Chapter 1

The battle was getting tiresome, I was running out of Psynergy, and all my Djinni was resting. The fleet of Wonder Birds has finally surrounded me, my teammates were knocked out, and death was breathing down my neck with an icy cold embrace.

In an instant, fire like Psynergy was surrounding me, which meant that they were preparing to attack, and by the feel of the energy flow it seemed like they were going to pummel me with a combination of Dragon Fume, and Searing Beam.

Time was of the essence, I had to either think my way out of this situation, or hope for a miracle, and there's no way I can think at a time like this. Wait, I think I got it….

In the next split second, I turned my GBA off. Thankfully I saved my game before I entered the dungeon. I was starting to get a headache anyway, so I put my GBA in my pocket, and headed downstairs for breakfast.

How rude of me, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Xero Retaw. My real name is Josh, but ever since I started being nicknamed Zero, like the character in "HOLES", and I thought it be cooler to be changed to "X" instead of "Z". You might wonder why would I be nicknamed Xero? Well, I'm probably just as quiet, but mocked at more often then the Zero you know.

I'm most likely seen as a doormat to most people, and the doormat says 'Please Walk Over Me'. Everyone, and I mean everyone, that has the chance will make fun of me without hesitation. I don't even think I have any friends out there that I can call a bud. Sure I have a few acquaintances, but no real friendships.

As I walked downstairs I could smell fresh bacon and eggs over the oven. I was almost lifted into the air, like some cartoon character, by the aroma of meat and eggs. When I finally entered the kitchen, I was given a cold-hearted stare from my stepmother. Once my dad married that witch, my life has been a living heck, and my father did nothing of it, it was like he had too much time bothered by her to spend any time with me, but I accepted it.

Once my stepmother released me from her evil eye death grip, I sat down, waiting for my breakfast. After a couple of minutes, she placed down a plate of roasting bacon, and steaming eggs. Before I could get one molecule on the bacon, my stepmother whapped my hand with a spatula, she did that so often, I couldn't even say I felt any pain. So as I retracted my hand, she plopped in front of me, a cold bowl of oatmeal. I'd be lying if I said I was surprised, because I really wasn't. I was given oatmeal everyday, ever since that witch appeared in my life.

So I just pushed the oatmeal away, and left the table without food. Luckily, my stepmother is as smart as she is beautiful, and let me tell you, there's no way in heaven or hell, that she would win any beauty contests, whatsoever. So I grabbed a pop tart from the pantry, and left the kitchen.

Since it was a weekend, I decided to go outside and get some fresh air, but really I just wanted to be rid of that monster my dad wants me to call a mom. So I went to the park so I can get some peace and tranquility. But all good things must come to an end, especially when Brad and his so-called friends come around.

"Look what we have here, Xero, the teenager with grades as low as his name." Brad announced to his gang.

"You shouldn't be talking Brad, with the IQ you have, I'm surprised you passed Pre-School." I whispered to myself.

"What you say punk?" One of his buddies said, as he shoved me around. Before I knew it Brad and his gang surrounded me. Great, this is just like the same situation as in my Golden Sun game, only problem is, anything is possible since this is real life, but there is no restart buttons. As I was thinking this I was being punched and kicked at everywhere. Right now my position was really pathetic, I was curled up into a ball on the ground, then something happened, I couldn't really explain it, but the same thing happened before.

(Flash Back)

Last time I was on the beach, I kept getting hit with volleyballs from some surfer punks. Their girlfriends came over and told them to stop, thankfully they did. Though stupid me, I had to make some stupid comment, and with some miracle they heard me and came over to beat the life out of me. I started to really get enraged, and before I knew it I was no longer in control. I could see perfectly, but I was no longer in control of my body. The surfer punks seemed to be trembling before me, and I seemed to grow at least five feet. I noticed some sort of object forming in the palm of my hand it was water. It seemed to be a ball of water, and then I formed another one in my other hand. After that I blacked out.

When I came to I was back to normal height. I seemed to be all right, no injuries other than the ones I received earlier. I noticed some people on the ground, they seemed hurt so I went over to them. Since they were face flat on the ground, I turned them over and saw those surfer punks. I was so worried that I ran all the way back to my hotel. Luckily no one saw us, I hope.

(End Flash Back)

As I was curled up into a ball, the guys were starting to sweat, I could tell this cause they were literally raining upon me. After a couple more seconds they backed off cause they seemed to be over heating.

I uncurled myself to see what was happening. It was crazy, it looked like they were literally drenched in there own sweat. Not like you just came out of a gym working yourself to the bone, I mean, your just got out of an oven sweating, it was crazy! This part is why I told you about the flashback. I lost control of my body again, and like last time I still had my vision, when I wish I hadn't.

I started to grow again, but even taller than before. They environment around me also seemed to be effected by what was happening, the tree's leaves were falling off, the grass was at the point of burning, even the ground looked charred.

Brad and his gang were trembling now, but they looked even more scared then those surfer punks, and I couldn't blame them. There was this fiery aura around me, even I could feel the intense heat around me, but it didn't seem to effect me.

Then it happened. I reached out my hand and a ball of fire appeared, but I didn't throw the ball, instead I did something even more terrifying. My whole arm became engulfed in flame, I then expelled the flame through my arm, toward Brad. The best way to describe this is to say my arm was a flamethrower, plain and simple.

Once my blast hit my target, and the debris cleared, I thank god for the miracle. A part of me wanted to blow Brad up to smithereens along with his group, but another part of me wanted to save him from myself. Luckily I hit the pavement in front of him, the only problem was, there was a huge hole in the ground, which I bet no one, can explain.

After that little incident, I regained my usual height and was on the ground panting for breath. I guess whenever something like that happens I lose a lot of energy. Once I looked back up to see how Brad felt about this, I saw that he high-tailed it out of here. That's probably the best move he made in his whole life so far, so I might as well mimic him and high tail it home.

As soon as I made it through the front door, I saw a package at my feet.

"Dad! Who's this package for?" I yelled.

"Read the label!" He yelled back.

I looked at the label and it said "To: Xero Retaw

From: Camelot"

"Camelot, who's that…. oh yeah, that's the company that makes Golden Sun." I said with stupidity.

"Before I forget, the man who delivered that told me to tell you that Alex is alive and the prophecy will be extinguished. Whatever the hell that means." My dad said, and he left for the kitchen.

So, why would Camelot send me anything? I took out a letter from all the Styrofoam peanut stuff and found a letter.

Dear Xero,

Bonjour Mr. Retaw, we know your real name, but we prefer to call our participants by their Gaming Name. We have chosen you and many others to play our new game, "Golden Sun: Lost Prophecy". The world of Weyard is in turmoil again, and Isaac and his friends can't stop Alex and his forces. Isaac is set to search for a warrior with the ability of all the elements. Not like what Alex has obtained. A warrior from birth has the ability of all four elements. Alex is set out to destroy that prophecy. This game is linked all around the world, and one out of the thousand participants has the chance of becoming the prophecy. Everything about this game is completely different from the original, except for the storyline, and characters. We won't give out any more information. There will be instructions in the package, good luck Xero of Imil.

Sincerely,

Alex of Imil

P.S. You will perish at my hands

Wow that was an interesting note, too bad this is all a game. I would love to be the prophecy. Wait, does this have anything to do with my strange ability, why I could create fire and water from my hands, why I could grow several feet. Who cares, I just wanted to get that game and start playing. I dug some more, until I found the cartilage. Great, it was for the Nintendo DS. This system was so cool, the graphics and everything must be phenomenal.

It's time for the moment I was waiting for. I put the game in, and I turned on the power. Its funny, I thought state of the art graphics would appear, but nothing. Power was on, everything was fine. I thought it was broken or something. Then this soothing sound came, and a dialogue similar to Star Wars. I couldn't read it cause it was in another language. This isn't Earth language, this almost looks like Lemurian language if I'm not mistaken. Then all of a sudden, the words light up with a mystical light, the screen flashed, and the world as I knew it would forever be changed.