Title: ShadowHawk's Rage
Author: Mieko Kagetaka / Meela (Meela76@aol.com)
Chapter: Part 1
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and all it's components aren't mine. Don't sue, I'm
broke! Although Tiana Leandra Jolie, her gundams (Shadowhawk, Sidewinder),
and other original characters are mine.
Major pairings: for right now, it's non-yaoi, sorry guys but it may change.
Warnings: Um, a minor catfight, jealousy, angst, minor nudity, cursing
Notes: This is an AU with my pilot Tiana who interacts with the G-boys.
She's a unique character and so is her past.

"...." = speech
//...// = thoughts
***...*** = visionary advice
~*...*~ = flashbacks

ShadowHawk's Rage - Part One

[6 Years later]

***Tiana, it's time....***

She woke up from yet another vision. She shook her head sleepily, "Oy!
Why can't I have *normal* dreams like everybody else? Zut Alors!"

***Because you are special and are destined with this gift...***

"Yeah? Well sometimes I wish I wasn't so *special*," she muttered as she
got out of bed. Tiana loved her mother dearly, but this family 'gift' from
her ancestors can get a bit nerve-wracking.

She grabbed her clothes and headed for the communal showers. She pulled
up her long waist length dreadlocs before stepping into the hot shower.
Washing her arms and torso, she pondered last night's vision. Another great
battle will happen and she'll be piloting ShadowHawk once more. A brief
grimace flawed her honey brown, heartshaped face. Now at age 16, Tiana
became a well-seasoned fighter as well as computer hacker. She finished
lathering up and leaned against the wall as the hot water, caressed her toned
body. She closed her eyes as the water cascaded over her breasts and past
her bellybutton. A whisper of a smile on her full lips as she thought of
finally meeting her friend quickly vanished when JoAnn sneered at her.

"And just what are you smiling so much about, Mutt?"

Tiana cocked her head to the side, her jade eyes locked with JoAnn's
steel blue eyes. She turned off the water, took a breath and tensed her
muscles to maintain her growing temper. Stark naked, Tiana crossed her arms
and walked toward JoAnn.

"Honestly, JoAnn, must you always call me such names to make yourself
look less than the spoiled bitch you are? It doesn't become you at all.
There's got to be something nice to say in your vocabulary somewhere."

"What the - ?, "sputtered JoAnn, "Why you- ? How DARE you speak to me
like that?!"

"Like what, madamoiselle? Like the pitiful baka you are? Oh no, cherie,
you're much smarter than you think. Once you realize your full potential
then *maybe* you'll stop pestering me." she said as she about to walk away.

JoAnn raised her fist to strike at Tiana, "You're nothing but a heathen
nig--"

Before JoAnn could finish, Tiana swiftly grasped JoAnn's fist, twisted
her arm and applied pressure enough to force JoAnn to fall to her knees. "You
hear me, madamoiselle. Don't you EVER disrepect me or my family's honor
again... or else I shall be less polite. Can you dig that?"

Like a fightened deer, JoAnn nodded and Tiana released her, grabbed her
towel and walked away. Being called a heathen hurted like hell, but Tiana
was used to it. Ever since she and her sisters enlisted in the Sahara Mobile
Suit Academy on the L4 base, they never exactly fitted in. Tiana looked at
herself in the mirror while getting dressed. Her lovely face reflected her
blended heritage. Her father, Bernando Battalia Jolie was Italian, Cuban and
French. Her mother, Yoruba Morning Dove Jolie, was African, Blackfoot and
Seminole Indian. Tiana had kept her secret from the academy that she was one
of the few naturally born children on the L4 colony and the fact she owned
her own gundam, Shadowhawk.

Releasing her waist length dreadlocs so that they showered down her back,
Tiana sighed and looked at the ever-present red streak of hair that taunted
her since the deaths of her parents. After the day she made her vow to
avenge her parents' deaths, the red streak adorned the bangs of her hair.
disgusted with her exotic beauty, she hid much of her feminity under a black
hat and pulled her own weight with her male counterparts at the academy.
The guys respected her talent as a pilot and considered her as one of the
guys. With hat donned, she unconsciously touched her locket briefly, then
went to her laptop to start her daily interactive uplink.

TBC.....