Fire Emblem The Sacaen Bride
As Usual I do not own the Fire Emblem Franchise. I do of course play the game though and as soon as the Gamecube version hits shelves I will have it.
Chapter 5
And thus the journey to Ostia began. The road, though the more perilous with Revlin's men searching for Lyn, was easier to travel with Naomi's insight. She was extremely skilled with giving augury's but nothing else. As it was she was lame from birth and could not walk. So this put Lyn as the body guard while the Black Fang survivors fought the majority of the oncoming enemy's.
Even while she was on the road with them she could not forget about how they were enemy's at one time. She even remembered killing a them. So now the question was why were they alive and helping her after all that her and the rest of Eliwood's army. Naomi sensing her thoughts said to Lloyd, "My cousin wishes to know how it is that you are alive."
The question was straight forward and Lloyd decided to let Ursula answer by pointing to her. Ursula cleared her throat and then said, "First you have to understand that the human life force is an enigma to many and only slightly understandable to those who study it for years. Quintessence is this human life force. Once separated from the body you would think that the human body dies. Right?" Lyn nodded her head. "Wrong. The body cannot separate from it's life force completely. You see none of us truly died as you struck us down. One of Nergal's morphs came to take our Quintessence but as I just stated you cannot remove all of it at once. That means that there is a small bit of life force left in the body. There is just enough to last the person a year of life in a suspended state waiting for the return of the rest of the life source. So basically When you defeated Nergal's morphs holding our Quintessence then you released it so that it could return to us. Unfortunately for us if our body was destroyed before the quintessence could return it would dissipate which is why Neither Marquess Pherae or Leader Brendan Reed have returned." Lyn understood everything but that still didn't explain why they were helping them. "And you want to know why we are helping you. Well, we consider this repayment for helping get our souls back. We do owe you a considerable amount of debt. The one thing on our minds is repentance for the actions that we committed under Nergal." Lyn smiled at Ursula who smiled back but then she grabbed her stomach. Lyn looked concernedly at Ursula.
Naomi said, "You need not worry Lyn. Ursula is okay. She is heavy with child." This news was a surprise to Ursula as well as Lyn. Lloyd stopped as well to listen. "What? You are having Lloyd's … daughter. At least that is what I see. But you know it can always be a son. And you don't need to be mad at yourself, Lloyd, for letting her come along. She has not really strained herself yet. But she will have to watch herself at five months." They would have kept on going on about baby care but at that time they were under attack by arrows from all directions.
Ursula quickly reacted by pulling a Protect Staff from her satchel and holding up. As she did the arrows were falling in midair as if the were hitting an invisible wall. Lloyd and Linus set themselves up on either side of the three women. Uhai positioned himself at the front while Ursula turned her mount to face the rear. Lloyd said, "This doesn't look good." He was right. It didn't look at all good. They were surrounded on all sides. And coming up the front was Marquess Revlin. He had a victorious smile on his face.
He surveyed the scene. He smiled and said, "Well what do you know. I come to collect my future wife and after I am done I can leave with three women."
Lloyd, who not about to let anything happen to either of them, said to Revlin, "If you touch any one of them you'll be a hand short." He pointed his sword right at Revlin. Revlin began to laugh. He then snapped his fingers and all his goons charged.
Meanwhile, in a clearing not far from where Lyn and her friends were being attacked four people were intensely training. One was a tall man with brown hair draping one of his eyes which were a deep violet (I hope that is right). He was Karel, The greatest swordsmen alive at that time. He was sparring with his apprentice, a man with green hair and blue eyes. He was called Guy. The other two were assassins. The first one was a young man with red hair and dark brown eyes. He was a former Black Fang by the name of Jaffar but to avoid the bounty hunters he was now called Joseph. Sparring with him was a former spy of Ostia. He had dark blond hair and brown eyes. He was Matthew who had befriended Jaffar even though he had killed Matthew's love, Leila.
They were pulled from their training as they heard the clash of swords in the distance. They immediately ran to the source. Matthew saw Lyn and he knew she needed help and fast. But he also saw the Black Fang and thought whether he should help them. But Jaffar didn't wait for anything. He immediately jumped into the battle to help his former friends. The others followed suit. With their help the battle ended quickly. Revlin stood there perplexed at how fifty armed men could fall to a bunch of miscreants. But he quickly noticed many swords pointed at his throat. He quickly escaped. The Four swordsmen turned to face the escort. Jaffar said, "I'm glad to see that you are okay."
R&R or you will find the dark mark above your house.