Chapter Two:…And Found

Ughh…why does my head hurt so bad? Oh, I've been sleeping on a rock…..Wait, why am I sleeping on a rock? Where am I?!

Okay okay, calm down, just open your eyes and assess the situation…okay, I'm at the edge of some kind of lake, that would explain why I'm all wet, there are a few animals around, none big enough to worry about though.

All right, now stand up, steady, don't fall over….okay, I'm good.

Now, try to remember how you got here…gaaahhh, it's no good, just set up a list of priorities for now, 1: find somewhere to stay for the night. 2: find food 3: find some dry clothes.

It's been at least three hours and I have found nothing, how out of the way was I?

Whatever, focus on the problem at hand, it's dark out, I can barely see, and there's probably no one around for miles, and to top it all off, my legs feel like jelly, I need to keep walking though, gotta find some kind of shelter at the very least.

Wait; is that a person over there, I think it is, but why are they wearing heavy armor?

"Hey there, could you-"I began to ask as I tapped the person's shoulder.

My question was cut short as I was hit in the face with a hard object.

Huh, I can faintly hear voices, two males by the sound of it.

"So you just hit him with a log?"

What?

"He came at me from behind, so I just thought what any normal person would and assumed that he was an assassin."

Are they talking about me?

*sigh* "I don't think that's what a normal person would assume, but whatever, just try not to hit someone with a log before you ascertain they're identity next time."

You tell him!

"Guys, stop arguing and come over here, I think he's waking up!"

A third voice, this one seems to be female.

I slowly opened my eyes only to shut them quickly due to the bright sunlight.

Okay, sit up before opening eyes.

I sat up and opened my eyes to find three people standing in front of me, and one more sitting off to the side.

"Er m ah?" I tried to ask with a dry and stick mouth.

"Beg pardon?" the man on the left said. Oddly enough, he was wearing some rather large and bulky, blue armor. He had messy brown hair and seemed to have a permanent scowl on his face.

"What I meant to say was; where am I?"

"As if you didn't know." Big Blue scoffed

"Frederick, please. Give the man a chance." the man in the middle had spoken this time. "You're in Ylisse, friend." He seemed to be kinder than the man whom he had called Frederick, a fact for which I was grateful.

"And where exactly is that?" I asked

"Oh, another amnesiac? That seems perfectly plausible, first that Robin character yesterday, and now this one. Does this not seem even a little bit suspicious to you, Sire?"

"Frederick, I thought we had been over this, I trust Robin. It's as simple as that."

"But what if he's been acting this entire time, and this man here is one of his accomplices?"

"Frederick!" The girl chimed in "You're scaring him."

Not really.

"My apologies milady, I got carried away. Please forgive me."

"Its fine Frederick, just try not to let it happen again." Chrom said

"Yes, milord."

Now is probably a good time to speak up. "Are you done? Because I'd still like to know what's going on and who you people are."

"Of course." Chrom answered "I can't answer your first question, but as for who we are; we are the Shepherds, I'm Chrom, this girl is my sister, Lissa, and you've met Frederick already, correct?"

"Briefly." I answered as I rubbed my cheek.

"And the man over there is Robin." Robin gave me a small wave "We met him just yesterday, and you seem to have the same problem he does."

Poor sap.

"I have one more question; if you're shepherds, then where are your sheep?" I asked.

"We're not shepherds in that sense, we are figurative shepherds and the people of this country are our figurative sheep, and as their shepherds we do our best to make sure that they're safe and well taken care of."

"Ahahahahah!" Chrom was visibly taken aback at my sudden outburst ."How are you able to say that with a straight face?"

"What do you mean?" Chrom said, confusion obvious in his voice.

"I mean, how do you not die laughing while delivering that little speech?"

"Why would I laugh?"

"Oh, come now, surely that speech isn't for real, right?"

"Of course it is, why would I lie about such a thing?"

"Well, it could be some kind of scam trying to get money off of poor, unsuspecting citizens."

"Milord would never do such a thing!" Frederick said, clearly enraged. "Such a notion is ridiculous, why, you should be-"

"GUYS!" we all looked over at Lissa, surprised. "Can't we just get along and stop fighting?"

"You're right." Chrom said "I'm sorry Lissa."

"I'd like to offer my apologies as well" Frederick said "Please forgive me…um, I'm afraid we never caught your name, sir."

"Hershel, Hershel Wile."

A/N: Well, I'm not completely satisfied with the way this chapter came out, but it was pretty good…..pretty okay, anyway…..actually, it was a pretty okay amount of good, But don't let me rain on any of the parades you may be having.

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Edit: Made minor changes to dialogue and added some much needed punctuation.