Yay! Chapter Two!

Okay, I know there's not a lot going on yet…but don't worry, it gets better.

I'd like to take this time to thank some of my reviewers:

Jinn the Master Sage: yes, I agree, Erk X Priscilla is one of the best pairings ever c(-: I'll be sure to get chapter three written soon…thank you so much!

Once again, I'd like to make it known that Fire Emblem is not mine, it is the masterpiece of those awesome peoples at Nintendo and Intelligent Systems…right, so none of these characters are mine…except for that one you haven't met yet, of course!

Now that you've read Chapter One and have become familiar with the main characters and stuff, I suppose you want to see what my freakish brain is going to cook up for them! I'll spare you the theatrics and just go ahead and tell you then, shall I? Please don't mind the more…er…contemporary speech they're using…


Chapter Two: Complications

After breakfast, things were starting to get a little more rushed than usual, as everyone had gotten up later than they were used to. Hector was trying to rush everyone along, and some people were starting to get a little annoyed, especially Raven, who had been up practically all night standing watch.

"Get out of the way!" Raven snapped at Erk, as he needed someone to snap at.

"Sorry," Erk said sheepishly, quickly stepping out of the way. No one messed with a sleep-deprived Raven…unless they wanted to die, of course. Actually, no one dared to bother him when he wasn't sleep-deprived, either. He just presented that sort of aura—get away from me or die!

"Is he being crabby again?" Priscilla inquired, having caught up to Erk. "He can be so annoying sometimes…" The term 'crabby', of course, was a bit of an understatement, but no one was going to tell her that in case Raven heard…he was just…scary. Which is probably why Priscilla hadn't bothered to tell him that she and Erk were in love. He might kill him or something, and that wouldn't be good.

"Hey! What are you two lovebirds doing just standing around?" Hector demanded of them, showing up out of nowhere with a book of Elfire. "We have to leave! …Nice… hair," he added to Erk, handing him the book with a quirked eyebrow. "Pent told me to give this to you…could you tell him I'm not his delivery boy! I have stuff to do!" with that parting statement, Hector ran off to yell at Farina and her sisters.

"Hector, why are you being so stupid?" Lyn demanded, running after him with Eliwood in tow. "You slept in for fifteen minutes! Big deal! It's not like a huge group of bandits are going to come up and ambush us or anything!" no sooner had she said this, Kent ran by, screaming his head off and acting like a chicken with its head cut off. It was actually pretty funny to watch, considering it was Kent.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THE BANDITS ARE COMING, THE BANDITS ARE COMING!" he cried before running into a tree and passing out.

"…That was random," Lyn remarked after staring at him for a few seconds.

"I KNEW this was going to happen!" Hector said in frustration as the bandits approached. "Where the hell is my axe?"

"You mean the one you're holding?" Eliwood pointed out, unsheathing his sword.

"Um…yeah, that one! Why are you girls just standing there?" Hector added to the Pegasus sisters.

Pent showed up a few seconds later, seemingly upset about something.

"Hector!" he shouted indignantly, running after him. "What did you do with my book of Elfire?"

"Aww, man!" Erk said, disappointed. "I was sort of hoping he actually wanted me to have it!"

"Well, you might want to think about using it," Priscilla said rather calmly, considering a bandit with a large sword was leering at her some six feet away and running towards her.

"Huh?" Erk responded (very articulately, of course). Priscilla ran away, shrieking in terror. He looked around and spotted the bandit heading straight for him. "Uh oh…" Erk didn't work well under pressure, and there wasn't enough time to cast a spell anyway, so he did the only thing left to do: he ran away.

"Oh, hey, thanks," Pent said, snatching the book out of his arms as he ran past him and completely ignoring the bandit that was chasing him as he skimmed through the book. He dropped Nino's book of fire that he had 'borrowed' from her back on her head. "Thanks, Nino…"

"…" Jaffar snapped at him, indignant on Nino's behalf. So now Erk was completely defenseless (thanks to Pent; you just have to love that guy) as well as relying only on his feet to keep him alive. It obviously wasn't good enough to even trust them, as he tripped over a random rock. Actually, it was probably Guy's head, as he was still sleeping amidst this, but whatever.

In any case, Erk quickly found himself sprawled out on the ground and out of time. The ugly bandit cackled, showing nasty, yellowed, crooked teeth and raising his sword to strike down on the unfortunate mage. Of course, the smart thing to do would have been to get out of the way, but you probably wouldn't have much common sense in that given situation, either. That bandit person was ugly. Oh, yeah…he was fast, too. Erk tried to squirm out of his range, but it was too late. He closed his eyes tight and prepared himself for the inevitable strike, but it didn't come. There was a loud clang! of metal upon metal right above him accompanied by a light breeze that smelled faintly of flowers. Erk opened his eyes just slightly and squinted up at a tall woman engaged in combat with the sword-wielding thug. She had long, wavy violet hair that cascaded down several inches past her shoulder blades and was wearing a simple black dress with a purple sash tied around her thin waist. She wore no armor and brandished a beautiful silver sword with intricate carvings—it looked as if her sword was made for someone very important, maybe even noble. Erk could only stare in wonder as she made quick work of the bandit. She turned only briefly to smile at him encouragingly and toss him a magic tome, then darted off. When Erk blinked, she was gone.

Naturally, this wasn't the best time to lose yourself in your thoughts, so Erk immediately sprang back into action. He would worry about her later.

"Hey, Erk!" Hector, after the mini-battle was won, shouted to (who else but) Erk. "Who was that girl? The one that saved you from certain doom? She was hot!"

"Yeah," Eliwood said enthusiastically. "I was going to ask her out, but she disappeared!" Lyn, behind him, scowled. He never paid any attention to her…it was always random girls that only showed up for a few seconds.

"Hey!" Hector said indignantly. "She's mine! Back off, Eliwood, you freak! Go find your own girl!"

"Uhhh…" Erk didn't quite know what to say. He had no idea who she was.

"There aren't any girls around here that are that cute!" Eliwood protested. Lyn made an indignant noise.

"Well, when she comes to save your life again or whatever," Hector said to Erk, completely ignoring Eliwood. "Send her to me, would you?"

"I know who she is," Raven informed them.

"You do?" Hector cried at the same time Eliwood demanded "Who is she?". The result was a jumbled mess of words, but Raven seemed to get the picture.

"Yes…she's my future bride," he said smugly.

"Oh, go boil your head!" Sain snapped.

"That's not fair!" Guy protested.

"Owww…my head…" Kent, who had just woke up, moaned, massaging his foot.

"Well, whoever she is," Lyn declared crossly. "I hope she doesn't come back!" there was a murmur of agreement from most of the other girls. That girl was stealing all the men, and they didn't even know who she was!

"You don't like her, do you?" Priscilla inquired dangerously of Erk, seeming to say 'if you do, you're dead!'.

"No, no, of course not!" Erk said hastily. Priscilla's wrath was almost as bad as Raven's. "I appreciate that she helped me out and everything, but I don't want to go out with her or anything like that…besides, I like you a lot more…"

"You'd better," Priscilla warned him. Erk didn't respond. He suddenly thought he knew who she was…


Heh…I think I'll leave all of you with that. I'll get chapter three up sometime, and in the meantime, I'll keep torturing Erk. That's a lot of fun, you know. Ha ha I'm just kidding…I love my Erky! Okay, I'll stop being crazy now…

Who could this mysterious purple-haired girl be? And why are all the boys obsessed with her? Ahem…perhaps you will find out in Chapter Three…