I don't own Gundam Wing k? Don't Walk Away They had been walking for hours. Every step seemed to take them into a new section of the golden city. "Tai where are we going anyway? We're tired, we want to rest." Sora said to him. Tai sighed and nodded, allowing them to rest and wander. "MIMI!!" Their heads whipped to the direction of Palmon. "She's gone!" She sobbed frantically. "What do you mean gone!! You were right with her weren't you?!!" Tai screamed. The flower nodded ashamed of herself. His face seemed to have taken on a wild look. His body trembled and his pupils dialated. "You hear her!!! Spread out and find her now!!!" He screamed to the rest of the digi-destined. They were about to comment on him action like drill sargent but Matt had already taken off, so they followed like-wise. Soon Taichi was alone. He looked around desperately trying to calm himself. Memories of a few hours ago when she had almost fallen into the canyon flooded his mind. His eyebrows went down and his eyes narrowed. This was a trap. It was all a trap. But for what? What did they want? Did they want the crests like the dark masters had? Did they want to destroy them? What was this place? Questions flooded his mind as he collapsed and darkness over took him. Yet through the question and deliria only one thing stayed on his mine. God have mercy if they had hurt Mimi. "......Mama?........" Mimi's mother stood on the other end of the alley simply smiling at her. Mimi took a shakey step towar the woman, almost choking on her cry. "Mimi........Its time to come home baby." The voice was eurethral. Tears of happiness rolled down the cinemen haired girl's cheeks as she raced forward to her mother. "Mommy!" Yet the woman suddenly began to run from her. Dread took over Mimi's features as she continued to run after Mrs.Tachikawa. "Mama come back! Why are you running away?! Its Me! Mimi!!" She yelled, but the older woman didn't reply. She was begining to get histerical as she chased her mother. "Mama!!" She screamed as she fell to the ground. Dirt marred her features and blood fell from newly scraped knee. She coffed and cringed as she got up and continued to run after Mrs.Tachikawa. Mimi made a turn out of the alley and gasped. It couldn't be real. Yes it was all just a fantasy. Just her mind playing tricks on her. The ground was coated in green grass and children played jump rope on the side walk. Parent chatted with one another and teens gossiped about the daily events. She was home. She was back in the real world! "Mimi!" Her head whipped in the direction of her name. Her father was standing there on a blanket with her mother. "Sweet heart are we going to have a picnic or are you just going to stand there gawking at us?" He chuckled. "Daddy?" He looked at her curiously as if wondering what was going on with her. A strangled sob wrenched her throat as she launched herself towards him. Her father fell onto the grass, his sunglasses falling off. "Angel I can't hug you back if you crush my ribs now can I?" Mimi just laughed and hugged him tighter. "Sweetheart you act as if your never going to see us again? Whats wrong?" Her mother said caressing her shoulder. "I just missed you so much." She sobbed. Ken and Merie Tachikawa looked at their daughter confused. Ken just shrugged and wrapped his arms around Mimi. She abruptly broke the hold and stood up as if to run. "But what about the others?" She exclaimed as she turned her head to the alley. It was gone. Nothing but a solid oak tree stood in it place. "What! Whats going on? Where's the city!" She raced for the tree almost expecting to go straight through it. Instead she just slamed into it making her cowboy hat fall off. "Aaahhh!!" Her parents raced toward their daughter as her hands came up to cradle her bleeding nose. "Mimi what do you think your doing!" Her father yelled. She just looked aroung frantically searching for the golden alley. "Wh-where's the alley! Mama you were there! You know what I'm talking about!" Merrie just looked at her confused. "Mimi darling you must have had a dream sweetheart. Now come on, you have to eat something."Bu-but what about Tai and the others!" She almost yelled. "Kamiya's son?"Her father asked. "He's right over there." She turned her head to where Ken was pointing. Sure enough Tai was over on the field playing soccer with Koushiro. "This is impossible...."She whispered. "You must've had a dream dearheart now come." Her mother said pulling her over to the blanket laying on the grass. Was it just a dream? Maybe it was all just a dream. Yes, it must've been. She laughed a little. "Can I go talk to Tai for a little while?" She asked. "Of coarse! But be back in a few minutes, I'm just setting things up." Mimi nodded and raced over to Taichi. "Hey Tai!" He abruptly stopped the game and looked towards Mimi and waved enthusiasicly to her. She giggled and embraced him in a hug. It was all a dream. There were no cards. No digimon. No being stuck in the digiworld. Everything was perfect. "Hey Mim's! Looking beautiful as always!" He flirted. She blushed a little and smiled to him. "Wow this is like a fairytale or something." Mimi commented. "Yeah I know! Koushiro hasn't scored a single goal!" She rolled her eyes at him as Koushiro slapped him upside the head and walked away. "No I'm talking about the park! I mean it looks different."She said. Tai cocked his head in confusion. "How do you figure?" "The park was never this nice. I always hoped they'd build a jungle gym here! And look at the fountain. I always did think one would look nice over there. The only thing this needs is a pink swing set!" She joked. The confusion remained on his face. "Uhh Mimi? I think you've been out in the sun too long. The fountain and jungle gym has alway been here. And the pink swing set is right over there." He pointed. "Huh? What're you talking about? I just checked this entire place out and there is no......pink......swing......set." She said as she turned in Tai's pointing direction. There it was. Complete with little children playing on it. For the first time since she got here she actually looked around and took in what she saw.It was like in all her childhood dreams. Her parents. Little children laughing and playing. A field of flowers. It was perfect. She collapsed to her knees and sobbed. But that was just it. It was absolutely perfect. Nothing can be perfect. It just wasn't realistic. And this wasn't real. She closed her eyes as tears steamed down her face. It was her dream. "Mom? Mom?!" Her eyes snapped open and she saw a small boy tugging on her shirt to get her attention. "Mom! You said you'd take me to my soccer game today!" The little boy frowned at her. "Mom? Oh I sorry sweetie, you must have me mistaken for someone else. Are you lost?" Mimi asked worriedly. The boy then burst out laughing and fell to the ground holding his stomach. "Hahaha! Very funny Mama, stop playing. C'mon you promised to take me to the soccer game!" She was about to protest again that she wasn't his mother, but she looked him over. He had a mop of cinemen colored hair and chocolate eyes. "Mama!" She looked to her left and spotted a girl about the little boys age tugging on her shirt to get her attention. "Mommy! you promised to take me to chorus today! You're gonna take me aren't you mommy?" She stared at the little girl for a while. She had golden, shoulder length, spikey hair that was put up into a high ponytale and a set of hazel eyes that echoed her own. Mimi brushed a lock of spikey bangs out of the little girls hazel eyes. "Mom?" She looked to her left where the little boy was kneeling beside her and calling her. Beyond him she saw a white picket fence that fenced a yard with a beautiful blue house sitting on it. It was obviously up stairs down stairs, though very modest. It had white shudders and a tree swind in the back yard. A large collie layed on the porch next to the chair swing. It was beautiful. "Mommy?!" She looked down to her right where the little girl was calling her. Beyond her she saw a large white mansion, complete with pool and limoes. There was gold lining everywhere and Stone carved statues and fountains. It was all she had ever dreamed. Mimi was about to get up and go to it when she noticed something that made her cold. The house felt cold. It was the golden heavenly palace she had always dreamed of being carried off to but. It was empty. It gave her no feeling. I felt like just a house. Nothing like the warm, happy, complete feeling the modest little house gave her. Suddenly the little girl got up and ran infront of the mansion. There was a man standing there that picked her up and kissed her forhead. He then looked to her kneeling form. She couldn't see what the man looked like. All she saw was a dark profile looking at her. "Mama?" Her head snapped onto the voice calling out. The large haired little boy was standing infront of the white fence holding his hand out to her. Mimi got up but stopped when she heard someone call to her. "Mommy? Where ya goin'?" She looked and sure enough there was the little girl in the man's arms hold out her own arms to her. Mimi blinked and adjusted her hat as she looked back over to the little boy then back to the girl. The little boy looked so sad, as if she didn't go with him he would die. She looked back over to the little girl who had the same look on her face and she could feel the same feeling radiating from the man. Mimi knew that she could destroy one of the families. This wasn't real! This was a dream! Her dream! To be happy and have a family! To be a famous rich singer and marry a handsom knight in shining armour! Those were her dreams! But it wasnt real!! 'Who are you to say what is real and what is not' She stopped as she heard a different voice call to her. "Wh-what?" 'You have what you want. They beautiful landscapes, the happy family, the fame........and you don't want it? What do you want girl?' I-I....'You stupid stupid girl! You could have had anything you wanted! What does reality matter!' Everything! If it was just a dream all your loved ones are just little dolls! They can't be happy they can't love! Nothing would matter! 'Your loved ones? What do you care if its real or not? This is the only way you can ever see them. At least this way you'll be able to live in your world and be happy' Mimi couldn't say anything. The voice was right. She was stuck here in reality, but at least she could live in her world even if it was just a fantasy. Yes, your right. She needed her family. She needed everything she was ever taught to actually mean something. The voice was quiet. She brushed away her tears and stood up angrily. But the boy and girl were gone. She was back in the park. Her family was waving her over to them. She smiled weakly and nodded as she raced over, trying to block out the fact that it wasn't real. "Have a nice chat with Tai sweetie?" Merrie asked sweetly. "Yeah Mama he was just bragging how Koushiro couldn't score a goal." Her father laughed a little and looked over to the boys playing soccer. "Yes Kamiya's got quite a son eh Mimi?" She nodded. The family went on their happy chatter eating and Mimi kept trying to pretend that it was real. "Why don't you want me?" Mimil's head whirled in the direction of the voice. "Huh?" The little boy was standing their looking up at her sitting form. "Why don't you want me mommy? What did I do!" The boy sobbed. "It has nothing to do with you sweetie." Mimi said as she tried to comfort him.No one else seemed to see the little boy but her, no one seemed to notice her talking to him either. "B-but you don't want me to be born! You're leaving me! Please don't go Mommy! Whatever I did I won't do it anymore I promise!" He sobbed launching himself into her arms. Mimi stared down at him as she put her arms around him trying her best to bring him some comfort. She then heard another crying and she looked beyond the little boy in her arms. There was the tiney blond girl crying as she looked up to Mimi. "You'll stay here. You won't choose. You'll stay here and leave me." She cried. And then she was gone, leaving the sobbing boy in her arms. "Im sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Mama! Let me come with you! Don't leave me alone!" He sobbed gripping her shirt as if it was his only string of life.Suddenly everything disappeared, the park and everything in it became nothing but the blackness that surrounded her. "They'll get me mommy! They'll take me away like they did you! Don't let them take me away!" Mimi found herself crying too as she watched the tiney hysterical child cry into her chest. 'Do you really want to give them up, Gaurdian of Sincerity?' The voice that spoke to her was much softer and kinder than the voice that had spoken to her before. Wh-what are you talking about? 'This little boy that you hold I your arms, that tiney girl that cried for you, neither of them will be born if you stay here.' They're mine?! 'Yes. With different fathers but still yours. They are the outcome of the decision that you would have had to make. Those two children are two different paths of your choice. Like a fork in the road. These children are the paths.' Wh-who are the fathers? 'That is your decision. They are two different destiny's, and I am not allowed to reveal destinys.' It doesn't matter. I can't go back. I need people! I need family! 'These are your family. Are you so selfish as to deny your own children life for the sake of your own fantisies?' Why is it alway destiny! Its destiny that got us into this! We aren't people to you!! We're just your little tools, your soldiers!! You don't care what happens to us so long as we get the job done!! The voice was silent for a while and then it spoke again. 'It was that way, yes. But you have proved yourself to be so much more.You were together through never being able to see the one you love, to watch you lives end, you stayed. You disrupted destiny itself, but in doing so, you've proven youselfs powers far beyond ours. And this deed shall not go unrewarded.' By what? Giving us a cookie and a pat on the head?! Its over! They're is nothing left! I refuse to go back to nothing. 'What about the child sincerity?' He came to me, he'll stay with me. The voice once again was silent. 'You cannot have both sincerity. You cannot have both fantasy and reality. Life doesn't work that way. If it did everything would be perfect. But then again, there isno such thing as perfect.' Mimi glared at the blackness. She looked down as she felt her arms and the weight against her shirt become lighter. The boy began to disappear from her arms. "BRING HIM BACK!!DO YOU HEAR ME!1 DON'T YOU DARE HURT HIM!!!"She screeched into the darkness. 'He is nothing, he is reality, and you are not in reality' Mimi hesitated. "If-If I go back......will he come back?" 'In time, if you choose his path, yes.' "I want to go back." 'You have the right desicion Sincerity. Now go.' A few yards infront of her appeared a door flooding with white light. Mimi began to run towards it when suddenly the black world began to smash and rock. 'HURRY! I can only hold them off for so long!' Mimi ran faster and faster as red eyes began to appear and watch her. An evile voice called to her. The same voice that called to her in the field. "RUN! RUN AS YOU MIGHT GIRL! WE WILL FIND YOU!! IT JUST ENHACES THE THRILL OF THE CHASE!' It called to her as she ran through the door and back into the golden city. She fell out the door and heard someone scream her name. "MIMI!" Warm arms encircled her and held her to a muscular chest. "Oh god Mimi I thought we lost you! Where the hell have you been!" Mimi's head hurt and whoever was yelling at her didn't make it any better. Her vision sharpened and she saw Yamato looking down at her. "Yama-kun, please, my head hurts."She whimpered. He nodded and picked her up as he swung her into his arms babystyle. She began to grow tired and the darkness beckoned for her. "Don't you ever leave me Mimi. I love you." She heard him whisper into her ear. "I won't leave you Yama-chan." She whispered before giving into sleep. After he had woken up from unconciousness Tai had searched high and low for Mimi. His legs ached and his heart hurt from worry. 'Looking for you little lost love are we?' A voice called in his head. "Who are you! What do you want! Where's Mimi!!" He screamed. 'In the arms of another.' It chimed back. "I don't believe you." 'You don't believe the truth?' "I don't believe lies." 'How do you know it is a lie? The blond one is quite devoted to her is he not? He will and has done everything to get her, no?' "He hasn't gotten her yet." Tai gritted. 'Hasn't he?' Tai was silent at this. 'How much do you see when your back is turned and eyes are closed?' "I know enough." 'Enough to deny the truth?' "You don't know the truth." 'I know more than you do.' "I doubt that." 'The golden knight will get the Princess. He always does in the fairytales no? The cold knights with hearts of stone intrigues the princess and she slowly breaks down his walls, then they live happily ever after. The Joker never gets the princess. In the fairytales even before they have begun we know that the princess belongs to the knight. And deep in your heart you know that to be true.' "The joker has a chance with the princess if he fights hard enough." 'Does it really matter? In the end the only thing that matters is her feelings. You can't fight those.' "I'm not fight them I'm fighting for them." 'How can you fight for feelings? Aren't gifts and flattery not supposed to matter when it comes to matters of the heart? The joker and the knight can just stand on either side of the princess and she will respond to her feelings.' Tai couldn't think of anything to say. 'Accept this Joker, she is not yours. There is nothing to fight for anymore. Princess's don't marry Jokers.' ".........................." 'Nothing to say young Joker? Heartbreak of losing your love to another is strong.' "He can't have her." Came Taichi's calm determined voice. 'And why is that Joker?' "I'll kill him first." The voice was silent and dissapeared. "TAI!!" His head turned to the voice calling him. Sora was racing toward him. "Tai we haven't found her!" She said as she got to him. "But then again we split up. So far I know Jyou , Koushiro haven't found her yet. So I'm guessing maybe Matt or Takeru found her." Tai stared at her with hard angry eyes. "God help him if he layed a hand on her." He whispered. "huh?" Mimi. She was his world. His life. His dreams. Everything. He wouldn't lose her. He couldn't lose her. Not to his rival. Not to anybody. "Mimi. Ashiteru." |
