THE DEVIL'S THRALL

Pairing: Fllay/Kira (pre discovery); Athrun/Lacus; Cagalli/Kira (Pre discovery); Athrun/Cagalli; Kira/Lacus…… SPOILERS! Ending: Fllay/Kira; Athrun/Lacus (I have decided to make this story a sorta happy ending.)

Summary: AU 300A.D. The story of a young girl who made a deal with the devil. The story of Fllay Allster, a young girl who had to pick up her life after she lost everything, and had to find a new reason to live and love.

Disclaimer: Don't own Gundam Seed or Destiny. Didn't really watch all of the show either. Hated the plot, but loved the characters, so I am making an AU so I can keep the characters, without the plot.

Author's Notes: Fllay/Kira and Cagalli/Kira were all before they found out that Kira was Cagalli's twin. So it's not really incest…

Dedication: Dedicated to Termony, cause reading her story made me want to write a Gundam Seed story…

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THANKS TO THOSE WHO REVIEWED AND SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY

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CHAPTER 2B: Past Reflections

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Sometimes people need to know when to listen to their instincts. Because there is always a reason for your sub-conscious would tell you something. If your instincts tells you to run, staying would be foolish. There is no reason for your instincts to lie to you. It is there to protect you.

Fighting your instincts is foolish, and sometimes will cost you a pretty prize. Our story continues with Cagalli's first night in this small town.

During this stormy night, Fllay will have her first foolish rejection of her instinct's telling. She will be blinded by her pride and ignore the small voice in her head that kept suggesting that she should just forget about seeing that shadow.

I wonder if things would have been different if she had listened to her instincts? No. I know things would have been different if she had listened to her instincts. It is a lesson that she will remember for as long as she live.

But there is nothing that I can do for her. I cannot go back to the past and whisper into her ears what the future holds. But she was a kind-hearted girl then, and she was stubborn. I don't think she would have believed me if I told her that a stranger would endanger all that she held dear.

No. She would have still saved Cagalli, even if she knew that night. She had not felt the pain of loss yet, she still did not know what it means to loss people. She was only trying to do the right thing.

She was still a dreamer. And all I can do is what her memories play and try not to flinch knowing the inevitable conclusion her actions would cause. Let's go back to the world of the past. Where nothing can be change, but everything can still hurt.

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"Fllay-chan, are you sure you saw something?" Kira yelled to be heard over the rain. The two of them had been walking around for sometime now, yet they still could not see anything or anyone that might have cast the shadow.

"…But you saw it too, Kira-kun." Fllay bit her lips. She had been sure that she had saw something when she was looking out the window. Now that she was actually outsides, she saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"Are you sure you didn't just imagine the whole thing?"

In fact, Fllay had been thinking just that. What if she had imagined the whole thing? It wasn't as if it wasn't possible to mistake a tree's shadow for a person's, if it was in the distance, and it was raining as hard as it was. But that would not explain why it had seemed to be moving towards them. And Fllay was sure that it had been moving closer.

"NO! … I mean… I don't think I imagined the whole thing. Come on. I'm sure we will see someone if we keep on looking."

Fllay nodded, if only to reassure herself that she was right. She had to be. It would have been to embarrassing if it wasn't true. The two of them continued in silence.

Five minutes passed and nothing had happened, it was getting old. Fllay sighed, trying to figure out how much of an embarrassment it would be for her to just admit she might have been wrong, when she felt something rather squishy in the mud beneath her boots.

Looking down she couldn't help the loud scream that came out as soon as she opened her mouth. There lying in the mud was a body that was wrapped in a thin layer of cloth. It was covered almost entirely with dirt from the mud and wet from the rain.

Kira ran up to Fllay's crouched form and looked over her shoulder.

"Fllay-chan are you ok?"

Fllay nodded, but she didn't think Kira was able to see, but it didn't really matter once he saw the sight she had just seconds before.

"Is…is that a person?"

"I think so, Kira-chan."

Kira moved beside Fllay and moved towards the body on the floor.

"What are you doing?"

Kira silently put his fingers next to the pulse on the body's neck.

"Seeing if he? Had a pulse, Fllay-chan."

Fllay waited patiently for Kira to finish his check.

"Yeah, he does, but I don't know for how long. Fllay-chan, we need to get him indoors."

Fllay nodded and moved to help Kira pick up the body. He took hold of the body's top half by grabbing both arms just below the shoulder and Fllay grabbed the body's legs just above the ankles. Together the two of them headed towards the Inn, where they were sure the people of Ragonal were still gathered since the rain had not let up yet.

Their entrance into the public pub was more than dramatic, but it was able to gain the attention of the people inside, even Mwu, who was just getting to the climax of his story.

"Father! Please help!" Kira called the minute that the doors flung open.

All the people inside dropped what they were doing and rushed to take the fallen 'boy' off Fllay and Kira's hands. They rushed her to one of the unoccupied rooms in the back of the inn, and Kira ran after them to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Watching them rush off, Fllay had a deep feeling in the pits of her stomach as if she was being left behind.

"Hey…Kira-kun! Wait for me!"

Dropping her wet jacket on the bench near the entrance, Fllay chased after the rest of them. Unknown to her the feeling she had would later become something else.

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All of the town's people prayed for the safety of the new stranger. I wonder if they would have still done the same if they knew what she would have brought. I don't know. I think that they would not have in their hearts, but still say that they did.

The difference between humans and devils is that we say only want we mean. We cannot tell a lie. We of course can say only half the truth, but we cannot tell a straight out lie. For a human, they can wish for something in their heart and tell their loved ones that they were wishing for something different. It is sad, but I guess it is a survival mechanism.

But that night there was no reason to lie. The people did not know what this new person would bring. They only know that the stranger was in a bad shape. And they wished, with their whole heart, that this person would get better. After all, they were only plain people with the kindest heart that you could find.

Ask and you shall receive.

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Sorry about the lines...the ruler button wasn't working really well when I was uploading this fic. Sorry.

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