Fire Emblem Fates
Chapter 12: Mission Impossible
Robin exited out of his room after he ate the delicious beef stew Selena managed to sneak over to him. Today was an important day for Robin, and he was prepared for it. He walked out and went into Selena's room.
"When does he get here?" Robin asked. Selena just sighed and said,
"Why does it matter to you when Laslow gets here?"
"Because he left his wife, sister and father, all of whom I hold dear to my heart, with no explanation. I think he deserves at least a little bit of scolding his wife's dad." Robin said.
"Didn't you leave without an explanation, too?" Selena countered, catching Robin by surprise.
"Well that's beside the point. The point is that I get to yell at him for being irresponsible with Morgan." Robin said. Selena just rolled her eyes and went outside. Robin wasn't allowed to greet the incoming Xander, Peri and Laslow, so Selena and Odin planned to pull Laslow aside for Robin to yell at him.
Only Selena, Odin, Beruka and Camilla knew of Robin living in the castle, albeit, Camilla thought he was the boyfriend of Selena and Beruka was paid to forget it, which means she probably did.
Selena met with Camilla and Beruka while Odin met with Niles, their lord still gone in an attempt to find Zola. The greeting party was rather small, with Leo and Elise along with her retainers gone, but it was enough for Xander nonetheless. When he arrived, he immediately greeted Camilla first, and she explained where Leo was. Xander told them of Elise's betrayal to Corrin. Camilla was sent into tears and cried for her sister and brother.
Selena whispered to Laslow,
"Come with me. Me and Owain have something to show you." It was the code between the three of them that whenever they have something to talk about regarding Ylisse and their world and life there, they would refer to themselves as their birth names. She pulled him over to Owain, and they went into a secret room they had.
"What is it? Have we found out a way to get back? How about sending messages back over there? I already called dibs on the first message. I need to explain this to Morgan." Inigo asked. He caught the movement of a shadow from his peripheral vision and turned around to find a fist striking his perfect cheekbones.
"Like you care about her, you little shit!" he recognized that voice. He looked around to see some familiar robes, and turned his head up and made out the face of the man he dreaded to see again. Fortunately, once he was able to focus more clearly, he saw it was only the second man he dreaded to face again, not his dad. Inigo quickly got up and said.
"Robin! Good to see you again old chap." Inigo said, a little bit scared for what the tactician would do to him.
"Fuck you!" Robin spouted out.
"That is well deserved but let me explain for a moment." Inigo said but was cut off by.
"Severa and Owain already told me everything. That leaves nothing for you to be able to say for me to change my opinion of you right now." Robin said in anger.
"Does she miss me?" Inigo abruptly asked. "Does Morgan miss me?"
"WE MISS ALL OF YOU!" Robin suddenly shouted.
"Please, I must ask for the two opposing spirits to calm down. We are waking up the whole castle." Odin said.
"Lucina, Morgan, Chrom, Olivia, Ricken, Lissa, Gerome, Cynthia, Cordelia. Those are the people you all left. The people who cared about you. Who miss you!"
"Robin please…" Inigo started but was cut off.
"Nothing you can say to change his mind Laslow." Selena warned.
"Those are not your names! Severa, Owain and Inigo. Those are your names!" Robin screamed.
"Please, Robin calm down. We haven't explained the whole story to you yet. Will you at least let us explain?" Laslow asked. Robin looked at Severa, as if she was the one who decided whether or not he believed Laslow's statement or not. She nodded.
"Fine, what have you neglected to tell me?" Robin asked impatiently.
"Not here, we have a secret chamber to discuss these sorts of predicaments. Onward, my fellow comrades." Owain gestured. They moved down the hall, Owain leading, Severa and Robin walking side- by- side holding hands in order to keep up their charade, while Laslow was keeping the rear, mostly so he could keep an eye on Robin should he decided to swing at him again.
Seeing Robin may have terrified Inigo at first, but seeing him soothed him in a strange way. He remembered the happy moments he's had with his family, his mom and her beautiful dances that she taught him. The way his father taught both him and his sister Lucina the way of the sword and how to rule like a king and queen of Ylisse. Laslow remembered occasionally giving Xander tips on how to lead like a leader, whom Xander accepted and therefore, Inigo saw his father in Xander sometimes. And of course, his beautiful wife, Morgan. She was the one he missed the most. Her short, cute hair dangling from her face that hid a devious smile that got him trouble more often than not. She would often drag Laslow on some schemes, disguising it as a date. Inigo vividly remembered seeing Frederick's face after Morgan and Inigo filled his knight's armor with flour, and how his father scolded him and Robin scolded his wife. There family was a strange one, but now that Inigo was away from it for awhile, he also realized how beautiful it was.
They entered the secret chamber Owain spoke about, and closed the door. Owain cast some sort of spell on the door, most likely so they are warned in case anyone wants to enter. It was a fairly old and ugly room, with cobwebs and old books lined up on a bookcase. There were a couple of seats, and a couch, so they decided to sit. Inigo's chair broke upon his decision to sit on it, garnering chuckles from the rest of the group.
"I hate you guys." Inigo bluntly said. He decided to lean against a wall next to Severa. Inigo noticed Severa sitting quite comfortably next to Robin and smiled. He noticed she was acting a little bit less her. This was most likely due to Robin's arrival and it comforted him to see her more loosened up.
"What is it we're here to discuss?" Robin asked.
"May I?" Inigo asked, and Severa and she allowed him to speak. "Alright oh boy where to start? Well first off, I believe it was the day when me and Morgan were attempting to pull a rather cruel prank on Laurent if I remember correctly. Ah yes, and then after we dirtied up one of his favorite books on Plegian culture, we moved swiftly down the halls until we got caught by Frederick. He immediately began to chase us and we decided to split up to escape. I assume he went after her, so I decided to go to our room to rest up. There, I found a letter addressed to me and Morgan." Robin was quite intrigued when he said the letter was for both him and Morgan. "I opened it up and found out that someone wanted to meet me and 6 other protectors of Ylisse to meet with them by the Mila Tree. It was at that point, that Severa and Owain entered my room." And with that, Owain took over.
"So me and this fair, red haired beauty entered the room of the charming devil, and asked if he had received the letter we both had. He answered yes, and we began discussing what this was all about. We decided to see who were the other three people this person had invited, and scouted about. We knew us three as well as Morgan had been invited, but still needed to find two more letters. It was the date that everyone was out celebrating the two year anniversary of Grima's downfall, so many people were out celebrating and drinking. We discovered that the last two people invited to this gathering were Brady and your wonderful wife and my cousin. Lucina." Owain explained. Robin began to ponder over this new discovery.
"If six people were invited, then what happened to Lucina, Morgan and Brady. Did they not learn about this?" Robin asked.
"Alas, we believed it would be much safer if only us three went to go take on this new quest, so we discarded of Lucina and Brady's invitations. However, when we decided to go and discard Morgan and Inigo's invitation back in his chamber, Morgan had already read it." Owain said.
"Unfortunately, Morgan wanted to come with us, even after I begged her not to. I knew it would be impossible to dissuade her once she made up her mind, so she came along with us." Inigo said.
"Then what happened to Morgan. Why did she stay behind and have virtually no memory of what happened to you." Robin questioned.
"The person who sent the invitations told us about the quest that we had, the one in this world. We accepted and he gave us our new looks." Severa said.
"I asked Owain to do me a favor, and that was to use his new dark magic tomes and erase Morgan's memory of what had happened. Then to open a portal to drop her off in her bed." Inigo explained, deeply saddened. "We went with the mysterious man and then we arrived here.
Robin, now feeling a bit guilty that he blamed Inigo for hurting Morgan when in fact he had protected her. He then asked, "Then what exactly are you here to do?" Severa sighed and said,
"The man, Anankos, explained to us that our job was to safeguard a child, his child, and raise him in order for him to fight a bigger evil coming to strike this land." The room grew silent, which Robin later broke,
"Who is the boy?"
"He is the prince of the royal family, whom we protect nowadays. However, now he has decided to turn tail and book it out of here. Something about how his real family is in Hoshido, a neighboring kingdom, and some details I don't really know about." Owain answered.
"I met him for the first time on the mission I had just come back from, the youngest princess decided to join his cause, along with her guards." Inigo confided.
"So what are you planning on doing, if the person you're meant to guard has ran away, seems you haven't been doing a very good job of protecting him? Also, once you have gotten through all of this, how were you planning on coming home?"
"We haven't figured out either of those things." Severa admitted, with a sigh. With that, Robin got up and announced,
"Well, I can't figure out the part about coming home, but I can figure out your prince problem." Robin said determined.
"How, may I ask." Inigo asked. Robin told them to come with him and he led them down the hall into the women's quarters. He then pulled Severa aside and whispered her a plan. She smiled and agreed. She went up to a quarter and knocked while Robin led Inigo and Owain away from the hall. Camilla answered the knock and she saw Selena and smiled.
"Hello, Selena, how's the boy coming along?" Camilla asked with a curious smile. Selena silently went over the script in her head and then prepared to enact the plan. She mustered up a blush to make it a more convincing scheme.
"Actually, that's what I've come to talk to you about. You see, this boy, Robin, has been a really nice to me and we want to take a big step forward. We want to tour around Nohr, by ourselves. I came here to make sure that was okay with you Lady Camilla. Do I have your consent?" Selena asked, quite scared of the answer. To her surprise, her lady merely smiled and nodded.
"Alright, but don't have too much fun, I forbid you to be a mother before me, got it?" she playfully said. Selena bowed, and walked away, very happy.
She told Robin the news and he just confidently chuckled.
"Great, hopefully this plan goes really well. We're keeping Inigo here, to make sure we have eyes here. Owain went to go ask the High Prince for permission to go search for his master, as he has been missing for quite some time." Robin said.
"Excellent." Severa said. She looked at Robin staring into space. She decided to break the ice and speak,
"Robin, talk to me more about my mother. I know you said that she was very upset, but has she talked to anybody at all?"
"No, not really. She goes to train her troops daily of course, but she rarely has any meaningful talks about the stuff that bothers her." Selena was vividly upset, that her mother and idol was being bothered so much by her disappearance. "She'll be fine though. Once you get back, you'll get a scolding and then you're family will be fixed." This brightened up Severa. Their meaningful talk was interrupted by Owain, who barged in with urgent news.
"Robin, Selena. I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you prefer to hear first?" He asked, quite urgently for some reason.
"Umm, good?" Robin said.
"Well, I can go on the mission. Xander gave me to the okay to find my lord."
"That's great, but then what's the bad news?" Selena asked, until she heard a voice that brought chills to her bones. Owain was shoved aside, and a figure with white hair and an eyepatch entered the room, with a cocky smile and eyeing Severa on her bed.
"I'll be accompanying your friend Odin on his mission to find our lord." He bragged, causing Robin to silently curse. Selena just felt uncomfortable, as either Owain would be unable to join Robin and her on this dangerous journey, or they would be accompanied by Niles, quite possibly the freakiest man she has ever met. She knew if he came, that she would never be left alone. She hoped to god that Robin would choose to abandon Owain and Niles, but she was shocked to find out that what Robin concluded,
"Alright, Niles. Looks like you'll be joining us on our mission. There's something you need to know before we embark." And with that he took Niles away to discuss the supposed to be private mission with him. Owain and Severa just eyed each other, and wondered if Robin knew how bad Niles could get.
I'm back! Sorry for the huge wait. I had a really busy summer with a new job and trip to Europe that took some free time out of my schedule to work on this story. The beginning of the school year has also been pretty rough as I tried to find my footing, but I think the footing has been found and I will be able to upload much more often. Hopefully, some of you guys still support this story, and I hope nothing like this happens again.