towerofanimus | Forward dated to 14th!

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Forward dated to 14th!

Characters: Minato and anyone (victims or people taking him down)!
Setting: Floor 4, 17, 18, 22 or random corridors.
Format: Starting in brackets, will match
Summary: Lelouch gave him an absolute order. On that day, the Geass kicks in for Minato. He now intends on fulfilling them, no matter what.
Warnings: Eventually deaths and violence.

[His day start as normal.

Before he left his room, he made sure his evoker’s in his sheath and his sword is nearby. Idly, he checked the date before he went outside.

July 14th.

When his mind registered the date, the absolute order activated.

'Forget that this conversation ever happened, and dispose of all personnel of this tower that you deem harmful to the well-beings of others as well as my plans.

You will perform this command within the Fourteenth Day of July.'.

That’s the order he was given. There’s some initial resistance against the order, due to how Minato interprets the words. To dispose means removing people from action. In other words, it could very well means killing them. But no matter what, the Geass which gives an absolute order is absolute.

With his eyes glowed faintly red, Minato picked his sword and exit the dorm room.

FLOOR 4 – GLASS
The floor’s walls were entirely in glass. Here, he can see if other people were on this floor. It would be time consuming to walk over to them. The glass can’t be chipped or shattered.

But it can be stained red with blood.

FLOOR 17 – BLOODY HANDPRINTS & SCREAMS
This floor seemed to have nothing special, if you ignore the bloody handprints on the floor, walls and ceiling. And the odd screaming here and there.

Here, Minato is simply walking with his sword drawn out. To anyone else, he’s just simply being cautious against monsters. Not ready to kill. His resistance against the Geass was already overpowered.

FLOOR 18 – STUDY ROOM
He’s here after getting a book from the library on Floor 19, using this floor to sit down and read. However, he would occasionally look up to see if anyone’s nearby. After a while, he’d get up and pick up a reference book lying around for people to read.

Minato’s sword was still at the table, but his evoker will never leave his side.

FLOOR 22 – ART GALLERY
The art gallery was one of the more interesting floors. It brought up his morbid curiosity at the various paintings, no matter how horrible they were. Paintings of familiar places, like the buildings or places around Iwatodai, but utterly ruined. People he knows lying down dead or worse. He can see the familiar state of Apathy Syndrome for some of them.]

(OOC: ~~Don't comment until I put up the threads~~! They're up! If you want to request something, like Hama/Mudo, please mention it. OOC info post is here.)

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[People who Minato deemed as "harmful" goes here.]

((ooc: Minato would have first met Tara when she was basically detoxing from magic addiction, so I figured that would qualify as "potentially harmful". Would prefer no immediate Hama or Mudo, but he can finish her off with that if necessary.))

[Tara walks up the steps, on her way to the pool from the cafeteria. But, when she reaches the floor all of glass, she...pauses, she hesitates, she lingers, just as she's found herself doing every day on this walk. It's partly hesitation, because she doesn't really like her job at the pool. But, it's also because of the view. There's no window in this place where the view isn't somehow blocked by clouds, no way to see the world below.

But that doesn't stop her from trying.

Her back is to Minato but, when she finally rallies herself to turn away and continue her hike up, she'll see him on his perch surveyind the room.]

(OOC: Got it!)

[He notice her and watch Tara, quietly. Tara is one of the nicer people in this tower, and she even help him against the hellhounds back then.

But that's back then.

Minato gives her a friendly wave with his free hand. His evoker's currently sheathed, for now.]

[A wave that Tara returns, before she begins to walk towards the stairs spiraling around outside, where the boy is standing. Perhaps Minato can stay for a quick chat. Maybe he can be her distraction, before she gets in the pool. Without his evoker, there's nothing really threatening about him.]

[He still have his sword in hand, but with the dangers that lurk inside the tower, it's nothing out of the ordinary. Minato stay where he is, watching Tara walking over.

All things considered, he's pretty much himself and normal.]

I, I-I don't know how you do it.

[This is Tara's greeting to Minato as she draws near to him, accompanied by a nervous smile as she obviously tries not to look down. One hand is braced against the wall, steadying her.] I mean...I'm okay, on the floor, but up here...I always get so dizzy. I'm always afraid I'll, um, fall off.

I don't worry about it. If I think about it, I would get distracted.

[Simple as that. He want his focus on what matters. Minato gaze at Tara with an odd look.]

How have you been, Tara-san?

Me? Oh, um, I've been okay.

[She seems to be having some difficulty actually looking at Minato, and she looks way more unsteady on the stairs than anyone who hasn't drunk a bit of alcohol has a right to be, but there's no outward sign of injury. In fact, she looks quite happy, coming off the party.] I, I guess I'm just a bit tired, after last night. I can't remember the last time I was around so many people, and the music, and the food...

[Humming happily as she apparently slips back into a happy memory of the night, for a second or two.]

Is that so?

[He smiles, watching her carefully and at her body language. He noticed that she's not looking at him, yet rather happy.]

I'm glad. The party's good for us to relax from all the dangerous things.

Y-Yeah. And, and relaxing from dangerous things, th-that's important. Especially...when there's s-still going to be dangerous things later.

[Tara's smile slips for a second. How many party guests had gotten hurt on their way back up? How many had known to run through the floor that seemed to be empty but wasn't?]

I, I guess the only down side is that you never want to sleep, after a party like that.

[That explained her...oddness, didn't it? Didn't it? Tara was aware that she wasn't quite firing on all cylinders today, but she was damned if she knew why. Sleep deprivation, however, was an old, old friend. It seemed as good an explanation as any.]

[He looks concerned.]

But you still need to sleep. Relaxing is fine, but if you don't rest enough, you won't be in a good condition.

[Which means it's easier to make mistakes, or miss something, and get hurt for it. As someone whose social schedule was often full, he knows what it's like to be tired.]

[She's already made a few mistakes. Mistakes that really can't easily be written off to tiredness.

But, as far as Tara knows, they can't really be written off to anything else, either.]

Oh, um, I-I used to be in college. I'm used to going without sleep. Exams, and papers, a-and monsters...all that stuff.

[Exams, papers and monsters. That told him she's used to monsters in her home world.

It piqued his curiosity.]

You have monsters in your world?

Oh, yeah. [Tara smiles wryly at this.] Lots of monsters. Demons, vampires, portals t-to hell...they're, um, kind of a tourist feature. Or they would be, if anyone really knew about them.

S-Sometimes I think they do, though, and just don't do anything. I mean, as long as you're in after dark, vampires can't really do a lot to you.

[Stopping Minato? This is the thread.]

[Okay, Maya was pissed Sure, she had a good time at the party, but the first day she got here some prick tried to kill her. The kids told her to stay put, but Maya was never the type to follow orders - after all, it was the same reason she burned down the emblem for the Seven Sisters High School, disobeying Tatsuya's orders. She would get to the bottom of this, not for revenge, but...

...

Well. If this blue-haired individual was wreaking havoc, there must have been something wrong with him. Were there no adults in his life to guide him through to the proper path? That was just sad. Of course, there was still the whole anger-issues thing on Maya's mind, but in the back of her mind, she also wanted to see if he wasn't beyond redemption. Hopefully he wasn't. Of course he wasn't. Let's Positive Thinking after all, right?]

...

[Maya had prepared herself by bringing Personas that would be handy in this situation. Now all she had to do was follow the ice-trails throughout the Tower.]

[Unlike the other Minato, he's more versatile in his attacks from the very simple fact of being a Wild Card. However, he try to kill people as quickly as he can. If he can't, then he'll bring out his other spells. Fire, ice, electric...Hama or Mudo, if he have to.

After being under the Geass's influence for so long, Minato's original mindset is deeply buried under the absolute order. So yes, there's something wrong with him.

Minato is somewhere in this art gallery, so take your time and prepare yourself. Will you after him alone, or wait for others?]

Still blazing with anger from his confrontation with Lelouch Suzaku set off once more looking for Minato. His face was grim, set, he knew what he had to do. Before anyone else got hurt...

He didn't know if he would even be able to fight Minato; not if he wanted to- he didn't but he had no choice. But the creatures that lived within Minato were powerful, he had fought the other Minato before, and Jin, and he knew he wasn't strong enough to fight him... To kill him...

But he didn't want to get anyone else involved, Lelouch had caused this and so Suzaku was the one who had to deal with it, it would be unfair to make others do this.

He continued searching, his face set in purpose.

Ryoji, too, was searching. He had heard, perhaps, or maybe even seen his friend behaving strangely - and with the killings, Ryoji just wasn't sure what to do. For a short time, even, he'd simply done his best to avoid Minato, while he thought it over, pondering the best course of action.

In the end, though, he could come to no other conclusion than that he needed to stop Minato somehow. While it was true that deaths were by no means permanent in this tower, it still undoubtedly caused suffering to those who were killed, and the last thing Ryoji wanted was to see others suffer because of himself or a friend of his. So of course the only course of action left was to find Minato and stop him somehow.

And that was when he very nearly ran into Suzaku, as he hurried up one of the many stair cases.

"Ah, sorry -- Suzaku-san?" He was considerably less bouncy and vibrant than at their first meeting, and Ryoji did not smile in greeting.

"Ryoji?" Suzaku blinked at him, he didn't smile either but that was nothing new. He did notice Ryoji's solemness though. "What's wrong?"

Ryoji was silent for a moment or two, hesitant, before he asked, "Have you seen Minato?"

If Suzaku had, then that would probably be all the answer he needed. And if not, well... Ryoji didn't mind explaining his worry.

So he had seen him too... Suzaku nodded. He had seen him...

"He's not himself," he told Ryoji with a dark look on his face, "He is being controlled."

Minato was a kind and thoughtful person, Suzaku would not let people believe him a murderer.

That definitely got Ryoji's attention, and he leaned forward a little, looking intently at Suzaku. "Controlled? By what? Is there anything we can do about it?"

"A power from my world..." Suzaku frowned, looking very sad. "There's only one way I know to stop it..."

And Ryoji wasn't going to like it. Neither did Suzaku but it was his burden. Ryoji shouldn't have to share it.

"Only one way..." Ryoji doesn't like the sound of that, but he has to know. "What is it?"

Edited 2012-07-27 16:30 (UTC)

Suzaku was quiet for a long time and when he finally spoke his voice was low, "The geass controls him until he has completed his task or dies... I'm not sure but I believe that in the same way a missing arm returns when you come back from the dead here he may be revived without the Geass..."

That was a guess, a hope because as much as he didn't want to do this he didn't want to see Minato turn into a mindless killer. If it didn't work... well then Suzaku didn't know what would...

Ryoji is silent at this, and for a long moment he simply ducks his chin into his scarf as he thinks it over. Then, solemn and sad, he lifts his face to meet Suzaku's gaze and nods.

"If that is the only chance to prevent more pain for everyone and to keep him from being something that he is not... then we must kill.him.before he hurts anyone else." His voice is soft and sad, but.there is determination there. He does not want to see anyone hurt more than necessary, and.if this is the only way ...

Suzaku stood silently letting Ryoji think. He met his gaze when he nodded and listened to him. He agreed though this wasn't something he wanted to do, not to Minato, not to anyone but it was the only way.

"It is..."

[For people who want an successful escape from death. ~~no i did not forget this sob~~]

Suzaku stared at the pin in his hand, another thing he thought long burried. Another memory from his world which was dead now. He had spent the last ten days wandering the ruins of his world. He knew now what Lelouch had seen, why he was so angry, so unhinged.

After all that Suzaku had seen though, after all he had experianced here it just confirmed his suspicions. His world was truly gone, he had failed utterly and completely. This tower with it's torture, monsters, captivity at the whims of sadistic captors. This was all that was left...

He looked down at the pin again, remembering Euphemia; her dress soaked in blood. Saddened that that was the way he always remembered her first, it took effort to move his mind away from her last hours and remember the smiling girl who wanted equality...

He was so lost in his thoughts that he barely noticed when he stepped onto the same floor as Minato.

It didn't take Minato very long until he notice Suzaku. He stared at the other boy, a good person who meant well and helped a lot, before walking over. His footsteps sounded rather light on this floor before they're gone.

"...Suzaku-san?"

Suzaku turned at his name, "Minato-san." The honorific told him which Minato it was, even though after a few moments he could have spotted the differences anyways. He was glad to see the other boy, glad to see anyone he knew. "How have you been?"

The tower seemed as close to normal as it ever got, but it was still dangerous.

"I've been doing fine." So far, Minato seemed rather normal. "I'm in the middle of something, at the moment."

Suzaku nodded, glad that he had been alright. "Is it anything I can help you with?" After all Minato always helped him; had even healed him when he had been injured.

"I don't want to trouble you, Suzaku-san." Instinctively, Minato knew that bringing Suzaku along would potentially hurt him.

"It's no trouble Minato, you have helped me out many times." He nodded at him, he really did wish to help.

"...Alright." Minato looked at Suzaku in the eyes. There's an odd look in them. A very, very odd look. "Help me dispose of harmful people."

Suzaku met his eyes and what he saw in them terrified him. He must have imagined it... that flash of red. It was a trick of the light, it couldn't be... But it had been so unlike Minato... why would he say something like that?

"What did you say Minato?" Suzaku stared into his eyes, dreading the worst.

Edited 2012-07-24 22:39 (UTC)

"Help me dispose of harmful people, Suzaku." That flash of red in his eyes was unmistakeable. Along with how Minato talked. "It might be dangerous, so I understand if you don't want to help."

Geass... What was going on? He had been Geassed and there was only one person that Suzaku knew with that power. Only one, for other Geasses manifested themselves differently.

Lelouch...

"Minato..." There was no point in talking him down, it wouldn't help. He looked down at the pin in his hand. Remembering the screams of thousands, the blood. He closed his fist.

"I'll always help you Minato, but it will be dangerous. I don't want you to be hurt." His voice caught as he spoke.

Minato smiled, which would look strange, perhaps terrifying, when someone remembered the absolute order he's under.

"Thank you, Suzaku-san."

"Where are you going first?" Information, he needed information before he could do anything. Once he had found what he could from Minato he would seek out Lelouch.

"I'm going to check on all the floors." The sole except would be the more dangerous or mysterious one, like the floor that always seemed to be missing. He won't test his luck with it at the moment. Minato's more focused on finding people.

Suzaku nodded, "I have to go for a moment, but I will catch you up..." He had to find Lelouch, find out what was happening. Work out what to do next...

"I'll find you in about an hour Minato..."

Minato blinked, before nodding. "I'll see you later, Suzaku-san."

"I will see you soon Minato-san..."

Suzaku turned round, realising what he would have to do, and went to find Lelouch.

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Forward dated to 14th!

THE VICTIMS

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for Ryoji first!

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/tagging from phone; I'm going to be super slow with this thread until our internet is working again

No worries!

/o\ some day I won't take forever.

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