Title: Fire Emblem- The RPG
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Chapter 2: A Girl from the Plains

Eliwood wakes up, and he notices that he is no longer left on the plains. He is inside a house. Is he home? Did that battle with the bandits never happen? No, this isn't his house, and he can still feel the pain in his left shoulder. Eliwood places his hand over his shoulder, but instead of feeling the cut left in his shoulder, he feels something else, a bandage wrapped around his wound, and he also noticed that he was missing his shirt, but not his pants. Just then, the door to the room opens and a girl walks in.

Oh! You're awake! the girl says. You've been out for hours! I was so worried about you that I was going to come back to check for a pulse!

Are you the one who helped me back there? Eliwood asks.

Sure am! The girl replies, May I ask for your name?

Eliwood replied, My name is Eliwood! Yours?

I am Lyn. the girl said. Glad to meet you Eliwood.

What did you do with my shirt? Eliwood asks.

Oh! It was torn and covered in blood so I got rid of it.

What! Great! Now what do I wear! Eliwood mumbled, You can't expect me to wear a women's clothes!

Hm... good point.

What!? You didn't notice until now!

Actually, I didn't.

This really stinks Eliwood complains.

Lyn says I guess I do have some clothes you could wear.

Eliwood asks.

Lyn says. Follow me!

The two head down the hall into another room. Lyn goes up to a closet and pulls out some blue and gold clothes. Lyn hands them to Eliwood, and he takes them and goes to another room, and comes back dressed in the clothes he is wearing in the game. (In other words the clothes you're used to se him wear)

These are my father's clothes. Lyn tells him. My father was a knight in service to the royal palace of Kathedren. He was great, until he passed away because of an illness.

Eliwood said. He looks up to see a rapier resting on a high shelf. What's that?

Lyn pauses for a moment is my father's rapier...

Eliwood tries to hold the Rapier, but Lyn stops him.

Please, I prefer that it stays untouched... Lyn says darkly.

Eliwood asks. Lyn refuses to answer the question. Eliwood asks again but he realizes by looking at Lyn's expression that he isn't going to get an answer.

Even so, Eliwood opens his mouth to ask her again, when a loud noise like a crash sounds outside. So instead, he asks her, what was that?

Stay here, Lyn says, I'll go check. With that Lyn heads out the door while holding what appears to be a sheath of a sword. Eliwood watches as she goes out, but notices that the sword itself is left next to him.

Eliwood calls out, Darn it! You forgot your sword! Eliwood takes the sword and he starts to go out the door when he realizes that Aibou isn't with him. Huh? Aibou? Darn it! Where's my knife? Eliwood opens a cabinet only to have a dish fall on his head. He notices that his dagger is on the plate that hit him on the head. Now how'd you get there? Eliwood takes his knife and follows Lyn out the door, only to forget to take Lyn's sword.

Outside Lyn is just about to go tell Eliwood what is going on but Eliwood walks out of the door.

I thought I told you to wait inside... Lyn says.

I thought you'd need a weapon. Just in case.

My sword is right here. Lyn shows Eliwood the sheath for the first time, and she realizes there's nothing in it. I didn't bring my sword?

Yes! Here it...



I forgot to bring it.

This is hopeless... Hold off the bandits while I go get my sword. Lyn heads into her house.

Eliwood looks back to see two brigands charging at him. Oh no...

Well well, look what we have here says the first Bandit.

Well! If it isn't the kid with the Fire Core says the second.

Wait! I know you two! Eliwood says, You guys are the idiots I killed yesterday! Eliwood pauses for a moment, Aren't you suppose to be dead?

We are? the first asks the second.

I dunno, ask the author the first replies.

This author' is wei... the second starts but before he could finish his sentence, Eliwood stabs him in the throat. The bandit silently falls to the ground.

If you weren't dead then, you're dead now. Eliwood says, stepping on the bandit.

The other bandit swings his axe and knocks Aibou out of his hands and into Lyn's house's open window.

Oh crud... Eliwood thought.

Now it's your turn to die! the bandit tries to kill Eliwood, but a sword cuts his hand off. The sword stabs into the ground, the bandit shrieking in pain. Eliwood turns to look where the sword came from. It is Lyn, the green haired girl had thrown here sword knowing that she wouldn't be able to save Eliwood if she hadn't

Throwing her blade like that... Man! That was crazy! If she had missed, the bandit would have killed me. And if she threw it a little lower, it would have hit me, and I would have been dead any way! Eliwood thinks his hand still trembling from fear.

Darn it! The final bandit cries out, fine! I'll kill you all! Prepare to die before the mighty Groznyi! The bandit throws his axe while Eliwood wonders what the heck is up with all the throwing. But this axe is not a regular axe, it is a hand axe. Eliwood jumps out of the way in time, but it separates Lyn and him from each other even further. Gaahahahahah! You, little girl will die first!

Groznyi moves toward Lyn, ready to swing his other axe at her at any moment. Lyn is unarmed and Eliwood who is also unarmed can not do anything. Eliwood thinks for a moment and then jumps into Lyn's house through the open window.

Inside the house, Eliwood searches for Aibou but fails miserably. He looks out the window to see that he doesn't have much time left. What to do... Eliwood thinks for a moment and then it hits him... the rapier! I know Lyn doesn't want me using it, but I haven't got much of a choice! Eliwood jumps back outside.

Lyn is cornered by the bandit. You're going to die! Groznyi cries out, but before he can swing his axe, he is stopped by a blade that gets stuck out in front of his face. Lyn looks at the blade and recognizes it as the blade of her father's rapier. She looks to her right to see Eliwood, holding the handle of the mighty sword.

Let her go. Eliwood says in a low voice, let her go now. Groznyi turns toward Eliwood and swings his axe in front of himself.

You dare challenge me?Grozyi says almost laughing. Fine! I will kill you, before I kill your girl!

Grozyi charges forward and strait toward Eliwood. Eliwood attempts to block the shot but he realizes, Crud! This isn't a knife! with that, Eliwood jumps back instead. He jumps back in and swings the blade at Grozyi, and manages to cut his left arm off. (Too bad he's right handed.) Groznyi shrieks in pain and then turns to look at Eliwood.

Arrrgh! Enough of this! Groznyi yells in furry, I will take you down with what ever I have left! With that, Groznyi puts away his steel axe, and picks up a silver one instead.

Eliwood sees this threat, and thinks back to what his father had taught him about sword play. He then remembers the Cyclone Edge, a special attack that his father had taught him. With that, Eliwood takes his blade and points it upward in front of his face. He then swings his arm back and then points his palm toward his enemy and he does the same with the rapier, only further back. Groznyi charges in, swinging his axe wildly. The second Groznyi comes close, Eliwood dives forward with all of his strength, rapier in front.

There is then a moment of silence, as Grozyi falls to the ground, motion less. He is left with a hole that goes into his chest, through the heart, and out of the back. Eliwood steps back, wiping the blood off of the rapier with his cape.

Eliwood! You were amazing! Lyn runs up to Eliwood. But notices that there is something wrong with him. What's wrong?

I... I... killed... a person... Eliwood says trembling in fear. I c... can't believe I killed a living being....

You did it to defend both yourself and me. Lyn says calmly. and besides, you can't expect you to survive a dangerous journey with out having to kill some thing.

...You're right... Eliwood replies, here's your father's rapier. he says handing Lyn the sword, but Lyn refuses to take it.

It's yours now. Lyn says stepping back. You should keep it.

Eliwood asks, he feels really stupid asking the one question over, and over again.

A rapier is no amateur's weapon. Lyn replies, You have never wielded a rapier before have you?

Eliwood thinks back to when he was a little kid, when his father had taught him sword play. He can remember using an iron sword, slim sword, armor slayer, and a long sword. But he can not remember wielding a rapier. No, I've never used one.

And yet you used it like a sword master! Like... my father...

You're father?

Yes. He was a master when it came to using a rapier, and you... You are currently wearing my father's old clothes, and you hold his rapier like it's your own. Lyn pauses and before she can start talking again, Eliwood interrupts.

So I can keep it? Eliwood asks.

I said that it is yours now right? Lyn replies.

Say Lyn. Have you seen any other people knocked out on the plains? Eliwood asks, he feels kind of stupid being the only idiot who blacked out in the middle of the plains.

Sure! Plenty! Lyn says as if it is obvious, but I usually leave them to die. They were dumb enough to come to the plains unprepared so I might as well let them be punished for their stupid actions. Right?

If that's the case, Why did you save me? Eliwood asks, I mean, I'm also an idiot who came to the plains unprepared and severely injured.

Lyn goes into a mad blush, I... It's nothing! Re... Really! I just saved you because well you were... well.. you know.... Um! Why were you injured like that any way?

Eliwood just stares at her for a short while, then answers, Bandits attacked me on the way out of the village.

Lyn asks still blushing a little.

Yeah, they seem to be after this thing. Eliwood takes the Fire Core and shows it to Lyn.

A red stone? Lyn asks knowing she was pointing out the obvious. Why would they be after... Wait! Is this... By any chance... The Fire Core?

Eliwood replies. What about it?

This is the Fire Core Eliwood! Lyn cries out, This is the sacred stone that was formed in the volcano of Celciheight!

Eliwood says calmly, all this time I thought it was just a clump of rock that my father treasured.

Don't you know anything Eliwood!?

I know how to swing a rapier.

Do you know that this is the key to releasing the mighty Hell Bird! A beast so powerful that it could destroy half the world in a single blast?

Eliwood replies, Like I said that I thought that it was just a rock.

Well now I think I figured it out! Lyn says. She seems very serious, but Eliwood on the other hand does not.

Figured out what? Eliwood asks.

Why the bandits are after the fire core! Lyn replies. They want to take the fire core and destroy the world with it!

Eliwood asks the same stupid question.

I don't know. Lyn replies to the stupid question. But what I know is, we can't let that happen. Lyn stands word less for a while and then suddenly... I've made up my mind! I'm going to follow you!

Eliwood cries out he is so surprised by Lyn's decision, he is almost knocked off od his feet.

I said I'm going to follow you! Lyn says proudly, I have to make sure that you don't mess up and that my.. I mean you don't die!

That's great. Eliwood says, but what were you about to say was yours?

Huh? I was about to say that I didn't want you to break my father's rapier, but I figured that you would not do that because you can wield it so well. Lyn replies.

Eliwood says joyfully, Now! Let's go...

Tomorrow morning. Lyn cuts him off in the middle of his speech. I need to pack, and I believe we can both use some rest.

Okay! I like your thinking! Eliwood says with a smile on his face. Tomorrow, it's off to an epic journey!

The two spend the rest of the day getting ready for the long road ahead of them, and the next morning, they were off! On a new journey with out much of a purpose but to protect the Fire Core.

To be continued!

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Well there you have chapter 2! I know, there are a few signs of LynxEliwood in this chapter. Well please read and review!

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Hours after Lyn and Eliwood leave, the bandits that were killed by Eliwood stand up as they're wounds heal. However, the one that Lyn took care of remains dead.

We must retrieve that stone! Groznyi says to the other bandit. We must inform lord Bartre at once!

the bandit replies. The bandits leave the plains, as if they were never there...