~ kitten ~
By Alexia Goddess
Chapter Twelve
"You're feeling sorry for yourself," Kitten said gently, her own
saddness in her voice. Duo, whom had been leaning against a tree out in
another one of the Sanq Palace's numerous gardens, turned, blinking in
surprise to face Kitten; he had thought he was alone.
"How long have you been there?" Duo asked, a touch of bitterness
in his voice.
"Long enough," Kitten said. She pushed away from the pillar of
a small white gazebo that she had been leaning against, and walked up
with a casual gait in her step to stand beside the one she considered
an older brother.
A few moments later...
"So, you done getting lectured?" Duo said. Kitten groaned and made
a face.
"Sometimes I can't believe they're so overprotective," She muttered.
"And I can't believe they made you guys leave the room. I thought Wufei was
gonna punch Axis's lights out. Or at least try." She said with a giggle.
Duo chuckled lightly, with a sourness to his attitude, and Kitten
fell silent.
"Nothing has changed, you know," Kitten told him after a moment
of silence. Duo said nothing, but continued to gaze up at the stars that
were shinning brightly overhead.
"Just because I have my real identity back doesn't change who I
am." Kitten whispered. "I'm still the same Kit that had used icecream
as snow balls for a snowball fight in the kitchen along with you and
Quatre."
Both grinned slightly at the memory, and Duo let himself chuckle.
He reached over and ruffled Kitten's hair like so many other times he had
done so.
"I know you're still you, Kit." He said with a sigh. "But now you
don't need us anymore. You've got your Companions back, you're Guardians.
You don't need us to protect you."
"Thats not true!" Kitten whirled on Duo. "I do need you! You're
my *brother!* Even if only of the heart! You heard what that one Vamp said!"
"Huh?" Duo asked.
"He said anyone with Magi powers could tell who I was, so do not
deny knowing who I was." She said, passion filling her being.
"But he just meant your Companions," Duo sighed. "Axis and Zion and
them inside us. They thought that was our powers."
"*No!*" Kitten cried. "Vamps may not be the most magically
sophisticated creatures, but they do know the difference between true Magi
talents and the prescence of a Ridder!"
"'Ridder?'" Duo echoed. Kitten sighed.
"A Ridder is the name of the form that someone must take on before
they can enter their Hosts, in this case, you, Relena, Heero, and Wufei."
Kitten explained.
"So you're saying we have magic?" Duo raised an eyebrow.
"Everyone has a bit of it, no matter their species or age, but
mostly its too small to be noticed or used." Kitten told him. "But he
mistook your gift for Magi Powers, which means your gifts must be pretty
extensive."
"Do you think?" Duo asked, curious. Kitten nodded vigorously.
"I can ask Kiros to do some tests, and stuff, if you want," She
offered. Duo nodded.
"Still..." Duo cracked a wry smile. "I'll miss having you around."
He told her. Kitten blinked, and recoiled slightly in surprise.
"What do you mean?" She breathed. Duo rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"You really are blonde," He said with a low laugh. Kitten blinked
again. Duo turned and took her by the shoulders. His goofy, happy-go-lucky
attitude seemed to have been forgotten at the moment. Now he was truely,
one hundred percent an older brother.
"We Gundam Pilots aren't stupid, you know," He said, grinning sadly.
"We found a way to listen in on you guys. I know you plan on staying here
until you find a way to defeat that Jzaar guy, but then you'll be leaving,
now won't you?"
"B-but-"
"Kit, not only do you come from another planet, you come from
another planet thats in a different *dimension.*" He told her. "That
doesn't make for easy round-trip visiting flights."
"But I-"
"You and I both know that once this Duke Jzaar is space dust, and
no longer a threat, you and your friends will be going back to this
Xylion faerieland, and the chances of us seeing each other again are
mute. You're the closest thing I've ever had to real family, a sister; I
don't like the idea of never seeing you again." He told her gently, before
he kissed her forehead. "Spare me some self pity, okay?"
With that, he turned and left, leaving Kitten stuttering in denial.
But he was gone. Kitten blinked back tears as what her onii-chan had said
sunk in. She realized with a shock that he was right. Once Jzaar was
defeated, she would be going home, that was certain. But all the friends
she had made here on Earth, in this dimension that was not her own, all
the people she considered closer than family...
She would never see them again.
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"So what exactly is 'Reluctance Spell' anyways?" Quatre spoke up, trying
to lighten the heavy mood that hung on them all as they sat around a large
cherry wood formal dining table in a smaller dining room in the Sanq Palace,
late that night.
As an effort to try and get the two opposite groups to get to know
each other, Relena and Kitten both and decided to have dinner with just the
Gundam Pilots, Relena, Dorothy, Kitten, and the Companions.
"Um..." Kitten threw a glance to Kiros, who nodded, and looked to
Quatre. However, that question seemed to have caught everyone else's
attention as well.
"Its basically just like the name suggests," Kiros said, putting
down his fork. "When you are tempted to do something, and want to keep
yourself from doing it, you can put a reluctance spell on yourself to make
you *not* want to do it. In this case, Kitten, before the memory-less potion
took affect, she put a Reluctance Spell on herself to make her 'reluctant'
to remember her past."
"Clever," Trowa said, a thoughtful look in his eyes. Duo shook his head.
"I still can't believe this." He grinned at Kitten sitting beside him and
tugged a strand of hair that fell from just behind her ear and over her shoulder
to her waist in a single, tiny braid. Kitten grabbed it away and glared at
him before returning to her meal.
"What don't you believe?" Kitten asked through a bite of potatoes.
"You!" Dorothy supplied for the Gundam Pilot who was in the middle of
a drink of soda. "Our Kit, our little prankster, a high and mighty carrier of
a goddess-like entity, a master swordswoman, and a High Mage; a Sorceress!"
Kitten flushed, looking sheepish.
"Hey, c'mon guys, it's still me!" Kitten laughed. "I'm still Kit! How
else would I have the nerve to do this?" With that, she leaped up, wrapped her arms
around Heero's neck and planted a big, sisterly kiss on his cheek. With the
Japanese Pilot glaring and grumbling and fingering his gun, Kitten, giggling
miscieviously, plopped back down in her seat while everyone laughed.
As though that single act had broken a spell, everyone began chatting
and asking questions about what it was like a in a magical/non-magical world,
comparing notes on Kitten's numerous pranks, and just overall getting to know
one another.
'Another conquest, my lady,' Kitten's eyes widened as she felt that same,
familiar, comforting stirring of another mind deep within her. She grinned,
her eyes laughing, as she greeted her Dragon Goddess friend that had awoken
once more within her heart.
'Hello, Shini,' Kitten greeted her mentally. 'It has been a while,
has it not?'
'Indeed it has, my lady,' The dragon spirit, residing within Kitten,
known as Shinimejenya replied.
'I missed you, my friend.' Kitten smiled. 'But of what conquest do
you speak of?'
'You have just united the two most formidable fighting guardian forces
in existence, in amy dimension or on any planet. I have a feeling, my lady,
that had you not had your time here as one of them, this union would not have
been possible. The prospect of the Companions and the humans known as the
Gundam Pilots never joining forces is a terrible one.'
'How so?' Kitten inquired, curious, and confused. 'It will give us a
better chance against Jzaar, yes, but...but you speak as if this...this
'union' will be permanent.'
'My lady, do you remember when I once told you that out of all evils,
at least one good, no matter how small, will come out of every single one?'
'Y-Yes...' Kitten said cautiously.
'Just keep that in mind, child.' Shinimejenya said gently. Kitten
blinked. Shini had never called her 'child' before... always 'my lady,' or
sometimes by her name if they were having fun... but never 'child.'
Before Kitten could ask anything more, Shinimejenya, the spirit of the
Dragon Goddess of Destruction, curled up and went back to sleep within the
depths of Kitten's being.
"She enjoys being the 'Mysterious dragoness' waaaaay too much." Kitten
muttered into her glass. She took a sip of the grape juice, savoring the taste
of one of her favorite beverages-
*snap!*
Kitten gasped, coughing and sputtering. The glass fell from her
hand to crash to the tile floor, shattering. The deep burgandy juice
dripped off the white tablecloth like an omen.
Kitten, juice dribbling from her lip, snapped her head to the side to
meet Axis's eyes squarely. Axis, expression grim, nodded, affrirming that he,
too, had sensed it.
Ignoring a puzzled, worried Duo and Quatre, Kitten and Axis both
then looked to Zephra and Zion, they, too, nodded grimly.
Simultaniously, thinking as one with the practice of many years, the
foursome stood, muscles tense and ready.
"Miss Relena, Dorothy, I suggest you two leave," Kitten hissed
quietly.
"Isn't it a bit late for that, my dear?" A voice drawled from out
of thin air. Kitten whirled, along with everyone else. Several chairs were
knocked the ground, and more glasses were knocked over to crack or
shatter, and to dump their contents.
"Hiszeal," Kitten drew her Dragon Blade, which she was never
without, now. An amused, dark chuckle filled the room.
"Oh, look, little miss Countess wants to play sword fight!" That
same voice said mockingly.
"Don't make me Reveal you by force, Hiszeal, you traitor," Kiros
spat. "You know I can! And any other croonies you've got around here!"
Relena suddenly gave out a cry, more of surprise than of fear or
pain. Zephra whirled, a whistle of a blade pieced the air, and a unearthly
screech of pain filled everyone's ear. Relena gasped, her eyes going
wide as she realized that the pressure on her arm had been the result of
her upper arm being in the grip of an invisible creature, a green skinned
humanoid with atrociously huge teeth and gigantic gray-red eyes.
The creature, which Kitten and her Companions immediately identified
as a desert Ogre, fell away, releasing its iron grip on the Sanq Princess.
It was dead before it hit the ground; one of Zephra's blades had pierced
its skull. The tip of the blade protruded from the back of its skill,
the hilt of it buried in the center of the creature's forehead.
Relena stood, frozen in horror and shock, Dorothy at her side,
similarily petrified.
Kitten whirled away from the scene, growling ferally. The G-Boys
already had their weapons out; Zephra was newly armed with two new daggers,
one in each hand. Axis head a masterfully crafted bow made of a wood that
appeared a pearly white, with hematite arrows and silver arrowheads with
white dove feathers for fletching, a powerfully magical combination.
Kiros held two bladed boomerang type weapons, and Zion held a
massive, gryphon-hilted wrought gold and silver broadsword.
"Show yourselves, creatures of the Jhinzes, traitors, or I will
show *myself!*" Kitten threatened. Whether their assailants were tired
of playing hide and seek, or if Kitten's threat held some potency to them,
the air surrounding the table and ring of warriors began to shimmer with
a putrid smelling smoke.
"What the-" Duo began, when with a final, abrupt flash, the smoke
vanished, and surrounding them was now a small army of almost exact
replicas of the first creature that had tried to abduct Relena.
"Hello, Hiszeal," Zephra snarled at the man whom was spotted
floating above them all. It was quite apparent that he had once been
beautifully handsome, with shoulder length black hair and piercing
gray blue eyes. But now his hair was ragged and filthy, his eyes a
shade of insane red, and an ugly, shiny, tight and puffy acid scar
covered almost the entire side of the left half of his face.
"Ugh, talk about butt-ugly," Duo muttered. Hiszeals eyes flashed
to him, and Kitten threw her big brother a glare. Duo flashed her a
charming grin and turned back to facing the army of uglies before them.
"You have something that our Master requires, Shinimejenya,"
Hiszeal hissed, glaring down directly into Kitten's eyes. She felt Shini
stir angrily within her, lashing her silver scaled tail and her throat
burning with blue fire.
'No, my friend,' Kitten told the Dragon Spirit. 'This is my
fight, Kiticatya shall fight today, not Shinimejenya.'
The dragon, still seething with anger, but understanding her
mistress's meaning, nodded, and sank back down, but did not sleep. It
lay waiting to rise to her lady's defence at any moment.
'Be careful, my lady,' Shini told Kitten gently. Kitten smiled,
and raised her sword arm higher, glaring in challenge to the man above
her.
"Tell your snake-traitor of a master that should he ever actually
get his hands on me-"
"-Which he will *not.*" Axis growled. Kitten continued without
missing a beat.
"Should he ever actually manage to capture me, I would only
destroy that very thing he desires so much. I will not hesitate to do so,
either, so you might as well tell him to give up!"
"Never!" Hiszeal snarled. "Meganijenya shall rule again!" He
drew a black bladed sword out of nowhere, and raised it high. "Attack!"
He screamed in a insane voice. The army of ogres reared up, roared, and
charged forward.
"Time to meet Shinimagami!" Duo whooped, raising his hand gun
high in one hand, using every other limb to the most extensive possible
capacity to do as much damage as possible, and still keep himself
relatively unharmed.
Kitten's crystal dragon wings flared from her shoulder blades,
and she soared into the air, swooping down upon her enemies to cut down
one or two with a single stroke, always keeping an eye to Hiszeal,
should he decide that he wasn't too high and mighty to do some real
work after all and come after her or her friends.
"Wufei, look out!" Kitten cried, and the Chinese young man
whirled just in time to parry a blow dealth by an ogre and its large,
heavy iron club. Wufei blocked it with his katana, and as they stood,
both trying to overpower the other, the ogre suddenly convulsed, and
aburptly dropped its club and fell to the floor like a stone. As it
burst into dust and settled the ground, Dorothy was seen holding a
small revolver, a shaken but smug look on her face.
Dorothy, looking past Wufei, paled, her eyes going wide.
"Quatre!" She cried out, pointing. Wufei turned quickly to see
Quatre duck the swing of yet another ogre's club, this one wood with
steel spikes. Quatre dived between the creature's legs, rolled, and
pushed up on one knee, aimed, and shot off five rapid shots, all hitting
the ogre directly to the heart and head.
Duo shouted his congradulations to the Arabian boy's superb aim,
catching the rushing green fist just in time to duck the blow of a rather
large ogre. He gave a flying roundabout kick to its face. Its head was
snapped back by the force of the blow. It stumbled back a step, but
otherwise seemed unharmed. The creature stepped forward, glaring at Duo,
and snarled.
There was a streak of silver and blue, and suddenly Kitten was
before him, her sword plunged into the heart of the ogre. She yanked it
out, the blade magically bloodless and clean, and winked at Duo before
soaring upwards once more.
Heero stood in the center of a never ceasing ring of hostility,
ogres charging at him left and right. He stood calmly, the only parts
of him that showed any signs of life were his eyes, his right arm, and
his right hand's fingers as he shot the ogres down all before they
came within a yard of him. He only had to move any more than that
once, to shove his elbow back into the ribcage of a ogre that had
managed to get closer than the others. The blow had stalled it enough
until Heero could deal with the current target of his bullets.
Kitten, high above, scowled, wiping sweat from her brow. She
could end this! Shinimejenya was restless within her, snorting curls of
blue-gray smoke. Kitten growled. No! She couldn't always be dependant
on Shini! She had to do this herself! Even if it was with the help of
the G-Boys and her Companions...
"Impressive, isn't it, my little goddess?" Kitten gasped and
whirled, stiffling a shriek when she found a sneering Hiszeal directly
in front of her. She gave a cry, halting in midair; Hiszeal was holding
a strand of her hair that had come loose from her braid. She yanked,
but his grip was firm. With a single swipe of her blade, she severed
the strands and flapped a decent distance away, glaring with a flashing
gleem to her eyes.
Hiszeal's own red-gray eyes became glassy with an emotion Kitten
didn't recognize, but immediately knew she didn't like as his eyes swept
over her, almost evaluating her, but not in a battle sense.
"Call them off," Kitten hissed, fumbling for something to say.
"Why should I? I'm winning." He smirked. Kitten glanced down.
Indeed, while the G-Boys and the Guardians were fighting fiercely, the
ogres were simply too numerous. She whipped her head back up again to
snarl at Hiszeal.
"Not for long," she hissed. Enough of this! Why did she have to
be so blonde? She had other abilites outside of merging with Shinimejenya!
Duh! With a feral growl, Kitten bent over slightly, her icy blue aura flaring
up around her. Her arms flared out the side as if they were wings with a]
single abrupt, graceful movement.
Thick threads of silver materialized out of thin air, weaving around her
ice blue aura, until she was shinning a bright silvery blue.
While the glow around her thickened and began to pulse, she
bent her free arm before her, as if bowing. Her head was thrown back,
her eyes closed. She brought her sword arm over her stomach, in a ballet
style position, over the other arm.
Abruptly, and with a piercing battle cry, Kitten flung her arms
out and up, her legs planted firmly apart in midair, her back arched,
her face pointed upwards. She opened her mouth, her aura pulsing brighter
than a pulsar, and called out...
"SILVER..." Her aura flashed again, this time going purely silver.
"SAPPHIRE..." Blue, now... A fierce wind was picking up, swirling around her...
"CYCLONE!!!!!!!!" The wind intensified tenfold. With an absent flick
of her mind, Kitten sent a barage of pearlescent bubbles down towards
the humans below. Relena, Dorothy, the G-Boys, her Companions, and even
little Akari -whom had been prancing around underfoot, using her teeth
and claws to make walking for the ogres very painful- were all suddenly
encompased in their own bubble. The bubbles sprouted pearlescent tendrils
that rooted themselves to the floor, and held, as the whirlwind that was
filled with whisps of blue and silver mist tore around the room.
Screams of the green creatures rang out, and everything that
was not bolted down was thrown into the chaos.
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"I knew he couldn't do it," A lean, white haired, bright red eyed
man with a permanent sneer on his ice pink lips said scornfully. The
Shadowed man sat at his desk again, and both men watched the watery
globe before them as the magical tornado generated by the crystal
dragon winged, sea-green eyed, golden blonde haired young woman decimated
the ogre army.
"Still, he did manage to weaken them." The man said dismissively.
"And now we know the condition -magical, physical, and to some extent
mental- of our Dragon Goddess." The man waved his hand, and the orb
disappeared.
"Go and finish them off, and bring the Goddess to me." The man
barked his command at the white haired, lean, younger man. The lean man
bowed. "And kill Hiszeal." The man added. "I have no use for failures."
The lean man stiffened; that last comment, he knew, had been
meant for him, as well.
"I will do as my lord, the Duke Jzaar requires," The lean man
said to the shadowed man, bowed again, and left.
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The magical tornado picked up everything -save Kitten and what
was within the bubbles- and smashed it around, slamming it against walls,
through windows, crashing against the pillars and crumbling them to dust.
Ogres were slammed against the floor so hard skulls were crached, onto
shards of wood from tables and crown moldings that had come away from the
wall. Wufei stuck his katana out of the bubble and stabbed all within reach,
and his bubble held.
The others took after Wufei's example, and soon even bullets
now flew through the air.
Even Hiszeal was not immune the affects of Kitten's magical
cyclone, and the doorway that he was holding onto snapped, splintered,
and gave way.
He cried out as he was slammed against a wall. There was a
hideous cracking sound, and blood began to seep out of his ears and from
under his hair.
Just as the wind was about ot pick him up again, the cyclone
abruptly stopped, and Kitten, pale, gasping, and green around the lips
and eyes that were now closed, plummeted to the ground.
To Be Continued...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! *sobs* I
BROKE MY RECORD!!!! I WENT DAYS WITHOUT POSTING!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*breaks down sobbing* I'm sooooorry! It took me longer than I
thought it would to find my muse! And when I did, she wasn't as prompt
as before, so I know this chapter kinda sucks....
*sigh* Oh, well. At least I got it out at all, ne? Well, I hope
you enjoyed, nevertheless! Ja ne!
-Alexia Goddess
*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 Twelve
"You're feeling sorry for yourself," Kitten said gently, her own
saddness in her voice. Duo, whom had been leaning against a tree out in
another one of the Sanq Palace's numerous gardens, turned, blinking in
surprise to face Kitten; he had thought he was alone.
"How long have you been there?" Duo asked, a touch of bitterness
in his voice.
"Long enough," Kitten said. She pushed away from the pillar of
a small white gazebo that she had been leaning against, and walked up
with a casual gait in her step to stand beside the one she considered
an older brother.
A few moments later...
"So, you done getting lectured?" Duo said. Kitten groaned and made
a face.
"Sometimes I can't believe they're so overprotective," She muttered.
"And I can't believe they made you guys leave the room. I thought Wufei was
gonna punch Axis's lights out. Or at least try." She said with a giggle.
Duo chuckled lightly, with a sourness to his attitude, and Kitten
fell silent.
"Nothing has changed, you know," Kitten told him after a moment
of silence. Duo said nothing, but continued to gaze up at the stars that
were shinning brightly overhead.
"Just because I have my real identity back doesn't change who I
am." Kitten whispered. "I'm still the same Kit that had used icecream
as snow balls for a snowball fight in the kitchen along with you and
Quatre."
Both grinned slightly at the memory, and Duo let himself chuckle.
He reached over and ruffled Kitten's hair like so many other times he had
done so.
"I know you're still you, Kit." He said with a sigh. "But now you
don't need us anymore. You've got your Companions back, you're Guardians.
You don't need us to protect you."
"Thats not true!" Kitten whirled on Duo. "I do need you! You're
my *brother!* Even if only of the heart! You heard what that one Vamp said!"
"Huh?" Duo asked.
"He said anyone with Magi powers could tell who I was, so do not
deny knowing who I was." She said, passion filling her being.
"But he just meant your Companions," Duo sighed. "Axis and Zion and
them inside us. They thought that was our powers."
"*No!*" Kitten cried. "Vamps may not be the most magically
sophisticated creatures, but they do know the difference between true Magi
talents and the prescence of a Ridder!"
"'Ridder?'" Duo echoed. Kitten sighed.
"A Ridder is the name of the form that someone must take on before
they can enter their Hosts, in this case, you, Relena, Heero, and Wufei."
Kitten explained.
"So you're saying we have magic?" Duo raised an eyebrow.
"Everyone has a bit of it, no matter their species or age, but
mostly its too small to be noticed or used." Kitten told him. "But he
mistook your gift for Magi Powers, which means your gifts must be pretty
extensive."
"Do you think?" Duo asked, curious. Kitten nodded vigorously.
"I can ask Kiros to do some tests, and stuff, if you want," She
offered. Duo nodded.
"Still..." Duo cracked a wry smile. "I'll miss having you around."
He told her. Kitten blinked, and recoiled slightly in surprise.
"What do you mean?" She breathed. Duo rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"You really are blonde," He said with a low laugh. Kitten blinked
again. Duo turned and took her by the shoulders. His goofy, happy-go-lucky
attitude seemed to have been forgotten at the moment. Now he was truely,
one hundred percent an older brother.
"We Gundam Pilots aren't stupid, you know," He said, grinning sadly.
"We found a way to listen in on you guys. I know you plan on staying here
until you find a way to defeat that Jzaar guy, but then you'll be leaving,
now won't you?"
"B-but-"
"Kit, not only do you come from another planet, you come from
another planet thats in a different *dimension.*" He told her. "That
doesn't make for easy round-trip visiting flights."
"But I-"
"You and I both know that once this Duke Jzaar is space dust, and
no longer a threat, you and your friends will be going back to this
Xylion faerieland, and the chances of us seeing each other again are
mute. You're the closest thing I've ever had to real family, a sister; I
don't like the idea of never seeing you again." He told her gently, before
he kissed her forehead. "Spare me some self pity, okay?"
With that, he turned and left, leaving Kitten stuttering in denial.
But he was gone. Kitten blinked back tears as what her onii-chan had said
sunk in. She realized with a shock that he was right. Once Jzaar was
defeated, she would be going home, that was certain. But all the friends
she had made here on Earth, in this dimension that was not her own, all
the people she considered closer than family...
She would never see them again.
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"So what exactly is 'Reluctance Spell' anyways?" Quatre spoke up, trying
to lighten the heavy mood that hung on them all as they sat around a large
cherry wood formal dining table in a smaller dining room in the Sanq Palace,
late that night.
As an effort to try and get the two opposite groups to get to know
each other, Relena and Kitten both and decided to have dinner with just the
Gundam Pilots, Relena, Dorothy, Kitten, and the Companions.
"Um..." Kitten threw a glance to Kiros, who nodded, and looked to
Quatre. However, that question seemed to have caught everyone else's
attention as well.
"Its basically just like the name suggests," Kiros said, putting
down his fork. "When you are tempted to do something, and want to keep
yourself from doing it, you can put a reluctance spell on yourself to make
you *not* want to do it. In this case, Kitten, before the memory-less potion
took affect, she put a Reluctance Spell on herself to make her 'reluctant'
to remember her past."
"Clever," Trowa said, a thoughtful look in his eyes. Duo shook his head.
"I still can't believe this." He grinned at Kitten sitting beside him and
tugged a strand of hair that fell from just behind her ear and over her shoulder
to her waist in a single, tiny braid. Kitten grabbed it away and glared at
him before returning to her meal.
"What don't you believe?" Kitten asked through a bite of potatoes.
"You!" Dorothy supplied for the Gundam Pilot who was in the middle of
a drink of soda. "Our Kit, our little prankster, a high and mighty carrier of
a goddess-like entity, a master swordswoman, and a High Mage; a Sorceress!"
Kitten flushed, looking sheepish.
"Hey, c'mon guys, it's still me!" Kitten laughed. "I'm still Kit! How
else would I have the nerve to do this?" With that, she leaped up, wrapped her arms
around Heero's neck and planted a big, sisterly kiss on his cheek. With the
Japanese Pilot glaring and grumbling and fingering his gun, Kitten, giggling
miscieviously, plopped back down in her seat while everyone laughed.
As though that single act had broken a spell, everyone began chatting
and asking questions about what it was like a in a magical/non-magical world,
comparing notes on Kitten's numerous pranks, and just overall getting to know
one another.
'Another conquest, my lady,' Kitten's eyes widened as she felt that same,
familiar, comforting stirring of another mind deep within her. She grinned,
her eyes laughing, as she greeted her Dragon Goddess friend that had awoken
once more within her heart.
'Hello, Shini,' Kitten greeted her mentally. 'It has been a while,
has it not?'
'Indeed it has, my lady,' The dragon spirit, residing within Kitten,
known as Shinimejenya replied.
'I missed you, my friend.' Kitten smiled. 'But of what conquest do
you speak of?'
'You have just united the two most formidable fighting guardian forces
in existence, in amy dimension or on any planet. I have a feeling, my lady,
that had you not had your time here as one of them, this union would not have
been possible. The prospect of the Companions and the humans known as the
Gundam Pilots never joining forces is a terrible one.'
'How so?' Kitten inquired, curious, and confused. 'It will give us a
better chance against Jzaar, yes, but...but you speak as if this...this
'union' will be permanent.'
'My lady, do you remember when I once told you that out of all evils,
at least one good, no matter how small, will come out of every single one?'
'Y-Yes...' Kitten said cautiously.
'Just keep that in mind, child.' Shinimejenya said gently. Kitten
blinked. Shini had never called her 'child' before... always 'my lady,' or
sometimes by her name if they were having fun... but never 'child.'
Before Kitten could ask anything more, Shinimejenya, the spirit of the
Dragon Goddess of Destruction, curled up and went back to sleep within the
depths of Kitten's being.
"She enjoys being the 'Mysterious dragoness' waaaaay too much." Kitten
muttered into her glass. She took a sip of the grape juice, savoring the taste
of one of her favorite beverages-
*snap!*
Kitten gasped, coughing and sputtering. The glass fell from her
hand to crash to the tile floor, shattering. The deep burgandy juice
dripped off the white tablecloth like an omen.
Kitten, juice dribbling from her lip, snapped her head to the side to
meet Axis's eyes squarely. Axis, expression grim, nodded, affrirming that he,
too, had sensed it.
Ignoring a puzzled, worried Duo and Quatre, Kitten and Axis both
then looked to Zephra and Zion, they, too, nodded grimly.
Simultaniously, thinking as one with the practice of many years, the
foursome stood, muscles tense and ready.
"Miss Relena, Dorothy, I suggest you two leave," Kitten hissed
quietly.
"Isn't it a bit late for that, my dear?" A voice drawled from out
of thin air. Kitten whirled, along with everyone else. Several chairs were
knocked the ground, and more glasses were knocked over to crack or
shatter, and to dump their contents.
"Hiszeal," Kitten drew her Dragon Blade, which she was never
without, now. An amused, dark chuckle filled the room.
"Oh, look, little miss Countess wants to play sword fight!" That
same voice said mockingly.
"Don't make me Reveal you by force, Hiszeal, you traitor," Kiros
spat. "You know I can! And any other croonies you've got around here!"
Relena suddenly gave out a cry, more of surprise than of fear or
pain. Zephra whirled, a whistle of a blade pieced the air, and a unearthly
screech of pain filled everyone's ear. Relena gasped, her eyes going
wide as she realized that the pressure on her arm had been the result of
her upper arm being in the grip of an invisible creature, a green skinned
humanoid with atrociously huge teeth and gigantic gray-red eyes.
The creature, which Kitten and her Companions immediately identified
as a desert Ogre, fell away, releasing its iron grip on the Sanq Princess.
It was dead before it hit the ground; one of Zephra's blades had pierced
its skull. The tip of the blade protruded from the back of its skill,
the hilt of it buried in the center of the creature's forehead.
Relena stood, frozen in horror and shock, Dorothy at her side,
similarily petrified.
Kitten whirled away from the scene, growling ferally. The G-Boys
already had their weapons out; Zephra was newly armed with two new daggers,
one in each hand. Axis head a masterfully crafted bow made of a wood that
appeared a pearly white, with hematite arrows and silver arrowheads with
white dove feathers for fletching, a powerfully magical combination.
Kiros held two bladed boomerang type weapons, and Zion held a
massive, gryphon-hilted wrought gold and silver broadsword.
"Show yourselves, creatures of the Jhinzes, traitors, or I will
show *myself!*" Kitten threatened. Whether their assailants were tired
of playing hide and seek, or if Kitten's threat held some potency to them,
the air surrounding the table and ring of warriors began to shimmer with
a putrid smelling smoke.
"What the-" Duo began, when with a final, abrupt flash, the smoke
vanished, and surrounding them was now a small army of almost exact
replicas of the first creature that had tried to abduct Relena.
"Hello, Hiszeal," Zephra snarled at the man whom was spotted
floating above them all. It was quite apparent that he had once been
beautifully handsome, with shoulder length black hair and piercing
gray blue eyes. But now his hair was ragged and filthy, his eyes a
shade of insane red, and an ugly, shiny, tight and puffy acid scar
covered almost the entire side of the left half of his face.
"Ugh, talk about butt-ugly," Duo muttered. Hiszeals eyes flashed
to him, and Kitten threw her big brother a glare. Duo flashed her a
charming grin and turned back to facing the army of uglies before them.
"You have something that our Master requires, Shinimejenya,"
Hiszeal hissed, glaring down directly into Kitten's eyes. She felt Shini
stir angrily within her, lashing her silver scaled tail and her throat
burning with blue fire.
'No, my friend,' Kitten told the Dragon Spirit. 'This is my
fight, Kiticatya shall fight today, not Shinimejenya.'
The dragon, still seething with anger, but understanding her
mistress's meaning, nodded, and sank back down, but did not sleep. It
lay waiting to rise to her lady's defence at any moment.
'Be careful, my lady,' Shini told Kitten gently. Kitten smiled,
and raised her sword arm higher, glaring in challenge to the man above
her.
"Tell your snake-traitor of a master that should he ever actually
get his hands on me-"
"-Which he will *not.*" Axis growled. Kitten continued without
missing a beat.
"Should he ever actually manage to capture me, I would only
destroy that very thing he desires so much. I will not hesitate to do so,
either, so you might as well tell him to give up!"
"Never!" Hiszeal snarled. "Meganijenya shall rule again!" He
drew a black bladed sword out of nowhere, and raised it high. "Attack!"
He screamed in a insane voice. The army of ogres reared up, roared, and
charged forward.
"Time to meet Shinimagami!" Duo whooped, raising his hand gun
high in one hand, using every other limb to the most extensive possible
capacity to do as much damage as possible, and still keep himself
relatively unharmed.
Kitten's crystal dragon wings flared from her shoulder blades,
and she soared into the air, swooping down upon her enemies to cut down
one or two with a single stroke, always keeping an eye to Hiszeal,
should he decide that he wasn't too high and mighty to do some real
work after all and come after her or her friends.
"Wufei, look out!" Kitten cried, and the Chinese young man
whirled just in time to parry a blow dealth by an ogre and its large,
heavy iron club. Wufei blocked it with his katana, and as they stood,
both trying to overpower the other, the ogre suddenly convulsed, and
aburptly dropped its club and fell to the floor like a stone. As it
burst into dust and settled the ground, Dorothy was seen holding a
small revolver, a shaken but smug look on her face.
Dorothy, looking past Wufei, paled, her eyes going wide.
"Quatre!" She cried out, pointing. Wufei turned quickly to see
Quatre duck the swing of yet another ogre's club, this one wood with
steel spikes. Quatre dived between the creature's legs, rolled, and
pushed up on one knee, aimed, and shot off five rapid shots, all hitting
the ogre directly to the heart and head.
Duo shouted his congradulations to the Arabian boy's superb aim,
catching the rushing green fist just in time to duck the blow of a rather
large ogre. He gave a flying roundabout kick to its face. Its head was
snapped back by the force of the blow. It stumbled back a step, but
otherwise seemed unharmed. The creature stepped forward, glaring at Duo,
and snarled.
There was a streak of silver and blue, and suddenly Kitten was
before him, her sword plunged into the heart of the ogre. She yanked it
out, the blade magically bloodless and clean, and winked at Duo before
soaring upwards once more.
Heero stood in the center of a never ceasing ring of hostility,
ogres charging at him left and right. He stood calmly, the only parts
of him that showed any signs of life were his eyes, his right arm, and
his right hand's fingers as he shot the ogres down all before they
came within a yard of him. He only had to move any more than that
once, to shove his elbow back into the ribcage of a ogre that had
managed to get closer than the others. The blow had stalled it enough
until Heero could deal with the current target of his bullets.
Kitten, high above, scowled, wiping sweat from her brow. She
could end this! Shinimejenya was restless within her, snorting curls of
blue-gray smoke. Kitten growled. No! She couldn't always be dependant
on Shini! She had to do this herself! Even if it was with the help of
the G-Boys and her Companions...
"Impressive, isn't it, my little goddess?" Kitten gasped and
whirled, stiffling a shriek when she found a sneering Hiszeal directly
in front of her. She gave a cry, halting in midair; Hiszeal was holding
a strand of her hair that had come loose from her braid. She yanked,
but his grip was firm. With a single swipe of her blade, she severed
the strands and flapped a decent distance away, glaring with a flashing
gleem to her eyes.
Hiszeal's own red-gray eyes became glassy with an emotion Kitten
didn't recognize, but immediately knew she didn't like as his eyes swept
over her, almost evaluating her, but not in a battle sense.
"Call them off," Kitten hissed, fumbling for something to say.
"Why should I? I'm winning." He smirked. Kitten glanced down.
Indeed, while the G-Boys and the Guardians were fighting fiercely, the
ogres were simply too numerous. She whipped her head back up again to
snarl at Hiszeal.
"Not for long," she hissed. Enough of this! Why did she have to
be so blonde? She had other abilites outside of merging with Shinimejenya!
Duh! With a feral growl, Kitten bent over slightly, her icy blue aura flaring
up around her. Her arms flared out the side as if they were wings with a]
single abrupt, graceful movement.
Thick threads of silver materialized out of thin air, weaving around her
ice blue aura, until she was shinning a bright silvery blue.
While the glow around her thickened and began to pulse, she
bent her free arm before her, as if bowing. Her head was thrown back,
her eyes closed. She brought her sword arm over her stomach, in a ballet
style position, over the other arm.
Abruptly, and with a piercing battle cry, Kitten flung her arms
out and up, her legs planted firmly apart in midair, her back arched,
her face pointed upwards. She opened her mouth, her aura pulsing brighter
than a pulsar, and called out...
"SILVER..." Her aura flashed again, this time going purely silver.
"SAPPHIRE..." Blue, now... A fierce wind was picking up, swirling around her...
"CYCLONE!!!!!!!!" The wind intensified tenfold. With an absent flick
of her mind, Kitten sent a barage of pearlescent bubbles down towards
the humans below. Relena, Dorothy, the G-Boys, her Companions, and even
little Akari -whom had been prancing around underfoot, using her teeth
and claws to make walking for the ogres very painful- were all suddenly
encompased in their own bubble. The bubbles sprouted pearlescent tendrils
that rooted themselves to the floor, and held, as the whirlwind that was
filled with whisps of blue and silver mist tore around the room.
Screams of the green creatures rang out, and everything that
was not bolted down was thrown into the chaos.
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"I knew he couldn't do it," A lean, white haired, bright red eyed
man with a permanent sneer on his ice pink lips said scornfully. The
Shadowed man sat at his desk again, and both men watched the watery
globe before them as the magical tornado generated by the crystal
dragon winged, sea-green eyed, golden blonde haired young woman decimated
the ogre army.
"Still, he did manage to weaken them." The man said dismissively.
"And now we know the condition -magical, physical, and to some extent
mental- of our Dragon Goddess." The man waved his hand, and the orb
disappeared.
"Go and finish them off, and bring the Goddess to me." The man
barked his command at the white haired, lean, younger man. The lean man
bowed. "And kill Hiszeal." The man added. "I have no use for failures."
The lean man stiffened; that last comment, he knew, had been
meant for him, as well.
"I will do as my lord, the Duke Jzaar requires," The lean man
said to the shadowed man, bowed again, and left.
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The magical tornado picked up everything -save Kitten and what
was within the bubbles- and smashed it around, slamming it against walls,
through windows, crashing against the pillars and crumbling them to dust.
Ogres were slammed against the floor so hard skulls were crached, onto
shards of wood from tables and crown moldings that had come away from the
wall. Wufei stuck his katana out of the bubble and stabbed all within reach,
and his bubble held.
The others took after Wufei's example, and soon even bullets
now flew through the air.
Even Hiszeal was not immune the affects of Kitten's magical
cyclone, and the doorway that he was holding onto snapped, splintered,
and gave way.
He cried out as he was slammed against a wall. There was a
hideous cracking sound, and blood began to seep out of his ears and from
under his hair.
Just as the wind was about ot pick him up again, the cyclone
abruptly stopped, and Kitten, pale, gasping, and green around the lips
and eyes that were now closed, plummeted to the ground.
To Be Continued...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! *sobs* I
BROKE MY RECORD!!!! I WENT DAYS WITHOUT POSTING!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*breaks down sobbing* I'm sooooorry! It took me longer than I
thought it would to find my muse! And when I did, she wasn't as prompt
as before, so I know this chapter kinda sucks....
*sigh* Oh, well. At least I got it out at all, ne? Well, I hope
you enjoyed, nevertheless! Ja ne!
-Alexia Goddess
*ALL STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY; I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING. THE OTAKU
CHARACTERS AND PLOT ARE MINE, AS IS THE 'KITTEN' BRACELET.*