Extended Summary: There once was a war called the Scouring; a fierce war waged between man and dragon. Not wanting to take part in the war, users of alchemy and the four elements raised the series of continents known as Weyard in order to escape. Now after nearly 1,000 years apart the two seemingly separate worlds are linked together when Belinsk is attacked by unknown forces. Unforeseen people, like pieces in a collosal game of strategy and tactics, begin to rise and fall. Matthew and his friends are sent into the unknown hoping to find out their motives while the elder adepts keep their eyes on the Tuaparang. Meanwhile, Bern has been getting more aggressive as of late and Lycia's superpowers, Ostia and Pherae, are worried about what it could mean. Furthermore, rumors place the mysterious tactician Mark, a good friend of three of the Lycian lords, in Bern supposedly helping the Bernese prepare for war. Assumes Mark's "Suberb Mind" ending. Pairings: Mark/Tactician/Lyn, Matthew/Sveta, Karis/Tyrell, FE7 pairings of importance

Before I get sued: The only thing I own about these two games series are the game cartridges and my save data. Steal my save data and you die!


A young, golden-haired Venus adept, Matthew, and the seven other adepts who had journeyed with him not even a year ago, Tyrell, Karis, Reif, Amiti, Sveta, Eoleo and Himi, stared at the strange contraption that was supposedly going to send them from somewhere on the Endless Wall to the land far below Gaia Falls, Elibe. The device looked like whomever had designed it had made a hodgepodge of the Alchemy Forge, Alchemy Well, and the inner mechanisms of Apollo Sanctum. There were some zol blocks that needed to be pushed back into place, an empty bowl that needed filling and poles that would need to be crushed into the ground; they wondered if the invaders had done this or if it was like after they had teleported in. Matthew sighed and couldn't help but recall how they'd ended up in this situation.

- Sun –

It had been roughly one year since Matthew, an originally bright yellow, now golden-haired Venus adept, had returned home after obtaining a Roc feather with his two friends, Karis and Tyrell. Karis, the green-haired Jupiter adept was much like her father, Ivan, who was also a Jupiter adept and naturally curious. She was however a bit... more assertive than him to say the least and her anger was legendary for its ferocity and its short fuse. Tyrell was just as, if not more so, hotheaded as his father, Garet was when he first journeyed with Isaac and perhaps still was. His fiery red hair didn't listen to gravity, as it shot straight up, much like he didn't listen to Karis that often. Matthew and Tyrell had been living at the Lookout Cabin, temporarily covering for Isaac and Garet who were nag- er "invited" to come home and spend time with their wives. Their wives had won obviously but Isaac somehow arranged so that they'd be in Bilibin instead of Kalay. All had gone well, no pulses or massive growths seemed to happen to the already giant psynergy vortex when a letter from Sveta arrived.

Matthew had read it as both he and Tyrell assumed it was specifically for him, seeing as the only way he'd been able to comunicate with Sveta was through Isaac's carrier pigeons. They were partially right; a good half or perhaps even more was for Matthew's eyes only but there was a section that said that Matthew should come see her with Tyrell and Karis immediately. Matthew and Tyrell eagerly accepted as just staring at the psynergy vortex all day and night was rather dull. Before he and Tyrell left he made sure to lock the letter in one of the drawers in the desk that was in his room to prevent Tyrell or most likely Karis from reading it and sent a letter to Isaac so he'd know where they were going. It had taken the two of them about three days to make it to Bilibin despite the lack of monster encounters.

When they arrived in Bilibin Tyrell suggested getting permission to go though border town from the McCoys only to regret that decision one day later when they were still in Bilibin. It had taken all of the first day to find Karis and get her to cooperate with them no thanks to Tyrell. She probably would've helped them right away if Tyrell hadn't smashed the project she was working on by accident and refused to apologize about it. Then the trio had then had to wait the rest of the second day as Ivan tried to negotiate with the McCoys. The only thing they could do had been to either wander the streets or visit with Jenna and Isaac, who were staying there until the new soarwing was finished; something Matthew wanted to avoid, or visit Garet who was lodging with Isaac. It wasn't that Matthew didn't love his parents, far from it in fact, it was the fact that Jenna knew he was going to see Sveta and the first thing he'd be asked was how far had they were in their relationship and how far would they planned to go. Blissfully ignorant Karis and Tyrell insisted they visit; it had been a beyond awkward visit for the Venus adept to say the least.

As they left Bilibin Tyrell said it was as if they were about to start another adventure. Not that it could be called that yet; they were just going to see what Sveta had to show them back at Belinsk after all. Matthew had briefly recalled to himself the many things they had accomplished such as restarting the Alchemy Forge and Alchemy Well, besting the Mountain Roc, starting the Grave Eclipse, saving the Sanan prince and princess, ending the Grave Eclipse with the Apollo Lens; the list was quiet extensive to say the least. But now it felt like a new quest awaited the trio of friends and they left Bilibin and Matthew had a spring in his step as they headed towards Belinsk. Tyrell had snickered about something, probably about Matthew's attitude, and apparently set Karis off on him. It was a common enough occurrence that Matthew could simply tune them out until they started yelling at each other; that had only been achieved by Himi.

Two days later they had finally arrived at Belinsk and found something very wrong; part of the outer wall, that had survived the Great Eclipse despite being in the direct center of it, was completely obliterated. They had observed several beastmen were working on the repairs as they entered the city. One of the repairmen had called their names and before they knew it they had been surrounded by grateful beastpeople that hadn't been at Belinsk at the time of their departure. Before it got too out of hand Vande had politely shouted at the beastpeople to give the adepts some space before he himself led them to castle only to disappear once they were outside the throne room. The throne room wasn't much to look at; especially when compared to the Sanan throne room or even to the Ayuthay throne room. There was nothing golden in the room save the now golden color of Matthew's hair. The throne could hardly be called as such seeing as it was simply a glorified chair; however there was still a regal atmosphere despite the lack of gaudiness.

Sveta had been looking out one of the windows when the trio entered; surprisingly she was in her travel clothes from one year prior and her royal adviser nowhere to be seen. Sveta greeted them and Tyrell had explained that they had be swarmed at the entrance which Matthew elaborated that it was due to a repairman recognizing them. Sveta's attitude had dropped when Matthew had mentioned the repairmen but she still gave them the knowledge that it wasn't any of her aggressive neighbors that had attacked them, they had just found a coded letter in the pouch one of the purple-armored enemy commanders dropped, and that she had sent letters to the Warriors of Vale and, upon Ivan's request, their friends from the Grave Eclipse. Karis had immediately volunteered to help with the code and Sveta had sent her to the other researchers that were trying to crack the code.

Since neither Matthew, Tyrell, nor Sveta could hope to help with cracking code the three spent the day exploring Belinsk as Karis worked furiously. When asked why she was out on the town with them by Tyrell, Sveta told them she had decided she was unfit to rule due to having no training and some other reason she refused to tell Tyrell but implied Matthew knew. Matthew said he didn't understand when Tyrell gave him a look of betrayal. Over the course of the day Matthew and Tyrell had learned various things about the city from how quickly it had been rebuilt to where the good places to eat were. When it became dark out Sveta told them that she had arranged for them to stay at the castle until the code was deciphered. When they had arrived back at the castle Ivan was waiting for them and explained Isaac, Jenna, Garet and Mia would be there tomorrow. He was early because he had taken the soarwing he'd fixed and kept for himself. Another was being made for Isaac.

The next day had come with good news. Thanks to Karis and Ivan working throughout the night the code had been substantially cracked and at the rate they were going it would only take about a day or two to finish cracking it. Karis was given the day off by Ivan who insisted she have some fun with her friends and not strain herself to hard. She had spent the day with her friends although she was often caught staring into space; probably wondering how the code was going; however Tyrell did snap her out of it when he accidentally spilt some water he'd been drinking on her. She responded by zapping him to the point where he couldn't move for a whole ten minutes. When Tyrell finally recovered the four friends returned to the castle and found that Isaac, Jenna, Garet, and Mia were talking with Ivan and the researchers.

As they made their way to approach them Reif intercepted them and told them not to bother; he'd already been shooed away twice before they had even started talking. Having nothing better to do the adepts caught up with each other. Reif had apparently returned home immediately and helped his mother out like he used to, while Nowell was still sailing around with Piers doing who knows what. He had also said he'd seen some strange people at the lighthouse but that they hadn't caused any problems or done anything strange. At some point Isaac called them over with a grave expression on his face.

"Tell them Ivan. They should know," Isaac said slowly. It was clear he didn't like what he knew they were going to be told.

"If you insist Isaac," Ivan said hesitantly. He didn't like what he was about to tell them anymore than Isaac, or the other present Warriors of Vale did. "The letter says that they're hunting someone. According on the information in the letter he's an adept from somewhere called Elibe. Based on the description he could be Felix, his potential son or just some random adept. We don't know." Ivan paused and looked at Isaac with a questioning look. Isaac nodded and Ivan began speaking again, "The letter was addressed to a Tuaparang commander named Arcanus; or as you've told us, Alex."

"What we want to know is how Alex managed to get into contact with their leader and what he intends to have them do for him." Isaac said calmly although Matthew could tell it was a forced calmness.

"And that's where you come in," Garet added. "You've fought with the Tuaparang before and in that sense you're ahead of us; but only when it comes to dealing with the Tuaparang. You've still got a lot of maturing left to do." Coming from Garet, Mr. (former) Hothead himself, it felt borderline insulting; it didn't help Garet was in his forties but looked like he was in his early twenties, about their age. But Garet was still right. They had a lot to learn.

"So we've decided that you should go," Ivan said. "It will help in that respect."

"Go where?" Karis asked.

"To Elibe, of course," Isaac said.

"Shouldn't we go to Elibe instead?" Jenna asked as she was worried about sending Matthew into a completely foreign land without any idea where to go. Sure, Matthew had gotten stronger during his journey and even more so by training under Isaac, and occasionally herself after he'd gotten home, but she was still worried. It was a mother's job to worry after all.

"Normally you'd be right." Ivan started to explain. "But the Tuaparang are also involved in this if only because we know Alex is working with them. While they have experience with them and their ways it's still a better choice to send them to a land that doesn't know psynergy since they will have a distinct advantage over any threat to them. Sending them to fight the Tuaparang, who know exactly what they can do, is equally if not more dangerous."

"If anything happens, it's on your head," Mia and Jenna said simultaneously. "We're worried about them." Their shared comments made Matthew and Reif briefly look away out of embarrassment and Ivan pale slightly.

The rest of the day had been spent planning out how they would get to Elibe and what they'd do when they got there. Apparently it was near the bottom of Gaia Falls, however far down that was no one knew or wanted to find out. In order to get down they would need to use a teleporter Ivan had learned about when he had been observing the Tuaparang after the Grave Eclipse. Conveniently it wouldn't require the Teleport Lapis; something that Felix and Sheba had taken when they divided up the psynergy granting items but they'd still have to find the teleporter. Before that though, they were to meet up with Eoleo, who would bring Himi with him to Belinsk, and Amiti who would be waiting in Sana. After that they would find the teleporter, find someone friendly enough to guide them around Elibe and find the man that Alex had the invaders, the Bernese, searching for before they found him.

Eoleo arrived within a week but he had to spend an entire day restocking his ship due to something that happened on his way to get Himi that he wouldn't tell anyone; it had taken spirit sensing a crew member to get even that. Somehow Matthew and Tyrell had been forced into helping the Champan Mars adept load his ship while Reif spent the day with the girls. It had been because, with no disrespect to Reif, he couldn't lift a crate without using his psynergy. Had he been a Jupiter adept it would have been fine but he was a Mercury adept instead so everything he lifted got wet. After about two crates Reif had been told, not so delicately, by Eoleo to stop helping and go do something away from the ship. How that resulted in him spending an afternoon with the girls none of them knew.

About a week later the adepts docked at Sana and found Amiti waiting at the inn with most of the non-perishable supplies already bought. They spent the rest of the day, and half of another, gathering supplies in town. It had been Reif's idea to shop in pairs and, to be honest, he was expecting to get stuck with Amiti but he hoped it wouldn't be the case. Unfortunately for him he was stuck with Amiti as he had expected while Matthew and Sveta went to purchase food, Karis and Tyrell went to stock up on emergency rations, Eoleo took Himi who knows where, and he and Amiti stocked up on various other things. By the end of the second day they had everything they would need for a month long expedition into the unknown; however it was a pain to carry it all.

Climbing the wall had been a sobering event for the adepts as they climbed it; partially due to memories of what had happened the last time they were up there. The other part of it was the fact that the realization that they would be teleported to an unknown land with only the very old map Ivan had given them and random bits of information they had learned from the Bernese soldier's letter finally began to sink in. As they passed by the turn to the Apollo Lens Matthew felt Sveta grab his hand; it seemed she still missed Volechek and with Apollo Sanctum Volechek's grave Matthew supposed that grabbing his hand was all she could do to comfort herself.

They had spent two whole days looking for the teleporter before they finally found it, courtesy of the fiery Mars adepts. They had both been peeved due to spending two whole days walking back and forth on top of the Endless Wall and began stomping their feet as a way of venting. Eoleo at one point stomped so hard the wall beneath him cracked and Tyrell, not seeing the crack, stomped down even harder which had ended up with him falling about ten feet and landing directly in front of the teleporter. After the rest of the adepts had lowered themselves into the room they were surprised that Tyrell's hotheadedness didn't get them into trouble for once.

- Sun –

During his own sudden recollection Matthew had fallen asleep to the amusement of his friends. They had already fixed/activated the teleporter and were waiting for him to wake up when Sveta tapped his shoulder. He didn't respond the first time nor any following attempts until she used Slap on him. Sveta had been training when she could and her psynergy showed it; the effect on Matthew would've been comical had she not immediately rushed to his side and started apologizing before he even woke up. His response upon waking up gave the adepts a good laugh before the weight of the mission had another sobering effect on the group of eight.

The teleporter was large enough to fit the entire group surprisingly, in fact it looked like it could fit a far larger number of people on it. The teleporter began to hum as the final adept steeped on and in the next instant there was a blinding light. To the adepts it felt like something was sucking at them, both physically and spiritually, draining them of their strength. The feeling lasted only a moment but they still felt drained when the teleport finished and they arrived in the foreign land. The ruins they found themselves in were massive and they stared in at awe at their beautiful blue glow for a time before searching the ruins for something like a map or something similar; however they found nothing save a massive room with a throne towards their right. Next them there was a fountain spewing water which wouldn't have been strange under normal circumstances, but almost one hundred meters away they could see the entrance of the ruins led to a desert. Just where were they exactly and how would they be able to cross the desert?


A/N: Next chapter I'll introduce some of the Fire Emblem characters that will play a semi-main to main role in the story (hope you like Pent and the lords!). Also, think of this as a "coming into your own" kind of thing for me. I am my own worst enemy when it comes to things like this (ie. too harsh of a self critic) and I work a lot every week and coupled with school this is probably going to be slow until Summer (two weeks away baby!) where I'll only have work to deal with. So I ask that while I'm still kinda new to this please be thorough with your reviews so I know what should be improved/fixed in the story.