Cagalli's mouth hung wide open nothing she knew was making sense to her anymore, in one day everything went from normal to "magical". Cagalli's cat Alex had turned into a tiger and then into a human (and not a bad looking human at that). Cagalli fell backward onto her couch, trying to take in all that has happened to her. The boy looked to be around her own age he had dark blue hair and emerald green eyes that looked like they could read any emotion, he looked as though he belonged to her world except for his clothes he had dark black robes on as though he was trying to blend into shadows. All though his clothes were ripped and full of holes you could tell they were meant for royalty.
Cagalli regained her senses " your name isn't Alex is it?"
The guy to looked down to afraid to meet her gaze as if he felt guilty about something. He shook his head.
"Then can I at least know your name?" Cagalli questioned
" Athrun, my name is Athrun Zala," the first time the boy spoke it sent a tingle down Cagalli's spine as if they had met somewhere before, along time ago.
"Now tell me what this all about," Cagalli questioned in a stern tone.
"Well what do you want to know first?" Athrun said still not making eye contact.
" You know you can look me in the eye I'm not going to kill you, maybe," Cagalli laughed.
Athrun looked up his eyes shinned a glowing green.
Cagalli was again stunned "what are you?"
"Well as for what I am I'm human, and I come from earth, just in a different dimension I guess in your world you do not know about the two but in ours we do. We even have names for the two dimensions. Yours is called Grintony and ours is called Limphony and every 100 years or so our dimensions connect for about 4 months and during this time period if you know the exact location of the crossing you can travel between the worlds. Where I come from humans can transform into any animal they please. Also in my dimension a selected few have power over the elements earth, fire, wind and water. I am one of these selected few we are called elementalist." Athrun explained.
"Wait, wait you people can turn into animals and have magical powers, this I have to see," Cagalli demanded.
"Very well," Athrun gat up and took a deep breath. "Earth," a small earthquake shook the ground under Cagalli's feet. "Fire," a fireball appeared in Athrun's hand and shot at the couch next to Cagalli, the couch caught fire. "Water," water swirled around Athrun and shot at the couch where it hit the fire and extinguished the flames. "Wind," a caressing wind blew past Cagalli's face.
Cagalli was once again speechless. "Ok continue with your story," Cagalli managed to choke out.
"Anyways in Limphony there exist two kingdoms, Zaft and Blue Cosmos, I belong to Zaft. Blue Cosmos and Zaft have been at war even before I was born no one remembers the true cause of the war all anyone knows is the two forces cant seem to see eye to eye. My ruler of Zaft King Patrick is my father and that would make me prince and that would also make me number two on Blue Cosmos's hit list my father of course being number one. Anyway I was out in the neutral part of Limphony on a top secret mission with my comrades when we where attacked. I got split up from my team and I fled to this dimension hoping I could escape them but they followed me using there high tech weapons to try and kill me. I knew the could not interfere with the lives of the humans here in Grintony so I changed myself into a normal house cat to try and blend in but they still managed to shoot me once."
"Wait a second if you can transform into any animal you want why not just transform into a bird and fly high into the sky so the cant get you," Cagalli questioned.
"I can't travel to far way from the portal if I do my powers don't work," Athrun explained.
"Is this the first time you have been to this dimension?" Cagalli asked.
"Yes as I said before this stream just opened up and it only opens every 100 years or so," Athrun explained. "As I was saying I was running down the crowded street I saw your bag and jumped in it until I was healed."
"So then," Cagalli looked at the ground. "Why didn't you just leave after you were healed."
"I felt safe here I knew that Blue Cosmos just couldn't come busting through the door. Also you looked really sad and lonely and you grew attached to the cat so I couldn't just leave you would have been heart broken besides I kind of like it here," Cagalli smiled a bit.
"Anyway I guess you want me gone so I'll be leaving now," Athrun started for the door. "Thank you for your kindness I know this may be a little weird goodbye."
"No! Athrun wait," he turned around "I cant let you go out there when there are people waiting to kill you, you can stay."
Athrun smiled " I know my friends fled into this world too there probably not far, I hope to find them before Blue Cosmos does."
"The only problem is I'll be going back to college soon and you cant stay here by yourself," Cagalli sighed. "Looks like I'll need a dorm room this year. I'm going to have to take you to my classes so you should probably enlist in my school," Cagalli suggested.
"But I don't know a thing about this dimension maybe I'll just stay behind and read some books until I learn enough about this world then after that I'll enlist in your school."
"Ok school starts in two days, while we are in my dorm room you pick one form and stay in it got it!" Cagalli told Athrun
"Yes miss Attha," Athrun saluted.
"Don't call me miss Attha, my name is Cagalli call me by that all my friends do," Cagalli said.
"So does this mean I'm your friend," Athrun asked hopefully.
"Well lets just say I wouldn't let just anyone stay in my house," Cagalli said with a smile.
"Wait where am I supposed to sleep," Athrun asked.
"You can have my parents room there is also a shower use it you really need one and when your all done come and see me we'll se what we can do about getting you some nice clothes," Cagalli said.
"What's wrong with what I am wearing?" Athrun said lifting his robes
"Normal people don't wear stuff like that in this dimension," Cagalli said taking another look at his robes.
"Are you going to help me look for my comrades?" Athrun asked.
"Of course what are friends for but right now we need to worry about you being safe that means you need to blend in and in order to do that we need you to look normal and to that we need you to get ready so we can buy you some normal clothes so go up stairs and get ready."