---Joa's PoV---
"You learned that really fast" Rhys told you after a while. You and caro were training with the Greil mercenaries for quiet a few weeks now, you had gotten used to it al by now. "Oke now try the moves" Rhys suggested you, you nodded and stood up. You spun around and moved your arm (in a mage-like way) and looked at Rhys. "Almost, but it's more like this" he say walking up to you, stood behind you and gently took hold of your hand. "It's more like this" he said and helped you through the move. As soon as you finished Boyd walked up to you. "Rhys Oscar needs your help and Joa can you get Ike and Caro?" he asked and you both just nodded.
You walked down the path to where your friend always train, still lost in though. For some reason you kept thinking of what just happened and blushed. Even though you were lost in though you did find the other two in a small clearing. Ike seemed to say something to which caro nodded, but thanks to the wind you couldn't hear it and you turned your attention back to the two. Caro sat down and was rubbing her arm, Ike turned to her and they talked and even though caro looked tired she still smiled. "Really her, to like this" you though smiling, you were about to leave when you remembered lunch was about ready and you had to tell them. You walked up to them and poked caro. "Hay, lunch is ready." You said got up, while Ike extended a hand to pull caro up. And as soon as you turned around you got poked by caro: "payback" she said smiling.
---Mercenary stronghold, Caro's PoV---
"Everything is still pretty normal with Boyd stealing Rolf food and Mist and Titania trying to make him stop, but aside from the normal weirdness everything was pretty normal" you though as more people joined in. Soren and Shinon left with both very annoyed looks on their faces.
"Anyway, mist can you get Soren and Shinon so we can divide the jobs?" Titania asked the girl with a sigh, the rest of the table had calmed down by now. Once everyone was back Soren gave Ike a list with jobs. "Oke Rhys, you that Joa with you and chase of some dark mages in a nearby village" Ike said looking at the saint and the young mage. "Titania, you take Oscar and Mist with you and escort a noble family" he said looking at his deputy commander. "Boyd, Rolf, Shinon, Soren and Gatrie are gonna help a nearby village with a bandit-problem" he said looking at them. "And Caro, You're coming with me. We're going to help a friend" he said to me, after that everyone got up and left to prepare.
"Hey Ike. What kind of things do I have to pack?" you asked your purple-haired-friend. "A sword, some clothes and some food, but aside from that I don't know yet. They haven't said what they needed help with" he answered; you nodded and went to your room to pack.
---Joa's PoV---
"Are we almost there?" you asked not wanting to whine, but your feet were sore already "I've never like long walks. Why don't the have bikes here or so" you thought to yourself as you entered a village. "Well, if you look around you you can see were we are" Rhys answered calmly. "UH, ooohhh. Sorry, I wasn't really paying attention" Joa said in a little voice. "Are you the mercenaries who were going to help us" an old sounding voice said. "We are" Rhys answered walking up to the man. "You're sure just the two of you are enough?" the man, who was probably the village elder or so, asked looking at you. "I'm sure we are" Rhys smiling at you, you gave a weak smile in return. "If you say so. Well, there are about five of them, we think" the elder told you. "So what should we do now" you asked Rhys. "Well uhmmm…? How often do these mages come?" Rhys asked turning his attention back to the elder. "Well…? They don't have a pattern in their timing, but at least 3 times a week. So we think it's best if you simply stay here until they come again" the elder suggested sincerely. You gave Rhys a bit of an unsure look but he smiled and nodded, "I believe your right, so we'll take your offer".
---Caro's PoV---
"Ike, who are we going to help anyway" you asked him. "Ranulf, an old friend." He answered without turning to face you. "And he hasn't told us what he wanted us to do" you asked yourself more than anyone else. The rest of the journey to our meeting point passed without much trouble or talking. You had almost reached the Gallian-Crimean-boarder, as you saw a figure waiting under a tree. "On time as always" Ike mumbled and the figure waved at you as you walked up to him. "Hay Ike, who's the new girl?" the bleu-haired person, with cat-ears and a tail, asked. "Ranulf this is Caro, Caro this is Ranulf" Ike introduced you to each other. The bleu cat smiled at you: "nice to meet you" "same" you answered also with a smile. "Oke, what do you need help with?" Ike asked his bleu-haired friend. "well, we're not sure who did it but, someone kidnapped some laguz kids cuz' they say we kidnapped a beorc girl, we got a letter" Ranulf explained. "Have a plan?" Ike asked. "Not really that's why we asked you" "so we have to thing of something…"
"So…" you asked hesitantly: "what should that girl look like?". "Don't tell me you plan to…" Ike asked you with a sigh. "Why not?" "That's one thing but, what's the rest of the plan" Ranulf asked you. "Uhmm…" you thought. "yeah. Well, if they do an exchange I'll just walk up to them and about half way grab the kids, run back and you cover me" you explained. "Sounds pretty sound" Ranulf said, Ike sighed: "fine but, then you stay with the kids and don't attack unless they come at you. Deal?" and you nodded.
---Joa's PoV---
"How long do you think it's going to take before these guys get back?" you asked your companion as you sat in the hall of the inn. "No idea, to be honest" he answered with a slight sigh. "I'm bored" you moaned and Rhys smiled slightly: "then why don't you go and practice a little more?" Rhys asked and you jumped up. "Good idea" you said walking out into the back yard.
After practicing for a while you got tired of hitting targets and decided to walk around the village for a while. "It really is nice here." You thought to yourself as you continued down the main road. "These guys are here again" you heard some children say and walked into the direction they had pointed. You saw the mages, though it was only three of them and not five. "What if they have even more people?" you asked yourself ask you started feeling sleepy. One of the mages walked up to you and while you fell asleep he said: "we'll show you what happens to people how spy on us".
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Sorry it took so long to update, kinda out of inspiration. But I found some XD
So pls review, I wanno know what you think about this
Oke byby people