*Chapter 17: Resentment Made Flesh

The Possessed Takumi aims his Fujin Yumi that now looks more like Skadi at Corrin and fires a devilish arrow at her. Ryoma steps in front of her and blocks the arrow with Raijinto, and though he succeeds in stopping the arrow from killing Corrin, the arrow releases a shockwave that blasts most of them across the hall, though Orochi is able to keep Sakura and the wounded Kaze safe by creating a barrier around them that manages to block off the damage.

"Takumi! What has been done to you?!" Ryoma tried to reason with Takumi, strongly desiring not to fight his younger brother.

"SHuT uP aND DIE!" Takumi roared as he vanished from sight again for another second before firing another arrow, this time at him, that he again is able to stop by slicing it in two, causing it to fly past him from both his left and right. And again this backfires on him as once they are a few feet behind him and Corrin, the split arrow combusts, turning into two violent tornados that begin to suck everyone and everything around them, forcing those with swords and spears to stab their weapons on the ground to prevent themselves from being sucked in, Corrin isn't so fast and has to be held on to by Ryoma while the Yato gets sucked in, along with Rinkah, Hayato, Saizo, Kagero and Setsuna. Hayato is able to stop one of the tornados by placing both his hands in it and uses his powers to dispel the corrupted wind, saving allies, however, the dark magic infused into the wind was highly volatile that it greatly harmed his hands, leaving them blackened.

Rinkah stops the other one by creating the biggest fireball she can muster in such a short time and rams inside the tornado, increasing the heat temperature high enough to blow the wind of it away, stopping it completely. However, Rinkah has a harder time as Takumi shoots another arrow right at her, and her club is nowhere in sight, but luck is still at her side as the Yato was sucked into the tornado she got rid of and is currently right beside her as they both fall and quickly picks it up. Even though she can't use it to cut anything she can still use it for defense like any blade and the Yato blocks the arrow but like before the impact blasts her into a wall, crashing right through it.

Ryoma and Hinoka go in to stop Takumi by ramming themselves at him, knocking him to the ground to hold him down.

"Dammit!" Hayato cried out over the state of his hands. "I can't feel my fingers."

"Stay down and relax, kiddo." Azama instructed as he begins to heal him.

"What in the God Damn Hells is wrong with him?" Orochi muttered.

"T-Takumi…" Sakura sobbed.

Takumi makes a monstrous growl before pushing his two older siblings off him with newly acquired superhuman strength that neither sibling can hold their own against. Getting back up, he goes to the knocked down Hinoka and raises his right foot to stomp on her but she is able to avoid on time as he instead kicks the ground and leaves a big hole in it.

"Takumi, stand down this instant or else I'll really kick your ass!" Hinoka demanded furiously.

"YoU CAn'T teLL mE WHAT To dO aNYmORe!" Takumi roared as he charges after her again but is stopped by Ryoma who fires a stream of lightning from Raijinto to push him back, however, Takumi's resistance to magic has grown beyond to the point that he can handle holy lightning and channels the dark flames around him to blow the electricity off him.

"Gods! This dark magic is beyond anything Nohr has ever used against us." Ryoma gasped at Takumi's newfound strength.

"It's not them!" Corrin cried out as she makes her way to Ryoma and Hinoka, alongside with those still able to fight, one of them being Rinkah who tosses her the Yato back. With the Fujin Yumi separated from him at the moment, Takumi settles with close combat as he summons two swords into his hands, the same twin cutlass blades used by Envy.

"Envy's Swords!" Hinoka shouted.

"Oh Gods! Lord Takumi is possessed by a demon!" Hinata uttered in horror.

"Hello again, loves." Takumi speaks up but his voice is no more, replaced by Envy's while he or she shows off the sinister grin she showed them before. "Did ya miss me. I bet you did."

"N-NO!" Sakura cried out in horror.

"How can this be." Ryoma uttered just as horrified.

"Now, now, lobster boy, don't look too surprised, we both know how vulnerable my new mate really is where it counts." Envy said while placing the pummel of her right sword on her chest for emphasis on Takumi's weak will. "It's like I always say, a rose by any other name is still Envy."

"That makes no sense but at the same time horrifyingly accurate." Hinoka mumbled.

"Get the hell out of him, right the fuck now!" Oboro demanded enraged.

"Sorry Soul Sister, but your mate and I have a prior engagement, and it's time I return the favor." Envy smug at Oboro's demand. Seeing such an evil look coming from Takumi's face really set the Hoshidans up the wrong way, with mix emotions of hatred, sadness and desperation to free him but hesitation as they can't really risk fighting the Sinner if it means hurting their Prince and Brother. "Aww, what's the matter, cold feet, your kind is no good if you can't put up a fight so I guess I should let my big sis deal with you bunch for now."

"There's another Sin among us!" Corrin cried in terror over the thought of facing Wrath again.

"That's right Buttholes! In a way, I'm almost sad for things to end this way but I've also reached my limit after spending so much time with you morons and would like you all to vanish from our lives already. Especially you, sister!" Envy snorted with her last two words coming from Takumi's voice as he or she rushes Corrin faster than she could react, kicking her so hard that she gets blown away, blowing another hole on the main hall and crashes into another.

"Corrin!" Ryoma, Hinoka and Sakura cried out to their sister and the distraction allowed Envy to reach the Fujin Yumi before any of them could notice, afterward goes running into the Sanctuary to chase after Corrin, but not before slicing at Orochi's barrier, destroying it entirely with a single swing.

"Try to play nice with them!" Envy laughed while advising to someone else, while the Hoshidans chased after her to save Corrin but are halted by a bright purple light that illuminates in front of them, halting their charge and once they can open their eyes again they see someone standing before them who looks like the Merchant Anna, however there are some slight differences, like how her hair color is dark instead of her natural crimson. She has sharp teeth like Envy's but made of gold instead and she's wearing the female uniform version of the deadliest class of warriors in Horus, the Dread Fighters, accompanied by an Aurgelmir of all Nohrian weapons on her right hand.

"Anna!" Hana shouted confused, also familiar with the secret merchant.

"No! Something about her looks and feels different." Subaki argued.

"Welcome, Hoshidan Mortals, to my new Hall of Treasure. Unfortunately, you forgot to pay the entrance fees… your lives!" The Darker Anna declared viciously.

"Ah… crap, it's the other Sinner Envy mentioned." Hayato muttered.

"Get out of our way, monster or feel the holy sting of my Raijinto!" Ryoma warned venomously.

"Oh, such rush to die for a loved one that can't bring herself to deliver the same affections." She chuckled and mocked at Ryoma's threat. "But if you're so eager to save her as fast as possible, it will cost you. Let's say that beautiful katana of yours, sure there's the risk of Holy Withdraws but I'm sure someone such as yourself can manage."

"Wow, I knew you Annas were greedy but this is an all-new level for you avaricious bitc… wait I know who you are now." Hinata commented, realizing immediately that this 'Anna' is the literal Sin of Greed before them. Either through possession or just deciding to build a body in her image, the Merchant Anna is a perfect example of avarice, so of course, a Sin would look like her.

"To the death then!" Ryoma roared as he rushes towards the Sinner, swinging his Holy Katana horizontally while it surges with immense amounts of lightning to strike Greed down as fast as possible to help Corrin.

The Sin herself has other plans, as she simply raises her odd axe to block as the two clash, all the lightning in Raijinto powers down, to the High Prince's horror.

"More for me then." Greed smirked as she pushes Ryoma back and from her axe, a dark shockwave is fired that pushes him and the rest of his comrades back, out of the Sevenfold Sanctuary. "First Envy will fetch that precious half-dragon soul for me while I get me something just as precious. The blood of the hated Dawn Lineage!"

"Take it all if you dare, wretch!" Hinoka dared, forcing herself back up.

Corrin groans in pain as she struggles to get up, finding herself in a large room built solely on Hoshidan Architecture but has no time to enjoy the view due to the Possessed Takumi coming in out of the hole she made when she was kicked through the seventh wall she crashed into. Envy closes the gap between them, swings both her swords horizontally at Corrin left and right, not giving her many options except to purposely trip and hit the ground to avoid the blades. This would be a perfect opportunity to thrust her Yato at Envy, however, she can't or else she'll sacrifice Takumi for nothing since Envy will just go to another body.

Her hesitation cost her as Envy stomps her left foot on Corrin's chest so hard that she gasps out blood from her mouth and likely broke one or three of her ribs. Despite that, Corrin continues to fight back, getting the foot off her and forces herself to stand up.

"You're resilience is astonishing! I envy that body of yours!" Envy joked as she rushes Corrin with several slashes. It's like fighting Wrath all over again but she seemed faster during their first fight but right now her swings have been slowed down enough that Corrin can keep up. Is she messing with her, or… is Takumi trying to fight back?

Envy backs away from Corrin and starts using the Corrupted Fujin Yumi, firing several magic arrows that Corrin either manages to dodge or block with the Yato. She tries to get in closer but each arrow fired at her keeps pushing her back. She almost trips, after blocking a ninth arrow, they are so fast and yet off. Again, she continues to hold back all the sudden, based on everything she has shown thus far, Envy would've easily bested Corrin, especially since she's alone with no one to support her, not that the others would've helped completely since Envy, like the rest of her siblings are so powerful, and yet she doesn't seem to be giving it her all, as if her powers keep fluctuating. Lilith did say that the Sins fall into a spiritual state of unconsciousness after they 'die', so perhaps all of her powers haven't come back yet and using them now while in combat is actually risky.

If that is the case, why reveal herself now? Is it to stop Corrin from meeting the Rainbow Sage and awakening the Yato? Her brother Wrath is one of the 'people' who started this war so she's obviously in on it all. And how long has she been possessing Takumi?

So many questions and possibilities running through Corrin's head, she can't think about that now except trying to stay alive long enough to see this through and more importantly save Takumi from this demonic possession.

Corrin manages to get the upper hand, rushing towards Envy and get behind her before she can parry against the Dragon Princess, and goes to wrap her arms around Takumi's waist and throws him, and ultimately Envy on to a wall with all her strength, possibly channeling some of her dragonic might subconsciously, enough force to bash Takumi through and causing him to land on another room, one of Nohrian design. Corrin can't fight alone; she doesn't know how to without risking hurting Takumi even more. She has to go and regroup with the others and hope that they can subdue her long enough to get her out of Takumi safely and quicker but as Corrin tries to run, she has trouble because of the pain done to her body. Envy is hitting much harder than she did in their previous battle for reasons that Corrin cannot bother to think about except that the blows actually feel as painful as her savage encounter against Wrath the first time, if not worse. Gunter once told her that she may one day end up in a situation where she has to flee for her life while with broken bones and in the heat of battle, only adrenaline can help her numb the pain but for some reason, her adrenaline levels are lower than they have ever been, the pain is too much that she can barely run at all.

"Oh, great… like my sentence to Hell wasn't apparent enough." Corrin muttered, before getting literally stabbed in the back by Envy, who then lifts her up in the air.

"Funny you should bring up Hell. Though. What is the matter with you, you're not as angry as you were last time when you cut off my head!" Envy laughed maniacally and then throws her into a wall but not hard enough to leave a hole again. "I hardly recognize you without Wrath's sloppy seconds all over you!"

"Takumi…" Corrin barely uttered while placing her hands on the hole in her back, desperately trying to stop the bleeding and does so by picking up a vulnerary Lilith gave her that's ten times more potent than the regular ones that should be enough to quickly heal the wounds she just received, the only downside is that the reason vulneraries don't do as much help as actual healing magic is because the more potent ones do serious side effects to the bodies, the more common ones being the rapid decrease of stamina and the process of healing being very painful but she doesn't have a choice on the matter and hopes that her dragonic heritage will hold off the side effects. Once she drinks the potion, she starts crying out in pain as the stab wounds and broken ribs begin to repair themselves and as she expected, the process is not kind to her body even though this is actually good for her. Luckily, Envy didn't hit the spine since she can still feel her legs, as there are some body parts a vulnerary can't regenerate no matter how potent like a brain, heart and spine being the main examples. Her body is fixed up but now she's so hurt that she can't stand up yet and needs a bit more time, not that Envy will give her the chance.

"Now that must've seriously hurt a lot, you really should've just bled to death though, but try not to cry, after all this is something you've been expecting for a while. A battle to the death between stepsiblings, though it's not like you ever considered Takumi your brother. You didn't even try to, but then again neither did he so why bother feeling guilty about being one of the catalysts of all his suffering." Envy said now standing right in front of the defeated Princess. "Ironic, how a Prince who practically lives in paradise could be so miserable because of his own family, especially a sister who's been gone his whole life. It just goes to show, sometimes the best way to go about things is to spare the child and spoil the rod!" Envy declared as she raises her right sword to finish Corrin off, leaving her with not many options but close her eyes, and hope that she makes it quick or that someone arrives in time to save her.

And it seems that somebody did as Envy's sword never comes, as she opens her eyes, Corrin sees that Envy seems to be struggling, Takumi's arms shaking as the sword remains upwards, teeth gritting, there is really something going on inside.

"Takumi…" Corrin muttered with newfound hope.

"Hey! What's the big idea? We had a non-deal." Envy protested, trying to force her new body to move.

"Get… get off… of… ME!" Takumi's voice comes out of his mouth, one that is in deep pain, showing his struggle to break free of the Sinner's control, made even more apparent by his eyes returning to normal.

"Takumi! You're resisting her." Corrin gasped in relief, forcing herself back up no matter how painful with the aim of helping her brother. "Fight it Takumi! You mustn't let this parasite take you. You're a Prince of Hoshido!"

"Sister…" Takumi gazed at her, anguish in his eyes so radiant, Corrin just wants to look away from seeing him in such a horrible state.

"Takumi, I know that we went off on the wrong foot, you being a self-righteous prick and me completely caught off with my own troubles, realizing too late how badly I'm hurting everyone else but no matter how much we both try to deny it, we are family, blood means so little in the grand scheme of things. It's why I've been so reluctant to fight my Nohrian Family, but when I said that I would defend Hoshido, I meant it." Corrin swore. "I'm not as strong as Mikoto and Ryoma believe me to be, not even close but I know that the help I can offer can be enough to give you the push to make it through this darkness. Whatever happens today or tomorrow, we just might be able to push forward if we can do it together."

"That… I might actually like that, very much." Takumi finally gives his returned sister a genuine smile as he stops struggling, almost as if he finally regain control over his body and he lowers the sword arm, making Corrin more hopeful. "But… do you want to know what I truly want even more?"

Takumi gives no words to describe what he wants, just actions and Corrin, in her hopeful state could never see it coming, as her own stepbrother swings a sword to her face, cutting off both of her eyes, leaving her bloodied and blind.

Immediately, Corrin screams in agony, hands on her face and back on the floor, betrayed and alone, while Takumi laughs, Envy's voice completely absent and the purple flames are gone now.

"I want you to scream and despair as I purge my country and MY family of you once and for all." Takumi grinned in pure content.

"Takumi! WHY?!" Corrin cried, and her brother again response violently by stomping his foot on her face, pinning her to the wall.

"Why? Isn't it obvious? As you said, I am a Prince of Hoshido. I have but one purpose, and that is to protect my nation and my Throne! And to accomplish that task I have to destroy everything that's Nohrian." Takumi scoffed, now with pure contempt. "And you, Corrin, are no exception, the fact that you still look at your fake siblings with such longing and desperation, it was obvious that you still love them, and if you still love them, it means that you still love Garon and see him as your father, even after everything he's done. And don't think we never noticed, if it wasn't for Robin keeping you under control, clinging on to him as if he was some sort of support for your life and sanity, you would've lashed out at any Hoshidan who addressed the Nohrians as Scum, even if you weren't infected with Wrath, it was obvious how you would've felt, just as it was obvious that choosing Hoshido wasn't a choice made from a rational mind. You're so pathetic! So indecisive. I refuse to accept that MY family loves you more than me!"

"You really are a prick…" Corrin cursed.

"But then again, why should I be loved by anyone, after all I've always been inferior to Ryoma and Hinoka, no matter how hard I try to excel at something, either of them are always there, wanting to keep me in their shadow, as if they're embarrassed that I exist, and even when they're nice to me, you're always in their thoughts, judging me, wondering if you're a superior younger sibling than me, waiting for you to finally come home so they can at long last be rid of me. They always enjoyed the fact that Hoshido has a royal family of five, they just didn't want me to be among their numbers." Takumi scoffed with years of bitterness backing his every word.

'Are these his actual feelings, or is Envy still doing the talking and trying to get even more under my skin?' Corrin wondered.

"Well I'll show them, I'll show them all that I should be the favorite, by being the one to kill all Nohrians as well as all other enemies of Hoshido! Starting with you, Lost Sister!" Takumi declared, backing away from Corrin and raises his right hand with something manifesting into it, which is another Souleater. "As angry and bitter as they'll be about your death, I'll eventually be excused due to being 'possessed' during your murder so I'll finally be able to manage and when I kill Garon and that substitute of mine they will all finally love me unconditionally. EVERYONE WILL LOVE ME! And like my new partner said, sometimes you just have to spare the child, which is me, and spoil the rod, which is you!"

He points the Souleater at her with energy tendrils coming out of it that wrap themselves around Corrin and begin pulling out what looks to be a bluish-white astral version of her, meaning her soul, while she screams with the pain being worse than any she's experienced so far. Izumo wasn't kidding when he said the damage to the soul would be ten times worse. There doesn't seem to be a way out of this for her. This might be it!

Definitely not, as a large sphere of light comes crashing through the ceiling and on top of Takumi, stopping the Souleater from taking Corrin's soul, while Takumi gets blown away from Corrin and knock to the other side of the room, and to his shock, it is none other than an angered Robin.

"YOU!" Takumi gasped in disbelief.

"I believe the rod you were actually referring to was yourself."

"Fell Dragon!" Envy's voice resurfaced from Takumi's mouth with both his eyes and body reentering to its corrupted form, possibly indicating that it wasn't really the Hoshidan Prince talking all along but Envy being manipulative again, only this time with crueler intentions. Robin points his left hand at her and fires a bright ray of white light, the power coming from his Morgenstern that strikes at Envy, screaming with agony as the light consumes her.

"I refuse to ever be addressed by that name again." Robin growled with hate in his voice, and once he ceases his attack, Envy lies on her knees, with serious pain.

"Funny, by your lack of hesitation, you make me think that you were really aiming for Takumi." Envy sneered at Robin.

"What can I say, you both pissed me off." Robin scoffed.

"A fair point but you're too little too late, oh Grandmaster, your brand new Princess and Lord is all but dead at this point." Envy chuckled, addressing the now unresponsive Corrin.

"Hold that thought." Robin insisted as white light illuminates on the floor, consuming the room for almost less than a second before transforming into a healing ground that focuses mainly on Corrin, and Envy can tell that this Healing Ground is way more powerful than any humans can create with Dragon Veins.

"A Dragon Vein! How could I have not felt this thing in here? Hell, since when can you use them?!" Envy demanded and bewildered before quickly reaching a conclusion. "Never mind, now I remember. Grima's sloppy seconds, of course that would have its perks."

"Time for you to also release my new idiot Prince as well, Envy." Robin demanded as he raises his Levin Sword from Morgenstern. "Prepare yourself."

"What, is it Time to Tip the Scales!" Envy playfully replied, speaking Robin's famous catchphrase. Robin response violently, shooting Envy with a white lightning bolt that blasts her not just out of this room but the entire Sanctuary.

"I waited so long to say that again!" Robin uttered, a new urge of pent off anger growing inside him as he flies after his foe, leaving Corrin alone as she'll be fine here, though she is awakened to a gentle but still bothersome burn in her eye sockets with a dim green glow coming from them.

"Oh for Satan's Sake! This mortal's an asshole!" Envy shouted in pain as that lightning attack hurt way more than it should've, it was even faster than it should've. Lightning attacks used by human mages are typically 80% slower than actual lightning but the bolt Robin just shot her with felt twice as fast as the real deal, but it also felt holy.

'Shit, that Tome of his also has the Light of Naga Spell infused into it, meaning any attack he fires is super affective against unholy beings.' Envy cursed. 'But then why did he wait this long to use it? Forget that, how did he recover 50% of his magic power, he was close to dead weight when he was abandoned.'

Envy takes flight and prepares to face Robin as she picks up the Fujin Yumi and fires one arrow at him, and as soon as it's five feet away from her, it enlarges to the size of a warship that Robin takes head-on and slices in two easily with a swing of his lightning blade but once he did so, Envy was gone from where she was as she flew right behind him as soon as she fired and fires again, aiming at Robin's back, however, the Tactician acted fast enough, slicing even that arrow in two, and then flies after Envy before she could react and swings his sword at her, forcing her to use the Fujin Yumi to block, despite the blocking being successful, there was no stopping an energy surge of both lightning and Ignis from Robin from spreading through Takumi's body and harming her further. She furiously growls and releases a mighty shockwave that pushes Robin away but it doesn't deliver any real harm to him.

He's not holding back even though she has the perfect hostage as her meatsuit. He must be trying to back her into a corner and put her in a position where she must flee Takumi to evade a fatal blow? No, according to Takumi's memories that she has access to, the Astral Dragon he's friends with told her that it's impossible for any of the Sins to die, even by the hands of the Gods, and she knows that Robin is no fool who would make any brash decisions without considering the lives he has to protect. He's plotting something with his violent assaults, forcing her to give it her all. Wait. Does he know that she's unable to use all her power yet because she still hasn't recovered from their first battle? No, that can't be it, he's not that clever.

"What does it take to kill you, you're not a God anymore!" Envy roared.

"I may be a Master of nothing but I'm a Jack of all Trades, especially when it comes to the Art of war and magic, so I say I'm a close second when it comes to us lowly mortals." Robin sneered.

"Wiseass!" Envy scoffed as she readies the Fujin Yumi and fires again but this time on the ground deep below them, at the bottom of the mountain and once it does, a large purple tornado is formed and erupts all the way up, the top of it assuming the shape of a drill that narrowly hits Robin but he is able to fly away in time to avoid it. He is then forced to evade yet another arrow from Envy as this one hits her tornado instead, and this new arrow causes a particular effect to the tornado as it grows in power and from it comes out four thinner and weaker tornados that surround the bigger one and Robin, going circles around the two, the combined wind currents leave Robin trapped as he struggles to prevent himself from being sucked into any of the twisters, notching several trees getting dragged in and once they make contact, they are instantly ripped to tiny shreds until there's nothing left.

"Times up, God of Victory. That title is starting to lose its taste with you." Envy smirked, about to finish Robin off this time, and is completely unaffected by the powerful dark winds.

"A pity that still isn't the case." Robin hissed as he brings out his second Levin Sword, holding both weapons tight and keeping Morgenstern very close as he does the unexpected as he rushes towards the main tornado while forging a barrier around himself and forces himself in, baffling Envy.

"What in the God Damn Hells!" Envy gasped. "I knew his final battle with the Shepherds was shit but I didn't think he lost all his marbles!"

More happens to baffle the Living Sin, as a dim yellow shockwave comes out of the tornado, followed by the dark tornado transforming into the biggest lightning bolt Envy has ever seen that drags the other four, also turning them into lightning and merge together as they are condensed and absorbed into Robin's swords, empowering it.

"That's impossible…" Envy muttered, entirely speechless. He gathered all the static electricity in the air and used his magic power to transform her tornados into lightning and absorbed them into his sword. That shouldn't be possible for a human to pull off with Dark Magic, especially not with the magic used by her and the rest of her family.

"Now I see why even Pride of all egomaniacs views him as a threat, if we don't do something about him, we might actually lose again." Envy mumbled in horror. "Crap… and it's not like possessing him is an option at the moment too!"

"Believe me, you don't want to see what's really inside of me." Robin hissed before noticing purple miasma of Envy's Dark Magic that he absorbed begin to force itself out from both his blades. Great! The blades aren't strong enough to contain so much energy and they will explode. So without thinking on it much he lifts his blades into the sky and releases all the evil energy skyward and once it reaches more than a thousand meters the explosion occurs, and it is a massive explosion with a shining purple light that illuminates all of Notre Sagesse, the shockwaves blast both Robin and Envy back into the sanctuary and the entire building begins to crumble from the waves and much of the ceiling breaks, dropping a ton of debris on the floor.

The Hoshidans fighting against Greed aren't spared from the shocks as they are forced to their knees while trying to avoid the falling debris. Greed, on the other hand, doesn't look bothered at all by the chaos.

"Damn, that Deadman is still walking, I had a feeling those worthless Nohrians couldn't get the job done and it looks like getting my hopes up with Envy is a dumb idea." Greed commented on her sister's fight against Robin. "Guess I'll have to deal with that Broken Soul myself to see just how much he's really worth."

'Broken Soul…?' Hinoka repeated, only knowing one person who's called that. 'Robin…'

Most of them are already on their last toe with Greed being too much for them with Ryoma alone as the only one who can hold his own against her but even he seems to be having a difficult time against the Sinner's overwhelming power.

"Corrin…" Sakura mumbled with her fears growing, all she can assume is the worse with them still unable to reach Corrin and all that explosion outside could've been made by Envy to finish her off for all they know.

"Dammit! Get out of my way!" Ryoma roared as he rushes in even harder to take down Greed with the two clashing weapons again but the Sinner is beyond even Hoshido's strongest, who seems to be toying with him as she easily parries his strikes, even with the holy infused power at the High Prince's disposal, her axe seems just as unbreakable as a Sacred Treasure, and he has gone against many Berserkers and Wyvern Knights who wielded Aurgelmir before, they're extremely rare weapons but there are plenty in Nohr and Ryoma has destroyed all he has come across but this one seems augmented more than the rest. No doubt strengthen by Greed's dark magic.

Ryoma makes as many attempts as it takes to overpower her, no matter how fruitless, such as trying to corner her to a wall, only for Greed to dodge his assault and roll past him. He turns and tries again to strike and aim for her right abdomen, only for Greed to deflect the blade once more. Ryoma then tries to lead her to Orochi who prepares to use her strongest scroll against her, and it briefly looks like they might pull it off until Greed sidesteps and gets behind Ryoma fast, making sure that he is the target of Orochi instead, forcing the great diviner to halt her attack, less she strikes down her own Prince. Ryoma turns to face Greed again, only for her to place her palm on his chest with enough force to blow him away, sending him crashing right into Orochi and knocking them both to the ground.

The hit also caused Ryoma to drop Raijinto and allow Greed to grab the sword, and once she placed her hands on it, Raijinto goes wild with the lightning it emits running rampant, as if it knows that the one currently holding it is an unholy being, and it being a holy sword, won't stand for being wielded by such filth and intends to kill her by itself but Greed will not tolerate such defiance as she utilizes her evil power and surges the Raijinto with it, corrupting it just as Envy did to the Fujin Yumi, it's divine glow turning darkly purple and the lightning becoming black.

"That's not possible…" Ryoma uttered in shock over his precious holy blade having been also taken over by the Sins. As if corrupting his brother wasn't already unforgivable and deserving of all of Hoshido's fury enough.

"MINE! At long last! A Great Sacred Treasure of my own! ALL MINE!" Greed laughed maniacally over her achievement and is just as crazy as Envy. And the first victim of her newly acquired weapon should naturally be her predecessor as she fires a bolt of black lightning at Ryoma, one that should finish him off.

"MILORD!" Saizo and Kagero cried out as they both rush to their Prince's side and use themselves as shields, taking the black lightning head-on, mortally wounding them both as they fall down in defeat.

"KAGERO!" Orochi cried in horror.

"NO! SAIZO!" Ryoma roared, while Greed just laughs at their despair.

"Wow! I wish I had dogs loyal like that, probably would save me the trouble of having to dirty my hands by dragging someone to be my living shields." She sneered. "Nah, it's more amusing to do that."

"We… we can't beat her…" Hana admitted while in complete despair as the loss of Raijinto signals their defeat before the power of Greed, for if they can't defeat one then they cannot even hope to win against all Seven Deadly Sins.

"Uh, realizing that must've hurt." Greed mocked the Samurai.

"Damn you… what do you want from us." Ryoma demanded, still not willing to give up.

"EVERYTHING! Humans! Dragons! All your most precious objects, and most useless, everything in Horus, this world! MINE! What you own I will take!" Greed declared with pure madness and avarice. "And thanks to all of you bringing my kid sister here, this world's strongest weapons will finally be mine! All of them!" Greed revealed as she begins to fly, hovering above them all as if she is about to judge them. "Don't feel bad Ryoma, even if you hadn't decided to come here, Envy would still be possessing your useless brother and I would've still come to claim this beautiful katana. All that you have is rightfully mine to take after all. It's a good thing this had to happen this soon, once I get all the treasure in this fallen paradise I'll be so occupied bathing in it all and making sure Envy doesn't steal anything, I just hope those idiots in Nohr don't wreck everything in Hoshido, worse still that loose cannon Wrath decides to go rogue again and truly burn Sephiroth's playground to cinders completely."

"Wrath's coming to Hoshido!" Hinoka uttered mortified.

"No, he's still in Nestra, which can't be too good for the people there." Greed smirked. "I completely forgot to ask, how is the young Silent Dragon, you know after the little monster of joy my hothead of a brother put inside her to parade around your Capital?" She rubbed salt all over their wounds, referring to the Blight Dragon that Wrath put inside Corrin to kill them all, earning her vengeful glares from Ryoma and Hinoka.

"Haven't seen that walking, talking heater in over two weeks since he went rogue doing whatever shit new stunt comes out of his ass but I know he's been looking forward to this war more than the rest of us and considering how resilient your little Corrin is, I bet'cha he'll be looking forward to a second date, wonder where the honeymoon will be this time." Greed chuckled.

"NO! I will not allow you monsters to hurt her like that again!" Ryoma yelled as he recklessly attacks Greed, using Saizo's katana to throw at her but Greed stops him by shooting a stream of black lightning at him, but instead of harming the High Prince, she just stops him in his tracks and levitates him to pin him to a wall violently.

"RYOMA!" Hinoka and Sakura cried.

"Please, your love for your fake sister is as false as your god!" Greed mocked. "There is no honor amongst Kin, blood or no, if Corrin had chosen to side with Nohr, and let's be real here, she's been doubting her choice, you'd all be out for her treacherous head just as the heartbroken Nohrians are doing right now. Light or Dark, there is only pain wherever humans reside and whatever you touch is destine to be corrupted."

"SHUT UP! I won't stand for any of your poisonous lies!" Hinoka shouted, forcing herself to stand up and try to save her brother.

"Hoshido, Nohr, it matters not to the Seven which of you wins, what matters is how many of you we make losers out of with only the Sins at the top and the one who will truly lose it all will be the Silent Brat." Greed sneered. "And I would love to see her make it to the finish line and watch her burn and weep. And the best part is that you will be the one to keep her in this path, Ryoma. You'll drown her with Hoshido's Pride until she is no longer useful!"

Ryoma growled at her words as he tries to muster all the strength he can to fight back against this atrocious abomination.

"~You are the Ocean's gray waves…~" The familiar tune of Azura's voice startles everyone to look to the entrance of the Sanctuary and see the Songstress standing there.

"Azura!" Hinoka cried in extreme relief, while the songstress continues with her song.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me." Greed hissed as she ceases her hold on Ryoma to go attack her instead but trips and gets to her knees as the song begins to affect her too with her body raising with a burning sensation. "Shit!"

"The music does affect all unholy beings." Orochi cheered.

"Like Hell!" Greed roared enraged, still able to use all her strength and continues her attack on Azura, only to be repelled as the Songstress summons a shield of water around her that repels and knocks the Demoness to the ground, as well as become wrapped by the water Azura is producing to trap her with. "Get off me!" The Demoness roared causing her magic power to go berserk and releasing a miasma of darkness to counter against the magic water but they prove obsolete before Azura's power and are erased.

"Dammit… you really hit a blockade this time, Greed." The Sinner muttered to herself before taking a closer look at what Azura is using to channel her song and is shocked to see that it's a Dragonstone.

"That stone… but that belongs to…" She managed to utter before she began to scream in agony as Azura is nearly done using her power to 'finish' her.

Robin kicks the corrupted Fujin Yumi from Envy's hands, then shoots her with a wind blast to knock through a door where she ends up in a corridor. In irritation, Envy starts using her water magic again, firing a geyser from her hands, engulfing the White Mage in water and forcing him back in the room they were in but Robin frees himself by unleashing all the fire magic he can muster, emitting enough heat to turn the water to steam, and once freed Robin charges back towards her and pins her to a wall.

'She's getting weaker all the sudden. I got this.' Robin mused, noticing how Envy's lacking much of her previous brute force. But it may not be enough for him as Envy is still capable of fighting back, grabbing him by his head to slam him into the same wall but the hole she caused by bashing his head in it is not as serious as the previous holes they left in their wake.

'I don't got this.' He muttered.

Envy resummons her cutlass blade and aims to maim him, but Robin is still able to evade being cut by grabbing her wrist and attempts to push her aside again but the Living Sin remains just as resilient as him and tries stabbing him again through the stomach with her left blade but again Robin resists by grabbing her other wrist, briefly locking them in a stalemate until Robin cast another spell. A Bolganone without spelling it out as a fissure opens below Envy with magma coming out to Envy's surprise and backs away from Robin and tries to get the lava off her. It's impressive how Envy's powers are protecting Takumi's body so well, even his clothing looks fine for the most parts.

"Dammit! What's it going to take, Robin! You're already dead!" Envy yelled. "Quit your crap while you still can and realize you're dead!"

"I'll die on my own terms, which may or may not take very long, regardless you certainly won't get any satisfaction from it." Robin declared as he recovers his Levin Swords that he dropped after being blown by the explosion. His words earn him a chuckle from Envy.

"I wouldn't count on Naga of all useless deities to bail you out of this mess." She sneered.

"Who's that?" Robin questioned, looking ignorant but Envy swears he's just messing with her.

"Clever." She sneered again. "Play time's over, kid. Now you really will di… why can't I feel my everything." Envy is strangely unable to proceed with the battle and falls to her knees feeling pain.

"What the hell…" She mumbled, suddenly feeling dread. "Lost in Thoughts… How?"

"You didn't think I come here alone did you?" Robin smirked, hinting to Azura even though he himself is somewhat confused on why she's using it now, away from Envy, and the main conclusion that comes to mind ain't good.

"That doesn't add up! I saw and heard everything through Takumi's eyes and ears, she didn't have the pendant on her neck when she was captured because Aqua snatched it, how is she still able to…" Envy mumbled, realization coming to mind. "The stone… shit!" Envy muttered in annoyance before immediately fleeing to Greed's aid, leaving another hole on a wall.

"Aqua?" Robin repeated in confusion before flying after Envy to stop her as they soon enough reach the main hall and as she goes to Azura, Robin is able to pin her to the ground but not before the Demoness fires a water blast to hit Azura who is saved by Ryoma who pulls her out of the way and subsequently stops her music, sparing Envy and Greed the pain as the latter is set free from Azura's water, afterwards fires a bolt of lightning from the corrupted Raijinto at Robin to force him off Envy and the siblings regroup while their human adversaries do the same.

"Wow, you guys are a sight for sore eyes. Welcome back." Hinata greeted Azura and Robin as the group is relieved to see them back.

"Good to be back beside fond faces." Robin replied.

"Envy! Mind explaining to me what the fuck is he still doing here?!" Greed demanded while pointing at Robin. "And where's Corrin's soul that you were supposed to snatch for me."

"How the hell should I know how he is able to travel around with a wound that can never heal, I'm just as shocked as you." Envy hissed. "Also, Do you really expect either of us to get away with anything with an Angel of Death like him still flying around. BTF, What'd you mean the Dragon's soul is for you. It's fucking mine!"

"NO, IT'S MINE!" The two have a brief bickering. "Son of a Bitch! We need to send this Warmaster packing now."

"You're going to find that killing me will have very disappointing results." Robin talked back to the evil siblings.

"We'll see if you still think that within the next minute. Now Envy!" Greed yelled as she extends her left hand to her back with a large sphere of dark red energy being formed behind her.

"I gotcha! It ends here, High Deliverer!" Envy complied, doing the same with her right hand, forming a sphere of dark purple energy with the two attacks merging together, as the Sin Sisters plan to deliver one final attack to end this once and for all.

"I think you might want to sing again, Azura." Hinata pleaded.

"No need, we've already won." Robin said confidently, even as they watch the two spheres fuse together into a small black hole that both sisters can carry into their hands, and it packs a lot of evil power that will surely kill them all.

"Time to die! Sin Caliburn!" The Twins roared as they thrust their attack but just in the nick of time, a newcomer arrives at the scene, intercepting the attack by simply placing both his hands on Greed and Envy's hands with the attack instantly dispelling, shocking the Sinners.

The one who did this is a man wearing a rough cloth robe, hood covering his face that they can only make out the lower half of it and also see that he has long hair with the same color as Lilith. The robe is covering the entirety of his body, no way to tell that if he's in his twenties, or older but it's clear that he's not as young as he appears either.

"The Rainbow Sage!" Ryoma gasped, recognizing the man and knowing what Robin had really meant when he said that they already won.

"Shit… we didn't think this through." Greed mumbled. The Sage places his hands on one shoulder each of the two and pulls them aside, with the Hoshidan Prince and Merchant knocked to the ground and quickly pass out, and as for Envy, she is now separated from Takumi and back in her original body, same with Greed as her current appearance is now the same as her sister, except that the mohawk hair color is grey instead of dark green to match her skin, making them identical twins who are even more baffled by what just happened.

"Oh, son of a…" Is all they can say as a shockwave is created by the Rainbow Sage that blows Greed and Envy out of his Sanctuary. The Twins scream as they are also blown a hundred miles away from Notre Sagesse and crash land into the seas, ending the battle.

"Oh, thank the fucking Gods!" Hana sighed with immense relief as she falls to her knees, finally getting some relaxation, same with most of them.

"Lord Takumi!" Oboro and Hinata cried out at once as they rush to their now saved Prince, Ryoma, Hinoka and Sakura doing the same and quickly note that he is out cold.

"He's barely breathing, like everybody else he needs serious medical attention. We have to get everyone to the Astral Plane!" Hinoka said with desperation.

Hardly any of them notice as the Rainbow Sage raises his right hand with it glowing with a green light and creates a large green dome, incasing everyone in it as the Sage performs healing magic of his own, hundreds of times more powerful than the magic use by anyone in Horus.

"This is…" Kaze muttered upon feeling this power and before he even knew it, in the blink of an eye his severed arm begins to float and flies back to him, magically reattaching itself back into his arm, already feeling it again and able to move his fingers with ease. "Gods!"

"Incredible." Saizo uttered as he and Kagero are back to full health from a serious injury that should've killed them.

"Hey, I can feel my arms again." Hayato cheered as the blackness on his hands fades as he feels all better.

They are all healed of their injuries, even the wound Robin received from Xander also closes up and heals. Takumi begins to breathe naturally and is out of danger now, to the relief of his siblings and retainers.

"Rainbow S-Sage! Thank you!" Sakura cried of joy to the Sage but said man pays her no mind as he finishes healing everyone and walks to pick up where Raijinto was dropped and in the blink of an eye, Fujin Yumi pops up in his left hand with the Sage staring at both of the holy weapons he made now corrupted.

"My favorites. What have they done to you?" He said with sorrow as he uses the same healing magic he performed for them on the two Great Sacred Treasures and in a matter of seconds, the two are purified and restored to their original forms. "It seems I have chosen poorly." He said before dropping the Raijinto on the floor and walks away from all of them while taking the Fujin Yumi back.

"Wait, Rainbow Sage!" Ryoma calls to him, wanting him to hear them out.

"I know why you've returned a third time, High Prince. I'll be waiting for Corrin in my shrine but she must come alone with my Yato, or she can see herself out with the rest of you." The Sage brushed him off as he goes back inside and ignores the rest of them.

"S-Sorry for the damage." Hinoka muttered to the Sage but he also ignores her.

"Is she okay?" Azura asked as she and Robin examine the body Greed was originally taking, which really is another Anna, the dark hair and teeth are back to being the same as the rest and she's still breathing.

"Yeah, even though she probably spent more time being possessed than Takumi I think she'll be fine." Robin said as he moves her to a gentler position on the floor. "Think this is the same Anna that went missing?"

"I hope so, I don't think we'll be of much use with missing person's cases." Azura said.

"Thank Sephiroth you're alright." Hinoka said, cutting in and wrapping Azura in a hug along with Sakura who cries in relief.

"You two sure know how to make an entrance." Ryoma said gratefully.

"Well, you basically hired me to perform miracles so I'm just trying to deliver." Robin shrugged.

"Hey, is Corrin alright?" Oboro asked.

"Yeah, she's fine where I left her, I'll go get her, you just all rest up, we all took a real beating and performing a healing spell of this magnitude that the Sage just pulled can do a real number on the stamina of those healed. Relax and I promise I'll be back with her in one piece." Robin assured as he flies off to bring Corrin back.

"Surprises keep coming. I mean, how did you and Robin make it out of that hellscape, Azura?" Hinoka asked.

"It's a rabbit hole of a story, things happened so fast and my mind just had a… how do the Nohrian punks phrase it, bombshell of a revelation." Azura muttered.

"Oh, this I got to hear."

"Oh Gods… I will never go sprinting ever again for the rest of my life!" Cried out a woman who they all notice reach the top of the mountain, and it's Mikoto, visibly exhausted, breathing very heavily like she's about to die from said exhaustion and falls to the ground.

"Mother!" Her step-children shouted at once from the surprise of seeing her here outside of Hoshido.

"MILADY!" Her two Retainer shouted next and rush to her side.

"Oh good… y-you're all here. Where's Corrin?" Mikoto asked.

"Mother, what are you doing here, away from Hoshido?!" Ryoma demanded.

"Robin acquired a… Warp Tome and… you didn't… think I… let you… come here without some extra hand." Mikoto breathed.

"She wouldn't take no for an answer." Azura muttered, still uncomfortable with the minor debate she and Robin had with Mikoto about bringing her along, and the woman is very persuasive. "Still though, we left you at the bottom of the mountain alone for your own safety without you even realizing it."

"I… sprinted the entire way up here." Mikoto explained.

"It took us an hour and a half to make it here, and you just arrive under a few minutes!" Ryoma uttered baffled by her mother's achievement, none of them have ever seen Mikoto run for so long, she even hates running. Heck, the day the war started when Suzanoh was attacked by Wrath's Dragon is the only time he can recall where he actually saw her run.

"Adrenaline does wonders for anyone, especially Mages." Mikoto replied, before finally noticing the unconscious Takumi being held by Oboro. "Takumi!" She gasped with concern, adrenaline boiling up again as she begins to crawl to his side.

"He's alright, mother, he's just had it rougher than the rest of us." Hinoka assured her.

"Define rougher?"

"Ow… ow… ow. They sting, they sting so much." Corrin muttered as she forces herself up her feet while covering her eye sockets. "Dammit… to come so far only to fall like this. I suppose it's only fitting, not like my future wasn't already bloody enough."

She begins to start walking, with no destination on 'sight'. Where is she even going? She won't get far if she can't see anything and she's somewhere that she can't even begin to comprehend. So where can she go?

"Corrin." The Blind Princess stops dead on her tracks upon hearing the familiar soothing voice, leaving her in greater shock than she's had all day. It couldn't be. Could it…?

Gentle hands are placed on her arms and move them away from her face and begin to remove the blood still covering her.

"We're going to have to clean you up a little, wouldn't want your first meeting with someone so famous to go off while looking unpleasant now, do we." He said with a smile for her. "Now, come on, you don't have to worry about anything, for now, it's okay to open your eyes."

She hesitated, each second felt like a lifetime, unable to process what's going on or what to do, except feel fear over this being nothing but another of her escapes into her dreamland over everything she has endured, making her feel more miserable over what will happen if she gets pulled back into reality.

Ultimately, she complies and opens her eyelids with miraculously her still able to see as her eyes have been restored by the Dragon Vein she's standing on and the first thing she sees is Robin right in front of her, very much alive and well.

"Hey Corrin. Told you it wouldn't be easy to be rid of me." Robin smiled warmly to her.

Her hands began to shake as she lifts them up and places them on his face to assure herself that he's real and when he felt his warm touch, tears began to shed from her newly restored eyes.

"Robin…" She mumbled, while even her jaw is trembling by the weight of her own words before she wraps him in a tight hug, while her face maintains a petrified expression, still not able to grasps this as reality. "Please be real. Please be real. Please be real." She kept repeating, begging for this not to be a hallucination.

"I'm real, Corrin, I don't know a proper way to prove it to you but I swear that I'm still walking tall." Robin assured her and without wasting any time, Corrin's new eyes become watery and doesn't hold any tears back and cries loudly.

"I thought… I thought…" She sniffs, not able to find the words to express her joy.

"Hey, it's okay now. The Sins have been dealt with and you're all safe now, so come. The others are wait- Hey!" Robin is caught off as Corrin then tackles him to the ground with both now in the same position they were the night after dealing with the Leviathan. "Again with this."

'Why does everyone who claims to care about me have to resort to beating me up to express themselves?'

Without thinking, Corrin raises her hand and slowly tightens it into a fist while shaking and weakly throws it down to punch him but the mighty Mage Fighter didn't even feel it. She delivers more weak punches, much faster than the last but still very fragile, like her emotional state.

"N-Never… never… ever… e-e-ever leave me… a-again." She's started to sound more like Sakura, her words can barely be understood with the way she's sobbing. "You… promised…! You promised!"

"I know. I'm here now, aren't I?" He replied kindly as he grabs her left hand to get her to cease her punches and holds it in a warm embrace to ease her grief and calms her down by a lot and smiles back at him.

For a brief moment, Robin takes her eyes away from her after noticing something moving on her back and it did not take long to realize that it's her dragon tail that manifested and Robin doubts that she did so intentional given her self-prejudice.

"Ah… Corrin, I think your tail is flapping." He said awkwardly.

"What?" Corrin uttered in confusion as she turns around to see her tail resurface even though she's still in human form and it is indeed flapping. "HOW?!"

"Goddammit!" Envy yelled enraged while she is trying to survive the violent waves of the ocean because in her current weakened state she can't hold on. "Greed, get me out of this!"

"You're the one who can control water, you do something!" Greed yelled at her back as she's having as hard a time as her. The Rainbow Sage's attack really did a number on them.

"I'm too weak at the moment, I was forced into my own physical form too soon before I could finish rejuvenating!" Envy argued.

"Satan, you're useless! Well, you better get used to this crap because we're going to be at Neptune's mercy for a while." Greed hissed as the twin sins are forced to swim their way back to Notre Sagesse.

"How long is that going to take?!" Envy questioned.

"Girl I will smack you into oblivion. AS LONG AS IT TAKES!" Greed yelled.

"Why am I not surprised to find both of you together." The Twin Sins are grabbed by two giant veiled hands that pull them out of the sea and are now being carried by a floating Sin of Sloth.

"Sloth!" The two said in unison and in surprise.

"Pride forced me to go find Envy and Wrath who ran off unsupervised without his permission, odd how he neglected to mention that you too are doing as you pleased, Greed." Sloth said curiously. "You know what, I don't have time to be curious or getting to the bottom of things, too much of a bother."

"Since when do we need Pride's permission to do shit! Wasn't it his rule that says that we can do whatever we want?!" Envy protested.

"Do I look like I want to call him out on his sudden hypocrisy? Too much of a bother nor do I care. What I do care about is going back to sleep, so you two are coming with me, back to Valla." Sloth said as he starts flying and taking his sisters with him, against their will.

"HEY! Who said you could order us around!" Greed argued as she tries to free herself from Sloth's giant grasps, Envy doing the same but it's a fruitless effort.

"Go ahead, set yourselves free, have fun drowning and dying again, we all know how fun it is to move around Limbo." Sloth said sarcastically.

"We have to go back to the island! The barrier the Sage built around the sanctuary is broken! All those Sacred Treasures! MY Sacred Treasures!" Envy pleaded hysterically like a child blowing a tantrum.

"They're fucking mine!" Greed argued.

"NO, THEY'RE MINE!"

"Do I look like I care about some dumb Holy Weapons that we can turn unholy?" Sloth asked rhetorically. "Pride doesn't care. Wrath doesn't care. Lust doesn't care. Gluttony will just eat them even though they won't taste any good. Forget about the so-called Sage, right now you should worry about quelling the punishment Pride has in store for the both of you."

"Why the hell is he even upset about making sure the chaos of this war continues to spread is something that we should all be looking forward to." Greed hissed.

"Besides, Pride hasn't been himself since we were set free, hell, he even had something akin to a stroke." Envy added.

"You two haven't done anything to ensure this war escalates but expose us to the enemy, especially the former Vessel of the Fell Dragon." Sloth lectured. "And it's because of Envy that he knew who I was when we first fought in Mokushu."

"Then let's go and take care of him out already, we know where he is! And the Fire Emblem is with him too!" Greed argued.

"Forget it, I hate fighting. So much work means less time for napping." Sloth lazily shrugged, only concerned with returning home, letting a big opportunity like this slide.

"GREAT! And now we're supposed to go empty-handed. Fantastic!" Greed cursed.

"Relax, you idiot, you may have lost your chance to crack at those damned halflings, but I haven't!" Envy lectured.

"Oh, shut up! Like any of your plans ever work!" Greed shouted.

"You shut up!"

"This is my life." Sloth cursed.

"Incredible." Mikoto said in awe as she creates a yumi made of diamonds through the power of the Astral Plane's Dragon Veins. They all retreated here to properly relax and buy more time while Corrin is savoring every moment of having Robin back as well as Azura and filling each other in on what they missed. "To think that I would be able to experience such marvel as the home of an Astral of all Gods and Demigods."

"Yes, I am still trying to process all this myself. Truly the Gods favor our path towards peace for all of Hoshido with such powerful allies at our side." Ryoma said.

"Perhaps, but still, our enemies remain stronger, yet despair somehow feels like it's fleeting." Mikoto wondered.

"Whatever the case, I'm liking our odds, even after suffering another major beating." Hinoka smiled. "How's the arm, Kaze?"

"Wonderful to be honest, I have never felt such bliss in my muscles before." Kaze said relief to have gotten his arm back. "What about you Saizo? Kagero too?"

"Same. If it wasn't for the Rainbow Sage, we would've surely been killed." Kagero replied.

"Goes to show just how powerful the Old One really is, and just how grateful we all should be of his aid." Ryoma said.

"B-but what about Takumi? He still hasn't woken up yet?" Sakura asked overly concern as her brother hasn't woken up yet, as Takumi lies down still out cold with Sakura, Oboro and Hinata beside him.

"Well, he was possessed by a Super Demon, such corruption to one soul should've killed him if not for his dragon blood that makes his soul stronger than most so he should be fine and with the healing done to him by the Rainbow Sage and the Astral Plane he should wake up really soon." Lilith explained.

"Until then, I won't be leaving his side." Hinata declared.

"Me too, I want to be the first one he sees when he wakes up." Oboro boasted, grabbing one of his hands tightly.

"All that matters is that he and this Anna will wake up." Azura smiled. "She's been possessed by Greed far longer than Envy has been inside Takumi so her condition must be worse but at the same time she should recover but at a slower pace."

"Please, never say it like that again." Oboro uttered, extremely bothered by the thought on how long that Demoness has been inside her lord, that she could not help but show off her demonic glare that not even Ryoma can handle looking at her when she does that.

"Well, you guys are surely the luckiest bunch ever. To think that our little Mozu would be someone so special." Robin said in response.

"Oh, you lots sure won't stop making me blush, you know." Mozu smiled just delighted that Robin and Azura are back.

"Not as lucky as you guys, making deals with the Black Bulls, let alone having contacts with them." Hinata chuckled.

"What can I say, I thought I originated from a dark place so I went to dark places." Robin said as he continues the amnesiac charade.

"Yeah, 'very dark' places." Azura said vaguely sarcastic. "And we learned a lot of troubling things."

"Yeah, based on everything we learned from Shura and the other Anna, the Seven Deadly Sins have been terrorizing Horus at a smaller scale, and taking over the criminal underworld bit by bit strangely around the same time Garon killed Sumeragi." Robin informed.

"How troubling, and yet there is no mention of such horrors happening anywhere." Ryoma questioned concern.

"Such attacks continue to happen and yet the public hasn't been made aware of. Garon and his goons have always managed to maintain a level of control amongst the criminal order by putting his most trusted in charge to keep the peace, and based on what I learned from Camilla, Leo and his right-hand man, Zero have been tightening Garon's grip and Shura never mentioned that this attacks occurred anywhere near Nohr." Robin continued.

"They're keeping their distance from the Nohrians, maybe what Lilith said about them not wanting to be caught by the Grimm holds truth." Hinoka said.

"Maybe, I don't know. With Hope, the Rainbow Sage may hold the answers to all our questions." Lilith said.

"And do I have to go at it alone?" Corrin asked nervously.

"It's his request and while I rather not leave you alone for another second we owe him big time after what he just did for us." Ryoma insisted.

"Alright, I just really hope he doesn't screw us over or anything." Corrin muttered just wanting this day to be over with. "Hey, Robin, do you still have my Dragonstone, Kaze told me you confiscated it after my previous episode and I would really love to get rid of this tail already." She requested while pointing at her tail that remains on her back, something that clearly annoys her.

"Oh, are you sure you want to get rid of it, it kind of makes you look cuter." Mikoto complimented.

"Well, I disagree. I don't know how animals and the Beast Clans can like it but I for one don't appreciate having an appendage coming out of my butt." Corrin pouted, finding this thing embarrassing.

"Well, tails are actually above the butt." Hinata corrected.

"Still near my butt and I don't like it, kind of like I don't like anything about my powers, how did it even manifest, and this out of everything else while I was being butchered by Takumi and Envy?" Corrin complained.

"You mean a Possessed Takumi by Envy." Oboro corrected.

"I know what I said. And why can't I get this stupid thing to stop flapping." Corrin hissed, having no control over the tail.

"Maybe you're like a dog who can't help but wag their tails when they are happy." Mozu suggested and decided to prove her point by taking Robin's hand and moves him away from Corrin since she was so insistent on keeping him close, and she ended up being right as the tail stopped flapping and lets itself fall to the floor, indicating Corrin's dissatisfaction of being separated from Robin, and when Mozu moves him closer again the tail lifts itself up and flaps again, showing off the Princess's happiness even though her face shows that she's instead greatly annoyed and again Mozu moves Robin away and the tail falls again.

"Oh, that's adorable." Mikoto chuckled in delight with everyone else doing the same, even Ryoma and Corrin could've sworn she notice Saizo making something akin to a chuckle underneath his mask before he turned away.

"DO NOT MOCK ME!" Corrin screamed enraged but because of her deep red blush, not even Sakura can take her threat seriously and didn't so much as flinch. "I thought he was killed by my foster family! Of course I'm ecstatic to see him again."

"There's no need to feel ashamed, sweetheart, everyone here is a loved one after all." Mikoto assured her.

"I know I've said this before but I'm very flattered that you hold me so highly, Milady." Robin replied to Corrin with a smile that she considers captivating, causing her to blush again that she covers her face with her cape and starts to scream in frustration.

"I hate you so much right now!"

"Well, that escalated quickly." Robin muttered while dropping a sweat.

"And suddenly the previous battle we'd had against the Sins feels like a lifetime ago." Hinoka smiled.

"Goes to show how strong-willed we really are." Rinkah said satisfied.

"That, or we're just a freakshow of misfits." Azama countered but nobody snapped back at him this time.

"Just give me my stone!" Corrin demanded.

"Actually I'm the one who has it, Corrin." Azura, who is sitting right next to her said as she returns the stone to her and once back in her hand, Corrin makes the tail vanish.

"Hey, how come the tail didn't flap when near Azura? I thought you two were like two halves of the same whole because of the whole similar backgrounds and how fast friends you became compare to the rest of us." Hinata asked.

"She's no such thing." Corrin replied a little too fast that it kind of hurt the Songstress. "And need I remind you that attacking the Opera House was her idea."

"Yeah, we really need to have a serious talking about that once Takumi awakens." Mikoto said genuinely disappointed.

"And when we return to Suzanoh." Ryoma added, still ticked off about it as well.

"By the way, Azura, how were you able to use your magic song when we all notice your pendant in your… birth mother's hands after we were forced to escape?" Hinoka asked before instantly regretting asking that, giving the scenario but thankfully, Azura remained as stoic as ever.

"It's because of Corrin's Dragonstone. I can't really explain why but when I held it in my hands after Robin lent it to me for safekeeping, I felt the very same surge of energy I would always feel when I have the pendant around my neck." Azura explained.

"Wait, the same magic power? Does that mean the pendant is also a Dragonstone?" Mikoto asked.

"Probably, I at first couldn't think much of it but after hours of holding it close to me I could not deny the resemblance. And it's not that the two have identical energies it's that my pendant, or rather the gem it carries is somehow a shard of Corrin's Dragonstone." Azura concluded.

"A shard, but there's not even so much as a scratch on it." Corrin said noting how perfectly intact the stone is. "How do we know that your magic involves the use of any Dragonstone to use as a conduit?"

"That may not be it. The stones dragons made to give ourselves the form of cohesion of humans to protect ourselves from Degeneration are created by literally removing slivers of their own souls and give it a physical form. It's the same with my Dragonstone as it was created by my father using a sliver of his soul just like how he created me." Lilith explained. "And each Precursor created dozens of Dragonstones to provide for the lesser members of their race to protect the species from going insane as well as securing the safety of the Human race."

"So both the pendant and stone are the same because they were made by the same dragon." Corrin concluded. "And both Azura and Arete are capable of using Water Magic and are likely the only humans in Horus who can, the only thing that makes sense is that they're both survivors of the Ocean Dragon's descendants."

"Makes sense, though there's no way to tell since Nohr drove the Water Tribe away, or worse." Azura said.

"Important answers that I'm sure the Rainbow Sage can provide; he is the one who I got the stone from." Robin reminded.

"That is gonna have to be put on hold for a bit longer." Lilith said.

"Why is that?" Corrin asked.

"Because Takumi is about to wake up now." Lilith said and in the nick of time, the fallen prince does awaken, only to immediately go into a state of panic, screaming with pure terror in his face, so much so that Hinata and Oboro are forced to restrain him by holding him by his arms.

"Milord!"

"Hold him down, I have to sedate him." Lilith instructed, trying to place her hands on his head but he's not making it easy with how he's trembling and trying to free himself that Ryoma had to step in.

"Calm yourself, brother, please! You're safe now!" Ryoma begged, holding him by his shoulders as tight as he can without hurting him, allowing Lilith the chance to use her magic on him and begins calming his nerves with him starting to relax.

"Get a hold of yourself, Takumi." Hinoka shouted, her voice shaking with dread over how badly Envy really did hurt him with unnoticeable shed of tears on her eyes.

"Oh, my poor baby." Mikoto uttered in sorrow over what has become of her strong son.

"T-Tak-umi…" Sakura cried shedding the most tears.

"Tell us he's going to be alright Lilith." Ryoma pleaded.

"He needs more time to recover and I'll be able to give him all he needs until th- ARGH!" Lilith cried out, releasing Takumi and placing her hands on her head instead as she starts to feel great pain and flashes of nightmarish scenes popping up in her head.

"Lilith!" Robin shouted upon seeing her react this way.

"I'm fine… just give me… give me a second to catch my breath." Lilith uttered as she gets back on her feet and takes a few steps away from everyone.

"Where… where am I…? Where is she?" Takumi asked in such a weak and fragile voice, that it almost sounds like he's dying.

"Envy's gone, Milord, she can't hurt you anymore." Oboro hastily informed him in an effort to keep him at ease.

"Yeah, you don't have to worry about nothing right now but relax." Hinata doubly assured him.

"Lilith, you got a peak on Takumi's thoughts, didn't you?" Robin asked.

"Yeah, I saw." Lilith made a deep sigh as she tries to wrap her head around what she saw. "To ensure full control, Envy trapped Takumi inside his own mind by creating a nightmarish mental prison, one where he was strapped in chains, floating above a sea of blood with a horrible, darkish storm from above. Massive, black twisters everywhere with giant, horribly disfigured monsters within each of them with malicious intentions. Worse of all is that in the hellish ocean lied the true unholy form of Envy, eager to spread her foul corruption. The one true Leviathan."

"As in the Sea Devil that is said to carry the doors to the Underworld in its mouth? Isn't that a monster from another sea folk legend?" Corrin asked.

"Many legends in Horus have been changed and retconned so often that it's hard to figure out its source but since the Seven Deadly Sins are considered to be the worst of them all, it's highly possible that they're tale has intertwined with the rest, and since Envy is confirmed to be a shapeshifter its more than possible that we have yet to see her true form yet." Kaze speculated.

"Oh, I saw it alright, and there's no way we can stop her if we fight her while in the seas." Lilith muttered terrified.

"Then we cut her down while she's on land." Ryoma replied, already swearing bloody vengeance on the Sins. First Corrin and now Takumi has been made a victim and used to harm their friends and family, his hatred for Nohr subsiding in favor of finding and cutting down those demons. But the fight against Greed showed him just how weak humans really are when compared to them, hence why they need more power.

"Kaze… Corrin…" Takumi muttered, only now noticing the two who are alright and well. "You're… you're both okay! I thought Envy… I thought I…"

"Think nothing of our injuries, Lord Takumi, you are not to blame." Kaze quickly replied with haste and a genuine smile and raised his right arm for reassurance that everything is alright.

"Yeah… we… took a massive beating but everyone's okay now." Corrin shrugged, subconsciously looking away from him due to her mix feelings towards her stepbrother more a mess than ever since deep down she's convinced that it wasn't all Envy's doing. It's greatly selfish on her part, sure but she can't help but feel this way.

Looking away from him did leave an impact as the wounded prince can no longer hold it in any longer and begins to cry in anguish over the harm he caused because he too believes that he is just as responsible for hurting Corrin so horribly with the rest of his family unable to do more than to hold him in a family's embrace to give all the warmth and love they can give him.

"The Sins will pay for this." Saizo swore, hating to see the usually strong sniper prince get reduced to such a feeble state.

"Big time." Rinkah added while tightening her fist with fire.

Well, here it is, certainly one of my darker chapters and a better taste of the terror of my Deadly Sins and how demonic possession works with them. They let out all the dark emotions of their victims and magnify them a thousandfold and rather or not it was really Takumi or Envy who did such an awful thing to Corrin, I'll leave that up to the imagination. Greed has entered the fray and who better to be her vessel than Fire Emblem's very own embodiment of Greed, Anna. I'm more surprised that I didn't think of this much sooner. But I'm sure the biggest surprise of all was the change I made on who is the Rainbow Sage, I'm sure you can all tell who it is. Also, this might be the last chapter I make for a long while, apart from personal life, I have a hurricane coming to Puerto Rico, where I live, tomorrow, again. Not deadly serious this time but still, quite the hassle. At least I haven't lost my experience dealing with bothersome hurricanes. Till next time.