Finally, after all this time I've managed to publish something. I would have prefered if it was my other story but I will later explain why I didn't. Also I had a couple of ideas that I needed to get off my chest, so probably I will upload when I can another new story, this one a crossover, where Robin once again will be taking a main role. This story will mainly not follow any of the paths of the game, but towards the second half it will take more of a "Revelationish" path, meaning that at some point Anankos will be a target. Enough of pointless AN, and I hope you enjoy.
(Title and summary suck, I know)
Chapter 1
A long time ago, Sumeragi, the Hoshidan king, was called to Cheve by Garon, the Nohrian King, to discuss the situation between their countries, and hopefully, reach a peaceful solution to the current tensions between Hoshido and Nohr.
Needless to say, Garon only wanted to lure Sumeragi to assassinate him. It was all planned from the beginning, Sumeragi's guard fell before they could do anything, and soon enough, Sumeragi also fell.
With his dying breath, Sumeragi could only see Garon abducting Kamui, Mikoto's child... And he couldn't do anything to save him. Why did he want Kamui? What was he planning to do with him!? 'Dammit!' He couldn't do anything as he felt the last of his life leave him.
Many years later, Kamui grew into a fine man, swordsman and tactician. Although he was isolated from the world and raised as Nohrian royalty, and his name changed to Corrin, the constant spars with Xander, Crown Prince of Nohr, and Gunter, his retainer; alongside the constant tactical wars that he would engage with Leo, Prince of Nohr, made him the proficient man he is today.
He also had seemed to maintain the kindness he had even in the midst of Nohr's darkness, a kindness that seemed like it could draw anyone towards him, a kindness that made his siblings love him since the moment they met him.
But at some point he had to make a decision. It was inevitable, one day Corrin would go outside his isolated fortress, one day he would see the world as it was, and one day he would learn the truth. The truth about who he was, and with the truth, came the decision. What would Kamui/Corrin do?
Stay with his birth country with his blood siblings, or go with the family that raised him as one of their own? Side with the country that his birth mother protected, or go with the country that killed her mother? Will he be Kamui? Or will he be Corrin?
The decision was hard, and a lot of pain came with it. But deep inside of him, he knew it was the right thing to do. He loved all of his adoptive siblings, more than they could imagine.
Xander, Camilla, Leo, Elise... They made his cold days in the Northern Fortress a lot warmer. How could he not love them? But the kindness in his heart pushed him towards the decision he made.
He wanted peace, nothing more. Peace between Hoshido and Nohr so that no more unnecessary bloodshed would be committed. Peace so that all his siblings wouldn't have to raise weapons against each other. Peace so that his late mother could be happy.
He tried to reason with his Nohrian siblings. Garon was an obstacle to peace. They could be happy, there could be peace. Why couldn't they see it? With time, he got proof that he was right.
Azura, Nohrian royalty raised in Hoshido after she was kidnapped like he was, gave him the proof he needed. He had proof of Garon's corruption, proof that the Garon that his adoptive siblings knew, was no more. If he could show them, he would surely be able to convince them. Convince them that Garon was an obstacle to peace.
The first one was Leo. After a hard fought battle in the Woods of the Forlorn, he finally managed to show Leo the truth. Leo was was a pragmatic man, and when he saw proof of something he generally didn't let emotions cloud his decisions. Not to say he was an emotionless man, but his position as Prince of Nohr kind of forced him to be like he was, and if the best for Nohr was for Garon to go, then so be it.
But he still couldn't find it in himself to side against his country, so he just decided to step out of it. He wouldn't interfere with Kamui's plans, he would watch from the side.
The second Nohrian royal he managed to convince, without any effort really, was Elise. He found her in the underground city beneath the Windmire. She told him how his siblings began drifting apart from each other since he left Nohr, and it tore him apart to hear it, but he had to keep going. Hopefully he could also convince Camilla and Xander.
As they were getting closer to Krakenburg, Camilla, alongside with her retainers and Elise's retainers intercepted. This Camilla... It worried him... In Cheve it wasn't as half as bad as it was now.
He always knew that his Big Sister loved her family more than anything, and that she was ready to do anything that was needed to maintain her family together. But that smile... the way she swung her axe while she laughed... it didn't seem sane to him... Was she really the same Camilla that had doted on him so much during his time in Nohr.
Somehow he couldn't help but think that it was his own fault, but he still thought he was doing the right thing. Hopefully when he showed her the truth she wouldn't need to suffer any more.
While the other troops were fighting against the reminder of the Nohrian soldiers, him, alongside Takumi and Ryoma went to fight Camilla and her retainers. Now he just needed to beat her in combat, which was definitely easier said than done.
She swung her axe viciously against him, and he noticed where Camilla was aiming at. She wasn't looking to hit any vital points, she was aiming for his limbs... What she was attempting to do didn't go unnoticed for him. When she said she would take him back to Nohr whether he wanted it or not he never thought she would go to this length.
Beruka, her retainer, found herself falling off of to the ground when Takumi snipped the wyvern's wing and her attention went to her for a moment, enough for Kamui to use his dragonstone to tackle Camilla's wyvern to the ground, rapidly changing to his human form again and holding his Yato to her neck.
"Please Camilla." He said between pants. "Just listen to me please."
She didn't seem to listen, as she cupped his cheek with her right hand and smiled. "My precious Corrin. Why did you leave Nohr? Was I not a good enough sister to you?"
"No! Dammit Camilla! Xander, Elise, Leo, you... I love all of you. That is why I'm doing what I'm doing. Just please listen to me."
Suddenly a sense of dread invaded him, and before he knew what he was doing he jumped off Camilla and put his guard up. "Ryoma! Takumi! Be prepared, I'm feeling something... And I don't like it." A powerful gust of wind pushed them back at a safe distance from Camilla and the Nohrian retainers, who also were incapacitated. "You did well enough Lady Camilla, allow me to take it from here."
A confident voice echoed from the depths of the tunnel that was behind Camilla, and soon enough the sound of steps could be heard.
The man behind that voice was a man of Kamui's height approximately. His most noticeable features, what seemed to be a heavy black coat with purple linings and golden embroidery, a very slight tan to his skin, a confident smile; and the most striking to Kamui... a silvery white hair and scarlet eyes, both of them resembling his own.
Camilla noticed the man's arrival and gritted her teeth, while her red haired retainer seemed to stiffen. "And who exactly are you? Specially to give me orders."
The white haired man gave her an amused chuckle. "It's true. I believe we haven't met before, Lady Camilla. Allow to introduce myself. My name is Robin, Xander's new military advisor." He gave a slight bow.
"Since when does Xander have his own military advisor? And why didn't I know anything about it? Why do I find it hard to believe you?" She said while gripping her axe, venom dropping from her voice, getting ready to hack at the man at any moment.
"Trust him Lady Camilla... Please." The low voice came from one of her retainers, the red haired one. "Selena..." Camilla whispered.
"Don't worry, Selena, I understand her scepticism. But I've got proof, after all, Lord Xander graced me with this toy so I wouldn't run into this kind of situations." From beneath his cloak he pulled out what seemed to be a sword.
The blade was jagged, as if trying to emulate the form of thunder, the blade was of deep purple colour, and on the hilt was a crest. "...That's Xander's crest." A paladin's helmet crossed diagonally by two Siegfried.
"Exactly. Although I appreciate milord's gift, I still did a couple of changes to the weapon to make it more comfortable to use." He said while showing the unusual colour for a blade. "But I still didn't have the opportunity to try it. What do you think of the gift Little Dragon? Perhaps you can help me gauge its power."
Kamui winced at the nickname given to him, reminding him of the one Xander used to give him, and entered his trademark battle stance.
Camilla stepped in front of him, barring his way to Kamui. "You still didn't answer my question."
Robin sighed. "Don't worry Lady Camilla. Lord Xander doesn't want Corrin dead, but I don' suppose he is willing to leave voluntarily, so I have the order off helping him make the correct decision." He said while walking around her. Camilla thought of stopping him... But seeing that Levin swords and hearing Selena's words she thought that she could give this man a chance.
Ryoma approached Kamui, Raijinto crackling with thunder, ready to see some action. "Kamui, you can leave this to me if you want."
"Don't worry Big Brother, I can take care of it." He took some steps forward, approaching Robin. The moment he approached Robin also took some slow steps towards him. He stopped for a moment and flexed his arm, making his Levin sword crackle with purple thunder in a similar fashion to that of Raijinto's.
He suddenly leapt against Kamui, who barely had time to bring up his blade against him to lock their swords. 'So fast! I will need to give it my all.' Their swords were locked in a stalemate, but Kamui suddenly felt a wave of magic. He briefly caught sight of Robin's left hand retracting and forming a ball of thunder in his hand.
"Thunder!" He quickly leapt backwards avoiding Robin's spell. Robin continued his offense instantly being upon Kamui, unleashing a series of violent slashes, and each time their swords locked Kamui could feel the Levin Sword's power getting to him, weakening him slowly but constantly.
He leapt backwards again trying to create some space between, but he didn't stop this time. Anticipating his pursue like the last time, Kamui entered into his half transformed form, horns sprouting from his head. He covered his left arm in his scales, transforming it into a spear and lunging it against Robin, stretching his arm to Robin's surprise.
Taken aback by the Kamui's attack he brought his sword to try and defend himself from the attack. Robin managed to slow down his momentum, but the unexpected attack still launched him several feet away, but he had no problems in landing with both his feet.
Kamui also saw how he seemed to break his momentum after noticing the attack and after receiving it with some sort of magic. "Well done Little Dragon. You have some interesting tricks up your sleeve."
"How did you stop your momentum before? And how did you use magic without a tome?"
Robin gave him the same amused chuckle he gave Camilla before. "Easy, Little Dragon. Once you use magic constantly since practically the day you were born, you also will be able to use tomeless magic pretty effortlessly just by keeping your source nearby." He said while showing the black thick tome present in his cloak.
"Also, to answer your other question, I'll just let you figure it out by yourself." Kamui was the one who took the initiative this time, attacking with precise slashes in all sorts of directions to see if he could find any weak point in his defence he could later on exploit.
"Arcfire!" A curtain of fire appeared before him, stopping his assault. This time Robin chose to attack Kamui from a distance with a series of purple thunder balls. "Arcthunder!" However those thunder balls were more dangerous than the first one he used. Upon impact, they remained in place, releasing electric waves around them, trapping everything near them.
He had never seen those spells! They didn't resemble at all those spells of the Nohrian dark mages. The last attack sent to him almost hit him, making him slightly lose his balance. Robin instantly caught on that and propelled himself even faster than before towards him.
Kamui tried to bring his Yato up to defend himself but it was easily knocked aside by the Levin Sword. While keeping still keeping his momentum he delivered a jab at Kamui's face. Kamui landed painfully on his back and he was sure his jaw would be sore for a couple of days.
"See Little Dragon. You have no chance, just take your troops with you and retreat. That will the best for all of us."
"No... Not when I've come so far... I won't let you get in my way!" Robin was taken aback. Kamui's hand seemed to transform into some kind of giant maw. The maw started gathering water around it forming a big water ball that was launched towards Robin.
'A ball of water? Am I supposed to feel worried?' As the ball came closer he finally sensed the energy around it, and barely managed to dodge it aside. But before he could react to anything the last thing he saw was how a scaled tail took the air out of his lungs with a strong strike to his ribs that sent him crashing against the wall.
'Dammit. That hurts!' He slowly got up while tasting the irony taste of blood in his mouth. 'It appears I have a little cut on my lip. At least is nothing serious, but that tail is gonna leave a nasty bruise for sure.'
To Kamui surprise, still in his dragon form, he heard Robin chuckle. "Why couldn't you just leave? You just had to enter your Dragon form didn't you?" Kamui decided to press on his advantage and lunged towards him, ready to strike him again with his tail, having him with his back against the wall was too great of an opportunity to pass.
In the middle of his lunge Kamui found himself unable to advance more as he hit a wall made of dark purple flames. 'Wha-!' In the corner of his left eye he saw Robin, his right hand glowing with the same purple colour as the flames and with his Levin Sword ready to strike.
'Dammit, I can't dodge it! At least I'm in dragon for-' The moment Robin brought his sword to the lower part of his left front limb it easily pierced his skin as if nothing. Then Robin began dragging it upwards, ignoring Kamui's natural armour as if the sword was a hot knife cutting through butter.
A deafening roar was heard throughout the whole tunnels, making everyone present wince at the roar, specially Kamui's siblings. He couldn't maintain himself in Dragon form and instantly turned back to his human form.
The roars now turned into screams of pain as he tried to cope with his pain. Never had he felt any pain like this! Not only the cut, the jagged nature from the blade made the cuts even nastier. And the constant burning caused by the magic of the sword was even more unbearable! And to top it off, he felt a part of him being sucked out when the blade made contact with his skin.
He heard several gasps from the people around him and reluctantly examined his left arm.
He immediately winced at the sight of his arm. The armor he had was no more, and the pale skin on his arm now had a dark grey colour that made it seem like his arm would turn to ash with a simple breeze. And more notably, the gift that Robin left him, a cut that went from above his wrist and ended near his shoulder, the wound already cauterized due to the magic of the sword.
He looked above him only to see Robin above him, with a mocking frown. "Didn't I tell you to leave peacefully? This all could have been avoided Little Dragon, I told you didn't stand a chance against, you are one hundred years early of being at my level."
Kamui also noticed how the cut on his lip disappeared, and he couldn't believe how someone who had received such a nasty hit from his tail could be moving so freely! "I see you noticed. Did you know, Little Dragon, that by implementing certain runes on a sword, you can give them certain magic properties? So what happens if I imbue my sword with the Nosferatu runes? But I still feel like I will wake up with a little bruise tomorrow, so maybe I will need a slash or two more to feel better tomorrow."
"I had enough of this!" Takumi snapped while began drawing the string of his Fuujin Yumi, while Ryoma leapt towards Robin, trying to challenge Robin's thunders with his Raijinto. Camilla also wanted to madly go and slit that man's throat for hurting her precious Corrin, but she saw him getting ready to defend himself against the Hoshidans, now was not the moment.
"Arcwind!" Robin directed a strong burst of wind towards Takumi's arrow, not being able to dispell but it was just enough to slightly deviate it. 'Damn, that arrow is fast and strong.' Ryoma was suddenly above ready to strike him down with Raijinto. "Fenrir!"
Ryoma found himself tackled to the ground, but he instantly rolled back without any harm. "What was that?" Suddenly, out of nowhere, a fierce looking black wolf of the height of Robin's waist was there next to him. It had chains wrapped around some parts of its body and little armour around its neck.
"Pretty impressive isn't it? I never understood why nobody bothered in developing the art of summoning. So much cool things you can do with it."
Takumi prepared his bow string again while Ryoma took on an ofensive stance. "Whoa! Calm down, I am sure we can talk this out. We can fight if you want but ask Little Dragon here the consequences of doing that. Don't you think its pointless to continue? Sometimes an on time retreat is a victory you know. It's basic tactics. All you have to do is return to Nohr what rightfully belongs to Nohr, and leave with Little Dragon here."
"And what could we possibly have that we need to return you fiend!" Ryoma spat back at him.
Robin rubbed his chin, making the motion of thinking. "I can think of a few things, but I think we've had enough royals switching countries because of kidnappings and whatnot, don't you think?" Realisation hit the Hoshidan royals.
"What do you mean?" The question came from Camilla.
"Kamui!" "Big Brother!" From the tunnels, both Hinoka and Sakura came, alongside with the majority of the Hoshidan troops, presumably after having beaten the remainder of the Nohrian soldiers. The reaction from the Hoshidan side varied, from cries to their lord, to gasps, or glares towards the man that was now standing next to their defeated lord.
Each time one tried to approach them the wolf sent them a menacing growl. But out of all the reactions, there is one that stuck out from the others. "Big Bro?! Big Sis?! What is going on here."
"And there we have her." Lowly declared Robin, mostly to himself.
"Elise! What are you doing over there dear! Come here right now!" Called Camilla, with a mix of a worried and scolding tone.
"But..." Elise tried to approach Kamui, and with her several soldiers.
Ryoma needed to alert them, if he didn't, some could end up making a stupid move. "Everyone! Don't approach him, he is very dangerous!"
"That, is not correct Lord Ryoma. I am not dangerous. Any fighting or injuries could have been avoided if I am not mistaken." He now faced the Nohrian Princess. "Lady Elise. Lord Xander sent me to retrieve you. If you would be so kind to come back to us."
"Who are you! And what did you do to Big Bro!"
"Elise! Just do as he says and come here!"
"Please Lady Elise. The faster you come, the sooner Lord Corrin will be treated. That left arm isn't gonna heal itself."
Elise tried her best not to stay there and cry her eyes out. To cry at how this all turned out wrong. She knew better than to upset Camilla, after all, she knew how she was when it came to family. She took hesitant steps towards the Nohrian and as she was near Camilla the older Royal embraced her in a tight hug. "Please dear. Don't ever do that again. Who knows what could have happened to you."
"Big Sis..." Elise muttered. "Before they go... Can I at least help them to heal Big Bro?"
She stared at her teary eyed face. How could she possibly say no to her? "Of course you can dear."
Robin patted the Wolf's head. "It's all right Fenrir. You can go now." He made the wolf disappear and faced the Hoshidan Royals. "I believe you will do what is right now and you will leave now. Of course you can give Little Dragon here first aid before you leave, but for that arm of his to heal completely he will need some more long-term treatment, so I advice you to leave once that has been taken care of. Now, if you don't mind, I will be taking my leave, it was a pleasure to make your acquaintance." He gave a slight bow, and just like he came, he left through the tunnels, leaving behind him the sound of his steps.
Elise and Sakura instantly moved to treat the now unconscious Kamui's arm and instantly winced at how bad it looked. Those burns were definitely out of this world. Just as they were getting ready to bandage his arm a sudden caw caught their attention. A pitch black crow came from above and landed on Sakura's hand. The crow was certainly a bit bigger than normal crows, but only slightly.
"Sakura, look at its leg." Pointed Elise. Both royals took a look at its leg to find attached to it a small paper. Elise carefully unwrapped from the crow's legs to read its contents. 'Apply this on his burns' "Eh? Apply what?"
Suddenly, the crow made gagging sounds, its chest puffed, and then he vomited a small flask. "Ew! What was that." Both girls looked a bit disgusted, but easily overcame the sensation and focused on the flask.
"W-What do you say Elise? Should we try this on Big Brother? W-What if it's a t-trap?"
Elise opened the flask and both royals instantly pinched their nose. Inside the flask was a salve, but its smell was so strong that it could probably knock out an elephant. "I don't know. Big Sis told me once that all medicines were better the worse they tasted, if it is the same for smell then he will recover in no time." She joked. "I say we give it try."
"R-Right." The crow cawed again and lifted itself from Sakura's hand, ready to take flight again. After a few flaps of his wings, he rapidly took off, disappearing between the dark tunnels of the Windmire underground.
To their wonder, the moment they applied the salve, Kamui's burns rapidly began getting better. Although it didn't heal him completely, his skin didn't have that worrying ash colour any more, instead it was back to a colour more akin to his pale skin, only a bit more tanned due to the burns.
They bandaged his arms and now Kamui lay with his head resting on Sakura's lap, his chest rising and falling at a slow comforting steady pace. Elise looked to see Camilla approaching them, equally, behind Sakura, Hinoka also came to check on Kamui.
"How is he holding up, Elise?" Camilla asked with her usual concerned tone.
"You dare ask how he is faring after you Nohrians did this to him?!" She barely could contain herself from trying to go after that white haired man that made her little brother suffer.
"You think I wanted or ordered any of this?! Don't worry, when I get back I will settle a couple of things for sure. But if anything of this happened in the first place its your fault."
"You-"
"Enough!" Both elder royals looked at the shy Hoshidan royal, taken aback by her outburst. "H-he's sleeping now. Hinoka, please, let's just get out of here."
"...Yeah, let's go. I will take Kamui."
Elise and Camilla were left alone, looking at the disappearing forms of the Kamui's little group. Elise sighed, sad at the helplessness she felt for not being able to do more for their Corrin. "You think he'll be alright Big Sis?"
Camilla turned her around and hugged her in one of her warm motherly hugs. "Of course dear. And hopefully, the next time we see him, it will be on the same side."
Elise smile and felt a little bit relieved at her sister's word. Her reassuring tone also gave her a little bit of hope. "Who is that guy anyway? I've seen Big Bro fight. He is amazing! I still don't know how he could lose like this!" Truth to be told, she also wanted to know who he really was. He just appeared out of nowhere, claimed to be Xander's advisor, and nearly chopped of Corrin's arm like it was a carrot. Oh she was pissed, Xander had some explaining to do, and maybe, even her dear Selena as well.
She definitely knew that man, and somehow, she would get her answers. "Elise, by the way. What were you doing with these Hoshidans?" Elise looked up at her and gulped at the smile on her face. The smile she made before she was going to scold her or her brothers when they did something that upset her. "Well, you can tell while we go back to Krakenburg, we need to see Xander as soon as possible. But go talk to your retainers before you go, they've been worried sick as well you know."
While making their way back together, Camilla's thought went back to Corrin again. 'My precious Corrin. You've grown so much while you were away that I can't help but be proud. I hope the next time we met you will come willingly to Big Sister's arms. And don't worry, the next time I won't let anyone hurt you, not even on Xander's orders. The only one allowed to hurt you, in case its necessary to bring you back, it's me.'
Sometimes I hate writing. Even though I enjoy it a lot, sometime I can't help but hate it. The reason why I didn't upload my other story is because I can't seem to advance it. I know what I want for it, I know how I want the events to play, but once I sit down to write... I just can't seem to get the word going. It's so frustrating, I hope that working with this story will help me out a little bit. Also on this chapter I feel satisfied with how I wrote Robin and Corrin but I didn't find myself that comfortable with the other characters. I don't even know if I managed ti portray Camilla's insanity as well as I wanted to. What do you guys think?
Also, Robin's complains of people not bothering to develop summons comes from a personal complain of mine. I don't know why Intelligent Systems hasn't bothered to develop a little bit more summons and summoners.
Also, a pairing for Corrin has still not been decided, but I will most likely go with Camilla. Not because she is waifu or has good tits, but because I think I can give this pair an interesting development that I think no one has tried approaching. One that has nothing to do with the plain and boring support that they have in Fates, a bit more serious development between them.
That will be all for now I guess. Feel free to follow, fave, review, or whatever you feel more comfortable please. And as always, feedback on writing is appreciated.