Disclaimer: We (the authors) are not ATLUS, we don't own Trauma Team. Any references to real people are entirely fictitious and just for laughs. And don't sue us for our bad Latin, either.
Author's Note: This fanfiction is almost completely based on canon. It's cowritten by Pluvialis and fighterkirby1998, although Pluvialis doesn't do anything.
So...let's begin the operation!
Prologue
Sleeping in Bloom
Untouched by the world outside the serene valley, a girl is laid to rest upon a bed of once-orange flowers. She sleeps forever…but she is very much alive.
Monarch butterflies pay their final respects to the sleeping, dead-but-alive girl. Today they will flutter among the blue blossoms, her final resting place, but tomorrow they leave on their migration for America.
Today they find peace and refuge among her cerulean blankets, blissfully unaware of the death they hold within the pollen that dusts them as they fly by, touching their wings to the brightly-colored flowers.
The girl will never wake again. She deserves that much, for even the dead deserve their peace. But one part of Rosalia, hidden deep inside of her, will never be content.
Monarchs dance overhead, blurring the sky with brilliant color.
Tomorrow they begin their journey, scorching the earth with their golden-orange scales.
Pax Vobiscum.
Here's a new thing we're trying. If you wish to see the story in chronological order instead of each doctor story, we'll be sticking a blurb at the bottom saying, "For the chronological version, the next chapter is -" or something like that. In this case...
For the chronological story, the next chapter is "24. Gabe: Prologue: Overcast".
(Edited by Pluvialis. This is really the only chapter I write here.)
Ya know what? Since I (fr) spent so much time on these, I'm gonna put my own two cents in.
Anyhow, this is one of my favorite chapters. So short...but so beautiful. I also love Carpet of Blue Death, too. For the same reasons, though that one isn't short. Trust me.