Hello again, Ladies and Gentlemen! This is a sequel to my "Cloud meets Lucina" fanfic, therefore this takes place during the Smash 4 tournament instead of the Smash Ultimate tournament. If you're currently reading this, but haven't read the first story, I'd recommend reading that fanfic first. ALSO! I would like to warn everybody that this story DOES contain spoilers from both Final Fantasy VII and Fire Emblem Awakening. If you have not played those games, but do not want to be spoiled, then DO NOT read this until you have finished those games! Enjoy!
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(BGM Playing – Explorator from Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma)
"(Hm…what to do…what to plan…and where to go…)"
Cloud was lost in thought to himself, not knowing how to plan a date in a world he was still unfamiliar with. Yeah, he's been asked out on a date before (or rather, offered a date as payment by a certain someone back in his home world), and he remembered going on a date with somebody at the Gold Saucer, but…unfortunately, he couldn't remember who he went on a date with. Was it with the flower girl, Aerith? Was it with his childhood friend, Tifa? Was it with the Wutai thief, Yuffie? Was it with the brash and boisterous, yet good-hearted fellow AVALANCHE member, Barret?
"(Damnit. I can't remember. Damn that Sephiroth and all that mako poisoning for screwing with my head.)" Cloud clutched his head in dismay. "(I didn't even get to ask her what day she wanted to on that date. Perhaps…should I go to that area we fought in? Hm…yeah. I think I'll do just that. And if not, then I'll just ask any fighters in this tournament where she usually resides in…assuming that I don't raise any suspicion that is…)" He thought, rather shy at the site of people giving him and Lucina looks on their date.
"(Ahhh…what the hell. I'll go to Arena Ferox and check.)" Cloud thought, getting up, grabbing his sword, sheathing it behind his back, and walked out of the dormitory he was staying in...until he heard a voice.
"Cloud? Where're you going?" asked Samus, which Cloud immediately thought:
"(Oh right, ever since I've finished the tournament and passed Master Hand's trial, I've been living in a dorm with three other people: Samus Aran, Donkey Kong, and Shulk.)"
"This is a rather weird residence assignment Master Hand put us in. Does he have strange sense of humor or something?" Cloud asked.
"Tell me about it and I care not to know about his odd sense of humor." Samus replied, as she was watching television on a couch.
"I'm going to Arena Ferox." The Buster Basher declared. This answer caught the bounty hunter off-guard.
"You're going there? It's crowded right now, you know. Then again…you are newcomer to this tournament. But what purpose do you-" But before Samus could finish her question, Cloud was already out the door. "(Ugh, that boy…it's like looking after a younger brother who's attempting to act mature and stubborn to get through life.)"
"Ah! Hi Samus! Care if I join you?" Shulk greeted.
"(Speaking of younger brothers…)" The bounty hunter thought. "Yeah, sure. Whatever."
-FLASH CUT TO ARENA FEROX-
(BGM Stops)
"(Agh…Samus was right. It IS crowded here!)" Cloud thought, as he walked out of a large entrance and looking at hundreds and hundreds of people in the stands. The spiky-haired boy began looking around, seeing if she was here.
"Have at you, you vulgar man!" said a blue-haired swordsman as he knocked a fat, yellow-coded man out of the area. The fat man in turn, attempted to recover, but was flown down into the pit of the arena from the swordsman's downward slash. "Keep your eyes open next time, foul one!" boasted the blue-haired swordsman as he held up his sword in victory. The crowd roared in excitement upon seeing the pretty boy win.
(BGM Playing – Gallant from Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-)
"Is that Marth? …Wait a minute, maybe he'll know where she is. After all, Lucina did enjoy pretending to be Marth when I fought her…Hey! HEY!" Cloud yelled, grabbing Marth's attention.
"Ah! Sir Cloud, was it?" asked the Hero King, as he leaped off of the arena and onto the stands, next to the Ex-SOLDIER. "Have you come to gaze upon my performance in battle?" asked Marth humbly.
"Actually, uh…do you know where Lucina is?" Cloud asked bashfully. This question made Marth raise an eyebrow. "F-For a fight! We made a promise to cross blades at each other once again! And it would be today!" Cloud stated, lying through his teeth.
"Lady Lucina? Hm…sadly, she is not here. Which I find rather odd considering that she hangs around in this area. A lot." Marth replied with a look of dismay on his face. "But…have you asked Lady Palutena?"
"Palutena…alright. Thanks for the information." Cloud replied, immediately running back into the large door.
"Hey! Hey, wait!" Marth tried to stop him, but it was too late. He was going, going, going, gone.
-FLASH CUT TO A TEMPLE-
(BGM Playing – The Archylte Steppe from Final Fantasy XIII)
"(Hm…I think I'll relax in the hot springs…)" The green-haired deity thought to herself, as she went into a small, cube-shaped bathhouse, stripped out of a towel, and slowly stepped into the water. "(Mmm…I needed this…)"
*pant* *pant* *pant* *pant*
Palutena could literally hear heavy breathing coming from outside. "(Oh, joy.)" She thought sarcastically. "(Could it be that cranky Goddess of Nature again, interrupting me about humans doing bad stuff again?)"
"Palutena? Palutena? Hey! Palute-"
Cloud was shouting the goddess of light's name, until he saw steam coming out of the bathhouse. He ran inside, but did not expect to see the green-haired deity herself bathing!
"Aaaaahhh!" Palutena covered herself, blushing.
"Ah! S-Sorry!" Cloud apologized as he averted his eyes away and ran out of the house.
"(Hmm…)" The green-haired goddess bit her lip, planning something mischievous.
Cloud huffed and puffed as he was standing outside of the house, embarrassed that he accidently ran into the bathhouse. Suddenly, a hand grabbed him from the back of his turtleneck and back into the bathhouse!
"Well, well, well…if it isn't the newcomer." said Palutena flirtatiously, as she was brushing her hands on Cloud's chest. "You're a little pervert, aren't you?"
"I-I said I was sorry…I didn't come here to spy on you bathing. I-I didn't even know you were in here. I just came looking for someone, that's all!" said Cloud, slowly losing his composure.
"Someone, you ask? I see…" said Palutena rather sadly, as she let go of Cloud and kept her distance away from him. "Tell me who you're looking for and I promise I won't tell a single soul that you walked in on me bathing." Palutena giggled.
"L-Lucina…"
"Oh? Her? What business do you have with her?"
"I…made a promise to…clash blades with her once again." Cloud replied, but this response made the goddess (who was wearing a towel) float upwards, turn him around by force and loom over him.
"Liar. You promised a date with her. I remembered."
"Please don't tell anyone else about this…" Cloud asked depressingly.
"Oh, don't worry. I promise not to inform anyone of this little incident OR about your little date with Lucina…if I get to spy on YOU on your little date." Palutena smirked.
Cloud groaned in response, ultimately regretting the stupid decision he made to walk into here. "…Fine."
"Good. Go ask Reflet (aka Female Robin). Maybe she knows where little Lucy is. I'm rather busy right now."
"*sigh* …Thanks." Cloud ran out, mumbling some profanity under his breath that would instantly get him into a large heap of trouble. But luckily, nobody heard what he saying, not even the goddess of light herself.
"Hahahahaha…it's so much fun to watch mortals like him lose their composure at the site of beautiful being like myself." Palutena thought happily - and sadistically - to herself.
"PALUTENA!" screamed a familiar, angry goddess of nature.
"*sigh*…Me damnit…"
-FLASH CUT TO A SMALL TOWN-
(BGM Playing – Shh…Easy now, girl. I won't hurt you from Fire Emblem Awakening)
"Where is she…where is she…? Where is-"
Cloud immediately stopped in placed as he finally found who he was looking for: Lucina! Cloud immediately ran up to her, but was met with Lucina holding her hand up at him, not wanting him to speak.
"Sssshhhhhh!"
"What-"
"SSSSSHHHHH!" Lucina angrily turned to Cloud, then dragged him into her hiding spot! (Which was an alleyway). "You're going to get us caught!"
"By who?"
"By…them." Lucina points at a couple. More specifically, it was her father, Chrom, and his girlfriend, Reflet. The couple was currently looking at a flower stand, presumably for a very gorgeous bouquet of roses.
"Why are you doing this, if I may ask?" Cloud whispered.
"Well, um…actually, can I ask you something first? Why are you here?" Lucina whispered back.
"Looking for you. Last time we were together, you said 'I'll be waiting', resulting in me setting up a date with you. I've literally been looking for you ever since I left my dorm." Cloud stated.
"Oh! Uh…um…about that…" Lucina replied, twiddling her fingers. "I…don't know how a date works…"
"Huh?"
"I've spent most of my entire life either trying to spend as much time as I can with father and mother, being taught swordplay by my father, and planning how to fight back against Grima and rewrite the future. I…I'm afraid I haven't that much free time in my world, unlike you, Cloud..." The blue-haired princess declared in a saddened tone of voice. "Soooo...the reason why I didn't meet up with you is because I was spending most of my time spying on my father and Reflet, who are on a date theirselves. So if I analyzed what they were doing, I figured out that whatever events they'd be doing would be something I could…recreate. But with you."
"Why don't you just outright ask your father and Reflet on how a date works? It won't hurt to ask." Cloud asked confusingly. Lucina's face turned red in response.
"I-I-It's a little embarrassing…" Lucina replied weakly.
"(You put on serious, cocky alter-ego as 'Marth', took our battle - and almost EVERYTHING - very seriously, yet you played with my hair that one time and you can't even ask your own parent on how a date works. You really are like a child.)" Cloud thought, but then he began to chuckle. "…Heh. Ahahaha."
"What's so funny?" Lucina asked, now concerned.
"…I'll ask them for advice." The spiky-haired warrior replied, walking over to Chrom and Reflet.
"(Aaahhhh! No! Cloud! What are you doing?! I was gonna go ask them for advice!)" Lucina thought worryingly, gritting her teeth.
(BGM Playing – But, Frederick, it's nearly dark! from Fire Emblem Awakening)
"Excuse me." Cloud interrupted, making Chrom and Reflet turn around to face him.
"Oh! The newcomer!...Cloud, was it?" Reflet spoke up, lending out a handshake. Cloud nodded in response and shook her hand.
"…And you must be Lucina's dad." Cloud stated, surprising the father of Lucina.
"You know who my daughter is?" Chrom asked as he shook the blonde-haired man's hand.
"We fought against each other when she was pretending to be the Hero King, Marth. And she accidently set up a date with me, despite the fact that she knows nothing about dates." Cloud said nervously.
"Lucina? She did that?" Chrom asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yep. Fought against her, made a large mess out of Arena Ferox when nobody was looking, found out she was a woman, and she nervously said that she'd be 'waiting for me'. I know this all sounds rather silly, but trust me. It happened." Cloud stated. Chrom looked surprised, but Reflet looked rather unsurprised by such a story.
"That's quite a tale. Lucina's a very…interesting individual." Reflet replied. Chrom gave her a weird look. "When I was aiding Chrom back in our world, Lucina accused me of attempting to seduce him. She outright declared that she promised to spy on my every move with him. We even got into a heated, albeit nonsensical argument about Chrom. I kept telling her constantly that I had no purpose whatsoever of stealing him away from her AND that we were 'just friends', then she got really angry at me, accusing me of not only attempting to seduce him, but also yelled, and I quote: 'My father is a gallant, wonderful man! How DARE you not be attracted to him! If you don't fall in love with him soon, my true anger will show!'"
O_O
That was the expression both Chrom and Cloud were making right now.
"(Noooooo!)" Lucina thought as her face turned red.
"That…makes a lot of sense actually." Chrom spoke up. "I remembered a few times that you were suddenly trying to avoid me."
"But hey, there's nothing to worry about. She eventually apologized for her childish tactics in trying to get me away from you, Chrom." Reflet replied, giving her boyfriend a reassuring smile.
"Ahh. That's good to know!" Chrom responded cheerfully. Lucina let out a sigh of relief. Though Cloud was still weirded out by Reflet's stories about Lucina.
"…Your daughter's weird." Cloud bluntly told Chrom.
"You have no idea." Reflet replied bluntly.
"I mean, it's not you two are gonna get married someday without her knowledge or something…" Cloud stated, shrugging. Chrom and Reflet looked away from each other, hiding their blushes.
"O-Oh, I can assure you, we're just dating!" Chrom replied.
"Yeah! I mean, we're more like lovers in crime than eventual newlyweds! Originally, we were just partners. But now we're lovers! Lovers in crime on the battlefield!" Reflet responded bashfully.
"Hm. Such a cheesy name for a group." said Cloud.
"You got a better one or something?" Reflet raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms.
"Yeah. I do. It's AVALANCHE. That's the name of my team back in my world. It's called that because it's our job to bring down an AVALANCHE of justice down upon our enemies!" The leader of AVALANCHE stated boastfully, slowly putting on a bravado persona like he did when first joined said group.
"'Bring down an AVALANCHE of justice down upon your enemies'…that sounds awesome!" Chrom replied, expressing awe.
"Ahhh…sounds rather cheesy…though I will admit, that does sound cool." Reflet replied. "And is your name 'Cloud' because you rain on your enemies' parade?" Reflet asked jokingly.
(BGM Playing – Results Theme from Dragon Ball FighterZ)
"Yes. That's right!" The Ex-SOLDIER proudly boasted, currently doing the "I am Super Vegeta!" pose from DBZ and DBFZ.
"(H-He's putting on a bravado…in front of my father! Ahhhh…)" Lucina thought, glaring at the spiky-haired man.
"Eheheheh…Ahahahahahahaha!" Chrom began to laugh!
"What's so funny?" Cloud asked, crossing his arms, tilting his head, and slowly putting down his bravado.
"I'm sorry, it's just that…that bravado you were putting up…reminds me so much of Lucina's strong sense of justice and her interpretation of the Hero King! Ahahaha…" Chrom responded, still chuckling. Cloud looked over to Reflet, who was giggling to herself that what he just did does look like something that Lucina in her "Marth" persona would do.
"You're welcome for the wonderful show." Cloud said both genuinely and sarcastically, while kneeling and taking a bow.
"(H-He's kneeling before father! He has the right idea!)" Lucina thought, surprised and delighted to see such a sight.
(BGM Playing – Id (Serenity) from Fire Emblem Awakening)
"Anyways…what brings you here?" Chrom asked, catching his breath.
"Seeking advice. On how to go on a traditional date. With your daughter." Cloud replied bluntly. Lucina, overhearing this, hid her face in embarrassment.
"(Well, he DOES seem like good person)…sure, why not?" Reflet spoke up.
"Well…judging from your story, it seems that my daughter has taken an interest to you. Sure, why not?" Chrom replied, openly willing to help.
"Alright. Show me the ropes, then." said Cloud.
20 minutes have passed as Reflet and Chrom were showing Cloud around town, giving him dating advice. Lucina was spying on them like she did with Reflet back in her home world, underneath her "Marth" disguise, no less.
"(That Cloud…I was originally just going to spy on my father and Reflet to know how a date works…but I think I'll just follow him instead!)" Lucina thought.
"Alright. I'm starting to get the gist of it. Thank you both for your time." Cloud thanked the duo and walked out of town. Little did he know that Lucina started to follow him.
"(I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask others for advice.)" Cloud thought to himself.
5 minutes later…
(BGM Playing – Stops)
"You've put up quite the battle, Sir Shulk!" said the Hero King respectfully, taking a bow.
"You're pretty strong yourself, Marth!" Shulk replied, smiling.
Cloud was watching from a distance as the two finished their little duel. "(Alright, Cloud. There's no need to be embarrassed. Just gotta ask them if they know anything and that'll be that.)" The spiky-haired man thought to himself with confidence, attempting to brush off any embarrassment within him by taking a deep breath.
"H-Hey, guys." Cloud approached the duo nervously.
(BGM Playing – Descendant of Shinobi from Final Fantasy VII)
"Ah! Cloud! What an unexpected surprise!" Shulk stated cheerfully.
"Ah! Sir Cloud. What brings you here?" Marth greeted with a bow.
"So, uh…just out of curiosity, and uh…please don't tell anyone about this." Cloud asked anxiously. Both Marth and Shulk nodded in agreement. "But…do you two…have somebody you love?" The two boys were taken aback by this question.
"Yes. She's very dear to me." Both Marth and Shulk at the exact same time, causing the two to look at each other in surprise. Shulk was talking about Fiora and Marth was talking about Caeda.
"Ah. That's good. I was wondering if…you could…give me some advice…on…d-d-dating…?" Cloud asked bashfully.
To say that these two did not expect Cloud, of all people, asking them for advice on dating was an understatement. The duo looked to each other, smiled, and then turned to Cloud, smiling.
"No problem!/Leave it to me!" The boys humbly accepted his request.
10 minutes have passed as Marth and Shulk were helping Cloud out. Lucina continued to spy on the boys, while doing her best to keep her distance. The trio was inside a dress shop, and Lucina was hiding in place, watching Cloud gaze at a beautiful small spaghetti-strapped white dress.
"(Hm…he's been looking at that dress for a while now…I think I know what I'm going to buy here…!)"
5 minutes later…
"Thanks again." Cloud waved goodbye to the duo.
"Anytime!" The boys replied.
Cloud walked home to his dorm, holding a plastic bag with black and white clothes inside, presumably the outfit he'll be wearing on that date.
(BGM Stops)
However, the moment the approached the door of the building, an unknown figure turned him around and pressed him against the door. It was Lucina, or rather, Lucina in her "Marth" persona again.
(BGM Playing – An Unforgettable, Distant Day's Promise from Namco X Capcom)
"Commoner! You shall pay for embarrassing me in that town and asking the gallant Lord Chrom for dating advice!" Cloud rolled his eyes.
"(Not again.) Why? Were you spying on me?" Cloud asked sarcastically.
"No! I just came to ask you if you're ready for our date!" said the Marth impersonator.
"Tomorrow." Cloud replied.
"What?"
"Be ready tomorrow. Not today. Tomorrow, at 14:00 (aka 2:00 pm). I know a lot of wonderful places to take you to." Cloud stated, smirking.
"Hm! Very well! I shall make my grand appearance in front your dormitory in the morning before you know it!" Lucina replied, proudly.
"Alrightthengoodbye." Cloud immediately turned around, only to be turned around again, having his back pressed against the door, and "Marth" was now up close to his face. Very, very close. "…Is there a quest I must fulfill, my liege?" Cloud asked sarcastically.
"Leader of AVALANCHE…If I see you getting touchy with another woman…" Lucina moved very closely to his left ear. "There will be A LOT of consequences."
"…Okay." Cloud replied, a little frightened.
"Okay! I'll see you tomorrow!" Lucina replied cheerfully, as she ran back home.
"(...Man, Reflet was right. She's an interesting individual indeed.)"
(BGM Fades)
(END OF CHAPTER 1)
