Canta Per Me
Episode One: The New Associate
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing and Noir. These are owned by their respective owners.
Author's Note: This is an alternative world fic. Has anyone seen the new anime that just got
licensed recently? It's called Noir,
and I highly recommend it. This is a
crossover between Gundam Wing and Noir.
What I've done is borrowed the characters from Gundam Wing and placed
them into the world of Noir. Noir is
about a pair of professional assassins who are working together to uncover the
truth. One is an experience assassin
who witnesses the murder of her family as a young child, and she seeks revenge
and answers. She is only in her early
twenties. The other assassin has no
emotions because she has amnesia, but is very well trained to kill, and without
emotions to hinder her actions she almost unstoppable; she is only fourteen or
fifteen years old. Noir is about the
criminal underworld. It's a fantastic anime.
The characters may seem out of character, but I think this will be
better. I don't know when I'll be able to continue Through the Shadows. I probably will just scrap it, and go with
this. Tell me what you think by
reviewing it. By the way, the title
comes from the Noir soundtrack. Beware
there are spoilers from both series, and I'll be changing both plots to suit
the story. I've also made it that
Mariemeia hasn't met anyone from the series yet, and the events of Endless
Waltz never happened.
* * * * * *
"NOIR.
The word
designates the name of destiny from a distant time.
The two Virgo
reign over death.
May the Black
hands over the green field…
Please protect the
newly born peace."
- opening from the
anime, Noir.
Relena
Darlian was typing on her laptop on a billiard table in her apartment in Paris,
France as she drank her morning coffee.
'I wonder if there's any e-mail for me today?' she thought as she
clicked and type. The symbols signaled
new e-mail to look at. She clicked and
found something new: a target and a location.
She downloaded the attachment on the screen; it was a picture of a young
girl who couldn't have been more than sixteen years old. She had red hair and dark blue eyes. Relena read the message that came with it as
it scrolled left to right on the bottom of the picture, and she read it out
loud: "Come and take a pilgrimage with me.
Hmpf." 'It's no big deal
probably just a prank. I'm not going to
take this job," she thought as she moved the mouse to shut down the
e-mail. Then…there was midi playing in
the message. Relena froze in her place
as her eyes widened. She was breathing
deeply and rapidly, "That melody…"
* * *
Heero Yuy was
working at the Preventers Office in London, England, and next door to his
office was Duo Maxwell's. He was going
over reports and preparing to leave for another mission. There came a knock at the door. It was Chang Wufei.
"Yuy, are
you done yet?" he asked.
"No. Go away," answered Heero briskly, and Wufei
left without a word. Heero had come to
work with the Preventers after the last fight with Zechs Marquise, otherwise
known Millardo Peacecraft. Heero and
Relena never had a relationship to speak of after that. Three years after the death of her brother,
she had decided to resign from her job as a Vice Minister, and dropped out of
sight. Heero made it his duty to keep
track of her, and he found out that she was a business analyst working strictly
freelance. Relena became more secretive
of her life because the public didn't leave her alone for the three years that
she was the Vice Minister, and along with the other pressures, she couldn't
take it anymore. As Relena drifted away
from public life, she drifted away from everyone else. She had stopped talking to any of the Gundam
pilots after four years. Heero didn't
really know what she was up to, and he didn't feel it was necessary to continue
prying into her life, especially since she didn't want his interference. They were all twenty-one years old, and the
world was now more peaceful than it has ever been.
* * *
The chiming
of the bells signaled the end of class in a small private school in another
part of Paris. Relena was waiting for
her target to come out, and she didn't have to wait long. The girl came out of the school in uniform
like all the other girls, and she was alone as she walked away. Her eyes were emotionless, almost sad. Her red hair was short and chin length. She walked away from the school in a stiff
manner, and Relena pursued her. The
girl walked and kept walking until she came to a construction site. Relena had followed her all the way there,
and she stopped at the corner. The girl
had stopped at the entrance of the half way completed building, and she was
looking directly at the corner that Relena was hiding behind.
"You are
Meia Krane," stated Relena in a matter-of-fact tone as she reached into her
purse just in case.
"Yes. You are Lena Marquise. The most reliable assassin the business.
Noir," said Meia in a soft voice.
Relena gasped in surprised as she quickly drew her gun from her little
hand bag. The girl looked at her with the
same emotionless eyes, and then took off running. Relena followed her, only a few steps behind her as they ran into
the unfinished building. She chased
after her and lost her when she moved to another level of the building, and
there she found some men with sunglasses.
Relena looked at the men for only a moment until she shot all five of
them without saying a single word as soon as she was done she continued her
pursuit of the strange girl. Relena
continued running flight after flight looking for Meia, and then she came unto
another group of men. The lead man took
off his sunglasses and smiled. The
other men with him surrounded Relena.
She did a back flip and kicked the man nearest to her as she shot
him. The other men took out their guns
and started to fire. Relena tumbled and
landed behind a rack of wooded beams and duck for cover away from the
bullets. The bullets were flying
everywhere, and Relena covered herself as she reloaded her gun. When she turned back she found that the men
were dead, and the lead man had a look of horror on his face as someone shot
him.
"What the Hell is going on?" she
said out loud. She stepped over the
bodies and walked towards a hallway that was exposed to open air. There were bodies on the dusty, unfinished floors. Relena heard a gasp, which was followed by a
gagging sound, and she raised her gun.
Someone jumped down from a beam that was protruding out of the above
Relena's head. She was hanging in the
air because her hand was holding on to a neck tie, and there was a man who was
strangled to death attached to it. His
eyes were opened wide with a horrified look on his face. Relena lowered her gun as she watched the
young girl flip onto the floor without any trouble.
The girl turned to look at Relena
with impenetrable blue eyes, 'She did all these hits,' thought Relena. There were tears running down her
expressionless eyes, and Relena stepped back with surprise. "It's so sad because I can't feel
anything. I don't feel sad after what
I've just done," said the girl. She
walked away towards another beam that was protruding on the floor that they
were on, walked until she reached the end, and sat down.
Her small hands dug something out
of sweatshirt pocket, and Relena raised her gun just in case, but the object
the girl had drawn out was a pocket watch.
The pocket watch had exquisite detail on it; it had the etchings of two
maidens holding swords on the left and right side, and behind the maidens was a
large circle. The maiden on the left
had longer hair and appeared to be older than the shorter haired maiden on the
right. Relena's eyes widened when she
heard the music the pocket watch was playing, and then the girl closed the
watch.
"Who are
you really?" asked Relena as she lowered her gun.
"I don't
know," she answered as she looked straight forward to look at the sunset.
* * *
"I wonder
if Relena will make this function?" asked Duo out loud.
"I doubt
it. The last time she's been out in
public for one of these things was about two years ago," answered Quatre.
They were at
a function for talks to discuss terms of some of the businesses in the Colonies
on L4. 'Her presence isn't even
missed,' thought Quatre sadly as he shook his head. For all the work she had done, no one seemed to care if she was
dead or alive at all. Quatre hadn't
heard from Relena in over a year, and he was wondering what she was up to. Trowa was working for the Preventers part
time and working for the circus with sister, Catherine, most of the time. Duo and Hilde were living together and
working at scrap metal yard that Duo had bought, but he was a Preventer most of
the time. There were no plans of
marriage as of yet for them. Quatre was
working in his family's business, but like Trowa, he didn't have time for the
Preventers, so he was also working there part time. The only two people who
worked for the Preventers full time were Heero and Wufei. Heero was sent on various covert, solitary
operations, while Wufei was worked with Sally Po for the most part. They didn't really have a relationship outside
of work, just an understanding of each other.
"I wonder
if she's alright. She never talks to
anyone from the old days," said Duo thoughtfully. He always thought about her whenever he had to attend public
functions that she was famous for attending.
"You make
us sound old, Duo," laughed Quatre.
"I do,
don't I?" Duo laughed back.
"Seriously,
I think she doesn't want to be reminded of those days," said Quatre solemnly,
and Duo nodded in agreement.
* * *
Relena
looked around her and took in her surroundings. She saw that there were pictures of the girl who was sitting in
front of her. Two of them showed her
smiling with two adults, and another one with an elderly lady. The house wasn't too large or small, and the
furniture was fine. They were sitting
at a Japanese style table with their lower legs tucked under their thighs.
"Meia
Krane. The only daughter of the Kranes
who are from the United States. Napa
Valley in California to be exact. They
moved out of here and took their daughter with them, but she came back here
alone. She goes to school like any
normal fourteen year old girl and comes straight home…but all of this is a
lie," concluded Relena as she gestured at her surroundings.
"You are
Lena Marquise, but your real name is Relena Darlian or Peacecraft. You used to be one of the world's leading
pacifist before you became a 'business analyst.' You assumed the name of Europe's legendary assassin as another
undercover name. You are the best and
most reliable assassin in the business," stated Meia as she took apart her gun
and put it back together without looking as she did so. Relena tried not to express any surprise and
kept her right hand on her gun on the table.
Without warning both of them drew their guns out and pointed them at
each other. "Hum…" mumbled Relena as
they both lowered down their guns again.
"You have
something that interests me," said Relena as she looked straight into Meia's
eyes.
"Yes," said
Meia as she took out a pocket watch and placed it in front of Relena. Relena opened it without any hesitation, and
the music of the watch played in the room.
Her eye widened in pain as if the sound of the sweet melody was hurting
her, and she quickly shut the watch without saying a word.
"What is it
that you want?" asked Relena.
"I want you
to help me find out who I am. I woke up
one day, and I was here. When I looked
around I found this watch and this," answered Meia, and she took out an
identification card. It said that she
was Meia Krane.
"I suppose
I should since you have that watch. I
want to know about how and why you have it.
Very well, I'll help you find out who you really are. However, I will kill you when we find out
who you really are," said Relena solemnly.
"I accept
your terms," agreed Meia as she nodded.
Meia held
out her hand and Relena took it. They
shook hands firmly to seal the contract that they just made.
Next Episode, Episode Two: Trouble in Paradise…
