Disclaimer: I do not own Familiar of Zero or the Fire Emblem Series. This is merely a work of fan fiction - for fun only! All characters belong to their respective owners!
Intently watching Louise performing transmutation, Robin heard faint footsteps from outside the room. With everyone taking cover, she was the only one who noticed miss Longueville walking by the door. She was acting peculiar however, wearing her hood down and was continually checking her surroundings.
'She's acting rather odd, maybe I should go che...'
"GUHHH!..."
Suddenly, an explosion occurred, sending fragments of rock flying. Unfortunately, one struck Robin on the side of the head. She felt a sharp pain the side of her head and in an instant, she blacks out...
Louise smothered her face in her pillow. Still in tears about what happened, about how she failed horribly and ended up hurting her friend.
'...I'm such a miserable failure. Why did I even run away?! Why didn't I help her?!'
Louise answers that question in her mind. She pictured her friend's face, full of disappointment from her explosive failure at an attempt at magic. She did not want to see it, so she ran instead of helping her up.
The pinkette then quietly cried herself to sleep...
'Huh?...'
Louise found herself walking around an encampment. She couldn't control her actions though, no matter how hard she tried. She merely walked past a couple of tents amid the grassy clearing, the full moon above shining brightly, with torches and campfires giving off more light. She couldn't even feel anything, as if her eyes were grafted into someone else's body.
'Why can't I control myself? MOVE THAT WAY BODY!'
She once again tries to control herself but to no avail. She noticed though, that her neck was chilly, and that she couldn't feel her long hair on her back or shoulders. She also felt she became taller. Looking to the front, she stopped in front of a tent about 5 times larger than any in the camp she's seen.
'This must be the leader's tent...'
She thought, as she enters the tent, she was surprised to see it looked rather cozy. A table, chairs and books strewn around, with a large makeshift bed with hay acting as a mattress. She was surprised however, seeing a familiar person sitting on the ground at a corner of the tent, covering her face with her legs. It was Robin. However, she noticed her robe was different, as if she took out all the adornments off of it. She also appeared to be crying...
Louise stopped in front of Robin. Noticing a mirror nearby, Louise looked and saw that...she had become Chrom!
Louise looked at her friend, wanting to know what was wrong. She was greeted by red, swollen eyes as Robin looked up.
"...Chrom...I..I'm...sorry Chrom...I'm so sorry!..."
The woman could barely hold back her tears as she apologises to Chrom. But why? What happened?
"...you tried your best..you did everything you could. We even got to see her one last time."
Louise could hear Chrom's voice coming out of her lips, which rather unnerved her a bit. She could, however, tell that Chrom himself was sad too.
"...Emm wouldn't have blamed you Robin, if at all, my sister would be thanking you. I don't blame you, Lissa doesn't blame you, none of us do. At the very least, she died knowing we could be safe..."
Louise now understood.
One mistake. One mistake caused Chrom's sister to die, and that Robin blamed herself for her death.
Louise...or Chrom rather kneeled down and embraced the teary-eyed woman, assuring her that it wasn't her fault...that she wasn't a failure.
Robin wiped her eyes, then rested her forehead on Chrom's.
'..Wha...Wha...Wha...Wha...!?'
Louise felt red as a tomato. Even if she was just Chrom's eyes, she couldn't help but be embarrassed at this tender moment, and how close their lips were to each other!
"You're right...I'm sorry for making you worry...instead of just moping around like dead weight, I should be doing my job. I want this to end, so no one else would die. So we could live peaceful lives once more."
Robin smiled and stared warmly at Chrom, their eyes meeting each other's.
Slowly, their faces drew nearer, until their lips locked together in a passionate kiss, as Chrom slowly pushed Robin down until she was on her back, and Chrom reached down to Robin's backside, causing her to moan...
'Dont look! Don't look! Don't look! I need to cover my ears! Wait I can't cover my ears! I can't close my eyes either! NOOO! STOOOOP!'
As Louise's mind was about to go into meltdown, Robin pulled her lips from from Chrom's, and smiled.
"I meant my job as a tactician Chrom, not my other job...that can wait...priorities right?"
Robin tells Chrom while giggling. Louise breathed a sigh of relief as she narrowly dodges a bullet to her sanity.
"Hahaha! Sorry I nearly got carried away there. It's been a long day, we should just call it a night"
Chrom removes his armor and heads for the makeshift bed.
"I agree, I think better when I'm not tired. Let's call it a night"
Robin replies, hanging her robe on a nearby chair. They then lie down on the bed, facing each other. Robin's eyes closing first. Louise then felt drowsy herself and everything went dark...
'Even after making such a mistake, she fought on...and she had friends waiting to pull her up...I'll keep trying. I won't give up, I'll try harder because my friend believes in me! And I won't leave her side again, that's what friends are for right?!'
Louise's final thoughts before finally going to sleep.
"You think she'll be fine Tabitha?"
Kirche asks her comparatively small friend and classmate, scanning the unconscious young woman on the one of the clinic's beds.
"Strong...She's fine"
Tabitha, with as few words as ever, replies to her friend.
The two had volunteered to accompany the nurses in bringing Robin to the clinic. Kirche though, was worried about Louise too. Even though they were rivals, she also thought of her as a friend. Kirche noticed Louise actually become livelier than before when Robin came to her life. She knew that Louise considered Robin a good friend, and that if she got hurt even more badly than this, because of her blunder, she'd never live it down. So Kirche decided to look after Robin in Louise's absence.
Monmon and Guiche wanted to come along too, but the former thought it best to keep the latter away from the unconscious woman.
Kirche knew little about the woman, all she knew was her being a noble from a faraway land, summoned by Louise to become her familiar. She was also apparently a tactician for an army, and was married.
"Ohh wow, now that I can look at her up close and personal, she's actually quite a beauty!"
Kirche couldn't help but feel Robin's beautiful long,brown hair, free of any tangles or split ends, with a single braid of hair on the side. The bandage she was wearing on her head spoiled a perfectly good sight, but the red head couldn't complain.
With her regal looking robe hanging on the coat rack, Kirche inspected the rest of her body. She had a slender build, her face free of any blemishes, skin smooth to the touch. Her hands though, felt slightly calloused, a side effect from wielding a sword no doubt. She was not well endowed like Kirche, but she was not flat chested like Louise either, she'd probably classify it as average sized at the very least. She had long, slender legs that made her look quite athletic, her thighs not showing a tinge of excess fat. Looking at her face once more, she looked rather young for someone who was supposed to be her senior of a couple of years. Kirche inspected her face closer, suddenly finding her lips just a few inches away from the woman.
She quickly pulled away and composed herself however, as she snapped out of her fascination.
She notices Tabitha however, staring at her with an eyebrow raised. Apparently she had been observing Kirche check out the woman for a while now. Adjusting her glasses, Tabitha, with her usually expressionless face asks her friend a rather blunt question:
"...bisexual?..."
Kirche suddenly finds herself rather flustered.
"N...no! It's not like that! I was just making sure she didn't have any other injuries the nurses might have overlooked!"
Kirche replies to her friend while biting her nail. Tabitha puts her eyes back on her book, then back to Kirche, every five minutes or so, thinking her friend might do something unexpected.
'...am I really falling for another woman?!'
The red-head asks herself in her head as she bites her lip.
The two, deciding the woman was going to be fine, left to resume their clases. A familiar maid steps in with a bag of ice cold water and a towel comes in...
"Oh Robin, I came here as soon as I heard, you'll be fine, I'll make sure of it!"
The maid known as Siesta puts down the bag of water and the towel and checks Robin's temperature, and was startled to see her returning back to consciousness.
"Ungh...my head...Siesta? What happened?"
Robin, head still throbbing, was still getting her head straight.
Siesta gives her the towel and the bag to put on her head.
"You were in a freak accident Robin, miss Vallière's spell caused a rock to explode, and one of the shards hit your head."
"Ahh now I remember...but...how's Louise? Is she alright?!"
Robin was afraid Louise had gotten hurt badly being closer to the explosion.
"She's fine, the students say she went back to her room, you were the only one who got hurt."
Robin wraps the towel around the bag and puts it on the bump on her head.
"Thanks Siesta! I should go and let Louise know I'm fine."
Robin thanks Siesta as she headed to Louise's room. Siesta gave her a smile as she left, unknown to her friend however, Siesta believes this might be the last time they will ever meet again...
"...munyaa...*yawn*..."
Louise had just woken up, the memory of the dream still fresh in her mind.
Getting up and freshening herself up, she looked at herself in the mirror.
'No more crying Louise! Stay strong, you are not a failure!'
Louise thinks to herself while facing the mirror. She looks at herself, deciding that she is no longer Louise the Zero, she was Louise le Blanc de la Vallière, proud daughter of Karin Vallière and...
"...a void mage."
She finishes her thoughts by telling the last part to her mirror self out loud.
Wiping her face and adjusting her clothes, she opens her door to find Robin, one hand with a pack of ice water on her head, the other in the air, about to knock on her door.
"...Louise! Thank the gods you're fine!"
"R..R...obin?! Shouldn't I be the one saying that to you?!"
Louise points at the woman's head, still rather worried.
"It should take a lot more than that to kill me off!"
Robin smirks as she replies to Louise.
"I'm sorry I did that Robin. I truly am, for hurting you and running away from my friend."
Louise apologises to Robin, looking directly at her blue eyes.
"It's alright Louise, we're still friends though right?"
Both girls give each other smiles, as Louise nods happily at her friend.
"But...let me make it up to you. Tomorrow at dawn, we'll go shopping together. I have a day off tomorrow do let's go to town. What do you say?"
Louise asks her friend. Shopping always made her happy as it took her mind off things.
"I'd love to Louise. Though I'm afraid I don't have any money with..."
Robin pauses to think a bit...
'Why don't I just transmute more gold? Silly me!'
"Don't worry about it, it's my treat! I just got my weekly allowance so I have more than enough for both of us."
Louise cheerfully tells Robin, while tapping her pocket, a pouch full of coins inside.
Not wanting to spoil Louise's generosity, Robin just nods.
'Maybe I'll just transmute a little and keep it for pocket money then...'
Robin tells herself as she and Louise head to the pinkette 'a next class.
'It's weird though...only I was struck by a rock, although Louise and everyone else near her were unharmed...'
Robin remembers before she was knocked out, she and miss Longueville's eyes met. Deciding it just might have been pure coincidence, she drops the subject.
Meanwhile...
Miss Longueville was seated on her desk doing paperwork. She spots an accident report from miss Chevreuse, about how a mishap caused miss Robin to lose consciousness.
She sighed as she remembered them two locking eyes as she was heading for the vault with some rather dubious items, as she tried to attempt opening it.
The brown haired woman caught her sneaking and was about to go to her, when luck had it, the little Vallière was casting a spell.
'I have to be more careful around that woman, not only is she rather perceptive, she's damn powerful too.'
Longueville reminds herself as Robin had nearly caught her red handed.
'Still though...I hope I didn't hurt her badly...'
She was worried that she might have overdone it earlier, as she redirected a piece of rock to hit the woman on the head as the explosion occurred. She was secretly a thief, but she was no murderer.
She once again works through the stack of paperwork..
That night, Louise was planning on what to do and where to go tomorrow.
'Shall we go to that new cafe across the tailor's or the cake shop beside the shoe store...which store did I find that pretty dress again?...'
The pinkette was no doubt excited for tomorrow that she forgot to eat dinner.
Robin went went to find Kirche and Tabitha's rooms to thank them for earlier. She ended up at Tabitha's room first, but got no answer.
'She must be asleep already'
She thought and went on to find Kirche's room, which was just at the next hallway.
Kirche had heard from one of the maids that Robin was trying to find her to thank her for earlier. Kirche loved boys, but after the incident in the nurse's office earlier, she started to have doubts about her sexuality. Then she remembered Tabitha's comment...
'...bisexual?...'
Those words felt like a resounding echo in her head. She was still a virgin, but she enjoyed teasing boys all the time.
'Maybe there's something that might tickle my fancy over at the other side..'
She thought to herself. She was a couple of years older than her, maybe the woman felt and experimented this herself when she was Kirche's age.
Robin approaches the door and knocks, straightening her clothes out as she waited. After waiting about 3 minutes, she thought, like Tabitha, she was asleep too.
'I suppose I'll just thank them tomorrow when we get back'
Robin turns around, but before she could take her first step, the door behind her creaked open and someone had grabbed her hand, dragging her into the room.
"Fwuh?!"
The woman loses her balance and falls, she braced for the cold hard floor, instead she falls on a soft, warm bed.
Like Louise's bed, it was so soft that it felt like she was sleeping on a cloud. Something smelled rather pleasant, like some kind of incense. It put her at ease so she decided to stay lying for a couple of seconds longer.
"Oh founder! Are you alright? I'm sorry I did that, I didn't know what came over me!"
Out of nowhere, Kirche's face pops out in front of her.
"O..oh Kirche! Good evening! I just wanted to thank you for earlier. I really appreciate it, and I wanted to repay you and Tabitha for taking care of me."
Robin sincerely thanks Kirche and tries to stand up.
"I should be going back to Louise now, she might get worried."
Kirche however, blocks Robin, grabs her shoulders and gently pushes her back. She was once again lying down on the bed, but now the red-head was on top of her, her dark skin showing a tint of red. She unties the brunette's robe, and slides her shirt down to expose her bare shoulder.
"K...K...Kirche? What are you...unnnnngh~!"
The brunette was caught unaware as Kirche nibbles on her ear lobe. The act not only weakens her, but forces her to let out a moan.
Then, Robin remembers a repressed memory.
Back in her world, in camp one night, a friend came to visit her. Chrom was out having a contest with Vaike, a fellow Shepherd and his rival.
Her friend had long, green hair tied in a high ponytail with a red ribbon and wore a small circlet with a ruby set in the center. She wore a red one piece dress with long red thigh high boots, and a combination of pink thigh high stockings, a pink sash and a small pink cape.
The most striking feature of hers however were her long ears.
She was of the manakete race, who could turn into dragons at will with the use of a peculiar object called a dragon stone. Although she looked around Robin's age, she was actually a couple thousand years old. Her name was Tiki, and she came to Robin's tent for "something".
Little did Robin realise however, was that due to her rather solitary life, Tiki had a confused sexuality, and wanted to...experiment.
Never before has she felt that awkward afterwards, she had never told anyone, not even Chrom, about their one night stand. She made Tiki promise never mention it to anyone.
Robin considered herself "straight". She loved men, and foremost she loved Chrom, with whom she was married to.
Looking at the situation, she had little choice though.
"N...n...no...Kir...che...plea...se...st...op...UNGGH!...AAANNH!"
The brunette couldn't help but moan even louder as Kirche grabbed her breast!
She was about to once again experience that same night with Tiki...
"You...are so beautiful Robin...I can't control myself...!"
Kirche says to Robin, moaning herself.
Suddenly, the door slams open, a rather flustered and furious Louise pointing her wand at her rival. She had come to search for Robin, who was missing for a while. No one knew where she was until a maid told her that she was pulled inside Kirche's room.
"W...W...WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR'E DOING TO MY FAMILIAR KIRCHE VON ZERBST?!"
"Oh it's you Louise. Please respect our privacy, go away! We're not done!"
Kirche retorts, driving Louise even angrier!
"L...Louise...help...me..."
Robin weakly raises her hand and mutters to her friend.
"EXPLOSION!"
Louise casts her spell on her rival, causing a massive puff of black smoke and a loud booming sound to echo in Kirche's room.
The smoke clearing, Kirche was covered in ash, as she falls unconscious on her bed beside Robin.
Louise comes to Robin's side to help her up, giving her a hug.
"Are you alright Robin?"
The pinkette asks as she hugs her still weakened friend.
"I am, thanks Louise, perfect timing!"
She replies.
Kirche, after cleaning up, bowed on the floor and apologised as hard as she could.
"I'm so sorry Robin! I don't know what came over me! I just wanted to experiment, I didn't mean to do that! Honest!"
She apologises to Robin, and to Louise as well but made it her point it was mainly Robin.
"Alright, alright Kirche, I forgive you, just don't ever do it again. EVER."
Robin accepts Kirche's apology, but made it a point for Kirche never to even think about it again.
"It's getting late, we should be going to bed. Good night Kirche."
Robin greets Kirche a good night, even after all that's happened. And heads outside Kirche's room with Louise.
"If you do it again, I'll finish you off you bisexual cow!"
Louise proclaims as she angrily sneers at Kirche, as she and Robin head back to her room.
Kirche sighs in defeat as the two leave.
The next day, Robin and Louise headed for the nearby town by horseback. It was around 40 minutes away by a relaxed gallop.
Going around town, they window shopped through numerous stores, bought various trinkets and had delicious cake in Louise's favourite cafe.
Louise felt like she was having a fun outing with her older sister Cattleya, while Robin felt like she was sharing a moment with her daughter Lucina.
As the day drew to a close however, Robin thought of buying one more thing.
"Louise, is it alright if we make one more stop?"
Robin asks her friend.
"Sure!"
The pinkette happily nods in approval.
The two enter a weapon shop - stocked with various weapons of differing shapes and sizes. Louise was unfamiliar with weapons, as the only weapon she has ever wielded was a wand, though it was obvious that her friend was seeking a weapon. As Robin looked around, Louise took the initiative and headed the shopkeeper at the counter.
"Ahh welcome young beautiful young lady! Do you seek a powerful weapon for yourself, or for your lovely companion over there?"
The shopkeeper flatters Louise, hoping to get a sale out of the young noble.
"For my friend actually. I want your best, strongest, most powerful weapon, preferably a sword."
Louise boldly tells the shopkeeper what she's looking for, as Robin notices Louise and walks to her side.
"I want to get you the best sword in this shop as a present, just to make it up for me leaving you behind before."
Louise excitedly tells her friend.
"Oh Louise, I don't mind really, but I do need a weapon ready if I'm to be a familiar to defend you when magic isn't enough. So thank you very much."
Robin thanks Louise from the bottom of her heart, as the shopkeeper shows them an extremely expensive looking sword.
"This jewel encrusted sword was made by a famous Germanian alchemist. This here is the best of the best I've got! It's made of none but the finest gold and jewelry in Halkeginia! And it's yours for 5000 gold pieces! A steal!"
The shopkeeper proudly describes the sword and follows it up with an outrageous sum of money as it's price.
"F...five thousand!? That's enough to buy a house and land!"
Louise exclaims, stupefied by the outrageous price, outrageous even for her!
"That's a magnificent ornamental sword you've got there sir, but I need a sturdy and simple weapon, for actual use in combat."
Robin explains to the shopkeeper, confident about her judgement in weaponry through experience.
"B..b..but this is the very best I've got I assure you! It's well worth it's price! It goes perfectly with such a beauty such as you my lady!"
The shopkeeper tries to convince the young woman to change her mind through flattery, however Robin had experience with merchants, as one with impossibly numerous sisters had travelled with her and the Shepherds!
"Hey young lady! Over here!"
Robin turns around to the voice calling her, but sees no one around.
"Over here! The handsome sword in the barrel!"
Robin walks over and takes a closer look. To her surprise, a talking sword!
She pulls the sword out of the barrel and inspects it.
"It's light...it has a comfortable handle...it has good balance...it's sturdy...and it talks!"
Robin describes the sword as she tries it out.
"You flatter me my lady! You have a good eye for weapons!"
The sword thanks the woman for praising him, as the hilt moves as if it were it's lips.
"Oh that thing's name is Derflinger, I call him Derf. I can't remember where I got him, but he's annoying as hell! He doesn't shut up and he's all rusted up!"
The shopkeeper tells the two girls in an annoyed voice.
"Are talking swords normal in this world Louise?"
Robin asks her friend, who might know.
"No, I've never heard of talking swords before, not in my books, nor have I heard of something like him from my teachers."
Louise replies, giving a dumbfounded look as she inspects the sword.
"I'll take this sword good shop keeper!"
Robin blurts out suddenly, surprising both Louise and the shopkeeper, as she admires the sword, trying to figure out what makes him tick.
"Oh...umm...I'll give him to you for 300 gold pieces...I guess.."
The shopkeeper looked rather disappointed, selling off a cheap sword rather than the expensive bejeweled one, as the two girls walk out of the shop.
Robin looks back at the shop and strangely stares at it for a couple of seconds, prompting Louise to ask why.
"Is there something wrong with that shop? Did you forget something?"
"No...no...I just felt a bit of nostalgia buying a weapon. I always expected a merry red-headed woman as a shopkeeper."
Robin replies to her friend, which prompted a perplexed expression on Louise's face as they walked on.
As he was about to close shop for the day however, his door opened once more, another pair of young noblewomen come in, much to his surprise and purchases the bejeweled sword! They then hurry outside.
Still stunned at the extremely fast purchase of an item worth a fortune, his bewildered face morphs into one of pure joy!
"Woo haha! Lucky day! Hey boss I sold that expensive looking sword! The one with the jewels!"
The shopkeeper proudly announces to his boss who resided at the back.
A red haired woman around her forties came out from the back to see the profits. Seeing the big bag full of money, she gives a wide grin to the shopkeeper and then a thumbs up.
"Good work Hans! Hiring you finally paid off! Hahaha!"
The boss happily pats the shopkeeper, Hans, on the back.
"You made the right choice Boss Anna!"
Hans replies to his boss.
"Is that...Siesta?! What is she doing with those men?!"
On the way back to the academy, Robin had spotted Siesta being transported to places unknown by a concierge of guards, guarding the coach that Siesta was in.
Louise sees the emblem on the side of the coach.
"It's Count Mott! He must've bought Siesta's contract from the academy! He's notorious for purchasing maids and making them his...'playthings'."
Louise's rather disgusted tone at the last part prompted Robin to decide to help out Siesta. She was a friend after all!
"Hey Louise, I think we need to make one more stop before we head back."
Meanwhile, up above the sky, two girls spotted someone below them.
"Hey, aren't those Louise and Robin?"
Author's notes
Welcome to another update!
I've started to use my old format, but improved it. What do you guys think? Should I stick with this or paragraphs and speech seperate?
Anyhow, attempted to portray Kirche with a confused sexuality: is she straight or bi?!
Also, yes, the shopkeeper's boss near the end is the Anna of this world, apparently red haired merchants are also rampant throughout Halkeginia, but Robin has yet to discover them.
Finally, Tiki's one night stand is non-canonical if anyone hasn't unlocked her convos yet, I just felt it was amusing that she'd experiment on her sexuality sometime in her life like any normal person does.
Boy this chapter sounded rather fanservice-y dontcha think? =D
Anyway see you next time, post a review and tell me what you think!
Thanks in advance!