Code Geass: The Realm of God
Chapter 45: The fighting maiden
Writer: Asheron Karuma
Don't own
Aah! Chapter 45 already...
I've updated the links in my bio section for some better scans of the two new characters also I've added two scans from the official website of the two units I will be using in this chapter...
They're called Tristan and Mordred... guess who will pilot them...
However I'm not going to give the two a huge role just yet...
I find it pretty lame to use them when we haven't even seen nor heard them yet...
But they will have a bigger role in the future...
After writing this I came to the conclusion that I'm a sucker for these kind of chapters...
I was listening to Air from Bach and was seriously crying at the last parts... meep
-The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth-
Step to me 'n I'll crush you like a toy
The inscription on your tombstone, your epitaph
Will read you took the wrong direction down the wrong path
A brilliant display of strength and skill
Will defeat the supreme embodiment of evil
You are doomed, you are finished, you are no more
Chapter 45A: Red like apples
The next morning he woke up pretty late...
He opened his eyes and slowly raised his hands to block the incoming sun light...
What was he doing the previous day again...
He smiled at the memory and yawned before sitting up...
"Took you long enough..."
He shrieked when he found Lelouch next to him...
His hands leaning on the bed he was sleeping in...
In the back he could hear Nunnally giggle as he slowly got up from the bed...
Still half asleep as he slipped on his shoes...
"Want to eat breakfast...? We still have some rice left and I found some nice fruit..."
Lelouch was already busy opening small cabins to grab plates and chop sticks...
"Aah! Sorry Lelouch... Nunnally... but I can't..."
He stopped with the tablecloth still in his hands...
"Why not... Suzaku-kun...?"
Suzaku stared at him nervously...
Sure he didn't want to miss breakfast with the two of them but Tödö-sensei was very strict when it came to discipline...
And judging from the light he might already be too late for his lessons...
His master would make him suffer for that...
"I have practise with Tödö-sensei... I can't miss it..."
Lelouch frowned and walked back to a cabin... he put something in a plastic bag before walking back to the Japanese...
"At leased take something to eat... you can't train on an empty stomach..."
Lelouch offered him a plastic bag and Suzaku gratefully took it before looking at the things inside...
Red apples...
"Thanks... Bye!"
The Japanese turned to leave but stopped mid turn when Lelouch called him...
"Ne, Suzaku...thanks for last night"
He wasn't sure why but when he felt the younger Prince's lips peck against his cheeks he couldn't help but glow up in a colour similar to the apples in his bag...
Lelouch looked at him strangely as if he didn't understood what he had just done...
"What...?"
He asked him and crooked his head to the side...
Suzaku gripped the plastic bag and yelled at him...
"Why did you do that?!"
"Is there something wrong with thanking you...?"
"Like that YES!"
He noticed the confused look and sighed heavily before turning around...
"Never mind... Don't be late for diner!"
Lelouch watched as his friend skipped out of the small storage house...
He then turned to his younger sister...
"Did I do something wrong...?"
Nunnally tried to look for the right words but her brother interrupted her...
"Ah..."
"Mother once told me that was a appropriate way to thank someone if they've done something important for you..."
It was true that their mother used to do that...
She would kiss them on the cheek every time they would bring her flowers or anything else...
"But... onii-sama... I don't think you're supposed to do that to everyone... Suzaku is Japanese... maybe they don't do such things here..."
She smiled at him...
"There is something different about you today..."
Suzaku gasped in embarrassment as he held the plastic bag closer to himself...
His teacher sat down next to him and looked at him for a moment...
A sinister smile crossed his face...
"What's that...?"
He pointed at the bag hidden in Suzaku's arms...
At his comment did the youth hold it a little tighter... shielding it from the other...
"Nothing..."
He never saw his hand coming but before his teacher even finished his sentence the bag was snatched from his arms
"Show me...!"
Suzaku started to complain as Tödö reached inside...
"Ah! Tödö-sensei!"
His hand retreated with a red apple in his palm...
"Apples...?"
"Give them back! Sensei!"
He looked at his student again and then noticed the flushed expression...
"Did a girl give them to you...?"
Suzaku stopped complaining and fell silent...
Tödö realised that he was right and laughed as he waved a hand through Suzaku's hair before giving him his apple once again...
"Who would've guessed... Kururugi Suzaku received a gift... from a woman!"
"Sensei!"
Chapter 45B: The fighting maiden
"Suzaku-kun..."
He frowned in his sleep...
"Suzaku-kun... wake up..."
"Who are you...?"
He asked in his mind as he waited for a response...
This voice... it invaded his dream... he found that quite rude really but only because he was still half asleep...
"Wake up... Suzaku-kun..."
The voice didn't answer his questions...
Instead it started to sound more forcing
"Onii-sama... he... Wake up!"
His eyes opened abruptly when this voice became louder...
It sounded like... Nunnally...!
"Nunnally!"
He quickly sat up and put his feet on the floor, only to realise that the girl was no where near him...
She had been gone for so long...
He looked around and noticed that things were very quiet... too quiet to be precise and he stood up to see if Lelouch was still asleep...
However he found his bed empty and a drawer of his desk still half open...
It took him a bit of difficulty to get there without crutches but he looked in the drawer though couldn't find anything that could worry him...
That was until the ground beneath him started to shake and the echo of an explosion blew through his ears...
He gasped as he fell down on his behind... grasping for his legs at their sudden pain strike...
"An explosion..."
He whispered as he looked around the dark room, his belongings shaking steadily before regaining their balance...
The Prince had gotten himself into trouble again didn't he...?
That idiot... he should just tie him up to his bed every night...
He got up his feet and leaned against the wall as he crippled to the door...
He pressed on the open button but instead of flipping to green did the machine remain on red...
He pressed again and his frustration increased with each finger press he preformed...
"Shit... why isn't it?!"
"Your services won't be needed Kururugi..."
His eyes widened and turned to the intercom machine in the wall...
That voice it belonged to the older Prince... Schneizel...
"What...?"
"You're in no condition to fight..."
"What is going on? Where is he?!"
He yelled...
However the voice on the other side remained calm and content
"A prisoner escaped... but don't worry the Prince is save and two of your Highness's personal guards is taking care of the situation..."
He wasn't certain what the situation outside was like, but the fact that the Emperor's personal guards were at the scene still remained strange to him...
Why were they even here to begin with...?
"Personal guard...?"
"Damned!"
He cursed as he slammed his fists on the controls...
He ignored the screen projected by his brother and had tried everything he could think of... but nothing worked...
He couldn't leave the room, he couldn't access any controls...
Should he just sit here and wait till she dies!
"Kallen..."
He finally gave in and slumped to his knees...
His mind unwilling to accept the fact that she couldn't get out...
There was nothing he could do for her... because he was caged...
Like a bird...
"You can't do this!"
He yelled out as he slammed his forehead against the floor...
However after knocking it against the metallic plate the ground started to shake beneath him and the screens around him flickered a little before regaining their function...
He looked up and noticed smoke from the other side of the windows...
This could only mean...
The thought about it made him smile...
"You can't keep someone like her in your grasp! You underestimate her!"
He yelled at his brother who laughed before answering...
"Ooh really...? I'll show you something nice... this is what happens to traitors..."
Another screen opened up, it was being send from a small aircraft that filmed everything that was going on outside...
His eyes widened as he saw Guren ridding past through the woods...
His brother was up to something... he wasn't sure what but it was certain to be dangerous...
The timer read that she had 17:23 minutes to...
It worried her because the mud was slowing her down...
Not only that but the resistance she had come across to had been minimal...
An army base holding one of the most advanced ships in the Britannian empire... she would've suspected it to have more defences...
An alarm went off and she was forced out of her thoughts...
"Shit!"
She quickly turned the unit and evaded...
Two large red beams were shot her way and she was just barely able to dodge them...
The lights in her cockpit signalled red once more when another pair of beams were fired her way...
She jumped to dodge them and recognised the type of blast...
"Hadron energy?"
Guren landed roughly in the mud covered ground...
She looked forward again and saw the source of the blasts...
Thought he only thing she could see through the up floating ashes were 4 bright lights...
Probably from the cannons... the idea terrified her...
Gawain had two cannons and even then it was massively strong...
This unit... it had four of them ?!
She landed roughly on the ground as she tried to think of a strategy...
Fighting in long range wasn't her units style nor would it be the best tactic to follow...
She couldn't run... she would just be a walking target that way...
She looked at the timer again and realised that in her thinking time she had wasted another 3 minutes... she had 14:00 minutes left now...
Sweat dripped down her forehead as she realised...
If she was going to fight then she would have to do it quickly...
However when she tried to charge more shots were fired in front of her and she was forced to back up again...
These shots... where were they fired from...
She looked around to find a signal but found none...
That was until she was struck in the back by something...
Whatever had tried to shoot her was now behind her... hammering against her with some sort of weapon she turned around and tried to grab whatever was behind her but to her amazement did this unit just fold up and soar into the sky again...
"What?!"
In her own desperate attempt to defend herself did she avert her radiation surge upwards...
Only to activate the Luminarium...
the gem in her palm started to glow up and a pink like whip shot out into the air... however it was uncontrolled and missed the target only the cut down some trees in her way...
She gasped at this new function and looked at the letters on her screen...
Maser Vibration Luminarium
It was something new but she couldn't enjoy the liberty because her alarms went off once more and she had to dodge another blast of Hadron fire coming her way...
This time it was just one blast followed by the other three... She dodge one... two... three...
But when she slipped into the mud at the fourth did her left arm get caught in the fire...
She quickly tossed the limp and was thrown back by the explosion...
"I don't want to die..."
She whispered as she got up again...
The timer now running at 6 minutes...
Only 6... it wouldn't be enough to save her life...
She screamed when something rammed her from the front...
Guren fell back against the ground as this unit continued to hammer against her front...
As if it tried to breach through...
She screamed as the electricity sparked over the screens... the screens in her cockpit flaring red as a sign of danger as they flickered between the blood like colour and black...
In an effort of panic and survival did she reach forward again towards the unit... she even grabbed something but it slipped out of her claw before she was able to hit it...
The unit had flown up again... leaving her in shock as she watched it up in the air...
The red eyes that belonged to the unit glowing up like that of a devil's...
The timer hit 4:00 minutes now...
Was she going to die...?
"Kallen, you're too young to come with us... I wouldn't know what to do if something happened to you... if you were to die, I would be..."
She couldn't die...
"You are never alone..."
She couldn't die...!
"Come... Kallen"
The Hadron cannons in the distance started to glow up again...
"Zero!"
She screamed as she gripped the controls...
Something happened... but in her panic did her brain not register what had happened...
She found herself standing up from the ground and running forward...
The gem on her palm glowing more vivid than before as the Hadron cannons hit her...
They were being reflected by a large pink like shield...
It's particles floating around the arm to serve as one as she stood her ground...
She screamed as Guren was forced into the ground but it didn't budge...
Instead she looked at her controls with surprise when she saw a new screen at the bottom...
Luminarium particle collector activated...
Loaded at 60
"This..."
She looked at the gem on Guren's arm and noticed that it was now even vibrating...
She remained hesitant when it came to her actions...
Still un able to register what had just happened...
However her attention was forced upwards again when the flying unit sped up towards her once more...
Her eyes widened as she saw it turn from what looked like an airplane to a Knightmare and noticed the weapons in its hands...
A T shaped mace...
"Take this...!"
Not knowing what the consequences would be she forced Guren's surge arm upwards and pressed the charge button...
She was certain that the pilot was surprised by the sudden result...
A strong pink beam was fired into the air and it barely missed him... leaving only a scratch in one of the unit's arm wings...
But it didn't stay at that... she charged the Luminarium again and whipped it in his direction...
Her timer was reaching the red zone now...
Leaving her with little less than two minutes to spare before she would run out of power...
The new unit however dodged her and charge towards her again...
She wouldn't back down now and clashed against him before jumping back to dodge his mace like weapon... he had two of them... one in each hand however she grew more anxious and excited when he linked them together...
Swinging them over the unit's head before charging at her again...
The other Knightmare remained away... she guessed that this was for the safety of her colleague...
"You bastard!"
She tried to grab him so she could surge him and melt him to death but this pilot...
He was very skilled... more skilled than even Suzaku...
The timer was now under 1 minute... she had to finish this quickly and when she saw an opening she reached forward but it was a trap...
She gasped as she was forced back by the unit's weapon and her eyes widened as the T like end zipped through the chest part of her unit... ripping out a large portion of its equipment...
The timer wasn't at 0 yet but the power turned off before it could set off any real explosion...
A stupid safety precaution...
Only a minimum amount remained to keep the camera functions up...
However several screens in her cockpit cracked before exploding on her face...
Her hands covering up her eyes as she screamed...
Guren fell back in the dirt as she tried to pull the controls to make it move...
"No not now! Move! Move you stupid thing! MOVE!"
Tears rand own her face as she realised that this was her end...
Looking up she stared at the red glowing eyes above her...
Her cheeks were cut and blood dripped from them...
"Naoto..."
She whispered his name because she was going to see him...
Was she really going to meet her brother now...?
"This is the end..."
A voice spoke out through the intercom of the unknown machine...
It was a male voice and she closed her eyes as he raised his weapon for the last blow...
"Zero... you're such an idiot..."
Chapter 45C: Like a bird in a cage
"Kallen!"
He screamed as she saw the unit falling down for the last time...
His hands covering his mouth at the state she would probably be in...
Kallen was dead... she had to be...
"No..."
He watched as his weapon rose again and again...
Hacking and slashing into the unit that was once the pride of his organisation...
"No..."
He could almost imagine her blood dripping down from the metallic object...
"Kallen..."
The young girl...
Faking to be someone she wasn't... smiling against the people she hated...
Fighting for what she believed was right... standing by his side...
Kallen... the two faced maiden...
The strong woman who fought for her beloved...
"Stop this!"
His hands turned to fists as he slammed against the metallic floor...
Screaming in hope that his brother would interfere...
"Nii-san! Stop this insanity! Stop!"
His eyes pressed together so tightly that it hurt...
His fingers digging into his palms as they drew blood...
"Please... stop!"
"It's been a long time since you've called me nii-san..."
His eyes widened and he looked at his older brother...
His facial structure calm and cold... didn't he feel anything for this...?
Was this nothing to him...?!
The strange unit had stopped its slaughter and with its weapon in one hand did he look down on the almost unrecognisable Guren Nishiki...
It's chest ripped open...
Limps half torn off and it's head part...
Torn apart to reveal a hand sticking out between two slits...
The arm covered with blood and cuts... un moving...
"Stop this... please!"
"Now you know..."
"What..."
"If you ever betray me... if you ever run... that will be your fate... a traitor's death..."
He looked at him in fear...
"She should be honoured to die a soldiers death like that..."
His hands clenched to fists again as he yelled at Prince Schneizel
"Don't kid me! You set her up! Just like you tried to kill Villetta! Because she..."
He stopped there...
Un able to speak out the truth...
The truth that they had to die because they knew to much...
"Because of you..."
He gasped...
"Because you let to much go that it endangered everything we stand for..."
He was speechless...
"Stupid little brother... shall I end her suffering...?"
Another screen opened up and he could hear something...
Rasped breathing... from someone struggling...
"I... won't... cry... I will... not die... Zero..."
He recognised that voice...
"Kallen..."
He looked at the green screen that only showed the audio...
He stared at the letters...
Audio only...
Her voice...
It scrapped in his heart...
"Shall I...?"
He mumbled something as his brother smiled...
Unmoving and broken...
"Finish her..."
He said the command through the link on purpose...
"Yes my Lord!"
And as his weapon rose one more time...
His pupils shrank as he could almost see blood dripping from it...
Kallen...
"DON'T'!"
He screamed and bend forward, pressing his hands against his ears as the geass marks on them started to glow up... there was also one glowing on his forehead and without realising it everything turned black around him...
The screens remained off as the doors gave an unlocking click before whipping open...
Uncontrolled and swift...
"Weinberg!"
A voice yelled at him through an intercom behind him and he turned to her...
The message she send him was unheard because it was through a private line however when he turned his attention forward again did his alarms go off...
The unit quickly jumped backwards and landed on the ground again as he looked at the reinforcements coming from the hills...
The three units stopped at the scene and they looked at the wreckage before them...
Three Gekka unit's, one custom build...
"So you finally come out to play... Kyoshiro Tödö..."
A voice yelled out to him...
The man inside the custom made Gekka stared down at the former Guren unit and even he felt uncomfortable by it...
The girl... he saw her bleeding hand through the debris...
He was too late... too late to save her...
"Tödö... she could still be alive..."
Nagisa told him through the line and he frowned deeply at the unit standing in front of him...
His hatred for the unit grew by ever passing second...
"Remember... we didn't come here for revenge! Tödö!"
The man ignored his older friend and yelled as he charged forward...
"Tödö!"
But he didn't listen...
Instead he took out his revolving blade and charged at the unit...
However it quickly transformed again and parted up into the sky...
Tödö wasn't finished and quickly turned his unit to fire the harken at the bottom of the sword...
"Tödö, stop this!"
The unit in the air turned and harken missed...
The damage on it's wing sparking as it landed on the ground roughly in it's Knightmare form...
"Get the girl... I'll keep them busy!"
The man yelled as the Knightmare charged at him again with it's linked maces...
Tödö jumped back to dodge them and clashed against him with his sword...
As the battle between them raged on, Nagisa took the courage to climb out of her cockpit and ran down towards the Guren unit...
Passing the debris she quickly covered her mouth to prevent herself from hurling...
She had seen some rough things during her period of fighting however... for someone to be so ruthless and to harm someone like that... it was so disgraceful...
"Kallen...?"
She called out, though she was certain that the girl wouldn't be able to hear her...
Her hand came to the broken cockpit where she saw her hand sticking through...
She took the hand and tried to look for any sign of a pulse...
If she was dead she would have to leave her there... but...
"Ryöga! This girl she's still alive!"
She yelled as the unit leaned down towards her...
The Gekka's hand surrounding the metallic hatch before pulling it off with force...
Nagisa's eyes widened at the sight she received but quickly leaned forward to try and get the girl to consciousness...
"Kallen... you're save..."
She shook the girl slightly and listened to her rasped breathing...
Her face was largely covered with blood...
There was metal stuck in various parts of her chest and stomach and even her legs were cut...
The clothing she wore... it was soaked in her blood...
Her eyes closed as her face leaned to its right side... her hair falling over the side, mixed with blood...
"Hold on, please..."
Nagisa reached forward and slowly lifted the girl from her seating...
Kallen screamed in pain as she was being moved and gasped as blood came out of her throat...
She looked at her unit... she couldn't carry her in the Gekka's claw she would surely die if she did that...
And thus she carried her over her shoulder towards the cockpit... swearing to herself that the size should be larger...
Once inside she didn't close the hatch completely and booted up the radio once again...
She looked at Tödö in the distance and noticed the other unit in the back...
Why wasn't it attacking...?
"Tödö, we've got the girl... let's go!"
The custom Gekka separated from battle once again and the two units looked at each other...
"Go ahead... I'll follow later..."
"What are you saying! You're coming with us!"
Unwillingly her hands gripped Kallen's arm as she stared at the unit with anger...
"I can't... this man... he won't give up on fighting... he'll hunt us down..."
The idiot...!
"We can lose him!"
"He isn't an ordinary pilot!"
However she froze in her spot as she noticed the seriousness in his voice...
Tödö hadn't yelled at her like that in a long time...
"What...?"
"Take the girl... tell Kaguya if I don't come back..."
Her hands shook as she looked at him...
Already contemplating about death...
"Don't be so stupid... of course you're coming back!"
"Go!"
Tödö yelled as the unit charged at him again...
She couldn't leave him like that... it went against her code...
"Nagisa... we must follow his wishes..."
She turned to the open com link with Ryöga...
The man looked dead serious and she realised what she had to do...
She gasped as she turned around... activating the smoke screen and chaffs to conceal her position as they rode away...
