Angel of Death and Demon Prince

Seraphim Earl

Author's notes:

Here we are with the latest chapter, yeah… really late in updating. Many thanks to those who read this fanfic as far as this far. I feel really sorry about the lateness but I said it to myself that I will not upload unless all my fanfics are updated… well at least 90 percent of all of my fics.

Standard Disclaimer applies ( ditto to the next chapters as well).

On with the story!

Chapter 7: Making Up for the Lost Time

"Kallen wake up!" a voice called to her through her conscious. She stirred and opened her eyes seeing blue eyes and auburn locks that tickled her cheeks. She felt herself smile as she saw those blue eyes turn soft and reflect the color of the sky. Then the world shifted and was devoured by flames. One moment she felt extreme happiness and joy and the next she felt the complete opposite. She felt sorrow, anguish, grief and extreme, burning anger. As she stood in front of the burning flames, with the bodies of her beloved ones around her and she could not contain the worry of the last ones standing. She could not take the memories of those who fell bu her very sight.

"We will protect you our princess." Said the gardener. She was not a princess.

"Run and be safe my beloved child." Said her governess. She was nothing to be loved.

"You are worth all our lives little one." Said the cook who fought with his knives like an assassin. Yes, she was little, she couldn't do anything to protect them. She thought she had the strength. It was a smack across her face to realize such thing she had none.

"We will protect you as much as we can." Protect. She looked ahead and never thought that who she thought would protect her, stood there amongst the licking flames. He stood there. Two knights. She could not move and she could only watch until one fall. And one did.

"Don't die on me!" all she was seeing now were blurry faces and can only hear wheezes of sounds. Her sense of touch was the only thing she could rely on now. She felt a hand roughly drag her up and could feel the flames suffocating her with its heat. She continued to call out. "Don't die on me please!"

She felt a knife nearby and stood bravely holding desperately to hope that he would listen. "Release him!"

A revolver and a simple statement.

"There can never be two you imbecile." He said and all she felt was the very knife she held embedded on her back, felt the blood pouring out her very lips. She could not take it and cried. She could feel her life sipping out her being, felt even her sense of touch waning. She felt coldness prickling its way in.

With all the knowledge of death ever coming, she felt the kiss. The kiss that was full of sorrow and regret. What was it to regret? She always recalled the fact that he has such clear eyes. Is it blue or purple?

"She had been having nightmares since the Zero Requiem." Suzaku said in all anxious simplicity. "We thought it is about you or the past war or even her mother. It stretched long as to the extent that she would be physically drained after such ordeal. She would fake good health when she would somehow collapse somewhere in the settlement and we would need to take her to the infirmary. Her health was collapsing with those nightly frights and there came a need to give her pills so that she would have dreamless nights."

"Until now?" Lelouch asked, not even once looking at his best friend as he cooked their meal. His hands moved in their own practiced accord, without any mind for it was somewhere else.

"It stopped six months ago. it came down to dreams were she would not remember in the morning. She would be fine, she came back to her healthy self yet her eyes came dim. It seemed like the feeling of being in the dream realm was not forgotten."

"Did… she tell you any of her dreams?"

"Fire. Blood. Death." The knight started as he closed his eyes trying to imagine what would the Red Lotus be seeing in her dreams. "Helplessness as all her comrades fall just by protecting her, killed by a single man alone."

"She had taken it better these days. She had stopped screaming and crying like she too was part of those who died. That was…until the incident a while ago." Suzaku finished as he exhaled a breath he was keeping. He was becoming more anxious by the second now that he recalled how incidents of long ago disturb them now. "Being in that war, one and a half year ago, changed us from normal children to out of the ordinary."

Silence reigned. A minute. Two. Three. Four. The pan sizzled and the kettles whistled. Five.

The long awaited question was asked. Do you know dear readers what such question was? Such question proved that they are more than ordinary teens, more than royalties and knights and even immortals.

"Is there any pizza?" CC unknowingly…or knowingly?...intervened with her ever so elegant entrance. She sat beside Suzaku with Cheese-kun in her arms boring her eyes to Lelouch's back, determined somewhat to make a hole through. Silence reigned in the wrong time, resulting to ever identifiable awkwardness. "I think you have none."

"What can you say CC? I believe you heard everything." Lelouch said as he plated their late lunch. His tone was faking-ly cheerful but if it was to the sight of others he seemed to be truly happy. CC and Suzaku can hear its seriousness like thunder. CC's expression didn't even shifted or showed any sign of recognition. They knew better, as we do.

"Immortality can give you one thing and reincarnation can give you another. All that I can say is that there could be someone manipulating her dreams or it may be that she is starting to remember." CC said simply as she fiddled with Cheese-kun's hat. "The god Morpheus had been invading her life longer than we could have known."

"There you go again with your hidden meanings CC." Suzaku groaned as it seemed that the two males' minds would be working nonstop trying to figure what she meant, everything for their Kallen. Sister and friend and most of all and in all similarity, a loved one. CC hid a smile yet with her knowledge totaled by her immortality she did know things that would affect their lives greatly. Now is not the right time for them to know. "I wonder when will you stop talking like that…"

"When I understand my existence and find my rightful place to the family that long accepted me." CC answered that furthered the confusion.

"And when would tha—"

"When the lady finds her compass, her key and her gate." Kallen cut Lelouch off as she entered the kitchen in a very obvious state of daze. She immediately snapped out of the daze when she heard the sudden loud whistle of the kettle. She met Lelouch's gaze and her solemn expression became grave. "Sorry. That was a part of my dream."

"Care to tell us?" Suzaku said intrigued for it was surely not one of the dreams Kallen have told him and Nunnally. Silence took dominion and even the clatter of the kitchenware was blocked out. "Kallen are you all right?"

Kallen could only fake a smile even though they can see through such. "Sorry Suzaku, I am in no mood for long tales maybe next time."

No words about such thing were uttered the rest of the day. No interesting happenings furthermore… other than some which are deserved to be listed.

First, Lakshata arrived to visit and also announce to them about the Knightmare developments that they would like to try to the four. There came specially mind synchronized programs that can be installed to their knightmares and they have built dual piloted knightmares as well that can only show their true potential if the pilots have the best synch rate. The pilots and the very knightmare should be well synched as well.

Second, Nunnally called to tell them that the nearest Imperia shop was informed of their arrival and that the empress and Martin would personally see to the photo shoots. Dreadful.

Finally, a letter from Ashford was delivered to them with their schedules and classes. They were classmates in homeroom as requested by the empress. They had expected such.

That much happened to our favorite four.

This however happened to our dear empress that very day in the settlement.

You see, the steward Princess Kaguya arrived to visit Nunnally and the latter was found in her room surrounded by boxes of pictures. She claimed that she was missing both her brothers since Lelouch just left for Ashford and Schneizel together with Odysseus were back in the mainland…err wrong term, Britannia, as her regent and adviser. The Japanese steward, as to not waste her visit, joined the empress in reminiscing and listening to family stories. That was until they came across a certain family picture, well actually children picture.

"Is it possible?" Kaguya asked dumb-founded.

"I don't know." It was the only answer Nunnally can give. "There are so many probabilities and possibilities."

"You think your sister knows?"

"The only one here is Cornelia. Guinevere and Carinne are all in Britannia."

"How about Lelouch? He seemed to be the primary person involved in this."

"I could send him the picture."

"Better. Tell him to give you a call. Then please tell me whatever you'll know. I'll ask my parents as well!"

The picture seemed to prove one of Yukari Kouzuki Stadtfeld's statements. Which? It is for you to decide and pick. Good luck to your choices.

-TBC-

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