New Beginnings
Chapter 3: Angels, Nobles, Nymphs, and Fairies
Heero woke to the sound of a singing voice; it made him feel safe and warm. As vision cleared he saw an angelic face of the woman humming softly as she stroked his forehead with a cool cloth. She softly played her fingers across his face, "Micheal?", she whispered.
"How... Do you know my name?", Heero asked faintly, "My real name?"
"She's your mother, Heero!", Duo happily sprain into view, ruining the moment of peace.
"Wait! How am I sure she is my mother?", Heero asked, now suspicious.
"Because I know about the two scares on your back, your blood type A+, your favorite color green, and your favorite stuffed animal was....", Salidia stopped do to Heero's hand over her mouth.
"Anyone can tell me that, from spying.", Heero muttered in her ear.
"Lookie! She has baby pictures too!", Duo said having dumped the contents of her handbag on the floor.
He held up one of those too embarrassing baby naked butt in the bath tub pictures up. "You looked sooooo cute!", he teased.
Heero snatched the picture from Duo's hand, "That's not me, it looks fake.... See here it's one of those religious postcards of an angel child.", Heero proudly pointed to the two small wings on the infant's back.
"But it is you Micheal! I hid those wings before leaving you in the care of a Dr. James.", Salidia stated, "Here, if you want proof, I'll bring them right back out."
She snapped her fingers, and there was a tearing sound as two, pure white wings appeared to sprout from Heero's back. The shift of weight made him fall backwards with a thud on the floor. Heero struggled to get up a tangle of cloth, flesh, and feathers. Duo just laughed, placing his hand on the table, which burst to flames Duo yelped and jumped back. "Ah the first signs of a young nymph's maturity.", Salidia said clapping her hands together, which put the table back as before.
"I know what this is!", Heero exclaimed, "A dream, a dream! I'm positive of it!"
Duo pinched Heero. "What was that for?", Heero demanded, finally clawing his way to the couch.
"It's not a dream.", Duo stated.
"He's right", Salidia came in front of Heero, "Here is what I remember sixteen years ago..."
She stared straight at Heero who was lulled to slumber by her two eyes. In turn she did the same to Duo, only to give him the memories of his father's on that night. (They dream the first two paragraphs of Chap. 1! I am just too lazy to retype!)
Meanwhile Quatre sat in his bedroom pondering over the strange visitor from the afternoon. He had felt insecure, she seemed to prey on his mind. All these thoughts whirled in his head as a torrent of wind would in a storm. He felt power surging from every tip of his body. A vase shifted on it's own off of the table a few feet away. Finally it fell, shattering into shards of glass and water. Only then did Quatre snap out of his mind of thought.
Heero awoke near sunset that evening, stirring gently and feeling the wings on his back shudder pleasantly as the muscles stretched as though working on their own. Duo had already been wakened from his slumber, and eagerly asked questions left, and right. "Do you believe her now Heero?", Duo remarked.
"Actually, yes.", Heero said trying to sit with the large feathery things that hung from his back, "However, I would prefer no one else finds out."
"Oh, but they must.", Salidia put in, "You see... Duo is a part fire nymph, part fairy. Trowa, a simple tree nymph. Quatre well, he's human, but a noble, or able to use magic."
"Anything else I should know about?", Heero stated.
"Yeah, she's coming on the camping trip!", Duo stated proudly.
"You just had to open your big mouth, didn't you?", Heero asked.
"Well, you do have an older brother, David.", Salidia said, "He'll be there by Tuesday, with the family heirloom."
This was turning out to be the worst day of Heero's entire existence....
The day arrived so ordinary, and yet had turned unordinary in a way. After convincing Salidia, (For he still refused to call her mom.) that it would be best to not have the wings at this moment, and so she hid them once again... The rest of the evening resulted in packing for the trip.
Salidia was lucky that the next day when meeting Salidia again, that he did not recognize the name. (Having selective memory he lost all of their ever meeting.) So on the shuttle they boarded it would take them close enough to the cabin that Quatre had chose, that the car ride would be short. (I personally wouldn't mind if it was a limo, but with someone like Duo I do not know...) So anyway, they got out of the plane to find a nice limo waiting... That took them to a trail, from which the cabin was only a hike away, Duo making it a race all the way. Trowa, Quatre, and Salidia were all in on it, however Heero and Wufei stayed far behind.(Wufei's mortal, however I may have someone grant him immortality later on...)