Author's Note: This is my first fanfic. Last night I got the idea to write about the Serenes Massacre, and here it is. If you find any spelling or grammar errors, or any kind of mistakes, please don't hesitate to tell me. Your constructive criticism is appreciated.
Disclaimer: Nintendo and Intelligent Systems own Fire Emblem, not me.
Fire was good, wasn't it? Fire was warm; it stripped away the cold, and cold could be bad, so fire must be good. Fire gave off light. Light protected; light chased away all manners of terrors, hidden in the darkness, so light must be good. If warm and light were good, if things provided by fire were good, then fire had to be good as well, yes?
But fire was also bad. Fire destroyed. Mercilessly, it devoured everything in its path. Burning, burning. Just growing, bigger and bigger, spreading where ever it could, stopping only when there was no longer anything left to fuel its rage. And it would fight furiously until finally meeting its death.
Fire still had its good qualities, warmth, light; did that not redeem it? No. From a distance heat was pleasant, heat was wonderful; but fire could not always be tamed, and fire's heat could hurt. Searing, burning, blackening; PAIN. And still, fire would continue on, destroying, destroying all, seemingly just for the pleasure of hurting and killing.
Fire had no regard for beauty; it saw even the most lovely things as something to burn, something to keep it alive. And so that night, that horrible night, twenty years previous, fire saw it fit to burn the Serenes Forest.
Why had the fire been there? Serenes was peaceful; there was no need for a killer such as fire to be there. The forest had no need for fire; fire would do nothing but hurt it. So why, why?!
It was murdering the forest. MURDERING it! There were no soft greens that hinted at life; there was grey. The color of ashes. It was all grey, just grey! Trunks, bark blackened, fell to the ground, surrounded by ashes.
Where was the life?! The fire, it was stealing it all! An unfair exchange; so many lives, so many, for nothing!
How had the fire gotten there? Not a single resident of Serenes would ever do such a thing to their beloved forest! It could not be a laguz; fire was not theirs' to keep, fire refused to obey them. So who could it be?!
It was the beorc; no, not the beorc, those HUMANS. They had tamed the fire! They desired for the fire to come, they desired for it to kill, to destroy, to punish for a crime that had not been committed.
Chaos, chaos, chaos! Every where, there was chaos every where! Where was the balance? The medium in all the destruction, in all the evil, all the horrors? Where was the order? Why would the fire not stop? Why would the killing not stop?! WHY?!
Why had Serenes fallen?
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