Title: Curtain Call
Characters: Olivia Armstrong, King Bradley, Scar, Ran Fan, Roy
Setting: mangaverse, on the Promised Day, during Chapter 105. AU - see notes - but you should still consider this spoilerrific for 105
Rating: R for blood and guts, warning for character death. And melodrama, of course: check out the character list.
Word count: 3357
Summary: They would bow, they would drop into a fighting stand and extend their swords, there would be the shout of en garde. And then she would take him down.
Notes: In my post-manga chapterfic No Small Injury, started way back when Chapter 99 came out, I had Olivia Armstrong out of the picture because she heroically gave her life duelling Wrath to the death on the Promised Day. I had no idea if it would happen or not, but I thought it would be pretty cool, and that Olivia could carry off a heroically badass exit like that wonderfully. If the fight didn't happen in canon, I resolved to write it myself. It didn't, so I did. The events of this fic are the turning point where my Wrong Turn series diverges from the canon ending.
Moar notes: big thanks to enemytosleep for awesome betaing, and for the help shoehorning this bit of AU into canon.

( She'd seen Bradley fight just once before, in a demonstration for the troops when she was a cadet. Collapse )