Golden Sun Dodgeball Association of Golden Sun:
Chapter Three

It was from that day forward that the Valian Adepts started their training under an older man known as Kraden. They lined up at the local gym one day, and he spoke,
'The only way to be true dodgeballers is to learn the five D's of dodgeball. Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. If you can learn these, no amount of balls of earth can hit you.' Ivan raised his hand at once,
'Queerbag,' Kraden said. Ivan looked confused and looked to his left and right, unsure, if Kraden was speaking about him,
'Me, or... shouldn't we learn by dodging balls that are thrown at us?'
'That is what this sack of wrenches is for,' he picked up a sack and poured it onto the desk next to him, 'if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.'
'What?' Ivan said. Kraden grabbed a wrench and hurled it, hitting Ivan in the forehead. He immediately dropped to the floor, holding his head in pain.
'Any questions?' Kraden spoke, not caring for the person squirming on the floor. The others looked down on Ivan and than at Kraden.

They were driving home from their victory over the miner's guild, it was now time to hit the café, the place where it was at. It's where it used to be at, until someone revoked the license from it and banned all other people from entering. It was open to the city now, that was the only license we could gain for it. However, before they could go to the café and celebrate, they had to finish driving home from the miner's city. Royal Swordsman was at the head of the team, in his black Ferrari 360 Modena Berlinetta F1. F1 meant that it was an automatic, but since it was a 6-speed automatic, it was like a manual but without the clutch. RS was going about 120 miles per hour, with much of the group behind him. Right behind him was Mercurio in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. Mercurio was just in front of Imperial Swordsman, who had the fastest car of the group, but Mercurio kept swerving and Imperial was unable to pass. Imperial's car was the Audi Le Mans Concept with a 610 horsepower V10 twin turbo engine. RS's Ferrari had a 400 horsepower V8, while the Vanquish had a 460 horsepower V12 engine.

Behind Imperial was Top Gear and Zithromax with their cars. Top Gear drove a rally blue Subaru WRX STi, which was the cheapest car of the group, but it was still very powerful. It was powered by a 300 horsepower H4, but the thing that kept it in front of others was the fact that it was turbo charged. Zithromax drove a black Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe, which was powered by a turbo charged 415 horsepower hp 6. Behind the two of them was Mr. Bigg, who was driving casually in his Rolls Royce Phantom which was powered by a 453 horsepower V12 engine. Of course, his car was also probably the most expensive in the group, since it was a Rolls Royce.

The final driver in the group was Faran, and he wasn't behind because he couldn't keep up with us, we had bought him a new vehicle after the victory. He now drove a white Hummer H2, but he had stopped to fill it up somewhere. RS glanced in the rear view mirror and saw him down the road. They were approaching another car, and RS signaled the others to drop their speeds. The road between Imperial City and the miner's town was an open plain, and it was very unusual to see other cars around. Perhaps this car was in trouble. RS lowered his speed to 60 miles per hour and got behind the car, which he took a double glance at when he was saw the make and model of it.
'What's this? Looks to be a Passat, thus Volkswagen, looks like the 1992 model... so... 2.0L 134 Inline 4 engine. Five speed manual most likely, seems like the car is having trouble... I would not want to get into an accident with that car, it hasn't any airbags. But... well I will see if the guy needs some help.' Since cars were very uncommon on this road, Royal switched on his left blinker and started to drive in the left side of the road. When he was alongside of the Passat, he lowered the passenger window and yelled across.
'Hey! Need some help?'
'Uh... I suppose,' the other person responded.
'If you do, I can help. One of my team mates has a truck if you need to be towed.'
'Oh, that is very generous of you. Let me pull over first, so we can continue this conversation.' I signaled to the other members to pull over, and one by one, they pulled to the side of the road. Faran drove up several minutes later, and pulled to the side of the road. RS got out of his Ferrari and walked over to the Passat, where he shook hands with the driver.
'This is a very generous offer, I do not usually find people like yourself around here.'
'Well, this area doesn't normally have many drivers, so where are you headed anyway?'
'Oh, I was thinking about going to Xian, and than head north from there.'
'Is that so? Well, lucky day for you, my team is heading to Imperial City. We could give you ride, I suppose.'
'Thank you, could you honor me with your name?'
'The name's Royal Swordsman,' he said with a smile. The man remained silent.
'Something the matter? Oh! The name, yeah, I get some bad rap in the other parts of the world, but here, I'm just plain old Royal, actually, perhaps just plain old Rolf. That is my name of course, Rolf Vealian.'
'Yeah, nice to meet you, Rolf.'
'Would you also token me with your name?'
'Triad Orion.'
'Is that so? Nice to meet you, so, would you like that ride or not?'
'Sure...' RS signaled to Faran who hooked the Passat to the back of the Hummer, and Triad got inside the Hummer with Faran. RS walked over to Imperial and spoke,
'The guy... it was Triad.'
'So?'
'I hope Faran doesn't do anything, don't really want to hurt the guy, just doing a nice thing, eh?'
'Yeah, I would have done the same. Let them go ahead, we shall catch up to them.' RS signaled to Faran to start up, and he took off. Inside the Hummer, Faran spoke with Triad.
'So... you're Triad Orion... I was never in any of your stories.'
'Faran, step-father of Sheba, from Lalivero?'
'Yeah, that's me.'
'So, what do you think of Ivan dating your daughter?'
'Ivan dates my daughter!?'
'What? Its called wind-shipping, do you know anything about that?'
'Wind-shipping!? What the bloody hell does that mean?'
'I don't know, just some funny term some of my teamsters thought up.' Triad looked at Faran who was now muttering to himself.
'Ivan... date Sheba. Wind-shipping? Disobey Royal or not? Throw man out of car, or keep him. Royal happy or not? Err... screw Royal this time.'
'What?' Suddenly, the passat dropped from the back of the Hummer, and sparks sprayed everywhere as the rear bumper hit the pavement. Away in the back, RS noticed the passat drop off the back of the Hummer, and he quickly spoke to the others,
'Watch out!' Top Gear, with his all wheel drive went off road immediately. Imperial shot forward with his twin turbo and fired past both the passat and the Hummer. Zithromax barely missed the spinning passat. Mercurio and Mr. Bigg dodged the passat as it spun to a stop behind them. Royal closed in alongside of the Hummer and lowered his window, 'What are you doing, you maniac?' Faran stopped, and threw Tirad out of the vehicle, and floored it. RS stopped, and walked over to Tirad, who was getting to his feet.
'Hey, man, I am really sorry about that, I did not think---' Triad was on his feet and he pushed RS out of the way,
'Don't think I'm going to believe that. You told you to do that! I knew it, you creep. You are Royal Swordsman, the warlord, the hater of Golden Sun. A turncoat. How can you be trusted?'
'Fine, you know what? I tried to help you, but it seems I can't help others. Someone has to mess it up, so you know what?'
'What?'
'Screw you.' He jumped into his Ferrari and left, catching up with the others.

Back in Vale, the team was training even harder, Kraden had a new idea about dodging balls.
'If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.'

They stood on the sidewalk of one of the main roads outside of Vale. Countless cars drove down the road in either direction, and there was an island in the middle. The team was half way through the drill, on the other side of the road, Kraden was waiting with Isaac, Mia, and Garet. Isaac had no trouble, while Garet did. He was hit by a car and slid over the top of it, and where he landed, he saw a truck coming and he turned to face it. He tried some psynergy on it, but you know how trucks are these days. They have a psynergy shield to use against those animals that can also use psynergy, and perhaps may try before they are hit. The psynergy deflected off of the truck and Garet was hit. Luckily this was right next to the sidewalk, and why he didn't just get off the road before he attacked the truck, only Garet knows.

Piers was next, he made his way through much of the road, but than his hair got messed up, and while he trying to fix it, he got hit head on by a car. He crawled the rest of the way. Ivan was going strong much of the way, since he was so fast--- but he had some trouble. A mad man in a white Hummer H2 crossed five lanes to hit him on the sidewalk. It was believed that Ivan's wife, Sheba was the driver of that vehicle. Ivan did not know that though. Felix made it fine, he and his too small and short for him tunic. (Tunics are supposed to end at the knees, not above it). Alex warped across, saying that this situation was not worth the effort. Kraden threw two wrenches at him, one that missed, and the other that traveled through a car to hit him. He was later run over.

At the end of the hard, painful day, they rested. The tournament was not that far away and they had not learned much.

Note: a revised feature, Royal Swordsman's team has been renamed, instead the Eagle Talon, they are now known as the RS 6. Kinda like the car, the Audi RS 6. Note: The Audi RS 6 is a 2003 car, but the Audi RS 6 Avant is still out in Europe. Note: Avant means wagon, or something like it.