Eclipsemaster I do not own fire emblem

this story is greil's memories of the people he has met from when he was in the daien army until he is slain by the black knight, it will follow mostly canon, but there are some things that I fabricated myself

24 years ago

"General Gawain! first lieutenant Zelgius reporting, sir." "Ah, yes, your my new aide." Gawain looked up from his desk at the young man standing in the door of his office. "You were assigned to General Bryce's command, were you not?" "Yes sir!" "Well, you come with very good recomendations then," replied Gawain, rising from his chair. "Come with me and I'll show you what all your duties comprise."

A half-hour later, the two men arrived at the parade ground. They stood watching the men practice with their weapons. "General, I have heard about your strength with the sword, would you permit me the honor of crossing blades with you?" "Certainly, I've heard that you're not too bad yourself, choose a sword" Gawain replied, gesturing towards and walking over to the weapons rack.

Both men picked up a sword and turned and faced one another. "Whenever you are ready" Gawain said, lifting his sword into a ready position. "With pleasure" replied Zelgius following suit. Gawain waited for his opponent to make the first strike, he blocked the stroke and retaliated with a blow of his own, and then settled back into a defensive position.

By this time quite a crowd had gathered around the two, watching as Zelgius tried to break down Gawain's defense. Gawain blocked a few more of Zelgius's strokes and then suddenly changed to the offensive, forcing Zelgius to divert all of his focus to defending himself from the many strikes Gawain rained down on him.

But it was to no avail. eventually the general's sword pierced his defense, and sent his sword ringing along the flagstones of the parade ground. A cheer went up from the men watching, but it was quickly subdued by Gawain's uplifted hand. "All right, thats enough, head back to your drills" he commanded, turning to look at Zelgius. "You did very well, you have quite a lot of skill with the sword." "Yes, but you still beat me" replied Zelgius, a slight look of chagrin on his face as he walked over and retrieved his sword from where it had landed.

"Yes, but I have had quite a few more years practice than you." Gawain said as the two men returned the swords to the rack "but you do have considerable talent, if taught properly you could match even me." He straightened and turned to face Zelgius. "I usually practice alone in the morning, but if you would be interested, then you could join me."

"That would be an honor sir!" the man replied. "I look forward to honing my skills against the greatest swordsman on Tellius!" Gawain gave a slight grin, "looks like my reputation has proceeded me" he joked. "But for now, we also have work to do, we'll start with your training tomorrow."

AN/ anyways heres the first chapter of the story Read and Review or goblins will eat you