Episode 15: Jalen's arrival.

Episode 15: Jalen's arrival.

Over at the home of Cynthia and Gerome, all of the time travelers were outside eating some food that Gerome ordered off of UberEats which is mainly chicken wings, hamburgers, fries, and more stuff. Why are they eating like this? Mainly to celebrates their parent's wins at the Official Rank E cups for Sylvain and Felix. While Alex would normally celebrate with them, she was busy sitting in the tree looking out to the distance. As if she was expecting someone or something..

Today was the Rank D cups across the nation, so Kana's parents and the princesses's parents would take part as Rhiannon and Edelgard together will take on Magbell as Cordelia will be in Central Togle and of course, the prince of Demacia, Chrom, will handle business in the capital. At the table as everyone's monster was running amok and doing their own thing.

Gillgamesh was making confetti come out of his hands in front of Kurth to humor the two of them. Gabriel and Armads was sitting down meditating as Alm was sitting against the tree Alex was up on as Severa's monster, Athena, was floating behind her trainer who was at the table sitting next to Cynthia as everyone listened to Inigo and Soleil brag about their father winning.

"And man, was Dad on fire..none of the monsters could hurt Durag! He just had him throw Thwacks and Slaps left and right!" Inigo sips some of his pop as Soleil picks up. "To make things even more cooler...we saw our mom in the crowd! She had a spot near dad's dugout and between every match, they chatted!" She swoons as hearts filled her eyes. "I swear, it was soooooo romantic seeing them talk like the lovers they are destined to be!"

"It's like Romeo and Juliet!" Owain shouts before chomping on a burger and look up, expecting to see laughs at his joke to see expressions ranging from confusion to disappointment and in Severa's case, annoyance. "...What? Aren't they like the most famous fictional couple ever?" "...They're famous for dying in the end due to miscommunication..." Gerome shakes his head and mutters..Letting Owain blush embarrassingly and stutter towards the twins. "So-So-Sorry.." Soleil shakes her head, but smiles at him. "We're cool, you lovable oaf. We knew what you meant.."

"With that out of the way.." Lucina turns to Gerome as she bites her wing and swallow it before speaking. "Gerome, you went and snuck off to see Mr. Fradarius's cup..how did he fare?" Gerome, sporting a rare smile, crosses his arms. "As expected, he won...not much to speak about, Father's Mercial is just as good as he told me back in the day..." Gerome then rubs his chin...as if he was weighing on saying this or not before deciding that he will.. "I...I also saw mother in the crowd...Father didn't see her there, but she was smiling everytime he would win a match.." Looking up with thoughts in his head,. "...It's nice to see her too..."

"You know.." Kana munches on his burger and speak up after swallowing. "As much as the context of us being in the past sucks..." Looking down at his plate.. "I'm glad we are able to see our parents before everything went down south..." He then nods with a determined look. "Which means we can't mess this up!"

"Yeah.." Lucina nods as everyone else make a collective noises of agreement."We have a lot to accomplish here...But for now, let's enjoy ourselves in the moment." "Mhm! My moms gonna be in the tourney tonight, and Alex gonna take me to watch them live tonight, right Alexis?" Everyone look over to see Alex casually throwing a thumbs-up at this, confirming this to be true.

"Well, I shall be going to see mom at her cup with her advancing to Rank C!" Severa smirks with confidence bordering on arrogance, ecstatic at the prospect of watching her mother compete with her monster. "I already know she will win her tourney, but it's gonna be sooooo nice witnessing her greatness!"

"And I will go see father in the capital, While I had the blessings of seeing his VODs of his tourneys, it will be a honor to watch him live..." With a fond smile, Lucina drinks her Kool-Aid and place it back down on the table...But then she sighs with a frown.. "Still...Last night's battle was....something else."

Alex's ears piped up as she focus more of her attention to the topic at hand with Lucina speaking still. "Mr.Pruett's Marth is quite simply, a sight to behold. The power his Garu possess is exactly what we all heard about in our timeline during the war." Owain raise a hand after swallowing his hamburger. "Yo, is it true that his Garu really did eat the dead bodies of his victims to gain more power?"

".....No..That has always been a lie, Owain.." Lucina facepalms before replying. "Regardless of that, Marth is truly a monster to fear in combat. If not for his strength then at the very least his ferociousness." Kana nods with a nervous smile while checking his phone on the battle last night. "Yeah..that Gaboo, Oakleyman, may have to stay in the hospital for the next 4-5 weeks..."

"Jesus..." Soleil rest her head on one of her hands on the table and whistles. "Well, at least Dugan didn't had to suffer that.." She add on with Gerome nodding since his father's Blue Hare also got off with no injuries as Cynthia chuckles nervously.. "I'm just glad he's on our side..Right Severa?" Asking her girlfriend, she sees her in some deep thought over something before she noticed that Cynthia's looking at her. "Huh?" "Are you ok, Sev?"

"...Yeah, I'm fine.." She drink some of her juice and see that Cynthia's wearing a face of 'I know you're not fine so just tell me pls.' and groans "...I don't think we should be relying on Alexis's dad to help us."At this claim, everyone turn to her with shocked looks, Alex herself seems to not be bothered by it as she isn't looking over there at the table with her arms behind her head. Athena floats behind her trainer as she cast a wary look at Alm who is merely watching the table with a calm look as he sit against the tree arms crossed.

"Uhhh...May we all ask, why?" Inigo questions her as she scowls at him. "Have you people forgotten about him prior to joining the war? He didn't give a damn about the whole affair until the 2nd year into it! " Everyone quiet down as the monsters look over and see Severa shouting. "Furthermore, he was quite rude and disrespectful to his superiors!"Turning her head to a stoic Lucina. "This includes our own parents, Luci!" Turning back to the rest. "He wasn't really friends with none of you guys's parents either! Never hung out with no one! Barely took part in the war meeting! Mother had to break her back multiple angles for him to even listen! He's a renegade!"

Everyone listens as she continues to rant with Lucina speaking up, a bit more sternly. "You're right in that Mr. Pruett was a renegade in the sense of the word, but even tho he was a lone Tiger, he still was loyal to Archanea and was the best soldier with Marth besides Father and Raphael.."

"And?!? You think he's still a good guy?!? Hell, I didn't even get to the biggest issue I have with him..." She points upwards to where Alex is laying in the big tree. "He slept with an Nohrian and conceived her!!!" Lucina scowls, knowing where her younger sister is going with this.

Meanwhile, Alex raise her eyebrows and smiles as she sees a car parking in the front yard of the house with Jalen and Marth hopping out of it. She waves him over and jump down "Damnit, Severa, you stop with this shit..." "No! I'm tired of everyone acting like we can't discuss this shit! " While she was ranting, everyone pales in silence as they see Jalen walk around the house and nods at Alexis who smirks and points over to where they are at. Marth coming around make every monster tensed up as Jalen sighs and adjust his hat as he walk over and tap Severa on her shoulder.

"Damnit, Athena, now's not the time.." She groans as she turns around and screams loudly as she back up to the table with a stoic look on Jalen's face with his hands on his pockets as Alexis walk up from behind him with the smuggest look on her face.

"Oh please, do continue to talk badly about my father.." She leans towards Severa, inches away from her face. "Fuck around and find out what happen when you insult a Pruett..."