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Dwight Anderson and Saber-Strike were created by the MAD-MAN.
Ailec and Sataburn are owned by ceestar.

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You know I always warn about violence and harsh language but it is rarely in here.

Missing Love chapter4

Ailec couldn't believe the sight of the building when the limo finally made it past all the choking traffic. It stood taller than everything around and was shaped like a classic arena but it had a much more ancient stile to it. Like it was taken from somewhere even farther into the past than the roman coliseum. She let her eyes run down fluted marble columns and along towering arches that where filled with sparkling stain glass.

She walked towards the entrance, a pair of steel bound gates of sand colored wood. The security tonight was very lax because nearly everyone was trying to get in, as long as they didn't cause any trouble and had dressed somewhat formally they could enter.

She went inside and could tell that her eyes must be popping as she walked into something out of a dream. All around the outside of the arena was a multi floor ramp that slowly spiraled upward, it was here where the stands stood and at the bottom and top where the concession stands and things like that. Every window was made of geometric stained glass that had lights played on it from the outside, filling everything with a multi-toned glow.

She let her feet take her towards the center of the building. The giant slightly raised platform spread from one side of the building to the other with separation rings painted across it like a honeycomb. In the very center was a booth that could rise up towards the ceiling to observe the robattles. Currently the booth had been taken over by the dozen DJs and the dance floor was continually in motion with people dancing.

She drifted to the edge of the platform and looked up, seeing the ceiling high overhead was open to the sky with a shutter to cover it for bad weather. She smiled and started off to the concession stands.

She hardly made it two steps before she heard someone calling her. She turned around and saw Erika dragging Ikki of the dance floor. Erika was wearing a very nice dress of dark purple that came down to her ankles and left her shoulders bare. Her hair was pulled up into a bun that most other girls couldn't pull of but she had the intelligence and face to make it look good.

Ikki on the other hand looked like he squeezed into the first tux he had found. It was at least a size to small and had a gaudy red cumber bun and a miss tied bowtie. His hair was like it always was, standing up everywhere with that small clump pointing up in back.

"Ailec. You came, I didn't think you would." Erika kept a sound grip on Ikki's arm as the three of them headed towards some tables set up on the rather wide ramp. "So did you finally stop swooning over mister dark and mysterious?"

Ailec sat down and tried not to giggle at Ikki's face as Erika still kept an iron grip on his arm. "No I came solo but I am hoping to meet someone. But Erika you have to tell me how you got Ikki here. I thought he was going to be hiding in what's left of the old rubberrobo hideout?"

Erika turned to her 'date' and smiled, "he was but I found him before he could leave. Unfortunately this was the best suit he could find."

Ikki let his head hit the table and stayed like that. "I hate dancing." Erika and Ailec laughed at his antics. Erika and Ikki had been going out for a while now but she had to make the plains for their dates because Ikki liked her but thought of her as his childhood friend still. Not to mention Erika still spent a good deal of time beating up Ikki for drooling over other girls.

"Hey!" Ailec looked over her shoulder and saw Koji and Karin coming towards them. The two of them made a great couple, even if they weren't. Koji kept trying to win over Karin but she didn't want anything more than friendship. That didn't stop them from becoming ridiculously close. He was in a suit that fit him perfectly with hard cresses and immaculate tan bowtie. Karin was in a full-length sparkling white gown with lace and silver across the hem and a shawl around her arms and a surprisingly low cut neckline that showed the pink diamond Koji had gotten her the year before. Her hair was out of its normal pigtails and had been curled into long shimmering pink tresses.

"You look great Ailec." Ailec blushed at the complement from Karin. She stood up and gave a slow twirled to show of her gown, it was simple but she liked it. It was a strapless black gown that showed of her form and had a slit up the one side of the skirt to show off her calves. The material sparkled lightly and she had a wrap hung over her elbow and a matching purse. Her hair she had combed out until it shown and used a gold hair clip to frame it around her face. Her earrings had been a last minute change so that that they would match the chain that held the stone around her neck.

They all fell into friendly conversation for a while but before long the other started to drift onto the dance floor, leaving Ailec alone. She sighed and sipped at her punch, she could see many of her friends but they all had someone to be with right now and Ailec wouldn't want to interrupt them just so she wouldn't be lonely. See laughed when she saw Sataburn swinging Kantaroth around during a faster swing dance. Almost to soon however the Ailec begin to slip into brooding as the night went on and she was still left alone.

She was about to give up and head home when a shadow fell on her. She turned around, hoping against hope and was scared when she saw a mountain of a man in a terrible looking brown overcoat and a torn hat, both of witch had strange brown stains on them.

The man bowed, still managing to tower over everything bent at his waist. "My dear. I see you got my message." He gestured to the black corsage on Ailec's arm.

She got to her feet and backed away, tears threatening to smear the light makeup she was wearing. "No. Dwight sent me the limo, you're trying to trick me." She backed onto a table and stopped, she didn't know who this man was but she was more afraid that Dwight wasn't coming.

The man came closer and she caught a glimpse of light off something under his hat as he stood over her, making her tilt her head back to watch his shadowed face. "So the boy has a name, interesting." The man shook his head offered Ailec his hand, "well my dear I asked you to save me the first dance." When she made no move to take his hand he reached down and grasped her arm.

She tried hitting him as he pulled her towards the dance floor but he seemingly didn't notice. His hand covered her entire arm, crushing the corsage. People had started to notice something going on but they didn't know what yet. Sataburn burst from the crowd and leapt to protect her medafighter but a flash of red brown steel interrupted her and drove her into the ground before disappearing again.

This was all it took for the crowd to start panicking, ciaos erupted as medabots rushed to protect their medafighter and people rushed for the exits, leaving Ailec in the grip of the man. He got onto the rapidly clearing dance floor and lifted her from her feet and held her in his arms like a doll.

After a moment he turned and snarled something that Ailec couldn't understand and a flash of blue shoot up into the raised music booth. Moments afterward a waltz begin to play and the man started dancing across the stage with a crying Ailec in his hands. His steps landed a with an ease and grace surprising for his size, Ailec kept seeing the flash of his white teeth under his hat and could smell garlic on his breath.

On one of the sweeping turns of the dance she saw that Sataburn trying to get to her only for that flash of red/brown steel to knock her back down. She also saw several of her friends and their medabots trying to get to her along with a handful of guards. They kept being tossed back from the stage as a whirling blur of gold dashed back and forth between them, sending everyone fly away.

"Why are your crying dear? Am I not a graceful dancer or are you upset that I killed your knight in dark armor?" the man sneered at her as her tears became worse.

"No, I don't believe it. Dwight can't be dead." She ripped her hand free and swung her fist at him. She gasped in pain as her hand struck something hard and again as the man's hat went flying. The right side of his face was covered with a silvery metal and the eye was gone, replaced with a camera lens. The other side of his face was large lipped and rippled with mussels as he laughed at her start.

He halted his laughter and captured her hand again, he grinned at her in a way that made her utterly sick. "I would say I have eyes only for you my dear but as you can see your dark knight has already clamed one." His other eye was as dark as his soul and made the one of glass look more human.

Ailec got over her surprise and began struggling again, pointlessly so it seamed as he continued to waltz around the dance floor while holding her up off the ground. Finally the music stopped and Ailec sighed a relief as she thought their dance over, and it was. The man dropped her to the ground without any ceremony and laughed as she scrambled back to her feet and straitened her dress.

She turned her back to him and saw that her friends and their medabots had been herded against the far wall by that single golden blur while Sataburn was still being pounded by the flashing red and brown one. She took a step to help her friends but a giant hand clamped onto her shoulder and lifted her.

"Now, now my dear. I'm not done with you yet." he squeezed his hand, bruising her shoulder and making her wince as her turned her around to face him. "You see your silent protector gave you something I want." He held her close to his face, "and I always get what I want."

She twisted her face away as he brought her closer to his face, she cringed as his lips brushed her ear. "I don't think she likes you." Ailec fell roughly to the ground as the man released her to spin towards the music booth.

Ailec got to her feet and looked towards the slowly descending booth. Her breath caught as she saw someone standing on its roof with a black silk cap spun around his body and short well-tamed hair that coved his face as he had his chin on his chest. "Dwight?" she couldn't believe it was him, it couldn't be, he would never try dressing like that.

"Well, well, well. I didn't think you would be here, I was told you where heading off to give out the rest of those stones." The man stepped forward a little so that he could glare at Dwight as the booth continued it's slow decent.

"I had more important things to do but yes I did give the stones to a promising guardian." Dwight raised his head and flung back his cape, revealing not only the strange looking gun cannon but also an incredible looking suit of nothing but black. It was so sleek and dark that even against the bright lights it appeared as if Dwight's head simply floated there.

"DIE!" the man raised his arm and reveled the revolver hidden up his sleeve. Three shots broke the air but Dwight was gone already, diving from the booth still a ways up and firing the strange gun as he fell.

Dwight landed hard but managed to go into a roll that put him back on his feet. He tossed aside the gun and dusted off his cape. Another shot rang out from the man's gun but Dwight didn't need to move as a black shadow had fallen on the mans arm, sending the shoot into the floor and then severed the barrel with a flashing blade.

The man tossed aside the ruined gun as the shadow that was Saber-Strike dashed off toward the hassled guards. The man stepped towards Dwight with balled fists, "what was the point of that gun if you couldn't even hit me." He was smirking and started cracking his knuckles in anticipation of pounding on Dwight.

"I wasn't aiming for you." Dwight was smiling as the man paled and spun around to see spikes driven into the ground around a small area that and with an energy barrier connected between them. Inside one the golden blur raced along its edge, never stopping long enough to see it clearly. Another held the Red brown one that had actually stopped to look around it.

It was like no medabot before, walking on four legs and with a triangular head that poked out from under a shell covered in hard spike-like quills. It hissed and swung long claws at the barrier only to be thrown back. Before the man or Dwight could say or do anything else Ailec tackled Dwight.

She couldn't believe her eyes and for the longest while simply stared at him as he talked with the man and then fired off that launch cannon. Finally she snapped out of her daze and ran at him, tackling him from his feet and locking her arms around him.

"It is you. I knew you would be here." She looked up into his green eyes and smiled.

"Well isn't that sweet. I feel as though I'm in a romance, pity I had to be the villain." Ailec blush as she relished she was laying on top of Dwight while the man could see. She hurried back to her feet and blushed as Dwight sprang back to his with a single motion.

"HEY IRON FACE! This is an invitation only party!" the man turned around to see Metabee in his action mode. Brass, Sumlidon, Nutranurse and Kantroth where behind him with their medafighters standing at the edge of the dance floor.

Ailec looked around for Sataburn and found her medabot beside her and heavily damaged. "Sataburn, are you ok?"

Sataburn smiled at her and nodded but then turned to watch the man again as he looked around at the guards that had started to surround him. "Well Dwight it appears as if I'm not wanted at this formal occasion. We will settle up later, you to my dear."

Without warning a helicopter swung down from the open ceiling above and dropped a rope. While everyone was buffeted by the rotors winds the man wrapped his hand around the rope and laughed at them as the helicopter started to rise.

Dwight, the only one ready for the wind from the helicopter, made as if to go after it but a hand griped his wrist. He looked over his shoulder and saw the windswept Ailec holding his hand. Later the others told them it was a thing to see, Ailec in her black gown with hope in her eyes holding his hand while the winds whipped his cape around behind him.

"Don't go away again." Ailec was just loud enough to hear over the slowly fading rotors of the helicopters. Dwight took her hand and bowed low over it before gently kissing the back of her fingers.

Up above in the booth Saber-Strike flipped a record onto the spin table and spun up the volume while dimming the lights. A much gentler slow song started to play as the only lights left where those coming in from the stained glass windows.

Dwight held Ailec gently in his arms as he started leading her around the dance floor. The lights around them painted everything in a mystical light while she stared into his eyes and he into hers. "I never could leave you." They continued to dance even after the music had ended and another song started.

As you can see I have ZERO fashion lingo. In my head the dresses are spectacular, I just don't have the appropriate terms to describe them. Dwight was wherein a 'tuxedo mask' stile outfit but without the hat or mask, that happens when I visit a salormoon chat room the night before.

Later