This fanfic is a Fantasy/Action/Adventure/Romance one...

Disclaimer: Michiyo Hikari does not own anything from the anime/manga series, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed.

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Chapter 1 - The Broken Seal

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Athrun Zala closed his tired eyes as he quietly sat on one of the branches of the big sakura tree standing near the house of Cagalli Yula Attha and Kira Yamato - twins who lived together due to their divorced parents. The daughter kept her mother's maiden name while the son kept his father's. Each other were all they had. None of their close relatives lived near the city and their parents only dropped by to check on them once in a while. Nevertheless, the two were happy. With the financial support of their parents, they got by on their own just fine.

Upon hearing loud stomps heading at the direction of the tree he was sitting on, a smile crept across Athrun's face when he opened his emerald eyes. His fascinated orbs gazed upon the approaching figure as he sensed her rage.

STOMP, STOMP, STOMP!

"Uh oh. I smell trouble, Athrun," said Kira, as he sat on the ground, leaning on the tree. "I wonder who got on her nerves this time." He chuckled, watching the swirling petals that were trapped in the tiny tornado he created in his palm.

Athrun laughed at his friend's comment. It was true; whoever got on the girl's nerves was dead meat. Or close to one. Although she could get very scary when mad, Athrun thought it funny and... cute to watch her in such state. Of course he would never dare tell her that. He still wanted to live.

Seeing his sister only a few feet away, Kira vanished the miniature tornado he created as the pink petals finally lay motionless in his hand. "Hey there, Cagalli." he greeted. Standing up, he asked the obvious. "Having a bad day?"

Cagalli glared at her brother before she replied. "You bet!" She growled. "That stupid Allster bitch just told that jerk – I mean, sir Azrael that it was I who stole her freakin' ring!" Cagalli huffed. "AS IF I'd be interested!"

Kira stared at his sister for a while, speechless. He didn't know what he was supposed to say; he didn't want to say something that would make Cagalli's mood worse. If anything, her wrath taken out on him was the last thing he wanted. To avoid any offence with his silence, he managed to say, "T-That's crude of her."

"Well of course it is!" Cagalli roared with her hands up in the air. "You know what's worse?" she added, "Everyone in class believed that egocentric witch!"

Kira furrowed his brow. "Did they have proof?" He asked; he never liked Fllay either.

When the word "proof" entered her ears, Cagalli went ballistic. She was sure someone (who she would love to kill) definitely put the damned thing in her bag. But nobody, not even a single one of her classmates, listened to her. Her temper continued to rose, each thought of her day boiling her blood with hatred. Subconsciously, she kicked the tree behind Kira. Surprised that she felt so little pain, she heard somebody say "Ow!"

Mentally scolding himself for complaining about the pain that jolted from his foot, Athrun went back to listening to the conversation of the siblings below him. His foot throbbed with pain; Cagalli had one fierce kick.

As if a reflex, the blonde's head shot up at the direction of where she heard the sound. There, she saw a guy with dark blue hair sitting on a branch and looking down at her. Who the hell is he?

S-She's looking at me. Athrun nervously thought. He knew perfectly well that no human could see anyone from Syphoria (although he also knew that Cagalli and Kira were not human beings) beside the fact that everyone from the other realm could be mistaken as "Earth people". Since he was five, Athrun was told he was to watch and protect the girl from any harm - be her "Guardian" to be precise - but she would not be able to see him because of the Necklace of Invisibility he was required to wear every time he was in the human world called Earth. Due to his nerves and astonishment, Athrun's hand automatically grabbed the necklace around his neck. He sighed in relief when he felt the solid pendant in his hand. Relax, you have the necklace, she can't see you.

Cagalli's anger shifted from Fllay Allster to the guy on the tree. "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU STARING AT AND WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" she yelled at him.

Athrun felt his heart do a summersault while his face went from normal to pale. "M-My lady, you can see me?"

Shocked like his friend, Kira repeated the question before he could stop himself. "Y-You can see him?"

"WHAT?" Cagalli spat and glared at Kira as if he just asked the dumbest question possible. "Of course I can see him! You think I'm blind?" she retorted, with much more irritation in her voice.

"B-But it's not possible." Athrun said, his words directed to Kira. When realization finally hit him, his eyes widened. "Unless…"

"…the seal is finally broken." The two friends concluded in unison.

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To Be Continued
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