Ame in a Cold City
…Sometimes my heart feels like that flower… Left all alone… But I know you are there… So for now I live alone…
But not for much longer…
ON THE NAZCA CLASS
Yzak was sitting on the side of his bed and Dearka was standing against the wall.
"So," Dearka began, "Are you and that girl romantically linked?" Dearka really needed to ask something, but that wasn't the right question.
"She is my fiancée, Dearka" Yzak mumbled.
"Whoa, when did you pop the question?" wrong question again Dearka.
"It was an arranged marriage, Dearka!" When Yzak added Dearka onto the end of every sentence that meant he was almost really pissed off. Almost is an understatement. Then who should enter but Le Crueset followed by Nicol and Athrun.
"Hello, boys" Rau said as he sat on the bed next to Yzak. Yzak looked really pissed by now so he would have killed Le Crueset if there had been no-one watching.
"Why did you call us here, Commander?" the coward, Nicol, asked.
"I called you all here, well not Dearka and you, Yzak, but I thought you would be here. Anyway, we are going to make a surprise attack on the Virgo. I am pretty sure the Archangel is hiding there. So get yourselves ready. We leave at 0300 hours" and with that Rau left the confused teens in Yzak's room.
"We should leave" Nicol said bluntly (does he ever say anything bluntly)
"Yep" was Dearka's famous one word answer. That slightly annoyed Yzak. Considering that he was sitting on his bed and he was halfway through getting changed. He was sitting in his pants. That was it.
"Get OUT!" he screeched. He even yelled at Dearka to get lost. Very bad day.
"Someone is PMSing today!" Dearka said as they (Athrun, Nicol and himself) floated down the corridor.
"I heard that Dearka!" Yzak screamed from his room. Nicol was stunned.
"I didn't know his voice could go up another octave!" he said stifling a laugh.
"I didn't know he could scream so loud. Ouch!" Dearka said as he kept floating along.
…Not turning back…
AT THE JOULE MANSION
Anzu was looking at her old books that she left in the house. They were poetry books that she gave Yzak. She didn't know if he had read them, but it was good to know he kept them. She flicked the page of her favourite poetry book. The poem on the page was very short, and titled Morning Star.
Morning Star,
Who cheated me out of tomorrow,
I turned away from you,
And I found yesterdays sorrow.
Anzu just loved the words to it. It means what is the past, stays there. That is what Yzak had taught her after all. Anzu tried to get a fluttering feeling out of her stomach, but it didn't work. As I stated, she tried and failed. She stood up and realized that she had been crying. That poem, she thought. It was dedicated to people who will die. My friends and comrades who have died in this war. But how could a thirteen year old girl know a war would happen in three years? Then that took her back to the days before the war.
Flash back
Anzu looked at her enrolment form. The EA Forces were strict, but not to strict. She turned to look at her brother beside her. He had finished ages ago, but Anzu still hadn't. She didn't know why she wanted to enlist. She just wanted to help. But that surely wasn't a reason. She stared at her brother's papers. He had written: Because I wish to preserve our blue earth. Enough said. But Anzu had this feeling that it wasn't right. But she did it anyway, without her best friend knowing. In fact, almost no-one knew.
… But only he matters…
End flashback
Anzu needed to get back immediately. She knew she shouldn't have joined the EAF. She needed to go to Orb or an outlet now. That was where she was needed. The SEED told her so. And what the SEED wanted, Anzu did.
ON VIRGO
Little did Anzu know that Kira, Mu, Murrue, Payton, Muriel and Tobias were debating the same. Natarle had left to go somewhere else, she was going stir-crazy.She went back to EAF HQ on earth. "We should join Orb. This war is already lost by both ZAFT and EAF. Anzu had a feeling before we officially signed up that it was wrong. Damn the SEED. If we had realized it earlier we wouldn't be in this mess!" Toby yelled thumping the desk. They had to leave the EAF as they were calling them deserters. Anzu would have done something by now, right? Wrong. Anzu was still debating over her decision to join the EAF after three years. She knew that the EAF and ZAFT were in the wrong but that only left two alternatives. Orb and/or to re-establish the Noventa providence. That was really nothing compared to what was going to happen when Anzu returned.
ON A LIFE POD COMING FROM A NEUTRAL NATION
Anzu was hurrying to get to the Virgo before it entered combat. She knew it was going to. But sadly she knew something rather unpleasant would have to happen first. Just as the thought crossed her mind a ZAFT Ginn came and picked up her pod. This was going to be a long day…
AT THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE VIRGO AND THE NAZCA
Yzak had just been informed that a GINN had successfully got a life pod that was heading for the Virgo ship and was holding whoever was in it prisoner. Yzak just watched waiting for a moment when he could strike. Then a beam rifle was aimed at him but Dearka hopped in front just in time. Yzak opened his eyes to see Dearka's Buster unit without any limbs. It was sparking, but Yzak knew it wouldn't explode. The MS that held the beam rifle snatched Dearka out of thin air and took it back to the Virgo ship thing. Yzak told all other sections to stop attacking. This fight was turning personal. Then some guy said that he had a Neutral Nations Academy life pod. Oh, well a prisoner for a prisoner, right?
IN THE NAZCA CLASS
Anzu established the fact that she was a prisoner of war when she exited the pod. All of those clad ZAFT uniforms they wore were tacky, enough said. Then a Gundam (a/n: She calls them that becuase she got into the habit from Kira) pilot alerted the ground crew that they would be coming in and no sooner had they done this when they arrived.
"Ah, so you are the prisoner... Anzu?" it was Yzak, he had lowered his voice when he said her name. Under these conditions, it sounded less simple, more threatening on his tounge. It sounded unnatural.
"Yes, Yzak" Anzu pretended to look scared, she knew if she didn't that he would think she was used to these pretenses. Luckily, he believed she was truly scared.
"What have you guys done!" Yzak demanded of the GINN team that had captured Anzu. "She isn't an enemy you idiots!" He turned away and took Anzu by the arm. "What were you doing heading for the Virgo, Anzu-sama?" he used a formality again. She felt hurt by this but let it pass.
"I was on my way to a colony that was progress. I had to go through your line of fire to get to it!" she was defiant and made it seem that she was trying to be brave because she was scared.
"I am sorry about this. I promise that we will get you back to your... uh, home (?) as soon as we can. Just hold on a sec" with that Yzak left. Then Mr. Le Crueset came over.
"Miss Anzu, I am terribly sorry you got mixed up in this, I hope you can forgive us. I must tell you though that since you are technically a prisoner your aren't allowed to wander, but you may stay in quarters and talk to people" and then he to went off or disappeared. Anzu could here Yzak yelling in the back ground.
"What do you mean Dearka didn't return! he demanded of a GINN team. He obviously thought that Tobias woyld let one escape, but by now the Virgo would have realised that the life pod they had taken belonged to Anzu.
Anzu had never known that Yzak had such a strict military life. He was always laid back (a bit) when she saw him. But his schedule almost seemed harder than her own. Or what was my own, she thought. She was going to join Orb and try to (in their boundaries) re-establish the Noventa order (if she could). But she didn't want to make Yzak suffer by trying to kill her or even fight her. She knew he was fighting for the wrong reasons. But she would have to get him to see that. On a piece of paper she wrote:
Words used in context with fear:
Kanashimi (sadness)
Pain
Greif
Hatred
Scared
Anzu felt almost all of those words at once.
You are leavin' me out in the dark.
I am all alone now
I can't believe it,
It's just too...
Ame in a cold ciy
So cold I need protection
I need your light to shine down on me
But you're just too damn far away.
Too damn far away...
So faraway, so cold,
My strength is leaving me,
Goodnight my love
I will see this through to the end
Just be close
Faraway...
Far...
Away
"Anzu?" Yzak said as he entered his quarters. There she was, clad in a school girl outfit. She's adorable in that, Yzak thought, but mentally puched himself. She w3as sitting on the bed crying. This must be scary for her, he said to himself, I would be scared too.
"Yzak, can I ask you a question?" she still sounded scared.
"Sure" he tried to smile, but failed.
"I want to know, what are you fighting for?" that was a weird question for poor old Yzak.
"To protect my friends and family and the PLANT's" was his soldier like answer.
"But Yzak, that doesn't explain why you joined ZAFT. I mean, sure, ZAFT is the PLANT's main control system, but Orb does the same thing. They don't judge people and they don't want to fight. Just like I know you don't. You act all tough around soldiers, but so nice when you have time off. Why is that?" Anzu was hitting where it hurt.
"Becuase, I don't know!I was thinking of joining. Why do you want to know? Are you thinking of joining Orb?" he dreaded the answer to that one.
"Yes, and I would like you to join with me. So then we wont be fighting eachother on either side!" Anzu almost said again at the end of her sentence but she stopped herself by biting her tounge.
"Sure, fine then. I will resign tomorrow!" with that Yzak walked out of the room, apparently forgetting what he came in there for.
ON THE BRIDGE OR THE NAZCA CLASS
" We are recieving a report from the Virgo. They say they are with Orb now and Mr. Uzumi Nara Attha will vouch to that!" Ensign Jamerson called.
"Oh then, cease-fire. We can't shoot at them. It will turn into a political scandal. Oh well, back to the drawing board" Rau commented as he closed a familiar looking book.
Ame... so very cold. Epecially in a frozen paradise. Especially in a cold citadel...
A/n: What will Yzak do? Is he going to resign? I need more reviews! What is that book of Rau's? What is with the Virgo? I need more reviews! When will what I have said be coming up? I have decided to change the ball to a former EAF members ball, hope that doesn't offend you, does that offend you? I need more reviews. I hope my review seeking things were unnoticed. I need help with my ideas. I will be starting a new one soon, not a chapter, just a new story. And this one goes out to Jinxie-the-Theif. Go her, my one and only reviewer! Wooho. Oh and my friends (who don't rview me!) tell me to do the disclaimer so I shall do it now (PS: If you review you can say which character you want to do the review! I will tally votes when I decide to do a new chapter and then you can see what I am going to do with your character) Just for the hell of it, Mu is doing he diclaimer.
Mu: I am?
TSA: Yes, you are! gives him a kick
Mu: Alright. Teary here gets a kick again, SHE the almighty one me: smiles does not, will not (hopefully) me: I heard that Shit me: mu don't swear! Fine, sugar honey ice and tea, and of course she has not owned/own Gundam SEED. If she did, why would she be writing fanfics again?
Me: Exactly my answer hits Mu in the head with a picture of Murrue I just watched the episode where you guys kissed!
Murrue: We WHAT! F#$ THIS!
Me: Murrue-san, I didn't know you could swear!
Murrue: I couldn't, but I have been hanging out with Mr. I-have-a-mouth-like-a-sailor-aka-Mu La Flaga.
Me: You and Mu shoudl stop seeing eachother others nod in agreement
Mu: Stop before you start, that is what I always say!
Murrue: No, you don't. You say 'I am the man who can make the impossible, possible!'
Me: Who cares. Well see you next time on Hamea, Last Embrace.
Chapter: 9 Named:Dokouiruno (Where are you) (sp?)
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