Chapter 5: Power of Kings l
Power of Kings l
Summary –Marianne, C.C and Rai visits and awaken Lelouch and Nunnally and tell them about how did she survive, about their father and V.V and the mysterious power called Geass. In the britannian prison Kallen is visited by her parents.
Area 11, Tokyo Settlement, St. Angelica Hospital
August 10 2017 a.t.b
9:45 PM, Tuesday
(Marianne's Perspective)
C.C, Marianne and Rai arrived in front of the Hospital after meeting at the park; Marianne chose to wear a white sun hat and maxi dress along with sunglasses for her disguise. She placed all her black hair inside the hat so she can't be easily recognized. C.C is wearing her store clerk uniform while Rai wore a leather shirt and black pants.
"C.C, are you sure this would work?" Marianne was still unsure about the disguise for there is still a possibility for her to be identified.
"Well maybe, but in case it fails I'll have Rai geass them." C.C looks at the wild haired teen, who still had that calm expression for the whole time. "Let's go." She walked straight to the entrance as Marianne and Rai soon followed. Marianne lowered her head to cover her eyes making her mouth and chin the only visible parts of her face as her heartbeat increased due to nervousness. Upon entering, they saw a young woman at her station which was facing the entrance facing her computer, not even knowing if there's a person entering. They walked straight forward until they reached her.
"Excuse me." C.C surprised the woman who moves her sight from the computer to C.C "What room number is his highness; Lelouch vi Britannia?"
The woman is now curious about these three, what could they want from the prince, she didn't recognized this people from the past hours after the prince was delivered here, so she must know their identities and relation to him, "Name first mam?"
"Is it required?" she asked the nurse
"Why yes m'am, I just can't let anyone visit a patient in this hospital without knowing their names and relation to the patient." the nurse explained
C.C doesn't want anyone to know her true name, but if she didn't do it then they'll be denied access and information about him so she decides to use the alternative way. She looked at Rai, who was looking at the nurse "Go ahead." she told Rai and signals Marianne covers her ears.
"Tell us where the prince is and forget everything that involves us after we get out of the building." Rai placed the nurse under the effect of his Geass using his voice, with that the nurse's irises were enclosed in a red ring, making her obey. "The room is HR 153 on the third floor." the geassed nurse happily replied.
"Let's go" C.C and the two walked to the elevator in their right after getting the information they need. C.C pressed the up button and waited for the elevator to stop and pick them up. After mere seconds the doors opened and they entered the small squared silver room. C.C pushes the "3" button which will lead them to the 3rd floor of the hospital.
Once again the doors opened, but this time they're in the third floor, C.C was the first to walk out before being followed by the two, she moved her head on the hallways to see if no one was seeing them and which is the Prince's room.
"There it is, room 153, let's go, the prince might still be unconscious since he was brought here." C.C begins to walk upon finding the room which was on the end of the hallway in her far right. upon reaching the door she gently grabs the door knob and silently spins it clockwise, not wanting to make a single noise that may attract someone's attention.
The door was now open and the view of sleeping Lelouch and Nunnally vi Britannia was now seen as they step inside the room. Lelouch is wearing a patient's dress and his lower body is covered with a green blanket. To his left is a sleeping Nunnally; whose face landed on the bed and her two arms holding his brother's left hand. The princess doesn't want to leave her dear brother alone for he is the person she is with for the past years, he cared for Nunnally and even never leaved her and now she is returning the favour.
"Oh Lelouch." Marianne said as she make a slightly sad expression upon seeing her son's condition.
C.C seems to take an interest making a contract with the boy and the girl, she was aware that Nunnally's blindness was not a psychological condition but a geass effect of Charles, she doesn't know why would he do that to her but she's sure that it has a reason and purpose.
Marianne gently grabs her unconscious sons hand with an intention of waking him up, "Lelouch. Lelouch, wake up." she now saw his head slowly move. C.C and Rai who was behind her just lets her do what she intends.
Lelouch felt that touch on his hand and that voice which awakes him, he slowly and weakly opens his eyes and sees an extremely blurred vision and can only see a figure in a white dress. when he gradually open his eyes further he saw the figure of his mother; Marianne vi Britannia
"Mo...Mother" He thought he was just dreaming because when he slept he didn't think of anything but his mother and sister, "I really wish that you were still alive in this world with us, it has been seven years since your death and the culprit is still not found, forgive me if I became so weak, my wish is that I can see you again in the real world and not just in a dream."
"Dream." Marianne giggled, her thinks that when he awoke he's thinking that her son is dreaming that she is here with him. Behind her C.C and Rai silently giggled for they can't suppress it. Finally Marianne made him realized, "No Lelouch, I am really here, just fully open your eyes."
Upon hearing the word 'here' he fully opened his eyes and realized that he was not dreaming. The figure in front of him is neither a Dream, Hallucination or Ghost of his mother.
"Mother!?" Lelouch was both speechless and surprised at the revelation which made his mouth slightly open. "You're alive, but your supposed to be-"
"Dead." Marianne knew exactly what he was about to say. "Yes Lelouch, I died that night, but I manage to survive." Marianne smiled "What's important is that I am alive with you and Nunnally."
Speaking of Nunnally, Lelouch decided to wake her up. He leaned his head to the left and saw his sister holding his hands with her two arms even after falling asleep. He rubbed her hand with his own which awakened her. Nunnally slowly raised her head from the bed and asked, "Big brother, you're awake, are feeling any pain?"
"Not much Nunnally." lelouch replied
Nunnally sensed three other people in the room with the exception of her brother. Two of them were unknown to her, but the other one seemed familiar "Lelouch, there are people in here, who are they, I can't seem to recognize their presence, but one of them seems familiar."
Lelouch looked at Marianne and saw two people with her; one green haired girl and one silver haired boy. He made a suspecting look at the two; thinking they must be threats to him, Nunnally and his mother. Marianne seemed to notice this and said, "Calm down Lelouch, they are my friends." as she walked to the other side of the bed toward Nunnally.
Nunnally instantly recognized that voice and then that presence before saying, "That voice... could it be?" Tears were streaming down from her eyes to her cheeks. Marianne knelt in front of Nunnally and gently touched her hands with hers and said, "Yes Nunnally, it's me." she said while looking at her daughter's face.
"Mother, it is you!" Nunnally tearfully hugs her mother, finally meeting her again, but this time she was not dead but alive.
Moments later they finally separate from each other. "How did you survive, you were assassinated that night." Nunnally questioned her mother.
Marianne stands up and looked at Lelouch then Nunnally, finally ready to reveal how did she survived. "I will now answer that question." she stopped to take a deep breath for she doesn't know what will their reaction will be. "I manage to transfer my soul to Anya Alstreim; the current Knight of Six moments after I died at the hands of your father's brother; V.V, a week after I was buried at the royal cemetery, my friends C.C and Rai dug up my grave which remained intact which allowed me to return my soul to it, after that I went into hiding." Lelouch and Nunnally seemed surprised at this discovery for they didn't know that they had an uncle and how their mother managed to transfer her soul to the Knight of Six.
"We have an uncle?" Nunnally asked.
"Yes." Marianne replied.
"But why would he kill you?" asked a curious Lelouch before he mentally asked himself, 'Why would our uncle kill our mother, could it be due to her commoner status or maybe its something else?'
"Jealousy." Marianne explained. "He believed that I was taking away all of his brother's attention from him."
"They must have a very close bond with each other." Nunnally seems to understand why their uncle killed their mother.
"That is right, Nunnally." Marianne remembered when Charles told this to her and decided to further explain how this bond developed. "Decades before both you were born, Charles and his older brother experienced a life in the 'emblem of blood' period; this is where a violent internal feud within the Royal family occurred; assassination, deceptions and betrayals was frequented among members of the Imperial Family that wanted the throne, which resulted to the loss of their mother and father. This caused them to form a pact of mutual honesty with each other."
Now that they know how it started, they moved to their next question.
"Mother, how did you transferred your soul to another person?" Lelouch asked.
Marianne smiled as she closed her eyes. "It is because of this." she opened them once again but this time her left eye had a red glowing bird-like symbol.
Nunnally's face remained the same for she can't see anything while Lelouch's normal expression changes into a scared one.
"What is that?" lelouch questioned his mother.
"What is what, brother?" his sister questioned him about what he was seeing.
"Something is in mothers left eye, something glowing."
"This is Geass, Lelouch." Marianne said. "A supernatural power that differs for each individual user."
"Supernatural power!?" both vi Britannias said in unison.
"Yes, I received this by having a contract with that green haired woman, my Geass allows me to transfer my soul into another person."
"What do you mean by 'contract?'" Lelouch asked.
Instead of Marianne, the green haired woman walked beside her and answered the question "When your Geass evolves, you can receive the 'code' of the giver thereby making you a deathless and unaging being and have the capability of granting Geass to others. but as a result the original owner will die upon receiving the code."
Marianne decided to reveal the truth about Nunnally's blindness and looked at her. "Nunnally, as you may know the doctors told you that your blindness is psychological, right?"
"Yes." she replied.
"They were wrong." Marianne said which confused both of the siblings.
"If its not psychological, then what caused her blindness?" Lelouch demanded.
"That was a result of Charles' Geass to protect her from his brother, he made her think she's blind."
Nunnally was more shocked on the revelation than Lelouch. After all these seven long years her blindness was just a fake.
"Not only that," Marianne again decided to reveal more, "Charles sent you to Japan as political hostages in order to increase your protection from his brother."
Nunnally seems to be satisfied at the answers. but for Lelouch it was not.
"Then why didn't he showed any concern on us!? He even declared war on Japan while we're still here, not even caring if we die, only a few people; both the Ashfords and Japanese helped us!" Lelouch angrily questioned his mother.
Even with her son angry, Marianne remained calm. "He secretly helped both of you, prior the war he secretly deployed a group of selected spies called the 'Black Knights' on this nation not to gather any information from the enemy, but to monitor and protect you, do you remember the time both of you were captured and transported place to place?"
Lelouch indeed remembers that during the war he and Nunnally were captured multiple times by Britannian soldiers and moved by them place to place, but they manage to escape them.
"They were the spies sent by your father, Lelouch, unfortunately their numbers quickly dwindled as a result of casualties from both the Japanese army and the Britannians who mistook them for defectors. Today the remaining Black Knights, namely Jeremiah Gottwald, Villetta Nu, Kewell Soresi and 10 others had their memories erased by Charles to protect your existence if any or both of you are still alive from his brother and reinstalled them to the Purist Faction."
The Purist Faction today is the largest political and military party in the entire Britannian Empire with 50 000 000 members ranging from civilian, soldiers, businesspersons, nobles and politicians. their motto is 'Purity is Supremacy' which describes that purebloods are superior than any human on earth.
Upon learning that her blindness is just a mere lie, Nunnally tried to open her eyes albeit meeting some difficulty from the Geass due to the lack of enough willpower. 'I want to see again, if I could just break away from this, you can do this Nunnally this is for you to see the world again after seven years of nothingness, for Lelouch, your mother, Euphie and Cornelia.' she mentally said to herself as she began to gather willpower to open her sealed eyes.
The others noticed this moments later when she began. Lelouch decided to help only to be stopped by Marianne.
"Let her do it, Lelouch." Marianne said. Still Lelouch's didn't go away but he is still confident that Nunnally can do it.
Seconds later after her eyes instantly opened after she broke away from the Geass. Nunnally was overjoyed now that she can see again, she looked at the surroundings and saw her brother and mother after seven long years of darkness. Nunnally once again hugged Marianne but this time no tears were streaming from her eyes.
C.C steps forward behind Marianne. "Marriane, I suggest that your children should receive a Geass of their own." C.C suggests because she wants more Geass users so their will be many possible persons she may gave her code.
Marriane stood up while looking at her children thinking that it would be a great idea. "I think i agree C.C, go ahead." she moved away from Nunnally and walks towards Rai and joined him. Now the Vi britannias looked at the green haired woman.
"I hereby bestow to both of you the power of Geass: the power of the kings." C.C said as she made a direct eye contact at the two preparing to start the process. "However in return you must accept a contract with me."
Seconds later the process was completed and in the left eyes of the vi Britannias is the symbol of power. The power of Geass: the power of the kings.
"Both of you have received the Power of Absolute Obedience and the Power of Absolute Vision." C.C has the capability to know what are the Geass of any person she made a contract with.
Area 11, Tokyo Settlement, Britannian Prison
August 10 2017 a.t.b
9:50 PM, Tuesday
Inside a Britannian cell, Kallen Stadtfeld was bound in a chair facing the extremely resistant glass door in front of her. She was wearing a grey prison dress with the number 24 in the back. in her face are visible bruises and cuts she sustained during her interrogation by the britannian police.
"You have a visitor, eleven." a guard appeared in front of her with her father, mother and step mother. Her step-mother was angry at her for working with terrorists while her father and mother shows pity on her. The guard then left them to be.
"Kallen, look at what have you gotten yourself into." Baron William Stadtfeld; her father had a red hair and wore a cape just like the other nobles, she can see in his face that he feels sorry for her. "I told you before, don't get yourself involved with the terrorists, I don't want you to meet the same fate your brother met."
"You don't know anything." Kallen said.
"Kallen." her mother; Yuki Kozouki looked at her with tearful eyes. "You should have listened to your father, I don't want to lose you." she was now sobbing wishing that there is something she can do to stop the planned execution.
"Then I'll die just like my brother." Kallen accepts her nearing death.
Yuki froze at this for a moment and then she uncontrollably cries while towards the hallway.
"Kallen, forgive me but I don't have the power to save you from your execution, farewell my daughter." her father and stepmother walked to the hall where he mother ran.