I Never Wanted to Be This Way
A/N: I do not own anyone from Fire Emblem, or anything else I shouldn't own. This story will be in Sain's point of view. Thank you every one for your reviews, it makes me real happy. I know my second chapter wasn't as sad as my first one, of course it wasn't, I didn't want it to be, and this chapter won't even be close.
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"Dialogue"
Ch.3
I became a Knight of Caelin when I was 17 years old. I am still considered a scoundrel by most people. Only two people didn't, one of them being Kent. The other person who saw me better was Captain Wallace, turned out he knew my father, and the situation I was in. He was going to tell me the more accurate version of my father's story, but I told him I already knew the truth of it. He helped me out a bit when it came to other knights getting on my case about being a scoundrel, or a pervert, or a complete oblivious idiot. He would scare them away, somehow, but that only lasted until he retired to owning his own farm somewhere.
The first few months were rather confusing. Living inside Caelin castle was very surprising but it took me a while of getting used to. I got lost many times. The last time I got lost I heard some noises behind a door and went in to ask for directions. Unluckily for me, I ended up in the Maids' Quarters and I was immediately knocked by something hitting my head. They probably thought the scoundrel was peeking on them while they were changing.
When I came to, I found myself in a bed, with a bandage on my forehead and a girl watching me leaning back in a chair, two legs on the ground. She probably wasn't paying too much attention to me because she was surprised when I sat up straight. "Whoa…shit" she cursed when she lost her balance when she got surprised and started to falling back, arms searching for anything in reach to help her regain her balance, but found nothing and landed on her back. "oww…" she said groaning. I laughed a bit until I noticed my chivalrous personality didn't make me go help her. I guessed it probably got damaged when I was hit in the head.
"Sorry" I said for either not helping her up or for laughing. "Don't worry about it, I shouldn't have leaned back as much anyway" she said. I finally noticed the pain in my forehead and reached up to touch the bandage with my hand. "Ughh…What happened?" I asked. "I found you out cold in front of the Maids' Quarters with a nasty bruise on your forehead and frying pan next to you on the ground. I'm not the one to jump to immediate conclusions but I'd say…" I knew where she was going with this, most people would probably say exactly the same thing except about the not jumping to immediate conclusions, never heard that before. But anyway I decided to interrupt her right there. "I was peeping, nope, not it, I was lost and I was going to ask how to get back to the barracks wing" "Oh…but how could you get lost? I mean we've been here for two months if you're a new recruit, which I am and I suspect you are if you got lost," the girl said. "It's a little hard to pay attention to details when you spend basically all your day, everyday, chasing after women," I regretfully replied with. "You must be Sain then, He's the only person I heard of that chased women constantly," she said. "Yup I'm Sain, the scoundrel/pervert/womanizer/stalker/oblivious idiot/fool/ anything else you can think of," I said a bit angry but calmed myself down.
"Have you ever heard of Extreme Chivalrism?" I asked her. "Think so…I remember hearing it was banned a while ago after a whole army of its believers was defeated by a single woman, wielding two needles and a big pot," she said. It didn't surprise me that what she said was the history of it. "Apparently not," I replied dully. "Don't tell me you believe that shit about women shouldn't fight and anything like that?" she asked. "To be honest, no I don't. But when something is beaten into your head, everyday for 7 years, you tend to not be able to control it." I said. "Ouch" was all she said to that.
During this time I really didn't look at her, hoping not to have my womanizer/chivalrous personality kick in. After her last statement I looked at her and she seemed to have a look of understanding on her face. Then I started to notice other things about her. She was a very pretty girl, like I said before, I consider all girls pretty. She was about 16-18, had brown hair that was tied in the back with single braid that went slightly below her shoulders. She was wearing blue archer's armor and the quiver at her waist was empty. "By the way," she started, "I'm Kesa of the 1st archer division." "It takes a lot of skill for a new recruit to get into the 1st archer division," I said. "It also takes a lot of skill to get into the 1st cavalier division, Sain" she said grinning. "How did you know I was in the 1st division," I asked her. "Being a womanizer isn't the only reputation you have" She stated. A few more moments of no talking, a horn was heard throughout the castle, signaling that the town or village of Caelin castle was being attacked. A voice soon could be heard yelling through the hallways. "First and Second Divisions meet outside the front gate immediately, the town is being attacked!" the voice yelled. We both looked at each other and then ran towards the barracks to get our things for battle; I followed her not knowing where the hell I was in the castle.
Outside the first two divisions of each unit formed ranks, 1st division in front, 2nd division right behind them, each person having different color armor, making it easier to tell who the person was. Kent and I were in the 1st division, we were the only two of the new cavalier recruits to make it into the first 3 divisions, which is definitely something. There were 8 divisions for each unit, and depending on the skill of the person, were placed into the best division for his skill. General Eagler, our teacher and leader of the cavalier divisions, briefed us on the situation. "I need two volunteers to ride out to the farthest town and protect it; it seems that the enemy has recruited Pegasus Knights for the occasion. You will be carrying an archer each to take out the Pegs faster." (A/N: if you couldn't guess, Pegs is Pegasus Knight for short) Eagler gave us the orders and was now waiting for volunteers. I was the first to step forward, and upon seeing this, Kent also decided to step forward. General Eagler looked rather pleased with us. "Kent, Sain, mount your horses and start heading towards the bridge, that's where the archers will meet you. After that head to the town as fast as you can and take out those Pegasus Knights. Now Move." He ordered and me and Kent got on our horses and sped off towards the bridge.
When we neared the bridge, the two archers were there waiting for us. One was a guy in his early twenties with short gray hair and gray armor to match. The other archer was a girl with brown hair and blue armor, and I almost started laughing because I already knew who she was. Weird how life works, isn't it? Kent was waiting for me to say something chivalrous, but it never came. When we stopped to pick up the archers, the girl put her bow around her right shoulder and hopped on to my horse behind me. The other archer's mouth dropped to the ground upon seeing a woman choose to ride with me, Sain, the scoundrel/pervert/womanizer/stalker/oblivious idiot/fool/ anything else you can think of, with me not saying anything chivalrous or stupid. Kent was also completely baffled by this, but started laughing when he saw the look on the other guy's face, it WAS priceless.
"Lets get moving Sain, we've got Pegs to kill," Kesa said. "Right then, hold on tight," I suggested. She did so by wrapping her arms around my waist. I blushed slightly from this, but shook it off and got my horse to go full speed towards the villager where Pegasus Knights could be seen above getting closer to it. Kent was close behind me with the other archer ready to get off the horse when we got close enough. We were almost there when I got an Idea. "Can you shoot from atop a moving horse?" I asked her. "Humph, that's how I was able to get into the 1st archer division," she said. I grinned at that.
A Pegasus spotted us when were close enough, seeing that one horse had two riders, decided to take advantage of the situation, very big mistake. The Peg Knight failed to notice that there was and archer sitting behind me taking aim at it as I turned the horse sideways. Kesa fired off her arrow and it went straight through the Pegasus's left wing, sending it straight to the ground with the rider tumbling off. I quickly subdued the rider with my lance to his chest, leaving blood stains on my lance, damned blood, always hard to get of my weapon. I didn't see the Peg Knight coming from in front of me. "Duck!" Kesa yelled and I did so and she shot an arrow at the Peg Knight. The arrow struck him right in the face killing him as he fell limply of the Pegasus, which took to flying off. "Cuuutte" Kesa stated which got me to start laughing.
Kent and the gray haired archer took care of the third Peg Knight which scared off the rest of them. We waited there until we got orders to come back to the castle, just incase there were more enemies coming.
A/N: Thank you Nightmare for giving me reassurance for the idea of Sain having someone before Fiora. I was thinking of this idea while typing Ch. 2 and seeing someone think the same way got me to write it. Problem is, I'm going to have to take it all away, which is going to be really hard to do, well, emotionally yes. I plan on making Lundgren suffer majorly (I make up my on vocabulary sometimes, majorly isn't a word) in the future. When I get the chance, I always ramble, always, so thx of everyone's reviews and please keep reviewing.
