Chapter 4: Earth, Bob and a Isaac in a Game

Sheba woke up to see bright, fluffy clouds up in the sky. She looked confused, because all her life, she had been used to flat clouds. Even in clear skies.

She found herself on a roof of sorts...but it was flat and hard and gray. "Who'd ever heard of a gray roof?" she asked herself. She looked around, and the first person she spotted was Felix. Sleeping like a baby. (Yes, now with sucking thumb action!) Sheba was disturbed by that. "Ugh...my eyes!"

A sudden "Where are we?" jolted her to her senses. It sounded like one of the girls. She turned around and saw an even more hideous sight than Felix sucking his thumb: Garet in his pyjamas!!! She shielded her eyes while Garet changed – wait! Wait just one second! No, maybe a minute. Whatever. Just wait. The Golden Sun crew was transported to another dimension with fluffy clouds, and woke up on a flat, grey roof. Where on Weyard did Garet find anything to change into?

The evil author looked down on her, and smiled at her ignorance. Sheba was immediately enlightened.

Garet finished changing, and they woke everybody up. Isaac and Mia were especially grumpy. "NO ONE OTHER THAN ME IS ALLOWED TO WAKE ME UP!" proclaimed Isaac. "I NEED MY BEAUTY SLEEP!" Mia...yelled, for lack of a better word. After much "persuasion" from Jenna and Sheba, they calmed down. Everybody gathered together on the middle of the roof when someone called up from below.

"Hey! You guys! What are you doing up there?"

"We don't know!" yelled Ivan.

"Do you need help getting down?"

"YES!!!" everyone shouted.

"Okay, hold on!"

They waited and waited. Eventually, the boy came back with a ladder.

"Here! Use this to climb down!"

"Okay!"

Everybody got down. Not everybody got to the bottom rung of the ladder. It broke while Garet got on. Thank goodness he was last. He turned red from embarrassment and proclaimed that Ivan damaged the ladder with his weight. At which everyone laughed even more, for it was well known that Garet was twice Ivan's weight. Suddenly, they were stopped with a question.

"Where did you get clothes like that?" asked the mystery kid.

"From Weyard, where else?" Piers thought his answer made sense.

The kid thought for a moment, then mentally shrugged. "Where is Weyard?"

"The world is named Weyard." Mia answered.

"Actually, the 3rd planet from the sun in the solar system's name is not Weyard (whatever it is), but Earth."

"Solar system?" asked Jenna.

"Earth?" asked Felix.

"Hey, I heard of Earth! Weyard imports pianos from Earth!" exclaimed Isaac.

Everybody else: ...

The kid took advantage of the lull to ask for their names.

"I'm Isaac, this is..."

"I'm Garet, and Isaac, I can introduce myself, thank you very much! This is Ivan..."

"Pot...kettle...black..." Ivan grumbled.

"...and this is..."

THWACK!

"I'm Mia, pleased to meet you. What's your name?"

"Bob. What's the other people's names?"

"Felix."

"Jenna."

"I'm Sheba, and this is Piers..."

"I'm glad I have the patience not to deal with her as Mia dealt with Garet." Piers snarled.

"What school do you go to?" Bob asked.

"What's a school?" asked Sheba.

"A school is a place where you learn stuff."

"We never went to school. We were too busy lighting the lighthouses." Felix put in.

"Lighthouses? You guys have serious problems."

"No, we do not. It is you that has problems." Piers countered.

"Anyways. I assume you have a place to stay for tonight?"

"We don't." Isaac.

"Well, three of you will have to stay at an inn, and the other five can stay at my place.

"Cool."

"So who will pay up to stay at a hotel?"

"Any of us can, we're filthy rich!"

"Prove it."

Isaac showed his bag of gold coins.

"That isn't money!"

"Well, it is where we came from."

"Wait a minute, is this gold?"

"Yes."

"You could sell it to make some money! Meanwhile, everybody can come to my house! My parents are out for a business trip, they won't be home until next Saturday."

"Okay!"

"Then let's go!"

Bob led the whole group to his house. Everybody entered, and for some reason they took off their various boots and shoes.

"This is a house, right Bob?" inquired Ivan.

"Yes, it's just a little small." Bob replied.

They went downstairs to the basement, and Isaac started rushing towards something.

"Don't touch my piano!" Bob screamed.

Too late. Isaac already started playing whatever was on the stand, namely Chopin's Winter Wind (op.25 no.11) Etude. Perfectly. Of course, the Golden Sun crew was used to him playing such pieces, but Bob stared with his mouth crashing through the foundations of the house.

"What?" Isaac asked when he was done.

"How old are you?"

"Umm...eighteen."

"Oh, okay." Bob's mouth went back to normal, and he wasn't bewildered anymore.

Isaac then took the time to play Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto. Both the solo and orchestra parts. In full.

Bob's mouth just about reached the centre of the earth.

Everybody was wondering what Bob was so surprised about.

"Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto!" he exclaimed, then fainted.

Mia cast Ply, and he woke up. Abruptly.

Someone knocked on the door.

Bob answered, leaving all eight people in the basement, staring at various things such as the walls and the floor.

Bob returned, and said that everybody was to go to school tomorrow. Then he gave the house tour.

After the house tour, the Golden Sun crew went to do whatever they pleased. Mia went up to Bob holding up a Game Boy Advance SP and asked what it was.

"It's my Game Boy."

"Oh. What does it do?"

"It lets you play games. Do you want to try?"

"Yes. How do you make it work?"

"You push this switch, then you wait...now you have to learn how to play the game."

"That's a really nice picture of Mt. Aleph in the Game Boy."

"You know that Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, right?"

Bob started playing Golden Sun, and Mia screamed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What's wrong, Mia?"

"That looks like Isaac!"

"Interesting. In this game, the guy's name is Isaac, which means laughter, by the way."

"ISAAC! GET YOUR (censored) DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!"

Isaac comes in, staring at Mia, who smashed her finger into the Isaac sprite in the game.

"What is this?" she asked.

"It's a game called Golden Sun, Mia." Bob replied.

"That looks suspiciously like me." Isaac said plainly.

"Wait a minute...oh my god!"

"What's a god?" Mia asked innocently.

"Whatever...you came straight out of the game!"

"Wait a minute, I have no idea what you're talking about." Isaac was really confused.

"It all makes sense now...Weyard...gold coins...the weird clothes..."

"Our clothes are not weird!" Mia said exasperatedly.

"I never knew Mia could talk like that." Isaac whispered.

Somehow, all eight people slept in the house (Isaac, Ivan and Sheba slept on the floor) and it was morning and Isaac sat up in his bed in Vale which was in Weyard. "It's all just a bad dream, conjured up by the evil author."