This is my very first Fanfiction, it's based on one of my favorite games: Legend of Heroes, Trails in the Skies (I have played all three chapters). I am planning on making at least 7 characters, and will be adding every character that I can from the game into this fanfiction.

Anyways, enjoy! ;) -Kaguna

Prologue:

"It all started with a village, within the outskirts of Liberl. I was about 11 when I saw them die. My family, my friends and my fellow villagers, slain again and again like they were sport by these soldiers."

I was in so much pain that I woke up. I was on some kind of rocky surface. The ground was red... almost looked like blood.

"The Erebonian slaughtered almost everyone I knew, until I knew that only the girl who was the daughter of the smith appeared from the ashes."

I look up the skies, they're bright red. I hear agonizing screams, as if this place is where the departed suffer for eternity.

"Another patrol was coming up to execute the rest of the survivors, I wanted to fight and die with my village."

I scream in agony over the fact that I lost her, the one I swore my life for.

"That very moment, I was shot. I couldn't believe it because I was naive, I thought I will pull some kind of childish fantasy, some battle where one person destroys an army and takes the princess. That very moment, I fell into the deepest despair and fainted."

I clutch onto her memento, her gift, the very Orbment she gave me that day.

"At that very moment, I woke up and saw a crying face. It was that very girl, she wept and called me stupid over and over. I felt shame in myself, throwing my life will not help this tragedy. I decided to vow with her the very day. A promise that we will help each other in need."

I still remember that old Vow, that very vow that carried me through. In my tears I whisper it, hoping to get some relief from this pain. Or maybe an miracle.

(Cross our hearts, and hope to die)

(I will never betray nor desert you)

(We shall always help each other)

(Until we meet our fathers)

"She said after, 'Let's go on adventures together, but where do we go? We have nowhere, our village is...'. I told her not to worry, that we can always move to Rolent, where I can get a job and support her. She didn't like the idea, she told me 'I'm the one to take care of you... Jay."

...

"Was it really ten years ago? I still remember it all, It's been a lot while. The bracers, especially Cassius, a nice person at heart, helps us, providing jobs for me to complete to support the girl and me. We passed our Bracer exams 5 years after the massacre at our village happened. I climbed up ranks higher and higher due to the fact that I had nothing else to do then train. Meanwhile, the girl had been experimenting with the orbments within the Orbment factory. She produces Orbments for the bracers to use while gaining some profit from the orbsmith. The orbsmith is a kind man, who gave her the job due to her more advanced understanding about orbments compared to his apprentice (Which won his apprentice's heart.. Until he learned about me)."

"We've been traveling across the continent, but I heard his daughter passed the Bracer Exam and is preparing to travel across the continent. He must be proud... until he gave us an assignment to trail... (What was their names...) Estelle and Joshua, yes, them across Liberl to make sure they at least are safe from threats that are too much for them to handle. I was surprised (because I was an A-rank bracer) to gain such honor."

It's been twelve years... I'm bleeding out... stuck in this rotting abyss... I still remember, I fell in love the moment I saw her, but... But I never told her...

"I love you... Kiriel."