mm...rather short chapter...


"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Mani Katti Talking"


Sometime after the last chapter…

Lyn and Mark were still walking down the road, when they came to a forbidding woods. "Oh JOY!" squealed Mark, "There's bound to be TONS of bandits in a place like this!" and indeed, there seemed to be many bandits…albeit strangely uniformed ones with surprisingly good weapons…but non-the-less Lyn cut them all down…while the idiot tactician sang and danced in the background…attracting MORE bandits to them.

"S-s-stop evil bandits! Or I'll be f-f-forced to s-slay you!" came a quavering voice from the bushes. Lyn marched up to the bushes and dragged out…a whimpering…Lord. "What in the world…?" Lyn stared in amazement. The Lord took one look at all the slain bandits around Lyn and broke down into tears. "Oh please don't k-k-kill me! Oh God…you k-killed all my l-liegemen…p-please! S-s-s-spare me! I-i-I'll give you g-g-gold!"

Suddenly all the uniforms on the bandits made sense…they weren't bandits at all! They were this sniveling Lord's liegemen! "Oops…" said Lyn embarrassed.

"Look, Lord…um…what's your name?" asked Lyn.

"I-i-it's Eliwood good bandit…Heir to the province (country/village/whatever) Pheare (sp?)."

"Well Lord Eliwood, I must apologize…you see I'm just a traveler and well…we kinda thought that you men were bandits…"

"Yea! But thanks to my strategies we beat them bad! I'm Mark, Genius Tactician, by the way, and we're going to see the Great Wizard of Etruia!"

"Oh! Please! May I join your merry band?" begged Eliwood, clutching Lyn with a harsh note of desperation in his voice, "If I return home now, with out my men, my father will kill me! (a/n: obviously his daddy's still here in my version…)"

"Ummm…." Said Lyn, clearly reluctant to take an outcast Lord into their "merry band".

"Psst! Lyn!" muttered Mani, "I know of this whelp, he is known as Eliwood the Cowardly…only son to the Valiant Elbert (sp?) of Pheare! A strong kingdom…doubtless this was Eliwood's last chance to prove himself to his father…I'm guessing that he wants to go with us to gain courage from the Wizard."

"How insightful you are Mani…" murmured Lyn back. "Hmm…He's a coward now…but if I can make him fall in love with me…then get him courage from the Wizard…I'll have a REAL kingdom on my hands! Not just a lousy village!"

"Very well Eliwood my dear," Lyn purred, latching on to his arm, "You may join us."

"Oh t-thank you!" Eliwood cried gratefully as he hugged Lyn. "Uhg…I CANNOT believe I'm trying to seduce this snot-nosed brat…"

And so the slowly growing group of travelers continued down the road, and soon met up with…


Oh my, just who DO they meet? How dramatic! Go find out when I update! Go review and maybe I'll update faster!