The Dark Princess and The Nohrian Prince
A tiny white-haired girl, who was dressed in a black dress and a red cape was enjoying the sight.
The grandmaster's army was so busy dealing with her main force, as a result, she had been able to reach this village near the capital. All the portals were finally hers. Askr's fall was just a matter of time.
"My little little heroes..." at first her voice seemed like a whisper before suddenly going a change of 180 degrees. "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! SLAIN ALL THOSE WHO STAY IN MY WAY... my way... once Askr is mine... I'll have the most powerful army ever seen... I'll have.. all the heroes of every world!" the woman smiled with such a passion that it did not give a good impression about her mental health.
Her insane speech didn't allow her to hear one of her soldiers was calling her. "Princess Veronica... Princess Veronica!"
As if interrupting her was something illegal, she turned to see him, furious and eager to make him pay. "What do you want?!"
The soldier knelt to display his respect and started explaining the emergency. "My apologies, my princess, but... our scots detect the presence of Askarian soldiers!"
Veronica narrowed... so they were finally back... the question was, why so quickly? well, it did not really matter. There was nothing they could do now.
The heroes and the soldiers of the order did not waste time at all as they entered the village and starting taking enemy soldiers down.
"Stop right there Veronica, we won't let you do that!" the voice of the Askr's prince was filled with rage. He blocked a slash with his shield and quickly his sister used her spear to kill the enemy that attacked her brother.
"You're here..." Veronica growled, crossing her arms with disgust. "And after I went through all that trouble to arrange your playdate"
Kiran raised his eyebrow... seriously... a little girl? was this some kind of fucking joke? "So she's the bad guy?... or girl in this case... I'm not impressed... I mean, what the hell..." Kiran said, with his hands denoting sarcasm. He was expecting someone more threatening.
"Ah?" noticing the presence of someone she didn't know, Veronica looked at Kiran. "And who are you?... your clothes... they are... ridiculous..."
Kiran got angry by what she said, yet her reaction made sense considering his blue sneakers, his blue sweatshirt, his blue training pants... and basically the rest of his clothes that clearly did not belong to a medieval era, the remaining were also blue. He then got an idea to insult her back and better
"You don't like these? what? would you rather if I was unclothed, baby?" Kiran smiled sarcastically.
Of course, she didn't take it very well. "Tch, how dare you?!" some of her soldiers, of course, seemed offended and suddenly they changed priorities to attacking Kiran.
"You had to make her mad." Alfonse complained as he and some of the heroes surrounded Kiran to protect him.
Kiran, unlike the stress the others were having, was laughing a lot and smiling like a bastard "Perra... ya necesitaba unas risas después de casi morir... ¡gracias, puta! ( bitch... I needed a few laughs after almost dying... thanks whore!)."
Kiran was happy knowing that nobody would be able to understand what he said.
"Commander... what has he just said?" Sharena asked, confused. She only got a second to continue looking at Anna before she had to block and fight more.
Anna was as puzzled as her. "I don't know... do you understand those words?" Anna turned to the heroes in order to find answers.
"Umm... no" Lucina responded.
"Me neither." Kagero said.
"Could it be an extinct language?" Corrin guessed.
"Maybe, I've never heard anything like that... " Lilina agreed.
Alfonse somehow felt the words were familiar, but he wasn't sure why.
Veronica was irritated... but then she noticed that... there were heroes fighting for the order... even though some of them should be at a completely different place fighting for her...
It was impossible they could have escaped and reached this place that soon... this had to mean... something that made her consider this bastard a more serious threat to her instead of a simple idiot.
"He's... he's..." Veronica clenched her teeth. "You're the summoner of the legend..."
"Well, I do have this." Kiran raised Breidablik towards the sun. "And it seems to have this makes me said hero so the answer is yes." he shrugged, yawning.
The hero that could summon heroes... the man capable of creating the ultimate army was here... leaving him alive even a single day more would be a huge mistake!
"Xander! I want his head!" she pointed with her finger.
After she said that name, a man riding a horse, who had black-purple armor appeared from behind the army.
He had a stoic expression, but he quickly nodded and drew his sword... there was something... particular about that one.
"As you wish."
"Damn, what is Xander doing here?!" Alfonse yelled with fear.
"He's like Minerva, or what?" Kiran asked, he was not scared.
"He's one of the most powerful heroes from The World Of Conquest or Revelations!"
"Brother?..." the voice of Corrin was heard, a mix of feelings between surprise and horror. She was also fighting using a sword she had found instead of her dragon form, probably because she thought she could destroy buildings if she was not careful in that form.
"Brother?" it took a moment for Kiran to process the possible implications... "Holy shit! is he a dragon too?!" Kiran for a moment considered if he shouldn't have insulted Veronica like that.
"Eh?" Corrin seemed confused until she realized why he would think that. "Well, actually... we're not related... he's my foster brother..."
Kiran sighed in relief before laughing, still nervous. "That is a nice coincidence... otherwise we would be screwed." he breathed slowly. "Ok ok, calm down..." he rolled his eyes. Sending Corrin to fight him probably would not work, familiar love could be a pain for strategies and this was not the moment to do some roulette gambit...
If only he could summon more heroes... but the damn relic seemed to had run out of ammo...
"Corrin, I don't care if you destroy a lot of stuff. You're not superman for somebody to get mad at you for destroying infrastructure! send them to the oblivion!" Kiran ordered.
"B-but..."
"Just do it!" He yelled in exasperation with his hands becoming more like "claws"
As Corrin transformed into her alternate form, Kiran started yelling more orders.
Alfonse and Sharena felt the "weight" of their mortality when they noticed Xander and a bunch of soldiers moving in direction towards them. Just behind, Kiran himself prepared for a perhaps last stance situation.
Corrin was doing as ordered, smashing Emblian soldiers while assisting the other soldiers of the Order.
Lucina and Kagero were doing pretty much the same thing, they were not dragons but they seemed to be one-woman armies in full effect. At least that explained why Veronica wanted heroes as slaves so much.
Sharena used her own shield to serve as the main source of blocking attacks for them. Every time she saw an opening she did not hesitate and counterattacked. Alfonse himself was doing rather well at taking care of the mooks.
Kiran guessed this must be the result of them having getting used to fighting heroes.
"Out of the way." Xander's voice was strong and filled with authority.
The Emblian soldiers moved aside. "If you are a prince who knows the meaning of honor, you will accept to fight me in a duel. One against one."
Kiran shook his head with a sarcastic smile. "You are an idiot."
"Silence." Xander narrowed his eyes. "You're going down as well, but you won't have such a consideration coming from me."
Considering his skills as a soldier were... minimal, it did not really matter at all if Xander decided to give him a duel or not.
"I accept." Alfonse stepped forward.
"Brother, are you sure?" Sharena placed her hand on his shoulder. "You don't have to do this!"
Alfonse sighed in frustration as he prepared his sword. "Actually, I have."
Kiran then grabbed Sharena. "If that's what he wants, leave him alone."
"B-Bu-" Kiran quickly placed a finger on her lips as he approached his mouth to her ear and whispered something.
The soldiers of Askr and Embla were ordered to focus on fighting each other while the prince of Askr and Xander started walking slowly while looking at each other.
Xander prepared his stance... and his legs started moving.
Alfonse blocked a vertical slash, then a horizontal one, then another vertical one, then a lunge. Finally, he had an opening for counterattacking by pushing Xander's sword with his shield. However, Xander easily dodged that attack by jumping to the right. Alfonse then received a wound directly on his arm. Alfonse, however, did not let the pain stop him from focusing on the battle as he attempted a new attack on Xander... only to fail miserably once more.
This continued like this for several minutes until Alfonse was barely able to keep standing.
"FINISH HIM!" Veronica ordered.
As Xander raised his weapon, it seemed Alfonse was done for...
If an ax had not impacted on his back.
Xander yelled in pain, as his head moved to see who had dared to attack him like this... he noticed Kiran.
Sharena did not waste time either as she pierced Xander with her lance.
The soldiers of Embla, of course, were not very happy because of this action... but most of them were either defeated or already too tired to intervene.
Alfonse, although not happy either, attempted to take advantage and defeat Xander for good... but then a powerful magic spell in form of a green sphere forced the trio to back off.
Veronica had her tome opened and a furious glare. "Don't think you have hope, you've only bought more time for your kingdom."
She placed a hand on Xander, closed her eyes, and using another tome... both of them seemed to vanish.
They had teleported...
After a while, the army of Embla was defeated.
"That was close..." Sharena gulped
"What thing? him getting killed? or Xander is about to be liberated?" Kiran asked.
"The two things... I guess I need to train more." Sharena added.
"I guess I'll have to do that too." Kiran sighed as he extended a hand to Alfonse to help him to keep standing.
"The battle is over, but it didn't resolve anything, they're going to be back soon enough." Alfonse grimaced.
"Stubborn girl... why can't we just talk through this?, these invasions are crazy, she needs to grow up already, where's her sense of diplomacy?, such a BRAT" Sharena complained.
Anna approached, her uniform stained with a lot of blood. "Calm down Sharena, don't let your emotions get the best of you... hostility is their way, not ours."
"I'd not say that about me." Kiran explained, yawning again. "I don't wanna be pessimistic but if I learned something that makes me be angry, it's that the bad people can't be convinced to change, and even if it was possible, It's easier to eliminate them" Kiran responded.
"Why would you say something like that?" Anna asked, crossing her arms.
"I've told you that my world is shit," then he considered it for a second before correcting himself as he rolled his eyes. "Well, maybe I should say that my country is shit if you wanna be in a paradise for the crime, you just need to go there."
"The soldiers haven't faced crime good enough?." Alfonse asked worriedly.
As if Kiran had heard the best joke in his whole life, he began to laugh as if he had a mental illness. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" after he noticed everyone was seeing him, he responded, "The bandits are the government, why would they do that?"
"The bandits?!" asked Alfonse, that couldn't be real.
"Yeah, the corruption it's the flag of my country, and the people are so stupid and coward to kill someone, they're the perfect slaves... they make me sick!" Kiran rubbed his head in extreme frustration.
"It is horrible." said Lilina.
"Tell me something I don't know already," Kiran rolled his eyes again in sarcasm. "And as I said, the bandits aren't going to stop stealing all the money of the country if the people don't kill them... but anyway, I'm not more in that world, and maybe I don't want to return there, let's get out of here before another bad thing happens again." Kiran said. Walking away with a very serious face.
"I'm sorry that you've been thrown into this brutal war with us... I mean... you told us that you were in a country that isn't a good place but this is not better," Alfonse said. They were inside a castle.
"I'm fine with that Alfonse, here I can fight or at least help by summoning heroes, I mean, maybe I'm gonna miss my computer, my phone and all those things that I'm sure you have no fucking idea of what I'm talking about, ah, yeah, and my family too, but it's okay... by the way, there's something that I wanna discover...do you know what is the ammo of this thing? I mean, It seems like it only has space for five bullets... but the bullets seem to be spheres."
"I... I don't know..." the prince scratched his hair.
"Well, maybe we're going to find it out soon."
"We're going to, I'm sure."
"So, where's the library in this castle?, I'd like to read some tactic books, if I'm going to be the tactician of this army, I'd like to be ready for everything, we can train tomorrow."
"I'll show you" Sharena appeared, now she was cured of every hurt on her body, "Let's go."
"Yeah."
In case you wonder why some parts of Veronica's talking were in black, it's because it represents the Emblian language (she needs Askarian language to talk to the heroes). Those things are explained better in the next chapters. I just improved the first ones because they weren't as good written as the last ones... because when I started writing this... I wasn't as good as I am right now.
Chapter 2 updated too.
