And here is the next chapter, enjoy!


Moving swiftly through the forest, Corrin, Flora and Lilith approached the Hoshidan campsite. Flora climbed up onto a tree branch overlooking the area, the place was quiet with very little activity; not counting the lookout guards there were only a few soldiers on patrol in the camp, moving around should be easy once they were inside.

"What's the situation?" Corrin asked.

"There are five guards on our side of the camp, two samurais and three archers. There are also a few soldiers patrolling the campsite but it shouldn't prove to be a problem for us" she reported hopping back down.

"So the hard part is just getting past those guards" Corrin mumbled. The three of them were dressed in dark colors; both Corrin and Flora in full dark leather armor with a black hood and face covering to hide their head and faces; Lilith though not prepped for a battle was also dressed in the same armor as a precaution for any danger they may get themselves into.

Moving closer they hid behind the trees carefully peeking out; there was a torch stationed in between the soldiers, it's presence gave Corrin an idea. Falling back behind cover, Corrin whispered to Flora and Lilith.

"Flora, you and I will infiltrate the camp and look for Felicia. Lilith retreat deeper into the woods and be prepared to teleport us back home" the two nodded. "Flora, I'm going to extinguish the torch, when I do, I want you to take down the two on the right, I'll deal with the remaining three on the left"

"Understood, are we using lethal or nonlethal force?" Flora asked, the question made Corrin pause as he peeked back at the guards then back to Flora.

"Nonlethal, but if you deem it necessary you have my permission to use lethal force" Corrin told her; Flora was a little surprised that her lord would allow her to kill, normally the very thought of killing someone disgusted Corrin and though she hated killing as well, she knew it was unavoidable in war; it would seem that Corrin understood that now.

"Ready?" he asked, Flora nodded preparing to leap out. The Fire Emblem started to glow and once again Corrin could see trails of magic in the air, all of them a different color, he touched the trail that he recognized and immediately a gust of wind blew forward extinguishing the torch and stunning the guards.

Jumping into action Flora dashed towards the two guards kicking the first across the face and then punching the other in the stomach, knocking both of them out. When she turned to see how Corrin was doing she saw him having already dispatched the remaining three.

"Alright, let's move in. We find Felicia and then we get out" Corrin said in a hushed tone, she responded in an equally hushed voice.

"Understood".


Felicia was checking tent after tent but still no sign of any of the royals, she was losing time, she was forced to eliminate three patrol groups, she hid their bodies in obscure places but it was only a matter of time before they would be found. She stopped midway hearing voices in the distance, two female voices and one of them she was all too familiar with. Creeping towards Kamui's tent, Felicia maintained her low profile and listened in on their conversation, but much to her displeasure it was in Hoshidan.

"Feeling better now?" Hinoka asked.

"A little bit" Kamui replied, there was a pause. "I had better get some rest, we have a long day tomorrow"

"His death wasn't your fault" Hinoka said, Corrin became angry more so at herself.

"It was my fault! If only I had been stronger I could have stopped Corrin from leaving, I could have prevented him from becoming our enemy" she spoke with painful emotion that Felicia knew was genuine, maybe she had been too harsh on the Princess, but regardless now wasn't the time to be having regrets, she started retreating her target not among them. She however stopped, feeling a blade at her throat.

"Don't move" she heard, she recognized the voice, it belonged to a ninja named Kaze a former prisoner of Nohr and from what Felicia knew, he was assigned to be Kamui's retainer alongside Jacob; she cursed herself for being careless, she should have known there would be guards around a princess' tent, she needed to defeat him now if she had hopes of maintaining her presence unknown. "I don't know how you escaped but this is as far as you go" he said but before Kaze could restrain Felicia, the maid threw her head back slamming into Kaze's face, she then elbowed his stomach before pushing his blade away, twisting his arm and throwing him to the ground. Winded by the impact Kaze quickly swiped his leg across the ground but Felicia jumped up and away from him.

"I will admit you caught me by surprise there, but that ends now, come with me quietly and I'm sure Lady Kamui won't think any of it" he assured her. Felicia narrowed her eyes drawing her daggers; Kaze noticed them and sighed. "Lady Kamui will be very upset if you were harmed so please lay down your weapon, I don't want to fight you" he pleaded, however Felicia didn't budge.

"That's too bad, because I really want to hurt you right now" she answered and lunged at Kaze.

Hinoka was hearing strange noises outside, she silenced Kamui and prompted her to also listen, the noises were clearly of somebody fighting; rushing outside, Hinoka and Kamui were shocked to find Felicia on top of Kaze trying to force her dagger through his eye.

"Kaze!" Kamui screamed loud enough to wake up some people in the camp. Hinoka pulled Felicia away from Kaze. "Kaze are you alright?" Kamui asked running to his side.

"I'm fine Milady, I just… I just made the mistake of underestimating her" he replied out of breath. Kamui looked at her retaining finding multiple gashes across his arms, legs and abdomen, luckily nothing severe, she turned to Felicia who was struggling within Hinoka's grasp.

"How did you escape?" she demanded. "And where is Jacob?" Hinoka pushed Felicia to the ground using her body weight to keep her down. "Where is Jacob!" Kamui demanded again this time with anger in her voice, Felicia did not answer; a few soldiers came to view.

"Go check the prisoners tent" Kamui ordered them, two of them nodded running towards their destination. The crowed of people was growing all of them curious of what the commotion was about. From the corner of Felicia's eye she spotted her target, Prince Takumi. With all her might she threw Hinoka off, grabbing a dagger she flung it at the young Prince; the blade soared through the air but Kamui jumped in front taking the dagger to the shoulder.

"Kamui!" Hinoka yelled, two soldiers moved in to tackle Felicia but the maid fought back, stabbing one in the leg and punching the other across the jaw; Takumi who had Fujin Yumi in hand drew an arrow pointing directly at Felicia, he released the bowstring letting the arrow fly; Felicia quickly grabbed one soldier using him as a shield, the arrow struck the soldier in the back before she threw him into the other soldier; Felicia then made another attempt at Takumi's life, but this time her knife was deflected by a spear with a very angry Oboro glaring at the maid.

"Nohrian scum!" the spearwoman charged at Felicia but before their weapons met, Felicia was struck with a hex rendering the maid in a weakened state. Azama approached with his hexing rod in hand, a frown on his face.

"This is quite the commotion, aren't we all supposed to be sleeping?" he asked.

"Forget about that!" Hinoka screamed. "Restrain her! And bring in some healers!" four soldiers held Felicia down who was too weak to do anything. Hinoka checked on Kamui's wound while a shrine maiden appeared to check up on the injured soldiers; Oboro pointed the tip of her spear at the maid ensuring she didn't try anything.


From afar Corrin and Flora were watching from atop a tree; the situation was getting out of hand and with so many people gathered it would be difficult to rescue Felicia.

"What should we do milord?" Flora whispered; Corrin looked afar noticing something interesting.

"We need to thin out the people gathered" he pointed to some carts in the distance. "We're going to create a distraction".

Disappearing from the tree the two quickly rushed to the wagons, with everyone so occupied with Felicia's little stunt Corrin and Flora were able to freely move around. Looking inside one of the carts Corrin found it stacked with food and supplies, he was surprised that there was nobody guarding them, was Felicia's stunt that interesting that the soldiers would abandon their posts? Either way, he wasn't complaining this only made things much easier for him.

"We're going to burn the wagons" he said; Flora stared at him wide eyed.

"Milord? But what about the supplies, it would be a waste wouldn't it?" Corrin blinked realized the way his orders sounded, clearing his throat he clarified.

"Sorry I was in the heat of the moment, what I meant to say is we're going to steal their supplies and burn the empty wagons" he pointed to the horses. "Flora you take the wagon and ride away with the supplies, meet up with Lilith, I will be back with Felicia" Flora with haste led two horses and tied them to their desired cart, she climbed onto the driver's seat feeling nervous, she didn't like the idea of splitting up.

"Be careful milord" she said, Corrin noticed her concern and gave her a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry about me. You be sure to stay safe; you'll most likely be spotted by the lookout so I'll make sure to create a big enough diversion for you to make it back to Lilith safely" he said; Flora nodded snapping the reins signalling the horses to begin galloping away. Watching Flora disappear into the darkness of the woods he saw the lookout begin to stir ready to set off the alarm; Corrin quickly released the horses and the pegasi, their cries catching the attention of the guards as the soldiers rushed to try and catch them. He then grabbed a torch and set fire to the other carts, with the fire blazing uncontrollably he ran back into the campsite.


Kamui held her wound while Hinoka was trying to calm everybody down, she looked over to Felicia who was glaring viciously at her; Takumi walked to her side.

"You alright?" he asked, Kamui nodded. "And um… thanks for taking the knife for me" he muttered, Kamui smiled at him.

"No need to thank me, you would have done the same for me" Takumi looked away a little embarrassed. A soldier returned whispering something into her ear, her eye's widened, clenching her fist. Then there was cry for help, she turned to the voice seeing a massive fire in the distance.

"Our Supplies! Somebody go extinguish the fire!" she screamed her order, a large number of soldiers heeding her cries rushed to the scene.

"What are the soldiers posted there doing!" Hinoka yelled. Kamui quickly turned to Felicia noticing a glint in the maid's eye, she approached the maid, eyes brimming with rage she yelled at their captive.

"What did you do! Answer me Felicia!"

"I killed them" her answer caused everyone around her with a weapon to point them at her.

"You've killed two prison guards and now four more of our soldiers, how many more did you kill?" Kamui demanded, Felicia went silent choosing to bury her face in the dirt. Takumi was getting restless reading his bow.

"I knew keeping her alive was going to be a problem" he snarled. "We kill her now, who knows what trouble she'll cause if we bring her back" Oboro and Hinata followed their Lord's lead bringing their weapon closer to Felicia; Kamui wanted to stop them but someone else beat her to the punch.

"I would put away your weapons" a voice spoke out, it was Nohrian, everyone turned to the voice and was horrified, standing there was an assassin holding Sakura hostage, he had a knife to her throat.

"Big sister..." she whimpered out, clearly terrified at her current predicament.

"Lady Sakura!" both Hana and Subaki screamed.

"Please speak in a language I understand" the assassin requested, he noticed he was being surrounded. "And I wouldn't try anything if you want your Princess unharmed" his words forced everyone to freeze up and back away.

"What do you want" Kamui asked.

"For you to release the maid" he answered. Kamui looked between the assassin and Sakura, her fist clenched, her hands were tied, anything she tried would result in harming Sakura, both Hinoka and Takumi were furious and were ready to tear the man piece by piece. The assassin brought his blade closer to Sakura's throat. "Hurry up now, I don't have all night" Kamui raised her hand almost in a begging way.

"Alright! Just don't harm her!" she ordered her soldiers. "Release Felicia" the two soldiers pulled Felicia to her feet handing her over to Kamui. Felicia was reluctant, she glanced back at Takumi with narrowed eyes, her target was so close, she was so close to achieving her revenge. But before she could do anything the assassin pulled her away.

"Now release Sakura" Kamui demanded, the assassin shook his head.

"I don't think so, the moment I release her you'll assault us. No, the princess comes with me until we leave camp"

"Nohrian scum! Release her now before I pierce your head with an arrow!" Takumi threatened.

"Like I said speak in a language I understand; but then again, I don't need to understand to know when I'm being threatened" the assassin said digging his blade against Sakura's throat but not enough to draw blood. Hana and Subaki were looking for any moment to rescue their liege but much to their displeasure the assassin showed none. The assassin started moving backwards with Sakura in tow, he signaled Felicia to follow; Kamui and the others followed closely and were on high alert; the tension was high and nobody dared to make any reckless movement in fear for Sakura. Takumi maintained a steady hand on his bow ready to take a shot whenever the chance showed itself. Kamui looked outwardly calm but was seething with rage on the inside, she felt helpless and she hated it.

At the outskirts of the camp the assassin stopped to look at the soldiers, from Kamui to the angry Takumi and the royal retainers. The two sides were at a stand off, and while the assassin was thinking of a way to get away without having a barrage of arrows thrown their way; Kamui was thinking of a plan to capture the assassin without him hurting Sakura. The assassin was running out of time, if he lingered any longer more soldiers would gather and that would make a clean escape difficult.

"Sorry Sakura" the assassin whispered into the princess' ear before kicking her away into the ground; Hana and Subaki were quick to rush to her side, checking for any injuries. Now with the chance, Takumi let loose an arrow but was shocked to find a powerful gust of wind blow through them, it deflected the arrow and rendered everybody in a stunned state, by the time they recovered the assassin and Felicia were gone.


Deep in the woods and far away from the Hoshidan camp, Felicia was recovering from the hex, her strength was coming back but she still felt uneasy, especially with her rescuers presence; she didn't know who sent him or if he was friendly or foe, for all she knew the man could have been sent to capture her for interrogation or to ensure her silence, either way if it meant preventing her revenge she was going to do everything in her power to fight back.

"Felicia!" she heard, which was strange, she must not have fully recovered from the hex because she was hearing her sister call out to her. "Felicia!" there it was again, she turned around seeing Flora rush towards her and catching her in a hug.

"You're alright!" Flora spoke with great relief, she stepped back inspecting Felicia like a delicate flower. "You're not injured are you?" she asked.

"I'm fine Flora" Felicia said still a little surprised to find her sister here, from afar she saw Lilith walking towards them, and for a moment she was reminded of the happier moments back in the Northern Fortress prompting her mood to become gloomy, she looked ashamed with herself.

"What's the matter Felicia?" Flora asked.

"I'm sure you've heard, but Lord Corrin has died" Felicia started tearing up. "I'm sorry… I'm sorry I couldn't protect him" all her pent up grief finally pouring out, large tears streaming down her face; Flora went up to her twin hugging her while stroking her hair trying to calm her down.

"It's alright, it's alright now Felicia" she repeated, but Felicia broke away a little angry her sister's reaction.

"How is it okay? Lord Corrin is gone!" she yelled. "I… I tried to kill his killer but I wasn't strong enough" the assassin suddenly spoke up

"I'm a little shocked, you aren't the type of person to swear vengeance" Felicia leered at the man but noticed how Flora and Lilith were looking at the him weirdly; the man cleared his throat. "Sorry I had to change my voice so I didn't sound too familiar" Felicia hearing the familiar voice was utterly shocked; the assassin removed his hood and face covering revealing himself.

"Lord Corrin?" Felicia whispered in disbelief, Corrin smiled warmly at her.

"It's good to see you again Felicia" he expected a reaction from her but Felicia just stood absolutely stunned; chuckling he opened out his arms, Felicia on instinct jumped into his arms hugging him back and crying into his chest. "It's okay now, I'm back" he said. Flora and Lilith watched their heartwarming reunion with great joy; out of the three of them, Felicia was probably the closest to Corrin, having spent more time serving and protecting him, she took his supposed death the hardest. Finally calming down Felicia stepped away wiping her tears before being flicked in the forehead by Corrin.

"Ow" she cried.

"That's for being so reckless, you were almost killed" he scolded with a frown.

"B-But I thought they killed you" she whimpered.

"That still doesn't excuse you for your actions" Felicia looked sad, but Corrin sighed placing his hands on his waist, "Just promise me you won't ever do something so reckless again" Felicia looked into Corrin's concerned eye's, she nodded making him smile satisfied.

Now came the questions, Felicia was sure that falling into the Bottomless Canyon meant death, so how was it that her liege looked unharmed, in fact why did he seem so different, the way he presented himself, the way he talked, it was like he matured overnight.

"Um, Milord, how did you survive your fall?" she asked.

"It's quite the story so I'll explain when we return" Corrin answered, he turned his attention to the others. "Flora what of the supplies?"

"They are ready to be transported back" she reported, he nodded approvingly.

"Good, Lilith are you ready to take us home?"

"Yes, whenever you're ready to leave Lord Corrin" he started walking in the direction of the portal beckoning them to follow.

"Perfect, then let's go home".