Hello Everyone! Thanks for choosing to read my first fanfic! In my opinion there just aren't enough Reyson fics out there! Although this will be both a Reyson and Ike fanfic. However the two females will be oc's. I thought I would write this story and follow along with the actual fire emblem path of radiance game play. It also will jump from Reyson's point of view back to the mercenaries. Hopefully I can write it so that you aren't utterly confused. -_-'
By the way, I don't own any of the characters from the Fire Emblem game or any rights to it.
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-Punjabigrownbg
"I'll give you something nice." Said the little girl as her wide blue eyes peered up at weeping man before her. Small hands reached for his and gently placed a round object into his grasp. "It's small but very precious. Won't you keep it safe for me?"
Reyson groaned as the last of his fleeting dream rippled away and the first rays of sun streamed across his face. He slowly sat up in his bed and placed both palms over his eyes. Another night of not sleeping, he silently complained as he began massaging his temples.
He sat in silence for a moment in his room. The royal hawk castle was well furnished and comfortable, yet Reyson was not feeling settled in. Twenty years had passed since he began living in Phoenicis. Although he was more than grateful to have the hawk tribe as a place to live now, he would give anything to return to his beautiful home, the Serenes Forest.
"Reyson are you awake yet?" a loud voice burst into his room. "You're not planning to sleep all day are you?"
The white Prince dropped his hands and looked up at the tall figure standing at the foot of his bed. There stood his dear friend, Tibarn, the Hawk king. The Phoenicis king had a wide smile upon his face as his muscular form looked down. "What's the matter with you?" Tibarn asked as he strode over, "You're looking kind of pale."
Reyson raised an eyebrow and glanced up at the brown winged Laguz's familiar scarred face. "How do you mean?" He questioned, "Isn't that my normal coloring?"
Tibarn smirked, "True, but I mean, more pale."
"I didn't sleep well last night." Reyson admitted while running a hand through his platinum blonde hair.
The hawk laguz crossed his arms and tilted his head in thought. His broad brown wings twitched slightly, "Did you have a nightmare?"
Reyson could sense there was a humorous tone in his old friend's voice. "Nothing of the sort." The room went silent as Tibarn patiently waited for the white bird to continue.
"I'm not really sure actually, it seems like a memory almost." He thought back to how vivid the young girl was; Her round face, eyes, hair, and those little hands the clasped onto his; so small and warm.
"A memory?" Tibarn interjected.
"I've been having this dream a lot recently, maybe two or three times a week." Reyson said with a nod.
Tibarn hummed as he scratched his chin, "What's this dream about?"
"A girl…"
"Really?" Tibarn suddenly interrupted, "Was it a cute girl?" he asked with a devilish grin.
Reyson just shook his head and stared blankly through his bedroom, "She was a child, a human child."
The word human burned on his tongue as he spoke. His features twisted up in disgust at the very mention of the race. Shear monsters he screamed in his mind. Those devils had murdered every last member of his clan with no remorse and no reason at all. All his fellow herons and his beloved sister Leanne and brother Rafiel were gone. Not to even mention his dear father. He'd been bed ridden since the massacre all those years ago.
It was bad enough that all of those mulling creatures went unpunished for their despicable crimes, but now one of them haunted him during the night.
It didn't matter that she was a young human; every single one of them was his enemy. No matter the age or gender, the heron prince hated any human.
"Well." Tibarn begin, bringing Reyson back from his thoughts, "You know what it means when you have a reoccurring dream about someone right?"
He bent down to Reyson's eye level, "that soon you will have an unexpected meeting with this person."
The heron prince scoffed, "Don't wish something so ill on me."
Tibarn straightened up and stretched his wings out, "I'm only repeating an old legend that Ulki once told me." He related with a wave gesture with his hand."
"Nonsense. The goddess has already forsaken myself and my people enough. If she has any pity at all for me, she'll keep me away from those beasts for as long as I live." He bitterly retorted.
The expression on Tibarn's face became serious. He turned towards a window at the side of the room and peered out at his Phoenicis kingdom then absently began, "The gods and goddesses simply watch as their creations live, they can't control our fate any more than we can."
Reyson turned to look at the same scenery, "Then what do we worship them for?"
So there you have it folks. Hopefully I'll get the second chapter out tomorrow. Sorry it was so short I know it will be hard to give feedback with so little of the story developed as of yet. I'll do my best so please feel free to comment.
-Punjabigrownbg