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I want to try a new format. Before the story begins, I'll probably put in some trivia. After the chapter, most of the time there will be a scene at camp, and on some updates, camp scenes only. These scenes will be mostly focused on the many characters' background stories, as well as probably some twisted pairings that I have in my head right now. Please tell me what you guys think of it.
The main character, the myrmidon Hiro, I based on...um...nothing actually, he just came up out of nowhere, but his character design was like a combination of Karel and Shinn Asuka (GSEED DESTINY), and his hair looks like Cloud Strife's, only in a very dark black color. Same with Mitsuna; she just came out of nowhere, but her clothing when she was grown up looks almost exactly like Eirika's (FE:SS), just completely in different shades of red. Kyo's looks were based on Ephraim (Eirika's brother), being the most logical choice as Mitsuna was based on Eirika, and Kyo is Mitsuna's brother. His personality has a little bit of Urashima Keitaro (Love Hina) and...some other guy I can't remember, but he's perverted. Odin's past has elements from Locke(FF VI in Jap)'s, and that's pretty much it for the main characters. Also, if you already noticed, the 4 sacred swords have elements that correspond with the 4 non magic affiliated affinities in FE: Fire, Water, Wind, and Lightning. You probably already know who has which element.
New Stats:
Odin: Cavalier: Weapon: Zantetsuken: Mounted
Hilda: Priestess/T: Weapon: Mend Staff, Recover staff: Healing only
THE TACTICIANS' WISH
Lyn's Tale, Chapter 3: Band of Mercenaries
Meanwhile, Mitsuna and Hilda finally reached the House of Pherae. They knocked on the castle gates. "Hello, we're the tacticians you hired..." said Hilda. The person who opened the gate ushered them in, and then called his friends.
"Well, we weren't expecting you to be so lovely...are you ONLY tacticians? Other than doing whatever you do, do you perform other services? (Emphasis on 'other')"
Hilda immediately fumed... and a second later, the person who said it was on the ground clutching his crotch.
Mitsuna giggled, and tried to calm her friend down, "Um...Hilda, you should try to control your temper...we're hired to help them, not kill them..." and stopped when she saw her companion's flaming eyes. By the way, Hilda is a priestess.
"Damn, that was a long trip," said Kyo as his group arrived at the house of Ostia. He landed in front of the castle gates. He yelled towards the gatekeeper. "I am Prince Kyoshiro Yamato of Castle Nagasaki, from the continent of Chija! I wish to have an audience with the master of this castle!"
He was granted permission. Noah and Brilliante were then put in the stables, and the castle servants led them to the throne room. A man, looking like he's in his early 30's, greeted Kyo's group.
"Welcome? What can I do for you, prince Yamato? I am Lord Uther, and I believe you have something you want to discuss." Kyo told him his story.
"I'm afraid I can't spare any of my men right now, due to some...issues. However, I will accept your offer and hire you and your companions. I will, however, help you when my forces are available for you to use." Kyo thanked him, and he and his group were led to their newly assigned rooms. "Well, it's been a long day, milord," said Fiaa as she yawned, looking bedraggled.
"Well then, good night, Fiaa," said Kyo as he and Eiji headed to their rooms.
Fiaa then walked off to the women's quarters. 'I sure could use a bath...'
The next day, Fiaa went out to the market. She had some money to spend after her last mission, and she needed a change of wardrobe. Her armor was in very bad shape and her clothes had rips everywhere. After about an hour of shopping, she looked like a completely different person. Her long green hair, which was in a ponytail before, is now let loose and flows freely with the wind. She has a small black ribbon tied to the back of her head. She bought a new white shirt to replace her last one, with a light green breastplate on top of it, and a lime green short skirt. She replaced her old black stockings with new pine colored ones, and she had better quality black boots to replace her old ones.
As she was walking back towards the castle, she crashed into Kyo, who was also shopping for new armor to replace his puke-covered ones. Fiaa just saw Kyo and was running towards him to greet him, when some idiot decides to throw his banana on the ground, coincidentally right in front of Kyo. Kyo didn't see it, and stepped on it with the front of his left foot, on the side away from his front, therefore making him fall forward. Fiaa was almost right beside him now, and stopped when he saw him start to fall. Kyo fell into her. The result? Fiaa was sitting on the ground, with Kyo's head right between her thighs and his face under Fiaa's skirt and on her panties, right at that single spot where people do dirty stuff. He was about to apologize, but it came out as a muffled sound. 'Mm..sweet,' he thought, as his tongue came out to check out what was muffling his talking.
When Fiaa smacked the back of his head, he finally realized what he just tasted. He then immediately got up. "GWA! FIAA! OHMYGODIMSOSORRYPLEASEDONTKILLME!" was what came out of Kyo's mouth when he just got up, and immediately crouched into a fetal position. The people that saw what happened sweat dropped, and turned around to mind their own businesses and to pretend that they saw nothing, leaving the poor lord to get pummeled by the blunt end of the peg knight's lance and various submission moves. After that, Fiaa left in a huff, and Kyo's twitching body just lay there until sunset. 'I can't feel my arm, my legs, and...what else did she pull...well, IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT!...I only need to recover and get up now...' thought Kyo.
After having packed up, the group of warriors left towards castle Caelin. Sain commented at the great weather. "The sun is shining upon us today; and there seems to be no sign of any rain; we can proceed much farther than expected today if we leave now!"
Hiro asked Lyn. "Well, if we want to do that, we can't afford to run into any more bandits today." Lyn had a worried look on her face.
"Well, if we try our hardest to remain unseen, it's possible. But it will be difficult since the bandits from the Bern and Sacae mountain range usually come down here. We should really be careful, especially of the Taliver bandits, one of the worst groups that exist."
They moved onwards, and soon came after the ruins of a village.
"Whoa," commented Hiro, "it's...this is horrible. Doesn't their marquess do anything to help them?"
Lyn looked down at the ground, a single tear dripping out of her eye. "Across the Taliver Mountain, there is a group of bandits that are named just like the mountain. They are ruthless and cruel, and no marquess would dare hold any power here in fear of getting robbed. My...village was on the other side of the mountain...that night; it only took them one night, to raid my village and kill almost everyone...a small number of people survived, and I was one of them...but my parents did not..." and Lyn broke into small sobs.
Odin held her in a comforting hug. "Lyndis...we'll get them for you." The other cavaliers looked at him, but he gave them a glare that simply said 'shut up or I'll castrate you.' And so they did. Hiro stayed silent. He can relate with Lyndis; his own village was also attacked by bandits, and he lost his parents that night as well.
"You'll...you'll help me, everyone?..." Lyn asked them. Hiro nodded and gave Kent and Sain the same look that Odin gave them earlier, only this time they nodded.
"Of course, milady," said Odin as he held her tighter. Lyn hugged him closely as well, and Odin blushed. While Lyn was sobbing into Odin's chest and the other cavaliers were looking elsewhere, Hiro gave the cavalier a thumbs-up sign, and Odin nodded in thanks.
Here we see Florina again. She's a young Pegasus knight, with long and somewhat curly orchid colored hair, and wearing black stockings and brown boots, with a light blue and purple colored armor, as well as a short white skirt. "Now, the map says that...oh dear..." said Florina, who was trying to find Lyn. She was flying near a village that is close to Lyn's location, when she encountered the most dreaded enemy of aerial units: turbulence. She shrieked, and plummeted towards the village, and landed hard on something soft. "OW!" it said. She and Huey, her Pegasus, immediately got off the object.
The object turned out to be a large man with roughened features, and he didn't look happy. "Grrr...foolish...oh? What do we have here?"
"I'm sorry I crashed into you, sir..." said Florina shyly for about the thousandth time.
"You think apologizing is going to get you out of here?" said the enraged man. Then the man's friend arrived. "She's quite a catch, eh? The boss will reward us big time for this," he said.
"Yeah, she roughed me up a bit. This is what she deserves," replied the first man, laughing. Florina looked really scared now, and stuttered.
"What do we do with this?" said the second man as he pointed at Huey.
"Please! Don't touch her!" shouted Florina, "Do what you will with me...just...let her go!" She sounded desperate.
"She must be kidding!" said the first man. "Pegasi are only found in Ilia on this continent, and you think we'll just let this one go? Foolish girl, we're taking it with us. It'll fetch an even bigger penny than the girl, and we can spend the money with a night at the club with this little beauty," said the second man, as he slapped the peg knight's behind.
"Hm? What's this?" said Kent as he noticed the commotion.
"Be on your guard everyone. Those men look dangerous." Hiro whispered something to Odin, and the 2 walked off into the shadows. "Hey...isn't that a Pegasus? Could it be...Florina?" called Lyn as she noticed a Pegasus at the location of the commotion. "Lyn!" replied Florina as she noticed her caller.
"You are...acquaintances?" asked Kent.
"She's my friend. This is Florina, a pegasus knight in trainig from Ilia. She's a little uncomfortable around men. Tell me, Florina. What happened here?" asked Lyn as she answered Kent's question.
"Well, I heard that you left, so I came looking for you, and reached this village recently. And, um...well, I sort of hit turbulence...and we landed on this man," answered Florina, pointing towards the first bandit, and whispered to Lyn, "They want to take me and Huey to their boss and sell us..." she finished, sounding really scared.
"AHA!" said the first bandit, "She admits it! She admits her fault, and now she must pay the price!"
Lyn asked Florina, "Did you apologize to them?"
Florina nodded vigorously, "Yes I did, many times over, but they wouldn't listen," and she cried.
"There, there, don't cry. It's going to be all right..." said Lyn, trying to comfort her. Then she looked towards the bandits, and said, "Look, she said she was sorry and obviously meant it, and you don't seem to be injured at all. Can you just let it go and let us through?"
The bandits shook their heads. "Not a chance in hell! Change of plans; you girls are going with us, by force if need be!"
The second bandit yelled for his friends, "COME ON OUT, BOYS! The men are fair game, but don't put a scratch on the ladies!" Then they ran towards their group so they wouldn't be slaughtered by the Cavaliers and Lyn, only to run into Hiro and Odin, who released a spirit break, electrocuting one of the bandits. The other was decapitated by a 180 degrees backslash from Hiro.
A nearby bandit yelled, "How dare you fight against the might of the Ganelon bandits! You must now die, foolish little men!" Then he and another bandit charged towards the 2. Hiro dashed in towards an unsuspecting bandit, did a low slash, cutting the bandit's legs off, then jumped up and impaled him in the heart. Odin parried an axe swing with his sword so that he was now behind the bandit kicked his opponent's back, and launched a 'Spirit Break' towards his target, electrocuting him.
"Um...hello...who's this?" asked Florina as she and Lyn walked towards Hiro.
"Oh, he's our tactician, Hiro. He's not a bad swordsman himself." Florina greeted Hiro, and he greeted her back.
"Damn. These villages don't have a large distance apart between them; the bandits will easily take them all down in a short time," said Hiro, as he sat behind Florina on Huey to scan the area from air. "Take us down, Florina. We need to get the cavaliers to warn the villagers."
Lyn walked towards a nearby village to warn the villagers of the bandits nearby. However, she saw that the gates were closed. "Is anyone there?" she called.
A voice replied from the inside, "Leave us alone you thugs! Leave us; we've no more gold for you!"
"No wait, please! We're not bandits! We want to help you!" replied Lyn.
A different voice said, "Hold on. Stay inside; I'll go check it out." A young man with an aquamarine shirt, brown boots and beige pants walked outside, bow at the ready, only to be struck in awe at the vision of loveliness that stood before him "gaga..." he stuttered.
Lyn noticed that he was looking at her funny. The man snapped out of his trance. "Um...so who are you?" he asked her.
"My name is Lyn. My colleagues and I are just traveling through here. We saw some bandits about. We're going to deal with them, but... We need you to go and warn the villagers," she replied, and walked away.
"Hey! Wait! The name's Wil. I'm a traveler of sorts, too. Listen, these villagers have been kind to me. Mind if I fight with you?" asked the young archer.
Lyn looked back and smiled at him. "Sure! The more the merrier! And we need all the help we can get!"
Lyn walked back to camp and informed Hiro of their newly acquired comrade. Then she heard a scream. She rushed towards Florina, who was cowering and shaking in her boots. "Um...Lyn...there's an archer here, what should I do?" she asked her older companion, and pointed at Wil.
"Oh, that's Wil," explained Lyn. Then Wil walked towards the two girls, and looked at the terrified Florina, puzzled.
"Hey! Are you one of Lyn's friends?" asked Wil, but Florina stayed silenced in fear. "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?" he asked her again.
Lyn answered for her friend. "Um...I'm sorry Wil. Florina's timid around men, and...well...you've got a bow..." Will looked at his bow on his back, and replied.
"Oh, then you must be a Pegasus knight! I'm not offended, and I understand your fear of bows."
Florina stammered, "I'm sorry...looking at a bow...just scares...me...ever so much..."
Wil replied, "Hey, it's all right, everyone must be scared of something, right? You just happen to be scared of archers, and not so surprisingly as well, men."
"Um...thanks..."said Florina, a little bit relieved.
'Whew. Too bad she's scared of men. She's a real beauty,' thought Wil.
As Hiro and the cavaliers easily killed most of the bandits, Lyn, Florina, and Wil went towards the leader. Lyn asked the leader, "Hold on! I want to ask you something...Are you with the Taliver Bandits?"
"Those greedy bastards? No! We are the Ganelon bandits; we're nothing like those monsters! We don't harm women, for one thing. After all, why kill what you can sell?" replied the bandit.
"Then if you are not of the Taliver bandits, there's no reason for you to throw your life away here! I advise you that you turn tail and run now."
The bandit became enraged at her comment, then looked at Florina. "So you've finally decided to come with us, eh?" he asked the peg knight.
"Um...well..." she replied, "can we just stop fighting now?"
The bandit became even more enraged. "WHAT! AFTER YOU MADE ME LOOK LIKE A FOOL! NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!" His yelling scared Florina so much, she almost fell off her steed. Hiro finally reached the scene, and called for Wil to help the cavaliers. This little passage was unnoticed by the bandit. "You're going to go back with us, girl, with force if necessary! I promise you that! If you don't want to get hurt, just give yourself up now!"
Kent ran his sword through another bandit. "Behind you, Kent!" warned Odin, as he decapitated another bandit with his sword while riding by. Kent turned around, only to see that Sain had already impaled the bandit. Sain threw the corpse on his lance at another bandit, and ran towards another group, impaling 3 with his lance at once. Kent and Odin rode along the little group's sides and cut off the bandits' heads. Kent was about to get struck on the back of his head by a jumping bandit, but Wil shot that one down in midair. Wil then strafed around another little group, with Odin on the other side, while circling the group and decapitating bandits on his way, cutting the bandits off by circling around them.
"RAAAH!" yelled the bandit leader as he charged and jumped towards Florina. Florina simply tugged on Huey's reins to lift off the ground. The bandit fell face first on the ground, and slid down, with mud on his face, now an eggplant purple.
"Sorry!" apologized Florina.
Hiro asked him, "Look, you're obviously outmatched and outnumbered. I suggest you leave now if you want to live."
"Grr...NEVER!" He then charged at Hiro.
Hiro sidestepped, and slashed the bandit in the back. Lyn then did a flying kick towards the bandit's side. He then staggered and coughed, and went into an axe whirlwind. Both swords fighters merely ducked to avoid it.
"Grr...whoa..." said the bandit, a bit dizzy.
"FLORINA, NOW!" commanded Hiro. As the bandit recovered, the last thing he saw was a bright metal object coming towards his face, and then, oblivion.
"Well, I'm glad that little skirmish is over with..." said Kent as the group met at the center of the battle area.
Florina looked at Lyn. "Lyn!"
"Florina, why did you follow me? Don't you know it's dangerous?" asked the young lord.
"Um...well, do you remember the knighting ceremony of Pegasus knights in Ilia?" asked the orchid haired girl in return.
"Oh, yes. You would have to join a band of mercenaries to further your training. Is that why you're here, Florina?"
"Um...yes, but I wanted to talk to you before I set out. I went to Sacae, and found out that you left with some strangers, so..."
Lyn looked at her, with a concerned look in her eyes. "Aw, you were worried about me? Thank you, but it's you who I should be worried about," said Lyn.
Florina looked puzzled. "Me?" she replied.
"Well, most mercenary groups are full of men, right? How will you cope with that, seeing that you're timid around men."
"I know, I know. It's just... I've always dreamt of being a pegasus knight. I imagined I would just... work it out. Somehow. After today, I'm not so sure. Maybe I should just... give up," and with that Florina started crying.
"Florina, don't cry! There's no reason to give up your dream!" said Lyn, trying to comfort her friend. Then she noticed Sain walking up to her.
"Oh most beauteous Florina! Fear not, for I have the most brilliant plan!"
"Sain..." warned Kent.
"You should come with us! With the addition of Wil here, we're a fine group of soldiers, and freelance to boot!" suggested the flirting cavalier.
"Wait, did you just include me?" asked the bewildered archer.
"Of course! We were destined to meet here! It's fate! Come now, Lyndis's band of mercenaries is as good a training group as you will find anywhere!" said Sain, trying his hardest to make Florina join.
"Sain, this is no joking matter!" warned Kent.
"Um...Lyn? Mercenaries?" asked the timid girl.
"Oi...I can give you details later. This is all a bit rushed. However, Sain is right. Will you come with us, Florina?"
"Travel with you, Lyn! Really? I would be so...so happy!"
Sain then knelt beside her, took her hand, and kissed it. "Fantastic! Beauteous Florina! I am a knight of Caelin. My name is Sain..."
Florina pulled her hand back and hid behind Lyn. "Eeek! Stay back! Don't get so close!"
"Ah, beautiful, yet so modest," and Sain continued trying to woo her.
Kent walked up to Lyn. "I beg your forgiveness, calling us mercenaries," he apologized for his companion.
"No, I approve. We can't leave Florina on her own. She requires special attention, though. Can I count on you?" asked Lyn.
"Of course, milady! All you need to do is ask!" replied the red armored knight.
Then Wil walked up to Lyn. "So...it's cool right? I can travel with you?"
"Of course, that is, if you want," replied Lyn.
"Great! Er...you see, someone recently stole my money, and I'm at a ...bit of a crossroads here. I would be honored to count myself as one of Lyndis' Legion!"
"Lyndis's Legion, huh. I like it," said Hiro as Lyn told him about it. "Let's go to the armory nearby. We could use some new weapons."
Back at Castle Ostia:
"Good heavens, milord, what happened!" asked Eiji as he walked by Kyo's twitching body (it's almost sunset). He helped Kyo up.
When Kyo could finally talk again, "...Fiaa...lime...green...panties..."
"...oh..."replied Eiji. "What did you do this time, sir?" he asked his master.
"Well, I tripped on a banana, fell forward into her...thing, and grabbed her hips while I fell, and we landed in a certain interesting position. And it was all an accident." Then Kyo licked his lips. "BUT IT WAS SOO WORTH IT!" Eiji sighed.
Fiaa looked out the window of her room. She thought about what happened today. 'That jerk! How could he do that! Sure, he saved my life, but HE INVADED ME!' But Fiaa's not the type to hold grudges, especially not after she just beat that person to almost an inch of his life. 'Maybe I was a little too hard on him. I...should probably go apologize for almost killing him.' She walked out of her room to find Kyo.
About 5 hours later: "Well, this feels a lot better now," said Kyo as he just walked out of the infirmary. "Well, Eiji, you go get some sleep. I'm gonna go get Noah and go out for a little ride around while looking at the stars." He left towards the stables.
After about 2 more hours of searching, Fiaa still hasn't found Kyo. 'Where could he be right now?' she thought. 'I'll look for him tomorrow...' She walked near one of the castle's windows, near the stable area, and noticed something flying outside as she walked there to get a breath a fresh air. 'Is that Noah?' she thought. It was hard to recognize a wyvern's features in the dark, as well as the rider's. But she spotted a small, yet still visible, green light that shone in the darkness. 'What's he doing out there at this time of night?' she thought. So she walked towards the stables, but rather sleepily.
Kyo, after having had his fun, went back to the stables, and failed to see a figure in the dark near the entrance. He docked Noah, and gave him some fish to get him to sleep so he wouldn't wake up the whole castle when he got hungry. When he finally walked towards the entrance, he found Fiaa, leaning beside the door, asleep. Kyo smiled, and poked her. No response; Fiaa mumbled something that he couldn't hear. So he picked her up, her back on one of his arms and her legs on his other arm. He brought her to her room and laid her on her bed. 'She looks so cute and...harmless,' he thought. Of course, after today's experience, he knew better. Then he walked back to his room. Fiaa, who finally noticed that she wasn't at the stables anymore, turned on her bed sleepily, just in time to see the lord's figure exit and close the door to her room.
'...Kyo...?' And she smiled.
END LYN'S TALE CHAPTER 3. R&R PPL!