Thanks to Lord Cynic again I am once again pushed to update! Anyway this chapter shall be quite interesting for you guys! And very suspenseful! You will all be surprised at how this stories going to be changed! AHAHAHAHAHAH-hack-cough-...crap...
Disclaimer: I don't own Golden Sun....yet. D
Golden flashes and silver dew drops, all visions normally taken as a triviality when being transported, but the patterns were much different, much more alive and vibrant than ever before, than any of the adepts have ever witnessed. The swirls of light and dizziness soon began to eat away at the adept's endurance for it all, and they soon began to feel sick. Soon enough it all ended in a huge white flash and they had arrived in the most strangest of areas on weyward, if they were still on it for that matter.
The skies were filled with pink and gray clouds, shimmering with constant lighting flashes and swirls of wind from every direction. Each sound as horrifying as the last, brimming with life in its own way. The adepts looked around the chaotic world, grass blades of silver, suns and moons of blood red and icy blue. The world looked as though it were something a dark and destructive mind would have created, but the atmosphere and their surroundings were real, not fantasy.
Isaac looked to the sky and frowned; the dangerous sky threatened to strike him down, but kept from doing so, as if to test his conscience. The others, just as awed as he, stared at the horrifying scenes just the same. Iris tapped his shoulder and he suddenly turned around, expecting a monster stronger than dullahan, in this place...that would seem possible.
"Oh, Iris you startled me." Isaac said sounding out of breath.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to, I just wanted to warn you that this place is dangerous and staying in one spot could be fatal, we have to keep moving if we want to keep up on our quest." Iris informed.
Isaac nodded and turned away from Iris to the others, who were still staring at the surrounds, some shivering with fear, others, just stricken stiff.
"Guys, we have to keep moving, Iris says that it is dangerous to stay in one place."
"This place...it's so scary...I've never been so afraid in my life..." Sharon muttered.
"Yes, it is more than anything I've ever expected to see in my lifetime." Felix said aloud, his voice shaking.
"Isaac...will we die here?" Mia asked him, turning to him, her azure eyes pleading for an answer.
"I don't know Mia..." Isaac told her stroking her hair and bringing her into an embrace.
"We shouldn't stay long if Iris says it's dangerous." Garet spoke up.
"Well, duh Garet!" Jenna said trying to put in some sarcasm, but failed miserably.
Everyone fell silent, thinking, planning, or bracing themselves for the time that they would need to move. The world they were in was much, much more intense and dangerous than the topside of weyward would ever be, and that was the truth. The adepts knew that standing in this grassland of silver and dark trees covered in silver dew would not help much though.
"We should begin, the faster we do this, the better." Isaac informed everyone.
"It won't be so easy to do it fast, Isaac." Iris informed him.
"Why not?" Garet asked, confused.
"Because if you move too quickly; you will surely become exhausted in at least an hour." Iris told them.
"Only an hour!?" Mia shouted. "How strong are the monsters here?"
"Let me put it to you softly...it's going to be like fighting Dullahan over, over and over again." Iris said.
"Oh...no..." Mia whimpered.
"This is probably the hardest thing we will ever do guys, but we must try our best anyway." Isaac added to Iris's rather grim information, still holding Mia in his arms.
The adepts sat for awhile, in the harsh weather and arid lands. The air colder than it was in the Antarctic blowing across their faces, bringing a violent shiver to anyone it successfully froze with each gust. Sheba and Ivan huddled next to Felix and piers, desperately trying to find some comfort and warmth, no matter how it came to happen. Isaac and Mia hugged each other tightly, eyes closed and each breath becoming more and more raspy. Jenna and Garet stood amongst the others frowning at the weather and how evil It seemed, they were the only ones, besides Iris of course, who were not affected by the weather, seeing that a fiery ember of Mars pysnergy kept them warm at all times.
Iris stood from her Indian sitting position and stretched. Then she yawned and began to speak to the adepts. "I know it's hard to bear this burden, but someone has to do it." Iris looked at the shivering bodies of the adepts and frowned. "Here, this should help you guys out."
The adepts looked up from their positions and looked at Iris questionably as she raised her hands into the air and began chanting some odd words. Her words came out in whispers as her hands began to glow with a fiery red color, then her hands burst with energy. She lowered her hands down to the adepts and shot them all with blast of pysnergy, the adepts gasped, thinking she was attacking them. But strangely enough a warm sensation soon began to fill them all after they were hit. They all began to feel as though it were spring time on a hot sunny day! It felt great to them!
"Yay! I feel so much better!" Sharon exclaimed happily along with Ivan.
"Wow..." Sheba said, amazed as her body glowed with fire energy.
"That feels so much better!" Piers exclaimed, jumping to his feet, along with Felix.
"I must agree..." Isaac said, putting down Mia from his arms as she smiled. "That was a smart move Iris!"
"Well, thanks!" Iris beamed, smiling at all of the adept's comments on how great she was; it was nice to have some recognition after all of this time.
"Well, so how long does this last Iris?" Garet asked.
"As long as you stay on the underside of weyward, which shouldn't be hard by the way, you should be fine." Iris told him without a care.
"Doesn't that bother you? After all, this is pysnergy." Jenna asked.
"Nope, besides it isn't pysnergy." Iris added.
"It isn't pysnergy?!" Isaac asked, surprised himself.
"Yhea....how isn't it pysnergy Iris?" Mia asked, puzzled.
"It's really quite simple you know." Iris told her.
"How?"
"You remember how Dullahan uses things like, "True collide" and "Charon?" Iris asked.
"Vaguely...but yes..." Mia answered.
"Yhea! It was like he was pulling it out of thin air! And no pysnergy was ever detected either!" Ivan added.
"Well it's all just magic." Iris told them.
"Magic?" Mia asked, as if it were something new to her.
"Yes, it is something you never run out of or need to concentrate about, you just need to say a few words is all."
"That's amazing! You think we could learn to do magic?" Ivan asked her hopefully.
"Sure."
"YES!"
Everyone stared at the young adept and frowned, he was a little too excited today, and this scared some of them.
"What?"
"..."
"What!?"
"Never mind, now that we don't have to worry about freezing to death, we should walk through this land and find the first Lighthouse." Isaac said.
"Right." Everyone answered simultaneously.
The adepts began to travel the lands in which they had to become accustomed to, the world seemed so much closer to falling apart than normal, but everyone guessed it was just because this was the bottom of weyward. What else did you expect? The trees and silver grass began to grow creepier as they walked onto a suddenly narrow strip of land, seemingly walking into what looked like some really, really dark woods.
"This is creepy..." Sheba said.
"You bet it is, kind of inviting though!" Sharon said happily.
"How could you consider such lands, inviting?" Mia snapped.
"Duh! I'm darkness adept!" Sharon told her a of matter fact.
"Crap...touché dark one...touché." Mia admitted she had her there.
"So, Iris, what do you think is at the end of this forest?" Isaac asked as they walked through the forest, distant lighting flashes providing enough light to see without strain.
"I don't know; I have been dead for 4000 years!" Iris told him.
"Oh...right." Isaac remembered that she was revived, rubbing the back of his head.
"Uh...guys..." Felix said from the back. "Help."
Isaac and the others stopped to see why Felix sounded so frightened, just to see four pairs of narrow blood red eyes staring at him from the woods. It growled loudly as it bared something very shinny and white, assuming it's bone crushing teeth, and it did not look like it just ate either!
"What the hell is that!?" Isaac exclaimed.
"It's one of the monsters!" Iris exclaimed. "And it looks like an impaler!"
The ferocious bear like creature jumped from the woods, almost killing Felix instantly as he dodged out of the way and leaped towards his friends, just barely avoiding getting his leg torn off.
"This one looks strong!" Sharon commented, pulling out her Dark blade.
"Sure does..." Felix breathed, grabbing out his sol blade as everyone else grabbed their weapons.
The bear was no taller than Felix was, menacing in its own ways, each of its red eyes glowed fiercely as it eyed down everyone, as if measuring their strengths and weaknesses. Then it roared a loud, deafnifying roar as it came charging at everyone, slashing at extreme speeds, everyone jumped out of the way and cast their pysnergy on it.
"Odyssey!" Isaac called as he charged the impaler when the first two blades had struck it.
Jenna and Garet teamed up and both cast pyroclasms on the beast, causing it to roar in pain as the fire and the recent odyssey had finished their payload.
"I think it's weakening!" Mia shouted, as she tried to cast Haunt on it, hoping to cause some damage, luckily it worked on it. "Yes!"
Isaac smiled at Mia's success and watched as an unknown force pelted the monster, but this time it was much more different, a loud blast noise was heard as a portal opened and unleashed the most hideous monsters ever to behold, destroying the Impaler quickly.
Everyone stared in disbelief as the monster practically disintegrated into the ground, it's cries horrifying in it's own way. The battle had been won, and it was a relief, they thought it was going to be much harder than this, but it seemed that this wasn't going to be as hard as they all had expected it to be. The adepts turned to a grinning Iris, confused looks on their faces as she smiled wider.
"What? Surprised?" Iris asked them.
The adepts all nodded simultaneously, dumbfounded in a highly new definition.
"How did I do that Iris?" Mia asked.
"Yeah! Where did Mia get such a cool pysnergy!?" Garet asked jealousy obvious.
"Well it's quite simple my dear Garet!" Iris asked as she pulled out a black board that stood up by some unknown force from nowhere.
"Where the heck did you conjure that from!?" Piers asked, surprised at how she defied the laws of physics.
Soon a whole bunch of chairs shot up from the ground and surprised everyone to sit down, and then a flat surface came from the ground as a table. Everyone gasped in horror as they realized where these things have come from.
"NO! Its Kraden school all over again!" They all screamed simultaneously.
"Relax! It's not going to take long!" Iris grinned at their worried faces; the setting didn't seem much different from Kradens house, even with all of the spooky trees and weird colored plants.
"Now, if you would all look to the board, you will see two signs." Iris tapped the board with a stick and pointed to a circle with the word pysnergy in it, and another shaped as a square with the word Magic in it.
The others looked at it questionably and frowned.
"What is the point of all of this?" Felix asked confused.
"Yhea, I don't get any of this at all!" Ivan complained.
"My head hurts right now..." Garet complained too.
"When doesn't it?" Jenna asked him.
"On Wednesdays." Garet told her.
"..."
"Heh...that was a good one Garet." Sharon told him from her seat across from Isaac.
"Thank you."
"Ahem!!" Iris fumed from the front, grabbing the attention of everyone who was speaking. "If you let me explain everything would become clear to you numbskulls!"
Everyone grumbled and obeyed Iris's command. Iris grinned and turned back to the board, drawing something on it with a piece of white chalk.
The others looked upon her contently as she finished drawing, and then revealed some more shapes.
"I don't really get it." Sharon said.
"Just let me explain!" Iris shouted.
"Meep!" Sharon whimpered.
"Now, see this triangle between these two other shapes? That's the dimension between worlds! When Mia cast a pysnergy, she caused a small rip between the balance of Magic and Pysnergy! Therefore, casting an useful Magic to kill a Dullahan strengthened enemy!"
"Cool!" Sharon exclaimed.
Felix raised his hand and was called on by Iris. "Yes Felix?"
"How did Mia cast something completely different like that?"
"Oh, that's simple; here in the polar end of weyward, all pysnergy is the opposite of what it is on the topside, therefore making you all cast Magic instead of pysnergy! On the top, pysnergy is cast, on the bottom completely different magic is cast!"
"Fascinating!" Felix exclaimed.
"Quite, now, are there anymore questions?" Iris asked the sitting adepts.
Everyone looked at each other, and then turned back to Iris. Isaac was the first to speak for them. "Doesn't look like it."
"Good." Iris then suddenly pushed the black board away in a cartoonist manner and snapped her fingers, getting rid of the chairs and desks, making them all fall on their bottoms. Several cusses and shouts were heard soon after that.
"Well, now let's go, we are almost out of the forest! There is an old civilizations manner ahead, we can rest there." Iris informed them.
"Alright, Let's go guys!" Isaac said, picking himself up, along with everyone else, and walking forward along the path once more. Everyone silently followed him, Mia the closest and Sharon closer behind.
"Maybe we can finally get some rest!" Jenna said happily.
End Chapter.
No cliff hanger this time! Aren't you guys lucky? What do you think will happen next when they get out of the forest? What do you think will happen when they actually get into the manner? Find out next chapter! R&R!