Adriannu255: Okay, so this is a request from Chef Colette in a request forum. I just finished it after waking up this morning, before packing to go on the trip I'm on now. I hope everyone enjoys chapter one!

Note: The spell is actually a line from Dawn Awakens because I couldn't think of anything better to use… Sorry.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Fire Emblem. Credit for this idea goes to Chef Colette.


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Chapter 1: What happened?

"Ninety-eight… Ninety-nine… One hundred!" Boyd finished swinging is axe and sighed in frustration. "I just can't get into it. I'll go see if Ike will spar with me." As he walked to the mercenary fort, he tripped over a book that was lying on the ground. "What the heck?" Boyd sat up from his position on the ground and picked the book up. The title was written in writing that looked very confusing for Boyd. "Oh, it's one of Soren's spell books. I guess I'll take it back to him."

Boyd headed into the fort and then to Soren's room, but as he did, he opened up the tome and stopped in shock, how does he read these things?" Soren's door opened nearby, though Boyd didn't notice. "Hey, I think I can read this one… E-eru…"

Soren walked out of his room. "Where is it?" He was searching frantically for a tome he was missing. It wasn't like the usual tomes that he used in battle, and so he was eager to study it and find out what it did. He saw Boyd standing nearby, and saw him holding a book…no wait… There it is!

Soren walked toward Boyd when the axe-wielder's voice suddenly said haltingly. "E…ru…faira…kiho…dohiu…yabam!"

Soren stopped. "Boyd, what are you doing?"

Boyd looked up in shock. "O-oh! Soren! I-I was just, uh…" He looked away blushing from embarrassment. "H-here…" He held the tome out to Soren, but as Soren reached for it, a light suddenly flared out from it engulfing the whole fort as cries of surprise from all the mercenaries filled the air…

- - -

Ike woke up rubbing his head. What was that? He had been getting ready to go spar with Mia, but then a blinding light flashed around him and he passed out. He opened his eyes wearily and almost immediately realized that he wasn't in his room. He pushed himself off the ground, and felt something weird. Something fell down to the side of his face, and he looked out the corner of his eye and saw… What the…? Black hair? He felt behind him and felt thin locks of long, black hair. "That's not--" He slapped a hand over his mouth realizing he didn't sound like himself. He sounded like Soren! Ike quickly looked down at himself and realized he was wearing the long, black, mage robes that belonged to Soren. "What is going on?!"

This shout was echoed by a second as another woke up and discovered something similar had happened to him. A door banged open and Shinon ran out looking panicked, as Boyd finally began pulling himself awake. "This cannot be happening!" Shinon shouted upon getting a good look at 'Ike'.

"Shinon?" Ike asked, flinching slightly as Soren's voice came from him.

"I'm not Shinon?!" the 'archer' shouted.

Ike looked suspicious. "Then who are you?"

"I'm Soren!"

"What do you--" Ike was cut off by several shouts of horror.

"What happened?!"

"Why do I look like this?!"

"Why do I have your body?!"

Everyone ran out of the various rooms in the fort and screamed upon seeing each other.

Soren then knew what had happened. That spell that Boyd unknowingly activated caused them all to switch bodies with each other!

- - -

"So I believe that when Boyd said the spell, it was released spontaneously and caused all of us to switch bodies," Soren explained once everybody had calmed down, and they found out who had been switched with whom.

"You idiot!" Shinon, who was in Boyd's body, said to Boyd, who was in Gatrie's body.

"How was I supposed to know what would happen?!" Boyd shouted back.

"Both of you be quiet!" Soren commanded. "Now, I know of a way to reverse this situation, but it will take some time. A long time, actually."

"How long?" Titania's voice said from beside Ike.

"Around a year, Mist," Soren responded.

"A year?!" everybody exploded.

"Yes." Soren nodded calmly. "I need to study the tome as it will more than likely have a spell that will reverse the effects. Then I need to practice it until it's perfect. If I mess up, I could make things worse, so it will take a long time."

"Great, a year stuck in my brother's body," Rolf, in Oscar's body, pouted.

"I'm not exactly happy about this either," Oscar, in Rolf's body, moaned.

"This is not good!" Gatrie cried. "Lasses don't go for priests!"

"Must you be so harsh?" Rhys frowned lowering his blue-haired head to the table.

Mia looked down at her now frail figure. "Guess I won't be able to spar with boss for a while."

"I suppose not…" Titania sighed from the swordmaster's body.

And so the chaos began…


Adriannu255: Okay so in case I confused you, here is who is who:

Ike is in Soren
Soren is in Shinon
Shinon is in Boyd
Boyd is in Gatrie
Gatrie is in Rhys
Rhys is in Ike
Rolf is in Oscar
Oscar is in Rolf
Titania is in Mia
Mia is in Mist
Mist is in Titania

And I will be referring to everybody by who they are, not by whose body they're in. Please let me know what you think! And I'm sorry about the short length.