A/N: Hello people of the internet! It is me, CombustionNation, and I present the second chapter of Calling the shots again. Now, before I start with this chapter, I have a few things to say.

First of all, I'm very, very sorry for the long delay between the chapters. I've been wanting to crank out this chapter as soon as possible, but life thwarted my plans. This chapter will be the kickstart for the story, so hang onto your hats, beanies and caps, because I'm going INNNNN!

Second of all, a big thank you to all of you who left a review, favourited or followed this story! The amount of support on the first chapter overwhelmed me, and I can't thank you guys enough. Thank youuuuuuu!

Third of all, I'm still thinking about magic for Lelouch, if he gets some that is. Lelouch isn't the type of character that is heavy on the physical side of life, so I was thinking about some more... brainy types of magic. I can implement some sort of badass dragon slayer magic, but that will make Lelouch more OOC. I have a few ideas in mind, but I can't really decide, so it's up to you guys! You can leave your opinion in a review or you could PM me about your choice.

Fourth of all, would you guess read another CG/FT crossover from me if you have the chance? I have this idea, and I personally think it is quite a good one, but I don't know if you guys want to read it. It will be about Lelouch and how he will be more... intimate with Natsu. *Cough* *Cough* No Yaoi *Cough* *Cough* Anyway, if you would leave your thoughts in a review or in a PM to me that would be great. You guys are the best!

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Guest (~Traveler): Thank you very much! I'll work on the paragraphing, just most fics that I read also have big chunks of story, so I was kinda going with the flow. Since you requested it, however, I'll make sure that there are more paragraphs in future chapters, starting with this one.

I don't think that I will restart the FT/CG crossover genre, but I noticed that all existing FT/CG crossover were abandoned, so I thought, why not start a new one?, and here I am now; backed up by awesome people who leave awesome reviews, awesome favs and awesome follows.

Guest: Well, if you keep on reviewing and giving me feedback, it will probably turn out as a good story. As for the criticism, I'll look into it. I don't think I've been using a lot of POV's but I'll check.

Welp, that was quite the A/N, hehe :D. I do not own Fairy Tail or Code Geass, I only own the plot.

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Calling the shots... again

Previously:

The figure froze, and her body went rigid. She was intimidated by his tone, and complied by stepping out of the shadows and into the light. The boy eyed her up and down, staying a little longer at her upper chest area, which made her a little self-conscious. She sweat dropped while he was inspecting her, while she was inspecting him at the same time. He didn't have a very big torso, or very beefy arms, but he did have quite long legs. She ended up at his face, staring at the endless depths of his vibrant purple eyes. She felt like she could drown in those eyes, those bright violet eyes, which made her scoff at her own eyes. Her green eyes were quite standard, no real glow or vibrant white in it, just plain old green. After a full five minutes of staring up and down each others body, the boy spoke.

"Who are you?"

Step 2: Risen from the depths

"My name is Mavis Vermillion," The girl said, her expression happy and cheerful.

"Mavis Vermillion..." The boy repeated. The way he said it sounded like his mind was analysing her name, but she didn't know that he was actually considering the odds of her being good or evil.

"And what's your name?" She asked, her eyes twinkling. She was always excited to meet new people, it reassured her that she wasn't a social outcast. Even though she was a ghost, but still...

The boy hesitated for a bit, slightly biting his bottom lip. He didn't know where he was, why he was here and if he could trust the girl that was standing in front of him. He could say his real name, where he came from and what happened to him, but decided against it, not until he figured out where he was.

"Lelouch. Lelouch Lamperouge," he said, his purple eyes giving away a look of focus.

"Lelouch Lamperouge..." Mavis said, while her happy expression turned into a frown. Did she hear that name before? She could have sworn that she had, but it just didn't click in her mind.

"Yes, nice to meet you Mavis." He replied, "Could you tell me where we are?"

"Well, we are in a large forest, as you can see, and we are about 100 miles (A/N: I don't know what scale they use for distance, sorry if I messed up) north from the town of Magnolia."

"Magnolia?" Lelouch asked with his brow raised.

"Yes," Mavis said, becoming happy again, "in Magnolia lies a guild that goes by the name of Fairy Tail."

"A guild huh? I see..." Lelouch said uncertainly. He was still a little uncertain about all this. Suddenly waking up in a different environment, meeting a very happy girl, guilds and all that stuff; it took Lelouch a little time to process it all. Sorting the information, checking for liability, which was very, very limited, and just the overall shock of the fact that he is still alive. In a whole other world, that is true, but he was alive. After Zero Requiem, he thought that he didn't deserve another chance, another walk at the road of life, another drive through the dark tunnel called living. Yet here he is now, and Lelouch literally had to pinch himself to make sure that this was real, not just a dream from the remains of his consciousness. Let's say that it took Lelouch more than half an hour to process all this food for his dog that he calls a brain. And when he was finished, his mouth was hanging slightly open, and his will to speak was gone.

Mavis and him talked for another four hours, Mavis explaining almost everything, from magic to magic products and from society to the Magic Council. She was overly excited; telling everything with joy and happiness, and emitting a happy and peaceful aura. He started out as his normal, indifferent self; but when the time spent with Mavis became longer and longer, his emotionless self was buried under Mavis' happiness, and honestly, he didn't care.

'This girl reminds me of my old self when I was a kid,' he thought.

'Laid-back, carefree, and innocent. That is how I spent my childhood. She probably doesn't know about the troubles of the world; she is still ignorant. When that ignorance shatters, however, she will be surprised and shocked. Especially shocked. Nothing is all good in a world; it just isn't. Being in a state of ignorance and bliss is the best state of mind. Because once you get out of that state, you can't go back.'

When they stopped talking, Mavis said: "I'm tired now, so I'll take a quick nap,"

"Alright, I'm gonna walk for a bit, see ya," Lelouch replied.

'See ya in a couple of months' he thought, while he walked away from Mavis with a brisk pace. However, when he was at the edge of the clearing, he heard a loud screeching sound in his mind. He screamed out in pain and felt to his knees, head in his hands. He didn't know what was going on, and why, but he knew one thing: it fucking hurt.

Mavis abruptly woke up from her nap when she heard an ear piercing scream, and within seconds she shot up and ran towards the creator of the horrible sound. When someone came in her sight, she recognised the being as Lelouch and concluded that he let out the scream. She didn't know why he screamed, but she was determined to help him overcome whatever was plaguing him.

When she was within grabbing reach, she suddenly felt a spike of magic energy out of nowhere. A bright light shone in her eyes, and she had to shield them because she wasn't feeling like getting blind. She regretted this decision, firstly because she remembered that she was a ghost, and ghosts can't get blind unless their original body was blind, and secondly, because when she opened her eyes he was gone. Just... gone. No trace of him left. The spike of magic energy was also gone.

'Something weird is going on. I wish you just told me why you have so many secrets, Lelouch...'

(One month later)

Lelouch POV

I was finally here. It had taken me quite some time to arrive here in Magnolia, but once I set my eyes on the city, I wasn't disappointed. The beautiful houses, the clean water streaming through the canals, the cozy shops and the wide streets; it was eye candy for me. I had to walk all the way from the forest to Magnolia because I didn't have any money, and I didn't know any way to obtain money other than the obvious ones. I had strolled through the town when I came across a quite large wooden structure. Three banners were hanging from the second floor, and you could see a name on a piece of wood hanging above the gate. Fairy Tail. I had arrived at the place Mavis suggested. I focused my ears and heard some kind of... crashing noise? I didn't know what the noise was, but it didn't really bother me. I mean, they couldn't be having a brawl right?

/Inside Fairy Tail, at the time Lelouch was standing in front of the guild hall, general POV/

It was the usual atmosphere inside the guild hall of the most destructive guild; a massive brawl was going on. Natsu came back with a new member (A/N: Nudge nudge ;)) a couple of days ago, and since he was back, Gray and him were going at it again. As usual, soon most members had joined the fighting, even Erza, who came back the day before yesterday. She was planning on staying out of it and eating her strawberry cheesecake, but when the cake was knocked on the floor and stood upon by Elfman, she didn't have a choice anymore.

There was silence for a moment, a thick tension hanging in the air, forecasting an incoming doom. The silence was broken by Natsu, who got in a fighting stance with his now flaming fists.

"You wanna go for real ice brain?" He taunted, and as usual, Gray took the bait.

"You bet your ass I wanna go!" Gray yelled, taking an Ice-Make stance with his right fist in the open palm of his left hand.

Before either one of them could make a move, Erza interfered, swinging a sword around dangerously, "STOP RIGHT NOW! BOTH OF YOU!"

Natsu and Gray instantly complied, not wanting to provoke Erza's wrath. The rest of the guild was sweat dropping furiously because of the way Erza was swinging her sword.

"Eh.. E-E-Erza, could you stop swinging your sword around? An accident could happen one of these days," Macao said, worrying for his nakama's safety. It was not like Erza would do it on purpose, but the chance was always present, waiting for its time to make a move.

"What are you talking about? I'm handeling it just fine-" Erza started, but right when that last word went out of her mouth she swung the sword as it slipped out of her grasp, with quite some force no less. Nobody was quick enough to make a move, and they thought they didn't need to, because it was approaching the closed guild doors. Yet right before it would hit the wood, the doors opened to their horror, and the sword went right between the eyes of the boy that had entered.

The second the force behind the sword subsided, the boy slumped to his knees and felt backwards, blood coming out from under his head. Everyone gasped in utter shock and horror, and it took everyone a few seconds to process what just happened. Even the master, who had seen quite some troublesome things in his long life, couldn't stop his behavior and facial expression after what unfolded in front of his eyes.

After the shock was gone from their faces, everyone in the guild rushed to the boy, Natsu, Gray, Erza and Mira leading them. They all knelt down at the boy's sides, tears welling up in their eyes. Mira instantly went to check for a pulse, but found none. When she looked back at the guild with her head down, they all knew what she had felt. Tears started trickling down several cheeks, and they increased tenfold when Mira whispered: "He's gone."

The dam broke, and everyone shed tears. A non-verbal agreement was passed through the guild, and they became silent for a few minutes. Even Natsu and Gray, the most prominent noisemakers of the guild held their sounds in a cage within themselves, as homage to the dead.

When four minutes of absolute silence passed, they heard chuckling. Most members instantly flared with rage, since they couldn't stand that someone was enjoying seeing a dead body. The chuckling turned into small laughs, and that escalated to a normal laugh. Before anyone could blink, hearty laughter was heard throughout the guild hall.

Every jaw in the guild dropped when they looked over at the boy. They noticed him smiling, and deduced that he was the one that produced the laugh noises. Not only that, but he propped himself up on his elbows, and then slowly stood up. If their jaws could drop a hundred times more, it would have dropped right then and there, because the boy grabbed the sword that was stuck in his forehead by the handle, and pulled it out of his head, blood staining the sword. He took a moment to inspect the sword, but became worried when he zoomed out and saw the lifeless faces of everyone else present. Before he knew it, everyone had fainted.

(An hour later, Erza POV)

I groaned as I regained consciousness, my head throbbing wildly. I tried to put my hands at the side of my head, and after a struggle, I managed to calm down my overreacting brain. As my vision cleared, I sat up, and looked around me. Everything in the guild seemed normal, yet there wasn't a boy laying dead in front of the door. I could have sworn that there was a boy before I miraculously passed out. I looked around more and my eyes widened when I saw a boy sitting at the bar. As if he felt my presence, he turned around, slightly smiling.

"Ah good, one of you is finally awake." He said, his smile still on his lips.

"W-w-who are you? Why ar-are you still a-a-alive?" I stuttered, my mouth not forming the words fluently.

"My name is Lelouch Lamperouge. Why I am still alive, I have no idea myself," he replied, his face turning into a frown.

'I feel like he is hiding something, and I guess it has to do with why he didn't die. Mira did clearly say that he was gone. Mira wouldn't lie to us, certainly not in situations like this, so there is something going on here. I just have to find out what.' I thought

"So why are you here, Lelouch?" I asked, genuinely interested in his reason why was visiting.

"Well, I think I want to join Fairy Tail," he replied.

As if on cue, several members began to stir and wake up, Natsu and Gray being two of them. Their faces displayed shock again as they both saw Lelouch sitting on a bar stool, his hands folded on his lap. It didn't take long for Natsu to speak up. "So, who are you? What are you doing here?"

"As I said to your fellow guild mate, my name is Lelouch Lamperouge. I want to join Fairy Tail," Lelouch replied.

As soon as he said that, Natsu shot up and sprinted over to him, invading his personal space heavily. "How strong are you? What kind of magic do you use? How long can you fight? What are your strengths? What can you-" He bombarded Lelouch with his questions about fighting, while several tick marks started forming on Lelouches forehead. He looked over at me with a pleading look, and I nodded, complying to his unspoken message.

I got up, walked towards the two, and dragged Natsu away from Lelouch so that the latter could breathe properly. He gave me a nod of thanks, and I returned with an expression saying: 'You're welcome.'

"Natsu," I said, "if you want to find out what magic Lelouch uses, why don't you have a friendly spar with him? You can find out first hand,"

"That's a great idea Erza!" He replied with a big grin. Lelouch, however, was sweat dropping furiously, giving me a glare saying: 'What have you dragged me into?' I just shrugged, a little smirk creeping upon my face.

Lelouch POV

I noticed Erza's smirk, and nervousness washed over me. I wasn't getting any more support from her, it seemed.

'What have I gotten myself into?!'

A/N: And that's the end. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, leave a review to let me know what you think. If you want to, let me know what kind of magic you want Lelouch to have by either leaving it in a review or sending me a PM about it. Also, leave your thoughts about the other possible crossover that I am planning to write, if you wish to do so.

Next chapter: Lelouch vs Natsu! Woop woop!

Houdoe!

– CN