Chapter 1 - A small case of Amnesia?
You all know my story. I've told it to you hundreds and hundreds times and yet you guys still ask me to tell it. I mean, I think after hearing it over and over you would know it by now. Well, I guess I can tell you again. So long as I get some help from some friends of mine. I was well, none of us are truly sure what I was back then. I had my two best friends, the people who stood by me since the death of my mother all those years ago. One of them was a blond haired, green eyed, Shadow weirdo. The other was basically my servant, who called me Mistress, and not so secretly loved me. Anyway, It all started a few miles from a small town called Southtown.
"So Lana, Tell me what do you think of selling information for gold? I mean I can go anywhere and completely hide in the shadows! I can make so much money!" I sighed a little at my friend Ashur. He had only recently learned of his abilities prior to my mothers death and was attempting to find some use for it. The girl beside me laughed cheerfully as if there wasn't a care in the world.
"You couldn't get people to give you money for Information! You'd need like a reputation! Plus you'd leave Mistress for a chance at gold?" I sighed shaking my head slightly. My fingers ran through my purple hair a bit and I wondered why she always persisted in calling me that. Though after knowing her for about four years it had finally wormed its way into familiarity.
"No! But, we are dirt poor. We need jobs and Lana here is the only one with actual training in something." I closed my eyes a bit. I had suddenly started to get an odd headache and I wasn't sure why. It annoyed me slightly and I ran my tongue over my lips. Maybe I was thirsty? I reached to my side pulling out the flask and taking a drink a bit. The cold water had merely cooled me down yet offered no relief to this ache.
"It took me all of my youth to learn tactics Ashur. It doesn't matter anyway since I can't find someone who needs well, our collective skills." The collective skills of ours equaled only my own to be honest. I had learned tactics and had received some training in both swords and magic. Though it wasn't the greatest or most powerful it could be at this point, it was still better then their skills. Ashur didn't know swords well at all, and held little talent in magic, combining this was a lack strength for Axes and Lances were out as well. I was thinking about figuring a way for him to turn into an Thief maybe an Assassin if he could improve his swords a bit more and pick up a bow as well.
Kira on the other was even worse off. She held no knowledge prior of anything beside cooking and the like. This though wasn't her fault as she had been a slave we had run into. Her former Master had been killed by bandits and Ashur and I had taken them out together. I had met Ashur shortly before that when he had stumbled on me burying my mother. He had just learned of his abilities and hoped to gain some information on his condition from her. Unfortunately he had been too late to get her aid but, he stuck around in hopes that by joining me we could learn something together. Still all in all, this headache kept getting worse and I wasn't sure what it was exactly.
"You look in pain Mistress." I nodded a little and wiped the sweat that now seemed to be increasing in intensity. It felt hotter and the pressure in my skull had been hitting higher levels. I closed my eyes and my legs felt weak. I tried to catch my breath but, even that seemed to only further destabilize my movement. I finally collapsed onto a field we had been walking though and I wondered slightly why my memories seemed to be getting extremely hard to process. My eyes closed and I heard Kira and Ashur over me. My mind snapped elsewhere briefly and I wondered what the hell was happening.
(The Premonition – Lana – Next to some Blue haired guy)
"This is it! Our final battle! You're one of us, Lana, and no 'Destiny' can change that! Now let's kill this Dastard and be done with it!" I stared at the man and nodded. I charged a spell into my hand and joined at his side.
"Let's go Chrom!" I shouted at him and he nodded the two of us had paired up and we moved charged towards our enemy in unison. The man we were getting close to laughed at us. It seemed as if he believed we had already lost.
"Why do you resist?" I glared at him and fired the spell as Chrom leap forward slashing at him. The man dodge the slash but ran right into the spell. It struck him hard and he gripped his chest slightly were the spell had entered him.
"Struggle all you want! You cannot unwrite what is already written!" he fired a spell, a large ball of dark magic. Chrom and I had barely dodged it but it had burned my cloak slightly. Chrom had engaged him again though the man was dodging his slashes. I fired my spell and it pierced into his back stopped just short of hitting Chrom.
Chrom and I were about to celebrate our victory. He looked towards me and the man we had thought was dead stood with a shout.
"This isn't over... Damn you both!" He launches the same spell and I push Chrom out of the way. The magic blasts into me though I survive. My breathing is heavy and I try to focus on what is going on here.
"Are you alright?" I nod at him giving him a small smile. I wondered if I truly was I felt a slow yet familiar pain in my skull.
"That's the end of him! Thanks to you Lana we carried the day! We can rest easy now!" I felt the headache increase in intensity. I hear a faint voice though it was barely over a whisper in my mind. Kill him, Kill him...
"At long last we.. What's wrong? Hey hold on..." I listen to the voice's will. It seemed as if it was laughing evilly now that Chrom held his stomach. A small piece of the magic stuck out and he stepped back slightly.
"This is not your..." He coughs a bit of blood escaping his mouth.
"Your fault... Promise me to escape this place... Just go.." I stepped back as the laughter increases in my mind. I fall to my knees and cry over the man who had done so much for me.
(Back in the field)
"Damn it do something! I don't care what it is!" A familiar voice, a man who was it? I tried to open my eyes slightly.
"Yeah Chrom we have to do something!" Chrom? That name sounded familiar to me. Why? My head hurts so bad and I can't really think.
"Come on and help her!" Another female voice, Familiar to me. What is it.
"What do we think we should do huh?" Another voice, the most familiar of all of them so far. Chrom? He was Chrom. Why can't I really remember anything else?
"I don't know! Just help damn it!" My eyes opened finally and I noticed I was surrounded by four people a fifth was on a horse behind them eying us with slight suspicion. Who were all of these people?
"Hey your awake!" One man had said, blond hair? Another girl to the left jumped on top of me hugging me tightly. Her blue hair was covering her face and she was hugging me with an insane amount strength.
"Mistress your ok!" Mistress? Am I her Mistress? The same question seemed to play out on both the blue haired man, Chrom? And the blond girl who exchanged a look with each other. The man on the horse had gotten off to approach us. Seeming to keep his eye on me, the girl on top of me and that Blond man who seemed to want to join in the hug but was trying to control that urge.
"You know there are better places to take a nap then on the ground, you know right?" Chrom had the said, The only one whose name I could tell for sure out of this group.
"Take my hand Lana and get off Kira! Your embarrassing us!" The blond man had called me Lana? Lana it sounded it right to me. My name is Lana. Why was I struggling so hard to even remember that now? How did I know Chrom's name but not my own? The girl on top of me got off and I took the guys hand. He pulled me up and flashed me a familiar grin. Kira? The girl who had been on top of me earlier jumped up and down as if she had won a huge victory.
"She's ok! And alive! Thank you, See Ashur you were worried for nothing!" Ashur? The man who held my hand for what seemed for a second too long. I had looked at the hand he held and noticed a purple mark on it. Yet neither Ashur or Kira seemed to notice, maybe it had been there all along?
"So are you guys alright?" I looked at Chrom and nodded a little as did my, Friends? Were they my friends somehow? Did the same. I bit my lip a little and sighed wondering what had happened to my memories to do this.
"Yeah, Thank you Chrom." I found my voice and yet it seemed to struggle to talk to them.
"Oh you know who I am? These two didn't at first." I blinked and looked at the two who gave me a confused look that might have mirrored the own on my face.
"Your name, Is all I can really remember. I don't know why. I feel like my mind is fuzzy?" That was the best I could do. My friends looked at me in shock and the girl immediately pressed a hand on my forehead.
"You fainted Mistress but, we don't know how! Maybe it's like, What is it?"
"Amnesia? I think?" The girl in front of us beside Chrom had spoke.
"It's a load of horse shit. How can you suddenly know Milord's and not anything else?" Ashur and Kira seemed to rush to my defense before I could speak.
"She fainted! How do you know anything huh Asshole!" The man glared at him and I could see his fingers moving in some familiar way. He was about to do something what was it?
"Yeah you big meanie! Shut up!" Kira had stood in front of me as if to protect me from this man. The former horsemen who had been eying us earlier.
"Please you two settle down. Kira, Ashur. They don't know us. I don't even know you two as well as I used to I think. I can't remember and I am sorry for that. Please forgive my friends." Chrom had spoken now.
"It seems true to me Frederick. She does seem confused at everything that is going on. She isn't alone but, Maybe you three can come with us?" I looked at Chrom, then my friends. They were looking at me as if waiting for me to decide.
"I would emphasize Caution milord. It would not be good to let wolves in our flock." My friends shot him another glare and I placed my hands on their shoulders with a sigh.
"Relax, please. I don't need my friends fighting and getting hurt too." I whispered to them weakly, it was hard to call them my friends in some ways. I held no memories of them yet their names and calling them my friends seemed to feel right to me.
"We can all go back to town and sort this out ok?" Chrom had said. His two I guess friends nodded to him and mine looked at me and I mentioned for us to follow him with my hand.
We had been walking a few minutes, Kira had been checking me over for injuries and constantly checking my temperature. It seemed she truly cared about my health. Though I wondered slightly why she kept calling me Mistress instead of my name. Ashur had been talking to me trying to help me retrieve memories that he knew the three of us had shared. Some had sounded familiar to me. He mentioned my mother who I shook my head about, I couldn't remember her. Then he gone down a list of things. The thing that I did sort of remember was strange yet I felt I shouldn't mention that strange dream.
"I remember that, we were walking on that field. You said something about selling information? Because, of something? And Kira laughed at you and said you wouldn't leave me for gold." Both of my friends clapped happily. They seemed slightly relieved I could remember a few things about them. Still we struggled with the rest. The horsemen, Frederick kept an eye on the two of us. Chrom had an eye on one of us and it wasn't that difficult to tell who his eyes lingered on. Me, Lissa was it? Was teasing Chrom for some reason in whispers as I could see him blush slightly whenever she spoke to him.
"So like are we prisoners or something?" Ashur had said, I noticed he seemed uncomfortable whenever Chrom looked in our direction. Had he noticed what I had noticed as well?
"You'll be free to go once we establish you are no enemy of Ylisse." I closed my eyes focusing on that word a bit.
"What is Ylisse?" I asked and my friends looked at me in surprise but, they sort of understood somehow. Maybe I had gained their trust over time and they just knew me unlike the other three. Frederick had spoke up first though before they could answer.
"You've never heard of Halidom? Pay this actress! She plays quite the fool! That furrowed brow is especially convincing!" Ashur had his hands curling into fists. He wanted to hit this Frederick so bad. Even I could tell. Kira had again shouted at Frederick.
"Just stop being a jerk to her! Can't you tell this hard on her! You asshole!" She spit in his direction and Ashur nodded at Kira's comment. He was totally in agreement and I had noticed his fingers getting ready as before just as Frederick reached to his own back.
"Peace everyone! We need not fight over this! Frederick calm down. The Land we are in is known as the Halidom of Ylisse. Our ruler, Emmeryn, is called the Exalt. I suppose some proper introductions might settle some things? I am Chrom, this delicate one here is my sister Lissa."
"I am not Delicate! Ignore my brother please. He can be a bit thick sometimes." She smiled at us as if it were a small joke of some kind. Chrom had given her a quick flash of anger though it was brief. It seemed those two were close somehow.
"So why are you dressed in full armor?" I asked them. I was confused as to Frederick's attire especially though even Chrom had some armored shirt of some kind. Lissa though didn't seem to have much in that regard.
"We are Shepherds."
"You tend Sheep? In full Armor?" Ashur had asked in confusion. I was confused by this as well. It made little sense to me.
"It's a dangerous job, Just ask Frederick the wary here." The wary? It definitely fit him. Considering how he still seemed suspicious of us. It made me wonder how much they hiding from us. Even I knew that tending Sheep did not require a full suit of plate. Nor did it require a huge lance and a couple of swords strapped to Chrom's side. They had to be skirting around the truth somehow.
"A title I wear with pride. Gods forbid one of us keeps an appropriate level of caution. I have every wish to trust you strangers but, my station mandates otherwise." Hm, I thought on this a little. His Station? Chrom held a sort of high level of Nobility. It seemed maybe he and Lissa perhaps were Nobles? Maybe higher given the experience it seems Frederick has.
"Mistress! Look the town!" I looked at Kira then her finger which was pointed towards a small town. It was blazing in flames. It had been attacked. I wrapped my mind around this quickly. I felt something click in my head for some reason almost as if it was telling me to push towards there not away. Chrom, Frederick, and Lissa had started rapidly talking and rushed off to aid the village. I looked at my two friends.
"Lana, Do you remember your training? The Tactics and stuff?" I closed my eyes on Ashur's comment. His question seemed to have merit in my mind. I nodded slightly and still wondered why my memories had vanished. I felt though a sense of relief when I thought of these two. They would help me, I could feel it somehow. Make me remember things I needed.
"A little Ashur. Should we help?" Kira shifted her feet slightly then pressed her fingers together in nervousness.
"Mistress... I don't know any combat stuff." I blinked a few times and looked her over. My eyes seemed to focus on certain things about her. Like it was reading her strengths and weaknesses. Her strength was impressively high. Though she held very little actual combat training at all.
"Kira, use this ok?" I reached to my side a sword and she looked at me for a second and held it awkwardly.
"Don't force it. Just learn from experience ok? Ashur and I can help out." I remembered I knew some magic to use as my own ability. I knew a small thunder, fire, and wind spell by heart. They were not strong yet maybe soon I could learn stronger spells should I find a tome regarding them. The three of us nodded at each other and we took off after the Shepherd's. I wondered briefly what lay ahead at this point. I only hoped I could be of use and not end up a burden on everyone.