World Of Awakening Part 2

Ephraim dodged a thunder doing a lateral jump, then he dodged another, a third one didn't have more luck and neither did the fourth one. The caster seemed to understand they hadn't many possibilities to hit him.

"(This brings me back memories)." thought the king. Somehow, it was good to feel this tension again. Especially when he noticed the caster was a woman, this felt very much like a deja vu, at least this time he didn't need to worry about Duessel getting hit by electricity. Ephraim considered to go to stop her, but noticing she had a big amount of troops near her, she obviously would order them to protect her... besides he had orders.

Ephraim paid attention to the battle again. Siegmund cut across the chest of another Emblian spearman. By his side, Roy's Durandal eliminated a swordman. He had to admit, he liked working with that guy, maybe if he trained more he would be as good as Seth.

He saw an axe from his peripheral sight, he did another lateral jump. Unlike the others, this man was actually faster. Ephraim prepared himself. He simulated as if with a curved attack he was aiming to his enemy's legs. The axe fighter held his weapon in a vertical position, the haft stopped the lance. Ephraim then increased the altitude of Siegmund, still making contact with the axe. The axe fighter didn't understand that... and due paying attention to his weapon he didn't notice in time how Ephraim had released contact and due that, the king had it easy at stabbing his enemy on the middle of the eyes. Unlike a training session, this time the spear reached the brain and then the soldier fell.

Roy, on the other hand, placed Durandal in a diagonal position and then, putting all the effort he could, made a thrust direct to a lancer's stomach. Due the size of his sword, it pretty much annihilated him.

Both continued like that, taking down anybody dared to be their opponent and avoiding to get one of those thunders on the face.

Finally, Ephraim saw the opponent Kiran ordered him to defeat. The Exalt.

"Be careful."

Roy made a confirmation noise. Then Ephraim ran towards the Exalt.


Alfonse might not be interested befriending the heroes... but if he was honest, measuring his strength against them could help him to proof he was worthy to wield one of the three sacred weapons of Askr... Fólkvangr.

And, of all the heroes he was eager to fight... Chrom was the most important one. Not only because Chrom was very similar to him in many aspects... but also because Chrom had defeated him once already.

Both raised their swords and slowly watched the actions of the other... until they clashed their weapons with diagonal attacks from up to down by Alfonse and down to up by Chrom. Both put their best effort at trying to beat the other, pushing the other's sword until both decided separate the swords and try a second slash attack... incredible, they decided to do the opposite of their first attempt... which generated the same result... then they tried vertical slashes, from right to left... both of them and at the same time which pretty much ensured both hit but also both got damage... and again... and again...

"You have become stronger... now it is like I'm fighting... myself," said Chrom.

"Thanks?"

Both swords continued colliding, just like Chrom had pointed out, the whole fight looked like if they were fighting a reflection. While this meant none could beat each other, at least Alfonse was happy to know he was as strong as one of the ten most powerful melee combat male heroes.

The battle might have carried on forever, however that changed when Ephraim appeared attempting a thrust that barely Chrom dodged.

"Need a hand?" asked the king of Renais.

Alfonse, smiling proud of himself, nodded. "Two is always better than one."

Chrom gulped, Alfonse could easily distract him, allowing this blue lancer to destroy him... He didn't have to worry though.

The power of thunder roared once more. One, two, three, four, five times more!

Ephraim, of course, stayed harmless... however, the prince of Askr, being a slow fighter didn't have that luck.

Alfonse lied on the grass, feeling an insane amount of pain... The worst part was the fact the first time the thunder reached him was because his sword had taken the lightning and it, due the law of the electric properties of the metals, had crossed his sword from the point to the handle and from the handle to Alfonse.

Chrom took his time to look at the direction where Robin was and say a thanks before paying attention to his new foe.


"¡Hija de perra! (daughter of a bitch!)" exclaimed Kiran. He had to get Alfonse out of there before she made him shit!

Amelia didn't have time to pay attention to Kiran as she stabbed a soldier with her spear. But just when she fell due a shield attack from other swordman. Kiran quickly blocked the other sword with his own and he decided it was a good time to do his first kill with the other sword. He drew the Espada Maestra and with a diagonal cut directly on the neck from down to up, the Emblian died. He looked at the sword for a second before he sheathed it again.

"T-Thanks." said Amelia.

"Don't mention it... damn it... damn it... mmmmh... what should I do?... urgh..." then he noticed Roy riding towards Alfonse, Chrom, and Ephraim. "Please do what I think you're going to! please do what I think you're doing to!"


Ephraim thrust at the max speed it was possible for him, Chrom didn't have much luck this time, his right shoulder, however, Chrom took advantage of this and used his sword to push Ephraim's lance until it was touching the grass, then Chrom placed his left foot on the lance and slashed Ephraim on the chest. If Ephraim hadn't jumped backward he might have gotten a worse wound.

Ephraim prepared himself to receive another slash from Chrom, only to notice another thunder towards him, again, he jumped laterally before attacking Chrom once more.

Alfonse tried to stand up, however, the pain he felt was too much to allow him to do that. He could hear thunders falling either near or far... until he heard the sound of a horse. He raised his face to see Roy.

"Come with me you want to live!"

"Y-Yeah!"

Alfonse barely managed to get on the horse before Roy ordered it to move since another thunder was about to attack them.

Both the king of Renais and Ylisse continued their combat. Ephraim blocked a vertical attack with the shaft in order to thrust to the face immediately after Chrom created an opening. Siegmund left a large cut section on Chrom's cheek as he inclined his head. However Chrom also used this to slash against, Ephraim now had an interesting X wound on his chest.

They continued like that for at least a minute until each one got a little away from the other.

Ephraim coughed in pain and smiled. He used his hand to clean some blood from his chin. "Before I came to Askr I hadn't met any other person who could stand this much fighting against me wielding a sword besides Seth... and now I've met two persons like that. You're amazing!"

Chrom also cleaned some blood which was near his Exalt mark. "It's an honor, I suppose."

Ephraim started to thrust the faster as he could, something Chrom didn't was very good at dodging.


Robin was less tempting to generate more as she had already used her sword many times and she wasn't sure if it had much energy left. Even with all the damage, she had caused and how many soldiers she had taken down. It was pretty obvious to her she had lost this fight... The Askarian tactician had good resources in his army... not only she had never seen magic like that, she also never saw another swordman so similar to Chrom... she'll have to think how to deal with all those things, it had been pure luck she had her own card up her sleeve, otherwise this fight would have ended faster.

"Lissa, play it, it's time to retreat!"

"Y-Yes!"


Chrom and the Emblians who hadn't got either captured or killed reacted instantly at the sound that filled the place. All of them began to escape. Even though Ephraim attempted to accomplish his mission, Chrom got saved by two cavaliers that strangely had the same colors in their armors that Forde and Kyle.

The king of Renais sighed and placed his left hand on his chest... "That was a tough one..." he needed a healer immediately.

He walked back towards where all the army was reuniting.


Sharena ran and hugged her brother the very moment she saw he was lying on a rock while a the same healer once ago had cured Kiran and Amelia's wounds.

"Brother, are you okay?!"

Alfonse growled, sighed and tried to force a smile. "Don't worry, sister..."Alfonse closed his eyes in frustration... he couldn't believe he was about to say something like that to relax Sharena. "...P-P-Ponchito is fine..."

"Awwwww!"

Kiran laughed at this. Then he turned to see Amelia. "Well done, Amelia, continue like this and just like me, you'll become a decent soldier in at least three months."

"It's good to know that, sir Kiran!"

"Well, I'll see you later... I gotta find how many casualties we suffered..."

Kiran walked and asked where Anna was.


After taking a deserved rest, the order of heroes continued advancing. According to the map, there was a town close and it would be good to get supplies.

"60 soldiers... some of them were from Evelyn's army... DAMN IT!" Kiran generated a cut on a tree before he continued pedaling.

"Relax..." said Anna, patting him on his back.

"Better caress my hair... urgh... maldita Robin (curse you Robin)..."

"O-Okay..." Anna did what Kiran told her... Kiran began to blink a few times until he actually decided to purr like he usually did when Corrin or Sharena patted him.

"You gotta find a way to counter her Levin sword. It's not easy though, Robin herself had troubles doing that when she and her friends faced the mad king Gangrel... or that's what Alfonse told me time ago."

"Mad King Gangrel?... why do I have the feeling he's just a pathetic version of Kefka?... anyway... the problem is no idea appears in my mind..."

"Take your time, you don't need to do it right now."

"... Right..." Kiran growled and pedaled faster.

Kiran didn't say a thing, he prefered to spend his mental energy at getting ideas... he got one... but practically speaking it was a very difficult plan. Could he got a better plan?


When the heroes saw what happened to the town they couldn't believe it...

Kiran, Amelia, Lucina and Anna walked through the streets, looking at the houses... or better said, what used to be houses.

"Cabrones de mierda... (Bastards motherfuckers...)"

"T-This... did bandits do it?" asked Amelia.

Lucina gulped "P-Perhaps the Risen?..."

Anna shook his head "I don't think so, this is not the first time Embla does this."

Kiran's rage increased. "Scorched earth tactics... these pendejos (assholes) are trying to destroy the food and anything that could be useful for us... they are like the Russians..."

"Yes..." Anna nodded... "Wait... Russians?"

"Russia es the biggest nation of my world. Scorched earth is one of their favorite tactics... like that time they fought Napoleon, the Russians managed to defeat the French army by not fighting at all. They let the Frenches walk into Russian territory but they didn't let them get any resource. By the moment the Frenches reached the capital, which the Russians also destroyed, most of the French soldiers had starved to death... it got worse in the retreat since the winter arrived and the Russian winter is considered the second-worst one of the planet, only surpassed by the Antarctic one."

"I never heard of that kind of tactic..." said Amelia.

Lucina was having flashbacks of her horrible future and didn't say anything else.

"So you also have history in that brain of yours... well, fortunately we still have enough supplies and... having lost 60 soldiers it allows us to ration them better... considering they have control of Ylissetol, probably they are burning every town between the capital and us... we will have to take a longer and more curved path if we want to get more food."

"I don't think we have other option at all... don't dare to drink any water from the well, obviously it will be poisoned."


Fuck... I had three tests, not only one as I expected... three... the second one was designed to measure my knowledge about statistics, psychology, and language... and then the third one was about Japanese... I hope that explains why it took me so long to release this.

As I said, Ephraim was pretty much the real protagonist of this chapters. I figured out he would have flashbacks about Selena in this kind of combat. I just hope the fights I described were good ones. Also, this was just a foreshadowing of his imminent epic battle against Chrom!

If you're wondering who the hell Kefka is, he's the villain in Final Fantasy 6. Technically speaking he's the most successful villain in the whole Final Fantasy series.

While people tend to believe it was the winter what defeated Napoleon and Hitler, it is not really the case. If you look for the information you'll discover the French invasion to Rusia started on June 24 and ended on December 14. The winter is like a bonus, but not a decisive factor at invading Rusia.

Maybe some of you noticed my new Avatar image, I also uploaded it to Fire Emblem Heroes Reddit yesterday. It was the same friend who made that sketch of Kiran with the Master Sword that drew the new image for me (I don't really believe in gods, but if one of them actually exists, please bless that dude). It shows a younger version of our Kiran wielding the Four Sword (better known in Spanish as the Espada Cuádruple (Quadruple Sword)) and being hugged by Nino, whom is Kiranito's girlfriend in this case. As you can guess, he's from a different timeline where he got summoned as a 13 years old boy.

Anyway, time to answer reviews that I need to write a new chapter of GATE and Megaman StarForce:

Half-BeastDragonSoul2013:

Actually... you guessed rightly the 90% of my idea.

And I know, I mean, even when they finally brought back Fjorm it was only to torture her by using the fallen heroes... at least in the bridal paralogue, she had a good time.

Guest:

When dealing with bastards like Embla Kiran does not really want to be merciful.

Blexan22:

That Luigi nickname has a background. It has something to do with Kiran's brother.