What are those???" asked Thom as he pointed to the little blue and purple things on her lap.
"O-oh, those a-are called d-djinn, they are my f-friends."
The djinn had stopped shivering, but had made themselves comfterable on her lap and were lounging around on her thick skirt. It was so thick that they practically sank in; Mia took her hands away from the fire and began petting them with gently fingers. Each one made some kind of a purring sound at her touch, and the little boy watched while giggling. Lily came over with some type of a sack filled with hot water and placed it on the back of Mia's neck.
"Thank y-you." Mia said, and touched it with one hand. Lily smiled just happy to be of help and then went and grabbed more fire for the wood.
"We are so lucky that you came into out house Mia, it must be a good omen from the Gods and Goddess!"
"O-oh, well I think that I'm more th-thankful that someone e-even came out to get m-me at all Mrs. Lily."
"Just Lily."
"O-Ok."
Lily walked over and gave Mia more blankets, eventually Mia had stopped shivering. Lily was amazed at how fast she had recovered.
"A normal person would still be frozen down to the bone!"
"Well, I am something called a 'Mercury Adept,' and when you are something called an adept, you can control something called, Psynergy. And Mercury is healing Psynergy, and Mercury is water. There are three other types of Pysnergy, the first is Venus, which is earth, and the next is Mars, which is fire. The next one is Jupiter, which is the wind. Do you remember the tall young man with the hair that stuck out that was here before I left?"
Lily just nodded, listening carefully.
"Well, he was a Mars adept, and the one with the dark blondish hair was a Venus adept."
Mia felt the pieces that remanded of her heart turn into ice.
"And the small short one was with blond hair as well was a Wind adept, with his powers, you can read minds. The Venus one was named Isaac," everyone noticed the crack in her voice when she spoke his name. "The one with Mars was named Garet; he was the strongest but the most thick-headed. And the one with Jupiter was named Ivan, he was the smartest."
Thom hopped on his knees.
"What were you Mia?"
"Well, everyone considered me the kindest."
"No wonder, you are! What was about the one with the earth?"
Mia bit her lip, but even though she tried to keep control over herself her voice shook when she spoke, and she said it in a lower voice then usual.
"His name was Isaac, and he was the bravest of all."
Mia turned away and looked at the fire, Lily saw this and called Thom back to her.
"Time to go bed Thom, it's already been too late for you."
"But Mommy, can't I just say good-night to Mia?"
"Oh course you may, but make it quick!"
Thom ran over to Mia and gave her a quick hug, and then ran off to his room. Once he was gone, Mia looked over her shoulders and at Lily.
"You didn't have to do that; it's just that I miss them."
"Well, he did have to go bed; by the way, we don't have a guest room, where do you want to sleep?"
"Right here is fine; I'll be just fine on the floor."
"Well, alright, but I'm going to get you a pillow."
Mia giggled and then looked back at the fire, feeling the strain of the Lighthouse upon her. She had been gone for so long, that its call was almost too much for her to bear, but she couldn't go out into the storm, she would kill herself. Not that that wasn't such a bad idea, after all, she felt bad enough as it was. But what would Imil think when they found her frozen corps? And the children, she had promised to come back, she couldn't give into death, and she wouldn't.
Lily came back with a pillow and then went to bed with Charles following close behind her; Mia looked at them with envy, why did she have to be guardian of the lighthouse? She just wanted to be with Isaac, in his arms, next to him by a fire as she told him, 'I love you, I love you, I love you.' But it would never be that way, and never could.
Mia made herself a bed and then laid down as her djinn snuggled in with her, they were her friends, and she would always take of them no matter what.
Mia woke up at the crack of dawn and saw the blizzard had stopped; she got out of her bed on the floor and stretched, and then felt the call of the Lighthouse straining on her mind. Now it knew that she could come now that the storm had ended, and it was pulling her to come with all its power. It was tearing Mia's head apart, and she rubbed her temples.
"Please, stop, if you keep on doing this, then I won't be able to tell where I am going!"
She felt the lighthouse stop, but it still pulled on her as it always did. Mia sighed and then looked at her blankets and saw all of her djinn working with each other to fold the blankets. Mia smiled, and then knelt down and helped them making sure not trap any of them. Once that was done, she gathered her things and quietly walked out the door with her djinn on her shoulders and hair. She stepped out onto the snow and found that all of the other houses had been surrounded by so much snow that they had no escape, only the tips of the houses showed from the snow.
It must have been her Psynergy that had warded it off of this house, and then Mia knelt down and wrote a message in the snow:
Thank you for your hospitality.
Mia
Just then the door behind her opened and Lily stepped out with only her nightgown on. She looked at the message and then smiled at Mia.
"Well, busy I see, oh my, the houses!"
Lily stared at the houses and then Thom and Charles stepped out behind her and then saw the houses as well and all their jaws dropped.
"It must have been my powers that warded the snow off, one moment; I need to get all of that snow off of their houses."
Charles looked at Mia with even more shock then with the houses.
"But Mia, no offence, but I don't see how you could move all that snow, I don't think anyone has the muscle to do that!"
"Oh, you'll see."
Mia smiled at him and he just stared at her, afraid that her brain had been frozen. She turned around and put a more serious face on.
"Sleet, Hail, Quartz, Fizz, Shade, and the rest of you, I'm going to need your strength to do this! Get ready!"
She raised her Frost Wand in the air and felt her Djinn power go into hers, Mia called on her Psynergy, and then felt its aura surround her. The people behind her jumped, what was she doing raising her arms like that?
Mia poured her power into the snow that had built around the houses, and then called it to her. Her Djinn strained, and then Mia felt Lighthouse begin giving her power, it wasn't because it wanted to, it was because she was tapping into its source of limitless Mercury Psynergy. Mia raised her arms up, and all of the snow that had surrounded the houses lifted off. Mia guided it outside of the town so the children could play with it.
Lily and Charles stared at her with amazement, she was really something else! Thom had his arms raised and was cheering Mia, too young to even think about how serious this was.
She dropped to her knees and gasped, she had always wanted to do that. And she had, with her djinn, but mostly because of the lighthouse, since the lighthouse was lit, that meant that it could give her unlimited Psynergy, and she had used some of it. She stood back up still in a little need for air, and then got back her air as she heard Lily and the rest of family waking up everyone else. She had gotten her breath back and then began walking to the Lighthouse; it was about a one hour walk there. But after a few minutes, Mia found that she was running and couldn't stop. It was the lighthouse; apparently it had lost all of its patience and was forcing her to come. Mia arrived there in half the time and she collapsed when she finally got at the fountain. She gasped for air desperately, her legs searing with pain.
Her Djinn Fizz and Shade and the other healing ones went into action, the power of the lighthouse had restored them completely. Mia got up and thanked them, then looked at the frozen fountain and then the lighthouse that surrounded it. She was there, finally, and now she could Isaac and the rest behind her in the past, just as she had with Alex. But of course their memories of them would never leave her, and she knew that. Especially Isaac, but she couldn't let that get in her way of protecting the lighthouse, and she wouldn't.
Mia slowly went around the fountain and then went to the barrier that protected the inside of the lighthouse, casting Ply, she entered it. And found that nothing had been touched, she knew that she should check though, and so she did. She went all the way up until she at the beacon, and once there she sat down and let the blue light fall behind her. In front of her was a frozen wasteland with the only sign of life in a village off in the distance, with smoke coming out of the houses' pipes. She took in the smell of ice and snow, and felt the chilly wind blow around her. This was her home, and she had to stay here. She had to block out anything that tried to get away from the Lighthouse, because the last she had left, she ended up breaking her heart. And it was all because she had fell in love with a Venus Adept, if she hadn't, then she wouldn't be like this. If she hadn't even left, then she would have never been like this, it was her fault, and she would NOT let something like that happen again.
Mia felt something colder then Imil fill into her heart and soul, all of her happiness going down like the fountain at this lighthouse. Her heart and soul froze, and Mia felt anger, bitterness, envy, and jealousy replace the sadness and sorrow that had once been inside of her. Now all that sadness and all of the other happy and caring parts of her was of it was buried inside, down into the darkest and deepest corner of herself.
Imil noticed this change, because of instead of a happy smile, their healer had a scowl and frown on her face. When they looked into her eyes, they saw no warmth, but just cold ice. She would only talk to the children, and eventually she hardly even came to Imil, she would stay and guard the lighthouse. And when they would go to try and see her, they would see her standing at the end of the fountain. Her djinn lined at her shoulders and head, a staff in her arms, and not a word coming out of her mouth. She wouldn't answer when they asked her, "How are you?" or, "Nice day isn't Mia?" She wouldn't even look at them; she would only answer the children, or simply stare off into the distance.
They all wanted to help her, but she would never answer, just stare off into the distance, her eyes unreadable, but one members of Imil knew what was wrong, but could not do anything about it.
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Isaac lay down in his bed and stared at the wall; he had done this for days now, and was losing sleep over it. But how could he? The one that he loved loved him back but he hadn't done anything about it. It was true that he hadn't known, but if he had confessed to her, then she wouldn't be gone from him like this. And even worse it had caused her pain to look at him because she was so in love him, and it hurt Isaac even more then the worst wound he had ever experienced.
Why? He would ask himself, why was he so stupid? She had been right there in front of him and had even loved him as well and he still hadn't made a move. How stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!
He looked out the frosted window, it had begun to snow, and it had been right after Mia had left, it been so sudden. The days had been warm and sunny and then suddenly cold and bitter. The celebration had passed, it had been in the snow, but Isaac didn't even go. He didn't want to be there if Mia couldn't there with him. He looked up at the ceiling with one hand behind his unruly hair, lost in thought. But there was only word going through his head, 'Why?'
That morning as usual he got up and dressed and then went downstairs to eat breakfast. He picked at his food though, and his eyes felt heavy.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?" Dora asked him as she leaned over and looked at his face with concerned eyes. "I made your favorite today; you've been so drab lately, what's wrong?"
Isaac smiled at her, even though it was fake.
"Nothing, just sleepy, and the snow makes me feel down."
"Oh, all right, and I do suppose it's also because that girl Mia has left."
Isaac kept the smile on his face while looking at his mother.
"Yeah, I really miss her."
Dora smiled at him, content that there was nothing wrong with her son, but Kyle saw that his son was faking.
"Isaac, would mind meeting at the shed after you finishing eating?"
"Yeah, sure thing Dad."
Kyle got up from the table and then pulled on his coat and all of his necessary winter items. Walking out the door, he bid them a good-bye, and then closed the door.
"Well, that was strange," commented Dora with an unhappy frown. "I thought he said that he didn't need to go and do his carpeting. He's always so unexpected, just like you Isaac."
"What?"
"Were you even listening?"
"Well, uh,"
"I'll take that as a no, and even more of your father's side, never paying attention. Off to your own little world I suppose, right?"
"What?"
"Never mind."
Dora went off and began to clean the dishes, and Isaac lost contact of the world again. He was thinking about Mia, he wasn't doing it on purpose, it just kept on happening. He subconsciously finished his breakfast and then got his jacket and went out the door and forgot to close it. Dora felt the chill and then saw the empty plate, Isaac's coat gone, and the open door. She hurried off and closed the door, even more like his father.
Isaac wasn't paying attention to where he was going and ran into a door. He snapped out of thought and rubbed his head while realizing that he was at his father's shed. He made an odd face and then entered the shed and took his hand down. His father wasn't doing anything except sitting down on a chair he had made a week before.
"Sit down Isaac."
Isaac walked over and sat down on a chair that was in front of his father, what had he done wrong?
"Listen Isaac, I can tell there's something wrong with you."
Isaac made a confused face and began to rub his head again.
"What are you talking about Dad?"
"Don't give me that look Isaac; I know that there is something wrong with you."
Isaac took his hand down and kept on the puzzled face.
"There is? I didn't notice anything wrong with me, except that my hair is more messed up then usual."
"Isaac, stop it, I'm your father, and you need to tell me what's wrong."
"But there's nothing wrong, I mean it."
"Stop being so stubborn."
"I'm not being stubborn, and besides, I got that from you, if I am being stubborn then you should be proud."
"Actually, you got being stubborn from your mother, and don't try and change the subject."
"But I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"Well, I don't know anything that you want to know, and I thought that you needed my help."
"I do, and you will help me understand what is wrong with you if you tell what's bothering you."
"But I already told you, there isn't."
"Yes, there is."
"No there isn't"
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No! Stop prying! I don't want to talk about it!"
Isaac got off of the chair and ran out the door and slammed it behind him, and Kyle sat there stunned.
Isaac raced through the snow; he just wanted to get away from everything. And that was mostly his father. He kept on going until his legs stopped, and he when he looked around, he saw that this was where he and Mia had been. At the holy sight of Sol Sactrum, he clenched his fists and then kicked the ground. He sat down and got in a crouched position, Flint popped up between his legs. He had left all of his djinn at home, Flint must have followed him.
Isaac picked him up and sat up; he kept Flint in both hands and just looked at him. Flint blinked at him, and slowly snow began to fall on them.
"Mia." Flint said, and Isaac nodded, it wasn't that often that djinn decided to talk. Flint nodded back, and then Isaac hugged Flint to his chest.
"It's Ok master, it's Ok."
Silently Isaac felt cold tears going down his cheeks, and the snowflakes began to get caught in them. Flint didn't say anything, and Isaac was thankful for that, he didn't want any noise. The snow made no noise, and all Vale stayed silent, there was no wind, just silence.
Isaac eventually let Flint go but he still kept him in his hands, a sudden random breeze blew him, but he paid no attention. The tears still kept on going, and Isaac looked at the small little djinn in his hands.
Ivan was sitting down on his bed cross-legged in his room quietly reading a book as he normally did whenever he could, when he felt a sudden sadness in the corner of his mind. Ivan stopped reading and put his book down; he stood up on his bed and got on his toes to look out the window. He opened it and put his hand out and snowflakes fell on it, re closed his eyes and then called for the wind to come. When it came he opened his eyes and they glowed violet, using mind talk, he asked the wind, 'who is grieving so much that it enters my mind?'
The wind left him and swiftly went through Vale, after about a minute went by it came back and put a picture in his mind. Ivan's eyes glowed violet again as he saw Isaac sitting down in the snow while holding one of his djinn, he couldn't tell. It was odd, only the masters of the djinn could tell them all apart, but Ivan had a feeling that it was Flint. Ivan looked closer at the picture and saw that tears were going Isaac cheeks. He told the wind thanks and then closed the window. He put on his shoes and then grabbed his cloak and then made his way through the hall. Sheba popped out her door and looked at Ivan.
"So you felt it too?" she asked him and he nodded slowly.
"Well, I'm not going to talk to him, it would be better if you did Ivan, besides, you've known him longer, and you're also a boy."
She closed her door and Ivan turned away and continued down the hall, in the lobby, and then out the door. He traveled all way until he reached a hill away from Vale that was where he could Isaac. He slowly went up it, and then finally saw Isaac sitting down in the snow, his tears still there, but he wasn't crying. He was covered in snow, and his arms were hooked around his legs, and his djinn was sitting on his shoulder. Ivan slowly walked over and sat down next to Isaac quietly. The djinn looked at Ivan and then cocked its head to the side and then looked forward again.
"You can say something Ivan."
"Which djinn is that?"
"Flint."
"Oh."
Isaac sniffled, and Ivan looked at his face.
"Are you still upset about Mia?"
"Yes."
"Why don't you, well, go after her?"
"Why do you think she left? I don't think that she will want to see me."
"What? Are you kidding? Of course she'll want to see you! She's in love with you Isaac."
"But, it's just that, I don't want to hurt her anymore."
"What do you mean by hurting her?"
"It will hurt her to see me, even if I tell her."
"I don't think so; I think that she will be delighted to see you."
"I don't."
"Well, everyone else does, I know that everyone will help you get to Imil to see her."
"But its winter and I can't go."
"Stop saying, 'but.' That's what you always told Garet, I never thought that I would say it to you."
"Well, now you have."
"Isaac, come on. Everyone wants you to go after Mia, I know it, I've seen it in there faces, I don't even have to read their mind to know."
"Then you won't have to read my mind to know that I don't want to go."
"Then maybe you shouldn't look at what you want, but what Mia wants."
"I know that, she doesn't want to see me."
"Yes she does, I know it, Isaac, everyday that she saw you, and I could fell a glow inside of her. And it was before she even realized that she was in love you, every time she saw you, she glowed."
"I thought you said that it hurt her to see me."
"I did, but that was because she wanted to love you so much that it caused her pain because she thought that you would never love her."
"Why did she think that?"
"I don't know why she thought that, but I know that more then anything in the world she wants you to love her. That was her deepest desire in her heart, in her soul, in her mind. Once, when I was with her in a town and she flipped a coin in the fountain, she wished for something. What do you think it was?"
"That I loved her." He whispered quietly just enough so that Ivan and Flint could hear.
"Yes, even though I had read mind, I didn't even to. I read her mind because it's a habit; I like to know what people are wishing."
Isaac had a faint smile on his face before it faded away.
"But the winter, even if I go now, I won't make it. I'll probably freeze."
"Then I guess that waiting is the way to go."
"But what if I don't make it in time? What if she falls in love with someone else?"
"I don't think that she's paying attention to any guys, she's just waiting for you to come and whisk her off of her feet."
"But I can't wait; I need to go see her!"
"I don't think that she wants to have her true turned into an ice- cube before he reaches her Isaac."
"You're right, but the first time the snow starts to melt, I'm going."
Ivan smiled as he looked at Isaac's face.
"You know, everyone else will probably go and help you."
"What why?"
"Well, the first reason is because they're your friends, and another is because I read there minds and figured it out."
"You read too many minds, Ivan."
"I don't, I just read minds a lot, and their mostly those of our friends."
"What about Sheba?"
"Well, she can tell, and then she gives me a monster headache for trying, I do it anyway though."
Isaac smiled, and the snow suddenly stopped, Flint bounced off Isaac's head and onto is knees.
"Another journey!" He squeaked, and both Ivan and Isaac smiled, then, Isaac picked Flint up and began walking down the hill. Ivan got up and followed him.
"Going to ask everyone to come with you I suppose?"
"Mind reader."
"How can I help it? It's too much fun."
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As usual Mia stood at the end of the fountain, the sun slowly inched down across the snow. It placed a dark pink mixed with red across the ice.
"Finally the villagers are gone, and left me in peace." Mia said bitterly to her djinn, they all jumped on her twice in an agreement.
"You are the only creatures that don't bother me, well, the children don't, but everyone else does. The children never play here, the adults won't let them. But they are all fools, they don't know anything."
Mia turned around and walked over to the door of the lighthouse; she cast Ply and entered it. Her footsteps echoed through the marble floor and walls, and she listened to them. She arrived at the statue of the woman; the center of her breast gave off an odd light. She looked at it and then stepped on a special tile on the floor that allowed her to walk across the water. She went across it and then went on upward facing palms of the statue.
"What is that you seek?" The statue asked Mia without opening its mouth.
"To go a room where nothing can come and seek me."
"Only those of a lighthouses blood may enter."
Mia cast Ply again, and the statues mouth opened again, Mia went in it and entered a room with ten different waterfalls in it. She chose the seventh one, and then went in another room, this time it had five waterfalls. Each one had a statue next to it, just the same as the one next to the waterfall that lead up to the beacon. Mia went to the second one and cast Ply on the statue next to it, and the waterfall began to turn to reverse itself and turn a light pink. Mia stepped into the waterfall and let the Psynergy carry her up.
The Psynergy let her go and left her in a hallway. It stretched down with at least sixty doors on each side; this was where the people of the lighthouse lived, even though it only had one person of that blood left. Mia walked down to the end of the hallway and arrived at a door that was at the end of the hallway, she went into it, and entered her room. It was made out of blue crystal, this was the room where the leader of the lighthouse slept, Mia was the only left, and so she considered herself the leader of herself. So she had taken this room, and had collected the things that she loved the most and put them here. It was a huge room, and it actually had two levels to it, and each level was the size of a castles level. It was huge, all made of blue crystal, and the blue crystal glowed and let off a warm aura.
Mia went up the stair in the back of the room on the second level. It was all blue light everywhere, and so Mia had bought torches so that it wasn't constantly blue all of the time. She went over to her bed that also crystal and sat down on it, the crystal sank in, this was soft crystal, and Mia could take it and wrap it around herself for a blanket. To someone else it would seem like a paradise, but to Mia it only meant her prison. This whole lighthouse was a prison, and a prison it would stay.
Mia sat there for only a little bit before she went off and took a bath, all of her djinn went off to go get some dinner for themselves, and after Mia's bath she would follow.
Mia dried her hair with a towel and then got a robe and put it around her. The water fall spilled into the crystal tub behind her, and it was never going to stop. That was one of the many tubs in the lighthouse, but that one had been meant for the leader. Mia left her hair towel and walked over to the place where all of the food was stored. Her djinn were still there, eating some bread. Mia got herself bread and ate it hastily; she finished before her djinn did, and then left and went to her room.
She went to her bed and got into a nightgown, laying down she wrapped the crystal around her and felt the warmth going around her. Her djinn came and snuck in next to her and she petted them each softly. She looked down at her friends, her only friends, the ones who would be beside her until the day that she turned into dust. That was a true friend, and she would be a true friend to them as long as she lived, and even after she went to the great world that was behind the sky.
Always, always, she would never let anyone do anything to them; she wouldn't let them get hurt like she had, always, always.
She closed her eyes, and slowly fell into sleep, shutting out anything that came into her minds eye. Mia woke up, she didn't know what time it was, but then again she never did, she would always wake up whenever the sun's light would show over the horizon. She looked down caringly at her sleeping djinn, but she found that none of them were sleeping. They were all looking at her, ready to start another day of guarding the lighthouse. She smiled at them and then got the blanket off and then stepped off the bed. Blue light showered all around her, and she went and changed into her heavy day clothing and then brushed her hair and then put it up in the normal style. She grabbed her thick cloak and a staff and then walked out of the second levels. Her djinn bounced out of bed and ran after her; they jumped and climbed until they got on her shoulders and the top of her head. Mia went down until she was at the beginning of the hall of the past homes of the guardians.
She clicked her staff twice on the marble floor and then hole formed on the wall in front of her. When someone would come into the halls they would be teleported through the floor by the lighthouse Psynergy. So when they needed to get back down, they had to hit the floor twice and a way out the hall would appear. She went through the hole, lifting her skirt up. She went through the passageway, and then appeared through the wall nearby the statue of a woman in the first room of the lighthouse. It was a way that was hidden by Psynergy, and if someone used Reveal, well, it would be revealed.
She clicked the floor four times with her staff to make the hole in the hall disappear, and then began her journey outside. Once she was outside, she noticed some thickly muscled men sitting around the fountain. She stopped and looked at them, they weren't from Imil, and if they had been then she would have recognized them. But at the same time she did recognize them very well, they were thieves. She could tell by the way they tried to hide their swords behind their coats, and the expensive clothes that they all wore. There wasn't a female in the group, not that it would have mattered. And Mia also took note that she saw them, but they didn't see her. That was fine by her means; she would just wait until they finally noticed her and then attack.
"So, what kind of goods are here?" Asked one of the thieves who was sitting on the right of the fountain.
"The people from Imil tell me that treasures are hidden somewhere inside, but they also said that there was a guardian. What do you guys think?"
"Screw the damn guardian; it's probably some old geezer!" Said another thief that had just taken his sword out of his sheath. He placed it on his neck and began pretending to use it as a saw. "I'll be the one to cut his head off!"
"Yeah, and can you image the look on their face right before he'll see his death? It'll be great!"
"Let's stop lounging around and go get some treasure, and then after that, we can kill the old man."
All of the men made a cheer and then got off of the ground; they began walking forward until they noticed that Mia was standing at the door.
"Hey look, a little shela, I bet that we could some good money if we sell her as a prostitute! Men like pretty little girls, and this one has blue hair, you don't see that everyday."
Mia kept her face emotionless and just stared at the men that were a couple of yards away from her.
"Yeah, and if we can sell her to some dirty ruler, then image the money we could get!"
One of them advanced and reached out to grab Mia, and she took her staff and pointed it at him in a defense way. He stopped and raised his arm, looking terrified.
"Oh no, please don't hurt me with your stick!" He said and all of the men behind him laughed. Mia kept her staff up, this one had used to be her frost wand, but she had been able to make it longer and the wood and crystal thicker. The wood still twisted in an odd way, and the crystal had actually turned to where you could through it a little.
"Hey, we could get some money with that staff that she has, it looks nice." Commented the man who she had first heard.
"As the guardian of this lighthouse, it is my job to make sure that you don't get inn. Not that you can anyway, there's a barrier that only I can go through. The laws of the lighthouse say that if you try to steal, then I might have to kill you. Your life can be spared if you leave now and never return."
They all began to howl with laughter after Mia stopped speaking, but she still kept a strong pose.
"Yea right, I'd like to see lay one finger on me!" said one of the thieves after they had all quieted. "Hey, maybe I won't break your arm if you promise to give me a little sugar, and when I say sugar, I mean the whole thing. Not just a little kiss."
"Screw yourself." She replied, and the men all looked at each other with amused faces.
"But I need the touch of a female, and right now, you look the best to do so."
Mia sighed; she was getting tired of this, and raised her staff a little higher then the man in front of her. She would just give them a little frost. "Hail!"
Hail began to fall from he sky and hit the men on the heads, and they all looked around and then at her.
"She's a witch, kill her!"
They all raced over to her, swords raised, Mia sighed again.
"Sleet, I need your help!"
Sleet jumped to the tip of her staff, turning himself into a spirit, he placed himself all around the staff. She waited until they got closer, and then unleashed the djinn power; they were all pelted with ice, and fell backwards. But this didn't stop them; they got right back up and charged again.
"Prism!"
Large amounts of ice buffeted them, knocking them all out; Mia looked at them, and then shook her head. Why did enemies always underestimate her? Of course, she did have to remember that they couldn't control Psynergy so they couldn't tell. Oh well, it wasn't her fault.
After a few minutes they all groaned and then looked around, once they saw Mia, they all jumped off the ground and ran for their lives, screaming like girls. Once they were all gone, Mia gave Sleet special thanks, and she could have sworn that he had blushed.
Mia walked over to the edge of the fountain; she stood there and looked at the rising sun. The people of Imil would come and try to talk to her again as they always did, and it was time to ignore. But maybe they would quit and just come for some fountain water?
She glanced at the water, it still hadn't frozen, but she didn't expect it to. It had Psynergy within it, and that's what kept from freezing. She looked at the sky, and prepared herself for another of guarding the lighthouse.
Ok, that chapter was kind of weird, I know. But it was just to tell you what Mia has done to herself so she won't get hurt anymore. And how cold she made herself, now we all know that Mia wouldn't actually do that to herself, but you never know! And now we can confirm that Isaac is going off to save her, but will he like what he sees?
Hail: I sure don't!
Well, first off, you're just a muse, so....
Hail: why you-
Ok, so please review and tell me how you liked this twisted and weird and odd and-
Sleet: Would you be quiet? Gees.
Ok then, I guess that I should stop before I get too wrapped up in it. So, just review.
So until next time,
CrypticElf....
Hail: Our master would never be the coward that you make her out to be!
Well, of course we all know that Mia isn't as afraid to tell Isaac the truth, but like I said, she was being called by the lighthouse and couldn't really be with him if she wanted to.
Gust: I say that you let me write the stories!
Uh, try no.
Hail: What? There is no way that I'm going to let you be the boss, you little Wind Djinn!
Sleet: Hold it up! If someone's going to be the boss, it might as well be me.
Gust: Yeah, right.
Sleet: You want to repeat that again punk?
Gust: 0.o oh, I mean, you go right on ahead, and I'll just go over here.... Do, do, do....
Hail: Great, a girl is going to write the story, how groovy!
Sleet: I'm not going to write, just make sure that neither of you to get put anything in it. You guys suck at writing.
Hail: That is NOT true!
Sleet: What about that love letter you wrote me?
Oh, oh, I want to read it! Please, pretty please!
Sleet: Sure, here it is.
(Sleet hands the author piece of paper.)
Hail: NO! DON'T READ IT!
Oh....
(CrypticElf starts to laugh, at the end of the letter is howling with laughter and rolling the ground.)
Can't breathe....!
Sleet: I told you it was bad.
Hail: O.O How dare say it was bad? I put my heart and soul into that poem!
Sleet: Why are you so angry now? I've already told you that I hated it.
Hail: .....
Sleet: Whatever, CrypticElf owns nothing of GoldenSun and never will, because she's a loser.
How nice of you to point that out.
Hail: On with the fic, and don't forget to review, reviewers! Oh, and make sure to read the author's profile, it has some weird new stuff on it. That is if you haven't read already.
That makes no sense.
Gust: Nothing that he says ever makes sense.
Sleet: Did I say that you could come back?
Gust: Currently going to the other side of room....
Sleet: Good boy.
By the way people, in this story, well, Mia says something bad. I obviously can't tell you what, but this chapter is a little gross. To some of you it might be R, to others it might just still be Pg-13, but it's just a little scene, so I don't think that I have to change the rating.
Chapter Two: Frozen Heart
A bitter blizzard kept most of Imil inside, but a stranger wearing a blue cape and thick dress against the cold came trudging through the snow. They were holding a wand with a blue crystal built into the top of it, and small blue creatures hid under their hood. They went through the snow with slow steps, the wind beat against them, determined to knock them off their feet. But they kept on going, trying to travel as fast as they could to the town to escape the freezing snow. One of the town's children looked out the window, and saw this small blue figure outside in the horrific storm.
"Daddy, there's someone out there in the snow!"
"Don't be ridicules; no one would possibly go out into the storm."
"But there is someone, I can them!"
The father walked over to the window and looked out while pointing his finger out the window.
"Look, there is... oh my, there really is somebody out there!"
He leapt up and ran and got his coat, pulling it on he raced out the door and over to help whoever this stranger was.
"Hello out there, do you need help?"
The blue figure kept on going, and he walked forward as fast as the wind would let him and then grabbed the strangers shoulder. They whizzed around and pointed a wand at his face, but then quickly put it down.
"Do you need help?" he screamed, the stranger nodded and so he signaled for them to follow him. The stranger followed him slowly, tired from their journey. It seemed to take forever to get back to his small home, but they finally did. He opened the door and let the stranger walk in first and then followed after and then slammed the door shut. He took off his coat and then went over and put near the fire on a hanger to dry. The stranger paced around trying to gain their body heat back, and went back over to them.
"Excuse me, but would let me take your cloak? And go over and sit by the fire to warm yourself up."
The stranger lifted their hood off and to the man's amazement it was the town's healer, Mia, guardian of the Mercury Lighthouse.
"Mia, you're finally back! I thought that you were never going to come back here after being gone for so long, come and sit by the fire!"
Mia nodded, her skin was as blue as her hair was, and her lips bled from the cold. Small odd creatures on her shoulder hopped off of her and they all ran to the fire shivering. She followed them, shaking as well; her face was covered with frost even though she had had her hood on. She sat as close to the fire as she could, rubbing her arms. All of the creatures jumped back to her and sat on her lap, they were so clustered together that they just looked like a huge ball of dark blue and purple. The little boy that had been watching her at the window ran over to her and gave her a big hug.
"Mia! You're back!"
Mia patted his head, her teeth shaking too much for her to say anything. The wife of the house came out of a room to see what all of the commotion was about, when she saw Mia, she also ran forward. She placed her hands on the young girls shivering face with concerned eyes.
"Goodness Mia, is that really you? You must be freezing traveling out there in the cold, and hungry too, let me get you something to eat!"
The wife jumped back up and ran over to the kitchen and began grabbing things to make soup with. The little boy was still hugging Mia, and husband was shaking out her cloak. Once he finished shaking most of the snow out he hung it next to his coat, he went over and got a huge fur blanket. He draped it over Mia's shoulders, and the boy moved out of the way. Mia used one hand to pull the blanket closer around her and used the other to pick up her shivering creatures. She took her arm and wrapped it around herself and her creatures went around her arm to snuggle in between it and her breasts.
"Mia," said the man of the house as the wife began boiling the soup as fast as she could. "What are you doing here? You must have completed your journey!"
"Oh, she's freezing." Cried the wife from the kitchen, "let her warm up before she speaks!"
The man quieted and put a pipe in his mouth and lit it. The little boy sat down next to Mia and was looking at her face. Mia shivered and shook, her creatures doing the same. The wife came over with some soup, bread, and water and placed it in front of Mia. Mia tried to say thank you, but she was still shaking too much, the wife nodded to her with a smile in an understanding way. Mia smiled and then put her creatures took the bowl of soup and began eating as fast as she could. Once she finished it she took her bread and began tearing it and then gave it to the hungry critters on her lap. The wife gave her more bread and Mia ate half of it and gave the rest to the creatures on her lap. She sat there for a while until her shivers settled, and then chose to speak.
"Th-thank you Charles, and of course Lily, and Thom." The husband Charles nodded the wife Lily smiled, and the little boy Thom smiled and gave Mia hug.
"So," asked Charles, "You've come back? Why so late?"
"W-well, th-the town w-where those two boys I-Isaac and Garet are from got d-destroyed, and s-so I stayed t-to help rebuild it. I-I actually left early, but I-I am s-sorry for coming s-so late."
"Just as long as you're back, you didn't even write!"
Mia looked over to him and smiled without showing her teeth.
"I-I d-didn't stay in o-one spot l-long enough to wr-write a letter. And in V-Vale, the town was still a-a little messed up, so I-I couldn't y- you see."
"Ahh, yes, just as long as you're fine Miss Mia, this town thought something bad had happened to you."
Mia smiled again and then crept closer to the fire; she lifted her hands up and sighed gratefully as the heat hit them.
"What are those???" asked Thom as he pointed to the little blue and purple things on her lap.
"O-oh, those a-are called d-djinn, they are my f-friends."
The djinn had stopped shivering, but had made themselves comfterable on her lap and were lounging around on her thick skirt. It was so thick that they practically sank in; Mia took her hands away from the fire and began petting them with gently fingers. Each one made some kind of a purring sound at her touch, and the little boy watched while giggling. Lily came over with some type of a sack filled with hot water and placed it on the back of Mia's neck.
"Thank y-you." Mia said, and touched it with one hand. Lily smiled just happy to be of help and then went and grabbed more fire for the wood.
"We are so lucky that you came into out house Mia, it must be a good omen from the Gods and Goddess!"
"O-oh, well I think that I'm more th-thankful that someone e-even came out to get m-me at all Mrs. Lily."
"Just Lily."
"O-Ok."
Lily walked over and gave Mia more blankets, eventually Mia had stopped shivering. Lily was amazed at how fast she had recovered.
"A normal person would still be frozen down to the bone!"
"Well, I am something called a 'Mercury Adept,' and when you are something called an adept, you can control something called, Psynergy. And Mercury is healing Psynergy, and Mercury is water. There are three other types of Pysnergy, the first is Venus, which is earth, and the next is Mars, which is fire. The next one is Jupiter, which is the wind. Do you remember the tall young man with the hair that stuck out that was here before I left?"
Lily just nodded, listening carefully.
"Well, he was a Mars adept, and the one with the dark blondish hair was a Venus adept."
Mia felt the pieces that remanded of her heart turn into ice.
"And the small short one was with blond hair as well was a Wind adept, with his powers, you can read minds. The Venus one was named Isaac," everyone noticed the crack in her voice when she spoke his name. "The one with Mars was named Garet; he was the strongest but the most thick-headed. And the one with Jupiter was named Ivan, he was the smartest."
Thom hopped on his knees.
"What were you Mia?"
"Well, everyone considered me the kindest."
"No wonder, you are! What was about the one with the earth?"
Mia bit her lip, but even though she tried to keep control over herself her voice shook when she spoke, and she said it in a lower voice then usual.
"His name was Isaac, and he was the bravest of all."
Mia turned away and looked at the fire, Lily saw this and called Thom back to her.
"Time to go bed Thom, it's already been too late for you."
"But Mommy, can't I just say good-night to Mia?"
"Oh course you may, but make it quick!"
Thom ran over to Mia and gave her a quick hug, and then ran off to his room. Once he was gone, Mia looked over her shoulders and at Lily.
"You didn't have to do that; it's just that I miss them."
"Well, he did have to go bed; by the way, we don't have a guest room, where do you want to sleep?"
"Right here is fine; I'll be just fine on the floor."
"Well, alright, but I'm going to get you a pillow."
Mia giggled and then looked back at the fire, feeling the strain of the Lighthouse upon her. She had been gone for so long, that its call was almost too much for her to bear, but she couldn't go out into the storm, she would kill herself. Not that that wasn't such a bad idea, after all, she felt bad enough as it was. But what would Imil think when they found her frozen corps? And the children, she had promised to come back, she couldn't give into death, and she wouldn't.
Lily came back with a pillow and then went to bed with Charles following close behind her; Mia looked at them with envy, why did she have to be guardian of the lighthouse? She just wanted to be with Isaac, in his arms, next to him by a fire as she told him, 'I love you, I love you, I love you.' But it would never be that way, and never could.
Mia made herself a bed and then laid down as her djinn snuggled in with her, they were her friends, and she would always take of them no matter what.
Mia woke up at the crack of dawn and saw the blizzard had stopped; she got out of her bed on the floor and stretched, and then felt the call of the Lighthouse straining on her mind. Now it knew that she could come now that the storm had ended, and it was pulling her to come with all its power. It was tearing Mia's head apart, and she rubbed her temples.
"Please, stop, if you keep on doing this, then I won't be able to tell where I am going!"
She felt the lighthouse stop, but it still pulled on her as it always did. Mia sighed and then looked at her blankets and saw all of her djinn working with each other to fold the blankets. Mia smiled, and then knelt down and helped them making sure not trap any of them. Once that was done, she gathered her things and quietly walked out the door with her djinn on her shoulders and hair. She stepped out onto the snow and found that all of the other houses had been surrounded by so much snow that they had no escape, only the tips of the houses showed from the snow.
It must have been her Psynergy that had warded it off of this house, and then Mia knelt down and wrote a message in the snow:
Thank you for your hospitality.
Mia
Just then the door behind her opened and Lily stepped out with only her nightgown on. She looked at the message and then smiled at Mia.
"Well, busy I see, oh my, the houses!"
Lily stared at the houses and then Thom and Charles stepped out behind her and then saw the houses as well and all their jaws dropped.
"It must have been my powers that warded the snow off, one moment; I need to get all of that snow off of their houses."
Charles looked at Mia with even more shock then with the houses.
"But Mia, no offence, but I don't see how you could move all that snow, I don't think anyone has the muscle to do that!"
"Oh, you'll see."
Mia smiled at him and he just stared at her, afraid that her brain had been frozen. She turned around and put a more serious face on.
"Sleet, Hail, Quartz, Fizz, Shade, and the rest of you, I'm going to need your strength to do this! Get ready!"
She raised her Frost Wand in the air and felt her Djinn power go into hers, Mia called on her Psynergy, and then felt its aura surround her. The people behind her jumped, what was she doing raising her arms like that?
Mia poured her power into the snow that had built around the houses, and then called it to her. Her Djinn strained, and then Mia felt Lighthouse begin giving her power, it wasn't because it wanted to, it was because she was tapping into its source of limitless Mercury Psynergy. Mia raised her arms up, and all of the snow that had surrounded the houses lifted off. Mia guided it outside of the town so the children could play with it.
Lily and Charles stared at her with amazement, she was really something else! Thom had his arms raised and was cheering Mia, too young to even think about how serious this was.
She dropped to her knees and gasped, she had always wanted to do that. And she had, with her djinn, but mostly because of the lighthouse, since the lighthouse was lit, that meant that it could give her unlimited Psynergy, and she had used some of it. She stood back up still in a little need for air, and then got back her air as she heard Lily and the rest of family waking up everyone else. She had gotten her breath back and then began walking to the Lighthouse; it was about a one hour walk there. But after a few minutes, Mia found that she was running and couldn't stop. It was the lighthouse; apparently it had lost all of its patience and was forcing her to come. Mia arrived there in half the time and she collapsed when she finally got at the fountain. She gasped for air desperately, her legs searing with pain.
Her Djinn Fizz and Shade and the other healing ones went into action, the power of the lighthouse had restored them completely. Mia got up and thanked them, then looked at the frozen fountain and then the lighthouse that surrounded it. She was there, finally, and now she could Isaac and the rest behind her in the past, just as she had with Alex. But of course their memories of them would never leave her, and she knew that. Especially Isaac, but she couldn't let that get in her way of protecting the lighthouse, and she wouldn't.
Mia slowly went around the fountain and then went to the barrier that protected the inside of the lighthouse, casting Ply, she entered it. And found that nothing had been touched, she knew that she should check though, and so she did. She went all the way up until she at the beacon, and once there she sat down and let the blue light fall behind her. In front of her was a frozen wasteland with the only sign of life in a village off in the distance, with smoke coming out of the houses' pipes. She took in the smell of ice and snow, and felt the chilly wind blow around her. This was her home, and she had to stay here. She had to block out anything that tried to get away from the Lighthouse, because the last she had left, she ended up breaking her heart. And it was all because she had fell in love with a Venus Adept, if she hadn't, then she wouldn't be like this. If she hadn't even left, then she would have never been like this, it was her fault, and she would NOT let something like that happen again.
Mia felt something colder then Imil fill into her heart and soul, all of her happiness going down like the fountain at this lighthouse. Her heart and soul froze, and Mia felt anger, bitterness, envy, and jealousy replace the sadness and sorrow that had once been inside of her. Now all that sadness and all of the other happy and caring parts of her was of it was buried inside, down into the darkest and deepest corner of herself.
Imil noticed this change, because of instead of a happy smile, their healer had a scowl and frown on her face. When they looked into her eyes, they saw no warmth, but just cold ice. She would only talk to the children, and eventually she hardly even came to Imil, she would stay and guard the lighthouse. And when they would go to try and see her, they would see her standing at the end of the fountain. Her djinn lined at her shoulders and head, a staff in her arms, and not a word coming out of her mouth. She wouldn't answer when they asked her, "How are you?" or, "Nice day isn't Mia?" She wouldn't even look at them; she would only answer the children, or simply stare off into the distance.
They all wanted to help her, but she would never answer, just stare off into the distance, her eyes unreadable, but one members of Imil knew what was wrong, but could not do anything about it.
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Isaac lay down in his bed and stared at the wall; he had done this for days now, and was losing sleep over it. But how could he? The one that he loved loved him back but he hadn't done anything about it. It was true that he hadn't known, but if he had confessed to her, then she wouldn't be gone from him like this. And even worse it had caused her pain to look at him because she was so in love him, and it hurt Isaac even more then the worst wound he had ever experienced.
Why? He would ask himself, why was he so stupid? She had been right there in front of him and had even loved him as well and he still hadn't made a move. How stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!
He looked out the frosted window, it had begun to snow, and it had been right after Mia had left, it been so sudden. The days had been warm and sunny and then suddenly cold and bitter. The celebration had passed, it had been in the snow, but Isaac didn't even go. He didn't want to be there if Mia couldn't there with him. He looked up at the ceiling with one hand behind his unruly hair, lost in thought. But there was only word going through his head, 'Why?'
That morning as usual he got up and dressed and then went downstairs to eat breakfast. He picked at his food though, and his eyes felt heavy.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?" Dora asked him as she leaned over and looked at his face with concerned eyes. "I made your favorite today; you've been so drab lately, what's wrong?"
Isaac smiled at her, even though it was fake.
"Nothing, just sleepy, and the snow makes me feel down."
"Oh, all right, and I do suppose it's also because that girl Mia has left."
Isaac kept the smile on his face while looking at his mother.
"Yeah, I really miss her."
Dora smiled at him, content that there was nothing wrong with her son, but Kyle saw that his son was faking.
"Isaac, would mind meeting at the shed after you finishing eating?"
"Yeah, sure thing Dad."
Kyle got up from the table and then pulled on his coat and all of his necessary winter items. Walking out the door, he bid them a good-bye, and then closed the door.
"Well, that was strange," commented Dora with an unhappy frown. "I thought he said that he didn't need to go and do his carpeting. He's always so unexpected, just like you Isaac."
"What?"
"Were you even listening?"
"Well, uh,"
"I'll take that as a no, and even more of your father's side, never paying attention. Off to your own little world I suppose, right?"
"What?"
"Never mind."
Dora went off and began to clean the dishes, and Isaac lost contact of the world again. He was thinking about Mia, he wasn't doing it on purpose, it just kept on happening. He subconsciously finished his breakfast and then got his jacket and went out the door and forgot to close it. Dora felt the chill and then saw the empty plate, Isaac's coat gone, and the open door. She hurried off and closed the door, even more like his father.
Isaac wasn't paying attention to where he was going and ran into a door. He snapped out of thought and rubbed his head while realizing that he was at his father's shed. He made an odd face and then entered the shed and took his hand down. His father wasn't doing anything except sitting down on a chair he had made a week before.
"Sit down Isaac."
Isaac walked over and sat down on a chair that was in front of his father, what had he done wrong?
"Listen Isaac, I can tell there's something wrong with you."
Isaac made a confused face and began to rub his head again.
"What are you talking about Dad?"
"Don't give me that look Isaac; I know that there is something wrong with you."
Isaac took his hand down and kept on the puzzled face.
"There is? I didn't notice anything wrong with me, except that my hair is more messed up then usual."
"Isaac, stop it, I'm your father, and you need to tell me what's wrong."
"But there's nothing wrong, I mean it."
"Stop being so stubborn."
"I'm not being stubborn, and besides, I got that from you, if I am being stubborn then you should be proud."
"Actually, you got being stubborn from your mother, and don't try and change the subject."
"But I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"Well, I don't know anything that you want to know, and I thought that you needed my help."
"I do, and you will help me understand what is wrong with you if you tell what's bothering you."
"But I already told you, there isn't."
"Yes, there is."
"No there isn't"
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No! Stop prying! I don't want to talk about it!"
Isaac got off of the chair and ran out the door and slammed it behind him, and Kyle sat there stunned.
Isaac raced through the snow; he just wanted to get away from everything. And that was mostly his father. He kept on going until his legs stopped, and he when he looked around, he saw that this was where he and Mia had been. At the holy sight of Sol Sactrum, he clenched his fists and then kicked the ground. He sat down and got in a crouched position, Flint popped up between his legs. He had left all of his djinn at home, Flint must have followed him.
Isaac picked him up and sat up; he kept Flint in both hands and just looked at him. Flint blinked at him, and slowly snow began to fall on them.
"Mia." Flint said, and Isaac nodded, it wasn't that often that djinn decided to talk. Flint nodded back, and then Isaac hugged Flint to his chest.
"It's Ok master, it's Ok."
Silently Isaac felt cold tears going down his cheeks, and the snowflakes began to get caught in them. Flint didn't say anything, and Isaac was thankful for that, he didn't want any noise. The snow made no noise, and all Vale stayed silent, there was no wind, just silence.
Isaac eventually let Flint go but he still kept him in his hands, a sudden random breeze blew him, but he paid no attention. The tears still kept on going, and Isaac looked at the small little djinn in his hands.
Ivan was sitting down on his bed cross-legged in his room quietly reading a book as he normally did whenever he could, when he felt a sudden sadness in the corner of his mind. Ivan stopped reading and put his book down; he stood up on his bed and got on his toes to look out the window. He opened it and put his hand out and snowflakes fell on it, re closed his eyes and then called for the wind to come. When it came he opened his eyes and they glowed violet, using mind talk, he asked the wind, 'who is grieving so much that it enters my mind?'
The wind left him and swiftly went through Vale, after about a minute went by it came back and put a picture in his mind. Ivan's eyes glowed violet again as he saw Isaac sitting down in the snow while holding one of his djinn, he couldn't tell. It was odd, only the masters of the djinn could tell them all apart, but Ivan had a feeling that it was Flint. Ivan looked closer at the picture and saw that tears were going Isaac cheeks. He told the wind thanks and then closed the window. He put on his shoes and then grabbed his cloak and then made his way through the hall. Sheba popped out her door and looked at Ivan.
"So you felt it too?" she asked him and he nodded slowly.
"Well, I'm not going to talk to him, it would be better if you did Ivan, besides, you've known him longer, and you're also a boy."
She closed her door and Ivan turned away and continued down the hall, in the lobby, and then out the door. He traveled all way until he reached a hill away from Vale that was where he could Isaac. He slowly went up it, and then finally saw Isaac sitting down in the snow, his tears still there, but he wasn't crying. He was covered in snow, and his arms were hooked around his legs, and his djinn was sitting on his shoulder. Ivan slowly walked over and sat down next to Isaac quietly. The djinn looked at Ivan and then cocked its head to the side and then looked forward again.
"You can say something Ivan."
"Which djinn is that?"
"Flint."
"Oh."
Isaac sniffled, and Ivan looked at his face.
"Are you still upset about Mia?"
"Yes."
"Why don't you, well, go after her?"
"Why do you think she left? I don't think that she will want to see me."
"What? Are you kidding? Of course she'll want to see you! She's in love with you Isaac."
"But, it's just that, I don't want to hurt her anymore."
"What do you mean by hurting her?"
"It will hurt her to see me, even if I tell her."
"I don't think so; I think that she will be delighted to see you."
"I don't."
"Well, everyone else does, I know that everyone will help you get to Imil to see her."
"But its winter and I can't go."
"Stop saying, 'but.' That's what you always told Garet, I never thought that I would say it to you."
"Well, now you have."
"Isaac, come on. Everyone wants you to go after Mia, I know it, I've seen it in there faces, I don't even have to read their mind to know."
"Then you won't have to read my mind to know that I don't want to go."
"Then maybe you shouldn't look at what you want, but what Mia wants."
"I know that, she doesn't want to see me."
"Yes she does, I know it, Isaac, everyday that she saw you, and I could fell a glow inside of her. And it was before she even realized that she was in love you, every time she saw you, she glowed."
"I thought you said that it hurt her to see me."
"I did, but that was because she wanted to love you so much that it caused her pain because she thought that you would never love her."
"Why did she think that?"
"I don't know why she thought that, but I know that more then anything in the world she wants you to love her. That was her deepest desire in her heart, in her soul, in her mind. Once, when I was with her in a town and she flipped a coin in the fountain, she wished for something. What do you think it was?"
"That I loved her." He whispered quietly just enough so that Ivan and Flint could hear.
"Yes, even though I had read mind, I didn't even to. I read her mind because it's a habit; I like to know what people are wishing."
Isaac had a faint smile on his face before it faded away.
"But the winter, even if I go now, I won't make it. I'll probably freeze."
"Then I guess that waiting is the way to go."
"But what if I don't make it in time? What if she falls in love with someone else?"
"I don't think that she's paying attention to any guys, she's just waiting for you to come and whisk her off of her feet."
"But I can't wait; I need to go see her!"
"I don't think that she wants to have her true turned into an ice- cube before he reaches her Isaac."
"You're right, but the first time the snow starts to melt, I'm going."
Ivan smiled as he looked at Isaac's face.
"You know, everyone else will probably go and help you."
"What why?"
"Well, the first reason is because they're your friends, and another is because I read there minds and figured it out."
"You read too many minds, Ivan."
"I don't, I just read minds a lot, and their mostly those of our friends."
"What about Sheba?"
"Well, she can tell, and then she gives me a monster headache for trying, I do it anyway though."
Isaac smiled, and the snow suddenly stopped, Flint bounced off Isaac's head and onto is knees.
"Another journey!" He squeaked, and both Ivan and Isaac smiled, then, Isaac picked Flint up and began walking down the hill. Ivan got up and followed him.
"Going to ask everyone to come with you I suppose?"
"Mind reader."
"How can I help it? It's too much fun."
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As usual Mia stood at the end of the fountain, the sun slowly inched down across the snow. It placed a dark pink mixed with red across the ice.
"Finally the villagers are gone, and left me in peace." Mia said bitterly to her djinn, they all jumped on her twice in an agreement.
"You are the only creatures that don't bother me, well, the children don't, but everyone else does. The children never play here, the adults won't let them. But they are all fools, they don't know anything."
Mia turned around and walked over to the door of the lighthouse; she cast Ply and entered it. Her footsteps echoed through the marble floor and walls, and she listened to them. She arrived at the statue of the woman; the center of her breast gave off an odd light. She looked at it and then stepped on a special tile on the floor that allowed her to walk across the water. She went across it and then went on upward facing palms of the statue.
"What is that you seek?" The statue asked Mia without opening its mouth.
"To go a room where nothing can come and seek me."
"Only those of a lighthouses blood may enter."
Mia cast Ply again, and the statues mouth opened again, Mia went in it and entered a room with ten different waterfalls in it. She chose the seventh one, and then went in another room, this time it had five waterfalls. Each one had a statue next to it, just the same as the one next to the waterfall that lead up to the beacon. Mia went to the second one and cast Ply on the statue next to it, and the waterfall began to turn to reverse itself and turn a light pink. Mia stepped into the waterfall and let the Psynergy carry her up.
The Psynergy let her go and left her in a hallway. It stretched down with at least sixty doors on each side; this was where the people of the lighthouse lived, even though it only had one person of that blood left. Mia walked down to the end of the hallway and arrived at a door that was at the end of the hallway, she went into it, and entered her room. It was made out of blue crystal, this was the room where the leader of the lighthouse slept, Mia was the only left, and so she considered herself the leader of herself. So she had taken this room, and had collected the things that she loved the most and put them here. It was a huge room, and it actually had two levels to it, and each level was the size of a castles level. It was huge, all made of blue crystal, and the blue crystal glowed and let off a warm aura.
Mia went up the stair in the back of the room on the second level. It was all blue light everywhere, and so Mia had bought torches so that it wasn't constantly blue all of the time. She went over to her bed that also crystal and sat down on it, the crystal sank in, this was soft crystal, and Mia could take it and wrap it around herself for a blanket. To someone else it would seem like a paradise, but to Mia it only meant her prison. This whole lighthouse was a prison, and a prison it would stay.
Mia sat there for only a little bit before she went off and took a bath, all of her djinn went off to go get some dinner for themselves, and after Mia's bath she would follow.
Mia dried her hair with a towel and then got a robe and put it around her. The water fall spilled into the crystal tub behind her, and it was never going to stop. That was one of the many tubs in the lighthouse, but that one had been meant for the leader. Mia left her hair towel and walked over to the place where all of the food was stored. Her djinn were still there, eating some bread. Mia got herself bread and ate it hastily; she finished before her djinn did, and then left and went to her room.
She went to her bed and got into a nightgown, laying down she wrapped the crystal around her and felt the warmth going around her. Her djinn came and snuck in next to her and she petted them each softly. She looked down at her friends, her only friends, the ones who would be beside her until the day that she turned into dust. That was a true friend, and she would be a true friend to them as long as she lived, and even after she went to the great world that was behind the sky.
Always, always, she would never let anyone do anything to them; she wouldn't let them get hurt like she had, always, always.
She closed her eyes, and slowly fell into sleep, shutting out anything that came into her minds eye. Mia woke up, she didn't know what time it was, but then again she never did, she would always wake up whenever the sun's light would show over the horizon. She looked down caringly at her sleeping djinn, but she found that none of them were sleeping. They were all looking at her, ready to start another day of guarding the lighthouse. She smiled at them and then got the blanket off and then stepped off the bed. Blue light showered all around her, and she went and changed into her heavy day clothing and then brushed her hair and then put it up in the normal style. She grabbed her thick cloak and a staff and then walked out of the second levels. Her djinn bounced out of bed and ran after her; they jumped and climbed until they got on her shoulders and the top of her head. Mia went down until she was at the beginning of the hall of the past homes of the guardians.
She clicked her staff twice on the marble floor and then hole formed on the wall in front of her. When someone would come into the halls they would be teleported through the floor by the lighthouse Psynergy. So when they needed to get back down, they had to hit the floor twice and a way out the hall would appear. She went through the hole, lifting her skirt up. She went through the passageway, and then appeared through the wall nearby the statue of a woman in the first room of the lighthouse. It was a way that was hidden by Psynergy, and if someone used Reveal, well, it would be revealed.
She clicked the floor four times with her staff to make the hole in the hall disappear, and then began her journey outside. Once she was outside, she noticed some thickly muscled men sitting around the fountain. She stopped and looked at them, they weren't from Imil, and if they had been then she would have recognized them. But at the same time she did recognize them very well, they were thieves. She could tell by the way they tried to hide their swords behind their coats, and the expensive clothes that they all wore. There wasn't a female in the group, not that it would have mattered. And Mia also took note that she saw them, but they didn't see her. That was fine by her means; she would just wait until they finally noticed her and then attack.
"So, what kind of goods are here?" Asked one of the thieves who was sitting on the right of the fountain.
"The people from Imil tell me that treasures are hidden somewhere inside, but they also said that there was a guardian. What do you guys think?"
"Screw the damn guardian; it's probably some old geezer!" Said another thief that had just taken his sword out of his sheath. He placed it on his neck and began pretending to use it as a saw. "I'll be the one to cut his head off!"
"Yeah, and can you image the look on their face right before he'll see his death? It'll be great!"
"Let's stop lounging around and go get some treasure, and then after that, we can kill the old man."
All of the men made a cheer and then got off of the ground; they began walking forward until they noticed that Mia was standing at the door.
"Hey look, a little shela, I bet that we could some good money if we sell her as a prostitute! Men like pretty little girls, and this one has blue hair, you don't see that everyday."
Mia kept her face emotionless and just stared at the men that were a couple of yards away from her.
"Yeah, and if we can sell her to some dirty ruler, then image the money we could get!"
One of them advanced and reached out to grab Mia, and she took her staff and pointed it at him in a defense way. He stopped and raised his arm, looking terrified.
"Oh no, please don't hurt me with your stick!" He said and all of the men behind him laughed. Mia kept her staff up, this one had used to be her frost wand, but she had been able to make it longer and the wood and crystal thicker. The wood still twisted in an odd way, and the crystal had actually turned to where you could through it a little.
"Hey, we could get some money with that staff that she has, it looks nice." Commented the man who she had first heard.
"As the guardian of this lighthouse, it is my job to make sure that you don't get inn. Not that you can anyway, there's a barrier that only I can go through. The laws of the lighthouse say that if you try to steal, then I might have to kill you. Your life can be spared if you leave now and never return."
They all began to howl with laughter after Mia stopped speaking, but she still kept a strong pose.
"Yea right, I'd like to see lay one finger on me!" said one of the thieves after they had all quieted. "Hey, maybe I won't break your arm if you promise to give me a little sugar, and when I say sugar, I mean the whole thing. Not just a little kiss."
"Screw yourself." She replied, and the men all looked at each other with amused faces.
"But I need the touch of a female, and right now, you look the best to do so."
Mia sighed; she was getting tired of this, and raised her staff a little higher then the man in front of her. She would just give them a little frost. "Hail!"
Hail began to fall from he sky and hit the men on the heads, and they all looked around and then at her.
"She's a witch, kill her!"
They all raced over to her, swords raised, Mia sighed again.
"Sleet, I need your help!"
Sleet jumped to the tip of her staff, turning himself into a spirit, he placed himself all around the staff. She waited until they got closer, and then unleashed the djinn power; they were all pelted with ice, and fell backwards. But this didn't stop them; they got right back up and charged again.
"Prism!"
Large amounts of ice buffeted them, knocking them all out; Mia looked at them, and then shook her head. Why did enemies always underestimate her? Of course, she did have to remember that they couldn't control Psynergy so they couldn't tell. Oh well, it wasn't her fault.
After a few minutes they all groaned and then looked around, once they saw Mia, they all jumped off the ground and ran for their lives, screaming like girls. Once they were all gone, Mia gave Sleet special thanks, and she could have sworn that he had blushed.
Mia walked over to the edge of the fountain; she stood there and looked at the rising sun. The people of Imil would come and try to talk to her again as they always did, and it was time to ignore. But maybe they would quit and just come for some fountain water?
She glanced at the water, it still hadn't frozen, but she didn't expect it to. It had Psynergy within it, and that's what kept from freezing. She looked at the sky, and prepared herself for another of guarding the lighthouse.
Ok, that chapter was kind of weird, I know. But it was just to tell you what Mia has done to herself so she won't get hurt anymore. And how cold she made herself, now we all know that Mia wouldn't actually do that to herself, but you never know! And now we can confirm that Isaac is going off to save her, but will he like what he sees?
Hail: I sure don't!
Well, first off, you're just a muse, so....
Hail: why you-
Ok, so please review and tell me how you liked this twisted and weird and odd and-
Sleet: Would you be quiet? Gees.
Ok then, I guess that I should stop before I get too wrapped up in it. So, just review.
So until next time,
CrypticElf....