Chapter 6
The Feelings Fade


The light from the window flashed on Wufei's eyes and he flinched. He stood up, undoing the tangled sheets between his legs. How'd I end up like this? He was covered in sweat, and feeling very calm. The feelings had left him, he felt as normal as the day before the feelings had began.
The telephone rang,he reached for it. " Wufei, this is Sally. I think you should get down to Preventer HQ pronto. Someone's here to see you."
Wufei found himself puzzled. "Who?"
" You'll find out once you get here. Now get moving, this guy's waiting in my office. See you then." The receiver clicked, leaving Wufei to ponder in silence.


As Wufei ambled his way up the steps, a voice stopped him and he turned to see who was calling him. " Wufei! Wait up!" A sandy gold haired boy and a boy with long bangs jogged up the stairs to meet him.
" What brings you to Preventer HQ?" He looked at both, analyzing their faces.
" Sally Po called us. She said someone wanted to meet us." That was Trowa. His quiet, sullen voice was unusually filled with a hint of excitement.
" Oh? Po told me the same thing. Wonder who this mystery person is?" Wufei and the others began the ascent to the Preventer's main entrance.

Two flights of stairs and an office door later, the boys found themselves in a spacious room with a desk and several chairs surrounding it. A man in a dark cloak and hood stood by the window looking out upon the outskirts of New York. Sally was seated behind the desk, standing as they entered.
" Well, well, it's about time. I'm sorry to make you wait so long, Master Skywalker." The figure turned and nodded to her. Then he looked across the room at the three Gundam pilots.
" It's no problem, Miss Po. Ah, so these are the young men that you were telling me about." He pointed to Trowa. " You must be Trowa Barton. And this is Quatre Winner, and you," he looked directly into Wufei's eyes, " You are Wufei Chang. The first one that Corran could sense, am I correct?"
" Yes, Master Skywalker. And you wanted to meet us, why?" Wufei's face was mixed with surprise, confusion, and had gone slightly pale. The feelings were returning.
" I know you must be feeling slightly nauseated. But that is only because I am taking a look inside your head. Sorry, that might frighten you, but I have a special ability to read your minds. That is the feeling you got when Corran landed, that is the feeling you got when I landed. That is the feeling that you are getting now." He smiled slightly, warmth radiating from his face. " I can feel a presence of the Force in each one of you. Corran was right,you all hold a gift. Had you been on Coruscant or a nearby planet or system, I probably would have detected you."
The boys looked confused, so he elaborated. " This thing I'm talking about, it is a power that only few have. It is called the Force. It surrounds us, binds us together, when one member of this certain group is affected, we all are affected. That is why, Quatre Winner, when the other pilots were hurt, you sensed it. Do you see? Is it becoming clear to you?" He looked expectantly at each one of them.
Quatre brightened. " So that's why I felt a strong sensation in my head. That's why I felt the pain of all the soldiers I killed, of all the pilots when they were injured or getting knocked around."
Luke smiled. " You see, you had this in you, and you never realized it. You've been using this without even knowing it."
Wufei still wasn't impressed. " Wait, wait. So you're saying that I'm in some sort of bond with these people. I think not, that is impossible. I am bonded to the spirit of Nataku. Not to these senseless beings." A slight fringe of anger made Quatre flinch. " I refuse to believe that I am bound in some life giving flow thing that is linked to these pathetic weaklings." He turned and began to walk out of the room.
" Wait. Wufei. Don't be blind to the facts presented before you. You have a gift that should be used to protect these people, and others. Nataku will live in you forever, but you will take a different path than what this spirit has set for you." Luke's voice carried a sense of worry and care for the pilot of the Gundam Shenlong.
" Forget it, Master Skywalker. I cannot choose this path, I and Nataku are one, and that is how it will be forever. Now if you excuse me, I have things to do." He exited without looking back.
Quatre and Trowa looked at the door that Wufei had exited through. Neither one said a thing. Luke looked too, he felt a twinge of despair and a loss of hope radiating from Quatre, but all he felt from Trowa was a sick feeling of hate.
" Trowa, you must not hate Wufei for his decisions. Give him time, maybe he will come back. You must not be angered at his own choice, let destiny instead change him."
A quiet reply. " Yes, Master Skywalker."
Luke felt the anger slowly dissipate. These boys have been trained well, but by whom? His deep thinking was disrupted by a new presence. Reaching out with the Force he found a boy with a long pony tail coming towards the office. This one has the Force like the rest, but I sense there is one more, but something isn't right about the fifth boy. He continued to think until the boy had entered the office with a loud, "Hello."
" Duo!" Quatre turned to face the new comer. " Hey, were you called here too?"
" Yeah, Quatre. So, Sally, what's the big hoop-la? Where's this 'someone' that you said wanted to meet me?" He looked across the group and when he reached Luke, his smiling faltered. " Ah, man. I thought I was supposed to meet a chick here."
Sally smiled sheepishly, Trowa and Quatre blushing slightly at this remark. Luke grinned, his grin the same one he gave to his friends back on Tatooine.
" Sorry to dissapoint you, Duo. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master. I've asked Sally to call you here, because I sense a remarkable ability within you, one that could be improved with the proper training."
" What? Special ability? Hey guys, what's this guy rambling on about?" He looked at both the other boys for an answer, but got one from the Jedi instead.
" This ability is called the Force." And he went into the same explanation he had given to the three.
Two hours later, Duo was understanding with the rest of them. Luke smiled, he had just found three more to add to his Jedi training academy.

Wufei stared out across the New York Harbor. Nataku, he thought, what is my destiny? Am I to go with this so called Master of the Force? What is it you are leading me to do? I feel so confused, what should I do?
A breeze swayed his hair, for he had let it fall down, no longer feeling honour in what he had decided. I am sorry Nataku, I can no longer allow you to choose my destiny, I must seek out my own now, good bye for now spirit of Nataku. He turned around and started back, fresh in mind, set in his desicsion, the sun was beginning to set.

*Wow, chapter 6 finally done. Sorry if Luke's not sounding like himself when he explains the Force, but I was pulling all the stuff I knew about the Force from memory, so it might be altered. Could really use some information from you viewers about the Force, some techniques and such, so I can begin my next chapter. Thanks for taking the time to read.*