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Chapter 1:
Nightmares

The morning was warm. Spring had finally been allowed to arrive inside the colony. As he walked around, WuFei Chang felt out of place but familiar with his surroundings. A warm smiled crossed his lips as his mind finally accepted his location. He was home.

He slowly made his way to the back door, the floor creaking in that familiar way with each step. Stepping outside, his dark eyes wondered over to the familiar corner in the garden. There, slouched beside the small fish pond, was a young girl. Her long black hair held by a red ribbon. She was dressed in lavender Chinese dress, lined with gold and decorated richly with small, teal colored three-leafed patters on each of the v-cuts. It was his mother's family crest.

He felt his smile widen as he stepped out and headed towards the pond. The small girl was once again talking to the pond turtle he had bought for her a few months back. The animal turned the moment it noticed his approach and disappeared into the water. WuFei stood silently besides the girl as she tore up the remainder of the old lettuce in her hand and tossed it onto the water.

"It's a nice day, isn't it gēge?" she looked up at him with a smile.

He smiled back. "Don't you have classes today?" he asked her.

"Yes," she answered getting up, "but if I don't feed the turtle, no one else will."

WuFei smiled softly to himself as he watched the girl get up. She adjusted her dress and then proceeded to make her way back into the house. She paused at the door, waving at him before disappearing inside.

He closed his eyes taking in his surroundings once more.

It all felt so good.

It was so very good to finally be back home again.

An eerily familiar beeping began to grow louder somewhere nearby. The Asian boy opened his eyes and found himself seated inside his gundam's cockpit. He stared at the screens before him for a moment. The confusion on his face slowly turning to disbelief. A colony was being smothered in yellow and red flames. It was blowing up from the inside. One by one, he watched as explosions engulfed the old colony, giving off a dazzling display of color against the black void of space.

"No," he whispered to himself. "No... It can't..." He unbuckled himself from his seat, leaning forward to touch the monitor in front of him. He watched in horror as the colony continued to be destroyed.

"NNOOO!" he finally wailed at the top of his lungs, pounding the monitor with both his fists.

WuFei jolted up on his bed in a cold sweat. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest as he gasped for air. His body was shaking uncontrollably as his breathe came sharply.

"No," he muttered to himself, leaning forward. "It was just a dream," he told himself as he brought his shaking hands up to his face. "It was just a dream," he continued to calm himself.

It was a dream, yet his throat was sore and his left hand was in pain, throbbing, like he had hit something hard. He ignored the physical pain, rubbing his eye trying to drown out the emotional sting that the dream had brought back into his mind. He felt something sticky rubbing off from his hand onto his face. He looked down at his hand and found that there was blood on it. Stunned, he examined it carefully and quickly realized that it wasn't his.

"You're strong even in your dreams," a voice came from somewhere below him. WuFei looked over the side of his bunk bed. Sally Po was floating near the floor with her hands up to her face. She tugged at the end of her Preventer's jacket and put it under her nose. The sleeve quickly absorbed the blood that came flowing out. "Well, at least you're awake now," she said in a chirpy voice, "it looked like you needed to wake up."

"I'm sorry," WuFei said as he jumped down from his bed, "I didn't mean to-"

"It's ok," she replied, "like I said, you needed to wake up."

The Asian boy darted out of the room quickly, leaving Sally to tend to her wound. Her clear eyes scanned the space slightly above her head as small drops of blood where floating around in the air. The gravity on the ship was enough to hold down most large objects, but not the small or weightless ones.

"He's pretty strong for being so scrawny," she said to herself as she stood up, leaning up again the bunk bed. "They're all pretty strong, even though they look like they've barely eaten."

The blood finally stopped and her eyes wandered over to WuFei's Perventer jacket, which he had been using as a pillow. It began to float now that there was nothing pinning it down. A scrape of paper caught her attention. Her curiosity got the best of her as she reached over to one of the pockets and pulled out an old photograph. The picture was worn with its edges frayed, a missing bottom right piece, and a large tear which had been carefully taped back together again. On the back there was something written in Chinese. She wondered what the characters of this nearly forgotten ancient language read.

The woman turned the picture over and was greeted by two smiling faces. A much younger looking WuFei was holding a small girl in his arms. He couldn't have been much older than ten years old in the photo. She laughed to herself as she noted that the younger man hadn't changed much from this picture. "I wonder who this is..?" she studied the small girl in his arms.

"MeiLi," WuFei's voice came from behind her.

She jumped. She hadn't noticed when he had returned. Hastily, she placed the picture on the edge of the bed. "Ohh! That was quick!"

WuFei tossed a roll of toilet paper at her before giving a small leap back up to his bed. "I'm sorry," he apologized once more before folding his jacket and placing it under his head as he lay down once more. The picture began to float around in front of him.

As Sally wiped the last of the dried blood from her face, she watched WuFei as he stared at the photograph. He had that cold expression on his face again. "Is she a friend of yours?" she asked, "she's cute."

"She was my sister" he replied coldly.

"Sister!" Sally looked at him surprised, his expression remained the same. "Shouldn't you go to her?" she asked after a brief moment of silence, "Or, if you'd like, we can bring her aboard this ship and-"

"I said 'was'," he interrupted, "She was my sister."

Sally was puzzled for a moment. She leaned forward onto the top bunk and began, "It's not good for family to fight. Did she do something to you? Or did you do something to her to upset her?"

His expression softened a little. "She died," he answered quietly.

Sally stood up straight. "I'm sorry," she said as she realized what she had done, "I didn't mean to-"

"It doesn't matter," he cut her off coldly again. "You didn't know... no one did. Not even Duo when he gave me that letter." He cracked a cynical smile. "I guess that guy really is a shinigami in a way... even if he didn't know it at the time."

Sally sat down on the bottom bunk. A sister? Never in her life would she have imagined that WuFei had a sister. The only person that she had ever known about that was important to WuFei was of the girl MeiLan. And even so, she knew very little of her. But a sister?

"MeiLi was four years younger than me," WuFei began softly. Sally looked up surprised. "Our parents wanted to go down to earth, to China, but they knew our clan was forbidden to ever return. I don't know why we were and I don't really care. But they went anyways. The government of the time arrested them. Master Long tried to reason with the government to let them have a safe return back home, but he couldn't do anything. I have no idea what happened to them. I was only nine at the time. MeiLi was barely five. She wasn't old enough to remember them." He paused for a moment. "I tried to be a good brother, but we were always fighting... we never agreed on anything... I never got to tell her that I was sorry for all those times... that I hurt her." His voice grew shaky with the last sentence. Sally could hear him holding back his grief.

A/N:

7/7/08:
So I just got back from the Anime Expo where I was part of a fanfic writing panel and was greatly surprised by the turn out of people. Wow, I was scared shitless to be sitting up there on that stage. Anywho, it was great and I was really happy to see that a lot of people were genuinely interested in what we had to say. I thank you all for being there and I'm sorry if we didn't get to your question. It was a blast and from my understanding we're doing it again next year.

Anywho, seeing as how so many people turned up and all I thought I should be a good enough writer and do what some of my fellow collegues said. So now, I'm going back through the few fics I have here and fixing them up... 'cus, like it was said in the panel, there are so many horrible and stupid mistakes made in these stories that it's shameful. So be a lil pacient and I'll revamp these fics once chapter at a time.

Thanks and enjoy the read!

10/2011:
Good LORD! There were a ton or grammatical and sentence structure errors! Alright, so I'm going to be sprucing and beefing these GundamW stories a bit. Nothing major though, just more on the editing side