Author: Fate's Child (Terra Brooks)
Date: April 8, 2002
E-mail: Prncss_Earth@hotmail.com
Chapter 11
Author: Fate's Child (Terra Brooks)
Date: April 21, 2002
E-mail: Prncss_Earth@hotmail.com
Question: does anyone read these damn notes at the top?! Huh? Because if you do, I would like to know why, in the previous chapter, when I stated that there was a two year different between Duo and Lita that the senshi were therefore 23 and the pilots –with the exception of Heero and Trowa- are 18. Does 18 plus 2 equal 23? I may be doing poorly in math, but seriously!!
The senshi are : 21
G-boys: 19—Heero and Trowa 20
Going home and finding Serenity
As Serenity sat in the chair opposite Heero, she mentally went through a list of what she knew about the Gundam pilots. When she stated that she didn't want any details left out, she wanted to make sure he included every major organization they had been against. She had a gut feeling that something may come in handy later, if it was nothing but the technology that the organizations used.
Heero gave a sigh when had first heard Serenity's order. He knew she wanted the complete rundown, from the minute he had been capable of holding onto memories. So he started with being on the streets, dressed in nothing but rags, and constantly going hungry. Sympathy stirred in her eyes for the child he had been, but it was anger that replaced it when she heard of the "training" that Dr. J had put him through. Hr gave her a small smile and moved on, indicating it was in the past. He leapt into great detail, however, when it came to Operation Meteor and the Eve Wars. It was this point in his life that he had first come across the pilots, the reincarnation of his friends. He told of how Duo had shot him when they first met, and how, no matter how bad he tried, it seemed that even in his Perfect Soldier mode they became friends. Light entered Serenity's eyes as she heard of their battles and their triumphs, both in personal struggles and the ones they faced as soldiers.
As he finished, she stood silently and walked over to where he was. As he looked up at her, the moon shone bright against the black sky and he realized that he had been talking for hours or more. The others wouldn't be worried about him and Lita so much, but Quatre may be worried about his sister right now. He opened his mouth to say so when she put her hand over his mouth.
"Heero. I am sorry for the trials you have had to endure this lifetime. I am sorry that I was not able to be here to share them with you, as your friend and your Princess. But mostly, I am sorry that you have to be apart from Lita now." Her eyes grew a bit harder and he knew that he was about to be ordered. He smiled mentally. She was still easy to read, it wasn't in her to be deceitful when it came to her true emotions. "You are never to hide your emotions for me."
He smiled outright then. "Is that an order?" She smiled back.
"A request, from an old friend. But if you think you're going to have a hard time following it, you can treat it as an order, a kind of mission." A mischievous glint lit her eyes. "Mission accepted or declined, soldier?"
"Mission Accepted," he replied, his voice gone flat. At her level stare, he almost flushed. "Force of habit. It'll probably take me a while to be back to General Yui and be comfortable showing my emotions to others."
"I understand." She winced lightly, "that's almost creepy, Heero, how you can make your voice go flat like that."
"Yeah, you're telling me."
"But they never broke you, did they? Never took away your humanity. You learned to hide it instead of losing it." He nodded.
"They should title me the Master Deceiver, not the Perfect Soldier." He shook his head. "On another note, what do you want to tell the other pilots?"
"I would like them to live a normal life for little bit longer." She tapped her finger against her lower lip and narrowed her eyes thoughtfully. "But I don't know how long we can pull it off. Duo will definitely want to know what happened to his sister. He was always protective with her so if he tries to hurt you or me to find out where she is-"
"He won't hurt you. Me on the other hand…" Heero trailed off, a smile in his voice.
"So we'll revive Duo's memories. Setsuna did something with Rei and Wufei's lives that I haven't quite figured out yet. Something about his now dead wife. I don't want to awaken Wufei's memories yet and Quatre and Trowa are so happy with their lives." Her voice took on a puzzled tone. "I don't know what happened to Endymion."
"What are you talking about?" Heero asked, annoyance creeping into his voice at the mention of the earth prince's name.
"Mamo-chan has to be worried about me by now." She winced. "Which means Mako-chan will get heat for it. Don't worry," she added as she saw the look of anger on Heero's face. "He won't hurt her and if he tried she'd fry him. But it just seems odd that he hasn't…" She sighed. "Damn it." Her voice took on a hard edge one only heard when she was really angry. "Damn it!"
"Want to share with the class?" Heero joked, trying to get her to lighten up.
"You hardly count as an entire class, General Yui, though you do have the maturity of a five year old sometimes," she snapped.
"Hey Ren, what's up?" She gave him a cold glare.
"He hasn't asked because he already expected me to be dead. I thought it was odd that Haruka or Michiru hadn't mentioned that he had been frantic to find me. Now I know why. He thinks that I'm dead and that he's broken up the Sailor senshi."
"Still not following," Heero told her as she began to pace.
"The youma that was sent after Mako-chan and I. We thought it was odd, but shrugged it off. I mean, we haven't had an youma since the defeat of Beryl and we thought it was really strange, but it was something we could wait to speak with the other senshi about. The only thing with the energy of the Dark Kingdom-the only known thing to survive the dark kingdom, was my dear, dear Mamo-chan."
"Mamo-chan?"
"Damn it, Yui! Endymion! The man I've been dating for the past six years or so! I didn't particularly like him, but it was a lose, lose situation. We needed Tuxedo Kamen for battles-Goddess only knows why, 'cause I certainly don't-and so I had to pretend to like him. He didn't have me completely fooled, but I thought he was nice enough. A little cold, but nice enough. But-"
"Serenity, you need to sit down, take a breath and tell me your story. From the minute you left this dimension." Heero's eyes were hard. "It seems that you don't quite remember what a slime Endymion was."
"Wasn't I engaged to him?" Her voice was curious.
"Engaged?" He gave
a quick, heart felt laugh. "If I
remember correctly three weeks after your first meeting, you wanted to kill him."
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"Of all the arrogant, egotistical, evil things to do!" The girls watched in amusement as their usually collected princess paced the room back and forth.
"Want to tell us what's wrong, Serenity, or are you going to just go around cursing some unknown foe all day?" Makoto asked, leaning back into her chair.
"Endymion! That damn asshole!" Everyone in the room looked close to laughter. It was not unusual for Makoto, Haruka and Rei to lose their tempers. When Minako and surprisingly Michiru lost their tempers, it was quick and furious. When Ami, Serenity or Hotaru lost theirs, however, it was long and it was vicious. They were slow to anger, but it lasted. Setsuna insisted she never REALLY lost her temper. Of course she did control the time gates and it wasn't her fault when a violent wind storm that was scheduled for a week later happened to severely injure the man that had insulted her planet.
"What did he do? Last week you were all a flutter about his pretty blue eyes," Haruka teased.
"Shut up!" She turned furious eyes on her cousin. Everyone in the room straightened.
"Ren, what's wrong?" Ami asked this time.
"I am good at reading auras, reading the hearts of people! Yet he managed to get past. I was nothing more then a simpering female at his disposal!" She shrieked.
"You weren't that bad, Renity." Minako soothed. They all HAD been wondering what was up with Serenity lately, but…
"He. Was. Using. Magic. To. Interfere. With. My. Powers." She spaced each word out between clenched teeth. "He. Wants. To. Sleep. With. Me. To. Gain. Power." When her friends began to shoot off energy, she knew she had gotten through to them.
"He what?" Makoto's voice had gone soft but had taken on a dangerous edge. "He knows that you and my brother are an item. The whole kingdom knows you and my brother are an item."
"But he obviously wants to "ravish her until she doesn't know what her own name is, much less that she shouldn't be telling me the secrets to her kingdom. She's practically a piece of clay in my hands already. And I won't mind molding her. I won't mind having my hands on her at all"." Everyone turned to look at the shadow that was lounging in a corner.
"Heero?" Makoto asked. The shadow nodded.
"We didn't like him and have been fallowing him around for a week. This was the first incriminating evidence we'd got against him though."
"He obviously doesn't care that Ren was simply being hospitable to him," said another voice from the opposite corner of the room. Ami let up a shriek as Duo stepped out from behind a column.
"All of you, get out here right now!" She demanded. "I don't like being crept up on!" Wufei, Trowa and Quatre all stepped out into the open.
"I was taken in by his good looks and what seemed to be a charming personality," Serenity admitted. "But I am in LOVE with Duo and my feelings are not so shallow that I would jump into bed with him!!" Duo flashed a smile.
"Thanks babe!" She growled at him and glared.
"I hate it when you call me that!" He smiled, she glowered. "I want to kill him." It came out as a hiss.
"Can't do that. But we can send him home and shut off the links to earth." Trowa suggested.
"But we can't do that," Serenity whispered. Quatre nodded in agreement.
"I agree with my sister. We can't simply decide that all of the Terran people are the same as that one slime ball. I mean, what if Haruka was the only member of the Silver Millennium they had ever met?" Quatre teased his cousin. "They'd think all of our females looked like males and visa versa." Haruka threw a pillow at him.
"What do we do then?" Michiru asked.
"Oh, this'll be good," Rei smiled, rubbing her hands together. "We make his life here a living hell."
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To be continued…
That was a flashback to anyone who didn't get it. Sorry this chapter is short, but I am major stressed with school and it was a stretch to get this one out. Here's the deal, I want to know that people like this story. I am having a really hard time finding time to write (it's times like these I wish I was Pluto) so I need to know that you like this story and don't want to wait until the end of june (when school gets out) to read the rest of the chapters and the end! You NEED to review because my ego is deflating and when that happens, no new or good chapters come out.
