Hello and welcome to the cursed realm. This story is a complete revision of accursed ones if you remember that old story. I decided to rewrite the story completely because when I wrote for accursed ones nothing was clicking. Mostly because that was my first attempt at a story and it wasn't very good. For those who read accursed ones this story will have a similar premise with similar locations but with different characters. The main characters in this story will be Nina, Shiro, Seigbert, sophie and an OC of my creation. So, I will be working on this story whenever I'm stuck on my RWBY story so do not expect loads of fast updates.
This first chapter is quite dialogue heavy, so I tried to make it as easy to read as possible.
The cursed realm chapter 1:
"Are you two positive about this?" Xander put his hands on the table looking up at Leo and Orochi then looked towards Corrin and Ryoma.
Leo and Orochi nodded. "yes brother, I have been conducting tests on activity for a certain outrealm portal in the north west of Nohr and the results were... worrying to say the least"
"what did you find out?" Ryoma folded his arms.
"This particular portal shows a lot of signs of demonic activity both on the other side and in the surrounded areas." Leo responded. "I also had Niles look into the surrounding area, local villages roving merchants etc. His report details how local villages has experienced attacks from monsters they refer to as devils"
"that's when he came to me for my future sight." Orochi added.
"…and my cards showed me that all three kingdoms of Nohr, Hoshido and Valla may be invaded by these 'Devils' and soon as well" all three kings then tensed up majorly.
Leo spoke up "and that's why I requested an urgent meeting between allied nations. I worry for the safety of all 3 kingdoms if demonic activities in the outrealm continues to rise."
"thank you, brother, you and Orochi may leave I will let you know what decision we come to about combatting the situation" Leo and Orochi nodded and left the room.
The tension was so thick you could cut through it with a knife. The three kings were deep in thought, pacing around the room for hours, not saying a single word to each other.
Corrin stopped in his tracks, "anyone come up with a solution?"
"not a one brother" Ryoma sighed.
Both men looked towards Xander whom was still deep in thought. "Xander?" Ryoma asked.
Xander waved his index finger towards his fellow kings and breathed in. "I have an idea, but it involves us calling our siblings, their retainers and everyones children. have this done by this time next week"
"Our children? Just what are you planning Xander?" Ryoma was interested.
"ok here is my idea..." Xander took an even more serious face.
One week later.
"heehee! Oh my! Just a little, closer! Heehee!" Nina was currently spying on the soldiers in the training grounds almost fainting when two of them took their shirts off and started to spar with hand to hand combat.
She then almost managed to shove her entire fist in her mouth when they began to wrestle.
"what are you doing, daughter?" A voice came from behind her causing her to yelp and jump forward. It was Niles, her father.
"ugh, what is it father I'm very busy right now as you can see!" She reprimanded.
Niles looked past her to see what she was staring at. "spying on the soldiers, again are we?" He smirked making her blush heavily.
"I was not! I was simply learning new combat techniques that's all!" She was visibly panicked.
"sure, you were" he said with much sarcasm. "anyway, I need you to come with me, king Xander and the kings of Hoshido and Valla requested for us."
"us? Why us?" Nina was genuinely confused as to what the three kings could possibly want from her of all people.
"they also requested the other retainers and their children. Well the ones that are still around." Nina frowned a this. she sure did miss Soleil and Ophelia, but she knew they couldn't part with their family and she knew they were probably happy wherever they were.
Nina and her father reached castle Krakenburg. She hadn't been to the castle since King Xander's coronation after the war against Anankos four years ago. She was always intimidated by the castle although she mostly attributed this to the king himself.
As they walked through the halls she felt an earie chill go down her spine. "do you even know what this is about?" She asked her father.
"I don't but I can guess it has something to do with the most recent job lord Leo sent me on" he didn't look at her.
She slouched and blew a few strands of her deep blue hair out of her face. "and does mother know why we're here?"
"of course, she does she's probably waiting for us in the throne room with everyone else"
They then reached the double doors leading towards the throne room. Niles pushed the doors open to see the others waiting for them.
The first to greet them was Niles' wife Oboro. "hey love!" She greeted Niles
"hey hun'" he greeted back before giving her a quick kiss, making Nina gag at the sight.
Oboro then greeted her daughter "hey sweetheart, spying on more boys, were we?" She greeted sarcastically.
"hey mother" she chuckled hugging her mother.
"so, Niles, any idea what the kings need from us and our children?" Oboro turned to Niles
Nina having already heard her father's explanation left walked up to the group filled with her friends and greeted them. "hey guys!"
Shiro was the first to respond "oh hey, Nina. How's it going?" He smirked
"pretty good, you have any idea what the kings want from us?" She asked.
Shiro simply shrugged "no idea, my dad just told me to we had to be here today. did your dad say anything to you seigbert?".
Seigbert shook his head "I'm afraid not. He only said it was very important that we be here right now"
As he said that the double doors flew open to reveal king Xander with his wife Charlotte. King Ryoma with his wife Setsuna and king Corrin with his wife Mozu and their daughter Kana.
They all walked past them walked up the stairs before turning. Xander was the first to speak. "I thank all of you for coming. I understand all of you would like an explanation for why you are here today"
"my brother, prince Leo and the diviner Orochi have learned of a dire threat looming over all three kingdoms of Nohr, Hoshido and Valla..."
This caught everyone's attention.
"...we have received reports of demonic activity coming from a specific outrealm portal with creatures referred to as devils by locals emerging from the portal in large droves and they have been attacking nearby villages..."
"...Orochi's future sight predicts a large-scale invasion happening in the ner future. She estimates this will happen in about a year. Leo's tests on the demonic activity coming from the portal backs this up, and we have been informed by outrealm experts that this portal is far too old to close..."
"...So, we have decided that our best course of action is to send a small party of four into the outrealm for a minimum of 6 months and investigate the Demonic activity and report back to us after 6 months so that we can decide the best course of action..."
"… in this mission we will need information on various types of these 'devils' and a potential source from where they come from. The reason why we are sending in a small party is because outrealm experts have informed us that this particular outrealm is inhabited by people just like us and if we send an army in there with no idea where to start, that will cause more problems than necessary..."
"… and the reason our children are here is because we decided it would be a good idea to send four of them in as they do not have other duties, and this could be a good opportunity for their future..."
Ryoma then spoke up "we have already decided on two who will be going. We have decided that the first two that will be going are my son Shiro, and Xander's son Seigbert."
This shocked everyone especially Seigbert and Shiro. "what?! Are you serious?!" Shiro shouted at his father.
"are you sure about this father?" Seigbert asked.
"this will be the perfect opportunity to prove yourselves as future kings of Hoshido and Nohr" Xander explained.
"Don't we get a say in this?!" Shiro was still annoyed.
"I thought you wanted to best me?" Ryoma was now agitated at his son's defiance.
"Shiro, this is the perfect opportunity for us. Just think, we might even be worthy enough to wield our father's swords if we do a good job." Shiro then looked at Seigbert with wide eyes.
"gods you're right! I'm in!" Shiro was suddenly interested.
"good now we will need two more volunteers!"
After a few seconds they started to talk amongst themselves until one person quickly raised their hand.
"I'll do it!" It was Sophie daughter of Silas and Hinoka.
Nina was not surprised in the slightest it was obvious to her that Sophie was in love with Seigbert so her offering to join him in a long mission to a different land, going on an adventure, potentially meeting new people even new... men...
'wow' she was now interested.
"are you sure about this Sophie? It will be dangerous" her father Silas inquired.
"I am father I've been meaning to broaden my horizons." Nina saw through the blatant lie.
"very well Sophie, you're in! Anyone else" Xander asked the rest of them
Nina couldn't waste this opportunity. She shot her hand up quickly "I'll go too!" She said a bit too loud.
"seriously Nina? I didn't think you would wanna do this kind of thing" her father was sceptical.
"are you sure about this sweetheart?" Her mother was slightly worried
Nina then gave a large smile at them "well baby birds gotta leave the nest some time, right? I figured now was the opportunity." This set her parents worries at ease slightly.
"and that's that! We will have Seigbert, Shiro, Sophie and Nina enter the outrealm! You four will stay behind the rest of you have a feast prepared in the dining hall if you would follow my retainers Benny and Peri they will take you there."
After everyone left the four of them stepped up to the 3 kings.
"alright we will have three days to prepare, so gather anything you want to take with you and train a little bit. Worry not about weapons as we will supply you with top quality weapons fitted to your fighting style. We will meet near a fishing village in the north west coast of Nohr. Do any of you have any questions?" Ryoma asked. they shook their heads.
"alright, now go catch up with the others and enjoy the feast"
They nodded and sped off to catch up with the others.
"well that was... something" Sophie was still a bit surprised.
"you can say that again" Shiro had his arms behind his head as they walked.
"this will not be an easy task my friends" Seigbert got slightly serious.
"that's the best part! And besides we won't have out parents breathing down our necks the whole time. We get to do this our way!" Nina was surprisingly excited.
"you're damn right!" Shiro high fived Nina and they quickly made their way t the dining hall with a fire burning in their hearts
And thus the story begins. I do appreciate constructive criticism. Do let me know if I could better represent each character and how you think I could improve.