Golden Sun DS: Part I: The Fall of Weyard

Chapter 3 - A Time Forgotten, Part I

So this was how it would end.

So fate had decided that he would die buried upon mountains upon mountains of rubble.

Not for the first, second, nor fourht time that very hour, Alex swore at his misfortune. Never had he imagined that the damned Wise One would be able to best him so. Never had he imagined that the damned rock, which had apparently saved Isaac and Garet years ago, would let him ride the summit of Mt. Aleph on it's trip into the heart of the world.

Never had he dreamed that the other damned mountains would collapse on top of him. And NEVER had he imagined that the rubble would fall in such a way for him to lay down and sit up with enough room to spare.

How ironic, that in what was apparently his last hours on this miserable lump of earth, that he would be able to get comfortable before death claimed him. Felix and Isaac would be lauging, along with Saturos, Menardi, and, probably, Karst and her thug.

Alex sighed at the thought of his old "allies." True, he did help them from loosing their quaint little village, and he did help them stabalize the elemental energy running through the world.

But that was about all that was shared in their goals.

He knew they desired conquest, knew that they wished to rule the whole of Weyard. He knew that they had no thirst for knowlege, no desire to learn of the world's origins.

Or of it's impending demise.

When the traveler who first told Alex of the so-called "Ascendents," a group devoted to keeping Weyard "above the world," he had a hard time keeping himself from informing Mia of the lunatic. Indeed, he had almost restrained the man, thinking that he was a danger to anything he went near.

But several things he said made sense: why, if the lighthouses were so advanced, was there no other technology that resembled them, or technology that could have even created them? What of a war that destroyed the technology, Alex countered. What war could destroy such and yet leave the four towers?

Alex admitted that, even if the elemental powers had shieled the massive pillars, there would be SOME signs of damage, and if the Lighthouses could stand for so long without signs of wear, any technology from them or that made them should have been easy to find.

Of course, this was not the only thing to keep Alex from truly believing the man. That was when the man took him on a trip, a quest to find his calling, he had told Mia, and in hindsight, it was a true statement.

The man showed him Gaia Falls from a distance, showing Alex the massive falls. Even the closest isle could barely see the edge of the falls, and, thanks to massive ammounts of mist, it was impossible to see what, if anything, was beyond the horizon. He offered to stabalize the waters around Gaia Falls to see if anything was below, but the man told him that it was a bad idea; many had said the same thing, yet never returned.

Then why, Alex asked, had no one teleported beyond the falls, then back again? The man stared at him, then told him that many had tried, but never had anyone managed to make it back. Whether it was a lack of contact with the Elements, the effects of falling so fast, or what they saw, he did not know. And neither had Alex wished to die trying to find out.

The man also told him of the Stone of Sages, the massive energy that gathers when the Lighthouses were lit. Supposedly, whoever held the power would also gain the knowlege needed to revive Weyard, as well as near-infinate power.

Alex wondered why one would need such power and knowlege to perform a task that a "simple lighting of a few beacons" could do. The man had then commited an act that few had done since: he smacked Alex to the ground.

Within his little "hole" in the rubble of Aleph, Alex remembered the tales of technology beneath the earth, of a man who, eons ago, managed to see the massive things that kept the world that was Weyard floating in the air above...something. That was the one thing that neither the wierd man nor any of the secret followers knew anything about.

And if Alex had any psynergy, he would gladly risk certain death to see for himself.

Glancing at the numerous assortments of injuries on his arms and legs, Alex had to ask himself why he was unable to utilize his psynergetic abilities. By all rights, even if the Wise One had delt him a serious blow and drained him, he should have been able to complete a simple task of healing a minor scar.

Cursing the name of the Wise One again, Alex sat near the wall, pulling his knees to his chest to rest his chin on. Without his psynergetic abilities to free him from this makeshift prison, he would have a hell of a time trying to survive until starvation claimed him. Assuming, of course, that the mounds of rubble above did not cave in on him in the first place.

He chuckled dryly; now he was thinking about how he was going to die. What a cheery mood he was in.

Before he could try to think of WHY his psynergy had drained so completely, a brilliant light filled the darkness of his private prison. Shielding his eyes, Alex was shocked when a small, frail hand gripped his shoulder, and a fieling of psynergy swallowing his being took over his senses. As his eyes adjusted to the brilliant light, he saw the verdent fields around him, the bright blue of the sky.

And the suprising figure of Sheba before him.

End of Chapter 3
As you might have noticed in the last chapter, I did not comment on reviews. It will not be for another chapter or so that I get around to writing comments, as I have little time while at home to write up comments without acess to the net.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as well as the new (yet probably predictable) wrinkles that I have added to the plot.

One think that a couple reviewers have noted, that I do wish to observe: several of you have voiced the theory that the silver-haired main in the previous chapter is Alex. Whether or not this is true, I will not say. However, I am suprised that so many people have begun to suggest such. I must have been quite predictable in my older stories...

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