World Of Blazing 3.5
Nino hummed happily as she grabbed the salt and dropped some grains over a soup. She then used a spoon to shake it to ensure everything mixed correctly.
"You're doing it amazingly." Cordelia smiled at her, she cooking another thing by her side.
Nino smiled as she said. "Thanks for teaching me."
"No need to thank me, it's a pleasure to help." the pegasus knight patted the girl on the head.
It was true the cakes tasted like heaven and Nino enjoyed so much that smile that Lugh always displayed when she prepared one, sometimes even Raigh gave up his pride and he gave her a cute face too... but she also knew any respectable chef was able to cook a great variety of recipes, even simple yet healthy ones like the one she was preparing.
Her heart warmed as she felt something very special, a desire to do her best to make sure her babies would be content eating what she cooked... she was so happy to have them... yet, that also brought another feeling... knowing she had needed to abandon them to protect them because the problems of her past chased her... prompted her to feel pain of regret.
Even if technically she wasn't the same mother and they weren't exactly her sons... she didn't care, she loved them...
She just hoped in her turn she wouldn't suffer the same fate...
True, in Askr the Black Fang couldn't find her... yet... something could always go wrong.
That also brought up another question that was consuming her mind...
Who the father of Lugh and Raigh was?
After... learning how the babies were brought into the world... she felt incredibly uncomfortable trying to imagine who had been the man she had allowed... to touch her that... particular way...
Honestly, her desire to have twins must have been that influential to let happen something so... scary? terrifying?
She couldn't describe it with words...
She shook her head as she determined the soup was now in perfect condition to be eaten.
That detail wasn't important at that moment.
Taking two bowls and filling them with said aliment, she walked in direction to the table she always spent time with her babies.
As she arrived, she frowned. "Where is Raigh?"
Lugh shrugged as he raised an eyebrow. "In theory, he left to give the summoner his food but he hasn't returned, no idea why he's taking so long."
Nino sighed. "I see," she quickly recovered her smile as she placed one of the bowls in front of Lugh. "Anyway, I hope you like it."
Lugh gave her a smile. "Thanks, mother."
"Anything for my baby." She gave him a kiss on the forehead.
Lugh's smile didn't fade, yet, anyone could notice his awkwardness. "Mom! I'm not a baby!"
"You know you can't change you'll always be my precious baby." Nino's heartwarming motherly smile made Lugh give up.
"Whatever... so... what about the book I gave you?"
"It's so cute when the duck manages to return to the lake."
It was kinda odd she would be reading books for children... yet, it made sense. She technically didn't have the opportunity to have a normal childhood.
Lugh put the spoon inside his mouth.
"So?..."
Lugh nodded. "It's delicious."
Nino sighed in relief.
She decided she would eat from the bowl she had prepared for Raigh by the moment. Otherwise, it would get cold.
Both remained silent for a while until an idea appeared on Lugh's mind. He moved his index finger as he spoke.
"Wouldn't it be funny if you learned to read because of me... and then, thanks to that, you taught me to read... which allows me to teach you to read... that ensures you can help me to learn and so on?"
Nino smiled, raising her eyebrow. " That's an amusing but confusing concept... but I don't think the time works that way given what we know thanks to Askr."
"I know, it just felt it would be interesting." Lugh giggled.
They continued eating.
Nino was getting worried. Again, where was Raigh?
Even if she wasn't in the mood to go to see the idiot Kiran... perhaps she should go to take a look.
Before she stood up, however, the voice of her other son was heard through the camp.
"HEALER! I NEED A FUCKING HEALER!"
The young mother, as expected, got worried something might have happened to Raigh. So, she didn't waste any second and she ran out to find him. Lugh, of course, ran behind them along with some other heroes whose attention was gotten by all the commotion.
Her eyes went wide and her mouth was opened when she saw Kiran... lying on the ground... he didn't have any wounds but... when Raigh said a substance entered his body... she couldn't deny she was concerned.
So, when the Askarian tactician was being carried, she followed.
Another one who also was very worried about what had happened to Kiran was the tactician of Ylisse.
The tension in the order was pretty clear to be seen as Kiran was placed on a bed inside the medic tent.
Lissa, Maribelle, and even Artur were by the sides, preparing their instruments.
"Could you describe to us that substance?" Lissa asked.
Raigh didn't respond at first... he wasn't sure if he should explain that detail... but then he remembered this had been basically an isolated incident. It wouldn't imply anything about experiments with quintessence Kiran had been doing and the fact more of that substance was hidden back in Askr.
"It's probably what we know as quintessence."
Nino was surprised... Kiran's body was filled with quintessence now?
Robin, understanding that concept, rubbed her chin. "Quintessence... just that?"
The prince of Askr crossed his arms. "I've heard about it but my knowledge is very limited."
Raigh nodded. "Sí (Yes)."
Nobody felt it was anything important to ask why Raigh suddenly decided to use one of those words Kiran spoke once in a while. They had already gotten used to it and, considering how much time they spent time together, it made sense.
Artur and the other healers scratched their hair, cheeks, or foreheads. "Well... quintessence is one of the most basic things of the body... how much he got?"
Raigh growled as he clenched his teeth. "That's true, right... but let's remember he technically is not human like us! quintessence has never been part of his organism! not to mention he got a full dose! what is normal for us may be poison for him!"
Everybody grimaced at the possibility.
The healers began to take the situation more seriously.
Maribelle took one of the stethoscopes. As she placed the metal part on Kiran's chest...
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She frowned and gave them all a very worried expression. "I don't want to alarm you... but I can't hear his heartbeat..."
Alfonse's reaction to this? "Try again!" he demanded. His teeth just like Raigh's one when he explained the problem of the quintessence.
Nino and Robin gasped.
However, the dark mage rolled his eyes as he approached. He took Maribelle's hand.
"You're doing it wrong,"
"Eh?" it was not only the noble's reaction. Pretty much everybody did that.
"You're placing it on the right side of the chest, normally that would be correct, but in Kiran's case his heart is at the left side." he guided the hand of the troubadour.
Maribelle's mouth opened when, indeed, the sound of the heart was finally reaching her ears. "It's true." she nodded slowly.
Lissa raised her eyebrow. "So, he has situs inversus?"
"Situs..." Nino spoke.
"Inversus?" both Alfonse and Robin completed the sentence.
Artur scratched his hair. "I think Lute mentioned the concept to me. She said there are cases when some people are born with their internal organs in positions that... aren't usually the normal ones. As if they were in mirror mode."
Raigh coughed. "Well, yeah. The thing is, when we were doing autopsies to the corpses of the test subjects and we opened the first body, Kiran was surprised that he had the stomach and heart on the right side. I told him something like: what the fuck do you mean? that's normal and we could check it easily with the remaining corpses. He gave me a very confused look. At first, I thought he got the information wrong or something. As he himself said, even he could be wrong about something. Once we checked three corpses more, he then laughed and commented that in his world it's the opposite. What I mean is that, yes, technically speaking he has situs inversus of the totalis type... but that's because in his world that's the standard and the healers from his world, if they got the opportunity to take a look at our bodies, would say we are the ones with situs inversus totalis."
Nino looked at Kiran entirely surprised... he was like a mirror person.
Robin, on the other hand, placed her hand on her heart. Had she never tried to verify its position, she would have wondered if she had that strange condition.
Artur analyzed. "So his right lung is the largest one?"
"Eso es correcto. (That is correct)" Raigh nodded.
Alfonse laughed. "I guess he really is an alien."
The three medics resumed their task, this time knowing where they should look for Kiran's vital signs.
"He seems to be fine..." Lissa commented. "I just guess the shock of receiving that much quintessence was too much for him to handle..."
"His heart beats a little faster than usual... but he's pretty much just having a very heavy dream," Maribelle concluded. "He just needs rest I guess..."
"We should try to figure out how to extract the substance though... it might not be dangerous now... but who knows... this is a completely new case." Artur stood up as he spoke.
Raigh crossed his arms... he had already tested how Kiran's blood reacted to quintessence... but as he had suggested, it was possible the whole system would not react the same way as a simple part... yet... perhaps... perhaps it had been assimilated positively... or perhaps neutrally... had it been the former option... this did beg the question.
How many years of lifespan had he received?
"I-Is there something wrong if I stay to take care of him?!"
"Could I stay so I can watch him?!
Both Nino and Robin said... which made each one look at each other.
Raigh smirked and shook his head. "Bastardo suertudo de mierda (Lucky piece of a crap bastard)." he shrugged.
"Well... we don't see the problem." Maribelle commented.
"At all." Lissa giggled, looking at Robin with a... face that didn't hide at all what she was implying.
The tactician's cheek became red. In Nino's case, it was kinda the same but, in her mind, this was just concern for her "hermano"
Before anyone else could say something more, Sharena entered the tent. She was breathing quickly. "B-Brother! we're under attack!"
The prince grimaced. "Dang it! it couldn't have happened at the worst moment..."
Just when the tactician of the order wasn't in condition.
"I-I take care of that!" Robin gave a step forward. "I had already asked him if I could take his rank for a while so he could get some rest after all."
"We have no other option anyway." The prince nodded. "Let's go!"
Everybody was making their way out, leaving the normal Askarian healers to take care of anyone who would be brought here during the battle... but Raigh stepped in Nino's way.
"I think he needs you more right now." he still had that smile of a bastard.
"B-But... the battle..."
"We already have enough powerful mages on our side. Besides, what if an enemy sneaks out to here and discovers Kiran unable to defend himself? he needs protection."
"Raigh, I doubt I can be his guard..." Nino gulped.
"Come on, you were raised by assassins, you must know many of their tricks! anyway, take care, bye!"
Raigh ran to do not let his mother argue back again.
Nino, nervously, considered that possibility for a moment... and noticing there wasn't anybody else to guard the tent... she chose to stay.
Outside, Raigh pocked the ninja woman of Hoshido as she prepared herself for battle. "You should protect the medic tent."
"I was going to do it anyway, I swore to keep Kiran safe even before we discovered his existence may change all our worlds for the better, I'm not gonna choose now to change that priority."
"Excelente! (Excellent!) just make sure your ninja skills allow you to stay out of my mother's sight."
"Whatever you order."
Raigh ran to the battlefield giggling
This of being Kiran's second in command was awesome.
The brain kept processing the new memories obtained through the compound at the same time some "mutations" were generated on the bone marrow. The red-blood cells in the making had received a new characteristic that allowed them to recycle the silicon of the substance.
Regarding the memories, many of them were very important... one of those wasn't exactly from the first days of life of the original host... yet, of course, it would have been important no matter what... it was about the day he met her.
"Hey... are you awake?"
Mark felt a horrible headache. He growled a little, attempting to stand up... he quickly realized he was on a bed as his vision stopped being blurry.
He saw a green-haired woman wearing a light-blue dress... she had a big pigtail.
"Eh... who... who are you?" Mark asked, rubbing his forehead.
"I'm Lyn of the Lorca tribe." she offered him a glass. "Need water?"
"Uh? ah! yes, thanks." Mark quickly drank the liquid. "So... the Tribe Lorca you say?"
"Yes," she nodded... before a shadow aura took over her. "Well... actually... that tribe does not exist anymore..." she inclined her head.
He wasn't stupid to directly ask her regarding instantly... he just remained silent for a while until he spoke. "I'm Mark."
"Mark?" she looked at him at the eyes again. "No offense but... that's an odd name. I mean! sounds good but..."
"Weird to be heard about someone called that?" he smiled.
"Y-Yes." she scratched her hair.
"I guess I should thank you again... the last thing I remember is walking through the prairie." he laughed.
"You were sleeping for at least three days... or who knows, I found you already unconscious, who knows how much time happened since the moment you passed out and the moment I found you," Lyn shrugged. "Why were you traveling in Sacae... without food?"
Mark's face denoted shame. "Well, one day you escape from home after your parents try to force you to marry the daughter of another noble just for the sake of making an alliance between houses or something like that... then you become a mercenary to survive... you get hired to kill some bandits... unfortunately your map gets burned and you have to return on your own without real knowledge of navigation... so you spend days walking in circles... and then you get saved by a girl."
"That is... a really serious case of bad luck..." she smiled with sympathy.
"Indeed." Mark gulped. "Em... to be honest with you, technically speaking my name is not Mark... I had to adopt a new one to avoid being tracked easily by my family... but whatever my name was isn't really important."
"It's okay, I understand." Lyn stood up a moment to bring him a bowl filled with fruits. "I'm afraid by the moment I don't have something with more protein but I can at least give you something."
Mark almost let a tear get out from his eye. " Again, thanks a lot, Lyn..."
He then proceeded to put many of those things inside his stomach.
After a while, he decided it was time to ask the obvious thing. "So... you live alone?"
She looked depressed. "My mother and father died along with our tribe six months ago... our village was attacked and... I was pretty much the only survivor..."
Mark grimaced and he quickly gave her a hug. "I-I see... sorry" he patted her on the back. "Just remember that... as long as there's life, there's hope."
Lyn, however, shook her head. "I've been living all this time since that only... to continue living... I-I don't know what I'm gonna do... where to go..."
"Well..." he got an idea. "W-What about... coming with me?..."
"With you?" she raised her head to see him.
"I-I mean... I know we have just met but... if you really are that alone... at least that way we could make each other company... I mean, I'm alone, too... and this place still brings you bad memories... perhaps traveling some time would help?"
"I... I... perhaps it could be a good new start..." she commented.
"Just... don't lose faith, " he caressed her hair. "I'm sure your parents are always gonna be with you, they are watching you from above."
Lyn remained silent for a while. "Thanks..."
"You're welcome."
He then remembered something. "Em... would you mind tell me where are my things?"
"Oh! right! sorry!" she stood up as she brought his bag. "Those are many books."
"Some of them aren't just books." Mark mentioned as he pulled out a thunder tome.
"You are a mage, I suppose."
"I've been training since I was a kid. I was planning to join the army as a tactician but... I suppose that's not gonna happen." he sighed and laughed.
"So... I'm gonna do some farming, I'll come back as quickly as I can."
"Would you like some help?"
While Mark used a sickle to cut some grass, Lyn was watering the most recent seeds she had planted.
"It's weird going from being noble to a mercenary and then to a farmer." Mark smiled at the situation.
"If you were a noble, where are you from?" Lyn asked, smiling as she saw him working without complaining
"From Bern, the southside near the ocean. I was planning to join the army as a tactician but that's not gonna happen anymore." he sighed, still smiling. "Whatever, this is nice."
"Does that mean we are going to Bern?"
"No. Besides... you need to remember I don't remember the way back since I lost my map. Why not you choose our destination for now?"
Lyn placed a finger on her chin. "Well... Bulgar would be a good option to get supplies."
"Sounds like a plan."
Nino kept watching Kiran, still unconscious, as she had her tome on her legs.
She trusted he would be okay... but she had to admit... the idea of having to protect him from perhaps more than one enemy was scary...
She had already lost many... Lyod... Linus... her stepfather... she didn't want to lose him too...
She barely could hear the battle taking place.
As more time passed, her curiosity got the better of her... and she wanted to confirm with her own ears what Raigh had claimed... without a stethoscope... her only option was to lean on Kiran's chest...
Her eyes denoted that surprise when she couldn't hear, indeed, his heartbeat on the right side of his chest. On the left side, on the other hand, was perfectly present the sound.
She then remembered that when he had suffered a "heart attack" he had placed his hand on the left side... that, however, also made her remember why she was so mad at him.
She stood up as she crossed her arms.
She... just couldn't understand why he would find funny on pretending to be suffering that... or a headache like the last time... why he didn't trust her?!
Or was he really pretending?...
Situs Inversus Totalis is a medical condition that has 1 of each 10000 persons in which the organs of the body appear all in "mirror" form. Now, to clarify. Only when it's Totalis all the organs are implicated... otherwise it would be called: Situs Inversus plus the name of the organs that suffer this... while Situs Inversus Totalis isn't dangerous at all and you can pretty much have it and never notice until you get to the hospital for, say, an operation... Situs Inversus no totalis can be a problem... the organs may crush one against each other and things like those. I would recommend you to try to determine if you have one of these conditions, it can save up important time during a medical intervention... it's also the fact these people apparently must receive an organ transplant from a person with the same condition... I'm not exactly sure why... perhaps I'm wrong or there's something I ignore...
In this case, I found this something interesting to be part of the list of why the FE humans can't be considered humans as us besides the fact their pigments allow them to have all the colors of the rainbow in their hair and things like those.
We have more scenes with Mark. If you wonder why these scenes are shown with only English instead of the classical Local language with a translation... it's for practical reasons, this memory has many and very large dialogues, besides you could argue that is the translator since we are watching that event from the memories being loaded into Kiran's mind so... you see.
You may have noticed I changed my name to RoBlueKiran321. Nothing very incredible, I just wanted to add Kiran since now I like to use that name in many games like when I play Zelda.
Again, this chapter would have been released sooner... but my brother decided it was a very good moment to... well.
RoBlueKiran321: What is this?...
RoBlue's brother: My old Nintendo Wii. It's hacked. This is a USB memory that contains Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, besides Metroid Prime Trilogy is also there. Have fun.
So... yeah... I had never played Mario Galaxy... and, as you may guess, being me a sucker for space stuff and Mario it was kinda like mental torture not being able to play it so... I played as if there wasn't a tomorrow. I have all the 120 stars with Mario in Galaxy 1 and all the normal and green stars in Galaxy 2 already... I'm about to begin Metroid Prime 1 so... yeah...
Anyway... time to answer reviews:
Caleb Saido:
I know, right? I'm kinda bored of that cliche... I also dislike the: the first girl wins cliche just because she's the first girl... you may guess my reaction when Uruka won first in the We Never Learn Manga... at least the Fumino timeline is being awesome... but the timeline I want to see is the one of Mafuyu-sensei!
Guest:
Raigh wants Kiran as his stepfather XD
Yeah, I still remember that. Lyn's mom must have had a very good genetic.
