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Now here's a chapter that's actually worth writing about, unlike the last one.

I figured Kent and Sain needed more screen...story...whatever time, so the fight with Eagler will only include the cavaliers and Wallace. And my version of a cavalier triangle attack.

THE TACTICIANS' WISH

Lyn's Tale Chapter 9: A Grim Reunion

"...I'm sorry for throwing you out last night...and the night before that," Fiaa mumbled quietly, embarrassed at her outbursts.

"...Don't worry, it was my fault," Kyo replied. The two were headed back towards castle Ostia. Kyo found no clue regarding his missing sister, but at least he's back with Fiaa. Not on best terms, but at least they're both all right.

Back at Ostia:

"There you two are! Lord Uther has a new mission for you two," Eiji greeted the 2 fliers as they walked out of the stables.

"...How about you, Eiji?" Kyo asked the knight.

"Naw, he needs me to stay here. And now, I'm paired up as a commander with this really high ranking knight; his name is Oswin, I think. I hear he's the lord's brother's unofficial personal guard," Eiji explained.

"All right then, let's head to the throne room," Fiaa said as she grabbed Kyo's arm and ran with him to the room.

"What's the hurry?" Kyo asked her, a bit amused at her rush to leave.

"As mercenaries, if your boss wants to give you an order, or just gave you one, it's imperative that you do it right away," Fiaa explained. "That's the principle in Ilia, anyways."

"...I see. I'm new at this business, so let's make you the leader of this operation," Kyo told her. "I think you'd make a better one than me."

"...Um...see, I'm not a very good leader. And seeing that you're a seasoned commander anyways, let's just leave you as the leader," Fiaa blushed at his compliment.

"Welcome back!" Lord Uther greeted them.

"..I apologize for leaving without telling you milord...but I had to look for Fiaa to bring her back," Kyo apologized, kneeling on one knee.

"Um...so will I; I left because Kyo was gone for some time," Fiaa also apologized, kneeling on one knee.

"Let it go. We have more important matters at hand," said Uther, and placed a map in front of them. "I need you to go back to Ilia. I want you to give this package to a man named Lucifer," Uther said, giving Kyo a small metal box. "...He's a friend of one of my men. Inside it is a good luck charm; it's a keepsake of his mother. Please give it to him. He's usually in the "Happy Hog" bar. Go to a tourist information center if you get lost."

"...The Happy Hog..." Fiaa's face drained at the mention of the name.

"...Is something wrong, Fiaa?" Uther asked her. She was about to yell out everything and cry, but remembered her mercenaries' code, and kept a straight face, or the best straight face she could muster then.

"...No, milord," Fiaa said, trying to fight back tears. The place had memories. Very unpleasant memories.

The 2 packed up, and headed towards the stables. They got on their mounts, and left towards Ilia.

"I've received word from Caelin's neighbors, Laus, Tuscana, Kathelet, Tania, and Santaruz. They will not interfere in Caelin's affairs. This they have promised," Eliwood told Lyn.

"Eliwood, I don't know how to thank you..." said Lyn, obviously relieved after hearing this.

"All I've done is convince them to remain neutral in this dispute. However, this means I cannot aid you in any way either. Will you be all right?" Eliwood asked her, with a look of concern on his face.

"I will win. I have to. It's the only way that I can help my grandfather," Lyn said, with a determined look on her face.

"All right, everyone, let's move!" Lyn said to the group cheerily.

"The weather is turning foul. It looks like a fog is rolling in..."Sain commented, looking at the sky.

"This is no good. If the fog thickens, we'll be blind in battle. It will be difficult to fight what we cannot see," Kent added.

"We can't let it delay us, though. Let us press on. We must get closer to the castle. What's the best route?" Lyn asked, ready to move.

"Let me think... Our best path is to the south... However, that runs through General Eagler's estate. It looks like we still have one final obstacle to pass," Odin said, and started leading the pack.

"...This looks like a really bad fog. It'd be best if we all stick in one large group," Hiro commented.

"Then let me lead the group, protected by the cavaliers," Matthew stepped up. "Us...thieves, if you must, usually train ourselves to have a sharper vision than others."

"All right then, let's move," Hiro motioned Matthew to lead the way. Soon after they moved though, they were halted by a knight in grey and white armor.

"So you've come..." said the knight.

"Lord Wallace?" All 3 cavaliers looked in surprise at the knight.

"Kent, who is this?" Lyn asked the cavalier.

"That's Lord Wallace. He used to be the knight commander of Caelin, but he's supposed to be retired..." replied Kent.

"I am, and I was. Then I received orders from Lord Lundgren. I was told to capture an imposter and a pair of rogues knights," Wallace told them after hearing what Kent said.

"Lord Wallace! Surely you don't believe US to be oathbreakers, do you?" Odin asked him, looking astonished.

"...Bring me the girl that claims to be Lady Madelyn's child," Wallace told them.

"Here I am," Lyn said as she walked up in front of the group.

"What will you do, Lord Wallace?" Sain asked the knight.

"Hmm...such beautiful eyes..." Wallace muttered.

"Excuse me?" asked a scared Lyn, stepping back. 'Did Sain get his lecherousness from THIS old man?' Lyn thought.

"I've been a knight for 30 years, and there is one thing I learned. A person with eyes as bright and true as yours is no deceiver. Hahahahahaha! Ah, yes! I like you, girl! Why, I believe I'll even join your little band of mercenaries!" Wallace boomed.

"...Is he serious?" Hiro asked Odin in disbelief.

"This old bull's pledged his loyalty to Caelin. I would never allow an usurper on the throne. Let's march!" Wallace roared.

"Lord Wallace...he hasn't changed at all..." Odin commented, sweatdropping. "...I like him, he's...honest," Lyn commented. "

"...Lord Wallace, what's that thing on your armor?" Hiro asked the knight.

"What thing? ...Oh, this? This is a knight crest! It can make armor knights and cavaliers even stronger, by promoting their class! Watch this! KNIGHT CREST!" He yelled, putting his left hand up to the sky, with the crest on it.

A lightning bolt suddenly struck Wallace, and he shone a very bright light. His plain grey and white armor became larger; it's also much more decorative. It's now grey, and its sides were lined with gold. His helmet is now the shape of a bucket, but looks fearsome because of the patterns on it.

"HAHA! I have been promoted to the class of General! Now a giant walks among you!" Wallace boomed. "My defense is impenetrable! Come! Break your weapons against me!"

"...It sure as hell increased the volume of his voice..." said Kuro as he winced.

"Enemy cavaliers, dead ahead!" Matthew warned the group.

"Time to show us your power, Wallace," Hiro ordered.

"Gladly," said the newly promoted general, who walked up in front of the group. He took out his iron axe and iron lance, one weapon in each hand. They were for some reason chained to the armor of the general.

"Why are those weapons chained to your armor?" Hiro asked.

"HAHAHA! Watch and see!" Wallace boomed.

3 cavaliers all rode at high speeds towards Wallace, yelling a battle cry. Wallace simply stood there, whistling a happy tune. As the cavaliers are in the throwing range of his weapons, however, Wallace THREW his iron lance and iron axe at 2 of the cavaliers; the one in the center and the one from his right. The weapons struck them dead on in their skulls. Then Wallace pulled on the chains to recover his weapons. After he pulled, he was struck in the chest by the cavalier's lance. However, hitting the armor actually BROKE the lance, and the force only pushed the general back an inch, and the cavalier fell off his horse. Wallace then swung his axe down on the cavalier's head. "...Impressive," commented Hiro.

Hiro, Kuro, and Serene walked off the group to find a small group of mercenaries and fighters. "Looks like fun," commented Serene. "Anybody have something I could throw?"

"...um...how about this?" Hiro looked about and found a very hard rock on the ground. He flipped it up with his sword, made it land on the flat side of the blade, and offered it to Serene.

"...show off," Kuro commented.

"This will do fine," Serene said, taking the rock throwing it up into the air, and kicked it towards an advancing mercenary. It struck the mercenary hard in the gut. Realizing his chance, Kuro took out the Harusame, and ran up to the mercenary, and sliced him in half.

"There are a bunch of those rocks in here. Serene, can you kick these rocks at the coming enemies?" Hiro asked the grappler. "No problem," she replied.

"They're coming!" Kuro told the other 2.

"Serene! Hit the rock towards the one in the middle!" Hiro commanded. Serene kicked the rock up and kicked it towards the fighter's skull. "Great job! Now...ETHER FLARE!" Hiro yelled as he swung the Muramasa into the ground, releasing four flaming bolts on impact, which homed on 4 other approaching enemies and cooked them.

"My turn!" Kuro got into a fighting stance with his Harusame. "EARTHSHAKER!" He yelled, and slammed the blade of his sword into the ground, sending a giant shockwave forward. A large crevice appeared below his targets, and swallowed them. Then the ground recovered into what it looked like before the attack.

"...That's scary," Hiro commented.

The group finally reached the estate the other side of Eagler's property. However, the general paladin himself was blocking the path.

"Bring forth the imposter who calls herself "Lyndis"! She shall not pass beyond this place!" Eagler called towards the group.

"I am Lyndis. I'm no pretender. I'd ask you to believe me, but your heart and mind seem set," Lyn told him as she walked up in front of the group.

"General Eagler..."Sain rode up to Lyn.

"Sain... I never imagined you could turn traitor..." Eagler commented.

"Who's the traitor here? I am following the orders of my sworn liege lord. Not Lundgren, but my true liege, the marquess himself!" Sain replied.

"General Eagler! We found Lady Lyndis on the orders of the marquess. We have worked so very hard to return her safely to Caelin," Kent said as he also rode up to Lyn.

"And yet you have no proof of her identity, correct, Kent?" Eagler asked. Kent just shut up after that, not knowing how to reply.

"...Isn't her face enough, Lord Eagler? She definitely resembles Lady Madelyn..." Odin said as he rode up to Lyn.

"EAGLER!" Wallace boomed, also walking up to Lyn.

"General Wallace... So you have sided with the girl, too!" Eagler looked surprised to see the big man walking up to him.

"I fight for Caelin's honor, not for Lundgren's lies!" Wallace replied with conviction.

"Ah... Is that so? You are...Enough! There's nothing more to be said. I name you traitors all! Come! Do your worst!" Eagler said angrily.

"Everyone, stand back! This is our fight," Wallace commanded the rest of the group.

"...We understand. Just don't die on us, all right?" Hiro asked the cavaliers and the generals.

"Sure thing," Odin replied, getting into battle stance, along with Kent, Sain, and Wallace.

"RAAGH!" Eagler yelled, charging at Wallace, who he figured will be the biggest threat. "GRRR!" Wallace growled, taking the full force of the Steel Lance into his armor. However, Eagler is much stronger than his knights, and was able to create a sizeable dent in the armor. Wallace retaliated by throwing his Iron axe at Eagler, but the paladin blocked it with his shield and retreated. 'Damn, he's too fast!' Wallace thought.

Then Eagler rushed at Sain. "Sain won't stand a chance! Sain! Get out of his path!" Kent ordered his companion. Sain pulled on his horse's reins at the last second to avoid the paladin's charge. "ARGH!" Sain yelled in pain as the paladin's lance struck his left shoulder. Sain held on to his horse with his other hand, having his other arm completely disabled. "Damn it!"

"Let's do what we practiced before we left," suggested Odin. "Wallace, keep him occupied. We'll surround him!"

Wallace walked up again, having the cavaliers hide behind him. Then Eagler charged at Wallace. Wallace swung the chain with the axe on it around, and threw it at Eagler. It was thrown with such force that it was stuck on his shield as the paladin blocked it. "GOTCHA!" boomed Wallace, pulling the paladin in. The cavaliers took this time to surround Eagler.

"DAMN IT!" Eagler yelled, as the three cavaliers are in a delta formation, and are charging at him. "No...the triangle attack..."

Sain swung with his right hand at Eagler's back, which damaged the paladin's armor badly. Then Kent sliced Eagler's other arm off. Finally, Odin charged up his sword with electricity, and rode towards Eagler, and swung his sword. The electricity was so hot it sliced through the armor and the paladin's body like air, while sending thousands of volts into the paladin's body. After the attack, Eagler's torso has been sliced cleanly off his hip. "Nnng... Go... Go quickly. The marquess... he knows nothing of this... His life is... There's no illness. Only... poison... Please... for the marquess... for all of Caelin..." Eagler told the cavaliers and Wallace with his dying breath.

"...What kind of man was General Eagler?" Lyn asked the cavaliers, who looked saddened after killing their ex-leader.

"When all 3 of us became knights, he was our teacher..." said Kent sadly.

"I think he must have known we were telling the truth. Why did he force the fight?" Lyn commented.

"Something must have... Lord Lundgren was exerting some hold on him...Eagler was trying to protect someone. A friend perhaps, or family," Sain replied.

"May Lundgren never know the peaceful embrace of Mother Earth! I care not what others do. I WILL stop that man! Hiro! The final battle is approaching!" Lyn said, clenching her fists.

SIDE CHAPTER 1: Just Another Night

On the way to Ilia:

"...Fiaa...your face blanched when Lord Uther mentioned the name of that bar...what happened?" Kyo asked her, with a worried looked on his face.

"...Um...you noticed?" Fiaa blushed, embarrassed that she had shown a weakness. Kyo nodded. "Um...just some bad memories...I don't like to talk about them," Fiaa answered him.

"...If you want to cry it's fine. No one will laugh at you or call you weak if you do," Kyo said.

"I...I don't want to cry!" Fiaa replied.

"...During that meeting, I saw a small tear slide down your cheek. I'm here for you, just to let you know..." Kyo told her. Fiaa was silent for a while, until nightfall came.

They landed to camp for the night. "...ONLY ONE TENT? DAMN THOSE INCOMPETENT MAIDS!" Kyo yelled in fury.

A few minutes later... "ONLY ONE SLEEPING BAG! WHAT WERE THOSE DAMN MAIDS ON!"

Kyo and Fiaa sat by the campfire after setting up their tent. "...I hated that place..." Fiaa suddenly said.

"Do you want to tell me about it?" Kyo asked. Fiaa crept closer to him, and rested her head on his shoulder, and slowly nodded. "What happened?"

"Well...me, and a few friends...Florina, Fiora, and Lolita...we used to live around the area. We were looking for Florina and Fiora's sister, Farina...this was about 11 years ago. I was supposed to be babysitting them. We asked people around. We were playing catch on top of a hill, when Farina failed to catch the ball once, and rolled down the hill. She ran down to get it. However, we waited there for a really long time. I was worried, so I brought the others down with me. I didn't see Farina anywhere, so I asked some people if they saw her. One man, a fighter by the looks of it, told us that she was in the Happy Hog...so we went there," Fiaa started her story.

"We walked in. It was busy that day...we were almost trampled by all the drunken men. The others were very scared. So we walked around, and we didn't find Farina anywhere. So we went to the back and asked the bartender. 'Blue haired girl...blue haired...let's see,' he said, and told us to go to the back room. So we walked in...and it was the most horrific sight I ever saw!" Fiaa started crying, and grabbed Kyo. She started sobbing into his chest. "...what happened..." Kyo was afraid of what was to come next.

"...There were at least 10 men...6 of them, I think, were laughing and joking around, making perverted comments about Farina...the other 4...THEY...THEY WERE RAPING HER!" Fiaa cried. "Then, noticing that we just walked in, one man pushed us away from the door, and locked it. They bound and gagged us. Then the men took off their clothes...and they raped us too..." Fiaa sobbed even harder into Kyo's chest.

"...I'm sorry..." Kyo put his hand on her head, hoping to be able to calm his companion down. He put her in an embrace to calm her down, and she hugged him back tightly. 'ACK! BONES!' thought Kyo. 'Control yourself Kyo, you might score if you do this right...'

Fiaa finally stopped crying. "...Are you feeling better now?" Kyo asked her, a bit grossed out with his tear-soaked jacket. Fiaa nodded, and hiccupped. "Go to sleep." Fiaa went inside the tent.
Kyo finally decided it was time to sleep. He went inside the tent, to find Fiaa sitting in the sleeping bag, still awake, but she had stripped down to her undergarments. Kyo blushed red, and thanked the gods that the tent was dark inside. "...Fiaa? Are you all right?" Kyo asked the Pegasus knight. She nodded. He hoped this night isn't going to be like both nights he had at Pherae.

He took off his tear stained jacket, and put it outside near the campfire to dry, and then stripped down to his boxers, and got in the sleeping bag. Fiaa was still sleeping and couldn't sleep. "Come on, Fiaa, go to sleep. We need to leave early in the morning." She finally laid down, but she didn't sleep.

A few minutes later, she spoke again. "...Kyo..?" "Yeah?" Kyo turned around to face her. "...Thanks for listening to my story...and trying to comfort me...it really helped," she told him.

"...No problem," he replied. He was about to turn around, but she held him there in her arms. "...Please...don't push me away...It's cold tonight..." she pleaded, holding onto him. "...All right," Kyo replied, and held her tight in his arms.

Hiro ran up a tree and sat on one of its branches. Odin, Wil, Erk, and Kuro, sat under him. Odin was going to tell them about his training with Eagler.

"...Lord Eagler was a great man. Great teacher, and funny guy. He always encouraged us to do our best, even when we're training. 'If you train half-assed, you'll fight and die half-ssed as well,' he always said. 'You won't win any battles like that! And you won't get any women either!' he always said, when we're not trying our hardest. We always worked harder than ever every time he said that. He can easily tell who's trying and who's not, even the best fakers."

"He's also humorous...His stories are great at the mess hall. He's always seeing the positive side of things, and that attitude has always helped us...He was also one of the most loyal men to the marquess...but now..." Odin stopped.

"Well, obviously, he had something dear to protect, otherwise, he wouldn't even have told us before he died," Erk pointed out. "He sounds like a great guy, and he's wasted because of some megalomaniac."

"...He sounds like my brother," Kuro said. "...He's always such an optimist. Even when mother was dying..." He clenched his fists. "He acts a lot like the way you said Eagler was, too," Kuro remembered back to the time he got his sword; his necklace and the sword was passed down to him from his father, who before that received it from his father, and father before that, and so on for 15 generations back. Its creator was the dragon of Anima, the ONLY dragon of anima affinity, and the king of all Dragons, Bahamut. Of course, Bahamut has passed away with age, according to Xiphias. Dragons don't live eternally; their lifespans just seem eternal because humans live nowhere near that long.

"Rodrak...I hope you're all right back home..."

"Where do you and Serene come from, anyways? You never told us," Wil asked Kuro, looking curious.

"We came from where Ninian and Nils came from. It's...kind of...a...uh...hidden village. We usually can't leave; only the adults can do that, and only to get supplies from the cities," Kuro said, trying to get as far from the truth of the dragon world as possible.

"...and that's why you should NEVER, EVER, choose orange over pink," Serra finished.

"Wow, I didn't know you could be so deep," Serene commented, blinking her eyes. "Usually, you complain about how ugly something is, saying that the reason is that it's out of fashion. Now, THAT, was a great story."

"Why, thank you," Serra bowed. "...Aww...look at Nils...he's so cute when he's asleep."

"...He's drooling on me..." Ninian sweatdropped. "I'm going to put him in his tent. Can you help me, Serene?" Serene got up and helped her put Nils in his sleeping bag.

"...He looks so innocent," Serene commented. "It's hard to believe that he's involved in something like what we're in. I mean, he's only like, what, 480?" "...I'm sorry for worrying you. It was selfish of us..." Ninian replied, feeling guilty for dragging Serene and Kuro into their mess.

"...Kuro was really worried about you, you know," Serene told her best friend. "...I know..." Ninian nodded in agreement. "You two have been best friends for at least 3 quarters of your lives. Don't you think you should...go farther?" Serene asked. "What? Me? ...No, that wouldn't be right. I don't think Lord Xiphias would allow me to...I mean, he's the son of the Silver Dragon leader..."Ninian looked at her friend, shocked.

"You know, Kuro wishes that isn't the case," Serene replied to her friend, walking out of the siblings' tent. Ninian blushed. "...Are you sure?" Ninian asked her friend. Serene just nodded, and walked out to rejoin her friends.

All was quiet in the sleeping bag. "...Kyo? Where's the package with the sleeping pills?" Fiaa asked her companion. "...I still can't sleep." Kyo pointed to a spot behind her. She took the bag, but saw that it was full of many tablets. She sweatdropped. Hoping that all of these were sleeping pills, and not anything else, she took out 4 pills, and swallowed them whole.

An hour later:

"...Kyo?" Fiaa said again.

"(Yawn) Still can't sleep?" Kyo asked the Pegasus knight.

"...Yes, but I'm really feeling uncomfortable now," Fiaa replied. "Wanna do something fun?"

"...What? What are you talking about..." Kyo turned around groggily.

"This," Fiaa had a voluptuous shine in her eyes, and smiled maliciously, and licked her lips. She grabbed Kyo's head and started to give him a French kiss, then rolled on top of him.

"MFMMNF!" Kyo struggled a bit at first, shocked at Fiaa. Then, 'wait...wait. wait. She's kissing ME? Sweet. Wait, what's this?' he thought. She lowered her hands to his boxers, and slowly pulled it off. Then she got on top of him again, and ripped off, yes, RIPPED off the rest of her undergarments. She put her body on top of Kyo's and...love was being made. (Let's leave it at that, or this would be rated R)

Various moans, groans, and shrieks of pleasure can be heard outside the love tent, waking up and scaring all the forest animals.

End Lyn's Tale chapter 9

W00t, almost the end of Lyn's tale, can FINALLY get to the better parts of the story. Seriously, Lundgren is such a lame-ass villain, he's almost not worth writing about. Almost. Gotta make his death a really gruesome one, cuz I HATE HIM.

On a side note, R&R please!