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Such great reviews! I didn't think anyone would want to read another silly GS romance, but I guess I was wrong. Sadly. Thanks so much for all the great feedback! Yeah, thanks for encouraging her.
Disclaimer (in a sing-song voice): I love Camelot 'cause they made this great game, and I wouldn't dare steal it because I want them to make many, many, more!! Four years later and we’re still waiting.
*Chapter 7*
"It's getting really late," said Sheba. "Where could they be?" Oh, Sheba, you know those two. They’re probably shagging like bunnies in the middle of whatever forest clearing they happen to be in.
The sun's last rays faded as night enveloped the land. Garet, Jenna, Ivan and Sheba had all gathered on the beach near the ship, waiting for Isaac and hopefully Mia as well. But so far there was no sign of either of them, and the others were starting to worry. Building sandcastles had long since ceased to hold their attention.
"They'll be here," Garet said with more certainty than he felt. "It probably took them awhile to hash everything out and they lost track of the time."
Jenna frowned. "I knew this was a bad idea. We should've let Mia go and stayed together when we explored."
Ivan gave her a nasty glare. "You have no one to blame for this but yourself. If you hadn't chased Mia away, we would've stayed together!" OH SNAP!
"Ivan!" Sheba cried. "You can't!"
"Hey, I didn't make any promises to Mia," Ivan said. The moral? Never trust a Jupiter Adept. Sneaky little blighters. He looked back to Jenna. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself!”
"What are you talking about?" Garet asked.
"Why don't you ask Jenna?" Ivan implored. "She knows perfectly well what I'm talking about."
"Don't look at me!" Jenna said nervously. ”Don’t look at me, I said!” Suddenly, Jenna went quite mad and ran into the ocean, never to be seen again.
Sheba crossed her arms and sighed, ”Well, that was odd.” resigned to the fact that this couldn't remain a secret any longer. This wouldn't end well. "It's a long story, Garet, and I don't think you're going to like a word of it. There’s no pictures for you to follow along with."
"How come I am always the last to know about these things?!" Garet demanded. "Come clean right now before I get really mad!" He brandished a can of Lysol.
"Go ahead and tell him, Jenna," said Ivan. "Tell him how you hounded poor Mia until she was so hurt and broken that she left. Tell him how you called her a pathetic, cowardly home wrecker and an unworthy thief of hearts. *takes a shot* Tell him how ever since you joined our crew you’ve been out to destroy her relationship with Isaac!" Actually, Ivan, I think you took care of the telling.
There was a long, uncomfortable pause. The two Jupiter Adepts stared at Jenna with focused eyes that shot laser beams, but Garet was visibly confused.
Jenna wouldn’t do all of that, would she? Why would she want to anyway? Surely she could tell how much Isaac and Mia loved each other. Garet, if someone couldn’t figure that out, they would have to be certifiably mentally retarded. Actually, that’s insulting to retarded people. It’s so obvious that they’d have to be dea- You know what, it’s just too bloody obvious for anyone to miss. Heaven knows we’ve been beaten over the head with it enough.
"Say something, Jenna," Garet said. "ENGLISH, MOTHER****ER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?! Tell me that you didn’t do anything like that!"
"He...he’s exaggerating," said Jenna uneasily. "I did say some things to Mia, but I never intended for her to leave. No, really. Is this the face of an Adept who would lie to you?"
"Liar!" Sheba cried. "Take responsibility for it!"
Ivan outstretched a hand. "The only way you’ll ever know the full truth is to look into Jenna’s memory. Allow me to show you."
"Right." Garet took Ivan’s hand and was able to peer into Jenna’s memory with Mind Read. Neither Ivan nor Sheba had exaggerated at all. Jenna shrank a bit when she saw the way Garet was looking at her. She had always thought she was immune to his anger since they were so close, but now his eyes burned with the full fury of the flames he commanded.
"So the force Ivan predicted was none other than you," Garet said all too calmly. "Tell me, Jenna--at what point did it seem like a good idea to break Isaac’s heart?"
"That wasn’t my intention Somewhere between the fifth and sixth beer," Jenna said meekly.
"Oh really? O RLY?” Garet hooted. “Then why on Angara did you say such awful things to Mia? Didn’t we all tell you that he loved her? Or did that just not get through that hard head of yours?"
"I...I was trying to look out for him. Isaac’s always been such a good friend to me and I didn’t want him with someone who wasn’t worthy of his love. I’m allowed to protect him as a friend, aren’t I?"
"Friends don’t do what you did!" Garet roared. Friends, however, probably would. "Admit it, Jenna! You were just jealous of Mia!"
Jenna felt her own blood boiling in angst. No snarky comment, just giggles. Dumb line. "All right, so I was jealous--jealous of all the time they were spending together, jealous of the way Isaac looked at her, jealous of the hot sexx0rz, and jealous of how she was pulling him away from me! Don't you remember the way things were back home? The three of us used to be inseparable! We had threesomes all the frickin’ time! And it felt like I was losing Isaac's friendship because of his new infatuation with Mia. I don't know why I said all those things to her. Because you, like, totally hate her? I only know that I love Isaac too much to have him taken away from me!"
"That's not love, Jenna," said Sheba. "That's selfishness." Actually, it’s OOC.
"Surely you couldn't have truly believed that Isaac would forget all about you just because he fell in love with Mia," Ivan added. "He's not that kind of person. He totally would have invited you to join in."
"I know, I know!" Jenna exclaimed. "I don’t know what I was thinking--I just didn’t want to lose him!" Her eyes watered as she began to realize the severity of her deeds. "What have I done?" I think you know quite well. You drove Mia Sue away. Personally, I think that’s commendable. If you weren’t so OOC, I’d like you.
Garet, still quite enraged, blasted one of the nearby rocks, reducing it to rubble. GARET SMASH! He turned and looked right into Jenna’s eyes. "I hope you’re happy with what you’ve done. Because of you, Isaac’s missing. If he’s been harmed in any way, I’ll never, ever forgive you!" My compulsive ‘shipper mentality read this as being Isaac/Garet subtext. And now I can’t stop giggling.
"It wasn’t supposed to be like this!" Jenna cried. "Please, you have to believe me--I didn't want it to be like this!" Um, yes, you did. Wasn’t this what you were going for the whole time? She broke down into sobs as she finally admitted to herself that she had been wrong to try and separate Isaac and Mia. And now Isaac, the one she’d wanted to protect and keep close, was missing. Full darkness had settled over them and only a small crescent moon illuminated the sky. It was the perfect setting for this to turn into a slasher fic, and thus a more interesting story. Heck, even if it just turned slash, it would probably be better.
"We have to go look for him," Garet said, getting his temper under control again. "Only this time, we stick together."
"Yes," said Ivan, nodding. "I saw him going west, so let’s see if we can find his trail."
So the four of them set out in search of their missing leader. Jenna lingered behind everyone, knowing that they were all still angry with her. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have gone anywhere near Mia. Okay, seriously, how could you have not known? What else did you think would happen? How could she have let her fear and jealousy blind her to the obvious truth? Mia herself had told her many times to look into Isaac's eyes and see how much he loved her. But Jenna hadn't looked- Isaac was part basilisk-she hadn't wanted to accept it. And now I may have lost him for good, she thought. Even if we do find him, he may never trust me again after this, and Garet probably won't either. My best friends in the world--how could I betray them like this? Mia wasn't the unworthy one after all. Mia accepted the goodness of Kraden.
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After a few hours, the group came to a small forest clearing where there was evidence of a struggle. Chunks of stone were scattered about and the ground was quite soggy, as if a massive gush of water had flooded through. They had found the wrong clearing; the Hesperian Public Works Department was actually working there to fix a water main break.
"Water and earth powers…" Sheba trailed. "They were both here. Must’ve been one heck of a lover’s spat."
"Perhaps," Ivan said a bit more skeptically. He sloshed through the mud and picked up one of the stones. "These are from Isaac's Stone Spire attack for sure, Really, how would you tell? They’re just rocks. but Mia's Douse attack never creates this much water. What, do you measure it? I have a feeling that Isaac may have found a different Mercury Adept instead."
"You mean Alex?" Garet asked.
Ivan nodded. "These trees are missing some of their lower branches too, as if they were hit with Psynergy." He looked to Jenna. "Did Felix tell you any of his plans?"
"Not really," Jenna replied softly. "He said that he was unsure of where the remaining Lighthouses were, and that he'd have to do some exploring to find them. But other than that, he wouldn't discuss his plans."
"I remember him saying something about the Jupiter Lighthouse being next," Sheba added. "If he and Alex are here, than we might be in Hesperia."
Garet looked concerned and agitated at the same time. "Those jerks! I hope that Isaac gave them a run for their money!" Nah, he got royally owned.
"This day keeps getting worse," Ivan sighed. "First Mia leaves, then Isaac turns up missing, and now it looks like he may have bumped into our enemies by himself. This doesn't look good at all." Thank you, Captain Obvious!
"Ivan, you don't think that he's…" Sheba trailed.
"Don't even think it!" Garet exclaimed. "Isaac's out there somewhere and we're going to find him. I don't care if an army of Fenrirs tramped through here--he's alive!"
"Of course," Ivan said with a forced grin of optimism. But he could tell that Garet was probably more worried than any of them. These last two paragraphs are just more fuel for the Isaac/Garet fire.
Jenna peered through some of the bushes and found a steep bank with a briar patch at its bottom. She carefully took a few steps down the bank to get a closer look and noticed a piece of yellow cloth stuck in the thorns. "Hey guys, come look at this."
The others followed her voice to the spot. "Watch yourself, Jenna," said Sheba. "That bank looks slippery." Sheba contemplated shoving Jenna down into the briars, but decided against it, sadly.
"There's something trapped in the thorns," Jenna said, inching down the bank. She got close enough to reach the stray scrap and yanked it free from the nettles.
"What is it?" Garet asked.
"It's a piece of Isaac's scarf," Jenna said quietly, clutching it tightly. "I'm sure of it."
"What?!" the others cried in surprise. *pouts* She stole my formatting. They carefully followed Jenna down the bank to see for themselves. Garet snatched away the scrap to see it first hand, but he'd have recognized the yellow material anywhere.
"There are more scraps here too," Ivan said, reaching for a blue-colored piece. "This looks like it came from Mia's robe. I'll bet they fell down this embankment during a fight with Felix and Alex."
Sheba winced. "And they landed in those briars? Ouch!"
"And I'll bet that they used the opportunity to escape," said Jenna. I know that I always find falling into briars to be advantageous when I’m trying to escape bad guys. "Do you think they're still hiding from my brother?"
"We'll keep looking," Garet said. "With any luck, they're together someplace safe and Felix is far away from here. Let's go."
With that, the Adepts cautiously traveled through the briars and continued deeper into the woods.
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Ack! Another short one, but I hope it was at least halfway decent. I told you that Jenna might redeem herself (although she still has some apologizing to do…)! So where'd Isaac go anyway? Nipped off to the pub for a couple pints. And what about Mia and her captors? Threesome. Well, these are more things that must be revealed with time, so be patient while I work on chapter 8. Later! ^_^
Disclaimer (in a sing-song voice): I love Camelot 'cause they made this great game, and I wouldn't dare steal it because I want them to make many, many, more!! Four years later and we’re still waiting.
*Chapter 7*
"It's getting really late," said Sheba. "Where could they be?" Oh, Sheba, you know those two. They’re probably shagging like bunnies in the middle of whatever forest clearing they happen to be in.
The sun's last rays faded as night enveloped the land. Garet, Jenna, Ivan and Sheba had all gathered on the beach near the ship, waiting for Isaac and hopefully Mia as well. But so far there was no sign of either of them, and the others were starting to worry. Building sandcastles had long since ceased to hold their attention.
"They'll be here," Garet said with more certainty than he felt. "It probably took them awhile to hash everything out and they lost track of the time."
Jenna frowned. "I knew this was a bad idea. We should've let Mia go and stayed together when we explored."
Ivan gave her a nasty glare. "You have no one to blame for this but yourself. If you hadn't chased Mia away, we would've stayed together!" OH SNAP!
"Ivan!" Sheba cried. "You can't!"
"Hey, I didn't make any promises to Mia," Ivan said. The moral? Never trust a Jupiter Adept. Sneaky little blighters. He looked back to Jenna. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself!”
"What are you talking about?" Garet asked.
"Why don't you ask Jenna?" Ivan implored. "She knows perfectly well what I'm talking about."
"Don't look at me!" Jenna said nervously. ”Don’t look at me, I said!” Suddenly, Jenna went quite mad and ran into the ocean, never to be seen again.
Sheba crossed her arms and sighed, ”Well, that was odd.” resigned to the fact that this couldn't remain a secret any longer. This wouldn't end well. "It's a long story, Garet, and I don't think you're going to like a word of it. There’s no pictures for you to follow along with."
"How come I am always the last to know about these things?!" Garet demanded. "Come clean right now before I get really mad!" He brandished a can of Lysol.
"Go ahead and tell him, Jenna," said Ivan. "Tell him how you hounded poor Mia until she was so hurt and broken that she left. Tell him how you called her a pathetic, cowardly home wrecker and an unworthy thief of hearts. *takes a shot* Tell him how ever since you joined our crew you’ve been out to destroy her relationship with Isaac!" Actually, Ivan, I think you took care of the telling.
There was a long, uncomfortable pause. The two Jupiter Adepts stared at Jenna with focused eyes that shot laser beams, but Garet was visibly confused.
Jenna wouldn’t do all of that, would she? Why would she want to anyway? Surely she could tell how much Isaac and Mia loved each other. Garet, if someone couldn’t figure that out, they would have to be certifiably mentally retarded. Actually, that’s insulting to retarded people. It’s so obvious that they’d have to be dea- You know what, it’s just too bloody obvious for anyone to miss. Heaven knows we’ve been beaten over the head with it enough.
"Say something, Jenna," Garet said. "ENGLISH, MOTHER****ER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?! Tell me that you didn’t do anything like that!"
"He...he’s exaggerating," said Jenna uneasily. "I did say some things to Mia, but I never intended for her to leave. No, really. Is this the face of an Adept who would lie to you?"
"Liar!" Sheba cried. "Take responsibility for it!"
Ivan outstretched a hand. "The only way you’ll ever know the full truth is to look into Jenna’s memory. Allow me to show you."
"Right." Garet took Ivan’s hand and was able to peer into Jenna’s memory with Mind Read. Neither Ivan nor Sheba had exaggerated at all. Jenna shrank a bit when she saw the way Garet was looking at her. She had always thought she was immune to his anger since they were so close, but now his eyes burned with the full fury of the flames he commanded.
"So the force Ivan predicted was none other than you," Garet said all too calmly. "Tell me, Jenna--at what point did it seem like a good idea to break Isaac’s heart?"
"That wasn’t my intention Somewhere between the fifth and sixth beer," Jenna said meekly.
"Oh really? O RLY?” Garet hooted. “Then why on Angara did you say such awful things to Mia? Didn’t we all tell you that he loved her? Or did that just not get through that hard head of yours?"
"I...I was trying to look out for him. Isaac’s always been such a good friend to me and I didn’t want him with someone who wasn’t worthy of his love. I’m allowed to protect him as a friend, aren’t I?"
"Friends don’t do what you did!" Garet roared. Friends, however, probably would. "Admit it, Jenna! You were just jealous of Mia!"
Jenna felt her own blood boiling in angst. No snarky comment, just giggles. Dumb line. "All right, so I was jealous--jealous of all the time they were spending together, jealous of the way Isaac looked at her, jealous of the hot sexx0rz, and jealous of how she was pulling him away from me! Don't you remember the way things were back home? The three of us used to be inseparable! We had threesomes all the frickin’ time! And it felt like I was losing Isaac's friendship because of his new infatuation with Mia. I don't know why I said all those things to her. Because you, like, totally hate her? I only know that I love Isaac too much to have him taken away from me!"
"That's not love, Jenna," said Sheba. "That's selfishness." Actually, it’s OOC.
"Surely you couldn't have truly believed that Isaac would forget all about you just because he fell in love with Mia," Ivan added. "He's not that kind of person. He totally would have invited you to join in."
"I know, I know!" Jenna exclaimed. "I don’t know what I was thinking--I just didn’t want to lose him!" Her eyes watered as she began to realize the severity of her deeds. "What have I done?" I think you know quite well. You drove Mia Sue away. Personally, I think that’s commendable. If you weren’t so OOC, I’d like you.
Garet, still quite enraged, blasted one of the nearby rocks, reducing it to rubble. GARET SMASH! He turned and looked right into Jenna’s eyes. "I hope you’re happy with what you’ve done. Because of you, Isaac’s missing. If he’s been harmed in any way, I’ll never, ever forgive you!" My compulsive ‘shipper mentality read this as being Isaac/Garet subtext. And now I can’t stop giggling.
"It wasn’t supposed to be like this!" Jenna cried. "Please, you have to believe me--I didn't want it to be like this!" Um, yes, you did. Wasn’t this what you were going for the whole time? She broke down into sobs as she finally admitted to herself that she had been wrong to try and separate Isaac and Mia. And now Isaac, the one she’d wanted to protect and keep close, was missing. Full darkness had settled over them and only a small crescent moon illuminated the sky. It was the perfect setting for this to turn into a slasher fic, and thus a more interesting story. Heck, even if it just turned slash, it would probably be better.
"We have to go look for him," Garet said, getting his temper under control again. "Only this time, we stick together."
"Yes," said Ivan, nodding. "I saw him going west, so let’s see if we can find his trail."
So the four of them set out in search of their missing leader. Jenna lingered behind everyone, knowing that they were all still angry with her. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have gone anywhere near Mia. Okay, seriously, how could you have not known? What else did you think would happen? How could she have let her fear and jealousy blind her to the obvious truth? Mia herself had told her many times to look into Isaac's eyes and see how much he loved her. But Jenna hadn't looked- Isaac was part basilisk-she hadn't wanted to accept it. And now I may have lost him for good, she thought. Even if we do find him, he may never trust me again after this, and Garet probably won't either. My best friends in the world--how could I betray them like this? Mia wasn't the unworthy one after all. Mia accepted the goodness of Kraden.
************
After a few hours, the group came to a small forest clearing where there was evidence of a struggle. Chunks of stone were scattered about and the ground was quite soggy, as if a massive gush of water had flooded through. They had found the wrong clearing; the Hesperian Public Works Department was actually working there to fix a water main break.
"Water and earth powers…" Sheba trailed. "They were both here. Must’ve been one heck of a lover’s spat."
"Perhaps," Ivan said a bit more skeptically. He sloshed through the mud and picked up one of the stones. "These are from Isaac's Stone Spire attack for sure, Really, how would you tell? They’re just rocks. but Mia's Douse attack never creates this much water. What, do you measure it? I have a feeling that Isaac may have found a different Mercury Adept instead."
"You mean Alex?" Garet asked.
Ivan nodded. "These trees are missing some of their lower branches too, as if they were hit with Psynergy." He looked to Jenna. "Did Felix tell you any of his plans?"
"Not really," Jenna replied softly. "He said that he was unsure of where the remaining Lighthouses were, and that he'd have to do some exploring to find them. But other than that, he wouldn't discuss his plans."
"I remember him saying something about the Jupiter Lighthouse being next," Sheba added. "If he and Alex are here, than we might be in Hesperia."
Garet looked concerned and agitated at the same time. "Those jerks! I hope that Isaac gave them a run for their money!" Nah, he got royally owned.
"This day keeps getting worse," Ivan sighed. "First Mia leaves, then Isaac turns up missing, and now it looks like he may have bumped into our enemies by himself. This doesn't look good at all." Thank you, Captain Obvious!
"Ivan, you don't think that he's…" Sheba trailed.
"Don't even think it!" Garet exclaimed. "Isaac's out there somewhere and we're going to find him. I don't care if an army of Fenrirs tramped through here--he's alive!"
"Of course," Ivan said with a forced grin of optimism. But he could tell that Garet was probably more worried than any of them. These last two paragraphs are just more fuel for the Isaac/Garet fire.
Jenna peered through some of the bushes and found a steep bank with a briar patch at its bottom. She carefully took a few steps down the bank to get a closer look and noticed a piece of yellow cloth stuck in the thorns. "Hey guys, come look at this."
The others followed her voice to the spot. "Watch yourself, Jenna," said Sheba. "That bank looks slippery." Sheba contemplated shoving Jenna down into the briars, but decided against it, sadly.
"There's something trapped in the thorns," Jenna said, inching down the bank. She got close enough to reach the stray scrap and yanked it free from the nettles.
"What is it?" Garet asked.
"It's a piece of Isaac's scarf," Jenna said quietly, clutching it tightly. "I'm sure of it."
"What?!" the others cried in surprise. *pouts* She stole my formatting. They carefully followed Jenna down the bank to see for themselves. Garet snatched away the scrap to see it first hand, but he'd have recognized the yellow material anywhere.
"There are more scraps here too," Ivan said, reaching for a blue-colored piece. "This looks like it came from Mia's robe. I'll bet they fell down this embankment during a fight with Felix and Alex."
Sheba winced. "And they landed in those briars? Ouch!"
"And I'll bet that they used the opportunity to escape," said Jenna. I know that I always find falling into briars to be advantageous when I’m trying to escape bad guys. "Do you think they're still hiding from my brother?"
"We'll keep looking," Garet said. "With any luck, they're together someplace safe and Felix is far away from here. Let's go."
With that, the Adepts cautiously traveled through the briars and continued deeper into the woods.
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Ack! Another short one, but I hope it was at least halfway decent. I told you that Jenna might redeem herself (although she still has some apologizing to do…)! So where'd Isaac go anyway? Nipped off to the pub for a couple pints. And what about Mia and her captors? Threesome. Well, these are more things that must be revealed with time, so be patient while I work on chapter 8. Later! ^_^