Journal Entry #2
Wow, it's really hard to write while walking. I keep almost tripping over stuff on the road when I'm not looking, but I really want to get this written down before I forget stuff. Right now, we're walking the rest of the way to Ylisstol with Sully and Virion, two other Shepards that were scouting the area. (Well, Sully's a Shepherd. Virion is just following her around because he thinks she's "beautiful", I guess. His words, not mine.) Sully is not amused. Anyway, last night we were attacked by zombies, and no that's not a normal thing around here, I checked. After I put the journal away and went to sleep, Frederick woke me up again a few hours later to help him find Chrom and Lissa. (I had a weird dream about a dark mage woman killing me while yelling about her husband. The name Hulloc sounds familiar though. Well, no more bear meat for me before bed…) Apparently, they had wandered off into the woods a short while ago. The sky was a weird red color and there were fireballs falling from the sky as the ground shook. How the heck did that not wake me up? So yeah, we grabbed our weapons and took off in search of them. It was kind of hard to breathe with half the forest on fire and smoke billowing everywhere, but we managed to locate Chrom fighting off these weird looking soldiers who moved like puppets and spat purple fumes from their mouths.(I also learned that Chrom can jump really high.) Definitely not humans. There was a crazy looking portal in the sky spitting out more zombies and Lissa was cornered by one with an axe. But before we could even try to get to her, another person came from the portal (thankfully not a zombie) and held it off until Chrom could kill it. The new guy ran off after to kill some more of the undead, leaving Frederick and me to help out.
The clearing we were fighting in had a few broken down forts to bunker down in, so we used those for cover. Zombies suck at maneuvering in small spaces, I guess. Chrom and I stuck close to each other, taking turns whacking at the zombies from our cover. Frederick stayed in the trees with Lissa until we killed the immediate threats, and then they caught up with us. Minute later, two more people approached from the east. It turned out to be Sully and Virion.
Sully was a redhead who wore red armor over her torso and arms. She didn't seem the type of person to care about her looks (or being subtle, but that was here nor there), but she was definitely in shape.
Virion was a blue haired man with a strange accent. He dressed formally under his light armor and wore shades of blue. He talked almost constantly, but he was a good bowman.
After fighting with each other (verbally and physically) for a bit, they helped us out. Virion told me not to put him in direct combat because he was an archer, and close quarters was suicide to him, so I told him to follow after Sully's wake. As a Cavalier, she had better mobility and was able to easily fight her way to us with her Bronze Lance, with Virion trailing behind and picking off survivors with his Bronze Bow. Archest or Archers, indeed!
Anyway, we managed to kill the zombie boss (Zomboss?), the guy from earlier rejoined us. Chrom and Lissa thanked him for helping, and he introduces himself as simply Marth. Looking closely at him now, he didn't seem very masculine to me. He was wearing light armor, a dark blue outfit and boots, and a butterfly mask that hid his eyes. His voice even sounded sort of artificially gruff, like he was trying to be manly. Suspisious…
Chrom looked like he was thinking the same thing too, but Marth wasn't interested in getting interrogated. He said something about how something terrible was going to happen and how this attack was only the beginning before he ran off again to do…something. (Yeah that wasn't suspicious at all. Nope.)Lissa was still sort of dumbstruck over Marth's appearance. Maybe she's crushing on him? I'll have to bother her with that information later...
Since it was early in the morning anyway, Frederick decided we should just pack up and keep going. So now I'm walking in the back of our little group, behind Sully and Virion with Frederick clanking a few feet away from me. I'm slowly starting to ignore his presence now. I guess I'm getting used to his almost constant hovering. I also learned that Sully swears…a lot. I don't think I've even heard of half the words she's said until today, mostly at Virion whenever he hits on her in that flowery, poetic way of his. I'm faintly impressed by that. No one else seems to mind, so I didn't comment on it. As long as Virion doesn't start asking me to marry him, Sully can do whatever she wants.
Chrom said we would get to see Ylisstol in a few minutes, so I should probably put this away before we get there! I wonder how big the capital is...
Zombie-Slaying Tactician
Aly