Sorry for the late update and all but I've been working on other stories.
A/N: I don't own Fire Emblem
Chapter 3: Band of Mercenaries
The group of fighters walked into a town on their way to Caelin and saw the town in ruins.
"What happened here?" asked Kent.
"Bandits" said Mark.
"Why does their marques do nothing?" asked Sain.
"No marques holds power here" said Lyn, "The Taliver Mountains are homed to gangs of ruthless bandits. The Talivers being the most vicious"
Lyn looked up at the mountain, "My village was on the other side of this mountain. The Taliver bandits…. They came at night. It took only one night" Lyn was saying when Mark glanced to his right and saw someone moving in the ruins.
"Milady, stay here. We are being watched" said Mark, before quickly making his way to where he saw the person in the ruins and spotted them and made his pupils slitted and with a burst of speed slammed the person into some of the ruins.
The person was a man with dark brown cloths on and carried two daggers on his waist and a short sword on his back. Mark quickly took the man's weapons and put Muramasa to the bandit's throat.
"Who are you, and who sent you?" asked Mark.
"My name matters not but, my employer told me to tell you the Ganeleon and Taliver are coming to kill your group, and the Fang ordered it" said the bandit.
Mark growled and slit the man's throat and ran back to Lyn and the group. Deactivating his dragon powers on the way.
"Lyn, I need you to take Kent and Sain and flee" said Mark and he nodded to Kent and Sain, who mounted up on their horses.
"What!? Why?" asked Lyn. "A large group of mercenaries is coming for me" said Mark, "I'll lead them away and rejoin you as soon as possible"
"No, I'm coming with you, I'm your perilous warrior" said Lyn.
"Your right but, my perilous warrior, I will not put you in harm's way with these people" said Mark, before nodding to Kent.
Kent rode up and grabbed Lyn and threw her on the back of his horse and rode off with Lyndis shouting, "NO MARK". Sain rode up next to Mark and held a hand out. Mark shook his hand and Sain said, "I hope to see you again my friend"
"We will Sain, I know it" said Mark before he hit Sain's horse's flank and Sain rode off after Kent.
Mark walked to the base of the mountain and looked up and saw a horde of bandits, with their axes raised and charging down the mountain towards him.
He raced to the nearest surviving building to warn the people when something fell next to him. He looked and saw a young Pegasus knight. He grabbed her hand and the girl went, "EEEK" as she pulled her hand away.
"I'm sorry for frightening you but, I must ask for your assistance" said Mark.
The girl looked at him. "I need you to warn the people in the village on the other side of this wall about the bandits that are coming" said Mark.
The girl looked at Mark and said, "My name's Florina, what are you going to do then?"
"I'll warn this small village here and go and fight them" said Mark.
"Let me help you then" said Florina.
"No, after you warn them, lead them away from the town. I will tell this village the same thing to meet you at the end of the wall and you will lead them away" said Mark.
"Why are you doing this?" asked Florina.
"Because, I don't want what happened to my village to happen to this one with the streets full of innocent blood" said Mark, "Now, go"
Florina got on the back of her Pegasus and held a hand out for Mark to shake.
"I'm normally shy around men but, you're so kind. I'm not nervous" said Florina.
"There should be horse tracks that way" said Mark, pointing towards the way Kent and Sain had went, "There you'll meet a girl and two knights named Lyn, Kent and, Sain"
"Lyn, you know Lyndis?" said Florina.
"Yes, now go!" said Mark before running to the village.
"Villagers, come out! You must leave!" shouted Mark.
"Go away, you already took all our gold" said a villager, who stuck his head out a window.
"I'm no bandit" shouted Mark.
"Stay here everyone, I'll check this out" said someone in the Inn.
A young boy with a bow in his right hand, with an arrow notched in it, and a quiver full of arrows on his back.
He lowered his bow and put the arrow in his quiver before saying, "Seems you were telling the truth" said the boy.
"My name's Mark, I need you to lead these villagers to the end of the wall and a Pegasus knight will lead the villagers away from this conflict" said Mark.
"My name's Wil, these villagers have been kind to me, I'll warn them but, allow me to fight with you" said Wil.
"I can't, this is my fight" said Mark, "I must fight them and stop them"
"But, you'll die" said Wil.
"Then, I'll die with honor" said Mark.
Wil shook Mark's hand and gathered up the villagers and lead them away.
Mark walked to the front of the village and saw the horde of bandits reaching the base of the mountain and slowly getting closer to the village. Mark then allowed the hate and rage to enter his mind and let it increase his strength as his pupils became slitted and his irises turned blood red and he roared into the sky like a dragon.
Mark jumped up into the air and crossed his arms in front of him in an x shape, then threw his upper arm parallel to his body and his forearms out at a 45 degree angle pointing away from him, and shouted "Dragon Fire!"
Jets of flames shot out of Marks mouth and burned about half of the bandits to death. Mark landed on the ground and cloths lined 2 bandits and then pulled out two steel swords and began slashing the bandits to pieces. He jumped back to the front of the town and put his swords away. There were still about a hundred bandits still left. Mark's right hand became covered in ice and he made it into a fist and thrusted it forward and shouted, "Ice shards" as hundreds of shards of ice shot from his fist outward and impaled some of the bandits. He then saw the remaining fifty bandits fleeing. "There is no escape for you" said Mark in a deep somewhat evil voice.
He put his right hand out, fingers stretched out; he pushed his hand down towards the ground and shouted, "Glacial Rush!" Sharp pillars of ice shot out of the ground and raced towards the remaining bandits. The bandits split into two groups. Mark put his left hand on top of his right and bent down and sent them apart from each other, keeping his hands close to the ground. The pillars split in two groups and chased the bandits relentlessly. "Now, die" said Mark as he stood up and put his hands towards the sky. Ten massive pillars shot out of the ground and the top of each pillar was covered in blood. He put his hands down and the pillars of ice retreated into the ground. Mark stumbled as he deactivated his dragon powers. He walked towards the village and upon walking thru the gates; he fell to the ground unconscious. It was a day later that Mark woke up in a bed in an Inn, with Lyn sitting in a chair next to the bed, in a deep sleep with her head on the bed. Mark slowly got up and picked Lyn up and laid her down on the bed and got clean clothes on and walked down the stairs in the Inn and saw Kent, talking to Wil and Sain, trying to flirt with Florina. As Mark got to the bottom of the stairs, they all came over and started hugging him.
"How did you find me?" asked Mark.
"Lyn begged me to go back and see if you were still there" said Florina, "When I saw you unconscious, I picked you up and put you on the back of Huey and brought you to her and we went to the nearest town and that's how we got here"
"Ok, so when do we leave?" asked Mark.
"Well, since you got up it will be sooner" said a feminine voice from the stairs. Mark turned and saw Lyn walking down the stairs. He turned and walked towards her and embraced her in a hug.
"I'm so sorry for making you worry again" said Mark. Lyn broke away from the embrace and smiled at Mark and quickly kissed him on the lips and whispered in his ear, "If your sorry, then you'll kiss me back"
Mark shook his head and kissed her back. Florina stood in the back and sighed. Kent and Wil shrugged their shoulders and Sain shook his head and smiled.