Note: Hi again! Yay! I'm updating this story. I can't stop my fingers! And there's a grand surprise (c'est francais) in this chapter. This chappie is very long. Oh, and please will some one tell me what Mudshipping, Valeshipping, etc, is? I'm new to writing Golden Sun fanfiction, so I have no idea what it is!
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Golden Sun: The Fight for the Stars
Chapter 3: My brother??? And a water wedding out of this world!
Ivan was standing at the top of Piers' new ship. He stared out at the sea and felt the chilly cold breeze blow past him.
Sheba called out to him from below on deck, "Hey Ivan! Are you alright? I can go up there if you want. You deserve a rest!"
"No, I'm fine!" Ivan yelled to her over the wind. Though he denied anything was wrong with him, he looked pale and tired.
Sheba nodded. "Okay, tell me when wanna change then. I'll be inside with the others. Just call me using telepathy, alright?" Ivan dipped his head up and down in agreement, and returned to his "job" as Sheba went inside.
"I can't believe they're getting married!" Jenna exclaimed while talking to Garet, Isaac and Kraden.
"Well, I can." Isaac grinned. "They were meant for each other."
Garet nodded enthusiastically, "Yep, I agree with Isaac. They're so soppy and mushy together!" Everyone laughed, Sheba included. Everyone turned their heads when they heard her light, joyous chuckle.
"Hi everybody."
"Hello Sheba. Is Ivan alright out there?" Isaac asked.
"Yeah, except he looks a little cold, and I'm rather afraid that if he stays out there any longer, he'll catch a cold." Sheba shook her head, her green eyes full of concern.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." Isaac smiled reassuringly at her. "I have travelled with Ivan before, and he's strong. Definitely strong enough to brave this kind of weather. Trust me." Sheba nodded gratefully. "And anyway, if he did catch a cold, I'm sure our resident healer, Mia, will heal him."
"Where is Mia anyway?" Sheba asked.
"Mia can sail and control this thing?" Isaac and Garet said in surprised unison.
Kraden nodded. "I didn't think she knew until I saw her doing it earlier on. She navigates like a true Lemurian."
"Maybe it's because she's a Mercury adept." Sheba mused.
"What is she doing now? Still navigating?" Jenna asked.
Kraden shrugged, "Either that, or she's chatting with Piers and Sapphia. The three of them are very close, and Piers and Sapphia are like Mia's brother and sister."
Everyone carried chatting about random things, from what Piers and Sapphia's wedding was going to be like, to memories of their old days. Suddenly, Kay and Aaron burst in. "Garet! Garet!" they called frantically.
"What's going on?" Garet asked as everyone stood up immediately.
"It's master Ivan" Kay cried. Sheba turned pale white.
"What happened to him?" she asked in a desperate tone of voice.
"He fell from that box thing on the mast," Aaron replied, looking very worried, "master Felix was coming out, and caught him just in time. He doesn't look good at all!"
Before you could say "oh no", Sheba had already rushed out as fast as lightning, yelling, "Ivan!"
"Okay, everyone stay calm." Isaac ordered. "Aaron, Kay, you two run and get Mia and Piers. They're on the other side of the ship. Go!" Aaron and Kay rushed off. "Everyone else, follow Sheba!"
Outside, Isaac was surprised to see that Mia was already there healing Ivan with Ply. Felix stood to one side as Sheba cradled Ivan in her arms. "Mia!" Isaac called.
Mia lifted her head to see the band of people running to them. "Hi." She smiled, but her pretty face was also etched with great concern.
"What happened to him?" Jenna gasped.
"I think he's caught a terrible fever." Mia replied as she finished casting Ply. "Now all we can do is let him rest. I don't think we should have let him stay out here for so long."
Sheba suddenly burst into tears. "It's all my fault!" she sobbed, "I shouldn't have let him stay there!"
Everyone stood in an awkward silence as Aaron and Kay ran up with Piers. "What's going on?" Piers asked as he surveyed the scene. Ivan was lying unconscious in Sheba's arms, Mia kneeling beside them, and everyone else looking sad and speechless.
"Look Sheba." Mia began, "This isn't your fault. It's nobody's fault. Ivan decided to stay outside on his own. You probably wouldn't have been able to change his mind. And the fever isn't too serious. Don't worry." Sheba looked up at her friend. Mia smiled. "Cheer up, okay?" the Mercury adept thought in her mind. Sheba heard her and smiled weakly.
"Thank you Mia." She stuttered, slowly getting up, Ivan still in her arms. "I'll take him to his room."
"Do you want me to come too?" Mia asked. Sheba shook her head and walked quickly inside.
"Okay, what the hell happened?" Piers asked.
Isaac led everyone inside and explained to his friend. "What I don't get is, Mia, you should have been with Piers. How could you have gotten from one side of the ship to the other?" Isaac asked.
"Actually, five minutes earlier, Mia had rushed out of the room. Didn't you?" Piers turned to Mia for confirmation. Mia nodded slowly, her eyes showing a little worry.
"Mia, why did you leave? How did you know?" Kraden spoke up suddenly. Mia looked at him; her eyes obviously showed she didn't want to say.
"Mia?" she turned to Isaac, and stared into his lavender eyes that were full of concern. "Please tell Kraden." He paused. "Please, for me." He finally whispered so only she could hear.
Mia knew she had to say why. She owed Isaac many favours, and she just couldn't resist those pleading eyes of his. Reluctantly, Mia opened her mouth, "Well, for as long as I can remember, I have always felt pain whenever others were in pain. I could feel their pain. Today, I felt Ivan's pain as he fell from the sky. I immediately rushed off, though at that time I didn't know it was him in trouble. I was just following his pain. I don't know why I have this...gift...but I don't like it much."
There was a long silence, and then Kraden said, "I think, Mia, you have the power of feeling the human spirit's pain. Do you ever feel happy sometimes even though nothing worth being happy has happened?" Mia nodded. "As I suspected. You, my dear, have the ability to feel your close friends and family's emotions. Especially pain. Whether near or far. I have heard of this...gift. Not many possess it. You are lucky, Mia."
"No Kraden, I am not." Mia shook her head sadly, "I don't like feeling others' pain. Their pain is like a weight on my shoulders. In Ivan's situation, I don't mind having this power, but on other occasions, I really despise it."
Kraden nodded his old, wise head sympathetically and Piers embraced Mia, who's eyes were a little wet. She snuggled her head deep into his tunic, and breathed in his scent; seawater with a hint of flowers. She felt a small tear roll down her face, and drop onto the floor. Mia closed her eyes, and relaxed.
Meanwhile...
In a small, dark room, an unconscious, sixteen-year-old boy was lying on a small bed, breathing slowly. A small figure sat next to him on a stool, staring at him intently. "I'm so sorry Ivan." She whispered.
The next day...
We're here!" Piers bellowed at dawn, waking up most of his shipmates. Isaac groaned, and flung off his duvet. He glanced at Garet, whom he was sharing his room with. He was still asleep, snoring loudly, his fiery hair in a complete disarray. Isaac grinned, "I think I'll let him sleep...it'll be fun watching him getting roasted by Piers and Jenna!"
Quarter of an hour later, Isaac was sitting at the dining table with Jenna, Sheba, Felix, Aaron, Kay, Kraden and Ivan, who was now well. Piers stalked in. "Where in Mercury is that Garet???"
"Still in bed." Isaac grinned evilly.
"Right." Piers turned to go.
"Wait Piers!" Jenna called, "I'm coming too! I have so much more experience in waking Garet up! That oaf can sleep through one of Isaac's strongest Ragnoraks! I have a few tactics up my sleeve..."
The two exited, arguing about who could come up with the best plan to wake up Garet. After that, Mia waltzed in with plates of food. "Breakfast's ready!" she had taken off her usual cloak, and now wore a plain, sky blue dress with a white apron tied at her waist.
Everyone gave sounds of delight as they ate. "Wow, this food is good. Who cooked it?" Isaac asked.
"Sapphia and I did." Mia beamed.
Isaac looked at her in surprise. "I didn't know you cooked Mia."
Mia chuckled, "Well, now you do."
Suddenly, everyone heard the very loud voices of Piers and Jenna, "OH MY GOD, IS THAT FOOD I SEE? AND LOOK, IT'S...IT'S ROAST TURKEY!!!"
Then they heard, "WHERE? WHERE?"
"BOO!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the sound of something heavy falling off the bed could be heard.
Loud laughter could then be heard.
"YOU...YOU...YOU...SCOUNDRELS!!!" they heard Garet yell.
Jenna and Piers uttered a small squeal and sounds of running could be heard from above their heads. The two of them sprinted into the room.
"COME BACK HERE YOU BASTA...AAARRRGGGHHH!!!" Garet screamed for the second time that day as he tumbled down the stairs. He landed in a big, messy heap at the bottom, still in his red, teddy bear pyjamas.
Everyone burst out laughing; even Mia couldn't help but utter a small chuckle. Jenna tried to restrain herself from crying with amusement.
"I'M SO GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS!" Garet shouted; he picked himself up, and started to run after Jenna and Piers. "COME BACK HERE!"
"Garet! Garet! Control yourself!" Mia cried, but all she said was in vain. "Argh, I can't stand this anymore!" she yelled in frustration after about ten minutes, for once getting worked up, "DOUSE!" a waterfall of water cascaded down onto Garet, and some splashed Jenna and Piers.
Everyone stared at Mia, who calmly wiped her hands on her apron. "MIA! YOU LITTLE..." Garet was now fully in anger mode after the dousing.
"That guy seriously needs anger management." Ivan shook his head. "I always knew I was right." Kay and Aaron tittered at his remark.
Before anyone knew it, Garet was charging towards Mia. Quickly, she jumped out of the way. Unfortunately, at that very moment, Sapphia came out from the kitchen with a large plate of pancakes. Garet ran right into the plate, narrowly missing Sapphia, who screamed in shock.
Many pancakes jumped into the air, and fell down again, some landing in the most atrocious places ever. One landed on Kay's head, one on Felix's plate, and one popped itself right into Aaron's open mouth; God knows what happened to the others. But most landed on top of Garet.
"Garet! Now look what you've done!" Jenna fumed as Kay grabbed the pancake off her red hair in disgust.
"What?!? And this is my fault? It was you and Piers who woke me up like that in the first place!" Garet countered.
"By the way," Sapphia chipped in calmly, though there was a small smile on her lips, "those pancakes were your breakfast, Garet."
"WHAT!?!?!" Garet just sat there staring at Sapphia. After what seemed like eternity, Garet howled, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! My food! All gone!!"
"But, I do have a little more in the kitchen if you'll behave yourself today." Sapphia said.
Garet's head shot up. "Really?"
In the afternoon...
"Hey guys, I want you to meet my parents." Piers said as he led his friends to his house. Mia stared at the scenery around her. Lemuria was simply beautiful. Everyone gasped as they saw his "house". It wasn't a house, it was a mansion, a palace. It was made of turquoise marble, the same colour as Mia, Sapphia and Piers' hair.
"Come on." Piers led them inside. Everywhere they looked they saw finely decorated things and beautiful ornaments, mostly blue or sea green.
"Piers, you never told us you lived in a...a...palace!" Jenna breathed.
"Well, I haven't told you this yet, but I'm the prince here. My mother and father are the King and Queen of Lemuria."
"What!?!" Garet exclaimed. Everyone except Sapphia stared at him.
Piers flushed a little, "I just...forgot, yeah, forgot to tell you guys." He continued to lead them through many blue carpeted hallways, when finally, they reached a large, navy door. "This is the throne room." Piers whispered. "When you go in, my parents will be there...be...respectful. Especially you, Garet."
Before Garet could reply in defence, Piers pushed open the doors to reveal a dazzling room. Piers walked forward and knelt before two blue haired people in the middle of the room. They wore fine, blue and gold clothes, and were sitting on beautiful throne chairs. Everyone else followed Piers' example, and kneeled.
"Father, mother, these are the friends I told you about long ago. This is Isaac," Piers beckoned for Isaac to stand up. Isaac did so and bowed, "He is a very brave Venus adept, and our obvious and brave leader." Isaac kneeled down again at Piers' command.
"This is Garet. He is a Mars adept, and extremely strong in battle. This is Ivan, their companion. He is a Jupiter adept from Kalay; though young, he wields the wisdom of an old man. This is Sheba, and like Ivan, she is a Jupiter adept. With the others, she saved my life from those barbarians. This is Jenna. She is a Mars adept from Vale. She had been a pleasurable companion while I travelled with her. This is Kraden, also from Vale. He is a person of great knowledge, for he studies many things. This is Felix, my best friend. He is a Venus adept, and Jenna's elder brother. Finally, this is Mia. Like us, she is a Mercury adept. She travelled with Isaac and the others. She is a great healer, and comes from Imil."
As Piers finished, and Mia kneeled down again, the Queen stared intently at Mia with her turquoise eyes. Mia felt her gaze, and kept her own blue eyes down, afraid to look at her.
The King began, "Welcome, fellow adepts. I am King Orion, and this is my wife, Queen Silvia. I think you all for rescuing my son a year ago, and for being such great friends with him. He speaks highly of you all. I will be most honoured if you will stay in out palace for the time being until the wedding, which is next week."
Isaac stood up, "Thank you, your Majesty. We are very grateful."
Half an hour later...
Mia and Sapphia relaxed on their beds. Their bags were empty after unpacking, and they were exhausted. They let themselves sink into the blue duvets. "Hey Sapphia?" Mia said softly.
"Yes."
"Did you see the way Queen Silvia looked at me?"
"No, I'm sorry, I didn't. What was it like? Horrible?"
"No, no, of course not. It was like...curiosity. I think she knew something about me..."
Mia lapsed into silence, and it remained like that until Sapphia spoke up, "Don't worry Mia, it'll be fine. Queen Silvia is lovely, trust me, I know her well. Mia?" she glanced at Mia, who was now breathing softly, eyes closed.
Sapphia smiled, and went to cover Mia up with the some blankets. "Sweet dreams Mia."
Meanwhile next door...
"What shall we do to pass the time, Jenna?" Sheba asked, bored."
"Let's play a few card games."
"Okay."
And...
Hey Felix, you wanna spar?" Ivan asked his silent roommate.
Felix nodded and whipped his sword out as Ivan got his staff.
Also...
"Isaac, have you ever loved someone before?" Garet asked him.
Isaac looked away from the scenery of Lemuria through their bedroom window and shook his head. "No. I've never been interested in any girl before."
"Really?" Garet raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, really."
"Jenna?"
"What?!? No, of course not! I love her, but in a big brother kind of way."
"Sheba?"
"Are you kidding? Sheba and Ivan are an item, and she's two years younger than me. We have completely different personalities and she is so not my type, if I have a type, that is."
"Okay then, what about Mia?"
"No."
Garet poked and prodded for more information. "You've only said no. Not "what!" or "you're kidding!". You like her, don't you?"
Isaac didn't blush, and said firmly, "No." but he pondered over this himself. Did he like Mia? She was so different than most girls, and very pretty. She had a big, kind heart, and had saved him on countless occasions with her healing skills.
"I dunno..." Isaac whispered and sighed.
"Dunno what?" Garet asked slyly.
"Oh, nothing." Isaac replied, a little too quickly. "Even if I do love her, she'll never love me in return. I'm not good enough for her anyway...am I?" he thought.
(Kraden, Aaron and Kay have their own rooms, so I won't bother talking about them.)
The day before the wedding...
Mia was sitting quietly in her room making her dress for the wedding. Sapphia had gone to help with the decorating and cooking, since she had ordered her dress. Suddenly, there was a soft knock on the door. "Come in!" Mia called. The door opened, and Queen Silvia walked in. Mia, caught by surprise, didn't do anything.
"Hello Mia."
Then Mia came to her senses. She dropped her work onto her desk, and knelt on the floor. "I'm so sorry, your Highness, I..."
But Queen Silvia walked over, took Mia by her arms and pulled her up. "Please, don't kneel." She whispered softly.
"Thank you, you Highness."
"Mia, I want to talk to you."
"About what, you Highness?"
"About...your past. I want to know more about you."
Mia was surprised. She didn't dare ask why Queen Silvia wanted to know, for she felt it was rude to question a queen.
"Well, I don't actually know where I was born. I was found on the doorstep of a villager in Imil, sleeping. I was apparently wrapped in a blue towel embroidered in gold. On it, it said "Mia" in gold too. So the villagers named me Mia, and brought me up there. I became a healer, since I excelled in healing Psynergies, like Ply. That's it really. Then I met Isaac and his friends." Mia nervously twisted the gold ring entrusted with a bright blue gem on her right hand's baby finger.
After an awkward silence, the queen spoke up. "Mia, will you please come with me." Queen Silvia took her to a bright blue door, with some strange Lemurian words on it written in gold. Before Mia had a chance to read it, Queen Silvia dragged her quickly into the room.
Inside, the room was decorated the same as everything else. Pale blue walls and blue carpet. But the room was filled with all sorts of baby toys and baby things, like a blue cot. "What room is this?" Mia asked quietly.
"Mia," Queen Silvia turned to her, "I want to ask you one more thing. Where did you get that ring?" she pointed to the ring on her finger she had been twisting earlier.
"This? The villagers told me I was found with it on my finger already. They could never take it off. It's been on my finger ever since, and I have never taken it off. I can't take it off anyway."
Mia looked at the queen, who now had tears in her eyes. She flung her arms around Mia, and embraced her tightly, tears flowing freely down her cheeks.
"Your Highness, are you alright?" Mia asked, concerned. Queen Silvia pulled away from her. "Mia, there is something I want to tell you..."
Later...
Mia sat in her room quietly. She was once again back at work on her dress, but her mind wandered to other things. "I can't believe it..." she thought over and over again. She looked at the ring on her finger and sighed.
The next day...
Sapphia was flying around in her blue wedding dress, frantically calling out things for people to do and getting harassed. All her shyness seemed to have left her, and was replaced with impatience.
"Hey you! Our flowers aren't here yet! Go get them!"
"Una, grab them dresses lying on the floor! Aren't they Jenna and Sheba's? Go and give them those dresses now!"
"What do you mean you can't find the flowers? Find them now!"
"I want the vicar here right now! I don't care if he's ill, find a replacement!"
"Is the underwater palace ready? No?!? Well, get it ready!"
"What's this? Blue irises?!? I specially ordered blue orchids! Oh, for hell's sake..."
Mia walked up, still in her plain, ordinary clothes. "Hi Sapphia. I love your dress. Don't let Piers see you yet, mind you. It would spoil the surprise!"
"Yeah, you're right." Sapphia looked at her expensive dress. "It cost me 400,000 too. I don't want to dirty it yet." She looked at Mia. "Please Mia, I know this is a lot to ask, but can you take over? I'm not ready at all, and I'm getting so stressed, I dunno if I wanna get married anymore!"
"Of course I'll take over." Mia smiled.
"Oh, thank you so much, you're a saint." Sapphia beamed, and rushed off.
"Okay, let's get started..." Mia muttered. "Excuse me, I know you can't get any blue orchids, but what blue flowers grow in Lemuria? Blue daisies? Blue lilies? Oh good. Anything purple?"
Later...
Mia sighed and wiped her brow. "Okay, that's everything sorted. I've gotta go get changed now!" and she rushed off.
Later still...
"Mia, come on!" Jenna yelled as she and Sheba waited outside Mia's room. Jenna was wearing a topless, bright red dress with roses and Sheba was wearing a lilac dress with long, wavy sleeves.
"Don't wait for me, just go!" Mia called.
"Okay, come on Sheba." The two girls rushed off.
"Wear's Mia?" Isaac asked as Jenna and Sheba ran up, panting.
"Still doing something in her room. I dunno what." Jenna replied. "She said not to wait for her. Let's go, or we'll be late."
Isaac nodded. Him the other boys were all wearing white shirts and suits, but they were all different colours. Isaac was wearing a leather coloured suit with a gold tie, Garet was wore a navy suit, Ivan wore a grey suit with a lilac tie and Felix wore a black suit with a black tie. Everyone rushed off to the wedding.
The wedding was being held under water. Everyone was given a special sweet to eat which allowed them to breathe underwater for a limited time-long enough for the wedding. It was going to be a big event, since it was the wedding of the heir to the throne of Lemuria.
Sapphia's parents were there. Her father was King Orion's personal advisor, and her mother was Queen Silvia's best friend. That was why she had known Piers for a long time. She was only younger than him by two months.
Sapphia wasn't coming out yet, and Piers, dressed in his darkish blue suit was waiting impatiently for his wife to be.
"Well stupid," Ivan whispered, "You only see the bride when she walks to you with her father down the red carpet, and in your case, blue carpet."
"Clever clogs," Piers muttered. He turned to talk to his best man, Felix, and ignored Ivan.
Garet and Jenna didn't look too good. Being fire adepts, being in the water wasn't good. Isaac was worried about his two best friends. "Sapphia, let's get on with it." Sheba said, rushing into her friend's dressing room. "Jenna and Garet don't look too good. Remember, they're Mars adepts.
"Right." Sapphia stood up. "Where's my main bridesmaid?"
"Mia? She's still in her room..."
"What!?!"
"Actually, I'm here." Mia appeared in the doorway.
"Mia!" the two girls cried.
"Wow! I love your dress!" Sheba said, admiring Mia's handiwork. It was a pale blue dress, and the bottom was trimmed with blue cherry blossoms. One arm was bare, and the other was covered with a long sleeve of floaty material. She wore matching jewellery and shoes.
"Thanks." Mia blushed.
"Is everything organised?" Sapphia asked hastily.
"Yep." Mia smiled. "Everything. The vicar's ill, so we've got Kraden to take over. And don't worry; I've sorted everything else out. Including the flowers."
"Oh, thank you sooooooooooooo much!" Sapphia hugged Mia tightly.
"Come on Sapphia! Let's go!" Sheba cried, tugging at her dress.
"Right, right you are." Sapphia rushed out, followed by Mia and Sheba.
Sapphia walked down towards Piers and Felix, etc (I've never been to an western style wedding, because I'm Chinese, and I've only seen it on TV, so this is a really crap scene!). Mia followed her, her hands holding a bunch of different blue flowers, and Sheba and Jenna followed suit, throwing blue confetti.
"Here comes the bride..." Aaron and Kay sang rather tunelessly.
"Guys, SHUT UP!" Garet ordered.
The vows, etc, were taken (blah blah blah).
"Do you, Prince Piers, take this woman to be your wife?" Kraden asked (I think it goes like that anyway!).
"I do."
"And do you, Sapphia, take this man to be your husband?"
"I do."
"I now pronounce you, husband and wife! You may kiss the bride."
Piers gave Sapphia a huge kiss, when suddenly, King Orion and Queen Silvia stood up. "We also have some very good news for our citizens. We have our long lost daughter."
Piers looked at his parents in utter surprise.
"And here she is." Mia stood up, blushing furiously. Everyone gasped, including Piers.
"What!?! Mia's my little sister?"
Mia ran to him and hugged him tightly.
"Welcome back Princess." Loud voices called out.
"Praise Sol!"
"It's been eighteen years since we've seen her! My, she has grown!"
"It's great to be back." Mia smiled at her brother.
I guess everyone's already figured out what was going to happen ( did you like it? I hope you did. Thanks for reading and please read and review! I'm begging you!!! And I'm sorry if there are any spelling mistakes. I don't have time to proof read all of this chapter-it's too long! So I'm counting on my spell check. Thanks again.
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