Fire Emblem Fates: Of Conquest and Fates

Well. If you thought I was going to be here later, then you guessed wrong. Apparently, the range system in the game is so jacked up, that my units kept on getting criticals every other fight. Well, aren't I a lucky bastard. Also the previous chapter was already finished, but I felt too lazy to actually post at that time. Anyway, I got a question from someone about Laslow's role in the story, if it's changed or anything like that. Weeeeeeeeeellllllll, let's just say some people aren't going to like it while others are going to find it interesting. But eh, might as well. I anyway have a mystery character in the story. And because of it, I'm going to blow your fucking minds. Oh yeah, and I decided to make the next story into to parts: Nohr and Hoshido. One well focus on one side and the other will focus on the other. Pretty damn straightforward. And another thing. Since Season 6 of Game of Thrones is coming out soon, expect this story to be updated less frequently. Or the next one, if I make it that far. Anyway, we get to focus on BOTH siblings this time. This is so exciting.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem, the characters, the story to the game, or the mechanics.

'Why does he always go harder on me then Kamui?' Corrin, currently in armor and wielding his practice sword, was on the roof of the Northern Fortress, laying on his chest from the latest hit from Xander, who, along with Leo, was up here as well.

Corrin could here Leo chuckle and looked up. Leo's current pose made him look menacing from the floor. Dark atmosphere? Check. Dark Clothes? Check, though the collar was inside out. Bad ass arm posture? Check, he's holding them at his hips. Evil Grin? Check. The only part that wasn't menacing was his facial features: they were more feminine than masculine. 'In my dream, he looked more manly.'

Then there it was. The dream. He didn't know why he had it, he just did. It was so strange though: he was fighting with the Hoshidians, and they some of them were calling them brother. Why? He didn't know, but it has been bothering him all morning. The other things bothering him were the lack of no breakfast and-

"Is brother bothering you too much Corrin? I mean, Xander is one of the best swordsman in Nohr." And there was Leo being a jackass. Xander however retained his calm face. "You know, Father said that if you managed to defeat me in single combat, in he will allow you to join the ranks."

Corrin turned towards Xander. "He did?" Ever since Kamui was allowed to go outside, Corrin hoped for someway to see the outside world in its fullest. From the books he read, to Flora's stories about her tribe and Gunter's about deeds on the battlefield, he wanted see so many things, even if that meant going to Hoshido.

"He did. I know you want to get out of here, and I know Kamui already has the privilege to get out, but you know that this can only happen if you put the effort in it."

'He's right. And I've known it for a long time.' When he was 14, Corrin started overcome his sickness through sheer will in order to train for this privilege. Corrin is now 19, and he has improved his physical prower through Gunter's Fanatical Fitness Program. However, even with the program, his physical strength would be rated a 5.2 out of 10, so he needed to relay on precise strikes, weak points, and being quick. Also...

"Now pick up your sword and fight Corrin."

Corrin managed to get up with the help of his sword. 'Xander isn't holding back as much.' Though Kamui couldn't tell, Corrin always knew that Xander held back during these matches.

"You look distracted Corrin. Why is that?"

Corrin sighed. "I just have one extremely good question, but knowing you, you wouldn't answer it."

"What?"

"... How in the Dusk Dragon's name did you get your horse up here?"

Leo turned to face Xander. "He's got a point."

"That's not important. Now raise your sword."

'And I stand corrected.'

And so the duel resumed. Corrin rushed towards Xander, aiming for the leg, as it was unguarded. Corrin then quickly slashed and felt the blade connect with armor. Xander's grunt echoed as he swung his sword at Corrin, successfully hitting him on the back.

Corrin then took a step back. 'Two more hits and he should be down.' Corrin then felt his back ache. 'That's if I'm lucky.'

"Looks like that hit was too hard. Allow me to assist you." Xander then raised his sword. For a second nothing appeared. Then the purple ball appeared. This power came only from Nohrian royal family. It was called Dragon Vein. It allowed the user to call upon power and use it for different effects, depending on the location. This one allowed Xander to open a healing spot right beneath Corrin. "Heal up Corrin."

"Thanks. Kind of needed it." Although it took time, Corrin thanked the gods for it. Not only would he be healed enough for the next clash, it would give him time to think about some ways to defeat Xander. "You know," Xander said, causing Corrin to stop his thoughts. "Since you are of Nohrian blood, you should have been able to detect that."

"Maybe it's because of the lack of breakfast I had." 'And from the scent I'm smelling, it smells like I missed out on bacon.'

Leo smirked. "Ah, looks like someone had missed out on his breakfast while everyone else did."

"Enough Leo. Now, Corrin attack me again."

Once Corrin got up, he realized that Xander was leaving his waist wide open. Seeing his target, Corrin quickly dashed to and left a quick slash to his waist and hurried to flip, only to be barely hit by Xander on the shoulder. Even if hit was only the tip, it still hurt him enough to cause a serious minor injury. As Corrin studied, he found that Xander didn't have many weak points that wasn't a serious risk. 'The only one is...' Corrin sighed. 'Time to play dirty.' While Kamui was out playing, Corrin was reading on the human body and pin pointing it's multiple weaknesses.

Then the adrenaline rush came. As Corrin ran and jumped, it's either he seemed fast or Xander was slow, but he knew it was adrenaline at work. In a life or death situation, adrenaline was always the unreliable back up: it was very effective, but it was hard to just tap in. As Corrin brought the sword down to where Xander right arm formed the elbow on the front side, the contact not made Xander shout in pain, but caused the sword to break. As time sped up, the other half of the sword hit Xander in the jaw, causing his older brother to drop his sword and fall off his horse, as he was not wearing the buckles to the saddle. Using this chance, Corrin quickly grabbed hold of the sword and spun towards Xander, holding his own sword towards.

Corrin drew in a breath. "Submit."

Xander smiled. "Looks like you've won. Welcome to the ranks."

Corrin slowly gained a smile to his face. Finally, after so long, he can leave this place.

"How dirty of you Corrin." Corrin turned towards his little brother, who was walking towards him, clapping slowly. "In order to win, you must act like you broke Xander's arm. And his sword arm too."

'All or nothing.' "Hey Leo."

"Yes?"

"...Your collar is inside out."

"You've got to be kidding me."

As Leo ran off to fix his collar, Xander had finally gotten up, clutching his arm. "Hope I didn't anything major." Xander responded with a laugh. "It takes a lot more than a hit in the elbow by a training sword to do anything to me."

"HEY!"

Corrin turned towards the sound, only for a fast being to grab around him and twirl him around. Corrin was so light, that even Elise can pick him up. "I'm SO glad to see you again brother." Corrin gave a soft laugh. "You were only here yesterday." Elise frowned. "I know but it's so boring when Leo is around."

"I heard that!"

Elise gave a loud laugh at that response. Of all his siblings, Elise was his favorite. Unlike Xander, who would always push him too hard, Leo, who was a jackass no matter who he was talking to, Camilla, who was WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too close to him, and Kamui, who was so patriotic about Nohr, it rivaled Xander's loyalty, Elise was a cheerful ball of wonder, who would always help him out and he would help her out in return. Also, Corrin was the one who told her favorite at her bedtime whenever she came for a sleep over. And when Corrin finally got really determined about his training, Elise helped him out with his speed and stamina.

"Besides we got big news for you." Corrin smiled. "What sort of big news?" Xander came out. "Well it's just that-"

"Xander, let me tell the news!"

'Please take make inappropriate advances on me.' In a story, there is always a female character when the protagonist was male, who was not only seductive and attractive, but has hidden depths. Camilla was that person. She always doted on Corrin, made him wonder if she wants to be married to him given that her dialogue is very... interesting, and was known to be murderous to the point on going on a rampage and praying that Jakob can save them. Which has happened more than once. Oh, and she was his sister, which made the second thing worry him.

"Fine. But make it fast."

"Alright Xander." Camilla turned towards where Corrin was, being hugged ferociously by Elise. "Ooh, look how grown up you are right now darling. You look more-"

"CAMILLA"

"Sorry Xander. Can't I dote on Corrin." 'Thank you Xander.' "Anyway, Father wants you to come to Castle Krakenburg with us."

"WHAT! Is this true?"

"Indeed brother." Corrin turned to Xander, who was walking towards the group with Leo at his side, who managed to fix his collar. "Father wants to further test you, and has demanded that you and Kamui will travel to the castle and the second test will begin. You each are having someone help you. While Kamui will have Gunter has her protector, you will have both Felicia and Jakob at your side, while Flora will stay here to watch over the castle."

"...Alright. I will do my best."

…

"Are you sure that he will be okay with those two Gunter?"

Gunter sighed. "Of course milady. While I'm the only one protecting you, it's clear that your power in battle is superior to your brother, so you will only require me. Plus, I trained Jakob and furthered both Felicia and Flora's training."

Kamui chuckled. "So two of you to protect my frail brother. Makes sense." Gunter suddenly looked towards Kamui. "Milady, not be rude, but I know the reason why you are so worried is because of your dislike towards those three."

It was Kamui's turn to sigh. "Unlike you Gunter, they don't really understand me. What I do, I do for Nohr's future. I know there are some good people in Nohr. My siblings are proof of that. I know what we are doing is right. I need to be prepared for when the day I step on the battlefield comes."

Gunter seemed to act surprised. "Really? Well what about when you dump food out of the window."

"You know that I'm really picky."

"Yes, I remember the last time. Nearly vomited over what you ate. What about your readings.?"

"Books don't really offer me anything interesting. I would prefer to be in the action than read about it."

"Tell The Lord of the Rings that. It will surely make it happy over how you chopped it to death. And what about threatening to chop your maids to little pieces?"

It took Kamui a minute to realize what Gunter was talking about. "In my defense, that was the day after Felicia almost caught my hair on fire."

Gunter sighed. "Whatever you say milady. I shall assist Lilith with the horses. In the meantime, go annoy someone."

Once the old knight turned to leave, Kamui immediately turned to find Leo walking down. Out of all her siblings, Leo was her favorite, tied with Xander. For Leo, Kamui has access to his sweeter sides since she got along with him more so than the others. How she did, she doesn't know. For Xander, he was the one that trained her after she turned 16. Also, he was more so laid back when it came to her similar-patrotic-Nohrian-little-sister. Why he is a another big question, one she also didn't know the answer to.

"So how did Corrin do during his match?"

Leo just simply sighed. That particular sigh meant the 'why should you care' remark. "Good enough, while also pointing out that Xander somehow magically got his horse on the roof."

Kamui frowned at his response. "I meant was he holding his sword well, since he can barely hold the thing-"

"Because it's too heavy for him. The proper weapon for him would be a sword similar to a katanna, but that's hard to come by."

"Not my fault those things are Hoshidian made."

"Also, why would you care?"

'And there was the question.' "... I'm just worried."

"...Is this the-"

"Yes I was just getting the dramatic effect in."

"Then please go on, Queen of Drama."

After rolling her eyes, Kamui preceded. "I just feel like that when we get to the capitol, when the people start seeing him, they are just going to make him uncomfortable."

Leo raised an eyebrow. "Like?"

"You know how I am obviously related to you guys right? I've got the same hair color."

"That can mean many different things to the people."

"Yes, but it's proof of my heritage. Corrin however..." Kamui took a deep breath. "Sure he has a birth defect. That's what we know. The people however, they see things differntly. They are going to look at him and be disgusted, just because he looks and acts different from us. Hell, he's got pointy ears for no damn reason."

Leo took a moment to consider this. "I see your point. However, that's probably going to be the first trial of his endeavors."

"Why?"

"His naivety of the world will get him killed."

"What do you mean Leo?"

"For one, he's never seen the world."

'Gods, why does he need to be right.' Corrin was locked in the fortress the entire time, never to really see outside of the place, while, although limited, Kamui was able to travel outside when she was with Xander or Camilla. "But he's been in this place because of his condition."

"Precisely. That brings my second point. He's had limited contact. And this could apply to you too."

'Right again.' They both weren't allowed to have contact with outsiders, however Corrin was far more limited in this area then her. "Do you have a last point."

"Yes actually, I do. He still has a child like side."

"He does not!"

"Really? The one of the first things I heard when he was told he going to the capital was the list of things he was bringing."

"So?"

"One of them was a specific blanket."

'Oh gods no.' No one, not even their siblings, knew how Corrin got that blanket, but as long as she can remember (which was after she lost her memory, along with Corrin) he had that thing close to him when he was in night clothes, or when he went to bed. But calling it a child's blanket was a huge understatement: the thing was HUGE. If Kamui was able to fully mummify Xander with the thing and still have a good chunk of it left, she did not want see what was possible if it was a larger person.

"...Point taken."

Once they approached the sables, they saw Xander and Elise all ready on their horses, while Camilla was on her wyvern. Meanwhile, Gunter had just finished packing their horses and started leading them out with Lilith. Then there was the other four. While Corrin and Jakob were getting the horses ready, Felicia was saying her farewells to her sister. "Are you sure you will be fine alone?"

Flora gave a soft smile to her sister. "Of course. Now go on. You need to protect Lord Corrin."

Felicia nodded and went to finish packing. 'Wish me and Corrin were that close.' Just because they were twins doesn't mean they got along. While Kamui always complained about Corrin's laid-back personality, Corrin complained about Kamui's over the top patriotic belief.

"Alright! We're ready to go!" As Xander shouted this, he started drifting from Kamui's center of vision, to the corner, and finally, to nowhere in her sight. 'Best get moving. We don't want to keep Father waiting.' And King Garon is not a man you want to keep waiting.

Well there's that chapter. Now that we got a perspective from Kamui and see Corrin in action, we are going to have a chapter dedicated to Kamui only. Anyway, here's a sneak peak.

"Great job Lady Kamui. Now we can use the center as a blockade."

5 minutes later...

"Gunter."

"Yes milord?"

"This place is meant for three people! Maybe even four if the enemy managed to go to the south end."

Jakob sighed. "Not the best idea we have ever had."

My sneak peaks might not always show up, so take advantage of this. Anyway, see you next time. If there is a next time, considering that I tend to take my time and forget.