Notes:
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Official couples are now:
Usagi/Duo
Mamaru/Relena
Haruka/Michiru
Ami/Wufei
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Votes for other couples are now at:
Minako Aino: Quatre Rabera Winner = 2 / Heero = 1
Rei Hino: Trowa Barton = 3 / Quatre Rabera Winner = 1
Makoto Kino: Heero Yuy = 2 / Quatre = 1 (Note: I'm leaning towards a Mako/Heero pairing.)
Setsuna Meioh: Trowa Barton = 2 / Milliardo Peacecraft = 3
Milliardo/Noin = 2
P.S. thank you for the Reviews guys and girls; it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling reading them, especially the latest lots. Kudos to you all.
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Chapter 3:
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Rei Hino, priestess of the Hikawa Shinto Jinja, sat in the meditation room in front of the holy fire. She had felt a great darkness approaching for the last week and was trying to find its source. This time she hoped that the Gods would answer her prayers. She had a feeling that this darkness she sensed was going to cause a lot of trouble for a lot of people, her self included.
Consciously relaxing her muscles, she began to chant in the language that had been passed down through her family for generations, the phrases ancient in language and power.
The fire in front of her grew slowly, and darkened, before revealing creatures that looked like the belonged in the horror movies Minako used to make her watch. The darkness was almost overwhelming.
Then through the darkness symbols glowing brightly appeared. Symbols representing . . . the planets?
They were arranged in a circle, with the symbol of the moon shining the brightest in the middle accompanied by two Saturn symbols? How odd. And surrounding the trio were numerous symbols of Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto.
Rei couldn't help but feel a close affinity to the three symbols representing Mars.
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Minako Aino, student of the Royal Performing Arts Academy of England, sprinted towards said school at a mad dash on her way towards the prestigious school. Artemis, her pure white cat hung on for dear life to her bag as his mistress rushed through the London streets.
She was late for the third day in a row. Madam Fleur was NOT going to be happy. She could also hear her old high school friend Rei Hino railing at her like she used to, 'Late again Minako!'
Not getting enough sleep for the last week was hitting her hard. Dreams or rather Nightmares had plagued what little sleep she had been getting. Nightmares of what she could only describe as evil non-human beings. Ugly evil creatures that *shudder* suck the energy out of you, stealing a persons life energies. Ugly evil energy stealing creatures which Minako felt an instinctive need to fight. To protect, any and all, innocents from harm in the name of love.
No more late night horror movies, that was for sure. 'Sure Minako what ever you say', the mini Rei piped up again rolling her mini eyes. Minako shook her head vividly in an effort to get rid of the mini priestess. Success!
With a sigh of relief, Minako jogged up the steps and down the corridor entering the class room with 2 minutes to spare, and flopped down into the nearest empty chair.
Madam Fleur watched her half in amusement and half with concern. "So good of you to join us Ms. Aino,' her French accent making her words seem more melodic. "But why, may I ask, have you brought along your rather dishevelled looking cat?"
Minako blinked.
Then she blinked again.
"Cat?" She asked in a befuddled.
Artemis took that moment to stagger from her bag and shakily make his way into his mistress's lap.
Minako just looked at him confusion.
"Artemis? What are you doing here?" she asked, her hand automatically moving to smooth his fur. He purred and leaned into her hand.
"Miss Aino? Minako are you alright?" Madam Fleur asked in concern.
"I . . . I'm . . .,' whatever Minako was struggling to say was forgotten completely when she felt a dark presence nearby.
The door she had entered only moments before burst open and a creature stood in the doorway. It was one of the ugly energy sucking creatures from her nightmares.
It was large, about 7ft tall and almost too wide to fit through the door. Another two followed behind it. It was if they were the prop statues from one of the Mythological plays had become animated, the three Gorgons; Medusa, Stheno and Euryale. The snakes from their heads moved around, hissing eerily.
Then they opened their eyes, causing half of the panicking students to turn to stone.
Later she would still be unsure of how she did it. Sure years of Martial Arts had to have helped some how but for some reason Minako felt as if a higher power was guiding her actions.
They turned to do the same to the others and then Minako found herself spring into action, moving with an incredible speed and agility, dodging them and screaming at the other students to hide.
She grabbed a nearby prop, a bull whip, and used it expertly to blind the Gorgons. Then she picked up a nearby sword that was used in the same play with Gorgons as the Sword of Artemis.
It was as if it was made for her, the mark of Venus shining brightly in the hilt. It didn't bother her that it was a real sword. Real weapons, etc were often used as props in the various performances.
With swift and deadly moves she cut the numerous snakes' heads of causing the once animate statues to turn to dust. Minako was unaware of her Venus necklace slightly glowing as she fought.
Thank the goddess for real life props.
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Makoto Kino, proud owner of her new restaurant, 'Food of the Gods,' happily moved through out the dining area, almost giddy from watching the customers enjoying their food.
As the youngest chef in almost 50 years she was proud of her recent accomplishments. Making a professional chef standard at only 20 years of age, opening "Food of the Gods", being interviewed and given great reviews by some of the greatest food critics, and becoming one of the most wanted chef's.
It was fair to say that Makoto Kino, once an orphan from L3, was now flying high on life on earth and she loved it.
With a happy sigh she made her way over to the front entrance where a new customer had made his way in. At about 150 - 160 cm tall, muscular but not overly, dark brown short spiky hair and piercing prussian blue eyes, his handsome features catching her attention almost immediately.
"Greetings, Sir." Makoto greeted with a smile. "I'm Makoto Kino, how may I be of service to you this evening?"
"Hn . . . a table for Yuy,' was the simple answer.
Makoto wasn't fazed at all. "Certainly sir,' she was still smiling 'if you will follow me I will show you to your table."
She led him to the other side of the room, to a corner table, she had a feeling he would prefer to have the wall to his back.
Makoto took his order then gave it to her cooks and when she returned she saw him working on a laptop so she decided to leave him alone. If there was something that her old high school friend, Ami, had taught her it was to never disturb a person when they're working that hard on a computer.
The next 5 minutes she made the rounds of the dining area, greeting familiar customers and new ones alike and trying hard not to observe the Bishonen guy. 5 minutes was a new record.
With a few muttered words about self control to herself she was making her way back over to him when the front windows of restaurant shattered into tiny pieces and an Ice monster of some sought entered, shooting something at her customers and turning them to ice statues.
Her restaurant . . . her beautiful new restaurant was now in tatters, her customers ice bergs.
She narrowed her eyes dangerously.
That thing would pay.
She was vaguely aware of the Bishonen guy, shooting the creature with no affect as she jumped on a nearby table trying to distract the creature long enough to get the non-frozen people to safety.
"Hey shit for brains,' she yelled at it and it paused in its attack to watch her. "What the Hell do you think you are doing to my restaurant, I only just opened it and the last thing I need is for some baka like you ruining everything on me." In her peripheral vision she saw Yuy-San ushering people out to safety. Good.
She kept on taunting the creature and when it started hurling the icicle thingies at her, she leapt from table to table and floor to table to floor and back again, dodging the icicles and trying to think of a way to defeat IT.
What could hurt a creature of ice?
She must have said that last bit out loud because the next thing a voice called from where his laptop was, 'Fire."
She didn't have anything to cause a fire on her, at least not one big enough to destroy the creature. Just then a spark coming from one of the walls punctured by an Icicle sparked.
Off course!
Electricity!
With all of the agility gained from growing up in a circus, she flipped and tumbled and made her way over to the wall, guiding the Ice creature after her. Yuy must have been on the same wave length she was on because he was already near the wall preparing something.
As soon as the Youma was in place, a bottle was thrown at it, a bottle of extremely strong liquor, with a piece of cloth sticking out from the neck on fire. It was a Molotov cocktail.
Makoto ran as far away as possible from the Iceman and hid behind a tipped over table as the bottle exploded, causing the electrical wires in the wall to explode as well, destroying the creature fully.
Unfortunately the customers were still frozen when the creature was gone giving Makoto and Yuy-San very little time to get them outside to safety.
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Heero quickly pulled out his mobile and made a quick call to Preventer Headquarters to call in some help, before helping Makoto take the frozen customers outside. He couldn't bring himself to feel surprised when she immediately began organising the other customers to help with the evacuation. Especially after the admirable way that she had just led the Youma into the trap he set up. While keeping it as far away from the customers as she could, so they wouldn't be injured.
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Quatre Rabera Winner almost skipped with excitement as he made his way through the large public Japanese gardens admiring the beauty around him and followed by his silent companion Trowa Barton.
Trowa watched his somehow still somewhat innocent young friend. After everything that had happened to the blonde blue eyed angel, it was amazing that he still held so much . . . pureness about him that allowed Quatre to find so much joy in such the simplest things.
And in the end it was Quatre that Trowa had found himself fighting for, and to protect during the wars. Quatre and the other innocents like him.
That's why when Quatre asked him to join him on his holiday in Japan, Trowa just had to agree.
A happy laugh broke through the former Gundam Pilots thoughts, and when he looked up he saw something that just had to make him smile. Quatre stood with a happy smile of glee on his face as a butterfly landed on his nose, his eyes were crossed as he tried to focus on the purple and blue creature.
Quatre giggled again and the butterfly went on its way.
"These are beautiful gardens,' Quatre spoke.
"That they are,' Trowa agreed.
"I heard there was a Shinto temple around here,' Quatre chatted happily, 'let's go and find it." The blonde ran off and Trowa ran after him.
It wasn't long afterwards that they came upon a large set of stairs leading up to the holy building.
"Do you want to go up and visit, Quatre?"
"I . . ." Before the blonde could answer an unusual site caught Trowa's eye, an old bald man dressed in a Gi, jumped silently down from a nearby Sakura tree. He was barefoot and carrying a staff and had a large smile on his face.
"Greeting and welcome to the Hikawa Temple, I am the head priest but everyone just calls me Grandpa Hino so you two can also." He pulled out two necklaces with a different symbol on each of them and gave one to Quatre. "Take this child of Venus and wear it proudly, for like the Love goddess herself you have a large and gentle heart which can be your biggest strength and your greatest weakness." The pendant was shaped in the symbol of Venus.
Trowa was then taken aback when the old man turned his attention on him, handing him the other necklace.
"Son of Jupiter take heart, for it is through the hardships you have faced and are about to face that you will find the past which has been denied to you. You have made your ancestors proud and followed an honoured tradition, albeit unconsciously, in protecting those weaker and more innocent than your self." With that the old man wandered off to greet a group of school girls and leaving a stunned duo behind him.
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Quatre stared after the old man in wonder. The priest just radiated a feeling of happiness and life, something that he himself usually only found in young children.
Before he could mention this to Trowa an overwhelming feeling of malevolence filled his space heart, making him fall down in pain clutching his new necklace to his chest and trying desperately to block the pain.
He was hazily aware of Trowa hugging him close, smoothing his hair back comfortingly when an unrecognizable tree moved, a mutated tree which was emitting the malicious feelings. It was trapping the school girls in its branches and draining their energy.
Grandpa Hino had stuck something on it and appeared to be praying.
Without conscious thought of what he was doing, Quatre ran towards the girls that the tree had already drained and moved them out of the way while Trowa called Preventer Headquarters.
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Rei was knocked out of her meditation by the evil presence radiating outside of the temple. She quickly grabbed a handful off . . . and ran outside where she joined her grandfather. She added one of the . . . next to the one her father had already placed on it and began chanting alongside her grandfather.
She felt the power growing within her and around her, it was so strong it caused her hair flow around her face as if a strong wind was blowing it.
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With the tree paralysed, it took very little time for Quatre and Trowa to remove the rest of the girls from the tree and to safety. With Trowa busy looking over the girls for injuries, Quatre turned back to the tree only to be met with an amazing site. A wonderfully positive feeling was being emitted from the old priest and the young priestess. It grew stronger and stronger until the tree burst into a fireball and then ash.
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Preventer Headquarters, Sanq Kingdom.
Colonel Une, head of the Preventers, sat in her office going over some mission reports when the door burst open and an agitated Wufei Chang stood in front of her, Sally Po on his heels equally upset.
"What's wrong? What's happened?" She asked worriedly.
"Ma'am we've had disturbing reports from England, Japan, and Sanq about supernatural attacks." Sally started.
"Before you call the reports rubbish you should know that two of the reports were made by Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton respectively and you know that they don't lie." Wufei ended
That gave Une cause to believe them, because besides agent Chang, Agents Yuy and Barton were the least likely to take any bullshit or go along with any ridiculous pranks,
"Any injured."
"Agent Yuy reports that over a dozen people have been frozen solid and need medical treatment urgently. Agents Barton and Winner report that half a dozen school girls have been dangerously drained of energy." Wufei spoke.
Sally continued. "Agent Tenoh was sent to the Royal Performing Arts Academy of England where she reports that one third of a class are currently in the schools sickbay suffering from shock and drainage of energy."
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In the Gates of time, a young girl with long dark brown hair up in plaits on both sides of her head and bright blue eyes skipped happily next to the tall man beside her.
"I can't wait to see them again. Mummy and Daddy in the same Universe together again. And Pu. Pu's daddy why are you so tall. Did you use to call Pu your little girl? She can't be a little girl though cause she's so tall. Is she your big girl? Am I gonna see Uncle 'Ruka and Auntie Michi?"
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Sorry this isn't longer but hey, next chappie Ami, Milliardo, and a few others appear as well as a certain young lady I know a few of you want to see. Peace and Blessed Be. ~ FantasyChick
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Official couples are now:
Usagi/Duo
Mamaru/Relena
Haruka/Michiru
Ami/Wufei
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Votes for other couples are now at:
Minako Aino: Quatre Rabera Winner = 2 / Heero = 1
Rei Hino: Trowa Barton = 3 / Quatre Rabera Winner = 1
Makoto Kino: Heero Yuy = 2 / Quatre = 1 (Note: I'm leaning towards a Mako/Heero pairing.)
Setsuna Meioh: Trowa Barton = 2 / Milliardo Peacecraft = 3
Milliardo/Noin = 2
P.S. thank you for the Reviews guys and girls; it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling reading them, especially the latest lots. Kudos to you all.
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Chapter 3:
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Rei Hino, priestess of the Hikawa Shinto Jinja, sat in the meditation room in front of the holy fire. She had felt a great darkness approaching for the last week and was trying to find its source. This time she hoped that the Gods would answer her prayers. She had a feeling that this darkness she sensed was going to cause a lot of trouble for a lot of people, her self included.
Consciously relaxing her muscles, she began to chant in the language that had been passed down through her family for generations, the phrases ancient in language and power.
The fire in front of her grew slowly, and darkened, before revealing creatures that looked like the belonged in the horror movies Minako used to make her watch. The darkness was almost overwhelming.
Then through the darkness symbols glowing brightly appeared. Symbols representing . . . the planets?
They were arranged in a circle, with the symbol of the moon shining the brightest in the middle accompanied by two Saturn symbols? How odd. And surrounding the trio were numerous symbols of Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto.
Rei couldn't help but feel a close affinity to the three symbols representing Mars.
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Minako Aino, student of the Royal Performing Arts Academy of England, sprinted towards said school at a mad dash on her way towards the prestigious school. Artemis, her pure white cat hung on for dear life to her bag as his mistress rushed through the London streets.
She was late for the third day in a row. Madam Fleur was NOT going to be happy. She could also hear her old high school friend Rei Hino railing at her like she used to, 'Late again Minako!'
Not getting enough sleep for the last week was hitting her hard. Dreams or rather Nightmares had plagued what little sleep she had been getting. Nightmares of what she could only describe as evil non-human beings. Ugly evil creatures that *shudder* suck the energy out of you, stealing a persons life energies. Ugly evil energy stealing creatures which Minako felt an instinctive need to fight. To protect, any and all, innocents from harm in the name of love.
No more late night horror movies, that was for sure. 'Sure Minako what ever you say', the mini Rei piped up again rolling her mini eyes. Minako shook her head vividly in an effort to get rid of the mini priestess. Success!
With a sigh of relief, Minako jogged up the steps and down the corridor entering the class room with 2 minutes to spare, and flopped down into the nearest empty chair.
Madam Fleur watched her half in amusement and half with concern. "So good of you to join us Ms. Aino,' her French accent making her words seem more melodic. "But why, may I ask, have you brought along your rather dishevelled looking cat?"
Minako blinked.
Then she blinked again.
"Cat?" She asked in a befuddled.
Artemis took that moment to stagger from her bag and shakily make his way into his mistress's lap.
Minako just looked at him confusion.
"Artemis? What are you doing here?" she asked, her hand automatically moving to smooth his fur. He purred and leaned into her hand.
"Miss Aino? Minako are you alright?" Madam Fleur asked in concern.
"I . . . I'm . . .,' whatever Minako was struggling to say was forgotten completely when she felt a dark presence nearby.
The door she had entered only moments before burst open and a creature stood in the doorway. It was one of the ugly energy sucking creatures from her nightmares.
It was large, about 7ft tall and almost too wide to fit through the door. Another two followed behind it. It was if they were the prop statues from one of the Mythological plays had become animated, the three Gorgons; Medusa, Stheno and Euryale. The snakes from their heads moved around, hissing eerily.
Then they opened their eyes, causing half of the panicking students to turn to stone.
Later she would still be unsure of how she did it. Sure years of Martial Arts had to have helped some how but for some reason Minako felt as if a higher power was guiding her actions.
They turned to do the same to the others and then Minako found herself spring into action, moving with an incredible speed and agility, dodging them and screaming at the other students to hide.
She grabbed a nearby prop, a bull whip, and used it expertly to blind the Gorgons. Then she picked up a nearby sword that was used in the same play with Gorgons as the Sword of Artemis.
It was as if it was made for her, the mark of Venus shining brightly in the hilt. It didn't bother her that it was a real sword. Real weapons, etc were often used as props in the various performances.
With swift and deadly moves she cut the numerous snakes' heads of causing the once animate statues to turn to dust. Minako was unaware of her Venus necklace slightly glowing as she fought.
Thank the goddess for real life props.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Makoto Kino, proud owner of her new restaurant, 'Food of the Gods,' happily moved through out the dining area, almost giddy from watching the customers enjoying their food.
As the youngest chef in almost 50 years she was proud of her recent accomplishments. Making a professional chef standard at only 20 years of age, opening "Food of the Gods", being interviewed and given great reviews by some of the greatest food critics, and becoming one of the most wanted chef's.
It was fair to say that Makoto Kino, once an orphan from L3, was now flying high on life on earth and she loved it.
With a happy sigh she made her way over to the front entrance where a new customer had made his way in. At about 150 - 160 cm tall, muscular but not overly, dark brown short spiky hair and piercing prussian blue eyes, his handsome features catching her attention almost immediately.
"Greetings, Sir." Makoto greeted with a smile. "I'm Makoto Kino, how may I be of service to you this evening?"
"Hn . . . a table for Yuy,' was the simple answer.
Makoto wasn't fazed at all. "Certainly sir,' she was still smiling 'if you will follow me I will show you to your table."
She led him to the other side of the room, to a corner table, she had a feeling he would prefer to have the wall to his back.
Makoto took his order then gave it to her cooks and when she returned she saw him working on a laptop so she decided to leave him alone. If there was something that her old high school friend, Ami, had taught her it was to never disturb a person when they're working that hard on a computer.
The next 5 minutes she made the rounds of the dining area, greeting familiar customers and new ones alike and trying hard not to observe the Bishonen guy. 5 minutes was a new record.
With a few muttered words about self control to herself she was making her way back over to him when the front windows of restaurant shattered into tiny pieces and an Ice monster of some sought entered, shooting something at her customers and turning them to ice statues.
Her restaurant . . . her beautiful new restaurant was now in tatters, her customers ice bergs.
She narrowed her eyes dangerously.
That thing would pay.
She was vaguely aware of the Bishonen guy, shooting the creature with no affect as she jumped on a nearby table trying to distract the creature long enough to get the non-frozen people to safety.
"Hey shit for brains,' she yelled at it and it paused in its attack to watch her. "What the Hell do you think you are doing to my restaurant, I only just opened it and the last thing I need is for some baka like you ruining everything on me." In her peripheral vision she saw Yuy-San ushering people out to safety. Good.
She kept on taunting the creature and when it started hurling the icicle thingies at her, she leapt from table to table and floor to table to floor and back again, dodging the icicles and trying to think of a way to defeat IT.
What could hurt a creature of ice?
She must have said that last bit out loud because the next thing a voice called from where his laptop was, 'Fire."
She didn't have anything to cause a fire on her, at least not one big enough to destroy the creature. Just then a spark coming from one of the walls punctured by an Icicle sparked.
Off course!
Electricity!
With all of the agility gained from growing up in a circus, she flipped and tumbled and made her way over to the wall, guiding the Ice creature after her. Yuy must have been on the same wave length she was on because he was already near the wall preparing something.
As soon as the Youma was in place, a bottle was thrown at it, a bottle of extremely strong liquor, with a piece of cloth sticking out from the neck on fire. It was a Molotov cocktail.
Makoto ran as far away as possible from the Iceman and hid behind a tipped over table as the bottle exploded, causing the electrical wires in the wall to explode as well, destroying the creature fully.
Unfortunately the customers were still frozen when the creature was gone giving Makoto and Yuy-San very little time to get them outside to safety.
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Heero quickly pulled out his mobile and made a quick call to Preventer Headquarters to call in some help, before helping Makoto take the frozen customers outside. He couldn't bring himself to feel surprised when she immediately began organising the other customers to help with the evacuation. Especially after the admirable way that she had just led the Youma into the trap he set up. While keeping it as far away from the customers as she could, so they wouldn't be injured.
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Quatre Rabera Winner almost skipped with excitement as he made his way through the large public Japanese gardens admiring the beauty around him and followed by his silent companion Trowa Barton.
Trowa watched his somehow still somewhat innocent young friend. After everything that had happened to the blonde blue eyed angel, it was amazing that he still held so much . . . pureness about him that allowed Quatre to find so much joy in such the simplest things.
And in the end it was Quatre that Trowa had found himself fighting for, and to protect during the wars. Quatre and the other innocents like him.
That's why when Quatre asked him to join him on his holiday in Japan, Trowa just had to agree.
A happy laugh broke through the former Gundam Pilots thoughts, and when he looked up he saw something that just had to make him smile. Quatre stood with a happy smile of glee on his face as a butterfly landed on his nose, his eyes were crossed as he tried to focus on the purple and blue creature.
Quatre giggled again and the butterfly went on its way.
"These are beautiful gardens,' Quatre spoke.
"That they are,' Trowa agreed.
"I heard there was a Shinto temple around here,' Quatre chatted happily, 'let's go and find it." The blonde ran off and Trowa ran after him.
It wasn't long afterwards that they came upon a large set of stairs leading up to the holy building.
"Do you want to go up and visit, Quatre?"
"I . . ." Before the blonde could answer an unusual site caught Trowa's eye, an old bald man dressed in a Gi, jumped silently down from a nearby Sakura tree. He was barefoot and carrying a staff and had a large smile on his face.
"Greeting and welcome to the Hikawa Temple, I am the head priest but everyone just calls me Grandpa Hino so you two can also." He pulled out two necklaces with a different symbol on each of them and gave one to Quatre. "Take this child of Venus and wear it proudly, for like the Love goddess herself you have a large and gentle heart which can be your biggest strength and your greatest weakness." The pendant was shaped in the symbol of Venus.
Trowa was then taken aback when the old man turned his attention on him, handing him the other necklace.
"Son of Jupiter take heart, for it is through the hardships you have faced and are about to face that you will find the past which has been denied to you. You have made your ancestors proud and followed an honoured tradition, albeit unconsciously, in protecting those weaker and more innocent than your self." With that the old man wandered off to greet a group of school girls and leaving a stunned duo behind him.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Quatre stared after the old man in wonder. The priest just radiated a feeling of happiness and life, something that he himself usually only found in young children.
Before he could mention this to Trowa an overwhelming feeling of malevolence filled his space heart, making him fall down in pain clutching his new necklace to his chest and trying desperately to block the pain.
He was hazily aware of Trowa hugging him close, smoothing his hair back comfortingly when an unrecognizable tree moved, a mutated tree which was emitting the malicious feelings. It was trapping the school girls in its branches and draining their energy.
Grandpa Hino had stuck something on it and appeared to be praying.
Without conscious thought of what he was doing, Quatre ran towards the girls that the tree had already drained and moved them out of the way while Trowa called Preventer Headquarters.
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Rei was knocked out of her meditation by the evil presence radiating outside of the temple. She quickly grabbed a handful off . . . and ran outside where she joined her grandfather. She added one of the . . . next to the one her father had already placed on it and began chanting alongside her grandfather.
She felt the power growing within her and around her, it was so strong it caused her hair flow around her face as if a strong wind was blowing it.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
With the tree paralysed, it took very little time for Quatre and Trowa to remove the rest of the girls from the tree and to safety. With Trowa busy looking over the girls for injuries, Quatre turned back to the tree only to be met with an amazing site. A wonderfully positive feeling was being emitted from the old priest and the young priestess. It grew stronger and stronger until the tree burst into a fireball and then ash.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Preventer Headquarters, Sanq Kingdom.
Colonel Une, head of the Preventers, sat in her office going over some mission reports when the door burst open and an agitated Wufei Chang stood in front of her, Sally Po on his heels equally upset.
"What's wrong? What's happened?" She asked worriedly.
"Ma'am we've had disturbing reports from England, Japan, and Sanq about supernatural attacks." Sally started.
"Before you call the reports rubbish you should know that two of the reports were made by Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton respectively and you know that they don't lie." Wufei ended
That gave Une cause to believe them, because besides agent Chang, Agents Yuy and Barton were the least likely to take any bullshit or go along with any ridiculous pranks,
"Any injured."
"Agent Yuy reports that over a dozen people have been frozen solid and need medical treatment urgently. Agents Barton and Winner report that half a dozen school girls have been dangerously drained of energy." Wufei spoke.
Sally continued. "Agent Tenoh was sent to the Royal Performing Arts Academy of England where she reports that one third of a class are currently in the schools sickbay suffering from shock and drainage of energy."
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In the Gates of time, a young girl with long dark brown hair up in plaits on both sides of her head and bright blue eyes skipped happily next to the tall man beside her.
"I can't wait to see them again. Mummy and Daddy in the same Universe together again. And Pu. Pu's daddy why are you so tall. Did you use to call Pu your little girl? She can't be a little girl though cause she's so tall. Is she your big girl? Am I gonna see Uncle 'Ruka and Auntie Michi?"
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Sorry this isn't longer but hey, next chappie Ami, Milliardo, and a few others appear as well as a certain young lady I know a few of you want to see. Peace and Blessed Be. ~ FantasyChick