Author's Introduction Paragraph: hey there everybody, this is Blue Sun Studios on the air with you all. Again, you people just keep surprising me more and more with the ridiculously high amount of views, coupled with a decent amount of reviews, favorites, and follows (once again, thank you so much!). This chapter will be more serious compared to the previous two, seeing as how this particular set of supports are coming to an end soon; this part is to show that Robin (and especially Naga) are still people with feelings, and I want to try to dive a little deeper into their minds. Anyways, now that that's out of the way, here's the disclaimer.
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'Nagi' and Robin had spent the past hour hiking through a mountain cave, stepped out into a wintery canvas approximately fifty three minutes into that hour (in which Robin's coat was used as a makeshift handkerchief twice, much to the man's dismay the second time), and made their way into another entrance heralded by rows of pillars. Once the duo stepped inside, they found themselves upon a dark, chambered altar of some form; the walls were lined with six, large marble statues of various dragons, each breathing some form of "flame" into the air, and stairs were leading down into a glowing, lower section. None of this had fazed the divine dragon, figuring that she knew what awaited her and Robin below given the very décor of this place. The tactician, however, marveled at the sight of such powerful looking statues, each dragon possessing a unique design that made them all stand out from one another. This must be what the other dragon tribes look like he thought to himself, deciding to ask 'Nagi' if the thought was true.
"If I had to guess," he started while staring at the several statues, "these statues represent the other Manakete tribes that live in this world right?"
'Nagi' didn't even turn her head to him, intently staring down into the pit. "They do…at least the tribes that dwelled on this specific continent…" Her choice in words immediately had Robin's head snapped to her direction, "dwelled" and "this specific continent" catching his undivided attention.
"Wait, do you mean…then these other tribes…" He believed that he already knew the answer, but a part of him denied the supposed and sad truth. Surely the other dragon tribes weren't actually—
"Yes," she replied, her face displaying subtle traces of sadness, "unless I am mistaken, then the dragons before you are indeed no more on this continent…only the Wyvern tribe to the far side of our position continues to walk among this earth, and even then they are virtually exclusive to the continent of Valm and the Theocracy of Plegia…" The tactician could tell that she was none too pleasant knowing this, but before he could console her she spoke again. "I have heard rumors that Bantu, a male member of the Fire Dragon clan, is still alive and travels this world, but I have yet to meet him if such is the case…"
"A fire dragon? I've heard of wyverns breathing fire, but a fire dragon?"
'Nagi' nodded, turning her head to the left and signaling to a statue to the left of the wyvern, with Robin following her finger to the dragon. "That statue there represents a Fire Dragon in their natural form. While many cite a Wyvern's own tongue of fire to be intense, those fires themselves pale in comparison to those of a Fire Dragon…"
The snow haired man shuddered upon hearing that statement, an incident with one of the soldier's wyverns setting him ablaze already resurfacing in his mind. "Oh man, I would hate to run into an actual fire dragon on a bad day; no doubt I would not last long if I ever faced them in a skirmish…"
"I would beg to differ; you have powerful genetics within you, the culmination of selective breeding to produce a perfect vessel of the Fell Dragon Grima…"
"Yeah…it's thanks to that…creature…that I'm so special…"
Despite 'Nagi' wishing to use the nature of Robin's origins to prove what an exceptional life form he was and give him more courage, it only put him in a rather bitter mood. In hindsight, she was going to bring up Grima sooner or later; even though she had put it off the yesterday seeing that the man was busy with another matter, she figured that now that the two of them were truly all alone she would finally get to what she had intended to speak with Robin about, turning to face him dead in his eyes.
"…Robin…do you remember when I had told you that I desired to discuss some matters with you the previous night?"
"Of course…I probably already know the reason, but, why do you ask now?"
"…I dearly wish to discuss something very important with you…it concerns the Fell Dragon Grima…I did not do this the previous night because I did not wish for others to come upon us and interfere, as well as the fact that your thoughts were occupied with another matter, refusing to disturb your train of thoughts or to add more stress on your conscience…and now that we are here…alone…"
"You want to get straight to business right?"
"Indeed…I do wish to see what lies at the bottom of this chamber; mayhap we can speak down there…"
"That makes two of us then…"
With that settled, 'Nagi' motioned for Robin to follow her, grasping him by his hand once he was right beside her. Walking over to the gap in the room, they both saw that it had rather wide stair steps leading down to what appeared to be steam wafting from the bottom, and water was being poured from a statue of Naga holding a vase. 'Nagi' knew exactly what this place was once she saw the statue, but Robin had no such ideas thanks to his eyesight not being able to penetrate the vapors much, so naturally he inquired the divine dragon about it.
"Nagi, what exactly is down there? I can't see too much through all of this steam…"
"It is a baptism pool meant for sentient creatures to bathe themselves in to cleanse their souls of the sins that bind them, but for me it is so that I can regain a portion of my lost or sealed powers or augment the ones I currently have at my disposal by wading through the waters."
"Huh, so it has two separate functions for two separate entities…I wonder…"
"If one wishes for the waters to take effect, they must discard any and all articles of clothing they have on them…"
"Waaaaaiiiit a minute…" She wasn't really going to—she couldn't be!...Was she? "Are we going to…you know…"
"You do not have to if you do not wish to, and while I did not initially plan to submerge myself in these waters, since the baptism pool is here I will do so…I assume that since this means that I will have to discard my clothing that you are having uncomfortable thoughts?"
She hit the nail dead on the head; his face had started burning a bright crimson hue and he immediately averted his eyes from her form. She would have smiled about it and possibly teased him, but she didn't want to distract him any further than he already was now, she had to get the Grima ordeal out of the way. "Be at peace, Robin, I will not step into the waters when we reach them, I intend to talk to you about the Fell Dragon and what we should do in the upcoming battle…"
"R-right," he replied, regaining his focus, "it wouldn't do to have me distracted…" Once they reached the bottom of the pit, they were completely enveloped in the steam and Robin didn't move until 'Nagi' deemed it okay to do so since it was too clouded for him to see anything not directly in front of him. Luckily, she had another idea.
"These vapors here impede your vision, so I shall decrease its abundance for the time being." 'Nagi' held her hands in front of her in a position akin to praying, and the vapors surrounding them began to slowly dissipate. It wasn't long until all of the steam had been cleared from the area, and the water itself had been magically enchanted to stop producing the gases. Now Robin could see everything clearly: the tiled marble floors, the pool with a miniature set of steps leading into the center, everything had become clearly visible to him.
"Wow, this whole place looks pretty plain aside from that statue up there, but, in a nice way plain." Now that he could see everything, 'Nagi' led him to a spot next to the pool to sit down and talk; the sounds of the water pouring down had also been silenced, strangely, but he figured that I must've been so that the sounds wouldn't bother the both of them (mainly Robin). Taking a cross-legged sitting position, they both prepared themselves for the discussion, with 'Nagi' speaking first.
"Alright, now that we are finally alone, I wish to speak with you about the fate of the Fell Dragon; as I have already told you before, you have two options of slaying him. Your first option: you have Chrom and the Exalted Falchion that is meant to put the Fell Dragon into slumber for another millennia. Your second option: you decide to permanently fell him yourself using the power you both share against him. Both of these courses of action provide their own benefits and disadvantages depending on how you wish to look at them…"
"If I decide to let Chrom finish Grima off, then that means I won't have to sacrifice my own existence just to kill him once and for all and that I can live the rest of my life how I choose. But that still means that he'll be a credible threat sometime in the future…"
"Precisely, and when the Fell Dragon rises again, someone of the exalted line must also rise to stop them. Depending on the circumstances of that era, such as whether or not space-time travel has occurred, such may be the only option until another method of slaying Grima permanently has been developed…"
"You already did state that you and he do not have the means to destroy each other utterly…"
"A sad truth unfortunately…" 'Nagi' hated that fact, the fact that she herself in all her power could not rid the world of something so threatening as Grima and spare the denizens of the world the trouble. Then again, she wasn't a true Goddess, just a very powerful Manakete acting like one seeing how there were no Deities in Ylisse, and she wanted to see the humans improve and better themselves, to stand up against every threat around them. She didn't have the power to eradicate the dragon, and she could only hope that one of the earthly life forms could do the job for her. "Only a true Deity can truly annihilate the Fell Dragon or the Fell Dragon himself, and we all know that he would never commit such an action willingly…"
"Unless the Fell Dragon also happens to be me," Robin added. "And I do have the option of simply allowing Chrom to finish him off in my place. But then there's the other option…"
"The option of opting to destroy the Fell Dragon with the power you both share in your hearts," 'Nagi' stated, never taking her eyes off of the tactician. "Because of the space-time travel and the link that you both hold with each other, Grima has exposed himself to a fatal weakness indeed…but, finishing him in this manner also has its own price to pay…"
"I cease to exist…" the man added somberly. "Grima will be gone for good, and that means that this world will never have to deal with him ever again, but then I dissipate from the fabric of reality…"
"The only hope for you in that scenario is that the bonds between you and your comrades are strong enough to ensure that you return…however, even if they are as strong as they possibly could be, it is still a slim chance that you will defy the cessation of existence…"
"Essentially, I'm not guaranteed to ever come back in this manner…I'd be abandoning my own life to completely destroy one creature, and another threat can come up in Grima's place—but that would still be one less dangerous entity to worry about, and the others can live their lives without fear of Grima ever resurfacing…"
"A selfless wish for someone who essentially had their life robbed from them by the Fell Dragon…I am certain that you still long for your old memories…" 'Nagi' studied Robin's form; he appeared as though he was the most stoic individual you could come across, but she had to remind herself that there was still a multitude of things going on in his head than he ever let on. 'Robin…' She never knew why exactly she had become so drawn to him, he was but one man out of everything else in the world, an almost ordinary human man who was bred to be the perfect vessel of the Fell Dragon, and someone she should by all rights be focused on destroying as the Fell Dragon's nemesis and divine protector of the world. And somehow, she could never bring herself to do it. She had no doubt that if she tried hard enough she would find more creatures out in the world similar him, but at the same time she knew that she could never find anyone who was exactly like him. Not even Marth himself was exactly like Robin, and while they were similar they had stark differences. The next sound that came out of his mouth had brought her out of her thoughts.
"In all honesty Nagi, I'm not even entirely sure what course of action I'd take when dealing with Grima—I'm too split on what I want to do…everything that has happened in my life…it's really difficult to come to a solid conclusion right now…now I know why you wanted to speak to me all by myself with no one else to come and see me, because you believe that they would influence me into making a choice, no doubt having Chrom deal the final blow…"
"Yes, most of them would, Chrom especially…he is vehement against the idea of having you sacrifice your entire existence to slay Grima once and for all, many of the Shepherds are…it would break their hearts to know that you had given up your entire being for their sake and for the world…"
"They care about me, each of them for different reasons, but I think it's safe to say that they all care for me on a personal level at least…"
"Even so, regardless of your ultimate decision…I—I will choose to honor and respect it for you…you are a…a close companion of mine, and in truth, it will hurt me dearly to watch you die as such. If you do decide to make that choice and…you do not come back…I…"
She paused for a moment, stopping herself from getting too emotional and to gather her thoughts, causing Robin to start worrying about her. "…Nagi, are you alright?" Somehow, he thought that she was holding back a sneeze, and he almost got ready to clutch his shirt for dear life until she spoke again.
"I just—I just wish for you to know that…I am so very blessed to have ever known such a man like you…do not think that I am simply flattering you, what I say is truly heartfelt…I have watched you as you have stood up against all odds, even when the situation had become hopelessly bleak…you may have been rattled harshly by the revelation of your origins, but you still persevered…you truly are a special man worthy of the same reverence attributed to Marth, the Hero King…"
"N-Nagi…" Now Robin was blushing madly, receiving these kinds of genuine compliments from someone as divine as 'Nagi' left him speechless. "I—I don't know what to say…" She radiantly smiled at him, despite trying to fight back some of the emotions that threatened to flow out of her.
"Perhaps silence is the only thing that needs to be said in this situation…in the case of the Fell Dragon, this means that you have yet to come to a solid decision…"
"Yeah…"
"We will need to strike him soon before he begins his destruction of the world, until then you have much more time to sort this issue out…"
"…So…I suppose that this is the end of the discussion you wanted to have with me…"
"I suppose so…but as I have said before…whatever you choose, I will support it regardless of what others may think on the matter…remember that always…" 'Nagi' took Robin's hands into her own and gave them a gentle squeeze, affirming him that she meant it wholeheartedly.
"I will Nagi," the snow haired man nodded, "I will…although…I'm not exactly ready to return to camp just yet."
"And why is that?" the Manakete inquired.
"I wanted to spend more time with you…you know…just the two of us, away from camp. Besides, I need to take a meditation break from this whole business anyways, and you did say that you came here to meditate right?"
"That I did."
"Well, why don't we meditate with each other together?"
"…Very well…but first, you must remove your clothes…"
This had Robin confused at first, wondering why she would suggest meditating without clothes. Unless…"Waaaaaiiiit a minute…are we actually going to…y-you can't be—"
"I am indeed serious. Also, you are in desperate need for a thorough cleansing anyways, especially literally speaking. The odors permeating off of you are none too pleasant…" 'Nagi' was now back to her playful mood, stifling a laughter from herself and causing the man to shout with indignation at being called strong smelling.
"Hey! I just bathed yesterday!"
"That does not count; you smell, plain and simple, and you need to get washed anyways…*sniff* ugh, now that I think about it, I too need to cleanse myself. No one desires to be near someone who smells as though they have trotted through a wasteland…but you need to disrobe first."
"Why me?!"
"Because I said so, now go on, rid yourself of such dirty garments. I will not sit about waiting for you for the rest of the day; if you will not, I will unclothe you myself."
"What?! No, I'm fine, I'll take off my clothes myself…" He started to remove his shirt but caught 'Nagi' staring at him. "Ummmmm…"
"Oh come now, there is no need to be shy in my presence Robin, we are close companions are we not? These things should be of no trivial consequence…" She did honestly consider themselves to be intimate friends, but she was mostly just trying to get him to undress for her.
"A-alright then…" The tactician quickly managed to toss off his shirt, earning an "Oh mercy me…" from the Manakete across from him. Now his blush had become a full facial flush of scarlet, even as he removed his gloves and foot wear. When he finally removed his pants, he felt an intense urge to cover himself, feeling vulnerable like this. He pressed on, finally getting to the hem of his undergarments and mentally preparing himself to expose his manhood to the divine dragon 'Nagi' herself. 'Well, here goes nothing…'
Author's Departure Paragraph: and THAT is the end of the A Support, and the. Didn't think that I was gonna throw in some humor didja, well the next part is certainly going to put more emphasis on the humor (and the sauciness to boot *raises eyebrows suggestively*) I admit, I had some difficulty writing this one, but hey I managed to pull it off, and I know for sure that I will have difficulty writing the next part (and the next chapter for my other story). Not much else to say other than I hope you liked this chapter, prepare yourself for the next one, and from here on out I will strive to update my stories within two weeks at most (within a week at least and at night). This is Blue Sun Studios signing off of the air!
