Chapter 1: Into the Battle-Ground.
"I am sorry but I…I can't choose either side."
Those were the words that escapes from the younger princes' mouth. In front of him, two figures widen their eyes in disbelief together, despite their opposing stands.
It was quite ironic really. Both figures come from the opposing kingdom, Ryoma the Blood-Armoured Prince from Hoshido, and Xander the Almighty Prince from Nohr. They are here together to fight in a war, each mirrors the state of their own respective kingdoms, by how strong the hateful glare sent between the both of them when they look at each other.
Yet right now they share the same emotion, all because of "Their" brother. As fate would have it, Kamui, the prince of Hoshido was kidnapped by the kingdom of Nohr in a very young age, and was put in a spell to forget his past. Living a new life, he was named Corrin in Nohr and was locked within his room for as long as he grew. It was only years later that he found himself in Hoshido again, after a betrayal from Nohr.
They said fate is a cruel mistress. And right now, the mistress demands the prince choose a side. Will he return to Hoshido, his "Original" family, or will he remain in Nohr, his "Apparent" family. Both elder princes know it's not an easy decision for him. Yet in their heart, they always believe he will return to their respective side. This development is really unexpected for them and in return, they gain another understanding with each other instead of just opposition.
The feeling of Betrayal.
"Please cast your sword aside brothers…I am sure a peaceful solution could just-"
Those words sound like a mock to their heart, sounds like an insult to their mind. Not only the younger prince choose to run away from his responsibility to choose a side, he also somehow think they could somehow meet a peaceful end just because he wants to.
Xander feels disappointed, all of the time he spends with the younger prince, all the lesson he taught him…Has it never reaches him?
Ryoma feels anger, all those years of longing for reunion, has the younger boy really closed his heart for his family? How could he convey all the emotion within those years to him?
One thing is clear to them however, that their brother is no more.
The war has begun, both sides has started to attack each other. Blood are shed, metals are clashing, magics are cast. In the middle of the battle-field, a man covered in red armor and white coat stands imposingly. His swords imbued with the power of lightning, cracking sounds and works of light can be seen surrounding it. He points the sword to a man, riding on a horse in front of him. The man's armor is black and thick with a lining of gold at the edge. The man tightly grips the reins of the saddle on one hand and grip his darkness imbued sword on the other.
"My name's Ryoma! High Prince of Hoshido! I hereby challenge the Crown Prince of Nohr for a duel!" Yelled Ryouma.
"I am Xander, the Crown Prince of Nohr! I humbly accept the duel!" Replied Xander as he narrow his eyes.
"As long as I still stand on this battlefield, I will not allow you to harm Corrin!" Claimed Ryoma as he got into his stance, holding his Katana using both of his hand horizontally.
"Don't think I will let you take him so easily either" Xander declares and he signal his beloved stead, Gram to move. The horse runs directly towards Ryoma as the red prince look at them with anticipation and determination housing his eyes.
Running through the high prince is out of the question, Ryoma could slash Gram to death and Xander would be disadvantage for the rest of the fight. It's not that Xander can't fight without his stead, it's more of maintaining the advantage of a riding a stead. With that in mind, Xander swings his sword aimed at Ryoma's neck, a miniature dark cloud trails behind the sword and an ear piercing noise can be heard with each swing. Ryoma is no average fighter, with ease he bend his body backward and performs a summersault to dodge the Crown Prince's slash as he prepare his own attack. Xander was left agape at how elastic the man's body can be. Yet he have no time to wonder as Ryoma waste no time in thrusting his sword…Onto Gram.
Xander pull back his sword to block Ryoma's, the Red prince then raise his sword high and swing it down towards Xander. Xander blocks once again with his sword, it's at this moment that the darkness from his sword flares up and the thunder from Ryoma's sword burst.
The sparkling light emanated from the Katana is beautiful Xander thought, it feels like a pure and honest power that desires to show the world its worth. The courageous feeling that comes from the sparks would dread most soldiers, but Xander is no mere soldier, yet he can't deny that he is attracted to the beauty of the Thunder. The contrast between the light from the Katana and the darkness from his sword is a pure novelty. This novelty is not missed by Ryoma, the darkness that pour from the sword is so menacing…Yet at the same time Ryoma could feel the safety provided by it. Ryoma compare it to a beast that will protect its children no matter what and mercilessly cut down any that threaten them.
'How ironic' thought both.
Yet, such simply and short thoughts have no place in battlefield. Xander once again swings his sword onto Ryoma's neck which this time he duck instead of bending his back. Xander anticipate this as he point his sword immediately to Ryoma, intend to stab his body with it. Ryoma's aim however, was not just to dodge the attack. In a swift move, his sword is nearing Gram's leg, the electricity that coats it hunger for the stead's flesh. Gram shriek loudly, the beast senses the upcoming danger and raise its foot in an attempt to avoid the attack, but Ryoma notice that and he neatly follow suit with his attack.
As noted before, Xander is no mere soldier, if any average soldier is in his current situation, their horse would lose a leg and they will fall with the horse, giving chance for the High Prince to skewer them on the ground. Xander however, manages to pull the reins of his horse just in time to raise Gram's body and help it to narrowly dodge Ryoma's slash, albeit with him almost fall. With all of his power, Xander thrust his sword to Ryoma, which once again dodged by the red prince.
Ryoma however, didn't dodge it with an orthodox way. While still in crouching position, somehow he can shift his body into a hand-stand position. While shifting his body to a single hand-stand, he dodges Xander's thrust within a hair's breadth, yet the Crown prince can't help but left amazed at how nimble the High prince is. Ryoma use his lone standing hand to launch himself to the air, effectively jumping. He slashes his sword downwards again while he is falling to the ground, using gravity to increase his speed and power.
'How in the world did he move like that?' Wonder Xander.
He spare no time to dawdle however and tries to block the attack once again. He intend to block with his shield, but this time it's Ryoma who anticipate his move. Ryoma arcs his slash to the side and change the aim of the sword. Xander fails to block the attack as it graze his shoulder-pad, he secretly thanks his armory for making such dependable armor to save him the pain. Still, the high prince's attack carry such tremendous force that it leaves a deep slashing mark onto his shoulder-pad, it won't be good if such attack were to hit again.
'As expected of Nohrian's armor, it's tough…' Thought Ryoma.
It was nothing serious, but the fact that the High Prince manage to land a hit onto the Crown Prince while the Crown Prince has yet to manage one is infatuating to Xander, even if it didn't actually harm him. He wish to fight with Gram but it is apparent that Ryoma would keep his aim at the horse. Bringing the horse to the duel would just serve as a way to endanger it. Still, the High Prince makes far more moves than Xander, he should be exhausted pretty soon, and that could be an advantage.
"It seems only fitting for me to cross swords with my equal…How about we settle this High Prince Ryoma?" Xander said while dismounting his horse and point his sword at Ryoma.
"Prepare yourself then, if that is what you wish. I will defend my family and my kingdom to the very end!" Answered Ryoma as he too, point his sword at Xander.
Their subordinates watch as the two princes lock eyes with each other and move in a circle. The soldiers from both armies stopped fighting for a second as they are enthralled by their princes' duel, none there to interfere. This opportunity is not missed by the retainers of the Hoshido's high prince. The Ninja couple, Saizo and Kagero, swiftly sprint from one part of the battlefield to another. They take advantage of everyone's lenience and took their preys' lives one by one. Kagero throws a countless amount of shuriken, although not a sniper, her aim with her shuriken is so honed that all of those shurikens always hits their target. Within just a second she has took down a small part of the Nohrian army led by Xander. The scream of pain from those victims wakens the surrounding area. Soon enough everyone around the area starts to fight each other again, metals are once again clashing each other, magic are once again filling the battlefield, the ground is once again thrown into disarray as both armies remembers their purpose to kill their enemies once again.
Saizo care not about the situation of the army itself, his mission is to weaken the Nohrian as much as he can and he will succeed. He went towards a Hoshidan swordmaster who is currently locked in a fight with a Nohrian mercenary, he swiftly went into the gap between the swordmaster and the mercenary without so much as notification and stabs both of his poisonous Kunai to the mercenary. Said mercenary tries to retaliate by hacking his sword to the ninja but the sword finds no victim as the ninja has disappeared, leaving behind a fiery explosion. At the same time he disappeared, the mercenary's stomach is sliced open. Blood spurted everywhere as the man's intestines pops outside, yellow fat mingled with the red blood, pouring to the ground. The moment the man's body falls, Saizo has rush towards his new target.
A female sorceress send a flame magic towards the ninja, the fire engulfs his body and he struggles on the ground trying to keep out the fire. The sorceress give him no mercy as she send yet another fire ball towards the man. The mix of flames creates an explosion that earns a triumphant smirk in the sorceress' face, yet her joy is short lived as a log is now present on the place the ninja previously occupy. Her eyes widen in realization as she notice the ninja's face appears right beside her's from behind. Saizo gave her no time to even scream, he slices her throat open and immediately move to his next target. The woman falls to her knees, with what little moment she has, she touches her neck and feels a warm liquid and sharp stings jolt through her. She falls lifelessly on the ground while Saizo advances towards his next target, yet another sorceress.
Not noticing her assailant coming towards her, the sorceress focus on casting her spell to help her comrades fighting Hoshidan soldiers. Saizo move as silently and swiftly as possible, making sure his target kept her ignorance. When he is just a mere 4 feet to her, he throws his shuriken.
Xander looks to his side, noticing the chaos in the battlefield. He express no particular emotion nor concern towards his men on his face. Ryoma knows about Nohrian's cruel and inhumane culture, yet it still baffles him to see a fellow prince having no attachment towards his own men.
"Your force are getting annihilated one by one Crown prince, yet you don't strike me as being concerned." Said Ryoma.
Xander returns his attention to Ryoma once more. Staying silent for a few second before finally reply back.
"Contrary to what you think, I am concerned. But I am not worried."
"Oh? Pray tell why is that? It seems my subordinates make an easy work out of yours."
"I can give you my word High prince, you have yet to see what we can offer."
It was unexpected, really. Saizo never would have expected somebody would be able to deflect his Shuriken within that range, much less somebody whom he can't sense before suddenly appears to guard his target.
"Taking a lady from behind on your first meeting… A bold move I must say."
Saizo eyes his new target, he is a man of slender build with standard Nohrian pauldron. His hair are grey like his eye, a chainmail protects his body instead of heavy armor that usually are worn by Nohrians. A light-weight fighter is rare among Nohrian, but it doesn't concerns Saizo at all. His opponent turns around and give a soothing smile towards the sorceress.
"It pains me to part with such an adorable creature but may I asks you to leave? We would like to have a… "Men's talk"."
The man winks and the sorceress blushes, she awkwardly nods before running somewhere else.
Laslow turns around abruptly and blocked another strike from the Ninja. An eye meet an eye, gentle meet stern, Laslow's eyes never left the kind smile it adopt, in contrast to Saizo's own who's eyes reflected intense bloodlust.
A slice to the knee, a slice to the abdomen, a slice to the jugular, or even an overhead cleave. None of those works, every attempt from Saizo to cut him was blocked by Laslow. Moreover, the man looks like he has predict where Saizo would attack him next and prepared for it. His hands flings around unpredictably, hand gripping his sword tightly as it is prepared to block any attack thrown at him.
Saizo notes the man's unorthodox way of fighting which is so elegant and graceful. A far comparison to Nohrian precise and brutal way of fighting. If anything, his movement is so graceful that it doesn't looks like a movement used for fighting at all, rather for dancing.
'Is he playing around with me? Could it be?!'
Saizo insert his hand in the pocket behind his waist, he throws 2 kunai with small bags attached to each to Laslow. With a definitely not needed spinning, Laslow deflects both Kunai. Unfortunately for Laslow, the bag isn't just for decoration as an explosion emerges from it upon landing on the ground. Smokes covers his view, forcing Laslow to cough and jump back.
When the smoke dissipates, a spear-master and a sword-master greets Laslow with their weapons. He dodged the cleaving from the spear-master and parry the strike from the sword-master. On the edge of his view, he saw a glimpse of black and red leaping away.
'Well he certainly got me, should've seen that coming really.'
Laslow continues to block his assailants attempt at striking him absent-mindedly. He sighed, and jump back. Behind him, two cavaliers rushes to his aid and strikes the Hoshidans. The Sword master dodge the strike in time but the Spear master is not so lucky. Laslow take the time to leave the four to their own selves and look around the battlefield with a smile.
'I wonder where she is. I hope she doesn't overwork herself and got killed.'
The girl that hold his concern is currently gleefully thrusting her lance here and there while she charge on the battlefield with her stead. Her marine and pink ponytail hair hopped about adorably, accompanied by equally adorable smile on her face. She laugh and laugh as blood paints her lance and her horse steps on other humans, her euphoric expression looks as if she is riding on a paradise.
Archers let their arrows lose, yet none can reaches her nor her horse. Spearmen and Samurai strikes with their blades yet they end laying on the ground unmoving, bearing the pain of her lance and the horse's stomp. Blood scatters everywhere and certainly not the girl's. She is not alone, behind her are forces of Nohrian cavalries fighting with the Hoshidan infantry. Yet, while the others have fall down from their steed and lay defenceless to the strikes of the infantry, she and few other cavalries ran amok amidst the samurais and the spearmen, claiming growingly numerous victim who were helpless to their onslaught.
"Yay! Blood! More Blood! All of you are in the prince's way and must be- Ooh?"
Feeling like she is on top of the world, she raised her spear and shouts happily in the middle of the battleground. She was cut off however when she feels herself slowly falling to the ground. She looks around her absent-mindedly, her mind is blank trying to explain her situation. Around her, her cavalry forces are falling one by one by unknown reason, yet she cares not for them as she stares at her own fallen stead which is currently twitching in front of her.
'Poison?' She thought.
Without so much as turning, she trusts her Lance to the side. A loud 'thung' sound can be heard as metal meets metal. Shurikens drop heavily on the ground near her lance. She turns to the side, her pair of blank eyes locks with a single widen eye of a woman.
A Kunoichi.
The girl smiles, she perks up and get into a stance as she stares giddily at the other woman.
"Oh It's you! Peri saw you before!"
Kagero have seen a lot in her life, the sight of a mentally questionable woman challenging her to a fight is unique but not completely strange for her. Yet the fact that such simpleton looking girl from foreign land has seen her before could mean one thing. She saw her on her "mission". Not only she is discovered after killing the other cavalries by this girl, she was also discovered by the very same girl on her mission. As an expert shinobi, this fact something rather humiliating for her.
She probably made some mistakes but she intends to redeem it…Though her opponent may not make this to be as easy as she would like.
"Corrin!"
A woman roars, with voice full of dejection as she raced through the sky. Her short crimson hair flares by the wind. Her eyes as red as her hair, on one hand she tightly grip her naginata, while on the other she ferociously yank her pegasus' bridle.
The first princess of Hoshido, Hinoka. She was ecstatic when she learns that her brother, Kamui has return. She noted that he is different, yet there is definitely something familiar about him. She respect his wish when he asked to be called "Corrin" instead of "Kamui", and she did. She was fine with that, others are contend too. She longed to meet him, longed to embrace him, longed to spend time with her younger brother. The moment of his kidnapping still haunts her to this day. What to call him doesn't matter, what matter is that he is back.
No more, she will be separated from her brother no more. This time he went out of his own free will, not to their Nohr rival at least. But even so, she still refuse to let it happen. She can't live without him anymore after finally being reunited. To make things worse, the girl she has consider as her own sister, Azura, went off with him!
She remember that they kidnapped Azura from Nohr as a "payment" for stealing Kamui from them. Yet her mother treats Azura like her own child, and she herself has been warming up to the girl for years. She lost one siblings before, she cannot lose two now. She speed her Pegasus up, intend to catch them with the butler who went along with them out of nowhere. The battlefield can wait, reaching her younger siblings is more important. Archers shoots their arrows to her Pegasus' wings, Mages casts their spells to her Pegasus' body. Yet none of them hits, she is used to the danger of the sky, she doesn't even need to see them to doge. They cannot stop her, she will not stop!
But alas she must…
On the corner of her eyes, she saw a glimpse of light advancing towards her. She moves her naginata to the side and blocks an oncoming blade of a giant axe, lights reflecting on the blade. She take a look at her assaulter, a woman riding on a black wyvern. Lilac hair flows messily on her head, black pupils stare murder at her, her sclera red indicating she has been crying, accompanied by a maniacal grin to decorate her face.
"It's you isn't it? It's because of you that-"
With a voice full of venom the woman utters slowly. Hinoka release her block and attempt to attack her, however the woman pulls her wyvern's bridle, using the momentum to dodge Hinoka's attack and subsequently creating a distance between them.
"Nohrian Slut! Out of my way!"
"You are the one who corrupts my dear brother isn't it? I'll kill you, if I kill you then my dear Corrin will come back."
Seconds passed, they glared at each other. But for Hinoka it was for eternity. She had a painful time processing what the woman said.
"Your….YOUR BROTHER?"
Hinoka glances to the side, to the direction where Corrin and Azura was running. She can no longer see them, the trees in the forest standing strong to cover their figures. She returns her attention back to the woman in front of her, said woman begins her advance to her. She really wants to chase after her younger siblings, she really do. Yet with anger she had never felt before, with each time she blocks the other woman's attacks, and with the loudest roar she ever manage to make, she found herself raising her naginata and brought it down swiftly at the other woman's head.
"You stole him from us and dare to claim him yours? I'LL MURDER YOU!"
The woman hurriedly raise her axe to block the incoming attack. No words were needed between the both of them as they each share a look of pure bloodlust. The woman grits her teeth and push Hinoka's naginata to the side, Hinoka is startled but notices her opponent swings her axe aiming at her head, she manage to bend herself backward to dodge in time. After recovering, Hinoka spins her naginata to pull it back and use the momentum to hit the woman in the face with the rear end of the shaft. The woman doesn't just stay there and receive the beating, she retaliate by punching Hinoka in the face too. Hinoka grimaces and back off, creating a distance between the two of them again to maintain the range advantage she have. Both females exhibit a smouldering glare to each other once more.
"First Princess of Hoshido, Hinoka."
"Second Princess of Nohr, Camilla."
With the unnecessary introduction in the middle of a battle overs, they resume their fight. Camilla advance to shorten their distance and removing Hinoka of her weapon's advantage. Even if her axe is huge compared to most axe, especially since it's a two handed axe even if she is using one hand to wield it, it still can't reach the length of a naginata. Camilla however, has the advantage of weight, Axe is heavier than Naginata therefore deals more damage, she can use that advantage to pressure Hinoka and kill her as soon as possible or at least damage her enough that she is out of the fight.
'Such a shame, if only the shaft is made of wood instead of iron, it would have been broken by now'.
Camilla smite her axe downwards in an attempt to cut Hinoka down, Hinoka reacts in time and dodge it by moving her Pegasus to the side. She grasp the moment to thrust her naginata to Camilla, but it has been anticipated by Camilla. With a triumphant smirk, Camilla hook the naginata's shaft with her axe, effectively locking it. She grips the shaft with her free hand and free it from her axe while pulling it. Hinoka who was still gripping her naginata got pulled by Camilla as well, caught off-balance and therefore, unable to defend herself.
"DIE!" Screams Camilla as she swings her axe to Hinoka's head.
Hinoka narrows her eyes, then Camilla see something she never expect in a single second. Hinoka kicks away her Pegasus and let herself fall, using gravity to boost it. Her fall helps her to avoid Camilla's axe by a hair's breadth. Camilla grits her teeth in frustration and violently throw the naginata they both still holding. Grinning madly, she watch in amusement the figure of Hinoka slowly falling to the ground.
What she didn't expect is for the red headed princess to spin her naginata so fast, it slows down her fall, the sight of her is like a human gliding with grace. Within a few seconds, her Pegasus position itself below her and she was saved from falling to her death…
Camilla's smirk twisted into frown full of disgust as she saw the Pegasus saves Hinoka from her fatal fate. She grits her teeth and advance once more to Hinoka, intend to cut her once and for all. Hinoka watches Camilla for a second, and then turns her back to Camilla. Hinoka, surprisingly soar above high in the sky instead of preparing to defend or advance at her, an action that is considered strange by Camilla. Dismissing the thought as Hinoka running away, Camilla follow suit.
"No Escape!"
Wyverns however, by comparison are a lot slower than Pegasi. It didn't take long for Hinoka to create quite a distance between her and Camilla. Camilla saw that she won't be able to reach Hinoka unless she force the redhead to stop. Reaching behind her, she took a magic book and began her incantation. Midway to her incantation, however, Hinoka suddenly leaps from her Pegasus. She rise her naginata and attempt to take advantage of the gravity once again to enhance the weight her attack.
Realizing this, Camilla sped up her incantation and fire her flame spell towards Hinoka. Hinoka braced herself and begin to spins her Naginata again, this time not to float but to blow Camilla's flame away. Although the fire spell she cast are weaker due to being hasty, it did the job its intended for. Hinoka lost her momentum and the gravity still force her body to fall.
Yet, this is not enough to beat the fierce princess. Thinking fast, Hinoka grabs the bridle of Camilla's Wyvern while falling to stops her falls. Camilla is shocked that the force of the grab is strong enough to shaken and tilt her wyvern. She doesn't have the luxury of staying shocked however, as Hinoka pulls herself up while thrusting her naginata…To Camilla's head.
Camilla let go of her bridle and move her head aside to avoid getting stabbed to death. Meanwhile, Hinoka succeed in mounting the wyvern and position herself so she and Camilla would be face-to-face.
This position has put Hinoka in bad situation however. Both princess realizes that not only Hinoka lose her range advantage, because of her pulling herself to the wyvern from the air, she is not properly seated on the back of said wyvern. While Camilla is properly seated on a saddle, Hinoka sits in an awkward place between said saddle and the wyvern's neck. Hence, it makes Hinoka easier to fall than Camilla and harder for her to gather her strength.
Camilla make use of this sudden gained advantage immediately by rapidly swinging her axe to Hinoka. Time and time again, Hinoka desperately blocks Camilla's attacks while maintaining her position. Lest she falls while injured. Camilla manage to once more hook the naginata's shaft and pull Hinoka to her, this time however, Hinoka anticipate the action and deliver a swift punch to Camilla. The punch is so strong that it break Camilla's nose. Camilla growls in pain, anger prompts her to forcefully slam her axe to Hinoka. The attack also disturb her balance and Hinoka find herself falling to the ground, a situation she desperately tries to avoid before.
Being injured, she can no longer swings her naginata to glide anymore. It was thanks to her Pegasus once more being on time to save Hinoka that she once again survive the fall.
'Damn she got me.'
Still holding their injuries, both princess resume glaring at each other. Hinoka's injury is worse than Camilla, but Camilla's would be threatening if left unchecked. While they are still more than eager to continue their battle, a group of wyvern riders is approaching them fast, led by a petite woman with an indigo hair above her black bandana.
Camilla grins, Hinoka frowns.
Pulling the bridle, Hinoka decide to retreat. She can't fight that many opponents, not especially with the injury.
"I told you! No Escape!"
Camilla, still holding her nose, advance on Hinoka and the wyvern riders behind her follows her lead. They cast fire spells towards Hinoka endlessly, forcing Hinoka to manoeuvre around the fire to dodge the flames. This action, while didn't hit Hinoka at all, did its job to slow down Hinoka as she finds her pursuers starting to get uncomfortably closer to her.
Hinoka frowns even deeper, she is in delicate situation where one mistake can cost her, her life. As the pursuers goes closer, the harder it is for her to avoid their magics. The situation won't permit her to simply dodge their attacks anymore, she is now forced to use her naginata to disperse the flame. Enduring the pain, she swing her naginata to use the blade to disperse the flames. While she was busy with the flames, the girl with headband manages to creeps even closer to her.
The girl swing her axe at Hinoka, she was shocked to see the girl but manages to dodge the attack with pure reflex. The girl anticipate that however and brought down her axe, and manage to wound Hinoka on her other shoulder.
"hRAAARRGHH"
Hinoka shrieked in pain, she realizes that she is in a greatly dire situation and can die at any moment. The other wyvern mages can easily toast her alive at this rate and even if she manages to survive them, Camilla would charge in to kill her while she is defending from them. This girl has injured her even more, she doubts she can fight Camilla and the wyvern mages together anymore. And unless treated fast, she would still die from bleeding out anyway.
This realization creates a rage inside her, a rage that demands her to fight back, to not die without a result, to show that it's not easy to make her fall. Her mind is bleached white by desperation, soon it is filled red by bloodlust, and in no time she gathers her strength to retaliate out of spite. She thrust her Naginata towards the girl's hand which held her axe, although she is equipped the same as Camilla, she doesn't have the same strength and Hinoka easily disarm her. The weapon flews from her hand to the ground, soon lost to the watchers' eyes. The owner watch in horror as Hinoka attempt another strike…To her Head.
'If I am going to die, then I'll take you with me.'
"Berca!"
Camilla's screams echoed throughout the sky. Perhaps it was because of the pain from her injury, or perhaps it's because everything went so fast that Camilla failed to digest every single detail, that at this moment Camilla enter a state of panic. Objectively speaking, she could kill Hinoka right now, the red haired princess is currently attacking her retainer and the women can't defend if any more attacks comes at them. Killing Hinoka would surely lower the Hoshidan's morale and increase Nohr's
But panic is the worst enemy one can get.
Without thinking, Camilla tackles Hinoka using her body to save her retainer. She didn't bring her axe, she didn't bring her tome, she leaps from her wyvern to tackles Hinoka alone, away from the Pegasus, away from her retainer.
Experience told her that expecting the red haired princess to die from falling is bound to earn you disappointment. Camilla is not sure what other trick the other princess have left so she intend to bring her down with her own body. The added weight from her body will surely makes it hard for Hinoka to save herself now, that's what she thought, even if Hinoka were to stab her to death now she don't care, she will not let go, she will bring her down even if it's with her corpse.
"LETS DIE TOGETHER DEAR!"
"…Slut."
Distressful gasps comes out of the wyvern rider force, they cannot lose their princess, they cannot. Berca propelled her wyvern to fly down in hope of saving Camilla, her forces follow suit. She doesn't mind saving the Hoshidan princess as well if she have to, they can kill her later, saving the princess is more important.
"Off me Nohrian Slut!"
"Make me! Hoshidan tramp!"
Hinoka repeteadly hit Camilla's back with her arm to no avail. Camilla endure the pain and had prepared herself in case Hinoka decide to separate her head from her neck. She clutch Hinoka body so tight, hoping her corpse will still hug Hinoka and bringing them faster to the ground.
Hinoka saw her Pegasus nearing them, and unsure what to do. She could grab the bridle of her Pegasus again but it may not be able to handle Camilla's added weight, the bridle may popped off and they will still falls. Meanwhile the Nohrian forces are slowly getting nearer and nearer, unless she can do something to somehow prevent her fall or at least slows it down, she will die.
And as long as Camilla is still holding her she can't do anything.
Hinoka sigh, she accept her fates if this is how it was supposed to be. Both princess exchange glare once more, even in their dying moment they wish to convey their fearlessness towards each other. The fiery glare of Camilla against the cold glare of Hinoka. They stay glaring at each other for a while until Hinoka suddenly smirks, surprising Camilla, whose brain now starts to think of all possible reason for her sudden gained confidence.
'Is this for real? What else could she possibly do at this point?'
The Pegasus is awfully near, Camilla expect it have something to do with the Pegasus. She knows while the Pegasus should be strong enough to hold both of them together, the bridle may not. She was gambling against the gods when Hinoka grab her Pegasus bridle that the bridle won't save them.
Then, as if the gods themselves mock her and her efforts, Hinoka and her Pegasus promptly disappear in the next second, leaving Camilla behind to hug a trail of light.
'What?'
She got no time to ponder however, as soon as Hinoka disappears, a barrage of arrows travels from the ground to pierce through the Wyvern's skins. Camilla shield herself with her arms and legs, yet she can't shield her mind from worries as the sound of her subordinates' cries fills her surrounding when they and their wyvern falls. She don't have time to worry about others either, when her body is starting to get closer and closer to the ground. She will either die from the impact, or the Hoshidans will kill her beyond her fruitless fall.
'So this is how I will die? Heh, I'll see you soon Krista…'
Near her location on the ground, a figure can be seen running and cutting everyone on the way like a fierce wind. The body indicates she is a woman, dressed similar to Laslow and a Nohrian paulder on her shoulder. Her blood-coloured twin tails dance enticingly on the air while she is running. She strikes numerous archers across her way, swiping through the battleground and sliding here and there to avoid the arrows. Getting closer and closer, she leaps, hands extended towards Camilla. Time seemed to turns slower for the Nohrians in the vicinity as they watch the mercenary tried to catch the princess… And soon the lilac princess is caught.
The crimson hair hugs Camilla tightly as they rolled on the ground to lessen the impact of Camilla's fall as well as to dodge the incoming barrage of arrows thrown at them by the nearby Archers. Soon enough, the archer force realizes they will endanger themselves by staying there and began to flee. Berca sigh in relief, at least they manage to save their princess. Situation is not exactly favourable however, as they lost quite a portion of their Wyvern force all because of their greed in taking down the Hoshidan princess.
'Still…How did she vanished like that?'
"Selena! Selena! Dear lord, are you alright?"
Rather than being concerned about her own wellbeing, Camilla tries to comfort the crimson haired mercenary named Selena instead, her other retainer. She put Selena's head on her breast and began to rub her back. Selena put on an annoyed face for a second before morphing into a face full of smirk and accompanied by a thumbs up.
"They are nothing for me, my lady!"
Camilla smiles softly, she looks at the approaching figure of Berca and feels the guilty contend fills her heart. She is happy with her retainers being alive and safe but it still won't change the fact that Hoshidan archer has manage to kill a few of her wyvern rider subordinates and she feels guilty for feeling relief. Perhaps the few archers victims Selena took should be a comfort to her.
Meanwhile, near the forest a group of monk and shrine maidens are tending to the wounds of a certain red-haired princess, who is now leaning her back to the tree. In front of her, a large and spiky brown haired male monk alongside a bluenette female archer with a bandana are watching her carefully
"Thanks Azama, I would've died if not because of you."
"Oh think nothing of it. I myself is fascinated by the wonder of our 'Rescue' staff. Isn't it amazing how by simply thinking of someone you are having positive alliant with and that person will magically appear before you if nearby? Imagine if this staff doesn't exist, you would be mashed to the ground by now, princess. Such a fantastic and ironic way for someone who master the sky to die isn't it?"
"Mashed princess Hinoka…Sounds tasty…"
"Don't encourage him Setsuna…"
Sighing in relief Hinoka smiles and flipped her attention to the sky. Unknown to her, so does her rival. Both the red and the lilac princess looks at the golden silhouette of the sun together in a distance, both mind gazing even far ahead. As they bask in the familiar surroundings of their retainers, one thought fills their mind.
' ' I am sure we will meet again.' '
Author's note: I hope this story doesn't comes off as cringy '-'). I am not exactly experienced in writing but I tried my best, so I hope people would excuse me if some of the words I use sounds weird to them _.
That being said I always find it disheartening for Fates to not entails the battle of Nohr vs Hoshido in chptr 6 of rev. At firs I want to make a fanfic about REV's chapter 6 battle but I decide to retell the whole revelation itself,I hope I can make a good story out of this retelling. .Most of us agree that Revelation story is bad even though some of us (including me) love it the most because we get to play as almost everyone there (RIP SCARLET). This is not going to follow revelation 100% either, as you probably realized, Jakob is the one who find the male Corrin here instead of Felicia (Honestly how did she manage to find Corrin before Jakob? I always find it hard to believe.)
As for why 'outside of Corrin's viewpoint' eh...Because Fates is from Corrin's gang/Neutral gang's viewpoint I just wanna try something else. I hope there are people who will find this interesting, CEEYA.