Title: Cantabile's Tale
Author: Kei White
Rating: PG (Language)
Characters: Cantabile, Dist, Sync, Arietta, Asch, Legretta, Largo, Van (Just in this chapter)
Possible Pairings: Peony/Jade/Dist, Sync/Ion, Asch/Natalia, Guy/Luke, and hints of one-sided Legretta/Van (Through-out the whole story)
Genre: AU
Spoilers: Everything, but none really in this chapter
Summary: What of the strange woman stated as the 6th division commander? Who was Cantabile and if she had been included in the game, what difference would she have made? This is my answer.
Disclaimer: I don't own TOTA.
Prologue
"Cantabile," said Dist as he lightly shook a young woman with short, violet colored hair, who was tangled in her white bed sheets. "Cantabile, wake up."
With a slight moan Cantabile rolled over to face Dist and blinked her gold-green eyes at him. "What-tis-it?" She murmured with a sleepy yawn following.
"The Commandant has called a meeting for the God-Generals," Dist stated. "It is in a hour."
Cantabile hummed uninterested and curled up to go back to sleep. "You can't sleep," Dist said desperately as he pulled on the covers. "He said you had to be there because you hadn't attended one in eight years, when you were seventeen."
"Tell him that I don't care and I wish he would do everyone a great favor and jump off the nearest cliff that the impact with ground could kill him," she replied keeping a good grip on the sheets Dist was attempting to tear away from her.
"I can't," he whined at her.
Cantabile stared at him. "Why the hell not?" she asked.
Dist pouted. "Because," he said lowering his voice to a whisper. "He said he would beat me if you didn't come."
With a sigh Cantabile sat up and studied Dist face closely for lies. Finding nothing that said he was lying and everything that said he was telling the truth, she sighed again. "All right, all right, I'll go and save your wimpy ass." she said begrudgingly, but with a reassuring smile. "Now get out so I can dress."
Dist smiled back in relief and left the room. As she stood up Dist burst back into the room. "MY ASS IS NOT WIMPY!" he yelled. "I'M PUTTING YOU IN MY REVENGE JOURNAL FOR THAT."
"OUT!" Cantabile thundered back at him, and immediately he turned and retreated the other side of the door. "Damn, this is what my mother must have felt like when I busted in on her." She smiled thoughtfully. "Only my children are Dist, Arietta, and Sync," then after a minute she paused and frowned. "Yulia curse all, my children are angsty, insane, obsessed, or all three!" With that said she stomped to her suitcase to dress.
When Cantabile emerge from her room, she was dressed in her uniform. Her mostly black tabard had white trim and three circles together on the front with a little purple between them. Also slightly under the circles the was a purple diamond shape and on the right sleeve six spikes came up next to her head. Belt like straps under her arms held the back and front together to keep them from flapping to much. On her arms were sleeves not attach to the tabard but still black with white trim. Under the taberd Cantabile wore a black sleeveless shirt and a match pair of black pants. A katana rest on her right side and to finish her look and brown belt like eye-patch cover her left eye.
Despite her trying best to put her uniform on slowly she still had fifteen minutes get to the God-General meeting room, and the usual path took only twenty minutes to make it there. With that in mind she took the scenic route, that took about forty-five minute. After all she liked making a entrance, annoying the Commandant and Legretta was an added bonus.
Arriving at the meeting room thirty minutes late was still too soon for Cantabile's taste, yet it probably was a good idea not to dawdle anymore than she already had. She opened the door expecting to be yelled at but instead it give ways to a very interesting scene. Cantabile let her eyes linger on everyone in the room. Arietta, who was closest to the door, seem content as she played with her liger friend. Largo, sitting at his spot for meeting, seemed a little miffed at having to wait for so long. Sync seem tense with the way he shoulders were sat as he lend against the wallon the other side of the room. Then her eyes came to a redhead boy she had never meet on any of her missions. Frowning, he seem very angry at the world in general. However thiswas not what was interesting.
Dist was surround by Van and Legretta, and seem to be very worried about his fate. Legretta and Van looked very pissed off, which was what Cantabile had meant to happen, but Dist seemed terrified at what they would do with him. So being the mericful person she was, Cantabile decided that it would be a good time to announce her arrival.
"GOOD MORNING," she hollered as she enter the room. Immediately Van and Legretta swiveled on their heel to see her, while everyone else looked up to see who it was. "Cantabile the Chaotic has arrive!"
"Were have you been?" demanded Legretta frowning horribly.
With a sweet smile on her face, Cantabile replied with a , "On my way here."
"Then what took you so long?" Van asked as he attempted to quill his anger. "Dist said he woke you an hour ago and the meeting room is only twenty minutes away from your room."
Cantabile nodded. "Dist did wake me an hour ago but it took me forty-five minutes to dress," she replied in a knowing voice and then added a "Commandant," as a after thought.
"Then you should have been only five minutes left not thirty," said Legretta shortly, as her hand twitch near her gun.
"I took the scenic route," Cantabile stated as if they should have known. "But now I'm here and we should start this meeting." She strolled to her chair that was the first one on the left and sat down, sparing Asch a quick glance. Despite never meeting him on a mission, where she usual meet all her coworkers, she knew a lot about him. After all Madam Fabre asked her to keep an eye on him.
AN: Cantabile's Description can from a official picture from / talesoffandom2/ character/ cantabile.php (Remove the spaces after every /) Well I hope you guys enjoyed this prologue and PLEASE REVIEW. Thanks.
