AN

Nothing is mine.

To say Inigo was in a bit of a bad situation would have been the definition of an understatement. The situation was beyond bad and escalating fast.

Inigo, his wife, Corrin, and his sister in law, Sakura, were on their way back to Ylisstol Castle when they decided to stay the previous night at the a village on the way there. Of course, when the morning came and they decided to head out, a bunch of bandits got the right idea to attack the village at that same moment, and of course they stayed to defend it, they have to.

But things only spiral downward from there.

Firstly, they've been fighting from early morning to late in the afternoon, and the fatigue was getting to them. To make things worse, some pyromaniac of a mage that was amongst them lit a good chunk of the village on fire for no apparent reason. Corrin thankful dealt with him, since the poor sod made the mistake of attacking Sakura, not that it would've hurt her, since her magical resistance was unnaturally high, even among other healers.

But Sakura was posing another problem. She isn't much of a fighter, despite being good with the bow. To make things worse, the fatigue was hitting her harder then normal, as she spent a lot of her time healing the injured among the chaos that surrounded them. She was never meant to be on the battlefield for this long and it shows, since her healing is much less effective now then it was earlier.

Thankfully, the amount of bandits went from overwhelming to manageable, many of which suffered more of a painful death then necessary thanks to Corrin, who was absolutely livid.

But that small shed of light was covered up the moment Inigo realized the the bandits had fucking wyrmslayers. Who the fuck just has a wyrmslayer on them like that?!? He knew how much those things hurt, which was more then usual, since those things had some sort of power over those of dragon blood, such as Sakura, due to her ancestry, or himself thanks to Anankos, or Corrin who was quite literally half dragon.

Speaking of his wife.

Corrin took an aggressive stance behind Inigo to block an attack on him, diagonally from behind as always, and with as much force as her body allowed her pushed back against the bandit hard enough to send him falling backwards. Before the bandit could get back up on his feet, Corrin pounced on the poor sod and lodged her Shadow Yato completely through the bandit's neck, killing him.

"C'mon!!! I'm not finished yet!! who's next!?!" Corrin shouted like a war cry.

Inigo could only sigh in discontent. He knew why she was so animalistic at times like this. Corrin never had full control over her inner dragon due to her being rather unstable emotionally, thanks to the Nohrian-Hoshidan war, and all the lieing and secrets that surrounded that. Not even her dragonstone helps her suppress it as good as it should.

which leads to now.

Having been forced to use some of the dragonstone's power, she only allow enough of the power to give her a large pair of silver-gray wings, which look good on her. It granted her a lot of power to work with, and she was using it well, while still keeping her humanity in check.

Sakura took up post behind Inigo, clearly disheveled while trying to stand.

"I-Inigo... I-I-I don't think we can last any longer." Sakura sputtered out.

"I really don't want to go full dragon right now, love. I might not be able to control it this time." Corrin said as she stood next to him, retracting some of the dragonstone's power, causing her wings to disappear in a flash of light.

Inigo merely swiped a bit of sweat from his forehead. "Then pray for a miracle, we're gonna need it."

"Pick up the pace Tucker!"

"Hold on! I'm not as fast as you, remember?!"

Tucker and Carolina both noticed a large pillar of smoke, too large to be a camp fire, which meant someone was in trouble.

"Why are you so eager to help, anyway?! WE COULD GET KILLED!!!" Tucker questioned.

"Do I really have to spell it out for you?!"

"No!! But we don't have our armor!! Anything could kill us now!!"

"You think I didn't notice?!"

"Not really, no!!"

Both were in full sprint while still keeping up the conversation, until they crossed the bridge that led straight into the village market. Carolina already had her combat knife in hand, while Tucker was catching his breath.

Tucker looked up to see many of the village building's in flame's.

"Oh... Holy shit!!! What the fuck... oh God... happened here?!"

"Someone set them on fire, no doubt." Carolina stated.

Before Tucker could give a retort, a few bandits made themselves known rather boastfully.

"Well, look who we have here. Trying to be heroes like the other three, huh?"

As Carolina and Tucker face the bandits, Carolina looked assessed their current foes.

Ok, obviously criminals, they seem well organized, armor is questionable, some of them are even topless.

She then looked over their equipment.

Axes and swords, should be easy enough, they have an archer though, and without our armor we'll risk getting impaled, one of them has a... book? Why bring a book here? Is he gonna read us to death?

Before she could formulate a plan, however, Tucker spoke up.

"Well, yeah we are gonna be heroes!! You guys are going down!!"

"Tucker, what are yo-"

"Not now, I have a plan." Tucker whispered back.

One of the bandits, which Carolina presumed the leader, shifted his face from a look of confidence to a look of annoyance.

"You don't even have a weapon on ya!! Are ya that stupid or what?!? My men can cleave through you easily, then we can make of with the girl with ya!!" The bandit shouted.

"Why you-"

"Sorry dude, but she already has me!" Tucker interrupted.

Carolina looked at him with obvious disdain in her eyes, but Tucker just took it in stride.

Tucker continued to egg the leader on. "Of course, even if she didn't, she wouldn't want an ugly bastard like you!!"

The bandit leader was now furious. How dare this unarmed imbecile insult his good looks, in front of his own men to top it all off?! He wasn't gonna stand for that, so he was gonna kill this dastard, and make it painful.

The bandit charged at Tucker with a war cry, raising his sword high above his head. Tucker only gave a cocky grin, as he ran back at the bandit.

"Tucker, what are yo-!!" Carolina was about to finish the sentence when she noticed Tucker grab the grip of his energy sword.

I see, he's gonna take out the leader, leaving them in disarray. She then looked at the archer, and gripped her combat knife. Should be easy enough. She aimed at the archer and through her knife at him, which then lodged into his eye, killing him.

Carolina began running to the dead archer to retrieve her combat knife when the other bandit took notice of her and their fallen comrade. But before that could act, a loud electrical *shing* was heard, and when they looked at where it came from, they saw Tucker with his energy through their leader's chest. They looked on in awe as their leader slowly fell to the ground dead, then Tucker did a few victory swings of his sword.

"Awww man!!! Got a little cocky, did ya? Well now you're dead, and you friends will be the same if they don't get the hell out of here!!" Tucker yelled out as he looked at the rest of the bandit, while some of them moved back a bit in fear.

But the bandit with the book didn't really take it that well, and he then got into a stance and opened his book. The pages then began to flutter and glow as runes began to appear at his feat and in front of him. Tucker's eyes widened, and jumped out the way just in time when a small fire ball was flung at him, only missing by an inch or so.

"Magic!! THEY HAVE FUCKING MAGIC!!"

"Never thought I'd see it." Carolina simply spoke as she pulled her combat knife out of the dead archers head. She felt a presence watching, and she looked up to see a cloaked figure falling down on her. Carolina then sidestepped out the way, and when the cloaked bandit got into a fighters stance, Carolina gave a roundhouse kick to the head, knocking him out cold.

Carolina looked back at Tucker, and swore under her breath.

Tucker was in a predicament. Instead of scaring off the bandit by killing their leader in one fell swoop with his scary new sword this era has never seen, they instead grew a bigger pair and attacked him. Tucker was now busy dodging balls of fire while the remaining three bandits were charging at him, which only gave her one option.

Take out the mage, that way Tucker can focus on the other three. Carolina thought. She began running at the mage with her combat knife in hand, only so she could get in range to throw it. But before she could do that, an arrow lodged itself into the mage's eye.

Carolina stopped in her tracks. Someone else was here, and it might be the other she and Tucker heard the bandits boast about killing.

"I won't allow it!!"

"Need a hand?!"

"It's all for you!!"

Another arrow shot through a bandits neck, causing him to fall with a pool of blood. A man with blue hair then swung his sword down at the next bandit who tried to block it, but the force of the swing knocked his sword out of his hand. The blue hair man then thrust his sword upward, stabbing they bandit's neck.

The last bandit tried to cut him down, but was tackled by a woman with ivory hair who then stabbed the bandit in the chest with her glowing purple sword.

A red haired girl then approached Tucker with a strange staff.

"A-are you hurt?"

Tucker only gave a grin. "I'm as fine as they come. No injuries here."

The girl only nodded.

"Well, it's good that you stopped by, we were actually on our last legs." The blue hair man then spoke.

"That was the last of them, thank the gods." The ivory haired woman said.

Tucker then had and idea. "Say, think me and you could spend some time together?" he gave a smirk.

The woman only smiled at him while raising her brow. "Really? Right in front of my husband? That's quite brave of you, or stupid."

Tucker's eyes then widened. " W-wait, you guys are married?!? Oh dude, I am so sor-"

"No worry's, I'm glad someone else admires my wife's beauty." The blue haired man said with a reassuring smile.

"Tucker, one of these days your 'flirting' is gonna get you killed." Carolina said as she approached the group.

"Tucker, huh?"

"The one and only, and she's Carolina."

"I'm glad you guy's came in when you did." Carolina spoke.

"No worries, it's what we do best, I'm Inigo, leader of the Shepard's." Inigo spoke. "This is my lovely wife, Corrin."

"It's good to meet you." Corrin bowed her head.

"And this right her is my delicate sister in law, Sakura."

"I-I'M NOT DELICATE!!" Sakura then covered her mouth and blushed, realizing she just shouted that out. "I-I-I just prefer to n-not fight in direct c-combat, is all." She sputtered out in a lower voice.

"Well, now that that's out of the way, what are Nohrians doing here?" Corrin asked.

Tucker tilted his head. "Nohrians? We aren't actually Nohrians."

Inigo then spoke up. "What do you mean?"

"we'll explain everything later, I know some of us needs some serious R-n-R." Carolina said.

"Agreed, we've been here all morning, I for one need to get rid of this fatigue." Inigo said.

Carolina felt she could trust these guys, which was odd, since she had a hard time trusting anyone. She did feel that they were hiding something from then, but that could wait, some R-n-R was definitely needed.

AN

As to why this took too long, I don't know. But we are here now, hope y'all enjoyed.