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Disclaimer: I don't own Solomon Kane or Fire Emblem, those belong to Robert E. Howard and Nintendo respectively
A year and a month had passed since that fateful day which liberated Caelin from tyranny. Currently at the other edge of Elibe a vanguard of Pegasus knights made their way across the ocean to reach the infamous Dread Isle. The head of them was a young woman with turquoise hair named Fiora, and sharing a ride on her Pegasus was a tall, gaunt man dressed in black, Solomon Kane. When he first started his quest to reach Dread Isle most laughed at him, one group of pirates offered to help, but Solomon Kane would never associate with their kind, so for a brief moment he contemplated working the arena to earn money to rent his own ship, but then he heard that a band of mercenaries had been hired to send a unit there. So he bartered passage with them, since no one could spare a Pegasus for him he had to ride with their leader. Solomon did not care much for the situation, he was a sailor at heart, and having to ride behind a woman significantly younger than him did not help either. Kane however was not one to complain, and besides, soon he would be face to face with Nergal, and the vengeance he sought to carry out will be given soon.
"So, Sir Kane, since you paid handsomely in advance I never really bothered to think much of it, but why did you want to come along with us on this mission?" "Nergal, a man I've heard lives on that island, destroyed an entire village, he must be brought to justice" "Well, you picked the right side, that's who we have been hired to kill as well. Was it your village?" "No" the puritan answered simply. "Anyone you knew?" "No" Fiora did not help but feel curiosity toward the man she spoke to "Then why do you pursue him?" And in a low voice sounding of firm resolve and wisdom he spoke "Why should I not? Those people deserve vengeance as much as anyone else." Fiora became further intrigued and almost asked him, but then she noticed the enemy ship on the horizon. "Everyone, that ship is the enemy! Attack!"
It was a slaughter, the enemy ship had them outnumbered and out matched, not to mention the soldiers of the Black Fang saw the attack coming and had that extra few seconds to prepare. Fiora landed on the ship with Kane after all her troops had fallen, a rage swept over her, They must die, all of them. She thought to herself upon shoving her lance into a nearby soldier. Solomon Kane however, felt the same resolve he felt for any battle, he will not walk away from this one until death meets all of them. He fired his first pistol at who he guessed was the captain, then he fired his second at who he knew sent the most arrows to Fiora's unit. He then unsheathed his Rapier and plunged it into the nearest soldier. He unsheathed his Dirk and stabbed a soldier next to him while he pulled his Rapier out of the one in front of him. Fiora struck at whoever stood in her way, she impaled two men on her lance then threw them off the edge of the ship. Her Pegasus kicked a nearby soldier in the chest, killing him almost instantly. One struck at Kane, but he blocked it with ease and parried the lunge, throwing the soldier back several feet into his comrades, Kane killed them with ease while they were down. Fiora struck one with the blunt end of her lance, knocking him and a few others overboard. A soldier with an axe ran towards her, she was unable to raise her lance in time to stop his attack, and she would have died there, but Kane saw the danger she was in and threw his Dirk at the soldier. It struck him blade first into the back of his skull, he fell over dead instantaneously.
"I think that is all of them" Kane said to the still visibly shaken woman. When she came to her senses she said "And they had it coming… All of them, Kyra, Jade, Mia… All of them dead and it's my fault" Fiora then took a pouch from her saddle and presented it to Solomon "Here, you paid for escort and I failed you in that regard, you had to fight" the Puritan felt the pouch, then gave it back to Fiora "I paid not for escort, I paid for transportation, you keep the gold, it is yours in exchange for taking me this far. I will bring the fight to Nergal, for all that he has done. If you wish to help me, your flying horse will be helpful." "I want to help you defeat him, and anyone who stands in the way." Fiora said with a new found resolve in her tone "Good, then help me raise this sail" Kane said as he began making adjustments to the ship they had fought on minutes earlier.
"You know how to operate this?" Fiora asked, Solomon briefly smiled and he said to her "I was a captain on a merchant vessel for ten years, and I was a privateer for two years, I know enough to take us to Dread Isle." "Any combat experience?" "A few battles" Kane said solemnly, recalling the Spanish armada and the fight where he lost his friend Sir Richard Grenville. "Good enough, and it isn't like I know anything about sailing" Fiora said, and she began raising the sail Kane as ordered her to do.
A few hours passed and the two of them reached the island around sunset. "It is getting dark, we should stop for the night before going further" Fiora recommended. Kane agreed, and he spent the night in the captain's quarters, while Fiora took the first mate's room for the night.