One-Shot: They're just trees.


Corrin tilted his head as he watched his little brother practice using Brynhildr. "Leo, I've always wondered about something."

"Wouldn't be the first time." Leo used the spell on some rocks and the rocks exploded. No, I don't know why.

"Why is Brynhildr so powerful? All it does is summon… trees."

Leo stopped waving his hand and slowly cocked his head Corrin. "What do you mean? This is magic. The trees aren't merely trees. They're the incarnation of energy summoned from the Earth itself."

"Really?" his older brother said with innocent, puppy eyes glittering down at him.

Leo turned away blushing. "…yes."

Corrin pouted. "You don't sound very confident about."

"Look, it's a powerful spell, all right? That's all it matters. Touching the trees will kill you if you don't have the resistance against magic."

Kaze showed up. "That's not true. How come your spell just pushed us away when Garon ordered Rinka and I to be killed?"

"Gah!" Leo almost fell off his horse. "Where did you come from, Kaze!?"

"I'm always near Corrin."

Leo raised both of his hands, drawing attention to the mostly empty field they were standing in. "Where did you hide?"

Kaze pointed behind Leo and said, "I hid behind those trees."

"What?" Leo turned around and found that the parts that weren't empty at the fields were covered in small trees. "What?" he repeated. "Why are the trees still there? The trees are magic! Brynhild shouldn't have such a giant hole in its power!"

"But Leo," Corrin said, "the trees never go away. They've always just stayed put."

Leo could feel flies going into his huge, agape mouth but he didn't care. He was too astonished to care. "What do you mean they've always stayed!? They go away! They go away!"

Corrin shook his head. "No, Leo, the trees really stay."

Kaze nodded and walked through the trees. "I'm surprised you haven't noticed it, but anytime you summon these trees, you turn your head slightly to the right. The truth, however, is that the trees stay."

Leo resisted the temptation to snap his book in half, but settled for just trying to twist it. "W-W-Well, maybe they do stay there… but it's still a deadly spell!"

Kaze turned away while Corrin looked up with a finger hovering above his lips. He then thought of something. "Oh! Now I know why Xander-"

"Corrin!" Kaze teleported in front of Corrin and kicked him right in the-

"Gugh!" Corrin fell down and cried. "Why Kaze, why?"

"I must protect your life at all cost…"

"What the hell does that mean!?" roared Leo. He brought out brynhildr and recited the incantation. As expected, trees sprouted from the ground. It… pushed Kaze and Corrin out of the way. "What? What!? Why aren't either of you aren't injured!? I accept the trees will stay, but why aren't either of you the least bit hurt!?"

"I'm hurt…" Corrin buried his face into his hands and cried more while holding his legs together.

A sudden click happened in Leo's mind.

Xander.

"What did he do?" Leo lowered his head before stretching his neck out to the high heavens and roared, "What has he been doing all these years!? Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"

Leo was so angry, he got off his horse, kicked it, kicked Corrin, and sprinted towards the castle to confront Xander.

"Oh, Leo, why!?" Corrin continued crying some more.

Kaze rolled his eyes. "Oh, stop overreacting. You don't even have a pair."


Back at the castle, Leo was barreling through everyone and everything in his way to confront his big brother.

"Xxxxxxaaaaaaaannnnnddddeeeeeeerrrrrr! Xander! Don't make me stretch out your name anymore! The 'x' sound is really painful to hold onto! Xxxxxxxxxxaaaaaaannnnnndddddeeeeerrrrrr!"

Xander stood in front of his throne. He turned around and faced his little brother. "So you finally know? I figured that you would have eventually. I can't be around you everytime you use brynhildr."

Leo fell down to his knees and cried. "Xander! Tell me… have you been the one causing damage every time I used brynhildr?"

Xander raised Siegfried and shot a fucking laser beam at a statue. It's destruction was a given.

"Yes."

Leo resisted crying any further to prevent being compared to Corrin. "But… why?"

Xander turned around. "You were always so desperate to be my equal… no, my superior… and I wanted to see you succeed… but of all the magic spells you could have picked… you chose trees. Trees! The servants would laugh at you and call you names like tree-hugger, lil' sprout, wood summoner, wood erector, seed spreader, fatty (this was during your chubby days), and 'Leof'."

"I wasn't that fat," he muttered.

"Yes, you were," Xander quickly said. "I naturally didn't want my little brother to be seen as a fool, so I decided to become your bryhildr and made everyone keep quiet about it."

"So… I just make trees pop up?"

"Yes."

Leo sighed and picked himself up. "I guess I'll go… make an arboretum. The war is over so… bye."

"Just get out of here, fatty."


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