I went looking for D.Gray-man opening 3 on youtube earlier and couldn't find any versions that weren't covers or weird filters. I'm assuming someone got fussy about copyright and had all the good uploads taken down, so I figured I'd put this up for anyone that wants a decent copy of it on hand.
A conversation between Prince Kiriona Gaia and an Enforcer-turned-bodyguard.
Hello, welcome to my crossover crack ship that needed so much context that I broke my pattern of writing exclusively drabbles and double drabbles for Femslash February.
Also on AO3.
CW: background character death
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It was rare that Kiriona talked to the people on the planets that the Cohort was conquering, but this world that called itself Runeterra was different. There had already been other species here when humanity landed, and it had changed the humans who had tried to colonize it. They had magic, and they could possibly win the war against the Resurrection Beasts.
The woman Kiriona was sitting on a bench with wasn't anyone majorly important. She was not a mage, though she did have magic gauntlets. The man who had made them was no longer alive, and so far, Piltover hadn't been able to replicate his work. His body had disappeared, so neither the necromancers of the Nine Houses nor Runeterra's mages could pry the secret out of him. For now, Kiriona's chance of getting a sword like the gauntlets was zilch. It was probably for the best, because she was torn between a cavalier's rapier and a new two-hander, one that Harrow hadn't ruined the metal of and her mom hadn't ever been inside of.
"I didn't actually want to join the Enforcers at first," Vi said suddenly. "They killed my parents, but then I didn't have anyone left except for Cait, because my sister didn't want me anymore. And she was the head of the Enforcers. But then she died, too, in the battle against Noxus. Sword through the eye and into her brain."
Kiriona winced in sympathy. Death by stabbing wasn't fun, though at least that sounded a little faster than a fence.
"So now I have no one. Zaun sees me as a traitor for both being an Enforcer and that time I spent in the commune, one of the few people who made it out without becoming a puppet. Even when Piltover looks past the fact that I'm from the Undercity and grew up in Stillwater, I'll never escape the fact that Jinx was my sister. Not that I want to most days. So I joined up to meet the offworlders as a guard for the Piltovian delegate. Sorry, I'm rambling."
"No, I get it," Kiriona said. "I didn't grow up knowing I'm the daughter of the Emporer. The Ninth is the most backwater planet in the system, and it wasn't a good place to grow up. I used to have a different name. A Niner name. There's a reason why I didn't keep it."
Kiriona took a breath she didn't actually need to steady herself. "And I didn't want to join the Cohort. Well, I did growing up, because it would've gotten me out, but then I found out what we were actually doing. And like, hopefully our alliance with Runeterra can mean we can actually do some good, but it wasn't a good first meeting with my dad. But my necromancer was gone, and she was in practically every way my other half. But she didn't want me, and now she's gone. I don't even know if she's alive anymore. I didn't have anyone left, other than my dad."
Carefully, Kiriona stretched and wrapped her arm around Vi. Vi startled, but smiled slightly. Great! Her porn mags were actually being helpful in the how to talk to hot girls department! "But maybe that's a good thing," Kiriona continued, "because otherwise I wouldn't have met you."
