Me: Alright guys this is my first story's first chapter so read up, get really into it and hope it don't stop short.
Croix: Okay why say that man that'll just make them not want to read.
Me: Gee im sorry im just a little psyched thats all no need to bite my head off over it.
Croix: you're a very strange guy you know that?
Me: I don't care my friends love me for that kind of crazyness. anyway read and review OH and NOFLAMES OR TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE STORY I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU DO. suggestions are fine.
Disclaimer: Shado0888 doesn't own fire emblem, the tales series, naruto, or any other game or anime not mentioned he only owns the characters Shadow,Croix,Keiya (sorry Alyssa Guidry have to for this), Dorsen, Romeria, and Chaos.
A Heroes Tale
Chapter 1: It Begins
This is a story about a 13 year old with black hair, green eyes, a slightly tone yet scrawny bodied boy named Shadow. Shadow isn't an ordinary boy, on the contrary he's a prince though you wouldn't know it by looking at him but he likes to keep it that way. Shadow's dream is to become a great swordsman like his father; the only problem is that he's never met his father since he was born so he has no idea how powerful his father is. Shadow does his best to reach the same level of skill his father possesses even knowing the fact that he doesn't know his dad or himself for you see Shadow has a power hidden deep within his body, the type of power sought by many demons and villains alike. His mother, the queen, at times wishes her son would behave more like a prince than a warrior, but there's nothing she can do about it, after all her husbands blood flows through her son's veins.
We check in on Shadow at the training ground for knights where our young hero is practicing his swordsmanship with a wooden sword, shield, and a straw dummy as a target. During his training Shadow's mother shows up and says in a calm way "Shadow it's time to come home now." "But mom can't I stay out a little longer, I need to train so that I can be ready for anything." Shadow said a little discouraged. "Shadow listen to your mother and come home." Shadow's mother said annoyed. as Shadow put away his sword and shield, a local soldier approached Shadow's mother with great fear in his eyes. "Milady demons are approaching the outer walls of the kingdom!" the soldier exclaimed. "How many soldier?" the queen asked. "At least 250 demons are in the front lines ma'am." The soldier explained. "Very well, evacuate the villagers to a safe location until the demons leave." Shadow's mother ordered.
The soldier ran toward the village in order to carry out the queen's instructions but was cut down by a very large axe. It was too late the demons had already broken through the defensive line and began to feast on the flesh of the villagers. Shadow's mother, after running toward the castle turned to look at the village and was horrified. The village was burning and the demons were roaming about as if they owned the place. "Shadow I want you to return to the castle on your own do you hear me?" his mother asked. "But what about you mom aren't you coming with me?" Shadow asked. "I can't I must protect my people even if it costs me my life now go I will be right back." The queen said. As his mother ran toward the burning village Shadow continued on toward the castle. Shadow finally approached the castle drawbridge but didn't cross it because he was worried about his mother. "Mom I hope you're okay, I know you told me to return to the castle but I can't unless you're here with me." Shadow said to himself.
Meanwhile Shadow's mother was locked in combat with the one responsible for the attacking demons. Her opponent was a tall mysterious man with a large, glowing, white sword, and his face was covered by a cloak so she couldn't get a good look at him. "Your highness I do believe that you should've left for the castle, knowing your son he's probably on his way here now to come and get you." The man said evilly. "What do you want with my son?" The queen asked. "Oh I think you know what I want from your son, that power you kept hidden from him his whole life." The man said. As soon as Shadow arrived he saw the man kill his mother with a single stab to the chest. The man then summoned a demon to devour the queen's flesh. As Shadow watched the demon eat his mother's body rage began to take over, Shadow ran toward the demon with killing intentions but was soon stopped by the man who murdered his mother. "You should've listened to your mother boy, now you belong to me." The man said as he reached for Shadow. "No! Get away from me you murderer." Shadow said panicking. "I said get aaaaaaawaaaaaaaay!" Shadow shouted.
Just then a bright light began to surround Shadow making it impossible for the man to grab hold of him. "Argh! All forces retreat our objective is increasing in power." The man commanded his demon. While Shadow was being enveloped by the light the demons and the man left the village. As the light started to fade from his body Shadow fell to the ground unconscious. Five hours later he awoke in a still burning village, corpses of the villagers, soldiers, and demons are scattered all around the village. "groan what happened?" Shadow asked himself. As he looked around he slowly started to remember everything that happened that day, the attack on the village, the death of his mother, and the man who tried to kidnap him. Before Shadow could say anything he suddenly tripped over what looked like a stone. "Ouch! Who in there right mind leaves a large rock in the middle of the square like that?!" Shadow shouted to himself. Upon further inspection Shadow discovered that it wasn't a stone, but rather a large egg. "Okay, so it isn't a rock, but now the real question is who left it here, and why isn't it in a warm location?" Shadow asked himself. Just then a beam of light shot out from the egg and created a dimensional vortex that could lead to anyplace in any dimension.
As Shadow stared at the portal he didn't realize that he was walking toward the portal itself. Shadow woke up hours after stepping through the portal surrounded by soldiers in ebon armor. As he looked around Shadow noticed that one of the soldiers held the egg he had in his arms. "Hey give that back it's mine." Shadow demanded. Just then a large knight possessing two swords stepped toward Shadow and stared at him. "Why is this thing so important to you boy?" The knight asked Shadow. "Well it's my responsibility to watch over that egg until it hatches." Shadow said. This was the first time Shadow lied to anyone and it felt weird to him. The knight then ordered the soldier holding the egg to give it back to Shadow and before the troops left the knight told Shadow that should their paths ever cross again, they will kill him. Later that night Shadow pondered why the soldiers returned the egg when it would've benefited them more by taking the egg and killing Shadow in the process. As Shadow thought about these things he spotted a smoke coming from what Shadow would guess to be a fire or a chimney. Shadow quickly grabbed the egg and carried it toward the direction of the smoke using a worn down shirt to carry the egg.
Shadow had finally arrived at the location the smoke was coming from only to see a burning building surrounded by trees. "If I don't do something this entire forest will go up in flames but what can I do there's no water nearby." Shadow thought to himself. Just then Shadow heard a voice crying out from inside the building. "There's a person inside that flaming death trap I better help them first, hopefully I'm not too late." Shadow said running towards the burning building. From the moment Shadow stepped into the raging inferno he had a feeling that something wasn't quite right but still he continued. "huff huff man it's hot but I must continue if I don't that person will die in here." Shadow said to himself. As Shadow ran through the flames he began to call out to the trapped person but with no response whatsoever. "Hey! Where are you? Can you hear me, if so then shout." Shadow shouted out but still no response from the trapped person. "There's only one room left if the survivor isn't in here then I can only assume that he or she is no longer in this world." Shadow thought to himself. Just then the voice he heard earlier called out "Help! Is anyone out there? Please help me!"
However before Shadow could get into the unchecked room the doorway was blocked by a big metal table. "Who put this table here and why?" Shadow asked himself. Shadow's thoughts were interrupted by the voice calling out again and by then he was rushing to get in by any means necessary. Finally after several minutes of struggling Shadow was able to move the metal table aside and began to check the room which was quite large. It didn't take long before Shadow found the one who was calling out to him as it turns it was a girl no older than he was and she had become unconscious from constantly calling for help and debris from the ceiling collapsed on her. As Shadow struggled to remove the debris and carry the girl to safety he felt an ominous presence lingering in the air. Shadow looked back for a brief moment only to see the fire growing in at an abnormal rate, his eyes widened at the site he caught as the flames in front of him began to take form. "What in the name of all that is good is going on?" Shadow asked himself now carrying the unconscious girl in his arms bridal style. He didn't give the situation a second thought as Shadow rushed towards the open doorway to get out of the building which was now collapsing from the charred wood. After running far away from the now completely collapsed building Shadow set the girl down underneath a nearby tree so that the sun didn't burn her skin. Shadow then turned to the destroyed building to see if that strange creature was still alive somehow; to his dismay it was as it started throwing the debris around it everywhere. 'I don't believe it, how is that thing still living, it was lacking air to stay alive unless there was a hole for it to continue to grow.' Shadow thought to himself however he didn't have time to think any further as the creature noticed his presence and immediately began to attack Shadow. "Ah! The heat from this thing is incredible I need some sort of weapon in order to combat it… something that isn't made of wood." Shadow said shifting his eyes from his wooden sword to the fiery monstrosity.
The golem (as we will call it from now on) ironically was losing power due to the distance between it and the debris that is now the building, but it was still too powerful for Shadow to take on. Add on to the fact that Shadow has the unconscious girl to worry about and the only weapon he has is a sword made of wood it really seems that Shadow may either die or the golem will die first, depending on if Shadow will take the time to distract the golem long enough for it to eventually shrink in size. "Ugh!" Shadow cried out as the golem had finally managed to break through Shadow's defense and land a fiery punch to his chest making a small scorch mark on Shadow's shirt. By now you're probably wondering "Hey what about the girl is she alright?" well to answer your question she finally woke up upon hearing Shadow's cry of pain but she couldn't do anything due to the pain coming from her body. "I have to do something if I don't that boy will die, but what can I do…ugh… my body…ugh… refuses to respond" she said to herself wincing at the pain flowing through her. Looking up at his fearsome opponent Shadow could do nothing as the golem drew ever closer getting ready to deliver the final blow. 'So this is the end isn't it? Mother, it won't be long until I join you in heaven.' Shadow thought as he closed his eyes waiting for the golem to finish him in one punch. But the blow never came for you see at the last minute when the golem was looming over Shadow, the girl had somehow called forth a bolt of lightening from the palm of her hand (which she had lifted while wincing from the pain in her shoulder) and destroyed the golem, of course this did come with a price as the girl had passed out from enduring too much pain. "Huh what just happened the golem's gone but who could've killed it?" Shadow thought as he opened his eyes and looked around.
Shadow continually looked around the area and noticed that the girl he had set near the tree actually had moved but only slightly. "Did she kill it? Hmm she must have woken up and noticed that I was losing my fight with the golem and tried to save me but the question is how?" he said getting up and limping towards the girl. He continued to ponder this while setting up camp. Shadow decided that instead of climbing trees just to break off a few branches that he should instead find a few twigs and leaves to serve as a temporary fire since he was in pain from the golem's assault on his body. After several minutes of gathering up what he needed (and falling down from imbalance) he had finally created a small fire just to make sure another golem wasn't created. Well who could blame him he did almost die from one earlier. Shadow decided to set the egg he had dropped on the ground before going in to save the girl next to the fire so as to keep it warm until it hatched, he was eager to find out what was inside but knew that hatching an egg requires time and patience and patience wasn't exactly his strong point. A few hours later (which would technically make the time probably around 8:16 P.M) the girl Shadow saved had woken up again and Shadow decided to have a talk with her to see if she was the one who saved his life that day. "Hey you fully awake? Heelloooooooo…ok good you're awake I have a question I would like for you to answer." Shadow said as the girl slowly opened her eyes.
As he could see the girl had blonde hair with blue eyes, a light blue shirt with matching skirt, and her skin was slightly pale from lack of sunlight but was smooth as silk (remember he carried the girl bridal style which means he was holding her shoulder and her legs in case you're wondering how he knew what her skin felt like). "Uuuuuuuuh where am I? And who are you? Are you the one who rescued me from that inferno I once called my house?" The girl began bombarding Shadow with questions. "Okay I'll answer those questions in order 1: you're under a tree near you're destroyed home, 2: my name is Shadow, and 3: yes I am the one who saved you, now then tell who you are and are you the one who saved me from that golem that attacked me earlier?" Shadow asked the girl calmly. "My name is Romeria and I think I did but I don't quite remember all I remember is raising my hand in front of me and then…nothing. Ugh! Ow ow ow my body it hurts." Romeria said holding herself with one eye closed. "try not to move your body was badly damaged when I found you I took most of my time removing the debris off of you and unfortunately I don't have any bandages with me so just try to stay still for a little while." Shadow explained while slowly setting Romeria back down on the ground. "Uh…okay, Shadow was it, why did your parents name you that; it's kind of weird if you ask me." Romeria stated while trying to hold back a small giggle. "Well to be honest I don't really know myself I did ask my mother once but I can't remember what she said. I think it was something about being named after a spirit or something." Shadow said scratching the side of his head with one finger. This only made Romeria giggle, the thought of being named after a spirit was pretty hard to believe after all.
"Hey Romeria where are your parents right now they must be pretty worried about you by now." Shadow said. This question only made Romeria look down as she explained that recently bandits had tried to force her father to make weapons for them and that when he refused they killed him in cold blood then set the house on fire and that her mother died when she was little. "I see I'm sorry to hear that, I can't say I'm sorry about your loss since my parents are gone too." Shadow said his voice filled with sorrow. "It's alright you didn't know and it's not your fault that you're parents are gone I'm sure they have no regrets in the afterlife." Romeria said trying to cheer Shadow up. "But it is my fault, if I wasn't born then my mother wouldn't have been murdered by demons and my village would still know peace." Shadow nearly shouted. Romeria was shocked at what she heard; his mother murdered, by demons no less. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have shouted at you like that it's just that my mother's murderer is still out there somewhere and I won't rest until I see him dead." Shadow said. "Don't worry I'm sure you'll avenge her someday but for now let's just get some sleep, um… do you mind if I sleep next to you tonight that way we'll both feel a little better knowing someone is close by." Romeria said blushing. "Uhhh sure I don't mind I just hope someone doesn't walk by and see us this close or they may get the wrong impression." Shadow said blushing as well. Little did he know that Romeria was crushing on him.
Me: Hope you guys like the intro cuz chapter 2 is coming soon and to the people asking where my other characters are don't worry they'll show up soon.
Croix: Yeah and to kaylahossier if you're reading this and would like to insert one of your OCs just PM Shado0888 and tell him.
Me: Thanks Croix but I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to.
Croix: You never know my friend, you never know.
