Code Geass: Power of the Emperors
A/N:Thank you for the overwhelming response. There were quite a few ideas thrown around about share immortality. Two codes in one bearer and different people who might get geass powers.
I have taken it all into consideration and I'm working on it, for now this will be a LelouchxNunnally development chapter.
Little Known Fact:
Charles had children and consorts before he became emperor and married Marianne.
1984 a.t.b. / 1929 A.D.
-1st Prince Odysseus eu Britannia is born.
1986 a.t.b. / 1931 A.D.
-1st Princess Guinevere su Britannia is born.
1990 a.t.b. / 1935 A.D.
-2nd Prince Schneizel el Britannia is born.
1991 a.t.b. / 1936 A.D.
-2nd Princess Cornelia li Britannia is born.
1992 a.t.b. / 1937 A.D.
i3rd Prince Clovis la Britannia is born.
1998 a.t.b. / 1943 A.D.
-The 97th Emperor of Britannia is overthrown, and Charles zi Britannia ascends to the Britannian throne. Charles also marries Marianne vi Britannia. With V.V. they plan to build a weapon to destroy the Gods.
1999 a.t.b. / 1944 A.D.
-11th Prince Lelouch vi Britannia is born.
2000 a.t.b. / 1945 A.D.
-3rd Princess Euphemia li Britannia is born.
-Suzaku Kururugi, son of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi and future Knight of Seven, Knight of Zero, and second Zero, is born.
2003 a.t.b. / 1948 A.D.
-11th Princess Nunnally vi Britannia is born
Chapter 8: The World as We Know It
The gift of speech was something Lelouch took for granted in his past life. In this new life, he had came to appreciate the ability to express one's thoughts and feelings. His charismatic voice and words were his weapons during the time when he was Zero.
His ability to persuade was one of the best weapon in his arsenal besides his strategic brilliance. In fact, he actually once managed to convince a rather attractive young lady into letting him borrow her skirt under the pretense that it was for a dire emergency. To this day, Lelouch still could not understand how he pulled it off but he was devastated when he awakened in this world to find out his voice had been silenced.
Now that his ability to speak was back, it was time to clear up some misunderstanding.
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Lelouch smirked wickedly when he spotted his target. His target was unaware, lifeless and disheartened by the lack of business. The Takoyaki vendor jumped up when he saw a student standing in front of him. It was the student from last time, the mute one.
He forced on a strained smile, letting false cheer enter his voice as he recommended the standard takoyaki. The student was tall and had a fairly solid build to his frame. The vendor sweated nervously, hoping the student wasn't here to start trouble. Several Britannian punks had been coming around and bothering him, scaring off his regular customers. It was really hurting his already meager business. It was hard enough having to swallow his pride and become a honorary Britannian just so he could work in the settlement but having your business fail with a family depending on you was not an option.
The dark hair teen grinned and spoke in flawless Japanese, leaving the vendor gaping.
"I would like to order two trays of Takoyaki, one brushed with mayo, takoyaki sauce, and laver. The other with katsuobushi please. I will take it to go."
Lelouch couldn't help but smile at the dazed reaction the vendor exhibited. He had missed shocking and awing people with his voice, his talents. His voice had a deeper tinge to it but still similar nonetheless.
The vendor handed two cartons of takoyaki to the student. "Thank you for the business please come again."
Lelouch took it gratefully. "Your takoyaki is the best in the settlement, I will definitely let people know about this place."
The man's eyes widened and he gave Lelouch a grateful bow.
Lelouch started his trek home, wondering how he was going to approach Nunnally and let her know about his miraculous recovery. Hopefully, she would be placated by her favorite snack and not ask too many questions.
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By the time Lelouch arrived home at the Ashford Academy Clubhouse, it was already twilight. He had tried to think of every conceivable way to explain to Nunnally how it was possible he got his voice back but came up with squat. There was one fundamental problem in explaining the situation to Nunnally.
He was unable to bring himself to lie to her.
It was the one thing he could not bring himself to do. Once was enough in his past life, taking on the hatred of the world to ensure peace. In this life, Nunnally had to know. The truth is painful, no matter how gently it is delivered. He is so afraid of those pale amethyst eyes, his sister's innocent face looking at him with such hatred and betrayal.
He had to tell her the truth about her true brother's death.
Lelouch slumped against the wall, letting out a crazed laugh. This body of his was borrowed, something to tie his soul to this world. How can he tell Nunnally that her real brother is dead, overdosing on drugs mixed with a bad reaction to alcohol?
How can he tell her that he was from another world, one where she was crippled and he was assassinated before her very eyes? It was an impossible task, he rather conquer the world again than to subject his sister to such pain but the longer he builds up his house of lies, the harder it comes crashing down.
But Nunnally had to know.
"Lelouch?"
Nunnally found her brother sitting in the darkness of his room, his head between his knees, hair grasping his long raven locks in a tight grip. He was slumped against the wall, his shoulders sagging from trying to bear the weight of the world. He lifted his eyes up, rimmed red from... crying?
She immediately embraced him, smoothing out his hair, comforting him. Rarely have she seen him so vulnerable and open, generally Lelouch liked to keep himself emotionally guarded. His eyes pierced into hers, silently pleading for forgiveness but what was there to forgive? Then the unimaginable happened. He spoke.
"Nunnally."
He said her name with such tenderness and remorse. It was a voice she had never thought she would hear again in her lifetime. An inexplicable emotion burst forth from her chest and she hugged him, his head cradled to her heart as she threw both arms around his head.
"Is this a dream? Please let this be true, a miracle, keep talking to me Lelouch. How is this possible?" Nunnally had a thousand questions racing through her head, her mouth automatically following suit, trying to keep up with her sporadic thoughts.
Lelouch pulled away from her desperate embrace and held her at arms distance, his eyes sparkling with unshed tears. "We need to talk."
Nunnally couldn't understand why her brother would be uttering such words. Didn't he know how long she had been hoping, wishing, praying for a miracle to happen to bring back his voice? The doctors had said that the damage was permanent but obviously they were wrong. Now Lelouch could speak, the second words he uttered to her was 'We need to talk'?
Those words were ominous.
Lelouch continued, his rich baritone voice cracking and trembling as he did his best to speak clearly. "Nunnally. I am not Lelouch."
Cold fire grew in her stomach at the words, she laughed pushing her brother with feigned playfulness. "Jeez onii-chan, why are you trying to play these tricks on me. And here I thought the first thing you would say would be more important."
There was no warmth in Lelouch's eyes, they were dead and emotionless. Hesitation and fear tingled through her senses. She looked at him imploringly. "You're Lelouch, how can you say you're not?"
He looked down at her with half lidded eyes, a defeated smile on his face. "I'm not your Lelouch. Your Lelouch died two weeks ago from overdosing on Heroin and alcohol. He had a bad reaction and his heart stopped." He said all of this with the emotional depth of a calculator, listless in it's delivery.
Pale fingers trembled and Nunnally bit her lower lip to stop the trembling. "I-impossible. You are right here, in front of me. Look I'm holding you in my hands." She held his cheeks on both sides of his face, her fingers tracing over the familiar features, forcing him to look deep into her eyes. It was the same face she loved, the features she memorized, the same nose, the same lips, the same hair, and yet...
The eyes were different. Her brother had the most beautiful eyes, they were guarded to everyone else besides her. When he looked her in the eye, he could convey every emotion and thought to her. This Lelouch, the eyes were different, they were reserved, and ...ashamed? The person looking back at her wasn't her brother.
She sprang back, horrified. Rage and concern warred within her. "Who are you? What did you do to my brother! Get out of his body, NOW!" she screamed, half in panic and half in rage.
The person in her brother's body chuckled. "I can't. Your brother is dead and passed on. I am Lelouch, a different Lelouch but I love you just as much as he did. No. I love you even more. I would never be so irresponsible and kill myself by overdosing on drugs, leaving you all alone."
Nunnally couldn't understand, someone else was using her brother's beloved body, using it to make that same smile, using it to trick her. She even sought comfort in his arms once!
Lelouch approached her slowly, making no sudden movements as she inched back and pressed herself to the wall. "In my world, I was never hurt in the terrorist attack that killed mother." He breathed out softly, trying to explain the story so she could understand.
"You were the witness, the cover up to the real truth behind our mother's death. Your legs were damaged, over 32 pieces of bullets and shrapnel were removed from your legs, taking with it your ability to walk. The traumatic incident closed your eyes to the world, you refused to see and your sight was taken away."
Nunnally flinched at the thought, unable to walk and see? Her mind wandered, thinking how overprotective Lelouch would have been in that situation. She hardened her heart tho that thought, it was a hypothetical situation.
Lelouch continued his story, his palms open in the universal sign for non-aggression. "I foolishly confronted the emperor about the assassination. A young prince without the protection of his mother and without any sort of authority. I was banished along with you to Japan as political hostages to the Kuuruugi family. The details are different but similar enough."
Nunnally swallowed the lump forming in her throat. It seemed so implausible yet, she couldn't feel any lies in the emotions he was displaying when narrating his story.
"You wished for a gentler world, one where people would be at peace with one another, no more war." Lelouch looked at her lovingly. "You were always thinking about others rather than yourself. And I was doing my best to care for you. Britannia believes in the strong and no place for the weak. For my sister who is blind and crippled, where does that leave her?" Lelocuh asked bitterly, his eyes looking but not seeing.
Nunnally felt pangs of pain and jealousy when Lelouch referred to his Nunnally, not her. It didn't help that his rich and compelling voice sent shivers running along her arms.
"So I hated Britannia and it's ideology, everything it stood for. With a power granted to me, my Geass, I started my plan to take down Britannia and create a world of peace."
"Did you do it?" Nunnally seemed doubtful of such a story.
He gave her an amused look. "Of course I did but I made mistakes along the way, so many friends, family, people I cared about died in the process. I died at the end too but I was given a second chance because of the geass. I can't explain too much about it now but my soul was sent to this alternate dimension as a second chance, your brother had already passed when I entered this body."
Nunnally flinched, having been reminded that this Lelouch wearing her brother's body was a fake. She did feel a touch of sadness for him, for a moment, his voice was filled with such self-hatred and regret.
His smiled disappeared, "I know this is hard for you to accept but this is the absolute truth, I love you with all my life and I will never leave you. This I swear, my life is yours to do as you see fit." He opened his arms and closed his eyes as if waiting for her to cast a judgement.
Nunnally couldn't think, her brother was dead.
Dead to her.
Gone.
The only thing left to remind her of his passing was his body, this... creature that claimed to be her brother.
Second Life, mystical powers, it was all lies. Something had taken over her brother's body and she was going to stop it. If her brother was gone, then it was time for his body to pass on with him.
There was a click, the sound of the safety being drawn. He opened his eyes, staring at Nunnally who pulled out a hand pistol with a silencer. It was strapped beneath her skirt, easily accessible at anytime. Lelouch was glad that Nunnally was taken her safety seriously but she interpreted his smile as smugness.
Her eyes were hardened with resolve.
"You're not my brother." She spat out, the words tearing into his heart followed by a gunshot.
The shock hit his body and the blood gushed from his chest at a ferocious rate. He coughed out blood, laughing. He was dying again, his vision fading. He saw Nunnally, hands shaking and tears streamed down her face.
"Don't cry. I won't leave you, ever." he wheezed out. Then darkness encompassed him.
It was time to test his immortality.
A/N: Shit gets real!
This is another short chapter but we have Nunnally clued in on the truth. This is a moment of bonding where Nunnally will decide either to embrace this new Lelouch or not.
More development will take place when Lelouch meets Suzaku, Kallen, and C.C
In terms of Abilities, I'm not sure what Geass I can grant Nunnally.
The Geass is suppose to be a reflection of the person's innermost desire.
A geass to make people kind?
hmm :D
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