Micaiah and I had starting walking back to the cave when we heard the crack of a twig, I quickly pulled her behind a nearby rock to hide us for I knew it had been Daein soldiers.
"What is it?" She asked clearly not hearing the noise.
"Daein soldier's are nearby," I whispered trying not to make too much noise. I peeked my head up trying to spot the soldier when I was pushed to the ground and heard laughing.
"What do we have here?" The mysterious man asked, my face was still buried into the ground. "If it isn't the murderer and his accomplice," he said, I finally was being pulled up off the ground. I quickly got my footing turned around and slapped the guard across the face, that was when I had noticed he wasn't alone. There had been seven guards surrounding Micaiah and I, Micaiah was already bound by rope and looking at me with fear and surprise. I had been taken away from my observations by the butt of the spear to my chest, I fell to the floor and had my hands on my chest.
"Fuck you all!" I said through grit teeth. The soldiers responded by kicking me in the chest despite me already on my hands and knees struggling to move. I gasped in pain and had the wind knocked outta me, before I could react I felt myself being pulled to my feet and being dragged across the forest floor. I tried to move and struggle, anything to get away from the grasp of these fiends but it was to no avail. I saw that we had finally been pulled out of the forest and into town, everyone was cheering and shouting at us. We had finally gotten into a jail and thrown into a jail cell, that was when I looked at Micaiah and myself, we had been scratched up and some scratches had started to bleed but aside from that we were physically okay. She had her head down and I couldn't tell if she was crying or not.
"Micaiah?" I asked trying to get her attention. There was no response. "Micaiah?" I asked again, still nothing. "MICAIAH" I yelled at her, she instantly threw her arms around me and hugged me, crying into my shoulder.
"I'm so scared, what will happen to Sothe? What will happen to us? What will happen to Daein?" She rambled.
"I truthfully don't know Micaiah," I admitted while stroking her hair trying to calm her. "Look, i'm so sorry, this was all my fault and truthfully you should have left me in that hotel to die."
"Please, don't say that!" She yelped.
"...why?" I asked after some silence, she responded with a confused noise. "Why did you save me?" I asked more clearly.
"I...I don't know, I could not have just left you there to die," She replied while pulling away from the hug with tear tracks along her face.
"It would have been better for both of us though," I commented.
"..." She didn't respond at all. Was she hiding something? Is there something I don't know about? I pondered to myself for a while and before I knew it, it had already been night. Micaiah was sound asleep and I was sitting against a wall pondering about, virtually everything. I started to examine the cell, small, cold, dilapidated, just awful. Somehow Micaiah was sleeping in this shit-hole, it amazed me honestly because when I tried to sleep I just gagged. It smelt like...death, and the walls outside were covered in dry blood. That was when I thought they would kill us, the other cells were empty and there was blood on the walls, for some strange fucking reason I got the crazy idea that we were gonna end up like a pile of blood on the walls. I knew the truth, if we were lucky we would live for a week, but for Micaiah's sake I wanted to try to give her at least a dim light of hope.
"Nathen?" Micaiah asked wearily.
"Yes?" I replied noticing my eyes starting to droop.
"Were gonna die...aren't we?" HA...one could think she was reading my mind but I didn't feel anything and I was turned away from her at the moment so unless her hand was practically up my ass I doubt that's possible, oh shit right.
"...Probably," I admitted to her, surprisingly she just let out a sigh.
"I have no tears left," She stated. I didn't reply, I didn't exactly know how to. I had suspected she went back to sleep and I realized there was no need in just staying here moping around waiting for someone to rescue us like Ike, I thought maybe we could pull some Alcatraz escape shit. I looked around the cell for something, anything. Unsurprisingly I found jack shit, great.
"FUCK US FUCK IT ALL" I screamed in anger, next I saw Micaiah's eyes shoot open and widen at my annoying remarks that had woke her up from her slumber. "Sorry, I-sorry" I apologized in a whisper tone.
"What has happened for you to use such vulgar language?" She asked mysteriously.
"Realizations Mick, realizations," I answered.
"Mick?" She asked.
"I don't know, okay? it's a nickname," I clarified.
"Oh, okay" She said clearly not giving two shits.
"Alright Micaiah, whats on your mind?" I asked but it was to no avail as she didn't even acknowledge my presence. "HELLOOO" I yelled.
"Oh, yeah? What is it?"
"Whats on you mind?" I repeated again, she gave a big sigh before speaking which was my cue to start paying the fuck attention to whatever she had to say.
"I know this is the end for us, and probably for Sothe if he has been spotted, we are being executed in a day or so for treason against Daein and to make things worse, I can't sleep or do anything other than be terrified. We could have helped Daein but instead you just had to go out and kill three or so Daein soldiers just for a girl who was already dead, sure what they did was bad but I think you could have handled that a tad bit better don't 'cha think nathan?" She explained, her voice raising with anger. "WHY DID YOU DO IT? I DON'T UNDERSTAND" She cried out.
I just looked into the ground and tried to hold back the tears forming, not because I got yelled at but, i'm just a plain old idiot! she's right, I could have handled it better but I was in the moment and was pissed off, I didn't know we would have ended up in jail, I expected a smooth getaway but instead were waiting for our death here in some blood infested, shit smelling prison.
"You better answer me Nathan," She yelled.
"I don't know, I was an idiot for doing it, I admit it i'm a dumb ass and truthfully I should be the one taking the fall and not you, you shouldn't have associated yourself with me after the killing anyways, you should have known I was trouble." I admitted.
"Don't you try and blame this on me!" She screamed.
"LOOK I'M SORRY, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" I yelled back even louder than she previously did.
"How about you just get us out of here," She said while laying back down. "Night." And after that she fell asleep.
Now to find a way out of here, hopefully their was a loose brick or something. That was when I looked out the bars and saw keys, they where hanging on the opposite side of from the cell we had been held in probably just to spite us. Fuck these Daein assholes and their methods of torture, trying to give us false hope or some shit. I realized that their was no point in trying to escape from the cell so instead I decided I would just wing it once we start to get carried towards our inevitable death.
It had been a week in this stuffy ass cell, and it was time for our death, it was a grim moment when I thought about it, I actually was starting to think my life would be over. But than I remembered, this is fucking Fire Emblem, a game where practically anything is possible strategy wise. Micaiah and I had exchanged worried faces before we were pulled out of our cells and dragged to where we would spend our final moments. The walk took only five minutes and I had wished that it took way longer so I could try something to escape but sadly my plan of not having a plan was being fucked up. But that was when I spotted an opening, Micaiah was about to be sliced in half and I had noticed that the guy that was holding me decided to take a break and have a chat with some Daein citizen. I then turned to face him and with all my strength headbutted him which probably hurt me more than it did him since he just passed out. I realized that the bindings had been very loose around my hands and with some fiddling they came of easy. The guards about to slaughter Micaiah failed to notice my plan being put into action and went on with the execution.
"NO!" I screamed, before I knew it another friend of mine had died right before my eyes. She let out a scream before falling to the floor, the same blood lust consumed me and I picked up the nearest sword which happened to be off of the fool I just knocked the fuck out of. I picked it up and charged to the soldiers that had murdered Micaiah, I easily cut through the first two assholes who put their swords up to mine but the third soldier was a lot more tricky. I slashed left and he dodged left, I slashed right and he went right. He seemed to be able to out match me in just about everything. I had earned myself a few battle scars on my left arm and chest. He started over conquering my swordsmanship and I started to panic, I did everything I could to avenge Micaiah but it seemed I had made a fatal mistake in my attacks, I misplaced my foot and got is sliced. The sword went straight into the flesh and hit bone immediately, I screamed and fell to the floor, I had lost hope, Mist was first, Micaiah second and now my sorry ass. His sword was a second away from slicing my head off when it fell to the floor and he screamed in pain. I felt a strange heat from a very bright light source, I was temporarily blinded for a minute and when it wore off I saw a dead Daein and...MICAIAH.
"MICKY!" I screamed as I jumped up and hugged her.
"Please, no hugs, It h-hurts," She pleaded weakly. I looked down at her face which was cut pretty badly, I then let go and noticed the wound in her stomach, she had been stabbed straight through.
"Micaiah, you need a healer now!" I screamed frantically.
"No, please. I need rest, I will be fine," She requested.
"Are you sure? You look really bad" I admitted.
"Well thanks," She said sarcastically "Just get me out of here."
Without warning I threw her over my shoulder and started limping as fast as I could towards the forest that was surrounding us. It seemed to be the same place that Mist was executed and the scenario played out almost the same except this time no one was chasing us.
"Slow down please!" She yelped.
"Oh, crap sorry." I apologized sheepishly.
I slowed my pace to a light walk and felt my foot really starting to hurt, I realized my adrenaline wore off and I was fucked. I put Micaiah down as gently as I could and fell upon the ground with a scream of pain.
"Fuck me!" I exclaimed.
"Oh my god, come here!" She demanded.
"No, I'm not letting you heal me until you get yourself healed first."
"Nathan I won't stand for this nonsense,"
"Micaiah, I am serious." I firmly stated, she gave out a small sigh.
"Okay pushy!" She said. "But there would be no way to get a healer, we can't go back into Daein and in our current conditions we can't travel anywhere"
"Well than, I guess we die here" I said in a completely lax tone.
"What?!" She asked perplexed by my reply.
"I was kidding, now lets get some sleep, its been a long day despite the early time," I said.
"Yeah your right Nathan" She yawned. "Good night, and thank you for saving me,"
She fell asleep almost instantly as I stood awake staring at the trees in the sky, what would happen if I lot Micaiah? I would be alone in this world. I need her, she is my only friend at this point, I can't lose her, not like Mist. I need to use this as fire to kill who ever gets in my way, I frankly don't care who thinks it's right. I have a new mission, protect Micaiah and kill that bastard who is causing all of this. With a mission in my head and some guidelines, I got a well rested sleep.
I awoke to the cold air and wet ground, it was unusual actually, yesterday it was at least 70 and now it felt like 30, I wonder if this is how the weather is in Tellius, maybe Micaiah can tell me. I looked to the side where she had situated herself last night and saw nothing but crumpled leaves and shoe marks.
"Fuck me," I said as I jumped up petrified for her life.
"AHHHH" I heard and jumped from the sound. It had sounded like a girl being murdered...NO! I ran to the source of the scream and saw Micaiah faced off against none other than Ike, that dick with a capital fucking D.
"Oh well if it isn't Nathan, you have made quite a name for yourself" He snickered.
"What do you mean?" I questioned.
"Look for yourself" He said throwing a paper at me, the top read "Wanted for the killing of Daein soldiers." Although it didn't have a picture it had a name, two actually, and it was ours, Micaiah and Nathan, shit. "Too bad I must end your adventures and collect the bounty for myself."
"You sir are a fucking dick y'know?" I stated.
"Oh trust me, I know!" He yelled. That was when I noticed the infamous red eyes and a strange glow from his pocket.
It was none other than the Medallion itself!
A/N: I know it was a short piece of shit but I have had a shit ton of state mandated tests and NEEDED to get my grades up, I wanted it to be longer but I had to put this out there, I hope you enjoyed and would love feedback and I hope you wonder to yourself "Why does he have the Medallion?" I am a sick twisted person and you will find that out for yourself in the next chapter. I will accept feedback and criticism and Ideas so send 'em on in and have a wonderful day/evening/whatever! :D R&R.
