Prince of Britannia Emperor of the Chinese Federation

Chapter 1

           

2009 a.t.b.

The double doors opened and let the sunshine into the throne room in the imperial capital Pendragon.

"Announcing Prince Lelouch Vi Britannia! Seventeenth heir to the royal Britannian throne!" a voice called through the room as the young prince walked inside.

As he walked towards the throne of the emperor the nobles began to whisper.

"I heard Empress Marianne was killed inside of The Britannian Palace."

"There's no way terrorists could have gotten in there."

"Which means that the real must have..."

"Shh, beware, my friend, you'll regret it if anyone hears that kind of talk inside the palace."

"And yet the boy remains, even though his mother is dead."

"It's over, and the Ashford family who stood behind them is finished as well."

"And his sister? The princess?"

"I understand she was shot in the legs."

"And that she lost her sight."

"Blindness caused by trauma though isn't it."

"No difference, now she can't even be married off for political gain."

As Lelouch stopped before the throne of his father the whispers stopped.

"Hail your Majesty! My mother, the Empress is dead."

"Old news. What of it?" the Emperor responded, with a tone that could be mistaken for boredom.

"What of it?" Lelouch said as he stepped forward with his right foot.

"You sought an audience with the Emperor simply to inform me of that? Send the next one in, I have no time for these childish games."

"Father!" Lelouch began to run up the stairs to the throne, two guards in front of the Emperor to protect him, but he raised his hand, signaling them to stand down.

"Yes, your Majesty!"

"Why didn't you keep mother out of harm's way?" Lelouch asked his father with a face that shone of anger, but also looked like he was about to break into tears "You're the Emperor, the greatest man in this nation, if not the world. You should have protected her and now you don't even visit Nunnally!"

"I have no use for that weakling" the Emperor answered, looking coldly down at his son.

"That weakling?"

"That is what it means to be royalty."

A moment of silence came next as Lelouch processed what he had just heard.

"Then I don't want to be your heir. I give up my claim to the throne!" Lelouch yelled with sheer anger, drawing gasps from the nobles in the room "I'm sick of the fighting and scheming over who will succeed you Father. I've had enough!"

"You are dead. You have always been dead to me. Dead from the moment you were born. Who gave you the fine cloth you wear, a comfortable home, the food you eat and your very life? All of those I have given to you! In short, you are nothing to me because you have never existed! Yet you dare to speak such foolishness to me!" The Emperor yelled and stood up, surprising Lelouch so that he fell backward.

"Lelouch, you are dead, therefore you are not entitled to any rights. I'm sending you and Nunnally to Japan, as prince and princess you'll serve well as bargaining tools" the Emperor sat back down.