Author's Notes: Hi! Okay, I'm warning you that this is my first attempt at a Gundam Wing fic (actually fanfics in general), but please don't leave yet! Everyone has to start somewhere. Just keep that in mind and don't expect too much. Before the actual story, I put up a list of the new characters and their Gundams to clear things up. On with the story!
New Author's Notes:
Elyra: Okay, for those of you who have been dutifully following my story (Thanks! I love you all SO MUCH!) You'll probably recognize the fact that I added in a few new characters and changed a few names. Sorry about Hiro's (the younger Heero) name, I couldn't think of a good Japanese name for a boy! I have decided to scrap the whole thing and rewrite it. That's why I haven't updated in oh, three years. Yeah, I'm evil. I know. Sorry.
Vy: Also, she's lazy and a slacker.
Elyra: glares balefully You know, I'd like to see you try to write a story while in IB. It sucks.
Vy: sticks tongue out You're just using that as an excuse.
Elyra: sticks out tongue in defense Shut up! Nyer! Anyway, I sincerely apologize for the lack of updates. We'll cut to the story to save time.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. However the future kids and Gundams AND story plot are MINE and if you try to take them I will hunt you down and trap you like the little rat you are. Heheheh!
Characters
H.I.H Crown Princess Amara Darlian Peacecraft Yuy - Father: Heero Yuy, Mother Relena Peacecraft
Gundam: Wing Zero G-2 Age: 17
H.I.H Prince Hiroshi Darlian Peacecraft Yuy – Father: Heero Yuy, Mother: Relena Peacecraft
Gundam: Windblade; Age: 16
H.I.H Princess Hikari Darlian Peacecraft Yuy – Father: Heero Yuy, Mother: Relena Peacecraft
Gundam: None given; Age: 14
Solo "Ace" Maxwell - Father: Duo Maxwell, Mother: Hilde Schbeiker
Gundam: Deathscythe Hell G-2; Age: 17
Caralyn "Cara" Maxwell - Father: Duo Maxwell, Mother: Hilde Schbeiker
Gundam: Shadowblade; Age: 15
QuaterinaCatalonia Winner - Father: Quatre Raberba Winner, Mother: Dorothy Catalonia
Gundam: Sandstorm Kai; Age: 16
Michael Raberba Winner - Father: Quatre Raberba Winner, Mother: Dorothy Catalonia
Gundam: Sandrock Kai G-2; Age: 16
Maria Barton - Father: Trowa Barton, Mother: Amelia Winner
Gundam: Darkwing; Age: 17
Kathryn Barton - Father: Trowa Barton, Mother: Amelia Winner
Gundam: Starblaze; Age: 17
Kenneth " Ken" Barton - Father: Trowa Barton, Mother: Amelia Winner
Gundam: Heavyarms Kai G-2; Age: 15
Meiran Chang - Father: Wufei Chang, Mother: Sally Po
Gundam: Shenlong/ Atlong G-2; Age 16
Li Chang – Father: Wufei Chang, Mother: Sally Po
Gundam: Dragonfire; Age: 14
Prince Milliardo Zechs Peacecraft - Father: Milliardo Peacecraft/ Zechs Merquise, Mother: Lucretzia Noin
Gundam: Epyon G-2 Age: 17
Princess Elizabeth Peacecraft - Father: Milliardo Peacecraft/ Zechs Merquise, Mother: Lucretzia Noin
Gundam: Lightning; Age: 16
Ripples in the Sea of Time
By: elyra-chan
Prologue: Memories of a Bloodstained Past
Year: AC 197
"Omae wo korosu," he whispered to himself before firing his massive beam cannon. With one earth–shattering blast, he had taken down five Taurus suits. The now empty battlefield echoed with their pilots' final cries. A warning sound and a blinking light on his screen indicated that another enemy was behind him. Without thinking, he pulled the trigger on his beam cannon, not even needing to look at his target. A familiar voice cried out in pain, causing the blood in his veins to freeze. No, it couldn't be… he jerked around and stared in abject horror at the scene before his eyes. His Gundam disappeared, leaving him vulnerable and alone. Relena lay motionless on the ground, surrounded by a growing pool of her own blood. He ran over to her, desperate to reach her, though he knew it was in vain. He reached her side and sank to his knees, wanting to hold her, but too afraid to touch her. The battlefield evaporated, leaving them alone in a void. Her eyes opened to stare up at him; those beautiful eyes that entranced him so were now filled with pain and sorrow, but even now they held no anger or hatred. She smiled at him even as her eyes filled up with tears. She opened her mouth to say something as her hand moved up to touch his face, but as soon as she touched him, her hand fell to the ground; he could feel the life rush out of her. Her eyes remained open, glassy and empty. Something inside of Heero broke; he grabbed her unmoving body and held it against his own, letting out choked noises that weren't quite sobs, but not quite coherent words either. A noise behind him caused Heero to snap his head around, letting Relena's body slide slowly to the ground. Out of the shadows, a man was moving towards him. When he came closer, Heero could make out his features. It was Zechs, Relena's brother, and he was crying.
"You killed her. She trusted you and you killed her!" he accused, before crying out in rage and lunging at Heero. Heero tried to dodge, not wanting to hurt the man, but years of training took over and he suddenly found himself pummeling Zechs in the stomach. He pulled his hands away, shocked at his lack of control. They were red, and sticky, covered in blood. Horrified, he looked at Zechs. There was a dagger sticking out of his stomach and a widening red stain on his shirt. Zechs fell to the ground and glared up at him, hatred in his eyes. "Now you've killed me, just like you killed her," he said weakly, before his head fell back and his eyes went blank. Heero backed away, disbelief at what he had done coursing through him. He ran into something and whirled around. A little girl with a yellow flower stared at him with soulless eyes. Half of her face was missing and she was covered in blood. Heero heard himself let out a yell of horror as he ran away. As he ran, the people he had killed kept appearing, causing him to panic and run even faster. He finally stopped seeing the ghastly reminders of his sins and stopped running.
He closed his eyes and brought his hands over them to calm himself down. He smelled a coppery tang and he felt warm wetness on his face. He took his hands away and stared down at them, feeling unnatural coldness creep upon him. They were still covered in blood. He tried to wipe them on his shirt; it didn't work. Frantically, he scrubbed harder, but to no avail. The blood wouldn't come off, no matter what he did. A voice echoed in the emptiness around him. It will never come off. You've killed too many people. Your hands have been stained with too much blood. It's no use trying to run away, because you can't escape your sins." The voice had become more solid, and he could now feel the presence of the owner of the voice behind him. He turned slowly to look at what he already knew he find. His own face stared back at him, with cold emotionless eyes. Slowly, his other self grinned maliciously, the blood spattered on his face making him appear almost demonic. He made a waving motion and suddenly Relena's corpse materialized in his arms. His other self leaned down and kissed her unfeeling lips before he turned back to Heero with a smirk. "No matter how hard you try, you can't escape me." He turned back to Relena and smiled darkly, "and she can't escape me either."
" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he yelled into the darkness.
Heero Yuy jerked out of unconsciousness and sat bolt upright in his bed, deep blue eyes wide, looking around the darkened room in panic. When he realized it was just another bad dream, he breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the digital clock on his desk. 3:08a.m glared unsympathetically at him. He glared at it and pushed himself out of the bed, wincing internally as his sore muscles protested the movement. As usual, he ignored his body's demands and stepped out onto the balcony of his apartment, sighing as he felt the wind play through his dark brown hair. He closed his eyes for a moment, remembering his days as a Gundam pilot. Wing Zero was currently far away, in a secret hangar that only he knew about. The Gundam pilots had all decided together to hide them rather than destroy them. On the off-chance that some idiot decided to start another war, it would be rather helpful to have them around. Heero slowly opened his eyes and turned them towards the heavens. He stared rather listlessly at the stars where he had been born. Hopefully, the day that the Gundams would be needed again would never come. His thoughts darkened as he thought of his dream. If that day came, he would have to kill again. There was no getting around it with pretty words or fancy titles. He was a soldier. He killed someto ensure the peace and prosperity of the world as a whole.
Her face appeared in his mind, smiling and making him forget, for a brief moment, his guilt. He closed his eyes and thought more about her, finding it to be a more pleasant topic to think about than another war. She was an enigma to him; he found that in spite of all of his efforts to understand her, he had actually only managed to confuse himself further. She unsettled him, because she made him do strange things, illogical things. She had interfered with his missions and jad posed a serious threat to his objective. Yet, despite that, he found himself strangely unable to hurt her, even going so far as to protect her. He had made an unspoken vow to keep her safe, without knowing the reason why. She had become important to him and he couldn't for the life of him figure out how. After the Eve Wars, he had quietly disappeared from her life, slipping into anonymity in the hopes of starting a new life without wars, without fighting and without having to be near her. Anything he had ever cared about had been destroyed, more often then not because of him. Relena was a desperately needed person; without her efforts, he doubted that the negotiations between the colonies and the Earth would have come to fruition as soon or as easily as they had. He cared about Relena in more ways than one, and as such, he removed himself from her life to avoid harming her.
When the White Fang organization had resurfaced and started targeting her as well as the other Gundam pilots, he had been forced to come out of hiding as well. Seeing Relena face to face had unsettled him, evoking odd feelings in him that he wasn't entirely sure he liked. When she had told him that she wanted to worry about him, he had done something so completely against his soldier's instincts that he still had trouble believing he had actually done it; he had kissed her. She made him do irrational things and that frightened him. After that fiasco had been settled, he barely had time to rest before Mariemaia showed up with her rebellion and he had to go back to fighting again. As he had hovered above Mariemaia and Dekim's stronghold, his mobile suit barely hanging on as he prepared for one last shot, he heard Dekim cry out that Relena Peacecraft was there. He had hesitated for only a moment, knowing what had to be done. As he pulled the trigger, he had seen her standing before him, acceptance in her eyes. When everything was over, he had seen her angelic face looking up at him with relief and he felt an overwhelming sense of peace before he blacked out. He vaguely recalled being cradled in her arms, hearing her soothing voice whisper that he didn't have to fight anymore, that everything would be alright. When he awoke in a hospital bed, he found himself in the company of another woman, this one not as welcome. It was Lady Une, in full Preventer uniform. Heero had listened stoically as she told him what had happened after he had lapsed into unconciousness. It wasn't until she offered him a position as a Preventer that he reacted at all. She wanted him to be Relena's bodyguard. He had flatly refused her until she asked him the question that he had been trying to avoid thinking about from the beginning. "We were lucky this time; they only wanted to kidnap her. We won't always be that lucky. There have been a few assassination threats, but none of them have been executed. Eventually one of them will. What happens then?"
Lady Une's question made Heero pause. Relena had been kidnapped during an ordinary colony visit by an organization led by a seven-year-old. Obviously, her security was inadequate. When he thought of how easy it had been to take her captive, he felt a cold knot of fear in his stomach. Lady Une was right; the next time, they may not be so fortunate. It was that thought which made him agree, rather reluctantly, to become a Preventer and Relena's bodyguard, on the condition that she didn't know about his position. Therefore, Heero would be her bodyguard during the night or from the shadows at special functions, while Noin guarded her during the day. Heero vaguely wondered how long this arrangement would last. Eventually, Relena would probably catch a glimpse of him or he would be forced to revel himself during an attack. He imagined how hurt she would be that he had never shown himself to her before and he felt a twinge of regret. Quickly, Heero pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind. It was pointless to try to think about problems that hadn't even happened yet.
'Whatever lies in store for me, I'll just have to face when it happens. It's impossible to know ahead of time.' With that final thought, he turned and retreated to his apartment. He had no idea just how wrong he was.
Thousands of miles away, on an L2 space colony, Duo Maxwell was thinking of the war as well. Not about the people involved in it, like Heero was, just the war in general. The peace was a welcome change in more ways than one; there was no longer an enemy to be aware of, no training that needed to be done, and no need for Deathscythe Hell (which was wasting away in an underground base along with Sandrock Kai and Heavyarms Kai). Life was peaceful, happy 'and just too damn boring,' Duo thought to himself as he sighed.
'Duo, my man, you need to get out more. Enjoy the peace while it lasts. It's been weeks since you took Hilde on a date.' Duo thought. He turned his eyes upward to look at the artificial 'sky' of the space colony. 'That's one thing I miss about Earth; the night sky. You never really look at the stars when you're up there with 'em. It's like they're so much a part of you that you don't even notice it until you take a step back and notice how beautiful they are.' Duo blinked in surprise at his sudden philosophical mood before chuckling at the thought of him being philosophical when he had just barely passed a course on philosophy.
'I wonder how everybody's doing. Wufei's probably on some big important Preventer's mission with Sally, who I swear has a thing for him; Quatre's doing paperwork, running his empire and bored to tears; Trowa is getting a knife chucked at him by that red-head at the circus; and Heero…' Duo paused for a moment, contemplating, 'Knowing Heero, he's off on some suicide mission and loving every minute of it. Relena's probably at some press conference, smiling all pretty and pining over Heero personality-of-a-stump Yuy.' Duo sighed, and said to himself, "I need to get more sleep. I'm up at night thinking about other people and their problems." Duo laughed and stood up. He took one last look at the 'sky' above him. "Still, it would be nice to them again sometime soon. I miss them." With that, Duo turned around and retreated back to his apartment. Soon, he was lost in an uneasy sleep, drowning in the nightmares that consumed him when darkness fell.
To be continued in Chapter One: Glimpses of the Future
OK, first a few notes to clear up some things:
HIH is an abbreviation for His/ Her Imperial Highness
I'm not sure if I spelled Hilde's last name right, if I didn't, please tell me.
Speaking of Endless Waltz, yes, the Gundams are the Endless Waltz versions and I changed the ending so that the suits did not get destroyed, because, let's face it, that ending sucked big time.
Also, for those of you who don't know very much about the Japanese series, "omae o korosu" is Heero's "trademark" phrase. It means literally "I'll kill you"
AN: So, whadya think? Did it totally suck, or was it really good? Or do you just feel neutral? Whatever your feelings, I want feedback! E-MAIL, It's a good thing.
New Author's notes (Read if you don't want to be really confused later on!) - Okay, so here's the deal: I decided that I could have made this story a lot better by adding in some new characters and changing some names. I will be doing this to all the other chapters as well. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this makes me feel so much better. Amara has a younger brother named Hiroshi and a younger sister named Hikari. I've also given Meiran a younger brother, Li. His name means strength (and no I did not take that from Mulan). And you may have noticed that Amelia's (Trowa's wife) last name has changed to Winner. I decided that she is one of Quatre's sisters and she hooked up with him. That's all for now! Expect more changes in the future!
Ja ne!
Elyra-chan
And Vyalora