Sorry if the english isnt very good. Feel free to point out everything wrong because it isnt my main language (its german...)

Now thank you for reading and enjoy!

She felt a light breeze and didn't want to wake up. The ground was hard but the grass was comfortable and threatened her back to sleep. She laid there only a few minutes then suddenly she was up and opened her eyes too rashly. Dizziness overcame her and the sunlight hurt in her eyes but it didn't matter.

Where was she?

When was this?

And the main question was: Who was she?

She couldn't even remember her own name. Nor her age. Or even how she looked like! Confused she looked around only to find the grass under her red and sticky. She touched the red liquid and smelled at it. Metal and salt. Blood? But where did it come from?

A sharp pain ripped through the back of her head and she gasped. With utmost care she raised her left hand and carefully touched the back of her head. Immediately she took her hand off. It hurt like nothing she knew of.

But then what did she knew? The only thing she knew was that she needed help. This wound was too severe to just let it be. So she tried to stand up but her sense of balance did not work and she fell forwards on her knees and committed mostly more blood.

What the hell?

She looked around. But there were only trees and a few flowers in a clearing. Great. She was in a forest nowhere a person to be seen. Some animals were there too but they seemed not troubled with her presence.

I must find someone, she thought. Maybe there is a village near with a healer. Slowly she again began to rise. This time she didn't rush and when her legs did carry her she only stood there for what felt like a year.

She looked down on herself and inspected the ripped coat she wore. It was soaked with blood on the front too. She must have been in a heavy fight. But why couldn't she remember?

The dark, violet coat had a few interesting pattern but nothing was in the pockets. She opened the front and discovered that she wore nothing more than this. Panicked she closed the coat and sighed. One more problem as she didn't have money or another set of clothes.

She didn't know if she had enough power to support her whole bodyweight with only one foot. So she raised a foot very carefully and extremely slow. Yes it was okay. Then she set it right in front of her.

She could do this.

One foot after another she did a few steps. But when she reached the end of the glade she already breathed heavily. She leaned on the closest tree with one hand and closed her eyes. She took several deep breaths and then she heard something. She furrowed her brows in thought. It seemed familiar but she couldn't put her finger on it yet. Then the trampling became louder and before her inner eye appeared a picture of a horse.

Yes, that it must be.

Hope built up in her. Where horses are, there are Humans too. So she turned in the direction the noise came from and looked with squinted eyes in this direction. The clatter became louder and suddenly a shiver ran down her spine. Her instinct told her that she had to hide herself. And because she didn't have anything left out of her instinct she trusted it and searched for a hideout.

Only then the woman noticed a little animal that slept only a few meters behind the place she had been sleeping. It was completely black and she could spot a tiny set of wings, a beak and lion paws. A gryphon? But it was so small. It had to be a baby! And the men on the horses couldn't overlook something as noticeable as that peaceful sleeping griffon.

The woman hesitated not a second and took all the strength left in her body. She ran towards it, picked it up and headed towards the other side of the glade. The black furball squeaked but as he spotted her he only licked over her cheek.

Adrenaline shoot through her veins and only that held her on her feet. She shot through the forest and searched hectic for a hideout for both of them but found nothing big enough. So she dumped the little creature in a hollow tree trunk and put a finger before her mouth. As if this animal could understand her it nodded and crawled deeper into the trunk. Fast she made sure that the griffin couldn't be seen from outside then she went as far away as she could. Then finally her body couldn't take any more and she collapsed with full speed into the ground.

She couldn't think anymore and red spots danced before her eyes. She heard dread voices which drew nearer. The last thing she saw was a human foot directly in front of her face. Exhausted she closed her eyes and heard someone sneering something like "What have we here? A human? Perfect! Our client wanted something like this…"

Then everything became nothing.

Chrom and Frederick came abruptly to halt as they heard a very loud shriek. Both turned to Lissa who stood a few feet behind them and looked in shock left to a opening in the forest. The blue haired man hadn't even noticed till this moment but they were already at her side weapons drawn.

He let his eyes wander but there was no Brigand, no big animal or anything that could scare Lissa to make such a sound. "What is it Li-" At that moment he saw the blood. It wasn't just a little bit but a pool made out of the red liquid. His face went pale. But there were no one here. Only a track right to them and then it went in the opposite direction.

That made no sense.

Frederick went slowly forward, his lance right before him. "Milady please step back", he said, "Bandits could be near."

"But there could be someone who needs help!" She complained irritated.

"Frederick is right. You shouldn't take unnecessary risks, Lissa." Chrom followed Frederick and kneeled before the blood and inspected it. "And I don't think the one who was this injured is still alive if he has not been treated yet."

"Why?" The blonde girl seemed puzzled and despite the warning from both she followed too. But she avoided to look at all that blood again and stared instead at Fredericks back. She didn't dare to look at that again. The girl was a healer but at the sight of this much blood her stomach turned.

"The blood is a few days old" Frederick said and stands up again. "But we should follow the track just to be sure"

"Right" Chrom stood too and they began trailing the blood as fast as they could. If this person did in fact life he needed help as soon as possible.

But the three didn't even need to search. The track was only a few meters long till there was again a little pool and then nothing. Confused they looked around but found nothing more that would give them a hint.

Then Lissa found a big tree with a hole. She was curious and looked inside but it was so dark she couldn't see anything. She sighed disappointed and at the moment she wanted to say something there was a movement. The blonde became stiff and looked intensely in that hole.

She waited with holding her breath.

Another movement. "Chrom!" She stepped a bit back but kept the eyes on the hole. Her brother came immediately to her. He followed her gaze and looked at that hole too. Then he began slowly to close the distance to the trunk and looked into the hole with squinted eyes.

As he approached with the Falchion pointing to the entrance a hiss could be heard from the trunk. First it was barely audible but as he approached it grew louder and louder.

Suddenly a tiny paw appeared and tried to scratch the weapon but was drawn back an instant later. "… a baby Gryphon?" He couldn't believe this. Gryphons weren't supposed to life in freedom. He couldn't remember since when they existed only for fights. "What?" Lissa became braver and took a step to the trunk.

"Lissa stay back. I think it is really afraid and maybe hungry too. It will be dangerous if it attacks even if it is still small" The blue haired man let his sword sink and immediately the hissing stopped. He blinked. It couldn't be, could it? "Frederick!" He did not let the hole off the eyes but he had an idea.

Frederick had finished inspecting the immediate area as he was called and so he jogged back. "What is it Milord?" His face was stern like always.

"Have we any meat left?" His master asked and the knight answered instantly "Yes. I'll go get it" The brown haired man went quickly to his horse and searched in the saddlebag for the meat in question. As he found it he gave it Chrom. "Thanks"

Chrom didn't want to startle the little animal and so he began to speak in a soft voice as he approached the opening slowly. "Hey little one, don't be afraid. We don't want to hurt you. Here have some meat – it is really tasty!"

He steadily spoke and the little gryphon peeped out. "Yeah, this is good. Come here little one" When he stood as nearly as he could without being in danger to be clawed he stopped.

Frederick watched this with cautions eyes. "Milord, this is dangerous. Let me do it" As he wanted to take a step Chrom threw him a glance over his shoulder that said Don't come here. So he stopped immediately. "But-" he wanted to say but Lissa also looked at him with a hard expression that said Don't! So he had no choice but to wait.

Very excited watched the blonde girl what occurred. She wanted to be friends with the gryphon and didn't want Frederick to interrupt. So she stared at the black animal and waited patiently.

Chrom focused on the gryphon again and continued to speak to it. Very slowly the baby came forth and then it inspected the three of them with great interest. It sniffed and concentrated on the meat. With a sudden jump it snapped the dangling meat from the blue haired man and landed safely on his feet. Then it began to gulp down his food.

With big eyes looked the girl to her brother. "I never saw or even heard from a completely black griffin!"

They exchanged a look and Chrom nodded "Neither did I." Frederick looked at the animal with squinted eyes. "It is… strange. But I am more interested in where it did come from." But no one knew an answer to this and so the three of them remained silent.

As the gryphon had eaten the meat it looked at Chrom with big puppy eyes and let out a bleep. "Do you want more?" He asked amused as he looked at Frederick which sighed and turned around to fetch some more strips of dried meat.

The young animal followed Frederick with clumsy steps and almost fell over its own wings. But somehow it managed to keep up the pace. The siblings watched the two who seemed like a duckling following its mother and couldn't resist laughing. Frederick looked a little confused and annoyed back only to find the gryphon behind him with its tail wagging, waiting for another bit of meat. Charmed he quickly took a piece and carefully reached down to his guest. "You are really smart, aren't you?" Another bleep and the meat were gone with one bite. Satisfied the black gryphon nuzzled the steed which was returned and then he jumped on it and turned a few times then laid down to sleep. Only seconds later they could hear a soft snore.

Lissa smiled cheerfully. "Can we keep it?" She asked full of hope.

"You promise you will care for it?" Asked her older brother strictly and the girl nodded earnestly. "Good" He smiled at her and got a big hug in return. "You are the best, big brother!"

Frederick cleared his throat. "Milord, there is no one here. What do we do now?"

"We should go to Southtown and hear if the townspeople know of someone who needed a heal." Chrom said serious. The fun was over. So Frederick nodded and took the reins as they arose fast southward.

Thats it for Chapter 1. I hope you liked it!

More to come...? :)