PLEASE READ CODE GEASS: THE ADVENT, SHADOW THEN CODE GEASS: THE SILVER KNIGHT BEFORE READING THIS!!!!
Shinji: Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo READERRRRRS!!!!
Milly: Hey! I'm supposed to say that!
Tamaki: Does it matter?
Shinji: Not really.
Milly: Of course it does. I'm supposed to be the star.
Tamaki: You are not the star of this story!
Shinji: Yeah! You're just another secondary character like us!
Milly: No I mean I'm the head announcer of the Tournament.
Shinji: We're not at that part of the story yet.
Milly: Oh....
Tamaki: Dumb Britannian blonde.
Milly: What did you say?
Tamaki: Gulp.......N-nothing!
Milly: I thought so...Otherwise, I'd have to show you why Lelouch feared me at school.
Shinji: Okay, enough fun. Let's get the show on the road for the next part of Grimdivide's stories. Here's Code Geass: The King of Knights Tournament.
Grimdivide: I do not o-
Jeremiah: WAIT!!
Grimdivide: What do want, Super Duper Orange Man?
Jeremiah: I've noticed in your stories a complete LACK of me! Your depriving your readers of me, Jeremiah Gottwald! And don't call me Super Duper Orange Man! It's just Orange-kun or Orange Boy.
Grimdivide: Okie dokie, Super Duper Orange Man!
Jeremiah: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Grimdivide: Anyways I do not own Code Geass. Starts one day after The Silver Knight's ending.
Part 1: Setting Up
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon as Aero, the Azure Knight of the Guardians, sat on a roof of an apartment building across the street from Kallen Kozuki's house. Aero wore a blue and black outfit with wide loose sleeves, a long cloth that covered his left leg, and a sword on his back. He also wore a blank face mask with a hood that covered the rest of his head. The man behind Aero was actually the thought dead Demon Emperor of the world, Lelouch vi Britannia.
Noa, the director of the Guardian's, had assigned him to watch over Kallen for some unknown reason. But Noa gave Lelouch the assignment because he knew Lelouch would protect the target. And all Aero had to do was make sure he was never noticed by anyone, and so far no one did.
Well almost no one.
"Hi, Mr. Aero," said the voice of a 10 year old little boy who just came up to the roof.
"Good afternoon, Haru," responded Aero.
"Are you still going to wear that mask when I talk to you Lelouch?" the Japanese boy asked. Lelouch had entrusted this boy with his identity because he actually looked beyond what everyone else saw of Lelouch and noticed how the world became peaceful after his death. Another reason is that the kid could keep a secret without Lelouch casting Geass on him.
"Yes I am," Aero told Haru, "If anyone else sees me it could draw the world back into chaos. The UFN can only do so much to prevent the people to start riots to find the Demon Emperor."
Haru looked at the sitting masked man sympathetically with his green eyes. "I don't think you're a demon," he told him, "When I first saw you that one night as Aero the Azure Knight, I thought you were a super hero!"
That made Aero laugh. "A hero huh? I never really considered myself that....So, what do you want today, Haru?"
The young boy showed him the chess set he brought with him. "I was hoping we could continue the chess lessons you were giving me, Lelouch," he said with a smile.
"Alright, alright," said Lelouch removing his mask, "Just one game though okay?"
"Aw, why?" Haru asked.
"There's fresh batch of oranges coming in a few minutes and I don't have money," Aero told him.
"It's wrong to steal," Haru scolded as he set up the chess board and made the first move.
"Like I said," Aero moved his pawn forward two spaces, "I never really considered myself as a real hero."
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Country road to Tokyo
Jeremiah "Orange Boy" Gottwald, cybernetic former knight of Lelouch and now the owner of Orange-Kun Orange Farms, went to personally make sure the oranges were delivered to the stores this time. Someone had been stealing their stock on the road.
Half-way to Tokyo he heard something land on the truck. "Stop Anya Alstreim," he told the former, pink-haired, Knight of Six. She complied and the two got out of the truck. On top of it was a masked teenaged boy, probably 18, in a blue and black outfit sitting next to an opened crate of fresh oranges. Jeremiah was surprised that the boy had gotten in and out on top of the truck so fast.
Jeremiah let the arm blade he brought with him slide out as he asked, "I suppose you're the one who's been stealing my oranges, correct?"
"That's right Orange boy," the masked teen answered calmly through his masks voice synthesizer. Jeremiah could sense familiar arrogance in that sentence.
The cyborg pointed the tip of his blade threateningly at the man as Anya pulled out her camra phone and took a picture of the two. "Recorded." It was an old habit of hers to take pictures for her diary, now it was just a hobby. Some of the pictures, especially of Knightmares and their pilots, she had taken during the war, she sent to magazines for some side money.
"I suggest you give up," Jeremiah told him in a high and mighty tone. "Mr.?
"You can call me Aero," the stranger told his ex-knight as he got up and drew the sword on his back. "Don't think it'll be easy."
"You asked for it kid." With that, Jeremiah jumped to the top of the truck and confronted Aero. He slashed his sword down as the masked swordsman kicked the crate of oranges up at Jeremiah. The crate hit Jeremiah and made him fall off the truck. He landed on his back with the crate on the ground beside him.
Anya took a picture of that. "Recorded."
"All this over oranges?" Aero questioned as he put his sheathed his sword on his back. "They must mean more to you than just fruits for profit."
Jeremiah slowly got up. "They represent the name of my loyalty to my Majesty," he told Aero, glaring at him angrily. "And I will not allow anyone to just steal that away from me!"
'Heh. Still loyal to a fault, Jeremiah, even in my death,' Lelouch thought. Jeremiah looked like he was about to attack again. "There's no need to attack me Orange Boy," Aero said to him. Jeremiah lowered his blade, but didn't retract it. "I have no money on me, that is why I decided to steal them. But if they mean that much to you, I'll leave them be...Farewell." Jeremiah noticed a blue light glow on the back of Aero's hand just before he vanished, leaving behind a small gust of wind.
Jeremiah blinked in wonderment. "Was that a Geass I saw?" he asked himself. "No, Geass is in the eyes, not anywhere else on the body. And it wasn't a Code either...What was that?"
Anya took a picture of Jeremiah pondering. "Just the wind," she said.
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The Ark City Sector, Floating just outside Japan airspace
Atop a skyscraper
"Ugh, I'm bored!" whined a muscular 20 year old Japanese Guardian with long straight brown hair, wearing an orange jacket with a white T-shirt underneath and blue jeans. This is Shinji Meada.
"Calm down Shinji. Noa's should be running the tournament by Empress Nunnally," a slim 20 year old Britannian man with short spiky brown hair and sharp blue eyes told Shinji. He his outfit was simply street clothes and a holster belt that held a triple barreled pistol. The Guardian's sniper, James Hawk.
"I know, I know," Shinji walked to the edge of the roof of the skyscraper they were on and looked out into the distance. "It's just, now that the war is over what are we supposed to do?"
"It's simple," said Hawk, "We prevent war from coming ever again...by whatever means necessary."
"What if we're not on the right side though?"
"...We don't choose a side then. We'll attack all sides until they're too crippled to fight."
"Heh. Hopefully it won't come to that."
"Otherwise we'll be just like Lelouch."
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UFN building, Japan branch
"A tournament?" questioned Prime Minister Ohgi.
"That is correct," said a man in a white and blue outfit and a cloth that covered his missing left arm. He was a tall tan Britannian man with blue hair and red circular rimless glasses that reflected the light on them. His voice was calm and deep and echoed years of wisdom despite his appearance of only 25 years old. This is the man who created the Guardians who simply goes by Noa.
"And why is it that you wanted to ask us in person?" asked Kaguya, Supreme Council Chairwoman of the UFN.
"I believe Zero was the one who told you of me and the Guardians," Noa answered with a seemingly cocky smile.
"He did," said Xingke, the Tianzi's guard and Commander-in-Chief of the Black Knights. "He also told us of your floating island, the Ark. And of your creation, Skeith the Terror of Death."
"What about them?" asked Noa, still smiling.
"During the war, before Zero's first disappearance," now Tohdoh, "We heard rumors of mercenaries in Africa and Australia, that is including the Terror of Death. The rumors said they were monsters at battle. Are these your so called Guardians?"
"That's not your real point," stated Noa dropping his smile. The glare in his glasses disappeared when he said this.
The one who spoke up this time was Zero, who Noa knew was Suzaku. "They're point is that they don't know you. And because you have the Terror of Death, who was once under command of Emperor Lelouch, as your best Guardian."
Noa chuckled a bit at that. "So your all wondering if I won't kill you...Then all of you tell me this: Are you afraid of my Guardians, afraid of the Terror of Death, or are you afraid of me?"
This time it was Nunnally. "We've only seen you only once or maybe twice during the war. We have little knowledge of your technology except that it can be extremely destructive. And we know even less about you yourself."
Noa smiled. "You're all afraid of what I'm capable of," he said softly.
"At least share with us your inventions," suggested Ohgi.
"No."
"Why not?" asked Kaguya.
"Like Empress Nunnally said, the technologies aboard the Ark is dangerous, yet at the same time could bring the world to the future I envision. But..."
"But what?" Ohgi pressed.
"Humanity as it is now will only use his technologies to wage war," Xingke answered. "Am I wrong in your belief?"
"No, you are not. You must trust me when I say that I only give people my technology if and only if it they use it for the future of the world....Now about that tournament, the money made will go to anything of the UFN's choice if and only if the Black Knights participate with their best. Also, anyone may sign in and I'd like Zero and Kallen to join....I'd be interesting to see Zero against the Ace of the Black Knights."
"I trust that you have made safety precautions for the pilots, right?" Nunnally asked.
Noa chuckled again. "But of course I did."
After the council spoke amongst itself for a few moments Kaguya spoke again, "Very well then Noa, you may have your tournament as long as the Black Knights are there for protection reasons."
"It's not like I have any guards for the Ark anyways. I have no problem with that."
"When and where do we sign up?" Zero asked.
"Tomorrow the Ark will land close to the shores by the Shinozuka Ghetto here in Japan. At the gates of the Ark you will put in your name and sign up," Noa turned to leave, "Zero, I strongly suggest you sign up...Aero would just enjoy facing you."
With that he left the UFN council and an hour later, Noa made sure to spread the word of the tournament across the world.
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Inside Kallen Kozuki's room
Nighttime
Aero was charged with guaranteeing that Kallen would join in. Right now he was waiting in her room for her to come up. He sneaked in through the window.
'What's taking her so long?' he wondered, 'Is she still having dinner? I smell something good outside the door.'
Aero turned his gaze from the door to Kallen's collection of pictures, he took notice of his own especially. 'It's good to see that you are happy,' Lelouch thought, 'But you need to let me go...'
The smell intensified. 'Is that...strawberries?' Aero asked himself. The door knob began to turn and Aero instinctively dived under Kallen's bed on the chance that it was her mother behind the door.
When the door opened he saw from under the bed a pair of bare pale-white legs. They seemed shiny from being wet. Kallen had just gotten out of the shower. Thanks to being under the bed, he couldn't see past her knees.
"Man, that felt good," Aero heard her say. She went over too her dresser after closing the door.
'Ohhhh, man,' thought Lelouch, 'I don't know weather to think I'm lucky or if I should be worried for my life, because if she finds me....,' he saw her towel hit the floor and his nose began to bleed, 'I'm so dead,' He noticed her legs lift to put on a pair of pink lacy panties and his nose bleed worsened. 'Damn hormones.'
He never heard her put on a bra as she walked over to the bed. His eye twitched when she laid on the bed.
"What a long day," Kallen sighed. She still hadn't turned off the lights so she wasn't going to sleep yet.
'I should just wait for her to go to sleep and wait for tomorrow to tell her,' Lelouch thought. His nose bleed had stopped.
Hey here's an idea, said a voice in his head that had been there ever since the final battle with Archangel, Why not tell her that Lelouch is here now? You have feelings for her and maybe in this situation one thing can lead to another....If you know what I mean.
'There's no way I'd do that!' Lelouch told the voice in his head.
Why's that?
'For one she'll surely kill me. Secondly, I don't think she...'
Quit telling yourself that!...I mean that literally, by the way. I am you after all...Well, a new more fun you anyway.
'By fun do you mean suicidally reckless?'
Ha ha. That's besides the point that you do want too get up right now.
'Not now...Not like this.' Kallen had finally turned off the lights and covered herself in her bedsheets.
Alright. It's your choice, I am only your power anyways.
When he heard Kallen's soft rhythmic snoring, Aero got out from under the bed. As he was about to exit the window, behind him he heard Kallen say, "Lelouch."
His heart skipped a beat. 'I'm dead,' he thought before he turned around. When Aero turned he saw that Kallen was just having a dream. 'About me?' Lelouch wondered. Aero then left with that thought.
After he left, Kallen mumbled in her sleep, "I'm waiting Lelouch...So please come back." She had a weird tingle in her eye as she slept.
Grimdivide: Thank you for reading. For questions, comments or suggestions...Please Review and tell me what you think.