Even Love can be found in Hell

Chapter 3

It has been nearly 2 weeks since Serra and Mark had fought in the tent.

And, much to Mark's dismay; Serra was avoiding him like the plague.

Every time Mark managed to find the cleric, she would take off in the other direction.

This in turn, was really beginning to annoy him. And to add to his problems, Mark could not see due to his broken glasses, so he was having a hard time making strategies for Eliwood as well.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the only problem that was happening.

"All right. Now the main strategy here is to send the front line units in hard and fast, followed by support from the long range units. And then when the enemy seeks to retreat, the mounted and flying units will flank them, Agreed?"

Everybody in the room nods in agreement. A large man in blue armor and wielding a large ax decides to speak up." Yes the plan is sound, however… Mark you do realize your talking to a chair right?"

Mark squints his eyes to see "ah I do believe you are right Lord Hector .forgive me, I thought I was talking to you"

Hector's temper quickly flares up" why you-!"

Eliwood holds up his hand to calm the lord "Peace Hector, and Mark you really shouldn't gouda him like that"

Mark sighs "true enough. forgive me lord Hector, I should not take my frustration out on you"

Hector's temper dissipates quickly "bah, there is no harm done"

Eliwood nods his head"Very good. Also… Mark… Hector does have a point. perhaps you should try to get a new pair of glasses before we continue on with our battles." The young Red haired noble suggests to his friend.

Mark only sighs in response "true…. But for the time being I need to do what I can, and I will not let a lack of glasses hamper our progress."

Eliwood only smiles at the tacticians determination "very well then Mark, I understand."

Mark nods his head "good, now would you please direct me to my tent? I can't see ten feet in front of me right now."

The sound of a suppressed giggle can be heard. Mark rounds on the source of the noise "hey! Hush up Lyn! You know I can't see very far without my glasses!"

A young woman wearing a light blue tunic and has her dark green hair in a pony tail is standing off to Marks right." Forgive me Mark, I could not help myself"

She is still smiling about her friends predicament "Tsk …" Mark only clicks his tongue and walks out of the tent. "Oh! Wait up Mark!" Lyn quickly follows after him.

Eliwood and Hector watch the entry way for a few more seconds before the blue haired lord breaks the silence. "Is it just me, or has he been more irritable for the past few weeks?" "Yes I believe so Hector." Hector only sighs "no reason to get his pants in a wad just cause his glasses broke" Eliwood however seems to be lost in thought. "I wonder if that's all there is to it…"

Outside Lyn catches up with the annoyed tactician. After a few minutes of walking with him, Lyn decides to break the silence. "So tell me… what's wrong?"

Mark quickly replies "Nothing is wrong Lyn. I just can't see."

Unknown to the Tactician, Lyn is shaking her head "That's not all there is to it Mark. I know you better than most people, and you are far too annoyed for this to be about your glasses. Now tell me, what's wrong?"

Mark sighs, knowing that he couldn't lie to his best friend for long. "Fine… I don't know why I bother trying to hide my problems from you… To sum the problem up, I am trying to apologize to somebody, but she keeps running from me."

Lyn smiles lightly "you must be talking about Serra." Marks face is written in shock.

He tries to stutter out some response "WH-what? Who said anything about Serra?"

Lyn only giggles. "Spot on."

Mark, realizing his mistake, smacks his forehead. "Damn it!...fine… yes this is about Serra. I said some things that I did not mean and… well… you see the result."

Mark sighs once again. Lyn lightly pats her friend on the back "hey come on. It's not like your situation is hopeless"

Mark gives her a look that says 'yeah right'. Lyn pats him on the back again "come now, trust me on this Mark. I will even help you if that is what you desire"

Mark looks to his friend "truly? You would help me with this?" Lyn smiles warmly at her friend "you create flawless strategies every battle and are helping us to strike down that monster Nergal. The least we can do is help you with the small stuff"

Mark was slightly surprised to hear this. "Does… everyone feel that way about me?" Lyn nods her head. "ah! We are here."

The strategist and the plainswoman had been so busy talking that they had almost past Marks tent. "Well this has been an interesting conversation Lyn, but I must get ready to go into town later so that I may acquire new glasses. So until then I bid you farewell for now" Mark gives her a small bow and enters his tent.

Lyn waves her friend off. However, before she even takes a step she notices something pink out of the corner of her eye.

She turns to see what it is, and sees 2 pink pig tails sprouting from both sides of a tree. The temptation to laugh is almost too strong for the plainswoman, but she manages to suppress herself.

She decides to observe the tree for a few minutes, waiting to see what happens next. After nothing seems to happen Lyn decides to break the silence "Serra… what are you doing?"

"Urk!" the Cleric slowly appears from her hiding spot "impressive Milady, how did you know I was here?"

Lyn gives a weary sigh "let's just say you stand out in certain ways… anyway what are you doing hiding?"

Serra suddenly looks rather nervous "um… well… you see…" Lyn just stares at her. "uuuuh… Oh fine! I came here to apologize to Mark, there happy?"

Lyn raises her eyebrows in a questioning ark "why?"

Serra averts her gaze from Lyn "well… you know how Mark hasn't been wearing his glasses for a few weeks now right?"

Lyn nods her head "yeah" Lyn knew about that already. Mark had explained it to her with a lot of embarrassment, and being the true friend that she was, laughed at him.

"Well… I came to apologize about his glasses" she looks at Lyn when she says this.

Lyn is now very confused "why?"

Serra averts her eyes to the ground again "cause I broke them. He and I got in a fight two weeks ago, and in a fit of anger I hit him in the head with my staff"

Lyn could only scratch her head in confusion. Until she suddenly realizes just where this is going.

"I… I tried to apologize many times now, but every time I see him he starts coming at me with anger in his eyes, and I run away."

Lyn is seriously trying not to laugh at this point. She knew that what Serra had seen was not anger in Marks eye's, but him trying to see what he was looking at. It was almost too much for the plainswoman.

"And now you know the whole story. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to find the right time to apologize to him" Serra then goes back behind the tree.

Lyn only smiles and begins to walk away again. Before she goes another ten paces however she stops in her tracks and a devious smile begins to form on her lips.

Lyn turns around and calls out to Serra in an oh-so-sweet voice "Oh Serra…"

Serra pokes her head out from the tree again "yes Milady?"

Lyn walks over to the tree and starts to drag Serra out from her hiding spot. "Hey! What are you doing?" Serra desperately tries to grab onto something to hold herself down but she is quickly dragged out of her spot.

"I have an idea Serra, and it should allow you to apologize." Serra stops struggling and listens to Lyn.

Lyn stops and let's go of Serra "I see that I have your attention now. All right here is my plan, Mark is going to go into town sometime this evening to get a new pair of glasses and you are going to help him, and while you're both in town you can find the opportunity to apologize, understand?"

Serra bobs her head furiously in understanding.

"Good girl, now go get ready as I work a few more details into this plan."

Serra quickly dashes past Lyn to get ready.

Lyn, however, stays right where she is. After a few minutes of silence Lyn suddenly kicks a bucket in the direction of a bush.

On contact a loud yell can be heard "OUCH!" Lyn leaps into the bush and pulls out a squirming Erk.

Erk stops his squirming and looks up at Lyn "Ohhhhh, I'm screwed now" "ummm, hello Lady Lyndis nice day today isn't it?"

Lyn only looks down at Erk with a devilish smile on her face "spare me the pleasantries Erk, now where is Matthew?"

Erk averts his gaze from her evil eye's "Ma-Matthew? I haven't seen him all da-"

Before he gets another word in, Lyn begins to drive her foot into his abdomen. She just so happened to be wearing heels today.

"OH SWEET SAINT ELIMINE! MERCY MILADY! MERCY! HE'S IN THAT TREE OVER THERE!"

Matthew pokes his head out from the branches and yells at Erk "you ratted me out you sonuvabitch!"

Before Matthew could get another word in, the same bucket that hit Erk smashes into Matthews face, causing him to fall from the tree.

He just so happened to rebound on every tree branch on the way down. " AH! EH! OH! AH! EH! OW! OH! AH! EH! AH! *crash* ARGH!"

By the time Matthew recovers enough to see straight, Lyn is already standing over him with her heel hanging over his abdomen.

Poor Erk had simply been dragged along.

Matthew is suddenly feeling very nervous "um….he he… What can I do for you today milady?"

Lyn stares down at Matthew with an evil smile on her face "I know what you two have been up to recently, trying to get Mark to fall in love with Serra and all that. But you are going about it rather badly."

She hauls Erk to his feet and does the same for Matthew.

" at the rate you two are going, it will be a rather strained relationship at best, so from here on out, you both are going to follow My orders, Understood?" Both Matthew and Erk nod their heads quickly in unison. "Good. Now here is the plan…"


sorry it took so long to get this up

in all honesty I had forgot about it until I went over my documents

working on chapter 4 now