#blucina

 “I could really go for a drink,” Echo remarked, trekking in the hot sand. “If we don’t reach the boss of this level soon I don’t think I can refrain from spilling blood in front of you girls.”

“Well, it’s not exactly ideal, but all the nutrients an organism needs,” Delta said,”is condensed right in its kin. But Echo, you know, I know, and we all know that we need to stick together for survival and the last thing Blue wants is for us to dissect each other.”

“Umm, yeah, and don’t even think about lapping up your own pee,” Blue jumped in. “those mistakes of human beings who drink urine for “survival” obviously have too much free time on their hands.” She surveyed the wide desert environment, a few temnospondyl skeletons littered the sandscape. 

Charlie, the little velociraptor, was panting. “Are we there yet? I’m even happy to eat plants if it means getting some nice cool H2O.”

Blue cocked her head to look at her youngest sister. “Tell you what Charlie,” she said. “when we tackle down this baddie of this level, why don’t we all go bathe in Askr’s moat? The trout swimming there are quite delectable I have to say.”

“But I’m so thiiirsty,” Charlie whined. “even now, the last water molecules I have in my body are leaving me.” 

Lucina tapped her hand on the jungle-green raptor. “Now I might sound as convincing as say, Sole Survivor here but you’ve been a good girl Charlie.” She scrunched up her left arm, reveal bare flesh. “Here, if you have to , bite my arm and lap my blood.”

Blue’s eyes widened. “Future Witness, you do know that the moment my little sister chomps your arm, septic bacteria will flood your wound, right? There’s no medical help around here for miles.”

Lucina shrugged. “Sepsis or not, Charlie is in genuine need to rehydrate, and I want to do what I can to save everyone I love, including you.” The green-brown dinosaur sank her teeth into the Exalted princess’s bare arm. The navy girl flinched in response as  warm,dark crimson flowed from Charlie’s jaws.

The blue-striped velociraptor sighed. “I can’t change your choice of action, but if you collapse on the ground because you got an infection, remember that it was you who initiated it.” 

“No need to tell me,” the Exalted Princess replied maternally, Charlie suckling on her bloody arm.

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  Blue didn’t like her counterpart’s decision, but she had to respect it. As carnivorous animals didn’t exactly practice oral hygiene after their meals, flesh-eating bacteria more often than not inhabited their mouths and despite Lucina applying sand, pressure, and a tunic fashioned from her cape unto her wound after nursing Charlie, the navy-blue raptor knew damn well it was only a matter of time before infection set in and ate away at Lucina’s arm, eventually requiring amputation at best. They had to hurry and complete their mission.

 Unsurprisingly to Lucina prior to their departure, the Aberrant Forms were residing in the ruined castle in the former Halidon of Ylisse, which made traveling there a relative breeze. Aside from the occasional scampering compsognathus hopping about on some crumbling pillars, there wan’t really anything to impede the raptors’ mission to defeat the boss of this area. 

Well, at least anything that wasn’t heavily armored or bearing a sharp saber.

Blue and company were about to take a step toward’s Luci’s former residence and a woman in orchid mounting on top of a spiky turtle-like ankylosaurus met them at the entrance. 

“Howdy cutie babes!” the ankylosaurus greeted them enthusiastically, his eyes gleeming with endorphins. “It’s always nice when I get to see cute young women like you for these hard eyes!”

“Oh great, a wounded girl and four little lizards,” the white and pink woman remarked. “I ought to be killing my sisters and instead I’m stuck here with this pervy turtle and chopping up trespassers.”

Blue walked up to them. “Umm, hello. We’re here to see the boss of this level, and ideally, we would like to defeat them bore Future Witness here lands in critical condit-

WHOOOMP! A spike-laden tail ending in a hard club had just barely missed Blue as the charcoal blue-striped dromaeosaur leaped back. The ankylosaur was swinging his tail, stirring up a cloud of dust.

“Awww, do we really hav’ta go this route? I heard the world of Fire Emblem is full of hot voluptuous chicks and it’ll be such a disgrace if I smashed their frail bodies.” the chelonian-esque dinosaur commented, still thrashing his tail in confrontation.

“Grandpa Havoc, does it really matter whether we kill men or women?” The orchid woman sighed. “At the end of the day, anyone who stands in our way is just a walking juice-box with organs floating in it, gender or no gender.”

“Awww, but Zero, don’t ya think girls like you and those veloci-vixens make bloody anime and games more digestible? The viewers don’t want to experience a Chernobyl gas-leak 20 times a day.” the ankylosaur named Havoc protested.

On the other hand Blue and her sisters were at a standstill. The white woman named Zero could perhaps be taken out with the raptor swarming at her, but Havoc was proven to be a hard hurdle. Somewhere, deep within the fabric of their DNA, just like their ancestors knew 80 million years ago, Blue and her siblings knew ankylosaurs were the pinnacle of armored dinosaurs. A low-profile body enveloped with numerous osteoderms and spikes were already diffult to penetrate enough, then there is the delightful bit that fatal tail-club is more than blunt enough to break the leg bones of a tyrannosaur. Did I also mentioned that ankys’ heads were armored to the extent that even their eyelids took eye-protection to the extreme? The raptors could plan a surprise attack but they need to think hard, and fast-

“Okay Veloci-Volutuous-Vixens, since you’re at a lost here, I think I’m gonna make life easier for you gals and let you pass.” Havoc said.

Blue tilted her head. “...? Did I hear that just right?”

“Why yes, my dear dromeaosaurid theropod. You girls can proceed to the boss fight up ahead, on one condition.”

“And what would that be?” Delta asked.

Havoc smiled. “Why, since you gorgeous girls are in humanoid form, why don’t you unzip those pants and reveal them lacy bras to this tired anky here?”

“....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................are you fucking serious!?” the raptors exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

“I cannot say it is a lie. Even with rex blood pumped into a ya, no raptors can ever flip over an anyklosaurus like me, let alone the king of the dinosaurs. I’m just making things easier for y’all.” Grandpa Havoc eyed Lucina and her bandaged left arm. “and I think if she were to knock boots with my waifu Zero here, I think ya’ll and I struck a deal-OW!!”

Zero had jabbed her sword right in Havoc’s head out of annoyance. “If you’d like me to kill you for assuming I’m like my slutty sister Five, absolutely help yourself Havoc.” She hissed as she jumped off her comrade. As Havoc was trying her shake the erect sword off his head, Zero strided towards Luci and placed a small glowing blue orb in her hand. “W-what is this?” Lucina asked.

“Theorectically I can heal that fleshy boo-boo of your while bedding you child, but I am not a horny slut like Five, so I’m giving you this.” Zero said, not smiling. “this orb will prevent any infections to your body, at least in the moment.” 

“O-oh. Thank you.” Luci bowed her head.

“As for you lizards though,” Zero continued to the raptors. “it IS possible to crush that pervy turtle-lizard thing but you’d have to use spears or magic. In other words: better luck next time!”

Though Delta wouldn’t admit it, she got a very sensational, soft, and wet feeling from hearing Zero’s bold statement. She looked at her other siblings, Blue, Echo, and Charlie, as well as Lucina. “Alright, we’ll shed our outer layers,” The green-blue velociraptor commenced.

“You know Luci, you are so obsessed with saving your daddy you barely gave any thought as to how to actually kill me,” Basilice coldly remarked. “You might have easily blown off your ex-mommy’s upper head at this height, but you don’t have the wisdom to adapt your abilities to new foes!” Lowering her sinuous body, Basilice proceeded to dive straight down rapidly into the ocean below. Lucina was holding for dear life unto the Falchion, and Blue was no different with her talons.

PLOOOSH! An intense wave of frigid, solid cold swamped over the raptors as Basilice dove into the deep black abyss. The stratosphere was freezing, but the ocean was a different sensation altogether. Lucina and Blue were very glad indeed Ryukami had blessed them with water-magic before hand.

Still, we can only lose so much body heat before we enter hypothermia, Blue thought to herself, clawing her way to Basilice’s head. Lucina screwed in her Falchion even further, blood seeping out in a thin cloud in the dark water. It makes you wonder how these two girls are hanging on a massive boa’s underbelly in the deep blackness.

Lucina screwing and twisting her sword in Basilice’s belly as though you would a corkscrew and a wine bottle plus Blue clawing along the scales, a hard smack landed near Blue, nearly causing her to lose her grip.

“Hey! Focus your eyes on whom your’e hitting! Hit those two bitches, not me!” Basilice hissed at the figure that slapped her flanks. It didn’t take Blue very long to decipher what attacked her.

It was an edestus shark, a very unorthodox shark that had googling eye-stalks that moved independently from one another, scissor-like jaws with a single row of teeth on them, and a long, fleshy tongue for prey-grabbing. That gave Blue a very clever idea.

Quickly, she jumped unto the edestus’s body before it could shoot out its toungue, tugged at its eye-lids with her arms, and motorboated right to the location of Basilice’s head. Though it was damn cold and damn dark in the water, Blue could smell the ice-snake slithering in the water and rode the shark right to the snake’s left eye......

........and chomped downed on it after pulling out the edestus’s eye-stalks right out of its sockets. She then started to lacerate the surrounding tissue and scales around Basilice’s eye, who by now is thrashing about in a frenzied manner, darting in a hectic and  crazed manner. Meanwhile, Lucina was feel the jolts and spasms of the giant serpent, and to secure herself even further, she drilled her sword with all her might and tapped into Basilice’s bones, which she proceeded to break with a mighty tap.

It was pandemonium. Basilice couldn’t withstand the pain of a raptor eating away at her eye and a swordswoman drilling her blade right into her spinal cord. But what poor Basilice couldn’t realize in her pained state was the blind fact she was heading straight towards a neon-light skyscraper and unable to stop in time, she crashed through the building’s windows and out the other way. The ensuing chaos caused all the piscine residents to scream and panic, calling in the shark security. Shards of glass were piercing Basilice’s face, though the rest of her ice-covered body is, well....fine on the dorsal side of her sinuous bulk, though her icy armor had been shattered like the windows lying on the ground, sticking on Basilice’s head and surprisingly, Blue and Lucina weren’t scathed badly.

Continuing on with their fight, Blue tore up the ligaments connecting the snake’s jaws and Luci was slicing open the abdomen, intestines and ribs forming an evangelian tree of some sort as bystanders nearby were looking on with repulsed horror. Basilice was squirming and screaming in agonized pain, crying for help, though the fish on the streets were just too stunned and terrified to act. 

Unbeknownst to the duo, three familar figures were walking in their direction. A blue-and-pink male suddenly stopped in his tracks before dashing forward. 

“Lady Basilice!! What have they done to you! Oh, the pain these two beasts have caused you-”

SHLUP. Lucina had withdrew her bloody Falchion right out of Basilice’s body cavity and jabbed it right into Laba’s chest, the tip of the sword piercing right out of his back.

“You....Y-you h-heretics.....” Laba croaked out before falling unto the ground, his body quickly losing its luster.

Teba and Warbler looked at each other, as well as the barely-alive body of the icy-boa before them. Blue and Lucina were glaring back at them with cold, hostile eyes.

Teba sighed. “Warbler, if I had to choose between fighting a velociraptor or an Uchiha, these girls look somewhat nicer.”

“Yeah well, that bitch with those amber eyes ripped off my sexy frill! Ooooh, I’m gonna make her pay-!!”

The raptors were marching onwards to the north of Nifl, sometimes passing by some shrubs and frost-covered rocks. Just when Lucina thought things were getting rather monotonous, she saw something rustle out of the bushes. Blue took notice as well and saw what appeared to be a penguin-like bird with white spots on its face waddling in a panicked manner before a fox-squirrel thing pounced on it and tore apart its head from its socket, crimson blood and pieces of esophagus and vocal cord spilling out unto the snow and dying it red. Blue and Lucina were eyeing the fox-squirrel as it dug heavy mitten-like foreclaws into the bird’s torso and stringy pink intestines splooged out. Lucina decided to look away and went on her way. Blue paid no attention to the carnage after that as well.

“That was a Repenomamus devouring a Great Auk,” Blue explained. “The world where I from, InGen didn’t simply revived dinosaurs, they brought back Paleozoic and Cenozoic fauna as well. Although if I were you, I wouldn’t dare pet a reppy.”

“Why? Are they dangerous?” Lucina asked. Blue can easily tell right off the bat that humans like Lucina had a profound desire to prod and hold small,furry mammals.

“Oh yes. Reppies are one mammal you do NOT want to pet; despite looking like a Pomeranian with mole-claws, they WILL try to eviscerate you; for a mammal from the Mesozoic they are quite big enough to eat small dinosaurs.”

“Hmm? I assumed mammals evolved after the demise of the giant lizards.”

“Actually, they co-existed with the dinosaurs, though they were bit characters in a world dominated by reptiles bursting with presence and charisma. Repenomamus was the biggest furry during its time, but most of its kin were barely any bigger than an Amiibo figure.”

“And that penguin-looking bird?”

“Uh-huh. That great auk was NOT a penguin-it’s actually more closely related to puffins than to the famous diving birds south of the Equator. Although, it was the the only auk that converted its flight power to swimming power completely, and those damn humans wiped its existence off the face of the Earth.”

“You know quite a lot about animals before the dawn of man, don’t you?” Lucina commented.

“I’m a creature from before man myself, though I wouldn’t be too surprised if InGen resurrected species routed by humanity, like the dodo and the gastric mouth-brooding frog.” Blue replied.

“Come to think of it, isn’t it harder to clone a mammal than say, a reptile or a fish?”

“Yes, Henry Wu of InGen has cloned mammals occasionally, but found it quite tedious because mammalian red cells do not have nuclei, where the DNA are located. You would need to find white cells, which are much less common than their red counterparts in a ratio of 2 to 12.”

“Reptiles and birds, on the other hand, have nuclei within their red blood cells, and Henry Wu is a genius when it comes to manipulating DNA.” Blue explained, frowning.

“Who is this Henry Wu that you speak of ?”

“Why, as a human being, Dr.Henry Wu is a tacky SOB who creates red-eyed, mangled-toothed fatherfuckers and is considered a most dangerous man with the most dangerous technology in the sad history of humanity. He attempted to use my blood to create a line of Indoraptors to sell off for military purposes.”

Seems Wu sounds a LOT like that sperm-slurper Validar, Lucina grimly thought.

 The two of them chatted like this for the entirely of their walk until they reached Nifl Castle.

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 Blue and Lucina had arrived at the castle of Nifl, but they were no guards to greet them. Well they were guards present-but they were frozen solid, and clusters of repenomamuses were busily gnawing away at the frozen body cavities.

 I guess a species changes its behavior accordingly to the environment, Blue though as she and her partner pushed the gates open. They went inside the interior and up the stairs.

“Something tells me the weather outside isn’t the reason those soldiers were icicles,” Lucina said, walking behind Blue.”Would it be a bad idea to go into the kitchen wing and grab some potions for the upcoming boss fight?”

The charcoal velociraptor sniffed the solid,icy air. It stinged her nose. “I don’t see why not,” she answered. “though if you see some ANY creature, reppy or not, attacking you, don’t hesitate to knock their heads off.”

Blue waited at the second floor while Lucina brisky walked to the the kitchen downstairs. A few minutes later, she was back.

“Are you ready for certain? During the boss-fight there will be no pee-pee breaks, and no daddy in white shining armor with a shotgun and a motorbike crashing through the windows to save either of us. Understood?” Blue interviewed.

“No need for any of that,” Lucina replied. “Let’s get this over with. I feel as though my body is becoming a gelato cone.”

 “Good. If my nose knows, she is just around the corner. Follow me.” the raptors headed to the corridor on the right and came across a door that read “Hrid’s Room: Out for Lunch”. They entered.

“Ugh. That was the fifth time someone has stepped in without my consent,” an icy voice hissed. “Do any of you thin-telligent organisms register the concept of knocking?”

 A woman was lounging on an oblong bed spotted with various books. But not a regular woman. Her lower half was that of a boa’s, turquoise-green with purple stripes, and covered with icicles.Her hair-piece were icicles as well, and her Victorian-style corset colored electric blue and black made the entire “cool” effect perfect,considering her expressions suggested otherwise.

“What do you bipeds want?” The snake woman demanded. “Did you interrupt my inspirational reading just so you can become like those popsicles outside?”

“We just want to talk,” Lucina answered.

The snake snorted. “Don’t be honest with me, be honest with you. What you really came here for is my bloody limp body that you can use to nail onto this country’s gates like a crooked Christmas decoration. Is that it, O Exalted Princess?

“Why did you freeze the sun-god? Do you recognize the biblical effects the entire world will face?” Blue questioned, her face contorting in defense for her friend.

“Let me tell you this,” the Victorian boa began. “I am the future best-selling novelist Basilice, and I sincerely have no desire to kill you. But my mistress Sha’Rad Yuwi denied my request and forced to to sacrifice my writing skills for combative means. My writing may be on hold, but my mind is certainly not. Exalted Princess, have you ever actually considered the misery of your foes that killed them because you desired to make “everyone happy”?”

“.....You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs,” Lucina replied.

“ ‘I want everyone to be happy,’ ‘let’s end all suffering in the world,’ those are lines that make me want to vomit out the Niflites I ate yesterday. Those are the shallow,one-dimensional philosophies of idiotic eukaryotes who do not face reality.” Basilice sputtered out. “The light is full of lies, lies! People willingly bask in the glory of light so they never again have to experience the truth of the darkness below! Light is harmful, harmful! And not just the fact that overdosing on UV light promotes cancer on light skin. Do any of you bipeds know anything at all about plants other than the vascular system in high-school?”

“When plants grow, they break down soil to suit their roots for sufficient nutrient intake,” Blue raised her hand in reply.

“Precisely! Around 400 million years ago, during the Devonian period, mosses and ferns were starting to grow onto rocks near the coastlines, and inevitably, these early pioneers of the new world crumbled the rock into fine soil which washed out into the sea over thousand of years, and do you know what happened? Vertebrates started choking! Fishes here and there had no idea how to cope with this influx of mud particles from the land, their gills clogged with minerals. This, combined with volcanic eruptions, consumed all the available oxygen in the water and there were massive, massive, casualties everywhere! Because fishes and run-off from terrestrial photosynthesis do not go well together! This catastrophe makes your petty carnage across Jurassic Park and Fire Emblem look like a squabble between toddlers in comparison. And you little humans use the opportunity to view more serious issues as a excuse to lounge in your chairs eating chicken nuggets.”

“So I killed him! I killed that sick son of a bitch Helios because he’s a major liar, and I’m going to teach everyone that people deserve bad endings, everyone!” Basilice took out her Dragonstone. “And if you girls are truly good character down to the nRNA sequence, you might be spared and see everyone in the world smothered in the darkness that is free of any lies! No more pain, no more sadness!”

 Teba took back the wine bottle from Warbler’s hands and placed it back in his garments. “t’would appear that no matter what era they’re in, children are very rash and impulsive.” He unfastened the pair of katana blades hung on his waist and striked them at the raptors.

Well, almost anyway. Lucina blocked the katanas with her Falchion sword with a klink! “I guess words just won’t cut it,” she muttered. “Whoever said that the pen is mightier than the sword is a giant, obese, liar.”

“Good, because I’m starting to feel a tad-little blood-thirsty,” Blue said. She and her sisters held up aqua-blue pebbles with ouroboro-fossils on them and they immediately morphed into their six-foot tall lizard forms.

Likewise, Warbler took out a similar stone, and she too transformed. But she didn’t turn into a Velociraptor nublarensis, oh no. Rather, Warbler morphed into an eight-foot all dinosaur, white and purple. She had purple V-shaped crests on her beak-like snout and similarly hued quills and spots on her tail and neck.

And indeed, Warbler puffed out her neck revealing an expansive frill ornated with purple and blood-warning patterns. Patterns that Lucina knew all two well since she was sixty days old.

“You....GGGGGRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMAAA~!!!!” The blue raptor(not Sole-Survivor, mind you.) had totally lost her head. “I’m going to send you back to the Permo-Triassic Extinction Event 3.5 billion times if necessary!”

KLINK! Teba had blocked Lucina’s sword attacks again but this time he wasn’t holding his weapons in his hands. They were spinning in a shield-like circle, held in place by special electro-magnetic fields produced by the samurai.

“Listen,” Teba calmly reprimanded Lucina. “I don’t particularly like hurting children; in fact, I am one to protect children. And out of all these raptors I’m facing off against, you are the most youngest and the most rash.”

“Yeah, Luci-Loosey,” Warbler taunted in a harsh sing-song tone. “You got to loose up! Kehahah! Get it, loose up? Because no matter how many times you try, your stupid family always die! KAHAHAHAHAAH!!”

More sword-on sword fighting. The other raptors were watching closely, but they would’t dare get any closer to Teba’s shīrudo-gatana lest they got blended up up like a fruit smoothie.

“This is for Chrom and Emmeryn, bastard!” Lucina eventually smashed through Teba’s defense-move and was about to chop him up into sashimi and something wet and hot smacked against her eyes, and before she knew it, an immense burning pain had coursed through her central nervous system and Lucina collasped on the floor, Falchion and all, wriggling in screaming agony from what feels like searing knives slicing her brain and eyes.

“KEHAHAHAAHAHAHAH~!! What’s wrong, Future Witness? I thought you said you were going to kill me!?” The raptors wasted no time rushing to their comrade’s aide. "Oh yes, of course! I’m a dilophosaur, and dilos puke out a painful neurotoxin that blinds the eye and numbs the muscle! Don’t worry, I’ll end you and your bloodline’s pain!”

Dismayed that his swords were shattered by the couch-shredder that was Luci’s Falchion, Teba took out an aqua-blue stone from his kimono. Shaking and holding the stone, he had morphed into what appeared to be a deep-red salamander the size of an alligator, the snout black with an iridescent-blue chin. His dorsal fin was not unlike that of a lionfish, and the limbs were not-quite legs but not traditional fins either(think of the limbs of a Queensland Lungfish). They were a marvelous light-blue color and so was his caudal fin, embellished even further with red outlines and an eye-spot. As lavish his form was, Teba reluctantly transformed into this state due to the fact that though he can breathe atmospheric air, terrestrial locomotion was a massive pain in the ass, slithering deliberately and dragging the belly with stubby limbs that didn’t had fingers. 

At least I’m quipped with sharp piercing spines and predatory teeth, Teba thought to himself as the reptilian birds of prey leaped on to him and Warber. Echo just narrowly missed the dorsal spines and bit down unto the amphibian’s flanks, which as starting to tear, albeit with great tediousness from the ganoid scales enveloping Teba’s body. Delta had landed to the opposite side and attempted to rip off Teba’s right forelimb. The salamnder tried to turn his head to bite unto Delta, but the light-green raptor quickly jabbed her claws into the tetrapod’s gills, a waterfall of dark blood pouring out like some dead Kool-Aid Man. Teba had gagged and sputtered and soon, he passed out.

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Blue and Charlie faced Warbler. The purple-white dilophosaur had tried spitting her venom at the two raptors, but they were too quick and the dark goo simply flew straight out the window(and unto Byleth’s eyes below) or smacked right into a portrait of the late King Gustav. Blue landed just beneath Warbler’s neck, grabbed her frill, and started to pull. Charlie landed on the dilo’s back, and sank her sickle-talons and teeth into her flesh, the entire sensation of ripping flesh too much for Warbler to bear. 

And things just keep getting better. Noticing the Midnight Merlot bottle containing the embryos on its side next to Teba’s unconscious body, Delta picked the bottle up and thrust it into Warbler’s mouth.

“-!AHP-AH uh ooi-!?” Warbler gibbered. And with Charlie noticing the grand opportunity-

KLINSHHH~!!! 

She closed Warbler’s beak onto the glass, the bottle shattering apart alongside the embryos and coolant gas seeped out in a thick, ghostly smoke as Warbler’s beak started to frostbite.

“B-Bitches...” The dilophosaur glared at the raptors now menacingly, “bitches like you deserve to have their stomachs pumped full of  Duma’s semen! You just murdered 12 babies of 12 Heroes!”

“That’s the worse joke I’ve ever heard in my life,” Blue said, tightly pulling at Warbler’s frill now. “Isn’t that coming from a someone who just ate a newborn like BBQ bacon-burger dipped in wine?”

With that line, there was loud SHHRRRIIIP! as the non-Lucina raptor tore off Warbler’s frill and thick gushes of dark crimson had flowed out, Warbler collapsed on the ground, and much like her fell comrade Teba, sputtered and gagged before spewing out a sweet-smelling pool of digested meat, cartilage, and oozy organs from her stomach. 

Blue walked over to a heavily panting Lucina. “C’mon, Future Witness, let’s patch you up and flush that disgustingly foul-venom from your eyes.” She picked her up bridal-style and that’s when she and her sisters noticed that they were surrounded by Heroes who were groggy and stirred from the boss fight earlier.

Horn Skuld and Chrom were one of them.

                                               ~~~~~~

 When Blue was first summoned to Askr, she had very little comprehension of the humans and creatures that lived there. Upon seeing the huge wyverns that soldiers rode on and the gigantic, terrestrial leafy sea-dragons that spewed out liquid flames and electrical shocks out of their throats, Blue felt lost, truly lost.    It  was like being a small child wandering around a mall, she thought. As a pack animal, Blue was for a while edgy and anxious. The leafy sea-dragons and giant fluff-doves that flew around the place attempted the comfort the lone raptor, and their efforts were rewarded with slash wounds and bite marks all over their bodies. It wasn’t until after a certain sky-blue songstress calmed the raptor’s nerves down did she analyzed over and over that no one inside the castle was really a threat. Hell, when Blue met the fluff-doves and sea-dragons she nearly assumed that bastard Dr. Henry Wu had set up base in this place, raping the fabric of DNA and mutating dinosaurs here and there.

 The next time I see that ass-hat geneticist, I’ll rip his intestines out, Blue muttered to herself, grimacing at the memory of a white, red-eyed, mangled-tooth father-f*cker and being locked up in a cage underneath Lockwood Manor.

 Then as if to heed her cry, another raptor appeared in Blue’s vicinity. The other raptor appeared somewhat normal, save for a tear-drop pupil in her right-eye and the lack of a balancing tail  parallel to the ground. Blue later came to know that this other dinosaur went by the name Lucina.

 And Lucina was indeed the pack member that Blue longed for, to fill in the void left by the untimely deaths of her sisters.It was Lucina that bonded with Blue to ease her anxiety and to guider her way through a strange and unfamiliar world where dinosaurs, witches, and knights reign supreme.

                                              ~~~~~~

 She was finishing off the rest of her gelato. “Say, Sole Survivor,” Lucina asked. “You know how rumors have an odd way of becoming true?”

“What of it, Future Witness? Rumors can’t be true unless they have solid evidence to back them up.”

“Hear me out, for this might have to do with you,” Lucina looked around to be certain no one was eavesdropping. “There have been reports of a group of lizards popping up here and there”

Blue nearly burst out her goat meat from laughter. “Lizards you say? There’s about 6,000 species of lizards in the world. Of course there’s going to be the scurrying lizard here and there, everywhere.”

“I’m not talking about those tiny fly-eaters from dart from bush to bush,” Lucina corrected. “I was more referring to giant lizards, standing on their hind legs and balancing on stiff tails, kind of like you.”

Blue perked up.

“And from the news bulletin, there was a quite disturbing case in which a eight-foot saurian with purple V-shaped crests has entered the castle’s nursery and ate a newborn infant.”

 “Do you mean to say that my kind are infamous for eating babies? I mean, eggs are yummy, but I don’t think I can bring myself to devour an actual child.”

“Not to mention the fact that local villagers and farmers are complaining to Queen Henriette on how a trio of green-brown lizards have been eating crops of kale and agama beans, as well as chickens.”

Blue eyed Lucina intensely, feeling she already knew the answer. “How big were those lizards?”

 Lucina shrugged. “Well, from the descriptions given by the farmers, they are about your height, six-feet tall, long stiff tails, and long pointed snouts, not unlike that of wyverns-”

 Blue stood up. Having finished her meal, she left hurriedly to the castle-gates. “I do not know if dreams actually do come true, but something tells me it might be the case.”