World Of Revelations Part 5: Light Power

Raigh continued to display such a proud grin, his eyes laying on the legendary relic with so much happiness that it felt anti-natural coming from him.

It was impossible for him not to be in such a good mood after this precious "sacred" object had decided to stop being a hindrance and summoned someone of such caliber.

As for the princess of Nohr, she was certainly impressed with what her eyes showed her.

This man was carrying and wielding a weapon that was clearly intended to be two-handed…one-handed and without appearing to have any difficulty holding it…although he would probably move to two-handedness sooner or later since that style of combat, although it was known to be strong, it tends to tire the user out.

Alfonse and Corrin's reactions were "diametrically" different given their respective knowledge of this legendary warrior. Corrin only saw a man who had quite a considerable musculature and a rather peculiar big sword. Alfonse, instead, saw the one who had achieved what no one else had been able to do. Defeat a goddess. With the help of the power of another goddess, true, but it was still an impressive feat for anyone. Cordelia and Minerva were been healed by the clerics who had been nearby the whole time. They had their own thoughts regarding the situation.

Cordelia, in particular, could claim to have seen someone like this new hero before... however, her memories didn't seem to be able to offer her the answer of who, where, and when, at that moment.

The hero radiated a simply imposing presence from Minerva's perspective.

The translator of the moment, Hinata, was able to understand the new contender because he also had a mental translator.

"Mmmh… Ike" he made a sign with his hand, to imply that this was the name of this new hero " wishes to face you, Princess Camilla."

The woman in question doubted that she would have to accept that request.

The deal with the prince was to face one of the "heroes" who belonged to his army. This new character is someone she didn't remember seeing…and if he was stronger enough to beat her solo, why didn't they just send him to fight her from the beginning?

"(Think… think… think!)" The prince did his best to force his brain to get a solution.

However, Corrin decided to come to his rescue.

He stepped forward and made the proposition for both the new hero and his sister.

"How about we fight him together?"

Ike kept his arms crossed. He had been promised a duel, the opportunity to continue improving his skills, and much more… so he was getting impatient.

Camilla looked at her brother as if he had obtained a third eye or something similar… although considering his ability to transform into a dragon, that would be one of the least unusual things coming from him.

"Corrin..." his brother was still that man full of faith. "I am only willing to accept that condition if you are checked by a magician. I want to confirm that there is no black magic in your mind right now."

Raigh and Alfonse received the translation of Camilla's request.

"It's fair." Raigh commented, shrugging his shoulders and his facial expression reverting to the typical angry look of a lifetime.

"If we want her to be willing to negotiate, now we must have the disadvantage."

"I guess so." Alfonse had to agree.

Camilla seemed satisfied.

Since Cordelia and Minerva had finished receiving medical attention, they continued to analyze Camilla.

The terrifying thing about the situation is that the princess of Nohr did not look so tired after that duel.

She really was a legendary hero.

Both of them felt motivated by having found a higher level in the combat skill that a wyvern knight could have and, since before being able to tame one of those things, one had to go through the pegasi taming training of a pegasus knight, someone to respect and aspire to equal one day.

Though, for now, the strength that was relevant in the situation was the one that belonged to the radiant hero.

"Please tell me that he told you that he defeated a goddess or something." Alfonse crossed his fingers, his teeth clenching together as he realized that he wasn't sure if this Ike was already the legendary hero he was supposed to be and wasn't facing another case similar to Seliph's.

"He mentioned something about taking on somebody called Ashera with the help of a certain girl whose name is Yune." Raigh was scratching his arms after suffering from some itching.

The prince of Askr breathed one of the largest sighs of relief in his entire life… the life he could remember anyway.

If that was the case...

There was nothing to be worried about.


Back at the "bottomless canyon" the main order of heroes remained on stand-by as there was not much to do.

Simply put, until a message was received from the troops that went to visit that distant island, there were no plans to begin the mobilization to take control of Hoshido.

Knowing that she shouldn't stress about possible plans just yet, Robin decided to spend some time with Sumia.

Which she partially regretted doing after what she discovered during that bonding session.

Cooking had never been Robin's forte, which had always made her particularly uncomfortable. She hoped to get married one day and a wife who couldn't cook good food was usually judged badly… although she didn't know if Kiran would care much about it.

It was a very strange surprise when she discovered that he washed his own clothes or even washed the dishes he ate his food on.

A man doing those activities was a somewhat bizarre sight.

Although the castle maids had insisted that he didn't need to do that, his response had always been: I am a twenty-first-century man, gender equality is the future.

All the staff kept insisting, but he continued to ignore them until they gave up trying to change his mind.

Despite all that, she felt that she should learn several things in case… in case both of them… one day…

At the time, she was trying to learn how to cook classic Sumia cakes.

If they had been so effective at capturing Chrom's heart, Robin thought it wouldn't be a bad strategy to use them as well with her partner.

Also, from what she had heard, his birthday party kept getting delayed every time… it would be nice to give him the special cake for the occasion.

"So..." Robin spoke as they prepared the flour. "What is that thing you wanted to tell me?" she asked as the memory of a few days ago at the dining tent flashed through her mind.

"Oh." Sumia suddenly had to display a face that exposed her extreme discomfort with the subject… "Are you absolutely sure you like him?" Sumia tried to avoid what she needed to say at least for a few seconds.

Robin, of course, was a smart girl and she was able to discern Sumia's intentions… but she decided that it would make sense for her to explain her feelings better.

"At first, I must admit I found him a bit rude…" she frowned, especially remembering when he yelled at her for questioning his experiments on criminals… but Robin later understood that she wasn't exactly the best for criticizing that. She had burned an entire fleet of soldiers alive after all, and his point about humans and manaketes made her realize that she had unconsciously said something racist against that species.

What matters is the mind, not the body… that's what he once told her.

"But he has shown to me that his desire to help others is very great." He had pretty much given them all the knowledge he could as a present, especially his vaccines. "He helps us because he doesn't want us to make the same mistakes his civilization did." Robin had to swallow hard as she remembered her history lessons about the Terran Metal world.

"He explained to me about the one-hundred years that passed before he was born, years of war and constant chaos during the first half of the century and during the second one a constant fear of a possible cataclysm… and even today he is not sure if all that fear could be reactivated."

Mutual Assured Destruction through nuclear warfare... a way of forcing "peace" that made Robin's blood run cold... "I once accompanied him to see what he did with his part of the profits he receives from his inventions… or replicas as he calls them... and much of it was invested in orphanages. He claims that he doesn't need that much money since many of the things he likes won't be invented for 300 years at most anyway so he might as well use that money to keep investing in the future. The future, in this case, being those children."

And that's not even mentioning the promise he'd made to help her fix her mistake...

"Oh, true." Sumia scratched her chin. "I heard that as soon as he completes a project, he is already thinking about the next one. Miriel said she was collecting seeds for "a global seed vault" or something like that."

Miriel had explained them that said vault was meant to be a place to store copies of every single seed on the planet, to ensure there were back-ups so those crops didn't go extinct.

Having gates to almost every continent of the world was just too convenient for that.

Sumia then noticed with surprise that she couldn't find the cake they had been working on.

It didn't take her more than two seconds to figure out what was going on.

"Gaius, if you're still here, please put that back… if you want some at least wait until we've finished it!" Sumia rubbed her forehead.

The ninja appeared behind Robin, she wasn't scared at all since she was already partially used to it. "I'd say I'm sorry, but we know that's not true." He had a clear smile on his face as he put the cake in the making back on the table.

Robin, however, was nervous about something. "How much did you hear?" Gaius simply placed another lollipop in his mouth.

"About Bubbles being in love with Morning Star?" he just shrugged. Robin had to rub her face as she could feel her cheeks' temperatures increasing.

"Uh... I don't remember you ever giving a two-word nickname." Sumia commented, looking particularly puzzled.

Robin pondered for a second and she had to admit that her friend had a point.

Well, he called Virion Your Lord or something like that but even then, this was the first time he used two nouns.

"I tried calling him White, but he said he didn't like that nickname at all. I suggested Brain then, but he was still not satisfied. He insisted that his nickname must be somehow connected to the meaning of his name. At first, I thought of Star, since they create rays of light, he seemed happier but said something was missing. Remembering that Specs said that his knowledge would be the essential thing to lead us to "a new sunrise" I suggested Morning Star." Gaius's face reflected some doubt in his mind. "For some reason, he laughed a lot when he heard that combination of words but he said it seemed like a better one."

"I see…" Robin knew that Kiran's sense of humor could be very dark… so she wondered if that combination, Morning Star, had any connotations in the Terran world.

"Anyway, it's sweet that Bubbles has finally found someone who can give her love. He is a sweet boy, we discussed a lot about candies once." Gaius sat down to wait for the cake.

"Yeah...uh...Robin," Sumia sighed, they couldn't help this anymore. "You have to know what happened." She asked Gaius to leave, explaining that she would cook him another cake apart from the one they were currently making if he did.

When Sumia finally explained to Robin about the conversation she had with the girl she had had some time ago, Robin felt a cold sensation in her chest.

"He… loves her…" Robin had felt a lot of sympathy for Cordelia when Chrom and Sumia's wedding occurred. Robin had tried to cheer her up by asking her to go shopping, training together or just anything she could think of... which perhaps didn't turn out to be very effective given the still lack of understanding in human relations that she suffered at the time due to her amnesia... but Robin could never say that she understood the pain that the now Pegasus Commander had felt...

At least... at least until now...

"There's no way that's not the case given his protection declaration." Sumia patted her friend's back.

Sumia in particular was a bit disappointed. While that little girl deserved to be loved as much as anyone else, Sumia and her husband had been hoping that Robin might get some happiness too.

The poor woman had practically become suicidal when she discovered her connection to the fallen dragon… and even now it was still pretty clear that she wasn't quite right.

"I focused so much on teaching him tactics that I didn't make enough progress…"

Robin sat up, showing concern.

She then remembered how Nino had also offered to take care of him when he was unconscious…and how he had promised that she could come live with him when the war was over.

"Now then, Nino says she's not sure if she wants to reciprocate his feelings." Sumia scratched her head. The poor girl did not understand what was happening at that time "And after talking to her it became clear to me that she was very confused about what romantic love was. She's not really in love... so you still have a chance."

An opportunity…

Although… did it make sense for her to want to try in the first place given what he promised he would help her do?


One of the reasons Ike was so willing to do this was that, after defeating Ashera, he felt like he had reached his limit.

Simply put, beating a goddess… even if it was with the help of another goddess, must have been the ultimate challenge.

None of the battles he had faced afterward had been satisfactory to him.

Hence, he had thought about the idea of leaving the mainland in search of challenges.

And being summoned to an alternate world where heroes from multiple worlds would gather and, thanks to that, be able to return as if he had never left in the first place was a golden opportunity.

His hold on Ragnell was the strongest he had had in a long time. He got into a fighting stance and then… and then both he and his two opponents started walking in circles, staring at each other and getting ready.

The boy's sword was particularly interesting. With an excess of parts that looked like spikes…

Though he immediately seemed to press something into his sword that replaced the spikes with a more normal blade.

Although Ike didn't fully understand the reason for that action, Corrin did it because the king had simply discovered that, in practice, the Yato in its Omega mode was just more useful against dragons or to deliver the final blow against a human. Otherwise, it tended to get stuck in an opponent's armor or simply, and he would never discuss this detail with anybody besides his wife, he had cut himself several times by mistake.

He had a new scar on his face to prove it.

His other opponent, the purple-haired woman... he, more than anything else, wondered if she didn't feel too hot given her black armor.

The others had all moved far enough away to give them a good fighting ground.

So… two opponents with a sword and an ax… Ike soon decided that he would be the first to attack.

He placed his sword over his shoulder… and began to run towards Corrin. Valla's king regretted not having a shield when Ragnell collided with Yato with a downward vertical attack... and Corrin had to back up and move to the left before his hand couldn't resist the pressure, causing that Ike nearly rammed the weapon into his head.

Camilla almost immediately appeared at Ike's side to attempt a horizontal slash with her ax across Ike's stomach… which the radiant mercenary hero dodged with something as simple as a high-speed backflip.

And at the end of that, Corrin and his sister found that Ike could fight using his legs since Camilla got kicked on the face by him.

Corrin had to react to another attack from Ragnell with another block. Ike may have continued the assault, but he quickly jumped back to back off and avoid possible retaliation from the two siblings.

As always, being in the middle of two opponents was not a wise idea.

You always had to have them face to face.

Camilla reflected on the fact that not too long ago she had been the one fighting two opponents and seemed to have the upper hand on them…

And now the situation had been reversed.

Corrin and Camilla looked at each other momentarily and nodded.

Unlike Cordelia and Minerva, they both had a lot of experience fighting as a team.

Ike smiled when they were both in front of him, with their weapons ready to hurt him.

Ike backed away, dodging everything thrown at him.

One, two, three, four, five… ten, twenty… thirty attacks in succession that Ike had to constantly block or dodge.

Yes…

Yes!

This was what he missed!

Ike changed to hold Ragnell with both hands and managed to block both of his opponents' weapons at the same time.

"This will be interesting." He smiled and then pushed at them with his sword. Camilla and Corrin lost their balance momentarily.

Camilla had to admit that he had unparalleled strength.

One would think that Ike would have less speed considering his muscles, but the legendary mercenary had already trained to compensate for that weakness.

Ike advanced on Corrin so quickly that Valla's king couldn't do much more than defend himself.

He was holding Ragnell one-handed once more.

Seriously, for this man to be able to attack with a longsword like any bastard sword using one hand was insane!

Camilla decided to wait a moment… perhaps she shouldn't focus on attacking her opponent's torso… but rather on his hands.

If he couldn't use the strength of his hands to lift that sword, he would be defeated.

There was a moment in which Corrin feared too much for the integrity of his body as Ike, during an attack in which they both collided their swords and kept them in contact as they moved, used the momentum in his sword's movement to slash again in an attempt to reach to cut his neck.

Camilla was about to slash the radiant hero… to which Ike simply responded by turning around and using the momentum from that to attack her as well.

The result was that they both ended up injured this time... but Ike had a much higher pain tolerance, which allowed him to not even flinch and continue to attack a little longer before, once again, moving away to do not be in middle of the siblings.

"Are you okay?" Corrin hurried over to his sister's side.

"That sword… it's as sharp as yours… or maybe sharper… it cut through my armor just fine…" Camilla commented, trying to ignore the pain as best she could.

Ragnell was certainly a marvel.

No one knew exactly what materials she was made of.

Although on a fundamentally atomic level, there wasn't much difference between many of the legendary weapons.

A weapon capable of competing against his Yato…

If there was a doubt that these people were capable of summoning powerful people still in their minds, it vanished.

Although both would have liked to start being on the offensive, Ike had other plans.

He wanted to test their strength to their highest limits.

Ike rained down sword thrusts at them.

Camilla regretted not having a shield too and Corrin felt like he couldn't keep up at blocking.

And even less when he could feel Ike's left hand holding him.

"Wha? Aaaaaargh!" Ike pushed him away from his sister, but not before causing a cut across his stomach.

Camilla and the radiant hero then began a whole sequence of crashing their weapons into each other.

Corrin had to admit, her sister wasn't lying… this hurt.

Ike decided to stop the fight momentarily by jumping far back and placing the point of his sword on the ground.

"You're not showing me your true strength. I know when an opponent is holding back… especially…" He raised his left index finger and pointed in Corrin's direction. "You."

Camilla and Corrin didn't know what to do, only when they both received the translation from Hinata, Corrin had to swallow hard.

"Do you truly want me to use my full strength?" Corrin asked as he extracted his dragon stone from one of his pockets.

Ike smiled at that.

He knew those ears looked familiar.

Even if they were not as obvious as the ears of a Laguz, especially Lethe's, it was obvious that those ears did not denote to be a human being.

Not that it would mean he was less deserving of respect.

Receiving confirmation from Hinata that Ike wanted to fight Corrin in his dragon form, the King of Valla activated his stone and he transformed into his magnificent dragon form.

Ike smiled even more. "That is much better."

Camilla, partially tired, allowed her brother to face the radiant hero alone so she could recover some stamina.

No one could beat Corrin like that.

It was just impossible...

Corrin expelled his fire dragon breath.

Ike began to roll on the ground to avoid those constant attacks, every time he wasn't doing it, he would run towards Corrin.

Yes!

Yes!

Corrin used his paws to try to stop Ike when he finally closed the entire distance between them.

Ike's reaction to this? simply jump to the left at high speed. Ike used all the strength of his legs to jump higher than normal and slashed.

Corrin in his dragon form stepped back.

Once again, Corrin used his legs to try to partially crush the radiant hero.

However, Ike's dodging abilities seemed unmatched.

Corrin then attempted to use his wings to push Ike away.

To which the radiant hero began to roll again… and reaching under Corrin, he then jumped up and made a fresh cut.

"Grraah!"


Alfonse was sitting watching the battle along with everyone else.

"Wow... very few can fight one by one against a manakete..." Cordelia commented, Robin had been one of the few and still, she had had difficulties at doing so.

"He is the radiant hero, the strongest hero. It's nothing to be surprised about." Alfonse smiled and crossed his arms as he nodded slightly.

Even Raigh must have agreed that this was impressive and he proceeded to genuinely applaud. "Excelente (Excellent)"


Camilla finally reached out to aid her brother in battle.

But as Corrin prepared to release his flames once more… this time Ike placed himself between Valla's king and his sister.

The dragon immediately stopped his attack. He knew what Ike was up to.

"Very well… time to end this." Ike closed his eyes for a moment as he sighed…

AND THEN A RAIN OF ATTACKS FELL ON THE PRINCESS OF NOHR.

One, two, three, five, seven, fifteen, twenty… how many attacks did she need to avoid?

"Gaaah!"

Corrin moved slowly forward.

He could try to use a kick… but he risked hitting his sister by mistake as well.

Camilla… was beginning to be unable to concentrate.

This…

This…

Ike's sword, thanks to the hero applying the full force of both of his arms, made her unable to keep grabbing her ax anymore and it flew away from her.

This was an incredible force!

At Corrin's moment of doubt, Ike quickly turned around and then… Ragnell cut him across the face.

As Valla's king fell in defeat, Camilla then saw the edge of Ragnell's sword at her neck.

"I guess it's clear that I'm the winner." Ike said, his face showing a mixture of seriousness with a very slight but visible smile.

She didn't understand his word, but she actually didn't need a translation this time to understand.

Wow…

If it wasn't for her immediately running to help her brother who had returned to his human form, she probably would have had a smile similar to the one of a teenage girl.


And, once more, I'm here to demonstrate that I will not abandon this project!

The old battle of Ike vs Camilla in the voting gauntlet... the first time a male hero won said event... I honestly don't think I could ever hope to write something that lived up to that. I mean, I took inspiration from several videos: from some actual sword vs ax videos of people sparring to that memetic video of Camilla and Ike as cats that fight each other. I tried my best, that's for sure.

Now, if some people wonder... I don't see Ike as an either gay or interested woman that much. Dunno, nothing I saw frankly convinced me of anything... so to me, Ike is more of an asexual person. Yeah, Priam is slightly mentioned in this chapter but honestly, I would subscribe more to the idea that he's actually Mist's descendant. Then again multiple timelines so there are probably LGBT and hetero versions of any characters out there so let's just say Priam is a descendant of one of those Ikes.

His ending claims he left the continent, never to be seen again... if that, for this story, means he also decides to stay in Askr is something I'm not sure about.

Correct me if I'm wrong but he didn't take Mist with him... right? I mean, it just feels weird he would suddenly abandon his sister... regarding why he would decide that in the first place... my bet would be his slight but still present blood knight tendencies or he just got bored of local food and he went on a mission to discover new delicious stuff lol.

I thought I needed to flesh out better why Robin started liking Kiran (Mark). Reading the story again it just didn't feel justified enough for me given some of his asshole moments (although maybe I ran with the concept of girls can like bad boys back then...) plus I needed to finally address the fact that Sumia was going to tell her what happened between Nino and him.

Gaius's nickname for him was given to me by Half-beastdragonsoul2013 when we were discussing what kind of nicknames he would give to certain characters. I also considered: copycat (given his similar clothes to Bubbles) or flame tongue (because he can eat stuff with so much sauce and spicy things given his Mexican nature) but in the end Morning Star just seemed better. Heck, in the split-brain chapters we even saw him wielding a sword called Lightbringer!

Now, getting the nickname to make sense with in-universe logic was kind of a challenge but I think I managed to make it work.

Anyway, thanks for that Souly!

Speaking of the devil, I completed Cuphead. Very nice, it took me like 6.24 hours to do so. The final battle was pretty nice... but fuck you King Dice, at least give me a checkpoint for when I face him so I don't have to fight all the boss rush before!

Also, somebody else got his wallet/saved up money robbed by Steam? XD Summer sales have just begun and they have already taken 250 pesos (12,58 dollars) from me when I saw they were selling me Tales Of Zestiria, Berseria, and Symphonia that cheap. I guess I gotta start saving up money for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 again. Yeah, I know the third one is coming soon, but I haven't started with that franchise yet... and I'm not gonna lie, I want to start with the second one because of Pyra and Mythra, I have no shame on that XD.