To Family
…Alas, the dawn is breaking…
ON THE VRGO (four days or so after)
Anzu picked up her pink cell phone and dialed Yzak's mobile number.
"Hello" Yzak replied angrily, he was probably half-way through an Athrun bashing hour.
"Hey, Yzak!" Anzu chirped sounding like she had just been somewhere exciting.
"Oh… um Dearka, Athrun, Nicol, can you get out of my bedroom? My mothers on the phone" Yzak asked in the background. Anzu sighed as she realized he hadn't told them about her yet.
"So… um can you come?" Yzak got straight back to business.
"Yes! I should be coming over on a shuttle to your mother's house and staying there until we leave for the ball. I will only be there for three days though. Um… aren't you supposed to be home now?" Anzu queried.
"Oh that, well my shuttle was delayed so they are keeping me on-board until someone comes to collect me. I have to have a minder again!" Yzak always got angry at the simplest of things. Anzu smiled knowing that.
"Well when will you be home? I am leaving in four hours so I should be there by six or before" Anzu wanted to know really badly.
"I will have to leave tomorrow so then we will only have the day to talk to each other. Because the day I arrive is the night of the ball and then after wards I have to leave with my team" Yzak finished and Anzu went all sad. Not enough time for us is there, she thought wistfully.
"Well then, we will have to live with that. Don't get yourself killed before then. Buh bye!" Anzu said and she hung up.
"That was such a funny phone call" Shima said still laughing. It was true, Anzu had let the whole team (including those on the Archangel) stay and listen to her call, if they were extra quiet. She had lots of eyes looking at her and she was slowly going to sit down when Muriel spoke up.
"This is going to be interesting. Oh and just so that you know, Anzu, we have orders that you are going to be transferred to the Archangel" with that Muriel sat down.
"I'm what?" Anzu yelled.
"It has been approved. We would like to have you on our team Anzu" Murrue gave out her hand in welcome.
"You fight that Le Crueset team don't you?" Anzu really had to know that. Her nerves were bunching up. Please say no, she prayed, please say no…
"Yes we do, is that a problem?" Murrue said. Anzu felt all colour drain from her face. Her eyes went blank and she felt woozy.
"Yes there is a problem," Anzu mumbled. "My fiancée works in that team".
Murrue froze. "Oh, well then, do you know what section?" Murrue just wanted to know so that they didn't hurt them too bad.
"He works directly under Le Crueset. He is on of the G-weapon pilots" Anzu mumbled sadly, but truthfully.
"Oh no" Mu said. "That is going to cause a problem."
"Yes it is" said Murrue.
"Well then girl, what one of the g-weapons does he pilot" Natarle asked harshly, then she added "Just out of interest" to make it sound friendlier (as Murrue had given the death glare of doom mark fourteen: Don't push it Natarle; that one was reserved just for Natarle).
"He pilots the Duel. But by next week I will have met all the pilots. The Strike, I know, was supposed to driven by Rusty McKenzie. Yzak and he used to have a go at each other all of the time. They were best friends and could often hurl cuss words at each other like it was going out of fashion. I knew Rusty. He was shot down by you Murrue. Yzak didn't know this at the time, and come to think of it, he still doesn't. But anyway, Rusty was my cousin" Anzu said as she ran off to her room. She didn't like telling people about her life. And mentioning Rusty, he favourite cousin who was tied with Nicol. She left them to talk about their attack on the Nazca and Vesalius while she wandered the corridors, just thinking about her family.
My Family Tree: By Anzu Seiya
Anzu had found her book under her bed. In her anguish she didn't know where she was going. She had obviously gone to her room and started searching for this book. She opened the front cover:
My name is Anzu and this is my family tree. My Daddy's name is Michael (but we call him Mike). My Mummy's name is Christa (but we call her Chris). My brother's names are: Miguel, Tobias and Rey (Tobias and Rey were born the day before me. We are part of quads). My sister's names are: Nobutoshi, Nochiko, Haru, Shinobu (my sister born the same day as Toby and Rey) and Zoey. Mummy wants more kids one day. Nochiko and Haru don't live with my family anymore. They live with foster families. I don't know why though. Nobutoshi is four years older than me and Miguel is only one year older than me. Zoey is only a baby and is about eight years younger than me. I don't know how old Nochiko and Haru are. My grandpa died last year but I loved him a lot so I am going to put him in here too. His name was Renmei Raphael Seiya. He was a mechanic for the EAF (Earth Alliance Forces). I want to be in the EAF when I grow up too. Mummy says Rey and Shinobu are going into ZAFT and Toby and I are going into the EAF. I don't think Toby should go, he is to gentle hearted.
This is a page for my extended family. My cousins, aunts and uncles. I only have one aunt because my other one died. My first cousin I am going to write is Nicol. He is a year younger than me, but we are the best of friends. His Daddy is my Mummy's brother. They look alike too. My auntie's name is Maria. She had the same features as Nicol and she is very pretty like my Mummy. My next cousin is Rusty. He is only one week younger than me and we are good friends. He likes to swear though. His Mummy died when he was little so I don't know her. I know she had red hair and blue eyes like Rusty and her name was Jeanie. Rusty's Daddy's name is Kenneth (we call him Uncle Kenny). He is funny, but Rusty looks nothing like him. I think they named him Rusty because of his coppery coloured hair.
My birthday is the twenty-fifth or January C.E (Cosmic Era) 55. I have a different birthday than my brothers and sister. Rey was born first at 11:15 pm on January twenty-fourth. Then Tobias was born at 11:35 pm. Shinobu was born at 11:55pm still the same night. And I was born at 12:01 on January twenty-fifth. People think it is funny that I am born one day apart from them and we are quadruplets.
That is my family tree: By Anzu Seiya aged: eight.
Anzu thought about all of those people mentioned. Uncle Kenny had died, Rusty had died, Miguel had died, Nochiko and Haru had died, Dad had died, Mum had died, Gramps had died and now Ally was living with a serious illness. And all of them had died because of war, Anzu thought sickeningly. She began to get packed. She would have to get to the school and then borrow a shuttle and fly to Radar to get there by six. This was going to be a long trip.
Anzu was finished packing when she realised she had forgotten something. Her picture of her home. A lovely brick house with a chimney. It was brown and it had about nine bedrooms. It was very roomy and not like a palace. But still, Anzu thought, I called it home. She called it home because now it was empty. All of the smiling faces that could've greeted her when the war finished weren't there anymore. The place felt deserted and cold. So Anzu decided to not go back, ever. I am to have a new home too, Anzu remembered smiling. Ezaria is going to see if she can buy me a house in Halmea when the war is through. It will suit me, a lovely home in a neutral nation.
… Home…
AT EZARIA'S HOUSE IN RADAR
"I wonder what dress Anzu is going to wear for the ball" Ezaria asked herself as she piled through some clothes that she had found. In the pile there was a lovely light blue dress that looked like it would come up to Anzu's calves. It was beautiful with all its beading and things. She found a matching fan and some shoes (not matching, but they looked good) to go with it. "Anzu will be so surprised. If I heard right she will be here by six or before" Ezaria scoffed. Anzu was like the daughter that Ezaria never had, because Payton disappeared and she had to give up her other daughter. "How I miss you, Lyra! When you are eighteen I hope you come looking for me and Yzak, and by then, I hope we have found Payton" Ezaria cried over the dress she held in her arms. That dress had belonged to Payton; she was going to wear it for her prom when she was sixteen.
… Daughter…
ON THE NAZCA CLASS
"I wish my ship could leave earlier, goddamnit!" Yzak yelled as he punched the wall. He just wanted to be home to see his mother and possibly Anzu.
"Gees Yzak, the way you act I would think there is a girl waiting for you at your house!" Dearka mused. Yzak turned red. Just be thankful he doesn't know how right he is, Yzak tried to calm himself.
"No I don't, as if anyone would ever go out with me, I am too darn busy, but that is beside the point. I just want to get away from work!" Yzak yelled at Dearka.
"Wow, you must really, I mean really love your mother" Dearka chirped.
Damn him, Yzak thought as a red light went off.
"Virgo is attacking!" someone yelled over the intercom.
"Shit" said Yzak, bluntly.
"Lets go" Athrun yelled. As they were all almost put of the door, Athrun turned back to see Yzak still standing there. "Aren't you coming?" Athrun yelled as an after thought.
"No, I am off duty and I have been suspended from work. You guys are on your own!" Yzak said still staring at the TV
, which he hadn't taken his eyes off of since the announcement was made. And with that the door promptly closed.
ON THE VIRGO
Anzu finally realized that they were going to fight Yzak.
"Shit" she said blandly. She had to leave soon and they were going to fight. She had to leave in under fifteen minutes, but what is a small battle with the Nazca. Worst comes to worst I will have to fly my suit at the school and then fly the shuttle to Yzak's. And with that she got off her arse and went to help.
DURING THE BATTLE
Anzu couldn't see Yzak anywhere. They must have suspended him from work, Anzu though as she dodged a GINN. It was a custom made GINN too. Like Rusty's old one and Miguel's orange one, Anzu wanted to cry. They she realized this pathetic war took them away from her and she went SEED.
Kazesasou kokage ni utsubusete naiteru
Mi mo shiranu watashi wo watashi ga miteita
Yuku hito no shirabe wo kanaderu GITAARA
Konu hito nu nageki ni hoshi ha ochite
Yukanaide, donna ni sakende mo
Orenji no hanabira shizuka ni yureru dake
Yawarakana hitai ni nokosareta
Te no hira no kioku haruka
Tokoshie no
Sayonara, tsuma hiku
Yasashii te ni sugaru kodomo no kokoro wo
Moesakaru kuruma ha furiharai susumu
Yuku hito no nageki wo kanadete GITAARA
Mune no ito hageshiku kakinarashite
Aa kanashimi ni somaranai shirosa de
ORENJI no hanabira yureteta natsu no kage ni
Yawarakana hitai wo nakushite mo
Akaku someta suna haruka koete yuku
Sayonara no RIZUMU
Omoide wo yakitsukushite susumu daichi ni
Natsukashiku me fuite yuku mono ga aru no
Akatsuki no kuruma wo miokutte
ORENJI no hanabira yureteru ima mo dokoka
Itsuka mita yasurakana yoake wo
Mou ichido te ni suru made
Kesanaide tomoshibi
Kuruma ha mawaru yo
The fight was over before it barely begun and Anzu couldn't remember a thing. She went back to the hangar and gather her stuff. Then she left.
… Love…
AT THE ZAFT BALL (the next day)
Yzak, Dearka, Athrun, Nicol and Rau all entered the dance hall. Yzak was wearing a grey suit, while Dearka took the Mickey out of a black one, Athrun wore a navy one (that really suited the guy with a stick to far shoved up his arse he has no hope, ever), Nicol graced a maroon one and Rau just decided on black with sunglasses. Why can't we ever see his eyes? Yzak asked, but he didn't have time to think of an answer, because they had all just spotted Lacus talking to some girl.
"Hello Athrun" yep, she had spotted them alright. Lacus moved forward but the girl stayed rooted to the spot. Lacus turned to the girl.
"Come on silly, you are part of this party too!" Lacus said making the girl turn red. Yzak knew that pattern of turning red. It was Anzu.
"That girl is really pretty huh Yzak?" Dearka said as he was also going red. When Yzak didn't answer, Dearka said "I think Yzak's in love!"
"Dearka, be quiet. Oh, Miss Clyne, nice to see you! How are you doing?" Rau was being Charming Prince Rau, who then got called over by Chairman Amalfi. The boys turned their attention back to Lacus and that girl. Lacus was wearing a pale pink dress and her hair was up (different). But the girl, she was totally different. She was wearing a purple dress that cut off at or just above her claves, her hair was curled and up in a confusing half bun and she was wearing silver shoes that matched her jewellery. Nicol, Athrun, Dearka and Yzak himself were red at the sight of this highly embarrassed girl.
"Anzu, come here and meet Mr. Le Crueset" Ezaria Joule called.
"Yes, Ms. Ezaria" Anzu called back. "Excuse me" she curtseyed and left.
"She had good manners too. That is my kind of woman" Dearka whispered with a chuckled. Yzak felt himself go hot and he wanted to kill Dearka, but he stopped himself and they walked into the ballroom. Anzu was curtseying to Rau and in turn he kissed her hand when they entered. Then he said something about having to go and see Mr. Patrick Zala and he left. But before he completely left the hall he went and stopped by Yzak and said "What a lovely fiancée you have Yzak" just loud enough from Yzak to hear and then he evaporated into thin air. Or not. Little did the um… children know that the parents had decided that their children and their dates would open the first dance.
"I would like to call Athrun Zala, Nicol Amalfi, Dearka Elsman and Yzak Joule onto the dance floor" Mr. Alex Elsman chuckled over a microphone. The boys obeyed and then Alex continued. "Now, bring your partners!" he was still chuckling which was teetering on the verge of becoming a full out laugh. Athrun went and retrieved Lacus, Nicol got his cousin, Shinobu (yes the same one), Dearka gathered his sister, Lana, and Yzak went and got… Anzu.
"What!" Dearka gasped. "Your date is that hot girl from before!" Anzu went slightly red at being called hot and Yzak just went red and turned away. "Now, you children! You are going to begin the dancing tonight!" Alex was still laughing. All of the boys and girls (except Lacus) went red. Then a song began. Annie's Song. Yzak was going to cry and he could see his mother beginning to in the background. Then all of them started to waltz. A special waltz (like the one from Harry Potter: And the Goblet of Fire) that involved turning and jumping. It was a great dance.
After the dance they all sat down and Anzu noticed two spare chairs.
"So, who are you, miss pretty?" Dearka asked. Anzu still went red though.
"I am Anzu Seiya" Anzu said clearly trying to get rid of her red face.
"Wait a minute! I am Shinobu Seiya!" Nicol's date said. "I am Nicol's cousin. Hey, Anzu, maybe we are long lost twins or something!" Nicol's date had the same… everything as Anzu, except that Anzu's hair was longer.
"Hey, that would make us cousins!" Nicol said happily. Then two other people came over. A woman and a boy.
"Hey Nobutoshi, guess what! Remember how you said I had a sister? Well, I think I found her!" Shinobu squealed. The woman's head flew up at that.
"What! Is your name Anzu?" the woman who looked like an older version on Anzu said.
"Um… yes?" Anzu said, hoping this wasn't the wrong answer.
"Oh my god! You are my little sister!" she announced. The boy looked up; he looked like Tobias, exactly.
"That means, Rey and Shinobu are part of your quads group! Where is Tobias?" Nobutoshi asked cautiously.
"He didn't come!" Anzu yelled.
"Oh well then. We have missed you, but now we must bid you adieu! Come Rey, come Shinobu" and with that they left. And then Yzak pulled Anzu out of the hall.
"You didn't tell me that you were related to Ijiwaruu! I knew that you had a brother and sister in ZAFT. I also know you have a brother in the EA. And I knew you were neutral. But Ijiwaruu? And being related to Nicol? Who else are you related to?" Yzak was pushing it. Anzu had mildly flinched at being neutral. Then she regained composure and answered.
"I didn't know she was now called Ijiwaruu. I just knew her as Nobu. I haven't spoken to Tobias in ages but he is neutral now, really" she added with the yeah-right look on Yzak's face. Then she continued.
"Yes, I am related to Nicol. But I…was… related to Miguel Aiman and Rusty McKenzie. My brother Mel, remember him? Well his full name was Miguel. And my cousin Rusty, you never met him, was one of my best friends" Anzu left crying to the bathroom. That gave Yzak another reason to try and kill the strike. "For killing my beloved's family" he spat. Then he had a feeling of Déjà vu and decided to go back into the hall. Then he remembered that Anzu wasn't wearing her ring.
Anzu was sitting on a toilet crying her eyes out. She had almost let it slip that she was in the EA forces. But she had covered Toby's trail too and they had no idea that Ally and Zoey were in the EAF and Diana was only a baby. So that didn't really work either. She just wanted to go home. But maybe in the morning…
ON THE VIRGO
Ally was sitting down and complaining that her legs hurt. So Murrue went over.
"I could rub your legs for you" Murrue said trying to sound friendly. But Ally started laughing. Then Candras entered.
"Candras, can you rub my legs? I don't think Murrue knows how to do it!" Ally was laughing still.
"Um… sure Ally!" Candras knelt down and lifted up Ally skirt to her mid-thigh. Then Murrue and the others could see it. Ally had two prosthetic legs from mid-thigh down.
"Ally, how about I take them off?" Candras asked.
"Ooh, yes please! I think I am bleeding!" Ally said. Candras removed the legs and Ally, sure enough, was bleeding. Murrue sighed in sympathy.
"How did that happen?" she asked. Candras faded out but Ally was happy to tell her story.
"It all started when I went to my aunt and uncle's house. A bomb was going to hit the city so we were ready for it. But it didn't hit the city. An EAF officer in his MA stopped it. He deflected it and it ended up blowing up our house. I was the only one to escape. Uncle and aunt had no kids. It blew up my legs see and they had to amputate the gross stuff. Sometimes my wounds still open. It is okay, I can deal with it Murrue!" Ally said seeing Murrue begin to cry.
"I am fine Ally, it is just that that is a sick method of attacking. Blowing up a city, but they deflect it and it hits a defenseless house in a small village that is out of the way. What is worse, they got children involved into the war" Murrue stopped at remembering that she involved Kira and his friends in the war. That is what got Crewman Koenig killed, she reminded herself, but didn't show it. She wasn't over the death of Crewman Koenig. But Tolle's girlfriend, Miriallia seemed to have gotten over it. Kira had said something about telling her that Toll wouldn't want her being sad, that he was somewhere better; where there was no war and Tolle would let her go to her better place if it had been her that died. Murrue decided that she needed some comfort so she went to the Commander's room.
AT EZARIA'S HOUSE, SECOND FLOOR, THIRD ROOM TO THE LEFT OF THE STAIRS
Anzu was tired and had asked Ezaria if she could stay a night longer. Ezaria being really nice had said "Yes". Anzu looked out of her window while holding her flower near her heart.
"Yzak" she whispered, "Please don't die! I want to be near you always, even though you don't like fighting for two people. But please, hold me close, so deep in you heart". Than Anzu dropped the Lunar flower on her bed and left the room.
… Sometimes my heart feels like that flower… Left all alone… But I know you are there… So for now, I live alone… But for much longer…
A/n: I used Annie's song again because… I am obsessed with it. It is the basis for the whole story. My saying at the end, no touchy. I made Ally have a sad past because… I felt like it. Kuruma no Akatsuki is a really cool song, so I did use it. It really suited that moment. And I couldn't think of what to write during that, so I put the effects of SEED and made her forget. Yay for long weekends! Um… Anzu is trying to figure out what side she should be fighting on that when she addresses it that Archangel joins Orb and so does Virgo. Dearka gets captured in the next one, so go Milly/Dearka. Nicol plays on his piano (he plays Anna Ni Issho Datta No Ni) and that is when Anzu is captured. She goes into the room where Nicol is playing and sings to it. They make a good team. And they are best friends. Yzak doesn't find out for a while that Anzu is a fighter, but he doesn't know that she used to belong to the EAF. Anzu is going to find out why she cries and soon or later (probably in the next six chapters) Yzak and Payton will meet. Then… someone will die! Not saying who! Read and review. You will have to find out later. I don't have anything against Athrun, but Yzak does. So I just use that as a tool for explaining Yzak. I will discribe Yzak's personality better in the next one. I really do like Athrun, believe me.
Next time on Halmea, Last Embrace
Chapter 8: Ame in a cold city (this chapter should be up in four days considering I don't have very long to write it; I have to go swimming)
TSA (TearShieldAlchemist)