Hello! Happy fourth of July! This may be a bit late, because I'm currently typing this at 11:56... P.m. Ao, you'll probably see this on Kuly Fifth, but that doesn't matter! Anyway, I finally saw my first fireworks today with my friend and I have to say... it was boring. I mean, seriously. It just hurt my ears a little bit, just with the sudden noise, and it didn't even look that great. Well, whatever. I hope you enjoyed whatever fireworks you watched, if you watched anything, and remember... Kuromaster says, "Happy Fifth of July!" Anyway... let's talk about this chapter.
Now, if you want to see a continuation of the actual story, skip to the next chapter, er, whenever I take the time to write it out. If you don't care about the story, then read on! Since today is the... Okay now it is the fifth, but anyway, I have planned a kind of... special chapter for you all. Just a little something something I wanted to type up. At first I was just gonna type up the next chapter and continue the story, but, the moment I picked up my 3DS, I didn't feel like actually playing. Must be because my eyes keep going in and out of focus. I'm not drunk. I'm 17. Anyway, enough talking... Let's go on to the chapter! Hurray!
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BONUSCHAPTER 1 - CHAPTER 12 - Fireworks at Night
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I woke up in our camp with a big yawn. I was still tired from yesterday. I think I can vouch for everyone else when I say this, but I don't want to get up today. What? What happened yesterday? Well, after we recruited Donny to the Shepherds, we had to ride towards Arena Ferox for our match against the West's champion. Unfortunately, Chrom thought that the match was tomorrow, but it turned out it was five days away now. If they asked me when it was, I would've told them, but nobody did. In fact, Chrom had woken me up yesterday, by taking down my tent, nearly suffocating me in the process. When I demanded to know what he was doing, he only said that we had to hurry up and march. So "I" thought that something big was happening. Like, a risen riding a wolf was going around and attacking people. Either way, the second I found out that we were heading to Arena Ferox and that Chrom thought the match was today, I nearly throtteled him. Not only did he interrupt my precious sleep time, but he had the audacity to force me to march for "hours" on end, never stopping a single time. So I did what I thought best to do in that situation. I punched Chrom in the face, kneed him in the gut, then judo flipped him over me and onto the ground before spitting near his head and then telling him that the deadline for the tournament is in five days before threatening him about waking me up again for a "misunderstanding". I think he took it to heart.
But now, I woke up extremely tired. The fatigue from yesterday was still around. I slowly and lazily got up and grabbed my clothes. Looking out of my tent, I looked out for anyone out and about. Luckily, no one was up, so I left my tent with my clothes and headed to the nearby river.
When I was at the river, I stripped out of my night clothes, which was just a white shirt and long black pants, I jumped into the cold water, and started bathing. I washed my hair and made sure I was squeaky clean. So I could go back to sleep without smelling the horrible smell that was me in the morning. As I was taking my dip in the river, I heard a big splash, as if a human fell into the river, somewhere over to my left. So I thought what others in my position would think: It's probably another guy. After a minute thinking about who it was, I got out of the river and dried myself off with a small towel. I then changed into my new clothes, which was what I wore all the time, and picking up my night clothes, I walked away from the river, ignoring the possibility that whoever fell into the river, was female.
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I sat down next to the campfire, letting the warm flames heat me up from my cold dip into the river. As the sun was in the middle of the sky, I heard someone walking to my right, where the river was. Looking over to the right, I saw Lissa walking towards the fire, holding a pile of clothing, that must've been her night clothes. When she sat down right next to me, placing the clothes right next to her, she placed her hands near the fire to warm them up. When I looked at Lissa, I saw that her face was a bit red. When she noticed me watching her, she looked away. After a good awkward five minutes, I decided to saw something to break the ice.
"Good morning, Lissa." I said to her, with a small smile, expecting a nice, bright smile and a good morning to you too.
Instead, all I got was, "I-I-I-I-I d-d-d-didn't s-s-s-s-see a-a-anything!" Then Lissa quickly got up and walk ran away. She left her night clothes where she sat. I sighed. Picking them up, I decided to bring them to her tent and leave them on her bed. When I took the clothes, I stood up and wishing that I could stay by the fire, I walked away towards where Lissa's tent was to deliver to her, her clothes.
As I walked over to her tent, I passed by Stahl, who gave a big yawn and a small wave as a greeting.
"Hey Stahl." I greeted him.
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"Do you know what we're having for breakfast?" He asked me, expectantly.
"Well... We're having mostly bear meat and some mead."
"Really? Where?"
"Well, if you go over there to that tree and then turn right, you'll find a river. Jump into the river and wait about 30 to 45 minutes. After that, get out and head back to camp. Then, over there at the big open tent, it will have delicious smells coming from it. That is where the breakfast will be served."
Stahl thought about my directions for a few seconds before realizing what I really meant. "Do I really stink that bad?"
"Well, we all do after that bloody ride yesterday. Riding my hours on end... I'd slug Chrom again if he came up to me with a good morning, acting as if yesterday never happened."
"Hm. Well, look over there." I looked towards where Stahl was pointing and saw Chrom coming towards us from the direction of the river.
"Good morni-" I quickly slugged him in the face, knocking him down onto the ground. I then turned around and started walking towards Lissa's tent was to return her clothes to her, while Chrom sat up with a bloodied nose.
"Is he still angry?" Chrom asked Stahl.
"Giving that he punched you only once? Probably not." Replied Stahl, laughing in his hands, before he walked off to the river.
Finding Lissa's tent, I stopped infront of the flap, just in case. "Hey, Lissa. You in there?" I called. After a few moments, I heard movement inside, and decided that Lissa was in there. The voice sealed the deal.
"Y-yeah, I'm here. Do you need anything?" Said Lissa, poking her head out of the tent, looking anywhere that wasn't at me.
"Um, I'm sorry if I did anything to you, but uh, you left your clothes over by the fire, so I brought them over to you." I handed her the small bundle of clothes.
"Well, um. Thank you Charles..." She hesitantly reached for the clothes and when she grabbed them, she quickly pulled her head back into the tent with the clothes. After a minute or two standing there, waiting for Lissa to say anything else, I shrugged and walked away, heading back to my tent for a nap.
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The dream was pretty familiar. I was in a grey area, with lots of mist around me. I could barely see the trees. That is when it happened. A risen appeared out of the mist. And on the other side of me, a wolf appeared. The wolf ran at me and tried to bite my leg, but I jumped away from it. Then, the risen got ontop of the wolf, and rode it. The wolf ran towards me, with the risen flinging around an iron axe. It was a most horrifying sight. As the axe closed in on my head and the wolf came up to bite my neck, I woke up.
Somewhere outside my tent, people were talking. I stood up, stretching, and exited my tent, looking towards where they were talking. I saw Chrom, Stahl, Sully, and a red haired girl talking next to some boxes that contained what appeared to be red rocket things. I walked forward, yawning, and said greeted the four. "Hey, guys. What's with the boxes and the, uh, merchant?"
"Well, this is Anna. She is a traveling merchant who has come to sell us what she calls, "fireworks"."
"Fire... what?" I asked him.
"Basically, they're something that was made in a far away country to the east. Or west, depending on your view. Either way, she says that today is a kind've celebration for that country, so it would be proper manners to celebrate it with them. Or something like that..."
"Hm. Sounds to me like she's just trying to get our money. So, how much do these "fireworks" cost?"
"2000 gold." I facepalmed in my mind.
"Chrom, I think you're being cheated. No way do those things cost that much."
"Well, either way, I already bought them, so it's kinda too late..." Another facepalm in my mind.
"So, what do they do?" I asked him.
"Um, you light the, uh, end of it, where the rope thing is at, then you stay clear of it, and it shoots up into the sky and, uh, explodes."
"That's it?"
"I'm told it looks beautiful."
"Chrom... Beautiful or not, you can't just waste all our money."
"Well, sorry to interrupt, but, I'll be going now!" Said the red-haired merchant with a smile on her face.
"Okay. Bye" Said Chrom as he gave her a little wave. She returned the gesture and quickly made her escape from the camp.
"So are you two okay with him buying these things?" I asked Sully and Stahl.
"Well, if it's beautiful, wouldn't it be alright?" Said Stahl.
"I don't really care." Said Sully with a blank face. I sighed.
"Whatever. When do we light them?"
"At night." Informed Chrom.
"Then, I'll go wake the others and you three get the fireworks set up. We'll see if it was a good purchase later." I turned around and walked away, heading towards each tent to wake each Shepherd for the show.
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Later that night, Chrom, Lissa, Frederick, Stahl, Sumia, Kellam, Donny, Miriel, Virion, Sully, and Vaike were all up and about, waiting for the show to take place. Everyone was talking with someone else, but little known to them, everybody was ignoring Kellam, who was trying to talk aswell. After a while he gave up. I was setting up the fireworks with a red faced Lissa and a humming Chrom. After we finished our preparations, I looked over everything to make sure it was all set up perfectly, and then I gathered all of the Shepherds to watch the show in the middle of camp.
"Uh, good night everyone. Tod- Tonight we are going to be showing you a show that goes on in a faraway country. It is apparently a show that they always do this time of year, so, we will also be taking part of these festivities. Now, since it is our first time doing this, we're not sure if we did it right, but we tried our best to set everything up from the instructions that the merchant who sold us these fireworks told us... for a price of 500 gold of course... So, let's stop waiting and get this show started!" I turned around, and opened a fire tome I borrowed from Miriel. Red magic circles appeared around me, but I forced them to become smaller and smaller until there was only one magic circle. From there, I sent out a little fire above me until it got to a low level, and then lowered the flames to the fireworks. I carefully lit each firework slowly and after lighting three, I backed up and closed my book. And waited. After a few seconds, the first of the three fireworks was shot up into the air. Then the second one. And finally the third one. When they reached a certain point in the air, they exploded, creating a very loud noise, but what came from that noise, was pretty good. A flower shaped explosion ensured from the first firework. The second one turned into a smiling face. The third looked like smoke going up, and then exploding into different colors. After that, I lit the fireworks in groups of three, until I had Miriel take over for me. She seemed more interested in lighting the fireworks, to find out what they were made of and why they exploded, than the actual explosion.
After a while of watching the fireworks, I turned around and walked away, heading towards the forest so I could be away from the noise that was hurting my ears with each firework. After a while of walking, the noise started to dim away, until it wasn't really that loud anymore. I found a clearing in the forest where I laid down to watch the show. After a while, I heard someone approaching me. Sitting up, I saw Lissa, who was still a bit red, walking towards me. When she came to a spot near me, I gave her a small smile and a cock of the head as I greeted her. "Hey Lissa. What are you doing here?"
"W-w-well..." Said Lissa, stuttering a bit on the first letter. "Um... I, uh... I kindasawyoutakingabathintheriverearlierbyaccidentpleasedon'thateme!" She quickly stammered out, leaving no spaces between each word as she said them. It took me a good 2 minutes to decipher what she said, but after I found out what she said, I turned a bit red.
"Wait... you... saw me?" At her nod, I looked down at the ground. "Well... uh, I'm sorry that you, uh, saw..." I looked away. I didn't know what to say. "Well, try not to think about it. Just... Look at the fireworks and maybe it'll make you forget... or something." At my segestion, she turned around to watch the fireworks. It was still kinda awkward. Yeah. Awkward.
"I'm really sorry." Said Lissa after the fireworks came to an end.
"It's okay... I guess..." Lissa twirled around, gave her trademark smile, and ran away, back to where the camp was. I sighed. Maybe she'll forget it by tomorrow... I thought to myself as I laid down and closed my eyes and fell asleep, in the middle of that clearing.
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Hey guys! What did you think? Actual something like that happened to me before XD It was... a lot more painful than this... Anyway, sorry if this wasn't reall that long and how it ended the way it did, but I m pressed for time! A friend will be over in a couple of minutes, so I had to hurry up and finish this. Oh, by the way, if he gets here before I finish uploading this, I won't let him in until I'm done XD I know. I'm such a cruel person. Then again, he DID kinda push me down a small very small hill thing right next to some train tracks. Well, I just slid down a little bit because of rocks, and I wasn't injured, nor did I actually fall... But whatever! Oh, and something awesome happened yesterday in fire emblem awakening! Since I decided that I would bring my 3ds everywhere, I ran into another player! Someone by the name of Tulif, female, a grandmaster at level 13. Anyway, after I kicked her ass, I recruited Tulif, the player that she/he created. You know, you got some male guys creating females in all games everywhere. So Tulif could have been a guy... Either way, the battle was relatively easy. She had a few future children on her team, including my favorite, Inigo, but that doesn't matter! I won and that's all that matters!
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Ta ta tahh! (What was that) Today, the meet the creator will feature... none other but... KELLAM, the invisible man!
Kellam: It is great to be here tonight.
Kuro: So, uh... Where is Kellam? I don't see him...
Kellam: Um, I'm right here!
Kuro: Ugh... If he's not gonna show, then we'll just get somebody else to do this!
Kellam: Um... excuse me...
Kuro: Seriously, where is he? He's really pushing my patience!
Kellam: I've been here for hours before you got here though...
Kuro: I mean, he should get here before me! Why is he so late?
Kellam: *poking Kuro in the arm* I'm right here!
Kuro: WOAH! Kellam! When did you get here?
Kellam: A few hours ago.
Kuro: Well... Uh, My favorite color is blue. Time to end the show! Haha...
Kellam: No.
Kuro: Woah. Did you just...
Kellam: We're going to do this right. Okay, Kuro. What... is your favorite color?
Kuro: I just said that it was...
Kellam: Be more specific!
Kuro: Y-yes sir! My favorite color is blue, sir! Specifically sky blue! Then aquamarine! Sir!
Kellam: Better. Well, time to end the show, yes?
Kuro: Yes... it is time to end it! And now I can start planning your death...
Kellam: What'd you say?
Kuro: I said time to start planning your, uh... wedding! You know, you're... handsome... so the ladies will flock to you!
kellam: You really think so?
Kuro: Think so? I know so!
(Then Kuro kept reasurring Kellam that one day, all the ladies will be his.)
Frederick: Sir. We're out of time.
Kuro: Oh, uh, well then. Bye everyone!
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Hi! I'm sorry, but this will be uploded at about 5:30 P.M. because my friend just arrived as I just started to edit this. So... Sorry for the delay!
