Hey everyone. Sorry I'm took so long to post the next chapter. It's still up but just might have slow updates. I was looking up how weapon and meister partners work, still not 100% sure how yet.
Chapter 1 Unwelcome Change
After leaving Southtown, Chrom, Robin, Frederick, Lissa, Sumia, and Sully made their way to Ylisstol. As they made their way though the woods west of Ylisstol, it began to get dark. "*groans* I told you- it's getting dark already!" Lissa complains as they stop walking. She then notice some bugs getting near her and says "Ech! And now the bugs are out! Noisy, disgusting bugs that buzz around and crawl all over and bite you when-" Lissa is cut off as a bug got in her mouth. "Agh! Won goph in mah mouph! Blech! Ptooey!" Lissa tries to say and to spit the bug out.
"Aw, come on now, Lissa. Hardships builds character," Chorm says, "Want to help me gather firewood?
"Tpht! Tpht! Yeeeeeuck! ... I think I swallowed it..." Lissa says with a disgusted face on. She looks at Chrom and says, "I'll pass on finding firewood, thanks. I think I've built QUITE enough character for one day!"
Robin speaks up next after hearing his stomach grow. "We should probably think about food. I don't know about you, but I'm starving."
"Yes, I should think a little hunting and gathering is in order." Frederick says. "Now, who wants to clear a campsite?"
After clearing a campsite Frederick and Sully went hunting for something to eat, Chrom and Robin gather firewood, and Sumia and Lissa set up tents. After the tents were set up, and Chrom and Robin brought the firewood back as Frederick and Sully got back with the bear they caught, Sully got the fire started as Frederick got the bear ready to cook. Seeing as it was going to take a while to finish cooking Chrom decided they should see if Robin and Lissa have a compatible soul wavelenth.
"You two ready to see if your souls are compatible with each other?" Chrom ask Robin and Lissa.
"You bet!" Lissa exclaims happily.
"Yeah," Robin replies.
"Remember in order for two to become partners you both must understand each others will. If you can't then your souls will reject each other. If your souls are in perfect sync with each other you two can become a lethal force. You two can also become stronger by working together making the bond between you stronger." Chrom explains
"Tell me, what will happen if how souls reject each other?" Robin asks curious of what might happen
"Well it depends on how much your souls wavelengths are incomptible. Theres a chance you won't be able to wield Lissa in her weapon form or a chance you can but it will cause harm to both of you or just one of you. If your souls do reject each other then we will just have to find you both someone else to be your partners" Sumia explains.
"I see," Robin says after Sumia's explanation
"Well ready to see if were compatible?" Lissa asks Robin who nods in response. "Then here I go," Her body begins to glow a pale yellow like color as she launches into the air and transforms into her weapon form.
"Gaahh," Robin catches Lissa as she falls in her weapon form, but almost got pulled to the ground as he caught her. Robin stands up straight still holding Lissa in her weapon form. Robin looks at Lissa's weapon form and sees that she's a sword that was in the shape of a lighting with a chain attached to it and a tome. He looked at the tome and saw it had the symbols of fire, wind, lighting, and dark magic attackes. 'Whoa, she's both a Levin sword and tome.'
"Wow, it seems like you can weild her," Sumia says surprised to see someone wielding Lissa without their being any type of injuries.
"Yeah, but... it's kind of a struggle for me to weild her." Robin says noticing the weight of her weapon form.
"It's not a surprise that she is," Chrom replies.
"Hey, you better not be impling what I think your impling." Lissa says as her reflection appears on the blade.
Chrom, and Sumia let out a chuckle before Chorm says, "Of course not, your souls are not in a perfect sync like mine and Sumia's, but it is strong enough for Robin to wield you, but with a little struggle."
"As you two work together your souls wavelength will become stronger and soon you'll be able to get your souls to resonance," Sumia says with a smile.
"Seems like we finally found you a partner Lissa." Chrom says "We'll work on training you two to work together later, we should go see if dinner is ready now."
After Lissa transforms back to herself they walk back to where the camp was at as Frederick served the bear meat to everyone.
They all sat around the fire and began to eat their dinner, well almost all of them.
"Mmm... It's been too long since I last had bear meat." Chrom says. He looks over at Sumia and Lissa to see they weren't eating their dinner. "Whats wrong you two? Dig in."
"Pass!" They both say in unison.
"Gods, couldn't you two spear us an animal normal people eat for once?" Lissa complains towards Frederick and Sully.
"I agree, you two are meddling with the food chain. Don't you agree Robin?," Sumia asks looking over at Robin who was busy eating as if he hasn't eaten for days.
"*sigh* I suppose a person would enjoy just about anything after not eating for days..." Lissa says seeing that Robin wasn't going to help them in this little argument.
"Would you two just eat," Chrom says as he takes another bite before continuing. "Meat is meat."
"Since when does meat smell like old boots?!" Sumia says.
"Sumia trust me," Lissa says. Sumia looks over at Lissa, who was holding her nose, as she says, "boots smell better!"
Sully lets out a chuckle before saying, "Every experience makes us stronger."
"Including those that we don't enjoy." Frederick adds in.
"Really? Then why aren't you eating, Frederick?" Lissa asks.
"Me? Oh, well... I'm not hungry." I...I had a large lunch!" Frederick says hoping it would be left at that.
"Sure you did," Sully says as she takes another chunk of her food.
After they finished eating and talking, Chrom and Sumia volunteer to keep first watch while the others slept. Sumia was doing her flower fortunes while Chrom used soul perception to see if any enermies were near by. After Chrom seen there was nobody, aside from them, in the area, he looked up to watch the stars. Everything seemed fine to him until...
"...Huh?" Chrom suddenly stands up feeling something was amiss.
"What's wrong?" Sumia asks standing up.
"Something doesn't feel right." Chrom says looking around the area.
"Define 'something'." Lissa says yawning as she woke up
"Oh, sorry Lissa, didn't mean to wake you." Chrom says apologetically.
"Don't worry about it," Lissa says, "Now tell me, what's wrong."
"Not sure... I think we better have a look around. Lets go Sumia." Chrom says as walks off with Sumia following.
"Hey I'm coming too." Lissa says standing up and catches up to them.
They walked for a while trying to find out what was wrong.
"It sure is dark. ...And quiet." Lissa says, "Where did the birds go?
"I don't sense anyones souls nearby, not even souls of animals." Chrom says after looking around with soul perception.
"Strange. I wonder where they all went." Sumia says as she looks of into the distance of the forest1.
"Something doesn't feel ri- Gah!" Chrom in interrupted as an earthquake starts.
"Aaah! Chrom!" Lissa shouts scared of whats happening.
"Wha-whats going on," Sumia asks trying not to fall but fails.
"Gods! What is this madness?! Both of you stay close. We need to get back to the-," Chrom stops when he sees trees falling, blocking the path to there camp site. He wasn't sure what was going on but he knew it wasn't good. "Lissa, Sumia, run."
"Huh?" Lissa and Sumia look at Chrom wondering what was wrong.
"I mean it! Go now!" Chrom shouts giving Lissa a small push towards the opposite direction of there camp site. Lissa and Sumia both run with Chrom following. The ground cracks and lava shoots up into the air with rocks covered in lava falling almost hitting them. Chrom catches up to Lissa and Sumia and says, "Hey! This way!" and runs off in another direction with his partner and sister behind him. After avoiding the falling rocks and trees that were falling they got to an area that was clear of fire and stopped to catch their breaths. Chrom, Sumia, and Lissa look at the forest as more flaming rocks fell and trees caught fire.
"I hope they are ok?" Sumia says worriedly.
Chrom begins looking for their other three members with soul perception and spots them heading in there direction. "Their fine. They are coming this way. We should-"
"Chrom, look!" Lissa interrupts her brother. Chrom and Sumia look in the direction Lissa pointed in to see dots of light in the air. The lights suddenly rush to each other and formed what looked like a closed eye with crystals as eyelashes with a ring around it that had sympols in it.
"An outrealm portal?" Sumia says shocked at the sight. The eye suddenly opens up and they could see two figures coming out of it.
"Looks like someone or thing is coming out of it," Chrom says. The figures fall into some bushes across from where they were at. When figures stand up and Chrom, Sumia, and Lissa wonder to themselves what they are. 'Are they human or kishins' Chrom thinks to himself. He then uses soul perception to look at their souls, and was shocked at what he was seeing, or wasn't seeing. "N-no way how is that possible?" Chrom asks.
"What is it?" Lissa asks Chrom.
" Those... creatures, they... they don't have souls." Chrom says.
"What?!" Lissa and Sumia almost yell.
"How is that possible," Sumia asks.
"I don't know," Chrom responds. The creatures notice them and one of them charges at them, its fingers growing into long razor sharp claws. "Lissa, you better stand back." Chrom says as he grabs Sumia who transformed to her weapon form. Chrom waits for the creature to come close. When the creature was about to strike, Chrom swings his partnerhitting the creature as it pass him. Chrom turns to see it still standing. The creature turns its head around 180 degrees creeping Sumia out, and tries to strike Chrom.
Chrom blocks the strike and elbows the creature in the face. Chrom decapitates the creature before it could recover from the elbow to the face. It dissolves as it falls to the ground leaving nothing but dark ether, that disappeared a second later. 'Just what is that thing,' Chrom thinks to himself as he looked at where the creature he just killed was at a few seconds ago. Chrom is snapped out of his thoughts when he hears Lissa scream.
"Aaahh!"
"Lissa!" Chrom looks over at his sister to see the other creature was approaching her. The creature turns its arm into an axe and gets ready to strike Lissa. Chrom runs as fast as he could in an attempt to save his sister anf fails to notice the portal starting to glow again. Two more figures wearing masks jump out of the portal and land several feet from Chrom and takes off towards the creature and Lissa. One of them turns into a weapon that the other grabs and gets in between Lissa and the creature as it brought its axe down. The stranger blocks the creatures strike and struggles to hold the creature back. Chrom stops running and looks at the stranger and their weapon partner wondering who they are. Lissa, who closed her eyes out of fear opens them to see the stranger blocking the creatures strike.
The stranger looks over at Chrom and shouts "Help!"
Chrom, snapping out of his thoughts, Says "...Right!" He then charges at the creature to strike it down. The creature looks over at Chrom dropping its guard giving the stranger a chance to counterattack. Chrom and the stranger strikes the creature simultaneously causing it to fall and dissolve like the other one Chrom killed. After it disappeared, Chrom, Lissa, and Sumia who was still in weapon form look over at the Stranger and there weapon partner. "That was quite an entrance," Chrom says."Tell me. What are your names?"
The stranger along with there weapon partner, who was also in weapon form still, simply looked at the three of them.
"Milord! Milady!" Chrom, Sumia, and Lissa look in the direction the voice came from to see Frederick, Sully and Robin running up to them.
"Frederick! Sully! Robin!" Lissa says happy to see they were ok.
"Are you all ok?" Sully asks as they came to a stop.
"Yeah were fine," Chrom replies.
"Thanks to the masked man and his weapon partner who saved me! I'd be dead if not for-" Lissa stops when she notice the man and his partner are gone. "Hey, where did they go?"
Chrom, Sumia, and Lissa look around for the masked meister and weapon pair.
"We can worry about them later, right now we need to get out of the forest before the-" Frederick begins but is interrupted by Robin.
"Hey are those horrific creature common in these land?" Robin askes as he notices more of the creatures that attacked Chrom, Sumia, and Lissa appear from the woods. The group looks over where Robin was looking to see the creatures.
Sumia says, "We can promise you one thing, they are not from Ylisse."
"Don't bother to use soul perception, these things don't have souls," Chrom explains.
"What!?" Frederick and Sully yell in shock.
"How is that possible?" Frederick asks.
"I'm not sure, but one thing I know sure is that these things can't be allowed to roam free we need to take them down now." Chrom replies, confused on how these creatures don't have souls. 'Just what are these creatures? The only creatures I know that don't have souls are golems, but these things don't seem like golems.'
"Then lets hurry up and kill damn these things," Sully says as she turns into her lance form which Frederick grabs and spins around a few time before getting into a battle stance.
"All right seems like were getting our first battle as partners Robin." Lissa says as she gets ready to transform but is stopped by Frederick.
"I don't think thats a good idea milady, your souls wavelength is not as strong as ours. You could both get hurt or worse killed." Frederick says in a serious voice as.
"But Frederick-" Lissa begins to say in a pouting tone
"He's right. You two should find some place safe and let us handle this." Chrom adds in.
"But won't us fighting help our souls wavelength become stronger?" Robin asked, "Besides it seems none of you know what those things are and there's no telling how many of them there are. Lissa and I might have a better chance of surviving if we fight along side you."
Chrom didn't reply let. He thought about what Robin just said and knew it was true. They didn't know what these creatures were or how many could have come out of the portal. If both him and Frederick go to deal with the ones in front of them, more could come form behind them and kill Lissa and Robin. A light caught his attention and he looks to see three more creatures come out of the portal followed by another that seemed different then the rest. "*Sigh* Alright but stay close."
"Milord is that a wise decision?" Frederick ask, surprised Chrom is letting them join the fight
"No, but like Robin said we know nothing about these things let alone how many of them there are. We will have t-," Chrom stops as his partner calls out to him
"Chrom look out!" Sumia shouts.
Chrom turns to see an arrow coming towards him and quickly ducks before it hits him. He looks and sees a creature with a bow ready to fire another and more creatures approaching. "Lissa, Robin get ready for battle!" Chrom orders the new meister and weapon pair. They both nod and Lissa transforms into her levin sword and tome form. As Robin caught her weapon form he was almost pulled to the ground but recoved faster then the first time since he knew to expect it. "Stay close. I don't want you two to get hurt."
"Got it," Lissa and Robin both say.
Three of the creatures begin to run towards them, two of them weilding axes and one weilding a sword. When the three creature striked, Frederick blocked the one with the sword while Chrom and Robin blocked the ones with axes, though Robin fell to his knee from the force of the strike and his and Lissa's souls not being fully compatible like the others. Chrom and Frederick both pushed the creature they were holding back and launched a strike of there own to end them quickly so they could give Robin and Lissa a hand but the creatures blocked there attacks. Chrom pushed the creature back and striked at it hitting it on it's chest but the creature still stood as if it didn't get hit and rushed towards Chrom and jumped as it brought it's axe down to strike Chrom. Chrom rolled to side and striked it's side then stabbed it in the back killing it. Chrom looked over at Frederick and saw him kicking the creature and knocking it down to the ground and then stabbing it in the head killing it. They look at each other then over at Robin and Lissa to see if they were ok.
Robin is trying to push the creature back but can't get enough force to do it so he flips the tome open and launches a wind attack at it sending the creature back a few feet. After he got up, Robin started to spin Lissa's Levin sword form around the best he could and was about to toss it when he heard the sound of something approaching behind him. He turned and saw another creature behind him about to strike. Robin pulled the Levin sword back to block and was once again sent to his knee. He filped the tome open again to a different page then before and launched a fire attack at the creatures knee causeing the creature to lose it's balance and leave it self open for an attack. Robin striked the creature with the levin sword, adding eletricity to the attack, and killed it. Robin turns to face the other creature only to see it standing right there behind him about to strike him down.'Oh crud!' Robin tried to block the strike but he knew he wouldn't be able to bring Lissa's sword form up fast enough to block it. Before the creature could land it's strike Chrom got between it and Robin and blocked the strike while Frederick stabbed it in the head and killed it.
"You two alright?" Chrom asked.
"Yeah," Robin replies.
"Barely," Lissa says from her weapon form.
Chrom noticed that they were both tired and that if they continue to fight they might get killed. 'Damn it. And this is from blocking two simple strikes. We need to get them some where safe but whe-"
"Milord, we got more coming this way!" Frederick announced, snapping Chrom out of his thoughts.
Chrom looked in the direction Frederick was looking and saw about 10 or more creatures coming out of the woods. "Damn it." Chrom says. "Frederick, Sully split the ground open!"
"Right/Got it" Frederick and Sully said as Sully turned into her axe form. "Soul Resonance!" Sully's axe form changed into a large, axe glowing red. Frederick swung it around for a sec before slaming it onto the ground as hard as he could. When it hit, the ground spilt open. The split went in five directions and a couple of the creatures fell reducing the numbers of creatures they had to fight.
"Robin, Lissa stay back and launch attackes from a distance!" Chrom says to Robin and Lissa.
"Ok," Lissa says while Robin nods in response.
Chrom ran towards the creatures with Frederick right behind him and Robin getting ready to launch a fire attack. Chrom strikes one creature across the chest and it falls into the open ground, he then beheaded another one and blocked the strike of another one. Frederick decapitated the creature Chrom blocked then spun around and cut the arm off the creature behind him and kicked it into another hole in the ground. After slaying the last two, Chrom and Frederick took a moment to catch there breath when Chrom noticed that the creature that seemed diffrent from the rest was charging at Robin and Lissa as Robin fired a few thunders at it.
The creature just kept running towards Robin ignoring the few thunders that hit it. When it got near them it made claws come out of its knuckles. It swung the claws at Robin twice. Robin dodged both strikes and launched a wind attack attack at it but all it did was push it back a little.
Frederick who just noticed the other creature got ready to throw Sully as she turned into her lance form at it. When he got his aim Frederick threw Sully straight at the creature hoping to kill before it harmed Robin and Lissa. As Sully was about to hit it the creature turned around and striked away with its claws. When Chrom, and everyone saw that they were shocked not by the fact it had blocked the attack but by Sully crying out in pain as she turned back to her self as she fell to the ground holding her side as blood came form her wound.
"Sully!" Chrom, Sumia, Frederick, Lissa and Robin call out in shock that she was injured while in weapon form. Frederick runs to check on Sully as Chrom runs to kill the creature.
The creature turned it's attention back to Robin who was backing away from it. The creature began to launch strike after strike at Robin who dodged them the best he could but still he got a few scratches on him. When the creature striked again Robin saw an opening and striked at it's left wrist cutting it's hand off. After he did Robin felt a sharp pain in his hand holding Lissa's sword form. He looked and saw blood coming from his hand. He assumed it was from his and Lissa's soul's not being compatible like the others. He looks back at the creature sees a lot of black blood coming from it's wrist. The black blood took the form of a club and shot forward and hit Robin in the chest sending him into a tree. The creature began to approach Robin, who was trying to stand up, and was about to strike when a sword cut it's left arm off. The creature turns and sees Chrom. Before the creature could do anything Chrom sliced the creature diagonally from it's left shoulder to it right hip. After Chrom sliced it he turns to check on Robin and Lissa not noticing only the creatures bottom half was dissolving.
"You two all right?" Chrom asks as Sumia and Lissa turn back to themselves.
"Yeah, were ok" Lissa says as Robin nods holding his hand that was bleeding still. "What about Sully?
"No need to worry about me. The wound is not that deep. Still stings like hell though." Sully says as she walks up to them with Frederick while holding her side."
"Here let me heal it for you." Lissa says as she takes out her staff to heal Sully's wound. While Lissa was healing Sully's wound, Robin looked at his hand and saw his black blood hardening and healing his wound.
"You alright?" Chrom askes.
"Yeah, it's just... Chrom look out!" Robin shouted as he saw the creature Chrom slice standing on legs made of black blood about to strike Chrom. Chrom turns and his eyes widen at seeing the creature he striked down about to strike him. Lissa, Sumia, Frederick, and Sully's eyes widen at seeing this. As the creature is bringing it's right arm down to strike, a trail of blue light comes by and passes though the creature. The creature freezes in place, it's clawed hand near Chrom's face. It's arm begins to disslove along with the rest of it as it's head falls and the black blood forming it's legs liquidfied and become a puddle on the ground. After the creature disappered, they are looked at where the trail of light ended to see the stranger that saved Lissa wielding their weapon partner.
After registering what just happened Chrom says, "Thank you, for saving my life as well as my sister's. My name is Chrom. Might I ask yours?
"You may call me Marth," the masked man now known as 'Marth' replies as he toss his partner up who then turn back to them self. "And this is my sister Caeda."
"Marth and Caeda?" Chrom askes, "After the heroic king of old and his partner/wife? You two do work well together even with a bond resonance. Where did you learn to fight?
"Sorry. We're not here to about about us." Caeda states. "This world teeters at the brink of a horrible calamity."
"What you saw tonight was put a prelude." Marth says, "You have been warned." Marth and Caeda then turn and leave them wondering what they meant about that.
"Hey, wait!" Lissa calls out to them, "What's teetering where now?"
"There not much for conversation, are they?" Sumia says curious about the two that left.
"Seems there skills lie elsewhere," Sully says, "I'll wager we'll see them again.
"Perhaps, but for now we should make hast to the capital to make sure everything is ok there." Frederick says.
"Right. Lets move," Chrom says as he began walking in the direction of the capital with everyone following. However Sumia stops and looks in the direction the sibilings went in. She wasn't sure why but she felt a connection between them and herself.
"Sumia. You alright?" Chrom askes as he notice she stopped walking with them.
Sumia turns and replies, "Yeah. I'm fine." before she runs to catch up with them only to trip and fall. "Ow."
As there group left the area a shadowy figure appears near the puddle of black blood. It looks in the direction Chrom's group went in then looks in the direction Marth and Caeda went. It lets out a demonic chuckle before saying, "So the princesses think they can stop the inevitable." It raises it's hand that has a mark on it with a purplish reddish aura around it. "We shell see about that." It let's out another chuckle before disappearing.
Well here's the rest of the chapter. Remember to review. I'll try and get the next one out soon