AN: I am adopting a new policy: I will respond to every single review sent, regardless of how short it is or long it is. So far, I've been lucky and have had no abusive reviews, but hey I'll still respond to them. Anyway, you know the drill. Read, rate and review please, and subscribe. Those emails in my inbox look the sweetest to a poor, sad and lonely person that I am.

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Karis groaned as Matthew slid her hand around her belly area, and in return slid her hand into Matthew's shirt, feeling his clearly defined muscles…

They were both panting rapidly now, knowing they were doing something extremely wrong but unwilling to back down now…

As they were about to proceed further, someone barged into the room.

Matthew instantly pulled his hands away and turned around, and Karis pulled her hands out and tried looking innocently at the unwelcome intruder. Unfortunately, they did it at the same time so their hands collided and they knew they looked really, really suspicious.

Oh well. That small, peaceful moment was worth it.

They both turned to greet their unwelcome visitor, whose mouth was opening and shutting with no noise coming out. They cursed themselves. Seriously, did Nowell seriously just have to come out of nowhere and interrupt their passionate moments? Mentally, they made a note to take care of this sadistic author as soon as possible (hey, there's nothing like making these characters suffer from sexual tension and every accident possible).

"Oh, um… hi guys…" she stammered.

"Hey Nowell… so you're here with Piers? (Picard, I know him as Piers sorry, but I'm pretty sure Picard fans would disagree with me here)" Asked Karis. Matthew had to admire Karis's courage in this situation. He would find it quite awkward to walk into… let's just say, he didn't want to walk into ANY room where there was a male and a female together. In a bed, late at night, where hormones do most of the talking. Especially after six long months of not seeing each other.

He shook his head. Seriously, how was he supposed to know his parents were "busy" with something else when he walked into their room because he wanted to ask how to cast Mars psyenergy, after his mother had been away for six months?

"Y-y-yeah..." she stammered. She came closer to the bed… and closer…

"Nowell, what's wrong?" Karis asked.

Nowell responded by beginning to take her dress off and climb into the bed.

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Oh my goodness, I'm in heaven here Matthew thought. Seriously, two great looking girls in my bed… Matthew was probably the only guy in the world at this stage to think that cuddling two girls at the same time was the furthest he would go. (Unfortunately, to all you fans of the three-some, it's not going to happen here. T-rated and all.)

Matthew was eager, except for the fact Mia then burst into the room, JUST AS Nowell was climbing into the bed. Yeah, she stared at Matthew like someone was going to die.

Matthew swallowed nervously. He was pretty sure that it was going to be him. I mean, unless Mia thought Matthew swung the other way and Karis swung the other way as well and they were sharing a bed for economical reasons…

Nope, Mia was slowly walking over to Matthew, with psyenergy in both of her hands.

Matthew made a very, very sad face (which is impossible in the game). Someone was going to be in large amounts of pain.

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Jenna was walking along with Isaac. "Say, Isaac, why did you break up with Mia?" (I apologize to all mudshippers, although it is a great pairing. I've read my fair share of mudshipping and valeshipping)She asked.

Isaac looked uncomfortable. "Well… it's a long story."

Jenna tugged at his sleeve. "Tell me!"

Isaac sighed. He could never resist his wife's puppy eyes. (I can resist most puppy eyes so far, by the way.) "Alright, let's just say Mia is into tying someone up and…"

Recognition dawned on Jenna's face. "Oh."

Isaac shrugged his shoulders. "Where is Mia, anyway? It's pretty random for you to bring it up."

Jenna fidgeted. "Umm… with Matthew. I think she was headed in the same direction as well."

Isaac groaned. "Oh bollocks."

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No, seriously. Three girls? Well, technically two girls and one woman, but Mia didn't look any older than twenty. Heck, she barely looked older than Nowell for that matter! That Golden Sun really made Mia a MI… yeah, Matthew was in a pretty helpless situation.

Seriously, there were three delirious, hormonal women going over him, while he was restricted with psyenergy. Ho hum.

Matthew, while in moments of deep, deep stress, felt his senses slow. As far as he was aware, this wasn't an ability that was related to his psyenergy. As adrenaline was coursing through his system, he found he was able to focus more easily, and saw that all three had something in their eyes. Yes, it was lust, but it was something far more sinister.

Could they be mind-controlled at the moment? Another mystery to solve.

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Alright, if you're new to this chapter so far, OR because you've been reading too much of my crap to keep a straight memory (or you just skipped to the romantic parts because you're somewhat like me, a hormonal person) there were a couple of mysteries/adventures that needed to be undertaken.

Firstly, find the missing people. So far, there was one success, with that success currently inserting her finger into his mouth.

Secondly, save the Universe from some unknown threat. Hey, forewarned is forearmed, and let's face it, there are ALWAYS clichés in these kind of fanfictions.

Thirdly, someone has turned three people that were relatively powerful into slobbering, drooling fangirls. No, seriously, there was saliva all over his chest. He needed to, regardless of how much he would enjoy this situation, get out of his restraints and find the person who did this.

The real problem was getting rid of the restraints. Mia sure did her psyenergy properly… and Isaac could only just lie there, watching as his clothes were taken off ever so slowly.

Now I wish someone would just walk through the door and save me… he thought to himself.

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He didn't know whether to be thankful or not. Well, after the three girls turned him on like no tomorrow just took his shirt off, they all fell asleep and the restriction was broken.

Note to self: over surge of hormones means that something needs to give. He mentally filed this note in his brain.

He picked himself up, and used Move magic to move everyone onto the bed, where they all slept really peacefully. He gazed at Karis for a moment, with his eyes unable to move from her cute sleeping face, but he tore it away and put all his clothes back on, and retrieved his weapon.

Right. The bastard who turned him on and didn't give the satisfaction of letting him finish off was going to get a really, really painful lesson, courtesy of some attacks by Matthew. He was choosing between Centurion and Megiddo.

He carefully exited the room, closed the door and climbed down the flight of stairs.

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He was walking around the night streets of Yamata before he spotted suspicious activity in a dark alleyway (I told you, clichés). He quickly ducked down and moved into the shadows where he couldn't be observed, and watched the scene.

"I told you, they just fell asleep before they could kill him!" Two men were there, and the one shivering continued. "But… I suppose I gave them the wrong stimulant. It made them lose their restraints and self-control."

The man in the dark robe (hey, more clichés!) moved closer to the cowering man. "So you screwed up? Some criminal leader you are."

The shivering man countered, "I don't see why you didn't just walk in there an-"

He couldn't continue. The man in the dark robe simply ran a sword through his heart at the same time he covered the shivering's man's mouth with his hand.

The shivering man kicked, but there was nothing he could do. The wound was fatal, and the life slowly drained out of him.

The robed man cleaned his sword on the dead man's body, and called out nonchalantly. "People who are useless and screw up on a simple job deserve death… don't you think so, Matthew?"

Matthew tensed up. He turned to run, but it was too late. The robed man was in front of him.

"You see, most of these people are currently useless. Used to scraping around other people's feet, making offers that degrade them further and further…and betraying other people at first glance."

Matthew spoke, for the first time in the chapter (!). "Who are you? Why do you want to harm us?"

The robed man chuckled. "Harm you? I'm sorry, who ever said I was planning to kill you?"

Matthew made a puzzled face (once again, not available in the game). "But he…"

The robed man shifted his arms. "So you can talk. Well, regardless, who said he was speaking the truth? He could have been lying. He could have been talking about someone else."

The robed man moved closer to Matthew. "See, the thing you need to understand is that I could kill you right now, and there is nothing you can do about. So, you can patiently listen to me, instead of injecting with a sad, happy, extremely happy or angry face. Got it?"

A voice from behind Matthew said, "No, I don't have it. Would you care to repeat that?"

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AN: And that's where I'm going to leave it! A bit of intrigue… instead of raw, sexual tension. Even though I know what most of you guys would like.

That said, I hope this chapter is interesting, because I was focusing on plot a lot more in the latter-half. I must be the only person who can turn a three-some into a convenient plot device or something LOL

And maybe I should give a name to this Karis-Matthew relationship. No, I'll ask the fans to come up with something! How about you drop a suggestion in my inbox about a shipping name. If you don't know what shipping is… you need to play some more Golden Sun.

That said, a tentative poke currently would be "Blueshipping". Blonde (yellow) + Green = Blue, no? Please comment.

Regardless, you folks know the drill. Reviews are especially welcome, and I would really love to have a really long review one of these days ;) and I will endeavour to reply to every single review after this chapter (inclusive). Alright, I'll talk to guys later! KaRath out.