Chapter Forty-nine: Aku



A/N: Hey ya'll! This is Chase-chan! Why Anna left me to do the part where Relena comes in, heaven only knows. *insane laughing* Maybe I'll finally be rid of her. I mean. umm. yeah.

Chase pulled her jacket around her bare shoulders. Her dark emerald eyes were watching every movement there was. The light was dimming, and she had yet to find Relena Peacecraft Dorlian.

They had come back to find she had gone into hiding, and no one knew where. Heero had taken to his laptop, combing through every file he could until he had found somewhat of a lead. Chase had taken to the Tama district of Tokyo and was now looking in the most and least likely places for the former queen of the world.

The petite former pilot pulled a cell phone out of her jacket pocket and ran her fingers over the numbers. "Quatre? Yeah. Tell Heero that I'm in the Tama district. Hai. Just tell him. I think he's found a good lead here. Ja."

She flipped the phone closed and hopped up the steps to an old building. It was abandoned, but her instincts told her to look. She never ignored her feelings. Not when her life depended on it.

A scream was heard from where Chase detected to be a level up. She took off in a sprint and slammed into the door that led to the stairwell. Her boots hit lightly as she skipped every other step and raced up the way. She slammed into the door on the second floor, remember that the floor was probably thin and weak, simply because it was so easy to hear through it. That and the building looked like it could have been around two centuries or more.

Chase aimed her castor at the man holding Relena Dorlian and glared. "Release her. Ima," she growled out in harsh Japanese.

The man looked back, surprise written on his face. "No one was supposed to know of this location."

"Apparently you did."

The man's dark eyes narrowed. "I'll kill you if you stay here, kid. Leave."

Chase twitched slightly. "Kodomo?"

"Hai."

The gunshot was abrupt, but dead on. It sent the man sprawling and his young captive screaming. Relena continued to screech as the blood spilt onto her white business suit and then turned her frightened blue eyes on the younger pilot. "You."

Chase smirked. "Yeah, you're gonna have to stop fawning over my husband now. Gomen," she deadpanned.

Relena stood and stared for a moment, then stumbled forward, half tripping at the dead man at her feet. "You didn't have to kill him, Chase-san," she managed.

"Sure I did," Chase responded with a feral grin spreading over her face. "He called me a child."

Relena paled, mentally telling herself NEVER to insult the young woman before her. Her light blue eyes ran over Chase, taking in the sight of the girl that she thought she would never see again. She looked younger than she would have been if she had not "gone home" as Quatre had explained it, though he had given her no details on what that meant. Somehow she had always questioned where those two were from. Otherwise, she looked the same. Her light brown hair hung below her ears, but not quite to her shoulders, her dark, emerald coloured eyes looked as if they would stair strait into your soul and convict you of your many sins that she would make you pay for, and her ever-present jeans and black tank top were covering her small form. Black, fingerless gloves covered her small hands, and black boots that reached to her knees covered her feet. She looked only slightly older.

"Naze?" Relena whispered.

Chase continued to grin the unnerving grin. "Heero. So don't think you've still got a chance with him." She walked up next to the blond, standing slightly shorter than her, and not looking at her, but still facing ahead. "And you'll only be useful for a while. So I wouldn't advise doing anything to upset me."

The pacifist paled considerably. "Chase-san?"

Oh how easy it was to torture the dumb blond! "Heero's waiting for us. Where's Zechs?"

The blond woman took a shaky breath. "Milliardo is waiting for me at the estate."

"Why did he let you come alone?"

"I wasn't alone. Marcus was with me." she whispered, looking at the dead man.

"Until he turned on you for heaven knows how much money they were dealing to him." The pilot shrugged. "Money does nothing for you in hell."

"You seem like your sarcastic self," Relena said with an annoyed look plastered on her face.

Chase smiled again. She was in a mood. She hated the woman before her. She REALLY hated the woman before her. "Do you think I'm being sarcastic when I said you'll only be useful for a while? I don't make idle threats to people like you, Dorlian. You've struck me wrong since the moment I met you. I wouldn't have been as kind as Heero was to you, whether or not I knew how useful you would be. I would have killed you when I first got you alone."

Relena was speechless.

"But I'm not Heero, and he was always a better judge than me."

"Hai."

"Get moving," the smaller woman said as she started down the stairs. "Heero will be waiting."

"Doko?"

Chase didn't answer her as she pulled her cell phone from her pocket. "Quatre? The Peacecraft Estate. Yeah, I've got her. No, not yet. Ja."

"'No not yet' what, Chase-san?"

"He asked if I'd killed you," the pilot answered with a shrug and exited the building, heading for the nearest alley. "Come here."

Relena obeyed with a slightly frightened look on her face. Chase Yuy had never been a stable person, but never had killed on whims like back in the building.

"He was going to kill you," Chase answered, as if reading the elder woman's thoughts.

"How do you know?"

"Instinct. You're needed." That said, she pulled her laptop from her bag and pressed a button. In a flash of white light, they were gone.



It was dark. Completely dark. He hadn't known it could get this dark. Were there no windows? Nothing? He had lost track of time since he had gotten there. There was nothing but darkness.

Then, in a flash of light that looked quite a bit like Chase and Anna's world hopping device, Drizzik stood before him. Ryuujin blinked up at the slightly taller man. Only slightly. And he was thinner looking without his cape and armor. He stood before the young man without flashy looking attire that he had seen him in before. "What is all this?" the blue haired man managed.

Drizzik allowed a slight smile to cross his features as he eyed the smaller man carefully. "Do you want to know about your powers, Ryuujin?"

Ryuujin eyed him carefully. "And what do you know of them."

"You must promise me one thing, Ryuujin. Stay silent until I finish. Ask your questions later."

"Fine."

Drizzik began speaking of things that Ryuujin had never heard of. Something that seemed like a different world. The darkness around them faded and an image surrounded them, but it seemed like a dream. Large, castle like buildings stood all around them and people mulled around them, paying them no mind.

"What is this?" Ryuujin managed.

"This is where you were born. Or at least a mental image of it." Drizzik stopped, almost as if he were trying to think of a way the younger man could comprehend it. "It's like the mental images I sent you at your girl's party."

Ryuujin's eyes narrowed at the mention of Chase, but said nothing.

"This, as I said, was where you were born. It is a different world. Your little girl is not the only one capable of world hopping. Dragons were the first to do so. Like yourself. Like me."

Ryuujin nearly facefaulted. "Dragons?!"

Drizzik nodded, completely unfazed by the younger man's reaction. "When you were young, they sent you to Earth. You are half human and half dragon, a difficulty in their sight. The wanted to be rid of you and sent you to earth."

The scene around them faded to people who Ryuujin recognized as his adopted parents. They were holding a blue haired infant. He reached a hand out to them, reaching through them instead of making contact.

"You were raised as a human, just as your mother was."

"Where are my real parents now?"

Drizzik's expressions did not change, but remained impassive. "Your mother was killed when the Gundam pilot called 04 attacked and destroyed a colony. Your father is now on the world you were born on."

The colony. Ryuujin glared into the nothingness. "So what comes with being half dragon?"

"Power, my friend," Drizzik responded, seemingly pleased with the younger man's question. "Power beyond any mere human's dreams." A smirk crossed his face. "You've released it before. You just don't know how to control it. I can help you control it, Ryuujin. Would you want that?"

Ryuujin thought back to the battle he was sure that Drizzik was speaking of. "You know how to control it?" he whispered.

"If you come with me, I'll show you. Give your allegiance to the Lady."

"The Lady?"

"The Commander of OWN. The Lady Trinity Barton."

Ryuujin scowled at the name "Barton," but let it go as quickly as he had grasped onto it. "Then you'll show me how to control my powers?"

"I can help you control all of them. I will show you how to use your Dragon Blade to its fullest potential."

Ryuujin nodded. "I'll do it," he responded.

Drizzik smiled darkly. "Then why don't you come with me, Ryuujin? The Lady Trinity will want to meet you."



Relena's eyes were wide with fear as the light faded around her and the brunet woman beside her. Chase looked at her from the corner of her eye. "You're alive. Chill," she deadpanned.

Relena stared down at her in horror. "What was that?!"

"A transportation devise. Took us from Tokyo to here."

The blond was still shaking when she saw her brother enter the room. She ran forward and embraced him. "Milliardo! It was awful! I thought she was going to kill me!"

"I resisted the temptation," Chase muttered. Her eyes lit up when Heero walked in behind Zechs. "I would guess that Quatre got you my message, ne?"

"He's in the other room checking on how his stock is doing," Heero said with a half smirk. "I'm glad to see you both safe."

"You married a demon," Relena announced.

Chase choked back a laugh. "Demon. no. Not quite."

"Who's been trying to kill my sister?" Zechs demanded.

Chase stopped smirking, soldier's mask falling into place. "Her own body guard, it would appear, but we need to find out who was paying him." She closed her eyes in thought. "OWN."

"OWN is gone!" Relena announced. "Even I know that! Someone killed Victor."

"That someone was Anna, and I know that. I also know that Victor wasn't the top ranked man in OWN. He had his betters. His betters will want us dead and want this world. They can attack from present and past, and they will use any resources they have. I guarantee it. The way to take over the present is to take out the political leaders that will stand against them. You may not stand with much of a backbone, Relena, but you're standing with a lot of support to make up for your spinelessness. That is all the reason to kill you.

"I, personally, have no use for you, but the public doesn't see it that way. That makes it my job to help you escape those trying to kill you. I will not have the blood splattered reach the faces of the innocents to mar their faces." The green-eyed woman glared. "Stay here."

"But they'll go after those working for me!"

"Maybe they will, but we'll get them as much protection as we can. Quatre can work out quite a bit, and you'll do know good to those below you in rank if you are lying in the street with your blood spread around you."

"What a lovely picture, Chase-san." the elder woman said, face paling.

"I know. Isn't it?" Sarcasm. Long live sarcasm. "Stay here. I won't go out of my way to save you again. You're not worth my valuable time. Time is not something we have to waste."

Heero nodded. "Chase is right, though her wording was a little extreme."

"Live with it."





Chase found herself floating in a void of darkness. "Yume?" she questioned, though she knew it was. The Zero System still affected her mind, as it always had. She had just ignored those effects for the past ten years. Now was the time to start paying more attention.

Mirrors floated from the darkness, forms of her friends showing in them. Wasn't this getting a tad repetitive? They had dealt with that. Victor was dead, and he was the one focusing the games on them. The fragile situations that she had assumed the dream was portraying was dealt with, and now it was a simple war against whoever was heading OWN.

One mirror caught her attention. A mirror of a young man strapped up by his wrists by ribbon type strings that held him into place. His eyes were closed, as if dead, but she saw the steady rise and fall of his chest, amazingly precise in her dream. There was one problem with this scene: the man hanging in the image was dead. "Trowa-kun."

Glass shattered all around her, as the mirrors broke apart. She let out a scream as she sank back down into the darkness, then feeling herself freefall to the ground below, landing hard.

"Nanda.?"

A woman stepped forward, face hidden in the shadows of her hair, so that Chase could not make her features out. She noticed to men standing behind her. One with long violet hair, pulled back into a loose ponytail. His eyes were a piercing crimson colour. The next was taller. Ryuujin! They were both dressed in black armor, dark expressions on their faces.

Chase felt a tear slip down her cheek. "Iie. IIE!"



Chase Yuy sat strait up in the bed she was currently sharing with her husband. Things were about to start moving again, and they needed to make sure that they moved with them.

A scream was heard down the hall, stopping Heero from questioning his wife's sudden jump. "Relena," they said at once, and rushed down the hallway.



A/N: Hey ya'll! This is Chase-chan! Could you tell I've been reading FAR too much CLAMP? Shattering glass. Lol. Oh well. I've been reading X/1999 and Tokyo Babylon. Subaru!! *Drool* Oh well, it has been effecting my new manga DESTINY too. ^^ Long live CLAMP!