Yes it's finally FINISHED! I'm tell an you, putting in applications for collage and writing essays in my AP classes have been taking almost all my time. Also this story scarred me a little, maybe becaues I had to write Oliver in it. Anyway I stayed up past midnight to finish this so if the ending sucks thats why.
Importante, please read: Normally, I can't stand people who turn characters gay when they are not. But I believe that Oliver is. In fact the things they say to Oliver I got from youtube commits on a Fire emblem walkthrough.
Another thing is I ask all of you who read this to please go on my account a vote on what story I should write next, so I can go ahead and plan it out. No point in writing a story that no one is going to read.
On to the story then!

Chapter 7: White Prince

"Why would you bring me such an ill-mannered child?" Apostle Sanaki yelled at Ike as she sat up from her seat.

"Look who's callen who a child!" Tormod shouted angrily at the Apostle.

Both Ike and Sigrun would calm each of them down and then the yelling match would begin again. It had been going on like this for over an hour and Lloyd was sick of it!

Somehow Lloyd was drafted into going in this meeting, no one from the other world wanted to be in the same room with the Apostle (especially Colette and Zelos). The only other ones in the room were Titania and Soren.

Ike looked like he was ready to strangle someone, Soren was board, Sigrun and Titania both looked exhausted.

Finally, Sanaki was calmed downed and sat back down in her seat. "As I have said, there isn't a single laguz that is still in slavery. They were all set free years ago."

"Lair!" Tormod shouted at her. "At this very moment there are still laguz being held by the nobility. Oh and the sentient, don't get me started-"

Ike grabbed him by the shoulder and told him, "You need to keep a cool head."

"But-" As soon as Tormod said that the Apostle seemed like she was about to argue back, until Lloyd did something incredibly reckless.

"All of you shut it!" Everyone was shocked to see what Lloyd what had done. When he saw everyone's face he realized his mistake, but figured that he might as well say what else was on his mind. "What about you cut the lies as Tormod said and tell us what's really going on."

"What do you mean? I've told you all you need to know," Sanaki told him, but her tone was quite different.

"You mean to tell me that when Ike and the others ran into a slave trade and we run into a liberation group calming that there are still laguz slaves, that it was all just a coincidence?"

Ike stepped forward and said, "Instead of using your own forces you hire us, why is that? Is it because you don't want others to know that there is still slavery here?"

A smirk crossed Sanaki's face as she said, "You all aren't as clueless as you look. Fine I'll tell you."

"Okay, how the hell did we end up doing this?" Zelos complained as they were getting closer to one of the senators mansion.

"Come on Zelos, if we do this then the Apostle will help Princess Elincia take back her country," Colette told him.

"I don't mind helping the princess, but did we really have to listen to that brat?" Zelos asked but knew the answer before he even said it. "Still though, why did I have to come?"

"Wasn't it you who was bragging that you could get us into the mansion because you yourself are a noble?" Soren questioned him.

Zelos gave the young mage an evil look, "You're a real smart ass, ya know that."

"Cool it, both of you!" Sheena snapped.

"Look, the sooner we get proof that this senate guy is involved in the slave trade, the sooner we can get out of here," Ike said as they were only a few feet away from the gate.

Only a small group came along; Lloyd, Colette, Zelos, Sheena, Mist, Titania, and Soren were the ones Ike picked. They all had the plan set. Sheena, Mist, and Titania would sneak around the grounds for anything the Duke might hide. The rest of them were going inside with orders from the Apostil to search his mansion for laguz.

"Okay, we'll spilt up for now. You three be careful," Ike cautioned them.

"Ike, don't worry so much," Mist reassured him.

The three women took off and the others made their way to the gate. The mansion seemed to loom over them as they got closer and the gates obviously meant to keep the curious out. Guards were stationed at the entrance and others were patrolling the grounds.

"Normally the rich want to flaunt their wealth, not hide it," Zelos whispered to Lloyd.

He nodded, I have a feeling this noble will be like no other we've seen.

"Halt! What business do you have with Duke Tanas?" The guard asked when they stopped in front of the gate.

"We've come here at the request of the Apostle, "Ike answered.

The guard's eyes were wide with horror, "The A-Apostil!" He cleared his throat and continued, "Tell me your business and I'll inform the Duke."

Soren glared at the man, "Do you really expect us to just tell you out here in the open? This is confidential!"

"We do have the Apostil's seal to prove it," Colette said as she showed him.

After examining it the guard, very reluctantly, showed them through the gate and into the mansion. The inside was completely different from the outside. There were statues and artwork of every kind all around them.

"Wow," Colette stared at in amazement, "This seems more like an art museum than a home."

"This Duke Tanas certainly didn't spare any expense," Lloyd said as he looked around.

Soon after that, a relatively fat man came down the stairs. "Welcome all to my beautiful home. I hear you're here for the Apostle, what might that be?"

Colette handed him the letter and he quickly scanned it. "Slavery! That's preposterous! I would never do something as low as buy a laguz!"

"Well you know how it is; rumors float around the public that one of the senators has a laguz in their possession, the Apostil has no choice but to check it out," Zelos commented.

"Yeah," Ike said, playing off what Zelos said, "So let us do our job and we'll be out of here before you know it."

Oliver sighed, "Very well. Come, I shall show you my glorious house."

As they began Lloyd said, "Did you get in a fight? Your nose looks broken."

The Duke was a little startled and said, "Well no, I fell and that ruined my beautiful face."

As Oliver walked a little ways ahead, Lloyd said, "I never thought I'd say it but I think we found someone vainer than Zelos."

"That's just harsh bud."

Mist sighed, "We've looked and look but there isn't laguz around."

"We can't give up yet Mist," Titania said as she patted Mist on the shoulder.

"I know."

In all honesty, Sheena would have liked to search on her own. Mist and Titania were in no way sneaky, most of the time they would have to knock out a guard before they alerted the others and hid them in a bush. But it was no use to complain about it now she figured.

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye she saw it. Perhaps it was the pure whiteness against the dark stones that allowed her to notice. "Is that an…angel?" She said when she looked up one of the towers. In the highest window, she saw someone with wings the same color as his pure white clothes.

Mist gasped when she saw him and Titania couldn't believe it. "Could it…No it couldn't, a heron?"

The women watched as someone suddenly came and forced the heron laguz away from the window.

"Come on," Sheena said, released from the trance now. "We found what we were looking for, let's go find the others and tell them."

Right after she said that, a guard shouted after seeing them. Shortly, more were coming toward them.

"Sheena, get out of here and find out how to get to the laguz," Titania ordered.

"But, what about you two?"

Mist smiled at her and said, "We'll tell my brother, you just find the laguz."

"Alright, I set off a smoke bomb and you guys run." She told them.

They both nodded and as the cloud of smoked cover them Sheena quickly disappeared. She now wished could take back what she thought about going it alone.

"As you can see you have searched every corner of my fine estate. So can report back to the Apostil that those rumors were false," Oliver announced when they reached the last room.

This can't be the last room! There has to be some proof that he's involved with the slave trade, not after all this time we had to spend with this man! Ike groaned he thought about it. This senator was strange man and if you thought about what he said for too long it could potentially scar your mind.

Everyone else was feeling the same way. But what was even more frustrating was that Colette said she heard wing flapping and when they asked Oliver if he had any birds, he answered no. So they knew he somehow had a bird laguz. But they haven't found even a single feather.

Suddenly, a few guards rushed in with Titania and Mist in their clutches. "Duke Tanas!" One of the guards exclaimed, "We found these two sneaking around!"

"Mist! Titania!" Ike yelled.

Oliver looked back from Ike to the guards in confusion. "What is this?"

Mist struggled under her captors hands. "Brother!" She cried, "We saw him! A laguz! We saw a laguz!"

Lloyd couldn't hide his smirk, "Well…it seems you've forgotten a room."

"Why don't you show us what we came here so can be on our way," Ike said calmly.

"W-w-w-what are you talking about?" Oliver stammered, "This girl speaks nonsense!"

"I don't know duke; you sure are sweating up a storm. You look like a guilty man," Zelos said.

Soren stepped up and announced, "We could do this the easy way or the hard way, Duke Tanas."

Oliver began to quiver at the door and the guards went to protect him. Then he cried out, "I'll never let you take my work of art!"

Everyone just stared at the duke, all confused at his statement. Lloyd was the first to recover, "Wait, we're all talking about the same thing…right?"

"Yeah, I thought we were talking about a laguz, not a…a painting?" Colette stared in confusion.

As Oliver stared in horror then ran out of the room screaming, "No one can appreciate his beauty but me!" The guards quickly ran after him and were having a hard time keeping up with him (he ran pretty fast for a fat man.)

But Ike and the others just stood there, all of them not sure on how to respond to that. Except Soren, "That is just wrong on so many levels."

"What a sick bastard," Zelos said with disgust.

"Come on, let's just find this laguz. And Soren don't explain what just happened to Mist!" Ike ordered after he saw that Soren was about to tell Mist what the duke was meaning.

Colette looked at Lloyd and Zelos and said, "I don't think I understand either."

"It's best you don't, Colette," Titania told her.

"Get her!" One of the guards screamed before he was kicked in the face by the female ninja. Sheena then attacked another one with her power seal.

She was getting nowhere! She found where they had hidden the laguz but there was just no end to the guards.

"Sheena!" She heard someone shout. She turned around to see Lloyd and the others taking care of the last few.

"Wow, you all got here fast," she said out loud, it hadn't even been ten minutes since the alarm went off.

"Well…once Ike asked them if they were willing to die for Duke Tanas, almost all of them dropped their weapons and got the hell out of here," Lloyd said blackly.

Sheena looked at them in confusion and Titania replied, "It's a long story, anyway have you found the laguz yet?"

She shook her head, "I know he has to be somewhere in this area."

Colette then walked over to the wall and placed her ear against it. "I hear it again, wings flapping."

"So we're going to have to break thought, huh," Lloyd said.

But as Colette stepped back, she somehow fell backwards. When she landed on the ground the wall began to slide open.

"See what I told you, Colette's trips are miracles!" Zelos laughed.

"Nice Colette. Alright, come on we're not finished here yet," Ike said as he walked through the hidden passage.

After Lloyd helped Colette up, they all quickly followed Ike. Just a little ways up some well-lit stairs they came across the room that was holding the white laguz.

The bird laguz back away from them; fear written all over his face.

Ike stepped forward with his hands out, "We don't want to hurt you, just want to help."

The laguz closed his eyes and laughed softly, "That's rich, coming from scum like you."

Suddenly, he dashed toward the window and jumped through the glass. (I think Reyson is cool enough to jump through glass.)

Everybody rushed to the window, halfway thinking he fell when he really was just flying outside the window, to see that the laguz's feathers were ruffled a little bit and had small, bloody cuts on his arms and wings. Before he flew away, he shouted, "If you really wanted to help me where were you when my people were being killed by your kind all those years ago!"

Colette was about to jump out after him when Lloyd grabbed her by the waist to pull her back into the room, but both of them fell to the floor.

"But he's hurt," she said when she got to her knees, "we can't just leave him on his own."

Titania got next to her and said softly, "You would have only scarred him more when he saw your wing Colette."

Colette looked down in shame because she didn't think of that. Lloyd put his hand on her shoulder to try and reassure her.

Soren picked up on of the heron's feathers on the stone floor. "Well…at least we have some proof," he grumbled. But then he saw that Ike was still transfixed at the place the laguz once was. "Are you alright commander?"

Ike turned to leave and said, "Come on, we're heading back to the capital." They had never heard such a tone from the young commander.

Mist looked at her brother, "Ike, what's wrong?"

"The Apostil has some questions to answer."

A few days later in Serenes Forest

"All of you hurry and find my precious little heron!" Oliver shouted at his troops.

Oliver and his troops have been camped out in the middle of Serenes Forest trying to find the heron prince for three days. You could tell by the way the troops looked they felt much discomfort listening to what the duke had to say about the laguz. The only reason most of them we're here was because they were in need of money or they were forced into work for idiotic reasons.

One of the soldiers walked up to the duke and gave his report, "We've found nothing on our end…sir."

"What! You must hurry and find him. Only I can appreciate his beauty!" Oliver said as he got right in the soldiers face.

But the soldier was gritting his teeth, fighting the urge to stab the sick, fat man. Luckily another one of the soldiers walked up and grabbed the other soldier by the shoulder and said calmly, "Don't worry Duke Tanas, we'll find the prince."

He then led them both further away after Oliver gave them leave. Once far enough, they saw a familiar white and green animal waiting for them patiently. The irritated one threw down his helmet reviling his long blue hair. He looked angrily at his companion, "Kratos! I swear, if that damn human gets close to me again I'm gonna kill him!"

The other one, Kratos, held his helmet under his arm as he said, "Calm down, right now we have to use that man in order to find the white prince. We promised the hawk king we'd help search for him."

Yuan took a deep breath and looked around him, "Hard to believe this forsake forest was once home the heron laguz. It's too much to say he was home sick, why would he come here and not the the hawk tribe?"

"He must have his reasons and from what I could tell from the meeting he is a stubborn as the hawk king. We're not getting anything done by standing around." Kratos began walking away with Noishe at his heels.

Yuan didn't move, but said, "Answer me this, Kratos," Kratos stopped but didn't turn to face his friend, "Were you thinking about killing that human too?"

"It…may have crossed my mind…once or twice." He then continued to walking further through the forest, but Yuan couldn't hide his smirk.

As they were walking Kratos was studying the dead trees and the burnt ground. "It's sad that almost a whole race is about died out just because of rumors," he said as he remembered the story of what happened here. The citizens of Begnion came and burnt Serenes and its people just because someone they suspected that the heron laguz was the reason for the previous Apostil's death.

Yuan scoffed, "If those idiots had thought about it, even a little bit, they would have realized that the herons wouldn't have been able to have even attempt such a thing as assassination."

Suddenly, Noishe began to whine and they drew there weapons. Suddenly a heron came out into view, but not the one they were looking for. This one was a female heron.

When the laguz saw them she backed away quickly. Seeing this Yuan and Kratos dropped their weapons.

Kratos stepped slowly toward her, showing that he had nothing in his hands, saying, "We don't want to hurt you."

She still looked worried, until Noishe trotted toward her and she began to pet him. As she did she was talking, but in a different language.

"Can you tell us your name?" Yuan asked trying to make sense of it all.

She responded, but in words they did not understand.

He sighed as he looked at Kratos, "It looks like she understands us but we don't understand her. So, what now? This definitely isn't the prince."

"We'll just have to take her back to the hawk king now. It would be bad if the duke found her." Suddenly Kratos flew up, looking around them. "The duke's soldiers…they're all over the place."

Hearing the approaching men, Yuan said, "We'll never get her out of here in time." The only way they could get out of this mess was if they got to the edge of the forest and then fly toward Phoenicis with one of them carrying Noishe (yes, they had to carry him as they flew). But two humans carrying a large green and white animal and a pure white laguz would easily noticeable.

"We'll just have to distract them while Noishe gets her away," Kratos said as he looked at Noishe. He walked over to the creature and patted his head. "Get her out of here," Kratos told him.

Noishe nodded and began to lead the way.

The laguz looked at Kratos and Yuan questioningly. "Follow him," he gestured toward Noishe. Reluctantly, she followed him.

Kratos and Yuan picked up their swords. "How many do you think we'll take out before we take off ourselves?" Yuan asked.

"You can count if you like; we'll just see who'll last longer."

"Well, if it's going to be like that," Yuan said as he threw his sword down and summoned his Double-Edged Blade, "I might as well go all out."

The two of them charged on the oncoming troops.

Leanne had been followed the strange creature for a while now. She had asked it were it was taking her and it would reply, away from the "bad guys". She trusted it as well as the two beorcs she had just met, even though there was something very strange about the three of them. But she really had to find her brother, Reyson, who was out here somewhere in great pain.

The creature that was called Noishe wasn't walking very fast but it was still very difficult for her to keep up. She soon began to breathe harder as her legs became heavier.

Suddenly, Noishe stopped and lifted his ears, then began to howl with joy.

He took off quickly and shouted, (Lloyd! Lloyd!) So she ran after him but stopped behind a dead tree to see another group of beorcs. The next thing she saw was Noishe pouncing on top a young beorc in red.

"Noishe?" Lloyd gasped when he realized what was on top of him. Noishe continued to lick Lloyd's face happily, he had obviously missed him.

"Noishe is in this world too?" Genis said wondering who else could be here.

Finally, Lloyd was able to shove Noishe off and get back on his feet.

"It's good to see you too," Lloyd said as he was stroking the creature's fur.

"Lloyd? …What the hell is that?" Nasir asked, for some reason he came along even though he couldn't fight.

Lloyd looked at the people from this world to see that they were just as confuse. Colette and the others were all happy to see Noishe. "What are you taking about, Noishe is a dog." (Lloyd and the others don't know what Noishe really are and I didn't feel like looking up how to spell whatever Noishe is.)

"That's what a dog looks like in their world?" Mist whispered to her brother, not taking her eyes off the "dog".

"That sure is the weirdest dog I've ever seen."

All of a sudden Nasir looked up and his face went pale. When they looked to see what he was seeing they saw her, the female heron. But when she tried to walk toward them she collapsed.

Ike ran over to her and carefully lifted her head. Noishe was right behind him and was licking her hand, whining.

Soon the mercenaries and the world travelers surrounded them as Raine examined the laguz.

"She's just unconscious," Raine declared.

Everyone sighed with relief, but Nasir still looked troubled. "How, how could there still be another heron laguz here?"

"I don't know but today seems to be my lucky day!" A familiar narcissistic voice said.

They all turned to see Oliver and his many troops around him.

Damn it! How the hell they sneak up behind us?" Lloyd wondered angrily.

"Now, hand me the lovely heron so I can be on my way to find my other work of art," the duke demanded.

Ike lifted the laguz onto Noishe's back and then drew his sword. "No way. You'll have to get through us before you get your sick hands on her."

The dead forest quickly became a battlefield. The group acted as a barrier for Noishe and the laguz. He watched as Lloyd and the others cut through each of Oliver's soldiers. He was perfectly calm until the beast laguz would get near him, and then he would get scared and fight the urge to run away.

At first the duke didn't seem to worry the mercenaries were lowering his numbers; until they got within attack range. After tumbling away from Genis's and Soren's combined wind spells, he looked at one of his officers and yelled at him, "Where are my reinforcements!"

"They must still be fighting against the two traitors, sir," the solider guessed.

The duke hissed furiously and got up. "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself!" He wiped out a yellow book from his pouch.

Soren instantly recognized what it was and pulled Genis out of the way of Oliver's powerful light spell.

"He can use magic!" Ike exclaimed after he stabbed a halberdier in the stomach.

Soren regrouped with Ike. "At least it's only light element. It's not as strong as other spells but I recommend not to get hit by it."

"Don't get hit, huh? Great advise!" Zelos said sarcastically after he just dodged another spell.

Suddenly there was a sharp cry from a hawk. Everyone stopped the fight to see a giant hawk fly down tearing through several of the duke's troops. He was followed by two other hawks and a…heron?

They landed next Noishe, which caused him to fidget, and then they transformed into their humanoid forms. The heron was indeed the same one they had seen in the duke's mansion. He had blood stains, but other than that he was unharmed.

One of the hawks was shaking and pointing at Colette, mumbling something about wings. This caused the other birds to look at him with worry.

Oliver was practically jumping with joy when he saw Reyson. "All of you kill all these ugly things and bring me my heron!" He cried with delight.

The bigger hawk stepped in front of the herons protectively. One of the few soldiers left ran up to the hawk in hopes of taking it out in its current form.

But when he brought his sword up to attack, it wasn't the laguz his sword hit but Colette. She fell to the ground hard with a large slice across her back. The bird laguzs' eyes were wide with shock; it was obvious they had never seen a human protect a laguz.

The solider who had hurt Colette didn't know what happened next because Lloyd quickly stabbed him. He dropped his swords and wrapped his arms around her. "Colette?" He called to her..

She looked up and attempted to smile at him but the pain was visible on her face. He pulled her closer to him as he waited for the professor to rush over to heal her.

Regal and Presea quickly charged at Oliver. Presea hit the ground in front of him so hard the rocks caused Oliver to fly up into the air. Regal jumped up and used his eagle dive to crush him into the ground. Ike ran and dealt the final blow. It was over. (I don't care what happens in the game Oliver is dead!)

They were able to convince Reyson to talk with the Apostil. The other heron turned out to be Reyson's sister. When she regained conciseness, there was a happy reunion between the two siblings. Colette was also fine, just needed a little rest. As they waited they soon saw Sigrun, Elincia, and Apostil Sanaki.

"The Apostil herself has come in the middle of a forest to meet with the laguz," Zelos said out loud.

"I thought it was a certain red head who told me I needed to get off my high chair and see the world," she rebuked calmly.

Zelos gave a nerves laugh, "I guess he did."

Suddenly, the Apostil did the most surprising thing, she bowed. As low as she could get to the ground, she begged Prince Reyson to forgive her people for what had happened to Serenes Forest.

But Reyson refused to accept her apology. Leanne tried to persuade her brother, but to no avail.

Lloyd couldn't take it anymore. "What's wrong? You have someone who wasn't even alive when this massacre happened begging for forgiveness." Everyone was a littler taken aback by Lloyd's outburst.

Then Presea stepped up, "I know how you feel, to have everything you love taken away from you. I wanted to continue to hate the people responsible. But my hate brought nothing; it only caused me to close my heart even more."

"You may think that by refusing to make amends with Begnion that it'll make things better, but it won't, no one's coming back. Hate only brings more hate," Lloyd argued.

Reyson looked down in shame and looked at his sister, "This is what you were trying to tell me, wasn't it, Leanne?"

She nodded and said a few things in their language and so finally Reyson forgave the Apostil and said they would work toward better relations.

Hope you like this, I'm not to happy with the ending. I didn't even look over it, I'm just trying to get this out before I go to church. Please Vote and review. Thank you and Good day!