Hello everyone. This is my very first story at all, so if there are any technical problems or if something doesn't look good, just tell me. All these chrarcters are from GS, SAO, Guilty Crown, and so on … and I don't own any of them. I just own this story. Please leave a review but no flames. I hope you enjoy this story … This is not chapter 1, just the prologue.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except this story and the character Kamia Ichihara.

Note: Cagalli is just Cagalli Attha. She has an another mysterious self called Yula. Together, they are known as Cagalli Yula Attha, and this takes place in more than one world.

"The hardest challenge in one's life is to keep living on!"

- Cagalli Yula Attha

Prologue: The Departure (POV of Yula)

Dark.

It was dark.

I had felt the cold before I ever opened my eyes. But it was strange, even though I felt it was cold (I knew, though I didn't know the reason why, I just knew), my body wasn't showing any signs of coldness at all ... wait, was I even in a body back then? I had no idea what was going on. I tried to remember something, but … it just didn't work! "Are you awake?"A voice halled out of the blue. I wanted to demand that voice to show itself, if I had a voice. "You can't see me, even if I show myself", The voice replied. I was shocked. Could it actually read my thoughts or were we communicating with with our thoughts? "The latter one is more correct", it replied. "Who are you? Why am I here? Who ... am I?" I asked that voice telekinetically. "I see. You've only regained consciousness. Well then, I shall free you from your crystal prison and release you from your spell." With that, I could hear a quiet crack, like a crystal being shattered into pieces. I knew, right then, I had a body but forgot how to stand up or open my eyes. The light was too bright, even if I were to try. So I gave in and let myself engulf into the blinding light.

I could feel the cold floor. It was plastered. I could feel my hands and feet, but still had no idea what was going on. A spell ... which was holding me captive in this crystal? No, then why would she say about the crystal? A spell which held my consciousness and body separated? Maybe. But still,who was I? Why was I here? This place ... a room with white and green walls, consisted of a bed, a desk, shelves filled with books, files and documents, a wardrobe with a mirror and a briefing screen… This all was very, very familiar to me, though I couldn't remember where from. It felt like I had lived here … for quite a long time. Dammit, why couldn't I remember? 'Wait, if this is a room, there has to be a corridor. This is … we are inside a mansion, so search the door!' , my brain thought.

Apparently. I couldn't find an exit. There was no door in this room! Was I … locked? "I'm sorry for not having broken the spell on you.", said that voice from earlier suddenly. And the most impossible thing was that I had felt like I had known her forever. 'Who is she?' I asked myself, 'Why can't I remember? Is this because of that so called spell?'

Suddenly, memories gushed through me like water from a broken dam. Pictures formed in my mind, memories: beautiful ones, prideful ones, happy ones, innocent ones, tainted ones, frustrating and sad ones … all which were from my lives before this … tears rolled down on my cheek as I recognized this room, that voice … that was my room, I was in that world and the Empress was guiding me with her voice. While thanking the Empress in my mind, I went over to my desk and started my virtual computer. I logged into the 'server', thus confirming my awakening. As always, like I had done the last 12 times, I stood up and went to a distant, facing the computer and was engulfed into blinding light stimulated from my virtual computer.

Slowly, I could see my surrounding, including the screen, again. According to that screen, I was ready to depart. All my physical as well as general condition was fine. I had completed a check-up. Somehow … I wasn't in my previous clothes. So, I went to the wardrobe and looked into the mirror. My previous white nightgown was changed into a shining armor - like a dress, with a sash and a cut underneath. Though it was light, I knew nothing could penetrate it, after all, it was made of dragon skin. I could see a pair of white wings from the shoulder blades of my reflection, it was a small one, like that of a fairy … simple and not so big. But this didn't mean I also had wings at that time. They were just a mere reflection … to show me on which rank I was. These wings I had were those of the 'Level 1', that of the lowest, which meant, my skills and rank were reset by the computer. I was ready to start this journey, … my last journey before the final clash. This journey, where I would go and protect my worlds from the enemy … and find my other fragments. I typed on my computer and commanded it to open the doors, and a piece of wall suddenly moved by itself and shifted and beyond that, well, door was … an another long room … probably the corridor. The same happened to some other pieces of wall, well, they turned out to be windows … I knew I could leave my room open, after all, this mansion, or better said, castle, wasn't going to be attacked, for it has been protected by our Empress, that girl, who guided me when I was in that crystal stasis without my memories. I wondered … she wasn't speaking to me at all since I remembered everything … I really hoped this was no dream, that she had come to life. Speaking of remembering everything … did I really remember everything? After a check-up I realized there were holes in my memories … maybe not all of them returned to me … maybe some of them were just spread throughout this infinite space and time … and I also had to find them … well that would be troublesome for me, but still … it was better than nothing. With a last glance to my room, while thinking whether I might need something from this world, I suddenly remembered that I do need something … it was a earpiece, which could connect us inhabitants of this world no matter where we were, without an exception. Oh yes, I also might need some life blossoms, clothes, my journal and, well, my fragment collector. You all know what it can do … it can collect any kind of fragment that belonged to me, whether memory, or skill, or even my identity. I put all those things in a backpack and hurried to the corridor to get out of this castle, so that I could start my journey.

"Empress Kamia, can you do me a favor?" I asked her in that earpiece, hoping for a reply. "Yes, princess, what can I do for you?"

"Can you open a portal to my destination? You know, the usual place?"

"Understood. Please wait a moment." I was outside the gigantic castle. The purple sky, this fresh breeze, those flower petals dancing around without a halt … how I missed this scenery before me. It was night, and the moon was out … I was glad it was a white one. I summoned my wings and excitedly, flew to the teleport site. By the time I arrived there, I could hear her voice in my earpiece.

"Portal successfully summoned. Standby. Destination: Cosmic Era."

Inside the portal, before it had closed, I could feel Kamia smiling to me for what I said earlier, before stepping into the portal:

"Cycle 13, Day 5. I Yula Attha, start my last journey. That promise I made to you that day, I'll keep it, Empress, without fail, just count on it."

Yes, that was me. My name was Yula Attha, now at this time, known as Cagalli Yula Attha. And in this very journal, you will know what happened at the 13th cycle, the very last repeating of the reality we all know.

So, this was the prologue. How was it? Read and review! Thanks a lot! If there any mistakes, please show me, so that I can improve.