In Ylissetol, the next day

"So," Robin said, still taking in the size of the city, "this is the Ylistol, huh?" "Correct," Frederick told her with a very strait forward expression, "and it seems like the town wasn't effected by the earthquake, thank goodness." "Good gracious!" a man in the crowd exclaimed. "It,s the Exalt!" another person called out. They weren't wrong, because Emmeryn was walking through the town along with some solider's. "The Exalt is your ruler, right?" Robin asked, "is it safe for her to be walking out in the open like this, especilally with all of the bandits." "While thank is a valid concern," Frederick said not quite looking at her, "I'm certain that she'll be safe. And even if she wasn't, I'm nearly certain that she'd come out anyway." "Why?" Robin asked, a little confused. "The Exalt has a way of calming people with her presence, even in times of disaster. Lady Emmeryn always puts the people above herself, so she always comes down to spend the day in times of trouble, even if it isn't the safest place to be."

"She's also the best big sister you could ask for." Lissa said interupting the conversation. "I'm sure she is- wait," Robin said, putting two and two together, "Lady Emmeryn is your sister?! You said you were Shepherds!" "In a matter of speaking yes," Chrom said, joining in on the conversation, "we just have a lot of sheep." "Chrom- I mean Prince Chrom, I'm sorry for my poor manners." Robin said while attempting to curtsy. "Just Chrom is fine," Chrom told Robin, "I've never been one for formalities." "Okay Chrom," Robin replied, relived, "royalty huh, I guess that explains why Frederick tolerates all the teasing." "Guys," Lissa said, "Emm's heading back to the castle, we should head over too." "Wait," Robin said, realising that they were one blue haired prince short, "where's Inigo?" "Don't worry," Chrom told her, "he's getting something at the market, but he'll meet up with us later. Come on."

The other side of town

"So," Inigo asked Kjelle as the two walked down the market street back to the castle, "I was wondering, why were you in the forest last night?" The question made the knight stop in her tracks, before trying to change the subject. "Um," she stuttered, "I could be asking you why you've bought a Levin sword when you clearly don't know magic." "It's a welcome gift for Robin," Inigo replied, "and don't try to change the subject." "Um," Kjelle said nervously, "isn't there anything else you'd rather talk about?" "Nope." Inigo said, knowing that the knight girl was hiding something. After a minute of silence and staring, Kjelle made a defeated face along with a sigh. "If I tell you this," the knight told the prince, "you have to promise not to tell anyone, not even your siblings. Do you understand?" Inigo was starting to feel a bit nervous, but still said yes, his hand near his rapier.

"Okay," Kjelle said, "the truth is... I'm from the future and I traveled back in time with my friends so we could change history." After a few moments of silence, Inigo spoke up. "Are you serious?" he said, not believing what he just heard. "Do I look like I'm joking?" Kjelle said, making it obvious that she was being serious. "Wow," Inigo said, pretty much speachless, "just, just wow." "Remember, you cannot tell ANYONE about this, do you understand?" "Trust me, I'm not one for breaking promises, but even if I was, I don't think anyone would believe me." "Good, now, we'd better head back before anyone starts worring about us." "Okay," Inigo replied, "and by the way, who are you're parents?" "My mother's Sully, and that's all I'm telling you." Kjelle replied with a smirk.

Later in a field

"There you guys are," Lissa said as her younger brother and the knight girl came running up, "we've been waiting for ages, where were you?" "Where were we?" Inigo said, annoyed, "we came up to the castle to hear that you guys were in the barracks, then when we get to the barracks we hear that you're heading to Ferox, and then we had to run for ages just to catch up with you guys!" "Can we please argue about this later." Chrom asked, "Right now we need to get going. The longer we stay here, the longer it takes to get an aliance." "Okay" Lissa grumbled. "Fine by me," Inigo said, relived that he wouldn't have to get an earful from his sister, "oh, I almost forgot." "What?" Robin asked. Inigo replied by giving her the Levin sword that he bought earlier. "Just a little welcome to the team present" Inigo told her. "Oh," Robin said in shock, "thank you, but, this must of been really expensive, I'm not sure I can except this." "It's alright," the prince told her, "it didn't cost as much as you think. Besides, I still owe you for saving my butt yesterday." Before Robin could reply, an explosion went off in the distance. "That can't be good," Chrom said, "come on!"

At the explosion site

When the Shepherds arrived at where the explosion site, they saw it was ravaged by bandits. "Alright chums," the leader of the bandits told the group, "hand over all of your valuables right now, or else!" "Or else what?" Chrom said, unfazed. "Or else these folks go bye-bye," the bandit replied, "show 'em fellows!" The other bandits obliged and showed the group their hostages, made up of some towns people, a brown haired mage wearing glasses and torn robes, and...

"Vakie!" Chrom and Lissa exclaimed when they saw that the blonde haired fighter was among the hostages. "I can explain," Vakie called back, "you see, I saw that they were kidnapping inoccent people, teach went to take care of them, but I realised when it was to late to turn back that ..." "You forgot your axe," Lissa said annoyed, "didn't you?" "Yep" Vakie replied, embarasased. "Well," Mirel said, holding up an axe, "that solves the conundrum as to which matter of fool left their axe lying around in the field." "Are they always like this?" Robin whispered. "Yep, pretty much." Inigo replied. "Enough!" the bandit leader shouted, "Hand over all of your money, or else all these people die, starting with captain moron over there!"

After a minute of no one moving, the bandit leader spoke up again. "Don't believe me," he said, "looks like I'll have to show you then!" The leader started to head over to Vakie, but then the brown haired mage spoke up. "That would be unwise," he told the bandit, "if you even ponder about hurting him, then I'll make sure you'll suffer the appropriate consequences. "Oh really," the bandit replied, "maybe then I'll finish you off first, smart mouth." "Guys, come on," Chrom told the group, "if we attack now, maybe we can get out of this without any casualtises." "I wouldn't worry about it captain" Kjelle told Chrom. "What are you talking about?" Stahl asked." "I know that guy up there, trust me, he's got this." "Any last words?" The bandit asked the mage. "I believe I should be asking you that question" The mage replied. Before the bandit could figure out what he meant, the mage hit the leader with a powerful blast of fire magic, sending him flying back several feet. "Damn you" the bandit said before passing out [or on] "I warned you." The mage replied before burning every one's ropes and straightning up his glasses. "Oh shit!" one of the bandits said, "fall back, fall back!" This sent all of the bandits running for the hills.

"Well," Inigo said, "that was over fairly quickly." "Yeah," Vakie said coming over," would've been over faster if..." "You weren't a complete nincompoop and for got your own weapon," Mirel said, giving Vakie his axe, "forget it again and I'll attach it there permantly." "Yes ma'm" Vaike replied. "The people are safe," the brown haired mage said coming over, "and you all must be the Shepherds, correct?" "Yes," Chrom told him. "Good," he replied, "I would like to make a formal request to join your party." "You helped those people and can fight," Chrom said, "I don't see why not." "Milord," Frederick said, "this is the third total stranger you've let join in the past two days." "And all three have proven themselves trustworthy," Chrom replied, "Frederick, you need to learn to trust my judgement. Welcome aboard..." "Lauraunt" the mage told him. "Right," Chrom said, "come on, if we're lucky we can still make it to Ferox before sundown."