HELLO GUYS, SORRY IT'S BEEN AWHILE, HAD A LOT OF STUFF HAPPEN AND HAD LITTLE TIME FOR WRITING, BUT ANYWAY HERE IS AN UPDATE I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.
They arrived at the arena, where they were introduced to a woman in armour with her hair tied up high and back.
"ma'am this is prince Chrom of Ylisse, he and his companions have come to talk with you" the woman announced them.
"yes thank you, you are dismissed" she replied. Chrom stood in front of her.
"hello prince Chrom, I am Khan Flavia of the east Ferox, it is truly a pleasure, I assume you come about rising tensions with plegia" she began, he nodded. Soon discussed their issues and Chrom had asked for help.
"I wish that I could offer you something but I do not have control of say so to give such things" she explained.
"how so you are the Khan aren't you?" Lissa asked.
"same as you a royalty but have no say on the politics of home yes," she answered
"I'm a Khan however I am not the only one, the Khan who wins the champions tournament has control on politics and armies" she stated.
"oh so if you win the next one you are in charge?" Chrom asked. She nodded then paused.
"We have a tournament coming up in two days' time, I would be so bold to ask that you go as my champion?" she asked him
"can I be your champion?" Chrom asked
, "yes, we are not allowed to fight ourselves however we very often have a foreign champion, just not usually royal ones" she explained.
"if it gets us what we want I would say we do it," Frederick said. Lissa perked her head up.
"whose we?" she questioned.
"well I presume a handful of us?" asked Frederick looking at Flavia.
"yes of course, a group of about ten men fight until they can no longer stand, magic is allowed however healing is not until after battle unless there is a serious injury, we don't ask people to die for us, so no kill shots. It's more like sparring than battling" she explained the rules to them.
"yes, we will do it" he exclaimed.
"ok, very well, I shall put you up until the tourney then, I'll have my people show you to your rooms, we shall talk more later" she motioned towards her steward who directed them to the hallway they'd be going down.
They followed the steward being shown in to their rooms.
The men being paired as Frederick with Chrom, Virion with Kellam, Vaike with Stahl. The women found themselves being in an odd number so they asked who wouldn't mind sharing rooms. In the end, Sumia shared with Lissa and Miriel and Sully shared the other room went to Robin to solo.
They were informed that they'd be retrieved for dinner. Sumia sat down after getting out of her armour, she was in more feminine clothing.
Lissa put a dress on which was a nice blue, she turned to see Sumia staring at a pink dress.
"no!" Sully's voice came bellowing from outside the rooms.
"my dear you must wear a dress!" Virion's voice coming from nowhere Lissa opened the door to see Virion holding a regal thin dark green dress.
"I'm not wearing it!" she slammed the door in his face.
"but my dear, the steward asked that we come formally dressed for the dinner." He stood by her door, Robin came out of her room to see what the commotion was.
"what's going on?" she asked, Sumia poked her head out at Robin's voice. Her hair in a mess, she was wearing only her top and trousers not her robe or shoes.
"she got comfy quick." Sumia muttered.
"Robin!, you my dear here!" he handed her a red dress with golden excesses.
"um…no thanks" she refused the item.
"no please dear, you'll be divine" he smiled creepily at her, she pulled a face.
"okay…" she accepted slowly.
"oh yes, someone is coming to do your hair and make-up as well" he mentioned before turning his attention to Sully's door again.
"you can keep your armoured boots on my dear" he spoke to the door.
"fine!" she opened the door grabbed the dress before slamming it again. Robin laughed and headed back into her room. Chrom soon arrived to her room knocking lightly.
"Robin can we talk?" he questioned from the door, she opened the door, she looked very tired.
"oh um, you resting up from practise today?" he asked, she nodded. he entered the room to talk in the room.
"yes, I'm going relax and read until dinner" she explained.
"ah it's good for a soldier to always relax and get some rest" he smiled.
"ah yes, my I might even catch myself some beauty sleep, don't want to look awful with bags under my eyes" she smiled. Chrom paused she turned and looked at him confused.
"Is it something I said?" she questioned looking at him.
"no, I just never took you for the type to care about such things as beauty" he commented on her statement.
"oh why not, I am a woman" she replied looking at him.
"well it's just I never really look at you as a woman…" he stopped as she frowned at him, he realised the weight of his words.
"that isn't to say your ugly or anything, your just my friend, who is female but I never really look at you as a woman, even when I saw you I didn't think about your womanness…Robin?" she picked up a book.
"what you doing with that book?" he asked as she primed her arm.
"has no one taught you how to talk to a woman!" she flung the book just missing his head.
"I'm gonna see you at dinner bye!" he ran out of the room. She slammed the door closed and huffed, calming herself down she thought back to the bath incident and how much he'd blushed and blabbered.
"hmm" she picked up her book.
"maybe he's just awkward with females" she decided.
Later that evening Chrom and the other men arrived for the dinner party.
"evening gentlemen, looking very nice" flavia complemented them.
Chrom was dressed in his regal clothes from home, very similar to his battle clothes but with sleeves and no cape as Lissa kept calling it.
Soon after the women had started arriving Lissa in the blue regal dress with light blue embellishment at the hem, her hair down and curled nicely along her shoulders, she was followed by Sumia in a similar dress however in light pale pink. Sully and Miriel arrived in very simple yet lovely dark blue coloured dresses. She had no worn the one Virion picked. He walked up to her
"you my dear look fantastic, even if it is not the dress I picked" he winked at her, she pulled a face at him and just walked past him. Sumia walked up to Chrom.
"hello, you look very good" she smiled, going red.
"thank you, you look very 'good' too" he smiled at her. Sumia blushed, maybe Lissa was right about her feelings, but she still believed it was too soon to tell him with the war.
"am I alright to sit with you during dinner?" she asked Lissa chatting with Frederick behind them.
"I guess that leaves me sitting with you Frederick." She smiled leading him to the table. Frederick sat on the second seat opposite Chrom's seat. Chrom sat down and Sumia sat next to him, Lissa sat next to Frederick. She noticed Robin had not shown up.
"hey where is Robin?" she asked standing at the table. Chrom looked as everyone had seated except Robin.
"I think she had said she wanted to skip dinner" Sumia spoke. Chrom stood up and walked out the room without a word, Sumia's gaze followed him out.
He stormed down the hallway to her room. Knocking her bedroom door until she opened it, she opened it looking surprised to see Chrom.
"why won't you have dinner with us." He began his rant.
"I didn't mean to offend you earlier, if that's what this is about!" he ranted in anger. He stopped at the realisation she was fully dressed and ready to go to dinner.
"I told Sumia I was going to be late for dinner, my hair wasn't working with me" she explained.
He looked her up and down in a dark red regal dress with gold embellishment along the skirt and hem. Her hair down but placed back one side leaving it clipped back.
"you look…wow" Chrom spoke.
"thank you, you look pretty dapper yourself" he blushed at her comment.
"shall I take the lady to dinner" he lifted his arm for her to place hers with, she took his arm smiling.
"yes you shall." She told him.
They walked back to dinner. Sumia turned at them entering Lissa stood.
"Robin come sit next to us" she motioned to the empty seat next to flavia and Frederick.
"alright," she let go of Chrom and moved round the table. They had moved down the table to make room for her, which made Chrom smile at how much his sister got on with Robin.
"I got worried you weren't gonna come because of the frog thing…" Lissa spoke looking worried.
"I was tempted" Robin joked back to her Frederick sighed.
"milady we spoke about this, you can't just keep putting bugs and reptiles in people sleeping beds"
"oh boo your no fun!" Lissa stuck her tongue out at him.
He chuckled at her antics. She blushed at him, he blushed back. Chrom stared at them both then looked at Robin who had a knowing smile on her face.
"Robin you okay?" he asked. She nodded smiling at him.
"now we are all here, shall we eat" the food quickly came out. The food was placed on the tables and served to everyone. Lissa was drooling over the giant bird on the table.
"that looks amazing" she muttered to herself.
"would you like some?" asked Frederick offering her some servings of the meat. She nodded.
"I could kiss you" she announced, Sumia and Chrom stopped eating and stared at them.
"t-that wouldn't be appropriate my d-lady" he blushed bright red, Robin giggled to herself.
"Robin?" Chrom asked.
"yes?"
"something funny?" he asked confused.
"no, just enjoying this evening, it's nice making memories" she smiled.
"oh okay," he dropped it.
"Robin, I have been informed your tactician, you've been leading the battles they have been winning including the one you encountered with our own." Flavia began speaking to Robin, Sumia sighed with relief.
"finally she's distracted" she muttered under her breath. Chrom was far to fascinated in his food to notice, Lissa looked up at her.
"amnesia you say, how interesting" Flavia laughed at Robins comments.
"she's sure funny" Sumia commented, again Lissa noticed.
"oh my but you are brilliant, I shall have to have a game of chess with you at some point, test my skills against a real tactician" flavia laughed loudly.
"she'd only win to show off" Sumia again.
"Chrom where did you find this woman" flavia asked sincerely.
"on the floor asleep" he laughed as well.
"innocently" Sumia spoke, they turned to her, she noticed they were looking at her.
"innocently?" Chrom asked.
"oh no the bird, it was probably innocently walking about before they caught it for dinner" she covered herself. Lissa squinted her eyes at Sumia, Chrom pulled a confused face.
"well I guess, you considering becoming someone who doesn't eat meat?" he questioned.
"I'm considering it" she stated surely.
After that statement, Frederick decided to change the subject to get rid of the tension.
"so this tournament can you explain it to us?" he asked
"ah yes of course" flavia began explaining it.
Dinner after that had gone fine with no more issues, once the meal was finished.
"tomorrow I shan't be available, feel at home, use my barracks to practise for the tourney the day after" flavia explained to the others before wishing them a good night and heading off.
"good night everyone" Lissa stood and left. Everyone else made their own exits to go to bed.
After getting changed Lissa quickly went to speak with Frederick about the next day's training session.
"Sumia can we talk please," Lissa asked closing the door after she returned to the room.
"yes Lissa what's the problem?" she asked smiling.
"do you dislike Robin?" she asked her, she stopped what she was doing dropping her dress from the evening she'd just picked up.
"no of course I don't…" she replied not looking at Lissa.
"you don't like her do you" it was more a statement than a question.
"no I don't dislike her, I just find that she's over included…I find that she is really only needed during battles and planning right, then why does Chrom insist taking her everywhere." she spat out in anger.
"what?" Lissa stared at her confused.
"she flaunts around looking beautiful, flaunting her wonderful figure in her clothing of which I don't think she should wear, it's neither good for staying warm or protecting against enemies" she ranted in near tears.
"she" Lissa started only to be cut off.
"then not only that, she doesn't think of her safety during battle, she isn't battle ready we shouldn't be taking her somewhere she could get hurt" Sumia was babbling
"oh Robin did you forget something" Virion's voice could be heard in the hall, both Lissa and Sumia froze. Robin was in the hallway. Lissa quickly pulled the door open and saw Robin retreating into her room.
"oh Robin…"Lissa sighed sadly she turned to Sumia who looked more upset that Robin could have heard that. Chrom walked past now in his normal clothes.
"ah Lissa I'm going to get some late night training either you or Sumia fancy joining?" he asked, he noticed Sumia in tears behind Lissa.
"what happened?" he asked concerned.
"nothing, go check on Robin please," Lissa told him.
"no!" Sumia shouted, they both turned Lissa shook her head disappointed.
"I'll go talk to her. I should be the one who does it" Sumia confessed. She walked past Chrom not looking at him once.
"what's this about?" Chrom asked. Lissa grabbed him pulled him into the room closing the door.
"it's Sumia…she…well you can't let on you know but she" she started.
"has feelings for me" he answered. Lissa paused looking at him.
"wait. You know" she couldn't believe Frederick was right.
"well, I suspected for some time, but her actions with Robin kind of gave it away. She's been worse than Frederick for getting in-between me and Robin" he explained.
"wait...Robin? What's this got to do with Robin?" Lissa asked him.
"well me and Robin are friends, I think she got jealous that more of my free time was being taken up by someone else, she approached me telling me how Robin should dress more appropriately for battle that having a open robe and only wearing a single piece of clothing wasn't becoming of a woman. she left herself frontally exposed," he explained. Lissa sighed.
"you're an idiot" she smirked him, knowing before even him. he looked at her confused.
"what, why?"
"nothing just, you need to be honest with yourself and others" Lissa explained to him glossing over why she called him an idiot.
"I know I'll talk to her tomorrow," he said.
Meanwhile, Sumia had gone to Robin's room. She knocked on the door only to have no answer.
"Robin please let me in to talk to you" she spoke. She knocked again only to get nothing.
Chrom walked out of their room and walked the opposite direction from Sumia, he didn't want to add fuel to the flame.
"Robin please I wanted to apologise I took my insecurities out on you, I shouldn't have been so mean, I'm so very sorry" she spoke to the door.
"I really like you, I do. I am not just saying it, your funny, friendly and like I said before you're an actual beauty" she continued, the door opened, Robin stood fully dressed and chipper.
"hello Sumia, something you need?" Robin asked smiling.
"I was hoping we could talk" she answered.
"oh of course just give me a minute, I was in the middle of working on tomorrows strategies" she motioned for Sumia to enter the room. Sumia entered and turned as Robin closed the door. Robin kept a fairly tidy place unlike herself, she had all the books stacked and all her clothing packed away neatly leaving out her bed clothes for the night.
"Robin…" Sumia didn't know where to begin, she wanted to explain but also apologise.
"Chrom came by, I was going to go spar with him, fancy joining us" Sumia pulled a face, Chrom had already invited her.
"oh no, Chrom already asked us" she answered, she noticed Robin had a small book on the unit by her bed with a pen next to it. Robin picked it up.
"okay well no worries" she responded. Sumia gave a big sigh and took a deep breath readying herself for a possible argument.
"oh yes, I wanted to give you something" Robin spoke up, Sumia opened her eyes and noticed Robin putting the book in the draw while grabbing out a different item, she turned and smiled holding out a hair accessory.
"I got you this" Robin spoke softly. Sumia took hold of the item, it was a hairclip with a Pegasus on it.
"Oh Robin, you shouldn't have" she sighed sadly.
"Oh do you not like it?" Robin questioned concerned.
"no it's not that"
"I know it's not practical, that in battle it shouldn't be worn, but I saw it and thought you'd like it, I know it's silly" Robin paused picking up a different item. This one was the bracelet she'd saw Robin buying.
"they were from the same vender, I was hoping it'd be something you'd like to have" she explained.
"thank you Robin, you are such a wonderful person, I'm sorry I never realised that until now" she told her, she felt so bad about her attitude to Robin.
"it's okay, you've always been nice to me." she answered. She looked over to Sumia who was in tears.
"I'm sorry, was it something I said" she leaned forward, Sumia pulled her into a hug.
"you're a nice person" she muttered. Robin smiled slightly hugging her back. Sumia soon left and Robin sat down a sighed on her bed, she began reading. Soon a knock on her door came. She answered and Stahl waved at her.
"so Chrom asked if you're still coming?"
"oh yes of course" she put her book down and headed out. Sumia got back to the room, Lissa looked at Sumia with a questioning stare.
"so?" she asked sitting on her bed.
"we're okay, she's good with me" Sumia responded.
"that's brilliant, so means we can have girls nights just us girls" Lissa blabbered on while Sumia changed into her bed wear.
Chrom was training with his sword hard. He knew when he told Lissa he'd lied a little about his feelings with Robin, she was more than a friend, he wasn't going to say he was in love, it was a crush, she was an attractive woman, so a crush, of course, just a crush.