Buddy: Salaam and good evening to you, worthy readers. Buddy here. Don't
know where Pal's gone off to. Must've disa- [Pause; thinks] *In Home
Alone style* I made Pal disappear. . .? [Evil grin] I made Pal disappear.
. . . I am the master of the story!! It's mine! All mine! Mwa-
hahahahaha! [Evil laughter]
Pal: Uh, Buddy? What'cha doin'?
Buddy: [Stops laughing] Nothing. Nothing at all.
Pal: Really? 'Cause I thought I heard evil laughter. Buddy, you're not plotting to take over the story again, are you?
Buddy: . . . Here. Take this. [Hands Pal a clipboard]
Pal: [Looks at clipboard] Oh, the recognitions board! [Looks back at Buddy] You're not off the hook, Buddy. . . Okay, anyway, thank you to all that reviewed. You made my day! :-)
Solarmistress17: Another person who thinks my story is interesting . . . it must be my lucky day! [Frowns] I'm sorry I'm bad at getting chapters up though . . . I will try harder.
Usagi Serenity Yui Cosmos: I will do so as long as I have good people like you reviewing to me. :-)
White Ivy: As for training . . . I have to still work on that. This is a 'think-as-I-go' fic and I am working very hard on what it has in it. Reviewers with suggestions are always very appreciated. You will just have to just wait on what the training is though . . . :-) I'm sorry I can't give out more information.
SEZ: As to your Prologue review: You liked the conversation between my co- narrator but didn't understand the story? You need to watch more anime . . . besides I didn't need any painkiller so why should he? Chapter 1: Ha! I agree with you . . . since people want to take over the story [glares at Buddy] THEY get paid just enough. [Buddy holds up sign in the background that points down to him reading, "Grossly underpaid narrator"]
Pal: However, I was not sent here to blab. So on with the story. . . we last left off in a terrible cliffy. . . But we'll start by backing up a bit.
~ ~ ~
A computer hummed in the students' lounge of a large high school while a teenager typed up the attendance records from the previous day. Upon the walls different posters encouraged the joining of various groups, the announcement of the homecoming dance, and many more similar things. Four boys sat in different places on the chairs by the coffee table. The front door opened and in walked a girl with blonde hair and a laptop. She smiled at the Arabian blond who sat on the closest of the chairs against the wall. At that moment a fifth boy came in and notices the exchange. He sat down next to the blond and gave him a playful punch.
"Hey, Q-man, I saw that smile to the cute girl," he whispered mischievously.
"Duo, you'd see anything as long as it involves a cute girl, especially Hilde," Quatre replied, blushing slightly. By this time, much to Quatre's relief, Duo was no longer paying attention. Instead, he had turned to face the boy whose tanish brown hair almost hid half of his face. "Hey, Trowa, I'd bet you saw, didn'tcha?" Without even waiting for an answer, Duo proceeded to turn to the Chinese boy sitting across the table. "So what do you think about her, Wu-man?"
"I would not be interested in such weak people. And for the last time, Maxwell, CALL ME WUFEI!"
Duo waved his hand dismissively and muttered, "Whatever," before getting up and walking over to the last boy. He sat down in the other arm chair and leaned over and looked at what the last guy was doing.
"So, Heero, what'd you think of her? She definitely ranks high on my scale." He then leaned back into the newest chair he had seated himself in and wondered what the boy was thinking about. Heero just grunted and muttered about people who can't keep their mouths shut. Duo leaned back even further and retorted loudly, "Well excuse me for being a mere mortal."
Heero brushed a lock of hair out of his eyes as he pretended to be absorbed in examining the computer screen in front of him. In point of fact, he had been watching the girl from the moment she had walked into the room. He had so far noticed that not only was she studying them, but she also paid some attention to her surroundings without letting on to it, walked with a light I-can-kick-your-butt-if-I-wanted-to attitude, and hadn't, for all her other feats, didn't notice the principal walking up to her until she cleared her throat. He couldn't help but grin inwardly at that. He tried to concentrate for a few minutes as the principal talked with the girl, but he kept finding himself drawn from her long shiny hair to the way her legs were so perfect as though they had been sculpted by an artist. He kicked himself mentally.
"Heero Yuy, please come over here," Mrs. Walker's voice almost startled him, almost as if she had known what course his thoughts were taking. He looked up and walked over to the principal and the girl. When he reached the girl, she held out her hand and he took it. There was a small spark when he took her hand in his, but as fast as it had come, it was gone. He looked at her with guarded interest. Mrs. Walker cleared her throat. Heero looked at the girl as she glanced at him once more, then turned to Mrs. Walker.
Mrs. Walker wished them luck and gave the girl a packet. Heero studied the girl from close up. Her brilliantly bright eyes were cool like the sea and he felt himself beginning to lose himself within their depths. He quickly pulled his thoughts away from her, feeling annoyed at himself. She looked up from the packet and raised an eyebrow.
Damn, she reads faces well. He masked his annoyance with a blank look and stared back at her. I'm going to have to watch what I'm doing around her; she's good. She sighed and the next thing he knew he had followed her down a hallway, up a flight of stairs and into a computer lab.
At first glance, there had been a young man addressing the class that was obviously for beginners. However, Heero did a double-take and realized that the teacher was indeed female. Once in the computer room, they walked through a door in the back to see two computers and a round conference table. The girl walked to the far side and laid her things down. Heero waited until she pointed to the computer on the wall left wall before walking over and sitting down. Before he could so much as turn on the computer she had walked up behind him and laid the packet beside him.
"This is the computer that I work at. We'll also be sharing a room with Mr. Tenou who we already saw teaching the beginner's class out in the main room." Heero turned as he felt her move and watched her confidently walk back to her things. "I know you can start on that packet because I saw you with the Extoria 24XZ in the main lounge." She paused a moment and clicked some keys on her computer. "Besides, Mrs. Walker wouldn't assign you to me unless she knew you were good and had reason to believe I would have a challenge teaching you."
Heero grunted and turned back to the computer. While he started it up he thought to himself, She sure does have an attitude to match her outfit. Those beautiful blue eyes, though. . . Heero! Stop thinking of her like that. She isn't something to be getting into. Besides, wouldn't she just turn and run if you told her who you were? Whoa, boy, we aren't supposed to be telling anyone who we are, so get that out of your head. I'm on official protectors business. Keep to the mission.
He looked over at her in time to see her frown in thought. He watched her graceful hands skim across the keyboard and before he realized it, he was no longer paying attention to the computer screen. He watched her out of the corner of his eyes, clicking buttons every now and then to appear to be doing work. At one point a light clicked in her eyes and she seemed almost both smug and irritated. She glanced over at him and he quickly averted his eyes as so not to arouse suspicion that he was watching her. It dawned on him by her actions that she had found out. This isn't good. I'm going to have to eliminate her; she can't interfere with the project.
In the middle of his thoughts about the project, the bell rang that ended the class in the main room. Heero paid no attention to it as he was still thinking of how to deal with this new situation. I can't leave her alone, she obviously knows about us. There's nothing else I could do so I'll have to kill-
The blonde teacher sticking her head in interrupted his thoughts. "Hey, Serena, I thought I saw you sneak in with someone." She looked at Heero. "I'm Haruka, the computer teacher. You must be Heero. Mrs. Walker mentioned you," Haruka said as she smiled at him. Heero just nodded politely as he could. Haruka continued on as if nothing had happened. "Have fun with Serena, and if you have any complaints talk to me and I'll whip her into shape. Heero watched her wink at Serena. "Serena, I'll see you at lunch today. The usual, right?" Serena nodded and Haruka smiled before leaving the room, tossing a "See you later!" over her shoulder.
Heero reached for the cold, steel handgun under his leather jacket. After the door had been shut and locked in the other room, he pulled it out and aimed it at Serena, turning the safety off with a click. It has to be done, he thought. Nothing and no one can jeopardize this project. He watched her go deadly still.
"How did you find out?" he asked with his traditional monotone.
She unfroze her fingers long enough to make the computer screen go blank. Heero watched her turn and look into his prussian blue eyes. She didn't even blink even though she was staring down the barrel of a gun. He watched her with growing fascination as she calmly answered the question with another one of her own.
"I could ask you the same thing about how you knew I knew? However I think you are making a big mistake."
She stood up so that her height almost matched his. He kept the gun level on her head the entire time and was watching as she raised her right eyebrow. Damn, how and why do people do that? Heero thought as he looked at her eyebrow. He quickly gave himself a mental shake and opened his mouth to answer her question and ask one of his own when the window came crashing in.
Heero was half-thrown and half-dove under the table as the window crashed in around them. As soon as the glass stopped pounding down at them, Serena and Heero both jumped up and ran from the room. Heero took in the destruction without much thought, immediately looking for the person that caused the huge drop-off not even five feet from them. Where the hell is that person, they have to be around here somewhere, Heero thought as he turned to the right. There. With cold steel in his hand he all but emptied his entire clip at the floating woman.
The floating woman turned and looked at them all, eyes turning cold. Heero was suddenly trying to keep from getting debris in his eyes from the sudden wind. Before he could react the wind stopped. He felt more than saw the attack on Serena. He was impressed with the fact that she dodged an attack he hadn't even seen coming. She too moved quickly to block and it seemed, protect him. Both people were fast, almost too fast, for him. Suddenly, almost before it happened, Heero saw Serena slip and hit her head on one of the computers. A look of annoyance briefly crossed her face before she went cold and didn't move. The lady smiled and stepped over Serena as if going in for the kill.
'Hey, what is she doing?' he thought. Then he ran at the woman. Her shock was clearly displayed in her expression before she smiled and blocked the first blow with ease.
After a few blows of incredible speed and not one hit, he began to wonder if he had made a mistake in attacking this woman who, by the looks of it, possessed powers of some sort. He was so caught up in the fight that he didn't hear the words shouted from behind him.
"URANUS WORLD SHAKING!!"
He turned around at the sudden yell of a phrase he had never heard before. There was a blinding flash of light and all he could see was a golden ball of light heading straight for him. He was mesmerized to the point where he didn't notice the crystal blue eyes that opened and realized the danger he was in. He didn't notice the blonde girl whom, moments before, he had been contemplating ways to kill, stagger to her feet. Nor did he see the jump in his direction. He did, however, feel the push that set him off balance seconds before the golden light threatened to overtake him. He looked over just in time to see the pain in her eyes as the blast hit her backside during his fall.
Before he knew it, it was all over and he was lying on his back, stunned. After a moment he tried to move and surprisingly, beside a few sore muscles, he was basically fine. That was, until he turned and saw Serena's back. His face went white. What he saw was enough to boil his blood and turn it cold all at once. The burns were so red that you couldn't tell where the blood ran out from all the burns and wounds.
Suppressing the human need to throw up he crawled the two feet toward her and was about to reach her when an angel stepped between them. Her hair was short and blonde and she bore the sign of Uranus on her forehead. She also wore a short skirt and long golden-yellow wings. She looked down at him with neither pity nor hate. And for some odd reason he wanted to reassure the angel-like creature who stood before him. But before he could even open his mouth, the creature beat him to it.
"I do not understand your purpose here at this time, nor do I understand your need to help her." The angel looked briefly over at Serena. "All I know is that few live to see us. And the few that ever see us either end up dead or mentally insane. Tread softly on this line. The winds up here are much stronger than you know, Heero Yuy, Gundam Pilot 01."
Then she turned and bent down to where Serena lay, barely breathing. She carefully eased her into her arms before standing up and turning back to Heero. Serena's blood dripped down the angels arms and stained her outfit. A small hint of respect shone in her eyes. The symbol of Uranus began to pulse and slowly she and Serena began to glow gold. When the light became too much to bear, he looked away and heard the angel speak once more from inside the golden light.
"You fared well against a demon, being a pure human. Or are you. . .?" With those final words, the golden light faded away to nothing.
Heero pushed himself up off the ground and spotted a glittering light near the spot Serena had been laying. He staggered over to it to find it was a necklace. A golden crescent moon with a small clear crystal attached to the moon.
He picked up the necklace and ran his finger over the moon, all the way down to the crystal. At the touch of the crystal a flash of visions flashed before his eyes. There were girls with wings, such as the one he had but moments before been looking at, battling demons, red eyes that were shrouded in darkness, and finally he saw a young girl floating in darkness turn into a babe. Out of nowhere a tall figure took the babe in her arms and all he saw was a glimpse of her face before the vision disappeared.
He blinked as he realized the vision was long gone and he had been staring off into space. A faint steady beep came from the small room that was once in the back of the classroom. With the chain dangling from his hand he headed toward the back room. The computer that Serena had been busy at had an email notice flashing on the screen. Though it was still black, the laptop was definitely running. Heero pressed a button and a notice from Dr. M popped up. Heero was puzzled for a moment, but decided this was hardly the time or place to be looking into the matter. He slung the black bag over one shoulder then picked up the laptop and stuck it under his other arm. Without so much as a backward glance, Heero pocketed the necklace and left the room.
~ ~ ~
[We find Pal chasing Buddy around waving a frying pan menacingly] Buddy! Get back here so I can hurt you for trying to take over the story!
A Loud Voice from above says:
A-HEM! [Pal stops and Buddy runs and hides] The readers are waiting!
[From Buddy's hiding spot] Yeah, Pal! The readers!
Pal: Can I please-
No.
Pal: But he-
NO.
Pal: Just once-
NO! Now get back to the story.
Pal: Fine. [Sulks - but not at the audience] I wish to thank those of you that have read my story. You are nice people. :-) And I want to invite you all back when I get my next chapter up, it will be as soon as I can possibly can.
Buddy [From hiding spot]: Yeah, some time in the next 10 years . . .
Pal: [Menacingly] Buddy . . . [Picks up frying pan and runs off after Buddy, yelling obscene death threats]
Pal: Uh, Buddy? What'cha doin'?
Buddy: [Stops laughing] Nothing. Nothing at all.
Pal: Really? 'Cause I thought I heard evil laughter. Buddy, you're not plotting to take over the story again, are you?
Buddy: . . . Here. Take this. [Hands Pal a clipboard]
Pal: [Looks at clipboard] Oh, the recognitions board! [Looks back at Buddy] You're not off the hook, Buddy. . . Okay, anyway, thank you to all that reviewed. You made my day! :-)
Solarmistress17: Another person who thinks my story is interesting . . . it must be my lucky day! [Frowns] I'm sorry I'm bad at getting chapters up though . . . I will try harder.
Usagi Serenity Yui Cosmos: I will do so as long as I have good people like you reviewing to me. :-)
White Ivy: As for training . . . I have to still work on that. This is a 'think-as-I-go' fic and I am working very hard on what it has in it. Reviewers with suggestions are always very appreciated. You will just have to just wait on what the training is though . . . :-) I'm sorry I can't give out more information.
SEZ: As to your Prologue review: You liked the conversation between my co- narrator but didn't understand the story? You need to watch more anime . . . besides I didn't need any painkiller so why should he? Chapter 1: Ha! I agree with you . . . since people want to take over the story [glares at Buddy] THEY get paid just enough. [Buddy holds up sign in the background that points down to him reading, "Grossly underpaid narrator"]
Pal: However, I was not sent here to blab. So on with the story. . . we last left off in a terrible cliffy. . . But we'll start by backing up a bit.
~ ~ ~
A computer hummed in the students' lounge of a large high school while a teenager typed up the attendance records from the previous day. Upon the walls different posters encouraged the joining of various groups, the announcement of the homecoming dance, and many more similar things. Four boys sat in different places on the chairs by the coffee table. The front door opened and in walked a girl with blonde hair and a laptop. She smiled at the Arabian blond who sat on the closest of the chairs against the wall. At that moment a fifth boy came in and notices the exchange. He sat down next to the blond and gave him a playful punch.
"Hey, Q-man, I saw that smile to the cute girl," he whispered mischievously.
"Duo, you'd see anything as long as it involves a cute girl, especially Hilde," Quatre replied, blushing slightly. By this time, much to Quatre's relief, Duo was no longer paying attention. Instead, he had turned to face the boy whose tanish brown hair almost hid half of his face. "Hey, Trowa, I'd bet you saw, didn'tcha?" Without even waiting for an answer, Duo proceeded to turn to the Chinese boy sitting across the table. "So what do you think about her, Wu-man?"
"I would not be interested in such weak people. And for the last time, Maxwell, CALL ME WUFEI!"
Duo waved his hand dismissively and muttered, "Whatever," before getting up and walking over to the last boy. He sat down in the other arm chair and leaned over and looked at what the last guy was doing.
"So, Heero, what'd you think of her? She definitely ranks high on my scale." He then leaned back into the newest chair he had seated himself in and wondered what the boy was thinking about. Heero just grunted and muttered about people who can't keep their mouths shut. Duo leaned back even further and retorted loudly, "Well excuse me for being a mere mortal."
Heero brushed a lock of hair out of his eyes as he pretended to be absorbed in examining the computer screen in front of him. In point of fact, he had been watching the girl from the moment she had walked into the room. He had so far noticed that not only was she studying them, but she also paid some attention to her surroundings without letting on to it, walked with a light I-can-kick-your-butt-if-I-wanted-to attitude, and hadn't, for all her other feats, didn't notice the principal walking up to her until she cleared her throat. He couldn't help but grin inwardly at that. He tried to concentrate for a few minutes as the principal talked with the girl, but he kept finding himself drawn from her long shiny hair to the way her legs were so perfect as though they had been sculpted by an artist. He kicked himself mentally.
"Heero Yuy, please come over here," Mrs. Walker's voice almost startled him, almost as if she had known what course his thoughts were taking. He looked up and walked over to the principal and the girl. When he reached the girl, she held out her hand and he took it. There was a small spark when he took her hand in his, but as fast as it had come, it was gone. He looked at her with guarded interest. Mrs. Walker cleared her throat. Heero looked at the girl as she glanced at him once more, then turned to Mrs. Walker.
Mrs. Walker wished them luck and gave the girl a packet. Heero studied the girl from close up. Her brilliantly bright eyes were cool like the sea and he felt himself beginning to lose himself within their depths. He quickly pulled his thoughts away from her, feeling annoyed at himself. She looked up from the packet and raised an eyebrow.
Damn, she reads faces well. He masked his annoyance with a blank look and stared back at her. I'm going to have to watch what I'm doing around her; she's good. She sighed and the next thing he knew he had followed her down a hallway, up a flight of stairs and into a computer lab.
At first glance, there had been a young man addressing the class that was obviously for beginners. However, Heero did a double-take and realized that the teacher was indeed female. Once in the computer room, they walked through a door in the back to see two computers and a round conference table. The girl walked to the far side and laid her things down. Heero waited until she pointed to the computer on the wall left wall before walking over and sitting down. Before he could so much as turn on the computer she had walked up behind him and laid the packet beside him.
"This is the computer that I work at. We'll also be sharing a room with Mr. Tenou who we already saw teaching the beginner's class out in the main room." Heero turned as he felt her move and watched her confidently walk back to her things. "I know you can start on that packet because I saw you with the Extoria 24XZ in the main lounge." She paused a moment and clicked some keys on her computer. "Besides, Mrs. Walker wouldn't assign you to me unless she knew you were good and had reason to believe I would have a challenge teaching you."
Heero grunted and turned back to the computer. While he started it up he thought to himself, She sure does have an attitude to match her outfit. Those beautiful blue eyes, though. . . Heero! Stop thinking of her like that. She isn't something to be getting into. Besides, wouldn't she just turn and run if you told her who you were? Whoa, boy, we aren't supposed to be telling anyone who we are, so get that out of your head. I'm on official protectors business. Keep to the mission.
He looked over at her in time to see her frown in thought. He watched her graceful hands skim across the keyboard and before he realized it, he was no longer paying attention to the computer screen. He watched her out of the corner of his eyes, clicking buttons every now and then to appear to be doing work. At one point a light clicked in her eyes and she seemed almost both smug and irritated. She glanced over at him and he quickly averted his eyes as so not to arouse suspicion that he was watching her. It dawned on him by her actions that she had found out. This isn't good. I'm going to have to eliminate her; she can't interfere with the project.
In the middle of his thoughts about the project, the bell rang that ended the class in the main room. Heero paid no attention to it as he was still thinking of how to deal with this new situation. I can't leave her alone, she obviously knows about us. There's nothing else I could do so I'll have to kill-
The blonde teacher sticking her head in interrupted his thoughts. "Hey, Serena, I thought I saw you sneak in with someone." She looked at Heero. "I'm Haruka, the computer teacher. You must be Heero. Mrs. Walker mentioned you," Haruka said as she smiled at him. Heero just nodded politely as he could. Haruka continued on as if nothing had happened. "Have fun with Serena, and if you have any complaints talk to me and I'll whip her into shape. Heero watched her wink at Serena. "Serena, I'll see you at lunch today. The usual, right?" Serena nodded and Haruka smiled before leaving the room, tossing a "See you later!" over her shoulder.
Heero reached for the cold, steel handgun under his leather jacket. After the door had been shut and locked in the other room, he pulled it out and aimed it at Serena, turning the safety off with a click. It has to be done, he thought. Nothing and no one can jeopardize this project. He watched her go deadly still.
"How did you find out?" he asked with his traditional monotone.
She unfroze her fingers long enough to make the computer screen go blank. Heero watched her turn and look into his prussian blue eyes. She didn't even blink even though she was staring down the barrel of a gun. He watched her with growing fascination as she calmly answered the question with another one of her own.
"I could ask you the same thing about how you knew I knew? However I think you are making a big mistake."
She stood up so that her height almost matched his. He kept the gun level on her head the entire time and was watching as she raised her right eyebrow. Damn, how and why do people do that? Heero thought as he looked at her eyebrow. He quickly gave himself a mental shake and opened his mouth to answer her question and ask one of his own when the window came crashing in.
Heero was half-thrown and half-dove under the table as the window crashed in around them. As soon as the glass stopped pounding down at them, Serena and Heero both jumped up and ran from the room. Heero took in the destruction without much thought, immediately looking for the person that caused the huge drop-off not even five feet from them. Where the hell is that person, they have to be around here somewhere, Heero thought as he turned to the right. There. With cold steel in his hand he all but emptied his entire clip at the floating woman.
The floating woman turned and looked at them all, eyes turning cold. Heero was suddenly trying to keep from getting debris in his eyes from the sudden wind. Before he could react the wind stopped. He felt more than saw the attack on Serena. He was impressed with the fact that she dodged an attack he hadn't even seen coming. She too moved quickly to block and it seemed, protect him. Both people were fast, almost too fast, for him. Suddenly, almost before it happened, Heero saw Serena slip and hit her head on one of the computers. A look of annoyance briefly crossed her face before she went cold and didn't move. The lady smiled and stepped over Serena as if going in for the kill.
'Hey, what is she doing?' he thought. Then he ran at the woman. Her shock was clearly displayed in her expression before she smiled and blocked the first blow with ease.
After a few blows of incredible speed and not one hit, he began to wonder if he had made a mistake in attacking this woman who, by the looks of it, possessed powers of some sort. He was so caught up in the fight that he didn't hear the words shouted from behind him.
"URANUS WORLD SHAKING!!"
He turned around at the sudden yell of a phrase he had never heard before. There was a blinding flash of light and all he could see was a golden ball of light heading straight for him. He was mesmerized to the point where he didn't notice the crystal blue eyes that opened and realized the danger he was in. He didn't notice the blonde girl whom, moments before, he had been contemplating ways to kill, stagger to her feet. Nor did he see the jump in his direction. He did, however, feel the push that set him off balance seconds before the golden light threatened to overtake him. He looked over just in time to see the pain in her eyes as the blast hit her backside during his fall.
Before he knew it, it was all over and he was lying on his back, stunned. After a moment he tried to move and surprisingly, beside a few sore muscles, he was basically fine. That was, until he turned and saw Serena's back. His face went white. What he saw was enough to boil his blood and turn it cold all at once. The burns were so red that you couldn't tell where the blood ran out from all the burns and wounds.
Suppressing the human need to throw up he crawled the two feet toward her and was about to reach her when an angel stepped between them. Her hair was short and blonde and she bore the sign of Uranus on her forehead. She also wore a short skirt and long golden-yellow wings. She looked down at him with neither pity nor hate. And for some odd reason he wanted to reassure the angel-like creature who stood before him. But before he could even open his mouth, the creature beat him to it.
"I do not understand your purpose here at this time, nor do I understand your need to help her." The angel looked briefly over at Serena. "All I know is that few live to see us. And the few that ever see us either end up dead or mentally insane. Tread softly on this line. The winds up here are much stronger than you know, Heero Yuy, Gundam Pilot 01."
Then she turned and bent down to where Serena lay, barely breathing. She carefully eased her into her arms before standing up and turning back to Heero. Serena's blood dripped down the angels arms and stained her outfit. A small hint of respect shone in her eyes. The symbol of Uranus began to pulse and slowly she and Serena began to glow gold. When the light became too much to bear, he looked away and heard the angel speak once more from inside the golden light.
"You fared well against a demon, being a pure human. Or are you. . .?" With those final words, the golden light faded away to nothing.
Heero pushed himself up off the ground and spotted a glittering light near the spot Serena had been laying. He staggered over to it to find it was a necklace. A golden crescent moon with a small clear crystal attached to the moon.
He picked up the necklace and ran his finger over the moon, all the way down to the crystal. At the touch of the crystal a flash of visions flashed before his eyes. There were girls with wings, such as the one he had but moments before been looking at, battling demons, red eyes that were shrouded in darkness, and finally he saw a young girl floating in darkness turn into a babe. Out of nowhere a tall figure took the babe in her arms and all he saw was a glimpse of her face before the vision disappeared.
He blinked as he realized the vision was long gone and he had been staring off into space. A faint steady beep came from the small room that was once in the back of the classroom. With the chain dangling from his hand he headed toward the back room. The computer that Serena had been busy at had an email notice flashing on the screen. Though it was still black, the laptop was definitely running. Heero pressed a button and a notice from Dr. M popped up. Heero was puzzled for a moment, but decided this was hardly the time or place to be looking into the matter. He slung the black bag over one shoulder then picked up the laptop and stuck it under his other arm. Without so much as a backward glance, Heero pocketed the necklace and left the room.
~ ~ ~
[We find Pal chasing Buddy around waving a frying pan menacingly] Buddy! Get back here so I can hurt you for trying to take over the story!
A Loud Voice from above says:
A-HEM! [Pal stops and Buddy runs and hides] The readers are waiting!
[From Buddy's hiding spot] Yeah, Pal! The readers!
Pal: Can I please-
No.
Pal: But he-
NO.
Pal: Just once-
NO! Now get back to the story.
Pal: Fine. [Sulks - but not at the audience] I wish to thank those of you that have read my story. You are nice people. :-) And I want to invite you all back when I get my next chapter up, it will be as soon as I can possibly can.
Buddy [From hiding spot]: Yeah, some time in the next 10 years . . .
Pal: [Menacingly] Buddy . . . [Picks up frying pan and runs off after Buddy, yelling obscene death threats]
