Code Avatar: Lelouch and the Airbender
By: C.C.
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*Italics are Kallen's thoughts*
Chapter 38: Fact From Fiction
"Wait, what?" asked Ohgi, looking at Katara with confusion.
Everyone was awake now. It was about seven in the morning and Katara had been trying to care for Kallen all night, and she's been trying to explain what she could to everyone else. Truth of the matter was that she didn't even fully understand it all. She's rambling on about a dead man.
"I know. I don't really get it, either," Katara replied, arms crossed as she looked from Ohgi to the ground. "I'm really worried about her."
"We all are," said Sokka, walking into the room, rubbing his eyes and looking wearily around at everyone. "Who are we worried about again?"
Everyone rolled their eyes, especially Karata, since she would now have to repeat the entire thing.
"Something's going on with Kallen," she said, concerned for Kallen yet irritated at Sokka at the same time. "She woke me up last night calling for Lelouch's name and then I found her outside on her knees as if she were chasing after him. Something else weird is that I saw Aang get on Appa while I was out there with her and fly off. He didn't say anything. He was just going."
Sokka gave her that look that suggested that he agreed that the whole situation was weird. "What's she doing right now?"
"She's in her room, resting, but she just seems so...content. She's preoccupied within herself," Katara answered.
"Whatever happened," said Toph, "it really freaked her out because she's got her heart level up really high. I can tell that she was scared. Hmm, if only I could read minds-"
"That won't be necessary," said Kallen. "She'll probably talk when she's ready."
Back with Kallen...
Kallen was in her bedroom throughout this, lost within her own thought about things she wasn't sure about whether or not she should believe.
Was it all a dream?
He's suppose to be dead, right? What if it was all only my imagination?
What if I'm going crazy?
What if it was real? Oh, there's no way! He's a dead man! But, then again, he is known to do unbelievable things.
What if I go crazy trying to figure out whether or not I'm crazy?
What am I going to do?
Should I talk to the New Knights? Katara has tried to talk to me and comfort me, but I didn't tell her a whole lot. Oh, I wish we could talk now. Maybe she could tell me if I were really going crazy.
The entire event alone might drive me insane, since I haven't-
Oh, Kallen Kouzuki, pull yourself together! You're NOT going insane! You are second in command of the New Knights, Captain of the Guren Mark 12, and Zero's top Knightmare Pilot for crying out loud! You know that it was all real and that you have nothing to worry about, well, at least when it comes to being insane. Since it was real, I have some other problems to worry about.
Kallen was thinking about all of this up until someone came knocking on her door.
"Kallen? Kallen, it's me, Katara," she said softly.
Kallen looked up with somewhat scared eyes, though she kept telling herself that she needed to be confident in what she knew was the absolute truth. "Yeah, come in," she replied, leaning back on her pillow since she'd been tensed up this whole time. It was good for her to relax, well, at least a little. She was still a little tense.
Katara walked in and looked over at Kallen. She slipped on a smile and saw her somewhat worried as she still wasn't entirely confident in her decision that the whole thing was real. "Kallen, are you alright? We're all worried sick about you," said Katara, walking over and beside Kallen as she placed a hand on her shoulder with calm and caring eyes that had a hint of concern that she was really trying to hide but wasn't having much luck.
Kallen took a deep breath and looked down at the blankets on the bed with her hands folded. "Yeah, I think I'll be alright," she replied, still unsure.
Katara looked at Kallen closely, trying to examine her behavior to be sure that she really was alright. She could tell by the expression on her face that she was improving on the War within her, but that she was still worried about what the outcome of it all would be. Kallen was worried because since she believed it was indeed real, she didn't know what the outcome would in turn be.
"Kallen-"
"Katara, stop for a moment, please," she said, still looking at the blankets but holding up her hand to stop Katara from speaking for a moment. "Uh-...I know what I saw. It's all real."
Katara took a moment to think about that, but it wasn't long before she started asking questions again. "What is it exactly that happened last night? You were in so much shock earlier that you weren't making sense. All I could tell was that you thought that you saw Lelouch."
"I did," said Kallen, looking up at Katara for the first time during this visit, " and it wasn't a dream, so don't try to tell me that it was. I've already tried telling myself that it was, and there's just no possible way. I saw Lelouch. He came into me bedroom and talked to me after he woke me up."
"So, are you saying that Lelouch is really alive?" asked Katara.
"Yes, and he flew off with Aang and Appa. What are they doing? I don't know, so don't ask, but I know what I saw, and I know that you saw Aang get on Appa as well. Lelouch climbed back into the saddle with C.C. right before you came out, so you probably didn't see them. Lelouch, Zero, is alive."
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"And what is it that you hope to accomplish by doing this?" asked the usually nonchalant C.C. in her usual nonchalant tone and emotionless eyes with her eyes crossed as she looked over at Lelouch without turning her head.
"What is it that you hope to accomplish by me telling you?" he asked back, taking off the Zero mask to reveal his face that had a sly grin and mischievous violet eyes glaring back over at her.
"I have nothing to accomplish. I'm merely following you around and doing as I wish. Do you honestly expect me to stay over with the New Knights without you being there? Please. They're nothing without Zero," she replied, rolling her eyes and then looking back over at Lelouch.
"And that's exactly what Schnizel wanted. He knew that they would fall without me, so I decided to trick him. The world now believes that I'm dead, and what better way to be a miracle worker than to be the one who rises from the grave? This will completely soil Schnizel's plans, whatever it is that they may be."
"So you still don't know what it is that he's planning?"
"No, not really," replied Lelouch. "My best guess is that he's working with the Emperor, but what is it that he's getting in return is what I need to know. The two don't really get along, so he has to be getting something out of the deal."
"And what is it that Charles wants?"
"What more than to rule the world as his own?"
"My, my, Lelouch, you truly are naive, more so than I would have expected," she said with a slight grin upon her face.
"Oh? You think I'm naive? How quaint. What is it that makes me naive?" he asked, looking over at her with curiosity.
"You are experienced with the world, yet you still are not able to read between the lines and see what's directly in front of you. All of the evidence is here. All you have to do is look."
"What evidence? Everything I see is between the lines, the small details that the average person wouldn't pick up. Maybe with your immortal age you've grown into a fool."
"A fool? You know me better than that, Lelouch. You may think of me as a pizza loving witch with green hair, but you wouldn't still have me around if you truly thought of me as a fool. No, your uses for me are too great. I'm someone that knows you even better than you do, every little detail. You need me even more than you know. Now, you never answered my question. What is it that you're hoping to accomplish by all of this?" she asked, stretching out a bit, still sitting down.
"Though this is a contradiction, in its own way it makes sense. You are a fool, C.C., but none the less, you are a wise fool. Wise because you have experience having been alive all of these years. A fool because you're unwilling. The unwilling are fools because they expect to have something done but they don't do it themselves. If they don't know how to do it, they should learn, but you're top experienced to be unwilling."
"I am unwilling because I know how the world is. I've seen it time and time again. Mortals have no idea what you do to yourselves. You repeat history over and over again, unwilling to see your faults. I'm not unwilling. I merely gave up. I watch you all like a movie that's being re made all the time into different versions, but in the end it's all the same story."
"So why is it that you're dealing with me? I am a mortal, am I not?" asked Lelouch.
"Yes, but you are quite different. I have more than enough reasons to stick next to you. Now, if you would kindly answer my question, what is it that you hope to accomplish by doing all of this?" she asked again.
Lelouch slyly grinned and spat out a slight chuckle. "Now, if I told you everything, what would be the point? I've gotta have some parts as a surprise for you."
With that, he looked around at the scenery around him. "We're getting close. Aang, are we almost there?"
"We're getting close," said Aang with a serious look on his face and red rims around his eyes. "Expect landing soon."
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