I don't own Gundam Seed (although I wish it was).
It's just that I was bored and wrote this story in my mind and decided to put it online. This is an AsuCaga fanfic and for the first time I'm using Lacus as an antagonist.
I'm not really a good writer so thank you for motivating me with the review and all
And don't worry; I would clear things up as I update more chapters
I just prefer to take the story on a slower pace but not the updating
So *fingers cross for updates*
And feel free to ask me anything, I'll either answer them or ask you to wait for future chapters
So that's it Enjoy reading: D
Hair like golden shreds, Amber orbs that can surge through anyone's soul, wearing a dress, white as snow adorned with brilliant gems, she appeared as the contrary of the pauper-looking princess who strolled the streets a while ago .And now, she stood waiting in all her glory. Her beauty was incomparable. One of the two guards, beside her, thought. Scanning her appearance, no ordinary girl would have the guts to stand beside her even for a second. The jewels she wore were dazzling, but they seem to lose their gleam when she's the one wearing them. Surely, no man could ever resist her, not when she'll put every woman into a great sense of jealousy. But she was no different from any piece of art, No matter what figure she has, No matter what color you paint her with, she's only meant be looked at and appreciated from afar. Beyond the doors she bides to be presented.
"I present to the king. Freedert Metherlence, Grand priestess of Neo Verona"
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I entered the throne room to greet my father, but the first thing that caught my sight was the busy servants, running on all four corners of the room and those large golden curtains that hung by the windows. The servants don't usually put them up especially during ordinary days but seeing that tomorrow will be my sister and her Fiancé's arrival, I suppose that's reason enough to show off those precious drapes.
"I suppose that the grand designer doesn't need his assistant anymore" Cagalli ridiculed, as she caught sight of her father. He was also busy ordering the maids to make the room ever grander than what he has seen seconds ago. She really felt sorry for the maids because in a blink of an eye, her father wanted everything to be changed. Demanding more colors, more designs, more accent and to never leave any dirt uncleaned.
"Freedert, there you are!" the king greeted her with glee.
Kalos Metherlence VI, that was the name of her father, every time Cagalli sees him, his appearance never fails to put a smile on her face. For he looks exactly like a large teapot with a funny looking mustache attached to it. He was a bulky, round old man that has a uniquely curved trim beneath his nose that always made him look happy even his mad. He looks really different from her uncle, Cagalli thought. His attire doesn't help him either because each and every clothing is somewhat made to stand out in a funny way and for that, she has been grateful to whoever is the seamstress who had embroidered such an amazing work. There were times when she asked why her father would continuously wear an amusingly absurd ruff. With a dignified posture her father would always claim that it's only proper to dress as such in front of his court and his daughter was no exception as being one. He was that kind of a father, funny and loving. Cagalli loved him a lot and a day without a light laugh with her dearest father is incomplete.
"Good day to you Father, why have you summoned me?" she said, as she clings on her father's arm as if wanting to take a tour around the decorated room
"Oh my dear, I don't suppose you're unaware of what tomorrow is" her father inquired, concerned if she doesn't know of Lacus' coming, while the two of them stroll along the grandiose room.
"Oh, I do Father, and you have no idea, how elated I am to see her, it's just that… aren't these too much? Everything's augmented and you look tired already" she replied assuring her father that she knows her sister is coming home soon. But indeed, the room was getting over decorated by the minute. Colors no longer match, vases invade unnecessary spaces, and the king still says it needs more improvement. And the once immense throne room turned into a narrow looking one where everything and anything you can buy around town can be found already.
"My dear Freedert, Don't turn that worried face on me, I am a father who missed his daughter and creating a magnificent banquet is on-"
"-is only proper, right my king?" Cagalli cut her father's words with a smile. Maybe her father is tired already and needs some rest but she couldn't really blame him and neither could she stop him from doing this because that's how she knew him, and that's how he shows his love for both sisters.
"Well, I think you could remove those fabrics and replace them with white roses" She pointed out in confidence
"White roses?"
"Oh! How could I forget! Splendid Freedert, you really are Lacus' sister"
Of course, I'm her sister, Father! Who else would I be?
Her father quickly ordered the maids to remove the scattered fabrics and get the finest white roses that they could find, for they were Lacus' favorite flowers and it would be neglectful as a father if he forgets what his daughter wants. Cagalli found amusement in his father's actions. Surely, the people of orb would be ecstatic seeing their king act in haste like this.
"I figured, Freedert, would have gotten those flowers along her way back" A distasteful voice suddenly pitched through behind the doors. Freedert knows who its owner was. All that's needed is for the door to be opened, and reveal her mother, Queen Via.
Cagalli was in awe upon seeing her mother. She couldn't have known that she went to the orphanage is it? Miriallia wouldn't betray her and she would never tell them to her mother, definitely not to her.
"What's the matter Freedert? The cat got your tongue?" Now she was being sarcastic. She hates it when her mother becomes and speaks like that. Via has always been like that towards her but she couldn't be accustomed to it no matter how many years it has been.
"Via, there you are, where have you been?" the king asked her while Cagalli was just standing there in between them, with eyes of fear steadily looking towards her mother, thinking of what's going to happen next.
"I was just talking to Halca, Kalos. She gave me quite an interesting news so I couldn't resist" Via shifted her look from Kalos, back to the priestess which made Cagalli's blood run cold.
Halca? She was listening to us this morning?
"News? And what news may have caught your interest, may I inquire" seeing the situation as still positive, the king asked.
"I dare-say Freedert, knows more of what I'm talking about." Via just wanted to make her feel guilty doesn't she. She could've said it straight to the point, but up to the last part of this, she wouldn't give it to Cagalli isn't she. She wanted her daughter to be the one to tell her father exactly what she did. And it was a complete dead end for her.
So gathering all the strength that she could muster, seeing how confused her father was and how happy her mother will be, she said with one full breathe "I went to the Orphanage, and met with father Malchio"
"WHAT!" It took time before the king could think about what his daughter just said. But when he finally had full grasp of the idea, the king erupted with anger, it was a good thing Cagalli's back was the one facing him, for her father was in rage of what he just heard and she wouldn't want to have the sight of that. Not when she knew her father had been so gentle to her.
The maids stopped at what they're doing, they too, were surprised at the king's voice. They didn't know if they will ignore the situation and just continue or they should just get out. It was not till then, that the queen gave them a venomous stare that confirmed that they should leave the room at once
"Here I was, waiting for you and you were with him this morning?" her father questioned her with a snide remark of disappointment.
"But father-"Cagalli immediately faced his father to explain her side of the story but was cut off by her Mother's words
"This Morning? She's been sneaking around this castle, taking a tour to the orphanage for 8 years already, and that's what you'll ask her, Kalos?" if the first statement wasn't enough to cause anger on her father, then her mother's second statement did the work, for she could only look at the floor now and not in her Father's eyes. She doesn't want to be looked at with such loathsome eyes and especially not from her father.
"You? My own daughter, you managed to fool me for 8 years" asked her father
"No father, not fooled" Cagalli tried to explain her account, begging her father to listen to her
"What did he say to you, did he tell you anything about his life in this castle, did he? And I order you to tell me, now" she couldn't help but be confused at her father's panic. It's as if he became a different person. It's not that anything different have happened when she goes to the orphanage for the past 8 years. All she does is play with the children, tell them stories and share an afternoon tea with her uncle and then bid him goodbye.
"Nothing, there was nothing in particular as far as I can remember" she replied with her mind full of questions left unanswered. She tried thinking what her father is trying to point out but she can't recall any memory unique to what her father was speaking of.
"Oh! Stop the lies, Freedert?" Her Mother blurted out from her back, forcing her to speak up the truth and showing complete disbelief
"You know well, I do not lie Mother!" defending herself she exclaimed.
"You don't? Then tell the truth now and I'm sure Haumea will forgive her priestess for such deception." Her mother wouldn't back down on knowing the truth. Via would always go against Freedert. It's not only in this situation did she try to insinuate the princess but there were lots of times and whenever it happens, people in the castle find it dreadful for a mother to do such acts against her own daughter, her own flesh and blood.
"The truth is what I speak of. I've known no lies and have not spoken about them", finally giving up on her mother she decided to face her Father, hoping that the latter would understand her, but her mother could only assure her that this wasn't going to end in her favor.
"I'm sure Miriallia knows the truth, a little torturing and-"
"No!" she cut her mother's statement. Cagalli couldn't help but be in fear and disgust because of what her mother said. She was willing to hurt other people to get what she wants and she's going to start with one of her valued friends, Mir.
"Father, believe in me. I ask for your forgiveness for sneaking around the castle for years and not telling them to you. But I do not wish to deceive you" her voice was now begging for forgiveness and pleading for her friend's life to be spared from suffering. Her eyes threatening to foil out tears.
"You do not wish to lie, so you kept it as a secret for years" With those words of disappointment and pain from her father, She knew it was the truth, she thought to herself. And at that moment she knew she could no longer defend herself. Since when did the air in this room changed so fast? One moment they were laughing and upon her mother's arrival, they were now in a whirlpool of argument dragging Freedert deep down the depths.
"Father, uncle is a good man" she was weakening by the moment, growing tired for this endless discussion.
"A good man? Then you should have met him years ago, when he still lived in this very fortress" Via exclaimed.
"Via that's enough!"
"If he's a good man, then he should have just thrown himself to Idola and die there reflecting for violating the will of Haumea"
"Via…"
"I'm telling her this now, because judging from her acts, she'll most likely end up-"
"I said THAT'S ENOUGH" her father's voice echoed throughout the room. She was trying to defend her uncle and the next thing she knew, her parents were now in an argument. Her father's smile can no longer be regained and the three of them were no longer different from the decorations within the room, in a mess. A few moments pass and no one tried to articulate words. She was trying to decipher what her parents were arguing about but she couldn't put the pieces together. Not until her father decided to let her step out of the room and let him and Via alone to talk
"Freedert, I wish to talk to your mother alone, leave us" Without looking at her, her father said with a hint of exhaustion in his voice
"But father I-"Cagalli spoke wishing to continue their discussion for there were many questions in her mind that keeps on puzzling her.
"We'll talk, but not now" with a firm hand, her father signaled her to stop and just leave and that was then that she finally understood, she has to head out the room at once.
Cagalli walked towards the door knowing via's vision was focused on her. If her mother could release daggers just by looking at her, she would have been dead by now. Passing along her mother's side, Cagalli took note of the slight distance between them and how she couldn't feel any sign of the mother she were before to her, before her daughter became the priestess that she is now, and she couldn't help but be in tears for having lost that person.
"Good bye, Mother" with one whisper, she was already on the opposite side of the door, Leaving her parents alone to speak on their own. Once they were alone, Via's eyes were once again focused on Kalos.
"You knew she did something deceitful, and you just let it pass?" she questioned her husband
"The past would never be repeated, there's no sense in letting her know"
"What if she already knows, because that blind brother of yours had told her all about it" the Queen exasperated
"I am king! Via, do not forget that and once I order to drop it, I expect that you follow. We will not tell anything to Freedert, We will not talk about this anymore and that's final!" Kalos understands his wife's view but whether Cagalli knows the truth or not, He can't do anything. Even in the past, he was too powerless against fate and the pattern of life that it has weaved already for them.
"I hope you still have the pride to say that, when your beloved daughter is finally able to destroy this continent and send us all to our caskets back to Idola" With her final statement, via stepped out of the room leaving the king on his accounts.
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It was the darkest place in the whole kingdom. It was a confined room that not even a ray of light could enter from the outside. The room located on the deepest part of the castle, serving as an asylum to a mythical Crystal bearing three colossal shards of Ice of a never ending slumber. Not all citizens knew such room existed. But all of Neo Verona, young, old, living or dead, perceive, that what lies inside that impenetrable place was the most sacred fraction Haumea could ever provide them with, It is the sole purifier of all things nefarious, the animus that grants power to the weak, the quintessence of the people's salvation, the berth of Escalus and the regalia of those entitled with the name, Freedert, It's the second hand of time.
And here on her destitute and confusion, Kneels Freedert in prayer.
Eyes closed and a silk veil over her glory, blinding her from the wordly sins. Her Hands together, sheltering those who are weak .And her every being, offered, so that life may continuously live. With nothing but the light provided by the famed crystal, she raises her head in an infinite calling. She prays for the weak, for them to be protected, for the grieving, so they may be granted solace. For the lost, to find their way back home and even for a child's wound, to turn back as it was before. It has always been like this. Her life was in prayer and on prayer it shall live. And that is the reason how the feared piece of land had been able to remain constantly seated in the nearest place under the homage of Gods; she prayed for it. And will incessantly do so until the end of mankind's eternity, in her Unchanging and forever alluring form.
"Confusion"
Suddenly disrupted in her ode by a voice, she opened her eyes to catch a glimpse of the form reflected inside the Ice. And there she saw her,
"Escalus"
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I knew you guys would notice..
The 2nd chapter has an idea from Prince of Persia
Oh well, shit happens when you watch a movie and can't forget one of the scenes
Although Neo Verona is not on a dessert setting though…
Anyway...I'm just starting with the introductions
One more chapter before ASUCAGA MOMENTS begin…
So…I ask for your patience okay..