Beyond a Prayer
Chapter 3 (Yea I getting better at this)
A New Member of the Team Part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its characters…holding Heero's hand and running for a door…don't sue I only write for my love of Gundam Wing. Enjoy!
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Last Time in Beyond a Prayer:
"What is it?" Asked Une.
"Lady, Preventer Heero Yuy, and Miss. Voice in background It isn't Miss anything! Secretary I am sorry Eldawen Isliel to see you madam."
"Thank you, send them in." Lady Une said. Everyone sat in apprehension as the door handle turned.
"Lady, Preventer Heero Yuy, and Miss." Fiona started.
"It isn't Miss anything!" Eldawen said, her voice as cold as steel. Heero looked at her. / I wonder what happened, she was so friendly a few minutes ago. She must be nervous. / Eldawen stood there her face unreadable.
"I am sorry. Eldawen Isliel to see you madam." Fiona said.
"Thank you. Send them in." Une's voice said. Eldawen looked at Heero and he walked to the door and turned the handle.
Chapter 3 ()
Everyone held a single breath as Heero turned the handle on the door. Eldawen had placed her emotionless mask on, even though she was fuming. Heero opened the door and they walked in. The room filled with a whoosh of breath that everyone let out. Scanning the room quickly with her eyes Eldawen filed people away in her memory and quickly picked people out. At the head of the table a taller lady was sitting with shoulder length brown hair, that was Lady Une. The men around the table were easy to pick out. The black haired Chinese man was Wufei Chang; the purple eyed, braided hair man was Duo Maxwell. The man with light brown hair that hung over one eye was Trowa Barton, and the man beside him was Quatre Winner. Relena Peacecraft was sitting next to Quatre. Then the taller platinum blond haired man was Zech Marquise, also known as Millardo Peacecraft. Eldawen looked each one over quickly before standing against the door. Heero walked over and took a seat next to Relena. Eldawen stood there. Lady Une looked around at the others and then cleared her throat before speaking.
"Well hello Eldawen it is a pleasure to meet you. I am Lady Une." She said and then gave a stern look around the room telling the others that she wanted them to introduce themselves. Duo was of course the first to speak up.
"Fine since no one else wants to introduce themselves to this beautiful young lady I will." Everyone smiled at Duo. "My name is…" Duo never got to finish.
"Duo Maxwell, also known as Shingami. That is Zechs Marquise standing behind Relena with Quatre Winner at her side. Next to him is Trowa Barton and on the opposite side of him is Chang Wufei. I already know who Heero Yuy is and that takes care of everyone in this room." Eldawen said bluntly. Everyone stared for a moment except for Heero. Lady Une tried to smile but failed.
"Why don't you have a seat?" Lady Une asked.
"No thank you." Eldawen replied. Wufei looked around the room and then started to speak.
"Why did we bring this weak onna here anyway. She had no purpose here. All women are weak we should just let her go…" Wufei would of continued except that Eldawen shot him a death glare more powerful than Heero's and started to talk.
"First off, Mr. Chang, My name is Eldawen, not onna, or women and if you call me anything other than my name I will make sure that you will never have children. Second I am not weak and no matter what you challenged me in I would defeat you. Now if you are going to ask your questions Lady Une ask them otherwise I will be leaving." Eldawen said. Taken aback everyone stayed were they were for a moment. Finally Relena looked directly at Eldawen and spoke up.
"I know that we haven't meet before and please do not think that I am trying to be rude, but I would like to know if you have altered yourself in anyway to look like me?" Relena asked quickly for fear of not receiving an answer.
"No." Eldawen's answer was quick and short. Relena smiled then and stood up from her place and walked over to Eldawen. Millardo tried to stand in her way but Relena breezed right past him. She went up to Eldawen and took her hand.
"Come, sit next to me." Relena said. Eldawen smiled.
"No, I would rather stand. But thank you anyway." Relena stood there a moment in thought.
"Then I shall stand with you." Relena turned and stood against the door just as Eldawen was. Everyone was looking at them in disbelief. Eldawen felt as though she could trust Relena. She relaxed a little. Finally Lady Une started the talking again.
"The Preventer's and myself would like to ask you some questions now, this shouldn't take long." Lady Une looked around seeing who wanted to start. Quatre started.
"How old are you?" He asked.
"21, I was born on August 19th, (I made this up) my family died in the attack on the Sanc Kingdom. I have been an orphan for as long as I can remember." Eldawen replied. "That should take care of the next few questions."
"Do you know anything about a new terrorist group?" Trowa asked.
"Yes, they call themselves the Phoenix Roses, they are were once members of the former 'Specials' of Oz. They claim that they are fighting for the earth, that they are trying to protect it from the colonies. Relena has been their main target for some time; they see her as the main cause of all the problems. However they are not only fighting for the earth. Some very rich aristocrats back them and it appears that somehow Treize Khrushinada might be alive. However I have already checked that out, and Treize is dead, therefore I think that it is either his son or some guy that has gotten altered to look like Treize to gather people to the group. Relena is in danger as long as she is out in the open. A few of the media groups are taking all the bait that they can with this whole look alike situation and it will not be long before the Phoenix Roses strike. I have prevented them from carrying out their plans before this time, and I did manage to get into their data base and copy all of the information that they had, but I am not sure what good it will do. With their backers it will not take them long to get back on their feet. I destroyed their base but I don't think that it was enough to stop them." Eldawen reached inside the coat she had put on and withdrew a disk. She tossed it to Heero. "I am guessing that they put you in charge of security, you can go over this information and use what you can." Eldawen looked around the room. Looks of shock were on all of their faces, but not on Relena's. Millardo spoke up then.
"Lady Une, I think that there is something that we all need to know. I believe that Eldawen is Relena's twin sister." Now all faces in the room stood in shock. He continued.
"I know that it seems like I am crazy but let me explain. When Relena was born she was born a twin. However in a few months after they were born the twins became sick. They were rushed to the hospital were we were told that only one of the twins lived through the sickness. My family always believed it. I went with Duo to help move her things; I saw a picture of her with Relena and me in our house when we were younger. When we brought Relena and our other sister to the hospital we had a picture tied to each of their wrists. The one that Eldawen has is the same one that was on the wrist of our other baby sister. I would like for Sally to run some DNA tests to see if Eldawen is really our sister." The room was silent. Lady Une finally spoke up.
"Of course but wouldn't the girl know her real name?" Une asked.
"Yes, she would, at least if she really was our sister." Millardo said. Eldawen and Relena looked at one another, they stood there in silence. Eldawen finally spoke up.
"That would explain a lot. My real name is not Eldawen. I had it changed to that when I became older. My real name is Rachel. And there is something else." Eldawen reached inside her shirt. Slowly she pulled out a silver chain. At the end was a rose shaped locket. She undid the clasp and handed it to Relena, who read the inscription out loud.
"To our daughter Rachel, our Rose, may you and your sister forever know what it is like to be loved." Relena returned the necklace to Eldawen before pulling her own locket out of her shirt. Handing it to Eldawen so she could read it. The lockets matched perfectly. Eldawen read the inscription on Relena's locket.
"To our daughter Relena, our Calla Lily, may you and your sister forever know what it is like to be loved." Eldawen stood for a minute in thought before handing Relena her locket back. Finally Lady Une spoke up.
"Eldawen, would you willingly submit to a DNA test?"
"Yes, I think that it is important that we find out what is going on." Eldawen replied before turning back towards Relena. They smiled.
"There is one questions that I would like to ask." Duo asked.
"What is it?" Eldawen sighed; with Duo it could be anything.
"How did you get the information from the Phoenix Roses?" Duo asked, (wow an intelligent question, from DUO! Faints )
"Yes I think we would all like to know that." Trowa spoke up. Eldawen and Relena looked at eachother. And at the same time they said:
"I am a Gundam Pilot."- Eldawen
"She is a Gundam Pilot."- Relena
The room was silent, not a sound was heard except for Heero's cough. Duo was the first one to regain his composer.
"Wait a minute, now let me get this straight, you are a Gundam pilot and possibly Relena's twin sister?" Duo being half intelligent sat for a minute thinking about this. Smoke coming out of Duo's ears (He thought to hard.)
"Yes I am a Gundam pilot. As for being Relena's sister we will find that out soon enough." Eldawen said with a half smile. She looked around and noticed that the Gundam pilots were starting to get up. Thinking for a moment that the meeting was over Eldawen relaxed, before realizing that Lady Une had not dismissed them yet.
"Meeting over already?" Eldawen asked. The pilots eyed her and then the door she was leaning against. Eldawen saw the look in there eyes and stood still. "Where are you going boys? The party isn't over yet." Eldawen said blocking the door.
"Move." That was all that the Pilots said. Eldawen looked at each of them in turn before replying.
"If you want to get out of this building you are going to have to fight me." Her voice was cold and angry. Duo stepped forward and took Eldawen by the arm to move her to the side. Eldawen quickly knocked Duo out with a blow to the neck. The rest of the boys tried to take her on at once, but each time they attacked another one went down. Finally it was down to Eldawen and Heero. The rest of the pilots lay on the floor knocked out and sleeping peacefully. Eldawen took one look at Heero and relaxed and got out of her fighting position. / He is easy to read. As soon as I am done with this I need to get my Gundam out of that hanger. And I need to take care of things with Fiona; I should of known that Heero would have a girlfriend. Damn/ Heero saw Eldawen relax and took that chance to attack. But as quickly as he went to bring her to the ground she had hit him in the back of the neck and knocked him unconscious. Relena and Lady Une looked around the room; the pilots lay on the floor in piles, while Eldawen stood just as she had before.
"Well then, Eldawen why don't you come over and sit with me and Relena, we can discuss what you are going to be doing in the future and if you would like to become a Preventer. I would also like you to be on Relena's personal bodyguard staff. It could be very helpful to have you on our side." Lady Une said with a laugh, "I have never known anyone that could ever beat all of them at once, and that is something that could be very useful. But something I would ask you to do before we get back to work is I am going to need you to make a public appearance with Relena to clear her name."
"Yes, regrettably since people thought that you were me I have been told that I should decline from my position. I do not wish to lose my job and you holding a meeting would once again secure my job." Relena said with a sigh.
"Not a problem. We should take care of that as soon as possible. I think that if the Phoenix Roses think that there are two Relena's out there they might try to find the 'imposter' and leave the real Relena alone for a short time." Eldawen looked around the room, and carefully kept an eye on the pilots still lying on the floor. Une and Relena agreed with this plan. The girls chatted for a while longer before the boys started to stir. Eldawen convinced Lady Une to restrict the pilots from going anywhere near her Gundam.
Around 1 hour later
The Pilots started to wake up. Eldawen was standing in front of them once again, against the door. Relena and Lady Une were sitting at the desk talking. One by one they rose. Lady Une spoke up:
"Boys I would like you all to take your seats. While you were all passed out Relena, Eldawen and I have talked some things over." The men took their seats and Lady Une continued. "Eldawen has requested that no one touches her Gundam. I have granted that request. If I find out that anyone disobeyed this order they are going to have a hard time afterwards." The pilots looked at one another and then at Eldawen and then Lady Une. Each nodded their head in agreement. Relena smiled, she knew that Eldawen was glad about that. Relena watched as Eldawen sat next to Heero and Quatre and pretended to be her. Lady Une was continuing with her lecture.
"Now I have thought about this and have decided that for the time being things are going to become very strict. Relena will be protected 24/7 no if, ands, or buts. Eldawen is to go through the DNA test and after they are complete we will have a public appearance and Relena and Eldawen will finally clear Relena's name. I think that for the time being Eldawen should stay with the Gundam Pilots so that she is close by. Relena will not be attending any meeting for the next three days, and in her place Millardo you will go." Zechs nodded her head. Eldawen watched the pilots look over at Relena thinking that she was Eldawen. Eldawen almost laughed. Quatre mistaking Eldawen's laugh for a sob, leaned over and hugged her. Now Eldawen and Relena both burst out laughing and the others looked at them oddly. Lady Une was smiling. Eldawen looked at Une and when she shook her head Lady Une started speaking again.
"Boys I would like you to welcome Eldawen as a new member of this team. Eldawen if you would please stand up." Lady Une said almost falling out of her chair because she was laughing so hard. The look on the boy's faces was enough to send Eldawen and Relena into fits of laughter as Eldawen stood up from where she was sitting in Relena's place. The only one who had enough composure to not be shocked was Heero.
"Welcome to the Team." Heero said looking right at Eldawen. Eldawen smiled; maybe this was all going to work out.
I know that this chapter was short, I ran into some major writers block, I hate when that happens. Oh well. Next chapter is going to be mainly a background information and well I am not really sure yet, damn readers block! Well R&R!