Oh yeah, I don't lay claims to the Gundam Boys and/or any of the other characters from that series—Gundam Wing………But Shiane, Lucy, Savannah, Amethyst and Jonathon are mine.
Chapter 7
"It's Wufei!" she exclaimed.
"WHAT?" they all cried, except for Maremeia and Amethyst. Duo and Quatre nearly fell out of their chairs.
"But-why? How?" Quatre and Shiane cried.
"Settle down and I will tell you." Lady Collins said lowering her voice a bit. She waited until they settled back down and quieted. When she was satisfied she started her story.
"Well let's see, twelve years ago while a family was exploring, they found a young man in some kind of machine, which they found in an abandoned building. They woke him up and he had told them who he was and that he had something to collect from under the building. His Gundam Nataku was what he had meant and it was found somewhere in the building. I think it was found in some kind of room below the basement, but the details on that part are not very clear," she frowned thoughtfully.
"How do you know all this?" Quatre asked with a small frown on his lips.
"He was found in this city and when he discovered what year it was at the time and all the information that he could impart from the family he searched around until he found out I was living here, and then he came to me," Lady Collins replied. "I first set him up with a small account for himself but he has prospered since then. He hasn't needed anything from me since that first couple of months back into the real world."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Savannah asked. She directed the question for Shiane, Lucy and herself.
"He didn't want anybody to know who he really was. Even though he didn't change his name, he still goes by Wufei," Collins replied giving the "old soldiers" a hint, "It was his idea," she added.
"Were there any other Gundams found with his?" Trowa asked.
"No, but he has been looking for them. He has already found two of them, but he's now looking for the rest," the former colonel Une said slowly.
"We have the other two," Duo said, "How are Heero and Trowa going to get their Gundams back from someone we haven't seen in awhile?"
"There is a way but you all will have to agree to do what it involves," Collins said looking around the room.
"What is it?" Heero asked.
"Well, Wufei is going to be presenting them to me, but I am unable to go, so Maremeia and Amethyst are going for me as representatives," she replied slowly.
"What's the catch?" Hilde asked seriously looking straight at Lady Collins.
"It's going to be a formal presentation, and afterwards there will be a ball," Maremeia said casually.
"Oh great," Shiane muttered. Savannah nodded her head in agreement, "So we have to dress up and look nice, but won't Wufei recognize?" Shiane started to ask pointedly glancing at Hilde and the young men. Lucy looked on in silence and nodded her head in all the right places of the conversation.
"Don't worry about that. He thinks they are all dead, and he has probably forgotten what some of them look like. He has had other…things…on his mind these twelve years," Lady Collins said with a very small sly smile. The pilots and Hilde looked very relieved at that, though all were a bit curious.
"When is it?" Duo asked.
"It's actually this evening," Amethyst spoke up. Everybody looked at her. She had been quiet since Maremeia and Lady Collins came.
"Yes, it is this evening so I recommend all of you, including Amy, go upstairs and clean up. You need to be there at seven o'clock," Lady Collins said rising from her chair.
They stood up to follow Amy and Maremeia upstairs. At the top Maremeia led the guys to a separate part of the house and Amy took the girls to a familiar set of rooms that Savannah, Lucy, and Shiane would use them when they stayed there.
As they entered the door to the room Savannah usually used, Shiane glanced at her watch and read five o' one.
"We have exactly an hour and fifty-nine minutes. I'm going to shower since I need it most," Shiane said. The other girls looked over at her as if seeing her for the first time and all nodded.
"There's a couple of robes in there hanging on the wall," Amy said.
"Okay," Shiane said walking into the bathroom. She undid her braids and brushed her hair with her fingers. She took her shower, washing her hair as well. She felt refreshed as she stepped out of the tub and wrapped herself in one of the robes Amy mentioned. Before she left she dried her hair with a hairdryer she found below the sink. It didn't take too much time so when she opened the door she found the others looking at a few dresses they had pulled out of the closet. They weren't all Savannah's, but various dresses that Shiane and the other two had seen before for the most part.
"These are beautiful!" Hilde commented.
Shiane walked and stood barefoot beside Hilde to look at the dresses she was holding, one in particular catching her eye. It was a white satin one that zipped up the side with spaghetti straps. It ended at the knees and on Hilde's figure it would look very flattering.
"Hilde, you should wear the white one. You would look beautiful in it," Shiane said.
The older woman looked at Shiane and nodded her head in agreement. She put the dress down on the bed and stepped into the bathroom. She took a shower and came out. Savannah went in and took a shower and then Amy and last of all, Lucy followed.
Shiane chose a blue floor length dress with spaghetti straps on it; there was also a slit up the left side to the knee, of the dress. She stepped into the bathroom to take off her robe and slipped into the dress. She opened the door and asked, "Hilde, would you come and zip this up for me?"
Hilde went over and zipped the back zipper and then stood back to look at her. Shiane turned off the bathroom light and walked out. The dress was made of satin and Shiane thought she looked good in it.
"That's a beautiful dress Shiane," Savannah said, "Would I look good in this?" she asked holding a sapphire blue dress up. It was an off the shoulder dress and it was also floor length like Shiane's, and it would look great on her.
"Wear it!" Shiane exclaimed. "Blue goes well with you." Savannah went into the bathroom and slipped into it and zipped it up. She came back out and turned around slowly so the rest could see her. Lucy chose a dark green dress that had sleeves and also floor length. She went into the bathroom to slip into it and came out when she was done.
"Amy…Where did she go?" Shiane asked.
Amy came running into the room just then.
"Sorry! I had to go get my dress from my room," she said holding up a black dress. It looked similar to the one Hilde was wearing.
"I guess y'all got the same style of dress," Savannah said.
"Yeah but this one is a bit longer." Amy said. She put her dress on and looked around at the others.
"Well, how about some shoes now?" Amy asked. She went into the closet and started pulling pairs of shoes out.
Hilde chose a pair of white open toed high heels. She sat down and slipped her feet into them then stood up straight.
"She almost doesn't look like the person I helped Duo take from the tubes," Shiane thought. "I wonder if anyone else will notice."
Amy came out of the closet holding four pairs of shoes she had chosen. They were all two-inch heels and the colors were blue, two were white, and black.
Amy handed Shiane the blue pair which the shade of blue matched her dress. Savannah was handed one of the white pairs, Lucy got handed the other white pair and Amy kept the black pair for herself. They all sat down quickly to put their shoes on and then stood up to inspect how they looked.
Shiane went into the bathroom and grabbed a couple of brushes on the counter. She walked back out and kept one of the brushes and handed the other two to Hilde and Savannah.
They all brushed our hair and put it up.
Shiane curled a few sections at the top of her head where the split was down the length of her hair.
Since Hilde had short hair, she just brushed it and left it that way; she then handed Lucy the brush. Lucy brushed her hair and put it in a half ponytail. Savannah did a few tiny braids at the top of her head all the way down. She looked pretty. Amy took the brush Shiane had been using and brushed her hair. She put her hair up in a French braid that ended at her lower back.
"Well, I guess we're done," Shiane remarked getting ready to walk out the door.
"No we're not!" Amy exclaimed, "Just a little bit of make up."
Hilde, Savannah, Shiane, and Lucy started to protest but with Amy giving them a look they gave in.
"Now we're done." Amy said at last with a satisfied smile, "Let's go down now. I'm sure the others have been down there for awhile," she added.
TBC
Notes: Okay there's this one part, the part where the girls were doing their hair. It sounds incredibly bad and that's cuz I never got to finish redoing that part. I was just a little too lazy and too busy with all my other stories. So I just wanted to let you know.