Code Avatar: Lelouch and the Airbender

By: C.C.

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Chapter 21: Secrets Revealed

Aang was concerned about what Lelouch and C.C. had said, Katara was more than concerned, and Zuko was content with the thought of him being a lot like Lelouch. Was all of what C.C. said true? Was he really an abandoned Prince as she'd described?

Meanwhile, the day was getting longer and longer. They all wished to stop for camp and sleep, but C.C. said that they were still following us and they didn't know if they were friend or foe.

"Well, we can't fly all night," said Aang. "Appa needs some sleep, too."

"Well, Appa's gonna have to tough it out for a while so that we all can be safe," retorted C.C.

"But we don't even know if it's unsafe," said Lelouch. "C.C., are you sure that we shouldn't land?"

"You can, but someone's more than likely to attack," she said nonchalantly, looking over the side of Appa at the scenery below, chin resting on her crossed arms.

"Aang, go ahead and land this thing. We need to face them anyways," said Lelouch, looking over at Aang as he grabbed his Zero mask and slipped it on (he was already wearing the rest).

Appa landed down onto a small field that was surrounded by woods. The gang all got off, but there was no one around. The only person to stay on Appa was C.C.

"You're all being stupid. I'm sure this thing could go a night without sleep," she said nonchalantly, looking down on them.

"We need to face this, threat or not. You can't solve your problems by running for them," said Lelouch, which made C.C. shut up.

"I don't see anyone coming this way," said Katara, but if they had Toph with them, they would know that someone was indeed coming their way.

"Look, over there!" said Aang, and out from the woods came a figure. She was in a sleek, black jumpsuit, and her long, orange hair was pulled back into a bun. Her green eyes were big enough for Lelouch to see from the distance, but her look was more serious than ever.

The sight of seeing her stunned him, for the person that he thought he was seeing was dead, and that he was sure in his mind, for he was there when she died. He had sat next to her and the pool of blood as she had died, and knew that it could not be her, but she had no siblings, so who other than Shirley?

C.C.'s eyes went wide with surprise, and wasn't sure what to make of the dead girl popping up here in the Avatar world.

"Sh….Sh…..Shirley?" he asked out loud.

All eyes suddenly went on him, but he didn't seem to notice, being mesmerized by the sight of his friend.

"Shirley, is that you?" he asked, eyes wide behind his mask.

Shirley stopped where she was, changing her expression as well. She seemed surprised.

"Shirley, I thought you were dead," he said, walking up to her.

"You're Zero, correct?" she asked, loosing the confused look to get directly to the point.

"Shirley, it's me, Lelouch," he said, taking off the mask to show himself.

"I take it you guys know her," Katara whispered up to C.C., who wasn't paying her any attention.

"Are you Zero?" she asked again. She didn't sound like herself, as if it was another person.

"I'm sorry, Shirley, about your Dad. I'm sorry I did that-"

"ARE YOU ZERO, YES OR NO?" she asked, demanding. Though her tone in her voice was angry and demanding, the expression on her face was nonchalant, yet serious, the way it had been when she walked up to them.

Lelouch hesitated as he answered. "Yes," he was finally able to spit out, and just as he'd gotten the 's' out in yes, there was a loud bang, and Lelouch was on the ground, groaning with the shot in his arm.

"What the Heck was that?" asked Aang, shocked.

"Don't just stand there, idiots!" said C.C., jumping off of Appa, "She's got a gun!"

"A what?" asked Katara as Shirley walked over to the injured Lelouch, pointing her gun at his head.

"I was sent here to eliminate you, and you deserve to know who I was sent by. Charles zi Britannia, your own Father, has asked to have you eliminated," she said, nonchalantly as the gun was but a couple of yards from his head.

"I don't care about what my father thinks anymore! I will live!"

The bang went off again, but it didn't hit Lelouch. Katara had gotten there just in time to knock the gun out of her hand with her water bending. Shirley was on the ground as well, and while Aang went to take over the fight, Katara went to aid Lelouch.

"Agh!" he said as she lifted up his arm to see the damage, kneeling on the ground next to a pool of his blood.

"This doesn't look good. Zuko, I need your help!" she yelled, and Zuko came running over to their aid.

"How bad is it?" he asked.

"That gun tore a hole in his arm! I'm gonna need some clean water, and I need it now, along with some bandages! Quick, before he looses too much blood!" she exclaimed, and as Zuko went off to find the things she needed, she started trying to clean the wound as much as she could, cleaning the blood with her bending, trying to get some of the bullet out, and then trying to heal it with her water bending.

As she worked on him, he groaned had sudden, abrupt screams that showed his painful healing process.

"That can't be Shirley….. It just can't be," he said over and over again. "It's nothing like her!"

Lelouch, who's Shirley?" she asked, but Lelouch didn't hear her. He just kept saying the same thing over and over again, only half way there from all of the blood loss.

Meanwhile, Aang was off fighting Mecha Shirley (if it was a Mecha). She was able to jump through the trees as Aang could, jumping form limb to limb like an acrobat, but a lot quicker. Aang was stunned to see her able to do that sort of thing, and he wasn't sure how to react to it.

While Lelouch was getting cleaned up, he was knocked out completely, not even saying anything about Shirley. He was silent, but alive as Katara kept on working as hard as she could to heal him up.

Then, his phone started to ring. She didn't know what it was at first, but soon recognized it as his phone. She planned on letting it ring, but instead decided to answer it.

When she flipped the phone open, she heard an unfamiliar voice on the other end.

"Hello, Lelouch. Did you like the little present I sent you? Quite lovely, isn't she?" said Schnizel on the other end. Katara didn't speak. She just listened to what he had to say.

"I found her laying down, nearly dead, but revived her in no time. She's quite unique. Actually, all of them are. It's a new project that Father and I have come up with, where we take the people from battle that are almost dead and revive them into something of a weapon. Oh, and the best part is that she and all of the others come with Geass. Shirley's Geass is quite unique. She can send out the Geass and capture your DNA, your picture, and when she needs it, she'll use it to, oh, become you. People would never know the difference, until she started to change back."

Geass? Katara didn't know what Geass was, but she had am idea about it, form the description that Schnizel had said about Shirley. It was apparent that every Geass was different, that it was an ability, and then, it hit her.

Lelouch possessed a Geass. That was how he was able to make you do as he wishes, able to make them do whatever he needs of them, like in the Drill, and several other incidents.

Lelouch had Geass, and that's what gave him his power.

"Lelouch, are you there?" asked Schnizel on the other line.

Katara looked at the phone, and hung it up.

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