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In The End

                                        Chapter 8: Quatre and Melody's Wedding

      By: Raven Moonshadow

Church bells could be heard in the distance at the Quatre Raberba Winner AND Melody Lisa Winner-to-be mansion (aka the Winner Household). Preparations were being made for the young couple's wedding.  The Maguanacs and Quatre's 29 sisters were racing around going back and forth from the large chapel and the large estate.

Quatre and Melody had been separated into two different rooms and when it came to going to the chapel for the wedding itself they would go in two separate limousines; one with Quatre and the best man and the other's (Duo, Heero, and Wufei ((Trowa got the special position of being best man))), and Melody in the other with the maid of honor (Kamori) and the brides maids (Morgaine, Irene, and Max).

But, back to the current moment in time, Melody was fretting about her dress…and the flowers…and everything else. ¬.¬;

What a dilemma that was.

"I feel bloated…either that or this dress is too tight."

"It's not that time of the month is it, Melody? Please tell me it's not."

"It's supposed to come soon."

"Great Melody. Get blood all over your wedding dress. It'll look like someone shot you or tried to kill off Winner's new bride."

"Shut up Max. Just because you have to wear a dress with the rest of the bride's maids doesn't mean you can take it out on us." Kamori said straightening her lavender dress.

"But why did they have to be this color. I hate lavender!" Max growled more at the ankle length dress then anything else.

"But it looks good on all of you." Melody said still looking at her waist and stomach. "Do I look fat in this dress?"

"Yes." Max grumbled. Every single woman reached over and smacked Maxine upside the head. Kamori comforted Melody, who looked like she was going to cry.

"You look beautiful Melody, Quatre's going to drop down in shock at your magnificent beauty when he sees you." Morgaine said.

"Yeah! And then he's going to pray to god that he ever caught a woman like you." Kamori giggled.

"So don't cry. You'll ruin your perfect make-up." Irene said. She had been fully healed of all scars by Melody. She looked stunning in her lavender dress with a black lace sash tied just under her breasts and ended in an intricately looping bow, and her black high heels. It was no different from every other brides maids dresses but she just looked beautifully ethereal in it. Like a blue haired fairy.

"I hope you don't mind, Melody that I shortened and changed the dress slightly." Kamori said meekly. The orange haired girl shook her head.

"No not at all. I actually think that you look good like that…and I love how you did you hair." Melody giggled.

Max rolled her light shimmering blue eyes.

"Only Kamori would do something like that."

"Hey it's not that short! It's only too my knees. That's still really long for me."

"Again…only you would do something like that." Max said.

"Why I oughta'…" Kamori looked ready to launch herself at Max in a deadly cat-fight. A soft knock came from the other side of the door.

"Lady Melody… are you and your brides maids ready? We're leaving for the chapel in a few minutes."

"Of course we are Rashid. We'll be down in a sec." Melody said purposely looking at Kamori and Max who had their hands at each other's throats. She cleared her throat with a glare.

o^__^o "Hehehehe…sorry Melody." Max and Kamori said at the same time, backing away from each other.

They all filed down the stairs carrying a white cloth over Melody so the groom wouldn't see her and Kamori carried the back of Melody's long dress off the floor to keep it from dragging (aka getting dirty) They hopped into the long white limousine and shut the door.

Only to open up again. Kamori's head popped out and she whistled. Nightstalker came bounding over in his cute little bow tie-an-flower and jumped into the limo. Sky swooped down and landed on the red heads fist. Kamori fixed the large hawk's flower before bringing her inside and shutting the door. The limo drove off down the massive driveway toward the chapel.

The guys blinked after watching it go.

"I didn't know they allowed animals in the chapel." Duo said.

"I don't think they do but that's Melody's best friend. Those are her pets. Remember Trowa. That tiger attacked me when we went to the red heads apartment."

Trowa nodded silently before looking away.

"Hey I recognize that red head!" Duo yelped staring wide eyed at the small white dot that was the limo. "She's the one…the girl that…Max's friend…"

"What did she do?" Heero asked with a raised eyebrow. It was a smudge of emotion. It was amazing in it's own way.

"Nothing." Duo said indignantly, while looking away and blushing embarrassedly. Trowa felt like questioning Duo farther but the limo pulled up.

Besides…Trowa didn't talk that much anyway. He didn't want people to make a big deal about it.

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Everything was festive. The wedding past with its 'I do's' with Nightstalker as the substitute ring bearer and one of Quatre's nieces as the flower girl. They were married and kissed each other and the whole lot. Everyone was 'oh, ah, and wow how wonderful' as the newlyweds seemingly floated down the aisle happily.

Well everyone except for the two people all the way in the back, sitting in the last rows of the chapel by the door. They had their legs crossed and one had a smirk curving her lips as she leaned back and watched the ceremony.

"How interesting. Oceansiren is getting married to wealthy Quatre Raberba Winner. How very lucky she is." The first said.

"Yes very interesting. My rival seems to have gotten the best fish in the sea of men." The second said flipping her short light blond hair. Hazel eyes hardened. "I hate her so much! When Evangeline and I saw him at the party I wanted him to be mine. He's rich, handsome, and has the most charming smile. But she had to get him. Damn her!" the blond hissed.

"Meredith, calm yourself, we'll get him and the other guy when we attack. First we have to wait for Shalamar and Evangeline."

Meredith huffed. "Fine, Fala, we'll do it your way." Fala grinned evilly.

"Good."

The foundation of the building shook tumbling people to the floor.

"What the hell is going on?!" Max yelled over the loud crashes of the stain-glass windows. There was another tremor. Irene shivered.

"I sense an attack."

"What?!"

Nightstalker's roar was the only thing they could hear over the confusion. And Kamori understood exactly what he was telling them with his roar.

"The FEMS are attacking! BLOOD is here!" Kamori translated, covering her head as dust, debris, and wood rained down on them. The Maguanacs were ushering Quatre's sisters out the back way to find a safe place for them. Melody winced as she felt something hard hit her head.

"That's great just great! Dandy! They chose the perfect time to attack us." Melody yelled. "Lets get out of here before we're killed." The girls nodded.

"We'll go to my mansion. Our units are stored there." Morgaine said. She ran out. The girls followed her and so Quatre, Trowa, Heero, Wufei, and Duo. Kamori stopped abruptly.

"SKY!" She yelled. Nightstalker circled her and nudged her waist. She patted his head. "Go…follow Morgaine and the others." The tiger wined but turned to follow the group.

Kamori went back to her search. She heard Sky's familiar screech and then there was one of pain. Kamori's eyes widened when she saw Sky fall. She ran to her and bent to pick up the hawk.

"Are you okay, Sky?" Kamori asked cradling the large bird of prey. It opened it's eyes briefly.

::My wing, Red feathers:: Kamori looked over at the one wing and winced. It had a splint of wood in it and was bleeding slowly but surely.

"Hold on, Sky, I'll get you to Morgaine or Melody."

::Red feathers…watch out:: Sky's voice screeched in her head. ::Look up!::

Kamori looked up and faltered. There was a huge beam of wood coming down at her. Her light green eyes widened and she was frozen as she stared up at the oncoming object. Sky struggled and flapped. Kamori closed her eyes and shielded Sky.

Something tackled her out of the way. Something or someone that was tall and well built. Kamori opened one green eye when she hit the ground with someone lying on top of her. Light green eyes looked up at one forest green eye; the other eye was hidden by spiky brown bangs.

[Kamori---((O.o)] She blinked. "Um…hi? Thanks…for um… saving me?" Kamori said confused. He raised his one visible eyebrow. She raised both of hers. "Hm?" What else was she supposed to say with him looking at her that way? Hi thanks for saving me and I really like how you landed on me, it's a great position to be in with a hot guy like you. Yeah that would go over real well, especially with BLOOD outside.

He pulled himself and her up. She cradled Sky.

"Sky are you alright?" The hawk looked up at her made a high pitched clicking sound. He grabbed her arm.

"Let's go." She blinked up at him and followed. They darted out of the building just as it crumpled. A large mecha stood over the remains. Kamori's eyes widened as she looked up at it.

"It's…it's a gundam." She stuttered her whisper. It was black, dark grey, and brown with a pair of black angel wings and a pair of smaller bat wings and it carried a cross bow on its right wrist and a sickle in hand. It looked evil.

"Well hello there, Nightmare, remember me? It's me Darkwing, or should I say Fala, your old 'friend." A woman's voice echoed.

"Fala?!"

"Yes? You called my name?"

Kamori growled as she glared up at the massive gundam. "Why are you here? And since when did you have a gundam?"

"I just had it made for little old me by the genius scientists at BLOOD headquarters. Teheh." Fala giggled. "And I was sent here on a mission with the other infamous FEMS. But we got what we were looking for, unfortunately we couldn't get your friends. Lunarfire took them away through one of her portals."

Trowa was glaring up at the gundam now and his grip on Kamori tightened, yet he was still practically silent. The mere movement of his grip tightening seemed to distract Fala.

"Oh and who is this handsome fellow with you? He's cute…where did you manage to get this one? Is he one of your paying customers?" Fala giggled childishly. Kamori snarled.

"How do you know about what went on in my past?"

"I have my ways, Nightmare."

The red head glared. Another rumble came and another gundam landed by the Darkwing gundam. It was white, dark blue, and black with clawed hands, pixy-like blue wings that also looked like they could come off and be used as weapons, and a double sided energy trident. It had it's fist closed over something.

"Ah…Riptide! Did you get what we came for?"

"That and more, Darkwing." The gundam, Riptide, answered as it opening its fist. There in a little barred cage was Duo and Quatre with terrified looks on their faces.

"Put them down."

Kamori gasped and looked over at Trowa. Had he just spoken?

"Ex-squeeze me?" the woman in Riptide said.

"I said put them down. What part did you not understand?" Trowa said calmly.

"Oh I like him. I think we should take him with us as well." Fala said.

"Maybe…"

"No!" Kamori yelled. "Your not taking anyone! Put Quatre and Duo down."

"Why should we? How are you gonna' stop us?" Darkwing said.

"You will because I am going to make you." Came another voice.

"Melody!" Kamori whipped around to look up at the blue, dark blue, and white gundam lined with gold.

"Gundam Oceansiren. How nice to see you, my enemy." Riptide said. Oceansiren/ Melody pointed her gundams yari at Meredith's Riptide gundam. (if you don't know what a yari is then see Cye of Torrent's weapon from Ronin Warriors)

"Give me back my husband and his friend or suffer." Melody said. Meredith handed the cage to Fala.

"Bring that back to base. I'll deal with this." Riptide said before clashing her trident against Oceansiren's yari. Darkwing took off and Kamori watched it go in horror and telling from Melody's reaction of trying to fling Riptide aside, she was horrified as well.

The red head snapped out of her daze and grabbed Trowa's hand. He blinked down at her.

"Don't just stare at me…come on! We have to run to the Winner estate. Melody will handle the Riptide gundam. But the mansion will be the first place that either Morgaine or Melody will come to get us, depending on who gets there first." Kamori said. He seemed to take that as a good answer and ran with her. How did Melody get to the estate so fast?  Her answer seemed to come in the form of a roar. She slid to a stop as Nightstalker darted around the corner.

"A tiger?" Trowa said looking at the black tiger. He looked back at her. "Where did you get a full grown black Siberian tiger that is fully trained?" That was the most he had ever spoken to her. That was actually the most she had heard him speak at all. Kamori bent down to hug the tiger.

"An answer would be I found him when he was just a cub and for a fact…he's not full grown. Nightstalker is not even a year old yet." So what if Nightstalker was abnormally large for a tiger and also abnormally rare?

"Quite a rare find. I hope you take care of him right." Kamori glared and then looked into Nightstalker's eyes.

"He wants up to get on. He'll take us to the mansion faster." The red head said as she slid on the tigers back. Trowa did the same with a raised eyebrow. "Hang on." She said simply and then Nightstalker took off.

Trowa's nose twitched.

Raspberries.

He tried to ignore the intoxicating smell as they rode along. She looked back at him with her light green eyes.

"So…you like animals?" She asked. He stared at her.

"What kind of question is that?"

"Well almost the only time you talked was when there was an animal to talk about around. You hardly ever talk but all of a sudden Nightstalker here comes and you have questions and suggestions for me."

"Yes."

"Hm?"

"I like animals."

"That's nice to know."

"…" He had gone silent again. She sighed and turned back around as Nightstalker bound through the driveway gates of the Winner estate.

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Kamori sat curled up on the couch with Nightstalker wrapped around her. The soap operas had yet again captured her attention, but this time she was waiting for Melody's arrival back home. Worry had consumed her and only Nightstalker and Sky had been able to comfort her. Trowa hadn't been much of a help. He didn't do anything

Actually he generally avoided her as much as possible for some unexplained reason. It was really starting to annoy her. Every time she entered the room he would leave. He was avoiding her like she was the plague. Very disturbing.

She turned her head to a sound. It was like the low rumble of an engine. A very large engine. Kamori shot up and ran for the door.

"Melody… please be Melody." Kamori whispered as she opened the door. A group of Maguanacs were already out front staring up at the large gundam…the Oceansiren gundam.

Kamori ran up to the gundam, pushing passed the group, and smacking the scraped gundamium foot.

"Melody get down here now!" She heard the familiar pop of the hatch and the strain of the cable as it was rode down. Melody swung down seconds later, disheveled, but not harmed. Kamori immediately glued herself to Melody, and if the red head had actually had glue it would have been literal. "Oh are you all right? What happened?"

Melody stood limply with her eyes cast down. She whispered something and Kamori knew exactly what had happened. The Irish red-head ushered Melody through the crowd of Maguanacs and into the mansion, strait past Nightstalker and Sky, past the tall brunette, and up the stairs. They made a bee-line around the worried servants and ran into the master bedroom. Kamori locked the door before turning to Melody.

She heard the first sniff before she even finished turning. The red head found Melody sitting on the bed crying, or at least trying not to cry. Kamori went to Melody's side and hugged her.

"What's wrong Mel? I haven't seen you this upset since you told me about your parents and their…deaths." The Irish girl said gently rubbing the Australian girls back. The orange haired girl sniffled against Kamori's shoulder.

"He's gone and I didn't get to tell him. He would have been so surprised. I was going to laugh at his shocked look. He probably would have fainted." Melody murmured against the strapless shoulder more to herself then anyone else. The last part sounded like she was trying to cheer herself up. Kamori tilted her head down to look at Melody.

"What were you going to tell him? You weren't going to tell him about our gundams just because you guys are married now? That wouldn't be wise Melody and you know it no matter how sweet that blond may be." Kamori scolded gently.

"No it's…it's something else. Here let me show you." Melody said pushing herself up off the bed and heading towards a closed door. It opened without a sound and Kamori could see it led to a white tiled bathroom with baby blue painted walls. Melody disappeared inside before she slowly walked out clutching something against her chest protectively.

"What's that?" the red head said staring at the clenched fists that held something within them.

"I lied…about my period. This should explain it all to you." Melody said handing Kamori a small strip. The red head looked down at it with wide light green eyes.

It was a pregnancy test.

And it was blue…

… for…

…Positive.

Owari~

Raven: hehehe. I left you all with a sort of cliff hanger. I bet some of you were expecting this but if you didn't then that means that my writing skills are starting to get better.  I love messing with my characters sometimes. Its fun. Well…stay tuned for another action packed episode of In The End.