A/N: Thanks for the reviews. This is it…the last chapter (maybe), but I should warn you this chapter gets pretty damn dark and I do confess I shocked myself after I wrote it. There are some mentions of rape and possibly implied rape and some scary stuff, but you have been warned.
Chapter 5
Dark Justice
The following morning Sekai was walking around town deciding to skip school today because she was fearful for Makoto and further more she needed to find him. After feeling sick for the past couple days the young woman realized after performing a pregnancy test on herself discovered that she was pregnant with Makoto's child. Unable to stand being at home Sekai went for a walk around town hoping she might bump into Makoto, but given recent events she feared the worse.
'I told that damn idiot what would happen.'
But while lost in thought she saw a familiar silhouette ahead of her that grabbed her attention as she recognized Makoto Ito instantly.
"Makoto!"
Sekai ran after him following him into an alleyway where he heard a scream followed quickly by gunshots.
The Japanese girl froze in place for a moment before hesitantly poking her head around the corner where she saw a horrible sight. Makoto lay on the ground dead with a gunshot through the head, but ahead of him a young girl was sobbing in the arms of the Kewell.
"Don't worry young lady that pathetic Eleven won't trouble you anymore."
"I can't belief someone so stupid would attempt to rape the daughter of a nobleman." A Purist Member commented as he examined Makoto's body.
Sekai slipped away frightened as hell as she came out of the alleyway trying to deny what she saw, Makoto Ito killed for trying to rape a member of nobility. But as the girl was frozen in shock trying to process what she saw. Standing on a rooftop overlooking the alleyway was Lelouch with Kotonoha by his side while the Dark Lord wearing a black collar shirt with a black coat was holding a small snow globe.
"Did you really think I would give you the peace of death? Yet I decided your death should be poetic, befitting of a sex addict such as you."
"Is his soul inside?" Kotonoha inquired.
"Yes…right now he is experiencing one painful death after the next with the next one being more painful and creative than the last. A never-ending cycle of painfully dying, but no release…hell right now must seem like a five-star resort compared to what he must be enduring. His soul will be in a gay bar with a compulsion on the thing to be kept on the bar and that every now and then, when not killed, Makoto will get a concentrated sight of the events in the bar." Lelouch explained as inside the globe was a chibi Makoto.
Although Lelouch knew inside the enchanted snow globe Makoto had just endured death by skinning into quicksand and then drowning before his head surfacing moments before a swarm of huge fire ants devour his head. Then he ends up in a pit where molten lead is dumped onto him followed by his skin getting peeled off, burned at the stake and then put inside an iron maiden before having his limbs pulled from his sockets.
Each death gradually became much worse than the last with them eventually repeating all over again.
"When I say I would punish him with a fate worse than death…I would deliver didn't I."
Kotonoha nodded without any hint of regret for Makoto's fate accepting that his fib he had told the Britannians was responsible for the death of her parents.
"Now about the others who tormented you...I believe two of them are in jail now." Lelouch began as a dark smile appeared on his face.
The following day later a nervous Sekai was walking to school having seen it in the paper that Makoto Ito was indeed killed for attempted rape of a child of nobility, but it was all hard to believe. She knew Makoto was foolish and a sex addict obviously, but she didn't think he would be stupid enough to chase after the daughter of a noble just to get himself killed.
Arriving at a crosswalk where she saw Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi and Kumi Mori crossing the road ahead of her, but before Sekai could cross a hand grabbed her shoulder as a very familiar voice behind her spoke.
"You should be crossing right now."
Sekai looked over her shoulder as her face paled and her eyes went wide as she literally saw a ghost, but technically what she saw was an illusion of Kotonoha stopping her from crossing the road and for good reasons. Suddenly a speeding truck that was trying to make a sharp turn lost control as it began rolling over colliding into Minami, Natsumi and Kumi killing the students instantly.
Sekai was horrified at the carriage before them as she saw two of them dismembered by the impact alone while Natsumi was under the truck with her arm sticking out from the wreck twitching. The panicked girl looked over her shoulder, but Kotonoha was gone. Sekai crumbled to the ground trembling in fright, but the worst was yet to come as heading for school was Nanami Kanroji. A member of the girls' basketball team, but one of the people most responsible for the harassment Kotonoha has endured at school. Cutting through an alleyway Nanami bumped into a group of three Japanese men wearing heavy coats, somewhere trench coats while others were simple large jackets, but cutting her off from behind were four more men.
"You must be that lying bitch Nanami Kanroji…"
"Who are you people?"
"We're members of the Japan Liberation Front and we heard from a very reliable source that you told that little shit Makoto the rumor about the Katsura Family, so because of you and some of your friends at school we lost some comrades because of you traitors bitch."
Nanami stood ready to fight them off realizing the seriousness of her situation and how dangerous it was knowing full well that there was a huge change of her not walking away from this encounter alive.
The following morning Sekai was more frightened than she was before as her mother had pointed out a very disturbing article she noticed in the newspaper this morning. According to one of the articles Nanami had been found late last night badly beaten and left half-dead hanging from a lamp post in a public square with cuts all over her body, her clothes torn apart with only her shredded lingerie remaining while written all over her body were the words: Britannian Whore, Traitor, Collaborator, and Scum.
Obviously this brutal attack forced school officials out of concern for the safety of the students to close the school for the day out of fear of a possible terrorist attack, so everyone had the day off from classes. However no one dared to venture from the safety of their homes especially as Nanami was likely to spend the rest of her life in a mental institution in a catatonic state. Worse yet she would be easy prey for anyone wishing to take advantage of her cationic state.
Thankfully Setsuna Kiyoura and Hikari Kuroda called her so at least the young woman knew they were all right.
Still the news of their well being didn't do anything to comfort nor ease Sekai's fears, but as she sat in her bed her cell phone began ringing. Reading the calling ID the young girl's eyes went wide as she slowly opened up her red phone to take the call…it was from Makoto's cell phone.
"Uh…Hello."
"Sekai it's me…" A voice sounding exactly like Makoto's spoke.
"HUH…M…Makoto, but I saw you?"
"Please Sekai I need your help, please come to my apartment tonight."
"But…wait a minute."
"Please help me!" Makoto cried before the line suddenly went dead.
As Sekai stared at her phone with a confused and worried look on her face, elsewhere Lelouch was grinning as he put Makoto's phone down on the table having pulled off his act perfectly. Taking advantage of Sekai's mental state and the fact that she was having a hard time accepting that Makoto was dead…Lelouch would lure her where he wants her.
"By the time tonight comes we'll have taken care of the rest of them…Sekai is last."
Kotonoha stood behind Lelouch smiling.
Later that night Sekai had carefully made her way across town keeping to public areas while avoiding alleyways and places where she could end up alone, but instead of entering the apartment building alone two figures arrived on the scene. Sekai wasn't expecting them, but her intentions of going to Makoto's apartment complex had reached the ears of two her friends. Their arrival surprised the young woman, but given what had happened recently she welcomed the support.
"Setsuna…Hikari…what are you two doing here?"
"We heard from your mother you were going to Makoto's apartment. Are you crazy Sekai the JLF might have planted a bomb or something there?" Setsuna Kiyoura injected with obvious concern for her friend.
"Yeah your mom told us you were coming here when we called. You didn't answer your phone."
Hikari Kuroda replied who was just as worried as Setsuna, but given recent events they all had very good reasons to be scared. Four of their friends met untimely ends and one got raped and beaten within an inch of her life now likely to be spending the rest of her life in a mental institution. The very idea of Sekai going to Makoto's apartment was crazy as far as they were concerned.
"Look I got a call from Makoto from his phone saying I needed to come here, so I would appreciate it if you just followed me ok." Sekai said not wishing to delay as she entered the apartment complex with her worried friends hesitantly following her.
"Be reasonable Sekai…it could have been anyone. You can buy one of those electronic voice changers on the internet you know." Setsuna pointed out.
Still Sekai wasn't to be deterred as the group ascended up the elevator to the floor where Makoto's apartment was, but as they ascended the building they found a number of the rooms on the floor had been abandoned. Likely by those fearful that the apartment could hit by JLF retaliation, but even Makoto's mother and little sister moved out right after Makoto was killed so even the apartment was deserted.
The door was unsurprisingly open as the trio stepped inside finding the apartment empty save for some bits of paper and a few small objects left behind in the obvious rush its previous occupants had left in.
"This place looks completely deserted." Hikari said pointing out the obvious.
"But where is Makoto?" Sekai said obviously disillusioned by the fact the boy was dead.
"Look Sekai I know losing him was hard, but there is nothing." Setsuna began before she was suddenly interrupted.
"NO HE CALLED ME I KNOW HE DID." A hysterical Sekai declared. "Makoto I am here…where are you?"
Suddenly before Sekai could realize it something had come over her friends before they vicious attacked her quickly flooring her to the ground before Setsuna punched Sekai in the face. It was happening so quickly that the brown haired girl was unable to register what had just happened. With little chance to fight back the two women quickly pummeled Sekai leaving her clothes ripped while she was unable to fight back.
It wasn't that she was hesitant to fight back because of the fear she would hurt her friends, but something was literally preventing her from taking action.
Once it was over her friends returned to some semblance of normal as they causally left the room like nothing had happened leaving a paralyzed and battered Sekai on the ground.
The door suddenly locked as stepping out from one of the rooms was Lelouch in his suit of armor as he approached the downed woman looking down at her. Sekai saw the armored greaves of the Dark Lord as he towered over her like a helpless prey before a predator. Lelouch was silent for a few moments before he spoke to a frightened Seki.
"So you are the matchmaker who paired Kotonoha and Makoto am I right?"
"Who…who are you?"
"I have many names, but I am the Dark Lord Sauron."
"Where is Makoto what have you done?"
"Why I have done nothing except punish a vicious little sex addict for what he deserved, he broke hearts, but worse of all he destroyed a family." Lelouch spoke imitating Makoto's voice before reverting back to his frightening Dark Lord voice. "It was easy to use his cell phone to lure you here once I pretended to be him. The boy you saw shot was Makoto, but only after I had beaten him within an inch of his life and then placed a powerful curse upon him…a very fitting one I might add."
"What…curse?"
"A curse of an all consuming libido that drives those cursed by it to constantly satisfy their sexual urges otherwise they know intensive pain. Then I dropped him somewhere where a female Britannian noble was sure to come by setting the stage for the boy's death…an anonymous call I mad helped it along."
The Dark Lord explained as Sekai was stunned and horrified that Makoto had died, but worse it was done by the use of magic. Something she was finding very hard to believe.
"You don't believe in my power…let me show you."
Lelouch said reading her mind before he reached out for her with his right hand gesturing for her to rise to her feet. As he did so Sekai's battered body rose up with the high school girl trying to control herself, but her body was no longer obeying her as it beckoned to the will of the Dark Lord. No matter how much Sekai struggled her body wouldn't respond as she stood to her full height before Lelouch who began looking her up and down. Her torn clothes revealed some of her figure, but Lelouch obviously wasn't impressed by it. She was attractive yes, but nowhere as near as beautiful as Kotonoha and Sakura were.
Lelouch stepped around her examining Sekai further as he commented.
"I simply can't understand why Makoto would want you instead of a beautiful and kind girl like Kotonoha. You paired them and you gave him some fine advice, but suddenly things went south you could say. You continued to advise him…your suggestions for karaoke and such were fine, but why would you include a lesson which involves him stripping you and fondling your breasts?"
Sekai was stunned trying to comprehend how did the Dark Lord find out about that? No one was on the roof but her and Makoto. Her body still unwilling to move as she wanted stood perfectly still as Lelouch hovered around her like a vulture, an action that was making Sekai extremely nervous.
"Follow me…" Lelouch commanded as Sekai could do nothing as her body obeyed his commands.
Stopping in the living room the Dark Lord gestured for Sekai to sit down on a chair that had been put out for her in advance while sitting on a small table was a simple twenty inch television set. Using his finger Lelouch waved it at the television set turning on revealing what appeared to be the interior of the showers inside the women's prison where Sekai saw Otome calmly cleaning herself.
Suddenly three large muscle bound female inmates entered the showers slowly advancing upon her. Sekai's eyes widened in fear as Otome realized the danger, but they swiftly overpowered her throwing her against a wall. Lelouch turned off the television set before turning his head towards a terrified Sekai.
"I am sorry did you wish to watch the rest of that? It gets quite graphic, but that's nothing compared to what Taisuke got…he's finding out what being on the other end of being raped is like. And he said it was ok for him to try to force himself on Kotonoha, but now he is experiencing what she almost suffered."
Sekai didn't need a further explanation as she realized that Otome was being or has already been raped by other female inmates of the prison she's in while Taisuke has obviously suffered a similar fate, but from Lelouch's words it was more brutal and painful than what Otome had likely endured.
"Interesting she had no problems giving herself so willing to another boy like it was nothing, but now it seems she is not willing to conduct such things with her fellow inmates."
Lelouch mused before gesturing for Sekai to get up, but as she did more of her ruined school uniform was falling off. Drawing a dagger from his side Lelouch turned around facing Sekai as the girl's eyes went wide. Without a word Lelouch skillfully used the knife to cut the few areas of her attire that kept it together before it all came apart leaving the girl in only her undergarments and thigh-long black socks left.
Seeing the look on Sekai's face Lelouch spoke again, but after putting away the dagger he proceeded to remove the helmet.
"I am sorry I thought you were into that kind of thing allowing people you considered merely as friends to strip you, but would it have been better if I had been wearing this face."
Lelouch asked as he removed his helmet, but instead of his own face he used his Shapeshifting powers to assume Makoto's face as his armor and helmet vanished leaving Sekai standing before an almost perfect doppelganger of Makoto in his school uniform, save for the flame-like cat eyes the Makoto double before her possessed.
"I have so many faces…does this one work better for you?"
"What are you? Why are you doing this to us?"
"Heh…I am the surprise…I am the one people never see coming, but why I am doing this is simple. That little shit Makoto fucked up a good deal I had almost going with the Katsura Family. He didn't just piss off the JLF…he pissed off someone a lot more dangerous…me."
Lelouch led Sekai into Makoto's bedroom which had been cleared out of most of his things save for his mattress and its bed frame. A number of troubling images came into Sekai's mind as she began struggling like mad than ever before, but once more her body wasn't obeying her and worse yet she realized she couldn't scream let alone shout.
Speaking was all she was allowed to do.
The Dark Lord obviously growing tired to Makoto's face shifted to another face that Lelouch thought was more suitable…Sekai's, but like the face he had assumed moments ago his flame-like cat eyes remained. Appearing behind the terrified woman the Dark Lord whispered into her ear as he put his hands on her shoulders sending shivers down her spine.
His hands slowly moved down her arms as he told her using her own voice this time.
"That face annoyed me, so how about this one?"
"Please…" Sekai begged not wanting things to continue. "Just kill me…"
"Kill you? Why would I do that?"
Lelouch asked coldly as he turned Sekai around forcing the girl to face him as the girl's heart began racing like mad, but disturbingly another part of her was enjoying this. Her mind knew it was wrong, but yet her body was responding differently. The Dark Lord grinned maliciously as he stoked her cheek before inquiring.
"Are you really enjoying this? So tell me Sekai are you a control freak, someone who meddles in the lives of others or someone who just likes to see lives destroyed instead?" Lelouch spoke as his voice reverted to Makoto's.
"No…I am not…I…" Sekai said as she began crying.
"Then explain why you and Makoto began having an affair after successfully pairing him with Kotonoha?"
"Because…he told me Kotonoha was boring and he wanted the relationship to become sexual between them, but I guess Kotonoha didn't want to she was always afraid of males."
"Yet she warmed up to Makoto."
"I told Kotonoha was trying to advance it too quickly, but Makoto became more drawn to me. I…I…"
"You had your reservations didn't you?"
"Yes, but…I…I shouldn't, but…" Sekai said as tears of regret were streaming from her eyes.
"But the truth is that you actually liked himself yourself is that right? You wanted to make Makoto happy so you thought pairing him with Kotonoha would work, but Makoto obvious wanted more…physical interaction…than actual love."
Sekai was crying unable to speak any further, but Lelouch knew it was the truth and he knew it when he had read her mind.
"I should have rejected him, but…I wanted him."
"Why didn't you just tell Makoto from the start and not involve Kotonoha? So much trouble and pain could have easily been avoided, or you could have just come clean to Kotonoha yourself?"
"I wanted Makoto to tell her, but…"
"You may have wanted him, but obvious he wasn't satisfied with one girl, Otome gave herself to him simply as selling bread at the market. How so many of you have your minds in the gutter and giving yourselves over to men so easily disturbs even me. But yet even knowing this you still care for that sex addict who cheated on Kotonoha with you and then cheated on you with Otome."
"I just don't know anymore…so just kill me please."
Lelouch didn't respond right away, but instead he silently commanded Sekai to get onto the bed as her mind was alarmed where this was going. However Lelouch had no intention of raping her, but he was scaring the hell out of her for a confession as well as prove to her his power and the fact that her life is in his hands. Sekai laid down on the bed as Lelouch hovered over her with his face an inch away from hers looking her square in the eye.
"Didn't I tell I have no intention of killing you? I don't even plan on raping you as you seem to think."
"What?" Sekai said as some sense of relief came, but…
"Yet you are wondering why all this then? I want you to realize just how powerless you are against me and I have so many ways of making your life a living hell. Even death wouldn't offer any escape, because I could easily condemn you to something a lot worse. Take for example how I am controlling your body like a puppet. I could will you to walk off the roof, jump off a building or take a knife and cut your own throat."
The Dark Lord warned as he ran his finger along her face before running it down her neck and across her collar bone
"Or I could do worse and just make you my slave…wiping out your mind and rewriting it would be a simple task for one such as me, but you are not worth the effort. You're cute for sure, but not worth any effort on my part. This body I was reborn in is a virgin, so I don't want to waste it on someone like you. Someone more worthy and worth my love will have reservation someday."
"Then why don't you just kill me?"
"Killing you would mean the death of an innocent."
"What?"
Lelouch began to remove himself from Sekai, but not before pointing to her womb.
"Another lesson you obviously forgot to teach Makoto…about birth control and protection. You carry his child within you. It's his child yes, but it hasn't even entered this world yet so it's innocent. That alone convinces me to spare you, but there is Kotonoha to consider."
Lelouch replied as he stood up as Kotonoha entered the room. Sekai was of course shocked to see her alive as her body moved to get out of bed and stand up facing the Dark Lord and Kotonoha who simply looked at her without a sign of any emotion on her face.
"How…how is she…?"
"Alive…I had her death faked, but your fate is now in her hands. We agreed that you will live so the child can be born, but your life will depend on his survival and upbringing. You failed badly as a matchmaker, but now your life depends on how well you can be a parent to that child. If he or she grows to be a model law abiding citizen with a better moral compass than you and Makoto had then you'll live. But if he falters off the right path and becomes another Makoto or something worse then there will be…grave consequences."
Kotonoha looked at Sekai with an emotionless expression on her face feeling no sorrow or pity for her.
"I would say don't tell anyone else about our deal, but who would believe you? Yet just to be safe you'll be placed under a spell not to speak of us unless I allow it." Lelouch spoke as the spells that kept Sekai's body under Lelouch's control came undone as the girl's body slumped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
Kotonoha didn't say a word as she Lelouch left the sobbing Sekai on the ground as she just laid there crying.
A short time later on the roof Lelouch and Kotonoha were alone as the Dark Lord reverted back to his natural from as Lelouch Lamperouge. The young man gazed out at the city while Kotonoha stood behind him wondering about something before asking.
"What happens now?"
"Right now I'll have the Witch King take you and your sister to his hideout until I can make some arrangements for you two to be able to blend in with society since as far as the world knows you are both dead."
"But will I see you?"
"Of course Kotonoha, but for your sake its best you and your sister go into hiding with the Witch King for a little awhile."
"Ok…" Kotonoha said sadly, but Lelouch approached her holding her close to him.
"It will be for a short time."
Kotonoha smiled resting her head against Lelouch as she held him.
"I hope so…I…I like you."
"So do I."
'I'll burn the old world down and from the ashes build a better and more peaceful world for all of you. Especially for you Sakura, Nunnally, Kokoro and you Kotonoha, as the Dark Lord I shall do this, destruction shall come before reformation and the entire world will be shaken to its foundations as a new world shall arise.'
Lelouch thought as he looked out at the horizon trying to see what laid ahead for him, but for all of his power he couldn't see the future. Yet he knew he must prevail for the sake of a better world.
'Those who are powerless…seek me out…those with power fear me, for I am the Dark Lord and I shall pass judgment on this world.'
One story had ended, but another would soon begin where many paths would intersect with others which would bring the world closer to destruction or reformation.
A/N: Whew I completed this short story and I have to confess I didn't expect to type anything so dark, but I hope I didn't go too far. For Sekai its worse for her to live in constant fear that something really bad will happen to her while her friends have either been killed or worse. Now that this is done I can work on completing chapter 8 of Return of the Dark Lord, unless I decided to include one final bonus chapter for this story.
Although I announced it in the last chapter, but I reset the poll and included a lot of new choices and more variety to choose from after some suggestions from friends. So go to my profile and cast your vote and I'll likely keep it open until I get at least 30 or 40 votes…more would be great, but please I hope for no ties lol.
Anyway thanks for reading and check out Return of the Dark Lord on more of Kotonoha and Lelouch's growing relationship as she by that point has been given the ceremonial title Queen of the Nazgul. I'll be looking forward to the reviews.