Daydreaming Dragon
Cast: (Kana & Nina)
Prompt: Nina and her brother Kana get ambushed, Nina turns into a dragon after Kana gets hurt

This was bad, real bad.

"Kana, stay with me!" Nina shouted.

This wasn't supposed to happen. They were just going on routine patrol. But then they strayed a little further from camp than usual. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Nina thought to herself. I didn't tell him we shouldn't go out this far, now he's hurt! I should've stopped him!

They were surrounded by Faceless. Kana had turned into a dragon and fought off one that was about to strike Nina from behind. But in the process, Kana sustained a hit and reverted back to human form, weakened.

I'm losing it! What kind of thief- what kind of older sister- am I if my kid brother almost dies to cover me?!

"Go… get 'em… Nina…" Kana said weakly. Nina had no doubt that Kana would recover from this, but the real danger lied in whether or not they could even escape for that recovery to take place.

"Don't worry Kana, big sister's got this! I don't see any Faceless, just some corpses! Hah!" She boasted, but it was hollow. She had only hoped Kana would buy it.

"Rrraagh!" the beast gurgled as it was struck with an arrow. It usually took two arrows to finish the job, unless she was able to get a real good shot in. This was not one of those times. She fired again. "Rrrrraaaaaa!"

The Faceless fell, but the others mindlessly kept up the assault. Nina's breathing grew heavy as she reached into her quiver.

"No… No, I'm out?! Already?!"

No more arrows. And while they were technically not surrounded by Faceless anymore, there were still enough to easily catch up to potential fleers.

"We can't die here! We… we…"

She was out of things to say. The four remaining Faceless all stomped closer to Nina. Kana's eyes widened.

"Urgh! Nina, watch out!"

Nina's eyes dilated. The Faceless pounced.

"NINA!"

"RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

A dragon, one much like Corrin and Kana, had emerged in the spot where Nina once stood. Its roar knocked away the Faceless.

Kana watched in awe as the dragon that was once his sister slammed its tail repeatedly against the Faceless. She had gone berserk, wailing on the Faceless repeatedly.

"Wooooow! Nina, that was so cool!"

Nina merely roared and slapped her tail into a tree, knocking it over. She went back to attacking the Faceless, but they had already died.

Kana winced. "Oh no… What if this is her first time turning into a dragon?" A gasp. "I remember now, she told me that she'd never been able to do it before! And… if Mama and I had trouble with our first time… Hold on, Nina! I'll help you!"

The dragon went back to pounding on the Faceless. Kana carefully snuck over and pulled his Dragonstone out of his pocket. He still hurt from before, but his sister needed him. With stone in hand, he hugged one of his sister's hind legs tightly.

"I don't know what I'm doing, but I hope it works, Nina!" The stone glowed and enveloped the whole area. "Aaah!"

When the light stopped, Kana was clinging to Nina's leg still, though she had regained her human form. The last thing Kana saw was Corrin and a few soldiers arriving.

When Kana regained his vision, he was in his own private quarters. His whole family was there- Papa and Nina were there with smiles on their faces. Mama was sitting in a chair holding Kana's hand. She was asleep.

"Well, well, well. Look at my son, taking one for the team. You really worried your mother and me, you know." Niles said. "I told her you just needed some rest, but… she insisted."

Kana frowned. "I'm sorry papa, I didn't mean to. I just thought… that if we patrolled further, we'd see more things and be more useful." Then it hit Kana. "Nina, are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah…" the girl blushed. "Don't worry about it. You're the one that got hurt!"

"Yeah, but you turned into a dragon for the first time! That didn't hurt you or anything did it?"

Niles' eye turned to Nina. "You did what?"

Nina blushed harder. "I… hadn't actually told them yet, Kana… sort of waiting for the right time."

"Oops…"

But Niles just grinned. "Well if my wife and my son can turn into weird deer-lizards, why not my daughter? Heh…"

"Dad, we're dragons, not lizards! Gods, you always have the weirdest way of describing everything!" Nina pouted. Niles chuckled, and it was infectious, his children soon joined in.

"Guess we have a special sibling power after all, huh Nina?"

Nina smiled.

"Yeah… I guess we do."

A/N:

As I wrote this one, I started to have more of an appreciation for Nina's character. When I write these drabbles, I usually look at all relevant character supports, to get a grasp of how they would talk to each other, and so on.

She might be a little awkward around boys, but Nina's actually pretty good to male Kana, siblings or not.

My only fear with this drabble is how we change from Nina's perspective to Kana's. I wonder if that could be seen as sloppy. In my defense, a rampaging dragon may not be the best perspective character.