Tsubasa Chronicle : Celes Arc

Celes Country, (セレス国) in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is Fai's home country. It seems desserted since the only people seen are Fai, Chi and Ashura.

The Begining

After having sealed King Ashura, Fai tells Chii (a creation of his own) that he can no longer stay in this country, nor this world. So then he decides to go to the Dimensional Witch (Yuuko) so he can never see him again. Chii turns into a barrier to the seal of King Ashura, so Fay can know if he does wake up.

It is cited that Ashura resides in Ruval Castle, a floating castle with wings. Celes country is covered in what appears to be an eternal blizzard.

Little is known about this world except it seems to be a magical based country. Two of Sakura's feathers had fallen into Celes, and with that feather's power Fye was able to create Chī, who he made in the image of his mother to comfort the inanimate corpse of his twin brother. He also imprisoned Ashura in a deep slumber, which Chī guarded until Ashura's awakening.

Fai's Past

Once occured the events at Infinity, thanks to Fai, Kurogane, "Syaoran" and Mokona's payment, the group arrives to a world where the Princess' body lies, it is Celes Country, the same one that Fye came from. The tragic happenings and revealing flashbacks from Fye's past cover chapters 154 until 166 (half of volume 21 and 22)

Upon reaching this world, next to them is the sight of the majestic Ruval Castle, place where Fye grew up. Mokona can't feel Sakura's body, since she always followed the feathers' aura, the essence of her soul, and now they're after a empty body with no soul. However, Fye says that she must be in the castle, because the only auras from living souls come from there, the rest of the people is dead.

"Syaoran" uses Fuuka Shourai to transport everyone to the entrance of the castle, since the stairs are only an illusion. At arriving they find a whole lot of dead soldiers' bodies, wearing the same clothes that Fye does. Syaoran feels ill, though he says its nothing and they proceed among the corpses until they reach the Throne Room. There they find King Ashura.

The King welcomes Fye, who says it wasn't planned for him to go back, but Ashura says he's been waiting because he promised he'd make his wish come true. But he isn't the only one, there's also a decrepit child who signals Fye and says to him, "you killed me".

Thus begins the first part of Fye's past (in flashbacks), which will mix with the main story until the outcome of Celes' story:

• We're shown a young blonde kid trying to climb a high wall and not reaching it, while the people in Valeria talk about the birth of the nephew of the Valerian Emperor, but the unexpected happened: a child wasn't born, but two, twins who because of their condition and for the meaning of their birth, were called "the twins of misfortune".

The fact that they were twins was a bad omen, along with bad crops, deterioration of water quality and the sudden death of the kids' father led the whole nation to think that it was because of the misfortune they brought into the world. For this, their mother also killed herself, feeling guilty that she had given birth to the princes. They also had immeasurable magical power, both together were stronger than the Emperor himself. To get rid of the calamity they meant, killing them meant to have more disasters, the Emperor orders to take them away so they'd take the misfortunes with them, the misfortunes of being twins, misfortunes of having a long life due to their enormous magical power, the misfortunes of being born.

This is the curse that the Emperor imposes them: only if they were unhappy the kingdom will prosper and the people will be happy. The Emperor takes them to different places inside the same valley where magic can't be used and time flows differently: one atop the tower and the other in the bottom of the pit surrounding it. The valley is the place where the bodies of the criminals of Valeria are thrown. There they are forced to remain until the end of the days with no one digging a grave for them and without their bodies decomposing, staying there forever with no rest whatsoever. In this cruel place the Emperor pretends to leave the twins, unless one decides to die, being freed from the stigma of being twins. Both princes look at each other and confirm that they won't let each other die, and they end up in the sinners' valley, alone and separated among huge piles of corpses, the silence and the cold snow falling in the place. Below is Yuuy, yelling at his brother Fye atop the tower, that both of them would escape from there and with their magical power they'd leave to another country, while he's piling up more corpses in the edge of the pit to try to reach the top. Fye laments and more bodies are thrown into the pit. Yuuy continues his attempted escape while bodies still drop, among these are elderly, children, even a mother and his baby. Yuuy believes something happened in Valeria for this to happen and wants to leave as soon as possible to get Fye out and know what's happening outside. In a useless attempt to climb, Yuuy realizes that a corpse is carrying a letter with him, and reads it. The letter says that the Emperor of Valeria has lost his mind and is killing off innocent citizens, asked help to neighboring countries, and points out that it's their fault for being born as twins. Yuuy, enraged, keeps trying with all his heart but his efforts were in vain, until finally someone again falls into the pit. Is none other than the emperor of Valeria, wounded but still alive. The Emperor blames of everything to the twins of misfortune, everything began because of their birth and it'll be over today, since there's only him and the twins alive in the kingdom. The Emperor takes his sword and himself through the neck, cursing the twins, who'll pay the sin of being born, living as the last inhabitants of Valeria, forever abandoned in the valley with no one to know about their existence.

Yuuy screams while Fye cries and calls him from the top of the tower. Yuuy curses that all this happens just for being twins, just being born, since when is that a sin? Yuuy wonders if the same will happen if they go somewhere else, if it'll happen again just for them being alive, is it a sin to live for them?

Time goes by and the two of them are decrepit and crumbling, with a long blond hair and clearly malnourished body. Fye curses himself because if he had died at the time, none of this would not have happened and Yuuy to live with that burden which torments him.

If he'd die now, Yuuy could get out and live without being one of the twins of misfortune, so he repeats over and over again that he wants to die, but first he needs to say to someone to help Yuuy (ie is what we were shown in a flashback in the third part of the country of Tokyo). For a moment the action is back to Celes and the decrepit child is identical to the depressed Fye from the flashback, and as Ashura tells Fye, "that day, he made a choice."

• Back to the flashback, Yuuy hears a voice that asks him if he wants to get out, which he believes is nothing more than hallucinations. However it's not, it's Fei Wang Reed who through his usual interdimensional crack, offers the young man out of there. Yuuy says that even if they leave, it will happen again in other countries for being twins, Fei Wang replies that he did not come from another country but another world (that's why he can use magic), and each world is governed by its customs and laws. Yuuy wants to go to another world, but Fei Wang says that only one of the two can leave, he has to choose between him or his brother.

Yuuy (or it so seems) asks literally to "get Yuuy out", this decision brings to Fye falling from the tower, before crashing to the ground, they both see each other and exchange their experiences as a payment for this choice. So Yuuy sees how Fei Wang asked his brother the same question. Fye falls and dies, Fei Wang says that this life has stopped with his choice and this will be a burden that he shall carry forever, he also asks him if he could go back in time and make another choice, if he could revive the dead, what would he do? Fei Wang says that for this to happen, he must meet two curses, which will be fulfilled after he leaves with the person who will come to pick him up.

The first curse says that if someone with a magical power superior to his, this power guilty of locking the twins and the misfortune, would appear to the magician, he'll have to end his life.

The world crumbles down and someone appears, Yuuy believes he comes from Gehena (hell). It's King Ashura, asking him if he wants to get out. Yuuy answers that he's got something to do, then the King says that to do so, get out and fulfill his wish. Ashura extends his hand and ask his name. The young man says "Fye".