Hi everyone! Radio-Blaze here with a little AU that my editor and I've had in the works for a while. This maaaaay count as a crossover, but it's more Awakening than anything else, so here we are.

This is also on my (new) tumblr, riderinesse, for anyone who cares.

Anyways, this is going to be a heavy AU based off of AQW/Deltora (if anyone knows either of these I love you forever) and will be going on for a while. These first chapters will be very much like the beginning of Awakening, but I promise you that they derail very quickly. So I ask that you please bear with me until that happens. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!

There is a legend that transcends time itself. A small band will travel far beyond what they know and understand to complete their task of saving the world. However, our tale doesn't begin with their journey. It begins with a battle.

After all, our heroes must meet before they can cross continents.

Chapter 1 - The Veil of My Dreams

There was absolutely nothing.

No light.

No sound.

No feeling at all.

And frankly, it was driving her mad.

It could've been a few minutes she was trapping in emptiness. It could've been several millennia. She had no way of knowing.

Suddenly, there was a soft sound, and her eardrums shattered.

"I take my vow as the Battlemage,

and Sanguine's Bane and Ward.

To be my Lord's pioneer..."

A second voice called out, scratchy and weak.

"What? Who are you? Where are you?"

It took a few moments to realize the second voice was her own.

"I take my vow as the Nightingale,

and Azure's Bane and Ward…"

A third voice?

More and more voices chimed out, dark and toneless. They swirled around her like shadows that clawed at her ears and left a ghost of their cold breath against her skin. Her palms should've been sweaty - how did she know that? - but they felt stone cold.

"What are you even saying?!" She rasped. They kept chanting, chanting, never stopping…

She counted twelve voices in all.

No. Thirteen.

And then they suddenly stopped.

The next thing she knew, it was suddenly dark and hot and sweaty. She wanted sweat before, but now she took it and all of its stickiness back.

There was also someone beside her. This was definitely an improvement.

It was a bit hard to see in the dark violet light, but the shock of blue hair on the man's head beside her was quite noticeable. The white cape dragged behind him as he stepped in time with her and his fingers intertwined with hers.

Heat rushed up to her face. 'I like this,' She decided.

"You ready, Robyne?" Came the soft whisper.

'My name? Robyne?'

She nodded and flipped her hood over her head. "As much as I'll ever be," she replied. "The question should be 'Are you ready?'"

"I suppose I have no other choice," he chuckled. He squeezed her hand once, then let go. He shoved the door - there was a door in front of them? She hadn't noticed - open.

On the other side was a pair of brightly burning amber eyes.

"So, you've finally arrived."

There was a blur of motion that she couldn't process. Lightning, a golden blade, wisps of darkness; bits and pieces that stirred her brain but brought no hint of memory into her head. Her vision refocused as the sorcerer lay beaten on the ground.

Her partner drove his sword straight through the fallen man's stomach.

She felt a sick satisfaction when she saw the sorcerer freeze. Slowly - painfully slow - he began to dissipate into the purple smoke that clouded the dark room.

Her partner swiped a hand over his forehead and pulled his sword from the ground. "That's the end of him."

"Yeah, I guess so." She was pretty sure she was supposed to be happy. Relieved. Something like that.

So why was she suddenly so nervous?

"This isn't over…"

She jumped. She hoped and prayed it was a figment of her imagination. But she saw her friend's shocked expression, and her heart crawled up her throat.

"We need to get out of here!" She shouted.

"Of course!" He replied. He was suddenly by her side, gripping her wrist and rushing for the door. He slammed his shoulder against it.

It didn't budge.

She slammed her fists against the cold surface, over and over. "Who locked this thing?!" She roared. "Nobody was anywhere near the door!"

"It shouldn't have been locked," her partner growled. "Was this a trap then?!"

"But you struck him with Falchion!" She shouted back. "That's the only thing that can kill him!"

There's no way this can be happening.

"YOU'RE MINE!"

And suddenly her world turned white-hot. Every nerve burst into flame.

She only vaguely felt her back hit the floor, only saw her friend try to lift her up in a blur of color. She looked up into wide blue eyes.

She watched as those wide blue eyes darkened. The gentle, steady grip became searing, digging into her flesh until she could feel a thick liquid dripping down her back. She blinked, and the few shadows she could make out were deepening. A wild panic seized her heart when she saw the blue of her friend's eyes turn a sharp red.

Then he fell onto his back, with a bolt of lightning stabbed straight through his chest. Her back was fine, bloodless even. His eyes weren't red.

"Chrom!" She shouted. She went to kneel at his side. "Chrom, what…?"

It was only then she saw the sparks around her hand.

"Oh gods…"

Gently, a soft touch traced her jawline. "R-Robyne…?"

"Chrom! Come on, get up, we have to get you to Lissa or something -"

"...Why…Why did...?"

She felt her blood freeze in her veins. She looked down to meet the faraway gaze of her partner, the little bit of light in his eyes specked by betrayal.

Something dark gripped her heart. She found her answer.

"Because that was the whole point of this venture."

And that's the first chapter of Cross Continental! I hope you enjoyed, and don't be afraid to give me some kind of feedback (except flames; please don't blindly hate). This is going to be a very long ongoing series, so strap yourselves in - we're all in this for the long run.

I'll be uploading chapter 2 today and then I will decide on a schedule for the rest of this arc.

Also, each chapter will be named after song lyrics. The first one to guess the song and artist without looking up these lyrics on the internet gets a shoutout for chapter 3!