Disclaimer: I do not own Fire Emblem. I only own my OC.

After a long walk we finally made it into Ylisstol. The streets are roaming with all sorts of people in bright spirits. I wonder what happened that has them in such a good mood. Although, I'm curious about the answer, I don't care enough to ask anyone.

Kei seems bewildered by…..something. I don't know what. It's not like there's a hot chick making a giant, two headed monkey jump through a ring of fire or anything. "So this is Ylisstol, capital of Ylisse… I've never seen so many people!"

So that's what he was amazed by. Well thats...rather underwhelming. I think a part of me really was hoping that there would be a talking pegasis juggling knifes while balancing on a ball, or something, anything to make me entertained. I'm so bored, and Frederick being next to me doesn't help. "It appears the capital was spared the chaos we encountered, thank the gods. I see no evidence of the great quake. It must have been limited to the forest."

Lizza somehow finds a way to answer to this dreadful boring comment on this dreadfully boring day. "Well, that's a relief!"

I decide to try to spice up the conversation a little bit, to provide myself a mild form of entertainment. "Ummm...Look!...A singing and dancing watermelon...in a swimsuit...with a cartwheeling flower...in front of a double rainbow!"

Lizza turns her head in several directions asking, "Where?" Everybody else just stares at me, until some old dude yells, "Look! The exalt has come to see us!" To this everybody turns looks for the exalt. What! So it works for him and not me?! Whatever. Although, I guess his was a lot more believable...and real, but what does that matter? Mine was way more interesting! The others continue to talk, but I don't feel like dealing with them right now so I pay absolutely no attention to them. That's right guys, I have no idea who these people are. We just happen to be standing near each other.

I look around for a little trying to find something interesting to watch, but no one's doing anything. They're all just standing around looking at the exalt like she's the grand finale in some parade. What's so interesting about a person walking and waving to people. Like seriously, I bet all of you would much rather watch a dancing banana with a yodeling flower in front of a banshee, or a prince with a neck as long as a giraffe and a third leg sticking out of his knee, or whatever it was that I said earlier. What's so special about this exalt anyway? I turn towards the things everyone so excited about to prove my self right.

Wow. She's really pretty. But she's not eating fire or anything. Ooh, she waved right at me! Some spell that she cast on me forces me to wave back. She's really nice too. Wait, what's that thing on her forehead? Is it a scar or something? Did she get it while taming a tiger or lama or...something? It still doesn't take away from her beauty. If anything it actually adds to it I wonder if I'm that pretty. Wait, what am I thinking? Of course I'm as pretty as her, if anything, I'm prettier. Even if I'm not it doesn't matter anyway I was never one to care much for my appearance. Man, I bet she gets so many guys. Why can't I get any guys? OH MY GOD MIND! SHUT UP! Why are you so against me? Ya know, I think I need more sleep. Yep, that's probably all it is, just a little case of sleep deprivation.

I turn away from her to stop my flood of incredibly stupid and utterly useless thoughts. I distract myself by counting the people in the crowd. I never get that far, however, because I can't remember if I counted this person or that person. After like the 23d time of recounting, I notice the crowd starting to disperse. Has the exalt left or something? I turn to where she was to find out that she is indeed leaving...WITH CHROM AND THE OTHERS! I run as fast as I can to catch up to them. "How could you guys leave me like that?!"

Chrom scratches the back of his head. "Really, we left you? I thought you were with us."

"You were trying to get rid of me weren't you."

"No it's nothing like that. It's just that you were so quiet-"

"No need to explain. I've been in a situation similar to this one, so you don't have to lie about anything." Chrom just sighs. I wonder if they really were trying to get rid of me. Why would they do that? If they were that's definitely not a good sign. Hopefully I'll be able to turn things around and get them to trust me. Although, I'm pretty sure they trust me, right? I mean Chrom is really trusting and all of that so I shouldn't have to worry about the trust aspect, hopefully.

We walk into the huge and extravagant castle that Emmeryn lives in. Man, royalty sure gets spoiled don't they? I don't even have a bed I can call my own. All of the stuff I own I carry with me. Even if I get a bed in one world, I never have it for that long so it doesn't feel like my bed just some bed at a hotel I'm stopping at.

As soon as Emmeryn catches sight of us her face brightens. "Chrom! Lizza! Welcome home. Oh, and good day, Fredrick. How fared you all?"

Chrom answers Emmeryn before anyone else bothers to. "Well-we shouldn't have any bandit problems for a while."

"Wonderful. And our people?"

"Safe as they can be, Emm. But we still need to watch the borders. The brigands crossed over from Plegia."

Someone in armor steps forward and says, "Forgive me, milord. My pegasus knights should have intercepted them."

Chrom doesn't seem to agree with this statement. "No, Philia. Your duty was here, with the exalt."

Lizza shares Chrom's opposition. "And besides, we had plenty of help!"

With this statement Emmeryn seems to notice the two people in her castle who she's never seen before. "Ah, you speak of your new companions here?"

Chrom decides to introduce us. "This is Kei and Minea. They fought bravely against the brigands. I've decided to make them shepherds."

"It sounds as if Ylisse ows both of you a great gratitude."

I decide to take this thank you, which I don't get very often for good reason. But, Kei has to be humble. "Not at all milady!"

Frederick shares his suspicion of both of us to Emmeryn. "Forgive me, my grace, but I must speak. Kei claims to have lost his memory, but it is only that: a claim. We cannot rule out the possibility that he is a Brigand himself or even a Plegian spy. And Minea….well, I think it would be best if I brought up my concerns about her in a more private setting."

Chrom gets annoyed by this outburst. "Frederick!"

Emmeryn doesn't seem too troubled by what Frederick has brought up. "Yet, you allowed them into the castle, Chrom. Do these individuals have your trust?"

"Yes. They risked their lives for our people. That's good enough for me."

"Well then, Kei and Minea...It seems you have earned Chrom's faith, and as such you have mine as well.

Kei seems to be shocked by Emmeryn's easygoing attitude. "Milady."

"But thank you, Frederick, for your prudence, as always. Chrom and Lizza are blessed to have so tireless a guardian. I do hope they remember to mention that from time to time..."

"They occasionally express something akin to gratitude, your grace. Phila, I assume you've heard about the deathly creatures we encountered, yes?"

"Yes, milord. They've been sighted all across Ylisse."

Wait why was Frederick bringing this up? Did he change his mind about talking to Emmeryn privately about my "special case"? Luckily before he can say anything about me, Emmeryn brings something up. "Chrom, we are about to hold council. I was hoping you could join us."

"Of course."

Lizza seems really excited when she says, "I think that's our cue, Kei and Minea! C'mon, there's a place I want to show you."

"I'll come with you in a minute, Lizza. There's something I want to speak to Chrom about privately first."

"Oh...Ok then. I guess I'll catch up to you later then." Why does everyone want to speak about things privately today?

I follow Lizza to whatever she wants to show me, but as she's too wrapped in what she's saying, I can hide behind a corner and listen to Kei and Chrom's "private" conversation. "What is it Kei?"

"As we were walking through the town I heard a few of the people talking about a talking Risen, that terrorized the village we saved not too long ago."

"Yes. What are you getting at?"

"That was around the time that the we first encountered the risen, and it was where we buried Minea."

"I still don't see a connection between the two."

"If Minea's theory is correct, then it's possible that she was the talking Risen that terrorised the town. If that's true then there's no way we can trust her."

"There's a lot of "ifs" in that theory of yours."

"But it's still a possibility."

"Kei, I'm fully aware of all the risks I'm taking right now, but I can't arrest her when there's no proof to back up your theory."

"I'm not asking you to arrest her, just to be cautious."

"Fine, if it will ease your mind."

"Thank you." At this they start walking away in separate directions.

Lizza stretches her arms before saying, "Here we are! The Shepherds' garrison. Go on, make yourselfs at home." One problem with that: I don't remember what "at home" is or feels like.

"Lizza, my treasure! Are you all right? I've been on pins and needles!"

"Oh, hey, Maribelle!"

"Oh, hey" yourself! I've sprouted 14 grey hairs fretting over you!"

"Ah, you worry too much. I can handle a battle or two! Although, I could do without the bugs and the bear barbeque…"

Vaike changes the subject. "Hey, squirt! Where's Chrom? I bet he had a rough time out there without ol' teach and his trusty axe!" Man, I hate this guy already. He seems way too obnoxious and confident, not to mention the fact that he doesn't seem to know how to fully dress himself.

Oh, so you're "teach" now, Vaike, is that it? Hee hee. And here I thought you were just born lacking wits. It can be taught?"

"Ha! never doubt the Vaike! Wait was that an insult?" Great, he also refers to himself in the third person.

Luckily I don't have to deal with any more of Vaike, as Sumia speaks. "Beg pardon, but when might we see the captain?"

"Poor Sumia. She's simply been aside herself with concern...Her eyes were scanning the horizon all day during training. She might have earned fewer bruises fighting blindfolded." Ya know, now that I think about it, I don't really like Maribelle either. She seems too girly and prissy for me.

Lizza smiles as she says, "Aw, Sumia, that's so sweet of you to worry about Chrom."

"Worry? Well, I...He's our captain and our prince-of course I'd worry!" Well, Sumia seems to have a crush on Chrom. A part of me wonders if it'll work out for her, but most of me doesn't care.

Vaike is the first one to acknowledge Kei's and my existence. "So who are these Strangers?"

Lizza introduces us before we even have time to open our mouths. "No one's stranger than you Vaike...But allow me to introduce Kei and Minea! They've just joined the Shepherds. Chrom's even made Kei the new tactician. You should see all the tricks he's got up his sleeve!"

"Oh yeah? Can he do this?" Vaike then proceeds to burp so loud that it probably produced a small earthquake in some other country.

Kei, somehow finds a way to treat this barbarian kindly. "I'm sure I have much to learn in the belching arts, "Teach." In any case it's a pleasure to meet your acquaintances."

I'm not nearly as proper when I simply say, "Sup?"

My question was ignored as no one understands it. I was never good at changing my language to they way each world traditionally spoke. Instead Maribelle decides to scold Vaike. "Ugh, Vaike! That was abhorrent! Must you baseborn oafs pollute even the air with your buffoonery? And you, Kei! Don't encourage him! I'd hoped you were cut from a finer cloth. Hmph!" She finishes her dramatic act by storming out of the room.

Sumia rationalises Maribelle's actions. "Don't take it to heart, warms up to people slowly."

Lizza reenforces Sumia's statement. "Or burns too quickly! Hee hee! But yeah, just give her time."

Chrom walks into the room, making Sumia really nervous. If I wasn't sure that she had a crush on him before, then I'm sure now. "Ah! Captain! You've returned! I was-I mean, we we so-" The floor interrupts her when it makes contact with her face.

Chrom rushes to help her up. "Sumia! Are you alright? Those boots of yours again."

Sumia is now blushing and failing to make eye contact with her obvious crush. "No! I mean yes! I mean…" She senses how stupid she's sounding and ops for a sigh instead of more confusing words.

Chrom works past this akward moment by changing the subject. " All right, listen, everyone: in the morning we'll be marching to Regna Ferox.

Kei seems puzzled by Chrom's simple statement. "Regna Ferox?"

Sumia is nice enough to explain to him what Regna Ferox is. "A unified kingdom to Ylisse's north. Inhabited by barbarians, or so it's said." Yay! Now I get to meet several people just like Vaike! It must be his homeland or something.

Chrom further builds on Sumia's statement. "Warriors are what they are, and we'll need their strength to quell this new menace. Typically, the exalt would request such aid in person. But given recent events...Well, the people might worry should my sister suddenly leave the capital. So the task has been passed on to us. Now, this mission is strictly voluntary. So if, for any-"

Lizza interrupts Chrom when she yells, "I volunteer!" A part of me was surprised she didn't add "as tribute."

Vaike is the next one to Volunteer. " Mee too! You'll be needin' ol' Teach along for such a delicate mission!" I was seriously hoping he would say that he was too busy teaching his pet rock how to talk or something.

Out of nowhere a voice says, "I'll go as well." My hand automatically moves to my sword, and I almost unsheath it. Sensing the mood of the room the voice says, "What? I've been here the whole time!"

Sumia ignores the mysterious voice that I have yet to find a body for. "I...I...um…"

Chrom tries to coax Sumia to get her to say what's on her mind. "Yes, Sumia." Man, it seems like Chrom has no idea of the huge crush Sumia has on him.

"It's just that...I'm not sure I'm quite ready for a proper mission just yet. I'd probably just get in the way."

"Well, you could stay behind the main group, and if a battle is met, just watch and learn? Your choice, of course. But some lessons can only be learned on the battlefield."

"W-well, if you think it wise, Captain."

"Just stay by me and you'll be fine."

"Oh, yes! I mean-Yes, sir, I'll do that!"

I'm in my room, well at least it's mine for tonight. It's not too terribly late, but I'm tired from dealing with idiots all day. I don't have any pajamas to change into, so I simply plop onto bed in my clothes. I pull the covers over my body and get comfortable. With my body inactive, my brain's in overdrive, bringing back all of my concerns from the previous day, and other things that I wish I could forget. It takes me a while to go to sleep, like it normally does, but eventually I find it.

I walk into my third hour class, history, holding my binder and my history book. I'm in a pretty good mood because in all my years in school, this teacher is my favorite. I find that my friend is already at her desk waiting for me. I walk up to her and place my stuff on my desk before I dust off my school uniform.

"Hi, Emma"

"You know I don't like it when you call me by my real name, Alaina"

"Well what am I supposed to call you?"

"I did some research last night and I decided on the name Minea. It means Protector or something like that. It has a nice ring to it doesn't it?"

"I guess, but I still don't see why you hate Emma so much."

"How many times do I have to tell you? It's like the most common name in the country!"

"I won't argue with that cause I have three Emma's in my gym class alone."

"Exactly my point."

"So anyway about the subject of prom: I saw David checking you out earlier I think he's going to ask you to go with him!"

"You're not kidding are you? Cause if you are, I won't hesitate to slap you."

"Like you'd actually slap me."

"Is that a challenge?"

"Sure, why not?" I place my arm as far back as I can and swing with all my might. I stop a few inches from her face and say, "I can't do it. Not to you anyway."

"I knew it."

"I'd do it if it was someone I didn't like. Remember that one time?"

"Yes I do, and you're lucky you didn't get caught."

"You know me; I'd never allow myself to get caught."

"You totally fooled those teachers! I mean they didn't even suspect a thing!"

"They're really easy to deceive."

"No they're not. You're just really good at deceiving." The bell rings, but we ignore it and continue our conversation.

"I guess so. So anyway, I heard that part of the wall surrounding the city was damaged. Do you think…", I look around to make sure no one's listening to us. When I'm sure it's clear I whisper "It was the killing machine?"

"First: I hope not. And second: you know you're not supposed to talk about that here!"

"Yeah, that's why I whispered it." Alaina leans closer to me and talks in a hushed voice. "I heard it took down the entire city of Machi in one night."

"That's not too far from here."

"The damage to the wall was probably just the storm we had last night."

"Yeah I'm sure that's all it is." I pull away from her, fearful of what's to come. Suddenly the alarm sounds.

"Kids follow me!" The teacher yells as he pulls out a button from his desk and proceeds to push it. The wall behind his desk rotates like in a dungeon or old castle. Everyone gathers by the wall and the teacher flips it back around. The other side looked like some sort of high security prison. All the walls were made of steel ,and the entrance locked in several different places. I walk next to Alaina.

"This isn't a drill is it?"

"I'm afraid not." We sit down and wait for the teacher to confirm our suspicions.

"Okay, this is not a drill, so it's really important that you all stay quiet." We responded with silence. "Good." The teacher sat down himself and looked rather worriedly at the door, as if he was waiting for Korosu to bust it down. A few minutes passed in complete silence, then exactly that happened. There was a sudden banging noise on the door.

"Come on, let me in. I only want to kill all of you. Is that so bad? It's what all of you humans deserve anyway." A fist-shaped dent protruded from the door, then another, and another until finally the door gave away. The girl that walked through was, exactly that, a girl, not a woman as I had always imagined. She didn't look old enough to drink, but she didn't look young enough to be in high school. She wore what looked to be black jeans and a black top with a black unzipped leather jacket over it, although it was hard to really tell because of the blood stains scattered all over them.

"Thanks for being so kind as to letting me in. Now which one of you should I kill first?" Someone runs for the exit, but before they can get very far Korosu grabs them and breaks their neck. "Well, I guess that answers my question."

"Don't you DARE put a finger on my students again!" I look back over to the now standing teacher, whose presence I forgot.

"So you're one of those teachers huh? I like your kind of teachers better , they're more fun to play with." She has somehow binded him to the wall with ice. "There, now all you can do is sit and watch as your precious students die." She raises a knife in her right hand that I didn't notice she had before. Strangely it didn't have any blood on it. She swept the blade slowly across his cheek, causing a trickle of blood to roll from his face to the ground. The sight made me gasp. This caused Korosu to turn my way. She threw the knife at me but missed. I turned to see where it had landed and what I saw would haunt me forever.

My friend was laying on the ground, with the knife sticking out of her forehead. Blood was covering her once beautiful face. That's when I realised she hadn't missed, she was aiming for Alaina the whole time. I place my hands over my ears and scream. It wasn't a scream of fear or of pain, it was a scream of anger. I turn back to Korosu, determined to end her destruction here and now. "You'll pay for this!" I run towards her turning my hand into a fist and swing at her with all my might. She easily grabs my arm and breaks it as if it was a twig. She pushes me back to the ground, on top of my best friend. I roll off of her as fast as I can and grab my arm in pain.

"You're fun to play with. I think I'll kill you last instead of your teacher." Some outside force contorts my body to sit back up and look at Korosu. She has another clean knife in her hand and throws it at the person next to me. It scrapes his arm and hits the floor behind him. I'm puzzled for a few seconds as to why she didn't kill him, but it soon becomes apparent to me. The wound begins to fizz and then his arm melts. It spreads all over his body until he's nothing but a pool of liquid on the floor. It doesn't take very long for the liquid to reach me and stain my clothes.

I raise my hand from the pool and stare at it. This used to be a person just a few seconds ago. A living breathing person, with a mind of their own and their own hopes and dreams. All of that was destroyed in just a few seconds. I force my hand down, tears now in my eyes, and look up trying to avoid looking at the gruesome scene. But another one was about to play out.

Korosu now has a sword and is standing by the new student. She looks at me with a sinister smile and brings the blade down on her arm, cutting it clean off. Blood sprays everywhere staining everything around her red. She grabs her stub in a futile attempt to stop the bleeding.

All I can do is sit , paralyzed by fear, and watch my schoolmate bleed to death. Eventually the girl collapses, not quite dead yet, but not really alive either. The rise and fall of her chest slows, until it's no longer moving. I wish I knew her name and got to know her.

I don't have very much time to mourn her before Korosu moves on to her next victim. This time she cuts off someones head. She kicks the body toward me so I get a good view of his open neck.

There's a reason they never show it in movies. She tosses the head into my lap; it lands face up. His face is still full of terror the only difference is the light has faded from his eyes.

I try once again to move, but I can't. This time it's not fear that paralyzes me, it is the same force that made me sit up earlier. Here I am sitting, forced to look at a severed head until I can describe how it looks with great precision. Eventually I'm allowed to move again. The first thing I do is toss the head somewhere far away from me, it's expression still clear in my head.

Korsou is now by someone else, still with a sword. She seems to be waiting for me to look before she cuts her next victim in half. The top part lands near the severed head and the bottom part seems to stand for a second before falling on someone who was hiding behind the once whole person.

I begin to cry when I came to the realisation it was David. He screams and pushes it off of him as soon as possible. When he notices the blood that's found it's way onto his body he tries to dust it off, but it's pointless; it's not going to come out that easy. Is that how I looked when Korosu did something like that to me? How could someone enjoy that? The thought that Korosu loved it almost made me sick.

Before I can try to console David, he does something that must have been caused by extreme fear and sadness. He picks up one of the knifes Korosu had earlier and places it by his throat.

"No don't do it!" I scream at the top of my lungs as I stand up and begin to run towards him.

"I can't control my body!" He yells back followed by, "I don't want to die!" Then he drags the blade across his throat. I see Korosu smirk as I run past her and catch Davids dying body.

"Don't die. Please don't die." But it's too late, the light is already fading from his eyes. My tears fall onto his face, making it look like he's crying with me. That's when I realised that I loved him. I truly really loved him. It wasn't just some cush like I thought it was.

I desperately wished we could've gone to prom together. We'd talk about how horrible all of our teachers were and how hard our classes were as we slow danced. But all of that was never going to happen. We were all going to die here and now. Forgotten by the world. We were just some victims of Korosu that would be mentioned on the news tomorrow. People would hear of it and fear for their own lives instead of mourning us, just like I did when all the other attacks were mentioned.

"You seem to have really liked that boy. Was he your boyfriend or something? I wish I had given him a more painful death." I set David down and pick up the knife he used to commit suicide. I positioned the knife at my throat and prepared to join David, but before I could I was forced to drop the knife.

"You're not dying yet! You still have to watch the rest of your friends die. And when you do die I'll be the one to do it, not you!"

The way she worded that made it seem like she was the one who forced me to drop the knife. Is that possible? Can she control my body somehow?

She walked over to the person nearest to her, watching me the whole time as if she was making sure I wasn't going to commit suicide. She looked at her next victim menacingly and grabbed her long, brunette hair. She pulled on it making the girl who it was attached to stand. She looked straight into the girls eyes as she forced her hand into her stomach. The girl let out a blood curdling scream as Korosu moved her hand around as if she was looking for something. Eventually she pulled out what looked to be her large intestine.

Korosu pushed the girl onto the floor, leaving her to bleed out, and walked over to someone else, the intestines she was dragging across the floor made a path of blood.

She walked over to a boy standing in the corner failing at being unnoticed. She dragged him out of his terrible hiding spot by the collar and wrapped the intestine around his neck. She pulled, choking him until he died from suffocation. He fell with the intestine still wrapped around his neck. I had never seen anything as grotesque as that, except for possibly the open neck.

I lean over to the side to avoid puking on my clothes. It really didn't matter, they were already soiled from blood. I sit looking at the floor, not wanting to witness another death, but Korosu somehow forces me to look at her.

She now has a knife and is kneeling next to a younger-looking girl. She either skipped a grade or was just really small. Korosu opened her mouth and grabbed her tongue. The girl began to weep probably because she didn't want to die. Korosu raised her knife and swung at the girls tongue. It came off surprisingly easily. I thought that Korosu would lose her grip or something, but that wasn't a problem.

She pushes the now tongueless girl on her back. The girl rolls over but Korosu pushes her back onto her side and binds her to the ground just like she did to the teacher, with ice. The girls weeping increases as she slowly chokes on her own blood.

I sit there listening in agony to the girls desperate weeping. It seems to go on forever. Every time it seems like she's dying, she starts another wail. It sounds like she crying from underwater because the blood in her throat causes her cries to gurgle. Finally she dies, and her heart-wrenching cries stops.

Korosu has been waiting for the girl to die so she could continue her killing streak. She's sitting next to a boy whose face reflected that of the severed head. Korosu reached for the boys eyes. His fear made him open them wider instead of closing them which was a terrible decision.

Korosu grabbed both eyes and pulled them slowly out of their sockets. The boy screamed and tried to wriggle his way out of her grasp, but it only increased the pain for him. At least it looked that way, for whenever he did wiggle he quickly stopped.

Once Korosu had both eyes in her hands she forced open the boys mouth and shoved them down his throat. He couldn't swallow the two eye balls whole so he began to choke on them. He pointlessly put his hands in the international position for choking. I guess he was hoping I would do the heimlich on him, which I would if two factors didn't exist. First, Korosu will surely force me to sit back down or possibly break my other arm. And second, I have no idea how to do the heimlich. It doesn't take very long for his arms to become limp and the light to fade from his eyes.

Korosu walks over to a boy where more Korosus are waiting!? What!? How can there be multiple Korosus?! This is NOT good! One Korosu is bad enough, but imagine the chaos two Korous could cause!

All of them have a sword and are positioned around the doomed boy. One of them throws him in the air, and another jumps up and slices him in half, then another jumps and slices him once more. This goes on until he is just an arrangement of giblets.

His giblets fall like rain onto the blood soaked floor. Their is a white smoke where most of the Korosus are standing and when it clears they're gone. Good, there's only one Korosu now, just like there should be. Although it would be better if they all disappeared.

She somehow switches her sword for a knife dripping with some sort of purple liquid and throws it at a girl who's cradling one of the dead bodies in her arms. It hits her leg and she screams in pain. She pulls it out, but it's lacking the purple liquid. The girl continues to scream in agony as if she had been impaled with twenty more knifes. The purple liquid must have been some sort of poison.

Her skin turns pale and black foam starts to come out of her mouth. She drops the corpse and begins to have a seizure, still screaming in pain. Her eyes roll to the back of her head so only the whites can be seen. She stops screaming and soon after stops shaking. The foam stops spewing from her mouth and her head falls toward me. Her eyes are still rolled over to back of her head only now their black.

I back up a little at this disturbing sight. What kind of poison did that? I never heard of any but I'm not exactly an expert on the subject. It doesn't matter anyway, anything that terrible shouldn't be allowed to exist. Why is Korosu allowed to exist? Why does the world favor her?

My emotional breakdown doesn't last very long because Korosu moves on. She has a new weapon, a hammer. It's big enough to squish a whole human, which is probably what she's going to do with it. She must be really strong because she swings it over her head with ease. She brings it down with extreme force. The boy who was within milliseconds of death tries to crawl away but to no avail. He's completely flattened by the oversized hammer. I hear the sound of his bones crunching under the pressure of Korosu's powerful blow. A wave of blood rushes from under the hammer. I'm close enough to get doused in it, but I don't care because I was already soaked in blood before the wave hit me. However I do wipe all of the blood off of my face, to keep it from getting in my eyes. The wave of blood also hit Korosu, although she seems to welcome it and revel at the gruesome sight.

She keeps the blood soaked hammer and walks to a girl who managed to avoid the wave of blood. The girl backs up until she hits the wall and looks at it as if she's waiting for it to open up into a secret corridor but no such thing happens. Korosu swings her hammer back once again and swings this time sideways. The force knocks the girl off her feet, knocks her a few yards left, and she lands on her side. The right side of her skull is bashed in so badly that it no longer exists. Her expression is hidden by the blood thats covering what remains of her face. A very strange looking liquid is also running down her face, it must be her eyeball. I can tell by a colored part of the liquid that her eyes were green. My stomach tries to spew out everything it contains once again but it's empty from the last time, so I only gag. A sudden new wave of pain erupts from my arm, making me wince. After a little my head is forced back up by Korosu who seems eager to show me her next kill.

She no longer had the hammer instead she had a sword. She has already walked over to one of the few boys that remained. She kicked him down onto his back making him splash in the thin layer of blood on the ground. She swung her sword back just like how she did with the hammer and cut off his foot from right above the ankle. He screams in pain and tries to grab his stub but Korosu slices his chest open before he can. I thought he was dead but apparently he was still clinging to life. He manages to utter a week stop before Korosu kneels next to him and bangs his severed foot on his open chest around the region where his heart would be. He dies within the first blow or two but Korosu continues any way hitting him 9…10...11 times before stopping. She drops his foot with the shoe still attached now red and ruined with blood. It's lands upright as if the boys ghost was using it to stand.

She drops the sword and walks over to Suzanna, who I never really liked. Korosu forces her to her feet and impales her with her hand. She detaches one of her organs from her body, but she doesn't pull it out instead she moves it toward her lungs. There's a horrifying bulge that slowly makes its way toward her right lung. Everywhere it goes it leaves a trail of cracking skin behind. Once it's in Korosu's desired position she pulls out her hand just to repeat the process, but this time she drags the organ to her left lung. Suzanna make short quick breaths for air that kind of sound like hiccuping. I wish that was all it was. I know I despised her, but I never wanted her to die such a terrible death. No one deserves something like that, except Korosu. I try to apologize to her but my mouth won't open. I don't know if it's because of Korosu or not. I'm snapped back to reality when Korosu pushes Suzanna on the ground. She's still "hiccupping" but it's lighter and slower; she's obviously near death.

After she dies Korosu walks over to a boy who's playing dead. She picks him up by his collar.

"Do you seriously think that's going to trick me? I'm not stupid ya know."

"Please don't kill me , ma'am."

"You're laying that on a little thick aren't you? I'm not going to spare you because you're being nice to me. If you met me before I started to kill your cruel kind you would have treated me like garbage, just like everyone else did."

"No. I would never do such a thing -"

Korosu impales her arm inside the boy's body so you can see it come out the other side.

"SHUT UP! ALL YOU PATHETIC HUMANS ARE THE SAME!" She drops him onto the ground. His blood adds to the many others. "That serves you right!" She laughs in the most evil way possible.

Once her laughter dies down she walks over to her next victim. She moves her arms in a peculiar fashion and the girl begins to float. For one reason or another she closes her eyes tight. I can tell she's terrified, but she also looks sad. It seems as though she wishes it would've been her turn to die sooner. Surprisingly Korosu does nothing. The girl opens her eyes wondering why Korosu hasn't killed her yet, but as soon as she does Korosu flings her body directly at me. I roll out of the way as fast as I can, happy that I'm free to move once again. She almost slammed into me but instead she splatters on the wall behind me. I try to look away as I was free to move but not anymore, Korosu has paralyzed me yet again. I'm forced to soak in the girls splatter. There's what looks like squashed organs, tissue, and muscle on the wall along with her blood. Most of her bones fell to the ground with some flesh still attached to them, but a few of the smaller ones remain on the wall.

I'm full of mixed feelings when Korosu forces me to face her once again. She is now standing by the last student, except for me. She claps her hands and touches them onto the ground. A violet light appears and we all are lifted to the ceiling. Korosu forces the girl to stand up and grabs her long black hair. She twists it around her neck and then brings it up to the ceiling. She claps and touches the ceiling and another violet light appears. Once it vanishes I see her hair has become one with the ceiling. My eyes widen when I realize what Korosu's doing. Korosu claps and this time touches the platform and we begin to lower back to the ground after the violet light diminishes. When we reach the floor I'm left looking at her hanging. There's now tears coming from her eyes. I had a sudden urge to get my long blond hair cut, but I knew I wouldn't live to act upon it. I sat there shocked for awhile, but eventually Korosu forced me to look her way.

"All your classmates are dead now all what's left is you and your teacher. You have given me a great show and I thank you for that, but now it's time for the finale.

I'm forced to stand up, grab a nearby knife, and walk over to the teacher.

"IT'S YOUR TURN TO KILL SOMEONE NOW!" I'm forced to bring back the knife in preparation to kill the teacher.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I desperately scream at the top of my lungs as I'm forced to cut my teacher's chest open. his blood soaks my hands, which I had somehow managed to keep clean. I drop the knife as tears swell in my eyes. I thought that was it and Korosu was just going to have him bleed to death but she had to go the extra mile and force my hand into his chest. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I say as I'm forced to squeeze his heart. Korosu positioned my head so I have a perfect view of his face. It's terrible. He's wincing and grunting despite his efforts not to. I appreciate his efforts to make it easier on me but it just makes it worse, because it proves how much he cares for me. He lets out a blood curling scream when Korosu forces me to slowly rip out his heart, still squeezing it with great force. Eventually he slumps over, dead, when his heart is almost free of his body. It felt like it took forever for it to come loose, but eventually his heart is no longer in his chest, but instead in my hand which now lies at my side. I'm forced to bring my hand up and look at the detached heart. Once I'm free of her grasp I drop the heart and do my best to clean the blood off of my hands.

"Wasn't that tons of fun? I know I enjoyed it." I fall onto my knees and bury my face into my now cleanish hands. I cry and cry and cry as millions of feelings swarm through me.

"It's your turn to die now." Korosu says with a twisted smile. She forces me onto my back and grabs the knife I killed my teacher with. Once she reaches me she stabs me in one of my pressure points on my right arm. She keeps the knife impaled in me and stabs my left arm in a pressure point as well. She proceeds to do the same with my legs. She then moves on to other pressure points, making sure not to hit a vital area. She raises a knife above my head and stabs my eye repeatedly. The pain is excruciating, but all I can do is sit there and scream. My tears turn into tears of blood. She moves on to my other eye when I feel my eye liquid run down my face. I wonder if there's a blue spot in it. She stabs my other eye for what seems an even longer time. This added pain makes me wish I had never been born. What did I do to deserve this? Why is she going all out on me? Why can't she kill me faster? She stops stabbing my eye and I once again feel my eye liquid run down my face. She immediately starts to stab my chest away from my heart as to kill me slower. I keep wishing that I'd die and a few times I would start to drift away, but another wave of pain would bring me back immediately. I barely hear her mutter "I'm only doing this because this is what you humans wanted me to do. You treated me like a monster so I became the thing you wanted me to be. It was your decision. You chose to die like this. You chose to kill you teacher. You chose to watch all your classmates brutally murdered." My entire body is one big ball of pain. I've never felt anything even remotely close to this and I highly doubt anyone else on this planet has either. Was she using poisoned knives to increase the pain or to kill me slower? Why can't I just die already? Please Korosu, just kill me. Please, end it. I think you've had enough fun. I think my left side of my chest might have fallen off because I can't feel the stabbing anymore. What terrible thing are you going to do to me now with somehow avoiding to kill me? Please, I beg of you Korosu, just let me die. Let this pain end. I feel a stab in my throat and it becomes very hard to breath. I'm dieing! Finally this torture will end. The pain is still immense but it's getting better. I can feel myself drifting off, but before I can I hear Korosu say, "Ya know I killed an adult couple that looked a lot like you earlier today." I'm suddenly filled with despair. The happiness of dieing fades away and the only things left are sadness, anger, and regret. I no longer want to die. I want to live and avenge my parents, but the darkness takes me before I can do anything but morn.

I wake up screaming. Once I'm back in reality I find that I'm sitting up. I inspect myself in the mirror. My blond hair is badly knotted, even at the bottom of my back where my heir ends. My blue eyes look sad and tired, even though I just slept, and mourn for a trillion lives. A line of water runs from my eyes, and past my frowning lips. The covers that I covered myself in were on the floor revealing my red and black zig-zagged tank-top, black, short-sleeved shawl, and black pants.

I force myself out of bed and put on my black, steel-toed boots, golden key locket, and highly detailed golden pocket watch. I brush out my hair with my fingers and grab my weapons before heading outside. Normally, I would go to breakfast, but that dream has made me lose all of my appetite.

It's been a long time since I've had a nightmare about my memories when I was just a normal human being. Most of the nightmares about my memories are about more recent things. Although most of my nightmares are of the future, now. They used to always be about the past, but they have changed as my time begins to run out.

After a while of stumbling around, I find the place where everyone has met up to go to Regna Ferox. It seems everyone who volunteered to go yesterday has already arrived. Chrom begins to speak as soon as I join the group. "Is everyone ready? We've a long march ahead."

I'm about to say, "yes" when someone screams behind me, "W-wait for me!"

Chrom seems just as surprised as I am, by this. "Stahl?"

"Why am I the last to hear about this expedition to Ferox?"

Lizza seems even more surprised that Stahl was late to hear about it than she was to see him hustling here. "Huh? Vaike was supposed to...Vaike! Did you forget to tell Stahl about our mission?"

"The Vaike never forgets! I just don't always remember , is all…" This amazing comment makes me roll my eyes, while face-palming.

Luckily Lizza shares my feelings about Vaike's outright stupid behavior. "Ugh...I swear you'd forget your own name if you weren't constantly saying it yourself! Speaking of which, are you SURE you remembered your axe this time?"

"Hey! That was one time! Okay, twice, but training sessions don't count." Seriously, I'd kill this guy if he wasn't a part of the shepherds. "Anyway, I got it right here. Teach is loaded and ready for action! Glad to have you along, Stahl, ol' buddy."

"That makes one of us. I was in such a hurry, I had to miss breakfast! There were muffins, and cakes, and...Well, I can tell you all about it while we march…"

Kei seems to wonder about Stahl, just like I am. The only difference is he actually wonders enough to ask anything. "Your name is Stahl, right?"

Chrom answers Kei's question for Stahl. "Oh, I'm sorry, Kei. This is Stahl, one of our finest."

"Hello, Kei. Miriel told me we had a few new Shepherds. Er, Miriel's one of our mages. She should catch up soon. So where's the other new member I heard about?"

I raise my arm as I say, "I'm here."

"Would you mind telling me your name?"

"The name's Minea."

"Your a lot younger than I had imagined you to be."

"How old did you think I was?"

"Just...older."

"How old do I look to you?"

"Um...I don't know….sixteen…maybe even fifteen. So how old are you?"

I can't tell him my actual age so I decide to go with the closer of the two. "Sixteen, just like you guessed."

"Good. For a moment I was afraid I was really far off." You have no idea how far off you are. Let's just say you'd be a lot closer if you added up the ages of everyone who is important in the timeline of this world.

"Nope. You were right on." I direct my next comment to Chrom. "So are we going to be leaving anytime soon?"

"Yes. Let's start moving everyone." With that everyone begins their long journey to a foreign country.

Ya know I think it's safe to say that this chapter was longer than the other one. I think it's becoming a thing. So, yeah. Obviously this chapter was really...gruesome. I guess that's Korosu for ya. That thing is inside of Minea. So what do you think of her and all the things she did to those innocent teenagers? As always you can feel free to ask me anything to share anything you want. I 'll see you in the next chapter!