Sorry for the long wait, I've been busy in my life and I wanted to get some other projects finished and chapter 7 is now here! Enjoy! : D

Kana was sleeping in the cave while Ignatius started to eat his share of the food he caught. While he was eating, he looked at Kana, he swallowed and sighed. Kana was so gentle. What would make everyone turn on him?

"Maybe tomorrow, I will catch up with them. Kana can keep my food store safe." Ignatius thought to himself.

When he finished his share of food, he wiped his face with his arm and looked at Kana one last time before he decided to get up and leave, but something stopped him for going. What would Kana do all by himself? He decided to pack up some of the food and saved most of it for Kana since he wasn't coming back to the cave.

Kana who had been sleeping, started to wake up. He looked up at Ignatius.

"Ignatius, what are you doing?" Kana rubbed some sleep out of his eyes.

"I'm going after the others like you said. We must stop these shadows." Ignatius replied, he was in a hurry.

"Oh okay. If you go, please don't tell the others where I am. I rather stay here." Kana sighed and looked down at the ground where he was sitting.

"I won't tell them. Your secret is safe with me." Ignatius winked at Kana. This made Kana smile back. He trusted his cousin with keeping his secret.

Once Ignatius was done packing up, he looked back at Kana one last time. Kana nodded at him, wanting him to continue on without him.

"Well, Kana, until we meet again." Ignatius walked out of the cave. He ran into the forest as Kana watched.

"Goodbye, Ignatius." He whispered. He got up and walked to the back of the cave and went over to the food pile and took out a banana and sat down. He knew that he was supposed to hunt for himself now.

On the beach...

Shigure was splashing water at Percy, telling him to join in but the young unit decided to sit by Nina.

"Nina, maybe you should apologize to Kana." Percy finally thought about it for a bit.

"Why should I? This scar wasn't met to be there. I didn't want that to happen, Percy." Nina was still sore about what Kana did to her arm. This made Percy's dragon whimper as it looked into her eyes.

"Now, I didn't say anything about you." Nina was petting the dragon again.

"Nina, he is only worried about what you are thinking about. Kana is still part of our team. We cannot continue to ignore him." Percy was trying to get the young female unit to change her mind.

"Percy, this conversation is over. Kana is gone, it's better to keep him away from us. I don't want the others on our team getting the same treatment as I suffered." Nina sighed. She got up and walked towards the ocean. Dwyer was on the other side, watching her.

"Well, she's still not going to forgive Kana." Dwyer sighed, he looked at Shiro. Ryoma's son was kicking water at Siegbert.

"Hey, Shiro, I bet you can't splash me with your hands!" Siegbert laughed while Shiro threw water at him with his right hand.

"How is that for using my hands?" Shiro smirked but Soleil and Forrest splashed him with so much water.

When night fall came, all of the young units were out of the water and in a nearby cave of their own. Dwyer was sleeping next to Selkie and Sophie was near Soleil and Siegbert. Shigure was the only one awake that night, he was looking up at the stars while his pegasus was sleeping next to him.

"Oh Kana... Wherever you are, please be safe. I don't want you to get hurt." Shigure was praying. He looked at the brightest star and made his wish. Shigure doubted that his wish would save Kana as he got up and went into the cave. His pegasus woke up quickly and flew into the cave with him. It curled up and allowed Shigure to rest his head on him.

They both fell asleep with the rest of the children.

In another realm...

"Kana, it's time to get up!" A male voice called to her.

"Father?" She mumbled.

"It's time to wake up Kana, we have some shopping to do with your mother!" The voice called to her again.

"I'm coming father!" Kana called back and got out of bed. She went into the bathroom and filled up the tub with water and got out her normal clothes.

"Corrin honey, can you do me favor?" A familiar voice called from the hallway of the castle.

"Sure thing, Hinoka!" He rushed down the hallway.

Kana was in the bath tub, she was using the bubble bath soap. She got bored and started to play around in the water as there was a lot of bubbles. Soon the bathroom was flooded as the carpet was getting wet. Corrin felt the water on the carpet.

"Kana! What are you doing?" Corrin called to his daughter as he knocked on the door.

"Um... Oops! Sorry daddy, I was using too much bubbles and water again!" She cried.

"Oh, never mind don't worry, I'll clean it up!" Corrin sounded cheerful as he quickly ran down the hallway and grabbed some towels from the closet.

"Corrin, are we ready to go?" Hinoka was calling him.

"Not yet, Kana woke up late, we can't leave her here." Corrin replied.

"Hurry up Kana sweetie!" Hinoka called to her daughter.

"I'm coming!" Kana laughed as she got out of the bathroom. Suddenly lightning flashed and she was back in her room. It was raining in the castle and her father was in the kitchen alone as always.

"It was all just a dream.." Kana sniffled and slowly got out of bed. Her father was bitter about what happened. She crept out of her room and walked over to her father.

"Daddy, where is mother?" Kana asked, she was afraid that her father would lash out and yell at her, but he patted her head and sighed.

"They got her, the shadows got her." Corrin cried, he banged his fists on the table and scooted back, he got up from the chair and walked outside.

"Daddy, take me with you!" Kana whimpered.

"Stay behind me, Kana. Do not wander off too far." Corrin sternly said as Kana nodded. She wasn't so sure what was going on.

A shadowed figure ran up to them as soon as they barely left the castle grounds. Kana flinched as Corrin took out his Yoto and cut into the shadow. He told Kana to run. The young female unit didn't waste time, she took off and didn't look back. She knew that her father would be okay, only if he was strong enough to hold off the other shadows that joined the battle. She ran down the slope and to a portal, but she tripped on a rock.

"No! Ow..." Kana whimpered, she tried to get up as a shadow noticed her and tried to attack her from behind, but her father got in the way and knocked the shadow back.

"Go now!" Corrin waved his daughter off. Kana quickly nodded and hurried out of Vale. She was now in the Deep Realms.

Kana was flung out of the portal as she landed on her back. Her vision was blurry and she could only groan. She was soon knocked out from the pressure of space that brought her to the new world.

From afar, something from the bushes came out and moved towards her. The figure was a young male unit who had a love for sweets. He was checking out female Kana's pockets and her armor, but he found nothing. He sighed. Finally a young unit who has long red hair gave the male unit a stern glare.

"Are you looking for candy again, Asugi? I told you that there is none out here, we have to get to town!" The female's voice was very pushy.

"Alright fine, Caeldori, I won't look for anymore candy out here. I've just been without it for so long. Anyway, did you find Shiro?" Asugi wondered as he looked around.

"No, I didn't find him. I don't know why you never bothered to go with him." Caeldori crossed her arms and her pegasus huffed.

"Well excuse me, you should have went after him since you are so worried about him! He never listens, he just runs off and expects us to follow as if we are his servants!" Asugi threw his hands in the air and walked around Caeldori.

"Let's just go." Caeldori sighed as she was about to jump on her pegasus, she finally saw what was really lying on the ground before them. It was a young unit.

"Oh my!" Caeldori quickly lifted up Kana and placed the female unit on her pegasus.

"Wait, why is she coming with us? What good is she going to do for us?" Asugi complained but Caeldori ignored him and took her to a safe place.

"Stop complaining, Asugi. Maybe Hisame will know what to do." Caeldori called from above. Asugi only grunted in response and followed her. Once they were back at their own camp in the forest, Caeldori took the unit off of her pegasus and places the unit on the soft green grass. She prompts Asugi to start a fire to warm them up that night.

"I wonder what Hisame will think when he sees that you brought her here." Asugi sighed.

"What will I think?" A voice interrupted his thoughts. Asugi turned to see a unit with short brown hair, his clothes were Hoshidian. He met his gaze.

"Oh... About the food that I'm about to prepare!" Asugi grinned shyly.

"That's not true, Hisame, we found this girl near the camp site. We wanted to know if she could stay with us and help us take down those shadows." Caeldori explained as she looked down at Kana.

"Well, let me take a good look at her." Hisame slowly replied as he came over to Kana and felt her forehead and then he touched her sides and closed his eyes.

"So, are we going to leave her behind, because that's too may mouths that we have to feed now." Asugi crossed his arms, but Hisame responded.

"No, we must take her in. This is my friend, Kana." Hisame's eyes widened as he recognized the young female unit.

"You know her?" Caeldori was surprised, she was looking at him.

"Yes. We used to play in the meadow in Vale. But my father would take us home in the afternoon before we got to play hide and seek." Hisame answered, he picked up Kana and placed her closer to the fire.

Kana started to move a little bit as she woke up. She looked up and saw Caeldori, Asugi and Hisame looking down at her, she was very confused.

"H-Hisame? Why are you here and who are they?" Kana asked him in confusion.

"Caeldori and Asugi found you here." Hisame explained.

"Oh. Well can you at least tell me where we are?" Kana looked around, she remembered how traveling through space and time effected her.

"You are in the Deep Realms. It's where our parents took us and made us stay here in order for us to be safe." Hisame muttered, he got up and allowed Kana to dust herself off.

"Let's late, follow me." Caeldori took Kana's hand and led her to a tint that Asugi made for her.

"Ooh... I get to sleep in a tint!" Kana got excited as she jumped around. Caeldori smiled at her. It was nice to see another person happy.

"Here, take some blankets. I want you to be warm tonight." Caeldori handed Kana a few blankets. The young unit quickly spreaded out the blankets and got under them. Caeldori chuckled and got out a few blankets for herself. She soon drifted to sleep as she lied down and started to dream.

Her pegasus was outside of the tint, it was curled up as it huffed and drifted to sleep. From inside the second tint, Asugi and Hisame were talking about their next plan.

"So if we take the shadows down from the north, we can stop them from advancing into Vale and the other kingdoms." Asugi was starting to get Hisame's plan.

"Correct, after we do that, they shouldn't be advancing anymore. If we take them all out, we can win." Hisame took a sip of water from his wooden made bowl.

"Will we get candy after this? I'd really love something sweet for a change." Asugi grinned again.

"No. You need to focus, Asugi, this is serious! If you cannot be serious about this, I'm going to have to leave you behind!" Hisame was getting upset with Asugi.

"Hey hey hey! No need to get upset, I was only kidding this time." Asugi lied. He finally let Hisame plan out the attack on his own. He didn't want to get his butt kicked this late at night.

"Asugi?" A voice called from the other side of the tint.

"What do you want, Caeldori?" Asugi moaned, he was too tired to be bothered. He just lied down and he wanted more sleep.

"It's not Caeldori, you dope! It's me! Come outside please!" The voice whispered out loud. Hisame was still taking down notes with his ink feather.

Asugi stretched his arms out and then he slowly got up and opened the back of the tint, a little wolf girl waved at him but she didn't smile.

"Oh, Velouria. What do you want this time?" Asugi moaned again, he didn't want to be bothered with her trash.

"It's not about the things I made this time! It's about the new girl! She's sleeping in a tint with Caeldori! What if she tries to kill us!?" Velouria howled.

"Velouria, please, it's late. If only your father was here, he would know what to do." Asugi face palmed.

"Alright, fine. I will talk to you about her tomorrow." Velouria huffed and went back to her own tint. She didn't like that the female Kana arrived in their camp. But she knew that she was going to have to deal with it until their quest was over.

Hisame was finally planning his attack on the shadows, he turned around to see that Asugi was sleeping, he was dreaming about fighting more units that they never came across before. He was tossing and turning as Hisame poked at his side but Asugi didn't stir. Instead he farted a little and Hisame covered his nose quickly.

"Crazy kid... What does he eat?" Hisame thought to himself. He huffed and walked out of the tint to get fresh air due to Asugi's smelly gas.

"So... Kana is here, that means that her father must be in more danger than I could ever imagine. We need to stop these shadows, but how? What else can we do? We cannot run and hide forever, we have to fight back. I don't know what to do though. I don't know how to move forward and be sure that we can get to the true source." Hisame was thinking, he looked up at the stars. A shooting star passed him by as he didn't bother to make a wish, but he prayed while standing outside of the tint.

Velouria peeked her head out of the tint and noticed the unit praying under the stars, she huffed and went back into the tint. Another unit called her name, she whispered to Velouria.

"Do you think he will be okay?" The unit asked Velouria who only sighed.

"I'm sure he'll be fine, Ophelia. He's just stressing about it." Velouria yawned.

"Alright, I just don't want him to do something that will get us killed. I've been reading his plans and I had some ideas of my own." Ophelia replied as Velouria perked up an ear to listen as she was lying down.

"I'm all ears, sister." The female wolf unit growled.

"Well, what if we use Asugi as a distraction, we could easily get through the shadows and defeat the true source! Does that sound like a good plan?" Ophelia giggled. Velouria chuckled a bit and sat up.

"Oh sure, like he will make good bait. Ha ha ha! I don't know Hisame would like that though, even with young Kana around." Velouria laughed.

"I'm only kidding. Live bait won't help us, but it can help Hisame." Ophelia sighed and decided to rest, she lied back down in the tint while Velouria sat up. The wolf unit looked at Ophelia, she was sleeping peacefully as if nothing bothered her.

"Dear god, please save us." Velouria prayed before she fell asleep.

A couple of shadows were lurking near their camp site as Hisame blew out the fire wood with his stick that he carried. Everything darkened as he went inside of the tint and lied down inches away from Asugi.

"If you fart again, I'm going to have to send you back to the other realm kid." Hisame grunted and covered himself with his own blanket. He was soon asleep.

The next morning near the mountains...

Shigure was leading his party through the mountains, they were on their way to the ancient ruins, Soleil was still sore about not getting to ride on Joseph.

"Shigure, why do I have to walk on foot again?" Soleil whined.

"Because we need you to help the others that cannot ride on anything at the moment." Shigure chuckled.

"No fair!" Soleil kicked dirt at Percy.

"Hey! Watch it, Soleil!" Percy covered his face with his arms. His dragon growled at Soleil.

"Heh heh, sorry..." She shyly grinned as they all came to a stop near the edge of the ruins.

"This is it, we have to be careful, who knows what danger is lurking out here." Shigure was looking around. Mysterious mist started to surround them.

"Do you think this place is getting creepy?" Shiro whimpered, he didn't know where they were going with all of the clouded mist.

"Yes it is, but if we stay together, we can make it through." Siegbert replied while touching Shiro's should. He winked at him.

"Alright, if you say so. I just don't want anyone to get hurt. Especially Nina, she was bit by Kana before." Shiro looked at her from a distance. She was walking next to Genie and Forrest, they were talking about getting to the source of the shadows.

Shigure saw a few shadows in the distance, they were coming from the mist as they showed their faces. It was two other units, they had an army of shadows with them as some of the mist had cleared. Everyone was prepared to fight.

"So? You all have come to ruin the plans of the great Anankos?" The female shadow unit spoke, her words made Shigure tense up.

"If you have, we will not have mercy on you." The male shadow unit answered.

"We are not afraid of you!" Forrest replied to them, this earned a nudge from Percy.

"I think we shouldn't speak to adults that way." Percy was worried.

"Non sense, Percy! These guys are bad! We cannot afford to lose!" Nina chimed in.

Percy was about to argue, but he closed his mouth and looked over to Soleil for an answer but she was focused on the two units. Selkie and Shiro looked at the female unit like as if there was something attractive about her.

"Hey, Shigure, do you think we should take her down first?" Siegbert asked, wanting to get the fight over with.

"It doesn't matter who we fight. We must get through them." Shigure answered calmly. Joseph was ready to fight as he flew into the air with Shigure on his back.

"You all will die trying!" The female unit used her magic attacks to stop Shigure from advancing towards her.

"Everyone! Get him too!" Siegbert ordered as everyone charged into the fight and began to battle. Swords clashed with the heads of the shadows as Shiro sliced a shadow in half. Selkie was attacking the male shadow as it spoke. It slapped her away.

"Selkie!" Shiro called to her, the fox unit was able to regain her balance as she leaped away from the male shadow in time before he sliced her with his sword.

"Nice try grandpa! You gotta be faster than that!" Selkie giggled until a shadow pinned her to the ground.

"Not today!" Forrest's horse bucked the shadow off of Selkie.

"Thanks, Forrest." Selkie grinned as he helped her up.

"Sure thing. It's a good thing I taught Genie how to fight. She is getting better. Isn't that right, girl?" Forrest patted his horse. More shadows started to come towards them as Forrest was about to use his magic powers. Kiragi who said nothing the entire trip was using his bow and arrows as he shot most of the shadowed units. He then aimed for the being that was attacking Nina and Soleil.

"That damn male unit!" Kiragi grumbled as he let his arrow jam right into the male unit's back.

"Ow! I should kill you!" The male unit growled.

"Not today! You won't be killing anyone!" Kiragi smirked at him. This caused the male shadow to get angry and dash over to the young boy. The unit moved and shot him in the back of the head with two arrows.

"Get back here!" The make unit was about to pounce on Kiragi when a dragon rammed into him. Percy cheered as he and his dragon slammed the male shadow to the floor of the ruins. The male shadow sliced Percy's dragon and the young unit fell to the ground.

"Ow! Hey no fair!" Percy whined.

"Life isn't fair and it's about time you all die!" The make unit yelled out loud.

Shiro turned to face the male unit as it was able to tell who he could be.

"Shigure! Is she dead?" Soleil called from a distance as she was fighting more shadowed units.

Shigure was too busy to talk, he was slicing at the female shadow as she used her magic to spin them around. Shigure was getting dizzy but he was able to stab her in the back.

"Ow! You cannot do that to grandmother, Arete!" The female shadow called to him.

"Grandmother? So you are my grandmother? Why are you attacking me?" Shigure asked while he was looking at her in confusion.

"Because, you are my grandson, but you are siding with mortals that don't even have a purpose." Arete grinned. Shigure knew that something was wrong with her, he wasn't so sure if he could get his grandmother to side with him, but he had to try.

"Grandmother Arete, please, don't do this." Shigure reached out his hand to touch hers. Joseph didn't trust the evil shadow as it was causing all sorts of confusion for everyone.

Joseph panicked and flew higher, this made Shigure very worried.

"It looks like your pet loves to fly up high, did you train it properly?" Arete teased him. This made Shigure embarrassed.

"Joseph, stop it! Go back down! Go back down!" Shigure ordered. Joseph knew better and flew back down to Arete.

"You don't want to kill me, do you?" Arete chuckled.

"No, I don't." Shigure replied, he wanted to help his grandmother, but vines and roots came up from the ground and wrapped around Shigure. He was trapped as he couldn't move his arms, his pegasus was also getting the same treatment.

"Well, well, well, not so smart know are we?" Arete laughed. Shigure was trying to get help by looking at Percy and his dragon. Percy turned and saw that Shigure was in trouble, he made his dragon fly over to Arete and slam her down on the floor of the ruins.

"What are you going to do to me?" Arete faked her crying, she called Shigure for help but he was trapped in vines and roots. Shigure was losing hope until he felt like Arete's grip was loosening up.

"Thank goodness." Shigure thought to himself, once all of the roots were gone, the young unit got up to finish what he started.

Arete and Shigure locked eyes with each other as she was finally able to push Percy back with rough force. He hit his head on the stones as he become dizzy.

"Shigure? What's going on?" Percy asked, he was soon knocked out.

Selkie was trying to lure the male shadow over to Shigure's grandmother.

"Sumeragi! Don't let them fool you!" Arete's tone of voice changed.

"I will not! If only this damn fox will sit still!" He tried to attack Selkie but she moved. Once she was in front of Arete, she had Shigure charge at them both. Sumeragi disappeared as Arete tried to get back up.

"Shigure, I thought you loved me... I'm your grandmother..." Arete cried.

"I do love you, but I don't love what you are doing." Shigure calmly replied. Mean while, Siegbert was fighting Corrin's mother. She tried to slice his throat with her sword but Kiragi stepped in and shot her with his arrows.

"Thanks Kiragi. You are becoming more like your father!" Siegbert complimented him.

"Aw shucks, no need to compliment me." Kiragi scratched the back of his head.

Finally, Nina took care of the last shadow as Arete disappeared. Shigure felt bad that he had to kill his own grandmother, but he knew that she would not be forgotten or remembered as being evil.

Shigure looked around and didn't see anymore shadows, but he saw someone coming towards him slowly. Shigure was about to attack when he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey there." The voice was friendly as the person came over to Shigure.

"Huh?" Shigure was confused.

"What's going on, Shigure?" Soleil came over to them, she gasped when she realized who it was.

To be continued...

Who is the unit that Shigure and Soleil recognize? Well this ends chapter 7, find out later on in chapter 8! Next time, Shigure and the others will see who this unit is! If you liked this chapter, please review. Want to help him improve in my writing? Go ahead and send me a PM or a review on what I can do better! Thank you! ^w^