Chapter 1: Nightmare Come True

C.E. 71 ZAFT control territory near the ocean.

Abandoned. When I was little my adoptive parents found me in the forest close to where our home is. I was tree years old. Truth is I don't remember much before I was found. One thing I'm sure of though: my birth parents are dead. But the last thing about them that I remember are the sound of guns, screams of pain, blood everywhere and being pushed into a hollow tree were I was told to not come out until I heard nothing. I'm pretty sure it was my mother who told me that. I don't remember her face or my fathers. When my adoptive parents found me I was surrounded by the dead. Bodies everywhere. None of them could be identified; they weren't recognizable. All I know is they were massacred.

That was 12 years ago. I'm 15 now. I'm a coordinator. My adoptive family loves me very much. I'm the oldest. I have a little sister that's three. Her name is Naoko and I have a little brother that's five his name is Yukio. My adoptive father is an engineer. He specializes in mobile suits. My adoptive mother is also an engineer; just like my father her field of expertise is mobile suits. Also both of them know a lot about war weapons. All the members of my adoptive family are coordinators. Just like I am. My real name is Maya Hibiki. The only reason my adoptive parents know my real name is because I had I name tag around my neck when I was found. I still wear it as a memento to my real parents. It's a nametag with the name Mendel Colony on it. My adoptive parents seem to know what that place is but I don't and I can tell they don't want to tell me.

I have shoulder length brown hair and golden eyes and my skin is lightly tanned. Two months after I was found strange things started happening I could heal injured people. But not without consequences. I would be weak for a few days or weeks, with a high fever, depending on how bad the wound I healed was. One thing I couldn't do was the dead. Mother said that when I healed someone my eyes would narrow and only my pupils would show. She told me once that I looked very frightening. She also swore that she saw wings when I used my 'power'. But... this strange power brings misfortune and I hardly think that I am blessed. Now lying here covered in the blood of the people who loved me for all these years when no one wanted me, and my own blood I can't help but think of what happened only a few hours ago...

FLASHBACK

It was about two in the morning when I first heard it. Footsteps. The clicking of guns. I got up and woke Mother, Father, Yukio and Naoko. When we heard the door being forced opened Father told me to go into 'that' place and take the little ones to escape.

"But what about you?" I asked. He and Mother just smiled and said that even if they did die we would be safe and that was all that mattered. He and Mother went downstairs but not before giving me a gun. I had been trained with many types of weapons in case something would happen and I would need to defend myself. Father and Mother also had guns. After a gentle prod in the back telling me to head out the back entrance with the little ones I ran out of the house. Then we heard it: screams and the shouts of pain. Also I heard ' FOR OUR BLUE AND PURE WORLD!' That's when I remembered. All those years ago on the night when my real parent's died I heard that too. Then they came upstairs. I could still hear my parent's downstairs, so these ones must've got past Mother and Father. I told the little one's to hurry up and we made our way outside.

'That' place was hidden. Only Father, Mother and I knew were it was. Outside I saw Father and Mother. So they managed to escape the house like we did. But my ray of hope didn't last long. I saw Mother being shot and then Father. I screamed, as did the little ones. Yukio managed to escape my grip and he made his way as fast as he could to our parent's fallen bodies. Only to be killed a few feet away from them! Naoko thankfully didn't try to get to Father, Mother and Yukio she was too shocked and scared to move. But I wasn't. I had come to expect this. Blue Cosmos I knew were persistent bastards.

I picked up Naoko. 'That' place was near to were Father, Mother and Yukio's bodies were. Great. I ran. I knew that they would all be aiming at us. I held Naoko as close to my body as I could. I wouldn't let her die. I ran as fast as my legs would carry me. Bullets form every side. I managed to dodged a few of them. But my luck could only last so long... I was shot in the leg. I fell. Naoko screamed in terror. She seemed to know what was going to happen. They got closer. They killed Naoko right in front of me; she had rolled out of my arms when I fell. Then they turned their attention to me. They didn't use guns. They used knives. I was slashed across both arms and across the chest then they left me there to die.

I crawled to Naoko's body to see if she was still alive. She wasn't. Tears formed in my eyes I dragged my body to Yukio's last resting place. He too was dead. The tears fell. Now to Mother and Father I knew their fate even before I got to their bodies. Dead. This I knew was the second time in my life this had happened. And this time I would remember it. If I lived that is. I hoped with all my might that I would die. I didn't want to live anymore. Even being blessed with this power I couldn't bring myself to heal my injuries. I just couldn't. I apologized to Mother and Father for not doing as they wished. I couldn't protect their children like they had asked. This is how I repaid their generosity. By failing to fulfill their last wish. I apologized to Yukio and Naoko as well. Because of me they would never get to live their lives and have families. All because of me...

END FLASHBACK

I got up and made my way slowly, my wounds leaking blood with every movement, to 'that' place. By 'that' place it meant the place were 'it' was hidden. I got to the fake tree and I entered the password in the password pad. About twenty meters away from the fake tree the ground opened up and up and out rose a mobile suit. My adoptive parents and I spent 3 years developing it. It has an N-Jammer Canceler. It can transform into a mobile armor form. It has wings at the back. It's white, blue, red and black. It also had two rail guns on its hip section and two plasma beam cannons on its shoulders. Two beam sabers. Two beam rifles. And an anti beam shield. And it's wings doubled as a beam sabers. Atmospheric flight possible with or without it's wings deployed. Needless to say it was the ultimate weapon. Its name is Victory. I was about to get into the cockpit to destroy it so that no one would ever be able to use it for the wrong reasons, but then I couldn't feel my body anymore. It was like I didn't even have a body. I sank to my knees the blood still dripping and I fell to the ground on my stomach; unconscious.

AT ZAFT'S CARPENTERIA BASE

Commander Le Creuset had just gotten word that there had been a Blue Cosmos attack in ZAFT territory. The location of the attack was relatively close to Carpenteria. Looks like he would have to send his team to investigate as well as a ship. The four elites were to sortie in their mobile suits and make sure it was safe before the ship got there. From the coordinates he got it was close to the ocean. He had already called for his team 10 minutes ago. It was about 4 am. He heard a knock at his door and told them to enter.

"There had been an attack by Blue Cosmos in ZAFT territory. I want you to investigate. We know that a family of coordinators lives there. You will sortie in your mobile suits and make sure the area is secure before the ships get there. Do you understand? This mission is of great importance. You are to leave immediately."

All four pilots saluted him. He gave them the coordinate and a report on the family and they left. Twenty minutes later he saw the four captured units leave on GUULS.