Dawn's Destiny

A Standing Home Remains ~ Chapter 36

"Well there's some news with the mansion, the place is still intact but as for the interior that's a different story," Weather Bot explained. The heroes looked at one another with worry but embraced themselves for the worst. They slowly walked into the mansion and saw the disaster that was inside.

Byleth asked, "How did people even get inside?! We locked every single door within this house?!" He looked at the bloodstains on the door and some of the other stuff on the ground. Most of it was covered in blood and other times, it was just plain on dirty from the shoes.

"That's just the thing, they broke through the windows and locked and picked the doors. Apparently, through some citizens that weren't infected; they wanted to kill you guys," Weather Bot explained. The heroes' faces were filled with horror. It was to be expected from their new world but...

Albedo asked, "The people we used to call our friends wanted to kill us!? The citizens really attempted to do that?" Weather Bot nodded as they continued rolling around inside the home.

Weather Bot explained, "Slight Trigger warning; there's a couple of corpses in the basement." Marianne gasped in disbelief as Chrom looked in absolute shock.

"THE BASEMENT?!" Chrom dashed downstairs and looked around. Most of the corpses were rotted but it was sending out an atrocious aroma. "Oh gods this is disgusting..."

Link mocked, "Doesn't fit your standards hm?"

"AT LEAST THAT ONE WAS FRESH!?" The two giggled and soon the other heroes walked downstairs to the utterly horrendous aroma. Some of them nearly gagged at how awful it was. Others tried to fight through the absolute horrible smell.

Marianne groaned, "I'm going to be sick..." She walked back upstairs and then went to look within the rooms. However, those ones were locked. Weather Bot hopped up the stairs and unlocked the doors for Marianne.

"You and Shez are the new recruits hm? Glad to meet you! My name is Weather Bot! I usually give weather reports but I can help with many other things!" Weather Bot announced. Marianne smiled and entered Kirby's room. The room was absolutely clean and there wasn't a sign of disaster within it.

Marianne asked, "Are all the rooms cleaned? Zhongli, Chrom, and Byleth need to change clothing as they have goo on them." Weather Bot unlocked all the doors and checked around each room.

"Seems like it, the restroom is also clean. But the problem is the water..." Weather Bot announced. Marianne walked in and turned on the faucet. Weather Bot rolled over and took some measurements from the water. "Oh, the PH scale is a 7 which means the water is safe to drink and bathe in!"

Marianne replied with a smile, "That's good to hear Weather Bot." Weather Bot nodded and hopped down the stairs. The heroes were cleaning out the corpses from within the basement. Marianne came down the stairs and walked up to Chrom, Byleth and Zhongli.

"So our rooms are left untouched?"

"Yep, that's what Weather Bot said,"

"Good to hear, we'll get changed then," Marianne nodded and helped everyone else clean up the mess. Weather Bot came rolling by and brought everyone some fresh baked sweets.

Hajime laughed, "I never thought Weather Bot was capable of so many things." He smiled down at the robot as Weather Bot smiled back at him. Strolling away after smiling toward Hajime.

"Well he's usually just for the weather for the citizens, but they do a lot of things for us," Albedo explained. The heroes nodded and continued bleaching off the blood stains on the carpet.

Shez groaned, "I can't believe how long these corpses have rotted here. Whatever, we just need to get this atrocious aroma out of the air and get changed. I'm sure several of us are in need of a shower."

"Haha, true that! After all we were in limbo for a year and a good amount of time in there could've been something that could've happened in the process," Kirby giggled. The heroes nodded as they finally got the bloodstains off the carpet.

Agent 4 sighed, "There it's all off now. We can go ahead and get changed now." The heroes nodded and put their cleaning supplies away while cleaning them as well. Then eventually each of them were able to refresh themselves after some time. It felt like a normal day yet... it wasn't.

Well, all that mattered to them was that their home still stood and that they were able to finally have a small breather before the next events to come. Even then, it was just nice to finally be back home. Despite everything, home was still home...

Yae Miko sighed, "I feel like so many things managed to happen without us being able to do much about it..." some of the heroes nodded slowly as Elfilin looked down at Yae Miko.

"I'm certain we're going to do it! Trust me when I say that we're going to get through these rough times! Now hurry up and get cleaned!" Elfilin ordered. Yae Miko nodded as she walked upstairs to her room. Elfilin took a deep breath and sat down on the couch.