This is my first fanfic. Mainly OC but don't worry your favorite characters will appear soon.

Reviews are appreciated.

I do not own Code Geass or it's characters.

Code Geass: The Advent, Shadow

Stage 00

Space Research Station-Colony, AURA

August, 10 Year 1967

A man with light blue hair and red sunglasses, walked on down the hall of the space station that hovered over the Earth. When he got to the end of the hall a door to the overlook platform opened. Inside he saw two teenagers, neither over the age of 17, standing beside each other staring out a large window.

The slim pale-skinned male teenager stared out the window with his arms crossed. He had straight mid-length white hair with black over the end of each strand. He was dressed in a black short-sleeve jacket with red stripes on the sleeves, a black shirt underneath, black cargo pants, black gloves and short black boots.

The girl was also slim build and had pale skin with short blond hair. She wore a sleeveless yellow dress and white sandals.

The boy noticed the short-blue haired man enter the room and turned to greet him. "Hey, Noa," said the boy, in a nonchalant voice, making the girl turn to face their visitor, "What are you doing here?"he asked.

The man was 6ft tall, tan, and looked no more than 25. He wore a blue sleeveless tunic a white long-sleeve trench coat, well one sleeve was on the right arm and the left was wide and would cover anybody's arm, but it only hid the fact that that arm was gone entirely. He also wore white pants and short blue boots.

"Well I just wanted to see what you two were doing Shadow,"answered Noa with a smirk looking directly a the handsome boy's blood-red colored eyes. Then he stared into the green eyes of the girl to address her as well

Shadow sighed, he knew there was more to it, Noa was never that straight forward. "Me and Sarah were watching the Earth." Shadow explained not wanting to press Noa on what he really wanted.

Noa walked over to the window and stood beside Shadow. He along with Shadow and Sarah all watched the beautiful blue planet below. No one said anything until Sarah broke the silence.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" she asked in a purely innocent voice to no one in particular.

Shadow sighed and closed his eyes as if in deep thought. Then when he finished his thought he opened his eyes and answered in a cool voice "It may look beautiful from here, but," Shadow paused a little before he continued beginning another conversation the three already had, "the people on that planet only defile it with their wars. They make the world a terrible place."

"We all have reasons for fighting, Shadow, you may have only seen the bad in peoples heart when you first lived there, but remember what the Guardian project was made for," Noa said without making eye-contact to the red eyed youth.

Before Shadow could respond Sarah said, "That's right Shadow. We know that some people down there are bad and fight for bad reasons, but there's also good people there as well. And it's the good in the people we must search for not the bad." Shadow stared wide-eyed as he let her words sink in then when he regained his composure she continued, "You know the Guardians were created to protect the people of the world, right?"

"Yeah I know," Shadow replied apologetically. Sarah smiled and turned to head to her quarters after telling the others good night. After she was gone Shadow turned to Noa. "So what did you want?" he asked.

"I wanted to tell you the Skeith is complete minus the flight system," Noa answered holding out the USB key, that was shaped like a red Celtic cross, and a red data crystal. Shadow took them both and stuffed them in his jacket pocket. Noa turned and left saying something that puzzled Shadow.

"There will be a tragedy here tomorrow. Only after that will you discover why humanity as a whole fight."

The next day Shadow found himself locked inside the carrier hanger of the Skeith. He saw through the door window his bleeding out friend Sarah, blood-stained in that same yellow dress, staring at him with kind eyes as she set the carrier's coordinates to Japan. He remembered her activating the cryo-tube beneath him and him vainly attempting to break the glass He remembered a promise he made that day and the way she collapsed after Sarah said with her last breath, "Sayonara, Dark Knight."

The cryo-tube fired out and after that, the carrier hanger holding the Skeith. Before he fell asleep in the tube, Shadow remembered frantically calling out for Sarah with tear's in his eyes. He lost his first friend and love that day. After he fell asleep he vowed never to cry again and to make the people of the world, especially Britannia, the people he swore to protect pay.

Next Stage 01: 50 Years Later

Well there's the first part. Tell me what you think. Sorry it's short but it's just a prologue.

Skeith I'm sure you can guess I got the name from .hack. It's a Knightmare frame, sort of. Shadow does have a real name but the reason why he's not referred by it is yet to be explained.

Reviews and ideas for later in the story are appreciated.