"My name is Say'ri; I will accompany you in this battle ahead!"
Chrom stared bluntly at Say'ri, there was no doubt that she was from Chon'sin her name gave that much away. "So, you must know about what has been happening in Valm correct?" He asked.
"Aye, it is unfortunate on everything that has been happening...but now is not the right time to talk about it. We must pursuit these dastards."
"I couldn't agree more."
Robin and Lucina had been holding their ground successfully against the one knight that had found the townspeople.
The knight had completely ignored Robin and focused on Lucina. She held her Falchion in a defensive manner. Robin on the other hand, put his tome away and got down on his hands and knees.
While Lucina kept on blocking the hits, Robin stayed off to the side and started to crawl towards the citizens.
Lucina managed to steal a quick glimpse of Robin. 'You've got to be kidding me! Any normal person would have just sprinted to them.'
Once he was directly behind the knight he stood up quickly and turned around.
He grabbed his bronze sword out of his coat and slashed it at the knights chest plate. The sword hit it directly only to bounce off. The knight immediately turned around to be met with the confused hazel eyes of Robin.
Lucina who had watched the whole thing slammed her hand into her forehead.
"Idiot did you honestly think that would work?"
"Ok...I admit kinda didn't think that through..."
Even though it was a foolish move, he didn't seem to fazed by it...surprisingly
As the knight looked between the two, Robin's face instantly changed from one of confused to confidence. He grabbed his tome and shot thunder at his sword. The thunder seemed to fuse with the metal and it created a lightning barrier around the blade.
He shoved his sword straight into the chest plate guarding the knight. Not only did it go straight through, but the thunder also shocked him violently.
"Heh, looks like I...underestimated...you Ylisseans..." The knight said gasping for air.
"..."
"You...Will not...escape..."
...
"Ok, everybody here needs to evacuate as soon as possible!" Lucina said. "Is everyone that hasn't left all here?"
"Yes."
"Good..."
Just like that the townspeople existed through the back door to avoid conflict with the Valm soldiers. Lucina and Robin remained behind to cover their trail.
"By the way, Robin..." Lucina began
"Yes"
"How long have you been able to do your little sword trick?"
"That...oh well I just found out today..."
Lucina didn't seem convinced but before she could argue a young woman walked up to the pair. She looked very worried. "Are you alright?" Lucina asked. The woman shook her head "no as a matter of fact I'm not!" She replied
"What's wrong?"
"Look, although everybody that lives here is leaving there is one person that's in the last building."
"Who?"
"A young girl, I don't remember her name but she's not here. She told all of us to flee while she held off the soldiers, you must find her I don't know what I would do if something happened to her before I could repay her kindness."
Robin turned to Lucina. 'What should we do?' He mouthed.
Lucina didn't answer Robin and walked towards the front door of the building.
"Let's go!"
Destiny rings the bells of time and shapes our world into what it is today.
Even though we may not know it but a fate had already been laid out for us, long before we were ever born. As time slowly passes on we may realize our fate does not lead us on the proper path we wish to take. No matter how much you try to change it willingly and forcefully...
The only way to conquer Destiny itself is through the strength of our hearts...
The hearts of Grima and Naga will come together in love...nothing more...
A young girl with midnight blue hair panted as she held onto her light blue tome. How many soldiers had she taken out by now? Nineteen...no...Twenty-five? Too many to count for sure.
It didn't matter how many she managed to take out there were still more coming. She defiantly did not inherit any of her father's smarts that was all given to her brother. The worst part was she had no idea how to stop the flow of soldiers. All of the soldiers were holding either a lance or sword.
She kept on firing spells out of her tome. She didn't necessarily need to hit them but at least keep them back quite a ways.
The soldiers weren't going there be difficult to handle for her as well. She already had taken down what appeared to be undead Ylisseans. She remembered her mother talking briefly about creatures like that but everything about them seemed to be a huge blank.
The magic kept on coming out of her hands, the tome lighting up every time. Never did it hit the soldiers, not even one.
Her magic energy was running out, there was no way she could keep this up for long. She knew she couldn't just give up; she still needed to find whom she was seeking for, even if it seemed hopeless.
One knight advanced towards her. She backed up, as she did that, the girl nearly tripped over her long light blue coat that was tied around her waist.
The knight kept on moving towards her, the rest of the men followed a little further behind.
'Think, think...what to do what to do?'
She grabbed her tome once more and opened it up to read its pages. However unlike it usually did the pages didn't light up when she opened it. "Oh no!"
She strapped the tome to her waste and pulled off the glove that was on her left hand. The girl moved the palm of her hand up to her eyes and looked at it carefully. After a few moments she started banging her hand against her head. The soldiers stared at her completely dumbfounded.
After minutes of doing that she put the glove back on and gave off a sheepish smile.
For the first time in her life she started to panic. This was definitely the first time that she had to fight with no back-up. She could always do what her grandmother did and whack her enemies on the head with the tome...no that wouldn't work. The girl wasn't tall enough to pull that off, and it could make the situation worse.
Left with no other option she grabbed a dropped sword on the ground and held it out in front of her.
'Never was good with sword play but, here we go?'
The knight suddenly charged at her which she was unprepared for. She put her sword out to block the attack. Before it could reach her however it was interrupted by a rusted javelin.
"What the...?"
"I-it's it's you!"
...
Lucina had ran far out in front of Robin. She honestly didn't think it would matter if she took the lead, Lucina had dealt with things like this before in her time, saving people from Grima's servants. She highly doubted Robin had ever done anything like that.
As she looked at the rest of the port she could see how well the others were doing in battle. Her father and mother were fighting alongside their newest recruit Say'ri who Lucina knew not a ton about. Cherche and Virion had been shooting arrows from the air down at the commander. They didn't hit him but they got the attention of the soldiers.
The only people she couldn't see were those on the beach but, judging by the noise it sounded like they were doing just fine.
Lucina continued to run, she didn't look back to see Robin struggling to keep up with her.
"Ugh"
Lucina's boot got caught on something and she fell to the ground. "What the...?" She looked down to see a javelin on the ground. Nothing was special about it except it was rusty, Lucina looked up to see that it had started raining. "How odd."
She staggered over to the javelin; she put Falchion back in its holder and picked up the javelin. She knew how to use them, after all Sumia had always tried to get her to become a Pegasus knight, Cynthia had also nagged her for how 'heroic' it would be if she used two types of weapons.
When Lucina reached the building she peaked inside the window. It was very hard to look out because of its dusted state, but she could see in it far enough.
She held the javelin in her right hand and quietly twisted the copper handle. As soon as the door was opened she threw her javelin right at the knight. It hit the lance that he was carrying and knocked it right out if his hand. Lucina then got a surprised look from the knight and a gasp from the girl who she didn't even look at before.
"I-it's it's you!"
The most unexpected things happen at the worst moments. The most expected things tend to never happen. As time passes on, fate tends to make twists and turns on the path it was designed to head on.
Traveling from the future, many have considered it impossible. One brave princess proved them wrong, along with twelve other's. Not only does every act affect the future but, the future also affects the past. Everything a person does not only affect them...but the world.
"Everything happens for a reason, we may not know why but we must not question it..."
Lucina had taken out all of the soldiers in the small building almost instantly. They were all pretty shocked on when Lucina "sneaked" up on them.
"*Sigh* looks like that's the last of them..."
Lucina turned around and found two brown eyes staring directly at her. "Um...hello" as Lucina finished the girl's eyed widened. Lucina took a step back only for her to step forward.
"Can I help you-?"
"Do you know who I am?"
The girls question confused her. What exactly did she mean by that, was it supposed to be a joke? An act maybe?
"No...Should I?"
"...I guess not"
"..."
"What's your name kid?" Lucina asked
"It's M-m-m-m-Midnight, *ahem* my name is Midnight" the girl replied with a huge smile.
"Midnight huh? Quite a cool name, matches your hair" Lucina said. "...yeah..."
"Oh right, my name is-"
"Lucina"
"Correct again, how did you know?"
"I just...know..."
Lucina looked at Midnight skeptically, no one except the Shepherds knew about her, and her friends from the future. She didn't remember seeing her around in her time before.
"Anyways. Why were you fighting these guys all by yourself?"
"I had to! None of the citizens could fight, and they've helped me so much...sorry if I caused you any trouble. I didn't mean to" Midnight explained.
"Its fine" Lucina assured.
"LUCINA!"
The two girls turned to the door to find a panting Robin standing in the doorway. "Wait...up...!" Robin gasped.
"What are you doing here?"
"ME? You're the one who left ME behind when WE are partners and are supposed to stick together."
Lucina lifted her eyebrows as she realized what he just said. "Oops, guess I got a little too carried away there huh?"
"Uh yeah!"
Robin's eyes soon landed on Midnight as he had completely ignored the fact on why they were heading there. "Oh, hello there my name is Robin and you are?"
"I'm Midnight!"
"Cool name."
...
Barrels, fire, oil. That's all that they needed. The fourth building was surrounded by barrels of explosives; no matter how many soldiers he sent...Farber could not seem to kill the Ylisseans, not even two. Luckily he had a few mages to spare, they were equipped with fire magic.
Some of those stupid Ylisseans actually had managed to get up close to him. One even managed to nick him the shoulder. It was an archer on a Wyvern. He could honestly care less about deafening them, the Conqueror however would not allow them to pursuit and ordered him to "take care" of them.
It didn't take a genius to see that they weren't winning the battle. Those nasty Ylisseans had taken out everyone on the beach and managed to save that stupid Princess.
If he were to die here in battle he'd take some of those pests with him.
"Light em' up!"
"Chrom we have four mages and the head General Farber" Sumia said flying down on her Pegasus.
"Good, Say'ri you can go ahead and escape this port while we keep them busy. You seem to be a popular target for the Valmese" Chrom stated.
Say'ri turned from what she was doing and looked at Chrom. "I said I would be joining you for the battle ahead. I'm not leaving until this battle is as good as over!"
"Alright, doesn't hurt to have some extra help. Now all we need to do is...Wait is that...a fire?...Wait it's at -!"
*BOOM*
"Let's get out of here maybe we can-"
"FIRE!"
"What?"
Flames came in from under the closed door. They were spreading on oil that was spread all over the rooting planks, it was headed towards...The barrels.
"LUCINA, MIDNIGHT DUCK!"
The fire hit the barrels and made a hissing sound. Midnight had dropped to the floor and covered the top of her head. Before Robin and Lucina could do anything the barrels exploded.
*BOOM*
Everything became dark and black with the muted smell of smoke.
The Risen had sprawled out of every opening there was in the castle. Lucina didn't see them move up the stairs to where Severa was, if she was even still there. Knowing her she probably sneaked out and headed to the healing room in the castle.
Brady was the only healer they had left. If they lost him they'd been in trouble. However hearing banging notices coming from the level underneath her she could make it out that Risen had found the healing room. 'I hope the others are holding out ok.'
Lucina had slashed through fifty Risen at this point; luckily she wasn't the only one fighting. The remaining soldiers had chosen to fight till the last second.
As she was about to finish off another Risen, a loud deathly roar creamed through the cracked walls of the palace.
"Ahh!"
Before she knew what was happening, Lucina was knocked off her feet and dust poured into the room.
When the dust cleared Lucina got back to her feet. She looked around and saw that all the Risen were gone, the only things left of the soldiers were their corpses.
"So ends the human race!"
Lucina held her Falchion out in front of her and circled around looking for the source of the voice.
"The future is built upon the past...but your kind shall never see it."
Lucina turned to where the voice was coming from; she was terrified to see who the voice belonged to. 'Grima!'
"Your mother and father...are dead tiny one..." Grima remarked.
Lucina faced Grima Falchion even further in front of her; sweat was dripping off her face. She had never seen Grima so up close before, and never in this form. He truly was...terrifying to look at. He laughed as he flew back up further into the sky, bringing out the fire landscape all around them.
His six read eyes seemed to taunt Lucina as she knew each were staring at her.
"And now it is your turn...TO DIE!"
"HAHHHH!"
"Lu...ina..."
"..."
"Wake..."
"..."
"Wake up...please"
Lucina fluttered her eyes open. Her father was hovering above her; Lissa was right next to him.
"What...?"
"She is fine, nothing but a few minor burns...we should be grateful" Lissa said standing up and brushing off her dress.
"Thanks sis!"
Lissa smiled and ran off and regrouped with Maribelle and Libra.
Chrom helped Lucina to her feet, her legs were wobbly and she fell back to the ground. "What...even happened?" She asked. "An explosion, your mother and I saw it happen. Apparently soldiers had set up a trap. You and Robin were the only ones that were affected by it."
"Me and Robin..."
Lucina looked to where Robin had been. He was conscious, a few scars were visible on his pale face, ash particles were in his bleached hair.
"Tharja and Henry took out Farber while you were out, we'll discuss out next move later" Chrom said.
"Father...was it only Robin and I?"
"Yes"
"Strange..."
"What is it?"
"I could've sworn there was a little girl there..."
Chrom placed a hand on Lucina's shoulder, "it could have been a hallucination you need to rest."
"Thanks..."
...
30 minutes later...
"Mercy, friends! The tales of your strength were no exaggeration...I am called Say'ri I fight with the Resistance."
All of the Shepherds had gathered in front of the port to find out their next motive. Chrom was the first to speak.
"So there is an organized Resistance?"
"Aye, of sorts. Several groups formed to serve for liberty in the states of Valm." Say'ri explained
"I thought the emperor had stamped out all dissenters..." Chrom said
"He tries, but we Resistance are a slippery lot" She began. We strike hard then vanish again into the dark of night. Even now rebels ride to the banner of dynasts across the continent. United, we could pose a veritable threat to Walhart. And so, for some time I have struggled to bring us together."
"What's stopping you?" Flavia asked.
"Greed. Jealousy. Sloth. All the weaknesses of men. The dynasts all would have freedom, but on their own terms" Say'ri explained. "Some refuse to take up arms unless their territory is being threatened. Others thrive under the Conquerors heel and will not join unless there is a profit. Liberty is a fine word, aye, but it cannot always rouse Ken from foolishness."
"I take it you're looking for a more convincing argument, then?" Flavia questioned.
Say'ri nodded.
"Just so, although my efforts thus so far have met with meager success. *Sigh* I fear many distrust me because my brother fights for Walhart.
"Why does he support the empire?" Basilio asked.
"Would that I knew, good sir. Yen'fay was a good man once, but he is my brother no more! If we met on battlefield, I would cut him down, like an imperial. Walhart is said to command a million men now. Maybe more. Sooner or later he will stamp out the Resistance if we do not unite."
"Um, Chrom? Did she just say he has a MILLION soldiers?" Lissa asked.
"Hah, a million they may be but they are no match for the Ylisseans dogs of war. Did you not take out thousands of their ships? Your daring strategy has awaken and inspired the people of Valm! Together I know we can untie the Resistance and break through Walhart's grip!" Say'ri exclaimed.
Chrom placed a hand to his chin. He didn't want to rush into anything too soon but, did they really have a choice?
"Help me Prince Chrom I beg of you!"
"Milord?" Frederick said
"This is no easy thing you ask me. I have my own causes; a halidom to save and a future to win."
"..."
"Still, I admire your courage...perhaps to help you in your mission is the best way to achieve mine...So yes Say'ri, I will join your cause with mine!" Chrom said
"Thank Prince Chrom."
"Now, what will take to unite your people?"
"Hmm...For centuries the people of Valm have always admired Naga and Lady Tiki although here she is called the voice. However recently she was been captured by Walhart's forces. If we can free her we may be able to unite the people!" Say'ri said.
"Great, then our next objective is to save the Voice!"
A:/N
Whoa, this chapter took longer than I thought. If you checked out the last chapter (which you most likely have) you would have known that the next few chapters are going to be kid recruits.
The thing with Robin's sword I did I was trying to base off of the smash bros Robin on how he was able to change sword types with the bronze and the Levin. I didn't want to just give him a Levin sword or have him find it because that would be weird for that early in the game...Especially since I'm writing this story based on my experience.
For me Robin is a tome geek and doesn't really use swords like...ever...
Moving on...
I am going to be doing it in my order and will take a break from them once I get done with the first three and then do the Voice and then do the rest.
Thank you for reading, honestly takes a lot of work to write this So I'm glad you all enjoy it!
(Behind the scenes)
Had to email this to myself…subject was "Freaking done!" Also got my dialog quotes from Chapter 14 (it's kinda obvious I did…)
Until next time...
