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After resting in an inn overnight (in the game), the group decided to ask around for Robin. Each time they asked, the answer was no. Chrom began to get frustrated. He had been asleep in the real world for twenty minutes, almost half the time allowed for AmuSphere use. Productivity levels would go down otherwise, but in-game, thirty minutes was equivalent to one day.
After almost an hour of questioning, they all met at the same tavern where they originally gathered.
"Any luck?" Chrom asked, everyone shaking their heads.
"Nobody's seen her, Chrom," Olivia told him sadly. "We have no more leads on her."
The prince sighed. He should've figured it wouldn't be that easy. At this point, he was getting impatient, which was the exact opposite of what he knew Robin would tell him to do.
"Well, how about we try to level up and complete some missions for a while?" Morgan suggested. "Maybe on the way we'll pick up some news on Mother."
Lucina nodded.
"I agree," she adjusted her sheath. "Mother would want us to enjoy ourselves."
"Alright, then," Chrom said. "Let's start out with some C-rank missions and move up from there."
They all made their way to a forest just outside Gale, a city east from Alfaria. Apparently there were rumors of a hidden mission in which some items were dropped by monsters. That would be a good place to start.
The forest was beautiful and enchanting, with small fantasy creatures hopping about and colorful flowers that changed colors as the sunlight shifted.
"So where are we supposed find these monsters?" Lissa asked, twisting a flower between her fingertips.
"I think we need to find their spawn camps, Aunt Lissa," Morgan said, scanning the trees.
"Shh!" Inigo suddenly said, peering down at a bush.
The others did so and slowly and quietly made their way to where he was to see what he was so excited about.
Within the bush was a large rabbit, the size of a backpack, and its baby bunnies.
"They say these rabbits are rare and drop really strong items," he whispered.
Chrom inspected the bunnies.
"Who gets the exp.?" He asked.
"I think you should, Father," Lucina sheathed her Falchion. "After all, you are our leader."
All the others nodded in agreement.
He complied and pulled out Falchion, leveling it above the rabbits. Before he swung his sword down, a jagged dagger flew from a tree and skewered the rabbit, bunnies and all. They dissolved and the item drops were transferred to the killer.
"Hey!" Lissa called out in anger. "That was our kill!"
A muffled laugh was heard from the treetops, a black cloak visible from one of the branches.
"Show yourself!" Frederick demanded.
When the stranger failed to comply, the great knight chucked a javelin at the branch, causing him to dodge and fall to the ground, landing softly on his feet.
This one had the same black cloak as the other guild members they had seen the other day, but his mask was black with crimson red eyes.
"Give us back our drops!" Inigo demanded, equipping his sword.
The stranger equipped his sword, a killing edge. Chrom quickly checked to see what class he was, but it mysteriously said "Unknown". His name was Mirage, and he was level 30 in his class. His skills were Counter and four "Unknown" skills. Where did he get them from? Unknown skills were skills that can't be obtained through normal gameplay, attainable only by transferred accounts or special DLC's. Olivia's Special Dance and +4 Luck are such skills, as she is the only dancer in the whole game because of her transferred account. Only members of her guild and Olivia herself can see the skills and what they do; to anyone else, they're simply branded as "Unknown" skills. But at the max, one should only one or two Unknown skills. Five unheard of, unless he bought them from someone else. Many of the classes from FE:A were included in Yume Online, except for the Lord, Dancer, and Tactician classes, all of which are impossible for him to acquire. He must've gotten his skills from past DLC's or bought them, Chrom thought.
"Hmph. Fine, if you want your drops back, then you have to beat me and two of my guildmates," he told them. "When I die, I'll drop the last pouch in my inventory, which contains all the drops from the rabbit. And if we win, then we get to keep our loot."
"Me?" Inigo asked, holding his sword in front of him.
"All of you," the man said. "Feel free to use whatever weapons or skills you want."
Two people emerged out of the shadows behind the man, in black cloaks and masks.
"Pleasure seeing you again," one of them said, her cloudy voice sadistic. It was the same girl from the night before, with the black carving on her mask. The man next to her was the one with the red paint of his mask, an axe hanging at his side.
Silence passed before she spoke again, this time with a slow laugh.
"I take it I'm the only one, then?" She equipped her spear, holding it in her right hand tightly. "Fine. Let's get started, if you've nothing to say."
Morgan checked their stats. The girl, Chimera, was an Unknown class with Astra and four Unknown skills. The other one, the male, was also an Unknown class with Counter and four Unknown skills, similar to Mirage.
"That's strange," he thought.
He snapped out of it when Chrom instructed all of them to draw their weapons before he accepted the party duel invitation.
They began, and immediately Chrom, Olivia, and Frederick charged Mirage, who equipped a levin sword.
"What?" Chrom thought. "Levin swords are exclusive to FE:A! There's no way he could have one! Unless..."
Meanwhile, Lucina, and Morgan fought Chimera while Inigo and Owain dealt with Ryū. Lissa stood near the back, her staff ready to heal.
Morgan shot Arcfire balls with his tome while Lucina attempted to stab at her with Falchion, but the nimble girl was fast and flexible like an acrobat, jumping up using her lance.
Owain slashed at Ryū with his sword, the axe user dodging his every attack. Inigo, whose sword usually always met its target, was surprisingly missing.
Lucina managed to stab Chimera's shoulder, wounding her arm. Much to the siblings' surprise, the girl took her spear and cut off her wounded arm. They took that moment to try and finish her, but they heard the sound of a critical hit activation and saw the Astra mark over her head.
"This is the end!" Chimera said before Morgan was struck once, then twice, then a third time, the fourth time his health dropping to zero.
"No! Morgan!" Lucina cried out as Morgan's avatar shattered into red pieces, a mumbled apology floating into the air.
"Morgan!" Inigo said in disbelief.
"Keep your eyes on your own battle!" Ryū struck him, swinging his axe down onto the boy's sword. Inigo blocked it closely, almost too late. Owain then lunged at the cloaked man and stabbed him through the stomach. For a moment he felt satisfaction, before feeling a searing pain in his own stomach before realizing that his enemy had the Counter skill.
He bled virtual blood before feeling the wound close slightly, his mother healing him.
Ryū began to bleed as well, but much to Lucina's shock, she re-equipped her spear with a stave and used a Catharsis on her guildmate before switching back to her spear.
".. How?" Lucina wondered. "A lance and a staff user?"
Chimera, seeing the princess' shocked expression, laughed before beginning to swipe at her with her long spear. Lucina managed to dodge all her attacks, and was about to counterattack when suddenly, her enemy vanished out of thin air.
"Where...?"
Suddenly she felt a spear impaling her from behind, a sense of shock and humiliation filling her.
".. What kind of skill is that?" Lucina thought before she died.
Lissa gasped in fear.
"Lucina lost?!" She thought to herself before she was bisected by the same spear, her body shattering into red pieces as well.
Chrom and Frederick kept Mirage on his toes, Frederick using his silver lance while Chrom used Falchion. Whenever they ran low on energy, Olivia would dance and replenish them.
They managed to wear him down just enough that Frederick could strike him in the chest. However, just before the great knight attacked, his lance disappeared from his hands and was replaced with a levin sword, to his surprise. Where Mirage's sword once was, Frederick's lance replaced it, stabbing into the brown-haired man's abdomen.
Frederick grunted in pain before the weapons switched themselves back, Mirage doing a backflip onto the ground behind him.
The great knight huffed, bleeding through his armor.
"That... What was that?" He heaved.
"I'd explain, but a good magician never reveals his secrets," Mirage said.
Frederick fell to his knees before he died, his HP slowly dropping to zero. Olivia gasped in horror.
Chrom suddenly felt a wave of nauseating realization as he stared at Mirage's levin sword.
"Where'd you get that sword?" He demanded furiously. "There's no way you could've gotten that from a DLC or this game. You were an FE:A player, weren't you?"
"I was, but I wasn't," he laughed mockingly.
"Either that, or you stole it from someone who..." His eyes widened as he recalled that he had only seen one other person close to him use a levin sword.
Chrom gripped Falchion so tightly that his knuckles cracked, anger bubbling up within him.
"Where is she? What did you do to her?" He shouted, ire dripping off his words. "Tell me!"
Mirage held the sword up, electricity crackling around the blade.
"Nothing she didn't deserve," he smirked. "It seems you're less daft than I thought."
Consumed by his rage, Chrom blindly flew towards his opponent, Mirage easily countering his strike.
"Careful, prince, your emotions seem to be getting the best of you," he mocked.
"What do you know about Robin?" Chrom yelled. "Where is she?"
Meanwhile, Inigo and Owain dueled with Ryū before Chimera decided to join.
"Two on two seems fair, does it not?" Chimera tapped her killer lance on the ground.
She charged Owain, weaving her blade throughout the air, slicing his sleeve open. He had trouble dodging thanks to his stomach wound, barely keeping up. Chimera suddenly swept Owain's foot with her leg before stabbing him clean through the chest in one fluid motion.
Inigo snarled in frustration as Ryū swung his axe at him, nearly bisecting him.
"You're pretty good, kid," the cloaked man said. "But it's time to end this fight."
He threw his axe up in the air, and in a second it split into two separate axes, Ryū catching both of them skillfully.
Inigo saw a skill activation mark over his head, of two crossed axes.
".. That's?!"
"You're dead!" He exclaimed, before readying his axes.
His enemy whirled his axes around in a circle around him, slicing Inigo's flesh as he charged.
The teal-haired mercenary toppled to the ground silently, cursing himself for being so weak.
As Chrom questioned Mirage, Olivia noticed his depleting energy level and began to dance, spreading her arms out.
"Oh, no you don't," Chimera suddenly appeared behind her and held a dagger to her neck before finishing her off.
"Olivia!" Chrom called out, realizing he was all alone. Mirage's levin sword began toglow, and a skill appeared above his head, one of a lightning bolt.
"Time to finish this!"
Three bolts of lighting sprung from the levin sword and attacked Chrom, encaging before electrocuting him. He cried out, remembering the same pain from when Robin struck him.
"We win," Mirage said smugly before disappearing into the shadows before Chrom died, the respawn menu popping up.
Author's Note: Thank you all for reading! Hopefully I can update before New Years', lol. I made this chapter really long because of the airplane and taxi rides, hehe. Anyways, as always, please feel free to review, follow, and/or favorite and stay tubed for the next chapter!