Dion sent out more imps to do his dirty work, but Corrin kept fighting, he was losing, and his body was losing blood. He tried to remain as calm as he could, silently sending Azura assurances, but surely, nothing could be sent with the pain.
"Come on, Corrin of Valla, show me what you are made of!" Dion yelled with anger. Anger that must been growing for a long time, so Corrin locked on his true target, Dion. Aion was crying once again, trying to get her brother to stop, and disappear once more. But Dion wouldn't have it, he summoned the imps, and watched. Corrin fought rather hard trying to figure out their weakness. So he tried to turn into a dragon, when he heard something shatter. It was the dragonstone Azura had given to him. That was the only thing to keep him from going berserk.
Azura felt, for a lack of better word. Break. Corrin was yelling in pain, his dragon part of himself was raging from the pain, and he couldn't hold his dragon form, he let out a silent apology for Azura, and let the dragon part of him take over. Dion gave a cruel smile, and turned into a dragon as well, his form was a black and sliver mixed with soft reds, he looked nothing more then a monster with many feathers.
Corrin roared loudly, Aion saw the two dragons go at it. Dion was larger then Corrin, and when he walked, only blackness touched the ground briefly, while Corrin had water when he moved around.
Corrin took the first hit, but was pushed back by Dion's horns. They both glared at each other, only one had their sanity, and clearly, Corrin didn't, as he went for a hits straight away, pushing Dion into the water, and using the water, Corrin hit the head of the other dragon many times, but Dion only laughed. Corrin was then flung across the forest space he had created, and it was enough to completely knock out Corrin since he had taken several wounds before the actual fight.
Dion left Corrin's body bleeding out, causing to be Corrin growing with rage.
Azura yelled in the agony of her connection from Corrin. Chrom had worried about Corrin, but he heard Azura's yell, though in fact, almost everyone nearby heard her cry. The pain that had pulsed through Azura from Corrin is what sent her into a panic. Chrom stopped searching for Corrin to hurry to Azura, who was holding her chest in pain, her hair getting extremely messy as she was moving around. "Azura!" Chrom yelled, getting her attention, "please calm down, I'll find Corrin." She looked at him and could only nod.
Robin eventually showed up with Lissa, since they heard Azura's cry, they eventually found Corrin's dragon form in the water trying to heal his wounds, but when he spotted them. Berserk kicked in. And he looked at them just like that day he saw his mother died. Azura felt his anger, and she pulled herself up, even with her ongoing pain. And begun to sing.
The three tired to stop her, but she pushed them away. This was a job she took upon herself to stop Corrin to becoming like the Silent Dragon, insane and without reason. She got louder and closer. Eventually Corrin remembered this song, he put his head to her forehead, and cried. Now he didn't turn back fully into the human Corrin, his wings and tail were stuck there for the time being. "I'm sorry, Azura."
Chrom saw the wounds on Corrin, and they brought him back to the healing room for treatment.
"Who did you fight?" Robin asked, looking over his wounds, which the ones on his chest were the worst, but everything else was rather clean.
"Dion, Aion's brother," he replied, his wounds still throbbed, it was odd, the magic generally could get this to stop throbbing, but they didn't.
"Do you know who Dion and Aion are?" Azura asked, speaking up, since curiosity had plagued her mind about it since she met Aion.
"No, Aion appears every now and then, I couldn't remember her clearly, even now I can't make out all the details. Dion seems to know about the Silent Dragon, and the Fell Dragon."
"The Silent Dragon was the one you took care of in your world, right?"Robin asked, Corrin and Azura nodded.
He explained in full detail the fight with the other dragon, and they sent for Nowi and Nah for an extra dragonstone that would have to have Azura tune for Corrin.
Xander felt Nohr's energy had started to surge, it was unlike anything he had felt before, but in Hoshido the same thing was happening, and Ryoma wasn't the only one effected. Ryoma summoned Orochi, the retainer to late Queen Mikoto, but since the birth of her daughter Selkie, she had been busy ever since. But she hurried over anyway, Kaden her husband, though he had been traveling. He had made sure to watch their daughter.
But many talented in magic like her were getting oddly ill with the surges.
"Lord Ryoma," she said, formally, since this wasn't the time to be informal, he nodded, "walk with me," she finished. Ryoma did so. He was taken into their courtyard.
"So what do you know about these surges?" Ryoma asked, she had him silenced as quickly as he started.
She called out to her card for answers, she was usually always correct with the cards, so three played out, she nodded for a bit, then she looked at Ryoma, with horror in her eyes.
"A new threat. It's going to bigger than the Silent Dragon, Ryoma," she tried to be calm, but failed. Ryoma nodded, and went to tell Xander of Nohr as soon as possible.
Xander had been busy most of the day, Hinoka was still sleeping, since it marked the eighth month of her pregnancy, she was only getting more tired. He didn't blame her.
Xander saw a young Sophie and Elise laughing about something in their room since they had stayed, but when he heard Elise cough, he was concerned suddenly, a lot of those with magic were getting sick, though he had no idea about Leo and Nyx since they went to Valla to study that bed. It seemed that portal closed when Leo went through it.
"Lord Xander," Peri said, she handed him a letter, she looked really concerned. He looked at her.
"Who is this from?"He questioned, looking at it, it had the Hoshidan symbol on it, with golden ink. He figured it was Ryoma.
"King Ryoma," she said, confirming what he believed. "You are dismissed." She nodded and left.
He read it, but briefly. It was quite informal.
"Xander, beware of the surges plaguing our world, a new threat, supposedly bigger then the Silent Dragon is approaching. If you have any magic users near by, get them to the healers as soon as you can. Also if you can, try to move everyone out of the castle. Orochi said something massive is coming."
Ryoma had wrote it since it had the official seal. Xander hurried to Elise, and told her to see a healer, as she was burning up, she was confused, and did so. Silas came to see what was going on, and he was surprised to feel how she was burning up, Xander also sent word for Leo and Nyx, since they were both together at the time.
Robin coughed, but she didn't pay it any mind. Nah and Nowi were there, and Nowi's husband was near by too, you could hardly miss Gregor after all...
Nah looked at Corrin, she saw that he was a different type of manakete, his form wasn't similar to her's or Nowi's, or Tiki's. She wanted to study Corrin, since she hadn't ever seen this type of manakete, but then again, she could tell he wasn't from around here.
"Can I touch your tail?"Nah asked looking at it, surely the texture on his scales might be different too. He nodded, and let her do what she needed to do.
It was smooth, "Mom, can you transform for me? I need to compare."
Nah studied the two of them for a few hours, Azura was surprised to see how much Nah had studied. She gave him a green stone, and it only has fifty uses, unlike Corrin's old one which didn't have a limitation... He thanked them, and they left.
Leo was coughing a lot, and he had a fever. Nyx had been through similar, but she knew how to treat a magic surge, and she was helping Leo, but his was worse since the Brynhildr was an extreme magical force connected to him, since that was the case, he could only handle so much.
Nyx gave him some soft soup, but his body was shaking badly, she sighed, and force fed him, since if he couldn't eat normally he would have to be forced to eat. He groaned in pain as he swallowed all he could before coughing more. "Nyx, what is causing this..." He finally managed to bring himself to talk, Nyx looked at him blankly.
"Depends if you want the logical explanation, or actual explanation."
"I'm not a child, you know," he coughed again, she sighed.
"Something is trying to merge with our world, and it's drawing energy from those that haven't set up a proper shield from it, sadly, I'm sure I'm the only one that does." Nyx admitted, looking at her husband, she felt his head, the fever hadn't changed since it started a day ago.
His horse couldn't ride him, his body was already too strained. She thought she could teleport them, but that's more magic then she would lose. Then an idea hit her. "Can you call the Siegfried, and teleport yourself there? You are too sick to remain in Valla, you need a Nohrian Healer."
Leo looked at the Brynhildr, then he looked back at her, he nodded.
"And you could teach everyone that barrier, right?" Leo asked.
"Sure." Nyx replied, she knew he would ask.
The next day finally came around, though Corrin's wounds were going to leave scars, as it seemed Dion had wanted to make sure he knew he was hurt by, but he was able to eat well, and plenty. And they knew they had to let him go. His body had finally managed to keep his human form. Azura may have tuned it to him, it wasn't the same from the one's from Valla. As this was not blue, but golden.
Corrin and Azura went to the dinner room, breakfast was soft breads with various jams. After they ate, they looked for Chrom and Robin.
Chrom had been up for a few hours when heard his wife coughing violently, he called a healer near by.
"She has a fever," the healer said, "quickly Lord Chrom, we need to take her to the healers room." He obeyed, and carried his wife in his arms, and got her there quickly, Frederick and Lissa were already there, Lissa had gotten the same thing, and was very sickly as well. Azura and Corrin heard the news, and got there as quickly as they could.
"Lord Chrom, we have news. Other mages or those strong with magic are suffering, even some of our healing staff," one healer said, his eyes sadden, he looked at all of them, "I'm terribly sorry, we have failed you, Lord Chrom," he left before Chrom had a chance to say anything. Most of the healers that weren't sick were trying to treat this odd sickness.
Tharja had come to see how bad it was, she was unaffected, though. She saw poor Robin, she was mad, but that wasn't what she was here about.
"Haven't anyone sensed the world surging?" She asked loudly, getting attention that wasn't sick, Azura had noticed, surely, but she wasn't sure she was right. "You," Tharja pointed to Azura. Her brown eyes met with the golden ones of her's, "know don't you?"
Chrom, and Frederick looked at her with true surprise, but she nodded.
"I did have a slight idea, but I had no idea if that was right," Azura said, her husband holding her hand, he wasn't surprised she would know, she generally knew more than the average person, though he couldn't ever tell anyone about that. Since that was what made her so mysterious.
Tharja didn't care that at point, and she put her magic forward, and did the spell that could remove everyone's fever in this room.
"Let me be clear, this world is merging with another world, so everyone with even a touch of magic is getting sick, and when it's done merging, some could die," Tharja's words were heavy in the room, everyone looked at her terror in their eyes.
"How do we stop their deaths?" Robin asked weakly, hearing the words crystal clear. Tharja smiled to see Robin better, but she wasn't in love with them anymore, since she had fallen in love with Libra, but she still was extremely happy about their friendship.
"With a magic barrier that only I know how to set up."
"Tharja, please teach everyone.." Robin breathed. Tharja smiled, "I hoped you would ask."
Both worlds were taught to set up that barrier, but two days passed, and that barrier was harder to keep up with more frequent surges.
Until the massive earthquake that caught everyone off guard, Corrin was sitting with his wife when he started to feel the earth, he grabbed her hand and ran out, she an had idea what was happened, "EVERYONE GET OUT NOW!" Corrin yelled, Nah and Nowi were doing the same thing.
Ryoma was with Camilla, since they had Dragonblood, they felt the upcoming terror, and ran out of the building, same with anyone else during that time in Nohr or Valla.
Thus the two worlds were no longer two, but now one.
Author's note: Well that concludes this chapter. I'm glad for everyone's support, thank you so much. (Dion and Aion are important for my story, so making characters is a thing.)
Til next time!