Nintendo Laywer says: EtsukoNino does not own Fire Emblem or any of the characters.
ETSUKONiNO: The only thing I own are two OC's that aren't even going to show up in this chapter.
Chapter One – Introduction
Famed for its military might and wyverns, Bern was a powerful but old country. But then again, with each passing day the country wasn't getting any younger. It had seen battle after battle, and king after king come and go. It was something expected to come with time. What goes up must come down; all things must come and go.
And yet it wasn't the only thing expected to come time after time. Ah, for Bern was no different then its allies and neighbors in Elibe. Bern was naught but a country of people. With the great times that came, it was inevitable that the future generations would look back and wonder about the mysteries of its past as well as its present.
One such mystery was the secret to Bern's spy network. Of course, it was a spy's job to stay mysterious and unknown- it would prove a problem should someone find out they were a spy. Yes… it would get messy since one of the first rules was to leave no leaks… no witnesses.
Oh! They were skilled at hiding the bodies after they killed off the unfortunate fellow who stumbled upon them doing their supposed-to-be-secret missions but it didn't mean they were in the clear.
Family and friends would worry. Search parties would be sent. And sometimes they would get lucky and find the corpse which would later be ruled as a suspicious death of sorts.
Because everyone knows, most spies that screw up end up being in their youthful teen years. A veteran would never mess up… and if he did, he would never get caught.
And yet, despite the cruel life of a spy and assassin, even those in the shadows had social lives… most of them anyways. They fell in love, played around, sold information to those who paid high enough, and gossiped. Oh, the Bernese spies loved to share stories!
And the latest thing everyone was talking about?
That spy. The one everyone called a prodigy? Young and kind of naïve but always gets the good missions? Y'know… He's always hanging around the guy with the blue hair! Oh him! I haven't heard from him in awhile… He's never around anymore. Well that's because… Stop lying. I'm telling the truth! Since when have you been the honest type?-!
That's right, everyone was talking about that spy. One of the Bernese government's greatest spies was missing.
Went to Lycia with his good friend and never came back. One minute they heard he was caught by a Lycian Lord and sentenced to death. The next week, stories arose about the Taliver bandits wanting to kill a certain Bernese boy.
Oh! But the stories didn't stop there! Merely three days later, the story was divided between one of two. He was dead in the plains or he had eloped with a Sacaen woman and put the spy life behind him.
And the story kept on changing. Oh, Bern's greatest spy had turned coat to Lycia. Bern's greatest spy was dead in Nabata. Bern's greatest spy was frozen in a block of ice in Ilia. But no matter how you put it. Bern's greatest spy was missing.
But with all the stories floating around, what's truth and what's bored-spy talk?
Well, Rumour has it...