Code Geass: Power of the Emperors
A/N: I know it's been a while since I've updated but I've been working on a Merlin Fanfic and recently have the time for free writing. Please Read the A/N on the bottom. This story is not abandoned!
I hope this chapter is up to the usual standard and everyone enjoys.
Little Known Fact:
1820s a.t.b. / 1760s - 70s A.D.
The American Revolution (also known as Washington's Rebellion) occurs. The Duke of Britannia bribes Benjamin Franklin with promises of titles and territories in the colonies, who was charged with appealing to Louis XVI for assistance in the American colonies' war for independence.
Thereafter, Benjamin Franklin is given the title of Earl. As a result, the Continental Army suffers a decisive defeat during the Siege of Yorktown with the death of George Washington, marking a severe blow to the American movement for independence.
Chapter 7: Life in a Moment
Lelouch did not know what to expect when he had ingested the entire vial of the experimental refrain. It traveled down his gullet into his stomach, working it's way through the linings of the small intestine directly into his bloodstream. It took less than a second for the potent drug to reach his brain, hijacking his neurotransmitters as it was designed to do. He stumbled a bit, lightheaded by the sudden change in oxygen level. It took a minute or two before it hit his system fully but not before he lost control of his limbs and fell to the floor in an undignified sprawl.
Overdosing had been his current body's first death, now he was dying again from a second overdose but of a different drug. Guess fate had his method of death set in this world.
With that much refrain in his blood, nothing short of a three year coma would have resulted from the re-experience of memories from birth to the present moment. However, the memories were too far out of his reach to re-live. Select memories from the recent years played in his mind, his brain frozen as his body re-lived every memory backwards.
It was disconcerting to see things unravel and negate itself, he experienced his first time with Milly backwards. He saw himself fighting with a gang, exchanging heated punches, and encountering the gang in the ghetto. What Lelouch experienced was beyond normal comprehension. In his mind, time had no meaning, no understanding, no flow that could be understood. Memories and emotions were being processed the wrong way, reversed, to feel something before having it disappear in a empty void. The experience was enough to turn Lelouch into a drooling vegetable.
Outside of Lelouch's mind, his body was splayed out on the floor, drool leaking from his slack jaw as his vacant eyes stared endlessly at nothing.
Even then, the light in his eyes dimmed and his muscles grew slack. Slowly but surely the light left his eyes, his pupils non-responsive to the world.
Lelouch Vi Britannia had justdied for the second time in this lifetime, well third if you counted the Zero Requiem from the Alternate World.
The disconcerting insanity inside his head had stopped. Lelouch opened his eyes to find himself in a place he never thought he would find himself ever again.
The World of C.
It was different than when he remembered it, the last time he stood here was when he died. Fear gripped his heart as he looked around. Was he dead again?
"You... What are you doing here?"
It was a cool and almost emotionless voice, a voice that he had been longing to hear for weeks now.
He turned around and saw her. His witch, his contractor, the one who gave him his Geass and fulfilled his desire for power.
"Caciera" he uttered softly, his voice unaffected by his physical disability. The green hair witch stiffened at the sound of her true name, one which she had kept in her heart for all of eternity. Yet somehow, this dark haired youth, his eyes showing a fully evolved Geass, knew her name and uttered it with such emotions that she could feel them.
Her eyes hardened, cool and analytic, and she asked him again blandly. "Who are you?"
Lelouch felt himself twitching from refraining his laughter, only offering her a wry smile. "You are a Witch and I am your Warlock. Your wish, I'm here to grant it."
C.C hid her shock at the sudden revelation of her deepest witch. The use of language and familiarity with her, this playful banter seems to be ... something that had already occurred.
"So you know my true name and my true desire." She stated slyly, circling around him, slowly closing the distance as one would stalk a prey. "But I know little of you. You hold a striking resemblance to the son of one of my associates but not the same."
Lelouch chuckled, as usual, C.C was accurate in her deductions. He grinned at her, his charming smile in place as he swept his arms out dramatically.
"Perhaps this would help." He offered as he turned to the Sword of Akasha.
His geass flared brightly as the mystical background shattered, revealing the core of the world. The multitudes of mask and faces on the gears that kept the time of the world moving forward. "Oh Gods, Hear me out, I cast a wish to continue the time of the world. A world where humans have the ability to choose and live. I wish for a future that mankind can grasp and live."
C.C shuddered at the force of his words, the overbearing command in his voice, it was regal and majestic and evermore compelling.
"Impossible, the gods can't be controlled."
Lelouch smirked in a defiant manner. "Lelouch vi Britannia commands you, keep the progression of time flowing forward forever!"
There was an eerie glow from the endless infinite masks and a giant Geass symbol on the distant planet as the Geass of Absolute Obedience relayed the order, the thought elevator fading into non-existence as the weapon to destroy the Gods defied the command. C.C watch in amazement as Charles and Marianne's life work came crashing down at the hands of their son, Lelouch. It was over before it began.
Lelouch approached her, wrapping his arms around her slender frame. His words tickled in her ear as he whispered, "I am the man of miracles. I destroy worlds to create worlds. This isn't the first time I stopped the destruction of the Gods, the forceful world of memories that my parents wanted to force on the world."
C.C turned in his embrace, her face scant inches from his violet eyes. She searched those beautiful orbs for any sign of treachery or deceit and found none. "I don't understand and I don't think I ever will but you are the one who will take away my immortality."
Lelouch chuckled, "Yes. I owe you too much for the Geass. Your wish for an end to this suffering, your curse, I will bear it all."
C.C smiled sadly, "It's no good Lelouch. You were too late."
Confusion set in. Too late for what?
She stepped back at him and gestured at his throat, her eyes glistening with tears. "Your code has awoken. It was dormant, waiting your your final Geass activation and now nothing is holding it back."
Lelouch clutched his throat, where the scar had been carved into his neck in a crude geass symbol. He could feel the scar mending, becoming a cleaner Geass symbol. "No, this can't be!" he snarled. The Geass blinked in his eyes, flickering as the power was being over written by his code. It was a futile attempt, every cell and genetic strand of his information was being overwritten to overcome the test of time and morality.
He looked at C.C, "It wasn't suppose to be this way!"
C.C smiled sadly, "I'm still in the capsule at Clovis' laboratory. Your code is something passed to you in your previous life. It seems like my wish cannot be granted after all." She turned on her heels and walked towards the exit, her white prison garb streaming behind her.
"Caciera, I will find you! I will show you that life is still worth living. I will find you." he vowed.
It was a bold promise but one he intended to keep.
C.C smiled and retreated back into her mind, sedated in the capsule. "I will wait for you my Warlock..." With those parting words, Lelouch was left there, wondering where everything went wrong. The World of C grew dim as if his vision was failing.
Outside in the real world, the code did what it's work in turning Lelouch into an immortal being. The brain damage that left Lelouch a drooling mess was slowly healing, old and damaged cells by the drug were replaced by the fresh new cells with perfect memory recall.
Lelouch jerked up with a gasp, swearing at the sudden awakening to the real world.
"Bloody hell, what a dre-" His eyes bulged as the stark realization that he could speak. His hands traced his throat, finding smooth unblemished skin. It was an impossibility but immortality was impossible as well. Lelouch kept his rattled nerves under control as he pulled out his cellphone camera and took a picture of the upper portion of his body.
"Oh fuck me sideways." He swore. There was a familiar mark on his throat, one he saw countless times on C.C's forehead.
It was the mark of immortality.
A/N: OH SNAP! I BET NONE OF YOU SAW THAT COMING HUH!
Immortality.
This is where the story truly starts!
The power of an Emperor is to grant power and regulate his kingdom by assigning certain titles and rights.
Now that Lelouch has his own code, he can give people abilities, similar to what an Emperor does when he grants people nobility and territory!
Guess who is going to be getting new abilites huh?
Also now he's not mute anymore!
Yay!
Review, comments, flames, and workshipping are all welcomed.
XD
Sorry for the short chapter update, it was an idea I had to get out of my head. The next chapter will be longer, I swear.