~ Kitten's ~ Angel ~


sequel to 'kitten'


by

Alexia Goddess






Chapter Eight
Eclipse







"Time and Space,
Wind and Earth,
Come to this place.

Water and Fire,
Hate and Love,
Let me fly ever higher.

Evil and Good
Metal and Wood,
Tell me the place of of this creature's hood."


The gold, ruby studded amulet, the homing amulet, in Kitten's hands
began to glow red hot as Kitten chanted the spell that would activate
the homing amulet and lead them to Zephra. The glittering green aura
surrounding the sea green eyed woman protected her flesh from the heat.

Angel watched on as her mother chanted the encantation, the former
Gundam Pilots -looking extremely baffled as to how they too were
glowing a bright green, despite the crash course they'd been given the
day before on magic basics- surrounding Kitten in a spell ring acting
the part of the Ringmen. To her right and left, Axis and Zion, in robes
of black and gold, stood watching over the woman that was precious to
everyone present.

Angel shoved away the twinge of guilt that stabbed her gut. She knew
what the results of the homing amulet's search would be.

She fingered the Trinity Ring at her throat as her mind flashed back to
the event in the garden the day before. How had Sirius known what it
was? Had Kitten told him to say that? Or did Shinimejenya really visit
the son of Heero Yuy and Relena Peacecraft in his dreams?

Angel forced herself to dismiss the thoughts. Either way, it did little
to change Angel's plans. Her future must never come to pass. Sirius,
her Sirius, the adult Sirius from her future, along with everyone else.
assumed that Angel was only going to inform her Uncles and parents, let
them do something about her being infested with an alien spirit.

But really, what good would that do? What could they do? Put a shield
around her at the moment of her birth? Shields had never worked before.

No, Angel knew what had to happen. In a few moments everyone here in
the ballroom of the Sanq Palace, before the huge round window where the
spell was being performed, with the moon just beginning to eclipse the
sun outside the window, would know of Angel's bluff. They would know
that the story of her mother and father and her uncles launching a last
attack was false.

They would know that the 'last transmission' was a fib, never happened.

They would know that Zephra was dead, had only been 'alive' for the
purpose of creating a false 'plan' or 'reason' for Angel's coming
back in time. None of them knew her true plan for changing the future...

She had put this off a week. One week. Just long enough to confirm that
Kitten was pregnant with her past self. She wasn't blind to the morning
headaches, the bouts of unexplained vomiting. Reading lips had come in
handy in 'evesdropping' on Kitten's exchange with the mother at the
mall.

Angel fingered the hilt of her Tenshi Ittou (Angel Sword) at her side.
The spell was coming to a close...it was almost time...

Kitten brought her hands down with a flash, and a swirling oval portal
opened before her, bringing with it a miniature whirlwind storm that
whipping around the entire ballroom, creating an indoor tempest. Kitten's
face was rivited with the inner conflict of hope and keeping her mind
set on the task. Taking a deep breath, Kitten raised her arms with the
amulet high overhead, closing her eyes, and opened her mouth to shout
the the phrase that would seal the spell and release the magic set on
finding Zephra.

"Release and Defy!" Kitten yelled over the roaring tempest that had
risen in volume and magnitude.

Angel's eyes narrowed as the rush of wind was sucked into the portal.
She kept her feet firmly planted against the onslaught of wind that
would have forced everyone to their knees had they not been ready for
it. Nevertheless, Angel felt herself slid, and so she drew Tenshi Ittou
in one swift movement, and slammed the sharp point deep into the marble
floor, giving her something to hold on to.

The portal and Kitten flashed, and then a sound like a...like something
powering up was heard. As Kitten's part in the magic was completed, the
portal began to pulse, as an image within began to form...

But Angel was already moving.

With speed and agility she had inherited from her mother, Angel yanked
Tenshi from the floor, the light glancing off it in a eerie way as the
moon, seen out the window, moved even further over to block the sun.





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The dark, shadowy creature's interest was perked. There was a wave of
powerful, intense magic sweeping the solar system, searching for
something. But what? The creature was curious, so he reached out with
his dark influence and touched it...

And sharply recoiled with a hiss. It was the same sort of thing that
kept him from touching his prey! It threw a nasty glance to the humanoid
woman that lay in the only ray of light in its entire kingdom.

A low growl, like a ghost's cry was emitted from the back of its
throat. Like a silent hound, it slithered out from the shadows and
covered its prey with its shadow. The magic wave would be upon them,
soon...





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Angel clamped down on her emotions as she burst past Duo and Wufei,
knocking Axis aside and slamming the butt of the hilt of Tenshi Ittou
into Zion's face, knocking him unconscious. Kitten whirled, eyes wide,
silver and black sorceress's robes swirling around her. The intensity
of the magic that she had just finished handling had somehow returned
her hair to it's natural color; silver locks now cascaded over her
shoulders and down her back.

Kitten only had time to emit a look of questioning through her eyes
before Angel lashed out, swinging Tenshi towards her future mother's
midriff...

"No!" Duo shouted at the top of his lungs, Wufei leaping to his feet.
But Heero was the quickest of them all, and he barreled into Kitten,
knocking her out of the way of Angel's blade, taking a nick in the
shoulder. It bled freely, but wasn't serious. Angel stood, eyes living
fire, as Heero and Kitten drew themselves to their feet, and the rest
of the former Gundam Pilots, along with Axis, moved to circle Angel.

"What are you doing?" Quatre cried. Angel ignored him and all other
cries of outrage. She only had eyes for Kitten. Angel raised her free
left hand...extended her fingers... curled her pinky, ring finger,
and thumb against her palm...her two foremost fingers waved up and down,
forward and backwards, beckoning, challenging.

Wufei pulled his katana out from somehwere, and, growling, stepped in
front of Kitten. He took a step towards Angel, when a hand on his
shoulder from behind stopped him. The hand was attached to a wrist that
glittered from a silver bracelet...

"No," Said Kitten. She stepped in front of her protectors, Dragon Katana
in hand. "This is my fight," She said mournfully, looking at Angel
with eyes that held only compassion, pity, and questioning.

They circled each other, mother and daughter, as the portal behind them
all, forgotten by all, pulsed brighter as the moon moved even more so
that there was only a slender crescent of sunlight left...





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The shadow beast roared as the magic wave washed over it and its prey.
It tried to hold onto the dying humanoid, but her will was too strong...
she tapped into the power of the magical wave, gathered it to her hands,
and the shadow creature was no more...it had failed...

It vanished in a puff of dust, and, surrounded by the beautiful silver
white magic of the searching wave, the woman stood, tendrils of the
magic coming to her bidding to lick at her wounds till they were fully
healed.

The magic seemed to dance with victory, knowing it had found it's
target. The wave began to fall back to earth, and the woman latched onto
the magic, and hung on for the ride.

She was going home...





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Swords clashed, flesh protested, friends looked on in worry and sweat
began to bead as mother and daughter twirled and spun, leaped and
kicked, ducked and rolled in an intricate battle dance to the death.

Angel bore down on Kitten with the blade that had been a gift from the
very woman that she was now attacking. Kitten held her Dragon Katana
across her chest, trying to force Angel and her Tenshi Ittou off her.
Slowly she gained enough leverage to duck and roll away as Angel's
sword slammed into the marble floor, sending white chips flying.

Kitten shrugged out of her black and silver sorceress rob, revealing
that underneath she wore the black, silver lined gown she had worn to
defeat Jzaar...

Angel charged, eyes cold and emotionless, as was her face, as she moved
to impale Kitten on Tenshi. Kitten leaped, tucked and rolled in midair,
tumbling through the air right over Angel. She landed behind her future
daughter, then whirled at the same time Angel did.

Only their respect for Kitten and their desire to see Angel pummeled
kept Duo, along with the other anxious men, out of the fight. Any one of
them could have taken Angel out, but as Kitten had said, this was her
fight...

And as they fought, and as the Gundam Pilots and Axis watched -Zion
still unconscious- three things went unnoticed. One was that the
eclipse was quickly drawing to a completion, the second was that the
portal was pulsing even brighter, and that the figure in the portal
was becoming clearer and clearer...

Third was the lithe form in the shadows, watching with worry, anxiousness,
and perhaps even a little curiosity. It moved further into the shadows,
limping slightly, as the fight neared the figure's hiding place.

"Why are you doing this, Angel?" Kitten finally asked, ducking a
vicious swing and blocking a cut at her side. She swung her Dragon up
overhead and bore down on Angel's horizontally held sword. Angel didn't
answer, her expression hinting that she hadn't even heard the question.

"Kit!" Zion had awoken. His call caused Kitten to faulter in her pouring
her strength into baring Angel to the ground. Angel, with a burst of
strength, shoved Kitten off her. Kitten stumbled, the hem of her skirt
tearing- she briefly was thankful she had taken off her robe, else
she would have tripped long before this.

Kitten desperately tried to scramble away, but in her fall, her grip
on the Dragon Katana had faltered, and the blade was now several yards
away.

Angel stood over her, breathing slightly hard, but not nearly as hard
as Kitten.

*Okay...* Kitten thought with a wince. *So I'm rusty...*

Angel whirled the blade, an in the split second it took her to do so,
everything happened at once...

Kitten leaped to her feet, but Angel grabbed her by the hair, bringing
her to her knees in front of her, Tenshi Ittou poised in front of her
midriff, ready to impale her.

Duo and Axis both gave a cry to wake the dead, charging towards their
fallen loved one.

The figure in the shadows stiffened, a tear running down it's face...
"Oh, Angel..." The figure said mournfully.

The portal flashed, the figure in it not only becoming clear, but
was put into motion, like a movie that had been on pause but was now
started up again; a woman with dark brown hair and battered body came
flying out of the portal and slammed into Zion from behind.

The Trinity Stones, one on Kitten's hand, the other around Angel's
neck, began to grow white hot...

The sunlight reduced to a sliver...

Kitten whispered a tearful question...

"Why?"

Angel breathed two words...

"I'm sorry..."

The moon eclipsed the sun.

Tenshi pierced flesh.

And everything fell apart.



To Be Continued.....


Yes, yes, I know I'm evil for leaving you off here, but I'm zonked, and
besides; cliffhangers mean more reviews? RIGHT???? *grins* Remember;
the review button is your FRIEND!!!!! Ja ne, all!


-Alexia Goddess




*ALL STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY; I OWN NOTHING PERTAINING TO GUNDAM
WING SAVE MY OWN CREATIONS (ANGEL, KITTEN, SIRUS, SHINIMJENYA,
DRAGONRAGE EPION, ECT.) AND THIS PLOT. 'KITTEN'S ANGEL' IS (C) ALEXIA
GODDESS, 2002. ANY UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION AND/OR USE OF ORIGINAL
PROPERTY/IDEAS IS SUBJECT TO LEGAL LAWSUIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED*