Me: BLACKJACK M*&^%$# %*$!
*shows Gauis an ace and jack of spades*
Now pay up!
Gauis: NO! NOT MY CANDY!
Me: Too bad!
Chrom: Oh! You're playing Blackjack? Deal me in.
Gauis: Nah.
Nah: Someone call me?
Me: No. You want to play Blackjack?
Nah: Sure! What are the stakes?
Me: Candy. We can't use money because it would be considered illegal. Unless you're in Vegas in which case it is acceptable.
Chrom: So you let a little girl play but not me?!
Gauis: At least this
*points to Nah*
"little girl" doesn't squeal like a chipmunk when she gets good cards. In short, you suck.
Chrom: How do you know I suck?
Me: Fanfiction. Plus this is my fic, so what I say goes!
Chrom: But I-
Me: Nah, chase Chrom out of here and you can do the disclaimer and I'll start putting a quote at the end of each chapter which I SHOULD have done in the first place.
Nah: YAY! TRANSFORM!
*transforms into a dragon and chases Chrom out of my imaginary living room with her awesome fire breath*
Nah: BSA doesn't own Fire emblem or Las Vegas.
Chapter 1
Zombies and a feminine swordsman
(3rd person Omniscient)
And so Chrom has enlisted Gold and Silver as the tacticians of the Shepherds. They are walking towards the capitol Ylisstol to meet up with the rest of the shepherds. The sun is beginning to set on the horizon and the party is currently walking through some woods. Lissa, with her sore feet and tired eyes asks, "Can we set up camp now Chrom? I'm tired! Honestly, I don't know how you and Frederick can do this everyday with the training and fighting and traveling!"
"Ok Ok. Well set up camp," Chrom looks around him for an ideal campsite and spots a clearing and points to it. "There."
"Now who wants to help me hunt down dinner?" asks Frederick.
"ME! PICK ME!" exclaims Gold.
"Please don't. I don't want to find out how animal with dark seasoning taste like," said Silver.
"But the only other method I have to kill is to use fire, and I'm pretty sure fire plus forest equals FOREST FIRE! Plus it's not like I can use a sharp weapon. I know! You go hunting and I'll stay here and try to find out how to turn my hair into a weapon!" responded Gold in a sarcastic tone.
"You can't turn your hair into a weapon. Well you can, but that would be considered over powered or something like that," responded Silver.
"THIS ISN'T A GAME OR A STORY!" yelled Gold back at Silver.
"Maybe we'll be old and tell our grandkids our adventures. THEN it's a story!" retorted Silver.
"Whatever, now go out there with Frederick and get something, I'm starving." Said Gold. Silver and Frederick go out into the forest while Gold goes to help Chrom set up camp.
Hour and a half later.
This is it! All she needs is to concentrate, and, NOT, blink and Gold wins. She and Lissa were having a staring contest to pass the time after they played every game imaginable with dirt and sticks. It's been going on for 2 minutes. But Lissa, being the pranking tomboy she is, decides to throw a frog she was hiding in her dress at Gold's face, forcing her to fall back in surprise and blinked.
"Gaaahhh! Cheater!" Gold exclaimed.
"You can't prove anything," said Lissa in a mocking tone.
"I have Chrom as a witness! Right Chrom?" Gold turns around to see Chrom semi asleep. Gold walks up to Chrom and screams, "CHROOOOOOM!" Chrom jerks awake.
"NO LISSA! NOT THE- whaahh? Gold why did you yell?" asks Chrom, still somewhat asleep.
"Never mind." Gold says in a disappointed tone. Just then Silver and Frederick appeared out of the woods and walked towards the camp. Silver was holding a bag full of dead rabbits. Frederick had a bear he was carrying on his shoulders.
"YAY FOOOOD!" exclaimed Gold and proceeded to take one of the rabbits and prepared to cook it.
"So how did the hunting go for you Silver?" asked Chrom. Silver thinks back at the recent past...
They were walking, silent as a butterfly. Silver had his bronze sword out, ready to cut down any game that crosses their path, and Frederick had his Silver lance, pointed at his back.
"Is this really necessary?" questioned Silver.
"It is just to make sure you don't desert us. And to make sure you stay in my sights. Now let's finish this, I'm rather hungry," responded Frederick.
And so the rest of the hunt went like that. Silver killing game and Frederick making death threats at him
"It went great!" said Silver with a forced smile.
"Mmmmmm, bear. My favorite! Come Lissa eat up!" said Chrom.
"No way! It smells like your cape after your done training and busting holes in the walls!" retorts Lissa.
"Come Lissa! Build a little character and eat up! You might like it," said Chrom.
"NO! Right guys?" and she waits for Gold, Silver and Frederick to agree. Only to see Gold and Silver eating away at their pieces of bear and rabbit. Frederick is watching the forest while nibbling on some rabbit. "I guess you two would eat anything after being out there on the field gods knows how much time."
"Frederick, you okay? You've been gnawing at that rabbit for ten minutes. Here have some bear." Offers Chrom. Frederick grew slightly pale, but Chrom didn't see it.
"No thank you Milord. I simply just had a rather….large lunch. I'm not really hungry."
"*munch* Li- *snarf* ar. *gulp*" said Silver in between mouthfuls of rabbit and bear. Frederick threw a unnoticeable glare at him.
"Anyway. We should get to sleep now. We need our energy if we are to get to Ylisstol tomorrow," stated Chrom. So they all drifted into sleep.
During the middle of the night.
Lissa wakes up groggily. She believes she has heard some grunt of some sort somewhere. As she gets up she manages to wake up Chrom.
"Chrom!" Lissa whisper yelled at Chrom.
"Whh….what?" asks Chrom somewhat still asleep.
"I think I heard a noise from the woods." Said Lissa.
"Ok. Let's go check it out. Stay alert," responds Chrom. They walk off into the woods leaving Gold, Silver and Frederick to sleep. They walk for about two or so minutes when Chrom stops Lissa with his hand stretched out in front of her. A rumbling starts up and slowly starts to get stronger. The trees in the distance start to fall and it's getting closer to them. "Lissa. Run," commands Chrom.
"Huh?" asks Lissa.
"I mean it! Go!" exclaims Chrom and pushes Lissa in the direction of the camp. They start to run for the camp as balls of fire rain down from the sky, setting the forest ablaze. They manage to get away from the immediate area of the flames when Lissa points to the sky and says,
"Chrom look!" And before them appears what seems to be a closed eye, surrounded by a circle of golden lettering that they cannot understand. Then the eye opens to reveal a turquoise circle, with diamonds at the edge. Pale, ugly, stitched up warriors start to come out of the circle and fell to the ground.
"Stand back." Chrom tells Lissa, drawing Falchion should fighting commence. The things that fell get up and open their red eyes, which appear to have no pupils. One starts to charge at Chrom, iron axe poised to kill. Chrom reacts swiftly and slashes horizontally at the creature across the chest and expecting it to fall. However, to Chrom's surprise, the thing lives, makes a one hundred eighty degree turns with his head towards him, and swings his axe towards him. Chrom blocks it in time and is locked in a power struggle with the thing. Chrom pushes the monster's axe away and slices it's axe arm effectively knocking it to the ground, where he proceeds to jump into the air and stab Falchion through the monster to have it disappear in a cloud of purple smoke. He tries to take a moment to catch his breath, but he hears Lissa scream. He turns around to see Lissa backed up against a rock with the other monster walking towards her, steel axe in hand. He runs to her hoping to get to her in time when another thing comes out of the eye in the sky. It runs towards Lissa and the monster and manages to block the monster's axe with it's sword before it ended Lissa's life. It appeared to Chrom that the "it" who saved Lissa life was a masked swordsman of some sort. The mask was in the form of a navy blue butterfly. He was having trouble keeping the monster's axe at bay so the masked swordsman turned his head to Chrom and yelled,
"H-help!"
Meanwhile back at camp
Gold and Silver were awoken by the rumbling of the ground and fire raining from the sky. They get up and using their telepathic link because currently, they are too lazy and sleepy to talk, Gold asks,
What the hell was that?
I dunno….angry bear and rabbit stampede? responds Silver. Wait…where's Chrom and Lissa?
We better find them before Frederick th- Gold was cut off by Frederick waking up, jumping to his feet and pointing his silver lance left and right dangerously against her and Silver.
"WHERE IS CHROM AND LISSA YOU SCOUNDRELS?!" Frederick exclaims.
Thinks we killed them or something, Gold finishes her mental thought to Silver.
"We don't know where they are!" answers Silver.
"I beg to differ Silver. If that is your real name. Now tell me where Chrom and Lissa are or I'll gladly beat it ou-"Just then they heard a high pitched scream coming from the woods.
"LISSA!" They all said in unison and ran off in the direction of the scream.
Back at the fight
"Uh- Right!" exclaims Chrom. He charges forward with Falchion ready to cut the monster in half. The monster notices this and tries to counter it, only to have both Chrom and the stranger strike at the same time, eliminating the monster. Both men sheath their swords and Chrom asks the stranger,
"Quite the entrance, what's your name?" Chrom asks the masked stranger. The masked stranger turns to Chrom, about to say something when Gold, Silver and Frederick come running towards him and Lissa.
"Milord! Milady! You are alright!" exclaims Frederick.
"We're fine Frederick, but it looks like we have company." Chrom says as he points into the distance towards more of those monsters. There seems to be more than they thought.
"We have to stop them before they can get to the nearest village! What's the plan?" Chrom asks Gold and Silver. They think for a moment and talk to each other in their minds,
Hmmmm, we have an odd number of people, so that means one of us is going to have to go solo, states Gold.
OK then. You and Lissa pair up and me and Chrom will pair up. Fredrick is stronger than any of us so I think he can handle himself, says Silver.
Frederick should go up North. All the mercenaries seem to be there and I'm sure Frederick will be able to out match their swords with his lance's range. The rest of us should go south, were there's mostly axe wielding barbarians and warriors, I'm sure we can dodge their attacks since they weigh so much. Adds Gold.
Yeah, but then there is that big one in the south, which I'm pretty sure is the leader. When we meet it, we should go for the woods so we can get some protection from the trees. From there, me and Chrom will distract it while you charge up that dark magic of yours and blow him up. If it doesn't work, then we just hold him off until Frederick can come and kill it, said Silver.
Sounds like a plan!...How did we come up with that? Aren't we amnesiacs? asked Gold.
Meh. Who cares? We have magic and we can speak English or whatever language this is called. Now let's go kick monster ass! exclaimed Silver.
And so they tell Chrom and company the plan.
The plan was a success as Gold fired her charged up flux shot from a bush at the leader. It disappeared in a puff of smoke just like the rest. They all regroup outside the forest to cheer.
"Good, you plan worked again Gold and Silver! You two really are geniuses at this," Said Chrom.
"Thanks Chrom, but it was really easy. They had no organization whatsoever," responded Gold.
"This is but a warning of the trouble to come…" stated a voice behind the party. They turn to see the mysterious masked man walking out of the woods while sheathing his sword.
"I see you were able to survive on your own in the battle. Remarkable. But you have yet to give us your name young man." said Chrom. The masked man proceeded to explain his comment.
"Dark events are to come to be. And only you can stop them," the man motions towards Chrom.
"That doesn't answer my question," said Chrom.
"You may call me Marth," said Marth.
"Well Marth, you have my thanks for saving my sister Lissa. I'm Chrom. Those two are Gold and Silver, and he's Frederick," says Chrom as he motions to each of his companions. Under the mask, Marth is giving Gold and Silver quizzical looks.
I never heard of these two from Lissa. Maybe they died before all this mess happened? Marth thinks. Marth proceeds to dash into the woods and leave Chrom and company before they can say something else. Frederick is about to take off after him when Chrom stopped him.
"No Frederick. He's no danger to us. If he wanted us dead he wouldn't have saved Lissa," states Chrom.
"As you wish. But do exercise caution Milord. The message he gave us seems foreboding to me," advises Frederick. They proceed to head towards Ylisstol. Along the way, Gold and Silver are mind talking again.
Gold, didn't something seem off about that Marth character? asked Silver.
Yeah….His voice doesn't sound as deep as your's, Chrom's or Frederick's. And he was much slimmer than all the guys I've seen so far, added Gold.
…..Are we sure he's even a guy? "He" had "his" face covered with a mask, so we couldn't get any facial features, added Silver.
So this person is either a woman who didn't bother to correct Chrom about his gender assumption, or that's one unique dude, states Gold.
Let's discuss this later, I think we are nearing Ylisstol! Hope they have something good to drink! exclaims Silver as he sees the city in the distance.
Nah: They are really focused aren't they?
Gauis: I probably would have cracked by now.
*They are watching me and Lon'qu having a Texas hold'em poker match.*
Nah: I can't tell if they have good cards or crappy ones
Gauis: …
Lon'qu: Straight flush.
Me: Royal flush.
Nah: How is that POSSIBLE?
Me: I'm the one with the keyboard, I can cheat. Besides, we were playing with chips, not money. So it isn't illegal.
Nah: Just say the quote now please?
Me: Ok. Just so you know I'll go back to chapter 1 and add a quote. I got a whole list of them….and google as my resources. Also I put up a poll on my profile, which class in FE13 would you be?
"I hate guns, which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic." – The Doctor
Beta Note: Heya everyone! This is Cormag Ravenstaff. You should review this fic! (Slowly walks back into the shadows of beta-land...)
