Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. I only own myself and no one owns me. But I do own my characters. Gundam Wing belongs to Sunrise or Bandai. This story goes somewhere in the series. But in the mean time have fun reading it like I had writing it.
Prologue: The Meeting in the Forest
"What a day this ended up!" saying to know one to particular. An 18-year-old girl walked into the thick part of the park. It was a very huge park and it was a couple long miles away from civilization. More farther away it was private property owns to some rich folks. It was a rainy afternoon; all her friends are already at home being cozy in their nice warm chair. While she's was out here in the thick part of the park looking for a missing bird that flew out of its cage. She has been walking for hours searching for the little bird.
'Damn bird! Where the hell did it fly off too? I'm out here in the cursive rain soak and wet and the rest of the other people are nice and dry. I'm starting to wished I brought my umbrella with me.' She thought with some part of regret. As she walked further and further away from her work site she, suddenly she heard a "Chirp!"
"Chirp?" She looks up at a nearby tree and found the red little bird sitting on the tree branch, drying its feather. She grin "There you are. Come on your coming home with me." said the girl
She climbed up the thick tree but no prevail. The little bird looked at her dumbfounded of not knowing what's going on. With several tries, she was finally got up to where the bird was sitting. As she got up to the branch she also notice her weight is making the branch tilting downward.
'OH SHIT!' she thought to herself 'This is a bad idea. I'm gonna fall.' She shook the thought away and concentrated on getting the bird back. She place her legs on top of another branch on the other side of the tree wrapped it around and slowly and quietly, hoping her weight won't make the branch break. She stretched her arms until it strained, she was very close getting the bird when all of sudden a twig crack somewhere nearby and it scared the bird away.
"OH NO!" she yelled as she let go of the branch and try to make a quick grab for the bird, but instead she fell flat onto the ground.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed.
**BOOM** the body landed flat on the floor. 'This is not my day' She gets up and tries to brush the dirt off of the coat but as she kept brushing it, it clings on to her making the dirt that she is brushing off more worse than before.
"Gggrrrr! I'm going to kill that person who just made my day worst than just second ago." She sweared
"HHEELLOO" yelled a voice "Anyone out there?" it was a guy's voice, she quickly hide behind a bush
"There's no one out here, Quatre." said a boy with a braided waist length hair with leather black pant and jacket and a red zipper shirt underneath.
"You sure you heard something?" asked a Chinese boy who was a bit shorter than the braided boy who followed behind was the braided boy.
"I'm sure I heard something out here, Duo." said the blonde in brown slacks and a gray vest.
"Well if you heard something and don't see a thing, I think the ghost here are playing you." Said Duo scaring Quatre and the Chinese boy. Quatre got a bit scared and the Chinese boy…. he didn't care. Duo continues "The ghost's in these part of the forest is pretty strong. You can hear almost anything from stepping on twigs, whispering, laughing and even screams can be heard in any directions.
"Duo, shut up about it, and beside if there was a ghost they don't come out in broad daylight."
"Daylight?" questioned the Chinese boy raising his one of his eyebrow. " There isn't even a single light here except for dark clouds and rains."
The three boys continue to argue about ghost, daylight and other supernatural. The girl stared at them disbelief. 'Is it just me or men just got stupider?' asked the girl still hiding in the bush. Accidentally she stepped on a nearby twig.
**SNAP** It triggered the boys looking at the snapping sound and her direction.
'Oh shit!' as she looked at the twig
"What was that?" asked Duo
"I don't know but I smell a spy." said the Chinese boy as he took out his Katana
'Great I'm trapped! Stupid twig!' thought the girl, the boy was getting closer she quickly put her bandana and a cap on to cover face and took out a Sai and a dagger that was hidden behind her trench coat. The bush rustle and the Chinese boy stop in his track and replied
"Come out whoever you are?" The girl took that as her cue and jumped out of her hiding place, scaring the three boys, and standing in front of the three boys in her fighting pose. The Chinese boy looked at the stranger that was standing in front of them.
"A woman?" replied the Chinese boy in a not surprise tone of voice.
"Hmph." Giving the Chinese boy a disregard snort and responded "a mere little boy with a big mouth."
"Who are you calling 'little', woman?" asked the Chinese boy in a pissed tone of voice. The girl responded with a shrug.
"Oooo she's a feisty one" said Duo talking to Quatre. She glared at him, over hearing the braided boy talk and in a quick flash she threw a knife that barely touched him but placed a small cut on his face.
"Shut up, you braided bitch!" she retorted back to Duo.
"Hey what was that for?" asked the shocked braided boy while he covers the small cut. She ignored him and went back glaring at the Chinese boy.
"One question to ask you all, who stepped on the twig on the way here?" she asked. The three-boy sweatdropped by the question asked by the female stranger.
"Why?" asked the blonde
"That would be him." Duo pointed at the Chinese boy.
"You injustice braided baka. You have no honor." yelled the Chinese boy.
"Looks who talking. You're the injustice moron." That got the Chinese boy pissed, nobody talks about his justice and he is going to get even with her.
"KKKKIIIISSSSMMMMAAAA!!!!" yelled the Chinese boy and went into a full charged. The girl wasn't a bit surprise and dashed toward him and all was seen was a flash of a slash from the both the Sai and the dagger. The Chinese boy was in the direction of the opposite of the girl. She landed on her knee in front of the other two boys. The two boys were shock at the two fighters who ended their fight too soon. The Chinese boy gets up and replied "Was that all you got, woman?"
The girl was still on her knees, suddenly her left arm open a gash right through her trenchcoat.
"Shit." She said in a whisper, still holding her weapons in her hands and places her right hand to cover the gash but a smile crept across her face "sucker". She gets up and put her Sai and dagger away.
"Go help your friend." was all she said. Quatre and Duo looked at each other with a confused look on them. All of sudden the Chinese boy blacks out and fainted.
"WUFEI!!!!" yelled both the boys. Quatre run to his side while Duo was gapping at the girl. Quatre picked Wufei head up and shook him to wake up. He stirred and opens one of his eyes.
"Stop, this isn't over yet!"
"Yes it is, your badly injured. If you want to fight me again come meet me in the east of the park when you're all better. I'll be gladly to fight you again."
"Wait a minute, who and what are you?" asked Duo as she turned the back where she came from.
"For the last time it's none of your business."
"Excuse me Miss…." the girl stopped and listen "if he is badly hurt, then how come we don't see any bruises?"
"Its there."
"HUH?" said the three boys. She girl looked around her shoulder; she turned back and snapped her fingers. When she did Wufei's clothes was torned open with slash and gashes on them.
"AAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!" cried Wufei in total pain, the pain was just too sudden and he wasn't expecting it. He fainted.
"HOLLY SHIT!!!" yelled Duo surprised at the wounds suddenly appeared on Wufei. Quatre was surprised shock as the wounds just open up in front of him.
"I have to go, later," said the girl "Meet you soon as you get better." She walked back to where she came from and disappeared. The boys stared at the figure as it disappeared.
'Who is she?' thought Duo and Quatre same time.
***Back at the worksite. ****
"Hey what took you so long?" asked the boy with a black turtleneck shirt. The boy in the green tank top follows behind him when he saw the girl coming back from the park.
"What happen in the forest?" asked the boy in the tank top seeing her trenchcoat all wet and dirty and noticed the huge gash on her arm. The girl gladly walked to the two boys covering something in her gray bandana underneath one of her hands.
"Nothing really, I just cut myself in the thorn patch on the way back." Lied the girl there was no thorn patch in the forest. The boy in the green tank top notices she was lying but didn't say anything. He looked at the sky and replied
"Its getting late, driving back to your house may take hours plus walking hours, too." The girl also looked up at the sky and nodded.
"Well maybe, I don't really care about the rain." Something underneath the bandana moved. It wriggled a bit and a small faint chirp was heard.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about this little guy." she laughed sheepishly, "Trowa can you bring a bird cage?" she asked. Trowa walked back into the birdhouse and fetch a small birdcage. He quickly came back with a small cage, good enough for the little bird. The girl place the bird into its' cage while keeping the bandana still cover until her whole hand was inside the cage, she quickly and gently slid the bandana off of the bird and it flew to its birch. The little bird chirped happily in its cage.
"There… that should do it. See we're all happy now." She smiled. Heero stood there watching Trowa helped Dawn putting in the bird and quickly brought it back inside the shop.
"Well…" looking at his watch "It's getting late. Wanna go to our place and stay for the night." Said Heero
"No thanks" she shook her head, she turn around and it rained rain more than before and she starts to walk down the work site to the pavement "I better be going and beside I hate thunderstorm." Just when she said 'thunderstorm' a thunder hit nearby with a flash and when she saw it she jumped. She didn't notice anyone behind but...
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH…" she screamed and landed on someone, she felted a warm hand wrapped her around, she opened her eyes, looked up and beside seeing a red umbrella she saw blue-green aquarius eyes staring down at her, she blushed and gently pushed him away.
"Sorry." said Dawn looking down embarrassed. 'Shit the hell is wrong with me? Its not like I've never been close to a guy before. Wait a minute…. I never been near a guy before.' Her second conscious reply 'Moron.' Back to talking to herself 'Shut up. And he looks very familiar…. Oh No, he was the guy with the other three. This is bad, really bad.'
"Its okay. Everyone have something to fear about." said Quatre and the girl looked at him coming back to reality and nodded. 'She looks very familiar.' With wide eyes he notices the gash on her arm and the bandana. 'It couldn't be her. She was the one who attacked us in the forest. What is she doin' here? Who is she?'
She swiftly moves to his farther side of his left "I think I'll move over here and while you're at it I think I'll just stand here." He looked at her weirdly and shrugged his shoulder and moved over the two standing there in the rain. 'Just my day, now I get to spend half the weekend in there with the people I just injured.' She mentally cursed herself 'I've better think of a plan before any of those three I met today remember, especially the blonde kid.'
"Hey guys what's happening?" asked the blonde walking toward his two friends; Trowa shrugged his shoulder, Heero snorts and replies
"Hey Quatre what took you so long to get here?" asked Heero in his monotonous voice.
"Sorry we had an errand to fix." Said Quatre, Heero cock his eyebrow
"Wufei was attack when we heard something in the forest." explained Quatre.
"Is he okay?" asked Trowa concerning for his Chinese friend. Quatre shook his head and replied
"He took too many attacks in one shot and fainted. Duo is at home taking care of him."
"Your letting Duo taking care of Wufei?" replied Heero with a incredulously look on his face. When Quatre saw the face he mentally kicked himself for telling Duo to take care of Wufei.
"Quatre, our friend here is going to stay with us during the weekend is it okay with you?" asked Trowa.
"I didn't say that I was planning to stay at your place." said Dawn
"I insist if you did." said Trowa
"Since you put it that way. Okay." Dawn replied quickly. Quatre looked her direction and asked
"Guess we're going to be spending the weekend together." said Quatre with a smile
"I guess." she said sarcastically looking at him.
He noticed she was looking at him but doesn't know why until he finally remembers, smacking himself lightly on the head "Oops I guess I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Quatre Raberba Winner."
"Winner?" she asked
"Yeah. Why you ask?" with a confuse look.
"You mean you're Winner as in the Winner corp.'s son?" she asked. He nodded. "WOW, no wonder you looked familiar from a business magazine I saw." She went near to him and said, " I also never knew the Winner's son would also be this cute too, especially in person!" Quatre blushed by the comment she made.
"Well cough of course." turning into another red shade. When she saw it she giggled and he turned into another red, darker.
"The name is Dawn, Dawn Aurora. Nice to meet you, Quatre Winner." bowing her head.
"Call me just Quatre. Its more formal."
"As you insist." Quatre then notice the gash on her left arm.
"Hey your hurt." Points to the wound. She looks at it and shrugs it.
"Its no biggy. Just a scratch."
"Let me see it then." going closer to her to inspect the wound.
"No thanks." Backing off and preventing him from touching her. "It can heal by itself."
"C'mon you two." Cutting the conversation between Quatre and Dawn. "It's getting to rain heavier. We can discuss these thing later in a dry place." said Trowa anxiously wanting to get out of the rain.
"Wait hold on I need to get my jacket." said Dawn as she took off going back inside the workshop. "You guys go wait in the car I'll be out in a sec." The three went to Quatre's Jeep and waited for Dawn to come out. When she came out she was wearing a dark green jacket, she had light brown hair with a mixture of black that goes the same with her eyes, she had her short hair down, and she looked almost Asian and American. She ran to the Jeep partially wet carrying without an umbrella. She gave the trenchcoat back to Trowa and thanks him for lending his coat to her. He nodded as a 'thank you' and all four took off, Quatre was the driver, Trowa was on the driver seat, Heero and Dawn was at the back. It was 2-mile drive in the rainy dirt path and even though it seems like eternity in the quiet jeep but they were finally at Quatre's estate. They got out and Dawn looked at the huge building in awe. Some part of the house was lit and the other wasn't. 'Whoa I've never thought they were rich.' thought Dawn. They four people got out of the car and ran to the house to get out of the rain.
"I've seen rain rained hard but not this hard." said Dawn brushing the water that soak into her jacket
"Tell me about it." said Quatre brushing the water off his coat.
"Hey Quatre your back." said a very cheerful voice coming from the living room.
'No it can't him too.' thought Dawn standing there. The braided boy happily came out of the living room in a pink apron. When Dawn saw it she couldn't help it to giggle at the appearance. When Duo notice that the guest was giggling he replied in a sarcastic tone
"I told you, Quatre, not to get pink." Quatre just shrug with a silly grin on him. "So who is this lovely chick?" asked Duo walking toward her.
"The name is Dawn Aurora. Nice to meet you." she smiled. Duo looked at her weirdly and asked
"Have we met before, you seem very familiar."
'Oh no he's catching on too. Pretend you don't.'
"I don't think so. I mean we just met right now. So I guess you couldn't have met me before." she quickly explains. Duo sighed in a relief. Most of all Dawn was the one who has to be sighing in relief. She let out a small but quiet relief. ' Damn he is catching on, who's next? The Chinese guy? I've better find a plan to figure this thing out or else mission failed.'
"So Duo have you made Wufei's life a living nightmare?" asked Heero asking sarcastically.
"NOPE" he quickly responded with a smile. Heero looked at him and decided to go check before something or someone might get broken especially Duo. Just as he was about to go to Wufei's room and a long scream echoed throughout the house.
"DDDDDDDUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Wufei. He comes out in bandages.
"Oh no" said Quatre and Trowa covering their faces. Dawn who is confused and watched what is going to happen next. Wufei comes out carrying his Katana running out of the room in rage. What even worse, he comes out wearing boxer not noticing a guest was present in the house. When Duo heard it, he runs out of the living room. Dawn quickly went behind Quatre. She wrapped one of her arm around his neck and asked
"Are you guys always like this?" she asked with a scared face on. Quatre blushed a little and replied
"Most of the time. Well.... on second thought, always." she nods. Heero comes out with the bowl of soup on his head.
"Heero what happen up there?' asked Dawn. Heero took the bowl of soup off his head and explained what happen.
"This is another reason why never tell Duo to babysit Wufei. Duo accidentally placed something in there." Quatre took a finger and placed it in the bowl and licked it.
"Hmmm..... I think he place glue and parmesan on it. And it taste really bad." spitting it out.
"Ewwww.... How can you eat that?" asked Dawn
"Hey I taste it, I didn't ate it like he did." said Quatre
"Point taken." she said.
As the night went on, Duo and Wufei calm down, Heero took an early bathe, and each member of the group was introduce during dinner. They ate dinner; the specialty of Duo Maxwell's was.... Bleh. 'Note to self, never eat anything from Duo again.' she thought. She explains why she was in the neighborhood, founding a job, and how she ended up working in the same place with Trowa and Heero. One thing is suspecting from the boys was who have they met in the woods with the mysterious female stranger in the woods today and was also wondering why didn't Dawn asked about the injuries Wufei have. She was looking back and forth from the boys she was talking to and backs back to Wufei. This was giving her suspicion away so she quickly ended the conversation with them.
"It took a while to be friends with both Heero and Trowa but finally we did." explained Dawn. It was nearly midnight, she went to the room where she is going to stay. She took a shower and went to bed, borrowing some clothes from Quatre. A plain grey t-shirt and baggy pajamas pants.
The next morning, it was still raining, she woken up early, hoping none of the boys was still awake, she sneak a peek out of her door and she found the rest of the boys sleeping quietly in their rooms. 'Good' she thought and she slowly and quietly closed the door. She went to change, putting on a pair of jeans, a black T-shirt, her weapons that was placed underneath her pillow the night before was placed in back of her jeans, putting on her green jacket and shoes. She went to the windows having seconds thought ' Should I tell them that I'd be gone for a while? Nah...?' She climbed the window and jumped down. As she jumped she passed through the bathroom window on the third floor, at the moment Quatre was at the bathroom doing what all morning person would do. (AN: Do I also have to say what he's doing? Hell no!) He saw Dawn jumped pass through the third floor bathroom while brushing his teeth, he spit out the rinse out of his mouth on the mirror.
"HOLLY SHIT!!!" he ran to the window and opened it, looked down and saw her running toward the woods. 'Where is she going early this morning?' thought Quatre watching her running toward the woods. He decided to follow her, he quickly changed into his clothes and ran after her.
