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Chapter 8: Stagnation Of The Wintry Moon
Commander Ikari's Office
02.55 a.m.
The whole office was like a 3-d still image. Gendou's gun was pointed at the grey-haired man who hadn't yet finished his sentence.
"Because of what?" Gendou asked furiously, "Answer me, dammit!"
Fuyutsuki stayed silent, hesitating if he should say the rest. He turned away and began walking.
"Don't you walk away from me!" Gendou shouted, stumbling after the man but not letting his pistol down. He loaded it. As Fuyutsuki heard the click, he stopped.
Fuyutsuki sighed. "You know I am your friend…" he said. "But I can't tell you."
Fury and frustration filled Gendou's mind. He's right eye started twitching. "Why?" he asked between his teeth in rage.
"Classified information," Fuyutsuki responded and closed his eyes, waiting for the gun blast.
An indescribable emotion of anger shone on Gendou's face. He slowly, step by step started to approach Fuyutsuki. His aim was tightly pointed in Fuyutsuki's neck. As the gun barrel reached it, Gendou said, "Friend."
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Ritsuko was approaching Gendou's office, as she heard a loud bang. It echoed through the halls and disappeared behind the corner. Ritsuko speeded up to see what had happened. The door however, was locked. She started banging at the door. "Gendou! What's going on in there? Open the door!" she shouted. A tear dropped on the floor. "Please, open the door! Are you there!" she yelled while sobbing. Her voice faded away and she slumped on the floor crying.
"Do not cry, Ritsuko Akagi," a peaceful harmonic voice said behind her. She turned around and saw a boy with long blond hair standing there. His face was beautiful and he was smiling. Ritsuko felt a strange invisible light radiating from the boy's face. "He is fine," he said with a peaceful tone, "Rise now. Rise on the bridge you fell off from. It is there."
"I- I know…" she mumbled in tears, with happiness filling her mind. She rose up and smiled, looking at the boy's eyes.
"Thousand arrows or thousand bullets, it matters not. The barrier of mind shall hold, until the time has come to become one with our Mother. You realize that now." the boy said.
"I do," she said colourlessly and pulled a pistol out of her pocket. She turned around and the door suddenly opened. Gendou stood in the middle of the room staring at Fuyutsuki's corpse. The brown-haired boy from the laundry room was standing beside Gendou. Gendou held his revolver tightly. As he noticed Ritsuko, he aimed at her. Ritsuko's gun was also pointed straight at Gendou. The boys looked each other with blissful smiles. With a quick move Ritsuko and Gendou unlocked the safety and pulled the trigger, simultaneously.
Two bodies slumped on the floor. A small, nearly indistinguishable pressure wave ran through the room when two AT fields dispersed. The eyes of the dead were still shining.
Gendou and Ritsuko stood silently with guns pointed at the bodies of the two strange boys. It was like the two had a connection between them. They lowered their arms and turned to see each other. A silence of shock filled the room like a fog.
Gendou raised his other eyebrow. "Did anything they say make sense?" he suddenly asked Ritsuko.
"No. I just accompanied the things he said; something about bridges and arrows," she answered and gave an amused laugh.
"That was awesome! We ought to be a team." Gendou said admiringly.
"The crime fighting duo, Ritsuko and Gendou!"
Gendou took a look at Fuyutsuki. He bowed down to shake the grey-haired man.
"Wake up, you sissy! It was just a rubber bullet," he said and slapped Fuyutsuki on the face.
The man began to revive from unconsciousness. He saw Ritsuko and Gendou's faces staring at him.
"What the…" Fuyutsuki stammered, "Did you just… shoot me?"
"Yes I did. But only because of your own stubbornness, Fuyutsuki," Gendou lectured. He then walked by the table and pressed the intercom button. "Attention, staff. This is Commander Ikari. I've returned to my place in the chain of command and the attempted coup by Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki and major Katsuragi is finished. Return to your normal posts," he informed formally and switched to the channel used by the security. "A security patrol should report to my office to seize Vice-Commander. Arrest also major Katsuragi if met. Use force if necessary."
Soon a patrol of heavily armed men busted inside. Ritsuko stood and watched as they went up to Fuyutsuki and handcuffed him. "This isn't over yet, Gendou," Fuyutsuki said and gave a surly look at the Commander.
Gendou looked at the older man scornfully and straightened up to look intimidating. "You're right, friend. The fun has just begun."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's notes: Just to say, originally this chapter was the final one and it ended differently (thus the two weird boys), but because I have gotten mostly, if not only, positive reviews, I will continue the story. Stay tuned for the scenes from the next chapter of Classified Information!
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Okay, so there are no scenes here. You'll just have to wait for the next chapter.
