The Seven Mythical Weapons

Chapter 4: The power of Ki

Fire dude: Woohoo! This will be my third chapter today!

Disclaimer: I do not own fire emblem or its characters. Only Alderrofe and Shadow. Tyrana and Kota Helro belong to friends.

Fire dude: On with the show!

In a forest about one hundred miles away from Bulgar. A man in a white gi, with blue hair, and a black head band with a yin-yang on it, walked down the forest path. It was minutes away from dawn, and the forest was quiet. He stopped and looked at the poster in his pocket. "A sword with the knowledge of a thousand swordsmen… who needs a reward when you can have the sword…"

He looked up from the poster to see a group of burly men in front of him. "Hey buddy there's a toll here so if you wanna get through you gotta pay!" The martial artist put away the poster and stood his ground coolly. "I don't pay people, even when they're real tolls."

"Comon be a saint a pay us eh?" The biggest of the men were now standing in from of the martial artist. "So what's it gonna be eh?" The martial artist waved the man to put his face level with his. He listened and no was level with him. The martial artist gripped his hand on the man's face. The man struggled but couldn't get out. The man's hand glowed green against the bandit's face. "You're annoying. Ki blast!" A pillar of green energy shot through the bandit's head towards the other bandits and blew up them up. He looked at the corpses he made as he walked away. "Simply Pathetic…"

Mean while with our heroes. "Damn Shadow how hard did you punch her? She's been unconscious for hours!" They set up camp in the middle on a plain and were examining Tyrana. "Don't blame me, she said I smelled bad."

"You're undead what do you expect?"

"It doesn't mean I don't have feelings."

"You're too soft wuss."

"What was that?"

"Sorry it's the Alcohol talking"

"It better be…" Mark took a large swig of whiskey as Shadow talked. "By the way Mark."

"Yeah?"

"Where are we going any way?"

"To a friend."

"Ok, but where?"

"Here in Sacae I need to meet with someone. If fact it's only a day's away!"

"Then where to?"

"We find all the mythical weapons!"

"Easier said then done. Hey what's that?" Shadow pointed into the distance as a figure in white approached them. The martial artist stood calmly twenty yards away. "Probably another bounty hunter after the sword." Mark unsheathed his sword and waited for the man to step forward. "My name is Kota Helro! I've come for the sword Zantetzugen! Surrender it to me now and no one will get hurt! "

"Unluckily for you there's no one here who's afraid of you."

"Very well then... I'll make you afraid!" Kota charged forward and did a flying kick. Mark blocked the attack, and slashed at Kota. Kota launched himself back using mark as leverage. This caused Mark to stumble and land at the feet of Kota. Damn... really bad time for me to have been drinking! "You're pathetic." Was all Kota said as he looked down at Mark. Mark looked up from where he was laying and smiled.

"Now Shadow!" Kota was puzzled, and looked at his feet and saw that Mark's shadow stretched over and connected with Kota's. But there were human hands coming out of the shadow grabbing Kota's feet. "What the hell?" Shadow's head poked out of the shadow. "Surprised? While you two were blabbering idiotically I snuck into Mark's shadow, and now you can't move." Kota's hands glowed green and shot an energy blast at shadow. He jumped out of the ground just in time. "What was that?"

"My Ki blast, it's a focused form of spiritual energy that I can release in certain ways." While he was talking Mark did a jumping vertical slash at Kota. Kota blocked it with his twin spiked gauntlets. "Focusing all you've got on that sword. You don't deserve to wield it!"

"I wouldn't be talking mister Ki!" Mark pushed forward but Kota stood his ground. He finally released Mark sword and ducked to the side. He did a palm strike to Mark's stomach, releasing some energy and burning Mark's stomach. Mark keeled over clutching his stomach. Kota prepared to strike again. Mark then did a low round house kick, and knocked Kota off balance. Kota got up quickly only to be punched in the face by Shadow. Kota then slammed shadow in the face with his spike gauntlet. Shadow looked back at Kota as his regenerated. "What the hell are you?"

"Your worst nightmare!" Shadow dissolved into the ground as Mark attempted to slash Kota again. Kota was able to block with his gauntlets, but was thrown off balance. About twenty shadows then dog piled Kota out no where. Kota was struggling and was not being very successful. I guess I'll have to stop playing around! A giant blast of Ki energy killed fifteen shadows and sent the other five flying. A shadow landed on Tyrana and woke her up. "Where am I, AAAAAAHHHHH! First you punch me, and now you try to get on top of me while I'm sleeping! Pervert!" She slapped his so hard he fell unconscious, causing the other shadows to disappear. "Oops did I do something wrong?"

"Yeah you did! Now it's only me and you fighting this guy!

"Well I was asleep! How was I supposed to know we were in a fight? She then punched the already injured Mark in the face! "What was that for?"

"If shadow was on me when I was sleeping I don't wanna know what you did!"

"I didn't do anything you little wench!"

"I bet you did drunk!"

"Shut up greenhorn!"

"Old fart!"

"Weakling!"

"Crap for brains!" Mean while Kota was watching all this. Are these two serious? I'm threatening their lives and their arguing uselessly! "Excuse me!" Both Tyrana and Mark looked at Kota. "You stay out of this karate boy!" Kota was now afraid of them! "Alright I'm done with this!" Kota shot a massive Ki blast at Mark and Tyrana saw it and both dodged out of the way. The three of them began fighting for hours until they were all tired. "A break please!" said a panting Mark. "Agreed!" said both Tyrana and Kota. They sat there looking at each other. Shadow then woke up and looked at everyone too. "Hey Mr. Shadow is up!"

"Why aren't we fighting?"

"We all took a break…" said an annoyed Kota. For a few more minutes Kota fought. There are three of them and one of me. They have a legendary Tactician, a myrmidon with an attitude, and some undead freak show. Their not such bad people... and the next best thing to having Zantetzugen's power is having it as an ally. Mark I have come to a decision!"

"What?"

"I want to join you and stop Alderrofe!"

"Why so sudden?"

"…I know I can't beat all three of you, and the next best thing is having Zantetzugen as an ally."

"Master with all due respect, for once, I don't think we can trust this guy!"

"Tyrana is right, how can you prove to us that you're loyal?" Foot steps and the clanking of armor sounded off in the distance. Over a near by hill ten soldiers and a paladin trudged over it. They were once again all in black. "Our master is getting very impatient! He wants you to die, and to have the sword delivered to him!"

"We got the picture after the first two attacks ya idiot! Hey Kota, eliminate these guys and we'll accept you!"

"Alright I'll do it!"

"But you can't use your Ki."

"What? Why not?"

"Because you must prove to us that under a dangerous situation you can rely on something other than Ki." Kota felt uneasy about this, but went ahead with it anyway.

"One lone soldier? Mark you disappoint me!" Kota waved his hand to have the paladin lower his head. They were now face to face. Kota quickly put one hand on top of the paladin's head and the other below it. He pushed his hands towards each other while still on the paladin's head. "Dragons jaw!" his hands squished the paladin's skull, and heard the muscles and bones breaking. "I'm feeling sick." Tyrana turned around and threw up with Mark comforting her. Shadow looked back at this. I know she's killed before, so why throw up now? Kota was now proceeding to rip the paladin's head off and held it like a ball. The ten other soldiers looked very afraid. Kota threw the head ball at a soldier killing him on contact. The nine others ran away out of fear. "Now can I use my Ki?"

"Sure you proved yourself." Kota made an immense ball of Ki and threw it at the retreating soldiers. The ball exploded vaporizing them. "As I said before I wish to join you."

"Welcome aboard Kota!" They shook hands and began to walk. "Thanks a lot Kota I'm not feeling so good after seeing you do that!" Said a nauseous Tyrana. "I know how to make you feel better Tyrana!"

"It better not be booze Mark."

"No the booze is mine. Shadow ball!"

"What the heck is shadow ball?" Shadow panicking slightly walked ahead of them. "I discovered it when shadow and I trained when we were younger!" Mark quickly grabbed shadows head off his shoulders and tossed it to Tyrana. Tyrana couldn't help but crack up at the sight of Shadows body running around without a head. "You will put my head back on my body now or else!" Now Tyrana was scared at the sight of a talking shadow head. She quickly put it back on his shoulders. "That didn't make me feel a lot better…" She then saw a family of rabbits. "Bunnies!" She ran after the panicking rabbits. "We have quite a motley crew eh Kota?" Kota watched Tyrana catch the rabbits and run around dancing. "Agreed."

"Look Mark I caught bunnies!"

"No you caught dinner. We're going to set up camp here!" He took the rabbits from a sad Tyrana, and got out his knife.

After dinner they set up their tents and went to bed. Mark was sleeping in the biggest tent with a small bookshelf. But he couldn't sleep no matter how comfortable he got. So many people are after Zantetzugen… Soon enough Alderrofe will come himself. Shadow then opened the flap to his tent. "Sir there are some people here to see you." Shadow had his knife drawn, Kota had his nunchaku out and Tyrana had her sword. Mark came out unequipped to find a lot of nomads' right outside the camp ground. "Their from the Kutohlan tribe, there is nothing to worry about."

"I don't think they're that friendly." Shadow was right they were all mounted on horses and had their bows drawn. A lone nomad rode forward in front of Mark. "Are you Mark?"

"I am what of it?" The nomad bowed while on his horse. "Our tribe leader wishes to see you." Shadow, Tyrana and Kota were all surprised by this. "What does Rath want?"

"He didn't tell us, he just said he knew you were in Sacae and wanted to see you."

"Well I've never turned down a chance to meet with old friends. Everyone pack up camp we're moving out! I can only guess that you have horses prepared for us?" the nomad waved three horses forward. "We didn't know there was a fourth one of you, so two of you will have to share a horse." Tyrana, being quick with her tongue replied. "Well I ain't sitting with the drunk!"

"I didn't wanna sit with you either Wench!" They began to argue over useless things again. All the nomads were astounded that someone so rude and drunk could be Mark. "Did you two forget I can move in shadows? You three ride I'll use the shadows."

"Won't it hurt to be stepped on so much?"

"You idiots the night is on great shadow. I can fly in it." Shadow then levitated over all of them. "Ok, glad we got that settled." They all mounted their horses and rode with the nomads. They stopped in front of a large camp with big wooden walls around it. The guards opened then door and they went inside. There we're hundreds of tents within the walls, with one huge tent in the center. They got off their horses and the leader of the group led them into the tent. Inside Rath was sitting in a huge chair made out of furs, with guards on either side of him. "Hello Rath it has been a while."

"Hello Mark." They shook hands then took a seat. "I have called for you because of a great emergency that threatens our tribe."

"I should've known it would be something like this."

"The Teruig tribe has declared war on us. They want control of all Sacae. You are the best tactician I have ever met. So ask you as a friend if you can aid us in battle. Mark sat there and thought a bit. "Commanding over forty elite troops is one thing, but commanding a whole tribe and leading them into war is another."

"Please Mark our tribe might not survive without your tactics."

"…Alright I'll do it, but you must give a command tent and time to prepare."

"It will be done. Marco will show you to the tent." Rath pointed towards the nomad from earlier. Marco showed them to the tent. "You will all have to share it, we're short on tents at the moment."

"No problem Marco this thing is big enough for a family of dragons."

"It could use a woman's touch though." Tyrana proceeded to hang a painting of a rabbit on the wall. "There, now it's perfect." Shadow, and Kota sighed and got into their beds. Mark and Tyrana did the same thing. "Wait, Tyrana."

"Yes Mark?"

"We're going to have to finish your training tomorrow, if we're to go to war. So be ready tomorrow at dawn."

"Yes sir!" They then drifted off to sleep.

Firedude: I tried to make it as long as I could, but I'm most likely going to be busy the next few days. But I'll get right back to doing this as soon as possible. Stay tuned for chapter five! "To War!"