Prologue: A Stranger Near Death
We get a shot of Castle Ylisse in all of its glory and splendor under the brilliance of a blue, sunny sky as our view slowly zooms in on the castle. Just then, we're taken to the inside of the castle where Chrom, Frederick and the present-day, child version of Lucina (who is now about 3 years old) are waiting in one of the hallways of the castle. Chrom is sitting in a chair against one of the walls with his arms crossed and his right leg resting over his left leg, which he is tapping the foot of nonstop. Lucina, who is wearing a dark red dress, has her hands clasped together and looking down while sitting next to Chrom on his left in her own chair. As for Frederick, he has his back facing the opposite wall while his arms are behind his back as always and looking to be in a zen state of mind, which is very unlike him most of the time.
Lucina just looks at Chrom and and asks, "Daddy, is mommy going to be okay?"
Chrom just looks at Lucina with a blank expression that changes to a small smile and says, "Don't worry, honey. Mommy will be all right. She's just giving birth to our next child. I know it's taking a toll on her, but she's strong. Stronger than any other woman out there, with the exception being your Aunt Emmeryn. You have nothing to worry about, dear. After all, she went through the same episode when she gave birth to you."
"You really mean it?" asks Lucina. "From the way you looked, you seem worried as well."
Chrom laughs lightly and says, "You may have inherited my strength and resolve, but you seem to have inherited your mother's intelligence and keen perception." Chrom looks away from Lucina and says, "I guess I am a little worried. But then again, child birth is always frightening, especially since I'll now have two kids to take care of."
Lucina just looks down and says, "Is it going to be hard, Daddy?"
Chrom looks at Lucina with another smile and says, "Yeah, it will be. But, I promise that when this new child is born, I won't love you any less than them. Neither Mommy or I will."
Lucina looks up at Chrom and asks, "You mean it?"
Chrom just nods and says, "You have my word. You'll always have a place in our family, my darling daughter."
Lucina gives Chrom a big and bright smile back.
Just then, the doors at the end of the far end of the hallway open up, and a woman we can assume to be a nurse by her clothing runs towards Chrom, Frederick and Lucina. As the three of them hear the doors open, they see the nurse running towards them. The nurse has a big smile on her face as she runs, most likely coming with good news. Chrom stands up and Frederick brings his arms from behind his back when the nurse comes to a stop as she nears them.
"I take it from the way you're smiling, the delivery was a success." says Frederick to the nurse.
"Most definitely." says the nurse.
"So...?" Chrom begins to ask nervously.
The nurse, with much joy, says, "It's a boy!"
Chrom sighs a little and says under his breath, "I knew it." He then looks at Lucina, and says, "You hear that, Lucina? You just got yourself a baby brother!"
"A brother?" Lucina asks.
"That's right." says Chrom. "You want to go see him?" He then looks at the nurse and asks, "Uh, is it okay if we can see my wife now?"
"Certainly, milord." says the nurse. "Queen Momo made a fast recovery. She's certainly a strong woman, so she'd be happy to see you all."
"Thank you." says Chrom. He then turns to Frederick and says, "Frederick, go and inform the others about the news. I'm sure they'll want to come and see Momo and our new child. Well, so to speak, anyway."
"On my way, sire." says Frederick before he goes to deliver the news.
As Frederick leaves, Chrom says to Lucina, "Well, let's go see Mommy and your new, baby brother. Are you ready?"
"Uh-huh." Lucina says with an excited smile.
Chrom just smiles back at his and Momo's daughter from the present day, then says to the nurse as he looks at her, "Alright, lead the way."
"Yes, milord." responds the nurse.
After that, the three of them walk in the direction the nurse came from.
The scene then changes to the shot of a type of bedroom with a very extravagant bed in it. In the bed is Momo, dressed in a white gown of fine linen while in bed and holding onto a baby wrapped in a white, swaddling cloth. The baby has a small patch of blue hair that matches Chrom's and Lucina's. Momo appears to be humming some type of tune to the baby, and from the way he's smiling, he appears to be enjoying it. There are others in the room with Momo and the child, most clearly nurses and one man we can only assume to be a doctor. We then hear the doors open, which catches Momo's attention as she stops humming, as well as the others in the room (with the exception of the baby as his attention is fixated on Momo). Coming through the doors are Chrom, Lucina and the nurse that informed them.
As Momo takes notice of Chrom, she says, "Hey, Chrom."
"Hey, Momo. Are you okay?" asks Chrom.
Momo just giggles and says, "Don't worry, dear. I'm fine. Why don't you meet our son, or should I say, the boy that will grow up to be our son?"
Chrom and Lucina slowly walk up to the right of Momo's bed, and Chrom, with a smile that shows just how ridiculously happy he is, says, "Certainly." He then looks at the baby boy, who then looks at Chrom with another pleasant smile, and he says, "Hey, Morgan. It's me, your dad. Welcome to the world, little guy. There's another that wants to see you."
Chrom then picks up Lucina, and puts her on the bed next to Momo. Lucina then crawls over to see her baby brother, and says with a big smile, "Hi. I'm Lucina. I'm your... big sister."
Baby Morgan just giggles when he sees Lucina.
Momo giggles and says, "I think Morgan likes you, honey."
"That's his name?" asks Lucina. "His name is Morgan?"
"That's right." says Momo. "He's your baby brother, and a newly born prince. What do you think?"
Lucina giggles and says, "I think he's cute."
"He certainly is." says Chrom. "I remember when you were that little, Lucina. What a true bundle of joy you were. In fact, you still are. Both you and your brother are our everything in this world."
"Really?" Lucina asks as she looks at Chrom.
"Absolutely, dear." says Momo, getting Lucina to look at her. "And you both always will be, no matter what."
Just then, Frederick arrives through the opening, which gets the attention of the others, and says, "Milord, I brought the others to see you all."
"Good." says Chrom. "Let them come in."
"Right away." says Frederick. He then looks behind him and says, "You all may enter, now."
Upon hearing this, the Shepherds enter the room, along with Say'ri, Tiki, Emmeryn and Soltis. In addition to the main Shepherds themselves, they also have their own respective children with them who are all about the same age of 1. Even the children from the future are there to witness this joy.
"Oh, wow!" says Lissa with a big smile. "The second one is here!" Lissa then looks at the present-day Owain, who she's holding in her arms and says, "Look, Owain. Your newest cousin has been born. What do you think?"
The present-day Owain just giggles cutely.
Vaike, who has his arm around the future Owain says, "So, what do you think of Morgan finally being born, son?"
"A truly marvelous occasion, that's what!" says the future Owain boldly. "It's only right for it to be that way, my truest allyversary being born on this momentous day! Oh, I can just imagine the moments he and my child self will have to really show their friendship that would make the heavens envious!"
Lissa giggles and says to the present-day Owain, "Owain, promise mommy you won't grow up to be THAT colorful, please?"
Present-day Owain just giggles, which makes the future Owain just rub the back of his head with a nervous smile.
Momo just laughs a bit to see the usual shenanigans of the Shepherds haven't changed that much. She then says, "If you all want to come see him, you can. Just be sure to give him enough space, okay?"
"Ooh, I want to see him, first." says Virgil. "If... that's all right?"
"Come on over, Virgil." says Chrom.
Virgil then walks over next to Chrom, and says as he looks at baby Morgan, who looks back at him with a curious expression, "Aw, ain't he just the cutest wittle bundle ever?" He then calmly sticks his finger and begins to move it while say, "Goochie, goochie, goo!"
Morgan, seeing Virgil's finger so close to his face, takes hold of it with his little hands, and Virgil says, "Hey, he grabbed my finger." Before long, baby Morgan starts to suckle on Virgil's finger, which gets him to say a little nervously, "And now, he's... sucking on it. Quite the little sucker, isn't he? Get it!"
Tharja just shakes her head, and says, "Ugh, a feather brain until the end."
Soltis puts his arm around Virgil, and has on his face perhaps the biggest smile the Shepherds have seen on him in a long time. "I cannot congratulate you enough, Momo, and coming from me, that's saying something." He then looks at Virgil with a curious expression, and says "And Virgil, I would never have guessed you'd be this good with him." He then mutters under his breath "Gods know it took me some learning." He shakes himself from his thoughts, and puts a hand on Momo's shoulder, eying the baby with that same, uncharacteristically happy smile.
Momo says, "Thank you, so much, Soltis. I'm just glad I was able to return to the world of the living to be able to have another child in my life. I truly feel like the luckiest woman right now."
Libra, who is holding the child version of Yarne, and Panne come near Momo's bed, and Libra says in his soothing voice, "I choose to think it is we who are luckier to have you, but regardless of who is luckier, we all deserve to be blessed by Naga in our own ways. And this moment shows you to be most blessed so far. May Naga watch over you all as long as she can."
Momo just nods with a big smile to Libra.
"So, not to rush things, but have you guys decided on who will be the rugrat's godfather yet, Bubbles?" asks Gaius, who is standing next to Sumia (who is holding the present day Cynthia) on her right.
"Gaius, I just gave birth to him." says Momo with a perplexed smile. "Can't we at least wait till another time for such a decision?"
"Eh, was just wondering." says Gaius. "Thought you might put me in the running, or something."
"Really?" asks Chrom. "That's a bit unlike you, Gaius. Why such a fascination in becoming my son's godfather?"
"What? I can't have a softer side to myself? That what you telling me, Blue?" asks Gaius.
"Ooh, I would love to be the little tyke's godfather!" says Henry, who is standing next to Cordelia (who is holding the child version of Severa). "I could teach him the proper way dismember the bad guys! It'll be so much fun having him enjoy causing as much carnage as I love to! Nya ha ha ha ha!"
"No, no! Gregor be making better godfather!" says Gregor, who is standing next to Cherche (who is holding the child version of Gerome). "Gregor raise tiny Morgan to be good and strong like ox! Nay, like ten oxes!"
Gaius says, "You both are bonkers! I should be the kid's godfather! With me, I'll make sure to truly refine his sweet tooth just like mine is!"
"Oy, Gaius! Gregor be thinking you trying to make little Morgan fat!" says Gregor with a worried expression.
"Better to be fat than a blockhead!" says Gaius. He looks at Henry and says, "Or a maniac!"
"Hey now! I take pride in being a maniac!" says Henry. "It's one of the few joys I get out of this life! And it's one that the right people need to share with me in this world!"
Lon'qu, who's holding the child Brady while standing next to Maribelle, just grunts, which gets the attention of the three men arguing. Lon'qu then looks at them looking at him, and says, "...Leave me out of this."
Cordelia sighs and says to Cherche and Sumia, "Even as fathers, our husbands can still be such children."
Sumia sighs and says, "I may be a clod, but I feel luckier to be one than how our husbands are acting."
Cherche just giggles about the whole thing going on.
As the arguing continues between Gaius, Gregor and Henry, they soon stop when they hear baby Morgan giggle, which gets them to look to see Virgil holding the baby while he shows him a vial of a bright liquid that he waves in front of him from a distance as to not blind him, but to at least get his attention.
"See? Isn't it pretty?" asks Virgil. "I made it myself. Er, with help from Soltis, of course. But I do have the recipe."
Morgan just giggles more and more, both from how bright the potion is, and how Virgil sounds while talking.
Meanwhile, both the future Lucina and future Morgan are watching the whole thing going on, and the future Morgan sheds a little tear. Lucina from the future sees this and asks, "Brother? Are you crying?"
The future Morgan wipes his tear and says, "It's just a beautiful moment, that's all. Makes me feel like I forgot so much after losing my memories, like how cute I was, and how happy I was to have a true family. Sure, I love still having memories of my mother, but... I wish I could have so much more than that."
Future Lucina smiles calmly and says, "Well, maybe this flow of time will be far different from how ours was. It's already proved so with the destruction of Grima that our mother was able to have happen to secure a truly positive future."
"Yeah." says future Morgan. "I suppose you're right, Sister."
Just then, we hear Basilio's voice go, "Well, nice to see this joyous occasion happen."
Everyone looks to see Basilio enter the room, but having a grim look on his face.
"Khan Basilio, you're late." says Chrom. "And what's with the sour look?"
"The look I have on my face is part of why I'm late." says Basilio. "Flavia is about to bring in the other reason why."
"What is it?" asks Momo.
"We... ran into an injured person." says Basilio. "And we decided to bring him here."
"Well, we'll be glad to help him." says Chrom. "But, was it necessary to bring him here?"
"In a way... yeah." says Basilio. "You'll see why when Flavia gets her arse up here."
"I'm already here, oaf." says Flavia's voice.
Everyone turns to see Flavia enter the room, and holding what looks to be an injured boy with brown hair, a golden laurel crown and Greek-style clothing. But what really gets everyone's attention are his rather large, white wings on his back.
Noticing the boy's wings, Chrom goes, "What the...?"
"That's why we brought him here." says Basilio. "From my knowledge, I don't think the regular physicians know anything about the workings of... an angel."
"I... I don't know if we do, either." says Chrom looking at the angel.
Just then, we hear the angel give off a painful sound as he tries to speak, saying, "H... h... help... me..."
"Don't worry, little guy." says Flavia. "We'll get you on your feet very soon."
"M... must... save... people..." says the angel. "Must.. stop... great evil..."
"What's he talking about?" asks a curious Stahl.
"Beats the hell out of me." responds Sully.
"Evil... spirit..." says the angel. "Stronger... than... b-both... Medusa... and... Hades... combined..."
"Evil spirit?" asks Tiki.
Flavia asks the angel calmly, "Did the spirit have a name?"
"It said... it's name was... G... G... Gr... Grima..." says the angel very painfully. "Name was... Grima."
Suddenly, a deafening silence fills the room as everyone has on an expressions of fear on their faces (save Soltis, who just has on a concerned look), followed by Chrom simply saying in a very quiet tone, "What?"
To Be Continued in Part 1.