Morgan

Today's the day, that Luci and I fight alongside with Basilio's other men for the tournament, things are getting hectic and I'm beginning to feel every tension in the air. This fight shouldn't be too horrible, all we have to do is play it all cool and eases up against our parents, from there we let have the big win.

On my right side is Luci, and I'm very worried for her. She has been breathing heavily for the past few minutes and the tournament is about to start soon. Her knees seemed weak, her hands shaking, barely able to grip tighter around Falchion's handle.

Being a loving and caring brother, I have to approach her and make sure she's in good condition. "Big sis, are you feeling unwell? I-I can take on mother and father, if you don't want to." I asked her with worry in my voice.

Luci snaps out of her zone and looks at me with a smile. "Y-yeah, I'm alright Morgan. I'm just nervous and excited to see mother and father again. But I'm very saddened at the same time, knowing we can't embrace them in loving arms." Lucina's smile faded into sadness, I too feel uncomfortable. About our parents, Luci and I just want to be a family with mother and father again, but we can't risk of revealing ourselves. At the fear of breaking their bonds and the future.

The fire in my heart burns with passion, I know that us children CAN save the future, but we won't be able to at this hardened emotions and negative thoughts. I stretched my arms wide open and like a teddy bear, I hugged my older sister in sweet embrace.

"M-Morgan!?"

"Hush now, my sweet sister. I won't let you feel down and I'll never let you go until you're feeling better!" Lucina is a lot taller than me, so I was hugging her from the waist. I playfully rubbed my cheek against her chests, making her feel ticklish, so that she'll forget about being down.

"Ah~ M-Morgan, stop. That tickles! The tournament is about to start." Lucina tries to break free from my hug, but it only encouraged me to let go off the hug and tickle her sides!

"Ahaha! Morgan stop. STOP!" It felt like that Luci was about to break into tears from my fearsome tickle attacks, so I decided to stop. The sensation was too much for her that she had to regain he lost breath from laughing so much.

I crossed my arms together and puffed my cheeks before speaking, "now Luci, if you ever feel sad or if you still are! I'll tickle you back to happiness."

"Thank you, Morgan. I really appreciate your love." Lucina now hugs me back and kisses me on the forehead like she used to when I was a baby. Well to be fair~ I'll always be her 'baby brother,' no matter how old I get.

—The other side of the arena—

Chrom

Oh gods! I feel so bad about what I've said yesterday to Robin! She probably hates me by now, after I jokingly said that she wasn't a lady. That was because she's such a strong, powerful and beautiful woman...

Fear struck my heart, like a thousand knives hitting the same spot. I remember how well we coordinated with the flow of our motions, when we fought side by side, back at the border against the guards. In this tournament, I wanted to bond more with Robin. She did say it'll make the pairs relationship stronger, so I plan on talking to Robin about pairing up for the tournament.

In this crowded room, that's full of members from the Shepherds I tried to search high and low for Robin. There she is, Robin is strategizing as she gazed upon the arena, using her beautiful eyes.

I was about to approach Robin, until Sumia popped in front of my line of sight, blocking Robin from my vision.

"Umm~ Captain! Robin talked to the rest of the Shepherds about pairing up together for maximum efficiency. I—Uhh... was wondering if... you'd like to... pair up with me?" Sumia's voice silently lowers as she politely asks to pair up for the tournament.

It'd be rude of me to decline Sumia's request, but I'd prefer to work together with Robin, because she and I are well powerful when side by side.

Sumia

"I'm sorry Sumia, but I was thinking of fighting beside Robin for the rest of the tournament. I think you'll work fine with the other's. Besides! The Captain needs his tactician after all." Chrom refuses my request and he walked past by me towards Robin, not even telling me a goodbye.

As the two began a conversation at the distance, my heart sank seeing Robin making Chrom laugh. What is it with Robin that makes her great? What's so special about her that Captain Chrom, is always with her?

Robin

"So I was thinking that we'd take care of the champions if we were to succeed quickly, making the morale of the opposite team breakdown in fear of losing." I tapped my chin as I thought deeply, telling Chrom about the plan.

"I think that's a great idea Robin! And by the way, I'm sorry for not calling you a 'lady.' From yesterday's afternoon training." Chrom let out a nervous laugh.

I raised one of my brows and playfully patted his head. "It's alright, Chrom. Maybe you'll finally realize that my skills in the battlefield will prove you that, I am indeed a lady." Gotta let some of that sass steam off to him.

*GRRRRRrrrr!*

The gate was slowly rising, creating an obnoxiously screeching sound before fully opening for us to begin the tournament. Here on out we entered the diabolically humongous arena. The crowd all gathered up at the balcony, watching us from all angles. While Chrom was away 5 minutes ago before he finally approached me, I was already done on strategizing on who should fight and who shouldn't.

The battle will consist of most of the Shepherds, the rest are headed off to the balcony as spectators for the tournament.

The opponents at the opposite side had taken formation by spreading out, leaving the center open. A tiny glimpse of my vision had caught a point of interest, it was none other than two masked figures.

Chrom

"Chrom! Look over there!" Robin points out her finger at a direction, leading to two figures, and one of them we've already encountered before.

I focused my eyes on them, "I see, the one beside Marth must be Alm. His sibling as Flavia told us."

I breathe in, then out. Before I questioned Marth in a loud voice, enough for him to hear me. "Marth! One question, before we begin?"

"..." No reply came from him, staying silent like a deadly predator.

"Fine, then. Our swords can speak for us!" I owe Marth a great favor, so I'll do my best not to kill him or his sibling. I drew my Falchion against him.

Lucina

I glanced over to my brother, Morgan. For I have a plan to make this fight look serious. "Morgan, father is drawing his sword against me, he and mother might take on me at the same time. So I need you to challenge mother, but remember to go hard on them. Just so we don't make this look rigged."

"Okie dokie Luci!" Morgan nods happily as he unsheathes his levin sword and skips away from me while I did the same for my Falchion, which caught father's attention.

Chrom

That boy seems to be wearing the same purple coat as Robin, not just that! It looks like he has the same levin sword I gave Robin as a gift! To make things more complicated, Marth has a replica of the Falchion!?

I readied my blade, pointing towards Marth, as he did the same to me. I now have a better view of his sword, at it shocked me as I let out a gasp.

"Where did you get that?" I asked, but once again there weren't any answers.

"There's no way..." It can't be the Falchion! There's only one in existence, it must be a fake!

I began the assault by running towards Marth and I leapt into the air, flipping a few time while making a war cry before finally clashing with Marth's blade. Although he was able to block my attack, like he knew it on the back of his head. I swayed my blade to the left and into an overhead from my right, but all of my attacks were being either blocked off or parried. I let a second off and went defensive against Marth, I was sweating nervously that Marth has some caliber, nearly matching mine. With every attack and swings he made, I knowingly blocked and parried all of them, as his fighting style was definitely my own! Marth threw a horizontal slice, nearly cutting off a part of my blue hair while I dodged immediately.

"Tell me—Who taught you to fight like that?" As our blades clang and clashed until we were face to face.

With one blow we backed off, preparing for a final attack. I spun my blade as Marth copies the same movement until we posed our blades against each other from a distance. From there, the two of us lunged forwards with a straight stab, only to end up missing completely. I turned around and he had copied my move, leaping into the air as he answers my question. "My father!" I rolled out of the way before his sword struck the ground with immense force. He and I pointed our swords at each, readying for another strike.

This is bad, she knows my attacks and so do I! I'm going to need Robin's help for this. I forgot to actually pair up with her and she probably fighting someone else, I ran away from Marth in search for Robin.

Robin

I just finished off one of the opposing competitors with a nasty lightning to the gut, leaving the enemy unconscious for at least 3 days. That fool of a prince ran off fighting Marth! He left me behind to fight the others.

Until I heard someone running behind me, but it was just Chrom. He looks a bit tired from fighting Marth, judging that I saw him dealing no damage to Marth whatsoever.

"Robin, I'm sorry I left you all the sudden. But I need your help to defeat Marth, he knows all of my moves." Chrom was desperate in need of my help, but of course I'm going to help him.

"Marth is a gifted swordsman, and his men look capable as well. We should mind our distance." I told Chrom and everyone else.

"What do you propose we do, Robin?"

"Marth is indeed, powerful. But he can't handle the two of us at the same time." I told Chrom as we ran into battle against Marth.

The odds are looking great on us, with Frederick paired up with Stahl. They just bulldozed their way through countless enemies while Vaike and Miriel offered protection for Lissa as she heals most Shepherd she could.

We were almost there to Marth, until I heard a cry of attack.

"Elthunder!" A thunder spell came crashing, I rolled out of the way while grabbing Chrom at the same time, just to avoid the deadly spell. Looking at the mage who had casted it, was non other than Alm himself! What confuses me, is that he's wearing the same tactician's coat as I am.

Out of nowhere Marth was beside Alm and Chrom and I got up and immediately took our battle stance, it's now a pair versus pair.

That sneaky Alm casted a thunder spell against us, but I've already readied one before he had, so I threw a thunder ball against his and both spell nullified each other. I covered Chrom and my eyes using my large coat from the bright light that was emitted, good thing it blinded the pair momentarily.

I launched a lightning speed swing against Alm with my levin sword, but he was able to barely block it with one arm with his blade. The sheer amount of force I had on that swing sent him flying. When Alm tried to get back on his feet, I created a powerful elwind that blew him against the arena's walls while he let out a painful scream. It seems that Alm is now immobilized. While I was busy with Alm, Marth was about to strike me. Chrom goes in front of me to block off Marth's terrifying strike. Chrom kicks Marth right at his midsection while I quickly casted a weakened thunder spell and blasted Marth away knocking him off balance, Chrom decided to land the final blow by using the flat side of his Falchion. He smacks Marth's face causing him to fall unconscious.

The fight was outrageously horrific, Alm and Marth are quite the powerful opponents. It felt like we were fighting ourselves in that battle. It's been a while since I've sweat that much in the heat of a battle, I'll need a fresh shower after this. With the opposing Khan's champions out, the rest of their contestants panicked and were swiftly slaughtered by the rest of the Shepherds. With the battle over the crowd cheering for Chrom and I, our names were chanted and heard by the entire arena and it's making me blush.

"Chrom! Chrom! He's our man, if he can't do it, no one can!" That was the chant that the crowd had for Chrom while I had a rather affectionate chants from the crowd, saying how much hey loved me!

I immediately pulled up my hood, covering my flushed face, but Chrom the dorky prince pulled it back down. How more can I feel embarrassed!?

"Hahaha! We did it Robin! We won! We'll finally get help for Ylisse, thanks to you." Chrom appreciates me and pulls me into a tight hug, making my red cheeks brighten up even more! I dug my face deep into Chrom's chest, just so I could hide my current tomato face from blushing intensely.

Morgan

Ughh... What happened? What day is it? Who am I? My head hurts terribly and I just remembered about the tournament! I crawled and leaned against the wall for support, then I glanced around and everyone in my team is knocked out or heavily injured. What worried me was that Luci was lying on the ground, groaning in pain as she held onto her midsection. I went to her and supported her by carrying her over my shoulder.

"Ow... Morgan, they were too good. I was caught off guard by dad, but mother had to electrocute me with a thunder spell." I feel bad for Luci, she had suffered more damage than I had, as she bit her lower lip trying to hide her pain escaping from her mouth.

"Oh my, I knew mother and father are overpowered. But to think they beat us even though we forgot to hold back? That was insane!" Though mother blasted me off into a concrete wall with a wind spell, she could've paralyzed her own son without even knowing!

Since the tournament is a complete loss as we planned on losing anyways, we headed for the exit and left without a trace.