World of Binding Part 2.5

"Is... is it really you... mom?" Lugh asked, still having trouble believing what he was seeing. But he felt the needing to hug Nino back anyway.

"That's right my boy." responded the green girl hugging him and his brother tighter. "Mommy is here."

Raigh, on the other hand, tried his best to get away from that damn girl who dared to call herself his mother.

"What kind of stupid and ridiculous bullcrap rick is this?!" he growled.

"Language!" Nino yelled. Raigh only backed off a little at this.

Kiran narrowed and responded. "It's not a trick, you asshole, she's your mommy. Of course, she's a younger version of her, but she is your mother nonetheless."

Raigh looked at him with contempt "Do you think I'm a fool?!"

"Language!" This time, Nino began to rip Raigh's ear out "Ay ay ay ay stop it!"

"Of course no, even I would be skeptical if a girl suddenly appears claiming to be my mother, but... didn't Veronica explain to you we are an army that has heroes from different time periods?" like, seriously, Roy seemed to know that just fine.

"What?!"

Nino used her hand to obligate Raigh to look at her, she smiled the most she could "That's right Raighty, Mr. Kiran is able to summon people through the time, that's how I met my friend Lilina."

The mentioned queen greeted their old friends... well, technically they weren't the ones she remembered, but she didn't care too much. "Nice to see you."

"You... traitor!" Raigh complained.

"She's not the same Lilina you know... all right." Kiran scratched his hair and then he yelled. "Corrin!, Lucina! have you found a new orb?"

Lucina was the first one to run towards him. "Here it is."

"Thanks." said the tactician summoner. "Another blue one... is the blue the most common color for them?... cool, I guess." Then he pulled out Breidablik.

"Do you like it, boy?" he said showing it to Raigh.

"What in the he.." Raigh stopped talking as he noticed Nino ready to hurt his ear again. "What is that?

"It looks very weird," commented Lugh.

"Wachen (watch) this." taking his weapon back and reloading the gun, he aimed and shot. The object as always flew few meters before it began to shine more and opened a portal, from which a pegasus and its rider were expelled... unfortunately for the rider, a purple-haired woman, she ended up under the animal.

Lugh and Ephraim looked at the event with curiosity, while Raigh shook his head a few times to confirm his eyes weren't working wrongly. Kiran instead felt even more guilty, not only it wasn't exactly good to take the people away from their world, but now this...

Kiran walked to be by her side, offering her his hand as the animal was already on its feet. "Need a hand?" She looked up and accepted, but once she was able to see him at the eyes, her ones went wide in surprise. Kiran narrowed as somehow, the facial features of this person were familiar.

"Is something... wrong?" he asked.

The girl rubbed her eyes, looked at him again and she exclaimed an: Oh, then she looked away, she seemed to be ashamed.

"Sorry, it's fine... I just... thought you were Mark..." the woman nervously let his hand go and tried to help her pegasus to stand up too.

If Kiran remembered well, this was the second time someone had mixed him up with that person.

"(¿Quién chingados es ese wey? (who the fuck is that guy?))" At the very least nobody was calling him Miguel... that would be like calling him Green Mario...

However, he couldn't ask the girl about his doubt regarding the identity of this Mark guy since Nino, who finally stopped hugging her two precious boys, decided to hug the pegasus knight.

"Florina!"

"Nino?!"

After a few cute words between old friends, Nino took Florina until where her twins were to introduce them to Florina.

Kiran shrugged and smiled slightly and turned to return to his business until he noticed Lilina was playing with her fingers making them to orbit each other. He got near to her and asked. "Does something bother you?"

"Eh? no!... I just... well, I don't know how to speak to her." Lilina's face... was... making him feel a deja vu...

"Speak... to her?..." he did a signal for her to continue speaking.

"Y-yeah... you see..."

Kiran gave a confused look... until he noticed something.

"May I check something?"

"What thing?"

Kiran approached his face to Lilina's one to analyze it. Making feel uncomfortable to the queen of the kingdom of Lycia.

"Mmmmh..." he turned to see Florina, then he returned to see Lilina, he repeated the process a few times. Considering the world of Binding was the future version of the world of Blazing, and then he realized why he felt he had seen Florina's face before.

"Did she carry you when you were a baby on her arms, changed your diapers, took care of you with much love, gave you some education, and played with you?" Kiran crossed his arms as he asked.

Lilina smiled. "Sometimes I wish I was a little girl again."

"Cute," he nodded slightly. "I would have liked my mother did that with me more, practically the one that grew me up was my computer... whatever, would you mind some help with that?" Kiran offered the possibility.

"No, I'd appreciate it." She nodded.


After setting up the camp to spend the night, Kiran decided to dedicate some hours to training, unfortunately, Alfonse already was sparring with his sister, Lucina and Corrin were busy with their swords. Due to this, his only options left were Anna or Florina... until they began to train with each other, too.

Then he remembered he had summoned Ephraim. he would be a good option to improve at fighting against a lance wielder.

When he turned to leave and look for him, Kiran noticed the king of Renais was walking towards his direction, apparently searching the same, to spar.

Once they were in front of each other, they prepared their weapons.

"Attack when you want to," said Ephraim.

Kiran nodded, he waited a few seconds until he began the combat.

Of course, Kiran never expected his attacks to be effective at all, even though Ephraim lost some of his physical strength, his muscular memory was intact. Any thrust or slash from any direction was blocked by Ephraim's lance. The whole situation reminded Kiran of when he played Wind Waker, when Link trained to get his first sword.

Not wanting to bore the king, Kiran decided to use his special card.

Ephraim got surprised when his foe changed the hand he was wielding the sword with. He began to attack using his left hand, almost getting to cut Ephraim's cheek, it took to Ephraim a few seconds to get used to the new attack pattern but suddenly he changed the sword to the right hand again, Kiran continued doing this, obligating Ephraim, for the first time, to back off slowly and to attack back. After some time, Ephraim managed to knock Kiran down.

They decided to rest a little. "I don't remember having fought an ambidextrous swordsman before." commented the king.

"Not a surprise, finding this kind of people is hard. In fact, I used to be only left-handed," Kiran mentioned, playing with the fingers of his right hand. "but when I went to school... well, almost every table for a single person was designed for right-handed people. The same happens with a lot of other useful things so I had to get adapted." as far as he knew, it was something multiple lefties had done as well.

"I see... how much time have you been practicing with a sword?" Ephraim rubbed his chin.

"Two months and half, maybe less. Almost every day, but only during the afternoon, I have certain duties to do." he shrugged.

"You're not bad, you learn fast. Of course, I've been training for almost ten years so I doubt you will be able to hit me soon... you're fast... but your strength... your muscles aren't..." Ephraim's face denoted he was not comfortable having to explain this.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. This is the result of spending most of my life in front of a computer... whatever." Kiran sighed and rubbed his eyes.

"Let's practice your dodging, it really needs improving." Ephraim grabbed his lance, walked a little, and prepared his stance.

"Right, I'm ready." Kiran imitated Corrin's stance.

Ephraim's thrusts started being easy to avoid, but of course, he progressively increased the speed, obligating Kiran to do his first mortal jumps, which he barely did well. Finally, the thrusts became into a storm Kiran was unable to stand against. He finally fell.

"Again," Ephraim ordered.

"Yeah yeah." Kiran growled and stood up.


Apparently, Roy decided to join the rest of the Emblian army near a volcano. Considering he wanted to be free, Kiran supposed it was a decent tactic to have all the heroes to free in a single place. The only problem was to consider the fact that the volcano was too away, the Order would need at least a week to reach that place.

At least this meant they would have much time to continue sparing.

Of course, Kiran understood they wouldn't fight inside the volcano, a human body barely resisted 48°C/118.4°F, in those places the average temperature was around 1200°C/2192°F.

"You managed to conquest a fort with only you and three soldiers more?!" Kiran almost fell from his chair.

Kiran and Ephraim were having a chat while they ate their dinner.

Ephraim shrugged "Well, there were few soldiers inside at that moment compared to the big army they sent to chase us, and Kyle and Forde are the best knights only behind Seth. It wasn't that difficult. Valter returned after a while and we escaped, it really didn't matter, my plan was to attack the emperor of Grado." that, in hindsight, was not exactly a smart decision because he would probably have perished had he not returned back to save his sister.

"That name is funny." Kiran laughed.

Ephraim scratched his head "I don't get it."

"Sorry, you see, I can speak in another language, it is called Spanish, and in Spanish, the word grado can be used as a unit to measure earthquakes." it was just such a fun detail to have in mind.

"Oh." Ephraim laughed a little. "What a coincidence, so they can measure them?"

"We even can predict their frequency. The scale we use is called Richter, from zero to ten. An earthquake of 0 to 2 grados is pretty normal, they happen 8000 times per day. from 2 to 2.9, 1000 per day, all of them until 4.9 represent no threat at all." Kiran made a signal with his hand that dismissed their importance. "It is from 5 to 5.9 when they start to be dangerous and you can expect at least 800 of them per year. from 6 to 6.9 they are considered as strong ones and they happen 120 times per year. Once they are of 8 to 9.9 grados basically they are essentially cataclysms." Kiran gulped, he thanked he did not live in a very active seismic area. "The ones from 8 to 8.9, one or three per year. From 9 to 9.9, you have probably twenty years to get ready to face the catastrophe... an earthquake of 10 or more grados would be considered apocalyptic but it has never been detected." at least not in the Earth. Something Jupiter and Neptune had demonstrated was that the natural disasters in other worlds of the universe could make seem their Earth counterparts tame.

The king grimaced. "Wow... so the gods of your world aren't very kind, are they?"

Kiran gave a bored face as he continued explaining. "No Ephraim, earthquakes are inherent to the world itself." Kiran rubbed his face. "They don't happen due to divine intervention at all. They are indifferent to what humanity does and there's no way to stop them, you only can minimize their damage. It's like your heart when beating... does it happen because a god makes said organ do that? no! earthquakes are like waves in the ocean in the sense they are natural disasters."

Ephraim didn't say anything for a few seconds, his face showed sadness, he closed his eyes and clenched his fists. "If only Lyon knew this... he wouldn't have... he wouldn't have..."

Kiran raised his eyebrow. "He wouldn't have?"

"He wouldn't have tried to use the power of the demon king as a solution to the earthquake he and his dark mages predicted... he wouldn't have been possessed and the war wouldn't have happened in the first place..." a few tears rolled through his cheeks.

Kiran also closed his eyes and crossed his arms as he remembered some quotes that would be perfect to be said at that moment. "Sometimes, being oblivious is a very bad crime in itself... humans tend to feel guilty about things they have nothing to do with. Knowledge is the only way to determine what's the limit of our power. Less praying, more researching, that is what humanity needs to fight the only war they must allow to exist... the war against their extinction."

"I... I see..."


Alright... here it is... the chapter rewritten... a good thing I still had everything in my notebook.

Seriously, This has happened to me twice already... I should have learned the lesson already...

Whatever... again, the fact volcanoes are so hot that the temperature makes it impossible for chapters like the one when Robin and his friends fight against Yen'fay or when Roy or Eliwood go to a volcano to obtain Durandal to be realistic ideas... this means, at least in this version of FE, these events never happened like that.

And since Ephraim is one of my favorite characters (especially because he's from my first Fire Emblem game), he will have as protagonism as Alfonse.

Let's answers the reviews again.

Heavenchoir:

My GATE fanfic is already there to be read, and it is about a North American Union.

Allstarall:

If you think Kiran is a psychopath, you haven't seen a thing yet.

Anyway... is there a grammar error there or something?