Angel's Don't Exist
Chapter 5
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Disclaimer: the usual

sheesh....i'm slacking off....before...when I wrote 'A Twist of Fate' i finished the entire story in a month....but then again that was my first story so it wasn't very long or good. This story is going to have around 20 chapters or so... (at least that's what I plan to have)

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The pilots brought Heero Yuy to the hospital and were instantly told to go into the waiting room and wait as the doctors tried to revive him.

The others sat there in silence, waiting for a report from the doctor.

"I hate waiting rooms," Duo complained.

No one said anything, in fact, no one even gave a hint that they heard him. The doctor came out and was instantly surrounded by the pilots.

"I'm sorry." the doctor said, "He isn't responding. We believe he's been drugged or poisoned. If he doesn't snap out of it soon, he will die."

"Can you do anything to help?" Quatre asked.

"We've already tried to filter out his blood, but it doesn't work." the doctor answered, "We'll have to wait until the poison gets out of his system." After saying that, the doctor left to tend to other patients.

Duo punched the wall.

"Come on." Trowa said, "We better start looking for Relena."

"But what about Heero?" Duo asked.

"How 'bout getting your friend to look after him?" Quatre suggested.

"Who? Hotaru?" Duo asked.

"Yeah." Quatre answered.

"Let's GO!" Wufei said, "We have no time to waste and we've already wasted a lot."

"Heero'll be fine, Duo." Trowa said, "Have faith."

Duo snorted and then called Hotaru over. "Hotaru... can you do something for me?" He asked.

"Sure." Hotaru replied, still a little dazed at all that has happened during the few days she's been here.

"Can you please watch over Heero for us?" Duo asked.

"Of course, I'm surprised you even had to ask." Hotaru answered.

"Thanks. All right, let's go save Relena."

After the pilots left, Hotaru went to see how Heero was doing. *He looks like an angel.* The thought flickered across her mind before it was wiped out. Hotaru shook her head. *This won't do...I have to heal him so he can help the others.* Hotaru put her hands on Heero's arm and concentrated. A soft purple glow filled him before he woke up with a gasp.

"Are you all right now?" Hotaru asked.

"Hn.." Heero checked his limbs, moving them to make sure they were functional. All the cuts and scratches he got in the explosion were gone. But how? "Who are you? What are you?"

Hotaru looked at him, "You know who I am. My name is Hotaru Tomoe."

"I know your name!" he snapped and then changed his exterior to one most people are familiar with, The Perfect Soldier.

Hotaru watched, amused.

"Thank you for saving my life." Heero choked.

"I didn't do anything." Hotaru told him, "It was your friends who saved you and brought you here."

"My friends?" Heero asked.

"Yeah... Duo, Quatre, Wufei and Trowa." Hotaru answered.

"Where are they?"

"Gone. Something important came up." Hotaru wasn't sure how much she could tell him. Based on what Duo told her, if she told him that Relena had been kidnapped, he would've went looking for her despite being injured.

"Something important?" Heero asked, not really trusting Hotaru's words.

Hotaru laughed, "Can you only speak in questions?"

"Hnn.."

"I guess not... tell me something." Hotaru said, "Duo said something about wars and he got really upset when I asked him what he meant. What did he mean?"

Heero's eyes scanned Hotaru's face, "Why do you want to know?"

"No reason."

"No...there is a reason isn't there?"

"I suppose."

Heero looked at Hotaru again, "Duo's family was killed in the war."

"And yours?"

"I never really knew my family. Yes, they were killed in the war."

"I'm sorry."

"What's your opinion? On the wars."

"I have no opinion. I am a soldier, trained to fight. That's what I do."

Hotaru made a disagreeable sound. "Everyone has an opinion."

"I hate them. I hate the wars, the sorrow, the pain, the madness. What is the point? We fight over a disagreement and then fight to resolve it. What do I think? This is stupid."

Hotaru silently agreed with Duo when he said that Heero despises the wars, although 'despise' was an understatement. "I agree. Heero, in case you didn't know, although you should by now, I'm not from around here. Where I lived, there was a war as well. So many lives were lost. They killed innocent people, they killed soldiers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, mothers and children Heero, can you believe that? They killed children."

Heero was disgusted. Even through all the wars they had, they never killed children on purpose. At least this world still had something called humanity. He couldn't imagine what kind of sick person will kill a child, a child of innocence, a child who still had their whole lives to live.

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Duo used all the knowledge, all the cunning he had to find out where Relena was and still, they didn't know where she was. "AH!!!" Duo yelled in frustration, "Where IS she!?"

"Calm down, Duo." Quatre said, "You can't think properly when you're too clouded with frustration."

"Quatre! We've been looking for her for almost 8 hours! I am completely exhausted! Where do you think she is? I have no clue and all the ideas I had where used and still nothing!" Duo yelled.

"Duo, take a break, you need to calm down." Trowa said.

Duo just plopped down onto the couch and turned on the tv to watch a cartoon or something. He was laughing as the bunny on the show slipped on a banana peel when something interrupted the program.

"Someone call Hotaru!" Duo said, as he picked up the phone and dialed into the hospital.

"Hello?"

"Hotaru? Turn the tv on. No, it doesn't matter which channel. Do you see that?"

They looked at the screen as a strange being, dressed in dark clothing resembling snake skin sat in a chair.

"We have kidnapped Queen Relena. Try as you might you will never find her. We hereby declare war on the Earth and colonies."

"What?!" Quatre shouted, "How is that possible? We're already at war!"

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finally finished this chapter!! well? what do you think?
pls review.