DISCLAIMER
I don't own any of the GW characters (such a shame too) and I don't own 3x3 Eyes and all that other stuff that goes into disclaimers.
Yeah, um, This is a GW crossover with 3x3 Eyes. Um, sorry, there's prolly not going to be any Pai or Yakumo popping up anywhere (Sorry fans ^_^) but I am using
their concepts and so on and so forth. There is YAOI in here so if you don't like it then don't read, ne? Um, pairing's are 1xOC, 2x5, 3x4. It's KINDA an AU cuz there's
magic and stuff but... not really.
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Chapter 5
Heero met Ballard's lunge as he leapt down as the larger man leapt up. Their bodies met with a dull thud and they both went flying to the ground.
"Heero!" Li Mei cried as she jumped down off Wing after him. Heero and Ballard had already climbed to their feet and were staring at each other calculatingly, sizing the other up. She stopped when they started gathering power around them. Dark blue seeped from the air to slowly wave around Heero, his eyes flashing with a dark inner fire. Ballard stood calmly as deep orange gathered around him, giving him a ghostly glow. Li Mei stepped back slightly as the power rolled over her and she bit her lip. Despite knowing that whatever they did to each other would never leave anything permanent, she couldn't stop the urge to help Heero. She stepped back again and then turned around. She ran towards the gundams and leapt upwards and onto the leg of Heavyarms, the gundam closest to her. She moved quickly towards the cockpit, the place she had seen Trowa disappear into.
"Are you all right?" She asked as she knelt by it, running her hands over the cold metal in order to determine exactly what it was Ballard had done to it. She probed deeply with her senses, quickly brushing against the small electricity spell Ballard had cast.
'Interesting, these giant robots brought to their knees as a single wire is cut off from everything else.' She thought to herself.
"Yes." Trowa replied.
"What's going on?" Quatre said from Sandrock. Li Mei glanced back worriedly towards where Ballard and Heero still stood still. She turned backwards Sandrock.
"Heero's decided to fight with Ballard." She said.
"What? Why?" She shook her head.
"Heero and Ballard have never gotten on very well. I guess his threat was more than Heero would take." She stood up again and looked down at Heavyarms. "Don't worry. I think I can get your big robots to work again. Just give me a moment." She closed her eyes and started to unravel the spell, Ballard's hold on it already gone as he started to devote all his power to his fight with Heero. A huge explosion marked the beginning of their fight and Li Mei turned to looked at them as she stumbled slightly. Heero and Ballard were throwing punches and kicks at each other, their movements blurred by the sparks and mini explosions as their auras met violently. Heero got a good shot in and Ballard slammed through a tree, breaking it in half. He wasted no time in following through with his advantage. Li Mei silently cheered him on as she concentrated on unravelling the spell around the gundams as well as making sure that there were no other spells hanging around. She slipped into a state of meditation, quickly and efficiently severing all the magical strings and holds. She didn't even see the blow coming. The others did.
"Look out!" She turned her head just in time to see a huge ball of energy speeding towards her. She instantly broke off her magical connections to the spells and threw her arms up in front of her face. She was blasted off Heavyarms and was thrown several meters, landing on her back with a loud grunt as the air was forced from her lungs and then rolled to a stop. She coughed and got to her feet shakily.
"Ugh..." She groaned as she looked dizzily in the direction the blast had come from. A tall, black clad man walked through the trees silently. She could barely see his face but his white scarf gave him away and watched as he strode into the light. She drew a breath in at the sight of his third eye, wide open and gleaming with anger. His dark blond hair was artfully combed away from his handsome face and he smiled, a cold and cruel twist of his lips. His dark gold eyes watching her intensely.
"My dear, you look absolutely tired out. Come, why not let me take you back to my mansion and we can catch up on old times." She shivered at his voice. There was a time when it had been warm but... Now there was nothing left but a horrible monster.
"No. I don't want to go with you," She knew she sounded like a child, but what else was she supposed to say?
"Now now, my dear. There's no need to be childish. We can make a wonderful world together. It'll be perfect." A crazed gleam in all three of his eyes made her step back warily. Dark amusement crept into his eyes and he continued to walk forward.
"Get away from her!" Quatre's voice sounded from his gundam. Shing tilted his head slightly towards the voice.
"Are these the powerful gundams that have caused OZ such trouble. They don't look like much."
"Stop it Shing. Leave them alone." Li Mei said as she took a few steps forward, her eyes flashing warningly.
"Why should I? After all, you're just a little girl." Li Mei clenched her fists in anger but didn't say anything. It was true. She was young in terms of her race but it was so very insulting to be called a little girl.
"I didn't spend four hundred years in that crystal doing nothing." She replied as she tilted up her chin defiantly.
"You think you can beat me? You?" He laughed, a cold and piercing sound.
"Yes me. I can't let you destroy this world."
"Are you pretending to be a heroine?"
"I'm not trying to be. I'm just doing what's right and what it takes to stop you from carrying out your crazy schemes."
"Crazy?"
"You killed almost every single Sanjiyan! And thousands of other humans!" She burst out accusingly.
"I was merely ridding the world of useless souls. Our Elders were nothing but indolent fools. They would never have done anything to induce change within our people. And the younger ones! Their split personalities would have brought our race to their knees and then some."
"We all have split personalities! It's the only way we can cope!"
"I have coped very well. Valerious and I have become one. We are now just Shing."
"I noticed." She said softly. She held her hand out in front of her, a small ball of electric blue energy forming. She clenched her hand as she brought it down to her side. A gold staff materialised and she tightened her grip on it.
"I will not go willingly Shing. And I won't let you hurt anymore people." She held her staff in front of her and pointed the ring end towards him. He let out a low, cold, chuckle and pointed his own hand at her. A dark red ball of energy gathered in the palm of his hand and he quickly clenched it. A long glaive sliced through the air as he gave it a few practice swings. The metal glowed in the light that broke through the trees above and seemed to hum with anticipation. He slowed down the swings after a minute and held it up ready as he watched her carefully. She hadn't reacted to his showing off in the least. She stood tall, proud and determined and he felt something clench in his chest, a familiar feeling around her. He shook it off and smiled cruelly.
"Are you still willing to fight with me? I could kill you so easily and you know what that means. Your precious little Wu will become mortal. not only that, there will be no one left to fight me and the world will be thrown into darkness, perfect darkness." He laughed out, throwing his head back and letting the cold sound bounce around the trees and back again. Li Mei winced inwardly, the sound grating against her sensitive ears. She readied herself as his laughter died down. She bent both knees tensed as she watched him carefully, prepared for any tiny hint of movement. He watched her too, his large frame tensing and, in mutual agreement, they started to circle each other.

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Heero growled and ducked a fist that would have caved his face in. He kicked out towards Ballard's knees and was satisfied to hear him grunt out in pain as he fell to one knee. Never one to miss an opportunity, Heero slammed a fist against his jaw that sent him reeling. His long legs kicked out and sent Ballard flying away. He slammed into a tree and through it. Ballard rolled to the side and fled behind some trees. Heero followed after him with a growl. He ducked behind the tree as it lazily fell to the side.
"Ha!" He rolled to the side as a blast of dark orange exploded the ground that had been under his feet. He covered his head as dirt and clumps of grass and plants rained down. Before it stopped, however, he got to his feet and fired off one of his own, a dark blue ball shooting from his hand. He watched as a dark figure leapt from the shadows to avoid it. He threw himself at him as he landed. Ballard ducked under his punch and he grabbed his arm. Heero grunted as he was thrown but managed to twist his body around so that he could land on his hands and feet, quite like a cat. He glared, his eyes spitting fire.
"Still sharp." Ballard said as he lazily brushed some hair back from his eyes.
"Hn." Heero grunted as he stood back up. Ballard wasted no time, this time, and raced across the distance separating them. Heero put up his arms to block an elbow but didn't see the punch coming and grunted in pain as his head snapped to the side. He used the momentum to throw himself into a reverse kick, catching Ballard across the face with his foot. The sound of snapping bone made him smile despite his pain and he followed through with another kick to his ribs. Ballard had fallen back already and Heero's foot went through air but Ballard stumbled back some more as he rubbed his rapidly healing jaw. The soft cracking sound indicated he had already snapped his broken jaw back into place. His eyes lit up with respect as he nodded at Heero.
"You're stronger than when we last fought." Heero just grunted in response as he straightened, the ringing already gone from his head. He narrowed his eyes as Ballard took up a stance, his legs bent and a smirk on his face. "Now, let's start fighting. for real."
"Ninmu ryokai." Heero took up the challenge. With an unspoken command, they threw themselves at each other again, the sound of fists and feet hitting flesh, the sound of bones cracking filled the small clearing.

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"Yah!" Ducking under a sideways slash, Li Mei swept out with her staff but couldn't manage to hit Shing as he twisted away. She knew she wasn't nearly as physically strong as he was and it didn't help that he had longer range in body as well as weaponry. Her staff couldn't compete to the five feet of Shing's glaive. But she was faster. A lot faster than he was. She rolled away as he slashed downwards and she kicked out, her long legs sweeping across his ankles forcing him to the ground. She quickly pressed her advantage and slammed her staff down across his chest, using all of her body weight behind the blow. He roared in pain and she barely managed to leap over his glaive as he swept it around her legs. She floated to the ground several feet away, eyeing him warily as he pulled himself to his feet. She tightened her grip around her staff as she noticed the flaming anger in his eyes, his third eye the most. He let out an inarticulate snarl and threw himself at her. She moved to the side, quickly bringing her staff up to ward off the following blow and stumbled back against the force. She quickly ducked underneath another wide slash and rolled backwards to avoid a downward stab. Rolling to her feet, she swept her staff out towards his stomach and was rewarded with a grunt as he stepped back from his lunge, The tip of his glaive falling slightly. Using the ring of her staff, she caught the end of it and twisted it. She didn't account for his stronger grip and she was jerked forward as he pulled his glaive towards himself. She stumbled forward, barely keeping her footing as she seemed to fly two feet forward. She reeled backwards in pain, blinking away the instinctive tears as he backhanded her across the face. She twisted around, freeing her staff from his glaive and jumped backwards. He decided not to waste any time and slashed towards her again. The cold metal sliced through the thin material of her shirt as she moved backwards. She quickly moved around the glaive and brought herself close to him. She struck out in a backhanded motion, catching him cross the face. His head jerked around and she moved forward, closer still, and punched him in the gut, forcing the breath out of him and he gasped. She brought her hand back and punched him in the face. His head whipped backwards, blood flying from his nose as he fell. She set her jaw and pressed her advantage further still, kicking her leg out and slamming it against his head. He spun off to the side and fell with a dull thud, his glaive falling by his side. She took a deep breath, silently apologising to Shing, and waited for him to show any sign that he would be getting up. For a long moment she waited, tense and holding her breath. She waited, her heart beat echoing in her ears as she watched his still form. Slowly, as the adrenaline seeped out of her system, she relaxed her muscles and slowly lowered her staff. She took a few careful steps backwards but he still hadn't stirred. She quickly turned and then ran back towards the gundams.
"Are you all right?" Quatre's voice sounded and she nodded slightly.
"I'm fine."
"You're bleeding." Trowa said calmly. Li Mei blinked and brought a hand up to her mouth. She drew her hand away at the stickiness and looked at the dark red that stained the her finger tips.
"Oh. It's nothing." She glanced over her should towards Shing and was relieved to note he was still unconscious. "I'll get these spells off you first. Then we can go get Heero."
"Right. Hurry up, I don't want any more surprises." Duo muttered. Li Mei nodded and quickly started unravelling the spell again. Her eyes closed and her brow furrowed as she worked as fast as she could. It wouldn't have taken so long is she didn't have to keep checking is Ballard hadn't set any more spells on each set of wires. She was almost done when a feeling of dread came over her. She snapped around, her eyes widening when she couldn't find Shing.
"Shing! Where is he? Did any of you see him?"
"What? He's still there, onna." Wufei replied angrily. Li Mei hissed under her breath as she turned back but saw only empty space.
"Yeah, he's still there." Duo piped up.
"No, he's not there anymore... that's just an illusion." She quickly probed outwards with her senses, searching for him. She didn't have far to look.
"Ah!" She cried out as a magical ward zipped through the air and slapped onto her forehead. She fell, crying out in pain as it ripped at her psyche. She fell, twitching in pain as the burning sensation danced across her entire body.

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'Hurts..." Heero barely managed to duck under Ballard's kick as Li Mei's mind brushed against his. He was worried. She couldn't use it unless she was on the brink of conciousness or if she was in extreme pain and couldn't talk. He grunted as he blocked a blow with his arms and then ducked under the following kick. He growled and powered up a energy blast, brutally slamming his palm against Ballard's chest as he fired it off. Ballard let out a cry of pain as he went sailing backwards, his already battered body crashing to the ground. He quickly turned and ran back towards the place the gundams were. He ignored the stinging sensations as branches and bushes scratched his exposed skin.
'Heero...?' He heard her again, pain evident in her 'voice'. He pushed himself faster, ignoring his wounds and his barely healed bones. He burst into the glade and saw Shing bending over her fallen body. Rage and fear rushed through his veins and he let out a roar. Shing barely had enough time to turn around before Heero slammed into him and threw him away from Li Mei.
"Stay away from her!" He snarled as he stood protectively in front of her.
"You're an annoying little brat." Shing sneered as he dusted himself off, his black suit splattered with blood. Heero snarled as he stepped closer.
"Get. Away. From. Her. Or. Die." Heero bit out. He couldn't turn his back on Shing to stop whatever was causing Li Mei pain and it was eating away at him.
"Die? I don't think so." Heero had had enough. He slapped his hand down onto the ground and stared directly into Shing's eyes.
"In the name of Heero Yuy, I summon you. Come forth! Tou Chou!" He let out a grunt as he felt the presence of the beast spirit. Immediately in front of him, three small explosions ripped up the ground and screamed towards Shing. Shing quickly summoned his glaive and stabbed it into the ground in front of him. A small, barely visible dome appeared, surrounding him. A largish insect looking creature with three spike like appendages, appeared as soon as it hit the barrier. Heero turned towards Li Mei and grabbed the ward, gritting his teeth as the ward started to tear at his own psyche. He refused to give up and ripped it away, throwing it as far as he could. He let out a breath as Li Mei's eyes snapped open. All three of them. With a cold, annoyed look on her face, Shirin stood up and dusted off her clothing. She turned her head to look at the gundams and smirked.
"So these are the toys that you play with now." She said with a small laugh.
"What the fuck?!" Duo yelled through the speakers.
"She's-she's got th-three eyes!" Quatre stuttered out.
"Amazing, you can count." Shirin said sarcastically. Heero threw her a glare and she shrugged. "What?"
"Hn." Heero snorted as Shirin rolled her eyes. She looked back towards Shing at a wet squelching sound to see him stabbing the poor beast spirit right through with his glaive. Tou Chou immediately disappeared and she strode forward so that she was in front of Heero. She put her hands on her hips, her cold, arrogant expression looking at him with an almost bored look.
"You've fallen so very far Valerious."
"It's just Shing now." Shing said as he stood up, carefully picking gore off his suit.
"I see." Shirin summoned her staff from where it had fallen at her feet. She gripped it tightly and spun it around in her hand. She watched Shing with a cold expression before she broke out into a feral smile, her eyes lighting up with blood lust.
"Let's play." She hissed just before she threw herself at him, her staff extended. The sound of metal against metal rang out as Shing blocked her vicious strike. He grunted, quite surprised at her enhanced speed and strength in this form. He hadn't expected Shirin to have gotten better.
"You're rusty Shing. Should have kept up the practice!" She sang out as she spun around, a backhanded strike from her staff barely missing his head as he dodged out of the way. He realised that he needed space. Shirin would never hesitate to kill him, not like Li Mei would have, and he knew that Shirin wanted blood. Namely, his. He was not quite prepared to let her get any of his. He bit back a curse as she got in a blow across his stomach. She let out a laugh, a chilling sound as she punched him across the face. As he reeled backwards, she smacked her staff against his hands forcing him to drop his glaive. She kicked it away and advanced towards him with a smirk.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you for Li Mei."
"Not if I can help it." Shirin leapt backwards as Ballard came crashing down from above, his fist extended. She hissed and threw a hand out, a ball of energy catching him as he straightened. He flew backwards but managed to catch himself. Heero stepped forward as Shirin touched down on the ground gently. The four stared at each other for several tense moment. Shirin smiled slowly, something that sent a chill down Heero's spine and let out a loud whistle. The piercing sound made the gundam pilots clutch at their ears. The high-pitched note cut through the air as she cut through the remains of the spell holding the gundams down. Shirin smiled as Ballard and Shing winced at the sound. Heero just shot her a small glare that she ignored.
'Heero, go to your gundam when I tell you too. Oh, and tell your little friends that they can move now.' He mentally nodded to Shirin's message and tensed to run.
"It's been fun Shing but..." She trailed off with a wave of her hand. She stared at them for a moment then threw her hands towards them. "Kuan-Yaa!" She cried as a lightning like energy blast ripped through the air from her fingertips. The dragon like head of the blast opened its gaping mouth and roared. Ballard and Shing threw up their defences, the light explosion was blinding as the attack met their barriers.
'Go Heero!' Heero sprinted off towards Wing and yelled.
"Move! Get out of here! The spell's are gone!" No sooner had the words left his mouth when the familiar whirring sound of machinery started up.
"All right! Let's get out of here!" Duo yelled as he leapt into the sky. The others followed. Heero leapt nimbly into the cockpit of Wing and started her up.
'Come on Shirin!" He yelled mentally.
'All right, wait a moment.' He looked out and saw Shirin launch another attack.
"Ha!" She let out a gleeful cry as she let loose a large beam of energy. It ripped through the air with an audible explosion. She laughed as it smacked into Shing and Ballard's already weakened defences and caused a massive explosion. She wasted no more time and ran towards Wing. She leapt up Wing's body quickly and into Heero's cockpit. She gave him a look as she noted how little room there actually was in the cockpit. Heero glared at her and pulled her in.
"Why are you wasting time?" He asked as she sat stiffly on his lap as he closed the cockpit. She snorted.
"Because unlike Li Mei, I don't like sitting this close to you." Her eyes flashed and then her third eye drifted closed. Li Mei blinked as Shirin gave control over to her and then she smiled. She snuggled closer to him and rested her head on his chest.
"Hi Heero."
"Hi." Heero said as he gunned the engines to Wing's engines and they shot up into the sky.

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"She's got a few new tricks up her sleeve." Shing said as he brushed dirt off his suit. Ballard nodded.
"Yuy has as well. Do you want me to take one of those... mobile suits," He seemed to sneer the words, "and follow them?" Shing shook his head.
"No. We'll get them later. Right now, I think I had better go and find some more spells. She won't be as easy to take down as she would have been four hundred years ago." A maniacal gleam came into his eyes as his third eye slid shut. "Besides, the chase is almost as fun as the catch."

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[1]Tou-Chao (Earth/Ground Claw) - A large, fast three-clawed monster which slices its opponents. One of the most common beast magics.
[2] Kuan-Yaa (Shining Fang) - A beam of light with a dragon's head. Used by Benares to attack Yakumo, and later learned by Yakumo (who captured it in a vacuum flask!).
BTW, these are all from 3x3 Eyes.