Hello again! Sorry if this one's extremely late, another busy day. Anyway, Lelouch and Diethard are now in Lust and I decided to give the main type of enemies found in Lust, the temptresses a bit more of a personality as the directors did in the movie, but I added my own little touches also, and I want to make one thing known real quick. There will be no DiethardxLelouch of any kind in the story in case any of you were thinking that as it says in the summery, this is LelouchxC.C. and in this chapter I make a small DiethardxRakshata reference here.
Chapter 5: Love's Labour's Lost
Lelouch took a look around the scenery and into the abyss below. The ground and, in fact all the rocks were a shade of purple like that of Cornelia's hair and the fog over the abyss below was also the same kind of pink. "You said this was Lust?"
"Yes." Diethard began. "Souls condemned here suffer for letting their desire overcome reason and better judgment. Here lies Achilles, Helen of Troy, Paris, Tristan, and many others. Personally, I would like to get through here quickly. This place always gives me the creeps, especially this circle's ruler."
Lelouch and Diethard began walking down the purple path in silence until Lelouch said "This circle has a ruler?"
"Indeed, she was given power over this circle by Lucifer even though she too was one of the souls sent here along with here last lover, who you could consider second in command."
"Who are they?" Lelouch asked as they came near the end of the purple path and instead saw a path made of white stones with brass statues, four on path sides, of men and woman looking at each other. Some had arms while some didn't.
"The great Cleopatra, last pharaoh of Egypt and Marc Antony, her last lover." Diethard said before a rumbling sound could be heard and a great tower shot out of the ground at the end of the white, stone path.
Afterwards, a stomping sound could be heard and Lelouch saw a giant woman wearing a blue and gold headdress, have bright purple skin, and was practically naked climb the tower. The woman looked towards Lelouch and Diethard before saying "Looking for someone?" She then hissed and continued climbing the tower. In her wake, a pink and purple storm began to rise out of the ground surrounding the tower with purple lightning showing up around it.
Soon after, dark spots began to appear in and go around the storm. Lelouch figured they were rocks and pieces of debris until one got loose of the storm and crashed into the ground near Lelouch. He then saw what the debris really was, it was souls. "The punishment for committing lust…" Diethard began "Is to forever be flung around in a never ending maelstrom. Never stopping, never slowing down, much like the way they followed their lust while alive."
Lelouch looked at the soul that crashed and recognized it as a woman. "Who's she?"
"That is Semiramis, once an Assyrian queen who was known for having uncontrollable carnal cravings. To prevent people from accusing her of committing lustful crimes, she made legal the very things the souls here are damned for." Diethard said, knowing full well Lelouch detested people who abused their powers, especially those that were rulers.
"Please help me!" Semiramis said, looking at Lelouch. "I can make it worth your while! Money, my body, the bodies of countless women! Please, just help me!"
Lelouch walked over to her with a fake smile and said "Sure." However, instead of give Semiramis a hand, he grabbed his scythe, which turned into its sword form, and stabbed it into her chest. "I'll help you…regret your actions." Lelouch said before kicking her off his sword and into the abyss. Lelouch then watched her fall down until she dissolved into ashes and the ashes fell beneath the abyss' clouds, most likely dissolving into nothing.
"You good?" Diethard asked. "If we want to get to the next circle, you'll probably have to climb the tower."
"Never better." Lelouch said before returning his scythe back to normal and sheathing it. When Lelouch was about to walk along the white path, a bolt of purple lightning shot out of the storm and at the first pair of statues and they, in turn, shot lightning at the ground between them, creating a half-sphere of lightning that moved towards Lelouch until it hit the next pair of statues that did the same, only this time, the sphere grew bigger. The same thing happened at the third pair and then went at Lelouch, skipping the fourth pair altogether, and would've hit Lelouch if it wasn't for the fact that he was already out of the line of fire by the time the lightning blast reached the second statue pair. "For a powerful attack, it's pretty predictable." Lelouch said as another one had just finished charging at the first pair.
"Yes, but you have no room to evade once you're on the white path." Diethard said as the lightning half-sphere began charging at the third pair.
"Then I guess I've got to move quickly." Lelouch said as the attack zoomed past him and at that moment he sprinted down the path. He figured that if he can pass the second statue pair before the sphere starts charging there, he could jump over it. Unfortunately, as if the lightning sphere knew what Lelouch was planning, it's speed between the statues increased and by the time Lelouch was in between the second and third pair, The lightning attack came charging at him. Lelouch quickly pulled out his scythe and struck the half-sphere. While Lelouch was able to stop the sphere from going any farther, he couldn't get the attack to dissipate. Worse yet, the attack kept pressing on. "Don't think…" Lelouch said while holding his own against the lightning attack. "…this will…stop…ME!" Lelouch said and with all of his strength, was able to knock the sphere in the opposite direction, sailing past the statues and collided with the storm, making a hole in it, showing an entrance into the tower. Lelouch wasted no time an ran towards the opening, jumping over the new lightning attack that was still forming at the first pair, and finally made it in.
"Welcome." The voice of a woman said seductively.
Lelouch turned to see a woman with tied up hair, pale green skin, and robes that only covered the 'important' areas of her top and bottom. "Sorry, but I'm busy right now.
"Hey, come on, don't be like that!" A second one, looking the same as the first, said and grabbed Lelouch's arm.
"After all, you attracted so many women to you in high school. Personal feelings aside, I'm sure that you or, at least, they had an urge to do it." A third said moving very close to Lelouch and putting her face in front of his face. "And even outside of high school, you still had eager women and best of all there were a few women that you were truly attracted to." The third woman said moving her face away from Lelouch's, showing him three women that transformed into perfect copies of Milly, Shirley, and Kallen, albeit their clothing was the same as the other women.
"Come on Lelouch, you know you want it." The pseudo-Milly said, winking at Lelouch.
Lelouch began to slowly walk forward towards them. 'Why can't I stop myself?' Lelouch thought. 'I admit I felt something towards them, but nothing this drastic… or did I?' Lelouch then got less tense and when he saw a pseudo-C.C., he couldn't stop himself and hugged the pseudo-C.C. who also embraced Lelouch.
"Stop it Lelouch, get a hold of yourself!" Diethard shouted, but Lelouch paid no attention to him and came out of the hug with the pseudo-C.C., but still had his hands on her shoulders. "Remember your reason for coming here! Remember who you truly came here for!" Diethard shouted, but couldn't say anything else because a woman took the form of Rakshata and put her arms around him. Diethard resisted at first, but was soon entranced as well.
Lelouch drew in close to kiss the pseudo-C.C. when a voice rang in his head 'Lelouch. Lelouch! Come on, you idiot! If you want to do it with me that badly, do it to the real me at least. On second thought, how about you forget what I just said and just snap out of it. I don't care; just snap out of it and save me!'
Lelouch widened his eyes and stopped. The pseudo-C.C looked at him curiously. "Something wrong?" She asked.
"No…" Lelouch said as he fully snapped out of it. "Nothing's wrong." he said, but at the same time, took out his scythe and cut the pseudo-C.C. in two, reverting back into its true form before disintegrating.
Lelouch then turned his scythe into its spear form and shot it at the pseudo-Rakshata as she was about to kiss Diethard, but before she could, the spear blade pierced her head, stopping short of Diethard's head, before retracting it. "Thanks Lelouch, but that was cutting it a bit too close."
Lelouch smirked at the comment, but quickly moved back as the pseudo-Milly, Shirley, and Kallen dropped their disguises and all of the women revealed their true form: Their nails grew to become much longer and their robes vanished. One of them leaned back, showing and pointing her vagina towards Lelouch and a giant, scorpion tail-like tendril shot out of it and towards Lelouch who dodged it quite easily. However, another woman did the same. This time though, Lelouch grabbed it and swung the woman towards the others. All of them tried to get up, but were met by a barrage of cross attacks. After firing his thirtieth cross blast, Lelouch unsheathed his scythe and went in for the kill. The women, too weak, from the holy bombardment, couldn't do anything against Lelouch's attacks and were soon made quick work of. After all of them were dead Lelouch said "It's a good thing C.C. gave me a mental scolding, or we would be entranced for good. What were those things anyway?"
"Women who once lived with so much lust in them are now the incarnation of that very thing. Servants of Cleopatra, they seduce intruders and enslave them with just one kiss." Diethard said.
"Then it really is a good thing C.C. snapped me out of it." Lelouch said before walking onto the next level, where a giant platform, whose diameter was almost as wide as the tower, was. The moment Lelouch stepped onto the platform; the platform shook and began to rise up the tower like an elevator.
Lelouch thought that it would be safe to relax during the ride, but that idea crumpled as soon as he heard thumping sounds and saw Cleopatra climbing the tower at the same speed the platform was rising. "Going somewhere?" Cleopatra said as she broke through the tower with her hand and swatted the platform.
In response to this, Lelouch shot his scythe out onto a higher part of the tower and pulled himself up, avoiding falling down to his death or getting crushed by the platform. However, when he saw that the platform was in one piece and still going up, Lelouch took his scythe out of the wall and dropped onto the platform. Lelouch's troubles weren't over yet, though, Cleopatra stopped the platform again, except this time she just held it down with her left hand while some weird, yellow fluid came out of her right breast, or nipple to be exact. Then three unbaptized babies came crawling out of her nipple followed by a tongue which wagged a bit before going back into her nipple. She then grabbed the three babies with her right hand and placed them on the platform.
'Seems like I will have to add child abuser to my list of crimes.' Lelouch though and then sighed before attacking the babies. They showed little resistance, but soon after the last one was slain, Cleopatra placed six more babies, all ready to attack Lelouch, on the platform. Lelouch easily took care of them, but realized that if this keeps up, he will get tired and killed. His attention then turned to Cleopatra's left hand that was holding down the platform. Lelouch did a powerful downward slash attack on the hand, making Cleopatra retract it and almost lost her balance and fall off the tower, if it wasn't for her legs which were wrapped around the tower.
"Ugh, you brat!" Lelouch heard Cleopatra scream as the platform he was on kept on going up after he got Cleopatra to remove her hand. Soon, the platform came to a stop near a flight of stairs that Lelouch assumed would take him to the top. As Lelouch came to the top, he saw in the middle a king sized bed with a familiar green haired women sitting on it.
"C.C.!" Lelouch shouted and ran to her, only to stop as Lucifer appeared next to C.C.
"Sorry boy, but as close as you came, you're not close enough." Lucifer said before he snapped his fingers and handcuffs bound C.C.'s hands and feet. "She's mine right now, and if you want her, you better bring a jacket, cause it's cold where I am." Lucifer smiled.
"You better save me fast Lelouch or I won't forgive you." C.C. said with her same, everyday tone, but her eyes showed that she was really saying 'Please, help me.' Lelouch understood this and ran towards them, but they just lied down on the bed and vanished. It was at that point that Cleopatra reached the top.
"Wow, I must say, you have it rough. Girl gets stolen and now you're going through all of Hell for her." Cleopatra said. "You must really like her body to do all this."
"It's not like that! I truly care about her. I…I… I love her damn it!" Lelouch stammered out, glad C.C. didn't hear that.
"Then show me how strong your love is!" Cleopatra said before a figure appeared out of dark-purple smoke. He was incredibly buff, had a large sword and shield, and had armor that fused into his skin and at the top became claws that forced his mouth and eyes to be open. "Antony." Cleopatra said.
"Mistress, let me have him." Antony said, looking at Lelouch.
'So he must be Marc Antony.' Lelouch thought as he took out his scythe.
"Alright." Cleopatra said as Antony charged Lelouch.
'Be surprised if he was a pushover.' Lelouch thought as he jumped over Antony and tried to strike from behind, but Antony managed to block with his shield and tried to hit Lelouch with his sword, but Lelouch jumped back before he got hit and fired off a few cross attacks that all connected, but showed to visible damage on Antony. 'That armor-skin of his is pretty tough, seems like his only unarmored spot is his head and with his good reflexes and shield, it will be hard to get a good blow off. Seems like he wasn't a Roman general for nothing.' Lelouch thought as the gears in his mind began to rotate as a plan formed.
Antony began to grow impatient at Lelouch's waiting and charged at him. 'Phase 1 complete.' Lelouch thought as he evaded Antony's attack. "Come on, the great Marc Antony can't even hit a small fry like me?" This enraged Antony even more and he charged again with Lelouch evading gracefully. 'Phase 2 complete.' "No wonder your mistress is so lustful if she has someone as incompetent as you for a lover." That set it off. Antony dropped his shield, grabbed his sword with both hands, and charged at Lelouch in a mad rage. 'Phase 3 complete.' Lelouch thought as he ran at Antony, making it look like the battle will end with this clash. However, as epic as it would've been, Lelouch kept to his plan and at the last second, side-stepped just as Antony sliced downward, cutting nothing but air. Lelouch then turned his scythe into its sword form and, in one fell swoop, slashed at Antony's head.
"M-mistress…" Was the last thing Antony said before a part of his head, that included an eye and part of his mouth, fell away from the rest of his head and Antony's body fell down dead.
"Antony!" Cleopatra cried as she materialized next to Antony, at her regular height. She collapsed onto her knees and wept over her dead again lover. She then looked at Lelouch as Antony's body faded away and stood up. Lelouch, too tired from all that jumping and fast movement, dropped his scythe and began to back away as Cleopatra moved closer, making hissing sounds like a snake. She then jumped at Lelouch, but he was able to punch her away. However, she quickly retaliated and was able to knock Lelouch to the ground with her on top of him. Before she could bite him, though, he stopped her and flipped her over. She then grabbed Lelouch's hand and transformed her body into C.C.'s that, just like Cleopatra, was naked. She then moved Lelouch's hand up and down her breast, making sounds of ecstasy at the same time. Lelouch was almost drawn in, but he remembered what happened at the base of the tower and steeled his will. Lelouch, before he fell completely into the trance and kiss Cleopatra while she was in her pseudo-C.C. form, quickly pulled out his cross and stabbed Cleopatra with it in the heart. Cleopatra reverted back to her true form and then she faded away.
Lelouch got up and grabbed his scythe. 'Whew, that was close, thought I was a goner.' Lelouch thought before sheathing his cross and scythe. Not long after that, the tower started to rumble and began to fall to pieces, literally. Lelouch, trying not to get hit by falling debris, jumped from piece to piece, but realized that this would get him nowhere unless he found some stable ground fast.
"Lelouch! Over here!" Lelouch heard Diethard shout. Lelouch turned to face the source of the voice and saw Diethard was on another path. Lelouch quickly jumped among the falling pieces of the tower, getting as close as he could to the path and took a jump towards the path. It was a bit too big of a gap though, but Lelouch managed to stab his scythe into the cliff that was right beneath the path and climbed up to it.
"Maybe I should have taken Suzaku up on those rock climbing lessons a few years back." Lelouch said as he got up. He looked along the path and saw that in changed from the dark purple path of Lust to something red and had bumps in it, making a close resemblance to human flesh. "What is the upcoming circle?" Lelouch asked his guide.
"Up ahead is the third circle Gluttony." Diethard said with a worried look. "I know that you want to save C.C. as fast as possible, but you can't do that if you go ballistic. You need to maintain that cold, hard, calculating persona of yours if you want to get through this alive."
"I know, but it doesn't helping knowing the Devil is probably having his way with her as we speaking." Lelouch said as he and Diethard began to walk the gluttonous road.
Hope you liked the chapter. Next is Gluttony and that means that the last boss that isn't someone Lelouch knows besides Lucifer is coming up. I should warn you though, there will be a severe lack of bosses between Greed and Violence. If you have a good idea for someone that could be a boss for Anger and/or Heresy, feel free to tell me, but Lelouch's parents are out, I already have plans for them. That's it for now, bye!