This is another fic. no, really? Ok. Neways, once again, same situation w/the other fics. This is Fire Queen1 updating for Wings of Porcelain. R&R pleez. Disclaimer: don't own nothin, never will

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"Where'd Elf go off to this time?" Fate asked herself as she increased her

speed. The little girl shriek when she noticed the large group of birds

flying towards her. She almost fell off her staff. Its wings flapped

vigorously, struggling to get out of the way. "Wait! Kiori! Please slow down

I'm slipping." The staff slowed its pace at her plea. "Phew, that was a

close one! I'm gonna have to start paying more attention! Thanks Kiori."

She flew down to a small patch of woods that was close to the city that

Elf was last seen. As she hoped of her staff it transformed back to its

original form. It was 5'8", more than a foot taller than her. Her staff, which

the girl called Kiori, was made of a material unknown to man. It appeared

to be wood but was much stronger, even stronger than gundanium the

strongest alloy man new of. Kiori was a shade of black with odd markings

in dark violet that looked like a form of elvish. At the top was an amethyst

colored crystal. The staff gave off a dark aura portraying the complete

opposite of the little girls personality. Fate was dressed in a black long

sleeved button shirt. Underneath the unbuttoned blouse was a dark purple

spaghetti strap shirt with a line-art of a dragon in black. She also wore

loose black pants. Her out fit matched her dark purple hair perfectly

accept it made her pale white skin stand out. Fate finally found her way

out of the woods and entered the city. Cars zoomed by and honked at her

here and there. The poor frightened little girl dodged out of the way and

landed on the sidewalk, scrapping the palms of her hands. But she shed

no tears, she merely wiped the blood of onto her pants and continued

walking, this time she made sure she didn't wonder off of the sidewalk.

Not really paying any attention to where she was going she

looked into all the windows of the shops and stopped in front of a very

interesting shop. She couldn't read the sign but the wands and tarot card

sitting on the shelves behind the window told her that it was a shop that

she would most definitely like. As she entered a little bell gave a

soft 'ding' nose as the door closed behind her. Fate's eyes sparkled with

aw as she looked at all the items that lay in front of her. "May I help you?"

A lady with long gray hair that was held in a tight bun with to black sticks

that somewhat resembled a wand put was made of plastic, asked her

with a soft smile. "I'm just looking around." Fate said, numbly shaking her

head while looking at the different wands. "Well if you need anything, I'll

be at the counter." The lady said kindly and left. Fate looked threw a large

overstuffed binder that held a few pictures from each of the decks of tarot

cards that could be bought at the shop. 'Should I get some tarot cards

or. No I can't I have to find Elf. Besides I don't have enough money.'

Fate thought as she carefully closed the binder afraid the all the pages

would fly out. Then she walked a little further into the shop. She felt as if

something was over there that she just had to get to. The girl's eyes

searched the back of the shop for what ever was calling for her. Then she

found it. It was a mose agate pendulum. The gemstone was one and a

half inches long making it nine and one-forth of an inch long including the

chain and little sphere of the same type of gemstone to hold it up. The

mix of amethyst and black beckoned her to buy it. She picked up the

smooth black box that it laid in and took it to the lady. "Ma'am? May I

ask how much to pay for this pendulum?" "Five dollars and fifty six cents."

The lady replied. 'Perfect!' Fate thought letting a smile form on her lips to

show how pleased she was. She handed the lady the box and dug into

her pockets for some cash. Her smile grew bigger as she searched

anxiously for the money. Her smile slowly disappeared and her brows

frowned in frustration when she couldn't find her cash. The kind lady

looked sadly at the girl. "How about I save this for you and when you find

your money you can come back." She offered politely. "Thank you but I'm

leaving town in a little while. Sorry for bothering you ma'am." She said and

slowly left the shop. "Poor child." The lady whispered as she watched the

sad girl slowly walk by the window. Then the little girl stopped and looked

down at her feet. The lady watched the girl run back into the shop with all

her excitement back into her system. "Ma'am I found my money!" She

said. "Hold on just a sec. I got to get it first." She said as she sat down

after leaning her staff against the counter and she unzipped the small

pockets at the very bottom of her pants. She took her money out and

placed it on the counter and counted out how much the cost was. The

lady handed her the boxed and gave her her receipt. "Thank ma'am." Fate

said as she grabbed her staff. "Miss, if you don't mind me asking, where

did you get your staff?" The lady asked. Fate stayed silent for a little

while, pondering on if she should tell the lady or not. Trusting the feeling

that the lady gave off Fate decided that she could trust the lady and

asked, "Do you believe in faeries?" while bringing her staff that was now

glowing in front of her.

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'I can't believe those guys! Here all I'm trying to do is cheer

them up a bit and all I get in return is this! Thrown out for trying to help

them! Well I guess I should have seen the warnings but they didn't have

to be so rough when they tried to get me out. Damn them all. I'm tired off

this!' Duo thought as he walked down the street, wrapping his black

jacket around himself in a vague attempt to get warm. Duo looked up

when he heard some commotion coming from a crowd not to far from him.

He squeezed threw the people trying to get a better view of what was

going on. He noticed a little boy that looked to be only seven years old

lying on the ground out cold. Besides the black eye, the little boy looked

like him, except the little boy didn't have a braid. Duo got a little closer,

wanting to figure out what had happened to the boy. He pulled his black

cap down to cover up his face when he noticed two oz officers headed

towards him. "Okay people settle down!" One of the officers

shouted. "What's going on here?" The other yelled sounding a lot more

harsh than the other. "That man knocked that little boy out!" A woman

cried, pointing an accusing finger at a man with a bloody apron on. "That

brat stole my meat!" The man hollered in defense. The little boy finally

began to stir and slowly got up. The meat that the young boy had stolen

was now dirty and had fallen into a mucky puddle. The officers saw the

meat and went over to the boy to cuff him. "Come on boy lets go." The

nicer one of the officers said while helping the boy up. "Hey man! Let go of

me." The boy began to struggle away from the officer. "Hey leave my

brother alone!" A little girl shouted from the crowd. The little girl squeezed

threw the crowd and nearly fell over when she finally got threw. The girl

whom claimed to be the boys sister didn't look anything like the boy. She

had pale skin with dark purple hair. "And who are you?" One of the officers

asked. "I'm Fate Mercedes, and I said let my brother go!" "Your brother

just tried to steal my meat and ruined it in the process." The owner of the

meat said. "Do you have the money to pay for my meat?" He

continued. "No sir but let my brother go home and we'll pay you back."

She said trying her best to get the boy out of trouble.

'Poor kids.' Duo thought and frowned. "Hey leave MY siblings alone." He

yelled at the people in the crowd. "Do you have the money for my meat?"

The man conitued. Duo shoved the money into the mans hands and

dragged the kids out of the crowd while scolding them about how mad

their parents were going to be. When they finally got away from the

officers and the people that were in the crowd Duo finally let go of the

kids. "Hey you two ok?" He asked and bent down on one knee to get to

their height. "Yes sir. Thank you sir." Fate thanked him Duo gave her a

big smile. "What?" The ten year old asked. "You're the first person who's

thanked me in a long time." The girl laughed and asked if her brother was

ok. The little boy nodded his head. "So where are you two headed to?

Maybe I can help you stay out of trouble." Duo said half jokingly half

serious. "Home." Fate replied. "Would you like me to escort you two?"

Duo asked putting out his arms for them. The boy didn't accept his arm

but Fate gladly took his hand and led the way home. "We have to find Elf

first." Fate reminded her brother. "By the way, what's you r name kid?"

Duo asked. "His name's Arron" Fate said. Duo nodded his head a

continued to walk with the kids. He noticed the they turned into an alley

way and were about to reach a dead end. Duo was about to ask them if

they had took a wrong turn when he heard the sounds of some people

fighting then some shouting. "What the hell are you?" A man asked, fear

clearly heard in his voice. "Let's go. Come on kids." Duo said not wanting

the kids to get hurt. "No, it's Elf. She can take care of herself but we have

to get her home." Fate said while watching the fight intently. A shadow

figure that was obviously winning the fight suddenly disappeared and

reappeared in front of the children with it's back facing them. The person

had somehow gotten into a fight with these men. Duo quickly counted

how many this person was fighting with. There was already two men

nocked unconscious and were lying on the ground with there arms and

legs twisted in odd angles. Four men were left, two of them slowly

backing away with fear. The figure was about to charge after them when

all of a sudden the cowards ran off. "Way to go Elf. I knew you could do

it!" Fate cheered. The figure began to slowly turn around. "Heero?" Duo

asked when he got a good look at the person. The person's bloody face

twisted with pain and slumped to the ground, fallen unconscious.

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Elf slowly drifted into the familiar area of darkness as she

watch her world spin around her. Someone, after all these years, had

finally found out her secret and know wanted her for them selves. 'Damn

greedy humans!' She thought numbly as she was finally completely

enveloped in darkness. She sat in a silver bubble that now floated over the

frozen city. Time had been stopped once again and she now had to get

away, as far away from everyone as she could. Away from Fate, Time,

the humans, even that boy that was with her friends. Unfortunately her

strength was decreasing far more rapidly than she had expected. She had

to slow down and land. She ended up landing in the forest that Fate had

landed in. The bubble dissolved and dropped her causing her to land on

the floor with a small thud. She was to weak to catch herself like she

usually did but luckily it was only a three-foot drop. With a wave of her

hand, a small wave of her remaining power rippled threw out the frozen

city and time returned; as if it had never been stopped by the girl. When

she finally heard the beautiful sounds of birds flapping their wings fly into

freedom she let her eye rest and slowly drifted of into sleep. Before the

last of her consciousness slipped into sleep, she heard the soft voice of

some asking her, "Heero? Is that you buddy?" and she couldn't hear

anything anymore.