Me: Time to bust out a new chapter

Rebecca: Party Time!

Me: Cloud do the disclaimer

Cloud: …

Me: Fine Ike do the disclaimer

Ike: Annfazukimi does not own Super Smash Bros or Fire Emblem

A/N Interesting fact the tournament from the last two chapters was something I actually did yesterday (6/21/16) so if you wanted to do what I did, I can't promise the same results if you do however

And so day turns to evening. Lucina dressed up walks to the party (A/N 7acc/f/2008/291/e/d/blue_rose_princess_dress_by_sarah_the_ninja_ ) along the way she runs into Shulk who's wearing a nice suit. "Ready for the party?"

"I guess."

"Still thinking about tomorrow?" "

I can't help it, I'm scared."

"I'll be right there with you the whole time."

"I'm glad for that, shall we go in?"

"Thought you'd never ask."

The two enter and all the smashers present cheer for Lucina. Lucina smiles and waves to everyone. Ayame stands and says, "Thank You all for coming, no without further ado enjoy!" the crowd didn't need to be told twice. Some go to eat while others go to dance. Lucina and Shulk are a part of the latter. After a few dances the two walk to the balcony.

When the two arrive they spot four people, three are familiar, and the fourth is unknown. The two recognize Ayame, Corrin and Kamui, but the fourth person is truly a mystery (A/N it's Takumi from Fire Emblem Fates). Lucina and Shulk walk up to the four people. Ayame notices the duo first. She waves them over and says to them, "Glad to see you enjoying the party." Lucina looks at the stranger, he looks back and says,

"It's nice to meet you, my name is Takumi." (A/N Since this is my story Ayame is engaged to Takumi) Lucina nods and says, "Likewise, are you here for the party?"

"In a way, I'm also here to wish Ayame luck." Lucina nods and walks off. Shulk starts to follow when she says,

"I just want to cool off for a bit I'll be right back."

Lucina stops at the railing of the balcony. The wind rustles through her long hair. Her hands unconsciously reach up to where the star crystal hangs around her neck. Ayame made it clear that as the person to go on the journey she had to guard the crystal at all times and that meant wearing it as a necklace. She then feels a presence walk out to the balcony. She turns to see Ganondorf walking towards her.

"Nice party, huh princess." Lucina only nods and goes to look back over the balcony. Ganondorf is almost next to her when he asks,

"Why don't we go for a little walk?"

"No thank you, I'm happy here thanks." Ganondorf grabs her arm and starts to drag her away while saying,

"That wasn't a request." Before they can get far, a gloved hand grabs Ganondorf's wrist. Then the hand squeezes hard making him let go of Lucina who promptly rubs her wrist.

"That's not how you treat a lady."

Ganondorf Looks to see Bayonetta, he then wrenches his wrist from her grasp. Bayonetta then says, "I'm afraid I simply can't tolerate your behavior towards Lucina, she says she's happy where she is, then that's all there is to it, now I'd like you to leave." Before Ganondorf can say anything another voice is heard,

"I'd also like that." Ganondorf turns to see Ayame, Shulk, Corrin, Kamui and Takumi standing there as Ayame continues,

"Ganondorf leave, unless you'd like to go a round, in which case I'd be happy to oblige." Ganondorf huffs and leaves.

Lucina looks at Ayame, "How did you know I was in trouble?"

"I didn't I just wanted to tell you the plan for tomorrow." Shulk walks up and asks,

"Are you okay Lucina?"

"I'm fine now." Ayame looks at Bayonetta,

"Thank you."

"No problem love, I just happened to see that brute walking towards Lucina and knew something was up." Ayame nods as Bayonetta leaves. Lucina looks at Ayame,

"So what are the plans for tomorrow?"

Ayame then says, "I'll wake you tomorrow in time to get ready to leave, everything has already been packed. For now just go enjoy the party, it is yours after all." Lucina nods and walks back into the party with Shulk. Ayame turns to Takumi,

"If all turns out well eventually we'll get to the wedding." Takumi chuckles,

"How many times must we postpone, your parents are probably about to murder you for doing this again." Ayame sighs,

"I did leave a note… no you're right they'll probably crucify me for this."

*elsewhere*

A man and woman walk through a kingdom. As soon as they reach the gate of the castle a young woman with long black hair sighs as if saying, "Here we go." The couple walks up and she says,

"Aya isn't here right now." The man says,

"Maya, we just came to see Aya to get ready for the wedding." The woman sighs again and pulls a note from hear skirt and says,

"Aya gave me this note to give to you." The note reads as such

Dear Mom and Dad,

I know I said after I postponed the wedding last time it wouldn't happen unless an emergency popped up. Well, I guess life just likes to work that way. I won't be back for a while, if you want to stay here, there's already a guest room setup. I'm super sorry for the inconvenience.

Love,

Ayame

P.S. Don't kill me, there's so much at stake I had to go

The couple just stare at the note. The man just shakes his head and the woman looks a little more than mad. "Maya, is she really not here?"

"She's really not here."

"What emergency popped up?"

"That's classified, if she didn't write it you can't know, even I don't know."

"I bet her retainers are here."

"Braxus is but Yuuki went with Aya, He doesn't know anything either." The couple just nod and walk away, probably to go home. This wasn't over, Aya would hear about this.

*back at the smash mansion*

Ayame sneezes and says, "I think I'm in trouble." Takumi then says,

"Shall we join the others?"

"Sounds good to me." The group walks into the room to see that the party is still going strong. Ayame joins Lucina and Shulk at a table and dives into a plate of noodles. After a little while the trio join the dancing. Ayame is soon joined by Takumi and then by a young fairy girl (A/N it's Yuuki from SAO II), she says,

"It's time."Ayame nods and walks to Lucina. She says,

"You'd better get to bed both of you, it's going to be an early morning. She then nods to the others who are a part of the party leaving in the morning. As Ayame goes to leave she turns to the rest of the smashers,

"My friends, I thank you for the experience, please enjoy the party for as long as you wish, I however must leave early and therefore must go to bed, good night." The smashers wave goodbye.

Ayame says to Lucina, "Sleep in my room, Yuuki will sleep in your room." Yuuki nods and heads off to Lucina's room. The duo enter Ayame's room and Ayame gets ready for bed. She points at the second bed which had pajamas on it,

"We're about the same size, borrow my pajamas."

"But what about my gear?"

"I had Yuuki grab it while the others were at the party." The blond points at her gear neatly organized at the foot of Lucina's bed.

"Now get ready for bed we have a long day tomorrow, I want to make it to Verin (Veer-in) Pass by tomorrow night."

Lucina nods and gets ready for bed. Before she lays down she gets a good look at the tattoo on Ayame's wrist. Two interlocking pieces that swirled, a few points came off of the swirls and it gives off a weird aura. Ayame notices Lucina's stare, "It's called a soul patch. It was supposed to keep me from committing suicide. I adopted a young girl named Mia a while back. However, the world we were on had destabilized. Takumi, Mia and I were stuck on that world because I had used up my energy getting the rest of the residents out. We, Takumi and I, were happy to disappear as a family. Mia however, could not accept this, she used a forbidden spell to send Takumi and me to where we sent the others, after that I had hit a low spot in my life. I put the soul patch on myself to stay alive."

Lucina nods and says, "That's so sad."

"That's not the end of the story. About two days after the event, I had postponed the wedding as I couldn't find reason to smile or go to such a happy occasion, Mia's dragon stone, she was a dragonkin after all, started to glow. It lifted into the air and I used a little energy from my dragon crystal, I'll explain later, and it started to take form. Before I knew it I was looking into the face of Mia. The mark will eventually dissipate." Lucina nods happy that Ayame was no longer depressed. Ayame then says,

"Now go to sleep, it's late." Lucina nods and lays her head down and is asleep in minutes, Ayame quickly follows.

Me: what a chapter, it wasn't supposed to be this long

Rebecca: well it was

Shulk: next time, Every Journey begins with a Single Step

Me: Ja ne