"To tell you how I met papa, I have to go back a bit further and to how I even ended up in Ylisse." I sighed. The two pairs of eyes trained on me watched as I slowly unravelled the past we'd kept hidden from them for so long.
"There were also times when I wasn't sure even if your papa and I were going to end up together." I chuckled. "There was a time before I loved him…"
"You don't love papa?!" Marc yelped, and I shook my head.
"Yes of course I do." I soothed her. Her crestfallen face bounced back to childish wonder at the story that was about to erupt from my lips. "Your father – and you two – mean the world to me." Both my children smiled at me then. "To tell you the story about how I met your father, first I've got to tell you about how I wound up with the shepherds, almost ten years ago now…."
"Chrom…we have to do something" I heard a girl sigh as I began to crack my eyes open. No… a small voice in my mind protested. It's too bright…
"What do you propose we do?" a smooth, male voice, probably this Chrom's, rippled through my protesting ears. I began to bring myself round to the world, little did I know I was opening the door on the new life that would destroy my now forgotten one.
"Uhm… I don't know!" The girl exclaimed, pure worry laced in her words. I opened my eyes to see the pair standing over me. The pretty blonde girl in sunshine yellow gasped and bent down to see me, her blue haired companion followed suit, both smiling happily at my presence.
"I see you're awake now." The man smiled with not-unwanted mirth.
"Hey there!" smiling like she would to a puppy, the blonde lent in closer.
"There are better placed to take a nap than on the ground, you know!" Chrom laughed and held out his hand to me. "Give me your hand". I took it, and a large purple brand on the back of my hand seeped into my vision. Was that there before? "You alright?" Chrom asked, probably from the confused look on my face.
"Yes, thank you Chrom." I smiled.
"Ah, so you know who I am?"
"N-no…it's strange but your name just came to me." I blinked, my head still oozing with pain from my seemingly previous fall.
"How curious." He frowned. "Tell me, what is your name? What is your business here?"
My name is….uhhhh" I blanked. I could feel the three pairs of eyes burning holes into me as I thought. My name is….name is….
"You don't know your own name?" Chrom blinked.
"I've heard of this! It's called amnesia!" The girl gasped, before their older companion cut through-
"It's a load of pegasus dung." He gruffly muttered.
"It's the truth!" I gasped, eyeing the weapons on the men's belts with worry.
"What if it IS the truth, Frederick?" Chrom reasoned. "We can't just leave her here alone! What kind of Shepherds would we be then?"
"T'would not be good to let a wolf in our pack." Frederick hissed. "Look at her, she's in Plegian robes!"
"Right well, we'll take her back to town and sort this out there." Chrom sighed, before turning to me. "Are you able to walk?" he asked, as I felt the blood turn cold at the thought of being strung up to die in some market place just thanks to not knowing my name.
"Wait just a moment, do I not get a say in this?"
"Peace, friend, we mean you no harm – we'll hear what you have to say in town, I promise."
The four of us trudged along through the fields to a place called Southtown. During the walk I discovered I was in a place called Ylisse. The name brought back memories of something I couldn't quite touch, but I left them all uncovered in my mind as I remembered my name.
"Robin. My name is Robin. Funny I just remembered – but I guess its one mystery solved!"
"Robin? That sounds foreign…" Chrom mumbled.
"She's in Plegian Robes milord, of course she'd foreign." Frederick the wary snapped.
"We can discuss it later, we're almost at town now and I thin-"
Said town was currently ablaze in orange fire. Hot fronds of flames licked their way across thatched roofs quickly, trapping people inside, in the streets, anywhere.
To the south of Southtown, a group of ruffians stood cutting down any who fled towards them, looting the bodies and cackling loud enough that we could hear them from the forest.
"Frederick! Lissa! Quickly!" Chrom ordered, and the three of them ran towards the town.
"Milord, what about her?" Frederick asked, as I tailed them towards the fire.
"Unless she's on fire, she can wait!" Chrom growled, as the four of us ran towards the town.
If it weren't for the fire, I'm sure that the brigand wouldn't have made much of a dent on this strong hold. They stood unorganized and seemed to be fighting amongst themselves, as they fought us.
"Chrom up the side!" I yelled at the captain and he studied me carefully, before calculating the decision himself and running to slash at an axe wielder who was encroaching slowly towards Lissa. "Frederick, go straight ahead!" I ordered as I summoned a lightning bolt on a foe running towards him, clearing the field for him to head straight for their captain. Frederick hesitated, looking at me carefully, before spurring his horse ahead to clash against the barbarian waiting at the top of the bridge. As soon as the enemy was routed, the wary knight trotted back and looked at me.
"Why are you giving us orders?" he glared, looking at me from his steed.
"It seems she can see things in a much more strategic way than we can." Chrom breathed, turning to me. "Robin, the shepherds need someone with your talents."
"Milord?" Frederick grumbled, and I sighed.
"Frederick, I am sorry but I have told you all I know." I apologized, and he looked at his lord wilfully.
"What about it Robin? Will you join us?"
"I would be honoured."
A/N: I have no idea what happened before, but the same thing happened originally for chapter 1...hopefully its all fixed now!
Huxplosion: We should totally make Hello Mr Taguel into an EP thing ;)
PrescribedMadness: I'm glad you liked it! I've only had Female Morgan once before so I hoped to portray her right! Not hard considering she's four but oh well xD