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Chapter Two
As night settled over Castle Pherae, everyone began to head inside. None of them were actually going to sleep, of course, but it was too dark to stay outside.
As Lyn was walking with Florina to the room they shared, she looked out the window and noticed an old figure hobbling up to the entrance of Castle Pherae.
"Hmm...is that Hannah?" she asked her lavender-haired friend, pointing out the window.
"Um...I don't know," said Florina. "But...didn't she leave several days ago?"
"I'm pretty sure she did," Lyn said. "Oh well. We'll probably find out who it is tomorrow."
The girls went to their room to get ready for bed.
Eventually, everyone fell fast asleep - eventually as in, before four in the morning.
The old woman waited until she was sure not a single person was still awake. If anyone caught her, she'd be in big trouble. She hobbled up the stairs of the castle as fast as someone her age could. She kept walking until she came to the door of the room that she knew the two cavaliers shared.
She laughed to herself, and then began to chant some undecipherable words. It didn't seem as if anything was happening, but something was. When she was finally done her little spell, the old woman smiled and hobbled away. No one needed to know she had been here. Tomorrow, things would be pretty hectic, and she would take the blame for all of the chaos if she randomly showed up out of nowhere. She left the castle and did not plan on returning for quite a while.
When Kent woke up early the next day, he was still angry at Sain. After they had fought last night, Sain had gone off to who-knows-where, and Kent had gone to their room. He had purposefully gone to bed so that when Sain came in later, he wouldn't have to face him because he'd be asleep. He decided he would leave the room early so he wouldn't have to face Sain this morning, either.
Kent didn't know why, but he felt...different. And as he sat up in bed, he realized something very strange was going on. For some reason, he was in Sain's bed instead of his own. Was this some sort of prank that one of the others had pulled off? Or even some joke of Sain himself? What was so funny about making two people switch beds?
Kent glanced over at his own bed and saw a lump sleeping in it, completely covered by a blanket. It was obviously Sain. He always slept like that, for some strange reason. Kent always wondered how he managed to breathe under all of those covers... Oh well. There was no use worrying about something as stupid as waking up in a different bed.
Kent climbed out of bed and realized something else was very wrong. He was wearing Sain's plaid green pajamas. Why the heck would someone switch his and Sain's pajamas? Had he absent-mindedly put on Sain's pajamas last night by accident? He couldn't imagine why he would do something stupid like that. Wouldn't Sain have noticed and woken him up? Then Kent remembered that they were mad at each other. Kent shrugged it off and went to splash his face with cold water. Maybe it would help him clear his mind.
There was a mirror and a table with a bowl of water on it in the corner of the room. Kent headed over to it and glanced at himself in the mirror. He couldn't believe his eyes. He blinked and looked again - but no. It was the same thing he had just seen. His mouth dropped open.
"By St. Elimine!" he yelled. "I'm in Sain!"
"Actually, I'm pretty sure you're sane, Kent," said Sain, obviously now awake, coming out from under his blanket. Then his jaw dropped open. "Wait, you're not Kent! You're me!"
"A-and you're me!" yelled Kent, seeing that Sain's face mirrored his own. "What's going on?!? Is this some bad dream?!?"
Sain pinched himself. "Ouch! No, it's definitely not a dream....oh crap, now girls won't fall for me any more!"
"How can you think about things like that at a time like this???" cried Kent. "And are you insulting me???"
"Uh, no I'm not insulting you! I mean, now that you're me, you get my good looks! I'm actually jealous!" Sain replied. "I hope this doesn't last for long..."
"How did this happen?" moaned Kent. "What are we going to do?"
"Well, we'll just have to go through our day as usual," Sain said glumly. "I mean, it's not like there's anything we can do. You know what I bet happened? Someone saw us fighting and decided to cast a spell on us that would make us switch bodies so that we would understand each other. And once we understand each other, we get switched back."
"That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard, Sain!" yelled Kent. "Although the only way anyone could have pulled this off would be through magic. We should find a mage to assist us."
"Erk can help us!" declared Sain. He got out of bed and ran to pick out clothes.
"Um, I was thinking more along the lines of Lord Pent," Kent sighed. "But Erk will have to do...Oh this is just horrible...."
"Aw man, since I'm you, I have to wear your clothes!" whined Sain, picking out some of Kent's red outfits. "You have no style at all!"
"Yes, well, I don't exactly go for green stripes and polka dots, Sain," Kent said angrily. "But it will look odd if I look like you and dress like me. Pass me some of your clothes, will you?"
"If Erk helps us, we'll be back to normal in no time!" Sain assured Kent, throwing him some green clothes. "Then you can go do whatever you were planning on doing, and I can go find some girls!"
Kent ignored Sain and silently prayed to St. Elimine that their problem would soon be solved.
Erk was absorbed in the book he was reading, which he had borrowed from Canas yesterday. It was about the three types of magic wielders – mages, shamans, and monks – and their origins. Erk was trying to find out about monks mostly. This was because he thought maybe there was a rule that all monks must have long hair, and he wanted to see if this was true. After seeing Lucius and all of those enemy monks on Dread Isle, he was pretty sure it was.
A knock on the door interrupted him.
"Come in!" yelled Erk, slightly annoyed at being bothered. In to the room stepped Kent and Sain. "What do you want?"
"You have to help us!" begged Kent. "Our bodies have been switched! I'm really Sain, and he's really Kent! Only now HE'S the good-looking one instead of me, and everyone will think we're the other, and he'll attract all of the girls, and – "
"WHAT??" cried Erk. "Kent, have you been drinking?"
"No! I have not!" cried Sain. "He's right – we have switched bodies. I'M Kent, and HE'S Sain. And we thought you might be able to help us since you're a magic user. Obviously, some weird form of magic did this to us. What else could have happened?"
"I think...that you guys are both crazy!!" cried Erk. "Get out of my room!"
Kent and Sain, deciding not to make the mage angry, quickly left the room. Erk tried to calm himself. Sain had probably drugged Kent and forced him to play a strange joke on Erk. Yeah, that was it. Erk shook off the strange feeling that had come upon him and went back to reading.
"You ruined our chances, Sain!" cried Kent. "He would've believed us if you hadn't been so crazy!"
"What if no one believes us?" panicked Sain as reality hit him. "What if we're stuck like this FOREVER?"
"Let's go find someone else to help us," Kent said calmly, being the more level-headed of the two. "Erk's not as experienced as some of the others, so maybe if we explain it more rationally, someone will listen and be able to help us."
"I DON'T WANT TO BE YOU! I WANT TO BE ME!" Sain was almost to tears now.
"SAIN! Did you hear what I just said??" yelled Kent. "Come on. Let's talk to someone else."
But they talked to Canas, Lucuis, and Pent, and each one of them thought Kent and Sain were crazy. Well, in more detail, Canas decided they were under some 'lying' spell that he'd never heard of and went to go study so he could find this spell, Lucuis ran off screaming as soon as Sain starting saying he was in the wrong body, and Pent just raised his eyebrows and said, "Very funny. Aren't you the one who was hitting on my wife yesterday?"
As soon as Sain heard this, he ran off, but Kent was still standing there, and since Kent looked like Sain, well...Pent decided to give him a lecture.
"I understand if you did not know that Louise was my wife, but you must stop flirting with all of the girls. Some of them are much younger than you, and it is very disrespectful! My wife tells me that the way you flirted was also inappropriate. For instance, she said that you were making moves on women you barely knew! This is very inappropriate and it must stop! If it happens again, I will personally – "
"Um, I have to go!" cried Kent, and ran off to find Sain. He would never forgive Sain for this! He knew that Sain would get in big trouble for the whole Louise thing. He decided to check and see if Sain was in the kitchen. He poked his head in but didn't see Sain. He did, however, see something else.
"Orange bananas?!" he cried. He went over and picked the fruit up. He had never even known this type of banana existed! First, he and Sain switched bodies, now orange bananas – what was this world coming to?
"SAIN!!!!" cried a loud annoying voice. It could only be one person. "I see you found that orange banana I asked you to find!" She came closer to him.
Kent gulped and backed away. "Serra."
Cliffhanger! Luckily for you, this is the edited version, so you can just go straight to Chapter Three to see what happens!
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