Char- I'm baaack!
(Sigh) And speak of the devil...
Char-what?
(Shakes head)Nothin'. Ok, to Pheonixfire, I started my story before I read yours and got the name Alanna from a tv show(singing That's So Raven theme song). She's a fire adept(like mother like daughter)in my story and what a coincidence! Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Geode-(still sleeping)zzz...
Disclaimer-I don't own Golden Sun- I just own this story, the 20- year-later GS characters, and the kids.
Dreams
"Sasha!"
Sasha looked eastward and saw her brother running toward her. She was all too relieved that he was okay.
"Kevin!" she hugged him. "How did you survive that fall?"
Kevin shrugged. "Mom healed me. Where are we?" They looked around the white room. The only thing there besides them was a cart jus big enough for the two to sit in and stretch out.
"Uh, I think we're asleep..." Sasha thought a moment.
"Freaky!" Kevin gasped. "I've heard of twins having the same dream, but we're two different people in each other's dreams! Woah..."
"Let's see where that cart takes us." Sasha and her brother got in the cart. It started out very slowly but soon was going as fast as Kevin could say ' wicked .' They unexpectantly arched down a steep hill (making their hearts skip a beat) and found themselves in a deep blue/indigo looking room . The cart slowed and stopped. Kevin and Sasha climbed out of the cart and looked around.
"Sasha! Kevin!" They saw Taryn and Alanna running their way. "Where are we?" Taryn asked them.
Alanna looked at him. "We don't know where we are- they wouldn't know either."
"How would you know?" Taryn asked her.
Alanna closed one eye, widened the other one, and leaned in close to his face, closed eye turned farther away. "But child, don't you know?" Taryn crossed his arms across his chest and raised an eyebrow.
"Know what?" he asked. Alanna lowered her voice to a whisper and answered, "I know everything." Taryn smirked and shook his head. Sasha and Kevin laughed.
"Riiight," Kevin dragged. "But seriously, we should find out where we are. But a good back-up guess could be the 'Dream Gateway' ."
You are dreaming, Said a deep, voice , echoing throughout the room. Kevin, Alanna, Taryn, and Sasha looked around.
"Who said that?" Taryn said.
I did. A big rock with an eye in it appeared before the four children. Kevin, Alanna, and Taryn gawked at it, but Sasha noticed it at once. "You're that rock that was in my dream the other night," she pointed out. The rock blinked.
That is correct, it said. Sasha snapped her fingers trying to think.
"You're the-the-
the-um...Wise One!" The rock nodded.
Alanna looked from the Wise One to Sasha. "That-um- rock-eye is the Wise One? You really don't expect me believe that, do you?"
You sound just like Garet, the Wise One said, He said almost the same thing in Sol Sanctum some years ago...
"My dad said that?" Alanna asked to no one in particular. "What are you doing in our dreams 'Wise One' ?"
I am here to deliver a message. You four have to stop Alex from sending the world into ruin. He was only an adept with the power of Mercury. But now, he has much more power, as he demonstrated on Mt. Aleph.
"Why do we have to do it?" Taryn asked." We're only- fourteen and thirteen(Kevin is thirteen)."
Because, only the true wielder of the Elemental Blade can stop him, and Sasha cannot do it alone. She will need her own power as well as Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
"My sister is the wielder of the Elemental Blade?" Kevin asked. "Wicked."
"Wait a minute-" Alanna said. "What and where is this Elemental Blade?"
It is the blade in the weapon shop.
"I knew there was a reason why I felt something everytime I went near that sword," Sasha said mostly to herself, thinking about the silver blade with the gold hilt and clear jewel.
Will you accept this quest?
They thought about it. "Well, if it'll save the world, we'll do it," Kevin answered.
"There's only one problem," Taryn pointed out.
"What?" Alanna asked.
"Two words- par-ents."
"That's right!" Alanna figured this out, now. "I can see the conversation now- ' Mom, dad, can we to leave and save the world from the man that came out of Mt. Aleph that you knew twenty years ago?' "
"Well, they did it," Sasha told them. "Don't you think they'll understand?"
"I don't know, Sa," Kevin said. "Grandma didn't exactly want dad to go."
"And your dad made the decision, not my grandparents or great-granddad." Alanna told Sasha.
"My mom was kidnaped and decided to help. And my dad was just destined to do it," Taryn pointed out.
"I think they'll say yes," Sasha said.
(Or so she thought)
The next evening at dinner, Sasha and Kevin tried to talk to their parents about the dream.
"Mom, dad," Kevin started," um, me and Sasha had the same dream last night."
"That's rare," Mia replied. "What was it about?"
"Taryn and Alanna had the same dream, too," Sasha told them.
"How do you know?" Isaac asked her.
"Well,uh-we-saw them in our dream-"
"-And they told us today." Kevin finished. "We were in a white room with a cart. So we got in and it sent us into a dark blue room."
"That's where we found Alanna and Taryn. Then-uh-"
"-Then this big rock thing with a freaky-looking eye in it and no mouth appeared out of no where."
Isaac and Mia got more interested at this point."Is his name the wise one?" Isaac half asked half said. Sasha and Kevin nodded.
"And he said, um-he said,uh-"
"-He said that-I was the-true wielder of, um, the blade in the weapon shop, and that, uh-"
"-That Sasha, me, Taryn, and Alanna had to-save the world from Alex, because only the true wielder of the Elemental Blade can stop him-"
"-And I can't do it alone."
There was dead silence in the house. Isaac broke the silence in one word: "No."
"But-why?" Kevin asked. There was disappointment in his voice.
"Because," Isaac said,"you're only kids."
"But you did it when you were kids," Sasha pointed out. "And Taryn's parents did when they were around our age."
"That's Taryn's parents. This is about you."
"But what about Alex and the fate of the world-"
"That's not your problem."
"But dad, what about the Wise One-"
"No!" Isaac said in the monotonously firm voice that Sasha and kevin knew all too well- it meant that he made up his mind and that was the end of it. "I am not going to have my children going out and risking their lives because of some dream. That's the end of this discussion."
Mia had mixed feelings about this. She knew that they couldn't just happen to dream about the Wise One when they haven't seen him, and give them a message like that. It had to be true that Alex was up to something. And if only her daughter could wield something that could stop him for good, she had to go, for the world's sake. But she also didn't want them to leave to do something so dangerous. They were only kids.
After a little while had passed in dead silence, Sasha said in a low voice, "Why did you say yes, dad?"
"Yes to what?"
"When you told me and Kevin your story, you said you had a choice if you wanted to get the stars back. You knew your mom would be upset and you said yes anyway."
"The fate of the world depended on it."
"The Wise One said that only the true wielder and her friends could stop Alex. That's me. And Kevin, Alanna, and Taryn. It seems like the same situation to me."
Sasha got up and went to her room. Isaac was looked over at Kevin, who was staring at him sulkily. "What is it?" he asked him.
"You know she's right, dad."
"Kevin-"
"Sasha wouldn't just make up something like that and put up an argument about it." Kevin looked at Mia. "You know to, don't you mom?"
MIA LOOKED A LITTLE UNEASY, AS IF SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. THEN SHE SIGHED. "YES," SHE SAID.
ISAAC LOOKED SHOCKED AT HER ANSWER, BUT PART OF HIM KNEW IT WAS TRUE. KEVIN WENT TO HIS ROOM.
"NO LUCK," TARYN SAID.
"ME NEITHER," ALANNA GRUMBLED. "WHAT ABOUT YOU TWO?"
SASHA AND KEVIN SHOOK THEIR HEADS.
ALANNA CROSSED HER ARMS. "AT LEAST YOUR PARENTS HAVE MORE PATIENCE THAN MINE. THEY SENT ME TO MY ROOM WHEN I TRIED TO ARGUE."
TARYN KICKED THE DIRT. "I TOLD MY PARENTS WHAT THE WISE ONE SAID, BUT THEY STILL SAID NO."
"I'M GOING FOR A WALK," SASHA HEADED DOWN THE HILL ALONE.
SASHA WANDERED INTO THE WEAPON SHOP AND FROZE AT WHAT SHE SAW. THE OWNER WAS TIED UP WITH TAPE IN HIS MOUTH. THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF A STRUGGLE. SASHA RUSHED TO HIM TO UNTIE HIM. "WHAT HAPPENED IN HERE?"
THE SHOP OWNER PANTED. "TH-THEIVES! GO GET THE VILLAGERS."
SASHA TURNED TO GET HELP, BUT MET THREE STOUT FIGURES STANDING OVER HER.
"HELLO, LIL' LADY," SAID THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE.
"YOU DO KNOW WE CAN'T LET YOU LEAVE HERE?" SAID THE ONE TO THE LEFT.
"WE CAN DO THIS EASY, OR WE CAN DO IT HARD," SAID THE OTHER. "YOUR CHOICE."
SASHA KNEW THERE WAS NO WAY OUT OF THIS WITHOUT A FIGHT.
SHE SWALLOWED. "HARD."
UH-OH!
CHAR-WHERE'S YOUR CLARINET?"
WHY?
CHAR-OH, NOTHING..." (HORNS ON HEAD)
GEODE-(SLEEP AND DROOLING)
CHAR-WE REALLY OUGHT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIM.
WE'RE GETTING OFF TOPIC! MY WONDERFUL READERS, DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW! AND I'M PROBABLY GONNA BE VERY HAPPY- SOUNDING SINCE SCHOOL LETS OUT IN SEVEN DAYS. (THROWING A PARTY) OH AND SORRY ABOUT THIS BIG WRITING. SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH THIS STUPID COMPUTER. WANT SOME CAKE, CHAR?
CHAR-HEY! RAE-RAE'S BEING NICER TO ME! NOW THIS, WE CAN ALLLIVE WITH!