Yes...it is time for the final chapter!
Nino: Isn't it depressing?
This chapter might be kinda long, since I have to resolve everything this chapter, and I do not feel like writing another chapter after this one. But you guys don't mind, right? Well, I'm sure you are bored of my rambling and want to read the chapter...so...
Nino: SweetMisery430 does not own Fire Emblem. She never has, and she never will.
Chapter Eleven
"Wait, wait, so Serra is one of the banana thieves?" Ally asked Hector and she, the Ostian Lord, and Pent sat in the kitchen.
"Yeah," sighed Hector. He had just explained everything he knew to her. "I had no idea there were TWO of them, though...who could the other one be?"
"It could be anybody!" cried Pent, who was having a nervous breakdown. "We'll never figure out who! It could even be YOU, Hector!!"
"I didn't take any of your wife's stupid bananas!" Hector yelled, angry at the accusation. "I don't like bananas. I throw up when I eat them. You can ask Matthew, if you want proof, or Oswin. Even SERRA knows that."
"So where IS Serra?" asked Ally. "Is she even here?"
"She probably went out for dinner," Hector said. "She does that every night, or so Matthew has told me. I can go into town and look for her, if you want me to."
"Okay, go do that," the tactician-detective agreed. "Pent, go check on your wife. I heard her...moaning up there when I came in a while ago."
Pent made a frustrated noise and then stomped out of the kitchen and up the stairs. He was having a hard time lately – Sain flirting with his wife, the bananas going missing, Louise being moody, being 'kidnapped' by his fans...Could things get any worse?
Lyn had decided to head back to Castle Pherae alone, since Lucius's shift as a waiter wasn't over, and Fiora had already departed with the others. As she approached the castle, she was surprised to see Hector coming towards her.
"Hector, where are you going?" she asked him when they neared each other.
"Into town to find Serra," he sighed. "Turns out she was one of the banana thieves. Go figure."
"Oh yeah, I knew that," Lyn admitted. "But Serra should be in the castle. I was with her, Fiora, and Kent, and they left town ahead of me."
"Wait, they're already here?" cried Hector. "But I asked a bunch of people if anyone had come in and left recently. They all said that no one had come in since Lord Pent."
"You mean they never got back to the castle?" gasped Lyn. "What could have happened? I can't imagine what would sidetrack them except...oh no! They must have seen Hannah!"
With that, Lyn ran back towards town at top speed.
"Hey, wait up!" Hector called after her. "What are you talking about? And where are you going? I'm coming with you!"
He remembered Isadora telling him that she had seen Hannah in the Acme. But how was the reason Hannah was here connected to Kent, Fiora, and Serra? And hadn't Kent been the one to warn him about Serra being one of the thieves? Why would they be together? He was determined to find out, and took off after Lyn.
Fiora stared angrily at Hannah. "What do you want with us? We're in a hurry. Please stop blocking the path or we'll have to move you."
Hannah cackled. "Well, I thought you'd figured it out by now. I was the one who put the transformation spell on those two cavaliers. They shouldn't be able to switch back until I decide it's time."
"Look," Fiora said, in an extremely annoyed and angry tone, "I don't know if this is your idea of fun, or a joke, or something, but it is NOT appropriate to make two people switch bodies for no apparent reason!!"
"But there was a reason, my dear," Hannah said with a laugh. "Those two are always fighting. I thought that if they switched bodies, they might understand what it was like to be in the other ones' shoes – or to see themselves through different eyes."
"That's what Sain thought the reason was for this," Kent muttered, remembering Sain's words from much earlier that day.
Fiora shot back, "I think those two have gone through enough already! What other tortures do you plan to put them through? Besides, all you managed to do was massively confuse the rest of us, and give Kent and Sain bad reputations."
"I have to disagree," Hannah replied with a shake of her head. "You've learned some very important lessons today, haven't you?"
Her question was directed at Kent. "Well...maybe..."
"Kent!" cried Fiora. "Don't try to make her think she's right."
He ignored her. "I guess I realized that Sain has a lot more freedom to do and say what he wants than I do, just because of his personality. And maybe that I should loosen up sometimes because...well, I enjoyed having that much freedom."
Fiora's mouth fell open. "Kent...!"
"And Sain has a lot of pressure on him, even if it doesn't seem like it," Kent went on. "He always has to be the way he is, or people would be confused. And no one takes Sain seriously. Maybe...maybe he feels bad about that."
"See, you have learned something!" cried Hannah. "That's good. But it's not over just yet...let's see if your friend learned anything...first, we'll have to find him!"
Serra, who had been watching and listening in awe, spoke up: "Look, I'm tired and sad, and I had a bad day, and I want to go home!!"
Hannah just ignored her.
Fiora had not given up yet. "Look, I don't know WHAT you are trying to do, but you will not mess with Kent and Sain any longer and – "
"Looks like shutting you up will be a bit harder than I expected," sighed Hannah.
She muttered some words under her breath. A moment later, Fiora opened her mouth, but no words came out. She looked surprised. She made a VERY scary and angry face, but Hannah was unfazed.
"Come, let us head for Castle Pherae," Hannah said. "If your companion has experienced something similar to you, then perhaps I will allow the two of you to switch back."
Please don't screw this up, Sain, Kent prayed in his mind. Or else we may be stuck like this...forever.
Minutes later, they were at the castle. Hannah muttered more words, and in an instant, they were all inside of Serra's room.
"H-how did you - ?" Serra began to say, but Hannah silenced her. Serra, not wanting to lose her voice like Fiora had, shut up immediately.
"Bring me the banana," Hannah ordered.
Serra nodded nervously. She went to her dresser and opened it. She cleared out a large pile of clothes, and then took out a medium sized wooden box. She took a key out of her pocket and unlocked the box. Inside was the orange banana. She gazed at it longingly for a moment, and then handed it to Hannah.
Hannah smiled. "Ah, this must be the last one. Well, there's only one thing to do."
With those words, Hannah threw the banana into the fireplace (which must have been lit by a servant or Lady Eleanora) with all of her might. Fiora looked shocked, and Kent and Serra both cried out. The banana was ash in a few moments.
"How COULD you!!" cried Serra, and lunged at Hannah. Hannah did her 'muttering some words' thing, and Serra froze in mid-air. She could not move at all. Kent and Fiora were both wide-eyed with shock.
"Now how will we change back?" Kent asked in a panicked voice. "Will I be stuck like this forever?"
"You don't need any stupid banana to change you back," the old crone told him. "You can change yourself back. You could have done it all along, but you didn't figure out how to. Young people, always trying to solve their problems with material objects..."
"W-what do you mean?" cried Kent.
"Go find your friend; the other one under the spell," Hannah ordered. "If you want to accomplish anything, you'll need him here."
Kent started for the door, but Fiora stopped him. She gestured to herself, implying that she would go instead, and then went to the door.
"How will you talk to him?" Kent wanted to know, but Fiora just gave him a Look, and Kent let her go. He could tell that she was planning something else besides getting Sain.
He saw Hannah shrug, not caring who went. The old woman sat down in a big chair by the fire and began to hum to herself. Serra was still frozen in her lunging position. Kent didn't want to try and move her, so he just stood there, waiting for Fiora to return.
Fiora ran into the kitchen as fast as she could. Ally looked up from her notebook, surprised. Fiora grabbed the notebook and pen out of her hands and began to scribble rapidly.
"What are you doing??" cried Ally. "Give that back!"
Fiora finished writing and shoved the notebook back at Ally. Ally read over what the Pegasus Knight had written. Her eyes widened.
"Oh no!" the tactician cried. "We'll have to help...let's see...I know! I have a plan..."
Sain was sitting in his and Kent's room, bored out of his mind. Kent should be back from his date by now, but he wasn't. What could have happened to him?
Then, there was a knock on the door. "Come in!" he called.
Ally came into the room. "Sain, something has happened. You'll have to come with me."
"Sure, Ally, anything for – Hey, wait, did you just call me SAIN?" he realized.
She ignored him and dragged him out the door.
Finally, Sain came in the room, but alone. What had happened to Fiora? Kent wondered.
"You summoned me, Lady Hannah?" Sain asked politely.
Hannah laughed yet again. "LADY Hannah? I never though anyone would refer to me as that! What a polite young man."
"Sain, she burned the last banana!" cried Kent.
"What??" Sain cried back. "How could you, you old crone??"
"Oh, so now I'm a crone," sighed Hannah, but her face still had a slight smile on it. "Sain, please tell me what you have learned from being Kent for the day."
"What I've learned??" Sain said, dumbfounded. "I guess that...uh...girls don't like me because I flirt with them too much...Um, and that Kent is more reliable than I am, and that he has more duties, so I shouldn't bother him much."
Hannah looked pleased. "Good answer. Kent also told me some things that he had learned about being you, Sain. So, will these things you've learned change how you act from now on?"
They both thought for a moment.
"I guess I could loosen up SOMEtimes," Kent said.
"I won't flirt with girls ALL of the time...but I'll still always protect the, as a knight is sworn to do!" Sain said.
"How about how you act towards each other?" Hannah prompted.
"Well...I guess I'll try not to pester Kent as much," replied Sain. "Everyone relies on him to keep me from being too crazy."
"In that case, I wouldn't order Sain around as much," said Kent. "But...I guess at some times, regardless of the situation, I should let him have a bit of fun."
"There...now you're started to realize what the root of all your arguments are!" Hannah said happily.
"Sorry for being so annoying sometimes, Kent," said Sain.
"I'm sorry for being so mean sometimes," Kent replied.
"Oh, look at the time! I really should be going," Hannah observed as the clock in Serra's room tolled eight o'clock. She disappeared from the room.
Then, before Kent or Sain could keep Hannah from leaving, the room began to shake. Everything began to move around, except for the still-frozen figure of Serra. Both cavaliers tried their hardest to keep from falling over. They both became incredibly dizzy, and their vision was blurred. Then everything went black.
"There she is!"
"Get her!"
"Oh no, she's getting away!"
Matthew, Guy, and Heath (all of whom had been recruited by Ally and Fiora to help catch Hannah) came to a halt when Hannah disappeared yet again. They were right outside of Serra's room's window, and they had been hiding in the trees, waiting for Hannah to appear.
Matthew cursed. "Why does she have to do that annoying warping thing??"
"Where could she have gone?" wondered Guy.
"We'll never find her now," groaned Heath. "I could chase after her on Hyperion, but he's asleep in the stable. By the time I could get him ready, she'd be long gone."
The three of them sighed and headed inside, not knowing what else they could do.
Hector and Lyn were beyond frustrated. Kent, Fiora, and Serra had all disappeared without a trace. Lyn had recruited Lucius to help them search once his shift had ended, but they'd still had no success.
"Do you think they went back to the castle without us knowing?" Lucius asked.
Lyn was about to answer when the figure of an old woman appeared in front of her. "Hannah!"
Before she could warp away again, Hector had grabbed her. "You had BETTER explain everything to us RIGHT NOW, you old hag, or there will be consequences!"
Hannah, unable to warp without taking Hector with her on accident, gave up trying to get away. "Fine, fine, I'll tell you..."
"Kent! Sain!"
Fiora and Ally came running into the room. Kent and Sain lay unconscious on the floor, and Serra was standing up. She had fallen onto the ground when the freezing spell had lifted. This had happened at the end of the 'earthquake'.
"Ow..." she said, feeling sore and bruised.
Fiora immediately ran to Sain, thinking he was Kent. "Kent! Kent, wake up!!"
The real Kent sat up and rubbed his head. "What happened? And when did you get your voice back, Fiora?"
Fiora looked confused. Sain hadn't known she'd lost her voice...so that must mean...
"Kent!" she cried, and threw her arms around him. "You're back in your own body!"
"Ow," was Kent's comment. "Hey, I am! I wonder how we ended the spell..."
At that moment, Sain sat up too. "Hey, where am I...? Oh hey! Kent, I just had the weirdest dream! In it, we switched bodies, and –"
"That wasn't a dream, Sain," Ally said, smiling. "That really happened. "But you're back to normal now! Isn't that great?"
"Oh, wow, really? Hey, that is great!" cried Sain, standing up. "Now I can flirt with girls again without feeling guilty!"
"Sain..." Kent said sternly.
They looked at each other for a moment, and then they started laughing.
"What's so funny?" asked Ally, confused. "Did I miss something?"
Fiora just shook her head. "I have no idea. Hey, you guys, Ally and I are going to go downstairs, to, uh, check something, ok? Come down when you're...done..." The two girls left.
The two cavaliers finally calmed down, and Sain said, "Wow, I'm so glad things are finally back to normal around here."
"I am too," agreed Kent, getting up off of the floor. "You know, Sain...I meant what I said before. If you don't act too crazy, I won't be too mean to you."
"Hey, I meant it to!" Sain replied. "But you know, this is getting way to corny for me...all of this 'understanding one another' stuff. I mean, I'll do what I said and everything, but...for tonight, let's just have fun!"
"Okay," shrugged Kent. "Sure. I'm not in the mood to order you around tonight."
"Well," Sain said, his voice becoming very mischievous all of the sudden, "the girls ARE having a sleepover tonight..."
The two cavaliers left the room as Sain kept talking, leaving Serra to stare. She didn't remember anything that had happened to her all day. She vaguely remembered the taste of orange bananas (they were really good, too) but that was about it.
She shook her head to clear her mind. She'd had enough for one day. She'd skip the party tonight and go right to bed. Tomorrow, she'd talk things over with Rebecca and Priscilla. Maybe they would understand why she didn't like them talking about her behind her back. Maybe it was time for her to change, too.
Hector, Lyn, and Lucius returned with Hannah in tow. After a long talk with Ally and Fiora, Hector ordered Oswin to take Hannah to a magically-warded retirement home (preventing anyone from escaping) located in Pherae.
Hannah stayed in the retirement home for the remaining several years of her life, too old and tired to try and get away. At least she knew she had accomplished something by helping Eliwood's army.
Once everything had settled down, the girls went ahead and had their sleepover. In attendance were Lyn, Fiora, Ally, Florina, Isadora, Louise, Rebecca, and Priscilla. Even Ninian had come. Lyn and Florina had invited her.
Little did the girls know that Kent and Sain were watching them.
"So this is where you spied on them from," Kent observed.
It turned out that Sain had found a passage in the vent in his and Kent's room. The vent led to Rebecca's room, where the sleepovers were held. They could see and hear the girls talking very clearly.
"Yep," Sain said proudly. "Oh, look, they have Lays and Cheetos, and even mint ice cream! Wish I could have some..."
"Are those skeletons on Fiora's pajamas??" cried Kent in an alarmed voice.
"It would appear so," Sain observed.
Kent shook his head. "Wow, she has a wild side to her that I'd never seen before tonight..."
"Oh, looks, this is the best part of the whole sleepover! Where they do makeovers," Sain said. "Seeing Louise in a mud mask makes my day."
Louise had recovered from her breakdown after Lady Eleanora had discovered a half eaten box of orange bananas in the linens closet. There were enough left to last her another week or two. Pent said they could send for some more in Etruria right away, and they would arrive right when the other bananas ran out. After hearing this, Louise had happily agreed to attend the sleepover.
When the makeovers were done, Kent and Sain began to be a bit drowsy. Then, there was a soft knock on the door of Rebecca's room.
"Who is it?" called Rebecca as the other girls quieted down.
"It's Nils," said a little boy's voice. "Is Ninian in there?"
Ninian immediately stood up and answered the door. "I'm right here, Nils. Is something wrong?"
Nils looked pale and sick. "I...I don't feel so well..."
"Really? Aw, you poor thing..." crooned Louise, and motioned for him to come sit in her lap, which he did.
"Do you have a stomach virus or something, Nils?" asked Lyn.
"Did you eat too much?" Isadora inquired.
"Do you feel like you're going to throw up?" Fiora wanted to know.
"Oh, I hate seeing people throw up," Florina said softly, clutching her pillow to her stomach.
"I-I don't know why I feel sick," Nils said softly.
"I'll heal you, but your stomach might still hurt a bit," Priscilla offered, and took out her healing staff.
A warm glow surrounded Nils. "Th-thanks..." he mumbled. "It feels a little better..."
Ninian sat down next to Louise and patted her brother on the back. "You'll stop feeling sick soon, Nils."
The girls resumed their usual gossip a moment later.
"I wonder who the second banana thief was," Lyn said. "I know Serra was the other one, but it was confirmed that she only took a few bananas by the witnesses, rather then the entire boxes of them..."
"Yes, I wondered that too, Lyn," Fiora agreed. "It could be anybody in the whole army!"
Lyn sighed. "I guess we'll never know."
Only Kent and Sain saw the guilty look on Nils's face. They smiled at each other. Then Sain yawned.
"You know, I think we've seen enough for one night," Kent said. "Let's go to bed."
"Okay," Sain replied. "For once, I'll agree with you...because you, you know, came with me to spy on the girls..."
They crawled back through the vent to their room and got into their beds, hoping they would wake up in the same ones they went to sleep in.
"Goodnight, Sain."
"Goodnight, Kent."
With that, the two cavaliers fell fast asleep, happy to be themselves again, and looking forward to the next day.
The End
It is done! Sorry for all of the corniness in this chapter. I always make corny endings without even trying...Well, Kent and Sain had to learn a 'lesson' or I couldn't switch them back!
Nino: Oh yay...now you'll never have to update this again. You can work on more stories with ME in them.
You're the same as always, Nino. Anyways, as you may know, I am still working on two other fics, but I do have plans for another story! If you want to know a little bit about it, go to my profile. I will start it soon...
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Um, yeah...I hope you guys enjoyed Being Sain!
Nino: Isn't it depressing?
This chapter might be kinda long, since I have to resolve everything this chapter, and I do not feel like writing another chapter after this one. But you guys don't mind, right? Well, I'm sure you are bored of my rambling and want to read the chapter...so...
Nino: SweetMisery430 does not own Fire Emblem. She never has, and she never will.
Chapter Eleven
"Wait, wait, so Serra is one of the banana thieves?" Ally asked Hector and she, the Ostian Lord, and Pent sat in the kitchen.
"Yeah," sighed Hector. He had just explained everything he knew to her. "I had no idea there were TWO of them, though...who could the other one be?"
"It could be anybody!" cried Pent, who was having a nervous breakdown. "We'll never figure out who! It could even be YOU, Hector!!"
"I didn't take any of your wife's stupid bananas!" Hector yelled, angry at the accusation. "I don't like bananas. I throw up when I eat them. You can ask Matthew, if you want proof, or Oswin. Even SERRA knows that."
"So where IS Serra?" asked Ally. "Is she even here?"
"She probably went out for dinner," Hector said. "She does that every night, or so Matthew has told me. I can go into town and look for her, if you want me to."
"Okay, go do that," the tactician-detective agreed. "Pent, go check on your wife. I heard her...moaning up there when I came in a while ago."
Pent made a frustrated noise and then stomped out of the kitchen and up the stairs. He was having a hard time lately – Sain flirting with his wife, the bananas going missing, Louise being moody, being 'kidnapped' by his fans...Could things get any worse?
Lyn had decided to head back to Castle Pherae alone, since Lucius's shift as a waiter wasn't over, and Fiora had already departed with the others. As she approached the castle, she was surprised to see Hector coming towards her.
"Hector, where are you going?" she asked him when they neared each other.
"Into town to find Serra," he sighed. "Turns out she was one of the banana thieves. Go figure."
"Oh yeah, I knew that," Lyn admitted. "But Serra should be in the castle. I was with her, Fiora, and Kent, and they left town ahead of me."
"Wait, they're already here?" cried Hector. "But I asked a bunch of people if anyone had come in and left recently. They all said that no one had come in since Lord Pent."
"You mean they never got back to the castle?" gasped Lyn. "What could have happened? I can't imagine what would sidetrack them except...oh no! They must have seen Hannah!"
With that, Lyn ran back towards town at top speed.
"Hey, wait up!" Hector called after her. "What are you talking about? And where are you going? I'm coming with you!"
He remembered Isadora telling him that she had seen Hannah in the Acme. But how was the reason Hannah was here connected to Kent, Fiora, and Serra? And hadn't Kent been the one to warn him about Serra being one of the thieves? Why would they be together? He was determined to find out, and took off after Lyn.
Fiora stared angrily at Hannah. "What do you want with us? We're in a hurry. Please stop blocking the path or we'll have to move you."
Hannah cackled. "Well, I thought you'd figured it out by now. I was the one who put the transformation spell on those two cavaliers. They shouldn't be able to switch back until I decide it's time."
"Look," Fiora said, in an extremely annoyed and angry tone, "I don't know if this is your idea of fun, or a joke, or something, but it is NOT appropriate to make two people switch bodies for no apparent reason!!"
"But there was a reason, my dear," Hannah said with a laugh. "Those two are always fighting. I thought that if they switched bodies, they might understand what it was like to be in the other ones' shoes – or to see themselves through different eyes."
"That's what Sain thought the reason was for this," Kent muttered, remembering Sain's words from much earlier that day.
Fiora shot back, "I think those two have gone through enough already! What other tortures do you plan to put them through? Besides, all you managed to do was massively confuse the rest of us, and give Kent and Sain bad reputations."
"I have to disagree," Hannah replied with a shake of her head. "You've learned some very important lessons today, haven't you?"
Her question was directed at Kent. "Well...maybe..."
"Kent!" cried Fiora. "Don't try to make her think she's right."
He ignored her. "I guess I realized that Sain has a lot more freedom to do and say what he wants than I do, just because of his personality. And maybe that I should loosen up sometimes because...well, I enjoyed having that much freedom."
Fiora's mouth fell open. "Kent...!"
"And Sain has a lot of pressure on him, even if it doesn't seem like it," Kent went on. "He always has to be the way he is, or people would be confused. And no one takes Sain seriously. Maybe...maybe he feels bad about that."
"See, you have learned something!" cried Hannah. "That's good. But it's not over just yet...let's see if your friend learned anything...first, we'll have to find him!"
Serra, who had been watching and listening in awe, spoke up: "Look, I'm tired and sad, and I had a bad day, and I want to go home!!"
Hannah just ignored her.
Fiora had not given up yet. "Look, I don't know WHAT you are trying to do, but you will not mess with Kent and Sain any longer and – "
"Looks like shutting you up will be a bit harder than I expected," sighed Hannah.
She muttered some words under her breath. A moment later, Fiora opened her mouth, but no words came out. She looked surprised. She made a VERY scary and angry face, but Hannah was unfazed.
"Come, let us head for Castle Pherae," Hannah said. "If your companion has experienced something similar to you, then perhaps I will allow the two of you to switch back."
Please don't screw this up, Sain, Kent prayed in his mind. Or else we may be stuck like this...forever.
Minutes later, they were at the castle. Hannah muttered more words, and in an instant, they were all inside of Serra's room.
"H-how did you - ?" Serra began to say, but Hannah silenced her. Serra, not wanting to lose her voice like Fiora had, shut up immediately.
"Bring me the banana," Hannah ordered.
Serra nodded nervously. She went to her dresser and opened it. She cleared out a large pile of clothes, and then took out a medium sized wooden box. She took a key out of her pocket and unlocked the box. Inside was the orange banana. She gazed at it longingly for a moment, and then handed it to Hannah.
Hannah smiled. "Ah, this must be the last one. Well, there's only one thing to do."
With those words, Hannah threw the banana into the fireplace (which must have been lit by a servant or Lady Eleanora) with all of her might. Fiora looked shocked, and Kent and Serra both cried out. The banana was ash in a few moments.
"How COULD you!!" cried Serra, and lunged at Hannah. Hannah did her 'muttering some words' thing, and Serra froze in mid-air. She could not move at all. Kent and Fiora were both wide-eyed with shock.
"Now how will we change back?" Kent asked in a panicked voice. "Will I be stuck like this forever?"
"You don't need any stupid banana to change you back," the old crone told him. "You can change yourself back. You could have done it all along, but you didn't figure out how to. Young people, always trying to solve their problems with material objects..."
"W-what do you mean?" cried Kent.
"Go find your friend; the other one under the spell," Hannah ordered. "If you want to accomplish anything, you'll need him here."
Kent started for the door, but Fiora stopped him. She gestured to herself, implying that she would go instead, and then went to the door.
"How will you talk to him?" Kent wanted to know, but Fiora just gave him a Look, and Kent let her go. He could tell that she was planning something else besides getting Sain.
He saw Hannah shrug, not caring who went. The old woman sat down in a big chair by the fire and began to hum to herself. Serra was still frozen in her lunging position. Kent didn't want to try and move her, so he just stood there, waiting for Fiora to return.
Fiora ran into the kitchen as fast as she could. Ally looked up from her notebook, surprised. Fiora grabbed the notebook and pen out of her hands and began to scribble rapidly.
"What are you doing??" cried Ally. "Give that back!"
Fiora finished writing and shoved the notebook back at Ally. Ally read over what the Pegasus Knight had written. Her eyes widened.
"Oh no!" the tactician cried. "We'll have to help...let's see...I know! I have a plan..."
Sain was sitting in his and Kent's room, bored out of his mind. Kent should be back from his date by now, but he wasn't. What could have happened to him?
Then, there was a knock on the door. "Come in!" he called.
Ally came into the room. "Sain, something has happened. You'll have to come with me."
"Sure, Ally, anything for – Hey, wait, did you just call me SAIN?" he realized.
She ignored him and dragged him out the door.
Finally, Sain came in the room, but alone. What had happened to Fiora? Kent wondered.
"You summoned me, Lady Hannah?" Sain asked politely.
Hannah laughed yet again. "LADY Hannah? I never though anyone would refer to me as that! What a polite young man."
"Sain, she burned the last banana!" cried Kent.
"What??" Sain cried back. "How could you, you old crone??"
"Oh, so now I'm a crone," sighed Hannah, but her face still had a slight smile on it. "Sain, please tell me what you have learned from being Kent for the day."
"What I've learned??" Sain said, dumbfounded. "I guess that...uh...girls don't like me because I flirt with them too much...Um, and that Kent is more reliable than I am, and that he has more duties, so I shouldn't bother him much."
Hannah looked pleased. "Good answer. Kent also told me some things that he had learned about being you, Sain. So, will these things you've learned change how you act from now on?"
They both thought for a moment.
"I guess I could loosen up SOMEtimes," Kent said.
"I won't flirt with girls ALL of the time...but I'll still always protect the, as a knight is sworn to do!" Sain said.
"How about how you act towards each other?" Hannah prompted.
"Well...I guess I'll try not to pester Kent as much," replied Sain. "Everyone relies on him to keep me from being too crazy."
"In that case, I wouldn't order Sain around as much," said Kent. "But...I guess at some times, regardless of the situation, I should let him have a bit of fun."
"There...now you're started to realize what the root of all your arguments are!" Hannah said happily.
"Sorry for being so annoying sometimes, Kent," said Sain.
"I'm sorry for being so mean sometimes," Kent replied.
"Oh, look at the time! I really should be going," Hannah observed as the clock in Serra's room tolled eight o'clock. She disappeared from the room.
Then, before Kent or Sain could keep Hannah from leaving, the room began to shake. Everything began to move around, except for the still-frozen figure of Serra. Both cavaliers tried their hardest to keep from falling over. They both became incredibly dizzy, and their vision was blurred. Then everything went black.
"There she is!"
"Get her!"
"Oh no, she's getting away!"
Matthew, Guy, and Heath (all of whom had been recruited by Ally and Fiora to help catch Hannah) came to a halt when Hannah disappeared yet again. They were right outside of Serra's room's window, and they had been hiding in the trees, waiting for Hannah to appear.
Matthew cursed. "Why does she have to do that annoying warping thing??"
"Where could she have gone?" wondered Guy.
"We'll never find her now," groaned Heath. "I could chase after her on Hyperion, but he's asleep in the stable. By the time I could get him ready, she'd be long gone."
The three of them sighed and headed inside, not knowing what else they could do.
Hector and Lyn were beyond frustrated. Kent, Fiora, and Serra had all disappeared without a trace. Lyn had recruited Lucius to help them search once his shift had ended, but they'd still had no success.
"Do you think they went back to the castle without us knowing?" Lucius asked.
Lyn was about to answer when the figure of an old woman appeared in front of her. "Hannah!"
Before she could warp away again, Hector had grabbed her. "You had BETTER explain everything to us RIGHT NOW, you old hag, or there will be consequences!"
Hannah, unable to warp without taking Hector with her on accident, gave up trying to get away. "Fine, fine, I'll tell you..."
"Kent! Sain!"
Fiora and Ally came running into the room. Kent and Sain lay unconscious on the floor, and Serra was standing up. She had fallen onto the ground when the freezing spell had lifted. This had happened at the end of the 'earthquake'.
"Ow..." she said, feeling sore and bruised.
Fiora immediately ran to Sain, thinking he was Kent. "Kent! Kent, wake up!!"
The real Kent sat up and rubbed his head. "What happened? And when did you get your voice back, Fiora?"
Fiora looked confused. Sain hadn't known she'd lost her voice...so that must mean...
"Kent!" she cried, and threw her arms around him. "You're back in your own body!"
"Ow," was Kent's comment. "Hey, I am! I wonder how we ended the spell..."
At that moment, Sain sat up too. "Hey, where am I...? Oh hey! Kent, I just had the weirdest dream! In it, we switched bodies, and –"
"That wasn't a dream, Sain," Ally said, smiling. "That really happened. "But you're back to normal now! Isn't that great?"
"Oh, wow, really? Hey, that is great!" cried Sain, standing up. "Now I can flirt with girls again without feeling guilty!"
"Sain..." Kent said sternly.
They looked at each other for a moment, and then they started laughing.
"What's so funny?" asked Ally, confused. "Did I miss something?"
Fiora just shook her head. "I have no idea. Hey, you guys, Ally and I are going to go downstairs, to, uh, check something, ok? Come down when you're...done..." The two girls left.
The two cavaliers finally calmed down, and Sain said, "Wow, I'm so glad things are finally back to normal around here."
"I am too," agreed Kent, getting up off of the floor. "You know, Sain...I meant what I said before. If you don't act too crazy, I won't be too mean to you."
"Hey, I meant it to!" Sain replied. "But you know, this is getting way to corny for me...all of this 'understanding one another' stuff. I mean, I'll do what I said and everything, but...for tonight, let's just have fun!"
"Okay," shrugged Kent. "Sure. I'm not in the mood to order you around tonight."
"Well," Sain said, his voice becoming very mischievous all of the sudden, "the girls ARE having a sleepover tonight..."
The two cavaliers left the room as Sain kept talking, leaving Serra to stare. She didn't remember anything that had happened to her all day. She vaguely remembered the taste of orange bananas (they were really good, too) but that was about it.
She shook her head to clear her mind. She'd had enough for one day. She'd skip the party tonight and go right to bed. Tomorrow, she'd talk things over with Rebecca and Priscilla. Maybe they would understand why she didn't like them talking about her behind her back. Maybe it was time for her to change, too.
Hector, Lyn, and Lucius returned with Hannah in tow. After a long talk with Ally and Fiora, Hector ordered Oswin to take Hannah to a magically-warded retirement home (preventing anyone from escaping) located in Pherae.
Hannah stayed in the retirement home for the remaining several years of her life, too old and tired to try and get away. At least she knew she had accomplished something by helping Eliwood's army.
Once everything had settled down, the girls went ahead and had their sleepover. In attendance were Lyn, Fiora, Ally, Florina, Isadora, Louise, Rebecca, and Priscilla. Even Ninian had come. Lyn and Florina had invited her.
Little did the girls know that Kent and Sain were watching them.
"So this is where you spied on them from," Kent observed.
It turned out that Sain had found a passage in the vent in his and Kent's room. The vent led to Rebecca's room, where the sleepovers were held. They could see and hear the girls talking very clearly.
"Yep," Sain said proudly. "Oh, look, they have Lays and Cheetos, and even mint ice cream! Wish I could have some..."
"Are those skeletons on Fiora's pajamas??" cried Kent in an alarmed voice.
"It would appear so," Sain observed.
Kent shook his head. "Wow, she has a wild side to her that I'd never seen before tonight..."
"Oh, looks, this is the best part of the whole sleepover! Where they do makeovers," Sain said. "Seeing Louise in a mud mask makes my day."
Louise had recovered from her breakdown after Lady Eleanora had discovered a half eaten box of orange bananas in the linens closet. There were enough left to last her another week or two. Pent said they could send for some more in Etruria right away, and they would arrive right when the other bananas ran out. After hearing this, Louise had happily agreed to attend the sleepover.
When the makeovers were done, Kent and Sain began to be a bit drowsy. Then, there was a soft knock on the door of Rebecca's room.
"Who is it?" called Rebecca as the other girls quieted down.
"It's Nils," said a little boy's voice. "Is Ninian in there?"
Ninian immediately stood up and answered the door. "I'm right here, Nils. Is something wrong?"
Nils looked pale and sick. "I...I don't feel so well..."
"Really? Aw, you poor thing..." crooned Louise, and motioned for him to come sit in her lap, which he did.
"Do you have a stomach virus or something, Nils?" asked Lyn.
"Did you eat too much?" Isadora inquired.
"Do you feel like you're going to throw up?" Fiora wanted to know.
"Oh, I hate seeing people throw up," Florina said softly, clutching her pillow to her stomach.
"I-I don't know why I feel sick," Nils said softly.
"I'll heal you, but your stomach might still hurt a bit," Priscilla offered, and took out her healing staff.
A warm glow surrounded Nils. "Th-thanks..." he mumbled. "It feels a little better..."
Ninian sat down next to Louise and patted her brother on the back. "You'll stop feeling sick soon, Nils."
The girls resumed their usual gossip a moment later.
"I wonder who the second banana thief was," Lyn said. "I know Serra was the other one, but it was confirmed that she only took a few bananas by the witnesses, rather then the entire boxes of them..."
"Yes, I wondered that too, Lyn," Fiora agreed. "It could be anybody in the whole army!"
Lyn sighed. "I guess we'll never know."
Only Kent and Sain saw the guilty look on Nils's face. They smiled at each other. Then Sain yawned.
"You know, I think we've seen enough for one night," Kent said. "Let's go to bed."
"Okay," Sain replied. "For once, I'll agree with you...because you, you know, came with me to spy on the girls..."
They crawled back through the vent to their room and got into their beds, hoping they would wake up in the same ones they went to sleep in.
"Goodnight, Sain."
"Goodnight, Kent."
With that, the two cavaliers fell fast asleep, happy to be themselves again, and looking forward to the next day.
The End
It is done! Sorry for all of the corniness in this chapter. I always make corny endings without even trying...Well, Kent and Sain had to learn a 'lesson' or I couldn't switch them back!
Nino: Oh yay...now you'll never have to update this again. You can work on more stories with ME in them.
You're the same as always, Nino. Anyways, as you may know, I am still working on two other fics, but I do have plans for another story! If you want to know a little bit about it, go to my profile. I will start it soon...
Nino: Please review, since it is your last chance to do that for this story, ever!
Um, yeah...I hope you guys enjoyed Being Sain!