I Loved You Too Late
By: Moonlit Love
R
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam. I just own this plot.
I changed the rating to R because it will get a little intense with Relena and her anger.
Chapter Eight: Relena's Revenge (this is the only chapter I will name in the story.)
Relena took a few steps forward. She shook her head and did a shrill whistle
spooky enough to scare a rabid bear away. In the next instant her ride came, a simple
horse with the power of then bulls. Relena leaped onto the horse's back and tapped her
heels twice against his sides.
"Lead me to him, Bull," Relena whispered into the horse's ear.
The horse took off into a strong gallop. They traveled for half a day before Relena
rested. Relena tied Bull up to a tree and gave him food and water. She started a fire and
lay down next to it, enjoying the warmth as she ate her meal.
The palace had moved once again. Relena had done some research on it when it
had first appeared. The foundation was a hundred percent movable. And move it did,
almost everyday it would move to a new location. Relena ripped a piece of beef jerky
from the stick and roughly chewed the flavorful meat.
Anyone who would have seen her wouldn't have been able to recognize Relena in
any way. She had changed from being a peaceful leader to a revengeful soldier. She had
to take Heero's place and become the rescuer. Heero depended on her.
Relena took out the book she had chosen to take with she flipped it over in her
hands. She shook her head and threw it into the fire. Bull whinnied. "It wasn't worth
reading, Bull," Relena told him.
Bull was quiet for the rest of the night. Relena did what Heero had once told her.
She found a tree and leapt to the very top of it. There she made her bed. The sun had just
began to come up over the horizon when Relena and Bull began to move on once again.
Relena just had Bull in a smooth trot as she kept her eye out for the new location.
It wasn't anywhere in sight and Relena cursed aloud. She was not going to wait to long.
She was going to find Wufei if it took a hundred days. If Heero didn't make it, Wufei
would pay the price.
Relena wouldn't take any mercy on Wufei, this she was sure of. She kept a
hawk's eye on the surrounding landscape. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary and
Relena was getting mad. The palace couldn't have moved so fast in two days.
"Where do you think it is, Bull?" Relena asked her horse.
The horse tossed his head in the direction or north and Relena turned. She was
going to get to the palace and find Wufei to take out her revenge. She had almost lost
Heero without anyone's help, and now Wufei had taken a part in removing him from her
life.
Relena gritted her teeth together and tapped Bull on the side. The horse took off
at a full gallop. Relena saw the black outline of the palace. She was going to make it
there by the evening.
Bull shook his head. Relena sighed and pulled the horse to a slow stop. She went
to a clump of trees and hid them from sight. Giving the horse food and water, Relena
went to the treetop and made her bed. She was going to dream of her revenge and then
make her revenge.
~*~dream~*~
Relena walked into the palace. Around the perimeter of the palace was a circle of
wounded guards. She sensed he was in there. The sickening sense of pride hanging over
his head was a sure way of telling he was there.
She snuck through the palace interior without making a sound. Her sword felt
powerful at her sides and her guns felt ready. She itched to use any of them, after all she
had taken the guards down with their own weapons. A footstep echoed through the halls
and a shadow soon appeared in her path.
Relena hid behind a tall column, waiting to see the face of her company. Her
company was just a guard and she struck him dead with a elbow to his throat. She
continued on her way. She finally reached the catwalk where Wufei had shot Heero.
She saw him there, talking to someone else. She didn't care who the someone
else was, she just cared about getting to Wufei. She climbed up the catwalk and moved
smoothly in the shadows. She was soon upon them.
"Draw your weapon, Chang," Relena's voice came harsh and deep.
"Who are you?" Wufei asked as he drew his sword from his side.
"You will find out after I get the information I need from you. Ask you
companion to leave and we will begin our waltz of death," Relena ordered.
Wufei dismissed his accomplice and turned to Relena. They touched swords and
began the fight. They gained and lost ground in but a matter of seconds. No one seemed
to be winning this fight.
"What do you want?" Wufei asked when they both were so close as to see their
own reflections in each others eyes, swords crossed before their noses.
"I want to know the antidote to the poison bullets you used," Relena replied.
They pushed against each others swords and a flashed passed between them and
they flew backwards, swiftly landing in a crouched position on their feet. Wufei looked
at Relena funny. "Why would you want to know that?" Wufei asked as they began to
make wide circles, coming closer each time they passed.
Relena made a swift move and clashed her sword to his. Her eyes burned with
fury, revenge, power. "I want to know how to cure Heero Yuy," Relena replied as she
used a swift move and sent Wufei's sword flying off the catwalk.
She pushed him to the ground with her forearm and then placed the tip of her
sword at his Adam's apple. "Do you remember who I am?" Relena asked as she allowed
him to swallow against the cold metal.
"You can't be Relena," he whispered, in denial that this blood thirsty opponent
was actually the peace loving friend.
"Don't look so amazed. Things change," Relena smiled.
Wufei whispered out the antidote to the poison. Relena took her sword from his
neck and moved backwards. Wufei put his hand to his neck and rubbed at the tender
spot. Relena turned to the exit. "Go to hell," Relena yelled as she threw her sword with
lightning speed at Wufei's heart.
She didn't stop to see the result. She did her shrill whistle to Bull and called him
to her. She then took off at a gallop for Cambilivii General. She hurried up to Heero's
room and found the doctor checking in on Heero. "I know the cure," Relena stated.
~*~end of dream~*~
Relena woke up with a small smile on her face. She pictured perfect results and
the death of the one who caused even more pain on both Heero's life and hers. Relena
had never felt so much power in her entire life as she had in her dream.
An odd smile graced her as she knew she had the awesome power somewhere
inside of her. She had felt the power Heero feels when he is in Wing Zero. Relena
decided that as soon as she knew Heero was all right and they went back to the Sanq
Kingdom she would have a Wing Angel built for herself.
Relena saw the stars were still overhead and no sign of the sun was evident yet.
Bull would need a little more sleep before they would continue on. Relena once again
fell into dreams, these dreams more peaceful then before.
~*~dream~*~
Relena looked up at her Gundam. It was strong and powerful but had an aura of
peace around it. It made Relena happy to feel the force from it and yet know this
Gundam was a sign of peace. "You chariot awaits, mademoiselle," Heero's voice came
from Wing Angel's cockpit.
Relena smiled her sunshine smile back up at him. Her hair hadn't taken long to
grow back out, and she was now tossing it behind her shoulders. She used her new found
strength to bound up into the cock-pit of the Gundam. Heero took her hand. He smiled a
half smile at her and gave her a basic tour of her Gundam.
Relena absorbed everything she could from what he was telling her. She nodded
at the various controls and how the communicators worked. "I don't want you using this
all the time. Only in times of complete war and for a trip into space. I can disengage it.
You can't become the dark one of us, Relena," Heero told her.
Relena smiled and looked up at him. She only felt love for him right now and all
the care he had given her. Heero pulled her into a hug and she allowed herself to be
against his chest, feeling his love.
~*~end of dream~*~
Relena awoke to the gentle whinny of her horse. She looked around and felt
strange. Then she remembered why she was here, and Elena Warlordess was back in her
full force.
Relena leapt down from the tree and mounted her horse Wufei would feel the
force of her inner strength as soon as she found him. She knew there was no changing
that. Bull did a sure-of-himself gallop as they went to the palace.
He did a war-horse cry as he did a full on gallop at the open door. The guards
were caught off-guard and leapt away from the charging animal. Relena dismounted as
soon as Bull got her in. "Run, Bull!" Relena ordered as she melted into the shadows.
Bull could sense her presence, but she was invisible even to him. He dashed out
of the palace and away to a safe place. It was only then when Relena knew her horse was
safe did she continue.
She began to move through the shadows as if she was one with the shadows. She
moved to the cat-walk hoping her dreams were true. She reached the metal cat-walk, but
no one was there. She searched around for any shapes in the darkness.
She was disappointed at not being able to fight Wufei on the cat-walk as her
dream had allowed her to do. She disappeared as if by floating to the ground. She paused
to sense his presence.
She did not feel his presence immediately as he was not a usual in the house.
Relena did feel his aura in a room not far from the warehouse. She exited the room and
slipped from column to column in the beige marble hallway.
Relena was soon at the door of his presence. She heard two voices, both
recognizable to her ear. She questioned why as the female's aura told she had lived here
for a while.
Relena paused to hear the conversation they were having, perhaps she could use
the one for her own purposes as Wufei had done to her. "Wufei, you know I have a deep
yearning to be free of this place. Can't you do anything to get me out of here?" the
woman's voice pleaded.
"I told you before, princess, this palace will not allow you to exit without two of
your guards. And then you only have limited rights once you are free of here. I'll come
up with a different way to free you," Wufei's voice conveyed.
"How about in a casket?" Relena coldly asked as she swung from outside the door
and swiftly to the opposite side.
The princess, oddly familiar as she was, gasped with surprise. Wufei pulled his
sword from his side. Relena smiled as she too pulled her sword out. "What do you
want?" Wufei asked.
"You'll know soon enough," Relena replied.
They touched their swords together. "En garde," Relena smirked as the swords
clashed together.
Relena sensed rather than saw the princess disappear from view. She didn't slip
from the door, just into a place she felt was safer. Relena didn't want to hurt the princess,
just Wufei. "I will ask you once again, what do you want?" Wufei spat as he interrupted
her thoughts.
Relena turned her gaze and looked directly into his eyes. She felt her fury, pain,
power, and vengeance flame in her eyes and saw fury and protectiveness in Wufei's eyes.
They leapt at each other, pressing their swords together and feeling the other person's
unleashed strength. "Who are you, I know no one who looks like you, acts like you, or
has such a need for revenge," Wufei demanded.
"My identity will go unknown until you take your last breath, evil dragon," Relena
replied as she gave a quick burst of power off.
Wufei flew back two feet and landed promptly on his feet. He smiled at his
worthy opponent. "I will not be the one with the last breath. It will be your last breath I
find out who you are," Wufei countered.
"I know that will never come true. I have more reason to fight than you could
ever guess," Relena sneered.
"But your anger will blind you. The raw fury behind your eyes will make you
ignorant to the danger my sword and I possess," Wufei mocked.
"No matter how blind I become of fury, I will always see straight into the danger
you yield. I have vengeance and that makes me strong. I am stronger than you believe I
am. That will be your downfall," Relena informed him.
"The black dragon knows no death. You will become nothing before me.
Vengeance makes fury's strength blind and its possessor deaf," Wufei told her.
Relena flew at him with untapped power. Their swords clicked together and
Wufei flew against the wall. "I know not the true depths of my strength, but you are an
excellent test subject," Relena sneered.
Wufei stood up and raised his sword once more. "You will die, woman," Wufei
warned her.
"Because I am a woman, I will prevail over you. Good always conquers evil,"
Relena threw back.
"You are the evil," Wufei whispered in a mocking tone.
"But I'm not the one that shot anybody, now am I?" Relena replied in an innocent
tone.
"You shot somebody, Wufei?" came the princess's voice.
Wufei didn't look at her. Instead he came at Relena and raised his sword to
deliver the last blow. Relena moved out of the way in the blink of an eye and Wufei sank
his sword deep into the princess's dresser.
Relena made her move. She flicked her blade across his finger. Wufei pulled his
fingers from his sword. Blood colored the knuckles of his hands. "Your blood will be
the equivalent of the blood shed by the one you shot," Relena replied.
"God, I would think you are a damned fury yourself. What powers such anger?"
Wufei asked, now weaponless.
Relena smiled. In less than a second she had Wufei lying flat on his back and the
tip of her sword on his throat. "Love," Relena replied.
She let him witness the full strength of her anger and vengeance. "I will kill in the
name of my loved one. Tell me the antidote to your poison bullet," Relena demanded.
"Who did you shoot, Wufei?" came the princess's voice.
"Stay out of this, WOMAN!" Wufei yelled in anger to her.
Relena kept her gaze on Wufei but directed her question at the princess. "Who
are you? I know but one he calls woman," Relena inquired.
"I am princess Salla," she replied.
"I know not one Salla," Relena informed her.
"Because I was known as Dr. Sally Po before my abduction," Salla replied.
(A.N. I will call Sally Salla while she is in the castle.)
"Why did they bring you here, Sally? Was it Wufei's idea?" Relena invited the
answer yes.
"No, they brought me here because I am their crowned princess from long ago. I
ran away and they found me," Salla told her.
Relena didn't let up her blade. She tossed the question around in her head. "Tell
me the antidote," Relena demanded of Wufei once more, ignoring Salla.
"There is no antidote," Wufei replied in a monotone voice.
"For the death of my love, you will die also," Relena said as she pushed the tip
into his neck, drawing forth a drop of blood.
"Please! Stop it! What is your name and why do you want to take his life so
much?" Salla cried.
"My name is Elena Warlordess. I want to take his life for killing mine. Revenge
will be sweet," Relena responded.
"If you kill him, how do you know I won't come back to kill you?" Salla
demanded.
"I don't, but I would have no other reason to live since he has already taken my
life," Relena replied.
"Why do you want my life Elena Warlordess?" Wufei asked.
"I have stated my reasons already. Do you not know them by now?" Relena
yelled, becoming impatient with all the questions.
"Your name isn't Elena Warlordess. What is your true name?" Salla asked.
"My true name is one you will not believe," Relena retorted.
"Your name in anyway will be believable. There isn't a reason why you will not
be believed," Salla pressed.
"My name is Relena Peacecraft, Foreign Minister," Relena announced.
They both looked amazed. Salla shook her head as if it couldn't be true. Wufei
studied her face. "I am who I say I am," Relena told them.
"It is her," Wufei nodded.
"Just as I said," Relena smiled.
"That isn't possible. Relena isn't a murderer, what you are doing is the work of a
murderer," Salla shook her head.
"Revenge changes people in ways you will never know. I have come in the name
of Heero Yuy," Relena informed them.
"There is no antidote to the poison I gave him. He will be dead in a week," Wufei
told Relena.
"Wufei! How could you do that to one of your friends?" Salla asked.
"He could have stopped them from taking you away," Wufei stubbornly replied.
"That is not true. He would have been killed if he did so. I was meant to come
back here and denounce my throne," Salla insisted.
Wufei looked at her and back at Relena. Her eyes still spelled out the same deep
passion of hate, revenge, power, fury, and pain. "I will kill him now unless a good
enough reason is brought forth," Relena announced.
"I will not let you! You will ruin my life if you do so!" Salla cried as she moved
to Relena.
Relena took her left hand and pulled a pistol from her pocket. "Stay back if you
want to keep your life," Relena warned.
Salla had tears running down her cheeks. She obeyed Relena and didn't come a
step closer. "I can make an antidote," Wufei told her, "I made the poison and I can make
the reversal."
"I will give you a chance because Sally is my friend. If you lie, I will kill her first
and then take away your life," Relena nodded.
Salla looked at Relena with frightened eyes, knowing that Relena would very well
do so. Wufei glared at Relena. "Revenge changed a peace loving leader into a blood
thirsty opponent," Wufei laughed.
"Keep moving. Don't slow down. If this isn't taken care of now, She's gone,"
Relena ordered.
Wufei picked up his pace. He wasn't going to let Relena take his woman from
him. "You will rot in hell for what you have done," Wufei told her.
"I may rot in hell, but you will suffer forever," Relena countered.
"Touché," Wufei smirked as he entered a laboratory.
Wufei worked quickly. He recreated the poison he had shot Heero with. "I will
add other poisons until this changes to clear. When it is clear, an antidote will be made,"
Wufei told her.
It took him hours to change the color to clear. Salla had fallen asleep on Relena's
arm, but Relena was just as alert as ever. Wufei handed the potion over to Relena. "Your
coming with," Relena informed him, "Get a horse and meet me in the clump of trees. If
you don't, I'll shoot."
Relena's motion of pulling a trigger got Wufei to work. Relena carried Salla out
to where Bull was. Bull whinnied a greeting as Relena approached. Relena set Salla on
the ground.
"You will now go by the name of Sally," Relena told her old friend.
Wufei came out with a horse a short while later. Wufei put Sally in front of him
and got on. "You make any movement of escape of try to pull a gun, I swear to you I will
shoot her so fast you won't even know it happened," Relena warned.
They began the journey back to Cambilivii. The palace and the land around it had
moved during the night, and the trip back wouldn't take more than a day or two to
accomplish. They set up camp just as the sun reached the middle of the sky.
Relena didn't sleep, but Wufei did. Sally woke up a short while later. "Relena?"
Sally asked.
"Yes..." Relena started.
"Why and how did all this happen? I would really like to know," Sally informed
Relena.
"It started about six months ago. I was having a peace meeting and suddenly the
room filled with yellow smoke. I fell to the ground in a drugged sleep. I remember
waking up in the dank dungeons in your palace," Relena began, "I don't know how long I
was in there, but it seemed like forever.
"Then one day, I woke up and found myself on the cat-walk in the warehouse.
And in front of me stood Heero. I ran into his arms. Then Wufei said something and we
turned around. He had a mask on, and he removed it then shot Heero. I got Heero to
Cambilivii General as soon as I could. He was well poisoned.
"It was about two or three days back when I made my plan of revenge. I changed
when I saw Heero in his hospital bed, so close to death and in so much pain. They had
him hooked to a constant supply of morphine. I came here after I got my weapons and
changed into Elena Warlordess."
"So you don't know why Wufei did this?" Sally asked.
"No, I am sorry but I don't," Relena told her.
Sally nodded. Relena gave her a granola bar and Sally accepted it. Wufei awoke
a short time later. "We head out, now," Relena instructed.
Relena wasn't as revengeful, but she was still in charge and ready to fire her
weapons. They got on the horses and began to Cambilivii. The morning sun was just
breaking the horizon as they entered the small state. Relena urged her horse into a gallop
and told Wufei to follow her example. He grudgingly did as he was told.
They got to the hospital and Relena dragged both of them up to floor seven, room
sixteen. She pushed them both inside. "How do I give this to him?" Relena asked.
Wufei stepped forward and took several drops from the bottle with a eye dropper.
He put the tip at the corner of Heero's mouth and squeezed the drops out. He did the
same thing three times. Relena kept a close eye on Wufei. She noticed the scar she had
given him and smiled.
Revenge was sweet, even if she didn't totally complete it. Wufei stepped back
and put the potion and the dropper on the bedside table. "He should be awaking any time.
He will be a little sore, but hopefully he should be better in a day or two," Wufei
informed them.
Relena moved her gaze to Heero's face. He seemed more relaxed and calmer. It
pleased her to think he might soon be waking up. They would finish their reunion as
soon as he was out of the hospital. Her eyes never left his face.
What did you think? Please review. There is probably only one or two more
chapters of this story and then the epilogue.
Thanks for reading,
Moonlit ~~*~
By: Moonlit Love
R
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam. I just own this plot.
I changed the rating to R because it will get a little intense with Relena and her anger.
Chapter Eight: Relena's Revenge (this is the only chapter I will name in the story.)
Relena took a few steps forward. She shook her head and did a shrill whistle
spooky enough to scare a rabid bear away. In the next instant her ride came, a simple
horse with the power of then bulls. Relena leaped onto the horse's back and tapped her
heels twice against his sides.
"Lead me to him, Bull," Relena whispered into the horse's ear.
The horse took off into a strong gallop. They traveled for half a day before Relena
rested. Relena tied Bull up to a tree and gave him food and water. She started a fire and
lay down next to it, enjoying the warmth as she ate her meal.
The palace had moved once again. Relena had done some research on it when it
had first appeared. The foundation was a hundred percent movable. And move it did,
almost everyday it would move to a new location. Relena ripped a piece of beef jerky
from the stick and roughly chewed the flavorful meat.
Anyone who would have seen her wouldn't have been able to recognize Relena in
any way. She had changed from being a peaceful leader to a revengeful soldier. She had
to take Heero's place and become the rescuer. Heero depended on her.
Relena took out the book she had chosen to take with she flipped it over in her
hands. She shook her head and threw it into the fire. Bull whinnied. "It wasn't worth
reading, Bull," Relena told him.
Bull was quiet for the rest of the night. Relena did what Heero had once told her.
She found a tree and leapt to the very top of it. There she made her bed. The sun had just
began to come up over the horizon when Relena and Bull began to move on once again.
Relena just had Bull in a smooth trot as she kept her eye out for the new location.
It wasn't anywhere in sight and Relena cursed aloud. She was not going to wait to long.
She was going to find Wufei if it took a hundred days. If Heero didn't make it, Wufei
would pay the price.
Relena wouldn't take any mercy on Wufei, this she was sure of. She kept a
hawk's eye on the surrounding landscape. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary and
Relena was getting mad. The palace couldn't have moved so fast in two days.
"Where do you think it is, Bull?" Relena asked her horse.
The horse tossed his head in the direction or north and Relena turned. She was
going to get to the palace and find Wufei to take out her revenge. She had almost lost
Heero without anyone's help, and now Wufei had taken a part in removing him from her
life.
Relena gritted her teeth together and tapped Bull on the side. The horse took off
at a full gallop. Relena saw the black outline of the palace. She was going to make it
there by the evening.
Bull shook his head. Relena sighed and pulled the horse to a slow stop. She went
to a clump of trees and hid them from sight. Giving the horse food and water, Relena
went to the treetop and made her bed. She was going to dream of her revenge and then
make her revenge.
~*~dream~*~
Relena walked into the palace. Around the perimeter of the palace was a circle of
wounded guards. She sensed he was in there. The sickening sense of pride hanging over
his head was a sure way of telling he was there.
She snuck through the palace interior without making a sound. Her sword felt
powerful at her sides and her guns felt ready. She itched to use any of them, after all she
had taken the guards down with their own weapons. A footstep echoed through the halls
and a shadow soon appeared in her path.
Relena hid behind a tall column, waiting to see the face of her company. Her
company was just a guard and she struck him dead with a elbow to his throat. She
continued on her way. She finally reached the catwalk where Wufei had shot Heero.
She saw him there, talking to someone else. She didn't care who the someone
else was, she just cared about getting to Wufei. She climbed up the catwalk and moved
smoothly in the shadows. She was soon upon them.
"Draw your weapon, Chang," Relena's voice came harsh and deep.
"Who are you?" Wufei asked as he drew his sword from his side.
"You will find out after I get the information I need from you. Ask you
companion to leave and we will begin our waltz of death," Relena ordered.
Wufei dismissed his accomplice and turned to Relena. They touched swords and
began the fight. They gained and lost ground in but a matter of seconds. No one seemed
to be winning this fight.
"What do you want?" Wufei asked when they both were so close as to see their
own reflections in each others eyes, swords crossed before their noses.
"I want to know the antidote to the poison bullets you used," Relena replied.
They pushed against each others swords and a flashed passed between them and
they flew backwards, swiftly landing in a crouched position on their feet. Wufei looked
at Relena funny. "Why would you want to know that?" Wufei asked as they began to
make wide circles, coming closer each time they passed.
Relena made a swift move and clashed her sword to his. Her eyes burned with
fury, revenge, power. "I want to know how to cure Heero Yuy," Relena replied as she
used a swift move and sent Wufei's sword flying off the catwalk.
She pushed him to the ground with her forearm and then placed the tip of her
sword at his Adam's apple. "Do you remember who I am?" Relena asked as she allowed
him to swallow against the cold metal.
"You can't be Relena," he whispered, in denial that this blood thirsty opponent
was actually the peace loving friend.
"Don't look so amazed. Things change," Relena smiled.
Wufei whispered out the antidote to the poison. Relena took her sword from his
neck and moved backwards. Wufei put his hand to his neck and rubbed at the tender
spot. Relena turned to the exit. "Go to hell," Relena yelled as she threw her sword with
lightning speed at Wufei's heart.
She didn't stop to see the result. She did her shrill whistle to Bull and called him
to her. She then took off at a gallop for Cambilivii General. She hurried up to Heero's
room and found the doctor checking in on Heero. "I know the cure," Relena stated.
~*~end of dream~*~
Relena woke up with a small smile on her face. She pictured perfect results and
the death of the one who caused even more pain on both Heero's life and hers. Relena
had never felt so much power in her entire life as she had in her dream.
An odd smile graced her as she knew she had the awesome power somewhere
inside of her. She had felt the power Heero feels when he is in Wing Zero. Relena
decided that as soon as she knew Heero was all right and they went back to the Sanq
Kingdom she would have a Wing Angel built for herself.
Relena saw the stars were still overhead and no sign of the sun was evident yet.
Bull would need a little more sleep before they would continue on. Relena once again
fell into dreams, these dreams more peaceful then before.
~*~dream~*~
Relena looked up at her Gundam. It was strong and powerful but had an aura of
peace around it. It made Relena happy to feel the force from it and yet know this
Gundam was a sign of peace. "You chariot awaits, mademoiselle," Heero's voice came
from Wing Angel's cockpit.
Relena smiled her sunshine smile back up at him. Her hair hadn't taken long to
grow back out, and she was now tossing it behind her shoulders. She used her new found
strength to bound up into the cock-pit of the Gundam. Heero took her hand. He smiled a
half smile at her and gave her a basic tour of her Gundam.
Relena absorbed everything she could from what he was telling her. She nodded
at the various controls and how the communicators worked. "I don't want you using this
all the time. Only in times of complete war and for a trip into space. I can disengage it.
You can't become the dark one of us, Relena," Heero told her.
Relena smiled and looked up at him. She only felt love for him right now and all
the care he had given her. Heero pulled her into a hug and she allowed herself to be
against his chest, feeling his love.
~*~end of dream~*~
Relena awoke to the gentle whinny of her horse. She looked around and felt
strange. Then she remembered why she was here, and Elena Warlordess was back in her
full force.
Relena leapt down from the tree and mounted her horse Wufei would feel the
force of her inner strength as soon as she found him. She knew there was no changing
that. Bull did a sure-of-himself gallop as they went to the palace.
He did a war-horse cry as he did a full on gallop at the open door. The guards
were caught off-guard and leapt away from the charging animal. Relena dismounted as
soon as Bull got her in. "Run, Bull!" Relena ordered as she melted into the shadows.
Bull could sense her presence, but she was invisible even to him. He dashed out
of the palace and away to a safe place. It was only then when Relena knew her horse was
safe did she continue.
She began to move through the shadows as if she was one with the shadows. She
moved to the cat-walk hoping her dreams were true. She reached the metal cat-walk, but
no one was there. She searched around for any shapes in the darkness.
She was disappointed at not being able to fight Wufei on the cat-walk as her
dream had allowed her to do. She disappeared as if by floating to the ground. She paused
to sense his presence.
She did not feel his presence immediately as he was not a usual in the house.
Relena did feel his aura in a room not far from the warehouse. She exited the room and
slipped from column to column in the beige marble hallway.
Relena was soon at the door of his presence. She heard two voices, both
recognizable to her ear. She questioned why as the female's aura told she had lived here
for a while.
Relena paused to hear the conversation they were having, perhaps she could use
the one for her own purposes as Wufei had done to her. "Wufei, you know I have a deep
yearning to be free of this place. Can't you do anything to get me out of here?" the
woman's voice pleaded.
"I told you before, princess, this palace will not allow you to exit without two of
your guards. And then you only have limited rights once you are free of here. I'll come
up with a different way to free you," Wufei's voice conveyed.
"How about in a casket?" Relena coldly asked as she swung from outside the door
and swiftly to the opposite side.
The princess, oddly familiar as she was, gasped with surprise. Wufei pulled his
sword from his side. Relena smiled as she too pulled her sword out. "What do you
want?" Wufei asked.
"You'll know soon enough," Relena replied.
They touched their swords together. "En garde," Relena smirked as the swords
clashed together.
Relena sensed rather than saw the princess disappear from view. She didn't slip
from the door, just into a place she felt was safer. Relena didn't want to hurt the princess,
just Wufei. "I will ask you once again, what do you want?" Wufei spat as he interrupted
her thoughts.
Relena turned her gaze and looked directly into his eyes. She felt her fury, pain,
power, and vengeance flame in her eyes and saw fury and protectiveness in Wufei's eyes.
They leapt at each other, pressing their swords together and feeling the other person's
unleashed strength. "Who are you, I know no one who looks like you, acts like you, or
has such a need for revenge," Wufei demanded.
"My identity will go unknown until you take your last breath, evil dragon," Relena
replied as she gave a quick burst of power off.
Wufei flew back two feet and landed promptly on his feet. He smiled at his
worthy opponent. "I will not be the one with the last breath. It will be your last breath I
find out who you are," Wufei countered.
"I know that will never come true. I have more reason to fight than you could
ever guess," Relena sneered.
"But your anger will blind you. The raw fury behind your eyes will make you
ignorant to the danger my sword and I possess," Wufei mocked.
"No matter how blind I become of fury, I will always see straight into the danger
you yield. I have vengeance and that makes me strong. I am stronger than you believe I
am. That will be your downfall," Relena informed him.
"The black dragon knows no death. You will become nothing before me.
Vengeance makes fury's strength blind and its possessor deaf," Wufei told her.
Relena flew at him with untapped power. Their swords clicked together and
Wufei flew against the wall. "I know not the true depths of my strength, but you are an
excellent test subject," Relena sneered.
Wufei stood up and raised his sword once more. "You will die, woman," Wufei
warned her.
"Because I am a woman, I will prevail over you. Good always conquers evil,"
Relena threw back.
"You are the evil," Wufei whispered in a mocking tone.
"But I'm not the one that shot anybody, now am I?" Relena replied in an innocent
tone.
"You shot somebody, Wufei?" came the princess's voice.
Wufei didn't look at her. Instead he came at Relena and raised his sword to
deliver the last blow. Relena moved out of the way in the blink of an eye and Wufei sank
his sword deep into the princess's dresser.
Relena made her move. She flicked her blade across his finger. Wufei pulled his
fingers from his sword. Blood colored the knuckles of his hands. "Your blood will be
the equivalent of the blood shed by the one you shot," Relena replied.
"God, I would think you are a damned fury yourself. What powers such anger?"
Wufei asked, now weaponless.
Relena smiled. In less than a second she had Wufei lying flat on his back and the
tip of her sword on his throat. "Love," Relena replied.
She let him witness the full strength of her anger and vengeance. "I will kill in the
name of my loved one. Tell me the antidote to your poison bullet," Relena demanded.
"Who did you shoot, Wufei?" came the princess's voice.
"Stay out of this, WOMAN!" Wufei yelled in anger to her.
Relena kept her gaze on Wufei but directed her question at the princess. "Who
are you? I know but one he calls woman," Relena inquired.
"I am princess Salla," she replied.
"I know not one Salla," Relena informed her.
"Because I was known as Dr. Sally Po before my abduction," Salla replied.
(A.N. I will call Sally Salla while she is in the castle.)
"Why did they bring you here, Sally? Was it Wufei's idea?" Relena invited the
answer yes.
"No, they brought me here because I am their crowned princess from long ago. I
ran away and they found me," Salla told her.
Relena didn't let up her blade. She tossed the question around in her head. "Tell
me the antidote," Relena demanded of Wufei once more, ignoring Salla.
"There is no antidote," Wufei replied in a monotone voice.
"For the death of my love, you will die also," Relena said as she pushed the tip
into his neck, drawing forth a drop of blood.
"Please! Stop it! What is your name and why do you want to take his life so
much?" Salla cried.
"My name is Elena Warlordess. I want to take his life for killing mine. Revenge
will be sweet," Relena responded.
"If you kill him, how do you know I won't come back to kill you?" Salla
demanded.
"I don't, but I would have no other reason to live since he has already taken my
life," Relena replied.
"Why do you want my life Elena Warlordess?" Wufei asked.
"I have stated my reasons already. Do you not know them by now?" Relena
yelled, becoming impatient with all the questions.
"Your name isn't Elena Warlordess. What is your true name?" Salla asked.
"My true name is one you will not believe," Relena retorted.
"Your name in anyway will be believable. There isn't a reason why you will not
be believed," Salla pressed.
"My name is Relena Peacecraft, Foreign Minister," Relena announced.
They both looked amazed. Salla shook her head as if it couldn't be true. Wufei
studied her face. "I am who I say I am," Relena told them.
"It is her," Wufei nodded.
"Just as I said," Relena smiled.
"That isn't possible. Relena isn't a murderer, what you are doing is the work of a
murderer," Salla shook her head.
"Revenge changes people in ways you will never know. I have come in the name
of Heero Yuy," Relena informed them.
"There is no antidote to the poison I gave him. He will be dead in a week," Wufei
told Relena.
"Wufei! How could you do that to one of your friends?" Salla asked.
"He could have stopped them from taking you away," Wufei stubbornly replied.
"That is not true. He would have been killed if he did so. I was meant to come
back here and denounce my throne," Salla insisted.
Wufei looked at her and back at Relena. Her eyes still spelled out the same deep
passion of hate, revenge, power, fury, and pain. "I will kill him now unless a good
enough reason is brought forth," Relena announced.
"I will not let you! You will ruin my life if you do so!" Salla cried as she moved
to Relena.
Relena took her left hand and pulled a pistol from her pocket. "Stay back if you
want to keep your life," Relena warned.
Salla had tears running down her cheeks. She obeyed Relena and didn't come a
step closer. "I can make an antidote," Wufei told her, "I made the poison and I can make
the reversal."
"I will give you a chance because Sally is my friend. If you lie, I will kill her first
and then take away your life," Relena nodded.
Salla looked at Relena with frightened eyes, knowing that Relena would very well
do so. Wufei glared at Relena. "Revenge changed a peace loving leader into a blood
thirsty opponent," Wufei laughed.
"Keep moving. Don't slow down. If this isn't taken care of now, She's gone,"
Relena ordered.
Wufei picked up his pace. He wasn't going to let Relena take his woman from
him. "You will rot in hell for what you have done," Wufei told her.
"I may rot in hell, but you will suffer forever," Relena countered.
"Touché," Wufei smirked as he entered a laboratory.
Wufei worked quickly. He recreated the poison he had shot Heero with. "I will
add other poisons until this changes to clear. When it is clear, an antidote will be made,"
Wufei told her.
It took him hours to change the color to clear. Salla had fallen asleep on Relena's
arm, but Relena was just as alert as ever. Wufei handed the potion over to Relena. "Your
coming with," Relena informed him, "Get a horse and meet me in the clump of trees. If
you don't, I'll shoot."
Relena's motion of pulling a trigger got Wufei to work. Relena carried Salla out
to where Bull was. Bull whinnied a greeting as Relena approached. Relena set Salla on
the ground.
"You will now go by the name of Sally," Relena told her old friend.
Wufei came out with a horse a short while later. Wufei put Sally in front of him
and got on. "You make any movement of escape of try to pull a gun, I swear to you I will
shoot her so fast you won't even know it happened," Relena warned.
They began the journey back to Cambilivii. The palace and the land around it had
moved during the night, and the trip back wouldn't take more than a day or two to
accomplish. They set up camp just as the sun reached the middle of the sky.
Relena didn't sleep, but Wufei did. Sally woke up a short while later. "Relena?"
Sally asked.
"Yes..." Relena started.
"Why and how did all this happen? I would really like to know," Sally informed
Relena.
"It started about six months ago. I was having a peace meeting and suddenly the
room filled with yellow smoke. I fell to the ground in a drugged sleep. I remember
waking up in the dank dungeons in your palace," Relena began, "I don't know how long I
was in there, but it seemed like forever.
"Then one day, I woke up and found myself on the cat-walk in the warehouse.
And in front of me stood Heero. I ran into his arms. Then Wufei said something and we
turned around. He had a mask on, and he removed it then shot Heero. I got Heero to
Cambilivii General as soon as I could. He was well poisoned.
"It was about two or three days back when I made my plan of revenge. I changed
when I saw Heero in his hospital bed, so close to death and in so much pain. They had
him hooked to a constant supply of morphine. I came here after I got my weapons and
changed into Elena Warlordess."
"So you don't know why Wufei did this?" Sally asked.
"No, I am sorry but I don't," Relena told her.
Sally nodded. Relena gave her a granola bar and Sally accepted it. Wufei awoke
a short time later. "We head out, now," Relena instructed.
Relena wasn't as revengeful, but she was still in charge and ready to fire her
weapons. They got on the horses and began to Cambilivii. The morning sun was just
breaking the horizon as they entered the small state. Relena urged her horse into a gallop
and told Wufei to follow her example. He grudgingly did as he was told.
They got to the hospital and Relena dragged both of them up to floor seven, room
sixteen. She pushed them both inside. "How do I give this to him?" Relena asked.
Wufei stepped forward and took several drops from the bottle with a eye dropper.
He put the tip at the corner of Heero's mouth and squeezed the drops out. He did the
same thing three times. Relena kept a close eye on Wufei. She noticed the scar she had
given him and smiled.
Revenge was sweet, even if she didn't totally complete it. Wufei stepped back
and put the potion and the dropper on the bedside table. "He should be awaking any time.
He will be a little sore, but hopefully he should be better in a day or two," Wufei
informed them.
Relena moved her gaze to Heero's face. He seemed more relaxed and calmer. It
pleased her to think he might soon be waking up. They would finish their reunion as
soon as he was out of the hospital. Her eyes never left his face.
What did you think? Please review. There is probably only one or two more
chapters of this story and then the epilogue.
Thanks for reading,
Moonlit ~~*~
