Chapter 29

AN: Hello people of the internet! So yeah. Potatonet was the sole cause of this chapters delay. And anime. For those who don't know, anime is a magical thing where you lose 4 hours of your life at a time after you start it up. This is a problem, because I can't stop starting it up. Anyway, thing that wont be mentioned, and… START!

The game did not mention how invasive the original invasion into Ferox was. By the time we had reached the Feroxi army to help, the Valmese army had already conquered halfway to the castle. The Feroxi forces had them stalled in a mountain pass. every time they would try to advance, the archers would rain hell on the approaching forces. if they continued, then there were various melee forces were there to hold them off. I am afraid we weren't of much help to the Feroxi forces as the main Ylissian forces were still working to put down the rebellion in to the southeast. We did have the Shepherds here, but even with such an elite force, there was so few of us, that I doubted we could make much of a difference at all. Robin believed differently. Robin said that he had a plan. Apparently about thirty people had a way of stopping a division of cavaliers. It involved pitfall traps that we dug between waves, lines of lances stuck into the ground, and strategic avalanches. At the end of the day, we were in front of a wall of thousands of Valmese corpses, but we had lost 100. They could afford the losses. We could not. Robin said he had a plan, whatever it is, I hope he tells us soon.

As of right now, we were transferring the corpses off the ground onto the lances stuck into the ground. I knew what he was doing, he was using the corpses as an intimidation method. Was it unethical? Maybe. War was definitely unethical though, so this was no time to debate ethics.

After we had finished impaling thousands of corpses on thousands of lances, we had returned to main camp. In the camp, I had not seen a more demoralized army in my life. Soulless eyes peered back into mine as I looked on. Hopeless causes walking from place to place, all with their meaningless jobs to do. I knew someone would have to do something to save the army. Then I realized that we had an extremely adept musician, dancer, singer, and actor on our hands. She also happened to be my wife. I ran to my tent to grab my guitar, and my Waifu.

When I got into my tent, I found my Guitar, but Olivia was nowhere to be found. Maybe she was still on that assignment for Robin. Oh well, I guess I am an alright entertainer on my own. I went to the campfire where the Shepherds were sitting.

"Hey guys!" I said. "Don't be so glum!"

"Why wouldn't we be?" Lon'qu muttered. "Yesterday didn't go exactly as planned."

"There is a reason for this. Robin has a plan." I reminded them. "But forget that. I have a guitar, and I am not a bad singer." I strummed a few notes, and asked:

"Who wants to hear a song?"

There was silence until I heard a voice from Gaius' arms.

"Knock yourself out." Erin said. I obliged. I began playing an acoustic form of Indestructible by disturbed. I also changed the lyrics slightly so that instead of me against you, it was us against them. Much more appropriate than the original lyrics in this situation. As I played, I began to draw a larger crowd of Feroxi Soliders.

"They will be shown" I sang.

"How We've become

"Indestructable

"Determination that is incorruptable.

"From the other side a terror to behold

"Annihilation will be unavoidable

"Every broken enemy will know.

"That their opponent had to be invincible.

"They better take a last look around while they're alive…"

Etcetera. Etcetera. When I finished playing that, I played headstrong with the same variations on the song. I drew an even bigger crowd. Song after song, until the entire camp was listening. I pretended not to notice, and just moved into the next song I had memorized. Heart Shaped Box, Battery, Stairway to Heaven, and Thunderstruck all were played. Finally, my repertoire was almost exhausted. Only one more song. Then Olivia stood before me.

"Olivia." I said "Would you do us all the honor of dancing for this last song?" She blushed.

"Ummm… Okay. Only because you asked." She conceded. "I am not very good though." I began playing Gerudo Valley, and she began the dance. The hypnotizing effect of the guitar, and Olivia's dancing had the crowd enraptured. They forgot the worries of the battle, and only focused on the music, and the movement. That was the goal of this entire concert. Light sparkled back in every eye, and I felt satisfied with a job well done.

When we had finished the song, Olivia took a bow. The silence was heavy as it hung over the camp. Only the chirp of crickets, the howl of a sudden wind, and the crackle of the campfire I was sitting before were heard. Then, like the first boom of thunder before a storm, Erin began clapping. Then the scattered applause and wolf whistles echoed throughout the canyon! I stood atop the log I was sitting upon. I shouted over the din:

"SHEPHERDS! FEROXI ALLIES! TOMORROW IS THE DAY WE KICK THOSE LITTLE VALMESE PRICKS BACK ONTO THEIR LIFEBOATS!"

The cheering reached new levels, as I realized what the armies of Valm had not yet. We had become indestructible. There was no way we were going to lose this next battle.

What exactly… WAS ROBIN THINKING? He told all of the Shepherds to hold this pass… ALONE. A few Shepherds were supposed to hold this pass, when we were barely able to hold it yesterday with help! I am not going to try and pretend to understand what is going on. Then, I felt an earthquake. I felt that just yesterday. It wasn't quite an earthquake, but it was close.
It was the Valmese army marching.

I drew Donny out of it's sheath with a hiss. They must be attacking in full force. When I saw them going the ridge, I actually had to suppress a laugh. They were almost marching in shoulder to shoulder. They were going to run right into all of the traps! As if on cue, the pitfall traps fell out from under their feet. We heard the screams of 40-50 soildiers as they fell to their deaths. The others panicked, and tried to retreat. As a result, there was a traffic jam by the pits, and some 10 odd soldiers more fell in. Then, the army began going in more slowly, and there was a bunch up just behind the pits.

"All Shepherd archers fire NOW!" Robin shouted. I obliged. honestly, it would be a lot harder to miss than it would be to hit a target the way they were packed in like sardines. Robin stood again and said:

"Shepherd mages, FIRE!"

A volley of fireballs and thunderbolts flew in, causing even more panic among the ranks of the Valmese. I reached for my quiver to fire another shot, when I realized I was out of arrows. A lot of the Shepherds were facing the same problem.

"Shepherds!" Robin shouted. "Prepare for melee combat!Shepherds!" I drew my sword, and sighed. This was a valiant effort, but there are just too many of them.

"Feroxi Archers! Fire! Feroxi warriors! Cut off their escape!" Robin shouted. Then on, it was fish in a barrel for us. The Feroxi warriors were packed in so close together, and were struggleing to escape the death trap so much, that they weren't even focusing on combat. Within a mere hour, the battle was over, and all but seven Valmese warriors were alive.

"Just kill us!" One of them shouted. "We could never return to Excellus with news of this failure!" Robin pondered this for a moment.

"You can and you will." Robin stated. "I don't care what this Excellus person does to you, but you will spread word of our victory to the Valmese ranks." Robin grinned. "Let them know fear."

The seven scrambled away, as we rejoiced our victory over the Valmese invaders. Then, a scout in Feroxi greens returned. He stood before Robin at attention.

"At ease." Robin said. "What have you found?"

"The forces we slew here weren't even an eighth of the forces total available to Valm." He recited. "Another 100,000 are occupying Port Ferox as we speak, with another 500,000 coming in by boat in about a month." The messenger looked scared. "After that, another million the next month."

"Thank you soldier." Robin said.

"Well! You heard the man!" Chrom shouted. "This is no time to rest on our laurels! We have to make way to Port!" The resounding cheer that resulted from this was deafening. There was no doubt that this battle was a resounding success. About ten of our forces died, to their 90,000. Robin did know what he was doing after all. The morale of our forces was through the roof as a result of this battle. I looked over to where Olivia was stationed, she smiled back at me. She was the most important thing in my life. if those pricks go anywhere near her, I am going to kill them all myself.

With that happy thought, we marched out of the mountain pass.

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