[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/krev7SC.png[/img][/center][center][b]Aubrey Adkins[/b] | [b]Odysseus Laërtiades[/b] | [b]Kyra Muller[/b] | [b]Joel Vaughan (Talus)[/b][/center]

	“I will make you Nohrian scum pay for poisoning Corrin’s mind and convincing him to betray his [i]true[/i] family!” The red-garbed samurai shouted before he lunged forward at me. I had zero idea what the heck he was talking about. Who was this Corrin person? I remember my red-haired retainer, I think Selena was her name, mentioning that name before, but she never explained who he was. You know what, I blame Talus for this. He’s the one who made me look like this video game character.

	When the man’s blade began to descend towards me, Selena immediately jumped in front of me and threw up her own sword, parrying the blade’s blow. For a moment, they locked their swords together, applying their strength against each other. However, Selena was able to exert enough force in order to push the red samurai back.

	“Be careful, Lady Camilla.” Selena called back to me as she held her ground, preparing to defend me if the man made another attack. “The high prince of Hoshido has weapon advantage against you!” 

	[color=b22222]“What?”[/color] I asked her.

	“Swords beat Axes, Axes beat Lances, and Lances beat Swords.” Selena replied. She still held out her sword in front of her in a defensive stance.

	[color=b22222]“Wait, so you’re telling me that the only type of weapon that is good against swords is the one weapon we don’t have!”[/color] Great. This would happen to us.

	How are we going to beat this guy? Sure, we could just trade blows until one of us keels over, but that does not sound like something that would be productive, especially since we still need to figure out how to stop that Game Genie guy. I guess if we know what video game these characters were from, we might be able to exploit a weakness or find an easy way to defeat them or at least make them yield. Unfortunately, at least in this situation, I never got into video games. Sure, I do have some casual knowledge, but not enough to know from what game this samurai guy is from. I wonder who would know.

	[color=b22222]“Hey, Talus.”[/color] I called out to our resident metal man, [color=b22222]“You wouldn’t happen to have a phone in that tin can of yours, would you?”[/color]

	“What do I look like, an all-in-one machine?” He snapped at me after looking up from one of the cubes he had been busy working on.

	[color=b22222]“Well, sorry for asking.”[/color]

	“Oh, I’m just messing with you, Vol.” Talus answered in a much more positive tone. Turning his attention away from the cube, Talus unscrewed a circular panel on the side of his head and slide it across the floor to me. “Just make sure you’re calling a cell phone that would have your number in its contact list. That why I can spoof your number so that whoever is one the other line will know it’s you.”

	I scooped up Talus’ make-shift phone and frantically began entering into it a ten-digit telephone number. When I held it up to my ear, I could hear the dialing sound that would play as you waited for the call to connect. At that same time, the red-garbed samurai charged again at us. However, instead of repeating the stalemate that Selena held him at in our first encounter, the samurai showed off his acrobatic skills. Using his katana to keep Selena’s sword at bay, the man leaped up and landed on her shoulders. He then used her as a spring board and leapt towards me, shoving Selena down to the ground in the process. The samurai would have had a clear shot at me, since I had one hand dedicated to the phone. However, Odysseus reacted quickly and used his bow to shoot the man out of the air. Although the samurai was able to parry every arrow that Odysseus sent in his way, that distraction allowed me to roll under the man’s attack so that he would land behind me.

	“Hello?” I heard Will’s voice through the phone.

	[color=b22222]“Do you have a minute?”[/color] I asked my boyfriend, while I dodged another one of the man’s sword swings.

	“Do I have time? I’ve been trying to call you ever since I heard about the situation in Pacific Point! Are you okay?”

	[color=b22222]“I’ve been a little busy. But do you know of any video games with a red samurai?”[/color]

	“Umm…that description could describe any number of characters.”

	At the same time, Beruka jumped up to help me out against the samurai. At first, she was able to block his attack without much difficulty. However, with each swing of the samurai’s electrified sword,  he began to gain the upper hand on her. If Selena had not scrambled to her feet and jumped into the fray, he might have overpowered Beruka.

	How was I going to better describe this situation to Will so that he would know what game this guy was from? Unfortunately, he hasn’t said his name yet. But I guess that would have been too easy. What else is there? While I was watching my two retainers struggle to hold back the high prince of Hoshido, it finally hit me. Selena and Beruka are probably from the same game, as they appear to know what’s going on.

	[color=b22222]“Do you know of any games that have two girls named Selena and Beruka?”[/color]

	“Well, there is Fire Emblem: Fates.” Will responded over the phone, now that I had some more concert information for him, “And I guess you are probably facing Ryoma, the high prince and heir of Hoshido.”

	[color=b22222]“Alright, so how do we defeat him?”[/color]

	“Well, all the characters in that game have a specific amount of HP and if you reduce that to zero, then the character is defeated.”

	With one fell swing, Ryoma knocked both my two retainers to the ground. Although the two of them were still moving, they seemed as if they were in great pain.

	“We’ll be back up soon, Lady Camilla!” Selena reassure me, although she was wincing as she spoke, “We just need to take a short breather.”

	“They’re just flesh wounds.” Beruka muttered in her laconic style.

	“You have trained your retainers well, Nohrian. However, they cannot hold up against my righteous cause.” Ryoma prepared himself for another lunge towards me. “Prepare for Raijinto to taste your Nohrian blood!”

	At this moment, unless I tried to use the ax that Beruka had given me earlier to block his attack, Ryoma had an opening against me. Both of my retainers were still out for the count and Odysseus was not close enough to help. Ryoma leaped up into the air with his sword raised high above his head. But suddenly, I realized that Talus has slide one of the cubes that he had been working on right in front of me. It began creating a humanoid wireframe until a blonde-haired [url=http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/soulcalibur/images/6/6d/Sophie.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080304041542]woman[/url] with a short sword and a small shield stood in front of me. Since she was just summoned from the cube, she had little time to throw up her sword and shield to block Ryoma’s attack. After his attack was stopped, the red-garbed samurai performed three backhand springs in order to place some distance between himself and us.

	“Oh, hey, Arachne.” Kyra told me when she first realized that I was standing behind her. “I like what you’ve done with your hair.”

	[color=b22222]“Nice to see you, too. But we have some bigger problems at the moment.”[/color] I then pulled the phone back up to my ear and continued my conversation. [color=b22222]“I’m still here. Is there any other way to defeat this Ryoma guy?”[/color]

	“Well,” Will paused for a moment to think about his answer. “Since Ryoma is technically a good guy, you could possibly talk him down, although it might not be an easy task if he thinks you’re a Nohrian.”

	[color=b22222]“Any ideas on what I should say? Other than a vague ‘we’re all good guys here’ speech?”[/color]

	“I’ll give you a crash course of the game and its lore, although it probably will be the sparknotes’ version.”

	While my boyfriend was filling me in on some details, I saw Odysseus jump into the fray. He hooked his bow to the quiver on his back and drew the sword from its scabbard. Ryoma, turning his attention away from Kyra and towards Odysseus, gripped Raijinto’s hilt as he readied his fighting stance. For a moment, the two swordsmen stood still, waiting for the other to make a move. And almost instantaneously, both men rushed forward and clashed with each other’s blade.

	[color=b22222]“How fast did you say you could tell me all this information?”[/color]