Chapter 20: Is That Morgan?
"Say that again but make sure it doesn't sound crazy." Robin said staring at me. 'Wow, I thought I would have been smarter than this.'
"I have Grima in my head, so I can't join in on any meetings because she is in here." I tap on my head. Robin just stared at me with a blank look. She then nodded a couple times.
"Well…crap." She tapped her finger to her lip. 'Hey I do that!' "Does she know our plan?"
"She can't see into my past. Only the things I see." 'Author had to add limitations somehow.' Author? 'Ignore me.' That's kind of hard to.
"Okay, okay…um what now?" She asks me. I shrug.
"Pray that nothing bad happens." 'I'll gladly accept prayer.' Go away.
"Thanks for the oh so helpful advice. Now, you won't be able to join in on any strategy meeting or any other meeting for that matter unless it involves all of the shepherds. No one will tell you about any plan except your role in any battle. Does that sound reasonable?" I nod. "Chrom?" We both turn to see Chrom staring at me with his head on his hand, looking like he's sick of this shit. 'Probably is. Even that is attractive, damn.' Oh yea, you married him. 'Yep. He was so good in be-' Please stop. Grima laughs maniaclly.
"Jordan?" I shake out of my mini trance and look at Chrom.
"Yea, sorry. Whats up?" I ask.
"You will not tell anyone else about this, understand." He looks serious. Grima sighs dreamily. "We do not need chaos to be spread in camp. Understand?"
"Olivia knows." I say.
"She's fine." He waves it off. "But no one else besides us three. Clear?"
"Crystal." I tell him. He nods.
"Let's go eat." Robin says. She drags Chrom by the hand out of the tent which left me alone. I sigh and drop to the ground. I propped my arm up on my knee and stared at the ground. This won't be good. This can't be good.
"So how are we doing?" Grima asks sitting down beside me.
"I thought you said teleporting was effort, and that you are feeling lazy?" I ask not looking up.
"You got me there." She says shrugging. I now realize that we are shoulder to shoulder.
"What do you want?"
"Seeing how you're doing, and what I could do to destroy your mind and other things like that." She nonchalantly says.
"Wow, you really care." I mutter sarcastically.
"I do. I really do. If I didn't you would be dead right now along with your wife and kids, both pairs of twins." I lunge for her throat. She disappears while laughing. 'You need to control that anger little brother.' She speaks into my mind.
"Leave them out of this then!" I shout.
'Mmm… nope.' Then laughs again.
"Uh umm…Uncle Jordan?" A voice behind me asks. I look over my shoulder to see Noire, fiddling her fingers, with a light blush.
"Yes Noire?"
"Uh… Wh-where are we going? N-no one has told me yet." She asks, looking at the ground. I smile, I never liked her that much when I played the game, but here I find her extremely cute, like a daughter slash niece cute.
"We're going to get Morgan…I hope." I add I hope at the end because in game he or she just appeared in the Ruins of Time, so I hope he's there.
"Oh Okay. Thank you." She smiled and walked off. My eyes follow her as she steps in stride with her father.
"Do I have to be worried?" Olivia teases. That caught me off guard.
"Wh-what? No, you don't have to be worried. Why would you say things like tha…" She was giggling. "Oh ha ha very funny." Her giggles went into full blown laughter. 'It wasn't even that funny.' I start laughing along as well. 'Oh screw you. You're laughing in spite of me.'
"I thought that it would be funny." Olivia says in between calming giggles.
"Funny for you." I pout. 'What are you, ten?' I then grab her hand. "I hope you know that you don't have to worry about me being faithful. I'll be by your side… always." I say she nods.
"I-I know. I hope you know that as well." She says.
"I know." I kiss her hand. She blushes and shrinks into herself. I leaned down to whisper something in her ear.
"Uncle Jordan!" A shout interrupted that. I stand up straight and see Cynthia running towards us with a list in her hands. She tripped around a couple feet in front of me and I had to catch her. 'Just like her mother… come on girl.'
"You alright?" I ask as I stand her up.
"I'm great!" She gave me a toothy smile, then she looked at her list. "We have to give you a new hero name!" 'Please kill her, or me…but mainly her.' No Grima… just no.
"Why do I need that?" I ask her.
"Because it needs to be epic and legendary, something that people will cling on too, something that sticks, something that-"
"Okay I get it. What do you have?" I cut her off. She smiles and looks at the paper.
"The traveler?" 'Really? That sucks.' She looks up at me. I shake my head. "Ya I agree with you, Daddy came up with that one. How about, um… The Darkness Hunter!" She then hopped and squealed. "I really like that one." 'Why does he have to hunt darkness? What's wrong with darkness?'
"I like it, but tell me some more later…" I motion to the ruins "… we are here." She looked excited.
"Of course! I have some for Aunt Olivia as well! Like the Dancing Death Artist!" I never thought it was possible to pale and blush at the same time but here Olivia was, doing just that. She opened her mouth to say something but Cynthia already rushed off.
"So my little death artist…" I smirk as she swats me in the shoulder.
"Th-that's not me at all." She says meekly. I shrug.
"Cynthia likes embellishing stories; did you hear what she thinks Sumia had done. That also doesn't sound like her at all." I tell her. I notice Robin motioning me or us to come to her, Lucina, and Chrom. I take Olivia by the hand and we walk up to meet them.
"This is the place?" Robin asks me. I nod.
"Are you sure he is in there?" Lucina asks me with a worried tone. She finally told us that her and Morgan fought over Lucina keeping him in the dark about their mother becoming Grima and he ran away from her. He hadn't been seen by any of the other children since. 'I sense fell blood in there. It's either risen or my darling little boy. Or both.' We heard a growl come out of the entrance.
"Risen." Chrom said. "I'll get the Shepherds prepared." He said. As he walked off he stopped and met my eyes. "Is my son in there?" He asks. 'Most likely darling.'
"Most likely." I say…oh shit. 'You listened!? Damn, I'm getting to you huh? Always listen to your older siblings, they have the best advice.' Piss off. Robin snaps her fingers in front of my face. I flinch and meet her gaze.
"You there?" She asks. I nod and tap my temple. Robin made an "O" with her mouth and nodded. Olivia squeezed my hand.
"Is that a code? Should I know about this?" Lucina asks. I look to Robin who winces. I don't want to do this but I have to lie or tell a half-truth. 'Five gold that this comes back to bite you in the ass.' Ten gold.
"I get lost in my head sometimes. I do that to let your mother of father know that I was lost in there." 'Nice half-truth.' Lucina nods. I eye Robin who has a grimace on her face. I mouth later to her and she nods.
"Okay…" Chrom comes back to the little group. "…They are all ready for combat. Jordan go get Gaius, Cordelia and Severa. You and Olivia, along with those three will go in first and scout out the place, understood?"
"Yes sir." I say giving him a fake salute. He rolls his eyes while Robin snickers. Lucina cocks her head to the side like her mom does.
"Was that supposed to be a joke? That was just a very poor salute." She says. Robin sighs and starts explaining it when we turn to get the others. I see a flash of orange hair to the left of us and I lead Olivia over there.
"She was talking to you, again wasn't she?" Olivia asks.
"Yes, she was. She feels the presence of fell blood in there so it's either risen, Morgan, or both."
"Is that how you knew he was in there?"
"No, he's usually there in game too. But with amnesia and younger than any of the other children for… reasons."
"But he is still the youngest right?"
"Yes, but only by a year I think. In game it's by a couple years."
"Ahh..." We come across them. Severa was sitting on a log, arms and legs crossed with a lollypop on her mouth, facing away from her parents who were being all lovey-dovey and shit.
"Well then…" I say startling all three of them. "…We'll take Severa and head out if you want to continue…" I motion to them "… whatever that was." Gaius recovers quickly.
"Oh please. Like I haven't stumbled upon you and Ribbons doing worse in the supply tent." I blush and I know that Olivia is too.
"That was one time! And at least it wasn't in front of my kid." I point to Sev sitting on the log. We stare at each other for a little bit before we both start laughing. "What the hell did we walk into." I say.
"Beats me." Gaius says as he walks over and throws an arm around me. "What'd you need Blazer?" 'Ugh, I blacked out due to sheer stupidity, what did I miss?'
"You three, Olivia, and myself are headed into the ruins and scoping it out. We might find the prince, as well, if that happens, let me handle it. Cool?"
"Absolutely. Alright family of mine…" He turns to face them. "…Let's get re- Where did you get that?" He asks Severa who smirks.
"Wouldn't you like to know." She says.
"Ugh, these are new boots." Severa says as we splash through the water that is covering the floor of the ruins. Cordelia and Olivia, went off somewhere with Ridley as Gaius, Severa and I travelled on foot. How they got a dog on a Pegasus 'Olivia is holding her.' I'll never know. 'I just told you!'
"Why did you wear your new boots into battle? You had time to change." I ask.
"They are too cute to change out of, but now they are ruined. Thanks Uncle." She spat at me. I roll my eyes.
"Calm down there, Sweetheart." Gaius says as I peek out from behind the wall. A swordsmaster, a couple wyvern riders and one hooded tactician in a pear tree… wait. 'That's Morgan you dumbass!' Grima shouts in my head. Why does it look like he is only wearing one sleeve? Why is his hood up?
"Okay, we got two wyvern riders and a swordsmaster. Gaius, you and I need to take out the wyvern riders first, then we will all team up on the swordsmaster. I believe I see Morgan over there as well. Let me talk to him whe-
"I'm not in the MOOD!" A shout from the otherside and the crackle of electricity caught me off guard. All three of us poked our head out. The risen turned their heads around to see one of their companion's dead in front of a statue with Morgan holding a tome in one hand and his other hand was crackling with electricity. 'I like what I am seeing.'
"Morgan?" Severa questioned.
"Change of plans, attack now." I say. I aim my bow at the farthest wyvern rider. "Always shoot first." I tell those two and fire my arrow off. Killed it instantly. Gaius does the same and fires at the nearest wyvern rider, as Severa hops the fallen pillar and rushes the swordsmaster. Gaius's arrow flies try and hits the wyvern rider but does not kill it. He hops over as well and pulls out his sword. I move to follow him but he stops me and points to Severa, who was dueling the swordsmaster and losing I think.
"Help her. I got this." He tells me. I nod and run over to help. She blocks an attack and pushes the risen back. She then rushes at it but the risen dodges. I load up my minibow and fire at it. My arrow hits its shoulder and it wheels around to face me. Severa takes that time to slash at it.
"Say Goodnight!" She exclaims and kills the risen. Once he turns to smoke she flips her hair over her shoulder and huffs.
"Good job Severa." I tell her with a smile. She stiffens and blushes.
"W-well of course I did." She says. I snicker and ruffle her hair. She slaps my hand away. "Watch the hair why don't cha." She spits out, annoyed.
"What, afraid that Morgan won't like it?" I tease with a smirk. She narrows her eyes.
"No uncle." She grits out. "I just don't want you touching my hair."
"Whatever you say there." I walk past her.
"I don't like that kid!" She shouts after me. 'I think she likes Inigo.' Really… well then.
"Well how about my kid?" I say over my shoulder. She stutters and I smirk. Checkmate. I ignore her complaining to Gaius in favor of walking up the hooded figure kneeling in front of the statue. 'Oh I'm excited.' Grima then squealed and I ignored her. The sounds of battle were starting to fill the air but nothing came over near the statue. That boy must really be in a trance or in his own head or something because we weren't being quiet. I notice that his normal tactician's coat has its sleeves cut off but he is wearing a white compression sleeve like thing on his left arm and shoulder. 'What's he done to my old coat?' His normal beige color pants had hints of blue and white instead of black. I could start making out what he was saying as I walk softly closer. 'Is he praying to Naga?'
"…oth in the wrong back then. If I don't get anything else in this life, I hust want to apologize for yelling at Lucy." 'No.' She had all of the reason to hide the fact that mother was not the mother I remember…" 'Please no.' "…and that she wanted to help me keep that image of her being what I remember her as in my head but… I think I deserved to know." '…No…' "I just want to see my sister again. Please Naga, can you help me with that." He looks up at the divine statue. "Please, I'm begging you. Please." I hear sniffling. "She's the only family I have left." '…I… NO! NO! NO!' Then for the first time in weeks I felt free of Grima. It's like she logged of the sever which is my brain. She is not happy right now and that is scary. But I need to focus on the crying child in front of me first.
"So, I brought the whole gang here, is that cool?" I tell him. He jumps with shock, stands and turns. Is this Morgan I ask myself as he drops his hood. He looks older than his in-game depiction. His blue hair was held up like one of the younger male Robin's hair styles and his gray eyes were tinted blue and lighter than he would have thought. He was also pretty tall. A little shorter than me but taller than Lucina and more muscular, like Chrom. He had a white undershirt on under the tactician's jacket…Jacket? It looks more like a very long vest. He wore the same boots though, glad to see somethings don't change. He then smiled the same toothy smile that he had in game and ran towards me.
"Uncle Jordan! It's so good to see you!" He then tackled me practically and it hurt more than Cynthia's hug tackle. I braced myself so we didn't fall over, thank goodness. He wrapped his arms around me and was laughing. I held him tight and smiled as well.
"Nice to meet you kid." I say.
"Hey Blazer, the battles almost over… is that Blue Three?" Gaius asks. We break apart and Morgan nods with a smile.
"While not the exact nickname you had for me, my name is Morgan the tactician prince of Ylisse." He then bows, overexaggerating the movements. Gaius and I raise an eyebrow at that.
"Daddy, do you have anymore… Morgan?" Severa asks. Morgan pops up and smiles. He then walks over and gives the shocked girl a hug.
'It's good to see you Sev." He says. I notice that Severa is staring over his shoulder with a blush and shock written all over her face. A few seconds pass and she pushes him away.
"No way, you are not Morgan." She says. He cocks his head, their whole family has that.
"Why is that?" He asks.
"W-well, be-because…" She stutters out as she looks him over. Morgan then smirks and leans closer to her face.
"Because what Sev? I'm dying to know." He speaks softly. Did he learn from Inigo? I see Gaius frowning. I'm going to pull him away now.
"You know why you arrogant little shit." I mutter as I pull him back. He starts laughing and scratches his left arm awkwardly.
"Sorry Severa." He sheepishly says, looking away.
"J-just don't do anything like that again. Got it mister? I'm still older than you, even if Puberty hit you hard kid." She growls out then turns around and crosses her arms. Gaius shakes his head.
"Don't do that kid. Blazer and I are already planning his kid and my kid's wedding so don't get any ideas." Gaius half jokes. Severa whirls around to face him with a blush.
"What!" She shouts. "I am not going to be married to that big d-"
"Morgan?" A skeptical voice asks. We all turn to see Lucina standing with Falchion in her hand and wide eyes, staring at her brother. Morgan stared right on back. He nods.
"Lucina?" He asks. She nods. Lucina gulps and Morgan grimaces before they both open their mouths.
"I'm sorry!" They both say at the same time. Then they both were taken back.
"No, you shouldn't be sorry." Again. Morgan then smiles and runs over to hug his sister. Lucina drops the sword and meets him half way. Tears were shed and apologies were said.
"I am so sorry. I should not have run away or yelled." Morgan blubbers out.
"No, you had every right. I am sorry for hiding it from you." Lucina says in between sobs. I smile at the scene as we see more shepherds start showing up.
Robin and Chrom skid to a stop a couple feet in front of the hugging siblings. Robin puts a hand over her mouth and I see tears fall. Chrom picks up the sword off the ground and plants in before watching the scene with a smile. Morgan and Lucina pull away and Morgan smiles. He then puts a hand on top of his head and moves hit to the middle of his neck. Lucina scowled and slugged him in the arm.
"No short jokes out of you brother. I am still older." She says with a scowl.
"But now you're my little sister." He jokes with a shit eating grin. Lucina scowls at him.
"No, I am not." She says with grit teeth. Morgan then laughed and pulls her into a side hug. For the first time he sees Robin and Chrom. His mouth dropped as his lip quivered. Robin slowly stepped forward. Morgan did the same.
"So, you are my son?" She asked tentatively. Morgan smiled a weak smile.
"That's right mother." He says. She grows a grin and runs to hug him. He wraps his arms around her and buries his head into her hair. He Chrom smiles and joins in on the group hug. Morgan looked up and once Chrom placed an arm around his shoulder. Lucina joined them as well in a family group hug. And I can't help but feel more and more jealous as all of these families come together and I can't be with mine. Soon, I need to remind myself, over and over again. Soon. The family pulled away and then started talking and laughing together. The other Shepherds were walking away but I noticed the future girls were all staring at him with dumbfounded looks on their faces.
"There is no way that's Morgan." Nah states with a blush.
"He was Cynthia's size two years ago." Kjelle says. "And now he's…" She motions out to him.
"Wh-what did he do over th-the last c-couple of years?" Noire stutters out.
"I refuse to believe it." Severa says with a huff as she walks away. My eyes fall to Cynthia who is blatantly staring with a blush and an open mouth. Oh boy Morgan is in for a world of fun.
"You girls can stare later, we need to get to Port Ferox soon." I tell them as I walk by them. All four of them jumped and flipped around. I smirk and motion them to follow me. "Let's go."
I was lying in bed with Olivia cuddled into my chest. We stopped at an inn for the night. Many of the 1st gen Shepherds went to sleep while the kids were still talking. Lon'qu and Chrom were down there keeping watch over them. Morgan and his sudden, well not sudden, transformation wasn't the most shocking thing on my mind. While him becoming a sixteen-year-old badass looking prince was certainly shocking, Grima not talking to me for the rest of the day worried me. What was she doing? She left my head just after Morgan called Lucina the only family he had left, and while that's a lie, he was desperate to see her again so I can't blame him. But Grima was so fixated on getting him to her side that once that idea was smashed she I think went into a rage.
'Okay, I'm back, I'm good, and I'm mad.' Speak of the devil, literally. 'Not in the mood.'
'So… Morgan isn't what you thought.'
'Shut the fuck up! He is just misguided by his sister and the other vessel. If he doesn't like me then fine. I'll still take him.'
'He'd like you even less.'
'He'd learn to love me again.' She then grows quiet. 'Like he did when he was a boy.' She wistfully told me. Hearing that tone hurt… it shouldn't but it did.
'Why did you want him so bad anyway?'
'Like I told you, he was the only family I had left. It hurt to see him pray to Naga and to say that he didn't consider me family anymore. It really did.'
'I'm sorry…' Shouldn't have thought that.
'Thank you but no matter. The plan shall go on.' She said with rejuvenated spirits. 'We shall see what happens next brother.' Indeed, we shall.
"Please talk to me." Inigo pleaded to his sister.
"No."
"I'm sorry." She halted and turned to face him.
"Maybe, instead of focusing on flirting with woman, you should have been focused on watching the damn bag that had most of our important stuff in it! You ever think of that?" She shouted. Inigo grimaced and lowered his head.
"You're right…I'm sorry." He said remorsefully. Evelyn sighed and patted him on the shoulder.
"Let's just go. I believe that a group of bandits are raiding all towns and headed to the next town. My bag should be there." She says and they get back to walking. after a couple minutes of silence, Inigo breaks it.
"I heard that it was Grimleal who were up there though." Inigo ponders.
"We'll fight them too." She says.
"You really want this bag back." He states.
"It has my sketchbook, most of our money, mom's old headband, dad's knives, Ridley's old collar, your dancers outfit…" She lists.
"Please don't mention that with the others." Inigo shyly begs, while blushing up a storm.
"…maybe, anyway, it also has most of our clothes and dad's old notebook." She finishes.
"…Looks like we do need to find it." Inigo states. Evelyn nods.
"Looks like it."
AN: So, I finished this earlier today but we celebrated father's day at my aunt and uncles house. Family comes first, I'll never apologize for that. But now before I reflect on my year I'll say somethings first. 1: Morgan does not have amnesia. He is also sixteen years old and I wanted to update him. I always thought that he was around fourteen in my playthroughs and I thought that the age he disappeared at, he would reappear as that age so fourteen. 2: The ages of the children. Laurent will still be the oldest at 22. Lucina is 19. Inigo and Evelyn are 19 as well. Majority of the others are 18, Noire, Severa, Brady, Yarne, Owain, Gerome, and Kjelle. Nah and Cynthia are 17 and Morgan is sixteen. Those are my ages. Jordan is 20 but almost 21 and Olivia is 20. Chrom and Robin are both 23. 3: While this chapter is shorter, I think that this is an important chapter for several reasons. You should know those as well.
Now onto the second part, my School year in review. I started this story back on September 20th, 2017. Now it is June 17th, 2018. I never expected 67 followers, 55 favorites, 47 reviews, and 17,207 views all while maintaining a 3.4 GPA and working an average of 27 hours a week. This was crazy. I thank all of you for the support and I hope that i can count on your advice and input in the future.
When I started this story, I had been reading for a while now and i wanted to write one for myself. But I never expected this type of love and support. Look where we are now boys. My goal for this fic is to reach the 100 favs and follows mark. I love each and everyone of you for the support. Thank you, truly, thank you.
PS: Vote in the poll on my page, also I'll try to get out another chapter soon, i'll be taking a little vacation in the first weeks of July.
PPS: I have another 23-24 chapters planned out for this story so we still have a long way to go boys and girls. A long way.
PPPS: I am totally getting Fire Emblem Three Houses for the Switch. I mean, HOLY SHIT I WANT IT SO BAD!
Reviews:
Haro654(CH.19): Another little snippet will be in every chapter until we meet them in person. He made his third wish and it will be addressed, but not yet. Since Fates is leading the poll so far (GO VOTE PEOPLE(Shameless Plug)) Inigo will be in it and I have some ideas that connect OWD to it.
A fan(CH.19): Thank you sir, glad you like it. I love Pikmin, it is a fun game and the Pikmin themselves are super cute. A crossover would be a fun idea and i think would be really funny and interesting to read. In my vision for it, Robin is the leader and they only follow him or her. If I had time, or had it planned all out I would do it but I have neither of those things. I love the idea and I want it to be a thing.
ScorinVoidseeker(CH.19): I'm throwing both reviews into one response because why not. Thank you for the words of encouragement and I shall be in touch once those days are up. Grima and Jordan's relationship will be and is being toyed with right now. Grima had some actual growth the chapter and I think it will work to benefit my finale a whole lot better. The idea of having the multiple parent supports came from an idea I had about how the Parent and Child supports should have had one specific conversation for the parent. Like a Severa and Gaius support about candy or something to show the child with a personality trait from the other parent. I call it Family Supports or "F" Supports for short. I also wanted to have Laurent burp like Vaike and Stahl slowly dying to his wife's and daughter's horrible cooking. And thank you for the book review in your second review. It's an official review that belongs on a cover.
