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rex_sun"Ougi Kaname?"
Ougi looks up at Zero, expecting Zero to continue. But it was not Zero who spoke. Ougi looks at the frozen frame of the masked man, and then slowly recognizes the voice and its source. Ougi and Zero simultaneously look down, to see the dull, wet eyes of the Emporer slide open and come into focus.
In shock they stare at it, not quite comprehending. And then everything falls apart, and the body relaxes in their arms. Zero and Ougi stumble forward with the sudden change in the distribution of weight and the body crashes into the floor. Behind them, Nunally screams.
Ougi is the first one to react, and he does so in a surprising way: he leaps to the door and shuts it, engaging once more all the locks. The door closes on the faces of a few Black Knights who had come running by Nunally's scream, but who weren't around-- thankfully, Zero thinks later --to hear the Emperor's body speak. They pound on the door and Ougi, flipping switches on to illuminate the room, calls through the crack for his soldiers to stand down. They do, and Ougi turns slowly back to the corpse which--
--which may not be a corpse after all.
The body twitches once or twice on the floor, but it does not otherwise move or again speak as the three in the room stare at it. Ougi, bravely, approaches first and turns it onto its back.
The eyes are the most living part of it. It is still pale as death and just as unmoving, but the eyes are blinking, half-hooded, shining, and looking back and forth, all around the room. As if the Emperor was waking from some deep sleep.
Zero can see the cold sweat breaking across Ougi's forehead. He lays his bare hand on the Emperor's neck.
"There's no pulse," the man whispers.
"I killed him," Zero confirms, just as quietly. "He died. The body was rigid, you felt it."
Trapped in a paradox and clueless as to Zero's growing epiphany of horror, Ougi checks for every sign of life in the book. He looks into the eyes and puts his ear to the chest-- to the pierced heart, expecting it to beat despite the gaping hole in it. Puts his hand to the lips and fingers on the wrist.
"Nothing," he says, face twisted into the most intense frown Zero has ever seen. "Nothing!"
Zero turns back to Nunally, who looks on with wide eyes and a hand to her mouth, shivering as she presses herself to the wall.
And then-- just at that moment-- the Emperor draws a shuddering, gasping, deprived breath-- the breath of a man close to drowning breaking the water surface --and springs back to life.
Ougi looks up at Zero, expecting Zero to continue. But it was not Zero who spoke. Ougi looks at the frozen frame of the masked man, and then slowly recognizes the voice and its source. Ougi and Zero simultaneously look down, to see the dull, wet eyes of the Emporer slide open and come into focus.
In shock they stare at it, not quite comprehending. And then everything falls apart, and the body relaxes in their arms. Zero and Ougi stumble forward with the sudden change in the distribution of weight and the body crashes into the floor. Behind them, Nunally screams.
Ougi is the first one to react, and he does so in a surprising way: he leaps to the door and shuts it, engaging once more all the locks. The door closes on the faces of a few Black Knights who had come running by Nunally's scream, but who weren't around-- thankfully, Zero thinks later --to hear the Emperor's body speak. They pound on the door and Ougi, flipping switches on to illuminate the room, calls through the crack for his soldiers to stand down. They do, and Ougi turns slowly back to the corpse which--
--which may not be a corpse after all.
The body twitches once or twice on the floor, but it does not otherwise move or again speak as the three in the room stare at it. Ougi, bravely, approaches first and turns it onto its back.
The eyes are the most living part of it. It is still pale as death and just as unmoving, but the eyes are blinking, half-hooded, shining, and looking back and forth, all around the room. As if the Emperor was waking from some deep sleep.
Zero can see the cold sweat breaking across Ougi's forehead. He lays his bare hand on the Emperor's neck.
"There's no pulse," the man whispers.
"I killed him," Zero confirms, just as quietly. "He died. The body was rigid, you felt it."
Trapped in a paradox and clueless as to Zero's growing epiphany of horror, Ougi checks for every sign of life in the book. He looks into the eyes and puts his ear to the chest-- to the pierced heart, expecting it to beat despite the gaping hole in it. Puts his hand to the lips and fingers on the wrist.
"Nothing," he says, face twisted into the most intense frown Zero has ever seen. "Nothing!"
Zero turns back to Nunally, who looks on with wide eyes and a hand to her mouth, shivering as she presses herself to the wall.
And then-- just at that moment-- the Emperor draws a shuddering, gasping, deprived breath-- the breath of a man close to drowning breaking the water surface --and springs back to life.
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Date: 2011-05-29 12:44 am (UTC)That's a very fresh and interesting take on immortal!Lelouch's revival and in an interesting company (just like everything you do;))
I do hope with grows into a full fic~~