HELLO NAUGHTY CHILDREN

IT'S HURT TIME

Haha. No, honestly. This is old and it will hurt because grammar and I couldn't be bothered to spell check and also angst.

It has been so long since I've updated this fic, so sorry.

Love you~

"You are an ocean of waves, weaving a dream…"

Azura's voice grew minimal into the background, muffled by the sound of swords clashing in metal, fire balls and wind roaring as magic cackled in the air. Shouts and hooves sounding like heavy thumps in the battlefield as Elise made her way towards the injured.

"Healer!"

"Gotcha!"

Elise galloped near Keaton, healing the wolfkin with a mending spell before quickly pulling at her mare's reins, making her turn around and run back to her position. Keaton gave a hearty howl and a wicked smile before using his beaststone, his voice wavering between human tongue and growls.

"Thanks Elise!"

The Troubadour smiled, holding her silver staff with one hand and commanding her mount with the other. While fighting wasn't her forte and, in truth, was something she hated; healing and helping the injured was something she adored. She liked helping and make people get better. It made her happy.

"Gah!"

The blonde princess turned her head and grimaced, quickly galloping towards Hinata, who was clutching his arm as the Vallite soldier fell to the ground, dissipating as the wind howled.

She needed to be quick. Her staff's gemstone glowed a bright, pale blue as the young man's skin sewed itself shut. As soon as she saw the pink, new shiny scar over his arm, the princess took off, pigtails flying behind her as she looked back and forth for people who were in need of a Healer.

"Elise!"

The Nohrian girl tugged at the reins, her mare coming to a small halt before trotting towards a black haired woman. Corrin limped towards the Troubadour and grimaced slightly, her foot throbbing with any sort of movement.

"Elise, I need-"

"Corrin! Don't worry, you'll be as good as new!"

She held her staff high, muttering the spell as the gemstone glowed and her sister gave a sigh of relief that didn't lasted long.

"Elise, we're advancing towards the troop's general. Stay close to Arthur and Effie and keep your head down, Vallite reinforcements are coming any second now!"

"G-Got it!"

Takumi breathed through his nose softly, Fujin Yumi crackling with energy as he pulled his hand back and an arrow appeared out of thin air before swiftly flying around the battlefield, piercing the head of a Vallite knight and making him dissipate like vapor in the wind, his weapon lying uselessly on the now wet grass as he approached.

"These freaks are appearing out of nowhere…"

He could see Kaze from the corner of his eye, fending off a much smaller knight with Hinoka offering coverage with her naginata. Somewhere in the distance he could see prince Xander and his retainers fighting off a General.

Taking a deep breath, Takumi quickly scanned the field and moved to his next position. Corrin had assigned him the role of taking out any lumbering soldier from the distance, mostly reinforcements that slowly tumbled towards mounted units and nearby knights. Though thankfully, a well placed arrow often did the job of turning the monsters to nothing but droplets of water and rusty weaponry.

It was still unnerving, how the bodies simply dissipated to nothing after being defeated, leaving no corpse behind nor a trail of blood. Just...disappearing.

He sighs, pulling at his weapon's string and aiming. The arrow was embedded deeply into a soldier's head, cutting through the helmet and skull as if it were nothing. Takumi watched as the creature dissolved in thin air, leaving behind a sword as the only proof it ever existed.

"Advance! We're storming the fortress!"

Takumi could see the soldiers moving, and he quickly hid behind some rocks, standing guard for any stragglers as Corrin and the others moved ahead.

She knew there was something wrong as soon as she urged her mare forwards.

The air was thick, filled with the scent of decay and sickness that only a corpse could leave behind. Her friends were quick to leave towards the fortress, now that only a general and few Vallite forces were left for them to slay. It should be over soon.

"I hope they do okay…"

Elise sighed, an odd breeze hitting her face along with a sharp stab of pain, the feeling of blood trailing down her cheek startled her, and it took her a second to notice the hatched buried in the nearby ground.

A shadow fell above her, the pungent smell of death hitting her full force as her mare startled.

Elise gave a shrill scream, her mare standing on her back legs and kicking in panic. The Vallite knight, a mountain of what a long time ago used to be a man, towered over her with menace. She barely had time to gasp before she felt something warm and coppery hit her face at the same time her mare's whiny stopped.

She fell off, her leg bending in a unnatural way that made her scream in pain a she crawled away from the heavy body of her mouth, gagging at the sight before her. Her beloved mare was dead, decapitated by the soldier's axe in a swift movement, its head rolling a few feet away from her. The warm blood staining her face made her gag again, tears shining on the corner of her eyes as she crawled further away, ignoring the throbbing pain that shoot up from her leg, fear gripping at her and making her blood turn cold.

"No! No no no!"

In a hurry, the princess tried to get up, wobbling slightly and trying to run away, yet only limping and wincing as she tried to put weight in her injured leg. The undead soldier caught up to her quickly, and with a unnatural growl, he swung his axe down. Red stained the blade in a matter of seconds.

Takumi fired another arrow, rolling on his side and barely avoiding the javelin thrown at his way. The undead soldier fell limp after a second and dissipated from existence, making him breathe a sigh of relief.

However, said relief was cut short with a bloodcurdling scream. Takumi whipped his head around, hands going to his bow before he stopped, the scene away from him happening in a blink of an eye.

A soldier had snuck up on Elise. Her mount was beheaded with a swift movement of an axe and he had barely a second to breathe as the giant of a man advanced on a crying Elise.

"No! No no no!"

Then it happened. He wasn't quick enough, he wasn't close enough. But just as he pulled at his weapon's string, the undead man struck down his axe, and almost as if time stopped, he saw it.

The axe's edge cut through the Troubadour's dress and her metal plate around the abdomen, a thick line of blood spurted from the cut and to the weapon's sharp edge and the field's green grass. The petite girl's pleas were cut short at the same time she fell on her back, unmoving.

Something rang on Takumi's ears. A distant scream, soon followed by others echoed the battlefield. He barely took notice of the arrow impaling the murderous giant's neck, and it took him a second to notice that he had been running forwards the entire time, leaving Fujin Yumi behind in the field.

Color left his face as he kneeled next to Elise, time flowing like normal once again and the screams ran like a shot of thunder around them. He didn't had the time to wonder if one of the screams was coming from him, too busy checking on Elise's wound and almost crying in relief when she opened her eyes weakly.

The blonde girl gave a pitiful whimper, followed by tears and sobs of pain as she tried to bring her hands to her abdomen. She was covered in fresh blood and breathing hard, pain clear on her face as she looked at him, almost begging him to make the pain go away.

"HEALER!" The Hoshidan prince shouted, putting pressure on Elise's wound and looking around, he could barely catch a glimpse of a person in the distance. "We need a healer! NOW!"

Elise whimpered again, grasping Takumi's sleeves tightly and crying in pain as she did so. Her blood stained gloves leaving red patches on his clothes, but he couldn't care in the slightest. His own hands covered in warm blood- her blood- and it just kept going, kept flowing like a river down her body and onto the grass under them.

"Y-You're going to be okay, Elise." He stammered, trying his harder not to let his panic show in his voice. "S-Sakura is going to get here a-any second now with Azama and Jakob. Y-You're going to be fine."

She gave a shuddering breath, hands gripping even tighter as she stared at him through her tears. Her voice was barely a pitiful, soft whimper. "I-it hurts."

"I know." He mumbled, trying to keep a soothing tone of voice, yet his eyes darted wildly from the gaping wound to Elise's eyes. "I-I know. Just keep talking, alright? T-They'll get here any second now."

He wanted to say so many things; Why was she alone in the first place? Why did Corrin assigned her to just a place on the field instead of closer to her retainers? Why hadn't they trained her to use a weapon, any at all?

Why wasn't he fast enough?

A pair of arms shoved him to the side, it took him just a second to realize thatSakura and Jakob had arrived to the scene, both panting hard and Sakura almost in the verge of tears, yet muttering the incantation to the Sun Festal as quickly as she could.

"She has lost a lot of blood." Muttered Jakob, his own staff shining brightly as he looked over Elise's wound. "Prince Takumi, we need to remove her metal cover."

Acting almost in pure instinct, Takumi grabbed the metallic, sliced plate and pulled it apart through where the axe had broken it. Elise gasped in pain and gave a small, pain filled sob. He could barely make out stuttered, shocked apologies before Sakura's hand pulled away the cut part of Elise's dress and pressed her hand firmly on the damaged flesh, flinching when Elise gave a scream.

"I-It's taking a lot to heal." She mumbled in a panic, looking to Jakob for guidance. The butler gave a shaky breath at the same time his staff glowed a fierce green light. Elise gave a startled gasp, tears falling freely down her cheeks as the blood, thankfully, flowed much slower than before.

"I-I think it got her stomach, m-maybe an arter-"

"AAAH!"

The painful, bloodcurdling scream that came from Elise startled both Hoshidan siblings. Jakob barked an order to restrain her as she trashed around, sobbing and screaming as the blood stopping pooling under her. She looked deadly pale, even through all that blood staining her face.

"I...I-it h..urts…"

The Nohrian princess gave a small, barely audible sob before her eyes rolled back to the back of her skull. Her movement stopped immediately, all except the labored breathing she managed to do.

"E...Elise…?" Takumi muttered, feeling his heart drop and his mouth run dry. "N-No…"

"She passed out." Said Jakob, sweat rolling down his forehead as the gem on top of his staff cracked, no longer usable. "I had to mend an artery before working on anything else. Painful, but it stopped most of the bleeding."

"W-We need to take her to a safer place, quickly!" Began Sakura, her staff still shining, albeit softly, flickering off and on. "W-We need to repair the muscle a-and stomach and s-sew the skin shut. We can't risk an infection!"

Takumi nodded, gently, oh so gently, scooping the unconscious princess on his arms, barely managing a couple of steps before the flap of wings over them caught his attention. He stared at the wyvern as it got near them, landing in a hurry and giving soft, clicking sounds.

He only had half of a second to take in Camilla's wild, panic filled eyes before he made his way towards her. The eldest princess took her younger sister in her arms at the same time she motioned Sakura to ride the wyvern. The redheaded girl gave a shaky nod and quickly got behind Camilla, her staff still shining as the wyvern took off in the sky.

"She'll be okay."

Takumi nodded mutely, Elise's blood still staining his hands and sleeves. "She...She'll be okay." He mumbled back, stiffly going back to retake his weapon and running towards the battlefield.

"She'll be okay."