Starting To Change The World Part 1
The Order Of Heroes had left The Wold Of The Mystery, The portal was now far from them. Some days would be necessary to reach the capital thouhg.
During the march, the commander Anna decided that she should have a talk with Kiran regarding his behavior.
"Kiran... what you did was imprudent." she had such an angry face. "I know you don't like Veronica, me neither, but if you continue annoying her like you've been doing, you'll only get her hate for you to increase." Anna did not understand his reasoning, did he want to become Embla's most wanted head? he already had such a big bounty by the mere fact of being the legendary hero... increasing the reward would only motivate more assassins to try to kill him.
"I'm aware of it, Anna, I really do..." Kiran pretended to display shame... only for him to shrug and laugh sarcastically. "but as I said before, I don't give a fuck! besides, the more we frustrate her plans again, and again, and again, it will happen anyway." Kiran yawned.
"But her hate will only be focused on you!" Anna exclaimed in exasperation.
"And that's going to make her make bad chooses because of her being dominated by the hate," he quickly pointed out. "I mean, wasn't it easier to block us the path to home by keeping her forces near the portal? but she didn't do that because she was too angry, her desire to kill me made her move her forces without thinking." the only good thing of that stupid way of thinking in which the orders of royalty were law was the fact stupid decisions were also "law".
"...That's true... I mean, she prepared us a trap before... and she might have made another one..." Anna placed her index finger on her mouth as she looked at the sky. Suddenly everything made more sense.
"Another thing I learned from the books was to ensure your enemies get too dominated by their emotions to do not allow them to think clearly... and fortunately for us... it worked..." Kiran gulped "If that wasn't the case... well... we would have had a very big problem... considering that... we should prepare some strategies to prevent it, I mean, she didn't come up with that strategy this time, but we don't know what could happen in the future..."
The commander nodded. "The problem is this, we don't have enough soldiers to protect all the gates and freeing a world at the same time... the most we can do right now is to protect our towns.." she sighed.
"It's okay... we'll find a solution... talking about soldiers... how many casualties we suffered?..." now it was time to talk about his failure as a tactician.
Because really, he still did not understand why they put him in charge... he might be the "legendary hero" but that did not mean he deserved privilegies!
"Not too many... we lost fifty soldiers." casualties in the battlefield were pretty much impossible to avoid.
"I see..." Kiran sighed.
"Don't blame yourself." Anna placed her hand on his back.
"Yeah yeah... I'm not omnipotent... I can't save them all... at least they weren't too many." regardless of how cruel that could sound... that was reality.
"Good... so... Kiran..." Anna started making her index fingers collide as if she was a young girl with a crush. "I want to discuss something..."
"What you want to know?..." Kiran raised an eyebrow.
Anna placed her finger on her lips again. "I heard you're going to build something like a spyglass but even more powerful... what is it?."
"Well, do you remember that when you told me about Alfonse's friend I mentioned a man with the same name who was supposed to be the inventor of something called telescope? well, I was talking about that thing. Unlike the spyglass its purpose is to observe the stars..." however he sighed and negated with his head. "Well... the model I could build in a world like this only would be useful to see other planets... to see other stars would need something like the Hubble."
"And what are those... planets?"
"Well... an example is the earth itself..." he pointed to the ground. "This is a planet... you were hearing when I explained to Lucina that the earth is a sphere and the stars are other suns... weren't you?."
"I heard a little." Anna confirmed.
"Well, the planets are big spheres. Every planet has a trajectory around the sun... of course, depending on which sun are they orbiting to." that without mentioning the planets that were not liked gravitationally to any sun and traveled alone through the galaxies in an almost eternal night.
"But why the moon is not a planet?... I mean, it looks like a big sphere." Anna asked.
"It's only called the moon due to the fact that it is orbiting to our planet instead of the sun." because this moon seemed to be just as big as the one Kiran was so used to see, if it orbited the sun it would probably be considered a planet instead of a dwarf planet like Pluto.
"And those other planets have their own moons?" Anna smiled as she made the question.
"Not all of them... I mean, not all the planets are like the earth... or should I say, our earths... I mean, even the moon of here it's not equal... its appearance is kinda different," Kiran grimaced as he remembered he still was not sure if all this was just an illusion... "but as I was saying, most of the planets that my humanity knows are very dangerous to all forms of life, and they could have more than one moon... Jupiter, the biggest planet that orbits my sun, has over fifty-two moons..." and who knew if the big bastard could have even more "children" humanity did not know about. The roman equivalent name of Zeus fit very well with the damn planet.
"Interesting... and amazing... mmmmmh... Kiran... wouldn't you mind if... I don't know.. you build more those telescopes so I could-"
"Sell them to the people?... yeah." the image of a kid having the time of his life seeing something with a telescope. "it's necessary to ensure that more people in the future will be interested in astronomy. Also, I need more money... what you're paying me for being the strategist of this army isn't enough for what I want to accomplish."
"So we have a deal?." she offered her hand.
"Deal..." he nodded as they did a handshake. "but you and I have more business... first at all... does here exist the chalkboards?"
"Uh?.. can you describe it?" Anna requested.
"It is a green surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium called chalks." he tried to simulate he was writing on one of those things as he explained.
"Um... no... I haven't heard about something like that.."
"Very well, to make one needs getting matte green paint and putting it on a piece of board, generally its size is similar to the size of the wall where you are going to put it on, its purpose is to be used at schools to write on them what is going to be taught to the students. Writing on them is done using, as I said before, sticks of calcium sulfate." considering his hometown was named after calcium sulfate, he knew that thing very well.
"Wow wow wow, let me go for my notebook."
"Sure."
When Anna finally returned, she started to take notes of everything Kiran described to her and where to get the materials to build those objects.
Some of them were either objects for entertainment or useful thing for the society. one of them was another object to write apparently more practical than a quill due to the fact that it uses graphite instead of ink, which allows erasing something of the writing easily using another thing called rubber or eraser.
Regarding the entertainment things, what Anna most wanted to build was a kind of table which was used to simulate a sport that Kiran said its name was: soccer.
Kiran continued talking about more things until the sound of an owl was heard by everybody.
"What do you have there Feh?" Alfonse said as the owl landed on his shoulder.
"I didn't know that owls were birds with the ability to orientate themselves using the magnetic field..." Kiran crossed his arms. It seemed like everyday you learned something new.
While Kiran began to explain what he said to Anna, Alfonse started to read a letter that the owl brought.
His first reaction was to be confused... then his face denoted to be worried... and finally... he seemed depressed...
"Brother?... what's wrong?.." his sister asked as she took the letter to read it.
Her reactions were almost the same as her brother's ones, but in the end, she started to cry.
"Mom..."
Kiran felt the needing to know what was happening, he walked to Alfonse and he spoke.
"Uhm...may I know what is going on?... or is it a bad moment?... "
Alfonse sighed, his voice was emotionless, "I'm gonna be king."
Kiran didn't answer, he only thought "(Oh... chingada madre (oh... shit..))."
Alfonse was seeing his mother's body lying on her bed, his sister was holding her hand while she cried.
By his side was one of the best healers in the kingdom.
"Even for me, it is hard to understand what could have killed her... she doesn't seem to be poisoned, I've not discovered wounds... or any symptom of disease..."
"What about a hex?.."
"Neither... I'm sorry.."
"Considering that we are at war, the most likely cause is that Embla did this... even though we don't know how..."
"Well... there's nothing more I could do...I'm.. going to leave."
"Thanks..."
Once the healer had left, Alfonse put his hand on Sharena's shoulder.
"She wouldn't have wanted us to be crying... even less now that our kingdom needs us.."
"I know that... it's only that... why?... we lost dad... we lost Zacharias and now we've lost mom... is there anyone left to lose?..."
"Just each other... "Alfonse responded as he hugged his sister. "But I will never let that happen..."
"You can't ensure that... we even don't know what took mom from us..."
"There are many things we don't know about our world..."
"I don't care... I just want her back..."
Alfonse stayed silent for a while, after that, he spoke.
"I'll explain everything to the others..."
His sister nodded, after that, Alfonse opened the door, taking a last watch to her sister and mother before he left.
Alfonse was explaining the case of his mother to Anna and any other person who approached to him.
One of them was Kiran, while the others were giving to Alfonse their best condolences, Kiran was analyzing what he heard... something was very...off..
Apparently death, lack of vital sings... pale and rigid body... those normally would be proofs that Alfonse's mother was dead... but this was the medieval age... it also might be...
All the color was drained of his face as the possibility appeared on his mind...
"(Coño... verga no mames no... porfavor no...!(Shit... shit shit, please no..!))."
If that also existed in this world... many lives were in danger...
"Alfonse!."
Alfonse and everybody else turned to see him.
"What?!."
"...Your mother may actually be not dead..."
When Alfonse heard that, he was even more confused, just like the others.
"...Explain..."
"...Catalepsy..."
"Cata...what?.."
"Catalepsy... a biologic state in which the person lies immobile, in apparent death and without vital signs.. but actually the person is alive in a state that could be conscious or unconscious... in a large number of cases, this state leads one to think that the person suffering from a catalepsy attack has died..."
The face of everybody went pale when he said those words... Kiran also could say that he heard a "gods", but he didn't know who said that.
"Using the medical instruments of your world, it is impossible to detect... they are very primitive to do that... and when my world was like yours... *gulp* well... many people woke up to face in the real-life, a nightmare even worse than any other nightmare they could have faced in their dreams... a premature burial..."
Everything was even worse than before... Alfonse was getting into a panic state, now knowing that maybe he was sending his mother to that kind of hell was making him going insane, Anna left fall her money... and the other heroes were even more scared.
"Shit... SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!" It was the only thing Alfonse was speaking.
"Hey, I'm gonna be honest... I don't have any way to discover if that's the case by normal methods... also, even if here we had the necessary instruments... I'm not a doctor... I wouldn't know how to use them properly... there's only one thing we can do.. but I'm not sure if that's gonna work.."
"I DON'T CARE, TELL ME!"
"We... we have to hurt her... in theory, the pain would wake her up... but as I said... I'm not sure... that's not a scientific fact... it's only an anecdote I heard... it was discovered by... well... a gravery robbery who cut a body's finger to steal a ring... but well... that person wasn't dead... "
"...It's the best we have..."
"Prepare some nurses... if she wakes up... well... I guess it's not necessary to explain that she's not gonna be very silent and she would need medical attention... "
"I know I know, just do it!..."
Sharena still was sitting near her mother, at least she was crying no more...
Why life is so unfair... those were her thoughts.
Those were interrupted when the door the room opened, his brother, Kiran and some nurses were entering.
"What's going on?..." she asked.
Kiran raised a knife and he walked towards her mother.
"What are you-"
"Don't worry sister... Kiran apparently knows a way... to resurrect our mother..."
"H-H-HE WHAT!?."
Kiran waited until Alfonse explained to his sister what he previously had explained to him.
"So..." She started to speak.. a few hope was growing in her heart, was it possible?... despite how horrible sounded that strange state... she hoped it was the case... if that was the case... her mother...
"Ok, as I said, if she wakes up, her scream won't be a beautiful thing to hear... so... get ready..."
Everybody nodded.
"Okay... here I go..."
Then, the knife cut across the woman's hand...
...
...
"*Sigh* I guess-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH."
Kiran fell on his back, Sharena and Alfonse's eyes went wide and they backed off, the nurses almost screamed...
Quickly Kiran, Alfonse and Sharena were requested to get out of the room to do not interrupt the task of the nurses.
Kiran collapsed on his knees... and then he started to laugh hysterically.
"It worked...jajajajaja...it worked... fuck...FUCK..." No matter if he tried to get ready, the scene was still very scaring, even more as the woman didn't react instantly.
"I almost get a heart attack..." Alfonse said.
"She's alive...mom is alive..." Sharena prayed a thanks to the gods.
"Uuum... (mejor no digo nada.. (better I stay silent...))"
It didn't take too much time until Anna showed up.
Kiran explained to Anna about the special type of coffin which was designed to save the life of people if they got buried alive, Anna made the promise that she would build those coffins as soon as it was possible, she even didn't waste more time and she ran away.
"Kiran..."
"Sharena?..."
Kiran almost got knocked down by Sharena as she buried her face into his shoulder and she started to sob.
"Thanks...thank you so much..." more tears started to fall on Sharena's cheeks, but this time, she also was smiling... she was happy now.
"Uh... yeah.."
Even though Kiran stroked Sharena's hair, the moment was too awkward for him.
"Em... can you please let me go?..." Kiran clenched his teeth and looked away. "It's very awkward to do this when your brother is here..."
Then, Alfonse frowned.
"I MEAN," he panicked and placed his hands in a defensive position at the same time he negated using them. "We don't do this when you're not around!."
Alfonse only laughed.
"It's okay... I cannot be mad at you right now..."
"Great.."
Actually, I'm not sure if the catalepsy and the catalepsia (in Spanish) are the same things, but I guess everybody knows about being buried alive, a too scary experience which happened many times in the medieval age... even though Fire Emblem World has magic, I don't think they would have a method to detect that kind of nervous disorders just like I don't think that Anna's photography tome would have an x-ray scanner... because of that, being buried alive would be pretty normal in the Fire Emblem World, maybe I'm not the best writing this kind of scenes, but well, I need more experience.
Time for answers.
1.-I'm sorry, but since I want to make this history as realistic as I can, I'm not gonna break the laws of biology only for giving Kiran a son, as Kiran said, to reality doesn't matter what we prefer, it's not the one we would like more, it's what it is, I'm not going to break of reality just for that...
2.-Sure, I've only said that it's impossible for Kiran to have a son, I never said something about having a girlfriend, the question is... is that gonna happen?...mmmmmh... mmmmmh... I don't know... if there's something I want to avoid as if it was the HIV is to make Kiran a Gary Stu, you know, that kind of character without defects, unidimensional who gets all the attention of the history even when he/she is not present, who has a power that is stronger than most of the other characters' powers... and... he/she makes many people fall in love with him/her and he/she gets the girl/boy he/she wants because... reasons...uuuuuuuh... no please no...
Due to the Kiran's basic characteristics, many of those problems cannot be erased... maybe fixed... and that's what I'm doing.. how?.. well.
2.1-I'm trying to ensure that Kiran isn't able to do everything alone, he starts too weak and ignorant about tactics, so he needs to train and study, and I'm trying to make useful to the other characters, Anna has the money that Kiran needs, Alfonse has knowledge of all the heroes of all the worlds (due to the fact that he is who advises you to read about heroes from other worlds, it could mean that he has done it before), and Sharena is by the moment the emotional part of all this, but she's going to help Kiran with his experiments, everybody has a function here.
2.2-His special power is only to summon heroes, but nothing more, actually, everybody could summon a hero, the problem was that only Kiran knew how to use a gun...(kinda stupid due to the fact that it isn't very hard to guess, but well, the relic was sealed away in a temple so I guess we can ignore that). his science will be useful to improve the future of Askr and Embla, yeah, but in battles, to know how a particle move isn't very practical, besides, he's not a fucking Rick Sánchez, he can't create a portal gun, neither a plasma weapon nor something like that.
2.3-Kiran is kind, smart, and with a very high sense of justice, right, but he also gets angry easily, he cannot forgive his enemies (like Kira, from who he took his name, a fucking killer), and his vocabulary is not the most appropriate.
2.4-Kiran is asexual... he's not interested in sex or love, one reason is that it helps his mind to stay focused on his duty, an asexual person is still able to fall in love, but the probability is... tiny... also, if I'm going to give him a girlfriend, she must be a girl who would be willing to spend her life with a man who cannot give her a child, and even I'm not considering other facts about Kiran's personality that I've not shown yet, but if I have to give him a girlfriend... I don't know... I have a girl on mind... it is not as predictable and boring like Kiran x Sharena and Kiran x Alfonse.. she's smart too... she loves the books, too... she wants to protect her friends, too... maybe I could make good chapters about them two.. as far as I could write something realistic about love, but another problem is the fact that if I gave a girlfriend to Kiran... well... it wouldn't allow me to make an ending where... em... well I'll make a decision another day.
3.-I know, biological laws can be different in other universes, but since they are also made up of the same elements as us... I can't imagine other laws.. maybe the magic can create some exceptions, but also the exceptions can't be too big, for example, The Mark of Naga needs to be removed from some descendants of the first Exalt due to the fact that the number of people with that mark would increase till the point that everybody would have it (something that is considered in the history: Waiting On The Future, a Robin x Lucina fanfic pretty good, its author is Arthur97), the same with the power to open and close gates, I guess it is given by a ritual.. it would explain why Alfonse says "the war won't end until we obligate Veronica to close the gates or we learn to close them", because if that's not the case... well... I don't know how he plans to do that.. is he going to rape Veronica to get from her a son with both abilities?...uuuuuh...
As I always ask, is there something I should change in the writing?...
