Creature Changers
Next chapter coming up! Side note: for those interested in romance, I'll be posting a new story soon. My friend Mayuko asked me to do a mudshipping fic with the main genre of romance. Dunno how it's going to turn out, but mudshipping fans, you may want to take a look when I post. This is unrelated to Creature Changers, but... oh well.
For those who want to vote for a pairing, PLEASE leave a reason. Any reason will do, as long as it's valid, I will take it as a vote. If not, I will ignore it. So please, give me a REASON.
I don't own Golden Sun. I don't have the word disclaimer this time either. Wait, I just put it in! Someone throw it away...!
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ZofL: Thank you for the compliment. I will show all of the main characters as much as I can, but Isaac has the most scenes because he is the focus point of the third person narrative. I follow the game, and the game has Isaac as the main character. If you're looking for a Piers-based fic, I'm sorry, this isn't it. Also, you want a Piers/Jenna fic. I keep saying it and no one listens: if you want me to do a pairing, you must give me a reason. If you don't give me a reason, I'll take it as nonsense. Because everything has a reason, you know. It's been a long time since I've played Golden Sun 2, so I may have forgotten what was in the game; but as far as I can remember, Piers and Jenna are mainly just friends in the game. If you know of a reason in the game or personality-wise that backs up Jenna/Piers, please tell me rather then keep it to yourself. I may write Jenna/Piers if I think it's reasonable. So please, give me a REASON.
Kodoku: Um, the diss thing was just to have my alliteration. XD No one expected Garet to be a sphinx, because like said in previous chapter, sphinxes are mostly female! No one tried to guess what Garet is either... and you still want to know what Jenna is! Ah, the difference between popularity... The 7th grader is XXXX. Read and see. Nope, I haven't introduced Sheba or Mia either. Yet. My update is here! Nice cyclops, I might think of giving someone a cyclops...
raitei: Hm, everyone seems to think that Garet is the lazy kind. But in "Harry Potter and the Adepts of Weyard", another fic I read (it's marvelous, go read it), Garet was put in Hufflepuff for being hardworking. There it got me thinking. If Garet was lazy, given his level of intelligence (sorry Garet and sorry Garet fans) he wouldn't have gotten so good. So I concluded that he just couldn't be bothered with stuff like history, while in other things that matter, he uses work to make up for lack of genius. It sounds like him, and I can definitely say that it is IC. Not like valeshipping? Hm, well, I wrote what my fingers did. So let the story flow... Like mentioned above, I'm throwing out a mudshipping fic soon. It's romance based, but I'm not sure if I can manage it... being pathetic at romance and all... (sweatdrops) I see that no one expected Garet to be a sphinx. Look at my originality! (Is shamelessly boasting) Ahem. No, you're not evil. I don't like to leave readers hanging either; I have been left hanging previously and I didn't like it; who am I to do to others what I don't want others to do to me? So therefore I will probably have an alternate ending, or I will choose one. Still, no one has given me a pairing with a reason. Thank you for the support and compliment; 'love' is probably the nicest word anyone has used for my work. Thank you! (hugs)
guy: Read above. Please give a reason for Valeshipping.
savinglifelessness: It's not confirmed valeshipping yet. I mentioned before that the room the mythicals have for Changing lesson is the hall. The Great Hall. How big do you think it is? (grin) Thank you for the review!
SpasticDjinn: Hm, I see. I hope to have Creature Changers so good that people will say "Animals. Like Fruits Basket, but there the similarity ends." I just don't like Furuba.
Shiny Milotic: Lighthouseshipping can't happen yet: Sheba hasn't shown up! (sweatdrops) I'm sorry... She'll appear, I promise! My reviewers are so smart sometimes, I wonder why I should leave cliffhangers. They can guess everything anyway! Yes, the girl is a mythical. Please stop guessing and scroll down to read. (My cliffhangers are predictable... sigh...)
crazy-but-fun: Thank you for the review!
lunarwolvesshadow: XD Yes, I don't think anyone expected Garet to be a sphinx. What did you think Garet was going to be? The author is curious about how others view her fic...
Ponie: I don't dislike Alex. Why should I? He's adorable... with sky blue hair... And he's smart. Kind of. So you say Valeshipping because of Imilshipping. Meaning if I'm not going to put Alex in, you might not choose Valeshipping? Or, put it this way, if there's no Alex in here, which would you choose, Mudshipping or Valeshipping? Don't be too upset yet, Alex may or may not be in here. I'm not going to say whether or not he is, you'll have to wait and see!
A MErcury Adept: Thank you! I'm not too sure if this will be a romance. I usually don't put much romance in, but there'll be a few snippets of them left and right. The other adepts... Well, you'll have to wait and see! I know I'm evil, but if you want to find out, read the fic!
anonymousgal: Thank you! Finally someone gives me a reason for a pairing. And hey, I wanna add; that lighthouse thing is one of my favourite reasons too! I'm updating now!
hope: Well, again someone says mudshipping and without a reason. Please please please a reason please! I'm writing the chapter now! Garet as a sphinx is unexpected, I can see. And you're laughing nonstop. XD And oh, you don't have to double review. Just ask me on MSN. As for Mia... That's for me to know and you to wonder. I'm an evil author who keeps her readers wondering.
The Shadowess: Eheheh. Toothpicks... Thank you for the compliment! It's the first time anyone has said that my fic is like a novel... Thank you! (bows) Uh, excuse me but I read your bio, and you seem keen on both Furuba and yaoi stuff. If you see me dissing it, please don't be offended. I'll respect your opinions, please respect mine.
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Chapter 8: Crappy Chapter Filled with Fillers
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Isaac stared in confusion at Miss Apolls. Why would there be trouble so deep that a teacher could panic and rush to Kraden?
Kraden stared briefly at her, then nodded. He turned to his students.
"I'll end this lesson now. You now have a free period. Please either head for the library, the canteen or your next lesson," he said quietly. "Class dismissed."
He opened the door and led a very nervous Miss Apolls out. Outside stood three boys, looking nearly as nervous as Miss Apolls. Defiant scowls covered their faces, as if they were trying to prove they didn't care about whatever had happened.
As Kraden closed the hall doors behind him, the three students looked at each other.
"What now?" Jenna asked.
Isaac shrugged. "What do you think happened?"
"Not sure. I don't think anything like this has happened before," Garet said. "Maybe those three boys killed a student while Changing and Miss Apolls didn't know what to do."
"Garet!" Jenna glared at him disapprovingly. "You shouldn't say things like that!"
"Why not?"
"Because it's a matter of life and death. You can't just say someone died in that lighthearted tone!"
"Well, it's not as if I know who the person is..."
"But that person has people who care about..."
"But I don't know the person!"
"Well, you should feel for the person's family and friends! Put yourself in other people's shoes!"
"At the rate people are dying all over the world I ought to spend my time in mourning!"
"Wait!" Isaac interrupted. Both Garet and Jenna stopped, breathing heavily.
Unfortunately, volcanoes don't stop errupting with one word.
"I don't, but what if the person who got killed is someone you know? What if the person is someone close to you!" Jenna yelled. "You insensitive peabrain, think about others for once!"
"Are you implying that we know the person? What, you're worried Felix was the one killed by those boys?" Garet retorted.
"Don't you DARE say things like that! I'd personally castrate them if they killed Felix!"
"Right! As would I! So don't say I don't have feelings, I do! I'll avenge Felix by ripping them to bits! I do think about others! But even Felix wouldn't have spent his time mourning about the people all over the..."
"I'll castrate YOU if you talk about Felix that way!"
"Cut it out!" Isaac blurted sharply. "The way you two are talking, it's as if Felix is person! As if the person, or Felix, is dead! I'm getting muddled by you!" He sighed. "I'm sorry, but rather than jump to conclusions, wouldn't it be better to wait and see? Who ever said that Felix is the person involved? Who ever said that someone died? We don't know the facts for sure, so it'd be better not to say anything in case we cause anything, wouldn't it?"
Both Jenna and Garet shut up.
"You know, he's right," Jenna said. "The more we talk about it the more we convince ourselves there's been a murder case. When in actual fact maybe the three boys were naughty and Miss Apolls overreacted."
"Yeah... I guess so," Garet looked embarrassed as well. "Just got a bit over excited, I guess."
"Good. Now kiss and make up."
Both Garet and Jenna whirled round and glared at Isaac.
OH CRAP! I said that without thinking! "I-I didn't mean that! It's just a phrase we use back in Vale!" he defended, raising both hands in front of him.
"You'd better not have meant that!" Both Garet and Jenna said simultaneously. They smiled sheepishly at each other.
"But since you did say it, you deserve punishment," Garet said. Reaching for a paint bag from a box, he smirked.
"And so, you're going to be a good boy and receive it," Jenna did the same.
Oh no. Isaac knew he was dead. The next moment, paint bags were flying at him.
Yelping, he took to his feet as his friends chased after him, flinging paint bags left and right.
"Thanks a lot! I tried to get you two to stop quarreling and..." he jumped. "This is what I get..." he dodged. "...in return!"
A paint bag smacked Isaac on the head, covering his shiny blond hair in blue paint.
"Of course," Jenna yelled, raising another paint bag.
"That's what friends are for!" Garet's next bag went whizzing toward his target.
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"9A, I am Joshua Hunter."
Again, Isaac eyed a teacher in front of him. The English teacher was pretty normal looking. Short, neat brown hair parted neatly in the center; neat, straight shirt and well-ironed pants; and neat, highly-polished leather shoes covered the neat teacher.
"Some people don't like him. Just because he's not a Changer," Dave said quietly. "Unfair, isn't it?"
So Mr Hunter was not a Changer. As long as he's a teacher and he's nice, why should it matter? "It shouldn't matter."
"Now, open your textbook to the blank page at page 4. You will take notes..."
"But sir! Page 4 isn't blank! It has lines over it!" Joash called.
Isaac chuckled softly. When Joash knew he could get away with it, he would voice out his sensible, albeit insane, opinions. But still, they made sense.
Mr Hunter frowned. "Yes, I know. But you can write over it, Mr Goldring, and I want you to..."
"But then it isn't blank! Blank means clean, but white paper can't be called blank either, because white is something on the paper too, isn't it? It's a colour, and..."
"Mr Goldring, I understand your point. All right, I made a mistake."
Joash grinned and put down his hand. Most of the students in class were giggling nonstop by then. Mr Hunter frowned, then turned back to the whiteboard.
"Today, you will copy down your vocabulary list. I expect you to have learnt everything by next week, and I will give you a test on it."
Disapproving groans and protests rose.
"Copy them down!" The class fell silent. They began, some rather sulkily, to copy down words that Mr Hunter was scribbling out at top speed. Even his scribbles were neat.
"Addressee..."
"Complimentary close..."
"E-X-E-L-L... Wait, no, there's a C..."
"There are altogether 40 words for you to..."
"WHAT!"
"We had only 25 last year!"
"Copy the words and stop talking!"
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"School ends earlier on Mokushidays. Even earlier on Kinwudays," Garet explained. "So we get to go home and... do stuff!"
"But Mr Hunter released us late, didn't he?" Isaac said, closing his locker and glancing at his watch.
"Uh huh. Because he said that Joash took up his time. Puh-lease, Joash took about 3 minutes and he took about 10."
Isaac laughed.
"Well, I'm heading home! See you tomorrow!" he said, waving. Garet waved back, knocking the glasses off a girl from their class called Samantha.
Chuckling, Isaac walked out. He took the now familiar route home. As he passed the playground, he remembered the fight. He thought about what Kraden had said.
"Changers... we... Can we help being what we are? Are we never to lead a normal life?"
As he continued slowly on, Isaac was heedless of his surroundings as he sorted through his confused thoughts. He had forgotten all about the incident due to Miss Apolls, and the quarrel between Jenna and Garet.
The quarrel. Isaac stopped. He smiled, remembering Garet's words.
"That's what friends are for!"
"He's right. We lead a normal life. A little too exciting, maybe, but... we have friends." Slowly, Isaac smiled. "Family. We're humans too. It doesn't matter what others think, as long as... there are people who believe in us."
Having cleared his mind by himself, Isaac cheered up considerably. He usually needed Flint or Ground to talk sense into him, and was always triumphant when he could overcome doubts with his own ability. Looking up happily, he suddenly noticed that he wasn't walking in the correct direction.
"Oops."
The buildings around him were not as new as the ones he always walked pass. They looked older and worn out, not to mention dirty. Very few trees grew around the area, and most of them were small and dreary looking. Even the pavements were grey and old. Turning around, Isaac was about to head home when he noticed two familiar faces.
At the doorway of a small cottage-like house were two students wearing the uniform from his school. Isaac stared, then froze as he recognised a brown ponytail.
"Felix? Jenna?"
The two turned. They looked startled.
"Isaac. What are you doing here?" Felix asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, stop it. He's not spying on us," Jenna said crossly.
"Uh no, I'm not," Isaac grinned. "I walked in the wrong direction."
"You lost your direction?" Felix asked.
"I was just thinking!"
"It's not healthy to think too much," Jenna said seriously. They laughed.
"So... um... you two live here?"
Wrong question, Isaac thought nervously as Felix and Jenna both scowled.
"Yeah. Something wrong? Not everyone is that well off," Jenna said, staring at Isaac, as if daring him to look down on them.
"There's nothing wrong with it," Isaac said, staring straight back. He smiled uncertainly. "I think it's great. Looks... small and cosy."
Felix chuckled. "You're the first to say something like that."
Jenna grinned. "It's a long story. Do you want to hear it?"
"Over lunch," Isaac offered. "My parents wouldn't mind."
Both Felix and Jenna stared at him.
"No, it's not sympathy. I asked because I treat you as friends."
Both Felix and Jenna looked taken aback. Jenna laughed.
"You're really sharp, you'll cut yourself one day," she chuckled. "All right. I'll accept the offer. I'm kind of sick of my own cooking anyway."
"No, you're not going. Sorry, Isaac, but I already ate lunch and I have to finish my homework now before I go for work later."
"You
have to..." Isaac was surprised that Felix had a job. What
for?
"So? I don't have a job! And I don't have
homework!" Jenna protested. "And I want to see what
Isaac's house is like!"
"You're not going without me. Sorry, Isaac, not that I don't trust you, but two teenagers alone in one house can..."
Isaac smacked his forehead and released a sound halfway between a laugh and a groan. Jenna heaved a big, heavy sigh.
"HONESTLY. We. Are. Not. Going. To. Do. Anything!" Jenna cried exasperatedly. "His mom will be at home. Right?"
"Yeah. And despite what some people are like, I'm not interested in lust right now," Isaac added.
Felix's eyebrow continued to stay up.
"Well? You do know that even if you say know, I'll still go over?"
"It's not nice to go over without telling the hostess..." Felix started.
"My mother won't mind. Seriously."
Felix stared from Isaac to Jenna. Back and forth. Then he sighed.
"Oh, fine. But leave the door open at all times as long as you're alone, you hear me? And don't..."
"We know, we know! See you later!" Jenna whooped and grabbed Isaac by the arm. Before the startled blond could blink, she had dragged him out of Felix's sight.
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"Isaac! You're home!" Dora said, smiling brightly. "Come..."
She trailed off confusedly as she saw an unfamiliar redhead behind her son.
"Mom, this is Jenna, a friend from school. I know you always cook too much, so I asked her over for lunch. You don't mind, do you?" Isaac asked.
"Oh... of course not!" Dora's face broke out in a wide smile. "Come in, come in!"
"Nice to see you, ma'am!" Jenna smiled back brightly. "I'm Jenna Venus."
Secretly, Dora was relieved that Isaac had found friends in his new school. The second thought that had crossed her mind was that the friend was a female. Wasn't her son too young to date?
He's 16-years-old. Definitely old enough. This Jenna seems nice... Dora blinked as she heard Jenna cheer.
"Carrot soup! Oh gosh, it's been a long time since I had any!" she yelled happily. Dora looked slightly taken aback. Isaac caught her gaze and grinned.
"Easily excited," he mouthed. "Her personality is really bright and colourful."
Unfortunately Dora was not a good reader of lips. 'Easily excited' she could guess and comprehend. The next few words she couldn't understand, but right at the end her son seemed to be saying something that made her freeze.
"You... you what?"
Jenna and Isaac stared at her, confused.
"Isaac... you... didn't you two just... how... This is too sudden!"
"What is?" Jenna asked, perplexed. "You... don't want me to stay to lunch? I could leave..."
"No, it's not that... Isaac, you said..."
"What did I say?" Isaac looked as bewildered as Jenna.
"You... you said you love... her..."
"I WHAT?"
"HE WHAT!"
"I said nothing of the sort!" Isaac cried, gulping at Jenna's stunned face.
"You were mouthing..."
"I was... You mean..." Light dawned on Isaac. Staring at his mother's shocked face, then at Jenna's red one, he began to laugh. He mouthed the word 'colourful'. Both Jenna and Dora gaped again. Then he repeated the word out loud. "Colourful."
"Eh?"
"Hm?"
"I was saying, 'her personality is really bright and colourful'. You jumped to conclusions, didn't you?" Isaac shook his head, grinning. Jenna began to laugh as well. Dora sank into a chair.
"So, you... don't..."
"No," Isaac said. Another look at his mother's 'phew-this-is-too-much-all-of-a-sudden' face and he began to laugh again.
"What's all the noise about?"
"Yeah, yeah! We could hear you from way up there!"
Isaac and Dora froze. Jenna turned to the staircase. Her eyes widened.
"It's Flint and Ground!" Dora whispered. Isaac turned as well. The two Venus djinn had flown down and were floating lightly at the doorway. They stared at Jenna in surprise.
"Uh, Jenna?" Isaac said uncertainly.
"Djinn," Jenna said softly.
Suddenly, a clear, light voice rang out.
"I can't believe it! Let me out!"
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Heh. This is a definite, nice big cliffhanger. I thought of making this chapter longer, but due to the fact that I had too much conversation and extra things, not much plot had been developed in here. This is pretty much a filler chapter, I suppose. Hey, don't be upset, I updated quickly!
X)
So, until the next chapter!
Daidairo
