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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fire Emblem. I think you knew that already.
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-: ERK'S POV :-
We had been walking for four hours now and the cleric girl had not shut her mouth for any of it. I was slowly becoming immune to the screeching, though. Either that, or I was going deaf.
"ERKY! LOOK AT THAT!"
She had been exclaiming things like that for awhile now. You'd think the girl had never been outside before.
"That's a squirrel, Serra." I answered calmly, although my patience was waning.
"I KNOW!" She screamed back, even though I was right beside her. "But it's so cuuuuute!"
She continued to croon at the squirrel, even though I could see nothing remarkable about it. In fact, I rather pitied the poor creature. It was probably innocently sitting on a branch, eating a nut, and then a different kind of nut started screaming at it.
"And look at that bushy tail! How ADORABLE!"
That's it. Flux patience. If she doesn't shut up about the stupid squirrel soon I'm going to snap.
"We really should get going, Lady Serra, if you want to make it to Ostia soon." I was hoping that the "Lady" would make her listen to me. Well, she listened to me. But I didn't get the reaction I expected.
"It's MISTRESS SERRA to you! I am your master! You shall obey me and treat me with respect or I shall leave you and go find someone else more worthy of this job!" She finished triumphantly.
Apparently she thought this was a threat. I needed the money, but I was starting to wonder if it was worth it. "Of course, Mistress Serra. So sorry for my lack of manners." I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm, but of course, she didn't catch it.
"That's more like it." She said smugly, "Lets keep going! Sheesh, Erk, if you keep distracting me like this we'll never make it to Ostia!" And with that she brushed right past me and stalked on along the path. I followed grumbling.
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-: SERRA'S POV :-
He thought I didn't notice. People always think I don't notice things, but I do. I may not catch on to things as quickly as some people, and I might get a little over-enthusiastic about some things, but I'm not dumb. And I knew he was being sarcastic.
When I first said hi to the guys at the dock, I didn't mean for my voice to screech so much. It just happens sometimes. And then all those seagulls came flocking around me for some reason and by the time they settled down the guys had ran back on the ships and the ships had taken sail.
I came close to crying, for I realized I was now stranded without protection in Etruria, but I held the tears in and sat down to ponder what to do. After a few hours, I got up to go ask around and see if anyone could help me, when I saw him. A very handsome, purple-haired, young man. He was staring at the now very distant ships with a shocked expression. I saw immediately that he was a mage of some sort and came up with the brilliant (as usual) idea that he could help me out. So I jumped up and ran over to him. I think you know the rest.
So, now here I am. Traveling with this mage who quite obviously dislikes me. Somehow, I'm starting to think my brilliant idea wasn't so brilliant.
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-: ERK'S POV :-
We had been walking for a few more hours and, miraculously, she had not said a word! I couldn't see her face, so I walked a bit faster. When I could see it, she looked like she was, miracles of miracles, thinking! I wondered what brought about this sudden change, but then I stopped wondering and decided to just appreciate the good fortune that Elimine had bestowed upon me. When it grew dark, I decided to finally break the blessed silence.
"Mistress Serra, it's getting dark." I hoped that she would get my point that we needed to stop and set up camp. I hoped for too much.
"Ooooh, I hate the dark! So many scary things live in the dark!" She whined.
I tried again. "Mistress Serra, we should probably set up camp before it's fully dark so we can see what we're doing." I thought I said this quite clearly, but apparently I didn't because she then responded:
"Oooooh! Look at the pretty stars!" She exclaimed.
First the squirrel, now the stars. Yep. This girl was definitely an inside girl. I decided to just stop and start setting up my tent and see if she followed. But before I could….
"ERKY! Don't you think we should start setting up camp? It's getting dark you idiot! We might have problems setting up things if we can't see what we're doing! You should have thought of that by now!" she told me reproachfully.
I wanted to strangle her.
But I restrained myself and went to set up camp instead. I started to set up my tent, but then I decided to save myself some trouble and started setting up Serra's first instead.
Serra smirked when she saw this and decided to comment. "I'm glad you're starting to learn, Erky."
Just one good Thunder attack……
But I kept on setting up camp. Once the tents were up I went to find some firewood. I was stopped by a resounding screech and some bats flying out of the trees.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING, ERKY? DON'T ABANDON ME!" Serra screamed at me. Then she burst into tears. I was quite flustered and strangely felt a little bad. Like I was guilty. Which was strange because, as far as I knew, gathering firewood wasn't a crime.
"I'm just getting some firewood!" I yelled back, completely confused, "I'll be back!" I waited to see if she was going to start bawling again.
"Oh!" She abruptly stopped crying and started smiling. "Okay, but hurry back! I might get attacked while you're gone, and then how would you ever go on?" She then walked, humming to herself, into her tent.
I was a little fazed, but I turned back around and started off again. It was a tad difficult to find some dry wood because it had rained recently, but I managed to find a small pile and headed back to camp. I laid the wood down and used a Fire spell to light it.
"WOW! That's AMAZING!" Serra exclaimed behind me. Apparently she had been coming out of her tent when she saw me do my spell. "You really are a mage!" she said.
I found this statement completely nonsensical.
"Of course I'm really a mage!" I retorted, "Why would I have bothered lying about something like that?"
"Because you might've just wanted the chance to spend time with a lovely creature like me!" she said, giggling obnoxiously. I just sighed and headed into my tent.
"If you need food, I have some in my bag. Help yourself to any of it. I'm feeling rather tired, so I'm going to go ahead and lay down."
"Okay, Erk. But just remember; no sneaking into my tent during the night!" She said and giggled again. I just rolled my eyes and went in.
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The next morning I awoke to a horrible scream. I snapped awake and realized it was coming from Serra's tent! I quickly got up and ran over to see what was going on. I pushed the flap open while shouting "What happened?"
"It's-it's-it's a SPIDER! EEEEEEWWW!" Serra screeched and jumped away from the offending creature. I felt very foolish.
"A spider? You were doing all that screaming over a spider?" I asked disbelievingly.
"It's big and hairy and-MAKE IT GO AWAY!" She then ran screaming from the tent.
I looked at the spider.
It looked at me.
I shrugged.
It shrugged.
I said "You better get away from here before she comes back."
It got away from here.
I then went outside to see if Serra was traumatized. By the way she was hiding behind my tent, I believed she was.
"I just woke up and it was THERE! And it was so UGLY! EW! How can anything be that hideous?" She was ranting.
"We better get back on the road, Serra." I had dropped the title because I figured that in her current state, she wouldn't have even noticed if I had said "Yo, you ugly female dog, lets get going."
As we got our tents packed back up and got moving again, and as she continued to talk and rant on the hideousness of spiders, I realized this was going to be a very long, long, long, long, longity longer long trip.
I had no idea how right I was.
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Arianna: I am alive! A little ill, but alive!
Latisha: Eeeew, puke is nasty.
Arianna: I can't help it. –sob- Yes, I am a little sick. But I still typed this chapter tonight! Aren't I dedicated?
Erk: I just think you're crazy.
Serra: You used to think I was crazy too, though, remember?
Erk: -mumbling- Still do.
Serra: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Erk: Nothing.
Arianna: Oh my! 10 reviews on the prologue! –faints-
Latisha: -slap slap- Wakeup! You gotta write responses!
Arianna: -sits up- Oh yeah! Here they are!
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-: REVIEW RESPONSES :-
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:Zero84:
Arianna: I'm glad someone feels good. -runs back to bathroom- BLEEECH!
Latisha: Ew, ew, ew……
Eliwood: -turns green-
Arianna: -comes back out- Thanks for reviewing!
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:Angel Nina:
Arianna: -waves flag- Long live Erk and Serra!
Erk: Elimine, help us all. There are TWO Serras?
Serra: I'm prettier, aren't I, Erky?
Erk: ….. –runs-
Serra: ERKY?
Arianna: Thanks for reviewing!
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:The Story Master 125:
Eliwood: WOW! A FAN!
Arianna: Ummm….incase you haven't noticed, Eliwood, you have a lot of fans.
Eliwood: -goes on internet- WOW! Lots of fans!
Erk: ……..
Arianna: Thanks for reviewing! And for the compliments.
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:Shadow Mewtwo977:
Arianna: Hehe, ya, I can see a DeeDee voice on Serra. Thanks for reviewing!
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:DTN:
Serra: Poor Erk? Why Poor Erk? He's with wonderful, fantabulous, ME!
Eliwood: Ya, I can see why you feel sorry for him.
Serra: Grrrr……
Eliwood: Whoops. Did I say that?
Arianna: Thanks for reviewing!
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:Kitsune Asakura:
Latisha: Oh no! Am I gonna have to wake you up too? -raises hand for slap-
Sain: -grabs her hand- Oh dearest Latisha!
Latisha: AH! -slaps him instead-
Serra: Yes, I have such a lovely voice, don't I?
Eliwood: -cough cough-
Arianna: Thanks for reviewing!
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:Kota the Tactician:
Arianna: Annoying? Serra? Nah.
Serra: Was that sarcastic?
Arianna: Hehe. Thanks for reviewing!
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:Goddess of the Northern Breeze:
Serra: Lots of people pitying Erky. Why doesn't anyone pity me? I'm the one that's getting teased!
Latisha: Builds character.
Serra: Hmph. The wrong kind of character.
Arianna: Thank you for reviewing!
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:Rockie1:
Erk: Of course it sounds like us, who else would we sound like?
Eliwood: Those orange midget dudes from Willy Wonka.
Erk: Okay….that was a random answer….
Arianna: Thank you for reviewing!
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:potter29vo:
Serra: I adore Erky, too.
Arianna: I adore sleep. Can I go now?
Latisha: Sure. This is the last review. Just say your robotic response first.
Arianna: Thanks for reviewing!
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Arianna: Okay, I'm outta here. Thanks to all readers! Bye-bye now!
Erk: See you whenever we next get Arianna off her lazy butt.
Sain: Next chapter I come in!
Erk: Oh joy.
Serra: Was THAT sarcastic too?
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