On the platform: Meet the new characters

[utopiamods]

For those getting off the train their first impression of rakuen will be gloomy, the sky is grey and there is a fine drizzle that soaks you before you even realise it's raining. There is a group there to meet you: on one side, four students in black and green; on the other, four in red and white. Whilst the green group are all fairly average; all teenagers, the red group are a tad more varied. One of their girls is tiny, the size of a small child, and her wings are beating patterns in the warm air.

When they notice the arrivals, one out of each group steps forward. A young man in red and white looking serious steps forward

"Can I please have your attention." He explains that they're all prefects of Rakuen, from the two battle schools on the island. Fortitude - the long haired boy and the others dressed in green - and Conquest. They all arrived just like you did, weeks or months before this.

"I know you have many questions but first please come to the person who calls your name."

He looks down on his list to double check "For Conquest Apollo Justice and Naesala."

Comments

[notabunnylawyer]

The news about being a teacher was strange enough, but the part about being forced to fight was what made Apollo go a little pale.

"It does what? That's... why would a school of all places make people fight?!"

[swordofzero]

"It's a battle school, we have lessons but battles are more important. Every week a certain amount of people are chosen as those that fight, everyone else are Weapons." Suzaku shrugged, "It is just the way it is."

Sorry Apollo he's sulking at the moment and not the best for answering questions.

[notabunnylawyer]

"That's insane."

Apollo was finding it hard to take all of this in at once, struggling to understand when everything he heard only gave him more questions.

"I don't really understand what you mean, but - I don't fight, I mean, I don't think fistfights count and I haven't for years! I-I'd rather go back home, if it's all the same to you."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, it was insane but he had been here so long that parts of it seemed normal. "I'd like to go home too." Suzaku's voice wavered only a tiny bit, would Lelouch and Nunnally even be there? Or had they been lost forever. Would he still exist? What kind of world would he even go back to?

"But we can't. There's no way at least not until we solve their puzzle."

[notabunnylawyer]

"... So we're all being held hostage for the sake of a puzzle?"

This was starting to veer from insane to being downright twisted. It was starting to remind Apollo of gladiator arenas, and thinking the point of the fighting might only be for someone's amusement rankled even worse.

"Okay, I'll bite. What sort of puzzle is it?"

[swordofzero]

"It involves six towers, monsters... so far all we know is we can open the towers and fight the monsters and we have opened two so far."

Suzaku explained with a slightly bored tone.

[notabunnylawyer]

Apollo nods slowly, though from his expression it's probably clear that he's not all that happy with the news about the towers, either. He still had a lot of questions, but the rest of it could wait.

"Well, thanks for the information. I don't know that I'll be any good with that puzzle, but... if that's really the only way out, then I'd like to help however I can."

[swordofzero]

"It will be appreciated." Since most people who knew what they were doing were gone now...