A/N: This is actually me now, not Flaming Doritos. I've been sorta busy with stuff, and forgot to post this weekend, but I did it now!

First REAL Battle

The very next day, Ike awoke refreshed on his bed. He stretched for a couple seconds, then left the room; not even bothering to change from the one pair of clothes that he had. As he wandered outside, he saw Mist chasing Rolf; Boyd's younger brother, down the hall. They were both wearing pots on their heads, and Rolf ran smack into the side of a door, but quickly got up and ran through it after Mist.

"Aah, to be young again…" thought Ike to himself

"IKE!!" shouted Father from the other end of the hall, "you're supposed to be up by dawn, no later!"

"It's not a big deal; it's only a couple hours after."

"IT'S 2:30 IN THE AFTERNOON!!!"

"Okay, I'll get up on time next time."

Father muttered, "Very well, I'll let you off easy this ONE time. But now, Ike, I want you to wait outside until I'm out. I need to…talk with Titania here."

The red-haired paladin waved to Ike, and then he left the hall. As he stood outside the front door, Boyd and his older brother Oscar walked towards him.

Oscar was a lance knight, with green hair, green armor, and squinty eyes. Despite the fact that he was always riding his horse, because his horse was possessed by a demon and taking over his mind with homicidal thoughts, he was a REALLY nice guy.

"Hiya, Ike," he greeted. "You ready for your first REAL battle?"

'Kill him now!' shouted the horse in Oscar's mind, 'while the others have their backs turned!"

"NO! We'll never get away!'

"Yeah," said Ike, "but I'll soon be just as good as everyone else, you'll see!"

Just then, Titania came out of the building riding her white stallion.

"Hello, Ike," she greeted, strapping the last of her silver armor on, "we've been assigned a mission in a small town called Caldea. We've been asked to drive off some bandits, and we should be able to teach you a couple things about being a mercenary!"

"Just stay with me, Ike," said Boyd, "I need to be a perfect model of perfection so you can learn from ME!"

"Shut up, Boyd" said Titania.

And so the four were off.

Caldea was a small town with five buildings, and stood atop a high cliff overlooking the western sea. Ike and the company arrived just outside the gate to find a half a dozen bandits just hanging around.

"All right, Ike," said Titania, pulling out a screen from her pack, "THIS thing is a map!"

"I-I think I know what a map is, Titania."

"Okay; you never know. Now, using computer technology we can see exactly where we are on this map, and where our enemies are."

"…I'm not following…"

"We're the blue dots, and the red dots are-"

"NO, what the thing on the…what's the computer thing called agai-"

"A MAP!"

"Right, so what is this a MAP of-"

"Caldea!"

"…"

"Where we are!"

"…I'm still not foll-"

"YOU KNOW WHAT, JUST FORGET IT! Just KILL everyone over there!" Titania shouted pointing at the town.

After the discussion, the four equipped their weapons; Ike a slim, iron sword, Boyd had an iron axe, Oscar wielded a skinny iron lance, but Titania swung a heavy STEEL axe. Once set, they all charged, ready to kill something.

Ike and Oscar took the main route through the center of town, and were met by three enemies. Oscar charged at a tiny myrmidon, who fell backwards after being stabbed. Ike attacked a nearby bandit, but got countered by their axe. Boyd ran around the side building, hoping to ambush the enemies from behind, but a fighter looking almost completely identical to him ran into him, as if he were planning the same thing. They both looked at each other with eagerness to attack, but then the both dropped their weapons, hugged each other and started sobbing, both thinking the other was their long lost brother. Titania saw a building and decide to ransack it hoping to find something useful, also because she didn't want to waste her awesome talent in the fight; so the battle was just focused on Ike and Oscar.

Ike quickly killed the axe-wielding bandit with one last blow, but got attacked by a second fighter. Oscar came to the scene spinning his lance in front of him, and stabbed his weapon straight through the enemies chest. While Ike quickly healed himself, he stabbed his sword through the fallen myrmidon to ensure his death.

Another sword fighter and bandit came running around the corner of a close by building, but Ike and Oscar were waiting and ambushed the two with a one-hit kill; both across the head. All that remained was a third fighter and the leader of the band. Just then, Boyd came into the battle, and completely owned the last bandit with a swing to the legs, then across the chest. What happened to the guy with him?... No one knows…

The leader stood at the front door of the city hall, holding his axe up high. Oscar came to strike, but was countered and nearly knocked off his horse, but kept intact because of his permanent connection to the horse. Now, it was Ike's time to shine, as he ran forwards to defend Oscar.

"Look at 'ou," he said, while combing his light blue hair with his axe, "ou're just a kid. 'ou think 'ou can really beat me?"

"Uh…" He stuttered, while thinking of a good combat, "I'm not a kid, YOU'RE a kid."

CLEARLY the guy was older.

"Hehe, 'ook at that; 'ou sassing me. Don't that beat 'oll!"

Before the pointless conversation could go on, Ike lunged forwards and struck at the legs, but he left himself open and got pushed back. Attempting to counter, Ike threw his sword at the bandit, but missed and, instead, hit a hanging lantern. The lantern fell to the ground and the flames hit a nearby barrel of gunpowder, and the building exploded.

"And that's the end of that story!" said Ike, while the man ran through the town completely ablaze, then fell off the cliff into the ocean. Ike looked over the edge, and saw the man missed the ocean and fell on a sharp rock.

Oscar and Boyd ran to Ike's side to look over, and then Titania came along with a pack full of stolen goods, but no one would really care cause they were more concerned about their dead families and burning homes.

"Well," started Titania, "We cleared the town of the surrounding bandits…in an unusual way…"

"Yeah!" said Boyd, "you did pretty well for your first REAL battle. Not as flashy as MY first REAL battle!"

"Yeah, you got so keyed off you broke your axe head" interrupted Oscar.

"Damn it, Oscar…I wanted to tell Ike."

"Anyways," said Ike, "now let's get out of this burning town before we ALL suffocate from the fumes!"

They all laughed to the retarded joke, and left the quickly spreading burning town. While leaving, Oscar passed out by the fumes, but no one noticed because his evil horse just took him back to the base with the others.

'Soon, they'll all die…' it said to itself, '…soon…'

A/N: And that's the second chapter, well technically it's the first in the game, but the...third chapter should also be ready within...two days, probably. so yeah... and review, too!