Training Day

The throne room door opened making Elise quickly get up and away from Corrin. But then she noticed that it was Gunter that appeared.

Gunter looked at Corrin in a fetal position, "What happened to him?"

Elise looked down, "Xander came back angry and grabbed Corrin by the neck, saying that he was going to make sure he's in pain for his training…"

Gunter sighed, "Of course he would." He walked up to Corrin, "Get up Corrin; we're going to the Northern Fortress."

Corrin slowly got up, "The Northern Fortress? W-Why not here?"

"It's your punishment for leaving the castle on your own."

Corrin looked down, "I guess it's better than being in the dungeon…" "Okay…"

Elise knew the answer but decided to ask anyways, "C-Can I go with you two?"

Gunter shook his head, "No. Your father said that you can't be around him or talk to him."

Elise looked down, "Okay then…"

Gunter and Corrin left to the Northern Fortress while Elise watched them leave, "I don't care what father said! I want him to know that he isn't alone here!"

Northern Fortress

Gunter and Corrin stopped in front of the door to a room at the top of the tallest tower of the fortress. Gunter opened the door and Corrin noticed that the room actually looked like a royal room, surprising him. He also noticed that there were three people, two females that were in maid outfits and one male in a butler outfit. Gunter gestured to them, "These are your servants."

Corrin looked over at Gunter, "Why would father give me servants if this is my punishment?"

"Even though you are in punishment, you're still a royal here. So you can't do anything yourself. You three, introduce yourselves."

The butler walked forward and bowed, "Pleasure to meet you Corrin, I am Jakob."

The female who had pink hair walked up nervously and bowed, "Um hello, m-my name is F-Felicia."

Lastly, the other female with blue hair that had a scowl on her face stepped forward, "My name is Flora."

Corrin looked at the three, "H-Hello, everyone."

Gunter looked at Corrin, "You should turn in early to prepare for Xander's training." Corrin flinched hearing that, "I must go back to the King." He then turned around and left.

After he left, Jakob walked over to Corrin, "Is there anything that you need, Milord? Or do you want to turn in early?"

Corrin shook his head, "Well I'm not tired and I don't need anything. So, um, why don't you guys tell me about yourselves?"

Jakob looked at Corrin confused, "You would like to know more about us?"

Corrin nodded but then looked down, "M-My family h-hates me…and you seem like nice people so I would like to be friends."

That surprised Jakob, "I was train to serve any person that I was assigned to so if you wish me to be friends then I will be your friend."

Felicia walked up to him, "Your family hates you?"

Corrin nodded, "Y-Yeah, Xander wants to hurt me, Leo calls me pathetic and looks down on me, and Camilla she acts like she cares but then threatens to k-kill me…"

Flora looked at him in pity, "Nohrians even go after their own? Actually, I wouldn't be surprised."

Jakob looked over to her, "You do remember that I am Nohrian?"

Flora looked down, "I-I mean I wouldn't be surprised most Nohrians would…"

Corrin looked at Felicia, "Um, how long have you been a maid?"

Felicia shook her head, "Not very long, Jakob has been training us b-but I'm kind of clumsy…"

Corrin smiled, "Well even though you're clumsy, I'm sure you'll be a great maid."

Felicia looked at him shocked but then smiled, "T-Thank you, Lord Corrin. I will like to be friends with you as well as your maid."

"You're welcome and thank you." Corrin walked over to Flora, "Um, do you think that we're bad people?"

Flora sighed, "Obviously, you and Jakob aren't."

Corrin smiled, "So does that mean we can be friends?"

Flora looked at him confused but soon smiled, "I guess we can."

"That's good." Corrin noticed something interesting about the two maids and looked at both of them, "Um, why do you two look the same?"

Felicia laughed, "It's because we're twin sisters!" Flora nodded.

Corrin was surprised, "Wow! No wonder you two look the same!"

Flora gave him a small smile, "We're also the daughters of the Ice Tribe chief."

That surprised Corrin even more, "Wow! That's even cooler! But why did you two decide to be maids then?"

Flora had a small frown on her face but then gave him a false smile, "Our father wanted to have better relations with the Nohrians so he wanted us to work for the royal family." She lied.

Corrin looked at her confused, "But it sounded like you hate Nohrians."

Flora looked away, "Um, that's because I heard some stories…that's all." She lied again.

There was a light knock on the door making all of them look at the door, "Corrin?"

Corrin's eyes went wide hearing the voice, "Elise?" He walked up to the door and opened it seeing that it was indeed Elise, "They let you come up here?"

Elise smiled, "Nope, I was able to sneak past Gunter and trick the guards that father wanted me to come check on you."

Corrin smiled, "You did that for me?"

"Yep! You're the only person that has been nice to me while everyone else has is mean to me."

"Thank you Elise."

"You're welcome!" Elise looked down, "Are you going to be okay tomorrow?"

Corrin shivered, "I-I don't know…I-I know he wants to hurt me…"

"I know…don't worry I'll be there to stop him if it gets bad and I can heal you as well."

Corrin looked down, "I know he wouldn't allow it…"

Elise smiled, "Don't worry; I think I can convince Father to let him let me."

That surprised Corrin because he remembered that Camilla and Gunter said she wasn't allowed to talk to him, "How are you going to do that?"

Elise shook her head, "I can't tell you…um, I should go before Gunter comes back, see you tomorrow Corrin. Good night!" She quickly left.

Corrin smiled seeing how much she was trying to help him making him feel like everything would be a little bit better with her around and his new friends.

Outside the room, Elise frowned, "I'm sorry Corrin, I can convince father because they need you for…their plan, that's why I couldn't tell you." She hated that she had to hide the real reason why they have him here but it was for his own safety so she had to hide it.

Krakenburg Castle

Elise walked up to the throne room and knocked on the door. Even though she gave small knocks the open space of the throne room gave the knock a louder sound with the echo. After a bit, she heard her father's voice.

"Enter."

Elise slowly opened the door and slowly walked inside seeing her father and Gunter stop talking and turned towards her, "U-Um f-father, I know that Xander is supposed to t-train C-Corrin. S-So I wanted to ask if I can be his h-healer."

Garon leaned forward with a glare, "No. I already told you that you aren't allowed to talk to him or be around him."

Elise knew what to say but was too scared to tell her father, "I-I know b-but…"

"Enough! I will not repeat myself!"

Elise was close to tears till Gunter stepped in and spoke quietly to him, "Milord, as I was saying before, Xander might try to hurt Corrin because you told them that he's a Hoshidan royal. So I suggest you let Elise be his healer because she's the only one willing to help him and if he has someone part of this family that he could trust then he will be more willing to follow your command for your plan."

Garon growled knowing that Gunter was right, "Fine…you are allowed to be Corrin's healer."

Elise looked at her Father in surprised and then looked at Gunter, "Um, thank you father." She quickly left before he changed his mind.

Training Grounds

Elise made it to the training grounds to tell Xander that she would be joining him for Corrin's training but like her father, she was scared to tell him and seeing him ruthlessly attacking the training dummies, obliviously still angry at having to train Corrin, didn't help. So she slowly walked up to him, "H-Hi, big brother…"

Xander sighed, "What do you want?"

Elise looked down, "I-I came to tell you that father is letting me join you in training Corrin as a healer…"

Xander growled, "…why is that?"

Elise was shivering, "B-Because you're going to hurt him so father wanted me to make sure that you don't harm him for his plan."

Xander turned around quickly, "You're not telling me the whole truth." But then he smirked knowing now he didn't have to hold back, "Actually that doesn't matter since you want to be his healer, I guess that means I don't have to hold back."

Elise looked back at him with wide eyes, "B-But…" "I just made things worse for him…"

Xander turned around and started attacking the dummies again, "You will meet me at the Northern Fortress entrance early in the morning tomorrow. You're dismissed."

Elise turned around close to tears walking away, "You're dismissed…he doesn't even sound like a brother…"

The Next Day

Northern Fortress

"Time to wake up, Corrin!"

"Wake up, sleepyhead!

Corrin slowly opened his eyes and got into sitting position rubbing his eyes seeing the twins in front of his bed. He then looked outside seeing that it was still dark outside, "Why did you two wake me up? It's still dark outside."

Jakob bowed, "It may be dark Milord but it is morning. Lord Xander and Lady Elise are here for your training.

Corrin nodded, "O-Okay…" It was the thing he was dreading the most and it was Xander's training. So he slowly got out of bed delaying the inevitable. Afterwards, they took him to the roof of the main building of the Fortress where Xander and Elise were waiting.

Once they made it to the roof, Corrin saw Xander holding two wooden swords and Elise with a healing staff. When he saw Elise, he relaxed a bit especially when she gave him a small smile. But then became tense again when he saw the scowl and glare from Xander.

Xander threw a sword at him and then pointed the other sword at him, "About time you made it here. You three, leave now."

Jakob bowed and hesitantly left while Flora gave Xander a glare and Felicia mouthed 'I'm sorry' to Corrin then Flora dragged her away.

Once they left, Corrin looked back at Xander seeing that he was smiling darkly at him like he was treating this like a duel instead of training making Corrin nervous.

"You better be prepared for our duel, welp!"

Corrin was confused and scared, "B-But I thought we were just training!"

"We are…our first lesson is to fight, just to see if you're actually worth my time." Xander didn't even give Corrin warning and just ran towards him.

Corrin, seeing that he was running at him, quickly brought up the sword with two hands to defend himself. Once Xander made it to him, he swung down as hard as he could but Corrin was able to withstand the attack making Xander mad, so he kick him hard in the stomach making him go backwards and fall.

Xander quickly walked over to him and put the practice sword to his neck, "You're lucky that we aren't using real swords because I could just slice your neck open right now." He used the flat part of the sword and hit him hard like he making Corrin yelp in pain again.

Elise quickly ran to the two, "Xander stop it! You're not training him; you're just purposely trying to hurt him!"

Xander turned over at her smiling making Elise shiver, "This is part of the training! If he's going to defend himself, he's going to have to take punishment!" He turned over to Corrin, "Now get up!" He pulled away his sword and backed away.

Corrin slowly got up holding his chest and Xander went straight after him. Corrin tried swinging the sword with both hands once Xander got close but he just dodged to the side and hit Corrin in the ribs making Corrin yelp again then Xander hit him hard on the arm making him drop his sword and then hit him on the knee making him kneel down. Finally he kicked Corrin in the chest making him go backwards again.

Elise had enough and ran in between them, "Stop it! You better stop before I tell Gunter!"

Xander laughed, "Do you really think that they will listen to a runt like you? They would listen to the heir to the throne before they listen to you!"

Elise looked down knowing that he was right but she ran to Corrin who was in immense pain to heal him.

Xander turned around, "Your real training begins tomorrow welp and everytime you don't improve every week, this will happen. Do you understand me!?" Corrin started crying lightly but nodded, "Good." He then left.

After a few minutes, the three servants made it to the rooftop seeing Corrin and Elise. They ran up to them with Felicia kneeling right next to him, "W-What happened?"

Elise shook her head while still healing him, "Xander purposely hurt Corrin saying that If he didn't improve each week, he would do this to him…"

Jakob shook his head, "This is terrible, I should inform Gunter."

Elise looked at him, "No! If you tell Gunter, Xander would get angry and go after Corrin again."

Jakob sighed, "Understandable. We'll take Corrin to his room so he'll be able to heal properly." He walked over to Corrin and kneeled down. He then put Corrin's arm over his shoulder and helped him up then started walking towards the rooftop entrance with the other two and Elise following after them.

[End Notes: So about Gunter, he isn't helping Corrin out of his goodness of his heart (for now), he's just using him to go after Garon if you played Revelations you know why and yes, Gunter is going to be overseeing the training till Xander goes too far when a certain thing happens of the training then he's going to start training him.]