Dimitri:
Dimitri sat in the Blue Lions class room waiting for class to begin, today a new knight was supposed to take over since it had been a while since the last switch. Dimitri kept thinking about the other night when he found Byleth in the library with Claude, he wasn't concerned with Byleth doing something bad Dimitri was just worried that maybe Claude was trying to involve her in one of his schemes or maybe that Claude really was just trying to recruit Byleth to his house. Either way Dimitri wouldn't stand for it, he thought that maybe he could talk it out with Byleth but she seems to be keeping her distance these days.
Dimitri's train of thought was disturbed when he heard a loud voice say "Good Morning Class" he looked and saw it was their professor for the month. She introduced herself as Catherine and began to divulge into the lecture she had planned. However Catherine would often stop her lectures and go on tangents about how spectacular she thought Lady Rhea was. Once finished with her lecture Catherine stopped for a second "Oh Right I forgot to tell you guys" Catherine said apologetically "Our mission this month is going to be seizing castle Gaspard" Catherine said nonchalantly. She began telling the class about Lord Lanato, the leader of house Gaspard, raising an army against the church.
Dimitri heard Ashe gasp in the back and say something about this being out of character for Lanato, Dimitri felt bad for him this must be rough having to go against someone who is so near and dear to him. Catherine continued on for a few more minutes before she finally let the Blue Lions class go for the day.
Dimitri was about to leave from the class to train when he heard a voice call out to him "Dimitri!" he turned to see Sylvain "Don't tell me you forgot what today is" Sylvain said "We've been friends since our childhood and this is how you repay me, by forgetting my birthday" Sylvain said sarcastically "Well lucky for you I know how you can make it up to me, Join us in town for a celebration" Sylvain said.
"Sylvain is this another one of your tricks?" Dimitri asked sternly.
"Of course not your highness" Sylvain said. Dimitri reluctantly agreed after Sylvain kept pestering him "Excellent I'll go and get Felix and Ingrid now then we'll go.
Once Sylvain gathered Felix and Ingrid they began to make there way to town "Hey look there is Byleth and Hilda" Sylvain said nudging into Dimitri's shoulder, before Dimitri could respond Sylvain took off to the two girls "Hey ladies" he said with a wink "If the monastery two loveliest ladies aren't busy perhaps they would like to accompany us for the evening" Sylvain said while gesturing to the rest of the party.
Byleth began to decline Sylvains offer when Hilda cut her off "Of course we'll join you guys" she said while Linking arms with Byleth and dragging her to the group. Hilda and Sylvain took lead of the group guiding them to an unknown destination while loudly chatting about random things.
"Oh Byleth is that a History book?" Ingrid asked gesturing to what she was carrying.
"Ah yes it is" Byleth said showing her the cover of it, it read from 0 to 200 imperial years.
"Oh wow that is quite early" Ingrid said "Are you looking to know anything in particular from that era? perhaps I could save you the read."Ingrid asked.
"Hmm do you know about any beasts from this era?" Byleth asked.
Felix jumped in "Beasts?" he said "That's an odd thing to look for, any particular reason why?" Felix asked.
"Just curious" Byleth responded.
"Yeah sorry Byleth I haven't heard of anything from that era about beasts" Ingrid said "Although it's still possible for them to have been present at that time you'll just have to search hard to find something" Ingrid added.
"Thank you Ingrid" Byleth said. Dimitri wondered if this newfound curiosity that Byleth had something to do with that picture Claude had, he wondered just what the two of them were up to in digging up information on some ancient beast.
"Here we are," Sylvain said, leading them into some place that had a dinner and show. After a few hours passed the group began to make their way back to the monastery, and by the time they got there it had already been dark.
The group all went their separate ways, Dimitri began to head to the training grounds to get some last minute practice when he saw a suspicious figure. Wait he thought is that Byleth? where is she going? Dimitri decided to follow her to see just what she was up to.
Dimitri realize that Byleth was heading to the Library after they passed all the rooms of important monastery officials, Dimitri thought he was doing a good job at being discrete but once they got to the hallway that reached the library he no longer saw her "Why are you following me?" Byleth said Dimitri turned around shocked and saw Byleth with her arms crossed, how did she do that he wondered.
"Ah- well you see it's a funny story" Dimitri stammered "Hey you two keep it down" Dimitri turned around and saw Claude "Both of you hurry up and get in here it's getting late and Linhardt can't stay awake for much longer" Claude whispered while he rushed Byleth and Dimitri in the door "So your Princeliness If I heard Byleth correctly in the hall you follow women at night now?" Claude Jokes, Dimitri turned red "Anyways I'll cut to the chase I presume you followed Byleth in an attempt to see if I was plotting anything mischievous, correct?" Claude asked.
"To some degree yes'' Dimitri said "However I was also intrigued on that image you had the other day, and I wanted to know what it was" Dimitri added.
"Well that is the big ticket question" Claude said "We still don't know exactly but we have a guess, well kinda" Claude said he gestured to the face of the beast on the paper "Do you see this part?".
Dimitri leaned closer to examine it "Oh I see what you're talking about'' Dimitri said "What is that?" He asked.
"I don't know for sure but our theory is that it's a crest, Right Lin?" Claude said.
"Don't call me that Claude, but yes it does in fact look to be a crest however I'm not certain which one since the image could have been distorted over time" Linhardt said.
"Which is why we've been checking any history books trying to see if anyone else has managed made an image of the immaculate one" Byleth added.
"So what do you say Dimitri want to join our mad goose chase?" Claude asked. Before Dimitri could respond a shrill voice shouted out what are you four doing here so late in the evening, They looked in shock at Seteth who made his way to them.
He began to scold them for being in the library past its closing time "I hope you four know that this is why the rumors of ghosts haunting our libraries at night exist" Seteth added "Wait what is that" Seteth said as he grabbed the image of the Immaculate one. "This shouldn't be out here how did you find this" he scolded "I found it hidden in a book while we were doing research" Claude said "Well I'm confiscating this" Seteth stated "You all better clear out from her Thomas will be upset if he finds out people were in here when he isn't present" Seteth added before leaving.
The four of them stood there for a few minutes completely dumbfounded by what just happened Claude broke the silence and said "Well there goes our only lead" while shaking his head in disbelief.
"We probably wouldn't have found anything anyways Claude" Linhardt said.
"It's about the thrill of the chase" Claude rebutted "Anyways we should all probably go before we get into anymore trouble" Claude said with a wink.
The four of them made there way to outside of the dorms before they split up, "Wait Dimitri" he turned around to see Byleth "Would you like to join me for some training?" Byleth asked.
"Of course" Dimitri said. The two of them made there way to the training ground, Dimitri felt a bit nervous he didn't know quite what to say to her until he just blurted "I'm sorry Byleth, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable by following you" while his cheeks turned a deep shade of red.
"No worries Dimitri" Byleth said "Do you want to know how I knew you were following me?" she asked. Dimitri nodded "Look at your feet" Dimitri looked down at his feet and realized he was wearing boots made of metal.
"Oh" Dimitri responded "I must admit I'm a bit embarrassed that I overlooked that" he said to Byleth while laughing. The two of them talked about Dimitri's mistake the whole way to the training hall. "So what weapons shall we use to spar?" Dimitri asked "Lance or sword" he added.
"If you choose the lance she's more aggressive since she doesn't like using it, but if you choose the sword you're screwed due to her proficiency with it" a gruff voice called. Dimitri and Byleth turned to the person who was speaking and realized it was Jeralt.
"Dad?" Byleth called out.
"Either way you're screwed" Jeralt said to Dimitri "Hey kid, getting in some late night practice?" Jeralt said to Byleth, and she nodded in response. "That's my girl" Jeralt said laughing "Anyways don't let me stop you two from sparing I want to see how this plays out" Jeralt said. Dimitri ended up choosing the lances to spar with and Jeralt was right Byleth was far more aggressive with her attacks than she was with a sword, Dimitri was about to strike a critical hit but his crest activated and rather than helping him it caused for Dimitri to break his lance.
"Hmm I'll take that as a yield" Byleth said drawing back her weapon. Jeralt came up to them and investigated the broken lance.
"How the hell did you manage to break a silver lance" Jeralt said while cracking up, Byleth elbowed Jeralt. Dimitri began to explain how his crest gave him superhuman strength and incidents like that were a common occurrence for him. "If you're interested" Jeralt said "I can attempt to teach you how to control your strength" He added.
"Really? I would be honored" Dimitri said enthusiastically.
"Sounds good just not tonight, I'm ready for bed and you both should head to bed as well" Jeralt scolded "Well good night" he said and left. Byleth and Dimitri both followed Jeralts lead and began to head in for the night, I think I might just be able to fall asleep tonight Dimitri thought to himself as he made his way to his room.