Starshower here. sorry this took so long to get out. hope you like it.
45 minutes later, Relena sat in her car, with Skye and Amber sitting across from her. Her mind still boggled at how Zechs had allowed - had ordered - that to be done to her. And then to Skye, and finally to Amber.
He had watched, sitting at his desk while his guards stripped her, until everything, even her underwear and bra pooled on the floor around her feet. Then Zechs had ordered the guards to search her. The guards, all male, had run their hands up and down her body. Relena shuddered, even now when she thought about it; and her brother, just sitting there, watching.
Then Zechs had ordered the same done to Amber, and this time, while his guards stripped the angry girl, Zechs stood with his knife again at Amber's throat.
Finally, to ensure Skye compliance, Zechs had stripped Amber himself, with the knife.
When Zechs' guards had finished staring at the three naked girls, they were told to get dressed, with Zechs providing a pair of pants and shirt to replace Amber's clothes, which he had ruined.
Zechs threw a small black bag at Relena's feet, and told her to leave.
Relena complied, talking the bag and the two girls with her, her cheeks red with shame. She had apologised to Amber and Skye for her brother's behaviour, numerous times, and now, the three sat in silence.
Finally, Skye spoke. "Where are we going?" she asked
Relena smiled softly. "You remember those 'rebel pilots' that my brother referred to?" she asked. Skye and Amber nodded. "We're going to a meeting place, where we'll be picked up by one of the pilots."
"Oh." Skye said, before turning away.
Relena sighed.
Quatre stood at the door of his helicopter, with one of his men, waiting for Relena and that book they needed. The girl, Sakura, still hadn't woken up, and everyone was beginning to worry. How long did someone have to be unconscious to be classed as being in a coma?
Suddenly, a pink car pulled up in the empty parking lot he was waiting in. He smiled, knowing it was Relena's car. Sure enough, she got out, but was closely followed by two other girls, one with silver-blonde hair, and the other with orangery-red hair. Puzzled, Quatre went up to meet them. As soon as Relena saw him, she waved her hand and the car drove away.
"Relena." Quatre said as a greeting.
"Quatre." Relena replied.
"Did you get it?"
"Yes." Relena said, looked down.
"Who are your friends?" Quatre asked, indicating the other two girls.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Relena apologised. "Quatre Winner, may I present Skye and Amber."
Quatre bowed and began to bring the red haired girl's hand to his lips to kiss it in the way his father had shown him, when the other girl pulled her friend away.
"Skye, that was rude." Relena said to the blonde. "Quatre was only being polite."
Skye just glared. Amber, the other girl, looked worriedly at her sister.
"We'd better go." Relena said sighing. "Amber and Skye are coming with us."
Quatre nodded and led the girls to his helicopter. After getting everyone belted in, Quatre got in the pilot's seat and they took off.
Half an hour later, they arrived at one of the Winner Mansions. Heero and Trowa met them. Wufei was replacing some weapons on his gundam, and Duo was watching Marika, Jayde and Sakura.
Quatre got out and helped Relena out. Then he went to help Skye, but she pushed him away.
"We're not moving, until someone tells us what is going on." Skye declared.
Relena looked at Heero, her eyes pleading for him to do something. He nodded and stepped forward.
"Uh, girls, if you come inside, we would be glad to tell you what's going on." He said with forced politeness.
Skye shook her head. "Neither myself or my sister are moving. You can't make us."
A single thought ran through both Trowa and Heero's minds: 'oh, yes we can!'
Without warning, both young men ran forward, each grabbing one girl and lifting her from the helicopter.
Skye immediately began to struggle to try to break Trowa's grip but the pilot held fast, using an unbreakable hold.
Amber, on the other hand, had frozen the second Heero's hand touched her skin, her memories of her time in Zechs' office still fresh in her mind. She held still for a second, before her survival instinct cut through, and she began struggling like a wild cat.
Heero and Trowa quickly set both girls down, and Amber immediately crossed to Skye's side.
Heero turned to Relena and glared at her. "Who are they, and why did you bring them here?"
Relena stared defiantly back. "Zechs told me to." She said angrily. "He wants me to find out about them. If I haven't found anything out by one week, they die, and so does Mother." Relena looked down. "He's using me." Then she looked up at Skye and Amber. "I'm sorry. But I couldn't let him kill you. He knew I'd do anything I could to save you." She turned around so that no one could see the tears that suddenly filled her eyes. "And I'm sorry about what he did to you. He should be jailed for that."
With a strangled sob, Relena fled inside, leaving the boys to wonder what had happened in the three hours she had been gone.
Quatre was about to run after her, when he spotted a black bag on the ground. He picked it up and opened it. It contained a book... and some photos.
"That bastard!" Quatre hissed, flipping through the stack of photos. He followed that declaration with a string of well-chosen swearwords.
His words caught the attention of Trowa and Heero.
"What?" they asked simultaneously.
"Look at these." Quatre said tossing the photos to Heero.
"What are they?" Trowa asked, peeking over Heero's shoulder.
"Relena, Skye and Amber." Quatre said simply. He didn't elaborate.
Heero's face darker as he scanned the photos, and Trowa's mirrored it.
"I'll kill him." Heero stated finally.
"Not alone." Trowa commented. Suddenly, Trowa turned to Skye and Amber. "Which one of you is which?" he asked.
"I'm Skye." Skye announced.
"Okay, Skye. Can you tell me what this is." Trowa asked handing her the photos.
Skye's face grew paler with each one, until she reached the first one with Amber in it. She abruptly threw them back at Trowa.
"Are you the rebel pilots?" Heero, Trowa and Quatre looked at each other before nodding, and Skye continued, hate and anger lacing every word. "It was your fault." She stated.
Quatre took a step back, shocked by the venom in her voice.
"Explain." Heero demanded.
Skye glared at him, but did as he ordered. "He - the blonde guy..." Skye began.
"Zechs." Trowa supplied.
"Yeah, him." Skye said. She continued as if Trowa hadn't spoken. "He decided to find out if we had any listening or recording devices that would be sending messages to you pilots, so he searched us. Or, he got his guards to." Skye finished angrily.
The three pilots stared speechless at her after she had finished.
"That's why Relena kept apologising." Quatre said, realisation seeping in. At everyone's questioning gaze, Quatre elaborated. "She holds herself responsible."
Amber looked terrified, and Skye still looked angry at the pilots.
"Let's get inside." Heero said. Trowa and Quatre nodded and guided the girls inside.
Duo was sitting on a chair watching over Sakura. Well, he was supposed to be watching Sakura, but he kept glancing at Jayde. She sat next to Marika's bed, across the other side of the room, and she kept looking at him. With fear.
The room was silent, save for the beeping machinery that let Duo know that Sakura and Marika were still alive.
The door to the room opened and Heero, Quatre and Trowa walked in. Quatre and Trowa were guiding two girls in.
"More babes?" Duo asked, a grin on his face. He turned serious again. "Where's Relena? Did she get the book?"
Duo looked shocked as he noticed the dark looks that came onto his friend's faces.
"What'd I say?"
No one answered.
Just then, Duo noticed a black bag, which Heero was holding. He only noticed it because it had suddenly started glowing gold.
"Ah, Heero?" Duo asked, getting everyone's attention. He pointed at the bag. "What's that?"
All eyes turned to Heero, who had opened the bag. He pulled out a small red book, which had a gold aura surrounding it.
A yellow head began to rise out of the book, followed by a body.
*Should I leave it here? Nah I'm not that mean*
Heero dropped the book and the thing that had come out of the book stared at him.
"Hey, what was that for?" the thing asked. It was small, less then a foot tall, and it could fly. It looked like a stuffed animal. And it talked!"
"Hey buddy, I asked you a question! Gees, kids these days." It mumbled to itself. "Hey, why was I woken up again? Don't tell me the cards are missing!" the thing quickly flew over to the book which was still on the floor, and opened it. It was smooth on one side, with a huge hollow in the other. And it was empty.
"My cards! My beautiful cards!" the creature turned to Heero. "What did you do to my cards?" it asked.
Heero stared blankly at it. "What cards?"
"The Clow Cards!" the creature responded, flying in a circle, staring at everyone until it's gaze came to Duo, sitting next to Sakura.
Then it exploded.
"What did you do to Sakura?" it asked Duo angrily, flying over to land in a protective stance on her hand.
Sakura moaned with the added weight, and her eyelids fluttered.
"Sakura? Sakura, wake up!" the thing cried.
It suddenly glowed again, and the gold light passed from its body into Sakura's hand and through her body. Her form raised a foot in the air, still glowing, before Sakura's eyes snapped open and her body dropped back onto the bed.
"Where am I?" Sakura asked, looking around at all of the faces that surrounded her, her eyes finally landed on the winged flying animal, and she smiled.
"Kero!" she cried.
"You know this thing?" Heero asked in disbelief.
"For your information, boy, I am Keroberos, Guardian Beast of the seal!"
"Kero, where am I?" Sakura asked.
"Uh, I don't know." The creature, Kero, replied.
Sakura turned to the four gundam pilots.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"You're at my place." Quatre replied. "Winner Mansion."
Sakura shook her head. "Kero, when am I?" she asked. Kero cocked his head on the side, thinking.
"About 700 years, I think. In the future."
"What?" Sakura, Heero and everyone else cried.
"Sakura, what's the last thing you remember?" Kero asked.
Sakura thought back. "The Travel card. I was fighting it."
"Exactly!" Kero said. "Travel transported you here."
"So how do I get back?" Sakura asked.
Kero smiled. "Easy. You capture Travel before you disappeared, and the card disappeared with you. You just call on Travel to take you back."
"But I don't have Travel, and I hadn't signed it anyway."
"Y...you don't have Travel?" Kero's mouth dropped open.
Sakura shook her head. "No, but..."she trailed off, looking at Duo. "Did you find anything else with me? You know how you found my key near me, was there anything else?"
"Like what?" Duo asked, his brow creased in concentration.
Sakura pulled a card from no where. "Like this." She said.
Duo looked at the picture. It had a thin sword on it, with lots of chains binding it.
"A sword?" he asked sceptically.
"Look, Marika and Jayde say that they're not from this time either." Sakura began.
"Travel's powers are that it can transport people to different places, no matter what the time or dimension." Kero said. "It can also call people from a different time to where it is."
"So it is possible." Quatre said, speaking up. "But how?"
Kero and Sakura just looked at him. "Magic." They said simultaneously.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Heero asked angrily. This situation was getting out of control, and Heero, the perfect solider, didn't like that.
Sakura turned on him. "We are trying to work out how Marika, Jayde and I got here." She told him in a heated tone. "I know you don't understand what Kero and I are talking about, so maybe you should SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Sakura had gotten really close to Heero, nose - to - nose close, and she had yelled the last three words.
Heero glared at her, but felt his normal 'I don't care' attitude waver. Suddenly, it was like something snapped inside of him, and he yelled back at the young girl.
"SHUT UP!" he yelled back. "GET BACK IN YOUR PLACE. YOU ARE A PRISONER, NOT IN CHARGE! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE...OW!" Heero winced in pain as Kero bit him.
"You leave Sakura alone." Kero growled.
Heero raised his other hand and flicked Kero away. The creature was flung into a wall.
"You bastard!" Sakura hissed, stepping forward. Suddenly, the door opened and Wufei stepped in.
"What's going on?" he asked, taking in the dagger glares that were passing between Sakura and Heero.
Ignoring Wufei, Heero took a step forward to match Sakura's.
Sakura met Skye's eyes over Heero's shoulder and Skye nodded. Sakura smiled, and, at the same time, Sakura and Skye attacked Heero.
And all hell broke loose.
Heero grabbed Sakura and Wufei grabbed Skye from behind. Amber immediately went to help her sister, but was held back by Quatre, and when Jayde tried to jump into the fray, Trowa grabbed her. Duo held Marika, who had been woken up by Heero and Sakura's shouting, down when she tried to get up from her bed.
Suddenly, Sakura kicked Heero in the solar plexus, and he let go of her.
She immediately released her wand and called on another card.
"Shield, protect me and the other girls from the boys. Shield, release and dispel!" Sakura yelled.
A pale blue bubble appeared around each of the five girls and around Kero as well, and the five boys went flying away from them.
Sakura walked over to Heero, still contained in the bubble. "I want some answers and I want them now!" she said. Heero said nothing, but pulled out a gun and fired it. Not at anything essential, but at Sakura's leg.
It rebounded off the blue shield surrounding her and hit the floor, rolling before hitting a wall and stopping.
"I wouldn't do that again, Heero, if I were you, unless you want to meet the shot card. It doesn't stop until it hits its target." Sakura warned.
Heero slowly lowered the gun, but Relena chose that time to walk in. Heero suddenly turned, pointing the gun at her.
"What are you going to do now?" Heero threw over his shoulder at Sakura.
Sakura sighed and stepped out of her bubble. It remained intact behind her.
"Leave her out of this." Sakura said.
Heero nodded but didn't lower the gun from Relena's head.
"I said..." Sakura began.
"I heard what you said." Heero cut in. "I'm just making sure you behave like a good girl."
"I'll behave." Sakura relented, speaking quietly.
"Good. Remove the shields." Heero ordered. Sakura sighed.
"Fine." She said. She closed her eyes and the shields around the four girls fizzled out and disappeared.
"Good." Heero said. He still had the gun held at Relena. "Now give me your wand."
Sakura sighed again, defeated, and gave him the wand. As soon as it left her hand, the wand transformed into a small pink key, the same one Duo had found.
"What did you do to it?" Heero asked, spinning around. He had the key in one hand and the gun, which was now pointed at Sakura's head, in the other.
"It will only stay in wand form in my hand, unless I command it otherwise." Sakura said, staring at the silver gun.
Heero smirked at her obvious fear. "Not so cocky now, are we, Sakura?" he asked.
"I know when I can win battles and when I cant." Sakura said simply. "And I know when to compromise, which, obviously, you haven't learnt yet." Sakura stated, looking pointedly at the gun.
Suddenly, Wufei spoke up. "I'll watch her, Heero. Drop the gun."
Heero looked at the Chinese boy in surprise. "But..."
"She won't get away from me, not again." Wufei stated.
Heero could see a look of determination in his eyes, and he smiled thinly at Wufei.
"You're in charge of her now." Heero said finally. "Don't let her escape."
"Good." Sakura stated. "Anything has got to be better then spending any more time with you." She said, emphasising on the 'you' to Heero.
She began to follow Wufei out of the door, but stopped and looked back. "Kero, look after the girls."
Kero nodded, looking upset, but willing to do what Sakura wanted, and Sakura smiled.
"When I get home, you can have all the cake and pudding you want Kero!"
Kero started acting like a hyperactive child, crying, "Oh, Pudding! Cake!"
Wufei made an impatient noise and Sakura hurriedly left the room. The door slammed shut behind her, leaving the room in shocked silence.
"Stupid girl." Heero muttered, looking at Kero.
"Sakura is not stupid." Kero replied, defending his friend.
"She expects you to be able to protect them?" Heero asked spitefully, waving a hand around at the five remaining girls. "When you look like that? I could step on you and kill you if I didn't watch where I was going."
"Maybe not like this," Kero began. He transformed into his true form, a giant winged lion. "But maybe like this!"
Kerberos, the Sun guardian, stood protectively in front of all the girls except Relena, who hadn't moved.
"How quickly can you move?" Heero asked, aiming the gun at Relena again.
Kerberos narrowed his eyes and let loose a small fireball. It melted Heero's gun on contact, startling Heero, who dropped the melting silver.
"Never underestimate the Clow Mistress, or her guardians." Kerberos warned, changing back.
"Now apologise to this young lady." Kero ordered.
"Sorry." Heero muttered to Relena, sounding as if he didn't mean a single word.
"Now, introductions!" Kero cried happily. He flew around from person to person.
"What your name?" Kero asked each person. Each person, aside from Amber, told Kero their name and age. Skye told Kero Amber's information.
Marika, Jayde, Skye and Amber were all sixteen, like Sakura. The pilots were eighteen, as was Relena.
After all the introductions, Kero asked another question.
"Who was that guy that took Sakura?"
"Who, Wufei?" Duo asked.
"Yeah, him. What's his history?"
"We don't know. Wufei never talks about himself." Quatre said.
"Well, I know one thing." Kero said, landing on a windowsill, and facing the group of nine. "He's got magic powers."
"What?"
it's a bit longer. Please, R+R
THanks, Starshower.
45 minutes later, Relena sat in her car, with Skye and Amber sitting across from her. Her mind still boggled at how Zechs had allowed - had ordered - that to be done to her. And then to Skye, and finally to Amber.
He had watched, sitting at his desk while his guards stripped her, until everything, even her underwear and bra pooled on the floor around her feet. Then Zechs had ordered the guards to search her. The guards, all male, had run their hands up and down her body. Relena shuddered, even now when she thought about it; and her brother, just sitting there, watching.
Then Zechs had ordered the same done to Amber, and this time, while his guards stripped the angry girl, Zechs stood with his knife again at Amber's throat.
Finally, to ensure Skye compliance, Zechs had stripped Amber himself, with the knife.
When Zechs' guards had finished staring at the three naked girls, they were told to get dressed, with Zechs providing a pair of pants and shirt to replace Amber's clothes, which he had ruined.
Zechs threw a small black bag at Relena's feet, and told her to leave.
Relena complied, talking the bag and the two girls with her, her cheeks red with shame. She had apologised to Amber and Skye for her brother's behaviour, numerous times, and now, the three sat in silence.
Finally, Skye spoke. "Where are we going?" she asked
Relena smiled softly. "You remember those 'rebel pilots' that my brother referred to?" she asked. Skye and Amber nodded. "We're going to a meeting place, where we'll be picked up by one of the pilots."
"Oh." Skye said, before turning away.
Relena sighed.
Quatre stood at the door of his helicopter, with one of his men, waiting for Relena and that book they needed. The girl, Sakura, still hadn't woken up, and everyone was beginning to worry. How long did someone have to be unconscious to be classed as being in a coma?
Suddenly, a pink car pulled up in the empty parking lot he was waiting in. He smiled, knowing it was Relena's car. Sure enough, she got out, but was closely followed by two other girls, one with silver-blonde hair, and the other with orangery-red hair. Puzzled, Quatre went up to meet them. As soon as Relena saw him, she waved her hand and the car drove away.
"Relena." Quatre said as a greeting.
"Quatre." Relena replied.
"Did you get it?"
"Yes." Relena said, looked down.
"Who are your friends?" Quatre asked, indicating the other two girls.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Relena apologised. "Quatre Winner, may I present Skye and Amber."
Quatre bowed and began to bring the red haired girl's hand to his lips to kiss it in the way his father had shown him, when the other girl pulled her friend away.
"Skye, that was rude." Relena said to the blonde. "Quatre was only being polite."
Skye just glared. Amber, the other girl, looked worriedly at her sister.
"We'd better go." Relena said sighing. "Amber and Skye are coming with us."
Quatre nodded and led the girls to his helicopter. After getting everyone belted in, Quatre got in the pilot's seat and they took off.
Half an hour later, they arrived at one of the Winner Mansions. Heero and Trowa met them. Wufei was replacing some weapons on his gundam, and Duo was watching Marika, Jayde and Sakura.
Quatre got out and helped Relena out. Then he went to help Skye, but she pushed him away.
"We're not moving, until someone tells us what is going on." Skye declared.
Relena looked at Heero, her eyes pleading for him to do something. He nodded and stepped forward.
"Uh, girls, if you come inside, we would be glad to tell you what's going on." He said with forced politeness.
Skye shook her head. "Neither myself or my sister are moving. You can't make us."
A single thought ran through both Trowa and Heero's minds: 'oh, yes we can!'
Without warning, both young men ran forward, each grabbing one girl and lifting her from the helicopter.
Skye immediately began to struggle to try to break Trowa's grip but the pilot held fast, using an unbreakable hold.
Amber, on the other hand, had frozen the second Heero's hand touched her skin, her memories of her time in Zechs' office still fresh in her mind. She held still for a second, before her survival instinct cut through, and she began struggling like a wild cat.
Heero and Trowa quickly set both girls down, and Amber immediately crossed to Skye's side.
Heero turned to Relena and glared at her. "Who are they, and why did you bring them here?"
Relena stared defiantly back. "Zechs told me to." She said angrily. "He wants me to find out about them. If I haven't found anything out by one week, they die, and so does Mother." Relena looked down. "He's using me." Then she looked up at Skye and Amber. "I'm sorry. But I couldn't let him kill you. He knew I'd do anything I could to save you." She turned around so that no one could see the tears that suddenly filled her eyes. "And I'm sorry about what he did to you. He should be jailed for that."
With a strangled sob, Relena fled inside, leaving the boys to wonder what had happened in the three hours she had been gone.
Quatre was about to run after her, when he spotted a black bag on the ground. He picked it up and opened it. It contained a book... and some photos.
"That bastard!" Quatre hissed, flipping through the stack of photos. He followed that declaration with a string of well-chosen swearwords.
His words caught the attention of Trowa and Heero.
"What?" they asked simultaneously.
"Look at these." Quatre said tossing the photos to Heero.
"What are they?" Trowa asked, peeking over Heero's shoulder.
"Relena, Skye and Amber." Quatre said simply. He didn't elaborate.
Heero's face darker as he scanned the photos, and Trowa's mirrored it.
"I'll kill him." Heero stated finally.
"Not alone." Trowa commented. Suddenly, Trowa turned to Skye and Amber. "Which one of you is which?" he asked.
"I'm Skye." Skye announced.
"Okay, Skye. Can you tell me what this is." Trowa asked handing her the photos.
Skye's face grew paler with each one, until she reached the first one with Amber in it. She abruptly threw them back at Trowa.
"Are you the rebel pilots?" Heero, Trowa and Quatre looked at each other before nodding, and Skye continued, hate and anger lacing every word. "It was your fault." She stated.
Quatre took a step back, shocked by the venom in her voice.
"Explain." Heero demanded.
Skye glared at him, but did as he ordered. "He - the blonde guy..." Skye began.
"Zechs." Trowa supplied.
"Yeah, him." Skye said. She continued as if Trowa hadn't spoken. "He decided to find out if we had any listening or recording devices that would be sending messages to you pilots, so he searched us. Or, he got his guards to." Skye finished angrily.
The three pilots stared speechless at her after she had finished.
"That's why Relena kept apologising." Quatre said, realisation seeping in. At everyone's questioning gaze, Quatre elaborated. "She holds herself responsible."
Amber looked terrified, and Skye still looked angry at the pilots.
"Let's get inside." Heero said. Trowa and Quatre nodded and guided the girls inside.
Duo was sitting on a chair watching over Sakura. Well, he was supposed to be watching Sakura, but he kept glancing at Jayde. She sat next to Marika's bed, across the other side of the room, and she kept looking at him. With fear.
The room was silent, save for the beeping machinery that let Duo know that Sakura and Marika were still alive.
The door to the room opened and Heero, Quatre and Trowa walked in. Quatre and Trowa were guiding two girls in.
"More babes?" Duo asked, a grin on his face. He turned serious again. "Where's Relena? Did she get the book?"
Duo looked shocked as he noticed the dark looks that came onto his friend's faces.
"What'd I say?"
No one answered.
Just then, Duo noticed a black bag, which Heero was holding. He only noticed it because it had suddenly started glowing gold.
"Ah, Heero?" Duo asked, getting everyone's attention. He pointed at the bag. "What's that?"
All eyes turned to Heero, who had opened the bag. He pulled out a small red book, which had a gold aura surrounding it.
A yellow head began to rise out of the book, followed by a body.
*Should I leave it here? Nah I'm not that mean*
Heero dropped the book and the thing that had come out of the book stared at him.
"Hey, what was that for?" the thing asked. It was small, less then a foot tall, and it could fly. It looked like a stuffed animal. And it talked!"
"Hey buddy, I asked you a question! Gees, kids these days." It mumbled to itself. "Hey, why was I woken up again? Don't tell me the cards are missing!" the thing quickly flew over to the book which was still on the floor, and opened it. It was smooth on one side, with a huge hollow in the other. And it was empty.
"My cards! My beautiful cards!" the creature turned to Heero. "What did you do to my cards?" it asked.
Heero stared blankly at it. "What cards?"
"The Clow Cards!" the creature responded, flying in a circle, staring at everyone until it's gaze came to Duo, sitting next to Sakura.
Then it exploded.
"What did you do to Sakura?" it asked Duo angrily, flying over to land in a protective stance on her hand.
Sakura moaned with the added weight, and her eyelids fluttered.
"Sakura? Sakura, wake up!" the thing cried.
It suddenly glowed again, and the gold light passed from its body into Sakura's hand and through her body. Her form raised a foot in the air, still glowing, before Sakura's eyes snapped open and her body dropped back onto the bed.
"Where am I?" Sakura asked, looking around at all of the faces that surrounded her, her eyes finally landed on the winged flying animal, and she smiled.
"Kero!" she cried.
"You know this thing?" Heero asked in disbelief.
"For your information, boy, I am Keroberos, Guardian Beast of the seal!"
"Kero, where am I?" Sakura asked.
"Uh, I don't know." The creature, Kero, replied.
Sakura turned to the four gundam pilots.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"You're at my place." Quatre replied. "Winner Mansion."
Sakura shook her head. "Kero, when am I?" she asked. Kero cocked his head on the side, thinking.
"About 700 years, I think. In the future."
"What?" Sakura, Heero and everyone else cried.
"Sakura, what's the last thing you remember?" Kero asked.
Sakura thought back. "The Travel card. I was fighting it."
"Exactly!" Kero said. "Travel transported you here."
"So how do I get back?" Sakura asked.
Kero smiled. "Easy. You capture Travel before you disappeared, and the card disappeared with you. You just call on Travel to take you back."
"But I don't have Travel, and I hadn't signed it anyway."
"Y...you don't have Travel?" Kero's mouth dropped open.
Sakura shook her head. "No, but..."she trailed off, looking at Duo. "Did you find anything else with me? You know how you found my key near me, was there anything else?"
"Like what?" Duo asked, his brow creased in concentration.
Sakura pulled a card from no where. "Like this." She said.
Duo looked at the picture. It had a thin sword on it, with lots of chains binding it.
"A sword?" he asked sceptically.
"Look, Marika and Jayde say that they're not from this time either." Sakura began.
"Travel's powers are that it can transport people to different places, no matter what the time or dimension." Kero said. "It can also call people from a different time to where it is."
"So it is possible." Quatre said, speaking up. "But how?"
Kero and Sakura just looked at him. "Magic." They said simultaneously.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Heero asked angrily. This situation was getting out of control, and Heero, the perfect solider, didn't like that.
Sakura turned on him. "We are trying to work out how Marika, Jayde and I got here." She told him in a heated tone. "I know you don't understand what Kero and I are talking about, so maybe you should SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Sakura had gotten really close to Heero, nose - to - nose close, and she had yelled the last three words.
Heero glared at her, but felt his normal 'I don't care' attitude waver. Suddenly, it was like something snapped inside of him, and he yelled back at the young girl.
"SHUT UP!" he yelled back. "GET BACK IN YOUR PLACE. YOU ARE A PRISONER, NOT IN CHARGE! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE...OW!" Heero winced in pain as Kero bit him.
"You leave Sakura alone." Kero growled.
Heero raised his other hand and flicked Kero away. The creature was flung into a wall.
"You bastard!" Sakura hissed, stepping forward. Suddenly, the door opened and Wufei stepped in.
"What's going on?" he asked, taking in the dagger glares that were passing between Sakura and Heero.
Ignoring Wufei, Heero took a step forward to match Sakura's.
Sakura met Skye's eyes over Heero's shoulder and Skye nodded. Sakura smiled, and, at the same time, Sakura and Skye attacked Heero.
And all hell broke loose.
Heero grabbed Sakura and Wufei grabbed Skye from behind. Amber immediately went to help her sister, but was held back by Quatre, and when Jayde tried to jump into the fray, Trowa grabbed her. Duo held Marika, who had been woken up by Heero and Sakura's shouting, down when she tried to get up from her bed.
Suddenly, Sakura kicked Heero in the solar plexus, and he let go of her.
She immediately released her wand and called on another card.
"Shield, protect me and the other girls from the boys. Shield, release and dispel!" Sakura yelled.
A pale blue bubble appeared around each of the five girls and around Kero as well, and the five boys went flying away from them.
Sakura walked over to Heero, still contained in the bubble. "I want some answers and I want them now!" she said. Heero said nothing, but pulled out a gun and fired it. Not at anything essential, but at Sakura's leg.
It rebounded off the blue shield surrounding her and hit the floor, rolling before hitting a wall and stopping.
"I wouldn't do that again, Heero, if I were you, unless you want to meet the shot card. It doesn't stop until it hits its target." Sakura warned.
Heero slowly lowered the gun, but Relena chose that time to walk in. Heero suddenly turned, pointing the gun at her.
"What are you going to do now?" Heero threw over his shoulder at Sakura.
Sakura sighed and stepped out of her bubble. It remained intact behind her.
"Leave her out of this." Sakura said.
Heero nodded but didn't lower the gun from Relena's head.
"I said..." Sakura began.
"I heard what you said." Heero cut in. "I'm just making sure you behave like a good girl."
"I'll behave." Sakura relented, speaking quietly.
"Good. Remove the shields." Heero ordered. Sakura sighed.
"Fine." She said. She closed her eyes and the shields around the four girls fizzled out and disappeared.
"Good." Heero said. He still had the gun held at Relena. "Now give me your wand."
Sakura sighed again, defeated, and gave him the wand. As soon as it left her hand, the wand transformed into a small pink key, the same one Duo had found.
"What did you do to it?" Heero asked, spinning around. He had the key in one hand and the gun, which was now pointed at Sakura's head, in the other.
"It will only stay in wand form in my hand, unless I command it otherwise." Sakura said, staring at the silver gun.
Heero smirked at her obvious fear. "Not so cocky now, are we, Sakura?" he asked.
"I know when I can win battles and when I cant." Sakura said simply. "And I know when to compromise, which, obviously, you haven't learnt yet." Sakura stated, looking pointedly at the gun.
Suddenly, Wufei spoke up. "I'll watch her, Heero. Drop the gun."
Heero looked at the Chinese boy in surprise. "But..."
"She won't get away from me, not again." Wufei stated.
Heero could see a look of determination in his eyes, and he smiled thinly at Wufei.
"You're in charge of her now." Heero said finally. "Don't let her escape."
"Good." Sakura stated. "Anything has got to be better then spending any more time with you." She said, emphasising on the 'you' to Heero.
She began to follow Wufei out of the door, but stopped and looked back. "Kero, look after the girls."
Kero nodded, looking upset, but willing to do what Sakura wanted, and Sakura smiled.
"When I get home, you can have all the cake and pudding you want Kero!"
Kero started acting like a hyperactive child, crying, "Oh, Pudding! Cake!"
Wufei made an impatient noise and Sakura hurriedly left the room. The door slammed shut behind her, leaving the room in shocked silence.
"Stupid girl." Heero muttered, looking at Kero.
"Sakura is not stupid." Kero replied, defending his friend.
"She expects you to be able to protect them?" Heero asked spitefully, waving a hand around at the five remaining girls. "When you look like that? I could step on you and kill you if I didn't watch where I was going."
"Maybe not like this," Kero began. He transformed into his true form, a giant winged lion. "But maybe like this!"
Kerberos, the Sun guardian, stood protectively in front of all the girls except Relena, who hadn't moved.
"How quickly can you move?" Heero asked, aiming the gun at Relena again.
Kerberos narrowed his eyes and let loose a small fireball. It melted Heero's gun on contact, startling Heero, who dropped the melting silver.
"Never underestimate the Clow Mistress, or her guardians." Kerberos warned, changing back.
"Now apologise to this young lady." Kero ordered.
"Sorry." Heero muttered to Relena, sounding as if he didn't mean a single word.
"Now, introductions!" Kero cried happily. He flew around from person to person.
"What your name?" Kero asked each person. Each person, aside from Amber, told Kero their name and age. Skye told Kero Amber's information.
Marika, Jayde, Skye and Amber were all sixteen, like Sakura. The pilots were eighteen, as was Relena.
After all the introductions, Kero asked another question.
"Who was that guy that took Sakura?"
"Who, Wufei?" Duo asked.
"Yeah, him. What's his history?"
"We don't know. Wufei never talks about himself." Quatre said.
"Well, I know one thing." Kero said, landing on a windowsill, and facing the group of nine. "He's got magic powers."
"What?"
it's a bit longer. Please, R+R
THanks, Starshower.