[The chapters 1 to 8 had undergone some changes. This note is from 06/15/21]

Heyyyy, I kind of gave up on this fan fiction but I decided to take it back. I am therefore re-posting it again, under another name and with some changes. Also I will post at a slow pace. And by the way, English isn't my native language, sorry for the mistakes.

Chapter 1: A Hazy Situation

The sun was shining weakly, hidden by dark and ominous clouds that covered the entire sky, the earth was also black, dead and without greenery, as were the trees, their bare branches projecting scary shadows on the ground. There was no noise, no birdsong, no sound of a stream of water that could potentially be nearby, nothing, there was nothing to break that heavy and disturbing silence.

It was in this environment that Inigo woke up, he slowly opened his eyes and blinked to get used to the brightness. He stood up cautiously feeling dizzy and quickly brushed the dirt off his clothes.

A dizziness seized him suddenly and he pressed his hand against his forehead, taking a step back. Quickly the dizziness passed and Inigo looked around him absolutely not recognizing the place in which he was. "What am I doing here...?!"

He lowered his head to look at the ground and saw not far from where he was Owain and Severa, both in the same state he was just a moment ago. He walked over to them, crouched down, and shook their shoulders to wake them up. "Owain ? Severa ? Wake up."

A growl came from Severa's mouth as she slowly woke up. It didn't take long for the two to open their eyes, and get up, as dazed as Inigo was. They too looked around as a silence began to take place. After a few moments Severa spoke ;

"Hey guys, do you recognize where we are?" After a few seconds she growled, "This place gives me goosebumps!" She turned to face her friends who looked as lost as she did.

"Whaaat~ did I really hear that? Is the brave and fearless Severa afraid?" Inigo scoffed with a teasing smile, nudging Severa slightly by the elbow. This remark only earned him a hard punch on the shoulder.

"Tsss, stop fooling around now, and instead of saying bullshit couldn't you be helpful for once ?!" Her tone was harsh but her two friends knew her anger wasn't actually directed at them, but more as a way to let out her frustration for not knowing where they were.

"Ahhh, my Intuition as a great servant of darkness tells me that we are far from our homeland, far from everything we know, we are in a most gloomy and terrifying place worthy of the greatest-" Owain was cut short by Severa's fist landing directly on the top of his head.

"Aoutchhhh, what was that for ?!" He complained, completely flabbergasted at his friend's reaction.

"IT WAS FOR-" She was cut off by an Inigo desperately trying to calm her down, grabbing her gently by the shoulders and pulling her back to create more distance between her and Owain. "Whoooo whoo, take it easy guys ... let's sit down and think about our situation quietly huh?" Inigo spoke calmly, with an awkward smile on his lips.

Severa retreated from Inigo's grip with a shoulder movement and walked over to a dead tree stump to sit on it, she crossed her legs as well as her arms and looked to her two companions straight in the eyes with an annoyed pout. She said nothing, meaning that she was okay with speaking calmly and trying to see this whole situation a little more clearly.

"Well ... so ..." Inigo started to speak, glancing quickly at Severa to make sure she was calm. "What do you remember before you woke up here?"

The three friends looked at each other, to see if anyone remembered anything, Severa was the first to speak, "It's all a little blurry ... I remember that with everyone we had finally defeated Grima and then .. . "Severa frowned trying to remember something else but before she could Owain spoke up," After the fight we all went back to camp and celebrated our victory."

"And then. .. "Inigo continued" the three of us, as well as all the children of the future, got together to talk about what we were going to do next, we agreed to stay in this world, with our future parents, since they didn't saw any harm in it and that anyway ... it's not like we have a place to go ... our "present" is completely devastated... "at the thought, a painful silence fell on the group.

"Anyway…" Severa broke the silence, her voice was somewhat shaky, wanting to push away all those bad memories. "The rest is still unclear for me, a few flashes but nothing concrete ..." She looks at her friends with hopes, asking them indirectly if they remember anything else.

Owain then speaks again, "I remember that we had decided to go to the portal that had taken us in the past, to see if it had closed or not ..." he stops talking for a moment and struck a pose, he put two fingers on each of his temples and frowned to show everyone that he was thinking the best he could. "And then ... once we got to our destination ... the portal was still open. But after that it's all blurry, I can't remember how we got here ..."

"AH! " Severa suddenly shouted forcing her friends to look at her, "I remember now, indeed we went to take a look at the portal and got very close to it, but all of a sudden there was like an earthquake and someone pushed me forward, I lost my balance and fell right into the portal, I remember hearing voices calling my name, probably you two, You must have tried to catch me but because of the earthquake you fell with me in the portal ... "

The three friends looked at each other, each finally remembering what had happened.

-flashback-

"There we are." Lucina had spoken, as she walked briskly at the head of the group. "It was somewhere nearby." She looked around as if to back up her words.

"Hey how about we make a bet ? Who thinks the portal is still there ?" Cynthia walked past Lucina and the rest of the group happily.

"I feel it in my arm, yes I hear the call ! The portal is still here !" Owain had struck the pose, one knee on the ground as one of his arms was covering his face.

"Stop with your nonsense and help with the search instead !" Severa said as she tugged Owain's ear and continued to walk, dragging her friend with her, ignoring the cries of pain of the latter.

"Whhhhaaaaat...? You're not funny..." Cynthia pouted, both disappointed and shocked. A hand comes to rest on her shoulder. "She's right, the most important thing is the portal research right now." Cynthia turned her head to the side to see her interlocutor, his serious expression unruffled as he put his glasses back on. "Awnnn ... you too Laurent ? Fine fine..."

"Hey everyone, come and have a look over here, I found it !" All eyes were on Gerome who was standing a little further away. The friends all gathered around the portal.

"And what do we do now?" Nah had spoken.

"When we get back I'll let my father know, he'll decide what to do. Since the portal hasn't closed, some action will have to be taken. If someone ended up in our 'present' it would be absolutely horrible."

Everyone nodded with Lucina's statement.

"Are you feeling okay Yarne ? You look a little pale..." Noire had asked worriedly.

"Umm, yeah yeah,...I just have like a disturbing feeling... I feel something coming..."

As the eyes turned to Yarne the ground started to shake. "Attention everybody, it's an earthquake !" Gerome had screamed as he planted the end of his axe in the ground for support. Everyone imitated him as best they could, however the ground was wet from a recent downpour and it was easy to slip.

"Noire attention !" Shouted Brady and Kjelle reaching out in a failed attempt to catch her. Noire slid back quickly, striking Severa who was thrown forward, her sword slipping off the ground, she had nothing left to hold back as she fell towards the portal.

"Severa !!" Inigo and Owain both leaned down as hard as they could to intercept Severa but the earthquake deepened and the three of them fell through the portal in front of the horrified and worried faces of their friends.

However, the happiness of not being left without any clues of what had happened to them was quickly swept away by the hypothesis that had formed in their minds. Their eyes were filled with fear and everyone was staring at each other to see if he was the only one who had thought of this hypothesis. In the end, it was Inigo who spoke again after clearing his throat, "but if the three of us have passed through the portal ... does that mean that we are back to our time of origin? " The three friends looked around once more, gazing at the dead, dark landscape that stretched out as far as the eye could see. "And what about the others, did they also come through the portal or did they stay on the other side?"

A heavy silence fell over the three friends once again, they were all afraid to know the truth but at the same time not knowing where they were became more unbearable every second. However, they all hoped that their others friends were alright.