Session 3: First Nomination
Alina came out from the bathroom, just to find her green haired friend Fiora coming to her meeting.
"Finally, I've found you!", the eldest pegasi sister greeted her, agitated. "I thought you had already left when I saw Isadora outside. By the way, where was she going that she was so elegant?"
Alina giggled. "She went out with Harken"
"Now I understand!", Fiora replied, looking back over her shoulder. "I have to talk with you. How's Florina doing? Is she alright? Is she unharmed?"
Alina looked at her puzzled, and then replied. "She's alright, Fiora, calm down. You aren't her mother, so you shouldn't worry that much…"
"Yes, but she's at my charge here. I'm the oldest here"
"Alright, but she's with Farina, so there's nothing to worry…"
"Now I really fear for her, now that you mentioned it!", Fiora exclaimed, peeping at one of the TVs that were showing the action inside the Castle. Right at that moment, Karel and Bartre were looking at some bag, in the boys room. "You know how Farina is!"
"No, I don't", Alina corrected her, picking her things from the production room. "I haven't meet her yet. I first saw her last Saturday, before she got into the Castle. What I know of her is what you or Florina told me"
"You are right. I forgot", Fiora admitted, after recalling that moment in her mind. "Yes, you met me through Florina, and I couldn't introduce you to Farina yet", she added thoughtfully. "But she's completely irresponsible! Where was she when Wil knocked her down in the pool, uh?"
Alina looked at her friend puzzled, again. "Wasn't it that you didn't have satellite TV? Don't tell me that you signed in to follow each one of Florina's steps?!"
Fiora blushed, and looked in another direction, as if nothing had happened.
"Oh, my God!", Alina cried, resigned. "You'll never stop, will you?"
~~~
Back at the Castle…
"This is boring…", Lyn complained, looking at the ceiling. "Shouldn't we have something to do?"
"We were supposed to have a weekly activity, but… we don't", Rebecca added, resigned.
"And what are we waiting for?", Farina asked, annoyed. "Let's think in something! I'm gonna see if any of the guys had some idea…", she added, getting up and leaving the girls dorm.
"Woah! I can't believe that she's your sister, Florina", Rebecca said, surprised. "Or the other way round…"
"I… uh"
"Hey, who has to cook today?"
"Priscilla. Why?", Lyn asked, without understanding why that change of topic.
"I just hope she can cook something worthy to eat. I'm starving…", and with that sentence, the green haired youth's stomach 'complained'…
~~~
"Nils, aren't you tired?", Ninian asked her little brother, who was jumping once and again over Bartre's bed.
"No! This is fun!! It's better than being there without doing anything!"
"Alright, but… won't you get too tired later?"
"Naa! Don't worry, sis! Oopsss….", the boy's expression changed from a happy one to terror.
"Hey, what do you think you are doing in my bed, kiddy?!?!?", Batre asked the green haired boy, very annoyed, while making his way to his bed.
"I… er… nothing", Nils mumbled, trying to get away, but he was caught by his t-shirt collar and was now 'flying', being suspended in the air by the not so friendly owner of the bed.
"No, please! Let him! Forgive him, please!!", Ninian begged him, looking at her soon collapsed brother. Breathing was difficult with two hands around his neck, especially if the hands are quite tough and tight.
"Hey!!!! Let the child in the floor!!", Dorcas yelled from the door.
"You again!", Bartre cried, dropping Nils. "Come, we'll fight now!"
"Forget it", Dorcas said, and went on walking through the corridor.
"It won't end like this!!", Bartre replied, picking his axe and went to the corridor, with the intention of getting Dorcas and start a fight.
~~~
"Who cooked tonight?", Hector whispered to Eliwood, while Florina and Guy were setting the table and bringing the dishes.
"Guess that it was Priscilla and Lucius turn", the red haired boy replied, grabbing his fork and knife tighter. "I just wish it tastes good…"
"What? You didn't like my meal?!?", Hector asked him, a bit pissed off. Hector had cooked the day before with Dorcas and, although it wasn't that uneatable, it tasted as paper and looked a bit awful.
"No… it's not that!", Eliwood defended himself, smiling nervously.
Soon, everyone came into the kitchen, and sat down, thinking in some juicy meal, like chicken or meat… instead of that, they found out that the meal consisted in… soup.
"S…oup?", Serra asked, sort of scandalized.
"I just hope it tastes good…", Canas mumbled, yearning for his wife's cooking.
Everyone left their forks and knifes and grabbed their spoons, and drank the soup…
"It's not that bad…", Lyn judged, drinking a bit more.
"Too salty…", Dorcas stated, and everyone turned back to face him, because he wasn't too talkative.
"Ahh!!! Too hot!!", Rebecca complained, drinking her glass of water at light speed.
"Hasn't enough water", Farina added, after analyzing it as if she were an expert.
"Argh!!!! She, they, made a hard work to find something that you would like!!! And you pay her –them- like that!?!?!?!?", Raven got up from his seat highly annoyed. He made a quick movement and grabbed his sword. "Now, apologize to her –them! Right now!"
The others shivered, surprised of his outburst, and replied at unison, "We are sorry"
"Now, how did you came by with the idea of cooking soup in a hot day?", Sain asked Priscilla, trying to not sound impolite.
"It was the only thing I had in the cupboard", she replied, shrugging.
~~~
Later that day, Raven found Priscilla in the kitchen, drinking some tea.
"Ah…", Priscilla smiled, leaving her tea on the table.
"Sis…", Raven mumbled, while sitting next to her. "It's been a long time… It's a good thing that you hadn't forgotten about me"
"I hadn't forgotten anyone, bro", she replied softly. "How are mom and dad?"
Raven's blood froze for an instant.
"You don't know?"
"What?"
"Nothing…", he replied, puzzled. "How do you feel with your surrogate family?"
"Oh, quite well. They treat me nicely, they even consider me their own daughter…"
"Great for you", he said, thoughtfully. "Priscilla, let's hid that we are siblings. Don't ask why, just do it"
"Alright, if that's your wish", she said, leaning over his shoulder. "We can clear that later, when we get out of here and meet Mom and Dad…"
"Priscilla… that can't… be", he whispered very softly, but she didn't hear his whisper…
~~~
Thursday came… producers and crew meeting at the channel.
"Hi", Alina greeted, coming into the room in haste.
"Five minutes late, Juggdral girl", Wallace joked, making Alina blush nonetheless.
"Alright, on to the business, now that everybody's here", Pent commanded, picking a bunch of papers from the table.
"We did pretty well on Saturday night", Renault stated, looking at the rating scale for that day. "We can do better, though"
"Are you kidding?", Isadora asked him, surprised. "We had almost 40 points, and you think we can do even better than that? That was too much, a very important number!"
"Yes, Isadora, but Renault's right", Wallace agreed, giving the part-time bishop the reason.
"And what do you propose to raise our audience?", Alina asked, skeptically. "It was our first program, we should have to wait for some more to think in any change"
"The girls may be right", Pent commented. "Let's keep this format until the first elimination, which is next week. Now, we have to think in next week's activity for them. They are dead bored back there", he added, pointing to one of the twenty or so televisions they had in the room, each one connected with one of the cameras in the Castle.
In one, Sain was talking to Ninian, who seemed very bored, and looking everywhere for his brother, so she could escape from him. Unfortunately for her, Nils wasn't behaving that bad, and was staying with Dorcas at the garden, who was protecting him from Bartre's attempt of revenge for having been jumping all over his bed two days before (Bartre was that bored, that he kept on thinking about that). They could also see that this time was Lyn's and Eliwood's attempt of cooking, and it wasn't going very good, as the kitchen was a mess and some water was coming from a stew, after having already reached boiling temperature some long minutes ago… Canas was harassing Erk with his magic curiosity, and Karel was right after Erk, also trying to get some revenge, because the purple haired mage made him sleep next to Lucius… Serra was driving both Florina and Rebecca crazy with her rants about the appearance of the girls dorm, while Priscilla was talking to Lucius. Hector was just sleeping, and Raven was thinking in something not so good…
"Yes, they are more bored than what we are here", Alina commented, staring at the tv sets.
"We have to find something good and innovative, or no one will go on watching this…", Isadora added, a bit disappointed.
"We already suggested an idea…", Wallace said, while Renault nodded.
"You don't mean that one was for real?", Isadora asked, skeptically.
"Do you have another idea?", Pent asked, resigned.
Isadora and Alina moved their heads, replying that they hadn't.
"Well, we'll have to stick to that one", the grey haired young man sighed.
"They'll sure be good children of Roland if they accomplish that stupid task", Athos commented, as disappointed as Isadora and Alina.
"Well, we'll see what we can come with. We have time until Monday", Pent said. "Now, Alina, you'll have to go to the Castle and comment them about the nomination system. You go with Rath and Heath"
"Alright", the brownish haired reported said, picking her things and leaving the room.
***
"They want to make them do that as the week's activity?!?", Heath asked surprised, while he put their equipment in their equipment in their van.
"Yes, it's so stupid, isn't it?", Alina replied, resigned.
"Maybe we can give you some ideas; what do you think, Rath?"
"………. Yes"
"Alright, let's get into the van so we can arrive sooner", Heath suggested, opening his door and getting into the van.
"Alina!!! Wait!!!", a voice called the reporter while she was getting into the van.
Alina turned back and smiled lightly, surprised of seeing Kent running that fast to meet her.
"Hi, Kent!", she greeted, cheerfully. "It's been quite some time!"
"Alina, I have to talk with you", Kent said, breathing heavily.
"I was just leaving…"
"It's only a moment", he asked her, now talking more naturally.
Alina looked into the van, to ask them if they could wait her a little, and Heath told her, without speaking, that there was no problem. The got a bit separated from the van and started talking.
"What is it? You seem in a hurry…"
"Alina, you have to take Lyn out of the contest! I can't allow anything wrong happen to her!", the crimson haired boy told her, worried.
Alina rose an eyebrow, and let go a deep sigh. "Always Lyn", she thought, bitterly. Now that she came to think it, Kent wouldn't have any other reason to search for her, as he was always keeping an eye behind Lyn. And while Lyn didn't pay much attention to him, she did, but he was too blind to even notice that Alina looked at him differently than when she looked at other guys. It was always the same since he found them with Sain, a short while after she meet Lyn… She had just got out from the airport, when was attacked by some robbers, and then Lyn found her unconscious. She stayed some days with her, and, by some reason, they got across Kent and Sain, cavaliers at the service of Marquess Caelin and part of his personal 'army' –well, not a real army, but bodyguards, secretaries and things like that-, and found out that Lyn was the Marquess' long lost grand-daughter. Alina got to like Kent, but he was fascinated with Lyn since the single instant in which he met her, and hadn't eyes for anybody else, and that hurt her… Definitely, she hadn't good luck when boys were concerned…
"Kent, you don't have to worry about her, she's safe…"
"Anyway! She can't stay there much more! It's dangerous for her!", Kent cried. "You know she can't cook even a boiled egg!"
Alina rose an eyebrow, for the 'only-God-knew-which-time' in the week. "Don't tell me that you also signed in for satellite TV to see how she was doing?"
"No, I didn't…", Kent mumbled, but Alina knew it wasn't true…
"Can't you live far from her?!?!", she asked him angrily. "Oh, no, you can't! You can't even be two blocks away from her! Can't you think in another life for yourself, Kent? I think you can't…", she said, getting weaker as she finished his sentence.
Kent just stood there, sort of petrified.
"I never believed you
would say something like that, Alina", he said, making her think that he was
sorry for his behavior. Instead, all her hope went straight to the dustbin.
"She' my liege and it's my duty to protect her…"
"Yeah, yeah, I already know that
speech. You would like her to be something more than 'your liege', uh?
C'mon, admit it! I'm not that idiot…"
"You are wrong, Alina", Kent replied, getting a bit angry. "I just want you to make her leave soon, that's not the best place for her…"
"If you are so worried about her, why don't you do something about it, instead of telling me to do it for you? Why don't you find a way to get into there, and you leave me alone and at ease!!", she yelled at him, angrily, and got into the van, slamming the door. In matter of seconds, they were in their way to the Castle, while Kent followed the little, rusty white van with his sight.
"What's wrong with her?", he thought, surprised. "I've never seen her like that. Oh, well, I'll have to think about something…", he said, as he got into the Channel, hoping to find some other help there.
~~~
"Hey, Alina, change that expression. It looks like you've been given a life-sentence", Heath told the young female reporter, as they got out from the crew only part of the Castle, where the closed TV circuit and other things like microphones and the like were installed.
"Yes, I know", she said, depressed. "It's just that things seem to get worse at each second…"
"You say it for Kent?", the multi-colored hair guy asked her, comprehensively.
"He's not the only problem!", Alina complained, angrily. "Just everything! Now we have to get into there… I just hope Bartre's not murdering Nils or something like that…"
"…… I'm staying here", Rath said, getting into the van. "We would be far too people inside. You can manage with only one cameraman"
"Alright", Alina nodded, opening the Castle door that led to the living room. "I'm sure we are gonna surprised more than one guy. We weren't supposed to pop out until they were eliminated or got out from there"
"You bet", Heath said, walking behind her.
They reached the door leading to the living room, and Alina opened it a bit, but had to shut it soon, if she didn't want to get hit but some cushion.
"They are all there, but obviously they didn't expect us", she told Heath, and opened the door quickly, from one movement. "Hey, we've come in peace!", she told them, as she picked a cushion from the floor and threw it to Farina, as some kind of revenge.
The entire 'brave Children of Roland' group was sitting in the living room, staring at Karel and Bartre's 'fight' with Merlinus, and now they surprised, as they weren't supposed to have any other human contact but themselves for quite some time.
"Alina, what are you doing here?", Lyn asked her, puzzled.
"Well… we've come to check everything was alright, and to explain you the rules of nomination. We weren't supposed to come in, but there have been some little problems. Isn't that so, Heath?"
"Oh, goodness! I'm on TV!", the odd haired guy exclaimed excited, waving at one of the ceiling cameras. "Oh, sorry? Wha… Ah, yes, there have been some problems…"
Alina shrugged. " Excuse him. His one of our cameramen, and seems quite excited for being in front of a camera, and not behind one"
"What kind of troubles?", Serra asked.
"Well… the microphone system is not working properly. That's what we got for trusting Renault and Wallace…"
"Alina…", Heath whispered to her, making her notice her little fault.
"Wallace?", Wil asked surprised.
"Oopss… seems I committed a little mistake…"
"Who are those?", Priscilla asked, without understanding a word.
"Two of the show producers", Alina explained, resigned.
"Wallace left Caelin's army to become a TV producer?", Sain asked, astonished. "But he left it to become a farmer!"
"He bumped into Renault and reconsidered it. Seems that being a TV producer is more profitable than being a farmer", Alina shrugged.
"Ahh!!! Dame Alina, I beg you, take me with you!!! I want to leave this place right now!!!", Merlinus cried, kneeling in front of the puzzled brownish reddish reporter.
"What has happened, Merlinus?", she asked, worried.
"Those… bandits!! They've stolen my finest goods, and won't return them!!", he said, pointing to Karel and Bartre, who were whistling as if nothing had happened.
"Oh, my God… this is some trouble", Alina replied, thoughtfully. "Are you sure you want to leave? You won't regret later?"
"NO!!! For the thing you love most in your life, let me go"
"Well… guess you'll have to wait till Saturday…", Alina replied, thinking in something (or someone) else. "Hey, you!", she called Karel and Bartre, quite annoyed. "What do you have to do with this man's wares?"
"Nothing"
"What?!?", Merlinus cried, hidden behind Alina. "You were the ones that stole my things!!"
"You'll smell of blood if you go on talking", Karel told Merlinus softly, with his eyes narrowed. Then he turned to Alina. "And you too, if you make some kind of comment!"
Alina swallowed heavily, and was starting to sweat.
"Ahahaha…. Emm… The rules! Yes, I have to comment you the rules!", she said, giggling nervously and sitting in a one person sofa, looking at the whole group. "Well, anyone else wants to leave?"
Everybody said 'no' with their heads.
"Fine. It works like this: every fortnight, you have to nominate two people to leave the Castle. You do it through anonymous vote. Then, the audience will call and will decide who leaves the Castle. It's quite simple"
"Just that?", Florina asked, shyly.
"Yep. Of course, 'lobbying' isn't that forbidden, but we would like to avoid things like that… The 'Shrine Master' would have many problems while hearing your rants"
"'Shrine Master'?", Eliwood asked.
"Ah, well, a sort of psychologist. You'll have to wait to the following week to see what's about", Alina said, getting up. "Well, that was all for today. How are you doing?"
"Bored!!!", Rebecca replied for everyone.
"Oh, fair Alina, light from the outside!", Sain flattered her, making her laugh hard. "Isn't there any activity for this week, Reporter Deity?"
"No, Sain. Lord Pent wanted you to be yourselves for this week…"
"Pent?", Lucius asked, puzzled.
"Alina!!", Heath nagged her, resigned.
"Opps…"
"I knew he was behind all this, after all!!", Erk shouted, angrily, kicking a cushion and 'hurting' Nils in the process. Everyone turned back, because they had never ever seen him that enraged.
"Ah… Bye!", Alina greeted, before disappearing from the living room.
~~~
"Eliwood, what are we going to do?!?", Hector asked his red haired friend, on Saturday's morning. It was the day of the elimination, and they hadn't decided anything yet. They passed the entire Friday arguing who should leave, and no one reached an agreement.
"With the elimination?", he asked, as if there were any need of doing that. "I don't know…"
"Talking about tonight's thing?", Lyn asked suddenly, coming from the girls dorm with Florina. "What about Serra?"
"I heard you, Lyn!!!!", Serra's voice came from the end of the girls dorm, even though the door was closed. "You'll regret it!!!"
"Seems we won't be able to get rid of her tonight", Hector stated, annoyed.
"Get rid of whom?", Wil asked, as he walked by, but stopped his walk. "What about Raven? He's quite serious…"
"I don't know… Karel?", Lyn asked, but stopped talking, as she saw him making a sign to her: he was moving his hand once and again across his throat. That could only mean one thing… "Better not!", she exclaimed, quickly. With that, the long haired swordmaster disappeared.
"I got it! Lowen!", Eliwood exclaimed, happy to find someone.
"Are you nuts!!!", Hector yelled at him, more annoyed. "He cooked yesterday, and it was the first decent meal we had since we got here!!!"
"He's right!", Florina mumbled, in despair. "Please… don't make him leave…"
"Talking about the elimination, guys?", Farina asked, and joined the even greater group standing at the corridor leading to their dorms.
"Priscilla?", Hector suggested.
"Do that and you are dead man!!", Raven yelled, drawing his sword.
"No, please!", the red haired girl implored, getting between them. "Don't fight"
"Fight, fight!!", Bartre started yelling, with Nils!
"Erk! Let's get rid of Erk!", Serra exclaimed, still angry at him for his attitude towards her meal…
"Yes, please! Kick me out", he implored.
"No, we like him!", Lyn said, with almost all the girls approval.
"Why hadn't you stated that you wanted to leave when Alina came?", Eliwwod asked.
"Because Lord Pent would have made me return here, with any excuse…"
"Dorcas…?"
"He needs the money for his wife, we can't be that evil…"
"Eliwood!", Bartre yelled, and everyone looked at him puzzled, except Eliwood, who glared at him.
"Why not?", Karel asked.
"Because… hey, I want to stay more!", the red haired boy complained.
"I got it!", Farina yelled, freezing everybody. "Let's decide it according to our luck!"
"How?"
"Look at this!", she said, picking some things from her pocket and showing them to the others.
"Sticks?", Rebecca said, disappointed.
"You want us to pick a stick, and the ones that pick the shorter ones are out?", Hector said, with incredulity and raising an eyebrow.
"It's the only thing we have!"
"Well… guess it's better this than nothing…"
~~~
"You are going to what?!?!?", Alina asked them amazed, when she got into the Castle to get the votes.
"Well… it was the only thing that we could do…", Lyn said, as a sort of explanation.
"Alright, alright. I'll tell the others about this", she said, resigned, making her way to the door. "That's what you get by doing lobby!"
~~~
"They are going to what?!?!?", Athos voiced was as surprised as Alina's own when he heard about the gang's plans. He was in one of the show's commercial breaks, and he couldn't believe how he was going to handle that sudden change, as they had were announcing the imminent nomination and got a guest star to add a nifty touch to the show.
"Yes, they said that", Alina replied resigned, playing with the public telephone's cord.
"I have to tell you that Lord Pent is at the verge of a heart attack", the long bearded man added, worried. "Hey, you aren't calling from your cell-phone, right?"
"No, I'm not. I'm calling from the nearest public phone. On top of everything, that", she complained, sighing. "How did you know?"
"With all those low quality cell-phones that Renault and Wallace got us, you can't speak more than two minutes in a row"
"Ah, I see", Alina said. "Have to cut, Archsage. Good luck there"
"Thanks, young girl, you too"
"Archsage, we are returning in a couple of minutes", Isadora told him, crossing the stage quickly.
"They are quite original, aren't they?", Louise said, smiling lightly.
"Yes. I wonder how we'll handle this… Anyway, they are truly some brave children of Roland"
"3… 2… 1… on the air!", a voice announced, and the show's music curtain started playing.
"We are back from our short pause!", Louise greeted the audience back, cheerfully. "We've been talking with many people, and we've seen all what our contestants made during this week. Now, it's time to go to the Castle, to see the nominations. How are you doing, Alina?"
"Fine, thanks", Alina replied, nervously. "We are going first with the nominations, and then Merlinus will get out of the Castle, and we'll meet his replacement"
"Alright. We've already discussed about Merlinus reasons to leave the Castle, so… let's see who are our first nominees!"
The camera now showed all the contestants at the living room, waiting anxiously, looking at the TV that was brought to them for the two hours that lasted the Saturday show.
"Can you hear us?", Louise's voice asked the gang.
"Yes, everything's clear", Alina replied, now inside the Castle, and bringing the infamous sticks.
"Alright, Children of Roland, the time has come", Athos said, and with that, one by one picked a stick…
"Bartre… you are nominated!!", Bramimond (the guest star that came by the studio to give a hand to his old friend Athos)'s voice sentenced, coldly.
"Hey, why me!?!?", the axe fighter asked angrily. "Who are you? Show yourself! We'll have a fight!!"
"Hold your tongue, irreverent child of Roland! He's one of the 8 Legends!!", Athos nagged him, also angry. "Why? Because there are only two sticks as little as that one, and you got one, that's why!!"
"Let's go on with the elimination process, dear Alina", Louise said, giggling nervously.
"Alright, then"
Hector, Lyn and Rebecca had some good luck. Now it was Eliwood's turn.
"Eliwood… you are nominated!!", Bramimond's voice stated again.
The red haired youth looked at the stick amused, and was beginning to get a bit pale…
"How……?"
"Hahahahaha, little Lord, you are nominated!!", Bartre laughed hard, almost insanely.
"You too"
"Wanna fight?"
"Oh, we have our two nominees…", Alina said, getting between them. "We are running short of time. Merlinus, come with me, the time has come", she said, after checking her watch.
"Finally… it's a shame I couldn't get my stolen goods back… bwawahhhh!!", the merchant said, while walking towards the Castle gates, without waving at anyone.
"Oh, we've got two very different nominees this week", Louise stated, while the camera showed Merlinus way out of the Castle, under a rain of whistles. "One, Eliwood of Pherae; the other, Bartre, an axe fighter. Who'll stay in the Castle? Who'll leave next week? Only you can tell… Call to our 2-gold-the-minute phone lines. If you want Eliwood to leave the Castle, call to the 0-46-Eli, if you want Bartre to get out, call to the 0-46-Bar. Remember that you get in a contest for the official "Big Emblem" fan kit, which consists of: the official T-shirt, a cap and the soundtrack!", Louise announced, cheerfully.
"We are near the end of the show", Athos announced, quickly. "We still have to meet Merlinus replacement. But that will be after our small commercial break. Stay with us, we are returning shortly!"
~~~
"What? The microphones aren't working, again?", Alina asked Rath resigned.
"… Yes. What's more, the telly doesn't work, either"
"Oh, just wonderful… Now I see why they went to a break, leaving behind the fact that Merlinus rushed somewhere else and we can't find him…"
"Well, we'll just have to introduce the new guy and get out of here", Heath said, shrugging. "Hey, you, new kid, come here!", he called the new member of the Castle gang.
"What?!?!?", Alina asked, thinking she was starting to imagine things.
Kent came out from the crew truck, carrying a suitcase with his things. Obviously, he was the replacement for Merlinus… and as she came in Isadora's car, alone, she hadn't the opportunity to meet the new participant.
"What are you doing here, Kent, with that… bag?", she asked him, beginning her sentence angrily, but getting weaker as she spoke.
"You told me to do something about this, hadn't you?", he asked him, with an ironic smile in his face. "Well, I heard you. Don't say I don't do that from now on, ok?"
"Alina, they had already came out from the break. Get ready!", Heath told her.
"Fine, I'm going", she said, puzzled. "This wasn't the way, Kent!!", she whispered to him, annoyed.
"Thanks for the idea, anyway", he thanked her, smiling.
"Alina, here we go!"
"Ok!", she replied, annoyed.
"Smile for the camera, little one", Kent whispered her, enjoying the moment.
"Ahaha, yes", she said, faking her giggle, while she scratched his arm, furiously.
"We can see you are with Merlinus replacement", Louise said, from the studio, already in the air. "It's a pity that Merlinus disappeared as soon as he got out"
"Indeed, Louise. Yes, here I'm with Kent, his replacement. Tell me, Kent, what do you expect from this experience?", she asked him, acting as if nothing had happened.
"Well… many things. It's like a vacation…", Kent lied, as he was ashamed of admitting in front of a camera his real reasons to join. "Let's say that a friend encouraged me to get into here"
"Hahaha…. I can imagine that", Alina faked her giggle, cursing him internally. "Well… your time outside has expired. Good luck and get into there!"
"Thanks", he said, picking his bag and walking into the Castle.
"Well, this was all for tonight. Thanks, Alina", Athos thanked, and now the camera showed only the stage. "We'll be together in a week, with the results of the first nomination"
"That's right, Athos", Louise agreed, smiling broadly. "See you next week, dear audience!"
And with that, the musical curtain fall, and the show was over.
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Wiiiiiiii!! Reviews!! Thanks guys for your opinions, and please, keep posting! Sorry for that typo error (I must have been typing too fast and didn't pad attention to that). And, Zero84, you've just given me an idea (well, you gave me a solution for an idea I had in mind), so: who would like to appear as some sort of little cameo or something like that? If you are interested, leave me your character's name, a small 'behavior description' (how they would act) and who they would support/hate in a review, and I'll try my best to put them in some way in the story.
About the nominees… I have an idea of where I am aiming… And I have some things in store for the characters I haven't introduced yet, so… keep on reading, and suggestions are welcome
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Sort of Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem or its characters (although Alina is my tactician, so she would be mine, although she's not copyrighted =P). Sort of inspiration fics: The Diary of Erk (concerning the characters reactions to each other) and The New Girl (concerning the AU thingy). And I know that it has some points in contact with two more fics (The Sims: FE style and another one I can't recall it's name) but that's just a coincidence.
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