Disclaimer: The same old stuff. The bishonen pilots aren't mine. Damn. The
story line however is and so is Sepia. She's my original character and you
MUST ask if you wish to use her for ANYTHING! All rights of Gundam Wing go
to their creators, and might I ad that I'm not making any money off of
this. I don't have any money anyway, so don't sue.
Author's rant: ~ see prolog ~ ///_*
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Chapter One
Dragon's Call
"Where are they all coming from?!"
Duo's shout echoed through the cockpit as Wufei Chang cut through three more mechs, only to watch in exhaustion as nine more sprang up in their wake. A huge blast did more than just shake the gundam Shenlong as more than 20 Taurus suits fired on it at once.
'Damn! There are too many. Nataku give me strength. I cannot lose!'
The others were in trouble too. Heavy Arms was out of ammo. Sandrock was trying to defend it while fighting and heavily damaged, and Wufei couldn't even see Wing or Deathscythe through the enemy mechs.
Wufei pushed Shenlong forward towards the heart of the attacking force. He could hear the shouts from his four companions only as back ground noise as he focused on his objectives. Taking down as many honorless bastards as he could, any way he could. A part of his mind drifted slightly.
'Nataku, in life, I have failed you. I was not strong enough. In this death, I will die honorably and in turn, will honor you. I will finally be with my clan.'
He heard a voice in his head and started.
'You are the last, Dragon Child. I will not let you perish. You will NOT DIE!'
On the last word, the five pilots saw an enormous blinding white shape seem to dive off the cliff they were fighting beside. It "landed" in front of Shenlong and all present gazed upon a white dragon as big as the gundams. Everything stopped as the dragon gazed at the mechs with black upon black eyes. The gundam pilots stared wide-eyed as Duo slowly murmured,
"What, the, fuck."
Quatre just as slowly answered,
"I, second, that."
Trowa and Heero remained silent as they stared at the dragon that seemed to give off a white light of it's own. Only Wufei didn't jump when the dragon straitened to its full height and let out a ground-shaking roar. In one devastating wave every air and ground mech, every opposing force on this battle field, fell apart and exploded in a wave of flames, the sound drowned out only by the deep roar of the dragon. The sound died just as swiftly as it had come and the six stood still, watching an enemy that was no more than burning rubble.
After a few moments, Wing made a sudden movement and started firing at the dragon that had just saved them. Apparently frightened, the huge white creature took to flight, heading for the forest for cover. Trowa worked back to reality next and started after the dragon. Duo made the next move. He started towards it as well.
"I get ya! If it did that to that many mechs at once it can do the same thing to us easy."
Quatre held back uncertainly.
'What did I just feel? What was that? It came from that creature. A sense. Something like protection. directed at Wufei. It.'
His thought was cut off as the dragon cut them off by falling into the trees, and as Shenlong stopped them by moving to bar their way. Heero growled and leveled Wing's cannon at Wufei's gundam.
"What are you doing Wufei? Move!"
Deathscythe moved up next to wing.
"Yeah Wu man! What's the problem? That thing's dangerous. We have to try to stop it."
Shenlong's cockpit opened and Wufei, wearing his white Chinese style shirt, stepped out with an odd look on his face.
"I will not move! I will not let you harm that dragon!"
He jumped down and started running, as soon as his feet hit the ground, in the direction of the woods where the dragon went down. The other pilots jumped out of their gundams as well, Duo speaking before he hit the ground.
"He's fuckin' lost it man! That dragon's gonna tear him to shreds. What an idiot! That sense of justice of his has finally gone way to his head."
Quatre started the way Wufei and the dragon went only to be stopped as Trowa grabbed his arm.
"Where are you going?"
Quartre looked into the eyes of the boy who had quickly anchored himself in his heart.
"Trowa, I felt something. She's not going to hurt him. In fact quite the opposite, she might just save him. She's."
He floundered around for the word.
"Connected to him."
Heero's cold blue eyes bore into him.
"She?"
Quartre nodded as they all headed for the trees.
"This dragon is a definite female."
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'Damnit! I have to find her! She could be hurt.
Wufei ran faster as this thought came to him and crashed through another patch of brush effortlessly. He came to an abrupt halt as he almost ran right into the slightly glowing white dragon that was at the moment trying to lay as low as possible. Wufei noted that it wasn't working too well. The dragon turned its head to look at him with eyes as black as his own. Only his eyes had the whites around them.
The dragon's eyes were completely black. In each other's eyes, they found recognition and bits of wonder and awe from both sides. The dragon opened its mouth and spoke, to Wufei's surprise and amazement, in a language he had never heard, but knew better than his own. This, needless to say, baffled the copper-skinned youth to no ends.
"So we finally meet face to face, Dragon Child."
The voice was a soft feminine soprano. It made Wufei think immediately of bells. He said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Why did you do that? Destroy the Oz mobile suits I mean?"
He winced at how childish he sounded. He was also amazed that he felt comfortable talking to this creature. It felt right and natural. It felt like something to be cherished and honored as sacredly as life.
The dragon looked at him closer and seemed to smile with its eyes."I told you I would not I would not let you die. I will always keep this promise. Just as I still keep the promise that I made to my best friend, when the earth was still young, that I would watch over his children. These children that he made from his own blood, the first of your clan. Step closer young one. Do not fear. I will not hurt you."
The dragon said this as it watched Wufei's wide onyx-colored eyes. However, never once did she see fear in those eyes as he stepped up and put his palms against her bright skin and looked deeper into her eyes as well.
"How can I understand you?"
He jumped back, breaking contact as he realized that he had just spoken in the same language. Then realized that this is the second time he had done this. Him mind wandered drunkenly.
'Why hadn't I realized that I'd spoken my first question in her language as well? This is turning out to be a very confusing day.'
The dragon started glowing brighter and Wufei backed up more shielding his eyes as the light became blinding. He looked back as the light faded and started as his eyes fell upon only a naked girl trying to push herself off of the forest floor. Her skin was the same light copper tone as Wufei's, but her body-length hair was the same flowing, silver-white as the dragon's skin, and even gave off the same supernatural silver glow. When he caught site of her eyes, he saw the same odd black upon black as the dragon's eyes had been.
"Gods!"
He sighed out in wonder as he took off his white shirt and draped it around her shoulders and offered her his hand to help her up. She looked at his hand and then up into his eyes as he helped her to her feet. He bushed some of the wisps of hair out of her face as she spoke in the same soft voice and language that the dragon had.
"Does this form make you feel a little easier Dragon Child?"
Still holding her hand, it finally clicked fully that she was the same dragon that he had just been talking to, even though this girl looked like she could be no more than 18 years old.
"You changed."
He automatically felt stupid. 'Why can't I control my mouth around her?'
He then blushed a deep red as her peels of laughter shook his shirt off of her, very well formed, body. He looked at her as he bent to pick his shirt up from where it had fallen at her feet. He was a little alarmed when she her knees seemed to buckle and she started to fall. He caught her before she reached the ground.
"Are you all right? They didn't hurt you did they?"
She looked up at him apologetically. "I am sorry. I have not been in this form or stood on two legs for that matter since before man first went into space. I have been rude and have not told you my name. It is. 'Sepia.'"
They chorused her name and she smiled up at him. This snapped Wufei out of his stupor.
"How do I know these things?"
He asked this softly as helped her to her feet. He put his shirt back on her and buttoned it this time. It hung loosely, almost like a nightgown going down to her knees.
"Are you going to answer my question?"
He stepped back looking once again into her eyes through the white wisps of hair that seemed to always hang in her face. She looked back in that same calm fashion that she had as a dragon.
"You already know the answer to that young one. Your whole clan has learned of me and my kind through their dreams since they were able to dream and have all known our language since before they were born. Just as you are the last, so too, am I."
He started to say something else, but was cut short as they heard something crash through the brush that he had crashed through earlier. **************************************************************************** ************************
Do you like it so far? Then tell me ONEGAI!!! I'm not kidding, I need the encouragement. If you don't like it then tell me why. But remember flames will be laughed and scoffed at as they are deleted. ARIGATOU MINNA-CHAN!!! Read on and enjoy! -Celesta Hellewise Harman ///_*
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Chapter One
Dragon's Call
"Where are they all coming from?!"
Duo's shout echoed through the cockpit as Wufei Chang cut through three more mechs, only to watch in exhaustion as nine more sprang up in their wake. A huge blast did more than just shake the gundam Shenlong as more than 20 Taurus suits fired on it at once.
'Damn! There are too many. Nataku give me strength. I cannot lose!'
The others were in trouble too. Heavy Arms was out of ammo. Sandrock was trying to defend it while fighting and heavily damaged, and Wufei couldn't even see Wing or Deathscythe through the enemy mechs.
Wufei pushed Shenlong forward towards the heart of the attacking force. He could hear the shouts from his four companions only as back ground noise as he focused on his objectives. Taking down as many honorless bastards as he could, any way he could. A part of his mind drifted slightly.
'Nataku, in life, I have failed you. I was not strong enough. In this death, I will die honorably and in turn, will honor you. I will finally be with my clan.'
He heard a voice in his head and started.
'You are the last, Dragon Child. I will not let you perish. You will NOT DIE!'
On the last word, the five pilots saw an enormous blinding white shape seem to dive off the cliff they were fighting beside. It "landed" in front of Shenlong and all present gazed upon a white dragon as big as the gundams. Everything stopped as the dragon gazed at the mechs with black upon black eyes. The gundam pilots stared wide-eyed as Duo slowly murmured,
"What, the, fuck."
Quatre just as slowly answered,
"I, second, that."
Trowa and Heero remained silent as they stared at the dragon that seemed to give off a white light of it's own. Only Wufei didn't jump when the dragon straitened to its full height and let out a ground-shaking roar. In one devastating wave every air and ground mech, every opposing force on this battle field, fell apart and exploded in a wave of flames, the sound drowned out only by the deep roar of the dragon. The sound died just as swiftly as it had come and the six stood still, watching an enemy that was no more than burning rubble.
After a few moments, Wing made a sudden movement and started firing at the dragon that had just saved them. Apparently frightened, the huge white creature took to flight, heading for the forest for cover. Trowa worked back to reality next and started after the dragon. Duo made the next move. He started towards it as well.
"I get ya! If it did that to that many mechs at once it can do the same thing to us easy."
Quatre held back uncertainly.
'What did I just feel? What was that? It came from that creature. A sense. Something like protection. directed at Wufei. It.'
His thought was cut off as the dragon cut them off by falling into the trees, and as Shenlong stopped them by moving to bar their way. Heero growled and leveled Wing's cannon at Wufei's gundam.
"What are you doing Wufei? Move!"
Deathscythe moved up next to wing.
"Yeah Wu man! What's the problem? That thing's dangerous. We have to try to stop it."
Shenlong's cockpit opened and Wufei, wearing his white Chinese style shirt, stepped out with an odd look on his face.
"I will not move! I will not let you harm that dragon!"
He jumped down and started running, as soon as his feet hit the ground, in the direction of the woods where the dragon went down. The other pilots jumped out of their gundams as well, Duo speaking before he hit the ground.
"He's fuckin' lost it man! That dragon's gonna tear him to shreds. What an idiot! That sense of justice of his has finally gone way to his head."
Quatre started the way Wufei and the dragon went only to be stopped as Trowa grabbed his arm.
"Where are you going?"
Quartre looked into the eyes of the boy who had quickly anchored himself in his heart.
"Trowa, I felt something. She's not going to hurt him. In fact quite the opposite, she might just save him. She's."
He floundered around for the word.
"Connected to him."
Heero's cold blue eyes bore into him.
"She?"
Quartre nodded as they all headed for the trees.
"This dragon is a definite female."
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'Damnit! I have to find her! She could be hurt.
Wufei ran faster as this thought came to him and crashed through another patch of brush effortlessly. He came to an abrupt halt as he almost ran right into the slightly glowing white dragon that was at the moment trying to lay as low as possible. Wufei noted that it wasn't working too well. The dragon turned its head to look at him with eyes as black as his own. Only his eyes had the whites around them.
The dragon's eyes were completely black. In each other's eyes, they found recognition and bits of wonder and awe from both sides. The dragon opened its mouth and spoke, to Wufei's surprise and amazement, in a language he had never heard, but knew better than his own. This, needless to say, baffled the copper-skinned youth to no ends.
"So we finally meet face to face, Dragon Child."
The voice was a soft feminine soprano. It made Wufei think immediately of bells. He said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Why did you do that? Destroy the Oz mobile suits I mean?"
He winced at how childish he sounded. He was also amazed that he felt comfortable talking to this creature. It felt right and natural. It felt like something to be cherished and honored as sacredly as life.
The dragon looked at him closer and seemed to smile with its eyes."I told you I would not I would not let you die. I will always keep this promise. Just as I still keep the promise that I made to my best friend, when the earth was still young, that I would watch over his children. These children that he made from his own blood, the first of your clan. Step closer young one. Do not fear. I will not hurt you."
The dragon said this as it watched Wufei's wide onyx-colored eyes. However, never once did she see fear in those eyes as he stepped up and put his palms against her bright skin and looked deeper into her eyes as well.
"How can I understand you?"
He jumped back, breaking contact as he realized that he had just spoken in the same language. Then realized that this is the second time he had done this. Him mind wandered drunkenly.
'Why hadn't I realized that I'd spoken my first question in her language as well? This is turning out to be a very confusing day.'
The dragon started glowing brighter and Wufei backed up more shielding his eyes as the light became blinding. He looked back as the light faded and started as his eyes fell upon only a naked girl trying to push herself off of the forest floor. Her skin was the same light copper tone as Wufei's, but her body-length hair was the same flowing, silver-white as the dragon's skin, and even gave off the same supernatural silver glow. When he caught site of her eyes, he saw the same odd black upon black as the dragon's eyes had been.
"Gods!"
He sighed out in wonder as he took off his white shirt and draped it around her shoulders and offered her his hand to help her up. She looked at his hand and then up into his eyes as he helped her to her feet. He bushed some of the wisps of hair out of her face as she spoke in the same soft voice and language that the dragon had.
"Does this form make you feel a little easier Dragon Child?"
Still holding her hand, it finally clicked fully that she was the same dragon that he had just been talking to, even though this girl looked like she could be no more than 18 years old.
"You changed."
He automatically felt stupid. 'Why can't I control my mouth around her?'
He then blushed a deep red as her peels of laughter shook his shirt off of her, very well formed, body. He looked at her as he bent to pick his shirt up from where it had fallen at her feet. He was a little alarmed when she her knees seemed to buckle and she started to fall. He caught her before she reached the ground.
"Are you all right? They didn't hurt you did they?"
She looked up at him apologetically. "I am sorry. I have not been in this form or stood on two legs for that matter since before man first went into space. I have been rude and have not told you my name. It is. 'Sepia.'"
They chorused her name and she smiled up at him. This snapped Wufei out of his stupor.
"How do I know these things?"
He asked this softly as helped her to her feet. He put his shirt back on her and buttoned it this time. It hung loosely, almost like a nightgown going down to her knees.
"Are you going to answer my question?"
He stepped back looking once again into her eyes through the white wisps of hair that seemed to always hang in her face. She looked back in that same calm fashion that she had as a dragon.
"You already know the answer to that young one. Your whole clan has learned of me and my kind through their dreams since they were able to dream and have all known our language since before they were born. Just as you are the last, so too, am I."
He started to say something else, but was cut short as they heard something crash through the brush that he had crashed through earlier. **************************************************************************** ************************
Do you like it so far? Then tell me ONEGAI!!! I'm not kidding, I need the encouragement. If you don't like it then tell me why. But remember flames will be laughed and scoffed at as they are deleted. ARIGATOU MINNA-CHAN!!! Read on and enjoy! -Celesta Hellewise Harman ///_*
