Petra: Chapter four... I wonder how many more there will be? You don't know, I don't know... Who knows, this could take me a year!!! ^_- Just kidding!! (I hope... *glances at Kati who's trying their best to look innocent* Oh dear...) I'd like to give a wave to a the person Kati is based off of... You'll never read this, but just in case!!! ^_^ It's her Bday!!!
Kati: It's my birthday and I'll punch is I want to! Punch if I want to! Punch if I want to! You would punch too, if it happened to you!
Petra: Right... Oh yeah, I'd also like to give a shout to Henry, one of my brothers, whose birthday was August third. Also, a (very) belated happy birthday Harry Potter, for no other reason than the simple fact that I did write a fic... so why not... I have one last thing to say: FOXTROT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -_-; Don't beat me up, my muse looks like she's ready to do it for you!!! Wind to thy wings!
DEDICATED: To everyone who lives for someone other than themselves.
WARNING: Shojo-ai and shonen-ai, cussing... gods... do I have to keep putting these stupid warning things here... *pout*
DISCLAIMER: I.... do..... not........ own......... must........... I............. say.................. it.................... even............................ more.................................................. slowly..........................................?
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CHAPTER FOUR: NAMES, GUNDAMS, AND MEMORIES
"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name." -Anatole France
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Trowa followed the other Gundams to the warehouse where the latest mobile dolls were stationed, but his mind wasn't on the mission. Instead it was on the four incredibly beautiful women that seemed oddly familiar, familiar as though he has seen them a long time ago. He shook his head, trying vainly to clear his thoughts but the thoughts kept filtering through and soon he gave up all hope, focusing on where he had seen them. He closed his eyes and, as though from far away, he heard a voice saying, "Setsuna! Of course I am not naming him that! I am naming him Zeus Nephrite, after his grandfather and father." Setsuna... that was one of the women's names... 'What does it mean? Are they someone from my past...' Makoto... the name oddly familiar... the name murmured by the strange women... It was on the edge of his mind who this person was but the more he tried to figure it out, the farther away it got.
"Tro-kun?" a small, musical voice broke through his thoughts and he looked up to see blue-green eyes looking at him questioningly.
Trowa smiled at his lover reassuringly and answered, "Hai?"
"What's wrong?" Quatre asked, peering intently at the older boy who tried not to squirm under the scrutiny. "I called your name twice before and you didn't answer me..."
Trowa sighed, so much for lying to the blond... "I don't the fact that we're living them alive, it's dangerous..." Before Quatre could interject, he continued, "I realize, though, that with guns no working on them there's little we could have done, unless we felt like creating a huge crater."
Quatre nodded but said, "I understand what you mean but, that's not what I meant... I know that's not what you were thinking about. What else were you thinking of..."
A small smile lit Trowa's features; of course he could hide anything from his blonde lover. "Those names... Setsuna... Makoto... those faces... they both sound familiar... like something I heard from a dream..."
Quatre blinked, looking a little surprised, before replying, "Yeah... me too..." A long silence stretched across, both pilots automatically going through the controls of moving the huge machines. Quatre sighed, the sound amplified by the silence that had hung heavy in the air. The smaller boy smiled, a smile only Trowa saw, prompting a smile from the other boy's lips also. "Well... let's get this over with so we can talk about those odd women..." Quatre said and Trowa nodded curtly as he watched the small boy with the innocent face disappear from his screen. Trowa let another small smile cross his face before focusing his entire attention on the mission... or at least trying to...
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Uranus crouched in the tree, watching intently as the young men landed their 'Gundams' and hopped out, before stealthily crouching toward the huge base that they had landed by. She could sense the muted conversation behind her and Feel surprise, happiness, and a strange calm overcoming her soulmate but didn't ask any questions, she would learn soon enough.[1] She motioned that they should follow the young men and stealthily lead the way. 'Seeing as we have found our protégés I do not see any reason to have them die on us now...' Uranus thought to herself, silently hopping from tree to tree behind the young men.
{Okay, we are not to interfere in anyway, unless one or all of their lives are threatened, understand?} Uranus said, watching as Wufei, the closest to them, paused, as though having heard something before continuing on.
{Understood,} all three women behind her Chorused as they watched the young men climb over the fence. Uranus grimaced as she felt Saturn's pain and exhaustion as if it were her own but didn't say anything, knowing it would just make Saturn more determined to continue with this, currently, suicidal path. Uranus let out a sigh and immediately felt comfort flow from Neptune like the wave that she represented. Uranus smiled before turning back to watch the young men disappear inside the building.
"How will we know if they are in trouble?" Saturn asked, barely able to keep the exhaustion out of her voice. Uranus and Neptune barely hid the grimace, while Pluto didn't even bother trying as intense pain and exhaustion floated from Saturn to them.
"Well..." Pluto murmured to herself, "I think that we should station ourselves outside and have one person go in to follow them." They stared at each other. Normally, Saturn would have gone but she was tired to point of dropping so... that left Pluto who had the next best experience in a stealth mission. Saturn powered down, knowing she could henshin at a moments notice if she had to, while the other Senshi took up posts around the building. Henshining was a double-edged sword, while it created a brief boost in power, after the boost was over it started to steadily drain the person. Pluto saluted to them, a smirk on her face, and disappeared inside the dark building, becoming one with the shadows.
Uranus sighed and leaned against the tree, it had a been a long night and was proving to be an even longer day...
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Wufei kept glancing over his shoulder as they shifted through the shadows of the OZ base. He didn't know why, but he had the distinct feeling that someone or something was following them and he didn't like it one bit. He glanced over his shoulder again before giving himself a good shake. 'Great gods, I'm getting paranoid...' It was true though, ever since he had first seen those women he had felt something inside him stirring up, something he had thought he had long since squashed beneath layers of justice. Now it was surfacing and it was harder than ever to squash the feelings that were welling up. 'I don't believe in things like seeing premonitions in fires or anything of that sort! I don't!' he repeated to himself. Memories broke through his barriers, though, and soon he was lost in that day so long ago...
FLASH! The damp darkness always felt welcome, and he felt the inner calm settle around his six-year-old self just like it always did when he walked into this temple. Without any conscious thought, as though he were a robot, he walked along the rooms until he came to a doorway that was warm to the touch. He pushed it open without a thought, stepping inside the warm and dry air, his black eyes reflecting the fire that flickered in the middle of the room. He walked forwards and seated himself on the floor, his feet tucked Japanese style beneath him, as he bent his head. Without warning a steady stream of words in a totally unknown language began pour from his tongue and his hands began to form strange symbols.[2] He was looking for something... It was almost there. He stared into the fire and, for a moment, he saw a woman of about twenty-five or so reflected in the fire, her head bent and long black hair pooling around her feet. Her fingers were moving in the same movements his were and from her lips poured the same words that flooded from his still moving lips. She looked up and at that moment the fire flared and he blacked out as flames had engulfed his entire body...
Wufei shook his head, clearing his thoughts and focusing on the current mission. 'Afterwards... when they found me... I had slight burns all over my body... but they healed surprisingly fast and without any marks... NO! I didn't see anything! I was just imagining it...' He wasn't convincing himself... Yet that name he had heard clearly in his mind and had been even more shocked to hear passed from those woman's lips still echoed throughout him, as though he were hollow... He licked his lips before whispering the word that had forever changed his life since that fateful day, "Rei..."
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[1] = They just learned that their "crystals" can talk... Silence, the Crystal that wouldn't be silent. ^_^;
[2] = Wufei grew up in a Chinese clan, so obviously the only langauge he probably ever learned was Chinese, especially at age six. He started speaking Japanese, a langauge that, at the age of six, he wouldn't recognize the langauge. And, as the years passed, I highly doubt that he would remember words that, when he said them, were gibbersh. Thus, he has never made the connection that he was speaking Japanese.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: For those of you that wish it, DUE TO MY SPORADIC postings, I am offering you, the readers, A MAILING LIST to sign up to. When I finally UPDATE, I will SEND OUT AN EMAIL informing those of you that are on the list that I have finally updated. I need you to EMAIL me, telling that you wish to sign up, and whether it's for ORIGINAL FICTION or FANFICTION. I WILL NOT accept those people that ask to be up on it in a review because I can't be sure that email is real. The mailing list will ALSO OFFER the TITLES of those works that I am posting, the COUPLES (if any) that are in it, which FANDOM it is from, and whether it is a SEQUEL to anything.
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Petra: I'm not a big Wufei fan. Can you tell? It's really short, I know that, and I bemoan it. Whatever.
Kati: So, how'd ya like it???? Huh? Huh? Huh? REVIEW!!!! please...
Petra: (Note: "Wing to thy wings, clansib" is a saying from the really cool Valdemar Series, but Mercedes Lackey.)
"I dream of a day when I can open my eyes, and my dreams won't disappear."
-Rose Marie Ledam aka Selenay
~Petra Megami Assari~
*The Gentle Tiger Goddess*
Kati: It's my birthday and I'll punch is I want to! Punch if I want to! Punch if I want to! You would punch too, if it happened to you!
Petra: Right... Oh yeah, I'd also like to give a shout to Henry, one of my brothers, whose birthday was August third. Also, a (very) belated happy birthday Harry Potter, for no other reason than the simple fact that I did write a fic... so why not... I have one last thing to say: FOXTROT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -_-; Don't beat me up, my muse looks like she's ready to do it for you!!! Wind to thy wings!
DEDICATED: To everyone who lives for someone other than themselves.
WARNING: Shojo-ai and shonen-ai, cussing... gods... do I have to keep putting these stupid warning things here... *pout*
DISCLAIMER: I.... do..... not........ own......... must........... I............. say.................. it.................... even............................ more.................................................. slowly..........................................?
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CHAPTER FOUR: NAMES, GUNDAMS, AND MEMORIES
"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name." -Anatole France
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Trowa followed the other Gundams to the warehouse where the latest mobile dolls were stationed, but his mind wasn't on the mission. Instead it was on the four incredibly beautiful women that seemed oddly familiar, familiar as though he has seen them a long time ago. He shook his head, trying vainly to clear his thoughts but the thoughts kept filtering through and soon he gave up all hope, focusing on where he had seen them. He closed his eyes and, as though from far away, he heard a voice saying, "Setsuna! Of course I am not naming him that! I am naming him Zeus Nephrite, after his grandfather and father." Setsuna... that was one of the women's names... 'What does it mean? Are they someone from my past...' Makoto... the name oddly familiar... the name murmured by the strange women... It was on the edge of his mind who this person was but the more he tried to figure it out, the farther away it got.
"Tro-kun?" a small, musical voice broke through his thoughts and he looked up to see blue-green eyes looking at him questioningly.
Trowa smiled at his lover reassuringly and answered, "Hai?"
"What's wrong?" Quatre asked, peering intently at the older boy who tried not to squirm under the scrutiny. "I called your name twice before and you didn't answer me..."
Trowa sighed, so much for lying to the blond... "I don't the fact that we're living them alive, it's dangerous..." Before Quatre could interject, he continued, "I realize, though, that with guns no working on them there's little we could have done, unless we felt like creating a huge crater."
Quatre nodded but said, "I understand what you mean but, that's not what I meant... I know that's not what you were thinking about. What else were you thinking of..."
A small smile lit Trowa's features; of course he could hide anything from his blonde lover. "Those names... Setsuna... Makoto... those faces... they both sound familiar... like something I heard from a dream..."
Quatre blinked, looking a little surprised, before replying, "Yeah... me too..." A long silence stretched across, both pilots automatically going through the controls of moving the huge machines. Quatre sighed, the sound amplified by the silence that had hung heavy in the air. The smaller boy smiled, a smile only Trowa saw, prompting a smile from the other boy's lips also. "Well... let's get this over with so we can talk about those odd women..." Quatre said and Trowa nodded curtly as he watched the small boy with the innocent face disappear from his screen. Trowa let another small smile cross his face before focusing his entire attention on the mission... or at least trying to...
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Uranus crouched in the tree, watching intently as the young men landed their 'Gundams' and hopped out, before stealthily crouching toward the huge base that they had landed by. She could sense the muted conversation behind her and Feel surprise, happiness, and a strange calm overcoming her soulmate but didn't ask any questions, she would learn soon enough.[1] She motioned that they should follow the young men and stealthily lead the way. 'Seeing as we have found our protégés I do not see any reason to have them die on us now...' Uranus thought to herself, silently hopping from tree to tree behind the young men.
{Okay, we are not to interfere in anyway, unless one or all of their lives are threatened, understand?} Uranus said, watching as Wufei, the closest to them, paused, as though having heard something before continuing on.
{Understood,} all three women behind her Chorused as they watched the young men climb over the fence. Uranus grimaced as she felt Saturn's pain and exhaustion as if it were her own but didn't say anything, knowing it would just make Saturn more determined to continue with this, currently, suicidal path. Uranus let out a sigh and immediately felt comfort flow from Neptune like the wave that she represented. Uranus smiled before turning back to watch the young men disappear inside the building.
"How will we know if they are in trouble?" Saturn asked, barely able to keep the exhaustion out of her voice. Uranus and Neptune barely hid the grimace, while Pluto didn't even bother trying as intense pain and exhaustion floated from Saturn to them.
"Well..." Pluto murmured to herself, "I think that we should station ourselves outside and have one person go in to follow them." They stared at each other. Normally, Saturn would have gone but she was tired to point of dropping so... that left Pluto who had the next best experience in a stealth mission. Saturn powered down, knowing she could henshin at a moments notice if she had to, while the other Senshi took up posts around the building. Henshining was a double-edged sword, while it created a brief boost in power, after the boost was over it started to steadily drain the person. Pluto saluted to them, a smirk on her face, and disappeared inside the dark building, becoming one with the shadows.
Uranus sighed and leaned against the tree, it had a been a long night and was proving to be an even longer day...
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Wufei kept glancing over his shoulder as they shifted through the shadows of the OZ base. He didn't know why, but he had the distinct feeling that someone or something was following them and he didn't like it one bit. He glanced over his shoulder again before giving himself a good shake. 'Great gods, I'm getting paranoid...' It was true though, ever since he had first seen those women he had felt something inside him stirring up, something he had thought he had long since squashed beneath layers of justice. Now it was surfacing and it was harder than ever to squash the feelings that were welling up. 'I don't believe in things like seeing premonitions in fires or anything of that sort! I don't!' he repeated to himself. Memories broke through his barriers, though, and soon he was lost in that day so long ago...
FLASH! The damp darkness always felt welcome, and he felt the inner calm settle around his six-year-old self just like it always did when he walked into this temple. Without any conscious thought, as though he were a robot, he walked along the rooms until he came to a doorway that was warm to the touch. He pushed it open without a thought, stepping inside the warm and dry air, his black eyes reflecting the fire that flickered in the middle of the room. He walked forwards and seated himself on the floor, his feet tucked Japanese style beneath him, as he bent his head. Without warning a steady stream of words in a totally unknown language began pour from his tongue and his hands began to form strange symbols.[2] He was looking for something... It was almost there. He stared into the fire and, for a moment, he saw a woman of about twenty-five or so reflected in the fire, her head bent and long black hair pooling around her feet. Her fingers were moving in the same movements his were and from her lips poured the same words that flooded from his still moving lips. She looked up and at that moment the fire flared and he blacked out as flames had engulfed his entire body...
Wufei shook his head, clearing his thoughts and focusing on the current mission. 'Afterwards... when they found me... I had slight burns all over my body... but they healed surprisingly fast and without any marks... NO! I didn't see anything! I was just imagining it...' He wasn't convincing himself... Yet that name he had heard clearly in his mind and had been even more shocked to hear passed from those woman's lips still echoed throughout him, as though he were hollow... He licked his lips before whispering the word that had forever changed his life since that fateful day, "Rei..."
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[1] = They just learned that their "crystals" can talk... Silence, the Crystal that wouldn't be silent. ^_^;
[2] = Wufei grew up in a Chinese clan, so obviously the only langauge he probably ever learned was Chinese, especially at age six. He started speaking Japanese, a langauge that, at the age of six, he wouldn't recognize the langauge. And, as the years passed, I highly doubt that he would remember words that, when he said them, were gibbersh. Thus, he has never made the connection that he was speaking Japanese.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: For those of you that wish it, DUE TO MY SPORADIC postings, I am offering you, the readers, A MAILING LIST to sign up to. When I finally UPDATE, I will SEND OUT AN EMAIL informing those of you that are on the list that I have finally updated. I need you to EMAIL me, telling that you wish to sign up, and whether it's for ORIGINAL FICTION or FANFICTION. I WILL NOT accept those people that ask to be up on it in a review because I can't be sure that email is real. The mailing list will ALSO OFFER the TITLES of those works that I am posting, the COUPLES (if any) that are in it, which FANDOM it is from, and whether it is a SEQUEL to anything.
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Petra: I'm not a big Wufei fan. Can you tell? It's really short, I know that, and I bemoan it. Whatever.
Kati: So, how'd ya like it???? Huh? Huh? Huh? REVIEW!!!! please...
Petra: (Note: "Wing to thy wings, clansib" is a saying from the really cool Valdemar Series, but Mercedes Lackey.)
"I dream of a day when I can open my eyes, and my dreams won't disappear."
-Rose Marie Ledam aka Selenay
~Petra Megami Assari~
*The Gentle Tiger Goddess*