The Automated King

Layered Confusion

Fritz had himself cornered by Simon and Serafina near the fence of City Square. His eyes rapidly observing, trying to disclose any gap among the assailants. On the other scene across the two cautious offenders, Shadi the human bird tapping on the soldier of Serafina’s remaining squad, in pursue to clear them out of Fritz’s fighting radius.

 “You haven’t learned of the mistakes that you build upon, humans.”

 The last three standing man of the punch squad attempted to land a fist upon the flying combatants, but all surrendered to the mighty talon of the human bird. One of them, in full understanding of his own fate, detached his arms to capture the bird. His poor aim led the attempt to be fruitless as Shadi moving slightly to the right, evading the incoming projectiles successfully.

 “In note of the pathetic ability, you should have a better scope to kill me with those hands.”

 Shadi struck the arm launcher’s head with his left flap, made him stunned and immobile, then flying upwards to his former station once again.

 “Now, who else are going to show his virility to me?”

 The other survivors, in his own anxiety and tremor, slammed down the pavements with his enlarged left hand to produce numerous piece of stones out of the crumbs.

 “Hoho, literal pelt of rocks, I see. Bring me your finest shot.”

In his fear, the man on the ground is throwing the set of stones aimlessly. As the counter of the anti-air missile upon him, Shadi is flapping down his wings in increased velocity to create a gust of wind to the front. The prompted aggression crashed out, since the bolt of stones were thwarted back to downpour the land-dweller in the end.

“Are you finished, Shadi?”

After the lots of trial from the survivor of the first freefall, call of the wild from Fritz is poking his run to end the play tag. Shadi proceed to fly higher, then forcing his playmates to black out by another thrust of nosedive from above.

“Nobody is ready to retaliate. Yes, my duty here is complete.”

“Good, bring your plate on the next dish. Come here, Shadi.”

Shadi is gliding to his master’s summon, descending down to land by his right side.

“Shadi, have a fight with that speedy guy. Give him your sharp claw if that man is resisting your attack. If you can’t beat him, prolong the battle until I’ve sorted this woman out.”

“Understood. I’ll focus to tear him to shreds.”

“Don’t forget to knock him out, not bleeding him to death, Alright?”

“Verily. I’ll refrain on killing.”

Per his boss’ request, Shadi is flying towards his intended combatants. His cutting-edge talon is protruding down in depiction of an eagle, eventually gliding to Simon’s current position in attempt to snatch the guy up.

“Catch me if you can, scavenger!!”

Simon’s lightning speed has begun to show its point of leverage to the airborne henchman, as he dodged Shadi’s attempt to crunch him with his leg.

“Eww, you have the most greasy leg I’ve ever seen!!”

“This is the grace of Markoff Rigor. We have this talent on due to him, and for his whim we must comply.”

As Simon’s side-stepping to evade the crushing fingernail, His blade is  swinging up and down to parry the endless nose dive coming from his front.

“Haha, It’s practically tiring to speak while slicing.”

“Silence is golden, my child. Try moving without saying a single word.”

“Haha, your proposal is challenging. I’ll try my best to scorn you more.”

As the time lapsing forward, Simon lost his tenacity to fight bit by bit. The Intensity of previous skirmish consuming his energy, draining Simon’s endurance to dust.

“Ergh, it ache!!!”

The consecutive dive of Shadi finally taken its toll to Simon’s stamina. His movement couldn’t elude the constant nose dive onslaught by Shadi, eventually brought some of them to pierce his flesh. As his methods to rush out from the eagle, Simon prompted to swing his blade one last time to sweep Shadi’s claw in order to provide a slight momentum for him to run away. However, Simon’s slacking resilience brought doom to his body as the talon gripping itself safely to his torso.

“Aargh!!”

“A flight wouldn’t be hurt sometimes. Hope you enjoy the fall.”

Simon is struggling to escape from the ferocious talon, while Shadi steadily accelerating his speed to take-off.

“Just give up and accept the death for your own benefit, ah, my mistake. I can’t kill you for today.”

By the brink of his elevation to the air, A swift punch landed to Shadi’s head, giving Simon a brink of chance to drop himself out of the grip and have himself liberated back to the ground.

“Regi? How could you?”

Reginald is panting heavily after the successful direct hit to Shadi’s face.

“Hah......Hah...... It’s lucky for me to save you in a moment like this.”

“Glorious entrance, Regi. I’m sorry for the insult, back then.”

“Don’t worry, I don’t wish to give you mental burden, Simon. This is just a mere payback for your mentoring segment.”

As they reminisced the few step back of their moments, Shadi is spurting a pool of blood from his mouth while trying to look over the new challenger of the brawl.

“Who’s this guy, Simon? Where’s Serafina?”

“If you asked about her, she’s currently drowning on her own skills. Take a good look to your left.”

The familiar face made his entry to the scene in his menacing composure. Behind his back, numerous puddle of liquid were scattered around the motionless body of a woman, covering her inside of the mixture of water and mud.

“Are you insane, Fritz?! Why are you trying to oppose us? Are you even human?!”

“One question at a time, Mr. Lambardi. No, she is blacked out, not dead. I am still having my faith on humanity too, you know.”

Simon is glancing at his partner with the sight of bewilderment.

“Do you know this man, Regi? .”

“He was way past me, Simon. Fritz is the culprit of Pufferfish invasion.”

Fritz is smirking by the sudden accusation of his opponent.

“Are you sure, Mr. Lambardi? I might be a tourist, a camper, or even a nomad. How can you feel ascertain of my part of those things?”

“Why are you going to camp outside the border of Titania if you are the resident of our city? Not everyone were bestowed on such luxury, Mr. Traitor.”

His smirk suddenly growing into a noisy and villainous guffaw.

“HAHAHAHA!! Sorry, I am not a ruffian, to clear up on those laugh. Yeah, you might be right on this one. I would not let myself be considered as your puny and ignorant inhabitants. It’s definitely time-consuming to tell the tale, so we better start blow-trading for fun, okay?”

Fritz went on by launching a flick downwards with his leg to Reginald, dropping him forcefully to the ground.

“Haha, I could smell a slack on your stance from kilometers away.”

Reginald doesn’t stand idle in his collapse, as he flung his fist to counter-strike the incoming snap to his leg. However, the punch doesn’t evident to gave enough damage since the instinctive reaction brought Fritz’ skin to harden .

“Are you need a wake-up call on whom you might against, Mr. Lambardi?”

As they are continuously hurling their best fists to trade, Simon has a different enemy to counter. In the other set, Shadi has regained his power and took flight once more, posing a re-lapsed threat to the prey.

“Come on, you hummingbird!! fight me fair and square down here!”

“The equity of fist-fight between two races could only be achieved by similar traits. We are distinctive in physique, unless you can fly like I do.”

Although Simon looked confident, his leg never convey a great support to his valor. It constantly tremble, shaken by the overload of work that it has to burden.

“Ah, sorry, Regi. I couldn’t stand up to him at all....”

In his poor stature, Simon finally sets off to his limit. He is fainted, dropping down to the cold pavement unconscious. In the disastrous event that he has to face, Shadi is gliding upwards to prevent the ongoing clash.

“You could progress to our next task, Fritz. Our eyes is no more.”

“Simon!!!”

Reginald has reaching his boiling point of rage. His head gone red in color, as if it’s going to detonate and erupting his entire emotion to the residents of the city.

“Don’t take a look on that one, Mr. Lambardi. It has to be done.”

Shadi, due to the fall of his opponents before launching a single smack, approaching the next battle dome to support his master.

“Who’re you two, beast? How dare you stint the advancement of human race?”

“Hmm, Do you wanted to know more about your destiny? Please, Shadi, summon the woman to the square.”

“You can come out, Maria.”

By the exit gate of the city square, a lady made her entry in reserved attitude. She drooping her head down, heading towards the three of them in steady fashion.

“Marion, is that really you?”

Reginald staring in animosity over his long-term friend. He has a ship-load of question and doubts over her conscience to the action. It reminds him to Mr. LORD’s question earlier to kill the woman on the spot.

“Regi.... You have to listen. Fritz here was meant no harm to our race. He is on the mission to oust Mr. LORD’s ruling from our city.”

“No, tsk...tsk..tsk... You are still not in firm resolution towards my plan, love. Mr. Lambardi, Maria is a double-agent and my only daughter. She was registered as Repugnare’s fighter, as well as being the informer to Protego.”

Reginald, still in a fazed demeanor, covered his face with both hands in shame.

“Ah, after all of those test.... Do I really have to eliminate you, Maria?”

“You must be brainwashed by those test, don’t you? Okay then, kill me if you wished for it.”

“Be calm, Maria, he is confused to the turning point of his mission. As she labelled to my plan, I am on my way to revolt towards Titania’s automated government. But....”

Fritz is passing a scroll to Reginald in attempt to ease off his laments. Reginald is receiving the scroll by his full contempt, glaring towards him in disdain.

“Here, you have to read this interesting notes from the leader of Titania himself, Markoff Rigor, over the course of their discovery. I hope it could give the better insight of your own opinion afterwards.”