AN: I do not own Touhou or Fire Emblem.
So here we are, chapter 5 of the Garon Arc. Port Dia. Only three more chapters after this in the 'Garon' Arc, or rather only three more chapters in this arc that involve battles. After all the Arete Arc ends up taking place two years after this one ends. When Corrin is a year old and Azura is four.
Also sorry for being so late with this, life was kicking me down, while I was down, and into the dirt.
But without further ado!
Let the Conquest begin!
Unit Roster
Minerva (Vaati)
Class: Strategist
Skills: Lock Touch, Demoiselle, Resistance + 2
P.S: Lockout (Enemies that attack this unit are silenced)
Inventory: Wind, Mend, Vulnerary, Heal
Celsius (Cirno)
Class: Hero
Skills: Strong Riposte, Good Fortune, Underdog
P.S: Frozen Hero
Inventory: Iron Sword, Nohrian Blade, Iron Axe
Garon
Class: Fighter
Skills: Hp +5, Gamble
P.S: Frontline Royal (Enemies deal -3 damage to unit, unit deals -2 damage to Nohrian units)
Inventory: Silver Axe, Steel Axe, Elixir, Hammer
Chapter 5: Port Dia
BGM: Dim Moonlight – Fire Emblem Fates Music
"So… you're the king of Nohr?" Minerva asked once they had stopped, about half a day away from Port Dia, which had boats to Notre Sagesses. Garon had sat down while Minerva sat on her horse and Celsius leaned against a tree waiting for his response. "Yes… I am the king of Nohr." Garon said, almost deadpanning as he rolled his eyes. "I'm quite surprised a king would be out here instead of sitting on his throne doing nothing." Celsius quipped before Minerva shot her a look before looking back at Garon. "I suppose you two have met that kind of royal before?" Garon asked, wanting to hear this story, these two apparently had a good few to tell.
Minerva looked up at the sky for a moment before sighing. "I suppose you could say we have… we are not sure if she's actually a royal though, no way to confirm it other then word of mouth, but unimportant." Minerva said, not wanting to dwell on the subject as she rubbed her temples in irritation. "I don't get what you found so confusing about her, she looked the part and she had that sword that shot light beams." Celsius said as Minerva shot her a look again. Garon took a moment to chuckle in amusement at the two sisters. "Sounds to me like you two led a very interesting life even before we met." Garon said with a smirk. "You have got no idea." Minerva muttered as she held her head in her hand before getting back to the original topic.
"But regardless, why would the king of an entire kingdom be out here instead of actually ruling?" Minerva asked as Garon shrugged. "Never was one for politics, I preferred doing things to sitting on the throne, though my current mission if you could call it is to see the rainbow sage and get his blessing." Garon said as Minerva nodded. "Understandable… but why, we didn't ask before but now I ask, why do you want this power, you already have a kingdom to rule, why do you need more power?" Celsius said, displaying a rather hidden intellect that Garon had actually not noticed in all her childishness.
"No point in lying… I originally just wanted the power so that I would be an equal with my friend Sumeragi, the king of Hoshido… but now I want it so that we will have a fighting chance against Nergal and his monsters, after all they didn't go down when I beat them down, so now we need this power to make sure those things stay down." Garon said as Minerva smiled as Celsius stood up instead of leaning on the tree. "Then one more question… why us? Why do you want us to help you?" Celsius asked as Minerva remained silent, watching the conversation.
"That's where I would like to offer you two something… I would like you to become my retainers. You both are obviously skilled, and you both are something any good king would want in his allies, valiant, brave, and of course." Garon started before Minerva cut him off. "Let me guess, beautiful?" Minerva said, making a cheeky comment Garon would have shot her a look for had he not started chuckling. "No but that's a nice plus, I was going to say kind and honorable." Garon said, retorting Minerva's comment back at her. "It's what we do, we are heroes after all." Celsius said as she climbed up onto Minerva's horse with her. "Tell you what, we'll think about it, now come on, you said we are only a half a day away from our destination, so let's move it." Minerva said, offering her hand to Garon, who grasped it as both Minerva and Celsius helped pull him up onto the horse, Minerva clearly not needing to help due to Celsius's strength and the fact she was very weak physically, but Garon appreciated the sentiment. "Then onward! To Port Dia! And to the Rainbow Sage" Garon said as Minerva's horse reared back before it started off on their journey to the port town of Dia.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 54 Combat Preperation
As the trio came up on Dia Garon ended up getting off Minerva's horse as Celsius and Minerva continued sitting on it. "Alright, now we just need to find a boat going out to Notre Sagesses and we'll be good." Garon said as they walked into the bustling port town. Leading Minerva and Celsius through the crowd. As they got closer to the docks they could see several sailors loading cargo on a ferry as the crowd thinned out near the docks.
Garon walked up to one of the booths that had a sailor in them, to which the sailor inside was snoring away as Garon walked up and tapped his hand on the counter. The sailor shot up and hit his head on the shelf behind him, knocking a bucket onto his head before he fell out of his chair, Garon sweat dropping as Minerva held her hand to her face and Celsius giggled in amusement.
"S-sorry about that. What can I do for you?" The sailor said as he got up, taking the bucket off his head and setting it on the counter as Garon started talking. "We need a boat to Notre Sagesses, when is the next one leaving?" Garon asked as the sailor looked at him like he was crazy, and then at the two girls on the horse behind him. "The boat in the first harbor is going to Notre Sagesses, but I don't see why you would want to, place is a death trap if you step out of the port. "We'll be fine, how much gold for the trip." Garon said as he rummaged through his pocket before pulling out a small bag of gold and setting it on the counter, allowing the sailor to open it to see the surprisingly large amount of gold inside. "This will cover it sir…" The sailor said as he grabbed the gold before stepping out of the booth. "Wait here, I gotta tell the crew that they are going to be having passengers." The man said before walking towards the dock behind them.
"That was quick and painless." Minerva deadpanned as Garon smirked. "Other then the rather amusing display it's the best we could have hoped for." Garon said shaking his head as the sailor came back. "Alright, they'll let you on, the boat leaves in half an hour." He said as Garon nodded. "Thank you, come on let's move it." Garon said, leading Minerva and Celsius towards to boat as a loud bell started ringing throughout the town.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 37 Tension
"PIRATES INBOUND GET TO YOUR HOMES!" A sailor called as people started retreated from the harbor to their homes, or any building they could get to as Minerva looked past the boat and out towards the sea beyond the harbor. "There is a ship out there alright…" Minerva said as Garon ran towards the edge of the harbor as the sailors started piling into their boat, waiting for the pirate raid to blow over, hopefully not getting slaughtered in the process.
Garon stood at the edge of the dock as the pirates started pulling in, their ship pulling up along the harbor as Garon watched. "Minerva! Celsius! To arms!" Garon commanded as he grabbed his steel axe off his back, Minerva grabbing her tome as Celsius grabbed her Norhian Blade and the three of them started rushing towards the dock the pirates had pulled in at.
The lead pirate cackled as his crew started getting of the boat and onto shore. "Ah I love a good raid! Nothing like an old port town filled with goodies to liven up the spirits… maybe I'll find a nice dame this time too…" The pirate said as he started fantasizing having a nice night of forced passion of a woman. "Captain Abe! We got trouble!" One of the man's pirates said as Abe looked at him. "DON'T INTERUPT ME WHEN I'M THINKIN DOG!" Abe yelled as he pulled his twin axes off his holsters the poor pirate in front of him panicking. "We have fighters putting up resistance! They've already killed two men!" The pirate said as Abe put his axe down. "WELL THEN GET OUT THERE AND GUT THE BASTARDS!" The short tempered pirate yelled as his pirate retreated towards the shore. "Dam heroes… why do they always got to ruin me fun." Abe complained as he got off his ship and onto shore with his crew.
The pirates all were spread out across the dock that led into Port Dia, but by the entrance was Garon and his allies as they stood, or in Minerva's case sat on her horse, in front of the entrance to town from the port. In front of them was the corpses of two pirates, Garon wiping the blood off his own axe as Minerva was healing Celsius from a blow she had taken taking out the other pirate.
"These three are giving you dogs trouble, pah! GET THEM LADS!" Abe commanded as his crew charged. "Hold the line. We can't let them get into town!" Garon commanded as he stood holding his axe, Celsius and Minerva by his sides ready to assist him against the pirates.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 59 In the Colosseum
A pirate roared in anger as he charged at Minerva, swinging his dual axes and Minerva had her horse jump back out of the way. "You need to be taught a lesson." Minerva deadpanned as she opened up her wind tome. Her horse reared back as she launched a blast of wind at the pirate, the small but powerful tornado sending the man flying backwards into the sea, bashing he head against a rock in a rather gory display that thankfully no one saw. Another pirate tried his luck by running at Garon, knowing he would at least not be at a weapon's disadvantage fighting the dark skinned man.
But Garon didn't even have to try as he jumped out of the way of the two axe wielding pirate. Jumping back at the pirate Garon swung his steel axe and left a deep gash across the pirate's chest, blood pouring out as the pirate swayed in place from the injury. "Surprise!" Celsius yelled excitedly as she jumped from behind Garon, using him as a springboard as she brought her sword down on the pirate's head, pushing his body down to the ground before pulling her sword out, leaving his skull to bleed out on the dock.
Garon took this moment to advance on a pirate, grabbing the silver axe from off his back and throwing it up in the air, distracting the pirate who put his axes above his head, thinking Garon was going to strike from above. But Garon didn't do that as his steel axe met the flesh of the pirate's un protected stomach, Garon holding his hand out and catching the silver axe as the pirate fell to the ground, dead.
Celsius followed up on Garon's attack, going after a pirate opposite him with her sword. The pirate tried swinging at her before she could reach him, but Celsius dodged to the right, stabbing her sword into the pirate's arm and causing him to drop both him axes in pain before Celsius lopped his head off with her iron axe. Minerva followed up before her, staying in the back, ready to fire off a blast of wind magic at anyone who would dare come close to them.
The pirates took the moment of reprieve to try and surround Garon, three of them surrounding him with grins and axes at the ready. But the disguised king of Nohr was ready as he ducked two of the pirates swinging at him before bringing his silver and steel axes to bear as he used them to slash at the arm's of the two pirates. The sharp axes leaving deep gashes in the pirates arms, the two of them retreating as Garon spun around and parried an axe thrown at him by the third pirate, before running up to the pirate and swinging his own axe at his head, the pirate bringing his other axe to bear to block Garon's first axe swing.
But Garon swung his other axe at the pirate's side, bisecting him before sheathing the silver axe and turning around, grabbing the Pirate's throwing axe and tossing it at the back of one of the other pirates, leaving the axe in the pirate's spine as his partner grabbed it out and threw it back at Garon. Garon dodged out of the way as he ran at the final pirate, swinging his steel axe hard down on the now unarmed pirate's head, leaving a bloody mess as Garon pulled his axe out of the corpse.
Only three pirates and Abe were left, two of them advancing on Minerva and Celsius, only for one to get blasted back by a gust of wind from Minerva's tome as Celsius ran up to the other as he swung, ducking under the pirate's careless swing and stabbing him in the chest, and getting out from under the pirate before his corpse hit the floor. The other pirate tried running up to Celsius from behind, only to get blasted by a gust of wind again, throwing the pirate at the pirate next to Abe, sending them both into the waters of the harbor.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 28 Powerful Foe
"Pitiful dogs! FINE THEN! COME GET A TASTE OF CAPTAIN ABE HAB!" Abe yelled as he ran towards Minerva, bypassing Celsius and going straight for the medic. "Alright… fighting a pirate… I honestly did not expect this." Minerva deadpanned with slight worry in her voice. Abe yelled as he took a swing at Minerva's horse's legs, the horse turning around to avoid to attack, only to get cut in the legs and fall over with a whiny, knocking Minerva off and onto the ground, clutching her tome with her staff on her back.
"Sorry lasse, but it looks like you'll be seeing the depths of the deep today, shame too, such a pretty lass." Abe said as he smirked, Celsius rushing to Minerva's defense, only to get slashed in the chest by Abe's axe, sending her skidding back with a large gash on her chest. "Celsius!" Minerva yelled, her voice actually hold emotion as she looked at Abe with scorn. "And now you're next!" Abe said as he tried swinging down on the frail strategist.
Minerva rolled out of the way as Abe tried to bring his axe down on her, leaving it stuck in the ground as he tried to pull it out. "Curses!" Abe scowled in anger as he abandoned the axe. "No matter! I'll break you WITH ME DAM HANDS!" Abe yelled as he grabbed Minerva by the neck, causing her to drop her tome as she struggled to pull Abe's hand off her neck. She was losing air and consciousness fast as her vision swam. "KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY RETAINER!" Garon yelled as he ran up to Abe from behind, swinging his axe down on the pirate's back.
Abe dropped Minerva, who fell to the ground panting and holding her neck as Abe used his considerable strength to knock the steel axe out of Garon's hands and into the waters of the harbor. "Retainers belong to royals, and you don't look like no royal." Abe said as he cracked his neck and his knuckles. "That's where you are wrong." Garon said as he grabbed his hammer and his silver axe off his back, before dropping them to the floor and kicking them over to Celsius. "I'm the king of Nohr you bastard." Garon said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Then prove it." Abe said smirking as he didn't believe this guy was a royal. Garon and Abe ran at each other before swinging their fists at one another, the king is disguise and the pirate captain's fists colliding in midair with a sickening crunch as someone's bones broke. Judging by the pain on Abe's face, his.
Abe retaliated by roaring in anger, swinging his other hand at Garon's face. But Garon moved his head to the side before upper cutting Abe in the chin, cracking his jaw as the pirate stumbled backwards and over Minerva, who was still laying on the ground out of breath. Abe took advantage of this by grabbing Minerva and standing back up, holding her close with his arm around her neck as he reached in his pouch and pulled out a knife. "One more step and I slit her throat! GOT IT!" Abe yelled as Minerva struggled to get out of Abe's grip.
"I WON'T LET YOU HARM HER!" Celsius yelled as she got up and ran at Abe, the pirate cackling as he tried to stab Minerva in the throat, his attention on Celsius as Garon grabbed his arm holding the knife. "You have officially pissed me off. And by royal decree I SENTENCE YOU TO DEATH!" Garon yelled as he grabbed the knife out of Abe's hand and causing him to drop Minerva again as Garon kicked the pirate captain to Celsius, who ran her sword through his skull in anger, not even allowing the captain his final words as his corpse slid off of Celsius's sword. "That's what he deserves." Garon said as he crossed his arms over his chest, Minerva standing up and grabbing her book and her staff as it lit up, Minerva healing Celsius, who smiled for a moment as she panted in both pain and fatigue.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 51 Victory
The people of the town all slowly came out of their homes as they slowly walked up to the trio that had held off the pirate attack. The sailors from the both all walking up as well slowly in both admiration and fear. "Don't worry, your town is safe now." Garon said, sighing as Minerva and Celsius formed up behind him, Minerva to his right and Celsius to his left.
The sailor who had taken Garon's gold walked out of the crowd, along with the sailors who had the boat. "That was something else… now you said you wanted to go to Notre Sagesses?" The sailor said as he putted the pouch of gold out from his pocket. "Yes. But keep the gold, it would be wrong not to give you hard working men some payment for your services." Garon said in a stern and commanding tone as the people of port Dia cheered. "Is… is it true that you are king Garon and these are your retainers?" The sailor asked as Garon sighed. "No pointing in hiding it any longer. Yes I am, and I'm going to see the Rainbow sage to obtain his blessing, with the help of my…" Garon said as he turned his head towards Celsius and then to Minerva. "Retainers." Garon said as he crossed his arms over his chest once more.
"Well then it would be our pleasure to get you all to that Island for what you've done, we'll set said when you need us." The sailor said, the crew of the ship all saluting as Garon put his hand up to stop them. "Take your time, we'll be on the ship waiting for you." Garon said as he started leading Celsius and Minerva towards the first dock, but Minerva stopped in front of her horse, looking at it's hind legs.
"What's the extent of his injuries?" Garon asked as Minerva examined the horse before shaking her head. "The staff isn't going to cut it this time, only time and rest will heal this wound… it's too deep." Minerva admitted as her horse turned it's head towards her, Minerva petting it's head in sadness as she did so. "Then we'll find a stable to treat him for now… and I'll send a message to the castle to pick him up to be treated. We'll have to come back here after we beat Nergal to wait for anyone to come though." Garon said as the crowd started dispersing, but quite a few lingered as Minerva nodded. "That would be nice." Minerva said as she sighed before looking at Celsius. "You said earlier you wanted us to become your retainers right?" Celsius said as Garon nodded. "Well then…" Celsius said, smiling at her sister, who nodded her consent. "We accept." Celsius said, holding her gloved hand out for Garon to grasp. "Thank you." Garon said, grasping Celsius's hand and shaking it as Minerva stood up.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered – 8 Ray of Hope
About thirty minutes later the message had been sent to Castle Krakenburg, and would take about a week to arrive, which would be more then enough time for Garon, Minerva and Celsius to reach the Rainbow Sage and stop Nergal. Garon had gotten a stable for Minerva's horse, and a promise of gold and gratitude from the stable's owner to take care of him as they set sail from Dia to Notre Sagesses.
Garon stood on the deck of the ship with Minerva and Celsius behind him, the trio staring out to sea as Garon watched the sunset. "I think it would be prudent if we got some rest. The divine know it will be our last for some time." Garon said as Minerva and Celsius stood behind him, remaining quiet as he spoke. "I thank you for accepting my offer. And I would like to speak with Minerva for a little bit Celsius, if you don't mind." Garon said. "I don't mind… just don't try anything with my sister." Celsius threatened before walking away towards the door inside to their room on the ship, given to them out of gratitude. "What do you want to talk about sir?" Minerva asked as Garon sighed. "To think not even a week ago we met, and now here I am, with both of you at my side, ready to take on a great trial… and a great evil." Garon said as Minerva nodded. "Get to the point Garon." Minerva deadpanned. "I suppose all I can say is… thank you, I have a feeling that we'll all be better off for it." Garon said with a smile as he turned around. "I would hope so." Minerva said, smiling slightly as she stood next to Garon. "I'm not going in to your bed if that's what you want to ask." Minerva said, this time slightly more joking as Garon chuckled. "I wasn't going to, and I wouldn't expect you too." Garon chuckled.
"I suggest we just keep it friendly Garon." Minerva said with a smile smile on her face as both of them looked over the slowly dropping sunset. "Then that is enough." Garon said with a smile. "And… thank you for saving me from that pirate." Minerva said in gratitude as both of them started walking towards their room on the ship.
(Garon/Minerva A support obtained)
(Garon/Celsius C support obtained)
(Stage Clear)
Unit Roster
Minerva (Vaati)
Class: Strategist
Skills: Lock Touch, Demoiselle, Resistance + 2
P.S: Lockout (Enemies that attack this unit are silenced)
Inventory: Wind, Mend, Vulnerary
Celsius (Cirno)
Class: Hero
Skills: Strong Riposte, Good Fortune, Underdog
P.S: Frozen Hero
Inventory: Iron Sword, Nohrian Blade, Iron Axe
Garon
Class: Fighter - Nohrian King
Skills: Hp +5, Nobility
P.S: Frontline Royal (Enemies deal -3 damage to unit, unit deals -2 damage to Nohrian units)
Inventory: Silver Axe, Elixir, Hammer
AN: Welp that was Port Dia. Now something I want to get out of the way is that when most people make an OC that they make this character with PHENOMINAL COSMIC POWAHS! I didn't do that. Vaati/Minerva is a perfect display of what I think an OC done right, at least in terms of ability should be. Someone who has some power, that they worked for, which Minerva did in four years of training with Patchy, maybe a skill unique to them, which would be Vaati/Minerva's ability to lock and unlock. Kinda like keyblade except more versatile and without the giant club and Heartless after your sorry ass. But besides her strengths Vaati has a lot more weaknesses then strengths. Easily the most obvious being her physical abilities, or complete lack there of, as demonstrated by Abe. But if you remember from the first book she does come from a family of insane nutcases and willing admitted she was somewhat insane… yet she hides it a lot. What happens if she's pushed to the limit and is sorta forced to act like her old family, which she tries to distance herself from? For one no it doesn't have a super mode. But it will be something of a plot point later on… Yuugi isn't the only one who can hold a grudge and with enough insanity and sadness, be willing to act on it more then most… Foreshadowing?
But enough about my little OC rant, back to the chapter. Yeah Celsius and Minerva are now 'officially' Garon's retainers. Minerva's horse is benched for a while, like for the rest of the arc, but it'll be fine, she'll suffer a MASSIVE movement penalty for if this was a game though. Also Garon's not hiding anymore, sure he doesn't look the part but he's back to kickass king, losing the reckless Gamble for the EXP ability Nobility. Next chapter is the Rainbow Sage (Finally!) and the return.
Also as for WHY Garon just got a C support from Celsius? That's for you viewers and reviewers to figure out, tell me what you think was the reason Garon got that little C support without a conversation. And guess who captain Abe was based on, should be obvious. Out for now!