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Chapter 1: A New Arrival
"Checkmate!" shouted a man's voice as he shot a golden glowing orb at a ruffian.
Said ruffian, a burly man wearing fur-based clothing, fell to the ground, unmoving from the effects of a powerful golden electric-based magic spell.
"There, that's the last of them," said the man who had casted the spell. The man wore a large dark violet coat, a pale lavender shirt, a pair of white trousers and a pair of brown boots. He also had white hair.
"Great job, Robin," said another man's voice. The man had dark blue colored hair and wore clothing that matched the color of his hair, a pair of white boots and a large piece of gleaming shoulder armor. A sheathe that holds a sword hangs from the white-colored belt at his waist and a ragged white cape hung behind his back.
"Thanks, Chrom," said Robin to the blue-haired man.
"Holy wow, Robin! Swords, sorcery AND tactics! Is there anything you cannot do?" exclaimed a young girl's voice. The girl wore what resembled a yellow dress over a bell-shaped cage, white trousers underneath the dress, brown boots, a white apron and a brown corset. Her blonde hair was done up into a pair of pigtails that curled at the ends. In her hand was a staff that was used for healing her fellow comrades.
"Thanks, Lissa," replied Robin, smiling to the blonde-haired girl.
"You're certainly no helpless victim, that much is for sure," said Chrom.
"Indeed. Perhaps you might even be capable of an explanation for how you came here?" said a brown-haired man wearing a set of sky-blue colored knight's plate armor. He looked to Robin sternly. Robin turned to the armored man.
"I understand your skepticism, Sir Frederick. And I cannot explain why only some knowledge has returned to me. But please believe me. I have shared all that I know," he said, maintaining eye contact with Frederick with a serious look.
"You fought to save Ylissean lives. My heart says that's enough," said Chrom gratefully.
"And your mind, milord? Will you not heed its counsel as well?" asked Sir Frederick, facing Chrom.
"Frederick, the Shepherds can use someone with Robin's talents. We've brigands and unruly neighbors, all looking to bloody our soil. Would you really have us lose such an able tactician? Besides, I believe his story, odd as it may be," replied Chrom.
"Th-thank you, Chrom" said Robin, surprised and grateful that Chrom accepted his story without much question.
"So how about it? Will you join us, Robin?" asked Chrom.
"I would be honored," replied Robin with a smile.
After Robin joined the group, known as the Shepherds, he, Chrom, Lissa and Frederick all discussed about the ruffians they had faced off and defeated several minutes ago. They realized that the bandits came from Ylisse's western neighbor, Plegia. The bandit group was one of several that entered Ylisse to raid the villages, hoping to start a war between Plegia and Ylisse.
They stopped when they heard what sounded like a faint "AHHH!"
"Did you guys hear something?" asked Robin.
"Hear what?" asked Lissa.
"I… don't know, but I thought I heard what sounded like a person shouting. Hm, I think I must be hearing things," replied Robin, shrugging.
A villager walked up to the group and asked them to join the villagers' feast as thanks for defeating the bandits. Much to Lissa's protest, the group politely declined the offer, stating that they needed to head back to Ylisstol, the capital of Ylisse.
Meanwhile, high in the sky, a teenaged boy was falling down. The boy wore a red baseball cap, a black t-shirt, blue pants, black wristbands and shoes, and a red vest with a white collar. A yellow backpack is strapped on his back and a line of six red-and-white golf-ball-sized spheres is clipped on his black-colored belt at his waist. His name is Red and he was the one who let out the shout that Robin heard far below.
Thinking quickly, Red plucked off one of the six spheres, a Pokeball, from his belt and held it out below him and pressed the button on the Pokeball, which expanded the Pokeball to the size of a large baseball, and pressed the button again.
"Go Charizard!" shouted Red.
A large creature resembling an orange winged dragon with a flame on its tail materialized from the Pokeball in a blob of white light. Charizard let out a loud roar.
"Charizard, fly me down to those woods," said Red as he fell onto Charizard's back.
Charizard let out a roar of affirmation as it flew down to the woods with its passenger safely on its back. They landed in a small clearing in the forest.
Red pulled a device that resembled a large yellow cellphone, a Pokenav, out of his backpack. He turned it on, hoping to find out where he landed.
"What? No signal? Where am I?" thought Red as he quickly took in his surroundings.
"Oh well. May as well camp here for the night and find a town tomorrow morning. Charizard, return," said Red as he held out his Pokeball to return the dragon Pokemon in a blob of red light. He then walked around the clearing and scooped up some small tree branches and twigs and lit up a campfire.
Meanwhile, in the same woods Red was in but at a different clearing, Chrom, Robin, Lissa and Frederick had also set up camp. They were eating some roasted bear meat, which smelled horrid to Lissa. Robin, who was very hungry, sloppily ate his portion of bear meat quickly, not caring much for the taste. Chrom enjoyed his share, while Frederick tried to talk his way out of eating the meat, which did not go unnoticed by Lissa. After their supper, they laid themselves out on the ground so they can go to sleep.
After a while, Chrom got up with a stir with a loud "HUH". To him, something was wrong in the woods. Lissa stirred with a yawn after hearing Chrom jump.
"Huh? What's wrong, big brother?" asked Lissa.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to awake you… but… something is amiss," replied Chrom.
"Define something."
"I'm not sure… I think I'll have a look around."
"Not alone, you won't! I'm coming too!"
"Heh, thanks, Lissa."
With that, the two siblings set off into the woods to investigate. The woods were eerily silent, especially since it was still in the dead of night.
"It sure is dark… and quiet. Where did the birds go?" asked Lissa.
"Something is wrong here…" said Chrom as he scanned his surroundings.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble, as if in an earthquake!
"Ahh! Chrom!" shouted Lissa, surprised.
"Gods, what—agh, what is this madness?! Lissa, stay close!" commanded Chrom.
They looked to see that several trees quickly tilted and fell to the ground while the tremors continued. Chrom turned to Lissa.
"Lissa we have to run."
"What?"
"I mean it! Go!"
Chrom and Lissa took off, just as a large portion of the ground suddenly heaved behind them. Flames burst from the cracks as the forest floor, hurling chunks of molten rocks into the air. The flaming rocks landed in the forest, setting the trees on fire as Lissa and Chrom raced past them.
"Hey! This way!" shouted Chrom, as he and Lissa took off in another direction, barely dodging the falling debris. They managed to reach a clearing and surveyed the woods. Lissa looked up to see something strange happen.
"Chrom, what is that?" she asked, pointing her index finger to the sky.
Chrom looked at where Lissa pointed to what suddenly looked like a portal opening in the sky. The portal opened much like how a person's eye would, and had crystal-like edges. Surrounding the portal was what looked like the twelve symbols found on the Zodiac.
What looked like two people, each wearing warrior's clothing and armor, carrying a weapon and having ominously purple-colored skin, came out of the sky-blue portal and fell headfirst to the ground. Chrom and Lissa watched warily as the humanoids rose from the ground, appearing not the least shaken by the fall. The two zombies saw Chrom and Lissa with their glowing red eyes.
"Lissa, you better stand back," said Chrom.
Lissa did as she was told as Chrom unsheathed his sword, the Falchion. Chrom watched as the zombies approached them slowly before one of them suddenly charged, battleaxe at the ready. The zombie jumped into the air and swung its axe downwards to hit Chrom with it but Chrom dodged and struck the zombie with the Falchion. Chrom gasped as he did not hear the thud of a fallen victim as the zombie turned its head back with sickening bone crunching noises and swung its axe back at Chrom, who blocked the attack.
Meanwhile, Red, who had been awakened from his slumber, was racing through the woods when he heard what sounded like fighting as sounds of metal hitting metal rang through the air. The teenaged boy raced off to follow the sounds and found a terrifying sight: a blue-haired man fighting some lurching humanoid creature in a duel of the sword and the axe. He watched in awe from the nearby bushes as the man barely parried a blow from the zombie's axe and shoved said zombie to the ground before he jumped into the air and performed a downward stab into the zombie's back. The zombie let out a sickening moan before it faded into purple smoke.
"What… are those things?" whispered Red to himself as he looked around and saw the portal that was still open in the sky.
"Ahhh!" shouted Lissa.
Chrom (and Red) turned to see the blonde-haired girl with her back against a boulder, trapped by an approaching zombie that was forgotten earlier. Lissa, frightened, held her healing staff close to herself, hoping that it would be enough to block the undead's attacks. Red fingered one of his Pokeballs, ready to release one of his Pokemon to help the duo when he noticed something in the corner of his eye.
What looked like a blue-haired teenaged boy wearing blue clothes, a cape that matches his clothes in the back and is dark red on the other side and a dark blue metallic eye mask was seen racing out of the portal and jumping into the air. Once he landed, he raced off just as the zombie readied its axe. The zombie swung its axe at Lissa just as the boy got between them with his sword at his back, blocking the zombie's axe. Lissa, who was bracing herself for the blow but felt no pain at all, opened her eyes and gasped as she took in the sighted of the masked boy blocking the zombie's axe swing. The boy was grunting from the strength of the zombie, but refused to let up his sword.
"Help!" called the boy to Chrom. Red noticed that the boy's voice is oddly feminine.
"Right," responded Chrom as he ran toward the zombie with his Falchion ready.
The zombie heard Chrom rushing towards him as it lifted its axe and readied itself for Chrom. The masked boy felt the pressure coming from the zombie's axe lifting and readies his sword – Red noticed that the boy's sword looked identical to Chrom's Falchion. Together, Chrom and the boy swung their swords at the same time at the zombie; Red could not help but noticed that they practically mirrored each other's move. The zombie stood on the spot before disappearing in a burst of miasma-like smoke. The boy sheathed his sword.
"Quite an entrance. What's your name?" asked Chrom to the masked swordsman.
"…"
"Milord, milady! Are you hurt?" called Frederick as he and Robin raced in. Red took note of the two as he watched the scene.
"Frederick! Robin!" cried Lissa.
"Are these creatures commonplace in these lands?" asked Robin with a grimace.
"They're not from Ylisse, I promise you that, Robin," replied Chrom.
"No one is injured? Thank the gods…" said Frederick in relief.
"Thank the masked man who saved me! If it wasn't for him, I'd be – hey, where'd he go?" asked Lissa.
"We can worry about him later, AFTER we put these… things… to the blade. Eyes open now; we know nothing about this enemy," responded Frederick as he and the others (Red included) watched as more zombies appeared, approaching them.
"Looks like I'll have to show myself; they might help me know where I am," thought Red as he unclipped his chosen Pokeball from his belt. He then raced out into the clearing and threw the Pokeball into the air as Chrom and his companions turned to look at the red-capped newcomer.
"Pikachu, I choose you!"
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As a heads-up, the upcoming chapters will have BGM (background music) suggestions so readers like you can have a basic idea of what to listen too. They will mostly come from Fire Emblem games, Super Smash Bros. games and Pokémon games/anime.