Title: Quinque Elementum

Ch: Pro?

Author: WickedGame

Category: Fantasy, AU, Romance, Act/Adv, Drama

Pairings: 1x2x1 (or 12 depending on where ya are), 3x4x3 (or 34 depending on where ya are), 5xM, RxD, 6x9

Overall Warnings: Yaoi, yuri, foul language, some bastardized Latin. Specific warnings given every chapter when needed.

Notes: Written for Link Worshiper's "The Colour and the Shape" Contest originally, but I took myself out of the race due to stress. Now it is just dedicated to Link Worshiper, whose philosophies have made me a better writer indeed. She is also the first person with their own website to ever archive my work, and for that I am very grateful.

Disclaimers: I do not own Gundam Wing. And I must give credit to the video game Secret of Mana for the names of almost all my provinces. Any additional disclaimers to be posted on a per chapter basis.

Cast Of Characters

Queen Amelia – Ruler of the Realm of Evernight

Prince Gustaf – Husband to Queen Amelia

Princess Relena – Heir to the Realm of Evernight

Prince Treize – Relena's uncle and Amelia's brother

Priestess Meiran – Sorceress and lady-in-waiting for Relena

Lady Dorothy – Relena's other lady-in-waiting

Lord Zechs – a wizard from Lumina Province

Lady Lucrezia – a sorceress and Zech's wife

The Elemental Guardians

Quatre – Guardian of Spirit, from the Lumina Province

Wufei – Guardian of Earth, from the Terra Province

Trowa – Guardian of Air, from the Sylphid Province

Heero – Guardian of Fire, from the Salamando Province

Duo – Guardian of Water, from the Undine Province

History of Evernight

No one remembers how or when it began. No one is left from that time. But what we do know is that our realm was woven from moonbeams and starlight, and all with the blessing of the Lady and the Lord. They formed it themselves, just to house their greatest creations, us.

It became clear to us after a short amount of time that we needed to have many things: a system of government, laws, a form of giving and getting goods, and various other things that come along with being human. Our ancestors set about forming a government first. They decided that since the Lady is the giver of all things that our ruler should be a female. This also determined that our females would always be the dominant gender in our world, since they held more power than us anyways. The scholars thought hard and long on it and determined that she would be called Queen. There would never be someone equivalent to her. Her husband, if she chose one, would always be Prince.

From there the hierarchy has an order of sorts: there is a Princess: one Princess born to every Queen. The Lady and Lord made it so the Queen always gave birth to a Princess first. The Princess is given from the time she is born until her eighteenth birthday to learn to be Queen. On her eighteenth birthday the Queen passes on her crown and her office and retires to advise her daughter until her passing. We have always been the kind of people to welcome change, and those eighteen years of rule grant us that.

The Queen does not have to choose a husband. She may choose a female to wed, or she may choose to not wed anyone. In the case that she chooses a female to love, the Queen may hold trials to choose her successor. There is also a vote to help the Queen know the will of the Realm, but she does not have to choose by the will of the people.

From there the hierarchy follows a pattern that always puts the female first: Priestesses and Priests always were under the Princesses and Princes. Next are the Ladies and Lords. The lowest title in our Realm is that of Goodman. All Ladies possess some sort of power, even if they are only a domestic type of witch. A Goodman is a male of our Realm that does not possess any magical power at all. The person who rules each province is always a Lady, usually accompanied by her Lord.

As with all things there is trial and error. You can see that, yes? The way our system was designed had a flaw. Many people wished to be chosen by the Queen to rule the Realm for a myriad of reasons. This made the Princess a prime target for assassination and for having her power broken by acts such as rape. So the Priests and Priestesses of the Realm came together and performed rites that no one even remembers now.

The power that gathered in their circle was said to be cone-shaped, and it reached to the very sky. They chanted and danced and made love and released it all with pleas to the Lady and the Lord for a solution to their problem. For a week they waited and did their versions of praying until the Lady and Lord granted them the power to cast a very complex spell…

Five boys.

Five powers.

As the Lady and the Lord will it, so mote it be.