A/N: If some people had read 'By The River of Euphrates' and want me to continue, I'm sorry if I dont't do it because I don't really know what I should write (it's okay if you don't want me to). Instead, I wrote this. And if you speak France, please tell me if I have teh title wrong (I used google translate, just want to try something though), or if you have better idea.
I've seen people making story from Cinderella, Frog Prince and many others, so I want to try something, a folklore from my country with modern setting, kind of.
The prologue. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED/Destiny
Prologue
Kagome Kagome,
Kago no naka no Tori wa
Itsu Itsu deyaru?
Yoake no ban ni
A little girl with waist length blond hair watched from behind a tree. The children about four or five years old were playing happily in the park; some were playing with the swing, some were playing in the see-saw, the others were dangling in monkey bars, and a group were playing kagome kagome. She watched the children sang the song while joining their hands, circling the bird, a brunette boy who was covering his eyes, sitting in the middle of the circle made by their hands.
Tsuru to kame to subetta.
Ushiro no shoumen daare ?
A midnight blue haired boy was standing behind the bird. The children were still entwining their hands, trying to stifle their giggle.
"Athrun!" the brunette called.
The other cheered, while the midnight haired boy groaned. "You are Kagome!" the other cheered and bouncing. Athrun sat in the middle and covered his eyes, and the children started singing again, with Kira joining them.
Kagome Kagome,
The bird inside a cage
When will you come out?
The blonde walked a few steps, now standing beside the tree, still holding the trunk, like it was the hem of her mother's long skirt and she was afraid to let it go. The children looked so happy. She wanted to go there, to know them, to play with them. She had never played with other children, always with her nannies, her father's apprentices.
The crane and the turtle slipped.
Who is standing behind you?
Athrun was thinking for a while and then shouted, "Lacus!"
"Wrong!" they chorused. Athrun opened his eyes and saw Meer standing behind him, laughing at him along with the others. He grunted and they laughed at him, and that made Athrun grumbled even more.
He turned his head and saw, from between his friends, a little girl with blond hair who was standing beside a tree. He stood up and looked at her closely. She was smiling, looking particularly at his group. She looked like she wanted to play with them but afraid to come closer.
"Hey! Why are you hiding there? Come play with us!" Athrun shouted and waving his hand to her. His voice attracted the other kids' attention, and they turned their heads to see what it was.
Athrun walked from his friends and approached the girl, who was walking slowly toward him. Her sundress blew by the wind, the mint green colored clothes were turning into orange hue, due to the sunset. Around her neck was an amulet, dangling slowly as she walked.
Athrun reached his hand, waiting for the girl to grab it. But then someone shouted:
"No, don't touch the witch!" And then the others followed.
"She is the girl from the woods! Papa had told me about her!"
"We are not supposed to play with her!"
"She is bad!"
"My mom will be mad if she knows I play with her!"
"Let's go home!"
Eventually, the park was getting unfilled. Only a few person left, and they were, Kira, Lacus, Athrun and the 'witch' girl. Meer had run away from there, but she was standing outside the park.
"Athrun! Didn't your parents tell you? The girl from the woods is the daughter of a bad man! My mother told me to stay away from her!" She yelled.
Lacus was clinging on Kira's arm, while Kira was tugging Athrun's sleeve.
"Come on, Athrun. Leave her alone," Kira insisted.
Athrun looked at his friend while thinking of what they said. Did his mother or father ever mentioned about a girl who live in the woods? He searched his memory, but only remembered her mother telling him to stay away from the woods, not telling him about anything about a girl.
He turned his head back to the girl. She was looking down, her shoulder were shaking. Athrun knew she was crying. He would be if he heard people talking bad things about him, and being left alone. He couldn't bear the thought of not playing with her friends. He had spent so much time with them.
The blonde looked up and saw three people in front of her, a beautiful pink haired girl, holding the brown haired boy, who was tugging at the blue haired boy who was right in front of her. The blue haired boy was looking at her, with a sign of pity in his eyes; his hand was still reaching for her. He looked like he cared, and it was new for her. She only knew the look of caring from her father and one of his apprentices, who had been taking care of her with his father.
"Athrun, she is a witch!"
The shout from the brunette startled Cagalli. It made her realize that she was different from other people. Her father always said that she was the most beautiful girl in the world and people would want her for her beauty, but now she didn't even have a single friend. And that's because she was a witch. She didn't know she was a witch, or if she was, but people seemed to believe so, and hate her for it. Cagalli knew because they never had a visitor; even she was still a five years old and she knew that.
People hated her, and no one would want to be her friend. Even the blue haired boy, Athrun, she remembered, who seemed to want to be her friend, would hate her too now.
Without second thought, Cagalli ran away from the park, ran through the woods to her secluded house, to be with her father and away from all those hating people. She was unaware of her amulet's chain that was detached and fell from her neck.
And she didn't know that Athrun was looking at where she had been as his friends dragged him away from the park, after he picked up her amulet.
Tell me if you want me to continue or not...
