Mothers and Dragons
Summary: "You always did panic over the smallest things, Mikoto."AU. Canon divergence and all that.
When Shenmei was young, she had heard many stories of the dragon that protected Valla from the shadows.
They said he was a great being of unfadable power...that he could raise the lands to the skies and that he could manipulate water and ice...that he was a giant beast with fierce yellow eyes that could kill you by just looking at them wrong.
Her little sister would always cry when she heard those stories; Mikoto would always say that the great dragon was scary while Shenmei was nothing but impressed. She would always ask to meet the dragon while Mikoto would shake her tiny head and say that he was scary and that he would probably eat them. The maids would always laugh and say that despite his great power, the dragon was kind and loving and had been for countless generations but her sister wouldn't budge.
Eventually, as they grew older, the stories of the great dragon no longer scared Mikoto but when they were alone, Mikoto would confess to her older sister that she was still rather frightened.
And then...they met him.
He certainly didn't look like a dragon but he had unnatural yellow eyes and long ears and blue hair that seemed odd to look at; his robes were sometimes black, sometimes white, and he'll always try to hide himself in the crowd but his mystical eyes would always get him caught. He was always apologizing, always polite, always good-hearted even when people insulted him.
He was nothing like the stories.
But Mikoto, reminded of the stories and her own childish innocence, couldn't help but be intrigued by the so-called fearsome dragon.
She would always look for him and then talk and talk, telling each other stories of their day or just talking about the weather or just...staring at each other, quietly.
It was rather adorable, Shenmei would think, that the girl that had feared that dragon the most was slowly falling in love with him.
Years later, Shenmei would find Mikoto panicking in her private quarters.
Shenmei's husband, the King of Valla, and the dragon, had left for an important assignment hours earlier. Her little girl, Aqua, was taking a nap and Shenmei decided to see how Mikoto and her newborn child, Kamui, were doing. And now, she found her like this.
"...oh gods! Oh gods! What do I do...!? What do I do?"
"Sister, what's wrong?" Mikoto stopped her pacing long enough and noticed her older sister before crying out,
"Oh! It's...it's...horrible!"
"What happened?"
"Kamui...Kamui...is..."
"What happened to Kamui?"
"I...I don't know!"
"What do you mean you don't know!?"
"I just turned my back for a minute and now…!" And Mikoto began crying again as Shenmei quickly walked past her distressed sister and towards the room she shared with dragon husband. What she found made her blink.
Lying on the bed, entangled on the sheets was a small, faceless dragon. It mewed as it squirmed around and let out a small howl of annoyance as it got tangled on the sheets.
"…Oh! Kamui! Kamui!" Mikoto ran past her sister and fell on her knees in front of the bed, taking the small creature into her arms and showing it to her sister.
"…is…is that…?"
"Oh! Yes! It's Kamui!" Mikoto sobbed as the small creature howled again. "Oh! What am I going to do!? Where is Hydra..!? Maybe he can fix this!"
"Alright…calm yourself…" Shenmei began only to be cut off by her distressed sister.
"How can I calm myself when I don't know how to feed her!?"
And at that Shenmei gave her sister a pointed look and said, "…wait…you are giving yourself a panic attack because you don't know how to feed a dragon…?" The older woman laughed getting an indignant look from Mikoto.
"Sister! This is serious!" Kamui howled as if agreeing as Shenmei let out a small laugh.
"You always did panic over the smallest things, Mikoto."
"This is a big thing! How am I supposed to feed my child if she doesn't have a proper mouth!? She could go hungry! Or worse, starve!" Shenmei giggled.
"Perhaps you can wait for Hydra to come back…or let Kamui's instincts help you with that."
"…what do you…" A slight blush appeared on Mikoto's as she realized what Shenmei meant while the Queen patted her shoulder. "…oh dear…" She turned to stare at Kamui, who was biting her dress with her little jaw. "…kind of…forgot about that…"
"Well…if it's any consolation, Hydra might know how you can feed this child…although she's rather adorable like this…reminds me of Hydra when he transformed that one time…" Mikoto smiled sweetly as Kamui howled.
When Hydra returned, Shenmei tried very hard not to laugh at the poor dragon, who was panicking upon realizing his child had turned into a dragon. Mikoto tried to console him as he called himself the worst while Kamui wagged her little tail and Shenmei smiled.
She wondered if the old maids would tell this part of the story to other children, about the dragon, his wife and dragon child.
Something silly...based on Yukimura's support with the female Kamui/Corrin.
