Premonition: Invisible Ties
"This is all written! There's nothing you can do to change it, Prince Chrom!"
"You're wrong, Validar!"
The blue haired prince rushed to the dark sorcerer, Validar, attempting to attack him as the sorcerer is charging his dark magic. With the first two attacks, Chrom missed his mark on Validar, but when he attempted to cut him the third time, Chrom felt the dark magic as Validar effortlessly grabbed the prince's fabled sword: Falchion. The prince struggled on getting even a hit on the sorcerer as Validar's magic prevented Falchion from hitting him. Chrom knew he had to break free from Validar's grasp as he spotted the sorcerer's free hand charging up a ball of dark magic.
Quickly, but barely, Chrom got himself and his sword free from Validar's dark magic while dodging the dark magic that was suppose to be aimed for him.
During the clash between Chrom and Validar, a hooded figure was charging up electricity from their hands. Once it's fully charged, the hooded figure was about to aim for Validar when he suddenly disappeared. The hooded figure quickly scanned the almost darkened hall to find the sorcerer as he can be anywhere. Validar could be behind Chrom, behind the hooded figure as far as they know, or-
"Up there, Robin!" Chrom called to his female partner, pointing to the ceiling.
"Right!" Robin nodded her head as she aimed for Validar at the ceiling.
Right as she spotted Validar, he already sent down another ball of dark magic towards her, but luckily for Robin, it missed. Robin then shot her fully charged thunder magic at Validar while the smoke caused from the last attack is still there. She assumed that while the smoke is still around, Validar might not see temporarily, and it would be the perfect chance to strike him.
However, as the smoke cleared, Robin spotted that Validar was no longer in the ceiling, but instead, has vanished to nowhere.
Gods, the attack missed him! Robin thought as she now looked for him once again.
Chrom decided as well to keep a good eye on Validar like Robin, but it didn't last that long as he ended up getting hit by another ball of dark magic, sending him crashing into the pillars. Chrom struggled to get up from the last attack, using Falchion as support to help himself up. However, despite this, Chrom knew he won't have enough time to defend himself from the next attack that Validar has set up for him as he's still a bit paralyzed from that blow.
"Ha ha ha! So ends the life of Prince Chrom," Validar laughed as he charged up his next attack; one that would surly finish him. "Now... DIE!" he exclaimed as he hurled a huge ball of dark magic towards the blue-haired prince.
Seeing that Chrom won't dodge the attack in his current state, Robin quickly recited the text from her Thoron Tome and in a matter of seconds, a beam of lightening came out of Robin's hands, clashing with the dark magic, forcing the two magical energy to cancel each other out.
Robin let out a huge sigh as she barely made it in time to rescue Chrom from his death. She then pulled out a blue bottle out of her pockets before going to where Chrom is.
"Thanks, Robin," Chrom said as he grabbed the Elixir from her hands before he drink the bottle in one gulp in order to regain his energy he lost from that fight.
"No problem," Robin replied, taking off her hood, letting down her brown pigtails that were covered by them. Once Chrom finished drinking the whole Elixir, she asked the blue haired prince, "Are you ready to take him down?"
"Yeah," Chrom answered, finally getting up without using Falchion to support himself up. "This is it! Our final battle! You're one of us, Robin, and no 'destiny' can change that. Now let's kill this dastard and be done with it!"
"Right. And once that's done, peace can finally be return to the world and our families can live in a world without any fear."
Both Robin and Chrom rushed to the throne where Validar was 'patiently' waiting for them to come and attack the two. Sure, he could have attacked them while Chrom was regaining his strength, but it'll be more fun for Validar to wreck the prince again, along with his tactician, giving them a horrible death.
Seeing the two charging to attack the dark mage, Validar opened up his dark Tome and with a few seconds of enchanting the words, he had another attack ready for the two to send as they're getting closer to him.
"Fools! You cannot unwrite what's already written! Accept it!" Validar exclaimed as he sent his attack towards the two.
"Not a chance, Validar!" Chrom replied as he effortlessly slashed through the dark magic with Falchion. "We can change the future! Right, Robin?"
"Right, Chrom!" Robin agreed with Chrom as she had charged electricity on her hands. Once she sees that it's powerful to finish off Validar, she unleashed it while yelling, "Take this! Thoron!"
Just as planned like Robin pictured in her head, the electric beam has struck Validar in the chest, forcing the dark mage to drop his Tome to the ground as he held both of his hands close to his chest to avoid any dark magic from leaking out of his body instead of blood like humans do. While he's preventing his wounds from getting worse as he let one hand off of his chest, Validar didn't see Chrom yelling as the prince is preparing for the final attack by piercing Validar's chest. Once Chrom sees that, he slowly pulled back Falchion out of Validar, the blade covered with purple stains instead of deep red blood.
With the final attack taking Validar for good, the dark mage dropped down to his knees before falling to the ground, slowly fading away.
For both Chrom and Robin, it's finally over. This fight is over. No more battles, no more chaos, and no more...
Oh, gods no! Robin exclaimed in horror in her thoughts as she sees Validar unleashing one more attack before he completely vanishes.
"This isn't over! DAMN YOU BOTH!"
The last attack is aimed for Chrom, and judging by the size, this could kill the prince! Not wanting to let Chrom get murdered, Robin pushed Chrom away, where he narrowly escaped the attack by a few inches away from the face. However, in return, Robin took the attack from the chest, falling to the ground.
Worried for his trusted friend, Chrom rushed to Robin, helping her up with his arms behind her back and one hand on the back of her head.
"Are you alright, Robin?" Chrom asked Robin as he searched her long coat pockets to find a bottle of Elixir.
"I'm fine. I'm just glad I saved you before that attack got you," Robin sighed in relief.
"Well, that's the end of him. Thanks to you we carried the day. We can rest easy now."
"Yes. Yes we-"
Unfortunately, her sentence ended up being cut off as her head is filled with pain, throbbing harder, and her vision started to get blurry, seeing a bit of red veins that's not suppose to be there. Robin didn't know what's going on and wanted to say something to Chrom, but for some reason, she wasn't able to utter one word to Chrom.
"...At long last..." she can barely even hear Chrom's words, as if she's underwater or slowly getting deaf.
"...Ugh... Chr- Chrom..." Robin manage to speak to him, her voice getting weak.
Realizing she isn't feeling okay, Chrom's smile faded and he grew worried about his friend. He asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"
Slowly, her vision starts to get more hazy by the second, surrounded by red veins along with the muffled voice from her friend. Hell, she can feel that it's getting worse as Chrom is trying to get her attention. Robin had to say something to Chrom again and reach out to him, but her body isn't allowing her to do so. It feels like that she has no control over her own body!
"Hey, hang on, Robin! Let me get Lissa, or Maribelle, or B- UGH!"
Chrom's sentence was never completed as he felt a horrible pain coming from his chest. His eyes widen from the pain, his hands grasping onto what went through him. It wasn't a sword as he would have felt the sharpness of the blade, nor was it an arrow as he didn't see a spear on the front. What he felt from his hands was electricity, crackling loudly, feeling the little shocks surging from his body.
With her vision cleared and the pain from her head vanished, Robin's eyes widen in horror to see Chrom with a thunder bolt struck on his chest. Robin scanned her eyes all over the place to see who could have done such a thing to him, but she felt something on her hand. Something... shocking. No pun intended. Yellow sparks were flying out of her hand, slowly fading from them. This couldn't be. This can't be right! She just didn't kill her closest friend! It's...
"Oh, gods... What the hell have I done...?!" Robin exclaimed in horror, her eyes slowly forming tears. "Chrom... I didn't mean to do this to you..."
Nothing from the prince, his knees slowly descending to the ground.
"Chrom...? Chrom! Answer me!" Robin demanded, her fists banging on the tiles, not caring about the pain she received from her fists making harsh contact from it.
"Robin..." Chrom finally spoke to the brunette. "This is not your- your fault... Promise me you'll escape from this place..."
"No way! I won't leave you, Chrom! I don't want your family to learn that they have to live life with their only father gone! I don't want Lissa to be in despair that her brother is dead! I don't want anyone else to suffer because you died! We can get Lissa or Maribelle to heal you, and we can go home to-"
"No... It's too late for me. Please, go... Go and run before it's too... late..." Chrom said, smiling to Robin before he collapsed, dead.
"CHROM!"
Robin, refusing to believe that Chrom is dead, shook his body a few times, repeating to him, "Wake up! Gods damn it, Chrom! You have to wake up! CHROM! CHROM! Open your-"
Ha ha ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA! YOU CAN'T CHANGE FATE! NO ONE CAN!
"GAH! What...?!" Robin covered her ears from the laughter. However, she can still hear the laughter, as if it's coming from her head. That sick laughter taking pleasure at Robin for killing her closest friend.
From the laughter, Robin can hear another voice. Someone she recognizes. Yes, she can barely hear the voice, but she can make out who's calling her.
Her husband!
"Robin! ...A-answer me! Robin!"
But her husband's voice isn't the only one she could hear.
"Mother! Tell me you're alright! Please..."
Her little joy, Morgan! The two were behind the barrier that separated them prior to the fight with Validar.
You want me to take the two away?
DON'T TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME! Robin screamed in her thoughts. Lay one hand on them, and I'll never forgive you!
"ROBIN!" both of them were calling for her.
Unknown to the two, someone was behind them, a huge ball of fire in the mysterious figure's hands, ready to aim at the two.
"Look out!" Robin yelled at her family.
The two boys looked up to see the huge ball of flames above them, currently coming towards them as the mysterious figure released the flame. Quickly, Morgan and his father barely dodged the attack, with the father having a burn mark on his arm.
"Damn it..." he muttered, covering his arm with his free hand. "Robin... Morgan and I are coming. Just-"
"No! Don't come any closer!" Robin cut her husband's sentence as her vision is starting to fade, barely seeing her husband's brown eyes.
"What? But-"
"But no! Take Morgan and run to where everyone is!"
"I... I can't..."
"Just go," Robin commanded her husband, vision almost black. "Go before you and Morgan are in danger."
Her husband, at first, didn't say anything to Robin. He couldn't believe that his loving wife would order him to leave without her. That's just insane. They made a promise at their wedding day they'll be together for the rest of their lives and die together. And there's no way in hell that he's going to leave Robin behind. Not without a reason.
"Why do you want me and Morgan to leave you, Robin?" he asked.
"Why? Why?!" Robin repeated the last word, as she can nearly see nothing but black, only seeing a few shimmers of light. "Let's just say... I've done something bad... And now... I'll turn bad and kill everyone, even you and Morgan..."
"No! That's a lie! It can't be-"
"It is. Now go!"
"Robin, no!" her husband screamed as he attempted to break through the barrier with his sword. No matter how hard he slashed through the barrier, it didn't even make a single crack nor show any signs that the barrier would break. Even then, he couldn't give up, even if his sword breaks. He could punch or kick through the barrier just to get his wife if his sword snaps into half.
But as he's ready for another slash, he felt two strong hands grasping his arms.
"Hey!" he exclaimed to the two people who stopped him. "I need to get my wife!"
"We know how much you love her, but we have to get the hell out of here! The Teach may not know enough about magic, but I feel a strong dark energy in this place!" the first voice, or Teach as he liked to call himself, told Robin's husband.
"He right. Leave this place before we turn to dinner," the second voice added, with a broken speech pattern.
Despite this, Robin's husband shook his head in refusal as he doesn't want to break his promise to her that he made during their wedding.
"Come on, man!" Teach yelled to Robin's husband as the three felt rumbling on the ground. With the rumbling, the ceiling started to fall apart, almost crushing the three men alive. Morgan barely dodged the falling debris as he made it to where his father and his two allies were standing. "Everything is falling apart, my buddy Chrom is dead, and I think someone is going to kill us all if we don't leave! We have no choice!"
"But-"
"LET'S GO, DAMN IT!"
Looking at the barrier one last time, he spotted Robin on her knees, her hands on her head, shaking her head side to side as she's yelling, "I'm not gonna... Not... gonna..." in a voice where it's obvious that she's in deep pain. She may not be physically injured, but in her head, she's already messed up. And what he noticed is that there's some dark energy surrounding his wife, as if she's going to be part of something horrible. Horrible like...
No. Not that. It's... But it's true. At this point, he has no choice but to accept it.
Sighing deeply, Robin's husband grabbed Morgan's hand before telling his son, "Let's go."
Eyes growing wide at shock for what he heard, Morgan asked, "What? But what about mother? Is she going to be...?"
Morgan stopped talking as he spotted his father holding onto the tears in his eyes. He knew that his father wanted to cry, but he's not going to in front of his son or his two allies that he's close with.
"Fath-"
He ended up being cut off as his father, along with his two allies, were rushing out of the place before it crumbles down and kills everyone inside it.
On the other side of the barrier, Robin smiled one last time as she knew her family is going to be safe for the time being. She didn't want to bring her husband or her son into what she's going through. Especially what she's going to turn into.
Before disaster strikes, I want to say I love you, Morgan, and I love you too-
Robin didn't finish her thoughts as everything, her vision and her mind, turned black.
Author's Note: Surprise! I'm doing an adaptation on one of the games I got hooked onto: Fire Emblem Awakening! It's an amazing game on the 3DS, and if you guys haven't gotten the game, I highly recommend it.
Also, like with most adaptations, while it's going to be faithful to the game, there will be some changes that I'll be making. For one, the Premonition ended up longer compared to the game, and of course, all of the pairings will be different. And yes, that means I'm not pairing Chrom with Robin. She'll be married with someone else.
And speaking of Chrom, today's his birthday! Yea! ...And then I killed him... Go me...
This chapter does give out hints on several characters (and I might have accidently revealed who Robin is going to get married to based on the other two characters mentioned), so try and guess. It's not that hard for those who actually played it.
Anyway, if you liked this chapter, leave a review! And hopefully, I'll get better writing action scenes.
Later, and again, Happy Birthday Chrom! (despite what happened to you in this chapter)