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7. Venus Burst. Jason

I walk into the kitchen to find that Carmen, Lucy and Tom are already eating breakfast. Carmen has delved into her supply of Nix berries and is making Nix tea. I once asked Dad why they were called Nix berries. He told me that Nix was an old word for Snow, as they grow in the snowiest area of Prox.
"Morning guys." I say drowsily. Lucy takes one look at me and blasts icy water in my face, properly waking me up with a start.
"Hey!" I protest
"Oh quit whining and sort yourself out!" Lucy nags. "Your shirt is buttoned wrong, your socks are mismatched, your shoes are on the wrong feet and your hair is like a blond hedge!"
"I'm not a morning person!" I whine, noticing that everything she says is true.
"Tom managed to get that complicated looking cloak on right, if he can do that you can button your shirt!" She says, buttoning it for me, Tom glares at me and I can't help but feel bad, Lucy called his cloak complicated and now she's buttoning my shirt up and fussing over me. I blush and look away, deciding to sort my shoes out, reminding myself to change socks and wash my hair so that it doesn't resemble a hedge. When she finishes Carmen places some Nix tea in front of me, making no effort to hide her grin. She finds it funny that Lucy is being like Mom, plus she's probably figured out that Tom likes Lucy, it doesn't take a genius to read the way that he looked when Lucy was fussing over me. She is still mumbling about "Jason's (that's me) incompetence"
"How old are you Jason?" She enquires, a sarcastic look in her eyes.
"Eighteen..." I sigh, knowing what's coming next,
"Eighteen and you can't button a shirt. Tom, your seventeen right?" She says, thus confirming my theory. Tom nods slowly, trying to swallow his laughter.
"A seventeen-year-old being more competent than an eighteen-year-old. I'm only sixteen and I can put this on without hassle," She says gesturing towards her mini dress, which looks more complicated than Tom's robe-thing "and you can't do what my three-year-old brother can do?" She tuts. My suspicions were true, she has said more-or-less exactly what I thought she would say. Carmen and Tom are in fits of silent laughter. Lucy gets up, cleans her dishes and walks out, but before she does, she shoots more water in my face and on my hair, solving the "blond hedge" problem. As soon as we know that she is well and truly not coming back we all burst out laughing. In fact, we are still laughing when the boat docks by Harapa.

5 minutes later

We get off the boat with our few supplies and head immediately into Harapa. I'm still smiling as we walk through the town. Our Djinn look around in amazement. The city is beautiful, I'm surprised that the Eclipse didn't harm it! Viridi and Striker float around a villager's head, the villager then screams something about freaky flies and runs into a house. Vulcan and Spray are in deep conversation about their experiences before they became set to us. After looking around for about an hour we find a café and order some drinks. As we drink we try to organise a POA (Plan Of Attack/Action).
"Okay, Tom, how about you go and see if you can find some info about how to get from here to Carver's camp?" I say.
"That works, I'll try to find and ask some travellers." He says.
"Carmen, Lucy, you two hit the market," I tell them. "Carmen, do you have our armour?" She nods in answer, holding up a large sack full of armour. "Good, you go to the armour shop and repair the armour. One of those Raptors at the Lighthouse hit me square on the chest." I tell her, rubbing my chest and wincing at the memory of the Raptors. "Lucy, here's a shopping list of items to get." I hand her the list, she scans it, nods and puts it in her pocket.
"I'll go and send a message to dad, we should really tell him what's happened." I say, "After that I think I'll head towards the Library. Meet me there when you're done." We all finish our drinks and leave to do our jobs.

I sit down in the Library, pick up my pen and begin to write;

Dear Dad,

Hi, right now I'm in Harapa, there was trouble with the Light Of Prox thing. A big dragon showed up and passed through the beacon, thus disturbing the journey. Anyways, we ended up in Port Rago, there were two Tuaparang Soldiers there. Luckily, a water adept named Lucy fought them off with her Ankh. She ended up joining us, we bought some elemental horses and she hired a boat to Harapa, so here we are. We plan to get to the Lumberjack Camp somehow, and by the time you get this we will probably be there. After that we will head towards the cabin and try to help get rid of the Mourning Moon. We are fine with the delay as now we have a new team-mate and element horses. Hope Mia can come and help Mom soon. See you later

From Jason.

I check to see if the letter makes sense. Then I realise that the Tuaparang may have a grudge against Lucy. If they intercept this letter they could exact revenge on her, or make the best (worst for other people) of the Mourning Moon situation. I scrap the letter and start afresh.

Dad,

Hi, I'm in the City of Ruins as I write. The special transport was delayed by a dragon. We ended up in a famed Sea-Town and met a special girl who fought off some bad people with a winged stick. She is a special retaw person and we got special horses. She is taking the track that we are and will help us with the Star situation. We aim to get to the Camp from here. We'll be there when you get this. Hope the special doctor gets to you soon. We are fine and have no major injuries from the journey to the special transport arranged for us. Bye.

Love from your son J.

I read the letter several times to make sure that only dad could understand it.* Then I head towards the message building, select a carrier bird and tell it to get to Prox ASAP. It flies away and I go back to the library. I go inside and look through the book-shelves. I notice the Sun Saga and smile, my Dad's story is everywhere, I can't go a mile away without seeing it! I then spot a book with a half light sun half dark sun on the side.** I frown and pick it up. It says on the front in large letters:

DAWN SAGA; VOLUME 1

I shrug and sit down at a desk with it. I begin to read.

30 years after the Golden Sun Event that shook weyard. Isaac and Garet bring up their sons on the newly formed Goma Mountains by Mount Aleph. One day Isaac and his son Matthew - who is an Earth adept like his father - return from a visit to the refugee town Patcher's Place to find Garet's son Tyrell, a Fire adept, arguing on the Roof with Ivan's daughter Karis, an Air adept. Tyrell has the Soarwing, a strange device made by Ivan. He jumps off of the roof despite everyone's warnings not to. He realises that he is flying, yet falling fast, Isaac tells him to fly to a cave in the Tanglewood, a mysterious forest on the Mountain. Isaac and Garet must go to rescue him. Matthew and Karis do not wish to stay while their friend is in danger and tag along. They brave the horrors of the forest at night and with Garet and Isaac's help, make it to the cave to find the broken Soarwing and an unconscious Tyrell next to a psynergy vortex. They run up to him, only to be attacked by a giant living weed. They manage to overpower the beast and save Tyrell. After Tyrell is saved, the vortex shrinks down to the size of a ball, and they manage to escape the cave and pick up the pieces of the broken Soarwing. They return to the cabin, Isaac and Garet are furious with Tyrell. The wing can be mended but one very rare component is missing, the feather from a Mountain Roc, a gigantic bird that dwells in the continent of Morgal. Tyrell will have to set out to find it! Refusing to let their friend go alone, Karis and Matthew decide to go with him. The adepts head out and a new adventure begins!

I close the book. So that leads up to the Eclipse? Our cousin's best friend crashing a soarwing? It sounds a bit like us. An unfortunate circumstance having a chain reaction on the characters (us or Matt and co). I walk up to the librarian and tap her on the shoulder.
"Excuse me," I say "How much would you want me to pay if I were to buy this?" She considers this for a moment. She seems young and intelligent so she is probably working out the difference between different prices and the price she paid to buy it in the first place. I decide to save her the effort.
"I'm willing to pay up to 30% more than what you bought it for." I tell her.
"40%." She says.
"35%." I offer. "Top price." She considers this then puts her hand out and says
"Deal, 35%." We both smile, her because she's made a profit. Me because I can't wait to see what my dear cousin will think of this.

15 minutes later.

I'm still standing with the librarian when the others walk in. I hear a whistle from Tom and I turn around.
"Hi Jas, we got the stuff and Tom knows how to get to the Camp! Who's your... Friend?" Carmen says. I smile and then reply.
"Thanks for getting the stuff. This is Celia, the librarian's daughter. She's filling in for her Mom 'cause she's not well. As for the route, Celia told me about it and I know the way." Celia blushes, smiles, then waves at the strange group that I call my friends. I sigh and turn back to Celia. I had been enjoying our chat and I'm sad that it has to end.
"Bye Celia. Hope your Mom gets better." I say.
"Bye." She replies. I turn away but she calls me back. "Wait! Next time you visit do you maybe want to go for a drink...?" I freeze and look at my friends, asking for help. They offer none. Tom is clutching his stomach to stop him from laughing out loud. Carmen has a massive grin on her face and Lucy is pounding the floor, making no effort to hide her amusement. Thanks so much guys I think to myself. I turn back to a waiting Celia, she's really nice but she's not someone I would go out with. I mean she's my age, pretty and kind but she acts more like my friend than my girlfriend.
"Well... We'll see shall we?" I say, it's avoiding the question I know but it's better than saying no and making her feel bad. She smiles and says "Okay. Bye!" She then walks away. I breath a sigh of relief and jog over to my so-called friends.
"Thanks so much you lot!" I rant "Here I am, being asked out by someone I consider a new friend and you don't help me, no, you just laugh until you can't breath! Seriously Lucy, it's not that funny, you need to take a breath!" Lucy has gone purple yet she still laughs. We hear a massive HAAAAAH! and then Lucy's natural colour returns and she's laughing uncontrollably again.
"Classic! You can't go 5 miles without a girl asking you out! Ha!" She laughs. Carmen and Tom are in fits of laughter as well. I sigh and walk out, heading towards the Inn. I love Tom and Carmen, and I can say that Lucy is amazing even though I've only known her a week, but sometimes they can all, especially Lucy, be really annoying.

The next day.

We walk out of the village towards the Konpa ruins. We notice a cave a little to the west and decide to check it out. Along the way we encounter a Venus djinni called Wild. We capture it and set it to me, giving Viridi company. There are three torches in the cave. Lucy puts them out and we hop across them. I see a pillar across a large gap and use Grip Psynergy to pull myself across. There is a summon tablet on a raised platform nearby. I check it out and find that it is for the Goddess of Vengence Megaera. Dad can summon her if he has a Mars and Jupiter Djinni. I touch the tablet and it shrinks to a small ball of light, some small glyphs fly out and disappear into my head, I now feel a small power deep within me and I know that Magaera will come if I have a Jupiter and Mars Djinni on standby. I smile then head back to the group and tell them about the tablet, they are thrilled that we now have a mixed element summon which will be more powerful than the summons we have now (apart from Ramses). We walk outside and head towards the Konpa Ruins. We are just about to enter as we hear a giant roar behind us. We spin around to find a Gryphon that is the size of a house bearing down on us. I pick an arrow from my quiver, draw and shoot. It hits the creature in the snout.
"Spread out and fight!" I yell, my leadership qualities that I inherited from my dad kicking in. Lucy and Tom take a side each, standing away from the Gryphon, close enough to hit it every now and again, but enough distance away to get a good shot with psynergy. Carmen takes the back, hacking at it's legs with her axe and causing an explosion every now and again. I stand a good distance away, dodging it's fiery breath and psynergy. I shoot arrow after arrow at it. Lucy runs up and jumps at it. The ribbons on her ankh flailing like mad. She smacks it on the head and the gryphon gets drenched in water. A skill. The horses stand far behind me, waiting and watching in case they need to help. We signal to each other and put our attacks on hold for a moment. Holding something in our hands then holding them up to the heavens as we shout in turn.
"Viridi! Wild!" I shout and the gryphon is hit with a strong, bright-green beam of Venus power, courtesy of Viridi, then it is struck by vines thanks to Wild.
"Vulcan!" Carmen yells. The gryphon flies into the air as a powerful eruption happens beneath it's feet.
"Striker!" Tom screams and we can see a small purple form fly above the gryphon which is then struck by lightning.
"Spray!" Lucy shrieks and we see the gryphon suffer the same blast of water that the Tuaparang soldier suffered in Port Rago. It howls, enraged by the Djinn's attacks. Carmen's axe howls then she throws it at the gryphon. The axe explodes on impact before returning to Carmen's hand. A skill from her axe. But we are not finished yet, now we have Djinn on standby, time to summon. Soon the gryphon is hit by a relic-missle thanks to Ramses, blasted by fire thanks to Megaera and zapped with Mercury power thanks to Mercury. All the while Carmen hits it with her axe. We all run back and put our weapons aside. Then we cast like mad, Plasma, Spire, Prism, Blast, Froth, Flare, Ragnarok, Astral Blast, Slash, Gaia, Ice, Beam... It goes on for ages until the gryphon seems near-dead. I approach it carefully. When I poke it's eye it doesn't move. I breath a sigh of relief as I realises that it is dead. But something then stirs inside me. My Venus powers sensing a faint life-force within it. I prepare to put it out of it's misery and cast Quake when my Venus senses go crazy and I realise that the gryphon had hid it's life-force from me, expecting I would find it dead and leave myself unguarded while it finished me. I suddenly run back towards my friends, but then I feel that I should not be afraid and I should face the beast. I get ready to cast Ragnarok when I act on impulse and take a running jump at it. In that moment I feel a tremendous power surging through me and I seem to float where I am in midair.

"Venus Burst!" I scream instinctively, as vines erupt around me, tearing chunks of Earth up with them. I then scream a battle cry and the vines and earth clods fly towards the gryphon. It seems scared and tries to flee. But it is futile, the vines and rock strike it before it has a chance to turn around, the gryphon falls dead on the ground. I am lowered to the ground and suddenly feel very dizzy, the power I had just been feeling gone.
"Whoa! That was so cool! You've gotta teach me how to do that!" Lucy tells me, astounded. I smile and try to walk closer to them. I almost puke. The others rush over to me.
"I'm fine." I say, shrugging them off. I take one more step and immediately know that I'm not, and before I know it I lie on the ground, drifting into blissful unconsciousness.

A.N: So? Good chapter right? Can't wait to hear from you in the reviews. I'd like it if you came up with some more shipping names pour moi (for me). Now, "*" points:

*Translations for mix up letter. If you understood you can skip onto the next bit.
Hi, I'm in the City of Ruins as I write. The special transport was delayed by a dragon. We ended up in a famed Sea-Town and met a special girl who fought off some bad people with a winged stick. She is a special retaw person and we got special horses. She is taking the track that we are and will help us with the Star situation. We aim to get to the Camp from here. We'll be there when you get this. Hope the special doctor gets to you soon. We are fine and have no major injuries from the journey to the special transport arranged for us. Bye.
1. City of Ruins=Harapa
2. Special Transport=Light of Prox + Mars beacon
3. Famed Sea-Town=Port Rago
4. Bad people=Tuap soldiers
5. Winged Stick=Naiad Ankh
6. Special retaw person=Water adept. (retaw=water backwards)
7. Special Horses=Elemental horses
8. Star situation=Mourning Moon (moon - star)
9. The Camp=Carver's
10. Special Doctor=Mia
11. the Journey=the ascent of the lighthouse
12. special transport=see no 2

**The 1/2 light sun 1/2 dark sun logo is the sun pic on GS DD.

Reviews:

Syrup: Fire horses don't mind boats because they get them over water. Thanks for the comments you irritating big brother of mine!

T and P: Thanks for your compliments. Glad I could help you with your vocab and fight writing.

Me: Thanks for your compliments.

Vampirewerewolf1: Thanks for your compliments!

tutien99: Thanks for your compliments. I wish Golden Sun would just chose one fake religion instead of six! Haha! Good job at spotting all of that mythology in the games. Khonsu is the moon god of Egypt and Ra the sun. Carmen got the Sun and Jason the moon. Thor does sound better than Zeus. Luna:Latin for moon, Sol:Latin for sun.

Anonymous: Thanks for your compliments! Good mythology spotting. I thought it was only me and my bro (syrup) knew Khonsu was the moon god of Egypt. I'm a little crazy and yes Syrup annoys me like hell. Syrup is crazy.

Bye! See you next time! Keep scribbling!

P.S. For Dragon Quest 9 fans a good fic is In The Mind Of Alice, by PrinceKat. Here's the link: s/8737277/1/In-the-mind-of-Alice