Heero walked down a long corridor. The lights were dim and he couldn't
quite recognize his surroundings. Suddenly a shadow appeared to his left.
He turned swiftly, but it was gone. He cautiously dismissed it and
continued walking. Another movement; this time to his right. But when he
turned, there was nothing once again. He turned back and the shadowy figure
was in front of him. The person was close enough for him to be able to see
the features of the face, but oddly, he couldn't.
"Who are you?" he demanded icily.
The shadow giggled. He could tell it was a girl.
"Answer me!" he ordered.
The girl giggled again. A spooky giggle.
"You know who I am, Heero" she smirked.
His eyes widened slightly, so she knew his name. He couldn't exactly place the voice either.
"Come on, Heero. Think"
Suddenly there was a flicker of light and he saw Relena before him. He gasped.
"Relena?"
There was another flash of light and the image changed to Trin.
"Nope, fooled you" she giggled.
Another sparkle of light and Relena stood by Trin, both of them facing Heero. In a flash, Trin was behind Relena and there was a blade in her hand. Heero recognized it. It was the same dragon blade he had given her for her birthday.
With a swift motion she sliced Relena's throat and smiled gleefully as the brunette collapsed. A final gasp for breath escaped Relena's rosy lips as blood stained her clothes and tricked into a red pool on the floor.
With shock, Heero watched Trin as she looked at the body in front of her, a strange smile played on her lips.
The lights flashed once more and the rest of the pilots stood a few steps behind Trin. She walked back to them.
Heero lunged at her as she was just about to cut Duo, but she avoided him easily. He threw a punch and she grabbed his fist and squeezed even as she heard the bones crack.
"You can't stop me, Heero," she said calmly as he fought to get out of her grasp.
He grabbed for his gun but she kicked it out of his hand. She proceeded with kneeing him in the stomach and as he bent over slightly, tripped him and he fell to the ground. Mercilessly she kicked him and blood sputtered out of his mouth.
She turned and once again walked toward Duo. Heero got up unsteadily and as she lifted the blade to slice the boy, tackled her. She smiled as he pinned her to the ground.
Then he felt her knee slam into his chest as she threw him over her and sat on his stomach, preventing him from moving.
"You taught me, Heero" she smiled. "I can mirror your every move"
All of a sudden he felt paralyzed, unable to move an inch. She gave him a pitying look and moved closer to his face, stretching over his body.
She kissed his lips slowly and bent down to his ear.
"You can't do anything, Heero" her voice was husky and low "How does it feel to be helpless, Perfect Soldier?"
* * *
Heero shot up in his bed. Cold sweat covered his body and he struggled to catch his breath. He looked around realizing he was in his room and as he looked toward the window he saw it was still night. Dark clouds were sliding over the moon, its light appearing, and disappearing once again.
He couldn't believe the nightmare he had had, but it got him thinking. He'd been training Trin for a couple of weeks now, and she was advancing quickly. He wasn't so sure it was a good idea to train her anymore. He had done it for her protection, but what if the perfect soldier had chosen the wrong path this time?
Heero walked toward the window and opened it, letting the cool air ruffle his hair. He looked down and saw a shadow on the deck. He looked closer and realized with astonishment it was Trin. Anger filled him as he walked out of his room. He couldn't believe this girl. He had clearly told her to stay off the deck.
* * *
Trin leaned against the deck's railing and stared up into the dark sky. For some reason she couldn't fall asleep, even though she was tired; and decided to come out here and watch the stars. Unfortunately for her, the sky was mostly covered with clouds, but she felt like staying outside anyway. Being locked up in that house was getting to her.
She was only praying Heero wouldn't find her out there again. As if on queue, she heard the double doors open and sighed. She was either cursed or he was monitoring her every move. She wasn't sure which one to choose.
A cold hand grabbed her shoulder and she was spun around roughly. She gasped as she faced Heero. His eyes were burning with anger, but she also realized he was sweating despite the cold night. The fact that he was dressed in nothing more than sweatpants, couldn't help either.
"I told you to stay away from here" his voice was monotone as usual, but rougher and angrier.
"I-I know," she stammered, suddenly at the loss of words.
He glared at her.
"Don't ever disobey me again," he hissed as his grasp on her shoulder tightened.
She winced; his fingers dug into her shoulder painfully.
"Heero you're hurting me," she stated firmly, trying not to collapse, as he was pressing into a nerve "Heero!"
He seemed not to hear her and when she thought her body was going to give out, he suddenly let go. Trin leaned against the railing and rubbed her shoulder. Heero's back was now facing her.
"I apologize," he said stiffly and she blinked in surprise. He apologized to her; that was a good sign already.
"It's okay," she said, as nicely as she could at the moment.
She walked around him and looked into his face. It was unreadable, but she sensed something wasn't right.
"Do you want to tell me what's wrong?" her voice was just above a whisper.
He considered telling her, he really did. But suddenly they heard a screech of tires coming from the direction of the road and both of their heads snapped that way.
Two black vans sped around the corner and down the road, one of them stopping near the base. People dressed in black jumped out of the vehicles and spread over the street.
Heero cursed sharply and grabbing Trin's arm, dragged her inside. There he let her go and she followed him up the stairs to the second floor.
"Wake Acire, we're leaving now," he ordered and she obeyed without a word.
* * *
As Trin burst into Acire's room, she immediately tripped over something and cursed angrily under her breath. She stumbled to the bed and with surprise found Duo with his arm wrapped around Acire's shoulders, lying on the bed next to her. Thankfully, they both had their clothes on.
Shaking her head to clear the disturbing thoughts, Trin reached down and shook them both roughly. Duo slapped her hand away in his sleep and Acire mumbled something incoherent. Exasperated, Trin ripped off the covers and shook them again. The pair slept on, oblivious. It looked like she'd have to resort to her last and most effective tactic. She took a deep breath of air.
"WAKE UP, DAMN IT!!!!!!!" she yelled.
Both Acire and Duo woke up with a start and Duo fell off the bed. Down the hall, she heard Wufei wake up and yell something about disrespectful onnas.
"Trin what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Acire cried angrily and Duo glared at Trin from his position on the floor.
"I should be asking you that" the brunette snapped angrily, and as the pair blushed continued, "Pack up, we're leaving now"
Without any further explanation she turned and walked out of the room, pushing past a very angry Wufei.
* * *
In about ten minutes everyone was gathered in the hallway. Each had a backpack slung on their shoulders. Acire was leaning on Duo and practically falling asleep; but all of the pilots, including Duo, were awake and alert. Trin as well was ready to act, but she was doing a great job hiding the fact that she was tired and worn out. Training with Heero wasn't exactly the easiest thing to do, but she never slacked off or asked him to take it easy on her. In result, he wasn't aware on how the training for the past weeks has taken its toll on her.
"We'll take out gundams to the nearest safe house and act from there" Heero snapped as he stood to face everyone. "I'll take Trin in Zero and Duo, you take Acire with you in Deathscythe"
All of the boys nodded and ran down the hallway, with the girls following them. They followed the hallway to its very end, there Heero opened a panel in the wall and typed in a code. A well in the floor opened and one by one they climbed down. As she climbed, Trin looked around. They were in a huge underground chamber. It was mostly dark, but as someone flipped a switch, five lights turned on one at a time, illuminating five gundams. Mesmerized by the five magnificent machines, Trin's foot missed a step on the ladder and she fell. She was fully prepared to land, but strong arms caught her and she looked up into Heero's Prussian blue eyes. Without a word, he sat her down and ran toward the center gundam. Trin followed him, noting that that was the most superior one out of all the gundams.
Heero waited for her at the foot of the gundam and as she ran up to him he pressed a button, and a cable came down. He grabbed Trin around the waist with one arm and the cable with the other. Then, the cable pulled up both of them and they jumped into the cockpit. Trin dropped her backpack into a corner and looked around curiously; she ran her hand over the control panel carefully. She'll have to ask Heero to show her around here once everything settled down a bit.
Heero sat down in the seat in front of the controls and Trin moved out of his way, and kneeled behind the chair. She watched over his shoulder as the gundam slowly came to life and with a press of a button Heero opened a steel panel over the chamber. All the gundams flew into the air and Trin held onto the back of the chair for support.
As the looked down through the screen, she saw people on the ground look up into the sky, then pull out their guns. Their small weapons however, couldn't hurt the gundams and the pilots didn't even bother counterattack.
After the takeoff the flight was rather smooth, and Trin found her eyes closing as she drifted into sleep.
* * *
She was awoken as she felt someone pick her up and heard the gundam's hatch open. She was still barely awake, and squirmed slightly as cold air touched her skin and absently pulled the jacked tighter around herself, forgetting that she didn't have a jacket on when they left the base. Night wind blew at her face and she buried her head in the person's chest. A part of her knew it was Heero, and a part of her didn't care.
A sinking feeling filled her stomach as he jumped to the ground and landed perfectly. There were voices, but her sluggish brain refused to interpret them and she slipped back into the dreamless sleep.
All of the pilots hid their gundams and were now standing on the beach. It was still night and the chilly ocean air made them all shiver. Surprisingly, Acire was awake and leaned against Duo for warmth. Trin however, was entirely asleep. Heero was forced to carry her out of Wing Zero and was still holding her in his arms. She was wearing his jacket, leaving him in just his sleeveless shirt, and her head was leaning against his chest.
Acire smiled to herself at the sight as the rest of the pilots talked. She knew those two were perfect for each other.
All of them walked up the beach and toward a cottage located on a slight hill on the edge of a forest. They were to stay there for a while, but it wasn't half as big as the last base was. It only had three bedrooms, which meant they were going to have to have a roommate, and one room would have to have three people.
Before anyone could say anything, Duo and Acire disappeared into a room. As the rest of them decided, Heero and Trin would share a room and so would Quatre, Trowa and Wufei. It didn't matter much, since they were only staying there for a week at the most.
* * *
Heero walked into the room he and Trin would be sharing. It was pretty big considering the size of the cottage, and had a large window and two beds on separate sides of the room.
He carefully laid Trin down on one of the beds. He then walked over to the closet, pulled out an extra blanket and dropped it over her.
Heero stood watching her for a moment. The sky cleared and the moonlight illuminated her features with it's icy light. Her hair looked black and her skin seemed pale, even light blue. For the first time he realized that maybe he was training her too hard. After all, she has never been trained like that before, and he was training her as he would a gundam pilot; which she was not.
In any case, they would be spending the following week or so here and that wouldn't give him much opportunity to train her. Which was probably good.
Suddenly catching himself on those thoughts, he became angry once again. She needed to be trained for her own protection, and that's that. Once again, he didn't *have* to train her, but he did. And if he did it "for her own protection", that meant he cared that she wasn't harmed. Not in a sense that it was his mission either. It wasn't a part of his mission to train her.
He shook his head angrily. He was so confused, so lost. In a way, he wished he never received this mission. Never met Trin.
A/N: So, you like? The next chapter will be up shortly since spring break starts Wednesday. WOO HOO!!!!!!! ^^
Anyway, thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday (I'm actually having the first party today)! Also, once again I would like to thank Alexia Goddess for the best present ever, a fanfic! It's so AWESOME thanks so much!! ::hugs:: I recommend for all of you to read it, it's called "Anything is Possible". Ja!!
Luv,
~Arion~
"Who are you?" he demanded icily.
The shadow giggled. He could tell it was a girl.
"Answer me!" he ordered.
The girl giggled again. A spooky giggle.
"You know who I am, Heero" she smirked.
His eyes widened slightly, so she knew his name. He couldn't exactly place the voice either.
"Come on, Heero. Think"
Suddenly there was a flicker of light and he saw Relena before him. He gasped.
"Relena?"
There was another flash of light and the image changed to Trin.
"Nope, fooled you" she giggled.
Another sparkle of light and Relena stood by Trin, both of them facing Heero. In a flash, Trin was behind Relena and there was a blade in her hand. Heero recognized it. It was the same dragon blade he had given her for her birthday.
With a swift motion she sliced Relena's throat and smiled gleefully as the brunette collapsed. A final gasp for breath escaped Relena's rosy lips as blood stained her clothes and tricked into a red pool on the floor.
With shock, Heero watched Trin as she looked at the body in front of her, a strange smile played on her lips.
The lights flashed once more and the rest of the pilots stood a few steps behind Trin. She walked back to them.
Heero lunged at her as she was just about to cut Duo, but she avoided him easily. He threw a punch and she grabbed his fist and squeezed even as she heard the bones crack.
"You can't stop me, Heero," she said calmly as he fought to get out of her grasp.
He grabbed for his gun but she kicked it out of his hand. She proceeded with kneeing him in the stomach and as he bent over slightly, tripped him and he fell to the ground. Mercilessly she kicked him and blood sputtered out of his mouth.
She turned and once again walked toward Duo. Heero got up unsteadily and as she lifted the blade to slice the boy, tackled her. She smiled as he pinned her to the ground.
Then he felt her knee slam into his chest as she threw him over her and sat on his stomach, preventing him from moving.
"You taught me, Heero" she smiled. "I can mirror your every move"
All of a sudden he felt paralyzed, unable to move an inch. She gave him a pitying look and moved closer to his face, stretching over his body.
She kissed his lips slowly and bent down to his ear.
"You can't do anything, Heero" her voice was husky and low "How does it feel to be helpless, Perfect Soldier?"
* * *
Heero shot up in his bed. Cold sweat covered his body and he struggled to catch his breath. He looked around realizing he was in his room and as he looked toward the window he saw it was still night. Dark clouds were sliding over the moon, its light appearing, and disappearing once again.
He couldn't believe the nightmare he had had, but it got him thinking. He'd been training Trin for a couple of weeks now, and she was advancing quickly. He wasn't so sure it was a good idea to train her anymore. He had done it for her protection, but what if the perfect soldier had chosen the wrong path this time?
Heero walked toward the window and opened it, letting the cool air ruffle his hair. He looked down and saw a shadow on the deck. He looked closer and realized with astonishment it was Trin. Anger filled him as he walked out of his room. He couldn't believe this girl. He had clearly told her to stay off the deck.
* * *
Trin leaned against the deck's railing and stared up into the dark sky. For some reason she couldn't fall asleep, even though she was tired; and decided to come out here and watch the stars. Unfortunately for her, the sky was mostly covered with clouds, but she felt like staying outside anyway. Being locked up in that house was getting to her.
She was only praying Heero wouldn't find her out there again. As if on queue, she heard the double doors open and sighed. She was either cursed or he was monitoring her every move. She wasn't sure which one to choose.
A cold hand grabbed her shoulder and she was spun around roughly. She gasped as she faced Heero. His eyes were burning with anger, but she also realized he was sweating despite the cold night. The fact that he was dressed in nothing more than sweatpants, couldn't help either.
"I told you to stay away from here" his voice was monotone as usual, but rougher and angrier.
"I-I know," she stammered, suddenly at the loss of words.
He glared at her.
"Don't ever disobey me again," he hissed as his grasp on her shoulder tightened.
She winced; his fingers dug into her shoulder painfully.
"Heero you're hurting me," she stated firmly, trying not to collapse, as he was pressing into a nerve "Heero!"
He seemed not to hear her and when she thought her body was going to give out, he suddenly let go. Trin leaned against the railing and rubbed her shoulder. Heero's back was now facing her.
"I apologize," he said stiffly and she blinked in surprise. He apologized to her; that was a good sign already.
"It's okay," she said, as nicely as she could at the moment.
She walked around him and looked into his face. It was unreadable, but she sensed something wasn't right.
"Do you want to tell me what's wrong?" her voice was just above a whisper.
He considered telling her, he really did. But suddenly they heard a screech of tires coming from the direction of the road and both of their heads snapped that way.
Two black vans sped around the corner and down the road, one of them stopping near the base. People dressed in black jumped out of the vehicles and spread over the street.
Heero cursed sharply and grabbing Trin's arm, dragged her inside. There he let her go and she followed him up the stairs to the second floor.
"Wake Acire, we're leaving now," he ordered and she obeyed without a word.
* * *
As Trin burst into Acire's room, she immediately tripped over something and cursed angrily under her breath. She stumbled to the bed and with surprise found Duo with his arm wrapped around Acire's shoulders, lying on the bed next to her. Thankfully, they both had their clothes on.
Shaking her head to clear the disturbing thoughts, Trin reached down and shook them both roughly. Duo slapped her hand away in his sleep and Acire mumbled something incoherent. Exasperated, Trin ripped off the covers and shook them again. The pair slept on, oblivious. It looked like she'd have to resort to her last and most effective tactic. She took a deep breath of air.
"WAKE UP, DAMN IT!!!!!!!" she yelled.
Both Acire and Duo woke up with a start and Duo fell off the bed. Down the hall, she heard Wufei wake up and yell something about disrespectful onnas.
"Trin what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Acire cried angrily and Duo glared at Trin from his position on the floor.
"I should be asking you that" the brunette snapped angrily, and as the pair blushed continued, "Pack up, we're leaving now"
Without any further explanation she turned and walked out of the room, pushing past a very angry Wufei.
* * *
In about ten minutes everyone was gathered in the hallway. Each had a backpack slung on their shoulders. Acire was leaning on Duo and practically falling asleep; but all of the pilots, including Duo, were awake and alert. Trin as well was ready to act, but she was doing a great job hiding the fact that she was tired and worn out. Training with Heero wasn't exactly the easiest thing to do, but she never slacked off or asked him to take it easy on her. In result, he wasn't aware on how the training for the past weeks has taken its toll on her.
"We'll take out gundams to the nearest safe house and act from there" Heero snapped as he stood to face everyone. "I'll take Trin in Zero and Duo, you take Acire with you in Deathscythe"
All of the boys nodded and ran down the hallway, with the girls following them. They followed the hallway to its very end, there Heero opened a panel in the wall and typed in a code. A well in the floor opened and one by one they climbed down. As she climbed, Trin looked around. They were in a huge underground chamber. It was mostly dark, but as someone flipped a switch, five lights turned on one at a time, illuminating five gundams. Mesmerized by the five magnificent machines, Trin's foot missed a step on the ladder and she fell. She was fully prepared to land, but strong arms caught her and she looked up into Heero's Prussian blue eyes. Without a word, he sat her down and ran toward the center gundam. Trin followed him, noting that that was the most superior one out of all the gundams.
Heero waited for her at the foot of the gundam and as she ran up to him he pressed a button, and a cable came down. He grabbed Trin around the waist with one arm and the cable with the other. Then, the cable pulled up both of them and they jumped into the cockpit. Trin dropped her backpack into a corner and looked around curiously; she ran her hand over the control panel carefully. She'll have to ask Heero to show her around here once everything settled down a bit.
Heero sat down in the seat in front of the controls and Trin moved out of his way, and kneeled behind the chair. She watched over his shoulder as the gundam slowly came to life and with a press of a button Heero opened a steel panel over the chamber. All the gundams flew into the air and Trin held onto the back of the chair for support.
As the looked down through the screen, she saw people on the ground look up into the sky, then pull out their guns. Their small weapons however, couldn't hurt the gundams and the pilots didn't even bother counterattack.
After the takeoff the flight was rather smooth, and Trin found her eyes closing as she drifted into sleep.
* * *
She was awoken as she felt someone pick her up and heard the gundam's hatch open. She was still barely awake, and squirmed slightly as cold air touched her skin and absently pulled the jacked tighter around herself, forgetting that she didn't have a jacket on when they left the base. Night wind blew at her face and she buried her head in the person's chest. A part of her knew it was Heero, and a part of her didn't care.
A sinking feeling filled her stomach as he jumped to the ground and landed perfectly. There were voices, but her sluggish brain refused to interpret them and she slipped back into the dreamless sleep.
All of the pilots hid their gundams and were now standing on the beach. It was still night and the chilly ocean air made them all shiver. Surprisingly, Acire was awake and leaned against Duo for warmth. Trin however, was entirely asleep. Heero was forced to carry her out of Wing Zero and was still holding her in his arms. She was wearing his jacket, leaving him in just his sleeveless shirt, and her head was leaning against his chest.
Acire smiled to herself at the sight as the rest of the pilots talked. She knew those two were perfect for each other.
All of them walked up the beach and toward a cottage located on a slight hill on the edge of a forest. They were to stay there for a while, but it wasn't half as big as the last base was. It only had three bedrooms, which meant they were going to have to have a roommate, and one room would have to have three people.
Before anyone could say anything, Duo and Acire disappeared into a room. As the rest of them decided, Heero and Trin would share a room and so would Quatre, Trowa and Wufei. It didn't matter much, since they were only staying there for a week at the most.
* * *
Heero walked into the room he and Trin would be sharing. It was pretty big considering the size of the cottage, and had a large window and two beds on separate sides of the room.
He carefully laid Trin down on one of the beds. He then walked over to the closet, pulled out an extra blanket and dropped it over her.
Heero stood watching her for a moment. The sky cleared and the moonlight illuminated her features with it's icy light. Her hair looked black and her skin seemed pale, even light blue. For the first time he realized that maybe he was training her too hard. After all, she has never been trained like that before, and he was training her as he would a gundam pilot; which she was not.
In any case, they would be spending the following week or so here and that wouldn't give him much opportunity to train her. Which was probably good.
Suddenly catching himself on those thoughts, he became angry once again. She needed to be trained for her own protection, and that's that. Once again, he didn't *have* to train her, but he did. And if he did it "for her own protection", that meant he cared that she wasn't harmed. Not in a sense that it was his mission either. It wasn't a part of his mission to train her.
He shook his head angrily. He was so confused, so lost. In a way, he wished he never received this mission. Never met Trin.
A/N: So, you like? The next chapter will be up shortly since spring break starts Wednesday. WOO HOO!!!!!!! ^^
Anyway, thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday (I'm actually having the first party today)! Also, once again I would like to thank Alexia Goddess for the best present ever, a fanfic! It's so AWESOME thanks so much!! ::hugs:: I recommend for all of you to read it, it's called "Anything is Possible". Ja!!
Luv,
~Arion~
