Chapter 4
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The door slightly creaked as it opened from behind the young soldier in a red military coat. The soldier gave a salute and proceeded towards his commanding officer.
"You wished to see me, SIR!?" the young officer asked.
"Yes. What have you found from our last pursuit of the enemy, regarding the troops?" General Sinen asked calmly.
The young soldier brought out a small briefcase and opened it , revealing
many camera photo's.
Picking out one photo in particular, the young soldier approached General
Sinen's desk and held it out to him. The general took the photo from his
hand and looked at it. His steely gray orbs narrowed in to the one figure
that stood out in the picture..
"Odin Jr...." The general said barely above a whisper, as he looked down to the familiar face with unruly brown locks and blue eyes. "Is this who destroyed our troops?!"
"Yes SIR! All other pictures have confirmed it as well." the young soldier said.
The General's eyes widened with suprise, and looked down once more at the picture.
'He took down 10 of my best men....by himself...' General Sinen thought. 'They have trained you well Odin my boy..but we'll see eventually if all your training will have been useless or not.'
"You are dismissed." the General said quietly to the soldier.
The soldier briefly saluted and left.
Sitting down in his chair, General Sinen looked down at the boy that had ruined his very existence. Everything about him, General Sinen hated...It had been his father's fault that he had been endlessly searching and destroying for all these years.....
*Flashback*
It was a coronation ceremony for the prince of the newly restored Kingdom: Lowe. Still recovering from impact of the tragic loss of the Peacecraft Kingdome, the Lowe Kingdom had decided to start anew. There were two prince's in the kingdom, but only one could be chosen to become the next ruler...
"I'm sorry Sinen. You have simply not shown the responsibility that is required to become King." a tall dark haired man declared.
"But FATHER! I-" the young man with steely gray eyes exclaimed.
"You want me to put you in the situation to become 'king' after you tried to pull off that irresponsible stunt?!" the tall man practically screamed, recalling a situation from earlier.
"Father please...It was not my intention to hurt them..I-"
"You what?! You almost killed those farm boys... and getting your brother involved?! What kind of trust is that? How can I put you on the throne of a Kingdom when your a danger to the Kingdome!?"the man, known as the King yelled at his eldest son.
"Please father. Let me have one more chance!" the boy pleaded.
The King rubbed his temples and slowly made his way to the door.
"Odin will take your place. You have had enough chances." The king said finally as he slowly walked out of the room.
The boy, Sinen was at first speechless, then enraged. His younger
brother was going to take the throne instead of him,
when his brother had been in the exact same situation as he... His
brother had helped him....
Sinen looked down to the floor and clenched his fists.
The throne was rightfully his.... It was his moment of glory....
'Odin will pay for everything he has done..... everything he loves..everything he cherishes will be mine...' Sinen swore, as he raised his head up high and walked out to his audience of peering royalty ......
*End Flashback*
General Sinen looked down at the boy who reminded him of so many promises unkept.....so many tasks uncompleted....
' He has walked straight into my trap...without me even knowing.........' the general thought as a small sadistic grin escaped his mouth.
"I may have missed you at first.....but do not worry Odin Lowe Jr.....you'll be seeing your daddy very soon......" the general promised to no one in particular.
'You can be sure of that.....'
"Damn!" Heero exclaimed as he slammed his fist into his laptop keyboard.
Heero ran a hand through his hair as he leaned back into the soft leather seat of his car. It had been three day's since his last encounter with the "Lowe Organization", or so they called themselves. So far they had been silent as of their last attack at Relena's mansion, and it was driving him crazy! To top it off he couldn't find any information on them, whenever he seemed to get close to getting something..his computer system would always crash.
'They must have some extremely good security system.' Heero thought as he stared down at his now worn out computer.
Setting the computer aside, he decided on going out for a walk. His muscles were still sore from the attacks, and he had never really gotten the medical attention needed to fix that. Though he couldn't have stayed....it was too dangerous. The mission could have been in jeopardy if he had stayed. Relena was their main target, or so he gathered from their previous attack. He did not know much about the past of this 'organization', or their main objective, but as far as Heero could see it was Relena they were after.
Stretching out slowly and being careful not to upset his wounds, Heero got out of his car and started walking around the park area that was conveniently close by.
It was about mid-day, the sun shone brightly above the dark and hollow trees of the forest, as the mixture of greens and yellows clashed together in an endless cycle of leaves. The lake that rested in the middle of the park area shimmered with the bright glistening of the sun overhead. The wind was just right, only letting a small breeze brush past his face.
Heero looked around at the beauty displayed before him.
Obviously enjoying his time, he decided to rest for a while and sat down on one of the many park benches. Sitting down, he laid his head back on the firm wood of the bench and sighed inwardly. The deep intense rays of the sun only came down as small gentle ones through the many tree branches and floral growth, as they warmed his body. As Heero inhaled, the sweetest scent filled his senses...the sweet smell of wild flowers.
Heero's entire body let loose as he thought of the one person who had the exact same scent....
'Relena..' he thought, a delicate smile forming onto his lips.
He couldn't help but think of her. Almost everything that he saw reminded him of her. She filled his thoughts for the most part, when he wasn't on a mission of any sort, and strangely enough...he let himself do it. He let his mind drift to her every so often, just to please himself. He had never experienced such a feeling like this, such as with Relena, before the war. It scared him. He had not been used to such thoughts or feelings whenever he was near anyone else, only Relena. He couldn't figure it out, he could never figure out all the emotions that human's possessed. He had never had a family or relatives in his past life and so he eventually convinced himself that emotions were all useless traits, not needed for a society. He always thought they breaded weakness and distracted the mind. He would have never thought that he, himself would have to come face to face with such horrid things. He was the 'Perfect Soldier' he constantly reminded himself. He could not let himself get distracted.... at least that's how he had been trained to think.
Though now that the war was over, there was no need for the 'Perfect Soldier', and only Heero was left.
Heero looked up from his spot on the bench, to the sky. There were no clouds. Nothing to block the sun from seeing the truth of the shape and form its resipricants have created on its Earth...
Heero's brow furrowed as he cupped his chin into his hand and glared down to the ground. He did not like not knowing what was wrong with him, much less what was going on around him. He couldn't figure out what it was, whatever he felt when he was around Relena....
'What is this feeling I keep getting..?!' he thought as the wind forcefully brushed up against his face, sending a fallen newspaper to come rolling to his feet.
Looking down at the newspaper, he saw Relena's picture on the front
with a large headline that read:
Vice Foreign Minister Takes A Long Deserved Vacation!
At the bottom of the article it mentioned about the assassination attempted at her private mansion near the capital, and how this vacation is going to leave her brother Milliardo Peacecraft in charge of all operations till she returns.
Picking up the newspaper, Heero slowly tore out the front article and stuck it into his pocket, throwing the rest of the paper to the ground.
Standing up, and taking one last glance to the scenery around him, Heero slowly walked back to his car. Placing the key's into the ignition, and starting the engine Heero slowly backed out of the parking lot and raced down the freeway.
'Now, where would Relena be going?!' he thought as the engines in his car roared down the open freeway and his car disappeared slowly into the distance......
Click. Click. Click....... went the computer keys as a young Chinese man with black hair was frantically typing.
Stopping momentarily, the young man looked out his office window.
'Working late hours today...'. He reminded himself, and continued working.
Suddenly a large noise was sounded on the other side of his small three wall cubicle. He looked over, only to see an elderly man on the floor, in a large heap of executive papers. The boy rolled his eyes and got out of his desk. He walked up to the elder man and helped him up, also gathering the man's papers off the floor.
"Thank you young man! I don't know what came over me.... one minute I'm walking and then the next I'm on the ground!" the elder man said, laughing at his own humor.
The younger man nodded and gave the papers back to the elder man, giving no hint of amusement in his stare, and retreated back to his cubicle.
"Wait! Young man. I don't believe we've meet! My name is Exaviour." the elderly man said, extending his hand out for a handshake.
The young man meet the elderly man's gaze and took his hand, shaking it.
"Wufei." he responded.
The elderly man, known as Exavior smiled, but got no smile in return. After a while of standing in silence Exavior broke it by saying he had to finish his work. Wufei nodded his head in agreement and continued his............
It was getting late when Wufei looked up at the clock.
'12:30am?!' he thought.
Wufei rubbed his eyes gently with his fingers, and started to pack up.
It had been two years that he had now joined the 'preventors'. Ever since the war with the Barton Fundation, and the destruction of his precious Gundam Nataku he had been serving as one of the preventors. Though the thought of paperwork, and documents day after day "thrilled" him, it was just never going to be the same as when he was in the war. Every move he had made, every death he had taken, he had taken down with honor. Though he missed all the different battle situations and the thrill of a mission filling his senses...Earth had finally attained it's peace. He had never enjoyed taking lives, much less fighting. But it had been all he had ever known, and for the most part still was. He had never grown accustomed to the thought of 'true' peace. He knew it was all an illusion, and he wanted to be prepared. Rather than to just sit back and wait for it to be broken any second, leaving him useless. That is why he always kept his guard up, and refused to believe that 'peace' had finally come.
After finishing his coffee he slid on his coat and picked up his briefcase, turning off the lights in the building he slowly closed the door behind him.
He had been used to working such late hours ever since the last couple of weeks. Numerous attempts of assassinations had been reported for Relena Darilan, and so he had been 'especially chosen' to do all the paperwork for the court files.
As Wufei walked out of the large 7 story building he took out his executive key and was about to lock the doors when.....
"Mr. Chang! Mr. Chang!" a man, running down the street called.
Wufei turned his head to the exasperated man as he stopped to catch his breath.
"I..needed to give..you this..message." the man finished, holding out a paper out to Wufei.
He took the message and slowly unfolded it.
"Its a message from Ms. Sally, say's its very urgent." the man said.
Mr.Wufei Chang
Please be informed that we would request a meeting with all
former Gundam pilots.
Please reply to this message as soon as possible.
- Lady Une
Wufei looked up from the message.
'Ha!' he thought... he had been correct in thinking peace could never last. The meaning of this letter was obvious. He had to go fight again.
He looked down to the man and nodded.
"Thanks." he said as he slowly walked down the street to the nearest videophone.
As he entered the green booth a sudden rush calmness over took him as he dialed Lady Une's number.
A woman about mid 20's answered the phone, wearing her hair in two buns, and glasses that rested on her face.
"Wufei!" the woman exclaimed.
"Lady Une. I got your message-" he said, as a small, knowing smile formed on his lips..........
Relena stared out to the gray sky in puzzlement.
It had been her first day of vacation...and yet she did not feel relaxed. The scene of that one morning three days ago kept playing in her mind.......
*Flashback*
Relena slowly arose from her bed... it was 6:30am.
Looking around her, she noticed that she was back in her room...
'Noin must have brought be back...' she thought, looking around when suddenly... a trick of the light......? No..a 'hand print'?! Caught her attention.
It was on her window.
Relena slowly got up from underneath her large down feather sheets and stood in front of the 'print'. She gasped when she saw its exact curves and size.
'That's Heero's hand print!' she thought.
He had been there last night....! And now he was gone...he was gone again!
Relena felt tears start to well up in her eyes, but she held them in and stood up tall looking at the print, as her hand meet his steamy white trace.
As she slowly turned around she gasped as she noticed her old, worn teddy bear facing her, sitting propped up....clenched in her embrace......
*End Flashback*
As the clouds rumbled with the swirling mist that surrounded them, the icy rain poured onto the concreate pavement.
Relena looked out her window, clenching her bed sheets to her tightly.
"Heero....why do you always run away from me...?"
To Be Continued........
Woah ho ho ho ho! I finally got chapter 4 done!! wOO hOOO!!!*party!* Thank you for reading it!! Well..I'm really really glad all that pressure is now off....(well, until the next chapter I guess...) and now ...*sobs* school is starting tommorow....*sighs* Oh well...back to laboring over the workbooks... SO! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who had reviewed! You all are sooo great to me :) And if you DO have time. Please review. Thank you!!!! (stay cool!)
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