AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story started with my best friend and I walking along a bush track and pondering a question: what would we be like in the world of fe:a? following that was months of discussion, until i couldn't hold it all and I started writing it all down. Now, this is a self-insert fic, and a blatant one at that, but what we've also done is mix everything up a little. I'm non-binary, so my character Tayna is as well. My friend is poly amorous, so her character, Red, is as well. And because we're so starved for representation in stuff like fire emblem, we've decided to change up the other characters too. who's gonna be gay? who's gonna be pan? who's gonna be aro? find out next time!
PREMONITION - RED
In the midst of chaos, I pause.
Ahead of me, I see Chrom running for Validar, grunting and swinging his sword wildly. Validar dodges with ease, charging up his dark magic, preparing to strike. My sister Tayna charges up her own magic in response, but isn't fast enough to stop Chrom getting hit square in the chest, blowing him back into the wall. Tayna finishes charging her magic and sends it straight at Validar, but just before it hits he disappears into thin air.
'Up there!' Chrom cries, pointing with his sword to the ceiling. I see Validar floating, charging another huge orb of dark magic. Before I can react he sends it at me. I try to dodge, but I'm still blown backward by the force of the explosion. As I fly through the air, I toss a charge of my own magic up at Validar, who floats away laughing, expecting the attack.
'You fools!' he cackles, before reappearing on the floor, aiming to hit Chrom with his spell. He launches it and Chrom gets thrown back into a pillar. Validar stands triumphantly, charging a final blast of magic, while Chrom is trying to force himself back onto his feet, using his sword to heft himself up.
"Die!' he commands Chrom as the orb of magic flies towards him. In a last ditch effort, I cast another, equally strong bolt of magic to dissipate Validar's. The power of the two spells colliding causes a great, white light to blind my sister and I, sending us to our knees. I look up, wiping my streaming eyes to see a blurry Validar standing coolly, sneering at me on the ground before him. Before he can say anything, I see Chrom rushing towards us.
'This is it! Our final battle!' Chrom says as he helps me to my feet. 'You're part of our team, Red and Tayna, and no 'destiny' can change that.' Chrom smiles at me, and I smile painfully back. "Now let's kill this dastard and be done with it!" With these words, Chrom positions his sword in a defensive position and begins to step slowly towards Validar, who had moved back to stand next to his throne.
Tayna stays frozen where she stands, having trouble finding the courage to fight on.
'Tayna, Red, let's move!' I hear Chrom calling my sister and I.
'Let's go Tayna. We can do this.' I grab her shoulder and she turns to me and nods slightly.
'We have to move closer!' Chrom shouts so we can hear him over the explosions that have started up behind us. Once they die down, I can hear what I can only imagine is the screams of our friends somewhere in the distance.
Validar chants something from where he stands, and the room starts to spin around me, my heart starts to pound loudly in my ears, and before I can process what's happening, Validar's dark form approaches us, standing above my sister and I, laughing. He begins to speak, but his voice is too low, my head is too cloudy, I can't understand a word he's saying. I grab my sisters hand, hoping she can pull me back into reality, but she's falling, clutching her head and screaming as a searing pain rips through my head, hers as well.
It eases slightly, long enough for Chrom to grab our shoulders and heave us onto our feet.
With hands still interlinked, we raise them to his chest and shoot a spell straight through him.
He clutches the hole in his abdomen, betrayal and pain contorting his face.
'This is not... Your fault. Promise me, you'll escape from this place...'
He falls to the floor. The world goes dark.