Okay, I've been getting a few questions lately:
Oakwood: I'm not out to confuse anyone, but it's just the style that I thought would fit the fic better. Why? Because, wouldn't you all be terribly bored if it was just about Relena? I mean... there's only so much to do on a island, and I wanted to show everyone (or rather the small group of people reading this) what the world is like without Relena, even for a short period of time... (wow, what a run-on sentence! I'm almost proud!)
Rose-chan: *flips a dead rat over in the oven/fire* Yup, I cook rats in my free time! When I'm not working on your site, of course! (No, really, I don't...) Thank you for sending me the video! *bounces up and down as she watches Heero and Relena*
Erika: Did I ever answer your question about the purple and green polka dot disease? If not, it doesn't exist... It's in there to show that Duo and Relena have a friendly relationship. In other words, he was just kidding, and then Relena and Sally were joking about it.
Sorry for all the confusion! I seem to have that effect on people... ^^;
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The Scavenger Years- III: Fire
By Chibi Acky
Disclaimer: No own... no money... no sue...
"You don't need a reason to help people."
-Zidane (Final Fantasy IX)
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(Memoir POV)
Now obviously, I was feeling rather "depressed" due to the fact I had no water, no shelter, and only coconuts to eat. To make matters worse, I had become completely lost. For some odd reason, my system of leaving a trail didn't work, because animals and what-not must have come and ruined it. To this day, I still don't know what happened to my trail.
Moving on through the forest with my ankle still in it's condition was no easy task, mind you. It took me the entire day to get from one end of the island to the other, and all the way back. But I suppose I should have been proud of the fact that I got back to where I started, Lord knows it was the only place on the island I was used to at the time. Still, I couldn't' help but feel that slight prick of panic in my heart.
I didn't find any water.
I didn't find any shelter.
I didn't have a prayer.
__________________
"Heero! It's great to-AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Put the gun away! PUT THE GUN AWAY!!!!!!!"
*BAM!*
"MY HAT! You RUINED my FAVORITE hat!" Duo screeched like a little girl. With one death glance from Heero, he was reduced to his normal self.
"Hn."
"Take it easy, boys." Hilde put a calming hand on Duo's shoulder. She motioned for Heero to follow her into her office at the Preventers Headquarters.
"What are the leads?" Heero seated himself across from Hilde at her and Duo's desks.
"What leads?" Duo snorted, "Basically, she was flying through the air, and the next minute, she was gone!" He shivered, "Kinda like a Bermuda Triangle, eh Heero?" Heero did not look amused in the least.
Noin entered the room, followed closely by a sulking Zechs, and an uncharacteristically glum Quatre. "The search area is approximately five hundred or so miles." There were collective sighs as Heero disappeared out of the room and then reappeared with his notorious laptop. He looked up expectantly, waiting for someone to give him reasonable information. "All right, let's start from the beginning..."
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All I need is one spark... c'mon...
Her hands ached, and the wood shed hundreds of splinters into her hands. She began to mentally chant with each stroke of the wood she made, I hate this! I hate this! I hate-
"HOLY SH-!" She let out a strangled cry as the sharp end of the wood cut into her palm deeply. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes, and her hand was leaking that bright red liquid vital to the survival of a person.
"Don't panic, don't panic!" She began to pace, gripping her wounded hand in her other, "Just stay calm..." Taking one look at the blood and her hand she cried, "But I'm SO much better at panicking!"
All right girl, get a grip... think first aid... what did that teacher of yours tell you to do?
"What teacher?! I never took first aid!" Having no other option, she ripped part of her pant leg off, wrapping around her hand, and wincing in pain as she applied pressure. "Oh boy, do I smell an infection..."
(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)
Left.
Right.
Left.
Right.
Heero marched right out to the shuttle, no emotion in his eyes.
Left.
Find Relena.
Right.
Find Relena.
Left.
Find Relena.
Right.
Find Relena.
This went on for a period of time, until he forced himself to stop. Boarding the shuttle, followed closely by the "Find Relena Squad," he entered the ship and sat down. It was a half an hour before they were up in the air.
"Run through plans once again, Quatre." Noin called from the captain's seat.
"We'll comb about half of the area today, and then tomorrow the other half. I have the machine hooked up that will sense for any metal at the bottom of the ocean and whatnot."
"So you're still assuming she wasn't abducted?" Wufei leaned back in his seat, crossing his arms over his chest.
"No, that's one of the thousands of possibilities... but during a time like this, I find it hard to believe that anyone would want to kidnap her just to prove a point." Hilde answered, "Hey Quatre we're closing in on the area..." Heero drowned out the rest of her words, resting his head against the cold glass plates of the search helicopter/plane.
Relena...
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I grew up being served my entire life- basically ringing a bell and having everything prepared for me. What "camping trips" Mr. Darlian did take me on were only to the "wild and rough" backyard of our estate. So imagine my disgust of trying to light my own fire with two pieces of flimsy wood.
I couldn't give up though, because I knew that if I did, I wouldn't have fire. Which basically meant I wouldn't eat anything cooked, and I couldn't keep warm. Yes, believe it or not, nights on the island were very, VERY cold, especially when it rained- but that's an entirely different story I'll discuss later...
Anyway, totally abandoning the cursed sticks, I resorted to two nice rocks...
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"Work, work, work, WORK!" She slid the rocks together, trying to ignite a spark with their friction. Throwing her arms up in the air, she let out a frustrated scream. Her outburst caused several birds to scatter from the trees and into the sky.
I wish I could just get up and fly away, but nooooooooooooo, I have to stay here and starve! She sat back on her heels. Feeling sorry for herself, she almost didn't catch the extremely bright, neon, pink suitcases that had washed to the shore, and were slowly being swept back into it.
"No! Wait!" Relena cried as if it would actually help the situation, and sprang to her feet, ignoring the shooting pain in her ankle, as she made a dive for it. The saltwater stung her numerous cuts and bruises, but she did feel an overwhelming sense of amusement at the sight of her luggage.
Of course it made it! Milliardo only got me the fire-proof, water-proof, unbreakable, kind! She rolled her eyes, "The luggage had a better chance of making it than I did, yet here we both are." She laughed softly, her dry throat was thick.
Finally managing to pull the suitcase onto a safe spot, Relena undid the clasps and threw things out left and right.
"Bra, Bra, undies, shirt, socks, and...!" There was a slight pause as Relena pulled out a soaking present. "What is this...?"
Now Relena, be sure you give this to the ambassadors as a sign of the Cinq Kingdom's support... Her brother had said that to her, hadn't he?
She tore the gift open savagely, praying it would be something edible.
Relena was highly disappointed.
Instead of the food or water she had been starving for, she had three pieces of glass which she guessed must have belonged together. She placed the shards of the crystal-clear glass together, tears welling up in her eyes. It was the emblem of her kingdom, and seeing it only brought back the fears of never being able to see it again.
Now that doesn't make any sense! How come the plate didn't survive? she sighed.
"What am I going to...? OWWWWWWWWW! FIRE! FIRE!" Relena began to frantically roll and pat the smoke rising from her pant leg.
She paused in mid-roll.
Relena looked from the new black hole in her pants, to the glass shard from the plate, to the bright sun shining in the heavens above.
Suddenly, her situation had just gotten a tad bit better...
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"Quatre, are you sure the readings are correct?" Noin called from the back of the search shuttle.(AN: Ugh... I'm at lost for a better choice of words)
"I'm positive... there's just nothing there!" He sighed helplessly.
"There's nothing anywhere! This is absolutely hopeless!" Duo pounded his fist into his other palm.
"Don't give up hope just yet, we still have another couple miles." Trowa seemed to be the calmest, as usual, out of all of them.
"She isn't out here." A surprisingly mournful voice whispered. Heero's gaze was still focused out of the window.
"How do you-?" Wufei began.
"I just do."
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Just because I had fire, mind you, doesn't mean I had anything to eat or drink. So there I was, happy and content with my warm fire, the same fire I had discovered superciliously, and I couldn't do a damn thing with it. By the time I had a roaring fire, the moon had risen, and the sun had disappeared into the waves.
I must admit, one of the only things I truly miss about the island was the sunset. It's hues faded into each other so... gracefully... it was like nothing I had ever seen before. It calmed me like nothing else, and on the "rough days" on the island, I was grateful for the peace it gave me.
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Staggering from sheer fatigue, Relena clawed her way through the jungle... desperate. Desperate for anything to eat or drink. Earlier in the week, (As she was now approaching the end of her first month on the island.) she had polished off the coconuts in her area, which had been lovingly dubbed as her "home."
Her vision was blurred, and she was having trouble breathing. Get it together Relena... Her mental encouragement's didn't seem to help. Tripping over a toppled log, she was hardly apt at pushing herself back up.
She stumbled, fumbling with her steps. Suddenly, her entire body was feeling twice as heavy, excluding her head which felt just as light as a feather. This was it; the end of the line for the former Queen of the World. Never again would she see her friends, or her family, or him....
Would she never be able to tell him how she felt?
She was crying now, feeling rather foolish as the monkeys and birds screeched above her. Damnit! What a way to die! She was laughing bitterly, her vision slowly fading out.
Goodbye my friends...
Goodbye my dearest brother and sister in-law...
Goodbye my beautiful kingdom...
Relena heard rustling around her, and her blurred vision latched to another pair of blue eyes.
"Heero...?" She reached a hand out, as if it was a mirage. Heero, I love you...
She never got to finish her thought, for darkness had already consumed her.
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Sorry, I had to stop there... :( I'll get the next part out ASAP... Everyone thank Rose for forcing me to do this. Luv la lots, Rose ^.^
luvs and hugs
Chibi Acky
Oakwood: I'm not out to confuse anyone, but it's just the style that I thought would fit the fic better. Why? Because, wouldn't you all be terribly bored if it was just about Relena? I mean... there's only so much to do on a island, and I wanted to show everyone (or rather the small group of people reading this) what the world is like without Relena, even for a short period of time... (wow, what a run-on sentence! I'm almost proud!)
Rose-chan: *flips a dead rat over in the oven/fire* Yup, I cook rats in my free time! When I'm not working on your site, of course! (No, really, I don't...) Thank you for sending me the video! *bounces up and down as she watches Heero and Relena*
Erika: Did I ever answer your question about the purple and green polka dot disease? If not, it doesn't exist... It's in there to show that Duo and Relena have a friendly relationship. In other words, he was just kidding, and then Relena and Sally were joking about it.
Sorry for all the confusion! I seem to have that effect on people... ^^;
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The Scavenger Years- III: Fire
By Chibi Acky
Disclaimer: No own... no money... no sue...
"You don't need a reason to help people."
-Zidane (Final Fantasy IX)
+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+
(Memoir POV)
Now obviously, I was feeling rather "depressed" due to the fact I had no water, no shelter, and only coconuts to eat. To make matters worse, I had become completely lost. For some odd reason, my system of leaving a trail didn't work, because animals and what-not must have come and ruined it. To this day, I still don't know what happened to my trail.
Moving on through the forest with my ankle still in it's condition was no easy task, mind you. It took me the entire day to get from one end of the island to the other, and all the way back. But I suppose I should have been proud of the fact that I got back to where I started, Lord knows it was the only place on the island I was used to at the time. Still, I couldn't' help but feel that slight prick of panic in my heart.
I didn't find any water.
I didn't find any shelter.
I didn't have a prayer.
__________________
"Heero! It's great to-AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Put the gun away! PUT THE GUN AWAY!!!!!!!"
*BAM!*
"MY HAT! You RUINED my FAVORITE hat!" Duo screeched like a little girl. With one death glance from Heero, he was reduced to his normal self.
"Hn."
"Take it easy, boys." Hilde put a calming hand on Duo's shoulder. She motioned for Heero to follow her into her office at the Preventers Headquarters.
"What are the leads?" Heero seated himself across from Hilde at her and Duo's desks.
"What leads?" Duo snorted, "Basically, she was flying through the air, and the next minute, she was gone!" He shivered, "Kinda like a Bermuda Triangle, eh Heero?" Heero did not look amused in the least.
Noin entered the room, followed closely by a sulking Zechs, and an uncharacteristically glum Quatre. "The search area is approximately five hundred or so miles." There were collective sighs as Heero disappeared out of the room and then reappeared with his notorious laptop. He looked up expectantly, waiting for someone to give him reasonable information. "All right, let's start from the beginning..."
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
All I need is one spark... c'mon...
Her hands ached, and the wood shed hundreds of splinters into her hands. She began to mentally chant with each stroke of the wood she made, I hate this! I hate this! I hate-
"HOLY SH-!" She let out a strangled cry as the sharp end of the wood cut into her palm deeply. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes, and her hand was leaking that bright red liquid vital to the survival of a person.
"Don't panic, don't panic!" She began to pace, gripping her wounded hand in her other, "Just stay calm..." Taking one look at the blood and her hand she cried, "But I'm SO much better at panicking!"
All right girl, get a grip... think first aid... what did that teacher of yours tell you to do?
"What teacher?! I never took first aid!" Having no other option, she ripped part of her pant leg off, wrapping around her hand, and wincing in pain as she applied pressure. "Oh boy, do I smell an infection..."
(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)
Left.
Right.
Left.
Right.
Heero marched right out to the shuttle, no emotion in his eyes.
Left.
Find Relena.
Right.
Find Relena.
Left.
Find Relena.
Right.
Find Relena.
This went on for a period of time, until he forced himself to stop. Boarding the shuttle, followed closely by the "Find Relena Squad," he entered the ship and sat down. It was a half an hour before they were up in the air.
"Run through plans once again, Quatre." Noin called from the captain's seat.
"We'll comb about half of the area today, and then tomorrow the other half. I have the machine hooked up that will sense for any metal at the bottom of the ocean and whatnot."
"So you're still assuming she wasn't abducted?" Wufei leaned back in his seat, crossing his arms over his chest.
"No, that's one of the thousands of possibilities... but during a time like this, I find it hard to believe that anyone would want to kidnap her just to prove a point." Hilde answered, "Hey Quatre we're closing in on the area..." Heero drowned out the rest of her words, resting his head against the cold glass plates of the search helicopter/plane.
Relena...
-----------------------------
I grew up being served my entire life- basically ringing a bell and having everything prepared for me. What "camping trips" Mr. Darlian did take me on were only to the "wild and rough" backyard of our estate. So imagine my disgust of trying to light my own fire with two pieces of flimsy wood.
I couldn't give up though, because I knew that if I did, I wouldn't have fire. Which basically meant I wouldn't eat anything cooked, and I couldn't keep warm. Yes, believe it or not, nights on the island were very, VERY cold, especially when it rained- but that's an entirely different story I'll discuss later...
Anyway, totally abandoning the cursed sticks, I resorted to two nice rocks...
---------------------------------
"Work, work, work, WORK!" She slid the rocks together, trying to ignite a spark with their friction. Throwing her arms up in the air, she let out a frustrated scream. Her outburst caused several birds to scatter from the trees and into the sky.
I wish I could just get up and fly away, but nooooooooooooo, I have to stay here and starve! She sat back on her heels. Feeling sorry for herself, she almost didn't catch the extremely bright, neon, pink suitcases that had washed to the shore, and were slowly being swept back into it.
"No! Wait!" Relena cried as if it would actually help the situation, and sprang to her feet, ignoring the shooting pain in her ankle, as she made a dive for it. The saltwater stung her numerous cuts and bruises, but she did feel an overwhelming sense of amusement at the sight of her luggage.
Of course it made it! Milliardo only got me the fire-proof, water-proof, unbreakable, kind! She rolled her eyes, "The luggage had a better chance of making it than I did, yet here we both are." She laughed softly, her dry throat was thick.
Finally managing to pull the suitcase onto a safe spot, Relena undid the clasps and threw things out left and right.
"Bra, Bra, undies, shirt, socks, and...!" There was a slight pause as Relena pulled out a soaking present. "What is this...?"
Now Relena, be sure you give this to the ambassadors as a sign of the Cinq Kingdom's support... Her brother had said that to her, hadn't he?
She tore the gift open savagely, praying it would be something edible.
Relena was highly disappointed.
Instead of the food or water she had been starving for, she had three pieces of glass which she guessed must have belonged together. She placed the shards of the crystal-clear glass together, tears welling up in her eyes. It was the emblem of her kingdom, and seeing it only brought back the fears of never being able to see it again.
Now that doesn't make any sense! How come the plate didn't survive? she sighed.
"What am I going to...? OWWWWWWWWW! FIRE! FIRE!" Relena began to frantically roll and pat the smoke rising from her pant leg.
She paused in mid-roll.
Relena looked from the new black hole in her pants, to the glass shard from the plate, to the bright sun shining in the heavens above.
Suddenly, her situation had just gotten a tad bit better...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Quatre, are you sure the readings are correct?" Noin called from the back of the search shuttle.(AN: Ugh... I'm at lost for a better choice of words)
"I'm positive... there's just nothing there!" He sighed helplessly.
"There's nothing anywhere! This is absolutely hopeless!" Duo pounded his fist into his other palm.
"Don't give up hope just yet, we still have another couple miles." Trowa seemed to be the calmest, as usual, out of all of them.
"She isn't out here." A surprisingly mournful voice whispered. Heero's gaze was still focused out of the window.
"How do you-?" Wufei began.
"I just do."
*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*
Just because I had fire, mind you, doesn't mean I had anything to eat or drink. So there I was, happy and content with my warm fire, the same fire I had discovered superciliously, and I couldn't do a damn thing with it. By the time I had a roaring fire, the moon had risen, and the sun had disappeared into the waves.
I must admit, one of the only things I truly miss about the island was the sunset. It's hues faded into each other so... gracefully... it was like nothing I had ever seen before. It calmed me like nothing else, and on the "rough days" on the island, I was grateful for the peace it gave me.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Staggering from sheer fatigue, Relena clawed her way through the jungle... desperate. Desperate for anything to eat or drink. Earlier in the week, (As she was now approaching the end of her first month on the island.) she had polished off the coconuts in her area, which had been lovingly dubbed as her "home."
Her vision was blurred, and she was having trouble breathing. Get it together Relena... Her mental encouragement's didn't seem to help. Tripping over a toppled log, she was hardly apt at pushing herself back up.
She stumbled, fumbling with her steps. Suddenly, her entire body was feeling twice as heavy, excluding her head which felt just as light as a feather. This was it; the end of the line for the former Queen of the World. Never again would she see her friends, or her family, or him....
Would she never be able to tell him how she felt?
She was crying now, feeling rather foolish as the monkeys and birds screeched above her. Damnit! What a way to die! She was laughing bitterly, her vision slowly fading out.
Goodbye my friends...
Goodbye my dearest brother and sister in-law...
Goodbye my beautiful kingdom...
Relena heard rustling around her, and her blurred vision latched to another pair of blue eyes.
"Heero...?" She reached a hand out, as if it was a mirage. Heero, I love you...
She never got to finish her thought, for darkness had already consumed her.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Sorry, I had to stop there... :( I'll get the next part out ASAP... Everyone thank Rose for forcing me to do this. Luv la lots, Rose ^.^
luvs and hugs
Chibi Acky