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*Umi appears, suddenly* KATAN!!!! Hihi everybody!! This part is being written early because....today is Umi's birthday!! YAAAY!!!!!
I do not own Weiss Kreuz.
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Trade Your Fate::Act Five
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Aya sighed; Ken, Omi, and Yohji had been gone so long...maybe they had disappeared, too, just like Ran...She straightened up, taking her weight off the side of the bed. Climbing to her feet she glanced up at the clock on the wall: 9:05. They really had been gone a long time...
The girl peeked out into the hall and looked both ways. There wasn't anyone around, at all...Aya walked out of the room and down the hall a ways, deciding she would go back to the flower shop. Everyone would have to come home at SOME point...
"Excuse me..."
"Hmm?" She turned to face a man with dark hair and pale skin, dressed in a black business suit. "Yes?" she repeated, eyeing his friendly smile wearily.
"Pardon my bluntness, but...I know where your older brother is." Her eyes widened.
"Where is he?!" she asked immediately, hands clasped tightly over her chest. His smile did not waver as he tucked a hand into the pocket of the suit.
"I'll take you there."
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"Just drop it kid; I know you won't shoot." Omi's hand shook slightly, but did not loosen its grasp on the crossbow.
"Let Aya-kun go," he repeated. Schuldich smirked in response.
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"Wait..." she told him. He raised an eyebrow. "...How do you know where Ran is? And how did you know he was gone?" He grinned and tapped the side of his head. The man turned and began walking down the hall once more.
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"Omi!!" The boy's head jerked around, arm still holding the crossbow level with the German's throat.
"Ken-kun!! Yohji-kun!!" The two men were running towards him through the trees, panting. Both took up defensive stances around Omi, warily eyeing Schuldich and the man draped over his shoulder.
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Aya jogged down the hallway after the man, having second thoughts. "So...you decided to come after all." His smile was still present, yet he walked faster.
"Why are you taking me to Ran...?" she asked finally as they stepped into the forth floor elevator. He turned to look at her, smile beginning to fade.
"I think you deserve the entire story."
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"Schuldich." The Schwarz member stole a glance behind to find the source of the voice. "I see you've caught something," Crawford continued, rubbing the spots from his glasses with a piece of cloth. Nagi and Farfarello approached behind him.
"What...? This old thing?" He jerked his head towards Aya, smirking. He shifted the red head to the other shoulder once more.
"Very nice. Bring him along."
"No!!" Omi cried, desperation setting in.
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"You switched my fate with his...?" she asked disbelievingly as they stepped off of the hospital grounds, preparing to cross the street. He nodded, watching the traffic carefully. "But why can't you just switch them back...?"
"You and your brother both need to be in the same place as me, or else I can't do it. Before, I brought him into your hospital room...now that he's missing...."
"So, when we find Ran, you'll change fate back and he'll wake up...?" She scampered across the street after him, heading towards the park. He nodded.
"One thing...you will fall back into your coma in exchange for his waking up." She was silent as they walked, considering this.
"...Will I ever wake up again?" He did not answer right away, fearing to divulge such information.
"....Yes, you will, but neither you nor anyone should know. Not even me. It doesn't matter, though..."
"Hmm? Why not?"
"...When fate is returned to it's proper alignment, no memory will remain of it ever being changed."
"Why?"
"I don't know...that's how it's always been..."
"...You've changed fate before?" He nodded as they entered into the lush green trees of the park.
"Of course. I've had the ability all my life...I always end up changing things back, though..." the last part of his sentence was only whispered as his dark eyes watched the ground.
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"Take him; we'll deal with Weiss." Schuldich smirked, turning to leave as Farfarello charged Ken and things began to float around Nagi.
"Ja, Weiss!!" He waved mockingly before turning to leave the scene; the man he was carrying was making his shoulders sore.
"Hey!!" Aya-chan cried stepping in front of Schuldich. "Put Ran down!!" she commanded with an almost childish tone. He smirked, brushing some orange hair from his eyes; he had known from her thoughts she was coming, and there was someone with her...
"Pardon me. Do you mind?" He turned to find a dark haired man with a small smile, eyes closed.(---Umi: Think Xellos from Slayers, okay?!)
'I think you want to move...' he whispered into the minds of the two of them. Aya-chan blinked, thinking he MUST have said that out loud; the black haired man looked surprised, also, but continued, undaunted. He turned to Aya-chan.
"...Do you want me to wake your brother up?" Her eyes stared back into his, determination shining through.
"...Yes," she told him, knowing what was next but fearing it all the same. He nodded.
"Then he'll wake up." Aya-chan felt her knees grow weak as everything began to fade from sight.
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"Aya-chan!!" Omi cried from his place pinned against a tree. Nagi did not even spare the girl a glance as he increased the pressure against the boy. Yohji gasped in surprise as he glanced away from Crawford's fist to see what was going on. Ken managed to get Farfarello just far enough back to look over the man's shoulder. Each one was just in time to see her fall onto the ground, unconscious.
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The black haired man stood in the middle of the battlefield, watching everything unfold, becoming slower and slower...until suddenly, time seemed to be going backwards, the colors around him fading into bleak shades of gray. He knew better than to say time was reversing, though, after watching it happen so many times...everything was merely returning to it's proper place...
It was more curious to him this time, for he had never left two fates switched for such a long period of time...Silently, he wondered how things would turn out when everything was "back to normal," as he called it...
All four members of Schwarz disappeared from the scene, no doubt returning to their headquarters. Next, Aya-chan vanished from her place on the ground; certainly, she would go back to the hospital...Yohji, Ken, and Omi disappeared in unison, much as Schwarz had done but he wondered where they would land....
He turned back to the only one left besides himself; the red head who had began this entire escapade by agreeing to "the circumstances." He ran a hand through his black hair thoughtfully, wondering why the man hadn't vanished yet...
Suddenly, a thought struck him. Maybe fate couldn't decide where the red head should go...after all, he had been living his sister's fate for quite a while...Aya-chan had returned to her proper place, though...
Before he could muse any further, the man vanished from sight. The park became lush and green again as fate returned to the way it was meant to be.
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His eyelids twitched suddenly. They cracked open slightly, revealing his purple orbs for a moment before they crashed down over his eyes once more. The red head drew them open yet again, this time blinking slowly at the moonlight that fell on the sheets in front of him.
He had to force his stiff body to sit up in bed, wondering where he was. Aya glanced around the room; it looked like a hospital. Sure enough, he was in a bed, in a room, in a hospital. It was his own room, and not his sister's for once...but how had this happened?
He leaned forwards, burying his face in the palm of his hand; his other grasped a wad of the bed-sheets frustratedly. The red head thought for a moment but could not remember any reason to be in a hospital....
The door to the room opened suddenly, the overhead light coming on and illuminating what the full moon had not. Tiredly, the man lifted his head from his hand to see who had entered. His eyes met with three other sets.
"Aya-kun!!" Omi exclaimed. Hurrying over to the side of bed. Yohji and Ken followed behind him.
"Oi, Aya," Yohji began, pushing his sunglasses higher on his nose, "....you take long naps." The red head looked up at the three of them dazedly.
"What's going on...?" he asked carefully, genuinely confused. The three men looked down on him, also a bit confused.
"..Aya," Ken began hesitantly, "...you were in a coma for two and a half weeks."
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The man peered into the room carefully; he dare not get any closer. Listening to the conversation of those inside was enough. He smiled; fate hadn't been too far of when replacing the red head, so this would have to do. He turned away from the door, debating over what he would tell his employer about all of this...
His mission had been to change the fates of all in Weiss to incapacitate the team, therefore clearing the final roadblock in the way of his employer's plot. He had chosen to change the red head's fate first for it seemed the easiest of the four....yet even as he preformed the act did he realize what he had told Aya-chan earlier: he always ended up changing fate back.
This had held true, for him, and he hoped it always would....but perhaps, he told himself, he would change his employer's fate with a piece of roadkill, just for the sake of experimentation...
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The end!! Waaaaaa!!! Did everyone like it alright? If you did, I'd love to hear your comments!! Just click the pretty purple button, down there...as for the rest of you, I don't care!! Thank you for reading, have a nice day, and happy birthday to me!!! :D