World Of Blazing Part 2
As the sun hid under the horizon and the hour to assault the town was approaching each second, the "hero" of the legend sat on the ground over a hill filled with grass to do what he had concluded was an important detail for the future since the last time he checked the heavens.
Even though he could see that incredible amount of stars on the firmament... he wasn't able to find the object he had hypothesized time ago.
At least from this point of perspective of the planet, there wasn't a big galaxy easily to be seen.
Could this mean an irregular galaxy that traveled alone through the Cosmos? or at least one that wasn't a satellite galaxy but still belonged to something similar to the Local Group?
Kiran wished it was the latter option... otherwise...
He sighed as he rubbed his face.
"Would you mind if I join to you?" a sweet voice he recognized easily spoke to him.
"Want another astronomy lesson or something?" Kiran asked as he extended his arm to lend his telescope to the princess of Ylisse.
"I would enjoy that." she sat by his side as she, like a child of five, allowed her imagination to feel amazed as she placed the artifact near her eye.
Kiran reflected for a moment that, had he been interested to get a girlfriend, Lucina would have been the first option given his sometimes weird obsession with the color blue. Yet, the only thing that interested him regarding the beauty of all those ladies he had met in this world was... well, the scientific secret that explained why all them looked so beautiful in comparison to the women from his universe.
"Just like the planets orbit around a star... sometimes the stars themselves interact with more stars, creating what is known as binary solar systems... although the limit is not two stars, there can be three, four... I'm not sure if six can be possible though."
"Wow... just... wow..." Lucina's smile shone as brilliantly as the stars she was admiring so much.
"Although at first it was thought binary systems were something odd... it happens that having a yellow star that is "single" is what is odd... and by that I mean even though the most common stars are the red "tiny" ones that are usually, indeed, "single". Between bigger stars, you can expect to find at least one partner. This led some people to think that, perhaps, there was a hidden partner of our sun... proofs to demonstrate it never appeared though."
Lucina was fascinated because of all this knowledge... however, then she sighed as she gave a sad smile. "You know, when I was a little girl... mom used to tell me that the stars were our loved ones that had ascended to heaven... that idea gave me hope in my future... the few times we could have some peace from the Risen Grima constantly sent to hunt us... I watched the stars... thinking that mom and dad were watching me from there... had we knew some stars have companions... probably I would have believed it even more..." she sighed again. "But I suppose it was just a silly tale for children..."
A part of Kiran wanted to remain silent... yet, another part ordered him to give another speech about the indifference of reality... while he still was waiting for the correct moment to tell Corrin she was, ninety-nine percent probable sterile... in this case, the subject wasn't that problematic.
"Adults tell children a lot of stupid stories, saying the also stupid excuse: they need to enjoy the magic and the illusion of the infancy... to me that is garbage. Reality is interesting enough, it's not necessary to invent such things to keep the kids entertained."
Whether Lucina got mad at him because of this, he couldn't tell.
"This gives hope to people when everything seems to be lost though..."
"Hope? having hope for the sake of having hope it's just deceiving yourself. When you just don't have the answer, it's more mature just to say: I just don't know. There's no shame on accepting we don't have all the answer, shame would lying us regarding that."
He groaned in frustration. "Although it's true that, as Skynet would say, in times of despair... people will have faith in what they want to believe... this is something that we, tacticians, must take advantage of."
Lucina remained silent as she felt she had heard something like that before... then, her memories flued through her mind and she remembered when.
Lucina was sitting inside a tent along with her father's tactician. A marvelous man called Robin. The man was worried that the army would fall had he got killed in battle without leaving a spare tactician... and that's why she was there.
"One of the primordial details a tactician must ensure is making the opponent believe they can win."
Lucina frowned. It didn't seem to make sense. "But... wouldn't it be the opposite? destroying their will to fight?"
"The art of the war is the art of deceiving. Would you fight a battle you think you're gonna lose when you are still willing to fight?"
"Uh... well, I suppose no..." she rubbed her left hand's palm.
"To win the war we must ensure the enemy falls into our traps... of course, one can wish they would listen to reason and would surrender after that... but things like honor can allow the enemy to retain their hope even when the only thing at the end of the tunnel seems to be darkness. In those cases, we must take advantage of that hope... and then... well, crush it... as many times as necessary to make them surrender..." the tactician sighed as he gave a sad smile. "I know this all sounds more like something you would expect to hear from Walhart himself... but I'm not a hero... never was... never will be... all the Valmese that were transported to a physical version of the hell because of me can be sure about that..."
He then rubbed his forehead.
Lucina just gave him a hug.
Back in the present, she also hugged Kiran. "You really are similar to him..."
"To Robin? well, yeah. Even his female self agrees we are similar... but not that much... anyway. Just don't get too attached to me. Ephraim would go mad with envy if he discovers his friend like this with the woman he likes." Kiran smiled, shooking his head.
Lucina blushed. "I guess it's obvious he would tell that to his friends..." she said as she let him go.
Kiran then gave a hysterical laugh, in his fucking life he would have imagined he would be in this kind of situation.
It was truth he once found a message written on a table that read: Te amo, Luis (I love you Luis). But he always thought it must have been some kind of prank. He was kinda fat back then after all... but being a possible cause of some jealous... it felt so surreal...
Love just wasn't his field. As he inclined his head towards the grass he remembered another interesting detail for the class.
"It's a shame most of the plants are green instead of red." he looked at the said thing with... disappointment.
"Eh?... why?... red plants?... what makes them better than green ones?"
"It's kinda complicated but it has something to do with the type of light a star emanates. Do you remember the experiment to make the rainbow?"
"Yes, aunt Miriel told me that the white light is composed of all those colors." Lucina nodded.
"Good, well, the thing is that the colors that the plants receive the most determine their color. A yellow sun, along with some other factors about the atmosphere, give more red and blue light to the plants and they absorb those lights to make their food in a process called photosynthesis, they reflect the light green and that's why they have that color."
"What you mean... is that other types of suns would cause different lights to reach the plants... and they would reflect other colors?"
"Yes."
"But... what makes the red plants "superior"?"
"It's not like they would be "superior", it's just that stars that would cause red plants are orange stars type K. They are kinda smaller than the yellow ones... but they live almost three times the lifespan of a yellow one. And that is good because-" Kiran didn't finish his sentence because another sweet voice continued it.
"Because an orange star like that would allow life to develop more time."
"L-Lady Tiki!" Lucina didn't waste her time and she knelt to her.
Kiran smiled like a bastard and gave a signal of peace and love. "Yeah, pretty much that. An orange star type K is one of the factors most astronomers look to find a superhabitable planet."
Tiki ignored the bastard as she sat by Lucina's side. "There's no need for you to do that, Lucina.
"I-I-I see..."
"What gives us the pleasure to have you here this night, lady Tiki?" Kiran asked witch such a stupid smile on his face as if he had totally forgotten he and Tiki had an arguing the previous time they talked.
"I cannot say it's a pleasure for me... but I couldn't sleep so I decided to walk a little." she remained indifferent.
"I see." Kiran yawned "The only explanation that could exist for you to understand what I was explaining is that your mother taught you about this, right?"
"I've also learned a lot by myself throughout my entire life," she commented. "And I suppose that your species is more advanced."
"We have placed a flag on our moon that because of radiation or something like that now it seems like it's the French flag. So we do have the technology... whether they deserve it or not is something different."
"You don't exactly give a good example..."
"I know I'm a piece of garbage, no need to remind me it" he smiled as he approached his face to Tiki's one.
"Then don't dare you to compare yourself with Marth!" she also approached her face.
As a result of this, Lucina had to awkwardly move herself to do not end up receiving a double kiss...
"But the legacy of a scientist, usually, has more impact on the world than any king."
"Marth's efforts saved the world!"
"And people like me make living in this world worth it and our legacy keeps saving lives even centuries after our last breath is expelled... or well, I should better say people like my heroes, they invented and discover everything I know. I'm just a stupid wannabe copy of them... and even with that, I cause more impact." he shrugged.
Lucina could only fear the tension as Tiki had a face filled with rage... and yet Kiran continued with that stupid smile.
"Anyway." Kiran stood up. "I lent it to you more time, but make sure to give it back to Miriel once you finish," he told that to Lucina. "Have a nice night, ladies."
Then he left.
"L-L-Lady Tiki?..."
Tiki still had that rage face... he wasn't a hero... no... never was... never will be...
She sighed. "Sorry for that, Lucina."
"I-It's okay..."
Because the body didn't have a proper burial and the fact it was summer in Lycia, the putrefaction had been accelerated and the corp was already been invaded by the worms. What once was the strongest mage of the continent after the death of Athos and the man who gave the fatal blow to who perhaps had been the worse black mage ever existed in Elibe would soon return to the planet and he would stop existing... or well, at least, the majority of him.
A certain compound had been flowing through the brain as the biological processes of the body had stopped. The information was being copied and, soon, would be released.
The darkness of a night without a moon was, as many tacticians through the story had discovered, the perfect scenario to initiate a nocturnal assault to any fortification or town,
It served well this time too to hide the presence of the enemies of Embla.
Kiran, following Kager and being him followed by the rest of the Order Of Heroes.
Kagero thanked a lot the lacking of walls as she hid under the shadow of a house... and she quickly grabbed one of the guards by the mouth, pushed him towards herself and used her other hand to stab him directly on the neck... followed by another stabbing on the mouth to ensure he remained silent.
Another soldier still noticed the sudden dissipation of one of his friends... and he met the same horrible fate.
Kagero advanced quickly as she continued killing soldiers until it was sure nobody could warn about the danger until it was late.
She returned and gave a thumbs-up to Kiran.
"Ready?" Kiran asked to Robin as he prepared his two swords.
"Ready."
Kiran then gave the signal. All the soldiers advanced quickly!
On the air, Shanna, Florina, and Caeda flew near the ground...
Florina almost screamed in horror when the spear of her own sister Farina almost stabbed her on the head.
The shy girl had to order her pegasus to... escape...
Shanna had her own problems against another pegasus knight who had also blue hair but longer. They began to fly in parallel with each other. Shanna thrust as fast as she could, which her enemy blocked with her shield. As the blue-long haired pegasus returned the thrusts even faster, Shanna blocked them with her own shield. They continued like that.
The princess of Talys faced another opponent. Her situation was worse seen from a more psychological perspective
A wyvern and its master.
Had she been her version already married to Marth, she wouldn't suffer as much...
The wyvern flew fast and almost bite her precious pegasus, Caeda ordered it to raise more, and then she made a maneuver to stab with her lance.
She failed.
To rescue her, however, appeared the dragon princess transformed, on her back Lilina and Nino had been casting their spells. Tiki used her fireball which managed to hit the wing of the wyvern, Caeda took advantage of this to finally stab the master on his shoulder and make him fall.
Florina got the help of a red-haired pegasus knight. "Fight back!" she yelled as she thrust as quickly as possible.
"B-B-B-B-But... sh-sh-she's my sister!"
"What?!" Although Cordelia began to fly by Florina's side, it proved quickly to be a mistake as Farina almost collided with both.
Shanna blocked another attack. She then pushed with her shield when the spear of her foe was touching the said object, making an opening she didn't waste.
"Fine, fine, everything is... fine!" three stabs in total. One on the pegasus, another two on her rival.
As the three enemies fell... they barely survived because of the low altitude they were combating. Quickly some Askarian soldiers obeyed the order Kiran had told them before the battle began and take them to Lissa and Maria... at the same time they chained them up.
On the ground, the battle was more brutal.
Frederick saw two knights running towards him, each one wearing red and green armor. This kinda gave him a deja vu.
As the green one attempted a thrust with a spear, Frederick hit that spear with his ax and also blocked a diagonal slash from the red one with his own sword. He quickly hit the red one with the superior part of his ax. Having free time to attack the green knight, Frederick dodged a thrust and hooked the spear with the ax, then he just controlled his enemy's weapon allowing him to stab the green one with his sword. By the time the red one attempted something, Frederick used the red's green partner as a shield and finally gave himself the final blow with his sword.
Chrom had to deal with a blue-haired woman paladin.
She was too fast!
A vertical slash, a horizontal one, diagonal ones. He blocked them all for thirty seconds until he saw an opening. He jumped to the left and proceeded with his vertical slash. The woman only needed to jump too to avoid that... but the spear of Ephraim suddenly stabbed her.
"Need a hand?" he smiled.
"I could use some help." Chrom smiled too.
The king of Renais and the Exalt did attacks together, each thurst of Ephraim's lance was followed by and slash of Chrom's falchion, one, two, three, four, five, six and more times they did that. Some Emblian soldiers tried to help the paladin, but nobody could stop the duo.
A similar team but between siblings could be found on the same battlefield.
Alfonse used his sister's shield to protect them both, Sharena kept attacking using both hands to cause the most damage as possible. The prince sometimes attacked too in case Sharena hadn't killed any soldier that dared to face them.
Alfonse noticed a very muscular man wearing green about to hit his sister's spear with his ax... only to be stopped by Anna's ax. "Don't forget about me!"
Kiran used both swords to block an ax that almost landed on his face, he quickly jumped to the left and then a jump backward when his opponent then used his sword.
He then released a rain of slashes towards the red-haired man he was combating with.
He thanked infinitely Frederick had given him experience against this kind of enemy.
A dodge moving to the left, a dodging moving to the right. Blocking with the sword, the man didn't receive a single wound.
Kiran growled as he stopped and prepared himself to counterattack.
When he blocked a vertical slash with his left sword... he didn't attack... no... this option wouldn't work against the sword... he kept blocking until his opponent used the ax.
There!
Unlike the previous time, he jumped to the right moving his left sword with a slash from down to up. The result was Kiran's blue sword hurting the hand that held the ax and making the other man drop it, all this due to the lack of protection for the hand an ax offered.
Without this, when Kiran did a diagonal slash from up to down with his left sword and the other sword blocked it... at the same time Kiran was stabbing him on the chest with his right sword.
As Frank had told him... it didn't seem the hero felt any pain at all...
Kiran continued his assault until his enemy fell. Kiran stabbed him one last time on the back, almost hitting the heart. It was then when the Askarian soldiers captured him.
Robin could have helped him... but she had been busy with two purple-haired mages. One of them cast a fire wave she received with her hands and redirected towards him. However, Robin found herself surrounded by dark orbs. Fortunately, Raigh pushed her out of the way and he received the energy.
The young black mage coughed some blood, he managed to control part of the energy though.
Lightings fell from the sky, but the mages dodged them jumping.
However, the mage of anima didn't notice Lugh with a hand filled with electrical energy... releasing it directly on his face.
The dark mage wearing a monocle as about to cast Luna once more... and he couldn't as Raigh sent him back the previous one and Robin took advantage of this to make her Levin sword cut through his chest.
Other mages or soldiers couldn't interfere because Nino, Tiki, Lilina were giving them more hell from the sky.
Roy decided to use his mother's swords for this combat... and probably that was a good idea. A swordmaster who seemed to be also from the same land his mother came from was releasing his own storm of attacks which he counterattacked as fast as he could.
The horn could be heard. Thanks to this, the Emblian soldiers started the retreat.
Kiran and the others ran after them for a minute, taking down at least twenty soldiers more.
Kiran was breathing fastly... but then smiled. Another successful battle...
He let himself fall on the ground... as much as his biological clock was reaching the point when it would ask him to sleep... he wasn't going to.
No... there was a place he needed to visit first...
He used his two swords to help himself to stand up... and walked to where Raigh was.
Raigh rubbed his chin as he analyzed his patients... as each one kept struggling against their chains, trying to kill him.
As Kiran entered the tent... he felt confused.
"Why are they here?" he pointed to Florina, Lilina and Roy.
"Well..." Florina played with her index fingers... as she looked at her two sisters...
True... technically speaking these versions weren't her sisters but...
It also begged the question... where was "she"?
"They are our parents' friends..." Roy commented. "If we don't cure them... then..."
"You'll need to kill them?" Raigh asked as he extracted some black magic from his tome and approached the red-haired man who fought Kiran.
Lilina inclined her head and it seemed like she was about to start crying.
Kiran rubbed his forehead, his eyes closed. "I see..."
Raigh placed his fingers on the patient's forehead. The black energy helping him as he analyzed what he had to deal with.
"There's much dark energy flowing through the brain and the heart..."
"Not a surprise, to control someone you would need to "reprogram them" and the only way do it to a man is to alter the brain." Kiran frowned.
"Most of the energy is crossing the frontal and central side of the brain... almost nothing the back part..."
"Those must be the frontal lobe and temporal lobe... both are the parts of the brain related the most to the behavior, emotions, and memory... the rest probably is blocking the pain."
Raigh nodded. "At first it sounds cool to do not feel pain... until you remember that it is a function that allows you to determine danger... most people who don't feel pain end up without arms or legs."
"Can't you just... extract the magic?" Lilina asked.
"Yes I can, now, if you do care about possibles secondary effects like mental damage that would make them retarded, I don't think it is a good idea," Raigh growled, shooking his head. "It's never that easy... you know?"
"S-Sorry..."
"I'm afraid I cannot help you much with this... neurology is one of those fields of study I only know the basics..." Kiran sighed.
"Whatever." Raigh stopped the process... and then...
Each captured hero began to struggle even faster... which wouldn't be that surprising...
if part of the dark magic hadn't begun to be expelled from their bodies through their mouths and they began to scream!
Everybody backed off.
"W-W-What's going on!" Lilina hid behind her mother.
Roy and Kiran unsheathed his weapons just in case...
"I-I-I don't know!" Raigh yelled.
The heroes continued screaming until... all the black energy from their brains had been expelled... and then they stopped moving... then, just like the original regular contract, the energy that was inside their hearts was expelled too...
Raigh approached slowly... his own black magic ready to kill... he grabbed one of those stethoscopes Kiran and Miriel had created... and he tried his best to hear the heart of this people at the same time he analyzed the brain of the red-haired guy again...
His eyes went wide...
He proceeded to do the same with the next hero, the man the trio of Askr had faced... the next one the red knight...
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"Raigh?..." Kiran was the first one to speak.
"They are dead..." Raigh confirmed... "Heart attack... mixed with the pain it caused the dark magic because of getting out from their brains that fast..."
"No... no... it can't be true..." Florina approached his sisters. "Farina?... Fiora?... speak to me... please... say something... anything!"
Kiran grimaced, crossing his arms. "It seems like the Emblians really don't want us to discover the secret of their new contract..."
"So they are going to kill any hero we capture..." Raigh frowned...
Lilina and Roy had their mouths covered by their hands.
The implications of this didn't escape them of course...
Raigh approached Kiran. "So... are we going to do something different to Veronica?... or is burying her alive after putting her inside a room with five prisoners is still the plan?"
"No... having read the universal history of torture finally is going to be useful for something instead of being just fucking dark curiosity..." Kiran's face "degenerated" into the face of a demon.
"The question is... how are we gonna save the heroes if we can't study the spell?..." Raigh remained serious.
"Perhaps the answer just is... we can't..." Kiran knew... that he now didn't want to have mercy...
He didn't care what Nobel would have thought had he still been alive...
Now he just wanted to see the Emblians screaming after being dismembered by explosions
Because this new contract cannot be removed through fighting... this happened.
The thing about Kiran saying there was a hypothesis regarding a possible second star in the solar system isn't a joke, it's real, just search: Nemesis hypothesis (yes, Nemesis). It's old and debunked as far as I know but it's still something interesting to read about. It's basically the star version of the planet X.
I tried my best to give you a chapter-longer than 3000 words as a way to say sorry for taking this much... I mean, at least I finished one of my fanfics... the Gate one... but now they are sending the work I need to do at home and... damn, I really wish I was still going to classes at the school... working from home like this is a fucking nightmare... the physiological factor hits you even harder.
So, yeah. First I kill a character you barely knew, then I kill half of the cast of a game very loved by people... this is escalating. Proximately members of the order... and you can guess who of the Askrian trio is gonna die once we reach the part of Muspell.
Probably the Nilfians will speak French and the Muspellians Japanese if I continue with this good rate of learning both languages.
Time to answer reviews:
Half-BeastDragonSoul2012:
Three Houses characters are going to appear. What I meant is that, in this story, Heroes is the last game chronologically speaking. It happens in a different continent, yes, but everything of all games (with the exception of warriors) has already happened. But probably Alfonse won't recognize them.
Yeah... I would prefer to stop calling them trio...
A fan:
Mostly because Kiran is a scientist but not an engineer. Because he focused on science to help people so much, the area regarding weapons that aren't chemical or biological isn't exactly his forte. If he focused on the medical part so much is because he considered the most important one.
Amm... we're talking about the same guy who freaked out so much because of a tiny fraction of plumbum in his sword... because that element is toxic regardless of how much it is unlike, for example, the mercury that is necessary for vaccines... I don't think he would like abestos considering they cause cancer If I remember correctly.
