Code Avatar: Lelouch and the Airbender
By: C.C.
*Again, I'm sorry for the late updates, but I hope that you like the next chapter, and I'll try to update it more often and it still be enjoyable to you allXD Oh, and I'm noticing a lack of reviewers...what happened? Can't help but wonder Oh, and I need some couple thoughts. I've already had one person say that LuluxxKatara would be neat, but I also want the opinions of the viewers. It's also a possibility that there will be no couple stuff going on, and I just move with the centeral plot until the very end where someone gets the kiss or whatever. I'll shut up now. XD
Chapter 29: Pizza
Lelouch walked over to Jet, then pulled out a hidden Knife from his pocket to cut the ropes. They fell to the ground and on Jet's lap.
He looked up at Lelouch, then started pushing the remaining ropes off of him. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it," said Lelouch, glaring at him from the corner of his eye as he went over to open the door.
'How is this possible?' Lelouch thought to himself. 'He was under a Geass, and when I take my own off of him, he's his normal self. Could this be a side effect of the Geass placed on him, that it's only temporary?'
Jet and Lelouch walked out of the room to see Aang, looking at them in confusion.
"Is he...," asked Aang, putting his staff out in front of him for self defense.
"He's back to normal," said Lelouch, taking the words right out of his mouth with a deep in thought look, as if he were caught in his own head, preoccupied with his own thoughts and questions, but at the same time, still aware of things going on with the world around him.
Aang lowered his staff, and looked at the two of them with relief, then ran over and gave Jet a hug. "It's good to see you back to normal, Jet," he said, then backed away with a bow.
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C.C. was in her room, eating Pizza from who knows where she got it. She was looking at the wall as she ate, not paying any attention to the world outside of that room, but was talking to herself.
"I didn't know that the connection worked here. Is there something that you're not telling me?" she asked out loud, unknown to who by the common eye and ear.
There was a moment of silence for the unseen figure to answer. "Well, if it's that secret, then I should be the one to tell."
Another moment of silence.
C.C. sighed before answering again. "You're right. It's probably not a very good thing to share secrets with the person who's with the one you're trying to keep it from, but I can't help but wonder if he's the only one you're keeping it from.
Silence.
"Well, even if you don't tell me, he'll figure it out whether or not I was the one who told him or not. Lelouch is very cleaver, more cleaver than you think. He's made it this far in War against Charles, and has done fairly well with it, though I'm surprised that more people don't yet know the secret of his identity. Some people are just so naive, but I've never seen people more so than the people from this world of the Avatar."
Another silence.
"They may be good people, but they don't know enough about the world, enough about the possibilities that they could do with the resources that they have. They need to be taught on how they can improve themselves."
Again, another silence.
"Oh, you mean Prince Zuko? You should know me better than that. I have nothing to do with him."
Quiet.
"I do talk with him, but I've talked to just about everyone here. Look, lets just switch the topic. Who has the Geass that they're using to create the army, or do you know?"
Writing about silence gets kinda boring, but again, silence.
"You have too many secrets, Marianne."
"C.C.," said Lelouch, coming into their room. "We have some unexpected news."
"Oh, and what would that be?" she asked in her nonchalant tone before taking a bite of pizza.
Lelouch just looked at her with the pizza in hand. "Where are you getting that? Pizza doesn't even exist here!" he asked, amazed by her yet completely annoyed at the same time.
C.C. just looked at him with her normal, expressionless look. "You should know me better than that by now, Lelouch. If I don't have Pizza, I'll find a way to get it."
Lelouch just rolled his eyes, then shook it off, trying to remember why he went in there in the first place. "Come on. We need to get ready. We're having dinner, and then we leave in the morning. We'll be going back to Ba Sing Se."
With that, Lelouch marched out, trying to shake off the pizza.
"Hm, though he's cleaver, he's really easy to annoy. Well, I guess it could be just me, but I still enjoy it very much. Well, I need to go now. You can contact me when you finally decide to share some information," said C.C., taking her pizza and walking out of her room to go to dinner.
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Everyone was eating with the remaining Waterbenders that had survived the attack from the Geass army. Jet, of course, was the center of attention. He ate his dinner while everyone was talking to him, trying to get him to tell a story that he didn't know from the Geass side effects.
"What do you want me to tell you? I don't remember anything that's happened for the mast few days! The last thing I remember before waking up in a chair with a rope tied to me, I was being attacked with a girl with orange hair. That's all I've got," he said, taking a bite out of his dinner.
"I can't believe that you don't really remember anything," said Aang, looking at him with bewildered eyes.
"Well, that's the cold hard truth, though I wish I could tell you more," said Jet, looking over at Aang. "Hey, what's that smell?"
"Yeah, I smell it, too," said Katara. "It smells good, like Garlic."
Everyone followed their smell over to C.C. "What?" asked C.C., box of pizza in hand.
"Is that what we're all smelling?" asked Jet, looking at her box of pizza.
"It depends. What exactly are you smelling?" she asked in her nonchalant tone, no expression what so ever on her face.
Aang went over to the pizza and tried to take it right away from C.C., but anyone that knows C.C. knows that it would be suicidal to try and take her pizza from her. When he reached out to grab it, she pulled it away, making him reach for it with his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth as he concentrated on it.
When he wouldn't back off, C.C. ended up pushing him off with her foot, which didn't really work because he ended up using his air bending to go around her and take it right out of her hand.
"You better give that back to me, you bald little monk," said C.C., mad inside, but, of course, didn't show it.
"I'm just looking at it," said Aang, and when he looked back at the box in his hand, Katara, Jet, and Zuko all came around him to look at the golden treat inside of Pepperoni Pizza with a bit of Sausage lumps.
"Yep, that's it," said Jet, smiling he took his piece of wheat out of his mouth, though it's unclear where he got the wheat in the North Pole where there's no vegetation.
They all looked at it, bewildered.
"What is it?" asked Aang, gazing at the pizza as he slowly reached his finger in to tough it while C.C. snuck it back from him while he was preoccupied with it.
"It's called Pizza from where we're from. I eat it all the time," she replied, getting back in her seat.
"What's going on here?" asked Lelouch, late for dinner from making a call to the New Knights Headquarters in Ba Sing Se.
"C.C. has something called Pizza. Do you know what it is?" asked Aang.
Lelouch looked over at C.C., then rolled his eyes. "Are you serious?" asked Lelouch, kinda aggravated that she would bring Pizza into all of this mess.
"It's not my fault that they like the way it smells," said C.C. "Who knows. Maybe one day, I can build the very first Pizza Hut in Ba Sing Se.
Lelouch didn't know how to react to that, so he just rolled his eyes and shook his head, unsure of what to do with his Immortal Witch.
"Are we having anything besides Pizza for dinner?" he asked, irritated.
"Stewed Sea Prunes," said Katara. "It's a Water Tribe favorite."
Aang looked at him and motioned the slit throat, which of course meant that it was no good and that there was a reason that it was a Water Tribe favorite.
"Do you want any?" offered Katara.
Lelouch looked at the thing of Sea Prunes, and knew immediately what Aang meant when he didn't even really talk. "No, I'm not really that hungry," he said, trying to sound polite.
"Oh, come on, Lelouch. You're gonna need your energy for tomorrow, and you need to gain some back from everything that's happened today. We've been through a lot," replied Katara.
"It's called War, Katara. This is what happenes when War comes. Some people even die from the hunger. I'm sorry to say, but the War that you've witnessed is only a portion of what it's really like. People getting killed more violently than being burned by a Fire bender. You wouldn't believe the creativity that some people use, but there are always the small things that are more common ideas and have been done or attempted several times before. A bomb in a suitcase, pushed in a bath tub, poison in your food or drink, and then there's always being shot with a gun or struck with a sword. Of course, I know some people that could kill a man with a credit card," said Lelouch, looking over at C.C. for that last part, and she just looked over at him with a slight smile of the memory of that day.
Lelouch had threatened to cut all of his credit cards up one day, and she had one in her pocket, so she started showing him all of the ways that she could kill him with that one credit card. He's been scared of ever cutting her off ever since.
They all looked over at him with wide eyes.
"I'm just making a point is all. You don't have to look at me like I've committed a crime," he said, leaving for his room, but quickly turned before he got to the doorway. "We leave at sunrise. Be ready by then."
With those last words, he was gone, leaving him stupefied with scared, concerned looks.
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"Is that really what War's like in your world?" asked Zuko when he and C.C. were the only ones left in the room where they all had dinner.
"Yes, but the picture he described wasn't really vivid enough. It's worse than what he said. It's probably like that here as well, but you just aren't there for the major battles that take place. You'd be surprised of all the violence that occurs in our world, well, ours and yours."
Zuko took a moment to process it all, then looked back at her. "You're so blunt about everything. Why is that?"
C.C. didn't speak for a moment. She looked over at him, and sighed. "Why wouldn't I be? There's more to every person that meets the eye, it's just a matter of who's willing to pull that out to reality. I see myself as a person who does that, since I can read people so easily. Almost no one can figure out Lelouch, but I probably know him better than his own Mother by now."
"But, isn't his Mother dead?" asked Zuko.
"Well, you're missing the point. Even if she were alive, I would know him better. He's had a hard life, but he's able to manage. He's quite cleaver, and I think he's proved that more than enough times with his actions in battle, even when he's not out on the field."
"I guess you're right. He probably has more experience with the idea of violence and War than we do, which is probably one reason why he's a good choice for a leader," replied Zuko, looking down at the ground as he thought about it all.
"There's more than one reason, but that would be one, I guess, even though not major," said C.C. in her nonchalant tone.
"Then what would be a major reason?" he asked, looking up at her.
She thought for a moment as to what she would say because normally and bluntly she would say because of her Geass, but since that was a secret for the time being, she wouldn't say that.
"Because of his ability to manipulate one's mind," she said, telling only a half lie. "There's also his leadership in battle, his ability to plot out every move and predict the plans of the enemy. When you've watched him for as long as I have, it's quite amazing. I've never seen anyone like him."
"I haven't seen much of his battle abilities, but if he can scare my sister off, he must be pretty good," he said, remembering Azula and her ability to intimidate people with merely the look in her eyes and the smile on her face.
"Your sister, she's Princess Azula, am I correct?" asked C.C., trying to confirm.
"Yeah, unfortunately. She's always been the favorite of my Father, but I could tell that my Mother liked me better," he replied, thinking of the days in the kingdom with Azula, Mai, and Tai-Lee.
"It's funny how every parent says that they don't have a favorite, but they always treat one as if they are. People are such terrible liars sometimes."
That made Zuko think about all of the times that Azula had lied to him, about his childhood memories with her.
When C.C. saw that he was lost in his thoughts, she sighed and looked around. "I guess I'll let you be," she said, getting up and walking away, but Zuko didn't even notice that she had left.
TBC? Please R&R!
-I'm sorry, but the updates will be a bit later again after this:( I hope that you liked this chapter, and be ready for some twists in the next chappieXDXD
