Awakening [backdated to Monday]

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku Kururugi and open
Setting: Starting in room 2-06 moving out into the tower
Format: Take your pick
Summary: Suzaku wakes up from his death in the event and is not okay. But he is Suzaku so goes about normally and then Arthur shenanigans happen.
Warnings: Contains mentions of death, explosions, of the surgery victims and other event related things, spoilers for Code Geass, angst, a dying bullfairy and a mercy killing.

[Room 2-06] Trapped in darkness, in silence, even breathing seeming beyond him Suzaku struggled against the sleep paralysis fear building, unable to move, scream, even think. The moment he was able to he sat up, automatically taking stock of his surroundings. His room, in his bed, no pain, he could move all his limbs.

He had gotten out of bed and moved to his trunk to get his cloak before it hit him that he shouldn't have limbs, before the memories of his last moments hit him. Bile rose in his throat and he pressed a fist down on his trunk to steady himself.

So that was what it felt like to explode... A fate Suzaku had condemned so many to, so many millions. A fitting death for him who had taken so many lives that way, that pain, that fear had been their last moments. He felt sick and he took a few deep breaths to calm himself.

The worst thing was he had promised to help Jin, to help make sure Jason did not rise to victory and now he could not. He knew he had betrayed Jin's trust, and he also knew it would never be given again. He couldn't help anyone, not from here and his death had done nothing but buy his group time, before they decided to kill another.

Suzaku closed his eyes, he wanted to cry. But he hadn't cried since Euphemia's death and he was not going to start now. He stood up, grabbing his cloak. Unless the tower had improved since before he was taken; and he doubted it as their captors were more interested in their game, it would be dangerous and he had to be on his guard.

[Later in hallways] Suzaku, now armed with his knife, set off into the tower. Looking for people. A meow sounded from behind him and he turned to see Arthur Suzaku's face lightened but his frown returned a moment later when he saw what Arthur had.

Or at least what Arthur was dragging behind him, one of the tiny winged creatures that roamed the tower, its wings were ripped it's legs broken where it had tried to support itself. There were gashes in its side and it's eyes were flickering wildly. Arthur dragged it up to Suzaku's feet before sinking his teeth into his leg.

Suzaku winced and bent down, "Arthur..." Arthur automatically moved his teeth to Suzaku's finger. Suzaku looked at the dying creature sadly. It mewled at him, a faint pained, frightened noise.

Suzaku closed his eyes again, but he couldn't let the creature suffer; there was far too much suffering in this tower already. Taking his knife he cut the creatures throat.

He looked down at Arthur again who purred happily. Picking up the dead bullfairy in one hand, Arthur curled up in his other arm; teeth sunk into Suzaku's hand Suzaku began to make his way out down the corridor to find somewhere suitable to leave the poor creature wondering if the monsters came back the same way the people did. If this poor creature would have to wake and remember what it felt like to die.

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[hallways]

[death_awaits_you]

Not being particularly concerned about things like food or light, Ryoji didn't have all that much to do, so mostly he had been spending his time wandering. In this part of the tower, things seemed pretty quiet, so when Ryoji heard a quiet mew from up ahead and around the corner, he paused to listen. There was a voice too, he thought, and something else making noise, but it was hard to make out, and he was just making up his mind to go investigate, when Suzaku rounded the corner in front of him. A quick look, and Ryoji saw the cat and some -- thing dangling from the man's hand, which explained all the noise.

Well, undaunted by the idea of running into someone new and strange and armed with a cat in the hallway, Ryoji smiled and gave a bit of a wave. "Uh... hello! Are you exploring, too? I didn't know there were any cats here..."

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[swordofzero]

"Exploring?" Suzaku blinked but then realised this man must be new, so the tower was still bringing people despite the fact their captors were busy elsewhere. "My apologies, no I have been here some time." He looked down at Arthur, "He arrived in my trunk at the same time as I did, have you just woken up here?"

[death_awaits_you]

"Yep! I've just been getting my bearings, I guess. It's pretty nice you came with a friend, though." Ryoji continued to smile, apparently unbothered by this place and what the letters said, at least for now. And then, figuring he might as well, he added, "My name is Ryoji Mochizuki."

[swordofzero]

A friend? Suzaku looked down at the cat, teeth still happily stuck in Suzaku's hand. He supposed he was that. "It is nice to meet you Ryoji Mochizuki, I am Suzaku Kururugi."

[death_awaits_you]

"Pleased to meet you, Suzaku-san!" The tower clearly hadn't gotten to Ryoji yet, if the level of chipper cheer in his voice or the friendly smile were anything to go by. "What is your friend's name?"

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku didn't smile back, but he hadn't smiled since a while before coming to the tower so it was nothing new.] Arthur [At his name the cat paused in biting Suzaku's hand to give a friendly miaow]

[death_awaits_you]

[ Ryoji turned his smile to the cat, reaching out to gently pet his head, if Arthur let him. ] Pleased to meet you, too, Arthur.

[ But he's pretty quick to look back up at Suzaku. ] Well, if you weren't exploring, then you must be on your way somewhere, so I shouldn't detain you, but -- do you need help with anything? [ He seemed pretty down... ]

[swordofzero]

Arthur purred and rubbed his head against Ryoji's hand, perfectly friendly. "I..." He looked down at the dead bullfairy, "I was just going to take this outside... Do you need any help? Waking up here is disorientating even without the lack of power."

[death_awaits_you]

Ryoji smiled at the cat and continued to pet him a little, though he shook his head. "Ah, no. I've been finding my way around all right, and others I've met have been really helpful in telling me more about this place. But thank you very much for the offer. Though... if you have any particular advice about this place to offer, I wouldn't mind hearing it?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku was glad that there was still enough people left here to explain to new people what had happened. Especially since the halls were so dangerous, with no electricity or food.

"Just be careful, carry a weapon if you have one. Can you fight?"

[death_awaits_you]

His smile faded a little and he nodded. "Yeah. I can fight. I don't need a weapon for that..."

[swordofzero]

"Do you have some sort of power or magic?" Suzaku was used to that now, though it had taken him a while to think of magic being a normal part of life.

[death_awaits_you]

"Something like that, yeah." Ryoji was silent for a moment, as he pondered whether he ought to say more. In the end, he decided to simply add, "This isn't my true form, anyway."

Have a newbie in the hallways?

[warriorscribe]

Enoch returned to the dormitory hallways as the sun began to set, his steps slow and heavy. He'd met people he thought he knew, but didn't, and the one person he wanted to find most didn't seem to be here. He was confused and not sure what to think of the tower or what had happened to his world.

He almost didn't see the other person in the dark, only drawing up short at the corner they would have collided at because he heard their footsteps.

"Excuse me." And then he saw the strange, mangled creature in his hand. He stared at it for a moment, wondering what could have brought something so...unsettling into being. Surely it was no act of God - He, after all, seemed to know what He was doing with living things and every creature had bodies that made sense.

"...What is that?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku turned at the voice, nodding politely in greeting. Despite the fact he was shaken from his death, and the death of the bullfairy he managed to keep his face neutral. "One of the creatures that reside here, they aren't harmful. They seem... almost put together wrong." He wondered now if that was natural, or if Jason had something to do with it, after seeing what he had done to the captives put in his care.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch uneasily eyed its mangled, too-small legs again. Put together wrong, that was a good way to describe it.

"They can't be a natural creation."

[swordofzero]

"I don't think it is, but one of those that brought us here seems to specialize in unnatural alterations to living beings..." He frowned because that was still happening and now he was back here with no way to help them. He just hoped Jin had spoken to enough others that his plan to make sure Jason had no chance of winning could still work.

[warriorscribe]

Unnatural alterations...a person did this?

"Are the ones that brought us here human or something else?"

[swordofzero]

"They look human, but they could be another species... They claim to come from this world." So many things they did not know though.

[warriorscribe]

So once again, he was in another world, one that connected many, in the care of those who lived there. It would be funny if not for the subject of these "alterations."

"And why does one of them perform...alterations like these?"

[swordofzero]

"I don't know, they seem to care very little about us..." His face didn't betray the pain he was feeling, he couldn't save them now he didn't even know where they were. "We can't die so they believe we have no reason to complain about what they do, they see it as a price for rescuing us."

[warriorscribe]

That didn't bode well...except one thing that seemed both out of place and familiar. It was that which helped him swallow his worry about those that ran this place. "We can't die here?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku shook his head, "No, we can't. We can be killed, it feels like death... But we awaken the next day as if it never happened."

Even if they were blown limb from limb... Suzaku's frown deepened as he tried not to think about that.

[warriorscribe]

Incredible...it was just like Meridian.

"I was...taken from a place that behaved similarly. Those who died were resurrected after a day. The one who maintained the city said it was because it wasn't our world, so we weren't bound to its rules in the same way."

Enoch wondered, was this simply the way these...odd worlds behaved?

[swordofzero]

"You went somewhere that was not your world before you were here?" Just like Minato had... "I believe they claimed that something in the process of saving us caused us to become immortal."

Perhaps it really was just something that happened if you went to a universe that was not your own.