Chapter 11: Tearful Reunion.
Darkness enshrouded his vision as the Tactician stared out and into the void.
The darkness didn't last long however as it gave way to a scene that was very familiar to the white haired Tactician.
The town of Ylisse with it's castle at the back of it. Destroyed and left to root.
Bodies of his allies, friends and family lay all over the place, most dead while some barely clinged to life.
He felt shocked at such a sight. What was happening?
He noticed people still fighting nearby in the streets of Ylisse against what he could only describe as the undead soliders known as the Risen.
He noticed one of his comrades fighting nearby, the dark haired swordsmen that worked for the Khan Basilio, Lon'qu. He attempted to help the man only to find himself going right through the lance wielding Risen that the swordsmen was fighting.
Robin watched in despair as more Risen surronded the swordsmen as fatigue prevented the man from dodging an arrow that striked his shoulder before being skewered by a lance.
"LON'QU!" Robin cried out. But everything around him just ignored the Tactician as the Risen moved towards another still alive combatent.
After a moment of mourning over his comrade. Robin moved through the streets, witnessing more of his old Shepard comrades falling in battle.
He saw Vaike suffer a blow to the knee that knocked the man over leaving him an easy kill for the Risen he'd been fighting.
The body of a fallen emerald dragon was laying in the marketplace riddleled with arrows. He couldn't tell if it was Tiki or Nowi as he continued moving through the streets hoping to find someone that was ok.
Tears began to fall from the Tactician's eyes as he began to consider the worst. "Please be alright, Cordelia, Severa, Morgan. One of you be alright!"
Finally arriving at the castle showed Robin a sight that crushed him.
Bodies laying around the gates, broken and dead. Some of Risen and some of soliders who likely died trying to defend their homeland.
But that's not what crushed him.
Standing in the centre courtyard of the castle was a figure covered by a sickingly familiar purple shroud. Holding up his commander and best friend, Chrom by the neck.
His eyes lay witness to the crack that ended the bluenette Exalt's life, as the figure clouded in the purple shroud dropped Chrom's lifeless body.
The lord's empty dead eyes were left staring up at the Tactician when he hit the ground.
"GAHAHAHAHA!" Robin stared forward at the source of the chilling laughter.
The figure was an exact lookalike of the Tactician with the purple shroud covering it's body. The lookalike raised it's right hand as a large dragon flew in to the sky above the castle.
"H-how." Robin turned his head to the side, noticing a girl with long dark blue hair that reached her shoulders. "We stopped you!" The girl cried out as she struggled to stand trying to use her blade as a way to help her stand.
"Hahaha. Silly mortel!" The Tacticians lookalike spoke as it lazyly walked to the struggling girl. "You only delayed the inevitable." The figure kicked the blade out of the girls hand causing her to fall to the ground in pain.
"After all we did." Robin stared in dismay as he fell to his knees."Were my actions really all for nothing?"
"Just finish it." He heard the bluenette girl speak as he watched his lookalike stroke the girls hair.
"Oh I'm not going to kill you, where would the fun be in that?" What Robin saw next caused him to finally break as he attempted to strike the lookalike. "No, I think you'll make a fine servent, wouldn't you agree, Cordelia?"
His wife, with her long red hair and the white armor that he always remember seeing her in, walked up and stood by his lookalike, the same purple aura consuming her figure.
Feelings of rage and sadness consumed the Tactician as he continued attempting to strike his lookalike.
"Isn't this wonderful, Robin?" He stumbled backwards after being addressed. "After all your actions and I still win! And the best part is, there's nothing you can do about it!" The lookalike turned towards him with it's pointer finger out reached as the dragon circling above fired it's breath in his direction.
"You could never stop me and you'll never escape me!"
"ROBIN-NII!"
The Tactician awoke in a fright as he panted in fear. "It was all a dream? Thank the Gods."
"Are you ok Robin-nii?" Robin looked up from his spot on the couch, allowing him to notice that his charge was looking at him in worry. "You were thrashing around a whole bunch and yelling in your sleep."
Robin took a moment to think on that as he continued panting. "N-nothing to worry about Naruto, go back to sleep." Naruto seemed to accept that but the look of worry on the boys face had remained as he left to go back to bed.
Robin stepped up to the window as he let himself become lost in his thoughts, until he spied a light flash in the distence.
Curious, Robin decided to go investigate the origin of the flash as he quietly left the apartment.
"No."
"But Sis, what if you don't come back?"
"I said no Morgan and that's final!" Severa shouted as she walked away from her sisters room as she sheathed a blade in the sheath at her back.
"But Severa...what if you don't come back?" That sentence stopped Severa in her tracks.
She'd be preparing to use the strange orb that had appeared on that one night while she'd been mourning at her fathers grave, and now she was going to finally use it.
But she'd been hoping her Sister wouldn't find out, she didn't want to worry her like this.
"What might you two be up too?" Oh Gods, why did he have to show up?
The red head turned to look towards the new arrival, the blonde haired child of the Dancer Olivia and the war Monk Libra, wearing his blue mercenary tunic, Inigo.
Hopefully she'd be able to get rid of him- "Severa's planing to do something stupid!" "DAMNIT MORGAN!"
Inigo looked towards her for answers, judging by the fact that Morgan already blew her cover, she wouldn't put it past her younger sister to tell the boy the truth.
"I'm going to find my Father!" She spoke out, Inigo now gave her a confused look.
"But isn't he dead?" Of course he'd ask that.
"Of course he isn't! And I have a way to find out where he really is!" Inigo looked puzzled as he turned to Morgan.
"See? She's being stupid Inigo, tell her!"
Inigo raised a hand to his chin in thought. "I don't see a problem with it." Both of the red heads stared in disbelief at the blonde Mercenary. "But I do see a problem with you going alone."
Severa narrowed her eyes at the blonde. "You can't stop me, I'm gonna do it no matter what you say!"
"Then I'll go with you!" Severa stared in disbelief once again while Inigo looked at her with that smile that she hated so damn much. "It'll be just like old times I bet."
"But what about your parents?" Severa questioned, she was torn up enough about the chance of Morgan and Cordelia worrying about her, she didn't want Inigo's parents to feel that way.
"Their busy looking after this timelines version of me, plus they already know that I'm planning on leaving soon. Helping you is more important then anything else I could be doing."
Morgan just stared at the pair. "Your both Idiots! You don't even know where the damn thing will take you!"
Severa turned to her younger sister. "I don't care Morgan. If there's even a chance that I can find our Father then I'm taking it!"
"If your so worried about us going, then why not come with us Morgan?" Inigo's question caused both the girls to look at him again. "...What?"
Morgan growled in anger before rushing back into her room and began packing things. "Fine! If you two are gonna be Idiots and rush off into danger then I'm coming with you!"
Inigo turned back to Severa with his smile planted firmly on his face...until she slapped him. "Owwww. What was that for?"
"You Idiot! We don't know how dangerous this'll be, and you want to bring Morgan with us?!" She questioned in anger.
"Because she wants to find your Father just as much as you do Severa." Severa adopted a saddened look at that, she hadn't really taken Morgans feelings into account. "So I see your letting me come with you then!"
She blushed in embarrassment as she trudged off towards her room. "Just get your damn things ready, were leaving at dusk!"
"So...you two ready?" Severa questioned as she held the orb in her right hand.
"Ready and waiting, 'Captain' Severa!" She slapped him for that remark.
"I still think this is stupid." Morgan uttered as she kept her hands holding onto the buckles of her bag.
"Alright then...let's go!" She held the orb out as she felt some kind of energy being pulled flowed into the orb causing it to shift into what appeared to be a portal.
"Inigo!" A femine voice called out from the hallway.
"M-mother? Uh you two go in ahead, I'll catch up." Inigo raced back into the hallway.
"Tch, of course he has to do something at the last moment." Severa turned to her younger sister. "Well...are you ready?" Morgan nodded in responace. "Alright...let's go." The pair of red heads stepped slowly into the portal. Disappearing from view shortly after.
Inigo stepped into the hallway, spotting his pink haired mother at the same time that she spied him and came up to him.
"What is it Mother?" Inigo questioned as Olivia took her handband off and gave it to the blonde Mercenary.
"Me and Libra thought we should give you something to remember us by, just incase you didn't come back." She spoke with a solemn smile on her face.
A single tear ran down the blondes face as he gave his mother one last hug before bidding her farewell.
Returning to the room and noticing that the portal was still there. Inigo looked towards the headband that his mother had given him, tightning his grip on it as he stepped forward with a look of steeled resolve. Disappearing from view with the portal vanishing shortly after.
A burst of light clouded Severa's vision as she found herself kneeling in a street.
She looked around in curiousity at the buildings around her, she hadn't seen places like this in Ylisse or Valm.
But a sudden realization hit the twin ponytailed girl, her sister was no where to be found.
"Morgan?" She asked to no one around, not that anyway was nearby anyway with the street being empty. It was the middle of the night after all.
"Morgan? Where are you?!" This couldn't be happening. First her Father, now she'd lost her sister?
"Are you ok miss?" She heard someone speaking to her, whatever they were speaking sounded strange but she was somehow able to understand.
"My s-sister. Where's my sister?!" She cried out as the man held her by the shoulders.
"It's ok miss, uhhh come with me, I'll take you too the Hokage, he might be able to help you."
"O-ok." Severa noticed something as she spoke this time. She seemed to sound...younger? And why was everything taller then usual?
She followed the man as he lead her to a building at the end of the street.
Robin arrived at the sight where he saw the flash of light occur, quickly noticing burn marks on the path.
"Strange..." He spotted the Hokage's building nearby and decided if anyone would be able to tell him what happened then the old man should be able to.
He greeted the lady sitting at the front desk like he would whenever he normally come to do the Hokages paperwork. Thankfully he didn't have to bother explaining why he was there due to his common ventures here over the years.
He stepped up to the door to the old mans office. He could hear voices sounding out from inside...Why did one sound so familier?
He stood at the door for moment to think up an exscue for walking in on one of the mans meetings, once coming up with one he griped the door handle and openned it.
"Sorry to barge in Hokage-sama but there was something I..." Whatever he was going to say died on his lips as he noticed the twin red ponytails on the girl sitting at the Hokages desk.
The red head turned towards the door, allowing him to see their face.
"...Severa?" While the girl was noticably younger then the daughter that had come back in time to assist in the defeat of Grima.
"..." The girl stared up at him in pure shock and disbelief as if she'd seen a ghost. "...Daddy?"
He nodded in a similar state of shock as the girl that was now standing infront of him before she tackled him to the ground. Tears filling her eyes.
"I-I missed you s-so much you Idiot! Don't e-ever do something t-that stupid again!" She shouted at him as he stroked his hand through the girls red hair.
"It's ok Severa...I'm not going anywhere this time." For the first time that night, Robin smiled in pure happiness. The thoughts that plagued his mind taking a back seat to his happiness of reuniting with his daughter.
Naruto woke up a tired mess. He hadn't been able to get much sleep after Robin woke him up and as the sun rose, the young Uzumaki had issues with getting out of bed.
But he found himself wide awake when he noticed the red head sitting on his seat at the table eating a bowl of HIS Ramen.
"Blah. This stuff is terrible Father, why would anyone want to eat this?"
Naruto's eyes became shadowed as his thought's replayed the words that he just heard in his head.
Nobody calls the food of the Gods bad in his presence without paying the price.
But his wrath was prevented when he heard the sound of Robin's voice and noticed the man come up to him.
"Ah, Naruto! I see your awake. Naruto this is Severa, my daughter. Severa this is Naruto, the boy I told you I was taking care of."
Severa turned around to where her father had motioned, leying her eyes on the young blonde that stood behind her chair.
Naruto found himself blushing once he took the girls appearance in fully.
"He looks stupid." Severa stated bluntly as she turned back to the table.
Naruto stared at the red heads back, emotionally wounded by her comment.
Robin just stared on at the interaction as a thought crossed his mind. "Were gonna need another bed"
Author's notes.
And thus the cliffhanger is finally paid off, but what became of Morgan and Inigo? We'll find out in the future.
I'll be honest, trying to give focus chapters on Robin is slightly tricky since most of his personality is based on how the player views him (makes sense since he is player created) but hopefully this worked out.
I've finally worked out the pairing...I'm gonna do a Harem, sorry to anyone that doesn't like the concept of a Harem but I want to do one and thus I'm doing one.
Oh yeah, Fire Emblem Fates is pretty awesome, been getting to play it thanks to a friend that imported it and it's a great improvement on awakening gameplay wise. I've been considering using characters from that game in the future progress of this story tbh.
Anyway. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and have a good day/night dear reader.
