"Please, let me explain," Trio pleaded. But Shinna had already turned
around and was stomping off, back up the alley. "TANA!" Trio, tears in her
eyes, ran after her friend, grabbing Shinna's arm and ripping her around.
"Do you think I would betray you?!"
"It appears so," Shinna retorted, pulling her arm out of Trio's grasp. "Now if you don't mind I'm going to go now." Trio watched Shinna walk back to Trey. Grabbing the backpack, Shinna took off with Trey standing there with the black bag, watching Trio stare in horror at her friend leave her.
Trio blinked, realizing Trey was still standing there.
"Trey, please talk some sense into her!" Trio cried, running up to the sandy-haired boy and grabbing onto his bloody shirt.
"Whoa," Trey said, putting the bag into the Commander's hands and grasping Trio's shoulders. "What's going on?"
"Meet me back at the cleanup tent after you work this out," Commander Askbe said, briskly walking away from the embarrassing situation.
"That's just fine," Trey mumbled to the retreating Commander. Turning back to Trio, he asked, "What's wrong, Diana?"
"I'm afraid it's my fault," Aka interjected. Trey eyed the young man suspiciously. "I seem to have said something to upset your friend."
"UPSET?!" Trio exploded, letting go of Trey and launching herself at Aka. "She thinks I betrayed her; no betrayed us!"
"What in the name of Gundam happened?" Trey said, throwing his hands in the air.
"I accidentally saw Trio, or Diana as you call her, transform to save herself."
"And she told you her name?" Trey asked suspiciously.
"No."
"How do you know it then?"
"I don't know," Aka replied, frowning.
"So she thinks you betrayed us," Trey looked at the ground, concentrating.
"But, but, it's not my fault!"
"Huh?" Trey asked, snapping out of his concentration.
"My transformation, I was helpless. Please talk with her, tell her I didn't tell him ANYTHING!"
"I'll try," Trey replied, walking towards the area Shinna had been heading.
"We'll be right here," Trio said feebly. Trey waved back at her, letting the Deathscythe G-Alloid know he had heard her.
Trio sank to the ground, sobbing under her breath. Aka walked up to her, leaning down next to her and grasping her shoulders in his hands and pulling her down onto the dirt between his legs.
"Relax," the dark-haired boy whispered.
"How can you say that? Y'wanna know what? I don't care!" Trio pushed herself away from Aka and stood up. Turning to face him, anger clearly evident on her face she walked to the back of the alley.
"Trio," Aka pleaded as the young man stood and took a few steps toward the angry girl, "don't be angry."
"Y'know, we had a deal; you could come with me until I found my friends and guess what? I found them. You're now released from your bondage." Trio sat on the ground, her legs pulled toward her body and her face in her lap.
"Trio," Aka replied, walking up to her but not making any motion to touch her, "I can understand that you're mad at me, I had no right to say that. Heck, I don't even remember actually saying it."
Trio looked up. "What do you mean?"
Aka's face took on a pained look. "I have.blackouts sometimes. I'll be living my life and suddenly I'll wake up doing something I shouldn't be. Take for example: I was waiting for you to come out and before I realized it, I was pulling my knife away from your throat and asking you about your friends. And I quite frankly can't remember how I learned your true name either."
Trio put her face back into her lap. "Aka.I'm sorry, but I don't ever want to talk to you again until my friends forgive me."
Aka took a step back. "What? That's quite unlike you to say such a cruel thing!"
Trio looked up at her rescuer with a look of loathing, "Until Tana forgives me and accepts me back or whatever, I don't want to talk to you. You can talk to me all you like, but you'll get no response."
Trio stared into Aka's eyes. As if sensing her anger they darkened and became hard. 'Just like last time,' she noted with a hint of concern.
"Oh you'll talk to me all right, begging me for mercy!" Aka jumped, closing the distance between the two so quickly Trio couldn't move. His hands grasped her throat. Trio screamed in agony while trying to get him to loosen his grip.
"BEG YOU WHORE! BEG FOR YOUR LIFE!" Trio glared at Aka in defiance. "BEG!!!!!" The teen squeezed harder and was rewarded with another scream. "HA! Listen to you scream, now DIE!" Aka squeezed so hard that Trio's vision immediately went black and her scream was cut short.
Gasping for breath, Trio suddenly felt the pressure removed and her voice returned and her vision restored. Trio coughed a few times, which drowned out the sound of the attack on Aka.
"Please! Stop it!" Aka cried out. Trio's vision cleared completely. Trey and Shinna were standing over the bloody Aka, who was cringing against the concrete wall.
"You'll pay!" Shinna was screaming.
"NO!" Trio shouted, jumping in front of a deadly blow Shinna had aimed at Aka's neck. Shinna stopped the attack within an inch of Trio's leg, which would have broken it.
"He tried to KILL you, Trio. Why are you standing up for him?"
"I." Trio looked down, ashamed. "I think he is bipolar. He's a great friend and perfectly harmless unless you make him mad, then his eyes darken to a near black and his face takes on a hardened look. Then he's someone else, deadly and violent."
Trio shook her head. "I'm sorry if you think I betrayed you, but I cannot allow you to hurt him."
"Aka," Trey interrupted, "Do you know anything about this 'other personality'?"
"It seems to know a lot of important information," Aka replied as he sat up.
"What kind of information?" Shinna questioned.
Aka seemed to be reliving a memory he found confusing and frightening but he relived it to save Trio. "I saw her in the alley, beautiful wings extended over the scared man, saw her cut out his tongue and I saw the man run off. I ran up to her when she collapsed, her wings returning to her body and she tried to cut me.
"Once she finally became unconscious I blacked out for just a few seconds.but I didn't black out completely and I heard myself say 'Sleep well, Trio Hawk.'"
"But that doesn't tell us what KIND of information you know," Shinna said irritably.
"Isn't it obvious?" Aka retorted, standing up and leaning toward the little Chinese girl. "It must be information about you guys, whoever you are or WHATEVER you are. Maybe this person knows who you all are and WHAT you all are, but I don't. I know her name is Trio Hawk and she has bat wings. That's it."
"But how do we know you're telling the truth?" Shinna asked doubtfully.
"You don't," Aka replied frankly, "but I." Aka's eyes went wide and his face slack as he stared at Shinna.
"You okay?" Shinna asked, raising her eyebrow.
The daughter of Wufei looked on in horror as the slack face went tight, too tight and the eyes seemed to suck in all the light from the shadows.
"TRIO!" Shinna screamed, "LOOK OUT!" But Trio turned around too late, Aka's hands clasping her around her waist and pulling her back towards him. His knife came out of its sheath and fastened itself right next to her neck.
"Now listen very carefully, Shinna, because Trio's life will depend on it."
"Who are you first? Tell us who you are."
"Why I'm Aka of course," Aka said in a sick, mocking tone. Turning serious again he replied, "But I'm the evil part of Aka. His name is spelled the same backwards and forwards and this makes it simple for me to be Aka and not Aka."
"So Aka has a good side and a bad side inside him." Trey muttered, "but how do YOU know about us?"
"That's none of your business," Evil Aka snapped. Pushing the knife downward toward Trio's chest he whispered quietly, "Are you three ready to hear the terms of our agreement?"
"What agreement?" Trio whispered back.
"You three will take me with you," he said loud enough the other two G- Alloids (who were still in shock) could hear him, "to wherever you're going. You won't abandon me. It'll be like I'm one of you."
"Why would we agree to that?" Shinna snapped.
"You agree or she dies!" Aka shouted, emphasizing his point by dragging the knife gently on Trio's thinly bandaged neck.
"Trio? Do you agree?" Trey asked calmly.
"Only on one condition," she replied quietly.
'Trio? Can you hear me?' It was Trey.
'Yea.'
'I think it would be in all of our best interest to agree.'
"What's that condition?" Aka was saying.
"That I be allowed to call you, the Evil Aka, by a different name. You are not Aka."
"And what would that name be?"
"Nekura. It means dark."
"Fine," Nekura replied, pushing the dazed Trio toward her companions as he sheathed his knife. "Let's go."
"It appears so," Shinna retorted, pulling her arm out of Trio's grasp. "Now if you don't mind I'm going to go now." Trio watched Shinna walk back to Trey. Grabbing the backpack, Shinna took off with Trey standing there with the black bag, watching Trio stare in horror at her friend leave her.
Trio blinked, realizing Trey was still standing there.
"Trey, please talk some sense into her!" Trio cried, running up to the sandy-haired boy and grabbing onto his bloody shirt.
"Whoa," Trey said, putting the bag into the Commander's hands and grasping Trio's shoulders. "What's going on?"
"Meet me back at the cleanup tent after you work this out," Commander Askbe said, briskly walking away from the embarrassing situation.
"That's just fine," Trey mumbled to the retreating Commander. Turning back to Trio, he asked, "What's wrong, Diana?"
"I'm afraid it's my fault," Aka interjected. Trey eyed the young man suspiciously. "I seem to have said something to upset your friend."
"UPSET?!" Trio exploded, letting go of Trey and launching herself at Aka. "She thinks I betrayed her; no betrayed us!"
"What in the name of Gundam happened?" Trey said, throwing his hands in the air.
"I accidentally saw Trio, or Diana as you call her, transform to save herself."
"And she told you her name?" Trey asked suspiciously.
"No."
"How do you know it then?"
"I don't know," Aka replied, frowning.
"So she thinks you betrayed us," Trey looked at the ground, concentrating.
"But, but, it's not my fault!"
"Huh?" Trey asked, snapping out of his concentration.
"My transformation, I was helpless. Please talk with her, tell her I didn't tell him ANYTHING!"
"I'll try," Trey replied, walking towards the area Shinna had been heading.
"We'll be right here," Trio said feebly. Trey waved back at her, letting the Deathscythe G-Alloid know he had heard her.
Trio sank to the ground, sobbing under her breath. Aka walked up to her, leaning down next to her and grasping her shoulders in his hands and pulling her down onto the dirt between his legs.
"Relax," the dark-haired boy whispered.
"How can you say that? Y'wanna know what? I don't care!" Trio pushed herself away from Aka and stood up. Turning to face him, anger clearly evident on her face she walked to the back of the alley.
"Trio," Aka pleaded as the young man stood and took a few steps toward the angry girl, "don't be angry."
"Y'know, we had a deal; you could come with me until I found my friends and guess what? I found them. You're now released from your bondage." Trio sat on the ground, her legs pulled toward her body and her face in her lap.
"Trio," Aka replied, walking up to her but not making any motion to touch her, "I can understand that you're mad at me, I had no right to say that. Heck, I don't even remember actually saying it."
Trio looked up. "What do you mean?"
Aka's face took on a pained look. "I have.blackouts sometimes. I'll be living my life and suddenly I'll wake up doing something I shouldn't be. Take for example: I was waiting for you to come out and before I realized it, I was pulling my knife away from your throat and asking you about your friends. And I quite frankly can't remember how I learned your true name either."
Trio put her face back into her lap. "Aka.I'm sorry, but I don't ever want to talk to you again until my friends forgive me."
Aka took a step back. "What? That's quite unlike you to say such a cruel thing!"
Trio looked up at her rescuer with a look of loathing, "Until Tana forgives me and accepts me back or whatever, I don't want to talk to you. You can talk to me all you like, but you'll get no response."
Trio stared into Aka's eyes. As if sensing her anger they darkened and became hard. 'Just like last time,' she noted with a hint of concern.
"Oh you'll talk to me all right, begging me for mercy!" Aka jumped, closing the distance between the two so quickly Trio couldn't move. His hands grasped her throat. Trio screamed in agony while trying to get him to loosen his grip.
"BEG YOU WHORE! BEG FOR YOUR LIFE!" Trio glared at Aka in defiance. "BEG!!!!!" The teen squeezed harder and was rewarded with another scream. "HA! Listen to you scream, now DIE!" Aka squeezed so hard that Trio's vision immediately went black and her scream was cut short.
Gasping for breath, Trio suddenly felt the pressure removed and her voice returned and her vision restored. Trio coughed a few times, which drowned out the sound of the attack on Aka.
"Please! Stop it!" Aka cried out. Trio's vision cleared completely. Trey and Shinna were standing over the bloody Aka, who was cringing against the concrete wall.
"You'll pay!" Shinna was screaming.
"NO!" Trio shouted, jumping in front of a deadly blow Shinna had aimed at Aka's neck. Shinna stopped the attack within an inch of Trio's leg, which would have broken it.
"He tried to KILL you, Trio. Why are you standing up for him?"
"I." Trio looked down, ashamed. "I think he is bipolar. He's a great friend and perfectly harmless unless you make him mad, then his eyes darken to a near black and his face takes on a hardened look. Then he's someone else, deadly and violent."
Trio shook her head. "I'm sorry if you think I betrayed you, but I cannot allow you to hurt him."
"Aka," Trey interrupted, "Do you know anything about this 'other personality'?"
"It seems to know a lot of important information," Aka replied as he sat up.
"What kind of information?" Shinna questioned.
Aka seemed to be reliving a memory he found confusing and frightening but he relived it to save Trio. "I saw her in the alley, beautiful wings extended over the scared man, saw her cut out his tongue and I saw the man run off. I ran up to her when she collapsed, her wings returning to her body and she tried to cut me.
"Once she finally became unconscious I blacked out for just a few seconds.but I didn't black out completely and I heard myself say 'Sleep well, Trio Hawk.'"
"But that doesn't tell us what KIND of information you know," Shinna said irritably.
"Isn't it obvious?" Aka retorted, standing up and leaning toward the little Chinese girl. "It must be information about you guys, whoever you are or WHATEVER you are. Maybe this person knows who you all are and WHAT you all are, but I don't. I know her name is Trio Hawk and she has bat wings. That's it."
"But how do we know you're telling the truth?" Shinna asked doubtfully.
"You don't," Aka replied frankly, "but I." Aka's eyes went wide and his face slack as he stared at Shinna.
"You okay?" Shinna asked, raising her eyebrow.
The daughter of Wufei looked on in horror as the slack face went tight, too tight and the eyes seemed to suck in all the light from the shadows.
"TRIO!" Shinna screamed, "LOOK OUT!" But Trio turned around too late, Aka's hands clasping her around her waist and pulling her back towards him. His knife came out of its sheath and fastened itself right next to her neck.
"Now listen very carefully, Shinna, because Trio's life will depend on it."
"Who are you first? Tell us who you are."
"Why I'm Aka of course," Aka said in a sick, mocking tone. Turning serious again he replied, "But I'm the evil part of Aka. His name is spelled the same backwards and forwards and this makes it simple for me to be Aka and not Aka."
"So Aka has a good side and a bad side inside him." Trey muttered, "but how do YOU know about us?"
"That's none of your business," Evil Aka snapped. Pushing the knife downward toward Trio's chest he whispered quietly, "Are you three ready to hear the terms of our agreement?"
"What agreement?" Trio whispered back.
"You three will take me with you," he said loud enough the other two G- Alloids (who were still in shock) could hear him, "to wherever you're going. You won't abandon me. It'll be like I'm one of you."
"Why would we agree to that?" Shinna snapped.
"You agree or she dies!" Aka shouted, emphasizing his point by dragging the knife gently on Trio's thinly bandaged neck.
"Trio? Do you agree?" Trey asked calmly.
"Only on one condition," she replied quietly.
'Trio? Can you hear me?' It was Trey.
'Yea.'
'I think it would be in all of our best interest to agree.'
"What's that condition?" Aka was saying.
"That I be allowed to call you, the Evil Aka, by a different name. You are not Aka."
"And what would that name be?"
"Nekura. It means dark."
"Fine," Nekura replied, pushing the dazed Trio toward her companions as he sheathed his knife. "Let's go."