Prologue: The Dream
One year ago, Princess Eirika and Prince Ephraim, and their forces managed to stop the return of the evil Demon King. However, they lost their friend, Prince Lyon of Grado in the process. Yet, they persevered and went home as heroes. After the months of restoration to all of Magvel, Prince Ephraim was engaged to Frelia's Princess Tana, at the same time, his twin sister, Princess Eirika was to be married to her guardian knight, General Seth. Other engagements were starting as well: Joshua, who took his spot on the throne of Jehanna, took Natasha as his fiance, and Innes, prince of Frelia and older brother to Princess Tana, decided to take Vanessa of Frelia's pegasus knights as his upcoming bride-to-be. There were many others happening outside the area of royalty. The people of Magvel thought their newfound peace would last forever, but something else was stirring.
"Ephraaaaaaaim...Eirikaaaaaaaa...," a voice was calling out from an infinite darkness. "Ephraaaim...Eirikaaaaa...Can you hear meeeeee...?" Eirika and Ephraim found themselves in this dark void. The voice called out again, 'Pleaaaaaase...the two of you must listen to meeeeeee..." "That voice," Ephraim shouted out. "Lyon! Is that you!" Lyon replied to him, "Yesssss...It's meeeeee...Ephriaaaam...Eirikaaaaaa...Bewaaaaaare..." Eirika replied quickly to his message, "Beware of what! What is it that we should be aware of, Lyon!" "There is ooooooone...who will bring destructiooooooooon...to all of Maaaaaaaaagveeeeeellllll..." Eirika called to Lyon again, "You mean the Demon King?" Lyon responded quickly to Eirika's question, "Nooooooooooo...something wooooorssssse..." Ephraim, looking very shocked, called out to his late friend in a very loud tone, "What do you mean by 'something worse'!" "Allow me to show youuuuuuuu..." Lyon said for one last time before his voice disappeared. Suddenly, the twins were soon swept through a long, dark tunnel, passing through rings of light. After a while of that, Ephraim and Eirika found themselves in the air as they were surrounded by fluffy, white clouds. Eventually, they looked down to their amazement to see the entire continent of Magvel, as they were flying straight down to it. "Brother," Eirika said to Ephraim in a very nervous manner. "What's going on here?" Ephriam then replied to her, "I don't know, but I think we're about to find out." They continued to fly downward towards the continent, until they landed gently on the ground, which they found to be really odd. Ephraim and Eirika took a look at their surroundings to confirm that they were actually in Magvel, more specifically, in Renais. They walked around for awhile, until they were attacked by some strange, shadowy creatures. Eirika said with a scared expression, "Ephraim, what are those things? I've never seen them before." "I don't know," Ephraim responded. "But, if they're trying to hurt us, then we need to fight them off. Let's go!" The twins pulled out their respective weapons and began to fight off the creatures untill they took down the one that looked like their leader. They succeeded in driving them off. "Nice job there, Eirika. Let's continue on, hopefully without anymore distractions." "Right."
As they continued to walk, they came upon a horrifying sight: They saw what appeared to be the people of Magvel, but they were all stone. Some of them were friends and comrades of the twins. They saw them all: Forde, Kyle, Franz, Garcia, Ross, Amelia, Ewan, Artur, Lute, Innes, Saleh, Cormag, Joshua, Natasha, L'Arachel, Vanessa, Gerik, Marisa, Tethys, Duessel, Knoll, Syrene, Colm, Neimi, Myrrh, Dozla, Rennac, Moulder and Gilliam. They were really shocked to discover that even Seth and Tana were stone as well. "Seth!" Eirika called out in great sorrow and Ephriam followed after saying "Tana!" as he saw her amongst the petrified citizens. They were observing them as to find out what happened. "Ephraim," Eirika asked her brother as she was almost about to cry. "What happened here? Did an army of gorgons do this?" Ephraim responded to her question saying while observing the statue of Amelia, "I don't know, but, from the expression on their faces, it's looks like they were overcome with great fear." Just then, the sky began to grow very dark. Clouds were forming together to make one, big dark cloud. Suddenly, a red ball of light could be seen falling downwards toward the continent at a distance. "Hey, sis, do you see that?" Ephraim said to Eirika in a most curious manner. "What do you think it is?" Eirika quickly stated, "I...don't know." The ball of light was getting bigger as it drew closer. Suddenly, Ephraim had this weird feeling that it wasn't something very good. He grabbed a hold of Eirika's left arm and took her down with him as he was about to quickly lie down to avoid something. "Get down!" He quickly said very loud while he was doing this. Eirika didn't argue as she did as he said. After that, the ball, which was in fact massive in size, quickly crashed into the ground, creating a massive explosion. All of the statues of the people were destroyed immediately. "NO!" Eirika shouted as she was trying to reach out for them and Ephriam said, "Don't, Eirika! We can't save them now! Much less, ourselves!" The explosion engulfed the entire continent. To her surprise, Eirika was okay, as was Ephraim. Eirika looked around, and Ephraim did the same. Ephraim then said, "Eirika, are we alive?" "I...think...so." Eirika respond looking dazed, then started to talk again saying, "But what happened here?" They looked around with the most terrified expressions ever. The explosion turned Magvel into an entire burning wasteland. Everything, from the trees to the grass and flower fields were burnt to a smoldering cinder. Ephraim then said as if he was overcome with enormous grief, "This is...TERRIBLE! It's all been destroyed!" As they continued to observe the apocalypse that was once their homeland, a bright yet sinister-looking glow came out from the sky, lighting up the clouds in dark red. Within an aura of evil energy, they saw the silhouette of the figure of a man with long hair and six massive wings on his back in the sky. "Who is that?" Eirika asked her brother though she wasn't really expecting an answer. Ephraim found it hard to do so as he asked, "Was this what Lyon was warning us about?" The figure then lifted it's right arm above it's head. Opening it's hand, it created and surrounded itself in a column of evil power that began to grow wider. The twins could only look on in both curiosity and horror. Suddenly, everything began to slowly turn white...
To Be Concluded in Chapter 1.