This is an ike/soren pairing if you don't like it then either leave, or you can flame me which will be used in the next gathering with my friends to make smores. If you do like that pairing then I hope you enjoy the story and leave a comment. All opinions are welcomed good or bad. Sadly enough I do not own the game series, probably a good thing seeing as im bad with strategy games on my own, but all characters belong to the company and makers of the game and characters. Not that anyone will ever read this, I hardly ever do, but I don't want anything bad to happen so there is the disclaimer. And now for those of you actually reading this(wow) here is the story, and this is my first one written down, please review.
CHAPTER 1: ILLNESS
As a soldier silently fell behind him he stood from his crouched position and surveyed the rest of the battlefield as best he could through the rain. The rain fell cold as ice and hard as stone and clouded anything visible after 15 feet, but from what he could see the other mercenaries were finishing up their last opponents.
"COMMMANNNDEERRRRR!" Came a shout behind him, turning around he sheathed his sword as he recognized the figure of Mia running towards him carrying something on her back.
"Mia, what is it?" he asked as she got close enough to hear him.
"Its Tormod, he's injured and I can't find Rhys or Mist anywhere" she said worridly
"Rhys stayed back at camp as he doesn't feel well, and Mist is riding on the eastern part of the field." stated an annoyed voice from behind them startling them
"Oh ok, thank you Soren." she stated as she and Tormod disappeared through the rain.
"Excellent strategy as always Soren." he said with a grin
"Yes well if only everyone would follow it." he said as he glared in Mia and Tormod's direction.
"Well no real reason to worry, we will find out later how he got into this fight and do a better job of making sure he doesn't get into another one until you see fit…hey whats that? On your arm." Ike asked as he noticed a rather large cut on Soren's right arm.
"First of all im not worried I'm annoyed and that's nothing of real consequence Ike, we have more pressing issues-but your hurt…your untouchable on the field, what happened" Ike asked as he interrupted the sage who again tried to get his full attention and cover the bleeding cut which seemed to be turning a shade of purple
"Commander Ike, we have more pressing issues than a flesh wound, the things that I fought out there were different than anything we have faced before. They remind me of the Feral we fought during the Mad Kings war with Izuka, but this time, it was also Beorc affected, not just Laguz…." he paused as a jolt shot through his body taking any rational thought, unnoticed by Ike
Ike began to pace as he thought about what was said ignoring Soren
"Feral? But with Beorc and Laguz, I thought those were just crazed Laguz, and we killed Izuka or at least we should have, yes he's dead. He has to be, maybe someone has some information we can use, what do you think Soren? Uh Soren? What's wrong?" Ike asked as he noticed that Soren's eyes were distant and he was swaying dangerously back and forth.
"It-It's nothing com…commander im….I…m fine,…just…" he said his voice slurred then suddenly collapsed to his knees with a groan.
"Soren! What is it whats wrong?" Ike asked worridly as he knelt down beside a now shaking Soren. "I-Ike…I'm….I don't-" he stuttered taking Ike by surprise when he suddenly collapsed against Ike. Taking a deep quick breath to calm his nerves a little he picked up the now unconscious sage bridal style and began to run in the general direction of the camp. As he ran he grew more and more worried as Soren's condition seemed to worsen, he could feel the mages heartbeat rapidly increase and become sporadic and his breath was becoming strained. Halfway through the field he noticed a familiar cat and called out to it.
"Ranulf! Ranulf, I need you to get to camp and warn Rhys that I'm coming, something is wrong with Soren!" he felt a little better as he saw the cat Laguz nod its head and speed ahead of him. As the rain started to fall harder and colder Ike tried to pick up speed as Soren only seemed to get worse. He could feel through the robe that his body had become fevered and his skin had become whiter than snow and was clammy, and his breath was now harsh and dangerously shallow.
"Hang in there Soren, almost there." he said as he thought he saw the general outline of the camp.
As he arrived at Rhys' tent he saw that Ranulf was nowhere to be found but Rhys was waiting outside the tent.
"Ike, what happened?" Rhys asked puzzled
"I don't know, we were talking and he suddenly collapsed" he said between breaths,
"Well set him on the bed and go check the others, ill take a look at him and see if I cant find out what's wrong." Ike did as he was instructed and left the tent to go check on everyone else, plus he couldn't stand seeing him that way. Making sure that they were alone Rhys sighed and began to take off the heavy outer layers of Soren's robe leaving him in his inner layer which was a thin black material. Rhys found it funny that when Soren became a sage he was given white robes, he wore them for a little, then changed into black robes much similar to the ones he wore before, but these were trimmed with green instead of gold or any other color. Black and green, so like Soren to wear black rather than white. As he finally noticed the cut on Soren's arm he snapped out of his reverie and took a look and gasped when he noticed that the skin around the cut was a deep purple and the blood flowing from the wound was also a deep purple. Realizing what was wrong he grabbed a knife and a towel and nervously and pale faced began carefully cutting off the skin that was purple as well as tightly wrapping a string around his arm above the cut to try and cut off anymore blood from getting infected. He heard a gasp behind him as Ike once again came into the tent. Rushing forward he knelt down
"Rhys, what are you doing?" "I am trying to help him, I don't know how or where someone would get this, but whatever got to him was poisoned Ike, and this was not your average poison, its extremely rare, hard to make, and even harder to acquire.
Ike was stunned, everything was getting confusing.
"So if he is poisoned, how is that going to help?" he asked indicating to the pieces of flesh already on the towel and more that Rhys was cutting.
" Because Ike, if I can get rid of the infected parts of the skin, it will reduce the speed of the poison. Once I am done here I am going to head into Begnion, I know someone there, he is a herbologist and a great healer."
"I don't care about that, we may have helped them but it is still dangerous for us to go into Begnion, especially for a healer, you may know some attack spells but that wont do you much for an attack,
"Which is why I am also taking Mia and Ranulf, Mia will be more than happy to help me and Ranulf will be able to get the potion to you faster than I ever could." he said stubbornly taking Ike off guard.
"What if something happens to Mia or Ranulf, everyone knows about you and Mia being a couple, and if Ranulf is injured then what? Plus 3 people is hardly enough protection." Ike said trying to get some sense into Rhys.
"Ike please, think about this for a moment, right now the company tactician, your boyfriend, is slowly dying by a poison that can only be cured by those who know of it, such as the herbologist in Begnion, and I need to get there and back as quickly as possible. My horseback riding has improved so I can go farther than I used to, Mia is a Myrmidon, meaning she is fast with endurance both on foot and on horseback, and Ranulf can outrun us easily, he is fast, strong, and has a lot of endurance, plus he is reliable. If you don't want Soren to die, let me go. It will be quicker for us 3 than anyone else." he said. Thinking it over for a few moments and looking at Soren lying on the bed, his condition just as bad as it was before.
"Fine, but be careful, what needs to be done for him?" he asked as Rhys was now bandaging his arm.
"Nothing, keep the towel on his forehead and don't move him, and make sure that the cloth is always cold, it should help his body temperature, not by a lot but by taking away some of the heat his body shouldn't have to work as hard. Keep him under a blanket and in bed, if he happens to wake up then make sure he stays there and sleep whenever he gets tired. It shouldn't take too long for me to get to Begnion depending on how we ride. As soon as I have the antidote I will send Ranulf back here, we will probably leave at the same time, but he will get here much sooner than me and Mia." He said all of this as he was packing, hefting his pack onto his shoulders he stood up and started to walk off to alert Mia and Ranulf.
5 minutes later Ike watched as two horses and a blue cat left the camp in the direction for Begnion. After they disappeared from sight he alerted the other mercenaries that they would be staying put for a while and set up a watch, which he managed to avoid being part of. Once that was all taken care of he walked back into Rhys' tent to where Soren was lying on the bed
-OK, i am really really sorry for doing that to soren, and unfortunately he is about to enter a roller coaster of ups and downs. but i have the second chapter in the making, but i wont post it when its done until i have at least 5 reviews. i dont care if they are good or bad, i would jsut like your opinions. and also, if there is a pairing anywhere in the universe that you would like to c happen let me know the characters, where or what they are from and i promise to start on it. so i hope to hear from you all very soon. love you all! *holds out a plate of cookies*
