Fandom: Code Geass series:
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion,
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2,
Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya.
Rating: PG-13.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original Code Geass nor the name.
Note: The content in this fan-fic might be a bit changed, and since it takes place in medieval times, I had to make some things up myself. It is not based on our world's history. Although most of the countries will have the same names, just a different amount of territory, and different leaders and such. You get the idea.
Prologue: Lost in the blood.
It was year 1386 of the Ancient callendar. War waged between the Chinese Emperor Ching Xi, of the Xi dynasty and the Japanese Shogun Moji Ashikaga. The Chinese want the Japanese territory for strategic purposes against America, and the Japanese don't want to be in the control of the Chinese people. This war has been taking place for over one hundred years, both countries are equals. Although China is much bigger in territory, Japan is famous for their skilled warriors - Samurai. Thus, both countries suffer from starvation and constant attacks. Everyone has lost hope of this war ending. Other countries offered help for both China and Japan, but they declined, since this is a war just between the two countries.
A young girl named Yumiko lives in a small village of Fukagawa all the way north of Japan. It's a peaceful place with six houses, one shop, and, Yumiko's father's Dojo. Yumiko always goes to the dojo to train her way of the sword. Of course, her father does not let her use a real sword, so he gave her a wooden one for now. Her father is one of the Twelve Swords of Japan. The Twelve Swords of Japan is the association of the most skilled Samurai all over Japan. Her father, is one of the twelve, although he is not a Samurai, he is a ninja, the only ninja ever accepted into the circle. Yumiko spends half of her day training in the dojo, so she could one day take her father's place in the circle. The circle is decided by the members themselves. You have to fight each one of the members, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, they vote if you are worthy or not. Most of the people who try actually fail. The identity of the members is only known to those high in the ranks, however Yumiko knows eight of them, since she is the daughter of one of the members.
Yumiko was woken up by the sunlight peeking through the window of her room. She tried putting her blanket on her head, turning around, even putting the pillow over her head, nothing worked, she just had to get up. She got up, and sat on her bed, almost naked, all she had was her underwear. Even though she was only sixteen years old, her big breasts were already pointing up. She stood up, with her eyes almost completely closed due to the bright sunlight coming into her room. The sunlight was very blinding. She managed to open her eyes due to something blocking the sun, and saw a boy staring at her through the window. She got so embarrased, she covered her breasts and fell on the ground, leaning to the wall under the window, so no one would see her, and waited until the shadow of that boy was no longer visible on her floor. Then she stood up, and dressed with her usual clothes, which are a dress with a short skirt that only covers one fourth of her legs, it was a blue dress, and simple brown shoes. She exited her room with joy, as this was supposed to be the day that they got a letter from their father. He left with the other eleven members of the Swords of Japan to war against the Chinese empire. She saw her mother sitting near the table of the living room, her eyes were full of tears while she was holding a letter in her hands.
"What happened, mother?" Yumiko asked her.
"Your father... He's... Dead..." She answered with deep sorrow in her heart. This mission was supposed to be his last one. He planned to leave the twelve swords after he had finished this mission. "I was hoping we could finally live a life without worries." With those words, Yumiko heard screams coming from the village's roads. She rushed through the door, and saw Chinese soldiers butchering villagers of Fukagawa. She remembered her father's words "Yumiko, my dear daughter, if war ever comes to here, run to the dojo, and hide in the basement, they will never find you there. And take your mother with you." And so she did. She ran back into their house, took her mother by her hand, said "Mom, come, we need to run!" And started running. They were half way to the dojo, when an arrow hit Yumiko's mother in her back, forcing her to fall down. Yumiko fell on her knees next to her mother, her eyes were soaking in tears, when she started screaming "Mother! No! Please, no! Wake up!" And her mother responded very quietly "Yu... Yumiko... Run... I'll... *cough* Be fine" and then closed her eyes. Yumiko stood up, looked around her, and saw that soldiers of China were really close, so she continued running. She finally reached the dojo. She opened the door, and rushed in. After some time, she noticed a trapdoor to the basement. She opened the trapdoor, got in, and closed it again. It was very dark down there, she couldn't see a thing. All she could hear were villagers screaming in pain. She couldn't bare the thought that her friends were being butchered out there, while she was hiding. She thought "If I just had an ability to fight them. If I had the ability to save my village...". With that thought a young boy appeared in front of her. The boy was emmiting a slight light. He had very long blue hair, he was dressed as a royal king. The boy said:
"You desire power? I can give you power, but with power, also comes responsability. Do you really want that? I can give you power, but you will have to sign a contract with me."
Yumiko then responded: "What kind of contract?"
The boy answered her:
"The details will come in time, now, do you wish to have power to defeat your enemies, or not?"
"I do." Yumiko answered him.
Then Yumiko saw a vision. A vision of a bloodbath. There were hundreds, no, thousands of people dead on the ground, everything was white, the bodies did not have colours. They were Chinese empire's soldiers' bodies. During the vision, the boy was talking to her.
"The power I'm about to grant you is no ordinary power. It is a power to force time to run slower few times of that the normal speed. Which means, that in your eyes, the enemies will move slowly, and in their eyes, you will move very fast. It is a great power, but with this power, comes great responsability, since you can not tell anyone about the power. If you tell anyone, I am afraid I will have to kill you myself, and remember, your power will not work on me. The power, I gave you, is called Geass. But, if you use this power multiple times on one person, only the first time will work, so if you use it, you might aswell kill the target."
When the vision was over, and the boy was done speaking, Yumiko did not see the boy anymore. He was nowhere to be found. Yumiko immediately left the basement, and rushed out of the dojo. She found twenty soldiers looking directly at her, pointing their weapons at her. She then flashed her hand over her left eye, and a weird symbol appeared in her eye. It was a shape of the letter V, or more, like a bird. But it was a symbol of Geass. The time had slowed in half. She then said:
"Bring it on, boys." And started running towards them. She did not have a weapon with her, so she attacked the one had had a sword with him. She jumped up, and kicked the soldier in the face, knocking him down. She took his sword then, and stabbed him in his stomach, finishing fim off. Then, while maneuvering through arrows, she killed the rest of them. Then she flashed her hand over her eye again, turning the Geass off. The rest of the villagers, that were still alive, were cheering Yumiko for dealing with the soldiers.
An hour later, all the villagers, including Yumiko, were standing around a big fire. The fire was burning the bodies of the ones who died during this massacre, including Yumiko's mother...