It had been two days. There was no sign of Relena anywhere. Heero began to wonder, if she had escaped from the hospital, before the federal officers destroyed the entire building. That really made Heero wonder; why did they destroy the hospital? Was there was some sort of contamination? What was wrong? If so there was some infection going around, Heero and the other would in another hospital for observation. But all they got was an order to stand aside from Keyes's business. Heero growled, not wanting to think about that damn Keyes.
Heero leaned against the open window, which lead to the balcony. The moon was high in the sky; phosphorescent as ever it seemed. It had a sense of terror behind that slight glow. It seemed rather gloomy. 'Wow,' Heero thought.
He turned his head around, and looked upon his shoulder, as he saw his comrades going to work. An old feeling came back to Heero's system. He hadn't felt like this for at least a year. 'A year and six months,' thought Heero as he sighed. He began to think more about the situation.
The deal with Relena was quite a mystery. Learning that she was the one who killed all those people, made him wonder why so? How did Relena kill those people? He remembered the corpses of all those soldiers. They seemed to be demolish....crushed....torn....but most all killed in the most brutal methods that Heero had never glance upon before. Relena seemed to have stealth. She was also....agile. Heero remembered the men screaming like that. He almost thought he heard her laughing in satisfaction.
Heero felt his stomach churn. So many waves of shock covered his body that he needed to lay against the window more.
'It wasn't her,' he thought. He hissed. Guilt washed over him as he thought he heard her crying some where, probably hurting herself from what she had discovered about him. He should know. He remembers when he was with some certain woman he had been dating. Her name was Linda. He remembered when she had cut her wrist apart with razors. Her entire arm was covered with them. He remembered her crying. From that point on, Heero stopped seeing Linda. Relena went back to being herself.
Heero imagined her from that time for a brief moment. Something in her eyes seemed troubled when Heero was romancing Linda. She seemed to ....terrified, but more likely miserable. Besides all those emotions, Heero thought she might express anger....which she didn't. She almost looked like she was fighting her temper, trying to calm herself. But for what; why was she trying to keep her cool? She had every right to snap at him....like she did in the hospital. Why didn't she do this before?
'She looked like she didn't want it to come out,' he thought.
"Hey, Heero," Duo said. Heero turned around, and faced him. "Are you okay?"
Heero grunted, positive.
"Man and I thought you might be in the same shock as I am," Duo said.
"Maybe I am,' Heero said. Duo blinked and glanced at Heero's expressionless face. The God of Death nodded. 'Well sure he is. He and Relena did in fact have something going on,' he thought.
"Hey I got something here," Wufei said tapping against the key board to the computer.
"What is it?" Quatre said.
"Well, I'm not a hematologist, but I can tell you that these people were seriously watching her DNA, and I mean a lot. Take a look at these three patterns of her blood type." Wufei said enlarging the images. There were three sets of DNA patterns. The first appeared to be a normal double helix. RNA, nucleotides, and ribosomes, appeared normal. The second image however seemed to look rather confusing. There were more nucleotides than usual. There was a stand of RNA between the double strands, which held the nucleotides, and nitrogen bases. The third image however, differed from the other two. It had three stands of RNA, more nucleotides, and a series of nitrogen bases. There were other chemicals, which the boys had no knowledge of.
"Okay, this shit is weird," Duo said.
"Really," Quatre said.
"There's more," Wufei said. He tapped into another file, and found some Relena's cells that were observed. There was an over amount of mitochondria. Apparently, there was nothing but mitochondria in her cells. The nucleus seemed to split in two, and had spikes which attached themselves against the mitochondria.
"How is her blood like this? What did they do?"
"Hey, Wufei tap against that caption at the side," Duo said. Wufei tapped against the blue screen, and brought up a caption. It more likely an observation dispatch, which explained much about Relena's genotype.
'Subject has been experience higher mutation velocity. Cell division is tripling every twenty four hours, while the subject is injected with anesthesia, and chemical 'Amayael.'
"Relena was injected with anesthesia?" Trowa said. They all looked at each other.
"Something tells me she wasn't in comatose," Duo said.
"Same here," Everyone said.
'Subject seemed to wake up, and experience immense irritabilities. She continues raving about something about her past. Perhaps, this was her kind of behavior as a child. Other than that she's been sitting in the bed trying to rip out of her restrainer. Sometimes, she would hum a strange melody......however would eventually return to the same behavior involving her annoyance towards all the hospital employers.'
"Relena, a temper......" Duo said. He shook his head. "No way, the girl, never had one," He said.
"We know that," Trowa said.
"What were these people doing? How come they told us that she was comatose? Why did they exploit to this sort of situation?" Quatre said.
"I don't know, but what ever is happening to Relena has a lot to do with her wacko blood, and what those people did to fry her pain on drugs," Duo said.
"How could they do such a thing to her?"
"They were planning something," Heero muttered.
"What do you mean?" Wufei said.
"It's just a theory. But I think they were trying to conduct some experiment. Almost two years ago, I did notice Relena acting strangely."
"What do you mean strangely?"
"What was that?" Duo said.
"Relena didn't seem like herself. Sometimes she would often run off somewhere, and start crying for no reason. I thought she was bipolar."
"That's what bipolar patients do; this isn't surprising," Duo said.
"Shut up, and let me finish," Heero said coldly. The God of Death stares, and snorted, while putting his elbows over his head. "I'm saying, she didn't look like she was in some emotional stress, but I think stress in general. Her work and everything really shook her up a bit. But besides that she's been waking up at night, and going back and fourth into the kitchen, drinking tons of water."
"She saw her at night?" Wufei said.
"Yeah, whenever she makes some noise, she makes me think there's an intruder in the house. I simply check out what she's doing."
"How is getting up at night odd?" Duo asked.
"She did every night, coming down from the stairs, sweating her ass off, as she's seen something that scared the shit out of her," Heero briefly explained. Duo's mouth shaped into a small 'O.'
"She's also been cutting herself with razors," Heero said. The room went seriously silent. The four stared at him, as they did when he announced he was getting married.
"She was cutting.....CUTTING HERSELF!" Duo snapped. Heero nodded.
"Yeah, and I wonder why?" Quatre said rather coldly. Heero narrowed his eyes.
"Don't' you fucking blame me; for what happened to her, Quatre!" Heero snapped. "Right, I think I actually allowed her to get beaten and raped by some mother-fucking shit heads out in the streets, I put her in the hospital bed after having a seizure, and now I think I caused her TO KILL NEARLY THIRTY FIVE SOLDIERS IN THAT FUCKING HOSPTIAL!" Heero said screaming. The four lost their ability to breath. They gulped loudly. They never had seen Heero explode that way before. In fact, he never lost his cool-not like that as least.
Heero walked towards the couch, and sat down roughly, as he ran his fingers though his hair, and started to pull on it.
"Okay, people this is no time for blaming, for what happened okay," Wufei said. "All we need to do now is find Relena, and find out what is going on around here. She was put in the hospital for other reasons. Shouldn't we find out what they were? We're her bodyguards remember?"
Everyone was silent. They finally agreed, after Heero stopped pulling his hair.
"All right," Heero said. "Wufei, continue your investigation. I'm going on a search. Duo, try and find out about this Keyes; follow him don't let him out of your sight. Quatre go through federal files on what had really happened that day when Relena was found in the alley. As for you Trowa, find Pagan."
Trowa stared rather puzzled, and then got what Heero was saying. He nodded. "Understood," Trowa said.
"Good. Let's get to work," Heero said.
Duo tip toes towards the federal office. The entire place was guarded like a fortress. It reminded Duo of a large prison he had to escape from. He was about thirteen....only the entire court thought he was older, considering he was acting as someone else. He was one of his first few missions before he was allowed to operate the Mobile Suit Gundam, Deathscythe.
"Okay," he said. He paced towards the side gate, and looked ahead. Guards were everywhere. 'Well, this is no walk in the park,' Duo thought. Next moment, he saw Keyes coming out of the building with a pack of men. Keyes looked rather angered about something. He also looked like he was crushed. Duo knew that look whenever he failed a mission. He glared hard at him. Something told him that Keyes just got snapped at. Probably at the real person, who wanted to blow the hospital?!
"That fucker, who ever he is, nearly killed Relena," Duo whispered. He moved towards the corner of the sidewalk, and glanced at the front gate. Keyes was approaching a car. Duo kneeled down to his one knee, and raised his let arm. His positioned his watch to face towards the car. A laser gleamed across the street, as it aimed at the car. Duo pressed a small panel, as a small metal clip discharged from the watch, and landed against the tail light of the car. 'Bingo,' Duo thought, as Keyes climbed into the back seat. 'Now to see where the hell he's going,' he thought.
Duo turned slightly, and lightly whistled, as Quatre appeared out of the middle of no where. Duo motioned his body telling Quatre to go now. Quatre sighed, and made his way down towards the station. 'Thank God, we're part of the federal system.' Quatre thought.
Trowa came inside the house. He looked around Pagan. Very strangely, the old butler was no where in sight. Trowa calmly went towards the kitchen. He wasn't there. Trowa remembered when Pagan was using the phone. He looked absolutely frightened about something. Trowa didn't know what he was talking about, but he was certain it had to do much with Relena. 'But where did he go?' Trowa thought. He walked out of the kitchen, and went up the stairs.
Trowa made his way down the hallway towards Millard's office. As he opened the door Millard was sitting at his desk, while his wife spun around with a look of panic.
"Trowa," Noin said.
"Good evening," Trowa said.
"Trowa, what in God's name happened? I just heard the entire hospital exploded." Millard said.
"Yes it has."
"How can you say that so calmly, Trowa? How can you? My sister was in there!"
"No. Apparently, it seemed that Relena had escaped before the explosion."
"What....?" Noin said. Millard collapsed. He sighed, and ran a hand through his long mane. "She's alive!" Noin said.
"Weren't you told," Trowa said.
"No," Noin said.
"So it happened again; they told you something different," Trowa muttered.
"Told us what....the feds," Noin said.
"You look like you got something to talk about. Start talking," Millard said.
"Well...." Trowa began. "For starters, Relena was never in comatose."
"I beg your pardon," Noin said.
"What do you mean?"
"Quatre is looking to what had really happened that night when Relena was rushed to the hospital after her rape. Some else happened on that, which we don't understand. There's a big mystery of what had happened that night."
"What...are you..."
"Let me finish, before you start running off to conclusions. We do think that Relena did kill those men in the alley, but we believe it was in an act of defense. Relena didn't kill them intentionally."
"What do you mean Relena killed those men? That's ridiculous," Noin said.
"Tell that to the forty five deaths and seven casualties she had caused two days ago, after she walked out of the hospital."
The room went silent.
"GET OUT!" Millard boomed.
"No wait, Millard!" Noin said. She turned back to Trowa. "Trowa, can you prove this?"
"I could, if I can find Pagan."
Millard looked rather puzzled when Trowa had mentioned the old man. "What of him?"
"During the time, Relena had been in the house, before the incident, she had been acting rather peculiar, which alarmed him. I'm not sure what. However, I did remember Pagan reacting rather strangely, whenever he made phone calls."
"Phone calls," Noin said.
"Yes. He would usually stand there talking to someone. I'm not sure how, but he was speaking about Relena."
"Are you sure?" Millard said angrily.
"I know this comes as a shock."
"You damn right this comes as a shock. You just told me my own sister had killed someone."
"People...."Trowa corrected.
"What happened to her? How did this happen?" Noin demanded.
"I don't know. We're looking right into it."
"The hospital told us lies," Millard said.
"Yes they did. Wufei had come across some interesting files that were in the hospital computer mainframe. He's not sure what the files are trying to talk about. But he's fitting the puzzle one by one."
"What of the others?" Millard said.
"They're investigating the situation."
"Where's Relena?" Noin said.
"I don't' know. Just a day ago, we got a clue that she was in an ambulance truck. The vehicle was found outside of the city. The paramedics were dead, and only dead remains of skin were found in the car. Relena seemed to have used it to get out of the hospital. It was camouflage to fool everyone."
"I can't hear this," Noin said practically choking about the details. Millard even choked.
"I'm sorry," Trowa said.
"Where's Pagan?" Millard said.
"I'll have the rest of the servant look for him," Noin said pressing the intercom. As she spoke out the message, Millard had his own conflicts stirring in him internally. He couldn't believe this. His sister......killed people. She wasn't a killer. How did she do this? She would never do such a thing, as to kill people. She was a pacifist. Pacifists don't do this short of thing; warfare, or other matters, they don't use violence.
Noin suddenly gasped.
"What's the matter?" Millard said.
"Pagan," Noin began as she turned her gaze to the two gentlemen. "He's gone."
"Gone...?" Trowa said.
"What do you mean he's gone?"
"A maid went into his room, and found that it was empty," Noin said.
"What....how....what the hell is going on here?" Millard said.
"That's the same question I had in mind," Trowa said.
"Damn it," Millard said grabbing his coat. "Trowa, take me to the others. We need a meeting now." Millard walked out the door with Noin and Trowa following him.
Heero had been driving around everywhere. He wasn't sure what he was doing. Yes, he sent himself out to search for her. But how can he do that when he didn't know where to start looking. She could be anywhere. Heero growled frustrated. Why is this happening? 'She could be home doing her work, or even go for a swim at the pool. But no, I just had to be a jack ass, and ignore her emotional. Damn it Heero, and you knew how she felt about you.' He thought mentally punching himself over and over.
Heero looked around every part that was outside of the city. He even screamed out her name from the window, hoping she would respond. There was nothing. Heero slammed the steering wheel. He nearly screamed out, to let go of the frustration. No, he had to keep his cool. He leaned against his back against the chair. 'This is my fault,' he thought. 'This is my fault.'
"I FUCKING SCREWED UP!" he screamed. He punched the horn of his car, as his head slammed against the wheel. "Fuck."
Quatre walked quickly before anyone had noticed him with five discs in his hand. He huddled to the corner where Duo had been waiting. Duo was actually asleep. He leaned the wall, with his arms crossed. His eyes were completely shut, as dropped started to come down to his cheek, while he snored silently.
"DUO," Quatre screamed startling the God of Death. Duo looked at every direction, to find out what the hell awoke him. He looked up and saw Quatre. 'Oh wait,' Duo thought as he got up. He stretched a little, and yawned.
"Get anything?" Duo asked before the discs slammed right into his face. Duo snarled.
"What was that for?" Duo snapped.
"For not keeping a look out," Quatre said as he walked away.
"Shish," Duo muttered, as he held the discs, which were vital information. Duo puts them in his jacket, as he walked off. Thunder suddenly clashed in the sky. 'OH Damn,' Duo thought as rain fell.
She opened her eyes, and saw the window. It was a beautiful sight, just seeing the rain fall. It had been so long since she had seen rain. The way it fell upon the trees, making everything moist. She even admired how cold it was.
Relena looked around and wondered where she was. When she suddenly remembered, she sighed. 'OH right,' she thought. Her memories swarm around her, as she remembered tearing the paramedic's throat. She spun around and attacked the driver, whom was screaming. Of course, she didn't' exactly attack him. She felt that wasn't supposed too. Then again, the man drove them right off the road, hit a tree which lead him to his demise. Relena snorted, not caring what had happened to the stupid driver.
"Pathetic," she muttered. Relena blinked. 'Now where did that come from?' she thought.
Relena went on her back, feeling the bed beneath. She didn't remember much of how she got here. She was sure that she stolen some money from the paramedic who was next to her. She got lucky steeling their under garments, which were covered with little blood. But there was no significance. Lucky for her she found a motel, and strolled right in, with out no one noticing the blood in her hair.
Relena narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was responding that she didn't' really care. 'Cops are cops; they can bring it on for all I care,' she thought. She paused. Since when was she competitive? Relena raise herself, as she sat upon the bed. She thought about the recent events that had happened.
She didn't understand it. She felt that a part of her was trying to be released. This feeling she had was familiar. Strangely, Relena didn't remember where the feeling originated from. All she knew was that her attitude has been changing. She was angry, almost all the time. She was never breaking down to sadness. Stress seemed nothing. Compassion was nothing. It all seemed that all her emotions had shut down, all except her temper. 'Since when I do have a temper,' she thought.
Relena continued her thoughts. She remembered, vaguely killing those men. She didn't even gross out or scream in agony for what she had committed. She almost seemed to not even care for what had happened to those men. She felt nothing. What she was felt She enjoyed those kills.
How could she think like that!?
Relena jerked from her bed. She needed a shower now! Relena raced to the bathroom, quickly. She stripped every shred of clothing she had on her. Relena went right into the shower, and turned on the water. Hot water immediately came upon her body. Relena sighed, feeling warmth. All she had felt was nothing but the cold. Relena remained under the water for a long while. Until, she twisted the knob to cold. Cold water washed over her body, as her body felt the cool sensation. The heat on her body never ceased however. She closed her eyes, and tried relaxing. Then something on her skin caught her attention. She looked at her arm, and noticed her hair.......a large amount of it.
Relena's eyes expanded, as she gasped. She pushed herself out of the shower, and gazed at the mirror. She wiped vigorously with all the steam that filled the small room. Relena stared at her head. There was a huge bald spot covered in blood. She raised her hand against her head, as she pulled her hair that fell fall instantly. Relena felt her breathing increasing. 'Oh my God, what's happening?' she thought. She ran her hands through her hair as it began to all fall out. Blood covered her head, as the hairs were removed from her skull.
Relena began to sob. "What's happening?" She said. Everything came completely off. Relena choked out. She couldn't believe this. What was happening to her? Relena moved her hands around her head, as she felt something....... It was strange. She also felt the other side of her head, and it was the same strange feeling. Relena looked hard in the mirror and saw a black, thorn like object coming out of her head. She found another at the other side of her head—in fact two of them. Relena blinked in wonder. What were those?
Relena saw the blood on her head. Her blood.....it didn't seem so correct. It was shining, not like regular blood. It was somewhat different.....metallic looking. Relena wiped it against the sink, and saw that it was sort of metallic looking. She stepped back. What was going on with her? Relena felt her jaw, and noticed something loose. Relena felt for her teeth, as tore out her incisor. Relena held the tooth in her hand. She felt for the empty spot, which was filled. Relena blinked, and opened her mouth to find a very long, long, fang just sitting there poking at her lower lip.
Relena's heart began to thump in her chest. 'My hair, my teeth,' she thought. 'What's going on?' she thought. Relena's body didn't' feel very correct. She gasped out, as she felt pain swept over her entire body. Relena turned around, and turned the water off, as she made her way towards the bedroom. She pressed her temple as a sharp pain entered. Relena grabs the blanket on the bed, and wrapped it around her naked form. She lays down, trying to get comfortable.
'What's happening to me?' she thought, as the strange thorn like objects continued to grow on her head. Relena felt them, and she shivered with discomfort. She closed her eyes, and heard something in her mind. They were strange sounds; the sound of roars.
Until the next chapter then, see you all around, and remember to review after you have read.
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