Eliwood Makes His Move!

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I've decided to try to get better at romance in this chapter!! Don't say I didn't warn you!!

I knew I'd get a response for my last chapter, but I sure didn't expect to get THAT kind of reaction!!! * looks around nervously * Now, let's see if the reviewers have any questions!

DTN: Ainda is my tactician. Who said I couldn't put my tactician in it? And yes, that was very evil of me. BWAH HA HA HA!!! * hack cough cough * Stupid evil laughs . . . I can't seem to do it right . . . anyway. . .

JacenPrime, random king extrodinare: I didn't know that was his name. Thanks for the info! And don't worry. I'll try to get some more adult character appearances in the story.

Jeanie: Rath is not dead!! I just have no clue as to how their relationship went. ^^; Yeah, that just shows how much I know about my own fic.

DarkLink313: Woah. I've never seen anyone who got that excited about being in the commentary o.O. And yeah, that does sound familiar . . .

I don't own Fire Emblem, and the idea for one guys' name came from Ivanfanatics' 'Diary of Erk', as well as the Raven beating up any one that hit on his sister. I owe a lot to that fic, so I'm tipping my hat (if I wear any hats, anyway) to it. * tips a hat in some random direction * You know what I mean!

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"What?" Eliwood blinked at Hector. Did he just say what he thought he heard?

"When are ya gonna make a move on her?" Hector grinned an even wider smile now. Only, it looked sort of like Sain's smile.

Eliwood blushed. "Who are you talking about?"

Hector sighed before replying. "Lyn of course! We've ALL seen that you like her! It's in your eyes! You give yourself away too much!"

"WHAT?! What do you mean?!"

Sain elbowed him in the stomach. "Aw, come on!! We've seen the looks you give 'er!!"

"B-B-But I don't GIVE her ANY looks!"

"That's what you say!!" Sain winked. Kent rubbed his forehead as he pulled Sain away. "KEENNT!!"

Eliwood sighed. "When will you guys get off my back about girls?"

"When you make a date with one!!" Hector laughed.

Eliwood looked at him with an embarrassed face. "Are you going to BLACKMAIL me?!"

Hector looked shocked. "I would never blackmail you! . . . Sain might though."

"Ummm . . . why would Sain blackmail me, and not you?"

Hector looked insulted. "I'M your best friend! I'd NEVER do such a thing!! Sain, on the other hand . . . well, you never know what's going through HIS mind."

"No, but sometimes I have a pretty clear idea of what he's thinking." Eliwood sighed. They could still see Sain being dragged away, and causing a commotion. "Poor Kent. He has to deal with Sain every day!"

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Fiora answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi, is Florina there?"

Now she looked ticked off. "HECTOR YOU BIG FLIRT!! WOULD YOU JUST STOP CALLING?!?!?!" Then she hung up on him, gave a small huff, and then disconnected the phone from the wall.

"Hello?" Farina answered her cell phone. "Alright then. FLORINA!!! SOMEONE'S ON THE PHONE FOR YOU!!"

"Hello?" Florina answered. Then she tensed up. "Uh . . . h-hi, Hector . . ."

Getting ticked off again, Fiora grabbed Farina's cell phone. "HECTOR STOP FUCKING WELL CALLING!!!!" She then hung up that phone, and handed it back to Farina.

On the other side of the phone lines, Hector looked at his phone. "Damnit! What's with her sisters?" Putting the phone on its cradle, he sighed. "It's like they don't want her to have any human contact with other people!!"

"Well then MAYBE you should stop CALLING HER!!!!" Uther, Hector's older brother suggested. He sounded annoyed, and ready to snap the phone in half.

Hector glared at Uther. "What if she talks to people better on the PHONE then in PERSON? I could be helping her!"

Uther laughed. And he laughed so hard he fell off his chair. "Don't' make me fall off my chair again Hector!! You've liked Florina since fifth grade!! And she KNOWS that!!!"

Hector looked his brother in the eye. "Really? Is that why she doesn't talk to me?"

The older sibling shrugged. "If she treats every guy like that, then she's either sheltered, or doesn't know what to say."

Hector grinned. "Hector, don't try to think of those stupid plans that never work. It'll only get you in DEEPER trouble. Like that time when you kissed her in grade eight. She didn't talk to you for six months after that."

The younger teen snapped his fingers. "Damn! Then it would've worked!!"

Uther sighed. "Maybe she isn't the right girl for you. That's why I'VE waited so long before trying to get a girlfriend."

"Then why DON'T you have one?"

"I said I was TRYING TO GET ONE!!!" Uther threw a pillow at Hector, obviously he was angry.

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Eliwood was blushing through first period that day. It had been a couple days since Hector suggested the idea that Sain would blackmail him, but he still believed that Hector would do that too. Now, he was hoping to ask Lyn on a date. Well, it would be the first time he really ASKED a GIRL to go on a date. And it would've been the first time she would accept, right?

"Ok Eliwood, stay calm, don't blush, and she'll say yes. Lyn's the kind that would accept a date, right?" Just to be sure, he had . . . asked . . . her friends what she liked. Apparently she was tomboy-ish, and liked guy movies. So he was planning on taking her to a movie. But then he started to think about the movies in the cinemas, or what she had or hadn't seen. "What if she doesn't like it?" He was starting to think of what could go wrong.

Hector was watching Eliwood scratch all the results onto a piece of paper, scratch them out, and then write some more possibilities. Some of them were just plain ridiculous!! He was SURE that Eliwood didn't believe in aliens!! "Don't you think that ALIENS are bit . . . unrealistic?"

"ANYTHING could wrong with MY luck!!" Eliwood pretty much exploded on him. Then he gave an exasperated sigh to show how he felt about his woman situation.

"Ok ok! Just say, don't SPRAY it!!" Hector waved one of his hands frantically. Then he started to think. "Maybe you should ask her what movies she likes, or wants to see."

"Wouldn't she catch on though??" Eliwood looked at him desperately. "My manhood is on the line here!!"

" . . . MANHOOD?"

"Yeah!! She could think I'm a total dork, go out with someone else, and then I'D be alone for the rest of my life!!"

Hector looked at him like he was crazy. "If you behave like THAT, she will go for someone else."

Eliwood looked exasperated. "You've GOTTA help me Hector!!" He was clutching onto Hector's school jacket and holding Hector closer to him. (Not in that way, perverts!!)

"Uhh . . ." Hector thought about it for a while, trying to think of what he could do for Eliwood. "Ok, sure."

Eliwood looked relieved. "Oh THANK YOU!! You have NO IDEA what that means to me!!"

"No prob." Hector replied. "Ok, now first, we have to make sure you have no tight clothing. I don't think Lyn would like that sorta thing on a guy."

"My parents wouldn't let me wear that stuff anyway." Eliwood sighed, but it sounded like a sigh of relief.

"Ok, then we'll need a new step one. Hmmm . . . ah! First, this is what you do . . ."

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"I can't believe I'm actually following HECTOR'S advice. Oh well, beats having none to begin with . . . alright, here goes nothing . . ." Eliwood gulped.

Hector had told him to do something that would get her attention, and not lose it in the process. He had let Eliwood decide what to do for that. Then, he would have to ask her quickly, before she loses her attention span for him and look towards some other guy.

Eliwood had decided to just go up and ask her. That worked for most guys (Sain not included with them, of course).

He was walking up to her. Perfect!! She was just heading down to gym class. This was the best time to ask!! He was walking up to her. But then something caught his foot (he found out later that it was an ill-placed rock—but in a building?).

With his momentum thrown off, he tripped. Of course, knowing him, the worst came with that. He had collided with Lyn. And they were near the stairs. So put two and two together, and you can figure out that they fell down the stairs. All 3 sets of stairs. Figures.

Eliwood also landed on top, and everyone was staring at them. The two that just fell down the stairs were blushing like red tomatoes, when Eliwood decided to ask the question.

"Umm . . . wanna go on a date with me? Uhh . . ."

He quickly crawled off, realizing that they attracted that much attention. The bell rang, and Eliwood immediately dashed off for gym, leaving everyone to see the dust cloud that followed his trail.

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Volleyballs were always attracted to something breakable. In this case, it was Marcus' reading glasses. He was trying to read something that was handed out to all the teachers, when a volleyball came into the picture and hit his glasses, shattering one lens. And now, he was in a state of mind where there was NO turning back.

"ALRIGHT!!!! WHO THREW THAT BALL?!!!" He yelled out in anger, making all the students stop moving (even Hector!). Then they all started to point fingers in every direction. One not to bright student (whose name was Fuzz . . . that poor boy, having a name like that!) pointed up to some of the ceiling lights. Obviously, no one believed him.

"EVERYONE OUTSIDE!!! SIX LAPS AROUND THE SCHOOL!! NOOW!!!!" He yelled. No one wanted to get stuck with Marcus in this mood, so they all ran outside to do the six laps.

"Marcus is really ticked off now!!!" Hector said to Eliwood, as they were running at their top speeds around the school. The red-haired prep student was already panting, and they hadn't even made one lap yet!! "Hey man, tired already?"

"HECK YEAH!!!" Eliwood managed to cough quickly, before having to try and get his breath back.

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"Now, let's try this AGAIN! You will be playing volleyball, WITHOUT hitting anyone in the head!!" Marcus was trying to say calmly. But he was bad at hiding it – his right eye was twitching. Eliwood could tell he wasn't mad at HIM, but he had to make the punishment fair. Well, that's what he THOUGHT, anyway.

Everyone else gulped. "Yes sir!!" They replied loudly and simultaneously.

About fifteen minutes into the game, Lyn was getting a little nervous. "Did Eliwood REALLY ask me on a DATE?!" She was blushing a bit. She was a little nervous, and almost got hit by the ball.

"SORRY LYN!!!" Hector called across from the net. It was boys against girls, and the girls were always losing. But with Lyn, they were turning the tide. The boys were even with the girls, and now it was left in one point to decide the game.

The girls seemed to have a fear at the ball – they would always try to get out of its path. It didn't do good for the game, but they didn't really seem intent on winning it anyway. The boys always tried for that as an advantage, and always won.

But Lyn was the only girl that didn't run from the ball in fear. She actually tried to hit it – which was drastically different then the other girls. "Come on!! If we want to win, we have to go NEAR the ball!!" She tried to encourage. But only Florina attempted to go near the ball after Lyn's encouragement sentence.

The green-haired girl sighed. * Don't the others want to play? * But of course, right after she thought that, Serra stepped forward, ready to play. But she really wanted to beat Erk, and the other boys who stayed away from her. Erk had said he would only go out with her if the girls' team had won a game of volleball, so she was determined to win – for a date with Erk.

Hector smirked. "Heh, only three girls willing to play. I'm surprised Florina would play though . . ." He mumbled, before getting ready to return Lyn's serve.

She was holding the ball. * All right Lyn . . . this is the serve that will decide the game!! * She closed her eyes for a quick moment. Then she thrust the ball into the air, and hit it as hard as she could, hoping that it would succeed in getting over the net.

And it did. Hector just barely managed to hit it back over to the girls' side, which was quickly countered by Serra. It flew back over, where Sain had hit it back, hoping that Lyn would be the one to send it back to him (he was hoping for him, in paticular). She did sent it back over, but to Kent, who successfully aimed it at one of the non-playing girls.

Florina got there just in time, and managed to hit it to Serra, who in turn sent it to Erk.

Erk was never very good in sports. So when the ball made it's way to him, he had to scramble to get it back over to the girls' side of the net. After getting it over, he fell flat on his face. * Ugh!! When's it someone ELSE turn to play this stupid game?! *

"Go Lyn! Go Lyn!" Serra chanted a few times after Lyn spiked it over the net.

Hector hmphed (If that's even a term!). "This game is just getting started!!" He hit it back over the net. The Pegasus knight in training just made it over to hit it over to Serra, who just got it over to the men's' side of the gym.

"Kyah!!" Lyn hit the ball over the net again.

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Tunk. Tunk. It was time to put the equipment away. Serra was smiling over time now. From that, you could tell that the girl's actually won their first game. Now Erk had to go on a date with Serra, and he wasn't to pleased with that.

"Augh!!" He muttered under his breath. "Just my day, isn't it? Now I have to take Serra on a date!!! Why can't she find someone ELSE to torment?!!" He also muttered, going to the men's locker room. * Now I have to figure out what to do with her. *

One of our favorite red-haired teens, Eliwood, was now starting to keep a few feet away from Lyn. * Will she answer my question? I wonder what she'll say . . . I hope she doesn't say no! *

He was hearing her talk with Florina. "Did he REALLY ask you that?!" Serra interrupted the two, after eavesdropping on Lyn. Lyn nodded, and Serra squealed. Everyone plugged their ears for their own safety.

"You've GOT to say yes!! That's the first time he's really asked a girl for anything since Ninian turned him down!!!" The pink-haired annoyance continued.

Lyn looked at Serra like she WAS annoyed (she was annoyed already by Serra). "I was GOING to say yes! I just can't find him!!"

Florina mumbled something in Lyn's ear. The respondent nodded her head, and looked behind one of the near-by grey poles. "Ah-HA!! There you are!" Lyn found the boy in question behind the pole.

"Uh . . ." Eliwood was blushing now.

"Were you eavesdropping on us?!" Serra looked at him with a cross look on her face.

". . . . yeah . . ."

The bell then rang. "See ya later Lyn. I have Pegasus training right after school!" Florina dashed off. Serra followed her, for lack of anywhere to really go after school. (And that bothered Florina – since she wanted to train in private)

"Ok."

"What?"

"I'm answering your first question! I will go on a date with you!"

"Oh. Alright . . . "

"Pick me up Friday at six." Lyn winked, and walked off to her locker.

When Eliwood was alone, he turned around, and shot his fist into the air. "YES!!!"

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Well, that changes the mood from the previous chapter.

Serra: I never expected you to get reviews like THAT.

Same here!! Only . . . I have a couple more events that might have a similar effect!! Then they're gonna call me evil again. And with the last one, they might call me even more evil then Barney!!

Serra: . . . . Barney?

Erk: No, they'd call you more evil then Serra.

Serra: HEY!!! * chases after Erk *

-_-;; Please leave a review! And could you people stop calling me evil for that last chapter? It was weird, being called evil. . .