Chapter 27 Revelations Part 2
Lucina and Morgan pushed themselves up as they saw Naomi beginning to chant a spell from the Book of Naga in her hands. "Open your eyes, Naomi!" Morgan cried to her sister that didn't seem to get through as she continued to cast the spell. Morgan gritted her teeth and picked up her two killing edges next to her. If her sister wasn't going to listen to her, then the only thing left to do was to beat some sense back into her.
Morgan could feel heat circling her as her twin aimed her hand in her direction. The tactician in training immediately jumped off of her knees and sprinted to her left. The explosion was loud and the wind from it almost knock the blonde off her feet, but she kept her balance and charged toward her sister's right to attack before she could cast another spell. Morgan looked to her sister's left and saw that Lucina must have had the same idea since she was sprinting towards Naomi with her Falchion ready to strike.
Morgan saw her sister drop the tome in her hand and reach for something in her mage garb. Morgan thought to get to her before she could pull out whatever was in her garb, but was far too late as a dark blade of aura came from under her sister's garb and almost decapitated tactician in training Morgan was able to duck and back away just in time before the dark aura would have taken her head off. Lucina was in the same situation, but she blocked the attack and quickly retreated from the now dark wielding mage. "Since when could she do that?" Morgan asked herself as she tried to think of a plan to counter her sister's newfound skill, but Naomi had a different agenda. This time, instead of going after Morgan, she went straight for Lucina and bombarded her with multiple dark spells.
Morgan quickly sprung to help her cousin who did not look like she could take much more abuse. Naomi saw her twin advancing and shot three dark spheres at her simultaneously. The spheres came at her so fast that Morgan could barely dodge them. The first two almost hit her by a hair, but the last one struck her hard and she was sent spinning and flying across the temple and into a pillar. "Morgan!" The tactician in training could hear her cousin cry out her name in the distance.
Morgan grunted as she reached to her left arm that like it was on fire. The cloak covering her arm was extremely warm from the attack, but it wasn't ripped in the slightest, which sent a short feeling of relief through the blonde's body. Morgan looked away from her injured arm and to her sister who was attacking Lucina with another round of dark magic. Lucina was completely on the defensive and she didn't seem to be able to get in an attack of her own (most likely due to the fatigue she suffered from the previous battle against the dead lords).
Even though her body protested by sending painful strikes through her arm, Morgan pushed herself up to her wobbling feet and tried to get herself back together. She noticed immediately that she could no longer lift her left arm whenever she tried. "I better be careful. I can't take another one of those hits." Morgan told herself as she used her right hand to sheath her left sword and charged back into the fight.
Once again, Naomi saw her twin approached and held her hand out to blast her with dark energy, but instead of succeeding with the attack, Lucina finally saw an opening and swung upward with the flat side of her blade, knocking the purple tome out of the young dark mage's hand. The magic Naomi was casting disappeared into thin air instantly. The zombified girl looked back to the blue head who caused her magic to disappear and was gifted with the flat end of her legendary blade. Before she could fall down, Morgan joined in by hitting her sister in the back of the head with the hilt of her sword. Naomi dropped to the floor like a falling wall, defeated.
Morgan let out a heavy sigh and gripped her arm again. "We got her." She mumbled and looked to Lucina who was breathing heavily and planted her sword in the ground to lean on. "You alright, Lucy?" Morgan asked and was replied with a nod of the head from the blue head.
"I'll be *pant* fine." Lucina reassured, then looked to the force-field that separated them from their fathers. "Look," Lucina said and caused Morgan to turn her head in the same direction. Morgan and Lucina definitely didn't like what they were seeing. Validar was guffawing like a mad man as Chrom and Matthew pushed themselves up from the ground. From the looks off it, they were losing.
"They need our help!" Morgan exclaimed and ran toward the wall of aura that separated her from her father. The aura was hard like a brick wall, but that didn't stop Morgan from raising her sword and slashing against it. "Come on damn it! Break!" Morgan yelled in frustration as she continuously struck the magic wall in vain. 30 blows later and watching her father and uncle desperately fight for their lives, Morgan panted as she looked to the wall. It hadn't shown even one sign of cracking.
The blonde gritted her teeth and yelled, "We gotta do something, Lucy!" There was no reply. Morgan was surprised by the silence and turned around. "Lucy we don't have a lo-" She was cut off when appeared before her and grabbed her by the neck; lifting her off the ground and holding her up against the wall of aura. The force when she hit the wall was so great and surprising that Morgan dropped her killing edge. Her free hand now went to the wrist of her twin sister who held her off the ground and was cutting off her source of air. "L-Lucy h-help…" Her cry for help was in vain when she saw the princess out cold on ground yards away from her.
Morgan began to kick at her sister hold her, but that didn't seem to change the strength of the grip Naomi had around her neck. Morgan looked to the eyes of her sister that were glowing purple and didn't have a shred of life in them. "N-Naomi, w-wake up already…" Morgan pleaded, but it still didn't do anything to help. "I said…wake up…NOW!" Morgan threw a punch across her zombified sister's face, but all that did was make her sister slowly real her head back toward her and a small hint of anger could be seem from the way her brows furrowed slightly.
The young dark mage threw the girl to the ground and completely knocked the wind out of her. Morgan began coughing air out, but the second she thought she could catch her breath, Naomi was quickly mounted on top of her and now used both hands to close off the young myrmidon's air. Morgan couldn't muster up any strength in her body to push her sister off or ever speak. All she could feel was the pain of not being able to breathe and her vision slowly clouding.
Suddenly, air was returned back to her lungs and she coughed up air repeatedly. It was strange to Morgan. She could still feel her sister's grip around her throat, but it wasn't tight at all. Instead, they were shaking intensely. Morgan suddenly felt something wet hit her cheek and she could hear sniffling coming from above her. She looked up to her sister to see that her purple and lifeless eyes with flooding tears down her face. Even if she didn't have any emotion on her face, Morgan could tell that Naomi was crying on the inside and was desperately trying to fight Validar's influence. It wasn't much, but her sister was definitely there.
With the small opening that was given, Morgan pushed her sister off of her and mounted onto her instead. Morgan knew from earlier that trying to knock her unconscious while she was under Validar's control was not possible.
But this time, it would definitely work.
Morgan used her right hand to reach to her left side and pull out her sword. Once full out, she stood from her sister and to her feet. She pointed to blade downward toward her sister and mumbled a hurtful "forgive me" before driving the sword down into her sister's left leg, making sure the long blade went clean through the leg and through the floorboard. Naomi facial expression changed immediately into pain, but didn't last very long and her eyes rolled to the back of her head before she fell back onto the floor. As Morgan planned, Naomi must not have been able to take the pain and passed out.
The tactician in training fell down to her rear and breathed heavily as she continued to look at her sister. Then footsteps were heard next to her and she saw Lucina slowly walking up to her holding her Falchion. "What…did you do?" Lucina asked as she looked to the once zombified Naomi who laid unconscious on the ground.
"Naomi took over her body for a short amount of time. Her controlled self didn't seem to have a source of pain, but she does. All I needed to do was make her feel a strong source of pain to knock her out. It was a gamble, but it worked. Even if Validar is somehow able to take control of her again, she wouldn't be able to stand up, so that no longer makes her a threat." Morgan glanced over to the fight with Validar and a satisfying smile creeped up on her face. Validar had fallen to his knees and was evaporating into purple mist.
"They won!" Lucina exclaimed excitedly and ran to the wall of aura. Morgan stood and followed, but her eyes widened when she saw Validar get back to one knee and began casting another spell.
"This isn't over! Damn you BOTH!" Validar roared and shot the blast straight at Chrom. Everything went into slow motion as Lucina and Morgan screamed for Chrom to turn around. He was obviously not fast enough and Matthew knew it. Morgan watched as her father pushed Chrom out of the way and the dark sphere sent hit him head on.
Matthew's shook from the electric shock of the magic and took three subtle steps back before hitting the ground. "Father!" Morgan yelled in horror and banged against the wall of aura that didn't seem to disappear even though it's caster was dead. Chrom immediately ran to his downed best friend and looked over him to see where his injuries laid, but there were none. Chrom smiled, which sent a wave of relief through the tactician in training's body, and pulled his friend into a sitting position.
But even though her father was alright and Validar was finally dead, Morgan felt…off. That last attack from Validar was a lot similar to the Naomi shot at her early. Just getting hit in the arm sent her flying and completely disabled her left arm. Validar had to be ten times more proficient with magic than Naomi and his attack hit her father dead on. Something was definitely not right.
Morgan's worry was justified when she looked back to her father to see her father putting a lightning bolt through her uncle's abdomen. "Wha-" was all Morgan was able to get out as she watched her uncle reel back then fall to the ground.
Then Validar's sick laugh rung throughout the temple.
…
"N-no." Lucina said as tears welled in her eyes and she looked to her father's lifeless body on the ground. "FATHER NO!" she cried out and felt her knees begin to shake uncontrollably before giving out. Morgan was still completely speechless to the whole scene. Soon her legs also gave out and she fell down to the ground along with her cousin; not taking her eyes off of her father who just stood and looked down to his brother-in-law's motionless body.
The wall of aura suddenly shattered and Validar appeared before the two children on their knees. "With the five gemstones in my procession, my magic knows no bounds. You've lost the second you entered this sacred place to fight me fools." Validar looked back to something behind him before looking down to Morgan. "It would seem that your mother is almost completely drained of her life force. Tell me, child. How does it feel to lose both of your parents right before your eyes?"
Morgan wanted to say something, but no matter how much she wanted to speak the words in her throat just wouldn't come out. All she could see was her possessed father and her mother who was getting her life sucked out of her. The worst part was there absolutely nothing she could do about it.
"We were…supposed to change this." Lucina mumbled as she bold her hand into a fist and squeezed her tear-filled eyes shut. "I promised we wouldn't let this happen a second time! And yet…yet…"
Validar seemed to take pleasure in the future girls despair and said, "Destiny cannot be changed, child, and YOUR destiny was to meet your end HER-"
"Don't get cocky you slithery dastard!"
Morgan and Lucina looked completely stunned at the voice they just heard behind them. The two Exalted children turned their heads and shock was plastered on their faces as the West Khan walked up behind them. "Don't you put any stock on this destiny hogwash. As long as I draw breath I will make sure to squash your so-called "destiny" along with your damn God."
"Basilio!" Morgan and Lucina said in unison, a little life coming back to their grim moods.
"W-We thought you were dead." Lucina added which made the Khan tilt his head back and let out a hearty laugh.
"You thought I met my end back in Valm, right? In truth, if it wasn't for your words, I would have. After getting my arse handed to me by Walhart, I remembered your warning. When Walhart delivered his last blow to me, I laid down and played dead like craven. Your words actually gave me the courage to be a coward, hah ha!" Basilio's expression turned serious as he looked to the snake of a man in front of him. "I'm honestly glad that I'm alive. Now I get to see this snake die right before my very eyes."
Validar didn't seem too pleased with those last words and spoke, "YOU think you can kill ME?"
"Damn right I do!" Basilio barked back confidence and a snarky smile. "You are far from being on Walhart's level. For instance, you haven't even figured out that you have been completely fooled this entire time."
"W-What?" Validar stuttered and showed complete confusion across his face.
The two future children were equally confused and Morgan asked, "What do you mean?"
Basilio smirked and looked to the blonde. "Your father already predicted everything that would happen here. He said he saw it in a dream and this entire fight with Validar. He wanted to prepare for it just in case it would come true. And glory behold, it did."
Validar looked completely stunned, but still confused at what the Khan just said. "What does tha-"
"You wanna know the best part about all of this?" Basilio asked with a cheeky grin spreading across his face. "This idiot actually thought we would be stupid enough to bring all four gemstones directing too him!"
It would be an understatement to say that Validar was bewildered now. His face completely transformed into a smile as he tried to deny what the Khan just said. "Me? Fool? HA! If anyone is the fool it's YOU! I've had your entire army on close watch ever since Carrion Isle. Your every move! YOU are the fool if you believe Matthew was able to remove the gemstones without any of my spies noticing!"
"True, but your men never watched a dead man. They never kept their eyes on me!"
"I-no they wer-"
"Looks like it's finally starting to set in, huh?" Basilio said with a satisfying grin on his face when Validar ran to the altar and picked up the fire emblem and began evaluating the gemstones; releasing stopping the ritual and releasing the barrier surrounding the former Exalt.
"These have to be the real gemstones! There no way you coul-"
"And now you have turned your back to your enemies? You are even dumber than I thought." Validar shot his angry glare around 180 degrees only to see his son rushing in and slashing him across his chest.
"GAH!" The sorcerer yelp in pain from the slash and quickly teleported himself to his right and away from his assaulter. His face showed both anger and shock when he saw his standing next to the altar with a sword stained with his blood. "I-Impossible!"
"Father!" Morgan exclaimed happily.
Matthew smirked and looked down at his brother-in-law's body. "Chrom, you can stop pretending now. I didn't use nearly enough magic to cause internal damage to you." Now it was time for Lucina to gasp as her father pushed himself to his feet.
"Thank Naga your magic is still on an amateur level. You might have actually tickled me if you used anymore mana." Chrom joked and joined next to his friend with his Falchion drawn.
"Father! You're alive!" Lucina cried out, but the words were like poison to the current King of Plegia.
"Damn you all and your stones!" Validar barked and pulled out a tome from under his robes. "Grimleal, get out here! Kill them! Kill them all!" The Matthew and the others were on guard when they heard the sound of doors swinging open and multiple footsteps rushing out. Before them now were about 10 to 15 armed forces ready to commence their attack. Any normal man or woman would have shrunk at the numbers, but not the three bold warriors who were standing with their weapons ready.
Matthew looked to Chrom and Basilio and asked, "You guys think you can handle them?"
Basilio laughed and pulled the silver axe he had on his back out. "You kiddin'? I've been itchin' for a fight for a very long time. Sit back and watch me work, lad!" That answered that question. Matthew turned to Chrom, but he didn't need to say anything since the blue head knew exactly what his best friend was thinking.
"End that dastard once and for all." Chrom muttered before running out to help the Khan along with Lucina. Matthew drew his second sword and began his tread toward his father. The sorcerer gritted his teeth at the cockiness of his child.
"You think you can kill ME?" Validar barked and opened his tome. "I'll kill you before you even get a chance to swing that sword!" The sorcerer shot a blast at the tactician approaching him, but the pain on his chest made him flinch and send the blast slightly upward. Matthew didn't need to do anything but move his head slightly to the side. Validar was on edge since he missed the first shot. He went to shoot again, but Matthew quickly closed the distance between them and slashed the man upward, creating an "X" across his chest.
"That was for Naomi." Matthew said as his father backpedaled and tried to cast another spell. Matthew once again stopped the man by slicing downward on his father's chest. "That was for Morgan." Now Vallidar didn't even have time to move this time because Matthew brought both of his swords high and swung them down with blinding speed. "And that was for Emm." Validar cough blood before falling to his back and wheezing repeatedly.
"T-This is…all w…wrong." Matthew heard Validar mutter before sheathing his blades.
"No, this was all right." The tactician replied and walked away toward his daughter who was picking up his wife from the ground and giving her support by letting her lean on her shoulder. The tactician quickly ran over to them to help. The tactician was relieved when he saw his wife turn her head to his direction. He could not describe the joy he felt when he saw her eyes and smile for the first time in what felt like months; even if the smile was only a one fourth of her usual.
"You m…made it." Emmeryn cooed in an exhausted tone and leaned further onto her daughter to keep from falling. Matthew quickly took the other arm of his wife and placed it over his shoulders.
"I failed to save you once. Now that you are back in my life I promised myself I wouldn't let that happen again." Matthew replied while looking to his wife and giving her the best smile he had made before he lost her again. The former Exalt smiled and turned her gaze away from the ground and to her husband holding her.
"Thank you…all of yo-" The blonde stopped mid-sentence when she saw something rising from behind her husband's head. A purple ball was forming and heading their way with incredible speed. "Look out!" Emmeryn's cry was in vain as the ball of death landed in front of them. The three were blown away from each other in three different directions. Matthew immediately ignored his now aching body and got to his feet drawing his swords,
Only to see Validar holding his wife in front of his by the hair and a dagger placed by her neck.
"Put down your weapon, or I'll kill her!" Validar commanded as he held the dagger closer to the blonde's neck and wheezed heavily from the wounds early (that somehow still didn't kill him."
"Let her go!" Matthew barked back at the half dead man.
"Let my mother go!" Morgan joined in with a blade of her own in her right hand.
"If you two are foolish enough to believe that you can get to me before I run this dagger through the one you two cherish so deeply, then go ahead. Just know that it would have been YOU who killed this pathetic woman in the end!" Validar bark at the two sword wielders who looked to him with bloodlust glares. If this wasn't foul play, then Matthew didn't know what was.
Matthew hesitantly, but slowly dropped his weapon. Morgan saw this and looked to her father in horror. "Father you can't listen to-
"I did what you asked!" Matthew assured, while stile glaring daggers into the man. "Now let her g-"
"My boy, I hope you didn't think it would be that simple." Validar smirked. Matthew didn't know what he expected of this man, but he also didn't know what he would do if he disobeyed. Validar turned his attention to the young myrmidon who still held her weapon strong. "You, put that sword right through his heart." Morgan's face contorted into utter horror at the words. "If you don't, I will kill this woman right here, right now." Morgan looked to the smirking man, then to her father who gritted his teeth.
"I-I can't..." Morgan muttered. "I could never do that!"
"You WILL do it!" Validar said in a commanding voice and the young girl's head began to ring.
"Argh!"
"Morgan!" Emmeryn cried out to her daughter who gripped her head in pain.
"Enough of this, Validar!" Matthew got the attention of the man, then looked to his daughter with a face as calm as he could make it. "Morgan...do it." Both Emmeryn Morgan couldn't believe the words that just left the tactician's mouth.
"No!" Emmeryn screeched.
"You can't ask that of me, Father!" Morgan retorted. "There's no way he will keep his word!"
"If we don't do it he will kill her!" Matthew shot back. "If ending my life will save her, then I ready to-"
"Don't talk like that!" Emmeryn lashed out desperately to her husband. "If you die, then my life has no more meaning!"
"Enough talk!" Validar stepped in. "Child, kill him or I'll kill this woman right now!" Validar placed the sharp edge of the dagger on the former Exalt's throat drawing blood that ran down her neck.
"S-Stop it!" Morgan desperately called out to the man.
"I'll stop when I see that failure of a son's body dead on the ground! Now do it RIGHT NOW or I will end her! I promise you I wi-" Validar caught his breath as something in his chest prevented him from breathing. His grip lessened on the woman in his arms and she quickly took the opportunity to get away and run to her husband's side. Validar finally looked down to his chest and saw blood, plus the tip of silver through his lungs.
"Sorry Father," Validar heard the all too familiar voice of Aversa behind him, "but if I'm to die, t…then you will fall with me!" With another motion, Aversa pulled the dagger out the sorcerer's chest and he let go of former Exalt's hair. Emmeryn took that opportunity to quickly get away from the
"Y-You're…all nothing…but traitors…!" Validar mumbled before his body began to turn into purple particles. Matthew immediately knew what he was trying to do and dashed over toward him with sword in hand. He slashed upward at the man to stop him to stop the teleportation, but caught nothing but air as the snake of a man completely disappeared.
"Damn it…" Matthew mumbled at his failed slash and sheathed his sword.
"Don't w-worry." Aversa said next to him while coving her bleeding abdomen. "There nothing b-but sand for miles. H-His wounds will k-kill him sooner than later." The dark flier couldn't muster the strength to continue standing and she collapsed down to the ground. Luckily for her, Morgan was there to catch her before she could hit the ground.
"You alright?" Morgan asked, which was, in reality, a really dumb question.
"J-Just internal bleeding." Aversa tried to act sarcastic, but could not bear the pain in her abdomen.
"Hold on, I have an Elixir in my pouch." Morgan reached into her pouch, but was not able to pull out the Elixir since the dark flier held her stopped her hand from pulling out the healing drink.
"S-Save it." She demanded and refused to let the girl pull the Elixir out of her pouch. "L-Let me d-die."
"I won't do that!" Morgan yelled in defiance. "You saved my life once AND my mother's! I have to-"
"DON'T BE A FOOL!" Aversa shouted, but instantly began cough blood into her hand. "…In a few minutes, I'll definitely die, so…let me die." With what little magic the dark flier could summon, she set the bag on the young myrmidon's hip and the girl had no choice but to unclip the pouch and watch it burn to ashes on the ground. Aversa smiled at the burned bag before her consciousness slowly faded.
Behind the Temple
"I won't…die again…!" Validar swore as he crawled through the dessert sand. "They'll pay…they'll ALL pay!"
"I knew I still sensed your aura around here." Validar looked up to see two figures walking towards him. His solemn expression twisted into slight hope when he recognized the robes of a dark mage on one of the figures through his blurry vision.
"You! You're Grimleal, correct? S-Save me and I will make sure Grima remembers your name personally!"
"This craven is begging for our HELP? GYAHAHA! That's very rich!" The taller figure laughed down at him. "Don't worry. We'll definitely help you."
Validar's expression twisted when he saw the dark mage pull out a purple tome and began chanting in ancient tongue. "W-What are you-"
"Usually, I don't care for such foolish things like 'revenge'," The feminine stated and aimed her hand at the bleeding man before her. "But I guess people really can change." Purple flames began to surround the raven haired woman's hand before shooting at the sorcerer and completely engulfing him in purple flames.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
I had to kill Validar, like, twenty times in my first run through of Lunatic because my characters kept dying! Tharja ended up being able to FINALLY kill him by using Luna, which is kinda how this chapter ended. This chapter shows my anger and hatred toward this freakin' OP villain in Lunatic AND Lunatic Plus!...
This was originally only suppose to have two parts, but I couldn't break it down to just two...so there's gonna be three. (Honestly, I'm just trying to hurry and get pass this part of the story so I can start getting to the final arc of the story :/ )
But oh well. As always, thanks for the reviews, favs and follows and hope to see you all next time!
