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Chapter 2

" What?" Ephraim asked loudly.

" I'm in love… with Seth," Eirika whispered. Ephraim looked her sister straight in the eyes. Her eyes were dry from the tears shed since the battle versus the demon king, her bright blue hair was a little duller than usual, but other than that she hadn't changed much since then. Eirika's expression could not be mistaken. She was serious.

"…" Ephraim was silent.

" Brother?" Eirika made sure he was listening.

" I have a plan, but I am not sure it will work, don't worry about it right now, just go and get some sleep," Ephraim told her.

" Thank you brother," Eirika answered, " Goodnight." Eirika left the room and returned to her own. Ephraim quickly thought over the plan he had and hoped so much that it worked.

The next morning Seth woke up to hear the door to his room open. Ephraim walked in already suited in his armor and ready for the day.

" Get ready, we have a skirmish coming our way," Ephraim explained to him, " there seems to be a small group of bandits that were stocking up in a village while Tix and his men fought against us. They are almost definantly seeking revenge on us, but there only seems to be seven or eight of them, I can guess that they are well equipped and have no injuries because guards in watch towers say they are coming at us with great haste, one of them seems to be quite advanced, she seems to exceed the skills of Tix with ease, again the guards saw her fighting her way through some other traveling bandits, I could guess that she is either a hired mercenary who has not been paid yet and will most likely get a raise for taking me down or she might be a relative, a close friend, or the wife of Tix. She seems to be quite a good tactician too; I wonder why Tix didn't have her with his army while they battled us. Anyway I want you to come and confront them with Joshua, Natasha, Eirika, and I."

Seth took a moment to let everything Ephraim had just said sink in. " Should I meet you outside the castle?" Seth asked. Ephraim nodded.

Seth quickly put on his armor, went to the place where his horse was, and rode to where the other four were waiting in front of the castle. Ephraim went over whom everyone was supposed to take. Ephraim was taking on three mercenaries, Joshua took one mage and a mage knight, Natasha was to take the Ranger and heal anyone who needed healing, Seth was to take on another paladin, and Eirika was to fight the leader and tactician of the small group, the Wyvern Knight.

In the distance the five of them saw the group arriving. Three of them on the wyvern, three on the ranger's horse and two on the mage knights horse. When they arrived close enough to the five of them to fight, two people got off the wyvern and the ranger's horse and one person got off the mage knight's horse leaving everyone who was not supposed to fight on a wyvern or horse off the wyvern or horse. There was a minute where everyone stood still then suddenly the mage knight charged at Natasha being intercepted by Joshua half way. Joshua slashed his sword in front of him barely missing the mage knight, but shocking her at the quick reaction of her charging at Natasha.

" Don't you dare touch her!" Joshua said fiercely. The mage teamed up with the mage knight and they were rapidly sending spells at Joshua, who easily dodged them and countered with a slash of his sword.

Natasha was sending continuous beams of light at the ranger who shot his arrows as a response. It was obvious that Natasha had the upper hand, but she still was cautious.

Ephraim ( Who was not on his horse) was handling the mercenaries with ease. His lance was flying all over the place. The mercenaries seemed to be waving their swords all over the place, but there was barely even a scratch on Ephraim from the battle with them.

Seth was also easily winning his battle, even though he was using a sword and his opponent a lance. His horse galloped toward the other paladin and he knocked the lance out of his opponent's hands. Seth rode over to the lance and picked it up. He charged at the paladin, both weapons in front of him.

Eirika stared at her opponent. She had wavy light brown hair that stretched a couple inches below her shoulders and curled up at the tip. She had pure brown eyes at sparkled in the sun. She didn't look as though she could handle to fight anyone and yet, there she was, lance clutched in her hand, and all suited up in lightweight armor and mounted on a wyvern.

Eirika charged forward on her horse at this Wyvern Knight, and as soon as she was in striking range, the wyvern lifted up in the air, Eirika's opponent on its back. Eirika's horse jumped up into the air and Eirika swung her sword above her, missing the wyvern Knight by a foot or two.

Her opponent swept down close to the ground and deftly slashed his land at Eirika's horse making it nay and gallop back to the castle without making sure Eirika was holding on. Eirika flew up a couple feet in the air and fell down hitting the dirt ground with a great impact.

" Ow," moaned Eirika. The wyvern knight levitated on her wyvern just above the ground with her face looking down at her wyvern. She looked up straight at Eirika with tears streaming down her face. She prepared to do the final blow, " Why are you-?" Eirika was cut off in the middle of her question because she was suddenly lifted up off the ground and mounted with Seth on his horse. A strange good warm feeling filled Eirika's body as she held on to Seth as he rode his horse to the side, away from the wyvern knight.

" Careful," Seth told her in a kind voice.

Ephraim smiled when he saw what had happened. His plan was working.

Joshua ran up toward the Wyvern Knight and was about to attack when he was interrupted.

" Stop!" Eirika yelled out. Joshua and the Wyvern Knight froze, " Seth please ride me over there to where that Wyvern knight is."

" Are you sure its safe?" Seth asked.

" Trust me," Eirika answered.

" Very well at least we don't have to worry about all the others, they've already surrendered or have been defeated," Seth said. He rode Eirika over to the Wyvern Knight.

" Don't get to close. I'm supposed to be fighting you!" she said.

" Why were you crying when you were about to finish me off?" Eirika asked, ignoring her last comment.

" I… I used to be a Renais citizen! When the war started my family fled to a town and I had to become a mercenary to help support my family, It was just hard to finish off the princess of Renais," she explained.

" Your family and you can come and live in Renais castle until Renais is fully rebuilt, or we can offer a permanent place in our castle if you want to join the army here," Eirika said. Tears streamed down the Wyvern Knights face.

" Can I really?" she asked. Eirika nodded, " Thank you." She fell of her wyvern and fainted.

" I'll get her wyvern to where the others are and I'll take her to a spare room, when she wakes up, we'll contact her family," Ephraim told them, " Good job everyone you may return to what you want to do now."

" What about us?" asked one of the troops that had surrendered.

" What about you? You are free to go, but I should think it is unwise to organize another attack on us," Ephraim answered.

" Ready?" Seth asked Eirika. Eirika nodded. They galloped together to the stables, Eirika held on tighter as they picked up speed. The warm feeling became bigger and bigger inside Eirika until it threatened to erupt. They entered the stable to find Eirika's horse inside. " Princess Eirika, why where you holding me so tight while we rode? I know you are very good at keeping your balance on horses," Seth said.

" I… um… well…" Eirika thought for a moment, " Seth… I…"

That is all for Chapter 2! I might change the story rating to T soon (Maybe next chapter). Please review!