Summer is for sorrow

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku Kururugi and you
Setting: Graveyard, floor 11
Format: Either
Summary: As spring turns to summer Suzaku realises Nunnally is gone and then storm watches.
Warnings:

[Graveyard] The heat was unbearable, the rain had been bad but Suzaku had never like summer. Too many bad memories came with the heat of summer and as he slowly made his way to the graveyard he suspected another was about to be added to the list.

His flight suit clung to him uncomfortably, his cloak was abandoned in his trunk. He was silent as he entered the graveyard floor and began to study each grave, hoping beyond all hope that the one he was looking for wasn't there.

Except it was, of course it was. Not much showed on Suzaku's face, he just reached out to steady himself on the headstone.

Nunnally vi Britannia

He had to find Lelouch... He stood up, feeling dizzy, it felt strange to be so dehydrated after all the rain just the day before.

[Floor Eleven] This was almost worse than the dry heat of before, the air was heavy and choking. Suzaku had spent the day searching for food to give out to those he knew and fighting off the fire monsters. He had ended on this floor, the waterfall that usually spilled over the tower was gone, yet there was thunder rolling in the distance and the room lit up with lightning.

Suzaku had once tried to escape off this floor, he and Link, a crazy badly thought out escape using bedsheets. His first 'death'.

He sat down at the edge, dangling his feet off the side of the tower and looking out into the fog as the air grew heavier and the storm began. It suited his mood, pressure and sorrow ready to explode. Nunnally was gone, her soul lost to her dead world, perhaps forever. Things had seemed helpless for a long time, since another summers day long ago when the distant rumbling wasn't thunder but approaching war.

Yet somehow things had gotten worse... And now they were stuck, lost souls in a tower of madne...

His eyes flashed red and Suzaku blinked in confusion from where he stood at the other end of the floor, walking slowly back towards where he had sat he saw the scorch mark, and another bold of lightning striking not far from him explained what had just happened.

Comments

[Floor Eleven]

[gomu_ningen]

[It was no surprise that the now-helpless Captain had been following his room mate from a distance. He wasn't sure of the details, or why Suzaku had looked so disrupted when he left the graveyard, but being caught in a storm was at least something Luffy could help with.

Moving fast, Luffy approached Suzaku as he raised a thumb to his teeth. Biting down on the rubbery flesh, he blew into his hand as it expanded like a balloon. Filled with the full capacity of his lungs, Luffy held the large fist over his head, coming to where Suzaku stood with a grin.]

"Hey, Suzaku! You're gonna' get all sick if you stay in the rain!"

[swordofzero]

[So Suzaku had two stalkers now. Luffy's ability to contort his body still surprised him, but he did nothing but blink in surprise.] Luffy, thanks... but it's raining everywhere.

[gomu_ningen]

"No worries! My hand'll just make the rain roll off! It's the lightning you should be worried about!"

[As the static around them crackles and shocks into the ground, Luffy laughs aloud as the electricity does nothing to his body.]

"I'm a rubber man, remember?"

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku nodded and stood close] How are you holding up? [His roommate ate more food than any ten people Suzaku knew, and this was the first time the supply had been cut since he had arrived.]

[gomu_ningen]

"I'm doing better now. I found some real neat floors here in the tower!" [Blissfully unaware of what actually was lurking on the 16th floor. Yup, that's your room mate, Suzaku.] "How's about you, Suzaku?"

[swordofzero]

I'm glad. [His voice sounds hollow even to him, and he does his best to make the next bit sound convincing.] I'm fine.

[gomu_ningen]

[Luffy just starts to chuckle, his free hand holding his stomach as he watched Suzaku with amused eyes.]

"Wow, I never thought I'd meet some one like you."

Floor Eleven

[foodchains]

[If Suzaku happens to turn around, he'll find Kyoko standing there looking a little surprised by what she had just witnessed. Judging by the long spear in her hand and the elegant red dress, she also had been fighting off the fire monsters with the rest of the Tower.

She frowns just a bit and adjusts her grip on her weapon so she can move further into the room, obviously not caring much for the lightning. She's already a little beat up and, if Suzaku has a trained eye, he might notice her fatigue. With her soul gem as worn out as it was already, she couldn't afford to heal herself without risking something happening.]

...hey. How did you do that?

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku turned and blinked at the pink haired girl, she looked exhausted and injured. He was at her side in a moment.]

Are you alright? [He looked down, so she had seen...]

[foodchains]

[Kyoko blinks, looking a little skeptical at his concern, eventually waving it off. That wasn't usually the reaction she got, especially here in the Tower, so it threw her off just a bit.]

Of course I'm alright. Besides, that ain't an answer to my question.

[She looks at him suspiciously.]

[swordofzero]

[He nodded, not quite believing her but she was right. It wasn't.

They lived in a tower of fantastical and horrific things, so there wasn't really much use in lying.] It's... a magical spell of sorts, called a Geass which was cast on me once. I can't die and it takes over if I am about to, like what you just saw.

[foodchains]

[She listens with interest, leaning against her spear to take some of the weight off her spine. Kyoko was mostly used to the fact that magic didn't necessarily work the same way across the various worlds that got dragged here.]

Pretty handy around here, I bet. It was cast on you? Or did you cast it yourself?

[swordofzero]

It was cast on me. [He's still looking at her worriedly, silently assessing her injuries.]

Eleven

[egotrigger]

Allelujah paused as he saw Suzaku out there on that floor. He'd already marked it as a 'dangerous' one in his mind, but the sudden quick movement of the boy made him reconsider just moving on.

"... Are you all right?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, blinking at the voice before placing the man as one he had helped during the sickness.

"I am, I had a lucky escape."

[egotrigger]

"Good. Maybe it would be wiser to get off of a level with so much open space..."

Even if the tower had its own weirdness, lightning should still act like lightning... right?

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, "It would be." He looked around.

[egotrigger]

"I was going to head down to the library... that should be relatively safe, I think."

The invitation is implied.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded and followed him closely watching for monsters and they descended down the stairs.

[Graveyard]

[tempus_scorpius]

[Rolo will just be watching him from a little distance behind him.]

[Graveyard]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku is used to Rolo following him about and paused in looking at Nunnally's grave.] How are you?

[tempus_scorpius]

Fine.

You've found it then. Her grave.

[swordofzero]

Yes... [He looked back to the grave] Has Lelouch found it yet?

[tempus_scorpius]

[he nods]

[swordofzero]

Do you know where he is?