Hero of the Day

Chapter 3: The Unforgiven

"Ahhh…" My feet dragged along the ground as Jenna yanked my on my arm. We stopped suddenly as we reached the southern outskirts of town. Maybe she was out of breath.

"I need to find… someone. And I can't do it alone, so you coming or what?" She motioned to the path leading out of Vale.

I stared dumbly, "Uhh…"

"I knew you'd help me! Thanks for being so nice." She started to run away down the trail."

I had no idea what she was talking about or whom she felt the need to hunt down all of a sudden and drag me with her. But then again, that was no reason to say no.

"Ok… But maybe we should get some supplies first." I pointed to the general store of Vale. It had a few basic needs for leaving town, some potions, some healing items and a couple short swords. We walked into it and looked around.

"We might need all this…" I put some things into my bag then lifted the two swords, one in each hand. I pretended like I could hold them with ease, but they were pretty heavy for one hand… "Everyone is still at the north end of town, we could just take these, I'm sure they wouldn't mind if they knew these were taken by me and you…"

"What! How could you even think of taking advantage of this tragedy to steal things and leave town…" Jenna lectured, nearly yelling.

I paused for a second, "But… This was your idea and besides, we can't afford this stuff, no way…"

"Oh yeah…" She frowned for a second. "I know! We can just leave an 'I owe you' and pay… whenever." She took the sword and inscribed IOU in small letters on the wood table.

"…"

"Shut up…" She added.

"I didn't say-"

Before I could finish. Jenna yelled to get moving while there still might be fresh tracks. I followed her in yet another dash. She slowed down as we proceeded into the fields a few hundred feet from Vale. She examined the area without saying anything, I did as well. The path had tall grass growing on the sides and trees spread out here and there. It didn't seem like anyone could have gone down this trail recently and left it without a blemish. Then Jenna stopped and stared at something.

"Whoa… Look at that." She pointed to the southeast. "There's something wrong about that patch of land, it looks different…"

I didn't see anything at first but that's because the landscape had been changed totally. There used to be much denser plots of trees leading to the south, they had been burned down. "What could have caused this?…" I asked Jenna even though there was no way she would no any better than I did…

"Not what, but who. And that answer is… A group of people with special abilities… Such as starting a fire. I don't understand why they would raze this forest to head south, I figured they would head north to the Mercury Lighthouse to use the elemental stars they stole and unleash the power of alchemy. Then proceed to the remaining three lighthouses. Then again, they stole some scrolls along with the elemental stars so I could be missing something."

"………." I shook my head. "So… Why exactly are you chasing after this people? And how do you know so much? Did you help them steal it! And… By any chance… Were you talking about psyenergy? Can you use it?"

Jenna didn't answer anything I said until my final questions. Her eye's widened and she nodded. "Yes… How do you know about psyenergy? I am a Mars adept, or fire adept, but how did you know this?"

"Wow…" I smiled. "Didn't know another psyenergy user lived right in Vale. That's awesome! As for me…" I couldn't resist showing off to Jenna at a perfect opportunity like this. "Quake!" The earth started to shake, slowly at first, then more violently. A rift opened and I grinned.

"Neat! You're a Venus adept!" She grinned. "Flare!" Fire appeared before her hands and shot out. It went through the cracks my quake had created then rose into the air. She lifted her hands above her head and flames went hundreds of feet into the air then dispersed and sparks flew in all directions, resembling massive fireworks.

I frowned embarrassed.

"Hey, don't be like that… Your quake was awesome." She grinned again.

"Let's just get going already!" I gestured forward.

We walked south from where the trees had been cleared. There was no definite path but we were hoping to reach a town shortly. We crossed over two rivers and the sun began to set and the air became chilling. I forgot completely about the question I asked Jenna earlier, we had had been talking about all kinds of different stuff for so long…

"Hey… Jenna…" I stopped walking and so did she. "Please, tell me who they people that broke into Vale where. Do you know if they were the people banished a few years ago, or even who those people where? I at least know that you know something…"

She frowned slightly. "It's just that I sort of knew a couple people that were banished and I was hoping that they didn't return to cause trouble in the woods or in Vale… I never got a chance to see if it was them."

"…Oh, so you want to see for sure." I nodded, and began to walk again, as did Jenna. I knew she was leaving something out but I didn't want to be rude… "Let's hurry up and get to an inn. Or we could always just pitch some kind of tent right here…"

"You wish!" She shouted. "Look, over the hill, Kalay! We can find the inn there…"

"Yay…" I acknowledged sarcastically.

"You did bring along a bit of gold, right?" She added.

"Hm… Yep I have just enough for a night's stay." I looked through my stuff.

We went into Kalay. A lot of lights were already going out but the inn towards the entrance was open and bright. Instead the lobby was fairly quiet. We walked up to the counter.

"Hi, welcome to Kalay! A room is 20 gold for a night, does that sound good?" A red haired woman smiled. "Also that includes a complementary dinner and breakfast."

"20… 20… That's exactly how much I have, looks like I can only afford one room…" I set the gold on the table.

"Oh, don't worry, each room has two beds." The keeper smiled again.

Jenna laughed.

A/N: Couldn't update as fast as before, but still under a week! Ok, plot picked up somewhat. No travelling party changes yet. Hm... things will get more interesting too. And now I will respond to my two reviewers even though I already have? Oh and, Golden Sun and characters do not belong to me...

Mene: Thanks for reading/helping with how to get stories set up on here... I didn't cheat and look ahead in the plot of The Lost Age either -- its kinda funny how you did a story with first person jenna and now im doing one with isaac

Xanda: Thanks for reading, glad you like it so far too, I promise ill work on reading your story bit by bit lol, I'm also currently reading mene's other gs story, hmmmm good luck at singing auditions lol