Chapter Two
First Impression
Heero slept well and peacefully into the next morning. Lying down on his front, he in one arm covered one of the women he met from last night, and the other was leaning on top of him, her head on his shoulder. Automatically, Heero woke up and saw on clock that it was 7:30.
Great. It was always good to start your day early.
Then suddenly, the phone on a small table right next to the bed rang, waking up his two guests.
"Hello?" he said after picking it up.
"Hello? Is that you Mister Yuy? This is Sylvia" the voice said. Heero knew who she was. Sylvia Noventa was Quatre's secretary at work.
"Yes Sylvia?"
"I'm sorry if I woke you up" she said.
"It's alright, don't worry about it. I was already up. So what is it?" Heero asked.
"Not much Mister Yuy. I just wanted to let you know that Mr. Winner says you don't have to worry about coming to work today and that you are to return in a few days" Sylvia said.
"Alright, thank you Sylvia"
"You're welcome. Goodbye" she said and hung up. Heero put the phone back.
But then it rang again.
"Hello?" he said again.
"Hello sir, this is the Free Airways, we just wanted to remind you that you have a flight reserved for you at 5:00 this evening"
"Yes I know, thank you very much. Goodbye" Heero said and then hung up.
He then turned his attention to the women with him.
"Now ladies, I want to thank you for coming over but I'm sorry to say this but I think you should leave now" he said. The blonde and the brunette moved over and kissed him. One of them said "Please Mister Heero… won't you let us stay a bit longer?.."
"I'm going to take a shower now, so would you care to..."
Later on, Heero packed a few suitcases' worth of clothes and various accessories. After making sure that he had everything he needed, he called a taxi to pick him up and take him to the airport.
The flight wasn't very long. It was only about 8:00 in the night when he got there. It was only about two hours. After arriving at the airport and picking up his luggage, he again called a taxi to take him to the hotel.
Vaduz wasn't a very large city but yet not too small either. Being located near the ocean in a somewhat desert like region, the city was popular for visiting tourists all year long as the weather was usually pleasant and warm. It had relatively high living costs and was said to be a city of wealth and luxury. It was an important cultural center with many casinos and festivals. It was both a vibrant city by day and equally active and exciting at night. The Great Vaduz Festivity Day was simply an annual holiday when the city held all kinds of recreational and sports activities. These things included having large carnivals and circuses open and the opening of contests in horse, camel, and car racing and even fencing. Of course, these were only informal contests and would only appear on local TV. Other things it included were the high attendance of fancy night clubs and the marching of parades. The holiday would last two days and would begin tomorrow.
The Sun Hotel was rated at five stars. It was a large hotel with many short story condominium-like buildings, each with the finest rooms and quarters and not to mention the room service that was available for food. There were also some areas for popular recreational activities for the guests which included swimming pools, golf or mini-golf courses and bars. It was only his first time staying here but the hotel had good reputation and many outside Vaduz knew something about it. Heero walked in the entrance and went to the front desk. He told the attendant that his name was Heero Yuy and had a reservation. Just as Heero expected, the attendant told him there was a room ready. He handed Heero a key and Heero was about to go to his assigned room until a hotel employee stopped him.
"Excuse me sir, is your name Heero Yuy?" he asked. He answered yes. The employee took out an envelope and handed it to him. "I'm glad I found you. It just came in" he explained.
"Thank you very much" he said to the employee.
Heero opened the door to his room. Just what he expected. The room was large, had a nice, comfortable bed, a washing machine, and sofa along with it to name a few. After putting his things away, Heero sat down on a couch and opened the letter. What could it be? Heero thought.
He tore it open.
Dear Representative of Winner Affairs,
I am writing to you to let you know that I'll be waiting at the bar located at the Sun Hotel in Vaduz at 9: 00 PM at table 5. My name is Chang Wufei, the businessman you may have heard about and I very much look forward to doing business your company. If that time is too inconvenient for you, I will understand that if you do not show up by 9: 25. Should that be the case, I hope we can meet at 9: 00 the following morning. All the best.
Sincerely,
Chang Wufei
Another thing about being a good businessman was being prompt or slightly early just to make sure first impressions were satisfactory. After reading the note, he got dressed into one of his suits and walked out. Heero looked at his watch which read 8: 55. And before him by a few steps was the bar.
He entered.
The bar's atmosphere was relaxed and people mingled and danced with each other or were in fact just having a drink or eating food. Heero was glad that it wasn't noisy or too loud and that just about everyone was well-behaved, even though there was a music band playing on stage and just about everyone was talking.
"Pardon me sir, is there is a table 5 here?" Heero asked a waiter.
"Just over there" he answered, pointing next to the restroom. Heero saw that there was indeed a man sitting over there. He had his medium-length hair braided in a short braid at the back and wore a set of a gray tunic.
"Good evening, are you Mr. Chang Wufei?" Heero asked, approaching the table.
"Yes, I am" the businessman said. He got up from his seat and offered to shake hands which Heero agreed to.
"Pleased to meet you. My name is Heero Yuy."
They both took a seat down across from each other.
"I see that you are a few minutes early Mr. Yuy. How good of you to be on time'
"Oh, don't mention it. It's simply my job."
"Are you hungry? Thirsty Mr. Yuy?" Chang offered.
"No thanks, I already ate. So why are we here Mr. Chang?"
"Straight to business, to the point. I like that. Alright then" Chang began, his face and eyes starting to reveal some sort of cleverness or intelligence. "Your boss Mr. Winner might be in interested in buying some treasure that I just found on an archaeological expedition" he continued. Then the man's eyes began to glow. "It's the sacred Vase of Magical Glitter…"
Did Quatre just send him here on a business trip just to see if he was willing to buy some antique treasure?
"What is it?" he asked not knowing what it was.
"Well, of course there is no glitter in it, but it's a beautiful, ancient, and single, one of a kind vase made from 24 karat gold filled with precious jewels… and your boss can have it for just ten million roses."
"…Uh…I'll… be sure to tell Mr. Winner about your offer. Is that all?" he said, deep down thinking the whole thing was trivial.
"Would you like to see it for yourself?" Chang offered, hoping to make sure the purchase will be made.
"Well then, I wouldn't mind Mr. Chang" he said. Heero agreed just to be polite.
"Here it is" Chang said and opened a very durable and shiny suitcase that looked very stylish being completely silver in color on the outside. Chang had led Heero into a dark basement located under the bar. Somehow, he had the security access to open the door to it and there were many boxes located there.
What Heero saw inside was truly magnificent.
The vase was the size of a typical school textbook. Like Chang said, it was made from gold and was decorated with precious jewels, chucks of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and aquamarine were carved in and what was most noticeable about it were the very small porcelain tiles ranging in color from sea blue to white to dark blue on most of it. It depicted and portrayed a group of women in elegant dresses looking up to what appeared to a woman similar to the ones below but looking more divine, goddess-like in the sky.
Unbeknown to the two men, from afar, a mysterious man dressed in black clothes observed the two men discussing business until they both left together.
'Interesting…' he thought. The Vase of Magical Glitter… so it was true that the man had found it afterall... After being lost for thousands of years, it has finally come up, just like a fairytale!
'It will all happen soon…' he thought knowing that he would get the vase one way or another.
But there still remained one question: Who will the Chosen One be? The man dressed in black had his instinct tell him that the man in the suit was the one. But he would found out for sure very soon as major events were about to happen as The Prophecy dictated.
Feeling some sort of accomplishment in learning the whereabouts of the Chosen, the man in black walked away in the dark shadows, planning his next move.
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