Hello, sorry for the long delay on this chapter, it's just that I was
writing my Zelda fic and then I.... I... I had WRITERS BLOCK! It is the
evilest, most vile, horrible thing ever!
Hail: She was just sitting there, staring at the stupid computer, muttering to herself.
I was muttering? (Begins muttering to herself.)
Gust: O.O' And I though that Hail was weird!
Hail: What are you talking about? I'm not weird!
(Not a sound comes out, even CrypticElf stops muttering to herself.)
Sleet: Uhh, riiiiight!
What? You? Not weird? You've to be kidding me!
Hail: -- Why am I here?
To help me with my story, and now, to no more farther interruptions, let the story begin!
I own nothing of GoldenSun and never will, but everything that takes place in this story is mine, and if you steal my storyline I get to sue you! Eee Yaw!
Chapter Four: A Friendship That Will Never Die
Isaac followed Mia through the door, all of the others following behind him. This room was particularly cold; he could see his breath in front of him. He heard Garet and Jenna shudder, and knew that they put their arms around themselves for heat. Mia walked over to the end of the room, and it was then that Isaac noticed that there was nothing in this room.
"Huh? There isn't anything in this room, where is everything?" Garet asked as Mia lightly touched the stonewall in front of her.
"One moment, I need to concentrate." Mia replied, Isaac walked up next to her and put his hand on her shoulder. She looked at him and smiled, and he smiled back. Then, Isaac backed up, waiting for Mia to do whatever she was going to do. Mia took her hand down, raising her Frost Staff, she lightly tapped the stonewall with its tip while at the same time her body glowed a light blue with Psynergy. A sound of shifting stone met Isaac's ears, and slowly the wall before him shifted itself. After it finished moving itself, Isaac could see four pieces of a clear crystal being held by a statue of an angel. They were only mere shards, and when you looked at the angel's head, you could see four dents; the perfect size for each of the diamonds.
"Here it is," Mia told the others as she looked at the shards. "These are the four jewels of the Lighthouse. By the tales that my Mother used to tell me, these four jewels have been here ever since the Lighthouse was first built. She always told me that it was holy, and that it was our gift of life. But to think, it was actually the only reason why we were all enslaved to guard this Lighthouse. I can't believe it, to think, generation after generation that this was the key to all of our freedom, right in front of us, and yet we had no idea at all...." Her voice faded off as she lifted one of the stones and looked at it in her palm. "But, this seems... too easy, perhaps it is just me, but...."
Isaac nodded to himself, it did seem too easy, but this was just the same case of the Lighthouses. It was thought for all of the thousands of years that Psynergy had been sealed that if it was unleashed it bring the ultimate doom to the world. When it was really the answer to bring the world back to life and help the world last longer. Everyone had been fooled; this was just the same case.
Mia put the shard back down and turned around and looked at all of the others nervously.
"What happens if this is wrong answer? What would happen if the song that Piers told us was wrong? What will happen if something awful will really happen and we all die all because of what I thought and wanted? I wouldn't want that."
"Well, don't think about that, and maybe we can get through this without feeling as uneasy as you." Isaac told her as her walked up next to her and looked at her, the others advanced, they were all as ready as Isaac was.
Mia looked at Isaac, thousands of thoughts went through her head. What would happen if she were wrong? Would they all die? What were to happen if only members of the Lighthouse could be able to bare and the others died and Mia would be left alone? What would happen? What would happen?
Mia blinked away her thoughts, but one thing remained in her mind, her family.
Her mother, she was always kind and gentle and was always there whenever Mia had been in pain. She was also the best healer, and also, as the others of the Lighthouse always said, the most beautiful. Mia's father, strong and powerful, the best warrior of the Lighthouse. He always earned respect, and would give Mia gifts or things that she had always dreamt of having. Her four brothers and two sisters, her mother had delivered many children, and yet she never lost her beauty through all that she had endured as a mother.
All of them would always remain in her heart, but at the same time, Mia could always feel them slipping away in her mind.
There were so many in her life that had always been there for her that weren't even her parents or relatives. Many had told Mia that she had inherited her mother's beauty and her father's spirit. She was the youngest of her siblings, but that never stopped her brothers and sisters from getting along. Her best friend, Alex, was also always there to help her whenever she was sad, and would always slip her gifts whenever he could get any. He would always get in trouble, but that never stopped him from making more mischief. And when he and Mia would both get in trouble, he would always take the blame and make sure that Mia was never punished. She would always say that she had a part in it, but Alex was always much better then her at telling tales. And since the elders knew that Alex was Mia's best friend, they would always think that she was just trying to help him.
Everything was perfect for Mia, that is, until, she was ten....
That day, her and Alex had been able to skip training for healing and fighting and were able to go and play outside of the Lighthouse. There was no strain then, for the Lighthouse seemed to know if they were leaving or not, and if there ever was, it was never strong. Like an itch that you could forget about if you stopped itching it.
(Flashback)
"You're way too slow!" Alex yelled at Mia as they raced through the snow. "You said that you would beat me!"
"You're right, I did, and I will!" Mia raised her training wand and pointed it in the ground where Alex was nearing. "Slip!" Mia called out a small spell used for making ice, and before Alex knew it, he tripped and was sliding through the ice. Mia ran past him, making sure to avoid the ice that threatened to trip her. "Hey! No fair!" Alex yelled at her as he struggled to get up, Mia laughed triumphantly and she jumped into a mountain of snow (at least to the children), that was their finishing point.
"You never said that I couldn't use and of my powers!" Mia giggled as Alex finally got up and trudged over and sat down next to her. She looked at him with her huge blue eyes and innocently looked at him.
"Oh man, don't give me that look!" Alex told her as he looked away from her and at the snow. Mia tapped his shoulder and Alex looked back at her.
"You aren't angry?" Mia asked him, Alex smiled and shook his head.
"Nah, no way, besides, I was being easy on you." Mia punched his shoulder and then jumped up on top of him. Once she was on top on his stomach, she took a handful of snow and smashed it into his face.
"Ha! You look good with snow going up your nose!" Mia laughed as Alex grunted and tried to wipe away the snow on his face, he got most of it off, but the snow in his nose only went in deeper. He sat up and Mia pinned him back down. "Say mercy!"
"What! No!" Alex told her while he blew air through his nose to try and get the snow out without any success.
"Then I guess that I'll just make myself more comfortable...."
"Fine! Mercy! Just get off!" Mia put her feet on his stomach and then stood on top of it and then walked off of him. Alex jumped up and used a little of his power to get the snow out of his nose. When he looked at Mia, she was staring at the sky, her eyes wide with horror.
"Mia, what's wrong?" he asked as he put a hand on her shoulder and looked at her.
"The... the... Lighthouse...." Alex looked at the Lighthouse, and saw that it was glowing a dark blue. It was a beautiful sight, but Alex could feel the taint of death within the aura. Then, without any warning, the aura got stronger, and Alex could hear something that he didn't want to hear. The sound of men, women, and children screaming, but he knew that scream; he would always hear it when a warrior of the lighthouse was being slain by a monster.
It was the cry of death.
The aura disappeared, and the screams of despair always disappeared. Mia looked at Alex, terrified.
"What happened? Why were they screaming?" Mia asked, she knew just as well as Alex that what they had heard was the sound of people dying. Alex looked back at her, frightened as much as she was. Mia turned away and started running to the Lighthouse, and Alex followed her.
It seemed to take forever to get back to the Lighthouse, but when they did, nothing seemed wrong. But Mia knew that there was something was terribly wrong, she could feel the feeling death around her like a drape. Alex arrived right after her, and they both stared at the lighthouse with their sapphire eyes, wondering what had happened while at the same time not wanting except what they thought had happened.
Mia took Alex's hand and used her other hand to grab his arm, she hooked herself onto his arm. Alex held Mia's hand, using his other to hold onto her arm that was around his. Together, they slowly walked up the steps of the Lighthouse, around the empty fountain that felt like it was full of their fear.
They walked through the entrance, and still they say nothing. They continued going, and even in the first room they saw nothing. Mia yelped and held back the tears that threatened to fall when they entered the next room, on the floor where four woman and seven men and one little boy. They all looked into the air, eye wide with horror, their mouths open from screaming. Mia held her tears back and held onto Alex even tighter, and he did the same. They walked around the dead bodies and went into the next room and found more of the dead, and in the next room, more and more of the dead.
They continued walking and seeing the same expression on each face, eyes open, mouths still screaming without sound. Eventually they entered a room where Mia's Mother, Father, brothers and sister all lay. Mia screamed as she looked into their empty eyes and she let go of Alex and ran over to her mother. Mia's vision blurred as tears streamed down her face, her mother's face was still warm. Mia went over to the rest of her family, crying the whole way through. Alex stood next to her, crying as well, Mia's parents had been as good to him as they were to her. They were like second parents to Alex, and also Mia's brothers and sister were as important to him as his own only older sister.
Somehow, Mia and Alex found the strength to go to the next the room, knowing that they would see more of those who they cared about.
They looked at the face of an old man who would always sneak them sweets during their training of healing and fighting. The face of their teacher for learning how to read and write whose personality was as soft as a flower petal. The face of the Lighthouse's kind ruler, the face of his wife's, and his children. The faces of Mia and Alex's closets friends, and the faces of those who protected the helpless of the Lighthouse. All dead, all empty eyed.
Eventually they came upon Alex's Mother and his older sister, and he and Mia cried as they knelt over and touched their faces. Just as Alex, Alex's Mother was like a second mother to Mia, and his sister was just like her own. At least they didn't see the face of Alex's father, for his father had been killed when monsters had ambushed the Lighthouse.
Then, they came to the room where the four jewels lay, and on the floor next the statue of the angel was an old man, his blue hair long been turned into white. In his hand, he held the four jewels, Mia and Alex looked at the old man.
"It must have... been him." Mia whispered to Alex, and he nodded.
"He must have tried to do something to them, and then, this happened... why did he even touch it? It was always against the law of the Lighthouse to even get near the stupid jewels unless you had permission by the leader! What was wrong with him? Didn't he know!" Alex screamed at the old man, his voice cracked and he hugged Mia and she hugged him back.
"Let's get out of here." Mia whispered into Alex's ear as they wept. "Imil... let's go to Imil, I don't want to be here anymore."
Alex pulled away from Mia but kept his hand locked with hers.
"Then let's go."
They ran out as fast as they could, ignoring the faces of those they loved dearly and those that they looked up to. Even when they were out of the Lighthouse, neither of them stopped, they wanted to get away as fast as they could.
A man smoking a pipe saw the two young children running towards Imil first, and he was the first to go and see what was wrong. When he looked into their eyes and saw how tired they were from running they were he knelt down and looked at them more carefully. He knew that these were children of the Lighthouse, what were they doing here without an adult?
"What happened?" he asked them as they panted like thirsty dogs, the boy with the blue hair answered.
"Dead... every... one... dead...."
"What?"
This time the girl answered.
"We... went out... to... to... play.... And then.... Flash of.... Light... we went... to see... what... happened and...." She couldn't continue, she had run out of breath and fell to her knees. The boys fell to the ground with her; the man noticed that they wouldn't let go of their hands.
"Everyone was... dead." She finally finished, the man made a face and stood up.
"Help!" The man cried out franticly, these children needed help badly. "Please, help!"
Instantly people appeared to help, and the two children were brought to see the town healer. Once they told the story, some of the men went to see what remained of the bodies. But when they found that they couldn't enter, they went back and reported the news.
When the two children finally had enough courage they led a party back to the Lighthouse, when they found the barrier, they cast a weak healing spell and found that it was the key to enter.
Together the men hauled out each body and buried each one, with neither of the children ever letting go of their hands.
(End of Flashback)
"No... wait...." Mia whispered as she looked back at the shards, why hadn't she remembered? "The song must be a trick, because, when a man tried to do something to the jewels, he killed everyone in the Lighthouse, including himself."
"What?" Piers asked, "what about you?"
"Alex and I, we were about ten when it happened," Mia could feel the tension of the others when Alex's name was said. "We both had done so well in training that we were aloud to leave and have a break. It was only us, no one else; all of the other children had to keep on training. But, when we came back, everyone was dead. And when we came here, we saw an old man holding the jewels in his hand. He must have thought that it was the key, but he must have been wrong!"
"What?" Piers said in a confused voice, "But how could I say it wrong? That has to be it!" Mia looked at Piers, and gave him a smile.
"It isn't your fault, but there must be some other answer." Mia looked away and at the shards in front of her. "There has to be...."
"Mia," Isaac told her, Mia nodded but she didn't look at him. "Is there anything else here like these crystals? Anything special?"
"No, nothing besides the becan."
"Maybe we have to do something up there?" Felix suggested.
"Perhaps, but.... I fear, what happens if something happens up there? And besides, what could we do up there?"
"Well" Ivan said, "We have to at least try, but Mia, are you sure that the jewels isn't the answer?"
"Yes, I am." Mia shuddered as she remembered the face of her dead mother, father, and siblings. Then, the faces of Alex's loved ones came into her mind, and all of the others whom she still cared about. And for some reason, Alex's caring face also came into her mind, she tried to shake it off, but his face wouldn't leave.
Mother, Mia thought silently, Father, what am I to do? I need your help! Is there anything that I can do to get out of this prison? Anything?
"Well," Sheba said, looking at the angel. "I think that we should go to the eerie, and find out!"
All of the others nodded, and Mia finally looked at them all at once. They all gave her a smile, smiles filled with hope, and smiles that gave Mia some hope. She nodded at them, and they nodded at her. Slowly, they all began to turn away, but Isaac stopped when Mia didn't move.
"Mia?" Isaac asked quietly. "Is there something wrong?"
"I just need a little time, to, to recollect myself. I can't get the feeling of the dead off of me; go ahead, I'll meet you and the others soon. Do you remember the way to the top?"
"Yes."
"Then go, and I'll meet you there."
"Mia?"
"Yes, Isaac?"
"Be careful."
Mia looked at him with gentle eyes.
"Of course I will, and the same to you."
Isaac smiled and then left, and found the others waiting for him at the end of the hall.
"Hey, where's Mia?" Garet asked when he noticed that Mia wasn't behind Isaac.
"She said that she couldn't, 'get the feeling of the dead off of her.' Whatever that means. I guess that she's thinking of the people that once lived here."
"Or, she could be thinking of Alex." Ivan said, all of the others gave him a deadly glare for even thinking that. "What? Well, you have to remember, Mia and Alex must have been very close before he left. She might be remembering him."
Isaac didn't want to think that, but at the same time, he knew that Ivan was right.
"Ok, she told me that she'll meet us later. Ivan, Garet, do you remember where to go?"
"What?" Garet said in an upset voice as he crossed his arms over his chest. "You expect me to remember how to get up to the top of this stupid place?"
"Well, unlike you, I remember." Ivan snapped at Garet, Garet just fumed and looked at the ceiling.
"Ok then, lets go." Isaac said, everyone nodded and began walking, Isaac and Ivan leading the way.
Mia's eyes were on the crystal in front of her, but what she saw was the face of Alex. She didn't love him, and never did. But what he had been was her best friend, how could she get rid of his face?
But he had been her best friend, how could she get rid of his face?
But he betrayed her, how could he do that?
"Alex, how could you betray me?" Mia asked the air around her. "How could you leave me like that? You told me that you would never leave me, and yet you did. How could you?" Felt tears brimming at her eyes, it wasn't her hate for him, it was her sadness. Because no matter how much she hated him, when she thought of him, she didn't remember him betraying her. She remembered the one had been with her when everyone had died. He had once been pure hearted, but in someway, it had been corrupted.
"What happened to you, Alex? What happened? I can't believe that you left, but I still can't hate you for leaving. After all, I would want to leave this place. Alex, I wish that I could just hear you one more time, no matter how stupid that sounds. I wish that I could see the person that I knew before you left, the one who was my best friend."
"I'm sorry, Mia."
Mia jumped, and then she spun around to see Alex standing right behind her. Mia couldn't find what to say, he was supposed to be dead!
"Alex- what happened? What are you doing here?"
"To ask for forgiveness."
"What? Why would I forgive you?"
Alex paused, his eyes filled with regret and sadness.
"Mia, please, I didn't... I didn't.... I don't know why I left.... I... I meddled with the crystals!" Alex told her in fast speech.
"You what?" Mia cried.
"It is true, the crystals are the keys for freedom," Alex told her, his voice shivering; his head was down and looking at the ground. He had one hand in his hair. "But, they... they.... I know why, why, why that man died! He, he tried to free us, but, the power was too great for him, and for his punishment, the, the crystals killed him. But, but the power had been suppressed inside the crystals for far too long, and, and ended up killing everything in the Lighthouse.... It, it, it was an accident! If he hadn't been so, so old... then, then it would have worked...."
Mia stared at Alex; there was something wrong with him.
"Alex, why do you repeat your words?"
He looked up at Mia, and gave her a sad smile.
"The crystals, they, they made my speech a bit, bit odd when I talk fast."
"What?"
"Well, well, when I figured out that the crystals were the way for freedom, I went here. And then, then, I put them, on the spaces of the angels head... but, it was too much, and, the power of it, it corrupted me!"
"It did a good job of it!" Mia told him. "Alex, how do I know that you aren't lying?"
"Lie? Well, I, I, I can't give you any proof, but, just, just, just trust me."
"Trust you? You... Alex, you betrayed me!"
"I know! But, but.... Mia, when I say that the crystal corrupted me, I, I mean that it found me as a powerful warrior and wanted me to give it more power.... Then, then when I tired to fight it, part of the crystal went in my head, and, and made me crave more power. It knocked me out, and when I woke up, I, I could only think of power.... But after I was buried in the earth, after, after being trapped for so long, the crystal let go of me and went back, back, back to right there."
He pointed to the four crystals, Mia looked at them, but looked strait back at Alex.
"I... I still don't believe you Alex! How did you get out?"
"Well, you see, the power of the GoldenSun is still in me, and so, I made the rocks move and I was freed. I traveled here, it, it took a while though."
"How am I supposed to believe you?" Mia asked him, the fact was, she did believe him, but what would happen if he was tricking her?
"I can't prove any of that...." Alex replied. Mia looked down at her feet, this was the Alex that she knew. She couldn't deny it, this was Alex. He could never prove anything, like his innocence. He was often shy around others, and didn't talk much, unless it was to Mia.
"But... why...." Mia's voice trailed off completely, she wanted to forgive him, but part of her was being as stubborn as an old mule.
"Mia, if, if you d-don't forgive me, that's, that's fine," He started speaking fast again, and was already repeating again. "I don't even deserve it, but, but, it would haunt me. If, if you didn't. If you, if you, if you don't, then, I'll just leave. But, in order to use the, the, crystal, you need... you need.... Gah! Mercury have mercy what, what was it?"
"How do I know that you aren't just trying to trick me?"
Mia looked back up into his eyes. Alex looked at her with innocent eyes, empty and depressed.
"Like I said, I have nothing.... Oh, I need, I need, to, to, think... shot! I don't, don't, don't remember! I, I think, it, it, it must be... of course! You, you, you have, you have to use Ply! No wait, not Ply, Ply, Ply, Ply Well! There it is.... Well, now, now...." Alex stopped talking and closed his eyes, taking in a deep breath. Then he opened them again. "I'm going to go now," He told her in a slow voice.
"What? Why?"
"Well, you want me to."
Mia didn't say anything, but Alex stepped back and bowed, then he turned around to leave.
"Alex!" Alex turned around.
"Yes, Mia?"
"Uh...." Mia didn't know what to say, why wasn't her mouth working? "I... I can't stay angry at you, I... I forgive you."
Alex's eyes lit up, and looked almost as if he was going to jump and give Mia a hug, but he stayed where he was. Instead, in the quietest voice he could, he told her quietly:
"Thank you."
Then, a light swerved around him, and then, he was gone.
Mia just stared at the spot where he had been, that had been the real Alex. She remembered how when she had seen him on top of the Lighthouse, she could remember how much she knew that that wasn't the Alex that she knew. She thought that the Alex that she had known had been gone for good, but he was still there, his true self-trapped inside....
She turned around and looked at the four crystals, cast Ply Well? What would that do? And what would happen if the crystal wanted more power and tried to ensnare her in its trap? What would happen? Was she strong enough to do this?
Mia's hands floated over the crystals, if she could cast Ply Well....
Mia got ready, she trusted Alex, at least the true him, with all of her heart. If this was really a trap, and Mia was going to die, then, at least, she would be able to see her family, and the rest of the Mercury clan in the skies.
"Ply Well!"
She cast the spell, and instantly the crystals began glowing different and random colors. Mia stepped back as the crystals floated up together, circling, then, they placed themselves on the angel's head. Mia watched as the crystals went in, and the angle's eyes glowed blue. The whole angle glowed a light blue, and then, when the light faded, Mia realized that the statue was looking strait at her.
"Is there something that you seek?" It asked, its voice echoing across the room as it put it's hands down and walked towards Mia. Mia didn't move it wasn't that she was frightened... it was because; she knew in her heart, that the statue meant no harm.
"I want to be free." Mia told the angel in a quiet voice. The angel tilted its head and looked at Mia carefully.
"That is what you want? Truly? Are you sure that this is your true desire? I can feel that it is not. What is it that you really want?"
Mia thought for a moment, what she wanted the most...?
"To make sure that Isaac is happy." The words came out slowly, but they did not come out quietly. "I want Isaac to be happy!"
"Happy? That is the first request of that kind I have ever gotten, and also, you are the first to have the crystals come to life correctly."
"Correctly?"
"In order for the crystal to give me life and awaken is to cast Ply, in order for me to have the power to make a wish, you must cast Ply Well. Pure Ply allows me to give two wishes. Those are the rules. But you want to make your lover happy?"
"Yes." Mia replied, surprised that the statue knew that Isaac was her lover.
"Then first, I must learn what he wants."
Isaac waited at the waterfall that would lead them all to the top of the Lighthouse. Everyone was waiting for Mia, they had been waiting for not that long, but Isaac felt like something was wrong.
"Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth," Garet sang at the top of his lungs, his voice was good enough to make glass shatter and fly into the wind. "There are the elements to make the earth, watch and learn, watch and learn! Fire, Earth, Wind and Water! Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury, you use them to make the world! Fire-."
"SHUT UP!" Felix roared at Garet, Garet stopped and gave Felix a glare. "Why are you singing that stupid song anyway? I learned that when I five!"
"Well, I was bored, and wanted to sing!"
"Well next time your bored, look in the mirror to find out what a troll looks like! I'm sure that that will entertain you for eternity! Gees!"
"Hey! Don't-!"
"Don't what?"
"Never mind, I know, since you really don't want me to do this, then I'll do it! Fi-!"
Garet's mouth was suddenly iced shut; Garet put his hand on it and started doing to muffled yell in anger.
"Sorry," Piers told everyone, "I didn't want Garet to start singing again."
Jenna and Sheba muffled giggles, Piers blushed, Garet's face turned crimson from yelling and was still trying to, Felix snorted, Ivan started cracking up, and Isaac put a hand over his mouth to hide his smile.
"MMMMFFFFF! HHHH MMMMHHHH!" Garet fumed as he tried to melt away the ice but ended up burning himself instead.
Isaac put his hand down once his smile went away and sat down against the wall, he felt strangely sleepy. Isaac closed his eyes, and suddenly he was on top of water. He must be dreaming! He turned around and saw the same statue that he had seen holding the crystals staring at him. She gave him a kind smile.
"What do you wish for?" She asked Isaac, her voice echoed throughout the air.
"What?"
"What is it that you desire the most? Tell me, and it shall be fulfilled."
"Ok, I've had a lot of weird dreams, but this one really cuts the cake!"
"A dream, look at it as you want, but tell me from your heart, what is it that you wish for the most? What is your ultimate desire?"
"Uh, for... Mia to be happy." Isaac replied in a cheerful tone, this might actually be a nice dream.
"She has already wished for your happiness. That is what she wants, and if you cannot tell me what you want, then I cannot perform her wish."
"Repeat that?"
"She wants you to be happy. That is what would make her truly happy. But your wish is not something that I can do, for, if you I cannot make your one desire come true, then she can never be happy. Tell me your second most desire."
"My second...? Well, for Mia to be happy, she needs to be freed from the Lighthouse, so, I guess my second most desire would be for her to be freed of her blood and then to come back to my home."
"Two wishes, which I cannot do."
"What?"
"In order for her to be freed would be one wish, but in order for her to go with you would be another wish."
"What does it matter?"
"If she is freed by her blood, then she is free. But to go with you, it would be two wishes."
Isaac stopped, this was just a dream, but he could have fun with it. He didn't have that many dreams, and he wanted it to last longer. Maybe if he asked some questions it would last longer?
"If Mia is freed from her blood, then, what would happen?"
"Death."
"What?"
"Blood is a part of her body, take it away, and she dies."
"I never...." Isaac whispered to himself, even if this was a dream, he didn't want Mia to die in any of them. "Then, I want Mia to be freed from the Lighthouse, without dieing."
"Then it shall be granted, if she can withstand the power."
Isaac woke up again, and Garet was still trying to melt away the ice, but instead he was just continuously burning himself. Nothing changed, except that Jenna, Sheba, and Ivan weren't laughing anymore. He put a hand through his unruly hair that was one weird dream!
Mia watched the statue's eyes continue to glow a dark blue, frozen like a statue should be. Mia waited, she hoped that Isaac would be happy. How had the statue come to him?
Mia walked forward an inch when the eyes of the angel turned back to normal, Mia waited for it to speak.
"Isaac's wish," the angel began, "was for you to be freed of our lighthouse duty."
Mia sighed, but it wasn't for Isaac's wish for her freedom, it was because now she knew that Isaac really loved her. "But, do you think that you will be prepared for the power?"
"Power?"
"The one before you made the wish for both him and you to be freed, but, when I began to cast the power on him, he did not have enough power to keep the crystal from taking control over his mind. You may be more powerful then he was, but, if you are not, either the crystals will kill you, or enslave you. So tell me, are you ready?"
Alex watched Mia from the doorway, he hadn't really left. All that he had done was disappear into the hall to where Mia couldn't see him, he watched her, he hoped that she wouldn't be captured as he had.
He listened as the statue asked Mia if she was ready, and he continued listening, he wanted to know what would happen with Mia.
"Yes," Mia told the statue, "I am ready."
Alex kept on watching, if something bad was going to happen, then he didn't know what he could do. The crystal had made his mind weak, and he knew that if he interfered, it would snap his mind in two like a troll breaking a twig. But then again, he knew that if Mia couldn't stand it, he would probably try and save her anyway. He didn't love her, but he still looked to her as the only family that he had left. It was true, she was his only family, if she was hurt in any way, he would be lonely for the rest of his life. Just the sight of Mia gave Alex the feeling like she was with him, if he could never see her again....
Alex looked on as the angel glowed a light blue, then, the light blue became mixed with a dark blue. Slowly, the aura flowed to Mia, and surrounded her, flowing around her. Alex watched as the statues aura left it, then, it walked backward, back into the pose that it had been in before, and then, it stood still as the crystals floated out of her forehead. They floated above the palm; they were testing Mia to see if she was strong enough.
Alex knew that Mia was strong enough, but, for some reason, she wasn't coming out! A thought crossed his mind; the Lighthouse might be trying to keep a hold on its last guardian! She still didn't come out; Alex knew that he was right. But if he tried to help, he wouldn't be able to help!
But there was someone who could help, and that was Isaac and his party. But what would they think if he told them that Mia was in trouble? They wouldn't believe him! But he had to try, for his only family, for his friend.
"All be back Mia." He whispered as he cast his teleporting spell, there was only one place where they could be. He had been listening to them talking earlier, they must be at the top of the Lighthouse. When his light went away, he found that he was the same space; he realized that he couldn't teleport to the top, it was just the same with the power Retreat.
Fine, he thought, I can get there anyway.
Casting his spell again, he teleported to the room to go to the top of the Lighthouse.
Isaac stood up, stretching, where was Mia? He was getting a tight feeling in his stomach that something was going terribly wrong where Mia was. Everyone including him jumped when a white light flashed, but it was only when Alex appeared in the middle of the room did everyone pull their weapons out. Alex looked around, startled. Isaac pulled out his Gaia Sword; this was what wrong with Mia!
"Gah!" Alex cried out when Garet gave a wild swing with his axe. He jumped and floated to the top of the room where none of them could hit him. Both Sheba and Ivan began glowing purple.
"Destruct Ray!"
They cried out together, it hit Alex perfectly; he fell to the ground right next to Isaac on his back. Alex didn't try get up, and Isaac took that as the opportunity to put one of his feet on Alex's chest and then he pointed his sword at Alex's neck. Alex blinked up at Isaac and didn't do anything to try and get himself free.
"Where's Mia?" Isaac demanded, as he looked Alex in the eye.
"She's, she's, she's in, in trouble." Alex told him in fast voice; Isaac noticed that Alex's voice had changed in some way that he couldn't put his finger on.
"What? Did you hurt her?"
"No, no, I, I didn't!"
"Where is she?"
"In, in the, the room with the angel, angel, with the, the crystals, crystals."
"What? Why are you repeating your words?"
"Never, never mind! She needs, needs help."
Isaac didn't believe him at all, the thing that he wanted to know was why Alex was talking like an idiot?
"Why do you speak like that?"
"Mia, Mia, needs help."
"I don't believe you."
Alex tried to sit up, but Isaac pushed his foot down on his chest and Alex fell back down. Alex closed his eyes and laid his head on the floor, it was obvious that he was trying to think of something to say. He must have figured it out, because he lifted his head up and looked at Isaac.
"You saw something." Alex told Isaac, his voice slower and calmer.
"No I didn't."
Alex sighed and laid his head back down again, then, he looked around and saw Sheba and Ivan. He blinked at them and they just gave him a cold stare.
"Read my mind." He told them simply, Sheba and Ivan didn't move.
"Hey," Isaac told Alex, "I swear that if you don't tell me where Mia is, I'll cut your throat!"
"Read my mind." He told Ivan and Sheba, he didn't seem to pay any attention at all to Isaac. This annoyed Isaac and so he pressed the tip of his sword against Alex's cheek. Alex didn't even glance at him; he continued to look at Sheba and Ivan.
"Please," Alex told them in a begging voice that made everyone surprised. "You must read my mind! If you don't then-."
He was cut off when Isaac slapped his cheek with his hands, Alex looked back at Isaac.
"Mia needs help." He told Isaac in a sturdy voice. "She is in the room with the shards."
"I still don't believe you!"
"Have those two read my mind, if I'm lying, then you can cut me up like a piece of chicken and feed me to a bunch of howling creatures and never have my name uttered again. I don't care, just read my mind!"
Sheba and Ivan came forward, their eyes gleamed violet for a moment, and then, when their eyes opened again, they had a shocked look on their faces.
"He's not lying," said Ivan. "He came here to get Isaac, so that way Isaac could help Mia. He doesn't want to hurt us!"
Isaac slowly took his foot off of Alex and backed up. But he kept his sword pointed at Alex. Alex jumped off of the ground and gave Sheba and Ivan a shy smile.
"Thank you." He told them in a sheepish voice, then, he walked over to a wall and put his hands on them. "Ply!" The wall moved, and Alex moved over to let the others through. "This lead you to the level where Mia is, please, hurry, don't let Mia down. Please, go."
After he said that, a white flash came, and then, he was gone. Isaac took his sword down and looked at the hole, then, without fear, he ran into the entrance. Ivan and Sheba followed him first, then Piers, Felix, Garet, and Jenna.
When he got to the floor, he found that he was in part of the Lighthouse that he had never been in before. But then, out of a corner, Alex appeared.
"Follow me." He told Isaac, Isaac nodded and ran over to Alex. Alex turned and began running in a direction. It was very long until they arrived in the same hallway that the shards were in, Alex didn't stop there, he ran all the way over to the room where Mia was.
Alex ran into the room where Mia was, fortunately, he could tell that Mia was putting up a good fight. She hadn't moved, and he knew that her eyes were staring into space in a trance. She was fighting with her mind, but Alex knew that soon she would break, just as he had. But with Isaac, she could win; he knew that she and Isaac could defeat the Lighthouse together.
Isaac ran into the room, once he saw Mia, he ran over to her and put his hands on her shoulder.
"Mia?"
"She won't answer." Alex told him, "You must enter the aura and help her. I would, but the shards and Lighthouse would cripple my mind easily. I'm far too weak, you are her only hope."
Isaac nodded and wrapped his arms around Mia, and was engulfed in the blue aura. The others appeared right after he did so, and instantly Garet grabbed his shirt and lifted him up.
"MMMMMHHHH!" Garet cried out, his mouth being blocked by a sheet of ice. Alex lifted his hand and put it on top of the ice, making it disappear. He put his hand back down and Garet gave him a glare. "Just because you did that doesn't mean anything!"
Alex smiled, not bothering to do anything; he didn't feel like doing anything. Jenna punched Garet in the stomach, and Garet dropped Alex and grabbed his stomach.
"Ouch! Why did you do that Jenna?" Garet cried out.
"Alex is helping us, you moron!"
Alex got up from the floor and dusted himself off.
"Erm," Alex began as he blushed madly. "Thank you Jenna."
"Um, what is that thing that Mia and Isaac are in, and why are you blushing?"
"Well, Mia is trapped and Isaac is helping her, and I'm just an extremely shy person, if you want to know. Especially in front of, well, girls." He told her as he put a hand on the back of his head.
Jenna stared at Alex, this wasn't the same person that had held her and Kraden captive and had taken the GoldenSun.
Mia felt the force of the Lighthouse and crystals pulling on her, she continued fighting, but she knew that she wouldn't last long. Suddenly, she felt a familiar hand touch hers.
"Mia!" cried out as Isaac touched her hand. He floated just as she did, they were in their mental state, and Mia was covered with billions of blue strings of Psynergy. All that there was, was black all around them, and Mia, Isaac, and the strings let off a trail of colors as they moved
"Isaac, what are you doing here?"
"Alex, he came and got me and the others to help you!"
"Alex?"
"No time to explain, we need to fight this thing!"
Isaac called on his Psynergy and began glowing a light brown, then, his Psynergy flowed over to Mia and covered her. Mia closed her eyes and called on what Psynergy she had left, her blue blended with Isaac's brown and the Psynergy became a green color.
"Isaac, I don't have enough Psynergy left!"
"Yeah, you sure could use Ivan and Sheba in this part, couldn't we?" Isaac replied in half sarcastic half serious voice.
"Yes, we could!" Mia told him in a strained voice, these strings were getting tighter! She felt Isaac get more of his Psynergy. "Don't use all of your Psynergy, Isaac!"
"What? And leave you like this when I'm not using all my Psynergy? Like I'd do that!" Isaac retorted back, Mia felt like slapping him for using so much of his power to save her. Isaac called on more power; Mia didn't say anything, because she knew that Isaac wouldn't listen. Then, she noticed that when he did this, the strings began getting looser.
"Is this helping?" Isaac asked Mia, his own voice starting to sound as strained as hers.
"Yes, I can feel the pull of Psynergy loosening, you're doing it Isaac!"
"Well, I hope I have enough Psynergy left to get them off for good, I think that I'm going to run out soon."
"Oh, Isaac, we have so much Psynergy, but compared to the Lighthouse, it's nothing!"
Alex continued looking at the aura that Isaac and Mia were, there was still something wrong. Alex wanted to go in, but as soon as he did, his mind would brake and he would be able to do anything. So even if he tried....
"I must do something...." Alex whispered to himself, he had to do something it was true. He couldn't just sit there and twiddle his thumbs like an old man. He had to do something; he had the GoldenSun for Mercury's sake!
Of course, the GoldenSun, he should be able to use it to help them!
Alex sat down and closed his eyes, calling on his Jupiter Psynergy; he left his body and went into the aura. Before his mind could brake, he used his other Psynergy to help cover his mind. This wouldn't last long, but he had to do something.
"Mia, I not sure that can hold on that much longer!" Isaac cried out as he felt his Psynergy wavering, he would run out very VERY soon.
"I can't hold out that much more either Isaac, go, and leave before the Lighthouse tries to take you in too!"
"No, I won't leave you Mia! I can't and I won't!"
"Isaac...."
Mia gritted her teeth and opened her eyes, all that she could see was blackness beyond the strings that bound her. She focused her eyes more when she thought that she heard someone, she trying to see whoever it was. But no one was there, only her and Isaac.
"Mia...." Mia looked around, she had heard that!
"Isaac, did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Mia...." The voice called out again, Mia almost jumped, how could Isaac not hear that?
"That voice!"
"I'm sorry Mia, I can't hear anything...."
"Mia." This time she could hear the voice almost as if the person was right next to her. She knew that voice that was Alex! But where was he? Mia kept her concentration and looked around, where was he?
Suddenly, Mia felt Mercury Psynergy pour into her, like a waterfall. It was Alex! He was giving her Psynergy!
Her Psynergy grew stronger and stronger, and the aura around her and Isaac grew much stronger. Then, she felt Isaac's Psynergy shot up like an arrow just as hers had. Mia's was still growing, and Mia felt their aura grow stronger and stronger until....
Alex opened his eyes; he knew that what he had just done was pretty much close to insanity. He could already tell that his mind was only on a hair thread from breaking. But at least he hadn't lost his mind altogether. He would get better overtime, even if his speech would stay a little odd, and of course, his mind wouldn't be as strong as it had been before, but at least he had been able to help Mia and Isaac.
Perhaps having the GoldenSun wasn't as bad as it was, even though Alex wanted to return it. But at the same time, he knew it would be best to keep it. So that way he could at least keep others from getting it for as long as he could. It was the best, and another thing that would be best would be to leave now.
Alex stood back up, he began walking over to the exit, but Jenna jump in his way.
"And where do you think that YOU'RE going?"
"Uh, out."
"OUT? You can't go out!"
"Mm."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"I want to say good-bye to you, Felix, Garet, Sheba, Garet and Ivan. Also Isaac and Mia of course. Could you tell Mia that even if she hates my guts that I still look to her as a sister? And another thing, I will be back to see her, even if she doesn't want me to. Good-bye."
Alex disappeared with a flash of light; Jenna fumed and threw a fireball at where he had been standing. Felix ran over and grabbed Jenna before she decided to turn this room into a forge. Jenna jerked and kicked but eventually she gave up the end. Felix put her down, and just as he did, the aura that surrounded Isaac and Mia evaporated. Everyone rushed to their sides, ready to catch someone if they fell, but neither of them did.
Mia looked around at everyone, smiling.
"I can't believe it, I've done it! I am no longer a slave to the Lighthouse!"
Mia jumped up and hugged Isaac as everyone cheered, then, with her arms still around Isaac, she looked around.
"Oh, I thought maybe Alex would still be here... oh, but, he's good again!" Mia explained to the others.
"We know," Garet said in superior tone, "He came and got us down here to save you!"
"Alex... I really wish that... oh well...."
"Well," Jenna told Mia in a cheerful voice. "He told me, to tell you, that even if you hate his guts that he still looks to you as a sister. And also that he'll be back to see you even if you don't want him to. By the way, what is up with Alex anyway? He doesn't act like the Alex that kidnapped me and Kraden."
Mia smiled and began telling them about the crystals, then, about how the Lighthouse clan died, and then about how the real Alex was while they all walked to Imil. Mia felt happier then even thought that she could, she had her lover, her best friend back, she was free, and she had all of her friends with her. How could things get any better?
Alex watched Mia from one of the high ledges of the Lighthouse.
"Good-bye sister Mia, I can't wait to see you again."
Ok, so, how was that? I thought that it wasn't too good, but I had no idea what to write. And last time most of you told me that I was being too hard myself! I wonder if you're going to say that again? And about the whole little Alex thing, well, I just thought that it might be a little good to add that. It might a little odd, and truth be told, at the end of GoldenSun, I wanted to go into the game and strangle him! But, oh well, things work like this.
Hail: So is that it?
Well, I'll be taking any questions that any of you have. So, what I'm saying is you can ask me questions and I'll answer them a little later. I MIGHT make another chapter, but it's going to be like about Mia and Isaac's wedding, and Mia will meet Alex again and that junk.
Sleet: Ah, the perfect romance! I love it, it was beautiful! I love mushy stuff like this....
Hail: I make you plenty of mushy stuff!
Sleet: Um, right.
Hail: What's that supposed to mean?
Ok, I'll you two alone as I talk to the people.
Hail/Sleet: Meanie.
Right, now I myself don't find the end that mushy, but, I'm an odd person. I just hope that you all liked it, and if you know what Zelda is, and who Ganondorf is, then please read my fanfiction 'Truth', I want to get more readers!
Gust: Well, it was nice torturing you.
Oh yes, I shall miss being frozen, and being sent flying across room and breaking my bones by a giant blast of wind. Rolls eyes Ok, so, like I said, if you know what Zelda is and who Ganondorf is, then please read my story Truth! I have fourteen, it says fifteen, but one is an author's note. I'll be working on it, so, if you can, please read!
Sleet: you're forgetting something.
I am...? Oh yeah! And another thing, I'm looking for online friends, and if you're looking for friends, then put two and two together and go on my bio! It has an add on it for friends, it's a huge paragraph, and somewhere in it, it has my e-mail address. So, if you want a friend, e-mail me! And thank you, Princess Viv, for answering for my little friend thingy about a chapter or two ago!
Sleet: You forgot another thing.
What... oh, heehaw.... I have two quotes up on my Bio, up on the top, so, if you care for quotes, then read on! Ok, so, are you guys ready?
Hail/Sleet/Gust: Ok!
One, two, three....
CrypticElf/Sleet/Hail/Gust: THANKS FOR READING THIS FIC AND PLEASE REVIEW!
So If There Is A Next Time,
CrypticElf....
Hail: She was just sitting there, staring at the stupid computer, muttering to herself.
I was muttering? (Begins muttering to herself.)
Gust: O.O' And I though that Hail was weird!
Hail: What are you talking about? I'm not weird!
(Not a sound comes out, even CrypticElf stops muttering to herself.)
Sleet: Uhh, riiiiight!
What? You? Not weird? You've to be kidding me!
Hail: -- Why am I here?
To help me with my story, and now, to no more farther interruptions, let the story begin!
I own nothing of GoldenSun and never will, but everything that takes place in this story is mine, and if you steal my storyline I get to sue you! Eee Yaw!
Chapter Four: A Friendship That Will Never Die
Isaac followed Mia through the door, all of the others following behind him. This room was particularly cold; he could see his breath in front of him. He heard Garet and Jenna shudder, and knew that they put their arms around themselves for heat. Mia walked over to the end of the room, and it was then that Isaac noticed that there was nothing in this room.
"Huh? There isn't anything in this room, where is everything?" Garet asked as Mia lightly touched the stonewall in front of her.
"One moment, I need to concentrate." Mia replied, Isaac walked up next to her and put his hand on her shoulder. She looked at him and smiled, and he smiled back. Then, Isaac backed up, waiting for Mia to do whatever she was going to do. Mia took her hand down, raising her Frost Staff, she lightly tapped the stonewall with its tip while at the same time her body glowed a light blue with Psynergy. A sound of shifting stone met Isaac's ears, and slowly the wall before him shifted itself. After it finished moving itself, Isaac could see four pieces of a clear crystal being held by a statue of an angel. They were only mere shards, and when you looked at the angel's head, you could see four dents; the perfect size for each of the diamonds.
"Here it is," Mia told the others as she looked at the shards. "These are the four jewels of the Lighthouse. By the tales that my Mother used to tell me, these four jewels have been here ever since the Lighthouse was first built. She always told me that it was holy, and that it was our gift of life. But to think, it was actually the only reason why we were all enslaved to guard this Lighthouse. I can't believe it, to think, generation after generation that this was the key to all of our freedom, right in front of us, and yet we had no idea at all...." Her voice faded off as she lifted one of the stones and looked at it in her palm. "But, this seems... too easy, perhaps it is just me, but...."
Isaac nodded to himself, it did seem too easy, but this was just the same case of the Lighthouses. It was thought for all of the thousands of years that Psynergy had been sealed that if it was unleashed it bring the ultimate doom to the world. When it was really the answer to bring the world back to life and help the world last longer. Everyone had been fooled; this was just the same case.
Mia put the shard back down and turned around and looked at all of the others nervously.
"What happens if this is wrong answer? What would happen if the song that Piers told us was wrong? What will happen if something awful will really happen and we all die all because of what I thought and wanted? I wouldn't want that."
"Well, don't think about that, and maybe we can get through this without feeling as uneasy as you." Isaac told her as her walked up next to her and looked at her, the others advanced, they were all as ready as Isaac was.
Mia looked at Isaac, thousands of thoughts went through her head. What would happen if she were wrong? Would they all die? What were to happen if only members of the Lighthouse could be able to bare and the others died and Mia would be left alone? What would happen? What would happen?
Mia blinked away her thoughts, but one thing remained in her mind, her family.
Her mother, she was always kind and gentle and was always there whenever Mia had been in pain. She was also the best healer, and also, as the others of the Lighthouse always said, the most beautiful. Mia's father, strong and powerful, the best warrior of the Lighthouse. He always earned respect, and would give Mia gifts or things that she had always dreamt of having. Her four brothers and two sisters, her mother had delivered many children, and yet she never lost her beauty through all that she had endured as a mother.
All of them would always remain in her heart, but at the same time, Mia could always feel them slipping away in her mind.
There were so many in her life that had always been there for her that weren't even her parents or relatives. Many had told Mia that she had inherited her mother's beauty and her father's spirit. She was the youngest of her siblings, but that never stopped her brothers and sisters from getting along. Her best friend, Alex, was also always there to help her whenever she was sad, and would always slip her gifts whenever he could get any. He would always get in trouble, but that never stopped him from making more mischief. And when he and Mia would both get in trouble, he would always take the blame and make sure that Mia was never punished. She would always say that she had a part in it, but Alex was always much better then her at telling tales. And since the elders knew that Alex was Mia's best friend, they would always think that she was just trying to help him.
Everything was perfect for Mia, that is, until, she was ten....
That day, her and Alex had been able to skip training for healing and fighting and were able to go and play outside of the Lighthouse. There was no strain then, for the Lighthouse seemed to know if they were leaving or not, and if there ever was, it was never strong. Like an itch that you could forget about if you stopped itching it.
(Flashback)
"You're way too slow!" Alex yelled at Mia as they raced through the snow. "You said that you would beat me!"
"You're right, I did, and I will!" Mia raised her training wand and pointed it in the ground where Alex was nearing. "Slip!" Mia called out a small spell used for making ice, and before Alex knew it, he tripped and was sliding through the ice. Mia ran past him, making sure to avoid the ice that threatened to trip her. "Hey! No fair!" Alex yelled at her as he struggled to get up, Mia laughed triumphantly and she jumped into a mountain of snow (at least to the children), that was their finishing point.
"You never said that I couldn't use and of my powers!" Mia giggled as Alex finally got up and trudged over and sat down next to her. She looked at him with her huge blue eyes and innocently looked at him.
"Oh man, don't give me that look!" Alex told her as he looked away from her and at the snow. Mia tapped his shoulder and Alex looked back at her.
"You aren't angry?" Mia asked him, Alex smiled and shook his head.
"Nah, no way, besides, I was being easy on you." Mia punched his shoulder and then jumped up on top of him. Once she was on top on his stomach, she took a handful of snow and smashed it into his face.
"Ha! You look good with snow going up your nose!" Mia laughed as Alex grunted and tried to wipe away the snow on his face, he got most of it off, but the snow in his nose only went in deeper. He sat up and Mia pinned him back down. "Say mercy!"
"What! No!" Alex told her while he blew air through his nose to try and get the snow out without any success.
"Then I guess that I'll just make myself more comfortable...."
"Fine! Mercy! Just get off!" Mia put her feet on his stomach and then stood on top of it and then walked off of him. Alex jumped up and used a little of his power to get the snow out of his nose. When he looked at Mia, she was staring at the sky, her eyes wide with horror.
"Mia, what's wrong?" he asked as he put a hand on her shoulder and looked at her.
"The... the... Lighthouse...." Alex looked at the Lighthouse, and saw that it was glowing a dark blue. It was a beautiful sight, but Alex could feel the taint of death within the aura. Then, without any warning, the aura got stronger, and Alex could hear something that he didn't want to hear. The sound of men, women, and children screaming, but he knew that scream; he would always hear it when a warrior of the lighthouse was being slain by a monster.
It was the cry of death.
The aura disappeared, and the screams of despair always disappeared. Mia looked at Alex, terrified.
"What happened? Why were they screaming?" Mia asked, she knew just as well as Alex that what they had heard was the sound of people dying. Alex looked back at her, frightened as much as she was. Mia turned away and started running to the Lighthouse, and Alex followed her.
It seemed to take forever to get back to the Lighthouse, but when they did, nothing seemed wrong. But Mia knew that there was something was terribly wrong, she could feel the feeling death around her like a drape. Alex arrived right after her, and they both stared at the lighthouse with their sapphire eyes, wondering what had happened while at the same time not wanting except what they thought had happened.
Mia took Alex's hand and used her other hand to grab his arm, she hooked herself onto his arm. Alex held Mia's hand, using his other to hold onto her arm that was around his. Together, they slowly walked up the steps of the Lighthouse, around the empty fountain that felt like it was full of their fear.
They walked through the entrance, and still they say nothing. They continued going, and even in the first room they saw nothing. Mia yelped and held back the tears that threatened to fall when they entered the next room, on the floor where four woman and seven men and one little boy. They all looked into the air, eye wide with horror, their mouths open from screaming. Mia held her tears back and held onto Alex even tighter, and he did the same. They walked around the dead bodies and went into the next room and found more of the dead, and in the next room, more and more of the dead.
They continued walking and seeing the same expression on each face, eyes open, mouths still screaming without sound. Eventually they entered a room where Mia's Mother, Father, brothers and sister all lay. Mia screamed as she looked into their empty eyes and she let go of Alex and ran over to her mother. Mia's vision blurred as tears streamed down her face, her mother's face was still warm. Mia went over to the rest of her family, crying the whole way through. Alex stood next to her, crying as well, Mia's parents had been as good to him as they were to her. They were like second parents to Alex, and also Mia's brothers and sister were as important to him as his own only older sister.
Somehow, Mia and Alex found the strength to go to the next the room, knowing that they would see more of those who they cared about.
They looked at the face of an old man who would always sneak them sweets during their training of healing and fighting. The face of their teacher for learning how to read and write whose personality was as soft as a flower petal. The face of the Lighthouse's kind ruler, the face of his wife's, and his children. The faces of Mia and Alex's closets friends, and the faces of those who protected the helpless of the Lighthouse. All dead, all empty eyed.
Eventually they came upon Alex's Mother and his older sister, and he and Mia cried as they knelt over and touched their faces. Just as Alex, Alex's Mother was like a second mother to Mia, and his sister was just like her own. At least they didn't see the face of Alex's father, for his father had been killed when monsters had ambushed the Lighthouse.
Then, they came to the room where the four jewels lay, and on the floor next the statue of the angel was an old man, his blue hair long been turned into white. In his hand, he held the four jewels, Mia and Alex looked at the old man.
"It must have... been him." Mia whispered to Alex, and he nodded.
"He must have tried to do something to them, and then, this happened... why did he even touch it? It was always against the law of the Lighthouse to even get near the stupid jewels unless you had permission by the leader! What was wrong with him? Didn't he know!" Alex screamed at the old man, his voice cracked and he hugged Mia and she hugged him back.
"Let's get out of here." Mia whispered into Alex's ear as they wept. "Imil... let's go to Imil, I don't want to be here anymore."
Alex pulled away from Mia but kept his hand locked with hers.
"Then let's go."
They ran out as fast as they could, ignoring the faces of those they loved dearly and those that they looked up to. Even when they were out of the Lighthouse, neither of them stopped, they wanted to get away as fast as they could.
A man smoking a pipe saw the two young children running towards Imil first, and he was the first to go and see what was wrong. When he looked into their eyes and saw how tired they were from running they were he knelt down and looked at them more carefully. He knew that these were children of the Lighthouse, what were they doing here without an adult?
"What happened?" he asked them as they panted like thirsty dogs, the boy with the blue hair answered.
"Dead... every... one... dead...."
"What?"
This time the girl answered.
"We... went out... to... to... play.... And then.... Flash of.... Light... we went... to see... what... happened and...." She couldn't continue, she had run out of breath and fell to her knees. The boys fell to the ground with her; the man noticed that they wouldn't let go of their hands.
"Everyone was... dead." She finally finished, the man made a face and stood up.
"Help!" The man cried out franticly, these children needed help badly. "Please, help!"
Instantly people appeared to help, and the two children were brought to see the town healer. Once they told the story, some of the men went to see what remained of the bodies. But when they found that they couldn't enter, they went back and reported the news.
When the two children finally had enough courage they led a party back to the Lighthouse, when they found the barrier, they cast a weak healing spell and found that it was the key to enter.
Together the men hauled out each body and buried each one, with neither of the children ever letting go of their hands.
(End of Flashback)
"No... wait...." Mia whispered as she looked back at the shards, why hadn't she remembered? "The song must be a trick, because, when a man tried to do something to the jewels, he killed everyone in the Lighthouse, including himself."
"What?" Piers asked, "what about you?"
"Alex and I, we were about ten when it happened," Mia could feel the tension of the others when Alex's name was said. "We both had done so well in training that we were aloud to leave and have a break. It was only us, no one else; all of the other children had to keep on training. But, when we came back, everyone was dead. And when we came here, we saw an old man holding the jewels in his hand. He must have thought that it was the key, but he must have been wrong!"
"What?" Piers said in a confused voice, "But how could I say it wrong? That has to be it!" Mia looked at Piers, and gave him a smile.
"It isn't your fault, but there must be some other answer." Mia looked away and at the shards in front of her. "There has to be...."
"Mia," Isaac told her, Mia nodded but she didn't look at him. "Is there anything else here like these crystals? Anything special?"
"No, nothing besides the becan."
"Maybe we have to do something up there?" Felix suggested.
"Perhaps, but.... I fear, what happens if something happens up there? And besides, what could we do up there?"
"Well" Ivan said, "We have to at least try, but Mia, are you sure that the jewels isn't the answer?"
"Yes, I am." Mia shuddered as she remembered the face of her dead mother, father, and siblings. Then, the faces of Alex's loved ones came into her mind, and all of the others whom she still cared about. And for some reason, Alex's caring face also came into her mind, she tried to shake it off, but his face wouldn't leave.
Mother, Mia thought silently, Father, what am I to do? I need your help! Is there anything that I can do to get out of this prison? Anything?
"Well," Sheba said, looking at the angel. "I think that we should go to the eerie, and find out!"
All of the others nodded, and Mia finally looked at them all at once. They all gave her a smile, smiles filled with hope, and smiles that gave Mia some hope. She nodded at them, and they nodded at her. Slowly, they all began to turn away, but Isaac stopped when Mia didn't move.
"Mia?" Isaac asked quietly. "Is there something wrong?"
"I just need a little time, to, to recollect myself. I can't get the feeling of the dead off of me; go ahead, I'll meet you and the others soon. Do you remember the way to the top?"
"Yes."
"Then go, and I'll meet you there."
"Mia?"
"Yes, Isaac?"
"Be careful."
Mia looked at him with gentle eyes.
"Of course I will, and the same to you."
Isaac smiled and then left, and found the others waiting for him at the end of the hall.
"Hey, where's Mia?" Garet asked when he noticed that Mia wasn't behind Isaac.
"She said that she couldn't, 'get the feeling of the dead off of her.' Whatever that means. I guess that she's thinking of the people that once lived here."
"Or, she could be thinking of Alex." Ivan said, all of the others gave him a deadly glare for even thinking that. "What? Well, you have to remember, Mia and Alex must have been very close before he left. She might be remembering him."
Isaac didn't want to think that, but at the same time, he knew that Ivan was right.
"Ok, she told me that she'll meet us later. Ivan, Garet, do you remember where to go?"
"What?" Garet said in an upset voice as he crossed his arms over his chest. "You expect me to remember how to get up to the top of this stupid place?"
"Well, unlike you, I remember." Ivan snapped at Garet, Garet just fumed and looked at the ceiling.
"Ok then, lets go." Isaac said, everyone nodded and began walking, Isaac and Ivan leading the way.
Mia's eyes were on the crystal in front of her, but what she saw was the face of Alex. She didn't love him, and never did. But what he had been was her best friend, how could she get rid of his face?
But he had been her best friend, how could she get rid of his face?
But he betrayed her, how could he do that?
"Alex, how could you betray me?" Mia asked the air around her. "How could you leave me like that? You told me that you would never leave me, and yet you did. How could you?" Felt tears brimming at her eyes, it wasn't her hate for him, it was her sadness. Because no matter how much she hated him, when she thought of him, she didn't remember him betraying her. She remembered the one had been with her when everyone had died. He had once been pure hearted, but in someway, it had been corrupted.
"What happened to you, Alex? What happened? I can't believe that you left, but I still can't hate you for leaving. After all, I would want to leave this place. Alex, I wish that I could just hear you one more time, no matter how stupid that sounds. I wish that I could see the person that I knew before you left, the one who was my best friend."
"I'm sorry, Mia."
Mia jumped, and then she spun around to see Alex standing right behind her. Mia couldn't find what to say, he was supposed to be dead!
"Alex- what happened? What are you doing here?"
"To ask for forgiveness."
"What? Why would I forgive you?"
Alex paused, his eyes filled with regret and sadness.
"Mia, please, I didn't... I didn't.... I don't know why I left.... I... I meddled with the crystals!" Alex told her in fast speech.
"You what?" Mia cried.
"It is true, the crystals are the keys for freedom," Alex told her, his voice shivering; his head was down and looking at the ground. He had one hand in his hair. "But, they... they.... I know why, why, why that man died! He, he tried to free us, but, the power was too great for him, and for his punishment, the, the crystals killed him. But, but the power had been suppressed inside the crystals for far too long, and, and ended up killing everything in the Lighthouse.... It, it, it was an accident! If he hadn't been so, so old... then, then it would have worked...."
Mia stared at Alex; there was something wrong with him.
"Alex, why do you repeat your words?"
He looked up at Mia, and gave her a sad smile.
"The crystals, they, they made my speech a bit, bit odd when I talk fast."
"What?"
"Well, well, when I figured out that the crystals were the way for freedom, I went here. And then, then, I put them, on the spaces of the angels head... but, it was too much, and, the power of it, it corrupted me!"
"It did a good job of it!" Mia told him. "Alex, how do I know that you aren't lying?"
"Lie? Well, I, I, I can't give you any proof, but, just, just, just trust me."
"Trust you? You... Alex, you betrayed me!"
"I know! But, but.... Mia, when I say that the crystal corrupted me, I, I mean that it found me as a powerful warrior and wanted me to give it more power.... Then, then when I tired to fight it, part of the crystal went in my head, and, and made me crave more power. It knocked me out, and when I woke up, I, I could only think of power.... But after I was buried in the earth, after, after being trapped for so long, the crystal let go of me and went back, back, back to right there."
He pointed to the four crystals, Mia looked at them, but looked strait back at Alex.
"I... I still don't believe you Alex! How did you get out?"
"Well, you see, the power of the GoldenSun is still in me, and so, I made the rocks move and I was freed. I traveled here, it, it took a while though."
"How am I supposed to believe you?" Mia asked him, the fact was, she did believe him, but what would happen if he was tricking her?
"I can't prove any of that...." Alex replied. Mia looked down at her feet, this was the Alex that she knew. She couldn't deny it, this was Alex. He could never prove anything, like his innocence. He was often shy around others, and didn't talk much, unless it was to Mia.
"But... why...." Mia's voice trailed off completely, she wanted to forgive him, but part of her was being as stubborn as an old mule.
"Mia, if, if you d-don't forgive me, that's, that's fine," He started speaking fast again, and was already repeating again. "I don't even deserve it, but, but, it would haunt me. If, if you didn't. If you, if you, if you don't, then, I'll just leave. But, in order to use the, the, crystal, you need... you need.... Gah! Mercury have mercy what, what was it?"
"How do I know that you aren't just trying to trick me?"
Mia looked back up into his eyes. Alex looked at her with innocent eyes, empty and depressed.
"Like I said, I have nothing.... Oh, I need, I need, to, to, think... shot! I don't, don't, don't remember! I, I think, it, it, it must be... of course! You, you, you have, you have to use Ply! No wait, not Ply, Ply, Ply, Ply Well! There it is.... Well, now, now...." Alex stopped talking and closed his eyes, taking in a deep breath. Then he opened them again. "I'm going to go now," He told her in a slow voice.
"What? Why?"
"Well, you want me to."
Mia didn't say anything, but Alex stepped back and bowed, then he turned around to leave.
"Alex!" Alex turned around.
"Yes, Mia?"
"Uh...." Mia didn't know what to say, why wasn't her mouth working? "I... I can't stay angry at you, I... I forgive you."
Alex's eyes lit up, and looked almost as if he was going to jump and give Mia a hug, but he stayed where he was. Instead, in the quietest voice he could, he told her quietly:
"Thank you."
Then, a light swerved around him, and then, he was gone.
Mia just stared at the spot where he had been, that had been the real Alex. She remembered how when she had seen him on top of the Lighthouse, she could remember how much she knew that that wasn't the Alex that she knew. She thought that the Alex that she had known had been gone for good, but he was still there, his true self-trapped inside....
She turned around and looked at the four crystals, cast Ply Well? What would that do? And what would happen if the crystal wanted more power and tried to ensnare her in its trap? What would happen? Was she strong enough to do this?
Mia's hands floated over the crystals, if she could cast Ply Well....
Mia got ready, she trusted Alex, at least the true him, with all of her heart. If this was really a trap, and Mia was going to die, then, at least, she would be able to see her family, and the rest of the Mercury clan in the skies.
"Ply Well!"
She cast the spell, and instantly the crystals began glowing different and random colors. Mia stepped back as the crystals floated up together, circling, then, they placed themselves on the angel's head. Mia watched as the crystals went in, and the angle's eyes glowed blue. The whole angle glowed a light blue, and then, when the light faded, Mia realized that the statue was looking strait at her.
"Is there something that you seek?" It asked, its voice echoing across the room as it put it's hands down and walked towards Mia. Mia didn't move it wasn't that she was frightened... it was because; she knew in her heart, that the statue meant no harm.
"I want to be free." Mia told the angel in a quiet voice. The angel tilted its head and looked at Mia carefully.
"That is what you want? Truly? Are you sure that this is your true desire? I can feel that it is not. What is it that you really want?"
Mia thought for a moment, what she wanted the most...?
"To make sure that Isaac is happy." The words came out slowly, but they did not come out quietly. "I want Isaac to be happy!"
"Happy? That is the first request of that kind I have ever gotten, and also, you are the first to have the crystals come to life correctly."
"Correctly?"
"In order for the crystal to give me life and awaken is to cast Ply, in order for me to have the power to make a wish, you must cast Ply Well. Pure Ply allows me to give two wishes. Those are the rules. But you want to make your lover happy?"
"Yes." Mia replied, surprised that the statue knew that Isaac was her lover.
"Then first, I must learn what he wants."
Isaac waited at the waterfall that would lead them all to the top of the Lighthouse. Everyone was waiting for Mia, they had been waiting for not that long, but Isaac felt like something was wrong.
"Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth," Garet sang at the top of his lungs, his voice was good enough to make glass shatter and fly into the wind. "There are the elements to make the earth, watch and learn, watch and learn! Fire, Earth, Wind and Water! Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury, you use them to make the world! Fire-."
"SHUT UP!" Felix roared at Garet, Garet stopped and gave Felix a glare. "Why are you singing that stupid song anyway? I learned that when I five!"
"Well, I was bored, and wanted to sing!"
"Well next time your bored, look in the mirror to find out what a troll looks like! I'm sure that that will entertain you for eternity! Gees!"
"Hey! Don't-!"
"Don't what?"
"Never mind, I know, since you really don't want me to do this, then I'll do it! Fi-!"
Garet's mouth was suddenly iced shut; Garet put his hand on it and started doing to muffled yell in anger.
"Sorry," Piers told everyone, "I didn't want Garet to start singing again."
Jenna and Sheba muffled giggles, Piers blushed, Garet's face turned crimson from yelling and was still trying to, Felix snorted, Ivan started cracking up, and Isaac put a hand over his mouth to hide his smile.
"MMMMFFFFF! HHHH MMMMHHHH!" Garet fumed as he tried to melt away the ice but ended up burning himself instead.
Isaac put his hand down once his smile went away and sat down against the wall, he felt strangely sleepy. Isaac closed his eyes, and suddenly he was on top of water. He must be dreaming! He turned around and saw the same statue that he had seen holding the crystals staring at him. She gave him a kind smile.
"What do you wish for?" She asked Isaac, her voice echoed throughout the air.
"What?"
"What is it that you desire the most? Tell me, and it shall be fulfilled."
"Ok, I've had a lot of weird dreams, but this one really cuts the cake!"
"A dream, look at it as you want, but tell me from your heart, what is it that you wish for the most? What is your ultimate desire?"
"Uh, for... Mia to be happy." Isaac replied in a cheerful tone, this might actually be a nice dream.
"She has already wished for your happiness. That is what she wants, and if you cannot tell me what you want, then I cannot perform her wish."
"Repeat that?"
"She wants you to be happy. That is what would make her truly happy. But your wish is not something that I can do, for, if you I cannot make your one desire come true, then she can never be happy. Tell me your second most desire."
"My second...? Well, for Mia to be happy, she needs to be freed from the Lighthouse, so, I guess my second most desire would be for her to be freed of her blood and then to come back to my home."
"Two wishes, which I cannot do."
"What?"
"In order for her to be freed would be one wish, but in order for her to go with you would be another wish."
"What does it matter?"
"If she is freed by her blood, then she is free. But to go with you, it would be two wishes."
Isaac stopped, this was just a dream, but he could have fun with it. He didn't have that many dreams, and he wanted it to last longer. Maybe if he asked some questions it would last longer?
"If Mia is freed from her blood, then, what would happen?"
"Death."
"What?"
"Blood is a part of her body, take it away, and she dies."
"I never...." Isaac whispered to himself, even if this was a dream, he didn't want Mia to die in any of them. "Then, I want Mia to be freed from the Lighthouse, without dieing."
"Then it shall be granted, if she can withstand the power."
Isaac woke up again, and Garet was still trying to melt away the ice, but instead he was just continuously burning himself. Nothing changed, except that Jenna, Sheba, and Ivan weren't laughing anymore. He put a hand through his unruly hair that was one weird dream!
Mia watched the statue's eyes continue to glow a dark blue, frozen like a statue should be. Mia waited, she hoped that Isaac would be happy. How had the statue come to him?
Mia walked forward an inch when the eyes of the angel turned back to normal, Mia waited for it to speak.
"Isaac's wish," the angel began, "was for you to be freed of our lighthouse duty."
Mia sighed, but it wasn't for Isaac's wish for her freedom, it was because now she knew that Isaac really loved her. "But, do you think that you will be prepared for the power?"
"Power?"
"The one before you made the wish for both him and you to be freed, but, when I began to cast the power on him, he did not have enough power to keep the crystal from taking control over his mind. You may be more powerful then he was, but, if you are not, either the crystals will kill you, or enslave you. So tell me, are you ready?"
Alex watched Mia from the doorway, he hadn't really left. All that he had done was disappear into the hall to where Mia couldn't see him, he watched her, he hoped that she wouldn't be captured as he had.
He listened as the statue asked Mia if she was ready, and he continued listening, he wanted to know what would happen with Mia.
"Yes," Mia told the statue, "I am ready."
Alex kept on watching, if something bad was going to happen, then he didn't know what he could do. The crystal had made his mind weak, and he knew that if he interfered, it would snap his mind in two like a troll breaking a twig. But then again, he knew that if Mia couldn't stand it, he would probably try and save her anyway. He didn't love her, but he still looked to her as the only family that he had left. It was true, she was his only family, if she was hurt in any way, he would be lonely for the rest of his life. Just the sight of Mia gave Alex the feeling like she was with him, if he could never see her again....
Alex looked on as the angel glowed a light blue, then, the light blue became mixed with a dark blue. Slowly, the aura flowed to Mia, and surrounded her, flowing around her. Alex watched as the statues aura left it, then, it walked backward, back into the pose that it had been in before, and then, it stood still as the crystals floated out of her forehead. They floated above the palm; they were testing Mia to see if she was strong enough.
Alex knew that Mia was strong enough, but, for some reason, she wasn't coming out! A thought crossed his mind; the Lighthouse might be trying to keep a hold on its last guardian! She still didn't come out; Alex knew that he was right. But if he tried to help, he wouldn't be able to help!
But there was someone who could help, and that was Isaac and his party. But what would they think if he told them that Mia was in trouble? They wouldn't believe him! But he had to try, for his only family, for his friend.
"All be back Mia." He whispered as he cast his teleporting spell, there was only one place where they could be. He had been listening to them talking earlier, they must be at the top of the Lighthouse. When his light went away, he found that he was the same space; he realized that he couldn't teleport to the top, it was just the same with the power Retreat.
Fine, he thought, I can get there anyway.
Casting his spell again, he teleported to the room to go to the top of the Lighthouse.
Isaac stood up, stretching, where was Mia? He was getting a tight feeling in his stomach that something was going terribly wrong where Mia was. Everyone including him jumped when a white light flashed, but it was only when Alex appeared in the middle of the room did everyone pull their weapons out. Alex looked around, startled. Isaac pulled out his Gaia Sword; this was what wrong with Mia!
"Gah!" Alex cried out when Garet gave a wild swing with his axe. He jumped and floated to the top of the room where none of them could hit him. Both Sheba and Ivan began glowing purple.
"Destruct Ray!"
They cried out together, it hit Alex perfectly; he fell to the ground right next to Isaac on his back. Alex didn't try get up, and Isaac took that as the opportunity to put one of his feet on Alex's chest and then he pointed his sword at Alex's neck. Alex blinked up at Isaac and didn't do anything to try and get himself free.
"Where's Mia?" Isaac demanded, as he looked Alex in the eye.
"She's, she's, she's in, in trouble." Alex told him in fast voice; Isaac noticed that Alex's voice had changed in some way that he couldn't put his finger on.
"What? Did you hurt her?"
"No, no, I, I didn't!"
"Where is she?"
"In, in the, the room with the angel, angel, with the, the crystals, crystals."
"What? Why are you repeating your words?"
"Never, never mind! She needs, needs help."
Isaac didn't believe him at all, the thing that he wanted to know was why Alex was talking like an idiot?
"Why do you speak like that?"
"Mia, Mia, needs help."
"I don't believe you."
Alex tried to sit up, but Isaac pushed his foot down on his chest and Alex fell back down. Alex closed his eyes and laid his head on the floor, it was obvious that he was trying to think of something to say. He must have figured it out, because he lifted his head up and looked at Isaac.
"You saw something." Alex told Isaac, his voice slower and calmer.
"No I didn't."
Alex sighed and laid his head back down again, then, he looked around and saw Sheba and Ivan. He blinked at them and they just gave him a cold stare.
"Read my mind." He told them simply, Sheba and Ivan didn't move.
"Hey," Isaac told Alex, "I swear that if you don't tell me where Mia is, I'll cut your throat!"
"Read my mind." He told Ivan and Sheba, he didn't seem to pay any attention at all to Isaac. This annoyed Isaac and so he pressed the tip of his sword against Alex's cheek. Alex didn't even glance at him; he continued to look at Sheba and Ivan.
"Please," Alex told them in a begging voice that made everyone surprised. "You must read my mind! If you don't then-."
He was cut off when Isaac slapped his cheek with his hands, Alex looked back at Isaac.
"Mia needs help." He told Isaac in a sturdy voice. "She is in the room with the shards."
"I still don't believe you!"
"Have those two read my mind, if I'm lying, then you can cut me up like a piece of chicken and feed me to a bunch of howling creatures and never have my name uttered again. I don't care, just read my mind!"
Sheba and Ivan came forward, their eyes gleamed violet for a moment, and then, when their eyes opened again, they had a shocked look on their faces.
"He's not lying," said Ivan. "He came here to get Isaac, so that way Isaac could help Mia. He doesn't want to hurt us!"
Isaac slowly took his foot off of Alex and backed up. But he kept his sword pointed at Alex. Alex jumped off of the ground and gave Sheba and Ivan a shy smile.
"Thank you." He told them in a sheepish voice, then, he walked over to a wall and put his hands on them. "Ply!" The wall moved, and Alex moved over to let the others through. "This lead you to the level where Mia is, please, hurry, don't let Mia down. Please, go."
After he said that, a white flash came, and then, he was gone. Isaac took his sword down and looked at the hole, then, without fear, he ran into the entrance. Ivan and Sheba followed him first, then Piers, Felix, Garet, and Jenna.
When he got to the floor, he found that he was in part of the Lighthouse that he had never been in before. But then, out of a corner, Alex appeared.
"Follow me." He told Isaac, Isaac nodded and ran over to Alex. Alex turned and began running in a direction. It was very long until they arrived in the same hallway that the shards were in, Alex didn't stop there, he ran all the way over to the room where Mia was.
Alex ran into the room where Mia was, fortunately, he could tell that Mia was putting up a good fight. She hadn't moved, and he knew that her eyes were staring into space in a trance. She was fighting with her mind, but Alex knew that soon she would break, just as he had. But with Isaac, she could win; he knew that she and Isaac could defeat the Lighthouse together.
Isaac ran into the room, once he saw Mia, he ran over to her and put his hands on her shoulder.
"Mia?"
"She won't answer." Alex told him, "You must enter the aura and help her. I would, but the shards and Lighthouse would cripple my mind easily. I'm far too weak, you are her only hope."
Isaac nodded and wrapped his arms around Mia, and was engulfed in the blue aura. The others appeared right after he did so, and instantly Garet grabbed his shirt and lifted him up.
"MMMMMHHHH!" Garet cried out, his mouth being blocked by a sheet of ice. Alex lifted his hand and put it on top of the ice, making it disappear. He put his hand back down and Garet gave him a glare. "Just because you did that doesn't mean anything!"
Alex smiled, not bothering to do anything; he didn't feel like doing anything. Jenna punched Garet in the stomach, and Garet dropped Alex and grabbed his stomach.
"Ouch! Why did you do that Jenna?" Garet cried out.
"Alex is helping us, you moron!"
Alex got up from the floor and dusted himself off.
"Erm," Alex began as he blushed madly. "Thank you Jenna."
"Um, what is that thing that Mia and Isaac are in, and why are you blushing?"
"Well, Mia is trapped and Isaac is helping her, and I'm just an extremely shy person, if you want to know. Especially in front of, well, girls." He told her as he put a hand on the back of his head.
Jenna stared at Alex, this wasn't the same person that had held her and Kraden captive and had taken the GoldenSun.
Mia felt the force of the Lighthouse and crystals pulling on her, she continued fighting, but she knew that she wouldn't last long. Suddenly, she felt a familiar hand touch hers.
"Mia!" cried out as Isaac touched her hand. He floated just as she did, they were in their mental state, and Mia was covered with billions of blue strings of Psynergy. All that there was, was black all around them, and Mia, Isaac, and the strings let off a trail of colors as they moved
"Isaac, what are you doing here?"
"Alex, he came and got me and the others to help you!"
"Alex?"
"No time to explain, we need to fight this thing!"
Isaac called on his Psynergy and began glowing a light brown, then, his Psynergy flowed over to Mia and covered her. Mia closed her eyes and called on what Psynergy she had left, her blue blended with Isaac's brown and the Psynergy became a green color.
"Isaac, I don't have enough Psynergy left!"
"Yeah, you sure could use Ivan and Sheba in this part, couldn't we?" Isaac replied in half sarcastic half serious voice.
"Yes, we could!" Mia told him in a strained voice, these strings were getting tighter! She felt Isaac get more of his Psynergy. "Don't use all of your Psynergy, Isaac!"
"What? And leave you like this when I'm not using all my Psynergy? Like I'd do that!" Isaac retorted back, Mia felt like slapping him for using so much of his power to save her. Isaac called on more power; Mia didn't say anything, because she knew that Isaac wouldn't listen. Then, she noticed that when he did this, the strings began getting looser.
"Is this helping?" Isaac asked Mia, his own voice starting to sound as strained as hers.
"Yes, I can feel the pull of Psynergy loosening, you're doing it Isaac!"
"Well, I hope I have enough Psynergy left to get them off for good, I think that I'm going to run out soon."
"Oh, Isaac, we have so much Psynergy, but compared to the Lighthouse, it's nothing!"
Alex continued looking at the aura that Isaac and Mia were, there was still something wrong. Alex wanted to go in, but as soon as he did, his mind would brake and he would be able to do anything. So even if he tried....
"I must do something...." Alex whispered to himself, he had to do something it was true. He couldn't just sit there and twiddle his thumbs like an old man. He had to do something; he had the GoldenSun for Mercury's sake!
Of course, the GoldenSun, he should be able to use it to help them!
Alex sat down and closed his eyes, calling on his Jupiter Psynergy; he left his body and went into the aura. Before his mind could brake, he used his other Psynergy to help cover his mind. This wouldn't last long, but he had to do something.
"Mia, I not sure that can hold on that much longer!" Isaac cried out as he felt his Psynergy wavering, he would run out very VERY soon.
"I can't hold out that much more either Isaac, go, and leave before the Lighthouse tries to take you in too!"
"No, I won't leave you Mia! I can't and I won't!"
"Isaac...."
Mia gritted her teeth and opened her eyes, all that she could see was blackness beyond the strings that bound her. She focused her eyes more when she thought that she heard someone, she trying to see whoever it was. But no one was there, only her and Isaac.
"Mia...." Mia looked around, she had heard that!
"Isaac, did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Mia...." The voice called out again, Mia almost jumped, how could Isaac not hear that?
"That voice!"
"I'm sorry Mia, I can't hear anything...."
"Mia." This time she could hear the voice almost as if the person was right next to her. She knew that voice that was Alex! But where was he? Mia kept her concentration and looked around, where was he?
Suddenly, Mia felt Mercury Psynergy pour into her, like a waterfall. It was Alex! He was giving her Psynergy!
Her Psynergy grew stronger and stronger, and the aura around her and Isaac grew much stronger. Then, she felt Isaac's Psynergy shot up like an arrow just as hers had. Mia's was still growing, and Mia felt their aura grow stronger and stronger until....
Alex opened his eyes; he knew that what he had just done was pretty much close to insanity. He could already tell that his mind was only on a hair thread from breaking. But at least he hadn't lost his mind altogether. He would get better overtime, even if his speech would stay a little odd, and of course, his mind wouldn't be as strong as it had been before, but at least he had been able to help Mia and Isaac.
Perhaps having the GoldenSun wasn't as bad as it was, even though Alex wanted to return it. But at the same time, he knew it would be best to keep it. So that way he could at least keep others from getting it for as long as he could. It was the best, and another thing that would be best would be to leave now.
Alex stood back up, he began walking over to the exit, but Jenna jump in his way.
"And where do you think that YOU'RE going?"
"Uh, out."
"OUT? You can't go out!"
"Mm."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"I want to say good-bye to you, Felix, Garet, Sheba, Garet and Ivan. Also Isaac and Mia of course. Could you tell Mia that even if she hates my guts that I still look to her as a sister? And another thing, I will be back to see her, even if she doesn't want me to. Good-bye."
Alex disappeared with a flash of light; Jenna fumed and threw a fireball at where he had been standing. Felix ran over and grabbed Jenna before she decided to turn this room into a forge. Jenna jerked and kicked but eventually she gave up the end. Felix put her down, and just as he did, the aura that surrounded Isaac and Mia evaporated. Everyone rushed to their sides, ready to catch someone if they fell, but neither of them did.
Mia looked around at everyone, smiling.
"I can't believe it, I've done it! I am no longer a slave to the Lighthouse!"
Mia jumped up and hugged Isaac as everyone cheered, then, with her arms still around Isaac, she looked around.
"Oh, I thought maybe Alex would still be here... oh, but, he's good again!" Mia explained to the others.
"We know," Garet said in superior tone, "He came and got us down here to save you!"
"Alex... I really wish that... oh well...."
"Well," Jenna told Mia in a cheerful voice. "He told me, to tell you, that even if you hate his guts that he still looks to you as a sister. And also that he'll be back to see you even if you don't want him to. By the way, what is up with Alex anyway? He doesn't act like the Alex that kidnapped me and Kraden."
Mia smiled and began telling them about the crystals, then, about how the Lighthouse clan died, and then about how the real Alex was while they all walked to Imil. Mia felt happier then even thought that she could, she had her lover, her best friend back, she was free, and she had all of her friends with her. How could things get any better?
Alex watched Mia from one of the high ledges of the Lighthouse.
"Good-bye sister Mia, I can't wait to see you again."
Ok, so, how was that? I thought that it wasn't too good, but I had no idea what to write. And last time most of you told me that I was being too hard myself! I wonder if you're going to say that again? And about the whole little Alex thing, well, I just thought that it might be a little good to add that. It might a little odd, and truth be told, at the end of GoldenSun, I wanted to go into the game and strangle him! But, oh well, things work like this.
Hail: So is that it?
Well, I'll be taking any questions that any of you have. So, what I'm saying is you can ask me questions and I'll answer them a little later. I MIGHT make another chapter, but it's going to be like about Mia and Isaac's wedding, and Mia will meet Alex again and that junk.
Sleet: Ah, the perfect romance! I love it, it was beautiful! I love mushy stuff like this....
Hail: I make you plenty of mushy stuff!
Sleet: Um, right.
Hail: What's that supposed to mean?
Ok, I'll you two alone as I talk to the people.
Hail/Sleet: Meanie.
Right, now I myself don't find the end that mushy, but, I'm an odd person. I just hope that you all liked it, and if you know what Zelda is, and who Ganondorf is, then please read my fanfiction 'Truth', I want to get more readers!
Gust: Well, it was nice torturing you.
Oh yes, I shall miss being frozen, and being sent flying across room and breaking my bones by a giant blast of wind. Rolls eyes Ok, so, like I said, if you know what Zelda is and who Ganondorf is, then please read my story Truth! I have fourteen, it says fifteen, but one is an author's note. I'll be working on it, so, if you can, please read!
Sleet: you're forgetting something.
I am...? Oh yeah! And another thing, I'm looking for online friends, and if you're looking for friends, then put two and two together and go on my bio! It has an add on it for friends, it's a huge paragraph, and somewhere in it, it has my e-mail address. So, if you want a friend, e-mail me! And thank you, Princess Viv, for answering for my little friend thingy about a chapter or two ago!
Sleet: You forgot another thing.
What... oh, heehaw.... I have two quotes up on my Bio, up on the top, so, if you care for quotes, then read on! Ok, so, are you guys ready?
Hail/Sleet/Gust: Ok!
One, two, three....
CrypticElf/Sleet/Hail/Gust: THANKS FOR READING THIS FIC AND PLEASE REVIEW!
So If There Is A Next Time,
CrypticElf....