Hello readers, here is a surprise twist for you all :D

I wasn't time pressed but I did a lot of thinking on how to progress with the story. Again, do point out any mistakes so I can correct them swiftly, don't really get any peer reading done here.

Pherae is a prosperous region of Lycia. Lord Eliwood, the Marquess Pherae, is a benevolent leader to his people. Roy, Eliwood's son, has been diligently studying under the care of Marcus on becoming the next Marquess. A special visitor appears…

"Roy!" Eliwood calls out to his son "Your new sensei has arrived." A woman with green hair stands next to Eliwood.

"It is an honor to have you has my sensei, General Cecilia" Roy bows to his sensei.

"The pleasure is mine," the Cecilia bows slightly "Shall we get started?"

"Yes! The sooner, the better!" Roy says enthusiastic. Cecilia and Roy walk, eventually reaching a training room.

"Show me what you know on that dummy there," Cecilia points to a dummy.

Roy strikes the dummy skillfully multiple times.

"So you can strike a dummy well, have you sparred before?"

"Yes, sensei, I've sparred with my father and some of the knights of Pherae." Roy says.

"There are many fighting styles out there Roy," Cecilia says while pulling open a tome. "Have you ever experienced magic?"

"I know someone who can use magic, but I'd never fight her… So I have never engaged in battle with a magic user, but I've seen magic." Roy says.

"Well we start somewhere, come at me!"

Cecilia uses a basic fire spell and sends a fireball towards Roy. Roy ducks under it, but when he stood straight, another fireball was on its way and Roy had no time to react. Roy is knocked to his back from that fireball.

"A sloppy dodge, it took too much time to recovery from it." Cecilia says bluntly. "You need to move fluidly to fight. You are only used to how Pherae fights. That will not save you when you really engage in battle. You will be fighting against styles of fighting you've never seen before."

Roy nods and grips his blade. Cecilia holds her free hand towards Roy and launches more fireballs. Roy sidesteps the first one, jumps back to avoid the second one. The third fireball comes but Roy didn't have his bearings right and slips back and falls down.

"Not the most graceful way to dodge, but you didn't get hit." Cecilia chuckles. "Mages have to recover after one iteration of spell casting, so while you are on your back, you wouldn't be in much danger if that was to dodge the last bits of a spell."

Roy gets up and nods again. "However I said much" Cecilia continues to say, and then sends a quick fireball to knock Roy back onto his back. "There are some ways to deal with such a tactic to make it dangerous to ever end up on your back by a mage." Cecilia says as she switches to a different page on her tome. She tend places her hand on the ground reciting a spell. Roy then notices a red circle appear around him and he springs up out of the circle as an Elfire pillar rises up. "Well done." Cecilia gives a mischievous laugh.

"Here I come, sensei!" Roy says as he dashes towards Cecilia.

Cecilia throws more fireballs at Roy. Roy dashes past the first two fireballs then slides under the third fireball. Cecilia jumps over Roy then punches the ground. Roy springs himself up and looks around but doesn't notice any red circles that bring an Elfire out. Cecilia then sends out two more fireballs towards Roy. Roy didn't expect it and just ducks sloppily. Roy looks up and Cecilia is standing there with her hand at Roy's face holding one last fireball.

Cecilia smiles and says "While feints are pretty advanced, I just can't help myself." Cecilia then pushes Roy onto his back with her last fireball. "That should be enough for today, Roy. Let's go discuss with your father the travels plans now."

"Travel plans?" Roy says surprised as he gets up.

"Goodness, you expect to learn fighting without ever leaving the castle? Are you trying to live like a princess now?" Cecilia says a bit mocking but more sarcastically.

"No no, sensei! It is an honor to travel with you!" Roy bows his head.

Roy and Cecilia walk to the throne room of the castle. They are greeted by Eliwood when they arrive.

"Roy, looks like you learned a lot." Eliwood says as he hugs his son.

"Yes, father, I did. Cecilia sensei is very insightful." Roy says.

"I've sent word to Ostia about resupplying you two during you travels. Marquess Ostia will welcome you two and give you adequate accommodations."

The castle bell alarms go off. Pherae soldiers start rushing into the throne room.

"What is going on?" Eliwood yells out.

"An intruder has broken into the castle, sir!" one soldier reports.

"Hmmm…" Eliwood starts to think. "Call it off! Someone is just having…" Eliwood feels a nudge "Fun."

Behind Eliwood, there stood a short girl wearing a bandana over her head with some of her lavender bangs sneaking out of it. She surprisingly held an axe as big as her towards Eliwood.

"Good to see you again, Sol" Eliwood cheerfully says.

"Don't sound too happy! Your soldiers can't even keep track of a little girl. How would they, dare say, deal with an assassin?" Sol smirks.

"Where is your father?" Eliwood asks "I did ask for his assistance escorting my boy now."

"You know us pirates, we like to play a little game before helping out!" a man yells from the entrance of the throne room as he walked in with a grin on his face.

"Dart, old friend! Pleased to see you again," Eliwood says.

"Eliwood, it's been a while." Dart says "Seems you're in need of pirate help yet again? You sure you are a noble, right?"

"Nobody knows the seas like you do, Dart," Eliwood says "You've been just about everywhere."

"Thanks to you though, I got to travel everywhere for the past 20 years. Opened my eyes our travel together. Think of this as a returning the favor, Eliwood. I'll escort your son across the sea from Badon to Ryerde, then all the way to Ostia." Dart says.

"We are set to leave now," Cecilia comes into the conversation "Is that a problem?"

"We didn't even get to play our little game yet." Dart grins.

"Father, I have a request." Sol asks Dart, Dart looks at her. "I want to spar with the Pherae Boy!"

"Haha, my daughter sure loves to fight, fine then, I'll settle with that as our little game." Dart laughs.

"I find this an adequate way to see what you know, Roy" Cecilia turns to Roy "I will gauge your ability from this."

"I accept!" Roy says.

Sol jumps from the throne to right in front of Roy with her axe out pointing towards him. "Hehe, I hope noble boys know how to fight!"

"Before we start, I'm curious about your weapon choice. May I have a hold at it?" Roy reaches out his hand. Sol hands her axe to Roy and he falls to ground trying to hold it. "By Father Sky, this axe is so heavy. How can you hold it so easily?"

Sol goes to pick up her axe, and as she picks it up, the wristbands on her wrists sparkle.

"Those are…" Roy says looking at her wristbands "Energy rings are they not? I have never seen two so big!"

"Hehe, it is true I am relying on items to give me strength, but fighting is more than just brute strength. I'm sure you know that already." Sol says resting her axe on her shoulder.

"Can I feel them? I've always wondered about those artifacts that boosted ability." Roy asks.

"Eh!" Sol responds surprised "Um… sure" Sol holds out her hands. Roy reaches out and gently rubs against the energy rings.

"Such authentic artifacts! I can feel the strength surging in me just from touching them." Roy exclaimed "I can see now even how a pretty girl like you can hold such a heavy weapon now."

Sol pulls her hands back embarrassed "You had your feel… let's fight now!"

Roy nods and gets into battle stance.

"I'll mediate this spar!" Cecilia announces "Are you guys ready?" They nod "BEGIN!"

Sol swings her axe at Roy's side. He pushes the axe away with his sword. Sol keeps the momentum from the push and spins a full 360 to strike on his other side. Roy rolls out of the way, narrowly avoiding the swing. Sol chases after Roy with a chop swing. Roy sidesteps but before he could counterattack, Sol jumps at him and kicks Roy back. Sol dashes at Roy, Roy braces himself to avoid Sol's next attack. Sol just continues charging at Roy. Roy feels a sweat drop behind him as Sol still hasn't done anything besides charge closer at him… closer… Roy quickly puts his hands out to grab Sol by the shoulders to hold back Sol charging at him. Sol continues to press forward while Roy attempts to hold her back but Roy continues to be pushed back. Sol grins and then swings her axe at the open Roy who has occupied both his hands at just holding her back.

Everyone around gives an astonished look at what happens. Roy flips over Sol to avoid the swing and manages to graze Sol's back while swinging over her. Sol ignores the slight pain and continues charging towards Roy. With no blood coming out of Sol's back, Roy concludes he only managed enough to bruise her. Roy dashes towards Sol as well to catch her off guard. To Roy's surprise, Sol quickly halts, impales the ground with the top of her axe and holds it there. Everyone but Dart is wondering what she is doing. Sol bends down and the moment Roy got in vicinity to strike, Sol pushes herself into the air, with such a high jump everyone is just baffled at how a girl holding an axe can jump higher than someone's height. Roy runs to avoid Sol being able to fall and swing at him, but Sol swings her free hand in the opposite direction of Roy and she gets sends herself flying towards Roy. Sol slams into the unsuspecting Roy running away. Sol stands on Roy's back with one foot. Sol doesn't hold her axe out just yet, she savors the moment.

"Just how much power does that girl have?" A by standing solider says.

"How can you punch THE AIR?" another one says.

"Your daughter is quite the terror, Dart" Eliwood says with a stern look on his face.

"She does all these crazy things. I'm surprised she can be resourceful like this." Dart says scratching his head.

"It's quite the show too. Your daughter looks just like Florina 20 years ago! It's such a shock to see that same face being so aggressive." Eliwood says with a nostalgia look in his eyes.

"Unbelievable." Roy says "Such power…"

Sol holds her axe in the air. Suddenly, her energy rings start emitting a red light. Sol brings down her hand to look at the light emitting out. As she looked, Roy tries to get up. Sol puts more force with her foot on him, but Roy stands up abruptly.

"I feel… revitalized." Roy says looking at his hands.

Roy dashes towards Sol, Sol does a chop swing. It was too fast that Roy wasn't even in range so Sol slams her axe into the ground. A crater is seen where Sol struck. Sol gasps at the increase in power she has. Everyone around can't believe what just happened either. Roy attempts to catch the moment with a quick swing with his sword. Sol realizes Roy made a swing but couldn't being her axe up in time so she does the first thing that came to her mind and catches Roy's sword with her bare hand and pulls it out of Roy's hand and throws it aside. She then points her axe towards Roy.

"This fight is over!" Cecilia says cutting in "Let me see your hand!" Cecilia grabs Sol's hand that grabbed Roy's sword. "Impossible…" Cecilia trembles for a bit. "Pristine… not a single cut… or bruise on her hand… what kind of… inhuman power…"

"It was her energy rings" Roy says. "It probably was hard for you guys to see, but I was right there, her power increase happened the moment her energy rings started glowing a bit brighter."

Sol looks at her energy rings, they had no glow anymore. Sol swings her axe in the open air.

"The power is gone." Sol says. She then collapses to her knees. "My energy… I feel like I have been fighting for days." Sol says as Dart comes and picks her up and rests her on his shoulders. She closes her eyes shortly after saying that and sleeps on her father.

"Those energy rings are quite dangerous. I don't think you should risk your daughter wearing them anymore, Dart." Cecilia says with a concerned but serious face.

"This girl is stubborn." Darts says laughing "She'd rather die fighting than just be holed up. She just loves to be in the action."

"And you are just going to let her life be in danger?" Cecilia objects.

"Her life is always in danger just being with me." Dart slaps his chest "Being the legend I am, people are always looking for a squeeze on me."

"But…"

"I've said what I need to say. I'll be outside waiting for you and the boy." Dart turns around and walks out.

"Roy, how are you feeling?" Eliwood asks his son.

"My hand… is still shaking. The power difference that I felt right then when she tore my sword out of my hand. It was scary." Roy says clenching his fist "I can't let that happen again. I need more discipline father." Eliwood hugs his son.

"Son… I never felt so afraid before. When I saw that crater, I thought I was going to lose you just then." Eliwood says with tears coming out. "Forgive me, son. I just can't stand the thought of you dying before me."

"Father, I promise, I will come home back alive!" Roy declares with determination.

"Let's go Roy!" Cecilia shouts.

"Before you go son, I need you to deliver a letter for me to a person in Ostia." Roy hands him a letter "The recipient is on the letter. Go on, my son." Eliwood calmly says.

Roy waves to his father as he left the throne room. He looks at the letter.

To: Lark

Couple things to mention

It is called Chapter 4x because it is happening the same time as Chapter 4. I use am using this notation to help give you readers emphasis on how things are happening at the same time in two different areas.

and..

Sol is a loli too.