Authors Pre-notes: I don't own Fire Emblem or anything else, unless I say I do, and that's still up for debate, and without further interruptions, I give a fic, brought to you by JSB productions and with some help and pre-reading by the RLnaruhina Corporation.
Blessed
Ch.1
"There is a legend about a room that has not been entered in many ages. The very room rumored to be the place of the goddess Elimine's ascension into godhood. The legend states that the first living being to enter the holy room of ascension, shall be granted one wish that they desire. Sounds a lot like a fairy tale told to little children, but, I assure you, I have found the truth, and together, we shall discover the truth of Elimine's ascension!" a man yelled, throwing his arms up in front of his audience. He would have been much applauded if it wasn't for the simple fact that there were only two men in front of him, staring at him like he was crazy.
"Ummm…Seta, aren't you a little over anxious? We've just discovered the doorway to the Goddess' old palace," said one of the men, a Shaman in his early twenties. The man wore simple brown traveling clothes, a gray cloak, and had square shaped glasses that he was cleaning with his cloak. He was more dedicated to archeology than magic, but had amazingly high endurance for a magic user. "We still have quite a bit of work ahead of us, and all we did was dig to find the door".
"Don't worry Keitaro, I have no doubt we'll find the room, and we've already succeeded in the hard manual part. Now all we have to do is pass all the traps that are probably in there, and then get that wish. You could wish you were smarter, and then get into the academy," stated the overly optimistic leader known as Seta. Seta was Druid, but like Keitaro, was more dedicated to archeology than his magic art, but was still a master of it. He was a tall man, wearing a normal set of traveler's clothes, which contained extra pockets for small archeology gear. Over his travelers clothes he wore a white cloak, which is unusual for Druids, and he had rectangular glasses and short black hair. Unnaturally, he also possessed an unknown knack of high endurance. "Besides, we have to award part-timer here for all his hard work, and not giving up on us".
The man in question wore light plated, green armor made for cavalry, with the crest of a Lycian domain. He had green eyes and brown hair held above his eyes with a cloth headband.
"I have a name you know, it's Sain, got it?" the man said, getting slightly annoyed that he was being called "part-timer". After leaving Caelin, the ex-paladin had gone searching for mercenary work, but because of his tendencies, many had refused to hire him. The only job he could find was with these two crazy archeologists. Now, he had to suffer their many lapses of idiocy, which will most likely get them all killed.
"Right, right, I know, but your still a part-timer" the leader said optimistically, pushing the great door open and walking in, with Keitaro following him.
"What about this job is part-time?" Sain asked no one in particular, shouldering the supply pack and following the two 'ancient magic' users into the old palace and decided closing the door would be a good idea.
"Its times like these that I wish I chose to be an anima mage," the young shaman said, stumbling through the darkness behind his teacher. The passageway was almost black; there was a little tiny bit of glowing light coming from somewhere none of them could actually see.
"Hey part-timer, get out a torch will ya', it looks like we might need it" Seta said, stopping the little trek to wait for a torch.
"You expect me to find a torch, as well as matches, inside this pack, with no light at all?" growled the ex-paladin, just being angry for having to work for the guy. He could stand Keitaro, who had some common sense, but the leader was just weird.
"Ah, sorry part-timer. I guess we'll have to get through this without light," and with that said, the druid set off down the dark corridor, without stumbling. It took a lot for Sain to get through the passage, carrying all the heavy supplies on his back, but he took it in stride, believing that once this was over, he might actually have some success with women. In fact, he might even become famous, and rich for having been part of this discovery.
During Sain's musings of his future, the group of three had made some progress traveling down the passageway. Keitaro had tripped a few times, almost losing his glasses in the process. Seta was happily whistling while walking forward sometimes stopping to mention some obstacles to the followers behind him. The random winding of the passage made it very hard for Sain to keep track of direction, which he lost after a few turns and just followed the faint outlining of shaman in front of him.
The inclines and declines of the passageway started to really annoy the ex-paladin, especially with the supply pack he carried, which seemed to keep getting heavier as they advanced into the temple. They followed the slight bit of light until they reached a large room, somehow dully lightened by some glowing stones attached to the columns supporting the room.
"Well, looks like as good a place as any to set up our stuff," Seta said looking at the architecture around him. With that being said, Sain found a good place for the pack, and unceremoniously let it fall to the ground with a thud. Sitting down to rest, Sain watched as a tired Keitaro walked up to one of the glowing stones.
"Hey, Seta! These stones appear to have weird symbols on them" Keitaro yelled while feeling the engraved symbols with his fingers.
"Ah, probably ancient magical runes that were placed on most of the eerie things we will find in this palace. Only powerful light magic users could pull that off, it takes a lot of magic to make those stones bear light for this long a time." The druid looked around looked around the room again. "Hey part-timer, go see where that giant door leads to," Seta pointed to a giant gate-like door.
Getting up out of his sitting position, Sain grumbled as he stalked over to the door and pushed as hard as he could. The door opened slowly, and a bright yellow ray of sunlight came through the opening. Squinting his eyes, Sain tried to get used to the brightness and see where he was walking, hoping he wouldn't fall off a cliff or something of that magnitude. The ex-paladin stumbled forward and saw a runic circle on the balcony he was currently standing on.
"Hey! Employer! There's some weird design on this balcony. Sort of looks one of those teleportation runes" Sain theorized, believing he had seen something like this somewhere else. Seta stepped out onto the balcony and whistled as he looked down the cliff the balcony was jutting from.
"Well that's a big fall, didn't think we went up that high on the journey here," the druid commented, putting a hand up to his forehead looking out in the distance, "But what a nice view". Sain slapped a hand to his face, annoyed that Seta had completely ignored him…again.
"Hey part-timer," Seta turned taking his pipe out of his mouth, "How would you know anything about teleportation runes anyway?"
"I've seen one used in the past, during the battles with Nergal and his followers"
"Ah I see, but you are correct, it is a teleportation rune setup…now lets see," Seta took a small perfectly round darkened stone, and walked to the center of the runic circle. He placed the stone in a small crevice that fitted the stone perfectly and looked back at Sain.
"I'll be back in just a sec," the man smiled and disappeared in a flash of light. Sain's jaw dropped at the sight--sure, he knew Seta was powerful, but he didn't think he had gone far enough to master teleportation. A few seconds later, Seta reappeared, this time having all the equipment, along with the packhorses they had traveled on.
Composing himself, Sain grabbed the reigns of one of the horses and started leading it inside the palace, idly wondering if he should ask about the teleportation. Keitaro was looking around the place, already having produced many vases and other ancient artifacts he had found around the main room. Blinking slightly, the ex-paladin suddenly realized something that could have helped him during the hiking through the long passageway.
"Wait a minute…If you could have just teleported all the supplies here, then why the hell did I have to carry that heavy Supply pack!" he yelled at the team leader, who only started scratching the back of his head, chuckling embarrassingly.
"You see part-timer, I didn't know if there would be any means of teleporting within this place. I can't exactly teleport without help from a catalyst, which this stone comes in handy for," The druid said, tossing the black stone up and then catching it as it came back down.
Keitaro was still busy collecting old artifacts, and piling them in one spot in the room. "Sweet! Another artifact" the man yelled out pulling a priceless vase out of the rubble, somehow still intact.
"Good job Keitaro!" the druid cheered then turned to Sain again. "Part-timer, why don't you start by dumping all the useless rubble down the side of the cliff there" Seta jerked a thumb back to the said cliff. The only response he got was a groan from an extremely tired man.
"Well, I could always send you to search for traps, down that-a-way," the man pointed down a certain dark hallway. "Supposedly, it leads to the old treasure room, probably contains some ancient sealed spells among other things."
"I'd rather search for traps, it takes less energy, and is less embarrassing for a warrior like myself," Sain stated as he reached for his favorite green painted iron lance, and walked down the hallway Seta had pointed to.
"You'll need a torch, Sain, unless you want to fall into any traps that are waiting there," Keitaro stated, handed Sain a lit torch. "Be careful, we don't want to have to carry an injured man or a dead man through a trap-filled hallway".
"Thanks for the warning, makes me feel so much better," Sain said sarcastically, walking down the passage, with his torch, his green Lance, and a small knapsack slung over his shoulder with a few extra supplies. The other two men watched him walk, until the light could no longer be seen through the darkness of the passageway.
"You think he'll be okay, Seta?"
"Who knows Keitaro, who knows?"
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"Jeez, this is one creepy tunnel. Maybe I'll have to take a lady in here with me sometime, she'd get scared and then she would seek comfort in her knight," the ex-paladin sighed, imagining the scene that played out, oh so perfectly, in his head. Drool escaped from his mouth as his mind wandered a bit too far. "Can't lose focus now, wouldn't want to get stuck in a trap," he shook his head, banishing the very pleasant thoughts from controlling his mind.
Further down the tunnel Sain walked, the torch lighting the passageway, which seemed to be quite clear of any sort of rubble. He used his lance as a walking stick, if only to help keep track and obstacles on the floor he might find. The man kept walking down his path, until he found himself at a split in the passageways.
"Oh great, now which way do I go..." Sain groaned. "Well, at least there were no traps so far. Well, always best to go with my gut instinct, which says to turn left!" he said, enthusiastically with his eyes closed, turning to the left, until he walked straight into a wall and dropped his torch on to the floor.
"GAHH! My Nose!" Sain complained, holding his nose as if it would fall off. He waited until the pain died down before defiantly glaring at the wall that had wronged him so. Blinking slightly, the ex-paladin stared directly at a certain spot in the wall, the writing catching his attention.
Sain blinked again, feeling the engrave writing that was on the wall with his hand, still leaving the torch on the floor.
"So, is this what Lord Pent was talking about?"
Pulling his knapsack off of his shoulder, Sain opened up and pulled out a very old book. The book was still held together by leather binding, with the exact same writing on it that was on the wall in front of him.
"It can't be that simple, can it?" he asked to no one in particular. Looking at the wall, he tried to find anymore clues he could, completely ignoring the bright whitish light emanating from the Tome he was holding. That was until, the light threatened to take away his ability to see, and he shielded his eyes from the harmful, yet comfortingly warm light.
Sain blinked a few times, and wondered exactly where the wall that he was supposed to be facing disappeared to. Shrugging, he figured it was all part of the magic of this whole Palace.
"I guess that wasn't the seal after all," he sighed, "Oh well nothing to do now but move on".
Walking forward into the room beyond the now disappeared wall, Sain was awed by the look of the room. Large pillars stood like giants from floor to ceiling in what looked like a huge temple. At the end of the room, stood an ivory pedestal, which was surrounded by a circle of light.
"That's really odd…I should probably stop wondering where that light comes from," the ex-paladin shook his head, trying to clear his mind of the thoughts of defying reality. He walked on the seemingly designated pathway between columns to the glowing pedestal, still wondering slightly why it wasn't the treasure room he was sent to. Looking at the pedestal, he recognized the writing on it to be the same as on the wall and the book still in his hand.
"I guess this is the seal Lord Pent was talking about," he sighed, looking at the book in his right hand. He placed the book on the pedestal, waiting for anything to happen, hoping that was all he had to do. Stepping out of the circle of light, Sain had to cover his eyes again from the blinding light that threatened to make him loose his ability of sight for the second time that day.
After realizing the light had died down, the ex-paladin uncovered his eyes to see a woman standing….errr…floating in the air before him. She was beautiful, very beautiful, at least to Sain. But that isn't very hard, is it? She had long blond hair and wore a white robe, with some yellow designs etched in. The only thing off about her was the blue marks on her face, a circle on her forehead and two ovals right under her eyes.
"Hello Mr. Sain, I am the Goddess Elimine, and I am here to grant you a wish".
Authors Post-note: Alright…I got something done…finally. Anyway I don't own Seta or Keitaro, they belong to Ken Akamatsu-sensei. I just used them for cameos for parts they both fit in perfectly. The idea of this story came from the anime/manga series called Oh My Goddess! By Kosuke Fujishima. If you know the storyline of the series, this story will not be the same. If you don't know the storyline, you don't really need to, all you really need to know is that I used the Goddess/God marks from the series…they don't belong to me. Sorry for anyone who now loves this fic, but it won't be updated until I get back from 7 weeks of camp, and will probably be postponed until I get the nerve to write again. Sorry for the long Authors note…C&C is very much appreciated.