Disclaimer: Code Geass Is not my property so Don't sew…
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Chapter 1:
The Hours of Mourning
There was blood.
Shock ran through the whole of the crowd as emperor Lelouch vi Britannia, the Demon king, was impaled on his own sword by…
"Lord Zero…" Kouzuki, Kallen whispered to herself in awe and disbelief.
"The Demon king is dead!" Cornelia li Britannia shouted when the Demon king fell beside the latter's younger sister. "Release the hostages!" The crowd ran forward as the knight, Jeremiah Gottwald, ordered his men to retreat.
"ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!..." The whole crowd cried as a single, solitary wail was heard from Nunnally vi Britannia who was mourning her brother.
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It was sunset, hours after the "assassination," and CC had finally decided to end her long prayer for the diseased emperor. She walked to the guard who was stationed at the chapel door.
"Guard." She began.
"Yes, Empress?" the guard replied.
"Where is the body of the emperor now?"
"Your highness," the guard said in surprise. "how did you know that the emperor has-"
"I have my ways." CC said smugly. "I am after all," she smiled sadly as she recalled what Lelouch always called her. "the Grey Witch." She walked off, assuming that the guard did not know the answer.
"Your highness," the guard started, CC turned her head to listen. "I know where he is."
CC's next words were spoken with a stern and authoritative voice.
"Then, tell me."
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CC walked, ever so calmly, down the deserted street where the emperor was killed, only a few hours ago. She was accompanied by the knight, Jeremiah Gottwald, and five other soldiers. She tried her best to keep her outward calm. Her heart was rent, and she was in great emotional pain at that point in time.
CC as in a black dress, the same one she wore when she and Lelouch were still with the Black Knights, with only a few changes. The colored designs, which use to be silvery gray, were now neon red, and the symbol of the black knights on the chest area was replaced with the Geass Crane.
"Empress," Jeremiah started. CC looked back at him through the glowing red light of the Geass of her eyes. "I don't think that it is safe for you to venture out in public right now." He continued. "If someone recognizes you-"
"Those who have the courage to strike at the Grey Witch may come." CC began walking once more.
"I have nothing to worry about losing anymore anyway." She mumbled to herself as they continued walking in silence.
They found Lelouch's body on the road. The crowd must have let their anger run wild because the Demon King's body was barely recognizable. Lelouch's white, emperor's robes could no longer be called white. It was drenched in blood, mud, and dirt. The man's right arm was bent in an unnatural manner, and his body was riddled with a series of cuts, bruises, and bullet wounds. CC walked slowly toward her partner's corpse, and knelt at its side.
Jeremiah," CC began. "Please leave. I wish to be alone." Jeremiah was about to disagree, when… "I will not take any excuses… Leave." She said the last word in such a threatening manner that the accompanying soldiers were taken aback. Jeremiah conceded, bowed with his right fist over his heart, and walked away, followed by the other soldiers.
When they had left, CC wept. She poured her heart out. She clung to Lelouch's chest, like she did when he was alive, was tears ran down her face.
Why… Why Lelouch. Why did you have do end the Requiem with your death? You said that I would not be alone… Where are you now?...
She was lost in thought for several minutes. When she had finally cried her heart out, she regained her composure, and sat down on the pavement, Japanese style. She caressed the fallen king's face as she said:
"You have achieved you ends Lelouch vi Britannia." Her gaze, through her Geass, was soft, and full of kindness. "Congratulations." She suddenly heard a gun being fired, and the sound of a bullet hitting cement several feet from her. She looked toward the source of the sound, and found all the figureheads of the rebellion, including those on Death Row, all armed with rifles.
"We knew you would come." Cornelia, the one leading the group, said. "You're here for that man's body, are you not?"
"Geass?" Tamaki, the one who fired the previous shot, said as he lowered his rifle slightly upon seeing the twin cranes in CC's eyes.
"So…" General Toudo said angrily. "You have that power too…"
"Of course I do," CC, after regaining her composure, stood calmly, and took several steps forward with the grace and majesty of the empress that she was. "you can't expect the Queen not to have the same abilities as her husband right?" She said sarcastically as she smirked. "But I am curious," she held her arms, and cocked her head to one side, in a mockery of innocence. "What do you want with me and this dead body?" She referred to Lelouch's corpse.
"You were Lelouch's greatest adviser, am I right?" Cornelia asked her.
"What if I am?" CC replied, still in her innocent posture.
Let's see what the Black Knights intend to do. I don't think they know my secret, do they?
"Then we will have to kill you." Cornelia said smugly.
Guess they really don't. Kallen, CC stole a gaze at red haired the girl You didn't tell them?
"But why would you want that?" CC asked, mimicking a small child with her voice.
"We want to kill you because you were the emperor's adviser." Cornelia began. "For all we know, you may have been the one who advised him do to what he did, and who is there to stop you from making it happen again? You are, after all the empress of Britannia." CC raised a brow. "And," Cornelia pointed to CC's eyes. "that Geass… That Gift of the Devil should not be used. We will stop you."
Cornelia raised her right hand to give the signal to fire. CC stared unflinching, she knew that she would not die, anyway.
Go ahead… Let's see if you can kill me… I'll at least try to put on a good show. CC laughed in her mind. The next thing that happened brought everything to a standstill.
"My, my…" CC's heart skipped a beat when she heard the voice. She turned to look at the man who said the words with a joyful smile on her face. The Black Knights were shocked, shocked and scared at what they saw. "I certainly did not expect this…" Lelouch vi Britannia said as he vainly tried to dust of the dirt on his robes. The emperor literally got up, stood, and looked at everyone with his evil smirk in all his bloody glory.
CC saw this as an opportunity, and as much as she wanted to jump into Lelouch's arms, she had to do something. It was imperative that the witnesses did not know that Lelouch was alive. But then, how could she make people think a walking, talking, smirking man was dead?
Lelouch… She smirked. I'll have to kill you later for picking bad timing for coming back to life… Anyway, I know exactly what to do…
With everyone distracted by the, now alive, dead emperor, CC knew this was the perfect time to act. Her read eyes began to grow even more brightly, as the red crane flew form her eyes, and into the Black Knights' minds.