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Chapter 14

Aya Shinamori smoothly pivoted on the ball of her right foot to land in the last position of her highest weapons form. The young trainer loved to practice in the early morning with her bishies before anyone else awoke from their slumber.

"Ok, boys. That's a wrap," she commanded. Her bishies instantly stopped whatever practice they were doing and returned to their bishie balls.

Aya returned from the clearing near the camp to where the other girls she was traveling with were just stirring. "Wake up sleepy heads! It's another beautiful day!" Aya exclaimed.

Noin popped her head out of her sleeping bag. "Mmmm?" she grumbled at being woken up. "Wha time 's it?"

Aya raised an amused eyebrow at the bishoujo. "Seven thirty or so. Up! Up! This is no time to be wasting sleeping!"

The Cherry and Noin got out of their squishy bedrolls with much reluctance. Angela, however, jumped up, rolled up her sleeping bag, then immediately opened the cooking items capsule as well as the refrigerator capsule to fix breakfast.

"What do you all want to eat?" Angela asked.

"Pancakes!" Cherry exclaimed. "With blueberries!"

"Sounds good to me," Noin and Aya said in agreement.

"Ok. First off, could you get Tasuki out, Cherry? I need him to light the fire for me. Aya, could you find some wood?" Angela bustled around the camp getting things ready while the others assisted in their appointed tasks.

The food was wonderful. All the bishies came out to enjoy the warm, fluffy cakes that Angela made.

"You're a good cook, Angela. Who taught you to cook like this?" Aya asked.

"My mom. She's an expert cook. She taught me all sorts of things, like how to make cheesecake, thousand years eggs, etc."

"Thousand years eggs?" Cherry questioned. She didn't like the sound of that.

"You don't really want to know. It's a Chinese dish," Angela told her.

"I've had it, once," Tasuki said. "I didn't like it at all."

Angela gawked at Tasuki, then shook her head. "You have no sense of taste."

Tasuki stuck his tongue out at her, then resumed consuming his portion of yummy pancakes.

After breakfast, Aya cleaned up while the other two trainers with their bishies went hunting for Gundam Wing characters.

Deep in the forest, there lurked a silent prescence that kept an eye on the two hunting trainers. "Mission accepted, tail trainers and warn bishounen and bishoujo in their path of their coming."

Angela and Cherry could not understand why they could not find even a trace of any bishies. It was getting very frustrating. They had been searching for most of the day, only stopping to munch a granola bar to keep up their energy.

"I don't get it," Cherry complained. "You and Aya had no problems yesterday!"

"Maybe a Heero is warning the bishies in the area of your prescence," Noin suggested.

"A Heero? Why'd he do that?" Cherry asked.

Noin shrugged. "It's a mission that is often imparted to a new san to help hone his skills."

"So, this doesn't happen too often?" Angela asked hopefully.

"Nope. Heeros are the ones most often caught. This is due to the fact that all the experience trainers have super bishies running around helping them. Newbies like you don't have much of a chance."

"Oh, really?" Suboshi didn't look too happy at the perceived slight to his trainer.

Noin ignored the hot-tempered bishie. "I can help catch this Heero, if you want," she offered.

"I would like to have a Heero," Angela said musingly. "He's an interesting character. I mean, why didn't he kill Releena when he had the chance? Not really like him, you know."

"Yeah...it depends on the Heero, but sometimes a Heero will profess his love for her very blatently, while the others mostly just hang around hoping she'll make the first move," Noin stated. "He has many facets in his personality. You should see the sama at my home, he has a great sense of humor, always pulling pranks."

Cherry looked awestruck at that information. "Heero has a sense of humor?!"

"Of course he does!" Noin exclaimed. "Anyways, let's catch the little bugger!"

Using Amiboshi's chi skills, Angela had him lure the Heero to them. She wasn't fond of hypnotizing people, but in this rare case, she didn't mind too much. She tapped the dazed Heero with an empty bishie ball, capturing him neatly.

"Let's go back to camp, now," Cherry said. "We all could use a long rest. Tommorow we can search again without any hinderance."

A figure perched in the tree above Cherry smirked. "That's what you think," he whispered.