The thought of two Fire Emblems had shocked the whole army, but that wasn't the time to be shocked. The fire was still burning, and they had to put it out. Questions would have to wait. Corrin and Chrom worked rather well together, the fire was put out eventually, but a lot of books were burnt. It was like someone had set this up to destroy all the evidence of the three Kingdoms, but unluckily for them, Robin could remember all pages of a book she has read.
"Robin, how much did we lose?" Chrom asked, looking at some other reports from Miriel, given to him by her husband Vaike, though the two had a lot more to go through. But the most of the books on Hoshido, Nohr, and Valla had been completely destroyed by this fire. Corrin felt terrible, if he hadn't been at the lake they still could have these books. Sure they were just books, but they were important. Azura approached her husband calmly, even though she was had been a bit worried for him.
"Corrin," she started, "are you alright? You weren't there for dinner when the fire started."
"I wasn't, your right, Azura. I was at the lake near here," before he could finish he was cut off by the fact he couldn't remember what happened at the lake. He felt confused.
"Is that all?" Azura questioned, he wanted to tell her something important. But before he could actually talk to Azura, Chrom and Robin approached, the two Emblems glowed again. This time only slightly, and a odd sting of warmth and strength came with the glowing.
"So there is likely more Fire Emblems in different worlds?" Chrom asked Robin, she gave a shrug.
"Corrin, we should speak alone," Chrom said, he was kind about it, but the words rang extremely heavy...
Azura wanted to be with Corrin at that moment, but she was wise enough to simply wait in the room they were given when they first got when they had gotten to Ylisse.
All night Xander's Siegfried was calling to Ryoma's, and Takumi's weapons. He didn't even get time to change into his nightwear when his sword flung itself into his hands, Hinoka woke up rather fast when she heard him grunt. Her body was sore from earlier activities, but Xander had sounded hurt, and that was concerning. The Siegfried was just kept calling for the others.
"Xander!"she cried, hoping for a reply, all she got was a groan, and Xander was on the floor, fine as he looked, Hinoka was still worried.
The Siegfried must have been calling for the other weapons. Xander pulled himself up, and looked at Hinoka, "I'm fine, Hinoka," he managed, to say, but he looked the the weapon.
"I must go see King Ryoma, and Prince Takumi," he said, forgetting about even going to sleep. Hinoka became extremely worried, causing her to bite her lip. "I understand. Please be safe, Nohr needs it King."
Xander nodded, and went for his horse. And he took off to head for Hoshido.
Chrom sat down with Corrin in the barracks, both looked at each other, but not a word being said. This was clearly about the Fire Emblems. Corrin looked at Chrom's.
It was like a shield, and had many gem stones in it, those seemed to be the source of it's power. Chrom did the same, but he couldn't figure out where the power had come from.
"Your's uses these stones for power?" Corrin begun the questions, looking at it, but not touching it.
Chrom nodded for "yes," the he looked at Corrin's Yato blade, "what does your's use?"
"It used power from other people that had legendary weapons like my Yato, Leo's Brynhildr being one of them, then my other brothers have them. There was Xander's Siegfried, Takumi's Fujin Yumi, and Ryoma's Raijinto." Corrin answered, Chrom looked surprised.
"How many siblings do you have, Corrin?"Chrom had generally become curious to how many siblings he had.
"Eight," Corrin breathed for a moment before continuing, "but only adopted. One from my mother's marriage, the other from well.. complications."
Chrom nodded, and didn't say much else. They talked more about their adventures for their Fire Emblems, and their pasts. Like the war that Chrom's father had started, and his sister that was alive, but was living a peaceful life else where. Corrin's life was filled with people coming in and out it by deaths, betrayals, sacrifices.
Corrin finally returned to his room, seeing a lovely Azura on the balcony, watching the stars, he walked to her, hugging her from behind, "sorry I took so long, Azura." She smiled like sweet rain, and he couldn't get enough of her smell whenever he got close.
"It's fine, Corrin, I know you have your duties, even now," she gave him a gentle smile, as she turned around, and kissed him gently. Azura wrapped her arms around his neck, and Corrin put his arms lower to her hips, and the two went to bed.
Xander finally reached Hoshido with a tired horse, but he finally arrived, and he wasn't noticed as many people were still sleeping. Except an innkeeper who was out sweeping. Many Hoshidan's still couldn't handle Nohrian's, considering the war had only been over for two years. Scars are deeper then the actual wounds.
He wasn't in his usual Kingly outfit, he was missing some armor, and his crown. He looked exhausted from here. She almost jumped in surprise at seeing him, but he didn't stop, but his horse was on the verge of collapsing.
"Sir," she said quietly, but getting his attention, "your horse looks ill, please let it rest..." he looked at her, and stopped his horse to see it was breathing rather badly. He sighed, and unmounted. The girl didn't wonder who he was, but he was rather handsome, even though he looked tired.
"Can I take care of him for you? You seem in a hurry," she said, he nodded, he didn't seem the type to talk to much.
He gave wave, "I'll be back later," then he just walked off quickly, because his sword was still calling the other weapons, it was giving him a headache. The girl was but baffled, but at least he wasn't rude about it, like some other Nohrians she met before.
Guards approached the King of Nohr, and they knew straight away who he was, "Ryoma was expecting you," one guard said, letting the King in. Xander nodded, and gave a silent "thank you."
Xander approached the throne room to see Ryoma and Takumi already there. They weren't aware of Leo's disappearance though.
Before anyone could speak, the three weapons begun to "sing," to put simply, and then a bright light. They felt like they were floating. And beneath them they could see another world, as it felt for sure felt extremely different.
Corrin woke up to hear the Yato "calling" and no doubt Leo was going through same. He rushed to where the weapons were calling to each other, Azura noticed her husband running out of the door, she was fully awake now. She put some of clothes on, while Corrin had just run his nightwear...
Leo was standing in front of front of the palace, and Corrin was the second the arrive to the area. Leo wanted to say something, but before he could, three beings of light appeared before them, and their bodies hit the ground, grunts from the three parties were heard loudly.
"Ryoma, Takumi, and Xander?!" Corrin expressed with massive concern, Leo was shocked himself too. Xander pulled himself up first, his back hurting from the ground, but he felt other wise. Though he lacked sleep.
"Little King, so you were here?" Xander questioned, looking to see Leo as well.
"Yeah," Corrin simply put, the three just seemed relieved that their brother was alive and looked rather well.
They all heard laughter, and it was the same girl Corrin recognized, but how could he forgot her like that? They all turned to look at her, Corrin actually see her face this time, she looked very young, wearing heavy red silks to match her eyes. Her face was simple, but her eyes are what held such a mystery.
"Who are you?" Corrin asked her.
The girl only said, "Aion, and please kill me like the Silent Dragon," before vanishing. But oddly, no one really remembered a girl there or a request.
Xander, Ryoma, and Takumi had a quick chat of what was happening in their kingdoms, and he was surprised that Valla was going to be controlled by Hoshido and Nohr for awhile. But before they would find what this world was, they started to turn back into the light that originally brought them here.
"Corrin, we'll take care of Valla, don't worry about it!" Ryoma shouted before they completely vanished. Corrin felt great with them knowing of his Kingdom, but he wished his brothers could have helped more, but at that was safe. And the girl had vanished again.
Leo and Corrin thought about only remembering that they saw their brothers for a brief period of time, but with a request of someone wanting to die like the Silent Dragon,but that was only when they really thought about it. They didn't even know.
Azura joined them with some food, they chatted briefly at what had occurred, and they still had to look for any book that survived that horrible fire. Which still didn't make sense for many for how or why it had started.
Chrom sighed, "there was no witnesses before the fire, only after. We asked many, but most didn't even know of a fire before we had mentioned it. It was like it didn't even happen," Robin reported to Chrom, handing him written reports.
Corrin and Azura walked into the meeting room, they had a few other reports, "Chrom, I found something unusual," Corrin started, it was a book that talked about Dragons, "it wasn't burnt in the fire at all, while a lot of other books were ash."
"Let me look," Robin said, Corrin gave her the book, and she looked at it very oddly. "The Time of Dragons" Robin sat for a quit moment trying to remember the book, "I don't think we had this in our collection."
Robin opened it first, but oddly, there wasn't any words... No one said a word, Azura sensed something from the book, and she just clung to Corrin somehow, and glared the book down.
"Azura, what's wrong?" Corrin whispered to his wife, her golden eyes met his red, and he sensed what she sensed, but strangely Chrom and Robin didn't. Suddenly Corrin felt sick, the book was growing power. "GET DOWN!" Corrin yelled as he sensed the power from the book surging, causing the book to explode. Corrin grabbed Azura, while Chrom did the same with his wife. Corrin tried to get all three of them together so he could use his body to turn into a dragon and protect them, but as he did so, it caused his back hurt from the explosion.
Corrin looked around as the three were fine, slightly hurt, but likely not as back as him. He saw odd beasts, ugly imps, their eyes that had were completely white, the body a hellish black. He knew he had to fight, he called his Fire Emblem to his hand. Though he had to stay near the three that lost consciousness, he would still fight!
Xander, Ryoma and Takumi looked at each other as they had saw their brother on the other side, Corrin may have been gone, but Valla needed to have serious help, considering war... They all sort of just sighed, no one really spoke and Xander left to go back to Nohr. The young innkeeper girl was shocked to know that that was Xander, he paid her, and left swiftly.
When he finally reached back to Nohr it was midday, but Hinoka had been worried all night. Silas and Elise had also arrived some time earlier that day, he looked at his family, Elise smiled, he saw Silas with a young Sophie sleeping on his back, he was surprised with how fast pasts for Dragonblooded people, they live longer then others, doesn't matter the purity of the blood.
"Elise, I'm glad to you see," Xander said, he petted her head, "I found out Corrin in another world."
The three of them looked rather shaken by the news, "but he's okay?" Hinoka asked, looking at Xander with hopefulness.
"He's fine."
Corrin was fighting like a dancing firestorm, it was nonstop. And he had gained several more wounds then just his back, he breathed, as he went for another attack. Then he suddenly saw Chrom fighting too, he wasn't aware that he had woken up, then a bolt of thunder displayed itself. Robin was right behind Chrom, but his question, but where was Azura?!
Suddenly the air went calm, and the song he remember well started to begin.
In the white light, a hand reaches through
A double-edged blade cuts your heart in two
Waking dreams fade away,
Embrace the brand-new day
Sing with me a song of birthrights and love
The light scatters to the sky above
Dawn breaks through the gloom, white as a bone
Lost in thoughts all alone
"Is that the light song?" Corrin thought to himself, the song had three different verses, but it always surprised him. Corrin looked at the enemies. They were enthralled with the song, still not as powerful without the amulet, but the power had tied with Azura, just a bit to enthrallment every now then. But her body would take more damage singing it than actually getting attacked the imps.
They finished off all of the imps, whatever they had come from, it wasn't from here.
Azura start to look dizzy, so Corrin grabbed her, and held her at his side. His back was bleeding though, and Chrom saw the other deep wounds on Corrin.
"How long were you fighting alone?" Chrom asked, generally looking the Vallian's king wounds, quite deep, and a risk for infection could be possible.
Corrin was having a hard breathing, "awhile," he finally managed. But Corrin blacked out first, he could feel Azura blacking out too...
Chrom called orders quickly for the two to be treated, because Azura was extremely exhausted, and pale.
Aion sat on a the roof of Ylisse's castle, she was the Being that had brought two worlds that shouldn't have met again, but she needed this. She could feel herself slipping like the poor dragon's before her. Naga likely wouldn't able to help her. Just Corrin and Chrom...
She looked at the sun setting for night, she gulped even her mouth was extremely dry from the worry. The Fire Emblems were the only way to save her. Or maybe... she shook that idea away, and disappeared again.
Authors note: Sorry if this story is a bit messy. But again for thanks for reading, and see you soon. (And yes, Aion is a character I made, so please write her off just yet. )
Til next time!
Update on June 17, 2016 some mistakes with wording, I want apologize to everyone, I was in a hurry that day, and some words got messed up. I will make sure it doesn't happen again.