Title: Cantus of Libera
Rating: Fiction T
Summary: One day, a gladiator who calls himself "Umbrella" broke the rules of RHG battle and attacked the other gladiators. He got his final mission to kill FLLFFL(ALFA) from the Division. This fanfic is about Resh's Umbrella. Thanks to Resh for making awesome videos.
Before you read: All characters (except Healer Pax and Healer Bonum) belong to their creaters(Umbrella-Resh, FLLFFL-Terkoiz, and so on...). I only have copyrights of my characters(Pax and Bonum). And, this is just a fanfic, so settings and backgrounds about RHG characters might be far different from the original one. And, the most important thing is that English is not my mother tongue, and it's my first time to write fanfics. Sorry for poor grammers, poor expressions, and everything due to my poor English skills.
Cantus of Libera Chapter 1
::flicker::flicker::
"Blackout?"
"I think so, sir."
"Go and check it out."
Since few seconds ago, all lights in the room started blinking continuously. After the man who got order from his superior went outside, remaining soilders raised their guns and pointed them to the figure in front of them.
In front of the soldiers, there was a girl who spills blood from her mouth. The soldier who gave order at first was smoking and kept his eyes on her.
One more time, all lights turned off and the room went dark. And this time, the lights never turned on.
"Anyone who has flashlights? Turn it on."
"Yes, sir."
There were several clack-click sounds before the flashlights turned on. The room lighted up a little, but the figure holding the light was not the soldier.
"Wh-What the-! Urgh!"
The room went dark suddenly. After that, there was another scream, sound of gunshots and metallic clang.
And again, shriek, clang, another shriek, shriek.
After 10 seconds, the room lighted up all of a sudden.
::clicking::
The girl who was lying face down felt someone's gaze, and she raised her wet eyes. She could see a man holding a long sword.
"Little lady, may I help you?"
Light purple colored "A" was shining on the grip of the sword.
13 years later
"Ah... So you were knocked down again?"
"Not knocked down, I just-"
"I think I told you over 10 times. Always be vigilant."
Here, Dojo was the headquarters of the all Rock Hard Gladiators(RHG). In the middle of central Dojo, there was a "Dojo Medical Center" specialized for gladiators. In the emergency room of DMC, a middle-aged man was leaning back in his seat. His long sword was leaning against his right leg.
"This is unfair."
"Now what?"
"I mean, I got a SOS from the bank. When I arrived, I met the gladiator who call himself Kirck, um... Chuck? Whatever. Anyway I met him."
"Oh. O-kay."
"So I told him that 'Hey, I'm the first one here, so you can go. I can take all of it.'. And you know what he said?"
"Wait, Alfa. I want to make sure one thing. Is it true that you arrived faster than Chuck?"
Alfa stopped talking and began thinking.
"Maybe?"
"Maybe. Maaaybeee?! Uhgh... you... Ah, hold still. I have to apply medicine to your wounds."
"I don't care, actually. My recovering rate is somewhat faster than others."
"But you don't want to show off your 'being knocked down', do you? So remain still."
Alfa's cheek was puffed out, but it was hard to know that's because the woman interrupt his word or Chuck beat his cheek.
"So I told him 'Get lost, please.' And he began shooting his flames to me. And he brandished his nunchucks to me! How rude, bad mannered, los-censorship- piece of -censorship-. And, and, you remember their clan's demo video? Is it a clan-war challenge or what?"
"All these years since I met you first, I came to realize that-."
"Realize what?"
"You are aging backwards by the day."
"Oh, you mean I'm getting more handsome by the day? Thanks."
"...No, I mean your mental maturity is getting younger. It feels like I'm babysittering a kid."
"...Don't you think that you should be on my side in this situation, at least? brought you up over the past 10 years! You ungrateful bastard."
"Look, you are in a sulky again. Stop carrying on."
She continued with a sigh.
"Last time, Remember? I definitely told you to check your sword's durability. You remember what I said, don't you? You didn't listen to me at that moment, and then what? You broke your jet-sword during the battle with Yoyo-."
"Aren't you sick of that nagging, Pax?"
Pax shook her head as if she gave up everything.
"I know you don't like Clan Soldier, but listen. They are not such bad guys. I know they, I mean Yoyo and Chuck and Jomm are a little bit playful, but they are all good people."
Alfa seems like he had somethings to say, but there were big noises outside the entrance. Few seconds later, the entrance of the emergency room opened with a sound ::rattle::.
Suddenly, healers and gladiators poured into the emergency room. They were holding an ambulance stretcher drenched with blood. It was difficult to recognize the identity of the man on the stretcher because of the blood.
"Prepare emergency surgery, and get the defibrillator now!"
"Wha-What happened?"
One of the healer who brought the stretcher shouted.
"It's Franky. The police said that he was fighting with a gladiator holding a black umbrella. Now, hurry! We need lots of hands."
Pax approached to the stretcher in a hurry and checked Franky's injury site. Her hands holding the stretcher were trembling.
At the Main Control Room of the Umbrella Division, Commander Red was being informed about mission report from Umbrella. Next to him, the head technician Nex was inspecting the 'Umbrella-X768'.
"...despite interruption of the local police, I eliminated Franky as you ordered."
"Are you certain?"
"...I saw Franky died when the plane crashed on the shore."
"Okay. You can go now."
After being allowed to go, Umbrella gave him a nod, turned his back away from them and left the room.
Right after he left the room, he felt sharp pain on his head. He leaned against the corridor war, touching his forehead with one hand. He knew that his weapon 'Umbrella-X768' cause this headache, and also knew that he can't last for a long time with this condition. But he couldn't give them up.
Letting out his breath silently, Umbrella glanced out the window. Battleships of the Umbrella Division was floating in the universe.
Author's note:
After completing this chapter, I realized that it's hard to write fanfic(worst of all, English is a foreign language to me!...) that I expected before. I don't know how long it'll take to translate another chapter, because this chapter caused me backpain and headache and mind blackout and so on...
In fact, I completed total 17 chapters(including prologue, epilogue, and preview of season2; Cantus of Libera is season 1) written in Korean. Foreign language...urgh...hard to translate...
Thanks for reading my fanfic, and always welcome to reviews! Just do not throw stones at me...
Ah, and special thanks to Resh, Terkoiz, Hyun, EndosTV, and Jomm. Especially Resh!