PLEASE, for the sake of my sanity, ignore the end of the last chapter as it is TERRIBLE. It was so horrific that I lost my will to end Memory. But I shall. This and the next chapter are all that it'll be. I didn't intend for it to be a very long story. Or maybe I did. I don't remember. Admittedly, I edited my plans for the future of this fic. I just want to finish it, for the sake of finishing it.

Chapter 3

I'd woken up the following morning with the strangest headache. I then remembered the events of the day prior, and my visit to Mercury. I shivered. Psynergy… what is this power? Is Ply… Psynergy? Though I didn't wish to, I found my curiosity increasing. I got out of bed, and walked downstairs, intending to head to the only place in town with some books; the house with the couple.

I hoped they might have some information on Psynergy. I knocked on their door. The couple wasn't young. Not yet had they reached the age where they were pretty much just withering away, but they were most definitely the oldest people in the village. The Missus answered the door. "Why, Alex. I don't recall being sick in the past five minutes. Last I knew my windbag of a husband was still breathing right. What brings you here?"

I smiled. She always had that way about her. "Just wanted to look at some books, Ma'am." She let me in, I picked up a book off the floor. Gram, as some of the children called her, mumbled something about her husband, but I wasn't listening. I'd already got absorbed into the book. Five minutes of reading later, I tossed it. It wasn't useful.

A few hours passed. I'd looked through all the books they had, and not one mentioned the Healer's power. Or anything like Psynergy. Had that wind been Psynergy? The thought occurred to me as I remembered feeling… something seem to tear through me. That had hurt. When I was running the pain had eased. When I examined myself later, there was no wound. I thought I'd just imagined the wind.

But maybe Psynergy doesn't damage you physically. Minutes later, I had succumbed to my hunger for knowledge, rather than my fear of the lighthouse. "I'm going out of the village for a while. If anyone needs me, tell them I'm at the lighthouse."

"Sure, Alex. Be careful not to get eaten by a bear out there. Mia hasn't come into her healing yet. Best if you didn't get hurt, yourself." That from gramps. I nodded, said my farewells, and was off.

The trek to the lighthouse itself was uneventful. When I showed up, the fairy was still above the pool. I felt sorry for the small thing. Instantly, another appeared next to my face. Will you do it, today? Will you seek power, for Mercury? Will you do my will? The voice in my mind sounded different this time. I shook my head. I didn't begin to retreat this time. Then you would remain as you are? "Well…"

My sentence unfinished, it continued. You would continue this existence of yours? You would continue living, knowing you know nothing? I know all. I can teach you. The warrior's Psynergy. You have great strength able, ready, willing within you. Let me bring it out. Come to the pool. I did as commanded. I hadn't then cared much about power, but I wanted to know. What was Psynergy? How could the Lighthouse speak?

The fairies had gathered again. To the last they were smirking, laughing innerly at my expense. Mocking me. Insulting me with their minds. How could they know me? How could they assume to know the very inner workings of my mind? Because they do. I jumped at that time. You are shocked. Mercury is closely allied with Jupiter. The Psynergy of Jupiter is… mysterious. It's powers are unlike that of any other Psynergy. That is your first lesson. All others, you will know. Just do as we – I interrupted the voice in my mind.

At that time I had a rather unexplainable anger. I reached over the pool with my arm, grabbed the fairy kept there. What are you doing? "Why, I thought you wanted me to be your champion, Mercury," I spat the name of the lighthouse at the fairies. "I figured it out. The Lighthouse can't talk to me. So it's doing it's bidding through you all. I figured I'd put myself on equal standing with you all."

I squeezed the life out of the poor creature. It had delighted me, strangely. The silence in my mind was punctuated. Do it. You'll know everything. Still they mocked me. That infuriated me. I lifted the crumpled body of the fairy.

I blinked my eyes. I had lost myself in one of the reveries that had popped up since entering the Suhalla Desert. I was watching events ontop of the Venus Lighthouse from a safe place. It was time to dispose of Saturos and Menardi. Felix surprised me by coming back for Sheba. Ah well, I thought, just one more distraction for those fools. I saw Isaac's group arrive before either of them had. The fools should have been aware enough at least to have heard the elevator rising.

Soon Isaac's party had engaged Saturos and Menardi in combat. I could see that even though they had grown more powerful, against the Prox-born Mars Adepts they were no match. Typical. So I gave them a little helping hand. From a distance I hampered the abilities of my companions. It was simple. And all due to the power gained from those fairies I had been reminiscing about not long before that moment.

I smiled. The tide of the battle turned. Saturos was the first to notice that he was weaker than he should have been. Too late, though, as Isaac's sword delved itself into the far more experienced warrior's arm, disabling it. Soon, both of the Mars Adepts were down. I almost laughed. It was then that I decided I was done, that I could go get the Elemental Stars from Isaac's group later. I warped inside of the lighthouse, to find Jenna and Kraden hadn't yet left. I smiled. Plan success.