The World Falls Away

Chapter 4: Crazy

Jen "The Stampede" Motou

"NO ZALA DAY!" I smiled as Yzak gleefully threw his arms into the air as he shouted. I was happy for him –meaning I knew how much Athrun had been stressing him out- however he started singing. "No Zala…la la la No Zala, I'm free, and he's gone! No Zala!" I raised a blow eye brow at my best friend as he cheered. "Happy I take it?" He turned and grinned at me, ending his 'song' abruptly. "Oh Yeah!" He shouted. He had a look on his face that I hadn't seen in years. He was happy. Truly happy. This was not a comparable happy either. There was this glint in Yzak's eyes that no one could miss.

"Well Yzak. Athrun's gone, so what are we going to do?" I had been pondering on it since we had volunteered him for leave. Yzak however did the exact opposite of what I expected. He stopped, paused, looked around a few times, and then back to me with a clueless look in his sapphire orbs. "Ya know, I don't know." He said rather flatly, and I felt my jaw almost drop. He then put is hand on his chin and his features behind to twist as he went into thought. "I know!" He shouted sounding like a little kid. "Let's follow him." He wasn't making any sense. I sighed, shaking my head. "I thought you wanted to be away from him." Yzak looked to me with determination. "No No…following does not imply Zala will no we're there…until we pull some kind of dirty prank on him. Anything to get his mind off of you-know-who." I sighed smiling at him. "Alright Yzak, let's go. Are we bringing Nicol?" "NO! What ARE you thinking? Nicol can't stalk Zala, he'd blow our cover! Now come on." He demanded grabbing my hand and dragging me outside. "Tell the Commander where we are." He snapped at a random soldier as we steppe doff of the Versailles. "Sir."

The PLANTS were always a nice to be, that's for sure. I took in a deep breath letting the fresh air fill my lungs. "That's nice." I said aloud but then suddenly felt a tug on my arm downwards and heard and irritated "SHHHHHHHHHHH! Will you shut up?" Yzak had drug me behind a random bench and he peered over it. "He's right there." He whispered looking straight ahead of us. I looked into the crowd and sure enough there he was. Athrun –poor guy- seemed to be wandering around aimlessly. He looked like he didn't even know where to begin. It didn't matter – I won't feel bad for him- he needs this, He DOES! Athrun began to fade in the crowd and that's when we made our move to follow.

"Did ya hear?"

"What?"

"We got more now. Just four months ago, nameless soldiers were buried in the graveyard south of here."

"Yeah? That's too bad."

"Earth Forces ship too. I guess that's what we get for being neutral."

That was not a conversation we needed to over hear- but especially not Athrun. The next thing we knew he ran up to the men talking. "Excuse me." He started, butting himself into things he shouldn't have. "I didn't mean to listen to your conversation, but you said that more were buried about four months ago? You wouldn't happen to know if any of the soldiers were about my age would you?" The man stared for a moment and rested a hand on Athrun's shoulder. "Sonny, I hope not. We don't need to lose any more of you kids. You lose a friend, son?" His eyes dropped to the side. "Yeah, you could say that." "I'm sorry to hear that. You take care." The man left, and Athrun headed south. –Go Figure- This little adventure of ours was doing anything but keep his mind off of Kira. "Great" I mumbled sarcastically as we moved to follow him.

To Be Continued…..