Chapter 7

PLEASE read this if this is the newest chapter! I know it's long, but just really quick!

Just to point out, I said in one earlier chapter that a character could not wield Falchion. For as long as I have played FE:A, I thought that it worked like Thor's hammer. Silly me. On another note, this will eventually (in about 20 chapters) end and go into a sequel set during the Revelation path of Fates. But would you guys prefer that to be with Male Corrin (marrying Azura, Hinoka or Flora) or Female Corrin (Marrying Laslow)? PM me or leave a review with your thoughts. I know this seems to be in advance, but to set up for that sequel in this story I need to decide these things.

I know this is a long preface, but I have one other thing to ask: what should Kellam and Phila's child be like? Everything is up to you guys, and I mean everything. Gender? Class? Personality? Exclusive weapons? All of that other stuff I'm not remembering? I want a reader-created character, but if I get no reviews or PMs, I'll make those decisions by myself. Thanks, and try to leave a review!


"Wake up, Dragon Bird. Or should I say Robin?" Robin woke up to find himself on the floor of the restaurant that he had been attacked at a day or two before. He tried to get up, but found that he could not move. As he lay there, he saw the berserker from the restaurant, as well as a ghostly pale man with frightening features.

"Why don't we just kill him, Iago? We could get it over with now!" The pale man shook his head and replied, "No, Hans. I keep him alive, you get to knock him up. That was the deal. The dark mages around here are Grimleal, so the work I can do with this fellow could earn me a lot of respect with them."

"What did you do to put me here? Fight me like a man, Hans!" The berserker who he assumed was named Hans turned and smiled evilly. "No can do, Robin! This fool here says you have a link to Grima, so he could let me hop into your dreams and rough you up!" As Iago looked on, Robin winced as five powerful punches connected with his face, as his vision blurred in dizziness. He wheezed as Hans stomped on his gut, and breathed deep as Hans drew a knife.

"Iago says I can't kill you," Hans said threateningly, "But that doesn't mean I can't mess you up so bad that that girl of yours will kill you herself when she sees you! Then when you're dead, I'll kill her and everyone else you ever cared about!" Robin groaned and replied, "One day, you will get the sweet justice you deserve, Hans." Hans merely stuck the knife into the tactician's shoulder and began to push the knife deeper, leaving a torrent of blood as he cried out in pain. Laughing, Hans then said, "They say you're Grimleal. How about another mark to show it?" Hans dipped his finger in ink and drew a mark of Grima on Robin's left cheek, while tears blurred it. But as Hans began to carve in the curve of the dragon's body and the grandmaster of Ylisse screamed in agony, Robin heard Lucina call his name.

A loud cry from a door down in the royal capital of Valm woke Lucina up with a start. She had slept rather soundly, but could hear the scream of another Shepherd down the hall. She got up in curiosity, careful to make sure others who had not been woken up could still sleep. Robin was in the room next to her own, and while other Shepherds were frequently racked by nightmares, this outcry was much more pained and chilling. Lucina rushed to the door of the room she had left Robin in the evening before and pushed the door open. She ran to the Valmese bed that Robin slept in and found a large bloodstain on it. She began to panic and searched for the source, until to her horror, another cut began to open on Robin's face. She shook the tactician and said, "Robin, get up! Are you alright? What's going on?" Robin opened his eyes and pushed Lucina away in terror, shaking and bloody.

"Robin, what was happening? Were you being attacked through a dream?" Robin groaned and replied, "I guess so. Now let me-ARGH!" Robin collapsed as he tried to stand up, but Lucina caught him and set him back down on his bed. She ripped off part of Robin's sheet and pressed it onto the deep wound, then pressed another to his left cheek. They sat there for a while, Lucina's hand pressed against Robin's face, his gasping breaths the only sound made.

"The man who attacked us at the restaurant knows some Grimleal, and he managed to get the ability to attack me in my sleep. But what scared me most is that he told me that when the Grimleal were done with me, he'd kill you next." As Robin coughed blood, Lucina wrapped her arms around him and pulled him close to her. She pulled Robin's chin up as their lips connected, and after a slow separation she laid down next to him, holding the vulnerable tactician as they fell asleep.


"Rise and shine, Sumia." Chrom brushed Sumia's hair out of her face as she yawned and replied, "Oh, let's stay here, just a little longer. Valmese beds are surprisingly comfy." The Pegasus knight wrapped her arms around her husband's waist as Chrom groaned. "I have a lot to do today. The duels that were meant to happen yesterday are happening this morning, and I need to check on Robin, and Lucina for that matter. Walhart hurt them both bad." Sumia sighed and let go as they both stood up and Chrom headed towards Robin's room.

As he approached the hall that respective rooms they were in and saw that Lucina's door was open. As he approached curiously, he saw that no one was in there. Then he saw the corner of Lucina's cape poking out under the door to the room that Robin was sleeping in. "Oh HELL NO! NOT FOUR ROOMS DOWN FROM ME! NOT MY DAUGHTER!" He rushed to the door and slammed it open to see Lucina cleaning a knife wound off of Robin's face in the dim light of a candle.

"What the hell? What happened to Robin? He was fine last night." Chrom saw a large knife wound in the grandmaster's shoulder, while a stained white cloth was on the side of his face. He was sleeping now, and his chest was covered in dried up blood.

"Remember when I told you he had gotten into a bar fight? We went on a date, and we were attacked. One of the attackers apparently knew a dark mage, who let him hurt Robin in dreams." Chrom sat down on a chair and studied Robin's tired face.

"So you didn't actually sleep here tonight? I'm assuming that you heard me shouting angrily in the hall. Sorry, Luci, but I didn't know that he was attacked." Lucina gritted her teeth and then replied, "I did come in here in the middle of the night when I heard him screaming, and I slept here." Chrom's calm face contorted into anger as Lucina hastily replied, "We didn't do anything else, father! Do you think he's in any shape for that?"

"How about a… pincer formation… that work, Chrom?" Father and daughter both jumped as Robin murmured in his sleep. Chrom laughed and said, "He is always thinking tactics." Before he went out, Chrom asked, "You applied stuff to his wounds, and you ensured he was safe. I know you two are dating, but why did you still stay?"

"I told him it was to help him keep the dark mages, the Grimleal, and general nightmares away, which was part of the reason," Lucina replied, "But it was also partially to keep my nightly memories to a minimum." She expected a lecture from her father, but Chrom only nodded. He understood his daughter completely. "You should wake him up before the duels start. He never misses a duel for injuries." Then Chrom left the room to check on the other Shepherds.

"Urgh… Lucina? You okay?" Lucina turned to see that Robin was starting to sit up, rubbing the side of his face. She walked to his side and helped him stand up, putting his arm over her shoulder.

"That was an interesting conversation between you and your father. I've only seen him that angry twice before, but luckily he couldn't stay mad at you."

"You were awake?! Why didn't you help me get him to chill out?! Were you not at all startled when you heard him yell from down the hall?!"

"Oh, I was terrified out of my mind! I wished for mercy in the next life while I was laying there. I thought he might impale me with Falchion before I could protest." Lucina's face showed utter horror in response to Robin's half-sarcasm.

"He wouldn't do that! You're his tactician and his closest friend! Wait, was that sarcasm again?" Robin laughed and nodded, then leaned on his bed as he put on his cloak and said, "Well, I'd best get ready to duel. I'm dueling Gaius today, and I'm going to be destroyed." Lucina went to help him up, but he started walking out into the hall on his own.

"Bubbles, listen, you look pretty knocked up, maybe we should call this off?" Robin shook his head and readied a bronze sword. Gaius shrugged and turned to the makeshift ring as Sully and Gregor stepped into the ring.

"Ready up, old man!" Sully got into an aggressive stance as the sell sword readied a less-than-swell bronze sword.

"Alright, the fight is over when I say so. You may each use one of each type of weapon Robin has you using." Lon'qu stood just outside the ring. "Go for broke." Lon'qu struck the ground with his sword, and Sully charged at Gregor. The cavalier, now on foot, slashed downward with a bronze sword, but Gregor knocked the slash away with ease. "Gregor sees from mile away. Faster." Enraged, Sully swung furiously at Gregor, but the experienced bow knight skillfully deflected every swing. Then when Sully made a thrusting move, Gregor sidestepped and knocked the sword out of her hands. Gregor made a counterattack, but the cavalier had her lance ready. She deflected his attack, then got into a more defensive stance. She had the reach advantage now.

Gregor knew that if he was to defeat a lancer, he needed to get past her reach. The bronze training sword was not sharp enough to cut the lance, so he needed to find a new approach. In the meantime, the two circled each other like wolves.

"Come on, Mother! You can do it!" Kjelle cheered for her mother, even though she fully knew how the duel would end. "You can't criticize my technique if you can't take down some old man!" Now even more motivated to win, Sully took some stabs at Gregor, who was struggling to fend her off. "Getting tired, Gregor?" Gregor laughed and replied, "Gregor not begun yet!" Seeing an opportunity, Gregor parried her next thrust to the ground and kicked out, knocking Sully to the ground. Gregor dropped his sword, drew his bow, and put an arrow in the ground right next to Sully's head.

"It's over. Gregor wins." The Shepherds cheered as Libra stepped into the ring against Vaike and the victor and defeated left the ring. As Gregor gave his weapons to a convoy worker (they had brought the convoy into the Valmese capital), Sully approached him and said, "Well, you won. State your terms."

"Young people must respect elders. You call sell sword 'Sir Gregor.'" Sully was about to object, but before she could say anything, Gregor had left the great hall.

"Robin, are you sure you want to duel Gaius? He's an experienced assassin, and you'll only get wounded even more fighting him now!"

"I've made all 7 duels I was challenged to and only lost to Frederick, Chrom, and Lon'qu. I wouldn't miss one of these duels for anything! They're fun!" As Libra defeated Vaike, Lon'qu called for Gaius and Robin to enter the ring. Stumbling as he walked in, Robin readied for the duel.

"Robin, you're in no shape to duel Gaius! Won't you call this off?" After Stahl's statement, Lissa added, "Dear, you know Robin won't back down. You're making ME look like the mature one in this relationship! I'm 18 and you're 23! That's just sad!"

"Uncle Gaius," Lucina called, "If you back out now, Robin will not be happy. At all." An angry Robin was not something anyone wanted to deal with, so Gaius readied his sword.

"Since tomes are banned when the other can't use them, Robin and Gaius will be using only their swords." Robin nodded, saying, "We start when you're ready, sweet tooth!"

"Okay, time to pop Bubbles!" After each addressed the other by their nicknames, they charged. Robin spun his sword quickly, basically creating a whirlwind of attack and advancing on Gaius. Gaius merely deflected his swings and waited for an opening. Once he saw that opening, he struck. With a quick flick, he managed to hit Robin's shoulder, setting him off balance. Now that he had the upper hand, the sugar thief knocked the grandmaster's sword out of his left hand, but Robin countered by grabbing Gaius's arm and twisting, making the assassin drop his sword.

Just as Lon'qu was about to call a draw, Robin got into a fist-fighting stance. The Shepherds began to murmur in awe to each other. Stahl and Frederick thought that Robin was too hurt to keep going, and Kjelle and Gerome commented on Robin's endurance. Lucina tried to listen to what Inigo and Severa were saying, but only caught Inigo saying, "Robin against Gaius. Owain will be so angry when he finds out he missed his father fighting Robin."

Gaius shrugged and ran to Robin. The tactician dodged a right hook, a low jab, and leaned to avoid an uppercut. The sugar thief kicked for his head, but Robin seized his ankle and punched the thief in the head, causing him to fall to the ground. Robin had not moved his feet.

Gaius stumbled back up and attacked again, and had a little bit more success. After dodging a few punches, Robin was finally forced to move his feet, landing a strong body blow on Gaius, who used the momentum to whip his left hand around and backhand Robin in the head. The Shepherds winced as Robin stumbled backwards, rubbing his head. Gaius and Robin both took almost twenty seconds to get up. Gaius had to twist his wrist back into place, and Robin was coughing blood. After nodding to each other, they rushed each other in a fury.

Both disregarded defense at this point and just began to rail on each other. At first the Shepherds cheered for one or the other, but then they began to realize that neither was backing down. "They're going to die!" Chrom rushed into the ring with urgency. "Stop this!" The King of Ylisse pushed them apart. Gaius and Robin stepped towards each other and shook hands. Then they both collapsed to the ground.

The crowd surged in to see if the two combatants were alright. Lissa was first to reach her betrothed, and she quickly cast a healing spell to dull the Sugar Thief's bleeding. "What were you thinking?! You could have died if you just kept going! We're getting married tonight before you can get yourself killed! And no sweets until we get to Ylisse!"

"Ah, c'mon, Princess, don't take away a guy's candy! That's cruel!" Lissa punched Gaius on the arm in response. "OW, Princess, that hurt. A lot. If I have to choose between candy or you, I'd choose you any day… Lissa." The duchess of Ylisse embraced the Sugar Thief tightly, but Lissa would always be Princess to him.

"Robin, you are an IDIOT!" Both Chrom and Lucina yelled at Robin as he curled up on the floor, spitting up blood as Libra and Brady attended to healing Robin. "I told you that you shouldn't have done this duel, but you could have at least let it be a draw!" Tharja burst into the group and yelled, "Robin if you die now I will kill everyone in this room!"

"Tharja, are you seriously still hung up on Robin? You already know it doesn't happen. Robin, please tell her off." Lucina got no response. "ROBIN!" She turned angrily to demand that Robin tell Tharja off, but the grandmaster was already out cold. Noire and Laurent joined Lucina and her father in picking up Robin. "Move them both to the convoy. We're beginning our journey back to Yllistol. The Resistance was kind enough to help us pack up for the trip. Lucina, can you go get Roy and bring him out to join us, can't you? He's in the stables down the west hall and in the last door on the left."

Lucina was very puzzled. "May I ask, father, who Roy is? I wasn't aware we met someone new other than Phila yesterday." Chrom laughed and replied, "Roy is Robin's horse, Luci." As Lucina's face reddened, she quickly ran to the stables so that no-one could see her. Finding the horse that she could recognize, she untied the horse, led it out of the stables, and hopped on. Since Roy trusted her thanks to her inherited way with animals, Lucina was able to ride up to join her father.

"Did you find Roy? What weapons does he use? What's his personality?" Chrom laughed happily at her daughter's embarrassment as she scowled with reddened cheeks. "I'm just joking. But enough chitchat, we need to start heading back to Yllistol. It will probably take two days, and I'd like to get there as soon as possible."


"What a glorious battle! You must use the memory-conjuring spell later so that I can bear witness to this glorious encounter." Robin and Gaius struggled to their feet, groaning in unison as they struggled to stay standing in the rattling wagon. "Bubbles can do that later, son. Now I don't know about you, but since I can actually walk, I'm getting out of here." Robin nodded in agreement, and the two hopped out of the back of the wagon.

"Good to see you up and kicking, Robin! Teach was wondering how long it would take you!" Robin laughed and waved as he quickly walked further up the convoy to the front, where Lucina and Chrom would be.

"Hey, Robin! That old thief couldn't keep you down, could he?" In response to Ricken's greeting, Robin replied, "No-one can keep mages down for long, Ricken." The dark knight high-fived Robin as the grandmaster ran forward to meet up with Chrom and Lucina, who were each leading their horses at the front of the group.

"I hope I didn't scare you two too bad." Lucina and Chrom turned in surprise, then relaxed as they saw that it was Robin. "You hanging in there okay, buddy?"

"More or less, Chrom," Robin rubbed the back of his head, "But I'd prefer we not get into combat again for a while." Robin turned and kissed Lucina square on the lips, slowly and passionately. As Lucina was caught rather off guard and was unbalanced, Robin held her up with his left hand, then brought around his right to flip her father the bird.

"OKAY, BACK OFF ROBIN!" Chrom grabbed the neck of Robin's cloak and pulled him back, leaving a confused, blushing, and sputtering Lucina in his wake. Robin turned to face the exalt laughing like never before.

"Robin, people can see us… Cordelia and the others are laughing at us…" As Robin turned, he could see that Lucina spoke the truth: Most of the other Shepherds were laughing their heads off. Sumia flew up to join them and said, "As hilarious as I thought that was, take it easy with my daughter, Robin. Lucina's new to romance."

"Mother!" As Lucina's face reddened to scarlet, Chrom cut into the conversation. "If you're going to be dating Lucina, I need to set some rules for you two." Robin groaned and face-palmed as Chrom cracked his knuckles. "I did this for Gaius, you can survive. Rule one-" Chrom was cut off as a column of fire erupted from within a forest a mile south of them.

"Can we get ONE DAY without a CRISIS?!" Chrom and Robin both rolled their eyes as they ran into the forest, finding a strange structure of ice and water. "Is… this the place you told me about a while back?" Chrom nodded.

"Well, this must not have gone too well for those Ruffians who were looking for the divine dragon's tear. Sounds like they're Risen now." Robin squinted into the darkness. He couldn't see any of the Risen that Chrom had mentioned, but he could hear them. Then he heard a voice yell, "Arc-Fire!"

"There's someone in here! Quickly, bring Sumia, Laurent, Noire, Gregor, and Sully north and then east. I'll go east here and we'll meet up." Then Robin shouted in a loud voice, "Lon'qu, Panne, Gerome, Kjelle, Yarne! Come with me!" Chrom hopped up onto Sumia's Pegasus and they flew towards the nearest enemies they could hear, while the others followed on horseback. Robin and Lucina's group headed west, in the direction of the sound of fighting.

Six Griffon Riders and one Wyvern Lord flew towards the small group that Robin and Lucina led. Robin produced Rexcalibur from his cloak and shot off the spell, downing a Griffon. Another attacked him from the side, but Lucina blocked the attack and threw a javelin to down the rider. The grandmaster and the princess ducked as Gerome pulled back Minerva to dodge an attack, while Kjelle defeated his assailant.

"Focus, Gerome! If I wasn't here helping you, that guy would have knocked your head off. Don't let your guard down." Robin turned to help Lon'qu and Panne deal with the Wyvern Lord while Yarne took down a Griffon with ease.

"Kjelle, you look lovelier every moment. How am I to focus in battle?" Robin raised an eyebrow. Wow. And people say Inigo's a flirt. I suppose Gerome IS Virion's son…

"W-where did that come from? P-please, such compliments catch me off guard..."

"Indeed, I can tell, because your face is turning red in a way that matches your beautiful red and ginger hair." Gerome brushed the aforementioned hair out of Kjelle's face while Robin said, "Can it wait, you two?" Then Robin had to dodge an attack from the Wyvern Lord. "The rest of you should go find Chrom's group. We'll handle this Risen." At Lucina's command, the others departed, leaving Robin and Lucina to fight the Wyvern Lord.

The wyvern dodged Rexcalibur as the rider threw a hand axe at the grandmaster, which grazed his chest. Lucina jumped and tried to kill the wyvern, but the rider deflected it. Robin prepared to cast Rexcalibur again, but the Wyvern seized him in its claws before he could cast the wind spell. As Robin braced for the end, he fell out of the wyvern's grasp and to the ground as the wyvern flew away in a panic from its dead rider. As Robin stood up to thank Lucina, he saw that she was getting up in the opposite direction from the place the rider fell. Then he felt someone crash into him.

"There you are, Father! I was beginning to think we got separated." Robin looked down to see a girl, about 16 years of age by his estimate, with blue hair, an identical cloak to his own, and a Falchion in her hand. Lucina stared wide-eyed in shock. "I'm sorry, what?" was all that Robin could get out.

"Well no harm done. At least we can head home now. ...Goodness, the air here agrees with you! You look a decade younger, at least." Lucina's hand was over her mouth as she began to realize who this strange girl was. Oh no… what if she's not my daughter?

"Wait, let's go back to the 'Father' thing. How could you get here? I didn't marry Lucina in that future." The girl gave him a puzzled look as Lucina turned away in tears.

"I thought that was Mother standing over there…" Lucina lifted her head and turned back around. Does she recognize me? "But did you seriously just ask me if I came from the future?" Robin sat down on the ground and stared at his daughter, utterly marveled. Lucina began to stumble over to him. "Why are you looking at me like that? Hello? It's me! Morgan!" Robin couldn't come up with anything to say and continued to stare slack-jawed until Lucina nudged him nervously. "Your daughter?" Morgan looked nervous now. "Love of your lives and Daddy's Little Girl and all that?" Smiles started to form slowly on the surprised parents' faces. Robin reached over and grabbed Lucina's hand. "A daughter. We have a child." Lucina couldn't muster a single word, but just stared in awe at her daughter, blue haired and all.

"Wow, you're really acting strange today. Let's go home and get you two to bed." Morgan grabbed their open hands and began to run towards Chrom's group, then paused. "Hmm, but which way is home? Is it-" Morgan began to collapse, but Lucina caught her. "Ngh! M-my head!"

"Easy—Don't try to force it! Just stay calm and listen to me. I know this sounds mad, but I believe that you came here from the future." The tactician's daughter did a double take and sat up in shock. "Are you out of your mind? That's impossible!"

"Actually, it is. Think about it. You said Robin looked younger, but look again. At both of us this time, and closely. Do I look like I'm of an age where I could have a child as old as you? At this point in time, in OUR time, you still haven't been born." Morgan rubbed her head in confusion as she processed what her mother had said. "You do look a lot younger, but…"

"Look, you don't need to believe us right now. But I need you to come with me. I know what it's like to wake up with no memory, and if Chrom hadn't found me, who knows where I would be now… heck, your mother and I would have never met."

"YOU woke up one day with no memory too?" Morgan laughed happily, adding, "Like father, like daughter then! How funny!" Lucina chuckled lightly and replied, "It's good to see you inherited your father's blithe attitude. Just stay close, okay?"

"Yes ma'am!" Robin and Lucina began to walk towards Chrom's group, Morgan following close behind, right next to her father. Lucina felt Robin's hand grasp hers, and she turned to see an overjoyed smile on his face. Lucina stopped, leaned over and pressed her lips into his, while running her left hand through the grandmaster's horribly messy hair.

"I… understand you love each other and all, and that I'm not actually here yet, but could you two tone that down a bit?" Robin pulled away and chuckled lightly. "Okay, dear. Just this once."


"There you are, Robin! I found Naga's tear, and some of the others are bringing it back." Chrom's group had dealt with the rest of the Risen, and now the exalt was resting while Sumia and Cynthia, who had arrived late to the battle. "I see you found the treasure hunter. Who's this girl?"

"My name's Morgan, sir! Sorry, just got lost in here." Chrom leaned over and studied the girl carefully, noting the cloak and the third copy of Falchion in their presence. "Well, it seems we have a fan, doesn't it, Robin?" Chrom and Robin laughed together for very different reasons. "Well, join me as soon as you can outside. She can join us if she likes." As Chrom began to walk away, Sumia approached excitedly.

"Are you Robin and Lucina's daughter?" Upon hearing her mother say this, Cynthia ran over excitedly and smiled at the girl.

"If Father and Mother's real names are Robin and Lucina, then yes." As soon as the words escaped from Morgan's mouth, Cynthia shrieked in happiness while Sumia smiled and laughed as the two Pegasus riders began to talk too quickly for Robin or Lucina to understand.

"What exactly is going on now?" Chrom had turned around when he heard his wife and daughter freak out. "Tell him! Tell him, Morgan! You have to!" Morgan smiled and stood up as she began to dash towards Chrom. "Wait! I'm not sure that that's a good idea, honey-"

"I'M SO SORRY, GRANDPA! I DON'T HAVE ANY MEMORY OF THE LAST 16 YEARS OF MY LIFE BESIDES FATHER-"

"Did you call me… Grandpa?" Chrom went wide-eyed in shock, then looked up at the parents. "Robin, I swear to the gods…"

Well, that's it for this chapter. Sorry to leave you on a cliffhanger, but the next section depends on the preface survey. If you didn't before, please go read the preface to this chapter. Please leave a review as instructed at the top, and have a great day!