CHAPTER 20

When Ike arrived at the villa with his company, they were halted by Begnion soldiers who misunderstood them for trespassing onto the villa's property. However, Ike did remind the troops that the apostle sent them for investigation of the villa. When they went inside the villa, Mist and Titania saw Reyson escaping, which put the Begnion soldiers in complete madness. This happened while Ike and Soren were having a strict word with Duke Tanas, Oliver, about what the apostle sent them for. But Oliver then wanted them dead after finding out what they were after.

"You fat beorc bishop!" Soren said.

"Oh no! You insulted me!" Oliver said. "Guards! Seize these little mercenary people!" he later exclaimed.

"That does it!" said Felidae.

"Felidae, no!" said Ike.

"What?" asked Felidae.

"You can't transform!" ordered Ike. "Chances are these wretched people keep the laguz as slaves!"

"Listen, Ike." Feradina said. "You don't boss my younger sister around like that!" she later exclaimed. "Just who do you think you are talking too?!"

" YOU! " Ike said. "You laguz changelings are risking your lives into this mess!"

"Then we are heading off on our own then!" Felidae said. "Come on, Feradina. Ike's probably just jealous and cranky right now." she later said to Feradina. Then, the two cat siblings witnessed Kamaria and Kito witnessing something else. However, it was too offensive for all four of them to handle for them being beorc and laguz. What made it offensive was the insults both Reyson and Oliver were spitting out at each other.

"You fat bishop!" Reyson said. "You as a human will pay for that!"

"Oh, you have insulted my beautiful elegant self!"Oliver said. "No matter then. I shall leave you!"

" YOU FAT, DIRTY HUMAN! " Reyson said.


"Prince Reyson…" said the non-royal heron laguz Swan.

"Poor, poor, Prince Reyson is injured…" said Craine in a sorrowful manner.

"Wait… you two are herons?!" asked Mist.

"We're not royal herons. Only the royal family possesses white, sparkling wings like Reyson's." Craine said.

"I'd better go help." said Ike. He later went to help Reyson, but Reyson refused help and flew off.

"Damn!" Craine said. "The prince got away!"

"And he even refused my help!" Ike exclaimed. "How ungrateful is he?!"

"Well, for starters, hu–I mean, beorc, destroyed Serenes Forest. The herons were blamed for the great Misaha's death, and each and every Begnion beorc villager got together and burned the forest to the last ash." Swan said. "Craine's parents, as well as mine, were killed in that frickin' massacre. As for me… I had lost my sister. And she's not dead. I know by my heron's heart she's out there somewhere…"

"It's Belabánva you're looking for, right, Swan?" asked Craine.

"Yes." Swan said. "I wonder if King Tibarn found out about the death of my parents and took Belabánva in as safe-keeping…"

"Who's King Tibarn?" asked Ike.

"King of Phoenicis' Hawk Laguz tribe of the Bird Wing Tribe." said Swan.

"I see." said Ike. "Let's head back and report to apostle Sanaki."


"Apostle Sanaki?" asked Sigrun.

"Yes, Sigrun?" asked Sanaki.

"The Greil Mercenaries have returned." Sigrun answered.

"Bring them to me." said Sanaki. Sigrun went to get the Greil Mercenaries. When Sanaki asked Ike how the mission was, Ike responded, saying that he had found one of the heron laguz royals. Sanaki was shocked, thinking that the entire royal family died in the massacre.

"The Serenes Massacre?" asked Swan.

"Swan? Craine?!" asked Sanaki. "You still live?"

"I am verging on hunting down my sister… and reuniting with her." said Swan.

"Oh… your sister?" Sanaki said. "Um…"

" GIVE ME RESULTS OF MY SISTER, APOSTLE SANAKI! " yelled Swan.

"I will not accept this kind of behavior around me, Swan." said Sanaki. "It means that you don't talk like that around me. Now, if you excuse me, I would like to kindly assign a new job to Ike." Ike listened carefully to Sanaki, who was saying something about finding Reysion and speaking to him. Ike did whatever he had to do in order to get the assigned job done. He then went off to Serenes Forest.


During the walk, the group stopped at an abandoned base camp for a training break. Stefan, the green-haired and purple-robed lion-branded swordsman, stopped Ike when he was headed out, asking him if he was interested in learning a new sword technique he himself perfected.

"Um… I'm in!" Ike said. "What do you want me to do?"

"OK." Stefan said. He then began his lecture on the sword technique. When he demonstrated, Ike found it a bit difficult for his level. But he tried it anyway.

"Hey, judging by that, you're actually not that bad at it!" Stefan said.

"Wow!" said Ike. "Would something like this come in handy on the battlefield?"

"Yes." Stefan answered. "Something like that… would technically come in handy for battle. Remember Ike, use it wisely. Come to me for any more questions."

"Alright." Ike said. "Will do."

"Ha ha!" Stefan laughed in excitement.


Meanwhile, with the tiger laguz of the Laguz Confederation Legion, Mordecai wanted to teach a skill to the two tigers of the legion, Kamro and Kiev. The skill he was going to teach to the tiger laguz was a special skill known to the tigers and lions of the beast fang tribe of Gallia, the Roar, which was a skill that was able to immobilize anyone. When Lethe saw the teaching, she decided to teach her Rend skill to the green cat laguz sisters Felidae and Feradina. Ike wanted to check out what was going on with the laguz.

"Hey, Ike." Mordecai said. "What's up?"

"I was just checking out what everyone was doing." Ike answered

"Oh, we were just teaching our laguz mastery skills to the Laguz Confederation Legion." Lethe said.

"Yeah. We were not taught any skills by our beorc handlers." Kiev said.

"So Cecily, Colin, and Hannah knew nothing about skills of the laguz changelings?" Ike asked.

"No, Ike." Cecily said as she was walking the wolves of Hannah and Colin.

"Oh, hi, Cecily." Ike greeted. "How are you doing?"

"I saw Stefan teach you a new skill while I was teaching that girl over there in the red dressing something new." Cecily said.

"You taught my sister something?" asked Ike. "What did you teach her?"

"I taught her how to use a special staff that turnes people into stone." Cecily said.

"Really?!" asked Ike. "You… taught my sister more staffing skills than she was already taught by Rhys?"

"Yup." said Cecily. "She's uh… pretty much a good offensive female soldier of staffing now."

"Well, I would love to see her skills for myself." said Ike. "But in the meantime, we have to get going to the Forest of Serenes. We have a job that the apostle has assigned us."

"Oh, uh… right…" Cecily said. "Colin! Hannah! Mount your wolves!" she yelled out for Colin and Hannah. "We're leaving!"

"Coming, Captain Cecily!" said Colin.

"We're on our way, Captain!" said Hannah. When everyone was ready, they went off to Serenes Forest to get the apostle's assigned job done.