PLOT WARNING: This is an alternate world. Nohr and Hoshido are competing clubs that have no idea the ties that actually hold them together.
To add to the shit-cake I'm throwing our favorite Fire Emblem Fates characters into, Mikoto and Arete are both with 'Father', and are the only ones to know their children are being pitted against each other. In this case, each one is the birth-mother of their respective collection of children.
To make the story a bit more interesting, there are two of the 'Avatar'. The male is Kamui, while the female is Corrin. (Japanese and English names)
OTHER WARNINGS: This story contains anger, family issues, a Romeo-Juliet romance, incest, and abuse. Also may have some pregnancy in there. It's rated M for a reason.
Club Fates
Nohr 1
The ambience was hard, hot, and heavy. Just the way people liked it at Club Nohr. Kamui was doing the DJ, and all the patrons were either up dancing or sitting and drinking.
Xander looked out over the club. He liked it when it was busy, it made his dear mother proud to see them doing well. He was especially pleased with Kamui, the kid they'd managed to swipe from Club Hoshido down the street.
"Ugh." Camilla came up beside Xander, pulling the edges of her waitress dress down unsuccessfully. "Another one of those drunks slaps my ass, I'm going to give him a new asshole."
"We have to deal with it, Camilla." said Elise. She tugged her dress down as well. "Mother said these were the uniforms."
"Mother never comes here." Camilla countered. "Where's Leo?"
Xander pointed over to the office. "He's finishing up the accounting."
"Lucky boy." Camilla groaned.
"LAST CALL!" Kamui shouted out, letting the patrons know the bar would be closing in half an hour. He started a slightly less-bouncy, but nonetheless rythmic, song.
"He's good." said Xander.
"Yeah. His tallents would be waisted at Club Hoshido." added Elise.
"I have to go. Customer calling." Camilla sighed.
Leo stepped out of the office about fifteen minutes later. "So?"
"He's starting to tone the ambiance down to chase the stragglers out." Xander replied. He noticed something out the corner of his eye. "Shit." He headed down to the club floor, grabbing a particularly unassuming patron by the shoulder and turning them around. "What are you doing here?" he hissed.
Brown eyes looked up into Xander's own brown, and the face looked a bit sad. "You don't come around anymore." the patron said.
"I don't because your mother chased me off with a flamethrower." Xander replied.
The patron blinked at him. "I didn't know we had one of those."
"You're brother's going to kill you if he finds out you're here." Xander continued.
"Just a little longer."
"I can't. My mother's supposed to be by the club, and if she spots you, it's both our heads."
"Fine." The patron glanced around before placing a light kiss on Xander's cheek and then vanishing.
"Alright, bar's closed!" Xander shouted. "Out, you bums!"
The rest of the bar cleared out, and the siblings started their routine clean-up. Camilla sighed as she wiped down the last table.
"There." she said. "Now to actually dress comfortably."
"Well, well, well."
"Mother." said Leo, making a polite bow. "What brings you here?"
"This little one." Arete smiled, tilting Kamui's face up to look at her. "I don't remember birthing this one. Where did you get him?"
"We procured him from Club Hoshido down the street." Xander replied. "His talents were being wasted there."
"And?" Arete asked. "Do you enjoy being here, among my children?"
Kamui just studied Arete's face.
"He doesn't talk much." Elise said. "He only talks when he's the DJ."
"Interesting." Arete let Kamui's face go. "Well, you all seem to be doing well here. But . . ." She held up an envelope. "I just got the numbers in. Do you know which club is in top spot right now?"
The five workers swallowed.
Arete handed the envelope to Xander. "Open it."
The blonde did as ordered and opened the envelope, pulling out the sheet inside. He sighed, never a good thing to hear.
"It's Hoshido again, isn't it?" Elise asked, pouting.
"It's us." Xander replied. "But just barely."
"Exactly." Arete frowned. "Club Nohr is only in the lead by a mere $4000. You need to do better."
"Yes, mother." said Camilla and Elise.
As the siblings made their way to the back of the club where they lived and slept, Arete grabbed Xander's arm.
"Yes, mother?"
"I noticed one of those nasty Hoshidan's was in here." she said. "Why was that?"
"Probably trying to spy on us. I dealt with it in a business-like fashion."
"And the kiss?" Arete asked.
Xander wondered again how his mother knew so much. "It was simply a challenge." he assured her. "A subtle kiss is much easier than a direct threat, especially when surrounded by the customers."
Arete smirked. "Good boy." she said, letting Xander go. "Oh, and where's my other daughter?"
Xander looked back. "If you want Azura, you'll have to go to Hoshido for her." he said before disappearing into the back room.