Okay... before you ask what in the hell is going on, let me explain. You see, when I noticed a few grammar errors in the last chapter, I tried to fix them, but guess what? I erased the previous chapter (the 2.5 part) updating it with the content of the newest chapter... yeah yeah, laugh as much as you all want, you have the right to do it... whatever... I wrote chapter 2.5 again and I overwrote it on the archive it contained the final part... and this is gonna have the final part... yeah...
World of Binding Final Part
Roy looked at the horizon, a little angry feeling returned to his mind as he remembered why now he wore these clothes... He wasn't sure if that feeling was a good thing, actually, almost all of his friends would say it is wrong... But he just couldn't forgive Veronica after what she did.
Even though he had to grow up without a mother, it didn't change the fact he began to understand better what Lilina felt when he told her Hector had died. But unlike her, he felt rage too.
Maybe it was the fact Lilina had enjoyed the love of her both parents, mother, and father. He had a lot of good memories about his father, but then that princess appeared from nowhere with that big army, with soldiers who had their own legendary weapons and, after many events, she had sent Eliwood to the other life as an example of what would happen to him and his friends if they decided to do not follow her orders...
He turned to see the Emblians, the faster he could leave this army the better.
Kiran had seen volcanos in videogames and photos before, but watching one of them in person was a lot more interesting, the geologist side of his curiosity increased. The existence of that structure there meant either that place was in the limits of two tectonic plates or maybe a hotspot of the Earth's surface. Fortunately, there was a way to discover it. While normally the order of heroes didn't make contact with local villages, he had requested Lilina and Florina to go to a little town to ask if there was any registration of earthquakes in the past and, why not? information about the Emblian army.
Once they returned Kiran practically ran to them, he was excited. "So?"
"Um..." Florina seemed to be nervous, but strangely, when their eyes made contact, she was more relaxed. "One of the oldest persons said he and his generation had the horrible experience of being there when the ground began to shake."
Lilina nodded "But he said it wasn't too powerful."
"Cool!..." Kiran had closed his fists in a corporal expression of awesomeness... before he realized something. "Um... I guess it didn't sound very well... anyway, and what about the Emblians?"
Lilina shrugged "Nothing very different to what we already know, they enslave heroes... or villains if they can, and basically rob the sources, even if it is by stealing them to the local people." Lilina seemed actually very pissed about this last detail.
"I see... well, thanks for that. Now we just need to wait for the report about the enemy, and then we can start our assault, they're waiting for us after all." he yawned as he looked at his word.
Kiran noticed Florina continued watching him, she showed... a kinda confused expression? he wasn't sure how to describe it, but just when he was about to ask her something, Lilina was the one who made a question. "May I know why you wanted information about earthquakes?" She was smiling, probably just like Sharena, she already was very curious about everything he had inside his brain.
"You see, normally volcanos and earthquakes appear together. By that I mean they usually have a common origin, something we have named the tectonic plates... you see, just like people, the earth itself changes through time, but it takes millions of years to notice the difference... like manaketes when they age, but even slower... mmmh... wait for me a moment, please." Kiran turned around and ran towards the cart he used to transport his objects.
Florina continued seeing towards where Kiran was, she was... impressed about how physically similar that person was to Mark... Kiran could have been a reflection in the mirror of the mage tactician that a long time ago led the army she was part of to the victory, one of her friends and the man her friend Lyn was in love with even if she didn't want to admit it.
Their faces, hair colors, voices, and height matched almost perfectly... being the only exception that Mark's eyes were brown like his hair instead of blue.
But that was only speaking in physical appearance... regarding personality, their goals were very different. While Mark was determined to become himself into a great tactician and mage, Kiran seemed more focused on understanding nature, to be a powerful swordsman like Eliwood or Lyn and he knew a lot of things she was sure Mark didn't know.
She had explained all that to Lilina... her daughter who was as old as her... as confusing as it could be.
Once Kiran returned, he showed a page of a book which had what could be considered as a map... a very bad drawn one but it was a map anyway... "As I was saying, in my universe we already know how the whole world looks like. We are aware of the existence of six giant continents" as he told the names of each one, he pointed to them on the map "America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica."
"Wow... in which of these you used to live?" asked Lilina as she approached her face to the map.
"America, specifically, here." Kiran placed his finger almost in the center of that weird continent that could be said it was two continents connected by a land bridge. His finger just was a little more towards the north. "Well, as I was saying."
Kiran then proceeded to explain what he knew about tectonic plates: the pieces of Earth's surface and how their interaction caused earthquakes and volcanoes. The concept of Pangea and how it allowed understanding the existence of fossils of the same animal types in completely different places of the planet were also described by the scientist.
But after his friends had been marveled due to his brain again, it was time to work.
Once the pegasus explorer returned with information about the units the enemy had, Kiran prepared his strategy. The order of heroes moved to be standing on a plateau near the volcano, armored soldiers and Corrin, all of them, led by Ephraim, were the first defense line. Their mission was to protect the mages and archers who cast a rain of their deathly attacks on whoever dared to assault their ubication. This time, the Emblian army was many times bigger than the Askarian one, a defensive fight was the only logical solution. Normally this would make a tactician feel a lot of tension, and for Kiran it wasn't exactly the exception, but since he felt he had more experience defending than assaulting he somehow also felt more comfortable.
Unfortunately for Roy, the one in command was his teacher Cecilia as the Emblians didn't want to follow his orders after being defeated before. Of course, she wanted to order wrong tactics on purpose, but this was a little more difficult.
Emblian soldiers attacked in rounds from three different directions. Kiran remained in the center, watching around to determine if he needed to support with more soldiers one of the fronts of battle.
He smiled when he noticed Corrin and Fae combatting again, dragons fighting were the best! but it didn't take so long, Raigh and Lugh protected Corrin and since the little dragon-chicken girl wasn't able to hurt her friends, they easily took her down. Quickly Lugh got her away from Emblians and an Askarian healer cured her.
Florina landed by his side. "Cecilia, Eli-I mean, Roy and... my other daughter... are coming from the west."
Kiran nodded once he received the information "Correcto (Right)... I hope this time they cooperate."
Roy drew both katanas-like swords that a long time ago belonged to his mother, he didn't have his horse this time and Durandal was too long to be comfortable fighting on foot.
He felt two hands on his shoulders, noticing Lilina and Cecilia gave him sympathy expressions, he deep breathed, took a look at Sol and Mani Katti and ran towards the rival army.
Cecilia got confused for a moment, another Lilina was her foe. Lilina from that universe couldn't understand how the girl she was fighting against seemed like Lugh and Raigh.
Roy instead did a lateral jump to avoid the lance from a blue-haired soldier. Making a double slash, Roy tried to hurt him, but his foe blocked the attack.
He smiled and said "Another ambidexter swordsman? and this actually knows how to wield both swords perfectly... Interesting." the man raised his lance, it was in a vertical position with the point towards the ground. Roy made another slash, the man quickly hit the blade with the shaft and made a fast lunge. Roy backed off, but his face got a tiny wound. This, however, allowed him to push with his other sword the lance and stab on the arm to his enemy who again attacked Roy's head but this time with the shaft itself. Once more, Roy growled, attacked with a vertical move from up to down which the blue man stopped with the armored part of his shoulder.
Both did lateral jumps after that, taking a moment to stare at each other.
"I have the feeling you're going easy." Ephraim commented, narrowing his eyes.
"Sorta, I don't really want to fight for Veronica." Roy sighed.
"What's your name?"
"Roy, son of lord Eliwood and Lady Lyndis."
"I'm Ephraim, son of Fado and Leonilda." Ephraim sighed "A shame they're gone already."
"I'm in the same situation."
"I guess we could say we have something in common."
Ephraim prepared himself to attack again and so did Roy.
The fewer soldiers the Emblians had, the more relaxed Kiran felt. He was helping to a recently freed heroine known as Shanna to get up.
Once Florina took her down from her pegasus, he used the experience he got from Ephraim at fighting with lance wielders to defeated her quickly.
"All right!" She practically yelled in excitement. "Um... I wanted to say something epic but I just don't get a good sentence." she sighed, although her smile was still very visible.
"(¿Porqué hay tanta gente de pelo azul aquí?... es decir, incluso mis ojos son azules solamente por estos estúpidos lentes de contacto... lo que sea)( Why there are so many blue-haired people here?... I mean, even my eyes are only blue because of these stupid contact lenses... whatever...))... you should rest lady"
"B-but I want to help! everything is fine!" considering she was still bleeding, her happy face contrasted a lot with her stained clothes... a lot...
Kiran sighed and then he pointed to another of the combat fronts "Go there and support them then, but only if you're already healed."
"Got it!"
After thanking to Florina again. Kiran returned running to the center, as he analyzed, everything was going perfectly well. his version of Lilina demonstrated she had overcome her mage teacher. The other Lilina gave good combat to Nino, but she got defeated too when Raigh decided to help her. This meant he had finally begun to accept her, or at least it was what looked like. Even though Roy was a mad-skilled swordsman and he had two swords this time, his fall was only a matter of time, as Ephraim continued distracting him, Kiran took advantage of this and stabbed Roy on his back, which allowed Ephraim to give the final blow on the stomach.
Roy fell very similar to how Kiran did after his fight with Marth. Roy noticed how that dark energy abandoned his body as he watched his hands on the ground. He sighed in relief.
Veronica practically screamed in frustration, throwing the crystal sphere away. Even if she still had everything her soldiers got from the World of Binding, the very fact she was losing control of the worlds destroyed her patience.
She felt Xander's hand patting her, she sighed and closed her eyes. This couldn't continue like this, if she lost more worlds, the support of her people would be gone too.
Threatening with heart attacks wasn't enough anymore... it was time to use other methods. "Tell the dark mages I want that spell already!" she ordered to one of her soldiers.
The battle was won. The remaining Emblian surrendered. Kiran smiled feeling a little proud of himself, he was getting used to this.
Anna took a step forward. "We'll try to defeat Veronica as soon as possible until that happens, you're not completely out of danger."
Cecilia smiled "It's good to be free anyway, you have our eternal gratitude Order Of Heroes."
"It's only our job it's nothing at all" said Alfonse.
The chicken dragon hugged Corrin's leg. "D-does that mean I cannot play with lady Corrin anymore?!"
Kiran couldn't believe the girl actually enjoyed fighting, having a combat was funny, that's right, but when you have a dark spell that could kill you in seconds having fun would be the last thing on his mind... well, she was still very naive... even if she had lived like thousand years... if the world was real, of course.
Corrin patted Fae on the head. "If you can come with us we would have more fun."
Kiran shocked his head. "I didn't summon her, my powers wouldn't protect her from permanent death. So that's not a good idea."
"Actually" Roy spoke. "I would like to join your army."
"Are you sure?, did you hear what I said?" Kiran asked.
"It's not like I haven't fought at wars having a single opportunity to continue living, and I have something personal to take care of with Veronica..."
Anna shrugged and responded. "I have no problem, the more help we have, the better."
Kiran didn't respond instantly, he was taking a look at his Lilina, she obviously wasn't comfortable with this decision, hell, even the other Lilina wasn't.
"I just have a rule for you... don't interact with the version of Lilina we have. I don't need to explain the reason... right?"
Roy nodded and pointed out his own Lilina "She would beat me up if I dared... I would like to bring her too but somebody must take care of the kingdom"
"I would like to have more combats with him," said Ephraim.
"May I goo too then?!" asked Fae.
Kiran heard Raigh yelling. "We don't have to choose!", it was true, mommy Nino hugged her sons so tightly that it was obvious she wouldn't let them go soon.
"Well... why not?" Kiran shocked his head while he smiled.
He could hear Sharena trying to befriend the new members as he walked away.
So yeah, this Roy is Lyn's son, that's how the ships ended up in my first time playing The Blazing Blade, which means Ninian left with her brother so... yeah. Why this happened considering Florina remembers that Lyn's crush is Mark? well, simple answer, the Mark in this timeline was a girl and this Lyn was heterosexual.
This also means this timeline is pretty dark, Héctor, Lyn, and Eliwood are dead (and why not?, the mother of Lilina in this timeline, too). Many would say Lyn wouldn't have died from illness as it is supposed to be the death cause of Roy's mother (if I remember well), but in those times the medicine and the methods to prevent diseases weren't as good as the ones we have, so even one of us has more probabilities to survive until we are young adults than most of them.
Anyway, I guess it is time to answer reviews.
Heavenschoir:
You'll get them in the next chapters as we are going back to Askr, the perfect place to write about interactions.
Piddle:
You're welcome.
InKuNoHana:
Pues espero que pueda seguir manteniendo la calidad de los capítulos. (I just hope I can maintain the quality of the chapters).
As I always ask... is there a mistake there?
