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Skellige.
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"Tell me, what's wrong with her?" Madara asked in a serious tone, staring at Mousesack as he used spells to make a diagnosis on Ciri.
She was lying on a bed that Madara had pulled out from a scroll, in the druid's laboratory — she had fainted in the middle of the sea when they were exploring that ship. When she felt pain and lost consciousness, Madara quickly pulled her out of the water, bringing her to the castle.
Even on the way there, he performed mouth-to-mouth to expel the water she had swallowed as soon as she fainted. Though Madara had pressed his lips to hers so she could breathe the air bubble he still held in his mouth, he also used his healing technique directly on her stomach. He didn't cure her of any problem, because it seemed more complicated than a simple wound or illness.
"I... don't know. I believed there wouldn't be any problem," he said with a tone of regret before turning his attention back to Madara with a sorrowful look. "The life inside her... as a mother, is connected to the baby. The fetus is releasing small amounts of the energy you manipulate — the chakra — into her. Her body isn't reacting well to it," Mousesack said.
Madara clenched his teeth. There should be few things capable of shaking him, and this was clearly one of them. Ciri's and the child's lives were in great danger.
Ciri seemed to feel even more discomfort. With her eyes closed, she writhed, and Madara placed his hand on her belly, which glowed as he tried to ease her pain. She only grew calm when Madara used his healing.
At that moment, the door burst open. Yennefer entered along with Triss. They stepped into the laboratory with heavy footsteps.
"Tell me what happened to her!" Yennefer exclaimed, after Madara had sent a clone to warn them.
"It's the baby. Ciri's body is having trouble receiving the energy that Madara possesses. Their child also has it, having inherited it from the father, and our bodies, which don't manipulate chakra, can't adapt so easily," Mousesack said.
"Is she in danger?" Triss asked, urgent and worried.
"I'm afraid so," Mousesack said sadly.
"No! That can't be possible!" Yennefer immediately denied, approaching the young woman beside Madara as she touched her forehead. "No... no, she's going to die..."
"We'll find a solution," Madara said, his mind filled with countless thoughts, searching for one.
"We'll think of some way... but if it's not possible, we'll have to..." Mousesack couldn't even finish, for everyone already knew what his words would lead to.
It would mean aborting the baby, which meant Ciri could never be a mother.
"No," Madara said in a serious tone that echoed through the laboratory. Even though he hadn't intended to have a baby at this moment, he still spoke firmly. His child would not be aborted.
Yennefer looked at him with pity, but Madara shook his head. And there was something more to it than that.
"Ciri would rather die than abort our child. We'll find a solution. It's not like we haven't been looking already, is it? We have many ways to reverse this," Madara scoffed, still holding a hint of anger.
They would need to find a way out of that situation. Besides, if she had Elder Blood, she should be able to adapt more easily to the environment. The chakra couldn't be the same either — her body couldn't simply destroy it.
Aborting the baby wasn't an option.
It was then that Madara noticed the girl's eyelids trembling. He remained in place, healing her with green chakra, seeing that she was beginning to awaken.
Her eyes were weak; she seemed barely able to keep them open. Her gaze went straight to Madara, ignoring all the worried looks from the others, as she raised her hand with difficulty and touched his arm, which was still pressing her belly with the Mokuton healing jutsu.
"Madara... don't let them abort the baby," she said with difficulty. She had been hearing them... and with those words, the entire room fell completely silent.
"I can endure it... don't let them take our child. I can carry the whole pregnancy, I know I can," she said with effort, while Madara's eyes widened in shock upon hearing her. He clenched his teeth, consumed by an intense rage — something he rarely allowed himself to feel.
"Of course not, Ciri. They won't take the child, and you're not going to die either. We'll get through this, like we always do. Together," he said, making her give a faint smile before fainting once more.
Everyone fell silent. The only sound was the soft hum of Madara's green chakra over Ciri's belly.
No one could question the love Ciri already felt for the tiny fetus growing in her womb — to the point that she would rather endure the pain and die at the end of the pregnancy than lose it. Even though the fetus was still developing, Ciri already loved her child more than her own life.
"It's best to warn the others about Ciri's condition. I'll leave a clone here and check something myself," Madara said, creating a wooden clone that remained by Ciri's side, once again using the healing jutsu, while the original walked to the laboratory window, opened it, and vanished, leaping from the castle.
The place was still drowned in a sorrowful silence. Yennefer, Triss, and Mousesack seemed somewhat frozen after hearing Ciri.
Yennefer blinked, sighing nervously with a touch of despair. "I'll warn Geralt," she said, leaving the laboratory as Madara returned to the city.
He jumped from rooftop to rooftop until he reached a corner of the city, landing urgently. He noticed the place was crowded with people — not caring that they had seen him fall from more than ten meters high.
He landed in front of the place where the woman who had made the prophecy a few hours earlier should have been. However, she was nowhere to be found. Instead, a crowd had gathered there, and although some looked frightened after seeing Madara fall from the sky, most kept their gaze fixed ahead.
Madara moved forward, pushing through the people, not caring about the murmurs regarding his rudeness. When he reached the center of the crowd, he was met with a disturbing sight: the woman who had made the prophecy for them was lying on the ground, her body stiff, her face pale, and her body covered in blood — she was dead.
"What happened here?" Madara asked in a serious tone, making everyone turn toward him.
A man who was examining the body stared at him for a few seconds before replying, "No one knows exactly what happened. She was sitting as usual, then suddenly started convulsing... bled to death. And the blood still hasn't stopped flowing," he said, making Madara narrow his eyes.
What was happening here? This was far too much of a coincidence.
He immediately leapt away, ignoring the screams and gasps caused by his sudden movement, and landed on the nearest rooftop, staring down at the city. Something very dangerous was here.
'Beware the tongue of the demon...' — those words echoed in his mind as his eyes scanned the horizon.
Then he saw something that caught his attention: a man in yellow robes, bald-headed, entering one of the warehouses at the port. His eyes narrowed, and the Sharingan — and his fury — activated on their own, without him even realizing. He was angry.
Immediately, Madara jumped, moving swiftly toward the place as the warehouse door began to close.
It was him. He's here. And Madara was getting closer to that warehouse.
Meanwhile, back inside the castle, the servants were walking through the corridors when they heard a loud bang on one of the doors upstairs, startling them.
"What was that?" asked a guard, moving toward the woman who had screamed beside the door right after the bang.
Another strike followed, even louder, making the wood vibrate.
"What is that?" the woman repeated, dazed, while the guard frowned.
"I don't know, but we'd better find out," he said, approaching the lock slowly. He tried to open it, but it was locked.
Another loud bang.
"That's the princess's and Lord Madara's room," he said, alarmed.
"Don't they have that unicorn in there?" the woman murmured, right before another blow made the door creak.
None of them yet knew about the princess's condition... The guard began to speak, confused, when another strike echoed even stronger than the last ones, the pounding growing more intense each time.
"I'm going to tell the king," the guard concluded, but before he could move away, a strange sound came from inside the room — as if some kind of magic was being charged.
The two exchanged glances. The guard's eyes widened — he grabbed the woman and pulled her away from the door. In the same instant, it exploded in light, throwing them both against the corridor wall with such force that parts of the thick wooden door shattered into pieces.
The guard stared, stunned, as the unicorn foal stepped out of the room, its hooves striking the floor with power. Its horn shone brightly.
"Hiiiii!" it neighed loudly, galloping down the castle corridors, ignoring the frightened looks of the humans around it.
The foal ran desperately, startling guards and servants as it searched for a way down through the castle. No one dared to stop it — the brightness of its horn was nearly blinding.
In Mousesack's laboratory.
Geralt's hands trembled as he checked on Ciri, having been summoned there by Yennefer. She stood beside Mousesack and Madara's clone, which still pressed the girl's stomach with green chakra and hadn't moved from its place for even a moment.
Triss had gone out to alert others.
Geralt looked at Ciri, his face twisted with worry.
"No... this can't be happening," he murmured, feeling a tight weight in his chest as he saw his little girl lying on the bed — breathing well, but only because Madara's healing kept her stable. The moment he stopped, she would struggle again.
"She'll be fine. And the baby too," Yennefer said, though her voice carried sorrow. "She'd rather die than lose it."
Geralt nodded slowly, unable to respond. He knew it was true — Ciri had said exactly that before.
A pounding at the laboratory door caught everyone's attention, echoing down the nearby corridors as if someone were trying to break it down. Mousesack grabbed his staff, narrowing his gaze. Moments later, they heard the door open.
"Hey, calm down. I could've opened it without you pounding like that," Triss's voice echoed, just as the sound of galloping filled the corridor. A foal came running toward them, taking everyone by surprise.
Madara stared at Eira, confused, as the animal neighed loudly, its gaze fixed on Ciri, still lying on the bed. "NIIIIIIIGH!"
"What are you doing here, Eira? Why did you come all the way here?" Madara asked.
"Niiiiih!" the foal replied, stomping its hooves firmly against the floor.
It knew. Somehow, it knew that Ciri was ill and in danger.
"Its horn... it's glowing," Mousesack remarked in surprise, while Triss joined them.
"I found it in the castle corridors, causing utter chaos. It came straight here," Triss explained. "It would've broken the door down if I hadn't opened it."
"Do you think it can help?" Madara asked, turning his attention to the small unicorn.
Geralt and the others watched in silence as the glow from the foal's horn intensified. It was bright — almost sacred. Madara understood what it meant — it wanted to help.
The unicorn lowered its head, and the horn began to radiate even more light, pointing directly at Ciri. Even the creature's eyes started to shine, filled with an ethereal hue.
Ciri's body also began to emit a similar glow — a fusion of pinkish, white, green, and bluish tones forming an aura around her.
Madara's clone, created with enough chakra to continue the treatment, activated the Sharingan, trying to study what was happening inside his wife's body.
He could see the baby's chakra — a small, vibrant blue flame within her — being drawn through a thread of energy into the mother's body via the umbilical cord. That thread was the problem: the chakra was flowing through the bond uncontrollably.
The truth was that Ciri had never been born with chakra. He didn't know how those ancient founders of the witcher schools had managed to acquire chakra on the other continent, but he was certain it wasn't something natural. The memories Madara had taken from the minds of shinobi during the war confirmed that. But in Ciri's case, as she received the energy from the baby growing inside her, it wasn't that she herself was gaining chakra — rather, she was being exposed to it, and that was the problem.
However, still observing with the Sharingan, whatever the foal was doing seemed to be working. Madara saw the chakra flow begin to stabilize. The current connecting the baby to Ciri became restricted, forming a kind of natural barrier that prevented the excess energy from flowing into the mother's body.
It seemed to have an effect. Ciri's body relaxed even more, and soon her eyes began to move beneath her closed eyelids. A moment later, she blinked slowly, revealing the emerald green of her eyes as she awakened.
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