Thanks for the warm reception of the first chapter. Before we start I must clarify something first, this story will jump to each person's perspective as you already notice in the first chapter and secondly, I had not played Fire Emblem revelation but I indeed played Conquest so the story for revelation might be differ from the game. Sorry :/
Robin opens his eyes to find himself and the divine dragon standing above ground, the platform beneath him is transparent letting him see what is down below. Robin never has any fear of heights but consider the one whose mercy he is on.
"What is this, a scenery date or a business plan. Come on Lizard, get on with it." Robin folded his with irritation written all over his face. He can feel wind passing through his face and body which makes him a little bit wary that he might fall to his doom. Judging from the Sun it is most likely noon where the bright light is blinding so Robin puts on his hood shielding the dreaded light.
"I am not Lizard! Even by that logic, you are also a Lizard, a fell Lizard! " Naga shouted with a pout on her face grabbing the tactician and shake him furiously acting like a child.
"What are you, five? " Robin throws his hands up in frustration until something caught his attention. Watch down below to see two armies prepare to engage in conflict.
"What is this anyway?" Robin's anger immediately melts away as he looks at fascination at the two armies. They are kinda like Plegia and Chon'sin but at the same time, they look different.
"What you are looking at are Hoshido and Nohr, the two kingdoms descended from the Dawn and Dusk dragons." Naga elaborates as she stands beside Robin looking down with a hint of disgust on her face.
"So... why is this have any relation to me?" Robin now crouching to take a closer look didn't even care to look up still fixated at the two armies. Formations and strategies started to pop up in his head, this is quite refreshing since he hadn't had a chance to plan combat tactics since his revival.
The two sides are separated by a river with the leaders from both sides shouting something. 'Too bad I can't hear anything but the Lizard's annoying narrating' Robin thought to himself.
"Oh...this has nothing to do with you. I just showing this because talking to you in a white space is kinda boring." Naga shrugs putting both her hand up while shaking her head.
"Well, I'm not going to argue with that." Robin stands up to fix his cloak and turns back to Naga.
"Then what am I here?" Robin asks still a bit irritated, but the change of scenery did help calm him down a bit, just a teensy bit.
"I want you to kill another divine dragon," Naga said it with a smile and a casual tone like how normally a person would say when he or she is ordering food which kinda throws Robin off. It took him a couple seconds to register what did the manakete saying.
"Wait, what? You want me to kill another divine lizard?" Robin asks in disbelief. He has been asked to do a lot of things during his time with the shepherds and Grima which is kinda a lot consider how weird of a bunch they are, but the way Naga ask him in a casual tone is kinda throwing him off guard and not to mention the difficulty to kill one.
"Is divine dragon, not a lizard. Are you sure your brain isn't fried by Grima?" Naga teases.
"Killing a person is one thing but a divine lizard is a whole another thing and why me? Why not that bitch, Lucina?"
"Oh, I have other plans for the future children. Other than that, you, on the other hand, did, in fact, successfully kill Grima so you already earn the title Dragon slayer." Naga gives a mischievous smile which rubs Robin in a wrong way ignoring the fact Robin still calls them Lizards.
"Well, So I am your personal assassin now? " Robin sigh
"Oh, come on, an assassin is such a strong word. I prefer a task taker." Naga laughs heartily at her own jokes.
"So, who is the target and what is my rewards? "
"Your target is the silent dragon, Anankos. He had to turn mad over the years and now is planning to spread chaos." Naga points her hand at her left, clouds slowly form together, and an image appears. The man in a white cloak which Robin assume is Anankos standing in an empty space. He then bent down and touch the ground, Silhouettes slowly formed like risens crawling out of the ground. The thing he summoned is like a ghost with red eyes and a thirst for violence.
"You do realise I am just one person, right?" Robin points out.
"You would find people who would help you along the way, so I wouldn't worry and besides, if you die I have one less trouble to deal with so is a win-win." Naga laughs but Robin isn't really liking this idea, him working with others again. Dark memory started to form, bad experience, hatred starting grow again. The mention of teaming up with somebody is leaving a bad taste in his mouth.
He frowns, remembering the times a certain teammate always hangs the word 'friend' around his lips like a slogan but in the end, it is nothing more than empty words and broken promises. That certain someone would find himself in a pitch if Robin can think a way out of this mess and starts clearing up his hit list, but his chain of thought was broken when he felt a warm touch on his shoulder.
He looked up to see Naga with a face full of concern and pity, no longer playful.
"But in seriousness, please be careful. I know you have gone through a lot and you right now is blinded by anger but please keep in mind that you are a good person inside. The things you have done is more good than evil." Naga says with sadness and a genuine concern in her tone, her previous cockiness seems to not match her right now.
Robin was in a daze upon hearing the manakete words, but he quickly snaps back and slaps away Naga's hand. He raised his hand and pointed his finger at Naga with a wicked smile on his face.
"Please don't misunderstood my cooperation for your petty friendship, I am merely held under your thumb because of you threaten me but once I am free of you I will resume my plans," Robin said in a cold tone glaring at Naga.
Naga seems to want to add more but hesitated, her face not of anger but disappointment.
"Very well, once you have slain Anankos you are free to do whatever you want but be warned that I will send heroes after you if you step out of line." Naga tone changed, is as cold as Robin's.
"I am counting on it." Robin glares back.
"During your quest, you cannot, and I repeat cannot kill anyone besides Anankos. If you do, then..." With a swift motion, Naga grabs Robin by the right hand and a bright light shines.
"What is it with you and bright lights, any more of these I will be blind before I start my hunt." Robin sarcastically said while covering his eyes with his left hand. When the lights die down, Robin can see a mark of Naga where the mark of Grima use to be but is purple in colour.
"What the hell is this, first you blackmail me now you brand me? How low can you get!" Robin raised his hand to show the mark and shouted in anger.
"Don't worry, this mark will disappear once you finished my request." Naga stared down the man with a glare so cold that it makes Robin flinch a bit.
"Consider this mark as a warning, it will limit the amount power you gained from Grima and it also acts as a kill switch if you perform a fatality on others. Do we understand each other? " Naga elaborates, the kind and gentle tone have disappeared. Robin stays quiet knowing his captor have lost her patients.
"I will take that as a yes, take this." Naga produces a book with blue skin.
"What is this?" Robin takes the book from Naga's hands.
"This is the Book of Naga, it will allow us to speak or write to each other, simply wrote what you want to ask in the book and I will answer to my best of my abilities," Naga explains. Robin puts the book into his cloak hanging in a pocket.
"What now?"
"Now, you wake up." And with that, the surrounding fades into darkness with Naga along with it.
"I will betray neither of my families!" A silver-haired princess stands between the crossroad of two families, one who is her adopted family who had treated nothing but love and the other one who keeps loving her and hoping to find her even when she had forgotten about them.
"Corrin, after all the care with giving to you. You would be willing to betray us?" The man on his black steed with a sword as dark as the night glowing with purple light asked with clear sadness shown on his face.
"Corrin...why would you betray Hoshido, your homeland." The other with brown hair long and spiky ask with the same reaction as his opponent.
Caught between a dilemma, the white hair princess is at a stuck of words.
"Very well, we will have to settle this right here, right now." The knight ready his sword setting his eyes at the man on the other side.
"With you as my opponent." The other man does the same, pulling out his sword with blue energy spewing out.
"No please stop!" Corrin shouted for her family to cease this conflict over her but the two men's war cry drowns it out along with each opposing side charge to meet their match.
"Corrin, we have to retreat." The blue hair woman grabs Corrin by the hand and starts running in the opposing direction.
"Wait, Azura. We have to stop this." Corrin trying to halt her footstep but Azura is persistent.
"No, we have to get out of here or else we would be caught in between as well." Too late as both opposing sides' captain with a few soldiers appears and surrounded them.
"Oh no." Azura curse under her breath knowing this is cutting it close. Corrin understands the situation as she pulls out her sword. the golden sword named Yato glimmering underneath the Sun.
They are at back to back with Azura readying her Naginata and Corrin went into a defensive stance. One of the soldiers charged at them waving his axe in the axe then struck it down on the two princesses only to have his chest piece by an iron dagger flew in from the forest. All of them was shock as for where the dagger come from, in the dark forest out steps a man with a very refined posture. Long white hair tied into a ponytail behind his head and wearing a Nohr butler uniform.
"I am here to help, my lady," Jakob said with a deep and soothing voice.
"Jakob!" Corrin screams excitedly, happy to see her friend here to help.
The three of them faces the multiple opponents at the same time, the almost perfect synchronization perform by Corrin and Jakob easily overpowered their enemies making them retreat while they run towards the direction where Jakob emerged just a while ago.
They ran and ran until one of them is out of breath. They bent down to catch a breath, but they tense up when they notice they are not alone, in front of them is clearing where the light shines in light a spotlight. In the middle of the clearing is a silver-haired man lying there unconscious.
Corrin is the first to react, slowly walking towards the unconscious man while Jakob trying to stop her in fear it might be an enemy.
"Azura, we have to do SOMETHING." A worried feminine voice rings out as Robin still in darkness.
"What do you propose we do?" Another voice asks out.
"I... I don't know..." The first voice said out.
'Oh, gods no. Naga I swear, if I open my eyes to see that backstabber face again I will kill him then I will kill you.' Robin's heart starts to beat very fast as he is ready for a fight or flight situation. His body starting moved catching the strangers' attention.
As he slowly opens his eyes to see the people who intruder his space, his heartbeat slows down as he sees unfamiliar faces.
"I see you are awake," Corrin said while lending out her hand. Robin when to reach it but hesitated. This scene is almost identical to when he first met Chrom.
"Well, you people sure are loud." Robin scratches his head as he slowly stands up. He can see two girls one in armour and another one in a white dress and behind them is a stern looking man eyeing him with suspicion. The three obviously is from a noble heritage and maybe even royalty for the two ladies.
"Let me guess, you two are princesses and that guard is your scary babysitter. am I right?" Robin says in a casual voice as he put his hand on his hips expressing a cocky look on his face.
"Hello, I am.." The princess reaches out her hand for a shake, but her words were cut short as her stern babysitter intervene the conversation.
"I am sorry to interrupt you, my lady but I suggest not to say out your name to some stranger who doesn't deserve to hear your voice." He stands between Robin and the princess. The man personality is obviously in collide with Fredrick's which makes Robin a bit annoyed.
"Well now, that is kinda rude don't you think." Robin is a bit agitated by the way the man attitude towards him, reminding him a certain knight who also acted that way towards him, but he kept a fake smile and laugh it off as a joke.
"I am sorry for my friend's rudeness." The princess apologizes. "My name is Corrin of Nohr and this is my butler and friend, Jakob." Corrin then waves her hand to the blue-haired girl who has been quiet for a while. "And this is Azura of Hoshido.". Corrin let out a cheerful smile.
"I see... I guess it won't hurt to introduce myself." Robin clears his throat." I am Robin of...somewhere, I guess." The tactician gives a bow.
"Nice to meet you, Robin." Corrin laughs. "May I ask why you were sleeping on the ground?"
"That is not important right now, I want to know if you know something about a Silent divine lizard," Robin ask but he only responded with looks of suspicious from Jakob and Corrin. The one reaction he is hoping for is from Azura, the moment he mentions a divine lizard her face seems to be troubled.
"Silent divine lizard?" Corrin asks curiously.
"My lady, this man is clearly not well in the head. We should be going on our way." Jakob attempts to pull his mistress away has be futile.
"Well, is a dragon but I don't feel like calling someone who failed to live up the name of a dragon, so lizard will do for now." Robin laughs but leaves a sad smile that the princess notice.
"Anyway, I would be on my way now." Robin turns his back on the crowd putting on his hood covering his face as he did not want to ally himself with any more royalty or anyone for that matter. The thought of backstabbing again is a bit too much for him to handle right now but Corrin stops him.
"You said you know tactics, I don't suppose to could help us?" Corrin asks out which makes Robin kinda uneasy.
"Like what? " Robin raised an eyebrow with suspicion.
"Like helping us win this war, you know the war between Hoshido and Nohr." Corrin elaborates.
"Lady Corrin, you can't possibly be serious enough to trust a man you just met?" Jakob asks out and even Azura seems uneasy by the princess' decisions.
"You not really a person with half a brain functioning, are you?" Robin turns back to look at the princess in the face. The princess is beautiful with clear smooth skin and eyes as red as rubies but what really draws attention is her ears that resembles that of a manakete like Tiki, the daughter of Naga who is also a divine dragon.
A smile slowly forms on the tactician's face, he could use this girl to find his target and maybe at the same time use her to attack those who wronged him. Robin's mind is racing with new idea popping up left and right.
"I am in need of a tactician and to win this war I have to get as many people on my side so would you join us?" The gullible princess shines out a smile that could rival Lissa's, reaching her hand out waiting for Robin to take it.
Well, Robin is not one to disappoint a useful lady like this one and with a fake smile on his face as he took it and shake it." I would try my best then but don't expect me to be a friend." And with that, they travel on together through the forest with Jakob keeping his eyes trained on Robin and Corrin trying to learn more of the mysterious man while Azura walks in front of the group with her mind spinning trying to figure why the unconscious stranger would know about her father's killer.
In the mess hall of Ylisse, a certain blue-haired princess is still troubled by what had happened two days ago. The one she accused of being a traitor turns out to be helping them right in the end. She blamed herself for her lack of judgement and jumping to conclusions.
'If I haven't wrongfully brand Robin as a traitor, would it be different?' The thought had been insufferable for the past two days. Lucina still deep in thought when a person touches her by the shoulder making flinch. She turns around to see the eldest manakete of the group, Tiki is standing behind wants to greet her friend with a smile but she stops as she sees that Tiki's troubled face.
"What's wrong?" Lucina asks as Tiki taken a seat next to her followed by a sigh. The manakete had healed well since her apparent capture by Robin under Grima's orders. She was beaten up when Robin summons a few Risens and extracted a little of her blood which he drops it in the drink for Grima.
"I have news from my mother, she wants you and the other future children to go to a place called ruins of time." Tiki seemly tired but she tries to keep herself awake long enough to give the princess details of her quest.
"Why?" Lucina is a bit taken back by a sudden request from Naga herself.
"My mother said that there is someone there you need to rescue but she didn't specify who it is."
"I'm on it." Lucina is not one to turn away a request from Tiki and certainly not one from Naga.
"One last warning, that place still has some remnants of Grima's power for some reason," Tiki said tiredly.
"I will gather the others and head out as soon as possible." And with that Lucina set out to find her friends leaving Tiki slowly succumb to tiredness and went into her afternoon slumber.
A few short walks later, Robin and his new-found companies find themselves in a small town. The people here are dress in a very similar way the people in Chon'sin do as Say'ri did teach him about their unique culture. The man and woman of the town seem to be quite lively, completely unaware a battle just broke out a few minutes ago from the opposite direction Robin and the others emerged.
"What should we do?" Robin turns and asks the question to his new employers but both Corrin and Azura are fascinated by the sight of the small town to say anything but luckily their babysitter is here to fill in the question.
"I suggest we look for a tavern for the night before the sunset, there we can have our meals and ready any supplies for Lady Corrin's journey." Jakob elaborates with the planning of a well-prepared man.
Even though Jakob attitude towards himself still rubs robin in a wrong way but Robin got to admit, the man knows what he is doing especially when the group consisting of a guy who is new to this world and two gullible and almost unsettling trusting princesses. Without any arguments, Robin and the princess follow Jakob navigate through the town to a larger building than the others.
They went into finding themselves lack of coin for two rooms so they decided on one with a bed large enough for two. The room is quite alright with a couch at the corner near the door, a large bed in the middle with one window on its side and one study desk and chair at the other corner of the couch. Robin and Jakob settle in the room while the princesses go out for some exploring, 'For a couple woman who just went through a traumatic experience they do seem to handle themselves well' Robin thought to himself while reviewing what he had to himself. Robin is kinda annoyed to find that he doesn't have anything but the book of Naga and a bronze sword on him and since he can't kill anyone without resulting death to himself, the bronze sword right now is practically worthless to him. He then set his eyes on the butler who is preparing tea and waiting for his mistress return.
"Well, I guess we should learn more about each..." Before he could finish the sentence, he is cut off by his conversation partner.
"Just because Lady Corrin trusts you doesn't mean I do so please refrain yourself from talking to me," Jakob said without looking at Robin's direction, his eyes still fixated on the tea he is preparing.
"Thanks for the nice chat, you insufferable uptight jerk," Robin mumbled to himself under his breath as he decided to walk out to buy himself something necessary. He later then found himself wandering into a store selling pretty much anything with a familiar face.
The shopkeeper is a girl with red hair tied around into a ponytail, a merchant that is as cunning as a fox and have genetics that can make Miriel (The sorcerous in Ylisse) go mad searching for a reason to explain this strange phenomenon.
"Hello, how may I help you?" The merchant said with a cheerful tone and a bright smile.
"Is your name also Anna." Robin spared no time jumping into something that intrigues him.
"Why yes but I don't seem to recall who you are." Merchant put a finger near her mouth every Anna's signature pose while thinking hard on who her mysterious customer is.
"Oh no, I know someone like you but not you," Robin explained.
"You mean one of my sisters then? "Anna laughs
"Well not exactly, I know one Anna from out realms." Robin blurted out as he wants to confirm something, something that might be crucial to his plans once he completes his end of the bargain.
"Wow, you are from out realms? Not much people know about the out realms, so you are quite a customer." Anna jumps to surprise by the unexpecting answer.
"Anyway, I was wondering if you could contact the Anna from the other world?" Robin asks.
"I am sorry, but we can't, it is kinda a rule state that we can't cross or pass information to another world." Anna explaining "Anyway, since you are a long way from home I give you a discount on my goods." upon seeing the tactician feeling dejected, Anna quickly trying to cheer him up.
"Oh, that reminds me. How much I can get from selling this?" Robin pulls out his bronze sword and sets it on the counter which Anna picks up and examined it.
"Well, it is in a fairly good condition, so I said about eleven of copper," Anna said then setting down the sword on the counter.
"Well, how much is it cost to get a blank book, a quill and an inkwell?" Robin asks.
"Well that will be about six copper coins if you count the discount I am giving you." Anna smiles.
"Well, I will take that then." Robin smiles back. The merchant leaps for joy as another successful business and goes the back to take the items Robin wanted along with his change.
"A pleasure doing business with you." Anna laughs.' Annas do love their money' Robin think to himself as he collects his item and place them in his coat.
He walks out the store seeing the sun is now almost out of sigh he went back to the tavern to be greeted by two cheerful princess who is also just got back from their little trip.
"You look awfully chirpy for a princess visiting a small town." Robin raised his eyebrow with a questionable look on his face as they sat together in the lobby of the tavern, They are having meals bought using the money Jakob had on him except for Robin who use his remaining money to buy a cheap meal and a glass of weak ale.
"I was lock inside a fortress until just a few days ago, Although the food cook by Jakob and Flora is delicious it is nothing like this." Corrin laughs.
The food is not bad considered it is cheap and surprisingly enough is way better than the food he had back in Plegia but ever since he gains the fell dragon's power we don't feel practically hungry or sleepy, he looked up to see Corrin's face filled with enjoyment like she just ate for the first time in years. Seeing now is the chance to ask a few questions Robin uses a napkin to wipe his lips and drink the last bit of the ale before getting into the business.
"So...my lady, may I ask how you are going to win against two kingdoms?" Robin asks but in a low voice so only the four of them can hear it. Part of it because he does not want any more trouble if word gets out, people already suspicious about the abnormal attire Robin and his companies have so if they heard about something word going to spread and there is one thing Robin learn about during his time in service is that words only invite trouble no matter is good or bad.
"We just convince my brother and sisters to join me, I know they will understand. "Corrin gulps down the last of her meal before speaking but sadly her strategic is as good as sending a Pegasus straight into a rain of arrows which is almost suicidal. This idea is giving Robin a headache because unlike Chrom who already have his band of shepherds which a decent number of people with combat experience is, Corrin, on the other hand, is completely out of the question. Not only that the two out of the four of them has little experience in war, one of whom cannot fight due to circumstances(Robin) that leave Jakob being the only dependable man in this sorry excuse of an army.
"We will talk once we get back to our room." Robin sighs leaving early before ordering a cup of water bringing it back to the room leaving the three at the table.
"He seems upset, is it something I said?" Corrin asks with a concerned look on her face.
"We will find out soon so let finished out meal first quickly." Azura comfort Corrin.
Robin opens the room door while gulping down the water and sit down on the desk, he then pulls out the things he bought from Anna from earlier and start jotting down his three-companion's capability and calculating the probability of their success which not surprisingly lower than fifty percent.
"How is this is going to work? We don't even have a someone who is like Fredrick in combat experience. "Robin scratching furiously on his own hair due to frustration, his concentration is broken when he heard the door opening behind him.
Corrin and the others had finished their dinner and are all gathered around in the centre of the room where the girls sit on the bed, Robin sits the couch while Jakob stands next to his mistress.
"So, ignore the idea you just proposed just now. How exactly are you going to fight this war without any well-trained number of soldiers?" Robin asks in a serious tone while holding out his tactics book which Jakob receive and handle it to Corrin and Azura. They open the book to be surprised by the fact that the front few pages is already filled with tactics and strategies.
"When you got the time to write all this?" Azura questions amaze by the smarts that their new acquaintance.
"Well, since someone says something really unsettling during dinner I decided to come up with tactics that actually not going to get neither of us kills." Robin tries his best to refrain from using words like stupid or idiotic on a certain princess.
"What do you propose we do then?" Corrin asked.
"I am not the expert of this world, so I can't help you there." Robin shrugs
"I suggest we travel to the bottomless canyon first," Azura spoke out.
"Why?" Jakob asks.
"I will tell you once we get there tomorrow." During the conversation, Robin stays quiet since he has no geographical knowledge of this place, so he better not bites more than he can chew.
"Then I suggest we sleep in early, so we can move out early tomorrow," Corrin suggest which the group agrees and with that, they blow out the candles and drift into dreamland with Robin using his arms as a pillow on the desk while the ladies sleep on the bed and Jakob sleeps on the couch.
When Robin opens his eyes, he sees he is at the Plegia castle, but something is different. He can see Gangrel sitting on the throne with Aversa next to him, he slowly creeps away not making any sounds until he arrived at the place looking like a temple but with a dark aura around it. The temple of Grima. A sinister smile creeps up on Robin's face with his mind racing, If Gangrel is here that's mean Grima should be inside right now.
Robin holds up his hand and chant an incantation, a surge of energy then releases from his hand and blast the temple door apart. The Grimleal all surprised by the sudden invasion and shouting commands around holding weapons, but Robin quickly dispatch them, making their heads tumble on the ground one by one. The feeling is too sweet that makes Robin carves more.
He continues his assault until he arrived at the centre of the temple where Grima is sitting on his throne with Validar next to him.
"How dare you barge in the temple of..." Validar hiss but a blast of lightning sent him flying and hit the wall. Robin is in no mood for a family reunion, but he is certainly happy to get his revenge, who knew revenge is so sweet.
Before Grima can stand up from his throne, Robin runs up with inhuman speed and slam his foot into the fell dragon's chest.
"Come on now, this is barely a challenge. And you call yourself the fell dragon." Robin teases with a smile that matches a madman. "Listen here now, I am the new fell dragon now and you either bow before me or bow before the dirt," Robin said with a cold tone.
"Insolent fool!" Grima waves his hand and a blast of dark energy erupted from him, good thing Robin notice it as he jumps back away from the blast. Slowly, hands dug up from under the floor as a few dozen rising slowly crawl out. "I will break you and make you taste my wrath." Grima stands up and waves his hand signalling the risens to attack but to his surprise, the risens just stand there not obeying him." What is this?" Horror form on Grima's face then a laugh erupted from Robin.
"You seriously think you have enough power to defeat me? I am the one who killed you in the future, I am the one who gains your power as my own." Robin slowly walks up to Grima passing the risen who slowly turn to face the fell dragon.
"Just like I say, I am the new fell dragon." Robin slams his fist into Grima's face knocking him unconscious.
"Lord Grima, I am here to assist you!" A feminine voice shouts out at the door.
Robin turns to see his adopted sister, Aversa is standing there with a dark tome on her hands.
"Aversa, surely you won't harm you little bwother now, would you." Robin pulls Grima's body out of the throne and sat in himself and pulls off his hood, revealing his face.
"Lord Grima?" Aversa is confused by the two identical figures, one is on the throne and another on the ground.
"I am Robin, not Grima," Robin said coldly while staring down the dark mage. Couldn't recognise your own bwother?" Robin mimic the way Aversa used to tease him.
"Listen here, you are now my subjects not Grima's, so you will obey my wishes without out questioning am I clear." Robin declares while Validar slowly walks towards in front of the throne. He had heard everything during Robin's confrontation with Grima. The sheer power from Robin is enough to subdue the fell dragon makes Validar afraid for his life as he sees a mere man making their god look like a joke.
"I, Validar is at your service." Validar knee before Robin which follows by Aversa doing the same thing.
"I, Aversa will also be at your service."
"Well, bring this pest in the dungeon." Robin spends no time thinking out new ways to torture Grima but for now, he will stay in the dungeon.
"Before you go," Robin halted the two Grimleal leaders.
"If any of you disappoints or betray me, you know what happens. Right?" Robin sits on his throne and stared at them to which sent chills down their spine.
"Y... yes sir." Both of them bow, feeling uneasy before dragging Grima away leaving Robin there with a cold and creepy smile on his face. He is going to break his enemies both mentally and physically.
A few days of marching, the future children have arrived their destination. The ruins of time. The place was built with the notion that this will stand the test of time and it is still is, the magnitude of the architecture but unfortunately, because of Grima's influence, it is now crawling with risens.
Lucina starts calling out orders to dispose of the risens before they notice them and continue deeper into the ruins, she keeps their group close so that when one of them have a miss-step the others will be close enough to help. The plan works perfectly until they heard a girl's shriek around the corner.
Severa is the closest to that corner thus she charges ahead without the others, Lucina tries to call out for her friend, but the sounds of fighting drown out her voice. She issues an order to follow Severa which they all ran as fast as they could while killing any risens on the way until they arrived around the corner.
They see Severa just finished off a risen wyvern rider and beside her is a familiar cloak. All of them stared at disbelief as the cloak resemble that of a fallen tactician, Lucina is the first to snap out of the trance and ran straight to Severa.
"What were you thinking, you could have gotten killed!" Lucina shouted.
"Well, I didn't. If I was a step too late she going to skewed!" Severa snaps back.
"Wait...she?" Lucina looks back at the figure, although 'her' face is still covered but 'she' is smaller inside compared to Robin.
"Who are you?" Lucina turns to face the mysterious figure and take a few steps forward.
"Who...am I?" The girl seems to be asking the question herself. Whisper begin to form from the future children, "Is she, Robin?", "How come she has that cloak.", "Is she like Robin with amnesia?".
"Can you take off your hood, please?" Lucina ignoring the others comment slowly bend down to the hooded girl height and ask with a gentle tone.
The figure pulls down her hood revealing a young girl's face with jet black hair.
"Do you how you get here?" Lucina asks patiently.
"Ah... I was walking with father and then..." Suddenly a light shine in her eyes like she remembers something.
"I remember...my name is Morgan," Morgan shouted out with excitement.
"I see, Morgan...that is a wonderful name." Lucina smile at the young girl seems to be filled with energy all of a sudden. Then Morgan looks around like she is searching for somebody.
"What are you looking for?" Lucina asks.
"My father, he was with me just a second ago." Morgan looks worried and about to cry, seeing this Lucina quickly puts her hand on the young girl's shoulder.
"Don't worry, we will find your father." Lucina looks at her with eyes filled with determination.
"A... Lucina?" A voice rings out, Lucina turns to see Noire speak up.
"Didn't Lady Tiki said only one person?" Noire asks nervously as she hardly spoke out.
"Still, we can't let this girl's father to be killed," Lucina said.
"Yeah but have you take a good look at her, she looks so similar to...you know." Nah pointed out.
"The resembles is indeed uncanny," Laurent spoke out while examining Morgan.
"Hey girl, do you know what is your father's name?" Inigo shouts out from the back of the group. "Maybe we can help you look for him."
Morgan seems to be concentrating then like she hit jackpot. "Oh, oh... I remember. My father name is Robin, he is a tactician like me!" Morgan is very proud announcing her father's name, but the others didn't share her enthusiasm, all of their faces suddenly turn while looking at the young girl.
"Did I do something wrong?" Morgan looks around to see everybody staring at her.
Robin opens his eyes from his wonderful blissful dream, the idea of going back in time sure is something to take record of since it is also the same thing a few certain individuals did part taken it but for that plan to work he needs the Fire Emblem and it will be too much of a hassle just to go back and punish those who don't even know him. The tactician looks around to see the Sun has not come up, he gives a sigh thinking that he will need to wait for the others to wake up so he thinks to himself to go have some training. He stands up, put on his cloak and quietly tip-top his way out of the room but little did he know a butler is aware of his awakening.
He exits out the tavern to be welcome the cold week and refreshing air, it reminds him back when he is Lady Rose where he will stroll the castle garden at midnight and early morning. He strolls with a jumpy-happy feeling through the blowing air to the nearby forest where he can have some privacy. The town is still asleep with every home and stores dark inside with no one in sight, no patrol, no guards and no bandits plotting something, it makes Robin wonder if this truly true peace means.
He walks and walks deeper into the forest until he comes into a clearing where the moonlight is bright enough for him to see what is in front of him, Robin then pulls out his book and quill and set it down at a nearby fallen tree. He then goes into the middle of the clearing and closes his eyes.
"Concentrate." Robin thinks to himself as he feels a surge of energy through his body, so he raises his right hand and points it out to the sky.
"Fire!" Robin suddenly opens his eyes and shouted as a blast of fire conjure around his hand and shot out to the sky. He pulls his hand back down closing and opening his palm with a satisfaction glimmering on his face. He then continues and starts to conjure out spell from the lowest rank and slowly rose up until he reaches Elfire for a few hours.
"I see..." Robin picks up his book and started to jolt down the spell he can conjure without using a tome like Fire, thunder, wind and Nosferatu, he could conjure more advance spell but because of the mark of Naga imprinted on him, he can only conjure simple spells. He then closes his book and looks towards the dark forest.
"I know you are out there, come out!" Robin shout out sensing someone is hidden within and out of the shadow out step Jakob.
"I see you really like stalking people." Robin jokes but Jakob is still as stern as always.
"Who are you exactly?" Jakob as with a hand behind him readying a dagger so if the situation needs it he will be ready.
"Like I say, I am Robin. A person who likes tactics. "Robin stands up and dusts the magic residue of himself.
"Well, I don't recall you say you know magic," Jakob say while standing at a comfortable distance from the tactician.
"You never ask." Robin putting both his hands up and shrugs, but Jakob is not satisfied but his answer. Robin understands where this butler is coming from because he had known someone who used to be in a similar position, the knight who protect Ylisse's royalties, he will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to his lords and one of the threats is Robin himself.
Looking at Jakob who is trying to be imitating, Robin just gives a sigh.
"I know you are afraid so why not you come and sit next to me and I will tell you my story." Robin gesture towards the fallen tree. The butler is kinda taken back but the tactician's decision to reveal everything about him.
"Why would you reveal about yourself so willingly?" Jakob still cautious.
"I myself is no secret, all you need to do is just ask because I don't have anything to lose." Robin gives a sad smile as he sat down on the tree and wait for Jakob to make his move. Although Jakob still doesn't trust his mysterious man, for Lady Corrin, he will listen to his story and be the judge.
They sat there and talk until the sun comes up, they walk back together with two being silent the entire walk. Jakob still thinks to himself with the story Robin had to tell him, Robin did honestly tell him about his story with a little mortification to it. Well actually is a lot of mortification with changing names, country, Royalties and the face he is a dark god will give anyone a raise of an eyebrow and a hand reaching for a weapon.
"Where you guys been?" Corrin asks when the two-man open the door to their room.
"We were just men bonding, haha." Robin laughs. 'That came out wrong.' He regrets as soon as the words come out of his mouth.
Both Azura and Corrin gives the two men questionable look but decided not to press the matter furthermore. After they have breakfast they continue onwards, guided by the blue-haired princess.
They walk and walk with a few times one of them strikes up a conversation and end it within a few minutes followed by several hours off silent. This goes on until they reach a canyon.
"This is the bottomless canyon where we lost Gunter..." Corrin gives a sad sigh.
"Who's Gunter?" Robin asks.
"He was one of my servant and a father figure to me, but he defended me when King Garon orders his man to end my life here." Corrin retells the story with her heart full of guilt.
"Well, that was grim. Anyway, I must ask why are we here Princess Azura?" Robin jokes a little bit then turn and face the other princess. Robin quietly noted to himself that either he slowly drifts to become a psychopath, or his humour is just dark.
"Azura, you don't mean us to hide you. Do you?" Corrin also asks the question about her questionable location.
"That is exactly what I meant, we'll jump down the canyon," Azura said with a serious tone.
"What?" Robin and Jakob both can't believe what that have heard.
"Lady Corrin, you can't possibly want to do this!" Jakob turns to his mistress fearing that she will follow through Azura's crazy plan.
"I trust her," Corrin said with a determined attitude which receives a smile from one of her friends.
"Either you are crazy or you really crazy," Robin said to Azura who seems to see this coming.
"I want you to trust me on this," Azura said calmly.
The fact Azura herself is mysterious enough to make Robin question about her character but remembering how she reacted when he mentions about Anankos makes him certain she is bringing them to a place or a realm where the dragon resides and besides, if it turns out the princess is just crazy, he can always use the spell wind to push himself out of the pit.
"Okay then." Robin steps towards Azura and with a playful smile before he pushes the princess into the canyon.
"NO!" Corrin runs towards them.
"Come on, she said jump." Robin then proceeds to jump which follow by Corrin then last but not least Jakob.
Chrom has enough weird things happened in his life that he likes to admit such as his daughter come from the future to save his life, he has to fight an evil god and meeting a friend that he executed in a female body which is to say is the least disturbing thing that he has to comprehend but nothing can prepare him when his daughter when a quest and bring back someone he had never even think would have existed till he sees it with his very eyes and even then he still can't believe it.
Standing in front of him next to Lucina is a girl wearing Robin's cloak. As Lucina's story stated, this girl is named Morgan who is the daughter of his already dead friend.
"Remind me again, how you find her?" Chrom pitch his curve above his nose, he had enough royal duties to deal with and now he has to face the ghost of his past too.
"We found her in the ruins of time as Naga requested." Lucina report while Morgan still isn't comfortable in a grand hall with multiple servants watching and whispering to her.
"Lucina, can we talk in private please."
"Morgan, how about you go accompany Severa?" Lucina gets the message and then talk with a gentle tone like a mother telling her child to do something for her.
"Severa?" Chrom is kinda surprised that Severa is mentioned since she will be the least likely person to befriend any that quickly aside from Gerome.
"Yeah, Severa was the one who found her first and Morgan has been following her ever since." Lucina chuckle which makes Chrom also laughs, the idea of Morgan following Severa around like a duckling following its mother is too funny.
"Anyway, I want to ask you about what Naga has told you?" Chrom tone change back to serious.
"Well, Naga didn't directly tell us anything rather she ask Lady Tiki to be the one to distribute the message."
"I see...do you know who Morgan's mother is?" Chrom ask
"No, aside from Robin she doesn't have any memories about where or when she is from or who her mother is."
"Do you think she might be lying about being Robin's child? I mean she doesn't have white hair like Robin does."
"Yeah I notice but she may have resembled her mother or maybe her grandfather." Lucina's brain started turning, she did remember Validar, who claims to be the tactician's father also have black hair like Morgan's.
"Well let's hope is her grandfather's not the mother because the only one who is familiar with Robin and has black hair is Tharja and I don't a few nasty spells coming my way." Chrom sighs thinking back when Robin was first imprisoned, the spell-caster sling a few spells towards Chrom. Even though the spell is not harmful or fatal, the rashes and bad luck come from the result of the spell is a bit more than annoying.
"No, it couldn't be Lady Tharja since Noire is an only child," Lucina assure her father.
"Then who exactly is her?" Chrom is fixated on who Morgan really is but the concentration didn't last long before he decides to let it go and go back and focus on his other things.
"Well, I suggest not to tell her about what really happened to Robin otherwise she would be heartbroken," Chrom said as his heart aches a bit knowing he orphaned a child of his friend.
He goes back to his office to continue working through his paperwork tirelessly as, on the other hand, decided to go look for the young tactician.
Morgan was found with Severa at the training grounds where the young girl with her eyes glimmer with amazement as she watches the other Pegasus knight flew into combat formation.
"Having fun, Morgan?" Lucina's sudden voice startled the young girl as she flinched.
"Oh, hi Lucy, yeah it is some amazing to see the Pegasus flew into formation delta," Morgan said with excitement in her watch as she points at the squadron where Lucina and Severa's mother is leading the practice.
"where is...wait, how did you know it is Delta formation?" Lucina asks surprised by the fact she knows about the combat formation of Ylisse which is a secret to other countries for military purposes.
"Well, I learnt about them from my father. Didn't I mention I want to become a great tactician like him?" Morgan announced proudly, she really has much respect for her father.
"I see...where is Severa, I thought you go search for her?" Lucina looks around hoping to find the redhead, but she is nowhere to be found.
"I don't know, I came here after I ask Cynthia." Morgan shrugs.
'Hm... this is unlike her to disappear during training time.' Lucina thinks to herself. She then goes around the castle taking Morgan with her to see if she can find Tiki to give her the reports on the quest she sent them.
They found Tiki who is eating a big bow a beef stew in the mess hall.
"Lady Tiki, we have returned with success," Lucina said while giving a bow to the ancient manakete which Morgan followed the gesture.
"So, this is the person my mother asks you to find?" Tiki look at Morgan questionably, noticing the similarities between the girl and someone who had deceased.
"Yes, she is Morgan. A child of Robin." Lucina says follow by Morgan giving a wave which Tiki wave back.
"I see...anyway, my mother has another task for you, meet me in the garden with the others." Tiki puts down the now empty bow and grabs a napkin to wipe her face then proceed to walk towards the castle garden.
"Yes, ma'am." Lucina nodded then ask Morgan to follow her as she goes search for her friends.
Half an hour later she gathers all her friends except for three who is missing right now.
"Did any of you seen Owain, Severa and Inigo anywhere?" Lucina asks the other future child who only shook their head in response.
"I see you are ready." Tiki walks out the castle entrance to the garden.
"I am sorry Lady Tiki, but we could not find three of us," Lucina said in an apologetic tone.
"Don't worry about your friends, my mother assures me that they are already gone ahead," Tiki assured Lucina which help her to calm down a little bit.
"Why are we here, Lady Tiki?" Nah ask out.
"You are asked to aid a friend in the out realms to slay another fell dragon by Naga," Tiki said calmly but the tone of her voice makes it certain that she is not joking.
"Is Grima not dead yet?" Brady shouted out with frustration.
"No, it is another divine dragon who has gone mad," Tiki said. "You will go to the land of Hoshido and Nohr to help an ally to slay the silent dragon. Anankos." Tiki elaborate.
"Who is this friend and where is ours?" Cynthia asks out.
"Your friends are already there helping the nobles there but as for my mother's contact in that land, I have no idea." Tiki shrugs being a bit annoyed because of the fact she has little to no knowledge about what is it her mother planning.
"I see, but how do we travel to this new land?" Laurent adjusted his glass asking.
"There is an out-realm gate near here, I will bring you there myself once you prepare to move." And with that, the group is dispersed sending each of them going to say their goodbyes and packing their bags.
About an hour later, they follow the manakete to the realms gate.
"Be warned, try to be discreet about your identity and don't trust anyone easily." Tiki gives an advice, she then looks over at the back of group noticing a cloaked figure following them at a near distance.
"Is she coming with you?" Tiki pointed out the stalker.
All of them turn and see Morgan who also packs her bags and ready to go.
"I…I want to go too." Morgan gives out a shy voice.
"But it is dangerous, I don't want you to get hurt." Lucina put her hand on Morgan's shoulder, but Morgan is persistent.
"I don't know anyone here but you guys, I don't want to be left alone," Morgan said with determination in her eyes. It is admirable, but Lucina doesn't want to put an innocent life at risk.
"Can you hold your own weight if we let you go?" Lucina asks knowing that whatever she said will only result in the young tactician tagging along.
"Yes," Morgan shouted with excitement fully know she had won the debate.
"Well, let us begin our adventure." with that Tiki watch as the future children walk into the portal and disappeared.
"May Naga guide your path, brave heroes." Tiki prays with worry in her heart.
The fall through the canyon isn't as back as Corrin thought, besides the knock-out effect while entering the portal the whole trip has been an exciting one.
"Could you get off me, please." A weak voice whisper beneath her which causes her to immediately stand up, it seems that the reason why her landing is so soft is that she landed on her new friend's back.
"Sheesh, your aim is sure is top notch. Couldn't land anywhere besides on top of me?" Robin stands up stretching his back with a few cracking sounds.
"Where are we, Lady Azura." Jakob who lands next to Robin looks around. The place is tattered in ruins like something had gone on a rampage here.
"Follow me to somewhere safer and I will explain everything." as she gestures the group to follow her, they follow her into a cave. With no light, Corrin has difficulty to see what is in front her even her own two hands are not visible but luckily Robin know how to cast a spell as he cast a ball of fire in his hands which illuminate the cave showing it is, in fact, a Corridor.
"This is, or should I say used to be the kingdom of Valla," Azura explain.
"This place is in ruins is because of the Silent dragon's rage which killed the king along with his people resulting in what you are seeing now." Azura waves her hand gesturing the scene.
"So, you do know what I was talking about back then." Robin laughs but Azura ignore him, she seems to be mad about something.
"Do you know where the dragon's lair is, so I can go kill it?" Robin steps a few steps forward to Azura with eyes brimming with excitement like a child getting his long-awaited toy from his parents but Azura, again ignore him not wanting to speak to him.
'The fact that this mysterious man wanting to not only face but exterminate the Silent dragon is either brave or dumb.' Corrin thought to herself but on Jakob's face is a visible troubled expression.
Jakob at first does not believe a single word Robin utter out back in the forest but now the evidence in front of him, it makes him a bit uneasy about the fact Robin is serious about what he is going to do.
"Did I do something to upset you, Lady Azura?" Robin also took notice the princess attitude towards him.
"I wonder." Azura only gives a sarcastic remark.
"Aw come one, you the one who said jump, so I push you to speed up the process." Robin shrugs not feeling any guilt about his action which makes Corrin wonder if she makes a right choice recruiting him.
"Hmph!" Azura turns away not wanting to face Robin.
"Fine," Robin sigh and then proceed to knee in one leg in front of the princess which surprised her. "I, Robin hereby apologize for my action towards Princess Azura and ask for her forgiveness."
"Okay okay, I get it please stand up." Azura face went red and pulling Robin to stand on his feet.
"So... you forgive me?" Robin smile.
"Fine but please don't do that again." Azura sigh, this is humiliating for her.
"Well then, should we continue on our talk about the Silent dragon, Anankos?" Robin chuckles.
"Okay, as I was saying. This place is now the Silent dragon realm and he is on set to cause havoc in Hoshido and Nohr too." Azura said
"Then we must go back and tell everyone!" Corrin said.
"You can't because if you don, the curse will activate and erase your existence," Azura said with a hint of sadness in her tone. "That is what happened to my mother...Arete, the former queen of Valla."
"So, you are actually a princess from Valla, not Nohr?" The group is rather surprised except for Robin as he already seen this coming a mile away.
"Yes, after my father's death. My mother and I were forced to leave." Azura explained. "All those years, with this knowledge yet I can't utter a word have been hard." The tone of her voice becoming sadder with each word she speaks.
"I am so sorry, I didn't know you went through so much." Corrin with tears in her eyes, she walks up and hugs the princess.
"Don't feel sorry, I am the one who should say I am sorry." Corrin looks up confused." When you have chosen this path, I know in my heart that I have no choice but to share this secret with you and now you have to shoulder the burden as I have." Azura said feeling guilty.
"Don't worry Azura, I will follow you right to the end." Corrin wipes her tears to reveal a new-found determination in her eyes.
The two-man who is watching the whole heartening scene notice something is wrong.
"My Ladies, sorry to interrupt your beautiful friendship moment but we have something incoming," Robin shouted out as Jakob pulls out his dagger and get into the combat stance.
In the shadows, transparent soldier slowly forms and started to attack them. Jakob was the first one to react as he threw one of his dagger hitting the soldier which disintegrated into nothingness.
"What the hell are those things." Corrin holding her weapon, Yato in hand and slice hold another soldier coming from her left side.
"They are called Vallite, they are the spirits of the former resident who used to live but due to Anankos influence they are unable to find peace," Azura said while dodging one of the incoming arrows.
"Robin, why aren't you fighting?" Jakob shouted at Robin who is not fighting back, rather he is only dodging and on occasion using his wind spell to blow away incoming arrows.
"Cover me for a second!" Robin responds and then pull out a book with blue skin and scribble something down, he then waited for a few seconds before a smile formed on his face.
'Hey lizard, can I kill something that is already dead? 'Robin wrote down.
'I am a dragon! And also, knock yourself out.' Naga words appears in the book beneath Robin's written sentence.
A smile slowly forms around his face with eyes starting to glow red like fire.
"Oh, this is going to be fun." He mumbles to himself.
One last thing, The children's hair will match their respective mother's except for Morgan who resembles her grandfather, Validar because...We all know a white-haired Morgan just doesn't feel right so I give her black hair kinda yin-yang. The mother of our cute little Morgan will reveal as the story progress.