"Who are they?"
"Someone get the chief! It's a demon!"
"Look at it's hair…"
"Hide the children!"
Wufei opened his eye's cautiously, glancing around from his place on the ground. People were milling around him and the four other bodies next to him. He caught the eye of Heero who too was taking in their surroundings. Their packs and weapons were all still with them. No one seemed to have enough courage to come up to them. The people around them seemed to speaking an old form of German. But their pilot training in languages, made it possible for them to understand the old tongue.
"Out of the way!" A bulky man pushed through the crowd that had formed around their bodies.
"What's going on here!?" The man bellowed and then froze as he spotted them.
"A black…" His voice became quiet and fearful. "Everyone back away. Women grab the children. Men grab any weapons you have."
His words stirred action into the five pilots. Their faked sleeping was suddenly thrown off as they all stood and bolted in a triangle through the crowd toward what was a dense forest. There was screaming and loud shouting from behind them.
"Status?" 01's voice asked from the head of the triangle as they ran, weaving between trees and bushes.
"Unknown location. Condition stable." Quatre's solid voice replied from Heero's right.
"Weapons?" He asked again.
"Fine. Packs intact." This time Trowa on his left answered.
"We will continue till we find shelter." They all nodded in agreement.
It was nearly dark when they managed to find a small cave. It was slightly damp but enough for the five exhausted ex-pilots.
"Watch in pilot order. We'll discuss our situation in the morning." In minutes the other four were sleeping in a defensive position. Their backs never toward the cave opening and hands resting on their weapons. Heero standing guard at the mouth of the cave.
"Where in the seven hell's are we!?" Duo shouted, his frustration finally at his breaking point. There wasn't a thing that they recognize in the strange land they found themselves in.
"Calm down Duo! Go hunt or something, scope our surroundings while you're at it." Quatre suggested(ordered) as gently as he could. 02 huffed standing from his place in their circle and glared at their surroundings. Nothing made sense in the place they arrived in. Strange animals, old languages, freaky plants. Hell the way they got there destroyed all the known laws of physics they knew.
"If I come across one more roaring cat(1) I swear…" With that he stomped off into the woods, his knives finding its way into his hand as he slashed innocent vines out of his way.
"Duo's completely right though. Where are we?" Quatre looked back at their mud map they had drawn on the floor. They had Japan and Germany circled with lines between the two countries.
"How in the world could we have gotten from Japan to Germany though? Unless we were knocked out longer than we predicted…" Wufei traced the line with a twig, his face twisted in concentration.
"There aren't many sedatives that could have kept us down that long." Trowa put in, his voice stoic as he gazed around looking for clues to where they were.
"True, not even Oz had many things to keep us down… a new drug perhaps?" Quatre voiced his mind running through the list of known sedatives that were able to keep them down.
"You all remember the water right?" The other three nodded focusing on their Chinese companion.
"When I drank it. I swear I heard a voice. It said 'Welcome dragon.' After that I blanked out." His words left a silence.
"You collapsed before us. There wasn't anyone around except us." Heero's voice broke the sudden tenses in them.
"I still heard it. Something is different about this place…" A hand landed on his knee. Quatre was staring at him intently.
"It could be like my space heart. I've heard of people with the ability to read and sometimes communicate without words. They're called telepaths." The others stared at him like he'd grown another head.
"But it can't be true. Those type of things are all fiction! It couldn't be real…" Wufei's voice faded his mind racing. Memories rushed back to him from his time with his clan. His mother showing him pictures of black scaled fire breathing dragons. His father presenting him in a family ritual, that every heir of the Chang family went through, the fire ghosting his skin never burning. An uncle falling from a five story building and watching as his body twisted and landing unharmed.
"It's true." His mind reeled at the things that he had locked away years ago. "My family… we're somehow connected to. Dragons." He felt stress clench in his chest.
"But how-" Quatre's question was cut off as they heard a scream from the forest.
"Duo." Was all that was said and the four dashed off into the dense foliage, their weapons unsheathed and ready.
A/N: I didn't realize how short this chapter was... sorry folks.
The cat is the opposite of the meowing Zobusaburifu. Episode 5. I donno it doesn't really match but I make it so. I thought it was cool :D