First Fire Emblem Fan fic and I hopeyou guys like it.I justhave one thing I'd like your opinions on and that is when I describe Eliwood fighting I just don't like how I did it but that is the only thing I could think of at the time. But if I don't get any bad comments on it, well I'll just keep it the way it is.
Chapter 1: From Bad to Worse
Raquel's head throbbed after a very long day. She had to not only tend to Farina's wild and crazy pegasus while Farina was sick. But to slave through the aftermath of an Arena battle that was immensely tiring. While the leader of the troop of bridigands was literally snoring in the middle of the road.
The battle today was simple except for the surprises that came after a sneaky troop of snipers arrived that left poor sweet Florina fleeing to the mountain peaks along with Heath. Who along with his wyvern was forced off the mountain by Florina's loud shrieking.
And then there was the fiasco of the lady Lyndis herself attempting to charge up those cliffs to yell at Heath. Who's only crime was the flee to the same cliff as Florina.
At the time Raquel was about to start sobbing at the futility of this as Eliwood, Hector, and Marcus took out the Snipers. Then Bartre, the most enthusiastic brawler of the bunch stopped and stared at the building a block away. It was an arena.
Bartre was staring at it as if it were the Holy Grail. While all of the men suddenly polished their weapons and charged for the arena. Leaving Raquel, Florina and Lady Lyndis in the dust. While Serra chased after them carrying a fancy new staff she wanted to try.
Little Nils sat down, from his vantage in the trees he could see that their tactician was ready to break down and cry. He recalled her battle plan and he now realized that she had intended them not to go to the arena.
She had made sure that they were as far as humanly possible from the arena while still being able to lure out enemies one at a time. Nils decided to climb out of the trees and play to Raquel.
Raquel finally coaxed Florina from the cliff that she and her pegasus had made a temporary roost out of. Florina still looked pale from the encounter with Heath. But Lyn was getting her to calm down. Raquel mouthed to Lyn that she was to go with her to the Arena. And Lyn started leading her.
Raquel nearly jumped out of her skin when she found Nils behind her suddenly. "Lady Raquel are you okay?" Nils asked laughing.
"Yes, Nils, I'm surprised no one carted you off to the arena," Raquel started.
"Not yet any way excuse me - - Nils could you please come play for us?" Heath asked politely from atop his wyvern.
"Sure give me a minute," Nils twirled out to play a lively tune on his flute. That would hopefully help Raquel last the day. And then climbed on the wyvern to the arena.
Raquel slowly made her way to the arena. On her way Lowen and the other were giving her papers that had what they fought in the Arena already on it.
Raquel made her way to the arena seating. She was settled just in time to watch Lord Hector make short work of a knight.
In some ways she enjoyed arena fighting. Getting to see how much everyone has improved was a special treat for Raquel. Everyone was a sight to see.
Lord Hector seemed born to fight in the Arena. With his powerfully built well trained body. For Raquel's starved imagination it was easy to imagine the muscles rippling in his back. And his smile. To her it seemed to be saying to the crowd "please send another one nut, I want a challenge". He then strode off after getting the monetary prize of 2200 gold.
Then came in Lord Eliwood. His elegantly refined manner clear in everything he did. Even down to his weapon. The rapier was held firmly in his hand as he waited for his opponent.
Raquel's breath halted in fear as a man strode out wearing an iron mask and wielding a deadly looking axe. "A berserker" Raquel breathed. "Lord Eliwood be careful that is a berserker down there!" Raquel yelled over the crowd.
The volume of the crowd cheering left Raquel unsure whether Lord Eliwood heard her. The man in charge of admitting Lord Eliwood asked whether he would like to surrender. The crowd gew deafening when Lord Eliwood declined and faced his opponent.
He bowed and then the fight commenced. Apparently the administrator allowed the people from our group to come and watch.
To watch Lord Eliwood fight, was like watching a master chef in a crowded kitchen. Weaving and spinning so he could get to the prize in the stove at the perfect moment and take his prize.
For Raquel it felt like the longest 4 minutes of her life. And when Eliwood landed the final blow. Raquel nearly passed out she held her breath so long. The young man beside her laughed and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Tense fight. Hm, milady?" he said in a slow sweet drawl and then walked off to join the crowd.
Raquel sat still trying to lose the sensation that her mind was reeling, and just missed out on something. She made her way down the stairs and found herself in the middle of a mob of girls and women.
And in the middle of it was Lord Eliwood looking like a fish out of water. Lord Eliwood was being carted off somewhere and trying to reason with them.
Surprisingly Raquel found Lyn, not trying to rescue Eliwood as she would do normally. But leaning against a corner looking quite pale. "Lady Lyndis?" Raquel said softly as most of the women were gone now.
"Oh, Elmine," Lyndis said reverently.
"Lady Lyndis snap out of it! What is going on?" Raquel yelled.
"Eliwood just won more than the monetary" Kent intervened.
"The women?" Raquel guessed still unsure of what was going on.
"Were the berserker's many wives," Kent explained.
"Uhuh" Raquel had a bad feeling about where this was going. "And now I hope they are going to bury him and have happy lives?" she said hoping that the bad feeling wasn't to do with Eliwood.
"They say that since Eliwood beat their husband they are to be married to him . . . " Kent said calmly.
"A-wha?" Raquel responded dumbfounded.
