Chapter One- The Plot

A/N- Saisu: HI! Welcome to a new fictions by me and Sarah aka Celebi!

Sarah: I helped her with some of the jokes and plot... .

Saisu: Enjoy our messed up Fruits Baskets/ Fire Emblem fiction. Plus even if you don't know much about Friuts Baskets the fiction will probably still be understandable.

Sarah: Well except for a few jokes...but... THATSJUST TO BAD!Well Enjoy! victory signs

It was a regular day in Elibe. Eliwood and his gang were enjoying an afternoon without any fighting. It was strange, relaxing. They didn't have anything to worry about... well until THEY showed up...

"Hello... Are you Eliwood?" A voice asked. A man in a dark robe appeared before the group. His face covered by the heavy robes.

"If I am?" Eliwood replied, seeming rather un-pansyish at the moment.

"Its just a simple question, DAMNIT!" The man yelled back, suddenly.

"Yes...and you are?"

"I'm here deliver something to you."

"That is?" Lyn asked, suddenly bringing herself into the conversation.

"A curse..." The man replied, coolly.

"Curse? Well that's the last thing we need. We'll pass, thank you." Hector said, not paying any mind to the man.

"I'm afraid I don't have much other choice..." He said back. He put his arms in the air and chanted before everything went dark. Everyone passed out until the next morning when...

"What!? What... happened?" Lyn asked, getting off the ground. She held her head in pain and looked up.

"Sorry, I figure if I give the curse to someone else... I won't have to deal with it any longer..." Said the man, sitting before the camp fire. Blowing smoke out of his mouth, a cigarette like item in his hand "Don't take it personally..."

"What kind of a curse is it? I don't feel any different? Will it kill us? Harm us?"She asked. She was apparently the only one awake. Everyone else was calmly sleeping.

"Nothing of the sort... Its just annoying..." The man answered, with a slight laugh.

"What is the curse?"

"Certain members of your group are now possessed by the member of the Chinese Zodiac. To lift the curse, well as far as I know, you most find all the people that are infected with the curse by the end of your journey. Then your cured... I think..."

"Chinese Zodiac? What's that?"

"OH! Here this will tell you all about them! I better be going... Wouldn't want to be hanging around when everyone's awake... Bye! Be safe!" He said before standing up and leaving them. Before he left he had put down a few pieces of paper with writing and very badly drawn pictures on it. Lyn eventually got up and examined the papers. They told her all she needed to know about the Chinese Zodiac... well... Almost everything.

Slowly everyone began to wake up. One by one Lyn told them what the Man told her and what she got out of the papers. Some didn't believe that there was a curse at all. 'Just superstition' Hector told her. 'We won't know until this effects us...' Eliwood answered. Everyone agreed that they wouldn't worry about it and report anything unusual. The day went on and everyone relaxed and had fun. Lyn still seemed nervous about the whole things.

"Don't worry Lyn... Its probably nothing... Just the Black Fangs way of throwing us off track..." Hector said.

"Well I can't help, but worry... I believe the curse is real... That man didn't seem to be joking. He seemed serious. If it is real... Twelve of the people in our group are possessed by the members of the Chinese Zodiac... Twelve different animals." Lyn said, looking down at the papers. They had more information, but apparently whoever made the information papers made them without thinking about good penmanship, spelling. Grammar, and the animals looked like distorted blobs to Lyn.

"Animals... That's just silly..." Hector said, laughing.

"Heh, I guess your right! Well Its almost night I'll see you tomorrow..." Lyn said, leaving to her tent.

"It's nothing...." Hector said, leaving as well.

Saisu: Sorry for the short, rather serious intro... Humor will come in soon! Please bare with me!

Sarah: Bye! waves