Fanfic Title + H.O.P.E. Rewritten
Written by Termony
Disclaimer: I do NOT own any part of Gundam SEED or Gundam SEED Destiny.
Chapter 09 + Paintballing
"So today is the day!" Andrew Waltfeld yelled in front of us. "This is the day when your fun is at! You see, paintball fights begin when you step onto the field and realize what really life and deaths are like… Okay I'm kidding, but please have fun."
"Waltfeld, you go out and own them," Maple said. "I don't know how to play these things."
"Maple! It's normal! No one wants to play in eight o'clock in the morning. It starts about half an hour later, nine a.m. sharp."
"Why are we in uniforms and paintball stuffs now?" Maple asked.
"Because it takes time to get them on!"
"Are you… trying to make us hate it for some reason?" Maple frowned.
Waltfeld smiled. "No… but… you're only young once. It's better to get some life than regretting it later because you weren't crazy enough when you were young."
"…" Maple was really too tired.
Athrun smiled. "I'll try to last longer."
I said. "I… think we better hide."
Waltfeld smiled. "I… thought Athrun is better at paintballing?"
He sighed. "I don't want to play. Last time my friend dragged me to play paintball we played games after games and I was paintballing for eight hours. It got onto my nerves. You see, I don't want to anymore."
"How did they manage?" I asked.
"They got happy."
"Happy?"
"Happy…"
Maple whispered. "It was the day after the last day of school back in elementary school."
"That's quite far away…" I frowned. "I guess we'll just have to play a little and make it like a picnic. I've seen the field. It's big enough."
"Do you want to win?" Waltfeld asked me.
"Not really, but being the first one out is bad. They'll eventually find us anyway, and we'll just get painted," I replied.
Maple sighed. "I don't even want to go in…"
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"You're serious?"
I said. "Yeah, Maple… Get a piece of gum."
She sighed and began chewing. "You know Luna, I really don't like these things."
Later, she smiled. "I like the idea of hiding though."
Athrun frowned. "Loisel, you're creeping me out. Is it that bad?"
"I don't know… I'm having headaches… so I'm grumpy, but you see, I don't like these things… I mean, the size of this field is creeping me out."
We heard something, we stopped talking.
Someone found us.
We ran away.
I screamed and fell onto the ground. I got painted. My left knee hit a sharp rock.
"Are you okay?" Maple asked.
"I think you're okay right?" Athrun asked.
They helped me roll over. There was blood coming out of my knee.
"Oh my goodness…" Maple said. She looked at it and used a handkerchief to wrap it around my knee.
It was hurting me, but slowly it was not.
I looked at them. They got painted as well, and there was no sign of the other team.
I was frowning, but I tried to seem less in pain. "Don't worry, but it's really painful."
Maple smiled. "It should be okay. I highly doubt it would leave a scar… but oh wells."
After a while, Athrun carried me on his back when the staff came. They could only know whether a team was painted, but not if they were injured. That person said people rarely got injured.
That did not help me feel better, so I replied slightly. "Oh I see."
The staff was walking fast in front of us along with Maple rushing to keep up with him. Athrun was walking slower than Maple, but he was very close to her.
"You're… taking care of me," I said to him.
"Well… I want to… Besides, I need to anyway right?"
I lightly smiled. "Yeah… Thanks."
My head was on his back side of the body. I was feeling the warmth.
"Thanks," I said again.
He smiled. "We should spend more time from now on."
I smiled. "Yeah…"
Later, a doctor saw my knee and said I only needed to take a break for a while and it should be fine. It hurt so much because it was my knee and naturally it did. Also, the blood lost was not too great, but it was still good to have not as much blood lost. I felt weird because it hurt so much and now it was okay.
The doctor said. "It was your leg. You can't walk with it, and it was your knee, so it would be very painful. Don't worry."
Waltfeld was really happy to hear this.
"Well… Luna, don't worry. It's going to be fine," he said.
I smiled and said. "Thanks you guys."
The doctor said. "You can walk normally tomorrow, but you have to wait until five or six hours later before you should use your leg again."
I looked at him. "Really?"
"Yeah, it takes time to heal. Most importantly though, so the wound wouldn't be opened again."
"I see…" Maple said. "It should be fine then."
"Yeah…" I said.
Athrun said. "Going back from camp is two days later. Don't worry."
I smiled. "Yeah."
Athrun and Maple stayed with me later on. I got hurt around ten-thirty a.m. and I got back to my cabin at around 7 p.m. because I had to wait for lunch and dinner.
"You really should come back to the cabin," Maple said after I was lying on her bottom bed. "I think it's unsafe there because no one was around."
"Yeah that was what they said too."
"Does it hurt still?"
"It does, but I really can walk now. It just still hurts."
Maple sighed.
But she smiled very quickly. "I think it'll be fine. Don't worry."
"And…" she said continuously. "We'll hopefully be still in contact after camp. I might drop by Hope city and hopefully you'll come to Moon city sometimes."
End of Chapter Nine
A/N: When I fell down and hurt my knee, this is what I did. I don't know if it's the best…
