Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. I do own all of my own characters and this story line though.
Genre: General/ Supernatural
Rating: PG-13 (it's for the shonen-ai and language)
Warning: Shonen-ai, shojo-ai, boy/boy, girl/girl pairings. If you don't like that than don't read it. You have been warned. There is a lot of swearing in this fan fiction and there may also be a little violence. Relena bashing, and lots of it.
Notes: Alternate Universe. Relena is out of character. The title comes from the song 'All or Nothing' by Athena Cage. (I don't own this either)
Pairings: 1/3, 2/4/5, 6/ Noin, Hilde/ Sally, Treize/ Une, Relena/ Dorothy (maybe).
Summary: It is a true fact. Everyone is psychic. It's just that some people can access their psychic powers. So what happens when there is a competition in which the different psychics from different schools are invited? And what happens when a group of seemingly ordinary teens show extraordinary powers? The stage is set. Let the games begin.
Info: Telepathy- ability to read other's (including animals) minds and project one's
thoughts
Empathy- ability to feel other's emotions and to project ones emotions
Psychic healing- the ability to heal others
Telekinesis- ability to move things with ones mind
Pyrokinesis- ability to set things on fire with ones mind
Clairvoyance- ability to view the future
Remote viewing- ability to see something psychically in the present time
Psychic recolition (spelling? Is it psychic recollection?)- ability to see something
psychically in the past
Lucid dreaming- to have control over one's dreams in the delta-theta state
Beta waves- brain waves that show you are attending to something
Theta waves- brain waves that show you are drowsy
Alpha waves- brain waves associated with psychic activity
Delta waves- brain waves associated with deep dreamless sleep
Well, I'd just like to thank those of you who have reviewed. Griffin, stacey, and Ama I want to thank you again. As for your question Ama, no I am not psychic myself. In fact, all I know is based on research. One day when I get older I will definitely have to find someone who can teach me more but for now I am limited to researching all that I can. I may get facts wrong so if any of you catch something that is just wrong or messed up than please correct me and I will be more than happy to fix it as soon as I can.
In fact, what I am writing now is probably all wrong so please just give me a heads up if that is the case. Notice that all of the organizations and stuff are totally my own creation but I do want to get the facts about psychics as correct as I can. Well, enough of my blabber. Here is the third chapter. Enjoy!
All or Nothing
Chapter Three: Welcome to PAGA's 20th Annual PAC Competition
"Wow." Hilde said in awe. The silence that greeted her from the other thirteen psychics around her was her only answer. It was two weeks later on Friday. Gundam High's PAC class, Treize, Une, and Sally Po, the school nurse were standing in the registration room of Sanq's PAGA building for the psychic competition. Sally was there in case any of the ten students burned themselves out. She was a healer like Treize so between the two of them they had any injuries covered.
The room they were standing in was gigantic. Their school's gym could have fit in the front room nicely. The entire structure was made out of clear glass panels that were held up by steel beams. Strung between the beams on the ceiling were colorful banners in all colors of the rainbow and small prisms that caught the light and flew rainbows all along the ground below it. On the two sidewalls were small tables with tablecloths all colors of the rainbow. There were officials at each table helping the hundreds of people that were crowded into this beautiful room.
"I've never seen so many psychics in one place at a time!" Duo exclaimed, also in awe.
"Come. We have to register." Treize said, snapping the group out of their daze. Odin walked to them through the crowd with a grin on his face.
"Well, I am your official guide and attendant for this competition. Since my kid is entering this year I'm not allowed to be a judge or official." Odin remarked. "Welcome to PAGA's Sanq office building. Let's get you registered and than I can tell you about the history of the building."
"This is a three day competition correct?" Quatre asked as the large group was steered across the room.
"Yup. Today is for registration and the preliminary rounds." Odin answered. "Tomorrow is the eliminating rounds and the semifinals. The finals and awards ceremony is on Sunday."
"Cool." Noin remarked.
"Hey Sheldon." Odin greeted a man sitting at a table with a red tablecloth on it. The man he greeted was a tall man, probably in his thirties with short dark black hair that was cut to the tips of his ears. He had heavily lashed brown eyes that glowed with warmth and had a silver earring in his left ear. He was dressed in the standard black t-shirt with the words PAGA 20th Annual PAC Competition embroidered in red.
"Sup Din." Sheldon answered with a smile. "I heard you weren't judging this year."
"I'm not allowed to." Odin answered with a grin and put an arm around Heero's shoulder. "My nephew is entering this year."
"I see. Well good luck little O." Sheldon said. Heero frowned at the name but thanked him none-the-less.
"All right, welcome to the PAGA 20th Annual PAC Competition." He handed the ten students and the adults forms. "Fill these out here and we'll get you registered." Sheldon turned to an end table sitting next to him, also draped with a red cloth. Sitting on the table was a black laptop. Heero finished first and handed Sheldon his form. Sheldon took it and started typing on the computer before printing out a sheet of paper on a printer by his feet and putting it in a black folder with the competition's name in red on the cover. It also had Heero's name on it.
Sheldon handed it to Heero. "Here ya go. You better put your nametag on. It's in the folder." Heero nodded and took out the plastic coated card before clipping it to his red collared shirt that was open revealing a white long-sleeved shirt underneath with Gundam High's mascot, a lion, on it.
Once everyone was done they clipped their nametags on their own school shirts. Duo was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a red collared shirt over it like Heero. Trowa was wearing a long-sleeved turtleneck while everyone else was wearing the simple t-shirts of their school. It was white with a red pouncing lion over the heart and the name of their high school around it. (It was required that they wear it.)
"Did we get sent to the red table because our school colors are red and gold?" Hilde asked.
"Yup, I can start the tour now. We have an hour before the prelims start." Odin answered. "Well, this room was designed to give a free sort of feeling to it. The prisms and cloths are to enhance that feeling. There are forty schools in our district that are competing in this tournament. Sheldon is the official for your school; that is what was up with all the red. If anything happens I notify him and he will make sure it is cleared up at the top."
"Do you work here?" Zechs asked.
"Yes." Odin answered with a grin. "I've been working here since I got out of college."
"Is that why you weren't that shocked to see this place Hee-chan?" Duo asked his silent best friend.
"Hai." Heero answered. (A/N: hai- yes.) "When I was younger I came here everyday after school."
"Hell, the kid's been coming here since he was a month old." Odin remarked. "He knows his way around here like the back of his hand. He actually helped Ronnie Kilms set up the computer systems."
"Really? You did?" Hilde asked in interest.
"Hn." Heero answered with a nod. "For all that they're brilliant none of them could configure a computer program if it hit them in the head."
"How old were you?" Meilan asked.
"He was four." Odin answered with a twinkle in his eye.
"Four?!" Wufei burst out.
"Yes. Four. Do you have a problem with that Chang?" Heero asked in warning. Meilan reached up and closed her cousin's open mouth. Heero only called the Chinese boy 'Chang' when he was in a foul mood.
"Well, anyway. This is where you guys from Gundam High get to hang out between tests." Odin led them to a lounge. There was a large wooden table taking up most of the room with comfortable black office chairs around it. There was a soda machine and another vending machine to the left of the table, and a comfortable looking red couch next to those. There was a closed door right across from the entry that was obviously a bathroom.
There was a TV mounted to the right wall and an arcade game of Mortal Combat III to the left of the couch. Sitting on the table was a large stereo. The people in PAGA knew how restless teenagers got so they insured that entertainment be provided to keep the young psychics out of trouble.
"Not bad." Duo remarked as he flopped back into the couch with his arms behind his head. "Not bad at all O."
"Glad you like it Duo." Odin answered. Treize took a seat at the table and turned on the news while everyone else settled in their own chairs. Soon Wufei and Duo got into a heated battle in Mortal Combat. Wufei chose Subzero and Duo chose Katana.
"All right guys, we have to get going now." Odin said, cutting over Duo and Wufei's banter like a knife. Both boys dropped the controllers and stepped away from the machine calmly as if nothing had ever happened and followed the rest of their class out of the doors.
Odin led them down many halls and more and more schools joined them as they headed towards the room where the preliminaries were. They finally entered a humongous white room that was a little smaller than the entrance room of the PAGA building. "All right, I'll lead each of you over to your testing stations. You will be competing with other students who share your gift."
"Okay." Trowa spoke for everyone with that comment.
"All righty than." Odin remarked. "Dorothy, you sit here in the last chair. Right, one of the officials will be coming around in about ten minutes to tell you what your group will have to do. When you are finished go over by Treize and wait." Odin than led the rest of the students to their spots.
"Hi, I am Sara Baxter." A girl with shoulder length black hair and bright brown eyes remarked haughtily. She was dressed in a short violet skirt and tight white t-shirt that showed off her stomach. The t-shirt had a violet bear on the front of it. (This was the girl's school uniform, albeit that this one was three sizes too small for Sara.) She was sitting to the left of Dorothy. "I'm representing Romefeller Academy, and you are? I should like to know the name of the one I beat."
Dorothy turned and said in a purring, growling tone. "Listen bitch. I really don't give a flying fuck what your name is. I won't need to know it when you lose. My name is Dorothy Catalonia."
"You ass hole!" Sara screeched.
"Oh, and honey?" Dorothy asked in a sickly sweet voice. "My grandfather owns your school." With that she turned calmly in her seat as the official came to explain what they were to do. Sitting on the table in front on each participant was a machine that would record their brainwaves. Sitting in front of each participant was a yellow legal pad and a pen.
After they were hooked up with to the EGG machine they would have to clear their minds and write what they saw on the legal pads. The EGG machine would make sure that they didn't cheat. They were given points by the psychic judges that shared their power. All of the student's points added together would get the school's score and if it was a certain amount they would make it to the elimination rounds.
"Ready?" The official asked. "Go." Dorothy instantly relaxed and brought herself into a meditative trance. Her brain waves went from beta to alpha within a few moments.
"You must be the entrant from Gundam High." A short boy sneered at Trowa. They and a group of other students were standing by the left wall. There were machines all around them, like the ones in arcades and fairs. The ones where balls are dropped and hit small plastic pegs so they can't be controlled and drop down where you catch it with a silver cup until you lead it to go into the right hole. The difference was there was no silver cup to catch the balls. There were just clear numbered compartments at the bottom of the pegs to catch the balls as they came down.
"Yes." Trowa answered.
"Humph, Gundam High has never entered PAGA's PAC tournament before. Let me give you some advice..." The boy trailed off waiting for a name. He was a small Asian boy with shiny black hair that was cut in a bowl cut. He wore big glasses that gave him the look of a bug and rather long front teeth. He was dressed in a violet school uniform with a picture of a white bear on it.
"Trowa. Trowa Barton." Trowa answered.
"Charmed." The boy sneered. "Well my name is Satoshi Hirata and I am a representative of Romefeller Academy. It's a private school."
"Your advice?" Trowa prompted.
"Right, don't feel bad if you lose. Our school always wins the PAC tournaments. We've never lost, and I am the master at TK." Trowa turned to his station and promptly ignored any more of Satoshi's boasts. The official came up to explain what the group had to do.
Ten balls would be dropped down the machines and into the numbered compartments. The numbers on the compartments were how many points each ball that dropped into it were worth. The group was to use their telekinesis to influence where the balls would go.
"Ready! Go!" The official said and the first balls began to drop.
"Hey hotties!" A blonde girl said with a wink. "My name is Tina Hill and I am from Romefeller Academy!" Heero and Zechs rolled their eyes as they sat in a group of carols at the far wall in the room. Tina had pale blonde hair that fell to the middle of her back and blue eyes. She was wearing heavy make up and her perfume was starting to make Heero light headed. She was wearing a female school uniform like Sara's. "Where are you from?" She batted her eyes at them and Zechs coughed to clear his throat.
"I am Milliardo Peacecraft and this is Heero Yuy. We are representing Gundam High School." Zechs said politely.
"Hm, Gundam High... I've never heard of it." Tina remarked putting a pointer finger on her highly glossed lips.
"You've probably never heard of a book either." Heero muttered. Zechs coughed again to hide a laugh.
"Excuse me hun?" Tina asked.
"Hn." Heero answered.
"Well, anyway. Our school is undefeated in the PAC competition." Tina continued. "I have an idea!" She gave a fake grin. "Why don't I take you two gentlemen with me to the awards ceremony after Romefeller wins!"
"I am sorry Miss... Hill was it?" Zechs asked politely. He continued at Tina's nod. "But both of us are taken. We also have no intentions of losing to your school, so if you will excuse us." Zechs turned back to Heero and the small Japanese teen and he continued their conversation on literature. They had moved on from poetry.
"I still say that Shakespeare's best work was A Midsummer's Night Dream." Heero remarked.
"Hm, I personally like the power behind Hamlet." Zechs countered.
"Excuse me?" Tina broke in. But Heero and Zechs ignored her.
"What about Macbeth?" Heero asked.
"I said excuse me!" Tina said angrily.
"You're excused." Heero said without looking back at her and continued talking to Zechs.
"Yes, MacBeth was a great piece of literature." Zechs agreed.
"How rude!" Tina screeched.
"What is rude is how you keep interrupting our conversation." Heero said icily as he looked back at her. She sputtered something in return and would have probably snapped at Heero if it hadn't been for the fact that both he and Zechs were the two best-looking boys she had ever seen. Tina finally sputtered and whirled around to her seat just as the official came to explain the rules.
On the other side of the contestant's carols was another carol of an official of the PAGA tournament. Each official had a different picture than the one next to them so there was no cheating between contestants. In front of each contestant was a pad of white paper, three #2 pencils, and an eraser. When it was time they would have to draw that picture that the official in front of them was looking at. They would be given points on how close their drawings were to the pictures their partners had.
"Ready! Go!" The official said and the contestants got to work.
"Hi! I'm Hilde Schibecker!" Hilde said cheerfully to the boy sitting next to her. She was sitting in a chair right behind Dorothy. Their set up was exactly the same as the psychic recollection (?) group. The testing was exactly the same also so they were just waiting for their official to give them the sign to go.
"Stop talking to me you freak." The boy answered. He was a tall lanky fellow with blonde hair that had blue streaks in it. His green eyes were bored and disinterested and his eyebrow was pierced. He was dressed in a uniform much like Satoshi's. "I am Todd Rawlings of Romefeller Academy and I will wipe the floor with your face once you lose." Hilde's face went dark and her eyes sparked dangerously.
"See. Me. Win." She spat at Todd as the official came over and explained the rules.
"Ready?" He waited until everyone nodded after getting hooked up to his or her EGG machines. "Go!"
"I may run and hide but I never lie I am Duo Maxwell!" Duo said with a grin to the boy next to him. He was lying on a couch; there was an entire row of them in the center of the room. The boy next to him was a big stereotypical jock. He was even wearing a football jersey, white with a purple bear on it over his school uniform. He looked dumbly at Duo.
"Houston Schnyder." Houston said. He than gave an evil grin. "So you're a punk huh? You won't be able to braid that hair of yours for a month after I beat you into the ground."
"Oh God. I feel my brain cells dying just by being in your presence." Duo muttered.
"Prepare to lose girly boy." Houston said from his couch. "Romefeller Academy hasn't lost in anything yet. Especially to Gundam High."
"Ch, I don't give a rats fluffy ass what you think of my school. I don't like it either to tell you the truth. But hey, I don't lie. But no one, and I mean no one, insults the braid." The official started walking towards them. "You're about to learn why they call me Shinigami." (A/N: Shinigami- the God of Death.)
The official explained the rules. They were given a total of nine minutes that they were supposed to stay out of their bodies. For every three minutes that they were out of their bodies they were given ten points. "Ready? Go!"
"I am Robert Cruize." A boy remarked with a sneer at Meilan and Wufei. He had dark hair that was slicked back with enough gel to drown an elephant and dark eyes. He was dressed in the standard purple uniform. "And who are you baby?"
"Nataku to you; and if you call me baby one more time I'm going to rip out you arm and smack you with it." Meilan hissed.
"Ch, her? A babe? You're as blind as you are stupid." Wufei muttered. He and Meilan broke out into an argument like usual, this though time they argued in Mandarin.
"Stupid Chinks." The boy snarled. (A/N: I am sorry if that offends you! I myself am half Chinese, it is not meant to be offensive to the readers or to the Chinese race. That was just the most derogatory word I could think of. I apologize profusely!)
"Excuse me?" Wufei growled snapping his head in Robert's directed.
"What did you say?" Meilan finished the comment her cousin had said.
"You heard me. Stupid Chinks." Robert repeated. Meilan and Wufei gave the boy evil death glares (learned from Heero) and turned in their seats to wait for the official. They were sitting in lanes and in front of them were flammable items of different sizes. The closest was a large bon fire and the smallest was a candle that was around ten feet away. They were also at the far wall away from anything that could catch on fire.
For the test they had to light the objects on fire without getting anything around it to catch. They would be given points on how cleanly they set the items on fire. The official finished explaining and than gave the order. "Ready? Go!"
"Good afternoon, my name is Quatre Raberba Winner. What I yours?" Quatre asked. He was sitting in a carol like the ones Heero and Zechs were seated in.
"Go jump off a cliff blondie." The girl answered rudely. "My name is Lidia Panthos and I am the captain of Romefeller Academy's PAC team." Lidia was a tall girl with frizzy light brown hair that she wore up in a clip. Her eyes were an icy gray color and she was dressed in the standard girls uniform though her violet skirt was long and to her knees.
Quatre was speechless from feeling such hostility from the girl so he merely turned in his seat as the official came over. There were officials sitting in the carols across from the contestants. Each of them had been watching movies on small monitors before them before the contestants came in. Each was watching a different movie of a different genre. They knew what they were feeling of course, but the contestants had to know exactly what they were feeling. An example of the emotions the contestant might feel being mildly happy that they got a promotion the day before under the feeling of fear from watching the movie.
The contestants would get points on how deeply they probed and had to write down what they felt down. The officials were also constantly writing down what they felt so that the two notes could be compared. "Ready, Go!"
"Hey, you're from Gundam High aren't you?" A girl asked. She had short brown hair that was cut to her earlobes. In one ear she had three piercings and on the other she had one in her ear lobe and one cartilage piercing. Her eyes were a deep green color and were outlined in heavy mascara. She was dressed in the school uniform but broke the dress code to wear jeans under her baggy white t-shirt.
"Yeah." Noin answered. "Where are you from?"
"Romefeller Academy." The girl said bitterly. "The school that never loses. Ch."
"You sound like you don't like your school." Noin remarked.
"I don't." The girl answered. "I wanted to go to Gundam High but my mother is a teacher at Romefeller and so I got to go free. Supposedly it's 'a better opportunity.'" The girl snorted.
"I believe you. A friend of mine, her family owns Romefeller Academy. She requested to be at Gundam High because she didn't want to go there." Noin answered.
"Ch, I don't blame her. It sucks. All the people in our PAC team are donkeys. They have a complex about being the best." The girl rolled her eyes. "My name is Anna by the way. Anna Richardson. Everyone calls me Dusk though."
"Noin, Lucrezia Noin. But all my friends call me Noin so feel free." Noin said with a friendly smile.
"I'll take you up on that Noin." Dusk said with a smile as she shook Noin's hand in a friendly manner. "Good luck in the competition."
"Yeah, you too." Noin said with a smile just as the official started over. "Friends?"
"Friends." Dusk answered with a smile as the official came over and explained the rules. The girls were lying on couches like Duo's group. They were hooked up to EGG machines and an official who was a strong telepath would sit in front of them and read them, telling them how to control their dreams as they slept. Each official would give their contestant points on how well their control was.
"Ready, Go!" The official stated.
"There's no way you could have filled out the entire notebook!" Sara screeched at Dorothy as the blonde girl opened her eyes. She gazed over at the black haired girl and gave that grin of hers that could make anyone want to punch her even though she had spoken no words. The official unhooked the electrodes from her head and took her notebook before Dorothy got up.
"Apparently I can." Dorothy said silkily as she walked towards Treize.
"Zero points Barton? How did you manage that one?" Satoshi asked than he gaped. "There's no way... that's not possible!"
"All things are possible." Trowa remarked. Even the officials were gaping at him. He had used his TK to stop every ball on their path and had them hover. Once the last ball had been dropped Trowa used his TK to gently move the balls along until they fell into the compartment labeled three, which was the highest one. When he was done he turned and walked back towards Treize without another word to anyone. (A/N: I know this is probably impossible but I know jack diddly about real psychic powers. If this is totally off than just tell me and I will try to fix it to be more realistic.)
"I still say Romeo was the epitome of an idiot." Zechs remarked.
"Ch, I say that Juliet was worse. Just hear me out on this one, she could have just run away from her family and gone with Romeo. No one would have been the wiser. What's with that stupid poison plan anyway?" Heero answered.
"B-but that's not possible!" Tina was still stuttering ten minutes after the results had been shown. Hers were quite good. She had managed to get a very rough outline of where things should be and the right items. But still, Heero and Zechs beat her easily.
As talented as he was, art was not among Zech's talents. His drawings were little better than stick drawings but he got every single detail of his drawing down to where the mole on the girl was and how many spots her dog had. Heero on the other hand... Heero's was remarkable.
His drawing was an exact replica of the photograph his official had been holding except for the fact that it was in gray since all Heero had was a pencil. He had managed to shade it to the point that it looked like the photograph his official had been holding was done in grayscale.
"Why don't we just say that both were quite idiotic and deserved the end that they got?" Zechs suggested.
"Agreed." Heero answered. The officials were goggling at his drawing, which he had made them promise to give back to him. Both boys rose and went to join Treize.
"So that's what Duo's brother looks like. He does have Duo's eyes, but who would have thought that he would be a blonde? Must have gotten that one from Mrs. Maxwell." Hilde remarked as she handed her legal pad to the official and took off the electrodes.
"H-how could you have stayed in that trance for so long? You filled the entire legal pad!" Todd squeaked with wide eyes.
"Hm, talent Toddy baby." Hilde said with a wink as she nearly skipped back over to Treize.
"H-he won't wake up!" One official was squeaking in fear. Duo's mind looked at her as if saying of-course-I'm-not-waking-up-ya-blubbering-baby.
"Oh relax woman." Heero's voice said. The officials gasped as he made his way over to them. He turned to his best friend. "Duo, get back into your body." Duo shook his head and stuck out his tongue. "What did you just call me?" Heero asked dangerously. Duo gulped. "That's what I thought. Now. Get. Down. Now. Maxwell." Heero growled.
Duo gave a sigh and reentered his body. He woke up and scowled up at his friend. "Hee-chan! You ruined all my fun."
"Stop calling my that." Heero muttered. He grabbed Duo's braid and towed the yelping violet-eyed boy behind him. Both were oblivious to the tall boy in a football jersey staring at them with wide eyes because he lost to a supposed girly boy.
"Ha! I finished before you did!" Meilan taunted.
"In your dreams Meimei, it was obvious that I finished first." Wufei said haughtily. Than Meilan answered in a very dignified manner.
"Did not!" She accused. Of course after that retort Wufei than answered in an equally dignified way.
"Did too!" So the two began arguing and left leaving the officials and other contestants in shock. They had hit every target in seconds and had only set those parts on fire, nowhere else. Even the candle was the only thing burning with no scorch marks any where around it.
"H-he got every single one?!" Lidia screeched in a very undignified manner. "That's not possible!" She screeched again. Quatre ignored her and spoke to the stunned official.
"Excuse me sir, but can I heal her now?" He asked with wide earnest eyes.
"Heal... her?" The official asked with wide eyes.
"Well, yes... she does seem terribly upset after watching Pearl Harbor. May I please help her now that the testing is done for today and all of our scores are in?" Quatre begged.
"Um..." No one could resist Quatre's puppy dog eyes. Not even an official of the PAC tournament. "Aw, go ahead." She answered. Automatically Quatre's whole countenance seemed to light up with joy and he walked around the carols to the girl who had been his partner. He put a hand on her shoulder and everyone around him could feel the safety, happiness, and warmth he projected.
He said something softly and the woman nodded. Quatre smiled at the nod and took a tissue from the box next to the woman and handed it to her. She took it and rubbed her puffy eyes and thanked him. He gave out a crystalline laugh and shook his head. When he was sure she was happy again he started to walk back to his spot to make sure he didn't leave anything. He looked up feeling a hand on his shoulder and grinned seeing Trowa.
"Hi Trowa! How was your round?" Quatre asked.
"It was fine, and yours?" Trowa asked.
"Oh, it was a great experience! I don't get to go that deep very often." Quatre said happily as he and his best friend left the stunned group staring after them.
"You could always practice on me little one. As long as I didn't just come back from seeing Heero you have free reign." Trowa remarked.
"Thank you!" Quatre said happily, his joy nearly tangible as he radiated it to his friend. Trowa gave a rare smile and shook his head at seeing his friend so happy.
"Hm, that was good." Noin remarked as she yawned and got up. The psychic next to her was having hysterics because she did so well.
"Have a nice nap Noin?" Dusk asked.
"Yup. You?" Noin asked with a grin.
"I did alright. I don't think the official liked it when I made out with Brad Pitt though." Dusk answered. Noin laughed at that and shook her head.
"I'll see you later." Noin said.
"Sure." Dusk said. The two shook hands again and wandered off to their respectful teams.
"The schools who have passed to the second rounds are as such. Gundam high in first, Romefeller Academy..." After their school was announced the ten teens from Gundam High stretched and talked amongst themselves quietly.
"Hey, do you guys want to come to my house for dinner?" Quatre asked. "My father has agreed, and the only one who is home is Iria. You can bring everyone else in your family also."
"Sure." Odin remarked.
"Why not." Treize said. "Mariemaia is at a friend's house tonight."
"I have to ask my folks. Solo's home visiting from college and all." Duo said.
"I'm sure Catherine won't mind as long as Iria is there." Trowa said softly. Every one knew that Trowa's older sister Catherine had been going out with Quatre's older sister Iria for years.
"Our parents are at bowling league so we were going to stay with Odin and Heero tonight anyway." Meilan answered.
"My parents already said yes." Dorothy remarked.
"Sure." Noin and Zechs said. They had been going to go on a date but a night with their friends sounded fun.
"I was staying with Sally tonight anyway." Hilde said with a shrug.
"I have no objections." Sally said. Duo shut his cell phone.
"My parents say they'll meet us there." Duo answered.
"Well, that's settled." Quatre remarked. With that everyone left with smiles at the warmth Quatre was emanating. It had sure been an interesting first day to the competition.
Next Chapter: The Second Day
Well, there it is. I again apologize if I wrote anything slightly off, just tell me and I'll be sure to fix it. Please review! Flames are welcome!
Genre: General/ Supernatural
Rating: PG-13 (it's for the shonen-ai and language)
Warning: Shonen-ai, shojo-ai, boy/boy, girl/girl pairings. If you don't like that than don't read it. You have been warned. There is a lot of swearing in this fan fiction and there may also be a little violence. Relena bashing, and lots of it.
Notes: Alternate Universe. Relena is out of character. The title comes from the song 'All or Nothing' by Athena Cage. (I don't own this either)
Pairings: 1/3, 2/4/5, 6/ Noin, Hilde/ Sally, Treize/ Une, Relena/ Dorothy (maybe).
Summary: It is a true fact. Everyone is psychic. It's just that some people can access their psychic powers. So what happens when there is a competition in which the different psychics from different schools are invited? And what happens when a group of seemingly ordinary teens show extraordinary powers? The stage is set. Let the games begin.
Info: Telepathy- ability to read other's (including animals) minds and project one's
thoughts
Empathy- ability to feel other's emotions and to project ones emotions
Psychic healing- the ability to heal others
Telekinesis- ability to move things with ones mind
Pyrokinesis- ability to set things on fire with ones mind
Clairvoyance- ability to view the future
Remote viewing- ability to see something psychically in the present time
Psychic recolition (spelling? Is it psychic recollection?)- ability to see something
psychically in the past
Lucid dreaming- to have control over one's dreams in the delta-theta state
Beta waves- brain waves that show you are attending to something
Theta waves- brain waves that show you are drowsy
Alpha waves- brain waves associated with psychic activity
Delta waves- brain waves associated with deep dreamless sleep
Well, I'd just like to thank those of you who have reviewed. Griffin, stacey, and Ama I want to thank you again. As for your question Ama, no I am not psychic myself. In fact, all I know is based on research. One day when I get older I will definitely have to find someone who can teach me more but for now I am limited to researching all that I can. I may get facts wrong so if any of you catch something that is just wrong or messed up than please correct me and I will be more than happy to fix it as soon as I can.
In fact, what I am writing now is probably all wrong so please just give me a heads up if that is the case. Notice that all of the organizations and stuff are totally my own creation but I do want to get the facts about psychics as correct as I can. Well, enough of my blabber. Here is the third chapter. Enjoy!
All or Nothing
Chapter Three: Welcome to PAGA's 20th Annual PAC Competition
"Wow." Hilde said in awe. The silence that greeted her from the other thirteen psychics around her was her only answer. It was two weeks later on Friday. Gundam High's PAC class, Treize, Une, and Sally Po, the school nurse were standing in the registration room of Sanq's PAGA building for the psychic competition. Sally was there in case any of the ten students burned themselves out. She was a healer like Treize so between the two of them they had any injuries covered.
The room they were standing in was gigantic. Their school's gym could have fit in the front room nicely. The entire structure was made out of clear glass panels that were held up by steel beams. Strung between the beams on the ceiling were colorful banners in all colors of the rainbow and small prisms that caught the light and flew rainbows all along the ground below it. On the two sidewalls were small tables with tablecloths all colors of the rainbow. There were officials at each table helping the hundreds of people that were crowded into this beautiful room.
"I've never seen so many psychics in one place at a time!" Duo exclaimed, also in awe.
"Come. We have to register." Treize said, snapping the group out of their daze. Odin walked to them through the crowd with a grin on his face.
"Well, I am your official guide and attendant for this competition. Since my kid is entering this year I'm not allowed to be a judge or official." Odin remarked. "Welcome to PAGA's Sanq office building. Let's get you registered and than I can tell you about the history of the building."
"This is a three day competition correct?" Quatre asked as the large group was steered across the room.
"Yup. Today is for registration and the preliminary rounds." Odin answered. "Tomorrow is the eliminating rounds and the semifinals. The finals and awards ceremony is on Sunday."
"Cool." Noin remarked.
"Hey Sheldon." Odin greeted a man sitting at a table with a red tablecloth on it. The man he greeted was a tall man, probably in his thirties with short dark black hair that was cut to the tips of his ears. He had heavily lashed brown eyes that glowed with warmth and had a silver earring in his left ear. He was dressed in the standard black t-shirt with the words PAGA 20th Annual PAC Competition embroidered in red.
"Sup Din." Sheldon answered with a smile. "I heard you weren't judging this year."
"I'm not allowed to." Odin answered with a grin and put an arm around Heero's shoulder. "My nephew is entering this year."
"I see. Well good luck little O." Sheldon said. Heero frowned at the name but thanked him none-the-less.
"All right, welcome to the PAGA 20th Annual PAC Competition." He handed the ten students and the adults forms. "Fill these out here and we'll get you registered." Sheldon turned to an end table sitting next to him, also draped with a red cloth. Sitting on the table was a black laptop. Heero finished first and handed Sheldon his form. Sheldon took it and started typing on the computer before printing out a sheet of paper on a printer by his feet and putting it in a black folder with the competition's name in red on the cover. It also had Heero's name on it.
Sheldon handed it to Heero. "Here ya go. You better put your nametag on. It's in the folder." Heero nodded and took out the plastic coated card before clipping it to his red collared shirt that was open revealing a white long-sleeved shirt underneath with Gundam High's mascot, a lion, on it.
Once everyone was done they clipped their nametags on their own school shirts. Duo was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a red collared shirt over it like Heero. Trowa was wearing a long-sleeved turtleneck while everyone else was wearing the simple t-shirts of their school. It was white with a red pouncing lion over the heart and the name of their high school around it. (It was required that they wear it.)
"Did we get sent to the red table because our school colors are red and gold?" Hilde asked.
"Yup, I can start the tour now. We have an hour before the prelims start." Odin answered. "Well, this room was designed to give a free sort of feeling to it. The prisms and cloths are to enhance that feeling. There are forty schools in our district that are competing in this tournament. Sheldon is the official for your school; that is what was up with all the red. If anything happens I notify him and he will make sure it is cleared up at the top."
"Do you work here?" Zechs asked.
"Yes." Odin answered with a grin. "I've been working here since I got out of college."
"Is that why you weren't that shocked to see this place Hee-chan?" Duo asked his silent best friend.
"Hai." Heero answered. (A/N: hai- yes.) "When I was younger I came here everyday after school."
"Hell, the kid's been coming here since he was a month old." Odin remarked. "He knows his way around here like the back of his hand. He actually helped Ronnie Kilms set up the computer systems."
"Really? You did?" Hilde asked in interest.
"Hn." Heero answered with a nod. "For all that they're brilliant none of them could configure a computer program if it hit them in the head."
"How old were you?" Meilan asked.
"He was four." Odin answered with a twinkle in his eye.
"Four?!" Wufei burst out.
"Yes. Four. Do you have a problem with that Chang?" Heero asked in warning. Meilan reached up and closed her cousin's open mouth. Heero only called the Chinese boy 'Chang' when he was in a foul mood.
"Well, anyway. This is where you guys from Gundam High get to hang out between tests." Odin led them to a lounge. There was a large wooden table taking up most of the room with comfortable black office chairs around it. There was a soda machine and another vending machine to the left of the table, and a comfortable looking red couch next to those. There was a closed door right across from the entry that was obviously a bathroom.
There was a TV mounted to the right wall and an arcade game of Mortal Combat III to the left of the couch. Sitting on the table was a large stereo. The people in PAGA knew how restless teenagers got so they insured that entertainment be provided to keep the young psychics out of trouble.
"Not bad." Duo remarked as he flopped back into the couch with his arms behind his head. "Not bad at all O."
"Glad you like it Duo." Odin answered. Treize took a seat at the table and turned on the news while everyone else settled in their own chairs. Soon Wufei and Duo got into a heated battle in Mortal Combat. Wufei chose Subzero and Duo chose Katana.
"All right guys, we have to get going now." Odin said, cutting over Duo and Wufei's banter like a knife. Both boys dropped the controllers and stepped away from the machine calmly as if nothing had ever happened and followed the rest of their class out of the doors.
Odin led them down many halls and more and more schools joined them as they headed towards the room where the preliminaries were. They finally entered a humongous white room that was a little smaller than the entrance room of the PAGA building. "All right, I'll lead each of you over to your testing stations. You will be competing with other students who share your gift."
"Okay." Trowa spoke for everyone with that comment.
"All righty than." Odin remarked. "Dorothy, you sit here in the last chair. Right, one of the officials will be coming around in about ten minutes to tell you what your group will have to do. When you are finished go over by Treize and wait." Odin than led the rest of the students to their spots.
"Hi, I am Sara Baxter." A girl with shoulder length black hair and bright brown eyes remarked haughtily. She was dressed in a short violet skirt and tight white t-shirt that showed off her stomach. The t-shirt had a violet bear on the front of it. (This was the girl's school uniform, albeit that this one was three sizes too small for Sara.) She was sitting to the left of Dorothy. "I'm representing Romefeller Academy, and you are? I should like to know the name of the one I beat."
Dorothy turned and said in a purring, growling tone. "Listen bitch. I really don't give a flying fuck what your name is. I won't need to know it when you lose. My name is Dorothy Catalonia."
"You ass hole!" Sara screeched.
"Oh, and honey?" Dorothy asked in a sickly sweet voice. "My grandfather owns your school." With that she turned calmly in her seat as the official came to explain what they were to do. Sitting on the table in front on each participant was a machine that would record their brainwaves. Sitting in front of each participant was a yellow legal pad and a pen.
After they were hooked up with to the EGG machine they would have to clear their minds and write what they saw on the legal pads. The EGG machine would make sure that they didn't cheat. They were given points by the psychic judges that shared their power. All of the student's points added together would get the school's score and if it was a certain amount they would make it to the elimination rounds.
"Ready?" The official asked. "Go." Dorothy instantly relaxed and brought herself into a meditative trance. Her brain waves went from beta to alpha within a few moments.
"You must be the entrant from Gundam High." A short boy sneered at Trowa. They and a group of other students were standing by the left wall. There were machines all around them, like the ones in arcades and fairs. The ones where balls are dropped and hit small plastic pegs so they can't be controlled and drop down where you catch it with a silver cup until you lead it to go into the right hole. The difference was there was no silver cup to catch the balls. There were just clear numbered compartments at the bottom of the pegs to catch the balls as they came down.
"Yes." Trowa answered.
"Humph, Gundam High has never entered PAGA's PAC tournament before. Let me give you some advice..." The boy trailed off waiting for a name. He was a small Asian boy with shiny black hair that was cut in a bowl cut. He wore big glasses that gave him the look of a bug and rather long front teeth. He was dressed in a violet school uniform with a picture of a white bear on it.
"Trowa. Trowa Barton." Trowa answered.
"Charmed." The boy sneered. "Well my name is Satoshi Hirata and I am a representative of Romefeller Academy. It's a private school."
"Your advice?" Trowa prompted.
"Right, don't feel bad if you lose. Our school always wins the PAC tournaments. We've never lost, and I am the master at TK." Trowa turned to his station and promptly ignored any more of Satoshi's boasts. The official came up to explain what the group had to do.
Ten balls would be dropped down the machines and into the numbered compartments. The numbers on the compartments were how many points each ball that dropped into it were worth. The group was to use their telekinesis to influence where the balls would go.
"Ready! Go!" The official said and the first balls began to drop.
"Hey hotties!" A blonde girl said with a wink. "My name is Tina Hill and I am from Romefeller Academy!" Heero and Zechs rolled their eyes as they sat in a group of carols at the far wall in the room. Tina had pale blonde hair that fell to the middle of her back and blue eyes. She was wearing heavy make up and her perfume was starting to make Heero light headed. She was wearing a female school uniform like Sara's. "Where are you from?" She batted her eyes at them and Zechs coughed to clear his throat.
"I am Milliardo Peacecraft and this is Heero Yuy. We are representing Gundam High School." Zechs said politely.
"Hm, Gundam High... I've never heard of it." Tina remarked putting a pointer finger on her highly glossed lips.
"You've probably never heard of a book either." Heero muttered. Zechs coughed again to hide a laugh.
"Excuse me hun?" Tina asked.
"Hn." Heero answered.
"Well, anyway. Our school is undefeated in the PAC competition." Tina continued. "I have an idea!" She gave a fake grin. "Why don't I take you two gentlemen with me to the awards ceremony after Romefeller wins!"
"I am sorry Miss... Hill was it?" Zechs asked politely. He continued at Tina's nod. "But both of us are taken. We also have no intentions of losing to your school, so if you will excuse us." Zechs turned back to Heero and the small Japanese teen and he continued their conversation on literature. They had moved on from poetry.
"I still say that Shakespeare's best work was A Midsummer's Night Dream." Heero remarked.
"Hm, I personally like the power behind Hamlet." Zechs countered.
"Excuse me?" Tina broke in. But Heero and Zechs ignored her.
"What about Macbeth?" Heero asked.
"I said excuse me!" Tina said angrily.
"You're excused." Heero said without looking back at her and continued talking to Zechs.
"Yes, MacBeth was a great piece of literature." Zechs agreed.
"How rude!" Tina screeched.
"What is rude is how you keep interrupting our conversation." Heero said icily as he looked back at her. She sputtered something in return and would have probably snapped at Heero if it hadn't been for the fact that both he and Zechs were the two best-looking boys she had ever seen. Tina finally sputtered and whirled around to her seat just as the official came to explain the rules.
On the other side of the contestant's carols was another carol of an official of the PAGA tournament. Each official had a different picture than the one next to them so there was no cheating between contestants. In front of each contestant was a pad of white paper, three #2 pencils, and an eraser. When it was time they would have to draw that picture that the official in front of them was looking at. They would be given points on how close their drawings were to the pictures their partners had.
"Ready! Go!" The official said and the contestants got to work.
"Hi! I'm Hilde Schibecker!" Hilde said cheerfully to the boy sitting next to her. She was sitting in a chair right behind Dorothy. Their set up was exactly the same as the psychic recollection (?) group. The testing was exactly the same also so they were just waiting for their official to give them the sign to go.
"Stop talking to me you freak." The boy answered. He was a tall lanky fellow with blonde hair that had blue streaks in it. His green eyes were bored and disinterested and his eyebrow was pierced. He was dressed in a uniform much like Satoshi's. "I am Todd Rawlings of Romefeller Academy and I will wipe the floor with your face once you lose." Hilde's face went dark and her eyes sparked dangerously.
"See. Me. Win." She spat at Todd as the official came over and explained the rules.
"Ready?" He waited until everyone nodded after getting hooked up to his or her EGG machines. "Go!"
"I may run and hide but I never lie I am Duo Maxwell!" Duo said with a grin to the boy next to him. He was lying on a couch; there was an entire row of them in the center of the room. The boy next to him was a big stereotypical jock. He was even wearing a football jersey, white with a purple bear on it over his school uniform. He looked dumbly at Duo.
"Houston Schnyder." Houston said. He than gave an evil grin. "So you're a punk huh? You won't be able to braid that hair of yours for a month after I beat you into the ground."
"Oh God. I feel my brain cells dying just by being in your presence." Duo muttered.
"Prepare to lose girly boy." Houston said from his couch. "Romefeller Academy hasn't lost in anything yet. Especially to Gundam High."
"Ch, I don't give a rats fluffy ass what you think of my school. I don't like it either to tell you the truth. But hey, I don't lie. But no one, and I mean no one, insults the braid." The official started walking towards them. "You're about to learn why they call me Shinigami." (A/N: Shinigami- the God of Death.)
The official explained the rules. They were given a total of nine minutes that they were supposed to stay out of their bodies. For every three minutes that they were out of their bodies they were given ten points. "Ready? Go!"
"I am Robert Cruize." A boy remarked with a sneer at Meilan and Wufei. He had dark hair that was slicked back with enough gel to drown an elephant and dark eyes. He was dressed in the standard purple uniform. "And who are you baby?"
"Nataku to you; and if you call me baby one more time I'm going to rip out you arm and smack you with it." Meilan hissed.
"Ch, her? A babe? You're as blind as you are stupid." Wufei muttered. He and Meilan broke out into an argument like usual, this though time they argued in Mandarin.
"Stupid Chinks." The boy snarled. (A/N: I am sorry if that offends you! I myself am half Chinese, it is not meant to be offensive to the readers or to the Chinese race. That was just the most derogatory word I could think of. I apologize profusely!)
"Excuse me?" Wufei growled snapping his head in Robert's directed.
"What did you say?" Meilan finished the comment her cousin had said.
"You heard me. Stupid Chinks." Robert repeated. Meilan and Wufei gave the boy evil death glares (learned from Heero) and turned in their seats to wait for the official. They were sitting in lanes and in front of them were flammable items of different sizes. The closest was a large bon fire and the smallest was a candle that was around ten feet away. They were also at the far wall away from anything that could catch on fire.
For the test they had to light the objects on fire without getting anything around it to catch. They would be given points on how cleanly they set the items on fire. The official finished explaining and than gave the order. "Ready? Go!"
"Good afternoon, my name is Quatre Raberba Winner. What I yours?" Quatre asked. He was sitting in a carol like the ones Heero and Zechs were seated in.
"Go jump off a cliff blondie." The girl answered rudely. "My name is Lidia Panthos and I am the captain of Romefeller Academy's PAC team." Lidia was a tall girl with frizzy light brown hair that she wore up in a clip. Her eyes were an icy gray color and she was dressed in the standard girls uniform though her violet skirt was long and to her knees.
Quatre was speechless from feeling such hostility from the girl so he merely turned in his seat as the official came over. There were officials sitting in the carols across from the contestants. Each of them had been watching movies on small monitors before them before the contestants came in. Each was watching a different movie of a different genre. They knew what they were feeling of course, but the contestants had to know exactly what they were feeling. An example of the emotions the contestant might feel being mildly happy that they got a promotion the day before under the feeling of fear from watching the movie.
The contestants would get points on how deeply they probed and had to write down what they felt down. The officials were also constantly writing down what they felt so that the two notes could be compared. "Ready, Go!"
"Hey, you're from Gundam High aren't you?" A girl asked. She had short brown hair that was cut to her earlobes. In one ear she had three piercings and on the other she had one in her ear lobe and one cartilage piercing. Her eyes were a deep green color and were outlined in heavy mascara. She was dressed in the school uniform but broke the dress code to wear jeans under her baggy white t-shirt.
"Yeah." Noin answered. "Where are you from?"
"Romefeller Academy." The girl said bitterly. "The school that never loses. Ch."
"You sound like you don't like your school." Noin remarked.
"I don't." The girl answered. "I wanted to go to Gundam High but my mother is a teacher at Romefeller and so I got to go free. Supposedly it's 'a better opportunity.'" The girl snorted.
"I believe you. A friend of mine, her family owns Romefeller Academy. She requested to be at Gundam High because she didn't want to go there." Noin answered.
"Ch, I don't blame her. It sucks. All the people in our PAC team are donkeys. They have a complex about being the best." The girl rolled her eyes. "My name is Anna by the way. Anna Richardson. Everyone calls me Dusk though."
"Noin, Lucrezia Noin. But all my friends call me Noin so feel free." Noin said with a friendly smile.
"I'll take you up on that Noin." Dusk said with a smile as she shook Noin's hand in a friendly manner. "Good luck in the competition."
"Yeah, you too." Noin said with a smile just as the official started over. "Friends?"
"Friends." Dusk answered with a smile as the official came over and explained the rules. The girls were lying on couches like Duo's group. They were hooked up to EGG machines and an official who was a strong telepath would sit in front of them and read them, telling them how to control their dreams as they slept. Each official would give their contestant points on how well their control was.
"Ready, Go!" The official stated.
"There's no way you could have filled out the entire notebook!" Sara screeched at Dorothy as the blonde girl opened her eyes. She gazed over at the black haired girl and gave that grin of hers that could make anyone want to punch her even though she had spoken no words. The official unhooked the electrodes from her head and took her notebook before Dorothy got up.
"Apparently I can." Dorothy said silkily as she walked towards Treize.
"Zero points Barton? How did you manage that one?" Satoshi asked than he gaped. "There's no way... that's not possible!"
"All things are possible." Trowa remarked. Even the officials were gaping at him. He had used his TK to stop every ball on their path and had them hover. Once the last ball had been dropped Trowa used his TK to gently move the balls along until they fell into the compartment labeled three, which was the highest one. When he was done he turned and walked back towards Treize without another word to anyone. (A/N: I know this is probably impossible but I know jack diddly about real psychic powers. If this is totally off than just tell me and I will try to fix it to be more realistic.)
"I still say Romeo was the epitome of an idiot." Zechs remarked.
"Ch, I say that Juliet was worse. Just hear me out on this one, she could have just run away from her family and gone with Romeo. No one would have been the wiser. What's with that stupid poison plan anyway?" Heero answered.
"B-but that's not possible!" Tina was still stuttering ten minutes after the results had been shown. Hers were quite good. She had managed to get a very rough outline of where things should be and the right items. But still, Heero and Zechs beat her easily.
As talented as he was, art was not among Zech's talents. His drawings were little better than stick drawings but he got every single detail of his drawing down to where the mole on the girl was and how many spots her dog had. Heero on the other hand... Heero's was remarkable.
His drawing was an exact replica of the photograph his official had been holding except for the fact that it was in gray since all Heero had was a pencil. He had managed to shade it to the point that it looked like the photograph his official had been holding was done in grayscale.
"Why don't we just say that both were quite idiotic and deserved the end that they got?" Zechs suggested.
"Agreed." Heero answered. The officials were goggling at his drawing, which he had made them promise to give back to him. Both boys rose and went to join Treize.
"So that's what Duo's brother looks like. He does have Duo's eyes, but who would have thought that he would be a blonde? Must have gotten that one from Mrs. Maxwell." Hilde remarked as she handed her legal pad to the official and took off the electrodes.
"H-how could you have stayed in that trance for so long? You filled the entire legal pad!" Todd squeaked with wide eyes.
"Hm, talent Toddy baby." Hilde said with a wink as she nearly skipped back over to Treize.
"H-he won't wake up!" One official was squeaking in fear. Duo's mind looked at her as if saying of-course-I'm-not-waking-up-ya-blubbering-baby.
"Oh relax woman." Heero's voice said. The officials gasped as he made his way over to them. He turned to his best friend. "Duo, get back into your body." Duo shook his head and stuck out his tongue. "What did you just call me?" Heero asked dangerously. Duo gulped. "That's what I thought. Now. Get. Down. Now. Maxwell." Heero growled.
Duo gave a sigh and reentered his body. He woke up and scowled up at his friend. "Hee-chan! You ruined all my fun."
"Stop calling my that." Heero muttered. He grabbed Duo's braid and towed the yelping violet-eyed boy behind him. Both were oblivious to the tall boy in a football jersey staring at them with wide eyes because he lost to a supposed girly boy.
"Ha! I finished before you did!" Meilan taunted.
"In your dreams Meimei, it was obvious that I finished first." Wufei said haughtily. Than Meilan answered in a very dignified manner.
"Did not!" She accused. Of course after that retort Wufei than answered in an equally dignified way.
"Did too!" So the two began arguing and left leaving the officials and other contestants in shock. They had hit every target in seconds and had only set those parts on fire, nowhere else. Even the candle was the only thing burning with no scorch marks any where around it.
"H-he got every single one?!" Lidia screeched in a very undignified manner. "That's not possible!" She screeched again. Quatre ignored her and spoke to the stunned official.
"Excuse me sir, but can I heal her now?" He asked with wide earnest eyes.
"Heal... her?" The official asked with wide eyes.
"Well, yes... she does seem terribly upset after watching Pearl Harbor. May I please help her now that the testing is done for today and all of our scores are in?" Quatre begged.
"Um..." No one could resist Quatre's puppy dog eyes. Not even an official of the PAC tournament. "Aw, go ahead." She answered. Automatically Quatre's whole countenance seemed to light up with joy and he walked around the carols to the girl who had been his partner. He put a hand on her shoulder and everyone around him could feel the safety, happiness, and warmth he projected.
He said something softly and the woman nodded. Quatre smiled at the nod and took a tissue from the box next to the woman and handed it to her. She took it and rubbed her puffy eyes and thanked him. He gave out a crystalline laugh and shook his head. When he was sure she was happy again he started to walk back to his spot to make sure he didn't leave anything. He looked up feeling a hand on his shoulder and grinned seeing Trowa.
"Hi Trowa! How was your round?" Quatre asked.
"It was fine, and yours?" Trowa asked.
"Oh, it was a great experience! I don't get to go that deep very often." Quatre said happily as he and his best friend left the stunned group staring after them.
"You could always practice on me little one. As long as I didn't just come back from seeing Heero you have free reign." Trowa remarked.
"Thank you!" Quatre said happily, his joy nearly tangible as he radiated it to his friend. Trowa gave a rare smile and shook his head at seeing his friend so happy.
"Hm, that was good." Noin remarked as she yawned and got up. The psychic next to her was having hysterics because she did so well.
"Have a nice nap Noin?" Dusk asked.
"Yup. You?" Noin asked with a grin.
"I did alright. I don't think the official liked it when I made out with Brad Pitt though." Dusk answered. Noin laughed at that and shook her head.
"I'll see you later." Noin said.
"Sure." Dusk said. The two shook hands again and wandered off to their respectful teams.
"The schools who have passed to the second rounds are as such. Gundam high in first, Romefeller Academy..." After their school was announced the ten teens from Gundam High stretched and talked amongst themselves quietly.
"Hey, do you guys want to come to my house for dinner?" Quatre asked. "My father has agreed, and the only one who is home is Iria. You can bring everyone else in your family also."
"Sure." Odin remarked.
"Why not." Treize said. "Mariemaia is at a friend's house tonight."
"I have to ask my folks. Solo's home visiting from college and all." Duo said.
"I'm sure Catherine won't mind as long as Iria is there." Trowa said softly. Every one knew that Trowa's older sister Catherine had been going out with Quatre's older sister Iria for years.
"Our parents are at bowling league so we were going to stay with Odin and Heero tonight anyway." Meilan answered.
"My parents already said yes." Dorothy remarked.
"Sure." Noin and Zechs said. They had been going to go on a date but a night with their friends sounded fun.
"I was staying with Sally tonight anyway." Hilde said with a shrug.
"I have no objections." Sally said. Duo shut his cell phone.
"My parents say they'll meet us there." Duo answered.
"Well, that's settled." Quatre remarked. With that everyone left with smiles at the warmth Quatre was emanating. It had sure been an interesting first day to the competition.
Next Chapter: The Second Day
Well, there it is. I again apologize if I wrote anything slightly off, just tell me and I'll be sure to fix it. Please review! Flames are welcome!