hapter 21

AN:Hello people of the internet! I would call this chapter a direct sequel to the previous chapter as it happens within five minutes of the previous chapter. So… That's cool. Plus, you get to know who the new character is, I decided to give you all virtual cookies. ALSO! I am planning a new project for Fire Emblem. It is a one-shot, so you could look out for that. For disclaimers, see the first chapter.

As always, enjoy.

I awoke again to see Lucina and Erin looking down on me in concern once more.

"He has lost a lot of blood." Lucina said. "Olivia will go insane with worry."

"How did you know me and Olivia are a thing?" I asked her. Be careful, you are showing your hand Lucina.

"Everyone knows that." Lucina said. "My moth-erm, I mean Sumia isn't silent about gossip as you may think." She looked troubled. "Did I miss the wedding?"

"They have been on their honeymoon for a couple days now." I told her.

"I am sorry I missed it." She said.

"I wish I missed it." I claimed. "I was almost killed during it." Lucina laughed, and we fell silent for a few moments. Erin took it upon herself to speak up.

"Soooo… that is a pretty fashionable mark of the Exalt you are rocking there Marth." Erin said. I couldn't decide if I wanted to glare at her, or thank her for breaking the awkward silence. Also, Lucina wasn't even really facing her. There was only one way that she could know that. She had to be a Self-Insert as well. I really don't know how to feel about this piece of information. I decided to just go with it.

"Well I was the first exalt…"

"Save it." I said. "We all know that you aren't really Marth. Though, time travel may be involved… and you do seem to have a strange way of telling the future… are you from the future?" I think I said that perfectly. I don't think it will hurt anything to talk about this now. No one else was here after all.

"Yes." She admitted grudgingly.

"And part of the royal famiry… I mean family too. Chrom's daughter? Or Granddaughter?" I reasoned, already knowing the answer.

"I think daughter." Erin said. "I see too much of Sumia in her."

"How?" Lucina asked. I sent a glare over Erin's way saying don't say anything you will regret later. She ignored it.

"I don't know how I got here, but I was in another dimension." Erin claimed. Godsdammit. She already blew our cover. Wait… Just hers.

"Bullshit." I said, knowing it was the truth.

"You seemed to readily accept time travel, why not inter-dimensional travel as well?" Erin reasoned.

"Because I don't believe in other planes of existence." I lied.

"You knew what I was talking about! You are from Earth too!" Erin cheered. Dammit. Me and my big mouth. She was good.

"Earth?" Lucina asked.

"You can't tell anyone Lucina." I said to her. "I sorta have a preestablished thing here based on being from this planet. If they figure it out, let them figure it out on their own."

"How did you know my name?"

"How do you know how to time travel?" She grinned.

"Touche."

"Stop flirting you two!" Erin said. "It makes my head hurt!"

"I already have a girlfriend." I reminded her. "Or did you forget?

"More of a reason to stop your flirting!" I just rolled my eyes at her.

"Well?" I asked Lucina. "Will you?" She considered a moment.

"As long as you let people discover that I am a time traveler on their own, we should be fine." She told me. Well! Lucina isn't such a bad person! Of course, we already knew that, but I wasn't so sure about this Erin girl. I would have to grill her for answers later. I tried to sit up, but my head began to spin.

"Careful!" Erin said. "You've lost about a pint of blood. It will take time to get it back, but for now you have to rest." Two things I discovered from that statement. One, she obviously was no Vaike. She appeared intelligent enough, not Mirel genius level intelligence, but intelligent. Two, she was definitely from America. We are pretty much the only people who haven't strayed from the empirical systems. Because we are weirdos. Weird is not necessarily a bad thing people. At least I acknowledge our weirdness.

Lucina looked up suddenly. There was Kellam, his face scalded red, like he had just gotten out of a really hot bath.

"Um… I found a hot spring." He said.

"I got attacked by ten risen while you were bathing." I said, sarcasm evident in my voice. "I hope you were satisfied by your bath."

"It was nice." He claimed, ignoring my sarcasm completely.

"Was that the same hot spring where I heard women screaming about how their bath was haunted?" Erin asked.

"I heard that too." Kellam said, completely pokerfaced. "I didn't listen, because I don't really believe in ghosts." Really? I wasn't going to put two and two together ALOUD, but Kellam is often accused of being a ghost. And, while he was there, the women's bathhouse was conveniently haunted. HMMMMM…

"I have to go now." Lucina said. "These two are shepherds, so you should be able to follow them to their base pretty easily."

"I wouldn't abandon my patient in the middle of treatment either!" She puffed out her chest proudly. Something about this girl just grates against my nerves, and I just can't put my finger on it…

Lucina left at a distance runner's pace, and ran away from Ylisse almost as if being chased by something. It left me, Erin, and Kellam to fend for ourselves. We began riding to Ylisse on Erin's white horse who she called Amphitrite. Kellam, not being injured, just trotted along behind us when we noticed him. I asked Erin:

"What part of the U.S. are you from?"

"Should we be talking about that in front of Kellam?"

"Kellam is omniscient, he knows anyway." I explained.

"New York city." She said. "I enjoy playing volleyball, and was a fanfiction writer." She looked behind herself at me. "That was before I came here."

"Thoaria?" I said.

"Yeah!" She exclaimed. "How did you know that?"

"I followed your work." She actually was a really good writer. If I recall correctly, she did a lot of Self-inserts. Why was I so irritated with her then? "If I remember two things, it is that you like volleyball, and you are from New York"

"Cool!" She exclaimed. "But couldn't the similarities have been coincidental, and you just made a huge mistake?"

"Too coincidental. Remember, this IS a bad fanfic."

"Right." Erin said.

We rode in silence for a while, before she finally spoke:

"What about you? Where are you from?" I considered it for a moment.

"Do you want to know where I consider home, where I was going, or where I actually was?" I asked her.

"Ummmm… All three?"

"I was living in Savannah Georgia, we were about to move to San Antonio Texas, and I am living in Atlanta Georgia now." I explained.

"How?" she asked. "How is all of that possible"

I felt a dizzy spell, and I returned to that day.

All of my family was sleeping in the car except for my father and mother. We were having an argument of a great proportion.

"Mom!" I said to her. "All of my life was in Savannah! Why would I want to move to Butthole Texas?"

"It is San Antonio, and you have all the opportunities in the world in San Antonio! Way more than in Savannah."

"I hear you, but I don't understand!"

I was approaching a crossroad. I came to a complete stop at the sign, and was going to continue on my way. When I was in the center of the road, I saw a car cut a swerving path towards us. My parents screamed in pain as the car T-Boned the side of my parents car at 100mph. Then all I saw was whiteness.

When I finally awoke, I saw the wrecked car about me, and felt my head. It was bleeding. I stumbled towards a shape in the darkness. It was my little brother.

He had several large shards of glass sticking out of his body, and his skull was almost completely caved in. Bile rose in my throat. I stumbled away from the corpse of my brother, retching at the sight when I saw my sister.

The entire right side of her face was gone.

I ran away from her corpse, and towards the trees. All I saw up there were the corpses of my parents, their innards wrapped around the branches of the tree, and hanging upside down. Their milky pupils staring into my soul and asking why they were in this position. I finally let go of my ill held dinner onto the grass underneath the same tree. I was crying. My entire family, gone in a blink of an eye. Suddenly not there anymore. Just a statistic. I heard a cry for help from the wreckage of the other car. I walked towards it, and saw a bearded man, his eyeball out of his socket, and cuts all over his face. He was pinned under the 2 ton weight of his own car. His raspy breaths told me that he was still alive.

"Help Me." He rasped

I looked on him in rage and hate. He decided that it would be a good idea to drink some beer, and drive a car. If only I had been a little faster.

"Help Me" He rasped again.

"I cannot help you, and would not help you even if I could." I told him.

"Sorry." He croaked as he died.

I looked upon his corpse for a while, wondering what sort of malice he had against me to take my family away. I took out my phone, then dialed the famous 3 number service system.

"911 what is your emergency?" The female voice said.

"Me and my family have just been in a car accident." I told the operator. "It is bad. My family may or may not be dead, and the driver in the other car is definitely dead."

"What is your location?"

"I don't know precisely." I told her. "Somewhere on the road from Georgia to Texas."

"Ok, keep talking to me. Are you all right?"

I then felt faint, the world spun around.

"I have some head wound, probably minor since I am talking to you. I am bleeding rather quickly, and I have just had a fainting spell. I maybe bleeding out."

"Okay, hold on." The operator said calmly. "Hold on."

As she was relaying that information to the servicemen, I felt the world spin again, and things were getting dark. I felt myself succumb to darkness, and I could stay awake no longer.

When I awoke once again, I was laying in a starch white room. I was not sure if I was in heaven or not. Then I smelled it. The smell of sterilization, desperation, sickness, and death. The smell of a hospital. I felt the bandages on the side of my head, and remembered that it was not in fact a dream like I had hoped. It was a living nightmare with proof of existence on the side of my head. A woman with a white uniform walked in, and looked me up and down.

"You're awake." She observed.

"Where is my family?"

"They are dead." She stated bluntly.

Relax, Relax. Hum Gerudo valley, and think about Liv. She is your anchor. She keeps you here. Keep… Calm. Erin looked at me strangely then said:

"Sorry I asked."

I can't wait to get back to Ylisstol.

AN: Well, I am skipping ahead a year for the next part. All that has happened might become apparent then. See ya. Follow and review. I really appreciate it!