I awoke, with only a towel around my waist, and beautiful women only in towels staring at me. I was in a bathhouse of sorts, it was extremely hot. My face immediately turned a bright red color.
"W-what the hell..." I stuttered. The women had dark red hair back in a ponytail. Each woman looked the same, except for their breast sizes I noticed. They look exactly like the Annas, Anna's, Annamese, or whatever they're called from Fire Emblem Awakening. This has to be a dream right? Even if I was in Ylisse, how would I have ended up being in a bathhouse with the Anna's? I blacked out and hit my head against something hard.
I opened my eyes and stared up at a roof. Blankets were strewn about my body. "Phew... It was just a dream. Although it would be awesome to see a half-naked, or fully naked Anna." I mumbled, not caring who would hear. My dreams are sometimes like that. Well, at least some of the times that I actually remember my dreams.
"Huh, did you say my name?" A woman's voice asked me. I froze, why is there a unknown woman in my room? Wait a minute, this isn't my ceiling. Does that mean that I'm in someone's room that I don't know? This roof, it actually looks like a caravan top. Wait, now that I think about it, this voice sounds familiar. But it couldn't be the person I'm thinking of. No way at all. I sat up and looked around for the source of the voice I heard. My eyes rested on a beautiful woman with dark red hair in a ponytail. She wore a red trickster outfit, exactly like the one Anna wore when you first got her in Fire Emblem Awakening. This is a dream right? She looks completely identical to Anna.
It can't be someone cosplaying as her, she looks the same as the game art, except she was more beautiful. In real life, humans looked more, how do I say... well, real. This 'Anna' looked too anime-esque to be real. But, I won't complain. Personally I like anime-esque art than real life. I don't know why, maybe it's because I got into anime in my elementary years. All because of my brother.
"Are you just going to stare, or are you going to answer my question? Time is money you know" the woman asked again. Don't have to be so rude about it.
"N-no I didn't say your name" I stammered. It would be embarrassing if she heard what I said. I'm not very good in awkward situations. "Um... w-where are we?" I wondered.
"We're in a caravan" she stated. What? That's the explanation I get? Please take this serious dream Anna. This has got to be a dream, that's got to be the only explanation as to why she seems exactly like in the game.
"I meant what town are we in?" I explained.
"Oh, we're in the wilderness" she said. Thanks for being so specific. Wait, we're in the wilderness? How the hell did I get out here? Did this dream Anna kidnap me or something?
"Well, where are we heading to?" I asked.
"To a lovely town called Southtown" she said. You've got to be kidding me, Southtown? Could you be anymore generic?
"This might sound odd, but what country are we in?" I asked. She stared at me oddly then answered,
"Ylisse of course." No freaking way, this has got to be a joke. Someone must have went out of their way to fool me into believing I'm in Ylisse. Or of course, as I said before, this is a dream.
"No, really, what country are we in?" She looked at me like I was crazy.
"We're in Ylisse you idiot, the only Southtown in the world is in Ylisse" She insisted. I somehow doubt it's the only Southtown in the world.
"You're trying way too hard that it's obvious you're lying" I said with certainty.
"Are you some kind of mental case or something?" The caravan came to a stop, "Well I don't care, we're here." She paused, "Now, get out." Excuse me?
"Huh?"
"We're here at Southtown, now get out." So that's how this is going to play out? Well, guess I'll just gather my stuff and leave. I'm sure the prank will end soon, or the dream. Whichever one it is. I stood up and walked to the back of the caravan. "Hold on" Anna said. I turned around. She grabbed a book and held it out to me. "This is yours." This book is mine? I grabbed the book from her and looked at it. It was a dusty old book, it's title was,
Journal Z
Journal Z? That's an odd name. I don't remember ever owning something like this in real life. Although, I did have a journal. But it was a Darth Vader journal and I never wrote in it. This has to be part of the prank, or part of the dream.
"Hey where did you find this?" I asked Anna She looked at me quizzically.
"I found it next to your body" she explained. Next to my body? When I went to bed last night this wasn't by me. A creeping suspicion wormed throughout by body.
"Where did you find my body exactly?" I wondered.
"You fell from the sky" she said with a blank face. From the sky?! Is she serious?! How the hell am I still alive then!? "I saw a body fall from the sky so I went to go look if I could loot anything from the corpse." Wow, what a nice person. "But when I got there I saw you laying there still breathing with this book by you." Okay, this either has to be some kind of elaborate prank, or else this is a really weird dream. All of a sudden I smelt a strong whiff of smoke.
"Smoke? Where is it coming from?" I wondered. I stepped out of the caravan and a horrifying sight awaited me. The town was on fire. "What's going on here..."
"It looks like a bandit attack" Anna said. I didn't notice her come out of the caravan.
"What do you mean by a bandit attack?" I asked.
"Exactly what I said. Bandits are attacking the village." she explained. Don't need to be so rude about it, I was just trying to make sure I knew what you were saying. I looked at her,
"Are we going to save them?" I asked. She seemed to be deep in thought.
"If I save this town then they'll give me a reward which will most likely be either gold or a free night at the Inn. I can probably convince them to give me some money, then I can sell some gear to the townsfolk and gain some more bullions" she mumbled to herself. Is she seriously thinking about money at a time like this? If so, then I have to help these people, it's not like anyone else can. I stepped back into the caravan and grabbed the closest sword I could fine. From what it looked like, I could tell it was a bronze sword. This is heavier than I thought. I put the dusty book I held into a leather bag I found in the caravan that I strapped over my chest. It was a normal looking bag that had one long strap that you wrapped over you shoulder, the bag just hung at your waist. What is that called? A shoulder bag I think. I'm probably wrong since I've never had one. I would have preferred something that wouldn't bump around when I run, but it was the first thing I found. Maybe something like the one strap backpacks, then I could just carry it on my back. I quickly jumped out of the caravan and started running towards town, sword in my right hand, since I'm right handed of course. "Hey wait a minute! Where do you think you're going with my sword!?" Anna yelled.
"I'm borrowing it!" I yelled back. Gods, she's going to be pissed the next time I see her. Which, unless I die will be pretty soon. Wait a minute, did I just say Gods? No time to worry about that, it's time to worry about the town. The town is much more important. As soon as I entered the village I noticed the large amount of bandits loitering about, burning down buildings, killing people, and stealing money. I don't think there this many on normal mode. What a horrible dream. At least now I'm sure this isn't a prank seeing as a bandit just made a huge gash on some guy's body. Oh I am so screwed, I'm completely outnumbered. Well, no time to be worrying about that now. Alright, I've seen a lot of Anime, manga, and played a lot of games. I'm pretty sure I have the basic idea of how to use a sword. Well, time to test my skills.
The bandits have already noticed me and are coming to kill me. Like this bandit right in front of me. Wait a minute, he's right in front of me! The bandit swung his axe down to cleave my head in half. I barely jumped to the side in time, the axe made a small cut on my left shoulder. I stumbled. Holy fricking crap that hurts! Gah! Why must I be so weak to pain!? I quickly slashed at the bandit's side with my sword. The blade connected and made a thin cut. He staggered slightly. This is my chance! I gripped the sword with both hands and sliced the bandit across the gut in an upwards diagonal line. Blood oozed out of the cuts. The bandit staggered backwards, his hand on the wound on his gut. How is he still going? I'm not sure if I can take anymore, there's so much blood coming out of him. I already feel like I'm going to hurl. I sliced his gut again, making a big X shape cut on his stomach. He flew backwards with a scream, his still living body hitting the ground. The blood from his wound on his chest oozed out more blood. The bandit fidgeted a bit, but then died.
"I-I killed him" I stammered. I had never felt this feeling before, the feeling of ending someone's life. I almost threw up. I looked up as a bandit jumped at me, his axe in both hands. I quickly held up my sword to block. As he hit my sword, a huge shock shot through my arms, making the sword fly out of my hands and clatter against the ground. That's not good. The bandit swung again, I held my arms up to defend as I jumped backwards. His axe made a large cut on my left arm. Holy fricking crap that hurts! My back hit the wall, I held my left arm. I quickly looked around, crap! I don't have anywhere to run! Is this where I'm going to die!? By the filthy hands of a freaking bandit?! Gods I hope this is really just a dream.
Lightning shot through the air and hit the side of the bandit. The lightning brutally charred his body, his screams echoing through the town. He finally died, his burnt corpse hitting the ground. I fell down onto my butt and took a deep breath. I smelt charred flesh. I looked up, a man with a medium build with red hair and red eyes ran over to me. He wore a long flowing coat. He held a yellowish tome with a lightning bolt in the middle. He held his hand out,
"Hey, are you okay?" he asked. I nodded, I grabbed his hand and got pulled onto my feet. "You should be more careful, there are bandits everywhere." This man, he's... "My name's Robin, what's yours?" Yep, sure enough, he's the Avatar of Fire Emblem Awakening. This is one realistic dream alright, he wore the exact same clothes in the game, the mark of Grima on his hand, his red hair and red eyes. Everything is identical to how I made him on my playthroughs. I probably shouldn't tell him my real name though. I'll just use my username that I use for everything. In fact, I used the same username to name him.
"I'm Ziro, Ziro Nakamura" I said. I came up with this name after watching the TV show Heroes. I based it off of the character Hiro Nakamura. Me and my brother decided to base our user names off of Hiro and his friend Ando. Mine became Ziro, while his became Zando. I'm getting off track again aren't I? Robin held out his hand,
"Nice to meet you Ziro." I shouldn't be thinking about other things right now. I shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you too Robin" I said.
"Alright, you still up for fighting some bandits? We're in need of some help" Robin asked. I doubt you need help with Frederick along, if this was like the game. He should be able to solo all of the bandits. Anyway, if I just keep that bandit's death to the back of my mind, I should be fine, at least for this battle. I can worry about everything later, when my life doesn't depend on quick thinking.
"I can still fight" I replied. Robin smiled,
"Good" he said.
"Just hold on a moment please." I turned around and walked a couple of feet away from Robin. I bent over and vomited all over the ground. Well, there goes dinner. I freaking hate vomiting, it feels so nasty. I turned back around, picked up my sword and stood in front of Robin. "Now I'm ready" I smiled. I'm ready now that my stomach is empty and I can't throw up anymore. Well, hopefully I'm ready. A bandit jumped out of nowhere and sliced his axe down at Robin. "Watch out!" I pushed Robin out of the way and stabbed the bandit through the neck. His garbled screams making me want to throw up again. Damn it, I can't throw up anymore. I already threw up last nights dinner, and breakfast is already out of my system because of a bathroom trip before I had dinner. I'm still monologuing. I pulled my sword out of the bandit's neck and kicked his corpse onto the ground.
"Thanks" Robin said.
"You should pay more attention" I said. He really should, I mean he's supposed to be the tactician. If he can't even pay attention to his own surroundings, how is he supposed to come up with genius plans by analyzing the battlefield? I gripped my sword and ran off to find a bandit to fight. Without looking back, I knew Robin followed behind, his Thunder tome in his hand. I looked around, okay, there seems to be around 4 or 5 bandits left, then all that's left is the leader. I forget his name, well it doesn't matter. It's not like he's an important character or anything. He gets killed in the first mission anyways. I stabbed a bandit in the back, pulled my sword out and blocked an attack from another bandit, pain coursing through my limbs.
Lightning struck the bandit and sent him flying. Nice back-up Robin. I felt something cleave into my side, the force making me fall onto the ground. I looked at my side, a freaking hand axe? Damn it, I should have been paying more attention. My sight began to black out. So I'm saved by Robin, just to get killed by a bandit with a hand axe? Unless, Lissa can come and save me that is. Damn it... I really can't fight at all, anime and manga make it look way too easy. Well, at least this is a dream right? I then blacked out.
