FFVII and Mario party 3 reference.
That morning after a full night of storytelling, Cloud sits up from his couch, raises his arms, and stretches his upper body. He is about to wake the others up but he was pretty late for they were already gone.
Well maybe I'll just go outside and train. He said in thought. The spiky blonde had his fusion sword attached to a metal that is on the back of his clothing. Outside he goes.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away from the mansion, Daisy had her business ready. The number of flowers she sold is only one and Cloud took it. From left, right, behind, and in front, the atmosphere around Daisy is vacant. The citizens sometimes like to go the park (which is nearby where Daisy's business is), playing and having fun but didn't bother to allow themselves to see her business.
Outside the mansion, there is a large light caramel colored stoned layout for the Smashers to train and not make a mess on the greenery grass King Dedede waters daily. The same swordsmen who trained yesterday were fighting with the same ones again. Link, this time, forfeit his match just to spar with Cloud. As Link walks to him, he pulls his sword without keeping his eye off of him. Cloud's response was a mimic.
"Ready Cloud?" Link grins almost devilishly. Cloud nods in response. Deep down he's happy that he found a sparring partner. In the speed of light, Link charges to Cloud with his sword directly pointing to a direction where Cloud's forehead is. Luckily, Cloud blocks Link's attempt with his large sword. The two were swordfighting like Ruroni against Shishio.
Inside the mansion, Rosalina walks along the long hallway. From the window, she had her chance to peek through to watch Cloud and Link fight. After a peek, she decides to watch the whole fight and immediately falls in love with Link and Cloud's movements.
"They're fast" Rosalina said breathlessly almost shockingly. Link could sense a blue figure coming from inside watching him. He took a small chance to look up and see that Rosalina is the figure. Link smiles then waves at her. Rosalina returned with the same reaction. The two both glanced at each until Cloud had the urge to kick Link to the bush that's in front of stood up to his feet and had his arms crossed wearing a pouty face.
"No fair Cloud."
"You wouldn't be in the bushes if you'd just paid attention." Cloud swings his sword like a helicopter victoriously. He sure made Link look like a fool especially in front of Rosalina.
"Well.." Link's cheeks slowly turns red "Rosalina was watching and I wanted to say hi."
"Rosalina?" Cloud is surprised but didn't express it very well. Link points to the direction where Rosalina is. Cloud followed the trail from Link's finger to a window where the blue maiden is watching from. Rosalina waves at Cloud with a warm smile on her face. Cloud couldn't help but to wave back. The two glanced at each other until this time, Link kicks Cloud to the bushes. Cloud stood up to his feet and removes a few remaining twitches on his spiky hair. Link laughed childishly when pointing at Cloud's new "hairdo".
"Very funny." Cloud sarcastically says as he dusts the dirty out of his arms. Even though not hearing them, Rosalina giggles at the scene. She knows that they are having fun, she too is having fun. The three angry veterans, Peach, Zelda, and Samus spotted Rosalina giggling and looking down from the window. Samus goes to Rosalina and checks what's going on while Peach and Zelda had curious looks on their faces.
"Rosalina," Samus speaks "We we looking for y-" Samus evaluates the situation and solved it quickly. In response, she grabs Rosalina's arm and drags her away.
"What's with this spiky guy you're drooling all over?! He's not even that great." Samus's voice was almost close to a snap but she kept her emotions in. Rosalina's smile faded like snow and her eyes hung down to where she's staring at the floor. Samus is pretty strong and she didn't want to mess with Samus. As Samus drags her, Rosalina begins to plan her visits with Cloud. It isn't fair that he's treated like this. She wanted to know why but the answer is only known by Cloud himself.
After the training is finished, Cloud said his goodbyes to Link and walks away from the Smash mansion. Meanwhile, Daisy twiddled her daisy in circles. Seconds later, she plucked a petal out of it.
"He loves me."
Daisy plucks another one.
"He loves me not."
Daisy plucks another.
"He loves m-Ah forget it"
Daisy, out of frustration, sets the daisy to the side and sits on the grass with her knees pressing against her chest. She sighs out of boredom but is still determined to not give up. However, when Cloud walks to her direction, Daisy immediately stands and rushes to stay behind the wagon.
"Welcome back, customer." Daisy smiles after Cloud stops his walking. Cloud reaches for his pocket and hands cash to Daisy. Daisy happily accepts and gives the flower to Cloud. Cloud turns himself back around and starts walking back. Daisy, having to experience this again, stopped him.
"Hey, do you want to tell me about your...your..woman?" This is unusual for Daisy to be this shy even around strangers. Cloud turns to Daisy with a serious look on his face. He decided not to turn away and just open up to new people like he did in the past.
"Her name is Aerith," He tried to not show how sad he is but somehow in his heart, it tells him not "She used to sell flowers."
"Used to?" Daisy tilts her head, "What happened?"
"I rather not talk about it." Cloud turns away from Daisy to hold his boiling tears in. His heart is right after all. Cloud had a large lump in his throat so he swallowed it whole. Daisy could hear sniffles as an evidence that something tragic happened to Aerith. She didn't mean for Cloud to go back to his traumatic memory. All she wanted was someone to talk to.
"Sir, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring back those memories of her. I bet she's really nice and pretty right?" Daisy, even though being turned away from, smiles widely enough for encouragement. Cloud stopped his sad moment and turns back to the flower girl and sees that smile. That smile had him feeling a lot better even though Daisy's was a bit goofy. Feeling comfortable, Cloud walks closer to Daisy and sits on the grass. Daisy did the same thing.
"So what's your name?" Daisy asked curiously.
"The name's Cloud. Cloud Strife."
"Cloud. What a hot- I mean what a nice name." Daisy laughs awkwardly. Luckily he didn't hear Daisy's awkward talk.
"I'm assuming you're Princess Daisy right?"
"Wh-what?!" Daisy's eyes popped in a flabbergasting way.
"It's obvious you're selling daisies and you're a wearing a golden crown." Cloud pokes Daisy's crown.
"Oh." Daisy laughs.
"Why are you selling them anyway?"
"Well you see, where I live is very hot and my flowers cannot take that much heat. I want everyone to take good care of them."
"Where I live, there's only one place that has a field of flowers," Cloud stated "And everywhere else it's filled with mako reactors, other polluted environments."
"Bleh" Daisy sticks her tongue out.
"Yeah that's how I felt."
From Noon, to early evening when the sky becomes purple, Daisy and Cloud were still talking. Mainly about the events Cloud have been through.
"So he shot your glasses off?!" Daisy exaggerates after she learned about a remnant attacking Cloud.
"Yeah. He and his brothers are dead for now."
"Aww." Daisy frowns "I wanted to handle them for you." Daisy shows flexes her arm menacingly.
"But you're a princess."
"Not all princesses need a helping hand."
Cloud remembers when Daisy told him how she took care of Bowser when he tries to kidnap her. He thought wrong.
"You're right. Sorry."
"That's alright Cloud. I had so much fun! Ooooooo what else happened with those...those...3 badguys you dealt with?" Daisy got into Cloud's little story and she enjoys what she's hearing. Cloud continues even though he wanted to go home, he wanted to stay since it seems that Daisy is lonely.
"Then they gathered the children..."