It was an average day, like all others. I was in my classroom, watching my friends eat their lunch, my own lunch still in its package. I was waiting for someone to appear, so I could have lunch with them. A girl. She was-

"Hey, Vann. Did you finish Awakening like you said you would?" One of my friends, a fairly tall guy with short black hair and glasses said to me.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I finished it last night. I chose to sacrifice myself."

"Again? How many times did you do that?" My other friend, a blond with shades resting on his head said.

"Well, if I was to count... probably about 27 times sacrifice, and one time not." I replied, with a weak smile.

"Why? Think about your friends in the game! Now they're all sad that your character died!"

"Yeah, that's too much, man!"

"Well... if you think about it in the long run, it is much better that way..."

"Well, true. But still, think about the happiness of those closest to you first!"

"Hahaha..." I weakly laughed, scratching the back of my head. "I know. But it just seems... right, for Robin to do that. I get too much into my character, so that's probably why I keep doing that."

"Well, that is true... When he played GTA V at my house last month, he played the story to figure out what the characters were like..."

"What happened?"

"He went ape-shit crazy and killed everyone! Even the cops couldn't take him down!"

"How did it end?"

"He had to leave, so he evaded the cops and stole a plane and headed to the top of the largest building he could find, and then jumped off."

"I ain't going to jail!" I said with a bigger smile. In truth, I blew myself up on the top of the building by accident, which, fortunately, didn't kill me, but sent me flying off the building. I was going to have my last stand there, but I accidently ended it myself. My powers scare me.

"Hey! Vann!" A female voice called out to me. Looking towards the classrooms entrance, a girl with black hair tied up into a pony tail called out to me. "Your sister is here!" She said and walked away from the door, heading back to her seat. My sister must've opened the door and she went up to see what she wanted, as the Class Rep.

"Sorry guys, we'll finish this after school." I said and walked away with my lunch. When I left my classroom, I looked to my left and saw my little sister.

"Sorry for interrupting you and your friends talk, Big Brother." She said, with a red face and a small smile.

"Right..." I said, picking up on what she was trying to hide. I knew my sister too much for her to lie like this, but I couldn't call her out on it. So, instead of thinking much on it, I sighed. "Well, come on. Let's go eat our lunch."

"Right!" She said, with an affectionate smile. Following my lead, she walked side by side with me up to the roof. We moved to the bench and we opened our lunches at the same time. Inside my plastic lunchbox, was the same lunch as my sister. Eyes downcast, I slowly ate my meal. To my left, my sister moved over to her right, so our arms were touching. With a big smile on her face, she ate her lunch at the same speed as me.

My sister... Yuki Sky. She wasn't always like this. But... when that happened, she slowly started to change. If only they, my, no, our, parents... I shook my head. It was all in the past. She only had me now. And so, I always spoiled her. I did everything for her. I tried my best to make sure she didn't end up like our parents, but it was a much slower process than I thought. Even after 10 years of trying, she only got a little better. The only up side to this entire thing, was the bond we now share, though I think Yuki is trying to...

"Hey, Big Brother!" Yuki said, interrupting me from my thoughts. "Are you still playing that Fire Emblem game, or did you finish it?"

"Hm. I finished. I might move on to a different game now."

"Another Fire Emblem, or something new?"

"I was thinking another Fire Emblem, or possibly Pokemon, depends on my mood."

"Hm." Yuki smiled. "Well, then, before you decide, do you want to play some games with me at home? I want to play that new fighting game we got last week."

"Oh? Is that a challenge? Very well, Lady Yuki! I will use all my power to defeat you!" I said, jokingly. Yuki giggled.

"Are you sure you can beat me, Challenger Big Brother?"

"Oi, that is Challenger Awesome Big Brother to you!" She giggled again. I leaned back on the bench and stared up at the sky. "Hey, Yuki. Have you ever thought about going to different world before?" I asked her, a sheepish smile on my face.

"Hm? One or two thoughts, but don't worry! I brought you along too!"

I laughed quietly. "Then, if I ever go to a different world, I'll make sure to take you as well."

"Yay!" Yuki said and hugged me. "But," she said, moving back so she could look at my face. "what brought this talk about going to different worlds?"

"...I was thinking about Fire Emblem Awakening, how some of the characters come from the future."

"Then, shouldn't you ask me about time travel?"

"Well, if you think about it, if you came from a doomed future, and you appear in a peaceful past, wouldn't that be like a new world?"

"...I guess." She said, finger on her lip.

"Well, there you go." I replied, ruffling up her hair.

"H-hey!" She said, a smile on her face.

Looking back up at the sky, I thought about our futures. What would Yuki be like later in time? Would she be the same? Or would she change? What about me? Either way I look at it, I can't really see us changing that much. Not with our past.

"Brother!" Yuki shouted, shaking me.

"W-what?" I asked her, looking at her panicked face. She pointed in front of us and I slowly turned my head from looking at her, and looking towards the other side of the roof, where the fence was, and below that where the track field was, and is that a portal? Right in front of us, was a portal.

"What. The. Hell?" We said at the same time, eyes wide. Portals? We've gone through a lot in our life, but never a portal!

"Does it lead to a different world?" Yuki asked me, slightly more excited that I would think she would be in this situation.

"Probably. Either that, or the future, or the past. Maybe Hell. Or maybe, something is about to appear and we'll be shown the truth of this world and we'll have to battle giant monsters, using swords or magic, and-" Wind started spiraling all around us, heading towards the portal. It seemed to be sucking it in. Huh, that was new. But it shouldn't really matter that much and now the bench we're sitting on is being dragged towards it and us with it!

"Shit!" I said and tried to hold Yuki back. I had no idea where that portal will take us to, and I wasn't going to find out!

"Big Brother!" She shrieked. Just then, the pull of the portal grew to be 10 times stronger and we were thrown off our feet and fell inside the portal. Darkness, enclosed us and the Sacred Awakening, commenced.

I opened my eyes a sat up. "OW!" I said and held my right eye. My eye was completely burning, as if it was on fire! Something started to come up my throat, and in a belch, I threw up blood all over the bed I was sitting on. Wait, bed? No, this isn't time for that! I was throwing up blood! Blood flowed down my mouth and onto my chin, and fell once again onto the bed or my body. The only thing I could think about, was pain.

Just then, someone entered the room. I couldn't tell who it was, since he entered from my right, but I did know it was a guy when he spoke.

"Dad! Hurry up! He's coughing up blood!"

"I'm on my way, Ross!" He said and busted into the room, nearly kicking the door down. "I have the medical stuffs here, get out of the way Ross!" The Dad forcefully pushed his son out of the way, who didn't mind, and started holding me down, so I was back to lying down on the bed. "Okay, Ross! I'll hold him down, and he push the elixir into his mouth and force him to drink it! That should help."

"Right, Dad!" The boy, Ross, rushed into one of the brown bags and pulled out a blue tonic, which must be the elixir. He then forced it in between my lips and tipped it down, its contents spilling out inside my mouth. I gulped down the horrible liquid that came out quickly, so its taste wouldn't linger in my mouth. Slowly, my eye stopped hurting and I was soon okay. Then, without warning, blood flowed down from my right eye, like tears, and everything turned dark as I lost my consciousness.

When I woke up the second time, I found that I was completely al right. I didn't hurt. My eye didn't bleed. I didn't puke out blood or my organs. I was fine. I even felt much better.

I stood up from my bed and moved to the door. At the corner of my left eye, I noticed a mirror. Turning around, I stared at the left side of my body. Then, finishing my turn, I stared at the front of my body.

I immediately noticed several differences. But since I never gave my appearance earlier in the chapter, I will start with that. Oh, I always wanted to break the fourth wall, but I guess this is the first and last time I will do so.

I had black, silky hair, that was brushed back at the sides of my head and in the front, it was brushed to the right, and fell almost in front of my eyes. At the top of my head, was a small cowlick, that sprouted upwards and fell down in a curve, facing forward. I had sharp, oceanic blue eyes. As for my right eye... it was slightly different. For some reason, the pupil was red. My outfit was completely different.

I had on light blue, light chest armor, with silver trimming at the shoulder pauldrons, and at the edges of the armor. I wore light blue, light bracers, with silver around it. I had on long white pants, with a thin black cord around my waist. I had on brown boots and light blue leg armor with silver trimming. Underneath my chest armor, I had on a black shirt with short sleeves and gold around the end of the sleeves. Looking at my hands, I had on silver, fingerless armored gloves.

All In all, it was very weird, since the last thing I wore, was a white buttoned up shirt and black pants. Either I was transported to a medieval world, and my clothes with it, or I was drugged and brought to a medieval town and all of this is fake. And the blood from earlier was most likely ketchup. Don't know how they did it, but some things are better left unknown than known. Like the fact that I had no idea how to remove this armor to go take a leak. Shit.

A few minutes later, or should I say half an hour later? Anyway, I finished going to the bathroom, which I found from the help of Ross, a boy with black hair and eyes, who wore a blue shirt and short white pants and brown boots and gloves. When I asked him about how I came to be in his house, knowing that if I asked him about my outfit, he would look at me strange, he told me that he found me outside of town, and the only thing I possessed was the cloths and armor I wore.

Of course, that conversation played out when I was in the bathroom, trying to learn how to take my armor off and to actually use the weird toilet. For some reason, he didn't notice the time it took for me to use the bathroom.

After I finished in the bathroom, Ross brought me over to the dining room for some food, that he had his Dad, Garcia make. Which was just a stone bowl with soup in it. For some reason, when I heard that his Dad's name was Garcia, I remembered that there was a Garcia in Fire Emblem, who had a son named Ross as well. Though, I couldn't clearly remember what he looked like, since every time I tried to, I pictured the Ross in the game as the Ross who was right in front of me. Weird, huh?

"So, what is your name, boy?" Garcia asked me when I finished eating.

"Vann Sky." I told him. He made a grunting noise before he spoke.

"Vann Sky, huh? Weird name."

"Thank you. I take pride in my weirdness." I said, rolling my eyes. He responded with a laugh that his son joined in.

"Since you wear armor, albeit very light armor, you must be trained in a weapon, right?"

Weapon? No, not really. But what should I say to them? Well, let's just say the truth. "No, not really." I said with a grin. "Though, I'd love to learn how to wield a sword..." I said, leaning back in my chair.

"A sword, huh? Unfortunately, I use an axe, and no not how to use a sword. Same for my boy, only at a much lesser scale."

"Dad!" He said to Garcia, red covering his face. "I can hold my own in a fight! I'm a good axe fighter!"

"Right, that you are! Strongest in Ide, as you always say." Ide? Must be the name of this town. Huh. It's the same one from Fire Emblem, where Ross and his Dad, Garcia, lived. Man, this place is so similar! I laughed a little and then froze. And... this is Magvel isn't it? I'm in Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. Well... Fuck. If I remember correctly, a war will be starting soon. If this is real...

"So, is there anyone here in Ide who can wield a sword?" I asked, regaining my previously lost attention.

"Right. Some guards wield swords. You can probably learn a thing or two from their poor skill and get your own sword, but it is a start.

"I guess." I said, scratching the back of my head. I did not want to die. I do not want to do. I can't die. If I die... how can I ever eat again? Or sleep? Well, if I'm dead, I'll be in an eternal sleep... And what about my sister? I can't leave her alone! She's demented! Without me, she might even go a bit crazy! Well, she'll be alright, if she is in this world. She was actually a good fighting in our real world, though it was more barehanded fighting, she'll probably learn how to use a sword, lance, or axe. Maybe ride a horse, Pegasus, or wyvern. Hopefully she doesn't die... I'd hate that.

"So, do you want to start using a sword, now that you're awake?" Garcia asked me.

"Yeah, the sooner the better." I said, a knowing smile on my face.

"Then, when you have a sword, let's fight some!" Ross demanded, standing up, pounding his hands on the table with a smile on his face.

"Ross! Don't forget a sword is an axe's weakness!" Garcia said, turning a sharp eye to his son.

"R-right!" Ross said, siting back down quickly. I just laughed.

"So, do you understand so far?" The guard asked.

"Yeah. Swing the sword, stab the sword, and avoid friendlies. Best instructions ever."

"Glad you think so!" The guard said back, a smile on his face. Clearly he didn't understand sarcasm. But that didn't matter, since I'll learn how to use a sword from someone like Seth, who is a Paladin and is already pretty strong.

"Okay, Vann!" Ross said from behind me. I turned around and saw him holding his hatchet. "Let's have a little match and see if you're any good with that lump of iron you call a sword!"

"Right..." I said and held up my slim sword, which is pretty much, the weakest sword in the game.

"Ross..." Garcia began, but stopped. He sighed and shook his head. "Go easy on him, he just woke up after all."

"Right!" Ross said and ran towards me, raising his hatchet to eye level, his smile gone. He was now in serious mode. Or what I decreed serious mode.

I moved to my right and avoided his downward strike with his hatchet, and followed up by slashing horizontally, but Ross leaned back and the blade went over his head. He then quickly got back up and slammed his left shoulder into my body, knocking me back, almost making me fall down on my butt. He then smashed the side of his hatchet into my wrist and I dropped my sword from the pain, and then I tripped and avoided a horizontal swipe of his hatchet, and kicked the hilt of my sword at the same time. This brought my sword back up into the air, before it could hit the ground, and Ross jumped back, thinking that I let go purposely so I could attack him like that.

Seizing the opportunity to the fullest, I jumped back up and grabbed my sword, luckily my hand found its way around its hilt on my first attempt and then I ran at Ross while I wielded the sword backhandedly. I then slashed forward, awkwardly, but he didn't notice as he blocked my sword with his hatchet. His strength easily started to push me back. Placing my right foot a few steps behind me, I pushed with all my strength, but that only made Ross push harder. We were at a dead still for several seconds, before I had a good idea. I then pushed my blade to my left, and Ross, surprised, fell forward and his hatchet sunk into the ground. I then moved my sword to be by his neck and he froze when he felt the cold iron tap his neck.

"I guess I win, huh?" I said, removing the sword from his neck. Big mistake.

"No, I win!" He then leaped at me and knocked me down to the ground, knocking my sword out of my hand at the same time. The back of my head hit the ground and I cried out in pain. Ross then brought his hatchet down and smashed it into the ground besides my head. He then grinned at me.

"Ross!" Garcia yelled and Ross jumped out of his skin. "Why did you do that? You had lost! He killed you with that blow, a dead man can't get back up and attack!"

"S-sorry..."

"You shouldn't say that to me! Tell that to Vann!"

"Sorry Vann." Ross said, helping me up.

"It's okay." I said quickly. Seeing his look, I continued. "It doesn't matter that much to me. Besides, if my attack didn't kill you, then the second I turned my back you would've sunk that hatchet into the back of my head, killing me instead. So, I really have to make sure that the fight is over, before turning away." I said with a small smile.

"Thanks then!" Ross said a smile on his face as he puffed his chest up in pride.

"Don't forget that you had actually died Ross!" Garcia said, a joking smile on his face.

"T-that doesn't matter!" He said back, face a tad bit red.

"Anyway," I said, interrupting their cheerful banter, "I'm getting pretty hungry, so how 'bout we-" Blood suddenly started to pour out of my mouth and I fell to my knees, before my head smacked against the ground, unconscious.

"O-oi, Vann!" Ross yelled helping me up.

"What happened?" Garcia said, taking me from Ross's grasp.

"I don't know!" Ross said back.

"Garcia, let's go back home and call up a healer. Maybe he has some kind of sickness or wound?"

"I'll call the priest, you hurry and take him back!" Ross said and took off in a run.

"Hurry up Ross!" Garcia yelled to his son.

"Right!" Ross yelled back to his Dad.

He then continued running down the street, heading to the nearby cathedral to see if a priest was in. Garcia then carried me back to his house.

~One week later, the bandits would attack~