A man with watery-blue hair stood in the middle of an incredibly vacant mountainous region. He forced his hand out, summoning a heavy rain of deadly bubbles that stuck the land with an immense force. But he was not satisfied.

"This is rather boring," the water user thought to himself. "All of that power I attained those two weeks ago really couldn't have amounted to...this. It's pitiful. Absolutely pitiful. I should have a lot more than this."

The man continued to throw his bubbles around, as ineffective to achieving his goals as they were. Sometimes he even summoned blades of razor-sharp ice. That also did nothing. It seemed that with every passing usage of his power, his frustration steadily grew.

"How can this be...how can this be?! All the lighthouses were lit and the Golden Sun formed at the top of Mt. Aleph...I was there. I should have the Golden Sun inside me. I should BE the Golden Sun. But I'm not…"

A sudden fit of rage. With a powerful frown, he forced his palm forward once again, only to be met with an unusual happening. Instead of anything water-related, an ominous dark-purple spherical vortex of sorts emerged at the ground in front of him. It was moderately sized, going up to most peoples' waist levels. And it had the girth of a small boulder. The man found himself intrigued.

"Oh…? This is certainly interesting…"

One month. A whole, single month of peace has blanketed the land of Weyard. The world is no longer in danger of ending thanks to the valiant efforts of the eight heroes. However, their actions came at the cost of Vale - the hometown of some of those heroes. It, essentially, blew up completely. What was left of it was nothing other than a deep crater.

Luckily, nobody died. All the residents of Vale evacuated through the help of a certain deity. They were forced to move to Vault, a nearby town. There had been enough buildings to house the admittedly somewhat small numbers of residents that once belonged to the now-decimated village. And it only got a little bit crowded.

So life almost returned to normal for Vale's residents. They smoothly transitioned back into their old routines and everything was a-okay. Three out of the eight heroes - the ones that used to live in Vale - also permanently moved into Vault.

Isaac, Garet and Jenna were having dinner with Dora (Isaac's mother), Ivan and Mia (two more of the eight heroes). The remainder of the octology were all elsewhere in the world, much to Jenna's personal lament. But her spirits were greatly improved as she kept feasting on the fine food laid out for her and her other friends.

"Is it good, you five?" Dora asked everyone else in the room with a warm, motherly smile.

"Yes, miss Dora. It's very lovely," Ivan responded with a nod, between bites of course. "I'm enjoying the chicken especially."

"I agree. The chicken is marvellous," Mia agreed, adding in a nod of her own.

"The chicken?! Are you guys crazy? The steak is the best!" Garet exclaimed.

Jenna sighed. "Normally, I'd tell you to shut up or be quiet, but I actually agree with you on that, Garet. The steak is amazing!"

Isaac simply nodded, not really having anything to add to the conversation.

"I'm glad you're all enjoying it. And I'm even more glad that Ivan and Mia came all the way here just for this meal," Dora smiled further.

"Well, it's not just for the food. I wanted to see everyone again," Ivan claimed. "It's really a shame that Felix, Sheba and Piers couldn't make it. There's nothing that can be done about that, though."

"Yeah," Isaac finally piped up. "Felix and Sheba are off...somewhere. Who knows where Piers went on that boat of his."

"At least they left with a goodbye. That was pretty nice of them," Garet said through munches.

"Indeed…" Mia sighed.

With that, the conversation died down somewhat. Sometimes Garet would break the silence by yelling in pain as a result of biting his tongue, though that was the only time human speech emanated through the room past the earlier conversation. Everyone was content with consuming Dora's delicious delicacies.

Only then did something happen to disturb the peace. Isaac, Garet, Ivan, Mia and Jenna all felt something...off. Something just happened, or appeared, that felt really...off. They couldn't describe it any other way. Right after they felt whatever it was, a villager knocked on the door. Dora answered it.

"Dora! Some weird thing has appeared outside the village! We need the Adepts to check it out!" the villager reported in a very stressed tone and appearance.

Isaac and his friends looked at each other, then nodded. They immediately figured this 'weird thing' was somehow connected to that offness they felt earlier. As they were Adepts - users of powerful elemental magic known as Psynergy - they were the only ones around suitable enough to tackle this mystery.

"Jenna, you stay behind. This might be some kind of diversion," Isaac instructed his friend.

"What? Why?" Jenna simply asked. "You know I can handle myself."

"That's exactly the point. Garet, Mia, Ivan and I will head out there to check out this thing while you stay behind to make sure the villagers are okay. That is, if this is some kind of attack…" Isaac explained his reasoning.

Jenna, who resorted to frowning, sighed in defeat. "Alright, fine. You four go out there and save us all, or something. Go on, then!"

She didn't need to say that. Isaac's party already had the encouragement they needed to ensure the safety of their people. They followed the villager who reported the so-called 'weird, dark, purpley sphere thing' over to the object in question. Once the four Adepts got closer, they could tell that this strange object was the cause of the shared off-putting feeling they all had earlier.

"What is it? Some kind of Psynergy Stone?" Garet suggested, pacing around the object.

"No. Psynergy Stones are smaller and lighter in colour. They also feel much more pleasant, while this...this feels the exact opposite. This thing feels like the paragon of evil," Ivan described, keeping his distance.

"I'm...I'm terrified," Mia disclosed, shaking in fear slightly. "I...I really don't like this. It's almost like it wants to consume my Psynergy…"

"Consume your Psynergy? It really must be like a vortex," Isaac commented, standing resolute on the outside. "Wait, is it...expanding?"

Just as Isaac said, the small vortex of darkness was steadily growing in size. The Adepts found themselves frozen in place. Not out of fear, but the vortex was somehow forcing them to stay. Almost as if it was inviting them in.

That's exactly what it was doing. At one point, the vortex suddenly expanded massively, engulfing the Adepts and some of the surrounding area. Each of them were immediately knocked unconscious due to the influx of such offbeat energy entering their systems.

And then they were gone. The Adepts, the vortex, the strange Psynergy...it was all gone. Everything else was normal. Jenna and Dora were both horrified to learn that Isaac, Garet, Ivan and Mia had disappeared completely. Jenna couldn't even sense them anymore.

It was as if they vanished from Weyard completely.

Author Notes: Hey all, Hog here! I'm starting a brand new fanfic today, one that has no relevance to anything I've done before! It's a crossover between Fire Emblem Three Houses - a game I utterly adore - and Golden Sun, a game I also utterly adore. I just had the idea to combine these two things randomly one day, then as I began to think of it further, I got so many cool ideas that I knew I had to make a fanfic on it. So here it is!

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