Arrrghhh, finally. XD I'm such a slacker. I break promises. XDD But here it is! Chapter fifteen! And I have a fresh batch of ideas and new characters. Bwahaha.
*DISCLAIMER*
Because I haven't done one in awhile. No, I don't own GW. But I do own myself, Shou Hebi, Wong-Shou Xi, Shou Mei-Ling, and Shou Chen. XD Then some people own themselves and GW is owned by the people that created it and stuff. Woot.
--Misplaced in Space - Chapter Fifteen; Curiosity Kills--
"AAIII!!! KONO HENTAI, BAKAGAMI, ECCHI!" Kryss' strangled screams of rage filtered through the limousine Quatre had arranged for the troop of Peace Milion representatives. The Peacecraft siblings had been wary to allow the pilots to bring along their trainees, and now they desperately wished they had acted on their wariness, for chaos had begun to ensue from the moment the ball-gowns had been donned.
Nick's predictions could not have been closer to the truth.
"C'mon babe, be kind!" Duo whimpered, scrunching up against the closed door of the vehicle as it sped through the streets of 04, vainly trying to escape her angry fists.
"KISAMA! BASTARD!! SHINEE!!" she wailed, "YOU KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!" She then huffed and turned away, causing her companions to giggle as her crestfallen beau attempted to return her to good spirits.
"I think Duo has his work cut out for him," Nicole cackled, leaning over to Anna, whom snickered evilly, then quickly remembered she was in a dress and returned to picking at the skirt of the wicked garment.
"I hate dresses," she muttered sullenly.
"But it suits you," Zechs said simply, causing her to look up sharply and blush, tirade quietly about the falsity behind his statement, then clam up and stare out the window while Nicole teased her relentlessly until the rolling field of arguments halted in front of the Winner mansion.
The moment the Peacecraft children emerged from the limousine the media had begun to flock. Ever since Zechs had allied with his sister, reporters and news organizations had been having a field day trying to pry his motivations from his lips, but to no avail as he brushed past with Anna hurriedly, Relena hanging back to field their anxious questions.
After Nicole and Quatre had exited the car and given the media the brush-off Kryss and Duo made for the mansion doors, then the blonde blinked and turned as the screech of tires and excited shouts sounded behind them. In the midst of her curious pause Duo had already become engaged in a conversation with some sort of bigwig, and ahead Quatre had gotten cut off from escaping into the crowd by one of the Maganacs.
While the two were caught up in conversation and the others filtered inside, Nicole scurried back to Kryss. "What's the matter, K-chan?"
Her impish friend frowned. "Just a bad fe-,"
She was cut off as a rear door of the long jet-black car opened. Out of it came a woman they had not seen before; she was young and oriental with hair that fell to her elbows and matched the shade of the vehicle she had emerged from. She sported a sleeveless and shimmering white and silver cheongsam dress with curious cherry blossom patterns and an intricate white dragon mask on an ebony stick in her left hand. Excited shouts sounded from the group that had moments earlier been questioning Relena with great interest, but now their attention turned to this Asian beauty that smiled warmly in reception to the group with their flashing cameras and burning questions, leaving Relena standing alone and looking confused. Who was that?
"Who's she?" the brunette blinked in surprise. "If she can draw the media away from Relena...Damn. She so was not in the series."
Kryss continued to frown in that direction, then blinked in surprise as the mystery girl turned and met her gaze coldly for a brief moment, then instantaneously was warm and talking with passion to the media who lapped up her words eagerly, not even noticing her momentary change in manner. "Whoa...Did you seen that, N-chan?"
Her friend nodded. "She's the uber-bitch. Hey, look!" She pointed gleefully as after a tall women in black furs left the car to be with the mystery girl Mei had emerged and was looking around hopefully in her full lacy black and violet gown with a bell skirt, a cattish mask in hand. "Oi, Mei!" she squealed, waving and bouncing up and down.
The short girl looked intensely relieved as she spotted the pair and dashed over. "Thank God, faces I recognize...Where's Nick?" she continued to look this way and that.
Kryss snickered and shoved a thumb over her shoulder, indicating the tall boy standing by the door and staring at the ground, his hands in his coat pockets, staring down at his shoes, a simple gray tom cat mask in his back pocket.
More relief filled Mei as she hurried over to him with the girls on her heels. "MeiMeei!" Kryss caught her hand. "Before you go off with lover boy there, tell us who she is!" The impish pair turned the girl around and pointed at the girl who was finally breaking away from the media, giving a few final comments.
She sighed and frowned a little. "That's my step-sister, Shou Hebi. Hebi's really big with the media, bigger than I am even though I'm my father's flesh and blood. But I guess I'm more introverted than her. Anyhow, they're calling her the next Relena Peacecraft and stuff. The lady in the fur is her mother, Wong-Shou Xi," and before the girls could question her further Duo and Quatre had found them once more and she was hurrying over to Nick.
The two blinked and looked to each other, then back at the girl called Hebi as she ascended the steps up to the large double doors where a pair of men in suits waited with the doors held open. As she passed, Kryss piped up loudly, "I smell something!"
"Yes, something much like panda poop!" her impish friend added, quite audibly and obviously directed at the passing woman. The two were rewarded with an icy glare, then an indignant huff as she passed through the doors and into the crowd.
Duo hooted with laughter and high-fived his roommate while Quatre ducked his head in shame and whispered to the pair, "Was that entirely necessary?"
The two looked to each other a moment, then off into space as if contemplating before nodding and grinning broadly, eyes closed as if to emphasize innocence. "Yes!"
"C'mon, let's go," Duo snickered, still grinning as he put an arm through the blonde girl's and led her through the doors, the other couple following in their wake.
***
Meanwhile, Mei and Nick had already drifted through the doors and inside, where Ashley and Anna had quickly found them and gushed over the pair, much to Nick's terror and embarrassment. Once they had escaped the older girls and escaped into the masses of dancers, they were absorbed in the music.
Disappointed that their pray had escaped and their shorter friends would fight back, the two settled back against the wall in a corner of the ball room. After awhile of watching the groups of people mingle and make merry, Ashley spoke up. "So, how come you aren't off with Zechs tonight?"
"Rrr..." Anna gave her a look, "He's just all surrounded by spooty reporter people. I don't like that kind of stuff, and it's bad enough I have to be all dressed up and stuff, I don't need cameras shoved in my face and questions about being there with him. Blah." She then shrugged her blue, silk-clad shoulders and then her features turned devilish. "So why aren't you over pawing with Wuffers?"
"Wuffers?" she blinked, looking at her friend like she was insane before shaking her head and looking the other way, glaring off in the opposite direction as if at Wufei. "He's a pain in the ass," she said simply, not commenting further.
"Aw, that's cute," Anna snickered, ruffling her streaked hair. "Ack, look, someone's spotted us," she hissed, jerking her head in the direction of an older-looking man garbed in a red silk Chinese suit.
Ashley looked up from her angry reverie, blinked a few times, then stiffened and hissed to her Earth-born comrade, "That's the emperor. From the Beijing." Her teeth clenched slightly as her jaw set, her white-gloved fists clenching at the navy fabric brushing her hips.
That information earned a yelp coupled by a shocked expression from Anna as the man walked directly to Ashley and smiled with the utmost charm, bowing slightly and offering a hand. "May I have this dance?" he asked politely as the music changed.
The demeanor of the young woman changed immediately as she put on the innocent girl act, all smiles and curtsies. "Why, of course," she said silkily, putting on a flattered smile as she took his hand and approached the dance floor with her enemy.
Anna could only stare in shock as she watched her friend walk off to the dance floor with Shou Chen and shook herself once the pair had disappeared into the crowd and dashed off to find the large table reserved for the Peace Milion.
***
"I can tell, she's a bad apple," Kryss grumbled, sipping at a glass of sparkling grape juice a waiter had brought, then gave it a displeased look and turned to the half empty glass of an unconscious old man at the next table, pouring the contents into it. Once she had turned her attention back to the others she blinked. "Where'd Quatre go this time?"
With a bored expression her brunette buddy pointed in the general direction of a flock of reporters and flashing cameras, jabbering about federation talks and whatnot.
"Ah. Anyway, like I was saying..." and before she could continue Anna had arrived at the table looking flushed and took a seat between Duo and Nicole.
"Whoa, where's the fire?" Duo laughed lightly, pushing a glass of water to her, which she took gratefully.
She took a few greedy swallows before pointing out into the dance floor where everyone's favorite onna and Emperor Chen went waltzing by. The three blinked in surprise as the pair then whisked out into the crowd again and disappeared.
Just as they had lost sight of the two an excited murmur bubbled from where Quatre as swamped with paparazzi and heads turned in the direction of the Peace Milion table, their sights set on Nicole. The brunette's eyes widened in fear as the group came stampeding toward her, shouting questions.
"Excuse me, Miss!"
"I understand you're accompanying Mr. Winner tonight! What's your name?"
"Are you Mr. Winner's significant other?"
"Can we expect a marriage?"
"Is there a prospective heir?"
"What kind of relationship do you two have?"
Quatre tried to wrestle through them to cover for the poor girl as they swooped down, looking exceedingly pained and apologetic as he tried to elbow his way through, while Nicole could only stutter as all the microphones were shoved in her face while Duo and Anna laughed heartily.
Kryss on the other hand could see her friend's fear and caught her arm, pulling her up and away, shouting over the questions, "WE NEED TO POWDER OUR NOSES!" With that the imps disappeared and elbowed through the dancers, leaving the propaganda to find someone else to bother.
"Smooth, K-chan." Her friend blew out her cheeks as they slowed to a walk. "So, what are we really going to do?" she grinned mischievously, knowing the blonde had something in mind.
"Tail Ashy and the bad man, of course," she cackled, pointing ahead toward where they were walking out to the balcony. Their tall friend was walking stiffly, and the oriental mans' arm was around her waist, his fist clenched at an odd angle against her side.
Nicole's playfulness faded and she nodded gravely, watching them walk out of the public eye. "Let's go!" she said quietly, grabbing her friend's arm and scurrying with her through the tinted curtains that parted to the open air on the large balcony. They pulled the curtains apart just enough to peak but not be obvious.
The balcony was large with a few stone benches with detailed vine carvings on them, and outside it was almost completely pitch black save for the colony's street lamps that lit the dome. A slight overhang of the balcony held a small chandelier much like the larger ones inside the ballroom. The pair stood almost directly beneath it facing one another and the light played on their silken clothes in interesting fashions. Chen's hand was still clenched at her waist.
"So, Chen," the girl said coolly, her arms crossed over her chest defensively. "What's up?"
The emperor frowned deeply and his hand seemed to clench tighter, causing her to wince. "You've caused me a great dishonor and a lot of trouble, child," he said slowly, anger shaking in his voice.
"Yeah? Well, too bad. Don't you even think about fucking with me. There're six armed gundam pilots walking around in there with a hard-on for blowing you away. You touch me and they'll be on your ass like flies to shit," she growled, glaring up at him defiantly.
His expression turned completely sour. "Try me." At that his fist jammed into her side and her eyes flew wide in shock as she began to double forward. The two spectators stared in confusion at first, until they saw the fabric of her dress begin to change a dark red-violet with the blue of her dress. Blood.
The emperor pulled back, retracting the knife and causing the girl whom a moment before stood confidently to fall to her knees and putting her hand to her side as the wound began to bleed freely. The emperor only stared and tossed the knife aside as the two girls moved to charge him.
"A-," they barely got the first sound out as hands clapped over their mouths and noses from behind and the world went dark for them.
Ashley turned her head weakly at the muffled sound, seeing a couple of fuzzy blurbs coming towards her and Chen. She could not discern what they were, but she squinted and tried to stand, only to feel something come in contact with her injured side and the air left her as she fell back against the railing of the balcony. She heard a mesh of sounds like talking, but her heart beat so hard in her ears that she couldn't decipher what was said. Moments later the figures were gone and she was alone.
***
*snickers* I feel evil. Just wait for more to come. You will be shocked and amazed. XD
*DISCLAIMER*
Because I haven't done one in awhile. No, I don't own GW. But I do own myself, Shou Hebi, Wong-Shou Xi, Shou Mei-Ling, and Shou Chen. XD Then some people own themselves and GW is owned by the people that created it and stuff. Woot.
--Misplaced in Space - Chapter Fifteen; Curiosity Kills--
"AAIII!!! KONO HENTAI, BAKAGAMI, ECCHI!" Kryss' strangled screams of rage filtered through the limousine Quatre had arranged for the troop of Peace Milion representatives. The Peacecraft siblings had been wary to allow the pilots to bring along their trainees, and now they desperately wished they had acted on their wariness, for chaos had begun to ensue from the moment the ball-gowns had been donned.
Nick's predictions could not have been closer to the truth.
"C'mon babe, be kind!" Duo whimpered, scrunching up against the closed door of the vehicle as it sped through the streets of 04, vainly trying to escape her angry fists.
"KISAMA! BASTARD!! SHINEE!!" she wailed, "YOU KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!" She then huffed and turned away, causing her companions to giggle as her crestfallen beau attempted to return her to good spirits.
"I think Duo has his work cut out for him," Nicole cackled, leaning over to Anna, whom snickered evilly, then quickly remembered she was in a dress and returned to picking at the skirt of the wicked garment.
"I hate dresses," she muttered sullenly.
"But it suits you," Zechs said simply, causing her to look up sharply and blush, tirade quietly about the falsity behind his statement, then clam up and stare out the window while Nicole teased her relentlessly until the rolling field of arguments halted in front of the Winner mansion.
The moment the Peacecraft children emerged from the limousine the media had begun to flock. Ever since Zechs had allied with his sister, reporters and news organizations had been having a field day trying to pry his motivations from his lips, but to no avail as he brushed past with Anna hurriedly, Relena hanging back to field their anxious questions.
After Nicole and Quatre had exited the car and given the media the brush-off Kryss and Duo made for the mansion doors, then the blonde blinked and turned as the screech of tires and excited shouts sounded behind them. In the midst of her curious pause Duo had already become engaged in a conversation with some sort of bigwig, and ahead Quatre had gotten cut off from escaping into the crowd by one of the Maganacs.
While the two were caught up in conversation and the others filtered inside, Nicole scurried back to Kryss. "What's the matter, K-chan?"
Her impish friend frowned. "Just a bad fe-,"
She was cut off as a rear door of the long jet-black car opened. Out of it came a woman they had not seen before; she was young and oriental with hair that fell to her elbows and matched the shade of the vehicle she had emerged from. She sported a sleeveless and shimmering white and silver cheongsam dress with curious cherry blossom patterns and an intricate white dragon mask on an ebony stick in her left hand. Excited shouts sounded from the group that had moments earlier been questioning Relena with great interest, but now their attention turned to this Asian beauty that smiled warmly in reception to the group with their flashing cameras and burning questions, leaving Relena standing alone and looking confused. Who was that?
"Who's she?" the brunette blinked in surprise. "If she can draw the media away from Relena...Damn. She so was not in the series."
Kryss continued to frown in that direction, then blinked in surprise as the mystery girl turned and met her gaze coldly for a brief moment, then instantaneously was warm and talking with passion to the media who lapped up her words eagerly, not even noticing her momentary change in manner. "Whoa...Did you seen that, N-chan?"
Her friend nodded. "She's the uber-bitch. Hey, look!" She pointed gleefully as after a tall women in black furs left the car to be with the mystery girl Mei had emerged and was looking around hopefully in her full lacy black and violet gown with a bell skirt, a cattish mask in hand. "Oi, Mei!" she squealed, waving and bouncing up and down.
The short girl looked intensely relieved as she spotted the pair and dashed over. "Thank God, faces I recognize...Where's Nick?" she continued to look this way and that.
Kryss snickered and shoved a thumb over her shoulder, indicating the tall boy standing by the door and staring at the ground, his hands in his coat pockets, staring down at his shoes, a simple gray tom cat mask in his back pocket.
More relief filled Mei as she hurried over to him with the girls on her heels. "MeiMeei!" Kryss caught her hand. "Before you go off with lover boy there, tell us who she is!" The impish pair turned the girl around and pointed at the girl who was finally breaking away from the media, giving a few final comments.
She sighed and frowned a little. "That's my step-sister, Shou Hebi. Hebi's really big with the media, bigger than I am even though I'm my father's flesh and blood. But I guess I'm more introverted than her. Anyhow, they're calling her the next Relena Peacecraft and stuff. The lady in the fur is her mother, Wong-Shou Xi," and before the girls could question her further Duo and Quatre had found them once more and she was hurrying over to Nick.
The two blinked and looked to each other, then back at the girl called Hebi as she ascended the steps up to the large double doors where a pair of men in suits waited with the doors held open. As she passed, Kryss piped up loudly, "I smell something!"
"Yes, something much like panda poop!" her impish friend added, quite audibly and obviously directed at the passing woman. The two were rewarded with an icy glare, then an indignant huff as she passed through the doors and into the crowd.
Duo hooted with laughter and high-fived his roommate while Quatre ducked his head in shame and whispered to the pair, "Was that entirely necessary?"
The two looked to each other a moment, then off into space as if contemplating before nodding and grinning broadly, eyes closed as if to emphasize innocence. "Yes!"
"C'mon, let's go," Duo snickered, still grinning as he put an arm through the blonde girl's and led her through the doors, the other couple following in their wake.
***
Meanwhile, Mei and Nick had already drifted through the doors and inside, where Ashley and Anna had quickly found them and gushed over the pair, much to Nick's terror and embarrassment. Once they had escaped the older girls and escaped into the masses of dancers, they were absorbed in the music.
Disappointed that their pray had escaped and their shorter friends would fight back, the two settled back against the wall in a corner of the ball room. After awhile of watching the groups of people mingle and make merry, Ashley spoke up. "So, how come you aren't off with Zechs tonight?"
"Rrr..." Anna gave her a look, "He's just all surrounded by spooty reporter people. I don't like that kind of stuff, and it's bad enough I have to be all dressed up and stuff, I don't need cameras shoved in my face and questions about being there with him. Blah." She then shrugged her blue, silk-clad shoulders and then her features turned devilish. "So why aren't you over pawing with Wuffers?"
"Wuffers?" she blinked, looking at her friend like she was insane before shaking her head and looking the other way, glaring off in the opposite direction as if at Wufei. "He's a pain in the ass," she said simply, not commenting further.
"Aw, that's cute," Anna snickered, ruffling her streaked hair. "Ack, look, someone's spotted us," she hissed, jerking her head in the direction of an older-looking man garbed in a red silk Chinese suit.
Ashley looked up from her angry reverie, blinked a few times, then stiffened and hissed to her Earth-born comrade, "That's the emperor. From the Beijing." Her teeth clenched slightly as her jaw set, her white-gloved fists clenching at the navy fabric brushing her hips.
That information earned a yelp coupled by a shocked expression from Anna as the man walked directly to Ashley and smiled with the utmost charm, bowing slightly and offering a hand. "May I have this dance?" he asked politely as the music changed.
The demeanor of the young woman changed immediately as she put on the innocent girl act, all smiles and curtsies. "Why, of course," she said silkily, putting on a flattered smile as she took his hand and approached the dance floor with her enemy.
Anna could only stare in shock as she watched her friend walk off to the dance floor with Shou Chen and shook herself once the pair had disappeared into the crowd and dashed off to find the large table reserved for the Peace Milion.
***
"I can tell, she's a bad apple," Kryss grumbled, sipping at a glass of sparkling grape juice a waiter had brought, then gave it a displeased look and turned to the half empty glass of an unconscious old man at the next table, pouring the contents into it. Once she had turned her attention back to the others she blinked. "Where'd Quatre go this time?"
With a bored expression her brunette buddy pointed in the general direction of a flock of reporters and flashing cameras, jabbering about federation talks and whatnot.
"Ah. Anyway, like I was saying..." and before she could continue Anna had arrived at the table looking flushed and took a seat between Duo and Nicole.
"Whoa, where's the fire?" Duo laughed lightly, pushing a glass of water to her, which she took gratefully.
She took a few greedy swallows before pointing out into the dance floor where everyone's favorite onna and Emperor Chen went waltzing by. The three blinked in surprise as the pair then whisked out into the crowd again and disappeared.
Just as they had lost sight of the two an excited murmur bubbled from where Quatre as swamped with paparazzi and heads turned in the direction of the Peace Milion table, their sights set on Nicole. The brunette's eyes widened in fear as the group came stampeding toward her, shouting questions.
"Excuse me, Miss!"
"I understand you're accompanying Mr. Winner tonight! What's your name?"
"Are you Mr. Winner's significant other?"
"Can we expect a marriage?"
"Is there a prospective heir?"
"What kind of relationship do you two have?"
Quatre tried to wrestle through them to cover for the poor girl as they swooped down, looking exceedingly pained and apologetic as he tried to elbow his way through, while Nicole could only stutter as all the microphones were shoved in her face while Duo and Anna laughed heartily.
Kryss on the other hand could see her friend's fear and caught her arm, pulling her up and away, shouting over the questions, "WE NEED TO POWDER OUR NOSES!" With that the imps disappeared and elbowed through the dancers, leaving the propaganda to find someone else to bother.
"Smooth, K-chan." Her friend blew out her cheeks as they slowed to a walk. "So, what are we really going to do?" she grinned mischievously, knowing the blonde had something in mind.
"Tail Ashy and the bad man, of course," she cackled, pointing ahead toward where they were walking out to the balcony. Their tall friend was walking stiffly, and the oriental mans' arm was around her waist, his fist clenched at an odd angle against her side.
Nicole's playfulness faded and she nodded gravely, watching them walk out of the public eye. "Let's go!" she said quietly, grabbing her friend's arm and scurrying with her through the tinted curtains that parted to the open air on the large balcony. They pulled the curtains apart just enough to peak but not be obvious.
The balcony was large with a few stone benches with detailed vine carvings on them, and outside it was almost completely pitch black save for the colony's street lamps that lit the dome. A slight overhang of the balcony held a small chandelier much like the larger ones inside the ballroom. The pair stood almost directly beneath it facing one another and the light played on their silken clothes in interesting fashions. Chen's hand was still clenched at her waist.
"So, Chen," the girl said coolly, her arms crossed over her chest defensively. "What's up?"
The emperor frowned deeply and his hand seemed to clench tighter, causing her to wince. "You've caused me a great dishonor and a lot of trouble, child," he said slowly, anger shaking in his voice.
"Yeah? Well, too bad. Don't you even think about fucking with me. There're six armed gundam pilots walking around in there with a hard-on for blowing you away. You touch me and they'll be on your ass like flies to shit," she growled, glaring up at him defiantly.
His expression turned completely sour. "Try me." At that his fist jammed into her side and her eyes flew wide in shock as she began to double forward. The two spectators stared in confusion at first, until they saw the fabric of her dress begin to change a dark red-violet with the blue of her dress. Blood.
The emperor pulled back, retracting the knife and causing the girl whom a moment before stood confidently to fall to her knees and putting her hand to her side as the wound began to bleed freely. The emperor only stared and tossed the knife aside as the two girls moved to charge him.
"A-," they barely got the first sound out as hands clapped over their mouths and noses from behind and the world went dark for them.
Ashley turned her head weakly at the muffled sound, seeing a couple of fuzzy blurbs coming towards her and Chen. She could not discern what they were, but she squinted and tried to stand, only to feel something come in contact with her injured side and the air left her as she fell back against the railing of the balcony. She heard a mesh of sounds like talking, but her heart beat so hard in her ears that she couldn't decipher what was said. Moments later the figures were gone and she was alone.
***
*snickers* I feel evil. Just wait for more to come. You will be shocked and amazed. XD