Disclaimer: I don't own fire emblem or the characters (I forgot to do that first chapter so I'll do it now).
"Dear god." Was the first thing I said as I saw the scene in front of me. There were many dead bodies of the villagers on the street with major axe and sword wounds in them. "I think I'm going to hurl." I say as I saw a body with a huge hole in its stomach and of its inside organs were hanging out.
"Tyler, are you okay?" Chrom asked me while slightly horrified at the scene in front of us.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I lied. "Anyways we should search for survivors and dispose of these bandits." I said while looking away from a body floating in the fountain.
"You're right." Robin said.
"Look boys, more fools to kill!" A voice just yelled.
"Well, shit." I said realizing some bandits were heading towards us.
"Shepherds, to arms!" Chrom ordered.
"Alright." I said as I drew my sword from its sheathe. I then looked at the group of bandits to see what we were dealing with. The group consisted of two myrmidons, one mage, and three bandits. "Anyone have any ideas?" I asked.
"I do." Robin answered. I can't say it was a surprise since I knew he would become the official tactician of the shepherds in a few days.
"What's the plan?" I asked starting to get nervous.
"Tyler, I want you to take on the mage and a bandit, are you okay with that?" I nervously nodded. "Chrom, you and Frederick should deal with the myrmidons and a bandit, and don't forget to search for survivors." They both nodded in agreement. "Lissa, I need you to heal anyone who looks like they're in trouble, okay?" Lissa nodded in agreement and prepared her staff. "I'll take on the remaining bandit myself, any arguments?" He asked.
There were no objections so we split up to our respective targets. I run off towards the mage first because mages cannot take a physical hit for their own life. He noticed me running towards him and he starting chanting a spell. "Oh shit!" I say starting to panic because being burned sucks a lot.
"Eat this!" he yelled shooting the fireball right at me.
I wanted to dodge it by legs decided to stiffen up out of fear. "Damn it why can't I move!?" I yelled.
"Well, well, well looks like someone's a total wimp." He taunted.
Little did he know that pissing me off was not a good idea because I have a tendency to let my anger overpower my fear. "Freeze." I whisper now watching my blade engulf itself in ice as I remembered a quick lesson my magic teacher taught me.
'A majority of the time in the rules of magic two elements can normally cancel each other out. A perfect example of this is Fire and Ice because they are the most well-known to do this because they are so overused.'
I quickly swung my now frozen sword at the fireball and watch in surprise as the fireball evaporates right in front of me. "What the hell was that!?" The mage asked completely caught off guard by what I did.
"Let's just say that you don't want to piss me off." I answered as I started running towards him again.
"Wait what the hell's going on here?" he said panicking like crazy.
I stop right in front of him and see the fear in his eyes. I slowly raise my blade and say one more thing to the mage. "Who's the total wimp?" I asked as I swung down my sword and cut him across the chest. "I guess it's you." I taunted. Then I finally calm down and I just realize what I just did. "Did I just…" I started to say now completely shocked. "...kill someone?" I asked myself.
'Yeah you just killed someone.' A voice in my head answered.
'I can't believe I just did that… I'm now a no good murderer, maybe I should have stayed behind from the start.' I thought.
'Remember, it was either kill or be killed so you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.' The voice told me.
'Maybe you're right.' I thought to the voice.
'Of course I'm right!' The voice gloated.
'Who are you anyways?' I asked the voice.
'We'll talk about that later because a bandit is right behind you!' The voice told me.
"Oh crap!" I yell quickly jumping to the side as the bandit swung his axe down. "Whew that was way… to… close…" I started to say looking my arm now seeing a deep cut in it. "CRAP!" I screamed because my arm hurt like a bitch.
"That'll teach ya to kill my cousin." The bandit said walking over to me.
I grab my tome with my good arm and hid it behind my back so the bandit wouldn't realize that I could use magic. "Hopefully this works." I whisper to myself as the bandit is now right in front of me.
"Any last words?" He says raising his axe up.
"Look up." I said.
"Huh?" He asked now tilting his head up unaware he just fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book.
"LIGHTNING!" I yell and the dead instant I say so a bolt of lightning strikes the bandit completely electrocuting him.
"GAAAAAAH!" He started yelling right before he collapsed on the ground.
"Tyler!" A voice screamed in concern. I looked over in the direction of the source and I saw that it was Lissa running with a heal staff. "Are you all right?" She asked me as she raised her staff.
"I've suffered worse." I replied with a cocky grin to try and relieve some of the tension.
"You should really take better care of yourself then." She said still slightly worried.
I looked in surprise as I seen the heal staff's magic stitch up the wound in record time and without a hint of a scar as well. "Thanks." I said in gratitude.
"Just be happy that he didn't cut any bone." Lissa told me.
"I'll keep that in mind." I said as I was looking around. "How are Chrom and the others anyways?" I asked not seeing them anywhere nearby.
"They told me to find you as fast as I could." She told me.
"Why?" I asked again.
"They found the leader and they want you to help them." She answered.
"Alright lead me to them." I said.
We walked through the mess of a town for a few minutes heading towards a tavern. "How am I not surprised?" I said in a sarcastic tone.
"I guess bandits really love to drink alcohol." A voice replied.
I look around to see Chrom coming over to me. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised then." I joked. "Is everyone else ready to fight the leader?" I asked not seeing Robin or Frederick anywhere nearby.
"Robin suggested that you should take on the leader while I watch your back." Chrom answered.
"I'm not going to ask why he thinks that I should take on the leader and just fight him." I told Chrom.
"It's not like you're going in alone." He said.
"True" I replied.
We then went inside the tavern to confront the bandit leader only to be shocked at the scene in front of us. "What the hell?" We both said as the tavern was completely clean no it was freaking spotless. "This is just screwed up." I said.
"Do you think he likes his taverns clean?" Chrom asked me.
"Whosh thar." A voice asked.
"Well, the leader's drunk." I said completely unfazed somehow.
"I'll jush let ya know that even though I'm drunk I can shtill *hic* I can shtill kick your ashes *hic*." The leader said as I outright face palmed at what I was seeing. This was pathetic considering in the game he at least showed confidence but this is just stupid beyond all reason.
"Let's just kill him and put him out of our misery." I said.
"Agreed." Chrom said.
We walked over to the leader and slashed at him from different sides quickly ending his life because this was just pathetic.
"Well that's that." I said sheathing my sword.
"Let's go check on the others." Chrom said.
As we were leaving I felt a small breeze of wind against my back and I quickly turned around. "Is something wrong Tyler?" Chrom asked me.
"It's nothing." I answered as I proceeded to leave the tavern.
A mysterious figure then emerged from the shadows and walked towards the corpse of the bandit leader. "You damn idiot…" He started to say. "… you were supposed to kill those two like he ordered but you decided to be a dumbass and got drunk." He then sighed. "I guess I'll interfere when the time is right then." The figure said as he walked back into the shadows.
Authors Notes: Who is the mysterious figure that witnessed the pathetic leader's failure and who is the mysterious voice in my head? All will be revealed in the near future however don't go expecting daily chapters from me because school makes it really hard for me to find some free time right now. Either way I do aim to finish this story and I hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy righting it.