Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem

(A/N): This is the third chapter. It has a lot more action and some Mecha. I plan to make Ziro use his abilities more in the next few chapters.

Fire Emblem: The Dark Stars

Chapter 3: In the Midst of Combat

As I was staring down the hordes of bandits (164 to be exact) Zelgius, Tauroneo, and Gawain were all prepared to fight. I guess I was as well. But it's kinda hard for me to fight with out using inhuman strength. But I guess I could try learning to fight with this sword I'm holding. But I've never learned how to use a sword. If I had a gun… that would like so help.

Gawain brought me back to attention "Hey, snap out of it! We need to focus here."

"Yeah…" But I do need to learn to fight with my sword though… guess I could copy Gawain's movements.

The bandits all charge in to the town ready to tear us a new one.

"Here they come!" Tauroneo shouted.

We were currently positioned at the base of the incline prepared to meet the enemy in combat. As the bandits charged through the entrance and got closer to us I took a step back so that these three warriors could get first blood.

As the large group of bandits were about to strike us, Zelgius, Tauroneo, and Gawain had already moved forward and met the enemy by killing a few of them. Gawain got about 4 in that move. Zelgius and Tauroneo killed 2 each.

(156 bandits left.)

Another bandit tried to take a swipe at me. I stepped out of the way and returned his attack by slicing open his stomach. Two other bandits ran towards me. But Gawain saw them and swung his Alondite horizontally releasing a wave slash at the bandits. The two brigands were sliced in half.

What the-! I've never seen that before! Can the other sword do the same thing?

Gawain used his Ragnell to slice another bandit with a vertical wave slash, and he killed another bandit by getting close with Alondite.

Yeah he basically has two of the same thing. As I was being dumfounded I almost had an axe embedded into my head. But it seemed that Zelgius already killed the bandit that was after my head.

As Tauroneo was impaling a bandit with his lance he shouted towards me. "Don't get distracted! Focus on the fight!"

"Uh, right. Sorry 'bout that." The four of us scattered out to help the soldiers and kill the bandits. Gawain wasn't fighting as well as he could be because he was focused on protecting his allies, but he did kill about 5 of the enemy while he was at it.

Tauroneo was fighting off about four of them at a time. And Zelgius was tearing through the enemy getting closer the town entrance. He killed 3 and injured 7.

(134 bandits left.)

I figured I should kill a few myself. I ran off to join Zelgius at the town entrance so we can have a shot at the enemy leader… that, and I'm curious to see who the hell could tame this pack of savages.

As I made my may to the front entrance many bandits tried to swarm me. Luckily bandits are dumb and unorganized so I could dodge them pretty easily. One of them made an attempt at cutting of my head, but I dodged him too. As he was off balance I grabbed his wrist and flung him into the other bandits. That knocked half of the swarming bandits down, but the half still standing were still swinging away. So I just walked over the bandits that were struggling to stand. The other bandits had to walk over their friends if they wanted to get at me, but they just kept tripping over each other. I took the moment to kill about 5 of them before they could get back on their feet.

The one bandit that I threw was pissed and had the intention of killing me. "Get back here you stupid brat! I'll cleave my axe into your head!"

"A dumb bandit like you can use the word 'cleave'?" As I was saying that the dumb bandit had a spear thrust through him. I noticed it was Tauroneo that got him.

Anyway… I let Tauroneo handle the rest of those guys. And I ran to Zelgius' location and avoided most of the bandits in my way. I sliced the legs off one of them and stabbed another in the back. After that, the guy whose legs got cut off was killed by a soldier. As I was approaching Zelgius, he seemed to be getting surrounded by the bandits. I moved in to help him out but I was blocked by about three bandits that had the intention to kill me. The one on my left attacked first. I blocked his axe and then the other two swung at my torso. I simply ducked down and rolled out backwards. One of the bandits threw there axe at me. I dodged it but to my surprise the axe returned the to bandit's hand like a boomerang.

What the hell! How can a bandit do something like that!

The bandit was about to throw the axe at me again but I retaliated by throwing my sword into his head. The other two bandits decided to rush me since I was unarmed. As they approached I dodged all their attacks kicked one of them in the head. As he was in pain from the fracture I left on his head he dropped his axe. I caught the axe before it hit the ground and dodged another attack from the uninjured bandit and responded with an axe into his spine. I killed him and the other guy that I took the axe from.

Zelgius seemed to have gotten out of the spot he was in and seemed to be fine aside from a few scrapes.

(93 bandits left.)

Almost half the bandits are dead. We've held out rather well. But someone has to deal with the leader here. Gawain is the farthest away from the entrance. Zelgius is busy fighting. But Tauroneo seems to be forcing his way to the leader right now so I guess I'll follow him. As the enemy swarmed the white armored knight I just stood back and watched him fight the enemy for me.

Tauroneo didn't know I was behind him. Which could be a bad thing cause he could accidentally try to kill me. But in any case… some stupid bandit decided to notice me and get around Tauroneo to get a shot in. But Tauroneo got him before he could get to me.

Tauroneo looked straight at me. "What are you doing?"

"Me?" I said. "Just trying to get to the enemy leader."

Before Tauroneo could say any more he was engaged by another bandit.

"Well I can see you're busy so I'll go on ahead." Then I left him alone to deal with his problems.

After killing two more bandits I soon got out through the town entrance. About 50 of the bandits were out here. All the bandits were looking at me and ready to tear me apart.

"Hey! Is your leader out here!"

After I shouted out like that, every bandit in the vicinity wanted to disembowel me.

"I'm totally serious! Bring your leader over here!"

After a moment I saw someone walking through the crowd of bandits. The enemy made some room for the man. And I could see him standing and looking cool… sort of

"Who are you?" He asked.

Before I answered him I couldn't help looking at his hair. "Hey… why is your hair green? And how did you get that wind blown look to it? …Do you use hair gel?"

"I have no idea of what you're saying."

"Oh that's right. Everyone here has the mind of a three year old."

The green haired man was getting enraged at my comment. "You're annoying. I hope you can a least fight like a swordsman."

"Doubtful… I cheat when I fight."

"My sword is lightning! Try and follow its dance!" The green haired man rushed at me with the intent to kill me. He drew his sword out with blinding speed

"Whoa!" I dodged and avoided his quick draw attack. I blocked three more of his fast attacks with my sword but his sword but it broke on the third attack. "Oh, hell!" I turned and ran away from the guy while throwing my broken sword into the head of a bandit.

I could hear the green haired man speak to his bandit friends as I was running. "Leave the rat to fall to my sword."

"I'm not a rat!" I shouted back.

The man chased after me. I ran straight into the town to try to get away and find a way to kill him without going all super cyborg on his ass. But I figured that if I ran up to Gawain with this dumbass following me Gawain would kill him for me.

… after awhile I noticed that he wasn't here… where'd the hell he go! I slowed down my running to a brisk walk and soon I just stopped. Where is he...? Where are those other two guys? I looked at the area around me and saw that most of the soldiers were taking the fight outside.

"Did they take the fight outside?" I thought out loud.

"Did you finish your darting around and decide to fight me." The man that was chasing me around the place was standing behind me and was waiting for me to turn around to face him.

"Well… I guess I'll have to. The villagers are it there homes and the soldiers are all outside. Perhaps… no, no, no! I can't risk anyone seeing me use my abilities."

"Ability?" The man asked. "I should have known you were holding back. I would love to see you use this 'ability'. Allow me to force you to use it!" He rushed at me and swung his sword at me.

I continued to dodge but he was getting really close to hitting me. Granted it wouldn't hurt or much less kill me but I really can't hide the sight of off-colored blood. "Come on! Fight back!" The man was getting a little too crazy about this fight so…

"Screw it." I blocked his sword with my right arm brushing his blade aside and brought my fist into his face.

"Gahhh!" The green haired man was sent flying back a few yards before he hit the ground.

"Yes! That felt damn good!" I was enjoying the fact I got in a good punch like that after such a long time.

As I was enjoying that moment the green haired man was about to pass out. "The shame." He said.

"What the hell's with the death quote! I didn't hit you nearly hard enough to kill you or anything!"

The man didn't hear me cause he was passed out.

(51 bandits left.)

Anyway… the enemy was still trying to enter the city and a few of the bandits decided to attack me. As long my allies don't see my crazy strength I can probably kick the tar out of these idiots.

One of the bandits ran in close to hit me with an axe. I stopped the attack with my right arm. I hit his face with a left hook. As he was covering his bleeding nose another bandit rushed towards me with a sword. He went in for a thrust. As he went in close I used my right hand to guide his sword into the bleeding bandit next to me. I then killed the one with the sword with an uppercut from my right fist. His body fell into a few of the other enemies. One bandit was charging after me from behind. I did a back flip right before he got anywhere close to me and brought my leg slamming onto his head.

Eight more enemies charged towards me. I dashed forward and punched one in the face with my left fist and spun around and got the second one with a back fist from my right hand. I grabbed the axe out of his hand and slammed it into the third bandit.

The fourth attempted to attack with a horizontal slice. I dodged and grabbed him by the neck. I broke his neck and threw his corpse at the fifth bandit. I kicked the sixth one in the throat. I kicked his body into the ground and jumped off and crushed in his head with my foot.

The bandits were hesitating after seeing me do that. "Hey! If you want your gray matter splattered around then bring it!"

My taunting was enough to get them mad enough to attack me. But… I really would prefer they ran away. The enemy continuously struck at me. I was a little annoyed by these guys so… time to take of the glove. While dodging the attacks I unhooked the glove belt and took it off revealing my mechanical arm. As another axe was swung at me I deflected it and punched through my attacker's stomach. While pulling my fist out of his stomach I went to punch another guy. He tried to protect himself by using his axe as a shield but my fist went through the axe and through his face.

The rest of the bandits were frightened and were stepping away.

"So… you all gonna run?"

The leftover bandits turn tail and ran away in fear for their lives.

"And they're gone… well the green haired guy is still out of it. It was pretty fun punching him the way I did though."

The sound of combat was diminishing. I went to put on my glove but then I heard a voice.

"How did it go on your end?" I froze and turned around to see Gawain standing there. I was hiding my right arm behind my back.

"Oh hey there! Uh… say, did we win?"

"Yes we did." Gawain answered. "You seem to have gotten through this alive, and without a scratch. Perhaps we can spar as soon as this calms down."

"Yeah… that sounds nice." Crap. I've gotta get out of here.

"I'm going to look for Zelgius. Hopefully he's not to badly injured." Gawain walks off.

I quickly grabbed my glove and put it on.

As things were calming down I saw some of the soldiers pickup the green haired guy who was slowly regaining conscious and drag him off to the local jail or somewhere.

Well I'd better try to avoid sparing with Gawain. I really don't want to get my ass kicked or to accidently kill him.

(13 bandits have escaped.)

(3 bandits have been captured.)

(A/N): Well there's the third chapter. Feel free to give me input and advice.