A/N: I had to reupload it because once published, the document was impossible to read. A little something I am writing for practice. Critics are well accepted.

I don't own Fire Emblem

"This is it! We are going to take back what's ours!"

Camilla's voice trembled with rage and a bit of frustration as she slammed her fist on the table. Leo stared at her sudden and kind of unusual display of anger, he was not surprised by that though, he was experiencing the same pain, the same loss but he just could not seem to take that out.

After Xander and Elise were brutally killed, Camilla's thoughts were filled with revenge towards those she felt responsible for the crimes, the Hoshidians had to pay for this.

Despite sharing the same feelings, Leo acted differently, did he want revenge? He kind of did but what after that? What if even his last sister was taken down by the enemy?

"You mean killing them and take Corrin back? We did not succeed so far."

Camilla smirked, her sadistic side was submerging "No,no, no" she said in an almost lecturing way "Despite I would love it, such an action could turn into a fatal ambition. We need some allies."

Leo shrugged "This was pretty obvious. We need to find new soldiers. You know, there's this almost uncontaminated town"

Camilla shut him, her right index finger pointed up on Leo's face "Interesting, I will save it for later, but here you are totally missing the point. I want to take one of the Hoshidian royals and turn him against them."

"This does not make it any less ambitious, however..." Leo brought a hand under his chin, he mumbled something under his voice, something that looked more like a fast chant and in the end nodded "We will need to isolate one of them, I can cast a spell and obliviate part of his mind and the game is done"

Camilla nodded "Who were you thinking about? Ryoma is too much of a big catch, besides I want him to damn feel under his skin what I felt under mine." she stopped thinking "The little girl, Sakura, she could be the easiest to reach."

Leo shook his head in disapproval "She's always followed around by someone, moreover I highly doubt she ill come to any use once here." he paused "I was actually thinking about someone specific, one who already fell for my spell in the past."

"Takumi?"

Leo nodded "He is perfect: he's an archer, he fights alone, it's not much inferior in strenght from Ryoma but his mental strenght is not nealy as high. He already fell for a spell, he's our perfect change."

Camilla agreed with the decision and was eager to come up with a plan "We need to be in two to brace him"

"Sure, but it's unwise of you to come around. He's a skilled archer, we can't risk to have your vyvern to be taken down. No. I'll go, I'll bring my attendants with me. It's three versus one, I think we can do it. We need to catch him off guard."

"How? We can't enter their castle without being noticed." observed the princess, sternly.

"We don't need to. It's ducks season and he will be out hunting for sure. We need to lure him into a safe, isolated place." Leo proceeded to pull out a map from a drawer under the heavy wooden table they were sitting at, he unrolled the paper which stretched for all the table length "Here." he said pointing a grassy area with a pond in the map, close to the mountains "Ducks are stupid animals, I need you to catch a good amount of them, leave the rest to me."

Camilla was confused and rather irritated by the proposal "I am seeking for revenge and you send me out hunting for ducks?" she hissed. Leo wasn't even moved by her reaction "Revenge is a dish better be served cold. You need to be patient. I need those ducks to cast a spell on, I can use them to lure Takumi in this isolated area where I'll be waiting for him."

"If it was so simple, why didn't you think about this earlier?"

"I had no need to come up with this earlier."

"And how could you locate Takumi in a huge forest?" she was starting to doubt her little brother, who, on his side had all the intentions to stick to his plan.

"Takumi was cursed once. Even though he woke up from that spell, its traces are hard to delete, I will try to detect him , it will take a bunch of efforts and a lot of focus on my part but I will be able to locate him."

The whole plan sounded like a huge risk to Camilla, but Leo's confidence somehow reassured her. She intended to go all the way with this plan and they needed to take advantadge of the temporary queit situation that arose in the conflict. She was well aware that Takumi's disappearance would have caused a violent reaction from Hoshido, this was probably the aspect whcih worried her the most and which she was not considering up to few minutes earlier.

She expressed her doubt to Leo, who seemed to have all his answers ready to be delivered "I can take care of this by myself. Leave the ducks to some citizen and focus on training the troops, we need to be ready for a massive counterattack."