Deep in the heart of Imil, a small northern town, a legend lives and thrives in the bloodlines of the mercury people- a people whose numbers dwindle on almost nothing. Their only hopes for survival in this world of dying adepts is the generations that follow them... The fate of their people is a lot for children to handle...
And the sacrifices seem almost too much.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun or any thing of it's likeness! I don't own a lot of things I write about in the following fanfic. The musical artists are listed on my lookup.

WARNINGS: This does and will contain some parts that will need a lot of thinking. This is a very long fanfic. This fanfic will contain Ocs, but they are more like the golden sun characters OOC in different bodies. There will be plenty of Yaoi and some Yuri. Beware of Hentai. Alex will seem OOC because you're 'seeing another side of him.'

Parings: Mia&Alex, Mia&Garet, Isaac&Jenna, Felix&Picard, Sheba's a slut, Saturos&Menardi, Karst&Agatio.

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Part 1: "Someday"

How the hell did we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able, to see the signs that we missed
And try to turn the tables.

"Are you ready?" The man called.

"Yep!" Responded the small boy, not yet of five years.

"Ok!" The father threw the ball, thin blue hair flowing freely with his motions.

"Got it!" The son clutched the ball in both hands, loosing balance and falling backwards. "Yaaaa!!!" He shut his eyes tight, then felt two hands softly on his shoulders, pushing him back up.

"Got you!" the girl, about seven years, giggled as she tickled her little brother.

"Mia!!" He squealed and squirmed in his sister's grasp. "Stop!" He clutched his stomach as he laughed.

"What?" Mia laughed. "I'm sorry, Alex, I can't hear you. You need to stop laughing and speak clearly.

"I said-"He gasped for breath between laughs and words. "Stop heet!"

"What?"

"Stop!" He came back by poking her stomach.

"Hey!"

"Come on you three, dinner (AKA lunch) is ready." Their mother peeked out from behind the door, aromas from hot foods coming from inside.

"Smells good!" Their father walked inside.

"Come on, Alex!" Mia grasped her brother's hand and ran inside with him.

The family sat around a small table. Asumi, the mother, had long blue hair- well, everyone in the family's hair was blue. You see, this family was some of the last of the mercury tribe. The rest were rather old or in their teens- making Mia and Alex the only children.

Any way, Asumi was in her early 20's and had a calm, steady nature. She was loving-, as all mothers should be- but never stressed. Her husband, Jason, was high spirited and young at heart. Mia was loving and sweet, as Alex looked up to her and it was hard to ever recall a time he wasn't following her, usually clutching to her skirts.

After their meal, Mia was cleaning up the dishes, her little sidekick carrying them from the table to the small tub of water. Asumi was cleaning off some old family heirlooms that sat on the mantle, Jason sharing in the joy and pride of gazing at the signs of the mercury clan.

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"Madam!" a woman rushed in, panting. "Madam, you must hurry! It's Jacob, he's fallen ill!!"

"Jason, you take care of her. Mia, you come with me." Asumi rushed across town, Mia at her heels and Alex stumbling around behind her.

When they arrived at the small house, they found a very pale man lying on the bed.

"Than-" The man's eyes suddenly went wide and his face turned blue. Coughing hard, he turned on his side- throwing up over the side of the bed. "Thank heavens... you're here..." He moaned, blood dripping from his mouth.

"Mia, fetch water!"

"Right!" Mia ran outside.

Alex stood still. Traumatized. Wide-eyed and gawking, he was about ready to scream.

"Ply!" Asumi whispered, using everything she had to heal the sick.

The man showed no improvement.

"I've returned!" Mia ran in with a bucket of water. ((Authors note: Don't ask me why they didn't use douse...))

"Good girl- Alex?! Mia, get Alex out of here!"

"Yes ma'am!" Mia nodded, scooping her brother into her arms, carrying his shaking form outside.

Once outside, he started to cry uncontrollably.

"Alex, Alex, it's ok." Mia put him down and hugged him. He returned the embrace and cried into her shoulder. "What you saw was ok... that man will be fine. That's Mommy's job, she helps people get better. It's a perfectly ok thing to be scared at first, but then you find out that there's nothing to be afraid of, cause it's all going to be ok."

"Really?" He sniffled, sitting back and rubbing his eyes.

Mia nodded, and the smile on her face was reflected off of her younger sibling's.

Days passed, and so did Jacob. Nobody had told little Alex that the man hadn't been saved, thus leaving the thought that his mother could fix anything in his mind. And if his mother could do it, so could Mia and himself.

"Miiiiiiiiia!!!" He shouted one day as he ran out the back door to where his sister sat calmly on a blanket, a soft snow making her innocent beauty glow brighter. He grinned as he plopped down next to her.

"Good, Alex, are you ready?" She opened her eyes, smiling at his eagerness.

"Yeah, yeah! Teach me! Ple-ase!!"

"Ok..." Mia held up her hands. "First, you got to aim your powers... see?"

"Like this?" He held his arms out too.

"That's right! Good! Now concentrate your energies to your palms...."

Alex squz his eyes shut to concentrate, making his face look like he just ate a lemon.

"No, not like that. Relax and close your eyes lightly. Ply uses the power of faith- you have to be perfectly sure of yourself and the one's who mean the most to you- no doubts."

He nodded, relaxing his little five-year body.

"Now, in your mind, vision the person you're healing, imagine the ply itself. Summon it, now. There's no way I can instruct you on this step, it should just come naturally." Mia's fairy appeared, sprinkling Alex with bits of... stuff. ((Author's note: I have. No clue.))

Alex's flickered before he started to giggle. "That tickles!"

Mia smiled, then gasped as she clutched her heart- spirit fluttering.

"Mia?!" Alex tugged on her sleeve.

"Where's... mom and dad?!"

"The-"A flash of light echoed through the town, reflecting sharply off the ice and snow.

"Alex, stay!" Mia demanded, standing up and running.

"No, Mia! I wanna come! I can help! I can! Ple-ase?!?!?!" She turned back to see large tears in his little eyes.

"...Ok, maybe it's best. Leaving you alone might be a greater danger..."

Together they ran to the lighthouse- the place the flash had admitted.

"Oh g- oh no... no no no NO!" Mia shouted on approach. She ran up the stairs, fighting against the growing gray in her vision- the light feeling in her head- everything that was working to stop her.

Alex clung close, tripping a few times.

"Alex, no!" Mia held him back, thankful he was too short to see from the base of the lighthouse. "Do NOT follow me, ok? You CAN'T!" She picked him up, shielding his eyes from the view, and placing him in the empty fountain- walls too tall for him to climb. "Mom, Dad!" She continued to run to her parents.

"Mia!" Jason turned from the fight. There were three new people in front of Mia- three people standing between herself and her family. They all looked foreign... reminding her of giant pixies in a way. They didn't have wings and they were frightening... very frightening.

"Mia, run! Get out of here!" Her uncle called, slashing out at one of the strangers as she reached for Mia.

"You can't stop us!" the female stranger lifted her sword, pushing past the man and stabbing his back. Mia's Uncle gave a horrible sound, falling upon her, blood seeping from his mouth and nose. Alas, Mia fainted.

"Mia!" Alex had somehow managed to crawl up the wall using some cracks and vines as a grip. "Mia! Uncle Aned!"

"Alex!" Asumi ran up and took the blow designed for her son.

"Mommy!" Alex caught her, falling underneath her body. "Mom...my?!" He panicked- then something happened that nobody would have thought- he snapped. The small boy- only of five years- grasped his mother's mace, swinging the heavy weapon onto his shoulder.

"Alex!" His father tried to stop him.

"So... by picking up a weapon you choose to fight, is that right little man?"

"No! Leave him alone!!" Jason swung a blow to the woman's side. "You monsters! I won't let you touch him! My brother, my wife, my daughter- all of them! You... you!! You won't have him too!" Blood spilled over the floor.

"Kan!" a muscular male avenged with a slash against Jason's back.

Jason winced, but refused to give up. "You... won't!" He coughed up a puddle of more crimson before delivering a final blow.

"Daddy..." Alex shook uncontrollably, now left to face the two large males on his own.

"What's the matter, KID?! Are you going to try to stop us now too?!"

"Wait, this one's alive too!" The other man prodded Mia over onto her back with the flat of his sword.

"Kill her."

"NO!" A sudden light emitted from behind the small child, the light moving with him so that the two seemed to move as one. The light formed into new figure, one looking to be a male about his early 20s. He had long silvery blue hair with unevenly cut bangs. He was dressed in strange clothes- a light shirt with a collar that covered is neck and blue pants made of a coarse fabric. He held up a short sword. Behind him- very faintly- the shape of a girl about 18 could be made out. She was short, red hair and dressed in worn baggy clothes. She seemed to have her hands full with a black orb which appeared to hide her and part of her companion- making them seem like ghosts. On her finger a green light gave forth from her ring. The two strange men were thrown against the walls of the lighthouse as the male figure slashed at them. "You..." His booming voice mixed with the child's. "You will pay, I'll make sure of it!" The men were thrown into the air as the ghost raised his hand. Soon after him his companion raised her ringed hand and a large fire dragon was summoned and devoured the strangers. Then the ring glowed brighter and the two ghosts disappeared.

"Alex!" Mia woke with a start and ran to her brother as he collapsed into her arms.

"Mia... we can make them better, right? Just like Mommy did to that man... we can make them better."

"Alex..." Mia fell silent.

"We can do it, we can make anyone better, right?" He stumbled over to his mother's body. "They'll get better... ply!" He tried over and over.

"Alex, stop!" Mia finally stopped him, sobbing hard. "Alex... we can't fix them... something's just can't be done... You'd have to be extremely powerful to bring them back..."

"Powerful...?"

"It's ok though, Alex. I'll take care of you. Forever, I Promise. You'll always be the most important thing to me. It's all going to be ok."

'Powerful...'

Seven years passed from there, the two depending on each other more then they ever did. One was all the other had left. Mia depended on Alex's strength, warmth, and protection and in return cared for him when he needed it and kept him company.

Mia didn't change much physically. She was still small and beautiful. She still had that caring nature and still treated Alex like a child just to tease.

Nobody would have guessed Mia was the older one. Alex looked to be fourteen or more. He was tall and a brilliant fighter. He didn't trust many people-he was afraid to trust anyone he didn't know before. Deep inside the need for revenge bubbled higher and the guardian spirit that had saved him that day became his rival. He knew things could have been better had he been stronger. He could have saved his parents and he could have saved his sister that horrible scar along her back. He seemed so cold to most- only Mia saw the child that still lied within.

But she knew his childhood was lost- life could never be the same. She knew she couldn't save him from fate. She tried to hide her regret that she couldn't stop his loss of innocence... She missed that laughing smile and tickling that toddler. But he never let her see that he was upset. No, she was happy for that. She was happy they still had each other. He'd smile for her.

He'd always smile for her.

He'd escort her to the houses where she was needed. Every once in a while travelers would cause trouble- trying to take advantage of the beautiful caring young lady. Alex would merely throw them out of town- no use fighting because then they'd just have to heal them and that would be a waste of energy.

"Alex-chan!" Mia came running into the room where her brother was sprawled out on a bed. "I have to go to Mrs. Kannan's house, she's caught the flu!" She never had to ask him to come along, he'd just follow. She wasn't even sure he knew she wanted him there.

After healing the woman-, Mia stood to leave.

"Wait." Mrs. Kannan said, sitting up.

"Ma'am, you should stay in bed for a short while still."

"No, I want to help you. Alex and you are the last healers of Imil. Without you, we'd be nothing."

"Thank you ma'am. You should rest now."

"No, give me another moment. Will you take my grandchildren under your wing and teach them as you are teaching Alex?"

Alex raised a brow, it never occurred to him that he was a STUDENT...

"Surely. It would be an honor to carry on our family's tradition to them."

Alex jumped. What was she doing?! Only members of the Mercury tribe could become healers?! Was she betraying her family, giving away the secret?!

"Justin, Megan!" The woman called in two children about seven years of age each. "You are now Mia's new students."

The two nodded in agreement and understanding.

"Then let's go, students." Mia led them back to the sanctum.

For the next two years, Mia worked primly with the two new comers. Non-adepts needed the extra training. She never noticed something was amiss until something was missing.

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Ame: Now for the start of informal author notes! Hi! My name's Ame (obviously). I have put my time into studying Alchemy and world history such as the theory of Lemuria (Also called Mu or Pacifica). And now I shall introduce you to my muses!

Alex: Help... me...

Van: Hi! n-n;;

Alna: Yay!!!

Fury: o-o

Ember: -.-

Torch and scorch: We eat your flames!

Fever: (Too busy eating)

Ame: And the other djinn are outside playing...

Other djinn: IT'S COLD!!!!

Ame: Sometimes we'll have my 'co-authoresses' come and do interludes or something! They have their own muses, so we'll eventually have the whole gang here! Just as another key of warning I want to tell you again: I can be an EXTREME PERVERT. Felix and Picard WILL be used in EXTREME YAOI ways. Ok? n-n

Alex: - ;;

Ame: Strange twists in the plot are assured. Mary-sue-ism is slight, butthey always get killed, so it's ok! n-n