Chapter 2: Lost Memories

Chrom woke up in his room at the inn. He felt extremely tired, and his gut hurt like as if Grima himself was unleashing a full scale apocalypse inside it. The room was dry and stuffy, and the light was being held back by curtains. Sumia, Chroms beloved wife, was sleeping hunched over on the desk provided in the room. Lissa was also asleep but in a chair up against the wall, Ryan was asleep in the corner on the floor. They had probably been up worried about him after his black out. Chrom swung his legs over to the side of the bed and tried standing up. However his legs were still tired from the night before and they crippled under him sending him sprawling to the floor with a thud. The jolt caused by his impact with the floor woke up Sumia, her eyes fluttered open and when she saw her husband on the floor.

"Chrom are you okay?" Sumia bursted out as she helped him up.

"Yeah, just a little sore," Chrom replied, then gave a quick thanks for the help.

Lissa began to stir, and it was right on time too. She first stretched and then heaved herself out of the chair.

"Oh good, your awake," She said tiredly, "Oh be sure to rest a lot, because I have never seen so much damaged caused from running."

Lissa let out a large yawn as she walked over to where Ryan was sleeping on the floor. Lissa gave him a sharp kick in the side which woke him up instantly. Actually so instantly that he jumped back in surprise at the sudden attack.

"Wake up sleepy, Chrom's awake," Lissa teased.

"You could have done that gently," Ryan complained, followed by a yawn.

Ryan got up and walked up to the door, he pulled the door open and stopped halfway out the door.

"I'll get something to wake us up."

Ryan had later returned with a pot of coffee, which he brewed using some of his fire magic, even though he could have brewed it the normal way, he enjoyed doing things his way. This way he got what he wanted and he got practice. They all were awake by now and ready to find out what happened.

"So Chrom, why were you running? Were you being chased?" Quizzed Sumia.

"Actually, no. I was doing the chasing," Chrom answered.

"Who were you chasing?" Lissa asked.

"It was Emmeryn," Chrom answered.

There was a short moment of silence. Each of them were trying to take in what they heard. It was very unbelievable; in fact Chrom thought that he might be going crazy. Maybe he was hallucinating or something.

"But Emmeryn, jumped off that cliff. Strategically there could be no way she could survive that fall. Even if she had, she would have died shortly afterward. I just don't see how that's possible," Ryan explained.

Ryan's words seemed to sum up what everyone was thinking at the moment. How could she have possibly survived falling over twenty meters? It just made no sense, she should be dead. But yet Chrom saw her just last night. He couldn't connect the dots in his head, how could this be true.

"But if she was alive, she most likely would have lost her memories, which would mean she wouldn't recognize you. That could explain why you had to chase her," Ryan figured, " I believe you."

With that said Lissa immediately stood up, "Are you crazy! How could you believe him. Emmeryn is dead! I wish she was here but she is dead. We can't change that. You even watched it happen Ryan! You even helped bury her body. How in the world could she have been alive?" Lissa outburst.

"Well, I know Chrom isn't insane, and he definitely wouldn't lie to me, what more do you need?" Ryan explained.

Somehow that seemed to make his point, because nobody argued with him. After that was settled The four of them went down to the main bar. There they ordered breakfast, eggs and bacon. As they were eating Chrom took notice of what was going on around them.

Morgan and Owain were playing a game of chess, and Owain was complaining like he was every time he played chess. Henry was trying to speak to a crow, Chrom didn't even know crows were allowed in here. Noire was fiddling with her charm, probably installing new lucky beads on it. Yarne and Panne were nowhere to be seen, but Stahl was not too far away eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert all as one meal, something he probably would repeat three more times that day. Gaius sneaked around pick pocketing candy out of people's pockets, and Thar'ja was casting tomes on her husband Virion… or at least attempting to.

It was very lively here ever since Chrom's party arrived. In fact the group was so big you could find somebody just about anywhere, they even needed to book out rooms at the competing Inn across the road.

Chrom used a fork to stab the yoke of his eggs right before a villager ran in.

"There's a task force heading toward the village! They're in battle formation! And Emily is walking straight toward them. Someone help!" the villager cried out.

A pit grew in his stomach, because for some reason Chrom had a feeling that "Emily" might actually be Emmeryn. It would be suicide for her to head straight for an armed force.

"Let's move!"

The general stood on the far ridge and watched his militia head down into the valley. He had general's armor on except it was thin and sleek, light weight, and the armor was a shade of charcoal grey, with red details here and there. He didn't carry a shield or a weapon on him, he simply stood at the back of his military force.

"General Fahlmer, the escapee is heading toward us, they have surrendered. Shall we bring her back to queen Lodia?" asked one of the common soldiers.

Fahlmer though for a second before replying, "No, kill her, Lodia need not know of this," Fahlmer announced.

The soldier nodded and walked off to join his fellow soldiers. Lodia was chosen as the new queen in Plegia, but also there is a council now that makes all the major decisions. However Fahlmer is a general to one of senators in the council. Senator Olman was the senator of this providence, thus Fahlmer had jurisdiction in this area. Fahlmer gave the signal for his men to mobilize.

Two cavaliers broke off and started charging toward Emmeryn. They now prepared their lances and readied for attack. They started to close in on her, they raised their lances. But right as they were to strike, something blocked the lance. Then a separate lance flung over and impaled the horse. A similar event also happened to the cavalier next to that one. The figures that projected Emmeryn were found to be Kellum and Kjelle.

"We won't let our friend be killed!" Kjelle announced.

"yeah what she said," Kellum said like he was unsure.

The party took their positions on the battle field. Chrom had Kellum and Kjelle bring Emmeryn to safety. Chrom and Ryan hid behind a rock to make sure that they wouldn't get hit by arrows if there were any archers on the field.

"Chrom, I don't like the look of their general, he seems over confident he has no weapons what so ever, not even a shield. He must have some trick up his sleeve," Ryan informed.

Chrom looked around the corner of the rock and saw the general put one of his commanders in charge, the general walked away.

"No, he's leaving, typical of a Plegian general, these aren't bandits, it's a Plegian militia," Chrom corrected.

Ryan took a look around the corner, he realized the set up of the soldiers as they marched toward them. It all consisted of a common Plegian battle strategy. They were all spread out into thin strands, in an attempt to cause the enemy to plow straight for their commander, but if they tried plowing through then the forces would close the gaps and completely surround the enemy. It was a smart move really, but Ryan , being the tactician he is devised up a new maneuver.

"Chrom I know what to do," Ryan exclaimed.

After discussing maneuvers each person took their place on the battlefield. Ryan had them placed on the ridges on the side, each person had a ranged weapon with them and a hand to hand combat weapon, except for Virion. Ryan and Morgan stayed on a high ledge above Chrom. Lon'qu, Lucina, and Virion were on the ledges opposite from where Chrom, Ryan, and Morgan were. Then down below there was Donnel, Vaike, Gregor, Kellum, and Kjelle. Chrom had a large pile of javelins at his side. He held one in his hand ready to strike.

Once the militia got close enough, Ryan gave the signal; which was shooting a ball of thunder into the air, and the people on the side ridges started raining attacks down on the enemies. At first the militia soldiers were caught by surprise and got struck down by either javelins, arrows, or one of Ryan's and Morgan's thunder bolts. But soon the militia soldiers learned and they split off and some of them started heading up the ridges. As this had started happening the units on the ground had started charging toward which ever enemy soldiers were still on the ground, to make sure that not too many soldiers went up the ledges to confront the higher up attackers.

Chrom kept throwing spear after spear, each one snapped as it stabbed into the enemy, which was good because he wouldn't want the enemies returning his javelins to him in like manor. But now they were getting too close for his liking and he dropped the javelin in his hand and unsheathed the Falchion. He ran full sprint; which really wasn't that fast because of the night before, and started slashing enemies down one by one.

Lon'qu on the other hand noticed the enemies increasingly gaining distance toward them. When they got close enough, he switched out his bow with a killing edge and slashed down two enemies in one movement. Lucina also switched to her parallel Falchion, and was in melee the enemies, in fact Lucina kick one in the face to cause the soldier to fall all the way down to the ground, and crack his skull open. Virion was now moving onto higher ledge so that he can still get good aim on the enemies.

Meanwhile down below Vaike was still on his first enemy, just idly dodging attacks. The enemy throw their hand axe again, and Vaike hopped over it.

"Ha, you got nothing on teach!" Vaike mocked openly. But this time he forgot that the hand axes have a boom-a-rang effect, and it slashed his shoulder on the way back. Vaike let out a short yelp as the axe broke skin, then he gripped his shoulder, quickly inspected it, then locked back at the soldier.

"This shirt was expensive! The Vaike paid lots of money for this!" He said in shock.

Gripping his axe Vaike jumped in the air and slammed it into the chest of the offending soldier. The soldier body couldn't take the force of impact and the weight of his axe and the soldiers bones cracked from it, but he wasn't alive to feel the pain. Proud of himself Vaike gave a smirk and ran of to fight the next opponent, hopefully not taking as long.

Chrom finished off the last enemy headed in his direction. All it took was a quick slash to the throat. But now he looked down at the militia forces still below. Surprisingly there was only about ten of them left. That's when Chrom caught a good sight of the commanding officer. It was the same person from the night before. This man hid in shelter and had his hand axe ready to throw.

Chrom ran down to meet the commander, with sword ready. Upon arriving the enemy caught sight of Chrom, he stood up and smiled in recognition.

"so the Ylissean rat has showed his face, too bad that history would tell that you were slaughtered by the great Malgor," the soldier said whimsically to himself.

"Commander Malgor," Chrom started, "Why does your general risk waging war against Ylisse?"

The commander laughed at the question. He laugh as if the answer was very obvious. Well it probably was obvious to the commander but Chrom had no idea of this general's intentions.

"It is you that is risking war, for you invade Plegian territory, and cause disruption in the process of the law," Malgor answered back.

"How am I disrupting the processes of law?" Chrom asked.

"By helping that girl!" Malgor said flinging the axe toward Chrom. However Chrom guessed the action would happen and he jumped to the side, then upon hearing the movement of the hand axe coming back toward him Chrom ducked and the axe spun over him, passing Chrom without scratching him, and was retrieve by Malgor.

Chrom ran toward Malgor, who throw the axe again, this time it was heading straight for Chrom, he had no time to dodge it. But with a flick of his wrist he swung the Falchion so the blade collided with the side of the hand axe, knocking it to the ground.

Malgor looked in horror at what happened and at the sight of the exalt of Ylisse still charging straight at him. Chrom leaped into the air and landed on Malgor's chest also pushing the blade of the Falchion into Malgor's chest. At first the blade stopped briefly as it his bone, but then penetrated through the bone and pierced Malgor's heart. Malgor in turn fell to the ground causing Chrom to fall over next to the body, which quickly grew pale and cold for the life had be taken. Chrom stood up and retrieved his sword, he gave a quick glance around and saw that everyone else just finished up.

Chrom looked at the bloodied blade, he disliked that such an event had to occur so soon. They haven't even arrived home yet. It was sad in a way, but it had to be done. The soldiers were going to attack one of their own villages, all just for Emmeryn. Chrom began to wonder why they wanted Emmeryn dead. But he would have to ask her himself.

The next day, the people involved in the battle finally finished burying the bodies and cleaning their weapons. Apparently Emmeryn finally understood that Chrom and his party were there to help. Chrom was correct in thinking that the villagers thought her name was Emily. Because when she first woke up, she told her that all she could remember is that "Someone close to her" called her "Emm". Of course the villagers thought that Emm was short for Emily, not Emmeryn. But it's not like they would have known, an isolated Plegian village on the west side of Plegian territory, they would have no reason to need to know about the goings-on in Ylisse since it posed no threat to them from their position on the map.

Chrom had gone to meet with Emmeryn in a little cottage she was staying in. It was owned by an older couple. Chrom had come to learn that they took care of Emmeryn's wounds. Chrom had thanked them for taking care of her before he entered the room. He entered all by himself, he wished that he could somehow make her remember.

"Hey Emmeryn, do you remember who I am?" Chrom asked.

"no," was her reply.

Chrom let out a sigh before continuing, "How about Lissa? Do you remember her?" Chrom asked. Emmeryn shook her head no.

"You don't remember Lissa at all?" Chroms question was followed by another shaking of the head.

"I remember when you attended her wedding. It wasn't that much, really you had so much stuff planned that we thought you would never make it," Chrom recalled, "But you just cancelled whatever arrangements you had and showed up anyways. Because you said "I can meet with ambassadors any day, but watching my sister get married will only happen once.""

Chrom left a pause to see if she would recall anything, but after a while he realized that she couldn't. Over the time Chrom talked to her about her past, what she did, who were her friends, who father was. But none of it helped her remember anything. Chrom then stood up. He decided to give up, there was nothing that could be done to retrieve the memories. Chrom turned to leave.

"Wait," came Emmeryn's voice.

Chrom stopped in the door way. He hoped that she finally remembered something. He wished that she could remember something.

"Can I travel with your group? I may not have all my memories, but I still know how to fight, and how to heal. I could be useful to you. Also I feel safer around you people. Also they might come back for me and I don't want to endanger the village," Emmeryn requested.

Chrom leaned against the frame, he let out a sigh of relief, knowing that will return home with them. Unknown to Emmeryn he let out a smile.

"Sure you can."