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CHAPTER TWO

"Hey! Uh, Lucina! Over here!" Someone calls my name. I turn and see him.

Ike, the one and only Radiant Hero of Legend, and I'm about to meet him.

"Good luck Luci!" Robin wishes and she leaves to find Fox.

I take a deep breath.

Okay, Luc, I tell myself, not too shy, not too nervous. Act casual.

I walk over to the buff, indigo-haired, mercenary, hero swordsman. Once I reach him, I nod and say, "Um, hi. I'm Lucina,"

"I'm Ike, but you probably know that somehow," He says and rubs the back of his neck.

"The only reason I know is because there are legends about you and King Marth. Not together, but in separate adventures."

"So Marth's a king. Huh."

"Yes, he's the Hero-King to my people."

"What am I?"

"You're known as the Radiant Hero," I say.

"Wow… that sounds pret-ty great doesn't it?" He gives off a smirk and then winks. I can't help but laugh.

"Yes, I suppose it does. But so does Hero-King," I taunt.

"But mine's better, right? It sounds better than his, right?" He persists, a bit childishly. I raise an eyebrow slightly at this.

"What is it with you wanting to be better than King Marth so much?"

"Well…" He starts, "it's partly because he's all high and royal and I'm just… me, I guess." He sighs and looks down the rest of the way and walks a bit in front of me.

We reach the limos and he helps me with my bags. I don't let him go with his comment though.

"Ike, you're not just you. You're a hero. You've saved probably thousands of people. That makes you 'high' in my opinion. You don't necessarily have to be of royal descent to get all the glory. Just look at yourself—this is your second time in Smash, meaning people want you back. You have friends whose lives would be different without you. You're likable from what I've seen so far"—he snorts at this—"so don't beat down on yourself is what I'm saying, I guess. You're not just one of the crowd. You're better." I take a breath after my 'speech.' Ike looks stunned, and a light blush is on his face.

"I…" He starts, then closes his mouth and thinks for 3 seconds. "Th-thank you, Lucina. I—no one's ever really… said that to me before…I think I may have needed that…" He rubs the back of his neck again. Nervous habit. Hope I can remember that. His aqua eyes drift from me to the ground. Since I didn't get to before, I take a good look at Ike. He has a light brown, short-sleeved shirt on with a large piece of armor over his left shoulder. Something tells me wearing that wasn't necessarily his idea. His red cape looks slightly charred near the end. He also has a dark green headband around his head. The end of that is charred too. Part of his white pants are covered by big armor pieces over his forelegs. Behind those are brown boots. He has a large belt over most of his stomach with a smaller, gold belt over that. His eyes are a unique aqua color and he has slightly blown back looking indigo hair that looks a lot like a plain blue. This all goes through my head quickly, because I have to respond to Ike.

"You're welcome. Just don't say that, because you are probably much more than a mercenary to most people." I smile. He smiles too, and the rest of the time we load and unload bags there are only smiles.

Once we are finally done, Ike takes me to my new room, which is supposed to be next to Robins' (Of course) and Palutenas'. On the way, we strike up conversation.

"Hey, so what about you?" He asks me.

"What do you mean?"

"Like…" He thinks for a second, "favorite food, color, what you think of other Smashers so far. Y'know, that stuff."

"Oh! I guess I just usually don't get to talk about anything so…so…" I trail off, not able to find the right words.

"So un-battle related?"

"Yes, exactly." I try not to look beaten, but sigh.

"Well, now's your chance. You can talk about anything here," He smiles.

"Okay. So about me…" I start by saying my favorite color is green and my favorite thing to eat is roasted turkey. Ike politely interrupts me.

"So…it's NOT chicken?" He almost looks sad.

"Well, chicken aren't very popular in Ylisse, where I'm from." I explain.

"I could talk about chicken for DAYS, but I won't torture you with that—for now at least," He gives a playful smile, and I can't help but chuckle.

"Who's gotten 'tortured' then?"

"Well let's see…countless people…Marth, obviously, Pit, Meta Knight, Link, Kirby but then he joined me, Lucarios' was really dangerous but I succeeded, Samus, Peach, Olimar, Toon, Ness, Fox, Falco because it scares the crap outta him, and now many, many more because you new people came! Can't wait to see Dark Pits' face when—"

"By the Gods, Ike! That right there is torture by itself, and those poor, innocent souls…they must be scarred for life…" I joke, which surprises me. I'm not one to joke and I usually don't get jokes. I'm told I have a dry sense of humor, but Ike starts laughing, which makes me laugh. We finally reach my room though.

He opens the door for me and I step in with two of my bags in hand. I lay them on my bed and Ike hands me two more. We finish. Ike starts to leave, then stops.

"Hey, um… I just really actually want to say that…what you said back there…that really hit me hard. In a positive way I mean. So… really thank you, honestly. That helped a lot." He says, actually looking a bit serious.

"I'd do anything to help someone," I say, a small smile gracing my lips. He starts to smile too, and we just stay there for a second until Ike breaks the friendly but still slightly awkward silence.

"Oh! Hey, almost forgot—do you and your friend Robin want to sit at my table tonight? You guys are welcome to. I mean, if you want to…" Ike rubs the back of his neck a third time.

"Of course we'll be there! Thank you, Lord Ike."

"My pleasure, Princess," He bows dramatically, making me laugh. He leaves the room with a wink.

I unpack my belongings into my new wardrobe. The color of the walls are a pastel blue, and the few pieces of furniture are white. It's a lovely room, to be honest. I finally am done with unpacking and go to see Robin in the next room. I knock on her door, and I hear her say, "Come in, Luci."

Robins' room is a yellow color and it's also very nice. The furniture is a brown, but looks really good with the yellow.

"Hey, so what was the Radiant Hero like?" She asks me.

"Well, he was very nice. I though he was funny. We actually had a really good talk, because he kept comparing himself to King Marth and saying he was 'just him.' I think I might've really helped him. Oh, he also has a really weird thing for chicken and does occasional rants about it, which he calls 'torturing.' He's done this to 13 people, or maybe more. He's all-round a cool guy."

"Lucky. Fox was kind of weird around me, probably because he flies airships with lots of tech, and I do magic, which defies all his 'precious technology'."

"Darn. Well, I have good news for you then."

Her mood immediately changes. "Alright. What's up?"

"Ike invited us to his table for dinner!" I say excitedly. Robin gasps, also excited.

"Wow, really?! Gods, that's going to be great! We have a place to eat, and meet new people. Like maybe even…" She trails off in wonder.

"…The Hero-King…" I finish for her. I glance at the clock. 5:30PM. Dinner starts at 6:30.

"What should we do for an hour?" I ask Robin.

"Maybe we should explore the Mansion," She suggests. "It is very large after all."

"That's a good idea. Well, let's get lost," I say and Robin giggles. What is it with me and humor today? I never can make anyone laugh. I should try it more often. We head out of the room.

We locate the social room first, which is like a hangout. We enter, and we see that there aren't many people in there, due to dinner being soon. A dirty blonde guy clad in green turns when he sees us enter.

"Hey, aren't you Lucina and Robin? You're invited to our table, right? Ike did," He says.

"Um, yes, we are," I say. "You're Link, correct?"

"Correcto-mundo." He nods. Then I notice the weird stick in his hand.

"Uh…what is the stick for?" I ask.

"Oh, this?" He says and spins it, "This is used for a game called Pool. I was just about to teach Mega…Man…" He starts looking around wildly. "Where'd the little guy go?"

"We haven't seen him anywhere," Robin says. "Sorry Link."

"Nah, it's fine. It's just…he was literally right next to me."

"Well, hope you find him. We're going to check out more rooms," I say. "See you at dinner."

"Yeah, see ya," he says. We exit the room.

"Hope he finds Mega Man. That was weird if he was right next to him," Says Robin. I nod, and we continue on our way.

The next room we find is the game room. Robin peeks through the window and then lets me see. The room is loaded with all the younger Smashers. Ness, Toon Link, Bowser Jr., The Villager, Diddy Kong, and Kirby are all playing Mario Kart 8 and yelling at each other, except Kirby, who keeps shouting 'poyo'.

"Please tell me we are NOT going in there," I plead.

"That's a great idea. Let's not," She agrees, thank the gods.

The next set of doors we come across are large double-doors. I push one and Robin takes the other. What we see takes our breath away.

This is by far the biggest room we came through. It has replicas of all the battle stages and tons of equipment and items. We look through all the stages until I hear,

"You're going down, Pitstain."

"I don't think so, Pittoo."

Robin & I go into the next stage, Palutena's Temple (Omega), and see two angel teens—one is a brunette with a white tunic and a red gem and sky blue eyes, and the other has black hair with a black tunic, purple gem, and reddish eyes. Pit and Dark Pit are here.

There's Chapter 2! Now go check out 3 because its up! And if anyone wants cookies, here: (::) (::)