Selena

Selena looked at Laslow and Odin, her friends..partners across time. What they were going to attempt was extremely risky. Not only that, but if they succeeded, many people would be hurt. However, there was other people waiting for them, who missed them too.

They were standing in a small room in the Astral Fort, it was a clothing storage room back during the war. Nowadays, it was one of the few rooms not being used by Ausgi for candy making. But that wasn't why it was important. No, during the early-ish days of the war, a portal had opened here, one that could take them back to Ylisse. Now that the war was over and Faith was safe, they could return home.

"Are you sure we have to use Rhajat?", Laslow asked, breaking the uneasy silence,"you know, 'cause she looks like.."

"Tharja...yeah I know." Odin replied. Not even Odin, the one who could make jokes in the face of death, or in their case, really really upset dragon-gods, wasn't in a good mood today.

"She's our only choice. Leo would order us to stay, same with Forrest. Orochi would want to come, since she's your wife," Selena said, looking at Laslow. "Nyx and Hayato" she continued,"are all the way in the wind tribe, trekking there and back would definitely raise suspicions. Ophelia wouldn't do it either. It's also normal for Rhajat to come here, since her husband took this place over" Odin and Laslow solemnly nodded, putting them back into that uneasy silence. They all knew that the crystals Anankos gave them wouldn't work. They had shattered, along with assorted magical artifacts after Anankos's death. They had assumed that, like the Valla name curse, the magic was tied to Anankos's life force.

"I'm here." A droning voice croned. Rhajat had arrived, her book of hexes under her arm and her supplies in a pack on her back. "Is this the spot?" she asked, looking at the spot where the stones had cracked in the shape of four lighting bolt, meeting diagonally.

"Yes," Selena said.

Rhajat put her book on the floor and opened to a clear page in the back. This one lacked the stains and notes of the other pages. The only signifier was a scrap of paper sticking out, bookmarking it. Without speaking, Rhajat took out some chalk from her pack. Glancing at the page, every now and then, she drew the same symbol, four times, each one about four inches from the tip of a lighting bolt.

Selena moved to get a good look at the symbol. Rhajat had scratched out the Exalt Brand! How did she know of such a symbol? She tried to get a look at the book, without Rhajat noticing, but Laslow beat her to it. "Why are you drawing the Exalt's Brand?" he asked. Rhajat pulled herself up to a sitting position, her legs tucked under her. "That is the symbol of the dragon of time, the guardian of the Fire Emblem." she said, dismissing Laslow, oblivious to their suprised faces.

Rhajat got up and stood, facing the crack. She picked up the book. "You should stand back," she said to the trio.

Rhajat put her hands out and began to chant. "Nagaline , draco primum temporis , ut rescissa ego super vos in hoc tempus abruptionis." Each chalk drawing began to glow green, red, black, or purple. Rhajat's eyes turned completely white and blue whips starting appearing above the cracks.

"Mother!" A female voice screamed,"You can't go!" Selena turned to see her daughter, Caeldori running toward her.

"Caeldori!" Selena said, clearly upset,"How did you find out?"

"It doesn't matter," she replied,"you can't leave. All of you have families here. How could you be so cruel?"

"It's important," Selena said as she fidgeted with her wedding ring,"We have family back in Ylisse too. We had to leave our parents and spouses without any notice,"

"YOU'RE DOING THE EXACT SAME THING HERE!" Caeldori screamed, her voice becoming shrill.

A loud crack caused mother and daughter to stop arguing and look at the portal. The portal was wide open now, like large doors flung completely open. Some of the stones near the portal had disappeared completely, leaving a void-like black emptiness in its place. Rhajat had stopped chanting, her arms at her side, completely silent. The void around the portal was quickly increasing. In only a few seconds Rhajat was gone too.

Caeldori and Selena had started running, but Laslow and Odin were trapped behind the void. When they looked back after leaving the room, Laslow and Odin were gone. Selena stopped running. Her friend were dead. After defeating not one, but TWO dragon-gods, the thing that would kill them wasn't a dragon, or risen, or a Vallite soldier, not even a simple human foot soldier. No..it was a malfunctioning spell.

With this pause the void was able to catch up with Selena. The moment the void touched her foot, coldness swept her body. Everything faded to black. Then she saw a whirl of colors. She couldn't feel her body, but she saw flashes of images. The Omega Yato striking down Anankos, meeting Caeldori as an adult in her deeprealm, marrying Subaki, joining Faith's army, becoming Camila's retainer, meeting Anankos for the first time.

There was also images she didn't recognize. A man with dark blue hair killing another man in a purple robe with the Falchion, a light blue haired boy and girl with the same hair color, fighting back to back, a land, that vaguely looked like Valla being destroyed by a dragon of ice, with fire burning inside of it.

Then it was back to pictures Selena recognized. Her mother, dying in Grima's timeline. Fighting her mother in the successful timeline. Anankia sacrificing herself to destroy Grimia, fighting Vallite warriors with Chrom, Frederick, and Lissa in Ylisse. Chrom helping Anankia off the ground. Then everything went white. Selena or Severa as many knew her, never saw anything again.