Raven: Okay, about this chapter, I don't know how to play poker, but I have a little idea about it from watching movies! Also, I have lost track of time!
IT'S A PIECE OF POISONOUS CAKE
Chapter five: The Angelic Devil
Quatre sighed as he finished with yet another meeting. Only two days left, that means he had 172800 seconds till freedom, well, maybe if he considered the noise and destruction at home freedom. He was getting tired of all this, and feeling a bit homesick. He decided to call home and see how things were.
"I'm bored" Duo said.
"Me too" N.J replied yawning.
"Maxwell, stop being a bad example for the kid" Wufei snapped.
"Examples are for the weak" N.J said crossing her arms.
"Bad example huh Wufei" Duo replied nudging Wufei.
"Let's play poker" N.J said who looked up to see four wide eyes.
"Poker is not for kids" Duo said.
"You scared" N.J said tempting Duo, who in turn could not resist the challenge.
Ring! Ring! RING!!
"WHAT?" Heero demanded over the intercom. He did not like it when something interrupted him watching Law and Order: Special victims unit.
"Aww gee real nice of you Heero" Quatre replied.
"Hnn"
"Is my house still intact?"
"You'd be surprised" Heero said grinning a little. Wufei came skidding into the kitchen knocking Heero over.
"HEY QUAT! HOW'S IT GOIN" Wufei yelled.
"GAH!! Wufei? You don't have to be so loud" Quatre said surprised at his greeting.
"How are ya, how's it going, since when did a five year old play poker?" Wufei asked
"Oh, she mentioned that? Well she does play, must be because of my sister, let her play, it's harmless" Quatre said. Boy oh boy was he wrong. A landmark for him. Well, for the others actually.
After an hour of talking, the Gundam pilots and Nora settled down on a round table with cards in their hands. The game was intense, Trowa had given up hours ago, and it seemed that the little blonde devil was too good. Only stubborn people like the other three pilots, with sweating brows and tense backs were not ready to give up to this cool-eyed and relaxed girl.
"I will not give up" Heero said, eyes scanning his cards.
"Sure you won't" Duo said who wasn't as worried as Wufei who was losing badly. Trowa sighed and left for the kitchen, and went outside, he needed fresh air.
15 minutes later.
"Full house again" said the cunning little girl who folded her arms and sat nonchalantly. She was a child prodigy and a rather cool one too. By now Heero had lost his cool. Duo's optimism didn't get his mood down. Wufei just sat there with blank eyes. The girl had won, and taken along with her the things that they threw in for the bet!
"OKAY! Let's make this a bit more interesting, I'm throwing in my katana" Wufei said. It was the next best thing to his Gundam, maybe this would motivate him.
"I'm throwing in my pen knife"
"I'm, throwing in my winnings of the last two hours" N.J said shuffling the cards. They looked at Heero who was lost in thought. Finally he spoke
"I'm throwing Wing Zero" ………….What better than a Gundam to motivate Heero to achieve his mission. At least, this is what he thought, the others looked at him as if he was crazy.
"You're mad" Wufei said.
"He's Heero" Duo simply replied. He trusted that this game might be in his favour, as Heero Yuy would never give up his Gundam.
"Shall we start" Nora said.
They all picked their cards; Heero looked at his cards smirking.
'Oh yeah, lets see who wins this time' He thought as he put his cards on the desk. He had with him four Queens. Duo and Wufei threw their cards down knowing that they lost. Nora smirked.
"Four aces"
"WHAT???????????!!!!!!!!!!" Heero cried. Surely, he was mistaken, but he was not, the girl had won…again!!!
"WHOOOHOHOHOOHOOHOOOOOHOHOOO" Nora cried with happiness as she sprinted towards the Gundam hanger in the back. Heero just stood their, paralysed, thunderstruck, perplexed, astounded, he was at lose of words. Meanwhile Duo and Wufei had gone to get Trowa who had left for a walk to warn him of the upcoming danger.
The little angelic blonde haired girl was skipping towards the hanger. As she stepped in, she saw Wing Zero staring down at her. N.J went around it and up to the place where she could get a better access to the cockpit. She somehow managed to open the cockpit and as she stepped in, a yellow light glowed and our innocent little Nora smiled her vampirish smile!
"This is gonna be fun" she said and disappeared into the gundam's core.
"TROWA!!!!!!!!!!!" Cried Duo and Wufei running as if the bats of hell were chasing them, well something much worse was about to be on the lose and that would be worse than the bats of hell. Trowa, who was walking down the street staring into the abyss of the night sky turned to see Duo and Wufei ramming into him.
"You wanted to see me" he said ever so calmly.
"NoraandwewereplayingpokerandHeerobetwingzeroandshesinitandshesgonnadestroy" Wufei said. To an ordinary person it would seem gibberish and would slap the boy, but Trowa had experience and understood every word.
Suddenly the ground started rumbling. It was no earthquake. The three boys ran towards the hanger, dreading every step they took.
Nora was one happy girl, she had never had this much fun in her life. She had resolved to spend every single vacation with her 'Uncles' and Quatre would just have to get used to it. She had this thing for pushing buttons, and this place had a lot of buttons in it. See that is the essence of youth, you don't care what happens to you or other or the whole world, what you do care about is enjoying every second of your childhood, grown ups like to fret a lot. But children knew what fun was really like, that is what Nora was doing until she slipped and pushed the self-detonate button.
"Calm down you two, she is just a harmless kid, and she doesn't even know how to operate a Gundam, she'll be fine" Trowa said consoling his two friends. Suddenly they all jumped to a sound of the infamous beeping of Wing, and they knew what that infamous beeping meant.
"Completely harmless eh Trowa" Duo said.
'The sick irony' Trowa thought as they ran like hell.
Heero heard the beeping, and he didn't like it. No one NO ONE detonates his precious Gundam except him. With literally red eyes he went to the hanger. He climbed up to the cockpit and scared Nora shitless.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" She screamed as a black being entered with menacing eyes, just like in the horror movie. That scared her even more, and as the thing stretched out a hand to shut the detonate device, the other went for the girl. And guess what the girl did?
Trowa, Wufei and Duo heard two screams, one was Nora, the other Heero????? The beeping had stopped, which meant Heero had saved them, but why the hell did he scream?
Upon reaching the cockpit, they saw Heero emerging, walking unusually as if someone had kicked him in the groin, very hard, and his hand had one Nora biting it fiercely.
"Heero, stop being mean to the girl" Trowa said. Heero gave him a glare and then collapsed curling.
"Ohh that must have hurt" Duo said examining the damage down to Heero. He picked up his friend and left for the house with Nora glaring at him. Wufei turned to her and said
"No more movies for you" Nora just grinned. Uncle Quatre was going to be so proud!
Raven: Poor Heero, never mess with five year olds. I'm gonna do an illustration for this chapter. This is so far my favourite story! So I will be back with another update!
J.A: Baka, are you reviewing yourself.
Ravenblushes: Be quiet muse! Next up: Uncle Quatre returns!