Race Against The Clock

Kiran regretted sleeping instantly after Robin left.

He hadn't taken off his contact lenses... and now his eyes hurt.

He gave them a final look as now they were dirt enough to do not be usable anymore. Without the appropriate cleaner, he couldn't continue having blue eyes... it was depressing, but he quickly smiled a little, taking off his glove.

The triforce mark at his left hand was so beautiful... he hoped the triangles would shine again, but whether this was possible or it wasn't depended on Naga's power and what the reality determined.

Kiran ensured the Espada Maestra was resting by his hip, then he opened the door of his carriage. He had been sleeping a lot considering the carriage was moving again.

"Thanks, Agnes."

"Any time, sir." the soldier stopped the carriage. Normally he would have gone to the back part to take his bike and begin pedaling, the fact he had lent it to Nino changed that. He just walked away to continue marching on his own.

He noticed Nino was having fun with the bike. Kiran ran faster to catch her up. This was good for his health, too. In a way, he was surprised he had stopped being kinda fat to be just as thin as his former friend David... he still wasn't as muscular or tall as him though.

"Good morning, Nino." Kiran smiled.

Nino gasped a little, then she smiled back at him. "Good morning, Kiran." she stopped pedaling and get off from the bike, she was now just walking and so was Kiran. He began to caress her hair.

"Did you sleep well?"

Nino giggled. "I think I should be... eh?!" Nino narrowed a little, approaching her face to Kiran's. "Eh... y-your eyes... what happened to them?!"

Kiran smiled, he was feeling a deja vu "Well, they actually are like this, brown. They only looked blue because I had cosmetic lenses that made them look like that."

"Cosmetic lenses?... that were... glued to your eyes?..."

"Something like that, however, they... expired." He shrugged. "They were the only things... besides the keys of my house, that I brought from my world."

"Wow." Nino blinked faster for some seconds. "Amazing." then she inclined her head and showed sadness once more. "Kiran... now that I'm staying with you... does that mean we're... siblings?"

"I guess we are." Kiran yawned in boredom.

"Okay... just... just..." She stopped, letting the bike lean on her, she hugged Kiran tightly. Kiran raised his eyebrow. Nino didn't say anything for two seconds. When he heard her voice... it was as if she was at a funeral or something. "Just... don't die... please... I... I don't want to lose anybody else..."

Kiran hugged her back and continued caressing her hair... he even kissed her on the head. "Since I have all this knowledge here in my mind and I haven't backed it up completely in the books I cannot even consider to die by the moment, so don't worry, your new brother is not leaving you."

"P-Promise it..."

If Kiran was honest, he considered the promises were nothing but empty words... but if that made her feel better... "I promise it."

She finally let him go. At least this time she wasn't crying... "Thanks, brother."

Kiran felt something wasn't right... "Um, would you mind calling me onii-chan?" he smiled like a stupid.

"Um, I don't mind... but, why?"

"It's the Japanese word for brother, it sounds better in my opinion." He couldn't deny he wanted to hear it. Nino was already too cute...

Nino scratched her hair, but then she lowered her hand and smiled. "It's okay, onii-chan."

"..."

Nino panicked when Kiran suddenly knelt and placed a hand on his chest, making pain noises. "What's wrong?!... Onii-chan?!"

Kiran raised his other hand. "It's nothing! it's nothing... urgh... I just... I'm having a heart attack or something like that."

"EH?!" Nino yelled. "HEALER! HEALER!"

Kiran stood up slowly. "No no no! it's okay it's okay... I feel fine now... I was just exaggerating." His face displayed a stupid smile he probably would be keeping at least five hours... he wasn't sure if this was better than having obtained the "Triforce"

"A-A-Are you sure?!" Probably he shouldn't have scared her that way seconds after saying he promised her he wasn't going to die... he called himself imbécil (fool) in his mind and then spoke.

"Y-Y-Yes... em... I changed my mind, better call me hermano." he caressed her hair again.

"H-Hermano?" She was very very confused.

"Yeah, it's better that way due to the fact I have a diabetic grandmother... I'll call you hermana. Those are the words for brother and sister in my mother tongue."

"Hermano and hermana... sounds good... but are you sure you are okay?" the concern those eyes displayed was going to kill him...

"Yes, yes, sorry for that..." He hugged her and kissed her on the forehead once more. "Tell me, do you like cats?"

Nino took a moment to answer. Probably she was still confused about what just happened. However, she finally raised her eyes to meet his "I gotta admit they are cute."

"Well, you're getting one once we live together in our own house." he needed even more cuteness in his life, a cat would just make it perfect.

Nino smiled again.

All this cuteness remembered to Kiran something... technically, Nino would also have a hermana... yes, her hermana was back home at Askr.


Evelyn was... very worried.

During the whole time the order of heroes had been absent... they hadn't sent a message to explain their situation... it shouldn't have been hard since this gate wasn't very far from the Ylissean capital... and while she prepared herself in case the Emblians appeared from it... nothing had happened.

Were they succeeding? had they been defeated? she couldn't know...

At least she and her soldiers enjoyed some time to take more rests, spending a week without advancing and killing felt good.

Evelyn drank some lemon tea as she wrote a letter to report to the castle.

Destiny was a bastard though, soon there was going to be something that needed more attention.

One of her soldiers entered her tent, he entered running and without asking, something not normal for entering the tent of a lady.

"Lady Evelyn!"

The woman raised her sight from the letter and looked at him.

"This better be important."

"The Emblian army... is approaching..."

Evelyn crossed her arms. "From where?"

"The south! our pegasus explorer saw them at the other side of the mountains."

Evelyn sighed in relief... "At least that gives hope the order of heroes may still be alive... spread the word, prepare yourselves for the combat. I'm going out in a second!"

"Yes, lady Evelyn!"

The tactician left the quill on the table, grabbed a map, stood up and walked towards where her sword and fire tome were. She breathed deeply, exhaled and went out.

It was battle time.

As she walked around, she analyzed her situation.

If the Emblians wanted to reconquest the portal the soon as possible, they would take the passage through the mountains, which was very narrow. It was the only one, that meant she didn't need to separate her forces into two or more squads... however... this also implied all the heroes the Emblians brought with them would be in the frontal lines... if dealing with a single one was hard... worst part, she didn't know who were the heroes this time, apparently now the Emblian generals made sure they were hooded with black coats.

Her forces didn't have many experienced archers to create a perfect arrow rain...

Would it be better to retreat and await from a secure distance the arrival of the order of heroes and then crush the enemy army by attacking from two fronts?

She wasn't sure how to make the idea practical... even worse, while the heroes were hidden, the army banner of these Emblian was not. They belonged to the imperial guard of the princess Veronica!

Why had she come there instead of being either in her castle or in the frontal lines against the grandmaster Frank?!

The possibility suddenly crossed her mind. The commander Anna had reported that the first time the order had attempted to free the world of Awakening they almost got trapped there when the gate started to close. It's true the prince Alfonse could have opened a new one... even if that happened... but they had lost one of their members, the prince's best friend... however, the prince mentioned he barely opened the gate once more to the same version of that world of Awakening due to the short time it had been closed, needless to say, many questioned why to do that only to save a single man.

The important detail here was the prince himself said he couldn't open the same gate if it had been closed for much time... if she allowed Veronica to close it...

She couldn't ask for reinforcements... there was no other faction of the Askarian army near her position...

She would have to resist... she must resist...


The Askarian soldiers prepared their shields as arrows were the drops of the new raining.

The Emblian soldiers advanced slowly but carefully.

When Evelyn's mages cast their fire magic, Veronica released the power of Élivágar. Green poison spheres generated and fell towards the Askarian. Evelyn ordered to get away from them. The soldiers obeyed, while she reduced the casualties, the Emblians had advanced more, those who been left behind, still screaming in pain due to the poison, got their lives taken when swords, spears, and axes cut through their bodies.

The red knight ran placed his sword in a vertical position, protecting his blue armored friend so no arrow could hurt him. Once they reached the Askarian spearmen, they attempted a thrust. The red knight destroyed a few spears with Durandal. Armads then destroyed the shields, amputating some hands in the process. Then the green nomad woman used her both katanas to quickly assassinate the first defense line with the help of the red knight and the black knight Xander.

Evelyn grimaced. "WHATEVER IT TAKES, TAKE THOSE FOUR DOWN!"

Forty soldiers attacked them when they approached once more.

The armored didn't react when at least two of those swordmen hit him with two armorslayers. He just turned back and beheaded them. One Askarian soldier was about to do the same to him but Xander blocked it.

Suddenly, they noticed an arcfire spell in direction towards them. While Xander could avoid it... the armored one was so heavy that got very burned... but that didn't seem to matter to him as he continued killing soldiers.

"W-W-What's going on here?!" Evelyn gulped. Why this man hadn't screamed at all?!

On the other hand, the red knight and the green woman had their own problems.

While they managed to take down all their attackers, they also got a cut on the left hand, a lunge on the stomach and some other wounds on the face.

The green woman had just finished off another soldier when she got pierced on the back. The red knight attempted to hurt with a slash from up to down to the attacker of his friend, but a lancer blocked the attack.

"I'm counting on you!" yelled Evelyn as she jumped backward when the green swordman made two slashes. She counterattacked by doing a vertical slash from down to up. This slash collided with both katanas, forcing the swordwoman to raise her hands, creating the opening Evelyn needed. She used her left hand to cast fire on the left hand of her opponent. Again, Evelyn was surprised to see that the woman was yelling in pain. Evelyn blocked a diagonal slash, then she had to dodge a horizontal one... a vertical one, another horizontal one, another diagonal one and so on for at least three minutes. She wasn't making any progress. This woman was incredibly fast! Then her spearman saved her from an attack coming from Xander.

"T-Thanks!"

Noticing more of her soldiers were dying and she would be surrounded, Evelyn ordered to back off more...

"G-G-Go!" yelled that spearman.

Evelyn gulped, casting another arcfire. This obligated to both Xander, the green sworwoman and the red knight to back off. However, her spearman refused to escape. Instead, he and some soldiers more approached and implored to Evelyn to run.

"G-G-GO! YOU ARE PERHAPS OUR LAST HOPE!"

Evelyn had to close her eyes as she turned around and ran. While those soldiers managed to keep in check to the four at least a minute, Veronica noticed this.

They became into poisoned corpses.

The Askarian army was now just a few meters away from the gate and nothing was going well. Evelyn cast arcfires to her left, to her right, in front of her. The other mages did so. But the amount of Emblian soldiers was insane! The remaining foot soldiers had to deal with at least two Emblians and a minor hero from other world, each one.

And finally... after probably healing them... the three heroes from before a Xander.

While her training to become a tactician said a good one must remain calm no matter what... Evelyn was breathing faster than normal "L-L-Light, g-g-give me s-s-strength..."

Just when she and Xander began to cross their blades and Veronica was being escorted to the Gate...

"FOR ASKR, FOR THE QUEEN!"

She and Xander stopped trying to push the other's blade... to observe that from the Gate, the Order Of Heroes... had returned!

The prince Alfonse stood in front of the portal as many heroes and soldiers keep coming from behind him.

Xander had to run away when, suddenly, lightnings fell from the sky and many of them almost hit him... A levin sword, here?!

"Is that?!..." Evelyn's mouth was very opened... she was seeing... Robin the grandmaster of Ylisse!

She noticed a certain white tactician running in direction towards her.

"Kiran! your timing couldn't have been better!" Evelyn's smile could not be bigger.

"I don't think so, had I came here a few hours ago you wouldn't have suffered so many casualties... let's not celebrate yet, this battle is far from over!" Kiran drew his Espada Maestra and silver sword. "How is the situation?!"

"Y-You are right!" She pointed with her sword to the red knight, the green swordwoman and the blue armored man. "They are the most dangerous one, and take care, Veronica is here! her tome is horribly dangerous!"

"Is that so?" Kiran's face suddenly displayed a smile and his eyes narrowed. "Well, I really want to give her a hug... let's do this thing!"

Evelyn continued casting fire from a secure distance. She smiled at seeing that not only lightnings were falling, now there was also an even more powerful fire spell and green swords, too! Kiran, on the other hand, was fighting by Alfonse and Ephraim's side.

Ephraim was kinda disappointed, this swordman, even when having a bigger sword than Chrom's one, wasn't as challenging as him. He quickly pierced him one, two, three, four times!

Alfonse had improved his speed. Hector might be the second strongest male hero, but his slowness would be his downfall!

Kiran and that woman began their sword dance. his eyes went wide as he recognized these two katanas... Roy had the same ones!

Slashes and more slashes between these two, Kiran had no other option than using the Espada Maestra to constantly block attacks and push the katanas since his opponent was fast and only his right hand would work in this case to attack fast.

A lightning impacted on her. Kiran jumped backward. As she tried to stand up... she began to be surrounded by shadow magic... and then she disappeared... turning around... not only her, Veronica, Xander... most of the soldiers around her were gone...

As the two armies fought the remaining Emblians, Kiran could not help but hit the ground with his fist.

That bitch had escaped once more...


Remember when I said our OC would do something important? well, thank to Evelyn our heroes remained in their Askr.

Because that's something the game also does not bother to think about it... is Alfonse able to open the same portal to the same exact timeline always?...

In this case, the answer is: If much time has happened, the gate won't be the same one and you'll end up in a different timeline since the "connection" is lost... it's even more dangerous when you attempt to open it from the side where is other world and not the world of Zenith, then the dragon Askr (Who is the one that actually opens the portal, since he would be the only one to calculate the same things Naga must. Being Alfonse's power simply a "pray") won't be able to reach you that easily.

... Honestly, I don't know what more to say this time... ah! yeah! I also decided to upload the story to Wattpad, in case any of you prefers that website. It has the same name: Fire Emblem Heroes: Kiran's Story. My user name is: Roblu Zernny Maruno Venisk... something, Reytons... it's pretty large.

Time to answer reviews:

Half-BeastSoulDragon2013:

Believe it, there is a lot of things you must use math to make them work...

Guest:

It's more about the fact Kiran does not have quintessence. Remember I said that is the base of the souls. Because of that, technically speaking Kiran does not have one.

I know... I mean, they transform her into a shitty villain by doing that...

Blexan22:

Even I've nerfed the real gods of the games by making them just powerful beings, just like Naga, they aren't gods. For example, Sothis can't really manipulate the time the way she does in the canon (without mentioning it's a shitty plot device...) ... I mean... for fuck's sake, her powers would affect the entire universe in order to work like that. Instead, she is the only one able to cast Haste and Slow (spells from Final Fantasy I'm pretty sure many of you know).

I doubt Kellam would be invisible in this version... it's more a thing used for fun rather something realistic.

I know, my Veronica is better... just wait until I write about Surtr!

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it!