Fire Emblem Three Houses: Why Me?!

Chapter 2: Three Houses

Garreg Mach Monastery

My eyes open to the same wooden walls and I can see the sun has not even risen yet. One of the perks of being an elf now is only needing to sleep for four hours. ‘That is a massive perk since we need to do a lot of tasks now.’ True. First, we should get a lay of the monastery and see what's open. Wait, I should do my sword dancing while the moon is still out. It could also be a good excuse to check out the training grounds and see if they are open this early.

I gather my stuff like my daggers and helmet, and that’s it. Besides my clothes, I honestly don’t have much. Well, I do have my money. ‘Maybe we should get something for the room or maybe at least a change of clothes.’ Yeah. I hope there is someone who can give me a copy of my coat. Maybe a tailor would help.  It does have some damage on the end of the coat but it could be good to get a nicer one. ‘At least one with less tears.’ Yeah. Maybe get a cloak to use to hide where I’m holding my weapons. ‘Maybe we get those leg buckles you told me some edgy character has.’ I told you that because you wouldn’t shut up about Sigrun. ‘Hey, I haven’t given up on that inquiry. I’m just bidding my time to ask more about her.’

I end this little mental convo by opening my door and putting up some little traps on my door to see if anyone goes into my room without telling me. Thank you death note. ‘What’s death note.’ Crap. I’m going to have to now explain that after sword dancing. ‘I am excited to see that since you didn’t do it on our travels here.’ Well, I hope I do well then.

Felix POV

I let my sword drop as I felt the sweat all over my forehead drip down on the cold stone floor. I feel all the strength leave my body and I take just a moment of rest. I got lucky by finding out they don’t lock the training hall at night. This is only a bit of rest then I need to get back to training. Maybe if I keep coming here I’ll find someone to test the skill of my blade against. If rumors are true a man with the title Bladebreaker is now leading the knights. Maybe I should test my skills against him. I snap my head when I hear the door open to see an odd man. He is about 6’5 and the most striking thing is his metal helmet that covers all his face. My eyes then fall to see all the weapons he has on his person. He must be trained with a blade. If not, he is a fool to have more than one on his person.

Van’s POV

I open the doors to hear the door creak as I open the door and my eyes don’t need to adjust to the darkness to see that I have disrupted Felix from some late or very early training. Thank you darkvision. ‘It is a boon that has helped you a lot. By the by who is this Felix? Is he one of the students in one of the houses?’ Yeah. I’ll explain after we are done. I look around to see some space to do my sword dancing. I walk past Felix without giving him thought. As Van, I don’t ask questions if it seems innocent or if I can infer what he was doing. Even if I didn’t know Felix’s mentality I can see he was training. I take out the blade I don’t use for fighting but for this act alone. It’s a soft curved blade that is as white as the moon. I usually keep it away from my person until I sword dance. I start swinging my sword as my body already knows what to do. Whenever I sword dance it feels like my body moves on its own when I do the moves. It’s almost like the dance movements possess my body and I gain control once it’s over.

This is usually a thirty-minute dance but I can feel Felix's eyes on me and he leaves sometime during the dance. As I finish up I look up to see the moon out. I wonder if she can see in this world. ‘She.’ Sorry, it seems I was playing the pronoun game. The woman I was talking about is the Goddess Van prayed to when he left the Underdark. Her name was Elistree. She would help out the drow who wanted to escape the iron grip that her mother Lolth had on them. I wrote in his backstory that he prayed to her to leave the Underdark every night during his escape. She truly cared about each drow or Elf that wanted to have a different life than the one that was sworn to do the bidding of Lolth. The reason I or Van do this is she loves the expression of art in some way. Van does this in painting or sword dancing.