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Chapter 5: Miracle
Miracles are blissful. They would always be relieving because they bring to salvation to mankind. Of course, that's what every parent told their children before they tucked them into bed. Again, of course that was the truth... even if that was only a small fraction of the whole truth...
... because the whole truth would never be as carefree as that.
With every miracle that brought salvation to everyone, despair hid cunningly in the shadow of the happiness that salvation had brought. Waiting... and waiting... for the right moment to strike and to send that very same happiness shattering into million pieces to the endless hole of despair...
It was dark...
Everywhere she looked... it was dark.
She looked to her left, to her right, above her, even below her and still, darkness was all that she could see. The endless darkness she was currently trapped in. She hated it... because...
... because in darkness...
she was alone...
alone... by herself... in the empty, void place...
She hated darkness... she always had...
She took a deep breath and opened her mouth, screaming, yelling, calling for someone... anyone... to lead her out of this darkness...
to no avail... her voice would not come out at all... not even a squeak was heard.
Her hands instinctively went up to cover her throat as she coughed. She opened her mouth one more time, moved her tongue and let the air in her lungs to flow out of her throat. Her hand felt the vibration of her vocal chord... yet, still nothing was heard... her voice would not come out.
She coughed one more time and tried again in desperation... this time a raspy sound came out. Her heart leapt in joy at the successful attempt.
"aaa... aa..." She tried again, testing her voice. Finally! Now I could ask for help! She thought to herself in joy.
She was afraid of the darkness... she needed to get out of this darkness... fast, before she lost herself in it. "HELP! SOMEONE! ANYONE!" She yelled out with her voice she had just acquired.
She kept on yelling for help... but no one heard her plea, she could only heard her voice echoed in this massive dark place. Her heart quickened it beat as she grew more and more wary at her surrounding... not that she could actually see anything beside of herself.
She dropped herself pathetically on the ground as tears rolled down her cheek. "Someone, anyone... help me..." she pleaded to no one as her plead fell into empty place.
She didn't know how long has it been since she had stopped thinking... it was as if it had been forever since she was in this darkness. She had stopped asking for anyone's help, she had stopped calling for help. No one was going to help her anyway. She had to face it, the hard truth... she was alone... the moment he said he hated her.
...
...
... but, who was he?
Who is she?
She thought long and hard and yet nothing came up.
She could not remember. Her eyes widened in alarm as she realized it. How could she not remember about anything?
She brought her knee closer to her as she hugged it while burying her head between the little space between her knee and chest and rocked back and forth as she thought hard.
Who is she?
Who was he?
Why did it matter so much to her when he said that he hated he?
Something pieced through her heart when she recalled the thought of him hating her. She brought up a hand and clenched the spot above where her heart should be as if she was trying to ease up the pain in her heart.
Soon, more questions grew in her mind... like for example, where is she right now?
Who is she?Why is she here?When did she arrive here?What was she doing here?
More and more questions flew into her mind, swimming around her head as she thought harder than ever on the answer.
"Ugh... my head..." she muttered painfully to herself as she clutched her head tightly. "Someone... anyone... help me... father..."
Father?
Yes! Now she remembered! Her father! Could he be her father?
She though about the possibility once again, while ignoring the pounding headache she was having.
No, he could not be her father. Her father loves her very deeply... so it could not be him.
Wait! Her father! That's it! Her father would help her if she called him! He certainly would! He always did!
Mustering up all of her newfound energy, she called out to her father. She called out to her father all the while wondering why hadn't her appeared. It was not until the fifth call when she slowly realized something.
Her father would not be able to help her at all... he won't even be able to reply to her call.
"Otou-san..." She called out with a much, much, softer volume followed by tears of sadness.
Her father would not be able to answer to her plead this time around...
... because he was now with her mother...
Her father has died.
Again, she did not know how had it been since she found herself alone in this void of darkness, but she did know something. After severing several agonizing pains, she finally found out about herself.
She finally could say who she was. She was Lacus Clyne, daughter of Seigle Clyne.
Aside from that, she also remembered everything about herself. She remembered Cagalli, Athrun, Waltfeld-san, Ramius-san, and many other people. She remembered about the war, about the end of it, about how her father died.
Yet, despite all of her newfound informations, she could still feel something important was missing...
... something that was very, very important to her.
However, no matter how much she tried to remember it, she could not remember that something.
Could that something be him?
Or could it be something else?
She groaned in frustration as she laid down on her back on the dark floor (? Or was it something else?)
Why can't she remember him?
She closed her eyes and sighed. Maybe she should just rest for now... after all, all of those thinking had taken quite a toll of her mind.
She rolled to her side and started to hum a little tune out of boredom. Being in the darkness, although it had terrified her very much, it had also began to bore her out of her mind. There was no one beside of herself here, no one was there to answer her plead. She was alone after all! She thought to herself bitterly and nonchalantly as she let out a bitter laugh.
"I'm alone..." she told herself.
"I'm alone... hahaha... that's just so funny..." she chuckled to herself. "Why won't you help me?" she asked to particularly no one... just who was she asking for help though?
Who was you?
Could you be him, whom she was wondering about?
"Help me..." Lacus muttered to herself as she curled up into a ball.
Then, suddenly, as if answering her plead, a tiny light appeared, slowly dispelling the darkness around her.
Lacus! A voice in the light called out to her. The voice was foreign to her ears... yet, that very same voice was more than familiar to her. The voice sounded so close yet so far away from her.
Lacus? Wake up! Lacus! She heard the voice pleaded to her as she got u to her feet and started to run to the light... to the voice calling her.
"Help me!" yelled Lacus as she ran as fast as her feet could carry.
As she ventured closer and closer to the light, it became brighter and brighter. She closed her eyes when the light was too bright for her and blindly ran, using just the voice as her guide.
She ran and ran...
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...
...
...
... and she suddenly stopped.
She opened her eyes slowly. One eye at a time and she blinked a couple of times, adjusting her eyes to the light.
When her eyes she finally was adjusted to the light, she came to realization that there was someone beside her, holding her hand.
His hand was warm and large compared to her own. She looked to her left and saw a boy. He was smiling broadly and upon closer inspection, she concluded that he seemed to be her age, if not older and he also seemed to be very delighted about something.
"Lacus, I'm so glad you're okay!" said the boy with happiness practically screaming out of his voice.
She looked at him one more time and tried to remember who he was but nothing came up. He looked to familiar, yet she could not remember him at all. To add to the fun of it, he seemed to be really glad about her awakening too. Inwardly sighing in defeat, she finally mustered up all of her energy and courage and asked him the question that had been nagging her.
"Eto... who are you?" asked Lacus as she watched the scene changed itself in front of her very own eyes.
He had not even taken three steps further from where he was before when he heard a soft moan coming from the comatosed figure behind him.
Kira's eyes widened as he audibly gasped in shock... or anticipation... or just pure joy as he turned around. His heart soared with joy when saw that Lacus was indeed, the one that produced that groan he just heard, as along with producing another groan, her fingers also twitched a bit.
"Lacus!" called out Kira as he held her hand and his call were responded with another groan.
"Lacus? Wake up! Lacus!" He pleaded to her. His heart soon soared with joy and bliss when she slowly opened her eyes, revealing her clear blue orbs that had been hidden for months to him.
"Lacus, I'm so glad you're okay!" said Kira in happiness as he wrapped his arms around her.
Lacus looked at the stranger in front of her in confusion. Why was this man so happy for her? Who was this man? Why does he felt so familiar to her... but if so, why can't she remember who he was? Hundreds of questions went around her head until she could not think anymore. Shrugging of the less important questions from her mind, she asked him the main question that nagged her greatly. "Ano... who are you?" asked Lacus.
"What?" asked Kira slowly with dread slowly filling his heart. "Do you not recognize me at all, Lacus?"
"Eto... who are you? Have we before?" Replied Lacus innocently as the room fell into a deep silence.
"... ano... are you okay?" asked Lacus a couple seconds later, breaking the tense air and the silence in the room created by the silence. "Did I say something I should not have said?" She asked worriedly.
Kira slowly took a step back, followed by another... and another... and another until he bumped into the wall behind him, his face was full shock. It couldn't be... his worst nightmare had just came true. She didn't know who he was... she had forgotten him.
He clenched his hands and abruptly exited the room, nearly knocking Cagalli down to the ground if Athrun was not there to catch her.
"Hey, Kira! What's your problem!" asked Cagalli in anger while holding onto her brother's collar in a threatening matter.
Kira just looked at his twin blankly and replied her in monotone. "She woke up..."
"Who? Lacus?" asked Athrun as Cagalli slowly released her brother.
"Yes... she woke up... just now." Replied Kira.
"She did! Then what the hell are you doing here! What do you look so upset for anyway?" asked Cagalli with a hint of anger in her voice. "You should be happy about her awakening!"
"I would... and I do... but what is there to be happy about if she doesn't remember me at all?" murmured Kira as Cagalli walked past him.
"What did you mean?" asked Athrun.
"Lacus... she doesn't remember me... " replied Kira, his voice void from any emotion but sadness.
To be continued...
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