Gundam Wing A/C
Clues to destruction.
Chapter 1: A rider with a message.
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(2 million years into the future)
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The day was dark and gloomy, the five gundam pilots Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Wufei where running through the pelting rain toward their new safe house that stood dark and twisted against the wane light that somehow managed to penetrate the dense cloud cover above. "Aw man! Quatre why do you own a place all the way out here? I bet this place doesn't even have generator let alone running water." Duo was whining as they walked into the house's dripping and dank interior. "Don't complain Duo, it was the only place available at such short notice, at least with this we wont have to sleep in our gundams."
"Well I'm beginning to think Deathscythe's cockpit would be warmer than this." Duo grumbled to himself as he picked up his duffle bag from beside the door and riffled around for a torch, he had one but it wouldn't work. "Dammit I put fresh batteries in it yesterday." He swore and looked to find the others having similar problems. Duo skipped over to Heero and looked over his shoulder as the 'perfect soldier' attempted to turn on his laptop. "Something tells me it's not gonna work Hee-chan." He said in a drawling voice. Heero glared, "Hn, Baka." he practically spat. Duo couldn't help himself and grinned evilly, his face obscured partially by the dark, "Your one and only."
"Hey guy's! I found some candles!" Quatre's voice sounded loudly over the pounding of the rain on the roof. A glow appeared and the blonde boy emerged from a side room with an old basket filled with candles. The soft golden light threw their shadows against the walls. As it flickered the back silhouettes seamed to move on their own. "Now that's just creepy." Duo said unconsciously moving closer to the nearest person who happened to be Heero. "Now I'm I wrong or are you afraid Maxwell?" Wufei said haughtily as a crack of thunder tore the sky. Duo eeped and disappeared behind Heero. "Yes I am alright!" He said defiantly, his voice was higher in pitch telling them just how scared the braided boy was. "I don't like storms, I never have." He confessed in the same high tone.
Wufei snorted just as Duo felt Heero's glare drilling into the back of his head and looked up with an expression akin to dread. Heero's cold Prussian eye's where like beam rifles, and if looks could kill Duo would have been dead. Judging by the really peeved look on the perfect soldiers face Duo decided he'd be safer somewhere else and leapt away into the open. Heero stopped glaring and turned to the others. "We should try and get some sleep for now." he stated the obvious. "We can sort out all the things we need to do in the morning." With that agreed to they took a few candles and split up, each looking for a room to spend the night,
Little did they guess that tonight... sleep would be the furthest thing from their minds.
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Duo rolled over and buried his head under his pillow as the sounds of a running horse passed by his door for the fifth time. "Go away Quatre!" He muttered sleepily, For some reason thinking that the disturbance was the blondes doing.
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"Yah! Yah!"
Duo's eye's snapped open and he threw back the blankets that had been on his browed bed. "Okay that's it!" He growled and went to the door. Sticking his head into the passage way he spotted Heero standing across the hall outside his room, his head to one side listening intently. "Hey Heero, what the heck is going on?" Heero silenced him with a look and turned back to listening just as the noise began again around the corner...
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Suddenly a urgent whinny sounded and something barely visible crashed around the corner and almost hit the wall and it skidded into the sharp turn. The ghostly horse charged along the corridor it's rider urging it faster. As it passed the two teens a rush of air blasted them back into the nearest solid thing. Recovering quickly they leapt to their feet and gave chase to the rider. It lead them through the twisting maze of corridors that littered the house.
At one point a door opened and Wufei looked out only to be thrown back by the ghosts passing. Getting up he caught sight of Heero and Duo coming down the hallway. "Yuy, Maxwell. What was that?" He asked harshly. The two panting teens slowed to a walk before stopping right before the Chinese teen. "You alright Wu-man?" Duo asked in return before he answered the original question, "And as to what that thing is... we have absolutely no idea. It looks like a ghost, the ghost of horse." Wufei looked sceptical "Very funny Maxwell now tell me what it really is." He stood with his arms crossed and a dangerous expression on his face. Duo opened his mouth to say it again when Heero spoke quite unexpectedly. "Look!"
At the end of the hall where a wall blocked their path the horse was standing stock still. It's rider was staring down at them with empty dead eye's that sent chills down the spines of the three teens before it turned to the wall and melted into the wood panelling. Trowa and Quatre arrived on the scene moments later to find the three of them still staring. "What's going on? Why are you all up at this time of night?" The only noise to meet his answer was the pounding of the rain on the roof and the occasional flash of thunder. As if their trance was broken by Quatre's voice Heero and Duo moved toward to wall and began to search for a switch or a catch to open the door they somehow knew must be there.
Before long they had found it, they moved out of the way as the cleverly concealed entry way opened. "How did you know the door would be there?" Quatre asked Wufei, but the Chinese teen ignored him and disappeared into the pitch black room beyond. Trowa and Quatre followed out of curiosity but when they entered the room a strange thing happened. The darkness was suddenly gone, replaced by the scene of a small mountain plateau.
"Isn't that Treize Kushranada?" Duo finally spoke up and directed their attention to the battle raging near the centre. "Duo's right! It does look like Treize." Quatre said after squinting to get a better look. "But who are those other people? I can't see their faces." He watched the other pilots as they began moving toward the fight. Then just as quickly Duo was stumbling back to his side. "Holy SHIT!" He swore not so originally. "They...they are us!" He managed to gasp through his shock. Just then a blast of light from the direction of the fight made them shield their eye's. When the brilliance cleared they looked back to the centre and saw that Treize, and a second body were sprawled on the ground. The gundam pilots approached them as well as their armour clad, ghostly counter parts.
Eventually one, Heero, spoke. "Treize is dead, but the girl still lives." "What are we going to do with her?" A second voice, Duo's, asked. "We can't just leave her here, can we?" As if triggered by his words the earth below them shook violently. "Treize's magic has disrupted the mountain." Trowa's emotionless voice informed them. "Then lets go, we'll take the girl with us, I don't sense any of her father's evil within her." Heero picked up the girl, after swinging his long sword onto his back and he and the other ghosts fled from the Island as the world swirled around them and the scene changed.
Now instead of the mountain plateau, Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Wufei stood in a small room lit by candles. The ghosts of themselves were back and where standing around a pedestal. They no longer wore armour but tunics and pants. Heero held a small golden book in one hand and a deck of cards in the other. "We can't risk Treize's power getting into the world again even if it is now controlled by his daughter. We'll have to scatter the key's as far from here as we can." The ghost Heero slit the deck five ways and each of them pocketed part of the deck, "We'll leave the book here in the house." He put the book on the pedestal and the group left.
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The pilot's snapped back to reality with a jolt to find themselves in a somewhat older version of the room. "Whoa!" Duo was first to speak, "That was freaky." Quatre nodded in agreement but mid way through the motion a dull glitter on the floor caught his attention. Cocking his head to one side he looked and to his surprise discovered a pile of weapons. "Hey, look at this." He got the attention of the other's who had been standing a little way off talking above the now, almost calming noise of the rain. They reached his side as he bent down and lifted one black hilt gave it a tug, freeing it from the mess of metal.
The weapon in his grasp was a curved sword not unlike those Sandrock carried. "Wha... Quatre these are the weapons that those guys who looked like us where holding." Duo said in amazement as he hunkered down beside the pile and began sorting through them. Angling the blade Quatre looked down it and as a flash of lightning scared the sky he caught sight of something reflected across the room. Heero was there reaching out for a small golden book.
"I'm starting to suspect that the ghost was trying to show us the past." Wufei commented as he to picked out the shining katana of his warrior look alike. "Or a possible future." Heero agreed coming up with the book. "I found this and the only thing inside it was this card." He held out a long narrow card that looked like it was from some tarot deck except the image on the front was nothing like the traditional cards, Instead there was a picture of the horse and it's rider staring out into the room and below it was the word's 'The rider.' They looked at each other in confusion, all wondering the same thing.
Was this some joke? Or had they really stumbled across something big?
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Well I'm sorry you had to wait so long for me to update this story and I apologise for any confusion the first chapter caused. This should have explained a little about what's going on.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^
Clues to destruction.
Chapter 1: A rider with a message.
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(2 million years into the future)
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The day was dark and gloomy, the five gundam pilots Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Wufei where running through the pelting rain toward their new safe house that stood dark and twisted against the wane light that somehow managed to penetrate the dense cloud cover above. "Aw man! Quatre why do you own a place all the way out here? I bet this place doesn't even have generator let alone running water." Duo was whining as they walked into the house's dripping and dank interior. "Don't complain Duo, it was the only place available at such short notice, at least with this we wont have to sleep in our gundams."
"Well I'm beginning to think Deathscythe's cockpit would be warmer than this." Duo grumbled to himself as he picked up his duffle bag from beside the door and riffled around for a torch, he had one but it wouldn't work. "Dammit I put fresh batteries in it yesterday." He swore and looked to find the others having similar problems. Duo skipped over to Heero and looked over his shoulder as the 'perfect soldier' attempted to turn on his laptop. "Something tells me it's not gonna work Hee-chan." He said in a drawling voice. Heero glared, "Hn, Baka." he practically spat. Duo couldn't help himself and grinned evilly, his face obscured partially by the dark, "Your one and only."
"Hey guy's! I found some candles!" Quatre's voice sounded loudly over the pounding of the rain on the roof. A glow appeared and the blonde boy emerged from a side room with an old basket filled with candles. The soft golden light threw their shadows against the walls. As it flickered the back silhouettes seamed to move on their own. "Now that's just creepy." Duo said unconsciously moving closer to the nearest person who happened to be Heero. "Now I'm I wrong or are you afraid Maxwell?" Wufei said haughtily as a crack of thunder tore the sky. Duo eeped and disappeared behind Heero. "Yes I am alright!" He said defiantly, his voice was higher in pitch telling them just how scared the braided boy was. "I don't like storms, I never have." He confessed in the same high tone.
Wufei snorted just as Duo felt Heero's glare drilling into the back of his head and looked up with an expression akin to dread. Heero's cold Prussian eye's where like beam rifles, and if looks could kill Duo would have been dead. Judging by the really peeved look on the perfect soldiers face Duo decided he'd be safer somewhere else and leapt away into the open. Heero stopped glaring and turned to the others. "We should try and get some sleep for now." he stated the obvious. "We can sort out all the things we need to do in the morning." With that agreed to they took a few candles and split up, each looking for a room to spend the night,
Little did they guess that tonight... sleep would be the furthest thing from their minds.
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neiiiiiiigh!
Duo rolled over and buried his head under his pillow as the sounds of a running horse passed by his door for the fifth time. "Go away Quatre!" He muttered sleepily, For some reason thinking that the disturbance was the blondes doing.
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"Yah! Yah!"
Duo's eye's snapped open and he threw back the blankets that had been on his browed bed. "Okay that's it!" He growled and went to the door. Sticking his head into the passage way he spotted Heero standing across the hall outside his room, his head to one side listening intently. "Hey Heero, what the heck is going on?" Heero silenced him with a look and turned back to listening just as the noise began again around the corner...
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Suddenly a urgent whinny sounded and something barely visible crashed around the corner and almost hit the wall and it skidded into the sharp turn. The ghostly horse charged along the corridor it's rider urging it faster. As it passed the two teens a rush of air blasted them back into the nearest solid thing. Recovering quickly they leapt to their feet and gave chase to the rider. It lead them through the twisting maze of corridors that littered the house.
At one point a door opened and Wufei looked out only to be thrown back by the ghosts passing. Getting up he caught sight of Heero and Duo coming down the hallway. "Yuy, Maxwell. What was that?" He asked harshly. The two panting teens slowed to a walk before stopping right before the Chinese teen. "You alright Wu-man?" Duo asked in return before he answered the original question, "And as to what that thing is... we have absolutely no idea. It looks like a ghost, the ghost of horse." Wufei looked sceptical "Very funny Maxwell now tell me what it really is." He stood with his arms crossed and a dangerous expression on his face. Duo opened his mouth to say it again when Heero spoke quite unexpectedly. "Look!"
At the end of the hall where a wall blocked their path the horse was standing stock still. It's rider was staring down at them with empty dead eye's that sent chills down the spines of the three teens before it turned to the wall and melted into the wood panelling. Trowa and Quatre arrived on the scene moments later to find the three of them still staring. "What's going on? Why are you all up at this time of night?" The only noise to meet his answer was the pounding of the rain on the roof and the occasional flash of thunder. As if their trance was broken by Quatre's voice Heero and Duo moved toward to wall and began to search for a switch or a catch to open the door they somehow knew must be there.
Before long they had found it, they moved out of the way as the cleverly concealed entry way opened. "How did you know the door would be there?" Quatre asked Wufei, but the Chinese teen ignored him and disappeared into the pitch black room beyond. Trowa and Quatre followed out of curiosity but when they entered the room a strange thing happened. The darkness was suddenly gone, replaced by the scene of a small mountain plateau.
"Isn't that Treize Kushranada?" Duo finally spoke up and directed their attention to the battle raging near the centre. "Duo's right! It does look like Treize." Quatre said after squinting to get a better look. "But who are those other people? I can't see their faces." He watched the other pilots as they began moving toward the fight. Then just as quickly Duo was stumbling back to his side. "Holy SHIT!" He swore not so originally. "They...they are us!" He managed to gasp through his shock. Just then a blast of light from the direction of the fight made them shield their eye's. When the brilliance cleared they looked back to the centre and saw that Treize, and a second body were sprawled on the ground. The gundam pilots approached them as well as their armour clad, ghostly counter parts.
Eventually one, Heero, spoke. "Treize is dead, but the girl still lives." "What are we going to do with her?" A second voice, Duo's, asked. "We can't just leave her here, can we?" As if triggered by his words the earth below them shook violently. "Treize's magic has disrupted the mountain." Trowa's emotionless voice informed them. "Then lets go, we'll take the girl with us, I don't sense any of her father's evil within her." Heero picked up the girl, after swinging his long sword onto his back and he and the other ghosts fled from the Island as the world swirled around them and the scene changed.
Now instead of the mountain plateau, Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Wufei stood in a small room lit by candles. The ghosts of themselves were back and where standing around a pedestal. They no longer wore armour but tunics and pants. Heero held a small golden book in one hand and a deck of cards in the other. "We can't risk Treize's power getting into the world again even if it is now controlled by his daughter. We'll have to scatter the key's as far from here as we can." The ghost Heero slit the deck five ways and each of them pocketed part of the deck, "We'll leave the book here in the house." He put the book on the pedestal and the group left.
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The pilot's snapped back to reality with a jolt to find themselves in a somewhat older version of the room. "Whoa!" Duo was first to speak, "That was freaky." Quatre nodded in agreement but mid way through the motion a dull glitter on the floor caught his attention. Cocking his head to one side he looked and to his surprise discovered a pile of weapons. "Hey, look at this." He got the attention of the other's who had been standing a little way off talking above the now, almost calming noise of the rain. They reached his side as he bent down and lifted one black hilt gave it a tug, freeing it from the mess of metal.
The weapon in his grasp was a curved sword not unlike those Sandrock carried. "Wha... Quatre these are the weapons that those guys who looked like us where holding." Duo said in amazement as he hunkered down beside the pile and began sorting through them. Angling the blade Quatre looked down it and as a flash of lightning scared the sky he caught sight of something reflected across the room. Heero was there reaching out for a small golden book.
"I'm starting to suspect that the ghost was trying to show us the past." Wufei commented as he to picked out the shining katana of his warrior look alike. "Or a possible future." Heero agreed coming up with the book. "I found this and the only thing inside it was this card." He held out a long narrow card that looked like it was from some tarot deck except the image on the front was nothing like the traditional cards, Instead there was a picture of the horse and it's rider staring out into the room and below it was the word's 'The rider.' They looked at each other in confusion, all wondering the same thing.
Was this some joke? Or had they really stumbled across something big?
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Well I'm sorry you had to wait so long for me to update this story and I apologise for any confusion the first chapter caused. This should have explained a little about what's going on.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^