::Starestarestare::
Gomen all for the delay in this fic...I've suffered a major disease us
writer's so formally know as "Writer's Block" . I recovered today..and hear
is what my tiny little [Little is right... ~B~] creative brain came up with!
Thanks for waitin!
~ Kawa Barton
~*~*~*~
A slight hum echoed throughout a dark forest located somewhere on the planet
of Earth. The creatures and foliage in this vast forest were disturbed for
the first time in ages, and the ones that could get away ran, giving out
cries of annoyance, anger, and fright. The cause of this silence breaking
fell on the broad shoulders of three gundams, and their relativley young
pilots. One of these pilots stirred and yawned.
"Where are we?" he asked no one in paticular as he glanced out of the
windows.
"We are located in southren Brazil." his gundam spoke.
The boy jumped and sighed, remebering once again that his mobilesuit could
speak. Was he ever going to get used to that?
"I wonder if Tae and Jake are awake yet..." The boy wondered.
"You're friends are currently aware of their new surroundings and stand on
the ground below." His gundam spoke again.
"Uh, thanks," he muttered, and opened the hatch to the Gundam Sky.
"This place gives me the creeps," Tae muttered from the ground. "It's so
dark."
"Well we're on a secret mission, so it's best not to give off any light."
Tae turned to the voice. "Raye, is that you?"
Raye, who had just emerged from his gundam, smiled and joined his two
friends. "Yeah, it's me."
Jake grinned and asked him,"Do you know where we are?"
Raye shrugged, "Somewhere in Southren Brazil. "
Tae sighed, "That's nice... Now, do these Brazilians have any good food?"
"Well according to my laptop," Raye said. (His laptop suddenly appeared...
Kinda like Heero's o.o; ) "We should reach an Inn not far from here."
"Yea, food! Civilization!" Tae yelled hugging his friends. "Now let's move!"
"Wait, Tae, aren't you forgetting something?" Jake asked, grabbing onto his
friend's shirt.
"Watch the threads man..." Tae muttered, smoothing out his muscle shirt.
"We are on a secret mission, Tae, " Raye said. "So we need to come up with
a story."
"Um, we went on a field trip to Earth ... and our shuttle crashed, and we
were the only survivors... There, can we go now?"
Jake chuckled and looked to Raye. "Sounds good enough to me."
Raye sighed. "I suppose, but I don't think people will buy it."
"It's Brazil! People speak Portuguese!" Tae yelled in impatinece. "Now let's
go!"
Raye once again sighed. He was really not sure about this, what if someone
found out, and relayed it to the captors of their parents?
Jake seemed to share the same concern, but the two didn't have much time to
protest, for Tae and already started running in the direction of the Inn.
"Are we almost there?" Jake asked as he huffed along side Raye.
Raye was holding a small high-tech compass in his hand and glanced down at
it. "Yeah, just a few more minutes and we'll be at the edge of the woods."
Tae still ran ahead of them and hadn't slowed down since they had started. In
a lot of ways he was like his father, his appetite was one of the likenesses.
A few short minutes later the trio reached the end of the forest, just as
Raye had predicted. It took them five more minutes, however, to reach the
road, and then twenty more to finally find the Inn Raye's laptop had
mentioned.
"Fooooood..." Tae whined as the reached the door. "I don't think I'll make
it."
Jake shoved passed him and walked inside the Inn. "Oh, shush, it's only been
a few minutes, and it takes just a few seconds to walk inside."
"Um, Jake, " Raye said pointing. "There is... nothing inside."
Once again, the great Raye was right. The inside of the Inn was completely
deserted. The only thing occuping the empty space was an overturned table and
some broken chairs.
THUD!
Jake and Raye turned startled to find Tae on the ground weeping pitifully
while banging his fists on the ground.
"Noo! No food! What'll we do?!"
"Oh, shut up, Tae." Jake muttered, getting quite fed up with Tae's childlike
ways.
Raye, again, was typing on his laptop. "There's a town a few miles up the
road. We can stop there."
"How many miles?" Tae and Jake asked together.
Raye shrugged. "Ten."
Jake fell over and landed on Tae. "TEN MILES?!"
"Yeah... it'll only take us..." He typed a few keys. "About 5 hours."
Tae started to bawl again, but was immediately silenced by a elbow in the
stomach, delivered by Jake.
"Your parents obviously never took you on long runs..." Raye said, his
eyebrows raised. "My dad likes to stay in shape, so he runs alot and makes me
come with him."
Jake sighed as he stood. "Well, it's really late and I got some snacks in my
pack." He patted a little pouch on his belt. "I found it in my gundam. It's
not much but it'll hold us."
"Yeah, that's a good idea, Jake. We don't know this place, and it would be
stupid to go in the dark."
Jake smiled, feeling very important, and stumbled a bit as Tae used him as
support to stand up.
"I can run back to the gundams and get blankets, I guess." he said. "I found
some earlier."
Raye nodded. "Great! Take this." He threw him a small device.
"What is it?" Tae asked, catching it rather easily.
"It's a flashlight, just unfold it."
Tae did so, and sure enough, the device was a flashlight. He flicked it on
and started his ascent into the woods.
"Be careful," Jake yelled to him.
"Yeah, watch out for wolves!"
"Wolves ... peachy," Tae muttered as he trudged into the darkness.
The two boys left behind watched their friend until he disappeared into the
distance, and then turned to the Inn.
"We better get a fire started I suppose." Jake suggested. "You do that, and
I'll set out dinner."
Raye nodded and joined his friend in the empty Inn.
~*~*~*~
An hour had passed. A large fire roared in the Inn's old fireplace, and three
plates of bread, some cookies, and trail mix were set up on the now-fixed
table. Jake and Raye sat in some mended chairs, each of them staring at the
Inn's doorway, waiting for Tae to walk through.
"Do you think he's all right?" Raye asked, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, I mean he is Tae."
"True."
More silence. The fire popped in the backround, though it didn't seem to
bother the two boys in the room.
"Maybe we should go after him," Jake suggested. "'Cause he could be in real
danger."
Raye nodded. "Yeah, you're right lets go!"
But just as the boys began to rise from their seats, Tae burst through the
doors, a look of panic and fright on his face, gasping for air.
"Tae, what is it?!" Jake asked, running to him.
Tae looked at him, wide-eyed. "T-they're coming!"