OK well I had to do a creative writing thing at school ,so I chose to write about Gundam seed :) My friend convinced me to post this, this first one is only short though. I hope you like

"We do not act rightly because we have virtue of excellence,

But we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

(-Aristotle 384 B.C., Greek philosopher and scientist, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the great.)

Prologue

The Bloody Valentine War. In year 70 of the Cosmic Era this horrific war began. Why? Because of jealously and resentment, because of greed and war mongering. People had always assumed that the numerically superior Earth Alliance forces would prove to be victorious in the early stages of the war, but they were wrong. The Coordinators (people genetically enhanced before birth) refused to admit defeat and fade; they fought back. In an attempt to finish or at very least force the Coordinators into submission, the Earth Alliance used nuclear weapons to destroy one of the PLANTs -the orbital structures that Coordinators came to call a home. Thousands of innocent people died that day. The war took a turn for the worst; in retaliation the Coordinators military, ZAFT, ejected neutron-jammer devices deep into the Earth's crust, affecting the nature of the world and beginning an energy crisis. From there the war dragged on, millions more fighting and dying for what they personally believed. The beliefs ranging from simple survival, protection, to avenging the death of loved ones. ZAFT had a rather big advantage in the form of android fighting suits -large metal machines in which a pilot could sit quite safely inside the chest- were used to counter the Earth's ships. These became known as Mobile Suits, and soon enough certain sectors and organizations on or from Earth began making their own prototypes of these deadly machines. Others just wanting to get away from the war inhabited the land or space colonies provided by the Orb nation, a very neutral nation who was adamant to remain neutral. That is where I lived; a space colony called Heliopolis. I studied at a technical college and helped out at the Morgenrote research facility. I am Kira Yamato, and I am a Coordinator.

I was dragged into the war, and forced to fight if I wanted my friends to survive. ZAFT forces attacked the colony in search of the Mobile Suits that Orb had been secretly constructing and after trying to help a young woman we stumbled across the last two remaining machines. The woman ended up safe in an escape pod but with no room left I had to go elsewhere. Needless to say I ended up in one of the Mobile Suits with a wounded officer. In the ensuing battle I took over the machine and re-wrote the programming –one of the hardest computer exploits I had ever done. To survive, my friends and I ended up on board the Archangel; Orbs newest and finest battle cruiser. There we meet Murrue Ramius and Mwu La Flaga, who both became very close friends to us and helped us through our hardships.

And so I became a reluctant participant in the war. At first to was just to save my friends and get to the Earth Alliance base in Alaska on Earth but throughout the journey I changed. I was no longer the naïve boy I had been. I had killed people. And somehow I survived the constant pursuit put forth by ZAFT, and somehow I managed to hold my own against trained pilots. My Mobile suit -or Gundam as I came to call it- was known the GAT-X105 Strike.

Soon I realized that I had the power to help not just my friends but everyone. But I was subsequently beaten, beaten by an old friend nonetheless. Although I survived I had lost that power to help and my friends were in danger. Along the way I meet Lacus Clyne, a songstress Coordinator and the daughter of the late Siegel Clyne -the former Supreme Council Chairman- who helped me out after I was beaten and badly hurt. I can never be sure what she saw in me but she must have seen something good because through a bizarre series of events I soon acquired the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. A much more powerful Gundam. With it I went to help my friends and with a new set of mind I also went to end the war.

Then the end of the war drew near, and I was now a key participant and with help gained along the way we were able to end the war and make people see that a peaceful option was available, that we didn't need to fight. After all; if someone is killed for killing, then the cycle would never end.

A shaky peace treaty was formed and by the end of year 71 CE (Cosmic Era) the ZAFT and Earth Alliance forces viewed each other on mutual ground.

Many things happened to me throughout that war; I fought my childhood friend Athrun Zala, who thankfully is no longer an enemy but once again a very close friend and ally. I found out that I had a twin; Cagalli Yula Athha, who also happened to be the woman that I helped to escape in Heliopolis. I fought with rebel factions in the desert, sparred under the sea, and somehow managed to kill Rau Le Creuset; the man that was, for all intents and purposes, controlling the war. I also found out that I was meant to be the Ultimate Coordinator; someone conceived in the womb but born from a machine.

Peace may have been found, but not for me. The faces of those who I saw killed and who I killed still haunted me, the voices of those crying out in the seconds before death still rang in my ears as though someone had recorded all of my communications and put them on repeat. I now lived near the Orb capital on Earth, but my life would never be the same. I believe I was never meant to be confronted with the innards of war, but I was thrust in by destiny and somehow survived. But the next hurdle in my life was just to begin...

As I am sure you can tell, this is more of a summary than the actual story.

Please review and tell me what you think :)