Dion's sword was about to swing at her, when the imps with eyes showed up again. He swore under his breath, maybe he should have just told the truth, but it was hard speaking to mortals, as he didn't feel like many words got to them. He sighed, and waited for his sister to strike, and she did, her eyes a red blaze with hatred for him, but he managed to stop all her attacks with his sword, surely, it hurt his arms, but he had to keep going, since this was the path she had made for herself.
Corrin and Azura woke up in the plain fields of the palace, he remembered everything, but not how they fell unconscious. Corrin looked at Azura's body fully to check for any wounds, and he found nothing. "Azura, wake up." He said, shaking her a bit, he was quite worried.
But Corrin had felt very different from the moment he woke up...
She woke up a little, and looked around, but she seemed rattled too. He helped her up, and looked around for Dion and Aion. But both had vanished. The two spent a few minutes to find out where they could have gone, but they hardly found anything.
"Azura?" He asked, seeing her in the left part of the courtyard. Near a flower bed Azura stood there looking at it.
"Look, blood," she said as her eyes were busy looking at it, but no other things could be found. Both sighed, and they eventually went back to their rooms. They ate barely, but the day became more busy before they were able to talk to each other about the events that occurred.
Robin was still being treated for her wounds, while her two children were with her, Lucina and Morgan, they had hardly slept for the last few days wanting their mother to be better, they stayed near her, and she was proud of her strong children. But she couldn't stop thinking of what happened with the imps. They were odd, and something didn't feel correct with the amount of information they were able to gather.
The imps had eyes unlike the ones with Dion, meaning something similar to him had to summon them.
She thought for awhile until she felt her son, Morgan pulling at her leg. "Mommy, I'm hungry." He cried, looking at her with some tears, she smiled at him, "let's go get some food."
Xander was extremely busy in the matters of his wife and son being treated very well. But the amount of work had started to grow, since they were readying a whole new part of military to start to train to take down those imps that showed up. Corrin had reported at some point that wasn't the first time he fought with imps, it had been Dion before. Which he found odd that Corrin didn't mention that before. Now information was critical, but things could get cloudy if another sources hides the information needed. And no doubt that was happening.
He knew tomorrow the Kings would be meeting again. However, that wasn't the time to think, he had to work with Nohr at the moment.
Eventually the day ended, but the night wasn't peaceful since Corrin and Azura were finally able to talk. They sat together on their bedside, his stomach hurt from the stress earlier in the day.
They would have to discuss what they had seen, but clearly what could they say? It wasn't such an event to be easily summarized.
"So is Dion an ally? Or a foe?" Azura asked him, her question blunt, but direct, getting his attention. He looked at her, with shock. Yes, that was an easy question to answer. Wasn't it? His mind raced at the very thought of seeing him as a foe, which was odd, when he had been attacked by the very man before.
"I don't know, Azura. I mean he attacked us once, didn't he?"
Azura thought about it for awhile, but she had brief idea as to what had happened. "Have you considered he didn't want to get close?"
"So attacking us, and acting insane was his idea to stay away?" He questioned back to her.
"Yes, Dion attacked you, but you had some wounds, but most of it was from Aion," Azura replied.
He felt confused, he remembered Dion had attacked him, "what?" He asked, looking at her suddenly.
"You don't remember, Corrin?" She asked a bit surprised.
"No. That battle was a massive toll on me, since my stone was broken..." He said almost rumbling, he rubbed the back of his head. With growing confusion as he was trying to remember, but why didn't she tell him? "How long did you know?"
"Corrin, we're connected. The very day we got back, that's what plagued your dreams," she said.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked with a whimper.
"Corrin, we haven't a had proper time to talk about anything serious since we were in meetings, various attacks and training. How do we get time for it?" She questioned back. He felt terrible for not asking sooner. He embraced her. "I'm sorry, Azura.."
"I'm sorry as well, Corrin..." Azura replied, embracing him back.
Morning eventually came for all Kingdoms, but Valla was very busy before the sun even rose. Corrin had slept some, but he was able to remember his dreams now, and it was sickening to see what had happened that battle. Aion, no doubt was doing what Iago did to them before. Using heavy illusions to fool them.
Azura wasn't proud for not telling him sooner, but they knew there real enemy now, and they needed to find Dion before she had a chance to ruin their Kingdom again.
Corrin and Azura went out as soon as they could, considering they were going to Hoshido for the day, and they stepped up a massive defensive with the help of Jakob and Felicia, who were always very glad to help their lord.
When arriving to Hoshido, Corrin's face was grave, tired, and held a lot of stress to it, but this had to be talked about, considering he remembered everything, and it was time to report about what truly happened. Most of the town people tried to keep away from him, since his gentleness was gone, and he felt anger deep down. Which he only felt once before since his mother's coldblooded murder. But that had mattered not.
His bare feet hit the cold hard ground, but once you get used the feeling of the ground, you'd generally find it relaxing, but not today, today was going to start a war.
He was the last of the Kings to arrive to the meeting, but he had a more grim look that shocked the other Kings. He was generally pretty gentle, and kind.
"I've been betrayed," he said with such a voice, it made them flinch a bit.
"What do you mean, Corrin?" Xander asked, not with confusion, but certainly, curiosity. Corrin didn't get this way without good reason, and that was still concerning.
"Dion is not a friend or foe. He was being controlled by his sister, Aion. She's the real enemy," Corrin replied.
Azura was calm during all of this, she knew something was wrong with Corrin, he doesn't get this angry, or strange... But he had to get it out one way, or another. All she did was sit with Robin, Hinoka, and Camilla. All the Queens had brought their kids, but they were either sleeping or listening briefly, since the Queens weren't in the meeting room, but nearby, however Corrin was pretty loud.
"Did something happen to Corrin?" Hinoka asked to Azura.
She nodded, but didn't say much more. Hinoka and Camilla had a growing concern, but they would have to wait to hear since they just started this meeting.
Corrin sat down at where the Vallian King always sat at, which was across the two, while the Nohrian and Hoshidian sat across from each other. Now Chrom was just given a random chair, since they never expected a fourth King. But Chrom didn't mind so much, such they provided a spot for him anyway.
"What do you mean, Corrin? He attacked you didn't he, back in Ylisse?" Chrom asked, looking at Corrin.
"Yes he did, but he was trying to break the illusion that Aion had made, and most of the damage was Aion's doing." Corrin replied coldly.
The situation was a bit confusing, but they trusted the youngest King.
The other Kings looked at each other, with a massive question. "How did you find this out?" Ryoma asked, taking the lead in the questioning.
"I've been dreaming of Aion and Dion. And Azura was seeing the whole thing. But I didn't remember anything until now," Corrin replied. He was seeing the truth, that was for sure.
"How do you know?" Ryoma continued.
"When Dion first showed up, he was the one fighting with me, not against me."
"Then what do you purpose we do, Young King?" Xander asked.
"We have to find Dion, and talk to him. To hear his part of the story."
It was a risky decision, "are you sure you're right?" Chrom asked, breaking the silence that had grown while the other two pondered. Chrom usually trusted many people who were his friends, but this was very sudden, and hard to just go with.
"Yes, I am," Corrin said, replying with such a speed.
Chrom knew he would trust his friend, and would just have to go with it.
"Can you sense him?" Ryoma asked.
"No." Corrin replied.
"Do you know anyone who can sense him?" Ryoma asked.
"Azura might be able to. Since she has sensed him before, she could probably," Corrin replied.
After the meeting, the wives went to their husbands who looked rather shaken. All were very strong women, and very calm about this, and eventually were told about what Corrin had planned. And that was surprising, but none of less would they argue, since this was Corrin they were talking about, and he knew what he had to do, and why.
Hinoka hid her own worry though, since she had given birth not even that long ago, she sighed, holding Siegbert gently, but tightly as well. Xander smiled at her when he saw her. She smiled back, hiding what she felt, since she was exhausted.
The children were sent to be taken care of by some healers, since they were going to look for Dion. Considering he appeared in Valla, they weren't there first, hoping to find some answers. He took them to the courtyard they found him. Hoping for any other clues they overlooked earlier yesterday. It took a few hours, but no one found anything. All gave out a sigh of disappointment.
"Is anyone hungry? I've made food," Jakob said, as he approached the royals, which caused them all to look at him.
"Let's take a break everyone," Corrin said.
No one said anything as they followed Corrin to the dining room for a quick bite to eat, which was just simple bread and jams.
"So we found nothing, any other leads?" Chrom asked putting some bread into his mouth, since he was starving like his wife Robin was. "We can check that forest I first met him in," he replied, hoping that would be what they needed.
Ryoma sighed, "Azura, did you sense him nearby at all?"
Azura was shocked Ryoma had asked her, but she put some of the food down, and looked at him, as everyone was looking at her.
"No, however I sensed that he was here before. Though he hasn't left much of a trace since."
"I see, then we'll go to this forest, and have Azura sense him."
Azura nodded and just sat silently next to Corrin for the rest of the meal.
They left Valla to the Ylisse forest, it was cold since night had come and taken over from the sun. It was very silent, and eerie, but they pressed forward to a lake, but nothing was found at the lake, Azura started to sense for anything nearby, but nothing. Until something pulsed over them both.
Corrin moved Azura swiftly, as everyone was pushed to the ground. That ended rather quickly, but they saw the imps. They had eyes, surely, Aion had sent these. She must have known they found out.
"Everyone to battle!" Corrin yelled.
Everyone started to fight, Robin and Corrin fought together this time. They kept directing orders with each other, causing this battle to be brief, and wound free.
But they saw Aion with a cruel look on her face. Corrin and Chrom charged at her, but were pushed by a guard spell, no doubt. They kept attacking it until it started to break, but she shouted causing a shock-wave pushing them back, and hitting the ground rather hard.
Corrin swore in pain, while Chrom got back up, Robin stopped him from attacking again. Corrin was helped up by the two Kings, and his wife.
"You truly must be wishing you didn't find this out," Aion said.
"You're the one who betrayed us!" Corrin shouted, coughing in exhaustion, but with a hateful look in his eye, he rarely had this feeling. This was very odd, he never felt like this. This wasn't him.
Author's note: Sorry this is extremely late then what I wanted to do. Family issues have gotten in my way, anyway, hope you enjoyed. Thanks for the support.