Seth the Silver Knight
Disclaimer: I do not own Fire Emblem, can't, shouldn't, never will. Don't remind me.
A/N: I've always wondered about Seth's past, I mean, I love him, he's awesome, why not try to write about an unknown part of him?
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It was cold out, a gust of icy wind cut through Seth's thin cloak, making him gasp slightly, drawing a look from a peer, the redhead flushed and tried to ignore the weather the best he could. Instead, brownish-red eyes peered out into the distance, searching for the surrounding bandits that this group had been sent out to extinguish.
It was ironic that the Officer had used the phrase 'extinguish' when the weather wouldn't allow a heavily guarded lantern to be lit. As if sensing his thoughts, Mother Nature sent another 'breeze' his direction and he gasped. Seth hear a humored grunt from behind and almost turned his head, but knew that it would be better to keep his eyes on the battlefield.
His first battle, besides his training of course, Seth was eager to do a good job to show he had learned something from his training. He wanted to be a high rank one day, just like his father…So Seth had set his mind to it and joined the Renais Army as soon as he could, and he was still a little too young. It was only because of his father, his father's performance naturally said that Seth would most likely inherit that skill. With proper training and discipline of course…
Thus was why the red-haired boy was standing on the battlefield, an iron sword in hand, his left free to grab a vulnerary at any time.
He noticed a movement in the group, a hand gesture that signified that an enemy was spotted, Seth set his face to what he believed was a hard, determined face and readied his sword.
An axe wielding bandit leapt out of the mist and lunged at a recruit…Milren, was his name, Seth didn't recall ever directly meeting him. The boy awkwardly blocked the blow with his lance, barely stopping it from mortally wounding him. Seth joined in and swiped at the burly man's neck, together, the two boys took the bandit down.
"Thanks." Milren said breathlessly, but cut of short, lunging at a bandit coming up behind Seth, which the red-head had failed to notice.
Milren had made several deep cuts in the axe-wielder's chest, but the man was tough, he swung at the blue-haired recruit and severed his leather vest on a spot. He was about to attack again when Seth made a daring move and thrust at the offending man's heart. It left Seth vulnerable to side attacks and at his distance, there was a fair chance the red head would miss. To both the recruits' amazement and relief, Seth didn't miss and finished the man off with an impressive attack…
For some reason, the surrounding recruits stopped fighting and looked around in amazement, all of the bandits were retreating, "The Commanders been defeated! RETREAT! RETREAT!" The axe fighters all rushed away, the Rens didn't follow, instead took the fleeing as victory.
A man was coming up to Seth and Milren, a guarded look on his face, the red head noticed it was the commander of this charge.
"You two boys finished the leader off." He said simply, checking their reactions.
Seth blinked rapidly while Milren gasped in shock, "We did…?" They both asked in unison, giving each other a quick glance.
"Yes, and without any help from a higher ranking officer. That is a pretty good feat for what we thought your skills could handle at this point."
Both the blue haired recruit and red haired one were speechless, the just stared at the commander in shock.
"I think you've passed this test, you've earned a promotion, welcome to the real ranks of soldier. Well, what are you waiting for, soldiers, get back to the castle. Officer Dremere will introduce you to your new rank." He gave them a hard look that snapped them out of their reverie, and both scrambled, Seth more gracefully, away towards Renais Castle.
When possible the two looked at each other in awe, "Thanks again…You not only saved me back there but you got me up a rank…" Milren said sheepishly.
"We both got up their together, I wouldn't have been able to do that myself…I know that for sure…" Seth trailed off, said honestly.
"So…We're probably going to be in the same area of training…Um, do you want to be friends?" Milren gave him a hopeful, lopsided grin.
"Alright." Seth agreed, "Friends."
"Friends!" Milren clasped Seth's hand and smiled, the red-head in turn gave him a small, friendly one back.
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A/N: Should I continue? Reviews are loved.