A/N: Here goes chapter 2. Enjoy it and review for me please. Thank you.
Disclaimer: I don't own GS/GSD.
… The room was empty.
"Good morning." A singing voice echoed behind them. The three jumped out of their skin and turned around.
"Princess!" They gasped in unison. The pink haired girl was grinning at them innocently.
"What's the matter? Are you worried about me?" She asked blinking.
"Why are you out so early?" Kira asked the princess after giving a sigh of relief.
"Oh? Ah yeah, I went down to the garden to pick some flowers. Is anything wrong?" She answered holding a bunch of fragrant flowers up.
"No, nothing, just… We are worried about your safety." Kira replied respectfully. Then he bowed his head to the princess, stepped back and stood straight. "Now where should we go Your Highness?" He asked.
"Let's see. Then… Let's go down to have breakfast. After that I will visit a friend of mine. And Mister Kira, please don't call me 'Your Highness' or anything similar to it. You make me shudder. Oh, I can call you Kira, right?" The girl winced, and then she walked into the room to put the flowers on the table.
"Now let's go." She smiled at the three and went out. They headed for the dining room, the princess walked in front of the three bodyguards, it was the very first rule for them to follow. When they arrived at the room, breakfast was ready.
"Well, come sit here and have breakfast with me." The princess pointed at the empty seats and invited warmly.
"Princess, please don't say so, we can't sit with you. That will be extremely disregardful of us." Athrun refused sweat dropping while the other two widened their eyes in surprise, they had never seen a princess invite her bodyguards to have breakfast with her in their entire life.
"Oh, is that so?" The princess said in disappointment, then she turned to her nanny, "Is it okay if they have breakfast with me?"
"If that's what you want, princess, then…" But she was cut off by the excited girl:
"See? It's okay, so sit down and have breakfast with me. How will you follow me the whole day without eating anything?" She demanded smiling.
"But Your Highness, we can't." Kira protested weakly.
"Mister Kira, if you call me 'Your Highness' again, then don't ever see my face again." She warned pouting. "Just sit down, that's an order." She ordered a bit grouchily. The three sweat dropped and looked at each other questioningly. They didn't dare to sit with their master, but being disobedient to the princess since their first day of work is…
"You don't want to sit with me?" She asked smiling dangerously while a vein popped on her forehead. (Anime style)
"Yes Ma'am." They replied in unison and sat down immediately worrying about their lives once their princess got angry.
"That's good. Now have breakfast. Don't think that I'm a princess or your master, just think that you are having your breakfast with a friend." She demanded satisfactorily.
"Yes Ma'am." They replied starting the meal as gently as they could. Even for Cagalli, a real carnivore, ate like a shy missy. When they all finished, the princess told the servants to have her carriage ready. Then at about 8:00 in the morning, they started their journey. Before stepping in the carriage, the girl announced:
"Uhm, my friend's place is quite far away, so we will take the whole day before returning to the palace, so you three can sit in the carriage with me."
But the three determinedly protested. Athrun and Kira would ride horse behind the carriage, but they left Cagalli in the carriage with the Princess in emergency cases, and for the gender problem, the one who was left with the pink haired gentle princess had to be a girl, so that was why Cagalli was chosen. Then they started their journey.
"Uhm, Miss Hibiki, can I call you Cagalli?" The princess asked diffidently breaking the awkward silence between them.
"Of course you can Princess." Cagalli replied and tried her best to force a smile. "This princess is pretty nice isn't she?" She thought.
"Really? I'm glad." The princess grinned as big as she could.
"And friendly." Cagalli added to herself.
"Uhm, Cagalli? I heard that you can control the water, right?" The princess continued looking at the blonde sitting in front of her admiringly.
"Ah, uh, yeah, that's why people call me Orb Girl." Cagalli answered with a slight blush on her face.
"Great! Can you show me? Please? Just a little." The girl jumped up like a kid.
"Err, when it's not needed, we shouldn't use our special abilities." Cagalli replied shaking her head slightly.
"Oh, please, just a little. Please Cagalli…" The excited girl insisted, her eyes turned sparkling, she was using her unique puppy-dog-eyes attack.
"Princess, please understand… I… Err…" Cagalli tried to explain to the childish pink haired girl and tried to avoid her look, but it was of no use.
"Come on, Cagalli, please…" The princess continued her attack. The blonde used to be stubborn, and no one could tell her to do anything she didn't want, but facing that cute girl's special attack, all her determinedness vanished.
"Okay alright Princess, but just don't look at me like that please." She sighed defeated while the other girl jumped in victory.
"Please watch carefully, I will only show you this time." The blonde said before starting her show. She closed her eyes, opened her arms, and then began to say some kind of magic words. Then she suddenly opened her eyes and said out loud:
"Poseidon the Goddess of water, I need your help, please lend me your power."
Then, suddenly two watery bubbles appeared on her hands, they were shining like the sunlight. The lights filled the carriage with its warmth.
"Whoa… How beautiful…" The princess complimented dreamily.
"Did you see that clearly?" Cagalli chuckled at the pink haired girl. The princess nodded and gave a big hand. Cagalli sighed and clenched her fist, and the bubbles disappeared immediately.
"Cagalli, aren't you a normal person? So why do you have this ability?" Lacus asked curiously.
"Well, Princess, I have studied magic with my teacher, so although I'm only a normal person, I know how to control the water." She answered leaning against the back and closed her eyes as she was a little tired of using the magic, it took quite a lot of her energy.
"So… Who did you study with?" Lacus kept asking in order to satisfy her curiosity.
"Sir Mwu La Flaga." Cagalli replied with a smile across her thin lips.
"Whoa, my father told me that he is one of the most famous wizards in the world, right?"
"Actually, he is one of five most famous wizards, princess."
"That rock!" The girl gasped in surprise and covered her mouth with her hands. The blonde just giggled at her young master's reaction.
"So… What abilities do Mister Zala and Mister Kira have?" The pink continued.
"About Zala, well, I don't know about him much, so I don't know what he can control, and about my brother, he can control the animal." The blonde winced and tapped her forehead thoughtfully.
"All kinds of animal?" The princess blinked in surprise. The blonde only nodded and crossed her legs.
"That's great! I will ask Mister Kira to show me his ability someday." The pink grinned toothily. "I wonder how it feels when I touch a bird, or even a tiger." The girl giggled and followed her own thought.
The small conversation brought the two closer to each other, and Cagalli felt less reluctant to the princess, indeed, she felt that the princess was really childish and she was easy to talk to.
"Uhm, Cagalli?" The pink continued again, "When it's just the two of us, please don't call me Princess, just call me Lacus. And don't treat me like I'm your master, think that I'm your friend, okay?"
"Princess!" Cagalli gasped. Her eyes widened at the princess's sudden suggest, well, more like a demand.
"Don't call me Princess, I told you." The pink pouted. "You know, I rarely have friends, so please be my friend. I sometimes feel lonely when no one treats me as a normal girl." Her voice became a little slack and she bent her head down. Cagalli suddenly felt sorry for the princess. She was a girl after all, yet no one treat her as a normal girl.
"Okay Princess… Err… Lacus… From now on, I am your bodyguard yet your friend." Cagalli tried her best to stop Lacus from crying.
"Really?" The pink lift her head up asked helplessly.
"Yeah." Cagalli nodded smiling brightly.
"Hurray! Thank you very much!" Lacus jumped up and hugged the confused bodyguard. Bamb! Cagalli fell on the floor frozen unconscious, keeping her sitting posture. (Anime style)
Meanwhile…
"Hey Athrun." Kira called while their horses were keeping pace with the carriage.
"Huh?" Athrun asked not looking at his best buddy.
"What do you think about the Princess?" Kira asked with a slight blush on his face. When he just finished his sentence, Athrun turned to him, eyes widened in surprise.
"I think she's nice and friendly. Why do you ask? Plus why are you blushing?"
"I'm not blushing!" Kira denied blushing brighter. His usual calm violet eyes turned puzzled, and that didn't go unnoticed by Athrun.
"You like her?" He asked quietly.
"Who the hell told you that I like her?" Kira growled to hide his blushing face and his real thought.
"Hush Kira. Don't draw attention like that. I'm your best friend, remember? So don't think that you can deceive me. Just confess it." Athrun said and then laughed out loud.
"What are you talking about?" Kira said with his hackle up. His face turned into a tomato.
"No need to get angry. Your face is denouncing you." Athrun giggled.
"What? I…" But Kira fell into a loss of words.
"You what? It's no good to delude yourself." Athrun continued, his eyes flashed playfully.
"I…" Kira bit his lower lip and bent his head down of shyness. His hair was flying freely in the wind.
"If you don't like, you don't need to say it out, anyway, I know how you feel about the Princess. But never forget that you are her bodyguard." Athrun recommended. Kira only nodded. Suddenly, there was an extremely strong wind blow from the behind. The horses were almost thrown out of the road. Kira and Athrun immediately turned their heads back to find a group of men standing, with one man standing ahead. Looked like he was the one controlling the wind. They understood what was happening in no time.
"Kira! Come and protect the princess!" Athrun yelled at the top of his lungs and stopped his horse difficultly while Kira jumped off his horse and ran to the carriage now was stopped at his full speed.
"Princess!" He shouted and opened the door to see Cagalli standing in front of the pink haired girl protectively.
"What's happening, Kira?" Cagalli asked her brother with an urgent voice.
"We have no time to explain. Let's escape." Kira said quickly and looked at Lacus. The princess nodded calmly and stood up: "Let's go." Then the three ran out of the carriage, but there were two men standing at the door. Cagalli grunted in her throat, then she closed her eyes. Almost immediately, she pointed her index finger at the two strangers, and an extremely strong water jet sprayed at the two's faces. The strangers got hit and fell backward. Kira gave each of them two kicks and pulled the princess out. Cagalli ran out after them and they escaped from the battle territory. Before getting away, Cagalli saw Athrun fighting against five men. There was fire everywhere, and Athrun was moving among the fire like the real Goddess of it. When they got away safely, Cagalli told Kira:
"You stay here and protect the Princess, I'll come back to give Zala a hand."
"Wait. Let me go, you should stay here." Kira called, but she didn't hear. She was launching to the crowd at her full speed.
"Cagalli sure is worried about Mister Zala a lot." Lacus whispered, but Kira wasn't hearing, he was looking at his sister running direction worriedly.
Meanwhile Athrun was trying his best to fight against the attackers, the fire was dancing around them, and he was controlling the fire to attack them. The five were using their power to get rid of his fire. One was using the ice, two others were using the air and the wind, and the two others left were using the gravity to slow him down. The battle seemed to come to its highest point, and the attackers were at an advantage compared to Athrun when Cagalli jumped in among them.
"What are you doing here? Go and protect the Princess, I can handle this myself." Athrun growled, but Cagalli didn't hear, she closed her eyes and called the Spirit of Water out. From her hands, two watery snakes flew out and immediately attacked the five. They twisted their bodies and danced around.
"What the…?" One of them yelled when he saw the snakes. But he was stopped by one of the snakes strangling his neck. The other snake was trying to bite the one who was using the ice to stop the fire of Athrun.
"Go back!" Athrun ordered huskily, he was getting really angry.
"Don't bother me! I'm trying to stop them!" Cagalli snapped back. But she was affected by the fire of him, so her snakes were getting weaker every second passed. The attackers caught their chance, they put in more power so as to kill the two is quickly as possible.
"Get away Attha! You are getting weaker!" Athrun yelled worrying about the girl. But Cagalli was really stubborn, she shook her head furiously and stood still. The gravity was slowing her down, and the ones who were using the wind were trying to cut her head off by the wind blades. She got hit twice and was losing her blood. Finally, the two snakes of hers vanished and she got slashed at her shoulder.
"Cagalli!" Athrun growled. His fire became vastly stronger. The five were thrown out of the battle, and when they sat up, Athrun had already picked Cagalli up and ran at his full speed.
"You are a fool!" He grunted forgetting he was carrying her bridal style. She blushed crimson at her posture but tried to protest:
"I just came to help you out!"
"And you almost lost your life. Where's the Princess?" Athrun hissed through his gritted teeth. Cagalli eyes widened, she had never been so scared before, and now he made her frightened.
"They are hiding at a tree near the battle. But you ran past it." Cagalli answered shivering and held her wound tight to prevent the bleeding.
"D… it! Now we can't return, so it's up to Kira. Hope nothing will happen to them." He grunted.
"So… Where are we going?" Cagalli asked helplessly blinking.
"Somewhere far from here, then we will find some detours to go back to them." He said not looking at her.
To be continued.
A/N: So, how is this? Hope you all like it, please review so that the next one will be better. Thank you very much.