Second chapter! Part of this is a little dark, so be warned. I do not own Fire Emblem or any of the characters, just in case you wanted to sue.

Chapter 2 – Back to Badon

-On board the Davros-

"Thanks… It's dark now, let's go inside" said Wil, hoping what he said wasn't going to be taken the wrong way.

"Yes, you're right" replied Rebecca "When did the Captain say dinner was?".

"Eight" Wil pulled a small watch from his pocket and glanced at it. "We still have an hour".

"Good" They walked across the deck, Rebecca ignoring the pirates who started at her. Wil couldn't help but notice and raised an eyebrow.

"Don't these pirates bother you at all?" Wil asked angrily.

"I just ignore them" Rebecca said coolly "Besides, if any of them touched me I'd shoot their hand." Wil shrugged and continued walking. They met Geitz in one of the cramped passages.

"Hi Geitz" Rebecca greeted

"Hey… I'm just going to the mess for some ale, I'm pretty sure your brother's there too"

"Okay, have fun I guess…" said Wil, a bit sarcastically. They squeezed past Geitz and walked towards their rooms.

"Uhh Wil, do you want to see the bow I picked up at Dragon's Gate?" Rebecca asked, a little nervously.

"Sure" They walked into the tiny room and lit a few small candles. Rebecca walked over to a small trunk next to the bed and pulled out the magnificent Rienfleche. It was made from a shiny flexible blue metal and had a small red gem at the front.

"Wooah" Wil gasped. The bow exuded power in the flickering light.

"One of Nergal's morphs had it…" Rebecca trailed off. She didn't want to go into killing them. Wil had been posted outside the castle to make sure they weren't attacked from behind and missed everything that happened.

On the other side of the ship a group of pirates were playing a loud card game and drinking.

"I'm out" one of them shouted "Dart, I's your bet, don wanna lose s'more gold?"

"Stow it, Jerme" Dart replied, pushing a few coins to the centre of the table "Beat that Paul!". Geitz walked in to the racket and looked around, spotting Dart a few metres away, thoroughly involved in a game of cards. He grabbed a clean pitcher from a side table and half-filled it with some light ale.

"Hey Dart" He said. He couldn't hear himself over the noise so he raised his voice "HEY DART!" Geitz shouted, but still Dart couldn't hear over the pirates shouting in his ears. Geitz sighed and grabbed two more cups, filled them and put them on a tray. He took one more look at Dart grinning at his cards and left.

"That must have been some battle" Wil said "Is it true you had to fight a dragon?" Rebecca nodded slowly. The conversation, to her distaste, had turned to the final battle, the Rienfleche lying on top of the chest.

Wil saw the sadness in her eyes and dropped the topic. They stood in silence for a second when the boat suddenly rocked sideways, throwing Wil into Rebecca and both of them onto the bed.

Now Wil was lying in a weird position over Rebecca, looking into her sparkling green eyes. As he gazed into her eyes, he felt a fluttering in his stomach and tried not to blush.

Rebecca on the other hand, was finding that she kinda enjoyed being there, looking at his deep brown eyes.

"They look like vats of chocolate" she thought. She saw him blush and realising the awkwardness of the situation blushed herself.

Just then, Geitz, who had slammed into a wall when the boat rocked, stumbled to Rebecca's room and opened the door, to find Wil lying on top of Rebecca about to kiss.

"Holy Saint Elimine" he gasped, almost dropping the tray again

"This is a bad time" he mumbled, ignoring the guilty/innocent looks Wil and Rebecca were giving him. He walked out of the room, grimacing at the awkward situation he just made.

Wil immediately jumped off Rebecca and straightened his tunic nervously. She also hurriedly got up, while Geitz leaned against a wall and banged his head. Wil and Rebecca glanced around the room, taking occasional glances at each other. They maintained this silence for what felt like half an hour, before they both decided to break the silence, talking at once.

"Maybe we…" "Let's g…" They broke off nervously not wanting to talk over each other

"Nice one Geitz" Wil thought furiously "He really ruined that moment".

"Wil's kinda cute when he's embarrassed" Rebecca thought, taken aback even as she thought this.

"Let's go have dinner" Wil said, checking his watch. It was a quarter to eight, but he didn't mind being early, not in this situation at least.

"Yeah, sure" They left the room with their lanterns, blowing out the candles and putting the bow back in the chest. Geitz was still leaning against a wall next to his room and he looked up when they approached.

"Uhhh, do you want a drink?" He asked.

"Yeah thanks" Said Wil, taking one of the pitchers. Rebecca declined and they walked towards the mess together, well Wil and Rebecca walked together and Geitz walked behind them.

They entered the mess together and looked around, spotting Dart and a few other pirates jammed in around one table. The mess was easily the largest room in the ship, as the pirates' sleeping quarters were divided up according to their crew system. It was half full, so Wil, Geitz and Rebecca sat on an empty table near the door.

Wil made sure that Rebecca was sitting in between him and Geitz and took a few sips of the pitcher of ale. Dart, however, was happily chatting to his fellow pirates about the going-s on of the ship. Even though it wasn't very interesting he simply enjoyed being with pirates again.

"So, 'e tells me 'e does tha' the barrel was leakin' before 'e came along!" One of them shouted to some uproarious laughter.

"Ah Dale…" Paul (One of the few, slightly more intelligent pirates) said, wiping a tear from his eye. He noticed Dart looking a bit serious and thought of one of the questions he wanted to ask.

"Dart, what happened on that Isle anyway? I mean you came back all serious like, and you're a lot stronger now." It was true, Dart now spent a lot of time thinking about his past life, what was he like? Who were his parents? And so on. He was also a lot stronger, having left as a low level pirate he was now a medium level berserker second in strength and skill only to Fargus himself.

Dart decided to skip the various small skirmishes which occurred while he was in Eliwood's Elibe-tastic militia and focused on the final battle. He started to tell the story when dinner was brought out. So he continued the story while everyone was eating.

Dart had just reached the part when he was about to grab Hector's Armads and slay the dragon (which never happened of course), when he noticed Captain Fargus in the doorway listening and Geitz, Wil and Rebecca on another table, also listening. So he decided to go with the truth, and told the company how Eliwood finished off the dragon with Durandal and Athos dying.

The moment Dart finished his involved retelling of the final battle Fargus strode into the room.

"I've heard word of a storm around Badon. It's gonna hit us tonight, so we're going to drop the anchor. This will mean we're only gonna get to Badon at around 3 in the afternoon. Mates, I think you should get some rest if we're gonna have to bail water. G'Night" Fargus announced. A collective "Yarr, Cap'n" was echoed through the hall. Fargus smiled and headed for the deck.

Wil and Rebecca quickly finished their pale sludge-y mixture and headed off to their rooms. Geitz decided to drink a little more ale with Dart and some other pirates who didn't want to sleep yet. Outside a pouring rain began.

-Somewhere between Badon and Santaruz-

The rain was bucketing down, the clouds were rumbling and lightning lit the battle ground intermittently, casting eerie shadows of the fighters all over the place. A brigand ran to a tent and began to cut it down, when a lance entered his back. He was dead before he hit the ground.

A little way away, a nomad rode over to another tent and fired an arrow in, smiling savagely as he heard a scream from within. A girl with dark hair jumped out of the tent. The nomad pulled another arrow from a quiver on his back, keeping his eyes on the girl, but he was too slow. As the lightning flashed again, the girl was right in front of him slashing viciously with a long blade. The nomad's neck burst open and he fell off the horse, staring serenely at the sky in a puddle of water and his own blood.

"Farina!" The girl screamed, her dark eyes scanning the battlefield for the Falcoknight. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Farina fly down and stab an assassin in the side before he could attack. The attack however had brought her to the attention to a few snipers a few metres away. The snipers weren't as effective as usual, as the rain sent the arrows a lot lower than normal, but at a medium range they were still as deadly.

"Farina!" she noticed the snipers "Farina watch out!" The dark-haired girl screamed at her friend. The snipers twirled arrows in their hands preparing for a critical hit, as the girl ran towards her friend.

"No! No! Behind you!" She screamed again, as Farina turned to look at her. The snipers had finished twirling and were clicking their arrows in place. A fighter ran after the girl, but was too slow. The girl was running so fast she almost disappeared. She unsheathed her sword again and it trailed behind her. She jumped as she ran past a nearby warrior, her blade cutting a deep dark gash across his chest. She was still running, but knew it was too late.

She jumped at one of the snipers, slicing his head right off his body, but they had fired already. She felt rage course through her body and, while still watching the path of the arrows, killed two more snipers by swinging her sword behind her.

The arrows whistled through the air. Two of them dropped lower, hit by raindrops, but the other three held their course.

Farina had heard the screams, and saw her friend running towards her, but didn't understand. Then she saw her friend jump at some snipers and realised that they were about to shoot. She instinctively made Murphy rise, but he was too slow. She remembered just at the last moment the amulet she had around her neck and whirled it around.

A Delphi Shield. It stopped the arrows in their tracks, saving her. The dark-haired girl sighed with relief, then realised she was still in the midst of a battle.

"Karla!" Farina shouted. Karla (for of course it was she) whirled around and killed the remaining two snipers easily, their twin spurts of blood coating her sword. The two friends joined together and sliced their way out of the group of attackers. Farina pulled out a sword (Karla had been teaching her to use one) and stabbed a warrior through the chest. Karla disappeared behind another warrior, and for a moment it seemed as though five Karla's were attacking him at the same time. Needless to say he fell into bloody pieces after her critical attack.

After a few minutes the two were running/flying away from the bandits. They went back to the tents to see their leader, a hero by the name of Karric, get struck by a Luna spell from a nearby shaman. The black orbs crushed him and burnt him. Farina and Karla looked away and hid behind a large tent. Farina dismounted.

"I think it's time to leave" Farina said

"Where to? And what will we do?" Karla asked hopelessly. Farina thought for a moment, the she brightened.

"Let's go after Dart's treasure thing!" Farina suggested happily. Karla just stared at her. "I talked to Dart when we were in Eliwood's army. He had this treasure map, I thought it was just a hoax or something, but he really seemed to believe in it. He wouldn't even sell it"

"Okay, I guess. But where do we go?" Karel said resignedly.

"Well I'm pretty sure it was the Nabata Desert, but to be sure let's go to Badon"

"Why Badon?"

"Because it's the town we passed through to get to Valor, so we're bound to come across one of the old members of the army. Oh and it has an arena so we can earn some more money" Explained Farina

"Alright" Karla replied. Farina instructed Murphy to stay where she was and they ran into the tent area. They ran for their tents and dived in. After a minute they ran back, each carrying a bag of their most important belongings. They climbed onto Murphy and flew off, dodging a flux spell.

Okay, so they're not really at Badon yet, but I decided to finish it here, otherwise the rest will be scrappy.

To the Reviewers

Lemurian Girl: Thanks for the tip, Sure I'll put in Farina/Dart, but it won't be your regular romance.

Manamage: Thanks, but I still think that first chapter was a bit boring, because I focused on character development.

It's nice to know that someone likes my stories, you inspired me to continue writing.

Chapter 3 will have the rest of the trip to Badon, plus what I meant for chapter 3. Please R&R!