A Change of Fates

Chapter 1: Overwhelming Sadness

The night streets of Liyue are a very lovely sight.

Especially at this time of year when the whole nation celebrated the yearly festival known as the lantern rite. A big event where people from all over the world would certainly not wanting to miss out.

The way the lanterns illuminate the pathways, people from middle aged couples to children still roaming around the streets despite in this time of night, and the sounds of them talking and laughing filling the air, dispelling what supposed to be silence is what made the night of this huge event's special.

It is the history behind it, the celebration eve that differs from one another between years, and just simply the bustling lively atmosphere, is what made this event lives rent free within each and every one of the people of Liyue's heart. What makes them always hoping to continue to live on to see another Lantern Rite next year.

However, in the heart of a certain Traveler, one that hails from an entirely different world. Such event has a different meaning for her.

Her name is Lumine, and she is the world's famous Traveler, known for the huge impact she'd left behind across the four nations. The Honorary Knight of Mondstadt, the Hero of Liyue, abolisher of the Vision Hunt Decreee, and the redeemer of the Sumeru Akedimiya, were amongst the many titles she had gained throughout her adventures.

But, putting all of that aside, Lumine is just an ordinary traveler, she does not belong to this world, nor does she have any desire to be part of it, all that she desired are one thing, to find and reunite with her long lost brother, who is somewhere out there, waiting for her to come.

Or at least that's what she used to think of herself.

It's been three years since she first started her journey, and a lot of things she have witnessed throughout the time, and the more she witness and learned, the more she began to understand the driving force behind the reason why her dear brother chose to stray away from the path that the twins used to always walk together, hand in hand, never letting go.

There are simply some things that cannot be left alone in this world.

That was her conclusion. Supported with the fact that some of those things can only be solved by an Outlander like her, a being whose fates were not bound by the laws of this world, but rather, it was the laws of Tevyat that works around her. That was what a certain friend of her have said before.

Being able to control multiple elements at once without the need of a Vision is one thing. But to be able to calm down the Dragon of the East, resealing back the Overlord of the Storm, and best the Raiden Shogun in a duel, it was those achievements that made her special, what made her look like something that this world might need the most.

And even if those above doesn't matter to her, then perhaps it's the people of this world that she have met in this world is what matters to her. All of her friends and companions, from the little pixie Paimon who has been with her since the very beginning, to the people of both low and high status across the nations, and even the ruling gods of those nations. Their companionship are one of important things she come across to during her travels, it was all thanks to them that she could get this far. And the more closer she gets with them, the more temptations start to plague her heart. Perhaps staying in this world wouldn't be so bad after all. Maybe after found Aether and finish things up, the twins can finally settle down and mark this one as their new home, a replacement for the one they've lost many many years ago.