Code Geass: Suzaku of the Rebellion
By: C.C.
*Hey, peoplesXD What do you all think about Serena's death? Well, here we go. On with the story!*
Chapter 14:
"Are you crazy? He thinks that you're dead, FATHER thinks that you're dead! The WORLD thinks that Suzaku Kururugi is dead! Are you really planning on going out there, reveal yourself alive just to get yourself in danger of death?" asked Sousuke after he'd just revealed what he planned to do.
"Part of it is to keep yourself safe. I'd rather myself go and be ion danger than my vulnerable brother of a prince," he said, just sitting on the bed, looking down at the floor.
"You're going insane! You know that you could get yourself KILLED, right? If Sirakosue knows that there's more competition-"
"The competition could just keep him out of power, which is what I want. I have multiple reasons for doing this, and it's not just because of you, though you are a large part."
"Then what is it that you want? What would you gain?" he asked. "I know that you don't have any real interest in the throne, or being a Viceroy. In fact, you don't really like power, so what's the point in any pof this?"
"I'm doing it for Euphie!" he busted out bluntly, and then he realized that he doesn't know about his life outside of the Golden Resistance.
Sousuke's eyes went wide all of a sudden from shock and confusion, but after a moment, he realized who he was talking about. "Euphie? You mean, Princess Euphemia?"
Suzaku sighed before answering. "Yes."
"I thought she'd-…you saved her, didn't you?" he said, realizing now what had happened.
"Yes," he said after a slight hesitation.
Sousuke thought about it for a moment, then started to ask questions. "Where is she now?"
"She's back with my life outside of the resistance. She doesn't even know that I'm here," he said, staying totally nonchalant about it.
"So, you have a normal life outside here? How, I mean, you're Prince-"
"Not to all of them. You, Euphie, and the other members of the Britannian Royal Family are the only ones who know me as Suzaku Kururugi. On the outside, I'm known as Suzaku Howazoki, and Euphie is my sister, adopted by my Japanese family."
Sousuke heard that, and wondered. He wondered why he would stay with a Britannian like that for so long, since Britannia was the enemy, but then, he remembered that the resistance he lead was for the Britannians against Japan.
"Why is it that you hate Japan so much, Suzaku?" he asked with sincerity.
Suzaku looked up at him, and, with sorrow eyes, took a deep breath before answering. "I don't feel that I should answer that."
"Why not?" Sousuke asked, getting irritated. "Do you not trust me?"
"If I give a single person too much information about anything, people can gather it and put the puzzle pieces together. I can't have that happening," he said, getting up off of the bed, and walked out of the room.
"So, it's not that you don't trust me?" he asked, eagerly looking at his brother.
"I trust you, Sousuke, more than any brother would trust their brother, bug-"
"It's the other people around me that you don't trust, right?" Sousuke interrupted.
Suzaku didn't answer. He just walked out of the room.
Sirakosue's Massacre
Date: 11-13-17
Place: Press Conference, Steps of the Viceroy's Palace
Sirakosue was planning a Press Conference to announce what he and his Father were planning to do with Area 16, though he has shared that he hasn't yet decided on the role of a Viceroy, though everyone knew that it would most likely be Sirakosue, with his skills and talents.
He stood up on the steps, cameras and microphones galore, and right next to him was a guard, since he had not yet appointed a knight. He looked out onto the crowd of Japanese and Britannian civilians mixed in with reporters and cameras, but where he should have been looking was behind him, where Suzaku was hiding behind one of the columns. He had on no mask or getup, but casual clothes that he wouldn't even wear around the school. Things were about to be set into motion.
"Prince Sirakosue," said one of the reporters, "but what are the primary things that make you suspect the Golden Resistance with this death?"
"Well, with the given fact that my brother, Prince Sousuke, is still not about, there's also the fact that they tried to get Serena at the Knight's Battle, but she was able to escape," he lied with the most convincing expression on his face.
"Do you think that you'll end up being the next Viceroy for Area 16?" asked another.
"Yes, in fact, I do. Giving my military skills in combat and strategy, I feel that I would be the best choice for the next Viceroy here in Area 16, especially with all of the Resistance activity going on."
Then, just as Suzaku was about to get up and reveal himself, people heard gasps and sighs of surprise, though he was not yet in sight of the cameras. Hr retreated, and took a peek back to where everyone was looking.
Beyond the crowd of people, Sousuke was making his way over here, but he was not alone. He had an escort, a man with a mask, his mask, the mask that the world knew as Zian.
Seeing this picture infuriated Suzaku. Not only did Sousuke come out like he said not to, but someone had stolen his mask and became the man that he was, the one behind the mask.
Reporters all over were talking in the mic with utter astonishment at the sight of Sousuke coming in with Zian and other members of the Golden Resistance as an escort. The people watching were also amazed. Bystanders stopped to stare, and except for the talking of the people and the walking of Sousuke and the Resistance, no one moved.
'What is he gonna do?' asked one bystander.
'Is he one of them now?' asked another, but no one had to ask these questions aloud to know that was what everyone that laid eyes on the scene was asking the exact same thing, yet at the same time, they were filled with joy at the thought of their captured Prince returning home alive.
The Prince didn't stop until he got to the very top of the stairs, but Zian stopped down towards the bottom. No one saw it except for Suzaku, but when Sousuke came up to Sirakosue, he was glaring at him with the most devilish glare of hatred and anger.
"We have returned your Prince," said the fake Zian, pointing over to Sousuke. "We did not kill Serena. By doing this, we have made our statement. We had nothing to do with her death!"
The voice sounded familiar, along with the way that they dramatically moved their arms, but he couldn't quite place who it was.
"How do we know that it wasn't a stunt pulled by you so that you're no longer a prime suspect?" asked Sirakosue as Sousuke moved to the side, letting his brother pass by him to speak to Zian. He only took a few steps, though, not to get too close.
"Because I have the proof right in front of me that says that you did it," Fake Zian said, taking a few more steps up the stairs to where there was only a few yards between them.
The crowd gasped at the news. You could hear whispered mummers that questioned the statements made. 'Did he really kill her?' 'No, it couldn't have been him!' 'Maybe he ordered the attack.' 'I don't think he would do such a thing!' 'It's just a hoax by the Golden Resistance! You can't believe every lie that's told.'
"Really? What proof is that?" asked Sirakosue, but Zian took a couple of more steps closer, and opened the department on the mask that allowed you to show your one eye, for Suzaku, the Geass eye. He saw this and was puzzled, but was amazed by what happened next.
"You will tell the world the truth!" he commanded as the department opened, and then, a V-shaped object that almost looks like a bird came out of his eye, and suddenly, Sirakosue was having a battle with himself, trying not to say the truth, but knew that he had no choice. Finally, the command consumed him completely.
"I killed Serena Kururugi! I killed my own sister, and I was glad that the Resistance took Sousuke so that I could plant both of their deaths on the Resistance!" he shouted, hands and knees on the ground.
Everyone that heard was in awe, jumping back, while Suzaku was stupefied. He stood there behind the column, and was amazed by what he just saw. Someone, someone that he probably knew, had stolen his Zian outfit and brought Sousuke back as a way to show the world of their innocence in the matter, but worst of all, the person had a Geass. That, Suzaku was a hundred percent sure on. It was Geass that made Sirakosue talk, because there's no other way that anyone would ever be able to make him say that, exposing himself as the murderer.
"See, Japan?" said the fake Zian, looking into the cameras. "You can't even trust one of your own, so why even bother discriminating Britannia? Why even call us numbers? Why treat us any differently when we weren't the ones who lied to you? You were killed by one of your own, and for what? Power. That's all that any of you have ever cared about. Power."
"Sirakosue, you FILTHY LIAR!" yelled people all over the streets, Japanese and Britannians alike.
A mob started to form around Sirakosue, but before anyone could do anything, the Geass no longer affecting him, he took a gun from someone nearby, and fired it, killing a Britannian.
"He killed a BRITANNIAN!" yelled another, and that's when the shooting broke out among everyone in the crowd. Soldiers tried to break it up, but they were wither killed or made mart of the fight. Bystanders either rushed off to safety, or joined in the killing spree. The whole place was a bloody massacre, and the smell of gunpowder was in everyone's breath.
TBC? Please review! (I'm not done writing about the massacre, but I hope that you've liked all that I've gotten so farXDXD)