Time for Chapter Six! And guess what? I have a muse!
Nino: I'm her muse!!!! Isn't that exciting???
Um, yea...Nino is kinda on sugar high right now. She found our chocolate chip cookie supply in the pantry...
Nino: Weee!!! Sugar is good!!!!
Kinda scary, isn't it? Nino became my muse because I was writing Finding Nino (which is up now by the way, go and read it!!!) and she just sorta showed up then. Now I will respond to some reviews...
Scarabsi: I did what you asked and wrote Finding Nino! :-)
potter29vo and Arctic Flame: Thanks for the advice about the POV changes! The real problem is my computer (as I have mentioned before). Even if I put in spaces or lines when I type the chapter, it takes them out when I post the chapter up on ff.net. I'll try to stick to 2 or 3 POVs (rather than the 5 or 6 I was using before) in each chapter so it's less confusing.
gentleness28: I didn't know there were cell phones or supermarkets in Pherae either! It just kinda happened...
Nino: Your readers are probably bored!!! They don't care about this 'responding to reviews' stuff!!
Yea, I know. Just do the disclaimer so we can get started!
Nino: SweetMisery430 does not own Fire Emblem or any other trademarked products mentioned in this story!!
NOTE: An indent means new POV!!!
Chapter Six
"You think I know?" Rath said flatly in response to Kent's question regarding Fiora.
"Well, no, actually...I wasn't expecting you to know," Kent admitted. "But I figured I'd just ask anyways..."
"That was a stupid idea, then," Rath said, pulling out another arrow from his quiver.
Kent knew Sain would say something idiotic at this point, like, "Well, I'm the King of Stupid Ideas!" but Kent couldn't bring himself to go that far. Even if he was acting a little like Sain today, he didn't want to BE Sain any more than he already was. Kent had a nostalgic moment, in which he longed to be in his normal body. But then again, if he was in his normal body, he wouldn't be able to go around doing whatever he wanted and asking nosy questions.
"I guess it was a stupid idea," agreed Kent. "If you don't know anything, then I suppose I'll be going..."
"This is new. You are humble enough to admit your own stupidity," Rath commented. "You know, I actually might know something, regarding your question."
"Really?" cried Kent excitedly. He couldn't help himself.
"I see the Pegasus Knight you asked about talking to your friend Kent often," the nomad responded, aiming his arrow at the target. "If she liked anyone, as you have put it, it would be him."
Kent felt his heart rise. He didn't know why.
"You don't appear very disappointed," Rath said, letting the arrow fly and immediately stringing another.
"Oh, um, well, I was TRYING to set Kent and Fiora up...yea..." Kent said hurriedly.
"That's not like you, Sain," Rath said. "But I suppose we all surprise each other sometimes." He rode to fetch his arrows from the target.
"Yea," Kent said, thinking out loud. "We do."
Minutes later, Kent rode away from Rath and back towards the stable. His horse was getting tired, and he figured he should finally find Sain. Fiora had mentioned only some of the things Sain had been doing that morning. Who knows what other trouble he might have gotten into?
Kent un-mounted and began to lead his horse to the stable. Conveniently, he saw Sain (or rather, himself) standing in front of the stable door.
"Kent! Kent, I've been looking for you!" cried Sain.
"Shh!" Kent said. "The whole world will hear you and think we're crazy."
"Everyone already thinks we're crazy," shrugged Sain. "We might as well act like it."
"Whatever," Kent sighed. "Where have you been all morning?"
"Oh, here and there," Sain said. "I...well, at first I did some pretty stupid stuff..."
"Like flirting with Fiora?" Kent said sarcastically.
"Yea," Sain replied sheepishly. "And then I heard some girls saying how they were annoyed at me for spying on them on that other night! I felt so bad! Pent also came up to me, and started telling me I was irresponsible and I had to stop flirting with girls! It was a great blow to my pride, Kent! I was so sad, I went to the chapel and decided to say prayers."
Kent almost fainted. "You NEVER say your prayers, Sain. You always try to get out of them!"
"See, now you know how sad I was!"
"What do you mean, 'was'?"
"I am no longer sad!" declared Sain. "I have discovered there is a woman who is sadder than I am – and needs comfort!"
"You had better not go up to her!" Kent warned. "People will be suspicious..."
"They already are, Kent, as I have said before," Sain continued. "And I am not going to go up to her, anyways...you are!"
"WHAT??" cried Kent. "N-no! I will not go up to some random girl and start comforting her! You should...tell Lady Eleanora about it, and have her see to the problem."
"But the love of a man is what she needs, Kent!" Sain exclaimed. "And I, er, I mean, you are the only one who can offer this to her!"
"Well, who is the girl?" asked Kent, figuring if it were someone like Fiora he wouldn't mind.
Sain smiled and said, "Serra."
"Serra? There is no way I am ever going to comfort Serra!!" cried Kent.
"Why not?" asked Sain. "Everyone is cruel to her, including her 'friends' and Erk. She is lonely and depressed!" Kent snorted. "Yeah, right."
"No, she is! I read it in her diary!"
"You what??"
"I found her diary on the shelf next to the prayer books," admitted Sain. "In a very recent entry, she admitted all of this. See, it's right here."
Kent grabbed the book from Sain and read the page.
"Oh, St. Elimine, Sain, I just yelled at Serra this morning," Kent said angrily, shoving the book back at Sain when he was done reading. "I can't just go up and comfort her."
"You YELLED at her???" cried Sain. "How could you??"
"She was trying to hit on me!" he cried. "I found some of those orange bananas she wanted – on accident! – and she started chasing me around until I told her off!"
"No! Kent, how could you!"
"What should I have done? Agreed to be her 'boyfriend'?"
"Please go and apologize at least, Kent!" Sain pleaded. "Tell her you were tired and in a bad state of mind! She will most likely forgive you, and then you can comfort her!"
"Why would I want to??"
"Please, Kent! Do it for me!"
Kent thought about for a few moments.
"Fine," he said slowly. "I'll do it. But just this once!"
"Oh, thank you, Kent!"
"And!" Kent interrupted Sain. "You will owe me for it. Big time."
"Fine, fine," Sain said dismissively. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get going! I'll go find something to do. Find me when you're done!"
Kent sighed. "Well, I'm off then. I can't believe I am doing this..."
Lord Pent saw the detective's carriage pull up to Castle Pherae. He was happy they had been able to come here right away. Louise was getting worse by the minute, complaining of cramps and headaches. Not only did he want to help his wife, but he just wanted her whining to stop.
The detective got out of the car. Pent was surprised to see that it was not a male detective, but a female! He had talked to a man on the phone. This person seemed strangely familiar.
"Aren't you supposed to be...a guy?" asked Pent confusedly. "And do I know you?"
"Oh, the Head Detective must have forgotten to tell you!" the young woman (really a girl) exclaimed brightly. "His day off is Thursday, and today is Thursday! I take all of his Thursday jobs. I'm his part-time assistant. I have another job." She stuck out her hand. "Anyways, I think you do know me! My name is Ally. My other job is being a tactician. I worked for this army, and when they depart from Pherae, I'll resume my role of tactician! We've only met once, but I remember you – you're Lord Pent!"
"You were Eliwood's tactician?" Pent said, seeming to be surprised. "You are quite young. And since when are you a detective? I mean, really..."
"I trained for both jobs at the same time," shrugged Ally. "Now what's your problem?"
Pent sighed. "My wife's orange bananas are missing."
"Orange bananas?" laughed the detective-tactician. "Yeah, right."
"I'm serious!" cried Pent. "They're only sold in Etruria, where I'm from. And my wife's supply of them is missing. Without eating them once a day, my wife grows very ill. It's the doctor's order that she eat them."
"I see," Ally said, pulling out a little note pad and scribbling this information down. "Where were the bananas last seen?"
"In Pherae's kitchen," Pent told her.
"Do you know approximately when they were taken?"
"No. They were just missing this morning, around nine or ten."
"Who would you consider to be a suspect?"
"Everyone!!" cried Pent. "Except me, and Louise. And Lady Eleanora. And Lord Eliwood. And Ninian. But anyone else could have taken it!"
"Hmm..." Ally said, thinking deeply. "We'll just have to interrogate everyone, then. Make an order of people, Lord Pent, and then bring 2 or 3 at a time to the scene of the crime. I will ask them each several questions. Then we'll have a discussion." She turned and walked away.
"Where are you going?" asked Pent.
"To the kitchen," Ally explained. "To examine the place these bananas of yours were last seen."
As she left, Pent sighed. She was a strange sort to be a detective, but it was the best he could do for now. He decided to round up some people to take to Ally for interrogation.
"Lord Hector? Might I have a word?"
Hector turned around and saw the paladin Isadora standing before him, holding several Acme bags. His heart rose at the prospect of food being given to him.
"Sure," he said. "Talk away."
"I...saw someone familiar at the supermarket," she began.
"Uh huh," said Hector, half listening and half eyeing the food.
"It was Hannah, that fortune-teller who traveled with us for some time," Isadora explained.
"That old hag??" cried Hector, snapping out of his daze. "What is SHE doing in Pherae?"
"I don't know," Isadora sighed. "That's why I thought I would tell you about it. Just in case she...needs our help or something."
"Well, thank you, Isadora," Hector said. "That's really weird...hey, what do you have in the bag?" He tried to take the bag away so he could look inside.
Isadora pulled the bag away from his reach. "It's for the girls' sleepover. Don't you dare take anything!"
Hector grumbled and reluctantly pulled his hand away.
"What is with you girls and your sleepovers? What do you DO at those, anyways?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not at liberty to say," Isadora replied, smiling. "Well, I have to go. Thank you for your time. There's lots to do. I have to set up for the party later, and Ally the tactician's here! Only she said something about being a detective...apparently Lady Louise's bananas were stolen...? Ah, well, I really must be going. Goodbye."
As she left, Hector just sighed and said, "The world gets stranger every day."
End of Chapter Six
Nino: What the heck?? Why is your tactician named ALLY??
Because...I felt like naming her that! By the way, Ally isn't MY real name. I'm not going to tell you MY name!! Mwahaha!
Nino: As if they CARE anyways!!
True, true. Oh well. This is the end of the chapter, so I'll stop rambling.
Nino: Please review!!!!!
Nino: I'm her muse!!!! Isn't that exciting???
Um, yea...Nino is kinda on sugar high right now. She found our chocolate chip cookie supply in the pantry...
Nino: Weee!!! Sugar is good!!!!
Kinda scary, isn't it? Nino became my muse because I was writing Finding Nino (which is up now by the way, go and read it!!!) and she just sorta showed up then. Now I will respond to some reviews...
Scarabsi: I did what you asked and wrote Finding Nino! :-)
potter29vo and Arctic Flame: Thanks for the advice about the POV changes! The real problem is my computer (as I have mentioned before). Even if I put in spaces or lines when I type the chapter, it takes them out when I post the chapter up on ff.net. I'll try to stick to 2 or 3 POVs (rather than the 5 or 6 I was using before) in each chapter so it's less confusing.
gentleness28: I didn't know there were cell phones or supermarkets in Pherae either! It just kinda happened...
Nino: Your readers are probably bored!!! They don't care about this 'responding to reviews' stuff!!
Yea, I know. Just do the disclaimer so we can get started!
Nino: SweetMisery430 does not own Fire Emblem or any other trademarked products mentioned in this story!!
NOTE: An indent means new POV!!!
Chapter Six
"You think I know?" Rath said flatly in response to Kent's question regarding Fiora.
"Well, no, actually...I wasn't expecting you to know," Kent admitted. "But I figured I'd just ask anyways..."
"That was a stupid idea, then," Rath said, pulling out another arrow from his quiver.
Kent knew Sain would say something idiotic at this point, like, "Well, I'm the King of Stupid Ideas!" but Kent couldn't bring himself to go that far. Even if he was acting a little like Sain today, he didn't want to BE Sain any more than he already was. Kent had a nostalgic moment, in which he longed to be in his normal body. But then again, if he was in his normal body, he wouldn't be able to go around doing whatever he wanted and asking nosy questions.
"I guess it was a stupid idea," agreed Kent. "If you don't know anything, then I suppose I'll be going..."
"This is new. You are humble enough to admit your own stupidity," Rath commented. "You know, I actually might know something, regarding your question."
"Really?" cried Kent excitedly. He couldn't help himself.
"I see the Pegasus Knight you asked about talking to your friend Kent often," the nomad responded, aiming his arrow at the target. "If she liked anyone, as you have put it, it would be him."
Kent felt his heart rise. He didn't know why.
"You don't appear very disappointed," Rath said, letting the arrow fly and immediately stringing another.
"Oh, um, well, I was TRYING to set Kent and Fiora up...yea..." Kent said hurriedly.
"That's not like you, Sain," Rath said. "But I suppose we all surprise each other sometimes." He rode to fetch his arrows from the target.
"Yea," Kent said, thinking out loud. "We do."
Minutes later, Kent rode away from Rath and back towards the stable. His horse was getting tired, and he figured he should finally find Sain. Fiora had mentioned only some of the things Sain had been doing that morning. Who knows what other trouble he might have gotten into?
Kent un-mounted and began to lead his horse to the stable. Conveniently, he saw Sain (or rather, himself) standing in front of the stable door.
"Kent! Kent, I've been looking for you!" cried Sain.
"Shh!" Kent said. "The whole world will hear you and think we're crazy."
"Everyone already thinks we're crazy," shrugged Sain. "We might as well act like it."
"Whatever," Kent sighed. "Where have you been all morning?"
"Oh, here and there," Sain said. "I...well, at first I did some pretty stupid stuff..."
"Like flirting with Fiora?" Kent said sarcastically.
"Yea," Sain replied sheepishly. "And then I heard some girls saying how they were annoyed at me for spying on them on that other night! I felt so bad! Pent also came up to me, and started telling me I was irresponsible and I had to stop flirting with girls! It was a great blow to my pride, Kent! I was so sad, I went to the chapel and decided to say prayers."
Kent almost fainted. "You NEVER say your prayers, Sain. You always try to get out of them!"
"See, now you know how sad I was!"
"What do you mean, 'was'?"
"I am no longer sad!" declared Sain. "I have discovered there is a woman who is sadder than I am – and needs comfort!"
"You had better not go up to her!" Kent warned. "People will be suspicious..."
"They already are, Kent, as I have said before," Sain continued. "And I am not going to go up to her, anyways...you are!"
"WHAT??" cried Kent. "N-no! I will not go up to some random girl and start comforting her! You should...tell Lady Eleanora about it, and have her see to the problem."
"But the love of a man is what she needs, Kent!" Sain exclaimed. "And I, er, I mean, you are the only one who can offer this to her!"
"Well, who is the girl?" asked Kent, figuring if it were someone like Fiora he wouldn't mind.
Sain smiled and said, "Serra."
"Serra? There is no way I am ever going to comfort Serra!!" cried Kent.
"Why not?" asked Sain. "Everyone is cruel to her, including her 'friends' and Erk. She is lonely and depressed!" Kent snorted. "Yeah, right."
"No, she is! I read it in her diary!"
"You what??"
"I found her diary on the shelf next to the prayer books," admitted Sain. "In a very recent entry, she admitted all of this. See, it's right here."
Kent grabbed the book from Sain and read the page.
"Oh, St. Elimine, Sain, I just yelled at Serra this morning," Kent said angrily, shoving the book back at Sain when he was done reading. "I can't just go up and comfort her."
"You YELLED at her???" cried Sain. "How could you??"
"She was trying to hit on me!" he cried. "I found some of those orange bananas she wanted – on accident! – and she started chasing me around until I told her off!"
"No! Kent, how could you!"
"What should I have done? Agreed to be her 'boyfriend'?"
"Please go and apologize at least, Kent!" Sain pleaded. "Tell her you were tired and in a bad state of mind! She will most likely forgive you, and then you can comfort her!"
"Why would I want to??"
"Please, Kent! Do it for me!"
Kent thought about for a few moments.
"Fine," he said slowly. "I'll do it. But just this once!"
"Oh, thank you, Kent!"
"And!" Kent interrupted Sain. "You will owe me for it. Big time."
"Fine, fine," Sain said dismissively. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get going! I'll go find something to do. Find me when you're done!"
Kent sighed. "Well, I'm off then. I can't believe I am doing this..."
Lord Pent saw the detective's carriage pull up to Castle Pherae. He was happy they had been able to come here right away. Louise was getting worse by the minute, complaining of cramps and headaches. Not only did he want to help his wife, but he just wanted her whining to stop.
The detective got out of the car. Pent was surprised to see that it was not a male detective, but a female! He had talked to a man on the phone. This person seemed strangely familiar.
"Aren't you supposed to be...a guy?" asked Pent confusedly. "And do I know you?"
"Oh, the Head Detective must have forgotten to tell you!" the young woman (really a girl) exclaimed brightly. "His day off is Thursday, and today is Thursday! I take all of his Thursday jobs. I'm his part-time assistant. I have another job." She stuck out her hand. "Anyways, I think you do know me! My name is Ally. My other job is being a tactician. I worked for this army, and when they depart from Pherae, I'll resume my role of tactician! We've only met once, but I remember you – you're Lord Pent!"
"You were Eliwood's tactician?" Pent said, seeming to be surprised. "You are quite young. And since when are you a detective? I mean, really..."
"I trained for both jobs at the same time," shrugged Ally. "Now what's your problem?"
Pent sighed. "My wife's orange bananas are missing."
"Orange bananas?" laughed the detective-tactician. "Yeah, right."
"I'm serious!" cried Pent. "They're only sold in Etruria, where I'm from. And my wife's supply of them is missing. Without eating them once a day, my wife grows very ill. It's the doctor's order that she eat them."
"I see," Ally said, pulling out a little note pad and scribbling this information down. "Where were the bananas last seen?"
"In Pherae's kitchen," Pent told her.
"Do you know approximately when they were taken?"
"No. They were just missing this morning, around nine or ten."
"Who would you consider to be a suspect?"
"Everyone!!" cried Pent. "Except me, and Louise. And Lady Eleanora. And Lord Eliwood. And Ninian. But anyone else could have taken it!"
"Hmm..." Ally said, thinking deeply. "We'll just have to interrogate everyone, then. Make an order of people, Lord Pent, and then bring 2 or 3 at a time to the scene of the crime. I will ask them each several questions. Then we'll have a discussion." She turned and walked away.
"Where are you going?" asked Pent.
"To the kitchen," Ally explained. "To examine the place these bananas of yours were last seen."
As she left, Pent sighed. She was a strange sort to be a detective, but it was the best he could do for now. He decided to round up some people to take to Ally for interrogation.
"Lord Hector? Might I have a word?"
Hector turned around and saw the paladin Isadora standing before him, holding several Acme bags. His heart rose at the prospect of food being given to him.
"Sure," he said. "Talk away."
"I...saw someone familiar at the supermarket," she began.
"Uh huh," said Hector, half listening and half eyeing the food.
"It was Hannah, that fortune-teller who traveled with us for some time," Isadora explained.
"That old hag??" cried Hector, snapping out of his daze. "What is SHE doing in Pherae?"
"I don't know," Isadora sighed. "That's why I thought I would tell you about it. Just in case she...needs our help or something."
"Well, thank you, Isadora," Hector said. "That's really weird...hey, what do you have in the bag?" He tried to take the bag away so he could look inside.
Isadora pulled the bag away from his reach. "It's for the girls' sleepover. Don't you dare take anything!"
Hector grumbled and reluctantly pulled his hand away.
"What is with you girls and your sleepovers? What do you DO at those, anyways?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not at liberty to say," Isadora replied, smiling. "Well, I have to go. Thank you for your time. There's lots to do. I have to set up for the party later, and Ally the tactician's here! Only she said something about being a detective...apparently Lady Louise's bananas were stolen...? Ah, well, I really must be going. Goodbye."
As she left, Hector just sighed and said, "The world gets stranger every day."
End of Chapter Six
Nino: What the heck?? Why is your tactician named ALLY??
Because...I felt like naming her that! By the way, Ally isn't MY real name. I'm not going to tell you MY name!! Mwahaha!
Nino: As if they CARE anyways!!
True, true. Oh well. This is the end of the chapter, so I'll stop rambling.
Nino: Please review!!!!!