Laurell's Anguish
Authored by: Doublecrossed94
Disclaimer: I own neither Ragnarok Online nor the characters of this fanfic. I only own my plot.
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"I speak"
"I thought a flashback"
'I think'
The night sky looked beautiful with the stars hunged like curtains.
On a cliff of Mt. Mjolnir, a redhead wizard stood there. He looked at the sky with a blank face. The winds hit his face weakly. His crimson red eyes suddenly dropped a tear.
He turned and walked away from the place.
He walked through the woods silently, the grass he steps on making the only sound.
Laurell smiled at the swordswoman in front of him.
"Look Laurell! I am now a swordswoman!" cried a blue haired girl happily at him.
They were at the same cliff, the cliff had a beautiful view of the sunset every afternoon, Laurell discovered this place and showed it to his friend.
More tears flowed from his eyes; he silently scolded himself for crying like this.
"Laurell! You wait for me to become a knight before you become a wizard!" the same girl pouted at Laurell. He merely chuckled.
"Of course I will wait for you."
She smiled, "You better."
"Why am I crying like this?" the wizard laughed as he passed by the mines. He found a diamond on the ground.
He picked up the diamond and sobbed.
"Hey Laurell! Why don't we try digging here in the mines?" the swordswoman asked the mage with a glee.
"No! It's dangerous there!" Laurell reprimanded the swordswoman by tapping her head with his wand.
"If not, then you buy me a diamond!" the girl demanded with a sheepish smile on her face.
"I'll buy you when it's your birthday," the redhead calmly replied. The swordswoman smiled.
"You better."
'Sorry, I forgot to buy you,' Laurell sobbed as he continued to walk through the forest.
'I'm sorry that I let you down.'
Laurell is almost near Prontera, but he saw a familiar figure of a swordswoman. The swordswoman turned and looked at him with her dull empty eyes. Laurell's eyes widened.
"E-E-Egni-Egninem," he stammered as the ghost of the swordswoman he knew pointed her sword at him.
"No! Don't separate me with Laurell!" the swordswoman crying voice came as some of the laboratory personel took her away from their prison cell.
"Egninem! Please don't take her away!" Laurell pleaded at the guards that guarded their cell.
"Shut up brat, she will just take the test just as what you did," the guards sternly brought down his plead.
"No, please, bring her back," Laurell cried at his cell as Egninem's cry faded away.
"We don't give a damn for brats you see," a guard hissed at him with hate.
The ghost of the swordswoman charged towards him, he guarded himself with his safety wall.
"Egninem! Please! Listen to me!" he pleaded to the ghost of Egninem.
He did not know her. He liked her.
Egninem returned to their cell, crying.
"Egninem! Are you alright?" he asked with all concern on his voice.
She nodded between her sobs, "Laurell, please don't leave me again."
He calmed her down, "Of course I won't."
He kissed her forehead gently.
The wall between the ghost and Laurell started to break. Laurell continued to plead but the ghost continued to attack the wall.
"Please, Egninem! I don't want to kill you!" he pleaded, he cried. However, she never listened. He fell to his knees.
He did not like her. He cherished her.
A loud explosion came, clones of different people, including Laurell's and Egninem's, started to loiter around the laboratory. There was blood and killing everywhere. Laurell and Egninem started to escape from the massacre.
"Don't look back!" Laurell ordered the swordswoman. She grabbed his hand to follow him as the whole laboratory was thrown into chaos.
Then, Egninem tripped at the floor, Laurell looked back. A clone of the high witch stood before him.
He tried to fight but the witch threw him with her spell. He hit the wall.
"Egninem! Egninem!" he cried out as tears fell down at his cheeks. He started to move in towards the chaos when a lord knight stopped him by holding him at his wrist. The lord knight shook his head.
"No! I must find Egninem!" Laurell cried at the lord knight.
The lord knight shook his head, "I'm sorry, but we don't have any choice."
"But, but—"
"I lost my companions here, and I don't want to see more innocent die," he said grimly.
"But, Egninem ne—"
"Please! I do not want anymore innocent to die! I already lost all my friends!" he shouted, with a hint of sadness at his stern voice. Laurell fell silent.
They exited the laboratory and were rescued by the rescuers.
The wall of broke down into crumbling pieces, he looked up and gave his final plead. However, she never listened. The sword will be hitting him at any second.
"There were no more survivors," a rescuer reported to them after the days of the incident.
"No! That can't be true!" Laurell broke down into tears. The lord knight tried to calm him down.
"I'm sorry."
'I'm sorry.'
The ghost fell to the ground, crumpled and dead. Laurell looked up. What he saw was the familiar lock of blue hair that he will never forget in his life.
"Egninem?" he asked weakly. She nodded
"I've missed 7 years without you," she smiled; tears welled up in her eyes.
"A-a-am I dreaming?" he asked, his voice showed his fear of losing her. She shook her head.
He stood.
He hugged her.
He broke down into tears.
"Y-Y-You're a-a-alive!" he stammered between his sobs. The sadness he had for the past 7 years gone with a single embrace.
He did not cherish her at all. He loved her.
This is my first time to write like this.
Meh, please check if I have any typos or wrong grammar. I ams kinda not good with it.
EDIT: There are symbolisms here that I will explain the on the next chapter.
I changed the status as a suggestion from a classmate of mine that gave light to me. Yeah, it's all one shots.
Every chapter features different characters found on Somatology Biolaboratory. This fanfic tells of what they have been after 7 years after the incident.
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