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            Back by popular demands, here is the next chapter of this story.  It is a long part, so that you readers could enjoy it.  Standard disclaimers are still applicable.  As there are no other notes, please enjoy this part.

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True Beings Part 13

By Era-chan

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Cold and dark, the warehouse stood isolated in the clearing.  Night had come, though it wasn't essential, since the feeling of the building was always the same: evil.  It was an ideal place for the serpent to reside, but it was only very hard to find.  Especially by the opposite forces.  The group had patiently combed the whole Earth for its location.  It couldn't be in one of the colonies, since the serpent was partial to being on the planet.  The serpent doesn't go to space unless it was completely necessary.  Thus, the group knew that the base was on Earth.

Finally, they found the headquarters.  They didn't go near it, or else the serpent would detect their presences.  Through the eyes of a hawk and other animals, Trowa and Midii described the perimeters of the warehouse, even drawing them down for the others to see.  The group, with the information that they had gathered, plotted a plan of penetration.  It will be executed precisely, and without mishap.  Each boy would go in first, while the girls give back up behind the foliage of trees.

Relena came along, even through the protests of the others.  Heero had said nothing; instead he hid her somewhere safe, where no enemy would ever find her.   Her location was unknown to the rest of the group, since the dark angel was tightlipped over it.  No matter.  It was better if she was wherever Heero put her, since she was pregnant and all.

The Gundam pilots penetrated the warehouse, overcoming all the security silently and stealthily.  They didn't make any mistake; if they did, then they would put the four girls outside into action.  The girls' soulmates weren't particularly keen on that.  So that was why they were very thorough at their job.

Finally, a guard noticed the unique things happening, and pushed the alert button.  Chaos erupted.  Soldiers and scientists began to run toward their stations, never noticing the newcomers until it was too late.

By then, Heero had located where the serpent was.  The final battle between evil and good has began…

Milliardo was not a happy person.  His sister had gone with the group, into who knows where.  The only thing he was sure of was that she was in danger.  But he couldn't do anything to protect her.  With her powers, and the others also having mystical powers of their own, he was pretty much useless.  Not counting Heero, he wanted to be the one to protect his loved ones.  He hated the idea that his rival was Relena's husband.

Pacing the whole office, Milliardo scowled at nothing.  Too distracted with his thoughts, he didn't sense the dark figure that came silently into his room.  The only sign that he knew was that the dark stranger blocked his path.

Milliardo tensed.  "Who are you?"

The dark stranger smiled.

Milliardo fought down the icy feeling he felt, disliking the look in the other man's brown eyes.

"I said, who – "

The man cut him off.  "I'm someone who knows what you are feeling, Milliardo."  He went to the windows overlooking the other Preventers buildings.  "Even your hatred to Heero."

Milliardo didn't trust the man.  The man oozed evil, and he didn't trust him at all.

The man looked over his shoulder, giving him a sneer.  "I know that you don't trust me.  And I don't care."  He took something out of his pocket.  "I just want you to have this."  He tossed the vial and Milliardo reflexively caught it.

Before Milliardo could say anything, the man cut him off.  "It is the same potion as the one that Relena and Heero drank."  He gave him a mocking look.  "You already know that you will survive."  He nodded at the vial.  "That is enough for you and Lt. Noin."  He grinned.  "As for how I got it, that is a secret.  For now, it's just a gift."

Milliardo narrowed his eyes.  "A gift for what?"

"To protect your sister from Heero."

As if the situation was over, the dark man left.  Milliardo let him, staring down at the vial with a thoughtful look on his face.  The blond-haired man didn't see the other man's eyes turn red as the man left.  If he had seen it, he would have been more wary.  As it is, he was contemplating the potion.  After coming to a final decision, Milliardo opened the vial.

And drank from it.

The fight between the serpent and Heero was intense.  The serpent, having lived for a long time, had vast experience.  Yet he was no match for the dark angel prince.  Heero had lived as a Gundam pilot in the present; combined that with his past self, he was untouchable.

Heero stared impassively at the serpent.  "Tired?" he drawled.

The heaving serpent grinned evilly.  "No," it lied.

Heero smirked.  "Good."  His eyes changed into obsidian.  "Because I'm about to end it right now."

Black waves of energy surrounded the room and the dark-haired boy.  The serpent took a step back as the waves grew stronger, with an unseen breeze forming from the great power that came from Heero.  Brown hair turned into locks of onyx as it grew longer and down the boy's back until it reached the ground.  The dark green tank top and blue jeans swirled around the boy's body, changing into clothes so fine that the boy could only be royalty.  Armor appeared over the clothes, protecting him from harm.  Heero threw back his head and with a roar, black wings sprouted from his back.  The black waves sprang back from the enormous amount of energy that emanated from the transformation.  It settled on the ground, lying low, but never disappearing.

The dark angel prince stared at the serpent, who had stepped back instinctively from the powerful creature.  He gazed at the evil being coldly.

"Be glad that I'm not showing you my true form."

The serpent, whose confidence was substantially dwindling as he felt the power of the dark angel prince, was surprised.  "Your true form?"

Heero grinned.  "Yes."  Then his grin disappeared.  He held out a hand, and a mighty sword appeared in front of him, settling into his hand.

The serpent saw the sword, and his eyes widened in horror.  "The Lucifer Sword."

Heero nodded his head.  He brandished the sword, testing the weight, letting himself remember it.  "Yes, the Lucifer Sword.  One stroke of its blade and the person is eliminated.  One touch and the enemy is killed.  It is a powerful sword, ne?"  He lowered his hand, so that the sword rested beside him.  Then he took a step forward.  His onyx eyes stared intently at the serpent.  "Now I think it is time that I take care of you."

The two adversaries stared at each other.  The serpent tried not to take a step back.  It knew that this was the end.  It had thought that it could defeat the dark angel, due to his vast experience.  But he realized that he was overpowered.  The dark angel prince was too strong, even if he was reincarnated.  The rumors that his past comrades had told of him were true.  He hadn't believed it but now that he was the recipient of the angel's wrath, he could tell that he wouldn't have any mercy from him.  Fighting him that time, he had known that the dark angel prince was strong.  But he had only fought with him in the present form.  Even then, it had been a challenge.  Yet as he heard that this wasn't his true form, he was beginning to feel that he would not be the victor of this fight.  Nor would he see the next day, if what he saw from the onyx eyes staring back at him.

Heero smiled coldly.  His eyes darkened, so that the color exceeds its limit, becoming blacker, if eyes could become such that is.  "You went after the only precious treasure that I have, and harmed her.  That I won't forgive."  He raised the sword.  "I was easy on you the last time we fought, within the rules that I have for fighting.  But this time, I won't give you any mercy."

Before the serpent could even blink, Heero was upon him.  He swung the sword once, and then flew up.  The last thing that the serpent saw was the dark angel prince hovering above him.  Then the serpent saw no more.  He was destroyed, once and for all.

Heero didn't feel anything.  He should have felt remorse or anger for killing the serpent.  But it had been a part of his life, killing evil creatures, that he just felt the numbness that was associated after many killings.

A brush within his mind, a caress of love, swept his reverie away from the present.  Heero let it surround him, knowing that his soulmate was comforting him.  He savored the warm feeling as long as he can, before he reluctantly let reality come back.  Then he let his power burst forth.

The black waves snaked through the walls.  When the other Gundam pilots felt it, they knew that it was time that they destroy the warehouse.  They called forth their powers, and mass destruction erupted.  Screams of death and pain came, and then silence.  The walls crumbled within, with all the evil beings killed and perished.  The four girls, who did some harm to some runaways, stared worriedly at the crumbled warehouse building.

Five spheres flew out of the destruction and floated above them.  They flew toward the four girls, where they finally settled down.  The four girls immediately went to their soulmates, whose protective shield disappeared as soon as they had landed on the ground.

As the four couples comforted each other, Heero turned back to the crumbled warehouse.  He raised one hand, and a burst of black light blasted toward the building.  The black light surrounded the perimeter of the building.  Within the walls of the black light, the building disappeared.  When the black light disappeared, there was only a gapping hole in its place.  The warehouse was gone; with it the serpent and its minions perished for their evil doings.

Heero returned back to the other Gundam pilots.

"Mission Accomplished."

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            That is the conclusion of the battle between the serpent and Heero.  But this is not the end.  There is still this new man.  Who is he?  Is he an enemy?  Find out in the next part of True Beings.  If you hadn't read the previous parts, or had forgotten the story, then go to Era-chan's Lovely Little Corner.  Hopefully you'll find some more stories that you will want to read.