P.S. Merry Christmas!!!!!!
Disclaimers: *takes one of her cats and lets her poop on a lawyers'
lap* Ooh, stinky. That's all you'll ever get if you sue me.
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Chapter Eleven: What Do You Think This Is? A Free For All?
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"Welcome to the end....of your journey." Hotaru smirked. She loved doing that. All the other scouts sighed and shook their heads. She loved doing that. Duo's eyes nearly bugged out at the young girl, but before she could see, Quatre gently smacked him on the shoulder. Heero seemingly shoved Duo out of the way and reached for his gun. "Ah, there's no need for that Heero. Since Wufei is rather...incapacitated at the moment, it would make sence that you follow us." Setsuna stated, already turning to head to their occupied guest room. Heero blinked before following.
Wufei groaned when he heard foot steps nearing the room. "What now onnas? Haven't you bothered me enough?" he called out, not knowing that the others were there. Cosmos and Haruka made a face. "Shut up with the onna already! We have names." Cosmos shouted through the door. Michiru sighed and placed a hand on her princess's shoulder before openeing the door. Wufei looked over and raised an eyebrow when he saw the others. "Took you long enough." he grunted, trying to sit up. Trowa squelshed a string of jealosy when Quatra immediatly went over to Wufei's side to try and help him up. All the scouts noticed that Cosmos had clencthed her fists to stop herself from helping. *She's remembering.* Michiru sang over to the others. "What the hell happened?" Duo asked, pushing his way over to him. Cosmos sighed and started from the point that she got her mission to Wufei and her meeting up in the computer lab to Wufei getting shot in the stomach and yet again to operating on him (sort of) and now. All was silent. "Aw, Wu-man got wasted." Duo exclaimed. Everyone sweatdropped. "Idiot Braid" Wufei muttered from his bedside. Hotaru cleared her throat. "Why don't we all go into the living room and have a nice cup of tea?" she asked, motioning to the door. Trowa looked around the room before exiting, noticing that another girl was still in here with him. Mentally shaking his head, he left to get his drink along with the others.
Cosmos watched from the corner of her eye as the tall boy, Trowa left.
'Finally' she thought suddenly. She blushed out of shame and realization.
Could she actually love the chauvanist boy in her guest bed that
helped save her life, immortal as it is, but still he didn't know that,
and was irresistably cute? 'Oh no!' she cried in her head as she realized
that she whad been staring at him and growing redder by the moment. "What
now woman? Haven't you bothered me enough for one day?" he asked, obviously
iritated. Cosmos's redness turned from embaresment to boiling anger. "Bothered
you?! You are the most selfish, egotistical man I have ever met
and I hope you get an ugly scar!" she fummed, fist ready to fight. "Thanks
to you! If I hadn't pushed you out of the way..." he trailed off, cursing
himself for giving his little secret away. Cosmos let her anger ebb at
this new development. "You? You took the bullet for me? But why?" she asked,
gently sitting on the edge of the bed. 'Damn that woman! How can she ask
that question when I don't know the answer?' he thought, seeing that he
had no way out of this one. "I guess it was because you look like someone
I knew from a long time ago. From my dreams." he answered slowly. Cosmos
felt her eyes widen and then looked into a pair of rather pained eyes before
they turned from her. She placed a warm ivory hand on his contrasting face
and softly pushed him to face her. "What kind of dreams?" she asked lightly,
as not to scare him away. "Damn you, why do you have to look so much like
her? Your eyes.." he gazed up at the white beauty before him. She slowly
removed her hand and looked questioningly at her object of unrealized affection.
"Look like who?" Wufei looked away again before answering. "Serenity" She
nearly fell off the bed in shock. "How do you know of Serenity?" she demanded,
regaining her posture. Wufei looked at her with hidden suprise. "How do
you know of Serenity?" he asked right back. Cosmos opened and closed
her mouth in shock, finding it suddenly dry. "I- I am and was her."
she stuttered, confusing him even more. "Perplexing onna. How can you be
and not be someone at the same time?" he piped back. Unconciously, her
star reverted to Serenity's cresent moon upon her high forehead. Her hair
became more silver and skin even paler. "What the hell? Who are you?" Wufei
asked from his stunned bedside. A flash echoed through the room and no
more was Cosmos before him, but now the woman he dreamed of, Serenity.
She blinked and waited for her silk dress to settle.
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Discordia was the first to recover from memories that shot through their
souls. She looked around and saw the others reactions to their wretched
behavior of so long ago. Athena was so pale she looked like she would pass
out. She kept staring at the wall in front of her with an unequaled sadness
in her eyes. Hera looked at her hands as if they would never be clean again.
Aphrodite was muttering to herself something no human could hear. Endymion
had a cross of anger and sadness over his once noble face, now the look
of a defeated man. "And now you know. Because of your selfishness, the
crucial link between the protectors and the protectee was never formed."
Luna scolded broken heartedly next to Artemis. "How...could we have been
so horrible? So vile?" Athena asked, finally tearing her gaze away from
the wall to Luna. The cat only sighed and shook her head. "I don't know.
You just were." she answered sadly. "We have to apologize to her. We have
to." Ahrodite suddenly said, speaking lucidly. Hera nodded. "Mercury, can
you scan to find out where she is? Or if the Outers are with her? They
have to be." she stated, looking at the blue haired woman. She simply nodded
took over her scanner from her subspace pocket.
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Hotaru stared into her cup of lemon tea, sorting out her thoughts. 'What
is this strange energy I'm sensing? I doubt the others have sensed it or
else they would have told me.' she thought darkly. She surveyed the room.
Heero was looking into his cup and swishing it around as it to see if any
posion was tainted it. To his left sat Trowa, quietly sipping his substituted
java and looking at Setsuna as she spoke about Wufei's condition. On the
arm chair sat sweet little Quatre, conversing with Michiru about a favorite
violinist. Lastly, on the floor sat the boy who knocked on the door, Duo.
'What's this?' She noticed a...tint of some sort around him. Honing her
senses, she looked again. She gasped slightly, making everyone look at
her. "I choked on my drink. I'm sorry." she quickly said before turning
her gaze back on Duo. A black aura surrounded him and that was the signiture
color a an all too familiar god. It was clear now. Duo was possesed by
Shinegami. *Haruka, look at Duo and tell me what you see.* she asked the
only other senshi not conversing. Haruka glanced at him and smiled slyly
to her young charge. *Oh, I see alright. A handsome young man, apparently
single....* Hotaru blushed. *Besides that. Don't you see the black aura?
Shinegami has claimed him.* she whispered the last part. A knock on the
door halted all conversations. "Well, who could that be?" Michiru asked
herself as she went to get the door. There stood the newly reserrected
senshi. "Hello Michiru."
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Well well well. Look who's back in town. I wonder what's going to ha-ppen *giggle* R & R!!!