Hey everybody,
I just want to thank everybody who contributed to the survey on the last chapter, especially the guests who went by the pen names AS and Delta477. I ended up going with a mixture of these two suggestions for Kellam and Phila's child. Thank you to everybody who contributed to that survey and the Fates-based pairing survey. This seriously went really well; I'd love to hear more recommendations regardless of whether I'm doing an organized survey or not.
As for the Fates survey, you can keep sharing your opinion on that one for a while. So far, it looks like Male Corrin and Azura is the one people want to see. This was the pairing I used in my first play through, and I will be ignoring the fact that they're revealed to be cousins in Revelation (Because I had already paired them. Arete and Mikoto will just be close friends). Still, I'm strongly considering Female Corrin and Laslow, just because I have a good idea for a setup for that story. If you'd rather me pair Corrin with someone else, you can tell me that too. For example: what about Morgan? Would the Fell Dragon and the Vallite Dragon mix be cool? Anyway, thank you and enjoy!
Chapter 8
A tactician and a swordswoman sat around a campfire, makeshift tents and other fires surrounding them in the evening light. Their daughter was doing fine, but her parents had their own problems.
"Where's Morgan? Is she being examined in the medical tent?" Lucina nodded and continued to examine the blades of grass. "Lucina? Are you okay?" Robin placed his hand on her shoulder, while the princess of Ylisse turned to face him.
"I just have a lot going on in my head. I just found out I have a daughter, my father's going to lecture me because he thinks I was having sex with his best friend, and the aforementioned daughter doesn't remember me. How bad of a parent was I if she doesn't remember me?" Robin paused for a second, carefully considering what to say.
"I'm still trying to process it too, Chrom knows that we didn't do anything last night, and Morgan doesn't remember anything except for me. Everything's going to be fine, Lucina." He leaned over and wrapped his arm around Lucina's shoulder, while the princess wrapped her arm around the grandmaster's waist. They leaned against each other there for a while, enjoying the warmth of the fire.
"I'm assuming you've already heard this from Morgan, but keep that to a minimum while I'm around." Chrom sat down by the couple, rubbing his forehead in a tired manner. Robin smiled and replied, "Alright, Chrom, you got it." Chrom didn't seem to be in any hurry, though. Robin groaned, knowing that he was about to sit through a series of rules and questions from Chrom.
"Okay, I've got a question and a few rules for you. First off: is Lucina pregnant?" Lucina went wide-eyed and shook her head. "No, of course not. I've told you that already, Father." Robin stretched briefly and settled in for the rules.
"Secondly, Robin, you two are not allowed to drink alcohol together, for obvious reasons. Rule three, and this is an obvious one for you, you make her cry, I make you die." Robin nodded, having predicted that he would say something along these lines. "Rule four, there's no point in banning you from sleeping together now that you already have, but no sex. I'm serious." Lucina and Robin both nodded quickly.
"Now I didn't add this when I gave this lecture to Gaius, but this is a unique situation. Rule five, please don't let Morgan call me Grandfather. That makes me feel old." Robin chuckled lightly.
"What do you mean, 'feel' old? I can see a few gray hairs!" Chrom looked up at his hair, then scowled and walked away, yelling, "Not funny, Robin!"
"You really shouldn't have done that, Robin. Father's going to be mad at you now." Robin chuckled and replied, "He'll get over it. If not, I think his grand-daughter will win him over. She has her mother's charm." Lucina blushed and replied, "And if that doesn't work, she has her father's amusing and adorable personality." Robin smiled as the two leaned towards each other until…
"Father! Mother! This camp is SOOOOO cool! I did what you said and declined to mention that you guys are my parents, by the way." Robin smiled and gestured for Morgan to sit between him and Lucina, a request to which Morgan complied.
"I'm glad you like the camp. Did you get to meet some of the other people?" Morgan nodded happily in response to her mother's question.
"First I spent some time talking to grandmother. She's so nice! She was really friendly to me! Then I talked to Aunt Cyndie for a while. She's nice too! I met that guy who talks all funny, and watched his son get rejected by like three different girls!" Robin and Lucina glanced at each other, highly alarmed. "I feel bad for that guy who can't walk now. He kept saying something about needing to exercise his sword hand."
"Yeah, Owain is kind of a wreck without his sword hand, dear." Morgan laughed at her mother's comment, then continued. "Next, I walked into an invisible wall, and it turned out to be a guy! There was also this one guy who squealed adorably when I messed with his bunny ears! Then I met this really cool dark mage named Tharja! She was highly interested in me, and asked me for help making a love potion! It was fun!" Lucina stood up in a fury. "I'll be right back." Before Robin could make a protest, the princess had stormed off.
"Well, it sounds like you've had a fun day. Why don't you go talk to Frederick about getting you a tent and bedroll? If he doesn't trust you and refuses to give one to you, then you can tell him who you are."
"I get my own tent? Cool! I'll set it up right next to yours here!" Morgan hugged her father, then ran off. Robin stood up, stretched, and began to walk around the camp in an effort to find Lucina.
"I find myself wishing that Laurent had more inherited characteristics from me." Robin hurried away before he heard Miriel's cryptic reply to her husband Libra's question. Then he saw two people dueling with practice weapons a short distance away from most of the camp.
"Commit to your swing, Kell!" The knight, now not in full armor, did as Gregor instructed and swung her training staff with more force, while Gregor parried. They dueled for a short time, then Gregor sat down in the grass, exhausted.
"You know, Gregor envy you and Sully-kins." Kjelle sat down and looked at him in curiosity. "Gregor old man now with no family. Sully-kins has daughter and parents back in homeland. Gregor will die with nothing and no-one to remember him by." Kjelle began to shake slightly, and Robin noticed that Kjelle's hair was the same color as Gregor's.
"You know Kell, if Gregor ever have daughter, he hopes will be strong, confident girl like you." Nodding rapidly, Kjelle seized her training staff and hurried away towards the camp, still shaking. As she walked past Robin, he said, "Gregor's your father, isn't he?" Kjelle whirled around.
"You shouldn't have been eavesdropping, Robin!" Kjelle swung her staff around in anger, but Robin ducked out of the way. "Is Gregor your father, Kjelle?" The knight nodded, then hurried away. Robin continued on, spotting Lucina by Tharja's tent. He sat down by her and peered in.
"One bat wing..." Tharja dropped the demented object, "A dash of pig tail…" Lucina yanked Robin away from the tent flap as Vaike approached and burst into the tent. "I hoped that ain't dinner yer making!" Vaike's booming laughter shook the tent's flaps. "No, seriously, whatcha up to?"
"I'm brewing a potion for a spell," Tharja replied. She continued to mix the mysterious liquid while Vaike inquired, "What is it? Fireballs? The Vaike loves fireballs!" Tharja kept her eyes on the bowl and replied, "I'd rather not say."
"Why not? Ya gonna cast it on me? Bwa ha ha ha!" The tent flap billowed into Lucina's face as she pushed it away. The witch said nothing. Robin poked his head into the tent to see a terrified look on Vaike's face. "Wait! You ARE gonna cast it on me! Teach don't wanna be no toad!" His foot breached the flaps of the tent before he was pulled back in.
"It's not a toad, I promise… Just drink it."
"AW HELL NO!" Robin began to laugh before Lucina clasped her hand over Robin's mouth. "Trust me, Vaike, this potion is special. It will allow me to capture your heart." Robin laughed again, while Vaike did the same inside the tent. "Told you that you didn't have anything to worry about, Lucina."
"I could have saved you the bat wing, Tharja! Take a look at this!"
"That looks like a ring." Robin recalled Noire's angry rant from the day she and the other children joined on and remembered that this was exactly what Noire claimed would happen.
"See? Ya don't need magic potions to win my heart. Ya already got it!" Tharja shakily replied, "Very well. I accept your proposal." Robin clasped Lucina's hand and led her away from the tent.
"I'm sorry, Robin," Lucina said while staring at the ground, "I just got this image into my head of Morgan's hair turning black right in front of me, and I had to do something."
"That's fine, Lucina, I don't blame you. If an evil witch was obsessed with you, I'd be jealous too." Robin chuckled and gently kissed his lover before the couple proceeded into the mess tent.
"So Libra," Robin said, "I heard that you're having trouble relating to your kid." Robin sat down by the priest, Stahl, Ricken, and Gregor, leaving two more spots open to other people. Lucina went to sit by her mother and sister. "Indeed I am. It seems that Laurent and I's only similarity is the color of our hair."
"That and the fact that you both look like women." Ricken's comment made the table erupt in laughter. "Although if you wanna talk about issues with your kid, Nah has her own set of problems. "She thinks that I would never actually marry someone who acts as childish as Nowi and that I only stayed with her because… er…"
"Because you got her pregnant?" Phila sat down in one of the two empty spots as Stahl slapped Ricken so hard in the back while laughing that the dark knight's face hit the table. Ricken's face was red now out of both embarrassment and pain.
"I didn't have a chance to tell you yesterday, Phila, but it's good to have you back." The well-postured Pegasus knight replied, "Thank you. I apologize for not bringing the Resistance to help you sooner, but I am glad to be in the company of the six of you." Robin was about to say that there was only five people sitting there until Phila took her fork and clanged it against Kellam's armor.
"Okay, I don't understand how it's so hard to see you, Kellam!" Stahl was laughing out of control until Maribelle marched over and said, "Don't laugh so loud! And why are you such a messy eater? No wonder Brady's such a country bumpkin! I'm sorry about him, Phila. He's still the same old eater as before." The resistance general nodded as Maribelle sat back down by Sumia and her daughters.
"So where's Morgan? Is she still setting up her tent?" In response to her mother's question, Lucina replied, "Robin thought it would be best not to have her attend dinner tonight."
"Who's Morgan?" Maribelle and Lissa inquired about the identity of the person they met earlier at the same time. As Lucina was about to talk around the question, Cynthia gleefully replied, "Morgan is Robin and Lucina's daughter!" Lucina buried her head into her hands as everybody in the tent heard and burst into chatter.
"Well, Robin, You've been busy! Your best friend's gonna be your father-in-law soon! So much for Chrom being your best man!"
"I assume Chrom knows already, or else he'd be storming in here aiming to take off your head!"
"So that girl from earlier is you guys' kid? Shoulda seen it! It's obvious now that I think about it!"
"LUCINA ARE YOU OKAY?! PLEASE TELL ME YOU TWO HAVEN'T-"
"Lissa, no we have not." The duchess continued with her fussing alongside her own supervisor. Only the Taguel, Lon'qu, Libra, Miriel, Kellam, and Phila stayed out of the fuss.
"Guys, you didn't put up this much of a fuss when other children showed up, so would you leave me and Lucina alone?" The obstreperous din of the Shepherds took only three seconds to stop. "Wow, I didn't think that would work." Then Robin realized that none of them were looking at him. He turned over his shoulder to see a strange young man standing by the door.
This man was clearly very shy, shuffling away from the group ever so slowly. He had orange cavalier armor, which was a stark contrast from the mostly black with one blue strand in his well-combed hair. A massive scar ran down the side of his face and down onto his neck, which along with his neat but damaged clothes gave him the appearance of a seasoned fighter. The young man appeared to be very poised, but he shied away from the prying eyes.
"God damn it. I was hoping I could slip in here during whatever conversation you were having." As he began to walk further in, he noticed that all eyes were still on him. "Ugh, why are you all still looking at me? How does Father do it?"
"We're looking at you because you're a complete stranger in full armor entering our tent." Phila approached the man and explained the situation in the politest way that she could. "Well, of course that's why YOU'D be looking at me; you've been alert for as long as I can remember."
"I'm afraid you're mistaken; you attract eyes more than women attract that dancer's son. I'd remember you if we'd ever met before." The young man chuckled lightly, then sighed.
"You're right; we haven't met. Can I talk to you and Kellam outside for a second?" The general of the Resistance followed the strange man out of the tent, then Kellam pushed one flap of the tent aside and hurried out. People began talking again, either about this strange new man or about Morgan, but Robin went to the tent flaps and peered through.
"Now I see what Sumia meant. This is a lot to take in all at once, Kenshin." Phila sat down on a storage trunk not far outside the tent, while Kellam stood next to her.
"I… understand you have no reason to believe me," Kenshin said, "But can you just trust me? At least until I can find a way to prove it."
"I believe you, Kenshin," Kellam replied, "Though I don't know if Phila does. You definitely look like you could be our son." Robin snapped his fingers. He guessed as much, but he wanted to make sure.
"I just… I really miss you guys. I miss Dad's cooking, and you training me, and explaining to me twice a week why I can't be a Pegasus knight, all of it. It's good to see you again." Kellam and Phila pulled their son into a tight embrace.
"Did you come from the same timeline as the others? Where everybody's dead and the Risen have taken over the world?"
Kenshin gave his mother a strange look. "What are Risen? My life was happy until the Nohrians- never mind. Things were normal- I grew up alongside all the other Shepherds' children: Lucia, Cyndie, Kelly, Gerald, Yorre, Bradley, Lento, Naya, Oak, Morgan-"
"You come from Morgan's time?!" Robin was past the massive tent flaps and had his hands on Kenshin's collar in a matter of seconds. "What happened? Why doesn't she remember it? Was I a bad parent?"
"You must be Robin. It's strange seeing you so much younger. But yeah, I know Morgan. Is she here?! I haven't seen her since she became a retainer in-"
"Yeah, she's here, but she lost her memory. She only remembers who I am, so you can't see her today." Kenshin nodded and proceeded to walk with his parents in hushed tones.
"You alright, Robin?" Lucina took hold of Robin's hand as he watched the newly reunited family talk, a smile on the young Kenshin's face. He was almost going to go talk to them, but then he remembered that he had a child of his own to check up on, and she had probably gotten bored of eating and talking with Frederick.
"We should go check on our daughter. If I'm her father, then goodness knows what trouble she'll get into if we don't stop her." Lucina smiled and laughed lightly while the couple began to make their way to the weapons tent, where their daughter was.
"You know, Robin, you didn't answer my question." The grandmaster looked out towards the sea, visualizing Yllistol. He had only spent two years there, but he still found that he missed the place dearly. Elsewhere, Hans, Iago, and Validar waited for him.
"I don't know, Lucina," Robin replied, "Maybe I'll be able to say for sure before we go to bed." Lucina pulled up the tent flap as she and Robin stepped inside- and nearly went deaf.
"Mom! Dad! What took you so long? No offense to you, Sir Frederick, but I'm dying in here! I just found you today!" Lucina replied, "I'm sorry, Morgan, but everyone would have been bothering you way too much if they found out who you are. Turns out they did anyway… but how about we go play cards as soon as I get a look at your Falchion?" Morgan happily agreed and let Lucina examine the weapon while Robin talked to Frederick.
"Thanks for looking after Morgan for us. I've only known her for a day, but I can already tell she's a handful." Frederick nodded, which was the closest he ever got to a laugh. "She's Milord's granddaughter, so she falls under my responsibility. Besides, it's nice to have someone to talk to, and Morgan's a very interesting young lady."
"Yeah, I know that I'm not always very appreciative of you, but… thank you for all that you do. Really, you've saved my life multiple times, and have always been available when needed." Frederick nodded, and while Robin was about to add something else, the great knight began to stare off into space. Robin couldn't see what he did, but if he could, he'd see the great-aunt of his own daughter:
Emmeryn.
"Well, if you guys would like, I can get a deck of cards ready back in our tent. That sound good?" Lucina nodded and replied, "Sounds good to me. We'll join you in just a second." Robin left the tent while Lucina sat down by her daughter.
"I know you're probably worried that I'm not actually your daughter, even though I do look a lot like you. But thank you for being welcoming of me." Tears began to well up in Lucina's eyes as she hugged her daughter tight. Then as they pulled apart, Lucina saw it.
"What's that mark on your wrist, dear?" Morgan pulled back her right sleeve until the mark of the exalt could be seen. "Oh yeah, I've had that mark my whole life. I have another mark on my other arm." She pulled back her left sleeve to reveal what looked like a dragon's head.
"That mark on your right arm proves that you're my daughter! I have that same mark in my eye!" Morgan peered closer into her mother's eyes, then laughed with glee when she saw the mark and hugged her mother again, nearly making Lucina suffocate.
"Now let's head over to meet your father. Wouldn't want to keep him waiting for too long." Morgan nodded and dashed out of the tent, while Lucina walked out at a more natural pace.
"You look awfully happy, Lucina, and that's not okay. You were the one other person who I could count on to not smile!" Severa was in her usual somewhat pouty mood as she addressed Lucina. Henry walked just behind her, standing next to his fiancé, Cordelia. "How could I not be happy? Morgan has the mark of the exalt, which is proof that she's my daughter."
"Nya ha! Or Cynthia's!" Lucina's face paled, Severa and her father laughed, and Cordelia smacked her fiancé's arm. "Don't even joke about that, Henry! That's horribly rude!" Lucina began to walk away until Cordelia put her hand on the princess's shoulder. "You don't have anything to worry about, Lucina. Morgan's clearly your child. She may not remember you, but you sure did a good job raising her." Lucina nodded with a smile on her face while Cordelia followed her fiancé and her daughter away towards the medical tent to visit Owain.
As Lucina came upon her and Robin's tent, she stopped for a moment outside the tent, considering all of the recent events. In one day, she had seen Robin at his most vulnerable yet, met her own daughter, and somehow was allowed by her father to sleep in the same tent as his best friend. All of this left Lucina exhausted and overwhelmed. But when she looked inside the tent and saw Robin and Morgan talking and laughing, it made it all worth it.
"It's good to be back." Chrom hopped off of his horse and looked at the castle of Ylisstol happily as the Shepherds entered in the front gate. All of the children except Lucina stared up at the still-standing Ylisstol in awe.
"Yay! It's back! You're lucky, sis, you got to come home way before I did."
"Ugh, this place. If I had a nickel for every time I lost a game of hide-and-seek to Lucina in here…"
"I should head to the armory, see if a new challenge is there for me."
"I might as well enjoy Ylisstol while it's here… before it inevitably falls to Grima's wrath…"
"Er, I don't know if I want to go in there. The bad memories might make me go crazy."
"Then by all means, go in! I wish to further study your amazing outbursts, Noire!"
"My my, what a place. If I had a nickel for every time I tried to ask a Pegasus knight out in here…"
"Hmm… maybe I should try flying up there… would you like a lift up, Brady?"
"Er, No thank yew, Nah… I reckon I'll stick to the stairs like everybody else."
"Come on, Bunny! Let's go! I wanna see how many stories you can jump!"
"Don't call me Bunny, Morgan! And I'm not jumping inside the castle: Chrom will kill me!"
"Hey, don't you guys even think about exploring this great labyrinth of memories without me, or the power of the sword hand will smite thee!"
"Alright, everybody, most of you can just go wherever now, but I'll need my immediate family to come with me. We've gotta talk to the royal council." Chrom waited for the groaning from his family before adding, "Oh, and Gaius? I'd rather you and Owain not come in until I can talk it all out with the royal council. Even though you joined in the Plegian campaign, they still don't know that you're a Shepherd." Gaius shrugged and then passionately kissed Lissa in front of all of them. With tongue. When Chrom grabbed his shoulder, he pushed the Exalt away and flipped the bird at him. Lissa put her arms around Gaius's neck and pulled him down closer to her, while Lucina twiddled her thumbs nervously. She thought such public affection was horribly improper.
"OOOOKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!" Chrom forcibly pulled them apart when Gaius's right hand moved down past Lissa's waist. Gaius jokingly saluted, then strolled off towards the main city, saying, "First Robin, then me. Just wait until Inigo joins the party." Chrom, still a little rattled, started walking towards the castle, grabbing Lissa's arm and saying, "That could have gotten you into a lot of trouble with the council."
"Oh, come on! I'm an adult, Chrom! Leave me alone! It's not like you and Sumia don't do the same thing almost every other day!"
"Except I don't do so in public, and so... intensely. Besides, we're running late already; there's a lot I have to tell the council." Chrom rubbed his forehead tiredly. "This'll be just great… 'Oh, by the way, I have another daughter, Lucina has a daughter of her own, so no suitors… also, my sister is engaged. Who? Why, only the most wanted man in the kingdom!' Yeah, that'll be a breeze…"
"Hey, you get to be royalty, so you can't complain. Besides, it won't be that bad. Don't be over-dramatic." Robin watched Brady help Owain up and limp away, then followed Chrom and his family in, walking up the steps to the room where the royal advisors waited.
"Good to see you again, Milord Chrom." Chrom nodded and replied, "It's good to be back. Now let's get started, because I have a lot to catch you guys up on." Chrom took a deep breath while the four-person council sat down.
"First off, this young lady," He gestured to Cynthia, "Is my daughter, Cynthia." The new daughter walked forward and cheerfully shook hands with the councilmen, who accepted the handshake uneasily.
"You should have had a letter transported to inform us, Milord." An older man sitting farthest to the left addressed the Exalt in an irritated manner.
"Sue me then, Galto. Between fighting Risen, managing the Valm campaign, and dealing with MORE future children showing up basically every day. At one point, we discovered five in one day."
"So there are more, then? And not just from your family, but from the other Shepherds' families?"
"Yes. In fact, Galto, your daughter, Maribelle, is married and has a son named Brady in your honor. I'll summon him if you wish."
"No, not right now. That can wait until later." A woman to the right of Galto cut in. "So, another daughter… You realize this means more suitors in your castle? Whom you hate?"
"Like myself, Zola of Rosanne?" A young man entered the room from behind the council, approaching Lissa and took a bow. Lissa rolled her eyes, Sumia and Lucina groaned, and Robin sat down and took a piece of jerky out of his pocket. This was going to be entertaining.
"Sorry, Zola, but if you wanna, like, kiss my hand or something, you'll need to ask permission from my fiancé." Zola angrily rushed out of the room while Galto stood up in a fury.
"Are you serious? You became engaged without our approval?! This is absolutely unacceptable! Where is your fiancé?" Chrom looked to Robin for tips on what to do, prompting Robin to roll his eyes and shoot a Wind spell at the council, shutting them up and scattering their papers and quill pens across the room.
"We can talk about that later. Also, if you could avoid shooting off wind spells," A blue-haired woman next to Galto addressed Robin, "That would be appreciated."
"Wait, you weren't a council member last time I came up here." Sumia studied the woman with interest. She stood up and walked forward, revealing a large X-shaped scar across her face and long blue hair.
"My name is Reina. I was the General of the Pegasus knights for a while, before I suffered a near-fatal injury that forced me to resign. I'm going to be going to the Outrealms for good soon, so I won't be here long. I am aware that you were trained by Phila, milady."
"Indeed I was. It's good to meet you, Reina." Reina nodded before the window behind her shattered, while the council and Chrom's family all scattered to the floor.
As Chrom helped his wife and daughters up, he saw Morgan slide off of a giant bunny's back. "Thanks for the lift, Yarne! All of that debris was cool! Jumping through the window was a great idea!" A light shone from the center of the room as the giant bunny transformed back into a young man with large ears and fearful eyes.
"ME?! I didn't mean to do that! You shouldn't have had your feet in front of my eyes! Ohhhhhh, Lord Chrom is going to kill me, we're gonna go extinct…"
"Don't be such a baby. Oh hi, Grandfather!" Morgan ran and hugged Chrom, then looked around the room and said, "Grandmother's here too! And Mom and Dad! This is great!" Robin winced as he saw the four councilmen figure out what they had just heard.
"A granddaughter, Chrom? And did she call Robin 'Dad?'" Chrom sighed and replied, "Yes, Galto, this is Robin and Lucina's daughter, Morgan. That young Taguel gentleman is Yarne, Panne's son." Galto stood up in a fury. "Do you realize how many suitors are slated to arrive in the next week?! Now that Lissa's engaged, and Lucina's engaged-"
"Er, no, we're not engaged…" Lucina interrupted Galto, rather embarrassed, with her correction, prompting Cynthia to butt in with, "That won't be true for long! Robin bought a ring from Anna this morning!" Everyone turned to see Robin, wide-eyed and red in the face.
"Ugh, Cynthia, did you have to bring that up? I was going to wait until I could tell your father…" Robin reached into the pocket of his Plegian coat and produced a small black box. "So yeah, uh… Chrom-"
"You most definitely have my permission, Robin. I don't know about the council, though…" Reina gave a thumbs-up as the doors behind them burst open and two cavaliers walked in with Gaius between them, his hands bound.
"Milord, we found the infamous assassin and thief Gaius stealing from a candy shop in the city. We thought you would like to deliver him his death sentence." Chrom buried his face in his hands.
"Of course, it's never that simple. I thought that maybe after a giant bunny and my granddaughter crashed through the window, and after my best friend's plans to propose to my daughter was revealed, then MAYBE I could have a usual meeting. But NO! Then my sister's mystery fiancé who's a wanted criminal gets brought up here under arrest and I'm expected to DECAPITATE HIM!" Chrom slammed his head into the wall angrily.
"GAIUS IS DUCHESS LISSA'S-" Galto was cut off as Robin punched him in the head saying, "I think it's best if we suspend this meeting, wouldn't you agree, Reina?" The former Pegasus knight nodded, while a very rattled royal family left the room with Gaius.
"Dude," one cavalier said, "We do NOT get paid enough for this crap. If one more of my encounters with the royal family goes like this, I'm quitting."
"Morgan, that was unacceptable. You're lucky that you happen to be part of the royal family, or you'd be arrested. Regardless, if I hadn't promised to pay it off, you'd be working to pay for that repair." Lucina looked at him in horror. "You promised to pay that? Have you been saving your salary?" Robin shook his head and replied, "No, I won a bet. My salary has been going into something else."
"Sorry, Father. I was just having so much fun with the others!" Robin laughed and shrugged it off before Morgan continued with another question. "You said your salary has been going into something else. What's that, exactly?" Robin's face reddened as he reached into his pocket. "Well, I suppose Cynthia spoiled it already…" The grandmaster pulled out the box and opened it on one knee. Despite seeing the box earlier, she was shocked by his sudden proposal. Morgan squealed in delight and jumped around happily.
"Lucina, you know the question."
"You know the answer!" Lucina threw her arms around Robin with enough force to knock him to the ground. Morgan joined in on the hug while the family laughed.
Chrom looked on from a balcony above, a smile on his face. Sumia squeezed his hand tight and wiped tears out of her eyes. "You know you're gonna have to let her call you Grandfather now, right?"
"Yeah, that's only fair. Morgan's a good kid. If she's anything like Lucina and Robin, she'll be a great hero one day. I have faith in her father. That being said, if Robin betrays Lucina, he's still getting beheaded." Laughing, the king and queen left the overjoyed family below to celebrate and went to check on another future child, who was jumping over the fence into the stables.
Kenshin ran to the area where pegasi were feeding. The cavalier stood there for a while, admiring the nearest Pegasus to him. He reached out and petted its mane, while the Pegasus whinnied happily. Kenshin then sighed and walked away, his head drooping.
Sorry if that chapter felt rushed. I tried to fit a ton of stuff into that meeting to give an idea of how confusing and hectic Chrom's life must be. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Please leave a review for the Fates survey if you can!
