Disclaimer: no I dun own gundam seed or Cluedo.

Note: a quick one before I leave. Just so everyone knows…there's about 3 more chapters after this. So ya. I sincerely hope you've enjoyed reading this so far, and will continue to. I was thinking of having a sequel, with the destiny characters, but I guess we'll just have to see how the response is.

Chapter 21 – The End (Part 1)

Yzak woke up the next morning to the sound of screaming. It was coming from the common bathroom on the 2nd level. Quickly he ran down one flight of stairs. The bathroom door was ajar, and the sight that greeted him came right out from a nightmare.

Natarle had been hung. Her hands and feet were all tied up and clothes ripped to shreds. She looked like she had been whipped to death. Blood was still dripping from her wounds, and formed a pool underneath her.

Standing right in front of her was Alyssa, her eyes wide with horror, and her mouth open, screaming.

Yzak took a step back, trying to clam his nerves. Slowly he took Alyssa's hand and led her away from the scene. She seemed oblivious to him, but at least the screaming had stopped. Her mouth was still hanging open, and tears rolled down her cheeks.

She seemed so forlorn, so lost. As if the world had suddenly crashed down all around her.

He couldn't stand it, the expression on her face, the fear in her eyes. He wiped her tears, and called her name, but she didn't respond. He tried shaking her a little, but nothing could shake her out of that state of shock.

So, he did the one thing that came to his mind. He kissed her.

"Yzak? Sis? What's happening?"

Alyssa quickly stepped back, regained her composure, took Nicol's hand and led him away from the bathroom.

"Don't go in there." After she said that, she fainted.

By then the whole house was in an uproar. When the rest heard what had happened, they called a hurried meeting in the living room.

There they found an envelope.

It said, "brother and sister running out of time. Where the sun rises and where the sun sets, when night falls, it'll all be too late."

"Oh and how does that tell us where they are?"

"In the east and the west."

"That's rather extensive right?"

"Maybe it has something to do with time."

"That's obvious. If we take too long, we'll just lose them forever."

"No I meant it has something to do with maybe a clock, or something. Maybe the sun."

"You mean we need the sunlight to find them?"

"Something like that."

"But the clock factor?"

"I dunno? You can't exactly fit 2 people into a grandfather clock can you?"

"Lacus, do you have other things that can tell time?"

"We have a sundial in the garden if that helps."

In the end the group left Yzak to care for Alyssa and went in search of Kira and Cagalli.

At the sundial, the inspected in intently, trying to find any hidden doors, but to no avail. In the afternoon sun, they searched the surroundings going in all directions.

"There has to be something!" Athrun cried out, frustrated.

For a few minutes the group seemed to lose hope, they stood around listlessly, searching half-heartedly. Then, Sai had an idea. He went back to the house and checked the newspapers, and then came back and calculated something on the sundial.

"Okay. Try following this line. And keep it as straight as possible."

Slowly and tediously, the group walked along the line, it was a long walk that led them to the outer parts of the house. When they had almost reached the land's boundary. They uncovered a trap door.

Lo and behold, under this door was a small, damp room, where kira was tied and gagged.

When he saw them. His eyes lit up and he tried to say something.

As soon as they removed the gag, he said," where's Cagalli? Is she alright? You have to find her quick."

Leaving lacus to care for Kira, they ran back to the sundial and followed a second line.

Finally after a long, hot walk they found another trapdoor, this time containing, Cagalli.

"What did you do Sai?" Miriallia asked on the way back to the house.

"I checked out the sunrise and sunset timings and used them to form the 2 lines."

"That was clever. Or else we might never have found them."

Sai said nothing, but everyone was relieved to know that Kira and Cagalli were safe.

At last, everyone in the group was together. No one was missing, and nothing could stop them from leaving.

Just when they opened the front door to leave, a voice was heard outside.

"Police! We have the house surrounded. Everyone come out with your hands up."

Note: cliffhanger. What fun. Well, it's almost Christmas, so join in the mood for giving, and give me a review! Haha…joking…but any ways I can improve are greatly appreciated! Thanks. I know my previous chapter had a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes, I'll correct it as soon as possible. And yes…I know this chapter is pretty short, but at least Kira and Cagalli are back.