Lucina
Ashley was not impressed as she went over her cabinet of potions to pinpoint which one had been stolen. She turned to me with a firm frown and her arms crossed.
"What potion was stolen?" I asked, worried what kind of devastating effects it could have.
"Well I don't think we have to over react or anything," Ashley said looking slightly disappointed. "Someone took a potion that makes people tell the truth."
"O-oh." I replied, expecting something more exciting.
"The truth serum could still cause trouble though, so if you happen to find it make sure no one consumes it." Ashley warned.
"Right." I nodded. Cynthia was standing by the door waiting for me, but she had been listening to the conversation.
"A truth potion, huh?" She remarked as we left the room.
"Yes," I said thoughtlessly, all my attention on scanning the area for someone suspicious.
"Sounds kind of fun, no?" Cynthia grinned. I stopped to stare at her blankly, not sure what part of it was fun. "Oh, come on Lucina." She whined.
"W-what?" I stammered, confused by her outburst.
"If Robin happens to drink some then you can ask him how he feels about you!" Cynthia pointed out like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I froze in my tracks at her statement. If Robin drinks it then he wouldn't be able to lie to my father anymore. I gripped Cynthia's shoulders tightly and she whined.
"We need to find that potion!" I shouted. Cynthia was surprised by my outburst, but her expression quickly turned to a mischievous grin.
"I knew you would like my plan." Cynthia smirked. I didn't bother to tell her that that wasn't the reason.
"You will help me, won't you?" I asked her, knowing this was the best way to get her help. She laughed loudly at my request.
"Of course, because that's what heroes do!" She announced and I was relieved by how easily she had been convinced. I decided that if I saw Robin while looking for the potion to warn him about it. I could already see what would happen if he happened to somehow drink it.
"Now where should we begin?" I wondered out loud, since I had no idea.
"I guess it depends on why the person took the potion?" Cynthia said as her hand went up to her chin. "If you stole a truth potion you would use it to make someone tell the truth!" She said excitedly.
"Well you are not wrong." I told her, questioning why I didn't just go find Robin and search with him. The idea made my face heat up and, at the same time, my chest to hurt. I didn't want to be alone with him.
"And if you wanted someone to drink the potion you would put it in something they would eat!" My sister continued on with her thoughts. "So the person is probably going to the kitchen." She huffed proudly. I stared at her, bewildered that what she said could possibly be true.
"This way." I grabbed her wrist and dragged her down the hallway, ignoring the protests and pleading for me to stop. We stopped outside the kitchen and my nose was overwhelmed with aromas. Cynthia was gasping and had to bend over to catch her breath, so I opened the kitchen door. Mr. Game & Watch was preparing dinner for everyone and I had to remind myself that this was serious. I think he noticed me, though I couldn't be sure since he didn't have any visible eyes.
"Lucina beep?" The flat man sounded surprised to see me. "What can I beep help you with beep?"
"Did anyone come in here?" I asked. Cynthia was now beside me and she gasped.
"He's flat!?" She turned to me clearly panicking.
"And you are three dimensional beep, but you don't beep see me announcing beep that." Mr. Game & Watch said apparently sensitive about it.
"Salty." Cynthia whispered under her breath. I wasn't sure how she knew what he tasted like and I didn't want to know why.
"Sorry, anyway back to what I asked before." I interrupted. Mr. Game & Watch stood there and his hand scratched the back of his head.
"I don't beep think so?" He answered. "The only people who beep came by were Reflet beep and her friends as well beep as Shulk and his friends." I noticed that Mr. Game & Watch didn't have any guests, but decided it wasn't appropriate to mention it. It wasn't as if he was the only person, I had noticed Ganondorf didn't have anyone and neither did R.O.B.
"I see, so nobody recently?" I asked, in case he had somehow forgotten. The flat man stood there for a while.
"Well…" Mr. Game & Watch started. "I'm not sure beep if this will be useful beep, but I thought I heard beep the door opened when my back beep was to it."
"Someone could've snuck in then when you weren't looking!" Cynthia announced.
"Why would someone beep do that?" Mr. Game & Watch asked, and I think he crossed his arms.
"We think someone might have put a truth potion into the food you have prepared." I told him, but left out the part concerning Robin.
"Truth potion?" Mr. Game & Watch repeated. I nodded and did not expect him to begin laughing. "That's beep ridiculous!" He managed between fits of laughter and the strange beeping noise he made.
"Please, this is serious." I pleaded, but Mr. Game & Watch would not stop laughing.
"I have to get back to beep work." He said and shooed us out of the kitchen. "Truth potion hah!" I heard him laugh as the door closed.
"What do we do now?" Cynthia asked me and I grimaced.
"There is still the possibility that the potion isn't in the food yet." I pointed out, remembering that Wario would constantly steal food from the kitchen behind Mr. Game & Watch's back. 'Does he even have a back?' I wondered. I hit my forehead lightly as a reminder that there was something more important going on at the moment.
"So we should continue looking for someone with the potion?" Cynthia asked and I nodded. I also noted that searching for Robin would be important too.
It was almost time for dinner and there was no sign of anyone with a potion or Robin. We had found Shulk who was still searching for Rikki with no luck, though he assumed the smell of dinner would bring him to the dining room. I was starting to get nervous as people began to make their way to the dining room.
"Lucina," my sister pulled on my sleeve and she pointed to an open class room, "isn't that Rikki?" She asked. I moved towards the opened room and found the missing Nopon asleep on a table with an empty bottle beside him. I froze in place when I recognized the shape being the same as the one Ashley used for her potions.
"Rikki!" I shouted which instantly caused him to jump up off the desk.
W-what, Rikki not sleeping just resting eyes!" He announced, until he seemed to consider where he was. "Hmm? Where Rikki is?" He asked and finally noticed me by the door.
"Where have you been everyone was worried about you?" I asked, still glancing at the empty potion bottle. 'Where had the contents ended up?' I tried to figure out, but couldn't come up with anything.
"Rikki go on adventure!" He announced smiling, but his brows furrowed and his smiled disappeared. "But what happened after?" He asked himself.
"How did you get that bottle?" I decided to ask him, hoping he remembered that. Rikki stared at the bottle and tilted his head slightly causing his tuff to do the same.
"Ah, yes Rikki remember!" He announced happily. "Pretty lady asked Rikki to get for her!" His smile faded again as he scratched side of head. "But what happened after that?" He asked himself again.
"Pretty Lady?" I echoed and Rikki nodded. "What did she look like?" Rikki crossed his small arms across his chest as he loudly hummed.
"Rikki can't remember." He finally announced.
"Do you remember what happened to the contents of the bottle?" I asked, though I already had an idea of my answer.
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmm," he started again, "nope." I crossed my arms tightly as I considered what to do, and the only thing I could think of was to stop Robin from eating any of the food tonight. At least it wouldn't be too difficult, as I considered the amount of food my father had put on his plate at lunch.
"Cynthia we need to get to the dining hall now!" I announced, she nodded her head with a grin on her face.
"Let's be everyone's heroes!" She cheered. We turned to the door to see it close and heard a clicking noise. I tried to turn the handle just to find the door locked. Hoping to see whoever locked the door I peered out the window, but nobody was there. "Lucina what happened?"
"Someone locked us in." I said calmly, though I was panicking on the inside. Robin still doesn't know about the truth potion! I clenched my fists tightly as I considered that the person targeting Robin was behind this.
"W-wh-what!?" Rikki screeched. "It dinner time though!" He bounced up and down angrily, but I just found it adorable.
"I don't think the doors can be broken here, so I guess we have to wait for someone to notice we are in here." I clenched my jaw, knowing the chances of that were slim. Luckily Rikki was yelling furiously as he realized he was going to miss out on dinner and Lady Palutena happened to walk by.
"What in Sky world is that?" She unlocked the door for us using her staff and let us out. Before we could answer her we all sprinted from the classroom towards the dining room, and I was surprised that Rikki was somehow ahead of me. I saw the large doors ahead of me, and prayed to Naga that I would make it in time. Rikki, somehow, opened the door to the dining room and dashed towards the food while I sprinted towards the table we usually sat at. Everyone already had food on their plates and I watched as Robin began to take a bite.
"Stop!" I shouted, which was drowned out by everyone else in the room. Reflet saw me and stopped before she took a bite, Shulk did the same. Unfortunately Robin didn't see me and I could see him swallow.
"What is going on?" Reflet stood up from the table as I approached and everyone turned towards me. For once I had to catch my breath and took a moment to respond.
"Someone put a truth potion in the food." I breathed. Robin paled at my statement and the others just seemed confused.
"A truth potion?" My father asked and I nodded. He laughed a little. "That's ridiculous."
"Is it father?" Cynthia finally caught up. "Don't you Chromgratulate yourself on your birthday?" She asked and Lissa snickered.
"Of course I do." My father announced and his face went red. "Gods it is a truth potion."
"Chromgratulate?" Reflet laughed as she turned to her Chrom, whose face had also gone red. I could see Robin panicking and he was staring at me, pleading for help.
"So was it in all the food or just certain ones?" Reflet pondered as she scanned everyone's plates. My father and Reflet's Chrom had the exact same foods on their plates and both appeared to only tell the truth. "Shulk and I didn't eat anything so we should be safe, but we should probably check everyone in case someone says something they shouldn't." Reflet glanced at Robin who was nervously fiddling with his sleeve.
"How should we do that?" Dunban asked, though I noticed he hadn't touched his meal.
"How about embarrassing questions that no one would honestly answer unless they could only tell the truth?" Cynthia suggested.
"Sounds like a good idea to me!" Reflet said.
"How about we don't?" Kamui suggested sarcastically, a rare tone for her. Her face lit up a bit when a number of people looked at her in shock.
"Well we know Kamui is." Reflet pointed out. Kamui was covering her face with her hands, completely embarrassed.
"I agree with her though, some people lie for a reason." Fiora said.
"This is awful," my father complained and looked at Robin, "can you lie?" He asked and I could see how scared Robin was.
"I'm not sure." He answered, which could've been the truth.
"I think I know how to test that." Frederick said stiffly.
"How?" My father asked and Robin looked ready to run, but he continued to sit there.
"Simple, just ask him why he broke his promise with you about dealing the final blow to Grima." Frederick explained and Robin's face was as white as a sheet. "If his answer is the same as this morning's than he didn't consume the truth potion." I quickly went between my father and Robin, hoping to stop this mess from happening.
"Lucina, what are you doing?" My father lifted one of his eyebrows in surprise.
"Why would Robin lie about that?" I said. "There are better questions than that to ask right?"
"I don't see the problem with asking him the same question as this morning, since he wouldn't lie to us we will get the same answer." My father said and I couldn't argue with it.
"W-well-" I tried to find something to say.
"Is there something wrong with Robin?" My father asked. I grimaced knowing I couldn't stop this. I felt Robin's hand rest on my shoulder and he gave me a smile.
"I'm sorry Lucina, I never should have asked you to do such a stupid thing." Robin was smiling, but he looked like he was on the brink of tears. My father's eyes widened and he stood up from the table.
"Robin, what are you talking about?" My father's voice was cold.
"I should apologize to you too," Robin said causing my father's eyebrows to rise, "I should've just told you."
"Robin-" I began but he put his hand up.
"Lucina if it's not now then it will be Ylisse…and personally I don't think I can keep up this act." My father and the others were clearly confused by our conversation and I could see Cynthia looking to me for answers. Even Shulk's and Kamui's friends were confused, but the two kept silent. I noticed Reflet looking away as well as the rest of her group.
"Tell us what?" Lissa asked cautiously, but Frederick came up to Robin before he could answer.
"Robin, why did you break your promise with Lord Chrom?" Frederick asked sternly, but he looked like he was in pain.
"I don't remember…" Robin replied, which riled up my father.
"What do you mean you don't remember?" He shouted and my mother squeezed his hand.
"Dear-" Apparently she had understood what he meant.
"Chrom I don't remember anything." Robin said calmly and he laughed a little. "You really can't lie…" He gritted his teeth. My father legs looked like they were ready to give out and Frederick was quickly by his side supporting him. Lissa already had tears running down her cheeks and my sister was just staring at me.
"T-this is a joke right?" My father stammered and Robin shook his head.
"They are all gone…" Robin said his voice cracking at the end and tears beginning to form. Tears were streaked down my father's face as he just stared at Robin.
"B-but we finally got you back." He stated sadly and Robin's gaze fell to the floor. My father turned to me and I wondered if this was how I looked when Robin didn't recognize me. "How long…"
"I found out on the first day." I told him before he could even finish.
"Lucina…" Cynthia breathed and I could see the pity in her eyes. The dining room was slowly getting quieter and people started to watch the dramatic scene, confused.
"Father, Robin just did not know how to tell you." I hoped to explain the situation, but my comment just made my father furious.
"So he was just going to lie to us the entire time?" He shouted and pointed at Robin. "Why did you ever think that was a good idea?" My father hissed.
"Because I had an idea you would react like this." Robin stated coldly, suddenly all traces of sadness were replaced by calmness. "Well not the angry part." He added.
"This happened because you defeated Grima for good and disappeared with him," my father gritted his teeth, "so why didn't you let me deal the final blow?"
"I don't remember." Robin replied. He was keeping his expression calm in front of my furious father, but suddenly it began to crumble. Robin gripped his head as if in pain and screamed, which took everyone by surprise.
"Robin?" My father's anger was gone and now replaced by worry. He grabbed onto Robin's shoulders, which stopped him from falling when he lost consciousness. My father looked at Frederick and Lissa as he held Robin's limp body. "Uhm…" Lissa was beside him instantly and made my father place Robin on the ground.
"I don't have a healing staff with me." She noted and I could see her trying to hold back her tears. Everyone in the room was staring quietly at us and this time I noticed Greninja slip out of the room. Dr. Mario came rushing in, with Greninja by his side, shoving people out of his way.
"Again?" He asked as he saw Robin on the ground. "What happened?" He instantly became serious as he kneeled beside him. I gave him a quick explanation of the event s that occurred and he grimaced. "This isn't the first time either…" He said deep in thought. "Can someone help me get him to the infirmary?" My father stepped forward and carefully lifted Robin.
"Show me where to go." My father said, and he left the room with Dr. Mario. Everyone slowly returned to their conversations after they lost interest in our drama.
"Maybe he should just live in the infirmary." Kamui said, before she clapped her hands over her mouth. "Sorry…" She stared apologetically at me.
"No, you have a point." I replied, counting the number of times he had been there.
"Robin has no memories at all?" Inigo suddenly asked and I nodded. "That's why he wasn't getting angry at me."
"What do you mean?" I turned to him.
"W-well he would always get really mad whenever I flirted with you." Inigo blushed slightly.
"Flirted?" I repeated and tried to think of a time when he did that. Kamui was smiling again and I noticed Camilla inspecting the knives, as if considering if they could be used as a weapon or not. Inigo paled at the sight of the two women.
"It wasn't that often and you know how I love women!" He defended himself and luckily my father returning to the room took all the attention off of him.
"Milord," Frederick was already by his side, "are you alright?"
"I-I'm fine." He stammered and Frederick frowned.
"If you are so worried about Robin then why did you not stay with him?" Frederick sighed.
"That man kicked me out of the room." My father said slightly deflated.
"Sorry, we should have warned you about that." Shulk said. "He doesn't have very much patience these days especially when Robin is in the infirmary."
"He was quite violent about it." My father murmured and Frederick was beginning to make his way to the door. "Frederick, where are you going?" My father asked confused.
"To teach that man some manners." Frederick replied coolly and I knew I had to stop him.
"Wait Frederick," I ran up to him as I called, "Dr. Mario is a fighter in the tournament, so you shouldn't fight him."
"Good, this won't be a one sided fight." The knight said clearly not listening to my warning.
"Frederick," My father's voice was stern, "one of my friends is already hurt, please don't make it two." Frederick frowned, but nodded and returned to my father's side. My father turned to me and I could see the torrent of question he was going to ask. "Why doesn't Robin remember anything?" I flinched at the question since I didn't know.
"I don't actually know." I told him and he believed me.
"Is he alright?" My father asked and I noticed Reflet clapping her hand over Kamui's mouth. I knew that the trouble Robin was in was something I shouldn't share with my father.
"Yes," I told him and ignored the guilty feeling in my chest. "I think there are some things you should know though." Reflet tilted her head, but seemed to understand what I was going to say. I gave everyone a quick explanation about Robin not returning after defeating Grima even though he was supposed to and Master Hand bringing him back because of that.
"A-amazing," my father stammered, "I need to thank Master Hand for that."
"It's unfortunate he doesn't have his memories though." My mother frowned.
"Well it's still possible he'll get them back, but the most important part is that he is back!" Lissa cheered. I was surprised by their optimism. I thought that Robin's amnesia would be a bit more devastating to them, but apparently it was only me. Reflet tugging on my sleeve brought me from my thoughts and I didn't like the expression she had.
"Lucina, I don't think you're going to like this." She said as she dragged me away from the group.
"Like what?" I asked as we left the dining hall.
"Somebody just used you." My eyebrows rose in surprise, but she continued before I could say anything. "The truth potion and your Chrom finding out about Robin's amnesia…" She trailed off and took a deep breath. "If you hadn't announced that there was a truth potion in the food right after Robin ate it then your Chrom wouldn't have learned about Robin having no memories."
"Then-"
"It was a trap."
Author's Notes
There are so many fun events to watch with the Olympics going on, my favorites are gymnastics, diving and swimming.
Anyway I always find truth potions fun, so why not add one in? It's been a while since Ashley and Mr. Game & Watch have appeared.
Leave a comment or review; it's nice to know what you think or if there is a specific character you want to see. Until next time~