Disclaimer: I don't own Golden Sun or the characters.

I was shivering just outside Imil, trudging through the snow. I envied Garet, since he didn't even feel it. And Jenna...

But I didn't envy Jenna. They must be treating her badly, I thought. I hoped she would be at the Lighthouse...

We found the Lighthouse. It was truly beautiful, with two statues adoring the entrance, and the empty pool that previously contained the Water of Hermes.

Mia was standing outside the Lighthouse. "Somebody is here," she breathed. "Someone is here." She turned to us. "Do you hear anything?"

"No," I answered, puzzled. Garet and Ivan shook their heads.

"You can't hear it? Well, I can. Alex and I are the only ones who can enter Mercury Lighthouse. But someone put this statue in my way!" Mia wailed.

"Allow be," said Garet quietly. He used Move.

"Did you do that?" she asked, shaken.

"He did," I gestured to Garet.

"I knew it. I saw a ghostly force pushing it."

"You can see Psynergy?" I asked in disbelief.

"Psynergy, is that what you call it?"

Ivan nodded. "Yes. We had thought you were usigg Psydergy when you healed that bad, Bia." His cold sounded worse.
"That's a special power, handed down to members of the Mercury Clan from generation to generation." explained Mia. "It is called Ply, a power generated through great concentration. It was once much stronger."

"Souds like Vale." remarked Garet. "They're the protectors of a special power, like us!"

"I have to go. I have to find who entered the lighthouse."

She used that Ply to open the swirling portal of a doorway and entered.

"Let's follow her," Garet suggested.

In the next room, flooded with water, we found Mia trying to escape a water creature.

Before I knew it, Gust was hurtling through the air. "You must not hurt the noble Adepts' friend!"

I added my force to the fight by summoning Venus.

"Let's see what you cad do." muttered Garet, and Fever flew through the air, coughing.

The lizard-like person looked confused, and I realized Fever must have clouded his vision. He attempted to attack me, but I leaped back just in time.

After Ivan summoned, the battle ended. The lizard flopped back into the water, defeated.

Mia looked at us. "Thank you." she whispered, then fled.

In the center of the next room was a giant statue. We continued along the seemingly set path.

The path was blocked again, and I cleared the way by moving a statue.

"You've saved me again, haven't you? Do you have business in the Lighthouse, too?"

"Yeah." said Garet.

"I thought so. I am sure there will be more places that I cannot pass alone. I sense something special about you three. I will join you."

"Great!" exclaimed Garet. "Now, cad you heal the three of us? We picked up...a cold."

"I shall." Mia agreed, and in about ten seconds we were healed. Flint popped out.

"What about us Djidd?" he demanded angrily. Granite, Forge, Fever, Breeze, and Gust followed him.

"Wudderful Bercury Adebpt, surely you cad heal us, too!" begged Gust.

"Djinn?" Mia gave Gust an odd look. "Like...Fizz?"

At the sound of the name, a small creature popped out. She immediately started crying. "Flint! Granite! Breeze! Gust! I can't believe it." She shot a killer look at Forge and Fever. "But...oh, Mia, don't let those mean Mars Djinn get me!" She started sobbing harder. "And there are no other Mercury Djinn! Oh, how sad is my sorry fate!"

"Fizz!" cried Gust in delight. "Oh, it is do sorry fate! For these are brave and doble Adepts, ad I ab very thakkful to theb! I ab very buch id their debt!"

"Truly?" asked Fizz, tears still in her eyes. "Truly, they are kind and virtuous?"

"Truly!" exclaimed Gust, fluttering around. "Truly, truly, truly!"

Meanwhile, Mia had been healing the Djinn. "Only one more," she said, satisfied.

Gust fluttered over to her. Fizz smiled at Ivan. "Gust says you are brave and noble Adepts, but I'm not sure if I believe her about the Venus one and especially not about the Mars one." She started crying again. "Nobody will appreciate my ability to Restore health with calming water.

Ivan backed away. "Uh...sure."

"Are we going to get on with this or discuss Djinn all day?" wondered Garet, exasperated.

"Yeah," I agreed. "Let's get going."

We entered a room filled with waterfalls. I could feel Garet's distaste, and wondered what Jenna would think of it. Or perhaps she'd already thought of it. Maybe they'd come through here already, I didn't know.

Garet pushed a bit of pipe out of our way, and we continued around the room, but I wasn't thinking about Mercury Lighthouse. I was thinking about this strange, special feeling I'd been experiencing today. Like there was something I was forgetting.

"Heads up!" warned Garet. "Lizard at 12:00!"

I jerked my head up to see myself a few feet in front of another giant lizard-person.

"You shall not hurt them!" Gust.

"Yaahoo!" squeaked Flint wildly, flinging himself at the monster.

Mia rushed up to the beast and swung her staff, stunning it surprisingly.

Fever zoomed at the lizard man, finally defeating him.

Pushing a statue onto the switch...Where were Saturos and Menardi? At the top? On this floor? Below us? Still in Imil? Or somewhere in between?

I wasn't watching where I was going, and before I knew it, I was sliding through the air.

The others came down after me, and Mia stared at the statue in front of us, the huge one I'd noticed earlier. She hopped right into its' hands. "Ply," she murmured. The tile we were on pulsed with a strange light.

"How do we get off?" wondered Garet.

"Swim, I guess," said Ivan, hopping into the water. But to our surprise his feet floated atop the water. "Something about that tile!" he exclaimed. "Try it!"

So off I went into the water. Don't...think...about it...I commanded myself, then I looked down. Somehow I managed to get onto dry land, but I don't know how. Mia and Garet followed.

In the next room we entered after using another tile, I spotted a treasure chest.

"Great!" Garet grinned. "Let's see what is inside."

He attempted to open it. The chest suddenly popped up on four legs and with deadly looking pincers.

Gust flew at the...mimic. It reeled back from the attack and concentrated. Garet looked startled. "It...it took away some of my power!"

"You'll get it! Hooray!" cried Flint.

Mia hit it fiercely with her staff, and Fever flew at the chest mimic.

All three of us that had called the Djinn then summoned. The mimic tried to croon us to sleep, but none of us felt its calls. Mia attacked it again.

Ivan leaped forward and sliced it, and in revenge it used its' pincers to bite my leg. I gasped at the pain, feeling like I would scream. I hit it back, severing a leg. It didn't look too good after Mia and Garet had also hurt it.

Djinn again. This time the mimic used some sort of wind gust to hurt us. I cringed.

Fizz floated above me, sobbing as usual. "I told Mia I didn't want to heal any Venus Adept, but she said I had to!"

Garet finished the thing off with Fever. The monster gasped.

"Here...is...my...forfeit." it declared, disappearing in a puff of smoke and leaving behind a jar of Water of Life. I handed it to Mia.

She put it in her pack silently, then walked through a waterfall. I followed.

In the northeast corner, I found a chest. Opening it gingerly, lest it be another chest mimic, I lifted the lid.

Inside was magnificent looking armor. The moment I put it on I felt my Psynergy strengthen. I stashed my old armor in my pack and headed on, since this was a dead end.

We crossed pool after pool, but my mind was elsewhere. Jenna...Felix...

I noticed Garet was telling Mia of our adventures so far, with Ivan joining in occasionally. I didn't feel like talking right now.

"Isaac!" Garet called unexpectedly. "Will you help move this statue?"

"Sure." I moved the statue, then went into the next room. Ivan disappeared for a moment and returned with a Druminat.

"Here." He tossed the nut to me. I put it in my bag.

I hung back from the others, lost in my own private world.

Mia walked through another waterfall. Then she shouted, "Garet! Isaac! Ivan!"
We followed her. Inside this tiny compartment was another Mercury Djinni.

"Other...people...in my lighthouse?" he demanded. "No!"

He attempted to hit Garet with his sharp tail, but Garet leaped back just in time.

I barely paid attention during the battle; Garet had to remind me not to set Flint to attack him when I accidentally did. I changed my command quickly.

"Fine." The Djinn growled. "Just remember, Fizz-leave me a nice big corner or else! I'm Sleet-I Drench a foe to drop its' attack. Hmph. Not like I'd want to do it for you lot, anyway."

Mia used Ply on a statue, creating a waterfall leading up. Up...up...to the top of the lighthouse.

To Saturos and Menardi.