Kira, Athrun, and Shinn had their eyes closed as they felt their bodies being dragged through the city. They sensed much hostility all around them which didn't surprise them much. Kira had slightly opened his eyes to see that he and his brothers were being dragged through some sort of decorated palace.
There were paintings, statues, and ancient kinds of displays everywhere. "What is this place?" was the only question that ran through Kira's head as he was still being pulled. After a few minutes, the three were brought to an extremely large room. He saw angels were gathered in stands around the room.
The three were roughly tossed down onto the floor as the angel warriors left the room. Kira, Shinn, and Athrun slowly rose to their feet as they looked around the room. "What kind of place is this?" whispered Shinn to his brothers.
"I think it's some sort of court room" whispered Athrun to Shinn.
"I guess whoever's in charge here is gonna judge us" whispered Kira. They look up at the tallest stand to see many figures sitting there, shrouded by white cloaks. In the stands, Stella and the other four girls sat in the top balcony. The girls were keeping a close eye on the boys incase they might try to pull something funny.
"We've heard quite a lot about you three. You've killed a great many, ending their lives with a quick strike. Typical for ones of your age but the murdering of angels is a great crime to us and especially to your race. On top of that, murdering those of a neutral state is an international crime" said the one in the middle, obviously the god king.
"A sacred violation like this can only be solved one way… death" said the god second from the middle who had a deep and echoing voice.
The three gasped in shock as to what their fate had been decided to be. "You guys don't understand you've got the wrong people!" said Shinn.
"And what do you mean by that?" said a female god.
"While we do admit we've taken lives to protect our people from death, the demons have been going around murdering innocents as well. They're obviously lying about being a neutral state if they pull things like this" said Athrun.
"What utter nonsense!" spat the god on the far right.
"But it's the truth, we saw it for ourselves!" said Kira.
"Enough of this, you're obviously just trying to get out of your situation by pinning it on others! I hear by sentence the three of you to death… by decapitation" said the king god.
The handcuffs around the three's wrists suddenly became very heavy and the three were forced to their knees on the floor with their heads out in front. "Now before you die tell me, do you regret what you've done and would you want to apologize for your crimes, to get on your knees and beg for forgiveness?" said the king god.
"If living would mean bowing down to the likes of you guys… I'd rather die on my feet with my head held high" said Kira with a sly smirk. Athrun and Shinn nodded in agreement.
"Then it's a shame that won't happen" said the king god.
Three angel executioners walked over to the three brothers carrying Kira, Athrun, and Shinn's swords. The angels walked next the vampire angel whose sword they were holding. Stella gasped at what was about to happen.
The angels slowly raised the sword of the one they would kill above their head. Kira, Athrun, and Shinn watched them for when they would strike so they would be ready. The first angel executioner brought Shinn's sword down at Shinn's neck. "Now!" thought Shinn as he rolled backwards and dodged the strike.
While balancing on his head and neck Shinn spun his body rapidly with his legs swirling very fast. They knocked the sword out of the angels hands, and it stabbed into the ground right behind Athrun. Everyone in the room gasped to what had just happened. Athrun quickly moved his arms back and the blade of the sword cut through the handcuffs.
The other two executioners ran at Athrun with the other two swords. Athrun quickly grabbed Shinn's sword and slashed the two executioners down. Athrun cut through Shinn and Kira's cuffs and passed Shinn his sword as he and Kira quickly grabbed their swords. Angel warriors began entering the room surrounding the brothers.
"Listen, we'll make it out through the ceiling. Follow my lead when I tell you guys" whispered Athrun.
The two nodded. The angels charged at the three with their spear held out in front. "Now!" said Athrun. The three quickly jumped extremely high into the air causing the incoming angels to crash into each other and they were all impaled by each others spears. The three flew up to the glass window in the ceiling and smashed through it.
Glass shards rained down below as the three flew through. "Gather more men here, hunt them down!" ordered the king god. Stella and the girls quickly nodded to each other as they left the room.
Kira, Athrun, and Shinn landed from their high jump on a building. Kira scouted the city until he noticed the gate to the city was south of their direction. "We've got to make it for the gate!" said Kira. The brothers quickly sprouted the black feathered wings and flew off for the gate.
They stopped as suddenly the five angels they had encountered before appeared in front of them. "Move it, we don't have time for games!" said Kira.
"Not a chance" said Stella as the girls drew their swords.
"You guys must be crazy if you think we're just gonna let you go after pulling something like that!" said Cagalli.
"I said move it!" said Kira as his the blade of his sword was covered by a blue aura. He swung the sword which sent a wave of energy off it. The girls flew over the blast only to see the guys fly off towards the cities exit. The girls quickly flew after them ensuing another chase between the two parties.
The two groups had flown out of the city and to the clouds. "Quick, into the clouds!" said Kira.
The guys flew into groups of extremely large clouds trying to elude their pursuers. The girls were following them through one cloud but when the girls came out the other side they saw the guys were gone. "Damn we lost them!" said Meyrin.
"Find them!" said Luna and the girls began searching through the clouds which would be extremely difficult. Unknown to them, Kira, Athrun, and Shinn were in the cloud that they last appeared in. They came out of the top to see the angels frantically searching for them.
"Let's get back home quick. We should be safe there" said Shinn.
"No, we won't" said Athrun.
"Huh, why not?" said a confused Shinn.
"Shinn take a look at the situation we're in right now. As far as the angels and gods are concerned, we're deadly lawbreaking criminals, and, they sent their warriors to hunt us down. So if we were to go back home right now and they found us"
Shinn sighed and looked down in sadness as the answer hit him like a ton of bricks. "They'd slaughter everyone. Mom, dad, and Mayu as well" said Shinn. Kira nodded proving his answer was correct.
"So then that means" said Shinn.
"Yeah, we have to leave here. This place isn't safe for our people as long as we're here" said Athrun.
Shinn felt crushed inside, because now he'd have to abandon his home and family so that they could survive and not pay the price for his actions. "Well, at the very least we should say good-bye" said Shinn. Kira and Athrun agreed and the three flew back to their home without the angels noticing.
When they got home it was dark as everyone was asleep. They got to the palace and slipped inside. They told their parents the situation and while saddened, they had to face the facts. Their sons were now considered dangerous criminals and were being hunted down as they spoke.
Haruma gave each of his sons a hug as Caridad gave them a kiss on the cheek. She told them to be strong and to look out for each other and that no matter how others think of them she would always love them. They left the room to say good-bye to Mayu.
They slipped into her room and gently woke her up. She quickly hugged them seeing they were alright but told her what happened in heaven and that they had to leave. Mayu quickly broke down in tears but her brothers comforted her. They promised her that if they managed to clear everything up then they would come back to her and the four of them pinkie swore on it.
Athrun and Kira were ready to go, but Shinn had one last thing to do. "I'll be out in a sec" said Shinn.
"Don't be long" said Athrun as he and Kira left the room.
Shinn took Mayu's hand in his and placed something into her hand. When she opened it she saw it was a beautiful necklace with a pink diamond on it. There was a rose inside of the diamond and it had many colored petals. The colors were red, pink, and yellow. "It's something I thought you should have" said Shinn.
"Thank you Shinn" said Mayu who still had tears streaming down her cheeks. Shinn gently wiped them away with his finger.
"Be strong Mayu, okay?" asked Shinn with a smile.
"Okay" said Mayu.
"Thank you" said Shinn. He gently kissed Mayu on her forehead and left the room. Mayu not wanting to cry anymore went back to sleep. She held the necklace Shinn gave her close to her chest.
"Please come back to me, onii-chans" said Mayu in her sleep, praying for her brothers.
Shinn met up with Kira and Athrun outside. "Let's go" said Shinn. The three sprouted their wings and flew off into the distance. As they flew, Shinn took one last look at his home. After all, it may be the last time he ever sees it. The three disappeared into the night with black feathers floating down from the sky.
Several days had passed since the princes had left their home. They had found refuge in a medium sized village. The reason they had chosen this village was because it was untouched by the conflict.
The people there were angels and vampire angels who were able to accept each others existence. Everyone was living peaceful lives there and so far, so were Kira and his brothers.
But something strange happened one day. They had gotten major headaches and to them it felt like their heads were going to split in half. They could see what appeared to be jewel shaped seeds in their minds each seed being the color of the persons eyes. Kira's were purple, Athrun's were green, and Shinn's were red.
They could see that the seeds were throbbing and light was shining from them as if they were going to burst. The seeds did burst leaving a rainbow vapor when it did and guys pupils shrank and their irises grew. They felt like their mental and physical powers expanded beyond anything they could imagine.
The feeling only lasted a few seconds and when they blinked their eyes were back to normal. "That was weird" said Kira as the three walked off.
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