Athrun: Is this told from my perspective?
Me: Yes, Athrun. Yes it is.
Athrun: Cool. I just wonder how Kira and the others will take it.
Me: They will be fine. Besides I will have a few chapters that are told from their perspective.
Kira and the others: Thank you!
Athrun moved easily down the long corridor. The sound of his boots echoing off the walls was like water falling into a bucket. His father wanted to see him. It seemed like one of the new model, top-secret mobile suits had been stolen. The soldier standing at the door saluted him and opened the door.
His father, Patrick Zala, was in a meeting with some of his senior officers. There seemed to be a panic about the theft, with the officers moving a round the room looking nervous. His father noticed him and waved for him to wait. Nodding Athrun stepped lightly off to the side. With a wave the chairman waved his hand to dismiss all of the officers.
They all moved past the young man standing in the shadows almost without seeing him. Once the door was closed Athrun moved toward his father. Patrick looked at his son with a weird look on his face. The look was replaced quickly and the chairman launched into why he had been summoned.
"Athrun, as you know one of our new models was stolen. What you don't know is who gave the spy permission to get near it." Patrick said, folding his hands lightly on the desk.
"Who was it? Why would they allow someone to take it?" the young soldier asked looking skeptical.
"It was Lacus Clyne. She gave access to the spy. She actually helped him to escape!" was his father's reply.
Athrun stepped back slightly when he said that. As he moved a sudden chill fell over the room. His father blinked because the chill seemed to be radiating from Athrun. Shaking his head Patrick stood easily.
"Athrun, I want you to go to Earth and find the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. If you can't recapture it I want you to destroy it and anything it has come into contact with. As for Lacus, you two are no longer engaged and she is now considered a fugitive. If you find her while you are out try not to do anything stupid please." he said turning to face the back wall of his office.
"Right. I'll leave as soon as my arm is fully healed." Athrun saluted him then left the room.
Moving back down the hall Athrun seemed to move slower than before. Hearing that Lacus was helping the enemy just caused him to deflate. How could sh do that? It seemed imposible that she could willingly help an enemy spy.
After returning home Athrun changed out of his uniform and into civilian clothes. As he pulled his shirt on he noticed that his arm seemed to be fully healed. Shaking his head Athrun left the house quickly.
It didn't take him long to get to Lacus' mansion. The once beautiful house had been totaly wreaked. The front windows had been shattered, there were bullet holes in the bricks, and the landscaping had been torn to shreads. A sad look took over the young Coordinator's face. This house used to be such a wonderfull place and now it was destroyed.
He was walking around the back when a familair sound reached his ears. It was the haro he had given Lacus. As soon as he realized that the small pink spherical robot came out of the bushes at an alarming speen. With a slightly schocked look Athrun caught it easily. It kept chatting up a storm while Athrun looked around. The haro had come to him while he was standing in the garden arch where the roses Lacus got from one of the theaters once grew.
When that thought crossed his mind he knew exactly where she was. It took him about five minutes to get to the theater. The door opened easliy and his hunch was confirmed when he heard the sound of a young female voice. After cheking his arm and finding that it was fully healed Athrun walked into the main part of the theater.
Haro went nuts as Athrun moved closer to Lacus. She stopped singing and looked up at him. A soft smile split her face as the young man came closer. The pink haro bounced lightly into her hands as Athrun pulled himself up on stage.
"Thank you for brng ing Mr. Pink back to me. I figured it would be you who would find him and bring him to me." Lacus said tilting her head to the side.
"Why did you help that spy take the Freedom?" was the only responce she got.
"Spy? What spy? Ohhh! I think you mean Kira." she said after a moment of confusion.
"Kira. How could that have been Kira? I killed him with my own hands. I know he is dead." Athrun said pulling out his gun.
"No, Kira is very much alive. I just gave him a new sword with which to fight. Is there something wrong with that?" the young singer asked starting to get mad.
"Yes, yes there is. You are now considered a fugitive because you handed a top military secret to an enemy. That is not a good thing." was his responce.
Both of them were totaly unaware of the armed men comming into the theatere because they were completely focused on each other. The conversation carried on and ended with Lacus asking what it was that Athrun was fighting for. When she said that the men stepped in and pulled out their guns.
"Thanks for leading us to her. As her former fiance we figured that you would know where she went. Now stand aside she is a wanted fugitive." one of them said aiming his gun easily at Lacus' head.
After a moment of hesitation Athrun pulled her quckily behind a pice of rubble that had fallen when the building was abandoned. The other men in the theatere started shooting as he moved. They never hit him; he seemed to be moving faster than they could track. Lacus clung to him for a moment the nthe sound of gunfire and bodies falling made her relax a bit.
DaCosta came over to them, looking concerned. There seemed to be nothing to worry about so he gestured for Lacus to follow him. She nooded and moved to follow. After a few steps she stopped and turning said, "You know, Athrun, you really should talk with Kira. I think he's on Earth right now. It would do you good to talk to him and you are friends right?"
The young pink haired songstress walked away leaving behind a feeling of doubt for the government and the tactics of the chairman in Athrun's heart. He returned home and changed back into his uniform before he left for the armory. The workes looked quizicaly at him but let him through after they realized who he was. After changing into his pilot siut Athrun pushed himself into the hanger.
His new mobile suit, the ZGMF-X09A Justice,stood there waiting to be taken out. It seemed hard to believe that Kira was alive and had the Freedom. It didn't matter now he had a mission and that was to eather take out the Freedom or re-capture it. Both seemed unlikely; there was no way that Kira, if he was alive, would let it go or let it be destroyed. Athrun just had to try to convice him to come to ZAFT with him. That was the only way.
The systems in the Justice were very advanced but still easy to control. After activating the Phase Shift armor the young pilot launched the suit with ease. Entering the atmosphere was easy too; nothing seemed imposible for the new machine. Locating the Freedom was simple as well. Getting to it was another story; it was in Orb and he was in Gibraltar. This was going to be interesting.
As he flew across the sea Athrun noticed that the water seemed to be reaching up to him. It was strange and he pulled up just a bit but the water followed him. With a shake of his head the young man refocused on his task. When he arrived at Orb he found the Freedom engaged in combat with three strange mobile suits. After a moments hesitation Athrun dive head first into the fight.
The ocean water that had been following responded to his emotions and formed a thick wall of ice infront of the Freedom. The one enemy mobile suit that was attacking it pulled back sharply. Athrun dropped down beside the Freedom easliy.
"Attention ZGMF-X10A Freedom or should I say Kira Yamato?" Athrun asked over the commlink.
"Athrun? What are you doing here and how did you do that thing with the water?" came the responce from the Freedom's pilot.
"I have no idea what I did and I am here to take that machine you are piloting back or I am to destroy it." the other young man said curtly.
"Well shoot. Can you do that again?"
"I think so. Give me a second." Athrun closed his eyes and concentraited. Below them the ocean water started to boil and suddenly a large spear of ice shot straight out of the water. Both Athrun and Kira blinked in shock; some how Athrun could control ice and water. Life was about to get very interesting.
Athrun: Cool, you made me be able to control ice.
Me: Yep. Kira and Cagalli can also control an elemnt too.
Kira and Cagalli: Really? What elements?
Me: Kira can control... wait a minute. I'm not gonna say. You'll find out in the next chapter.
Kira: Man, I really wanted to know what I can control.
Cagalli: Me too.
Me: Well, you have to wait a bit longer for that but hey. By the way all you people reading this please review. I would make all three of them very happy (me too but I'm more concerned about them being happy *sweatdrop*).