Robin POV:
This was it.
I looked over at Chrom. Deciding to have my oldest friend be my support for my final battle.
Chrom slashed upwards at one of Grima's monsters as I quickly shot the thing with a lightning attack. I spun around and executed the attack feeling the terrifying power leave my fingertips. I glanced at my hand and then the head of Grima.
My magic was extra powerful in his presence.
I saw a risen coming at me in the corner of my eye. I growled and using a trick that Gaius taught me spun my killing edge into his skull the attack leaving the enemy fading within a second. Chroms back hit mine.
"We are almost there. Just a few more. Then I can end this thing."
I stayed silent, I lightly touched the butterfly necklace I had around my neck.
Chrom and I slowly made our way through to the next group of risen. I shouted as I sliced through so many of them my magic practically radiating from me. I slammed my fist down and electrocuted around five of them the cursed magical energy coursing through me immense and deafening.
Chrom stood back in awe the man simply fending off a single one. I sighed and waved my hand, black and purple magic swirling around me.
I muttered one of Tharja's hexs. I aimed the attack farther than possible and aimed it towards my clone.
I glared at the duplicate the clone just smiling her face scarred and red eyes seared into her face.
I unleased a huge amount of magical energy at the clone my entire body pulsing.
She laughed and just waving her hand the magical attack landed to the left of her the attack leaving all the soldiers decimated as she chuckled darkly.
I grit my teeth and charged forward.
"Come on Chrom. Let's end this."
I glanced behind me and saw Priam and Morgan the two boys relentless in their attacks.
Priam, please forgive me.
I flipped my hood up as I felt energy and power surge through me.
Priams pov:
I kicked a now dead corpse off my blade as Morgan growled and ripped into another one of these enemies. My eyes searched instantly for Robin my adrenaline raging as she was battling with her evil clone the fierce girl donning her signature hood and tactician armor for this battle.
"Dad." I instantly drew my view back to the enemies coming at Morgan and I. I slammed my blade through a whole group of enemies my blood pumping.
Morgan swung both swords the boy smiling a determined look in his eyes. He gracefully loped off another victims head the boy effortlessly charged with power.
I watched as he demolished two enemies at once. The two huge sentinels not even causing him to blink. He backed up to me, I slugged my sword upward the heavy blade slamming into the monsters jaw.
"Ready?" I glanced around and saw the group of monsters heading towards us.
"Ready." He laughed.
I felt the energy pulse beneath my fingertips while Morgan hurriedly put his dual blades away and drew Ragnell the wraps on his back loosening with a little help from magic. We stood back to back as I could feel his excited energy
"For the blue flame!"
"Time to even the odds!"
We both executed a deadly move Morgan using aether while I used lethality the ancient blades power making the battle field red for a split second. The field was annihilated as we both stood in the aftermath.
I watched as Chorm and Robin seemed to pause.
What was going on?
Chrom drew his blade and was about to slash down at the clone. But before he could robin pushed him out of the way the exalt falling, I watched as a purple wall separated himself from where Robin and her clone stood.
"Morgan," I nudged the boy. Something wasn't right.
"For once I am glad you and I are the same! Now I can give my life to protect those I care for." Robin shouted. My stomach dropped.
"You wouldn't dare." Grima roared.
Robin was talking to the clone who was bleeding badly and limping the thing not even looking human.
"I would and I will. I cannot let you bring this world to ruin. In some way I share the blame, but now. We will never harm anyone else. We will both meet our end together. " She shouted.
Oh no. No, no, no, no.
Robin, you promised!
"Noooo! You are a fool, you will destroy yourself. What about your husband, your children?"
I didn't see her reaction as her blade swirled with black and purple magic the girl screaming as she struck her blade downward on her enemy. Tears coming down her face.
The entire battle field slowed. I stared helplessly as Robin gave me a fleeting glance the girl's sword plunged deep into Grima. She shot me one of her beautiful smiles as the clone stumbled back and completely disappeared. A hollow hole formed in my chest as my stomach swirled with heavy anxiety.
No…
I barreled my entire body through the ranks, Morgan's voice shouting somewhere.
I felt the dragon beneath my feet shift the creature giving a horrible screech.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
Robin looked up and declared "I will not let you harm another person Grima! I will not let you injure another one of my friends or family. You will not have our future!"
She spun and looked at me. Her eyes said it all. The vivid fire and determination making them the most intense purple I have ever seen. Tears were shinning down her face as I saw her mouth. "I'm sorry"
She looked down at her hands. Surprised and acceptance clear in her eyes. Her hands were breaking off into small bits of light.
The wall holding Chrom back disappeared the exalt running to the girl who was disappearing.
I let out an animalistic shout as I charged through the disappearing soldiers, while Robin fell to the ground the woman beginning to disappear into little specs of light.
Chrom held the girl's head up as she became translucent the girl disappearing before my eyes.
I felt my feet move faster as I passed by many of our comrades who watched helplessly.
My foot hit a scale making me stumble as I kept charging forward.
Please don't take her. I prayed. Fear coursed through every one of my bones. My heart throbbed.
Dread guided my actions my pulse racing and my endless amount of terror coming to life in front of my eyes. She was so close.
Please don't take my wife, more light filled the sky pieces of light coming off Grima as well.
I felt my feet freeze as I stood in front of the young exalt his face horror stricken. His hands shook as the man had nothing in his arms. Only sparkling lights that floated up to the sky. My breath hitched as I just stood dumbfounded.
Everything stopped my body refusing to move. Blurry images and blank colors surrounded me. Cold needles of despair and loss stabbed me my body feeling like it was being frozen from the inside out.
Morgan appeared by my side the boy in shock. I continued to stare at the empty space between Chorm's arms. Chrom donning a horrified and devastated expression.
All I heard next was Morgan's blood curdling scream. The boy hitting the ground with his fists as he cried every form of magic swirling around his body.
I stayed frozen to the spot.
My body wouldn't move.
Nah went up to Morgan the girl hugging him and calming him down.
My knees fell to the ground as Ragnell fell out of my hand. Everything seemed to move slowly and blurry.
Every movement seemed to hurt as my chest seized with heart ache.
"She promised." I gritted.
I felt like I couldn't breathe, my lungs and heart wouldn't work. The sensation of falling consumed me as I stared at the spot she was just in.
She was gone.
I gently opened my eyes the memory seeming to cause the pain in my heart to deepen and fester more.
That was three weeks ago.
I gently rocked baby Morgan the small baby boy being fussy like always. I sighed and rocked the tiny infant in my arms my eyes half lidded as he cried endlessly.
Baby Morgan had cried for five days straight with Robin not here. I gently rocked him trying to get him to stop crying.
I looked around the large tent that had been my home for the past two years.
It was Robin's and I's home.
My chest felt hollow, everything was painful and made my lungs feel like they were on fire.
I looked over at the untouched bookcase and desk. The papers were undisturbed covered in a thin layer of dust already. I smirked as I remembered how Robin would always spill ink all over herself when she was too sleepy. How I would have to force her to sleep or eat.
Another pang stabbed my heart.
I glanced over at my bed the sheets undisturbed from my last attempt at sleeping in it.
The bed was just too cold now too empty and big.
I sighed and laid in the little nook that Robin had been tucked in when she was reading. The infant still in my arms.
Overwhelming. That was the only way to even slightly describe the feelings I had these days.
It had been almost a month since the war was over. Many of the soldiers were scheduled to leave to their homes this upcoming week.
I sighed and looked up at the ceiling. Chrom had invited me to become a shepherd and live at the palace. The exalt had insisted I go and live with him until he found Robin. He had this delusion that Robin was simply just lost. That our bonds would be strong enough to bring back the dead.
My head looked towards the entrance as I saw Morgan poke his head into the tent.
"Hey dad, am I sleeping?" He craned his neck a soft smile on his face.
I looked down and nodded.
The young man just sat on the floor in front of me as he looked over at the baby who was pleasantly snoozing away now, the small thing exhausting himself.
We both sat in silence the two of us both wearing black head bands and matching dark clothes.
The boy grabbed one of the coats that belonged to Robin. He clutched it and rubbed his face in the article of clothing.
"You know, mom smelled like lavender and ink." The boy stated out of nowhere. I looked down at the small infant in my arms resting one of my huge hands on the small child. This was the best he had slept the entire week.
A deep breath went through my entire body the ache echoing. "Yeah, she did."
Morgan glanced down at the coat and the barely lived in tent. I hadn't left the tent since she…
Since Robin died.
I had felt like a ghost these past few days, like I was still waiting for her to charge through those doors with her usual smile.
The first two days I hadn't even moved. Oliva had been kind enough to care for baby Morgan for two weeks the dancer trading shifts with Cordelia and the Gaius.
Those first few days were a blur, all I remember was basically living in the now abandoned training area. It had gotten to the point that my palms had bleed and my body ached like nothing else. It wasn't until Sully and Chrom had told me to leave and get rest that I finally did.
"Dad, you know we are going to have to leave at some point. Chrom's offer still stands and you could get help from the shepherds. With mini me." The boy rationalized. His curly blue hair and big brown eyes pleading with me.
I lets the words fall to deaf ears as I stared at the ceiling. Another pang.
"Morgan," the exhausted boy looked at me huge puffy bags under his eyes and his cheeks raw from all the crying this week.
"Yeah?" He sniffed.
I turned my head to the young man and sighed. "I've already made up my mind."
He looked shocked at me. I kept my eyes on the boy as I stated. "I'm going to travel, and find your mother. I'm leaving for my home town to put mini you in the care of my sister and then start traveling with Chrom."
Tears started forming in his eyes defeat evident in them. "You and Chrom, don't get it! In the future Grima came back! She didn't sacrifice herself! Bu-but this time. She saved you. She saved everyone. She's gone dad! And she's not coming back! Mom is not coming back!" He screamed the boy falling into a pile on the floor as he sobbed.
Words always did inflict the worst wounds.
I felt baby Morgan start to squirm and cry. The grown version of Morgan looked at me apologetically as I got up and tried to rock the baby back to sleep.
"Dad, when was the last time you got sleep?"
I looked down at the small infant in my arms and answered. "Four days ago."
"Dad…" the boy stood up with me and lifted his hands up waiting. I sighed and gave him the small baby who instantly started wailing some more. Morgan sighed and gently rocked himself the boy cooing to the small child.
"Come on little me no more tears."
I sat in the nook nearly ready to pass out from pure mental and physical fatigue.
"We'll discuss this later. Just remember that I have some say in all of this. Get some rest I'll take care of mini me." The boy sniffed as he took the baby outside.
I laid on the couch my head spinning. I lightly closed my eyes as darkness surrounded me. It was cold, empty and comforting. The pain stopped, the hurt ended, it was paused.
"Priam?"
I gasped as I was in a field. Beautiful daises covered the entire field as mountains were seen far away. I looked down to find myself in just regular clothes. The same ones that Robin had cleaned for me so long ago.
I spun around my hair seeming to get into my eyes.
My whole soul shattered.
The girl's hair was short but still looked light starlight. The girl was in a beautiful white dress which looked so much like her wedding dress. Her huge clunky boots stayed on while her scars danced on her skin. I looked at her eyes to find they were a gentle brown now the purple long gone along with the tattoo in her hand.
"Robin." The word came out weak my throat choking up as my body became plagued with sobbing.
I ran to the girl and clung to her. My body and soul felt like it was completely broken. She lightly clung to me the white haired girl gently running her fingers through my hair her soft soul seeming to warm me instantly.
"Hey, ya big old softie." She softly whispered.
I clung to her harder my huge body seeming hollow and frail. She drew back from me and with a sorrowful expression she sighed and explained. "It wasn't fair to leave you. I'm so sorry I broke your promise. I needed to do the right thing."
Her gentle scarred hands lifted my chin up she looked lovingly into my eyes and kissed me deeply the girl's lips ghosting mine as she gently ran her hands through my hair the girl smiling as she intertwined her hand into mine.
I wanted to say so much I wanted to be angry at her for leaving. I craved to shout what was she thinking. I needed to be mad at her and despise her. I craved to hate her for the pain she put in my chest. I desired to blame her for the nights where I ran the millions of different ways I could have saved her. I wanted to hate her because maybe it would ease this ache in my heart a little. I wanted to accuse her of abandoning me with Morgan and Morgan.
But I couldn't. Not one bit. All I really wanted… was her.
I just stayed silent and basked in the way she made me feel complete. Like my world wasn't falling apart. Like my best friend and most trusted companion wasn't gone. Like I wasn't raising an infant and teenager on my own.
"I wanted to stay. So badly." She glanced downward a soft smile on her beautiful lips.
"Priam, you showed me how to love." She whispered the girl reaching for me as she sniffed a little.
Her hand went into mine as she touched her forehead to mine. All I could do was sniff slightly and jut watch in stunned silence. "Take care of our babies and rely on others. Don't shut yourself off from our loved ones. Go and live with Chrom and make sure to tell the boys I love them."
I felt the world start melting as she started walking away, tears streaming down her face, as she sang. "Priam, I love you."
I awoke with a start my cheeks raw as salty tears covered my face. A migraine echoed in my head as anguish consumed me once again. I placed my hands over my face the pain vibrating through my entire core.
"Robin, I miss you."
indienote: Oh gosh IM CRyiNG. Ugh I hate myself, no one should have given me this much power.
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