AUTHOR: Hey everybody! I haven't updated in a bit, mostly because of geography projects hurled at us, but now we have a one week break, so I guess that makes up for the teachers being so mean to us.

This story's been on my mind for a while, but I've never had the time to put it into word. Now that I have, it's a Christmas story with Cagalli and Athrun as the main characters; the story begins around November. So far I've only got Cagalli's part though, Athrun... he's not in the picture yet. Be warned though, there are going to be Fllay and Meyrin not-so-nice parts. They aren't totally antagonists, they just don't play a very likable role.

If anyone has seen the update of Entwined Promises [which I don't think anyone has, it says that I'll delete it as soon as this is posted, and since I still don't have any motivation to do anything with the screwed up-ness of that story, I've decided that deleting it would be the best idea.

WARNINGS: No warning other than it being really short and unbeta read.

DISCLAIMER: This story is a work of FAN-fiction. By any means, the author of this story is merely a fan, and does not (partially or wholly) own Gundam Seed (Destiny), or characters that have existed in the series. I only own the story plotline of THIS fanfiction. Any resemblance of actual events, stories, locales, news, persons (living or dead) are merely coincidental. Thank you and please read on.

Imaginary Christmas

By: Hades.Throne.Heiress

Prologue

"No! No, no, no! You've got it wrong - again!" The lady in her mid thirties fumed, it was the sixth time they tried the same move, but Miss Cagalli still couldn't get it right.

The blonde in the rink stopped her spin by shearing the ice sheet with the blade of her skates. "I'm sorry Madame Cona," The girl glided over and stepped out of the surrounded arena, "but the ice is getting a bit wet." It was an excuse, no doubt, but even the girl herself didn't believe it was a reasonable defense.

The elder lady looked up from her laptop which she uses to graphitize her student's movements. "Miss Cagalli," She started sternly, "I do not care if you are the daughter of Sir Athha, or if you are the princess of our land. You enrolled here as my student, and you will be as perfect as it needs to be. Status would not buy your way into the competition, or the fame of being the champion," Madame stood up, walking away from her student. "Let me warn you Miss Cagalli, the competition is only three days from now; and if you are not the paramount of all my students, then I will certainly choose somebody else to represent my name." She reached for the door handle and paused, "If you really want this, Miss, then I advise you to practice. I'll meet you here tomorrow morning at eight o'clock." With that said, the ice instructor left while yelling for someone to clean the ice.

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Truth to be told, Madame Cona is actually quite honored to have the princess as one of her students, but even so, she wouldn't go easy on her. It'd be an absolute disgrace to her if Miss Cagalli is poorly trained, hence, her determination for the said princess to enter the competition with her name as the coach.

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The blonde sighed in exhaustion. She's been at it for hours after the ice has been cleaned, yet she couldn't master the timing with the movements.

"Sometimes, I wonder why I even try…" The princess pondered to herself, speaking out loud, musing even more, "In a world of magic, I'm actually struggling with time." To her, it seemed like the weirdest thing to say since… magic can do so much.

Before the blonde knew it, she was on the ice practicing again; tiredness just doesn't seem to get to the princess. Spinning and twirling, gliding and kicking, turning and balancing, those seemed to be the only things running through her mind; when even her empty stomach wasn't able distracted her, what are the chances of her acknowledging the fact that's she's being watched?


AUTHOR: Thank you for reading! Please drop a review if possible, tell me how you like the story, it'll help a lot with my future chapters :)

Post Date: Oct. 27th '07