Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Flames and Sparks . Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own Fire Emblem, Nintendo, Intelligent Systems and a few others do
(Adrestian Empire)
Damascus was knocked to the ground before Edelgard buried her axe in the man's back.
"Thank you." Damascus said before he parried a hit from a man with a sword before he stabbed the man in the chest and batted him to the ground.
Damascus looked at the slain Blue Lions before he cleared his throat and sighed.
"If Dimitri is in charge of this army, then he's going to win a war of attrition, this was the third wave." Damascus said while he tapped one of the slain soldiers with his glaive.
"This doesn't match up with Dimitri's tactics, he wouldn't order soldiers into battle this heedlessly." Edelgard said while Damascus hummed.
"Then it's a trick, he's probably launching an attack somewhere else and these soldiers decided to attack without telling him… Hmm, is a lack of discipline common with the Blue Lions?" Damascus asked and retracted his glaive and put it back on his hip.
"Not much, no. I don't know why they attacked us so recklessly… I'll leave you and go to talk to Hubert to plan our next move." Edelgard said while she turned to walk away.
"We might want to move on soon. I'm no commander, but if they were able to locate our camp? We might want to move on before we end up with a siege." Damascus said and Edelgard nodded and gave a kind smile before she walked away.
"I'm sure I did better than Lady Edelgard." Damascus heard from Ferdinand and chuckled.
"I'm going to guess that you were keeping count the entire battle? Me and Caspar did a lot better… I'm surprised to see her wielding an axe, hmm." Damascus stated, he sighed and yawned before he walked towards a crate and slowly sat down on it.
Caspar walked over while Damascus looked up at his friend.
"I'm glad you've survived the battle; I was going to wonder who I would end up talking to if you got a blade through you." Damascus said with a chuckle in amusement as Caspar who rolled his eyes and leaned on another crate.
"Very funny, I heard you talking about the battle, you look a little worn down." Damascus heard from Caspar and chuckled.
"Trust me, I think we all are. I really think we all." Damascus said and let out another yawn and looked at the ground.
"How are you holding up? I haven't seen you much since the last mission and…. I actually would like to ask how all of the Eagles are doing." Damascus stated, his eyes slowly closed.
Damascus heard a laugh before Caspar rested his hand on Damascus's shoulder and he sighed.
"I'm going to sleep soon; I'm going to end up passing out if I don't get some rest." Damascus stated before Caspar laughed again and sat down next to him.
"Well I'm sure we could all use some sleep… And I think the others are ok, why, you worried we're keel over if we don't keep up on rest?" Damascus heard from Caspar and he sighed and looked around.
"That's partly it, we're going to need rest anyway, we don't have much choice but to sleep. We go into battle without rest or prepare to march to find another place to camp?" Damascus asked before he cleared his throat.
"Then we're going to crash and burn, I really don't want to see you all dying in battle because we're exhausted." Damascus stated before he forced himself to sleep.
He walked a few steps and then he dropped to his knee and started to rub at his eyes.
"I feel ready to drop." Damascus muttered as he slowly started to drag himself towards the tent which he had set up. He yawned again and slowly began to sit to the ground.
He cracked his spine and started to sit down, his eyes were heavy, if the Blue Lions attacked again, he wouldn't be ready to defend the camp. He sighed and started to remove his armor to sleep.
He hated the action of living without his armor, it made him feel vulnerable, weak.
He slowly started to close his eyes and wondered if his sister had sent the Blue Lions to attack them. She had always been the one who ended up making chess like moves.
It wouldn't be beneath her to direct a group of soldiers to attack them, but someone like Dimitri? He wondered how they had gone over his head.
"Maybe I'm just overthinking things, maybe, but I'm onto something I think." Damascus said before his eyes slowly started to close and dreams started to replace his thoughts.
He yawned and he slowly started to drift into sleep. He hummed one last time before sleep overcame him and his thoughts slowly began to fade in preparation and he finally passed out peacefully.
He heard a laugh.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out this is the last story chapter not following the game for now. Next chapter will be following Crimson Flower's storyline. Next chapter will be on next Friday or Wednesday and will show Damascus and the Eagles on their next mission and will be longer. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!