My Sword. My Shield

FxA

By: NiƱo F. aka F00l3Al2

A/N: Yay! I got a cookie! Anyways, Lute acts like that, well because she is one of the strangest characters in FE8, and all I did was exaggerate it to get some laughs, and I kind of used Link015 version of Lute in his Lute/Ross story. Speaking of those two, I'm sorry to say most of this chapter is about them, there will still be moments where Franz reflects his relationship with Amelia but it might be short compared to the Ross/Lute, but I'll make it relevant to the story. And sorry about about the spaces thing. For some reason it does whenever I press save changes when I edit it on doc management.Remember, constructive criticism and any thoughts or ideas are welcome.

BTW

"Conscious"

"Thoughts"

"Normal"

Disclaimer: Do not own Fire Emblem. (If I did, I'd get to make some couples official.)


Chapter 3

The next night, a group of four friends sat around the fire, telling tales and trying to relax after their tiring two battles at Jehanna Hall.

"MY GAWD! Do you know what Lute was doing today?" One of the more muscular men said, clearly with anger behind his words. "She was gathering all these birds with some bread, and when there was enough she started scorching them with her fire magic. Then she started eating them, and when I asked her she said she was hungry! I just can't help but think she is a demon in disguise and trying to be human."

"I totally agree with you their Ross." Replied the only holy person of the group. "I have known her for years, and I too have thought of her like that at times as well. She looks up in books on what human emotions are, wonders why she feels the way she feels and she does not know how to have a good conversation with a person." His face then changed to a look of regret after saying those words, "But at least she is nice, eccentric, but nice."

"Anyways, what are your views on the girl you love, Franz? Ross hear is telling us he just can't get his mind of Lute, so he follows her everywhere so he can see her all the time, while Artur is encouraging him to go for her." The red knight could not help but slip out a grin, "I just love putting my little brother on the spot."

"Hey!" Screamed the Ross and Franz in unison.

"Brother! Butt-out!" Retorted the angry green knight.

"And didn't I make it clear I don't like her by the things I said? Why would I love that egocentric, eccentric, purple-haired FREAK?" Screamed the axe fighter with all his might. Unbeknownst to him, he had someone eavesdropping on him.

"So, I'm a freak?" said a feminine voice. "Well I'm SORRY that I can't be normal like everyone else!" said her cracking voice. "This is what happens when you study your self silly, because you want to use that knowledge to protect the ones you care about! So I might as well just quit this army, since there is no one here that likes me, then that means no one is deserving of my loving protection. And to you Ross, you should have been able to understand me the most!" The group noticed that tears were forming as she continued her rant. "You train to become stronger right? You do it to impress your dad and keep him alive, right? I wanted to do that for my parents but they both died from demons because I was not strong enough to protect them. So I locked myself inmy roomwith magical tomes and studyhard tobe a master in the magical artsso no one else that I love will die on me. So tell everyone else GOOD BYE!" She then turned around and ran away deep into a forest, her face soaked from her tears.

"Wait! Lute!" cried Ross. "Dammit! How immature can you get?" He turned to his comrades and said with remorse "I'll bring her back guys, don't wait up." He then followed Lute into the dark forest.

"I should go to, he may need some assistance in finding her" said a worried Artur as he followed Ross on his manhunt.

"Should we go help too brother?" Asked a worried Franz.

"No, it's ok. Those two can handle it; let's just prepare some blankets and food when they get back."

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Meanwhile, Lute ran like mad inside the dense forest, where even the moonlight can't pierce through its branches, making it impossible to see. Which was most unfortunate for Lute as she tripped over a tree root, twisting her ankle in the process.

"Crap, how can this day possibly get any worse?" A loud crack was heard behind Lute, and she was not pleased with that sound. "Great, the guys are coming with their we need you speech" "Just leave me alone guys, I don't want to go back, you made it clear you guys don't want me in that stinking army!" Suddenly a wolf like creature came out of the bushes and started biting at her injured ankle. "Dammit, and I didn't bring my tomes with me. Is this how I'm going to die? Be eaten by a manthe dog?"

"DIE DEMON!" In a quick flash the head of the manthe was chopped of by a person's axe.

"Ross!" shouted the surprised Lute, but her face quickly turned sour after that. "You should have just let me to die, nothing is worth living for in this world anymore."

"Hey! Lighten up!" Retorted Ross. "I was saving your life because I do care about you. Who cares what I say, it's my actions you should pay attention to. So, I'm sorry for saying things I don't mean."

"Fine. I don't want anymore of this stuff from you! Just help me get back to cam-." She then felt dizzy and weak. "Oh crap, that thing had poison fangs" Were her last thoughts as she fell to ground with a soft thud.

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"Ah..ah. Man what happened to me last night?" She looked around at her surroundings, and noticed that she was in the healer's tent and beside her was the unconscious body of "ROSS!" She quickly got out of her bed and quickly got to his side, and notice several teeth marks scattered around his body. "Oh dear Lord! Ross please be alright"

"Ah! I see your awake Lute." Lute turned to see that Amelia entering into the tent with five bottles of antitoxins. "He took a beating last night, Artur told me that he was attacked by seven manthe dogs. Turns out that forest is there territory and right now most of the army is out there defending the camp."

"Wow, he defended me with his life last night." A question though, popped into her mind. "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be out there helping?" asked the curious Lute.

"Someone needed to help you two, most of our healers are preoccupied with the fighters. So I volunteered to stay behind and take care of you guys." Said Amelia. "You know, your lucky to have a kind of guy like Ross. And I was wondering, how do you know when you find the right guy to call your own?"

"Why are you asking this from me Amelia? I don't know the first thing about love, and I bet Ross here was just being a good friend, that's all. All I keep reading from the books are, if you have this tingling feeling inside yourself when you're close to the person you like, you're in love. And it said be sure not to mistaken it for the need to go to the bathroom." Replied Lute, with a depressing tone.

"Thank you for the advice. I'll go try out your theory now, so let me just go use the little girl's room now," said a smiling Amelia, leaving Lute alone with her, with her thoughts on her hero.

"Why am I feeling tingly around you? Is this what they call love?" She looked over his sleeping form, as these thoughts seem to never stop coming into her mind. "Well one thing's for sure, I can't thank you enough" She then leaned over his head and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek, and then tucked him in. "Sleep well, Son-of-warrior-Garcia-Ross," Chuckling at her own pet name for him. "My hero." She stayed there, by his side, until he would wake up from his slumber, and she never did get rid of that tingly feeling the whole day.

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"Now where could Franz be?" Wondered Amelia, as she wondered around the festive campgrounds for winning their little battle against the demons. Continuing on her search she later finds him, out alone on a bare field on the outskirts of the army's camp. "Ah! There he is! But I wonder what's he doing out here at this time of night."

"Excuse me, Sir Franz!" Said Amelia, trying to be polite as possible, as she did not want to disturb him, if he was busy. "What brings you out here?"

"I told you before Amelia, since we are rivals, we do not need to be so formal to one another." Franz replied casually. "I'm came out here to train a bit, because, I can't practice back at camp, well I didn't want to disturb everyone's little festival." He then got and with his slim spears, and gave one to Amelia, he then walked a couple paces away from her and got into his fighting stance. "Since your out here, why not have our first rival battle out here?"

"Wow! You're being forward today with the girl. This is better than that stupid question you asked her last night."

"I think I need to see Artur on exorcising you out of my body," Replied an annoyed Franz. "You are nothing like me, I can't believe that you're my conscious."

"Hey, I'm just here trying giving you advice from your subconscious."

"You can help by being quiet, I need to concentrate on this duel." To the outside world, it looked like Franz was yelling at himself, in a weird way, which was disturbing to anyone that saw.

"Is he trying to psyche me out? Or is he possessed? I hope I he is not a maniac." Thought the frightened knight. "Um, sure Si-, um I mean Franz. I hope I won't disappoint you."

"No way will Frannie be disappointed after seeing all those curves of your in the moonlight. Your suggestive stance will leave him useless. "

"Didn't I tell you to shut up?" Yelled Franz to his inner self. Because of that little distraction, he did not see her lance coming to his stomach, making him fall back and already breathing hard. "Dang! She's got a lot of power"

"And great legs might I add." Franz just mentally sighed, knowing he can't say anything to shut him up and just put all his attention to the duel at hand. They were equally matched, hit for hit and slash for slash. It took awhile before they were so tired and collapsed on each other, back to back, leaving a sweaty mess on each other. "That was the best spar in my life"

"You'll be thanking me later when I help you make it a loving session instead" He mentally rolled his eyes at his weird conscious, and turned his attention towards Amelia.

"See, you are not that bad. You are stronger than you think." Said the short of breath blonde. "I hope we can have more duels like this, because that was amazing! My blood was running the whole fight!"

"I'm glad I could please you Franz." Franz conscious could not help but giggle when she said that in her panting voice, and Franz silence him by giving himself a pinch at a tender bruise. "It was honor to fight you. In no time at all I will become the strongest." Franz was intrigued by her ambition to become strong, so he decided that now was a good time to ask her about this.

"Why do you have the need to be strong? What drives you to go on with this dream of yours?"

"Well you see, when I was younger, I used to live with my frail mother. I didn't remember my father cause he died when I was young. Anyways one day, something awful happened to the village I lived in. It was the worst day of my whole life" She was about to continue, but she started to cry hysterically from the painful memory. Franz slowly decided to wrap his arms around her to try and comfort her.

"There there, you don't have to tell me now. If it hurts that much to talk about, tell me more about yourself when you're ready to say it. Just let me hold you for now." Franz said with compassion in his voice.

"Oh, Franz, thank you." Says the tired Amelia, as she drifted of to sleep in his arms. Franz didn't mind at all, he just sat there, holding her in his arms, with only one thing on his mind, a knight's vow.

"Nothing is going to hurt you any more Amelia, I promise."


A/N: I am not done yet. I'm thinking of making 1 or 2 more chapters until I'm done my story. And I would like to say I have a new thing to present my openings. I'd like to reintroduce, Franz Conscious!

F.C.: Hey! How you doin'?

I can't believe you didn't say anything at that last scene.

F.C.: Hey I didn't want to ruin the kid's moment

And that's all folks! See you next chapter. And I hope you will find it enjoyable to read.

F.C.: Good night everyone! R/R!

LONG-MONOTONEOUS BEEP