Greetings, readers! Thank you for coming to see my second fanfic of Fire Emeblem and CardCaptor Sakura! I hope that you all enjoy this new story of mine. I don't plan on making such long chapters and short deadlines like I've done with my other crossover, "Questions and Reasons". I really pushed myself hard in the fanfic. So, this time, I won't be pushing myself over the edge like I did before and instead will make sure to post at least once per week to prevent stressing myself. Although I enjoy writing my stories, it won't benefit me or you all if I suddenly collapse from all this. That's not what writing a fanfic should be about. I don't know about you all, but I believe that writers should write if they really enjoy writing them. It won't be as motivating nor enjoyable if one stress themselves over what they love to do. So, I took my time and ended up writing more than I thought I would...(again...). It looks like I'll be able to post at least three chapters by Sunday (It's Wednesday. I've already finished this chapter two days ago and am almost done with the next chapter. It also looks like I may start and finish my third before Sunday's over... -_-'). ANYWAY, I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did writing it!

*I don't own any of these characters or plots.

CardCaptor Sakura is rightfully owned by CLAMP, who've produced many other manga and anime.

Fire Emblem: Awakening is owned by the Intelligence System, who've also produced many other Fire Emblem games, three of which Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, Fire Emblem: Fates, and Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia being the most popular they've created by far.*

Guardian of A Flower

Running, running, and more running.

Four figures were seen running through the streets in the middle of the night. An ordinary girl with auburn hair, emerald eyes, wearing her school uniform made up of a black long sleeved shirt, a white skirt and a white sailor hat with black trim. In her hand she was holding a pink staff with a yellow star at the end. A boy wearing green chinese clothing with a broad sword in hand followed close behind her. Behind them was a tall man with long silver hair in a loose ponytail,wearing white silken robes set with dark blue armor, and a long side cape that hangs on his right shoulder. Next to the boy was a large cougar with a chestplate and helmet of beaten metal, studded with a large oval rubies. They dashed through the empty colorless streets. They've been running for a long time and were starting to run out of breath, but what motivated the girl to keep going was-

"This is why I. HATE. GHOSTS!", shouted the girl as she dashing through the streets, "W-why?! Even though, I called out Time!"

She was on the verge of tears as dragons and zombies wielding blades, some on top of flying horses came after them. It wasn't long before they came to a dead end in an alley and turned around only to see the zombies advancing. With the land and sky occupied, they had no where to run. The girl tried to think of something, but neither nor any of the others had an alternative to taking their foes head on. Suddenly, a bright light shone down seperating them from the zombies. The man and the beast reflexively sheilded the two was closest to them from the light that had enveloped them all. The four vanished and shadows crept back on the streets, only streetlamps were elft toillumnate the zombies. Another beam followed abd then the zombies too were gone, leaving the streets empty once again.

When the light that had captured them faded out the four reliazed they had been transported from the street. Drops of water could be heard as waves sloshed back and forth. The girl recognized this scene. She had wiitnessed this before when meeting her friends in different dreams. She understood where she was. In a dream. She waited for something to change and then saw nothing except for an elegant woman with long green hair, flowing white gown and a gentle look on her face; she glowed with a pretty green light. As she looked at the lady's lips moving but was unable to make out a word.

"I'm sorry.", said the girl, "I can't hear you. Can you please repeat that?"

The woman met her eyes with a a kind gaze before starting to fade out.

"Wait!"

But she was already gone into the darkness.

"Huh?"

The voice came from a man with blue clothing, silver armor, a white cape, and a strange shaped sword on his belt. He sat up and looked around the camp ground, but only saw his retainer, Fredrick; Robin, the silver hair amnesic they came across recently; and Lissa, his younger sister with blond pigtails in her hair. They were all sleeping around the campfire Frederick made. The cerulean hair man could clearly see that nothing wa wrong, but his instincts told him otherwise. He slowly got up, which in turn woke Lissa who was sleeping not to far from him. She slowly stood up from her spot upon noticing her brother standing. She still looked half asleep as she yawned and said, "What's wrong, Big Brother?"

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up, but…", said the man, "Something is amiss…"

His sister had an annoyed look on her and said, "Define 'something'."

"I'm not sure… I think I'll have a look around."

Her eyes snapped open and she said with a frown, "Not alone you won't! I'm coming too."

He smiled and thanked his sister before she grabbed her staff and the two left to take a look around in the forest surrouding them.

They had walked for a while before finally stopping to take a look around. The man couldn't see anything amiss nor any enemies in hiding, but he was still uncertain about it. His sister, who stood behind him, look around and said, "It sure is dark."

She paused before commenting "… and quiet. Where did the birds go?"

It was certainly strange for there to be no sound of birds, especially in a forest like this, even if it is night. Catching on to this small detail, the man narrowed his eyes. He quickly turned to his sister and said, "Something's wrong here…"

As if on cue, the ground suddenly started shaking violently making the two nearly lose their balance. Frightened, Lissa screamed and shouted, "Chrom!"

Chrom, grimaced and said, "Gods, what-"

He was interrupted by a quake and nearly fell to the ground. He quickly regained his balance and said with a frown, "What is this madness?! Lissa, stay close!"

As he said this, he held on to his younger sister to keep her from falling and looked up into the distance behind the trees. He could clearly see the trees from the back collapsing, whatever was causing it was heading into their direction. Immediately urging his sister to hurry he pushed her towards the opposite direction. As they ran, Chrom could see the ground behind them rise up and hot molten lava came rushing out like a tidal wave; rocks flew through the sky and came crashing down around them as they ran. He guided his sister as they rushed through the forest and jumped down a ledge away from the destruction. By the time they were out of danger, they had reached a spot with a perfect view of the destruction still unfloding before their eyes as more rocks came flying out and lava flowed from cracks in the ground setting the forest ablaze. As Lissa was catching her breath when she looked up and noticed something in the he she pointed in its direction, shouting, "Chrom! What is that?"

Chrom turned away from the devastating scene and looked to where she was pointing. There, in the middle of the sky, streams of light were gathering in one place, before enlarging; then it opened like a crystal blue eye with a strange magic circle composed of astrological zodiac signs. Slowly, what seemed to be humanoid beings with armor, weapons and a purple haze coming out of them fell from the eye and hit the ground with a thud. Sluggishly, the beings rose while making strange sounds behind their masks and looked at them with glowing red eyes. Chrom drew his blade and said to his sister, "Lissa, you better stand back."

Lissa stepped behind Chrom and watched from afar. One of the beings with an axe roared and dashed toward Chrome, nearly cutting him in half, but he took a rapid swipe at the being while avoiding the hit. Though that strike to the abdomen should've killed it, the being turned its head at an unatrual degree and fought back. It wasn't till he pushed it away and stabbed it in the back that it disappeared into a purple haze. The moment he had delt with one and was able to relax for a bit, he heard a scream and turned to see another axe wielding being about to attack Lissa! She held up her staff in a futile effort to protect herself. He quickly dashed to her rescue, but, with the distance between them he was'nt fast enough to even come close to stopping it. When he realized that he could'nt make it a man; with short cerulean blue hair, much like Chrom's, wearing blue leather armor, a blue cape and a blue butterfly mask; stopped the blade of the axe with his sword behind his back. He faced Lissa and supported the sword with a single hand against the weight of the blow. Lissa, who was prepared to take that blow, saw the man was clearly struggling against the axe wielder. Chrom too watched in amazment untill the man look in his direction and shouted, "Help!"

Chrom nodded and ran over to help him. The creature was caught of guard by Chrom and the man; together they finished it off, each with a single strike that would've cut it in half from the waist, but istead it vanished into purple haze once more. Once it was gone, Lissa began to calm down a bit and the siblings looked over to the masked man. Chrom said, "Quite an entrance… What's your name?"

The man turned his head to look at them, but, before they could get a response, Frederick came up to them on his horse with Robin close behind. The brown short hair knight said with a worried look, "Milord! Milady! Are you hurt?"

Lissa looked to them, shocked to be seeing them again after everything that had happened, she cried out "Frederick! Robin!"

Robin, wearing a dark robe with silver hair while holding a tome in his hand and a sword on his belt, looked at their enemies, then grimaced a frown and said, "Are such horrific creatures commonplace in these lands?"

Chrom shook his head and said, "They're not from Ylisse, I promise you that."

Relieved, Frederick said, "No one is injured, then? Thank the gods…"

"Thank the masked man who saved me. If it wasn't for him, I'd be…", said Lissa as she turned around only to find him missing, "Hey, where did he go?"

Frederick said, "We can worry about him later, after we put these…things…to the blade."

He readied his lance saying; "Eyes open now. We know nothing about this enemy."

Chrom agreed and with that the four prepared for a clash against the creatures. They were'nt long into the fight when a woman with short red hair, sporting red and white armor with a lance in hand charged into the fray riding a chestnut colored horse.

"Captain Chrom! Wait! I'm coming!", she said gaining on the group. "Agh, I knew I shouldn'ta left 'em."

Alongside her was a man in blue and leather armor, he pocessed a bow and a quiver of arrows, and had blue hair flowing past his shoulders, Robin asked Chrom, "Are they friends of yours as well?"

Chrom nodded and said, "The lady on her mount is a good friend of mine and a fellow shepherd, Sully. I don't know the man next to her, but it does look like he came to help."

After saying this they saw Sull'ys faceturn to a dark with a smile and she punched the man. Nervous sweat dripped at thiy sight as Robin filled with doubt bout the nature of the ones apporaching them; but, seeing her return to normal immideitly afterwards he came to the conclusion that her companion must have said something to anger her. He directed his attention back to the fight.

It wasn't long before Chrom and the Shepherds were able to cut down all the Risen, espeically with the help of the masked man and Robin's tactics. Once the battle was over, Chrom, Lissa, Frederick, and Robin went to hear of their report as Sully and the archer made a round to ensure there werent any remaining enemies lurking. Frederick nodded aand gestured to the masked man, "It seems all the creatures are vanquished. This young man took care of the others."

The man remained silent and Lissa said, "Um, I never got to thank you…for before. So…thank you. You were very brave."

Chrom nodded and said with a smile, "You saved my sister's life. My name is Chrom. Might I ask yours?"

The man nodded and said, "You may call me Marth."

"Marth? After the heroic king of old?", said Chrom with a raised eyebrow then nodded, "You certainly fight like a hero. Where did you learn your way with a sword?"

March shook his head and said, "I'm not here to talk about me. This world teeters at the brink of a horrible calamity. What you saw tonight was but the prelude. You have been warned."

He then turned around and walked away. They were all left conufsued and Lissa said, "Huh? What's teetering where now?"

She saw the man walk away and shouted, "Hey, wait!"

However, the man had already vanished. Robin shook his head and said, "Not much for conversation, is he?"

Frederick nodded and said, "It appears his skills lie elsewhere. I wager we'll hear his name again. But for now, I'm more concerned about the capital. We should make haste."

They turned around to leave when they heard someone shout.

"Captain Chrom! I see more of those creatures and they're afta a child!"

It was Sully. They ran over to her and caught sight of the creatures running towards a little girl in strange clothing, she held a star staff in her hand. She was lying on the grassy ground under some bushes, unconscious. Surprised, Robin shouted with a concerned voice; "What in the world is a child doing all the way out here in the forest?!"

Chrom shook his head and said, "I don't know, but we need to save her and fast."

They hastily made thier way to her, intercepting the enemy. However the creatures turned on them now and began attacking. With the path blocked by the raging risen, Robin and Sully began to help take down the creatures Chrom was fighting. Robin shouted, "We'll take care of this! Quick! Go save that girl!"

The man nodded and ran past them to the creatures that were still charging the child. He got between them in time to cut down an axe wielding creature beore chasing after another one who had slipped passed him. As it got closer to the girl, Chrom ran as fast as he could to cut it down when a large cougar wearing armor embedded with large red jewels jumped out from behind the bushes and shot out a fire ball at the creature, thereby incinerating it. Without hesitation, Chrom sized the opertunity and cut down the surprised creature. He then watched as the beast shot out another fireball atone holding a bow and arrow, incinerating the objects till they dissipated into purple haze. With the monsters gone, the beast turned around and walked over to the girl. Frederick was clearly alarmed by this and shouted, "Stop!"

However, before he could run up to the beast, Chrom stopped the knight with the raise of his arm blocking the man from doing the obvious thing and said, "Hold on, Frederick!"

The knight looked at him with a questioning look and said, "But, milord-!"

Suddenly, Lissa pointed at the beast and whispered, "Look!"

They watched as the beast examined the girl and, then, surprisingly, let out a sigh of relief and said, "Thank god!"

They were shocked to see the beast calm down. Robins sweat dripped and said, "Is it just me or did that beast just talk?"

Lissa shook her head and said, "Nope. I heard it loud and clear too."

The beast turned around and said, "Huh? Oh, right!"

He faced them with a clear a smile before bowing his head and saying; "Thank you very much for coming to my master's aid. I didn't think they'd come during the short time I was away."

He lifted his head and said, "I'm Kerberos, but you can go ahead and just call me Kero. This here is my master, Sakura. So, who are you guys?"

Snapped from his stupor, Chrom smiled and said, "Oh, my name is Chrom. This here is my sister, Lissa, while the man next to us is Frederick."

Chrom then gestured to behind them and said, "And these people here are Sully, one of my Shepherds, and…"

The man bowed, "My name is Virion, sir."

Robin nodded and said, "And my name is Robin."

Kero tilted his head and said, "Shepherds? You mean those who care for sheeps? And you do it in armor? Are you sure?"

Chrom smiled looking back at Robin and said, "You guys could say that. We do have a lot of sheeps to protect after all."

Frederick sighed and said, "May I ask what do you mean by master? Surely, you don't mean that child is your master. She's looks too-"

Kero tilted his head and said, "What do you mean by that? Of course, she's my master and a friend above all else. Who else would it be?"

Before Frederick could say anything, Robin said, "Okay then, so what are you two doing way out here in the forest?"

Kero shook his head and said, "We were chased by those monsters and then a light came out of nowhere. Next thing I knew, I woke up here in this forest and my master is still asleep. We don't even know where those monsters came from. They just appeared one day."

"I see. So, you left your master here and went off?", said Robin, "Not a very good idea, I must say."

Kero sighed with drooping round ears and said, "Yes, but I needed to see where we currently are. So, I did what I could and hide her under these bushes, then went to take a look around, it was only few minutes ago. I didn't think those monsters would come after her while I was gone. It would've been easier if we were still with our friends, but we got separated after the light shined."

"You do know that you're story isn't very convincing", said Frederick with a sigh, "Much like this one here."

Robin sighed and said, "I know it's suspicious that I only just remembered my name and only knew who Chrom was, but atleast he remembers everything."

Chrom nodded and said, "So, Kero, correct? What are you going to do now?"

Kero thought for a bit and said, "I don't know. Everything here is completely foreign to us, but I'm thinking of starting by taking my master to a populated place nearby. She needs a place to stay, we can figure out the rest later."

Robin frowned and said, "You say that, but…you do realize that, to other people, you look like a dangerous beast that could attack them at any moment, right?"

Kero nodded and said, "Yeah. That's the problem here. I can't just waltz through there with a human on my back. I can change my form but then I'll be too small to carry her."

Lissa shouted in surprise, "You can do that?!"

The beast nodded and said, "Of course!"

Suddenly, a pair of large white angelic wings sprouted from his back and wrapped around the beast. It floated in the air and a strange magic circle with a sun and moon appeared below him.

"What the?", shouted Robin in surprise.

When the wings uncovered him, there in his place was wha tlooked like a small plush toy, much like a animated cougar; a smaller, sweeter form of himsel with tiny wings and no armor or pale belly, and beady eyes. He was floating in midair with arms folded and a smile full of pride as he said, "So, what do you think?"

They were silent, but Lissa squealed in delight, "So cute~!"

The plush toy seemed to have made a dramatic fall to the ground, then got back up in the air. He sighed scratching the back of his head in disappointment and said, "Well, I guess my true form is a lot better, this is just a disguise."

Chrom thought for a bit, then said, "You know, I think we can take you into the capitol like that, along with your master. We can just have someone carry her for you."

Frederick said, "Milord, are you sure of this? I know she's just a small girl, but what if this is all a trap set by the beast?"

The man just smiled and said, "I believe it will be fine. I trust in him. Anyone can see he sincerely cares about the girl. I don't see why we should'nt help them."

Robin nodded and said, "Speaking of your master, she's still asleep?"

They looked over to the girl and Chrom said, "Lissa, can you go and take a look at her?"

Lissa smiled and said, "Got it."

She walked over to her with her staff and examined the girl. Then, she turned around shaking her head and said, "There's nothing wrong with her. She just looks exhausted."

Kero nodded and said with a serious expression, "That's because when we were escaping from the monsters, she cast a spell for a long period of time. She used up a lot of magic. She'll wake up sooner or later. I also don't plan on leaving her by herself anymore, not after what just happened."

Robin nodded and said, "Have you decided on what to do after we find a plce to rest?"

He shook his head and said, "I don't know. As far as I can tell we know nothing of this place. Our town in mostly populated with people and high technology. In fact, humans used so much land that some places had to be protected to conserve what's left of the wilderness. It's completely different from here and this forest."

Chrom was a little confused at his words and said, "I'm not really sure what kind of place you two come from to have such things, but perhaps it would be better for you to stay with us for now."

Kero nodded and said, "Alright. In the mean time, I'll go hide in her bag."

Chrom turned to Sully as Kero flew into Sakura's red backpack lying next to her and said, "Sully, can you keep the childwith you on your horse, for now, till we get back to the capitol?"

Sully nodded and said with a smile, "Sure."

Chrom and Robin helped lift the girl up onto Sully's mount and draped her bag over the saddle, and with that they made haste to the capital.

YueTian: Phew. That's it for now. Now! On to the next! Oh, wait. I still need to go to the gym…

Frederick: And where's that?

YueTian: Uh… A place to exercise and move around….

Kero: *Sigh* Frederick, right? A gym is where people, who don't exercise much and gain weight fro staying indoors or want to move around and waste energy go to.

YueTian: HEY! That's not a compliment at all!

Lissa: Um… So, when is she going to wake up? She's been sleeping for a while now…

Kero: Probably for half a day. After using that much magic, that's what usually happens.

Robin: So when are we going to reach the capitol, Chrom?

Chrom: Don't worry. We'll be there by sunrise.

YueTian: Yup! That's how things are suppose to go anyway!

Robin: Really?

YueTian: Yes! Also, you're going to have a busy day tomorrow too, but you'll be fine.

Robin: Huh? Why? What's going to happen?

Chrom: I can imagine why, but I don't think it'll be that much of a busy day though.

YueTian: Oh, you'll see!

Frederick: I don't like the sound of that, especially not from you.

Kero: Anyway, the next chapter will be-

YueTian: Don't!

Kero: Huh?!

YueTian: Someone else already used that idea of introducing the title of the next chapter and I don't plan to copy it from them, instead let's use hints!

Kero: Again!?

YueTian: Our hint for the next chapter is "Shepherds".

Kero: That's basically the title of the next chap-

YueTian: That's the game's. I plan to give a different title. Now, see you on the next chapter, readers!

Kero: Just hurry up and finish writing it!

YueTian: Okay! Okay! Geez…