Akkiangel: Dang I haven't updated for a long long time! I'm so sorry for that! The laptop I was using had to be returned to my uncle so I was laptop less for a while, my older sister won't let me use her computer, and my mom's computer was broken down! So sorry for that everyone! Here's the next chapter that you have all been waiting for!

Disclaimer: Akkiangel doesn't own FE7

Once the disturbing news was told to everyone Edward was having a bad temper problem, and to add to that Roland had happened to run by the camp.

"What did you do to Rune?" Edward yelled at Roland who he was holding by the cape at the moment.

"I did nothing to her! I'm as mad as you are now let go so I can go and find her!" Roland yelled back at Edward as he hit Edward's hand away from him. Sasha then flew down with Selina following and copying what Sasha did.

"If you two are done fighting like little kids now I suggest we go and find Rune. After all she still does have that medallion with her doesn't she?" Sasha asked as she looked at everyone in the camp including Roland.

"How do you know she has that?" Zash asked. Sasha rolled her eyes.

"That's not important right now is it? No. So come on and let's go to where she last was at," Sasha said as she instantly mounted on her wyvern and flew off.

At the Forest

Everyone was where Rune was supposedly was at last. Shard looked at the water stream and pointed down the stream.

"We should head there," Shard said sort of slowly. Zang nodded.

"Alright everyone let's get going down that direction. Sasha and Selina could go and only scout ahead. Come back and inform us on what you see there," Zang said. The two winged units nodded and flew off into the sky following the stream down. Everyone else was following the stream down, but then Roland was stay ahead of the group by a large distance knowing how mostly everyone in that group dislikes him a lot.

"I should have killed Edward while I had a chance," Roland muttered silently to himself, but then Sasha's wyvern had appeared in front of him nearly landing on top of him.

"Sasha! Next time be careful where you land that thing," Roland said, but then the wyvern just snorted at Roland's face. Sasha rolled her eyes.

"Apparently the stream stops up ahead, and I see nothing in the water so someone might have carried Rune off to somewhere," Sasha said in a monotone since she wasn't in the mood for anyone's crappy mood at the moment. Roland nodded.

"I see… what happened to Selina? Did you strike a lance through her head?" Roland asked with a grin on his face.

"I wished I did, but then someone nearly shot her down and nearly shot me down," Sasha said in a darkly tone.

"Well then I guess you will have to go on foot," Benis said as the group passes Roland and Sasha since they have already heard the report from Selina who was leading her pegasus through the forest. Sasha let a low growl escape from her throat as she slid off of her wyvern and lead him through the forest even though it was pretty hard with the trees everywhere. When they got to a clearing they saw two roads to two different towns.

"Groups going have to split here," Elinsa said then turned back to the entire group.

"Zash, Zang, Romiah, Maz, Benis, Selina, and I will go on the road to the left. Roland, Sasha, Edward, Shard, Jailith, and Sorina will go to the right. Jailith I trust you will keep the group in order. When we are done we will have Selina fly over to inform you, but if you are done then you may have Sasha fly over to us and inform us. We should go out and check if anyone has seen Rune and be careful if anyone tries to attack you in the city," Elinsa said. Pretty much everyone was staring at her like she was some kind of imposter since Elinsa never did take charge like what she is doing at the moment. The area was silent for a couple of minutes until Roland started walking down on the path to the right. Slowly everyone headed off to the direction they were suppose to go to. When the group who went on the left road got to the town it seemed rather more of a village.

"Well I guess we are going have to split up again. Zash, Zang, and Romiah you got that way, and the rest of us will go this way," Elinsa said pointing down to two different directions in the village. As Zash, Zang, and Romiah were walking down a road Zash muttered something before knocking on a door. A young girl opens the door, but only a little creak.

"Hello?" a six years old voice said.

"Hi is your mother or father home?" Romiah asked instantly taking over before the job even started. The six years old nodded.

"Hold on. Mommy! Someone is outside looking for you," the six years old said as she ran away from the door. No sooner were footsteps heard and the door was opened even wider.

"Hello?" a matron (A/N: My mom is making me use new words that she taught me so please don't kill me! Matron: A name for an older woman)

"Hello. My friends and I were wondering if you have seen a young girl in a red armor and a black cloak," Romiah asked. The matron shook her head.

"Unfortunately I haven't. I'm sorry I can't be much help," the matron said.

"Oh… well okay; if you happen to see her could you please tell her that the entire camp is looking for her?" Romiah asked. The matron nodded then closed the door on her. After a couple more houses there was still no luck in finding Rune.

Elinsa, Maz, Benis, and Selina

The group had accidentally stumbled on Selina's parent's house and they had invited everyone in.

"It's nice to see you again Selina," Selina's mom said. Selina shook her head.

"And it's not nice to see you again," Selina muttered darkly. The tension in the air could be felt badly and Elinsa stood up.

"It's nice to be here, but we must be heading out to find our friend now. Have you seen a young girl in red--"

"Red armor and with a black cloak? In fact I think I heard one of the archers bragging how he shot someone in the back and made them fall in the river. I believe she was working for Black Fang so if that was your friend then we wouldn't mind getting rid of you as well," Selina's father interrupted Elinsa while holding a sword right at her throat.

"Working for Black Fang? Are you trying to insult the future Marquess of Pharea, Caelin, and Ostia? We are fighting against Black Fang," Elinsa said narrowing her eyes at Selina's father.

"I may, and I may not. Last I heard Selina was working for Black Fang and turned her sword against her own village. How do I know if the future Marquess of Ostia, Pharea, and Caelin are here?" Selina's father asked having the tip of the sword start to make a small cut on Elinsa's throat. Benis then stood up from his seat and hit the sword away from Elinsa's throat with his lance.

"I am Benis, future Marquess of Ostia. I suggest you don't make us fight against your village, because if we do we won't hold back. My younger brother, Zash, future Marquess of Caelin is also here with Zang, the future Marquess of Pharea. Our other half of the group is in the other town searching for our missing companion at the moment," Benis said. Selina's father then sheath his sword and had a frown on his face.

"I was hoping for a battle today, but I see none. Well search if you will, but I doubt you will find your missing companion here if she was shot by one of our archers. She is most likely to have been killed with that single shot," Selina's father said. As everyone got up and started to leave Benis was the last on standing at the door and looked at Selina's father.

"We shall see if she is here anyways," Benis said then left.

"If I could get my hands on his throat and choke him I would," Elinsa muttered as she started walking off to check in the other houses.

Over to the other group

Jailith and the group looked down the three roads.

"Alright we will have to split up into groups of two. Sorina and I will go down the middle path. Roland and Sasha you will go down the path on the left, and Edward and Shard you will have to go down the path on the right," Jailith said. Once he gave out the orders Roland and Sasha were already doing the orders right away, and Jailith and Sorina then started walking down the path on the middle.

"Why is it that every time we split up I have to get stuck going with Shard?" Edward asked himself as he headed down the path on the right. (A/N: Now that wasn't planned to happen, but those two just seemed to get paired every time when the group splits up.)

"I don't like villages… much," Shard said.

Jailith and Sorina

"Jailith we should maybe check the armory store first. Rune might have gone there to buy a new weapon if she lost her sword," Sorina suggested. Jailith looked to see an armory right ahead.

"Alright then, let's go," Jailith said as the two went in the armory store. Inside they saw a boy with messy dark brown hair all held up by a headband looking at an axe that the sales clerk gave him.

"Pardon me sir. Have you seen our friend pass by here? She wears a red armor and a black cloak," Jailith asked the 17 years old boy.

"No I didn't, and if I did why would I tell you of all people?" the boy asked then turned back at the sells clerk.

"I asked for a Steel Axe, not an Iron Axe," the boy said in an annoyed tone.

"Ah! Sorry about that Joel," the clerk said and ran to the back to bring out a Steel Axe to hand it to Joel.

"Thanks you slowpoke," Joel said as he put the money down and left swinging the axe around nearly swiping Sorina's head off while he was at it.

"Pardon me sir. Could you please be careful where you swing that?" Sorina asked. Joel stopped swinging his axe resting it on his shoulder and turned his head to Sorina.

"I will swing it whether I want to or not," Joel said then paused, "And the name is Joel. I'm not an old man." Joel then went back to what he was doing.

"Don't worry Sorina, I doubt we will see him again," Jailith said as he took Sorina's hand and lead her to another house. When he did another man holding an axe had open the door.

"What you want?" The older man snarled.

"We are looking for our friend. Did you--" Jailith started, but then the man shoved him

"Out of the way! I don't need your problems here," the man yelled as he then slammed the door.

"We should have gone the other path," Sorina said as she help Jailith up.

"Yes. Maybe we should have taken the other path," Jailith said as he noticed how other men with axes were starting to slowly appear one by one.

"What do we have here? A little girl with her little boyfriend?" one of the axe men asked.

"Is there something you want from us?" Jailith asked.

"We would like you to leave all of your belongings on the ground and the girl here," a different man said.

"I afraid that is something I cannot do," Jailith said rather calmly. A lighting then struck down from the blue skies and down onto the man. The man screamed from the sudden attack and feel down onto his face dead.

"Why you!" another man yelled, but then a hand axe came flying by slicing the man's head right off so quickly and unexpectedly. The hand axe then came back flying to the same boy the two spell casters had met only a couple of minutes ago.

"You stupid bandits… stop terrorizing this village!" Joel yelled as he charged at the bandits with the newly steel axe he bought and brought it down onto the bandits inexpertly. Some bandits were killed or injured from Joel's charge in attack, but then they were still able to give him a counter attack. Jailith shook his head as another lighting sprung on a bandit who died from the shock due to the injuries he received from the axe.

"You shouldn't just charge into a group of bandits blindly," Jailith said. Sorina cast a couple of fireballs down on the weakest bandits while Jailith was just casting lighting down onto the injured bandits. Joel who then finally got a nice cut onto a bandit's chest rather deeply just snorted.

"You shouldn't be interfering with a matter that doesn't concern you," Joel said.

"We have our reasons why to interfere," Sorina said instantly before Jailith could open his mouth. Right when the three had finished killing the last of the bandits Sorina grabbed out her Healing Staff and started to heal Jailith from the injuries he received.

"I swear the longer I stay here the more those bandits come," Joel muttered as he kick a dead bandit's body around.

"Why is that?" Sorina asked as she went to heal Joel's injuries.

"Because… I caused a riot with them not to long ago, and now they want me to pay for it," Joel said.

"Well then why not join our group? We could be leaving this village as soon as we check if our friend came by here," Sorina said. Joel snorted.

"I doubt your friend would like it if I join," Joel said. Sorina looked at Jailith.

"Don't worry. You could just come and help us look for our friend, and then everyone else might be fine if you join," Sorina said.

"Fine," Joel said getting up instantly even though his wounds weren't healed yet.

"He is just going to get himself killed one of these days," Jailith said as he watch Sorina try to get Joel to let her heal him, but refused continuously.

Roland and Sasha

"You should have watched what was happening," Roland growled at Sasha.

"It's not my fault arrows were flying out of the forest! If I was dead then you wouldn't have known what happened!" Sasha yelled. Roland rolled his eyes.

"Well you could have gone and get her out of the stream as soon as those archers left. Now we have to work with them earlier than planned," Roland yelled back.

"Then you could have watched her yourself instead of making me watch her!" Sasha said.

"I couldn't! If I didn't do the jobs Nergal gave me then it would have been suspicious and I would have a sword through my head!" Roland snapped.

"Why do you always think a sword will go through that thick head of yours? Nergal could have used magic on you and burned you to death!" Sasha said rolling her eyes.

"I don't even know why I had to work with you of all people when it comes to searching for Rune. If I was searching for her myself then it would have been a lot faster," Roland hissed. Sasha snorted.

"Well it was pretty obvious Jailith wouldn't want to work with you since you work for Black Fang. Then Jailith wouldn't let Sorina work with you, because who knows what you may do to her when you are alone? If you worked with Edward then you two would be at each other throats trying to rip each other to pieces. Lastly if you work with Shard then you might have a spear going through that head of yours," Sasha said. Roland rolled his eyes.

"I hate you," Roland said and went off checking in the house with or without permission. Sasha smiled.

"And you are the idiot," Sasha said then followed Roland.

Edward and Shard

Edward knocked on a door and the guy gave him a glare.

"What do you want?" the guy asked.

"Did you happen to see a young girl in red armor and in a black coat come by here?" Edward asked.

"No now go away," the guy said and slammed the door on his face. Edward then took a step back rubbing his nose.

"That guy should learn to not slam the door on people's nose!" Edward said. Shard just shrugged as he waited for Edward to go and check on another house. Before he could he saw a red and black blur running across the road ahead of the two, but right after they disappeared Roland and Sasha appeared running after the person.

"We found her!" Edward yelled as he joined the chase, and then Shard joined. There was a wall ahead, but then the person jumped over the wall, except Sasha then flew over the wall with her wyvern still pursuing the chase. Sasha cut the person's road off, except then the young girl jumped over the fence again taking a different road out. Sasha let out a low growl as her wyvern took off once again flying after the girl. The girl then made a right turn and right into someone's armor making her fall onto the ground stopping her from running, but the black hood stood on her head.

"Nice job Zash," Sasha said as her wyvern then flew down onto the ground behind the girl. Just then Roland, Edward, and Shard had appeared behind Sasha.

"So who is this?" Zash asked.

"It's Rune. Why else would we be chasing her?" Roland asked as he pulled the girl's hood off to reveal the young girl's identity.

"Rune?" Zash asked.

"I'm not Rune. I'm called Maria," the girl hissed giving Zash a glare. Now that everyone got a better look at her Maria had almost similar hair, except her hair was darker, and her eyes were soft green. (A/N: No it is not Maria from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones)

"A thief?" Romiah asked as she looked at Maria and noticed her leather clothing.

"What does it look like?" Maria shot back in a mad tone then stood up.

"Why do you look like my little sister?" Edward asked.

"Because I do, it's not like I asked to look like this!" Maria snapped.

"Great. We got someone who looks and acts like Rune when she is mad," Edward said sarcastically. Maria rolled her eyes.

"Shut up if you care for that stupid tongue of your's," Maria hissed narrowing her eyes at Edward as she pulled out a dagger.

"No need for you to cut my tongue off," Edward said. Maria pocketed her knife and walked down a road.

"I believe it is necessary for a loudmouthed sage as you," Maria said coldly without facing anyone, but kept walking.

"Wait could you help us find our friend?" Zang asked. Maria slowly stopped and was silent for a minute, but then finally said something.

"Your friend… Rune is it? She is at my parent's house. Come on," Maria said as she pulled her hood back on and started running down the road. Everyone was no sooner off running while Sasha went off flying. When they stopped they were at a two stories building, and Maria was leaning on the door of her house with a faceless expression.

"Slow people," Maria muttered as she went in. The group of people went inside while Sasha went to go and gather everyone else.

Akkiangel: I'm going to end it here. Sorry about that and I'll try to update soon as possible! Thanks for the review, and if you want to you can go and submit in a character still.