Thank you 'The Serene' for reviewing. I don't exactly know what a 'Mary Sue' is but I'll take your comment as a positive one. If it becomes like one, then can you point out where it is or, even better, advise me about it because I am clueless.
Chapter 5: Friend or Foe
The dark shadow turned around slowly to reveal a mid-teen girl. She had rose-colored hair and red iris eyes. Her wings were black and leathery like a dragon's with clawed tips, but her most dominant features were her horns. From the sides of her head grew two horns curving like that of a ram's. She wore a rather skintight black outfit. Overall, after you get past the initial shock, she was quite pretty. Err…I mean.
Anyway, she floated down to them and spoke in a somewhat kind voice though you could tell that she was deriving pleasure from their fear and confusion.
"You are very well brave not to run from a demoness."
Hector chose this moment to spoke up for what was pretty much going through most of the guys' minds, "Yeah, well you are very well endowed miss." Most of the guys' eyes were straying below her chin. Lucius being holy was not one of them.
The demoness in question merely raised an eyebrow at him before smiling flirtatiously at the camp. She suddenly shouted at them, "Eyes forward soldiers."
Immediately, they all snapped to attention, those that were looking, and those that weren't only looked down and shook their heads in shame.
Lyn stepped forward to speak but before she could the strange girl spoke.
"Listen, my name's not important but I've come to give a message. If you have defeated ol' Grapply, then head west. There was an abandoned fortress about 15 miles or so from here. If you wish to proceed with your journey, then you should head there." With that, she took back to the sky. "Who knows, maybe we'll meet up again." She blew a kiss at them and took off into the night sky.
Once she left, the flames didn't die down but faded away. The same thing happened with the screaming villagers. The army couldn't do anything but wait until morning before they could figure out what happened to the fire.
The next day
After questioning the villagers, they found some very important information. It was hard and tough as Lucius was nearly mobbed by a crowd of men asking him to marry them. He was saved, though he probably needs trauma treatment for a while. They found out that there was neither a fire nor villagers wandering at night. It was all an illusion. Besides the fact that all villagers were accounted for, the lack of burn marks kind of give it away. Now why didn't they think of that before?
The next question at hand was about the mysterious woman. Many of the male troops were still gaga over her. Was she trustworthy though?
Eliwood spoke with his fellow lords, "We've run into a dead end. The only way to continue is to listen to what our strange guest had to say and travel west."
"Can we really trust her though?" Question Lyn. She didn't survive on the plains by listening to what everybody said.
"Perhaps we should travel slowly and divide the army in half. Should the area be a trap, at least we'll have back up." Spoke Hector wisely. The loss of Mark seems to make him wiser because he has to think in Mark's place more. Either that or with the loss of Mark also took away some rather degrading statements made about Hector's IQ. Mark means well and usually jokes around about that so no harm done, but does his statement actually lower the views of Hector's intelligence? Does everything we say have an effect on how we view things?
They couldn't just stand around and do nothing. Well, maybe they can, but that would be boring. Anyway, after some more discussions, they decided to head out to the designated area and take their chances. There wasn't much else to do. They headed out to a fated encounter.
Okay, this chapter was pretty short but it was needed and important. Someone new was introduced and now they know where to go. I hope that many people are enjoying this story, though I would know for sure that they enjoy it if they can kindly write a review. Hopefully my grammar is improving. If it is not improving, then I'm just going to go and sulk under a rock and upload from there.
P.S. I do not have a crush on the new character. Someone mentioned it and someone else might so I just want to clear this up. We have nothing going on.