The wishing tree's story.
Heero and Sally finally arrived to their hotel, and they saw a bunch of people standing outside, "Our guests have arrived!" One man said, and as Sally got out of the car the man said, "Hello Heero! Nice to meet you!" The man said, thinking why a female has got a male name, "Oh, heh, I'm not Heero." Sally said, and then Heero popped out of the car, "That's Heero." Sally said pointing at Heero. "Nice to meet you Heero! My name is Zechs, and this is my family! Please, do come in!" The man called Zechs said.
They entered the hotel and looked around, "We're famous for our ski resort and hot springs!" Zechs said walking them to the dinning room, "It's awfully small here to be a hotel." Sally said, "Oh yeah, we're famous for being small as well!" Zechs said arriving at their table, Heero and Sally knelt down, and Zechs was about to leave when Heero spoke up, "Is Trio here?" He asked Zechs, "I'm not sure if he's coming, last Valentine's day, he never showed up, and usually, he and Catherine always show up here every Valentines." Zechs said looking into outer space. "Oh, right." Heero said looking back at the small box in his hand, Zechs nodded and left.
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10 minutes later. "Trio has arrived!" One of Zechs family members said, Heero and Sally quickly got up and ran out to the front door to see the back of two figures covered in snow, then the figures both turned around and looked at Heero, it was Duo and Wufei, and Wufei toppled over onto the ground, "Hey, don't fall asleep!" Duo said patting Wufei.
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They all sat around a table and started to explain a few things, "I'm Trio's little brother Duo, and well, last year Trio had a plane accident and died, and he told me to bring the ashes of his bones to Catherine." Duo said placing a small container in front of Heero, "This is Catherine's ashes." Heero said placing his small container in front of Duo, "Wait a minute! Duo, your brother wanted you to give his ashes to Catherine, and Heero, your sister wanted you to give her ashes to Duo, well both of them are dead, now what?" Wufei asked, "How about you take your ashes, and we take our ashes and go home?" Sally said pulling back their container, "I don't know." Heero said looking at the box, "How about you go settle in your rooms first and then we have some supper and decide tomorrow?" Zechs asked, "I have a room reserved for you all."
They started to walk towards the room and Zechs spoke up, "Did you know that this is more or less a hotel of love, people who come here eventually fall in love." Zechs said, "So this is more of a motel?" Sally said, "You could say that." Zechs said showing them all into a room.
"WHAT? We have to share a room with these two?" Sally said pointing at just Duo, then Wufei came behind them and went around the boards the people set as a guide for one half to be Duo and Wufei room, and the other half to be Heero and Sally's room, "There is no way I am going to share a room with them two, come on Heero, lets go find another hotel!" Sally said ready to drag Heero off, "You can't! There are no other hotels around." Zechs said, "I'm sorry but we only reserve one room for you lot because it is usually only used by Trio and Catherine." "Fine." Sally said plopping down.
Duo, Wufei and Zechs were around a boiling pot of water, putting in salmon and bits of meat and vegetables in, just then Sally and Heero came in and Zechs got up, but they walked over to another table, "Woah, who do they think they are, it feels like some racial immigrant sort of thing." Zechs said sitting back down, Duo looked over, and past Sally's shoulder so that he can see Heero, "You know we can always bury their ashes together." Duo said, Heero looked at him, "Or we can do something else; we still have a lot of time." Duo said sitting back, "Don't worry Heero; don't let him decide what we should do!" Sally said whispering.
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Next morning, Sally and Heero went into the dinning room for breakfast, "I'm so glad we haven't seen those two idiots this morning." Sally said, and just then Duo popped out of nowhere with two cups of tea in his hand, "Ohayo gozaimasu! What would you like?" Duo said placing the cups down, "Go away! We don't want to be served by you!" Sally said, and Duo walked off, then Wufei popped out of nowhere, "Ohayo! What would you like?" Wufei said, "Go away! We don't want to get served by you either!" Sally said, and Wufei glared at Sally and took the two cups of tea away with him.
On the ski lodge, Sally and Heero were both standing on the sides fixing on their skis, "Are you sure you're alright with this?" Sally asked Heero, "Well, I have been to Switzerland with father for a ski trip, so I think I'll be ok, how about you?" Heero asked, "Well, I did do some research and wrote a book about it, so I think I'll manage..." Sally said a little worried, "Ok, let's go then!" Heero said going off, "Hey don't leave me!" Sally yelled after him.
Heero was skiing like a pro, but behind him, Sally was having troubles and she toppled over, just then Wufei came by on his snowboard and started to snicker when he fell himself, "Don't snicker; you're just as clumsy as me!" Sally said trying to get up, Wufei doing the same. Meanwhile, Heero was skiing down the slope when someone came zooming past him on a snowboard, just then that person stopped to take off his goggles, it was Duo. Duo looked at Heero then smiled and put his goggles back on and started to zoom down the hill, Heero smiled and started to catch up to him, "Hey wanna have some fun?" Duo asked him and he zoomed up a hill and jumped the slope and landed, Heero did it himself and jumped, they did a couple more until they finally reached the bottom of the hill, "That wasn't so bad!" Duo said, "Hey, can I take you to another cool place?" Heero nodded and followed Duo, un-noticing that he dropped his pills. And then a few minutes later, Sally and Wufei came tumbling down the slope till they were at the bottom, "Ah, my back!" Wufei yelled, "Shut up! It was all your fault!" Sally said.
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The two finally reached their destination, the wishing tree, and Zechs was standing there telling a story about it to all the tourists,
"Long time ago, there was a princess and a prince who were madly in love with each other, and then one day the prince had to go and told the princess to meet him here at this tree, and the princess came that time and waited for her prince to return, but however, she never knew that her prince has died with some serious disease, and she waited at the tree, till she died too, now, this tree is a lucky tree, you make a wish and throw one of these lucky pendants up after making a wish and if it gets caught hanging on the tree, your wish could come true." Zechs said, and the tourists started to pay money to him for a lucky pendant,
"Your sister donated the $2,000,000,000 to this place because it was going to be out of business and so she bought this big area of land just so they could keep going." Duo explained, "Zechs has something for you." Zechs walked over to Heero and gave him a cheque, "Here's $200,000! I know it ain't all of it, but I've been working hard to earn the money and to pay you back, without your sister's generosity, we would be out of business a long time ago." He said, Heero took the cheque and smiled, "Thank you." He said.
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"Heero, where are your pills?" Sally said rummaging through every luggage they had, "You have to take your pills now!" Sally said, looking down the pockets of all their clothes, she then looked at her watch, "Aww man and the chemists close in 1 hour's time!" Sally said, just then Duo came in, "You want me to drive you to the town centre?" he asked, "Hello, it takes at least 3 hours to get down this mountain!" Sally said, but they ended up going into the car. "Hold on tight!" Duo said, and he sped off in 200mph. "Slow down! Do you know how to drive?" Sally yelled falling from one side to the other.
In less than an hour, they reached the town centre, "Right, Heero and I will go this way, and you and Wufei will go that way!" Duo said, "No! I wanna go with Heero, why do you get to?" Sally said pouting, "Cause only you and Heero know what the pills look like!" He said and they started to split up.
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10 minutes later, Sally ran into the arcades, and went over to Wufei, who was playing street fighter alpha, "Come on, this shop doesn't have these pills!" Sally said, "No need to search, I've checked every shop, and none of them have them pills." Wufei said, "We still have to keep looking!" Sally said, "You can waste your time, I'm not going to bother!" Wufei said, Sally glared at him and stormed out, "That stupid bastard!" Sally mumbled and kicked the wheel of someone else's car, and then the man came out, "Hey bitch, you just scratched my boss's car!" The man said, "Gomen nasai!" Sally said bowing. Inside the arcades, Wufei saw Sally getting threatened by the man and came out quickly, "What's going on?" Wufei said, "This bitch scratched my boss's car!" he said, "I'm sorry, she's my girlfriend, come on let's go." Wufei said, just then the man pulled him back and punched him in the stomach.
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"They said they only sell these pills in the hospital!" Duo said getting in the car, Heero was taking in very deep breaths, and Duo drove off.
In the hospital, the doctor came out with Heero and said, "You're lucky you got her in a nick of time. Any sooner, she would have had serious problems." "Arigato!" Duo said, he looked at Heero and said, "Here, I got you a new pill case." Heero looked at it and smiled, "Arigato." He said putting his pills into it. "Hey, you wanna go to another cool place?" Duo asked, Heero just nodded.
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Meanwhile, Sally was boiling some eggs to heal off Wufei's bruise on his chest, "Thanks for saving me." She said giving him the boiled egg wrapped in a towel, "It will be dishonourable if I let an onna like you get beaten by a guy." Wufei said rubbing his chest with the egg, "You were really brave back there." Sally said, "Well they don't call me the speed dragon for nothing." Wufei said, "Speed Dragon?" Sally said, and she turned around and tried to muffle her laugh.
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At the Race tracks, Duo stood on the sides with Heero, "What I really want to become is a professional racer, they said I could have a chance soon." Duo said shoving his hands into his pockets, "Can I ride in your car when you do?" Heero asked looking at Duo, "Sorry, but I'll only ride with my lover." Duo said smiling at Heero, "Oh." Heero said turning away, "I was just kidding." He said, and the headed back to the car ready to head back to the hotel.
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Heero and Sally finally arrived to their hotel, and they saw a bunch of people standing outside, "Our guests have arrived!" One man said, and as Sally got out of the car the man said, "Hello Heero! Nice to meet you!" The man said, thinking why a female has got a male name, "Oh, heh, I'm not Heero." Sally said, and then Heero popped out of the car, "That's Heero." Sally said pointing at Heero. "Nice to meet you Heero! My name is Zechs, and this is my family! Please, do come in!" The man called Zechs said.
They entered the hotel and looked around, "We're famous for our ski resort and hot springs!" Zechs said walking them to the dinning room, "It's awfully small here to be a hotel." Sally said, "Oh yeah, we're famous for being small as well!" Zechs said arriving at their table, Heero and Sally knelt down, and Zechs was about to leave when Heero spoke up, "Is Trio here?" He asked Zechs, "I'm not sure if he's coming, last Valentine's day, he never showed up, and usually, he and Catherine always show up here every Valentines." Zechs said looking into outer space. "Oh, right." Heero said looking back at the small box in his hand, Zechs nodded and left.
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10 minutes later. "Trio has arrived!" One of Zechs family members said, Heero and Sally quickly got up and ran out to the front door to see the back of two figures covered in snow, then the figures both turned around and looked at Heero, it was Duo and Wufei, and Wufei toppled over onto the ground, "Hey, don't fall asleep!" Duo said patting Wufei.
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They all sat around a table and started to explain a few things, "I'm Trio's little brother Duo, and well, last year Trio had a plane accident and died, and he told me to bring the ashes of his bones to Catherine." Duo said placing a small container in front of Heero, "This is Catherine's ashes." Heero said placing his small container in front of Duo, "Wait a minute! Duo, your brother wanted you to give his ashes to Catherine, and Heero, your sister wanted you to give her ashes to Duo, well both of them are dead, now what?" Wufei asked, "How about you take your ashes, and we take our ashes and go home?" Sally said pulling back their container, "I don't know." Heero said looking at the box, "How about you go settle in your rooms first and then we have some supper and decide tomorrow?" Zechs asked, "I have a room reserved for you all."
They started to walk towards the room and Zechs spoke up, "Did you know that this is more or less a hotel of love, people who come here eventually fall in love." Zechs said, "So this is more of a motel?" Sally said, "You could say that." Zechs said showing them all into a room.
"WHAT? We have to share a room with these two?" Sally said pointing at just Duo, then Wufei came behind them and went around the boards the people set as a guide for one half to be Duo and Wufei room, and the other half to be Heero and Sally's room, "There is no way I am going to share a room with them two, come on Heero, lets go find another hotel!" Sally said ready to drag Heero off, "You can't! There are no other hotels around." Zechs said, "I'm sorry but we only reserve one room for you lot because it is usually only used by Trio and Catherine." "Fine." Sally said plopping down.
Duo, Wufei and Zechs were around a boiling pot of water, putting in salmon and bits of meat and vegetables in, just then Sally and Heero came in and Zechs got up, but they walked over to another table, "Woah, who do they think they are, it feels like some racial immigrant sort of thing." Zechs said sitting back down, Duo looked over, and past Sally's shoulder so that he can see Heero, "You know we can always bury their ashes together." Duo said, Heero looked at him, "Or we can do something else; we still have a lot of time." Duo said sitting back, "Don't worry Heero; don't let him decide what we should do!" Sally said whispering.
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Next morning, Sally and Heero went into the dinning room for breakfast, "I'm so glad we haven't seen those two idiots this morning." Sally said, and just then Duo popped out of nowhere with two cups of tea in his hand, "Ohayo gozaimasu! What would you like?" Duo said placing the cups down, "Go away! We don't want to be served by you!" Sally said, and Duo walked off, then Wufei popped out of nowhere, "Ohayo! What would you like?" Wufei said, "Go away! We don't want to get served by you either!" Sally said, and Wufei glared at Sally and took the two cups of tea away with him.
On the ski lodge, Sally and Heero were both standing on the sides fixing on their skis, "Are you sure you're alright with this?" Sally asked Heero, "Well, I have been to Switzerland with father for a ski trip, so I think I'll be ok, how about you?" Heero asked, "Well, I did do some research and wrote a book about it, so I think I'll manage..." Sally said a little worried, "Ok, let's go then!" Heero said going off, "Hey don't leave me!" Sally yelled after him.
Heero was skiing like a pro, but behind him, Sally was having troubles and she toppled over, just then Wufei came by on his snowboard and started to snicker when he fell himself, "Don't snicker; you're just as clumsy as me!" Sally said trying to get up, Wufei doing the same. Meanwhile, Heero was skiing down the slope when someone came zooming past him on a snowboard, just then that person stopped to take off his goggles, it was Duo. Duo looked at Heero then smiled and put his goggles back on and started to zoom down the hill, Heero smiled and started to catch up to him, "Hey wanna have some fun?" Duo asked him and he zoomed up a hill and jumped the slope and landed, Heero did it himself and jumped, they did a couple more until they finally reached the bottom of the hill, "That wasn't so bad!" Duo said, "Hey, can I take you to another cool place?" Heero nodded and followed Duo, un-noticing that he dropped his pills. And then a few minutes later, Sally and Wufei came tumbling down the slope till they were at the bottom, "Ah, my back!" Wufei yelled, "Shut up! It was all your fault!" Sally said.
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The two finally reached their destination, the wishing tree, and Zechs was standing there telling a story about it to all the tourists,
"Long time ago, there was a princess and a prince who were madly in love with each other, and then one day the prince had to go and told the princess to meet him here at this tree, and the princess came that time and waited for her prince to return, but however, she never knew that her prince has died with some serious disease, and she waited at the tree, till she died too, now, this tree is a lucky tree, you make a wish and throw one of these lucky pendants up after making a wish and if it gets caught hanging on the tree, your wish could come true." Zechs said, and the tourists started to pay money to him for a lucky pendant,
"Your sister donated the $2,000,000,000 to this place because it was going to be out of business and so she bought this big area of land just so they could keep going." Duo explained, "Zechs has something for you." Zechs walked over to Heero and gave him a cheque, "Here's $200,000! I know it ain't all of it, but I've been working hard to earn the money and to pay you back, without your sister's generosity, we would be out of business a long time ago." He said, Heero took the cheque and smiled, "Thank you." He said.
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"Heero, where are your pills?" Sally said rummaging through every luggage they had, "You have to take your pills now!" Sally said, looking down the pockets of all their clothes, she then looked at her watch, "Aww man and the chemists close in 1 hour's time!" Sally said, just then Duo came in, "You want me to drive you to the town centre?" he asked, "Hello, it takes at least 3 hours to get down this mountain!" Sally said, but they ended up going into the car. "Hold on tight!" Duo said, and he sped off in 200mph. "Slow down! Do you know how to drive?" Sally yelled falling from one side to the other.
In less than an hour, they reached the town centre, "Right, Heero and I will go this way, and you and Wufei will go that way!" Duo said, "No! I wanna go with Heero, why do you get to?" Sally said pouting, "Cause only you and Heero know what the pills look like!" He said and they started to split up.
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10 minutes later, Sally ran into the arcades, and went over to Wufei, who was playing street fighter alpha, "Come on, this shop doesn't have these pills!" Sally said, "No need to search, I've checked every shop, and none of them have them pills." Wufei said, "We still have to keep looking!" Sally said, "You can waste your time, I'm not going to bother!" Wufei said, Sally glared at him and stormed out, "That stupid bastard!" Sally mumbled and kicked the wheel of someone else's car, and then the man came out, "Hey bitch, you just scratched my boss's car!" The man said, "Gomen nasai!" Sally said bowing. Inside the arcades, Wufei saw Sally getting threatened by the man and came out quickly, "What's going on?" Wufei said, "This bitch scratched my boss's car!" he said, "I'm sorry, she's my girlfriend, come on let's go." Wufei said, just then the man pulled him back and punched him in the stomach.
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"They said they only sell these pills in the hospital!" Duo said getting in the car, Heero was taking in very deep breaths, and Duo drove off.
In the hospital, the doctor came out with Heero and said, "You're lucky you got her in a nick of time. Any sooner, she would have had serious problems." "Arigato!" Duo said, he looked at Heero and said, "Here, I got you a new pill case." Heero looked at it and smiled, "Arigato." He said putting his pills into it. "Hey, you wanna go to another cool place?" Duo asked, Heero just nodded.
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Meanwhile, Sally was boiling some eggs to heal off Wufei's bruise on his chest, "Thanks for saving me." She said giving him the boiled egg wrapped in a towel, "It will be dishonourable if I let an onna like you get beaten by a guy." Wufei said rubbing his chest with the egg, "You were really brave back there." Sally said, "Well they don't call me the speed dragon for nothing." Wufei said, "Speed Dragon?" Sally said, and she turned around and tried to muffle her laugh.
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At the Race tracks, Duo stood on the sides with Heero, "What I really want to become is a professional racer, they said I could have a chance soon." Duo said shoving his hands into his pockets, "Can I ride in your car when you do?" Heero asked looking at Duo, "Sorry, but I'll only ride with my lover." Duo said smiling at Heero, "Oh." Heero said turning away, "I was just kidding." He said, and the headed back to the car ready to head back to the hotel.
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