I don't own Gundam SEED & Gundam SEED Destiny.

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Pairings: AthrunxLacus, KiraxFllay, CagallixYzak, DearkaxMiriallia, ShinnxLunamaria and many others.

Gundam SEED: Another War
Chapter 1

It was the year 92 of the Cosmic Era; the day was beautiful in the city of Onogoro on the continent of Orb. The sky was clear blue and the sun was shining warmly on everyone and the time was peaceful.

The war had been over for 19 years and the PLANTS and the Earth Alliance were no longer going at each other throats.

When 3:15 hit every clock at Onogoro High School, everybody quickly started to put their things away.

A tall, skinny girl with long pink hair in pigtails and forest green eyes behind square glasses quickly ran out of the school.

Nobody liked her in her school and she didn't know why. She was a very beautiful young girl at the age of 17.

Her family was very rich and well known. Her mother was a singer and her father was the Head Representative of the PLANTS.

The girls name was Erica Joyce Clyne, the daughter of two well known persons in the world and space, though she's never been to space before.

She wore a light blue frilly skirt with the same coloured sandals that tied up to her knees, a while jacket with a pink halter top underneath and a long rainbow coloured scarf around her neck with her light pink book bag on her shoulder.

Erica quickly made her way towards her pink and blue motorbike and grabbed out her helmet from her bag. As she got close to her bike, she saw someone sitting on it.

It was tall guy and he was pretty cute looking… however, it was a person Erica didn't like to see.

The guy had short silver hair and golden yellow eyes. He was wearing a pair of black jeans and a green t-shirt underneath a blue jean jacket.

" Reese..." Erica said.

Reese got off her bike and a few people ran up from behind Erica.

" There you are Clyne, we were wondering where you went," a guy said, putting his arm around her shoulders.

Erica quickly slipped away from him and stood in between Reese and the other people who appeared to his friends.

Reese walked up to Erica and looked at her.

" Pulling that trick was very interesting," he said and smirked," leaving you things in your locker and asking to leave ten minutes before the bell rang."

He raised his hand and smacked her.

" That was for earlier today and what you did," he walked passed her and he his friends just looked at him confused," I have practice and I can't be late, consider yourself lucky for today."

Erica stood where she was, with her eyes wide. She could feel the tears building up and tried to control them.

Reese backed up abit and leaned his head back to her ear to whisper something.

" See you tomorrow, Erica,"

He and his friends walked off and then soon they were out sight.

Even though it was after school, the parking lot was clear till they were gone where people started getting into their cars or walking to the bus stop.

Erica blinked and tears ran down her face. She walked up to her motorbike and put on her helmet. More tears streamed down her as her helmet was on.

She took her keys out from her pocket and started up her bike and quickly rode off.

At her home, her father and mother sat in the living room watching the news on TV.

" Athrun... have you noticed anything strange about our daughter?" Lacus asked, while leaning her head on his shoulder.

He sighed and looked at the time.

" How she locks her self in her room and only see her at dinner time?" Athrun replied," I'm worried about her Lacus."

As Lacus was about to say something, they heard the front door open and then was slammed shut.

" Erica!" Lacus called to her quickly getting up from the couch," your father and I would like to have a little word with you."

Erica took her helmet off and quickly dried her tears. She took her pigtails out and tucked some hair behind her ear and left some over her cheek where she was smacked.

She walked into the living room and saw her parents.

" Y... Yeah?" she asked nervously.

Her parents looked at her and saw that something was different.

" Erica, I spent sometime on doing your hair this morning," her mother said.

Erica looked at her hair and then at the floor and then back at her mother.

" Uh... yeah... umm..." Erica replied," I... thought it was too girly... so I undid them. Sorry."

Athrun smiled," no, it's okay, you remind me of you mother when she was a year younger then you."

" You look very nice," Lacus also complimented with a smile.

" Okay," Erica said," uh... anything else?"

Her parents smile disappeared and they both sighed.

" Well, the family dinner is still on for tomorrow, but..." Athrun started to explained.

Erica started to pray that her cousin Reese Athha Jule wasn't coming.

" Your cousins Lani and Vert can't make it tomorrow, so it's only going to be your cousin Reese," her mother finished.

Erica felt her heart fall deep into her stomach.

" Gr... Great... uh... I've got homework," she said and ran out of the living room and upstairs to her bedroom.

" Erica!" her parents yelled her name.

The sound of their daughter's door slam closed, made Lacus sit back down on the couch.

They both sighed again.

" Athrun, I have this feeling Erica doesn't like her cousin Reese," Lacus said.

" Maybe it's because of Cagalli, what if she still has a grudge against me for leaving her," Athrun explained," I'm still surprised she's married to Yzak."

Lacus nodded.

When Erica entered her room, she not only slammed her door shut and forgot to lock it; she threw her bag across the room and her helmet on a chair beside her door.

She flopped on to her bed, stomach first, and started to cry again.

" It's not fair... why do people hate me!" she sobbed.

Erica rolled over on to her back and looked up to her ceiling.

" I didn't do anything wrong..." she said," I didn't..."

She cried and cried till she fell asleep.

Out in the cold, airless area known as Space, a blue NAZCA-Class ship flew out of the docking bay of one of the PLANTs.

" Captain, we officially left Aprilius City with out detection," said one of the crewman," we will be arriving at Earth in the next 20 hours."

The captain nodded and turned his chair around to the captain on the level above him.

" Commander McGuire, have your men ready when I give you the order," he said.

The commander flicked her light brown hair back and smiled at him.

" Yes sir," her smile turned to a smirk," now if you'll excuse, there are something I need to get done before we reach Earth."

She got up out of her seat and floated towards the lift. Commander McGuire got in and the door closed and started to go up.

" What are people thinking in that day and age?" she thought closing her violet coloured eyes," peace with Coordinators and Naturals. What was the supreme council thinking back then?"

The lift stopped and the door opened. A few crewmen saw her and stopped before they got in to the lift and saluted her. She saluted them back and floated off down the hall towards her quarters.

As she got to her quarters, she slid down her room card and the door opened but before she could enter, she was stopped by someone calling her name.

" Commander McGuire!" the person called as they floated towards her.

She turned her head and saw one of her team soldiers.

" Ensign Asuka, is there something wrong?" she had asked him.

Ensign Asuka had dark brownish-purplish coloured hair and light blue eyes; he was wearing the elite red uniform, telling that he was a mobile suit pilot.

" Yes, I know that Dakovrah is the fastest ship and will get us to Earth the next morning but 20 hours ma'am?" Ensign Asuka explained.

Commander McGuire chuckled.

" No worries Ensign, everything going according to plan," she smiled.

Ensign Asuka growled.

" Excuse me ma'am but wouldn't be better if I'd go and do the plan my self. My mobile suit is..." he started to explained.

Commander McGuire put her hand up and stopped him from talking.

" Look Ensign, I'm well aware of your abilities, but this mission can not be screwed up, it needs to be perfect, and it will be perfect whether you like it or not," she explained," you're under my command and I easily send you back Aprilius City for disobeying you're superior officers orders."

Ensign Asuka looked at her speechless.

" I..." he started and then saluted," please forgive me Commander, what I said was totally out of line."

" Good, now you're dismissed," Commander McGuire said and entered her quarters.

The door closed in front of Ensign Asuka, he sighed and walked down the hall back to his quarters while looking out the window while seeing the PLANTs getting smaller as they flew away from them.

He entered his quarters and then heard a ring on his display module beside his bed.

Ensign Asuka sat down on his bed and hit button beside the screen.

A older women with dark red hair and blue eyes appeared on the screen.

" Jin! What do you think you're doing?!" she exclaimed," get back here this instant!"

" I'm going to Earth, to teach the Naturals a lesson," Jin replied.

" Jin, you're making a big mistake for doing this, everybody wants peace, not another war!" the woman explained," you're going to regret doing this."

Jin growled.

" How would you know, 'cause of them I don't have parents, I found out the truth and now I want revenge, those Naturals think peace can be bought by some stupid piece of paper signed by the EA and the PLANTs," he explained," I'm sorry Aunt Meyrin, but I've gotta go."

The screen started to get fuzzy.

" J... Jin! Jin! Do... n't hang... up!" Meyrin cried and then screen went dark.

Jin flopped down on his bed and closed his eyes.

" Mother, Father..." he thought and until he was sound asleep.

Through out the rest of the day on Earth, Erica slept through dinner time until 2:30pm the next day.

A pink round ball jumped on to Erica's bed and jumped around her.

" Haro! Time to wake up!" it said.

Erica's eyes slowly opened and then saw someone sitting on the edge of her bed.

" Good afternoon sleepy head," she heard her mother say to her.

Erica quickly sat up on her bed and looked at her mother.

The sun shone through the balcony window and on to her mother. She looked like she was glowing with her long pink hair and her soft peace skin.

" M... Mother... what time is it?" Erica asked.

" It's 2:30 in the afternoon," Lacus replied.

Erica looked at her bed.

" I'm sorry that I slept all evening and until now," she apologized while gripping on her sleeves of her white jacket.

" It's alright, it looked like you were tired," her mother said and then cupped the side of her daughters cheek with her right hand.

Erica winced away as she knew that it was that side where Reese hit her.

" Are you okay?" Lacus asked worriedly.

Erica smiled at her mother and lightly laughed a bit.

" I'm fine mother, I must've slept on this side all night," she had lied to her mother.

Lacus exhaled deeply in relief.

" That's good," she said and then got up off her bed," well go take a shower and get dressed in to something nice, you're father wants to tell you something."

Erica looked at her mother and nodded.

" Okay," she said.

Lacus left while leaving the pink ball behind.

Erica cupped her hands and the pink ball jumped in to her hands. She lifted her hands up to her head length and looked at it.

" Mr. Pink..." she said and then it jumped out of her hands and on to the floor.

It rolled out of her hands and out the door. Her mother smiled at her daughter and closed the door behind her.

Lacus looked at her hand where she had touched Erica's cheek.

" Erica..." she said and thought back to that moment remembering where she saw an faint dark blue bruise.

She sighed and then headed towards the stairs.

Erica noticed her glasses were still on her face. She took them off and rubbed her eyes.

They weren't real, she thought they looked cool on her, no matter what the people at school said.

She got up off her bed and took her jacket off; she untied her sandals and kicked them off. Erica walked up to her full body mirror on the back of her bedroom door and looked at her self.

Her father was right; she did look like her mother. She had the same length and figure of as her mother except Erica had gotten the eyes from her father.

Erica grabbed her light blue towel and walked in to the bathroom. She shut the door and locked it and then leaned against the counter and raised one of her arms and at it.

Tears started to form in her eyes again and she fell to her knees, hugging herself for support.

" Why...?" she sobbed and then reached on to the counter and grabbed out of the razor blades," I... I don't... just no more..."

A couple hours later, Athrun looked up to the ceiling and sighed, he then looked at the paper and next his watch, which read 4:40pm.

" Lacus, it shouldn't take her that long to take a shower," he said worried.

Lacus nodded.

" Kira and them will be here any minute for dinner," she said.

Athrun got out of his seat in the living room and headed towards the stairs.

" I'm gonna check on her Lacus," he said.

As he put his foot on the first step, he saw his daughter turn the corner to the stairs.

" Erica," he said looking at her," you look beautiful today."

Erica blushed and looked at the floor.

She had her hair up in a ponytail like her mother had when she was still commanding the Eternal, she wore a pair of blue hip huggers, a black spaghetti strap shirt and a sweater jacket over top and a pair of silver hoop earrings in her ears.

Lacus came out of the living room and saw her daughter.

" You're father was going to check on you to see if you were okay," she had said.

Erica smiled nervously.

" Sorry, I kinda fell back to sleep when you left mother," she lied again.

The door bell and Lacus quickly went to the door and opened it.

" Heya Lacus," Kira said.

" Hi Lacus," Fllay said.

" Please come in," Lacus said and stepped aside away from the door.

Kira looked around and saw Erica.

" Hey Erica, how are you?" he asked with a smile.

Erica smiled and quickly ran down the stairs and gave him a big hug.

" I'm fine Uncle Kira," she smiled.

Kira patted her on her back and then Erica hugged Fllay.

" It's good to see you again Erica," Fllay with a smile.

" I'm glad you guys came," Erica said to them and then took a step back and looked at the floor," though it's a shame that Lani and Vert couldn't make it."

" They said that they were disappointed for not coming," Fllay explained," but they gave you good wishes and hope that you're well."

Erica nodded with a smile and then saw her other aunt and uncle.

Erica took a couple steps forward passed Fllay and stood straight.

" Evening Aunt Cagalli, Uncle Yzak," she said formally.

Cagalli smiled.

" It's good that you're well," she said.

And then right from behind Yzak, Reese stood there bored with his hand on his side, listening to music.

He wore a pair of black jeans, a black tank-top with the same jean jacket from yesterday and a pair of worn out combat boots.

" Please, everyone, come in!" Athrun smiled to everyone.

Everyone came in and then walked in to the living room.

After an hour dinner was ready and then after an hour and a half of dinner, everybody was still at the table, eating cake. The clock ticked around as the time was 7:10pm.

" So Erica, Reese, how's school?" Kira asked.

" It's..." they started at the same time.

They looked at each other and Erica looked at her lap.

" It's going fine, I made the soccer team," Reese replied.

" And... school for me is alright," Erica also said.

" That's good," Fllay said and smiled at Erica," so Erica, I heard that you're doing singing like your mother. Are you going to become one like her?"

Erica blushed and laughed.

" It's actually a hobby, I'm not really sure what I want to be," she replied.

Cagalli put her tea cup down and looked at Erica and noticed the bruise on her cheek.

" Erica, how did you get that bruise on your cheek?" Cagalli asked curiously and worried.

Reese looked at her and Erica saw him through the corner of her eye.

" I slept on my side all night and I woke up with it," she once more lied.

" Good, I thought you're were getting picked on at school," Cagalli smiled.

Erica slowly looked up to Reese and he just smiled.

" Erica can take care of herself," Athrun said, giving Cagalli a look.

Erica went to reach for her glass of water and noticed there was no water left.

" Excuse me for a minute," she and got out of her seat.

They nodded and Erica walked passed everyone and pushed open the kitchen and it swung closed behind her.

Erica exhaled deeply and put her glass on the counter beside the fridge on her left.

" Aunt Lacus, may I have another piece of you're delicious strawberry shortcake?" he asked politely.

Lacus giggled and nodded.

Reese got out of his seat and entered the kitchen.

Erica looked at the floor and turned around as she heard the kitchen door swing closed.

Reese put his plate on the counter, beside Erica's cup.

" What... do you..." Erica started saying nervously.

" Want?" Reese finished and the smirked while grabbing a knife from the knife block.

He grabbed one on Erica's arms and held the blade above her wrist.

" I just like to see pain cause upon your pretty little face," he said and leaned closer to her.

Erica's breathing got deeper and her heart started to race as he got close to her.

" You know... we're not blood related..." he said and he slowly move up Erica's sleeve and pushed her back against the island in the middle of the kitchen.

He put the knife on the counter and leaned closer against her till his right leg was in between her legs.

Erica wanted to call for help but she was scared. Reese slammed her arm he was holding on to the counter and grabbed the knife again.

He slowly moved her sleeve up.

" No... don't," Erica squeaked trying to get her arm free.

As her sleeve was uncovered, Reese looked at her.

" Erica..." he said shocked as he just saw scars and cuts on her arm.

Erica looked to her right, towards the patio doors.

" This... is because of you," she said.

Reese took a couple steps back, while the knife was still in his hand. Erica dropped to her knees and covered up her arm.

Before Reese could say anything, they heard a loud explosion and the whole house shook.

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