Yay, I can finally update again! I got the day off, and I've been meaning to work on this some more. Also, I managed to beat Fire Emblem AGAIN! That's #8 now, BUT... before you jump to crazy solutions, I skimmed through the whole game and skipped most of the movies because I wanted to try a couple of theories I had, like have Mist attack the Black Knight in chapter 27, or have Ranulf attack the black knight in chapter...24...i think. ALSO, while i was playing through, i did ike's and lethe's support, and after i finished the A support, i got this info thing, or something, and it turns out Lethe has a crush on Ike. Although, I predicted that a long time, but people said I was crazy! But...I just thought that you should know that...cause the thing during the epilogue she said changed to something...more significant, so she'll probably be in Goddess of Dawn! Anyways, ON TO READING!
Hide and Seek
"BLAZES! Why does it have to be SO hot and sweaty here? If we weren't being chased by soldiers, I'd strip of my clothes right now!" shouted Gatrie
"Then I'm glad we ARE being chased, or else I'd have to KILL YOU!" cried Titania, "Although this heat is appalling; it does make me want to strip. But there are children here, so we can't…"
The mercenaries had fled through the night and made their way to the sea of trees that bordered Crimea and Gallia. The trees were thick, but not thick enough that there was still sunlight.
"I cant' believe we have to go to stinkin' beast country, man!" said Shinon, "I need more…'tea'."
"What are these 'beasts' of which you speak?" questioned Ike
"Whoooa! You're a mercenary and you've never heard of the beast-dudes?"
"Never."
"Whoooa! You're stupider than I thought, Ikee!"
"Hmm…Perhaps."
"These beast-men that Shinon spoke of are traditionally called 'Laguz', which in the Norse language means 'Lake'…funny how that works." Said Soren "Laguz is also the symbol of Loki, and-"
"Soren!" shouted the commander, "nobody cares about your blasphemy! Now, we have almost made our way out of these trees, and the Daein army is most likely waiting to ambush, so we need to decide a course of action!"
"I say we should split up," replied Shinon, "one team attacks the enemy, and the other takes the princess to Gallia!"
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" shouted Soren, "we'll be dividing our forces, so the chance of survival is even less for each team!"
"I dunno," said the commander, "Shinon has proved his worth many times."
"Name one time!"
"……we don't have time to discuss this. Shinon! Gatrie! To me! Remember everyone, this may be our last battle, so I wanna say something: No matter what happens, we're all family, so nobody better go dying on me now!"
"Don't worry, father, I promise we'll be safe!"
"We'll see about that!"
And then the three skipped ahead, leaving them to the princess, who was picking her nose, which was bleeding.
"AHA! THE MERCENARIES ARE HEADING FOR GALLIA! ENA, HAVE ANOTHER COOKIE! YOU HAVE MY PRAISE! I WAS CURIOUS AS WHY KING ASHNARD OF DAEIN GAVE ME A GIRL!!!"
Ena was just mauling her cookie.
"AHA! YES! BUT I WILL SOON HAVE MY PRAISE! I'LL LEAVE GENERAL EMIL IN CHARGE OF THE BORDER, WHILE I GO YELL AT MORE SOLDIERS! AND I WILL GET EVEN MORE FAVOR!! HA HA! WHAT A POINTLESS PARAGRAPH!
"There's more than I expected," said Soren, "I thought the guards would be spread out all over border, but they're all in one place!"
At the edge of the forest stood the mercenaries; watching the Daein soldiers along a river, guarding the border.
"Should we regroup?" asked Oscar
"No, it's too late to find the commander, we're already split up."
"If there's so many in one place," started Boyd, "then why don't we just go somewhere else on the border?"
"Shut up, Boyd!" shouted Ike, "We'll just have to make this a stealth mission, so we can get to the cheap wooden wall that's the so-called 'border'."
"This shouldn't be a problem," stated Soren, "there are two connecting bridges across the river, and the forest stretches down to the western one, so maybe we can get the children and the princess to cross one while we deal with the other…"
"Don't worry about that!" shouted Rolf, "I have a better idea; we'll just play hide and seek, and I NEVER lose at hide and seek!"
"Fine! Go!" shouted Ike
And so the battle began as the three ran into the forest. The mercenaries pulled out their weapons and prepared for battle. They split into two groups: Ike, Boyd and Rhys as one and Oscar, Soren and Titania as the other. The second group waited to strike until the other group made their way to the western bridge. Ike pulled out a brand new Iron Blade, much like any other sword he had, except very thick, was taller than him, and of the same width as his waist, yet he managed to hold it with one hand above his head…in a horizontal position. He held it out of the patch of trees for the other group to see, and everybody attacked at once. Ike ran onto the bridge attacked a myrmidon across his upper back, and Boyd struck a helpless archer across the chest, who then fell off the bridge into the river. Rhys stood in the back cheering them on. Titania swung her axe at an archer back on the coast, and Soren and Oscar struck three soldiers once with combined skills; Oscar threw his javelin at one, and Soren used Wind to repeatedly spin it in midair and strike the other two.
"The enemy is here!" shouted General Emil, who was personally guarding the wooden border gate, "Someone go tell General Petrine!"
"Rolf!" shouted Mist, "where are we going? We can't go too far back! The others are depending on us!"
"Don't' worry, Mist! There should be a good spot somewhere here!"
As the three ran through the woods, they came upon a small opening, with a diameter of about ten meters, completely covered in grass and surrounded by trees.
"This'll work!"
Rolf told the others to find rocks the sizes of heads and make a circle surround the field. The princess didn't understand, and just watched, while eating things she found out of her nose. Once the kids found enough rocks, Rolf skidded across the grass to flatten it, while making a symbol. He placed dirt all over the flat grass, and then stood in the middle.
"My imaginary friends who burn things showed me this!" he said as he pressed his hands against the ground.
The dirt glowed red, and the remaining grass in the circle disappeared into a rock surface. A staircase opened up in the middle, with an illuminating red light glowing from below. Constant screams of agony could be heard from below.
"Come on, guys! We'll be safe down there!"
So the three ran down, and as the last one was out of sight, the circle turned back into grass as it was before they came.
The battle continued fiercely for the mercenaries, as Ike and Boyd were challenged by a mighty knight in heavy armor. He was no match for the two combined, but three soldiers and two archers were backing him up!
Soren and Oscar continued towards the eastern bridge, met by about three soldiers. However, charging from the behind the soldier was a stoned axe-knight; wielding a deadly poleax. He swung at the mercenaries, but cut through the other soldiers like wheat.
"Titania!" shouted Oscar, "we need your awesomeness you brag so much about to kill that knight!"
"Why should I? I'll get cut down!"
"I'm a lance knight, with less experience than you, and we all know axes beat lances; it's the law of the universe!"
"And my wind magic is almost out! I didn't have time to bring another spell book!"
"…fine…I'll give it a try…"
Titania slowly trotted to the waiting knight, and the two charged at each other! Titania swung at the knight, but her axe was not long enough to land a blow, and she was struck across the chest by the enemy. She tried to flee, but before her horse could react, the enemy struck at her neck, and her head was sent flying across the river.
(A/N: This didn't really happen, but I don't like Titania that much, cause she ends up sucking around here, and I actually just see her as the person who hangs around and does nothing.
And one time that axe-knight almost killed her, so…there…)
"Oh my God…we're screwed…" Oscar said to himself
'You can't die! If you do, I'll be waiting for you in hell to repay your debt!'
'AAAAAAAAH!'
Oscar charged at the knight and stabbed through his armor with all his might, but had a boost of energy from his meth. Then, Soren came to the rescue and used the rest of his magic to attack the rider's horse. The horse shrieked, and fell backwards into the river, along with the knight. When the two made sure he was dead, Soren got on in Oscar's horse in front of him, because he's a midget. He grabbed the knife Oscar kept strapped to his leg, and the two fought the remaining soldiers. They managed to cut through easily, as all that was left were two soldiers and a healer. Oscar stabbed at the first soldier, while Soren slit the healer's throat. As the last one attempted to strike, Oscar pulled out his foot and kicked him, while Soren stabbed through his throat.
Back to the other group, Ike and Boyd held their ground against the knight, with the other soldiers ready to strike. While Rhys held out staff to heal Ike from an injury, Titania's head landed perfectly in his hands. He looked in shock at the head, but quickly realized it was his hero, Titania; her face pale and in shock, and her eyes looking straight up. He screamed like crazy and chucked it at the enemies. It hit the knight, who fell off the bridge into the rapid river, and the other two were free to attack. The both stunned their own soldier and killed the others, and then both charged at the defenseless archers.
Now all that was left were two soldiers with javelins, and a fierce halberdier with a …short spear. The general halberdier wore black and green armor, shouting, "No one will pass, unless they face ME!"
"Well, obviously!" shouted Ike, who then cut through the first soldier.
Boyd ran to the second one and killed him, and Oscar and Soren took on Emil together. Emil threw his lance and struck at Oscar, which almost made him fall off his horse, if it wasn't for the demon inside. Soren attempted to stop the horse, but since the demon didn't understand horse commands, it ran over the general, and the two made it into Gallia. Emil didn't die yet, and got up and challenged Ike, but before either one could react, Boyd's throwing axe from the fort battle flew across the sky and cut off his head.
Ike checked to see that the halberdier was dead, but as Rhys and Boyd came up, Rhys turned around to see something.
"Boyd! Look, a surviving healer!"
"Sadistic Bastards!" he shouted, while calling a war cry, and began chasing him like a rabbit.
"Now we can leave without him! It's brilliant!"
"Good job, Rhys!" and the two ran down the path.
"All right, now. Where is everybody?" asked Ike
"Well, Titania is dead," started Oscar, "so,-"
"HOW COULD YOU LET HIM DIE! I'LL KILL YOU!" shouted Rhys, who tackled Oscar and began whacking him with his staff
"Get a hold of yourself!" said Soren, who lifted up the depressed priest. "Titania was never good at all. She never did any of the fighting and just stole from and killed innocent people!"
Before the conversation could continue, a patch of grass in front of them glowed red and opened up, and Mist, Rolf and the princess ran out of it. They were carrying a variety of items; from balloons and food, to stuffed animals, and hats and T-shirts with 'HELL' written on them.
"It's about time you caught up!" shouted Ike
"Where's Titania?" asked Mist
"Dead"
"Where's Boyd?"
"……Dead…"
"…OK! Where's father and Shinon and the Gaybo?"
"…Hey, they aren't back yet. Where could they be?" replied Rhys
"Father…Shinon…Gaybo…" said Ike
Soren would have said something, but was too distracted by Ike calling Gatrie 'Gaybo'. "I'll never forget THAT one!" he said to himself
"All right then," said Ike, "we're going to go back and look for him, so Mist, I need you and the others to make your way to the palace."
"No! I don't wanna!"
"Mist, we'll all come back safe! Have I ever broken a promise?"
"YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE TO FATHER ABOUT KEEPING EVERYONE ALIVE!!!"
"Safe, Mist. I said I'd keep them safe…and that one doesn't count!"
"…Ok. We'll go!"
So before everyone departed their ways, Elincia walked up to Rhys.
"Are you, like, a healer?"
"GAAAAH, W-W-WHAT DO YOU WANT?!?"
"I like, wanna totally give you this staff!"
"It's a mend staff! With twice the power of a heal staff, with better handling and grip, encased in pure gold and…what the hell is THAT on the jewel?"
"Oh, my uncle and I, like, totally used this staff when we totally did secret things!"
"…very well. I'll take your witchcraft, but don't think things are over between us!"
"Oh, I know!" she giggled, then had one of her many seizures from the reflection of light from the jewel, and spewed on the ground.
"Eew…good thing she didn't do that to me!"
Little did Rhys know, but he was wearing the robe that Elincia spewed on earlier, and he hadn't washed it yet. Poor Rhys.
