Disclaimer: Yea yea...I don't own nothin' except Sarai, Xara, Hitoe, and Gaea...so hands off!!!!!!!!
AN: Welcome to the Arena of the Fight!!!!!!!! Okies...I hope this chapter came out soon enough for u readers, cause I wrote the beginning of this part as part of chapter 4, but decided to save it for chapter five...heheheheh...*laughs weakly at the glares thrown her way*...anyhoo...R&R!!!!!!!! Oh and I want to thank my friend Erina Sato for the Japanese translation help. And I changed Mitsuragi to Mamiya because I got the names mixed up, but it is still Otaru from Saber Marionette J. Sorry it took sooo long for this to come out, I sorta got stuck...
Title: Senshi vs. Tenshi: The Apocalypse
Ch. 5: Match!!!!!!!!
Written By: Firefly's Rebirth
Rating: R...
Warnings...ok things here are a little messed...Character's from another story have already entered...heehee...things get kinda weird, but hey!!! Just so you readers know...the characters that aren't actually in G-Wing of S-Moon aren't active characters, they're just there...ok so on with the story!!!
(blah) denotes my comments
[blah] denotes SFG's comments (though I'm sure she's working on her story soo...she isn't an active commentator in the present situation...you'll be able to tell when she's here with me...
Italicizing denotes thoughts
# blah# denotes words spoken in Japanese that I was too lazy to actually translate into Japanese, words that aren't already in Japanese.
I'm too lazy to give you detail's on the first fights cause they aren't important, I'm just going to tell you who wins...and maybe how...or what weapons they use...oh and I changed Catalonia to Jurai (heheheheh...Ayeka from Tenchi Muyo is more fitting to fight Ryoko than Dorothy is...)
Ayanami vs. Soryu- They both decided to use the daggers that look somewhat like mini tridents only the middle tong is hella longer. (sora like the daggers used in Mummy Returns...that is if you saw it...) Ayanami won, her dagger at Soryu's throat.
Jurai vs. Masaki- Their battle was intense, each woman striving to win, both extremely stubborn. Eventually after a very intense duel, Masaki won because she was stronger, quicker and, well smarter in fighting.
Maxwell vs. Mamiya- There was no competition between them. Duo was obviously the better of them, Otaru was pretty good, but there was no way he could have won over someone that had fought bunches of losing battles and still be alive. Duo obviously used his favorite weapon...the scythe while Otaru had used a fencing foil. [ stupid choice of weapon if u ask me... DUO-CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Kailu vs. Vision- They both used swords. Kailu won...enough said. Kailu is very good with the sword, and Vision's talents are elsewhere, therefore he lost.
Li vs. Kinomoto- They fought each other without weapons, even though Li had tons of training in martial arts, he still wasn't able to beat Kinomoto, who was definitely not as talented. Kinomoto was, however, extremely strong, knew a bit of martial arts, and pretty good at fighting in general, he had thrown Li off the mat.
Shiro vs. Monoe- Monoe underestimated Shiro because of his smallness. Shiro was more agile and quick. They both used swords, and cut each other up a bit...[how bad?] (more than Dorothy and Ryoko...enough said...) [*sweatdrops* typical]
Neko vs. Kanzaki- Once again, there was no competition. Even though Hitomi had some experience, she barely knew more than the basics of fighting. Merle on the other hand was all over the place, she had used a black snake whip and Hitomi had used a stick. [once again...a stupid choice of weapons] (heh!) Merle ended up wrapping the whip all the way around Hitomi rendering her unable to move let alone fight.
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AN: Here I stop the whole 'person' vs. 'person' thing...I'll actually tell you what's happening from here on.
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At this time, the first mat was already finished with its fights, therefore the instructor was able to watch over Heero's fight with Zagato. Hitoe watched carefully what Heero did, she studied his every move, for future references.
In the end of the fight, which lasted quite a bit, Heero Won!!!!!!!!! [duh?] They both had used swords, and it seemed as if Zagato had the upper hand, but it turned out that Heero had used his agility and such and won. Of course Hitoe, Duo, and a few other's could tell that Heero was only feinting his weakness in the beginning of the fight.
After their fight there were two more, the instructor (whom we shall call Clef...once again Magic Knight Rayearth) decided to ref Hitoe's fight, leaving Heero to ref Tsukishiro vs. Moon.
Heero, watched Hitoe's fight out of the corner of his eye. The only problem was that there were bunches of people gathered around the mat he was reffing. The people all wanted to see the two people with similar last names fight (Tsukishiro means something like Moon Castle or something.) He turned his mind back to the fight going on before him. Yue Tsukishiro was tall and lean, he looked as weak and frail as Kamui Shiro had, but with an edge. His blue eyes were ice cold, kind of condescending, and lofty. Ruby Moon on the other hand, was arrogant, and cocky herself, but she was more open with it. She shoved her superiority into people's faces, while Yue just radiated superiority and everybody just took it for granted.
The both of them used a wide array of weapons, starting with the double machete (eerr...ever watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Anyhoos...I guess it's the same as Wufei's katana...) [so ur saying Wufei's katana is really called a machete?] (uh huh...u see...katana just means sword...) Yue fought with the machete with the natural born talent from his Asian heritage. While Ruby fought rather wildly, she was still able to hold her own. After they got tired of using the machete, they both switched to bows and arrows (heheheheh...) [eerrr...how do they fight using bows and arrow?] (They'll manage...) They weren't too successful with them so they got knives, together with the whips or chains.
At this time, Hitoe and her opponent came over from stretching and readying to watch the fight. It seemed to both the two girls that those two were pretty good, and were interesting watch. Ruby chose this moment to send out a flurry of attacks, she threw knives and whipped the whip around. But to her utter dismay, Yue somehow caught them with the chain, and shot them back at her and at the same time, blocking her whip. Ruby having to act quickly, used the whip to take down some of the knives, but wasn't able to get most of them, getting herself and the whip cut up quite a bit. Even though she was bleeding in quite a few places, she kept fighting. She grabbed a sword, and prepared herself to fight again. She let Yue put down the chain and grab a sword for himself. This time Yue launched his attack by throwing the knives at Ruby and not giving her any time to block or get ready for his next move, he rushed. Yue sent a massive amount of attacks, so hard and fast that Ruby couldn't hold on any longer. Due to blood loss, and the pressing force, Ruby lost her footing and went down, she landed on her butt off the mat.
Everybody politely clapped for Yue, all clearly amazed at his skill. Finally the final match of the first round had come. Hitoe vs. Kamiya.
Nobody expected this fight to be as good as the last was...no one expected this fight to be as good as the one between the two moons. (u kno Yue and Ruby Moon.) But either way, they were polite and watched. Heero watched how Hitoe moved, readying herself, she was graceful, and sure of herself. At first they decided to go hand to hand combat, hoping that it would be all they needed to win. Kaoru (Kamiya) attacked first, she threw punches and kicks, Hitoe dodging or blocking most of them. They seemed to be dancing to an odd dance, each of them, dancing to a beat. Finally when it seemed that this was getting nowhere, Kaoru got some numchucks (eerr...I dunno how to spell it so if you kno tell me cause I wanna kno...by the way, numchucks are the little stick things attached to each side of a chain...) and Hitoe got a spear. People soon found out that the two young ladies were very talented in the asian arts of fighting. They moved through many of the asian weapons; machete, the hook things (from Crouching Tiger), metal bar thing (also from Crouching Tiger), the wooden katana [let me guess...from Crouching Tiger...] (ummm...no...from Outlaw Star...the one that Suzuka carries...), and bunches more...
Finally they were down to the same weapons that Yue and Ruby Moon had used...only Kaoru used the same as Yue, while Hitoe used the whips. (oh just so you kno, they haven't spilled any serious blood yet, they are too....polite?) [*shakes her exasperation and sweatdrops at the same time* baka] (I heard that!!!! Kono ama!!!) [well blah to u too!] The whole time, Heero had been watching intently, he was surprised several times at the daring moves she made (heheheheh) [hentai!!!] as well as the most obvious. From what he saw, she knew many different ways of fighting, in fact, it was almost missed by Heero. Hitoe had cleverly hidden all her different fighting methods by weaving them into the ones she was letting the others see... (aaarrghhh...I dunno how I'm gonna say who won, so I'm gonna just say it...no describing...u figure it out!!!) [lazy baka] (look hoos talking!!! At least I'm writing...unlike someone I kno!!) Anyway...in the end, Hitoe got a bunch of cuts from a bunch of flying knives and chains, before somehow ending up in a crouched position under Kaoru, who was still in a standing fight stance. Wrapping her legs around Kaoru's she flipped her off the mat, thus winning the match. (okay, so she got cut, used the whips to distract Kaoru before diving under the attack into a sommersault ending up underneath Kaoru with her realizing too late.) [y didn't u just write that in there?] (well...it was too late to change the sentences...anyway...I like it that wat...sheesh)
Clef took the time, while Hitoe was sitting off on the sides getting cleaned up, to announce what would happen next, "Okay, those that won the first round will need to stay a little later today so I can give them a few instructions of what happens next. The rest of you will be fighting each other again tomorrow to see your rank in this class, that way, we know where you stand okay? Alright then class is dismissed, the winners (I don't mean for that to be degrading towards the peeps who lost k?) please stay for a few seconds please."
With that, the ones who lost headed for the locker rooms talking about the fights among themselves, all of them good sports.
"Ayanami, Masaki, Maxwell, Kailu, Kinomoto, Shiro, Neko, Tsukishiro, Saturn, and Yuy, good job! Okay, so tomorrow, you guys will get a break, but some of you will be using the other mats to ref the other fights. Ayanami you will ref the match between Soryu and Jurai. Kailu you will ref Mitsuragi and Vision, Kinomoto, you will ref Li and Monoe, Neko you will ref Kanzaki and Sol, and last but not least, Tsukishiro, you will be reffing for Kamiya, and Moon ok? The rest of you will be training of course, but the next day, it will be swapped, those that ref tommorow will get to train the day after. Is that clear to everyone?"
Heads nodded or there was a grunt or two...well...as well as a loud braided baka. "What?! We'll hafta ref the day after tomorrow...In the words of Chang Wufei...INJUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't wanna ref...can't I do it tomorrow and get it over with?" Duo then decided to continue complaining. Heero sighed in impatience and exasperation. "Damare Duo..." However Duo kept on complaining. "Duo people are staring..." Still no stop on the speakerphones. "Omae o Korosu." And with that came the gun in the face and the patented and perfected Death Glare!!! Duo shut up in a split second, a sweatdrop forming on his head "heheheh...." [*sweatdrops* and to think this guy will be my future boyfriend...oops!] (Sarai-chan you BAKA!!!! Heheheh...dun mind her, she wasn't saying anything...*glares at SFG* *sighs in defeat as she realizes her friend will always be the baka onna that she is...*) [*gives FR The Look and raises eyebrows* and you're not?]
That night before going to bed Hitoe had once again visited the roof top of her apartment building, only to find that Xara was also there. "I didn't see you in school Xara."
"I chose to not be seen by you, and anyways, you seem to be watched by many people as it was."
"Hn. Do you have a mission soon?"
"Perhaps, we'll see..."
"Who do you work for?"
"I work for the earth, and no one else..."
Seeing that Xara was continually evading her questions, Hitoe stopped and they both stared at the Tokyo Tower.
"Knights..." was murmured by Xara.
"Nani?"
"Nothing..."
"Can you feel it Xara? The coming of something big? Something that will decide the fate of the Earth?"
"Aah. An Apocalypse that only true warriors will be able to fight in..." (when she says 'Aah' it means 'yes')
They stared at the Tokyo Tower before Hitoe decided once again to be the first to leave.
"Oh Hotaru...." Cold eyes filled with little emotion for once showing some sadness.
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[ uhh...what the hell was all that about?] (u'll see...this story is gonna be a long one, meaning I'm gonna hafta work on others too meaning the chapters to this story is gonna come out a little slower...but they will be pretty long too) (oh and by the way...since it was requested that the other senshi start appearing or something, I'm going to just cram a few chapter's worth of events into this chapter, not only that but I'm gonna cut some events out because that'll definitely make things waaaaayyy too complicated and totally elongate everything but that means stretching the tournament out a bit more than I'd like, but I promise it'll hopefully be worth the wait. Either way this story is gonna be pretty long.)
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"Class...we have another new student today." The teacher announced. Hitoe looked up in interest as she watched a figure with short blond hair come walking in. This person was a tall boy with an airy look on his face. "Please introduce yourself..."
" My name is Tenou Haruka." Was all that was said before a bunch of gasps and whispers and such broke out.
"Wow it's Haruka Tenou!!"
"Isn't he hot?!"
"What's he doing in our class?!"
"I want his autgraph!!"
"Haruka Tenou. He's the fastest racer on the track there is..."
"Why did he say his name backwards?"
"I dunno, maybe he's just joking around...who cares...its Haruka Tenou!!!"
Haruka Tenou huh? What a fitting name for a car racer. Though I must say...he doesn't quite seem...normal... for a guy...maybe it's just me...Hitoe studied the boy as he sat down in his seat front diagonal from her.
"Hey there handsome..."
Hitoe cringed as she saw Dorothy attempt to crawl all over him.
"What do you want?" was the cold response
"Ouch, you don't need to be so cold Haruka Tenou. I was just welcoming you." Dorothy attempted to put up a miffed face, but only ended up smirking. I like him already. The cold aloof type...much like Heero Yuy...*sigh* they are sooo deadly...I love that! (don't forget, Dorothy is a war obsessed psychotic, she loves war and fights and such, and that's wat I like about Dorothy. She is the exact opposite of Relena Peacecrap....eerrr...not that I'm completely against Relena, but her ideals are just totally well...unreal!! That's why I like Dorothy, She seems a bit more real...) [ ano...they aren't here to hear your opinion of Dorothy vs. Relena...there here to hear/read the story so get back to it!!] ( I'm goin I'm goin...)
Hitoe shook her head in amusement. Only a person like her would just do that to one of the most famous bishounen out there.
Just then Haruka turned around and faced Hitoe. "#Xara told me you were in this class. She also says you don't remember anything. We'll just leave it at that if that's ok with you. I'm glad to see that you are doing well. Tomoe Hotaru.#"
Hitoe was shocked. This person knew who she was but had called her by a different, yet familiar name. Tomoe Hotaru? This person, this Haruka Tenou knows who I am, who I was. That might explain why I feel I know him. Somehow I do and he's a part of my forgotten past.
All of a sudden she remembered that Heero was also Japanese, she glanced over at him and saw that he had heard it all. Oh shit...I'm in deep shit...no wait!!! Why am I in deep shit? So what's to know, he knows who I guess I used to be known by but other than that, he knows nothing. Well, he knows that 2 other people knew who I was...Xara knew who I was...?
Seeing that Hotaru was completely confused, though she didn't show it, Haruka leaned over to her, as if kissing her on the cheek, whispering, "You'll find out soon enough, meet us where you usually meet Xara. Things will be put in place soon. I promise, musume."
Once again Hotaru was shocked, but as class was starting again, she quickly diverted her attention back to her schoolwork. (yea...I'm back to calling her Hotaru...Yosh!!!) [what getting her confused with Hitoe?] (no...but I'm afraid some readers would get confused when Hitoe really appears...oops...) [ now look who's the baka *collapses onto the ground laughing*] (*sweatdrops* It isn't that funny no da!!) [*gets up* darn!! U Chichiri impersonator!!!] (oi...I think I'll continue)
That day at the gym Hotaru trained and trained, it seemed that she was trying to overcome something. Kamui (Shiro) who was helping was worn out by the end of the first hour. It seemed that indeed his body was pretty weak compared to one's who went through the most intense training. She accidentally knocked him out, leaving him rather lightheaded for the rest of the afternoon. After that the other students were a bit wary of her, but Heero came out of his little gundanium shell and offered to help her train a bit, therefore getting some training done himself. There's no way she, even as strong as she is, can keep at this as long as me. But to his surprise she was doing just fine. She got tired a bit before Heero did, but by then he was straining himself already. I have to admit, for someone who didn't go through the same training as I did, she sure has stamina.
Hmmm...Heero is pretty good, it's a good thing I decided to stop because he was about to finish and if I had surpassed him, he'd be even more suspicious than before and I don't need that.
Hotaru walked out of the locker room after changing back into a black tanktop, and purple skirt. She walked silently and slowly, contemplating what had happened that day in class with Haruka Tenou. Suddenly, she stopped and looked up ahead of her, she smirked. "#You can come out now Heero.#"
"..." Heero came out of the growing shadows of the buildings. He watched her, waiting for her to say or do something.
"If you are so desperate to find out who I am, I'm sorry to say, you won't find much, because I don't even remember who I am, let alone you finding out. All I can say is that I want to find out about myself as much as you do so just have some patience."
"Hn..." Perhaps she was something that would have been somewhere near deadly and dangerous. But she can't remember, and hopefully she doesn't remember, otherwise I might have to kill her, and she's innocent...for the time being.
"Look I'm going to go home, 'till tomorrow then huh?"
"Hn." And with that, he disappeared into the shadows again.
Throughout the whole conversation, Hotaru who hadn't moved her eyes from the buildings ahead, looked to the ground again and continued on her way home.
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That night she went to her roof as instructed, and saw that both Haruka and Xara were already there.
"Hello Hotaru." Xara smiled a small smile.
Haruka looked at her intently before saying, " I'm glad you came."
Hotaru looked at them, and nodded. "Start talking. Who are you and what do you have to do with me?"
"Actually we don't completely remember. All we know is that we came here to find some people. Find the knights that would help us save earth from something, and that that was our mission. We remember there was 6 of us in total though we can't remember their names at the moment."
"Then how come you remember mine?"
"Well...when we saw you, the name just sort of popped into our heads...something like that."
"Hn. So my real name is supposed to be Tomoe Hotaru? Firefly? Oi..."
Just then there was a beeping noise. "Shimatta...Xara here." Xara turned on her communicator and was faced with the face of Prof. TMS.
"Xara you have a mission. Tell your two companions that they too have missions. The information is being sent to your laptops. This is mandatory. Go!"
"Wait...how did you...?"
"We don't have time for 20 questions, go!" Prof. TMS's was stern.
The three went their separate ways, preparing for their mission.
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"This is codename Hitoe Saturn reporting. Prof TMS what is the situation?" Hotaru was talking into the com-link within Apocalypse.
"The battle is going badly, so far the Gundam Pilots seems to be off fighting somewhere else, and the Preventers can't hold much longer. You are their backup. When you have finished I expect a report of what happened okay? Good Luck and Godspeed." And with that the connection was cut.
"Gundam Apocalypse Engage!" And with that Hotaru took off towards the battle.
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The Preventers were worried, the Gundam Pilots weren't going to be able to get there in time, and the terrorists were winning. Just then out of nowhere a bunch of the enemy ms blew up in an intense shower of laser. Gundam Apocalypse flew into the scene, energy glaive raised. The wings were folded on the back, so that if a person was to just glance at it, all they saw were the rockets on her back surrounded by this layered gray thing that probably protected them. (By rockets I mean the things that make them fly) "Need a little help?" The Preventers cheered as they watched the unknown Gundam pilot started to blow up a lot of enemy ms.
In a matter of moments, the dark Gundam had destroyed all of the ms leaving nothing but scrap metal. "Is everybody ok? There is another attack already underway about 10 km from here, they'll probably need help." With that she flew off, disappearing in a flash of light.
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At the place where our favorite gundam boys are fighting:
"Daaaammmnn!! How is it that the Preventers only found out about this group of extremists when they decided to attack?" Duo was whining again as they fought the bunches of ms.
"Maxwell shut up and just fight!!" Was the only reply he got from any of his comrades (from Wufei).
Quatre was getting hit pretty badly considering... "There are just too many of them here. There are even more than there was with Mariemaia."
Trowa couldn't help but to add, "And when we were fighting we weren't trying to kill anyone."
Heero didn't answer; in fact he wasn't even listening to the conversation. He grunted as he was continuously hit my missiles shot his way. He fought hard but was soon surrounded by bunches of suits, they all simultaneously shot missiles at him, he had no choice but to wrap his wings around the suit to protect it. (Don't forget, his wings are folded to the side so that they don't get in the way, but it isn't folded the same as Hotaru's, his sticks out of his back...just think of what Wing Zero Custom looks like, her's is wrapped around the rockets on her back.)
He could feel all the blasts rock his gundam, but then he heard a huge explosion, and total silence.
"Hey Heero!!" Duo's voice came over the intercom. "You can stop hiding now, it seems some weird gundam saved your ass."
Duo's voice seemed a bit giddy, he'd never seen the Perfect Soldier use his wings as the shields they were supposed to be. The Perfect Soldier, hiding, this was a once in a lifetime sight...
Zero's wings unfolded, clearing the view to the alien gundam.
"It seems I came just in time. If I was any later, your wings might not exist." Said the low, yet light voice over the intercom. "I'm glad to be of service to the famous gundam pilots. However..." the voice all of a sudden became harsh, and cold, " if you get in my way in any way, I will not hesitate to get rid of you. Understand?" Then without waiting for a reponse, the gundam took off, leaving the others to wonder who the hell the pilot was.
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It seemed another battle had commensed elsewhere. This time, it was the Kamikaze (Haruka's ms) that was in trouble of getting overwhelmed. Apocalypse came and helped fight. Kamikaze didn't even acknowledge her as they fought, both knowing exactly who was in the other suit. They also figured that the other girl (Xara) was probably inside the base getting info or whatnot. After a few minutes of battling the base exploded, leaving the mobile suits with nowhere to run, they surrendered. By then the Preventer's had arrived on the scene so the 3 girls flew off. (Well Xara more like drove off...)
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The next morning at school Heero and Duo were both a bit tired. Hotaru and Haruka noticed and both smirked at each other
"It seems you're tired Heero. Will you be able to fight in the matches today after school?"
Haruka surprised asked of Hotaru and Heero, "Matches? Do you guys take classes?"
"Hn." Was all the reply she got from Heero.
"Hai." Was Hotaru's reply (she didn't want to sound too much like Heero.)
"Well...is it ok if I sat in today to watch?"
"Whatever..."
Haruka was about to answer, but then class started so she sat down in her seat which was filled with flowers and cards from fans.
"Mr. Tenou, what is with all that stuff on your desk?" the teacher inquired.
"Uhh...it's fan mail and stuff..." Haruka sweatdropped while all the girls giggled.
Dorothy laughed, "It seems that Tenou-san is much too popular ne sensei?"
The teacher sighed, then excused Haruka to clean up his desk.
Heero wasn't paying any attention to what was going on in class, he mind was still too filled with what had happened the night before. Who the hell was piloting that gundam? From what the others said, this person blew all the suits away in one blast...Not even I can do that.
He saw Hotaru smirking from the edge of her mouth. She seemed oddly pleased with herself. Masaka...
Ooohh...did Heero figure it out? Did he figure out who the pilot of the Gundam Apocalypse is? Sorry I got soooo off topic, I was having a sort of mental block that just wanted me to just blubber...*sigh* I had to somehow end this chapter so it ended like this...oh well...I'll work on finishing the tournament in the next few chapters as well as brining the other senshi in...it's a definite promise!!! Oh and don't forget to go read my (sorry for taking sooo long to post) fic, Shinigami no Koi...and no it isn't a Hotaru/Duo pairing...I can't stand those any longer....[technically it is a side fic that she posts in case she has problems with this story...*mutters* typical...] I hope this chapter wasn't too long for your attention spans...heheheh....
I just realized that the Peacecraft Academy is in the Sank Kingdom...and somehow...I keep on mentioning the Tokyo Tower...now why is that? Well...let's just say, there are actually no kingdoms left because of the dissolving borders thing that Relena did, so lets just say, the Peacecraft Academy was relocated into Tokyo. [oi baka, I can't believe you made such a stupid mistake...*sighs in defeat at her airheaded friend* ] (Well I wouldn't be talking if I were you...ur my beta reader and u didn't even notice it either did you? And by the way... 'Oi' is myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy word....so don't u use it....got it!!) And not everyone there speaks Japanese ok? Oh and not all of the Senshi are gonna actually speak Japanese. I'll tell who does and doesn't when the time comes.
PS. Just thought I'd tell you that, so far, this story still isn't completely edited, so when I finish it (if ever at the rate I'm going) I'm going to edit it, hopefully improve it, and then repost...This chapter especially needs attention ne?
AN: Welcome to the Arena of the Fight!!!!!!!! Okies...I hope this chapter came out soon enough for u readers, cause I wrote the beginning of this part as part of chapter 4, but decided to save it for chapter five...heheheheh...*laughs weakly at the glares thrown her way*...anyhoo...R&R!!!!!!!! Oh and I want to thank my friend Erina Sato for the Japanese translation help. And I changed Mitsuragi to Mamiya because I got the names mixed up, but it is still Otaru from Saber Marionette J. Sorry it took sooo long for this to come out, I sorta got stuck...
Title: Senshi vs. Tenshi: The Apocalypse
Ch. 5: Match!!!!!!!!
Written By: Firefly's Rebirth
Rating: R...
Warnings...ok things here are a little messed...Character's from another story have already entered...heehee...things get kinda weird, but hey!!! Just so you readers know...the characters that aren't actually in G-Wing of S-Moon aren't active characters, they're just there...ok so on with the story!!!
(blah) denotes my comments
[blah] denotes SFG's comments (though I'm sure she's working on her story soo...she isn't an active commentator in the present situation...you'll be able to tell when she's here with me...
Italicizing denotes thoughts
# blah# denotes words spoken in Japanese that I was too lazy to actually translate into Japanese, words that aren't already in Japanese.
I'm too lazy to give you detail's on the first fights cause they aren't important, I'm just going to tell you who wins...and maybe how...or what weapons they use...oh and I changed Catalonia to Jurai (heheheheh...Ayeka from Tenchi Muyo is more fitting to fight Ryoko than Dorothy is...)
Ayanami vs. Soryu- They both decided to use the daggers that look somewhat like mini tridents only the middle tong is hella longer. (sora like the daggers used in Mummy Returns...that is if you saw it...) Ayanami won, her dagger at Soryu's throat.
Jurai vs. Masaki- Their battle was intense, each woman striving to win, both extremely stubborn. Eventually after a very intense duel, Masaki won because she was stronger, quicker and, well smarter in fighting.
Maxwell vs. Mamiya- There was no competition between them. Duo was obviously the better of them, Otaru was pretty good, but there was no way he could have won over someone that had fought bunches of losing battles and still be alive. Duo obviously used his favorite weapon...the scythe while Otaru had used a fencing foil. [ stupid choice of weapon if u ask me... DUO-CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Kailu vs. Vision- They both used swords. Kailu won...enough said. Kailu is very good with the sword, and Vision's talents are elsewhere, therefore he lost.
Li vs. Kinomoto- They fought each other without weapons, even though Li had tons of training in martial arts, he still wasn't able to beat Kinomoto, who was definitely not as talented. Kinomoto was, however, extremely strong, knew a bit of martial arts, and pretty good at fighting in general, he had thrown Li off the mat.
Shiro vs. Monoe- Monoe underestimated Shiro because of his smallness. Shiro was more agile and quick. They both used swords, and cut each other up a bit...[how bad?] (more than Dorothy and Ryoko...enough said...) [*sweatdrops* typical]
Neko vs. Kanzaki- Once again, there was no competition. Even though Hitomi had some experience, she barely knew more than the basics of fighting. Merle on the other hand was all over the place, she had used a black snake whip and Hitomi had used a stick. [once again...a stupid choice of weapons] (heh!) Merle ended up wrapping the whip all the way around Hitomi rendering her unable to move let alone fight.
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AN: Here I stop the whole 'person' vs. 'person' thing...I'll actually tell you what's happening from here on.
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At this time, the first mat was already finished with its fights, therefore the instructor was able to watch over Heero's fight with Zagato. Hitoe watched carefully what Heero did, she studied his every move, for future references.
In the end of the fight, which lasted quite a bit, Heero Won!!!!!!!!! [duh?] They both had used swords, and it seemed as if Zagato had the upper hand, but it turned out that Heero had used his agility and such and won. Of course Hitoe, Duo, and a few other's could tell that Heero was only feinting his weakness in the beginning of the fight.
After their fight there were two more, the instructor (whom we shall call Clef...once again Magic Knight Rayearth) decided to ref Hitoe's fight, leaving Heero to ref Tsukishiro vs. Moon.
Heero, watched Hitoe's fight out of the corner of his eye. The only problem was that there were bunches of people gathered around the mat he was reffing. The people all wanted to see the two people with similar last names fight (Tsukishiro means something like Moon Castle or something.) He turned his mind back to the fight going on before him. Yue Tsukishiro was tall and lean, he looked as weak and frail as Kamui Shiro had, but with an edge. His blue eyes were ice cold, kind of condescending, and lofty. Ruby Moon on the other hand, was arrogant, and cocky herself, but she was more open with it. She shoved her superiority into people's faces, while Yue just radiated superiority and everybody just took it for granted.
The both of them used a wide array of weapons, starting with the double machete (eerr...ever watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Anyhoos...I guess it's the same as Wufei's katana...) [so ur saying Wufei's katana is really called a machete?] (uh huh...u see...katana just means sword...) Yue fought with the machete with the natural born talent from his Asian heritage. While Ruby fought rather wildly, she was still able to hold her own. After they got tired of using the machete, they both switched to bows and arrows (heheheheh...) [eerrr...how do they fight using bows and arrow?] (They'll manage...) They weren't too successful with them so they got knives, together with the whips or chains.
At this time, Hitoe and her opponent came over from stretching and readying to watch the fight. It seemed to both the two girls that those two were pretty good, and were interesting watch. Ruby chose this moment to send out a flurry of attacks, she threw knives and whipped the whip around. But to her utter dismay, Yue somehow caught them with the chain, and shot them back at her and at the same time, blocking her whip. Ruby having to act quickly, used the whip to take down some of the knives, but wasn't able to get most of them, getting herself and the whip cut up quite a bit. Even though she was bleeding in quite a few places, she kept fighting. She grabbed a sword, and prepared herself to fight again. She let Yue put down the chain and grab a sword for himself. This time Yue launched his attack by throwing the knives at Ruby and not giving her any time to block or get ready for his next move, he rushed. Yue sent a massive amount of attacks, so hard and fast that Ruby couldn't hold on any longer. Due to blood loss, and the pressing force, Ruby lost her footing and went down, she landed on her butt off the mat.
Everybody politely clapped for Yue, all clearly amazed at his skill. Finally the final match of the first round had come. Hitoe vs. Kamiya.
Nobody expected this fight to be as good as the last was...no one expected this fight to be as good as the one between the two moons. (u kno Yue and Ruby Moon.) But either way, they were polite and watched. Heero watched how Hitoe moved, readying herself, she was graceful, and sure of herself. At first they decided to go hand to hand combat, hoping that it would be all they needed to win. Kaoru (Kamiya) attacked first, she threw punches and kicks, Hitoe dodging or blocking most of them. They seemed to be dancing to an odd dance, each of them, dancing to a beat. Finally when it seemed that this was getting nowhere, Kaoru got some numchucks (eerr...I dunno how to spell it so if you kno tell me cause I wanna kno...by the way, numchucks are the little stick things attached to each side of a chain...) and Hitoe got a spear. People soon found out that the two young ladies were very talented in the asian arts of fighting. They moved through many of the asian weapons; machete, the hook things (from Crouching Tiger), metal bar thing (also from Crouching Tiger), the wooden katana [let me guess...from Crouching Tiger...] (ummm...no...from Outlaw Star...the one that Suzuka carries...), and bunches more...
Finally they were down to the same weapons that Yue and Ruby Moon had used...only Kaoru used the same as Yue, while Hitoe used the whips. (oh just so you kno, they haven't spilled any serious blood yet, they are too....polite?) [*shakes her exasperation and sweatdrops at the same time* baka] (I heard that!!!! Kono ama!!!) [well blah to u too!] The whole time, Heero had been watching intently, he was surprised several times at the daring moves she made (heheheheh) [hentai!!!] as well as the most obvious. From what he saw, she knew many different ways of fighting, in fact, it was almost missed by Heero. Hitoe had cleverly hidden all her different fighting methods by weaving them into the ones she was letting the others see... (aaarrghhh...I dunno how I'm gonna say who won, so I'm gonna just say it...no describing...u figure it out!!!) [lazy baka] (look hoos talking!!! At least I'm writing...unlike someone I kno!!) Anyway...in the end, Hitoe got a bunch of cuts from a bunch of flying knives and chains, before somehow ending up in a crouched position under Kaoru, who was still in a standing fight stance. Wrapping her legs around Kaoru's she flipped her off the mat, thus winning the match. (okay, so she got cut, used the whips to distract Kaoru before diving under the attack into a sommersault ending up underneath Kaoru with her realizing too late.) [y didn't u just write that in there?] (well...it was too late to change the sentences...anyway...I like it that wat...sheesh)
Clef took the time, while Hitoe was sitting off on the sides getting cleaned up, to announce what would happen next, "Okay, those that won the first round will need to stay a little later today so I can give them a few instructions of what happens next. The rest of you will be fighting each other again tomorrow to see your rank in this class, that way, we know where you stand okay? Alright then class is dismissed, the winners (I don't mean for that to be degrading towards the peeps who lost k?) please stay for a few seconds please."
With that, the ones who lost headed for the locker rooms talking about the fights among themselves, all of them good sports.
"Ayanami, Masaki, Maxwell, Kailu, Kinomoto, Shiro, Neko, Tsukishiro, Saturn, and Yuy, good job! Okay, so tomorrow, you guys will get a break, but some of you will be using the other mats to ref the other fights. Ayanami you will ref the match between Soryu and Jurai. Kailu you will ref Mitsuragi and Vision, Kinomoto, you will ref Li and Monoe, Neko you will ref Kanzaki and Sol, and last but not least, Tsukishiro, you will be reffing for Kamiya, and Moon ok? The rest of you will be training of course, but the next day, it will be swapped, those that ref tommorow will get to train the day after. Is that clear to everyone?"
Heads nodded or there was a grunt or two...well...as well as a loud braided baka. "What?! We'll hafta ref the day after tomorrow...In the words of Chang Wufei...INJUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't wanna ref...can't I do it tomorrow and get it over with?" Duo then decided to continue complaining. Heero sighed in impatience and exasperation. "Damare Duo..." However Duo kept on complaining. "Duo people are staring..." Still no stop on the speakerphones. "Omae o Korosu." And with that came the gun in the face and the patented and perfected Death Glare!!! Duo shut up in a split second, a sweatdrop forming on his head "heheheh...." [*sweatdrops* and to think this guy will be my future boyfriend...oops!] (Sarai-chan you BAKA!!!! Heheheh...dun mind her, she wasn't saying anything...*glares at SFG* *sighs in defeat as she realizes her friend will always be the baka onna that she is...*) [*gives FR The Look and raises eyebrows* and you're not?]
That night before going to bed Hitoe had once again visited the roof top of her apartment building, only to find that Xara was also there. "I didn't see you in school Xara."
"I chose to not be seen by you, and anyways, you seem to be watched by many people as it was."
"Hn. Do you have a mission soon?"
"Perhaps, we'll see..."
"Who do you work for?"
"I work for the earth, and no one else..."
Seeing that Xara was continually evading her questions, Hitoe stopped and they both stared at the Tokyo Tower.
"Knights..." was murmured by Xara.
"Nani?"
"Nothing..."
"Can you feel it Xara? The coming of something big? Something that will decide the fate of the Earth?"
"Aah. An Apocalypse that only true warriors will be able to fight in..." (when she says 'Aah' it means 'yes')
They stared at the Tokyo Tower before Hitoe decided once again to be the first to leave.
"Oh Hotaru...." Cold eyes filled with little emotion for once showing some sadness.
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[ uhh...what the hell was all that about?] (u'll see...this story is gonna be a long one, meaning I'm gonna hafta work on others too meaning the chapters to this story is gonna come out a little slower...but they will be pretty long too) (oh and by the way...since it was requested that the other senshi start appearing or something, I'm going to just cram a few chapter's worth of events into this chapter, not only that but I'm gonna cut some events out because that'll definitely make things waaaaayyy too complicated and totally elongate everything but that means stretching the tournament out a bit more than I'd like, but I promise it'll hopefully be worth the wait. Either way this story is gonna be pretty long.)
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"Class...we have another new student today." The teacher announced. Hitoe looked up in interest as she watched a figure with short blond hair come walking in. This person was a tall boy with an airy look on his face. "Please introduce yourself..."
" My name is Tenou Haruka." Was all that was said before a bunch of gasps and whispers and such broke out.
"Wow it's Haruka Tenou!!"
"Isn't he hot?!"
"What's he doing in our class?!"
"I want his autgraph!!"
"Haruka Tenou. He's the fastest racer on the track there is..."
"Why did he say his name backwards?"
"I dunno, maybe he's just joking around...who cares...its Haruka Tenou!!!"
Haruka Tenou huh? What a fitting name for a car racer. Though I must say...he doesn't quite seem...normal... for a guy...maybe it's just me...Hitoe studied the boy as he sat down in his seat front diagonal from her.
"Hey there handsome..."
Hitoe cringed as she saw Dorothy attempt to crawl all over him.
"What do you want?" was the cold response
"Ouch, you don't need to be so cold Haruka Tenou. I was just welcoming you." Dorothy attempted to put up a miffed face, but only ended up smirking. I like him already. The cold aloof type...much like Heero Yuy...*sigh* they are sooo deadly...I love that! (don't forget, Dorothy is a war obsessed psychotic, she loves war and fights and such, and that's wat I like about Dorothy. She is the exact opposite of Relena Peacecrap....eerrr...not that I'm completely against Relena, but her ideals are just totally well...unreal!! That's why I like Dorothy, She seems a bit more real...) [ ano...they aren't here to hear your opinion of Dorothy vs. Relena...there here to hear/read the story so get back to it!!] ( I'm goin I'm goin...)
Hitoe shook her head in amusement. Only a person like her would just do that to one of the most famous bishounen out there.
Just then Haruka turned around and faced Hitoe. "#Xara told me you were in this class. She also says you don't remember anything. We'll just leave it at that if that's ok with you. I'm glad to see that you are doing well. Tomoe Hotaru.#"
Hitoe was shocked. This person knew who she was but had called her by a different, yet familiar name. Tomoe Hotaru? This person, this Haruka Tenou knows who I am, who I was. That might explain why I feel I know him. Somehow I do and he's a part of my forgotten past.
All of a sudden she remembered that Heero was also Japanese, she glanced over at him and saw that he had heard it all. Oh shit...I'm in deep shit...no wait!!! Why am I in deep shit? So what's to know, he knows who I guess I used to be known by but other than that, he knows nothing. Well, he knows that 2 other people knew who I was...Xara knew who I was...?
Seeing that Hotaru was completely confused, though she didn't show it, Haruka leaned over to her, as if kissing her on the cheek, whispering, "You'll find out soon enough, meet us where you usually meet Xara. Things will be put in place soon. I promise, musume."
Once again Hotaru was shocked, but as class was starting again, she quickly diverted her attention back to her schoolwork. (yea...I'm back to calling her Hotaru...Yosh!!!) [what getting her confused with Hitoe?] (no...but I'm afraid some readers would get confused when Hitoe really appears...oops...) [ now look who's the baka *collapses onto the ground laughing*] (*sweatdrops* It isn't that funny no da!!) [*gets up* darn!! U Chichiri impersonator!!!] (oi...I think I'll continue)
That day at the gym Hotaru trained and trained, it seemed that she was trying to overcome something. Kamui (Shiro) who was helping was worn out by the end of the first hour. It seemed that indeed his body was pretty weak compared to one's who went through the most intense training. She accidentally knocked him out, leaving him rather lightheaded for the rest of the afternoon. After that the other students were a bit wary of her, but Heero came out of his little gundanium shell and offered to help her train a bit, therefore getting some training done himself. There's no way she, even as strong as she is, can keep at this as long as me. But to his surprise she was doing just fine. She got tired a bit before Heero did, but by then he was straining himself already. I have to admit, for someone who didn't go through the same training as I did, she sure has stamina.
Hmmm...Heero is pretty good, it's a good thing I decided to stop because he was about to finish and if I had surpassed him, he'd be even more suspicious than before and I don't need that.
Hotaru walked out of the locker room after changing back into a black tanktop, and purple skirt. She walked silently and slowly, contemplating what had happened that day in class with Haruka Tenou. Suddenly, she stopped and looked up ahead of her, she smirked. "#You can come out now Heero.#"
"..." Heero came out of the growing shadows of the buildings. He watched her, waiting for her to say or do something.
"If you are so desperate to find out who I am, I'm sorry to say, you won't find much, because I don't even remember who I am, let alone you finding out. All I can say is that I want to find out about myself as much as you do so just have some patience."
"Hn..." Perhaps she was something that would have been somewhere near deadly and dangerous. But she can't remember, and hopefully she doesn't remember, otherwise I might have to kill her, and she's innocent...for the time being.
"Look I'm going to go home, 'till tomorrow then huh?"
"Hn." And with that, he disappeared into the shadows again.
Throughout the whole conversation, Hotaru who hadn't moved her eyes from the buildings ahead, looked to the ground again and continued on her way home.
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That night she went to her roof as instructed, and saw that both Haruka and Xara were already there.
"Hello Hotaru." Xara smiled a small smile.
Haruka looked at her intently before saying, " I'm glad you came."
Hotaru looked at them, and nodded. "Start talking. Who are you and what do you have to do with me?"
"Actually we don't completely remember. All we know is that we came here to find some people. Find the knights that would help us save earth from something, and that that was our mission. We remember there was 6 of us in total though we can't remember their names at the moment."
"Then how come you remember mine?"
"Well...when we saw you, the name just sort of popped into our heads...something like that."
"Hn. So my real name is supposed to be Tomoe Hotaru? Firefly? Oi..."
Just then there was a beeping noise. "Shimatta...Xara here." Xara turned on her communicator and was faced with the face of Prof. TMS.
"Xara you have a mission. Tell your two companions that they too have missions. The information is being sent to your laptops. This is mandatory. Go!"
"Wait...how did you...?"
"We don't have time for 20 questions, go!" Prof. TMS's was stern.
The three went their separate ways, preparing for their mission.
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"This is codename Hitoe Saturn reporting. Prof TMS what is the situation?" Hotaru was talking into the com-link within Apocalypse.
"The battle is going badly, so far the Gundam Pilots seems to be off fighting somewhere else, and the Preventers can't hold much longer. You are their backup. When you have finished I expect a report of what happened okay? Good Luck and Godspeed." And with that the connection was cut.
"Gundam Apocalypse Engage!" And with that Hotaru took off towards the battle.
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The Preventers were worried, the Gundam Pilots weren't going to be able to get there in time, and the terrorists were winning. Just then out of nowhere a bunch of the enemy ms blew up in an intense shower of laser. Gundam Apocalypse flew into the scene, energy glaive raised. The wings were folded on the back, so that if a person was to just glance at it, all they saw were the rockets on her back surrounded by this layered gray thing that probably protected them. (By rockets I mean the things that make them fly) "Need a little help?" The Preventers cheered as they watched the unknown Gundam pilot started to blow up a lot of enemy ms.
In a matter of moments, the dark Gundam had destroyed all of the ms leaving nothing but scrap metal. "Is everybody ok? There is another attack already underway about 10 km from here, they'll probably need help." With that she flew off, disappearing in a flash of light.
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At the place where our favorite gundam boys are fighting:
"Daaaammmnn!! How is it that the Preventers only found out about this group of extremists when they decided to attack?" Duo was whining again as they fought the bunches of ms.
"Maxwell shut up and just fight!!" Was the only reply he got from any of his comrades (from Wufei).
Quatre was getting hit pretty badly considering... "There are just too many of them here. There are even more than there was with Mariemaia."
Trowa couldn't help but to add, "And when we were fighting we weren't trying to kill anyone."
Heero didn't answer; in fact he wasn't even listening to the conversation. He grunted as he was continuously hit my missiles shot his way. He fought hard but was soon surrounded by bunches of suits, they all simultaneously shot missiles at him, he had no choice but to wrap his wings around the suit to protect it. (Don't forget, his wings are folded to the side so that they don't get in the way, but it isn't folded the same as Hotaru's, his sticks out of his back...just think of what Wing Zero Custom looks like, her's is wrapped around the rockets on her back.)
He could feel all the blasts rock his gundam, but then he heard a huge explosion, and total silence.
"Hey Heero!!" Duo's voice came over the intercom. "You can stop hiding now, it seems some weird gundam saved your ass."
Duo's voice seemed a bit giddy, he'd never seen the Perfect Soldier use his wings as the shields they were supposed to be. The Perfect Soldier, hiding, this was a once in a lifetime sight...
Zero's wings unfolded, clearing the view to the alien gundam.
"It seems I came just in time. If I was any later, your wings might not exist." Said the low, yet light voice over the intercom. "I'm glad to be of service to the famous gundam pilots. However..." the voice all of a sudden became harsh, and cold, " if you get in my way in any way, I will not hesitate to get rid of you. Understand?" Then without waiting for a reponse, the gundam took off, leaving the others to wonder who the hell the pilot was.
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It seemed another battle had commensed elsewhere. This time, it was the Kamikaze (Haruka's ms) that was in trouble of getting overwhelmed. Apocalypse came and helped fight. Kamikaze didn't even acknowledge her as they fought, both knowing exactly who was in the other suit. They also figured that the other girl (Xara) was probably inside the base getting info or whatnot. After a few minutes of battling the base exploded, leaving the mobile suits with nowhere to run, they surrendered. By then the Preventer's had arrived on the scene so the 3 girls flew off. (Well Xara more like drove off...)
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The next morning at school Heero and Duo were both a bit tired. Hotaru and Haruka noticed and both smirked at each other
"It seems you're tired Heero. Will you be able to fight in the matches today after school?"
Haruka surprised asked of Hotaru and Heero, "Matches? Do you guys take classes?"
"Hn." Was all the reply she got from Heero.
"Hai." Was Hotaru's reply (she didn't want to sound too much like Heero.)
"Well...is it ok if I sat in today to watch?"
"Whatever..."
Haruka was about to answer, but then class started so she sat down in her seat which was filled with flowers and cards from fans.
"Mr. Tenou, what is with all that stuff on your desk?" the teacher inquired.
"Uhh...it's fan mail and stuff..." Haruka sweatdropped while all the girls giggled.
Dorothy laughed, "It seems that Tenou-san is much too popular ne sensei?"
The teacher sighed, then excused Haruka to clean up his desk.
Heero wasn't paying any attention to what was going on in class, he mind was still too filled with what had happened the night before. Who the hell was piloting that gundam? From what the others said, this person blew all the suits away in one blast...Not even I can do that.
He saw Hotaru smirking from the edge of her mouth. She seemed oddly pleased with herself. Masaka...
Ooohh...did Heero figure it out? Did he figure out who the pilot of the Gundam Apocalypse is? Sorry I got soooo off topic, I was having a sort of mental block that just wanted me to just blubber...*sigh* I had to somehow end this chapter so it ended like this...oh well...I'll work on finishing the tournament in the next few chapters as well as brining the other senshi in...it's a definite promise!!! Oh and don't forget to go read my (sorry for taking sooo long to post) fic, Shinigami no Koi...and no it isn't a Hotaru/Duo pairing...I can't stand those any longer....[technically it is a side fic that she posts in case she has problems with this story...*mutters* typical...] I hope this chapter wasn't too long for your attention spans...heheheh....
I just realized that the Peacecraft Academy is in the Sank Kingdom...and somehow...I keep on mentioning the Tokyo Tower...now why is that? Well...let's just say, there are actually no kingdoms left because of the dissolving borders thing that Relena did, so lets just say, the Peacecraft Academy was relocated into Tokyo. [oi baka, I can't believe you made such a stupid mistake...*sighs in defeat at her airheaded friend* ] (Well I wouldn't be talking if I were you...ur my beta reader and u didn't even notice it either did you? And by the way... 'Oi' is myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy word....so don't u use it....got it!!) And not everyone there speaks Japanese ok? Oh and not all of the Senshi are gonna actually speak Japanese. I'll tell who does and doesn't when the time comes.
PS. Just thought I'd tell you that, so far, this story still isn't completely edited, so when I finish it (if ever at the rate I'm going) I'm going to edit it, hopefully improve it, and then repost...This chapter especially needs attention ne?