Author: Hello everyone~ I'm new here and this is my first fiction. English is not my first language, I'm sorry if there so many spelling and grammar mistakes in the story.

Disclaimer: Grand Chase and its characters belonged to KoG.

-:-: Half – Brothers :-:-

The gunshots can be heard from inside of an empty castle. The shooter stopped when the monster blocked his bullets with its hammer. When the monster tried to attack him, he dodged it with jumping into the air. The attacker did not stop with that, it swung its hammer to the shooter. But once again, he got away easily.

After that the shooter ran towards the monster (but not too close) and released his skill.

"Make it rain!" The demon shouted as countless bullets appeared from the sky, hitting the target's body. And the monster died.

Rufus finished with his task to defeat the Orc. Later he made a note and kept it in his pocket. He looked around and found nothing. He could not see any signs of the Striker. Lass, his so called 'comrade' in this mission, had gone for 3 hours. He grumbled to himself and walked to the castle's entrance. He must find the missing boy at any cost, or he will receive lectures from Knight Master and the other Chasers.

"Sorry for making you wait." A voice said when Rufus almost out from the castle. It was Lass's voice.

"What in the world that take you so long?" He replied without looking at him.

"I was careless and got several injuries when I fought." Lass answered. The older demon did not reply and walked again. He followed him.

They walked in the silent. Not even a word flew from their mouth. It's not strange since they are not close. They are more like rival. However the two do not show it clearly like Jin and Azin; they prefer to keep a good distant. Their silent moment did not take too long until a monster attacked them.

Rufus took out his eyeteeth and shoot it mercilessly. On other hand, Lass did not make any movement; more likely he did not have time to attack it since the older one took it. And he knows pretty well that the demon does not like when someone interrupted him, either in the battle or something else. But, there is another reason that explained his act; he was not feeling well from the first. It had gotten worse when he fought the Orcs earlier.

Since he woke up in the morning, he had a headache. At first, he thought it would be gone sooner. But the truth is; not only his headache became worse, his temperature body seems also got higher from usual. However, he still did not tell anyone about it. He thought he can bear with it completely fine (remembering that his comrade is the demon-that-will-never-care-to-anyone).

After got rid of the monster, they continued walking. Still, they did not say anything.

Some hours later…

The rain was fall from the dark clouds that have been in the sky for the rest of day. The demon did not take a break and continued walk. He thought it would be better since the Grand Chase mansion was not too far from their place right now. Maybe within thirty minutes until fifty minutes they will arrive there. The only matter that had stopped him from walk forwards was the sound from behind him. Lass fell right to his face.

Rufus rushed to his comrade and tried to call him. "Hey, wake up." But there was no response.

He checked his conditions by placing his hand on the Striker's forehead. Not until a minute, he already took his hand off from the forehead. "You are burning." He said in monotone but still indicated that he surprised.

With no other choice, he carried the unconscious boy in his back. "Great, just great. Now I have to carry the person that I want to avoid the most." He thought as he walked towards to the mansion. He does not want to do this, but he must do it in order to avoid the others' annoying lectures. He also walked quicker than the last time. The rain only will cause the Striker's conditions worsened.

Only with twenty minutes they already arrived. Rufus opened the front door and found nothing. It seems the other Chasers still on the mission. He climbed the stairs quickly and aimed for Lass's room. He placed the boy on his bed and leave. When he was about to open the door, the younger one woke up.

"Where…is this?" He asked as he rubbed his eyes with his right hand.

"…in your room." The demon replied. "You fall unconscious right before we reached this mansion."

"Sorry, I-ACHOO!" Lass was unable to finish his sentence because of the sneeze.

"Just change your clothes and take a rest." Rufus said as he opened the door and was gone from his sight.

The demon walked towards his room. When he already inside, he opened the wardrobe. He changed the wet clothes with the dry one. Because he was not out for a mission or something, he does not wear vest and gloves. He only wore his pants and shirt. Then he picked up a book from his desk and read it.

"ACHOO-!" A loud sound can be heard from Lass's room (since his room beside the demon's room). His reactions;

# First, he ignored it.

# Second, he still ignored it.

# Third, he became little irritated.

# Fourth, he tried his best to tolerate it.

# Fifth, he dropped his book and took some medicine.

# Sixth, he rushed to Lass's room.

Without bother to knock the door, Rufus stepped inside. He bought some medicine from his room. Lass, whose sat on the bed, surprised by his action. "What-ACHOO! -are you doing?" And he sneezed again and again.

"You disturbed my activity." The older one answered his question. "Have you drunk some medicine instead of lying on the bed?"

"No…"

"Here, drink it." He placed it on the desk near his bed. And the Striker drank it.

Then Rufus placed his right hand on his forehead. He had a fever, and it is very bad. He could feel with his skin that the temperature was high. "…" He does not say anything and went out for a moment. Back then, he bought a basin with warm water in it and a towel.

"Sleep." He ordered him and, surprisingly, Lass did not argue. After that, he put a wet towel on his forehead.

"…hey," Lass called the demon before drifted into a deep sleep, "thank you, and…you don't…have to… stay…here…" And he fell asleep.

Rufus just smirked a little. He went to his room and picked some books. However, he came back to Lass's room and stayed there awake overnight.

And that's how the story went~

I'm sorry if Lass or Rufus (or both of them) were very OOC. Please tell me your thought when you read this, I do receive critics.

Once again, I'm truly sorry if there were so many misspelling or grammars mistakes.