Title: Atlantis Part 2
Author: Munchkin
Archived: Fanfiction.net, you actually want it? Fine, just tell me where it is
Warnings: OOC (strongly most likely) Angst, future 2x1/1x2 and 3+4/3x4 Hilde+5 (one way)
Notes: I hope and pray for those who have lost there lives and have yet to be found in the aftermath and during the bombing. This is a horrible tragedy and I know that I was lucky that it didn't hit my family as bad as many people and I hope those who planed this get what's coming to them.
Notes on Stories: I have to keep my mind active so I wrote. And I found some very pathetic errors in my last part and am very sorry...but it was 2:30am my time when I finished. So here is one of the corrections.
1. further I don't think England had gotten to the medieval type stage at around 500 or so BC
Umm.. this part is kinda short and more descriptive I think....enjoy!
Disclaimer: Own 'em? I think not....darn.
Heero shook his head from side to side trying to clear the thick heavy feeling in his head that had seemed to crawl in that morning and die there.
He had been sailing, if that was what you could call lying in a rowboat in the sea, for many two days...or was it three? He couldn't tell anymore. His mind was buzzing and his stomach was one big angry scream in his body.
He felt sticky and tired, his hair was one big knot and sweat rolled down his redden face as the sun beat down unmercifully on him as the boat swayed and drifted further. In an half dream he begin to think about earlier.
*
The fisherman had alerted many people to his escape, though none were able to ketch up, before he got pulled into one particularly strong tide and was way to far away to get to.
He could still see Captain J, in all his fury, march up to the end of the dock and yell at him...cursing his name and swearing he'd get him back one way or another. The old man's clothing had been wet with sea spray and his glasses had reflected enough for even Heero to see his anger as far away as he was.
Heero could feel his happiness to be free bubbling up and his slight fear of drowning(1) come slinking back as well from the place he sent it, when he realized he was free. After that, for nearly an half an hour he had lay at the bottom of the tiny boat and shivered remembering the last time he had been in the ocean.
His fear had been banished again once it was obvious that for now the boat was going to hold up, and that he had forgotten one essential thing when escaping....He hadn't brought food or water.
Heero was already underweight, J had always kept him underfed and generally tired to make sure he couldn't fight back when beatings came or J had felt the need for....another type of exercise. He didn't, couldn't afforded to lose more weight. But that was what he was doing.
So why did he keep thinking that he'd land somewhere much better, and that it would all be worth it?
*
Heero woke with a jerk, looking wildly around for what had awakened him...
There it was again.
That rushing sound of a high wind and some sort of...ka-plink?
Water.
Water was in the boat and rain seemed to be falling.
Waves with whitecaps had already begun and the rumblings of thunder and lightning catcalled from the edges of his hearing.
'Oh Gods no!'
The boat wouldn't be able to take a storm. It could barley keep afloat as is.
He'd be stuck in the sea again.....maybe this time for good.
^*^
(2)
Duo Maxwell slapped his hand on Wufei's back causing the reading boy to jump. "Hey Wu-chan!"
"Maxwell stop calling me that!"
"Na, I think I like that name for you. Its very suiting!" Duo walked over to a bookshelf, hands on hips, and Wufei took the opportunity to yank his braid and was rewarded with a shriek.
"WU-WU, that was low! Attacking poor little me when my back was turned like that!"
"Poor little you? Hardly!"
"Hmpf! And here I was going to ask you to join Quatre, Trowa and I on a picnic, now that our studies are over for this year."
Wufei rolled his eyes. "Maxwell, you know very well, that I'd end up going even if you hadn't asked."
"So?" Duo asked, smiling innocently at Wufei. "I still was going to ask!"
^*^
Heero grabbed the edges of the small row boat. His eyes catching more detail than he had at first....like the whitish paintjob that had long sense began pealing and the way the wood seemed to give into his hands.
Thunder boomed and growled like a caged beast ready to come out destroy anything in its path, while lightning danced across his vision. White caped mountains of water played with him while salt blinded him and attempted to choke the last resistance out of his feeble hands.
He coughed and hacked against the water that entered his mouth and nose, while the boat did nothing to stop itself from being submerged. His vision did a waltz when finally on of the waves finally hit its mark and sent him tumbling down into the ocean while the rickety vessel broke apart.
He reached out a hand, searching for anything to grab and was rewarded by feeling a bit of a plank glazed his fingertips before gliding out of reach. Clinching his teeth he stretched his arm out again and this time held tight to the board.
Sagging on the wood he breathed deeply, taking a lungful or two of water along with the air, and let his eyes close as the waves swayed and picked him up. He felt so tired. Like before but he wasn't sure he could keep his hold on the wood if he fell asleep. Heero couldn't let himself, not matter how tempting the sandman seemed to be.
His eyes drifted shut as rainwater slid down his face and saltwater played with his dead weight. The dark comforting blanket of unconsciousness was placed over his eyes but he could have sworn he saw chestnut and violet flash before everything faded completely.
^*^
Wufei looked over the meadow. It was a nice sort, small with a small stream running between it and wild flowers grew all around. Butterflies circled and bees buzzed, everything was perfect.
Well, at least until you added a hyperactive heir to the fief of Magalan, fun loving heir to the Winner fortune, and a Gypsy. After you added that concoction you might as well blow up this peaceful place.
The food had been great. Sandwiches with a little left over pudding and some sort of fruit juice from last night. So far it had been great. Not too many fights had broken out, and the onna's of the area, commonly known as Hilde and Relena, had yet to find them and make life miserable. It seemed Hilde had developed a crush on the foreign boy a few years ago and now wouldn't leave him alone.
Wufei was now sitting on the right bank of the river watching Trowa do a series of flips and handstands, while Quatre applauded and Duo....come to think of it where was that loudmouth baka? Wufei was about to look around when he felt pressure on his shoulders and heard the unforgettable sound of a splash before his riding cloths, him included, had been submerged. Courtesy of Duo.(3) Not only that, but by being in the water Wufei found that his hair tie had once again been stolen.
Sputtering and cursing Chang rose to the surface. "MAXWELL!" Fully ready to take his katana and hunt the braided individual himself Wufei surveyed the meadow.
Quatre was trying to hold in his giggles politely, while Trowa looked him over, blank faced , but there was a slight twinkle to his eyes. Wufei growled at them and stood up.
He hadn't seen Duo. That was not necessarily a bad thing. But he barked in his most threatening voice anyway. "Where'd he go!"
After this Quatre didn't seem to be inclined to politely hold in his laughter as he started to laugh during the sentence. "H-he, " snort, "went th-that away!" Quatre pointed to the right side of the tree line.
Wufei nodded and sat back down. He could get Duo back later. No need to waste time and energy trying to find him. The braided one would come back, he always did.
^*^
Heero woke sluggishly on a beach, his mind processing his surroundings slowly.
Sand was everywhere, scraping roughly at old wounds and covered his mouth. Slowly moving his hands and feet he made sure he was still in one piece. He was a little worse for wear but all there. And amazingly the board that he had used to keep his head up was still being crushed to his breast.
Using his hands for leverage he pushed himself up and was immediately swept over with dizziness and was forced back into a crawling position. After resting for a while he tried again, slower this time.
Once on his feet he looked around. The beach was deserted, no on was around for as far as the eye could see and ships were none existent. Lush trees grew from the bank, a few feet from where he stood, and the sky was clear. As if mocking him and innocently telling him that she could never do throw such a tantrum as she had hours, or had it been days, he wasn't sure how long he had been out, before.
Knowing he needed help, weather he like it or not, he took a shaky step towards the tree line. Hopefully there would be civilization close by....
^*^
Duo smiled as he walked threw the woods. He wasn't sure if Wufei was going to come after him or not but it was still nice to get away from the others and just admire the beauty of the woods.
Light steamed down from branches making golden patches on the moist ground, and young tree's new green leaves had just opened, giving the surrounding area a clean look. Flowers and toadstools littered the forest floor, while spiders webs glistened in darkened corners. (4)
He was so entranced by the peaceful feeling and looking around his surroundings he almost didn't hear the stumbling footsteps before they were mere feet way.
Jerking out of his musings Duo looked around, nervously incase Wufei really had fallowed him. Instead his gaze was filled with a falling gray and brown blur.
Acting on instinct, Duo grab the person shoulders and helped put him back to his feet. "Hey, you alright?"
Duo's breath was taken away when bright blue eyes flickered open and looked slightly unfocusedly in his direction. The slightly shorter boy, for that was what Duo though the gender of the person was, even with all that hair, was beautiful. He seemed a bit roughed up, but his eyes seemed to draw him in. Duo's overview of the strange boy was broken with the said brown-haired boy mumbled, "Violet?" before collapsing.
Eyes widening in worry Duo caught him again and was amazed at how light he was, looking down Duo found out that the boy was in fact out cold. Sighing a bit from not being able to ask for the beauty in the roughs name Duo cradled him before heeding back to the picnic area.
On his way Maxwell formed what he could assume from the look of his rescuee.
Number one the boy was either a slave or some sort of cabin boy judging from the gray scraps of material that served as cloths. And second he had been either mistreated or had been lost for some time. Long scrapes and scares blossomed from his otherwise perfect skin and his ribs poked painfully from under the gray cloth. Nodding to himself Duo called out to the others, planning on getting back and getting help for the boy in his arms.
^*^
It had been about a half an hour after Duo had left that Quatre started to look over in the direction that Duo had gone and frown. Trowa wondering what had captured his friends attention walked over. "What is it Quatre?"
"Someone needs help. He's not in good shape. We need to get ready to leave. " Was all he said in return and started packing.
Trowa looked at him for a moment wondering what Quatre may not have been saying before joining him in collecting the supplies. While Wufei just snorted to himself and stayed by the river, now used to Quatre's strange feelings about things.
Ten minutes after they bags had been packed a yell and the crunching sounds of twigs and leaves being stepped on came up on the right before the tree line opened telling everyone of Duo's arrival. And as he did so Quatre gasped and ran over.
"Heero!"
^*^
Side notes
1. Incase your wondering Heero had been focusing at escaping not on how and where he would be after he had. Anyway if you were pulled threw the sea when you were young etc. etc. you'd be at least a little freaked.
2. Incase anyone is wondering what happens with Duo and the others happens the day of the picnic etc. While what happens to Heero (up to a point o 'course) happens starting around a day before or so.
3. Poor Wufei! Imagine around 10 years of this so far!
4. Label me and call me a tree hugger! I LOVE the woods and all the beauty in them. Take a morning sometime and take a walk around one. Its an experience I recommend.
Sorry this isn't longer. It would have been shorter but I tried to beef it up as much as I could.
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Author: Munchkin
Archived: Fanfiction.net, you actually want it? Fine, just tell me where it is
Warnings: OOC (strongly most likely) Angst, future 2x1/1x2 and 3+4/3x4 Hilde+5 (one way)
Notes: I hope and pray for those who have lost there lives and have yet to be found in the aftermath and during the bombing. This is a horrible tragedy and I know that I was lucky that it didn't hit my family as bad as many people and I hope those who planed this get what's coming to them.
Notes on Stories: I have to keep my mind active so I wrote. And I found some very pathetic errors in my last part and am very sorry...but it was 2:30am my time when I finished. So here is one of the corrections.
1. further I don't think England had gotten to the medieval type stage at around 500 or so BC
Umm.. this part is kinda short and more descriptive I think....enjoy!
Disclaimer: Own 'em? I think not....darn.
Heero shook his head from side to side trying to clear the thick heavy feeling in his head that had seemed to crawl in that morning and die there.
He had been sailing, if that was what you could call lying in a rowboat in the sea, for many two days...or was it three? He couldn't tell anymore. His mind was buzzing and his stomach was one big angry scream in his body.
He felt sticky and tired, his hair was one big knot and sweat rolled down his redden face as the sun beat down unmercifully on him as the boat swayed and drifted further. In an half dream he begin to think about earlier.
*
The fisherman had alerted many people to his escape, though none were able to ketch up, before he got pulled into one particularly strong tide and was way to far away to get to.
He could still see Captain J, in all his fury, march up to the end of the dock and yell at him...cursing his name and swearing he'd get him back one way or another. The old man's clothing had been wet with sea spray and his glasses had reflected enough for even Heero to see his anger as far away as he was.
Heero could feel his happiness to be free bubbling up and his slight fear of drowning(1) come slinking back as well from the place he sent it, when he realized he was free. After that, for nearly an half an hour he had lay at the bottom of the tiny boat and shivered remembering the last time he had been in the ocean.
His fear had been banished again once it was obvious that for now the boat was going to hold up, and that he had forgotten one essential thing when escaping....He hadn't brought food or water.
Heero was already underweight, J had always kept him underfed and generally tired to make sure he couldn't fight back when beatings came or J had felt the need for....another type of exercise. He didn't, couldn't afforded to lose more weight. But that was what he was doing.
So why did he keep thinking that he'd land somewhere much better, and that it would all be worth it?
*
Heero woke with a jerk, looking wildly around for what had awakened him...
There it was again.
That rushing sound of a high wind and some sort of...ka-plink?
Water.
Water was in the boat and rain seemed to be falling.
Waves with whitecaps had already begun and the rumblings of thunder and lightning catcalled from the edges of his hearing.
'Oh Gods no!'
The boat wouldn't be able to take a storm. It could barley keep afloat as is.
He'd be stuck in the sea again.....maybe this time for good.
^*^
(2)
Duo Maxwell slapped his hand on Wufei's back causing the reading boy to jump. "Hey Wu-chan!"
"Maxwell stop calling me that!"
"Na, I think I like that name for you. Its very suiting!" Duo walked over to a bookshelf, hands on hips, and Wufei took the opportunity to yank his braid and was rewarded with a shriek.
"WU-WU, that was low! Attacking poor little me when my back was turned like that!"
"Poor little you? Hardly!"
"Hmpf! And here I was going to ask you to join Quatre, Trowa and I on a picnic, now that our studies are over for this year."
Wufei rolled his eyes. "Maxwell, you know very well, that I'd end up going even if you hadn't asked."
"So?" Duo asked, smiling innocently at Wufei. "I still was going to ask!"
^*^
Heero grabbed the edges of the small row boat. His eyes catching more detail than he had at first....like the whitish paintjob that had long sense began pealing and the way the wood seemed to give into his hands.
Thunder boomed and growled like a caged beast ready to come out destroy anything in its path, while lightning danced across his vision. White caped mountains of water played with him while salt blinded him and attempted to choke the last resistance out of his feeble hands.
He coughed and hacked against the water that entered his mouth and nose, while the boat did nothing to stop itself from being submerged. His vision did a waltz when finally on of the waves finally hit its mark and sent him tumbling down into the ocean while the rickety vessel broke apart.
He reached out a hand, searching for anything to grab and was rewarded by feeling a bit of a plank glazed his fingertips before gliding out of reach. Clinching his teeth he stretched his arm out again and this time held tight to the board.
Sagging on the wood he breathed deeply, taking a lungful or two of water along with the air, and let his eyes close as the waves swayed and picked him up. He felt so tired. Like before but he wasn't sure he could keep his hold on the wood if he fell asleep. Heero couldn't let himself, not matter how tempting the sandman seemed to be.
His eyes drifted shut as rainwater slid down his face and saltwater played with his dead weight. The dark comforting blanket of unconsciousness was placed over his eyes but he could have sworn he saw chestnut and violet flash before everything faded completely.
^*^
Wufei looked over the meadow. It was a nice sort, small with a small stream running between it and wild flowers grew all around. Butterflies circled and bees buzzed, everything was perfect.
Well, at least until you added a hyperactive heir to the fief of Magalan, fun loving heir to the Winner fortune, and a Gypsy. After you added that concoction you might as well blow up this peaceful place.
The food had been great. Sandwiches with a little left over pudding and some sort of fruit juice from last night. So far it had been great. Not too many fights had broken out, and the onna's of the area, commonly known as Hilde and Relena, had yet to find them and make life miserable. It seemed Hilde had developed a crush on the foreign boy a few years ago and now wouldn't leave him alone.
Wufei was now sitting on the right bank of the river watching Trowa do a series of flips and handstands, while Quatre applauded and Duo....come to think of it where was that loudmouth baka? Wufei was about to look around when he felt pressure on his shoulders and heard the unforgettable sound of a splash before his riding cloths, him included, had been submerged. Courtesy of Duo.(3) Not only that, but by being in the water Wufei found that his hair tie had once again been stolen.
Sputtering and cursing Chang rose to the surface. "MAXWELL!" Fully ready to take his katana and hunt the braided individual himself Wufei surveyed the meadow.
Quatre was trying to hold in his giggles politely, while Trowa looked him over, blank faced , but there was a slight twinkle to his eyes. Wufei growled at them and stood up.
He hadn't seen Duo. That was not necessarily a bad thing. But he barked in his most threatening voice anyway. "Where'd he go!"
After this Quatre didn't seem to be inclined to politely hold in his laughter as he started to laugh during the sentence. "H-he, " snort, "went th-that away!" Quatre pointed to the right side of the tree line.
Wufei nodded and sat back down. He could get Duo back later. No need to waste time and energy trying to find him. The braided one would come back, he always did.
^*^
Heero woke sluggishly on a beach, his mind processing his surroundings slowly.
Sand was everywhere, scraping roughly at old wounds and covered his mouth. Slowly moving his hands and feet he made sure he was still in one piece. He was a little worse for wear but all there. And amazingly the board that he had used to keep his head up was still being crushed to his breast.
Using his hands for leverage he pushed himself up and was immediately swept over with dizziness and was forced back into a crawling position. After resting for a while he tried again, slower this time.
Once on his feet he looked around. The beach was deserted, no on was around for as far as the eye could see and ships were none existent. Lush trees grew from the bank, a few feet from where he stood, and the sky was clear. As if mocking him and innocently telling him that she could never do throw such a tantrum as she had hours, or had it been days, he wasn't sure how long he had been out, before.
Knowing he needed help, weather he like it or not, he took a shaky step towards the tree line. Hopefully there would be civilization close by....
^*^
Duo smiled as he walked threw the woods. He wasn't sure if Wufei was going to come after him or not but it was still nice to get away from the others and just admire the beauty of the woods.
Light steamed down from branches making golden patches on the moist ground, and young tree's new green leaves had just opened, giving the surrounding area a clean look. Flowers and toadstools littered the forest floor, while spiders webs glistened in darkened corners. (4)
He was so entranced by the peaceful feeling and looking around his surroundings he almost didn't hear the stumbling footsteps before they were mere feet way.
Jerking out of his musings Duo looked around, nervously incase Wufei really had fallowed him. Instead his gaze was filled with a falling gray and brown blur.
Acting on instinct, Duo grab the person shoulders and helped put him back to his feet. "Hey, you alright?"
Duo's breath was taken away when bright blue eyes flickered open and looked slightly unfocusedly in his direction. The slightly shorter boy, for that was what Duo though the gender of the person was, even with all that hair, was beautiful. He seemed a bit roughed up, but his eyes seemed to draw him in. Duo's overview of the strange boy was broken with the said brown-haired boy mumbled, "Violet?" before collapsing.
Eyes widening in worry Duo caught him again and was amazed at how light he was, looking down Duo found out that the boy was in fact out cold. Sighing a bit from not being able to ask for the beauty in the roughs name Duo cradled him before heeding back to the picnic area.
On his way Maxwell formed what he could assume from the look of his rescuee.
Number one the boy was either a slave or some sort of cabin boy judging from the gray scraps of material that served as cloths. And second he had been either mistreated or had been lost for some time. Long scrapes and scares blossomed from his otherwise perfect skin and his ribs poked painfully from under the gray cloth. Nodding to himself Duo called out to the others, planning on getting back and getting help for the boy in his arms.
^*^
It had been about a half an hour after Duo had left that Quatre started to look over in the direction that Duo had gone and frown. Trowa wondering what had captured his friends attention walked over. "What is it Quatre?"
"Someone needs help. He's not in good shape. We need to get ready to leave. " Was all he said in return and started packing.
Trowa looked at him for a moment wondering what Quatre may not have been saying before joining him in collecting the supplies. While Wufei just snorted to himself and stayed by the river, now used to Quatre's strange feelings about things.
Ten minutes after they bags had been packed a yell and the crunching sounds of twigs and leaves being stepped on came up on the right before the tree line opened telling everyone of Duo's arrival. And as he did so Quatre gasped and ran over.
"Heero!"
^*^
Side notes
1. Incase your wondering Heero had been focusing at escaping not on how and where he would be after he had. Anyway if you were pulled threw the sea when you were young etc. etc. you'd be at least a little freaked.
2. Incase anyone is wondering what happens with Duo and the others happens the day of the picnic etc. While what happens to Heero (up to a point o 'course) happens starting around a day before or so.
3. Poor Wufei! Imagine around 10 years of this so far!
4. Label me and call me a tree hugger! I LOVE the woods and all the beauty in them. Take a morning sometime and take a walk around one. Its an experience I recommend.
Sorry this isn't longer. It would have been shorter but I tried to beef it up as much as I could.
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