Through Time
Chapter Five: Miaiten (me-a-ten)
Flash! A blinding light disappeared to reveal the four-gundam pilots, now six with Relena (Alleen ) and little Celest clutching her saphire passage key.
"Lights", as if by magic the crystal chandeliers lit with gleaming light filling the room with a beautiful but empty room.
"This is very elegant", remarked Trowa. The room they were in was indeed fit for royalty. It was a rather large room with a narrow red velvet carpet to the end of the room, which stood a golden door, lined with jewels. Massive paintings of people and landscapes covered the white walls. Statues as well as jewels in glass casings also decorated the room.
"Pay no mind to it, and do not touch a thing."
"That means you Duo." Wufei simply added.
"I did nothing! Nothing to you and your justice crap!"
"Sshh, please be quiet. There are numerous traps in this room and one is activated by noise. We really don't want to die yet. Be careful and stay on the red carpet."
Duo and Wufei silenced and followed the rest of them towards the door. Quatre walked besides Celest and quietly took her hand. Quatre smiled down at her as she turned a light pink. **He's so nice to me. I've never seen a boy like this before. ** Thought Celest.
On the way walking Wufei saw a pair of samurai swords, (ya ya I know he's from China). He stopped to admire the beauty of seeing these antiques. Forgetting what Celest had told him, he placed one foot off the carpet and as he was about to step on the floor… "Hey! Why'd ya stop?" Duo called loudly and surprised Wufei. Wufei stumbled and fell.
"You baka!"
Suddenly poisonous darts shot from the paintings on the walls.
"What have you done!" yelled Celest. "Get up quickly, we must hurry now!"
Running fast to the golden doors more traps sprang. Poison darts shot at them and walls closed behind them. Lasers started to shoot from the chandeliers as ground fell beneath them. They reached the doors and desperately pulled on the sapphire knobs. It would not budge. Suddenly all stood still: the lasers, darts everything silent.
" This cannot be good ", said Wufei. The door, which they had entered with, changed in to a sliding wall with metal spikes.
" Oh s*** ", Duo said under his breath.
" I know! Now what!!??" yelled Quatre. The door can swiftly towards them, earning to slice through their every tendon. Ready to kill.
" Take the d*** gun and shoot the door! " Wufei grabbed the laser gun from Trowa's belt and fired upon the golden wall.
" Not a dent!" exclaimed Duo. Celest ran away from them ran and ran until she was at the right corner of the elegant room.
"Celest come back!" Quatre yelled with no avail. The young girl chose not to listen and the others knew not what or why the girl had chosen to run to that corner. She stood before a grand diamond, the most precious stone in the whole room. Celest pulled out the sapphire key which was hidden in the breast part of her kimono. Placing the key in the glass case that surrounded the diamond she turned and opened it hurriedly. She took out the jewel and placed the key in a whole where the jewel had been. Again she unlocked a hidden door besides her.
"Come on! ", the girl called to the pilots. " Quickly before the spikes get you!"
" You heard her! Lets get the hell* out of here ", yelled Trowa as they all ran toward the door. They each went through he portal and Celest waited to go through until she was holding Quatre's hand. The door closed and the spikes gave aloud crash as they hit the wall with force. The imprints of spikes were imprinted on the door.
" Lets get going before someone else finds us "; Trowa picked up the still unconscious Relena that had been set down momentarily.
After the Quatre's eyes were no longer fixed on the door he noticed that the young pigtailed girl, Celest, was holding his hand no longer. "Celest ", he cried aloud, his voice echoing in the surroundings.
"Hey Quatre ", came the softer voice of Duo. " Why don't you calm down, I mean she's right over there."
"Celest!" he ran to the side of the young girl and knelt down besides her small form. "Celest, sweaty, you scared me out of my mind! How did yo9u know about that passage and I just know there's something more you're not telling us? Celest? Celest!" No matter how much he spoke to her, her eyes stayed fixed on an old stone wall. Quatre was puzzled. He just didn't understand. "Why are you staring at the wall?"
" We should probably take our chances back outside and find a way back to our gundams." Said Duo.
" We can't Duo, " started Trowa. "For all we know the enemy could have placed them somewhere and we still have those troops following us. "
Celest kept still. She stood as if in a trance, her eyes fixed on nothing. She raised her hand to the wall and it rippled, like a pond would if you touch it. The false image disappeared and there stood yet another door. This one old and meek, and made of steel. By each side of the door stood a stone dragon covered in mold.
" It was a wall., " said Wufei
" Was. We seem to be running in to a lot of doors lately, " commented Duo.
"It wasn't a wall. It was an illusion made to fool intruders. " She told the others.
" So where does this one go? "
" It leads to my mistress. "
"So…This is the last thing? "
" It better or I'm leaving to find Nataku "; Wufei folded his arms looking angry with her.
" I'm sorry that this has been difficult for you, sir. " Celest began. " But it would have been easier if you hadn't touched anything, and this is the last door and it leads directly to her. "
" It has not been difficult for me! I am not some weakling! "
"I'm sorry, sir."
"It's Chang, Wufei Chang. "
" Yes Chang-san. "
" Hmph."
" We should go now. " She put her key in to a small keyhole on the door. When she took the key out the dragon's eyes began to glow a dark red. The dragons suddenly became real, no longer stone. They growled fiercely at the pilots and spat fire as well. Celest approached them normally and stroked each of their long and scaly necks as though it were a dog. The others looked in shock.
" Pets of yours? " Duo said rather nervously.
"Those are red dragons from the ancient times of Japan." Said Wufei.
" Really? " She said as the dragons made a purring sound and licked her as well. " These are actually Jurivian red dragons from the ancient time of planet Jurive. Both of them are boys. The one to the right is Meitenou, which means dark heaven king, and to the left is Meikaiou, that means dark sea king. "
"It even sounds like Japanese. "
"Shouldn't they be attacking?" asked Trowa.
" Hey! Don't give them any ideas. " said Duo.
" If they stand next to a door as such, and they are red dragons…"
" Do you really wanna die Trowa!? "
" No, it's all right. He's right anyhow."
" Huh? "
" Well they are supposed to be guarding. It's just they are mine."
" What do to mean by yours", asked Trowa.
"Well, living in the shadows has always been boring for me and my mistress has always been busy. So she gave me the ancient guardians of Jurive to me as my playmates. But I guess I don't live in the shadows, but I usually stay in the shrine and it gets pretty boring so I come out here and play games with them."
"I see."
Celest opened the door and pointed to the inside. "Shall we go now? I know it took us a long time, but we're here now."
"O.K." Trowa walked calmly through as Duo watched the two dragons carefully before entering. As Wufei walked by the red dragons growled at him showing their dislike, he merely made a face and looked at them with disgust.
Celest watched each go and then saw Quatre standing next to her. Meitenou rubbed his head towards Quatre's hand and Quatre stroked his neck gently. Celest chuckled and grabbed his hand playfully and they walked through he door together.
Inside was a beautiful room lined with purple drapes and golden walls? No furniture. Towards the center were a few steps leading to a platform, on the platform was a beautiful woman. Her hair was a shade of purple; it flowed across the ground it was so long. She had a white kamono that was lined with gold and purple that stretched on the floor since she was sitting. But..her eyes seemed. Distant. They showed of a gray or a light purple it was then that she spoke.
"My precious Celest, what have you brought me?"
"Miaiten! I have so much to tell you!" she ran over to her mistress and gave her a long embrace.
The girl broke apart from the women and looked upon her with sadness.
" Do you hurt?"
"Very much", she responded. " But no matter of it now. Tell me of these strangers."
Celest waved the others over and lightly pushed Quatre towards her mistress.
"I'm Quatre and you see we, or Relena needs your help. She's loosing a lot of blood and she's dyeing.
" I understand ". " Celest, please come here. I simply don't have the energy to stand. "
As Celest ran over to her Wufei asked, " Are you ill? "
"No. I am just feeling the loss and pain of this war. Since I am part of this ship and Jurive. "
She placed her two hands besides both sides of Celest's head. Slowly she began to read her mind." Yes ". She said at last. " My name is Miaiten. (Translated to Beautiful Love Heaven. Hehehe) set the princess in front of me."
Wufei set down Relena in front of Miaiten. " This is a poison ", she spoke.
"What! Is it deadly?" Duo almost shouted.
" Silence. She will not die. But what she will go through in the future is worse than death. Heaven and Hell are now combined in her. It's a dangerous power, beware of it. Demone is not human, you should know."
" Can we cure her? "
" We don't even know what's wrong with her, " said Trowa.
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" Status", Heero's voice rang throughout Wing Zero.
" Closing in on enemy ship, " it responded.
The gundam brought out its light saber and stood in mid space awaiting a challenger.
*
" So he wants to fight, " said and evil Demone.
**
In the shrine of Jurive a vid screen popped up in front of everyone, it showed a picture of Wing Zero with its light saber. A voice rang out " Watch everyone watch as I destroy Wing Zero. "
Relena moaned and her eyes began to flutter, no one noticed.
" It's Demone! " cried out Celest. " Wing Zero has come to challenge him."
On the screen it showed Demone's black and gold gundam, also with a silver saber. It suddenly charged at Wing and they both began to battle furiously.
"Watch as I destroy him!" came the ring of Demone's voice.
They stopped fighting for a minute and there was a stern voice, " Return Relena and the pilots, now!" And then again there was a charge.
" Never! " screamed Demone. " Say goodbye Wing Zero!" Suddenly Demone broke away from Wing Zero's grasp and with mighty thrust his silver saber slashed through Heero's gundam.
Suddenly pale faced Relena, now with fangs, leaped up and charged at the vid screen screaming " Heeerrrrooooo!" Blood oozed out of her neck (I know how much blood could a person loose. Oh well) as she banged on the screen. " Noo! No! " Her eyes were bulged and Wing Zero exploded. Furious and like a zombie she continued until Trowa came from behind her. He tried to strike her a stone only she snarled at him and leaped on him wrestling. An evil grin appeared on her face. Bang! Duo struck Relena over the head with the same brick Trowa had tried to hit her with. Relena no lay stretched across the floor unconscious. Trowa got up and caught his breath and stared at Miaiten.
" Some combination ", said Duo.
" There is nothing you can do, not now. An opportunity will come soon."
A loud and angry bang came from the entrance of the shrine.
"Open up! " yelled a soldier.
" Their here! " yelled Wufei. " We must escape. "
Miaiten pointed to the right and a wall sliced open. "There is your escape, it will take you directly to your gundams ", she said.
"Thank -- ( Duo cut off there)
" I only ask, that you take Celest with you. "
" What!? " Celest grabbed the women and started to cry. Miaiten took Celest off her and kissed the sobbing girl's forehead, then she waved her hand over the girl's eyes and she fell in to an instant sleep. Miaiten handed Celest to Quatre. " She will awake in 8 hours, take care of her. " he nodded and they all left, Wufei taking Relena. They were lead directly to the ship cockpit, where their gundams were being held.
" All right everyone, lets get out of here! " said Duo over his COM of his gundam.
Wufei set Relena on his lap toward him in his gundam and set off. Quatre took Celest on his lap and also shot off in to outer space. They headed back to the base on Colony 1.
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Hey peeps wassup? Hey I'm soooo sorry I haven't submitted in sooo long!! Gomen!!! (gets on hands and knees and begs for forgiveness ) Well I would like to thank all those who sent me feedback. Thank you all!!! I got sooo much! And I save them to! Please send more for this chapter! And this was finished 2-11-01. It's really hard to get chapters done so please stay with me. And I will NOT abandon this fic. I also do not own gundam wing, so no sue, thanks. Love ya all!!
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