Eternal Love
Thanks to those who reviewed. And a special thanks to my first reviewer (though I really
appreciate all the reviews I got), Angel of Dreams. Before I begin with the next chapter
I'm going to answer all the questions or at least try to. And I hope that I manage to
answer all your questions...if I didn't then remind me next time you review!
Angel of Dreams: I hope I answer all your questions...anyways, to get started...Yes, this
is after the war. And as for how long its been...they've been on earth for about a week
now. Of course there will be Dearka/ Miriallia!!! And thanks for the correction...I really
appreciate it!! Hehe, yes they will fall in love sometime or another. Well, I should end
this here...this is getting really long. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Yuugiri: I think you're the author of one of the fanfics that I've read right? Anyways, I
hope you can log in soon! Don't worry about telling me too much...I already know that
those characters die. Nicol was one of my favourtie characters sob Why did he have to
die? Lol. Actually I think that a lot of the Gundam Seed fanfics are about what happens
after the war. Well, I think you'll find out which country she's princess of find out either
this chapter or the next. Well, actually I guess she does look pretty cool...she's the
coolest out of all the OCs I've made so far! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Yvonne: I'm glad you like it. Thanks for reviewing! You're lucky that Athrun/ Cagalli is
your favourite pairing because it's my favourite pairing (not that I don't like the other
ones) and so this fanfic will have a lot of it. I hope you like this chapter!!
I think I'd better start on the fanfic now...hehe...
Toboe's pup: Yeah, it takes place after the war. I didn't have Zeena pilot the Blitz
because I wanted her to have her own Gundam...and you'll find out my other reason later
on during the fanfic. Thanks for the compliment and for the review!
Chapter 2: It's Time to Sparkle and Shine"So what brings you here?" Athrun asked his sister.
They were at Cagalli's house, which was more like a mansion! (A/N: I'm not sure if
she's rich but let's just say she is...) At the moment Cagalli was getting drinks from the
fridge and Athrun were seated in the living room.
"I heard that Nicol died...but I didn't believe it. I'll only believe it if you tell me its true.
Well, is it?" Zeena looked at the floor.
Athrun nodded carefully. He knew that the truth would be harsh on her.
"Who killed him? How did it happen?" Zeena demanded.
"Kira..." Athrun answered but was cut off by Cagalli before he could answer the second
question.
"What about my younger brother?" Cagalli asked.
"He killed Nicol," Zeena turned as cold as ice.
"Am I right to asume that you knew Nicol?" Cagalli handed them their drinks.
"Can you show me my room now?" Zeena changed the subject.
"Sure," Cagalli led them upstairs.
"Here's your room. It's right beside mine...just in case you ever need anything. And the
washroom is right across from you room," Cagalli said as she stepped inside a plain room
with navy blue walls and silver stars on the wall.
"Thanks, I think I'll go take a shower right now!" Zeena said.
"Towels are in the basket," Cagalli said.
"Cagalli and I'll help you start unpacking," Athrun tugged something out of her bag.
Zeena had only brought two bags. One roll-along bag full of clothes and necesaties and a
backpack.
Athrun knew that this was probably everything she had since she had never been a bigfan of shopping.
Zeena nodded and left the room.
"She needs more clothes! Even I have more clothes that her!" She pulled out a sweater
and hung it up.
"She's never really liked shopping -" Athrun was cut off by Cagalli.
"That's it! I'm bringing her shopping some time1" Cagalli announced.
"If you can even get her to go that is," he picked up a belt with a pouch kind of thing
attached to it and a place to put a gun. It was thick and had two rows of spikes on it.
"Hey, I want one of those!" Cagalli admired the belt as she left Athrun to unpack Zeena's
clothes. She started digging through her backpack and managed to pull out three photo
frames with photos in them.
She picked up the first on and looked at it. It showed a picture of Nicol with his arm
around Zeena's shoulder who was planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Come look at this!" Cagalli called the blue haired teen over.
Athrun sat on the bed beside Cagalli and peered over her shoulder.
"Was Nicol her boyfriend?" she asked curiously.
Athrun nodded and picked up the second photo. It was a picture of Zeena in Nicol's arms.
"What's behind door number three?" Cagalli picked up the third one.
It was a picture of Athrun, Nicol and Zeena. Athrun's arm was around Zeena's shoulder
and Nicol was behind Zeena with his arms around her waist and his head resting on her
shoulder.
"You're in this one," Cagalli put the photo in front of his face.
Athrun looked at the picture.
"That reminds me! What were you guys talking about before?" Cagalli asked.
"Uh- that reminds me I have something do do!!! See you later!" Athrun jumped up and
ran downstairs.
"Athrun Zala!!! You get back here this instant!!!" Cagalli ran after him.
Soon the slamming of a door was hear.
"Curse you Zala!!" Cagalli shouted at the door.
"Which dress would Kira like better?" Lacus wondered out loud.
She had three dresses on her bed. The first on was a lilac coloured chinese style dress that
went down to the ankle. It had a chinese style colour and chinese style embroidery
designs on it. Her second choice was yet again lilac coloured. It had a V-neck collar and
was sleeveless. It flowed all the way to the floor and had beads on it. It had a matching
see through lilac shawl which also had beads on it. Her third choice was a strapless baby
blue dress. The front of the dress went up to her mid-lower leg and got longer at the back
which made the dress trail behind her on the floor. It had matching baby blue arm
warmers.
Lacus sighed, "So many to choose from. Maybe I should call Cagalli and Miriallia over
to help me choose."
She picked up her fuzzy lilac wireless phone and punched in Cagalli's number.
It rang for a long time then a girl picked up the phone but it wasn't Cagalli.
"Hello. May I speak to Cagalli please," Lacus said politely.
"Sure just one sec.," replied the girl.
"Cagalli, it's Lacus. Could you come over and help me choose a dress for the dance?"
"Sure, just one second," Cagalli took the phone away from her mouth, "Zeena I'm going
somewhere! You want to tag along?"
"Sure," Lacus heard someone yell back.
"Is it okay if I bring someone along?" Cagalli asked
"Sure, I'll see you soon then,"
"Yeah, bye,"
Lacus punched in Miriallia's number after she'd got off the phone with Cagalli.
"Hello," she picked up the phone.
"Hi, its Lacus,"
"Oh, you wait one second please,"
"Um...okay, sure,"
"Dearka Elthman!!! Don't you dare touch that! Tolle gave that to me and if you break it,
not only will I not go to the dance with you but I'll break you!!!," Miriallia covered the
phone and shouted.
"You're going to the dance with Dearka?!" Lacus squealed once Miriallia got back on the
phone.
"Only as friends..." she blurted out.
"Anyways, back to why I called you. I need you to help me pick out a dress for the
dance," Lacus explained.
"Oh sure, I'll come right over once I get Dearka out of my house. See you later!"
Ding- dong.
Lacus rushed to the door to see who it was.
She opened the door to reveal the blonde princess and a girl who was about 5' 3".
whom she didn't know.
"Come in," Lacus smiled innocently.
They stepped in and Cagalli immeadiately introduced the girl.
"Lacus, I want you to me Zeena...Athrun's sist...er...adopted sister. Zeena this is Lacus
Clyne," Cagalli introduced them to each other.
Zeena was wearing what she had on before except she had now put on the belt which
Athrun had picked up earlier. It was slanted on her hips with the side with the pounch
going down and her gun was in the space provided for
it.
"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Lacus smiled innocently.
"I heard that you needed help choosing a dress so I tagged along," Zeena explained her
presence.
"That reminds me! Athrun told me to tell you that you can go to the dance too," Cagalli
turned to Zeena.
Ding-dong.
"That must be Miriallia," Lacus opened the door for te brown-haired natural.
"Hi Lacus, Cagalli...I don't think I've met you yet but I'm Miriallia Haww," she greeted.
"I'm Zeena...Athrun's adopted sister..." she introduced herself.
"You can just call me Milly like the rest," Miriallia smiled.
"Shall we start choosing? By the way, as a thanks to you guys for helping me...you can
choose any dress from my wardrobe to wear to the dance!" Lacus headed upstairs.
Lacus led then into her room.
"I really need help choosing between these three," Lacus picked each of them up and
placed them against her body to give the others a look at what it would look like if it was
actually on her.
"Well, that's really hard to choose from," Miriallia looked thoughtful.
"It's a formal dance right?" Zeena questioned.
"I think you should wear the chinese style one...my lil' brother would faint if he saw you
in the other two..." Cagalli said as she noticed Zeena tense up at the mentioning of Kira.
"Okay now let's choose something for you guys," Lacus put the other two dresses away
and the dress she chose aside.
"I'll choose first!" Miriallia offered.
She looked through Lacus' dresses and pulled out two. The strapless baby blue one that
Lacus had just put away and a peach halter dress which was sparklie and came with a
scarf made with the same material.
"Personally I like the peach one better but I like the way the blue one trails behind you on
the floor when you walk," Miriallia giggled.
"In that case I think you should go with the peach one because of the same reason why I
didn't suggest that one for Lacus," Cagalli, Lacus and Zeena laughed.
Miriallia turned as red as a tomato as she put the blue one away and the peach one aside.
"Zeena, you go next," Cagalli pushed Athrun's sister forward.
Zeena grumbled as she looked through the dresses and scowled at a few of them. (A/N:
Actually it was about ¾ of the dresses that she scowled at (snickers)why can't i do
those stars?!?!.)
She managed to pick out two dresses after what seemed like 30 minutes. Her first choice
was a plain black spaghetti strap dress that reached the floor. Her second choice was also
black. It had two parts. The top was sleeveless with silver ribbons dangling from the end
of the top. The skirt was a plain black skirt which reached the floor.
"Ooo! I just love that one!" Cagalli pointed to the one with silver ribbons.
"I think the plain one matches Zeena more, don't you agree Lacus," Miriallia said as
Lacus nodded her head in agreement.
"In that case you can wear it to the dance," Zeena tossed the one with silver ribbons to
Cagalli.
Just then Cagalli's cell phone rang.
"Hellooo! Cagalli speaking!" she answered the phone.
"Cagalli? Where are you guys? I tried to call you guys at your house," Athrun asked.
"We're at Lacus' house,"
"Okay...um...would you like to go to the dance with me?" Athrun said slowly and
cautiously.
Cagalli blushed while the other girls giggled while Zeena held back laughter.
"Um...sure,"
"Okay...do you want me to pick you up or meet you there?"
"I'll meet you there,"
"Okay then bye!" Athrun sounded happy.
"Athrun? Would you like it if I wore a black dress?"
"Anything would look good on you...anyways, bye!"
Cagalli blushed like mad at Athrun's comment as she hung up.
"Did my dear brother ask you to the dance?" Zeena snickered.
Cagalli nodded, "You know you're going to have to go with someone too! And I know
just who would be perfect!"
"AS IF!!! I'm not going with anyone! Nada, zip, nope...nobody!"
"That reminds me...do you girls want to meet at my house again...say an hour before the
dance?" Lacus asked.
"Sorry, Dearka said he'll pick me up...and I didn't want to hurt his feelings..."
"Sure!" Cagalli replied as Zeena nodded slightly.
"Okay then...bring all your accessories," Lacus smiled as the decended down the stairs.
"Milly, you can take your dress home...and the other two can leave theirs here,"
"Hello," Athrun answered his phone.
"Its me, Zeena..."
"Oh, is everything alright?"
"Yeah...well, mostly. If you mean besides Nicol being dead then I'm fine,"
Then came silence.
"I just called to ask you exactly how Nicol died," Zeena's voice sounded sad.
"I'm not sure if it's a good time for you to find out right now...maybe when you get over
it...you should stop thinking about it though,"
"How can I stop thinking about it?!?! Oh, sorry I didn't mean to yell...I guess I'm just
frustrated,"
"Yeah, I know how you feel..."
"Anyways, I'll leave you alone know...I'll ask you again when I'm ready to know the
answer,"
"Okay, Good night! Take care! Love ya!" Athrun said.
"Good night...Love you too!"
Zeena got up from lying on her bed and talking on the phone. She got up and put a CD in
her boombox and turned up the volume. She picked up the rifle Nicol and Athrun had
given her and examined it as she listened to music.
"Tomorrow's just another day,
Another way to spend a day,
All by myself.
Starrin at the TV screen,
Flippin through my magazine,
Everything is unclear,
And I need you here..."
Zeena was sleeping on the bed by now with the rilfle in her arms.
(4:30 pm)
"Don't you think it's a bit too early to be packing our accessories?" Zeena asked.
"Nope!" Cagalli stuffed some thing into a jewellery box.
"Necklace, bracelets, anklets, hair pins, elastics, rings, chopsticks for the hair, nail polish,
mascara, eyeliner, lip gloss..." Zeena mumbled as she stuffed things carelessly into a
jewellery box that said 'Nicol Zeena Forever!'.
"Wow! You have a lot more stuff than I thought," Cagalli commented.
"You know what it's like being a princess...you always have to look nice and people
want you to have all types of accessories on hand just in case. And besides a lot of them
were given to me by Athrun and Nicol!"
"You ready? Let's go now!"
"You guys are early!" Lacus opened the door.
Cagalli shrugged in reply.
"I guess we should get our dresses on...wouldn't want to mess up our hair!" Lacus
smiled.
"Yours are in the guest rooms!"
Zeena muttered something before she disappeared into a room but Lacus couldn't quite
catch what she said. It had something to do with the dance and useless.
"See ya!" Cagalli disappeared too.
Lacus sighed and went to get changed.
"Oh my god! You look beatiful in that dress!" Lacus squealed when she saw Zeena.
Zeena sighed, "Right..."
"Ugh...I am never wearing a dress again! It took me so long just to get it on!" Cagalli
grumbled as she walked into Lacus' room.
"I'm never wearing a dress just because..." Zeena commented.
"I want to have my hair in a chinese hairstyle!" Lacus squealed, "So it can match my
dress,"
Zeena sighed, "I'll do it for you,"
After approximately 15 minutes Zeena managed to get Lacus' hair in a bun with a ribbon
holding it up. She also had a chopstick in her hair which was made of silver and had a
chinese style flower dangling from it.
"There, finally..." Zeena sighed.
"Oh my god! How did you do her hair so well?!?!" Cagalli gasped.
Zeena shrugged, "I spent my extra time learning to do do different hair styles and how to
do manicures...I thought it could help me make extra money so that Athrun, I and
supposedly Nicol could live without being tight on money after the war. And plus the
girly girls would love it so they'd go and spend all their precious money."
"Oh I see...its really pretty...maybe you could do manicures for me. I need someone I
trust to do it anyways...and I would also be doing you a favour," Lacus winked at her.
Zeena nodded.
"Oooo...I want to go next!" Cagalli raised her hand as if she was in school.
"Sure,"
"What do you want me to do to your hair?" Zeena asked.
"Oh, anything would be alright..." Cagalli then whispered something into Zeena's ear.
Zeena nodded and got started on her hair as Lacus watched her intently.
Zeena bit her lips as she was thinking. Then a smile spread across her face as she grabbed
a few strands of the princess' blonde hair. She braided the few strands together and
started on another little braid. After lots of braiding she grabbed two bobby pins from
Cagalli's bag and put it in her hair to keep her hair from falling on her face. The two pins
had a silver butterfly on each one. By the time Zeena had finished the princess' hair had
many tiny little braids in it and two butterflies in it.
"Just one question! How are you going to do your hair when you're doing it one
yourself?" Lacus asked.
"I'll just put my hair down," she shrugged, "I don't like doing fancy things with my hair
anyways. You guys can start choosing your jewellery. It'll only take me a second."
While the other two started going through their jewellery Zeena undid her pony tail. With
her hair undone it now fell down to just above her waist. Zeena put clips in her hair just
after her last strand of silver hair letting it frame her face.
"There, I told you it wouldn't take long!"
"Zeena do you have anything silver? I can't find anything that would match my dress...I
don't have a lot of silver and black things," Cagalli asked.
"Yeah...one second,"
Zeena started searching for something she had in mind that would match the blonde's
dress.
"Here," Zeena walked over to the bed and sat beside Cagalli.
In her hand she held a silver ribbon with a butterfly in the middle.
She put it around Cagalli's neck and tied it to the back.
"It's a choker that my...well Athrun's mom gave me before she died," Zeena said.
"It's pretty..."
"Do these match?" Lacus pulled out a pair of earings with dangling flowers and a
bracelet with the same pattern.
"Yeah...okay I'll put them on then," Lacus smiled.
"Could you help me put these on?" Zeena who was holding a black choker asked Cagalli.
"Sure," Cagalli took it and helped her put it on.
"I'll put these one too," Zeena decided as she put on two black ribbons around each of
her wrists.
"Zeena can you come and do my nails? They look...um, plain," Lacus asked.
"Sure," Zeena got off her bed.
She quickly began working on Lacus' nails. She painted them lilac then did a chinese
flower on (when the lilac nail polish had dried) with purple paint.
Just when Zeena finished there was a 'honk' from a car.
"Oh, Steve must be here," Cagalli ran down.
"Wouldn't want to keep the driver waiting would you?" Lacus laughed.
Zeena laughed and ran after Cagalli.
When Lacus and Zeena got down they already found Cagalli in her shoes which were
barely noticible.
Zeena slipped on her platforms and let her dress trail after her as she walked out with
Cagalli.
"Is my lil' bro giving you a lift?" Cagalli asked.
"Yeah, Kira called when I was doing my nails and said he'd be here soon," Lacus
shouted.
"Okay!! We'll see you there," Zeena shouted from the driveway.
Finally, done! That was really long...it's the longest chapter I've ever done. And I find it
kinda of lame...please don't kill me (hides behind binder) (I'll just use brackets as stars
alright?)...huh? A binder?...Oh yeah...I just remembered I have homework to do. I'm
extremely sorry for having such a bad chapter but I promise you the next one will be
better...its just the calm before the storm. Just to let you know, in my author profile there's
a section called Story Status and that's where you can find out when the next time I plan to
update is. I also have other stories if you want to read them: 2 beyblade ones,
Legend of the Angel Bit Beast and You
Were There When I Needed You...and I have a Card Captor Sakura one, Secrets to be
Revealed. Till next time! Remember to review!
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