Fire Emblem The Sacaen Bride

I do not own Fire Emblem but I do play the game.

Chapter 7

Life at the castle was comfortable to Lyn. She just needed to get all the events that had taken place out of her mind. She had been there for two weeks and yet she still felt exhausted from the journey. Hector had talked to her about the marital law he had found. This only served as a means of making her feel worse. She refused to leave her room except to bathe and to see Naomi. Naomi had made a new friend in the castle. They hardly were out each others company.

Nino had taken to playing anything she could with Naomi. It made Lyn happy that Naomi had a friend with such a sweet girl. Sometimes she joined in with their games. They all played this one game called Dragon Call. It was a game that was similar to Risk. Lyn lost first every time.

Pent and Canas arrived at Castle Ostia on the eve of The Annual Eclipse. Accompanying Pent were his wife, Louise, and apprentice and foster son, Erk, who had brought his wife Priscilla. Canas was joined by a little girl who he called Chase, his niece. Hector bid Pent and Canas into his parlor. He told the rest to make themselves at home.

Inside the parlor waiting was Serra. Hector sat across from her and bid his company to take their seats. He said quite clearly, "Lyn is being affected by a cursed object. We have tried to remove it already but the best Serra can do is make it change color. I don't know if it was cursed by a powerful druid or…"

Pent asked, "Where is the Lady Lyndis?" he didn't have to wait for an answer. She ran into the parlor and began to point frantically outside the door. They got up to see what was wrong. Outside in the entrance hall they saw Erk and Raven on the floor trading blows. Both Pent and Canas pulled out paralyze staves and used them on the fighting men. Pent looked at his apprentice and asked, "What happened?"

Erk looked at Raven and said, "He just jumped me. He has never liked me since I married his sister. This is why I insisted that if I came I could bring my tomes."

Raven stared at Erk with rage in his eyes. He spat as he spoke. "If you think your magic will be enough to stop me from kicking your ass you are wrong magic boy." They both stared at Hector and at the same time said, "KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ME!"

Serra walked up to Raven and slapped him across the face. She then said, "If this will be the kind of example you will set for your child then I will leave and have it somewhere else." Raven looked at the ground with guilt. "Better." She then turned to Erk and Priscilla. They looked at her. She simply bowed her head with a smile.

Erk said in a playful chuckle, "I would have thought you would have been waiting at the front door waiting to pull me into an air stealing hug. Either that or use you high-pitched voice and scream my name in my ear."

Serra said in an even more playful tone, "I'll be sure to do that stuff later on if I get the chance." Erk put on a scared face like he had just given a dangerous weapon. She smiled and said, "I'm kidding. I gave that stuff up. No offense Priscilla but your brother needs a woman who knows how to act more like a man to keep him in line." Priscilla nodded to say that it was alright.

An hour later Lyn was lying down in a room prepared by the Sage, Druid, and Bishop. She positioned in a northern positon. Pent told her it was so that the spirit of magic could check her body for any lasting magical influence. Canas was inspecting the collar. Serra was checking over Lyn's condition because as it was the other two were exhausting her energy with their ongoing research.

Erk had come in about an hour later carrying an armful of charts for which Pent needed to chant from. Canas had stopped examining the collar and said, "I have come to the conclusion that who ever enchanted this item was no fool. He did it in such a way that if a curse breaker were to try and remove it they would jeopardize the wearer. As it is she is already very weak and can't take much more of our research."

Serra then said, "What if I keep one of my healing staves on her while you try to remove it?"

Pent then said, "If what he said is true you would need more than a healing staff. You would need enough to last an entire night because that is how long it will take us to remove it."

Serra then said, "And I need to keep her soul in tact through the procedure. I almost forgot about that. Wait! Erk!" Erk ran into the room. She handed him the Heal Staff and and told him to go get a bunch of them from the armory. He did as he was told. Serra then said, "Good. Now I want you to keep using them on Lyn until we are done. Serra then began to pray. Canas and Pent both began to chant over her.

Inside Serra's mind she saw Lyn's soul twisting, bending, and trying to rip itself apart to end its pain. Her chants were echoing into the darkness and causing the soul to calm only a little. It would still writhe in agony.

That went on until morning. The collar had dissolved from around her neck. Pent checked her over for any magical signatures but happily found none. Serra had the worst of all three of them. After she finished keeping the soul in tact she stopped chanting and fell to the ground screaming. Pent was looking worried for her bat Canas said, "It is just the pain of the soul escaping through her. It will be gone in a minute." He was right. She stopped screaming and got up. She looked pale but she felt triumphant.

R&R or I'll poke you into insanity. Credit goes to seraph ()