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Chapter Six- Questions and Insults
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Speeding through the night like a bat out of hell, Setsuna skidded to a stop their pent house. Cosmos was slightly dazed and frazzled from the experience, but quickly pulled together and started to pull Wufei from the back. "Oh no. Setsuna! He's unconscious!" she yelled to the older time keeper. "There's no time to spare, get him inside and I'll se what I can do." she ordered, yanking open the door and making enough noise to wake Michiru, Haruka, and Hotaru. "What the hell?" Haruka muttered, tugging at her falling blue robe. "Please! Help him!" Cosmos cried, dumping him gently on guest bed. "Oh my God. Hotaru, go to the bathroom and get the first aid kit! Hurry!" Michiru pressed, losing the teal robe that hindered her movements. "Where did he come from?" Haruka watched as Hotaru returned and began to assess the damage. "I was on a mission and then he showed up. Setsuna, is he a soldier against OZ? He was also after the disk, which I got." Cosmos hovered over the others working on Wufei. "Good. We can discuss this later Princess, please." Setsuna breathed, trying to remove the bullet from the young man's stomach. He had been shot from behind, meaning that they would have to some how turn him over. 'Oh God, please let him be all right. He saved my life...' Cosmos thought quietly, sitting on the couch, being helpless. She, unlike the others, had no medical experience and could only offer her prayers.
"One three! One, two, THREE!" Haruka and Michiru heaved him on his stomach as carefully as they could. "He's losing blood." Hotaru noticed, doing her best to ease the pain with her powers. Cosmos' eyes lit up with an idea. "Couldn't I use the crystal to heal him? I'm stronger now with the knowledge of both Serenity and Bunny on it..." she trailed off after she saw the shaking of Setsuna's head. "No, Princess, you don't know what it could do in this dimension and your added powers. You could accidentally kill him or something equally as dangerous." she replied, dabbing a trickle of sweat from her brow with her arm. The bullet miraculously had missed any vital organs and the real and most prominent danger was the blood loss. Pressing her fingers into the wound, she tried to stop the crimson flow while she retrieved a fresh bandage. Haruka has lending her strength to Hotaru, who was beginning to grow faint with the power loss. Michiru switched from being a nurse and trying to comfort the boy, whose body she was afraid would go into shock. A few years back, Setsuna had insisted that they all go and take a class on first aid. Setsuna had many years of experience dealing with the medical field in the Silver Millennium, along with Sailor Mercury. Right now, she was thanking God that she was there with them now.
Cosmos was biting her lip to keep from crying out. This was so frustrating!
Here she was, the most powerful being in the cosmos and she was now at
the mercy of time, no offense Setsuna. Sensing her feelings, Hotaru looked
up weakly at her and offered her a small smile of comfort. "Don't worry
Princess, it'll be alight, you'll see." she whispered, turning back to
her task. "Setsuna, I don't know how much longer we can keep this up..."
Haruka's voice lingered. Wasting no time, Cosmos crawled down on the floor
with them and grasped Hotaru's hand, letting her energy pulse off her in
the little purple warriors' veins. Immediately, the bond became strong
and they sat in renewed confidence. Michiru handed Setsuna another clean
bandage and helped her secure it. So far, the worst was over. As long as
his heart held out, he would recover. "I've done all I can. All we can
do now is let his body recover, then we'll see about the rest." Setsuna
announced, wiping her bloodied hands on a soft towel provided by Michiru.
After those words were spoken, Hotaru, Haruka, and Cosmos collapsed back
in exhaustion, heaving to catch their breath and breaking the bond. "What
are we going to do with him, just let him here?" Michiru questioned, looking
around in the room and noticed all the damaged sheets, stained and angry
red. "Yes, but leave the door open. When he wakes up, we don't want him
to think he's trapped. One of us needs to stay with him..." Setsuna started.
"I'll do it. I owe him that much." Cosmos offered, not waiting for an answer
before moving a chair to his bedside and sitting. Haruka placed a hand
on the young woman's shoulder. "Koneko-chan, don't stay up all night. You
need to be alert in the morning, ne?" she said, kissing the crown of her
head softly before leaving back to her own room. Cosmos acknowledged that
and turned to gaze at this young stranger that had saved her life.
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Minako
Aino sat in front of the television, watching herself on video. "No, you
can't just leave me here! All alone like this! I thought you loved me!!!"
she heard herself say, mouthing the words to it. "No, baby, I do love you,
but my fa-Agh!" Minako screamed mid sentence, clutching at her heart. She
looked down and noticed that her skin was glowing a vibrant orange, seeping
into her body. 'What's happening to me?! This is like that time...Oh my
god! Am I reverting back to an immortal?' she questioned as the pain lessened
in her and the light emitting from her skin dimmed down to non existing.
Taking a few gasps of precious air, she reached over to her fuzzy orange
phone and punched in Ami's number.
Ami collapsed on the floor, heaving with pain. "Is it possible?" she murmured
as she witnessed her pale skin shinning a deep blue. Her scientology book
lay on the ground beside her foot, forgotten. After what seemed hours later,
it stopped and her skin became lusterless. She staggered up and plopped
down onto her couch when the phone rang, causing her make effort. "Ami,
did you feel that?" Minako's voice asked almost quietly from the other
line. "I believe that for some reason, our bodies are experiencing a relapse
back to immortality." she explained, looking around for a mirror for fully
assess what had just occurred. "Minako, I want you to quickly find a mirror
and please try to refrain all screams." she said as calmly as she could.
On her forehead shone the proud Mercurial sign of royalty as well as glowing
blue eyes. Screams could be heard from the other line.
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Wufei could hear murmuring, buzzing around in his head, waking him up from his slumber. "Maxwell, would you shut up?" he muttered irately. The murmuring stopped and Wufei took stock of what the situation was, and Maxwell was definitely not uttering a sound. "Where the hell am I?" he shot up, only to be pulled down by a pain in his back and stomach. "Oh no, you have to stay down!" a bell, no, voice urged him from his side. A curtain of impossibly white silk covered his upper body as ivory hands gently probed his stomach. "What-who are you?" he whispered, gathering strength in his arm to move the curtain from his view. Azure sapphires stared back, dark with worry. "I'm Cosmos. You're in my home, well, pent house in the guest room. I brought you here for medical attention from the OZ base, which was not destroyed." she stated in a single breath. A flood of memories came into play and he remembered her as the woman in the computer room, after his disk. He also remembered getting shot because of pushing her slightly out of the way. "Baka onna." he muttered, attempting to look down at his wound. She seemed to fume at this. "Yeah, well this 'baka onna' saved your ungrateful ass from OZ and let you bleed all over her sheets." she said before turning to leave. She stopped and looked over her shoulder. "By the way, you never told me your name." she called over to him. He snorted. "When I want you to know it, I'll tell you onna." he said, moving his head to the other side. She seethed silently for a minute or two before leaving.
Cosmos practically stomped out of the room and folded her arms with vexation.
"What's wrong Koneko-chan?" Haruka asked, rubbing a towel furiously through
her wet hair. She had just gotten out of the shower and came out to see,
or rather, hear kitten getting all upset. "That guy just woke up and he
mutters 'baka onna'. Can you believe that? I let that one slide because
he had just woken up. So then, I ask him his name and he says 'When I want
you to know, I'll tell you onna'. After we just saved that jerks' life,
he insults me!" she bristled, curving her mouth into a frown. Haruka glowered
at this. Nobody insults her princess. Nobody. Tossing the towel onto the
floor, she marched over to the guest room. Cosmos quickly followed suit
and watched as Haruka threw open the door and slammed into the wall. The
boy looked up in surprise and kept his eyes on the wind warrior. "Listen
here jerk off. Nobody, especially little ungrateful snot nosed little shits,
like yourself, insults her. She helped save your sorry ass from OZ soldiers
and she deserves a lot more respect then insults thrown at her. Is this
in any way unclear to you half pint?" she growled, standing protectively
in front of Cosmos. He opened his mouth to say something when he saw the
warning and promise of living death in her eyes. Quickly shutting it, he
shook his head and watched carefully as she left, Cosmos in tow.
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Quatre walked slowly down the hall and came to the huge wooden door that
housed the indoor gym. Sighing softly, he knocked on the door. There was
no reply. 'That's strange...he's always here at this hour.' he thought,
checking his watch. Yep, 6:30 on the dot. Only Wufei was insane enough
to actually get up and train at this un-godly hour. Knocking louder, he
waited and again got no answer. Scrunching his brow, he carefully opened
the door to peer inside. He gasped in surprise, seeing it was untouched.
"Unbelievable. He's not training. Is he dead?" he wondered aloud, shutting
the oak and moving on to the dining room. He was greeted by the sight of
Duo burning something on he stove...again. When they had first moved in
here, Duo had insisted that he cook. After many mornings of disputes with
the cooks, he finally managed to ward them off, promising them hazard pay.
"Morning Q-man. I haven't heard Wu-man screaming at me yet, is he dead?"
he asked nauchalantly, pouring half the salt into the concoction brewing
at his fingertips. "My thoughts exactly." mused a voice behind them. Heero
had awoken. "Morning to you too buddy. Have a seat, breakfast is almost
done." Duo grinned, putting out the fire on the stove and stirring with
great flourish. "Good morning Heero. Sleep well?" Quatre asked, taking
a seat across from him. "Hn" was the response and crinkling of paper as
Heero folded back the daily news. Trowa entered silently as always and
began to brew a cup of java, his heaven and salvation in the early mornings.
"Good morning Trowa. Duo's almost done with breakfast." Quatre smiled pleasantly
at his friend as he sat next to him. Trowa nodded in greeting and sipped
his precious java. The sound of sizzling indicated that Duo had dumped
the pots in the sink and was getting the plates. Trowa looked up from his
cup and glanced around the room. "Where's Wufei?" he asked, looking at
Quatre. "I don't know. He wasn't in the gym and he wasn't in bed when I
checked earlier. I assume he must have gone out. "Probably to get some
decent breakfast." mused Heero as his looked at his tasted dish in disgust.
Duo feigned hurt. "Heero, how can you say that? It's good stuff, it's...(spit)
nasty!" he spat as he tried the yellow pile known as eggs. "Gross. This
stuff reeks. I guess we'll have to go out again." he sighed, grabbing the
plates and quickly disposed of the toxin. "Duo, can I please re-hire the
cooks to cook now?" Quatre asked, looked rather pathetic with big blue
eyes. "No! I will get it right someday!" Duo declared, letting the running
water overflow onto the floor. Quatre just slammed his forehead into the
table and muttered something in Arabic.
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Phew! I'm finally done. I tried to make it longer,
but it didn't really work. Oh well, keep on trying I guess. R&R k?
Love ya!!!