Yo.
*slaps head* The annoying school girls are nameless! That won't do.
short blonde hair girl: Lindë(singer)
flipped brown hair girl: Lissi(sweet)
long brown hair girl: Lalaith(laughter)
short black hair girl: Linte(swift)
Disclaimer for the second half of the chapter:
(self destruct!)X_x-o[The]
#xxx(^_~-o[Authoress]
//_^-o[Doesn't]
ûo-^_^-o[Own]
-_-*-o[Gundam Wing or The Lord of the Rings!]
Thanks to...
Claire: ^^ Thank you! ^^ I feel...*giggle* loved!
Ed: Yay! You're back! Actually, I can picture him doing that quite easily. It
looks very painful. I just didn't take Japanese because, quite frankly, I
suck at it.
I just thought of something. Are you the Ed from Cowboy Bebop?
Jaid Skywalker: Thanks for reviewing! I love the quotes you have in your
info, especially "Now that I've had my rant and have decided to murder
Nadil, Lord of the Demons, I'm feeling a bit better."
Dragon Knights rules.
***
Heero was standing on the roof of a house.
As his mind processed what he was actually doing, he could feel his hand
twitch, wanting so badly to come up and hit his forehead in exasperation.
This had to be the stupidest thing he had ever done.
Hiding from a girl, barely in her teens, by standing the a thatched roof of
some townsman's hut.
If he wasn't careful, his leg was going to slip through the straw roof,
getting stuck, and resulting in his being found out.
Sighing softly at his own idiocy, he inched over to the edge and slowly
looked over.
***
"Lissi!" A petite blonde called, grabbing her friend's wrist, her fingers
sliding on the silky purple material of the brunette's sleeve.
"What is it?" Lissi asked, her other hand reaching down to push the
material back in place as the loose sleeve slid part way up her arm.
"Look! Is that someone on the roof?"
She squinted, looking in the direction pointed out to her, a few strands of
hair coming loose and blowing in her eyes.
She brushed them back, "Yes. I think it is. What's he doing up there?"
"What's going on?" The other two turned and stared in the same
direction at the man on top of a house, not a hundred yards away.
Lalaith, with her long light brown hair, laughed.
"Do you think he's going to fall through?"
They all giggled at this idea before the last one spoke, rubbing her hands
together in the brisk morning winds.
"He must be a traveler. Look at what he's wearing."
Lindë nodded, then pushed her light locks back into place.
"He's so dirty."
"I wonder where he came from."
"I wonder how long he's staying."
"I wonder _where_ he's staying."
"You know," Lissi said, pursing her lips, "He's kind of attractive...in a
vagaboundish way."
The other three slowly nodded their agreement, then burst out laughing.
***
Heero almost jumped a foot in the air.
Turning around slowly, he sent a glare in the direction of the high pitched
giggles, smirking to himself as the girls fell quiet.
Peeking over the edge, he saw the young girl still standing there,
kneeling in the dirt.
Sighing with exasperation, he wondered when she would go away. Even
if she didn't notice him up here, there were others noticing...and mocking
him.
It was with this last thought that he, to his great regret, began to fall.
***
A dark haired man, dirty and sweaty from many days travels, pitched
forward, falling downwards, and landing in an ungraceful heap, not a foot
away from a startled young girl.
The impact of the crash knocked the air out of his lungs, and as he lay
there, fighting for air and for the pressure on his chest to loosen, Relena
slowly stood up.
"Are you all right?" She asked nervously, tucking a stray dirty blonde
strand of hair behind her ear and reaching out to him.
"Do you need any help?"
He took one look at her outstretched hand and scrambled to his feet, his
back against a hard stone wall.
He stared at her, her proximity to him reviving old memories long buried
and forgotten.
"You," There was a short pause, then an intake of breath. Realization hit
and his left hand shot up to cover his face, the whites showing all the
way around his widened eyes.
"Did you see?" He was frightened; a feeling he had not experienced for
some time now. In fact, not since he had last seen her, had last been this
close to her. Close enough to reach out and touch her, to see her large
blue eyes looking at him questioningly, darker shades of blue jumping out
at him, threatening to engulf him in an unknown ocean of emotions...
"See what?" Relena asked, confused.
"Your face?" She laughed, the noise bubbling up from deep within her;
mere amusement that someone would ask such a question.
Watching her, Heero slowly backed up until he had put a few more feet
distance between them.
She had seen him.
She had already seen, a long time ago.
He cursed in a foreign language unknown to her, then quickly turned and,
reddening, ran out, leaving the girl behind.
Leaving her behind for the second time.
Relena stood in that same position for several seconds: One hand
outstretched, still reaching out to him, the other hanging limply by her
side.
She watched his retreating form dart down a road and behind a building.
Then she finally spoke, not understanding the reaction of this strange
young man, who couldn't be much older than herself.
Her words came out confused and haphazard, the individual syllables
shaky.
"My name is Relena Darlian," Her head tilted slightly to the side, a deep
mixture of hurt and curiosity clouding her light blue eyes.
"What's yours?"
***
"It all looks very different," Noin commented from her perch atop the
sleek black mare.
"You've been gone a long while," Sally laughed, "But it has changed."
"So has she," Noin said, glancing over her shoulder fondly at where they
had last seen Relena.
"I trust you are watching her?"
"Yes, vigorously and much to her annoyance," Sally replied, taking her
guests down a turn off the main road.
"It's down here," She commented needlessly.
After a moment she continued making small talk with her old friend.
"So. Have you been able to get through to the south? I haven't been able
to get any responses to my messages. Actually," She said, arriving at a
good-sized stone house, single storied, but fairly large, "I just sent out
another letter with Altron yesterday. I keep expecting to see him return
with a reply, even though he couldn't possibly have gotten there and
back so soon."
A small stable jutted off the side of her home, barely large enough to fit
both the travelers horses and one other. A wooden cage, protected by
the elements by the overhang of the stable roof, stood nearby.
Leading them over to the stables, she unlocked the door and allowed
them inside as she headed over to the cage.
Once her visitors were inside, she unlocked it's smaller door and carefully
retrieved a large silver bird, getting it settled on her leather glove before
removing it's hood.
She carefully stroked it's plumage with one finger, pulling it back quickly to
avoid getting bitten.
"Aren't you the little rascal?" She murmured, attempting again to touch it
in this manner.
It was foolish, she knew, but the red crest atop it's head was just too
tempting.
The delicate spiraling feathers simply lured her, begging her to touch
them.
"Tallgeese," She repeated under her breath. She had said it's name
countless times now, but it was still as unfamiliar as before.
The whole scenario was unfamiliar.
A majestic phoenix crashing in Rohan.
It was strange, to say the least.
***
Inside the stables, Wufei took a good look around. He had led his ride
into a stall, one of three, and was taking off the saddle, imitating Noin's
movements as she carefully unbuckled it and lifted it off.
It was, as it appeared to be from the outside, rather small, with room
enough for barely three horses. Noin's two horses, one of which had
been lent to him, were in the two stalls nearest to the door. Not five feet
away from him was another stall in which another horse rested.
It was a she, a fairly small mare of a deep golden color with darker brown
dappling, large brown eyes and a silky looking mane.
Noin, noticing what he was looking at, came over.
She stood next to him and whistled her admiration of the horse.
"Beauty, isn't she?"
He glanced up at her, slightly startled and annoyed to be caught off
guard.
"What's the name?"
"Sandrock. Sally's raised her from a little thing," She placed her hand in
the air at waist height to demonstrate small she used to be, "Into this
gorgeous mare."
She spent a long moment gazing at the horse before turning back to the
man next to her.
"So. You ready?"
He nodded.
"All right. Let's go."
As they walked out, Sally greeted them, talking as she placed something
back into the cage on the side of the wall.
"Come, let me show you to your rooms," Sally said, smiling at them.
"This is unusual. I've never had two guests at once. Usually Noin comes
alone." She said, casting a glance at the dark haired woman.
"So I only have one spare bedroom. But that will work just fine. Us girls
can bunk down together, and you," She spoke as she opened her front
door and led them inside, "Chang Wufei, can sleep in the extra room."
Wufei's eyes widened with surprise as he entered her house.
He had expected a traditional northerners decorations, possibly
something more unusual, but certainly not this.
This was...
Home.
***
Leaning up against the wall of a fairly large stone house was a man,
Heero Yuy. There were voices inside, signaling that whoever lived there
was awake and around, but he didn't care.
He needed a place to rest, regain his wits, and forage for food. His pack
was completely empty of supplies and had been for the past two days.
His water had run out yesterday, but thirst wasn't his main problem; he
had found a water barrel inside town and had taken a drink from there.
Right now, be just wanted a place to sleep and something hot to eat.
Both of which he would hopefully find here.
Most of the people didn't live this far back, so there was a good chance
that girl wouldn't come here.
Besides, he thought, sneaking around the corner of the house and seeing
a stable up ahead, even if she does see me, I doubt I have anything to
worry about. She was only an infant then, she won't remember me. To
her, I'm just a traveler passing through. There's no possible way that the
Peacecraft girl will figure it out.
There's no way.
***
Yes. The infamous introduction. It had to be in here somewhere.
Review, please?
*slaps head* The annoying school girls are nameless! That won't do.
short blonde hair girl: Lindë(singer)
flipped brown hair girl: Lissi(sweet)
long brown hair girl: Lalaith(laughter)
short black hair girl: Linte(swift)
Disclaimer for the second half of the chapter:
(self destruct!)X_x-o[The]
#xxx(^_~-o[Authoress]
//_^-o[Doesn't]
ûo-^_^-o[Own]
-_-*-o[Gundam Wing or The Lord of the Rings!]
Thanks to...
Claire: ^^ Thank you! ^^ I feel...*giggle* loved!
Ed: Yay! You're back! Actually, I can picture him doing that quite easily. It
looks very painful. I just didn't take Japanese because, quite frankly, I
suck at it.
I just thought of something. Are you the Ed from Cowboy Bebop?
Jaid Skywalker: Thanks for reviewing! I love the quotes you have in your
info, especially "Now that I've had my rant and have decided to murder
Nadil, Lord of the Demons, I'm feeling a bit better."
Dragon Knights rules.
***
Heero was standing on the roof of a house.
As his mind processed what he was actually doing, he could feel his hand
twitch, wanting so badly to come up and hit his forehead in exasperation.
This had to be the stupidest thing he had ever done.
Hiding from a girl, barely in her teens, by standing the a thatched roof of
some townsman's hut.
If he wasn't careful, his leg was going to slip through the straw roof,
getting stuck, and resulting in his being found out.
Sighing softly at his own idiocy, he inched over to the edge and slowly
looked over.
***
"Lissi!" A petite blonde called, grabbing her friend's wrist, her fingers
sliding on the silky purple material of the brunette's sleeve.
"What is it?" Lissi asked, her other hand reaching down to push the
material back in place as the loose sleeve slid part way up her arm.
"Look! Is that someone on the roof?"
She squinted, looking in the direction pointed out to her, a few strands of
hair coming loose and blowing in her eyes.
She brushed them back, "Yes. I think it is. What's he doing up there?"
"What's going on?" The other two turned and stared in the same
direction at the man on top of a house, not a hundred yards away.
Lalaith, with her long light brown hair, laughed.
"Do you think he's going to fall through?"
They all giggled at this idea before the last one spoke, rubbing her hands
together in the brisk morning winds.
"He must be a traveler. Look at what he's wearing."
Lindë nodded, then pushed her light locks back into place.
"He's so dirty."
"I wonder where he came from."
"I wonder how long he's staying."
"I wonder _where_ he's staying."
"You know," Lissi said, pursing her lips, "He's kind of attractive...in a
vagaboundish way."
The other three slowly nodded their agreement, then burst out laughing.
***
Heero almost jumped a foot in the air.
Turning around slowly, he sent a glare in the direction of the high pitched
giggles, smirking to himself as the girls fell quiet.
Peeking over the edge, he saw the young girl still standing there,
kneeling in the dirt.
Sighing with exasperation, he wondered when she would go away. Even
if she didn't notice him up here, there were others noticing...and mocking
him.
It was with this last thought that he, to his great regret, began to fall.
***
A dark haired man, dirty and sweaty from many days travels, pitched
forward, falling downwards, and landing in an ungraceful heap, not a foot
away from a startled young girl.
The impact of the crash knocked the air out of his lungs, and as he lay
there, fighting for air and for the pressure on his chest to loosen, Relena
slowly stood up.
"Are you all right?" She asked nervously, tucking a stray dirty blonde
strand of hair behind her ear and reaching out to him.
"Do you need any help?"
He took one look at her outstretched hand and scrambled to his feet, his
back against a hard stone wall.
He stared at her, her proximity to him reviving old memories long buried
and forgotten.
"You," There was a short pause, then an intake of breath. Realization hit
and his left hand shot up to cover his face, the whites showing all the
way around his widened eyes.
"Did you see?" He was frightened; a feeling he had not experienced for
some time now. In fact, not since he had last seen her, had last been this
close to her. Close enough to reach out and touch her, to see her large
blue eyes looking at him questioningly, darker shades of blue jumping out
at him, threatening to engulf him in an unknown ocean of emotions...
"See what?" Relena asked, confused.
"Your face?" She laughed, the noise bubbling up from deep within her;
mere amusement that someone would ask such a question.
Watching her, Heero slowly backed up until he had put a few more feet
distance between them.
She had seen him.
She had already seen, a long time ago.
He cursed in a foreign language unknown to her, then quickly turned and,
reddening, ran out, leaving the girl behind.
Leaving her behind for the second time.
Relena stood in that same position for several seconds: One hand
outstretched, still reaching out to him, the other hanging limply by her
side.
She watched his retreating form dart down a road and behind a building.
Then she finally spoke, not understanding the reaction of this strange
young man, who couldn't be much older than herself.
Her words came out confused and haphazard, the individual syllables
shaky.
"My name is Relena Darlian," Her head tilted slightly to the side, a deep
mixture of hurt and curiosity clouding her light blue eyes.
"What's yours?"
***
"It all looks very different," Noin commented from her perch atop the
sleek black mare.
"You've been gone a long while," Sally laughed, "But it has changed."
"So has she," Noin said, glancing over her shoulder fondly at where they
had last seen Relena.
"I trust you are watching her?"
"Yes, vigorously and much to her annoyance," Sally replied, taking her
guests down a turn off the main road.
"It's down here," She commented needlessly.
After a moment she continued making small talk with her old friend.
"So. Have you been able to get through to the south? I haven't been able
to get any responses to my messages. Actually," She said, arriving at a
good-sized stone house, single storied, but fairly large, "I just sent out
another letter with Altron yesterday. I keep expecting to see him return
with a reply, even though he couldn't possibly have gotten there and
back so soon."
A small stable jutted off the side of her home, barely large enough to fit
both the travelers horses and one other. A wooden cage, protected by
the elements by the overhang of the stable roof, stood nearby.
Leading them over to the stables, she unlocked the door and allowed
them inside as she headed over to the cage.
Once her visitors were inside, she unlocked it's smaller door and carefully
retrieved a large silver bird, getting it settled on her leather glove before
removing it's hood.
She carefully stroked it's plumage with one finger, pulling it back quickly to
avoid getting bitten.
"Aren't you the little rascal?" She murmured, attempting again to touch it
in this manner.
It was foolish, she knew, but the red crest atop it's head was just too
tempting.
The delicate spiraling feathers simply lured her, begging her to touch
them.
"Tallgeese," She repeated under her breath. She had said it's name
countless times now, but it was still as unfamiliar as before.
The whole scenario was unfamiliar.
A majestic phoenix crashing in Rohan.
It was strange, to say the least.
***
Inside the stables, Wufei took a good look around. He had led his ride
into a stall, one of three, and was taking off the saddle, imitating Noin's
movements as she carefully unbuckled it and lifted it off.
It was, as it appeared to be from the outside, rather small, with room
enough for barely three horses. Noin's two horses, one of which had
been lent to him, were in the two stalls nearest to the door. Not five feet
away from him was another stall in which another horse rested.
It was a she, a fairly small mare of a deep golden color with darker brown
dappling, large brown eyes and a silky looking mane.
Noin, noticing what he was looking at, came over.
She stood next to him and whistled her admiration of the horse.
"Beauty, isn't she?"
He glanced up at her, slightly startled and annoyed to be caught off
guard.
"What's the name?"
"Sandrock. Sally's raised her from a little thing," She placed her hand in
the air at waist height to demonstrate small she used to be, "Into this
gorgeous mare."
She spent a long moment gazing at the horse before turning back to the
man next to her.
"So. You ready?"
He nodded.
"All right. Let's go."
As they walked out, Sally greeted them, talking as she placed something
back into the cage on the side of the wall.
"Come, let me show you to your rooms," Sally said, smiling at them.
"This is unusual. I've never had two guests at once. Usually Noin comes
alone." She said, casting a glance at the dark haired woman.
"So I only have one spare bedroom. But that will work just fine. Us girls
can bunk down together, and you," She spoke as she opened her front
door and led them inside, "Chang Wufei, can sleep in the extra room."
Wufei's eyes widened with surprise as he entered her house.
He had expected a traditional northerners decorations, possibly
something more unusual, but certainly not this.
This was...
Home.
***
Leaning up against the wall of a fairly large stone house was a man,
Heero Yuy. There were voices inside, signaling that whoever lived there
was awake and around, but he didn't care.
He needed a place to rest, regain his wits, and forage for food. His pack
was completely empty of supplies and had been for the past two days.
His water had run out yesterday, but thirst wasn't his main problem; he
had found a water barrel inside town and had taken a drink from there.
Right now, be just wanted a place to sleep and something hot to eat.
Both of which he would hopefully find here.
Most of the people didn't live this far back, so there was a good chance
that girl wouldn't come here.
Besides, he thought, sneaking around the corner of the house and seeing
a stable up ahead, even if she does see me, I doubt I have anything to
worry about. She was only an infant then, she won't remember me. To
her, I'm just a traveler passing through. There's no possible way that the
Peacecraft girl will figure it out.
There's no way.
***
Yes. The infamous introduction. It had to be in here somewhere.
Review, please?