Search For Heero
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, only Duo and Zechs. *Watched in horror as thousands of lawyers charge her* Okay, I don't own them either. *Lawyers grumble as they go searching for another lawsuit* Whew! That was close. Enjoy the show folks!
Warning: Not for the sane or anti-OC. You see, without the OC, this fic would be for the sane... and we don't want that.
Sometime during the storm, Relena, Quatre and Duo had all fallen asleep on the soft straw. It was just so comfortable, they couldn't resist taking a quick nap. TW chewed contently on Duo's braid. "The snow's stopped," Erica told Sam.
She nodded. "That's good. Now we can go find that baka who decided to go out into a snowstorm by himself."
Erica nodded back at her. "You wake Relena and Quatre. I'll wake Duo," she said with a malicious grin.
Samantha went over to Quatre and kissed him. "That's my kind of wake-up call," he said sitting up. "Is it time to go find Heero?"
Sam nodded and went over to Relena, shaking her gently by the shoulder. "'Lena, wake up. It's time to go rescue your stupid boyfriend."
Waking up instantly, Relena started getting ready. "Heero," she whispered, bound and determined to find him.
"Hey," Erica whistled. Everyone turned to look in her direction. She was standing beside Duo, who was still sound asleep. "I'm now going to give a presentation on how to wake a sleeping baka. First, get a really big wolf with a taste for human hair." She pointed to TW. "Then tell him 'TW, pull that baka's braid!' Try it."
"TW, pull that baka's braid!" they all yelled in something that wasn't quite unison but it was so close it was scary. TW jumped to his feet and began to pull fiercely on Duo's braid. Everyone started laughing.
"Owwwwwwweeeeeeeee!" Duo yelled, jumping to his feet, pulling his braid out of TW's mouth. He inspected the damaged hair. "My hair, my beautiful hair," he sobbed.
"Nobody cares," Sam said, walking towards Sand. "Let's move out! Heero's obviously not finding himself."
"Wait, safety first," Erica said, holding up a rope. She tied one end around TW's collar, gave enough slack for her to lead him from her horse before handing it to Duo. "Make sure you leave enough room between you and the person in front of you. Remember, we're riding horses." Duo handed it to Quatre, who handed it to Sam, who gave it to Relena, who tied the last bit to Zero's bridle. "Good. Now, it anyone drops it, they shall face the wrath of my whip." Everyone gulped as she mounted. "Mount up." They all mounted their particular horses. "Now, to repeat Sam's earlier statement, 'Let's move out!'"
They made their way into the woods, but they weren't making very good time. The horses were having difficulty going through the deep snow. That and the fact that they had no clue which way Heero went and TW wasn't helping much. After riding for quite a while....
"I'm lonely for, crazy for, I adore you-ou!"
"Duo, shut up!" Erica pulled on his braid while everyone else gave a quick prayer thanking God. Duo was completely tone-deaf. "You're scaring the animals!"
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About two hundred feet away, Heero woke up in his little cave. He heard a strange noise coming through the woods that sounded vaguely like a dying Ogre. Not wanting to run into any Ogres (dying or not) he went running the other way.
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"Heeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooo!" Relena called for about the fiftieth time.
Erica looked up at the darkening sky. "Damn, it's getting dark. We should probably be going back."
"Are you saying we should just leave Heero out here, all alone in the cold and dark?" Relena asked angrily, causing Erica to wince.
Quatre spoke up in her defense. "She's right for once. We can't stay out here searching all night. Heero will be fine for a couple of days."
"A couple of days!" Relena protested. "He may freeze before then!" Now it was Quatre's turn to wince.
"Everyone, calm down," Duo suggested. They all turned to glare at him. "You were scaring me."
Sam scooped some snow off a nearby tree branch and threw it at him. The snowball hit him in the side of the head, causing him to lose his balance, therefore resulting in him falling off his horse. Scythe snorted. "How do you get your animals to be so animated?" Quatre asked curiously.
"It's just their lively personality showing through," Erica said, rubbing the side of of Scythe's neck.
Duo, now completely covered in snow, climbed back into Nightwalker's saddle. "Lively personality? You trained those animals to hate me!"
Erica looked shocked. "Duo, you know as well as I do that that's impossible. If my animals hate you, then they're just revealing their more intelligent side."
Duo started to protest but Relena cut him off. "Will you two knock it off? We have to find Heero."
Quatre became the voice of reason. "We'll go back to the estate for now and make ourselves better prepared to go searching for him tomorrow." They all nodded and headed off in the direction of the Peacecraft estate.
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Meanwhile, Heero was wandering alone through the woods, still searching for Relena. As the sky darkened, he came to the conclusion that he was hopelessly lost. No matter, he must continue on with the mission. But he would have to get some rest soon, and find warmth or else he would never find her. Up ahead, he saw an old cabin, that looked somewhat abandoned, with the poor paint job and broken shutters. He approached the cabin slowly. Opening the door, he took a small peak inside. It seemed safe enough, so he built himself a small fire, trying to warm up.
A few minutes later, Heero heard the door being opened behind him. He pulled his gun out, waiting for whoever it was to come further inside. He heard heavy boots making their way across the wooden floor, so he turned around and aimed his gun. He was surprised to see a man that looked amazingly like Zechs. "Who are you?" Heero asked.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"
Heero smirked. "I believe I asked you first."
"Forgive me," the man said, "my name is Zech."
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Wufei and Johanna were in the stables with their beloved horse Storm, a Shetland pony mare. The search party looked surprised to see them there, obviously thinking they would both be too lazy to leave the comfort of the house. "What are you two doing here?" Duo asked as they all dismounted their horses.
"We were trying to decide which one of us should bring you back," Johanna told them, patting Storm on the nose.
"The woman is unjust," Wufei protested. "She wants to send me out into the cold."
"Stop your complaining. The captain sent us back," Relena said, putting Zero and Beauty back into their stalls.
"We'll go back out tomorrow," Sam reassured her, removing Sand's tack.
TW was trying to chew on Duo's braid as the former Gundam Pilot worked on Scythe and Nightwalker. "Erica, get your stupid dog away from me."
"Can't," she called from hayloft, "preparing to feed the horses."
She carried a bale of hay down the ladder and proceeded to feed the horses. Johanna followed her with a hose, giving the horses their water. The last stall was much larger than the rest. It had to be; it housed a large black Shire stallion named Milly. "Hi, Milly," Erica said, peering over the edge of the door.
Milly blinked at her and Erica noticed his eyes were glazed over. "Erica, is the horse supposed to look like that?" Johanna asked.
"No," Erica replied, going to Milly's food bin, finding tiny grains in the bottom of it. "Zechs!" Everyone in the stables covered their ears then went running towards Milly's stall.
"Erica, what's wrong?" Duo asked.
"Zechs has been feeding the horses dried wheat! I'm going to kill him!" she stated, storming off in the direction of the house.
"Aren't you going to stop her?" Quatre asked Relena.
"It might be a good thing if she beats him up." There was a few moments of silence. "Let's go watch." TW bounded out the door in front of them.
Approximately ten minutes later, Erica found Zechs swinging from a chandelier in the ballroom. "Zechs, get down here so I can kill you," she ordered.
"Nu-uh," he replied, sticking his tongue out at her. It was times like this Erica wished she would have trained the hawk so it could fly up there and poke his eyes out.
She pulled a knife out of her boot and held it up for him to see. "Don't make me use this." He pretended to ignore her. She sighed and threw the knife, cutting off a few strands of his hair.
A girlish scream filled the air and the others came running into the room. "Erica, babe, are you alright?" Duo asked, clearly worried. When he saw nothing was wrong with her, they all looked confused. "If you didn't scream, who did?" She pointed to Zechs.
"Zechs," Relena asked, "where's your wife."
"The last time I saw her she was swimming with Mr. Rock." He sniffed. "She doesn't love me anymore."
They all stared at each other for a few minutes. "Swimming with Mr.Rock?" Quatre said, clearly confused as the rest of them.
Erica let out a stream of curses that made the sailor who just happened to walk into the room at that moment blush as realization dawned on her. "TW, come on!" She ran off in the direction of the indoor swimming pool.