Hello everyone I'm J the stickybeak and this is my first fanfiction. Since no one cares about who I am until I produce a story worth reading lets gets into the details for this fic. As stated in the description, I will be skipping the early game chapters because they're boring and readers don't want to slug through half a dozen chapters of what is mostly game script just to find out whether it's even the route they want to read about. Any important information can be covered in bite-sized flashbacks.

Second big change I'm doing is four Corrins (they're quadruplets): two male and two female. Corrin/Kamui will be male and get Yato while his sisters Rose and Lily (Hoshido names pending) will each get a dragon stone. Lastly, Silver inherited Mikoto's future sight and has been dreaming about the decision and everything that comes after it for years, trying every combination over and over to try and get a happily ever after. All of them will have their default appearance, except Silver wears boots.

This story will not contain any OCs but will include several of the Awakening children who have formed a search squad looking for the first three. They will include Lucina, Morgan(F) and Cynthia among others that will be decided at a later date depending on feedback.

Lastly I will be changing points of view from different characters so you will get to know what different factions are up to and while it's not my strong point, this story will contain multiple love triangles because what's life without making things extra complicated (Some characters may end up with harem endings).

I do not own any of the Fire Emblem games; they belong to Nintendo and their affiliates.

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Chapter 1: The Boy who Broke the Script

Today was one of the worst days of Corrin's life. It would have been the worst day of his life but the last week had been beyond awful. Here he was, in the middle of a battlefield carrying his half conscious brother while ducking and weaving and generally trying not to get killed. His sisters, Lily and Rose had both run ahead the moment they had reached the battlefield and Silver had collapsed soon after, having conveniently forgotten to tell anyone that the arrow he had been shot in the stomach with earlier that day had been poisoned.

Still, Corrin was an optimist at heart so he trudged on toward the centre of the battlefield. There, he could tell, was an unnatural stillness, as elite troops from Hoshido and Nohr seemed to be at a stand off. Surely this was a sign that Rose and Lily had managed to reach Ryoma and the Nohrian commander and were negotiating for a cease-fire. What he did not expect when he finally trudged through the gap between factions and towards his sisters was to see his Nohrian siblings on the left, with Xander upfront next to Rose, while Ryoma was on the right standing steadfast next to Lily with his Hoshidan siblings behind them. To make things worse was that his two sisters were yelling at each other at the top of their lungs.

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"Lily, why can't you see that our family is in Nohr. They've come to rescue us and were practically willing to declare war to do it!" Rose yelled in angry determination.

"But it's not where we belong Rose. Mother and our siblings in Hoshido have been searching for us all these years and now we can finally be a family again. What kind of father locks his children away in some frostbitten tower in the middle of nowhere! We've always wanted to be free and in Hoshido we can be because it's where we belong!" shouted Lily, tears running down her face.

The two sisters had been adamant about their position since given the choice and had been determined to make their closest sibling see reason. For those watching, the argument was heartbreaking. Fortunately Xander, being both part of the middle group and the only one on horseback, spotted something that would hopefully bring this traumatic event to a close.

"Corrin, Silver, thank goodness you're here. What happened to Silver? Come quickly, before those Hoshidans decide to attack. Elise can heal whatever those fiends have done to him," cried Xander.

"Not so fast, Nohrian. I won't have you deceiving Kamui and Silver any longer. Kamui, come this way so I can protect both of you from the Nohrians. I won't let anyone or anything break up our family again," bellowed Ryoma.

Corrin stared in dawning horror at the scene before him as his various siblings called out to him from both sides. His two twin sisters silently staring at him with pleading looks. The sword Yato suddenly seemed very heavy in his right hand. They were asking him to choose, to say goodbye to half his family. What cruel god had forced this decision upon him (A/N: They call themselves Nintendo and they are proud of it)? Abruptly a whisper at his shoulder caught his attention.

"Corrin, what's happening?" asked Silver as he slowly came to again.

"Where still on the battlefield, our Hoshidan and Nohrian families are here. They want us to choose a side Silver. I don't know what to do. What the hell are we suppo-" stammered Corrin before Silver cut him off.

"I'll handle it," he said as he pulled his arm off Corrin and slowly righted himself, his left hand slowly tracing the area on his stomach where he had been shot earlier that day.

"But,"

"I said I'd handle it!" Silver shouted with considerably more steel and life than he'd had a few moments ago, "Now, stay here and pay attention to what I say."

So Silver walked forward until he was standing directly between Xander and Ryoma, never looking at either side. Silence prevailed, bar the sound of war in the background, as everyone waited. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath . . . and then sat down with his legs crossed in the middle of the battlefield, staring pointedly at the gap ahead of him between the two factions.

"Silver, what do you think you are doing. The enemy general is on horseback," called a flabbergasted Ryoma.

"This isn't time for one of your silly little games Silver. We are in the middle of a warzone," cried an exasperated Xander.

"Lilly, Rose, stay exactly where you are so you can hear everything. Ryoma, Xander, come here and sit," Silver announced, his voice carrying clearly with an unnatural authority.

"I can see what you're doing and it's,"
"I'm not going to parley with a Nohrian,"

But Silver cut them both off, closing his eyes and sticking his nose in the air, "I'm sorry, I mustn't have heard you. Because I know for a FACT that MY Big Brother would listen to his poor injured little sibling to help him make the most radical and significant decision in his entire life. Heaven forbid that I just blurt something out that I come to regret later. It would be so tragic if everyone got their brother back only to find out he is longing to go back to the other side. So I'm taking this very seriously. I want to make sure I made the right decision and I know that MY Big Brother would be willing to sit down and talk with me in a nice civilised manner to make sure I don't make the wrong decision."

Everyone stared at Silver with their mouths open. Well, everyone that could hear him at any rate, most of his siblings were to far away to hear his speech. Then Xander chuckled. Clearly his little brother was testing their resolve. A test Xander was now determined to win. If he or the man in red refused to participate while the other did then it would be nothing short of voluntarily sending his brothers off to the enemy. After all, Corrin would probably side with whoever Silver picked. There was not one, but two of his precious siblings at stake here. So Xander carefully hoped off his horse, keeping a close eye on the enemy at all times and approached Silver. Ryoma, realising the same and not wanting to be outdone as Silver and Corrin's true big brother, also began to approach while wondering when his little brother had gotten clever enough to be able to guilt trip two enemy commanders to within swords reach of each other for the sole purpose of talking.

"Swords sheathed," Silver commanded in that stern authoritative voice he'd used before while looking pointedly ahead again, refusing to make eye contact.

Neither man broke their stride as they fluently sheathed their swords. The narrowing of eyebrows the only indication of how vulnerable the action made them feel. And so they came to the very centre of the battlefield, never taking their eyes off each other, glared for but a moment and then sat simultaneously, forming a U shape with Silver as the base and Corrin/Kamui standing five steps behind him. Xander smirked at the fact that Silver was sitting the same way as him while Ryoma gave an annoyed grunt.

"There we go. That wasn't so hard now was it? Thankyou for being so understanding big brother," sighed Silver, still looking directly ahead between the two, "Now, first things first, I have some questions. Xander, earlier today Queen Mikoto, my newly rediscovered mother, was nearly assassinated. I was able to avert this but took an arrow in the process. On a side note the arrow was apparently tipped with a slow acting poison so I'll need to be treated for that but the main point is that this opportunity was provided by Ganglari. Do you remember that sword; it was the one King Garon gave me as a reward before sending me off on that suicide mission that resulted in being captured by Hoshido.

The one with that putrid aura so malevolent that I actually disposed of the wretched thing in favour of my original bronze sword during the mission. Well it turns out that the thing was rigged to explode and somehow ended up in the possession of a hidden Nohrian operative who used it to, you guessed it, blow up the town square while Mikoto and her family, including myself, was in it. Oh, and to top it all off, the fragments of Ganglari were jinxed to then immediately impale the person with the highest amount of dragon blood so Corrin, Rose, Lily and myself were just about skewered by a hundred evil pointy bits of metal. Mikoto tried to push us aside.

The whole things was a well timed trap to get a mother to throw themselves in front of their children resulting in her death. So Xander, I have to ask you, as the commander of the Nohrian forces and as my big brother, did you know that Garon had given me a blade rigged to kill me."

Silver whole tirade had given was done in the same tone of voice, a flat tone with irritation barely withheld around the edges. Xander had become increasing uncomfortable as his brother explained his terrible day without making eye contact or any facial expression as Silver's body slowly tensed. Ryoma more then made up for the hostility with the increasingly hostile glare he gave Xander as his little brother filled in the missing pieces to the puzzle that had been todays events.

Swallowing, Xander tried to pacify the situation before it got out of hand, "Now Silver, I'm sure father d-"

"Did you KNOW, Xander," interrupted Silver in a cold tone that brokered no room for negotiation.

"No. I did not. I would have never and will never knowingly allow you or any of our siblings to carry something that would cause them harm," Xander replied.

The effect was immediate. Silvers entire body relaxed as if a great weight had been removed and he exhaled deeply, "Thankyou Xander, that was all I needed to know. Now, Ryoma, it's your turn to answer a very important question."

"I am ready, ask me anything you desire," answered Ryoma, confident he could answer any and all of Silvers question without any problems.

"Why did you lie?"

"I beg your pardon," said Ryoma in confusion.

"While Mikoto is in fact my biological mother, I know for a fact that you, Hinoka, Takumi and Sakura are not related to me by blood," finished Silver as he looked fixedly ahead.

"You lying snake," snarled Xander as he went for his sword, only to be stopped by Silver's fist arcing down and smashing into his knee with surprising force.

"All swords will remain sheathed," said Silver curtly as he continued to not look at anybody.

Lily's, Rose's and Corrin's reaction was just as bad. Corrin starred at Ryoma in numb devastated shock while Rose gave a smug glare at him as if all her worst suspicions had just been confirmed. Lily, who was behind Ryoma, and whose reaction he feared most gave a stifled cry of denial as her world was ripped out from under her, knees trembling and the just dried tears now flowing down her face as if a damn had burst.

Ryoma gaped at Silver in shock as Xander struggled to abide by his still indecisive brother's wishes and not stab the treacherous bastard that had tried to deceive his four most innocent siblings (Elise momentarily slipping his mind).

"Please answer the question Ryoma," said Silver in a dead monotone after deciding that Ryoma had had enough time to gape.

Ryoma schooled his features; this was not the time to be caught unprepared. He was a Samurai for goodness sake and a Swordmaster at that. The only saving grace was that Silver had waited till Hinoka, Takumi and Sakura were out of earshot and only had the enemy generals explosive reaction to go on. His brother still had terrible timing and he would have preferred that the others weren't here to have heard either but this was the situation at hand. He would ensure that his family stayed together.

"While I don't approve of your choice of bringing up such a sensitive topic here on the battlefield, I will not deny that your statement is true," started Ryoma.

He heard Lily's legs give out from beneath her and Xander muttered something derisive that included the words 'filthy hypocrite'.

"However your mother, who I might add you went to such great lengths to save, chose to marry Sumeragi, my father, making me and the others your siblings. We have loved you since before you could walk or speak and those precious moments, even if you can barely remember them, were strong enough, happy enough, and filled with enough love to endure more then a decade of separation. You are our family and you belong in Hoshido where you can be free and happy, because it is where you are meant to be. You should have grown up with your mother and family in Hoshido not some tower where people are ashamed to admit your existence. I apologise if discovering the nature of our relation hurt your feelings but in my mind, heart and soul I said it because to me it is true."

As Ryoma finished his speech he could see Kamui in the periphery of his vision looking at him in a whole new light . . . but unfortunately Silver merely nodded, still refusing to look in either direction.

"Thankyou Ryoma," sighed Silver, before looking down at his crossed ankle in an abruptly nervous fashion, his voice now losing the authoritative air and reverting back to that of the shy boy both men remembered from when they younger, "I must sincerely thank both of you for obliging my selfish request so far. But now, now I have a confession to make. Something I have never told anyone, ever, period. For those of you who do not know, Queen Mikoto has the ability to see the future. It is an ability that I, as her son, have inherited tenfold."

The ludicrous nature of Silver's words made Xander want to stop his brother right there but seeing Ryoma's complete acceptance of them, almost as if things seemed to all suddenly fall into place, gave him pause.

"Every night, for as long as I can remember, I have been dreaming of this very day and everything that comes after it," Silver continued, his voice progressively losing certainty and gaining emotional turmoil, "I know what happens if I side with Hoshido. I know what happens if I side with Nohr. I know what happens if I try to choose neither. No matter what happens, someone irreplaceable always dies. I've been trying the different combinations over and over again but nothing seems to work.

No matter what, Lily always sides with Hoshido and Rose always sides with Nohr. If I choose before Corrin, then he will pick the same and the result will be a one sided massacre. If I make Corrin choose first then choose the opposite then events will play out, even in the best case scenarios, with Elise and Xander dying in the event of Hoshido's victory and Ryoma and Takumi dying in the event of Nohr's victory. Nothing I did ever changed these outcomes and no matter which side I choose, Azura will always, always sacrifice herself."

Xander and Ryoma watched with aching hearts as Silver slowly fell apart in front of them. Tears had started to run down his face but he just kept going.

"If I try to choose neither side then the person I've fallen in love with will die before I've even had a chance to talk to her. When I change things so that Corrin picks neither side while I go with one of my sisters then he gets killed within a week. Every day I wake in that cold tower unable to tell anyone about the pain I've gone through and every night I try again only watch those I love die again. This day has been getting closer and closer, moment by moment and nothing changes.

No matter what books I read or what weapons I learn to use; who I talk to or what I do, someone I love always dies. I was hoping, hoping beyond hope, that if I managed to alter an event before the dreams start, that if I managed to save Mum, this whole war would never happen. But there was a second squad that destroyed the protecting pillar while everyone was distracted. And now, now we are finally here. This is no longer a dream. I've run out of time and I – I still haven't found an answer. I can't watch anyone die again, not for real, not forever. I just - I just can't do it. You two are my big brothers. You're the strongest, wisest, bravest people I know. If I can't count on you I don't know what I'll do. So please, please help your little brother, help all of us, I'm begging you," sobbed Silver.

Lily and Rose were both silently crying. Ryoma and Xander looked at their normally stoic and anti-social brother sitting there so utterly defeated, crying as he stared at his curled up hands in his lap. Both their hearts ached for him. They wanted nothing more then to hug him close and tell him that everything would be all right. That they, as his big brother, would fix everything and make all the problems go away. But they never got the chance.

"Watch out!" screamed Corrin as he lunged forward and jerked Silver to his left. The most tragic thing is: he would probably have succeeded if he had moved his brother to his right. Instead a luminous blue green arrow embedded itself directly in the centre of Silver's chest. At least it did not hit his heart as it was originally intended.

"Eh?" responded Silver in numb shock.

The result was immediate chaos. Both leaders were on their feet in less than a moment. Xander's sword aimed in absolute righteous fury. Ryoma was quite reasonably distracted, caught between the desire to yell at Takumi for his action and the need to defend himself from Xander. Corrin pulled Silver back from the sword skirmish but in the confusion of to converging armies, was separated from him only to be dragged away by a desperate Azura.

As the families converged on the centre, what followed was inevitable. As Takumi was the instigator, he made no move beyond continuing to try and snipe Silver. Hinoka, like Ryoma, was distracted by Takumi's actions and unable to fight at her best, let alone fight off the enraged onslaught of both Camilla and Leo. Elise, as someone on horseback, was able to reach her dying brother before Sakura, allowing the Nohrians to claim him first. As both sides withdrew and the mayhem settled the result were thus:

The distraught Hoshidans fell back with Lily.

Rose and the Nohrians retreated with the fatally wounded Silver.

Corrin and Azura were nowhere to be found.

Today was now officially the worst day of Corrin's life.