Chapter Two...

The rain clouds had clear up and the sky had bright sun rays shining down unto them. The first few days they traveled by foot and they finally reached the border guided by a vast ocean. There, was a ship owned by a blue haired man named Nasir and the mercenaries went on board. As Marth went on, he received a subtle feeling from Nasir as he passed by, but assumed he was just being too careful.

For the first week, everything was at peace until Marth saw Soren coming down and talking to Ike. Marth was curious and decided to do some eaves-dropping. He slowly approached them and stood behind a wooden pole to hear their conversation.

"Ike, I have some bad news." Soren had said.

"What is it?" Ike replied.

"Of course we are nearing Gallia and I apparently spotted a few raven bandits coming toward our ship."

Raven bandits? Gallia? Marth didn't understand any of it and decided just to ignore it. He walked to the edge of the ship to stare at the seagulls calling out and lied down. Staring into the almost motionless clouds, he slowly drifted to sleep.

After a while of hearing the news, Marth awoke from a bird's call and he knew it wasn't a seagull's. He got up and was left in shock. He saw humans with brown feathered wings on their backs and being able to fly.

"People of this ship!" One of the birds yelled. "Leave all you valuable materials or perish!"

Marth was so flabbergasted, he ran up to Ike and said, "What are those things?"

Ike motioned toward the birds. "You mean those? They're called laguz."

"What the hell is that?"

Ike left out a sigh. "They are humans that have the capability to transform into an animal, but most aren't as stupid as them."

"I see, so they're part of your world?"

"Yes, they are and some are our allies, but they decided not to travel with us to the war we just had."

When their small conversation was finished, one of the bandits transformed and said. "Okay, now you've asked for it!" The others had also transformed and were soaring down to the ship. Mercenaries came down to join the fight and Marth decided he would too. He took out his sheathed Falchion and was started off with a huge brown hawk. Its talons swiped above Marth's head as he ducked down. He quickly turned around and gave the hawk a slash to the leg. It squawked and fell on its back. Marth jumped and gave a deep stab to the bird's chest, leaving his sword covered with blood.

Ike on the other hand, was killing each bird with one slash from his Ragnell. While he was fighting two birds at once, the lead bird shrieked and dove down after Ike. He looked up and jumped backwards to get the three birds in one range attack. He quickly threw his sword up in the air and shouted, "Aether!" He jumped up to retrieve his sword and came down with a nasty attack following a slash coming back to his position. The three birds had died and so did their leader. The remaining birds fled in fear and the mercenaries gave a shout for victory.

After the battle, it was night and everyone was having dinner. Marth went down into the small rooms the ship contained for he wasn't hungry. He opened the door and he saw his room only consisted of a bed, window, and a wooden desk. He decided to lay down and think about his lost kingdom. Sure he was sad, but he wanted to hide it and if he had to let it out, he wanted to be alone.

As some tears began to come, he heard a knock on the door and the person behind said, "Marth, aren't you hungry? Dinner is about to be over." It was Ike, but Marth didn't say anything. Instead, he wiped his tears and hid his head under the pillow. "Marth, is something wrong?" Ike opened the door and found a pillow on Marth's head. "Uhh, Marth?"

"Go away." Marth stated.

Ike stood there stunned. He didn't expect Marth to say that so straight forward. "Why are you acting like this?"

Ike took a few steps closer when Marth yelled out, "Go away!" But that didn't stop Ike. He walked over to the bed and lifted the pillow finding a prince with tears.

"Marth, are you crying?"

He was sure he had wiped them off, but he did it again. "No I wasn't."

"Don't lie to me, what's the matter?"

"I'm still really depressed on what happened with my kingdom."

"Well, I said I was sorry." Ike sat down on the bed. "Besides, you're not the only person who has witnessed sadness."

Marth got up and rested his head on his knees. "What made you sad before?"

"Well, back in Crimea, I had a father named Greil Gawain. He was the leader of the Greil Mercenaries before me and an amazing father. When I was still learning from him, a man called the Black Knight killed him in front of my eyes and that still makes me sad to this day. However, I don't have a mother because my father, before he died, accidentally killed my mother by holding the Fire Emblem from the madness it gave to him." Marth stood silent staring at Ike, but said nothing. He finally knew why Ike felt fear when Marth gave him his Fire Emblem.

Ike got up when Marth said, "I'm...sorry that I yelled at you, but do you even have a clue on who stole your emblem and why did you believe it was us?"

He looked down. "Sadly, I don't have one and I don't know who exactly framed me, but the person who told me was the queen of Crimea, Queen Elincia. I believe her because we both trust each other." Marth took out his own emblem and stared at it. Ike grabbed the door handle and before he left, he said, "Maybe we don't have a clue now, or why she told me false information, but we'll find out once we arrive in Tellius." Ike closed the door and Marth looked out the window. He was curious about the place Ike lived and fell asleep thinking so.

In the morning, Marth was awaken by Soren and was taken to the breakfast room where everyone was eating inside the large ship. He looked around to see if Merric or Caeda was around, but sadly they weren't there. He didn't know where to eat, so he decided to eat at a table that had only two people. One was a girl with silver hair who was reading a book and the other was a man with green hair and hazel eyes watching the girl read. As Marth set down his breakfast, the man looked at him as if he was assuring the young girl's protection.

Marth turned away and payed attention to his food. Even not having dinner last night, he felt there was no hunger dwelling inside him. He decided to eat even if he wasn't hungry and ate a small piece of his turkey bacon. Once he swallowed it, his stomach gave a loud growl asking for more.

As Marth was going to eat more when the man said, "So you're the prince whose kingdom we destroyed."

The girl put her book down and said, "Sothe, don't say that!" She turned to Marth, "I'm sorry on what my friend said. I hope you can forgive him."

He tried to pull off a smile and said, "No, it's fine."

The girl got up and so Sothe. Before she left, she said, "My name is Micaiah and it was nice meeting you." When Micaiah left, Marth's abdominal growled again and he looked at his food. He began to eat rapidly with the hunger of his stomach and even asked for seconds.

When he was done with a full belly, he left the ship's diner and went outside to see the blue ocean shining like diamond. He walked over to the left side of the ship and felt the ocean breeze that soothed him. It was quite a while before since he had traveled so he kinda enjoyed it. After a while, Ike came and said to Marth, "Were here." Marth observed his surroundings when he had found one to his right. "Marth, this is Gallia, home of the laguz." When he heard 'home of the laguz', he flinched and wondered what will lie for him once he arrives in a place full of those.