Hello, everybody! Welcome to a new story of mine that is completely out of my usual zone! Something in the Fire Emblem department, a department I have not tried to write for despite me using so many of its characters in my Smash stories! Hooray! Ahem...anyways, I have played Fire Emblem...some of the older versions, I believe. But those times were only an experimental testing and I didn't really immerse myself in them. I've only really started getting into the Fire Emblem series when Fates came out (Conquest! Conquest! Conquest!). Yeah, pretty late, but better late than never.

This idea arose when I was getting into all the paralogues of the kids. You know, the father's kids with their mother's hair color. I wondered how the women's kids would be like. F!Corrin and Azura get to have their own kids. Why not the rest of the women who have more than one marriage option? (Because it'll be too much characters and F!Corrin and Azura are the main characters!) As a result, I just started playing around with this idea and I suddenly have 18 new characters who just happened to be the kids of the women of Fates! Wow! How in the world did that happen? So yeah. I'm simply doing the recruitment paralogues, but I did juggle over the idea of support conversations. I've got some ideas for those, so let me know if you guys want those as well. If somebody already did this, I'm sorry that I'm doing the same thing. I swear I had no idea. But anyways, hope you guys enjoy this little project of mine.

All new/unfamiliar characters in here are of my own creation. Everybody else belongs to their respective owners.

Summary:

Fauna prepares a large feast for Felicia and her friends. She doesn't anticipate that uninvited guests would come knocking on her door, but a true maid is prepared to deal with anything.

Paralogue 1: Party of Many

"Oh! I finally made it to Fauna's Deeprealm without any troubles!" Felicia sighed with a hand on her chest. "Traveling to such a place is much easier than making tea or clearing the table though. I really am not a good maid if I can't do those simple things…but this isn't the time to mope about me! I hope Fauna's doing well. Knowing her, she probably prepared some huge feast for the whole army."

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A young woman dressed in garments similar to that of a maid's straightened from the table. She examined the plating that had been laid out, levelling one plate and fork out of place. She scrutinized the candle before deciding that the light was bright enough. She checked the chairs to ensure no uneven legs. Finally she looked upon the floor for any need of sweeping away the nonexistent dust that had settled in the last thirty minutes since she checked. When everything was to her satisfaction, Fauna nodded appreciatively:

"Looks like everything is perfect for Mother's visit," she smiled happily to herself. As she said those words, a knock alerted her to her guests at the door. Fauna instinctively smoothed out her hair and dress in preparation to greet her guests. After all a maid, though only a servant, still needed to look her best when serving other people. It wouldn't do for her to look like she finished cleaning up the stables especially in front of her mother. She hurried to check herself before a mirror in the hallway. Not a lock of snow blue hair out of place as blue hues examined her appearance. Her hands smoothed out her dress once more. Fauna finally made her way to the large double doors that separated her from the outside world.

"Hello-," she stopped immediately when she realized that these guests were not the ones she was expecting. Soldiers that she could barely see stood silently before her. One of them raised their purple-aura axe in order to separate her head from her body. As it brought the weapon down, Fauna immediately jumped away without fail. She shivered when she heard the crack of the stone floor from the impact of the axe. However she was not at all paralyzed from the fear. The young maid threw her iron dagger towards the initiator's head. It sliced right through the invisible invader, almost making Fauna go uncharacteristically pale.

She quickly regained her composure when she realized that the fighter actually showed some signs of pain from her attack. She didn't have much time to celebrate her victory though as more of the invaders began to pour into her home. Fauna managed to stop a few with some more dagger strikes. However there was simply too many for her to deal with on her own. With another dagger in hand, she deflected an arrow away from her.

"Milady, is there something the matter?" one of her caretakers peeked from behind a wall. She had heard the sounds of weapons clashing and her curiosity got the better of her. Her expression quickly changed to one of horror at the sight of so many invaders. "What?! Milady!"

"Please! Don't concern yourself with me!" Fauna shouted as she dodged the sword from one of the mercenaries. Unfortunately this opened her to a fire spell from one of the black mages. She shrieked from the sudden burning sensation that ate part of her clothes but bit her lip to stop any more pained sounds. The maid smothered the fire out with her hands, wincing slightly at the sting. Though gone, the fire seemed to have transferred itself over to Fauna as she felt something burning inside of her. Yet she still managed to remain focused on the attackers as she threw two daggers right at the mage who burned her.

"Milady!"

"You must get everyone out of here! I'll stall for as long as I could!"

"But-!"

"Go now! Hurry!" Fauna shouted angrily. Her servant actually flinched from the tone she was using. The woman hesitated for a brief moment before bowing sloppily and hurrying away. Fauna saw from the corner of her eye and nodded in satisfaction. If any of her caretakers were killed in this fight, she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. She hoped that she would be able to stall the invaders long enough for the others to escape to safety.

Yet the large numbers of enemies disagreed with that hope. The invisible soldiers kept forcing Fauna back. Soon the maid would run out of places to dodge to and she would have to stand her ground. If there had been three, maybe even four, Fauna might have been able to handle them. This wasn't the case, and it disheartened her even further that some of the enemies were able to resist her daggers. It barely made a dent in the armored attackers. As a result she could only focus on the ones susceptible to fall to her weapon. Despite her best efforts Fauna simply couldn't stop them all. There were some that even ignored her in favor of finding more, less lethal victims. When she tried to stop them from gaining more territory, she was quickly stopped by their comrades.

"Get out of my way!" the maid shouted. She had to protect everybody at all costs. If these invaders got through, her caretakers would be vulnerable to death. She aimed for the outlaws and fighters who luckily ran out of range. Unfortunately for Fauna, she was in range of the axe of a berserker. She jumped out of the way again only to stumble a bit from the exhaustion of dealing with too many enemies. The enemy berserker saw its chance to end the pesky child. It raised its axe high in the air for the final blow. And fell forward with its axe slipping from its grasp.

"What?" Fauna asked in surprise when she saw the berserker fall before her. Her surprise increased when she heard a familiar voice that also brought joy to her.

"Just in time! Fauna, are you all right?" Felicia ignored the rapidly disappearing invader to examine her daughter for any injuries. When she saw the burn on Fauna's arm, she started. "Oh no, you're injured! Let me heal you up!" The older woman grabbed her stave in order to heal her daughter's burn. At first Fauna balked but she relaxed to let the soothing sensation take away her injury. Although she was glad that her mother finally arrived, she felt pangs of regret constricting her chest. Her face fell in sorrow.

"I'm so sorry, Mother. I should have been the one serving you. But here you are helping me instead…this wasn't how today was supposed to go."

"It's all right. Don't worry about it."

"No, it's not all right. I've made a grand feast for you and your friends, but now everything is ruined because of them. If I was better, I might have been able to keep them out without any necessary help from my mother! I'm such a disgrace! I'm not worthy to be a maid to you or anybody. If I can't be a good maid, what could I be? Nothing!" she felt something prickling her eyes. Fauna knew what it was but made no effort to hide it from her mother. Though the tears haven't fallen yet, she began to hiccup and sniffle.

"What are you talking about, Fauna? You're an excellent maid! You're much better at it than I am!" Felicia quickly hugged her daughter to reassure her. "I'm actually jealous that you're able to do all those tasks without falling over even once!" The pink-haired maid heard the sniffles die down to the occasional one. She leaned back to see her daughter wiping her eyes.

"R-really?" Fauna hiccupped. "You're not ashamed of me?"

"There's nothing to be ashamed of! I could barely bring my lord's tea to him without spilling the whole thing, let alone set up a feast for a whole army! I'm proud that you're able to accomplish so much with so little effort. Besides, you shouldn't let this little setback hold you back. If I let all my mistakes get to me, then I wouldn't be here now. I'm sure that both of us would be great maids like we wanted. We just have to keep trying."

Hearing her mother's words lifted the regretting weight off Fauna's shoulders. After a moment's peace she wiped away the rest of her sorrows. When she squared her shoulders, Felicia could see that the confident look had returned to her daughter's eyes. "Then let's go clean up this mess like great maids should."

With the army outnumbering the invaders, the attackers quickly dwindled to nothing. Fauna's eyes sparkled whenever she saw her mother easily dispatch the invisible soldiers left and right. Although she had heard rumors of her mother's supreme fighting skills, she was still in awe of how little effort her mother seemed to use to wipe away dozens of attackers. She couldn't help but wonder to herself how she compared to Felicia in the fighting department. When the battle was finally over, she held Felicia's hands in excitement. The other army members went to escort Fauna's caretakers back to the safety of the house.

"Mother, you were amazing out there!"

"Was I?" Felicia chuckled nervously. "People always said that my fighting skills were much better than my domestic skills." She looked at her daughter in admiration. Despite how hard-pressed the fighting was, Fauna still managed to keep her form as clean as could be. When Felicia looked down on her own dress, she saw the familiar signs of combat with some tears and dirt. Comparing their appearances, it didn't seem like her daughter fought the same battle as she did. But the older maid wasn't fooled. She saw how Fauna was able to hold her own against the invisible enemies.

"Perhaps. All I know is that I want to learn from you! Mother, please allow me to accompany you!"

"What? Fauna, I put you here to keep you safe. The fighting I do is much worse than the battle we just had. I can't let what happened to so many soldiers happen to you."

Fauna smiled, appreciating her mother's concern. However, that didn't damper her desire to be with Felicia. "If you let me accompany you, then I'm sure that wouldn't happen. I'd be under your care and if I learn half the things you know, then I'll be able to handle myself just fine. Besides, if I stay here, there's always the possibility that more invaders would come by. It would be difficult for me to protect everybody here in my current state."

"Well…"

"Please, Mother? Let me come with you. I promise I won't hold you back."

"I should be more worried about holding you back. All right! You can come with us, Fauna! I'm sure my friends would appreciate another helping hand."

"Oh thank you so much! I'll be sure to help whenever I could! I would need to pack a few things and say good-bye to my friends. But first, let me serve you and the army the grand feast that was supposed to happen. After all, what kind of maid would I be if I leave my work unfinished?"

And there's the first paralogue down! Hooray! And it's Fauna, the daughter of Felicia (one of my waifus)! Yeah...she was actually one of the first kids I made on a whim, the other first few being Camilla's and Kagero's kids. Hope you guys liked her. For her, I wanted her to be slightly similar to Dwyer in terms of abilities. This way, she would be able to help her mother. It's a good thing that she has a capable aunt and mother in both aspects. Please note that if Fauna was an actual character in Fates, her starting class would be a troubadour, not a maid. For the sake of this though I upgraded her slightly. Below is her Roster Description:

Felicia's daughter, raised in the Deeprealms. She inherited her mother's battle talents along with her aunt's domestic skills. She is always willing to help any and everybody. The most vulnerable to heat strokes. Born on 1/29.

Link to Picture: mistressakirahime_._deviantart_._com/art/Fire-Emblem-Felicia-s-daughter-Fauna-627830298 (Take out the underscores.)

Although I kind of mapped out the order of the kids when they should appear should they actually be in the game, I don't particularly mind if you guys want to see somebody else's kid first. If you do, just let me know so I can shift the order around. Otherwise I'll just continue with the initial order I planned out. However I would implement the new order after the second chapter. Second chapter's going to continue as planned. But anyways, again, I hoped you guys enjoyed. See you possibly next time with Paralogue 2: Unfortunate Déjà Vu