Myst Blinked and looked around her. She was in a hospital and a lot
of people were beside her bed. She recognized two of them. Her twin
Gabrielle and her other sister Raven. Gabrielle had a small bandage on her
arm and Raven had a few cuts and bruises on her face but other than that
her sisters seemed okay. The two other people were unfamiliar to her. One
male was about as tall as Raven with long brown hair braided down his back.
He stood with his hands in his pockets smiling. He had brown eyes and was
wearing khaki pants, a navy blue shirt and a long trench-coat. The other
man was not so cheery. He had the same colour hair but his was short with
bangs that covered one side of his face. He was leaning back near a window
with blue jeans and a beige shirt on.
"Myst!!! You're awake!"
Myst smiled at her twin's voice. "What happened? Why am I in a hospital bed?"
Raven frowned slightly but quickly replaced with a smile as she came to her sister's bed.
"Hey Myst. You feeling okay?" at her sister's nod she continued. "We were on our way home from our.celebration when we were ambushed by a bunch of people. Don't you remember?"
Myst frowned a bit. There was something familiar about the unfriendly man but she couldn't quite place it. Suddenly she was hit hard by memory.
"That was amazing! I can't believe it actually worked!" Gabrielle exclaimed energetically, raking a hand through her sandy brown hair. "That was so cool!"
Raven smiled at her sister's wild and happy expression. "You expected less when the three of us do something together?" She asked. Shaking her dark hair out of her eyes she turned to find Myst staring at the sky with a small frown on her face. "Myst? What's up? Didn't you enjoy the ritual?"
"Huh? Oh yeah the ritual was great." Myst replied smiling her own shoulder length dark brown hair blowing in a slight breeze. She seemed to be paying attention to what her siblings were saying but they could both tell from the look in her dark violet eyes that her mind was elsewhere. Suddenly she shot out a hand at the same time that her twin Gabrielle did. Violet eyes stared into light blue ones. They didn't need to do that. Raven had stopped on her own accord. All three could sense something was wrong.
About to ask what was wrong, Gabrielle jumped when both Myst and Raven spun on their heels just in time to find five black clad figures behind them. At Gabrielle's shout they knew that there were more on each side. Soon they were surrounded.
"We all know what to do." Raven said calmly as she and her sisters each got ready to fight. They had faced people like this before.
Looking at each other Gabrielle and Myst smiled and linked hands. Being twins had its advantages.
Raven stepped back and raised her hands. Instantly the three were surrounded in a white shield. Weak attacks would be blocked and they could send magic out but the stronger attacks would only be slowed down. All three knew that Raven was capable of more but was tired from the ritual they had just finished. That left Gabrielle and Myst on the offense.
Taking the first move, one of the black clad figures whipped out a hand and pointed a Raven. As black fire shot towards the eldest figure, the twins were instantly defending her. As one they flung their linked hands in the figure's direction as their own blueish fire danced out. The two mage-fires met with a clang knocking the two back several feet.
Standing up Gabrielle grimaced slightly. "Ow, that hurt."
"Just a little." Myst finished the sentence for her.
Smiling Raven set her feet and concentrated on sending a double spell, which meant keeping her mind on the shield while sending another attack out that hopefully would fly through the shield at the enemies. Unfortunately, she hadn't figured that the rituals after effect would cost her some strength. Raven's reddish fire shot out more forcefully than she intended and all three had to duck when it ricocheted off of a wall the enemies had placed up.
"Give it to us!" One of the black clad figures shouted. "We know one of you has the mystic cloak!"
"We don't know what you're talking about!" Raven shouted only slightly taking notice of her sisters' sudden stillness or of their odd silence. Looking back at them she noticed for the first time that Myst was wearing a new cloak. Oh great, she thought to herself, I'm going to have to talk to those two soon.
Suddenly one of the figures to a running start and headed right towards them. None of them had expected a physical attack and their shield was meant only to block magical ones. Before Raven could adjust to the attack the man had burst through the shield and was headed for the twins.
"Gabs!" Myst shouted and swung herself in front of her twin. The attacking figure struck out a hand before she could defend herself and the blow sent her flying into a tree where she slid to the bottom and lay unmoving after uttering a soft moan of pain.
"Myst!" Gabrielle yelled in horror then grew angry. "You killed her! How dare you!"
Gathering her strength, Gabrielle was about to unleash a deadly blast with energy that she had gathered while linked to Myst, when one of the figures threw a dagger into her arm. Her blast hit the ground weakly sending twigs and rocks into the air in between Gabrielle and Raven striking the older of the two in the face. Suddenly five large robots landed in the space dividing the two groups. Seeing them the black clad figures turned and fled.
"Myst!" Gabrielle ran to her twin who was showing signs of life but was obviously unconscious while Raven wavered, trying to keep the shield up until they found out whether or not these newcomers were friendly. One of the hatches opened up and a blond kid about their own age stepped out and climbed down. His hair was very light, almost white, and he had bright blue eyes.
"Hello, my name is Quatre. Are you alright now?" He touched the barrier and it disappeared. Immediately, Raven sank to her knees from exhaustion. One of the other robots opened up and another teenage boy jumped out and helped her stand. This one had long brown hair done up into a braid.
"Whoa careful there." He said easing her into a standing position and supporting her weight while she swayed. "I'm Duo. Our other friends are Heero, the one with short brown hair who isn't smiling, Trowa, the guy with hair covering half his face, and Wufei the black haired grump. We are all called Gundam pilots and fly Gundams, the big robots you see behind us."
While Duo spoke, Heero and Wufei got out of their Gundams and went to pick up Myst while Quatre went to pull a worried Gabrielle away from her twin.
"I'm Raven," Raven said quietly feeling more drained by the minute, "My sisters are Myst, who is the unconscious one and her twin Gabrielle, who has sandy brown hair. I warn you though," She chuckled, "Gabrielle and Myst are rarely separated and never without one hell of a fight." With that she collapsed completely and Trowa finally slid out of his Gundam and went to help him carry her to the his Gundam while Gabrielle joined Myst in Quatre's.
"Myst? Myst!" Raven's voice jostled Myst out of her memories, "I was asking if you remembered it."
"Uhn, now I do." Myst said softly as the room around her began to spin. Putting a hand to her head she felt the soft fabric of bandages and a slight wetness which she knew to be her blood seeping through. "Right now though I think I'll try get some sleep before I do anything. By the way, Duo and Trowa is it? Thank you."
Myst let her head fall back onto the pillow unaware of the stares that the two gave to her. Raven and Gabrielle winced. Gestures that went unnoticed by the two males.
"How did she know our names?" Duo asked Raven in shock, "She was unconscious!"
"Maybe she was slightly awake," Raven stumbled to cover her younger sister's slip up. "She might have woken up enough to hear your names before she, uh, went back to being unconscious."
Gabrielle had somehow become very intent on changing Myst's bandages.
Heero tapped a twig on the grass a week later, while he thought. There was something weird about the three sisters. He just knew it. Duo had told him about his visit to them with Trowa and about how the one girl who had been unconscious had known their names. Plus,what had members of the Shamans Cult, the figures clad in black, wanted with three teenage girls. Speaking of which, what had three girls been doing walking in the woods after midnight?
"Is this a private spot?" A soft voice asked behind him, startling him out of his thoughts. Whipping around and reaching for his gun before realizing that he didn't have it, he saw a girl standing behind him. She was wearing black denim flares and a blue tank-top. He could see bandages around her shoulder just under the shirt. She was carrying a black denim jacked and another bandage wrapped around her head. It was the girl who had been lying at the base of one of the trees. Once again he was faced with something he didn't understand. How she had managed to come al the way up the hill he was sitting on without him hearing her especially on a day that he didn't have any weapons on him.
"You are Myst right?" He asked while remaining wary. " What are you doing up here? I thought you were still in the hospital."
"They let me out yesterday," She smiled before answering. "I came up here because I thought that I heard~ I mean I thought that the hill was nice."
Heero stared at her for a moment. She seemed to clue in to how much she had said because her eyes grew wide and she suddenly fled back down the hill.
"Hey!" He shouted and took a step before stopping himself. She had thought she heard what? He hadn't been thinking out loud. Wait, was she going to say that she thought she had heard someone thinking? But that was impossible. There was no such thing as people being psychic. It just wasn't possible! He shook his head as he watched her flee down the hill. There was something odd about the three girls but what was he thinking wondering if they were magic? He must be too stressed after a lot of fighting. Shaking his head once again he walked down the other side of the hill to Quatre's mansion where the five had been staying for the spring season. He either needed sleep or needed to talk to one of the other pilots. Surely he wasn't the only one who got edgy around Myst, Raven, and Gabrielle? He had to find out what bugged him about them.
"Myst!!! You're awake!"
Myst smiled at her twin's voice. "What happened? Why am I in a hospital bed?"
Raven frowned slightly but quickly replaced with a smile as she came to her sister's bed.
"Hey Myst. You feeling okay?" at her sister's nod she continued. "We were on our way home from our.celebration when we were ambushed by a bunch of people. Don't you remember?"
Myst frowned a bit. There was something familiar about the unfriendly man but she couldn't quite place it. Suddenly she was hit hard by memory.
"That was amazing! I can't believe it actually worked!" Gabrielle exclaimed energetically, raking a hand through her sandy brown hair. "That was so cool!"
Raven smiled at her sister's wild and happy expression. "You expected less when the three of us do something together?" She asked. Shaking her dark hair out of her eyes she turned to find Myst staring at the sky with a small frown on her face. "Myst? What's up? Didn't you enjoy the ritual?"
"Huh? Oh yeah the ritual was great." Myst replied smiling her own shoulder length dark brown hair blowing in a slight breeze. She seemed to be paying attention to what her siblings were saying but they could both tell from the look in her dark violet eyes that her mind was elsewhere. Suddenly she shot out a hand at the same time that her twin Gabrielle did. Violet eyes stared into light blue ones. They didn't need to do that. Raven had stopped on her own accord. All three could sense something was wrong.
About to ask what was wrong, Gabrielle jumped when both Myst and Raven spun on their heels just in time to find five black clad figures behind them. At Gabrielle's shout they knew that there were more on each side. Soon they were surrounded.
"We all know what to do." Raven said calmly as she and her sisters each got ready to fight. They had faced people like this before.
Looking at each other Gabrielle and Myst smiled and linked hands. Being twins had its advantages.
Raven stepped back and raised her hands. Instantly the three were surrounded in a white shield. Weak attacks would be blocked and they could send magic out but the stronger attacks would only be slowed down. All three knew that Raven was capable of more but was tired from the ritual they had just finished. That left Gabrielle and Myst on the offense.
Taking the first move, one of the black clad figures whipped out a hand and pointed a Raven. As black fire shot towards the eldest figure, the twins were instantly defending her. As one they flung their linked hands in the figure's direction as their own blueish fire danced out. The two mage-fires met with a clang knocking the two back several feet.
Standing up Gabrielle grimaced slightly. "Ow, that hurt."
"Just a little." Myst finished the sentence for her.
Smiling Raven set her feet and concentrated on sending a double spell, which meant keeping her mind on the shield while sending another attack out that hopefully would fly through the shield at the enemies. Unfortunately, she hadn't figured that the rituals after effect would cost her some strength. Raven's reddish fire shot out more forcefully than she intended and all three had to duck when it ricocheted off of a wall the enemies had placed up.
"Give it to us!" One of the black clad figures shouted. "We know one of you has the mystic cloak!"
"We don't know what you're talking about!" Raven shouted only slightly taking notice of her sisters' sudden stillness or of their odd silence. Looking back at them she noticed for the first time that Myst was wearing a new cloak. Oh great, she thought to herself, I'm going to have to talk to those two soon.
Suddenly one of the figures to a running start and headed right towards them. None of them had expected a physical attack and their shield was meant only to block magical ones. Before Raven could adjust to the attack the man had burst through the shield and was headed for the twins.
"Gabs!" Myst shouted and swung herself in front of her twin. The attacking figure struck out a hand before she could defend herself and the blow sent her flying into a tree where she slid to the bottom and lay unmoving after uttering a soft moan of pain.
"Myst!" Gabrielle yelled in horror then grew angry. "You killed her! How dare you!"
Gathering her strength, Gabrielle was about to unleash a deadly blast with energy that she had gathered while linked to Myst, when one of the figures threw a dagger into her arm. Her blast hit the ground weakly sending twigs and rocks into the air in between Gabrielle and Raven striking the older of the two in the face. Suddenly five large robots landed in the space dividing the two groups. Seeing them the black clad figures turned and fled.
"Myst!" Gabrielle ran to her twin who was showing signs of life but was obviously unconscious while Raven wavered, trying to keep the shield up until they found out whether or not these newcomers were friendly. One of the hatches opened up and a blond kid about their own age stepped out and climbed down. His hair was very light, almost white, and he had bright blue eyes.
"Hello, my name is Quatre. Are you alright now?" He touched the barrier and it disappeared. Immediately, Raven sank to her knees from exhaustion. One of the other robots opened up and another teenage boy jumped out and helped her stand. This one had long brown hair done up into a braid.
"Whoa careful there." He said easing her into a standing position and supporting her weight while she swayed. "I'm Duo. Our other friends are Heero, the one with short brown hair who isn't smiling, Trowa, the guy with hair covering half his face, and Wufei the black haired grump. We are all called Gundam pilots and fly Gundams, the big robots you see behind us."
While Duo spoke, Heero and Wufei got out of their Gundams and went to pick up Myst while Quatre went to pull a worried Gabrielle away from her twin.
"I'm Raven," Raven said quietly feeling more drained by the minute, "My sisters are Myst, who is the unconscious one and her twin Gabrielle, who has sandy brown hair. I warn you though," She chuckled, "Gabrielle and Myst are rarely separated and never without one hell of a fight." With that she collapsed completely and Trowa finally slid out of his Gundam and went to help him carry her to the his Gundam while Gabrielle joined Myst in Quatre's.
"Myst? Myst!" Raven's voice jostled Myst out of her memories, "I was asking if you remembered it."
"Uhn, now I do." Myst said softly as the room around her began to spin. Putting a hand to her head she felt the soft fabric of bandages and a slight wetness which she knew to be her blood seeping through. "Right now though I think I'll try get some sleep before I do anything. By the way, Duo and Trowa is it? Thank you."
Myst let her head fall back onto the pillow unaware of the stares that the two gave to her. Raven and Gabrielle winced. Gestures that went unnoticed by the two males.
"How did she know our names?" Duo asked Raven in shock, "She was unconscious!"
"Maybe she was slightly awake," Raven stumbled to cover her younger sister's slip up. "She might have woken up enough to hear your names before she, uh, went back to being unconscious."
Gabrielle had somehow become very intent on changing Myst's bandages.
Heero tapped a twig on the grass a week later, while he thought. There was something weird about the three sisters. He just knew it. Duo had told him about his visit to them with Trowa and about how the one girl who had been unconscious had known their names. Plus,what had members of the Shamans Cult, the figures clad in black, wanted with three teenage girls. Speaking of which, what had three girls been doing walking in the woods after midnight?
"Is this a private spot?" A soft voice asked behind him, startling him out of his thoughts. Whipping around and reaching for his gun before realizing that he didn't have it, he saw a girl standing behind him. She was wearing black denim flares and a blue tank-top. He could see bandages around her shoulder just under the shirt. She was carrying a black denim jacked and another bandage wrapped around her head. It was the girl who had been lying at the base of one of the trees. Once again he was faced with something he didn't understand. How she had managed to come al the way up the hill he was sitting on without him hearing her especially on a day that he didn't have any weapons on him.
"You are Myst right?" He asked while remaining wary. " What are you doing up here? I thought you were still in the hospital."
"They let me out yesterday," She smiled before answering. "I came up here because I thought that I heard~ I mean I thought that the hill was nice."
Heero stared at her for a moment. She seemed to clue in to how much she had said because her eyes grew wide and she suddenly fled back down the hill.
"Hey!" He shouted and took a step before stopping himself. She had thought she heard what? He hadn't been thinking out loud. Wait, was she going to say that she thought she had heard someone thinking? But that was impossible. There was no such thing as people being psychic. It just wasn't possible! He shook his head as he watched her flee down the hill. There was something odd about the three girls but what was he thinking wondering if they were magic? He must be too stressed after a lot of fighting. Shaking his head once again he walked down the other side of the hill to Quatre's mansion where the five had been staying for the spring season. He either needed sleep or needed to talk to one of the other pilots. Surely he wasn't the only one who got edgy around Myst, Raven, and Gabrielle? He had to find out what bugged him about them.