Princess Viv: It's been such a long time! I'm so ashamed of myself!
Ebony: You should be.
Princess Viv: (ignores) But here I am, with the long-awaited thirteenth chapter. I must apologise for the half a year delay in updating, but if you read the notice I posted up in my bio, you'll know I was banned from using my computer for a long time.
Ebony: Over half a year in exile for us djinn… Do you even know how that feels? (Glares at Viv)
Princess Viv: No, and I don't want to. I am still banned, actually, though the summer holidays aren't included, meaning I have about two and a half months to make up for what I haven't done! And I'm luckily also out of writer's block, so on with the story, I guess!
Sparkle: Yay!
Ebony: Shut up, fluff ball.
Rocky: (sigh) These six months have made her beyond grumpy… It's more like an everlasting tantrum. Ignore her, Sparkle…
Black Demon567: Yeah, I know about the curse thing, and I've never liked censoring them either, but I felt I should, just in case somebody reported me… And here we go with the fight! Woot! (You're seriously rubbing off on me, god damnit!)
Unkown-Character: Thankies! And how's the fic, btw?
Daidairo: Lol, they're only foreign djinn (as in Pyra's), don't worry… (Covers mouth) Damnit, I really shouldn't have said that… (Whacks head)
Jadebell: Lol, sorry! I have a strong attachment to cliffys! Damnit, I wanna watch XS's second series! (Cries) I bet I'll never get the chance to watch it! You must tell me what happens! Lol, and no, I seem to be much slower updating than you at the moment! (Sweat drop)
PlutoAdept: (sweat drop) Silvia's really… Easy to manipulate, especially when it's about Alex, lol! She actually supports that Sol Lord's plan, etc, etc, etc… She thinks she can rule the world with him! (Yeah, whatever!) And thanks for the ideas! I'll try and use them!
RPG Lover: It is slightly AU in parts, thanks for pointing that out. I never mentioned that in the description though, and when I started this fic, I didn't know a lot of the facts… So I apologise for that.
Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun, Camelot, or any of the characters, except Pyra, Sapphia, Lola and Lulu, the Sol Lord dude and Silvia. And of course, the future new characters.
Golden Sun: Fight for the Stars
Chapter 13: The Fight and the Sol Lord
Previously…
"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, bitch." 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.
The moment their eyes clashed, the battle had truly began. Silvia was obviously the stronger, more skilled fighter, with her powerful psynergy and tough body; however, Mia was faster and more agile, with swift moves and quick dodges. The two launched themselves at each other, neither showing any mercy for the other. Mia may have been injured beforehand, but it seemed her great determination was driving her forward more than ever.
As the other djinn watched the situation grimly, some of the females slightly frightened, Flint began to wonder how he was to get the Luna Star back while Silvia and Mia were fighting for their lives, and in Mia's case, the world and her friends. The Venus djinni had no idea of how he was to retrieve the black orb from inside of the Luna adept's robes, but he had to find a way. Turning to Mia's djinn, who were standing by to save Mia in case anything bad happened, Flint began to consult her lead djinni, Fizz.
"I don't think any of us have the power to get this Star." Fizz shook her head and replied in a hushed voice. "None of our abilities have the power to call something to come to us, nor to teleport things…"
"I could not believe I let you slip through my fingers like that back at Lola and Lulu's house." Mia muttered angrily as the two foes circled each other wearily. "I should've asked to see this "poor girl" that my friends had found here. I should've suspected something when they said the girl was called "Silvia"!"
"Tut tut." Silvia smirked. "Silly girl. No point killing yourself over it now. It's too late!"
"I'll kill you!" Mia cried.
"Give up, Mia!" Silvia spat as their weapons clashed loudly, sending small sparks flying.
"I'll never give up!" Mia retaliated.
"By the way, didn't my master's servants hurt you a while ago?" Silvia asked as the two adepts stepped back from one another, panting.
"Yes, but not enough to disable me to fight you." Mia said through gritted teeth as she once again launched an attack on Silvia. Both girls' actions were filled with tenacity and strength.
"It's a shame you survived." Silvia smirked. "You would've been spared this more painful and horrible death I'm about to give to you. I shall avenge myself!"
"No one…. will get past me." Mia replied calmly, her aquamarine eyes shining with determination. Suddenly, her body glowed a bright blue, and with a loud cry, she swung her staff and knocked Silvia's lances to the ground. Before the Luna adept could react, she had fallen onto the floor, and was gazing up at a large staff pointing at her throat, and a raging Mia. This sudden twist caused all the djinn to stop talking and stare anxiously at the battle scene.
Silvia smirked up at her enemy. "Bravo."
"Surrender now, Silvia." Mia growled softly.
"I will never surrender." Silvia drawled, her voice a low hiss. "I cannot be defeated."
"Everyone can be defeated." Mia countered.
"You underestimate the limits of my awesome power!" Silvia cried, and laughed maniacally. "Do you not see your friends, lying around you, near the brink of death? They all attacked me together, and they failed, each and every one of them!" However, unbeknown to Silvia, Mia's friends were currently being healed extremely quickly by a small force of djinn.
"I will not fall, nor fail." Mia glared at the silver-haired woman.
"Oh, but you will." Silvia stared right back, her own silver eyes boring into Mia's, "Like you said, Mia… Everyone can be defeated!" Suddenly, before Mia could react, Silvia lifted her hands into the air, and cried, "Serenitia!" The afore-used Luna psynergy erupted from the heavens and descended upon Mia in a blink of an eye, bathing the eighteen-year-old in pure white light.
"Mia! No!" the djinn's cries were heard. As Mia too slumped to the ground, the djinn looking horrified. Silvia picked herself up slowly, and began to heal herself with Heal Purge.
"Stupid, foolish girl." Silvia stared at Mia, her lips curved upwards in a small smirk of triumph. "I'm too powerful for you. I was always better than you." Turning her back, the Luna adept stalked towards the centre of the lighthouse, each stride more forceful and closer than the last.
"What are we going to do!" Calista hissed.
"Let's go!" Cannon announced, and tried to surge forward, but his face slammed into something invisible.
Black groaned, "It's Silvia doing this. I know this Luna move. It's like that Sol move, Wall of Light. This one's called the Luna Shield, a lot like the Aurora Shield, which is used to protect the user… We'll never get through!"
"Gah! This is driving me crazy!" Geode exclaimed, banging his little fist on the floor.
"She's getting closer!" Kite whispered, fear laced in her voice.
"What can we do?" Fizz moaned.
"She's walking slowly on purpose." Flint seethed. "Just to mock us."
"Wait!" Fog murmured excitedly, "Aren't some of the others out there healing our masters?"
"Yes!" nodded Coal eagerly. "Quartz, Spark, Tinder, Balm, Spring, Tonic, Breath, Crystal, Flower and Salt are all out there!"
"There are two possibilities." Flint declared, "Either our comrades can attack Silvia instead of healing, and distract her for a while, even though they're obviously not as strong as her, or they can carry on reviving some of our masters, and hope they'll wake."
"I hope it's the latter." Waft closed her eyes and prayed. "I don't want our friends getting hurt… They're not strong enough! Maybe our masters have more of a chance of stopping her!"
Meanwhile, the said djinn not encased by the Luna Shield and unknown to Silvia were still frantically healing as fast as they could. However, they could feel their energy falling little by little, and each knew that even if they tried to attack Silvia, they would be easily swatted away – what difference would it make? Instead, they decided to conserve their energy to carry on healing their masters. Hopefully, one of them would come round and do something…
Silvia had now reached the edge of the opening in the middle of the lighthouse. Grinning triumphantly, she reached inside her robes and pulled out the much-wanted Luna Star, shining innocently in the little light the lighthouse shed. All the djinn, trapped or not trapped, watched the scene with bated breath. As Silvia slowly began to move her hand forward to drop the black orb into the cavern, the Luna lighthouse was so silent, anyone could've heard a pin drop.
Suddenly, Silvia froze. The djinn watched, wide-eyed, wondering what had made the Luna adept stop so suddenly. Her hand was right over the pit, and if she loosened her grip now, the orb would disappear forever. But Silvia never let go. She held that Luna Star for ages… and ages… and ages. Finally, the djinn, curious about what was happened, crept forward quietly, but she still did not stir. Her hand was still frozen above the hole, never moving. When the djinn reached her, they realised she was frozen!
"Hey, wait a minute!" Rustica exclaimed, looking around her, "Weren't we trapped by the Luna Shield a second ago? What happened to it?"
"And why isn't Silvia moving?" Viper questioned, flying up and waving a small hand in front of her silver eyes. "Is she dead?"
"This is indeed strange…" Flint mused to himself.
Suddenly, the other djinn who had been healing the adepts approached them, panting. "What happened?"
"She's frozen." Blitz replied, a confused expression upon his djinni face.
"I… I did it…"
All the djinn looked behind them to see a very weak Pyra struggling to get up; her hair was dishevelled, her clothes were torn from Silvia's Serenitia, and there were bruises and cuts all over her skin. "Pyra!" the Mars adept's djinn ran to their hurt mistress.
"Are you alright?" Fiera asked worriedly.
"I… I'm fine." Pyra forced a small smile, and coughed.
"What did you do to Silvia?" Flint asked.
"Just disabled her for a few moments." Pyra winked. "I had my hand on her foot, and used Flame Freeze… I've barely ever used that psynergy before. It obviously came in handy…" She coughed again, and shook her head, looking around. "We have to heal our comrades quickly, bind Silvia up, and retrieve the Star. One of you, go and get it. Hurry…"
Rustica surged forward and regained the Luna Star before it fell from the disabled Silvia's hand, then returned to the floor, clutching it tightly. "I'll look after it for now."
"Good… Now, we must find a way to lock up Silvia before she can escape." Pyra ordered, thinking. "I don't know what we can possibly do to contain her. She's so strong…"
Suddenly, there was a small groan from behind Pyra, and everyone turned to see Felix slowly sit up, his hand to his head. "Venus… I feel terrible…"
"Felix!" Pyra cried, and she flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around the Venus adept. "I'm so glad you're alright."
Surprised at Pyra's sudden move, Felix was stunned for a moment, but then recovered and smiled into her dirty cloak. "I'm glad you're alright too. Have we got the Luna Star?"
"Yes." Pyra let him go and smiled, barely conscious about the fact that she had just embraced the Venus adept. "I was able to disable Silvia and we retrieved it."
"It looks like most of us are still not awake yet." Felix frowned, looking around at his fallen comrades.
"Yes…" Pyra commented sadly. "I hope they will wake soon."
"Oo!" Suddenly, Kite started exclaiming loudly, "Look! Ivan's waking up too!" Everyone turned to see Ivan a few metres away open his eyes and blink, his dirty face an expression of pain and confusion.
"Where… Where am I-I?" he stuttered.
Quickly, the djinn, Pyra and Felix ran over to their friend. "Don't worry, Ivan, everything's okay now. We'll explain later." Felix soothed, wondering how they were going to tell both Pyra and Ivan that they had been brainwashed by Silvia and turned against their own friends.
After Ivan had recovered enough to start moving, he rushed over to Sheba, who was still unconscious and badly hurt. "We will all help one another to recover when we get back." Felix reassured the younger boy.
"Yes. As long as we have the Luna Star, nothing now will get in our way, especially not this "Sol Lord"." A determined voice said firmly. Isaac had also awoken, and was standing up, leaning on his sword for support.
"Isaac! I'm so glad you're alright." Ivan smiled tiredly.
Isaac nodded his thanks, and looked around. "Mia!" he spotted what he had been searching for, and surged forward to check up on her.
"She should be the last one to awake, since she was the last one to fall," Flint arrived by his master's feet and gave Isaac the low-down on the situation, "but her injuries are not as grave as the others, since Silvia had already lost much of her energy when she fought Mia, and Mia's body also recovers rapidly – something which all healing Mercury adepts possess."
"Mia…" Isaac whispered, and hugged his loved-one against his chest.
Suddenly, a bright light lit up the Luna Lighthouse, and everyone who was conscious closed their eyes to shield themselves from the golden luminosity. When it faded, they forced their eyes open to see a figure beside the frozen Silvia; he or she was dressed in a long golden cape, and a hood covered the face of the said person. Slowly, he or she extended a hand and touched the shoulder of Silvia gently; she abruptly closed her eyes and slumped, her body falling to the floor, but the figure caught her just in time, lifting her up.
Recovering from the sudden shock of seeing a random person appear, Isaac yelled, "Hey! Who are you? What are you doing to her?"
The hooded figure turned to the others, but no eyes were seen – just darkness. There was deathly silence in the room for what seemed like centuries, then the shining figure turned, and disappeared into another shower of blinding light.
"Ah, my eyes…" Ivan flinched.
Isaac blinked several times and groaned, trying to rid the flashing lights erupting into the darkness of his closed eyelids.
"Who… was that?" Felix stuttered, shaking his head hard. "That light sure was bright…"
"I think… that was… the Sol Lord." Pyra replied quietly, staring away, her eyes glazed over, but not from the blinding light.
Everyone conscious turned to look at her, a mixture of emotions displayed on their faces.
"He… saved Silvia," Isaac remarked bitterly after an awkward silence, "but, my friends," he turned to his companions, "we will stop whoever gets in our way again. We will avenge everybody who has been hurt by them too. This can go on no longer."
Ivan nodded, "Yes." Felix and Pyra also dipped their heads in agreement.
"Okay then…" Isaac's face was set in rock as he gripped Mia's hand tightly, "Let's go."
Princess Viv: Finished… at last! Hope you enjoyed that… It was a bit crude, due to the fact I haven't written in ages, and the details of the story are vague to me now. Please review though!