Chapter 2: Arc 1, Part 1 - The Devil Awakens
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Unknown Place.
- Where am I?' asked Lelouch the obvious question, floating in an unknown space.
He couldn't feel his body, but he could think clearly and draw conclusions.
- Is this...my Hell? - Lelouch asked himself, having been here for an unknown amount of time.
- I became the King of the entire world, but... what if other people with Gias' abilities appear, what happens if he... - Lelouch reasoned excitedly - No, calmly. Nannali and Suzaku can handle it, especially with Jeremiah with them, if anything, he'll suppress the alien Gias....
- Have people's lives improved since my death? - Lelouch kept asking himself questions as he recalled his life's journey.
To avenge his father for his mother, whom he failed to protect during the terrorist attack, and then abandoned him and Lelouch's sister Nannali. Left them in Sector 11, which is the current territory of Japan. How he went to school with his friends, how he didn't care about this reality until he got the power.
The power of the King - Gias, which was given to him by CeeCee, a witch who lived hundreds of years with the curse of 'Gias'.
He got the power to manipulate people's will and desire, forcing people to obey his every command. He later became Zero in the form of a defender of justice within Japan and supported Japanese terrorists who wanted independence.
Creating the Black Knights organisation fighting for the freedom of the weak, he began his journey filled with the different colours of our lives. Bitterness, despair, pain, joy, exhilaration.....
Then he wanted to end his struggle after the announcement of his sister, Euphemia of Britain.
Because he didn't want to anymore...
Or wanted to...
Continue...?
Euphemia, as governor of Zone 11, wanted to create conditions where the inhabitants of the 11th colony would be called
not the 11th, but the Japanese. They would be given back the flag and given autonomy to decide the future of their country under the British protectorate.
He met his sister in the guise of Zero, but she recognised him immediately. Probably because of her feminine intuition that it was her 'deceased' brother who turned out to be alive.
Because Lelouch used his Gias a lot, he couldn't control his power for a while and randomly subdued his sister by giving her orders:
- Kill all Japanese!
He still remembered that day...
When he gave that order...
He dreamt of it very often, but...
He forgot it as quickly as he remembered it...
At the main arena in Tokyo, many people from Area 11 were gathered right in the stands, so when she jumped out of the meeting room and gave that order to the soldiers, they were hesitant to follow it.
Yufimiya also picked up a machine gun and started shooting at the Japanese.
Gias' actions cannot be removed, but can only be used on a person once and never again.
Blood Princess was her nickname after this incident.
She, of course, remembered nothing, but her loyal knight Kururugi Suzaku, at the time, remembered everything.
He was the first to support Yufimiya's idea for Area 11, as he wanted to achieve peace through peaceful means rather than military means.
This was the reason for his once best friend's hatred towards Lelouch. Suzaku didn't want to believe until the end that Lelouch was Zero, who had subjugated Yufimiya with the help of Gias, who had been told to him by the Holy Emperor of the British Empire.
How, after his defeat, he was brought before his father, who, with the help of his Gias, made Lelouch forget everything that had happened.
How for a year he obeyed his father's will and carried out his orders until he, Lelouch, through sheer force of will, began to suppress the Emperor's Gias. He was then sent back to school, to Area 11. In one of the terrorist attacks, he awakens his memories with the help of C.C. and then...
The devil is back...
He continues his journey in the hope that he can save his sister from the clutches of her father. A journey filled with pain and blood.
bitterness and despair.
Already without any joy...
The truth about her mother, who was brought back to life with the help of her Gias. Her and her father's plan to liberate the entire world with the sword of Akasha, the sword that slashes the Gods.
Lelouch's father and mother wanted to destroy the entire world with this sword so that they could then build a new world without lies and deceit.
But they failed.
Lelouch, with the help of Gias, got God to stop the apocalypse so that he and his former friend Suzaku could work out a new plan to build a new world...
The betrayal of the Black Knights, who defected to Schneizel - his older brother, then a battle against his Freya.
Then he outwitted him and subjugated him with the help of Gias.
And then...
He became the new Emperor of the Holy British Empire, subjugated the entire world, and then faked his death so that people would go their own way into tomorrow.
- Was I doing the right thing?
Definitely not...
Not in all places, but...
- I... alone...
As he continued to ponder over his life, Lelouch didn't notice the small light that was rapidly approaching him...
- Wh-What is it? - Lelouch tried to move away from it, but he couldn't move, so he saw a teenager... very much like him....
The same skinny body, handsome aristocratic face, and the wounds all over his body said that he had been maimed, and even the demon's naturally weak regeneration didn't save him.
- ...' the 16 year old boy was silent while the breathless body was approached by grown men, the sight of which was not at all benevolent.
The boy had been knocked out, or even killed recently, then approached by those responsible....
- What do we do with him, Captain? - asked one of the men standing behind the more imposing man, who showed by his very appearance that he was their leader, which was why they were addressing him.
- Lord Bael has ordered us to make sure that no one hears from him. - replied the chief muscular demon in Servant's garb.
Wait...a demon? Regeneration?
How do I know he's a demon. And anyway, is he really a demon?
- Get up, boy! - Yelled Lelouch to the teenager who was lying 'passed out', thinking that would wake him up.
- So, not to leave anything of him or what? - questioned another demon behind the back of the chief.
- Kill it? He said he would kill this child, so carelessly? - Lelouch was angrily perplexed, giving the trio a hateful glare.
- Yes, I am sorry for you, Erhard Bael. But you have only yourself to blame for not awakening the Power of Destruction and for preventing the marriage between Gremory and Bael from taking place. - stretched out in a neutral tone, as if he didn't care at all and was now mocking a helpless body.
- NO! DON'T! - Lelouch shouted, stretching his imaginary arms out the window through which he was watching everything that was happening.
The light blinded him, and then just as suddenly as it had appeared, it disappeared.
- Hmm? - stretched out the main demon of the trio, when he saw that the son of Zekram Bael, one of the most powerful demons in Hell, began to rise, which greatly surprised everyone else.
- Ehhh, well, it looks like I'll have to kill right in front of his eyes. - sadly stretched Hiro's handmaiden - a demon of lower class with black dyed hair, not showing his slight confusion ...
After all, the boy had only recently been lying there, showing no signs of life...
- Tell me about it. I have no claim on him, but that's the order. - Shrugged, Mori - an old acquaintance of Hiro's, similarly dyed black. He was no less puzzled than his mate.
- I didn't think you'd wake up so quickly, Mr Erhard. - Cedric said with a thin smile, already about to kill the heir again, concentrating demonic energy in his hand.
Erhard began to rise from the ground without grunting or complaining of pain all over his body, which was unusual for him. His face was calm and his eyes were closed, but something alarmed Cedric, as if a completely different Demon was standing in front of him.
Even the aura had undergone a change.
Whereas before it was like a hedgehog that curled up because of danger, now it was more...
Destructive...
Erhard slowly stood up and without paying attention to the demons, he began to gradually shake off, which slightly shocked the demons standing opposite him.
- Get out. - Erhard ordered his former servants in a calm voice, but he didn't know that without looking them in the eye.
- Excuse me, Mr Erhard, but we have orders from your father. I apologise, but you will have to die,' Cedric said mockingly, as he couldn't stand the guy. Not awakening the Power of Destruction was a disgrace to the clan, and this boy seemed to ignore it and gave out orders as if he was the master everywhere, which infuriated Cedric madly.
Erhard raised his eyes and glared at the Servants, who only gave a slight shudder at the mere sight of him. His lilac eyes seemed to grow brighter and looked at the demons with hidden hatred.
Young Bael grinned slightly, and then laughed so hard that the demons thought he was not all right, taking his left hand to his face.
- He must have lost his mind before he died,' Cedric said and began to prepare the Power of Destruction in his hand. He is a pure-blooded Middle-Class Demon in a side branch, inheriting the power of the main branch, which is rare, but he is loyal to Zekram and no one else.
- You've been easier to deal with,' removing his hand from his face and showing the world his left eye, in which Gias burned brightly. A red eye that had a pattern in it that from afar resembled a bird with its wings open.
- W-What is it? - Mori asked, sensing an unknown power from the eye that frightened his mate, but not Cedric, though he was alert.
- I don't know what it is, but you'll have to die, you lowlife of the Bael clan! - Cedric exclaimed, releasing a ball of Destruction Force towards Erhard.
- Disappear! - Erhard commanded, and the ball of Destruction Force disappeared.
Erhard took hold of his eye from the flash of pain he felt, while Cedric and his handmaidens looked at the new miracle with astonished faces.
- W-What was that? A sacred Mechanism? No, impossible! Absorption magic? No. He doesn't know it. Then what? HOW DID HE DO IT?! HOW DID MY POWER JUST DISAPPEAR?! - Cedric thought with a shocked expression on his face.
- Captain Cedric's Destruction power just disappeared? Had he really been hiding such an ability all this time? But why? - Mori reasoned, almost trembling already at what else young master Bael was hiding.
- What happened? I didn't feel any surge of mana, nor did I feel any mental impact. What else were you hiding from everyone, Erhard-san? - Hiro - the only 'sensor' of their company - thought excitedly.
Everyone stood across from each other, wondering what to do next, while Erhard, or Lelouch, that suddenly found himself in this body with all his memories, speculated about the new abilities.
- So that's how it is. I felt that Gias had undergone a change, as if he had evolved, but I didn't think so. With a single word with the King's Power, I stopped that ball of Destruction Power. My Gias reacted painfully, meaning there might be a limit to his abilities. The Gias in my right eye isn't activating for some reason, although I can feel that it is there, but something is preventing it. - Lelouch reasoned, already knowing how he could defeat these demons.
- Well, that was interesting. My Gias has evolved, though,' Erhard removed his hand from his eye and smiled, showing his Gias again, the sight of which already made Hori and Mori shudder, but not Cedric, who was furious.
- YOU! YOU! I WILL KILL YOU, SHAME ON BAEL!!! - Concentrating already all his Destruction Power he had, about to spew it at Erhard.
- Lelouch commands! - Lelouch pointed his left hand towards the demons, and in his right hand he gathered demonic energy in case Gias didn't work.
- Obey! - Then the eyes of the demons in front of him turned red, but immediately disappeared and they knelt down, looking at the floor.
- Yes, my Lord. What are your orders? - The demons asked the question in a chorus.
- They were wearing a weak mental defence, but Gias passed through it without obstruction,' Lelouch reasoned aloud, 'So I was thrown out by my own father because I was interfering with the engagement of Venelana's sister. Interesting,' he scrolled through the memories of the body he found himself in.
- I was called the Devil, and now I was in Hell. It's ironic,' Lelouch grinned.
- I don't know who or what sent me here, but I know one thing for sure,' Lelouch stretched out in a mad smile, 'It's time to start a new path of ascendancy in this world!
After these words came the wild laughter of the Supreme Demon, which will completely turn the scales in the world politics of this world and completely change the entire course of history ...
And gave his new subordinates the first decree ...
- I am your new Lucifer!