Hey there guys! I'm back and I've brought a chappie with me! :D I'm proud of meself because frankly, I thought this wasn't going to finish until next week at the least! But hah! I defeated my worry with the mighty sword called posting (I'm tired, so I don't think this makes sense...meh) So here you go, R&R please :D oh N sorry Jess, It's not to much longer then the last, but the next will hopefully be!
The Wonderful World Of Ma-er, Explinations!
Quatre was startled awake by the sound of a thud, sitting up and groaning when his stomach twisted painfully. Everyone stared at the unconscious Relena laying on the floor. "Did I miss something?" Quatre asked and everyone turned at him, Trowa coming in a moment later.
"I heard a noise, is everything all right?" Trowa murmured, glancing at everyone and stopping at Relena.
"Yes, Trowa, everything's fine. Relena just fainted is all." Heero said. Trowa jerked his head up before growing pallid and joining Relena on the floor. Duo snickered at Heero's pout.
"Jeeze, if every time I open my mouth and they faint, I don't think I'll keep talking." He grumbled. Wufei patted his unruly locks with a smile.
"Don't stop talking every again, your voice is nice."
And damn sexy Duo added in his head, blushing faintly at his perverted thoughts. He crawled over to Quatre and sat between his legs, leaning against his chest with a purr.
Quatre rubbed his ears. "Hello Duo, thanks for saving me." Duo only purred louder as an answer, dozing at the pleasant feeling of getting his ears stroked. He looked at Heero who was worriedly looking at Trowa and Relena. "It's nice that you can talk again Heero."
Heero seemed startled out of thought and looked over, giving him a faint smile. "Yeah, it's nice. But I really hope Treize and Zechs don't faint."
"Why on earth would we faint from you talking Heero?" Treize asked as he opened the door, Zechs behind him with a large paper bag in his hands.
Heero chuckled and Treize smiled while Zechs set the paper bag on the nearby desk that was pushed against the golden wall. Mara appeared at the door with a faint smile on her face.
"Wufei, would you and your company like dinner at a later time?" At said mans nod she disappeared after a quick bow. Zechs pulled out a water bottle and opened it, upturning its icy contents on the unconscious teens who spluttered awake, wiping water from their eyes and glared at the grinning Zechs.
"Wakey wakey sleepy heads." He cooed and Trowa got up, helping Relena up when he stood steady.
"You could have just slapped us awake you know." Relena grumbled, twisting the water out of her shirt and blushed when she caught Wufei's eye. "I'm sorry Wufei, I shouldn't be wringing out water all over you nice carpet." Wufei shook his head with a grin.
"It's perfectly fine, you haven't hurt anything. Do you feel like you'll faint again any time soon?" He chuckled at Trowa's glare. "I'll take that as a no." He glanced over at Duo and Quatre for a moment and looked at Heero. "Do you think you four could leave for a moment?" They nodded and left, Duo, Quatre and Heero giving them curious looks.
"What do you need to talk about?" Heero asked, sitting more upright in attentiveness.
Wufei sighed. "I need to explain a few things for you and those two over there. Did Duo and Quatre ever get around to telling you about what they are?" When the two shook their heads Wufei hummed. "Okay then, I might as well start with a little bit of what we are, er...Quatre and I are." Duo flicked his tail in acknowledgement. "Quatre and I are wizards. And no, not the cute Harry Potter wizards who go to school and have friends and go and see the world, no. Wizards like us use incantations, but the newest information has been taught using French instead of Latin. We used to have to get a familiar, but now it's optional and not to popular anymore due to the fact that you always end up training your familiar until it's house broken and everything." Duo grumbled something unpleasant under his breath. "We also don't choose to go to school. We're taken from our family the second we're healthy enough to leave the hospital and are taken care of until we're old enough and strong enough to protect ourselves in the real world. Where we are taken care of is at these facilities that are called orphanages, but they don't except every kid into it that passes them by. It is there that we're taught our skills and how to live in the real world at the same time. None of us really talk to each other in the facilities though, that's why it took forever for me to say more then one word at a time."
Heero chuckled when he remembered berating his lover in wild sign language when he just wouldn't talk with his voice, and it irritated him to no end.
"So now to the harder part. Heero, a few years ago, actually, exactly eighteen years ago, there was a raid on many of these special orphanages by the government. They wanted power so badly, that they took many of the newborn baby's and raced away, some were just killed, others muted with slightly crushed windpipes or left diseases. It devastated the Wizard population. What you really need to know that, there was this very important orphanage right by an army depot in the northern section of Utah. Everyone was made to believe it was a bomb shelter that was no longer in use, but down there they had only ten babies, all of them boys. Then there was a visit from a few terrorists that had caught wind of this facility and destroyed the shelter, taking four of those babies. One of them were you, Heero."
Heero balked. He'd never heard such a ridiculous thing, but by the seriousness in Wufei's onyx eyes, he stayed silent.
"You wouldn't remember this, but, when they took you, they trained you out of the country, in this case, Japan. There, you would have stayed, told that this country was out to destroy the world or take it over if it hadn't been for the terrorists being discovered. That's when I found you. I brought you back here, and gave you to a pair of Wizards that had been close friends for a few years and were wonderful people. I never knew they were killed, and those...dirt bags...had claimed you as their child that they had lost before anything could have been documented. They did all of that to you, because they knew what you were, and despised you for it. They were jealous that their natural son hadn't been special, and then died because of yellow fever."
Heero felt crestfallen and hurt. He'd had a nice family but...
A mother warm and loving hum...a lullaby. Soft, sweet, and comforting. Doors clicking with a slight ringing of wind chimes. The crackling of flames. The warmth of her breasts when she hugged him close when he cried. Her soft golden hair. And then laughing golden eyes that weren't the woman's, but a mans. Strong, but gentle embraces, pleasant baths, learning to speak English, and then he remembered the smell of squid and sea water and the rough, sour, short men that always scowled at him and yelled at him and cursed him. He didn't realize he was crying until Wufei wiped away the few tears that escaped.
"I-I just remembered...I couldn't...but just now...humming...and smiles...and warmth." Duo leaned in a purred soothingly, rubbing his cheek against Heero's shoulder and Wufei pulled him into a hug. Quatre looked on with a faint and wistful smile as he realized that it would work, and his friend would soon be happy.
A sharp rap on their window was all the warning they got before four men burst in, hands in the air and lips moving rapidly. Wufei jumped but was muttering only a second before Quatre started. Duo's tail was fluffed up and ears flattened down against his head and knelt protectively in front of Heero.
Glowing lights filled the room, the door bursting open and the four others being shoved in by a large muscular man stomped in, glaring at the growling cat boy.
"Neko! Back away or you will be taken from your master for disobedience!" He shouted and Duo flinched, growl dying but staying in his crouched position in front of Heero, who looked to be on the edge of panic.
"Why are you here?" Wufei growled, his spells only keeping a barrier around them.
The large man lifted Trowa up by his unusual bangs and pressed a gun to his head. "We're here to get all of you. No come with us, or lose someone and come with us anyways."
Wufei cursed under his breath as Quatre scooted closer, warily glancing about the room. "Who sent you?"
"I did." A blonde woman said, flicking a twist over her shoulder. She smirked at Wufei. "Hello Chang Wufei, it's nice to see you after such a long time."
"Sally! Why do you want us?" Wufei asked, moving so that he was blocking Heero and Duo from Sally's view.
She scowled. "You know damn well why I want you all. I predicted this years ago, and you refused to believe me, even though you found Heero. You even ended up with the worlds most powerful neko and a blonde wizard, but you still didn't believe me, did you?" She stormed over, waving her hand, causing the shield to disappear.
"Everyone thought you were a crack pot wizard who was out to take over the world, and I was one of the one's who believed it, Sally! You still incriminate yourself by making all of these-" Sally smacked him sharply.
Heero growled and struggled to go up and give the blonde bitch of piece of his mind, Duo holding him back but wanting to have a go at her himself. This was the Sally Po they had been sent here to fight, and now that she was so close…
"How dare you even think that I would make such monsters! I love animals, and I love magic! I hate fucking with that!" She shrieked, slapping Wufei once more. "We used to love each other, so you know damn well that I would never do this." She growled, spinning on her heel and going out of the window, swiping at her eyes.
The man yanked Trowa along, Trowa hissing at the pain in his scalp. Relena, Zechs and Treize followed along, the latter two clutching each other's hand tightly. The man twitched his finger and Wufei got up, motioning at the three on the bed to follow. The man waited until the eight were surrounded by the large group of men that had come into the room before letting go of Trowa and shoving him so that he smacked into Zechs. Zechs held him up and steadied him, allowing Trowa to lean on him as they were pushed to the window.
"We can't go out the window! This is the fifth floor! We'll die!" Relena exclaimed, trying not to be pushed out the window. Wufei put a calming hand on her shoulders.
"It's not quite a window Relena. Go through, trust me." He said softly. Relena nodded, albeit reluctantly. She walked up, stepping up onto the sill and walking out, eyes closed tightly as she disappeared. Zechs gasped and Trowa blinked.
"Go Duo." Wufei murmured. And one by one, Wufei nudged everyone through, glaring at anyone who shoved or prodded any of the teens to get them to move.
When he stepped through after everyone, he made sure everyone was okay, glancing about the room and taking in where they could be. The air felt stale and it felt dry and heavy, his ear popping a few times. It felt warm as well, though it was quite clean and such.
"A mine?" Heero murmured, moving over and pressing his fingers to a wall. Trowa rubbed at his scalp and joined him over by the wall.
"Yes, Heero. It's actually quite close to where you live. We're in the copper mine." At that, everyone jerked up with surprise as Sally walked in, running her finger against one wall. "Now, I'm about to explain everything, and I want you all to promise you wont say anything until the end." Everyone frowned but nodded. "You'd like to sit, because it's long, come." At that she turned. Wufei rolled his eyes and herded the teens after her, everyone murmuring worriedly to each other, Quatre and Duo right in front while Trowa and Relena stood right behind him with Zechs and Treize close to Wufei.
"This woman has friggin' issues." Zechs muttered. "She could do without all of the stupid flare and just come in through the front." Treize patted his shoulder with a faint smile while Zechs grumbled under his breath about the "showy entrance".
Duo chuckled when he caught what Zechs was grumbling about. Heero pouted. "What are you laughing about?"
Quatre and Trowa perked up while Relena walked along, lost in her own thoughts.
"Zechs sure doesn't like showy entrances." Duo giggled.
"Because they are stupid! It's not something a proper lady or gentleman would do!" Zechs, well, whined.
Wufei rolled his onyx eyes with a snort. "Sally and 'proper lady' only belong in the same sentence if she is being proven not to be so. She's so far from proper-" A shoe smacked him in the face and everyone whirled, Sally glaring and holding up her other tennis shoe in warning before storming off in socked feet, everyone giggling as Wufei scowled.
A door opening made them all pause, continuing after they realized it led to the room Sally had entered. Everyone, even Wufei, paused at the décor.
It was well furnished, as if they weren't a few miles under ground, but in fact in a nice lobby or such that you would find in perhaps a four star hotel. The furniture was in wide hues from an elegant dark blue to a shimmering silver or pleasant white. The walls were that stunning blue, trimmed with white curlicues at the top with white carpet that looked very soft a pleasant to curl your toes into. The couches were dark blue, nearly the same shade as the wall, with silver swirls all over. Two glass coffee tables sat in the circle of matching couches that were broken up by white plush chairs that had glass side tables on both sides. A bar sat at the back with two very nice and fresh off the market refrigerators with long marble countertops separating them. What would have been harsh lights were softened by the light blue glass placed over them and set with silver. To say everyone was awe struck would have been an understatement.
"For some evil mastermind and brute, she has very good taste and a wondrous sense of decorum." Zechs complimented Sally who smirked and folded her arms over her chest.
"Yes, and this room will soon be at the complete and total use of you eight." Everyone turned and stared at her with questions ready to spill from their lips, but Sally held up a hand. "But first, I wish for you all to get some refreshments from the fridge and then come relax. There's a pantry and microwave through the door." She pointed to said white door that they hadn't noticed before, though they wondered how they could have missed such a white door amidst the sea of dark blue.
Duo bolted to the fridge and froze as he took in the well stocked inside. "Sally, for a bad guy, you're awesome!"
Sally smiled as everyone move tentively to the kitchen, murmurs of appreciation uttered as they perused both and discovered the second was a freezer, not a fridge.
"Why are you doing this for us Sally?"
The blonde turned and stare into wary onyx depths, struggling to fight the blush that wanted to bloom on her face.
"I wanted you to trust me and realize I was here to help. I'm on your…er…the good side. The reason I took you from there so quickly was because Odin had sent magicians out, and some aren't all that loyal."
Wufei shook his head. "It's horrifies me that Odin's gotten slack at his duties. He was so much better eighteen years ago."
Sally sighed. "Eighteen years ago, his wife and son were still with him." At that, Wufei whipped his head to her in shock.
"You don't mean…" Sally nodded and Wufei rubbed his head with a groan. "You are definitely explaining yourself when they're settled down."
Sally chuckled and moved to the kitchen to fix herself up some tea.
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