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A/n: There are major time skips in this chapter because im alittle too lazy to write, but if i were to get enough reviews ill extend this chapter a little more... Thanks.
Lelouch woke in the dark, C.C had cuddled onto his body, her head rested on his chest, a blanket draped over them, his arm was around C.C's waist as she snored quietly, he felt her chest lightly press on to his as she breathed, Lelouch ignored the pleasure he was receiving and decided to just enjoy her company for once, not as a Demon King, not as Zero, but as Lelouch. Soon, C.C you and I… He smiled, he silently thanked that she was with him, and will soon be with. He went back to sleep and drifted into a soothing Dream.
Lelouch woke again, in the Morning, C.C still laying there, Lelouch simply stared at her as she stirred, her golden amber eyes peering with innocence before being masked with the passiveness she always wore. He saw her smile and asked in a mocking tone, "Like what you see, Lelouch?"
Lelouch almost said yes but he simply looked away, not wanting to defy himself anymore,
"I know I like C.C but… What am I saying; we are accomplices, then again…" Lelouch debated with himself no noticing C.C who cuddled her head in the nook under his chin and sighed softly as she lightly blushed.
"I wish I could be like this with him forever, around his attitude and obsessions to do everything he says he would do. I never thought I would fall in love anymore, not after my Geass ruined love for me, but this Warlock and Demon broke my will many times over, making me HIS witch, he has stayed with me and I him. Even when Mao had me, Lelouch came and carried me away as if I was his bride. Oh, how I love thee…" C.C thought internally burying this thought in her endless memory.
Suzaku woke with tears in his eyes
"Euphie… Lelouch… "Suzaku thought.
"Who else must I lose?" Suzaku cried he had always been a sensitive one despite his rash instinct to serve and protect. He just had a nightmare, one where Nunnally died in his hands as war was threatening them.
Suzaku wondered back when he was with Euphie just as his alarm rung, but instead of a beep it shuffled a song from his IPod, the few verses that struck his heart were from Skillet, Those Nights.
He remembered the good times he had with Euphie; he remembered the times he spent with Euphie before the incident she was in caused by Zero. Suzaku remembered how they would laugh at almost everything. He remembered the times they would just simply talk all night together.
He gripped his covers as the song ended tears pouring from his eyes as his heart ached. This is the curse of bearing the mask… Suzaku had just learned what Lelouch had gone through.
"Lelouch probably kept that girl safe, he probably loves her with his life, he took the mantle of Zero that led him to kill everyone he loved, and from my information I received from Schniezel; he didn't even defend himself when his OWN team turned on him. Suzaku couldn't forgive Zero of what he had done but he can forgive Lelouch, after all we did go towards the same goal; make the world a gentler place, these were the wishes of Euphie and Nunnally, and he have received that, but at the cost of probably one of the greatest man on the Earth. Suzaku sighed as he got up and went towards his shower preparing for another day of wearing the mask that bore the weight of the entire world.
"Lelouch, I don't know how you did it without going insane, like you said, this mask is heavier than it seems, and you were right, it's a burden and a curse but I accepted your final wish. Suzaku remembered when he received the mask; he remembered the final words Lelouch spoke when he told him (Suzaku) to kill him: "The only ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed…"
Suzaku remembered the touching words many who had betrayed him tell him to stop. But he went on, knowing the intentions of the Zero Requiem. He remembered how Nunnally cried when she felt Lelouch die. He remembered the forced saying from Cornelia. He punched the wall, in frustration and went into the bathroom.
Kallen awoke from her bed, she had just received a dream, she saw the world descend in to complete darkness as Knightmares lined the sky she was not in her Guren which surprised her instead she was in a cave and a blinding light exploded in her eyes, and that's when she woke. She got up she placed the key to her Knightmare entrusted to her by Zero, as she passed Lelouch's picture her thoughts began to talk to him.
"Hey, Lelouch, the world has gotten a lot better since that eventful day. All the expenses that had been spent on war are now focused on solving hunger and poverty. As planned all the hatred was placed on you, maybe it's easier to blame a person with a name rather than a piece of technology called Damocles. Perhaps I'm putting it too simple, but whatever the reason, the world is free from the past and moving towards the future. I bet your out there somewhere laughing at everything that has gone according to you elaborate plan. Never the less there are still plenty of problems but even so… Thank you." Kallen thought as she ran to school.
Lelouch found Jeremiah and Anya sitting at the Breakfast table, almost immediately Jeremiah stood up knocking over his glass of orange juice and bowed towards Lelouch.
"Master Lelouch, I… I thought you were dead! I remember burying your body with C.C in a treasured Garden in Pendragon!"
"No Jeremiah, I am very much alive right now but there is something I must tell you in private if you were to bring us to a quiet place where no one will hear us please do so right now." Lelouch stated.
"Yes, right away, this way." Jeremiah replied motioning towards the stairs and led Lelouch into his bedroom.
"Alright, this room is safe enough, please tell me what is going on." Jeremiah replied.
"Jeremiah, the world will descend into chaos…" Lelouch began.
"But I have a responsibility I require help with, soon the world you knew will be no more, this world will be reverted back about four years, you know when I received Geass in Shinjuku Ghetto, but this reversion will only slightly affect things that destroy Geass for example if you are human and still able to destroy Geass then your body and state will be reverted but your memories may not. So when we do go back in time, I want you to swap duties with Valetta so I don't have to use my Geass on her right then and there, also, I want you to act like you did before because everything has to go according to plan or the world will descend into further chaos." Lelouch finished.
Jeremiah took in everything not once shock appearing.
"I see, well you have my word as a noble." Jeremiah replied.
"Jeremiah, don't worry, I have something special in plan for you, so don't worry about your rank, you'll probably be able to gain the title of Vice-Roy Knighthood. Lelouch smiled leaving a dumbstruck Orange boy.
"Th-Thank You Master Lelouch!" Jeremiah said and bowed before they left the room.
Anson made his way around the world collecting the power from the places marked with Geass he had created; he imbedded all the power he could find into his sword.
"Soon, this world will be destroyed and recreated, and Lelouch will have one final chance to fix what I could not so many years ago." Anson thought to himself.
"I have complete power of the king but I still can't change the world. Perhaps I'm simply not allowed to. Hmph, I guess this is for the best, yet another story to add to the book of history." Anson thought.
"I hope Lelouch will be able to save the world, the power of the king was meant for righteous people who would bring forth the future and not bend the will to their own likings, mankind has become barbaric, and unworthy of such a power, even our contractors have fallen into the madness of the world." Anson sighed as he took off his hood and mask,
"There are very few times I were to show my face, after all I am the one to blame for this accursed power, but I created it so people would live in peace, I gave the first Geass to an honorable man, King Arthur, he used it very wise, he was the true king, then someone came and took the power from him with a spell, then twisting it into the monstrosity of the code. Then I myself had to kill her but not with out the price of receiving the code, thus stripping my power to completely destroy and recreate the world, she sealed my power of Absolute Obediance and the only way was to spread the code until it would reborn and manifest itself the correct way, I have waited about seven Millenia for this day, but there is still the choices, if he were to misuse the power I have given him then, chaos will fall then I'll be forced to destroy the code, the True code thus wiping out all existence of life."
Anson brushed his hair to the side, he stood six feet in the air, he had a broad face a lone scar over his right eye, he had jet black hair and deep emerald eyes, his hair was slightly long enough to cover part of his eyes. He crossed his arms and looked into the sky the sky darkening.
"Something is going to happen and It will not be pretty..." Anson stated as he saw many dark clouds appear form nowhere a sign of ill omen.
Anson replaced his mask and pulled his hood on as he headed towards the Tokyo settlement.
It was Thursday, day by day Suzaku stayed near Nunnally but today he had to have some alone time in the garden, Suzaku walked slowing the garden he and Euphie planted two days before Zero had killed her, he stopped by a rose bush and picked one and held it delicately, he sighed and wandered over to the granite fountain and sat down, not long after he fell into a deep sleep.
Nunnally had just gotten out of the meeting, she had just learned that there was a rouge nation that called them selves the Avenger, they have declared that if Brittania didn't support them creating new weapons and allowing them access to the Sakuradite mine they would use deadly force. Brittania chose to not give them support. And just today Nunnally had told their leader, "We will not allow you to affect the peace we have recieved."
A simple response saying the 'Understood' or 'I got it, Very well.'
Nunnally went to her bedroom alone, knowing that Suzaku or Zero wished to be alone for the day.
"Oh, Suzaku, I hope you are okay, please feel better soon." Nunnally thought out loud, she opened her door and rolled in, she heared a click and turned to see... 'BANG' a gun...
1 hour later
Suzaku decided to give Nunnally a visit he put his mask back and headed towards the Empresses quarters, only to find the royal gaurd everywhere, he noticed something under white sheets and rushed towards it, he prayed it wasn't Nunnally, but to his dismay... It was.
"He quickly picked up her hands not caring what the guards thought, he said, Nunnally! Nunnally, please; wake up, I- I don't want to lose anyone else, please open your eyes! PLEASE!
Lelouch's eyes shot open and automatically lifed his head knocking C.C off of him, his body covered in sweat and his breathing was ragged like as if someone tore his heart out stabbed it one thousand times and forced it back to where it was.
C.C who would normally say something cruel and mean to him noticed his uneasiness and went to his comfort, she walked over to him and helped him sit on the bed, she kneeled and placed his head on her bodice, and rubbed the back of his head saying it was only a dream hushing him.
When his breathing evened she pushed him back but kept her hands on his shoulders she asked him what had happened and she did not believe what she had just heard.
"N-Nu-NUNNALLY IS DEAD!" Lelouch shouted waking both Jeremiah and Anya with his shout.
Jeremiah rushed down the stairs and asked if everything was alright, only earning himself a death glare from C.C, Lelouch's hair was spiked in different directions his face both in shock and the brink of insanity.
Jeremiah then noticed something was wrong, really wrong, he asked C.C if she knew what happened and did not believe what she heard. "Nunnally has been killed."
The next day was the day they had to go to C's world, meaning they would have to miss Nunnally's funeral which devistated Lelouch, not only was he not able see his beloved sister, nor was he able to tell he was alive and now she was killed and he is unable to go to her funeral, he felt a rage build deep inside on him even he did not have any idea it was, the only thing that kept him sane was C.C, never leaving his side and comforting him about everything that was going to happen even though she had almost no idea what was going to go on. Jeremiah called one of his most loyal of servants to bring a plane.
Lelouch was still shaken but was able to get onto the plane when it arrived, the plane ride was long and tedious Lelouch had never gotten Air sick before but now every ten minutes he would randomly throw up into a bag Jeremiah had coincidentally brought. As they neared Kaminenejima Island the sky had started to fill with dangerous dark clouds, C.C and Jeremiah looked and saw advancing Knightmare frames in the distance and told the pilot to land immediately which the pilot obliged without hesitation.
Lelouch got off of the plane to see Anson standing where waiting with his arms crossed, his cape fluttering in the light wind.
When C.C got off the plane she noticed Anson and went right over to Lelouch's side.
Greetings, I am Anson, you may know me as 'Creator of Kings' or perhaps 'Son of the Divine' none the less I need you to come with me, it is time, if we were to linger any longer the world will soon end.
as they neared the cave a small crowd of people began to show up on a platform carried by a total of a dozen Knightmares, as they landed Anson turned and adressed them, Welcome all that have come, today is a very special and yet a very sad day, today is the day your world will end but I called you all today not to watch and wait with me but to show you someone who CAN change what is going to happen into the opposite of what could happen.
Everyone rushed over to Lelouch bombarding him with questions, one by one they were answered by Lelouch with the upmost truth, when everyone was out Lelouch asked one question. "Is it true that Nunnally is dead?
Suzaku was the one to answer that, "Yes, Lelouch... Nunnally is dead... I- I'm truly truly sorry..."
Lelouch punched Suzaku so hard it surprised everyone, Suzaku flew atleast two feet of where he was and Lelouch picked him back up by the color threatening to punch again but instead asked, "WHY WERE YOU NOT WITH HER THEN YOU F- IDIOT! YOU COULDA USED YOUR F- GEASS TO SAVE HER! WHY? WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN MY LIFE? NUNNALLY! NOW SHE IS DEAD AND IT IS ALL... YOUR ... FAULT!" Lelouch stated with so much anger and rage Anson stepped forward broke them up and punched Lelouch.
Anson then said in his ever so cool and neutral voice with hinted anger, "Lelouch, is THIS how a king should act of your Status? Is this how you will deal with the things that go wrong, then you will be sadly mistaken about your future my friend, you will only lead to destruction if you were to act like that every time something goes wrong, Remember you will change what will happen but you have to Calm down, now the ritual is almost complete, C.C i need your code to unlock the door so will you please come with me everyone else you are free to leave, Lelouch I want you to SIT right there until I come to get you, be sure that that will be soon. Anson pointed at the stump and waved everyone away.
Everyone instead of Leaving Cornelia, Milly and Kallen decided to do something respectful of what Lelouch had done for them, the didn't fight the war because they felt seeing Lelouch was more important than a war that would be easily over.
Dark Clouds began to descend around the Tokyo settlement maddening the sky, in the clouds thunder rolled and lightning flashed among them, the torrents of the sea bashing the island as the wind began to rise, the sky never looked so dark and sinister, it's as if judgment is being brought upon the world.
"Hmph, looks like Anson wasn't lying about this all along, I only did have five days to find C.C and bring her to a C's world gateway." Lelouch thought, his face grimed as he thought of his now deceased sister.
In the distant the Brittanian Army was gathering many units in the sky already; in the far distant another army that Lelouch had no knowledge of was advancing towards the main settlement base.
"Lelouch, you are to come to the cave now." Lelouch heard Anson's voice in his head.
Lelouch took one last look into the dark abyss that was the dark sky; the sun had disappeared from the sky. He sighed and began towards the past, which in turn, become the future. He entered the mouth of the cave, surprisingly all the friends he knew were standing in a hallway and in the end Knightmares lined the place as well, Anson was standing on the platform near the crumbled gate his arms folded with C.C standing looking at Lelouch, intently.
In the outside sky rain had began to fall the water dripping down from the hole above Anson C.C, but oddly they weren't being pelted by the rain.
As Lelouch continued his stride down the hallway and in the far distance you can almost hear a commander of the army order an advance, Knightmares began their march towards the army that has challenged them meeting them head on, and waited for the first to strike.
Lelouch noticed the tears in everyone's eyes that knew Nunnally well, Cornelia smiled at Lelouch as he passed her by, many have died in the Assassination of Lelouch's Sister, Nunnally, and Suzaku stood there with his head down feeling sorry because he was unable to protect her tears falling from his eyes.
Kallen broke from her line along and hugged him all of a sudden everyone surrounded him and gave him a big group hug when they dispersed they won a sad smile from Lelouch's face, nevertheless, it was a smile.
Lelouch continued as he reached the Knightmares who immediately made an honorable arc over his head presenting him in a king like fashion of fealty and honor. He continued as he rose on the stairs… formed by stones. Now the rain had began, now it was clear there was a barrier that extended from the sky keeping the place where Anson and C.C was standing dry as he entered a third light fell on him, Lightning began to flash violently, as they heard in the distance explosions of a war in play, then they heard an all to familiar sound from the knightmares standing around them a loud monotone BEEEE sounded, meaning only one thing... A FLEIJA has been launched. Then the BEE sound came again Another FLEIJA. And another and another.
Anson knew it was time, he chanted words no one knew and ancient language that has been long forgotten he unsheathed his sword and held it with both his hands pointing the sword down, a bright purple flash began to flood the room.
Anson lifted his sword over his head and time began to stop as the energy was being absorbed into his sword. He immediately plunged it into the ground which seemed eternity and time stopped; the Army had just fired a FLEHJA which had exploded and engulfed the island was simply stopped, Lelouch took C.C's hand who had been waiting there with Anson, and stepped through as he stepped through time resumed and the world was thrown into utter Chaos, the white light began its consumption of the world.
Lelouch pressed forward in the white dimension feeling the power of time resetting, soon he saw a brighter light and walked towards it, as he passed it….
Lelouch's eyes shot open, Rivals was at his side, and Lelouch asked, "Where, Where am I?"
A/N: Hurray for Cliffy endings! KEEP READING MY STORY TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
COMING UP NEXT IS; TURN 1: THE DAY A SAVIOR WAS BORN.
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