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Mayura: A fading star

As I stood there looking at the large orange, white, and black mobile suit in front of me I could not help but take a few steps toward my M-1 Astray. As I neared it I ran my hand along the metal that made up the foot of the machine. As I stood there a sound in the distance caused me to look over and see the head mechanic chewing out one of his subordinates again.

I turned to see Juri and Asagi both working on one of the other Astray's not far away. I pushed up off of the floor and floated up to the cockpit of the suit in front of me. After climbing in I started to go through all of the processes of making sure that everything was ready for the next time that we launched.

As I sat there the alarms of the ship began to blare and I lifted my helmet up over my head before securing it. Before I noticed Asagi jumping away from Juri's suit to her own. A few moments after the chest closed in her suit Asagi's face appeared on the screen of my mobile suit.

"Okay girls this looks like it will be the final battle." Asagi said, "So let's all come back alive."

As I activated the power for my Astray something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head to see what it was, and to my surprise it was princess Cagalli in a pilot's suit. I turned back forward and connected back to Asagi and Juri.

"Look's like princess Cagalli is joining us out there this time." I said.

The other two noticed and we all agreed to keep her safe during the battle. Without her then Orb could never be rebuilt like it was before. I finished activating my suit and started to move over to the catapult. After a few moments I was given the okay to leave the ship.

I could feel myself being pushed back into the seat as my mobile suit was launched from the Kusanagi I could already see the flashes of shots in the distance. I saw that Kira and Athrun had already been launched from the Eternal and were already attaching themselves to the Meteor attachments. They were both amazing with them during the defense of the PLANTs, just hours ago.

As I started to move toward the battle the same large beam that had been used during the last battle was fired again. We were all horrified as we watched it streak across space. I could hear over the intercom of my suit that the target had been the moon. We watched not being able to do anything as the Earth forces base on the moon was destroyed.

I don't know about the others but I had to do what ever it took to stop this war. I knew that when it was over that I would have to give up piloting my suit, but I was okay with that to help rebuild no make Orb better then it was before the Earth alliances attacked.

I watched at the two more powerful mobile suits took off as fast as they could to try and stop the fighting, I was joined by Asagi, Juri, Princess Cagalli and commander La Flaga who was piloting the strike better and better every time as we headed into the battle.

As we neared the battle I could already see the carnage that had happened. There were already many destroyed and damaged mobile suits floating in the area. As I used the controls to raise the beam rifle in the right hand a memory of when I was younger flashed in my mind.

"Mayura you're out of formation." Asagi yelled over the radio, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'll be fine." I said as I shook my head, before firing in the direction of a ZAFT GuAIZ destroying it.

'Why did that memory return like that?' I thought to myself as I continued to fire the rifle of my mobile suit. I could see that princess Cagalli was still getting used to her mobile suit so I stayed near her.

As if slow motion I could see a beam heading right toward her suit from behind, she had not seen it. I pushed the thrusters of my suit to maximum and just before the beam could connect with the Strike Rouge that she was piloting I was able to push us both out of the way.

"Thanks Mayura." Princess Cagalli said over the radio as she fired her rifle.

"I can't let anything happen to you princess Cagalli." I said back.

"Fine but just call me Cagalli." The princess responded.

"Ok Cagalli, just be careful out here." I told her before we separated from one another. 'But you will always be princess Cagalli to me," I thought.

I dodged another shot from one of the Earth forces mobile suit and fired upon it hitting it in the left arm. The machine now damaged beyond being able to fight turned to return back to its ship as I turned to attack the next closest enemy.

As I turned I could see another Earth forces suit I shot dodged its attack and fired back at it. As the beam from my rifle was heading toward the suit out of the corner of my eye I saw another GuAIZ flying towards me. It was moving to fast for me to turn and fire my rifle. I also did not have time to put the rifle away so I let go of it reaching back for the beam sword that was at the back of my left shoulder.

What happened next was in slow motion. I could see the GuAIZ power up its beam claws at the same time as my beam sword activated. A vision of me with Juri and Asagi went through my mind as the mobile suit neared me and I could feel small tear forming in the edges of my eyes.

I watched as the beam claws of the GuAIZ entered into the lower part of my mobile suit and my beam sword entered into the chest of the other suit. A small explosion began to build in the cockpit around me as other visions from when I was training with the others and the time that Kira had come to Orb.

I sadly knew that this was the end of the battle for me and that I would not be able to help rebuild Orb with the others. I looked at the other mobile suit with tears in my eyes and with determination I watched as everything went black.

Please my friends Juri and Asagi survive this final battle and help rebuild Orb and the world for everyone so that not a single other person has to suffer again.

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Authors note- This was the first Gundam Seed story that I have written. Please let me know what you thought.