Hi, it's me again!
I have the next two or three chapters set up already (I need to transfer them to the PC, though, as I write a lot of it at school…), so don't be too disappointed if your suggestions don't seem to influence anything right away. Ideas concerning long-term events are probably more likely to make it into the story. But send in your suggestions anyway, I can need all inspiration I can get!
Chapter 1 (Kara's POV)
When I awoke, I was lying on the ground. I sat up and waited for the dizziness to go away. Then I opened my eyes.
To my surprise I found myself on a clearing in a forest, quite close to its border. I could also hear the sound of a nearby river.
There was a girl lying there, only a step or two away from me. She had long black hair and was wearing an ornate pink dress that was embroidered with white lace. It wasn't the kind of casual garment that girls usually seem to wear, but for some reason, it seemed to suit her. All in all, she looked rather pretty.
I decided to wake her up; I wanted to look where I was, and I couldn't just leave her lying around like this, could I?
But that's where my wisdom ended already. I bent over her, but how exactly was I going to wake her up…?
Luckily she decided to wake up by herself while I was still pondering that issue. She opened her eyes and looked at me. "Hi?" I said sheepishly. She blinked. "Where are we?" she asked.
"Dunno." I said, waving vaguely to the forest's border where a large plain was to be seen. "You're the one who tried to stop me from turning the power of my GBA on, right?" She nodded as she sat up and explained: "I tried to warn you. Somethingisfishy about this whole mess. I have seen that guy walk away from your house - he looked just like Alex, didn't he?"
"Huh? That means you are a Golden Sun player, too!" She nodded. "Yeah, great games, huh? I'm still waiting for a sequel to The Lost Age to come out!"
"Well," I said, "this guy claimed to be from Camelot and gave me this." I picked up my GBA from the ground, ripped the cartridge out and gave it to her. "This is supposed to be the sequel."
"WHAT!" She looked incredulously at the cartridge. We stood up and I dusted my clothes off. Then I pulled the other stuff from the package out of my pocket and told her how the fake Alex gave me the game to test it. "But there were NO signs at all, not even rumors!" she protested. "You tell me!" I said, putting the stuff back. "I was as surprised as you are."
"Point is, I had watched the guy after he left you alone. Now you must believe me, as soon as he was round the corner, he used Alex' Warp Psynergy and disappeared!" She shook her head. "I know it sounds unbelievable, but I have seen it countless times in the game, I could see the sparkling lights and stuff!"
I looked at her, hoping that this is a bad joke, but she was being dead serious. Since my childhood I have been able to tell when people were being dishonest with me, and this person said what she believed to be true.
"Could it be that what you have seen has been a trick, likein movies or something?" I asked. She pondered the question for a moment. "It looked very real. If what I have seen was staged, it was made brilliantly. An effort simply wasted in this situation, if you ask me."
"I suspected as much. Why would they go to such lengths just for the two of us?"
"For you, " she corrected. "I'm sure I wasn't supposed to see that. When that Alex guy saw me, he looked a bit surprised but then shrugged and disappeared. And if I hadn't tried to stop you, I probably wouldn't be here."
"They could just have left you behind in the garden, couldn't they?" I asked, unconvinced. "Oh well, let's just try to find a way out of this wilderness and get back home. By the way, my name is Will."
"I'm Kara, pleased to meet you! We have to link-battle some time once we're back! What level are your parties?"
We were just about to leave the clearing, engaging in a lengthy conversation about our gaming experiences when I heard a voice behind me: "They ARE Adepts, I tell you!"
"What makes you so sure?" another voice asked. We turned around, looking where the voices came from.
"Can't you feel their power?" asked the first voice. "They have great potential if you ask me." They sounded quite different from human voices and I could only think of one thing that might be sounding like this if I wanted to stay with the theme…
"I can sense something powerful about them, but they're different from the other Adepts we saw…" The voices seemed to come from a shrub at the border of the clearing.
"I know something: Let's just ask them."
Suddenly, two figures emerged from said shrub: they looked like a Mercury Djinni and a Jupiter Djinni! "Hi!" the latter said. "Are you Adepts?"
"Wow, they look real!" I mouthed to Kara. "And the voices, not mechanical at all!"
"Mech-what?" the Mercury Djinni asked confusedly.
"You know, it sounds stupid, but what if we really ARE in Weyard?" Kara whispered. "They look too real…"
She took a step towards the two elementals. "I'm Kara and this is Will. I'm afraid we don't know whether we are Adepts or not."
"Where we come from," I said, "you Djinn are part of a game, but don't exist in reality…"
"Must be a strange game!" the Jupiter Djinni interrupted.
"Yeah, and now I'm not sure whether this is a trick played on us by someone. May we… look at you? A little more closely, you know?"
The Jupiter Djinni was sceptical. "Will they try to catch us?" it asked its companion, who replied: "Look at them, they can't catch us. They are not even armed." They are talking as if we aren't even there! I noted, feeling a bit miffed.
"But if they use Psynergy…" the Jupiter Djinni objected.
"They don't seem to know how…" said the Mercury Djinni. "Let's trust them for now."
The Mercury Djinni came closer so Kara and I could have a look at him. "I'm Bubble and this is Gas." he said. "We're looking for Adepts we can travel with. The Golden Sun has risen, but many of us are still searching for Adept partners…" I examined the Djinni from all sides. He definitely didn't look artificial. I touched him, careful not to scare him. He had short, extremely thick fur and was warm to the touch. I could also feel a strange power within the creature.
"There is an easy way to find out whether you are Adepts or not." he said. "Just watch me and tell me what you see."
He moved several steps away from us. Suddenly it grew in size until it was about half my height. "This is a Djinni's battle shape." He explained. "When the bad guys come, wild Djinn assume this size to fight effectively on their own." He faced the empty ground before us and raised his tail. Blue light shone above it at once and I could see the familiar three circles of light part - I had seen this so many times in the game…
A whizzing sound came from above us, which quickly grew louder and ended in a huge crystal of ice crashing down in front of us with a heavy thud, sending chunks of ice flying everywhere. Miraculously, nobody was hit. The shards quickly vanished, leaving only the impact mark on the ground and the considerably chilly air as proof of the attack.
"That was… a… a Prism Psynergy!" I gasped. Kara looked frightened and thrilled at the same time.
"They are Adepts, see?" Bubble said triumphantly to the Jupiter Djinni who had watched the whole scene from the sideline. "They even know the name of my Psynergy!"
"Hmm… you seem to be Adepts after all…" Gas admitted. "Let's see… You, Will, are obviously a Jupiter Adept! And Kara is a Mercury Adept, of course!"
"If we are Adepts, how do we use Psynergy?" Kara interrupted.
"You don't know how to use Psynergy? Bubble asked. "Well, that's quite unfortunate, because we can't help you there. I could tell you to focus your mind, but I guess that won't do, huh? You probably have to find other Adepts who can tell you… But don't worry, we will join you, so you stand a chance of reaching the town south of here..."
"Besides you are the first ones who didn't try to attack and catch us." Gas said. "I think we will get along quite well."
With that he flew onto my shoulder and disappeared in a purple flash of light, setting himself to me. That moment I could feel the power inside of me, as the Djinni's strength was added to mine. Bubble set himself to Kara the same way, seemingly leaving the two of us alone. But then I heard Gas' voice in my head: Remember, you can always talk to me in your mind!
For a while we just looked silently at each other, each of us trying to digest the turn of events. Finally, I broke the silence: "Let's get going. If we find that town, we might find out where we are."
"Maybe we can tell by the monsters we encounter." Kara suggested.
"Oh. I almost forgot about the monsters. How will we survive?"
Oh right, here is my ability: I will surround all foes with a cloud of poison, weakening them as time passes!
What kind of poison?I asked him. Red or green?
There's red, too?
Green then, I guess. Fair enough. Red would be way too powerful anyway…
"Alright!" I said to Kara, "Gas can attack all enemies with weak poison, so all we've got to do is last ten turns!"
"But how long is a turn in real-time?" she asked in a mock naive voice.
Laughing and joking, we set off, out of the forest and towards the hills.
Kraden's Journal
Weyard
(Location)
Weyard is the name of the Golden Sun world, or more accurately the plane on which the story of the two games takes place. It has a number of features which distinguish it from what most people living on Earth perceive as the 'real world', a notable example being the fact that it is not spherical, but flat. The oceans of Weyard run towards the borders of the roughly disc-shaped world and fall off the edge in a immense circular waterfall called 'Gaia Falls' by the residents. Below this spectacle of nature is an endless sea of white clouds that stretches out towards the far horizon. To this day Weyard's scholars can only speculate on how the enormous torrents of water falling off the edge each day are replenished, although it is believed that the source of the endless supply is hidden somewhere in the depths of the Great Eastern Sea.
How was this? The next chapter's gonna be from Kara's POV! Until then! Please review my story and tell me what you think about it!
So long - Quizer