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Lastly, special thanks to Eeglborn for pointing it out (mispelling Nohr as Nhor lol).
So, I hope you guys would enjoy the first official chapter of Fates: Paradox
Ps. Before reading be warned that I did not follow exactly what happened in game. It may be a canon fic, but expect that I will write the events as I see fit. I will probably also write things out of canon (events only). That is all.
Fates: Paradox
- Fate I: Birthright 1-
Corrin stood in front of the bright throne room of Castle Shirasagi. In front of her was the Crowned Prince of Hoshido, who was adorned with nothing but red glimmering armor from head to toe.
The castle was different with the Northern Fortress and Castle Krakenburg back in Nohr where it was dark and gloomy.
Sunlight reached out from the windows and lit up every nook and cranny inside the Hoshidan castle, while back in Nohr, fire torches could barely light up the castle even in the daytime.
Though the castle was beautiful wherever you look at it, Corrin couldn't even enjoy a single moment in it. She can not even appreciate its grandiose, yellowish, pearl-like throne and the royal red carpet that made its way towards the throne.
"Please execute me and make it quick!" She demanded with her head lowered before the Prince.
That has been her statement ever since she opened her crimson orbs.
Beads of sweat trickled down her forehead, whilst her heart made nervous beats.
Ryoma looked at her with widened eyes. After all, that was not what he had expected from her.
The people in the room, including Rinkah and Kaze, whom Corrin had spared back in Nhor, were also surprised at her request.
But looking at how Garon was back in Nohr, the both of them half-expected that maybe this is what Corrin grew up with.
Execution was something normal to her and could be done in the blink of an eye.
She repeated once more, which further cemented their thoughts:
"Please do not prolong this any longer, please do this quickly..."
However on the sides of the throne room just right behind the pillars, curious eyes filled with disdain watched quietly.
"...pathetic." He said with a click on his tongue, as his arms were crossed in front of him.
His words may almost be a whisper but it was filled with nothing but contempt.
He stood quietly behind the pillar just beside his loyal female retainer, who had taken his image by mimicking his hairstyle.
She looked at him with concerned eyes
"Lord Takumi..."
He bade her no attention as his focus fixated on the girl in front of his older brother.
"So, after all these years of being gone... that is the only thing that you will tell us? Execute you?" He drawled the last two words with disgust.
It was a question he knew no one can answer except for the person holding his glare.
"So, this is how much they have brainwashed your mind...you can't even remember us."
With that he left the scene before he could even think of anything more atrocious.
Corrin swallowed hard under the gaze of everyone in front of her.
She was waiting for the sword hidden inside the Prince's scabbard to show itself and slash itself onto her throat or pierce her heart.
Even the thought of a lightning bolt hitting her any second now crossed her mind as well or for-God-knows-what Hoshidan magic can do to her.
But instead, seconds later, warm hands enveloped her waist and a warm head nestled itself on the crook of her neck causing her to flinch at the touch.
She looked up quickly only to see a woman with ephemeral beauty in front of her. The woman's pale and smooth face was drenched in tears.
"What the?!" Corrin asked feeling surprised at the woman's unexpected behavior.
The woman distanced herself a bit but her hands never left Corrin's shoulders.
"You are Corrin, are you not?" The woman was certain with her own deduction, but asked out of politeness.
"Yes, yes I am. But, how did you know?" Corrin asked as she took a step back.
"My name is Queen Mikoto and I am your Mother. You are my child. Just look at how much you've grown..." the lady with beautiful, straight black hair said as her tear-stained, dark brown eyes looked at Corrin affectionately.
Corrin just fell silent.
She just couldn't believe what she just heard.
"No...that's a lie. I am a Princess of Nohr. My father is King Garon..." she said with a firm tone.
It sounded reassuring but the reassurance wasn't meant for them. Rather, it was for herself.
'It's a lie...I can't be her child. I can't be...'
Queen Mikoto stared at her with a painful expression, but nonetheless flashed her a smile.
"I see...we will not force you to believe us. However, if we may tell, you are definitely my child and a Princess of Hoshido. You were kidnapped from us as a young girl by Nohr."
Corrin stared at the eyes of her self-proclaimed mother then at her so-called brother, who only wore a straight face.
'They have no reasons to lie. Plus, they could have killed me, and would have done so sooner. They could have killed me while I was unconscious.'
She looked back again at Queen Mikoto, whose eyes had nothing but nostalgia, and a mix of sweetness and bitterness in her gaze.
'Her expressions just seemed so genuine to be fake.' Corrin said in her thoughts, as her lips just formed a straight line on her face.
Everything was just so hard to take in.
Finally, Ryoma took a careful step closer to her.
"Our late Father, King Sumeragi, died protecting you during an ambush by Nohr in the town of Cheve..." Ryoma said simply.
'King Sumeragi? Ambush...in Cheve?' She repeated in her head.
However, it was enough to send stings of pain on Corrin's mind as her right palm held her head.
Blurred images flashed right before her eyes like snippets from an old movie.
She saw an image of a town covered by the dark shades of nighttime. In the midst of it, there was a man standing, his back facing her.
In a few seconds, he just collapsed on the ground.
It was all hazy, but as she saw it played on her head, suddenly pain crept inside her chest.
Then lastly the image of her current father, wearing a wicked grin on his face, reached out to her. It was enough to send chills running down her spine causing her to let out a shallow gasp.
"No..." Corrin said as now both hands held her temples.
Ryoma and Mikoto both looked at her with concerned eyes.
"You are free to do as you please. You are free to leave as you are free to stay with us. But if I may request, can you please give us a chance?"
"You will not execute me? You will not imprison me? You will just let me go?" Corrin was just so shocked.
Hoshido's royalty was really different from Nhor. Knowing the father who she grew up with, she would have been executed in a heartbeat.
But right now, not only she will not be imprisoned, but she is also free to go.
Corrin's heart was definitely confused. She doesn't know what's true anymore.
'So, all this time...have they all been lying to me? Xander? Camilia? Leo? Elise? Do they know that I am not their sister? Or are these people in front of me are the ones lying to me?' She thought as she looked at the Queen and the Prince.
But there was nothing to gain for declaring that she was their own.
There was nothing for Hoshido to gain politically for she was a Princess that had nothing.
A Princess of Nohr that was locked away in a tower away from the world.
A Princess of Nohr, who was just allowed freedom just a day ago.
For them to just set her free, and for them to not even bind her hands, she could even kill in cold blood with Ganglari hidden in her scabbard.
'Then...they must be telling the truth...maybe that's why I don't remember anything from my childhood?'
Her jaw dropped slightly.
'Maybe that's why all this time, father...no, King Garon only locked me up because I was not his child. Maybe he sent me to Hoshido to have me killed by either the Hoshidans or Hanz...but why?' Corrin thought bitterly.
She looked at the Queen before her again.
'Are they really that willing to just accept me back? Shouldn't they doubt me for I am from Nohr?'
As Corrin was about to lay down her decision, suddenly a man clothed in silver armor ran through the midst of the throne room with a frightened expression.
"Prince Ryoma! If I may speak!" The soldier spoke.
"Yes, you may. This seems to be urgent..."
"A village in the Northern Valley is under attacked by the Faceless!"
Ryoma's eyes shot wide, as he remembered:
"Hinoka and Sakura are both out there!"
Without much thought, Ryoma gave out the orders:
"Alright, gather some soldiers so we can head out immediately!" Then he looked at the girl before her.
"Corrin, if you may, please kindly assist us."
Corrin nodded without hesitation. She may have grown up from Nohr and not know the people before her, but if it comes with innocent lives, she will do anything to spare them.
"Yes! I'll help out."
Ryoma was fast in giving out his orders as he mobilized a small army along with him.
Kaze and Rinkah also went along for the rescue mission and was in charge with the Northern Village's evacuation.
Corrin was definitely surprised at what she saw as she joined Ryoma on the front lines.
This was the first time she saw these creatures-the Faceless.
They were probably two to three meters high with armor covering its face and barely its body. Some didn't even had any on its body at all. The skin was dark green, like the color of decaying flesh and they moved in a lifeless fashion akin to the beings she read in books called zombies.
They didn't care about what they face. They charge with no fear and hesitation. They are not humans, rather they were monsters fashioned in the form of gigantic, muscular humans.
But that was not all that surprised Corrin, it's the fact that these 'Monsters' where actually made by the Dark Arts originating from Nohr.
As Corrin fought along side Ryoma's army, her mind was in a turbulent frenzy.
'Is this really what Nhor was up to? All this time they have been killing innocent lives?'
The thought that she has been with something so evil all this time sent chills running down her spine.
Thankfully, the village was evacuated immediately, while Ryoma and Corrin ravaged their way towards Hinoka and Sakura.
Hinoka was able to hold off on her own, being a renowned Pegasus Knight herself. Sakura, on the other hand, was useful herself as she healed her older sister's wounds whenever necessary.
Hinoka wiped the sweat away from her forehead as she got off her pegasus and ran off towards Ryoma with her lance on hand.
Sakura, on the other hand, followed closely behind with her rod tightly gripped by her small hands. By the looks of her shaking, Sakura was definitely afraid but she stood bravely beside her sister until the end.
"Thanks Big Brother!" Hinoka said.
Sakura, however, proceeded to thank the stranger beside her brother.
"Thank you so much for helping us." She said as she held her hand.
Hinoka just glanced at the girl standing beside Ryoma.
The girl had distinct crimson eyes, and platinum blonde hair. She was clothed in silver armor that reached from her chest, arms, and legs while a dark blue cape running down her back.
Hinoka blinked a few times as she stared at her. She can feel that she knew this person somewhere in the back of her mind.
Then it dawned into her as tears just flowed from her dark caramel eye.
"Are you perhaps, Corrin?!" She said in between her sobs.
"Yes, my name is Corrin."
Hinoka's composed demeanor was all lost as she broke into a fit of sobs, and just threw herself at Corrin.
Corrin was once again taken aback. But tried to smile at Hinoka instead as she placed a hand behind her.
"Your older sister, Hinoka has been training endlessly since you were kidnapped so she could bring you back." Ryoma explained, simply as he gave an affectionate gaze at his siblings.
After their heartfelt reunion, they immediately went back into the castle where Queen Mikoto had welcomed them home.
The way back to the castle was enough time for Corrin to decide that maybe she should give them a chance.
A part of her was starting to consider that maybe there was truth into their words.
After all, she needed the time to think. She needed the time to see Nohr from a different perspective. She needed to think if there's a reason to go back.
It even made it harder for her when Queen Mikoto led her to her old room.
The toys were scattered on the ground while drawings made by a child can be spotted on the table and some on the walls.
The only thing they did to her room was clean it. But whatever state it was when she left it the day she was kidnapped, even including the mess she had left on her bed was there.
Its as if on this room alone, time stood still.
The Queen once again broke in tears, but even when Corrin could see the pain in her face her heart felt nothing for her mind and heart remembered nothing.
All she can feel was the hollowness in her chest.
"I am sorry. I know what you must have felt was really painful, but I really can't remember anything much." Corrin said as she bit her lip and her eyes reflected guilt in them.
Mikoto smiled bitterly at her as she held back her tears. She placed a gentle hand on Corrin's cheek.
"It's alright. You don't need to push yourself to feel or remember anything at all. We are all just happy that finally we were able to see you again." Mikoto gave her one last hug.
"Thank you for giving us this chance. You are free to roam the castle and do as you wish. If you find it that you must leave immediately, we will not hesitate to let you go just please inform us beforehand."
Queen Mikoto gripped her tightly for a bit before letting go and finally left Corrin behind.
Corrin just sighed as she saw the woman's retreating figure.
She was still lost in thoughts.
She was still undecided.
'Is there anyone out there that could show me the truth?'
Later that day as she decided to explore.
It made her feel a little bit bad.
Bad because she can't believe that this was the world that she had possibly missed.
Back in Nohr, dark grey clouds reigned endlessly. It's so dark that sometimes that you can't tell if its night or day.
But as she roamed around Castle Shirasagi, everywhere she looked at was filled with color and vibrance.
Remembering her days back in Nhor where she will just look outside from her window in the Northern Fortress, it was like seeing a world of not even white, but a world of black and grey.
There wasn't a day where she never wondered what it was like outside the walls.
She even wondered if the world she had read in picture books were real.
Now that she was finally got to see the world outside and see what Hoshido was like, its as if the worlds she used to imagine finally came into life.
Hoshido, for Corrin, was like a land of fairy tale.
Then as she walked amongst the trees surrounding the lake beside the castle, she could hear an angelic voice.
She followed it until she finally got into the lake only to see a girl with long light blue hair and bright golden eyes. She was clothed in a white fitting dress. The girl looked like those beings called 'fairies' from the books she has read back in Nohr.
The girl noticed her presence as she stopped singing, and looked at Corrin's direction.
Corrin was surprised at her sudden movements, but was quick to apologize.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you. I'll be going now." Corrin took a few, fast steps back.
"Is your name...Corrin, perhaps?"
Corrin stopped walking back and instead walked closer to the girl.
"Yes, my name is Corrin, and you are?"
"My name is Azura. I am actually a Princess from Nohr." Her voice was gentle and sweet just like her singing voice, and getting to see her up close like this, Corrin can't help but notice how beautiful she was.
"You are?!" Corrin asked with a surprised tone.
"Yes, like you, I was also kidnapped. However, I was only used as a bargaining chip to get you back."
"That's just cruel..." Corrin said with widened eyes.
"Not really, actually, I don't mind. Queen Mikoto treated me as if I was one of their own even if I was from Nohr. Plus, I love it here better than Nhor. Everything here is just so full of life." Azura said with a small smile as she glanced back at the lake.
Then as if she realized what she said, she looked back at Corrin with a worried look on her face.
"I'm sorry. I did not mean to..."
Corrin already understood what she was trying to say as she just shook her head.
"It's alright. None of us are at fault here. Nohr may not be as beautiful as Hoshido, but I don't regret growing up there. My siblings there treated me as their own as well." Corrin said with a bittersweet gaze.
"So, what are you planning to do now?" Azura asked.
Corrin just stared at the lake silently.
"To be honest, I am not sure. I don't remember anything about Hoshido and my family here. I want to give them a chance, but I also love my family back in Nohr." Corrin said, as her lips formed a thin line.
Then she continued, "Actually, I'm confused. I just don't know what to believe in anymore. Just who is my real family?"
"I am sorry to hear that." Azura said feeling even more guilty.
"...it's okay." Corrin tried to smile, however she failed to hide the melancholy that crept on her crimson eyes.
Before she could reveal anything further...
"Anyway, I will be heading back now. It was nice meeting you, Azura."
With that, Corrin went back to her room, no longer waiting for a response from the girl.
After the fight with the Faceless, it felt more easier to be with Hoshido. But now that she said it herself, she knew in her heart despite all the lies that she still loves them-her Nohrian siblings.
The following morning, Corrin found herself surrounded by an ocean of people in the midst of Hoshido's town plaza.
All of her siblings, Ryoma, Hinoka and Sakura, even including Azura, were there together with her, as they all gave her a tour around town.
They visited every shop that the siblings would find interesting for Corrin. From sweets, some small snacks and even a shop full of Hoshidan-quality trinkets.
Corrin wondered if there was anything like this back in Nohr.
Hinoka and Sakura were definitely having a blast, while Azura can't help but smile at the sight before her. After all, this was the first time both Hinoka and Sakura were this happy.
But amongst them was a guy Corrin saw for the first time.
He had long silver hair neatly tied up into a ponytail. His eyes were colored a brighter shade of caramel. His name was Takumi, a prince younger by a year from her, who is also her younger brother.
Hinoka and Sakura may have been happy with Corrin around, but Takumi was surely blatant in showing his dislike towards her as he just kept himself silent and watched from behind them.
Somehow, he may have not said anything but, Takumi wished that Ryoma was there so at least he could find a way to divert his thoughts.
However, since Ryoma was the eldest, he had to go on ahead to assist their Mother in setting up the event for today's festival. His presence was swift like always. Sometimes with how busy he was, the siblings barely got time to be with him even on regular days.
Corrin looked back at Takumi with concerned eyes, not wanting for the Younger Prince to be left behind. If anything, she would also want to get to know him too.
Whenever her crimson eyes would be able to get a glimpse of his figure standing behind her, she can't help but be reminded of her younger Nohrian brother, Leo.
Leo was also the same not only by age, but also with how he would often distance himself from her. Corrin could remember dearly that Leo would rather focus on getting himself better in the various Magic Arts of Nohr and as well as to the various roles of a Prince.
Not only that, but she can't help but remember how Leo would often always had a serious face on and would always be the most quiet among the siblings followed by the eldest, which was Xander.
Corrin can't help but smile at the thought.
Even if Leo was withdrawn, Corrin knew that he cared for her as much as the others did.
Thinking about her siblings, she can't help but find the resemblance in dynamics of her Hoshidan siblings. The nostalgia made her feel a little bit homesick.
'Is such a term even valid for me? I don't even know where my home really is...' Corrin thought bitterly.
'Am I really from Hoshido? Or am I really from Nohr? Where am I...supposed to be?'
"Hey, I guess we should be heading to where Mom and Big Brother is...the festivities are about to start." Hinoka said, as it called Corrin out from her thoughts.
Everyone just nodded in agreement, as they all followed behind Hinoka.
Multitudes of people gathered around the square just right in front of the Dawn Dragon's statue.
The siblings all lined up together at the side along with Corrin.
But suddenly, Corrin felt something different as she could feel vibrations coming from her scabbard.
Then, in the midst of the crowd, a man in a black robe appeared and raised his hand.
The moment he did, Ganglari unsheathed itself from Corrin's scabbard and made its way to the man's hand.
Purple flames emitted from the sword. There wasn't a moment spared as seconds later the sword exploded and shattered to thousands of sharp pieces and shot any person it could reach.
Screams of both pain and fear came from everywhere in the open-aired plaza.
Corrin couldn't believe what she was seeing. After all, the sword was given to her none other by her father, Garon.
'Does it mean that this man was sent by him to do this?! Did father allowed me to get captured to cause this?!' She screamed in her thoughts.
Corrin could see a few shards coming straight towards her.
There wasn't a moment to move.
There wasn't a moment to defend herself.
She closed her eyes.
'This is my retribution. I deserve this death. Everyone...I am sorry.'
Right then and there, she has accepted her fate, however...
"Ahhhhh!" A scream came from a familiar person, causing her to open her eyes wide.
She saw Queen Mikoto in front of her with a hurtful expression painted on her face. Her body had blotches of blood that can found in various places.
Corrin caught her before her body fell back into the ground. Corrin craddled her gently in her arms.
"...you're safe." Queen Mikoto said weakly as she used the last of her strength to hold Corrin's face.
Her touch felt warm but slowly its temperature lowered as her blood drained through the holes that was made behind her back.
"I'm glad..." Mikoto said.
Mikoto's eyes finally closed as her hand fell limp on the side.
Corrin could feel the tears streaming down her face as rage filled her mind.
"MOTHER!" she screamed.
In that moment, Corrin lost her senses and her humanity.
Flames covered her body as scales replaced flesh. In minutes time, her body grew bigger into a form of a silver dragon with wings. Her human mind was sent to oblivion.
At that moment, there was nothing that she could hear.
She didn't know what came over her nor did she remember what she had did.
Its as if she was like in a dreamlike state and was allowed to give in to her primal desires.
She could feel herself rampaging at whatever she could feel crossing her path. Would it be human or edifice, she eliminated it to smithereens, while sending out monstrous roars.
In such state, suddenly she could hear a familiar tune.
Rather, it was a song.
It was a song that was drawing out her consciousness.
It was a song that was calling out to her humanity.
It was a song that reminded her of something important.
Once again, images flashes in her mind. But unlike the first episode, this time they were all clear as day.
She could see a figure akin to Ryoma, who had the same wild hair and had his back facing her.
Then she could hear a familiar voice ordering from afar, saying:
"Fire at will."
Arrows shot from all directions as it pierced the body of the man before her. Then, he laid lifelessly onto the ground.
She felt her body trembled in fear. There was no longer anybody beside her aside from the corpse of her late father.
Suddenly beside her, there stood a man that she knew.
A man, who had triggered her ravaging rage. He wore a wicked smile as he reached out to Corrin.
"Poor little girl. Orphaned at such a young age."
Garon laughed maniacally.
"You are mine now..."
The moment Garon's hand was inches towards her face, finally she had regained her consciousness.
Corrin found herself releasing hard breaths as she knelt on the broken cobbled ground.
But whatever had transpired in her moment of lost, there was nothing but the remnants of destruction before her.
Frightened eyes were staring at her, while Azura, with bruises all over her, laid on the floor with relief painted accross her face.
"Finally, you are back..." she said weakly with a coarse voice.
Corrin looked frantically everywhere.
Dead bodies were scattered around her, while buildings where she had visited that same day now laid to waste.
Azura got up from the ground.
"Are you feeling alright now?" She asked.
But that wasn't a question Corrin was supposed to receive, rather she was supposed to ask them.
"What happened? What did I just do?"
"You transformed into a dragon, probably due to your rage. However, it was thanks to you that we were able to drive back the soldiers from Nohr." Azura said simply.
"But, how is that possible? How could I?" Corrin asked.
"Royalty, whether from Nohr or Hoshido, are descendants from dragons. Therefore, we hold dragon blood in our bodies. However, it is rare to find someone in this current age, who can transform into a dragon." Ryoma answered.
As much as it sounded amazing, there was nothing but guilt plaguing her mind.
"This is all my fault..." Corrin said.
Ryoma glared at the spot where the robed figure once stood.
"Nohr might have planned this all along. Nohr probably intended to have you captured by us so they could cause all this." Ryoma said with a glare.
Corrin can't help but feel even worst. The thought that she was used as nothing but a tool to bring suffering to innocent people.
What made her feel worst was the fact that she even doubted the people around her.
'They are telling the truth...' She thought with a gasp.
'So, he raised me all the way back in Nohr just to have me kill thousands of innocent people. Just to kill my own mother...' Corrin could feel tears forming on her crimson eyes.
Once again she said:
"It's all my fault..."
"Yes! Everything is your damn fault!" Finally, the younger prince spoke to her.
He could no longer restrain the anger and the sadness that had built up inside him.
He knew she was bad news the moment he saw her, and he can't believe that everyone still welcomed her as if she just left yesterday.
He hated the fact that she was raised in Nohr, the country that had instilled fear among his countrymen. He hated Nohr, the country that has taken away his mother's life. He hated the country that had caused his hatred to this person he shouldn't have hated in the first place.
"If you had not come back, none of this would have happened! Mother...Mother would have still been alive!" Takumi said as tears flowed from his golden caramel eyes.
"...I'm sorry." Was all she could say.
Even Corrin knew that no words could ever be enough for penance.
"Takumi...it wasn't her fault." Azura tried to reason, but Takumi just gave her a fiery glare.
"Shut up!" Takumi flared.
"Takumi! Calm yourself down!" Hinoka said.
But her younger brother bade her no attention as he continued to glare at Azura.
"You're no different from her! Don't you dare call me by my first name..." Takumi said, but he didn't stop there as he finally said the words he had been meaning to say.
"I don't trust anybody from Nohr."
It was time for Azura to snap.
"I accept the fact that you may not trust me. However, Corrin is your true sibling, if there's anybody that you should trust, it should be her." Azura said.
"That doesn't change anything. I don't want to see both of your faces ever again!" He said as he eyed both Corrin and Azura.
"Takumi, that is enough." Ryoma said, with a tone of authority.
But Corrin can longer take any of this. She can no longer bear being the one that brought suffering.
"No!" Corrin finally spoke, as she finally regained her senses.
"He is right. I will leave immediately." She finally said it, the words Takumi has been wanting to hear.
Sakura was just sobbing on the sides as she tried her best to fight back her tears. With all that had happened, seeing the only family she has left fighting before was just something she couldn't bear.
Finally, Yukimura, who had been there all this time and a faithful retainer of the late Queen, decided to step in.
"This is not what the Queen would have wanted. If anything, she had already prophesied her own death."
The siblings looked at him with shocked expressions silently, but he continued nonetheless.
"It is not Corrin's fault. As Lord Ryoma had explained a while ago, it was all King Garon's fault and the Ganglari."
Everyone kept silent at his declaration. Takumi decided to keep his mouth shut. Everyone was still confused. Each of them was still wrapping around their heads at what just happened
Upon wiping her tears, Sakura noticed something glowing on top of the broken statue.
"What is that?" She asked, the rest of people followed her gaze.
There on top they could see what it seems to be the hilt of a sword, while the rest of its parts remained hidden inside the statue.
"That's the sword Yato, one of the heavenly weapons similar to Lord Ryoma's Rajinto and Lord Takumi's Fujin Yumi. The one that holds the sword is said to be the one who is destined to save the world."
The siblings stared at the golden sword, as they all wondered to whom it was meant to be.
Most of them thought: "It's probably Ryoma."
But even they didn't abandoned the idea that it could be Takumi or even Hinoka.
Suddenly, the sword yanked itself away from the sword as it made its way to Corrin's hand surprising everyone around her.
But before anybody could comment at Yato's sudden decision, suddenly Kaze was running hastily towards Ryoma.
"My Lord, if you may excuse me!" Kaze said with a bow.
Ryoma faced the ninja with a calm expression as if his heart wasn't going through turbulent emotions.
"Yes?" Ryoma answered.
"A large army of Nohrian forces are currently on its way towards Hoshido!"
"What?!" All of the siblings stared at his direction.
Ryoma clicked his tongue.
"Cowards. Alright, gather as many soldiers as we can we will face them together in the front lines and defend Hoshido!" Ryoma ordered, and then he faced his siblings.
"Let's go." Ryoma said as he gave a look at Corrin, gesturing her to come with them.
Corrin nodded as she held the sword tightly in her palms.
"Yes!" She responded as she walked beside Ryoma.
"Here take this..." she heard someone talking behind her as she felt a gentle tap on her shoulder.
Corrin looked back only to find Azura holding a glowing stone emitting a bluish white light.
"What's this?" Corrin asked.
"It's a Dragon Stone. It should help you control your Dragon Powers by allowing you to transform without the fear of losing control."
Corrin smiled at her kindness. That was the least she expected at the people around her at this very moment.
"Thank you, but why?" Corrin can't help but ask.
Azura just flashed a smiled back at her.
"Because I feel that only you and I are the only ones who could understand each other the most."
The moment the Hoshidan forces arrived at the designated place, Nohr immediately took the offensive as a blonde-haired man in black armor with golden highlights rushed passed through the Hoshidan soldiers and even killing some on his way.
Corrin immediately recognized him.
Ryoma angrily ran off to meet him with a slash from his Rajinto.
"General, I, Ryoma the High prince of Hoshido challenge you to a fight!"
Xander stopped Ryoma's advance as he defended himself with his Siegfried.
"Well, High Prince, I am no General. I am Xander the Crown Prince Nohr!" Xander answered back.
Corrin immediately made her way to the heart of the battlefield.
"Xander! Please stop this fighting!" Corrin called out.
Both Xander and Ryoma immediately stopped their exchange of slashes as they all stared at Corrin.
Xander looked at her affectionately.
"Corrin, you are alive..." He said. Then finally right behind him familiar figures finally made its way towards her.
"Darling, you had me worried there." A woman with dark blue hair, who was also wearing the same shade of armor as Xander, said with her ever so caring tone. Corrin recognize her well as she flew to the scene with her ever so trusted wyvern.
'Camilia!'
"It's nice to see you're safe Sister." A blonde with straight hair said with relief in his amethyst orbs as he galloped fast with his horse. He also wore black armor and a a dark velvet cape running down his back akin to Xander's. His hear was kept neat thanks to the thin, black headband on his head.
'Leo!'
Just right behind him rode a girl with two curly pigtails, whose smile reached ear to ear. Unlike the rest of the siblings, she was the only one with no armor. Instead, she wore a black dress with white laces. If it weren't for her emotions, she could have been mistaken for a life-sized doll.
"Yeah! We finally found you Big Sister! We can finally go home!"
'Elise!'
But they weren't just the only ones there as the rest of the Hoshidan siblings all made their appearance.
"Definitely not! Corrin will stay with us back in Hoshido!" Hinoka protested as she arrived gallantly from the sky thanks to her Pegasus with Sakura just riding right behind her.
Takumi was just right behind them, however kept himself silent as he watched the scene before him.
After all, he was the one that wanted her away. But now that she was being reclaimed by Nohr, a part of him wanted to say: "Don't go."
"You will stay with us, right?" Sakura asked as loudly as she could with her voice trembling a bit.
"As Hinoka said, she's going with us. We are her real family." Ryoma said as he emphasized his last words.
"No, she wont. We are her family." Xander said.
Corrin froze as she stood in the midst of two men who had their arms reaching out to her.
Both men claimed that they were her brothers.
Both sides claimed that they were her family.
This was the question that has been plaguing her mind.
Corrin stared at Xander.
"Xander, are you really my family? Am I really adopted?" She finally asked.
Xander and the rest of her Nohrian siblings stared at her silently, except the youngest.
"What?! That's not true right, Xander?" Elise asked, and then she tugged at Leo's cape.
"Hey! Leo, how come you are not saying anything?"
"You are adopted." Xander finally replied with a grim tone.
"However, that doesn't change anything at all. We treated you like family...we treated you like you were one of us. We love you, Corrin."
Xander may have been telling the truth, but surely it didn't stop the tears that started forming on her crimson eyes.
Takumi swallowed a hard lump that formed on his throat. Feeling guilty of what he had told her earlier that day.
But it was still hard for him to take it in. This declaration just cemented his beliefs about his lost sister. Corrin may have not been Nohrian by blood but she was Nohrian by ties that was a fact no one can change.
"So, you guys knew everything?"
Xander kept himself silent.
"I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know where I should be." She finally confessed the feelings that had been troubling her heart.
"I love you guys as well, however, I don't know if I can go back..." Corrin said, then she looked at her Hoshidan siblings as well.
"You guys, I thank you for still accepting me even if I no longer remember you. However, even if it was my Mother's wish to stay, I don't think that I can be forgiven for her loss."
Tears streamed down her eyes.
Can she really just choose where to go?
"Why? Why can't you go back to us?" Xander asked.
Corrin looked at him with determined eyes.
"Father...no, King Garon...he tried to kill me, Xander. He even killed innocent people just now along with my real Mother."
Xander was shocked at what he just heard.
"No, that can't possibly be." Xander denied.
"He even killed my Father. I remembered the day he took me away from them."
"Had the Hoshidans brainwashed you that much to say that Father is evil?" Xander asked with his brows knitted together.
"Shouldn't we ask you that? Weren't you the ones that played with her memories?" Takumi said as he came forward.
"No, we know that you were adopted but I know Father wouldn't..."
"Nohr and Hoshido shouldn't have been in war in the first place. They're not each other's enemy, Xander." Corrin said as she wiped away her tears.
"Hoshido is not evil at all. King Garon is the true enemy...he not only killed thousands of innocent lives, but he wanted me dead as well!"
Leo and Camilia just stayed silent. Even they couldn't take what Corrin just said. Their Father may have done a lot of executions even in their own country but they know that King Garon wouldn't do that to his own child.
"No, that's a lie. Father wouldn't have wanted that."
Corrin looked at everyone in front of her, until her eyes landed on Takumi.
The only person who doubted her, yet the only person that cleared her doubts. If it weren't for his apprehensiveness, she wouldn't have second guessed the memories that flashed in her mind.
It was his emotions, his confession of his pain that told her what was true.
It was then she realized why he hated Nohr. It was then she realized what she must do.
She looked back at Xander, and this time her eyes held determination in them.
"But it's true... I could have been dead. Instead, my real Mother is dead because she saved me. She took the blow that should have been for me." Corrin said as she finally walked towards Ryoma's side.
"I want to fight for peace. I want defeat King Garon so there won't be innocent blood spilled anymore. But, I want you to fight with me as well. Isn't this what we all wanted?"
Xander had only shock painted on his face. Then there was nothing but anger and betrayal filling his mind.
"Traitor!" He screamed as he charged towards Corrin.
Corrin defended herself as she took Yato by its hilt and defended herself from Xander's assault.
"Xander, wait!" Corrin said, as she struggled underneath his sword. But she parried well, as she found the strength to throw him back.
"Shut up! Did you hear yourself just now? Did you see what you just did? Tell me this isn't true. Tell me that you will come home with us..."
The Hoshidan royals couldn't believe what they just heard and saw themselves.
If anything, even if they wanted to, they didn't expect Corrin to walk to Ryoma's side.
"I will not go back to Father. I want to protect the people, Xander. I don't just want to protect Hoshido, I also want to protect Nohr. To do that, I have to defeat him."
That moment on, Corrin knew what she said. She knew what she will lose.
The truth has spoken, and it was enough to give her assurance.
There was no turning back now.
She had chosen.
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