World Of Blazing Part 4

The Askarian soldiers were doing the best they could in order to prevent the Emblian army to continue advancing towards the camp.

The fact their enemies had decided to attack this soon meant the advantage of the Emblians being poorly feed wasn't going to be there. It was true they weren't displaying their usual strength, but it wasn't the eighth marvelous thing of the world.

The Askarians were decently doing their job...

Unfortunately, that didn't last long.

A soldier wielding an ax didn't have the time to react appropriately when Sol Katti cut across his heart. His partners couldn't do anything and, one by one, each one of them suffered a similar horrible destiny.

Another group met a dark way to die when their spears were broken by the massive Armads. Just like their weapons, their heads were crushed, transforming them into blood fountains.

Another one had problems keeping themselves away from the owner of Durandal as his sword didn't seem to have problems "drilling" through armor.

There could be few heroes still remaining on the Emblian side, but these ones were the strongest ones of the world of Blazing... and even three of them belonged to the category of the strongest heroes of all the worlds.

The general was very aware of that detail, and he wasn't to display mercy after such a dirty trick. So he ordered the heroes be as no-nonsensical as possible

Even though the dark of the night didn't allow Wil to aim at everything he could, he and the local Florina were making a good duo.

As Eliwood raised his sword to claim the life of another soldier, his sword, but he quickly had to dodge an attack coming from another sacred blade.

The corrupted hero had to jump backward multiple times before he could start taking the offensive posture once more.

"He does have reflexes..." The prince of Askr complained. By his side, the king of Renais. Chrom, who had been the one who had attacked Eliwood, trying to stay serious, prepared himself to battle again. "Just let's stay together and he'll go down!

However, reinforcements for the hero quickly arrived in the form of more Emblian soldiers... and Héctor, who was standing by Eliwood's side.

The Emblian general, holding the dolls the princess and future empress of his nation had entrusted to him, knew that leaving a hero fight alone against multiple ones was the easiest way to get failure. He had already lost the opportunity of using the castle as a fortress, he now HAD to win no matter what! no more mistakes!


Lyndis, on the other hand, got interrupted in her attempts to continue killing soldiers by a red-haired swordmaster.

"I don't like hurting a lady... but I suppose there's no option."

he commented as he started slashing at high speed.

Unfortunately, if speed is what is been talking about, Lyn was just behind of Ayra and she and her two katanas didn't have any problem blocking the multiple attacks,

Lyn also could react to her new opponent but, unlike Eliwood, she didn't have good luck because at the moment her sword and Robin's sword made contact, the electricity of the Levin blade used Lyn's sword to reach her.

Robin didn't release the full power of her weapon since she didn't want to kill Lyn.

The local corrupted heroine had received a potent electrical load, but because of the minimal time of transference, she was still in a condition to keep fighting.

"Let's see what the rest of the day has stored for me" he threw a coin into the air, caught it, and checked it. "Interesting."

"Don't get distracted!" Robin demanded as more Emblian soldiers approached.

The general, not knowing where that cursed sword came from, ordered Lyn to dodge everything instead of blocking.


Raigh gulped deeply... he still remembered the detail this world was the past version of his own... because of this... there was always the small but not inexistent possibility he'd meet during the fight... another Nino...

The possibility was there, "scratching and bitting" inside his mind as if rats they were.

The black mage clenched his teeth at the moment he cast a Luna spell on a group of enemy soldiers...

His mental pain increased when he remembered that time he ALMOST had killed her using his Apocalyse tome...

However, thinking about it, he then smiled like a bastard as he got a better comprehension regarding a possible explanation for why Kiran had displayed such a funny scene of him having a "headache"

With this in mind, he cast his Luna spells faster.

Near to him, Lucina, Sharena, and Anna were dealing with the soldiers that survived the Luna spells.

Because the local Florina was fighting on foot and there were not more pegasus knights on the Emblian side, the pegasus knights of the order were not present in the air, too. The only exception was Cordelia helping Lilina to release hell on the battlefield... but taking care because the dark of the night may cause them to hurt allied by mistake.


Ephraim suffered a little panic attack when Armads was about centimeters from cutting his right arm by the section of the shoulder.

Ephraim learned the hard way that Siegmund wasn't very effective since Héctor's armor was a very good one and he even managed to make sure Ephraim only hit him on not very critical places.

Héctor, at some point, seemed to have decided that using only his weapon wasn't enough and a certain painful punch landed on Ephraim's face. Alfonse had to stay in the middle of them to barely stop Armads from crushing Ephraim's skull after that. The prince counterattacked quickly.. only to barely manage to cause a tiny scratch on Héctor's face before the marquess kicked him strongly.

Durandal and Falchion made much noise as their edged collided one, two, three, four, five times multiplied by five.

Chrom had to admit that he was impressed. That sword was a bit big and still, Eliwood could wield it without much trouble. Also, at this point, it was normal for any sword to have been broken by having so much contact with Falchion ... that other one really had to be another holy sword.

Both ran against each other once more. Unfortunately for the Exalt, Eliwood displayed more combat intelligence this time when Eliwood quickly jumped and kicked him on the stomach. It was so fast and so unexpected that Chrom didn't have the time to react accordingly and he lost his balance. Then a slash on his arm created a wound, and then another one on the back as Eliwood continued advancing after the first attack. The third wound on Chrom would have been inevitable had Chrom not quickly placed his sword behind him to obstruct.

As Eliwood attempted to stab him more times, Chrom rolled on the ground to dodge.

Ephraim and Alfonse didn't fail to notice the situation as they jumped backwards to dodge another attack from Héctor.

"Go help him!" Ephraim yelled, still attempting to do not let the "cursed" weapon to take his life first instead of the owner's one.

Alfonse didn't hesitate and he quickly obeyed. Even if he was usually known as a slow fighter, he could didn't have to travel that much to be near to Eliwood. He interestingly did a similar tactic to what Eliwood had done before, but Alfonse had the advantage Eliwood wasn't facing to him so the prince got a clear opening.

His sword cut through Eliwood's back. Yet, the corrupted hero, being unable to really feel pain or at least display he felt pain, turned around once he used his legs once more to kick his opponent get himself free from Alfonse's blade.

Then, when Chrom stood up, he attempted to replicate the action of the prince. This time it didn't work though as Eliwood ran away a little to have each one in front of him again.


In another part, the princess of the Manaketes expelled fire from her mouth. Her flames didn't fail at consuming the soldiers that attempted to take on her.

Knowing how dangerous a Manakete could be, the Emblian general ordered something new through his dolls.

Robin and Joshua had to raise their eyebrows when, suddenly, Lyn apparently stating to retreat... but that was the keyword, apparently.

Both followed until they were side by side with Eliwood, Chrom, and Alfonse. Once the lady took the place of her friend and more reinforcements got to help her, it was now Eliwood the one retreating

"Where the hell is he going?!" Robin didn't understand why they would be ordered to do that... until she noticed, shockingly, who was in the direction Eliwood was running to.


Cordelia had to stop casting magic when Wil started to aim at her the whole time. How many arrows had she dodged? did they had given the full stock to this hero?!

"Hold to me! She ordered.

"Understood!" Lilina yelled.

After a while, Cordelia decided it was time to land, she had had enough of this.

Which made it even more frustrating when Wil finally managed to hit her with his great aiming skills... or rather, her pegasus.

The flying horse screamed in pain as it fell... fortunately, it wasn't flying so high at that moment.

Once both hit the ground, both screamed... their wounds weren't that severes but the pain was still there. Even though Cordelia got it worse in the physical aspect because of the weight of her armor, it could be said Lilina had much worse luck.

Why?

Because the place they landed was near to where two heroes were combating each other.

Lilina growled as she tried her best to stand up...

Only to face a blue-haired man holding a monstrous ax... unable to feel anything... ready to separate her head from the rest of the body.

"WATCH OUT!" Ephraim yelled as he ran towards her to try to save her.


Tiki could say she had already taken care of all the Emblian soldiers of her place of the battle... until she noticed the red-haired hero running towards her.

Eliwood, not wasting any second, jumped to the left as soon as Tiki released her power.

Almost by her side, Tiki used her claws to crush him, but again, Eliwood's reflexes helped a lot.

Tiki attempted to start flying.

But Eliwood quickly jumped towards her.

The anti-dragón legendary sword created a magnificent and long wound that started at Tiki's neck and ended on her leg.

Had Eliwood been aware of everything he was doing, he would have felt a deja-vu.

The Manakete princess fell defeated. Her "divine" blood quickly decorated the ground around her.

Before Eliwood could turn around and gave her a second wound, she quickly returned to her humanoid form, and, to the shock of everybody who could see the scene, Tiki started shinning, and suddenly, she was "erased" from the existence.


Back at the medic tent, Nino was drinking some water the healers had offered to her.

Just like the ones fighting, all they had their mouths partially opened when a strange light materialized by Kiran's side.

"Wh-what?!" Nino ran and pushed Kiran, she wanted to get him away... but that didn't work because of how heavy Kiran was

As the princess Manakete appeared apparently from nowhere and fell on them... Nino wasn't exactly comfortable with that...

The sight everybody got from the voice of Naga was as comfortable as Nino felt under her... especially with all that blood.

"H-Help..." Tiki whispered.

The healers, confused as they were, immediately started working.

They carried Tiki to another bed and used their staves to fix the injury.

Nino used a towel to clean as best as she could the blood that had stained her.

The same she did with Kiran's clothes. His case was worse because of his white clothes.

The same healer that had cured Kiran's wounds with magic the first time, whose name was Clara, approached to Nino. "Are you okay?"

"My hand hurts a little..." she commented as she tried to caress to reduce the pain.

"Let me examine it." She smiled.

Nino extended her arm so her hand was perfectly visible for her.

With all this, they didn't notice somebody was starting to move his fingers...


Cordelia couldn't move. She just couldn't.

As the local Florina and Wil stood by her side, Cordelia screamed more in pain as a spear made its way through her heart.

Her suffering was stopped when Shanna's lance hit the local Florina on the head. Wil also didn't have much time to react as a fire spell from Lugh hit him on the back.

Cordelia found pretty ironic how one of the heroes that offered her a hand to help her... was the version of the order of heroes of the pegasus knight that had caused her that injury. To say her face denoted shame and awkwardness was a euphemism.

Sumia, the other one who helped her, smiled at her best friend. "Let's get you out of here."

"Thanks."


Robin used her full strength on her legs to jump forward

Lyndis, once again, dodged the better she could, either by jumping too or even on some occasions, shielding herself with another soldier, either an Askarian or an Emblian one.

"Damn!" As Robin prepared herself to release more electric power, Lyndins held another soldier but, instead of using him as a human shield like the previous times, she kicked him in direction to Robin.

Robin, too busy avoiding end up on the bottom part of that man, couldn't react in time for Lyn's assault.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight consecutive slashes from both Sol and Mani Katti gave to the Ylissean tactician injuries.

Robin's luck was better than Lilina's one. Robin only had to place her sword in the horizontal position once she was on the ground to hurt the woman of Sacae.

The contact between weapons wasn't much longer compared to the first time Robin applied this tactic, but once she rapidly got on her feet to see Lyn, Robin was pretty sure Lyndis's internal injuries wouldn't allow her to move that efficiently.

Joshua would have helped her more had he not been busy taking care of the remaining Emblians.


Tiki's wounds had been closened correctly. However, the big amount of blood she had lost in the process made her remain unconscious.

"It would have been mortal had it not been treated properly immediately..." one of the healers commented.

"Who knows? she's a Manakete after all." another one said.

Nino, now with less blood on her skirt and shirt, continued watching Kiran.

She had to blink a few times when it seemed like his index finger... was moving?...

She shook her head, approached... and gasped when, indeed, his fingers began to move.


As the mind got reactivated, the eyes had begun to open. Even though it wasn't necessary to adjust a lot to the level of light present in the room to commence the process of sending information to the brain, he blinked a few times.

However, the process that had taken place caused... a certain effect.

As he growled and tried to stand up... this time he actually felt something similar to a headache.

Kiran?... Mark?... who the hell he was?

The brain, unknowing the complete details of what had happened to him, couldn't answer a very crucial question.

Was he Kiran who got Mark's memories somehow?...

Or had somehow Kiran and Mark merged their minds into a single one?... which begged a very concerning question...

His train of thought got interrupted when he felt somebody embracing him with love.

"Kiran!"

That voice... he knew very well that voice... she had been making company to Kiran during such a large time... but...

As she separated her head from his chest, she looked at him into his eyes. "I'm so glad you're okay." Her heartwarming smile along her angelical "ojitos" ("tiny eyes") could radiate more light than a quasar...

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...

...

Nino's eyebrows and mouth denoted her confusion as she approached more her face to his.

"Kiran?... a-are you?..."

He didn't let her finish examining his facial expression. He gave her the tightest hug he had ever had for her.

Nino would have backed off a little if Kiran's hands had allowed it.

"K-Kiran?!..."

"... Gr... grrr..." This man's eyes narrowed... and he was trembling as multiple emotions mixed in his being started to be influential in his behavior.

His pride ordered him to do not to let those cursed water things get out... on the other hand, he was just so happy for being able to see her again...

There were multiple memories that "glitched" as they were pretty much opposite... even though technically he had bought to her a birthday present not too many days ago... a part of him still remembered the tragic day of the battle against Nergal's morphs...

The memory of Nino's face filled with desperation as a being with the face of HER OWN STEPFATHER claimed her life had ended up very well recorded and was perhaps the saddest thing Mark experienced that day...

This memory, as painful as it intrinsically was, became even more unbearable because of the memories and feelings of one of his two... halves?

A part of him had always appreciated her, even if she had a stronger relationship with Lyn... but the other one...

He just couldn't hold them... clear and "crystal" as they were, this body's tears begun to flow.

Nino remained silent for some seconds... not understanding what was happening to her "hermano"

The others also present watched the scene... it was supposed to be an intimate moment... but it was a case of mundane made incredible... since nobody had ever seen Kiran cry.

"K-Kiran... w-what's wrong?..."

Her innocent and curious face was just... too much for him to handle. A part of him very familiar with all her suffering thanks to her miserable life as Sonia's "daughter"... and another one that had barely gotten a better comprehension of just how much pain she had felt...

He took a moment to look at her as he saw her face once more.

One of his halves didn't believe in angels... his other one could claim to the other one that he was seeing one... even if they didn't have evidence to demonstrate it...

Even if the rational side couldn't understand how or when it had happened of even if that was actually the case and he wasn't just misunderstanding everything... the emotional side told him the answer was pretty obvious...

He loved her... his heart... no! his mind confirmed this!... or perhaps it was both?

"I-It's nothing..." his face tried to mirror the best of the smile she had given to him before. he caressed her hair even more gently than the previous times...

Nino was speechless. Even when Kiran smiled... he never seemed to display that level of happiness...

"I... I... I just..." he gulped.

As he remembered all the questionable experiments he had done... how a side of him seemed to be merged with a monster... and how horrified he was that he had spoken similar things to what Nergal had said regarding the life, the evil and good... (at the same time the side that had said those things insisted he was being retarded for getting scared of the cruel truth of the universe...)

"It's nothing..." he repeated...

Emotionally... he just didn't feel worthy to have her because all that... his rational side told him this was a mistake, that he couldn't let the cursed feeling to take over.

Yet... he had... he had... he had faith one day he could actually offer her the peaceful life she deserved.

"I just... I just want to promise you I won't allow anything bad happens to you again..." his determination and faith took over by a moment...

Nino, who at this point was already displaying a coloration of red on her cheeks... became even redder when she felt Kiran's lips.

He DID NOT kiss her on the mouth, it was a tiny but soft peck on her cheek.

However, after a few seconds of him watching her with all his love... he suddenly backed off quickly and placed both his hands on his head and, just like the previous times, it would seem like his head was about to explode.

WHAT IN THE FUCK HAD HE DONE?!

He thought as he growled like a beast.

HAVING FAITH?!

HE HAD ABANDONED THAT GARBAGE IN THE PAST!

But technically speaking, a part of him hadn't.

The healers tried to help him as Nino still tried to process everything... she couldn't move.

After a while, he heard the sounds of the battle... and, without either his rational or emotional side working adequately...

He unsheathed his sword and took Nino's tome as he quickly ran away.


I have... kinda the feeling that in my attempt to give you more fight scenes to compensate for the lacking of that in the previous chapter might have caused I went too far with making so many for this episode...

Because I got enough free time and I knew you deserved more after waiting so much time, I forced myself to create this. I've spent the whole day writing it (I first write everything in Spanish so my brain won't suffer much and then I translate it. That's why it took me a complete day)

I hope I managed to make sure Lyn, Eliwood, and Héctor are a real threat again though...

So, as you may have noticed reading the previous chapters... Mark and Kiran don't have personalities that could match very well. Mark has been "heard" saying things like: We have to have faith, or something like: Your parents are up there, watching you. We all know Kiran WOULD NEVER say anything like that, at the best he would stay silent. So what did you think was going to happen when you merge two people with an ideology base SO OPPOSITE to each other? It's not like their both base concepts: Care more about reality than what you want to believe it's true, and: Faith is an essential part of every person, are parallel things that can be compatible... no! they are totally opposite!

Basically, the scientific ideology and the Faithfull ideology are causing "personality mental glitches" because Kiran and Mark would have never get along, in the best scenario they just wouldn't hate each other. I mean, as it has been suggested before, it's like Kiran is a new Nergal and Mark the new Athos...

I remember somebody once mentioned Kiran reminded him of Mark from Wanderer of Elibe... but when I read the first chapters... my reaction was to say: They are only similar in the sense that Kiran would have become like Mark had he been born in Mark's place, because of this, never have had made contact with the scientific method and all the rational process involved in it.

This will be more explored in future chapters, as we are about to finish the world of Blazing in the next one. Just take into consideration that when I say the words: Faith and believe, I never meant them as synonyms of Trust... both things aren't the same. It's a detail that's even explained in a book of introduction to the logic, the one that Irving M. Copi wrote.

Talking about other stuff, I'm honestly surprised nobody is throwing rocks and death threats to me for making Kiran develop a crush on Nino...

The existence of this chapter means Nino has won already?... allow me to remember the woman Mark was in love with is... obvious answer, Lyn! XD Besides, who says Robin does not have opportunities anymore?

Also, I kinda find funny how I once said Kiran could fall in love with Edelgard... and then, time after that, her legendary alt pretty much seems to have a similar crush on him like the one she has for Byleth XD.

Anyway.

I already answered to Half-beastdragonsoul2013 by private message, so I'll just leave her part of what I told her but without revealing some more stuff she asked me and I responded (some of that stuff has spoilers):

Yeah... it made her look younger than 14 years old... although I gotta admit she looks even more angelical that way.