They burned Naga's body the next morning before setting out. It left them with a strange feeling, like a huge priority had been lost. The smoke rose for miles and they could see it even after they'd gone down the mountain.

Tiki had been clinging to Morgan and Lucina since they let her with them and she never left their sides. As they walked, she whispered to Morgan, asking where they were going.

"Celia says we're going to Ylissetol," he replied. "Since we have the Falchion, we are a bit safer from Grima. And the Fire Emblem is there so perhaps we could perform the Awakening."

"Do you have all the gemstones?" Tiki asked.

Morgan scratched the back of his head. "I'm not sure. We have at least one. I know Grima has another."

He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to sense if the Fell Dragon had anymore. He came up with nothing.

"I had given one to the Exalt many years back," Tiki said. "But I have no knowledge of where it is now."

"We have the green gem, Vert."

Tiki nodded. "Yes but we must have all to perform the ritual. Maybe Hrima has the rest."

Morgan eyed the priest that Lucina's army had found who'd stolen Vert. "They said he found one," he said, gesturing to the old man. "Loath as I am to trust him, he might know something."

He tapped the priest on the shoulder and the man whipped around, holding his staff threatening with a snarl on his face.

"Easy," Morgan said. "I just want to ask you a question."

The man put his rod away. "So sorry," he huffed, not sounding sorry at all. "You give off a similar presence to Grima."

Well that's flattering.

"Did you see if Grima had all the Emblem gemstones?"

"And why would that concern you?"

"Well…" Morgan frowned, wondering why the man avoided the question. "...we need all the gems to perform the Awakening and if we're walking to Ylissetol without them, we are walking to our death."

The old man grimaced. "I didn't get a good look but I think there were four. I stole one of them so now there's three. They were missing the red one. Now leave me be!"

Morgan watched the priest stalk away while Tiki turned to him. "So where would the Gules be?"

"Gules?"

"The red one."

Morgan tapped his chin. Wait…I had Gules for a little bit. Mother sent it to me for a while. Validar must've had it earlier I don't think Mother wanted all five gems together in case the Emblem itself was stolen. And when Validar died, she gave it to me but then took it back when Vert was stolen.

"Grima has it," he said grimly and Tiki frowned.

"How do you know?"

"I...I saw it. Sometime ago. One of the Risen had it," he fibbed.

Tiki nodded slowly and glanced at the priest. "Okay. But why didn't the priest just take the whole Emblem? The gems are hard to take out once they've been put in."

"Maybe he was in a hurry? Or maybe all the gems weren't stored in the same place."

"But he said he saw four together…and there's no safer spot for the gems than in the Emblem itself."

Morgan bit his lip. The priest was getting harder and harder to trust by the minute. He squeezed Tiki's hand.

"Let's keep our distance from that man," he whispered. "But I'll keep on eye on him. I don't think he's on our side."

—

They reached the ruined city at sundown and it was exactly how Morgan remembered it: a black sky of smoke and ash, crumbling abandoned buildings, the decaying castle looming over them. Bones littered the roads and the sounds of screaming Risen filled their ears with the howling wind.

"It's horrible," Inigo said as he walked over.

Tiki looked faint and she leaned against Lucina.

"There are many evil energies here," the Manakete whispered.

Celia took the front. "Everyone, search for shelter tonight. Lucina, stay with Tiki at all costs."

As everyone scattered, the captain turned to Morgan. "Take me to the castle," she muttered.

"What? But captain, that is a very unwise-"

"The people outside will be a distraction. We go in."

Morgan nodded slowly as she gripped her sword.

This woman...what happened to her?

He reluctantly started to lead her up the road where he knew his Mother waited.