Everything for her safety
AN:
Hi there! I was at university (studying, of course...) thinking in ways to forget the fact that we the europeans and australians are the only unlucky idiots who still don't have a Fire Emblem Fates release date when everybody else is enjoying it. So after having finished Genealogy of the Holy war twice since Fates came out in NA, I decided that the best way to forget about Fates was to write a Fire Emblem fic.
I hope you enjoy and review. English is not my birth language so sometimes I'll have some errors that I can't spot, so if you spot any please tell me.
Prologue:
There she was, running towards a tall thin man with black hair and Sorcerer robes, the man was wielding a black tome, it was glowing with a deep purple light and it was letting out a lot of dark energy. She was alongside a man with unique blue hair wielding a glowing broadsword, while she was wielding a white tome, glowing with a pure white light. She seemed to be wearing a dark purple coat with purple lines and with the hood on.
The bluenette started a barrage of attack towards the sorcerer, his sword clashing with blasts of dark thunder coming from the sorcerer's hands. The hooded woman started charging a ball of lightning in her hand, looking for an opening to hit the sorcerer without harming her ally. The sorcerer then jumped and blasted a big ball of purple flames towards the two warriors, sending them to the ground, while falling the hooded woman shoot his charged spell towards the enemy, but he evaded the spell teleporting himself to the ground, not to far from the bluenette, who was using his sword as support to get on his feet. The sorcerer started charging the same spell he used while aiming at the bluenette; at the moment the sorcerer shoot his spell the hooded woman jumped from the ground sending a ball of lightning towards the spell trying to intercept it. The spells met each other causing a great explosion.
The hooded woman found himself next to her ally, both now on their feet looking at their enemy
"This is it! Our final battle! It doesn't matter who your family is, or what you were supposed to be in this life. You are one of us Reflet, one of our family, and no god can change that" The bluenette then put a hand on her shoulder giving her a reassuring smile. The hooded woman nodded at him with a smile while pulling the hood of her coat back. "Thank you Chrom, now let's kill this bastard so that we can finally go home."
As she pulled the hood back revealing her silver hair tied in two ponytails and her crimson eyes, she grabbed the hilt of her Levin sword from her coat.
Then both warriors started attacking the sorcerer with their swords in hand. The sorcerer was deflecting the attacks in the best way he could. Now the two had the advantage over the sorcerer who with each attack of the two warriors he was getting slower. Chrom directed a fast thrust aiming at the sorcerer's heart and all he could do was try to slow his attack with a quick spell, but the spell was only enough to change the trajectory of the attack, managing Chrom to stab his shoulder.
Reflet then saw that the sorcerer was still trying to recover from the shock of the blow and put the palm of her hand, bolts dancing in her fingers, in the sorcerer's chest.
"THORON!" Reflet yelled before the sorcerer had the opportunity to react, and with Reflet's words a powerful spear of lightning came out of her hand making a hole in the sorcerer's body. He then fell to the ground, dark flames consuming him.
Chrom then turned to Reflet smiling at her, but before he could say anything the sorcerer stood up still in flames. "This isn't over! DAMN YOU BOTH!" Following those words came out a blast of dark energy from the disappearing sorcerer aiming at the bluenette. Without thinking it twice, Reflet shoved aside Chrom and took the dark energy spell, sending her to the ground.
Chrom went to help her right away helping her to stand up. "That's it, that's the end of him, thanks to you we saved the day, now we can go back home with the others" The bluenette was still speaking when suddenly Reflet had a terrible headache and felt dizzy to the point where she was about to throw up. She was seeing everything in red and felt her right hand burning and glowing with a dark purple light that contrasted with the pure light that her tome had while she was attacking the sorcerer. They both saw a figure approaching the pair. Chrom turned to see Reflet and suddenly his smile was changed with a worried face. "Hey, are you alright, let me take you to the hea-" He couldn't end his sentence, Reflet then looked to Chrom's body, seeing a lightning spear similar to the one she used against the sorcerer going through Chrom's body. Reflet wanted to help him, but she couldn't move, she couldn't do anything, all she could do was stay there as she felt tears streaming down her face. "This... this isn't your fault... promise me... you will escape from here" with those words, the bluenette fell to the ground, a pool of blood forming around his body, the spell still in him. She then saw the figure that was approaching. Her vision was starting to fade away and all she could distinguish from this figure was a wicked smile and two glowing crimson eyes.
Before she lost consciousness completely, a frightening laughter began echoing in her head and all she could see was six big red eyes, looking at her like they were mocking her.
In some random average field...
She was laying in the grass, completely unconscious, she wanted to open her eyes but she couldn't, she felt really tired for some reason.
"Chrom, we have to do something" It was a female voice, high pitched, probably she was in her first teens. The name that the girl mentioned sounded extremely familiar in the head of the laying woman.
"What do you propose we do" She couldn't wait any more he wanted to wake up, this male voice sounded extremely familiar and he wanted to see who it belonged to.
"I... I don't know..." before she could say anything else, they saw that the woman who was laying in the grass was starting to open her eyes. As soon as she opened her eyes she instantly put her hands on her face, shielding her crimson eyes from the sunlight while closing them again. She then opened her eyes again slowly and saw the owners of the two voices. The male voice pertained to a man with unique blue hair who was at most in his early twenties, perhaps twenty or twenty one, the female one belonged to a blonde haired girl who looked in her mid teens, perhaps fifteen or sixteen years. She had her hair tied up in two ponytails.
The two figures approached the woman to check on her. "Hey there, are you okay?" The girl asked with a smile as the man offered his hand to the stranger "There are better places to take a nap you know. Here, take my hand" The stranger did as she was told and the bluenette pulled her from the ground.
"Thanks Chrom." Before she could say anything else she saw the surprised look on the man's face. 'Darn, why did I say his name like I've known him all my life' "So you already know my name huh?" The stranger expected a suspicious look from the man but all she got was a smile from his face as she felt relieved. "Yes, er... I don't know... it just came to me..." She began to touch her chin while of a rational reason as to why that name sounded so familiar 'I am sure it's the first time I have heard this name, why does it seem so familiar!'
"Well, that doesn't matter, what's your name? What are you doing here"
"My name is... it's..." She brought her hand to her head as she started to feel dizzy 'Why can't I remember anything! This is so frustrating, if I try to remember I just feel worse!' "I can't remember... I can't seem to remember anything... I know it seems strange but it's the truth!"
Before she could even try to calm down she noticed that with Chrom and the girl was a third figure, a tall and well built knight with an imposing armour and brown hair, he was standing next to a war horse that seemed his.
The knight shot the woman a sceptical glare before stepping in between Chrom and the stranger. The tension at that moment could be cut with a butter knife.
"I heard about something like that, I think losing your memories and all that stuff is called amnesia" The girl said that with a cheerful tone trying to ease the tension.
"I would call that a load of bullshit. Milord, milady, you sure don't expect me to believe that this woman remembers milord's name but not hers, all that while she is wearing a Plegian coat of the Grimleal church, and I must say this coat doesn't exactly look like the normal coat that an average low-rank priest would wear."
Before the knight could anything else Chrom stepped in front of the knight as if he was shielding the confused woman from the wary knight. "But what if what she says is true? We can't leave her here alone and confused. What kind of Shepherds would we be then. We will just take her to Southtown and sort out things there."
"W-Wait don't I have a say in this. Am I just your prisoner now?" The woman now sounded worried and scared. She woke up just five minutes ago with her mind a complete blank slate and she was being accused of being a liar or maybe something even worse. Was there a reason as to why she shouldn't worry?
The bluenette saw the worried look on the woman's face and decided to put both his hands gently on her shoulders and giving her a comforting smile. "Don't worry, we will hear all you have to say back in town and once we make sure you are no enemy to Ylisse you'll be free to go if you want"
As Chrom took out his hand from the woman she felt immensely relieved and finally managed to ease her worries. "Ylisse? So this is where we are?"
"So you have never heard of the Halidom? HA! Someone pay this actress, she plays quite the fool, the furrowed brow is specially convincing..."
"Frederick! Enough." Chrom cut the knight as he turned to the stranger. "This land is known as the halidom of Ylisse, our ruler, Emmeryn is called the exalt. I believe we should introduce ourselves. As you seem to already know, my name is Chrom, I am the leader of the Shepherds, a small militia. The delicate one here is my little sister Lissa.
Lissa pouted hearing her brother's words. "I am NOT delicate! Hmph! Ignore my brother, please. He can be a bit thick sometimes. But you're lucky we found you, I couldn't imagine what would have happened if brigands found an unconscious woman on a field..."
"Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Lissa... Anyways, the wary one is Frederick, also known as Fredreick the Wary."
"A title I shall wear with pride. Gods forbid one of us keeps an appropriate level of caution. I have every wish to trust you, stranger, but... Careful Milord! There is a broken mirror on the ground, if you step on it you could get injured..." Suddenly, the woman saw her reflection on the mirror. As she was hearing Frederick telling Chrom how he shouldn't get himself in situations that could threat his life all she could was stare at her silver hair and her crimson eyes. "Reflet..." As she said the name, the three shepherds turn their looks on the woman "the name's Reflet... I don't know how I remembered... It just came to me."
"Reflet? Is it foreign? Well, that's one mystery solved, we are already close to the town so we'll settle things there..."
Before Chrom could finish Lissa rushed to her brother to get his attention and pointed to a big grey cloud. "Chrom! Look, the town!"
"Shit, those damn brigands again. Lissa, Frederick. Quickly!"
"What about her milord"
"Unless she's on fire as well, it can wait!"
"Aptly put, milord"
As Frederick got on his steed, the three Shepherds went to town as fast as they could, leaving Reflet alone 'Well that's great, what should I do now' As now she was alone, she noticed that her coat was quite heavy for being a simple coat, inspecting it, she found a sword and in one of the pockets she found a quite heavy white tome. She opened it and noticed all the strange words and symbols that were written on the pages, and even if she couldn't understand all things that were written, she could at least read all the contents. 'Well, I've made up my mind, I now know what to do' And with that, ran to town to aid the shepherds.
There were some buildings on fire and dead bodies on the streets. The brigands were surrounding a group of scared women, while a brigand who seemed the leader was laughing. "HA HA HA, well done lads! Grab everything you want, kill anyone who resists, spare the women, we will have some fun with'em later, heh heh..." The brigand gave the women a wicked smile and suddenly heard a loud cry. As he turned his head he saw a knight in heavy armour in a war horse skewing one of his men, alongside him a man with blue hair was striking another brigand with his broadsword, he saw a blonde cleric standing behind them and moved towards a myrmidon.
"Ya see that little cleric behind those men, get her, we can us 'er ta make them drop their weapons and after killing them we can add her to our collection." The myrmidon nodded and proceeded to move cautiously towards the cleric. As Frederick was caught up in a fight between two axe men and Chrom engaged another myrmidon, they failed to notice the myrmidon who quickly got to Lissa, after she noticed let out a loud scream as the myrmidon approached.
"LISSA!" Chrom then saw that a myrmidon was already next to Lissa, but he couldn't do anything to help her, giving the back to the other myrmidon could mean his end. Before the myrmidon could lay his hands on Lissa, he noticed a small ball of light fifteen feet over his head. "LIGHTNING"
"Shi-" Before the myrmidon could finish, rays of light began falling from the ball, striking the myrmidon down, leaving him dead.
Chrom and Frederick finally finished their small fights and turned around to look for the caster. The three Shepherds then noticed a familiar figure, a woman with a dark coat, silver hair and unique crimson eyes, smiling at them.
"Reflet!" Chrom and Lissa shouted, then both of them ran to meet Reflet. "What are you doing, why did you follow us? And what was that magic? It's the first time I've seen something like that."
"Whoa Chrom, slow down. I don't know why I followed you, it just seemed the right thing to do at the moment. As for the spell, well, it just seems pretty normal to me, guess I used to use it before I lost my memories."
"I see... So, you can use magic, think you can help us?" Chrom then noticed that Reflet was staring to the brigands. "What is it Reflet?"
"It's quite strange, here on the battlefield, I can see things. I can see clearly their strenght, their weapons, the flow of the battle... I am sure I can asses this information and create strategies with it. It feels like I'm used to do it, maybe that's what I used to do..."
"A tactician huh..." Chrom liked what he heard, a tactician who could formulate strategies just from what she caught from glances is a very valuable asset, and she used magic, so that meant that she didn't hide in the rear, she would go to the front lines and from there, she would be in a perfect position to adjust her strategies according to what happens there. 'I think I will ask her later if she wants to join the Shepherds, a tactician may just be what we needed, but first, I would like to see her in action, even if this is just a skirmish, I would like at least to see her attitude.'
"Hey Reflet, why don't you command us this battle?" Chrom's allies gave him a surprised look, even Reflet. "Milord, I would advise that-" Frederick was fast to state his opinion, but also was Chrom, who immediately raised his hand, signalling Frederick to stop.
"Fine, but only on one condition. I need you to assure to me that no matter what decision I make, even if it seems crazy to you, you will trust me and do as I say."
"I accept, you saved Lissa and came with us when you could have just escaped, and if you wanted to kill any of us you could have done so already, so I think I can trust you." Frederick was about to open his mouth again to object but this time Chrom was even faster. "Frederick, I order you to follow Reflet's orders as if they were mine"
"Yes Milord" Following those words, the knight let a loud sigh while Lissa and Reflet giggled.
"Frederick! Lure the two Myrmidons in front of us to that bridge to the east. They shouldn't be a problem for your armour and lance. Chrom, you take care of those two axemen to our left, I will go for the axemen close to bridge in the north, when I am finished with him, I'll take on the mage since I think I might have more resistance to magic than both of you. You will both will have finished your part when I engage the mage, so when he's distracted take him down. Lissa, you should follow Frederick but don't stay to close to him to avoid dangerous situations, in case one of the myrmidons tries to attack you I'm sure Frederick's mount will be fast enough to close distances if he has to get to you, if anyone needs healing, you can do it when we finish of the mage, before we cross the bridge. Now, move!" They all gave the tactician a nod moved to carry on the tactician's orders.
Frederick easily managed to lure the Myrmidons as he was told, and at the east bridge he engaged them. He drew his iron sword as the two myrmidons rushed towards him, both slashing their swords continuously at the knight. The knight didn't have any problem deflecting the attacks, when one of the myrmidons slowed a bit to get some rest for his arms after all those attacks, Frederick drew his silver lance in half a second and impaled the myrmidon in his chest to kill him.
He then saw the other myrmidon already next to him, thrusting his sword aiming at Frederick's heart. The blade of the sword broke upon making contact with the knight's armour, and before he could do anything, Frederick ended him the same way he ended the other myrmidon. All this with a wide smile in his face.
"Jeez Frederick, brother is right, you really only smile when you are about to bring down your weapon on the enemy."
"Of course, Milady".
Not to far from there, the two axemen instantly noticed the blue haired man approaching them, but before they could even do anything Chrom lunged towards one of the brigands, aiming his sword one of the axemen. The brigand parried the attack the best way he could with the flat part of his axe, but the strength in Chrom's attack left him staggering, giving Chrom enough time to strike again, beheading the brigand. The other brigand began attacking Chrom, but even if his blows seemed to have a lot of physical strength, they were quite imprecise. Chrom then approached the brigand and with a kick to the his knee he fell to the ground, without wasting a second, Chrom jumped and stabbed the Brigand in his chest.
Reflet thought that it would be best if she used the sword against the axeman. In case she couldn't finish off the brigand from a safe distance and he got close, she would waste some valuable time in changing weapons or preparing spells, besides, her weapon gave her advantage over an axe, and she felt fast enough to evade his attacks, sure brigands and axes are usually strong, but they rely to much on their strength and forget that hitting your opponent is as much as important as being strong.
She engaged the brigand and her suspicions were confirmed, the brigand's strikes were very imprecise. Reflet's sword sure wasn't the very best and didn't seem like one that could behead people easily so each time the brigand attacked she gave him cuts all around his body. Before he even realised it, the brigand's body was already a bloody mess, and probably thanks to that blood loss he seemed to faint, but just to make sure Reflet stabbed him in the back.
She then headed towards the mage, who when noticed her instantly drew his thunder tome and blasted a thunder ball towards the tactician, she was taken by surprise as she tried to escape but the spell hit her on her side, leaving a few burns. Reflet then saw that Frederick and Chrom were already finished so she decided to stall the mage a bit and let the others finish him.
She grabbed her tome and began to flip the pages. "Wind!" Reflet fired a gust of wind, but she didn't direct it to the mage, she instead decided to aim it at the ground around the mage, creating a cloud of dust around the mage, who could barely see anything. When the cloud was gone, he felt a pain in his chest, and saw the blade of a sword sticking out of his chest, Chrom pulled out his sword and the mage fell dead to the ground. "Hey, great use of the wind magic Reflet" He said while walking towards her. "It seems everything went as you planned, now what stra..." Then Chrom noticed the burns on Reflet's side "Hey are you okay Reflet?"
"Don't worry Chrom, it's just a small burn, thankfully the spell was a low-level one"
"Well, let Lissa check that anyway, I wouldn't want yo to get hurt for helping us, next time please don't put yourself in danger."
"Okay Chrom, I promise you I will be more careful next time"
"Well, that will do. Does it still hurt?" Lissa said as she finished treating Reflet with her staff. The healing magic did wonders on Reflet, as she felt the burn now mended and the pain nearly gone.
"Thank you Lissa, it still stings a bit but it's nothing I can't endure." Both women smiled at each, and Reflet quickly changed her attention to the bridge, she saw two myrmidons, two axemen and a mage, and behind them, at the church entrance stood the one that looked like their leader, all of them getting ready to attack at the Shepherds. Reflet then immediately got on Frederick's mount behind him surprising everyone, but before everyone could even say anything she began shouting orders.
"Frederick! The myrmidons are coming first, charge at them now, you take care of the one on the left while I take care of the other one with my magic, when you are finished charge towards the mage, and I'll take care of him, meanwhile, Chrom, take care of the two axemen, when we finish we'll take on their leader, Lissa, stay behind, if anyone gets injured wait at least until only the leader remains, so you will be free from danger to treat anyone who needs it."
Everyone nodded and Frederick charged, Reflet took out her tome and began flipping it's pages. Frederick quickly reached the myrmidons and impaled his target with his silver lance, the other myrmidon noticed a hand in his face before he could even react. "Thunder!" With those words, a thunder sphere came out of the tactician's hands towards the myrmidon's face, electrifying him and leaving him dead.
Frederick quickly resumed his charge towards the mage, the two axemen moved to interrupt him but Chrom quickly managed to catch their attention such that Frederick could continue without interruptions. Reflet saw the mage preparing the spell aiming towards them. 'I won't let you'.
Surprising everyone around she quickly got on her feet and jumped "WIND!" She aimed the spell to the ground behind her as she propelled herself with the spell towards the mage, she quickly drew her sword aiming at the mage's chest.
In a blink of an eye she reached and stabbed him, killing him instantly. It seemed that the axemen were also startled at the tactician's stunt, so Chrom found plenty of opening to finish them of easily. He then quickly rushed to the tactician helping her get on her feet, Frederick and Lissa came after him.
"Wow Reflet! Where did you learn this trick?
"What was that? Didn't we just tell you to be more careful?"
Reflet gave him a smile "I am sorry Chrom, but I just thought it to be the course of action at that moment to get to our goal with the least possible damages. And even if it may be a reckless action, if it can maximize the benefits and minimize the damages I will take it"
Chrom sighed, and put a hand on Reflet's shoulder "Fine, but next time you are going to be doing something like that take me with you, I don't like to be left behind" They both chuckled at Chrom's words.
"Okay then, I'll remember those words, let's just wrap this up. Frederick stay with Lissa, that brigand has a hand axe, I don't believe he will target her having us close, but it is best not to leave things to chance. Chrom, you and I will take on their leader, he looks tougher than the others, but I have a spell that can finish him quickly, if it's not asking to much, could you distract him until I find the right moment?" Chrom nodded
"While fighting him, let him have the upper hand, let him think that he is in control so that he gets overconfident, when you see bits of light forming around him quickly pull back."
Chrom approached the brigand, while he was approaching the leader drew his hand axe and threw it towards Chrom in an attempt to stop his approach. The bluenette stopped and deflected the axe with his sword, the brigand closed the distance between them instantly and began landing a barrage of attacks with his steel axe, Chrom was parrying all the attacks without much problems. Remembering Reflet's words, he didn't try to strike back, he just began moving backwards while parrying the strikes. The brigand grew a smirk on his face as he saw himself with the upper hand.
Reflet opened her tome again flipping through it's pages. She observed the fight between Chrom and the brigand satisfied because of the fact that everything was going according to what she had planned. Seeing the opening, she began preparing the spell, her tome now glowing with a strong white light. Small bits of light began forming around the brigand, Chrom noticed and quickly pulled back.
"Shine!" The brigand felt even more confident with himself after seeing Chrom pulling back, suddenly, gears of light began forming around him, the gears did small explosions when they made contact with the brigand, killing him. "Well, that's the end of that."
All four members got together, Lissa quickly approached Reflet with a huge smile. "Yeah, luckily for the town we were close by. But Wow Reflet! Sword, magic and tactics? And I have never seen anyone using magic like that, you looked awesome when you were flying! Is there anything you can't do?"
"Yes that's right, you certainly are no helpless victim, and I have never seen this kind of magic you use" Frederick the Wary on the offensive again, with his typical sceptical look. "Perhaps you might even come up with an explanation of how you came here."
"I understand your scepticism Sir Frederick, I would probably would do the same as you, but I told everything I know, honestly."
"She has fought for Ylissean lives, and my hearts tell me that's enough."
"And your mind, milord? Won't you heed to it's counsel as well?"
"Frederick, right now, there are brigands and an unruly neighbour looking to bloody our soil, would you really have lose such an able tactician? Besides, I believe her story, as odd as It might sound."
"Th-thank you Chrom"
"So how about it? Will you join us?" Reflet didn't need to think about a lot, she woke up in a field, with no memories, only her clothes, a bronze sword, a white tome and for some reason, tactical knowledge. She didn't know anyone and didn't have anywhere to go, so she would be crazy if she declined Chrom's offer. "I would be honored."
The Shepherds were already about to exit the town's gate when a villager came running to them. "Milord, stay this night please! We are simple folk of simple means but we would be honoured to have you in the feast we are preparing"
"A most generous offer, sir, and no doubt your hospitality would be grand. But I'm afraid we must hurry back to Ylisstol."
"Dark meat only for me, medium well, and no salt in the soup. I simply— Wait, what?! We're not staying?! But, Frederick, it's nearly dark!"
Reflet was also about to complain with Lissa, she was really starving and a soft bed would definitely feel good. But she couldn't really complain could she? A group of strangers just took her when she didn't have anywhere to go, and for that, she should be thankful, so the least she can do is at least not to bother them.
Frederick put on an annoying smile towards Lissa. "When night falls, we'll camp. Eat off the land, make our bed of twigs and the like. I believe you mentioned you would be "getting used to this"?"
"Frederick? Sometimes I hate you" Both Lissa and Reflet sighed deeply thinking of the meals and the beds that the knight had just declined. "You have quite the stern lieutenant there."
"Well, 'stern' is one way to say it, I can think of a few other words!" Chrom found the situation quite amusing and started to laugh. "Well, Frederick only smiles when he's about to bring down the axe on his enemy." Reflet shivered at the image of Frederick with a twisted smile on his face bringing down his axe on his enemy's head.
"Duly noted."
The knight cleared his throat loudly in order to catch their attention "You do realize I am still here right?"
"Oh, we do." Lissa and Reflet chuckled at Chrom's respones.
"Milord remains as amusing as ever, well then, shall we get going?" The knight now with a serious face responed, his words full of irony.
As they were now walking through the forest, Frederick turned to Chrom. "Did you notice milord? The bandits spoke with Plegian accent." Reflet remembered that Frederick mentioned that here coat was also Plegian, so she decided to ask. "Plegian, what's that?"
"Plegia is Ylisse's neighbour, it's in the west and they send small bands in our territory hoping to instigate a war." When Chrom mentioned the name of the country it sounded really familiar to Reflet 'Maybe I am Plegian after all? Maybe Frederick was right by being hostile to me. What if I to was against Ylisse before I lost my memories? No, I have to stop those thoughts, I'll deal with them when I remember something more.'
"And it's the poor townsfolk who suffer! Totally innocent, and totally helpless." Lissa's angry statement snapped Reflet out of her thoughts.
"They do have us, milady: Shepherds to protect the sheep. Do not be swept up in your anger. It will cloud your judgement."
"I know, I know, don't worry, I'll just get used to this"
As they were talking the sky was getting darker and darker, until the point were the only light in it were the stars and the moon's light. Reflet noticed that Lissa wasn't quite pleased. "I told you it was already getting dark! And now the place is filled with bugs. Disgusting and annoying bugs that bite you whenever you- Agh! Won goph in mah mouph! Blech! Ptooey!"
"Aw, come on now, Lissa. Hardship builds character. By the way, I am starving, we should start thinking in dinner." Reflet now remembered how hungry she was and before she could say anything a loud roar that echoed around the forest came out of her stomach. A huge blush formed in Reflet's face as the other Shepherds turned to see her, everyone now silent.
Frederick cleared his throat loudly "Yes, I think a little hunting would be appropiate."
The group of four was sitting around the fire that Frederick made in order to cook the meat that they had caught. Generous pieces of meat were served in the wooden plates that they used to eat in.
Chrom was definitely enjoying the meal, it remembered him of the first days he camped. He definitely preferred the food back in Ylisstol, but he also liked the meat he hunted when he camped from time to time. Lissa however was just staring at the wooden plate. "Are you serious? Bear meat? You couldn't catch something more normal? I don't know, you could have caught some birds or a deer or something else! You are messing with the food chain, right Reflet?"
Both Chrom and Lissa turned to the tactician only to find her eating her portion like a wild animal would eat it's prey. She had the largest portion and she was about to be the first to finish her meal. Lissa sighed "I suppose someone would enjoying anything after not eating for Naga knows how much."
"Just relax, eat it and enjoy it Lissa, meat is meat."
"Oh yeah? Since when edible meat does smell even worse than old boots?!"
"Every experience makes us stronger milady, even the ones we don't like" Lissa pouted, but then she noticed something, Frederick's plate was pretty much like hers, it remained untouched. "Really? The why can't I see YOU eating Frederick?" The knight gulped, realizing that he wasn't the best example in this particular case and he began thinking his way out of this. "Me? Well... I am not hungry... I... had a large lunch! Yes, quite."
"Yeah, whatever Frederick..."
As the group finished eating they all prepared themselves to sleep. Reflet was quite tired so she looked forward to some rest. She noticed that Chrom and Lissa were already asleep. 'They are quite close to each other, I wonder if I had any siblings or family that cared about me before I lost memories...' With a deep sigh she lay on the bedroll that they gave her and fell asleep in a matter of seconds. When she was already asleep she muttered a name "Robin..."
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Plegian capital
"So, have you managed to secure her escape?" Asked a young man, probably twenty years old. He had short messy silver hair and his eyes were crimson red, he was wearing a dark cloak with purple lines, he also wore armour pieces on top of it for his shoulders and his arms and under the cloak he was wearing a breastplate.
A figure showed itself from the shadows of the room. "Yeah, no worries Bubbles, she got to Ylisse safely, hopefully she will get to the Exalt in one or two days."
The silver haired man let out a deep sigh. "Is something wrong, my love" A female voice with a sly tone approached the white-haired man and embraced from behind while he was still seated in his chair. "Not now Tharja, right now I have a lot of things to do. I have to try and stop Gangrel's madness before it's too late, the Exalt has been very kind agreeing to help us when she just could have turned me down. If I don't manage to stop Gangrel I'll end up directing Plegia's forces against the Exalt in a war that no matter who wins on the battlefield will only end up having losers. Shit! This really stresses me out, I need to relieve this stress."
Tharja smiled faking shyness and blushed while tightening her embrace. "Well my love, I can think of a few ways to help you relax." Robin freed himself from the embrace gently and stood up with a serious face. "No, in those cases there is only one thing that can relax me."
"Nyahahaha, are you going to do it? Can I come? Pleaaase? It's always so fun to watch you do it. I love it!" Said a fourth figure, a white haired young man in dark mage robes. "Sure, you may come if you want, but you can only watch, I need to relieve as much stress as I can so don't interfere Henry. Have you made the preparations?"
"Sure, I always have one or two prepared in case you want to relax so I can watch" The silver-haired man and Henry began to move to a room adjacent to the current room, before the silver-haired man reached the door he turned to his other two friends with a smile "I'll be back in a moment" He then took off his coat and the armour pieces and threw them to a bed, opened the door and entered the other room with Henry.
The walls and floor of the room were all stained in red and in the middle of room, there was a chained man on the floor with dark mage robes. The man noticed the two men entering entering and quickly kneeled. "P-Please spare my life young master." The silver-haired put an angered face when he heard the word 'master', he then closed the door.
Suddenly, from outside the room, loud cries of pain and agony and Henry's characteristic laugh could be heard. "You know what Sunshine? I'll never understand your obsession with Bubbles. I mean, he doesn't seem to be interested in romance right now and I am sure that if you wanted, you could have almost every man in Plegia yours"
"Hmph, an ignorant like you would never understand. There is no man in this world who is an equal to him. Nobody can equal the imposing aura that surrounds him. Every time it grows around him it sends shivers to all my body, I just can get enough of it. I want him to tie me to him, to make me his, to serve him all my life... And in spite of that aura, he is still the kindest man I know. And even if he doesn't show interest now, when he finally manages to settle things, I'll show him that I am the only woman worthy of his heart."
"Well, I'm no one to interfere so do as you please"
After fifteen minutes, the cries of pain stopped, but Henry's laugh continued. The door opened slowly as the two men exited. Henry was still laughing loudly while the silver-haired man had a relaxed face. His previously beige shirt was now all red, and his hair had now some red stains. He took off his shirt revealing his toned torso and arms, and went to a near wardrobe to take a similar beige shirt. Tharja flushed at the sight of the body she just saw.
"Nya ha ha ha! This was certainly the best session in months! This time you barely used magic, everything just seemed so natural!" The silver-haired man quickly put on another the other shirt and he then reached for his cloak. "Tharja, Henry, if you think you can take anything that can be of use for your hexes and curses be my guest."
In the room now there was no trace of the man, only a pool of fresh blood, some of this blood was also on the walls and there was some even in the ceiling, on top of the pool, a pile of different body parts separated from each other, and on top of them, there was what seemed to be the man's head, separated from it's neck, without it's eyes or it's ears.
He then went to the balcony of the room and stood there, staring at the east. "As Plegia's grandmaster, I am sure I will do a lot of unforgivable things, I don't know if you'll forgive me, but I don't care as long as you live to do so. Until we meet, please take care... Reflet... I will do EVERYTHING needed to ensure your safety..."
AN:
Well, that's the first chapter. Hope you liked it. I just like the fics where Avatar twins are present but I don't see a lot of them so I decided to try and write one.
I already have somewhat planned the general guidelines of the story but there a lot of things that I still haven't decided. For example pairings, some of them have already been decided, but since I am also planning on doing a sequel, I might leave some Shepherds unpaired and settle things in the sequel.
One of the people I am planning on leaving unpaired for this fic is Robin, if I end up not pairing him I'll write some "foreplay" between him and his potential pairings to leave things open for the sequel, but I will think of the possible pairings with him when I finish the war with Plegia. If you want to suggest a possible pairing for Robin you are welcome to do so, I will hear suggestions on ALL possible pairings for Robin, even Lucina (even if Robin will be her uncle). Well, I hope I managed to transmit my ideas clearly for this specific matter (my english is not as good as I would like).
Even if some Shepherds will remain unpaired all future children will make their appearance, but not all of the future pairings will be the same as the present ones.
All constructive criticism, suggestions, reviews and questions are welcome.