Warning: This chapter contains spoilers of Fire Emblem: Awakening!
Arriving in the room, Link finds Palutena staring at the touch screen where they can choose how many stocks are given to the fighters and the maps they can choose to fight on. "I was beginning to wonder if you guys will ever come," the goddess says as she turns around, smiling at the three Smashers. "We were eating breakfast, I apologize for our late arrival Lady Palutena-" says Link before Palutena interrupts him. "There's no need for formal terms, besides I'm not your goddess," informs Palutena before she notices Robin and Lucina holding hands.
"Ah, no wonder why you chose her. You guys going steady?" Palutena asks, smirking as Robin blushes and quickly releases Lucina's hand. "No. Robin was only holding my hand because I-" Lucina begins to tell the goddess before Link cuts her off. "No need for excuses, we all know that he was only trying to comfort you since you are having a hard time, am I correct?" Link glances at Lucina who was nodding at the Hylian.
"That's what all mortals say," Palutena mutters as she rolls her eyes. "L-Let's get started, shall we?" Robin looks at the three Smashers, who all agree to start the brawl. Link walks up to the touch screen; he puts 3 stocks and decided the stage they should fight on was the Big Battlefield.
Before they could all disappear to the stage, Robin whispers to Lucina if she remembered their plan. Lucina only nods before a bright light blinds her. Squinting, she watches her friend and acquaintances disappear.
"3, 2, 1, GO!"
Lucina begins to run after Link while holding onto Falchion. She quickly swings her sword at him, but he dodges her attack. "Wow, I must say, you're pretty fast," Link comments, but Lucina wasn't going to fall for his trick. She sprints towards the man, before slashing him with her sword. Link only falls off the stage before performing a Spin Attack. "You're too damn fast, holy shit," says Link as he lands on the stage and watches the woman attempt to hit him again. Avoiding her sword, Link pulls out his Clawshot and it successfully catches his opponent. Lucina struggles to break free from Link's grasp. The Hylian kicks her off the stage and grins at the falling swordswoman.
Closing her eyes, Lucina manages to fall back onto the stage. She grunts as her body hits one of the six platforms. I forgot he's a Smash Veteran, making him more experienced and he knows what he's doing. Lucina wanted to facepalm at her stupidity, for she had forgotten that Link wasn't going to be easy to defeat. The Ylissean Princess quickly recovers herself and sees that the Hero of Hyrule was waiting for her. "I know you're not going to be easy to beat, Lucina. But you're not going to be that difficult either," Link glances at Lucina before he pulls out his boomerang and throws towards her direction. Lucina avoids the flying boomerang and begins to make her way to attack her enemy.
That's when she felt like she was floating. Lucina barely notices that the boomerang came back and now it's making her float towards Link. Luckily, Link wasn't paying any attention and thought that the boomerang has dragged his opponent off stage. Link thought it'll be a good time to see if his teammate was doing alright, but she was doing 'okay' despite the fact Robin was attacking her before Palutena could perform any of her attack moves. It was too late to swing her sword at her foe, so Lucina's body clashed with Link's body. As a reflex, Link wraps his arms around Lucina while they both fall off the platform.
Hearing a loud THUMP! at the opposite side of the stage, Robin searches for Lucina and sees that she was laying onto of their enemy. He hears giggling near him and realizes that it was coming from Palutena. "Alright, tell me that's pretty cute and funny too. Did you see that Link was trying to keep her safe from the fall, I wish more other mortals were like that," the goddess sighs at the end of her comment. Palutena notices how Robin was furrowing his eyebrows together, as if he was angry. "You envy Link right now, don't you? Wishing that was you, not him. You know, I heard he's a ladies man so he's probably chasing after Lucina-" Palutena smiles at Robin who was slightly jealous. Having enough of her commentary, Robin pulls out his Levin Sword and swings it as hard as he can at his opponent. He watches Palutena fly off the stage and she was immediately killed.
Hearing a woman's scream, Lucina opens her eyes and feels a heartbeat that wasn't hers and feels a pair of arms wrapped around her. Oh Gods. Lucina sees Link's body below her. She gasps and removes herself from the Hylian's grasp. "You can at least take me out for dinner," Link weakly says and chuckles at his own joke. "Why did you do that?" Lucina asks as she stands up and retrieves her Falchion from the ground. "It was a reflex, I'm a hero, remember? Always protecting everyone and making sure princesses aren't injured," Link replies while he gets up and grabs his sword and shield from the ground. "How ironic," Robin mutters and rolls his eyes at Link. "Robin, how kind of you to join us," The Hylian says sarcastically as Robin walks closer to him.
"That was rude of you to kill me while I was talking!" states Palutena as she comes out of nowhere and hits Robin with her staff which sent him flying to the other side of the stage. Palutena walks up to Link and leans her lips to his ears. "He's mine. Lucina's all yours," Palutena whispers to Link before hovering over to her target. "All right. This is just between you and me, Lucina," Link says as the Goddess of Light disappears from Lucina's view. Lucina couldn't help, but grin at him.
This was Robin's plan, and it successfully worked.
It felt like an hour, but it was only 4 minutes. Lucina was down to one stock as Link had two. Robin also had one stock and Palutena was almost defeated. Thank the Gods that Palutena was a bit slow to perform her moves. Link was falling above her, and Lucina knows one hit could send him flying off the map and he'll be killed. Jumping, Lucina swings her sword at Link who tried to dodge her sword, but he failed. She sees a bright light appear at the side of the stage, meaning that Lucina had killed Link. That's when she hears Palutena screaming and sees another bright light appear.
"Player Two, defeated."
Looking to her left, Lucina catches Robin looking at her with a smile. Lucina walks towards Robin and smiles back at him. "We're almost done," Robin says before his eyes widen. "Lucina, watch out!" Robin yells as he releases fire from his hands, hoping that Link's attack would be stopped. Lucina looks up and sees that Link was above them and has his sword aimed directly down at them. Robin grabs Lucina's wrist and pulls her out of harms way. "Robin!" The swordswoman shouts as she watches her friend pull out his Levin Sword.
"Nice move, I thought I could've send you guys flying off stage," comments Link as the fire on his tunic vanishes. "Also, that was kind of you to grab Lucina before I could pull out my sword and kill her with it after your magic spell was done harming me," Link smiles at Robin before he pulls out a bomb and tosses it at Robin's direction. "Why are you giving us compliments? We're suppose to end you, yet here you are...happy?" questions Lucina as she runs in front of Robin and catches the bomb. She throws the explosive back at the blond while he shrugs. "Less talking, more killing!" demands Link. "Reminds me of Henry," the tactician mutters before Lucina charges at their foe.
The Hero of Hyrule avoids Falchion by simply stepping a few steps back. Robin watches Link attempt to swing the Master Sword at Lucina while he raises an eyebrow at the fellow Hylian. Is Link having mood swings? One minute, he's praising us, the next minute, he wants to end us. Robin decides to dismiss that thought. He looks down at his yellow book as energy builds up in his hands. "Thoron!" shouts Robin as a golden bright light is released from the palms of his hands. The tactician watches Link get struck by his magic spell.
Taking this as her only chance, Lucina leaps up into the air but Link manages to perform his spin attack, which made contact with the swordswoman. "Augh!" Lucina closes her eyes as she falls onto the harsh ground. "Lucina." Robin notices that his friend's body is steaming up, meaning that one hit or two could kill her. The Princess of Ylisse didn't get up nor did she open her eyes.
He watches Link running towards the woman and jumps into the air, attempting to do the same move that could've killed Lucina if Robin didn't stop his attack. Robin sprints to the Hylian and jumps into the air. "Arcwind!" Green leaves appear below him and luckily one of the two giant leaves hit Link. "R-Robin," groans Lucina. "Come on Lucina, we can do this! We're almost done," reassures Robin as he tries to pick up his friend.
"I-I'm fine." Robin helps Lucina go back on her feet. "Stop assisting me, you'll cost us the match. I'll...be the bait, and you can try to hit him with your Levin Sword." breathes out Lucina as Robin frowns at her. "What happened to teamwork?! I thought we both would be defeating him, not by you being the meat and..." begins Robin before he sighs. "Just...don't risk your life for me."
Lucina only nods. She didn't care if her audacious plan would have worked, Lucina didn't want to see her friend be in pain again. She knew that they were in a battle, so they were bound to be injured and all, but she hated the sight of her beloved ones getting hurt. The last time Lucina saw Robin in pain (other than the brawls in the tournament) was when she and Robin were in Validar's castle with her father. She remembers the tears in Robin's eyes ready to roll down his cheeks as he turned against them by killing Chrom (again) while Validar was controlling him.
Squeezing her eyes closed, Lucina clinches her free fist as she remembers how her father fell down to the ground by Robin's actions. Just like my time. He was stabbed in the back by his closest friend. "Uh, Lucina? A little help here!" shouts Robin as the Master Sword barely misses his torso. Lucina's eyes quickly open and they look for the familiar black robe. "R-Right." Lucina holds onto Falchion as she runs to her friend. Standing behind Robin, Lucina performs the Dancing Blade which made contact with Link who didn't expect her.
"I wish I enabled Friendly Fire," mumbles Link as he lands on his feet from the fall. The blond squints his eyes on the tactician, for he was planning to take him out first. He knows that Robin is trying to protect Lucina and vice versa, but Lucina is exhausted meaning she will not be very strong or be swift. Link begins to charge at Robin, avoiding the fire spell that Robin attempted to cast on him. "Robin." Lucina watches Link run towards her friend, ready to defend Robin. Link jumps to the platform that his target was on, performing his spin attack. Unfortunately, the Ylissean Princess jumped as well and she was immediately struck by the Master Sword.
Robin sees Lucina's body fly off the stage. The grip on his Levin Sword tightens as Link safely lands on the platform. Link leaps into the air and brings his sword above his head, ready to attack the tactician. Robin dodges the sword and swings his electrifying sword at him. The Hylian blocks the attack with his own sword, making the Levin Sword slip out of Robin's grip and disappear in the air. "Did I just use all of my uses on my sword? Are you serious?" Robin asks himself as he brings out his bronze sword.
Taking in deep breaths, Lucina struggles to stand after performing the Dolphin Slash. The princess looks up to see Link ready to take out her friend. If he's gone, then we lose. I can't handle him myself in this state. That's when Lucina watches Robin cast Arcfire which Link avoids like it wasn't a big deal. He's going to take him out. Lucina runs towards the platform that the battle between Robin and Link was happening. Link lunges forward at Robin with a wide sword swing ready to hit the white-haired male.
Jumping onto the platform behind Link, Lucina watches as Robin fails to avoid Link's attack. Quickly, Lucina pulls Falchion back to perform Shield Breaker, but she knows that Robin didn't have time to recover meaning-
"Player Three, defeated."
No. Lucina releases her sword, making it stab the Hylian. Her eyes follow the blond's body fly across the map, finally out of her view with a bright light blinding her eyes.
"Game!"
"I-I did it...I did it!"
Father, I won!
"Chrom would be so proud of you, Lucina," states Robin as he smiles at her. Lucina couldn't contain her excitement which led her into bringing the tactician into a hug. "I did it, Robin," whispers the swordswoman as she sighs and rests her head on Robin's shoulder. "Yeah, you did it," Robin whispers back as Lucina pulls away. "You guys are really touchy with each other today, don't you agree Link?" Palutena grins at the affectionate mortals. "Yeah...they are," Link joins Palutena and folds his arms, watching Robin and Lucina look down at the ground.
"Aw, they're embarrassed. You mortals are so adorable!" The Goddess of Light notices the redness appearing on the cheeks of the swordswoman and tactician. "Lady Palutena, you...may need to stop teasing them," whispers Link. "Of course. I'm just going to go now, have fun!" Palutena exits the room before looking behind her. She knows that Robin and Lucina are going to have several awkward situations.
Author's Note: Almost 3 months since I've updated this. Oh man, so much has happened. I'm just going to say that I got Fire Emblem: Awakening, and boy do I love the game! I need to finish the chapter of Mount Prism and then the Endgame! Also, I would like to apologize to the reviewer that was annoyed with my struggle of using past tense or present tense. I accidentally put present tense mixed with past tense, and I normally don't check my chapters for errors. I only read through the chapters once before deciding that it'll be decent enough to post so...
Also, I am squealing of the Robin and Lucina moments in this chapter. And of course, Link and Lucina in the beginning of the chapter. I just wanted to test their [Link and Lucina's] relationship because I do ship them both together, but not as much I ship Robin and Lucina. Also I think of Palutena as a sarcastic or witty goddess since I've watched a few walkthrough parts of Kid Icarus and seen the conversations between her and Pit. Sorry if I once again messed up with the characters in this chapter like I've did with the first chapter with Robin and Lucina. Also I am planning to put the Author's Note at the bottom of the chapter. Okay, that is all. It's 11:30 PM right now and it's Sunday and I need to get enough sleep for school tomorrow. Also next chapter will explain Link's mood swings!
Also, I've worked on this chapter since January 4...so yes...I am extremely slow at writing chapters. Alright, goodnight everyone! Hope you have a great day/morning/evening/night/midnight!