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PROLOGUE
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Lord Cynic: "Where's everybody?"
Nothing around him but empty space.
Lord Cynic: "This must be my lucky day!"
Lord Cynic prances around only to fall down a hole.
Lord Cynic: "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." *BAM*
Mini Jenna: "Heh heh... sucker."
The Mini GS crew high-five each other as Cynic lays unconscious in the hole.
Mini Mia: "Um... how long will he be that way?"
Mini Ivan: "Who cares?"
Mini Mia: "..."
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Mini Garet: "Lord Cynic doesn't own Golden Sun. Camelot Soft does. Cynic owns about 50 floppy disks he nicked from school."
Cynic: OO;
Mini Garet: "Er, forget that..."
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Chapter 4: "Isaac's 2nd-worst nightmare"
Piers stomped through the streets of Vale, cursing and muttering under his breath. Passers-by stared bewilderedly as he randomly froze statues with his Psynergy.
"How dare they," he grumbled. "I am a respected Lemurian, they don't need to know my age... disgraceful..."
As he passed the artillery store, a figure crept out from behind some bushes. He looked exactly like Piers except for one thing: He had the mark of a Mad Demon on his forehead. He watched Piers walk away in disgust and grinned malevolently.
"My plan has already been set into motion... next stop, Isaac's house..."
He proceeded to jump out of the bushes when someone's fireball hit him square in the back, sending him crashing into the side of the artillery store.
"Sorry, mister!" A child called from a short distance away. The Piers look-alike groaned with exasperation.
"This will be harder than I thought," he muttered as he peeled himself off the wall. He scowled when the kids nearby sniggered rudely, then he headed off to Isaac's house.
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"When there's no one for me to turn to, all I see if you..."
Inside Isaac's house, inside Isaac's bedroom, inside Isaac's closet, Granite and Tonic were at it again. Wait, no, not like that... sick puppies. Down, down!... okay, I'll keep quiet.
"You're eyes are bright like the stars in the sky, my love for you I could never lie," Granite recited lovingly to his Mercury Djinn love. Tonic was cuddled up next to her boyfriend, and they settled further onto a fur coat that Granite had tugged off its coat hanger. Like his Romeo-esque Adept owner, Granite had taken to showering Tonic with gifts and endless declarations of love. {"Sappy little... oh, the microphone's on?... er..."}
"I'll always be here by your side, in the darkness I will be your light," Granite continued to recite. Tonic swooned, but the closet door suddenly opened.
"Granite?!"
"Tonic?"
"Huh?"
After creating a short dramatic scene involving the words, "The light, the light," Granite looked up to see blue eyes staring straight at him, which was the same case for Tonic. Both blinked in confusion, then it registered.
"Um, hello, Isaac," Granite said nervously. Next to him, Tonic barely squeaked a hello of her own to Mia.
"Well, well," Isaac said, grinning slyly. "Like Adept, like Djinn."
"I guess so," Granite said. "Tonic definitely gets her beauty from Mia, y'reckon?"
Both Mia and Tonic blushed, and Isaac and Granite grinned at their girlfriends. Tonic became the first of the Djinni to notice Mia's ring.
"Ooooh," she cried in astonishment. "That ring's beautiful, Mia. Where did you get it?"
"Well, actually," Mia said, blushing a deeper red, "Isaac proposed to me."
Granite raised an eyebrow as Isaac rubbed the back of his head embarrassingly. Tonic's eyes sparkled as Mia showed her the ring in all its glory.
"So, when's the big day?" Granite asked.
"We haven't decided yet?" Isaac said, wondering the same thing himself. "We're trying to join Garet and Jenna together so that we can have a double wedding."
"Easier said than done," Granite muttered to Tonic, who giggled. Something suddenly returned to the corridors of his mind, and he smirked. "Say, what are you doing here? I would've thought the closet in Mia's room would be big enough for you two."
The redness on Isaac and Mia's face matched the coats of Jenna and Garet's Djinni's fur, and they stared horrified at the Venus Djinn. Tonic even looked at him like he was going to turn into a Mimic.
"Er, well, that is," Isaac stammered, then he regained his composure. "This is my room!"
"But not for long, eh?" Granite said slyly. Isaac raised an eyebrow. "I bet your mum wants Mia to move in here, right?"
"Um..."
Isaac became speechless as he and Mia started having flashbacks...
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As Piers departed on his boat, Isaac and Mia looked into each other's eyes. Before anyone could duck into the shrubs to puke, the two lovebirds were sharing another kiss. Watching her son and his girlfriend, Dora's mind was already working towards something.
"I'll need to buy a bigger bed for Isaac's room," she said. "I want some grandchildren as soon as possible."
Everyone ducking to puke fell over themselves into the bushes, and Isaac and Mia froze in mid-kiss, scarlet with embarrassment.
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A large truck pulled up to Isaac and Dora's house early the next morning. Unlike their late-sleeping Adept counterparts, Granite and Tonic were wide-awake - pashing in Isaac's closet. Upon hearing the truck outside, after falling off the top shelf in shock the Djinni scrambled to the window to see what the noise was.
"I've never seen a truck here before," Tonic whispered.
"Neither have I," Granite whispered back. "I wonder why it's here?"
Tonic was about to say something else when Isaac grunted in his sleep. The two Djinni sweatdropped nervously as Dora's voice called from downstairs.
"Isaac! Mia! Come look at the new bed!"
Isaac grunted again and rolled out of bed - onto the floor. Cursing to himself, he gathered himself off the floor and stumbled out of the bedroom. Immediately in the corridor he met Mia, who was wearing a starry nightgown, very unlike her common wear of robes. When their eyes met, Isaac looked Mia over and she blushed bright red when he grinned. He wrapped an arm around her waist and they walked together downstairs.
"About time," Dora said as the two teenagers finally arrived at the front door. "The new bed's come."
"Huh?" Isaac finally tore his eyes off Mia to look at his mother. "What new bed? For who?"
"You of course," Dora said, as if it was obvious. Isaac and Mia stared at her, and she added, "Your bed's way to small for you and Mia to sleep in together, so I got a double."
"W-What do you mean?" Mia asked timidly when Isaac became incapable of human speech.
"What, you haven't talked about it yet?" Dora asked, surprised. "I thought you'd already be -"
"Mum!" Isaac's face was burning red by now. "We've only been going out for nine hours!"
"Well!" Dora huffed, but she remained dignified. "Your father and I only needed ten minutes before we knew we wanted to get married."
"How old were you?"
Dora chose to ignore this, but she said no more on the subject. Upstairs, Granite and Tonic were listening to every word.
"Well, well," Granite said. "Looks like our two turtledoves might be living in the same nest soon, so to speak."
*
"We've both known for a while now," Granite drawled. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we have business to resume."
Isaac seethed and looked like he could fry a Grypphon's egg on his head, but Mia gripped his arm and he cooled down. Glaring at his Venus Djinn, he left with Mia so that Granite and Tonic could be alone again.
After the two Adepts left, Granite turned to Tonic with a stupid smile on his face, misreading the horrified look on Tonic's.
"Now my darling," he said. "What were we up to - oww!"
Tonic whacked him on the back of the head, making him fall out of the fur coat onto the floor.
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"Come on Isaac. Let us go before you do something you'll regret."
Isaac and Mia walked down the stairs, Mia still with her arm around Isaac's. Isaac was still ticked off about their conversation with their Djinni, but he remained silent for the meantime.
"Don't worry about Granite," Mia reassured him gently. "If I know Tonic, she would've made sure that he didn't get away with it painlessly."
Isaac thought about that as they walked to the front door, and to Mia's relief a confident, albeit malicious smile spread across his face.
"Y'know," he began, "it seems that those two have followed in our footsteps to the path of true love. Like Adept, like Djinni I guess. To tell you the truth, I didn't know any of my Djinni had a romantic muscle in their bodies."
"Well," Mia said, smiling, "they must get it from you, because you're the sweetest guy I know."
Isaac blushed modestly, and Mia smiled again as he went to open the door, but he was bowled over by a red streak that collided with him and rolled into the TV room. As Mia fretted over her unconscious fiancé, a loud thump came from the other room when a leather couch halted the red streak's rampage.
"Ow!" cried a voice from the room as Mia revived Isaac with her Psynergy. After he regained consciousness, Isaac glanced at Mia in confused and she pointed to the TV room. Eyebrows raised, Isaac crept into the TV room to find Garet rubbing his head in pain.
"Damn couch," he cursed. "Stupid piece of cr -" He stopped in mid-sentence and looked up to see Isaac and Mia staring at him. "Er, hey guys. How you two doin'?"
He sweatdropped when Isaac and Mia gave him (- -); faces, and he removed his hand from his head to reveal a large throbbing bump on his noggin. Isaac and Mia took one look at it and turned, trying desperately to hide their laughter. Garet scowled.
"Do you mind? I'm in a bit of pain," he growled angrily. Isaac and Mia cleared their throats and tried to apologise, but one glance at Garet's bump and their dissolved into laughter again.
"Sorry buddy," Isaac said between laughs. Garet growled again and got up to leave when the front door rattled. With a yelp, he dove behind the couch just as a steaming Jenna burst into the house.
"All right, where is he?!" he demanded. Although their wore nervous (^_^); faces, Isaac and Mia were thoroughly confused.
"Where is who?" Isaac asked. He jumped back in alarm at the mingled glare Jenna was giving him.
"Garet, that's who!" she shrieked, making Isaac and Mia both fall over sideways. As they recovered and got back up, they gave each other "So that's why" looks while Jenna stalked around the house searching for her dim male counterpart.
"'I'll distract Jenna while you get Garet out of the house," Mia whispered to Isaac, who looked back at her in a mix of surprise and disappointment.
"Why?" he whispered back. "It'd be really funny to see what Jenna would do to Garet if she found him, wouldn't you agree?"
"Well, yes," Mia said, smiling slightly. "But I don't think your mother would be too pleased if she came back to find this place in ashes after Jenna's through with Garet."
Speaking of the two Mars Adepts, Garet was hiding in a cabinet while Jenna prowled around the kitchen. She nearly ripped open cupboards as she continued to search for the redhead.
"Yes, you're right," Isaac said after briefly thinking it over. "All right, occupy Jenna while I find Garet and get him out of here."
Mia nodded, and gave Isaac a quick peck on the cheek for good luck. He gave her the thumbs up and a wink and she disappeared into the kitchen. Now wearing a sneaky smile on his face he crept around the TV room quietly.
"Hey, Garet!" he hissed, tiptoeing between some chairs. "Garet! Where are you?"
The cabinet in the corner shook violently, and for a second Isaac thought it was haunted. Giving himself a mental punch in the arm and a physical shake, he crept over to the cabinet and stared at it, brows furrowed.
"Either it is possessed," he thought aloud, "or a certain redhead has made it his refuge."
Smirking, he decided not to spring Garet (yet) and turned his back to the cabinet. However, before he could walk away, Garet burst out of the cabinet, gasping for air. Isaac turned around to be crushed when his childhood friend collided with him for the second time that day.
"Look out -"
"What t -"
"What was that?" Jenna asked sharply, hearing the collision. Mia sweatdropped nervously, hoping Isaac wasn't in some sort of strife.
"Isaac must've tripped over something," she said quickly.
"Hmm..." Jenna wasn't completely convinced, but she spotted a flash of red at the top of the stairs. Thinking it was Garet's hair, she charged like an angry bull up the stairs, and Mia hurried after her.
'I hope Isaac can hurry,' she thought desperately as Jenna began to speed hungrily up the stairs.
"I'm seeing stars... and tomatoes... lettuce... cheese... mayonnaise... a juicy meat patty... all in a sesa -"
Garet snapped back into reality to find that he was sitting on something soft that wasn't the carpet. He got up to find Isaac unconscious on the floor.
"I'd better wake him up in case Mia comes back and thinks I did something to him." Garet scratched his chin thought, then an idea popped into his head. He crouched next to Isaac and whispered in his ear. "Alex is back, Isaac, and he's proposed to Mia. She accepted his proposal and they're getting married next we -"
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Garet didn't get to finish his sentence before Isaac shot up in shock. He was as white as ghost as his blue eyes darted around the room, and Garet already started to regret his nasty joke.
"What in the world was that?!" Jenna exclaimed, halfway through searching a broom closet. Mia also heard the scream and, having recognised it as Isaac's, fretted about what could've happened.
"I've gotta go downstairs," she decided, forgetting about her and Isaac's plan and rushing downstairs. Jenna watched her run downstairs, then, figuring she could get revenge on Garet later, followed her Imilian friend downstairs.
"Isaac! Calm down, buddy!"
Garet was having difficulty getting Isaac to relax, because the blonde Venus Adept was running around the room like a child fed too much caffeine. Garet had already unsuccessfully tried to stop Isaac with a flare wall... but he'd missed and roasted a side table.
He was about to give up when Mia rushed into the room to find Isaac still running around like the Energiser Bunny.
"Isaac!" she called loudly. "What's the matter?"
Isaac froze in his tracks, blinked and stared at Mia in uncertainty.
"M... Mia, is that you?"
"Isaac, what's wrong?" Mia repeated. "Did you hear something horrible on the news?"
This caused Isaac to rush over to her and hold her tight. Jenna finally arrived into the room to find Garet sweatdropping and leaning on the left wall, Mia looking at her fiancé worriedly and being crushed by Isaac who seemed speechless. She caught Garet's eye and he tried to shrug casually, making her raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"Is... is it true?" Isaac gasped. "You're going to marry Alex instead of me?"
"Huh?" Mia and Jenna both became confused, and Mia said, "What are you talking about? I'd never marry that jerk!"
"Y-You wouldn't?" Isaac stammered. "But -"
"Listen, Isaac," Mia said sternly, and Isaac looked into her face. "You're the only one I love, the only one I'll marry. You are my fiancé, and I'll marry no one else. I don't know what you've been told, but Prox will be melting before my love for you will end."
Isaac relaxed at last, released Mia so that she could move, and smiled, making Mia smile in relief as well.
"I'm-I'm sorry," he said. "Garet told me that -"
Garet's eyes widened as Jenna gave him a twisted face but Mia only heard the first of Isaac's words.
"Don't apologise," she said gently. "The fact that you care so much to be worried about a stupid rumour is more than enough for me."
"Eheh..." Isaac's rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment and Mia giggled and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed and held her tightly in his arms and they swayed on the spot.
Meanwhile, Jenna was giving Garet the glare of Death three times over.
"Why did you tell him that garbage about Mia and Alex?" she hissed angrily, being careful not to disturb Isaac and Mia's special moment.
"He was unconscious," Garet said in self-defence. "I thought it would be the best way to wake him up..."
He backed towards the open front door in fear when Jenna's face twisted into a freaky dagger glare. 3... 2... 1...
"GARET!!!" Jenna screamed, almost breaking the china. Garet streaked out the door, a fuming Jenna behind him, cursing at him and shooting too many death threats at him to count.
Inside the house, Isaac and Mia were lost in their own world as they continued to sway on the spot.
"You know," Isaac said, breaking the silence, "I would never let you marry Alex anyway."
"I know," Mia said. "That's why I refused his proposal a few days ago."
"What?!" Isaac's face went pale as a ghost again. "H-He propos-"
"Relax," Mia said, smiling and ruffling Isaac's spiky blonde hair. "I was only messing with you."
"Mia -" Isaac began, but Mia stopped him.
"Yes?" she asked, smiling seductively at him, and once again he wavered under the Mercury Adept's other power besides Psynergy. {"And for the record, a girl's second-most lethal weapon, other than a swift kick in the gona - er, yeah."} He kissed her tenderly on the lips and they remained in each other's arms.
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Lord Cynic: "My writer's block is gone!"
Small crowd: "Yay!"
Lord Cynic: "Sorry this chapter only involved Isaac, Mia, Garet and Jenna for most of it. The mystery of the two Piers will be revealed probably in the next chapter."
Small crowd: *Gasp*
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Chapter 4: "Piers... and Piers? What the -"
PROLOGUE
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Lord Cynic: "Where's everybody?"
Nothing around him but empty space.
Lord Cynic: "This must be my lucky day!"
Lord Cynic prances around only to fall down a hole.
Lord Cynic: "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." *BAM*
Mini Jenna: "Heh heh... sucker."
The Mini GS crew high-five each other as Cynic lays unconscious in the hole.
Mini Mia: "Um... how long will he be that way?"
Mini Ivan: "Who cares?"
Mini Mia: "..."
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Mini Garet: "Lord Cynic doesn't own Golden Sun. Camelot Soft does. Cynic owns about 50 floppy disks he nicked from school."
Cynic: OO;
Mini Garet: "Er, forget that..."
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Chapter 4: "Isaac's 2nd-worst nightmare"
Piers stomped through the streets of Vale, cursing and muttering under his breath. Passers-by stared bewilderedly as he randomly froze statues with his Psynergy.
"How dare they," he grumbled. "I am a respected Lemurian, they don't need to know my age... disgraceful..."
As he passed the artillery store, a figure crept out from behind some bushes. He looked exactly like Piers except for one thing: He had the mark of a Mad Demon on his forehead. He watched Piers walk away in disgust and grinned malevolently.
"My plan has already been set into motion... next stop, Isaac's house..."
He proceeded to jump out of the bushes when someone's fireball hit him square in the back, sending him crashing into the side of the artillery store.
"Sorry, mister!" A child called from a short distance away. The Piers look-alike groaned with exasperation.
"This will be harder than I thought," he muttered as he peeled himself off the wall. He scowled when the kids nearby sniggered rudely, then he headed off to Isaac's house.
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"When there's no one for me to turn to, all I see if you..."
Inside Isaac's house, inside Isaac's bedroom, inside Isaac's closet, Granite and Tonic were at it again. Wait, no, not like that... sick puppies. Down, down!... okay, I'll keep quiet.
"You're eyes are bright like the stars in the sky, my love for you I could never lie," Granite recited lovingly to his Mercury Djinn love. Tonic was cuddled up next to her boyfriend, and they settled further onto a fur coat that Granite had tugged off its coat hanger. Like his Romeo-esque Adept owner, Granite had taken to showering Tonic with gifts and endless declarations of love. {"Sappy little... oh, the microphone's on?... er..."}
"I'll always be here by your side, in the darkness I will be your light," Granite continued to recite. Tonic swooned, but the closet door suddenly opened.
"Granite?!"
"Tonic?"
"Huh?"
After creating a short dramatic scene involving the words, "The light, the light," Granite looked up to see blue eyes staring straight at him, which was the same case for Tonic. Both blinked in confusion, then it registered.
"Um, hello, Isaac," Granite said nervously. Next to him, Tonic barely squeaked a hello of her own to Mia.
"Well, well," Isaac said, grinning slyly. "Like Adept, like Djinn."
"I guess so," Granite said. "Tonic definitely gets her beauty from Mia, y'reckon?"
Both Mia and Tonic blushed, and Isaac and Granite grinned at their girlfriends. Tonic became the first of the Djinni to notice Mia's ring.
"Ooooh," she cried in astonishment. "That ring's beautiful, Mia. Where did you get it?"
"Well, actually," Mia said, blushing a deeper red, "Isaac proposed to me."
Granite raised an eyebrow as Isaac rubbed the back of his head embarrassingly. Tonic's eyes sparkled as Mia showed her the ring in all its glory.
"So, when's the big day?" Granite asked.
"We haven't decided yet?" Isaac said, wondering the same thing himself. "We're trying to join Garet and Jenna together so that we can have a double wedding."
"Easier said than done," Granite muttered to Tonic, who giggled. Something suddenly returned to the corridors of his mind, and he smirked. "Say, what are you doing here? I would've thought the closet in Mia's room would be big enough for you two."
The redness on Isaac and Mia's face matched the coats of Jenna and Garet's Djinni's fur, and they stared horrified at the Venus Djinn. Tonic even looked at him like he was going to turn into a Mimic.
"Er, well, that is," Isaac stammered, then he regained his composure. "This is my room!"
"But not for long, eh?" Granite said slyly. Isaac raised an eyebrow. "I bet your mum wants Mia to move in here, right?"
"Um..."
Isaac became speechless as he and Mia started having flashbacks...
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As Piers departed on his boat, Isaac and Mia looked into each other's eyes. Before anyone could duck into the shrubs to puke, the two lovebirds were sharing another kiss. Watching her son and his girlfriend, Dora's mind was already working towards something.
"I'll need to buy a bigger bed for Isaac's room," she said. "I want some grandchildren as soon as possible."
Everyone ducking to puke fell over themselves into the bushes, and Isaac and Mia froze in mid-kiss, scarlet with embarrassment.
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A large truck pulled up to Isaac and Dora's house early the next morning. Unlike their late-sleeping Adept counterparts, Granite and Tonic were wide-awake - pashing in Isaac's closet. Upon hearing the truck outside, after falling off the top shelf in shock the Djinni scrambled to the window to see what the noise was.
"I've never seen a truck here before," Tonic whispered.
"Neither have I," Granite whispered back. "I wonder why it's here?"
Tonic was about to say something else when Isaac grunted in his sleep. The two Djinni sweatdropped nervously as Dora's voice called from downstairs.
"Isaac! Mia! Come look at the new bed!"
Isaac grunted again and rolled out of bed - onto the floor. Cursing to himself, he gathered himself off the floor and stumbled out of the bedroom. Immediately in the corridor he met Mia, who was wearing a starry nightgown, very unlike her common wear of robes. When their eyes met, Isaac looked Mia over and she blushed bright red when he grinned. He wrapped an arm around her waist and they walked together downstairs.
"About time," Dora said as the two teenagers finally arrived at the front door. "The new bed's come."
"Huh?" Isaac finally tore his eyes off Mia to look at his mother. "What new bed? For who?"
"You of course," Dora said, as if it was obvious. Isaac and Mia stared at her, and she added, "Your bed's way to small for you and Mia to sleep in together, so I got a double."
"W-What do you mean?" Mia asked timidly when Isaac became incapable of human speech.
"What, you haven't talked about it yet?" Dora asked, surprised. "I thought you'd already be -"
"Mum!" Isaac's face was burning red by now. "We've only been going out for nine hours!"
"Well!" Dora huffed, but she remained dignified. "Your father and I only needed ten minutes before we knew we wanted to get married."
"How old were you?"
Dora chose to ignore this, but she said no more on the subject. Upstairs, Granite and Tonic were listening to every word.
"Well, well," Granite said. "Looks like our two turtledoves might be living in the same nest soon, so to speak."
*
"We've both known for a while now," Granite drawled. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we have business to resume."
Isaac seethed and looked like he could fry a Grypphon's egg on his head, but Mia gripped his arm and he cooled down. Glaring at his Venus Djinn, he left with Mia so that Granite and Tonic could be alone again.
After the two Adepts left, Granite turned to Tonic with a stupid smile on his face, misreading the horrified look on Tonic's.
"Now my darling," he said. "What were we up to - oww!"
Tonic whacked him on the back of the head, making him fall out of the fur coat onto the floor.
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"Come on Isaac. Let us go before you do something you'll regret."
Isaac and Mia walked down the stairs, Mia still with her arm around Isaac's. Isaac was still ticked off about their conversation with their Djinni, but he remained silent for the meantime.
"Don't worry about Granite," Mia reassured him gently. "If I know Tonic, she would've made sure that he didn't get away with it painlessly."
Isaac thought about that as they walked to the front door, and to Mia's relief a confident, albeit malicious smile spread across his face.
"Y'know," he began, "it seems that those two have followed in our footsteps to the path of true love. Like Adept, like Djinni I guess. To tell you the truth, I didn't know any of my Djinni had a romantic muscle in their bodies."
"Well," Mia said, smiling, "they must get it from you, because you're the sweetest guy I know."
Isaac blushed modestly, and Mia smiled again as he went to open the door, but he was bowled over by a red streak that collided with him and rolled into the TV room. As Mia fretted over her unconscious fiancé, a loud thump came from the other room when a leather couch halted the red streak's rampage.
"Ow!" cried a voice from the room as Mia revived Isaac with her Psynergy. After he regained consciousness, Isaac glanced at Mia in confused and she pointed to the TV room. Eyebrows raised, Isaac crept into the TV room to find Garet rubbing his head in pain.
"Damn couch," he cursed. "Stupid piece of cr -" He stopped in mid-sentence and looked up to see Isaac and Mia staring at him. "Er, hey guys. How you two doin'?"
He sweatdropped when Isaac and Mia gave him (- -); faces, and he removed his hand from his head to reveal a large throbbing bump on his noggin. Isaac and Mia took one look at it and turned, trying desperately to hide their laughter. Garet scowled.
"Do you mind? I'm in a bit of pain," he growled angrily. Isaac and Mia cleared their throats and tried to apologise, but one glance at Garet's bump and their dissolved into laughter again.
"Sorry buddy," Isaac said between laughs. Garet growled again and got up to leave when the front door rattled. With a yelp, he dove behind the couch just as a steaming Jenna burst into the house.
"All right, where is he?!" he demanded. Although their wore nervous (^_^); faces, Isaac and Mia were thoroughly confused.
"Where is who?" Isaac asked. He jumped back in alarm at the mingled glare Jenna was giving him.
"Garet, that's who!" she shrieked, making Isaac and Mia both fall over sideways. As they recovered and got back up, they gave each other "So that's why" looks while Jenna stalked around the house searching for her dim male counterpart.
"'I'll distract Jenna while you get Garet out of the house," Mia whispered to Isaac, who looked back at her in a mix of surprise and disappointment.
"Why?" he whispered back. "It'd be really funny to see what Jenna would do to Garet if she found him, wouldn't you agree?"
"Well, yes," Mia said, smiling slightly. "But I don't think your mother would be too pleased if she came back to find this place in ashes after Jenna's through with Garet."
Speaking of the two Mars Adepts, Garet was hiding in a cabinet while Jenna prowled around the kitchen. She nearly ripped open cupboards as she continued to search for the redhead.
"Yes, you're right," Isaac said after briefly thinking it over. "All right, occupy Jenna while I find Garet and get him out of here."
Mia nodded, and gave Isaac a quick peck on the cheek for good luck. He gave her the thumbs up and a wink and she disappeared into the kitchen. Now wearing a sneaky smile on his face he crept around the TV room quietly.
"Hey, Garet!" he hissed, tiptoeing between some chairs. "Garet! Where are you?"
The cabinet in the corner shook violently, and for a second Isaac thought it was haunted. Giving himself a mental punch in the arm and a physical shake, he crept over to the cabinet and stared at it, brows furrowed.
"Either it is possessed," he thought aloud, "or a certain redhead has made it his refuge."
Smirking, he decided not to spring Garet (yet) and turned his back to the cabinet. However, before he could walk away, Garet burst out of the cabinet, gasping for air. Isaac turned around to be crushed when his childhood friend collided with him for the second time that day.
"Look out -"
"What t -"
"What was that?" Jenna asked sharply, hearing the collision. Mia sweatdropped nervously, hoping Isaac wasn't in some sort of strife.
"Isaac must've tripped over something," she said quickly.
"Hmm..." Jenna wasn't completely convinced, but she spotted a flash of red at the top of the stairs. Thinking it was Garet's hair, she charged like an angry bull up the stairs, and Mia hurried after her.
'I hope Isaac can hurry,' she thought desperately as Jenna began to speed hungrily up the stairs.
"I'm seeing stars... and tomatoes... lettuce... cheese... mayonnaise... a juicy meat patty... all in a sesa -"
Garet snapped back into reality to find that he was sitting on something soft that wasn't the carpet. He got up to find Isaac unconscious on the floor.
"I'd better wake him up in case Mia comes back and thinks I did something to him." Garet scratched his chin thought, then an idea popped into his head. He crouched next to Isaac and whispered in his ear. "Alex is back, Isaac, and he's proposed to Mia. She accepted his proposal and they're getting married next we -"
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Garet didn't get to finish his sentence before Isaac shot up in shock. He was as white as ghost as his blue eyes darted around the room, and Garet already started to regret his nasty joke.
"What in the world was that?!" Jenna exclaimed, halfway through searching a broom closet. Mia also heard the scream and, having recognised it as Isaac's, fretted about what could've happened.
"I've gotta go downstairs," she decided, forgetting about her and Isaac's plan and rushing downstairs. Jenna watched her run downstairs, then, figuring she could get revenge on Garet later, followed her Imilian friend downstairs.
"Isaac! Calm down, buddy!"
Garet was having difficulty getting Isaac to relax, because the blonde Venus Adept was running around the room like a child fed too much caffeine. Garet had already unsuccessfully tried to stop Isaac with a flare wall... but he'd missed and roasted a side table.
He was about to give up when Mia rushed into the room to find Isaac still running around like the Energiser Bunny.
"Isaac!" she called loudly. "What's the matter?"
Isaac froze in his tracks, blinked and stared at Mia in uncertainty.
"M... Mia, is that you?"
"Isaac, what's wrong?" Mia repeated. "Did you hear something horrible on the news?"
This caused Isaac to rush over to her and hold her tight. Jenna finally arrived into the room to find Garet sweatdropping and leaning on the left wall, Mia looking at her fiancé worriedly and being crushed by Isaac who seemed speechless. She caught Garet's eye and he tried to shrug casually, making her raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"Is... is it true?" Isaac gasped. "You're going to marry Alex instead of me?"
"Huh?" Mia and Jenna both became confused, and Mia said, "What are you talking about? I'd never marry that jerk!"
"Y-You wouldn't?" Isaac stammered. "But -"
"Listen, Isaac," Mia said sternly, and Isaac looked into her face. "You're the only one I love, the only one I'll marry. You are my fiancé, and I'll marry no one else. I don't know what you've been told, but Prox will be melting before my love for you will end."
Isaac relaxed at last, released Mia so that she could move, and smiled, making Mia smile in relief as well.
"I'm-I'm sorry," he said. "Garet told me that -"
Garet's eyes widened as Jenna gave him a twisted face but Mia only heard the first of Isaac's words.
"Don't apologise," she said gently. "The fact that you care so much to be worried about a stupid rumour is more than enough for me."
"Eheh..." Isaac's rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment and Mia giggled and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed and held her tightly in his arms and they swayed on the spot.
Meanwhile, Jenna was giving Garet the glare of Death three times over.
"Why did you tell him that garbage about Mia and Alex?" she hissed angrily, being careful not to disturb Isaac and Mia's special moment.
"He was unconscious," Garet said in self-defence. "I thought it would be the best way to wake him up..."
He backed towards the open front door in fear when Jenna's face twisted into a freaky dagger glare. 3... 2... 1...
"GARET!!!" Jenna screamed, almost breaking the china. Garet streaked out the door, a fuming Jenna behind him, cursing at him and shooting too many death threats at him to count.
Inside the house, Isaac and Mia were lost in their own world as they continued to sway on the spot.
"You know," Isaac said, breaking the silence, "I would never let you marry Alex anyway."
"I know," Mia said. "That's why I refused his proposal a few days ago."
"What?!" Isaac's face went pale as a ghost again. "H-He propos-"
"Relax," Mia said, smiling and ruffling Isaac's spiky blonde hair. "I was only messing with you."
"Mia -" Isaac began, but Mia stopped him.
"Yes?" she asked, smiling seductively at him, and once again he wavered under the Mercury Adept's other power besides Psynergy. {"And for the record, a girl's second-most lethal weapon, other than a swift kick in the gona - er, yeah."} He kissed her tenderly on the lips and they remained in each other's arms.
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Lord Cynic: "My writer's block is gone!"
Small crowd: "Yay!"
Lord Cynic: "Sorry this chapter only involved Isaac, Mia, Garet and Jenna for most of it. The mystery of the two Piers will be revealed probably in the next chapter."
Small crowd: *Gasp*
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Chapter 4: "Piers... and Piers? What the -"
