Princess Viv: Well that was a crap chappie, wasn't it?
Ebony: Yep.
Princess Viv: sighs SpasticDjinn, you are so right. I haven't been writing consistently well lately…well, I have personal reasons…so please, readers who are finding this story to be on a decline, bear with me. I'll try and get my act together.
Rocky: Princess Viv doesn't own Golden Sun.
Princess Viv: Oh well… sighs
SpasticDjinn: I don't blame you for what you said, and I won't take offence, cos you're right. But I'll try my best to write more and produce a better quality. Thanks for the review.
Black Demon567: Well, the ship doesn't have that much room. There's a living room/meeting room, a dining room, kitchen, and a few dorms for sleeping. I've made it sound rather spacious though, haven't I? Lol. And I can't believe Mia agrees!! Garet is so not smarter than you; at least you have my support! Thanks for the review.
Jadebell: Oh well, keep trying with the game. I'm sure you'll get there eventually. And I would try making a new email account. You know, my hotmail account was playing up; I couldn't send to aol users…I was so annoyed. So I made a new account with yahoo. Hopefully nothing will go wrong! Thanks for the review.
PlutoAdept: It's okay. I was kinda in a bad mood too…lol. My brother found out on the Internet about Kay being a Mercury adept, and Felix's age I had made up…I don't know his actual age, but it's around 20, that's all I know. Thanks for the reviews.
Unkown-Character: Lol. Lola equals grandmother?!? Gosh…anyway, it's okay. I don't mind if you review a little late. Thanks a lot for it.
Daidaro: That's okay. Hope you got my other emails to your new address.
fan knight: Thanks for the review. I've updated!
Ebony:And I can't believe I'm not in this chapter! Barbaric!
Princess Viv: Shut up.
Golden Sun: The Fight for the StarsChapter 10: Ambushed
Isaac and co. were seated in the living room. Sheba was recalling their conversation with the two Luna adepts, Lola and Lulu to the others.
"Well, we found the Luna adepts." Pyra mused, running her hand through her red hair. "I wonder when we'll bump into a Sol adept."
"We soon will." Isaac's eyes narrowed. "The Sol Lord is a Sol adept, remember?"
"I guess you're right." Ivan nodded. "We must be prepared."
"Don't worry Ivan." Isaac replied. "We will be." Fire was burning in Isaac's eyes.
The next day…Lola yawned and stretched. Beside her, Lulu did the same. The two got out of their beds and slowly walked downstairs. They saw Isaac and co. eating breakfast in the dining room.
"Good morning." Mia was the first to see them as she served out some more breakfast for Garet. "I've saved some food for you. Didn't want Garet to get his hands on them."
"Thank you." Lola smiled, and her and Lola sat down, Lola beside Ivan and Lulu beside Piers. Everyone exchanged greetings, and the twins began to eat ravenously when Mia gave them their breakfast.
Suddenly, there were many squeaks of protests, and fourteen black blobs appeared on the table. Lulu groaned.
"No, I want some!" one blob said.
"But I'm oldest!" another squealed.
"Look, why are we arguing over some food?" one more chipped in.
"Enough!" Lola demanded, and the things fell silent.
"Are they…" Ivan peered closer. "Luna djinn?"
"Yes." Lulu smiled. "Otherwise known as dark djinn."
Everyone stared at the little things. They were the same size as the other djinn, except they had black skin and amber eyes, giving them a rather frightening look.
"Lu and I have seven Luna djinn each. Let me introduce mine." Lola smiled. "These are Devil, Shade, Shadow, Viper, Skyla, Jet and Onyx."
"And these guys are Charcoal, Black, Demon (don't kill me Black, I needed names, and they seemed to fit, lol), Vortex, Star, Raven and Calista." Lulu pointed at her djinn.
The djinn, without waiting, threw themselves at Lola and Lulu's plates of food, and began to eat at a ferocious rate, whilst squabbling too.
"Pardon them." Lola sighed. "They can get…kind of out of hand."
"It's alright." Mia smiled. "At least their table manners still aren't as bad as Garet's."
Everyone laughed and resumed eating. But little did they know what was in store for them.
Later…"Right, Lola, Luna, I need you to help us give directions to Lunara." Mia frowned as she steadied the ship using the black orb.
As the twins helped Mia along, Kay and Aaron were watching Felix and Pyra laughing about something in the living room.
"Those two are so obviously flirting." Aaron sniggered.
"Shhh!" Kay put a finger to her lips and nudged her brother.
"We have to do something." Aaron grinned mischievously.
"What do you propose we do?" Kay asked him.
Aaron's eyes glimmered with delight as him and his sister crept away to discuss.
Later…Garet, Jenna, Isaac, Piers, Sapphia, Ivan, Sheba, and the new arrivals, Lola and Lulu, were sitting on the deck, just chatting and getting more acquainted.
"Isaac here is our almighty leader." Sheba grinned, saying to the Luna twins. Isaac smiled, embarrassed. "Jenna is his childhood friend with a scary temper; I think she needs anger management." Jenna glared at her companion in a pleasant way. "Mia is our resident healer and Isaac's girlfriend. Ivan is our lookout boy and a really good friend." Sheba glanced at him and he blushed; this didn't go unnoticed by Isaac and Jenna, who both grinned. "Piers is everyone's caring but cool resident dad and actually Mia's brother. Sapphia is his wife and our resident mum." Everyone laughed. "Felix is kind of like Isaac's deputy, but he's usually silent, and keeps calm in bad situations. However, recent…events have turned him kinda of hyper. Pyra is our other newcomer. She plans to help us against the fight with the Sol Lord. Megan and Justin were Mia's apprentices in Imil, and they're our other set of twins. Kay and Aaron are Garet's younger siblings. They're the ones who made Felix's hair green. I myself am the weather girl and danger sensor, I guess. Oh, and we can't forget Garet! He's the dense, greedy and sleepy idiot on this ship."
"Pardon?" Garet spluttered. He stood up.
"Uh oh." Isaac half grinned half sighed as his best friend began to chase Sheba across the slippery deck that Megan and Justin were cleaning.
"Hey!" Megan cried. "Get off, get off!"
"Did I mention he needed anger management too?" Sheba smirked and yelled loudly.
Suddenly, Garet slipped on the surface of the wood, and fell down. "Ow!" then he skidded over to where Justin was going to use douse on the deck. Garet yelled. "Justin, no!" the boy heard him, and leapt up in time to prevent himself being bowled over, but he couldn't stop the flow of water erupting from his hands and showering Garet.
Justin landed softly in front of Garet, who was by now, soaking wet. Everyone laughed warmly, restoring mutual joy on the ship.
The next day in the afternoon…"We've reached Lunara!" Ivan bellowed from the mast.
Later at night…Isaac and co. wandered around Lunara, following Lola and Lulu. They approached the tall, black lighthouse in the middle of the island. Everyone looked up and gazed at the sheer size of it. The place was abandoned.
"No one else comes here except us." Lola stated.
Suddenly, Sheba yelled, "Get down!"
Everyone quickly ducked, and narrowly missed some flying, metal boomerangs. "What the hell?!?" Garet cursed.
"Someone's after us!" Mia screamed.
"You don't say." Aaron muttered.
"We have to defend!" Isaac ordered. "When they come into view, we go on the offence."
Everyone nodded. The attackers suddenly appeared from the shadows. There were about twelve of them, all dressed fully in black and holding lethal weapons.
"Ivan, Sheba, psynergy!" Isaac ordered.
"Spark Plasma!" they both cried, electrocuting a few people each.
But two dodged it, and ran towards the group. Before anyone could stop them, their fast agility skills had them next to Mia, one on either side.
"Mia!" Isaac yelled, running.
The two black clad people used their swords to slash at Mia's sides. She cried out in pain, and crumpled to the floor. Isaac's eyes widened. "No!"
Without Isaac fully in control, and everyone shocked, the other electrocuted opponents began to pick themselves up and make their way over silently.
"Ah!" Sheba screamed as one used his dagger against her open arms. Everyone turned to see the recovered enemies in front of them.
Ivan rushed over to aid Sheba as the others launched into battle. Sheba, luckily, wasn't harmed too much.
Jenna and Kay took one person, Jenna using her fire psynergy, and Kay attacking using her double lances.
Garet and Aaron fought one guy together too, both using Mars psynergy.
Sheba was supported by Ivan as she tried to battle against the one that had hurt her.
Justin and Megan wrestled with another too, both struggling against the older and more experienced person.
Felix found himself fighting alongside Pyra as they clashed with two more opponents.
Piers and Sapphia, as usual, worked as a team to over power two deadly rivals.
Luna and Lola got to two adversaries, and began to use their special, Luna psynergy.
"Shadow Stealer of Life!" Lola summoned. Her shadow jumped up, sailed over to one of the challengers and flew right into him. A few seconds later, he choked and fell to the floor, dead. The shadow returned to Lola's side. The life had been sucked out of the man. (Thanks to Dark for that! I changed it a bit, hope you don't mind.)
"Dark Cross!" Lulu used her psynergy to call a black spirit in the shape of a cross out of the grounds. It went to the other opponent and attacked him, engulfing him in black. Next, he was lying beside his companion, lifeless.
Isaac was on his own, combating with the two that had attacked Mia. His eyes were full of anger. Mia herself was lying on the floor, breathing heavily and unconscious. "Judgement!" Isaac cried, as he called upon one of the most powerful summons.
His attack fazed one foe and made him fall temporarily, but he other seemed only scratched. He leaped towards the team leader.
"Ah!" Justin winced as him and Megan's foe's sharp blade made contact with his leg, slashing at his ankle. He dropped to his knees, clutching his injury. He wasn't ready to give up yet, and decided to summon Boreas.
Lola looked around her as she and Lulu finished off their opponent. Everyone seemed to be, in some way, hurt. So she called to her twin. "Lu! The moon!"
Her sister nodded. She closed her eyes.
"Part!" Lulu lifted her hands to the grey sky. Suddenly, the clouds parted, revealing a bright, full moon. "Lo!" she called.
This time, Lola stretched her hands out. "Moonlight Heal!" then the light of the moon shone brighter than ever, glowing onto the surprised Isaac and co. Then they felt themselves getting stronger. It was a healing move. All were cured at once, though the healing magic wasn't as strong as a Mercury adept's, it did the job. Mia was slowly regaining consciousness.
Lola crouched down, her energy greatly drained. Lulu began the slow, Luna way of healing her sister, using Heal Purge.
Jenna cried out in triumph as she finished off her and Kay's enemy, burning him with her flames.
Garet was able to disable his and Aaron's rival after slashing at his chest with his weapon.
Ivan and Sheba were able to defeat their opponent too, after Lola revived them a little.
Justin and Megan's joint water assault washed away their adversary, drowning him at the same time and wetting the rest of the group.
Pyra summoned Meteor, the strongest Mars summon, whilst Felix used Judgement, like Isaac had done before hand. Thus overcoming their opponents.
Piers and Sapphia avoided trying to use their psynergy, but focused on outwitting their enemies, and were successful.
Only Isaac was left fighting for his life against the two remaining assassins. Mia was still lying on the floor, her sweep of aquamarine hair covering the floor. All other bad guys were dead.
"Grand Gaia!" Isaac called, trying to keep up with the quick movements of his opponents.
The one that had suffered the most from Isaac's previous Judgement summon fell, but there still remained one more to defeat.
Garet noticed his best friend in trouble, and ran towards him. Suddenly, he banged right into an invisible, yet strong wall. "OW!"
"What on earth…" Sheba made her way over and touched the wall while Jenna helped Garet up.
"It's him." Pyra frowned as she pointed at Isaac's remaining foe. "He's a Sol adept and is using his psynergy; this is the move, Wall of Light. It blocks things. Including you, Garet."
"I can see that." Garet groaned, rubbing his head with Jenna's support. "But I have to help Isaac!" Everyone looked unhappily at their team leader fighting for his life alone. Felix began to pound at the invisible wall endlessly, causing a major racket.
"Let us in, you coward!" Felix shouted.
"Yes, Felix is doing the right thing." Piers nodded. "We can't give up. We must find a way to break through the wall."
Everyone nodded and followed Felix's lead. They began to hit the wall as hard as possible with summons, psynergy and weapons with their remaining energy.
Meanwhile, Isaac was still focused on his opponent. A bead of sweat slipped down his forehead.
"You will die." The man spoke for the first time.
"Never." Isaac gritted his teeth together, undefeated yet.
As the two raged on, Mia's eyes fluttered open. After adjusting to the bright moonlight, she saw her friends hammering on something she couldn't see, and Isaac struggling with a black clad man. It looked like Isaac was losing. He looked tired and worn out.
Using her remaining strength, Mia reached out and gently touched Isaac's heel, unknown to him. "Pure Ply." She whispered. Blue sparks arose from her fingers and rushed through to Isaac, warming him. He was surprised, and looked behind him to see Mia.
But before he could bend down and see to her, his adversary was running towards him. He thanked his girlfriend inside and rushed to meet the guy, their swords clashing and sending sparks all around.
Isaac used his final strength given by Mia to yell, "Judgement!" one more time. The almighty god summon blasted the black clad figure into a nearby tree, sending him into oblivion, never to wake again.
The wall made by the Sol adept disappeared, and Felix and the others suddenly fell forward and through. Isaac immediately stooped to Mia's level and stroked her hair while supporting her up.
"Mia?" Isaac asked gently as he cast Potent Cure on her large wounds, which were mainly healed from Lola's Moonlight Heal.
"Isaac? Are you okay?" Mia whispered.
"I'm fine, thanks to you." Isaac smiled, leaned forward and kissed her.
"Hey, guys, break it up!" Jenna walked forward followed by the others, smiling broadly. "Come on, Mia deserves a rest!"
Isaac pulled away and blushed. "Sorry."
Mia smiled softly.
"I think Mia will have to stay in an inn for a few days before she will be fit again." Sapphia frowned.
"No!" Mia managed to choke out. "I have to help!" I…" she coughed.
"No way. Sapphia is right." Piers took his sister's hand. "Don't worry. You'll be up and running soon. I know you Mia, you're a fighter."
Mia smiled again. "Fine then."
"We'll need someone to look after her while we set off for this lighthouse tomorrow at dawn." Ivan stated.
"Me." Isaac was determined.
"No Isaac." Felix shook his head. "You're the leader. We need you. Let either Megan or Justin do it."
Pyra nodded her agreements. "I think Felix is right. Megan and Justin are probably the second best healers here, along with Sapphia. But we may need Sapphia in battle more than Megan and Justin, because, and excuse me for saying this, she does have more experience than you two. We'll need her in the fights." Pyra turned to the two healer twins.
"I would be glad to look after Mia." Megan smiled. "I owe Mia a lot, and Justin is the better fighter than me. He should go."
"Hey, me and Lu are actually healers ourselves. We could help out." Lola interrupted. "Our psynergies usually work better in the Luna lighthouse and on full moon nights. Like tonight." She pointed at the moon.
"Right. You would be best in the fight though, since you will be at your strongest there. The lighthouse is your element, remember." Sheba ran her hands through her hair.
"Okay." Lulu nodded.
"Well, I guess we'll lead you to our house." Lola smiled sadly, memories flooding back.
"But we warn you." Lulu grinned, "There isn't much space. So some will have to sleep on the floor."
"Garet!" Jenna announced. "And ladies should get the beds!"
"Hey! Not fair!" Garet protested.
Everyone laughed.
And as the group walked off, Mia in Isaac's arms, a pair of marine blue eyes watched them carefully, unknown to our heroes.
Princess Viv: Er…you tell me, improvement, or no improvement?
Chapter 11: Trickery