Hello! This was originally a story in my notebook written for just my friends and I, but I figured I might as well put it on line. Hope you enjoy reading it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem and the people in the story (my friends and I) are real people and we own ourselves (Except Reggie, I own his soul)

Well, this is oficially one of the most boring things I've ever done in my life.

I thought to myself as I stared at the questions in my test booklet

Whoever wrote these stupid WASL questions seems to have gone out of their way to make them as indecipherable as possible.

Turning away in disgust, I glanced around the auditorium. Since I was sitting all the way in the back corner I could see pretty much the whole place. The entire sophmore class, plus a few juniors and seniors, were all packed into the large room usually used for concerts. Supposedly we were all taking our tests, but quite a few students appeared to be napping instead.

Well, even sleeping must be more interesting than this

I figured as I let my eyes droop closed.

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"HEY YOU!"

A voice brought me back to reality

"What are you doing sleeing in the middle of the road?"

Oh, great a teacher

I thought, trying to pretend I was still asleep. Then it hit me.

Did he say ROAD?!

I snapped up and scanned the area quickly. Sure enough, and not a good old asphalt and yellow lines road either. No, it was a dirt road, and I was right in the middle of it. Before I even had a chance to try and comprehend my odd relocation, I suddenly noticed the man who'd awakened me, or, more precisely, I noticed his weird outfit. He looked like something straight out of, I don't know, Peasants Anonymous? Mr. Peasant was just staring at me, so I figured it wouldn't hurt too much to ask him something.

"Umm...where exactly am I?"

Giving me an even stranger look than before, which I honestly didn't think possible, he replied

"Why, we're in Laus..."

"LAUS!"

I shouted, inspiration suddenly striking

"In Lycia right?"

Wincing from my shout, my speaking voice is already extreamly loud, he said

"Uh, yes..."

He was now looking at me as if I'd dropped off another planet, which, in all actuallity, I had, since I was now on Elibe, the world of Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken.

"Do you know which way it is to Caelin?"

I asked the man, hoping to get my bearings and trying to distract him from just how out of place I was.

"Caelin? That would be in that direction."

he replied politely, pointing directly behind me. My attempt to look where he was pointing was thawarted by

something hard poking me in the rib as I tried to turn. When I glanced at the offending object I noticed three things:

One- I was not wearing my normal sweatshirt and blue jeans, but instead I had on a black trench-coat like garment that had no sleeves or collar and under that a red turtle-necked t-shirt and black pants and boots.

Two-The hair I had recently had cut off just above my shoulders was now longer than my waist. And it was now a dark shade of blue. WAIT, I HAVE FRIGGIN BLUE HAIR?!

Three- The third thing I noticed, and the only thing I bothered to dwell on, was the object that had actually poked me, the sword hanging on my belt. Upon noticing it, the first thing I thout was:

Now who would be crazy enough to give ME a sword?

I quickly pushed this thought aside and drew the sword from its sheath so I could examine it closer. The blade appeared to be made of iron, and, without thinking, I reached out to touch it.

"YOW!"

I howled, and promptly began to suck on my bleeding finger.

Yes, O stupid one, swords are sharp!

I mentally chided myself for doing something so stupid. Just as I was about to ask the confused peasant another question, I heard crashing an a loud shout off to my right. I turned to look just in time to see a strange guy come smashing out of the thicket, brandishing an axe and charging right for me. The peasant who'd found me screamed

Holy crap, he screamed higher than I do...

and went tearing off in the direction I assumed he'd come from.

Well I already have my sword out, I may as well fight this guy...

I hopped to my feet just as he reached me and managed to sidestep just as he brought his axe down in the place I'd been just a moment before. I jumped back as he spun to face me once again, and quickly my sword up to deflect the blow hed just aimed at my head. His iron axe glanced off my sword an he was thrown off balance for just a second. I was just about to slice at his exposed throat when I got a good look at his face. His hair was a few shades lighter, and his eyes were now sea green but there was no mistaking him.

"Tyler!"

I shouted in shock and realization. He recognized me as soon as I opened my mouth

"Arianna? What are you doing here?"

he demanded, not even bothering to explain why he'd just tried to kill me.

"I was gonna ask YOU that! What are you doing swinging that axe around like a maniac?!"

I growled back at him. We immediately launched into another one of our arguments or, more accurately, screaming matches. We probably would have killed each other right then and there, I'm honestly surprised we haven't already, but before we could start back at each other's throats we were interrupted by more crashing in the underbrush. The two of us stopped screaming just in time to find ourselves surrounded by five men, three with axes, one with a sword, and one bowman.

"Oh, crap..."

we both muttered

Oh look... we're screwed! Anyway, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I wanted to keep the chapters fairly short. I try to update regularly but no promises.

P.S. For those of you who don't know, WASL stands for Washington Assesment of Student Learning. You take it your sophmore year and it must be passed in order to graduate. If you fail, you get to take it again the next year. Standardized tests SUCK...