FE Fates Chapter 4
Familial Conflicts
Me, Azura, Jakob and Felicia charge towards the warring Hoshidan and Nohrian forces, looking to pick off stragglers as charging into the middle would be practical suicide. Corrin spotted a wyvern rider who seemed to be commanding a small squadron of Nohrian troops and a pegasus knight who did the same on the Hoshidan side. Corrin calls to his team,
"Guys focus your attacks on that wyvern knight and that pegasus rider."
"Alright sir, me and Azura will take the Pegasus knight and you and Felicia will take the wyvern rider." Jakob commanded and our team went to work. Xander was fighting Ryoma on the opposite side of the battle in what seemed to be a single combat duel. They were fighting with all of their passion and strength, hoping in desperation to win back Corrin. Leo and Takumi were exchanging blows, with their little sister's there to make sure they don't die. Hinoka and Camilla were also in combat with each other, fiercely trying to rip the other to pieces atop their mounts. Corrin seeing their siblings fight each other, could not bare the sight of the people he loved most trying to kill each other. He and Felicia approached the wyvern rider and he said,
"You, you two are the Nohrian traitors. You will pay for turning your back on Nohr! Come with me my brothers. Turn your arms to the traitors." He commanded, and all of the Nohrian wyvern riders flew straight at us.
"Milord, what do we do!" Felicia asked, with a worried look in her face.
"Urm, Felicia, just duck under their swings and throw your daggers at them." Corrin ordered.
"Um, all right." She answered back. She blew under the dragons and Felicia managed to get a clean hit on one of the wyvern's underbelly, causing it to crash down with it's rider. Corrin dodged one of the axes coming at him, grabbed the arm of the rider and slammed him down on the ground, disarming him. That left only three left, and one of the riders kept with him a hand axe. That prompted him to fly upwards and use his advantage to try and kill Corrin and Felicia. They managed to take cover behind a tree, but the other two wyverns, including the commander, started the fly towards them.
"We need to act fast Felicia. Alright, here's the plan." Corrin commanded as he took out the dragonstone Azura gave him before this fight. "I will use this and distract the enemy and try to buy you enough time to decapitate the wyvern with the hand axe."
"But how will I reach him up there?" Felicia asked.
"Leave that to me." Corrin replied, with a smirk on his face. Corrin activated the stone, turning into a dragon, leaving Felicia with a shocked look on her face. Corrin grabbed Felicia with his mouth and threw her on his back. He then took of the ground, and flew straight towards the wyvern with the hand axe. He got in range for Felicia to jump atop the wyvern's back, and then she used her dagger to cut into the rider's stomach, killing him and causing Felicia to take control of the wyvern.
"Uhm, easy boy. Just relax, you can rest easy now." She said. Corrin, after dropping off Felicia, took after the other two wyverns. He used his snout to grab a wyvern by the neck and with his tail knocked the other rider off his wyvern. The commander was riding on the wyvern he had gotten a hold of, climbed onto his wyvern's head and raised his axe high above his head ready to chop down Corrin's neck. Corrin was unable to react in time to take him out, but luckily Felicia was able to fly her wyvern down and use her dagger to kill the commander. She hopped off the wyvern and onto Corrin, and he flew her back down. She was looking upon the battlefield and saw all the blood being shed by both sides, and said.
"Normally, a view like this would be marvelous, but seeing all this chaos and war just makes me feel sick." She shared, earning a grunt from Corrin as if he was agreeing.
"Let's just fly down to Jakob and Azura. Maybe they need some help." She proposed. Corrin saw them confronting the Hoshidan pegasus knights. They seemed to be cornered, with Jakob throwing his dagger's to discourage flying towards them. They saw Corrin and Felicia flying at them and Jakob asked,
"Please, don't tell me that's my master." Azura chuckled and nodded. She grabbed her brass naginata and charged at the pegasus knights, seeing as she had backup, with Jakob close behind. Corrin dropped on top of one of knight's and Felicia knocked him off. The other three knights saw the dragon and fled, but not before Jakob chucked a dagger at one of the knight's heads, killing him and knocking him off his mount. This caught the attention of Ryoma, and as he turned around to see the massacre of his sky knight's, Xander turned around to see the defeat of his wyverns.
"Corrin, brother." Ryoma gritted under his teeth.
"Corrin why would you do this." Xander mumbled. Corrin ran over to his older brother's to try knock some sense into them. This called the attention of his other siblings, as well as Jakob, Felicia and Azura.
"Brothers, please listen to me. I am acting of my own free will. Please, lay down your arms and join me in ending the war." Corrin demanded.
"Corrin, no. How could you turn your back on the family that raised you? Tell me, how?!" Xander asked.
"Xander, I can't go back with you to father. Our father was indirectly responsible for my mother's death, and I won't fight against my birth family." Corrin replied.
"Then why not come back to us Corrin? Please, Hoshido is your true birthplace, you must defend it." Ryoma begged.
"No Ryoma. Like Xander said, Nohr raised me and I can't turn my back on the family I remember." Corrin said.
"But Corrin, please. Come back to us, back to me. You may not remember me but you and I were really close, almost closer than I want to admit. You and me and Takumi always played throughout the castle, and got in trouble with our father and Ryoma. Please, please remember us." Hinoka pleaded. Corrin was unable to anything except for shake his head. "I'm sorry Hinoka, but I don't." This caused Hinoka to break down in tears. Ryoma seeing this, called out to Corrin,
"Well, Corrin. If you wish turn your back on your country, then it will turn it's back on you. Consider yourself banished." Corrin glanced at Xander and saw a look that said
'Same here.' This caused Corrin and his band to leave the battlefield, and eventually caused the armies to retreat back into their countries.
Corrin got himself as far away from the battlefield as possible, with his three allies close behind. He turned around once he thought he was as far away from the battlefield as he need to be so he could talk with his allies.
"Wait, I need to catch my breath, Master Corrin." Felicia begged.
"That's fine, I think we're far enough out that I can assure no one followed us. We can set up camp here." Corrin ordered. Corrin whistled, and at an instant, a bright light appeared out of nowhere, and following it, a cute little dragon stood before them.
"Lilith, I'm so glad to see you." Corrin said to the dragon.
"Lilith? You're not talking about our Lilith are you?" Jakob asked.
"Yes, say hello to Lilith guys." Corrin introduced. "Lilith mind taking us to our 'special place'." As if on cue, Lilith opened up a portal that took the group to astral plane. Jakob and Felicia were marveled by the mere fact that a place looking like this existed. Azura seemed a bit less impressed almost as if she knew this place existed. Lilith caught Jakob and Felicia up, while Corrin brought Azura up to the crystal ball, where he used his dragon vein to create private quarters for his new comrades, as well as a dawn armory and staff shop. As he finished up, he called the team to the throne,
"Hello, everyone. First off, thank you for siding with me. It means a lot that you would all decide to abandon your country for me. Secondly, I know that know that we have no one to turn to, we must stick together and work as a team in order to resolve peace for our countries."
"If I may Corrin, I would like to show you all something." Azura asked.
"Sure, Azura. What is it?" Corrin answered.
"We need to go somewhere." She answered back.
"Where, milady?" Jakob asked.
"The Bottomless Canyon." She answered bluntly. Felicia was immediately filled with flashbacks of that place when Hans knocked Gunter off the bridge.
"N-no! I'm not going back there! Uh-uh no way!" Felicia responded coldly.
"Come on Felicia. You don't want to let Lord Corrin go there by himself." Jakob taunted.
"Well, no. But, it's just…" Felicia stuttered.
"It's fine Felicia. If you don't wanna go, you don't have to." Corrin replied.
"No. Lord Corrin. I will go if you will." Felicia loyally said.
"Well, I guess that settles it. Lilith, would you bring us back to the fields." Corrin ordered.
"Of course, Master Corrin." Lilith complied, sending the crew back to the fields from whence they came.
A mysterious hooded figure entered in a shop on the outskirts of the Nohrian capital. The shopkeeper was intrigued by his new costumers attire, as he has never seen an outfit like that before. The hooded figure appeared before him, and pointed to one of the thunder tomes he had lined up,
"How much is that?" He asked.
"That is about 5 gold pieces." The shopkeeper replied, not telling the customer that he lowered it in order to make a deal with him. "5 gold pieces and that jacket you're wearing.
"No." the customer said bluntly.
"Fine." he answered, and brought out his steel bow. "You will give me that jacket, or I will fire this arrow at you, and trust me, I don't want to clean up your blood stain."
"Heh, fine if it must come to this." The hooded figure mumbled, and moved quickly out of the path of the arrow. He ducked under and grabbed one of the Levin swords hung up on the rack. The merchant kept firing his arrows, hoping one would hit his target. What he did not expect was a lightning bolt breaking through his roof and crashing down on him, killing him. The hooded figure got out of his hiding place and took the thunder tome, leaving 5 gold pieces on the counter and taking the levin sword for his troubles. He walked out of the shop casually and shrugged off the dirt he got on his jacket.
Hey guys, so here's the next chapter of the story. So I gave a bit more hints as to who the mystery hooded figure is. If you got any ideas, please feel free to message me your ideas. So, know that Chapter 6 is done, we're going to finally move into some of my more unique ideas, as I will be tweaking the story to make way for other characters (particularly villains) to shine through. This also includes other minor characters (like basically all of the retainers save for maybe Ryoma's) and give them some small storylines to see them grow as characters. I'm also really excited for the ships and I've already got some great ideas for some upcoming storylines. See ya next time, guys!