~ kitten ~
By Alexia Goddess
Chapter Ten
Panic reigned supreme as giant batlike creatures crashed down
through the ceiling. Kitten's hand was already on her katana hilt,
ready to draw, but she froze just in time to remember that she did
*not* wish to bring attention to herself.
Dozens of bodyguards appeared out of nowhere and ushured
the Princess Relena to relevent safety, and the pandemonium that filled
the air lessened slightly as more people managed to get out. Kitten was
sorely tempted to panic right along with them, and clenched her eyes
shut to fight back the rising wildness to run, run, run and get out...
but just as she was about to go nearly wild with fright, something
grabbed ahold of her mind, and held it tight.
Kitten's widened suddenly as she realized that she was standing
silently, calmly admits the chaos that surrounded her, the screaming,
the pushing, the madness. She stood as she felt that same soothing
calmness, that control, that sensory of someone who was not really her
guiding her movements and actions. Another being filled her body,
someone that she felt she knew, but yet was not her...was it? It felt
so familiar, so right... Yet this feeling of solid confidence and
smooth control in the middle of such chaos seemed so odd...oddly right.
How was it that she was able to be so calm? There were things that
came from nightmares after *her!* And she was *calm?*
Nevertheless, she was, calm, sure, and in control, no longer
under the threat of panic. With a snap, her eyes flew open, her sea
green eyes darkening to a stormy dark green, then aburptly flashing to
the purest icy blue. Her hand unconsciously flitted to gently carress
the Dragon Blade hilt at her side. She felt the cool silver steel hum
at her touch, and she smiled.
Her senses were sharp and keen, her mind coolly calculating as
she eyed that monstrous beasts that moving to form an impenitrible
ring around her.
Deep within her own mind, Kitten was trembling. What was going
on? What were these monsters? What did they want with her? AND WHY
THE HECK WAS SHE SO CALM??????? UGH!!!! SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF
THIS!!!!!
'Hush,' The calmness that was somehow a part of her that had
taken over told her gently, and Kitten took a deep breath, and decided
to play along, and, with a single thought, merged herself forcefully
with the smooth calmness. The cool control that had taken over her
body was now in her hands, the leash tight in her mental fists.
Her right hand that was already on her katana hilt tightened
its grip slightly, and her lips quirked downwards into a slight frown,
yet at the same time her eyes lit up with amusement as five forms
simultaniously leaped up and over the batlike beasts that were eyeing
her hungrily with blood red eyes.
"I told you to get out," Kitten said lightly as the five
Gundam Pilots formed a loose ring around her, with their backs to her.
Wufei had his katana out, and his black eyes were flashing angrily as
he threw her a harsh frown.
"You really are a blonde if you think we were gonna leave you,"
Duo snarled. Kitten blinked, then smiled gently.
Something inside her twitched, and worry began to seep through
the calmness. Kitten fought it back mercilessly, knowing that if she
lost whatever it was that she had grabbed, whatever it was that was
allowing her to be so smooth and confident, she would start shaking and
wailing like a typical damsel in distress.
Kitten's attention was torn away from the stirring within her
as one of the tall, black, gray, or brown batlike creatures with beady
red eyes spoke.
"Our master has bid us come and claim the one known as the Lady
Goddess Kiticatya, the legendary Shinimejenya, bearer of the Jenyakatana,
guardian of the Companion Akarijenya." Kitten decided that it was
the largest creature, the one with a pelt that was pitch black and the
dirtiest, clods of dried blood hanging from his fur.
"And whom might this Kiticatya, this Shinimejenya be?" Quatre
demanded, his tone firm, yet calculating and cautious.
'Shinimejenya...' Kitten's mind was reeling under the
confidence. That's what that dead man had called her! Coicidence? She
may have been blonde, but even she knew that this was no coincidence.
"Don't take me lightly, boy," The batlike creature snarled at
Quatre. It raised one massive clawed bat wing to point one wickedly
hooked claw at Kitten. "Do not tell me you do not know whom that retched
human girl is! Anyone with magi powers would know the Shinijenya! And
that is her! So do not *dare* to pretend you do not know her identity,
human child!"
Kitten, still standing firm, hand loosely around her dragon
hilt, quirked a slight grin.
"I know no name for myself, and I have no identity." She stated
truthfully. "Nor do I acknowledge any name save the one I give myself.
You say I am this Shinimejenya, well, I even if I am, I say that for
distrupting the peace and disturbing my previously content and happy
mood, and for being the disgustingly evil creature that you are,
you shall be slain at my hand, by my blade. Right here, right now."
A knowledge, a physical realization filled Kitten's body, and
without thinking, her heart rather than her mind knew what she had to
do, and her body automatically carried out the movements as if she had
done so a thousand times before.
With a lightning quick movement, Kitten had the Dragon blade
in her hand and held out. With a feral cry, she leaped upwards and
forwards towards the black beast with an almost inhuman speed and
at an almost unbelievable height.
The black bat creature choked, made a gargling sound, and
coughed; blood so dark it was black bubbled up and spilled out of its
mouth, dripping from its fangs as its beady red eyes bulged. The Gundam
Boys stood, jaws dropped -Even Heero's eyes were wide- in amazement at
what they saw.
Kitten was floating in midair, her very skin radiating a silver
ice blue glow, the source of her levitation yet to be discovered. The
Dragon blade that was hilt deep in the bat creature's chest was liquid
blue fire in the form of a living, lashing, roaring, rearing dragon in
her hands.
With a great thrust, Kitten shot upwards, taking her blade with
her while it was still buried within the evil creature, slicing the bat
thing up the middle. There was no more blood, nor gore, however; the
beast simply burst, exploded like a paper bag full of dust that had
been shot. The powdered remains of the bat thing filled the air, and
settled to the ground.
Kitten, still radiating her silver blue aura, slowly turned in
midair to face the rest of the batlike creatures. They shielded
themselves from her glow; they were not as strong as their leader.
"Now!" Duo cried, seeing that the monsters were afraid and distracted
by Kitten. He readjusted his grip on his large gun held out before him,
took aim, and a giant brown bat creature cried out in pain as it clutched
its bullet-imploded pupil.
"Bullseye!" Duo shouted in truimph, and took aim again at another
one as Kitten flew in and finished off the one that Duo had blinded with
a single stroke to the heart.
The G-boys shook themselves and took aim as well, aiming for
the eyes, throat, and heart. Once they figured out that the only place
that did any damage was the eyes, they went about a systimatic
destruction of the off-guard bat things; the Gundam Pilots shot the
bats blind, and while they were distracted by the pain, Wufei and Kitten
would finish them off with quick jabs and stabs directly to the heart,
which was apparently the *only* way to kill them.
When at last the final bat-like creature was destroyed, they
all looked around to discover that all the bodies had become piles of
ashy dust, and nothing more. They also saw that all the breakfasts
guest were either gone, hysterical, or -as in most cases, they saw-
unconscious.
Kitten was breathing heavily, two spots of skin on her back
alternatly cramping, then flexing. Oddly, it was not painful at all,
just tired and sore after such avid arobatics. Looking over her shoulder
wearily, Kitten did a double-take and shrieked, fell a few feet in the
air, then rightened herself. Protruding from those two aforementioned
areas on her back were monstrously giant, almost completely transparent,
silvery blue crystal dragon wings.
"My God..." Duo breathed from down below, eyes fixated on the
huge glass-looking, dragon-like wings extending from Kitten's shoulder
blades. Each wing by itself was easily seven feet long, perhaps eight,
several inches thick, and at least three feet wide, probably more like
three and a half.
Kitten looked away from her new appendages to survey the room.
Pillars were piles of rumble, entire sections of walls were powdered,
chunks of the previously flawless marble floor had been exploded,
leaving messy white craters. the ceiling was practically non existent;
the tables were all nothing more than splinters. Not a single piece of
china remained.
Seeing the complete destruction *she* had caused, Kitten lost
ahold of that calm control completely, and burst into tears midair,
bloody sword still in hand. She fluttered clumsily down the floor,
where the kitten Akari was immediately at her side, mewing in rapid
concern and scolding for being so reckless. The little kitten was on
her mistress's shoulders immediately, licking away the salty tears as
the came. And come they did, endlessly as Kitten dropped her Dragon
Blade, buried her face in her hands, and sobbed, the cold metal of her
kitten bracelet on her wrist pressing into her temple and cheek.
"K-Kit...?" Duo asked as he cautiously approached. Kitten
looked up at the man she considered an older brother with big, tearful,
helpless, pleading sea green eyes.
"Who am I?" Kitten sobbed, looking lost and completely alone.
She looked down at her torn and bloody hands.
There was silence for a moment, then...
"Do you know what Shinimejenya means?" She asked hoarsely. She
didn't wait for a reply. She looked up at them with haunted eyes.
"It means Dragon Goddess of Destruction."
Kitten looked down with eyes that now held bitterness, not
their usual bright, cheery glow. It made Quatre shudder as Kitten
whispered, "What am I?" Her voice broken and torn. She sobbed once more
before her eyes rolled up into her head, and she collapsed to the
floor, completely unconscious. Her crystal wings flashed and
disappeared, leaving simple, human -or not so human- Kitten alone and
seemingly normal unconscious on the cold, bloody marble floor.
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"Darnit..." Axis growled, yet his voice sounded broken, as was
his heart at 'seeing' his love so lost and confused.
"At least we're not in danger of her loosing her powers,
anymore," Zephra whispered.
That was the end of anyone trying to brighten the mood; the
sorrow that hung on the heart of the unconscious one they had supposed
to protect surrounded them too heavily, and their throats were clogged
tight with gloom.
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*FLASH!*
"But *why?*" The little girl whined to her older cousin, standing
beside her. Her face was set in an adorable pout. The boy, her cousin,
groaned.
"Come one, Kitty, you *know* I don't have a choice!" The older
boy sighed. "Momma and poppa are making me go. I'm their oldest son and
a prince; I have no choice! I *have* to go meet the Princess of Zilain
or it could meet war!"
"Meet the princess?" The little girl raised an eyebrow. "You
mean if you don't *marry* her!" The child plopped down on a stool and
began crying loudly. "Its not *fair!*"
*FLASH!*
"Its too bad that first suitoress lost her hair so suddenly,"
A young girl, nearing her teens, said with a giggle. It was the same
girl that had bawled over her cousin's leaving to meet a possible
bride only a few years ago.
The girl sitting beside her, that bore a starting resemblence
to the girl that had just commented on the suitoress, rolled her eyes.
"You are sooo evil, Kitty, you know that?" The older girl
shook her head as the younger girl laughed gleefully.
"At least our cousin didn't have to marry her!" She pointed out.
"That princess of Zilain was *horrid!*"
"Yes, she was, little sister, but unfortunately, Zion has to meet
another countess this weekend. She's quite pretty, and she has more
bodyguards than even mother, and she's not even directly related to
royalty as we are!"
"Then how are we going to sabatogue her?" The smaller girl asked
of her older sister. Her older sibling grinned sinisterly and beckoned
the younger girl closer, and began whispering in her ear. The smaller
girl grinned and squealed gleefully.
*FLASH!*
"Kitty! Kitten, no, you can't!" The same boy, now a man, that had
tried to console the girl-child when he had to go away ran towards a
young woman that was beginning to be engulfed by a bright silver-blue
light.
"Kitty, no!" Another woman, older than the girl in the light and
almost identicle to her, was right behind the first man. She sobbed as
she fell to her knees. "No...no, my darling little sister...you can't
do this..."
"I have to." A voice said in both their minds, and the mind of a
man that hid behind a large oak tree, his face and eyes ridden with
an emotional agony so great it was impossible to bear just looking at
him as he gazed at the blonde, sea green eyed woman that was now
completely within the bubble of light.
"I have no choice, my cousin, my sister...my love..." This last
was directed to the man behind the tree. "I am already nicknamed,
however fondly, Shinimejenya by the people. Let me know become the
Shinimejenya for real, as is foretold in the Legend."
"But...but we'll loose *you!*" The older woman sobbed.
"No...no, you won't, sister," They were now unable to see the
woman in the light, as the light had become too brilliant. "I will
always be with you. Always."
Then there was a monstrous roar that could only come from the
throat of a dragon. The light pulsed brighter than the sun, then
vanished. When the woman's cousin, sister, and love were able to look
again, they saw a woman, her hair the color of quicksilver, her eyes
the color of flashing opal sapphires, her skin as pale and smooth as
snow. She stood on a hilltop, a sword made of liquid blue fire in her
hands. At her side, was a tiny infant cat with eagle wings, and a
dragon-like snout and tail.
"Behold...the Shinimejenya...." The man whispered.
"Kitty!" The woman screamed, and rushed, stumbling, up the hill
to embrace the younger woman that was her little sister.
*FLASH!*
"Kiticatya, don't you DARE!!!" The same woman, slightly older
now by only a year or two, screamed at her little sister once more, the
same as she had done so long ago on a hilltop.
"Just like before, I don't have a choice!" The younger woman
snapped, whirling on her older sibling. Her silver hair and blue eyes
had returned to their honey golden and sea green colors. "They *will*
find us, sister, and we both know that when they do, *I* am the only
one that stands a chance! You *cannot* be there!"
"Yes, we *will* be there!" The man, the cousin, older and much
more commanding, a true prince, stepped out of the shadows and took the
younger woman by the shoulders and stared into her eyes. "You will *not*
carry out this foolishness, younger cousin of mine. You will be alone,
without knowledge of who you are, unable to use your powers because you
won't even know you *have* them... Cousin, *think* about this!"
"Don't you think I have?" She snapped, wrenching herself from
his grasp. "I won't endanger those I love anymore! I won't!" Her gaze
flitted beyond her sister and cousin to the same man that had been
standing by the oak tree. Her eyes softened, filled with compassion. His
arm was in a sling, bruises on his face, and he looked as if when
walking he had to limp.
"I won't." She whispered. And with that she turned, and fled
down the palace corridor.
*FLASH!*
A potion bottle; she swallowed it.
*FLASH!*
A long forgotten spell; she whispered it.
*FLASH!*
An amulet in disguise; she clasped it.
*FLASH!*
A portal to a different world; she leapt in.
*FLASH!*
Falling... Swirling...Her mind; fogging, walls being built
between her and her memories.
Voices... "We will follow you! You can't stop us! We're your
Guardians!"
Falling... Pain! A cry; she'd landed.... Memories... dissappearing...
blackness... She shook her head to clear away the darkness. Tried to
remember where she was...
Nothing.
And so she wandered.
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With a gasp, Kitten was awake and sitting bolt right up in bed.
A fierce storm raged outside, pounding on her windows. Frantically she
looked all around and found that she was in her bed, in her room at
the Sanq Palace.
She was drenched in her own sweat, making the bandages that
were all over he body damp and extremely uncomfortable, but she noticed
neither the sweating nor her wounds that had begun to complain nor the
damp bandaging.
With a wide smile, Kitten threw aside the covers, ran to her
window, Akari at her heels, tossed aside the heavy draperies, and threw
open the window. With wind and rain that came down in sheets wipping
around her, tangling her hair and twisting her white satinteen nightgown
around her legs, Kitten threw her head back and laughed for joy.
Still laughing her heart out, tears of happiness running down
her face, Kitten opened her mouth to scream to the world.
"I remember!!!!" She sobbed as she yelled at the top of her
lungs.
"I REMEMBER!!!!!!!"
Thunderous lightning seemed to roll and boom in responce, and
Kitten leaped towards her bed and grabbed her Dragon Blade that was
resting there. With a yank, she had it out of its scabard, and she was
back to the window, grinning widely, sword held aloft.
"I know who I am!" She screamed. Her eyes flashed icy blue as
she yelled out a challenge to those whom had been chasing her. "And I
know, I KNOW who You are!!! I know my Secret! I know why you want me,
minions of the Jhinzs! If you want my secret, if you want what I have
so bad, if you want *me* so bad, Duke Jzaar, then COME AND CLAIM ME!!"
Still laughing giddily, Kitten thrust her sword the sky, threw
her head back and screamed once more;
"*I REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!*"
To Be Continued....
Dun dun dun dun....whoa, intense chapter, ne? That turned out so
cool! *grins* Hope ya like! PLEASE review! *looks around* Where did
everyone go? *tears*
Do you think I had her remember too soon? *looks around again*
Huh huh? Should I have waited, or what? I need to know! Cuz if I did
I'll rewrite it. Anyhoo, thankies for reading! Ja ne!
-Alexia
*ALL STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY; I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING. THE OTAKU
CHARACTERS AND PLOT ARE MINE, AS IS THE 'KITTEN' BRACELET.*
By Alexia Goddess
Chapter Ten
Panic reigned supreme as giant batlike creatures crashed down
through the ceiling. Kitten's hand was already on her katana hilt,
ready to draw, but she froze just in time to remember that she did
*not* wish to bring attention to herself.
Dozens of bodyguards appeared out of nowhere and ushured
the Princess Relena to relevent safety, and the pandemonium that filled
the air lessened slightly as more people managed to get out. Kitten was
sorely tempted to panic right along with them, and clenched her eyes
shut to fight back the rising wildness to run, run, run and get out...
but just as she was about to go nearly wild with fright, something
grabbed ahold of her mind, and held it tight.
Kitten's widened suddenly as she realized that she was standing
silently, calmly admits the chaos that surrounded her, the screaming,
the pushing, the madness. She stood as she felt that same soothing
calmness, that control, that sensory of someone who was not really her
guiding her movements and actions. Another being filled her body,
someone that she felt she knew, but yet was not her...was it? It felt
so familiar, so right... Yet this feeling of solid confidence and
smooth control in the middle of such chaos seemed so odd...oddly right.
How was it that she was able to be so calm? There were things that
came from nightmares after *her!* And she was *calm?*
Nevertheless, she was, calm, sure, and in control, no longer
under the threat of panic. With a snap, her eyes flew open, her sea
green eyes darkening to a stormy dark green, then aburptly flashing to
the purest icy blue. Her hand unconsciously flitted to gently carress
the Dragon Blade hilt at her side. She felt the cool silver steel hum
at her touch, and she smiled.
Her senses were sharp and keen, her mind coolly calculating as
she eyed that monstrous beasts that moving to form an impenitrible
ring around her.
Deep within her own mind, Kitten was trembling. What was going
on? What were these monsters? What did they want with her? AND WHY
THE HECK WAS SHE SO CALM??????? UGH!!!! SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF
THIS!!!!!
'Hush,' The calmness that was somehow a part of her that had
taken over told her gently, and Kitten took a deep breath, and decided
to play along, and, with a single thought, merged herself forcefully
with the smooth calmness. The cool control that had taken over her
body was now in her hands, the leash tight in her mental fists.
Her right hand that was already on her katana hilt tightened
its grip slightly, and her lips quirked downwards into a slight frown,
yet at the same time her eyes lit up with amusement as five forms
simultaniously leaped up and over the batlike beasts that were eyeing
her hungrily with blood red eyes.
"I told you to get out," Kitten said lightly as the five
Gundam Pilots formed a loose ring around her, with their backs to her.
Wufei had his katana out, and his black eyes were flashing angrily as
he threw her a harsh frown.
"You really are a blonde if you think we were gonna leave you,"
Duo snarled. Kitten blinked, then smiled gently.
Something inside her twitched, and worry began to seep through
the calmness. Kitten fought it back mercilessly, knowing that if she
lost whatever it was that she had grabbed, whatever it was that was
allowing her to be so smooth and confident, she would start shaking and
wailing like a typical damsel in distress.
Kitten's attention was torn away from the stirring within her
as one of the tall, black, gray, or brown batlike creatures with beady
red eyes spoke.
"Our master has bid us come and claim the one known as the Lady
Goddess Kiticatya, the legendary Shinimejenya, bearer of the Jenyakatana,
guardian of the Companion Akarijenya." Kitten decided that it was
the largest creature, the one with a pelt that was pitch black and the
dirtiest, clods of dried blood hanging from his fur.
"And whom might this Kiticatya, this Shinimejenya be?" Quatre
demanded, his tone firm, yet calculating and cautious.
'Shinimejenya...' Kitten's mind was reeling under the
confidence. That's what that dead man had called her! Coicidence? She
may have been blonde, but even she knew that this was no coincidence.
"Don't take me lightly, boy," The batlike creature snarled at
Quatre. It raised one massive clawed bat wing to point one wickedly
hooked claw at Kitten. "Do not tell me you do not know whom that retched
human girl is! Anyone with magi powers would know the Shinijenya! And
that is her! So do not *dare* to pretend you do not know her identity,
human child!"
Kitten, still standing firm, hand loosely around her dragon
hilt, quirked a slight grin.
"I know no name for myself, and I have no identity." She stated
truthfully. "Nor do I acknowledge any name save the one I give myself.
You say I am this Shinimejenya, well, I even if I am, I say that for
distrupting the peace and disturbing my previously content and happy
mood, and for being the disgustingly evil creature that you are,
you shall be slain at my hand, by my blade. Right here, right now."
A knowledge, a physical realization filled Kitten's body, and
without thinking, her heart rather than her mind knew what she had to
do, and her body automatically carried out the movements as if she had
done so a thousand times before.
With a lightning quick movement, Kitten had the Dragon blade
in her hand and held out. With a feral cry, she leaped upwards and
forwards towards the black beast with an almost inhuman speed and
at an almost unbelievable height.
The black bat creature choked, made a gargling sound, and
coughed; blood so dark it was black bubbled up and spilled out of its
mouth, dripping from its fangs as its beady red eyes bulged. The Gundam
Boys stood, jaws dropped -Even Heero's eyes were wide- in amazement at
what they saw.
Kitten was floating in midair, her very skin radiating a silver
ice blue glow, the source of her levitation yet to be discovered. The
Dragon blade that was hilt deep in the bat creature's chest was liquid
blue fire in the form of a living, lashing, roaring, rearing dragon in
her hands.
With a great thrust, Kitten shot upwards, taking her blade with
her while it was still buried within the evil creature, slicing the bat
thing up the middle. There was no more blood, nor gore, however; the
beast simply burst, exploded like a paper bag full of dust that had
been shot. The powdered remains of the bat thing filled the air, and
settled to the ground.
Kitten, still radiating her silver blue aura, slowly turned in
midair to face the rest of the batlike creatures. They shielded
themselves from her glow; they were not as strong as their leader.
"Now!" Duo cried, seeing that the monsters were afraid and distracted
by Kitten. He readjusted his grip on his large gun held out before him,
took aim, and a giant brown bat creature cried out in pain as it clutched
its bullet-imploded pupil.
"Bullseye!" Duo shouted in truimph, and took aim again at another
one as Kitten flew in and finished off the one that Duo had blinded with
a single stroke to the heart.
The G-boys shook themselves and took aim as well, aiming for
the eyes, throat, and heart. Once they figured out that the only place
that did any damage was the eyes, they went about a systimatic
destruction of the off-guard bat things; the Gundam Pilots shot the
bats blind, and while they were distracted by the pain, Wufei and Kitten
would finish them off with quick jabs and stabs directly to the heart,
which was apparently the *only* way to kill them.
When at last the final bat-like creature was destroyed, they
all looked around to discover that all the bodies had become piles of
ashy dust, and nothing more. They also saw that all the breakfasts
guest were either gone, hysterical, or -as in most cases, they saw-
unconscious.
Kitten was breathing heavily, two spots of skin on her back
alternatly cramping, then flexing. Oddly, it was not painful at all,
just tired and sore after such avid arobatics. Looking over her shoulder
wearily, Kitten did a double-take and shrieked, fell a few feet in the
air, then rightened herself. Protruding from those two aforementioned
areas on her back were monstrously giant, almost completely transparent,
silvery blue crystal dragon wings.
"My God..." Duo breathed from down below, eyes fixated on the
huge glass-looking, dragon-like wings extending from Kitten's shoulder
blades. Each wing by itself was easily seven feet long, perhaps eight,
several inches thick, and at least three feet wide, probably more like
three and a half.
Kitten looked away from her new appendages to survey the room.
Pillars were piles of rumble, entire sections of walls were powdered,
chunks of the previously flawless marble floor had been exploded,
leaving messy white craters. the ceiling was practically non existent;
the tables were all nothing more than splinters. Not a single piece of
china remained.
Seeing the complete destruction *she* had caused, Kitten lost
ahold of that calm control completely, and burst into tears midair,
bloody sword still in hand. She fluttered clumsily down the floor,
where the kitten Akari was immediately at her side, mewing in rapid
concern and scolding for being so reckless. The little kitten was on
her mistress's shoulders immediately, licking away the salty tears as
the came. And come they did, endlessly as Kitten dropped her Dragon
Blade, buried her face in her hands, and sobbed, the cold metal of her
kitten bracelet on her wrist pressing into her temple and cheek.
"K-Kit...?" Duo asked as he cautiously approached. Kitten
looked up at the man she considered an older brother with big, tearful,
helpless, pleading sea green eyes.
"Who am I?" Kitten sobbed, looking lost and completely alone.
She looked down at her torn and bloody hands.
There was silence for a moment, then...
"Do you know what Shinimejenya means?" She asked hoarsely. She
didn't wait for a reply. She looked up at them with haunted eyes.
"It means Dragon Goddess of Destruction."
Kitten looked down with eyes that now held bitterness, not
their usual bright, cheery glow. It made Quatre shudder as Kitten
whispered, "What am I?" Her voice broken and torn. She sobbed once more
before her eyes rolled up into her head, and she collapsed to the
floor, completely unconscious. Her crystal wings flashed and
disappeared, leaving simple, human -or not so human- Kitten alone and
seemingly normal unconscious on the cold, bloody marble floor.
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"Darnit..." Axis growled, yet his voice sounded broken, as was
his heart at 'seeing' his love so lost and confused.
"At least we're not in danger of her loosing her powers,
anymore," Zephra whispered.
That was the end of anyone trying to brighten the mood; the
sorrow that hung on the heart of the unconscious one they had supposed
to protect surrounded them too heavily, and their throats were clogged
tight with gloom.
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*FLASH!*
"But *why?*" The little girl whined to her older cousin, standing
beside her. Her face was set in an adorable pout. The boy, her cousin,
groaned.
"Come one, Kitty, you *know* I don't have a choice!" The older
boy sighed. "Momma and poppa are making me go. I'm their oldest son and
a prince; I have no choice! I *have* to go meet the Princess of Zilain
or it could meet war!"
"Meet the princess?" The little girl raised an eyebrow. "You
mean if you don't *marry* her!" The child plopped down on a stool and
began crying loudly. "Its not *fair!*"
*FLASH!*
"Its too bad that first suitoress lost her hair so suddenly,"
A young girl, nearing her teens, said with a giggle. It was the same
girl that had bawled over her cousin's leaving to meet a possible
bride only a few years ago.
The girl sitting beside her, that bore a starting resemblence
to the girl that had just commented on the suitoress, rolled her eyes.
"You are sooo evil, Kitty, you know that?" The older girl
shook her head as the younger girl laughed gleefully.
"At least our cousin didn't have to marry her!" She pointed out.
"That princess of Zilain was *horrid!*"
"Yes, she was, little sister, but unfortunately, Zion has to meet
another countess this weekend. She's quite pretty, and she has more
bodyguards than even mother, and she's not even directly related to
royalty as we are!"
"Then how are we going to sabatogue her?" The smaller girl asked
of her older sister. Her older sibling grinned sinisterly and beckoned
the younger girl closer, and began whispering in her ear. The smaller
girl grinned and squealed gleefully.
*FLASH!*
"Kitty! Kitten, no, you can't!" The same boy, now a man, that had
tried to console the girl-child when he had to go away ran towards a
young woman that was beginning to be engulfed by a bright silver-blue
light.
"Kitty, no!" Another woman, older than the girl in the light and
almost identicle to her, was right behind the first man. She sobbed as
she fell to her knees. "No...no, my darling little sister...you can't
do this..."
"I have to." A voice said in both their minds, and the mind of a
man that hid behind a large oak tree, his face and eyes ridden with
an emotional agony so great it was impossible to bear just looking at
him as he gazed at the blonde, sea green eyed woman that was now
completely within the bubble of light.
"I have no choice, my cousin, my sister...my love..." This last
was directed to the man behind the tree. "I am already nicknamed,
however fondly, Shinimejenya by the people. Let me know become the
Shinimejenya for real, as is foretold in the Legend."
"But...but we'll loose *you!*" The older woman sobbed.
"No...no, you won't, sister," They were now unable to see the
woman in the light, as the light had become too brilliant. "I will
always be with you. Always."
Then there was a monstrous roar that could only come from the
throat of a dragon. The light pulsed brighter than the sun, then
vanished. When the woman's cousin, sister, and love were able to look
again, they saw a woman, her hair the color of quicksilver, her eyes
the color of flashing opal sapphires, her skin as pale and smooth as
snow. She stood on a hilltop, a sword made of liquid blue fire in her
hands. At her side, was a tiny infant cat with eagle wings, and a
dragon-like snout and tail.
"Behold...the Shinimejenya...." The man whispered.
"Kitty!" The woman screamed, and rushed, stumbling, up the hill
to embrace the younger woman that was her little sister.
*FLASH!*
"Kiticatya, don't you DARE!!!" The same woman, slightly older
now by only a year or two, screamed at her little sister once more, the
same as she had done so long ago on a hilltop.
"Just like before, I don't have a choice!" The younger woman
snapped, whirling on her older sibling. Her silver hair and blue eyes
had returned to their honey golden and sea green colors. "They *will*
find us, sister, and we both know that when they do, *I* am the only
one that stands a chance! You *cannot* be there!"
"Yes, we *will* be there!" The man, the cousin, older and much
more commanding, a true prince, stepped out of the shadows and took the
younger woman by the shoulders and stared into her eyes. "You will *not*
carry out this foolishness, younger cousin of mine. You will be alone,
without knowledge of who you are, unable to use your powers because you
won't even know you *have* them... Cousin, *think* about this!"
"Don't you think I have?" She snapped, wrenching herself from
his grasp. "I won't endanger those I love anymore! I won't!" Her gaze
flitted beyond her sister and cousin to the same man that had been
standing by the oak tree. Her eyes softened, filled with compassion. His
arm was in a sling, bruises on his face, and he looked as if when
walking he had to limp.
"I won't." She whispered. And with that she turned, and fled
down the palace corridor.
*FLASH!*
A potion bottle; she swallowed it.
*FLASH!*
A long forgotten spell; she whispered it.
*FLASH!*
An amulet in disguise; she clasped it.
*FLASH!*
A portal to a different world; she leapt in.
*FLASH!*
Falling... Swirling...Her mind; fogging, walls being built
between her and her memories.
Voices... "We will follow you! You can't stop us! We're your
Guardians!"
Falling... Pain! A cry; she'd landed.... Memories... dissappearing...
blackness... She shook her head to clear away the darkness. Tried to
remember where she was...
Nothing.
And so she wandered.
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With a gasp, Kitten was awake and sitting bolt right up in bed.
A fierce storm raged outside, pounding on her windows. Frantically she
looked all around and found that she was in her bed, in her room at
the Sanq Palace.
She was drenched in her own sweat, making the bandages that
were all over he body damp and extremely uncomfortable, but she noticed
neither the sweating nor her wounds that had begun to complain nor the
damp bandaging.
With a wide smile, Kitten threw aside the covers, ran to her
window, Akari at her heels, tossed aside the heavy draperies, and threw
open the window. With wind and rain that came down in sheets wipping
around her, tangling her hair and twisting her white satinteen nightgown
around her legs, Kitten threw her head back and laughed for joy.
Still laughing her heart out, tears of happiness running down
her face, Kitten opened her mouth to scream to the world.
"I remember!!!!" She sobbed as she yelled at the top of her
lungs.
"I REMEMBER!!!!!!!"
Thunderous lightning seemed to roll and boom in responce, and
Kitten leaped towards her bed and grabbed her Dragon Blade that was
resting there. With a yank, she had it out of its scabard, and she was
back to the window, grinning widely, sword held aloft.
"I know who I am!" She screamed. Her eyes flashed icy blue as
she yelled out a challenge to those whom had been chasing her. "And I
know, I KNOW who You are!!! I know my Secret! I know why you want me,
minions of the Jhinzs! If you want my secret, if you want what I have
so bad, if you want *me* so bad, Duke Jzaar, then COME AND CLAIM ME!!"
Still laughing giddily, Kitten thrust her sword the sky, threw
her head back and screamed once more;
"*I REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!*"
To Be Continued....
Dun dun dun dun....whoa, intense chapter, ne? That turned out so
cool! *grins* Hope ya like! PLEASE review! *looks around* Where did
everyone go? *tears*
Do you think I had her remember too soon? *looks around again*
Huh huh? Should I have waited, or what? I need to know! Cuz if I did
I'll rewrite it. Anyhoo, thankies for reading! Ja ne!
-Alexia
*ALL STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY; I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING. THE OTAKU
CHARACTERS AND PLOT ARE MINE, AS IS THE 'KITTEN' BRACELET.*