Disclaimer: Same as Chapter One!
Chapter Eleven
"Attack of the Authoresses"
By Magic and the Little Fairy From Nam
Trinity was getting very tired of just sitting there. There was only so many things that one could do in a dorm room in the middle of the night, especially when there was no way that she could get through the door. She wasn't quite sure why she couldn't get through the door, but there was a very distinct solidity of the door that made her feel as if there was no way of even attempting to get out of the room. That, and she figured she had probably noticed that there was no doorknob anywhere to be seen. The door wasn't very pretty anyway; who wants to deal with an ugly door?
She glanced around the room a few times; everything seemed to be in place, just as she and Hannah had left it before they had gone off on the mission.
Ah yes, the mission, Trinity mused to herself as she continued to peruse the room with her eyes, I remember now. We were captured...and then...Nadir was there and put me on trial...we were rescued...and then....
Trinity stood up from where she had been sitting on the bed and glanced out the window to see a giant stuffed bunny trudging through the parking lot, but she took no mind to it as she was attempting to figure out what had happened after she had pleaded guilty.
"Hannah and Wufei found who I really am because...because...of course! They were in the same room as I had been. Yes, yes, that was it." She paused yet again and began to tap her forehead with her index finger while trying to pull the memory out from whatever box she had left it in.
She snapped her fingers. "That's it!" Trinity continued to speak to herself as she began pacing through the room. "And then the rest of the guys rescued us, and we followed Heero but he didn't know where he was going, and then there was the elevator, and then we finally found the ship, and took off into space, but they wouldn't talk to me and so I started to speak with myself and I started to watch the stars go by, and..." The brunette took in a long, deep breath to get her oxygen count back up to par. It was when she was huffing and puffing when she realized that she hadn't a clue what had happened on the ride home or even how she had gotten to her and Hannah's dorm room.
"Erm....uh...."
That was when Hannah walked through the door. Her expression was that of fuming mad to the point where not even the sweet taste of white chocolate mousse soft serve ice cream and oreos would make her cool off. Trinity had faced many deadly situations before this, but she was almost certain that if she didn't make for the window quickly, there wasn't going to be anyway that she could make it out of this alive.
"Hannah....now..think rationally on this one! I really meant to tell you everything, it was just that I wasn't sure if you would like me...I mean...I know I really should have said at least something...like," Hannah was slowly creeping up closer and closer to her, "'hey! Hannah! I have a psychopathic step-brother bent on world domination and making my life miserable!' Would that have done the job?"
Thump! "You lying, conniving, something....really...really bad! How could you!"
The hollow sound of Trinity's head being rammed against the green, dorm wall resounded throughout the room. Trinity flung herself to her feet just in time to avoid being clobbered by her friends change sock, when five other forms appeared behind. One of the forms pulled Hannah (with mild success and much bruising) off of her friend who had just began cowering in the corner.
"I didn't mean anything by not telling you all!"Trinity screamed with all of her might at the boys and Hannah who were all staring at her with their arms crossed tightly across their chests, with the exception of Trowa who was still holding back the lethal blonde from getting at the brunette. Trinity's mouth suddenly seemed to get smaller and smaller as she quietly mumbled, "I really meant to tell you all when everything was over...I did. I swear." Trinity realized that she was staring at her feet now instead of the crowd in front of her; oh well, she found it easier to gaze at her toes than the six pares of eyes.
"Not that I didn't expect this to happen. Stupid girl," Wufagot hissed out at Trinity as he pointed a confusing finger at her. Then he blinked for one slow second before realizing that his name had been cruelly changed to his dreaded nickname, not only in dialog, but also in the context of the paragraph.
"What the hell did you do to my name, you wacks!!??" Wufei screamed towards the ceiling.
Trinity's eyes crossed for a second as she was trying to realize what in the world was going on. "Wufei..." She started timidly, "who...in the world...are you yelling at?" She scratched her head as she tried to figure out what was going on.
"Oh, you didn't like that?" A booming voice that could only be known was that of one of the authoresses came down from somewhere among the heavens (or maybe the dorm room just above them. One never knows for sure with these mysterious miracles).
A blood vessel on top of Wufei's forehead started to pop out as his anger increased. "This is. . . . . "
"INJUSTICE!!" Screamed the first god-like voice, accompanied this time by yet another.
"I was going to say. . . " Wufaggot began to stammer.
"INJUSTICE!!!" Shrieked the duet once again.
"CHANGE MY NAME BACK THIS INSTANT YOU NUT CASES!!"
There was a slight pause before the two voices erupted in laughter. Everyone on the lower floor covered their ears as the pain from their cackling became more intense as the laughing got louder.
"Is 'nut cases' the best you can do?" One of the voices inquired in the midst of the others laughter.
"What about something like 'mouth-fart'?" The other put in as the laughter around the seven below decreased.
"Yes, yes! Or butt-burp!" The other chimed in.
A large sweat drop appeared on Wufei's head as he realized what the two were saying. "I can't believe this is what we have to put up with..."
Wufei suddenly took a great running leap into the closest wall and slammed into it with all of his force. From the great impact, he fell directly onto his rear end and bruised it severely all over for the rest of his days.
"WHY WAS THAT FOR?!" He screamed up at the ceiling while rubbing his soar tookus.
More insane laughter was heard from above the cast as the two authoresses yelled down at them all, "We've got the power!! Remember it or pay the consequences."
"How do you spell 'consequences'?" One of them asked the other out of the blue as the group below blinked.
There was a moments pause before the other replied, "You really are at the third grade spelling level...aren't you?"
"BE QUIET! It's not my fault for just being...being..."
"Special."
"That works."
"Okay. . . " Trinity said, looking up towards the sky where the voices came from. She wasn't sure what was going on and wasn't really sure how she had arrived in this odd situation. Upon glancing over at the group, she found it amusing to find Heero attempting to glare at the authoresses, but it wasn't possible even for the 'Perfect Pilot' to find someone to glare at who didn't even exist. One has to cut him some slack once and awhile.
"YOU CAN DANCE YOU CAN DIE!! HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!" The off key singing rang painfully through the small dorm room as it hit the others ears like a staple gun to the head. "Sorry we're listing to "Dancing Queen", which we don't own in any way, and we just had toast with lots of sugar and cinnamon." Evil laughter ensued as lightening and thunder boomed outside the window in the night sky.
"You're not going to make us do anything psycho are you?" Duo asked, worriedly; he being of the slower type (as well as the Mr. Obvious genre) had just realized that the two authoresses had complete control over the keyboard, the story, and a lot of sugar at their disposal. That was about as good a combination as a man with a lightening rod standing in the middle of the public pool.
"Not unless you want us to make you do something really, really funny...or mean...or scarring..." One informed.
It wasn't long before the other one broke the promise though and screamed out the command, "Heero! Kiss Duo!"
"Nuuuuuuuuuuu!" The other authoress screamed.
"Just a joke!!! Don't freak out!"
The two authoresses suddenly realized that the command had been executed.
"Make them stop or I'll have Quatre kiss Trowa, and that'll really mess up the relationships in the story!" The other one threatened.
"Yes'm!"
Everything returned to normal as the two pilots unlocked lips; Quatre and Trowa whispered silent prayers as Wufei, Hannah, and Trinity starred in absolute horror at the Duo and Heero. Trinity was wondering when everything was going to just end, and someone was going to put them out of their misery.
"You're not going to hold that against me, Heero, are you?" Duo inquired as he started to back away form the spandex boy before his fellow pilot lost a fuse.
Heero was too busy attempting to find someway to get at the authoresses that he didn't even take notice of Duo's comment. The braided one gave a quick silent thanks to his luck as a pilot, about the exact time when his luck ran out and the blonde Relena came flying into the room. Her open hand caught Duo across the face as she slapped him with all of her might and his head went spinning around, followed by his braid.
Relena was fuming when she finally landed on the floor after her quick flight through the wall. "You kissed Heero!"
"It's not my fault!" Duo defended as his hand went to his burning cheek.
The great sounds of hysterical laughter could be heard from up above as it seemed the authoresses were rolling around on the floor convulsing with rapture and joy.
"Now this is entertainment!!" Hannah declared as she also burst into laughter.
One of the authoresses seemed to agree as well. "Duo and Relena death match!"
Relena again advanced on Braidy-Boy as a cat stealthily comes up behind a mouse. Taken back by one of his most despised nicknames all of a sudden popping up into the story, Relena was given the distraction that she needed. She reached out and before he could move, grabbed his braid, and spun his around by it, letting go at the last second so he collided full force with the nearest wall.
"That's IT! No one touches the hair!" He removed a gun from his left pocket (where else? The puffy pants!)and aimed it directly at her face.
"HEERO!"Relena bellowed louder than was necessary since the pilot was standing directly to her left. He winced as his name came flooding into his eardrum and resonated throughout his entire body.
"Freeze!" One of the authoresses ordered from on high. "We haven't even done anything to our main characters!" Hannah and Trinity started to sweat as they realized they were the next victim. They didn't even want to know what was going to be in store for them.
"Oo-oo! I know!" The other one piped in. "We could turn the two of them into a food! Yeah, yeah! Like...something....giggly!"
"And smelly!"
"And-" The two continued to add onto the list as Trinity was attempting to form the words in her mouth. It was very hard to even find them at first as talking when one is on pause wasn't just a simple matter of spitting it out. The sentence had to be fully formed before anything could happen and then she had to make sure that she remembered it correctly so that it came out all right in the end.
When she thought she had it she came back into the conversation to here, "Who's first?"
"Trinity!" The other one commanded.
"Trinity!" The second time her name was said didn't exactly sound like either of the authoresses. In fact, it sounded more like Quatre's voice, but that wasn't possible as he was on pause.
"Trinity." There it came again. This time it sounded a lot like Heero, but the brunette was certain that his mouth hadn't moved an inch.
Another voice that sounded a lot like Wufei's came to her ears, "Do you think she'll get out of it every? Stupid girl."
It was then that Trinity decided to scream out her phrase that she had formed to plead for mercy; it was also at that exact moment that her eyes snapped open and she sat up straight as she belted out, "SPARE ME, PLEASE!!"
Blank stares were reflected back at her as Trinity looked around at the six others gazing down at her. Still delirious from her nightmareish dream, she grabbed Duo's shirt with both of her hands and whispered in a small, scared voice, "I don't wanna be turned into anything giggly and smelly!"
Duo attempted to pry her hands off his shirt as he told her, "I'll remember that when Hannah attempts to cook you in a pot." He motioned over to the blonde whose eyes were narrowed at Trinity's form.
It was then when Trinity figured out that she was lying on a double bed in some random hotel room; her sword was sitting over on the chair in the corner, and everyone was gazing down at her as they stood around or leaned on the bed to get a better look at her.
"It was just a dream," Trinity sighed with relief as she flopped back down onto the pillow and let her tense muscles relax after a few seconds of slow breathing.
"Not ALL of it was a dream," Hannah growled, not knowing for sure what Trinity thought was a dream. "Trinity Renada."
The brunette looked up at everyone in turn, from Heero to Hannah. Hannah's eyes were narrowed to the point where it almost looked as if the orbs of blue were going to disappear into her eyebrows; the blonds arms where held back by Trowa who was holding her back from probably cooking Trinity into something 'giggly and smelly' at that very moment. Trowa wasn't even looking at the brunette. Quatre seemed to gaze at her with sadness reflected in his eyes and perhaps even a little pity. What really got to Trinity was the jolt that hit home when she met eyes with Duo. It was the same glare that he had given to her at the base during the mission.
"Why do you hate me so much?" She uttered too softly for any of them to hear. "Don't look at me like that..." Her last nerve finally snapped as Trinity leapt towards Hannah and Duo. "Please stop looking at me!!" She couldn't stand to have them see her for who she really was.
It was her advantage of surprise that enabled her to shove the five gundam pilots and her blond friend out of the door and into, what she saw for a quick flash before quickly slamming the door, the living room of the hotel room.
"I'M SORRY! I'm sorry!" Trinity flicked the lock on the door so that no one could enter. "I'm ...sorry..." She whispered as she slid down the door and onto the floor where she sat and hugged her knees. It was then that her stomach gave a large growl and sounded its anger at not being fed.
"Not now." The brunette grumbled to her organs as she set her head down onto her knees.
***
Wet blonde hair covered parts of his vision as he stared up at the towering hotel building in front of him. So this is were you are, Nadir sneered, snickering slightly aloud to himself. Time to kill two birds with one stone.
This had to be the best day of his life. Being able to get rid of both his sister and the Gundam Pilots at the same time was more than he ever would have asked for. He had smartly planted a tracking device in Trinity sword, knowing that she took it everywhere with her, and had not taken it away when she was in the cell, knowing that in time, the rest of the Gundam pilots would come to rescue, if not her, then the other pilot.
He walked into the building with his large patrol of guards and easily took the unsuspecting people over as he whistled to himself.
"I'm such a genius, you know that! Stupendous really," he said as he turned to face one of his officers with a large, cheesy smile. He was so excited he started to skip up the stairs before he realized that everyone was watching. Best to stay discrete if possible, he mused and beckoned the others to follow him with a forced serious face.
He continued to whistle "Round and round the mulberry bush, the monkey chassed the weasel" until one of his officers asked, "Don't you think it would be better if we made as little noise as possible, sir. With all respect I-"
"What do you know? What's the square root of 23,958,462?! Hmmm??" Nadir flung his cape behind him and continued with his way up the stairs. "Yes. That's what I thought. Remember that your superiors always know best, Lancelot. Don't you forget that." He looked down at all of his troops following him. "Do you think we could all start a cannon??"
***
"Now what?" Quatre whispered to the others as they began to disperse throughout the room, a little shaken by Trinity's recent out burst and being flung from the bedroom. They all shook their heads as they didn't have the slightest clue about what to do, so they tried to make life go back to normal. Well, that is as normal as it had ever been for them.
Duo walked over to a small chair and plopped down onto it with a sigh. He didn't really know what he felt about the whole thing. He knew how he should feel about parts of it but wasn't sure where to place Trinity in with the mix. He hated Nadir; that was a given, but then where did his happy go lucky, weirder than three mimes and a clown talking about poker, sword carrying step-sister who they had all used as a sort of bait fit in his life? It's gotta suck to have Nadir for a brother, Duo admitted to himself as he put his feet up on the table. That much he knew for sure.
Everyone seemed to have settled down for awhile; Quatre had his tea cup in hand and was looking out the window at the rain and city bellow, Trowa was making something that actually smelled edible for a change for super; Wufei was stretching over in the corner and beginning to warm up for his daily routine; Heero was doing something with his laptop, and Hannah was reading fanfics on the Internet as she kicked the wall hard with her foot from time to time (rages directed at Trinity would have to be taken out on the poor, defenseless wall for the time being). Duo stood up and went into the other room to get a magazine to read as he realized that hotel didn't get cable acces.
Just as he had entered the small room next to the bedroom where Trinity had locked herself into, he heard a door open very close to him. Not paying very much attention, he figured that it had been Trinity emerging from the bedroom to get something to eat (she hadn't eaten for about a day or so and it was just logical). He figured wrong.
"Hello, Duo," said Nadirs cool and emotionless voice," long time no see." Nadir paused awhile as Duo's head whipped around to look at Nadir who was standing in the same room as he was by the door that led to the staircase. Did he hear whistling farther down the way?
"How is your little girl friend with the black hair?" Duo's face contorted into a mask of rage as Nadir frostily sneered,"Oh yes, how careless of me. She's dead, isn't she." With the final word Nadir slammed his knee into Duo's stomach and lifted up the cringing Duo by his shirt collar. "Don't scream now. Don't want to disturb the others, do we?" He threw Duo at the wooden chair that had stood in the corner of the small room which caused it to break. Duo screamed out as his head collided full force into the chair and then into the corner of the wall. For a second everything went black, but he forced himself to stay conscious as he sat up in the corner and tried to focus the world.
As Nadir had expected, the other four pilots and Hannah, who hadn't even thought to bring her change sock, scampered quickly into the room without thinking about what they were doing before it was too late.
Nadir swiftly reached out and grabbed Hannah, who was the first to enter the door, by her shirt collar. As the others filled in the door, he rested his gun lightly against her temple and calmly watched the others.
"Why is Psycho man here?!" Hannah asked in dismay as the realization of who and what was going on hit her. "Do you come often to random hotels in this area or what?!"
"Nobody move an inch or the blonde never gets to yell at anyone of you again," Nadir commanded as several of his officers trained guns on the five pilots; the guys knew when their cards had been dealt and this was one of the times. Heero raised his hands over his head first, and the others all followed suit with the exception of Duo who couldn't exactly find the muscles to move any of his limbs.
When the soldiers were busy handcuffing the four boys and Hannah, Nadir picked up Duo once again and ruffly slapped handcuffs on the braided ones wrists as he spun him around and marched him into the living room. Speaking to all of them in general, he demanded, "Where's Trinity?" He scanned the room while spinning Duo around with him. "Come out, come out, where ever you are!"
Trinity, at that moment was reading herself to jump right off the balcony and onto the next balcony right below, figuring that after she escaped, she would find some of the guys' friends somehow and rescue them all, but her fear of heights kept her back one second too long. If she had jumped right when she heard Nadir talking outside, she would never have heard what her step-brother was planning to do; she never would have stopped herself from leaping down; she would have been able to go through with her plan and help them out later. But that's just the way life is sometimes and her muscles tensed and she stopped herself from jumping as she heard her brother's quote.
"If you run away from me Trinity, I will break every single limp of Mr. Maxwell's. Then I'll move on to Miss Date's for some fun after he quits screaming. After that, all of the others will follow until there are no more limbs. But it's better that way because then I can start removing the organs."
Trinity's body became covered in goose bumps that hadn't been there even while she had been crouching out in the cold, pouring rain. She was unable to move forward or backward; it was as if all time had stopped, yet the rain continued to fall.
"If you come out," Nadir informed her, "I will only break Mr. Maxwell's nose as a punishment for screaming earlier."
"Trinity, just RUN!" Hannah shrieked before the guard covered the blonde's mouth roughly with his gloved hand. Hannah clamped down viciously on his finger with her teeth, but the guard didn't respond at all except a very small wince.
The creaking of the door adjacent to the bedroom could be heard in the complete silence, and Trinity stood in the doorway, soaking wet, holding her sword by her side. The dark brown eyes gazed into Nadir's dark blue ones; rain water dripped from her clothing and her hair making soft 'plop'ing sounds on the tile.
"Drop the sword and kick it over towards the soldiers." Trinity did exactly as he told her to do without glancing up away from Nadir for a second.
"That's more like it. Someone, Roy, handcuff her as well." Nadir felt that it was time to deal out punishment so he lifted Duo up so he could face the braided pilot. " I told you not to scream," he uttered cruelly before punching Duo squarely in the face.
"That's for my men who you killed."
His fist landed right in Duo's face again. Everyone winced as they heard Duo's nose break, but the Brady boy didn't scream this time, but just resigned himself to the pain.
"That's for humiliating me."
Nadir swung his arm back once again. "And this is for--"
"STOP IT, NADIR!"
The blond soldier whirled around to face his step-sister. "What did you say?" He hissed as he dropped Duo to the floor. There wasn't much that Duo could do to catch himself as his hands were still cuffed behind his back; he landed onto the tile with a thunk and a wince as pain leapt into his body via his shoulder. Blood trickled down his nose as it started to swell, and he rolled slightly onto his back so that he could watch what Nadir was doing.
The tall figure stalked towards Trinity purposefully as his left hand reached for his temple. "Do you understand the HEADACHES I get when you're around?! Do you?! Do you understand what it's like to have your brain being torn apart while you're still conscious?!? That's how you make me feel!" He gripped Trinity by her hair and held her close to his face. "What the hell are you?!?! What are you doing to me?!!" He leaned forward, placed his mouth right by her ear, and whispered, "Do you want to feel the pain you put me through?"
"Not particularly."
He hissed, "I think you do."
With that he slammed Trinity's head into the doorway frame; Trinity's eyes rolled back into her head, and Nadir let her hair slide through his fingers as he allowed her unconscious body to fall to the ground.
"We move out now." Nadir started to rub his temples vigorously. "Someone get me an asprine, and stop that blasted whistling!!"
***
Trinity woke up in her old room on her bed. She slowly got up and looked around and the familiar surroundings. The brunette slowly got off the bed, so as not to pass out again, and walked towards the bathroom. In the bath tub she saw a little girl taking a bubble bath with a ton of bubbles. She had brown hair that was so long, it continued into the sea of bubbles that had overtaken the large tub. A women was kneeling by her and rinsing her hair out. The little girl seemed to be quite bored with the situation and decided to make it interesting.
She picked up a large handful of bubbles and blew them in the women's face. The women just laughed a warm, calming laugh and returned the bubbles with some of her own. The little girl giggled and smiled, making her babyish cheeks bunch up under her eyes. The mother said something to the girl that Trinity couldn't catch, and turned around to grab the cute girl a towel.
With a shock, Trinity came face to face with her mother. She looked over to the girl in the bath tub and realized that it was herself. The girl and mother began to fade and all that was left was the childish giggle of the girl, ringing through Trinity's mind. A small bubble floated across the room, and Trinity thinking it was real, reached out to pop it, only to have it disappear before she could come near it.
"Am I dead?" Trinity wondered out loud but soon decided that Nadir probably hadn't killed her by hitting her head against the doorframe. No. He was probably planning a much more extravagant death for her somewhere in the house, but there didn't seem to be anyway around it. Positive that there were guards standing around the outside of the house just waiting for her to try to escape, she opened her door and stepped out into the hallway.
It was lit dimly by the lights on the sides of the marble walls which cast eerie shadows throughout the long corridor. Her breathe could be seen as it condensed in midair; the heat must have been left off since the day of the murders. Trinity's footsteps sounded like elephants as they were the only sound resonating throughout the house, echoing back at her from all sides and down the hallway.
She continued to walk unhindered by anyone as there was no one to be seen in the whole house that she could tell. It was all disturbingly quiet and calm. Trinity rubbed her forehead where a rather large bump was forming from it's contact with the doorway.
"Now..."She pondered aloud, "if I were a psychopath, where would I want to murder my step-sister?"
She was just passing the elevator on her left when she realized the answer; it was quite simple and obvious. The old ballroom that no one had used for years would be the perfect spot; high walls and pillars with a gothic ceiling and stained glass windows along the side made it the perfect place for Nadir to want to kill someone as it almost looked like a cathedral. "He's just nuts enough to think it."
Trinity walked over to the elevator and stepped in. She knew she was going the right way because there was a sign inside the elevator that said she was heading the right direction. He had even circled the floor number on the keypad as if she was too stupid to figure anything out on her own. The elevator ride was too short for Trinity's liking. She just wanted to melt into the walls, but it just wasn't going to happen. The elevator's sliding doors opened, and she walked out into the giant hall.
At the end, she could see five figures tied to the five end pillars. It was easy to figure out who they were, and Trinity began dashing towards the five figures as her steps echoed off the walls and the high ceilings. As she reached the end, a small part of her stomach dropped as she realized there were supposed to be six of her friends at the end, but she could only see five.
Hannah had a large piece of duct tape slapped over her mouth and her didn't look very happy at all. Wufei, Heero, Trowa, and Quatre were tied to the walls the same as Hannah, although slightly more tight and secure and they had less duct tape then Hannah over their mouths. They all looked up at her when she approached them. She reached to start to untie Hannah, but the blonde started to shake her head vagariously as her eyes widened. Trinity didn't know what it was about, but she was about to be answered.
"Wouldn't do that if I were you," a cool voice said from behind her.
"And why not, Nadir? Are you afraid she's going to beat you up? Don't even think about it. I'm not going to fight you." Trinity said not turning to face her brother as she continued to struggle with Hannah's tight bindings. "And where's Duo?"
"Ah yes. Mister Maxwell. He's right here!" Nadir declared and a large grin spread over his face. Two guards walked in at that moment, pulling Duo between the two of them. They handed Duo to Nadir.
"None of you are to interfere with anything that happens in here, and that's an order," Nadir gave his best death glare to the guards who saluted him and quickly left the room, afraid of their leaders vengeance.
"You see, Trinity, it just so happens that Mr. Maxwell and I have already had a little run in. It's almost humorous that you ended up to be with these five as you are related to me, and I was just the man they were looking for. Well, they found me, didn't you, Duo?" Nadir hefted Duo to his feet and went to unlocking Duo's handcuffs.
As soon as Duo's cuffs were off, the braided pilot took a swing at the blond soldier, but as a result of his previous beatings, Duo's strength was almost gone and the weak blow just lightly smacked Nadir on the shoulder as the soldier moved out of the way. Nadir responded with a sharp kick into Duo's stomach which sent the pilot flying to the floor.
"You see, when I have a disagreement with someone, I have us settle it over a fight. The one who wins was obviously the one who was right. Fighting is a perfectly fair way of setting disputes, right Maxwell?" Nadir glanced over at Duo.
Pilot 02 was slowly trying to pick himself off the floor. He sent a glare over towards Nadir as the soldier continued to taunt him, but then he looked up and met Trinity's eyes with almost the same amount of hatred.
Trinity couldn't stand that. "Don't look at me like that!!" She screamed as she closed her eyes and covered her face.
"You heard her, Mr. Maxwell, stop looking at her like that!" Nadir mocked as he walked swiftly over to Duo and kneed him in the mid section. He continued to pick up Duo off the floor and fling him this way and that. Duo never let a scream utter from his lips and tried in vain to defend himself in some way, but after all that he had gone through that day, he hadn't a chance against the well rested Nadir.
Nadir flung Duo across the marble floor particularly far after awhile and seemed to wait to see if he could pick himself up. Trinity's eyes followed Duo as she saw him roll over onto his stomach in pain. Nadir seemed to be satisfied that his prey wasn't going to move while he was gone, so he started walking slightly towards Trinity, but she didn't bother to follow him with her eyes.
Dark brown orbs bore into Duo's sad figure as the pilot propped himself up slightly with his hands and started to cough.
"Don't, Nadir," she whispered. She felt completely helpless; the brunette didn't want to fight, but what could she do to help? "Stop this."
From over where Nadir was, she heard the sound of gliding metal and his voice saying, "This is between me and Mr. Maxwell, Trinity."
The brunette whipped her head around quickly to see that it was a table that Nadir was standing at which held three swords on top of it. One of them, the one that was lying down still, was hers, and the other two Nadir held in his hands.
He flung one over towards Duo; it slide across the marble floor with a grating sound like fingers on a chalk board and stopped right next to the pilot's right hand, but Duo didn't make a grab for it. He was too weak to pick it up, and on top of that, he didn't know the first thing about sword play.
As Trinity watched Nadir start for Duo she mumbled weakly, "This isn't fair, Nadir."
Her step-brother turned to face her for a second as he quipped, "Of course it is. We both have weapons. It's not like I didn't give him one." He was only a few steps away from Duo now and had the sword pulled back behind his back, ready for the killing stoke.
Nadir began to swing his sword straight at Duo's neck when a sharp ringing sensation was sent through his arms and a loud clash rang in his ears: Trinity was standing in between him and Duo, sword blocking his, and glaring at him with all of her might. She pushed him back with all of her might away from Duo who was still attempting to pull himself off the floor and met Nadir's eyes with her narrowed ones.
To her complete horror, Nadir began to laugh hysterically. "See? You're so simple! All I had to do was get you a little riled up, and you'd be out fighting in a split second!"
"You're insane," Trinity chocked out as she held her sword in front of her in case he tried anything funny.
"Possibly, but that's because of you, dear sister." Nadir stretched his arms behind his back and moved his head around a little as he stretched out his muscles. "Now, shall we get this over before she finds out and comes to interfere?"
"She?" Trinity inquired.
Nadir smirked. "Don't worry about her. I doubt you'll have to worry about living through this to meet her. Come along, now. Let's begin what should have ended a long time ago."
"Oh, so poetic!" Trinity remarked sarcastically as she lunged at her step-brother.
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