Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks.
Four Chapter update 6+7+8+9 (I was playing a lot and Fanfiction was down on Monday)
Robin's POV
When I got out of that room I had a plan in place, I wasn't sure how many hours had passed, just that I wasn't too late. I passed by the infirmary and saw Lissa was in there, along with Ricken and Maribelle. Lissa was still asleep, she looked adorable, her face was calm and youthful, but I could still see the lines from when she frowned in worry.
"She's still out cold?" I asked.
"Yes…" Maribelle responded placing her tea down "She hasn't so much as stirred."
"She's probably super scared." Ricken commented.
"Not helping." Maribelle glared.
"I'll shut up now…"
I walked over and kissed the forehead of the sleeping beauty "I'll be back before you know it, I just have to explain the plan to Chrom…we'll get her back, I promise."
I left Maribelle to look after Lissa while I went to see her brother. I went into the war room with Chrom, Flavia and Basilio and laid out my plan.
"Where are you going?" Chrom said "We have preparations, that you can help with."
"Sure I'll be there in a sec I'm just gonna check in on Lissa real quick.
"Alright." Chrom said "Thanks for being concerned, it helps her to have you to fall back on."
I went into the infirmary and this time Lissa was alone. I sat on the edge of her bed and pushed her bangs out of her hair.
"R…Robin, is that you?" Lissa said slowly waking up.
"Hey beautiful." I smiled "How are you feeling."
"A litte better." She said sitting up.
Lissa still looked upset, but her complexion was better.
"Hey Robin." Lissa looked up at me.
"What is it?"
"I'm sick of now being able to do anything." She frowned "I'm useless."
"No you're not, what made you think that." I said "You're very important, you keep our troops healthy."
"I'm sick of you having to protect me, I want to protect myself, and other people." She said with a look of strong determination "So…please…I want you to teach me!"
"Lissa…"
"Teach me to fight, so I can protect people!" she begged, nuzzling her face into my chest.
"Are you sure?" I said "It's really dangerous on the front lines."
"I don't want to hid behind you anymore, I want to fight side by side." She said "Please Robin, teach me!"
"Oh…okay." I sighed "But I won't hold back."
"Thank you." She said showing me a toothy grin "When can we start?"
"Ummm…."
"How about now? No better time than the present."
"You just got up." I said "Take some rest."
"Robin~" she pouted stomping her foot like a charging bull.
"Alright, let's go."
Lissa skipped off to the training ground, I followed her, I figured Chrom could managed to prep without me.
"So how do we start." She asked.
"Pick a weapon." I said pointing at the rack of crude metal instruments made for killing.
"Ummm…this one!"
"Are you sure…it's kinda big." I gulped.
"It's perfect, nice and pointy." She said holding the lance almost twice her size.
Lissa took two steps and then dropped the lance.
"I don't know if this is a good idea."
"Robin!" she whined "Stop it!"
"Alright, alright…hands like this…"
I stood behind Lissa and put my hands on hers to lead her in attacking motions.
"One swift stab, just like that."
"Like this?"
"No, you can't hesitate, that will make your lance stick and leave you open, also make your opponent suffer more."
Lissa and I practiced a few more motions until she seemed to have the hang of some basic moves.
"Lissa I want you to understand something." I said holding her hands "Your decision to fight, means that you may have to take a life…are you absolutely sure you want this?"
"I know it will be scary at first." She said hugging me, and then she smiled her usual grin "But I'll be okay…Robin…"
"Hmmm?"
"I love you."
I had to process that for a second, I liked Lissa, we were very close since they found me a month or so ago, but she was already professing her love for me…
"I…I love you too." I said giving her a kiss.
Later
We were trekking through the Plegian desert; so far we had yet to be spotted on route to the palace.
"We've seen too little of their guard." Chrom said "Where are they? Gangrel seems in no hurry to spring his trap."
"Milord the Gaius has returned from scouting ahead."
"Yo!" the thief said walking up "Something's going down up ahead."
"Understood, get everyone ready to move out." Chrom said.
"The desert will slow us down." I said stumbling through the pale brown, burning sand "Mages and fliers will be good but others are gonna struggle, especially the horses."
"Are we gonna move?" Lissa said running up in her new, tight, light blue armor "Because I wanna fight."
"Lissa go to the back with the other healers." Chrom commanded.
"Nuh uh." She shook her head "I'm fighting with you guys, tell him Robin."
I only shrugged at Chrom.
"Lissa please…" Chrom sighed "I really don't have the time or patience to argue with you right now. Go to the back."
"UGH!" my love groaned stomping off "You're such a jerk!"
The rest of the force assembled near the front lines. We were at the top of a dune, looking out at a group of strange people searching for something.
"Ha…ha…did I lose 'em?"
"Wait!"
"GO AWAY I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!"
We all looked towards the source of the commotion, a small girl with two tone green hair was fleeing from a large muscular gentleman.
"You fiend, keep your hands off that child!" Chrom yelled giving us away.
"Who is fiend?" the man asked "You mean Gregor? You have wrong idea!"
"You cretin, trying to kidnap a child!" Maribelle yelled.
"Why has day been nothing but insults and hate?" the man said "Gregor doing good deed. Listen-!"
"There she is!" A person dressed as a mystic yelled "get the girl! Give her Grima's wrath!"
"You see what you do!" Gregor yelled "Now they start with the catching!"
"Why are you all after the kid?!" Chrom said trying to focus the situation."
"Gregor is not with the "All" Gregor is individual, see his cute baby face." The man said.
"Uhh…" Stahl leaned over "Ya think maybe he's one of them guys with the Lolita complex?"
"Let's not go there." I shivered.
"Gregor is not enemy, please believe!"
"This is giving me a headache." Chrom said rubbing his temples in frustration. "We can sort it out later, for now protect the girl."
"You're gonna help me?" the little girl said.
"Just hang on till we get there!" Chrom told her "we need to warn those villages too."
"Cordelia!" I called.
"I'm on it!" she said flying off.
We started working our way down the dunes, dispatching attackers as we went. Is was slow growing at first due to the sand, but soon we were cruising.
"HAA!" I looked over and saw that Gregor was clashing swords with one of the tribal dressed men.
"Get off me!"
"The kid!" Chrom yelled.
"No!" Gregor yelled trying to get away from the man he was blocking.
Some swords man was trying to drag that little girl off.
"I got it!" a torrent of sand was kicked up as something flew passed.
I looked over and saw the man trying to drag the girl off get side swiped by a lance.
"Lissa!" Chrom yelled "What are you doing."
"I'm helping!" she said.
"Where did you get that Pegasus?!"
"I borrowed it." She giggled "Don;;t worry we took riding lessons as kids remember!"
"Stay away!" the little girl yelled "AHHHH!"
Something in her hands glowed and in a flash there was a dragon there. She let off a blast of some sort of blue fire or magic, incinerating her would be attacker.
"Nowi wins again!"
"What the hell!" I screamed "The girl is a dragon!"
"By the gods…" Chrom gasped "She's a Manakete, I ne er thought I'd see one myself."
"Perhaps she's not the one who needed the help?" I laughed.
"Maybe you're right?" Chrom smirked running off.
"Hey get on!" Lissa said flying by and pulling my onto her horse.
"Wow!"
We circled back around towards an unsuspecting enemy.
"Hang on!" she said dive-bombing him.
"HYAAA!" she slashed his side before going back.
"You learn quick." I said "Nice job."
"I had a great teacher." She smirked.
I looked around and saw Cordelia flying not far off, Stahl had abandoned his horse due to the sand and was flying with her, slashing as she flew passed enemies.
"Lissa that one at the back, with the bone headdress, that's the leader."
"Then let's take 'em out."
Lissa quickly flew forward, the wind rippling passed us. Once we got close I jumped off, rolling thorough the sand before blocking a spell with my own.
"HRA!"
"El Thunder!"
The black magic and my own new spell clashed in the air, the two streams battling for control, the meeting point as bright collage of purple, yellow and orange.
"HMMMAAAHHH!" I put more energy into my attack the beams diverged and mine drilled the enemy wizard in the chest.
"AHHHAA!" the foe said clutching at the burn mark on his chest "My life force is your master Grima."
We all regrouped at one of the nearby villages.
"What were you thinking?!" Chrom yelled.
Lissa flinched at her brothers tone before getting brave and confronting him "I told you I wanted to help, I did a lot."
"I don't care, it's too dangerous for you to by fighting in the front like that." He said.
"Why won't you let me make my own decisions? I'm a big girl Chrom!"
"I know that, but as commander in this army I say no."
"Chrom." I spoke up "As you tactician I think Lissa should be allowed to fight, she more than proved that today, and having an extra Pegasus Knight will be a huge help."
"Tsk." Chrom hissed "What is with my family these last few days. It's like you're all losing your minds."
"Chrom…" Lissa mumbled.
"Today is just the worst!" the little girl yelled.
"Wee one please do not make with the crying and the sobbing." Gregor begged "Evil people are buried in sand now, tis good, ya?"
"Well…I guess you're right. Sorry I was so mean before." The girl smiled at her savior "I tend to get nervous at those outside my age group."
"Age group? Gregor is the closest one to your age here." The man said letting out a hearty laugh that shook me to the bone.
"Say Gregor? It is Gregor right?" Chrom said waiting for confirmation, which was a head nod "Do you mind looking after her? We have somewhere to be."
"Gregor is mercenary, perhaps you hire Gregor instead. I mean Gregor just kill former employers but normally is very trustworthy. If you no hurt girl Gregor no hurt you. Also Gregor need money, too many angry clients."
"He's a merc." I said "A sell sword so to speak."
"Gregor is a very swell sword Ya!" the man smiled warmly "You have Gregor's promise of good work."
"With what's coming, we could use all the help we can get." I told Chrom.
"I guess you're hired." Chrom shrugged.
"But what about me, I don't wanna be auctioned again!" Nowi cried.
"Wait you were being sold, how awful!" Maribelle said "Poor thing."
"Selling kids like slaves, what's the world coming to." Vaike sighed.
"Those buyers were the worst…they made me transform and do tricks for fun." She sniffled.
"How crude…" Virion mumbled.
"Scum." Sully hissed.
"She can turn into a dragon." Miriel said "It is fascinating; logically speaking it does make sense for her to be seen as entertainment by some…even though it is quite cruel."
"And she's so little too." Lissa pouted.
"She may seem little but she is not as young as you think." Frederick said "Manaketes live for a long, long time.
"Really? I thought that was just a rumor." Stahl said.
"Hey how old are ya?" Donny asked.
"Uhh…like…a thousand or something." Nowi shrugged "I stopped keeping count after two hundred or so. But look, I don't have any wrinkles or anything!"
"They say the dragonkin are stronger than men or taguel" Panne said "The girl would be a very strong ally."
"Must we bring another female in?" Lon'qu sighed "At least with us she'll be away from the Grimleal."
"The what?" I said confused.
"People who follow and worship the Fell Dragon Grima." Frederick explained "The dragon the first exalt defeated thousands of years ago."
"Perhaps now would be a good time to stop and rest." Flavia said "We'll need our strength for the coming battle."
"Is good idea." Gregor cheered "New friends can fill Gregor in on latest job!"
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