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Redemption and Madness: A Code Geass fan-fiction

I own nothing Code Geass is a brilliant work by brilliant people and I wish not to anger any of them.

Chapter One: The day a titan rose

Once upon a time there was a hansome prince. He lived happily with his sister, half-sisters, and his mother. Until one fateful day when all of his happiness was swept away like loose leaves in violent tempest. His mother was slain before his eyes, his sister was crippled, and upon his confrontation of the king, his father, he was sent away. Sent away to a land of beauty and honor where he met a young man who became his best friend but war tore the two friends apart and left the prince and his sister alone for years.
One day, upon his sixteenth year the prince, living happily with the paupers, chanced upon a beautiful enchantress who delivered onto him power thought only to exist in legend. Taking this power into his hands he became a great warrior named Zero and summoned a mighty army of righteousness to battle the evil of his father's wicked empire. He was reunited with his friend but bitter consiquences forced them to be enemies, even more bitter consiquences forced their rivalry to a new level upon the loss of the prince's beloved half-sister and the friend's true love.
The prince continued on although his friend was now forever his enemy and his sister too was forced into battle with him. A bitter melencholy erouded on the prince. He became drunk on hopelessness until a crimson glow entered his life. A valkyrie of scarlet hue who fought alongside the prince and was his most powerful warrior. But in that moment of his despair he began to see her as more. The prince fell in love and was encouraged to fight again because of his love for the valkyrie although he dared never say it. Her capture during his campaign nearly broke him as did the loss of a dear friend, a would-be lover who was slain by a liar with the same power as he. Further into madness he seemed to fall as he continued on his bloody revolution even as his army betrayed him and he was forced away from his valkyrie.
Onward and onward he continued until finally, before even God himself the prince triumphed over his wicked father and was joined by the friend who became his enemy and the enchantress who first gave him his power. And thus the prince became a king, a mad king with a thrist for bloody justice that only furthur strained his affair with the valkyrie whose heart he broke to spare her damnation, damnation he so craved for himself. In a plan of tragic brilliance named the Zero Requiem, the prince set up his demise with the friend mocking him in the dress of the warrior persona he gave birth to.
Now upon the one year anniversary of the demise of the prince, Lelouch Vi Btiannia, the world turns in a ballet of blissful ignorance. The army that once followed him now laughs at his fate. His friend, Suzaku Kururugi, guards his sister Nunnally, continuously mocking/honoring his friend in the dress of Zero. As for the valkyrie, Kallen Kozuki, she had lost her spirit in which to fly. She loved the prince and his death might as well have been her death as well. Her broken heart left her with lame wings and thus grounded, denied of the sky and of happiness.

Kallen Kozuki was lying in her bed, despondent and depressed. There was no school today so she didn't feel that she had to get up anyway. It had been a whole year since her beloved Lelouch died. She hated him for lying to her even if it was to protect her from his enemies. Enemies she would have fought with him, for god's sake she was his finest soldier, and yet he still pushed her aside saying that she must live.
"Kallen, you must live," he whispered.
He wanted her to live.
"How can I live without you?" she cried with tears in her eyes.
She recalled the moment he whispered those words to her. The day of the betrayal of the Black Knights, one of the worst days in her life. She wished she had stayed with him that day, she wished she had something that day when he came to the UFN and she brought his lips to hers. She wished there was someway he could have thought of a way where he would have returned to Ashford Academy with her and they could have been together.
The thoughts of their doomed romance only worsened her tears.
Her mother, now free from drugs, was at her side. She had tried to console her daughter so many times as she seemed to come in and out of depression over the year. She had learned about Lelouch from her tears. It did help Kallen that her mother was there and surprisingly supported Kallen's love for the Demon, saying that if she could love him that he could not be a demon.
More tears fell out of Kallen's eyes; she knew why she was so sad today of all days. Today was the anniversary of Lelouch's death.
"Lelouch…I miss you," she whispered in tears.

Suzaku Kururugi was dressed as Zero and sitting on a windowsill. He was in Nunnally's office, with said girl sitting in her wheelchair and petting Arthur the cat who seemed to disappear and reappear at a whim. Tomorrow was what the world considered a day of victory but for Suzaku it was the worst day in his life. Even after all the horrible things that he and Lelouch had done to each other, Lelouch was Suzaku's best friend and he loved, mourned, and missed Lelouch desperately. There were plenty of times that Suzaku wished Lelouch was at his side, like he believed it should have been, and helped him solve the world's issues together as partners.
Nunnally hadn't been eager to forgive Suzaku for killing her brother and when he told her what he nearly did to Kallen she would not speak to him as Suzaku for a month. In the year since Lelouch's death Nunnally had become a strong leader and her brother would have been proud of her. Sometimes Suzaku would just look at her and it seemed like the sixteen year old girl was in her twenties, and at that age she was the very flower of womanhood. When he did think that way Suzaku couldn't help but find him becoming aroused and found that he was glad his mask hid his blushing face.
Nunnally, who was determined to honor her brother by completely throwing herself into his dream of world peace, had truly grown into her title as Empress. She ordered with great strength but also with great fairness, which earned her not only the loyalty of her soldiers and her subjects, but also their love. There were many times she had to use force, especially with her half-sister Cornelia who often voted for extreme force. It always shocked Cornelia how strong Nunnally was despite being confined to a wheelchair, but she happily obeyed her younger half-sister and acknowledged the intense feeling of pride she had knowing that the empire was clearly in good hands.
"Rest in peace my friend," said Suzaku under his breath.
Nunnally heard and smiled slightly.

Warm wet fluid struck the sailor's face he awoke upon his dismal reality. He sailed alone on a raft of death, sailing an endless ocean of blood littered with more death. Easy to retrieve material should his ship need repairs. Corpses aplenty, corpses made corpses by the sailor's hands. By his damnable plans and dreaded rage he had turned his world into an endless hell, wet with blood and stinking of carrion. The dead that made up his craft once again began to curse him, as did the dead in the sea. He gazed downward into the blood and saw his sad and misrable reflection hoping that he was looking at his own corpse soon to join the blissful dead and damned. He then looked up and his face grew hopeful. An angel with wings of red and diamond blue eyes flew playfully in the air, her lucious breasts open and welcoming. The sailor gazed up at the angel as she fluttered down, his hand reaching for salvation just as hers was reached down to save him. But just as peace was within his grip from out of the bloody sea came a monstrous ship captained by a pirate dressed in robes of blood. He held in his hand a long and filfthy harpoon and his smile showed hooks littered with gore.
The sailor tried to warn the angel but his throat was filling with blood and maggots and in one sad, brief moment of pain, the angel was struck and thus fell dead in the ocean of blood screaming in pain. The pirate laughed in delight as the sailor dived after the angel in a pitiful and hopeless attempt of rescue.

Lelouch awoke on a cold unforgiving floor; his nightmares had given way to reality. He dreamt of the screams of an innocent angel and the laughter of an evil man. His thoughts came back to him and he cursed. He felt something rubbing against his bare chest and found that Arthur the cat had returned to him from a visit that he could almost tell was to his sister Nunnally. Lelouch rose to his feet, picking Arthur up in his now muscular arms. Over the course of one year Lelouch had changed incredibly. Blood and madness had given him rage and rage gave him initiative. Initiative to continue the work that he had started, only now the work had to be done alone. He was against an insurmountable force of evil without an army of righteousness to back him up. Never mind, he wanted to do this alone. He even considered it his punishment. As if prolonging his wretched life was not punishment enough. Lelouch put Arthur down and began his exercises. He was alone in a rundown apartment with weights, a cat, a blood-stained plush toy, a sword, and a series of knife blades as his only friends, but not his only comfort. The walls of the old building were filled with drawings of a beautiful girl with blazing red hair and ocean blue eyes. She was the reason Lelouch had returned, or at least she was the other reason he had returned, the good reason. Once the business was over he planned to make her his bride. He planned to make Kallen Kozuki his bride.
As soon as he finished his sets of 80 Lelouch reached for his sword. He learned to juggle the sword with incredible speed and strength. He learned without ever taking a lesson in his life.

The anniversary of Lelouch's death came as a day of celebration to the world. But to Kallen, Nunnally, and Suzaku, it was a day of mourning. All three of them made a pilgrimage to Lelouch's secret grave, which Suzaku dug himself with the help of Jeremiah Gottwald and surprisingly General Tohdoh. As the three of them made their way up on the hill where they had Lelouch buried, Suzaku noticed someone standing at the top.
"Stay here," he said to Kallen and Nunnally.
Suzaku, dressed as Zero, walked up the hill with great stealth. When he got to the top he saw that he was alone…with a horrible sight.
"No," he shouted.
Kallen pushed Nunnally up the hill with great speed to see what their friend was yelling about. Then they saw what had upset Suzaku so much. Lelouch's grave had been dug up. The body was gone, and the headstone was smashed to rubble.
"Oh god," Kallen cried as she fell to her knees. "No, no, it can't be true."
"Why? Who could have done this?" Nunnally cried.
"I fill find out," Suzaku growled under his mask, his eyes burning with rage. "I swear to god, I'll find who did this."

Kyoshiro Tohdoh had married Nagasaki Chiba shortly after Lelouch's death. The old soldier had easily deduced Lelouch's plan the minute he saw the false Zero in movement and out of respect for the brilliance and goodness of the plan he kept his silence and even buried Lelouch. Now he was a father to a baby boy named Taizo and was attending a party that celebrated Lelouch's murder.
"This is a farce," said Tohdoh to his confidant Li Xinke.
"Indeed," the Chinese man agreed.
He had also deduced Lelouch's plan. These two were the only of the lead Black Knights that didn't hate Lelouch, other than Kallen or Zero. The others despised Lelouch with a passion, especially Ohgi, who led the original coup against him.
"Having fun," Ohgi asked Tohdoh as he and his wife Viletta came by.
They were followed by their comrades Tamaki, Cornelia, Guilford, Gino, Anya, and Chiba.
"Is your definition of fun spitting on the grave of a worthy adversary?" Tohdoh chastised.
"Lelouch was a vile inhuman monster," said Ohgi.
"Did we even know him enough to judge him as such?" said Tohdoh.
Viletta and Chiba both sighed, this was an argument their husbands had fought numerous times before. The argument then got worse and eventually all the leaders were involved in this uneven debate until Zero, Nunnally, and Kallen arrived.
"We need to talk," said Zero. "Now."
They all moved to a room away from the ball so they could speak in private.
"Lelouch's grave has been robbed," said Nunnally.
"What?" shouted Tohdoh.
The other Black Knights were confuses by this.
"Hold on a second, I thought that unholy bastard was put aboard the Damocles when it went in the sun," said Gino.
"And why are you so surprised by this Tohdoh?" asked Ohgi with a glare.
"I helped bury Lelouch," said Tohdoh without fear or shame.
"You gave that devil a Christian burial?" shouted Gino. "He tried to kill all of us. He nearly conquered the world. And you gave him a Christian burial."
"And now the body has been taken," said Tohdoh.
"Good," said Tamaki. "Keep the bastard for all I care and bully to whoever took him."
"Exactly, Lelouch was a traitor and a murderer, worse than the devil himself," said Chiba.
"Says who?" shouted an animal like voice from the doorway.
They turned and saw a man dressed in a sleeveless red version of Zero costume. He was six feet tall, Britannian in ethnicity, his face was drenched with blood, his smile showed yellow pointed teeth, and his eyes were red with Geass.
"Who are you?" shouted Zero pulling out his gun.
"I'm the devil and Lelouch is a fraud," said the man. "Bye."
The man drew his own gun but Zero fired first. The blood colored man was struck right between the eyes, but didn't fall. All were stunned by this. The shock continued when the man put the gun in his own mouth and shot himself six times, laughing all the while. Suzaku felt like he could vomit in his own mask as the man laughed rivers of blood from his mouth without showing a single ounce of pain. The blood flow soon stopped but he continued to laugh.
"Damn my blood tastes good," he laughed.
He then ran down the hall towards the ballroom. Zero ran after him and nearly slipped on all the blood that was on the floor. The Black Knights were following close behind him though Kallen stayed with Nunnally.
"Follow the blood stained road," the man laughed in an obviously Britannian accent.
He soon ran into the ballroom with his pursuers following him. When they entered, they found that they were under attack. Strange creatures that looked as if they were a mix of man and cockroach were crawling in though the glass dome, the doors, and wherever there was an entrance and were attacking guests at random. They used their pincers to peel the flesh off innocent people and devour them with great hunger. The intruder was sitting on Nunnally's throne, the creatures not going anywhere near him as he enjoyed the sight before him. Zero went after the intruder while Tohdoh led the Knights and guards against the creatures.
"What the hell are these things?" shouted Tamaki as he pulled out his pistol.
"We'll find out later, for now just shoot," said Cornelia as she fired at any creature she could get close to.
Zero ran unopposed as he approached the intruder and drew his sword.
"Call these monsters off," he ordered.
"No," the intruder said with a smile.
Zero ran him through so hard that the sword went through the back of the throne.
"Ouch," the intruder said sarcastically.
He then grabbed Zero by the throat and pulled him away from his sword. Suzaku's 'live' command was telling him to run, but his enemy's grip was like iron.
"What are you?" Zero chocked.
"I'm the man who deserves the title that pretender Lelouch took," he answered. "He thinks that conquest is true evil, but true evil is the destruction of all life, whether it is Britannian, Japanese, or Chinese. I am here to remind the world or what true evil is. I am he who gives nightmares to cats and makes the angels cry blood. The deformer of souls and the eater of virgins. I am Amadeus Bloodbeard, and I am the true demon."
He held Zero until his creatures killed all the civilians, who tried to escape but the doors were blocked. The Black Knights were being corralled like cattle and their weapons were running low on bullets. Even Xinke, the master swordsman, was succumbing to his illness and was easily captured by the monsters. Suzaku was helpless as he could do nothing but hear the cries of innocent people being devoured by these inhuman monsters led by this man who could not be killed.
'I'm sorry Lelouch,' was all Suzaku could think.
His dearly departed friend whose memory was now being defiled had trusted him with the safety of Nunnally and the world's peace. His mind then thought of Nunnally and he was sure that Kallen would…
"Let us go," cried Nunnally's voice.
Fear sent a shock all throughout Suzaku's body. Nunnally and Kallen were being dragged by two cockroach-men.
"Get your goddamn pincers off of us," Kallen yelled.
The cockroach-men dropped Nunnally at Bloodbeard's feet and had Kallen held apart from the others and took Zero off of Bloodbeard's hands.
"Well aren't you a pretty sight," Bloodbeard said as he stood over the crippled empress.
Bloodbeard surveyed the scene as the last of the civilians were killed. He snapped his fingers and more monsters came in with camera equipment. The roach-men prepared everything with surprising dexterity. When the light came on and showed that they were live.
"How should I begin this speech? How should any terrorist give his speech?" said Bloodbeard. "What does he start with? Does he start with who he is? What he fights for? Who he wants to destroy? I am a terrorist, a psychopath, and a cannibal."
One of the roach-men gave Bloodbeard a forearm and he took a deep bite of the warm flesh. The Black Knights and all the viewers of the world were disgusted and horrified by the act of the taboo.
"For over a year, I have been forced to listen to your praising of Lelouch and his acts of faux evil," Bloodbeard continued. "I am here to claim the title that is rightfully mine. I will show the world what truly makes a demon. I and my army of Infected will lay siege to any nation that supports life, which indulges in the foolish ideals of freedom and peace, and continues to believe that Lelouch VI Britannia is a greater evil than Amadeus Bloodbeard. I know what you are thinking: 'who is this crazy man?'
"I am Amadeus Bloodbeard, he who holds the power of Geass. The Geass of Absolute Corruption."
A roach-man approached Bloodbeard.
"Behold the effects of my power," he yelled.
He took his knife and cut the head of the beast, showing that it was real.
"I have before me the Empress of the most powerful nation on Earth," Bloodbeard continued. "A nation built on corruption, lies, and conquest. Her brother was the emperor of this nation. The nation was a pawn in a game to trick the world into a ridiculous idea of peace and harmony that began with his death by this man Suzaku Kururugi."
The roach-man who held Suzaku shattered his mask in its mandibles. Bloodbeard moved towards Zero and removed the damaged mask and the cloth mask under that, making sure the camera caught everything.
"A lie forged this peace," said Bloodbeard. "Lelouch was a fraud, a false demon, in my eyes that is a great sin. Any man who dares to falsify wickedness is nothing but a villain in the eyes of a true villain. Let not the sheep impersonate a lion, and let lions make their place known among sheep."
Bloodbeard walked to Nunnally and kicked her in the face.
"Leave her alone," shouted Suzaku. "If you want to kill someone then kill me you psychopath."
"Death is not punishment my friend," said Bloodbeard. "Life is a punishment for those who were not born…ah what the hell I just love torture. Infected, strip the empress please and then do what comes naturally to animals and men alike. And be sure to get it all on camera."
Bloodbeard sat once again on the throne and watched as Nunnally was slowly surrounded by Infected.
"You bastard," Kallen yelled. "You evil bastard."
"Leave her alone," shouted Suzaku.
"Take me instead," Cornelia begged.
"Sorry but this adds insult to injury to me good friend Lelouch, whose grave I happily vandalized and whose mind I scarred," said Bloodbeard.
Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally only heard Bloodbeard say that he vandalized Lelouch's grave. Suzaku and Kallen's mind were then filling with rage and horror as the crowd of Infected drew closer to Nunnally. The young empress's eyes were wide with horror while Bloodbeard's were mad with glee.
Out of thin air came a long purple sword went flying straight towards the Infected that was closest to Nunnally. It stuck the beast in its head killing it instantly. A tall figure dressed in black then took the sword from the dead monster and began chopping through the mob of monsters that came to rape the empress. He flipped on over on his blade and drove a knife through its throat. He stood tall in his suit. Combat boots on his feet, black cargo pants guarded his legs, his chest was covered with a purple chainmail shirt with a red bird-like symbol on the chest, and on his shoulders were two iron guards. His face was not masked and could easily be recognized.
"Lelouch," Kallen whispered.

"It's about time that you showed up," laughed Bloodbeard. "I was beginning to get bored."
Lelouch juggled his sword in his hand and threw it at Bloodbeard, who juggled the spinning weapon with lightning fast reflexes and threw it back at Lelouch, who caught it without a sweat and used the momentum to cut at an Infected that was about to pounce on him from behind.
Suzaku was at a loss for words. In all the years he had known Lelouch, the prince was never so fast or so strong. He then got a good look at Lelouch's face and saw that there were scars along his eyelids albeit they seemed faded. He also stole a look at Lelouch's eyes; they were burning with a raging passion.
"Bloodbeard," Lelouch shouted.
"Lamperouge," Bloodbeard laughed as he took the sword Suzaku drove though him.
Lelouch charged with his sword held high as did Bloodbeard with his sword. The met each other's blows once and then again. On the third strike Lelouch's sword met Bloodbeard's neck and Bloodbeard's sword met Lelouch's chest. They removed each other's weapons from their bodies and struck at each other again. Lelouch managed to strike Bloodbeard in his legs, arms, and even head; the same could be said for Bloodbeard in his attacks of Lelouch.
Both men stopped for a second and the Black Knights and viewers of the world saw the great wounds they both had healed right before their eyes. Lelouch struck out again with his sword but Bloodbeard stabbed through Lelouch's arms, causing him to drop the long purple sword. He then used his sword to sweep across Lelouch's legs and impaled Lelouch and drove it into the ground. Lelouch struggled as much as he could but the sword was buried deep.
"We'll play later," Bloodbeard whispered into Lelouch's ear.
He then pulled from his shirt pocket a human rib bone.
"My little souvenir from earlier," said Bloodbeard.
He extended his tongue and licked Lelouch along his face. He smiled his demented smile and dug his teeth into Lelouch's throat. The dark prince's blood freshened the red coat on Bloodbeard's face.
Having his fill of Lelouch's throat Bloodbeard left though the door with his monsters following behind him, dropping the prisoners they kept in their monstrous clutches. Suzaku and Kallen immediately went to Lelouch's side. Kallen's eyes were focused on her wounded beloved as she tried to stop his bleeding. Suzaku's were locked on Bloodbeard who turned before he could continue further.
"Witness hell," he said, smiling gleefully.
He continued on without any opposition. Tohdoh and Xinke ran after him but saw what had happened to the outer guard. Knightmare Frames were in burning wrecks and the pilots were impaled on their own swords.
"Good god," said Tohdoh.
"I'm afraid God is nowhere near here my friend," said Xinke.
He kept his eye on Bloodbeard and his monsters.
"But the devil just left," he continued.

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