Prologue

Darkness

Falling

Falling

Stop

Weightlessness

What?

I awoke and brushed my hair out of my eyes. "Where am I?" I looked around and jumped in shock at my surroundings. I seemed to be floating in a space like void, surrounded by stars and planets. "What is this? Where am I?" The last thing I remembered was that I had fallen asleep in my room and now I was here. "Great as if my life couldn't get any weirder." With the life I lived it wasn't too hard to say that. I remember having a small social life with my 3 friends. Atleast that's what I could piece together from the fractured shards of my memory. I tried to remember them. Their personalities and faces but they were blurred and my mind exploded in pain from trying remembering. I couldn't remember much about myself except for my name and the broken images of my former life. Eventually I just gave up and let my obviously busted mind be for the time being while I floated around in this... "Actually where is this anyway?"

"You are in the space between worlds boy." A feminine voice echoed throughout the void. I turned looking for it source yet finding none.

"Who are you?" I asked the voice. "What am I doing here?"

"So many questions yet so little time child." The voice said "soon you will have your answers." The world around me suddenly brightened. I was enveloped in a blinding white light that was so strong I had to cover my eyes.

"Damn! If your gunna light up the room like that then atleast warn me!" I shouted angrily. Where ever the hell I was and who ever this voice is it better have a god reason for bringing me here.

"I don't think that you are in a position to speak in such a way." The voice spoke again and the world around me darkened again to reveal a throne room with golden walls and long, red tapestries on the walls and a massive flag on the ceiling that stretched all the way to the end of the room.

"Where am I now?" I looked around the room. Along with the tapestries and the flag on the ceiling there were many other things. Red ribbons were stung across the various pillars that ran along both sides of the room. There were rows of seats along the walls as if people were to gather there. Ahead of me there was another flag, the same as the one on the ceiling that ran down to the floor of the room. In front of the flag was a large golden throne with steps leading up to it in the shape of a pyramid with the throne located in the middle. On each side there was a red crystal arm rest that seemed to float in mid air. On either side of the pyramid there were half's of a weighing scale that moved slowly. "What is this place" I still had so many questions.

"This is the throne of space and time." I jumped and turned around and saw a girl that looked about my age standing in front of me. "This is the place where time and space collide in an endless cycle. Where all worlds are joined into a single point." She walked towards me and stood, eye level, in front of my face. Her golden eyes gazing in to my own as if she was searching my very soul. "You are wondering why you are here, aren't you?" she asked.

"Well quite obviously." I replied "why did you bring me here and who are you?" I looked around me once more and looked towards the golden throne and sighed. It looks kind of nice though.

"I am C.C." she replied. "And I brought you here so that you may help me accomplish my mission."

C.C what kind of name is that? "C.C like C2? Like C with the number 2 afterwards?" I asked "and what mission exactly?"

C.C looked at me for a moment before sighing. "No one has questioned me on the subject of my name like you have before. How strange." She walked past me and stood in front of the throne. She beckoned me to follow so. So naturally I did.

"So you still haven't exactly answered my question." I said finally standing beside her. "What exactly do you want me to help you with?"

C.C turned and faced me once more with sad eyes. "I want you to save a friend of mine."

I looked at her for a second. "Ok then so save your friend I get that but how can I do that and which friend?" I questioned her more and I saw that she had gone a bit quiet. "Ummmmm... I'm sorry if I said a bit too much there but I can't exactly help you without knowing how."

She looked at me again. Is she tearing up or something? Why are her eyes like that? She nodded and faced the throne once more. "He was someone who taught me how to feel again after a really long time." She smiled and touched one of the crystals. I heard a thunderous rumbling as the two half's of the scales separated and the throne rose in to the air.

"WOAH WHATS HAPPENING?" This was insane! It was like something out of a movie I had seen with my friends a while ago. Friends? What was that thought? I don't remember... She removed the crystal from its place as the ground under the throne opened up revealing a golden altar. C.C placed the crystal on to the altar and I began to spin. Faster and faster the blood red gem began to separate until what was once a crystal was now a large red circle. The space within the circle began to glow and images of a black haired man in a strange black outfit began to appear. "Is that him? Your friend?" I asked.

"Yes that's him." She replied her face glowed in the gold light the images gave of. "He is the one."

I looked at the images of this man and smirked. "Seems pretty cool for someone that skinny." I looked down at my own body. Sure I wasn't exactly super athletic but I was pretty sure I was fitter than this guy.

"Don't be quick to mock him just yet." C.C looked at me with a look of fierce determination. "Go and stand with in the circle." She twisted her hand and a marble stair case rose from the ground and created a path to the inside of the circle.

"So you want me to stand in that?" I asked.

"yes." She answered. She looked at me with that fierce look and I nodded.

"If you say so." I walked up the stair case looking back to see C.C still looking dead at me. I turned around and carried on walking till id reached the glowing circle I could still see the images of this man hundreds of octagons with countless moments flashing in front of my eyes. I stood within the circle and I felt my body rise into the air still within the grasp of the circle. The images spun around me furiously now, orbiting me as I was a sun surrounded by planets. They spun until I could see nothing but gold. The suddenly the images flashed before my eyes I saw the life of the man before me. As he lead an army in to battle after battle. Lost countless friends and gained even more allies. I saw as he rose from a disgraced prince to a leader of a rebellion. From an amnesiac into a leader once more then from leader to an emperor only to die at the hands of his own created persona. So this is who you are? The man C.C admires so much. The black prince: Lelouch Vi Britannia

"Do you see?" it was C.C's voice again "This is the man you must save. He mustn't die."

"How? What must I do?" I asked her once more.

"You must save him from himself" she answered "YOU MUST STOP THE ZERO REQUIEM FROM HAPPENING!" As she said this I saw the moment before my eyes once more as the blade of the masked man pierced his heart.

I see then this is what I must do. I must save Lelouch from his destruction so that he may see his created world. The gold slowly faded. Eventually the images stopped spinning and the shards broke their circle form floating randomly in the air. I glided to the floor. I looked up to see C.C in front of me. "You know what you must do." I nodded at her. "This place can send people through the boundaries of reality. I have resided here waiting for someone with the will and the strength to accomplish this task."

"So there were others?" I said surprised "and here I thought I was special" I hung my head in mock disappointment.

C.C seemed to find the comedic side to this action and laughed. "Others yes but they are never quite perfect." She retorted. "And I feel more positive about you. You seem...different to the others."

"Different?" I asked. What does she mean? I thought.

"Yes. Like you are connected to this place. You resonate here better than the rest." She walked over to where I had been suspended in the air and waved her hand the crystal shards floated down from there random places and formed an arch which shone with the blinding light from before. "Are you prepared for the task ahead?"

"Yea as prepared as I could be for a guy randomly plucked out of reality." I walked towards the arch's doorway and was stopped by C.C.

"Before you go you should take this with you." I looked down and saw a small bag in her hands. I took it and looked it over.

"Umm what's this for?"

"You will see when you arrive." She walked away from me and turned to face the other end of the room. "Good luck to you..." she paused and turned back around." Oh it seems I forgot to ask you your name. I suppose spending all that time with Shirley has made me forgetful."

I laughed though I had no clue who she was talking about and turned to face the arch. "My name is Alek. Alek haik Frost."

"Very well good luck to you Alek Frost. Return me my demon" I turned once more and saw C.C walking away from me and seemingly disappearing in to the shadows of the throne room.

"Well then. Today has been quite an... experience would say." I began to walk towards the arch "I wonder if they have bacon in this world. I do like me some bacon." I continued forward the light enveloping me entirely. My final thought before my journey began was: Well this should be interesting.

Then my whole world went dark.

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Haik is pronounced in the same way as hike.

This is only the beginning. I wanted to try something new (well new for me anyway) and I have a few things planned out. I have always wanted to do this and now I have so I'm happy. Next chapter our friend Alek will meet with the main cast and there will be banter of the Ashford kind. (If you know what I mean) so until then I bid you farewell. (Oh and I'm sorry for my severe lack of updates recently I have had a crap ton of exams to do so wish me luck with this hell)

Adios