I am Alive!
Hello, I am back, sorry for the long wait.
Got Lazy, got Distracted, got ganged up on by School Work.
I do not own Codes Geass or any other recognizable of work.
Please note that you I will write this story to where you should have watched should Geass to know what the heck I am talking about.
Spoilers Ahead, by the way.
Let's get started.
After leaving the headmaster's office, I make my way towards the club house where Lelouch and Nunnally should be living. I decide to go around back, that way I would lessen the chances of running into anyone, even though I am hidden within the shadows, because seeing a shadow, no matter ho faint, moving all on its own is more then enough to cause someone to panic.
As I swiftly move through the shadows, I notice someone moving about in the dark near back entrance. Wondering who it might be, and after preparing myself for a fight if need be, I approach the figure. I travel through the ground, up the wall, and then exit out on top of the roof, out of sight. With my enhanced eyesight being able to work to its fullest out side of the shadow realm, I recognize that the individual is actually Lelouch sneaking back from Shinjuku.
'Well, it is definitely good to see that he made out alive and well. How exactly, I have no idea' I muse to myself as he makes his way back inside 'probably Geassed someone into giving him a ride or something.' After he disappears inside, I dive back into the shadows and move into the ceiling and watch events play out. He greets his sister, apologizing for being late and making her worrying, and asked Sayoko to take her to her room. As Sayoko left with Nunnally, Lelouch all slowly, almost trudging, towards his room. This did not last long as the psychological impact of what he has ordered and personally done finally catches up with him.
With a speed that surprises me, knowing that Lelouch is completely unfit, he rushes for the bathroom. I decide to retreat further into the shadow realm as he pukes his guts, and begin planning how I should initiate contact.
'I could just introduce myself to him right now, save the time and just get it over with' I think to myself, but then remember that he does have Geass and is quite paranoid, especially if he thinks that Nunnally might be in danger. I am able to mentally overpower and utterly brain melt someone beyond recognition which gives a few points in my favor. However I would rather not test my luck against something that utterly destroys Free Will, no matter how powerfully the victim's will is, without some kind of back-up plan.
'I could also decide to introduce myself on the train during the meeting with core members' I also reason to myself, then notice that Lelouch has finally stopped hacking up his internal organs and has stumbled into his room, looking pale and exhausted. 'Yeah I'll just introduce myself to them when he does the meeting with Kallen and company. Lelouch has already been through enough as it was today, the last thing he needs is some creature appearing out of nowhere and telling him that his father is trying to open the gates of Hell.' I then begin moving out of his house when an idea strikes me. It could definitely put me on Lelouch's good side in the long run, while also plucking at the good desires in me. My decision made, I move quickly and quietly through the shadows and enter into Nunnally's room.
Nunnally herself is quietly asleep, and Sayoko is not in the room at the moment. After double checking to make sure the ninja-maid isn't clinging to the wall like a spider or hiding behind anything do I emerge from the shadows, a black smoke silently gushing out and materializing into the cloaked form I have become so familiar with. I silently glide forward across the floor, observant and alert for any alarm system. I briefly run into a problem with an invisible, to a normal person's eyes, laser system, wired to set off an alarm in the event that one of the laser beams are broken. . They are arrayed around Nunnally's bed to form a tight grid pattern, the gaps in between laser's too small far a hand, much less a body to fit through. The problem that I have with it is that I almost didn't notice it. I solve this problem by simply diving into my own shadow and reappear inside the laser grid. After taking a second glance around I notice a camera observing the room. I also solve this problem by summoning a shadow whip its own shadow and turned off the camera, after deleting the video stored on it.
I proceed towards Nunnally, noting that she looks totally fine right now while in bed and asleep. The harsh reality is that she is both blinded and crippled, crippled when she was caught in the crossfire of her mother's assassination, while blinded by her father's Geass, Emperor Charles Vi Britannia. I come to a halt directly next to the bed, towering over her sleeping form. With the knowledge on how my powers work at the forefront, I reach out and I take her head with one hand and lightly touch her leg with a finger, and began my work.
Unlike with Commander, who I literally brain melted and rebuilt his brain from scratch, I want to keep Nunnally relatively unchanged. Meaning I couldn't just charge in and just start dropping mental nukes everywhere, I would have to be much more surgical and precise in this mental incursion. I would need to search for and destroy the Geass placed on Nunnally without breaking anything at all, if possible.
I dive into to Nunnally's mind and see the world of Nunnally's subconscious for the first time. The sky is a clear blue, with fluffy clouds dotting the sky, but lacked any kind of sun, simply having an omnipresent light. Appear to be on a draw bridge leading to a grand castle, the kind found only in the likes of fairytales. All around the castle are great, lush plains, massive and foreboding forests and towering mountains, quiet sentinels looming in the distance.
'That must be Nunnally's mind, or at least how it appears in the dreamscape' I take off, racing down the draw bridge, heading for the portcullis, and the castle. The interior of the castle is no less impressive than the outside, I note, as I race down the hallways, searching for her memories. I quickly notice that the when I go higher up, the halls grow cold, lose some of their color, and grow blurry slightly.
"Up it is then," I remark to myself. I search for the nearest stair case and begin my ascension. It is on the second level I begin to encounter entities, wisps of light lazily floating down the halls and through the doors, open or close. As pass them, they stop and float in place, and I feel as if I am being observed by someone. They do not interfere with me, so I let them be, and continue my journey. Five floors later and an increasing number of wisps, I come into contact with what is possibly the subconscious defense of Nunnally's mind. It is roughly humanoid in shape, though that was where the similarities ended. It stands almost ten feet tall, and it is a dull bronze color. Its body is extremely thin, with sharpened spires stick out of its back, and its arms and legs look similar to extended needles. Its head is a large, flat disk on a thin neck, with a glowing band in the middle of the disk. I noticed that on its head is Geass symbol, attached to the being like a parasite, with a small translucent chain attached to the back of its head that quickly disappeared.
I notice it and it notices me at roughly the same time, and it explodes into action. It managed to cover a nearly 100 foot distance in less then a second, and if my mental capabilities been that of a normal person's, it would have ripped me to shreds. That was not the case however, as I lashed out with my mental whips, clear silvery versions of my shadow whips in the dreamscape, and overpowered and temporarily suppressed it, since I did not want to permanently damage Nunnally's natural dreamscape since it was essentially her mind. The last thing I need is to destroy something in here and come back to real world to find that I turned Nunnally into a drooling idiot or comatose vegetable. Not a very good first impression to give to the guy who will ultimately defeat the strongest fighting force to date, multiple times, and could turn you into his mindless slave. I rush past the thrashing, yet immobile guardian, and continue onward and upward through the castle halls, dodging and overpowering the rapidly increasing number of corrupted guardians.
"Okay, this better be close, because theses guys are really getting on my nerves" I growl, as I suppress another group of guardians, while dodging a strike from behind from another one. One of my mental whips lashed out and sent in careening down the hall that I had came from, putting it out of commission. I continue to move onward through the seemingly endless halls, searching for my prize, Nunnally's memories. Again, more of the corrupted guardians confront me, and once more I defeated them, and charged pass them, following the cold sensation and rapidly disappearing halls. After running for so long, I began to think that there would be no end to this, for the hall I had been traveling through had quickly disappeared entirely, replaced with a blank whiteness, when things changed suddenly. The white hallway changed so abruptly that I was taken surprised as I entered a massive hall, with enormous pillars supporting the arched ceiling, and countless windows filled with stained glass, giving off the a Cathedral like appearance. The atmosphere in here was practically artic and pale blue fire lined the walls to my right and left, stretching from end to end of the room in small ditches.
I looked behind me saw the entrance I had come from was nothing but pure white. Brushing that off, I continued onwards down the massive area to the other side, from which the cold sensation emanated from, but stopped. Standing there at the end of the Cathedral was a massive figure waiting for me. It was shaped like the previous guardians except it was easily over 50 feet tall and was jet black. It also had crude claws instead of needle points for and hands and feet, clutched in its hand where a massive pair of what look like metal kanabos. Unlike the other guardians, this creature had a numerous glowing Geass symbols, which seemed to be a natural part of it unlike the other guardians. There also seemed to be translucent chains stretching out and wrapping around something glowing at the end of the room
"Oh so your the source of all of this," I stated darkly, drawing my sword and aiming at the mental manifestation of Charles's Geass "I have had enough of this, now it's time to die!" I take off for the creature, and it rockets towards me. It swings its the right kanabo at me, intending to crush me and finish the fight immediately. I stop short and jump over the weapon as it smashes into the ground, and land on the weapon. Seeing me on the kanabo, the manifestation flails it weapon upwards. Being unprepared for the sudden acceleration, I hurtled upwards before slamming into the roof of the Cathedral. Growling, I push of against the ceiling and hurtled towards the being swing my sword and soring a deep hit on the being. The slash spilt open a part of the creatures head and chest, spilling a blood red light before sealing back together as if nothing even happened.
Roaring with anger, the manifestation raised both its kanabos and swung them in a massive double overhand strike. I dodge to the left as the strike obliterates the ground I was recently standing upon. Seeing that its prey escaped, the manifestation lunge across sweeping the its right kanabo at me in a low swipe. Seeing the strike coming, I leap over the speeding weapon only to find the left one speeding towards me.
The manifestation had lead me into a trap, and the weapon was moving to fast to dodge. It smashes into me and sends me sailing across the room and into one of the columns, but this hardly fazes me, as I dive to the side as the creature obliterates the pillar it had smashed me into. As it turned around I lashed out at it with my whips, piercing its body, and grabbing one of its limbs. The Manifestation struggles furiously and tries to smash my whips but I don't allow it a second of respite as the whips grow countless thorn and blades that slice, stab and carve their own attacks, keeping them at bay. I then retract the whips while they are still lodged in it and shoot across the distance.
I smash into it hard, sending it skidding across the ground with me on top of its chest, and I bury my sword into the area that is roughly its chest with a large Geass mark on it, eliciting a roar of pain and rage. It throws me off it and when it get up, it lunges at me as I land, trying to grab me with its clawed hands, abandoning the kanabos, but I stand and defend against the storm of blows, strikes, and grabs with a barrage of sword slashes and whip strikes of my own, though strikes did manage to make it through my defense. Red light poured from countless wounds on it, appearing and disappearing as it suffers damage yet regenerates from it. I too bleed, a golden liquid flowing from numerous wounds across my body, slowly regenerating but not nearly as fast as the manifestation.
A lucky heavy hit that got through my defenses sent me soaring through the air and sprawling across the ground, near the glowing object, which radiates a hellish chill, worse then that of the manifestation. I see that behind the glow is a crystal with a storm of Geass symbols raging within and is connected to the chains attached to the manifestation as well as many that stretch into the air disappear . I finally connect the dots and realize that it this the source of the manifestation's power and what is enslaving the guardians. I sweat drop at the realization that all I needed to do is break this crystal to win the fight and destroy the Geass laid upon Nunnally.
'Seriously?! That is what all it takes, I could have avoided this whole duel if I had known about it!'
The manifestation must have seen that I had figured out its weakness, if the roar of rage and panic was anything to go bye. I laugh as I raise my sword into hands and swung at the crystal. Right as the sword was about the strike it, a white barrier formed around, preventing me from damaging it and shrill shriek emanated from it. I struggle as I try to force the blade through the barrier, when I feel the room shake and the roar of the Manifestation reaches new levels of anger. Looking back, I pale as the manifestation charging forward like a run away train, intent on destroying me and without a single scratch on it.
As the being approached, a plan formed in my head. Seeing as how my sword wasn't nearly enough, this might be my only chance. So I stand in front of the crystal, watching the manifestation charge forward, before the it leapt in the air, it twin kanabos held behind its head as it shot across the remaining distance, and brought it kanabos down with the force of a meteor strike. Sadly for it, the strike would never connect, for I lunge aside at the last second, and allow the kanabos to smash into the crystal's barrier. The barrier's screech became so loud for a moment that I went deaf from the noise, before the barrier exploded.
The burst of energy devastated the manifestation, throwing it halfway across the Cathedral. It completely destroyed its kanabos and left it covered in wounds and missing it left arm and right leg. Even the Cathedral suffered damaged, cracks appearing in the glass and columns, from which a bright light and warmth emanated from. I managed to hide behind a pillar, protecting myself from the blast. Seeing my chance, I race out from my pillar and directly towards the Crystal. A screech of terror reaches my ears from manifestation, seeing that I was about to destroy the crystal. Lunging forward, I swing my sword with all of my might.
"This is finished, this Geass will plague Nunnally no more, DIE!" I roar as my sword obliterates the crystal, causing it to explode and the manifestation to scream in agony and burst apart, leaving behind a softly glowing figure. I never got a good look at the figure as explosions tore apart the dark cathedral, letting in light once more, though I could have sworn it was a glowing Nunnally in a outfit fit for a queen. Then the explosions consumed me and everything went white.
I snap awake, and looking around the room confused and slightly disoriented, wondering where I was, then remembered where I was and what I was doing. I looked down at Nunnally and see that she is still asleep, though appears to be quite happy, as if she was having a good dream. Deciding to be cautious, I send a probe through her mind and noted with satisfaction that the Geass is indeed gone and that the suppressed guardians are no longer corrupted and suppressed and are still defending her mind.
Satisfied with my search and knowing the Geass is gone, I now direct my attention towards her physical body, her inability to walk in particular.
I instinctively knew that I wouldn't be able to outright heal Nunnally's injury's, I however could significantly speed up her body's own healing abilities by giving her some of my own. I close myself out to the world and proceed to harmonize myself with Nunnally, placing all of my vitals, heart beat, and breathing in perfect sync with Nunnally's. For my regenerative ability to take affect and pass on to her, I needed to have a wound, so I draw my sword and slice my left hand, which is currently touching her. At first the steel of my sword fails to cut, the armor proving too strong, but at my command, it relaxes and opened up, allowing me access the flesh beneath. As the steel slices through, I feel my regenerative ability take effect rapidly closing the wound. I focus in on this and remove some of it and implanted it within Nunnally. As I feel it leave, I note that her body has already begun accepting and incorporating it, and the its was already beginning to take effect.
Through the harmonizing with her, I feel the nerves in her legs and back slowly begin to come back to life, as muscles begin to grow and repair once more, how the bones begin to harden after years of inactivity and lack of true weight. The process will easily take a few weeks to bring Nunnally back up to a 100% due fully repairing entire sections of nervous system, the muscles in her legs, and a large portion of her lower skeletal structure takes a long time with a minor regeneration effect. Her body wouldn't be able to handle the strain of a more powerful regenerative, she would already need a higher amount of food and calories to help keep up her body regeneration. Overall, though, the long period of time is perfectly acceptable because she is more likely to survive then a full blown regeneration.
Seeing that I have done as much I could hope to safely do to help Nunnally, mentally and physically, I de-harmonize with her and stepped back when I remembered that there are laser tripwires behind me... 'thwick thwick thwick' !
I dive to side as several kunai streak downwards at were I was, I look to where they originated while slowing down time slightly only for me to have to whip out my sword to block a kunai aimed for my 'face'. Standing above me while trying drive kunai into my 'face' was none other than Sayoko the NINJA-maid, with a look of surprise on her face. This lasted less then a second as she jumped back to stand in front of Nunnally's bed, a kunai in both hands now, sending a death glare at me. I bring my sword up into a defensive position, seeing as I do not want reveal to much about my capabilities as well as not wanting to harm Sayoko. Sayoko, on the other hand, had no such qualms and sped towards me. Seeing that she wasn't going to let up without a fight, I raised my sword and lunge forward. My sword met her kunai, and once again we struggle against each other.
"Who are you?! What are you doing with Lady Nunnally?!" Sayoko hisses in Japanese, murder in her eyes. Deciding to not answer that question, I force her back with my superior strength, and sent her across the room. I lunge after her, swing the flat of the blade at her to knock her out, though once again, I underestimate Sayoko skills as a ninja. Somehow how, she managed to recover in midair and threw several Kunai at me before landing at the ready once more. Seeing the kunais racing towards me, I unconsciously summoned several shadow whips from my shadow, which easily catch them and proceeded to throw the back at Sayoko three time as fast.
Sayoko eyes widen in fear, and she struggled to dodge the accelerate kunais, taking several nicks and cuts from the flying projectiles. Ending back up in front of the still sleeping form of Nunnally, she looked at me looked at me with fear and apprehension. However it did not last long, for it was replaced steadfast resolve. Sayoko brought her twin kunais up, and readied herself.
"You will not have her Oni, I will die before I let any harm come to either of my charges" Sayoko says to me, Ready for round two. I on the other hand, I was mentally exhausted at this pointed, though I manage to hide this from her. I only stand there thoughts flying through my head.
'Ugh, this is taking to long, this is going to suck, but I will have to do it if I want to get out of here quietly. Plus, Sayako thinks I am some kind of demon, so I am going to have some explaining to do' I quietly grimace to myself, the ache in my body becoming more apparent as I bring my sword up. 'I can't remove her memories right now, because of the sheer state of my mental exhaustion.'
I sigh internally 'I am going to have to do, or else I will risk complications to my future plans and if I run, she might chase after me.' Groaning to myself, I place the my sword in its scabbard, standing there with non-existent eyes boring into Sayoko, causing the woman to tense. Faster than humanly possible, I lunge forward with all of my the strength in my legs, straight at Sayako. The Ninja-maid is caught of guard by the sheer speed of my approach, and she is unable to intercept to block my outstretched hand. I clamp down on her head with my hands and summon shadow whips to hold her limbs in place, all the while Sayoko struggles in fear at the situation.
Uncoiling mental whips, I quickly delve into her memoires, and went about burying every last one that contained me within it. All the while eye could feel the strength leave me. At the very limits of my mental strength, I knocked her unconscious and buried the last memories before releasing her. Allowing her to slowly slump to the ground, I dove into a nearby shadow, and was utterly shocked as it felt like I been dunked in ice water. The mental exhaustion faded away, still there, but no where nearly as acute. I swam through the shadows, up the wall and out the roof.
'Can Sayoko turn invisible or was I just that unaware of her presence...' I think to myself, feeling energy slowly beginning to return to me, but still exhausted. Emerging onto the roof, I begin the trek to find my room.
Moments later Sayoko regained consciousness, and immediately realized something was wrong. She was supposed to be out in the kitchen, doing an inventory on supplies for her charges. Yet she was here in Nunnally room, with kunais embedded in the walls and floor. Most disturbingly of all was that she couldn't remember how she arrived here, save for a single memory before every thing became blurry, of a large Black Figure hunched over Nunnally, with a sword in hand, golden liquid running of it.
Remembering this, Sayoko heart caught in her chest. She rushed over to Nunnally to check if she was alright, completely missing the fleeting black figure in a tattered cloak jumping across rooftops.
Alright, Done!
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