Rumors and Misunderstandings
"Alright, heroes. Let's go! To the world of awakening!" Kiran and his troops walked through the portal, as it sucked them into the world of awakening. Kiran wiped his eyes, wondering where they were. "Hm...where have we gone?"
A man with...very impractical armor stepped out, holding his sword at us. The reason why it was impractical was because the only spot that the armor failed to neglect was his left arm, and the rest of his body was unarmored...though who was he to say when all he was wearing was a simple white cloak?
Kiran selected Linde, Alfonse, Lilina, and Nino. Linde would take care of the swordsman, while Lilina and alfonse would take care of the threatening-looking axe paladin.
"You're the invaders from this so-called Order of Heroes? We've just gotten word from the Emblian soldiers that you've come here to raze our realm. I'm warning you now—no one will bring harm to the Halidom of Ylisse. Not on my watch. Now you face me and my Shepherds. Lissa! Frederick! Prepare for battle." the man yelled.
Kiran held his hand out, signaling them to stop. "Wait wait wait...who are you?" The man frowned, as he thought that his opponent had already known his name. "I am Prince Chrom...leader of the shepherds...you don't know me?"
Kiran coughed a bit. "Wait...you look a bit familiar." Chrom raised his eyebrows as Kiran tapped his chin, thinking vigorously. "So...are you done thinking?" Kiran raised his hand. "Ah! I got it! You're the not-in-smash-man! A huevo! (Of course!)!"
Nobody really understood the joke, as Kiran stared awkwardly at his enemies. Frederick looked at Chrom. "Excuse me...what is he talking about sir?" Lissa shrugged. "Can we just fight already?"
Chrom however, understood the joke. He glared at them, his voice full of tranquil fury. "Lissa...Frederick...let's do this." The axe paladin charged at the group of heroes, only for Alfonse to jump in his way, blocking the strike with his gauntlet, as Kiran had instructed him. Lilina opened her book, casting flames from under him. "I mustn't fail!" she yelled, and they engulfed him as he was burnt into ashes.
Chrom stared in shock as his retainer was burnt and taken out of the battle. Sure, the contract kept him alive, but it was still quite a shock. Lissa looked at him. "What do we do? Should we retreat?"
Shaking his head, he held onto his sword. "No, Lissa. We do this for the people. Even if they outnumber us...anything can change!" Alfonse engaged him in battle. "My my...you're quite strong..."
Chrom pressed harder against him. "You're pretty strong yourself...I'd like to fight you again someday...if you survive, that is!" he swung his sword at Alfonse, injuring him badly. "Gah!" Kiran yelled, "Linde, now!"
Linde opened Aura, and chanted incantations. A ring of energy formed around Chrom, as more rings appeared and began to cover him entirely. "W-what is this?..." he wondered, as the energy exploded on the inside. "Gods..." he groaned as he was defeated by her powerful magic.
Lissa stood behind a tree as the heroes approached her. To Kiran's surprise, she had no offensive skill at all. "I'll fight all of you! 'you will never take Ylisse!" Kiran just motioned for someone to defeat her, and Linde held her hand out, and the energy rings curled around her just as they had done to Chrom. With a blast, Lissa disappeared under the explosion of energy.
Chrom yelled from a distance, "We will not admit defeat so easily. The rest of the Shepherds will stop you. Our bonds are strong—we will never submit to you, villains." Kiran glared at him, "Technically speaking, what bonds give you is the will to fight, the strength is gotten by training.. as they would say where I come from.. no diga mamadas (don't speak bullshit)!."
Giving off death glares, the forces departed the river.
Chrom returned to the Emblan's camp. "Robin...where is she?" he said, as he stumbled into the camp. Veronica looked at him, raising her eyebrows at his wounded state. "What...these toys have been broken so quickly?"
An emblain soldier said, "It was the one in the white cloak...he was there. And he outsmarted them." Veronica tightened her fist, banging it on the table. "Only like this and he's already such a pain in the ass...I want him dead, better sooner than later."
She looked at Chrom. "Who's the next one in the row? Who will block their path?" Chrom panted as he drank an elixir. "I think...it'll be Lon'qu and Olivia." Veronica scoffed. "You sent these low-quality toys over?" Chrom glared at her. "What do you mean...Princess?..."
She pointed at the returning troops, consisting of Lon'qu, Olivia, and Cordelia. Chrom gave a shocked look as he noticed them walking towards the medic. "Well...wait, Robin is next! Where is she? I need to warn her!"
Veronica lazily pointed to the left. "She's in that tent. Hurry, she has to go very soon." Chrom nodded, and ran over to her tent. Robin was busy packing her tomes, and saw Chrom. "Chrom! What is it?"
Chrom put his hand on her shoulder. "Robin...you need to watch out." Robin frowned. "What do you mean, Chrom? Of course I'll be careful. I'm Ylisse's tactician, after all. Don't worry."
Shaking his head, Chrom whispered to her, "Robin...this person could be as good, or even better than you." Robin's eyes widened. "Chrom...is that the one that they've been talking about?"
"What do you mean, Robin?" Robin tightened her hair. "I've heard from Emblan soldiers that there is one in a white cloak...who is insanely intelligent, they seem to fear him.. he also speaks an unknown language the most of the time... I suppose that he will be my opponent?" Chrom nodded. "He's defeated Lissa, Frederick, and me, as well as Lon'qu, Olivia, and Cordelia, with no casualties."
Robin was a bit aghast at this. Defeating them...despite their worth in combat? And even worse...no casualties on the enemy side either? She nodded. "I will show him what Ylisse's tactician has got in store for him. I think it's time that we've started to tip the scales."
As the order of heroes kept on walking, they found themselves at a area with some ruins and walls around. Robin stood behind a wall, while Donnel stood behind two walls, with the one behind him protecting Robin.
Kiran held out Briedabilik. The Emblans stared at him, wondering what he was going to do. He rarely spoke, as he often gave directions firsthand to his heroes. Giving a finger snap, he gave a signal for his forces, Nino, Sigurd, Lukas, and BLyn to move. Nino moved forwards, and multitudes of green blades fell onto Donnel, instantly killing him.
Smiling smugly, he then realized his mistake. Nino was very vulnerable to physical threats...and Robin had purposely placed a bow cavalier just in the range to attack and possibly kill her. Keeping Nino there, as he had neglected to bring any other non-melee threats or any units with swap, he closed his eyes and hoped for the best.
The bow cavalier rushed in, and nocked an arrow on its blow. Nino covered her torso with her hands, bracing herself for the arrow. As the bow cavalier released an arrow, she tried to dodge it, unfortunately...
It hit her in the chest, and she disappeared as it instantly killed her. "S-sorry..." she groaned, as she fell to the ground, slowly fading away, holding her hand up high to her comrades.
Gritting his teeth, Kiran spoke. He had a change of plans this time. The moment he spoke, the Emblans stared in shock as they heard his voice. As he hardly spoke their language, this was shock to them, and quite an interesting detail for Robin.
"Alright... you asked for it ratas de mierda (shit rats)." Breidablik was aimed towards a Emblian soldier.
"You will be the first one to discover.. what I have done to improve this gun... hasta la vista.. cabrón.. (see ya.. asshole)." Kiran's face was filled with rage.
As Kiran pulled the trigger, the bow cavalier was suddenly screaming, grabbing his burning wound, a hole in his side.
Robin's eyes were widened and her mouth was open, but her attention was caught by the fact that a troubadour began to be electrified to death.
Being aware of the fact that the white cloak guy only needed to aim that thing against anybody and that person would die, she ordered to the soldiers to hide.
"Stay back.. I got this.." Kiran explained to his heroes who were in shock as well...
"Wha-what kind of weapon is that?.." Robin asked herself, now begining to understand why Emblans feared him.
More and more screams she heard as that man found the soldiers through the ruins, the ones who tried to face him were defeated in less than a second.
She had never created a tactic to fight something like this...but wait! The contract prevented herself from dying...and she had a wolf tome...maybe, she thought, she could abuse this to her own advantage.
She took her gronnwolf tome, and attacked Lukas, taking him by surprise and killing him. She then glanced at the level 7 sigurd. He had just came out of the summoning ruins, and hadn't even had crusader's ward yet.
Her eyebrows pressed together, she attacked him with her wolf tome, killing the Holy Knight as well. "...Deirdre..." was the only thing he could say as he slowly faded away.
Robin glared at the summoner. "I'll kill you...TIME TO TIP THE SCALES!" Kiran's eyes widened as the green wolf's head formed, and charged towards him. "Mierda mierda mierda mierda MIERDA!(shit shit shit shit SHIIIITTTT!)
Kiran was knocked to the ground, leaving himself with a sliver of health left. "No mames...she's damn smart...how did she know I was weak to magic...will I get revived if I get killed...or will I stay dead...meh, I'm not finding out that shit!"
Kiran stood up, only to be his turn to hide behind an almost destroyed wall.
"Necesito un buen escudo... pero dónde?.. Uh?..(I need a good shield.. but where?..).." he noticed something. "Perfecto (Perfect)."
As another wolf head formed towards him, Kiran his skills gotten from his country to jump over the wall and then, jump to another, then to another, in direction against what he wanted.
Robin began to feel stressed, her magic wasn't able to reach him... but why he wasn't attacking her?.
The answer came quickly as she saw he reached another soldier position, but unlike the rest, he just hurted him colliding his weapon against his face
When she was about to form another wolf to attack him, she stopped herself, growling as that man used the soldier to cover himself.
Kiran smirked, he aimed his gun, killing the remaining soldiers.
"Surrender" it was Kiran's demand to Robin.
"I-I... " It was purposeless, if she attacked him, only the Emblan soldier was going to die, and then he would shoot her, and while it would help her to escape due the contract, it didn't erase the pain it caused.
But if she stayed she was gonna get captured by the enemy...
"I gotta do it.." She said, preparing her own magic to kill herself, to teleport to Chrom's ubication.
Kiran's eyes went wide as he understood what was happening, he threw the Emblan soldier like if he was throwing trash and ran, tackling Robin.
Both had a push fight, they turned one over the other, until Kiran finally pushed Robin firmly against the floor.
"Bring me a rope!." Kiran yelled.
Robin struggled as strong as she could, but her hands and legs wasn't going free no matter what.
She was being taken to the order of heroes camp.
"Put me down!." She demanded.
Kiran gave a sarcastic smile as he responded. "Sure my lady, of course I'm gonna do something against the logic just because you say it, a huevo que sí, a huevo, sí~(of course, yeah, yes~)."
"You won't succeed! We have overcome our darkest hours before!"
"Yeah yeah, I know that story, a motherfucker was king of a kingdom called Plegia, you killed him, like 2 years after, I'm not sure, appears the army of the conqueror, an asshole who was stupid enough to believe in a deformed conception of the Darwin's evolution theory, then your father, even more brainless than the previous ones, tries to bring back to the life a gigantic dragon who is so arrogant to believe he is something compared to the universe and it wants to destroy the Earth because... Um.. because se me sale de los huevos, yeah, that(because I want to).. you have already told me that story, well, technically speaking you didn't, but well, you told me."
Robin gave a confused look, as she couldn't understand some details about what he said, but more concerning was the fact of what was going to happen her.
Robin stayed tied up to a chair, she couldn't move her legs or hands, but at least that man allowed her to be able to speak.
Her tactician mind was already creating plans to escape, but without a tome or any cutting object, she hadn't many options.. Chrom was right, she should have been more careful.
The tent's entrance was open.. and while she was expecting a man with torture instruments, what she was seeing was a little pink-haired girl, with a magic staff and a bag.
"H-hello, it's nice to meet you, my name is Sakura, youngest princess of Hoshido." The girl gave her a kind smile.
"Uh.. nice to meet you too?.." Robin felt so confused, why was a cleric there? Even if that man was worried about her condition, she hadn't suffered bad wounds in the battle.
"You are Robin, tactician of shepherds.. right?." The girl asked while she sat near to Robin, looking for something inside her bag.
"How do you know me?."
"Mmmh.. it is a bit hard to explain.. honestly, it should be better for you to see him yourself, even I'm not sure if I am the best about explaining it." she commented, Robin's eyes went widen when she saw Sakura pulled out from the bag a needle glued to a weird tube.. maybe she was going to be tortured after all.
"Anyway, Summoner Kiran asked me to inject you a dose of vaccines.".
Sakura tried to take Robin's cloak off to inject it, but Robin struggled very hard.
Sakura gave to Robin another smile as she spoke. "A vaccine is nothing dangerous.. consider it.. as a magic barrier against diseases."
"Eh?." Robin's confusion was bigger than before, her captors were going to give her a... protection to prevent her to get sick?..
"Yeah." Sakura nodded. "Kiran created them, he said it was dangerous to have heroes from different timelines without receiving this protection, as it could transport a disease from world to world once they returned to their respective time, and even without that problem, the life expectancy of person is increased a lot."
"... is that true?.."
"Well, what I've seen in Askr is that even the amount of babies from poor families are surviving their childhood in bigger numbers... it's like a miracle..".
Robin couldn't understand it, according to what Veronica said, these people were conquerors with maybe the same ideal that Walhart, but, unlike what she expected, she was being treated with kind and even they were giving her what could be considered a blessing... it didn't make sense..
It only left two possibilites, either Veronica lied to them.. or this was a very well done deception.
"Yeah, well, the point is that I need to inject this into your blood, so, I need to be able to watch your veins.. so, if you don't mind to cooperate.."
Robin doubt for a moment, but then she nodded.
"Very well, just relax, if you don't, you'll feel more pain than normal."
"...*gulp*.."
If receiving one vaccine was kinda painful receiving five was more.
Robin was being escorted to the principal tent by Sharena and Lilina, she would compare Sharena to her friend Lissa, Sharena seemed to share the same energetic and positive personality, and Lilina barely reminded her Lucina.
At least they let her walk by herself.
Sharena and Llilina stopped their little chat, and both remained by the tent's door, taking guard.
Robin had no any other option than getting inside.
Kiran, or at least she thought it was his name after hearing it many times, was watching a map of the land.
Once he noticed her presence, Kiran raised his head to look her at the eyes.
He smiled kindly. "Hello... please, sit down." he dragged a chair, leaving it near to her.
"Thanks.."
"Mmmh.. considering you're disarmed, and there are two guards outside, and even if you managed avoid them, you would get captured quickly again anyway... I think that for your comfort... we can undo this."
Then, Kiran allowed Robin's hands go free.
"Better?."
"Um.. yes.. thanks again."
Both sat... Robin wasn't sure what were Kiran's intentions in this world.. she needed to discover them.
"Well, first of all, sorry for being so rude before, but generally, in a battle I often to be more like a bastard, a miserable, or a hijo de la chingada (son of a bitch), but as tactician, I'm supposed to win the fight, not fight fairly... I hope you understand.. well, whatever... how are you feeling?."
Robin wasn't expecting an apology.. "Um.. my shoulders still hurt...".
"Yeah, sorry about that, but I didn't want to take any risk, bacteria travel from world to world as the portals are still opened and people are still crossing them, I guess some Veronica's forces have gotten sick, and if in my world they have problems with local diseases.. having one from other world.. in these primitives worlds.. it would be a completely disaster.."
"Um.. primitives?.."
"You still use swords, axes and spears, we left that behind centuries ago..."
In that instant, Robin remembered that strange weapon Kiran aimed, looking more she noticed it seemed to be inside a sheath on the table.
"But well, I brought you here to discuss something... whatever Veronica said about us, it's a lie." Robin raised her eyebrows, her eyes still on the sheath. "Anyway..."
She listened to him, skeptical about his claims. As she looked at him in the eyes, she made a tapping sound on the table, which he ignored. Good, she thought. With that...
Hoisting herself up using the armrests of her chair, she threw out her legs at him, and kicked him. Reaching into the table, she grabbed the weapon, grabbed him by his neck, and pointed at his head, her finger on the trigger. She knew that if she pulled the trigger...she would undoubtedly have his head blown off.
"Doesn't this look familiar, Kiran?" she hissed. "How do I know I can trust you? That's right, Kiran. You really can't convince me, especially when you killed so many people for simply just flaunting your power."
Lilina and Sharena went in, stopping as soon as they saw Robin holding Briedabilik at Kiran's head. "One step closer, and I can guarantee you he's going to see the soldiers he killed soon."
She kneed him in the back, growling. "You better give me a good explanation why I should trust you. For all I know, you could treat me well but still be lying to me." Sharena and Lilina glared at her, wondering what they should do.
"Stop!" Robin looked at The Voice herself, walking in her draconic glory. "He speaks the truth, Robin. I confirm this."
Seeing Naga's daughter herself say these words convinced Robin. Glaring at him, she released him into his own chair, but still pointed the gun at him.
"Alright...you better say the truth...if I find any contradictions, you're dead meat."
Kiran, having no fear, began to speak.
Well...we hope you enjoyed this! It's based on one of the fanfiction stories one of us wrote, so check that out if you want...consider it an alternate version of it. Just search: Fire Emblem Heroes: Kiran's Story if you wanna read it.
