Since I am extremely bored and have had this stupid idea stuck in my head since I first played Fire Emblem. I am writing a romance!
Guy: AHHHH!!!
FireEdge: Shut up! I've written romance before, and no one's flamed me yet!
Guy: Yeah, but that wasn't in Fire Emblem!
FireEdge: So? What's the difference?!
Guy: Big difference! Mondo difference!
FireEdge: If you don't be quiet and be a nice little muse, I will send the penguins after you!
Guy: Eep! Me good! Me good!
FireEdge: Such stupidity! Hehehe. Anyway, please review!
Note: My tactician actually doesn't represent me in any way. I just made her up. Thought I'd add that, just in case anyone was wondering.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem. Stray Arrow Chapter 1Seeing an archer less than a few feet in front of her, Florina slowly edged away from the wall. When she thought she was far away enough that the auburn-haired archer couldn't hear her, she yelled.
"Lyn!"
"Florina! What is it?!" Lyn ran up to the frightened pegasus knight.
"What should I do? There's an archer!!!"
"What? Where?" Asked Lyn looking frantically this way and that. Spotting the archer, Lyn much to her surprise, laughed.
"Oh, that's Wil." Said Lyn with a sigh of relief. She called the archer over. At a first glance, the archer seemed to be a cheery sort of guy with friendly brown eyes that twinkled with happiness. But men were men. She was still afraid of him. Especially if they had a bow.
"Hi! You're one of Lyn's friends?" He greeted. Florina automatically froze, but made an effort to at least say hello in return. But the words just wouldn't come out.
"Um… … …"
"What… What is it? Are you unwell?" His face took on a look of worry as the young girl's face paled. Lyn smiled gently.
"I'm sorry Wil. Her name is Florina. She's timid around men, and you… you've got a bow." The lord explained. Wil's smile returned.
"Oh! I see! You must be a pegasus knight! I apologize for frightening you, but I do understand your fear of bows."
"I… um… …I'm sorry… Even looking at a… bow… frightens me ever so much…" She managed to stammer out. Wil smiled reassuringly.
"Of course, I understand. But you should really only fear the enemy's archers, not your own." Florina nodded.
"Yes… of course…" The next few battles Florina engaged in went smoothly. But when Florina attempted to take out an enemy mercenary, she was unaware of an archer sneaking up on her from behind the wall. When she pulled her slim lance out of the defeated mercenary, she barely had time to see the oncoming arrow. She let out a scream. Her pegasus shied away at his master's yell and they luckily dodged the arrow. But to Florina's horror, the archer was nocking another arrow to his bow and was ready to let it fly. Florina wasn't sure that she could dodge the next assault. Her lower lip quivered as she closed her eyes and prepared herself for the oncoming blow. But it never came. Opening her eyes, she saw that the archer was dead. She let out a sigh.
"Are you alright?" Florina started when she heard a voice address her. Whirling around on her saddle, she saw Wil standing on the low wall beside her. She realized that he must have killed the archer.
"Y-yes… T-thank you…"
"That's all right! We're on the same team after all! That's what friends do for each other!" He nodded with a smile. Jumping down from his perch he ran to their tactician, to receive his next orders. Still a little shaken up from what happened, she flew near the back with the tactician, Elfaiya. Turning to look at the pegasus knight, Elfaiya smiled.
"You okay? I'm sorry if that gave you a scare. I didn't see that archer coming. I thought you were out of his range." The tactician smiled sheepishly. "It's a good thing Wil reacted so quickly. I don't know what we'd do without him." Florina nodded slowly. She liked the tactician. Elfaiya was perhaps no more than one or two years older than her, she was funny and she was always nice to her. But Elfaiya seemed to blame herself for every little mistake she made. You might describe her as almost a perfectionist.
"It wasn't your fault. You couldn't have known."
"But I should have known!" Elfaiya frowned. "I don't want to get any of you injured. If I did, I wouldn't be much of a tactician, would I?"
"It's okay. Really. Wil was there. I'm fine now." She tried to reassure the girl.
"Hm… I'm going to make it up to you. Here, take this money and fly yourself down to the armory. You could buy yourself a new iron lance with it."
"Huh?! But I can't do that! I already have a lance! I don't need a new one!" Cried Florina in surprise. Elfaiya shook her head.
"Well, the enemies are bound to get stronger and your slim lance won't do any good if it isn't strong enough. Anyway, it will break soon and the new lance will serve as a spare."
"All-all right." By the time Florina returned from the armory, Lyn was just finishing off the brigand, Migal. Florina flew down next to Lyn. Now that the fighting was done, Florina explained to Lyn why she was here.
"Florina, don't cry…" Soothed Lyn as the girl started crying. She knew that mercenary bands had a lot of men in them, but she really wanted to be a full-fledged pegasus knight.
"Yes! There's no reason to give up your dream!" A man in green armor came up to them. "Lovely Florina! I have the most brilliant idea!"
"Sain!" Another man, this time in red armor, joined them. A scowl was spread on his face.
"You should come with us! With the addition of Wil here, we're a fine group of soldiers, and freelance to boot!" Sain smiled. A surprised Wil then came up behind Florina.
"Wait, did you just include me?"
"Of course! We were destined to meet here! It's fate! Come now, Lyndis's band of mercenaries is as good a training group as you will find anywhere!" Sain declared with a flourish of his arms.
"Um yes… But Florina, will you come with us?" Asked Lyn.
"Travel with you, Lyn? Truly?" Florina perked up. "I would be so… so happy!"
"Fantastic!" Exclaimed Sain. Coming up to Florina, he continued to speak. "Beauteous Florina! I am a Knight of Caelin. My name is Sain…"
"Eeek!" She cried, suddenly realizing that he was extremely close to her. She jumped back to hide behind Lyn. "Stay back! Don't get so close." Sain just sighed in content at her reaction.
"Ah… Beautiful, and yet so modest!" Much to her embarrassment, Wil and Elfaiya started to laugh as Sain continued to shower her with phrases of her beauty. Kent could only watch in exasperation and Lyn just shook her head at what all of this was leading too.
FireEdge: Hah! I did it, you loser!
Guy: Shut up! Just because you typed up one measly chapter doesn't make you any good!
FireEdge: Fine, then let's see what the reviews say, shall we?
Guy: If you get any!
FireEdge: Please review, so I can rub them into Guy's face! Thank you!
FireEdge