Hey guys, here's my new story!! I hope you like it!!

Disclmaimer: I don't own GS/D or any of the related characters, I own Arli Elthsman!

This is just the normal Gundam Seed series only i threw in my own character to create some interest! I was bored ok? So let's try it out, tell me what you think!

The group of Zaft soldiers, six in red and about five in green floated down to the door of the shaft into the space colony of Heliopolis. The door opened and the head of their group switched off the security lasers. They floated in, the smallest pilot in red floated to the head of the group and stayed beside him.

"Athrun," it was a female voice.

"Yeah?" Athrun replied looking at her.

"Maybe… maybe Rusty should do my job," she whispered. "He'd do better than me."

"Arli, it's fine," Athrun whispered. "You'll do everything perfectly, you always do." Arli nodded and focused ahead as the group landed at the base of the shaft. Athrun made some hand signals and the group moved out. Arli came away from Athrun to travel with another pilot in red.

"What's up Arli?" the man asked.

"Nothing."

"You won't get caught," the man said.

"Thanks Rusty."

--

The group was stationed on a hill, watching trucks travelling towards Helipolis's Morganraete facility.

"There they are, just like Commander Le Creuset said," a man laughed.

"What with the right amount of prodding they're sure to come out of their hole?" a pilot asked.

"Yzak," Arli said looking at the pilot beside her, the one who had spoken first. "Don't blow too many things up this time." Yzak blinked confusedly as a couple of his team mates laughed at him.

"Don't get caught this time," he sneered. Arli blushed and then glared.

"You're just jealous because I get more important missions than you."

"Now, now children," another pilot chastised. "This is not the time for fighting." He exchanged a look with Athrun and they grinned as Yzak and Arli turned away from each other angrily.

The attack was well underway so the group started flying down from the hill Arli stopped dead in her flight when she saw a man run across a road and he was shot dead by a Ginn that she recognised as Miguel's. She was about to shout out when Yzak interrupted her.

"There's only three here!" Yzak called. "Are the other two inside?"

"Rusty and I will go in and get the other two! You three stay here!" Athrun said.

"Right, be careful, and take care of Arli," Yzak said. "Guys if you're piloting one disable the self destruct first." Arli, Athrun and Rusty flew towards the factory while Yzak, Nicol and Dearka landed and climbed into the other mobile suits.

"Alright, Arli, head to the office where they have the information on all their machines and find the stuff on their new warship," Athrun told the young girl.

"Right, what if I can't find it?"

"Grab something useful, just don't come back empty handed."

"As long as you come back or Dearka and Yzak will kill us," Rusty laughed.

"Dearka might… but Yzak, no way." Athrun and Rusty exchanged a look as Arli waved her hand and jumped through the hole into the facility.

She pulled out her rifle and started walking slowly to the stairs. As she climbed she glanced to where the mobile suits were. She could see the green clad soldiers from her team running around firing at the Earth Forces.

The Zaft pilot ran around the top floor, dodging bullets and sending return fire. She saw two kids just ahead of her.

"Father I knew you betrayed us all!" shouted the one with blonde hair. An earth forces soldier turned and went to fire at them but Arli quickly jumped in and pushed them.

"Get out of here!" she snarled at the kids. They were her age only. "If you stay or get involved you'll get pulled into something that you'll never get out of." The boy and girl stared at her as she gave the boy a gentle push. "Go."

Arli turned and ran back up a corridor. She thought that the office would be somewhere around here but it seemed not to be. She ran down the corridor her footsteps echoing around her until she came to a stairwell that seemed to lead towards another hanger.

"But it's going up," she sighed. "Wait… it might lead to the shaft where they're storing the new warship." Arli smiled and started running up the stairwell. As she climbed she knew she was right because she started to feel the weightlessness of space.

There was a thick smell of smoke in the air and Arli realised that the Ginns had been firing at the shaft.

"What idiots," she muttered. She floated through a heap of debris and saw some dead bodies. "Oh god, people are dead." She manoeuvred through the shaft until she came to another hanger. She stopped dead in her tracks.

"The new Earth Forces Warship… wow…" Arli stared at the huge ship and smiled. "Maybe I can get something from here." She floated down to the ship to find the hatch on the hanger open. Arli floated in carefully, just in case there were still soldiers aboard. Explosions were still sounding outside so she shivered and continued moving.

There was no ammo in her rifle so she let go of it and it floated away. The teenage red jacket pilot stopped moving as she saw something she didn't expect. Another mobile suit, much like the other five, was standing in its frame.

"What on earth? I thought there were only meant to be five." Arli shrugged and floated up to the cockpit. She tugged on it and looked on the side and pulled a switch. The cockpit opened and she climbed in and looked around. "Excellent, I'll be able to bring something handy back."

Arli flicked a few switches and the mobile suit turned on. She pulled down the keypad and activated the main system.

"Just like they said… the OS is completely elementary," she whispered. She tapped a few keys and explored the main frame. "…Should be easy enough the fix."

She began changing the start of the main frame when there was a clicking noise. Arli looked up out of the open cockpit and gasped. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a handgun. It had no bullets in it so she dropped it beside the seat and sighed.

"Damn you Yzak… you jinxed me!" she whispered as she glared at male Earth Forces soldier who was shining a torch on her.

"Come out of there Zaft scum!" he snarled. Arli crept out, she knew he'd want her to remove her helmet but she wasn't going to do that. He looked her over for weapons and she laughed.

"I dropped my last weapon in there, I have no ammo either," she told him.

"Whatever, turn around." Arli turned and felt rope wrap tightly around her wrists.

"Ow, this is no way to treat a lady!" she shouted.

"I don't care… come on." He pushed her along in front of him. They floated up the corridors to the bridge and the man opened the door. Arli heard a woman arguing inside. She laughed slightly.

'The naturals aren't even very well organised,' she thought. The woman was sitting in a chair when the soldier pushed Arli to her.

"Sorry about this ma'am but we caught this Zaft pilot down in the hanger looking at The Combat," the man said. The woman looked at Arli angrily.

"That's all we need," she snapped. "Get to you post soldier, I'll deal with him."

"Him?" Arli asked. "Do I look like a good-for-nothing man to you?"

"Sorry," the woman looked taken aback. "I didn't realise that Zaft sent women pilots on such important missions, and definitely not ones so young." Arli glared at her and then looked around as the woman barked more orders.

"Prepare for sudden impacts as well as damage to the ship!" she shouted.

"Oh great," Arli muttered. She watched out of the front window as the ship moved through the huge chunks of metal.

"What's your name coordinator?" the woman asked.

"Why should I tell you natural?" Arli glared, she was really beginning to dislike this woman.

"Because I have a gun beside this seat and you are unarmed."

"You're not supposed to hurt your captives unless they impose a threat to you," Arli snapped. "But if you must know my name is Arliania Elthsman, Elite Red Jacket Pilot of the Le Creuset Team… what may I call you?"

"You call me ma'am at the moment." Arli made a face and turned away.

"Ready Godfreids? FIRE!" the woman barked. Arli rocked slightly as there was an explosion as the ship fired at the wall. They broke free and flew up and out. Arli looked out the windows and spotted a battle ensuing.

She could see one of the mobile suits they were supposed to capture; it was under attack from Le Creuset's mobile suit and there was also mobile armour flying around, damaged.

'What's going on?' she thought.

"What mobile suit is that?" she asked. The woman ignored her so Arli simply watched with interest at the warship fired at her commander with orders not to hit the shaft or the ground, 'fat chance.'

The mobile suit had raised a huge rifle and was preparing to fire it.

"Oh god he isn't…" Arli whispered. "That'll blow a hole in the colony wall!"

"No don't!" shouted the woman beside her. But it was too late the mobile suit fired and a huge hole was blown into the wall of the colony and Le Creuset flew out.

"How dumb can someone get?" Arli asked receiving glares from the soldiers. "Whoops, sorry I was thinking out loud."

They landed the ship and the mobile armour and mobile suit flew in through the hatch. The soldier ran out of the bridge and Arli was forced to come with them. They ran up to the people, the group included some teenage civilians, and Arli stayed back, she spotted the mobile suit that she had started reprogramming and stared at it.

"I thought there were only five…"

"Hey you get over here!" a shout came to her ears. Arli looked over and the soldier who had captured her was beckoning to her. She walked over and received glares from the soldiers.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Explain yourself," a man with blonde hair said.

"I'm a Zaft Pilot who was sent here to gather special information about new Earth Forces war weapons, I came aboard here and found that extra mobile suit and planned to steal it when I was captured.

"But I really don't want to steal it," she admitted.

"Why?"

"I saw one of my team mates kill a civilian… our orders weren't to kill anyone, just to take the suits. But Miguel killed an innocent man…"

"Right… now who's that?" The man pointed to a teenage boy with brown hair, one of the ones that Arli had saved inside the factory.

"As you can see he's a teenage civilian," the woman said. "For some reason he was in the factory district at the time of the attack so I brought him aboard the G-Weapon." The woman then relayed how he had fought in the mobile suit.

Arli stared at the boy… gosh he seemed familiar. She had seen a photo of him somewhere…

But wait, that kid had piloted the mobile suit, then he must be a-

"You're a coordinator right?" the blonde man asked.

"Yes," the boy answered. Some men raised their guns and another of the teenagers stepped in front.

"Now that's just not fair!" Arli protested. "I'm wearing a Zaft uniform and I didn't get guns pointed at me. So leave that kid alone, he's a civilian."

"Kira may be a coordinator but he's not with Zaft," the boy said.

'Kira, now that name rings a bell… but where from?' Arli stared at the boy more when the blonde man apologised and asked about the captain.

They discussed things a bit more but Arli lost interest; she was busy trying to remember Kira when the man pulled her back to reality.

"…The Le Creuset Team waiting for us, that man is persistent…" he started to walk away when Arli protested.

"I hope you don't plan to try and fight them," she said. The man turned back.

"Why?"

"Well let's see, you have me on board and therefore if they find out you'll be attacked and pursued as my brother is on that team, his aggressive friend is on there and two of my friends who would kill for me.

"Then there's the fact that you'll be matching a brand new, uncatalogued warship against Zaft's best, plus we have four of your mobile weapons as well as our Ginns.

"All that you have is a damaged mobile armour, a mobile suit that's OS has obviously been re-written so only a coordinator can pilot it and a mobile suit that needs rewriting or it won't be able to fight… so what are you going to do? Get into space suits and go out with guns and fire at the huge machines? That should be entertaining…"

Arli smirked at the expressions on the faces of the soldiers.

"You're just a little smart arse aren't you?"

"Aw, I love you too."

"That's it; you are going to be locked in a room without any meals!"

"You can't do that…. Lieutenant….?"

"Lieutenant Mwu La Flaga," the man snapped.

"Right well you can't do that, its abuse of captives and besides, you need my help," Arli said. "And I want to help."

--

"So you'll help us keep maintenance of the mobile weapons?" Murrue asked. Arli nodded. She had removed her helmet and he hands were no longer bound. She was sitting on a chair in front of the three officers of the Earth Forces. Trying to convince them she was reliable.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Mwu asked; he was still angry at her for being blunt with him earlier.

"Well… I guess you could say my eyes have been opened by the damage I've seen my people do," she replied. Her pink eyes were showing only sincerity. Because of her nerves she was playing with some of her long, blonde hair. It was quite long, it reached just below her waist but at the moment it was pulled up at the back of her head.

"So… are you going to pilot that other suit?" Mwu asked. Arli looked up at him, surprised.

"I-I never thought of that…"

"Well you could when you gain our trust," Murrue said.

"But you'd come up against your brother and friends," Mwu told her. Arli thought, could she live with hurting her friend like Athrun, Nicol, Yzak and Dearka? Well… maybe, she knew that Rusty was dead. Murrue had told her that one of the pilots had been shot and she knew it to be Rusty.

"Well… as long as I didn't actually kill them I'd be fine with it…" Arli replied thoughtfully.

"And what if she hesitates in battle?" Natarle asked.

"I don't hesitate," Arli said, her eyes flashing and darkening. "As soldiers we're trained not to hesitate and I've been trained since I was about ten."

"That's so long, and you're very young," Mwu said. Arli nodded. "Well, I guess we do need your help, so I guess that when you're ready with that machine you'll be able to go out in battle with it. Just put a lock on it."

"Why?"

"If you're captured we don't want anyone being able to use it now do we?" Mwu said with a wink. Arli giggled and smiled.

"Thank you so much." She jumped up and bowed.

"Right well, this is yours then," Murrue said. She picked up a pile of clothes and passed them to Arli.

"That's your Earth Forces uniform, Kira mentioned that you saved him," Mwu said.

"Oh… yes… it was nothing. Uh, I'm going to get out of my Zaft pilot's uniform." Arli stood up and bowed as she left. Once outside she leant against the wall with a sigh.

"I'm going to be a traitor to Zaft…" an image of the man being shot as he ran came into her mind and her eyes became determined, "…Zaft isn't what I thought it was."

Arli went to the room she had been assigned and pulled off her Zaft uniform and folded it up. She placed it on her desk and put her helmet on top. She was wearing a blue miniskirt and a purple singlet. She looked at the Earth Forces uniform. It was a pink jacket and white skirt. Her pilot suit was white with pink across the shoulders and down the sides. Her helmet was pink and white.

"Well, at least it isn't khaki," she said remembering her days when she first joined Zaft, before she became an Elite pilot. "I hate khaki…" She pulled on her Earth Forces uniform and looked in the inside pocket of her Zaft uniform.

There were two photos, one of her team. Yzak, Miguel and Dearka were all sitting on the ground. There was a bench behind them and Arli was behind Yzak with her arms around his neck, Athrun beside her with an arm around her shoulder. On her other side was Nicol, his elbow resting on Arli's shoulder. Rusty had his arm around Athrun's neck playfully. They were all laughing and mucking around like they usually did, but lately they'd all become tense with the war raging on and on.

The other was of herself and Yzak, dressed up for the council ball that their parents had dragged them along to. Arli promised Yzak she'd go so that he'd have someone to dance with for the compulsory dances. Arli smiled as she remembered it. She was wearing a light blue, shimmering dress that was a halter. It had a shawl connected to it that wrapped around her shoulders delicately and there was a slit from the ankle to the thigh on her left leg. Yzak was wearing a tuxedo, looking very dashing.

"That was so much fun," she sighed in remembrance.

"Hi…" said a voice. Arli looked up, it was that Kira kid. Arli quickly looked down at the photo of her team, her eyes drawn by Athrun… wait, that's where she knew Kira from. Athrun had photos of Kira and he told Arli stories about him and Kira. He was Athrun's childhood best friend.

"Hi, Kira Yamato," Arli said knowledgeably.

"What… how do you-" Arli help up the group photo. Kira ignored all the others and stared at the figures of Athrun and Arli. "You… know Athrun?"

"He spoke to me about you a lot… anyway what is it?"

"I was wondering about those mobile suits… can't you pilot them?"

"I can pilot one, but I need to look at the OS to understand what I'm dealing with… you'll have to pilot the Strike, I'm sorry." Arli smiled apologetically.

"Ok… well, I also wanted to thank you for saving me back in the factory," Kira admitted. Arli smiled and shook her head.

"It's fine; I'm Arli by the way." She held out her hand and Kira shook it, smiling.

"It's good to meet you… so you know Athrun?" Kira asked.

"Yeah, he's been my partner on so many missions… which reminds me, you'll probably never see him again because when my brother finds out I'm missing Athrun will get the blame…" Arli giggled slightly. "Athrun's always been a very close friend to me; he even made me this pink robotic cat with wings for my birthday."

"Really? He made this for me when we were kids." Kira pulled a small green bird out of his shirt.

"Oh cute…" Arli sighed. "Name?"

"Birdie, what's your cat called?"

"Lily… oh I left her on the Vesalius!" Arli sighed and put the photos in her hands under her pillow and looked at Kira. "I think we'll be going into battle soon…"

"Yeah, we will be… it's terrible." Arli nodded and there was a siren and a voice shouted over the intercom.

"All hands to level one battle stations!"

"Oh Kira, that means you need to head to the Strike!" Arli shouted. She pushed Kira out of the door. "Go!"

Arli rushed up the corridor to the bridge, she rushed through the door and looked around.

"What's my battle station until I get the Combat fixed?" she asked.

"You'll be on Communications, for this battle!" Murrue told her. Arli jumped into the seat and put on a headset.

"Kira," she said. She saw Kira's face appear on the screen, he seemed rather upset. "Kira, be careful alright?"

"I will be… what do I do?"

"Get rid of the Ginns… oh god, the Aegis is there too! Be very careful Kira."

"Thanks Arli."

"When you're ready you can launch, please stand by." Arli was remembering when she was doing communications on the Vesalius, that was only two years ago.

"Strike ready," Kira said.

"Alright, you can launch," Arli told him. The Strike launched and Arli kept her eyes on the radar. 'Please be alright Kira,' she sighed. She didn't know why but she felt a connection to Kira, probably because of the fact that they were both close friends of Athrun but she just knew she could trust Kira. As the battle ensued outside they were constantly attacking from the Archangel too.

"God your team is strong!" the man beside her yelled.

"Sorry about that," Arli said with no idea why she was apologising for her team. Arli watched with horror as Kira fought valiantly. He eventually disappeared from sight and in a blinding flash of light, Heliopolis was gone.

"My god… Heliopolis…"

"Where's Heliopolis?"

"…gone?" Arli whispered.

"Kira Yamato!" Natarle was shouting.

"Kira!" Arli shouted.

"Yeah?"

"Oh thank god, can you get back to us?"

"Sure…"

"Ok, I'll meet you in the hanger. Captain?"

"Yes Ensen Elsnik?" Murrue answered.

"Can I go and do my job of maintenance down in the hanger for when Kira returns?"

"Sure."

"Thankyou." Arli stood up, bowed slightly and then left the bridge, rushing down to the hanger. On the way one of the teenagers caught her arm, it was the girl.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Uh… Heliopolis was destroyed…" Arli admitted knowing it was best to tell the truth.

"Oh god!"

"Sorry, I have to go and make sure Kira's alright." Arli pulled her arm away and continued to the hanger. When she arrived Kira was arguing with Mr Murtogh. He wanted to bring in a life pod that he had found but they wouldn't let him. It was eventually agreed upon and Kira came in and set the pod down. Arli floated up as the Strike moved into place and she tapped on the cockpit.

"Kira," she gasped. He opened the cockpit and Arli looked in and saw him. "You're alright?" He moved out and Arli hugged him.

"Hey, I'm fine!" he laughed.

"Who was the pilot of the Aegis?"

"Athrun…" Kira whispered. Arli nodded and Kira looked down at the life pod. Arli looked down and saw a girl with red hair, in a pink dress being helped out when Birdie flew out of Kira's shirt and he jumped after it.

Arli watched with amusement as the girl jumped up and hugged Kira. Kira was consoling the girl as the rest of the civilians were helped out.

"Oh my…" Arli sighed. "There's a lot… this means I'll definitely be piloting that." She floated over to the Combat and opened the cockpit. She climbed in and flicked some switches to start the main frame. She started changing things and modifying it. After a few minutes she had rewritten the OS and she started with the lock.

"Ok… I think that's all," she muttered, shifting through everything to make sure it was finished up. She then flicked some more switches and turned off the machine. She came out to be met by Mr Murdoch.

"I need you to keep the maintenance of your machine," he said.

"What? Why aren't you glaring at me, saying 'get away from that machine coordinator scum'?" Arli asked suspiciously.

"You're wearing a pilot's uniform, and the Lieutenant trusts you so I think I should too." Arli smiled.

"I'm honoured, thank you." Arli closed the cockpit and moved away. "Things are getting really confusing…" She floated down the corridor and went into her room and sat on the bed and stared at the wall.

"Yzak…" she sighed.

--

Back on the Vesalius Yzak was roaming the ship hopelessly. He was searching for Athrun but a small part of him was hoping Arli was step out of her room, see him, smile and then hug him telling him how glad she was that the mission was over.

"Arli…" Yzak sighed. He stopped down in the locker room and saw Athrun jump out of the Aegis and the silver haired coordinator's temper flared. As soon as Athrun joined him in the room and taken off his helmet, Yzak was upon him. He jammed Athrun up against the wall by the throat, for the first time, not knowing he'd be doing this to him again.

"Yzak, what is wrong with you?" Athrun choked.

"Where's Arli? I told you to look after her!" Yzak hissed venomously.

"I thought you didn't care about her," Athrun breathed with a smirk.

"Where is she?"

"She's… probably dead…" Athrun's green eyes paled slightly with sorrow. "I'm sorry Yzak."

"You were supposed to look after her… if she didn't find a shelter to get into then she probably died with the destruction of Heliopolis right?" Athrun nodded, tears coming into his eyes.

"Yzak, you aren't the only one who's going to be hurt by the fact that she's probably dead!" Athrun and Yzak glared at each other and then Athrun's eyes softened. "You love her don't you?" Yzak let him go and stared at him.

"No," he said quickly.

"Yzak, it's alright…" Athrun put a hand on his friend's shoulder and for once Yzak didn't shrug it off.

"Do you think there's a chance that she's alive?"

"Of course there is."

"I'd even rather her have swapped sides then have her dead." Athrun felt a little uneasy as he heard the shudder in Yzak's voice, realising that the aggressive coordinator was close to tears. "I think I'll go and see Commander Le Creuset." Yzak shrugged off Athrun's hand and left him.

"God… I didn't just do that did I?" Yzak shuddered. He walked back to his room and stopped at the door beside his. He opened it and looked in to Arli's room. There was a soft beep and a pink light flashed.

"Yzak?" a small robotic voice said. Yzak smiled as the small pink cat flapped its robotic wings and landed on his shoulder.

"Hello Lily… Arli's not home yet," he told it.

"Arli?"

"She's not home yet," Yzak repeated. The robot's eyes blinked and it settled easier on his shoulder. Yzak opened his own door and put the robot on his pillow. "Stay here Lily." The cat beeped to show it acknowledged him. Yzak left shaking his head.

"Athrun sure does a good job on those things," he laughed.

--

"Does battle always feel like this?" Kira asked. He and Arli were standing on the railing above their mobile suits.

"Well, it depends on how long you've been fighting," Arli admitted. "The first time I even thought that I may have killed someone I was nearly sick. Then gradually I became more used to it. It still turns my gut every time I fight… but it doesn't make me throw up anymore."

"Every time I fight it starts to kill me…" Arli looked at Kira with sympathetic eyes; she put a hand on his shoulder comfortingly.

"I know… but it's something that is necessary when you want to protect something. Don't worry next time I'll be out there with you, I finished with the reprogramming of the Combat so…" Kira smiled at Arli.

"Thanks… it hurts that I have to fight Athrun."

"Yeah, it's gonna kill me when I get out there with you…"

"Are you and Athrun… together?" Kira asked. Arli looked at him and saw that he was blushing.

"Why would you think that?" Arli asked; she felt her cheeks burn slightly as she blushed deep red.

"Well, you two seem to be close and I was just thinking…"

"We aren't together… we're just close friends. But there was a guy… our parents decided that we should be engaged, they never announced it to us but I over heard my father and his mother talking."

"Oh… was he on your team?"

"Yeah, he doesn't care for me though. He only sees me in a protective way because he's best friends with my brother." Arli stared ahead at the mobile suits.

"Birdie," chirped the small green robot on Kira's shoulder. Arli and Kira laughed and Arli touched its head with a smile.

"Athrun sure has a way with machines," Arli sighed. "Lily talks to me; she learns new words all the time. She knows the names of everyone on the Vesalius."

"Wow… so when did Athrun make it for you?"

"My fourteenth birthday, we became partners in that year," Arli replied. They fell silent again and stared ahead. Arli thought of her friends in Zaft and as she thought of Yzak a few tears slid down her cheek.

"Arli, are you alright?" Kira asked as Arli sniffed. Arli turned away, embarrassed.

"I'm fine," Arli said, but her voice was shaking. Kira touched her shoulder and turned her.

"Arli, what's wrong?"

"Nothing…" Kira's worried purple eyes stared into her own sorrowful pink ones before her vision became clouded as tears ran freely down her cheeks. "Oh Kira… it's so hard!" Kira hugged Arli and she cried into his chest. Kira stroked her hair gently.

"It's ok Arli," he whispered. She shuddered as he held her and let her cry freely. As she stopped crying and her breathing returned to normal Kira raised her head and smiled at her.

"Feel better now?" he asked. Arli nodded and smiled.

"Thankyou Kira," she whispered, hugging him tightly, Kira hugged her back and sighed.

"At least I'm not the only upset about this." Arli looked at him and turned her head, gazing at the mobile suits.

"The hardest battle during war is the one you fight inside yourself," she whispered.

"Where'd you learn that?"

"My mother…"

"Hey, you two!" they looked around and saw Lieutenant La Flaga waving to them. "What are you two doing up here?"

"Talking," Arli said quickly, letting go of Kira quickly and blushing.

"Sorry about the other day kid," Mwu said looking at Kira.

"That's alright sir," Kira replied. Arli nudged the ground with her foot.

"I guess you're going into battle next time then young lady," Mwu said glancing at Arli.

"Oh, yes," Arli answered. "I suppose I am."

"What'll you do if you come up against your brother?" Kira asked.

"I really don't know," Arli admitted. "I'm going to play this one as it goes. I don't think I'd be able to kill anyone from the Le Creuset team… maybe Yzak." Kira laughed as Arli winked at him to show she was joking.

"Don't take this so lightly," Mwu snarled.

"Sorry Lieutenant but it's helping me, the boys from the Zala Team are all my brothers, maybe not by blood but they're all close enough to be my family," Arli explained. "This is helping me deal with that fact that I have to fight them."

"Sorry then… well, just be ready for when we do have to fight."

"I will… I'm going to go and get something to eat," Arli said yawning. "And maybe catch some shut eye. Bye fellas."

As she walked away she heard Mwu sigh and turn to Kira saying "she's a keeper, that one."

There you have it, give Dearka a beautiful little sister and Yzak suddenly becomes a protective and sometimes soft individual!! sorry to anyone who's offended by Yzak's change of character but i thought it would be funny!

R&R pretty please?