AN: I do not own Touhou or Fire Emblem.
Just something random, but I hate the fact that people who post some 200 word crappy story in the harry potter section gets over a hundred reviews for their shit, while I end up making a story over 5 times the length of a normal good story, and struggle to get a hundred views a chapter. Let alone more than one or two reviews without even asking. I just don't get it, I mean sure I'm writing a really obscure crossover, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that people who write crappy stories in like Harry potter or some shit get all the views in the world, while someone like me who writes their ass off to give people a good story that's actually original struggles to even get a hundred views a chapter. It's absolutely stupid.
But enough about my problems, I've decided to actually leave my responses to some the of the recent reviews! So here you go.
Tommiboy: I wouldn't call it a noble cause, but rather just revenge, pure and simple. Mavis pissed her off royally and paid for it.
ACertainCuriousReader: Thanks for the kind words, as for longer chapters, I just ranted that most people write 200 to a thousand word chapters, while I write an average between 10 thousand and five thousand and you want longer? Just wow.
Lightningflash51: I've said it before and I'll say it again, the story is divided into arcs, which are in certain phases. Each phase focuses on a different group, or protagonist. Currently, phase one focuses on Garon, Minerva, and Celsius. Phase 2 will be Marisa and her group, along with some surprise visitors from the awakening world, Phase 3 and 4 are parallel, as they happen at the same time, with Corrin in phase 3 and Takumi in phase 4 as the main 'lords' while Phase 5 is everyone coming together to kick the ever living crap out of Anankos.
Guest: Anankos isn't exactly known for thinking his plans through… but he needed help on a short notice, and I doubt anyone expected THIS out of Minerva of all people. Also Gensokyo is so quirky you think people are going to notice something quickly? As for Elise and Minerva, well technically Minerva is sort of a surrogate mom for all of the Nohr royal children, Elise is just the one she sees as her 'daughter' while Celsius is the crazy aunt.
But without further ado!
Let the Conquest begin!
Chapter 1: Old Friends
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered - 4 In The Beginning
It had been a month since the attempt on Mineva's life, and the death of Garon's final concubine. In that time Minerva had been taking care of all the royal children, alongside Elise while Garon had worked out the final details of his vacation with Sumeragi. Sumeragi himself had wanted to check out Nestra, and tour area with Garon. With a set location, Garon set out with nothing more than a small contingent of guards, leaving Celsius and Minerva to run Nohr in his absence… again.
Sumeragi however came a little more prepared, and wanting to brag about his son, had brought his second eldest son, Corrin, to Nestra with him. Little did he know that someone else had joined them on their small journey, having hitched a ride on one of the Sky knight's pegasi, the young Kaze had come on orders from his father to 'watch Sumeragi and Corrin.'
But unknown to either royal, a dark force was conspiring to take out both, or at least one of them. By the time they would reach Nestra, the trap had been set, and the blanket of shadow would try to shallow the kings of Hoshido and Nohr whole. But neither king would dare go quietly into the night. But even so, they were in for the fights of their lives.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered - 8 Ray of Hope
Sumeragi groaned in annoyance as he sat on the steps at the Cyrkensia opera house, his adopted son sitting next to him kicking his legs. Corrin was wearing a rather simple robe, yet for some reason wasn't wearing any shoes, which Sumeragi never understood why Corrin was just so adamant to wearing shoes, he would never put them on, ever.
"Daddy? Who is Garon?" Corrin asked, looking up at his adopted father as Sumeragi looked down and smiled. "Garon is an old friend of mine. We spent a good chunk of our youth together, messing around when we could, good times… good times." Sumeragi said, smirking as he reminisced for a moment.
As he was doing so a carriage pulled out, surrounded by soldiers as Sumeragi looked up and smiled as Corrin continued sitting, but watched in awe as the door to the carriage was about to be opened by the driver.
Only for the door to be swung open by the sole occupant of the carriage, startling the carriage driver as Garon walked out and flung his arms in the air with his cape flowing behind him. "I have arrived! Did you miss me?" Garon asked with a smirk on his face as Sumeragi laughed heartily and stood up. "Course I did you nut, how's the family?" Sumeragi asked as he walked up to Garon and shook his hand.
"It's… fine? I guess. I only have five kids to take care over… would have preferred more." Garon mumbled as Sumeragi winced. "Something happened didn't it, see I told you your problem would come back to bite you in the ass." Sumeragi chided him as Garon glared. "Don't remind me, Minerva has already grilled my ass to hell and back for it." Garon muttered in annoyance as Corrin stood up and hid behind his father's leg.
"But enough about me, who this little scamp." Garon said as he bent down a looked at Corrin, who went back to trying to hide behind his father's leg entirely. "Garon, meet my second oldest son, Corrin. Say hello Corrin." Sumeragi said as the five year old slowly got out from behind Sumeragi's leg and tapped his fingers together before looking up. "Hi mister Garon." Corrin said with a small squeak in his voice as Garon chuckled.
"Just call me Garon kid, none of that formal stuff." Garon said with a smile as he rubbed Corrin's messy hair as Sumeragi chuckled. "So Sumeragi… why Nestra?" Garon asked as he got back up and Sumeragi bent down and picked up Corrin in his arms. "Well it is called the 'pleasure capital' for a reason, good place to unwind. And honestly I think it would be a preferred vacation spot over Izumo, the new archduke is… eccentric to say the least." Sumeragi said as Garon raised an eyebrow. "Do tell? This ought to be interesting." Garon said as he crossed his arms.
"Ok so, the guy comes into the castle one day, and announces that he is the new archduke of Izumo… and he does so casually it was hilarious. He just says 'Lord Sumeragi, what's up' as his introduction, and that was just the start of it." Sumeragi said as Garon had trouble keeping a straight face. "Seems someone has quite the exciting court." Garon said with a chuckle as Sumeragi groaned. "You don't know the half of it, nobles every day wanting some favor or another, the constant meetings, sometimes I just wish I could go back to the good old days, when it was just the four of us." Sumeragi said as Garon looked down.
"I never told you… did I. Zelgius is dead, had been for five years now." Garon said as Sumeragi's face fell as he sighed. "How did it happen… did the Black Knight fall on the battlefield?" Sumeragi asked as Garon shook his head. "He took my retainer, you remember Celsius right? Well regardless, he took her as his apprentice… and her final test was a battle to the death… she won." Garon said as Sumeragi winced. "Ouch… that can't be good for her, she was so cheerful when I saw her five years ago." Sumeragi said as he adjusted his arms to give Corrin a comfortable spot as the five year old watched his father and Garon talk back and forth about things he didn't understand.
"She's recovered since then, but she spends most of her time away from the castle and in the new town at the border, Renvall." Garon said as Sumeragi raised an eyebrow. "Wasn't Renvall the name of that fort that Zonta fellow was running?" Sumeragi asked as Garon nodded. "Yeah… but Zonta's dead, he died when the fort was taken during the war with Walhart… I have to ask; did you even notice the war happen?" Garon asked, annoyed as Sumeragi chuckled weakly. "I only found out about it a month ago…" Sumeragi replied with a very slow shrug as Garon growled in annoyance. "Of course." Garon muttered, annoyed.
"Whatever, can we catch a show now?" Sumeragi asked, knowing they would be here all day if they didn't get moving. "Yeah fine, I'm already under a threat to my manhood if I dare pick up anymore girls." Garon muttered as Sumeragi smirked. "So Minerva finally is making due on that promise?" Sumeragi asked as they walked inside. "You remember a comment from five years ago and you don't notice a four year war?" Garon said angrily as Sumeragi winced. "Ok, I'm guilty, can we drop it." Sumeragi said as he set Corrin down, the five year old grabbing his father's hand as the trio walked into the opera house. "You have to drop making fun of my former issue." Garon said as Sumeragi groaned in annoyance. "Fine…" Sumeragi groaned as the trio made their way to the private box for the show.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered - 18 Shadows Approach
When Garon and Sumeragi entered the opera house Kaze came out from his hiding spot behind a nearby statue to try and follow them in. Looking around the building the six year old ninja tried to find an opening to enter that wasn't the front door.
While he was doing that the Hoshidan sky knights and the Nohrian soldiers were milling about around the entrance to the opera house. Most of them just tried to ignore the other side as a few Nohrians eyed the sky knights, while the sky knights eyed the Nohrians.
A small step came from an alleyway nearby, the soldiers all stopping before everyone looked at each other as Kaze was scaling the wall of the opera house, looking down to try and keep his footing even as one of the soldiers went to investigate the sound.
Almost instantly he was thrown out of the alleyway by… something and thrown into Garon's carriage, denting the metal and leaving the soldier stun as the other Nohrians and the Hoshidans all looked at the man in shock as an arrow came from the alleyway and flew straight into the soldier's head, killing him as his body slumped off the carriage.
Kaze caught notice of this as he was about to climb in a window, and he was left watching as the sky knights and the soldiers went back to back, all of them standing together as lance were held in the circle of soldiers.
Then something picked up one of the soldiers and tossed him in the air, everyone trying to stab at whatever had grabbed the man, only for them to hit air as the soldier who was tossed in the air fell to the ground screaming, only to be cut in half by… something.
Now the soldiers were panicking, none of them able to see anything as they all kept their eyes open. "Where are they!" A soldier panicked as a sky knight tried to run to her Pegasus, only to get cut in half at the waist as her corpse fell to the ground, all the pegasi just falling over and dying with cuts appearing all over them as the circle of soldiers got smaller and closer together.
One of the soldiers took a wild stab, actually managing to hit something as blood and purple smoke appeared in front of him, the soldiers all backpedaling as the knight panicked as whatever he had stabbed grabbed him by the leg and held him upside down, the other soldiers watching as two red eyes appeared out of the smoke before the silhouette of an axe cleaved the upside down soldier in half, his legs being thrown at the soldiers as they panicked even more.
Up on the windowsill Kaze was speechless and lost in fear as he tried to climb into the window, he had to warn lord Sumeragi of this! As Kaze broke into the opera house the soldiers left were all swinging wildly at random, the figure in purple smoke having disappeared as an arrow landed right in the head of one of the sky knights.
"RUN FOR THE OPERA HOUSE!" One of the soldiers yelled, the sky knights and soldiers all making a mad dash for the opera house in hopes of escaping whatever was assaulting them. They never made it as several got filled with arrows, one bot cut in half, and the last soldier, a Nohrian soldier was flung into the door with a pair of broken legs, the door being broken down as the man was left barely alive as the invisible monsters poured into the opera house, the man staying quiet in hopes of surviving, only for a sword to be ran through his skull.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered - 22 Twisted Shadows A
Inside the opera house Sumeragi was snoring away in the private box, while he was sitting next to Garon, and while Corrin was standing by the edge of the private box watching the show unfold. Garon himself was rather bored… or rather he was just trying to avoid catching an eye on any of the dancers and didn't feel like waking Sumeragi up as Corrin just watched the show, still not understanding why the ladies on the stage were dancing.
Beneath them, in the halls of the opera house, the shadows moved as undead monsters roamed the halls, trying to find their prey. The corpses of anyone who had come across them a grim sight as the monsters tried to make their way into the stands.
Above the stage, Kaze was running across a wooden support beam towards the private box, just trying to reach lord Sumeragi before the monsters did.
But all hell cut loose as soon as one of the dancers screamed, Sumeragi jerking awake as Garon snapped to attention and looked at the dancers, Corrin staring in horror as even more screams started.
Down on the stage one of the dancers had been cut clean in half, vertically. Most of the others had tried running, only to be cut down before they could even get off the stage in an extremely gruesome fashion. In the stands people had just starting randomly dying to arrows from nowhere, and some even getting killed gruesomely as Garon and Sumeragi looked around in abstract horror at the sights before them.
"I'm too late." Kaze muttered as he dropped down on top of the private box, Garon and Sumeragi hearing him land on top and pulling out their weapons as Kaze jumped in and knelt down, Sumeragi and Garon relaxing slightly as Corrin ducked behind a chair, shivering from the horrific sights he had just witnessed.
"Kaze? What are you doing here?" Sumeragi asked as Kaze looked up. "Father asked me to come, called this a training mission on being a bodyguard… but I witness these… monsters, trying to get into the opera house, but they've gotten in." Kaze said with a wince as Sumeragi bent down and lifted his head up. "Look Kaze, don't blame yourself, now we need to get out of here without dying. You and Corrin stay close to me and Garon, got it?" Sumeragi said as Saizo nodded, Corrin running to his father's side and clutching his leg as Kaze stood next to Garon.
"Once we open this door, we're going to be nice big targets for these monsters, even more so considering we can't even see them." Garon said as Sumeragi nodded. "Garon, if worse comes to worst, I want you to take Corrin and Kaze, and run for the hills." Sumeragi said as Garon glared at him. "Don't talk like we are going to die. Because we most certainly aren't!" Garon said as Sumeragi smirked. "Just a suggestion Garon." Sumeragi said as he pushed open the doors of the private box to the hallway.
BGM: Fire Emblem 8 Remastered - 20 Assault
As soon as the doors were opened Garon and Sumeragi were out the doors and back to back with Kaze and Corrin between them as their eyes scanned the hallways. "I don't see anything." Sumeragi muttered. "That's the point, Kaze said they are invisible." Garon whispered to him as they tried to scan the hallways.
Sumeragi suddenly grabbed Corrin and snapped to the side, rolling out of the way of something as he swung his Hagakure blade up, metal landing on metal as a loud ring sounded throughout the hallway, Garon spinning around and taking a long swing with Bölverk at whatever Sumeragi had hit, a loud growl the a spurt of blood showing he had hit something as Sumeragi felt the pressure pushing down on his sword back off.
"What did you hit?" Garon asked as he and Sumeragi were already back to back again. "I don't know, and that's the bad part. Whatever it was it's still alive." Sumeragi said as Corrin kept himself behind his father's leg in terror as Kaze pulled a small pouch out of his pocket.
"Father gave me this. It's supposed to be used to reveal wires, but if you can hit these things, that means hitting them with this could reveal them." Kaze said as Sumeragi took the pouch. "This is just powdered rice… O I get it." Sumeragi said with a smirk as Garon raised an eyebrow. "The powder is sticky, so it sticks to wires… or in this case, it'll stick to these monsters." Sumeragi said with a smirk as he opened the pouch and grabbed a small handful of powder before blowing on it, sending the powder down the hallway on his side.
The powder stuck to several figures, mostly just small parts of them, but enough to give away their positions as Sumeragi smirked. "Gotcha." Sumeragi said with a smirk as he shot down the hallway, swinging his swords at anything the powder was sticking to, the loud groans and growls of the monsters, alongside the many fountains of blood coming from the limbs Sumeragi had ended up cutting off showed that whatever they were, they could be hurt.
"Got any more of that powder?" Garon asked as Kaze nodded, holding up two more bags as Garon nodded. "Hold onto them kid, we are going to need them." Garon said as Kaze nodded as Corrin stuck himself to Garon's leg in fear, Kaze standing beside Garon as he tried scanning the half of the hallway Sumeragi hadn't cut to ribbons as the swordmaster king of Hoshido came back, his blades covered in blood as he smiled.
"Thank the divine dragons for Saizo being a paranoid nutcase. Leaving his kid with all the tools a ninja would need… at age six." Sumeragi said as Garon flared at him. "Well hold onto your swords and that powder, because we're going to need it. Now let's move." Garon said.
BGM: Justice RIP (Storm) - Fire Emblem Fates
The monsters roamed the halls of the opera house, trying to find their targets as Garon and Sumeragi led Kaze and Corrin through the opera house, trying to find a way out without dying.
"Quick hide." Sumeragi said, ducked around a corner with Corrin as Garon and Kaze did the same around another. "What is it?" Garon whispered. As he did Sumeragi pull out the pouch of powder he had, opening it as he nodded his head towards the hallways they were about to go through.
Nodding Garon watched as Sumeragi opened the pouch before tossing it down the hallway, the contents spilling out and flying all over the place as the powder stuck to multiple figures throughout the hallway as it flew from being thrown.
"I count fifty… great." Sumeragi muttered as he held Corrin close to him. "I can draw their focus to me, you take them out." Garon said back as Sumeragi nodded. Following that Garon stepped out into the hallway, the monsters that had the powder stuck to them already on the move towards him like a tide of water.
Garon had Bölverk in his hands. Swinging like mad and sending the monsters flying with each swing as Sumeragi ran out from behind his over, already swinging his swords quickly and efficiently.
Blood and powder splatted all throughout the opera house halls as the two kings kept their cool, both the children hiding behind Garon as he kept the monsters away from them, Sumeragi hacking and slashing his way through the hallway with deadly efficiency.
"Whatever these things are they don't seem to be that good at fighting, and they rely on their invisibility to do the work for them." Sumeragi said as Garon kept Corrin from seeing all the blood cover the hallway, which Kaze was, while a little squeamish, more than fine with seeing the blood. "That's not going to help considering the fact we only have so much powder and they clearly have more numbers then we do. You said there was fifty in this one hallway, what about the entire opera house." Garon said as he kept Corrin's face in his shoulder, patting him on the back to keep the poor kid calm.
"Shit…" Sumeragi muttered. "Ok new plan, we find the exit." Sumeragi said as Garon nodded. "While that's smart, these things seem to have a target… us. So at best they are likely guarding the exit." Garon said as Kaze took the moment to speak up. "I know how we could get out without them knowing." Kaze whispered as Sumeragi and Garon looked down at him. "How?" Sumeragi asked as Kaze pointed up.
"There was a window on the third floor I came in through, it was the only one that I could find." Kaze said as Sumeragi stared at him. "I'm not even going to ask how a six year old climbed three stories into a window, but we have our exit… and we are on the first floor." Sumeragi said, annoyed as Garon nodded.
"Well then, let's get started." Garon said as the duo began trying to find the stairs to the next floor, Kaze staying close to Sumeragi and Garon held Corrin up to his robe to keep him from seeing all the blood.
Little did either of them know, one of them would not be able to survive the night.
(Stage Clear)
AN: Okay I'm already going to say that I'm sorry, but the Sumeragi arc is not going to be extremely long. It's one of those action packed things, and it literally takes place over the course of one night, count it, one night. Each floor that these two tackle is its own chapter, alongside Sumeragi's… you know what… and the aftermath chapter. So sadly, no ten thousand word chapters, or heck at best 5000 words. But this isn't something I can just extend on and on, there is one focus in this arc, and one goal. Escape.
And is it just me or does everything bad start at the dam opera house.