Three Houses Saga: White Clouds

Welcome to Garreg Mach

Byleth's POV

"You'll die!" the bandit leader yells before bringing his axe down and into my spine, yet when I opened my eyes I find myself once again with the small girl from my dreams.

"Honestly! What are you accomplishing with that little stunt?! It's like you're trying to get me killed you fool!" she says complaining about my sacrifice. She sighs before she offers her guidance to me and finally reveals her identity.

"You can call me Sothis, but I'm also known as 'The Beginning'." She thinks for a few seconds about how she couldn't remember her name until now. After being insulted that I thought of her as a child, she judged me for throwing my life (and her life?) away by trying to save those two girls. I thank her for managing to stop the flow of time before I could perish and ask if she could turn back the hands of time to before I could be killed. She can, not by too far, but enough to save me at least.

"Now go... Yes, you who bears the flames within. Drift through the flow of time to find the answers that you seek..." she says before reversing time to when the bandit leader started charging towards Saki and the other girl.

"You'll die!" he repeats before I run in and knock him off his feet, his axe landing in front of his men.

"Hey—over here!" The young man with the small yellow cape yells before him and the others arrive with him.

"I could have handled him, but wow, you sent him flying!" proclaims Saki right behind me. A group of knights led by a mustachioed man in armor suddenly appear and start chasing the thieves out of the village.

"Oof, it's over..." Lily says tiredly while the aforementioned mustachioed man runs up to my father with genuine surprise.

"Captain Jeralt?! It is you! Goodness, it's been ages. Don't you recognize me? It's Alois! Your old right-hand man!" speaking up with a smile on his face. Annoyed by his presence, "Captain" Jeralt bids him farewell before Alois insists that he comes back with him to the monastery.

"Garreg Mach Monastery... I suppose this was inevitable."

"Garreg Mach... Monastery?" Junko asks curiously.

Alois replies with "Wait, you haven't heard of it, then why don't you all come with me? You'll join me, won't you?"

"Even I wouldn't dare run from the Knights of Seiros..." my father says before following Alois, prompting me to follow him.

"The Knights of Seiros... They do seem rather skilled." I hear causing me to look around to see who it was.

"Are you feeling ill young Mr. Eisner? What did you hear?" Yugiri asks me before I hear the voice again.

"Ah. It seems your presence is required. Get going!", I then realize that the voice is that Sothis girl and start moving towards the three young individuals who arrived earlier. They start discussing with me about my father, then asks if I'm coming to the monastery as well, introducing themselves as Claude (tanned young man with the small yellow cape), Dimitri (the blonde who helped Sakura), and Edelgard (the young woman who I saved along with Saki).

"Oh I should mention that the three of us are students of the Officers Academy at Garreg Mach Monastery." Claude says before the other two start bickering with him, due to how he chose to "make a strategic retreat" causing the other two to follow him. All of those bandits chasing after the three of them... "What a strange plan" I thought when he explained himself. They then continued bickering about if they would be good rulers or not.

"In any case, forgive our digression. I must speak with you, if you can spare a moment." Dimitri says before complimenting my skills on the battlefield.