Reina: Thanks for the votes! Now on with the story before Takumi catches me....

Also... I spelled Camila differently at least three times. What's the correct spelling for her?

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A few days after Xander notified everybody of the Hoshidan guests coming, you were making a sleeping potion in your room.

You weren't being lazy. You tried to help clean the place, but Jakob, Felicia, and Flora beat you to it. This left you with nothing to do, so you asked Camilla permission to set up a lab in your room. She gladly let you take supplies to your room, and she also allowed you to gather ingredients for various potions. While she wanted you to recreate the synthetic blood, Xander forbade it, so you ended up building the odd potion for Camilla and her retainers.

"Hello, (Y/N)!" Corrin announced as she barged into your room.

"Hello," you reply, engrossed in the current potion that you were making.

"What are you making?" She asks.

"A sleeping potion," you reply.

Corrin sat to your left and frowned. "Why are you making this?"

"Severa asked for some yesterday," you replied. "So I gave her the vial that I always kept with me, and I'm currently making myself another batch. I tend to have sleeping problems, but I always forget to use it."

"That's brilliant," Corrin replied. Then she paused. "Wait, Severa asked for some?"

"Yeah," you replied as looked at her. "Why do you ask?"

"Nothing... It's just that Xander's retainer Laslow and Leo's retainer Odin just upped and fell asleep the other day after Severa gave them drinks. One minute they were talking, and the next minute they fell."

You look at Corrin. "Laslow and Odin... Who are they again?"

"Laslow is the dude that tried to hit on you, and Odin is the one that does random poses in the hallway."

"Oh," you reply. "Wait, they fell asleep?"

"Yep."

"At least she didn't make them sleep for a day..." You mutter to yourself as you filled a vial with the potion. "Depending on the dosage and potion, you can affect how long people sleep. I told Severa that one drop in a drink will make the person sleepy, and three will cause them to fall asleep a second later. You put a whole vial in, and they wake up a day later. Anymore and the body rejects it."

"How do you know this?" Corrin asks.

"Because I saw it happen one day. It was rather disturbing to say the least..."

A few seconds pass. Your cork the vial and look at Corrin. "Why would Severa knock out two other retainers?"

"They annoyed her."

"It doesn't take much to annoy her..." You mutter. You didn't really hang out with Severa, but you've heard stories about her from Niles and Felicia. They never seemed to end well.

"I'm nervous," Corrin whispers. "The Hoshidians are coming. I'm afraid that they'll kidnap me..."

You look at Corrin. "Corrin, you'll be fine. Xander won't let you get taken. And if they do grab you, I'll stop them."

"How?" Corrin asks.

You hold up the vial and smile.

Corrin stares at you for several seconds. She then throws her head back and starts laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-" she falls back and keeps laughing. You couldn't help but laugh as well.

After a few minutes, Corrin calms down. You help her up and brush the dust off of her.

"Thanks for the laugh," she smiles.

"No problem," you reply. "But in all honesty, I wouldn't use this potion." You point to a chest in near your bed. "I would use the one in there."

"What's in it?" Corrin asks.

Before you could tell her what so special about that potion, Elise burst into the room. "The Hoshidans are coming, the Hoshidans are coming!"

Corrin tensed up. You place a reassuring hand on her shoulder, allowing her body to relax. She turns to you and nods. You then follow after Elise and Corrin, placing the bottle into your pocket subconsciously.

After a few minutes, you approach the dining room. You follow after Corrin and Elise, who scamper off to go stand near Xander, who was at the head of the table. The table was long enough to sit twelve people, and wide enough to feed twenty. There was two pitchers on the table - one held the synthetic blood that you were used to serving, and upon examining the other one, you smelled pomegranate.

"Why can't we have tomato juice?" Leo mumbles dejectedly behind you.

"Ah," you spin on your heel and blush slightly. "Lord Leo." You wave to the pitchers, hoping that your faint blush would disappear soon. "Xander insisted that pomegranate would better for our guests."

"Did you poison it?" Leo whispers as he gets closer to you.

"E-Eh?" You stutter.

Leo sighs. "I was hoping you did. Then again... We might a start a war like that, so I'm glad that you didn't poison it."

Leo grabs your arm. "(Y/N)."

You look up at him wordlessly.

Leo calmly places a dagger in your right hand.

You gap at him. "What's wrong with you?" you hiss. "You don't give people knives, milord."

Leo closes your hand. "If you get attacked, use this dagger."

You close your eyes and nod. When you open them, Leo was sitting near Xander.

You sigh and hide the dagger.

After serving everyone drinks (and listening to Xander berate Camila for her outfit), there was a knock on the door. You place the pitcher on the ground and walk to the door. Opening it, you curtsied and welcomed the Hoshidians.

"Welcome," you say and look up. The first thing you thought was-

"Lobster."

"Pardon?" The man asks.

You freak out. "Apologies! I mean, welcome, Lord Ryoma!" You then mentally thank Peri for telling you the name of the High Prince of Hoshido, or else you would be dead.

Ryoma laughs and ruffles your hair. "A good joke!" He then marches over to the table and sits down.

When the next person walks in, you keep your mouth shut. Which was a good thing, since this man(?) looked like he would kill you if you said that his(?) hair looked like a pineapple.

"I remember you," he states calmly. "You're the brainwashed maid."

You glare at him. "I'm not brainwashed, idiot."

"That's Prince Takumi to you," he snaps.

Before you could yell at him, a tall red-haired woman pushes Takumi forward. "Move before I smack Ryoma for being drunk!"

"Let me go, Hinoka!" Takumi protests.

At least you know why Ryoma didn't kill you on sight.

The next two girls walked in with grace. One was a short redhead while the other had long blue hair. They didn't say anything and sat down. You then left the door and grabbed the pomegranate pitcher and began to serve it.

"I don't want blood," Takumi snaps.

"Sucks to be you," you reply coolly.

Leo sends you a smile then glares at Takumi. "It's pomegranate, idiot."

As Takumi scowls, you take a good look at hime and snicker. He wasn't the only one having problems dressing and getting ready by themselves, apparently.

"On to business," Ryoma declares. He glares at Xander.

"What is it?" Xander mutters.

"Give us Cora back."

The Nohrians frowned. "Cora?"

Before anyone could speak, a boy ran into the room, panting. "Sa-Sakura, Azura. Why'd you leave me with the retainers outside?"

"Because you're slow," Takumi teases, only to be hit by Hinoka.

The boy looks up, and time seemed to freeze. Or rather, it froze for Corrin, the Nohrians, and you.

He looked exactly like Corrin. Or rather, he was Corrin if she was a boy. And from the looks of it, he was shocked as well.

Reina: Uh... another cliffhanger I guess?

Takumi: What do you make the reader laugh?

Leo: You'll see next chapter. *smirks*

Takumi: *glares*

Reina: Anyway, I'll pick up from here next time. I'll need ten votes for the next chapter, and for fifteen votes... I'll let you guys decide. Comment for your idea(s) to show up.

Leo and Takumi: Don't you dare, Reina!!!!!!!!

Reina: ... If I choose I would dress you guys as either maids, Vocaloids, genderbend you guys, or dress you guys up as Zelda characters.

Leo: Um Reina...

Takumi: You're running out of ideas.

Reina: No I'm not. I'm saving them for later.

Leo and Takumi: O.o

Reina: Come, minions. To the writing lab!