Erk: Whitedragonghost is feeling lazy. So he want's me to do the intro. Um...Let the story start but first, the disclaimer
Disclaimer: Whitedragonghost does not own Fire Emblem Thank goodness
Chapter 2: Arrival to Chaos
Just as Jailith had proclaimed the army left for Kalen Isle the next day. Luckily, they were already in Jehanna when this vacation from saving the world started. It only took two days for the chaotic army to reach the port that had ships traveling towards Kalen Isle. However there was only one ship available. This did not mean that they would not go, it only meant that chaos would occur much sooner then Jailith and Rebecca had planned. This was so because the ship only had nineteen rooms for the passengers. When this became common knowledge to the army the level of chaos escalated.
"What I say is final!" yelled Jailith. He whipped out a piece of parchment with room numbers and names next to the room numbers.
"You all will follow this list to the exact letter. If I catch anyone, and I mean anyone, sneaking into other rooms during the night I will personally tie you to the mast of this ship and let you sleep there for the night!" stated Jailith. "Now if any of you have complaints about the list, I don't want to hear them. One additional note: lights out at 10:00 pm. This means no wandering about the ship or anything of the sort. You will be in your room from 10:00 till 6:00 am. Don't think I won't know if you do break the rules. I will have guards posted in the hallway all night long. Now here's the list." With that long, drawn-out threat Jailith walked away after posting the sheet. It read as follows:
Rooming Assignments:
Room 1:Ross & Ewan
Room 2:Rennac & Knoll
Room 3:Artur & Rebecca
Room 4:Gerik & Gilliam
Room 5:Joushua & L'Arachel
Room 6:Ephraim & Marisa
Room 7:Lute & Forde
Room 8:Innes & Neimi
Room 9:Vanessa & Colm
Room 10:Franz & Amelia
Room 11: Seth & Tethys
Room 12:Syrene & Cormag
Room 13:Kyle & Natasha
Room 14:Tana & Saleh
Room 15:Moulder & Duessel
Room 16:Garcia
Room 17:Myrrh
Room 18:Dozla
Room 19: Jailith
Room 20:Eirika
As soon as the list was posted chaos consumed the ship.
"Why do I have to share a room with that whining brat!" cried Innes. This caused Neimi to cry which of course wasn't very hard to do. Regardless, her best friend Colm was there to defend her.
"What did you say about Neimi?" growled Colm. "You better not have insulted her!"
"I will say what I want about who I am talking about, you measly self-esteem lacking thief!" exclaimed Innes.
Before the chaos broke out one line was said by Rebecca. "I'm glad that we can all discuss on a mature level…" Before she walked off she grabbed the sheet and changed something.
"What did you change milady Rebecca?" asked Tana.
"I will not be sharing a room with a self righteous monk…" mumbled Rebecca. She reposted the list which was the same as before except for one small part.
Rooming Assignments:
Room 1:Ross & Ewan
Room 2:Rennac & Knoll
Room 3:Artur & Rebecca
Room 4:Gerik & Gilliam
Room 5:Joushua & L'Arachel
Room 6:Ephraim & Marisa
Room 7:Lute & Forde
Room 8:Innes & Neimi
Room 9:Vanessa & Colm
Room 10:Franz & Amelia
Room 11: Seth & Tethys
Room 12:Syrene & Cormag
Room 13:Kyle & Natasha
Room 14:Tana & Saleh
Room 15:Moulder & Duessel
Room 16:Garcia
Room 17:Myrrh
Room 18:Dozla
Room 19: Rebecca
Room 20:Eirika & Jailith
"Jailith is going to have your hide for this you realize…" sighed Tana.
"That's a risk I'm going to take…" said Rebecca as she smiled evilly.
Various sabotage attempts were sprung of course after everyone figured out that Rebecca had not drastically changed the list. However nothing compared to what happened once a shocking revelation came to the minds of the army members.
"Wait hold on a second…" began Vanessa. "How come there is only one bed in my room?"
"Ugh…The worst punishment possible, me having to sleep in the same bed of some goody-goody who is in love with the biggest brat possible." groaned Colm.
"What did you call Prince Innes?" interrogated Vanessa. The two then proceeded to beat the crap out of each other.
Worried that how Colm and Vanessa's room was set up was the same for the other rooms as well, everyone rushed to their room to check. Much to everyone's dismay every single room had only one bed. Emotions ran wild and the army temporarily worked together to find Jailith and throw him overboard. Much to the tactician's fortune he had figured it would happen and had already left and locked the door to his room…At least what he thought was his room; Jailith was still unaware of the list change.
Later that night…
Jailith was about to unpack the necessities when the loud, rapping sound of someone knocking on the door came slashing into the room. Confused, but not sure of what else to do, Jailith opened the door. The sight that greeted him was Rebecca with her bags.
"What are you doing here?" inquired Jailith. Rebecca dismissed that question with a wave of her hand and she entered the room with her bags. She tossed them into a corner and turned back towards her fellow tactician. She harshly pushed him out the door and threw his luggage out into the hall with him.
"W-what the heck are you doing?" questioned Jailith. Rebecca began to close the door but graced her fellow tactician with a simple reply.
"Check the list." Rebecca ordered. With that order lingering in the air she closed the door. Curious to as what she meant, Jailith traveled to where he had posted the list. When he arrived to where he had posted the list he noticed that it was the same piece of parchment he had written on. What he did notice was that someone had scribbled on the page and had changed the list. Jailith immediately recognized the handwriting as Rebecca's.
Angered that she would backstab him in such a way, Jailith stormed to where Rebecca was now residing. Not needed to say, Jailith began pounding on the door.
"Open this door!" bellowed Jailith. Silence. "OPEN THIS DOOR NOW!" Nothing. Jailith growled and admitted defeat. The young man had forgotten where he would be rooming so he went back to the list. When he checked again he froze momentarily. He was to share a room with Eirika.
Tactician Jailith had frozen not because of disgust but out of fear. The fear was a strange kind of fear. It wasn't fear of being destroyed but fear of embarrassing himself. Jailith kind of liked the Renais Princess. It was only natural that Jailith would want to seem like a good person in Eirika's eyes. The main concern of Jailith's was that he had a habit of talking in his sleep. Who knows what secrets of Jailith's could be revealed in the dead of night?
Not wanting to catch a cold from staying on the deck during the night, Jailith began to walk slowly towards the room he was to stay at. As he walked by each room Jailith wondered what was happening in them.
In Ross and Ewan's room
"You mean you still can't figure it out?" asked Ewan. A while ago Ewan had presented Ross with a brainteaser. Ross was one who was at home on the battlefield. He didn't do very well at mind games.
"Well I'm sorry I don't have enough time to figure out such…trivial questions. I have more important things to worry about, like training so I can be stronger." stated Ross.
"If you keep on training your muscles and not your brain you'll never know what it was like to have a brain…" Ewan mumbled to himself. What the young pupil had forgotten was that Ross had very good hearing so he heard the comment about himself.
"What did you say about me?" questioned Ross. He lunged at Ewan and the two were soon fighting each other quite viciously.
In Rennac and Knoll's room
"Come you gloomy druid, can't you carry on a normal conversation with anyone?" questioned Rennac.
"……"
"Speak you blasted druid!" ordered Rennac.
"……"
"SPEAK!"
"……"
In Artur's room
"Zzzz…"
In Joshua and L'Arachel's room
"How about this," started Joshua. "We have a small game of chance to see who gets the bed."
"Okay…" mumbled L'Arachel.
"Now I'm going to roll this die. You call out odds or even. If you call it right, you get the bed. If you call it wrong, I get the bed." stated Joshua. "Now call it."
"Even."
"Okay, here I go." Joshua rolled the die and it bounced about. The die eventually stopped, clearly showing the side that had one dot.
"Looks like I win." laughed Joshua. He got up, moving towards the bed.
"Now hold on a minute!" exclaimed L'Arachel. "Don't you think the lady should get the bed?"
"If you're not going to accept the results then don't participate in the game!" exclaimed Joshua. "I get the bed!"
"How dare you deny the bed from me, a lady and also an agent of justice!" shrieked L'Arachel.
"What do you mean?" inquired Joshua. "You willingly put up your possession of the bed as the wager!"
This argument of course, proceeded far into the night.
In Ephraim and Marisa's room
Ephraim was sitting on one end of the bed. At the other end was Marisa. Both of them were staring at each other. Ephraim had his lance leaned over one shoulder and Marisa had her sword drawn.
Why is she staring at me like that? wondered Ephraim. She must be planning to attack me when I finally fall asleep…Well I'll prove that I don't need sleep! I can stay up all night!
Why is he staring at me like that? wondered Marisa. He must be planning to attack me when I finally fall asleep…Well I'll prove that I don't need sleep! I can stay up all night!
"…"
In Lute and Forde's room
"Come on now, can't I have some more room?' asked Forde.
"Of course not." mumbled Lute as she continued to read her book. "A prodigy like myself needs her books."
"But don't you think this is a little ridiculous?" growled Forde. Many in this case would agree. Almost every single space in the room was covered by books, literally. The only spaces not occupied by books was part of the bed that Lute was lying on and just enough room for Forde's feet so he could stand.
Lute looked up from her book momentarily to survey the room. Then she answered Forde's question.
"Nope."
Forde sighed. It was useless. He mine as well live with what he has. Forde looked and saw a pile of books that looked pretty stable. He began to lean against them so he could sleep.
"Don't you dare touch my books!" shrieked Lute. At the same time she had made that exclamation she had begun to form a fireball in her left hand. Not wanting to taste the power of fire, Forde immediately stopped leaning on the books.
Forde waited a while, wanting for Lute to fall asleep. Once it seemed as if she had Forde began to move the books. This was soon stopped, however, when in her sleep, Lute launched a fireball straight at Forde.
"Crud…" Forde mumbled to himself, his clothes scorched. "She even protects her books in her sleep…"
In most of the other rooms arguments similar to the others broke out. But all of this did not matter to Jailith. The reason why this was so was because Jailith wasn't sure what to do about his own situation. He was to be stuck in a room for the night with a young lady he had almost for as long as known her, had feelings for her.
Not able to think of what to do, Jailith came to a stop at the door to the room he was to stay at. Jailith opened the door to the room and was greeted with a sight that made his face blush a very bright red. Eirika was in the middle of changing from her day clothes into her pajamas.
Jailith immediately slammed the door shut, with him still standing outside.
"I'm so sorry!" stammered the embarrassed tactician. "I d-didn't mean to violate your privacy!" I haven't gotten into the room yet and I am already making a fool of myself! Jailith thought to himself.
The door behind Jailith slowly creaked open. Jailith turned, bracing himself for a few stern words. When the young man turned he saw Eirika standing in the doorway, her slender, well built body clothed by simple, soft pink pajamas.
"I-" began Jailith but was soon interrupted when Eirika held up her hand.
"There is no need to apologize." stated Eirika. "It was a simple mistake. I'm supposing you're here because of the room change?"
"Yes. Sorry to impose it upon you but I need a place to sleep." said Jailith.
"No problem." responded Eirika. She stepped aside to let Jailith enter. The young man unpacked his things and laid his blanket and pillow on the floor, his naturally chivalrous nature insisting that Eirika have the bed while he slept on the floor. The two said to each other good night and the lamp which illuminated the room was extinguished.
This did not signal the start of a restful night for Jailith. Instead it signaled the start of a long and difficult night. Jailith had a plan to keep his feelings for Eirika a secret. He would just stay up until Eirika was fully asleep. Little did Jailith know, Eirika was quite a restless sleeper… The poor tactician was in for a LONG night…
The next morning came far too soon. Most everyone in the army had very little, if any, sleep. This could be told by how everyone acted as the army ate their breakfast in the galley of the ship they were on. Ephraim and Marisa were sitting across from each other but their faces were planted in their breakfast bowls, due to their great lack of sleep. Lute was well rested but Forde, who was sitting as far away from her as possible, was trying to rest but was still paranoid from last night. Colm, even though he was tired, was attempting to calm down his friend Neimi who was still upset from last night. Joshua was still upset at L'Arachel for not accepting the rules of the game, and Rennac was still trying to get Knoll to carry on a normal conversation.
Jailith too was tired but instead of taking a nap he kept on glaring at Rebecca.
Curse you for changing the list! Jailith yelled in his mind.
All of a sudden everyone was soon wide awake. This was so because they heard the captain of the ship cry out something.
"We have arrived at Kalen Isle!"
To this everyone cheered, even Jailith. Everyone ran off to their rooms to grab their luggage. Jailith was the first to grab his baggage and off the ship. As he got off Jailith quickly observed the isle. The isle was apparently a volcanic island. Most of the buildings were clustered along the south-east side of the volcano that rested in the center of the island. Forests and multiple streams covered the rest of the island, except for the coast of Kalen Isle.
Jailith's attention was turned back to where they had landed because someone had come to greeted him. The young man was wearing orange armor and had an orange shield that had the image of a lion's head engraved upon it. The young man pushed some of his ruffled black hair out of his line of vision.
"Are you lord tactician Jailith?" inquired the newcomer.
"You would be correct in that assumption." replied Jailith. "What is your name?"
"I am called Arias." said the newcomer. He paused momentarily because he noticed that the rest of the army had emerged from the ship and was standing behind Jailith.
"Welcome everyone," began Arias. "To Kalen Isle!"
Erk: Positions for Kalen Isle are still up for grabs. The ones that are taken are Head Priest, Guards 1 and 2, bartender, Trainer, Archery Range Owner, and dock master. The rest of the positions are listed on the first chapter.