Chapter 8 - Lacus Clyne
Ragnarok-Angel-123 - Thanks, I'm typing up chp 11 now. I think this one will be shorter than Angel Charms. I already have the ending in my head, but I don't know how many chapters till then.
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Kira, Athrun, and Nicol arrived at the dock where the 'ship' to the PLANTS was getting ready to leave.
"Come on!" Athrun called back as he ran onto the ship, Nicol and Kira close behind. Yzak and Dearka saw that they got on the ship and ran at it, but the doors closed before they got on.
"Damn it! We were so close!" Yzak yelled as the ship took off, leaving them behind.
"Come on Yzak, the next ship is due in an hour. We'll get on that one." Dearka began to walk off. Yzak turned to him, furry in his eyes.
"This is all your fault!" He yelled, grabbed Dearka by the collar. "If you hadn't fallen asleep we would've caught them!"
"Whoa, whoa. Down boy. It's not that big of a deal."
"What do you mean 'it's not that big of a deal?' They're all on the same ship!"
"Yes, but did you see where they're going?" Dearka pointed. Yzak looked.
"So? It's space."
"That ship that they were just on is the same ship that we were supposed to take back, to the PLANTS" Yzak let go of his collar.
"Oh. Now this is good. He's on our playing field now. Heh heh." Yzak began laughing maniacally.
"Ok, now you really are freaking me out." Dearka mumbled as he sat on a bench waiting for the next ship.
As soon as Kira had sat down and his baggage was secured, he had fallen asleep on the window. Nicol wasn't sure if he was alright.
"Um...is he alright?" He asked, poking Kira, not getting any response.
"He's fine. Today was ruff on him. Just keeping the secret that I'm a ZAFT pilot was hard enough. Then that girl yells at me, which really hurt him as well. Then you show up all of a sudden, and we get this situation where now his captain knows about two of ZAFTs pilots. Kira's worn out." Athrun said. I'm tired too... he thought.
Kira was sitting next to the window, laying against it as he slept. Athrun was sitting across from him, looking out the window, and Nicol was sitting next to Kira, poking him with a pen. Nicol soon gave up on poking and just sat there.
"This is almost as boring as when Yzak and Dearka dragged me along on their trip...speaking of which, where are they?" He said after awhile. Athrun looked around.
"I don't think they're on the ship." Athrun said after a minute.
"Yea, they'd probably stand out. Unlike me, they wore their uniforms. I think they're a little to proud for their own good."
Athrun just stared out of the window again. Soon he heard the sleep-like breathing of Nicol and Kira both. A lady walked past, talking to anyone who was still awake.
"Excuse me sir." She tapped Athrun on the shoulder. He turned to look at the blonde lady.
"What?" He asked, he sounded sleepy.
She smiled. "You're tired. I just came around to tell you that we will arrive at the PLANT in the early morning. We'll wake you up when we get there." She said in a low voice so she didn't wake anyone up.
"Oh...Thanks." She began to walk off. "Oh, my friends are getting off with me, so wake them up too." he whisper yelled to her. She waved and Athrun laid back and against the window. Soon he was asleep.
Meanwhile - Dearka and Yzak fell asleep while waiting and the ship came and went without them, next one arrives at 10 in the morning.
Morning
Kira woke to see large blue eyes with perfectly plucked eyebrows and long eyelashes right in his face. He jumped and let out a small yell of surprise. Athrun and Nicol laughed.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I told your friend there that I would be waking you up, I guess it came at a surprise to you though. Maybe I should've just shook you." she said.
"No...it's alright." Kira said, his heart beating fast. Athrun and Nicol had stopped laughing and now just had on amused faces. "Are we there yet?"
"Yep. Welcome Kira." Nicol pointed to the window. "To the PLANTS."
Kira was amazed at what he saw, it looked kinda like Heliopolis, but with a lot more roads and scientific looking places in it. Athrun thought his amazed face was a little funny, but he also hoped Kira didn't like these places to much.
They exited the ship and Kira looked around with excitement on his face. He'd never been to the PLANTS before. Athrun tapped him on the shoulder.
"Huh?" He looked around at Athrun and Nicol.
"Come on. We can go visit Lacus before the concert. Nicol, you'd best get going. We'll see you later." Athrun began to walk off.
"Ok, see you two later. Oh yea. If Yzak and Dearka missed the next ship, which I bet they did, then they'll be leaving on the 10:00 ship, which means that they won't be leaving for another 4 hours and 30 minutes."
"Huh? 4 hours and 30 minutes? You mean to tell me it's 5:30 am?" Kira asked, it then occurred to him that it was still dark. Athrun looked at Kira strangely for a moment but then brushed it off and beckoned Kira again.
"Come on Kira. We'll surprise Lacus today. She'll be very happy to see you."
"Oh. So Kira really does know Lacus, right?" Nicol asked.
"Yea, he saved her when she went missing." Athrun told him.
"But I thought they used her as a hostage."
"Yea, but that was only after we destroyed all the other ships. The father of one of the crew was on one and she's the one that used her as a hostage."
"Ooooh. Ok. Well, see you later then." Nicol waved and ran off.
"Well, let's go." Athrun pulled Kira along. They got in a taxi and were driven to Lacus's house.
They arrived at Lacus's house around 6:30 a.m. Athrun and Kira had stopped the car to go get some breakfast, then hailed another taxi and got driven to her house.
"She's probably not awake yet, so we'll have to wait a bit." Athrun explained as they walked up to the house. He knocked on the door and a butler looking guy opened it.
"Hello? Oh! Mr. Zala. Ms. Clyne wasn't excepting you." He then noticed Kira. "You've brought a friend this time. Ms. Clyne will be glad, she's always talking about how you don't have many friends..." The butler then seemed to go off on a train of thought and they stood there for several minutes before he realized they were still there.
"Oh right. Please, come in Mr. Zala and Mr. uh"
"Oh, Kira, Kira Yamato."
"Mr. Yamato? Ah! Ms. Clyne talked of you many a times. Why I remember-"
"Thanks a lot!" Athrun said as they walked past him into the house. He looked dismayed but accepted it and closed the door behind them.
"You can wait in the living room. She usually wakes up around 8:00. She's an early riser, but I am always awake much time before that." the butler said, he seemed proud.
"Again, thank you. We'll be fine for now."
"Alright, if there is anything you need, just ask." And then he left.
"Wow" Kira said.
"What?"
"I've never been in a house this big."
"Oh." Athrun laid back on the couch. "You can take a rest if your still sleepy."
Kira took this offer and fell asleep pretty fast.
Dearka woke up at around 7. "Huh?" he yawned. He checked his watch. "What? Yzak! Yzak wake up you lug head." He hit Yzak on the head.
"What the hell? Why do you keep hitting me?"
"Look at the watch Yzak. It's 7 in the morning!"
"What? Damn you! Why didn't you wake me up?"
"I was asleep before you were. How was I supposed to know the ship came?"
Yzak didn't seem to be able to find a retort for this. So he shut up.
"Let's see..." Dearka checked the list. "The next one comes at 10."
"10? Aw great! Just great! This sucks." He sat back down on the bench with his arms crossed and looking very pissed.
Kira felt himself being shook awake after what felt like 2 seconds. It was actually 7:35.
"Kira. Come on Kira wake up. You sleep to much." Athrun said. Kira opened his eyes, stretched, and yawned. The house was a bit brighter now, the windows were open and sunlight was filtering in.
"What? Is Lacus up?"
"No. But she will be in less than 30 minutes. I thought you might wanna brush your hair." Athrun showed him a mirror which showed Kira's hair as a messy bunch of unidentified something.
Kira fixed his hair and then checked the clock. It was 7:40.
"Time passes slowly." He sighed, bored.
"Yep, especially when your waiting for something." Athrun looked out the window. But in 5 minutes lots of noises were heard. "Huh?" They both looked at the stairs.
About 10 Haros were bounding downstairs. The pink one in the lead, which bounced right onto Kira's lap saying hello over and over again. The other Haros crowded around their feet and several jumped onto the couch with them. "Oh. Hi Haro." Kira said as he pet the pink Haro. The blue Haro was messing with Kira's bag.
"Kira. Do you have something metal in your bag?" Athrun asked.
"Problem! Problem! Biig Problem!" The blue Haro said as it hit Kira's bag.
"Oh, right!" Kira opened his bag and brought out a curled up bird. He tapped it's head and it woke up.
"Birdie!" It flew onto Kira's shoulder, rubbed it's head against Kira's cheek, then flew over to Athrun, repeated the action, and the continued to fly everywhere in the room.
They sat there playing with the Haros for a few minutes before hearing footsteps and many "Birdie!" sounds. Kira and Athrun raised their heads to see Lacus standing there with Birdie on her hand. She hadn't looked down yet.
"Oh, hello there. You belong to Mr. Yamato, correct? Why are you here?" She said in her high and light voice. Athrun cleared his throat and she looked down. "Oh hello Athrun. My! Mr. Yamato!"
"Lacus. I brought a guest. It's Kira Yamato." Athrun motioned towards Kira.
"Um...Hi" Kira said, sweat-dropping.
Lacus proceeded to run down the stairs and embrace Kira in a choking hug. Kira couldn't breathe. Lacus let go before he suffocated though, then she turned to Athrun.
"This is the best surprise. I am so glad you brought Kira with you. But I am curious to how you got an Earth Forces member into the PLANTS..." She smiled.
"It's simple, they don't check which side your on, just if you're a coordinator or not. Kira's a coordinator, so we were fine." Athrun said, standing up.
"Well, I'm glad all the same. So, how long will you be staying Mr. Yamato?" She turned to Kira again.
"Well, I have three days, and you can call me Kira ya-"
"Wonderful. We'll have so much fun." Lacus interrupted him, taking their hands and walking towards the back porch. "This is where Athrun and I have tea while we talk." Lacus said, letting them go when they reached a table.
"Usually about you..." Athrun whispered in Kira's ear. Kira thought it was weird and this fact surprised him, but he didn't say anything about it.
That's it for now. I'll try to update soon.
