Bolmung LK: A preview for what's to come later tonight! Also I'd like to thank everyone who enjoyed this story, even if you never reviewed! I was re-inspired to continue this story while reading the reviews, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed feedback; good or bad!
(If you don't' remember Koji, then something went wrong. I swear I wrote him in, but maybe it was in a destroyed chapter and he never made it to the live story. He was suspected of being Zero by Kallen.)
SCENE I
"The Black Knights?" the Queen of Britannia questioned loudly. "Guards! Seize her! At once!" The Queen then kneeled down gasping; the flowers had worked their magic. "Damn you…little fucking whore…."
Kallen tried her best not to panic as she broke loose from jogging to sprinting to her Guren. Around fifteen or so guard surrounded her and she froze on the spot.
"You're not going anywhere you filthy half-breed eleven!" one guard shouted in disgust.
"I'm not getting myself caught like this! I still have to be Cinderella tonight!" Kallen said sarcastically and caipora-kicked the two guards in front of her. As she flipped above another guard's heads she pulled out her Guren pilot key. She did another front flip over a garden flower hedge and tumbled down a grassy hill into the woods. Once she got to her Guren she immediately skid to a stop and hid behind the closest tree.
'Why is he here of all times?!' Kallen thought sporadically as Koji stood leaning against her Guren's leg. Was he waiting for her all this time? Did he even see her?
SCENE II
Kallen sighed miserably and very loudly. She fiddled with the straps on her dress, they were beginning to itch her shoulders. She swore that never again in her life would she wear such a heavy, posh dress again after the play was over. The make-up that caked her face was starting to make her sweat lightly. This just added to her misery. Suddenly her chest began to sting with pain again, a pain she had come to recognize but never learned how to deal with. The burning sensation welled up in her lungs and held on like a desperate fire. She took slow and deep breathes hoping to quell the rage in her chest.
'Okay focus! Zero said he'd be in the front row tonight. There's only twenty front row seats. I can narrow down who he is by eliminating women, obese men, short men, old men and men with facial hair. He said he was a high schooler too, so he could potentially show up in a school uniform….Also-'
"Oh Cinderella!" a voice chimed from on-stage. Not just any voice either, a wicked menacing voice; the step mother!
Kallen groaned before walking on stage elegantly and making her way to the 'step-mother's' side. She took a quick glance at the audience, but the stage lights were too bright to see anything besides silhouettes. She quickly remembered her next line and composed herself dramatically.
"Yes mother dearest?" she feigned docility.
"Prepare lunch, clean the cellar, sweep the kitchen and polish the marble floors on the first floor. Also Anastasia needs her new dress hemmed another inch. I'd like my tea cold and my toast hot. After you've finished those chores you can…." Shirley paused as she saw the expression of wretched pain upon Kallen's face. She leaned in and whispered into Kallen's ear.
"Are you okay? What's wrong?"
"I just….I have slight stage freight, ignore me! Let the show continue!" Kallen pleaded. This was a lie, Kallen was sued to the spot light from Black Knight victory parties. The real issue was that the heat from her chest was now raising itself to her head. Shirley nodded and stepped back again.
"After you finish your chores you can reorganize my personal library! Don't forget to feed Lucifer as well!" Shirley let out a hearty laugh. Kallen whimpered, but not because it was in the script to do so.
"Y-yes…m-mother…." Kallen whispered as she fell to her knees.
"Prez! Cut the lights!" Shirley called out of character and the lights immediately dimmed. Kallen tilted her head to the audience to see only three men who fit the description of Zero in the front row. Koji and two other boys she didn't recognize were the three highschool boys that fit Zero's description. The lights went pitch black, the curtain was drawn closed and the audience gasped and booed.
"Kallen, what's going on?" Milly asked as she ran up to them in the dim lights of the back stage.
"I don't know, she just suddenly collapsed. She didn't look to well a minute ago either." Shirley said.
"I'm okay, I just got nauseous from…from st-stage-Augh!" Kallen proceeded to hack up her last meal all over the stage floor."
Moments later Milly appeared from behind the drawn curtain and grabbed the microphone.
"I'm sorry for the sudden delay, it seems Cinderella hasn't been sleeping too well with all her chores and such." Milly laughed nervously. The audience chuckled slightly, but for the most part remained dead. Milly bit her lip and tried to think of a way to entertain them while Kallen was cleaned up back stage. Koji got up from his seat and walked towards the back of the audience as if to leave. Milly panicked thinking the audience was getting bored and tried her best to entertain them with linear jokes with slighted racial slurs. Thus was just her style and was usually well appreciated in Britannia.
"Kallen, you got vomit all over the only Cinderella dress! Please tell me there's a costume in the back that will suffice!" Shirley shouted from outside the dressing room. Shirley wasn't angry, she was just nervous herself. Her mother was here to see her last high school play and she didn't want it t go badly.
Kallen felt immensely better after letting everything out of her stomach, but the nagging feeling that the night was to get much worse lingered in the back of her mind. She sighed in dismay as something fell atop her head while she was completely naked in the changing room. She grabbed the material and held it up.
'The dress the Britannians made me wear while I was in prisoned?!' she thought as her eyes widened.
"It looked so good on you!" Gino said as his blonde head peeked from above the changing stall.
"Kyaaah! Get out of here!" Kallen shouted as she used the dress to cover her exposed breasts. Shirley pulled on Gino's legs as she tried to get him off the stall.
"Gino! You're such a perv!" she hissed as she managed to get him back to the ground.
"She ain't got nothin' I've never seen before!" Gino said with a wink. Shirley growled.
As Gino and Shirley left the area for Kallen to change in quiet the memory of the front row audience returned to her. Koji was her prime suspect. He was in the area when she was relieved of her Black Night duty yesterday and earlier this morning he was near her Guren. It had to be him!
SCENE III
"Wait, you seriously mean Zero wrote this?" Ougi asked as he held up the perfumed letter in question.
"Haha! I always knew Zero had a soft side! Writing his mistress poetry like that! I bet Kallen will be pissed!" Tamaki roared in laughter.
"No. Not funny Tamaki. This may not be a love letter; it could possibly be a secret plea for help." Ougi said sternly with a dark expression. Tamaki's giggling halted.
"You mean big-boy has been captured? By who?"
"King Charles." Ougi said as he pointed to the line about kings.
SCENE IV
"Ougi! We have a problem! I think Zero is going to betray us at Pendragon!" Kallen's static voice cried out over the Guren's radio.
"What? Are you sure?" Ougi's eyes went from lazy to horrified.
"I think I found out who he is….and there's no way this guy wouldn't have a good reason to betray us all right now!"
"Who? Who is Zero?!"
"That guy.,…from my class…the one with black hair and a wicked smile…." Kallen choked out.
"What was his name?"
"Koji."
SCENE V
"So Lelouch, what'd you call me out here for?" the boy said as he smiled innocently.
"You've interfered enough with my plans. It's time you were rid of." Lelouch's voice was suddenly dark and ominous.
"Huh?" Koji blinked nervously as Lelouch pulled out a gun and cocked it.
Through the darkness of the theater, the shrieks of the crowd and the blaring epic music of the movie was the horrifying sound of a gun being fired. Blood stained the popcorn red and tears of children sobbing were met with the sounds of agony of the victim.
Lelouch swallowed hard as the lights to the theater room turned back on. Koji hovered over him with a gun in hand.
"Kallen shall be mine, I shall be Zero and you shall be obsolete." Koji's voice echoed in Lelouch's mind.
'Geass?! Koji has Geass?!' were Lelouch's last thoughts before his world went blacker than the knights he lead. Koji leaned down to Lelouch's ear.
"Goodbye, sweet prince." He whispered softly and patted Lelouch's head sarcastically. Koji exited the theater, now free from his demon.
Bolmung LK: So chya, five scenes from the next chapter. So someone brought this to my attention, I've never revealed my gender. Bonus points to anyone who guesses, doesn't have to be correct, my gender! Should you decide to review that is! I don't mind if you don't, but I love it when you do! The next chapter should be out tonight-ish. It's damn near done as it is. Approx. 15K words long.
