Okay Gys, sorry 2 weeks turned out to be 7 months +, so sorry about that, I got focused on another story of mine that I enjoyed writing a lot more than the others (cough, Gundam Agito Seed). It was the 30th of the 12 evening where I was, when I saw that other than like 4 stories, I had not updated any others in 6 months, some like this one even more. Yeah, yeah I did have some issues with who to pair and who not to pair and so on, but I will say to you that when I saw that I could write a bit more for this chapter I decided to get it out before the new years. All of this chapter was done over most of the night on the 30th and from 9:30 to 11:20 on the 31st, at leas that is the time and dates where I am. Look I am really sorry for making you wait this long and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter Five

"Not every result can be the one desired. Trust your own judgements and actions. That is enough." Cadis Etrama Di Raizel

The sun was now high in the sky as the Shepherds had engaged the enemy in the courtyard of the Plegia Castle Courtyard.

It was to be from this moment forth that the real battle would begin, Chrom, Robin and 10 others were to charge through the enemy while the rest of the Shepherds did what they could to buy them time.

Chrom was with the love of his life Sumia, Virion was beside Lissa and the two of them now shared a smile that may or may not imply that they may be getting closer than just friends.

Cordellia now shared her Pegasus with Lon'qu who sate beside her in silence as usual.

Panne was with Gaius and the two of them found it a bit hard to move through the sand, it must have felt wrong to Panne, while Gaius would have stayed by her side in order to help her out.

Ricken was here, no small part due to the fact that he was a mage and that they needed a mage on the field who could skim over the sand with ease.

But to his dismay he was with Frederick instead of the girl he pinned for.

She was stuck with Robin and although Maribelle did not think much of Robin, she knew it was far safer for Ricken to be with Frederick that it was for her to be with him.

As they now did there best to traverse the courtyard, they found that it was hard to move through an area that was filled with sand and the only way in.

Not to mention the foes that they had to face to get there.

It was not like Gangrel was going to stop being the Mad King, he must have seen it as his duty to make this place Chrom's grave.

Too bad for him Robin saw it has his duty to make sure all of them made it out of here alive.

He also that Lucina who had not yet shown her face, she was in hiding.

But if things had to come to that, it could be seen as a failure on Robin's part, he did not want to fail even a little when the stakes were so high, the life of the Exalt hinged on him right now!

As they came upon the sand, Cordellia and Sumia with both there partners with them, flew forth into battle.

As they did this, the Archers who stood atop the wall to the left of the Shepherds now exposed themselves and took aim at the two flyers.

As Robin ran forth he turned and yelled "Ricken, Virion, fire on top the wall!"

Robin now cast a barrage of Elwind at the wall hoping to take down or at least knock down some of the Archers.

A few of them did fall, over the edge of the wall down to their doom.

Robin cursed as he was beside Maribelle not Frederick who could ride forth and cut down the men to make sure that they were dead.

Robin gave an inward curse as he used his tome in order to make sure that those who had fallen onto the sand would not get up again by any natural means.

He could not afford to let the enemy be at his back, not when Maribelle was there with, he'd have to protect her from harm.

Virion proved to more effect than him taking aim and picking the enemy off before they had a chance to get either of the Pegasus Knights in their aim.

The light blue haired noble exclaimed "I do say, they lack the elegance an Archer should have when they fight."

As he said this he sprung to the side as an enemy Wyvern Rider tried to attack him.

Now he did not even look as he fired an arrow into the back of the Wyvern Rider.

"You see there Fair Lissa, that is what a true Archer should be able to do."

He now fired yet another shot onto the wall and hit his mark.

Lissa had to admit "Well you are a really good Archer Virion, just don't go and join the enemy you hear me."

Virion gave a smile as he now shot down a Wvyern Rider who was about to attack Lissa.

"Leave you fair Lissa, I would not think of it, what would my mother and father say to me, that I was a coward who left a fair maiden to die while I fled the battle, not never!"

Ricken had been doing what Robin had asked him, not a man on the walls was able to fire when he let his Elthunder loose upon the walls.

Those he did not hit, fell and were cut down by Frederick, the young mage was surprised at how good a team that the two of them made.

Though in his heart he did wish to be with Maribelle and not the Knight.

Make no mistake he was glad that the Knight Captain was there, but the fact was that Frederick was protecting him.

At least he could protect Maribelle from harm, it was clear to him that Frederick was babysitting him and making sure that he was alright.

It did piss him off, but he could see why it had been done and he did except that it was a good plan, though he may not have liked it.

He now turned and knocked a Wyvern Rider of his Wyvern with Elwind, he was getting better at this.

But he was not sure if it was a good thing, this was war after all.

Chrom at this point gave a nod of thanks as he turned to see Robin, but it was cut short by Sumia.

"Chrom, I think, I think there is a lady out there, look she is fight those guy there."

Chrom looked and did see what Sumia was seeing.

A young lady, was fighting off a few Archers and Spearman and by Naga, she was winning.

Chrom now drew his sword as Sumia plunged her spear into an Archer who had been too distracted by Robin to fire at them.

She felt a sting of guilt as it was Robin who had been the one to help her out, after the drama that they had just before this.

But now was not the time for the her to think of the past, she was in the middle of a battle, she had to focus.

Right now she could not afford to trip over thin air like she did oh so many times.

They were close to the lady and now Chrom leapt off her Pegasus and onto the ground.

As he did so Sumia could not help but see the dashing man she had fallen in love with.

She also did not that he did just cut off a man's head and slice through another ones chest.

Chrom had just cut down two Archers who had been in his way as he landed, Sumia was close behind him and now he saw the lady in front of him.

Said lady had not looked at him yet due to the fact that she was taking one an enemy armed with a spear and a shield.

Chrom had to admit, for a lady she was strong as she now avoided the spear, grabbed the shaft cut it with her axe, rammed her foe down and brought her axe to bare upon her foes head.

With blood on her beautiful face she now turned to face Chrom and in a gentle voice said "Prince Chrom, it is good to see you here, I thought that I was alone."

Chrom saw that the lady wore clothes of the Priest of Ylisse.

It did not make any sense to him but he extended his hand and said "It is good to have you with us, we need every last blade we can get to save my sister."

She gave him a nod and said "I came here with the intent to save the exalt, I shall not leave until that is done."

She and Chrom now turned to face the foes before them along with Sumia.

The three of them began to cut down the Barbarians who came their way.

Chrom did so with ease and sliced through them as if they were butter, he made sure that Sumia was alright, it was his job to after all, she was his lover after all.

Chrom now asked the lady "Can I get your name please, I'd like to know who it is that I shed blood beside."

"I am Libra, I am a War Monk of Ylisse, I an a handful of my fellow Clergymen came here to save the Exalt, but alas we met the Grimeal and slowly our numbers dwindled until I was alone."

It was at this point that Chrom came to see that she was not a she and that Libra was a man, a very beautiful man, but still a man.

"Forgive me Libra, I thought you a woman and I had no idea such men still existed."

They two of them now saw the Archers in the distance who were about to fire at them be swept aside by Cordelia and Lon'qu.

Her skills were beyond rival and she had timed her dive so well that she was able to inflict maximum damage on her foes.

Lon'qu had shown why he was the right hand man of a Khan, for he too had timed his movements to sync with Cordelia's own.

In fact Chrom could swear that he saw the man swat aside arrows meant for Cordelia's back.

No doubt about it Lon'qu was a master of the sword, in that regard he was just as much a genius as Cordelia.

Any foe that avoided her spear was met death by the blade of the man who rode with her.

It was as if the two were born to fight like this as if they were one person not two.

Chrom also had to give credit to the Pegasus that carried them, it too was in sync with Cordelia and all the attacks done by the two were only possible because of it.

At this point Chrom looked for Sumia who was by his side, he hopped on the back of her steed and the two of them charged the enemy.

Sure the two of them were no where near as fast nor as lethal as the other two were.

But to their foes they were death from above all the same, the colour of the riders hair did not matter to the enemy, nor did the type of sword the man used.

Fact was, when it came down to it they both killed the enemy and the enemy feared both of them.

It was just after Chrom had taken care of yet another Archer that Sumia landed the Pegasus, though she did not know why?

Before them was a lady who was not very tall, she had prickly dark long hair and dressed in the robes of a dark mage.

She now said "Wait, hold it, I'd rather not fight you."

Chrom got off the Pegasus and said "What manner of witch are you that you can force a Pegasus to land, how can you do this?"

In reply she said "Point that sword elsewhere, I'd rather not fight you guys, you see, I don't really care for the Mad King, so I don't really want to kill unless I want to."

Chrom now looked at her and said "Do you have no loyalty to your own King?"

In reply to him she said "He is not called the Mad King Gangrel due to his kind and benevolent nature you know."

Chrom had to admit, that was true Gangrel was not a nice man at all, in fact he was the Mad King Gangrel and he was trying to kill his sister, the Exalt just so he could get his hands on the Fire Emblem.

Chrom now gave her a nod and said "Very well witch, we can use all the help we can get, if you're offering to help us, I'll take it."

She gave him a nod turned around her hand and said some things that Chrom did not understand.

But what it did, he did see he knew that it was far better to have her on their side than to fight her and risk her wrath.

For before him, three enemy soldiers were now gasping for breath as they choked to death from either a hex or a cure that witch threw at them.

She now turned around to him with a rather sick smile and said "See I can be of some use, also the name's Tharja, don't go calling me witch, you got that!"

Chrom gave her a nod and said "I'll see to it."

Chrom was about to get back on to the Pegasus with Sumia when he heard Robin cry out "Chrom they got reinforcements, they must have flown in from the castle!"

It was at this point Chrom saw scores of Wyvern Riders now descend to the area where, Robin, Maribelle, Lissa, Virion, Ricken and Frederick were.

Chrom now heard Robin call out "Ricken, get Maribelle and get to Chrom and the others, Gaius and Panne should be near them, Frederick with me, Virion you and Lissa stay behind us and give us support!"

Part of Chrom wanted to turn back to help out his friends in need.

He was stopped by the sound of Robin's voice calling out to him "Get to your sister Chrom, or this is all over, get there now!"

Chrom now turned to see that Panne and Gaius had caught up to him.

Gaius now said "Blue, they got your back, we'll help clear the way, you get the Exalt and get the hell out of here."

In her beast form, Panne pounced upon a foe and ripped him to shreds.

She now said "Go on Prince, the Exalt must not fall here."

Chrom saw that Libra too agreed with this, Cordelia and Lon'qu did not stop to speak with him, they kept on fighting in the midst of it all.

Sumia now placed her hand on his shoulder and said "We have to do this, Robin is giving us a chance, we have to use it."

Sumia felt guilt as she said this, she knew she had chosen Chrom over him, sure she had not known about his feelings but that did not ease the guilt she felt.

Chrom felt it as well, but they had to move and they had to move now!

With Robin

To say the least, Robin knew that the four of them here and now would have to hold off the new Wyvern Riders.

"Dammit, how did they get past the other Shepherds, they'd be some evidence of battle on them if the others were dead."

Since they were fresh it only made sense that they were all from the castle and not from the rest of the Plegia army that was behind them.

He now unleashed Whirlwind upon a group of three Wyvern Riders and then moved up and cut them down with his iron sword.

"If this keeps up, there will be just too many of them, I won't be able to handle all of them, Chrom needs to get Emmeryn out of there soon."

He said this now as he drove his iron sword into the chest of a Wyvern that chose to land rather than take a dive at him.

He noticed that though Virion still every mark, his arrows were running low and it was only a matter of time before they ran out.

Once that happened, Virion would be a sitting duck and Robin knew either he or Frederick would have to protect him, while the other protected Lissa.

But he knew that none of them could fight on forever, the lance that Frederick had would break and his tomes would run out and his sword would break.

Sure he had a few spare, but he was not sure if all of them did. But he also had Lucina or had she all just been a dream that he had thought up in the night.

If it was, it was going to make him feel a little sad.

But he would not show it, not here not now, not in the heat of battle.

As he now cast Elwind again dismounting the enemy her heard a familiar laugh and saw a woman upon a black Pegasus in the sky.

She had tanned skin and white hair and was no doubt the lady from before who had tried to kill Maribelle and later Chrom.

"Ah, I see that you are here, little puppet, I do hope that you will play your part properly this time."

Robin hurled a spell in her direction but she not only avoided it, she also cast her own back which Robin barely dodged.

"Oh come now, tell me that is not the best you can do?"

Robin narrowed his eyes and sent out several more spells at her, on for fire, one for wind and one for thunder.

The first two she dodged, the last one though she counter with her own spell.

"Oh dear, oh dear, if that is the best you can do, you really are a failure."

Robin just cast another spell and she in turn cast her own to counter it.

Virion decided to get in on the action and began to fire the last few of his arrows at her.

In annoyance she avoided them and cast a spell that Robin did not know that Virion and Lissa barely avoided.

"Virion don't let the Riders close to you, Frederick help them out, I'll be the one to deal with her." Fredrick gave him a nod and said "Will do, keep safe Robin."

Robin did not reply to him though, no instead he cast Elwind at the lady upon the black Pegasus who just laughed as she cast her own spell once more to counter his.

"I think I have had enough of this game, time to take you down, tiny little man."

At this point she threw four spells at him, Robin was able to dodge out of the way of the first three and had to counter the last one.

But it had hurt him to do so, and his left hand rang with pain.

"Dammit, this lady is strong, really strong, so much so, that I can't even get a hit on her."

If Robin had to guess why she had come, it was either to kill him or to distract him from the regular forces.

If it was the latter, it was working a bit too well.

"Oh my, are you trying to figure out why I have come here, oh please let me show you!"

She now rained a barrage of dark magic down upon Robin who knew he had to dodge most of it or he would not have any tomes to use against her.

Robin was able to predict where the first three would land and was able to leap just far enough out of the way.

Robin did a forward role and his hood fell upon his head as he did this, he now spun on his heel and dashed forward in order to avoid the next attack this woman was throwing at him.

It was clear to him now, that if he wanted to get a hit on her, he had to do it as she finished cast her last spell.

But to do that, he had to get to her flank to try and make it work.

Only problem was that she had the better mobility as she was on the back of a Pegasus and he was on foot below here.

Even if he did cast after her, there was no doubt in his mind that she would be able to avoid his attack as well as follow up with her own.

If he did take the gambit to allow himself to get hit then cast a spell, he knew that he might just die, before he gets the chance to follow up with his own attack, his luck was not one of his strengths in battle.

Seeing as more and more enemy forces were on their way and that Chrom was out of sight, he made his choice.

He turned slightly to Virion who gave him a nod though it was subtle enough for only Robin to see it.

Robin now stopped running as the last of the woman's spells hit him head on.

He close his eyes in pain as he was pushed back.

He could feel his entire body go numb, he could feel pain as it ran through all of his organs.

Point was that this pain meant he was still alive and he knew he could cast his spell.

Robin now took out a tome he was yet to use and said "Arcthunder!"

A beam of pure lighting, despite the name, shot forth at the woman upon her black Pegasus, she saw it coming and gave a smile.

With ease she pulled on the reigns of her steed and to avoid the blast, as she did this, she said "Oh please, it is just not your day dear, now go faint so I can take you with me dear, all of your past shall be explained there."

As she said this Robin just gave a smile and said "If you want me, come and take me!"

Before she could reply and arrow had found its way into her back and she gave out a scream in pain.

And turned in anger, only for her steed to get hit by Robin as he called out "Elwind!"

Now off balance she cursed and said "This is not over, you will know your place soon enough!"

She now pulled out with a curse upon her lips, Robin had to wonder why, she had not been hit that hard and only twice.

With Cloud

Cloud literally had just run, he did not know how far behind the Pegasus knights were or how far the behind him the Khans were.

But right now he knew he had to be there in time to save the Exalt, he was not going to be powerless to watch her die.

He had already been frozen once in place unable to save or help his friend that time and it had haunted him to this day.

On his way to the Plegia castle he had been an avatar of death, now could stand in the way of his Fusion blade.

He left severed limbs as well as corpses in his wake.

His mako blue eyes shining brightly even in the midst of the desert, only the fools of the army or those who were forced to got in his way nearing the end.

He did not care, as with most if not all things, he just did what he saw he had to do and right now to him he had to save the Exalt.

As he came to the courtyard he now saw that Chrom and the other Shepherds had come here in order to try to save the Exalt as well.

Cloud also saw that Chrom was with Sumia, Lon'qu, Cordelia, Panne and Gaius, while Ricken and Maribelle had just caught up to him.

He would have to ask how the hell he knew all their names later for he now saw an injured Robin along with Frederick, Virion and Lissa fighting off a group of Wyvern riders.

He could see that plenty of foes lay at the feet of both groups, he could see that Robin's group needed help, but Chorm's group was closer to the Exalt that Robin's.

No doubt Robin had done this in order to give Chrom a chance, why Robin had the smaller force, Cloud did not know?

In a mere fraction of a second he saw what he had to do, leaping up into the air higher than that of even the Wyvern Riders.

Cloud focused his energy and the unleashed a Blade Beam upon the foes that were close to Robin.

Those ones the Blade Beam hit had no idea how they died, one minute they were about to launch an attack at their foes on the ground, the next their bodies as well as that of the steeds they rode upon were cut so cleanly in half.

To all who saw him Cloud could be an angel of death right now.

As he now came down, he did a flip in the air and landed upon the ground that made a loud "thum!"

Not to mention that this caused little ripples to run out of the sand where he had landed in mini waves.

Now he surprised all of the Shepherds who saw him when he casually darted across the battlefield with ease as if the sand did not slow him down at all.

To put it in in terms the Shepherds could understand, Cloud simply dashed from on spot to another as if he was leaping from lilly pad to lilly pad.

The only thing was that each time he did, he made sure at least one foe fell to his blade.

As he raced through the battle, he now came upon a foe who was heavily armoured and had a sick as well as twisted look upon his face.

Said man now said to Cloud "You will never save your precious Exalt scum!"

The man spat in the ground before Cloud who just spun his sword in his hand as he said "You will die here and now, only in death you will realise how wrong you were."

Cloud now made a lunge at said man, the man in armour now made to shield himself from the blade.

But at the last minute Cloud lifted his arm up and then with ease brought it down the centre of said man.

All who saw this were in shock as he cut the man clean in two as if his armour did not exist at all.

Blood now spurted out and hit Cloud's face but he did not flinch at the sight of all this blood.

He now saw where it was that the Exalt was and called out to Chrom "I'll get the your sister, for you."

Cloud now leaped up to the ledge that Emmeryn was at and just simply grabbed her.

As he did this he said "Care about you dignity once you are safe."

It was at this point as he was about to take her back that he saw a mass of Archers just appear out of thin air as well as those who were dead.

Cloud heard Chrom call out "Risen, of all the blasted times, Cloud be careful."

At this point Cloud looked at Emmeryn, but he did not see her face, no he saw the face of a very dear friend, he also saw the sword and the man behind her.

Cloud closed his eyes then opened them as he said "No."

Cloud with the Exalt held firmly in his left hand just spun his sword as he now jumped down.

He gave a one way smile which Emmeryn did see as he said "As if these are a challenge for me."

Now with a swing of his sword Cloud said "Finishing Touch!"

Who ever it was who had called these Risen here was not to happy with this, not at all for they had not factored in how powerful Cloud Strife was.

For all the Risen and any of the Plegia Forces who were caught in this attack were sent sky high and went up as Cloud went down.

In fact most of the enemy force that was left on the field of battle was sent sky high with them.

Cloud landed on the ground and let the Exalt go and said "Can you run, we will have to in order to get out of here."

As he said this, the first of their foes came crashing back down to earth and with a crash that resounded in the entire area died upon impact.

The Shepherds had known that Cloud was stronger than them, but just exactly how strong they were not sure.

Now they knew an entire army had just been dealt with in a matter of minutes since Cloud had come if not less.

Safe for all of them to say that Cloud must be likened to if not greater than the heroes of old rather than the present era.

Chrom was now at his older sister's side as he said "Emm, are you alright are you hurt, Cloud, he saved you?"

Emmeryn the Exalt gave her little brother a smile as well as a nod "Yes Chrom, he did, he did save me and you did as well."

It was at this point that Cloud pointed behind them and said "Look, I do believe that is the Feroxi army."

Chrom turned and saw that it was true, his allies form Regna Ferox indeed were now closing in on the castle.

Not only that, but Chrom could see that Philla was with them and she and her Knights too were on their way.

Chrom now looked to the Shepherds who were here and said "Come we need to meet up with our allies and rest, if we fight on now, we will be of no use."

Frederick who had been with Robin now rode up to his prince and said "My lord, we must hurry back to our allies, Robin is hurt and badly, I am not sure how long he can hold up."

Chrom gave a blink and said "What, how badly?"

Cloud not cut in and said "You can find out, after you get him to a safe location, if you do not, more than likely you will lose your friend."

Chrom felt a sting of guilt at this for what had just happened to Robin and for what he and Sumia had done to Robin.

Chrom gave a nod and said "Right, we have to get him out of her right now."

Chrom wanted to know how badly Robin was hurt, but he also knew what Cloud said was right.

In the meantime Robin through the pain as he was being carried by Lissa and Virion did say out loud "So was it all just a dream?"

Lissa looked to him and asked "Robin, what are you talking about, Emm is safe and this is all real!"

But to her horror Robin did not reply for the pain had been to much for him and he had lost consciousness as she said this.

Okay that is, do hope you enjoyed it, it is not me at my best, but I did do it and get it out to all of you before the new year. Did you guys see the Fates, I got the Collectors edition on pre order, though Aus doesn't have a release date yet. But also, who was more than happy at the remake of ff7, I know I was I also put my name down for that one as well, I hope it is going to be really fun, unlike Duke Nuke em forever was. Happy new year to all of you have a good year ahead, the upcoming year is going to be harder for me, so I am not sure if any of my stories will get updated often. Also thanks to Fap Miester who begged me in late September not to abandoned this fic, I was not going to I was just doing other things.

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JENOVA: I SAID TWO WEEKS HUMAN NOT 7 MONTHS!

A gun shot is fired and JENOVA falls dead, a man with a Mohawk now walks up to JAGA03.

Vaas: I like this story, it's a fucking nice story.

JAGA03: Thanks Vaas, you're a fucking nice bad guy.

Vaas: Dam fuck right I am, also I did not like the way that thing was looking at me!

Anthony walks in and gives a sigh

Anthony: Well thank god you're writing a story that I am not in, think about giving me a break.

JAGA03: I gave you a break for several months

Anthony: No you didn't you wrote another story with me in it.

Noble 6: Hey it's been 10 days since you even wrote about me!

Lelouch: 10 days, pick a number and get in line soldier boy, I've been waiting like 6 months!

JAGA03: I better get this over with before it's all done, see you later folks, the Fire Emblem is never final.