Where there's light...
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Chapter 3! Good stuff. I only have two reviews, though. Plz, I want more! Let me know people are reading this! I see other guys with like a bajillion reviews, so tell me why?! WHY GOD?! WWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY!!??? 'cough' 'ahem'. Sorry. Anyway, chapter three starts...NOW!
Chapter 3: The First Revelation"Garet?" said Ivan, bewildered.
"Wha...? Oh! IVAN! How's it goin'? By the elements, I haven't seen you in years!" cried Garet happily. Garet had grown even more, standing at six foot three and easily 250 pounds. His spiky red hair was the same as ever, but his face wasn't quite the proud, goofy face it used to be. His eyes were harder now, his smile coming a little less often.
"Garet, what are you doing out here?! It's freezing!" asked Ivan.
"..." Garet stared away a bit, then came back. "It's...uh...just this...feeling," he started. "I haven't been sleeping so good because of this dream..." before he could finish Ivan interrupted.
"Me too! I came here to talk to Kraden about it. It's got something to do with the Djinn, I think."
Garet nodded. "Yeah, I think so too. But Jenna and Isaac are so happy together now they don't feel it, and Mia, Felix, Sheba and Picard have all left..."
Ivan sat down by the small fire while Garet piled some more wood on. They sat in silence for a while before Ivan spoke again.
"But that still doesn't explain why you're out here Garet." He said.
"Oh, right. I'm just watching over the village because the monsters are getting so powerful. Too powerful. And new ones are appearing every few weeks. It's like they're..."
"Spawning," ended Ivan. "Like they're appearing from somewhere. Something is giving them energy, something that shouldn't be here."
The next morning Ivan followed Garet to Isaac and Jenna's new home. It was just a little further north of where Dora's cottage was. The house looked no different than the other homes, except for Isaac's prize sword, the Gaia Blade, could be seen hung on the mantle through the window.
Garet went up to the door and knocked. After a short while a voice was heard. "Yeah, I'm comin', comin'." The knob turned, opening the door to reveal Isaac, at nineteen.
His brown hair was as messy as ever, but he now had a nice soul patch on his chin. Unlike Garet, his mood was the same as ever: cheerful, relaxed and confident. He also hadn't grown at all.
"Garet, um, who's this?" he asked.
"Why, Isaac, you don't remember our favorite mind reading Wind Seer?"
"Ivan? IVAN!" Cried Isaac. He lunged forward to greet his old friend. "Man, you've gotten bigger! Not that titchy midget you used to be, eh? Good to see you!"
"And you, Isaac." Ivan smiled. Isaac was always excitable, always doing everything 110.
"Come on in! Jenna and I got this place a few months ago! Get married in June!" Isaac said. "She's out now, but should be back soon. What brings you here?"
Ivan's smile faded.
"Bad business, I'm afraid. Quite bad."
Ivan and Garet said they'd wait for Jenna before telling them the problem. Fortunately, Jenna came home quickly and settled down for Ivan's report.
"Monsters in the area have been getting more powerful and numerous. They've already attacked Vault several times and have been seen around south as far as Kalay. An evil wind is blowing now, but not from a lighthouse. It seems to come from nowhere, and go nowhere. Garet has felt it too, and I believe it has something to do with the Djinn."
Isaac and Jenna looked aghast. "The Djinn? No way! They're our allies and friends!" argued Jenna.
"No, it's not their fault," replied Garet. "It's not them directly, but part of them seems off. The Djinn themselves are not causing this."
Isaac stood up.
"Well, it doesn't do any good to just talk about it! Let's go find Kraden, he might have an idea." The band of four agreed and set off for Kraden's cottage.
Now Kraden had already been getting on in years, and his fiery enthusiasm couldn't keep him going forever. His cottage was a mess now, and the once great sage now sat wearily in front of the fire.
"Kraden?" asked Jenna.
Kraden turned around. "Jenna? Is that you? My eyesight is getting so bad nowadays. Is that Isaac and Garet too? Hmm, but one more..."
"It's me, master Kraden. Ivan," said Ivan.
"Oh! Ivan! Good to hear from you, my boy. You've gotten a lot taller!" Kraden said, looking at Garet.
Jenna said impatiently. "No, Kraden, that's Garet again. Ivan's over there," she said, moving Kraden's head.
"Oh! I see now. Well, what brings you here, young one's?"
"Kraden, something is happening. Something bad." Ivan retold the problems that have been occurring.
Kraden's face was grave. "Indeed. Have you had dreams, at all?"
"Yes Kraden, Garet too." Replied Ivan.
"Tell me about them, my boy." Said Kraden.
"Well, it starts with me in Sol Sanctum, like Isaac and Garet had shown me in there minds two years ago. It's the chamber of the Elemental Stars, and all seems normal. But then I notice that the statues that held the Stars are shifting somehow. One half begins to glow a bright light, but the other side becomes pitch black. The light and darkness swirl together to form four vortexes, which then disappear. I then see season's changing, the sun setting and rising over and over again. A baby is born, grows up, gets old and dies. The sun became the moon, the moon the sun, then everything explodes, and I wake up."
Garet nodded slowly. "It's the same dream I've had. But the oddest part is that I always am feeling so many conflicting emotions at the same time during the dream. I'm afraid, yet brave. Hateful yet loving. Joyful but depressed."
Kraden sighed and then shuffled over to a big bookcase. "I have thought about this happening for a long time, indeed." Kraden found a small book bound in black leather and brought it over to the fireplace. "Do you remember the lessons I gave you about the four elements I gave you so long ago?" The other four people nodded.
"As you know, there are four natural elements; earth, fire, water and wind. Yet, ancient people worshipped Sol and Luna, the sun and moon gods. I found this," he said, pointing to a paragraph in the book he had opened, "a long time ago. It describes why people worshipped as they did." Kraden looked hard at the strange characters and translated.
"And the gods cast the Evil One from the heavens and gave peace to all. The four elements were again balanced, and Sol rose once again.
But the Evil One cast a curse as he was swept into the void of Chaos 'Though the Light may have defeated me, I shall always linger in the edges of Light. Light cannot have purpose without Shadow, the Shadow formless without Light!' The gods were bound by his curse and it was so."
Kraden closed the book. "Do you understand, now?" They all shook their heads. "Isaac, you remember how when we finally solved Sol Sanctum's puzzle, the sun dial became the moon, and the moon the sun?"
Isaac nodded.
"That not only was part of the switch, but it was a warning."
"A warning?" asked Jenna.
"Yes, that upon unleashing alchemy to Weyard, the powers of light and darkness would clash again."
"Think about it; the ancients knew that some evil force had been sealed away and had declared light and darkness must coexist. Shortly after, the four elements were also sealed. Why? Because the four elements are the base point for the battle between Light and Darkness."
Ivan gasped. "So when people were afraid of alchemy being re-released, it wasn't because the element's themselves were a threat..."
Kraden smiled and nodded. "It was the thus inevitable return of Light and Darkness dueling for dominance in our realm.
"You see, because of this 'curse' from the Evil One, Light and Darkness were never able to destroy the other. They may hold back the other, but they could only survive if they both existed. The four elements were their weapons, so the ancient sages had basically locked the weapons horde; if Light and Darkness had no elements, their could be no conflict.
"That is why this evil has arose; the weapons of the elements have been loosed again. That is also why Ivan sensed the oddness in the Djinni; they are tools of the Light and Darkness, so their energy is being siphoned by the Dark. I am afraid that means...that you are the soldiers of the Light!"
Ivan, Isaac, Jenna, and Garet stood stock still, not able to believe this. It was all too confusing, so Garet tried to sum it up.
"So the four elements are the weapons of Good and Evil, the weapons have returned, and the Dark is using the elements already to squash the light?"
"Exactly." Said Kraden.
"But this isn't fair! We didn't want this to happen, our intentions were good! We were just trying to help!" yelled Jenna.
"You forget Light and Darkness coexist. Every time you used a Djinn or summoned psynergy for good, part of the energy released was dark energy. This evil energy built up and built up but could do nothing until the Lighthouses were lit. The Evil that threatens Weyard now is not a result of the elements being released, but were already there and just biding its time."
Isaac stood up. "Then I suppose...we have to leave again."
Ivan and Garet nodded. "Yeah, but we've been back home for so little time..." said Garet.
"It's not FAIR!" Jenna yelled with tears in her eyes. "We didn't WANT this to happen! We were doing it for the world's good! And it just made things WORSE?!"
"No Jenna," said Ivan calmly. "This was destined to happen no matter what, eventually. Our job was just half-finished when we lit the last Lighthouse."
Kraden then said "But time is short. The Dark is getting stronger from the elements every second, and if it succeeds in completely dominating the four elements, the Light will be squashed for all time, existing without hope or purpose."
"Then let's go," Isaac said. "First we get the Djinni, then we find Felix, Mia, Sheba and Picard. After that, our second quest will start."
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