~ kitten ~
By Alexia Goddess
Chapter Seventeen
"That oughta teach 'em," A man sneered at the two seemingly lifeless
bodies before them. The man and his companion both spat on the forms
before leaving, bolting the cell behind them to leave the corpses to
rot.
Except they weren't corpses.
Axis raised his head slowly. He groaned in pain with the movement. He
somehow managed to sit up, despite the pain it brought him and his
many shattered ribs. Somehow he managed to wake Zion, who sported just
as many injuries as his companion.
"We're alive," Zion muttered disbelievingly. Axis snorted, then winced
in agony and regret as a searing pain lashed up his neck.
"Well, this is a fine pot of hot water we've gotten ourselves into,"
the Xylion prince grumbled. Axis's lips quirked.
"No kidding," The noble snorted, and grimaced in pain yet again.
Suddenly, both mens' attention was yanked to the center of the room,
were a sphere of ice green light was forming, almost like a lime green
snowball with glowing fuz.
A childish giggle came from the sphere, and both Zion and Axis blinked
in surprise. That childish, feminine giggle sound awfully familiar...
Before either man could do anything, the sphere burst into action,
racing towards the solid black wall that was to their right, and
splattered against it like sticky ice green cream.
"What the-"
"Sssh! Watch!" Zion cut off his cousin's lover as ther was a hissing
and crackling sound. They both watched intently...the mint/ice green
creamy stuff was smoking...no! It was the *stone* that was smoking!
The 'glowing snowball' was made of acid! It was eating through the
stone!
Within moments, there was a large hole at knee level, going all the
way through the foot-thick black granite-like stone.
The two men exchanged looks, and Axis shrugged.
"If they do anything more to us, it will kill us anyway," He said.
"But what about...Zephra, the... Pilots... Kitten would never forgive
us..." This last was spoken softly.
"There's nothing we can do as we are," Axis said quietly, hanging his
head to hide the tears that threatened to spill. Zion nodded in
reluctant agreement. With a forlorn sigh, he pushed himself up against
the wall into a semi-standing position. He held his hand down to Axis.
"Then, shall we get out of this hellhole?" The prince grinned wryly.
Axis, too, grinned, but his more sad and bitter as he took the offered
hand and heaved himself up. Leaning on each other, the two men made
their way to, and then out the opening, and into freedom.
When they had stumbled and trudged a good distance away, Axis looked
back over his shoulder, pain and guilt and regret tearing at his heart.
With a shake of his head, he turned, and continued limping away,
leanig on Zion and Zion leaning on Axis.
Live to fight another day.
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"KIT!!!!" Trowa cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted at the
top of his lungs, right alongside Quatre and Duo. Wufei and Heero were
busy rapidly trying to find a way to get the girl; the fire around her
was spreading fast, though the ring of silver and blue fire that
was around her seemed to be warding most of it off, somehow...But still,
there was no telling how long it would last.
Trowa narrowed his eyes in a glare. He spared an annoyed glance at the
maniacally laughing insane man that stood on a platform in front of
the giant golden gate-like structure.
"We have to get her out of there, damnit!" Duo growled. The 02 Pilot
was definately majorly pissed. Trowa narrowed his eyes again. Suddenly,
he had a thought. It was risky...But what about his cirus life wasn't?
Surely this was no different? And it was to safe Kitten...
With nary a furher thought, Trowa, in a split second, analyzed the
lowest -both height-wise and temperature-wise- place in the wall of
fire, took a few steps back, ran, and did a flip-over leap, right over
the flames!
"Go, Trowa, my man!" Duo crowed. On the dais, next to the gate, Jzaar
frowned, looking very POed. He had enjoyed watching these uppidy
humans look helpless and panicky...He shrugged. Oh, well.
Trowa landed directly in the center of the ring of blue-silver fire.
Shielding his face and eyes from the smoke by pulling his shirt over
his nose and throwing his arm over his face, he walked the three short
steps to where Kitten lay, broken and bleeding for the second time
that week. His emerald eyes hardened in anger. No one should have to
go through all this.
Careful as possible of her injuries, both visible and those that he
couldn't see and might not even be there but probably were, Trowa
lifted the stout, hourglass-figured girl into his arms, pulling a fold
of her black gown over her nose as he did so. It didn't stay very well,
but it was all he could do.
Once again taking a look at the flames, it only took him an
instant to decide where it would be best to jump. He looked directly
at that specific location, ran, jumped, and leaped over the flames!
Fire licked at his shoes, but he cleared nevetheless, even with Kitten's
added weight.
Duo cheered and Quatre -shamelessly followed by Heero and Wufei- all
rushed over as Trowa landed, an unconscious Kitten in his arms.
There was a loud booming noise, and -with a few brief wishes for their
fireamrs- the Gundam Boys whirled to face Jzaar, and realized that the
booming had been his speaking.
Jzaar slowly raised his hands, then abruptly lowered them, swiftly. As
he did so, the vines, burning, burnt, and ashen all vanished, and thus,
the fire had nothing more to burn and was gone, save for a few tendrils
of flame here and there.
"A very entertaining performance, my good young men." He grinned that
sinister, insane grin that only the most evil of the most evil can do.
He raised his hand, his fingertips glowing a sickly green color...
The Gundam Boys moved the encircle Trowa, whom still held the unconscious
Kitten.
What happened next was clear to no one, and happened too quickly to
follow. Jzaar spat some Forbidden words from a wicked incantation, and
the boys were thrown and scattered across the room by an invisible
force. Trowa lost hold of Kitten, and her limp form was battered even
more as she went skittering across the already bloody floor.
At least, that was what they all envisioned happening.... But when the
boys managed to look up, they were shocked to find that Kitten was
awake! But whatsmore, she was floating...without her wings? Yes, it was
true. Her crystal dragon wings were nowhere to be seen. There was no
supportig aura around her, no faintly visible pillar under her feet,
no magical gust of a cloud upholding her. She was simply...floating.
Her shimmering silver-black gown flowed around her like liquid dreams,
her silver hair looking opalescent in the dim light; it was now past
her shoulders! Kitten's eyes were were twin glass pools of nothing save
pity, and determination. Pity for the pitiful man that was cowering,
wide eyed, down below her. Determination to destroy that same man.
Slowly, without disturbing even the air around her, Kitten raised her
fingers gracefully...
Duo squinted. Was there a ring on her finger? Yes, there was. A
semi-large, round blue stone set in white-gold and surrounded with
smaller diamonds and filagrees of silver.
Kitten pointed the finger that bore the ring straight down at the man,
who's eyes widened in fear even more. Kitten narrowed her eyes, and
uttered one word, filled with all the pain and hate and suffering that
Jzaar had filled her life with.
"Die." She spat.
A pulse of light, almost like one of the Gundams' beam cannon weapons;
a solid burst of sea-green-blue fire spouted from her hand, flaring
out to the side like a saucer held virticle, then flowing back down
into a single slender beam of destruction that raced down, its aim
straight and true...
Jzaar didn't even get the chance to scream as the beam pierced his
wicked heart, and his entire body was engulfed in silver oblivion.
But the beam didn't stop there. No, the sea-green beam, with tendrils
of silver spiraling around it, smashed into the Golden gate. A roar of
rage and pain resounded from within it, and even Heero's eyes widened
in sudden dread that was initiated by the dreaful, evil-potent sound.
Still, Kitten kept up her assault, even as she lowered herself slowly
to the ground, and raised her other hand and placed it on the wrist of
the hand that was still outstretched towards the gate to steady her
aim. A single dripplet of sweat slipped down her temple, and she
firmed her glare even further.
"C'mon, we gotta help!" Quatre cried, stepping forward. He looked to
his fellow pilots imploringly.
"What can we possibly do?" Wufei spat. "This is beyond us."
"Don't be so sure." Duo spoke up. Quatre and Wufei both blinked in
surprise at his serious tone. The Duo that stood before him was not the
Duo they knew. His eyes were hard and his gaze calculated as he stared
alternately at Kitten and the Golden Gate that had begun to pulse with
a dark black aura.
Quickly, in as few words as possible, Duo recounted what Kitten had
told him that evening after her friends had taken themselves out of
the Gundam Boys. Quatre seemd astounded, Trowa thoughtful, Wufei
disbelieving, and Heero, per usual, gave away nothing, but only turned
to look stonily at the girl that was no gasping for breath as she
poured every ounce of her strength into her attack.
Without a single communicative look towards his friends, Heero took off
at a brisk pace towards Kitten.
"Whats that baka doing?" Wufei muttered.
"He's going to help her," Duo grinned. "And so am I! Come on!"
"The things I do for onnas..." Wufei muttered, and followed the grinning
Duo, Quatre and Trowa right behind him.
Heero was the first to reach the girl. He stood and stared at her
distraught face for a moment, then stared at the gate. His eyes caught
on a large oval part at the exact top, in the exact center -horizontal
wise- of top of the thing.
Gently, he stood beside the girl, put one arm around her waist for
support, and the other hand on her wrist. Gently, slowly, he lifted her
arms upwards. Kitten looked at him sharply, and blinked. Heero jerked
his head up at the oval part, and understanding clicked in Kitten's
eyes, and she slowly moved her hands and arms to aim directly at the
golden oval.
The moment the beam hit it, there was another outraged roar from within
the gate, this one of pain as well as rage. Kitten stumbled, as did
Heero. Only because the 'Perfect Soldier' was better footed than her,
and becaus of Duo jumping up on her other side did she not fall. Duo
flashed her a cocky smirk that made her laugh slightly, and put one
on her right shoulder -he was standing on Kitten's left side- and his
left hand under her hand, supporting her palm and thus, giving her
better supported aim.
Wufei and Trowa came up then. Wufei took a stance directly behind her.
and reached around her to put his hands firmly on her elbows, letting
her lean against him. Now she could direct more strength into her attack
instead of standing and keeping her arms straight.
Quatre caught up now, and he and Trowa dug spare pistols out of their
boots and belts, took firm stances on either side of Kitten and
Heero and Trowa, aimed, and began firing at that oval when thier first
few shots at the glass proved useless when the bullets bounced off
the glossy surface.
Kitten was shoving, pouring, heaping, dumping and thrusting every
single ounce and speck of strength in her body, mind and heart into
that attack beam. The gate had to be destroyed! *Permanently!*
It hadn't escaped her in the least how none of her Companions had shown
up. Her heart twisted in emotional agony as she knew that it probably
meant they were dead. Kitten let out a small sob, tears running down
her face. She shook her head to clear away the tears, and quickly
grabbed ahold of the pain and sorrow at loosing her best friend, her
sister, her cousin and...
*FLASH*BACK*
Under that oak tree...only days before Jzaar's betrayl, two star-kissed
lovers stood under that tree. The man stood back and grinned. The
young woman, a girl, really, snuggled into his arms as she touched
the freshly carved heart. Within the heart were their initials;
'A.V. + K.S.'
She tilted her face up to his, and smiled.
"I love you," She whispered to him, and he bent down to kiss her...
She gasped suddenly as in the middle of the kiss, she felt something
slip onto her finger... She broke the kiss and looked down to find
a shimmering ring. It was a blue, oval stone set in white gold,
surrounded by tiny diamonds and a silver filagree...
"Marry me," He whispered into her ear. Tears came to Kiticatya's eyes,
and she threw her arms around him.
"I will," She sobbed back, and he tighted his hold on her...
*END*FLASH*BACK*
Kitten let loose a roar of rage and suffering. Her hands pulsed, a
large silver sphere forming around her hands and halfway up her arms.
The sphere was sucked into the beam, nearly doubling its size.
Wufei behind her tightened his grin on her arms, and she leaned into
him further, releasing into her attack beam everything, even her
physical strength until she could barely even stand.
But it wasn't enough...
Rage!
Kitten's anger flared up at her will, and memories of everything anyone
had ever done to her out of malice or spit rose up, and she shoved them
into the beam as well, channeling the hate and bitterness they brought
with them.
Still! It wasn't enough!
She was failing...
"Hold on," Heero said in her ear. His voice to anyone else would have
seemed the same; cold and emotionless. But Kitten heard it...the slight,
almost nonexistent undertone of support and urging. It gave her
strength, and the beam became even larger, though only slightly.
"C'mon, onna," Wufei urged in his own turn. "I didn't go and train you
in every sword secret and technique I know just to have you loose to
a simple *mirror!*"
Again, strength and more determination flooded her...again the beam
grew...
"Kit..." Tears came to Kitten's eyes as she heard Duo's voice in her
ear. "C'mon, Kitten..."
Had anyone been watching, for the Gundam Pilots and Kitten were too
intent on their goal to notice it themselves, they would have seen
a deep green light begin to become just barely visible around the
outlines of the three young men around Kitten.
"Come on, imouto-chan...c'mon, beat the life out of that sucker!" Duo
growled. Kitten blinked, and gasped ever so slightly. 'Little sister...'
"Kitten!" Quatre yelled. "Don't think that you can't do it! You can!
*Know* you can! We're right here! We won't let you loose!"
"Don't give in to the weariness." Trowa added, shoving another clip of
bullets into his gun and taking aim once more. "Don't let it win. Rise
above it, Kit. Win!"
"Win..." Kitten murmured. "Win...I can't...I can't give in..."
Strength...
Warmth...
Peace...
Silver...
Serenity...
Purity...
Protection...
Blue...
Love...
Friends...
Never alone...
Green...
Never...Never alone...ever...never again...
Like smooth, lumpless cream, everything suddenly became as clear as if
time itself had become transparent. Kitten blinked, cocked her head
almost as if in amusement...she twitched a finger...and with a single
thought, the green aura of her friends surrounding her and mingling with
her own bluish sea-green aura...
Kitten smiled...
She held onto that one thought...
And smiled...
She would never be alone.
Ever.
The Gate shattered.
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a heartbeat...
*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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a breath of life...
*gasp*
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a whispered statement...
"I'm alive..."
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a reply...
"Yes, you are. But barely."
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heartbeats...
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*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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a voice...
"Get some more sleep, kitty. We'll watch over you. Always."
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nearing oblivion...
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a smile...
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the sensation of truimph...
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a knowledge...
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'I will never be alone...ever again...ever...'
*THE*END*
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By Alexia Goddess
Chapter Seventeen
"That oughta teach 'em," A man sneered at the two seemingly lifeless
bodies before them. The man and his companion both spat on the forms
before leaving, bolting the cell behind them to leave the corpses to
rot.
Except they weren't corpses.
Axis raised his head slowly. He groaned in pain with the movement. He
somehow managed to sit up, despite the pain it brought him and his
many shattered ribs. Somehow he managed to wake Zion, who sported just
as many injuries as his companion.
"We're alive," Zion muttered disbelievingly. Axis snorted, then winced
in agony and regret as a searing pain lashed up his neck.
"Well, this is a fine pot of hot water we've gotten ourselves into,"
the Xylion prince grumbled. Axis's lips quirked.
"No kidding," The noble snorted, and grimaced in pain yet again.
Suddenly, both mens' attention was yanked to the center of the room,
were a sphere of ice green light was forming, almost like a lime green
snowball with glowing fuz.
A childish giggle came from the sphere, and both Zion and Axis blinked
in surprise. That childish, feminine giggle sound awfully familiar...
Before either man could do anything, the sphere burst into action,
racing towards the solid black wall that was to their right, and
splattered against it like sticky ice green cream.
"What the-"
"Sssh! Watch!" Zion cut off his cousin's lover as ther was a hissing
and crackling sound. They both watched intently...the mint/ice green
creamy stuff was smoking...no! It was the *stone* that was smoking!
The 'glowing snowball' was made of acid! It was eating through the
stone!
Within moments, there was a large hole at knee level, going all the
way through the foot-thick black granite-like stone.
The two men exchanged looks, and Axis shrugged.
"If they do anything more to us, it will kill us anyway," He said.
"But what about...Zephra, the... Pilots... Kitten would never forgive
us..." This last was spoken softly.
"There's nothing we can do as we are," Axis said quietly, hanging his
head to hide the tears that threatened to spill. Zion nodded in
reluctant agreement. With a forlorn sigh, he pushed himself up against
the wall into a semi-standing position. He held his hand down to Axis.
"Then, shall we get out of this hellhole?" The prince grinned wryly.
Axis, too, grinned, but his more sad and bitter as he took the offered
hand and heaved himself up. Leaning on each other, the two men made
their way to, and then out the opening, and into freedom.
When they had stumbled and trudged a good distance away, Axis looked
back over his shoulder, pain and guilt and regret tearing at his heart.
With a shake of his head, he turned, and continued limping away,
leanig on Zion and Zion leaning on Axis.
Live to fight another day.
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"KIT!!!!" Trowa cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted at the
top of his lungs, right alongside Quatre and Duo. Wufei and Heero were
busy rapidly trying to find a way to get the girl; the fire around her
was spreading fast, though the ring of silver and blue fire that
was around her seemed to be warding most of it off, somehow...But still,
there was no telling how long it would last.
Trowa narrowed his eyes in a glare. He spared an annoyed glance at the
maniacally laughing insane man that stood on a platform in front of
the giant golden gate-like structure.
"We have to get her out of there, damnit!" Duo growled. The 02 Pilot
was definately majorly pissed. Trowa narrowed his eyes again. Suddenly,
he had a thought. It was risky...But what about his cirus life wasn't?
Surely this was no different? And it was to safe Kitten...
With nary a furher thought, Trowa, in a split second, analyzed the
lowest -both height-wise and temperature-wise- place in the wall of
fire, took a few steps back, ran, and did a flip-over leap, right over
the flames!
"Go, Trowa, my man!" Duo crowed. On the dais, next to the gate, Jzaar
frowned, looking very POed. He had enjoyed watching these uppidy
humans look helpless and panicky...He shrugged. Oh, well.
Trowa landed directly in the center of the ring of blue-silver fire.
Shielding his face and eyes from the smoke by pulling his shirt over
his nose and throwing his arm over his face, he walked the three short
steps to where Kitten lay, broken and bleeding for the second time
that week. His emerald eyes hardened in anger. No one should have to
go through all this.
Careful as possible of her injuries, both visible and those that he
couldn't see and might not even be there but probably were, Trowa
lifted the stout, hourglass-figured girl into his arms, pulling a fold
of her black gown over her nose as he did so. It didn't stay very well,
but it was all he could do.
Once again taking a look at the flames, it only took him an
instant to decide where it would be best to jump. He looked directly
at that specific location, ran, jumped, and leaped over the flames!
Fire licked at his shoes, but he cleared nevetheless, even with Kitten's
added weight.
Duo cheered and Quatre -shamelessly followed by Heero and Wufei- all
rushed over as Trowa landed, an unconscious Kitten in his arms.
There was a loud booming noise, and -with a few brief wishes for their
fireamrs- the Gundam Boys whirled to face Jzaar, and realized that the
booming had been his speaking.
Jzaar slowly raised his hands, then abruptly lowered them, swiftly. As
he did so, the vines, burning, burnt, and ashen all vanished, and thus,
the fire had nothing more to burn and was gone, save for a few tendrils
of flame here and there.
"A very entertaining performance, my good young men." He grinned that
sinister, insane grin that only the most evil of the most evil can do.
He raised his hand, his fingertips glowing a sickly green color...
The Gundam Boys moved the encircle Trowa, whom still held the unconscious
Kitten.
What happened next was clear to no one, and happened too quickly to
follow. Jzaar spat some Forbidden words from a wicked incantation, and
the boys were thrown and scattered across the room by an invisible
force. Trowa lost hold of Kitten, and her limp form was battered even
more as she went skittering across the already bloody floor.
At least, that was what they all envisioned happening.... But when the
boys managed to look up, they were shocked to find that Kitten was
awake! But whatsmore, she was floating...without her wings? Yes, it was
true. Her crystal dragon wings were nowhere to be seen. There was no
supportig aura around her, no faintly visible pillar under her feet,
no magical gust of a cloud upholding her. She was simply...floating.
Her shimmering silver-black gown flowed around her like liquid dreams,
her silver hair looking opalescent in the dim light; it was now past
her shoulders! Kitten's eyes were were twin glass pools of nothing save
pity, and determination. Pity for the pitiful man that was cowering,
wide eyed, down below her. Determination to destroy that same man.
Slowly, without disturbing even the air around her, Kitten raised her
fingers gracefully...
Duo squinted. Was there a ring on her finger? Yes, there was. A
semi-large, round blue stone set in white-gold and surrounded with
smaller diamonds and filagrees of silver.
Kitten pointed the finger that bore the ring straight down at the man,
who's eyes widened in fear even more. Kitten narrowed her eyes, and
uttered one word, filled with all the pain and hate and suffering that
Jzaar had filled her life with.
"Die." She spat.
A pulse of light, almost like one of the Gundams' beam cannon weapons;
a solid burst of sea-green-blue fire spouted from her hand, flaring
out to the side like a saucer held virticle, then flowing back down
into a single slender beam of destruction that raced down, its aim
straight and true...
Jzaar didn't even get the chance to scream as the beam pierced his
wicked heart, and his entire body was engulfed in silver oblivion.
But the beam didn't stop there. No, the sea-green beam, with tendrils
of silver spiraling around it, smashed into the Golden gate. A roar of
rage and pain resounded from within it, and even Heero's eyes widened
in sudden dread that was initiated by the dreaful, evil-potent sound.
Still, Kitten kept up her assault, even as she lowered herself slowly
to the ground, and raised her other hand and placed it on the wrist of
the hand that was still outstretched towards the gate to steady her
aim. A single dripplet of sweat slipped down her temple, and she
firmed her glare even further.
"C'mon, we gotta help!" Quatre cried, stepping forward. He looked to
his fellow pilots imploringly.
"What can we possibly do?" Wufei spat. "This is beyond us."
"Don't be so sure." Duo spoke up. Quatre and Wufei both blinked in
surprise at his serious tone. The Duo that stood before him was not the
Duo they knew. His eyes were hard and his gaze calculated as he stared
alternately at Kitten and the Golden Gate that had begun to pulse with
a dark black aura.
Quickly, in as few words as possible, Duo recounted what Kitten had
told him that evening after her friends had taken themselves out of
the Gundam Boys. Quatre seemd astounded, Trowa thoughtful, Wufei
disbelieving, and Heero, per usual, gave away nothing, but only turned
to look stonily at the girl that was no gasping for breath as she
poured every ounce of her strength into her attack.
Without a single communicative look towards his friends, Heero took off
at a brisk pace towards Kitten.
"Whats that baka doing?" Wufei muttered.
"He's going to help her," Duo grinned. "And so am I! Come on!"
"The things I do for onnas..." Wufei muttered, and followed the grinning
Duo, Quatre and Trowa right behind him.
Heero was the first to reach the girl. He stood and stared at her
distraught face for a moment, then stared at the gate. His eyes caught
on a large oval part at the exact top, in the exact center -horizontal
wise- of top of the thing.
Gently, he stood beside the girl, put one arm around her waist for
support, and the other hand on her wrist. Gently, slowly, he lifted her
arms upwards. Kitten looked at him sharply, and blinked. Heero jerked
his head up at the oval part, and understanding clicked in Kitten's
eyes, and she slowly moved her hands and arms to aim directly at the
golden oval.
The moment the beam hit it, there was another outraged roar from within
the gate, this one of pain as well as rage. Kitten stumbled, as did
Heero. Only because the 'Perfect Soldier' was better footed than her,
and becaus of Duo jumping up on her other side did she not fall. Duo
flashed her a cocky smirk that made her laugh slightly, and put one
on her right shoulder -he was standing on Kitten's left side- and his
left hand under her hand, supporting her palm and thus, giving her
better supported aim.
Wufei and Trowa came up then. Wufei took a stance directly behind her.
and reached around her to put his hands firmly on her elbows, letting
her lean against him. Now she could direct more strength into her attack
instead of standing and keeping her arms straight.
Quatre caught up now, and he and Trowa dug spare pistols out of their
boots and belts, took firm stances on either side of Kitten and
Heero and Trowa, aimed, and began firing at that oval when thier first
few shots at the glass proved useless when the bullets bounced off
the glossy surface.
Kitten was shoving, pouring, heaping, dumping and thrusting every
single ounce and speck of strength in her body, mind and heart into
that attack beam. The gate had to be destroyed! *Permanently!*
It hadn't escaped her in the least how none of her Companions had shown
up. Her heart twisted in emotional agony as she knew that it probably
meant they were dead. Kitten let out a small sob, tears running down
her face. She shook her head to clear away the tears, and quickly
grabbed ahold of the pain and sorrow at loosing her best friend, her
sister, her cousin and...
*FLASH*BACK*
Under that oak tree...only days before Jzaar's betrayl, two star-kissed
lovers stood under that tree. The man stood back and grinned. The
young woman, a girl, really, snuggled into his arms as she touched
the freshly carved heart. Within the heart were their initials;
'A.V. + K.S.'
She tilted her face up to his, and smiled.
"I love you," She whispered to him, and he bent down to kiss her...
She gasped suddenly as in the middle of the kiss, she felt something
slip onto her finger... She broke the kiss and looked down to find
a shimmering ring. It was a blue, oval stone set in white gold,
surrounded by tiny diamonds and a silver filagree...
"Marry me," He whispered into her ear. Tears came to Kiticatya's eyes,
and she threw her arms around him.
"I will," She sobbed back, and he tighted his hold on her...
*END*FLASH*BACK*
Kitten let loose a roar of rage and suffering. Her hands pulsed, a
large silver sphere forming around her hands and halfway up her arms.
The sphere was sucked into the beam, nearly doubling its size.
Wufei behind her tightened his grin on her arms, and she leaned into
him further, releasing into her attack beam everything, even her
physical strength until she could barely even stand.
But it wasn't enough...
Rage!
Kitten's anger flared up at her will, and memories of everything anyone
had ever done to her out of malice or spit rose up, and she shoved them
into the beam as well, channeling the hate and bitterness they brought
with them.
Still! It wasn't enough!
She was failing...
"Hold on," Heero said in her ear. His voice to anyone else would have
seemed the same; cold and emotionless. But Kitten heard it...the slight,
almost nonexistent undertone of support and urging. It gave her
strength, and the beam became even larger, though only slightly.
"C'mon, onna," Wufei urged in his own turn. "I didn't go and train you
in every sword secret and technique I know just to have you loose to
a simple *mirror!*"
Again, strength and more determination flooded her...again the beam
grew...
"Kit..." Tears came to Kitten's eyes as she heard Duo's voice in her
ear. "C'mon, Kitten..."
Had anyone been watching, for the Gundam Pilots and Kitten were too
intent on their goal to notice it themselves, they would have seen
a deep green light begin to become just barely visible around the
outlines of the three young men around Kitten.
"Come on, imouto-chan...c'mon, beat the life out of that sucker!" Duo
growled. Kitten blinked, and gasped ever so slightly. 'Little sister...'
"Kitten!" Quatre yelled. "Don't think that you can't do it! You can!
*Know* you can! We're right here! We won't let you loose!"
"Don't give in to the weariness." Trowa added, shoving another clip of
bullets into his gun and taking aim once more. "Don't let it win. Rise
above it, Kit. Win!"
"Win..." Kitten murmured. "Win...I can't...I can't give in..."
Strength...
Warmth...
Peace...
Silver...
Serenity...
Purity...
Protection...
Blue...
Love...
Friends...
Never alone...
Green...
Never...Never alone...ever...never again...
Like smooth, lumpless cream, everything suddenly became as clear as if
time itself had become transparent. Kitten blinked, cocked her head
almost as if in amusement...she twitched a finger...and with a single
thought, the green aura of her friends surrounding her and mingling with
her own bluish sea-green aura...
Kitten smiled...
She held onto that one thought...
And smiled...
She would never be alone.
Ever.
The Gate shattered.
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a heartbeat...
*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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a breath of life...
*gasp*
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a whispered statement...
"I'm alive..."
....
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a reply...
"Yes, you are. But barely."
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heartbeats...
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*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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*badum*
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a voice...
"Get some more sleep, kitty. We'll watch over you. Always."
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nearing oblivion...
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a smile...
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the sensation of truimph...
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a knowledge...
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'I will never be alone...ever again...ever...'
*THE*END*
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