PlutoAdept: Thanks. I'll keep them in mind, especially Artemis. And sorry about the whole "mind control" part…
Black Demon567: is bewildered I am good at writing battle scenes? I am? is very confused Well, um, thanks!
Unkown-Character: Lol, I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks. And Lolo means grandfather?? blink blink
Daidaro: Thanks. Silvia didn't show up in pre-chaps cos she was planning stuff, etc. Not to be revealed yet though. And you're right, Isaac and co. are powerful, but Silvia is just more so.
Erm… Don't you mean Mudshipping sucks? Just cos I'm writing a Mudshipper, you think I suck? You sad person… There's something called "respecting others opinions", and I happen to like Mudshipping… You obviously don't. So deal with it. You probably prefer Valeshipping. shrugs I'm fine with that. I, for one at least, don't think you suck. I can respect that. It's the quality of the writing that counts anyway.
Jadebell: There's no need to apologise. I don't mind. I'm very pleased that you killed the Doom Dragon so fast! And when you get the website done, please send me the URL via email or review, okay? And I'll await your next chapter for your "main" fic. And I am good at battle scenes? Why is this happening? I am crap at them…I like to tease you with all with my cliffhangers, though they're not that good… And yeah, lol, Silvia does need her ass to be kicked…but can Isaac do it?
Oh, and everyone, I have something important to say:
1) I can't update this fic that often, due to the start of school and homework. cries
2) I may repost some of the old chapters of this story… I want to improve them.
Disclaimer: I don't own Golden Sun.
Golden Sun: The Fight for the Stars
Chapter 12: Alex's love
Isaac twitched and blinked many times. His head throbbed, and he felt like his entire body and bones were on fire. He found himself lying face down on the ground, his hand still wrapped tightly around his Sol Blade. Isaac tried to remember what had happened. Silvia, the betrayal, the mind controlling of Ivan and Pyra, and then the Luna summon by Silvia…Was that why he was lying on the floor? Were they defeated? Where was he?
Isaac, alarmed, tried to use his hands to lift his body up into a standing position, but he was in too much pain. He tried to focus his eyes, and found himself still in the Luna lighthouse. Then, a loud clang pulsated in his ears.
He turned round immediately to see Silvia fighting Sheba, and she had obviously got the upper hand over the young Jupiter adept. But Sheba was fuelled by pure determination that showed in her eyes; Isaac had never seen her so resolute before. She wasn't going down. Yet.
Isaac wanted to go and help her, but his body felt weak and unstable. He looked around, and his eyes widened in horror. His friends were all lying on the floor around him, bruises on their faces, and blood oozing from their injuries. They were all unconscious. Silvia wasn't joking when she said she was strong.
But in the attack, Silvia's summon had also managed to knock out both Ivan and Pyra. It was mystifying why Sheba wasn't also unconscious. Pyra was lying there; the Luna star had rolled away from her open hand and was now near the door of the top of the lighthouse. Isaac didn't see it.
The nearest person to him was Garet. Isaac strained to crawl over to his best friend. Garet was lying face up, his hands limp beside him. Like everyone who had been attacked by the Luna summon, he was unconscious. Isaac tried to arouse him. "Garet!" he whispered hoarsely, his throat feeling dehydrated. "Garet! Please, wake up!" but it was no use. He simply lay there. He looked almost dead. It chilled Isaac to the core of his bones.
Isaac almost felt despair. But he forced his mind to clear, and think normally and positively. He glanced at Sheba again. She was faring all right at the moment, but she was losing her edge, and obviously tiring. How long had Isaac been unconscious? He wanted to call out to his friend, but it would just distract Sheba from her deep concentration, and it may cost her.
He wanted to help Sheba, but his body was refusing to stand or move. He suddenly had an idea. He whispered, "Flint, guys, please…" he licked his dry lips, "Come out… Help me… Help us…"
To his relief, all his djinn appeared. Flint, Granite, Quartz, Vine, Sap, Ground and Bane. "And to think I was asleep." Granite muttered as he surveyed the wreckage along with the other djinn.
"What do you want us to do, Isaac?" Flint asked.
"Find…other djinn…" Isaac murmured, "Attack…Silvia…go…" at that point, he passed out due to complete exhaustion and pain, his finger pointing straight at the fighting pair. (A/N: In my fic, the djinn are always asleep until someone tells them to wake up… Why I'm doing it like this, I have nooo idea… So they have been asleep all along.)
"Oh dear." Vine squeaked.
"Let's go get the others." Flint ordered. "It's what Isaac wanted us to do, so we obey."
Vine patted Isaac's head sympathetically, and all the Venus djinn split up, each arousing every other adept's djinn.
Quartz had just awoken Ivan's djinn, when he noticed Pyra. He wondered whether she had any djinn. Running over, he pried and prodded her, until he heard an indignant squeal. "Bingo." he thought. "Hello?" he asked quietly, so that Silvia, who was still fighting Sheba, didn't hear him.
"Wha-What the hell is going on?" the red head of a female djinni peeped out from under some material of Pyra's clothing.
"Are you one of Pyra's djinni?" Quartz asked.
"Yes." The djinni jumped out. "My name is Rustica. I am her lead djinni."
"I am Quartz. We need your help. We are all in trouble." Quartz said.
"I can see that." Rustica replied, eyeing Pyra, the other unconscious adepts and Silvia. "And I am sorry we were never introduced to you all before, but we like to keep ourselves a low key profile."
"We?"
"Meet the others." Rustica whistled a low, quiet note, and six more djinn appeared. "Flame, Destructo, Fiera, Ashlee, Seismic and Adrenilia."
There was a chorus of soft hellos, and Quartz quickly summarised their position to them. He couldn't believe all of Pyra's djinn had been sleeping through everything that had happened over the last fortnight. But he wasn't much better…
Rustica nodded when he had finished. "We need to get revenge against this "Silvia"." She said the name with a sneer, glancing over at the silver haired Luna adept. "Of course. Count us in."
Quartz nodded his approval. "Follow me. Flint will tell us what to do." All eight djinn made their way over quickly to Isaac again. They were the last ones there. Now there were a lot of djinn. Garet, Ivan, Felix, Jenna, Piers, Sapphia, Luna, Lola, and Pyra's djinn were all there, and surprisingly, Ground had found Justin's six djinni too. There were sixty-nine djinn altogether. They hid behind the figure of the unconscious Isaac; Flint made himself comfortable as he leaned against Isaac, the other sixty-eight djinn listening to him.
"Okay, now we are all gathered." Flint said, eyeing Pyra's djinn. "Here's the plan." He whispered to the others rapidly.
Meanwhile, Sheba was struggling against Silvia. Her opponent was just much more experienced, and an overall better adept and weapon's user. Sheba felt her energy slowly ebb away. "Ah!" she cried in surprise as one of Silvia's lances found Sheba's arm, slashing through her thin robes and slicing a long, but thin line across her pale skin. Tears sprung to the young, Jupiter adept's eyes, but she fought them back.
Silvia smirked. "You are no match for me, you weakling." She leapt agilely out of an attack by Sheba's staff. "Now it's time to end this!" Silvia grinned mockingly. "I don't think I'll take you out using a psynergy or one of my summons… Nah, I'll use my lances." She weighed them fondly in her hands. "It'll be more painful, and you can die slowly. Oh, this'll be fun."
Sheba gritted her teeth, her eyes narrowing. "You b####." She tried to get an aim with her staff at Silvia's chest again, but one of her opponent's lances blocked it.
Silvia grinned. "Such language, little girl. Let me put you out of your misery." She suddenly and swiftly took a few steps forward and plunged her other lance, which wasn't blocking Sheba's staff, right into the Jupiter adept's stomach. Sheba's eyes widened with shock, but she didn't cry out with pain. She dropped her staff, withdrew both hands to where the lance was, and held the impaled weapon. Her eyes were wide with fear, pain and disbelief.
"Oh my god, oh my god!" Sheba's mind was screaming. It hurt like hell. She gasped out loud, and toppled over, her knees bending first, then her body crumpled altogether. "Ivan…" she whispered with her last breath. Then she was lying there, still. But was she unconscious…or dead?
Gust, Ivan's lead djinni, watched this all in horror. "Oh no, Sheba!" he squeaked. All the djinn turned to see Sheba's fall.
"Crap." Flint muttered. "That wasn't part of the plan."
"What do we do now?" Calista, Lulu's lead djinni asked, looking worried.
"Well, what else can we do?" Flint narrowed his small, djinni eyes. "We fight till the very end. We will avenge them all!" he raised his hand. "Who's in?"
"I'm with you all the way." Forge, Garet's lead djinni agreed, also lifting his hand. Sixty-seven hands followed shortly.
Flint nodded. "Good. Now let's go."
"Wait!" Skyla, Lola's lead djinni interrupted. "Look!" everyone followed the direction that Skyla's hand was pointing in, and saw the Luna star lying innocently beside the door.
"Isn't that the Luna star?" Fog, Piers' lead djinni whispered, his voice betraying a little hope and glee.
"It is!" Cannon, Jenna's lead djinni was so excited, he looked ready to jump around like a madman.
"What do we do now?" Echo, Felix's lead djinni asked Flint.
"Well… Let's steal the star, and, well… I don't know!" Flint dropped his small head in his hands. Everyone else stared in surprise at him.
"What's the matter, Flint?" Ether spoke up gently.
"I always make the decisions. " Flint replied, his voice on the verge of cracking. "I always devise the plans. I always look after you, because you are my responsibilities and my friends. I watch over Isaac, because he is my master, and my best friend…" a tear escaped his eye. "The pressure's too much. There's too much at stake here! What if I make the wrong decision? It will cost all our master and mistress their lives! We can either grab the Luna star, attack Silvia, run, or heal our masters and mistresses. Each decision has a downfall to it! What will we do?"
Fever hopped over to Flint. "We'll do what you think best. You're the leader, and we trust your decision. We'll follow you all the way, and support you. Even if you make the wrong decision. And I know you'll make the right one." The other djinn all nodded, their tiny, different coloured heads bobbing up and down in unison.
Flint looked up. "Thanks guys."
Zephyr smiled. "So, oh great leader man, what's your decision?"
Flint mused for a few seconds. "Okay, here's the plan." All the djinn leaned in to listen. "Two djinn go and grab that Luna star; the best healing djinn go round and try to cure and revive our masters and mistresses; one more djinni go and awake Sheba's djinni. We also need our best healer here to heal Sheba especially… The rest of you, come with me, and we go and try to bring Silvia down! She's done us and the world enough trouble, and we need to get revenge! We will die fighting! And it will serve as a distraction if we are successful in awaking our masters and mistresses."
Spring nodded enthusiastically. "Great idea Flint!"
"Well, what are we waiting for, let's go!" Flint instructed.
While all this was going on between the djinn, Silvia herself was walking around, her lips curled into a triumphant and arrogant smirk. "Serves all you idiots right." She thought. "You were never a match for me. Every one of you." She passed Piers. He was lying on his front, his blue hair spilled out, spreading itself over his back. She froze when she saw the hair. Looking around, she found what she was looking for.
Silvia remembered the battle against them clearly. She recalled slashing at some of Piers' hair, and some of it was lying on the floor nearby. Walking over, she scooped some of the thin, smooth strands up, and held them like precious stones in her hands. "Oh, why?" Silvia whispered out loud. "Why did you leave? Why did you go? Why did you get yourself killed?"
Suddenly, she was alert. Her eyes looked up instantly, her hands separating and going straight to her lances. The locks of hair fell down, falling slowly and silently. They landed on the ground by Silvia's feet. "Who's there?" she shouted boldly, not afraid and hands on lances. She was ready.
Silence. Silvia lifted her hands off her weapons, slightly confused, but her face betrayed no emotion. "Strange…" she thought. "I swear I could feel the presence of someone… Someone awake…"
As she wondered, the djinn all crept up closer to her soundlessly.
Silvia's mind then wandered over to the Luna star. "Ah yes." She grinned and she thought. "I still need to light this place… Killing these fools too… Now, where is my slave?" her eyes passed over to Pyra, who was lying still. "Damn." Silvia cursed, "Serenitia hit her too. Oh well. Must get that star off her." The Luna adept began to make her way over to Pyra quickly.
"Now!" a squeaky voice yelled. Silvia jumped. Many small djinn were now either flying or running towards her.
(A/N: Imagine the little, squat djinn running! laughs insanely HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! So damn funny! falls off chair )
Silvia growled. She had completely forgotten that the adepts owned djinn. But she didn't care. She had demolished the adepts quickly enough. How hard could their djinn be? She grabbed her lances, and began to fight as the djinn unleashed their combined power at her.
Whilst this was happening, Quartz, Spark, Tinder, Balm, Spring, Tonic, Breath, Crystal, Flower and Salt crept away to heal their masters and mistresses. Some gave HP, while others healed their status.
Kite and Ether were the ones who went to get the Luna star. They were still far away from it though.
Ember was calling Sheba's djinn, who woke up, surprised. They and Ember immediately joined the battle.
The attacking djinn were all unleashing their powers, making the battle scene rather messy.
Fog was using his fog, which was supposed to blind Silvia, but her gleaming, silver eyes penetrated everything. Torch and Scorch were both attacking, and they were successful, as Silvia winced. They had burnt some of her skin. Breeze was busy trying to boost the party's resistance; Luff was attempting to seal Silvia's psynergy, and Zephyr was raising the party's agility. Only Luff failed when Silvia used her Aurora Shield to protect herself from being drained of her psynergy. Meld made his entire Venus djinn team, Bane, Echo, Flint, Geode, Mold, Petra, Sap and Steel, attack together, forcing Silvia to drop to her knees. She had been so busy trying to block Reflux's assault, she had left herself open. She was tiring. The djinn were winning.
Silvia opened her eyes slightly, and cast Aurora Shield once more. She knew she was going to lose. She had underestimated the power of the djinn. Suddenly, her eyes caught sight of two djinn almost reaching something. She narrowed her eyes more, and she realised it was the Luna star. She was going to be beaten by these round blobs. She wasn't about to let that happen.
Silvia was mad. She channelled her anger into her weakened body, and yelled, "To me, Luna star!"
Flint's eyes widened in horror. "Kite, Ether, the star!!"
Too late. The two Jupiter djinn watched in utter amazement as the star flew through the air, away from them, and landed in Silvia's palms. All the djinn were horrified. She smirked evilly. "It's over." She whispered. "I've won, you've lost. Let me show you what defeat tastes like-"
Silvia was suddenly interrupted. "Silvia!" everyone turned, and blinked in amazement. It was Mia!
"You!" Silvia's face abruptly twisted into an expression of deep loathing and hate.
"Yeah, me." Mia smirked.
"Mia!" the djinn cried, rushing over to her, settling at her feet. Some were injured, but mostly okay.
"It's fine, guys, I'll take over from here." Mia reassured them quietly. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the other djinn hard at work trying to revive her friends.
"How did you get in here?" Silvia spat.
"I came in through the open door." Mia smiled victoriously. "Then I came up here to find you… Long time no see, Silvy."
Silvia growled loudly. "Do NOT call me that, b####."
"I'll call you whatever I want." Mia stood up to the older girl. She took a step forward to Silvia. "Now I know what he meant when he said his true love was behind all this."
Silvia, surprisingly, took a step back. "He?"
"Alex, Silvia." Mia hissed, her eyes gleaming. "Alex."
"Don't say that name!" Silvia screeched, covering her ears with her hands. She slipped the Luna star into her robes. Her face was etched with pain and sorrow.
"Why don't we fight, right here, right now?" Mia proposed.
"Why don't we." Silvia uncovered her ears and smirked. "I'm ready Mia. But the question is, are you?"
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Bring it on, b####." Mia gripped her staff harder. "I will win." She thought. "For Isaac, for my friends."
"Mia! Mia!" her own seven djinn appeared. "We are ready to help you fight till the end!" Obviously, some djinn weren't always sleeping…
"So are we!" the djinn at her feet squeaked.
"Thanks guys." Mia smiled gratefully. "But I have to do this…on my own. This is personal."
Looking up, Mia's eyes met Silvia's, and the battle…began.
Princess Viv: Sorry, I just love leaving things on cliffhangers… And as I said before, I will repost some chapters… I'm not pleased with them, that's why. Lol. But I will update at the same time.
Well, 'till next time, folks!
Chapter 13: The fight