Chapter 11: Finding the Truth

When Setsuna regained consciousness it was night. She observed her surroundings carefully. She was in some sort of tent and was lying on a hay stuffed cot. As she sat up, she noticed that her hands had been cuffed. Great, with my luck I've been taken back to a Zaibach base, she thought with despair.

Her eyes caught sight of an emblem paints on the wall of the tent. She studied the design carefully. It was a coat of arms from some country but which one? It wasn't the Zaibach coat of arms; she knew that for certain. As her eyes finally became adjusted to the dim light she realized it. Asturia… A feeling of happiness mixed with grief swarmed her head. She laid back on the cot only wondering what fate had in store for her.

"What are we going to do with her?" The young raven haired king asked the blonde knight of Cali. The two along with a few other soldiers sat around a fire.

"I don't know Van. She could be a spy but why would they send a spy out into clear air space and visible to their enemies? It just doesn't make sense." The blonde knight replied staring deep into the flames of the fire before him.

"Perhaps she isn't a spy. Remember, she was heading away from the Zaibach floating fortresses even after her guymelef had crashed and did you see the shape she was in Allen? No soldier would go though that just to spy on their enemies." Van pointed out. The knight nodded, it didn't make any sense.

"May be she was running away?" The two looked over at their comrade and commander of the Crusade.

"What makes you say that Gaddes?" Allen asked.

"Well I dunno, it was just the look on her face when we found her that made me think so." The young king and knight pondered about all the possibilities as to why she was out there in the forest alone. Allen stood up and turned towards the tent in which Setsuna was being held.

"Where are you going?" Van asked removing his gaze from the fire to the knight.

"I'm going to try and get answers out of her." Allen answered before he entered the tent. With caution he walked over the woman. As he drew closer to her she quickly sat up right. Unsure of what she may do, Allen grabbed a small wooden stool and sat down on it a few paces away from the cot. He wanted to be out of striking distance. Allen thought for a moment or two on how he would figure out if she was a spy or what. "What were you doing walking towards our camps early this morning?"

"You're going to think I'm crazy for saying this and probably won't believe me considering I'm your enemy." She said with a slight smirk.

"Just answer my question." He said sternly.

"I was running away from the Vione." She looked at his face and saw how it was confused. "I found out they were just using me." As she remembered the conversation that she heard Folken had with emperor, it brought tears to her eyes. "They . . . they used me to kill so many innocent people!" She couldn't hide her tears anymore or how she felt. "They told me they were trying to take over Zaibach but . . ." She couldn't continue. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she thought of all the battles she had been in. Allen sat there debating if she was telling the truth. "I'd rather die the most painful death than go back there." She told him as she wiped away her tears and calmed herself down.

Everything she had said only made Allen wonder how she came to join Ziabach in the first place. Everyone on Gaea knew very well of the Destiny war and how Zaibach wanted complete control of Gaea. "How did you end up becoming a soldier of Ziabach?" She took in a deep breath to stop her from crying again.

"Well, I was brought to Gaea by a white light and I became a prisoner on the Vione until Lord Folken took me out and told me I was supposed to be some great warrior. So they trained me. In all our battles they told me that the people we were fighting were other countries trying to take over Zaibach."

There was an awkward silence in the tent. Neither of them knew what to say. Allen stood up and put the stool back in it's original place. He then headed out of the tent to tell Van the information he had acquired. The first person he saw when he opened the door to the tent was Van who had been listening in.

"Nosey are we?" Allen said sarcastically as he walked past the young king and back over to where the others sat around the fire. Van went and joined him by the fire. "So do you think she was telling the truth?" Allen asked almost instantly.

"Well from our last battle she was strong but once I had told her about the Destiny war she grew weaker almost as if she had never heard the truth before or even heard about it." Van said remembering their fight the pervious day. The two stared at the flames of the fire wondering whether they should believe her or not.

A/N: sorry about the shortness. The next few chaps aren't very long. I'm almost done re-writing book one so you should be seeing more chapters being posted now.