Phase Eight of Fifty The Truth Brings Terrible Heart loss.

"MERALIA!" cried Dearka, and looked down from the plane, the body of Meralia was falling to the ground, and what Dearka had seen, was a smile breaking on her face.

"I forgive you." She cried, and her body became a speck in the wind.

"Meralia…" he said quietly. Tears were in his eyes now.

"Katelyn, please forgive me, I must see if Meralia…" his sentence broke off.

"I see." She said, from behind him.

"I think that my life will soon end. Might as well take it myself, before the person I love comes and kills me." She said to him, he looked up.

"Follow your heart, trust me, it'll guide you." She said her brown hair was coming out of her ponytail as she closed her eyes she moved front wards.

"Have a nice life Dearka, see you in hell." She said before she plumaged into the wind and rain. He watched as her body moved down, to the earth, and even from that high up, he heard a sickening splat.

Wait, Meralia, didn't make that sound, she's alive! He thought, and from behind him, pulled a parachute, and put it over his shoulders, and an eye mask, and jumped from the plane, one leg straight down the other hunched up closer to him.

"I'm afraid of neither life nor death, only loosing the girl I love!" he cried and he sank lower and lower into the atmosphere.

The ground was becoming more clearer, and the area became larger and more detailed.

As he got closer to the ground, he could see the faint outlines of two things. Both weren't moving.

"Meralia!" yelled Dearka, he accidentally pulled the release cord, causing him to fall about 3 meters, (6 feet.) to the ground.

"Ahh shit!" he cried and rubbed his arm. The two figures turned out to be Meralia, and the remains of Katelyn, which was splattered everywhere. Sadly.

"Meralia, are you there?" he asked. Shaking her, she awoke.

"Dearka… I know that you're… a Ninja, please and I bet you know that I'm an assassin, too but, the only reason I became a assassin, is to kill, I'm a horrible, horrible person, Dearka please… kill me now, or I'll probably kill half the worlds population in a year. Please Dearka, do it for me… Milly… Dearka, remember that time, we ahh…" her eyes closed for a second, and then opened again.

"We… we…" her eyes were filled with tears.

"Remember the time… at my mother's funeral…"

Flashback:

"We are here today, to morn the death of Mrs. Molly Haww, loving mother, devoted wife, and favored workman. Molly had a loving voice, a touching heart, and a excellent mind…" the reverend droned on about other things, while Meralia was in the front row, showing no signs of bitterness or morn, Dearka was beside her, handing her hand, his expression the same.

They had been childhood friends, they've been thru more then the average child, and more then a middle aged man. They were destined killers, they knew that their future held, and they planed to go thru it together.

Cagalli, Kira and Athrun were at the funeral as well, Cagalli was crying her eyes out, leaning on Kira's arm begging them to go, because Meralia's mother was like a mother to her as well, always kind and helpful, she was like… a best friend that seemed that would never go away. Athrun was sad as well, although he never got close to her as Kira and Cagalli did, she sensed that he and Cagalli would be together.

"Treat her good, or you'll hear from me," she had one said to him, for that, Athrun started to cry too.

"Miss. Haww, her daughter, would like to say a few word in this service." Said the reverend, Meralia stood up still holding Dearka's hand, and she pulled it.

"Come with me, say whatever comes to mind about my mother." She ordered, he nodded and walked up to the podium with her, and turned on the microphone.

"Good afternoon, beloved family members, friends and friends of friends who have decided to come as well, I'd just like to say a few words about my mother, for my mother, as my mother." The people started to whisper and talk, Meralia rapped her fist at the microphone, obviously what she had said startled the people, she wondered why.

"My mother was a beautiful person, she loved to laugh, and cry, she loved me, my sister and father more then all of you could imagine. She had a beautiful soul; a kind face and a peppery attitude that I and many of us family members have inherited. I loved my mother, and I can't imagine how I'm going to live without her, that is why, I've chosen to go with her, to the next life," it was at that moment, Dearka noticed the blade hidden in her dress, it glimmered like diamonds in the sun, she reached down and pulled it off herself.

"Goodbye family friends, I've loved you, as you love me, I love you all, you too Dearka," she said, Dearka blushed and Meralia brought the knife to her throat.

"Goodbye," she said and pressed the blade to her self.

"NO!" cried Kira and ran up to the podium. Dearka restrained her as Kira, Athrun and Cagalli tried to take the knife from her.

"NO!" she screeched, as Cagalli took the blade and thru it to the ground, Meralia dropped, she, in a daze.

"Mother…" she said, closed her eyes and landed on the floor.

"Milly…" said Dearka, and pulled her up to his lap, and embraced her.

"It's ok, where did you get such a stupid idea?" he asked, but Meralia didn't answer.

Later on, they all discovered that Meralia was suffering from malnutrition, for she never ate.

End Flashback:

"Yes," said Dearka.

"I remember like it was yesterday." But she hadn't heard him.

It was as true as anything. Meralia Haww was dead.

"Meralia?" he asked for the millionth time.

"Meri?" he asked and shook her body.

"Mer?" he cried and shook her more violently.

"MERALIA HAWW!" he yelled and stopped.

"She's dead." He relised.

"I… couldn't save her." Tears formed in his lilac eyes and he braced her body.

"I'm… sorry Meralia. I love you." He said and sunk to the ground and pulled out the few blades of grass that were on the ground.

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"DEARKA!" yelled Meralia; the last thing she could remember was falling from the plane and Dearka's voice. She was behind a clear ice wall, and she touched it, her whole body shivered and chills were sent down her spine.

"Is this death?" she wondered out.

"Sure as hell is." Said a familiar voice, Meralia turned around to see Ami, the young ball of light.

"Ami! What are you doing here?" she inquired. She merely laughed.

"You're dead Meralia! Didn't you know that?" she said, Meralia thought deeper and deeper into her mind.

"You mean, I was killed?" she questioned her.

"Yes."

"I'm not alive."

"No, you're dead."

"I…" she bent down to the ground and looked at the crying figure of Dearka.

"He… said he…"

"Loved you?" I'm sooo sure!" she joked.

"You were supposed to kill him. And he nearly killed you, you're enemies!" the ball cried.

"What… can I do to become alive again?" she asked doely.

"Ha! Nothing!" she cried in an instant. She fell to the floor, stroking Dearka's hair.

"You know, I'm the only one who can release you from the death spell. You've gotta do a certain task to obtain life from me, and I won't make it easy for you!" she cried. Meralia placed her to fingers on her lips and thought.

This shouldn't be that hard, I mean, if I'm dead, how could a pain reach my body?

She had made up her mind.

"I'll do whatever task you'll assign." She said and bowed.

"Interesting, since you don't have your life that I can take, I have to take something else." Ami pondered.

"Maybe, I should take your intelligence, or, maybe your will to love, both are very powerful things a human can't live without. Or, maybe I should just deny you even getting your life back!" she exclaimed, her voice made Meralia nervous.

"I'll do whatever you wish." Said Meralia quietly, she, and hard, she was very anxious.

"Hmm, ok I got it. If you win, and do what I asked successfully, I'll give you your life back and…" she snapped her fingers.

"And as a special prize, I'll give you your mothers soul back," she said, in a misty click, the format, of Meralia's mom filled the space.

"Mama, is that you?" she asked, she couldn't believe it! Her mom!

"Yes Milly," the ghostly form reached out a hand and stroked Meralia's cheek, her mother had done that before, but her hand was icy cold, no warmth, no meaning.

"But if you loose," she said.

"I keep your soul and your mothers." And she snapped her fingers again.

"And, as a special prize for me," the large, glassy wall disappeared, and Ami transformed into a young maiden, with flowing green hair and aqua eyes and pale cheeks, her lips were thin and white, and she wore a long flowing white dress and no shoes, she looked as if she was abandoned at the wedding alter, and Meralia was soon to find out, she was right.

"I get to marry your little boyfriend." She said and leaned down to kiss his lips, Meralia couldn't stand her.

"Good for you, now, what is my task?" she asked urgently, as if she was in a great hurry to go somewhere. Ami pulled back from her kiss and gentle placed her hands down his shirt-

"STOP IT!" cried Meralia whose voice was stern and scolding.

"All my life I've been pushed around like a little Barbie girl, now I'll stop this!" she stamped her foot into the soft ground.

"I want him back. NOW!" she barked and stood back.

"Hurry up and set your quest, and I'll come back successful." She confirmed.

"Fine," said Ami playfully.

"See those cliffs over there?" she pointed a white finger behind Meralia, she peered around to see.

Sharp, jagged cliffs surrounded by snow reached up tall to the sky. Milly gulped.

"What?"

"Do I want you to do? Very simple acually." She said.

"At the top, is a tree with a purple star on it, Press it, and cliffs will be gone and then were the cliffs once were should be a deep hole if you find a rock on the way up that is purple with a star, take it and throw it into the hole, and when you do, after a few minutes, it should pop out again, but this time, it will be solid gold. Come back down here and give it to me after words. And I'll give you as promised." Meralia continued to fell uneasy, like she was lying.

"Fine, what about Dearka?" she inquired. Ami gave her a mystic look.

"He'll be fine, don't worry yourself, it's all just a game. And to win, you have to be the Master of the Game." She told her. Meralia still felt strange but accepted.

"You have seven days to complete this mission." And she was gone, and the solid ice wall had come back.

"It's like the reaper, she'll take my soul and I'll never see him again. I can't do this," she said aloud.

"Might as well start." She said and started to run towards the mountain.

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Sorry for such a short chapter last time! I was really busy, please forgive! Well, I kinda made up for this one huh?

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2006! From:

Kira, Cagalli, Athrun, Meralia, Lacus, Dearka, Nicol. (May he rest in peace.), Yzak, (Being bribed to say this by Dearka.), and the rest! (If they're still alive.)

AND! I just noticed something on my calendar, next Friday, is Friday the 13th! I might post a short maybe three chapter story with the Gundam SEED cast on this most scary event. And once again,

HAPPY NEW YEAR! From: kittykute