Disclaimer: Sorry I haven't been writing these, but I couldn't really think
of anything to write. I don't own any of the characters except Officer
Tembo, Li, Shimi, Fox, and Sophia. Before any of you guys get on my case I
received permission from Niko Nightwind herself that I can put her in my
story. Just read she's more of a recurring character, but she's important.
Gundam Wing Episode 8 *The Assassins' End* 9:45am
Shimi stares stone faced at her captors bound hand and foot. Duo drops in a seat to rest still amazed by how long it took to get her tied. It took them all about half an hour to get all the ropes on which Sally, the only one who wasn't tired, made secure. Even Trowa who was like a statue half the time looked tired. "Just tell us what you know about that explosion and we'll let you go."
Shimi just looks in his direction without saying a word. Wufei watches Shimi carefully as he crises his arms. "Shimi tell us what you know."
"I'm not talking to you."
"Why?" Wufei says fed up with her.
"Because you pulled my hair." Shimi looks angrily at Wufei.
"It was the only way to keep you still."
"But you didn't have to pull that hard." Shimi's eyes turn glassy as she says it. "I swear you and Sophia are both a like when it comes to my hair. Now apologize." Wufei scoffs at her.
"Wufei just apologize or we'll be here all day."
He glances over at Sally. "I don't apologize-"
"Oh yeah that's right you don't." Shimi interrupts him before he could finish. "You still haven't said you were sorry to Sophia. Shattering Sophia when you betrayed her probably wasn't enough for you. I found her crying, Wufei." Wufei looks at Shimi slightly surprised. "You know it takes a lot to make her cry." Wufei tries hard not to show his anger towards Shimi. "I don't even know why she bothers looking up to you."
Wufei gets up and angrily leaves the room. "Wufei wait!" Sally calls after him.
I think that jerk deserves everything he gets. Shimi smiles satisfied with her actions.
"Do you think he did it on purpose? Yeah, he's proud and his worst problem is his pride. So he made a few mistakes. He's only human. You weren't there when he lost his friends, family, and his home. How would you know what kind of pain Wufei had to suffer through? He at least learns from his mistakes and I am proud of him because of that." Sally angry gets up and leaves to try to find Wufei.
"I'd have to say, that was the first time I've ever seen Sally angry." Duo says breaking the long awkward silence.
Wow, I've never heard anyone stick up for Wufei before, besides Sophia. "Damn it, now I feel bad." Shimi says as she lets her upper body rest on her legs letting her arms dangle freely on either side. The others turn with her sudden comment. "Oh, don't get up. I'm not going anywhere Lion Heart." Shimi says smugly to Trowa.
"I believe an apology is in order." Trowa's face unchanging looks Shimi in the eyes after she had untied her legs and was sitting up.
They stare at each other for what seemed like an hour before Shimi broke the silence. "Fine, do you two feel the same way as well."
"Yes" They look at Duo waiting for his reply.
"Yeah of course, he might be a little offensive at times, but he always seems to know what's going on before anyone else does."
"So, you're all friends of Wufei. Ok, where do you want me to start?"
:( Quatre watches Afmahd quietly as he lies in a coma in the hospital bed. He sighs and sadly leaves the room where Hiyami, Rashid, Auda, Abdul, and Tikki greet him with sympathy. "Master Quatre, how is he?"
"The doctor says they don't know how long he'll be that way." Quatre looks to the floor his eye suddenly lost in pool of self-pity. "I should have been there."
"Quatre you know you can't be everywhere at once." Rashid gently squeezes his shoulder as they all sit down on a bench outside Afmahd's room.
"I know, but." He squeezes his eye close and tears begin to flow, "if I had just gone to the sight instead of my office then-"
"Then, what Mr. Winner," Quatre opens his eyes surprised to hear a stern voice talking to him. He looks at Tikki as he stands up listening. "Be in the same state as Afmahd or even worse dead. I don't think that would help the situation. Come on, everybody here knows you couldn't do anything so why pout over it. No use crying over spilt milk." Everyone's quiet mostly in shock to hear anything like that come from Tikki.
Quatre gives a small smile. "You're right, Tikki. You're very wise for your age."
Tikki sticks his hand behind his head. "Hey thanks," Tikki blushes as a loud roar escapes from his stomach, "So, who's up for breakfast, or is it brunch, now? Ah who cares, I'm hungry. You've got money. Let's go eat." Tikki bows and looks up at Quatre. "After you Mr. Winner."
"That's ok Tikki, I'm not hungry. You and the guys go and eat."
"Are you sure master Quatre?" Abdul says unsure.
"Yes, I'll be ok here and Rashid." Rashid stands up as though called on in a classroom. "I want you to keep an eye on the others for me. If you don't mind, I'd like to be alone for a while." Quatre stands up and enters Afmahd's room again. Everyone hesitates before leaving him by himself. Hiyami stays and watches Quatre walk to the window.
You and Afmahd are the only ones who haven't fallen for me yet. She looks at Afmahd on the bed and smiles. He's been taken care of, now how am I going to get you, Mr. Winner?
~~~~~Flash~~~~~ Hiyami walks into Quatre's office. "Did you want to see me Mr. Winner?" Quatre looks up from his half-finished work on his desk.
"Yes, I just wanted to see how the progress on the building is going? Did you bring the papers like I asked?" She hands him a folder and care fully swings next to him as he goes through them. "Quatre, you don't mind if I call you Quatre do you?"
"Sure, I don't mind." He says not looking up at her as one of the papers catch his attention.
"You've been stuck in this office all day." She gently puts her hands on his shoulders and begins to rub them. "You probably feel sore from being in this stuffy office all day. He looks up at her.
"You don't have to-"
"Nonsense, you work too hard. How about you take a little rest?" She pulls him to his feet after placing a hand on the papers.
"Sorry Ms. Hiyami, I can't I still have a lot of work to-" She places a finger on his mouth to quiet him. She moves her finger away from his mouth and presses her body up to his. She was about to kiss him, but he moves away from her. "Ms. Hiyami, this isn't a good idea."
She wraps her arms around his neck. "Come on, Quatre just relax. You're way to tense." She moves her face closer to his. "If you let me, I can help you relax." Quatre pulls away from her.
"This isn't right and you know it."
"Quatre, I-" Just then there's a knock on the door and Tikki enters.
"Yes, Tikki" Quatre says relieved.
"I'm, sorry am I interrupting something." Tikki looks confused a moment.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
I'm starting to get sick of this. She looks at Quatre again remembering what Li told her the last time she was able to find time to communicate with him.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~ "How is your progress with Mr. Winner?" Li says leaning back in his chair relaxed as a girl puts a plate of food in front of him.
"Um not so good. Opening doors, pulling out chairs, being polite, he acts like a saint. Nothing I've done has worked on you," she says uneasy knowing this would displease him.
"What?" His eyes flicker yellow before going back to normal. "Every man has a weakness. You just haven't found it yet."
"Believe me I've tried everything. He's a man with morals." Li looks at her a moment as thought thinking carefully to make sure he didn't say the wrong thing.
"Ok, then," he sits up and looks at his food a moment. His hand changes into a claw as he takes his index finger and drives it into the meat, "forget about the plan and just kill him. Relena is going to be visiting soon as well. Kill her too, understand."
"Ah, yes sir."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Remembering master Li's sharp claw like fingers made her shiver. Quatre stares out the window. Who would do this and why.
"Are you sure, Quatre?" Quatre turns in surprise. "Sorry, Quatre, I didn't mean to startle you." Hiyami says at the door. She looks to the floor as though shy to make eye contact. "If you want, I can save you something."
"Thank you, Ms. Taichi, but I'm not very hungry."
"I'm, terribly sorry about what happened. Um, I wish I could do something."
"That's very thoughtful of you." She looks up at him and smiles before leaving.
There's something about Tikki that seems so, familiar. The way he acted just now. Quatre walks to the door and notices the laptop on the bench. He picks it up. "I'll have to give it back to him later." Wait maybe I can use it. He sits on the bench and turns on the laptop.
@o@ "Where is it!" Tikki shreds through the car trunk after they arrived home. Rashid and the others watch helplessly as he practically rips the car apart. After he was finished, he backs away from the car and drops down defeated. "Did any of you guys see what I did with my laptop?"
"No, Tikki, I'm sorry."
His eyes turn glassy. "You haven't." his voices clear that he was upset. Where could it have gone?
"Are you sure you took it with you?" Rashid says feeling sorry for him. "You could have left it in the house." Tikki's face lights up.
"You think so." Rashid shakes his head handing him the keys to the mansion.
"Just go inside and look for it." Rashid watches him jump and dash towards the house. "Just now he reminded me of a little boy who had just lost his puppy." It didn't take long for Tikki to rip though his room before starting on others.
Everyone was kind enough to let him search his or her rooms except Sophia and Hiyami. Sophia gives Tikki a look of disgust as he stares at the wall devastated in his room. "Look at you crying over a laptop. It's obvious you act your shoe size."
"For your information there was a lot of info in there and besides it was a birthday present."
"What little respect you earned from me is now lost. Act your age!"
"Acting 8 years younger then I am doesn't change that I'm a good warrior. Anyway, as soon as you actually stop Ninja who's conveniently in the basement; I wouldn't be talking, Niko Nightwind."
"Baby" Niko mumbles as she walks away from him.
"I heard that, Ms. Kokuei Nikomi Shayindu." She stops and turns at the sound of her name. "It's best if you move Sinahia and Jessie to another place."
She turns "Are you threatening my family?"
"Nope, just a fair warning, if it took me only a few days to find them and I'm not an expert hacker. They need a new hiding place." They look at each other a moment. Niko gives a wicked grin before heading for the door again.
"If I see it, I'll try to remember to give it to you. You should keep a better eye on the person you're supposed to protect and I don't need your help."
"You obviously do if you haven't taken him down yet." Fox taunt slightly.
"You haven't exactly gotten rid of your assassin yet either."
"I'll take care of her in the morning." Niko shakes her head and closes the door behind her. Taking Fox's hint goes for the basement.
"And where do you think you're going" Niko says to his adversary just as he was about to exit. He looks up at Niko as he jumps down from one of the railing.
"I'd have to say I wasn't expecting to see you Niko."
"So, you've heard of me."
"My superior has mentioned you." he takes out his sword and immediately attacks. Niko dodges easily, but couldn't get close enough to attack. Jumping backward into the wall, he quickly ties a dagger to the tip of his hair. As he pushes off the wall, he spins a few inches in the over the ninja's head acting like a temporary blade. Niko lands behind him.
The ninja turns around to strike Niko. Blood starts to ooze from deep gashes in his head and neck, Niko watches as he drops his sword and falls to the floor dead. Niko turns sharply. "Oh, it's you." Niko turns away from Fox.
"If you could beat him so easily, why did you wait?"
"Aren't you supposed to be moping over your laptop of yours."
"Why did you have to remind me?" Niko watches Fox walk off gloomy.
One minute he's serious the next minute he's 8 years old. Niko shakes his head as he tends to the body. Maybe Shimi can get me some info on this guy.
~o~ "You have the nerve to ask me for a favor after you haven't paid for the last time I help you." Howard says walking out of his office with Shimi trailing behind him.
"Come on Howard, I'll get the money as soon as I find my partner. "No, Shimi, I can't do it." They stop in front of Duo and the others. "Duo, long time no see! How have you been?"
"Howard please! I was in a coma for a while and got back most of my memory. Give me a break." Shimi clings to his arm pleading.
"I fix machinery Shimi. I'm not a body guard!" Shimi lets go and wraps her arms around his neck.
In a sweet voice, she says, "Please just until I find him and you'll get your money. What do you say?"
"I have to say, you're nothing like your mother when it comes to paying her debts, Shimi." Shimi lets go angrily.
"How much does she owe anyway? Maybe, I can help." Duo offers as Howard walks over to the computer next to him. It took a while, but the computer finally came out with the total, which was $250,000. Duo's eyes grow huge and he looks at Shimi. She just shrugs with an uneasy smile. "I can't do it, kid."
She falls to her knees and cries. "Can't anybody help me!!!?"
*_*; Tikki looks up at the ceiling his face looks like a puppy that has been yelled at by its owner. "Come on Tikki are you sure you checked everywhere" Rashid asks looking down at Tikki as he lies on the sofa downstairs.
"Yes" he turns on his stomach and lets his arm dangle over the side. Sighing he leaves the room as the front door opens. Quatre enters.
"Master Quatre you're back. Are you ok?"
Quatre smiles at him a kind of sad smile. "I'll be ok, just tired, that's all." Rashid sees the laptop in Quatre's arms.
"You wouldn't believe how much trouble Tikki went through to find that thing."
"He left it on the bench in the hospital. Where is he?"
He points to the room behind him. "Looking like a little boy who lost his favorite toy, we've had no playful activity for 7 hours."
"It sound serious, I'll take it to him." He goes in and is surprised to see such a sad expression on Tikki's face. "Tikki, what's the matter."
"My, my laptop's gone and I searched the whole mansion." His eyes turn glass.
"I think I have something that belongs to you." Quatre show him the laptop and he looks up in astonishment. "You left it on the bench in the hospital." His eyes light up and he sits up taking the laptop out of Quatre's hands.
"Thank you, Mr. Winner. I don't know what to say. Tikki gets up and bows at Quatre.
Suddenly Quatre gets a familiar feeling as Tikki blushes looking down at his laptop. Why do I have this feeling I've met you some where before, Tikki? "Your welcome, Tikki" Quatre watches him leave and eventually leaves himself to get some sleep.
!_! The door to Quatre's bedroom opens slowly and closes soon after. The only visible evidence that something had entered the room was two glowing, orange eyes in the dark room. It moves swiftly to the slumbering Quatre. A few low growls escape it waking him slowly.
His eyes grow wide in surprise as it leaps on him. Quatre pushes its snapping jaws away from his neck. Thinking fast he shifts the weight of the beast to one hand and desperately feels for anything that might save his life. His arm begins to burn from fatigue. At the last second, he snatches what felt like a pen and stabs it in the neck. He loses sight of it over the side of the bed.
He rest for a while listening after throwing his sheets off his body. Quatre moves toward his lamp by his bed thinking it would be easier to be able to see what he was fighting then to fight blind. That's when he saw the orange eyes appear on the foot of the bed. It lunges at Quatre and he barely dodges it. He shutters at the sound of the exploding bedpost at the beast rips through it.
Quatre takes his sheets and ties it up in them. Jumping off the bed, he turns on the light to survey his catch. He looks at his bed to see a mangled mess of wood splinters with his broken bedpost, blood, but no beast. He stares in disbelief as his heart races. "Goodbye Mr. Winner it was nice knowing you."
He turns to face the person speaking, "Hiyami, wha"
"I just came to say goodbye." He suddenly feels uneasy realizing she was naked and turns his head from her.
"Ms. Hiyami please put some clothes on this is indecent." She walks to him her smile crooked.
"I'm not staying for long. You can't even look at me. I never met a boy like you. lest look me in the face, Quatre."
"Ms. Taichi please leave at once." Quatre says looking into her eyes. Her eyes flicker orange like a light about to burn out which caught his attention.
"You found your panther." She says as she grabs hold of his neck before he could make a move. She spins the bloodied pen in her other hand. "You know what goes around comes around, Mr. Winner."
Quatre tries to pull her hands from his neck, but it was like a shackle. She was that animal that attacked me earlier, but how? That doesn't make any sense. Hiyami slams him into his dresser mirror across the room. The glass shatters.
"If you scream I'll kill everyone in this mansion." She says squeezing his neck. "It would have been better if you just fell for me. Never mind I think I will kill them all after all. I got tired of going on all those dates with Rashid, anyway." In Hiyami's now fully orange eyes he could see himself and the clock on the wall read 1:15.
Still dazed from being slammed into the grass, he continues to try to pry her hand from his neck. She digs her nails into his neck. He begins to pull harder as her nails actually begin to grow into his neck. "AAHHH!" His eyes begin to grow wide as his hands begin to slip off from the steady stream of blood flowing from his neck. Her claws were now to deep in his neck to pull out on his own.
His hands begin to weaken and soon fall to his sides unmoving. The life from his blue-green eyes fades as her nails finally reach the other side of his neck.
@o~ Fox's eye's open and he quickly jumps out of bed. He glances at the clock as he leaves his room. It read 1:10.
~_~; It lunges at Quatre and he barely dodges it. He shutters at the sound of the exploding bedpost at the beast rips through it. As the beast turns to jump at Quatre again a second beast with deep bright blue eyes, jump the orange eyes. There's a loud roar of pain as it shook the other off. Orange eyes shifts its attention to blue eyes and they pounce at each other.
They sounded like a panther and a small dog fighting as Quatre slides of his bed, but stops when he hears the whimpering of a dog. Orange eye climbs over the side of the bed as Quatre backs up into his dresser. Where did these animals come from? It leaps at him. He quickly grabs the clock off his dress and closes his eyes as he hits it with it.
He races for the door, but trips over something big and warm on the floor as orange eyes leaps on Quatre pinning him to the floor. Quatre braces himself for the teeth of the beast to rip into his neck. Just as its teeth begin to clamp down there's a mild jerk. The glow form blue eyes, eyes mixed with orange eyes showed that blue eyes had orange eyes by the neck.
Blood drips from its neck staining Quatre's nightclothes and skin around his neck red. Furious orange eyes slashes blue eyes across the face. Blue eyes mimics the attack. He repeats the attack getting orange eyes off Quatre. Blue eye lets go and dodges another clawing. They shoot at each other. They resemble two large dogs fighting over territory.
Quatre's neck starts to burn in places. He gets up slowly feeling exhausted noticing orange eyes being to fade. Just then the lights turn. "Master Quatre we heard." They stop when they the blood stained Quatre. "Master, are you, ok?!"
"It's ok I'm fine thanks to." They turn to see an animal the size of a Doverman Pincher with unusually long ears almost that of a rabbit. It was solid black with its paws and the tip of its tail orange. By looking at it you'd think some one inverted the fox. "This animal her, I'm glad to see you are all ok."
Its eyes however turned black when the lights were turned on. In its mouth it held a dead panther by the neck. "So, you killed a panther." Rashid says moving toward it. The fox drops the panther and starts yelping at him backing up from him. Surprised he stops as it bears it's fangs at him. Across its face is three claw marks. Some of the fur and skin were hanging off its neck. Its neck or what was left of it and around it was a deep red.
Quatre walks over seeing the wounds and it starts to growl again. "It's ok, I won't hurt you." he ignores the growls going right up to it. There eyes meet as the fox stops growling and its ears droop. He places a hand on its head and looks at its neck. It whimpers moving its head from under his hand and lies down placing his head on his paws continuing to whimper. "Those injures look pretty bad. Call a vet, please Rashid."
Gundam Wing Episode 8 *The Assassins' End* 9:45am
Shimi stares stone faced at her captors bound hand and foot. Duo drops in a seat to rest still amazed by how long it took to get her tied. It took them all about half an hour to get all the ropes on which Sally, the only one who wasn't tired, made secure. Even Trowa who was like a statue half the time looked tired. "Just tell us what you know about that explosion and we'll let you go."
Shimi just looks in his direction without saying a word. Wufei watches Shimi carefully as he crises his arms. "Shimi tell us what you know."
"I'm not talking to you."
"Why?" Wufei says fed up with her.
"Because you pulled my hair." Shimi looks angrily at Wufei.
"It was the only way to keep you still."
"But you didn't have to pull that hard." Shimi's eyes turn glassy as she says it. "I swear you and Sophia are both a like when it comes to my hair. Now apologize." Wufei scoffs at her.
"Wufei just apologize or we'll be here all day."
He glances over at Sally. "I don't apologize-"
"Oh yeah that's right you don't." Shimi interrupts him before he could finish. "You still haven't said you were sorry to Sophia. Shattering Sophia when you betrayed her probably wasn't enough for you. I found her crying, Wufei." Wufei looks at Shimi slightly surprised. "You know it takes a lot to make her cry." Wufei tries hard not to show his anger towards Shimi. "I don't even know why she bothers looking up to you."
Wufei gets up and angrily leaves the room. "Wufei wait!" Sally calls after him.
I think that jerk deserves everything he gets. Shimi smiles satisfied with her actions.
"Do you think he did it on purpose? Yeah, he's proud and his worst problem is his pride. So he made a few mistakes. He's only human. You weren't there when he lost his friends, family, and his home. How would you know what kind of pain Wufei had to suffer through? He at least learns from his mistakes and I am proud of him because of that." Sally angry gets up and leaves to try to find Wufei.
"I'd have to say, that was the first time I've ever seen Sally angry." Duo says breaking the long awkward silence.
Wow, I've never heard anyone stick up for Wufei before, besides Sophia. "Damn it, now I feel bad." Shimi says as she lets her upper body rest on her legs letting her arms dangle freely on either side. The others turn with her sudden comment. "Oh, don't get up. I'm not going anywhere Lion Heart." Shimi says smugly to Trowa.
"I believe an apology is in order." Trowa's face unchanging looks Shimi in the eyes after she had untied her legs and was sitting up.
They stare at each other for what seemed like an hour before Shimi broke the silence. "Fine, do you two feel the same way as well."
"Yes" They look at Duo waiting for his reply.
"Yeah of course, he might be a little offensive at times, but he always seems to know what's going on before anyone else does."
"So, you're all friends of Wufei. Ok, where do you want me to start?"
:( Quatre watches Afmahd quietly as he lies in a coma in the hospital bed. He sighs and sadly leaves the room where Hiyami, Rashid, Auda, Abdul, and Tikki greet him with sympathy. "Master Quatre, how is he?"
"The doctor says they don't know how long he'll be that way." Quatre looks to the floor his eye suddenly lost in pool of self-pity. "I should have been there."
"Quatre you know you can't be everywhere at once." Rashid gently squeezes his shoulder as they all sit down on a bench outside Afmahd's room.
"I know, but." He squeezes his eye close and tears begin to flow, "if I had just gone to the sight instead of my office then-"
"Then, what Mr. Winner," Quatre opens his eyes surprised to hear a stern voice talking to him. He looks at Tikki as he stands up listening. "Be in the same state as Afmahd or even worse dead. I don't think that would help the situation. Come on, everybody here knows you couldn't do anything so why pout over it. No use crying over spilt milk." Everyone's quiet mostly in shock to hear anything like that come from Tikki.
Quatre gives a small smile. "You're right, Tikki. You're very wise for your age."
Tikki sticks his hand behind his head. "Hey thanks," Tikki blushes as a loud roar escapes from his stomach, "So, who's up for breakfast, or is it brunch, now? Ah who cares, I'm hungry. You've got money. Let's go eat." Tikki bows and looks up at Quatre. "After you Mr. Winner."
"That's ok Tikki, I'm not hungry. You and the guys go and eat."
"Are you sure master Quatre?" Abdul says unsure.
"Yes, I'll be ok here and Rashid." Rashid stands up as though called on in a classroom. "I want you to keep an eye on the others for me. If you don't mind, I'd like to be alone for a while." Quatre stands up and enters Afmahd's room again. Everyone hesitates before leaving him by himself. Hiyami stays and watches Quatre walk to the window.
You and Afmahd are the only ones who haven't fallen for me yet. She looks at Afmahd on the bed and smiles. He's been taken care of, now how am I going to get you, Mr. Winner?
~~~~~Flash~~~~~ Hiyami walks into Quatre's office. "Did you want to see me Mr. Winner?" Quatre looks up from his half-finished work on his desk.
"Yes, I just wanted to see how the progress on the building is going? Did you bring the papers like I asked?" She hands him a folder and care fully swings next to him as he goes through them. "Quatre, you don't mind if I call you Quatre do you?"
"Sure, I don't mind." He says not looking up at her as one of the papers catch his attention.
"You've been stuck in this office all day." She gently puts her hands on his shoulders and begins to rub them. "You probably feel sore from being in this stuffy office all day. He looks up at her.
"You don't have to-"
"Nonsense, you work too hard. How about you take a little rest?" She pulls him to his feet after placing a hand on the papers.
"Sorry Ms. Hiyami, I can't I still have a lot of work to-" She places a finger on his mouth to quiet him. She moves her finger away from his mouth and presses her body up to his. She was about to kiss him, but he moves away from her. "Ms. Hiyami, this isn't a good idea."
She wraps her arms around his neck. "Come on, Quatre just relax. You're way to tense." She moves her face closer to his. "If you let me, I can help you relax." Quatre pulls away from her.
"This isn't right and you know it."
"Quatre, I-" Just then there's a knock on the door and Tikki enters.
"Yes, Tikki" Quatre says relieved.
"I'm, sorry am I interrupting something." Tikki looks confused a moment.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
I'm starting to get sick of this. She looks at Quatre again remembering what Li told her the last time she was able to find time to communicate with him.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~ "How is your progress with Mr. Winner?" Li says leaning back in his chair relaxed as a girl puts a plate of food in front of him.
"Um not so good. Opening doors, pulling out chairs, being polite, he acts like a saint. Nothing I've done has worked on you," she says uneasy knowing this would displease him.
"What?" His eyes flicker yellow before going back to normal. "Every man has a weakness. You just haven't found it yet."
"Believe me I've tried everything. He's a man with morals." Li looks at her a moment as thought thinking carefully to make sure he didn't say the wrong thing.
"Ok, then," he sits up and looks at his food a moment. His hand changes into a claw as he takes his index finger and drives it into the meat, "forget about the plan and just kill him. Relena is going to be visiting soon as well. Kill her too, understand."
"Ah, yes sir."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Remembering master Li's sharp claw like fingers made her shiver. Quatre stares out the window. Who would do this and why.
"Are you sure, Quatre?" Quatre turns in surprise. "Sorry, Quatre, I didn't mean to startle you." Hiyami says at the door. She looks to the floor as though shy to make eye contact. "If you want, I can save you something."
"Thank you, Ms. Taichi, but I'm not very hungry."
"I'm, terribly sorry about what happened. Um, I wish I could do something."
"That's very thoughtful of you." She looks up at him and smiles before leaving.
There's something about Tikki that seems so, familiar. The way he acted just now. Quatre walks to the door and notices the laptop on the bench. He picks it up. "I'll have to give it back to him later." Wait maybe I can use it. He sits on the bench and turns on the laptop.
@o@ "Where is it!" Tikki shreds through the car trunk after they arrived home. Rashid and the others watch helplessly as he practically rips the car apart. After he was finished, he backs away from the car and drops down defeated. "Did any of you guys see what I did with my laptop?"
"No, Tikki, I'm sorry."
His eyes turn glassy. "You haven't." his voices clear that he was upset. Where could it have gone?
"Are you sure you took it with you?" Rashid says feeling sorry for him. "You could have left it in the house." Tikki's face lights up.
"You think so." Rashid shakes his head handing him the keys to the mansion.
"Just go inside and look for it." Rashid watches him jump and dash towards the house. "Just now he reminded me of a little boy who had just lost his puppy." It didn't take long for Tikki to rip though his room before starting on others.
Everyone was kind enough to let him search his or her rooms except Sophia and Hiyami. Sophia gives Tikki a look of disgust as he stares at the wall devastated in his room. "Look at you crying over a laptop. It's obvious you act your shoe size."
"For your information there was a lot of info in there and besides it was a birthday present."
"What little respect you earned from me is now lost. Act your age!"
"Acting 8 years younger then I am doesn't change that I'm a good warrior. Anyway, as soon as you actually stop Ninja who's conveniently in the basement; I wouldn't be talking, Niko Nightwind."
"Baby" Niko mumbles as she walks away from him.
"I heard that, Ms. Kokuei Nikomi Shayindu." She stops and turns at the sound of her name. "It's best if you move Sinahia and Jessie to another place."
She turns "Are you threatening my family?"
"Nope, just a fair warning, if it took me only a few days to find them and I'm not an expert hacker. They need a new hiding place." They look at each other a moment. Niko gives a wicked grin before heading for the door again.
"If I see it, I'll try to remember to give it to you. You should keep a better eye on the person you're supposed to protect and I don't need your help."
"You obviously do if you haven't taken him down yet." Fox taunt slightly.
"You haven't exactly gotten rid of your assassin yet either."
"I'll take care of her in the morning." Niko shakes her head and closes the door behind her. Taking Fox's hint goes for the basement.
"And where do you think you're going" Niko says to his adversary just as he was about to exit. He looks up at Niko as he jumps down from one of the railing.
"I'd have to say I wasn't expecting to see you Niko."
"So, you've heard of me."
"My superior has mentioned you." he takes out his sword and immediately attacks. Niko dodges easily, but couldn't get close enough to attack. Jumping backward into the wall, he quickly ties a dagger to the tip of his hair. As he pushes off the wall, he spins a few inches in the over the ninja's head acting like a temporary blade. Niko lands behind him.
The ninja turns around to strike Niko. Blood starts to ooze from deep gashes in his head and neck, Niko watches as he drops his sword and falls to the floor dead. Niko turns sharply. "Oh, it's you." Niko turns away from Fox.
"If you could beat him so easily, why did you wait?"
"Aren't you supposed to be moping over your laptop of yours."
"Why did you have to remind me?" Niko watches Fox walk off gloomy.
One minute he's serious the next minute he's 8 years old. Niko shakes his head as he tends to the body. Maybe Shimi can get me some info on this guy.
~o~ "You have the nerve to ask me for a favor after you haven't paid for the last time I help you." Howard says walking out of his office with Shimi trailing behind him.
"Come on Howard, I'll get the money as soon as I find my partner. "No, Shimi, I can't do it." They stop in front of Duo and the others. "Duo, long time no see! How have you been?"
"Howard please! I was in a coma for a while and got back most of my memory. Give me a break." Shimi clings to his arm pleading.
"I fix machinery Shimi. I'm not a body guard!" Shimi lets go and wraps her arms around his neck.
In a sweet voice, she says, "Please just until I find him and you'll get your money. What do you say?"
"I have to say, you're nothing like your mother when it comes to paying her debts, Shimi." Shimi lets go angrily.
"How much does she owe anyway? Maybe, I can help." Duo offers as Howard walks over to the computer next to him. It took a while, but the computer finally came out with the total, which was $250,000. Duo's eyes grow huge and he looks at Shimi. She just shrugs with an uneasy smile. "I can't do it, kid."
She falls to her knees and cries. "Can't anybody help me!!!?"
*_*; Tikki looks up at the ceiling his face looks like a puppy that has been yelled at by its owner. "Come on Tikki are you sure you checked everywhere" Rashid asks looking down at Tikki as he lies on the sofa downstairs.
"Yes" he turns on his stomach and lets his arm dangle over the side. Sighing he leaves the room as the front door opens. Quatre enters.
"Master Quatre you're back. Are you ok?"
Quatre smiles at him a kind of sad smile. "I'll be ok, just tired, that's all." Rashid sees the laptop in Quatre's arms.
"You wouldn't believe how much trouble Tikki went through to find that thing."
"He left it on the bench in the hospital. Where is he?"
He points to the room behind him. "Looking like a little boy who lost his favorite toy, we've had no playful activity for 7 hours."
"It sound serious, I'll take it to him." He goes in and is surprised to see such a sad expression on Tikki's face. "Tikki, what's the matter."
"My, my laptop's gone and I searched the whole mansion." His eyes turn glass.
"I think I have something that belongs to you." Quatre show him the laptop and he looks up in astonishment. "You left it on the bench in the hospital." His eyes light up and he sits up taking the laptop out of Quatre's hands.
"Thank you, Mr. Winner. I don't know what to say. Tikki gets up and bows at Quatre.
Suddenly Quatre gets a familiar feeling as Tikki blushes looking down at his laptop. Why do I have this feeling I've met you some where before, Tikki? "Your welcome, Tikki" Quatre watches him leave and eventually leaves himself to get some sleep.
!_! The door to Quatre's bedroom opens slowly and closes soon after. The only visible evidence that something had entered the room was two glowing, orange eyes in the dark room. It moves swiftly to the slumbering Quatre. A few low growls escape it waking him slowly.
His eyes grow wide in surprise as it leaps on him. Quatre pushes its snapping jaws away from his neck. Thinking fast he shifts the weight of the beast to one hand and desperately feels for anything that might save his life. His arm begins to burn from fatigue. At the last second, he snatches what felt like a pen and stabs it in the neck. He loses sight of it over the side of the bed.
He rest for a while listening after throwing his sheets off his body. Quatre moves toward his lamp by his bed thinking it would be easier to be able to see what he was fighting then to fight blind. That's when he saw the orange eyes appear on the foot of the bed. It lunges at Quatre and he barely dodges it. He shutters at the sound of the exploding bedpost at the beast rips through it.
Quatre takes his sheets and ties it up in them. Jumping off the bed, he turns on the light to survey his catch. He looks at his bed to see a mangled mess of wood splinters with his broken bedpost, blood, but no beast. He stares in disbelief as his heart races. "Goodbye Mr. Winner it was nice knowing you."
He turns to face the person speaking, "Hiyami, wha"
"I just came to say goodbye." He suddenly feels uneasy realizing she was naked and turns his head from her.
"Ms. Hiyami please put some clothes on this is indecent." She walks to him her smile crooked.
"I'm not staying for long. You can't even look at me. I never met a boy like you. lest look me in the face, Quatre."
"Ms. Taichi please leave at once." Quatre says looking into her eyes. Her eyes flicker orange like a light about to burn out which caught his attention.
"You found your panther." She says as she grabs hold of his neck before he could make a move. She spins the bloodied pen in her other hand. "You know what goes around comes around, Mr. Winner."
Quatre tries to pull her hands from his neck, but it was like a shackle. She was that animal that attacked me earlier, but how? That doesn't make any sense. Hiyami slams him into his dresser mirror across the room. The glass shatters.
"If you scream I'll kill everyone in this mansion." She says squeezing his neck. "It would have been better if you just fell for me. Never mind I think I will kill them all after all. I got tired of going on all those dates with Rashid, anyway." In Hiyami's now fully orange eyes he could see himself and the clock on the wall read 1:15.
Still dazed from being slammed into the grass, he continues to try to pry her hand from his neck. She digs her nails into his neck. He begins to pull harder as her nails actually begin to grow into his neck. "AAHHH!" His eyes begin to grow wide as his hands begin to slip off from the steady stream of blood flowing from his neck. Her claws were now to deep in his neck to pull out on his own.
His hands begin to weaken and soon fall to his sides unmoving. The life from his blue-green eyes fades as her nails finally reach the other side of his neck.
@o~ Fox's eye's open and he quickly jumps out of bed. He glances at the clock as he leaves his room. It read 1:10.
~_~; It lunges at Quatre and he barely dodges it. He shutters at the sound of the exploding bedpost at the beast rips through it. As the beast turns to jump at Quatre again a second beast with deep bright blue eyes, jump the orange eyes. There's a loud roar of pain as it shook the other off. Orange eyes shifts its attention to blue eyes and they pounce at each other.
They sounded like a panther and a small dog fighting as Quatre slides of his bed, but stops when he hears the whimpering of a dog. Orange eye climbs over the side of the bed as Quatre backs up into his dresser. Where did these animals come from? It leaps at him. He quickly grabs the clock off his dress and closes his eyes as he hits it with it.
He races for the door, but trips over something big and warm on the floor as orange eyes leaps on Quatre pinning him to the floor. Quatre braces himself for the teeth of the beast to rip into his neck. Just as its teeth begin to clamp down there's a mild jerk. The glow form blue eyes, eyes mixed with orange eyes showed that blue eyes had orange eyes by the neck.
Blood drips from its neck staining Quatre's nightclothes and skin around his neck red. Furious orange eyes slashes blue eyes across the face. Blue eyes mimics the attack. He repeats the attack getting orange eyes off Quatre. Blue eye lets go and dodges another clawing. They shoot at each other. They resemble two large dogs fighting over territory.
Quatre's neck starts to burn in places. He gets up slowly feeling exhausted noticing orange eyes being to fade. Just then the lights turn. "Master Quatre we heard." They stop when they the blood stained Quatre. "Master, are you, ok?!"
"It's ok I'm fine thanks to." They turn to see an animal the size of a Doverman Pincher with unusually long ears almost that of a rabbit. It was solid black with its paws and the tip of its tail orange. By looking at it you'd think some one inverted the fox. "This animal her, I'm glad to see you are all ok."
Its eyes however turned black when the lights were turned on. In its mouth it held a dead panther by the neck. "So, you killed a panther." Rashid says moving toward it. The fox drops the panther and starts yelping at him backing up from him. Surprised he stops as it bears it's fangs at him. Across its face is three claw marks. Some of the fur and skin were hanging off its neck. Its neck or what was left of it and around it was a deep red.
Quatre walks over seeing the wounds and it starts to growl again. "It's ok, I won't hurt you." he ignores the growls going right up to it. There eyes meet as the fox stops growling and its ears droop. He places a hand on its head and looks at its neck. It whimpers moving its head from under his hand and lies down placing his head on his paws continuing to whimper. "Those injures look pretty bad. Call a vet, please Rashid."
