A/N: The beginning of a new story! This is a sequel to An Adventure in Elibe! As usual, if you guys like it, please review and if you don't tell me why! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Fire Emblem, but you already know that!

Ch 1 The Journey Continues

For most, it was just another day in Pharae, one of the many territories of Lycia. It was a bright, sunny day, perfect for hunting and sometimes even sparring. Yet, for the red haired Pharaen prince, it was so much more. For him, it was the day he would leave to find his father. Lord Eliwood would never accept the rumors claiming that his father was dead. He was setting off with a loyal knight and a fresh recruit.

"Lord Eliwood, we leave on your word," An older knight with purple hair and a small goatee was waiting on his brown stallion. That was Marcus, a senior knight of Pharae. He was the strongest knight left in Pharae aside from Isadora.

"I see, thank you Marcus," the red-haired lord. He then turned to his mother, "Mother, it is time for us to leave,"

Lady Eleanora was known in Pharae for her beauty and her strong will. Though for Eliwood her 'strong will' was just stubbornness. Their arguments about this journey had been fierce. He could understand that his mother was worried about him, but his father had disappeared! It was his duty to find him or Pharae would fall into disarray.

"Eliwood... Promise that you will return to me safely... I am worried about your father but... If something were to happen to you..."

"I know mother. But father is alive I know it. You have my word that I will find him and return to you safely,"

"I have your word then,"

"Yes. Of course... Isadora, I entrust my mother to you in my absence,"

"Milord, I will guard over her well," Isadora was another one of the most powerful knights of Pharae. She and Marcus were the only ones left now. Isadora was the only female knight in the knights of Pharae and the steward to Lady Eleanora.

"Mother I will return. Rest easy," With those words, Lord Eliwood began an adventure that would change many lives, including his own.

It had been about a year since I left Caelin. A year since I decided to travel with General Wallace to... Bern apparently. Wallace trained me so well that I have many scars to remember his training by... And BOOM! Something ran into me with a lot of force. I fell back... No scratch that I flew back and slid away. After I regained some of my senses, I looked around trying to figure out where I had landed and what in the world could have hit me that hard. I looked up to meet a girl with green hair and a green bandana. She had a bow in her hand.

"Oh! I'm sorry!" She gave me a hand and helped me to my feet. I found my bag and took it.

"Um. What happened?" I inquired.

"Nothing, I just need to give my father some news,"

Suddenly, we both turned to hear a man booming, "Aha! So all the knights of Pharae have vanished eh? Well their misfortune is my good luck! As of now, this village is mine! Gronzyl is your new liege! Now bring me every last piece of gold in this wretched village! NOW!"

Before I could react, the green haired girl pulled me away and we ran to an isolated area in the village.

"Oh no! This is what I was afraid off. We have to do something... I have to help,"

My mind was already working, I had been here in this village less than a day and already something like this was happening. I had heard the rumors about lord Elbert's disappearance. Before this I was considering a visit to Lord Eliwood, now we had didn't have a choice.

"We should go to the castle and inform them. We can return with reinforcements,"

"But... Eliwood has probably already left!" Rebecca responded.

Before I could ask her what she meant, another voice interrupted my thoughts, "Eliwood? How do you know this?!" We spun around to see a man with lots of turqoise hair covering his eyes looking down on his. How he was able to see was beyond me.

"We need to speak to Lord Eliwood, this village is being raided!" I spoke.

His eyes seemed to widen, though I couldn't tell with all the hair covering his eyes.

"What?! Raided? In that case, come with me!" He turned and rode away, forcing us to follow him. So we ran trying to catch up with the crazy knight.

"Wait up!" The girl called. It didn't do us any good.

We finally caught up to him. But Wallace's training prepared me for situations like this... sort off. I held back a smile as I saw the girl next to me lying on her knees panting after we found him. I surveyed where we were now. As I expected Eliwood was there with another knight, one who looked more experienced and older than the one we just encountered. Eliwood hadn't noticed me yet so I decided to step forward when the girl next to me jumped up and blocked my view.

But I could hear her, "My lord Eliwood? I'm the daughter of the village magistrate. My name is Rebecca. The bandits came without warning. They're stealing everything! I beg you! Please help us!

"I see, Marcus! Lowen! we must help this village!"

"Of course milord!" The knight with turquoise hair responded. So he was Lowen and the other was Marcus.

"Rebecca, stay here and keep out of sight,"

"With all due respect milord, I would rather fight. I hunt almost everyday, and I have some skill with the bow,"

"Very well then, if you are certain. But be careful,"

"Thank you milord,"

"Well it's nice to see you too Eliwood. Then again you can't see me!" I remarked. I had to! I don't take it well when I'm ignored.

Lowen and Rebecca stepped aside so Eliwood could see me. The prince of Pharae had hardly changed in a year. Same red hair and same blue attire. He smiled when he saw me.

"Rohan! It's good to see you again!"

"Same to you Lord Eliwood,"

"You know this person, milord?"

"Yes, I met Rohan last year, during the trouble in Caelin. An excellent military advisor and tactician if memory serves. If not for him, Marquess Caelin, and his granddaughter, Lyn, may not have survived Lundgren's uprising,"

"I'm honored that you think so highly of me milord," I replied smiling.

"So what brings you here my friend?"

"Still traveling, honing my skills and exploring mostly. I still want to become a master tactician,"

"Ha! A worthy pursuit. Let's give thanks to providence for our chance reunion. We have need of your aid. Please lend us your skills,"

I began my usual procedure. I scanned the surroundings to search for enemies. I knew that they would be centered around the village. But in order to reach that village, we had to head north towards another village, where the bandits were already approaching.

"We'd better move north, together. Lowen, you and Marcus go first, Eliwood and I will follow. Rebecca, stay back and shoot anyone who gets too close,"

With that, we moved north. A brigand jumped out in front of Lowen. Lowen raised his sword and slashed wildly. Unfortumately the Brigand was quick and manged to avoid most of his attacks. But before he could counterattack, Marcus stepped forward and, with one swift motion, brought down the brigand with his sword.

"Lowen! A knight must remain calm in all situations! That man could've killed you easily with the way you were brandishing that sword,"

As he was chastising Lowen and as Lowen murmured his apologies, more brigands and an archer came to avenge their dead companion. It was annoying how bandits pretended to stick together. It was as if they actually cared for each other. They'd as soon sell their 'best friend' for cash. But that didn't change the fact that they had to be dealt with. While Marcus and Lowen were occupied, Eliwood and I moved forward. Rebecca came forward and took out their archer. That left two brigands for us to deal with. Eliwood dashed forward and, with impressive speed, lunged forward to stab one man in the stomach. Then he whirled around to face the other just as he was attacking. Eliwood sidestepped the attack and once again stabbed the bandit in the stomach. His fighting style focused more on lunges and stabs rather than slashes. It looked slightly awkward but it worked well for him.

"Milord? What are you doing? We knights are here to protect you milord! You can leave the fighting to us!"

"Thank you Marcus. But this is my fight as well. Don't worry about me, I can hold my own!"

Marcus looked like he wanted to protest, but before he could a voice yelled, "There they are! Heh. If we can capture the lordling, it'll be raining gold for us! Let's get him!" We prepared for a charge. Yet it never came. From the north, a crazy fighter came roaring and crashed into the bandits. This guy was a wannabe Wallace. As crude as his strategy was, it was effective. The bandits scattered by the time Lowen and Marcus advanced. Eliwood and I glanced at each other.

"Milord, do you require assistance?" A familiar, gruff voice asked. To our right, Dorcas appeared holding his axe.

"Your aid would be greatly accepted... I've seen you haven't I? Last year,"

"I believe so. Well if it isn't Rohan!" He allowed himself to smile slightly, "It is good to see you again,"

"Great to see you too! But I thought you were in Bern,"

"I was, but I moved here with Natalie. I'm sure she would be happy to see you. But for now... Just like old times eh?"

I chuckled, "Yea. Just like old times. But it looks like we're falling behind. We'd better catch up!"

Even Rebecca had gone ahead to help the knights. We ran to cach up and when we did, we found the village where I was just at. Dead bandits lay around there and there was only one man left. He was confronting Lowen

"Pharaen knights? But that's... That's impossible!" He screamed when Marcus came into his line of sight. Dorcas and Eliwood leapt forward, leaving me to watch them in action. Dorcas took his axe and with one swing smashed the enemy's shoulder. With a roar of pain, the bandit turned to face his attacker only to face Eliwood. Eliwood held his rapier towards him, then he puled back and without warning, slashed at the bandit and leapt into the air. After doing a backflip he returned to his original position and the bandit fell to his knees.

"Ugh... I thought... That my luck... Was finally turning around," With that he fell.

After the battle, we were met by an old man who was apparently the village magistrate and Rebecca's father.

"Ah, you would be lord Eliwood, yes? You have our deepest thanks for saving our village,"

"Think nothing of it. It's a lord' duty to protect the citizenry,"

"I wish it were always so milord. The good folk of Laus know no such protection. Their marquess, Lord Darin, ignores complaints about bandits and thieves. He is too busy preparing for war apparently,"

"Preparing for war?" Eliwood sounded surprised. Then again, it was an odd time to prepare for a war. Lycia was at a time where it was very peaceful everywhere. Trade was working well and there were generally few complaints from what I had heard before. It looked like I was wrong.

"I would not lie milord. My brother lived there until a few days ago when his home was torched. According to him, Laus could go to war any day now,"

Eliwood thanked the village magistrate once more and came to share this news with us. Marcus was the first to react.

"This is bad milord. If Marquess Laus is preparing for war, he is most likely targeting another Lycian territory... Perhaps this is connected to Lord Elbert's disappearance,"

"My father and Marquess Laus? It seems to be a tenuous connection, but it's as good a start as any. In that case, we should travel to Laus and find out more information,"

He then turned to me, "And where are you going now my friend?"

His question startled me, "Me? Well I'm not completely sure. Honestly I haven't given it much that,"

"Milord..." Marcus began. Both of us guessed where this was heading.

"In that case, would you like to join us? Ours is a small group with a single purpose. To find my father. I do not know where our search will lead nor do I know what challenges we may face. But we would be stronger with you in our company,"

For a time I was speechless. His offer had taken me by surprise. But when I could find my voice I began, "Well milprd, I'm very honored. Well I do not have any particular destination. If I can be of use to you then I'll gladly join you,"

Marcus looked just as skeptical as ever. But Eliwood beamed and shook my hand, "Thank you so much my friend! I pray that we don't give you reason to regret your decision!"

Yet I could sense Marcus' eyes perusing me. As if he could see something he couldn't look away from.

This seemed familiar, a lord asking me to accompany them on a journey. Though the first time, I had no idea Lyn was a lord until later. We left the village and continued towards Laus.

We stopped by to camp quite a ways off from the village. Much to our surprise, the girl who almost ran me over earlier wished to join us. She somehow followed us all the way to where we were. Eliwood gladly accepted her aid. Everyone had set up camp. I was reading some books I had obtained throughout the years and some that I wished to take with me. Just some more history of magic books, the mechanics of dark magic, and another book on various strategies from chess to historic battles of the Scouring. What can I say? I'm resourceful! But I heard something near my tent. I turned to see Rebecca crawling. Yes crawling into my tent. Once she realized that she was discovered, she awkwardly stood and scratched her head sheepishly.

"Erm... Well sorry to interrupt you," She began in response to my look of interrogation, "it's just that... Well. Eliwood's tent is really small, the knights and the fighters are sharing a tent and well..."

"Oh you don't have a tent? Well... You can use my bedroll,"

"What about that one?" She asked pointing to Lyn's.

"Let's just say that one is reserved. Don't ask," I predicted and responded before she could ask. Both the ring and the bedroll were small reminders of the journey last year. The ring reminded me of my last two days in Castle Caelin. The bedroll reminded me of all the adventures we had trying to get to Caelin.

"Well ok. We'll take turns. Every other day we alternate using the bedroll ok?"

I shrugged, "Whatever you say,"

She continued, "So, I never really introduced myself when I knocked you over. I'm Rebecca,"

"Rohan," I said.

"Huh. Neat name. So I'm guessing you're a tactician huh?"

"I am. I'm traveling. You're father let you come with us?"

"Well... He protested at first but... Well I convinced him,"

"I see,"

I thought she would give up trying to make conversation. I'm usually someone who likes to talk, but now I was really tired. But she was like Wil, a very amiable, social lady. So I engaged her politely.

"So why are you traveling?"

"I want to become a better tactician. I'm hoping to be a master someday,"

"Eliwood seems to think very highly of you. We've heard rumors of you in the past. How you helped Lady Lyndis... I just never thought that I would be able to meet you!"

'So I guess I've earned a bit of fame...'

"I'm sorry," Rebecca started, "I haven't made a great first impression. It was just that the bandits..."

"I understand, don't worry. Besides you have green hair and that's a plus,"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Never mind," I smiled to myself at my little remark. Nino and Lyn both had green hair and well... let's just say that I become fast friends with them. Maybe the same thing will happen here. This is a new group and I need all the friends I can get right now.

"So where were you before this? I mean before you helped Lady Lyndis claim her rightful position at the throne,"

"I lost my memory before I met Lyn. I've also been traveling to regain it... I know some but I'd rather not talk about it," I didn't exactly lie here, but my statement was purposefully misleading. I had, in my travels, found out who I was and how I met Ninian and Nils and what my past was. I was also painfully aware of a task I had to do later. But, I had no idea how to accomplish it.

'No, now is not a good idea to think about all that right now,'

"Let's talk later Rebecca. It was good meeting you,"

"Oh... You too. Also I uh cooked for the group. I hope you like it," She handed me some meat and soup. I ate quickly. Until then I had no idea how hungry I was.

"It's delicious thank you... You know you remind me of someone,"

"Oh? Who?"

"Just... A friend. His name is Wil. We traveled together a year ago," That remark had an effect on her. She didn't speak afterwards.

If I were more alert, I would have asked her about her silence. But I was too tired and the food made me sleepy. My eyes became heavy and I soon lost consciousness.