The Past of Trowa Barton
Chapter 3: Hey! What's Happening to Trowa?!
When the gang arrived a day later, Quatre unlocked the doors to the mansion. All the equipment had been shipped there within a matter of hours after he had placed his call. "This place is HUGE!", Duo gasped.
"After you left I had the place redone, it was do for a face-lift anyway.", Quatre smiled.
"So, who gets which room?", Heero asked.
"All rooms are on the second floor, pick which one you want.", Quatre shrugged.
"Well than, I call first dibs!", Duo hollered, running up the stairs.
"Oh, no you don't, baka!", Heero followed suite.
"Dr. Fairbanks.", Trowa said quietly, "When do you want to start my tests?",
"You can call me Maria, Trowa. For the tests, tomorrow evening, in the meantime, get some rest, okay?",
"Okay.", Trowa went upstairs.
All the bedrooms were similar in design, all had a walk- in closet, and personal bathroom, along with a huge, feather down bed. They all ended up spending the rest of that day exploring the place here and there, until Quatre called, pronouncing that dinner was ready. "Quatre, what part of dinner means having no food?", Duo asked noticing that there was nothing on the table.
"Well, I have to bring it out.", Quatre stated, "It's Superior Whitefish, with lemon, and garlic seasoning."
The meal looked as though he had a cook make it. "Quatre, I thought you said you'd send everyone on vacation."
"I did, I cooked the dinner myself, and I also made, chocolate devil's food cake, from scratch.", Quatre announced.
"How'd you learn this all?", Wufei demanded to know.
"Well, I was a student to a famous cook when I was a kid, my family's rich remember?", Quatre answered.
Trowa felt his head for a couple minutes, he was feeling dizzy, and the pounding headache didn't help any. "I'm going to go to bed.", he stated, getting up, "Excuse me, please."
He headed into his room, and into the bathroom, he nearly slipped onto the floor while he was in there. Trowa took a couple pills, and went to lie down. He fell into a fitful sleep.
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N.N. had been traveling for a few days when he found what he wanted to find, a mobile suite. Sneaking to it, he found it easy to steal. N.N. then headed to the compost, but first he went behind the enemies lines, to revenge his friend's death before he forgot it all, his past... Himself, his life.
He destroyed all of the enemy, no one lived, a single person, then, he went to the compost, and did the same. He jumped out of the suite, to make the final kill, to the General. A full round was fired into his body, however, he managed to fight it long enough to fire one, precise bullet to the heart. "Die you fucking asshole! Die... Like... He did... With PAIN!", N.N. collapsed then.
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Trowa woke up, the headache gone, and to a bright morning. Everything was looking a lot better than they had been yesterday. So, after getting dressed, and doing all the getting ready in the morning things he usually did, Trowa headed downstairs. When he got to the kitchen, Trowa found Duo sitting at the bar, with a bowl of Frosted FlakesÔ. He himself, poured a large glass of milk. When Duo looked up, Trowa thought maybe he had had a heart attack. He sat staring wide- eyed at Trowa, the spoon had dropped to the floor. "What is it?", he asked, concerned for the braided Shinigami.
"Yo- Your EARS!!!!!", Duo yelled, wide-eyed.
"My. Ears?", Trowa decided to go look in a mirror.
What he saw was really different from the day before. His ears were cat- like, but not on top of his head, his nose was a faint black, as though it had turned that color just recently. Trowa let out one, long scream, waking anyone not awake, awake. Heero, Wufie, Quatre, and Maria all stumbled down the stairs. "What the...", Wufei, and Heero both stated, staring at him.
"Well, I thought something like this might happen.", Dr. Fairbanks stated, I'll need a sample of DNA from you.",
"What for?", Quatre asked.
"Genetic coding of course, besides majoring in psychology, I had a major in genetics.", she stated, dragging Trowa with her to the dedicated testing room, "We'll have to start right away, if we want to know what exactly is going on with his body."
Everyone went into the kitchen, silent. If anyone knew what they were doing it would be her, they all thought. "Does anyone want to go for a swim?", Heero asked.
"POOL!", Duo shrieked running upstairs to get on his trunks.
Meanwhile, Trowa was sitting on the couch while Maria drew some blood. "What was I like when I was younger?", Trowa asked.
"Very quiet, and shy. I wouldn't have had blamed you either, the scientists all liked to abuse you. I was the only one of a few that thought it was wrong.", She stated, "They lost funding soon, and you were sent to a boot camp."
"Why didn't they let me go to a home?", Trowa asked.
"They wouldn't let you, I tried to help you by adoption, but they refused my request.", Maria stated, "There, that's all I needed for now."
He went back to his room, afraid of letting anyone see him, he flicked through his book, until late into the evening when Dr. Fairbanks called them all down for the results. "Well, after studying Trowa's DNA for a while, I have come to a conclusion for everything that's been happening lately.", She stated, "When we first started this project, many of the test subjects died do to one thing or another, within a few days. Trowa was our first success. However, what has happened we thought would happen."
"Which would be?", Quatre questioned.
"Three things.", Maria answered, "Either the tiger half of his DNA would over- take his human half, or the opposite, or that they would combine, causing a mutation.",
"That didn't happen until now?", Duo said.
"Right, it's the third thing that's taking place, his DNA is combining.", she answered.,
They all looked at Trowa, his nose was a little blacker, and there where faint lines on his face, and small stubs of what they all thought will be whiskers. Trowa slumped at the starring towards him. It made him nervous when people did that. So, the confusing day went by just peachy!
The next morning however.... Trowa walked downstairs, no one noticed a difference, until he was sitting watching TV. It was Wufei who first noticed it, flicking back and forth. A tiger- like tail. He decided to tell Trowa after a small debate with himself. "Trowa, you have a tail.", Wufei stated.
"I do? Where?", Trowa turned around, not seeing it.
Wufei, having practice on Duo's braid, was able to grab the thing, only to get a painful clawing on the hand and a nice bite mark. That's when he noticed the claws, and the teeth, it was just a good thing that he was trained to block pain at that time, or he would of screamed bloody murder.
However, physical changes wouldn't be the only thing different, as the former Gundam boys were to find out very shortly...
End Chapter(Next chapter is going to be funny! Sorry, it also has some Duo abuse, oh, nothing much just a scratch on the cheek! Don't kill me!)