Golden Sun: The Broken Story --- This chapter is all about trees. But there's no treehugging going on or anything. However, we do get to see them fight trees! Well, one tree. An evil, talking tree. How did Camelot come up with that one? --- [Studio] Alex: It is such a shame I don't appear much in this game. Mia: I quite like it myself. *glares* Alex: But, Mia, people obviously want to see my sleek, beautiful and shiny hair! *flips it* See? Jenna: Alex... how much time do you spend on it? Alex: Oh, a couple hours in the morning. I take great care of it. Felix: You know... it's just hair. Who cares what it looks like? Isaac: Alex is a weirdo... Alex: You simply don't understand how important it is to have beautiful hair. Jenna: No wonder Garet thinks you're a woman. Garet: So someone understands why I keep getting confused! Director: Alright, everybody! It's time to start! No dilly-dallying! [Kolima Forest] Isaac: More sparkly stuff? This stuff is everywhere. Garet: I wonder what happens if we touch it? Ivan: Don't. You might actually end up with fingers made of bark. Garet: Yikes! I don't want fingers made of bark! Mia: Let's just be careful and stay away from it. It's really pretty though... Isaac: Yeah... I just want to stand and stare at the sparkly stuff... Ivan: It's so shiny... and pretty... and sparkly... Garet: Um.......hello? Trees? Isaac: Oh! Yeah! Ivan: I think we'd better hurry... Mia: Let's go then. We don't have time to stare at the pretty, sparkly stuff... [Everyone wanders around the forest, pushing logs and stuff, until they happen to come across Laurel.] Ivan: *gasp* A tree with a face! Laurel: You... you are the people that resisted Tret's glamour? Isaac: That's absolutely right. Laurel: You know, it's funny... a laurel is a type of tree. Ivan: Right... I can see why you would be called Laurel. Laurel: But, Tret? What is a tret? Do you know what a tret is? Ivan: *pulls a dictionary out of nowhere* Let's see... Garet: You seriously have a dictionary? Isaac: Maybe it's a misspelling of tree! Mia: I really don't think that's the case here... Ivan: According to this dictionary, it's a really, really, really old word for something to do with taxes. Yeah, I don't think that's it either. Garet: Maybe he just didn't want to have a name with any meaning. Isaac: But... we have a tree name and a name that doesn't mean crap... Mia: Let's remember the most important thing right now. We are here to save everyone from Tret. Laurel: It... is too late ;_; Ivan: Huh? Laurel: Everyone is doomed... ;_; Tret will die and Kolima Forest will go with him... as well as cheese. Isaac: *gasp* Ivan: No! Not the cheese! Garet: I don't see how a dying forest will get rid of cheese... Mia: We'll definitely save the forest. Laurel: T_T Isaac: Hey, there's another one of those face trees over there! Ivan: That's probably Tret. *The group walks over to stare at the sleepy tree* Garet: Hey, are you Tret? Tret: ... Hroom...! So you have come to Kolima Forest? It is no use! Kolima Forest will die with me, and so will the people of Kolima! Muahahahahahahaha! Isaac: *looks at Herme's Water* Hey, I wonder what happens if I try to use this now instead of after fighting Tret. Mia: Isaac, no! Isaac: *attemps to use it on Tret* Tret: HROOM! I control all in Tret's realm! I shall not allow you to do anything to him! *blasts Isaac back and turns him into a tree* .............................. Garet: What... Ivan: Just... Mia: Happened? Director: ARGH! DAMMIT! Tret, what the hell are you doing?! Tret: HROOM! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Mia: ... Um, did you actually turn him evil for this thing? Director: The Wise One did it! Mia: Well, tell him to take it off! Tret's only supposed to act evil! Director: I don't know where he is! You'll just have to get in there and kick Tret's ass! Garet: But... why didn't his Psynergy save him? Ivan: Maybe it happened too fast... Director: This is completely screwed up now! Garet: We'll have to go and awaken Tret's kindly side, so he can turn everyone back into humans! Ivan: *reads Isaac's mind* Isaac: (thinking) A Venus Adept as a tree? This is horribly ironic. And, for the record, this doesn't happen in the game. The author's making it all up. Imagine what would happen if we became trees. Game Over? Ivan: *stops reading* Well, let's go inside Tret then. *takes the Hermes Water and pockets it* Better not lose this. Tret: H-hey! Why are you climbing up me? Stop or I'll turn you all into trees! Ah, crud, they went inside me! This is an injustice, I tell you! I shall take over the world and rename it Treeard! Bwahahahahahaha! Director: I'm going to find that rock and give it a severe talking to... *The group proceed through Tret, nabbing a Jupiter Djinni along the way, and then fall a very, very long way to the bottom.* Ivan: Owwwwww! Mia: *groans* That wasn't fun at all... Garet: Did we actually fall from the top? Ivan: Amazing how we can fall so far without suffering injury. Garet: I don't get it at all... Mia: Anyway, Tret's heart should be around here. Let's look for it! *The three find Tret's face in the wall* Ivan: Wow, that's creepy... Garet: Yeah... *pokes it* Mia: Garet! Don't touch it! Tret: *opens eyes* HROOOOOOOM!!!! Ivan: Yahhhh! *hides behind Garet* Garet: My... eardrums... Mia: Can you please stop saying 'Hroom'? Tret: No! The last thing people hear before they become trees like me will be the thunderous, terrifying 'HROOOOOOOM!!!!' Buahahahahahaha! I shall enslave the entire world! All people will become trees! Ivan: I was hoping we would find his kindly side... Mia: Actually, I think we just need to beat him up. Garet: Sounds simple enough. I'm sure we'll do just fine even without Isaac. Just try not to faint, Ivan. Ivan: Hmph! Tret: You cannot defeat me! Your power protected you in the forest, but now you are in the heart of my power! *Battle with Tret begins* Tret: HROOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!! Ivan: It's hard to believe we're actually fighting a tree. Garet: Yeah. This is the kind of thing I'd expect to see if I was high. Mia: That blasted hrooming is really getting on my nerves! *Tret is eventually defeated* Ivan: Okay, we defeated him! Mia: My ears are still ringing... ow... Garet: I'm going to be hearing that awful "hroom" in my sleep for weeks. ._. Tret: Hmm... I see... my heart was all but lost in my rage. Well, now I can rest in peace and just die. *closes eyes* Ivan: Hey! We can't let him die! Mia: That's right! He has to turn the trees back to people! Garet: Hey, wake up! Tret: What? You want something? Garet: Did you forget what you did on your crazy rampage or something? Ivan: It wasn't really much of a rampage... Tret: Oh, yes... I remember now... I turned people into trees... Mia: Please, hurry and turn them back! Tret: Ok... *attempts to use power and fails* It's no good. My power no longer reaches Kolima... Garet: What? D= But how are they supposed to turn back then? Tret: You tell me. Ivan: We'll just have to use the Hermes' Water. Wasn't it a good thing that we got it already instead of having to come through the forest twice? Mia: It certainly was. Let's hurry and save him! *The trio hurries out of Tret and faces the sleeping tree* Ivan: Ok, let's do it now. Mia: *uses Hermes' Water* Tret: *wakes up* Hey, that felt pretty good! *Sunlight filters into the forest* Ivan: How did that happen? Garet: That was random... Laurel: Tret... as you have recovered, so has our forest. Tret: I guess I'd better undo my evil work now. But, hey, they should treasure the happy memories of being a tree. How many people get to be turned into trees anyway? Garet: D= I don't think anybody likes being a tree... Ivan: Hmm. Hey, Isaac, do you like being a tree? *reads mind* Isaac: (thinking) Are you nuts?! Hey, it would be funny if I was a nut bearing tree. I would still have nuts! Ivan: ... I think being a tree is starting to affect Isaac's sanity and giving him a bad sense of humour. Mia: Oh no! Tret, please hurry! *Tret does fancy sparkly stuff and Isaac becomes human again* Tret: That should do it... the people I turned into trees should once more be people. Laurel: Tret did not always have this awful power... Isaac: WOOHOO! I'm a person again! *waves limbs* Tret: The power only came to me when those strange gems fell from the sky and landed on my branches. Garet: Gems? Do you think he's talking about Psynergy stones, Isaac? Isaac: Just how far do those stones go?! Ivan: All over Weyard, it seems... even though it doesn't make much sense. Garet: Hmm... maybe they fly! Isaac: I don't think so... =/ Mia: And how do they get inside buildings? Especially the ones that don't even have windows. Ivan: Well, it sounds like these Psynergy stones are causing a lot of havoc. Laurel: Indeed. *does fancy sparkly stuff* Ivan: Laurel! What are you doing? Tret: Wait and see... Laurel: *stops* A forest has risen to the south. Animals are being turned into monsters. Basically, evil is lurking that way no thanks to Alchemy or whatever. Isaac: Oh. Well, we're going that way. Garet: W-we are? Isaac: Of course. Tret: Then you will have a dangerous journey ahead of you. Be careful... Laurel: Yes. Beware... the thing that never sleeps... Ivan: Uh...? Something that never sleeps? Mia: Yikes! Whatever could it be? Laurel: I'm just kidding! ^_^ Goodbye! Tret: Farewell... *The group leaves Kolima Forest and heads through the Bilibin Barricade* Man 1: Ah! It's those people! Man 2: Look, Jill, it's the people who saved you! Jill: Oh... it really is you! Isaac: Huh? Oh... that tree... Jill: For saving my life, I wish to give you a thank you gift. *Jill gave Isaac a Hard Nut* Garet: I thought Jill was a woman. Mia: *SMACK* Director: Any more nut jokes and you will have to answer to my legion of fanged purple bunnies. Understand? *waves coffee mug threateningly* Garet: *rubbing sore cheek* Y-yes... Isaac: But the nut jokes were funny... *sigh* Oh well. Thanks for the gift. Ivan: Sheesh, I don't get what's so funny about the dumb jokes. Mia: That's what I like about you, Ivan. You're mature and intelligent. Isaac/Garet: T_T *The group heads to Bilibin and toward the palace for absolutely no reason* Soldier: You! You're under arrest! Isaac: Oh, crap. Garet: Does that mean we have to see Lord McCoy again? D= Ivan: Hopefully he's not wearing a kilt. Mia: I also hope he's not calling us all laddies again. *The Adepts are led into Lord McCoy's room* Lord McCoy: Oh, it's yeh laddies. Do yeh realise what I have gone through since that awful joke? That soldier told everyone I was a homosexual pedo for showing mah nads to young boys, and now mah wahf has left me, also because I said, nay, I would build no palace for her! I demand an apology! Garet: Ivan, apologise. Ivan: ... I'm sorry. *doesn't actually look sorry* Isaac: Uh... so, we're under arrest? Mia: I'm sure you can find someone better than that awful, spoilt woman. Lord McCoy: But... mah sweetums! ;_; ... Eh, I still have mah sheep to keep me company. They keep me warm at night... Garet: You let them sleep in your bed?! Mia: Uh, haven't we got something more important to talk about? Lord McCoy: So... yeh saved Kolima, did yeh not? Isaac: That's right. Lord McCoy: Even though yeh promised not to go? Garet: Oh, I'm always breaking promises... Lord McCoy: Thank yew. Ivan: So... we're not in trouble or anything? Lord McCoy: Nay. Please go with that soldier to receive your reward for saving Kolima, brave laddies. Mia: I'M NOT A LADDY! *Isaac, Garet, Ivan and Mia follow the soldier into a room full of treasure chests* Soldier: Please pick a chest. Garet: We only get one? D= Ivan: Don't be greedy, Garet... Isaac: Eenie meenie miney mo... ... That one! *opens it, only to find that it is in fact a Mimic* Yikes! Soldier: You are always welcome in the palace of Lord McCoy. *leaves* *The group fights the Mimic and defeats it. They then leave Bilibin, passing through Kolima on the way. Of course, it's back to normal. They then head south.*