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Of Kings and Pawns	By : tenohikari Category: +. to F > Code Geass Views: 5631 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Come on, if I owned Code Geass I would have put the Lelouch cross-dressing and all other crack dramas into the anime. So Sunrise owns everything, and all I have is this piece of fan fiction.

Chapter List
- 6
- 7
- 8
Title: Of Kings and Pawns
Pairing: mainly Schneizel x Lelouch (more to come)
Summary: The Order of the Black Knights has handed over their King in return for Japan. However, with Zero claimed dead and Lelouch in his grasp, Schneizel is only a couple turns away from claiming checkmate on the entire world.
Disclaimer: Sunrise owns Code Geass and all I own is this piece of fan fiction and I make no money writing this whatsoever. So please don�t sue me.
Warnings: M-Rated for lots of pr0n, incest, and violence.
Additional Warnings: Written in spare of the moment with OOCness and tons of grammar and spelling errors.
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Chapter 7
The Sword of Akasha was a weapon created to kill God. But God was�
Lelouch stared at his sire in disbelief, and he wondered if the Britannian Emperor had completely lost his sanity. No, he had known ever since his last encounter with that man�s mind was beyond the world that spawned the both of them. What Charles Zi Britannia desired� was utter madness.
�You want to create a world without lies,� he stated out loud and much to his growing horror, his father had smiled almost proudly upon this realization. �Politics would collapse� governments�society� there would be no such thing as trust or truth! A world without lies is a world without meaning!�
Charles makes a derisive laugh before he glares at wayward offspring with cold eyes. �That is because you�ve been deceiving yourself and the whole world in your own web of lies. You are far too dependant on wearing the masks of Lelouch Lamprouge and Zero. None of those names are your true persona, Lelouch Vi Britannia, my son.�
The Eleventh Prince glares back, hands fisting at his sides as he finally stands from his seat. �How dare you!? For letting my mother die, for sending Nunnally and I away, for rewriting my memories with your own lies � and you think you have any right to claim me?!�
The Emperor stares at him as if he was still an angry ten-year old, and it infuriates him. Lelouch had the sudden urge to throw something. He�d give almost anything to have Suzaku�s brute strength for the moment. To be able to pick up the heaviest book he could find and do his damn best to hit the man between the eyes. However, he does not attempt such a pointless act. He won�t lower himself to act like the little child the older man apparently thought he was.
�Lelouch,� a melodious and yet haunting voice scolds him from behind, �that is no way to speak to your father.�
His eyes widen and he feels as if the world has been pulled out from beneath his feet as he turns around to see the person he has sorely missed for the last eight years. No it wasn�t possible! This dark haired woman should not be standing before him, with that gentle smile upon her crimson lips and mischievous twinkles behind her jewel like lavender eyes. Nunnally�s eyes� before she was blinded.
She was Empress Marriane � more commonly known as �Marianne the Flash� - who hasn�t appeared to have aged a day since she was assassinated. She only smiles at his shocked expression and extends her arms out to him. �My, Lelouch, you�ve grown so much!�
�Ah, you�ve come at last, Marianne,� the Emperor speaks casually, and not at all surprised to see his deceased wife.
�Mother,� he finds himself gasping, his legs move towards her on their own accord. However, Lelouch stops himself upon remembering where he was. This shouldn�t be possible in the real world. Yet this world was made up of illusions� and controlled by that man�s whim. Did his own father really find sadistic joy tormenting him?!
The teenager whirls back and glares at his father and growls, �is this an illusion? You would do this?!� Charles does not respond; he does not need to as the Empress breaks out into a small amused laugh that causes their son to shiver upon memory.
�Oh, Lelouch, I am quite real but only within this system,� Marianne informs him while performing a brief fouett� en tournant before taking a hold of her skirts and finishing with curtsy. It reminded Lelouch of his childhood in the Aries Villa when his mother, who had once been both a commoner and Knight to Emperor, had enjoyed mocking the other Imperial ladies.
�You�re real?� he whispers mostly in shock than disbelief. �H-how� is this possible?�
Marianne only smiles at him, reaching out to affectionately stroke his bloodless cheek. He opens his mouth but no words to express elation come out, they�re trapped in the past when he was young and na�ve. It is his father�s voice that reminds him of his anger and why he is here in the first place.
�Lelouch,� the Emperor rumbles, �I will now answer your previous question.�
~*~*~*~*~
Lord Jeremiah Gottwald, former leader of the Purist Faction and now an unofficial knight of Prince Lelouch Vi Britannia, frowns as he surveys the battle over Kamine Island from his location. Had he been the same ignorant man he was before Zero�s appearance, he would have seen any rebellion against the Holy Empire as an uprising of ungrateful fools. Yet �orange� had changed his perception as it did his body that had once been wholly flesh.
He effortlessly climbs up on top of the Siegfried and watches with one narrowed gold eye while his other mechanical one widens as it scans the opponents on each side of the battlefield. Scanning each individual Knightmare in the sky is no easy feat, but it�s necessary now that the Avalon�s forces have arrived to aid the Emperor�s flagship. The Avalon was the airship commanded by Second Prince Schneizel, who holds his master prisoner
However, Jeremiah is conflicted. His sense of loyalty is telling him to simply crash the Siegfried into the air ship and fight his way to his captured prince. However, common sense, tells him to hold back. It�s not his own personal safety he is worried about. If the Avalon�s armed forces knew he was coming to rescue their most hated enemy, he feared they would execute the prince who was also Zero, rather than take the risk of him being freed.
Yet he had come to know the boy behind the mask of Zero rather well ever since he began to serve him. Lelouch planned all his moves with cold calculations. He knew how to turn the most dire and hopeless situations into victories or new how to minimize his losses. So he scanned, wondering if it was possible there was some slim chance that this rebellion was tied to�
Geass!
The trace was faint but he could see it surrounded the fighters who belonged to the loosing side of the battle. It was too bad he wasn�t close enough to cancel the Geass or willing enough to expose himself to the Britannian forces. If this was Lelouch�s doing he would know soon enough.
�I�m going to investigate,� a desperate voice said over to him from his comlink.
�I would advise against it,� Jeremiah spoke gravely but did not move from his position, �The moment you enter that battle, you�ll be gunned down by both sides.�
From within Shinkiro�s cockpit, the young assassin swallowed hard and ignored the sweat dripping along his neck as he used his Geass to get closer to Kamine Island without being detected. Yes, it was suicide to pilot that particular Knightmare frame into any battle with Britannian forces. However, that fact concerned Rolo Lamperouge very little.
�I�m going! If my brother is on that island, I�m going to save him this time!�
~*~*~*~*~
�So, right now, Lelouch and both his parents are in this C�s World which happens to be humanity�s gathered unconsciousness and is also referred to as God?� Suzaku barely understood the words as he said them while rubbing his temple for the umpteenth time. Even when he repeated the question in his mind, it was all too much information too soon after waking.
Leaning against the ruins of the Gate, C2 shrugged as she watched the unconscious Knight of Six use her beloved Cheese-kun as a pillow. �Yes, in a metaphysical nutshell.�
Suzaku really couldn�t stand how calm the immortal witch was with this matter. Wasn�t Lelouch her accomplice? Wasn�t she here to save him from spending the rest of his life in that other world?
�I was using Lelouch all this time, you know,� C2 spoke as if she could read his mind. Well, maybe she could� just like that strange Chinese Federation guy who knew the truth about his father. �I gave him his Geass to grant my greatest wish.�
The Pilot of the Lancelot barely remembered that day in Shinjuku and wondered if what there futures would have looked liked if Lelouch hadn�t been given Geass. Would he have died back there in the ghetto, gunned down by his own countrymen? Shaking his head, Suzaku willed himself not to think about the maybes and what ifs. He simply stared at C2 in curiosity.
�Your greatest wish?� he repeated, suddenly intrigued why the witch would have died for Lelouch so many times. Why she would continue to stand by and let him kill and order the deaths of so many. It was neither love nor loyalty; it was just selfishness.
�Yes, my wish is the same as your own.�
She was immortal� the one thing C2 could ever want, couldn�t possibly be�.?
�The wish to die.�
~*~*~*~*~
The castaway prince who had not seen the face of his mother in several years turned away to face the Emperor with a scowl. Did this man dare tell the truth after all this time? Did he want to believe in any of it?
His clothes suddenly return to normal as the library shifted to that of a gallery. Walls were adorned with shelves of glass encased antiques and framed mirrors of various sizes and styles. At least, that is what the latter appeared to be at first glance. The reflections in the mirrors began to morph and shift, into actual images not reflected from the room. Two of them closest to Lelouch, were actually people whom he knew rather well� before killing them in cold blood. Clovis La Britannia and Euphemia Li Britannia; his older brother and younger sister stared back at him with frozen smiles.
Stop! Lelouch willed himself to focus; this was no doubt a cheap ploy to weaken him. He turned his attention back to the Britannian Emperor, eyes showing nothing but disinterest. The cold uncaring expression was another mask, another lie; and Zero smirked inwardly as his father glowered at him in response.
�Half a century ago,� Charles began as he gestured to a large mirror that quickly reflected a memory, �my elder brother and I lived in a hell on earth. Our family was just rivals competing for the throne, assassinations occurred with regularity; daily betrayals spawned by lies� killing each other off��
The memory in the mirror displayed a pair young Britannian boys; their faces frozen in horror. The one that looked the most frightened must have been 98th Emperor himself, while the other was clearly� Director of the Geass Order, V2; the demonic man-child had given the Emperor his Geass, as well as immortality.
�You know, I sort of liked you, Lelouch, because you reminded me of Charles.�
Lelouch�s hateful thoughts towards V2 were quickly interrupted as his eyes followed the Emperor who moved towards another piece. The terrorist paled. He had seen many gruesome things in his young life � as a child he had walked through a land of corpses, saw the massacres within the ghettos, SAZ, Babel Tower, and at the Order; but the image of a woman crushed underneath a wagon was no less disturbing.
��my own mother had fallen victim to it. My brother and I were both sickened and angered by the world. We therefore both swear an oath: to create a world without lies.�
Marianne stepped forward to stand by her husband�s side, �Both C2 and I agreed to this, as well. V2, however��
~*~*~*~*~
�The land forces have been taken care of, your highness. All that remains are the enemies in the air, and Sir Weinberg is�� Kanon trailed off to see that his prince no longer looked concerned over the battle that was soon to be theirs. His gaze was fixated on Kamine Island itself and the aide made an attempt to contact Suzaku once more. The Knight of Seven still did not answer.
�My apologies, Kanon,� the prince spoke finally, �I was lost in memory.�
His aide blinked before grinning a little. �Would that memory be of Zero, my lord?�
Schneizel only chuckled. The earl knew him rather well. Kanon was an unusual and clever man; which was why he had taken him as his aide-to-camp as well as to bed on some occasions. They understood one another well, and unlike his previous lovers, Kanon was never the clingy jealous type. Schneizel couldn�t speak for himself; for Lelouch had been on his mind more than the idea of becoming the next Emperor. The Black King who had been a thorn in his side, was now his newest and perhaps most treasured piece.
�The first time I saw Zero in the flesh was on that island back when we went to investigate Clovis� discovery on Kamine Island,� he spoke while recalling his surprise to see the Enemy of the Empire standing on top of the fallen platform with the others shortly before stealing the Gawain.
�And you wanted to defeat him ever since?�
�Yes, but then it was for a different reason.�
�Prince Clovis?� Kanon ventured a guess.
�Perhaps,� Schneizel murmured, �I had wanted to solve the mystery behind that mask. Even more so when Zero turned up unharmed when Gate had activated.�
Kanon had heard the details before when the Prince had returned from to the homeland shortly before Euphemia�s death. It was because of Zero, the conflict in Area 11 grew to the point where even his involvement was required. Such a distraction had drawn him away from his own projects; his own desire to learn the truth of what their father had been plotting the entire time. Even now, the next self-appointed heir to the throne was still somewhat in the dark.
�Prince Schneizel,� a voice from the bridge called through the radio, �we have just received a message from one of the Black Knights, Diethard Ried, who wishes to speak to you, your highness.�
Neither Schneizel nor Kanon seemed surprised at the mention of the Britannian traitor�s name. Newsman and turncoat was what Cornelia had called him. He was the man who had known about Zero�s true identity and his supernatural power before the other Black Knights.
�Do you think he�s figured it out, sir?� Kanon asked watching the Prince stroke his chin thoughtfully.
�Yes, I�m quite sure he has.� Schneizel pressed a button on the arm of his throne to respond. �Patch him through.�
~*~*~*~*~
It had not been the first time Suzaku had stepped foot into this strange world, and he certainly hoped it would be the last. Walking quietly alongside C2, he surveyed the ruins among the surroundings and wondered what had happened. The architecture was whole the last time he had been here with the Emperor. The Sword of Akasha, the weapon created to kill God� it looked like God had survived and struck back with a vengeance.
He shot his companion a brief glance, wondering if he should try asking her. However, the green-haired immortal witch looked as cold and distant as her accomplice. No, he was mistaken. Her amber eyes were fixated towards the stairs that lead to the top of the platform, she seemed eager for this confrontation.
Suzaku faced forward once more, wondering what had possessed him to demand the witch take him here. After all, the Emperor was immortal; there was nothing more he could do. Regardless, he wanted to be here; he needed to make sense of this mess with God and Geass that had twisted his life and ideals. When this was over, he would become the Knight of One� he would govern Japan and make his mother country strong once more�
He would drag Lelouch, kicking and screaming away from this world if he had to.
After denying that he and C2 were similar, that he wanted to live to atone for his sins; he had decided that he wouldn�t do it alone. Steeling his resolve, he climbed up the floating stone steps towards the dais. Before they had even reached the top, he could hear Lelouch�s angry voice echo through out the world.
�How dare you use me as one of your tools! How dare you use your Geass on Nunnally! You call yourselves parents?!�
Suzaku couldn�t believe his ears. He had seen the Emperor use his Geass on Lelouch to give him a false past; and then realized it must have been similar with Anya. But why? Why Nunnally? The blind and crippled little girl hadn�t done anything to harm anyone. Nunnally was just as sweet and harmless as her older sister Euphemeia.
�You blinded her� crippled her� and for what?!�
The accusations continued even as they approached the royal family. Neither Charles nor Marianne appeared guilty; neither one even flinched at their son�s outbursts. They simply stared at Lelouch as if they were patient parents waiting for a spoiled child�s temper tantrum to die down.
Lelouch panted as he finished yelling to what seemed like to be a wall, and without turning around, he greeted to them. �Good to see that you�re back, C2� and you brought Suzaku along with you.�
C2 shrugged. �He insisted on coming.�
The Emperor steps towards the immortal witch, hand outstretched to reach out and take her code; but those fingers collide against Lelouch�s shoulder as he moves to shield her. The ferocity of his glare was enough to make Charles draw back his hand which was just twitching to make contact with the obstinate child�s face. Suzaku glared warningly at the Emperor, keeping his own hand on the hilt of his sword.
�Stand aside, boy.�
�This,� Lelouch all but growls his left eye practically glowing with his rage, �ends now.�
The Emperor laughs humorlessly. �Haven�t you realized it yet? Your Geass power will have no effect on me, nor will it on anyone else here.�
�Haven�t you realized it yet?� Lelouch threw his words back at him, �There is someone else��
This time it�s the demon prince who laughs, and he is amused much to the others� confusion. Lelouch extends his hands out heavenward; his mismatched eyes looking past the twisting sculptures made of arms and legs towards the sky itself. A wide grin breaks out upon his face and Charles recoils in realization even before the boy begins to explain.
�God is made up of mankind�s collective unconsciousness, and you yourself said that not all men are equal. Therefore,� Lelouch raises his voices and it echoes across the world, �God! Collective unconscious! Please, do not reverse the flow of time!�
The Geass symbol shined brightly in the sky above them, and the world obeyed. Both Charles and Marianne whirled around and watched helplessly as all their dreams begin to crumble to dust. All their hopes and expectations begin to dwindle into nothing. Everything would return to Zero.
C2 lowered herself to the ground, rocking herself back and forth as she watched the family continue to bicker as the Thought Elevator began to be absorbed into the World of C. Reaching out to hug her knees; she stared pitifully at both Marianne and Charles. No matter how much Marianne had argued, C2 knew it was true that the two parents had always put themselves before their children.
Did it even matter to them that Nunnally was dead and Lelouch would one day take her code and become an immortal warlock? Did it matter that for once he was screaming the truth with tears spilling down his face? Did it matter that they were now disappearing along with their dreams?
C2 had thought she had seen Lelouch at his most vulnerable after mortally wounding Euphemia; but it was nothing compared to his emotional state now. It was as if the tortured animal that was Lelouch�s soul had finally been released from its prison. The beast came charging out, baring fangs and claws.
�There is only one truth,� Lelouch declared as he finally came around to finish his long rant, �you, my own parents, you abandoned us!�
Charles Zi Britannia was enraged, far angrier than C2 had seen him in his youth. Without his legs and with shear willpower alone, the Britannian Emperor launched himself forward while knocking aside his consort; he flew towards Lelouch while screaming.
�You clever little fool!�
Lelouch grunted as his father�s large hand wrapped around his throat in a bruising grip, but he remained glaring with his mismatched eyes. Both C2 and Suzaku had tensed, and although she remained sitting, her golden eyes were wide with concern. The Emperor was physically stronger than his offspring� if he applied enough pressure he could surely break the boy�s neck before being absorbed. Lelouch knew this as well. Without looking back he had told Suzaku, who looked ready to break them apart, to stay out of the matter.
�Don�t you understand that if you refuse me and what I offer, you will inherit his world; Schneizel�s world! Do not judge me; good and evil intentions are in each side of the same card!�
At the mention of the Second Imperial Prince, Lelouch�s eyes widened and the tears stopped falling. Schneizel�s world and his promise for peace, did he really want to believe it? Fight for it? The world that Euphie and Nunnally dreamed of� the world they had deserved to live in. He could hear the faint whispers of mankind�s conscious, they desired hope and security� and Lelouch finally made up his mind while glaring at his father once more.
The former Eleventh Prince oddly wondered if that man could look into his mind. If his father could see his memories from the past few days; could see him performing such sinful acts with Schneizel, his own older brother. Just like Charles and V2, they had both swear an oath� a silent oath to utterly destroy the man they called father. Charles stared back in realization, and his look of outrage turned to disgust as he tightened his grip.
�I see,� Charles all but sneered, �that is your decision.�
Lelouch placed his emotionless mask on once more. �Yes� now, be gone from my sight!�
~*~*~*~*~
The final screams of Charles Zi Britannia and his wife Marianne, echoed across the world before it also vanished and they were once more inside the cave on Kamine Island. Suzaku stared at the prince, unsure of what to say and he had remained silent, while turning around to look for Anya who had all but disappeared. The Knight of Seven had hoped she was all right and had returned back to the Avalon. That�s right; he had to return as well. The 98th Emperor was now dead and the world was no longer in danger of the Ragnarok connection.
�Lelouch,� he finally spoke out, �We have to go back. The rebellion you�ve set up must have been destroyed by now.�
The witch stood up, dusting herself off and appeared to be interested. �Oh, so that was indeed your doing? Have you gained another accomplice, Lelouch?�
�Would you be jealous if I had, C2?�
The boy turned to face, his mask slipping as the corner of his mouth curved upwards in a smile. He doubted she would be just as jealous as V2 who in turn gunned down his brother�s wife out of jealousy. The witch had known his desire to learn about his mother�s death, and was speaking to the dead woman, she had known all along. However, Lelouch couldn�t bring himself to hate his accomplice; he probably wouldn�t have believed her. She had let him indulge in the heart warming lies until the truth finally destroyed the image of his once loving mother.
C2 shrugged her shoulders with Cheese-kun now in tow, as they began to walk towards the entrance of the cave. �Do as you like. You�ll have to fulfill your contract to me, eventually.�
Suzaku swallowed hard as he recalled their previous conversation; however, the raven haired prince only smiled in response. Lelouch had known ever since he had seen her glimpses of her tragic past. His suspicions were conformed during her transition back to the meek slave girl. It was true she wanted to die for so long� but what she wanted most of all was�
The immortal witch stiffened as a pair of thin arms wrap around her tense shoulders. She wasn�t sure what shocked her most, the embrace itself, or Lelouch�s sudden show of affection that he would reserve only for Nunnally. Once before she has felt another person's embrace, and had killed that man who had been lost in his own obsessions. Lelouch would never become like Mao, she knows that much and feels a stinging sensation within her eyes and blinks back the wetness behind them.
�C2,� he whispers lowly, his voice raw with emotion, �even though we�re accomplices who have been using one another ever since the beginning; thanks for always coming back.�
�Thanks for always saving me.�
Her mouth quirked into a sly smile and she reaches up and gently places her hand over his. She turns and her honey colored eyes met with his amethyst ones. He wasn�t like his mother, her former accomplice; Lelouch would definitely keep his word.
�You can thank me by buying pizza right now. Three boxes with extra Tabasco.�
He sighed wearily as he drew away. With C2 it was never just one box, and a lot of pizza in her mind was at least several times more in his. Honestly what was her obsession with that junk food anyway? C2 practically worshiped the Pizza Hut franchise.
�I�m afraid I left my wallet in my Zero costume,� he lied smoothly. His wallet that held his IDs, credit cards, and cash was still safely stowed away with his uniform inside one of the Shinkiro�s hidden compartments.
C2 only shrugged and continued to hug her yellow plush. �I know your credit card number by now, and the local chain in Japan knows me well enough not to ask for identification.�
Well, damn. His credit history as Lelouch Lamprouge was definitely going to go down the drain and there was no way in hell he was ever going to ask Schneizel for money.
�Witch, I hope you die of high cholesterol.�
�That would be my preferred way to die, at least I won�t be the one hounded by a collection agency.�
Walking behind the both of them, Suzaku was dumbfounded as he watched the Enemy of Empire and an immortal witch, argue over a trivial matter such as pizza. Their relationship was a bizarre one; they weren�t quite friends nor are they lovers. They are simply accomplices, and only after a few years, C2 perhaps knows Lelouch better than anyone.
�Hey Suzaku�� The said teen blinked and glanced over at Lelouch who was now looking straight at him. �I know you have to report everything to Schneizel; but for C2, do you think you can keep quite about her?�
Frowning, the Knight of Seven glanced towards the girl who was busy dusting off the dirt from her plush toy. �Only if you leave her behind, put on the eye-patch, and return with me to the Avalon.�
Suzaku didn�t care if C2 was now glowering at him. If she didn�t want to be a lab experiment again then the best thing was to let Lelouch leave everything that was Zero behind. His revenge has been sated and now the only thing left was atonement.
Lelouch was also frowning but he placed the eye patch back on and tossed Suzaku the key, much to the other boy's relief. However, the prince had yet to step away from C2 and was about to say something until bright lights flashed down upon them. Wincing, Suzaku shielded his eyes to see Britannian soldiers surrounding them, their guns trained on the trio.
�Wait!� Suzaku called out, raising his hands in the air, �I am Suzaku Kururugi, the Knight of Seven! Lower your weapons; we are not your enemies!�
Suzaku�s stomach felt like a lead weight as the soldiers took aim, and without thinking, he dove in front of Lelouch. The sound of gunfire deafened him but strangely he found himself able to breathe. What was also strange was that the live command had not triggered him to attack or run away. That was when Suzaku realized that it wasn�t them the soldiers were shooting at. He turned around and blanched to see a familiar Knightmare frame standing on the cliff above them.
�Big brother!� a familiar voice called out from within the Shinkiro.
Lelouch stepped forward, completely surprised. �R-Rolo?!�
�Rolo?� Suzaku wondered as he yelled for the soldiers to stop firing. What was that false sibling and traitor doing here? He quickly turned his attention towards the dark prince and when he blinked, both Lelouch and the Shinkiro had vanished without a trace.
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End Chapter 7
Useless Fact:
Marianne�s spin kick, although I have no knowledge of ballet, I thought it kind of looked like: fouett� en tournant � French for �whipped turning� is spectacular turn in ballet, usually performed in series, during which the dancer turns on one foot while making fast outward and inward thrusts of the working leg at each revolution.
Author�s Note:
I really wanted to get this chapter over and done with (so please excuse the spelling, grammar, and any visible plot holes); it just seemed to be taking too long to write and I couldn�t think up of any good scenes of Schneizel really doing anything other than him griping about how he wants his new uke back.
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