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"We haven't seen each other since Garreg Mach. You've grown lovelier than ever, Edelgard" says Claude as he notches an arrow on Failnaught.
"You're not so Unfortunate yourself, and you have the aid of the professor, frankly, I'm jealous. Now is the chance for you and the professor to leave."
"I'm afraid I must decline, even if we left we would just have to come right back" Claude counters, aiming. However, before he gets the chance to shoot, both he and Edelgard are shrouded in a mystical green light. "What the hell is this?"
"Claude, if this is one of your schemes, stop it now and face me head-" before Edelgard can finish both she and Claude are warped away.
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In the distance, Dimitri is obliterating imperial troops in a desperate attempt at vengeance, "Edelgard, I will kill you!" He too, is cloaked in the green light, and is transported off, leaving behind a shocked and mortified Dedue.
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The three lords are warped to a space that looks a lot like the Holy Tomb, although much darker, somehow they got disarmed during the teleportation. "What the hell happened?" Claude asks.
"Don't ask me, if you weren't behind this though, who is?"
"Edelgard..." Dimitri says with venom. "I will kill you for all you have done. First you murder all of my family, my closest friends, then you send me into this weird space... It matters not, I don't need my lance to kill you!"
A voice from far off speaks, "That is enough you three..."
"Teach!?"
"Professor..?" Dimitri and Edelgard say in unison.
Clad in strange robes befitting a divine being, sat the former Golden Deer professor on the stone throne, the same throne that he once sat upon at the command of Archbishop Rhea. "I'm very disappointed in you three. Must you always attempt to kill one another? Always have to start this needless war no matter what I do? Do you have any idea how many lives I've lived? How many choices I've made that effected the fate of everyone around me? Just so i could find a path where everyone lives?"
"Teach, what are you saying?"
"What I am saying, Claude, is that I have the power of the Goddess slumbering within me. It is how I managed to pull you all here."
"But why?" Edelgard questions, "Shouldn't I be your enemy? Why do you care about me?"
"What part of I have lived many lives does your small brain not comprehend? It is not that hard to care for you three after all. You all are very dear to me.. One could even say I love you all with all of my heart. Because of this I will send you to a past life of mine, where you three will learn to get along, and live in harmony, where you will fight together to overcome deadly obstacles, that you may change your own fates and forge your ways to a new dawn, a dawn where three work as one, where I may finally smile knowing all three of my precious students live, where all three of you will be *mine*... Do not expect the path I am forcing you all to take will be an easy one, it will put you all through a lot of suffering... I will take joy in watching this, think of this as my own little vengeance for watching my favorite people die in so many other paths, or go missing.."
Just as the three were about to open their mouths to speak Byleth speaks once more, "With that, I now send you off. I will check on you all frequently, as well as monitor you all to make sure you don't kill eachother while in this other world" He says that while looking at Edelgard and Dimitri, with that said he waves his hand, and the three are shrouded in the mysterious green light once more and are sent off to the world where they will strengthen their bonds and forge a new fate for the three of them..