AN: Hey there people! Starting from now, I'll be testing my skills at original story writing, also at fanfiction.net. So go check it out already! ^^v The story is called "Cursed" and hopefully all readers will enjoy the plot, especially the romantic ones. Reassured I will put in some humour, however, it takes on a more serious tone throughout the plot.



This chapter is dedicated to Maxwell dark, Angel and Kuria! Thanks for your wonderful reviews. :]



Chapter 3



Jess wandered along the passage till she came to a dead end. To her right was an elevator with its door wide open. Cautiously, Jess stepped into it, surveying the interior and was quite surprised to find it rather large. The space could at least fit 20 people inside without making anyone feel cramp. However, being the ONLY person in the large elevator, Jess felt… small.

'This is unpleasant. Everything looks so spacious and… big. This must be how an insect feels like. Ughh!' she thought, taking in the largeness, or rather emptiness of the elevator.

'Besides, why install such a large elevator in a comic building?' she wondered, a small nagging feeling tugging at the back of her mind. 'Must be a male and his egotistical self, I guess,' she reasoned, pushing that nagging feeling away.

Then Jess gave herself a mental shake. Right now, she had more important things to do than stay all day staring at a large elevator, which would be dumb, of course.

Jess looked at the buttons located at the side of her.

"Now what was it he said information was at?" she murmured to herself. Unable to recall which floor information was on, she pushed the button that indicated 6.

'No harm in trying,' she thought.



Heero, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa and Duo were waiting for the lift to come.

"Damn it! Why is it taking so long?" Wufei cursed under his breath.

Heero just grunted and leaned against the wall. Quatre started getting the 'worries and shakies' and that took all of Trowa's attention to try and calm him down. Meanwhile, Duo, feeling bored, started talking both Heero and Wufei's ears off like a machine gun. This irritated Wufei so much, by the end of Duo's 20th sentence, he had turned around to give Duo an ear- blasting lecture on the seriousness of the situation.



The door of the lift slid silently open and Jess saw the boy from her earlier meeting, except this time his back was turned to her. There were two others before him, but he was blocking her view of them.

"Cuse me," she called out, "What level did you say information was at?"

"Level 3, A6," the boy answered curtly, without turning around.

"Thanks!" Jess called out as she pressed the button labelled 3 and the door slid closed.



Wufei was just about to start his lecture when was he interrupted by the same question from behind. He bit out the answer and was just about to proceed to his lecture again when something clicked in his head. Heero, by now, had an amused look on his face while Duo was trying to look around him.

"Holy SHIT!" Wufei said as all five of them started for the lift door. However, the lift door slid close before any of them could reach it, and pressing the button was of no use.

"Sound the alert!" Heero said. "Duo! Go to the control room to alert about the girl's destination while the rest of us head for level 3."

Then, Heero took out his gun as he ran for the stairs. Wufei followed close behind, cursing, while Quatre and Trowa ran alongside with him.



Jess stepped out of the lift and looked both left and right.

'Which way to A6?' she wondered, as both passages stretched out endlessly on either side of her, through metal arches. No door seemed to be in sight for that matter too.

"Oh well, right seems to be a good choice," she murmured to herself, turning to her right.



As soon as all of the boys had run down the stairs to level 3, they skidded to a halt after entering through the escape door. Heero took charge, as usual.

" Wufei and Trowa go right, I and Quatre will go left," he commanded. He received questionable looks from his co-gundam pilots. Heero sighed inwardly. He hated explaining his reasons.

"Look! We don't know whether she knows the way to A6. Chances are she may be wandering around in the wrong direction. We have enough evidence as it is, what with her not going directly to the information room," Heero directed the last sentence at Wufei, who looked away angrily. "Besides, we have to capture her alive, Zechs and OZ may be up to something and she'll have useful information." Heero stopped, feeling a bit winded. He had NEVER explained so much in his entire existence before.

The other three co-pilots nodded their understanding and spilt up to their respective missions.



Jess had just gone 3 steps through the second metal arch when the lights suddenly turned red and started flashing with a horrible siren sound.

'Just exactly like those cartoons where security is breached or in emergency situations,' she thought, continuing her walking as she had paused when the lights had turned red.

'But of course, those things can't happen here, for goodness sake! Must be some crazy comic sale, or…a FIRE!!!' she concluded, and hastily changed her objections to finding a fire escape exit as fast as she can.

Pounding feet coming from behind halted Jess's frantic search for the fire escape. Turning around, this time she saw the boy… and his face.

'My goodness… he's a dead ringer for Wufei of the Gundam Wing series,' she thought, her eyes taking in the ever-so-alike 'Wufei's pissed look' up to the small little ponytail at the back of his head.

Looking at his partner, Jess felt her head started to reel with shock. The tall boy with long brown hair, one side of his eye was covered with it, and the serious look he had, made him another dead-ringer for Trowa of the Gundam Wing series.

'What's this??? Comics come to life?' she thought, feeling a little uneasiness appear. 'That can't be, can it? Of course not. Get a GRIP on yourself girl! Must be some gimmick in advertising their comics, that what it is!' she concluded, after thinking hard for a moment or two. 'Well! They aren't getting any cash out of me, what with mom making quite a ruckus over it already. Once is enough, thank you!'

Both boys were panting rather heavily when they had first caught up with her, as if they had just run a marathon. But they seemed to have caught their breaths back as the boy in white sank into a defending crouch, while the other put his hand under his vest, fiddling with something underneath it.

'Ohhh… He's GOOD. Acts exactly like Wufei with that crouching position and angry expression!' Jess thought to herself.

By then, the taller boy had taken something black and shiny from underneath his vest. Jess started towards him, hoping she could get some directions from him to the nearest fire evacuation exit. She paused in her tracks when the taller boy said: "Don't move an inch. Not if you value your life."

He raised his hand and Jess felt her eyes widen. He had a gun pointed at her.

The taller boy continued speaking. "Now move slowly backwards into the wall with your hands above your head where I can see them."

Jess did exactly as he said, but as soon as she leaned against the wall, it gave of a soft 'ping' and the wall slid open. Jess twisted around and hit the ground running. Behind her, the sound of gunshots were made and a boy's cursing could be clearly heard, following her as she made her way down this new secret passage way.



"I guess she's not here," Quatre remarked as he and the operational staff gathered at A6. Heero nodded but before he could say anything, Quatre's beeper started vibrating and flashing its little blue light. Switching it on, Trowa's voice could be clearly heard with Wufei's cursing colouring the background. Both boys' mouths twisted into a faint resemblance of a smile.

"Hey guys, she's at B6 right now. If she heads any further, she'll be in the Gundams' hanger soon. We need assistance quickly to head her off," came Trowa's calm and factual voice on the beeper. This message was rounded off by two shots, followed briefly by a girl's frantic cry.

"Did you hit her?" Quatre asked anxiously. His mind began to think of all the medical help the girl was going to need if she ever got hit, not to mention mental.

"No!" came the reply from a really irritated Wufei. "That girl got the devil's own luck! She's still running around unhurt!"

"That's a really blood-thirsty side you got there, Wufei," Quatre commented before switching off his beeper.

Then looking at Heero, they both started for B13 to head off the girl.



Jess had run into a walkway where railings restricted and bounded her flight. The two mad boys were still chasing her. Normally she wouldn't mind it, if it weren't for the fact that one wielded a gun, while the other looked like he wanted to wring her neck.

'I wonder if that gun's real?' she thought as she hit the dead end of the walkway. No escape to either side of her, except a long drop to the ground below, which she knew she wouldn't and would not want to survive. The only other escape was going back where she came from, but the two crazy boys were there, making that escape impossible for her.

However, all thoughts of escape fled from her head as she took a good look at the scene below.

5 HUGE robots, about 12 storeys high stood line up against a wall, AND they all looked like robots from GUNDAM WING. Jess couldn't help but grasp at the sight before her.

By now, the two mad boys had caught up with her, coming to a halt not too far away and the stupid boy was still pointing the gun at her. Jess was beginning to feel a little… hard-pressed. Looking at the gun, Jess suddenly got an idea into her head.

Throwing one leg over the railing, she threatened: "If you don't put that gun away, I'll jump and kill myself!"



Wufei rolled his eyes in irritation while Trowa gave a sigh. Hasn't that been what they've been trying to do?

Maybe not kill but they have been definitely trying to hit her with their shootings. But for her to kill herself, Heero would be bitterly disappointed if that happened.

"Fine," Trowa compromise, "only if you agree to follow us quietly."

The girl nodded and Trowa started to put his gun under his vest.

"No!" the girl shouted. "Throw it down there!"

Trowa's eyes widen and then narrowed to slits.

'Who does this girl think she is?' he thought, feeling irritation grow at the thought of throwing his gun down a 12-storey drop.

"I don't trust your word alone," the girl said simply, seeming to understand the fuming look he gave her. But the girl's eyes also seemed to be begging for his understanding too.

'Guess I feel the same way being surrounded by enemies holding guns at me…'

And started to hate himself for the next action he was going to do.

With a grunt, Trowa flung his gun over the railings.

"There! Happy?" he grunted.



Jess nodded but as she started to bring her leg over the railing to the other side, her stupid big toe caught onto the railing, causing her to lose balance. With a silent cry, she fell backwards, head log into a 12-storey high of empty space towards a definite death below.



Author's Proclamation: No one is allowed to blame me for this late update. ^^x

Due to circumstances outside my control (read fanfic.net problems), I was unable to upload this last chapter.

Yeah man!