Chapter 9 – The Fell and The Vengeful

Grima sat in his temple drawing a new ritual circle. The purple ink staining into the floor and glowing ominously. As he finished he sat down in the center of the circle and began channeling the magic through the world. Validar approached still limping from injuries sustained before his resurrection.

"Master, what are you planning on using that spell for?"

"We can't risk having a complete unknown like Jensen regardless of his power. So, I've opted to get to know our enemy. This one is far more discrete than the artifacts. I should be able to travel his mind freely without his knowledge." Grima said as he began to meditate his pupils clouding over.

Grima for but a brief moment saw the otherworld the towering skyscrapers. The bright blue skies and the vast technology. Then it all melted away and he was in darkness as he looked around confused.

"You do not belong here." The world began reshaping but this time Grima recognized it. It was the Dragon's Table.

"What is this?! You dare defy a God Jensen?!" Grima said searching as he saw a figure beginning to shape in the darkness. The figure began stepping into the light and Grima looked on confused as he saw a man wearing combat armor under an unfamiliar coat and a helmet as he looked up at him and the only thing Grima could see in the helmet was his own reflection.

"Oh? Did you still think you were dealing with Jensen? You've managed to stir something far worse up from the recesses of his mind. I must thank you. I might be able to gain control again he had managed to bury me. However, I have no desire for another voice in this head. So, face me 'God' if you want to know what death tastes like." The figure said adjusting his armor

"Just who the hell are you?!" Grima spat

"That's a first honestly. Most people just asked 'Why?' or just said I could never win. I guess you can call me Echo, because I'm an echo of everyone's true self. Now, let's see if you bleed."

Grima stepped forwards beginning to channel dark magic through his tome.

"You won't be able to beat me with cheap tricks. You are powerless, whose mind do you think you're in?" Echo said as a massive beam of dark magic surged towards him as he stepped fearlessly into it. Lasting for almost a minute Grima stopped channeling the magic panting exhausted as he saw Echo still stepping closer completely unscathed. Grima's expression turned to shock as Echo surged forward and grabbed his face obscured by the cloak and smashed it into the ground. The pain was immense it was a sensation that he hadn't felt in one thousand years. He tried to resist again but Echo just brought down his fist again on his chest forcing the air out of his lungs. All Grima could see was his own reflection being reduced to a bloody pulp as he stared at his attacker. He tried to channel a Thoron to strike him in the chest like he had with that damned Exalt. Echo took out a nice and stabbed into his hand and into the solid stone floor pinning his hand to the ground. Echo continued to beat the Fell Dragon spilling divine ichor onto the floor as it seeped through the cracks of the temple. Grima felt himself beginning to lose consciousness as he felt another set of hands shaking him and he sharply inhaled as pain inflamed his body as he awoke.

Grima panted the ritual circle was broken and the floor was a spiderweb of cracks. He could feel his nose bleeding divine ichor onto the floor. He moved his left hand up to his face and felt warmth move across it and then a sudden burst of pain as he recoiled and looked at his hand seeing a fresh stab wound seeping divine ichor.

"Put an entire division of spies on Jensen."

"My lord doesn't that seem a little overkill?"

"Jensen and his damned Echo will pay for wounding me. This heresy will have its consequences. When this world has fallen, and I have reclaimed my true power after he has died a long slow death. I will go to his world and I will kill everyone for his actions against me."

Jensen awoke in the Feroxian Inn startled sharply inhaling he could see the pale light of the moon seeping in through the window. He got up out of bed seeing Lucina sleeping peacefully across the room in the second bed. He walked out of the room and began walking around the village he could sense someone who travelled through time was in this village, but he'd been exhausted when he got here. He brought his hands to rub his head and felt cold liquid smearing. He brought his hands away sparking light in one of them to see better. Thick, purple ink like blood was on his hands no his gloves. He hadn't been wearing gloves. A sudden realization hit him, and he examined his clothes in a panic he was wearing his clothes. The helmet was gone but he was back he quickly shifted the clothes back into his own cleaning off the blood and heading back into the room sitting in a chair waiting until morning as he was terrified of going back to sleep.

Lucina awoke a couple of hours later as the sun's light crept in through the window. She noticed that Jensen was sitting in the chair in the room half asleep. Clinging onto consciousness bags forming under his eyes.

"Jensen? Are you alright?" Lucina questioned suspicion in her voice Jensen snapped back fully conscious

"Yeah, just had some bad nightmares. Kept getting woken up by them so I just stayed up. We should get some food. Your friend is in this town. I sensed them when I got woken up."

After breakfast in which Jensen had drunk an unearthly amount of coffee they made their way Jensen acting as a compass.

"I want to test your friend."

"Last time that happened you got stabbed in the gut."

"Trust me if it gets bad you can always intervene."

They began to approach a training grounds on the edge of the village where they saw a teenager with blonde hair in heavy armor tearing a dummy to shreds with a lance.

"So, I'm gonna assume that's Sully's kid. No one else I know trains like that."

"You're correct, her name is Kjelle. You haven't met her Father yet."

"Alright time to test her mettle."

Jensen walked close to the training field as Lucina hid watching from afar. Kjelle almost immediately noticed him usually nobody besides her Master watched.

"What's up?" Jensen asked nonchalantly

"I don't have time for this."

"I mean I'm sure you could use a better sparring partner than a piece of wood."

"You don't seem the type to be able to take a hit."

"Neither do you." Jensen taunted seeing that she had some of Sully's signature attitude in her.

"Alright we can spar. Just know who it will be on the ground when were done."

Kjelle pointed her lance at Jensen who put one hand at his side and one half open in front of him. The sparring match began as Kjelle rushed at Jensen who began stepping backwards to keep at the edge of her range examining how she was fighting.

"Stop dodging and actually fight me coward!"

Jensen surged forward light trailing behind him as Kjelle face turned from confidence to shock as he struck her with both hands in the gut and then spun his leg around kicking her in the side sending her back a few meters. She used her lance to balance herself before getting ready to attack Jensen again. This time her ferocity began to overwhelm Jensen's dodging and she began to land a few hits causing Jensen to bleed a little from his arm. He noticed and disappeared from Kjelle's sight for a moment and then she felt a sharp pain on the back of her heard as Jensen hit her from behind with an open palm and she hit the ground falling unconscious.

"You know she might be more skilled than you were."

"She didn't stab you in the gut."

"Yes, but you fought me before I had my powers back."

Kjelle groaned and began to get back up.

"God, she's as stubborn as her mother." Jensen observed

"Lucina?" Kjelle asked looking up

"Yeah, he's with me. He's from another world and he was able to follow us when we went back in time."

"You trust him?"

"I used a magic item to investigate his memories."

"And that hurt like hell. Don't use dark magic on me again. Not to mention the invasion of my privacy." Jensen interjected

"Also, a man named Cassius has plans to attack this town at some point." Lucina informed Kjelle

"Then I need to stay here and keep getting trained by my teacher. This town isn't ready for that kind of thing. I will meet you in Ylisse hopefully before Valm begins. Showing up before my parents get married could be problematic and you're already taking that risk with the Marth persona. How's Cynthia doing?"

"We all got separated. We have no clue, Jensen here can sense time anomalies like ourselves vaguely, but you were the only one close enough to get to."

"So, he's very good with magic?"

"No such thing in my world. I'm what we might call 'Superhuman'"

"How so?"

"I was caught in an explosion and can now manipulate what I call light energy." Jensen began channeling it through his hand. "Like this I can fire beams, enhance my speed, strength, and durability, create, and destroy matter, heal myself faster than normal. Mind you it has its limits. I can sense things like a constant radar. I used to be able to sense dark energy but that doesn't exist here. Magic I'm starting to be able to sense but it's different and I will need to work on it. I think it might be similar."

"Don't tell Owain or Cynthia that they will start purposefully getting caught in explosions." Kjelle warned

"Oh, also take this." Jensen said handing Kjelle a small metal disk.

"What's this?"

"It allows me to track you if I need to. I don't know how long I can sense these anomalies and it is straining for me, so this is easier. Means when we need you we can find you. Oh, and you take one as well Lucina." Jensen said passing another disk. "We can probably stay a day or two but after that were gonna have to go to Plegia to catch up with the Shepherds."

"You didn't try very hard against me, did you?"

"Actually, I did I'm not trained much so I need to put more energy than I should just to keep up. I'm just very good at making it not look like it. Trust me if I'm not trying I talk a lot more. Also, I'm pretty sure magic makes you all superhuman."

"Fair point." Lucina interjected

"Did you ever fight another superhuman?" Kjelle asked

"Touchy subject for him Kjelle stop that line of questioning." Lucina warned

"Thanks, but I need to start confronting it. Long story short, I didn't train my powers and it cost my world badly. I know what it's like to survive in a hell. I saved my world and left because I could no longer live there."

Jensen and Lucina stuck around the Feroxian town for a day exchanging information and leaving Kjelle to defend the Feroxian town as they began to make their way to Plegia early after hearing the news that Emmeryn was scheduled to be executed in the capital.

Author's Note: So, this short sidequest is done. I don't think there's gonna be a chapter for about two weeks after this, but I might be wrong. I have a few arcs planned out for the story so I'm gonna share them. Grima is planned to be the overarching villain for everything. Because bringing The Destroyer back and into the Fire Emblem world is predictable. Also I have no intentions on having Echo be like a major villain more so just something Jensen needs to come to terms with.

Reclamation Arc Chapters 1-7. Jensen comes to the world loses his powers and gets them back.

Plegia Arc Chapters 10 – 15 hopefully.

Five Years Peace Arc Probably gonna be around seven chapters if I was to bet. I have a plan for Jensen to fight things that will make him go all out in this Arc.

Valm Arc Pretty self-explanatory probably around ten chapters. Also, Jensen's future child will show up here so yay?

Grima Arc Probably gonna be shorter than Valm due to how quickly it progresses in the game. I mean you've got Stealing the Emblem, Dragon's Table, Mount Prism, To Slay a God and then Grima himself. I'd say five to seven.

The 'I had this idea as well Dark Reflections' Arc Yeah, I know it's a cliché thing. But I really want to do Evil Shepherds. Their gonna be called The Wolves probably. There's gonna be some differences I'm making them straight up completely evil.

The Other World Arc Hey he's gonna go back for a nice Slice of Life arc. Because it's a nice way to segway into the next arc.

The Destroyer Returns Arc Trust me. I'm not bringing him back. No, I am though. Just not how you might think. Also, no it's not his damn daughter taking the mantle. That would ruin the entire point of Jensen not killing her. Only thing I'm gonna say is that it will involve the Fire Emblem and the plot threads of this arc will begin long before the actual arc itself starts.

The Slice of Life After Everything Content Who knows how much?