AN: I just want to say that this chapter is dedicated to Dragon and to Duo and Hotaru lovers, especially Miko of Shinigami Arigatou very much for the suggestion of the ?/Wufei pair I'm sure we'll all love it. *whispers* and hopefully especially Dragon ^_^ . Anyway on with the fic!!! *ignores questioning looks from Dragon and Wufei*
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***** last time ******
"Mission Accepted"
**** present time ****
Deathsycthe, Sandrock, Nataku and Heavyarms were fighting OZ mobile suits outside Oz's base.
"What's keeping them so long?" said Duo in Deathscythe impatiently as he destroyed three mobile suits with his scythe.
"Patience Maxwell!" exclaimed Wufei in Nataku as he hit the mobile suits with his sword.
"Duo look out!" cried out Quarte in Sandrock, noticing a mobile suit hovering above Deathscythe, ready to attack.
"Nani?!" shrieked Duo. He looked up and noticed the mobile suit.
"Eep!" shouted Duo, raising his scythe to evade the up-coming attack. As the mobile suit was about to hit him, a purple blast hit the mobile suit, causing it to explode in pieces.
"Nani?" wondered Duo.
The other three pilots were wondering the same thing.
As they looked up, it was then that they noticed three mobile suits. Each one of them looks exactly the same, except for their colors and the symbols in their chests.
"Duo, are you okay?" asked a quiet voice inside the mobile suit colored purple and black with the planet Saturn in it's chest, holding two crescent-shaped gold and dark violet scythes, which obviously was the one who saved him.
"Ho….ta…ru?" asked Duo in disbelief, recognizing the voice.
"Hai, but for now, call me Saturn" replied Hotaru softly.
"If you're Hotaru then they must be…." trailed off Quarte, looking at the other two mobile suits and gundam.
"Really, you men are so weak. We can't even leave you alone for a couple of minutes without having to save your hides." muttered Dragon half-amusingly as she maneuvered her gundam, Celeste, closer.
"Shut up Dragon!" growled Wufei. He wasn't in the mood to argue with the Dragon girl.
"Oh put a sock in it, O5." replied Dragon in the same manner.
The sandy yellow and gold colored mobile suit with the planet Uranus in its' chest and holding two swords, said "Where's Selene?"
"Hush Uranus, you know you can't say our real names during a mission!" answered a voice inside a blue-green and green-blue mobile suit with the symbol of Neptune in it, two huge cannons on its shoulders.
"Gomen Neptune, I guess it slipped out of my mind. Anyway where is she?" said Uranus a.k.a. Haruka.
"She and Perfect Soldier boy are inside the base, getting the disk," answered Duo.
"I see," said Uranus,
'Princess I hope you're okay' thought the four girls.
~ Inside OZ's base ~
Cosmos Selene and Heero ran towards the computer room, leaving a trail of unconscious OZ soldiers behind them. Cosmos got inside and hacked the computer, looking for the info while Heero stayed outside and guarded the door.
'Come'on where is it!' thought Cosmos impatiently as she furiously typed the computer's keyboard.
After a few minutes… 'Aha! Success!' thought Cosmos as she founded the info.
After saving it in the disk, Cosmos took the disk and placed it in her pocket. Cosmos was about to head outside when she thought, 'Better destroy the computer'. The girl took out her gun and blasted the computer, leaving nothing but small broken pieces of machinery.
'Well like dad said, "Destroy the evidence and save your ass."' thought Cosmos, smirking AN: I don't know what else to write!.
Cosmos opened the door and said to Heero, whose leaning against the wall besides the door, "Mission accomplish, let's go."
Heero glanced at her before he nodded his head.
Cosmos nodded back and the two began to head towards their gundams.
As they ran towards the dark path, Heero didn't notice an OZ soldier nearly hidden in the dark, but Cosmos did. As the soldier was about to shot Heero in the chest, Cosmos shoved Heero away, leaving him unharmed. Unfortunately, Cosmos wasn't fast enough to dodge herself away from the bullet's path and got shot near the chest.
"Kuso…" growled Heero furiously as Cosmos cried out in pain and shrank to her knees, clutching the wound in her chest tightly.
"Omae o Korusou!" shouted Heero as he took out his gun and shot the soldier straight in the heart.
As the dead soldier fell down, Heero got to his knees and said to Cosmos, "Are you okay?"
Cosmos gave a small smile and replied, "I'm fine. I've been through worse," but stopped as she winced out in pain.
"Don't worry, I'll get us out of here," said Heero, placing one hand in Cosmos' back and the other below her knees.
"Nani? Heero, I told you I'm fine! I can walk on my own," protested Cosmos as Heero carried her.
Heero didn't reply and just kept running towards their gundams with Cosmos in his arms.
As the two reached their gundams, Cosmos said, "Let me go Heero! I have to pilot White Moon!"
Heero was about to protest when he noticed Cosmos' eyes glowing dark red.
"All right," said Heero, placing Cosmos down on the ground reluctantly but gentle nevertheless.
"Arigatou Heero," said Cosmos as she got on White Moon.
"Hnn," replied Heero as he got on Wing Zero.
As the two in their respective gundams lifted themselves in the air, Cosmos said weakly, "Heero, push the activation button,"
"Hnn.." replied Heero as he pushed the button, the base exploded in a huge fireball. An: too lazy to say that they planted exploding devices in the base
'Mission Accomplish' thought Heero as the two flew away in their gundams.
~ Outside the OZ's base ~
"Where the hell are they?! They've been gone for an hour and a half already!!!" shouted Uranus, as she furiously attacked a tall tree which looks like it's gone threw a hurricane AN: Guess why and how! ^.^ .
"Calm down Haruka," said Dragon before an explosion was heard.
"Nani?!" exclaimed Wufei as they turned to face the direction of the OZ's base where it looks like an exploding volcano.
"Huh? What's that?" asked Dragon. She narrowed her eyes to see two figures coming towards them.
"It's them! Cosmos and Heero," stated Saturn, using her mobile suit's ability to see anything from afar.
"Finally, about time they got here," said Dragon.
As the others waited for the two to land, something happened in Cosmos' gundam. The gundam began to fall down at a tremendous speed before finally hitting the ground.
"Selene!" cried out the rest except Heero and rushed towards White Moon.
"What happened?!" demanded Haruka as Heero got off Wing Zero and approached them.
"Hnn.." replied Heero and began trying to open White Moon.
Haruka was about to ask him another question when Michiru placed her hand in Haruka's shoulder and shook her head. Seeing this, Haruka reluctantly calm down.
"Come on guys! Let's get Selene out of White Moon," said Duo.
The rest nodded their heads and began trying to open White Moon's chest.
After a few seconds they managed to open the door. Inside they saw Selene in her chair, clutching the wound in her chest which continued to bleed fibrously. The silver-haired girl seemed barely conscious.
"Koneko!" "Selene!" cried out the girls.
"She was shot in the chest." stated Heero as he knelt down close to Selene to check her injuries before cradling her in his arms. When no one moved, the brown-haired boy snapped back at them in a harsh voice, Prussian blue eyes glaring at them coldly. "Well don't just stand there, help me get her to the hospital."
The girls immediately nodded their heads while the boys, except Heero, had shocked looks on their faces.
'Heero talked!' thought Trowa. 'Could Selene be the reason for this?'
He glanced at the silver-blue haired girl in Heero's arms before snapping out of it. 'Baka Barton! This is not the time to think about this! Selene needs help.' scolded the voice in Trowa's head.
"Come on minna! Time's wasting!" shouted Trowa, snapping the other three boys back to reality.
They were about to go to their gundams when a faint voice cried out.
"Iie…" Selene managed to mutter out.
Everyone turned around to face Selene.
"What do you mean No?" asked Heero gently, looking down at the girl in his arms. A thought crossed his mind. 'My tenshi…'
He slapped himself mentally. 'Wait a minute!! What did I mean about `my` tenshi?!?! I'm the Perfect Soldier!! I'm not supposed to feel this way!' thought the cold blue-eyed boy. He growled inwardly. How can a single female managed to make him feel these emotions? Not even Relena (AN: *coughs* The Bitch Queen *coughs*) could make him feel anything except loathing and despise.
"You don't have to take me to the hospital," replied Selene, her silver eyes met with Heero's blue ones.
"Nani?! You're not going to do it Koneko. We won't let you!" shouted Haruka. The other girls nodded their heads in agreement.
"What do you mean by `it` ?" asked Quarte.
"Besides, you're too weak right now," said Ryu, ignoring the blonde boy's question.
"I can do it. Don't worry about me. Besides I'm a lot stronger now than before," defended Selene, she smiled weakly.
"Oh all right," replied Haruka, feeling defeated. Their princess was just too stubborn.
"But if anything goes wrong. You'll have to go to the hospital," continued Michiru.
"Hai," agreed Selene, a small smile plastered on her face. "Arigatou minna."
The silver-blue haired girl than freed herself from Heero's arms and placed her hands together for concentration.
A golden glow surrounded Selene.
The rest simply looked on, already used to the glowing and flashing colors of bright auras.
After a few seconds, the glow disappeared. The gang saw Selene smiling at them, her wound gone.
"What happened?" asked Quarte, his and the rest of the four boys' faces filled with shock while the girls' are filled with relief.
"I have the power to heal Quarte," replied Selene.
"Anyway let's go back to the lab. The doctors are probably worrying about us right now." continued Selene before approaching White Moon and jumping into its porch.
The rest followed her example and went to their mobile suits/gundams.
As the six gundams and four mobile suits flew towards the lab, Heero thought.
'There's more to you than what you told us and I'm determined to find out what it is.' before finally relaxing his mind by looking at the scenery the gang passed by.
~ Back at Dr.'s lab ~
As Selene and the rest jumped down from their gundams/mobile suits, the girls noticed a tall woman with long green hair twisted in a bun and wearing a lab coat talking to Dr. J.
'Puu-chan!' 'Setsuna!' 'Setsuna-mama!,' thought Selene and the other girls as Dr. J and the green-haired woman approached the pilots.
"Did you get it Selene?" asked Dr. J.
Selene smirked and took out something from her pocket. She held it out to the grinning scientist.
"Excellent! Very good for your first mission." replied the scientist, placing the disk securely in his pocket.
The woman gave a small cough, signaling that she was still there.
"Ohh!! sorry. I forgot that you haven't been introduced yet." exclaimed Dr. J.
Clearing his throat, he said, "This is Dr. M. She'll be joining us as of today"
"Thank you Dr. J," replied Dr. M politely. She turned to face the gang and continued.
"As you already known, I'm Dr. M. I'm the girls' trainer and guardian. I specialize in almost anything at involves the gundams" said the green-haired scientist, giving the girls a wink, a bit of amusement in her vermilion eyes.
"Injustice! Not only do we have five weak onna pilots but also an onna scientist!" exclaimed Wufei with rage.
The girls, excluding Dr. M, turned to faced the Chinese boy,
"Stop calling us Onnas!!" ordered the girls as they gave Wufei death glares.
Dr. M pitied the poor Chinese boy who's obviously going to be killed if she didn't interrupt. "As you should know, since the five original pilots live in the Peacecraft Pacifism Academy dormitory, it's quite difficult for them to come here on time so Dr. J, me and the other scientists decided that the boys will stay at Selene's and the other girls' mansion since it's nearer compared to the dorms."
As expected Duo gave a huge, hentaish grin. Wufei was muttering about weak onnas, especially a certain brown-haired one and injustice. Haruka was muttering Japanese curses under her breath. Ryu was muttering about living with a certain pig-headed Chinese boy. Quarte was blushing all over, looking like a very ripe tomato. Michiru and Selene raised their eyebrows in amusement as they watched the others' reactions. Hotaru was blushing a pale pink. Trowa remained his usual silent self and Heero just 'Hnn'.
"Great," said Dr. J before turning to faced the gundam boys. "Now you don't need to worry about your dorm rooms. I already told Miss Peacecraft that you're moving. Also you don't need to worry about your stuff. They're all packed and are placed into your vehicles. All you have to do is go to your vehicle and drive to the girls' mansion. Your vehicles are at the back."
The good doctor pointed at the back door.
"Wait a minute. Don't we have something to say about this?" asked Ryu, determined not to let the gundam boys stay at their mansion.
"Ryu stop it." replied Selene, turning to face Dr. J, "We don't mind. It's for the best ne?"
"Hai," replied Dr. J. "Now go on, get out of here. We don't want to waste time now do we?" asked Dr. J, looking at the teenagers.
A series of No's answered him.
Dr. J nodded his head while the gang went to their separate ways. The girls going to the practice area to train for a while and the boys going outside to take a look at their vehicles.
As soon as the pilots were gone, Dr. M faced the other scientist and asked amusingly, "You're not doing this just because of the dormitory, are you?"
"Well not entirely," answered Dr. J truthfully. His grin, if possible, grew wider.
"It'll be kind of interesting to see how well they'll do when they live in the same house."
"Yes, you're probably right," agreed Dr. M before letting out a sigh.
'I just hope that they won't end up killing each other," thought Dr. M, thinking about Haruka, Ryu, Wufei, Duo and Heero.
She shook her head in vain. She suddenly felt pity for poor Shirai and Chiyu.
~ The girls' mansion ~
"Whew!!! I never thought that carrying all of that stuff would be exhausting." complained Duo, flopping down at the couch.
The boys had just finished unpacking their stuff in their rooms and are now at the lying at the living room's sofa, watching television.
"Baka Maxwell! Your stuff is twice as more than ours put together!" shouted Wufei.
The girls just went inside the living room when they heard the two.
"Tell me why again that I can't kill them now?" whispered Ryu to Selene as they approached the gundam boys.
"Because they're important in this dimension's future and besides they're our friends." Selene whispered back to the brown-haired girl.
"Humph," replied Ryu,
"Baka Chinese," muttered Ryu loud enough to reach Wufei's ears.
"Watch what you're saying onna!" shouted Wufei,
"I'm not an onna! You pig-head jerk!," shouted Ryu back.
'She and Wufei are so alike it's almost scary. They're perfect for each other,' thought Selene as she watched her friend and Wufei shooting daggers at each other through their eyes.
Selene cleared her throat to get their attention and said, "Now let's decide who will tour who around the mansion." looks at the others "Hmm…" she thought for awhile. "How about Michiru will be Quarte's guide. Hotaru will be Duo's. Haruka will be Trowa's and Ryu will be Wufei's,"
"Nani?!" cried out Ryu and Wufei at the same time.
The two looked at each other "Me and him/her?!" before turning away.
"I'm not going with a weak onna!" shouted Wufei, his arms crossed around his chest.
"And I'm not going with a pig-headed jerk!" shouted Ryu back.
"No excuses." frowned Selene,
"Ryu, you'll guide Wufei and Wufei you better let Ryu be your guide or else," continued Selene, her voice has an inch of threat in it.
The two dragons gulped, they knew that Selene is usually a patience and kind person, but when you reached the limit, you better watch out.
"Oh all right," said both Ryu and Wufei reluctantly.
"Good," said Selene, a grin replaced her previous frown. "Now does anyone else have any complaints?"
A bunch of no's and hnn's filled the air.
"Okay then, we'll go on separate directions and we'll meet again here just before supper k? If any of you need me or Heero, we'll be at the gardens." continued Selene and took Heero's hand.
Selene and Trowa went to the gardens, Haruka and Heero at the weapon storage room, Michiru and Quarte at the music room, Ryu and Wufei at the gym and Hotaru and Duo at the kitchen.
~ Ryu and Wufei ~
~ Gym ~
"This is the gym. We usually used this as a practice area," stated Ryu as she stopped in front of a golden double door AN: You know the one that looks like two doors compressed besides one another.
"Yare..yare," replied Wufei in a bored voice.
Ryu glared at the black-haired boy.
"This is not my idea of a way to spend my day either," replied Ryu angrily as she pushed opened the door.
The door opened to reveal a large wooden floored room with marble walls. The room was filled with many fighting equipment and a stage was built in the right side of the room.
"It's for stage performances and sword practicing," said Ryu dryly as Wufei raised an eyebrow.
"Sure," replied Wufei, his voice annoying Ryu, and proceeded to walk towards a punching bag and began punching it with his fists.
'Show off,' thought Ryu as she watched Wufei practicing.
"How about a fight Wufei?" challenged Ryu.
Wufei stopped punching and faced Ryu.
"Onna, I have no intention of fighting with a weakling." replied Wufei coolly, looking at the brown-haired girl, fixing his black-brown eyes at her icy blue ones.
"Why? Are you afraid that I'll beat you?" asked Ryu, a mocking tone in her voice.
"Nani?! Well okay then onna! Let's fight!" exclaimed Wufei and got into a fighting position.
"Hai!" replied Ryu and also got into a fighting position.
Ryu started the fight by sending a simple leg sweep at Wufei, Wufei managed to jump just in time and threw a punch at Ryu. Ryu dodged it just barely and sent a karate kick at Wufei. Wufei caught Ryu's foot with his hand and with one swift movement, sent Ryu falling to the floor. Unfortunately Ryu caught Wufei's arm, causing him to fall along with her. The fight ended with Wufei on the floor and Ryu on top of him. AN: Don't even think about it you hentais!!!
"Well ummm.. Gomen nasai," said Ryu, as she got up from Wufei, a blush appeared on her cheeks.
"It's okay…umm," replied Wufei and got up from the floor, a blush even redder than Ryu's in his cheeks.
The two dragon warriors looked down at the floor, the blush still on their cheeks.
"Well ummm… You fought well," said Wufei, still looking at the gym's floor.
Ryu's head snapped up in surprise.
"This is the first time that you've ever compliment me," observed Ryu, the blush gone from her cheeks.
"Really? I didn't know…," replied Wufei, looking up from the floor, the blush on his cheeks gone.
Ryu still had a look of surprise on her face before a smile appeared on her lips.
"Arigatou," Ryu said and lifted her face up towards Wufei.
Wufei unconsciously leaned towards Ryu and their lips met in a sweet kiss.
'This feels so right,' thought Ryu as Wufei kissed her.
'I've never felt this way since Merian died,' thought Wufei as he continued to kiss Ryu.
After a few minutes later, the two broke the kiss.
"Umm… Gomen for doing that," said Wufei.
Ryu looked at the Chinese boy and asked, "Why?"
"Huh?," asked Wufei, looking down at Ryu.
"Why did you say that you're sorry?" asked Ryu, smiling as she leaned in for another kiss.
"Don't you know that I love you?" whispered Ryu.
Wufei looked at her as if she had just grown another head, before he began to smile.
"Iie, why don't you show me?" said Wufei as he brought his lips closer to Ryu's .
"Gladly," answered Ryu and proceeded to kiss Wufei.
"Ashteriu my dragon princess." whispered Wufei.
"Ashteriu my dragon warrior." whispered Ryu back.
~ Hotaru and Duo ~
~ Kitchen ~
"Sugoi! I can't believe there's so many foods in here!" exclaimed Duo with joy as he began to ram on of the one of the kitchen's refrigerators.
Hotaru didn't reply but just smiled.
'So I guess my competition is food heh?' thought the black haired girl as she watch Duo eating a piece of chocolate cake happily.
Duo than remembered her and said, "Want some? It's really good," handing out some cake to her.
"No thanks. I'm not very hungry," replied Hotaru before the ground suddenly began to shake.
"What the…" said Duo.
Hotaru interrupted him and took out a violet colored pen with the symbol of Saturn in it and shouted, "Saturn Power Make Up!,"
As she held her pen upwards, a dark violet light surrounded Hotaru.
When the light disappeared, where Hotaru stood before now stand Sailor Saturn, wearing a white upper body suit, a dark purple miniskirt with a black bow on its back and another in front at her chest. Black trimmings adorn her violet gloves, her violet collar and her tall violet boots.
Duo whistled in appreciation.
Saturn blushed but it soon disappeared as she remembered what she was supposed to do.
"I am Sailor Saturn, goddess of death and destruction. I'm the warrior from Saturn and protector of the Moon Princess." said Saturn before running off towards the direction where Selene and Trowa went.
"Hey wait up!" shouted Duo as her began to follow Saturn.
'Darn it! I haven't even got the chance to tell her that I like her.' thought Duo as he ran faster trying to catch up to Saturn.
~ Selene and Heero~
~ Gardens ~
The two were walking down the garden when suddenly Selene stopped.
"What is it Selene?," asked Heero.
"The roses, they're blooming heavily today," observed Selene as she bent down to pluck a red rose.
"You like roses?" asked Heero before mentally slapping himself.
'Baka!,' thought Heero, 'What a stupid question. Now how are you going to impress her if you keep asking silly questions like that.'
"Hai. Roses, especially red roses, remind me of a certain friend I lost long ago…" answered Selene, bringing the rose to her face and sniffing it's fragrance, not seeming to mind if Heero's question is silly or not.
Before Heero could reply, the ground suddenly began to shake.
"Nani! What's going on," exclaimed Heero.
"It's coming," said Selene, particularly to herself.
"What's coming?" asked Heero.
"Stand back I'm going to transform," said Selene and without waiting for a reply, held her closed fist towards the sky and shouted, "Cosmic Power Make Up!,".
Suddenly a white light surrounded Selene as ribbons and other things swirled around her.
When the light finally disappeared, where Selene stood before now stands Cosmos, wearing a white sailor suit with multi-colored streaks in the short skirt, and gold and silver trimmings adorn on her white gloves, her white collar and her tall white boots. A flowing white cape on her shoulders and a white staff that's as tall as its owner is with the Silver Imperial Crystal on its tip.
"I am Sailor Cosmos, known as the Messiah of Light, the Star of Hope and protector for the universe." stated Cosmos.
A sound of evil laughter filled the air, which sent shivers down Cosmos' spine.
"Who's there? Show yourself!," demanded Cosmos.
"My…my…Selenity. I can't believe you have forgotten about me," replied a voice before a figure appeared behind the shadows.
Heero's eyes widen in surprise while Cosmos had a look of fury on her face.
~ Gym ~
"What's wrong Ryu?" asked Wufei as he held the now trembling girl in his arms.
"It's back," said Ryu so softly that Wufei almost didn't hear it.
Ryu then unexpectedly pushed herself away from Wufei and before Wufei could say anything, Ryu took out an icy blue colored pen with the design of a dragon in it.
"Dragon Power Make Up!," shouted Ryu as she held out her pen in the air.
Suddenly a blue light surrounded Ryu.
When the light vanished, where Ryu stood before now stands Dragon, wearing a white bodysuit with an icy pale blue colored miniskirt with a silver bow tied behind it and another one in front at the chest. White trimmings adorn on her azure collar, her azure gloves and her tall azure-colored boots. At the center of her front bow is a small azure dragon brooch.
"I am Sailor Dragon, Princess of Dragons and protector of my kingdom, Yumisia, in the galaxy called Kairuka An: I just made this up so gomen if it actually means something." said Dragon as she finished transforming.
In an instant, Dragon dashed out of the gym door with Wufei trailing behind her.
~ Back to where Selene is ~
"Selene are you all right?," asked Michiru a.k.a. Neptune as she and the others ran towards Cosmos and Heero.
"I'm fine," answered Selene back.
The guys, on the other hand, were not feeling so fine. Instead, their faces were filled with shock as they saw the figure in front of them. One word came from the boys' mouths including Heero who managed to snap out of it.
"Relena!?"
~ Sapphire ~
Relena evil? How does she know the Sailor Senshi, more importantly, how does she know that Selene is Sailor Cosmos? Was she just brainwashed? Nothing but a pawn of Chaos? Find out in the next chapter of New Dimension, New Life.