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Chapter 21: Finding out some truths and discovering other things

"..." Means someone's talking

'...' Means someone's thinking

AN: Author's Notes

Hilde blinks, feeling the stone floor underneath her. 'Did I...pass out?' She thinks and sits up slowly. Not hearing any noise from outside the cell, she walks to the door with the barred window. Sticking her head out as much as she can, she turns her head, seeing the guard for her cell sitting in a chair, his head down. 'Is he...sleeping?' She leans forward a little more to try and see better, but then gasps as the door opens. 'Wait a minute.' Stepping out of her cell, she listens for any other sounds, but doesn't hear them. 'That's strange. Hmm...' Getting an idea, she smiles, turning back to the guard.

A few minutes later...

"Yes I'm here to see the prisoner. Our master sent me himself."

"Hmm..." The other guard looks at the guard that is standing in front of him. "Fine, go ahead. But don't take too long. We're supposed to kill him soon."

"Of course." He says and steps inside, closing the door behind him. Then he approaches Duo, who is bound and shackled by both his feet and arms, his clothes in a disarray, his face somewhat bruised, having a black eye and a split lip. Duo looks up and rolls his eyes, seeing another guard.

"Oh great just what I need. Another..." He stops, completely surprised as the guard hugs him. "What do you think you're doing?" He asks, but then his eyes widen as the guard kisses him. "Now look here...!" He starts, pulling back. "...I'm not that kind of person."

"No. Duo, it's me."

"Hilde?"

"Yes." She says, and pushes back the hood on her head.

"Hilde!" He exclaims relieved, trying to hug her, but forgets he was shackled.

"Oh here, let me help you." She tells him, releasing him quickly.

"How did you get free?" He asks her, as she helps him to his feet, and he finds himself none too stable.

"I don't know. One minute I was awake, and then I passed out. When I woke up, the cell was open and the guard asleep. So I took his clothes and came here. But how are you? ...Duo?" Not hearing him respond, she looks up at him and sees his eyes widen once again. "Duo?"

"Oh, what?" He asks, snapping out it.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes of course. Let's get out of here okay?"

"Okay."

"You're not going anywhere." Hilde gasps and looks up with Duo to see the "master" and a lot of his guards.

"Well this can't be good." Duo comments.

Meanwhile...

"Um...Well..." Relena clears her throat, but finds herself getting even closer and closer to Heero.

"Princess?" Relena breaks away at her title and the knock on the door.

"Oh. Yes?"

"Are you almost done? We should get going."

"Of course. I'll be out in there in a just a moment."

"Yes Princess."

"I'll wait outside." Heero tells Relena and walks out.

'Well have gone better...No! I have to think about how to approach the people. How...' Her thoughts trail off as she touches the necklace around her neck, and remembers the way Heero helped her put it on. 'Oh! People, yes think about the people. Okay let's do this.' She silently cheers herself on, and walks out of the room as well.

Back at the forest...

"But Sir Trowa, why a lion?" Angel asks him as she reaches the lion and runs her hand over his back.

"The lion chose you. We do not ask why."

"I don't understand. What is an RG?"

"I can answer that Angel. As he has said, I am your royal guardian. I guard you from harm."

"But why?"

"It's just a part of our ever day life. Soon the other animals will meet the other girls."

"You mean...There's more of you?"

"Oh yes Angel. There are many, many more of us."

"That can also talk?"

"Yes."

"But they're different animals."

"Yes."

"I...I can't believe this."

"Why not?"

"Because it's...so much to take in."

"Then give it time. For now I bid you farewell." Her RG says and then runs off into the depths of the forest.

"Are you alright Lady Angel?"

"I think...I will be."

"Angel! Sir Trowa!" Trowa and Angel look up to see Adriana running over to them.

"Adriana, what's wrong?" Angel asks, seeing Adriana trying to catch her on."

"Why? What's wrong?"

"They...Duo and Hilde are missing!"

"...What?" Both Trowa and Angel ask.

Now...If you really want to know what happened...Well a lot of stuff. I have many reasons for taking so long to update. Recently I haven't watched Gundam Wing so I lot of interest. I've also been getting into another animes so I've been writing other fanfics, which I haven't posted here. Well I have a Saiyuki one online, but that's beside the point. I have many reasons for not posting sooner and if you're curious, e-mail me and I'll be glad to tell you. For now, I'm going to see this story through until the end of it. I didn't get this far for nothing. So watch out for the next chapter. Hopes she still has people reading this Laters!