See Saw Chap 7
The group stares at Rutger's body with regret. Klein puts down the weapon and falls to his knees. Tate rushes to his side to comfort him.
"It is ok Klein, you had to. If you didn't he would have killed us all."
"I know but we may not be able to save Clarine now. She will be devastated when she finds out I killed Rutger. She truly loved him. How will I live with myself?"
"It is ok to cry Klein, I will be strong for both of us and besides Clarine knows you love her, she will understand."
The man's voice comes on over the speaker.
Hello everyone, the task has been completed and the door is now open, but you guys aren't playing by the rules anymore. You must be punished for that. Remember the woman who did your make up Tate? Well I have sent her with some more of my pets to teach you guys a lesson. You can head for the exit and play by the rules or try to save Clarine and fight. The choice is yours.
Sue looks to Roy with a worried expression.
"Roy where are Sophia and Lance?"
"They are a little ways back. She must still be tending to his wounds."
"I am going to go back for them and head for the exit."
"Wolt can go with you, I will help Klein and Tate save Clarine."
Klein looks up at Roy.
"Thank you Roy, this means so much to me."
The two groups go their separate ways.
Sue looks back one more time at Roy before she takes off with Wolt.
As they are running Wolt murmurs something to himself. "I wish I wouldn't have agreed to this."
Noah and Fir
Fir wakes up in a pitch black room. The light starts to flicker and her eyes are taking long to adjust.
"Where am I?"
The speaker crackles in the corner of the room.
Hello Fir, would you happen to know a man named Noah?
"What have you done with him!"
In this relationship you rely too much on Noah. It is time to prove yourself. You just need to pass a few tests. In this room are two dead bodies. There is a key in only one of them. This key unlocks the door out for your next test. You must find it before the timer goes off. When the timer goes off the door will lock leaving both you and Noah to die."
Fir begins to tremble. "I can't do this. I can't."
The man's words echo in her head. "Yes I can for Noah. I am not weak!"
The lights turn on and the two bodies are on either side of her.
Fir starts on the first body. There is a small knife lying by both bodies.
She cuts into the first man's stomach and blood slowly pours out.
"Why is there blood still flowing if these people are dead? Answer me!"
The man starts to stir and open his eyes.
"You have got to be kidding me."
She hurries cutting deeper and deeper searching for the key. She gives up on that body and goes to the womans. She cuts into this one and it bleeds too.
"These people aren't dead! You lied! These people are not dead. What did you do to them!
These are people that failed their tests. They didn't die so I used magic to numb their bodies. They are fully alive though. So you are in fact helping me murder them.
"You are sick! How can you use people like this?"
She goes back to cutting. Her hands can't stop trembling and she can't stop crying. She finally sees the key and pulls it out. She runs for the door wanting to forget everything that just happened. She turns the key and opens the lock.
The room she is in now is a huge freezer. The frigid air makes her shiver. Her breath can be seen.
A shadow of someone is at the other end of the room.
Fir, I'm so glad you made it. That is indeed Noah at the end of the room. You should listen before you run over to him though. You don't have much time to save him. He is locked by four keys to a sprinkler system. As you may have guessed this is a giant freezer. It won't take long for him to reach hypothermia and die. His life depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice and how fast you make these choices.
In each corner there is a beaker of acid. The four keys will be dropped into them. You will have to get them, but they are over a small pool of water. The longer you wait in the pool the colder you will get and the key will dissolve in a matter of seconds if you don't hurry. Good luck.
The room is already freezing. Fir can't imagine being in water. A key drops into one of the beakers of acid and Fir springs for it. As her feet step into the pool she screams.
"It is so cold!"
Her scream is muffled by Noah's though. The sprinklers have started and he is completely naked.
"Hold on Noah! I won't fail you."
The beaker is just high enough in the air, held by chains, that she will have to get on her tiptoes.
She sticks her hand in the acid and screams in pain. The pain is almost unbearable, but she will suffer for Noah.
She gets the first key but her hand is already blistering and red. She runs to Noah and unlocks the first lock.
"I love you Noah!"
The sprinkler stops so as not to kill Noah too fast.
Fir gets to the second key and she begins to lose feeling in her legs. She quickly gets the second key and unlocks another lock. The sprinkler starts again and Noah is screaming in pain.
"Please hurry!"
Fir is trying to keep calm but everything screaming her head is telling her they are both going to die.
For the third beaker Fir is a little too careless and she spills the key out of it and into the water.
"That was much faster."
She gets excited as she unlocks the third.
"Hold on Noah."
She quickly knocks the fourth beaker down and gets the key. A thin layer of ice is forming on Noah's now quivering body. She puts the last key in but it doesn't unlock it.
"What? Why isn't it working?"
She tries all the keys and it still doesn't unlock.
Noah looks down at Fir. A tear comes from his eye and freezes before it falls.
"Go Fir." Noah says softly.
"You know I can't Noah! I love you!"
She is now getting wet from the sprinkler and shaking badly too.
"I will die with you!"
"No! If you love me you will survive!"
They kiss and Noah's lips aren't even the same. The warmth a kiss would have brought any other time was not there. She stepped away from Noah's body and his head slumped down.
The sprinkler stopped and the layer of ice was thick now. Noah's body was so heavy from the ice that it broke the chains and fell to the ground.
A hysterical Fir walked out of the freezer and collapsed on the floor. The room was warm and she blacked out lying on the floor, a frozen tear still on her cheek.
Author's Note: This is one of my favorite Fire Emblem couples and I hated to kill Noah, but Fir does learn that she is strong enough through this test.
