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Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-02-05 10:32 am

Round 1 [beta characters here]

And then you woke up and it was all a dream.

Or... was it?

You don't know. The details are fading. Some of it seems as clear as if if had happened minutes ago, whilst the rest is as hazy and vague as a long-lost memory. You remember blood and screams; a girl with a bright smile. Need to get rid of you, someone said. For a little while. Sometimes you were running, fighting, facing dark shadows with red eyes and mocking smiles. Sometimes you were hunting yourself, hurting people, feeling the power of your weapon coursing through you as you headed towards your prey. Sometimes you were watching your friends die, or your family, or your enemies.

Your shadow is you, and you are your shadow, and its voice is all around you.

Free us. Free them.

Static. More images, some you will remember and some you will not.

...but, your shadow whispers, the Demon King always returned. Didn't he?

You are outside, and the sky is blood. The towers glow, humming atonally as a star lights up the sky. The campus blazes with its light; the lines of the symbol span the horizon, and a tiger smiles.

Once, the knight despaired and sought a sage...

The tiger smiles, and the world is consumed in fire. You're falling, falling, and the shadow's voice falls with you.

There is a story everybody knows.

Light streams through the windows of your room. In eight different rooms, in four different buildings, thirty-nine students wake up with a start, and find their campus as picturesque and empty as it was the day before.

The day before? What...

A cheery voice breaks through the fog of confusion, loud over the speaker system.

"Good morning, students! Please be at the lobby by midday for the week's announcements."
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Re: BLACK 1-B

[personal profile] veepofchess 2011-02-05 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I'm fine," he replied. His annoyance was clear in his voice as he quickly remade his bed into a flawless state. When that was done, he collected his school uniform. Shirt, vest, tie, trousers, the whole nine yards.

He glanced at her briefly, as though he considered saying something, but changed his mind. He started for the door to change so he could go help Nunnally.
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[personal profile] stopwatch 2011-02-05 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Brother!"

Rolo had awoken early, pacing the room until Lelouch also woke up. His mind, all that while, had been on the nightmare; it was a mess as twisted as his brother's bedsheets and Rolo could make no sense of it. It was just a dream, ultimately, and he did not worry too much over it; not knowing that everyone else shared a similar dream.

But now that Lelouch is awake, Rolo pads after him, already dressed.
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[personal profile] myownfuture 2011-02-05 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Reiko wasn't about to stop him if he needed to change his clothes; that was the last thing she needed to see after the dream she'd just had. That boy who looked like Shoujou followed after Lelouch, and Reiko collapsed back down onto her bed, face-up.

Did they really have to go to the lobby? She had a bad feeling about this.
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-02-08 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Nightmares were nothing to Suzaku, he was plagued by them most nights when he let down the guards that he kept around his mind when he was awake. The nightmares had deplated slightly since being in Utopia academy but last night...

It had felt so real. Suzaku blinked around, little Kotarou was curled up on Oichi's bed, he looked peaceful enough, flickers of nightmare returned to him, Sora's screams, Gino's dead eyes, Lelouch dying.

It was just a dream... dreams of his friends dying was nothing new, but this was so... No he was being stupid and the longer he lay in bed thinking the worse his imagination was going to run from him.

He dressed quickly and quietly trying not to wake the others in his room and slipped out making his way over to Black 1B because he was stupid and wanted to check Lelouch was alright.

Turned out he didn't have to go that far, Lelouch was in the coridoor as he stepped out his room. "Lelouch, Rolo," he chided himself for worrying, it had just been a dream. He had dreamed them both dead and here they were before him.
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[personal profile] veepofchess 2011-02-08 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Lelouch was glad to see Suzaku up, but didn't say anything. "I'm on my way to Nunnally's room," he said. "After I change." He headed for the bathroom.

Dammit, he'd forgotten something. Suddenly, he was avoiding eye contact. "Rolo, would you go back to the room and get my contact lens case? It's next to my bed." He asked the question quite naturally, as though there were nothing special about them at all. He'd been so distracted by the dream that he'd legitimately forgotten them. But something compelled him to talk to Suzaku alone.
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-02-08 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, it had just been a dream... but he was so relieved to see Lelouch and Rolo and wanted to check that Nunnally was all right as well. It was strange how dreams did that to you, made you sure of the realness even when you knew they were false.

He took a small step backwards and looked away when Lelouch sent Rolo for his contacts. He had to be careful, Lelouch couldn't always control his Geass and he had not used it on Suzaku yet. Wait... that thought was fuzzy, but it slipped away in seconds. Suzaku stood still and silent sensing that Lelouch wanted to talk to him.
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Moving along, Seki, feel free to jump back in whenever

[personal profile] veepofchess 2011-02-08 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He was quiet as he continued into the bathroom, heading for one of the changing areas near the showers. Along the way, facing away from his friend, he said, "Last night, I had a nightmare that I'd killed Rolo. And then I was killed by you. But I also remember being killed by a small girl with braids and knives. She appeared to be Chinese." By the time he was finished talking, he'd disappeared behind a stall door.
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Re: Moving along, Seki, feel free to jump back in whenever

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-02-08 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku's eyebrows raised, it couldn't be... they had had the same dream. But that, that was impossible...

"I dreamt that too..." His voice was quiet, "We were in the lobby, Mei killed you..." A little Chinese looking girl with braids and knives; that was definitely Mei. "Rolo died to, at your hand but it wasn't you, but it was you... I killed you...and then I got eaten by a tiger..."

He shook his head; it had to be a coincidence. They couldn't have had the same nightmare.
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[personal profile] stopwatch 2011-02-09 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Rolo nods and ducks out, looking for the contact case. It doesn't take long before he's back, smiling and holding it out to him. He does overhear a bit.

"Brother, you had a bad dream as well?" He says, ignoring Suzaku. He doesn't give him any sort of regard beyond a glance.

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[personal profile] veepofchess 2011-02-11 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Lelouch accepts it, and closes the door to the stall. "Yes, Rolo, I did. Was yours similar to mine and Suzaku's?" Because why else would he be asking if he hadn't had one as well?
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-02-11 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku turned to Rolo but didn't say anything as Lelouch was asking Rolo about his dream. He was worried, surely all three of them couldn't have had the same dream. He looked at Lelouch with a worried look on his face.
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[personal profile] stopwatch 2011-02-13 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"It seems like it," Rolo says, nodding. "I'm used to bad dreams, so I didn't think much of it at first, but..."
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[personal profile] veepofchess 2011-02-13 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Did I kill you?" He asked it as though he were asking if he were hungry. Though it was important to verify the details with the others. The more parallels stood, the more decisive the conclusion became.
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-02-13 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Suzaku watched Rolo silently waiting for the answer. It couldn't be that all three of their dreams had been the same.