Finally, Chapter 9!! Sorry it took me a while to update this chapter but I'm really happy to be able to finish it. And what made me happier is that starting from this chapter; my story will be check, guided and improve, thanks to my beta-reader, Strata-Assassin!! So that's means that my story will be better in spelling, tense, grammar and everything else so I'm really, really grateful to Strata-Sensei. Thank you so much Sensei!!

So this story is importance, seeing that the Crystals Federation just make their appearance. There will be a couple of surprise, confession, new character and unexpected meetings. Just read it to find out. Hope you guys love this one cause I know I do, please enjoy and don't forget to review.

Disclaimer: I really wishes that I own anime Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Astray and Code Geass character, but sadly I don't... But still, I do own Kirae, Iris, Sean, Lara, Lian, Alex, Ann, Marque, and many other and so does this plot.


CHAPTER 9: IF THIS IS FATE, THEN…

"That organization is called Crystal Federation, and I am the Representative. My name is Serenity, Serenity Moon." She pauses. "Our organization will not be allies with the Earth Alliance or ZAFT. We're to be the third party to participate and will put a stop to this long lasting war of hatred. We have waited years for the war to stop, but it looks like we have no choice but to step in, and believe me when I say, we won't allow ZAFT or even the Earth Alliance to win."

The people watching the broadcast start talking, finding her words shocking. The girl continues, "I know many of you won't believe what I am saying, some of you maybe even calling me a liar right now, but what I say is the truth. Remember the incident that took part at Japan weeks ago? When ZAFT try to invade it? There has been a report of three unidentified mobile suits appearing on that day to stop the fight. Well, the three MS belongs to us, The Crystal Federation."

"What?" Simon De Augustus says angrily, his eyes widening. "It belongs to them? Then the stolen battleship is in their hands?" He clenches his hand and slams it hard on the desk. "What do you think we should do, Ali?" he asks the man beside him. He has long and messy brunette hair tied at his back with a pair of fiery red-blood eyes. Smiling wickedly, his face shows how his devil's mind works.

A long, black eyebrow raises on the face of the PLANT Chairman inside his office. "So, they are the one interfering with my plans. Interesting." Maxwell smirks, eyeing the masked girl on the screen.

"Our organization has unlimited power," Serenity Moon continued, "and we will help any country who needs help. At this time, we already have two powerful countries by our side. Those two countries are: The Holy Empire of Britannia and the National Country of Japan.Beside me here is the heir of the Britannia throne, Lelouch Vii Britannia and one of the Japanese Royals, Kururugi Suzaku." The room lightens up, showing her other two companions, Lelouch and Suzaku. They introduce themselves, agreeing to what the masked girl had said. Both kingdoms would indeed assist the Federation.

After the two leaders finish, the girl continues, "The Crystal Federation has its own ideals, beliefs and wishes. Our wish is that this war will stop so that there will be no more sacrifices, no more tears, and no more fighting. We want a peaceful world where Naturals and Coordinators can live side by side again in perfect harmony, peace, and serenity. There is serenity in this universe, where a person can decide his or her own destiny."

"We believe in Serenity (focus on Carnad), Destiny (focus on Shin), Justice (focus on Athrun) and Freedom (focus on Kira)" She pauses for a few seconds before continuing, "To those who have the same belief as me—as us—please give your support. I promise, on the behalf of Crystal Federation, we will do everything in our power to bring this war to an end, once and for all. So please, have faith in us."

Suddenly, the screen goes black and after a few minutes, it was showing the Idols again; however, no one seems interested. Everywhere people are talking about the girl and the new organization. Smiles appear on many people's faces, as if hope shines brightly once more.

(At this part, all of the scene will mixed up)

At ORB, Athrun, Cagali, Shin and Luna look at each other shockingly. Ann looks at them, wondering what's going on. Glancing at Marque she is a bit surprised to see the boy also having the same expression. "What is going on here?"She thinks to herself. Without knowing it, her hand slowly touches the empty spot on her left ear.

The HELIOS Battleship, Kirae stands up and leaves the cafeteria. Seeing him leave, Alex follows and when they stop in an empty hallway he can't help but wonder what's on Kirae's mind. The bluecoat turns, seeing that both of them were wearing the same expression: surprise, confusion and lost. "Kirae, her words…" the redcoat didn't get to finish when his friend cuts him off.

"I know. It's similar to my father's words. Way back then." He takes out his star-shaped necklace. "I don't know what is going on, but one thing is for sure, she knows about my father, about the sealed swords and about us. I have a feeling I know her, from a long time ago, but… " He holds the star tightly; pulling it close to his heart and closes his eyes. "She can't be her. She can't be my sister, Lian's twin, Lara. Can she?"

Alex looks at him, then slowly touches his heart and holds something under his red ZAFT uniform.

The PLANT Idol waiting room, Lian sits on one of the sofas inside the room, her mind bustling. She doesn't know who is sitting next to her or what the others in the room are talking about. She can only think about the masked girl. "Who is she? Why did she feel so familiar? I feel like I know her, as if she was a part of me. A part lost from long, long ago and her song, I've never hear anything like it. It's so beautiful, full of hope, dreams and wishes for peace. Serenity Moon, just exactly who are you?"

Lacus still hasn't moved from her seat. She keeps thinking about the broadcast. "Who are they? What do they want? Can they really put a stop to this war? Their action, it's like something Kira would think about but that's impossible! And that girl, she sounded so familiar, but just who is she? I need to know, I need to know about this organization, about the Crystal Federation"

The LEGOLAS Battleship, Sean stands up, his face red from both anger and confusion. He quickly leaves the room without even bothering with Iris or Paul. On the way to his room, he meets Croat and Gunter, the both of them talking and neither realizing the other is walking right at each other until they collapse. Sean falls backwards while Croat lands on the floor. "Oii! Watch where you're going, idiot!" Croat screams angrily. Iris and Paul, worried about Sean, arrive when the shouting starts. Seeing Sean ignoring him, Croat stands up angrily and grabs his shirt collar. "Can't you hear me? Apologize now!"

Without warning, Sean punches him on the face, making Croat fall backwards onto the floor, again. Everyone gasps, they never saw Sean actually lose his cool and hit someone. Sure, Croat can be an idiot sometimes and everyone would love to kill him but not Sean. The boy usually ignored him or even let Iris handle Croat for him.

Croat sits on the floor, in too much of a shock to move or say anything despite his cheek hurting like hell. Sean just turns around. He was about to walk away when Iris stops him by putting a hand on his shoulder. "Sean, are you OK? Why are you so mad?" she asks, her voice full of concern towards her best friend.

Sean meets her eyes, making the girl gasp and quickly let him go. His usually calm, cool blue eyes are now red with anger, daring to kill anyone who tries to stop him. He turns again, "I'm sorry Iris, but I need to be alone." His voice is dead-serious; making everyone there feel the hatred inside it. Iris just nods as the boy walks away.

There is a couple minutes of silence until it is broken by Croat's loud voice "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" Very slowly, Iris turns around, facing him with eyes shining in anger. Everyone paled, especially Croat. Silently he whispers, "I am so dead."

Britannia, Lara sighs and stands. "Thank you everybody for your hard work." With that, she walks towards the door. Kira looks at her, clearly worried, as she disappears out of the room. Then he sees Leo stand, followed by C.C. They try to follow her, but Leo stops the green-haired girl.

"Let me handle her." With that he follows Lara's path out of the room. C.C tries to follow but Kira appears behind her and shakes his head.

"Leave them alone for now, Leo is the only one who can help her now" Kira says, looking at her straight in the eyes.

"But master Kira, there must be something that I can do to help her! I want to help her just like how she used to help me before. I owe her, and you Master, my life, my future, everything! And I'm not the only one, Alyssa and the others, you help us, you save us! So please let me help her." She begs, but Kira just simply shakes his head. The green-haired girl surrenders.

"I'm sorry, Lara. I never expected it would be like this. I always wanted you two to meet again, but not in this type of situation. You always say you hate her, but I know, deep inside your heart, you still love her; you still love Lian. You're just too young when everything began and now this. I'm sorry, Lara, but you have to know, there's no turning back now," Kira thinks as his mind remembers the 'ash like snow' incident again and how much it affected them. Especially her.

Lara sits in font of a huge mirror, taking off her mask to lie back in her seat. She closes her eyes. When Leo appears on the room, at first, he just watches her sit quietly. "Lara…" he whispers to himself, he can't help but fells sorry for the girl. Feeling partly responsible, he curls his fingers tightly, "Why has fate always been so cruel toward you? You don't deserve any of this but yet, why do you choose it? Is it because of our promise? Then I'm the one to blame for all this, I'm sorry but whatever happen, I promise, I won't ever leave you alone, no matter what!" After several minutes, he calms down and walks near her.

He puts his hand on her shoulder. Slowly, she opens her eyes and looks at him. Their eyes meet and Leo has to hide his surprise when he sees the mixed emotions flickering clearly in her eyes. "Her eyes, it's like the first time we meet." His own eyes soften before he kneels down to her level and pulls the girl into an embrace. "It's OK, you know I'm here. I'll always here for you so it's OK to cry. Just let it all out, Lara," he whispers and strokes her hair gently. The girl's eyes widen and start to fill with tears. Grabbing a handful of the boy's shirt, she rests her forehead on his chest then cries silently. Nothing could stop the tears from flowing down her cheeks.

Leo just holds her, knowing that's all he can do. "Be strong, Lara. You can get through this. I know you can and whatever happens, I will always be here by your side. I will never betray you. Never! Because you're the most important person in my life, now and forever,"

-ORB, THE CEMETERY-

Two figures walk side-by-side toward a large and beautifully decorated tombstone with a vase of flowers nearby. They stop in front of it. One of the figures holds a bouquet of white lilies, kneeling down to place it in front of the tombstone. On the grave was written the name of a friend they thought had passed away, Kira Clyne Yamato. The other figure looks at his kneeling friend, at the Kira's tombstone then at the smaller tombstone next to him. Written on this stone, was the name of Lararia Clyne Yamato. Sighing, he places a hand on his friend's shoulder before calling his name. "Athrun…"

Athrun stares at the grave for a couple of minutes before standing up beside his other friend. "I know, Shin, but it's so hard to believe he is no longer here. No matter how many years pass, it's still hard. It's not fair really. Kira, he was such a nice and gentle person, but fate can be really cruel sometimes. Honestly, I always thought I would die first, not him."

"I know what you mean. I used to wish he would die by my hands." Shinn looks at his hand and curls it into a fist. "But now, I wish he was still alive and with us." Glancing at Kira's tombstone again and then at Lara's, Shinn had to hold back unwanted tears. "And to think he would die that way; to protect her. That is so like him." Finally, he smiles.

"Yeah, that's definitely Kira. He will die to protect someone or something that is precious to him, just like how he's wiling to die to bring peace to this world." He smiles too, but seconds later his smile disappears. "But this world is no longer the same. It is now full of hatred, blood and tears."

Shin looks at him and nods. "If he is still alive, what do you think he would do?" Shin asks. "For me, I think he would stop this war in any way possible."

Athrun goes silent for a couple of minutes. "I think—Shin, what do you think of that girl and those guys who called themselves the Crystal Federation? That girl's words, they're similar to Kira's when he sealed our swords, do you remember?" Shin looks thoughtful then he nods. "Do you remember Carnad Pars? The guy that we meet on that day?"

"Yeah, I remember him. We tried to look for him after Kira's death, but he was never found. Kira told us to trust him, but he is really mysterious. We don't know anything about him. Why you ask?" Shin looks at him, their eyes meet and the younger soldier immediately understands. Shin's face shows a mixed expression of confusion, shock and curiosity. "You think that girl from that Federation is connected to him? But how? That's impossible!"

Athrun stares at him before he nods. " Maybe, but I think both Kira and Carnad are hiding something from us and the Crystal Federation is the key to solve it, especially that girl, Serenity Moon." They look at the tombstone, first at Kira's then at Lara's. The both of them are wondering the same thing, just who is Serenity Moon?

At another part of the cemetery, the figure of a boy wearing an ORB military uniform is standing behind a girl wearing a dark dress and kneeling down in front of another tombstone. She puts down a bouquet of cheery-blossoms next to the white lily bouquet. She smiles sadly. "I guess dad has already been here today. Aren't you glad, Chris?" she asks the tombstone, but of course it wouldn't answer her. She just smiles and stands up next to her male companion. "Marque, I miss him, I miss him so much."

Marque nods, "I know Ann, I know, but you have to stay strong. Remember your promise? You promised him that one day, you would bring that person here, to meet him. I bet he is also missing you two. So be strong. For him and yourself"

Ann nods and looks at the name written on the tombstone, Chris Zala Atha. "Yes, I will never give up; I will bring him here even if it costs me my life. I promised you, right Chris? That I will bring him back, your older brother…my twin brother…Alex."

-SPACE, METRO COLONY, HELIOS BATTLESHIP-

(2 days later)

For the most part, the ship is quiet. Despite all the action that had taken place that day, the soldiers were still exhausted and nothing, not even a pretty girl's speech, could keep them from their much-needed sleep. At one of the pilot's room, a guy wearing a red sleeves shirt and short pants lays down on his bed, already tired out for the day. At first, the brunette-hair boy just sleeps peacefully until he starts to toss around the bed.

Alex keeps struggling in his bed, turning around wildly while sweat keeps rolling down from his handsome face. He was dreaming of his childhood days, back when he was little. His younger self was approaching a brunette haired boy and a blonde girl under a sakura cherry-blossom tree. They talk, laugh and play together happily until the dream turns into a scene of a boy lying on the ground full of blood. The boy looked around 7 years old with dark-blue hair lay around messily, wearing a short pants and long sleeve sailor suit, but the colour of the suit was ruin by the blood around the little body. He lay lifeless on his stomach under the cherry-blossom tree, not too far away from the younger version of a very-blonde haired Alex. The 9-year-old Alex looks at his hand, covered with blood and a gun lying daintily on the ground, drenched in the same blood.

His eyes fling open as he sits up straight on his bed, breathing deeply. Finally he has awaken from his nightmare, but even as he sits there, the images remain. A hand touches his shoulder, Alex turns around and without thinking, he put his hand around the person's neck. Surprisingly, the person is Kirae, whose face has already turning blue for lack of air. He immediately lets him go and stares, watching his friend as he tries to breathe air into his lungs. "Kirae," he hears himself whispers.

After a couple of minutes, Kirae's face turns to its normal colour and he looks at his friend's face covered with sweat. fear clearly showing in his green eyes. "Are you OK? You were screaming in your sleep. You had a nightmare, didn't you?" Alex turns his head away, not meeting him in the eyes. "You were having a nightmare about your brother, Chris right?" Hearing that name, Alex immediately turns his head around and his eyes meet Kirae's. "You were screaming his name in your sleep," the boy explains.

With that, Alex lowers his head, letting his bangs cover his eyes, not wanting to say any more. Kirae sighs, before standing and walking across the room toward another bed. "I won't ask you anything if you don't want me too, but I want you to know, if you ever need someone to talk with, I'm here to listen." He turns around and reaches for his comforter, but Alex calls his name and stops. He looks at him and again, their eyes meet. Alex bites his lips, not knowing what to say, but Kirae smiles. "Don't tell me if you're not ready yet. I don't mind but just remember, I'll always be here. Both as a friend and even as family."

Alex looks at him. He was too overwhelmed by his mixed emotions to reply, but he is thankful for Kirae's words. He knows he can always trust Kirae, but he is not ready, yet. Not ready to reveal a secret he kept to himself, never telling to a single soul, but it still haunts him almost every night. He is scared. Yes, he admits it, he is scared of Kirae's reaction, but by knowing the boy almost his whole life, Kirae could never misjudge him. Still, he is not ready. Looking at Kirae, Alex smiles, knowing he's the one he can trust the most. "Thank you, Kirae."

They smile, silently enjoying each other's company in the quite room. But later the silence breaks by Kelly's loud knock on the door. "Alex! Kirae! Wake up you sleepy heads! You two got a mission!" Alex groans while Kirae just chuckles.

-METRO COLONY, AT THE WHITE CAFÉ –

Iris looks around curiously. She is wearing a cute, soft pink dress with white linings. The top was cut low around her shoulder umbrella sleeves and a knee-level skirt, cut in the middle. Long, dark pink ribbons wrap around her waist, completing the outfit. Under, she is wearing a tight full-body-mini-skirt-white-outfit that covers half of her fingers and goes all the way up to her neck. She looks like a cute, innocent and normal everyday civilian. She, Paul and Sean are at the Colony's main attraction street; sitting outside a café. Looking serious, Paul doesn't stick out too much, but the sour and confusing look on Sean's pale face makes them squirm. This is the first time she had been to the place, somewhere full of people who aren't in the military and who don't care about the war around them.

"Iris! Come on, we better get moving," Paul says while putting an empty tea cup on the table. Iris nods and drinks her vanilla shake. Paul just smiles at her childish behavior, then looks at Sean and frowns. Ever since the broadcast two days ago, Sean always looked irritated and angry. He doesn't know why because the boy will never answer him, so carefully choosing his words, he calls to the boy. "Listen to me, Sean. I don't know what is bothering you, but whatever it is, it's better if you just ignore it for now. You have to concentrate on the mission, that's what important. You get it?"

Iris looks at Sean. Like Paul, she's also wondering what has him in a knot. She had once asked him what was wrong, but the boy just ignored her. Biting her lips, she waits eagerly for his answer. Sean looks at Paul, sighs, and then nods, making Iris smile brightly.

"Good, then let discuss our plan carefully. As you know, this is a straight order from the president himself." Paul looks at Sean to see his reaction, but his face was blank. He just keeps drinking his latte while Iris looks around. "We will go to the place where they hold a ZAFT MS event. [See chapter 1] It the best place to start and from there we look for clues."

"So, what exactly are we looking for?" Sean asks eyes on his latte.

"According to the captain, the president suspects the colony had some kind of connection to those guys from the Crystal Federation." He looks at his watch, not noticing Sean's shoulders getting tense. "But it's still not confirm whether it is true or not."

Using his bangs to cover his eyes and face, Sean's mind wonders about the day of the Crystal Federation declaration and also about the PLANT's Idol. The last contestant was a girl with long pink hair and purple eyes, matching a certain girl he always had admired. He thinks to himself, "She looks exactly like Lara, but there's no way she is Lara! Even her name is different, hers is Lianeet, so there's no way! Right? But still, she—they look the same, so is it her? But why? What the hell is happening? Why is she in that contest in the first place? Lara is a Natural so why the heck would she be in the PLANTs? Unless she… No ,no, that can't be true! Lara is not a Coordinator. She's not! Lara is…she is…my Lara!"

His eyes widen when he realizes what he had just said. Suddenly, his heart starts to beat faster and faster. "My Lara? What am I saying? I just said Lara is mine. Did I really mean it? Does this mean I, like her more than just a friend? That I actually like her for real?" He starts to imagine Lara in his mind. Her looking at him, calling his name, laughing, pouting, studying, blushing, playing, dancing, singing and smiling."I like her. I like Lara," he whispers, a smile forming on his lips. Happiness flows into his body as the sudden realization hits him. He looks up to the sky and his smile spreads wider.

Paul watches his friend and raises one of his eyebrows. He looks at Iris who is still watching everything and sighs, feeling a headache coming his way. "God, please tell me why I am stuck with these people again? A boy that's changes his emotion a little too quick but with superb killing ability and a girl with double personality who won't care a bit about the mission." Looking at them again, he sits back and rubs his temple. "God save me!"

The large screen in front of them changes programs to the news, showing an image from the sudden broadcast of a Serenity Moon from the Crystal Federation. The program quickly got everyone's attention, including the EA trio.

"And believe me when I say we won't allow ZAFT or even the Earth Alliance to win," the girl says as the program repeats the broadcast from two days ago.

"That girl is really annoying. How dare she say she won't allow us to win." Paul says while Sean just nods, looking at the masked-girl. Now that he is calmer, he can't help but feel he knows her.

"Her voice sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before? Who is she?" he thinks. "Whoever she is, I will stop her, and I don't care how"

(Again, at this part the scenes while mix)

At ORB, Athrun and Shin are also watching the same news channel inside Athrun's office. "Shin," Athrun calls and the younger turns to him. "You do realize what this means, don't you?"

In Cagalli's office, Luna and the Orb Representative look at each other. "What do you think of all this, Luna?"

Ann and Marque are driving towards the cemetery, watching the news from the car's screen-radio. Ann's blonde hair blows wildly from the ride. She holds tight to the sakura cherry-blossom bouquet, pulling a strand of hair away from her lips. "Can you drive more slowly? You're ruining the flowers," she says, making the boy roll his eyes. They just keep quiet as they hear the news repeat and the song the masked girl sang. "Marque, what do you think will happen from now on?"

At PLANT, Lacus is sitting in front of the piano while Lian is standing next to her, listening to the song. The both of them keep quite, enjoying the beautiful music and watching both of their haros, not far away fom them turn around and round on the table with the song. "Mother, what does this all mean?" Lian asks.

At Britannia, Near The Seaside, Kira, Carnad, and Lara stare at the huge silvery-white battleship floating on the sea not too far away from them. The battleship shines with glory and power and from where they were standing; they can see clearly their Federation logo mark on the ship. "Kira, Lara I present to you our battleship and your home from now on, the Battleship Lunar. It's was design and created by a member of our federation and was built by the Earth Alliance." Carnad says with a wide smile, he is wearing his black commander uniform.

"What do you mean it was built by the EA if it was created by our people? Are you saying that we stole them? Then doesn't that made it belongs to them?" Lara asks. She is wearing the Crystal Federation white uniform with pink and golden lining with a white mini-skirt and white high, fashionable boots with pink long socks.

"Well then, it's no longer theirs, now it belongs to us and it has been ours in the first place. This battleship, The Lunar Battleship, was originally created by one of our Federation members. But the design and building plan was stolen by the EA, so technically it was ours in the first place." Carnad smirks.

"Keep that up and we might actually loose some trust if they decided to announce it," Kira comments, wearing a white-black uniform. Carnad snort and roll his eyes. He didn't even bother to explain when a voice interrupts them from behind.

"They won't do that. If they do, they have to deal with the PLANTs and the countries they ally with. When they built this ship, they decided to keep it a secret, because they were planning to use it to attack the PLANTs and some country on earth." Carnad, Kira and Lara turn around and saw Leo, C.C and a girl with long light-brown hair and blue-sky eyes standing in front of them. Both of the girls smiles brightly while Leo had a bored and serious expression on his face, as always. The blue-eyed girl smiles at them and steps forward. "It's really nice to see you again, Master Kira, Miss Lara. I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Alyssa, the girl that you save a long time ago with C.C"

"Alyssa? As if Alyssa Near? Of course I remember you, how are you?" Lara asks brightly with a warm smile. She steps forward to hold her hand and seconds later the both of them exchange hugs. Moony, who was bouncing none-stop a while ago, lands on white sand and flops its ears.

"I'm fine, thanks to you and Master Kira. I'm now an official member of the Crystal Federation and I am assigned to be a pilot on board Lunar, that means from now on, I can be with you and Master Kira and help you in anyway I can." She says, her face shines with happiness.

"That's great. I'm looking forward to your work, Alyssa." Kira smiles at her, making her blush slightly but nod.

"That sure makes me jealous, I was assigning to stay here and help that arrogant heir-prince. Thank you very much for reminding me of him again, Alyssa." C.C crosses her arms under her breasts, her face shows annoyment but deep inside, she was really happy to be able to spent some time with the future king of Britannia.

"I see, that's too bad then." Lara frowns, she was really hoping that C.C can come along with them, so she sighs. Carnad gently rubs her head making her look at him.

"Don't make a face like that. Look," he pointed the people gathering in front of them near the sea. "Our people have arrived, so it won't do you or them any good if they saw their new leader make a face like that. Come on, it's time for us to make some changes in the world. Here, I think this belong to you, my lady." Taking out the mask she wore at the announcement, Carnad gives it to the young girl. She looks at it, at him, at Kira and then at Leo.

Sensing her uneasiness, Leo walks to her and holds out his hand "Let's go, Serenity."

She nods back at him, and puts the mask on before taking his hand. "Let's go then, Setsuna."

The both of them left with C.C and Alyssa, leaving Kira and Carnad all alone. "What's wrong, Kira? You look disturbed somehow," Carnad notes.

"Well," Lacus pauses, looking into Lian's purple eyes before looking at the sky. The girl looks as well.

Kira sighs, "You do know that from now on, there is no turning back. She's just 14 and already carrying a heavy responsibility. A girl like her should be enjoying her life now, not doing this; planning how to stop the war, becoming the centre of an anti-war organization, or being admired while at the same time, hated by the world. She's just too young."

"Yeah, I know," Shin answers, looking at the sky from Athrun's office window. Athrun does the same.

"I know, but that's why we agreed to give her a short normal life at Japan. She's the one who decided to do all this with Leo. They won't change their minds and it's far too late to do anything now. What we can do is hope everything goes well according to her plan from now on. She still hasn't finished the final stage of her plan, right?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Luna asks while putting on a sad smile. She looks at the sky outside the office from its large window next to her and Cagali also does the same.

"I don't know, but I hope whatever it is, she can survive it to the very end." Kira lowers his head.

"I think," Marque begins, but then looks at the sky. Ann follows his gaze at the sky.

"Kira, from now on, the world will enter a new stage of war. Blood, tears, and death might and will be spilled more than before, but this is where we will come in, to put an end to all this. This is where Lara's plan will be put in motion. You know that she—we can do it." Carnad turns around to look at the sky.

Kira follows him and look at the same sky "If this is fate, then…"

"If this is fate, then…" Cagali whispers

"If this is fate, then…" Ann begins

"If this is fate, then…" Shin pause

"If this is fate, then…" Lacus say

"If this is fate, then…" Sean continues.

Setsuna and Serenity stop in front of the large gathering, next to the Lelouch, Suzaku, and C.C. They are no longer holding hands, but just looking and standing high and proud. However, both are thinking the same thing, "If this fate, then…."

"Then?" Carnad, Luna, Marque, Athrun, Lian say at the same time.

Iris blinks, "Then what?"

Iris looks at Paul's and Sean's faces, both of them still looking at the screen. Wondering what had happened, she looks around and that is when she stops. Her eyes land on two boys across the street. Both have brunette hair but her eyes focus on the one who has his long hair tied back with a blue ribbon. He is wearing a blue ocean top that was cut on both of his shoulder with a dark blue tight-shirt inside and long black pants.

Kirae and Alex look at the screen. Both of them quietly watch it when Alex opens his mouth "Kirae, do you believe in fate?" Kirae looks at him, rolling his green eyes, when he repeats. "Do you believe in fate or not?" Alex leans back on the wall of a baker's shop, eying the gathering crowd. He is wearing a normal civilian's outfit with a black jacket—no sleeves—and black jeans with a red turtleneck.

"Well," Kirae begins, "I don't know. I don't think I believe in it but if you're talking about what is happening right now " he stops, his eyes begin to wonder around the busy street inside the Metro Colony, "and if this is fate, then…" He pauses as his eyes land the beautiful, innocent-looking magenta-pink eyes of a girl with baby-blue hair. She, wearing a childish and innocent expression, was sitting with two guys who look a bit older than her.

Kirae Clyne Yamato baby-blue-sapphire eyes meet with…

…pink-magenta eyed girl name Iris Crawford.

Kira closes his eyes, "…then, God, please help us."


I bet many of you guys surprise to find out that Alex is actually Athrun and Cagali's son and Ann twin brother. He is originally had blonde hair but after he was adopted by Andy, he colours it to brunette, to match with his adopted father and to hide himself.

Do you like the surprise at the end?? When Kirae meet Iris?? Hehehe, so at this point I will introduce to you all the main couple in this story, Kirae and Iris, the pretty-boy and cute-girl. I really love this combination, hope you guys love it. Oh yeah, before I forget, you guys can still guess about the other couple except for this two because I already told ya. I wanna see who can guess the couple correctly but here a warning, each couple will not have a happy-love-story, their love story is really sad.

And if any of you guys notice, i mention in this chapter that BOTH Sean and Leo/Setsuna is in love with Lara but the question is, who between those two she love?? I'm really sorry to those who want to see Sean and Iris as a couple, they are not in love. Both of them are very close, their are best friend, like brother and sister but not lovers. So sorry you guys....

So how's that for chapter 9?? Do you like it?? Hope you guys love it and please, oh please review!! I'll love review so please do me a favour and review, pretty please??? Kay??

P.S: The next chapter, chapter 10 is a special chapter so please look forward to it. If you guys want me to update it quickly, sent me lots and lots of review.