On to ch. 2!!
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Duo's POV
"The guys will be here soon, they're coming over for dinner
tonight. Over here, we can keep her in here. Sorry it isn't clean, I'll fix it
up before she wakes up. Now there's a hidden door that I put in a while
back over there you, can come in and check on her whenever you want
through there." I told them as they helped me carry the girl into the spare
room. I moved out of Quatre's mansion a long time ago and now I stay in
an apartment. Quatre and the guys are supposed to be coming over
tonight to discuss a mission. But I don't' need to tell these kids about
that. They'd probably tell everyone and in doing so let Oz know where I
am.
Somehow before the girl passed out she teleported us all to
the forest outside of the city. I don't know what is with this girl except that
she needs help, so I'm lending a helping hand. Man Heero's gonna kill me
when he finds out about this. 'That's why you aren't going to tell him.' I
reminded myself and plopped down onto the couch while turning on the
tv. "You kids want something to eat?" I asked from the living room. The
kids walked out of he spare room and the girl said that she'd like a
sandwich. I like that kid, she's straight to the point, especially when it
comes to food! I got up to make a sandwich and then remembered about
the boy. Arron was it? "You want anything?" I asked him. He just starred
at me. 'Ok, that kid is just plain freaky!' "Arron doesn't eat much." Fate
explained as she helped me make her TBL sandwich. I gave him an odd
look. 'He looks exactly like me yet he's so much like Trowa.' "Time?
When will she wake up? You remember that we have to get her home,
right?" Fate blurted out. Arron glared at her stupidity. "So are you guys
going to tell me truth now or must you keep it a secret. Remember I'm
the one giving her shelter so I need to know what to look out for." I said. I
keep getting this felling like these kids aren't really kids, mentally that is.
I can tell that they're a lot smarter than they look. The to kids stared at
each other, as if having a mental conversation. When they looked away, it
was obvious that Fate had won. "We need you to protect her until she
gets her strength back that is." Fate said while sitting down in the chair
next to my couch.
"Protect her? From what?" I asked trying to be serious. "You don't need to
know that." I heard another voice say from behind me. A guy my age with
silver shoulder length hair and gray eyes was glaring at me, as if he didn't
want to trust me with something precious of his. "Who are you!" I asked,
almost shouting at the guy. 'How the hell did he get in here?' "That's
Arron, silly!" Fate squealed with excitement. Fate had changed too! Her
purple hair was longer, not shoulder length anymore but waist length. She
still looked ten but was now 4'8" instead of 4'5". Her black eyes had
turned an eerie foggy color. She still looked Chinese though. "What
happened?" This time I let myself shout. "You wanted the truth." Arron
said flatly. "Yeah but,. what the hell happened. How'd you do it?" It took
him a while to answer and during the time I surveyed their outfits. I've
never seen any out fits like theirs. Fate was wearing a purple Chinese
dress with a black dragon crawling up to her right shoulder but the left
sleeve was torn off. The other sleeve went a little past her wrists and was
shredded here and there; as if she had taken left handed scissors to it.
And the Aron guy was wearing a black hooded cloak. The weird thing
about him was that his feet were chained to a sundial that was connected
to an hourglass and it was floating!
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Normal POV
*nock nock * Duo got up from the couch and went to open the door. "Hey
guys! Come on in, make yourselves at home." "Thank you Duo." Quatre
said as he went straight to the living room. The rest of the boys followed
suit. "So how have things been?" Quatre asked. "Every things fine and
dandy. How about you?" Duo and Quatre continued to catch up on recent
stuff while the other boys looked around the place. Only Quatre had been
to Duo's apartment. He came over to help him move but the other boys
couldn't. Heero didn't really care about checking the place out and went
to find where Duo kept his laptop. Trowa went looking all over the place,
knowing that some time soon he would have to stay at Duo's place when
ever a short noticed event would come up; the circus for example. Wufei
just went to look for the bathroom. "Maxwell, why's this door locked?"
Wufei shouted. "Sshh!" Duo said as he went over to Wufei. "Why are you
telling me to be quiet Maxwell?" Wufei asked angrily. "What are you
looking for." Duo asked in a whisper. "The restroom." Duo told him to go
down the hall to the door at the right.
Heero eyed the room that was locked from the living
room. "What's wrong Heero?" Quatre asked. Heero just replied with a 'hn'
and continued to type rapidly on the keys, looking for a way into the Oz
base that they were to go into that weekend. "Lady Une said that there is
someone held captive in this Oz base that we need to get. This person
has some very valuable information and we can't risk letting it get into the
wrong hands." Heero explained and then pulled up an e-mail containing
their mission and read it out loud.
"So we can't kill the guy?" Duo joked. "No." Heero replied with his usual
monotone voice. Then all of a sudden they heard a hard thud in the locked
room. Heero automatically wiped out his gun and headed towards the
door. Duo sighed and ran for the door in a record-breaking time. He
spread his arms out and blocked off the door before Heero could reach for
the doorknob. "Duo get out of the way." Heero ordered. "No, I don't want
anyone in this room." Duo said in a low serious voice. "What are you
hiding in there?" Wufei asked slowly reaching for his katana. "Nothing, I
just.." Duo was cut off by a loud scream. "Shit!" Duo muttered and opened
the door wide enough for only him to enter and quickly shut it behind him
and held it shut, not allowing the other boys in.
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Fate's POV
"Get away from her!" I shouted while I transformed back into
my true form. Those damn guys were after Elf again! 'What the hell do
they want from her? Where is Arron when I need him?' The sound of the
door quickly being opened and slammed shut brought me out from my
thoughts. Thank goodness it was only Duo. "What's going on? Who are
these guys?" He asked while holding the door shut. Obviously his 'friends'
weren't very pleased with the sound of a fight going on in here. "Sorry for
interrupting your dinner but these guys are trying to kidnap Elf!" I
explained. 'Wait, why am I apologizing at a time like this?!' I quickly
called upon Kiori and he gathered some of my energy to use for a fireball.
I told him to fire whenever he was ready. ^ 70% percent accuracy ^ I
sensed him tell me. I nodded my head and let him go back home after
thanking him for his help. Somehow Duo had nudged a wooden chair
against the door, keeping the other boys from entering and was now
fighting off the enemy. The room lit up when I summoned my bow and
arrows that were made of black fire. 'Dark magic' was what my now
deceased mother had called my powers, but now I don't care, I have to
protect Elf. If these guys get her, she's dead. One by one I shot the
enemy in their hearts but they just kept coming back. Duo landed a hit
on one of them that should have knocked him out but it didn't even leave a
bruise! "They're immortal!" I told Duo. Right when those words left my lips
he froze, as if I had just given him his death sentence. The enemy took
this as an advantage and knocked Duo out, sending him crashing into the
wooden desk, breaking it and maybe even a bone or two. "Duo!" I shouted
and went to his side. 'Out cold, nothing I can do for him now.' I fought the
rest of them that were getting closer to their goal. Only five remained. I
can do it! I have to keep this up. Then with out warning, 'I need a
distraction!' I thought. Boy was I stupid to call for a distraction with out
naming what kind. I, Fate Montez, the keeper of destiny, ally of time,
can't even remember what I'm required to do in order to control destiny
right. As I predicted, a distraction sure did come along. The other boys
finally broke into the room thus causing me to look their way only to feel
something hard hit me in the back of the head. I felt myself fall to the floor
and the ground spinning, then everything went black.
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Normal POV
Two figures can be seen standing in front of a limp body that
lay on the floor. "What are we going to do now?" A young man
asked. "Once she wakes up the fun shall begin, but until then, chain her
up! I don't wont her escaping like she did last time!" The other man
ordered as he walked out of the room. There had been cobwebs here and
there, dust everywhere, and the room wasn't well kept at all. It'd match a
dungeon perfectly if only it were made of stones. Instead the entire room
was made of smooth, hard, cold cement that was painted black or at
least that is what it looked like thanks to the lack of light. "It's about time
we caught you, Elf. You're a hard one to track, but we still got you. And
you're supposed to be invincible! I guess since I know your name it is
only polite that I tell you mine. I am Riko Gonzales. I expect you to obey
us, for we are your masters now!" Riko was then surrounded by a black
mist and disappeared. "Beautiful introduction Riko." Elf said with a
mischievous grin but kept her eyes closed, still not wanting her reality to
be true. Knowing what was going to happen, she prepared herself for the
worst. But even her powers could not help her this time, she would have
to endure the pain, a punishment for killing her last master. 'I am no
property. I am not ment to be owned. I have a life of my own!' She thought
and began to struggle against the chains that were bound to her rists and
ankles, in complete vain. She felt a warm liquid slowly flow down her arms
and feet, but ignored it.
Elf continued struggling until she no longer could stand and
slumped down onto the ground. The rattle of the chains echo throughout
the room and caused a lot more noise than she needed. A few minutes
later Riko and the other man entered the room again. "So she has finely
awoken." The man said with a smug grin. "Indeed, should we let the
demons in?" Riko asked. "Of course, the demons, I can't believe that I
forgot about our dear friends! Thank you Riko." The man said, his grin
getting even more wicked. His eyes stared at Elf, laughing at her as if he
knew something that she would never get or even want to know, but he
didn't look her in the eye. He knew better than to look into those cobalt
blue eyes for it ment that she would definitely have to kill him. He
considered her just like a dog, wild and in need to be tamed, eyes full of
self-respect, and unable to follow orders of their own. "You're welcome
Reed." Riko said with a grin as well and left. Reed bent down and grabbed
her face, forcing her to look at him. "How will my little pixie ever get out of
this now?" He asked. Elf snarled at him and spat in his eye. Reed
slapped her in return and left the room while ordering Riku to let the
demons do as they pleased with the bitch.
The chains that held her in place slowly reeled into the wall
and pulled at her body, lifting her into the air. The chains finally stopped
and held her a good two feet above the ground then the floor disappeared
in fact it seemed as if everything had disappeared to Elf. No more
cobwebs, no dust, not even the bare cold walls. Everything was pitch
black and then a metal wall appeared two inches behind her. Elf turned
her head to see what was going on a saw the wall had suspicious looking
holes in it and it smelt like blood that had not been fully washed away.
Before she had time to react long knives flew out of the holes, piercing her
all over. Elf screamed out in pain until the knives and wall disappeared but
her pain didn't. The demons had finally arrived, teleporting into the room.
Some were equipped with strange swords while others had some sort
magic as their source to torture her with. One of then threw a fireball at
her and she tried to dodge it with her own powers but went nowhere
receiving a direct hit to the right shoulder. Elf was only able to endure one
hour of it and then finally fell unconscious.
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Normal POV (still)
'No this can't be real! She's not gone, she's not! I didn't fail!
She's still alive, playing cruel and heartless jokes on the human race.
She hasn't been taken off to die!' Fate tried to convince herself as she sat
at the window seal, starring out watching the mighty storm. A single tear
slowly slid down her warm cheeks. ~Arron! Arron! Please come here!
They got her! They took her away. She's gone Arron. Elf is dead.~ She
called out telepathically but no answer came. Fate punched the floor and
kicked the wall that she was leaning against.
"Is she ok?" Quatre asked with concern as the boys turned
their heads to see what Fate had done.
Duo had just awoken and was now making a TBL sandwich, hoping that it
would cheer the girl up a little bit. Duo still hadn't explained to the guys
what was going on and didn't intend to any time soon. Heero was getting
annoyed because of Duo not answering any of their questions and
ignoring them and only paying attention to the girl. Duo slapped on some
mayo and put the sandwich onto a plate, filled a glass with some pop and
went over to the little girl. "Is Elf ok?" He asked while handing her the
plate and cup. Fate put the plate down and took a big drink of the pop
almost drinking it all. Fate looked at him letting her eyes do the
explaining. Duo looked down at the floor, "She isn't so well know is she?
She wasn't even well when I met her was she?" he asked and looked
back up hoping she'd answer him with words this time. "She's never been
well." Fate said, wording the answer well with a harsh tone. Quatre could
feel her anger and sorrow rise and was about to say something when she
stood, picked up her plate and cup, and locked herself into the room the
Elf had last been in.
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Normal POV (three weeks later)
The boys still didn't know what was going on but came over to
visit Duo and Fate every night. It became a regular basis to eat dinner
with them around eight o'clock. Fate was always talking and didn't act
like the kidnapping of her dear friend Elf bothered her anymore but you
could tell that it was the only thing should was thinking about. Her eyes
know showed the same anger and sorrow only stronger, no longer was
her innocent and happy sparkle in her eyes. Arron still was nowhere to be
found and it angered Fate even more. 'She's dead and he doesn't even
care! What a complete jerk!' Fate thought one day while doing the dishes,
breaking a plate out of pure anger. "Whoa there Fate! I didn't think you
took the game so seriously!" Duo said jokingly as he picked up the
broken pieces. "Sorry Duo! I. was thinking.." Fate didn't finish and just
continued washing the dishes. 'Elf.' Duo thought as he watched her
concentrate on washing another plate. He quickly picked up the rest of
the pieces and went back to drying the dishes that Fate handed to
him. "So, wonna see if we can get past the Tarzan stage in Kingdom of
Hearts after this?" Fate asked softly trying to get her mind off of her
friend. "You bet I do!" Duo said with a cocky grin. Fate laughed and let a
smile stay on her face as they finished washing the dishes. "Hey Trowa!
We'll be playing on the PS2! So go ahead and make yourself at home. I
already got your room ready." Duo said when Trowa entered the room.
Trowa did indeed end up having to stay with Duo. His last mission didn't
go so well. Even though he did complete it, he almost got killed and
needed a place to hide out since Oz is looking for him now. Fate gave
him an odd look as she passed him by but shook it off and continued to
follow Duo to the PS2. 'There's something familiar about that girl.' Trowa
thought and went into the kitchen for some coffee after putting his bags
away. It was only about two hours after his regular time for breakfast so
he also decided to make some toast and grabbed the newspaper and sat
down at the kitchen table.
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Elf's POV (two days later)
*** 'Damn he's getting away again!' Elf thought as she chased
after a man in a black suit. 'Why the hell has he been following me?' Elf
saw the man run into a worn down warehouse and followed him into it
without a second thought. Elf slowed her pace as she waited for her eye
to adjust to the dark and followed the sound of the man's footsteps.
Finally something came into view and she wiped out her gun. It didn't look
like a normal gun though. It was very futuristic, with energy beams
shooting out instead of bullets and such. Elf stopped firing at the figure
and watched it slump down onto the ground. She went to go check out
the person and see if she could get anything from him but he wasn't
there! 'Where'd her go now?' Elf frowned as she thought of the
possibilities of the man escaping her so fast after being shot seven times.
And at that with her most favorite, powerful, and accurate gun. 'Zero
possibilities.' She thought. * click * Elf spun around when she heard
someone taking off the safety of their gun and she began firing. As she
was shooting some one turned on the lights but it didn't bother her eye
sight and she continued firing. The now lit room revealed that the entire
place was filled with men in black suits. Elf easily dodged the bullets that
were aimed at her and shoot three-fourths of the enemy. The remaining
one-fourth was in a tight group as if protecting something for some
reason. 'No matter, I must get rid of this threat now!' She thought and
fired away like the trigger-happy person she was until only three men
were left. All hell broke loose when she was hit in her right arm with a
plain bullet. Then time seemed to freeze for a second and then she saw
something that she wished she hadn't. One of the guys slowly slid down
the wall, his blood staining the wall, only to reveal a small boy that was
behind him and had been shot by a beam the went straight threw the guy
in front of him. The other two men that were at opposite sides of the dying
boy fell to there knees muttering their failure with their last breaths. The
boy just stood there as if he hadn't even been shot, revealing no pain at
all. Then he looked into her eyes her for the longest time that once again
time seemed to have stopped. The young boy had shoulder length silver
hair with soft gray eyes. He wore a gray cap with a loose gray tank top.
His black baggy pants were scuffed up at the bottom and he had on gray
fingerless gloves. His pale skin slowly became even paler as he slowly
slid down to his needs. 'Why wont he just die!' Elf thought surprising even
her self. 'I just shot a child! An innocent!' Elf quickly checked out who he
was. -Aron Flint, the last Star of Hope alive. Age:unkown. Appears to be
seven.- She didn't even finish reading the information that popped up into
her screen, she already knew who the boy was know. She blinked hard
closing the window in her right fake eye and began to walk out of the
warehouse. Elf didn't even watch the seven-year-old boy breath his last
breaths like she usually loved to do with her victims, tease them during
their last seconds alive, that is if she had the time. She ran away, not
knowing where she was going but somehow ended up at her clan's
meeting area. "Hey Elf!? What's wrong?" A dirty blonde haired blue eyed
teenage boy asked. "I shot s..someone, Chad!" She said as she digged
for some food in the backpack lying next the Chad. Chad laughed at her
statement. "Of course you did Elf! You do all the time, it's your favorite
pass time!" He said laughing in between a few words. Kyy gave a little
smirk as he watched the two from the window seal above them. Their
meeting spot was in an old Roman Catholic Church. Chad was sitting on
top of a confession booth and Elf was now laying on one of the benches.
Kyy took of his blick cap to scratch the back of his head, revealing his
short, beautiful dark brown hair that matched his amazing dark fierce blue
eye so perfectly. Chad laughed at the guys actions for it was a rare sight
to see Kyy without his cap on. "Not children Chad. They're the most
precious things we've got left. They're our future." Elf said softly grabbing
the boys attentions. "So what? Teach the kid to have better protection!"
Chad commented.
"HE DID! HE had over TWO-HUNDRED body guards Chad! And I was to
damn blind," Elf said and pointed at her right eye. " to even see how much
of a mess I was getting myself into!" "Elf! What's going on.
You've never gotten this riled up!" a ten-year-old Chinese girl with purple
hair and amethyst eyes asked. "Fate! I.." She began to explain but
couldn't say it. "He was just a very important boy." And witht hat said she
left the room and went to the churches underground library.
Elf was sitting on top of one of the bookcases reading her
favorite stories. Of course every book in the library was on the Catholic
religion but it didn't bother her. She was reading a Left Behind series. She
loved that book. The apocalypse. She loved to read about what the people
in the past thought about how the world would come to an end. 'This
world already is almost gone. Damn people raped this planet to much that
something caused the world to become,.. I don't know, unbalanced? It all
happened when I was really small. All I remember was mom carrying me
out of the house and it falling apart as we left in the car. All the other
houses in the neighborhood had fallen down as if an earthquake was
striking. Tornados in Japan, floods in Australia, hurricanes in Europe,
screwed up climates. The weather had all gone bizarre. I have come to
believe that Earth was just getting back at us. She'd had enough and
wanted us off. Some how the moon even started coming closer to Earth.
It looked as if it was going to break apart and hit us. It's so huge now but
the remaining scientists say that it isn't a threat. And now the humans
are in an all out war! Idiots! There's barely anyone left alive to fight. But
somehow people have found a way to fight. Just like the humans, chaos
comes, blame it on someone else, and then have an all out war with each
other. And the same scientists that claim that the moon isn't a threat are
the same one's who have made these damn gundams that are destroying
this already destroyed world even more. Thank goodness those scientists
are almost done making those colonies! Great! I just hope they take the
war over there too!'
Elf looked up from her book when she heard him enter the
church. She could recognize those footsteps of his even if she were
deaf. "Hey Coo! What up?" Chad's cheerful voice echoed threw out the
church all the ways down to where she was. "What's wrong." Chad asked
when Colin didn't answer. "My brother has been killed." Colin stated dryly
and went to his room, which was the old baby room. "The last Star? IS
dead?!" Fate asked, her usually happy voice falling into despair. I could
just picture Chad and Kyy starring wide-eyed at each other. "Elf!" Chad
hollered and he ran into MY room. "What do you want?" She asked him,
already annoyed. "Who did you shoot?" Kyy asked with an even more
serious look than usual. "A kid, Kyy. A very precious kid." Elf said and
teleported out of the room to the roof. She sat next to one of the statues
of an angel reaching out to the heavens. Elf remembered admiring the
beautiful motherly look the statue had when she was a child. ¤ Thanks. I
owe you one. ¤ She e-mailed Kyy. She knew he was explaining that it
was indeed her that had killed the last Star of Hope. After dozing off for a
little while, Elf upgraded her fake eye. 'Last time I did this was when I
was learning how to get into my inbox with this. Nifty that I was able to
meet those phsycotic scientists while at the same time get something so
useful as this.' If you didn't know at least a little bit of Elf's past you'd
think she was a cyborg with her fake eye and metal wings that she wore
all the time when not fighting or getting the things they need in order to
survive. She put away the device that the scientists had given her to help
upgrade and went to sleep while the improvements were being made to
her fake eye. ***
I woke up to the sound of someone coming into the room.
Correction, two people coming into the room. Reed went and sat down at
the table that was placed in front of me. It was hard to look him in the eye
since I'm now hanging upside down. The chains are know bound to my
feet and they hurt really bad. "You have a different name know." 'Man,
once they give me a new name I'm officially theirs. I wish I were death.' "It
will be your birth name, Isha Kennitt." 'What!? He's choosing a name that
has already been given to me. Perfect, he'll only own half of me! What a
jackass.' "You pronounced it wrong. It's Ee-shaw not Is-ha, dumbass!" I
corrected him. If they plan to call me that till they die then they better say
it right. Riku slapped me across the face after that little input while
ordering me to never insult my masters like that again. I wish I could just
spit in his face right now but my mouth is so damn dry! As if he could
read my mind, Reed took a drink of his ice-cold water. 'Damn bastard!'
The two idiots finally left after telling me that I didn't need to know what
they were planning to use my powers for at the moment and how they will
rule the universe with me on there side now. 'About time they finally left.' I
thought while trying to reach up to me feet and undo the chains that
wrapped tightly around my feet. They are starting to cut into my skin. The
blood that I lost from the beatings earlier had now dried onto my skin and
in my hair.
'No use.' I thought and relaxed, letting the swinging of the
chains settle me down. I need to find a way out of here put they've put
some sort of spell or something on this room. I can only do basic things.
I can't talk to Fate or Arron, nor do I wont to at this time, but I can talk to
a human! That guy that was with Fate and Arron, I can talk to him
telepathically! 'Perfect!'
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Normal POV
A shadowy figure crept into Fate's room, making sure he didn't
make any noise. She had been calling for him constantly put he could
figure out what she was saying. He looked at her sleeping form and stood
there watching her until her eyes fluttered open. "AAAAHHHH!!!!" Fate
hollered and he quickly put his hand around her mouth trying to keep her
from waking anyone up. Fate bit his hand but he didn't release her. He
pushed her up against the wall and glared at her. Her eyes were full of
shock and anger when she relised who he was. When Fate recovered
from her shock she punched sending him flying onto her bed.
She charged after him and pinned him darn while demanding
answers. "Arron, why don't you care! God damnit why?" Fate hollered at
him. They rolled around, trying to get more power over each other. Arron,
being in his true form, over powered her and pinned her down with his legs
and arms. Fate then transformed into her true form also, her hair now all
over the bed and her face. Fate blew her hair out of her face and yelled at
him to get off of her. "Where the hell is she?" Arron yelled back. Just then
Duo and Trowa bardged in with their guns and turned the lights on. Arron
didn't bother to see who it was and continued to glare at Fate, but Fate
was looking at Duo and Trowa. "Get off of her." Trowa ordered him. Arron
growled under his breathe at Fate for not ansering him. "What happened
to her?" He continued, ignoring the fact that two guns were no pointing at
him. Duo relaxed when he remember who Arron was and told Trowa it
was ok. "Arron, she's gone." Duo explained for Fate. Arron looked at
Fate. She turned her head away so that she wouldn't have to look him in
the eye, confirming that Duo was telling the truth. "Shit!" Arron yelled and
got of Fate and went into the living room. Trowa went to the kitchen and
got a cup of coffee knowing that something was going to be explained and
he wanted to hear it. It took a while for Fate to get up, she looked to still
be asleep. Duo was about to follow her when he heard something. ~ Help
me. Don't let Fate and Time know that I'm still alive. I have a knew master
know. Help me escape, I can't let them know I have a new master
~ "What?" Duo asked out loud and then his surroundings changed.
Something was showing him how to get somewhere. Duo memorized
everything that was being shown to him, every turn and every stop. ~
Thank you, human. ~ The voice thanked and his sight returned to
normal. "Whoa." He whispered and went into the living room. 'I can't let
them know I have a new master.' He remembered the voice say.
Duo's POV
"The guys will be here soon, they're coming over for dinner
tonight. Over here, we can keep her in here. Sorry it isn't clean, I'll fix it
up before she wakes up. Now there's a hidden door that I put in a while
back over there you, can come in and check on her whenever you want
through there." I told them as they helped me carry the girl into the spare
room. I moved out of Quatre's mansion a long time ago and now I stay in
an apartment. Quatre and the guys are supposed to be coming over
tonight to discuss a mission. But I don't' need to tell these kids about
that. They'd probably tell everyone and in doing so let Oz know where I
am.
Somehow before the girl passed out she teleported us all to
the forest outside of the city. I don't know what is with this girl except that
she needs help, so I'm lending a helping hand. Man Heero's gonna kill me
when he finds out about this. 'That's why you aren't going to tell him.' I
reminded myself and plopped down onto the couch while turning on the
tv. "You kids want something to eat?" I asked from the living room. The
kids walked out of he spare room and the girl said that she'd like a
sandwich. I like that kid, she's straight to the point, especially when it
comes to food! I got up to make a sandwich and then remembered about
the boy. Arron was it? "You want anything?" I asked him. He just starred
at me. 'Ok, that kid is just plain freaky!' "Arron doesn't eat much." Fate
explained as she helped me make her TBL sandwich. I gave him an odd
look. 'He looks exactly like me yet he's so much like Trowa.' "Time?
When will she wake up? You remember that we have to get her home,
right?" Fate blurted out. Arron glared at her stupidity. "So are you guys
going to tell me truth now or must you keep it a secret. Remember I'm
the one giving her shelter so I need to know what to look out for." I said. I
keep getting this felling like these kids aren't really kids, mentally that is.
I can tell that they're a lot smarter than they look. The to kids stared at
each other, as if having a mental conversation. When they looked away, it
was obvious that Fate had won. "We need you to protect her until she
gets her strength back that is." Fate said while sitting down in the chair
next to my couch.
"Protect her? From what?" I asked trying to be serious. "You don't need to
know that." I heard another voice say from behind me. A guy my age with
silver shoulder length hair and gray eyes was glaring at me, as if he didn't
want to trust me with something precious of his. "Who are you!" I asked,
almost shouting at the guy. 'How the hell did he get in here?' "That's
Arron, silly!" Fate squealed with excitement. Fate had changed too! Her
purple hair was longer, not shoulder length anymore but waist length. She
still looked ten but was now 4'8" instead of 4'5". Her black eyes had
turned an eerie foggy color. She still looked Chinese though. "What
happened?" This time I let myself shout. "You wanted the truth." Arron
said flatly. "Yeah but,. what the hell happened. How'd you do it?" It took
him a while to answer and during the time I surveyed their outfits. I've
never seen any out fits like theirs. Fate was wearing a purple Chinese
dress with a black dragon crawling up to her right shoulder but the left
sleeve was torn off. The other sleeve went a little past her wrists and was
shredded here and there; as if she had taken left handed scissors to it.
And the Aron guy was wearing a black hooded cloak. The weird thing
about him was that his feet were chained to a sundial that was connected
to an hourglass and it was floating!
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Normal POV
*nock nock * Duo got up from the couch and went to open the door. "Hey
guys! Come on in, make yourselves at home." "Thank you Duo." Quatre
said as he went straight to the living room. The rest of the boys followed
suit. "So how have things been?" Quatre asked. "Every things fine and
dandy. How about you?" Duo and Quatre continued to catch up on recent
stuff while the other boys looked around the place. Only Quatre had been
to Duo's apartment. He came over to help him move but the other boys
couldn't. Heero didn't really care about checking the place out and went
to find where Duo kept his laptop. Trowa went looking all over the place,
knowing that some time soon he would have to stay at Duo's place when
ever a short noticed event would come up; the circus for example. Wufei
just went to look for the bathroom. "Maxwell, why's this door locked?"
Wufei shouted. "Sshh!" Duo said as he went over to Wufei. "Why are you
telling me to be quiet Maxwell?" Wufei asked angrily. "What are you
looking for." Duo asked in a whisper. "The restroom." Duo told him to go
down the hall to the door at the right.
Heero eyed the room that was locked from the living
room. "What's wrong Heero?" Quatre asked. Heero just replied with a 'hn'
and continued to type rapidly on the keys, looking for a way into the Oz
base that they were to go into that weekend. "Lady Une said that there is
someone held captive in this Oz base that we need to get. This person
has some very valuable information and we can't risk letting it get into the
wrong hands." Heero explained and then pulled up an e-mail containing
their mission and read it out loud.
"So we can't kill the guy?" Duo joked. "No." Heero replied with his usual
monotone voice. Then all of a sudden they heard a hard thud in the locked
room. Heero automatically wiped out his gun and headed towards the
door. Duo sighed and ran for the door in a record-breaking time. He
spread his arms out and blocked off the door before Heero could reach for
the doorknob. "Duo get out of the way." Heero ordered. "No, I don't want
anyone in this room." Duo said in a low serious voice. "What are you
hiding in there?" Wufei asked slowly reaching for his katana. "Nothing, I
just.." Duo was cut off by a loud scream. "Shit!" Duo muttered and opened
the door wide enough for only him to enter and quickly shut it behind him
and held it shut, not allowing the other boys in.
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Fate's POV
"Get away from her!" I shouted while I transformed back into
my true form. Those damn guys were after Elf again! 'What the hell do
they want from her? Where is Arron when I need him?' The sound of the
door quickly being opened and slammed shut brought me out from my
thoughts. Thank goodness it was only Duo. "What's going on? Who are
these guys?" He asked while holding the door shut. Obviously his 'friends'
weren't very pleased with the sound of a fight going on in here. "Sorry for
interrupting your dinner but these guys are trying to kidnap Elf!" I
explained. 'Wait, why am I apologizing at a time like this?!' I quickly
called upon Kiori and he gathered some of my energy to use for a fireball.
I told him to fire whenever he was ready. ^ 70% percent accuracy ^ I
sensed him tell me. I nodded my head and let him go back home after
thanking him for his help. Somehow Duo had nudged a wooden chair
against the door, keeping the other boys from entering and was now
fighting off the enemy. The room lit up when I summoned my bow and
arrows that were made of black fire. 'Dark magic' was what my now
deceased mother had called my powers, but now I don't care, I have to
protect Elf. If these guys get her, she's dead. One by one I shot the
enemy in their hearts but they just kept coming back. Duo landed a hit
on one of them that should have knocked him out but it didn't even leave a
bruise! "They're immortal!" I told Duo. Right when those words left my lips
he froze, as if I had just given him his death sentence. The enemy took
this as an advantage and knocked Duo out, sending him crashing into the
wooden desk, breaking it and maybe even a bone or two. "Duo!" I shouted
and went to his side. 'Out cold, nothing I can do for him now.' I fought the
rest of them that were getting closer to their goal. Only five remained. I
can do it! I have to keep this up. Then with out warning, 'I need a
distraction!' I thought. Boy was I stupid to call for a distraction with out
naming what kind. I, Fate Montez, the keeper of destiny, ally of time,
can't even remember what I'm required to do in order to control destiny
right. As I predicted, a distraction sure did come along. The other boys
finally broke into the room thus causing me to look their way only to feel
something hard hit me in the back of the head. I felt myself fall to the floor
and the ground spinning, then everything went black.
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Normal POV
Two figures can be seen standing in front of a limp body that
lay on the floor. "What are we going to do now?" A young man
asked. "Once she wakes up the fun shall begin, but until then, chain her
up! I don't wont her escaping like she did last time!" The other man
ordered as he walked out of the room. There had been cobwebs here and
there, dust everywhere, and the room wasn't well kept at all. It'd match a
dungeon perfectly if only it were made of stones. Instead the entire room
was made of smooth, hard, cold cement that was painted black or at
least that is what it looked like thanks to the lack of light. "It's about time
we caught you, Elf. You're a hard one to track, but we still got you. And
you're supposed to be invincible! I guess since I know your name it is
only polite that I tell you mine. I am Riko Gonzales. I expect you to obey
us, for we are your masters now!" Riko was then surrounded by a black
mist and disappeared. "Beautiful introduction Riko." Elf said with a
mischievous grin but kept her eyes closed, still not wanting her reality to
be true. Knowing what was going to happen, she prepared herself for the
worst. But even her powers could not help her this time, she would have
to endure the pain, a punishment for killing her last master. 'I am no
property. I am not ment to be owned. I have a life of my own!' She thought
and began to struggle against the chains that were bound to her rists and
ankles, in complete vain. She felt a warm liquid slowly flow down her arms
and feet, but ignored it.
Elf continued struggling until she no longer could stand and
slumped down onto the ground. The rattle of the chains echo throughout
the room and caused a lot more noise than she needed. A few minutes
later Riko and the other man entered the room again. "So she has finely
awoken." The man said with a smug grin. "Indeed, should we let the
demons in?" Riko asked. "Of course, the demons, I can't believe that I
forgot about our dear friends! Thank you Riko." The man said, his grin
getting even more wicked. His eyes stared at Elf, laughing at her as if he
knew something that she would never get or even want to know, but he
didn't look her in the eye. He knew better than to look into those cobalt
blue eyes for it ment that she would definitely have to kill him. He
considered her just like a dog, wild and in need to be tamed, eyes full of
self-respect, and unable to follow orders of their own. "You're welcome
Reed." Riko said with a grin as well and left. Reed bent down and grabbed
her face, forcing her to look at him. "How will my little pixie ever get out of
this now?" He asked. Elf snarled at him and spat in his eye. Reed
slapped her in return and left the room while ordering Riku to let the
demons do as they pleased with the bitch.
The chains that held her in place slowly reeled into the wall
and pulled at her body, lifting her into the air. The chains finally stopped
and held her a good two feet above the ground then the floor disappeared
in fact it seemed as if everything had disappeared to Elf. No more
cobwebs, no dust, not even the bare cold walls. Everything was pitch
black and then a metal wall appeared two inches behind her. Elf turned
her head to see what was going on a saw the wall had suspicious looking
holes in it and it smelt like blood that had not been fully washed away.
Before she had time to react long knives flew out of the holes, piercing her
all over. Elf screamed out in pain until the knives and wall disappeared but
her pain didn't. The demons had finally arrived, teleporting into the room.
Some were equipped with strange swords while others had some sort
magic as their source to torture her with. One of then threw a fireball at
her and she tried to dodge it with her own powers but went nowhere
receiving a direct hit to the right shoulder. Elf was only able to endure one
hour of it and then finally fell unconscious.
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Normal POV (still)
'No this can't be real! She's not gone, she's not! I didn't fail!
She's still alive, playing cruel and heartless jokes on the human race.
She hasn't been taken off to die!' Fate tried to convince herself as she sat
at the window seal, starring out watching the mighty storm. A single tear
slowly slid down her warm cheeks. ~Arron! Arron! Please come here!
They got her! They took her away. She's gone Arron. Elf is dead.~ She
called out telepathically but no answer came. Fate punched the floor and
kicked the wall that she was leaning against.
"Is she ok?" Quatre asked with concern as the boys turned
their heads to see what Fate had done.
Duo had just awoken and was now making a TBL sandwich, hoping that it
would cheer the girl up a little bit. Duo still hadn't explained to the guys
what was going on and didn't intend to any time soon. Heero was getting
annoyed because of Duo not answering any of their questions and
ignoring them and only paying attention to the girl. Duo slapped on some
mayo and put the sandwich onto a plate, filled a glass with some pop and
went over to the little girl. "Is Elf ok?" He asked while handing her the
plate and cup. Fate put the plate down and took a big drink of the pop
almost drinking it all. Fate looked at him letting her eyes do the
explaining. Duo looked down at the floor, "She isn't so well know is she?
She wasn't even well when I met her was she?" he asked and looked
back up hoping she'd answer him with words this time. "She's never been
well." Fate said, wording the answer well with a harsh tone. Quatre could
feel her anger and sorrow rise and was about to say something when she
stood, picked up her plate and cup, and locked herself into the room the
Elf had last been in.
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Normal POV (three weeks later)
The boys still didn't know what was going on but came over to
visit Duo and Fate every night. It became a regular basis to eat dinner
with them around eight o'clock. Fate was always talking and didn't act
like the kidnapping of her dear friend Elf bothered her anymore but you
could tell that it was the only thing should was thinking about. Her eyes
know showed the same anger and sorrow only stronger, no longer was
her innocent and happy sparkle in her eyes. Arron still was nowhere to be
found and it angered Fate even more. 'She's dead and he doesn't even
care! What a complete jerk!' Fate thought one day while doing the dishes,
breaking a plate out of pure anger. "Whoa there Fate! I didn't think you
took the game so seriously!" Duo said jokingly as he picked up the
broken pieces. "Sorry Duo! I. was thinking.." Fate didn't finish and just
continued washing the dishes. 'Elf.' Duo thought as he watched her
concentrate on washing another plate. He quickly picked up the rest of
the pieces and went back to drying the dishes that Fate handed to
him. "So, wonna see if we can get past the Tarzan stage in Kingdom of
Hearts after this?" Fate asked softly trying to get her mind off of her
friend. "You bet I do!" Duo said with a cocky grin. Fate laughed and let a
smile stay on her face as they finished washing the dishes. "Hey Trowa!
We'll be playing on the PS2! So go ahead and make yourself at home. I
already got your room ready." Duo said when Trowa entered the room.
Trowa did indeed end up having to stay with Duo. His last mission didn't
go so well. Even though he did complete it, he almost got killed and
needed a place to hide out since Oz is looking for him now. Fate gave
him an odd look as she passed him by but shook it off and continued to
follow Duo to the PS2. 'There's something familiar about that girl.' Trowa
thought and went into the kitchen for some coffee after putting his bags
away. It was only about two hours after his regular time for breakfast so
he also decided to make some toast and grabbed the newspaper and sat
down at the kitchen table.
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Elf's POV (two days later)
*** 'Damn he's getting away again!' Elf thought as she chased
after a man in a black suit. 'Why the hell has he been following me?' Elf
saw the man run into a worn down warehouse and followed him into it
without a second thought. Elf slowed her pace as she waited for her eye
to adjust to the dark and followed the sound of the man's footsteps.
Finally something came into view and she wiped out her gun. It didn't look
like a normal gun though. It was very futuristic, with energy beams
shooting out instead of bullets and such. Elf stopped firing at the figure
and watched it slump down onto the ground. She went to go check out
the person and see if she could get anything from him but he wasn't
there! 'Where'd her go now?' Elf frowned as she thought of the
possibilities of the man escaping her so fast after being shot seven times.
And at that with her most favorite, powerful, and accurate gun. 'Zero
possibilities.' She thought. * click * Elf spun around when she heard
someone taking off the safety of their gun and she began firing. As she
was shooting some one turned on the lights but it didn't bother her eye
sight and she continued firing. The now lit room revealed that the entire
place was filled with men in black suits. Elf easily dodged the bullets that
were aimed at her and shoot three-fourths of the enemy. The remaining
one-fourth was in a tight group as if protecting something for some
reason. 'No matter, I must get rid of this threat now!' She thought and
fired away like the trigger-happy person she was until only three men
were left. All hell broke loose when she was hit in her right arm with a
plain bullet. Then time seemed to freeze for a second and then she saw
something that she wished she hadn't. One of the guys slowly slid down
the wall, his blood staining the wall, only to reveal a small boy that was
behind him and had been shot by a beam the went straight threw the guy
in front of him. The other two men that were at opposite sides of the dying
boy fell to there knees muttering their failure with their last breaths. The
boy just stood there as if he hadn't even been shot, revealing no pain at
all. Then he looked into her eyes her for the longest time that once again
time seemed to have stopped. The young boy had shoulder length silver
hair with soft gray eyes. He wore a gray cap with a loose gray tank top.
His black baggy pants were scuffed up at the bottom and he had on gray
fingerless gloves. His pale skin slowly became even paler as he slowly
slid down to his needs. 'Why wont he just die!' Elf thought surprising even
her self. 'I just shot a child! An innocent!' Elf quickly checked out who he
was. -Aron Flint, the last Star of Hope alive. Age:unkown. Appears to be
seven.- She didn't even finish reading the information that popped up into
her screen, she already knew who the boy was know. She blinked hard
closing the window in her right fake eye and began to walk out of the
warehouse. Elf didn't even watch the seven-year-old boy breath his last
breaths like she usually loved to do with her victims, tease them during
their last seconds alive, that is if she had the time. She ran away, not
knowing where she was going but somehow ended up at her clan's
meeting area. "Hey Elf!? What's wrong?" A dirty blonde haired blue eyed
teenage boy asked. "I shot s..someone, Chad!" She said as she digged
for some food in the backpack lying next the Chad. Chad laughed at her
statement. "Of course you did Elf! You do all the time, it's your favorite
pass time!" He said laughing in between a few words. Kyy gave a little
smirk as he watched the two from the window seal above them. Their
meeting spot was in an old Roman Catholic Church. Chad was sitting on
top of a confession booth and Elf was now laying on one of the benches.
Kyy took of his blick cap to scratch the back of his head, revealing his
short, beautiful dark brown hair that matched his amazing dark fierce blue
eye so perfectly. Chad laughed at the guys actions for it was a rare sight
to see Kyy without his cap on. "Not children Chad. They're the most
precious things we've got left. They're our future." Elf said softly grabbing
the boys attentions. "So what? Teach the kid to have better protection!"
Chad commented.
"HE DID! HE had over TWO-HUNDRED body guards Chad! And I was to
damn blind," Elf said and pointed at her right eye. " to even see how much
of a mess I was getting myself into!" "Elf! What's going on.
You've never gotten this riled up!" a ten-year-old Chinese girl with purple
hair and amethyst eyes asked. "Fate! I.." She began to explain but
couldn't say it. "He was just a very important boy." And witht hat said she
left the room and went to the churches underground library.
Elf was sitting on top of one of the bookcases reading her
favorite stories. Of course every book in the library was on the Catholic
religion but it didn't bother her. She was reading a Left Behind series. She
loved that book. The apocalypse. She loved to read about what the people
in the past thought about how the world would come to an end. 'This
world already is almost gone. Damn people raped this planet to much that
something caused the world to become,.. I don't know, unbalanced? It all
happened when I was really small. All I remember was mom carrying me
out of the house and it falling apart as we left in the car. All the other
houses in the neighborhood had fallen down as if an earthquake was
striking. Tornados in Japan, floods in Australia, hurricanes in Europe,
screwed up climates. The weather had all gone bizarre. I have come to
believe that Earth was just getting back at us. She'd had enough and
wanted us off. Some how the moon even started coming closer to Earth.
It looked as if it was going to break apart and hit us. It's so huge now but
the remaining scientists say that it isn't a threat. And now the humans
are in an all out war! Idiots! There's barely anyone left alive to fight. But
somehow people have found a way to fight. Just like the humans, chaos
comes, blame it on someone else, and then have an all out war with each
other. And the same scientists that claim that the moon isn't a threat are
the same one's who have made these damn gundams that are destroying
this already destroyed world even more. Thank goodness those scientists
are almost done making those colonies! Great! I just hope they take the
war over there too!'
Elf looked up from her book when she heard him enter the
church. She could recognize those footsteps of his even if she were
deaf. "Hey Coo! What up?" Chad's cheerful voice echoed threw out the
church all the ways down to where she was. "What's wrong." Chad asked
when Colin didn't answer. "My brother has been killed." Colin stated dryly
and went to his room, which was the old baby room. "The last Star? IS
dead?!" Fate asked, her usually happy voice falling into despair. I could
just picture Chad and Kyy starring wide-eyed at each other. "Elf!" Chad
hollered and he ran into MY room. "What do you want?" She asked him,
already annoyed. "Who did you shoot?" Kyy asked with an even more
serious look than usual. "A kid, Kyy. A very precious kid." Elf said and
teleported out of the room to the roof. She sat next to one of the statues
of an angel reaching out to the heavens. Elf remembered admiring the
beautiful motherly look the statue had when she was a child. ¤ Thanks. I
owe you one. ¤ She e-mailed Kyy. She knew he was explaining that it
was indeed her that had killed the last Star of Hope. After dozing off for a
little while, Elf upgraded her fake eye. 'Last time I did this was when I
was learning how to get into my inbox with this. Nifty that I was able to
meet those phsycotic scientists while at the same time get something so
useful as this.' If you didn't know at least a little bit of Elf's past you'd
think she was a cyborg with her fake eye and metal wings that she wore
all the time when not fighting or getting the things they need in order to
survive. She put away the device that the scientists had given her to help
upgrade and went to sleep while the improvements were being made to
her fake eye. ***
I woke up to the sound of someone coming into the room.
Correction, two people coming into the room. Reed went and sat down at
the table that was placed in front of me. It was hard to look him in the eye
since I'm now hanging upside down. The chains are know bound to my
feet and they hurt really bad. "You have a different name know." 'Man,
once they give me a new name I'm officially theirs. I wish I were death.' "It
will be your birth name, Isha Kennitt." 'What!? He's choosing a name that
has already been given to me. Perfect, he'll only own half of me! What a
jackass.' "You pronounced it wrong. It's Ee-shaw not Is-ha, dumbass!" I
corrected him. If they plan to call me that till they die then they better say
it right. Riku slapped me across the face after that little input while
ordering me to never insult my masters like that again. I wish I could just
spit in his face right now but my mouth is so damn dry! As if he could
read my mind, Reed took a drink of his ice-cold water. 'Damn bastard!'
The two idiots finally left after telling me that I didn't need to know what
they were planning to use my powers for at the moment and how they will
rule the universe with me on there side now. 'About time they finally left.' I
thought while trying to reach up to me feet and undo the chains that
wrapped tightly around my feet. They are starting to cut into my skin. The
blood that I lost from the beatings earlier had now dried onto my skin and
in my hair.
'No use.' I thought and relaxed, letting the swinging of the
chains settle me down. I need to find a way out of here put they've put
some sort of spell or something on this room. I can only do basic things.
I can't talk to Fate or Arron, nor do I wont to at this time, but I can talk to
a human! That guy that was with Fate and Arron, I can talk to him
telepathically! 'Perfect!'
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Normal POV
A shadowy figure crept into Fate's room, making sure he didn't
make any noise. She had been calling for him constantly put he could
figure out what she was saying. He looked at her sleeping form and stood
there watching her until her eyes fluttered open. "AAAAHHHH!!!!" Fate
hollered and he quickly put his hand around her mouth trying to keep her
from waking anyone up. Fate bit his hand but he didn't release her. He
pushed her up against the wall and glared at her. Her eyes were full of
shock and anger when she relised who he was. When Fate recovered
from her shock she punched sending him flying onto her bed.
She charged after him and pinned him darn while demanding
answers. "Arron, why don't you care! God damnit why?" Fate hollered at
him. They rolled around, trying to get more power over each other. Arron,
being in his true form, over powered her and pinned her down with his legs
and arms. Fate then transformed into her true form also, her hair now all
over the bed and her face. Fate blew her hair out of her face and yelled at
him to get off of her. "Where the hell is she?" Arron yelled back. Just then
Duo and Trowa bardged in with their guns and turned the lights on. Arron
didn't bother to see who it was and continued to glare at Fate, but Fate
was looking at Duo and Trowa. "Get off of her." Trowa ordered him. Arron
growled under his breathe at Fate for not ansering him. "What happened
to her?" He continued, ignoring the fact that two guns were no pointing at
him. Duo relaxed when he remember who Arron was and told Trowa it
was ok. "Arron, she's gone." Duo explained for Fate. Arron looked at
Fate. She turned her head away so that she wouldn't have to look him in
the eye, confirming that Duo was telling the truth. "Shit!" Arron yelled and
got of Fate and went into the living room. Trowa went to the kitchen and
got a cup of coffee knowing that something was going to be explained and
he wanted to hear it. It took a while for Fate to get up, she looked to still
be asleep. Duo was about to follow her when he heard something. ~ Help
me. Don't let Fate and Time know that I'm still alive. I have a knew master
know. Help me escape, I can't let them know I have a new master
~ "What?" Duo asked out loud and then his surroundings changed.
Something was showing him how to get somewhere. Duo memorized
everything that was being shown to him, every turn and every stop. ~
Thank you, human. ~ The voice thanked and his sight returned to
normal. "Whoa." He whispered and went into the living room. 'I can't let
them know I have a new master.' He remembered the voice say.