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This story is set in AC 200 making our boys and girls now 21 years old.
Bit by bit I will improve on each of the characters, filling in what
happened to each one in the four years since we last saw them. Please,
Review and I will take all in.
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"No!" I heard myself yell as she was pulled into the air by him.
At that moment I felt a pain rip through my back. Not that, anything but that, not now, I begged myself, hating my moment of weakness. I wasn't even supposed to be out of bed but she needed me so I came. The pain shot down either side of my spine and spread out to my shoulder blades. I screamed in agony and dropped to my knees. It was then that I realised that I couldn't help her. I was as helpless as she was.
"Come to me Adin!" the man called down to me.
I had already told him not to call me that but he was deaf to my complaints. Odin Lowe, the man I hated more than myself, merely laughed down at me. His body seemed to be something inhuman, growing bat-like wings whenever he desired it. That now kept him thirty feet over our heads.
Someone let out a small cry of despair, I thought it was me, but that couldn't be. I don't cry.
"Come on, Son!" he cried down again "Reach up to me with all your anger and come strike me down! Save your precious Queen!"
I felt it building up inside me, like a volcano ready to explode. The pain in my back raged but subsided, as if I was supposed to feel it. Suddenly I heard my voice and felt my lips moving but the words weren't mine.
"With all my rage, I will strike you down, I swear that by the blood of those I have killed"
Did I just say that? I could feel the eyes of my friends on me as I spoke. I knew what I must do now. I stopped holding back the tide of pain and let it engulf me. At first the sensation was painful but the pain turned to strength as the heat engulf my back and ripped out.
Duo's Point of View
I couldn't believe my eyes, Heero's back began to ripple then it exploded and large, well I can only describe them as wings, flew from his body, they were identical to the one's Odin Lowe possessed only these looked newer.
Did my eyes just deceive me? Or does Heero have a large set of bat wings on his back? I shook my head in disbelief.
Heero's Point of View
There. I had done it. The thing I had feared the most. I had let go. My mind suddenly cleared. I knew what I had to do. I could feel the wind against them, against my wings. I could hear her laboured breathing and her struggling heartbeat.
With an almighty roar I leapt to the air and my wings unfurled, taking me higher until I was level with him. I looked him in the eyes and although he was smiling, I saw his fear, I saw his hate but above all I saw his desperation.
"Now what?" I growled, my voice now much deeper than before "We play your pathetic game? Give her to me and we dance"
The thought registered on his mind for a second, I could see it. No. I could hear it. I could read his thoughts as he thought them. I assumed he could do the same so I made my intentions quite clear.
Slowly his grip on her loosened until he dropped her. I fell with her, reaching out and scooping her into my arms, pulling away from the ground at the last second and dropping her carefully to rest at the trunk of a tree.
Pause.
Perhaps I should take you back a bit. To the start? Just so you know everything. Just so you can decide if I truly am worthy of this new gift. Of if I am one lucky son of a bitch.
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What do you think? Please review soon.
"No!" I heard myself yell as she was pulled into the air by him.
At that moment I felt a pain rip through my back. Not that, anything but that, not now, I begged myself, hating my moment of weakness. I wasn't even supposed to be out of bed but she needed me so I came. The pain shot down either side of my spine and spread out to my shoulder blades. I screamed in agony and dropped to my knees. It was then that I realised that I couldn't help her. I was as helpless as she was.
"Come to me Adin!" the man called down to me.
I had already told him not to call me that but he was deaf to my complaints. Odin Lowe, the man I hated more than myself, merely laughed down at me. His body seemed to be something inhuman, growing bat-like wings whenever he desired it. That now kept him thirty feet over our heads.
Someone let out a small cry of despair, I thought it was me, but that couldn't be. I don't cry.
"Come on, Son!" he cried down again "Reach up to me with all your anger and come strike me down! Save your precious Queen!"
I felt it building up inside me, like a volcano ready to explode. The pain in my back raged but subsided, as if I was supposed to feel it. Suddenly I heard my voice and felt my lips moving but the words weren't mine.
"With all my rage, I will strike you down, I swear that by the blood of those I have killed"
Did I just say that? I could feel the eyes of my friends on me as I spoke. I knew what I must do now. I stopped holding back the tide of pain and let it engulf me. At first the sensation was painful but the pain turned to strength as the heat engulf my back and ripped out.
Duo's Point of View
I couldn't believe my eyes, Heero's back began to ripple then it exploded and large, well I can only describe them as wings, flew from his body, they were identical to the one's Odin Lowe possessed only these looked newer.
Did my eyes just deceive me? Or does Heero have a large set of bat wings on his back? I shook my head in disbelief.
Heero's Point of View
There. I had done it. The thing I had feared the most. I had let go. My mind suddenly cleared. I knew what I had to do. I could feel the wind against them, against my wings. I could hear her laboured breathing and her struggling heartbeat.
With an almighty roar I leapt to the air and my wings unfurled, taking me higher until I was level with him. I looked him in the eyes and although he was smiling, I saw his fear, I saw his hate but above all I saw his desperation.
"Now what?" I growled, my voice now much deeper than before "We play your pathetic game? Give her to me and we dance"
The thought registered on his mind for a second, I could see it. No. I could hear it. I could read his thoughts as he thought them. I assumed he could do the same so I made my intentions quite clear.
Slowly his grip on her loosened until he dropped her. I fell with her, reaching out and scooping her into my arms, pulling away from the ground at the last second and dropping her carefully to rest at the trunk of a tree.
Pause.
Perhaps I should take you back a bit. To the start? Just so you know everything. Just so you can decide if I truly am worthy of this new gift. Of if I am one lucky son of a bitch.
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What do you think? Please review soon.