Code Avatar: Lelouch and the Airbender

By: C.C.

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Chapter 25: Lost Memories Found

Lelouch was leaning on the balcony with his hands folded, looking out on the scenery of ice, snow, and water, though he wasn't paying much attention to it. He was deep in thought, having a lot on his mind, but the main thing was Shirley, Shirley and the scene where she shot him and knocked him unconscious, trying to kill him. He sighed as he thought.

'She really isn't the same girl that I knew back at the Ashford Academy. Father must have used Geass on her, but I guess that I can confirm that the next time I talk to Schnizel, but I'm pretty sure that I know that's what happened.'

Then, while he stayed concentrated with his thoughts, Aang came flying over. When he landed, he twirled around his glider, and with a bit of airbending, it was back to being a staff again. He looked over at Lelouch and smiled, happy to see him.

"Hey, Lelouch," he said, but Lelouch hadn't even noticed that he was there. "Are you alright?"

Aang went over and leaned his back against the railing on the balcony with his arms crossed, looking at Lelouch. "Lelouch, what's wrong?"

"Hu? Oh, it's nothing," answered Lelouch, now acknowledging his presence.

"It just seems like you have a lot on your mind," he said, sounding concerned.

"Hmph, you would, too, if you were me," he said with a grimace.

"Oh, I have a lot on my mind, too. I have the four elements to master, the Fire Lord to defeat, and my duties as Avatar to fulfill."

Lelouch chuckled at the thought. "You may think you have it worse than I do, but you don't really know everything that I go through."

"Like what?" asked Aang, suddenly curious.

"Hmph. My life is more complex than the average human being. I am Zero, masked leader of the Black Knights and the New Knights, the dead Prince, Lelouch vi Britannia, and Lelouch Lamprouge of the Ashford Academy. My life was difficult enough as Zero of the Black Knights, but now, I'm also leader of the New Knights. I have started to fight your War, and doing so, I've abandoned many of my duties to fighting against Britannia, though in the long run, it'll be for the better. I really need to focus on the way that they ,y enemies over in my world were able to get Shirley over here and what they plan on doing with her here, though my greatest theory is that she was sent here merely to kill me and then go back to her home in the Tokyo Settlement. I have my family to worry about, my duties as Zero, my duties as Lelouch, have to make sure that people still believe that the Prince is dead, your war to win, my war to win, and everything else that life throws at me."

There was a moment of silence as Aang took all of that in. "Wow, you're one busy guy. It's a wonder that you're able to do all of this for me and my own people."

Aang was suddenly in awe of Lelouch and what he was able to do. He looked up to him like a hero, someone who has done no wrong in his eyes. He never knew that his life was complex, but what he also didn't realize is that he had secrets that were being kept from him, lies were being told to him, powers beyond what his own mind would be able to comprehend. He had no idea the things that were going to happen with Zero, the Black Knights, the New Knights, and the Fire Nation.

"A lot of it's that girl, the one that attacked you, Shirley, right?" he asked, curious.

Lelouch started to barely laugh with a caring smile at the mention about Shirley. The visual of her with a gun, trying to kill him was brought into his head, and he almost couldn't get it out.

Most people have the mindset that Lelouch is incapable of having a love life, but that does not mean he does not love. In fact, he's in a love battle between three different people; Shirley (the old Shirley, not the Geass one that's out to kill him), Kallen, and the one and only C.C. No one really knows the mind of Lelouch vi Britannia, but we can all guess. The one that knows him the absolute best is C.C. Why? Because she's the only one that knows all three of his identities, the only one that has a clue about how to get inside his head, and the only one who has the power to manipulate him, except for Schnizel and Charles, of course, but that's a different story. Lets get back on track.

"Hmph, yeah, she's a big part of it," he said, looking down while Aang looked over at him.

"Who exactly is she?" he asked, more than curious this time.

"Lelouch," said a voice from the side, one that he would only know as C.C.

Lelouch jerked his head around at the sound of her somewhat panicked voice. "C.C., what's wrong?"

"It's Shirley; she's coming back!"

This struck Lelouch with shock, surprise. It struck him with terror. He was dumbfounded with only his thoughts he could use to speak, but couldn't bring them through his mouth.

'Shirley? She's...coming here?'

"I'll go warm Katara and Zuko," said Aang, pulling out his glider.

"Zuko already knows. I was with him when I found out," she said, still sounding panicked.

Then, a thought hit Lelouch. C.C. wouldn't be panicked like this just over Shirley coming. Someone else was coming with her.

"Who's with her?" he asked, demanding.

"She's coming ahead, but the ones following behind her are in the thousands. There's no way that this tribe alone could fight them off completely," she said, dropping to her knees.

Lelouch went down with her and pet her head while in thought about what he was gonna do. 'We have to tell the Chief. No, but Shirley's coming alone first, then the others will follow behind her, so I should prepare people for what's to come, and fight Shirley off first. I have to admit that she's not the Shirley that I knew, but will I be able to go through with it? I may have to let one of the others do it, unless...'

"C.C., what's going on?" asked Katara, running up to the two of them as Aang came flying in with his glider.

"Shirley's coming," she said, looking back up at Shirley.

Katara looked up at Lelouch for a moment, then motioned that she wanted to talk to him. He followed her, thinking about what to expect.

"You should tell them," she said, concerned in expression and tone.

"Why should I tell them? It won't matter," he answered.

"I heard what that guy had to say over the phone. If Shirley's coming back, there's bound to be more of them. I think that the army's coming with her this time, and if we don't know what to prepare for-"

"I know what it is that we need to do. I am your door to survival, but if Schnizel's brought the army here, I fear that I have brought my war into your world," he said, feeling remorse.

"You mean, we're about to fight two wars in the same world, and in the weaker world?"

"If my theory's correct, then yes, I fear it to be the truth. Schnizel is just as ruthless as my Father, and if he can get rid of me in this world, it would be easier for him. He doesn't care about what happens here as long as he can have me dead and the world in his grip. He wants my position of power, but what I don't yet know is if that's exactly what he's getting out of all of this."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that my family doesn't really get along, but if they're working together, that means that one of them is getting something out pf a deal. They're working together to put together this Geass army, but something seems off about the whole thing."

"Lelouch, look out!" yelled C.C. as a sword went close to slicing off Lelouch's head. He was able to dodge it just in time, but when he turned around, he saw orange hair, flowing out, and a girl in a black jumpsuit. Shirley was back.

'I've wasted all of my time! She's already here!'

"Katara, warn the Chief, and tell the rest of the tribe to get ready for battle, and not to look the enemy in the eye! Their lives depend on it!"

Shirley got in a position with her sword and smiled somewhat of an evil smile. She had knocked Lelouch to the ground as he tried to dodge her, but he was now in the perfect position for the kill.

"Zero," she said, coming up with her sword, but just as she was about to strike him, Lelouch yelled something.

"Remember! Remember who you are, who I am, remember who Milly is, who your friends are, who your Father is! Remember everything about who you really are before you were shot by Rolo! Shirley, I need you to remember!" he yelled, and then the Geass bird came out of his eye as he slipped off the contact, going into Shirley. It stopped her right in her tracks of her attack, and with the Geass, the rims of her eyes turned red as it started to consume her completely. She started out with a struggle against it while Lelouch stayed on the ground.

"No...no, no...I'm apart of the army, but the school? I-I..." she said as it started to consume her. She dropped to her knees with her face in her hands, shaking her head. "No, I couldn't have done that stuff-that can't be me!"

The Geass took her over, and she remembered everything. She remembered her life and friends over at the Ashford Academy, she remembered getting shot by Rolo, she remembered how she became what she was with the Geass, what Schnizel and Charles did to her, and most of all, she remembered Lelouch. She remembered the nickname that she had for him, Lulu, she remembered that he killed her father, that he was Zero, that she shot him, nearly ending his existance, that she had just tried to kill him again, that he was on the ground.

"Oh, Lulu, I'm sorry about everything!" she said, tears falling from her eyes.

Lelouch sighed a sigh of relief that she was her old self again. "Shirley, you're you again," he said with a smile as he started to sit up from where he was on the ground.

She looked up at him, tears still falling. "Lulu, how could you forgive me?" she asked, full of remorse. "I tried to kill you!"

"No," answered Lelouch, "you didn't. That was the mindset that they gave you, the mindset of an assassin out to kill Zero."

She cried some more, and came over to Lelouch even closer.

"Lelouch, they're almost here!" yelled C.C., coming up closer to them, seeing Shirley back to normal. "You used your Geass, didn't you?" she asked, relieved herself.

"Yes. My Geass that I used to make her forget was canceled out, and the Geass I used to make her live must have worked to keep her alive long enough for Schnizel to take her, but it was canceled out when they changed her."

"How is that?" asked C.C., surprised at the discovery.

"That's just another thing that we'll have to find out through the natural course of time."

C.C. pondered on it for a moment, then remembered why she eve had come over there. "Lelouch, the army's close enough to where they're in sight."

Lelouch nodded, thought for a while, then he had a plan. He got up, lifting Shirley with him, and they walked over to the rest of the tribe.

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*BTW: There's a big chance of some death scenes in the next couple of chapters, though I'm not yet saying who*