The Curse of Living
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R1 or R2, which Sunrise on the other hand, does.
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"Do you think he will really come," Nunnally whispered quietly, "Do you really think he would be alive?"
They were inside the royal airship that Schneizel had created for her personal use. Surrounded by a self-sufficient ecosystem and the best float system money and intellect could possibly buy. It was here, within her luxurious airship, did the crippled young woman resided to meditate on her woes and concerns. It was also where she found Zero sitting in silence.
Today, however, he was uncharacteristically tense. Nunnally knew who Zero, the man underneath that mask, who he really was. Both past and present incarnations. After all, with her gift of knowing what was truth, half-truth, and lies was a powerful ability. She stroked a feathery tulip, slightly in thought, "Calm down, my Knight."
Zero, paused in his tense moment, the infamous mask turning to face her, as though scoffing at her request, "How can I? I have his blood on my hands, yet he returns? I can't believe it..."
"Believe it or not, I don't know either," said Nunnally, "As it is almost midnight..."
"Then he should almost be here by now. I know he'll be here. He keeps his word, no matter how warped," piped up Kallen from behind the rose bush, her short styled hair returned to it's original ginger red color, almost matching the bushes behind her. Sitting next to her, a gray haired man held her hand reassuringly, his eyes narrowing at his wife's apparent familiarity with this unknown person. "Who is this guy," inquired Rai, "Come on, you've been talking nonstop about him for hours and I still don't know his name, let alone who you're talking about! Gimme a clue will you?"
The glass clock on the pedestal chimed.
As one, the party of four glanced at a glass clock, it's innards of gears and wheels clicking by the second. It struck at twelve o'clock, with chimes to accompany it.
Chimes rang, echoing in the large garden.
For each second it passed.
Tension mounted.
As the last second lasted, only Rai looked disappointed. "Midnight," said Rai rolling his eyes, "Right."
"He'll be making a grand entrance," nodded Zero wisely.
"D'you smell something?" Asked Kallen suddenly, "Is it just me, or I'm smelling wine? A lot of it."
Something rustled in the bushes behind them, including a suppressed giggle. All four whipped around to face the offending bush, which had a red black velvet top hat and a white blue bonnet topped on the it. The tension in the room thickened as Zero and Rai cautiously made their way towards the bush, lashing out suddenly, knocking the hat off the bushed to reveal...
...someone laughing behind them.
For the second time this night, everyone turned around in a flash.
To Rai, the newlywed to Kallen Stedfield Kozuki, he had no idea who this guy was, and already his disdain for the man was rock bottom. Before him was a middleaged woman, dressed in a blousse and matching hat. Her hair eerily lime green. Next to her, however, was the man who had gotten them all together. To his surprise it was a boy. A teenager yes, but a boy nonetheless. He was dressed smartly in an expensive black and dark plum suit of velvet, cane and matching gloves, that clashed horribly with his eyes. Emerald eyes, tied back hair, and a smirk greeted them. This was the person his Kallen was so familiar with?
"Morning all," drawled the unknown, "How've you been doing?"
And drunk too. Obviously the owner of the scent of wine they had smelt eariler. "Who the hell are you?" Growled Rai, "How did a kid and his aunt get on board?"
The boy smiled indulgently, holding up his hands to halt the flow of barking, "Just a second Kallen's hubbie." With dramatic slowness, he raised his hand to his eyes, pausing only to say, "No puppies died in the making of these contacts."
He whipped them off to reveal deep amethyst instead of emerald. He removed the band holding his hair together, allowing it to fall freely around his shoulders. A second later, with some water from an artificial waterfall next to the doors to the hallway, his face was devoid of the tanned color that filled his skin. Aside from the long hair, Lelouch Vi Britannia grinned likely a puppy at them all.
Rai stiffened, going into defense mode, suddenly reverting to his military stature in face of the most dangerous villain the entire world had ever seen return from the dead as though he had never died! Was he a vampire? A Ghoul? He looked around, frantically looking for a weapon, only to see Nunnaly speed past him so fast he fell over onto his rump.
With practiced ease, the wheelchair sped across the room, halting with just enough momentum to send the young woman off into the air into the said most dangeroud villain the world had ever seen.
Truth be told it was the funniest thing today.
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Sorry for the delay and the shortness of this chapter. Midterms came into being several weeks ago, and I still have more to come. This little tidbit is for the tasters. I'll have another morself for you little rodents to chew on later this week.