Sorry! This and my next chapter were supposed to be up yesterday but then something was up on fanfiction and I couldn't get on until around 8 and then my mom made me get off before I could submit anything!!!!! Well here's Chapter 4! And because I couldn't submit 2 chapters last night and my friend deleted my other chapter this one will be really long!

Chapter 4

New Enemies and a New Journey

Everyone had settled down after awhile and Serra kept yelling out how odd but pretty Rayne looked. Rayne had her mother's icy blue eyes and her father's bright blonde hair but she also had some looks from her dragon side. Her hair had many silver streaks and the ends of her hair were an icy blue that matched her eyes. Rayne literally had to hide from Serra to keep her away from squeezing her.

It had only been a few hours since she met everyone but so far besides Lyn Rayne had made a good friendship with Florina, Fiora, Lady Louise, Lord Pent, Rebecca, Nino and Kathryn. She had made everyone at camp laugh when she spoke about how amazing Kathryn's looks were compared to her own. Lyn saw that Kathryn had amazed Rayne the most because she was so different from everyone else. Kathryn had dark purple hair with dark blue in it giving it a fascinating look. And her red eyes only made her look even more mysterious then she already was. She was also a specialist in dark magic. She had Canas teach her some spells.

Lyn enjoyed catching up with everyone and she held in her anger whenever she saw Ninian and Eliwood together. Suddenly Sain spoke up. "I don't mean to be rude Lady Rayne but would you mind telling us your past?" Rayne looked up and gave him a small smile with made a big, goofy (A/N: coughpervertedcough) grin appear on his face. "Okay but I warn you, it's unbelievable but amazing at the same time. It's better than Ninian and Nils story…No offense to you both." Lyn spoke as she stood up.

Lyn came over and sat by Rayne while she told her story. "Well to be honest I'm only half human. I have lived in this world my entire life and have dedicated myself to training with my weapons and my magic; especially after the death of my parents almost 3 years ago. The truth is that I am also half dragon as well. My mother was princess of her kingdom in the Dragon Realm. She met and fell in love with my father when she crossed over into this world using one of the few secret portals in my home world.

The only portal that remains today is the one called The Dragon's Gate, which I've heard Ninian and Nils came through. I grew up with Lyn and even met Florina a few times when I was growing up. She might not remember me because I was very little and she only met me a short amount of times. I'm also a warrior and study fighting and dark magic. I prefer to work with my silver sais and my two swords. My parents were best friends with Lyn's parents and we both grew up together. I kinda get a little wacko when it comes to fighting. Lyn didn't mention me at all because my mother erased her memories before she passed away.

She only got her memories just last night to be honest. And then we both slept, then you came and then..." Rayne continuing to mumble as everyone stared at her with shocked faces and Lyn laughed loudly, followed soon by Florina. Once the two girls stopped Lyn shook Rayne's shoulder in order to make Rayne coming back into the conversation. She blushed and looked down mumbling a small apology.

"Is this really true Lady Rayne? Are you really a dragon like Ninian and I?" Nils asked looking at Rayne hopefully. "Yes it is. I hope none of you think of me differently now though." Rayne spoke as she knelt down to Nils's level of sight. "Of course not Ray…Lady Rayne. We do not think any differently of you, I promise." Eliwood spoke as he got up to walk over to her. "Thank you all…really….it's kind of …..hard for me to make friends and such with my personality and looks."

Lyn was touched and she could tell the others were touched too from the looks of things….but then Sain had to go and ruin it all. "Milady, I think you look even more beautiful than a goddess. You're a star in the night time sky, an angel in the dark abyss, a…" Before Sain could continue with his perverted flattery Kathryn had stepped up behind him and hit his head with a magic spell book Canas had given her.

"Really Sain! Just scare the poor girl into a coma why don't you!? When will you ever stop these acts of yours?" Kathryn cried as she went on with her lecture about his behavior. Lyn looked over to see Rayne's head down and her shoulders shaking. She thought she was crying and was going to comfort her but stopped when she heard a tiny giggle. Everyone looked toward Rayne with a confused face until she raised her face and let out a loud laugh. Soon everyone else joined in, her laughter being contagious. When she and the rest of the group were done laughing, she apologized again but kept the smile on her face.

"It's getting late." Kent commented noticing the sun that was slowly disappearing. Rath nodded his head in agreement and told everyone to set up there tents and to get to sleep but he kept his eyes on Lyn the entire time. Everyone did as they were told. Florina and Kathryn were going to stay in Lyn's hut with Rayne and Lyn while everyone else slept in their tents. Kent walked by Lyn and told all the girls to have a good night and watched as Lyn walked back to her home to get everything ready for herself and her three friends.

Early the Next Morning…

Lyn and her three companions were the first to wake up. Florina and Kathryn volunteered to make breakfast for everyone and Rayne said she wanted to help so Lyn decided to go do a little early morning training. She didn't walk far and could still see her home and the tents of her friends from where she was so she decided to stop and train here. After about an hour she stopped to take a little break and saw Rayne headed her way with a plate of steaming hot food.

She stopped at Lyn's feet and handed her the plate. "It's really good. Rebecca came in after you left with Lowen and they helped us too. I just skinned and cut anything they gave me, but I do have this to say…Rebecca's a really good cook." Rayne said as she sat down next to Lyn. Lyn thanked her and dug in. Rayne was right, it was fantastic. She had forgotten all about Rebecca and Lowen's cooking when she had come home and started to make her own meals again.

After she ate everything on her plate and Rayne left to go return her plate to wash it, Lyn noticed she was being watched. "Can you please come out now?" Lyn asked, turning around and facing someone she did not expect to be there. "Eliwood!? What are you doing here?" Lyn asked as she stared at the red-headed lord standing in front of her. "I came to ask you to come and eat but I saw Rayne bring you some food. I then thought to ask you to spar but you looked so concentrated on your swordsmanship I couldn't bother you." Eliwood spoke as he watched her. Lyn blushed when she noticed he had been watching her for awhile now. She didn't know what to say. She was about to speak when she heard a cry from the camps area.

With a quick look at each other Lyn and Eliwood quickly ran toward camp. When they got there they found everyone outside, gathered in a large group looking puzzled. "Who screamed?" Eliwood asked as he and Lyn headed into the large circle. "We don't know. We actually thought it was someone here but it wasn't." Karla said as she looked around. Dorcas was about to say something when the scream came again, and it was close by. Everyone started running toward where the scream had come from and when they stopped they were met with a gruesome sight.

They thought they had heard the cry of someone in trouble, possibly a woman's scream but what was before them was not a woman…not even a human. In front of them stood a large army of ugly looking creatures, there eerie orange eyes looking at the group with a sick twisted grin on each ones face.

"What are these things?" Sain cried as the hideous creatures advanced toward the large army. "I think there war-goblins. Human sized monsters that are colored green and have orange eyes and a very short temper. They're also very dumb and fight for about almost any reason." Kathryn stated as she studied the large group blocking there path.

The goblin leader walked in front of his army and called out to Eliwood's Elite. "If you're hiding Lyndis of Sacae and Rayne of the Dark Crystliums you better leave'em with us before you get hurt; my boss wants those two real bad so you'd better run now." At this Kathryn swore she heard Rath and Kent hiss in response.

Before Kathryn could direct anyone Rayne walked forward and yelled out to him. "I don't know who you are and who you're working for but you're not going to get me without a fight." With that said Rayne ran right for the goblin leader.

Lyn smacked her head and then turned toward Kathryn. "Kathryn! Lead us quickly, Rayne was always doing this when she was little and sometimes she would go too far."

Kathryn nodded her head then regained her composure. "Lyn, you go fight with Rayne. Eliwood, Hector, Oswin, Wallace and Dart will go to the west and stop the group that is over there. Sain, Kent, Lowen, Isadora and Marcus will go north and stop the goblins there. Erk and Raven, you two will go with Rebecca, Wil, Louise, Lucius, Nino and Canas to go take care of the armored goblins that are to the northwest. Farina! You, Heath, Vaida and Fiora will take care of the goblin- wyvern riders. Harken, Karel, Jaffar, Matthew and Karla will go take care of the goblins ahead with lances. Lastly Florina, you and Serra with Guy, Geitz, and Renault will go and cover Rayne and Lyn!"

Everyone was quick with their duties. By the time Lyn had reached Rayne she had already killed 6 goblins with her sais. Lyn pulled out her Mani Katti and struck down 2 goblins of her own before kicking another in the gut and stabbing two more with her sword. Eliwood and Hector had already killed 12 goblins together. Oswin, Wallace and Dart had taken down the most so far with a total of around 70 goblins lying dead around their feet.

The cavaliers and paladins had an easier time with the goblins they were assigned too because there horses were much faster and they all dodged every attack aimed at them.

The archers, magic users and Raven were having an easy time taking care of the armored goblins since magic was good against armor types. Farina and her group took to the skies and attacked the wyvern riders, knocking the goblins off and letting them fall to there deaths.

The sword siblings, Harken and the two assassins were easily killing the many goblins that surrounded them with there speed and quick work with their weapons. Florina's group was doing great, so much that Florina left to go help Lyn and Rayne. Rayne and Lyn were by far killing many more goblins now that they both had their heads straight. When Florina joined them the girls twisted around, flipped over and dodged every goblin and attack. Florina had really improved. Now as a Falco-Knight she had more power and was even faster than before. Kathryn was using her magic to protect the rest of the group from harm.

Soon Lyn and her two friends had just killed 3 more goblins when the goblin leader from earlier had appeared over them. He threw an Ice Spear at the three girls. Florina and Rayne had managed to dodge the attack but Lyn was hit with all three spears. 2 hit her left arm while her stomach was hit with the last spear. She cried out in pain as she fell to the ground.

Both girls ran over to her side worried for her safety. "Go on. I see Serra coming this way. Go." Lyn said before she fell back on the blood stained ground and fainted. Rayne took off her cloak and placed it around her friend before she and Florina re-joined the fight against the leader.

Serra was over in no time and started to heal Lyn's wounds while she protected them both with her light magic. Being up graded had its advantages. Florina had taken down 6 goblins that had tried to attack her and wounded the leader's left leg and arm. Rayne had taken out both of her sais and with her heavy cloak gone she was faster and was a black blur to anyone in her way. She was killing twice as many goblins as before.

Serra had finished healing Lyn and was now protecting her with Kathryn who had left command to Fiora who had come to help with Lyn. Rayne kicked the leader goblin twice in his face, and flipped upwards bringing her sais with her and leaving two large, ugly scares on his face. He cried out in pain and Rayne knew he was almost defeated. "FLORINA! NOW!" That was all the young Falco-Knight needed. She and Huey (A/N: Sorry last time I said Duey! Blonde moment again) charged toward him and with all her strength Florina shot her spear through the goblins stomach, instantly killing him.

The fight was nearly over then and there and Lyn was taken back to her hut for rest. She was still wrapped up in Rayne's cloak but was awake and congratulating Rayne and Florina along with everyone else. Rayne was so proud of her she said she would have made a fine Dragon Knight which made Florina blush and hug Rayne.

Sain then noticed Rayne's outfit and stood closer to her and Florina but both girls moved away. Rayne had on a black sleeveless top, black shorts, black knee-high boots and an open black skirt with black fingerless gloves. (A/N: Think of Yuna's X-2 skirt but its black with red on the inside, long, it goes to her ankles and it's not on her side it's faced so her back side is covered and her front side is the open part. Also I love black as you can see.) On the back side of her top was the symbol for 'Dark' in a blood red color.

What else can happen???

No preview this time cause this was 2 chapters together! Sorry NEXT TIME! R&R