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"Damn this place is so hot, how are you wearing that dress?" Robin moaned, resting a cold drink against his head.
"I think you just have a low heat tolerance dear, and besides this is a sundress, made for the sun. I still can't believe your tolerance is this low, I mean you're practically wearing nothing." Lucina laughed while indicating his trunks.
"I couldn't help it, Link offered to do my laundry...last time I trust him, he shrunk everything!" Robin continued to moan.
"You shouldn't trust him full stop, he's a rebel and really, really stupid." Lucina said.
"That may be so, but he's...someone I can rely on I guess."
"I must say the same about Robina I suppose."
"Speaking of Robina, wouldn't you rather go spend time with her today? I mean, she'll be doing stuff but I can tell all I'll do is complain." Robin said sincerely.
"Don't be silly! This is our first time at the beach...together, it's kind of special to me." Lucina said, a little flustered.
"Awe." Robin said, wrapping his arm around her shoulder, "You know you can be really cute when you lower that serious demeanour."
"I refuse to accept that, I-I'm not cute." Lucina said, looking away from his eyes a little.
"I beg to differ."
"Q-quiet, we came to the beach to do stuff! Even if that's to relax underneath and umbrella, I won't stand for teasing...that's breaking the rules mister."
"Of course not, God forbid I break the rules." Robin laughed, with a sarcastic tone.
"Yes, exactly. We should not allow for rules to be broken." Lucina said seriously, missing the sarcasm like a lapras using sheer cold.
"O-oh yeah, of course sweetie. Still despite the heat, the place does look rather nice."
"Mhmm it does, the sand is really soft and I bet the sea is super cool~"
"Yeah but at any point crossing the sand we could be greeted by hopping flames with eyes." Robin said miserably.
"Oh come on, you're complaining to much. You'd be hot even on a nudist beach the way you make things out to be." Lucina sighed.
"Oh, you know I'd be hot on a nudist beach." The boy said smoothly.
"I-I didn't mean that, don't make me out to be lewd!" Lucina whined, gently hitting her boyfriend.
"Okay okay, don't worry about it, I'm teasing you." Robin laughed.
"That's two."
"Eh?"
"Two rule breaking strikes, one more and you'll be punished."
"Oh yes of course, how could I forget that."
"Well that's what happens when rules are broken, you know that. Somewhat."
"Yeah yeah I know, hey you want some?" Robin asked, offering her some water.
"Hm? But...Sure." Lucina said, blushing as she drank from the bottle.
"You're blushing." Robin said.
"Pfffft! I am not." Lucina argued, spurting the water out of her mouth.
"You so were." Robin laughed.
"That's it, strike three mister! Come on, we're going to the sea." She said sternly, pulling on his arm.
"Eh? Come on now, I'll die if I go out there." Robin said, resisting her tugs and keeping himself firm.
"You won't die, besides if you don't follow through your punishment you won't learn to follow rules." She moaned.
"Don't you think you're taking this rule thing too seriously?" Robin sighed.
"Excuse me?" Lucina said, stopping her tug.
"W-well...erm-"
"Spit it out, now."
"Well...The thing is, whenever there are rules or something you follow them too seriously." Robin said nervously.
"Well that's because I don't want to cause trouble for others, you're being ridiculous. Honestly, Link's getting to you too much." Lucina sighed.
"Hey, I know Link's...adventurous but you seem to hold a strong negative opinion about him."
"Of course I do, he's constantly putting you in trouble and getting in the way of others! Do I have to remind you about the whole airport shutdown?" Lucina said, almost yelling.
"Yeah, well, he had good reasons behind it! See this rule thing gives you a whole look on someone who slightly derives from them."
"Link does more than slightly disobey." She argued back.
"I know that but the other week you complained at Robina when she put the book back in the wrong section of the library."
"Well what if others wanted to read that book and couldn't find it?"
"It was a tome of Lightning spells, the only other person who would want that is me and I prefer using Elwind over thoron!"
"Oh well, sorry for trying to be considerate for others, any other examples of when my 'rule obsession' is out of hand?"
"Yeah, last week you forced me to drink seven straight glasses of water before bed! That's not even a rule, more like a guideline and well there was that time Zelda went to the gym and put the weights in the wrong order, you flipped!"
"You know what I'm going for a walk." Lucina said coldly before walking off.
"Fine!" Robin shouted.
Lucina angrily stomped across the white sand, her feet digging into surface and making small sand clouds as she stormed along the beach.
"Stupid Robin with his stupid face and his stupid words." She grumbled, kicking the sand aggressively.
She continued to pace around in a small circle for a while, kicking up and and growling before dropping to her knees and pounding the floor with her fists until she hit the cool, wetter sand.
"Stupid, stupid Robin." She said coldly before scrunching up into a ball, "I'm not rule obsessed, I'm careful and caring...And those seven glasses are giving him a longer life."
Lucina just rested there for a while, holding back the tears and anger she felt. How dare he say all that! All she does is worry for him and point out the negative people around him and what does he do? Mocks her for caring about him! She looked at her reflection in the shallow water, staring intensely at the mark of naga in her eye she thought about all the times she cared for those around her. That time when Zelda misplaced the fabric softener and put it in the liquid soap cupboard rather the soap cupboard! I mean imagine the disaster when people would be looking in the liquid soap cupboard for fabric softener and it wasn't there...though maybe they could have just gone and checked the soap cupboard, that's what she'd do. But there was also that time Sheik threw her needles inside the mansion, weapons aren't allowed outside the smash zones but still...that was to stop Link from breaking down the walls of space-time.
"Oh God...he's right." Lucina said, a little taken back, "No no that can't be rules are important!"
She began to think about when her rules helped out, for example when she stopped Link from roasting marshmallows inside. And there was that time when Robina wanted to do lewd things with Sam, but he was still under-age then...she stopped her from going to jail.
"I'm not wrong either though...How can that be?" She questioned herself, "I hate you Robin." She whispered.
Her mind then flashed back to the thoughts of sharing a drink with him, that indirect kiss they shared...and when they went to the fair and he won her a huge teddy. But even as she had these thoughts she grew angry at how he mocked her way of living, that's how she was...right now she felt unaccepted by him. It hurt. Growing up as a princess, she had to live to the rules to keep things balanced, as to not hurt her subjects or ruin Chrom's reputation. Her father could do that herself. Rules have always been very important to her, why should she question it now? Just because one, silver-haired, stupid, cute, caring, idiotic, lovely boy disagrees with her!
"No, screw him!" She wept, "I-I'm good the way I am, I'm not a rule obsessed freak like he makes me out to be...I'm just more mature than him."
She stood up and made her way towards the cliff side, it looked peaceful there and maybe she could get a good rest.
As she came close to the cliff she noticed the sand move. Upon closer inspection she noticed that it was a large herd of Trapinch moving through the sand, rather rapidly too.
"Pokemon?" She said, watching them go by, "I knew we had some in Smash but I didn't know there were wild species going about."
Out of the corner of her eye she noticed something large fly towards her, she managed to dodge it last minute.
"A rock?" She questioned after watching it fly by and go towards the trapinch.
She then jumped back and managed to kick the rock away from the herd, she turned to the direction of the rocks flight and saw a giant bulky pokemon.
"Rhyperior." It said angrily and sternly.
"Woah, it's huge." She said in astonishment, reaching for her blade before retracting her hand, "I can't use that here, it'll be breaking the rules."
The rhyperior shot another huge rock at her but she swiftly dodged it and ran towards it, leaping up and swinging her leg forwards at the bulky pokemon; it blocked it easily and swept her back before punching the sand and sending a huge tornado of sand at her.
"Sandstorm?" She yelled.
She lifted her hands to hide her face as she was swallowed by the sandstorm, the pokemon then slammed both it's hands on the ground and the tornado dispersed as spires of rock erupted from the ground and send lucina upwards.
"Aaargh!" She yelled as she was sent up into the air.
She landed with a thud and as the pokemon started to concentrate and form another rock wrecker. 'Gah, my leg, it really hurts' She thought as she tried to stand.
"Rhyperior!" The bulky pokemon roared as it fired off the huge boulder.
The rock came flying towards Lucina, and as it did things seemed to get slower for her. 'Damn it, I can't fight back without my sword, but I can't break the rules either. Damn it!' She thought.
"Thoron!" Robin shouted as the huge beam blasted the boulder to dust.
Lucina looked up as the boy stood in front of her.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine, what about you?" She asked.
"This damn sun hurts." He moaned.
His whole body was red and sore, he looked like a tomato.
"Stay there, I'll do this." He said confidentially as he ran towards the pokemon.
She pulled herself up and watched as he fought the rhyperior, his Elwind and Arc-fires doing very little to the pokemon as it threw about it's weight and knocked him about. 'Damn it, that thing's a ground type, his moves won't do anything to it!' She thought. She waned to help him, but at the same time she couldn't break the rules, she bit her lip and cursed to herself again and again and again. 'What do I do?' She begged her mind now, when something somewhere clicked. There was a small voice at first which grew into an image of her father and then a memory~
"Our lord!" A man yelled.
The young Lucina turned to look at the man as her father stopped walking down the street with her; he was a market seller, and she knew him rather well as he often came by with fruit for the castle, but this time there was no fruit in his hands. He was holding on tightly to a scrawny man's shirt as a man who looked a little beaten simply held himself up limply.
"What's going on here?" Chrom asked.
"This thief tried to make off with some fruit! And not even the cheap kind, he stole the best apples and pears we had!" The market man yelled.
"And where is this fruit you speak of?" Chrom asked.
"I don't know, I was chasing this guy after watching him and then when I caught up to 'im to the fruit was gone."
The crowd around the street began to mutter, some even began to chant 'jail, jail' as scene became tenser.
"Is this true?" Chrom asked the man.
"I cannot lie, I did steal the fruit." The weak man admitted.
"See? Guards!" The market man yelled.
"Hang on hang on." Chrom laughed, "Sir, may I ask why you stole the fruit?"
The man stayed silent before asking, "If I tell you, will the fruit be reclaimed?"
"Not just reclaimed, but you shall have to pay for it. Money and prison!" The market man said furiously.
"Then I'm afraid my lord, I cannot say."
Chrom looked at the man curiously, then he looked around the crowd before he saw something. Lucina saw this and followed the direction of his eyes though she couldn't see what he was looking at.
"Jason, may I ask how much this theft would come to as a legitimate purchase?" Chrom asked.
"Um well...about 20 gold, these are the best apples and pears in the land!" Jason, the market man, said proudly.
"Then here." Chrom said handing Jason 20 gold pieces, and gently pulling the man away from him.
"W-wait, my lord-"
"I have bought the stolen apples and pears, I believe now I own them. And as their owner whatever this man did with them is good with me." Chrom said authoritatively, "And as for you, here." Chrom said kindly, handing the man 30 gold pieces.
"Oh my, thank you thank you my lord, thank you!" The scrawny man cried.
"It's fine, now go on." He said kindly, "EVERYONE ELSE HERE, CONTINUE WITH YOUR DAILY EVENTS."
The crowd quickly obeyed and Jason walked off muttering to himself, Chrom stared at the direction the man travelled in until he felt a tug on his leg.
"Daddy, why did you let the thief go, he disobeyed the rules." She questioned harshly.
"Ah Lucina, well you see that man did steal and well he did break the rules. But people don't just break rules without reason." Chrom explained, turning the girls head to look at a small group of three.
A man and his two little girls, one with an apple and another with a pear.
"Sometimes the reason is bad, and sometimes it is good. I believe that rules are made to be broken in the situations which involve people you care for; you're a good girl Lucina, hold rules dear but also do not let them constrict your views" He continued.
"Okay Daddy! I want to be a good princess who is as kind as you!" The young Lucina cheered.~
The rhyperior shot another large boulder at Robin who was pulling himself up off the ground, he was bruised and battered all over.
"Damn, this really hurts outside a smash zone." He moaned as the boulder came towards him.
"Hyah!" Lucina yelled as she slashed through the boulder like nothing.}
"Lucina!" Robin said shocked.
"Yeah, I'm breaking a rule I know but..." She said sternly, taking a battle stance, "I'm doing it for someone I care for!"
She ran towards the rhyperior which swung it's arm but she was out of it's range, she thrust her sword forwards and pushed the bulky pokemon back; it roared loudly as it slammed it's hands on the floor, Robin flew forwards and grabbed Lucina before soaring away with an Elwind blast as the stone edge spiked up beneath them.
"I'll handle the defence when you need it." Robin said.
"Don't worry, I'll be good. Just launch an attack on my signal!" Lucina command as she rushed at it.
Lucina danced with the rhyperior, he blade clashing against it's rough skin and she was pushing it back, it swung forwards with a hammer arm but she countered it and sent it stumbling back.
"Now!" She yelled.
"Thoron!" Robin yelled.
"Wait, what?" Lucina questioned as she jumped back.
The rhyperior swung it's arm and sent the thoron back towards Robin, Lucina dashed towards him too and blocked the thoron but it pushed them back towards the cliff, she deflected it so that it hit the cliff causing a huge collapse and the two went flying into the cliff also. The rhyperior grunted and quickly fled.
Robin looked around a little confused, though the feeling of cool water was refreshing. He looked up and noticed Marth standing there with T-Link and Vincent.
"Oh, hey Marth." Robin said.
"What on earth was that?" T-Link yelled.
"Oh, I blasted a thoron through the wall." Robin explained.
"We were...nevermind." Lucina said shyly, not wanting to admit she broke a rule just yet.
"Right, okay." Marth said uninterestedly as he examined his sword.
The two groups divided and the trio continued on with their journey, while Lucina and Robin stayed in the pool.
"Hey, I'm sorry." Robin said quickly, grabbing her hands, "I shouldn't have kicked off on you like that, some things made you value rules for a reason and well I should love you regardless of that.
"Yeah, you should." Lucina said happily, "I'm sorry too, I see that rules can be broken and sometimes it's a good thing...Link's not that bad either, he's just an idiot."
"Yeah, he is." Robina laughed.
Lucina tackled him to the ground as he yelled out in pain from his sunburn and she began to fret over him in the pool.
Hey, thanks for reading this again. I really really appreciate you guys reading this and would like you to know there are only two chapters left of the beach arc! I also want to apologise, I know lots of you will send me support and disagree with me but, lately I've noticed the starts of the lastest chapters are sloppy and pick up a little at the end. Recently rather than focus on this arc I've been planning out the end of Smash all together and trust me, there is a final arc which will be 20+ chapters. I have finally finished planning and well the next the chapters should be much more improved. I also have a question for you guys: Would you be willing to accept some mild swearing in the future? I don't want to do it with every character however I have one character planned to use some cuss words and I want to know if that's okay with you guys. Thanks for reading and see you next wednesday! ^.^