Sorry everyone for the wait. School and water polo are tiring. To make it up, here's some background to Lucifer in the form of talking:
Bboy:Because Diethard never got the chance to explain in the story, I decided to bring him here to explain Lucifer's appearance and whatnot. Take it away Diethard.
Diethard: Thank you Bboy. Now, Lucifer's appearance is based of trinity, the unity of three. Being the king of Hell, this will be an unholy trinity, explaining the three pairs of bat wings and three grotesque heads.
Bboy: What about the souls that were in Lucifer's mouths?
Diethard: Those are the souls of the three greatest traitors in history. The two side heads are gnawing leg first on Cassius and Brutus, the two leaders in the assassination of Julius Caesar, a person who, according to Dante (the real Dante from history), had the divine right to rule Rome.
Bboy: Thank you Diethard.
Diethard: Yes, and about my pay...
Bboy: Of course. *whistles* Over here boys!
*Construction crew shows up and builds a shrine and church dedicated to Zero.*
Bboy: Happy?
Diethard: Very, now if you excuse me...(Runs off to find members)
Sorry, but I always envision Diethard as someone who would really do something like that. Anyway, not much of an apology present, I know, but here's the final chapter of Lelouch's Inferno (there will be an epilogue, just for heads up).
Chapter 19: Hell's Reckoning
Lelouch struck his scythe against the giant spear of ash, flames and smoke wielded by the monstrosity known as Lucifer. Lucifer overpowered Lelouch and knocked him backing, smiling as Lelouch skidded across the frozen surface of Cocytus. "Done already? Wow, and here I thought the man of miracles would have more tricks up his sleeve." Lucifer stated confidently as a stalactite fell from above and hit Lucifer's left shoulder, much to his agony.
"Of course I do, but that doesn't mean you get to see them." Lelouch replied as he got up from firing a cross bolt at the ceiling above from when he was falling back.
"Insolent creature!" Lucifer bellowed as his left fist hit the ground, creating a sonic wave that Lelouch almost got hit by if he didn't step back in time. "I've waited an eternity for my emancipation and you've served your purpose in it, now be gone!" Lucifer shouted as he conjured a tornado of fire and smoke in his left hand and launched it at Lelouch.
"I'm no one's pawn!" Lelouch shouted as he rolled out of the way of the tornado and ran towards Lucifer. "It's time for you to suffer for what you've done!" Lelouch turned his scythe into a spear and launched it at Lucifer's red head who just grabbed the spear by its extended shaft and pulled it towards him, which, in turn, pulled Lelouch as well.
"I've been suffering for an eternity! Don't think a whelp like you can say whether I've suffered enough or not!" Lucifer shouted as he prepared to plunge his spear into Lelouch, but Lelouch shortened his scythe's shaft, moving him out of the path of Lucifer's giant spear.
"Nor can you say you can use me and us humans as mere tools!" Lelouch countered as he blasted Lucifer's hand with a cross bolt, causing him to lose his grip on Lelouch's scythe's shaft. Lelouch then launched it at Lucifer immediately after, giving no time to react as the scythe blade plunged into Lucifer's yellow head, making him roar in pain. Lelouch pulled himself up to be eye-to-eye with Lucifer before firing a bolt, taking his scythe out and stabbing it this time into Lucifer's red head. Lelouch reeled himself in and then gripped the top of Lucifer's red head.
"Do you really think you can defeat the first of the angels?!" Lucifer shouted, but all Lelouch did was smirk.
"Yes, after all, isn't what's happening what one would call…checkmate?" Lelouch asked rhetorically as Lucifer then opened his mouth to retort but never got the chance as Lelouch placed his cross in it, jamming it open as it began to charge. "Sorry, but I intend to suffer for my sins in peace. Ironic really, seeing how chaotic Hell truly is." Lelouch said as the cross began to radiate light red energy in great amounts. "Goodbye, first born of God, may you perish knowing you sinned too far." Lelouch said as he fired the cross bolt which exploded in Lucifer's mouth. Lelouch then, with his scythe, jumped off Lucifer and sliced down, cutting his red head and half of his chest in half.
"Well then, time to check in to Hell for good." Lelouch said to himself as he now understands that his journey is over and it's time to suffer for his actions.
"Yes, it truly is time." A voice behind Lelouch said as Lelouch turned around to see Lucifer putting himself back together. "I must say Lelouch, you truly are the best." Lucifer continued as his head went back together. "Many have tried and all of them failed to free me. Brave Ulysses, the Great Alexander, Attila, Lancelot, but all of them failed to have a soul drenched in enough sin to free me, but you, my dear boy, do." Lucifer smiled with all three faces at this note while Lelouch widened his eyes in shock. "Only one thing could break the seal that binds me here, a soul that possess more sin than me, something my brother Michael thought would be impossible, oh how wrong he was." Lucifer said as he grabbed his stomach and tore it open, revealing an inferno inside. Then, a figure jumped out and landed a couple feet from Lelouch.
"So, this is your true form." Lelouch snarled at the being before him. Lucifer stood at about eight feet tall and appeared as a satyr, possessing goat-like legs and hooves. Lucifer's skin was a mixture of dark grey and blue with small spikes protruding near the top of his pectoral muscles and go around his color bone. The burned remains of where his wings were appearing on his back, moving as if he's trying to fly with them. There are cracks in his body where lava is flowing in and he has two giant antler/horns that go up vertically for about two feet. Around Lucifer's right arm appears to be a snake functioning as a bracelet.
"Yes and it feels good that everything went according to plan." Lucifer said as he smiled.
"Planned? Didn't you try to have me killed?"
"Of course not, you fool. The seal keeping me here was very powerful, but…" Lucifer's grin grew even wider. "…it had one flaw. The seal would break if the one who breaks it possessed sins greater than mine and did it of his own will."
"What?" Lelouch took a step back as he realized he had been truly had.
"The kidnapping of C.C., the whole 'destroying your soul' act was just to lure you here to Cocytus so you could free me like you have just done."
"You bastard…" Lelouch growled.
"I must say, when I first saw you obtain geass, I knew that you'd be walking a road full of sin. However, you proved me wrong boy! You made a highway out of sin. Never, since my creation, have I seen such a sinful man. Trechary Fraud, Violence, you are far too evil for the three most terrible circles, even if their punichments were combined together! You truly amaze me, Lelouch vi Britannia, to be to commit so many kinds of evils but still keep on doing wrong, focusing on nothing but your goal!"
"That doesn't matter now. I may have freed you, but I will undo my mistake. No tricks, no circles, just you and me!" Lelouch shouted as he pulled out his scythe.
"Come then, noble demon! Come…and embrace…your destiny."
"This wasn't and never will be my destiny!" Lelouch shouted as he rushed at Lucifer to make sure he finishes the job for good this time.
Lucifer summoned a sword of fire to parry Lelouch's strike before summoning a dark fireball in his left hand and throwing it at Lelouch. Lelouch managed to avoid it in time just as Lucifer jumped towards Lelouch to cleave him in two. Lelouch ducked to evade and fired a point blank cross bolt at Lucifer. Well moving him back a few feet, it did no noticeable damage.
"Is that all you got?" Lucifer asked smugly.
"Not even close." Lelouch retorted as he threw the bag holding the last of his suicide fruit at Lucifer.
"You really think I'll be compelled to kill myself over something like this rotten fruit?" Lucifer asked rhetorically as the bag sailed at him.
"Of course not." Lelouch responded as he fired a cross bolt at the bag, causing it to explode in a massive amount of suicidal energy, stunning Lucifer. Lelouch took this as an opportunity and dove right in to attack. Lelouch did a sideways blow at Lucifer with his scythe and launched him into the air. Lelouch then jumped up after him and swatted him down with his scythe before launching a barrage of cross bolts at him. Finishing the attack, Lelouch aimed at Lucifer with a charged cross bolt that knocked Lucifer back. "I thought I could do that." Lelouch said confidently as he landed, but to his dismay, Lucifer got up physically unharmed, but he sure looked pissed.
"You dare assault ME?! YOU, who have done far worse then I! I stood for my fellow angels, for reason and justice. And then He made you in His "image". You, the flawed creation! And I was to bow down to YOU?! My gratitude for freeing me from that accursed seal. You dolt! Behold your ruin, and witness my escape into the Kingdom of Purgatory, and Paradise!" Lucifer said as he began to fly up.
Lelouch grunted as he jumped out of the way of an incoming sphere of fire and lightning. He then fired a couple cross bolts but Lucifer just zoomed out of them way.
"I'll never understand what my Father saw in you." Lucifer said as he zoomed down and slammed the ground, causing a shockwave of flames to erupt.
"I'll never understand why you think you deserve to remain in Paradise!" Lelouch replied, but Lucifer grabbed Lelouch by the throat and floated up with a seriously pissed off look on his face.
"I'll never forgive Him, how he made YOU the favored creation. You are a worm! A maggot! Don't think you can stop me. The fallen sons of Paradise will rise again." Lucifer shouted into Lelouch's face, but Lelouch just had a bored expression on his face.
"Good God, you said like those radical Britannian idealists and nobles. You know, the ones I had killed?" Lelouch said as he turned his scythe into a sword and stabbed it up into Lucifer's arm, making him howl in pain, through Lelouch off him and tried to fly up to leave Cocytus, but Lelouch launched his scythe at Lucifer snagging his right leg and consequently pulling Lelouch up. Lucifer tried to shake Lelouch off, but Lelouch held firm and managed to avoid some balls of dark energy that Lucifer fired at him.
'Time to end this.' Lelouch thought as he pulled himself upward, dislodging the scythe from Lucifer's leg and appeared above Lucifer, surprising him. Lelouch then slammed his scythe into Lucifer, plummeting both of them back towards Cocytus. Lelouch then pulled out his scythe and prepared to send a huge amount of holy energy right at Lucifer, but Lucifer grabbed his arm, trying to prevent them.
"Don't think you can beat me! I am the Morning Star! The brightest star! I-"
"Do you ever shut up?" Lelouch shouted at Lucifer, shocking him and causing him to loosen his grip on Lelouch's arm. Lelouch then slammed the super charged cross right into Lucifer's chest right as they hit the ground, releasing a nuclear bomb-sized explosion of holy energy.
As the smoke cleared Lelouch appeared holding his cross as Lucifer was facing him with Lelouch's scythe stabbed into him where his heart would be. As Lelouch planned on finishing off Lucifer, he raised his hand. "Wait! There is one thing you should see…" Lucifer said as the center of Cocytus changed to show the final moments of the Zero Requiem, where Suzaku, disguised as Zero, stabbed Emperor Lelouch fatally and watched as he slide down his craft to where Nunnaly was before fading away.
"What about it?" Lelouch asked, unsure of what it's supposed to mean.
"Don't you get it?" Lucifer asked as he pulled the scythe out of him and let it clatter to the floor. "You're dead Lelouch. Even if you seal me away, you will remain here and your sins will give me such a boost in power that will only make it a matter of time before I'm strong enough to free myself from this place. It was a win-win situation for me from the start!" Lucifer then leaned down so his face was right in front of Lelouch's. "I am so sick of you." Lucifer then stood up straight. "I will reclaim Paradise, marching towards it on a road built on Man's sins with yours, dear Lelouch, being the bedrock of my return."
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Lelouch countered, intriguing Lucifer for what Lelouch has to say. "On my journey I have absolved souls from this place souls whose pure energy I'll use to defeat you!" Lelouch declared as he raised his cross in the air as it began to glow a vibrant red. "Father, mother, brother, allies! Give me your power!" Lelouch shouted as spheres of energy zoomed out of the sphere and began to fly around the place.
"Wait Lelouch, with this power, we can be unstoppable." Lucifer said nervously. "Forgot about being ruler of the Earth, imagine being ruler of Purgatory!"
"I'd rather not." Lelouch said coldly.
"You will really give up power just to seal me?"
"I only ever obtained power to get rid of beings like you and it seems like my job is never finished." Lelouch said as he let go of the cross and let it float down to stop right in front of Lelouch's face. Lelouch then lifted his left arm. "Lelouch vi Britannia commands you…" Lelouch began as the spirits zoomed into the cross, making it glow even brighter as a bright red seal appeared in front of it with a giant geass sigil in the center of it. "…to remain imprisoned forever!" Lelouch shouted as he moved his left arm to his side as the geass sigil from the cross launched itself at Lucifer, hitting him back into the cavity of his first form. Red spheres of energy began to fire from the seal which moved around the cavity, sealing it up. The red spheres then zoomed around Lucifer's wrists as he began to resume control of his giant form. The spheres forced Lucifer's hands into the icy ground of Cocytus as ice began to grow over Lucifer's arms.
"NOOOOOOO…" Lucifer shouted as the ice stopped growing at his forearms. Three red spheres shoot from the red seal before it vanished and zoom towards Lucifer's three heads, each striking each of Lucifer's mouths. The red spheres then transformed into metal mouth gags which prevented Lucifer from ever speaking again. Lelouch smirked at this.
"Nice touch with the mouth gags. A voice said behind him. Lelouch turned around to see a figure clad in white robes wielding a sword cloaked in flames. There was too much holy radiance coming from him for Lelouch to make out his face.
"Thought I might as well shut him up as I don't want the souls here suffering any more than they already are." Lelouch replied. "Also, I take it you're an angel."
"Never thought you'd figure it out." The angel replied. "Anyway, I'm here to unbind you from Hell."
"Why's that? Even if I do stay, Lucifer will remain here."
"Well…while geass is powerful, Lucifer will get enough power to break free of it soon enough if you remain here. If you no longer belong in Hell, then it will be nearly impossible for him to break lose."
"I'm really surprised at how much power my sins have."
"You did kill over a million people and lie to the whole world after all." The angel pointed out.
"Good point. Sadly it seems like I have to continue on if I want Earth to continue in peace." Lelouch sighed at this and picked up his scythe and cross, which fell to the ground after the red seal broke, and sheathed both of them. "Send me off then." Lelouch said as the angel simply nodded before the center of Cocytus showed an image of a tall mountain on an island.
"One way ticket to Purgatory." The angel said as Lelouch looked down at the portal.
"Seems like I still have a long walk ahead of me." Lelouch said as he took a leap of faith into the portal.
Sorry if anyone thought that I butchered up Christianity, but it just seemed to be a good idea. Also , I might redo the chapter on Heresy because I got the idea for a boss battle for it. Don't worry, it will not insult anyone's beliefs. Stay tuned for the Epilogue!