Kalis Journey Series-Chapter One: The Stealing of the Pilots
Author's Note:For the few of you(or many, can't tell from reviews alone ^_^) who know of this series, I totally revamped it after learning what I should. For those of you who are new, I threw the Gundam Guys in my own lil demension >-) I don't own Gundam, but I do own Planet Kalis and its inhabitants, so if you want to use them, just ask. ::sweatdrops:: Reviews are always apreciated, even a simple "yes" if you liked it or "no" if it sucked would be efficient ^_^;
It was a quiet morning. Quatre sat sipping a cup of tea while reading a particulary large novel. Wufei sat on the floor in a corner, wiping his sword blade. Trowa sat on the couch staring into space, Heero sat on the on the other side working on his laptop.
After about twenty minutes, Heero shut his laptop. It was sudden enough to make the others jump.
"Something wrong?" Quatre asked.
"Yeah, where's Duo? It's too damn quiet." Heero murmured.
They all glanced at each other. The last time it was this quiet on a morning when they had nothing to do, Duo nearly killed himself by climbing up a huge bookshelf. He was wondering if anything was on top. It was amazing what the American would do when he was bored.
Before they had a chance to move on their free will, they heard Duo screaming. They jumped up and ran towards his voice. They reached his bedroom to find the door locked.
"Kuso," Heero cursed under his breath.
"Move, Yuy." Wufei said. "Hee-yah!" The door was kicked open in a flash.
Quatre was the first to run in. He saw Duo tossing and turning in his bed.
"He's still sleeping," Trowa murmured, stepping up behind his blond companion.
"Yeah but he's having a nightmare, a pretty bad one I'm guessing." Quatre said. "Hey, hey Duo, wake up."
Quatre shook Duo's shoulder gentley. Duo sat up quickly and slapped Quatre's hand away. He looked at the other pilots, blushed slightly despite himself and quickly wiped the sweat that was forming on his forehead.
"Hey, what's going on?" Duo asked.
"You were screaming your head off, you weakling." Wufei grumbled.
"Well I was having a really weird dream!" Duo said defensively. "It was so strange. We all ended up on this other planet and there was this girl and, well, it was just too weird."
"That's from eating week-old leftovers after midnight, baka." Heero said.
Duo stuck out his tongue. "Bite me."
"You should be awake anyway Duo, it's nearly noon." Quatre said.
"Yeah yeah yeah," Duo grumbled, rolling out of bed and straightening his braid. He followed the others into the kitchen where they made breakfast and Quatre fixed him a cup of tea. He sipped at it, only talking enough so that the others couldn't tell that his mind was still fixated on his dream.
He knew there was no way that dream was triggered by a bad meal.
The rest of the day was eventless enough. Quatre spent most of his time reading, Wufei trained on his own. Trowa stayed scarce and if Duo wasn't trying to figure out his dream he was annoying Heero. So things were peaceful and normal.
That is, until nightfall.
Heero was walking alone when he felt something strange. Somehow, he knew his Gundam was in danger. In turn it could only mean the other Gundams as well as their pilots were also in danger. He went down to the hangar to find that no one was there, at least no one he could see. It was too dark. He tried to turn on the lights, but there seemed to be no power. He pressed the security button, hoping it still worked.
Trowa was the first to see the red lights go off. He quickly and quietly got the others and they found Heero still standing in the hangar's doorway. Heero looked at them then nodded towards the darkness. Duo's eyes swept from his fellow pilots to the door before he went forth. He was the best at stealth and would most likely to at least find out who was there.
Duo crept around. It was hard to see and he couldn't risk a thing. He was about to give up when he heard footsteps. He turned to them and tried following but soon lost himself in the darkness. He looked around and realized that he really couldn't see a thing anymore. He tried feeling around, but found only air.
"Shit," he murmured.
"Duo? Hey, Duo? See anything?" Quatre whispered.
"He's been down there for nearly a half an hour." Wufei murmured softly.
"I'll go after him." Trowa said.
"Be careful." Quatre advised.
Trowa nodded and started on his search. He found the foot of a Gundam and followed around it. He could tell it was Sandrock, he could almost smell Quatre all over it. He worked his way around to one side and began walking, ready to run into the other foot any minute. But he never did.
"Duo? Quit fooling around already, this isn't funny." Trowa whispered. He grumbled. "Damn you Duo, where are you?"
Trowa stopped walking and looked around. He realized his eyes weren't adjusting to the dark at all. Sandrock's other foot, the walls or any of the other Gundams seemed to be no where near him.
"What the hell-"
Heero sighed angrily. "Whatever's down there, I'm gonna kill it."
He jumped down and landed without a sound. His senses keen to sound and movement.
Damn you Duo, always screwing around. Trowa's not being any better today. Heero thought to himself.
Something clattered behind him. he pulled out his gun and pointed it at the darkness.
"Show yourself or I will kill you." He warned in a harsh whisper.
Nothing.
After a few moments, Heero put his gun away. He felt something was very wrong now. The darkness pressed around him like a smothering blanket. Silence hung heavy in the air.
"Damn it."
"They've been gone way too long," Quatre said.
"Stay here and call for them." Wufei said.
Quatre looked down into the darkness. He was really worried, there was no sounds whatsoever coming from any of the three.
He snuck down, promising himself he wouldn't go too far.
"Hey Duo? Heero? Trowa? Any of you guys there?" Quatre called softly.
A whisper was heard in front of him. he could swear it was Heero's voice. But it came and went so quickly, he couldn't be sure.
"Okay you guys, if you're trying to scare me, you won, now come on this isn't funny." Quatre said firmly. A cold wind blew by his back suddenly and he spun around. "Who's there?" he demanded. "I'm warning you, I can defend myself very well!" There was a sudden bang. Quatre jumped. "Wufei?" He yelled. "Wufei is that you?"
Silence. It was the first time that Quatre realized that it was completely silent. Not even his voice echoed. He crouched down, shaking slightly.
"What's happened?"
Wufei came back, his sword by his side.
"Quatre? Quatre where did you go?" Qufei whispered. He cursed in his native tongue before he began shouting. "If this is some sort of joke by the four of you, I'll hurt you severly and hold Duo COMPLETELY responsible!" No answers. "That does it."
He jumped down and quickly went rumaging around in the dark looking for the four pilots. He heard someone whispering, he turned towards the noise, but no one was there.
"You four get out here right now!" Wufei demanded.
Still nothing. He walked around some more, eyes sharply darting to each and every shadow, waiting for any excuse to chop a hair off one of their heads. He realized the pressing darkness quicker than the others, but was just as clueless as to what to do about it. He gripped his sword harder, and waited.
"Whatever evil this may be, show yourself. I'll destroy you."
At once, all five boys felt as if they had just woken up from a nightmare. They were no longer in the hangar with their Gundams but in an alleyway. Rain began to fall, lending the only noise to the strange place.
"Where the hell am I now?" Duo wondered.
"Duo? Duo that you?"
"Quatre? Yeah, I'm right here."
The young Arabian stepped out of the shadows. Already his blond hair and half of his clothes was soaked. "Got stuck under some sort of gutter I think,"
"Well that had to be a wakeup call," Duo said, grinning.
"To say the least. What is this place?"
Duo shrugged. "Beats me. Think the other guys made it here?"
Before Quatre could answer, yelling could be heard from down the alleyway. The two could just make out a small figure running from a group of angry armed men. They were surprised when five more men jumped down from a building, blocking the figure's path.
"In the name of President Gates, Supreme Ruler of Kalis, we place you under arrest." One man said.
"Arrest this." A cold voice murmured.
A bright light suddenly errupted from the figure, nearly blinding Duo and Quatre. They gasped when they felt someone pull them back near a wall.
"Shh," came a harsh whisper as two thin hands covered their mouths. "They'll hear you two."
"Oh get off us Heero," Duo muttered, pushing him away.
The three looked up and saw that all the armed men were gone. Only the figure was left. A loud clatter made everyone jump, except the figure who just spun around.
Trowa suddenly fell into view. Aparrently he had tripped over a garbage can.
"Who's there?" Came a demand, then Wufei was the next to run out of the shadows from behind the figure.
"Whew, I'm glad you guys are all right," Quatre said, standing up and going towards his friends.
Duo and Heero followed. They almost formed a circle around the strange figure. They could see it was a girl. Her age couldn't be determined easily, but she couldn't be much, if any older than them. Her hair was tied back tightly, she had brownish-greenish eyes that stared at them coldly. She was almost thinner than Heero and only about an inch shorter.
"Hey, are you okay?" Quatre asked, approaching the girl slowly. "How in the world did you get those guys to dissapear like that?"
Very suddenly, in a blink of an eye, the girl lunged forward and with one swift movement slammed the back of Quatre's head with her fist. He slumped to the ground, but never rose.
"Quatre!" The others cried.
Trowa was the first to come forward to attack. The figure left him unconscious where he stood.
"I will kill you." Heero said, whipping out his gun.
Before his fingers even so much as grazed the trigger, the figure snatched the gun out of his hand and slammed it into the side of his head. Heero hung on to consciousness just long enough to say, "I'll kill you," then he spoke no more.
"Why you sadistic bitch," Duo spat. The figure cocked the gun and aimed it at Duo.
It was the first time in the past ten minutes everything was still. Wufei pointed his sword at the girl, but she pointed the gun at Duo more menacingly and already she proved she could shoot the two of them before they drew another breath.
Wufei and Duo both watched her eyes, but they betrayed nothing. Duo thought Heero was the Perfect Soldier, trained mentally and physically, but this girl had to be ten times worse. She also looked familiar, somehow. All thought fled when she suddenly pulled the trigger.
*Click!*
"Damn it," she muttered. Then she threw the gun at Duo hard enough to knock him out of his senses as well, she spun around and took Wufei's sword. And by it's blade. She didn't care that her hands were bleeding, in fact she barely flinched from the pain.
Wufei was dumbfounded. He fell to his knees and bowed his head.
"Well, go on, kill me. At least do me that dignity." Wufei said.
He could tell when she raised the sword, he recognized the swishing of the air as she did, only a single tear escaped before she took her strike.
To his dismay later on, she turned the blade on its flat side and whacked him on his temple, rendering him useless.
So the figure stood there eyeing the five Gundam pilots as they lay next to each other, unconscious in the alley, rain soaking their faces, hair and clothes. The only light in the alley suddenly went out.