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I'm going to try to update quickly, however there is so much that gets in the way coughhomeworkcough.
I think there will only be about two to four chapters until I'm done. So I'm almost there, hang in and review and you get to find out how it ends.
Another point, I may do either a sequel or a prequel. Anyone interested, tell me in a review. I'll ask again in the last author note, I just wanted to get that out there.
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Disclaimer: Is it even humanly possible for the owner of a show to write fan fiction on it? They wrote the original; why would they change it?
(That means I don't own Gundam Wing.)
Enjoy!
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Shinigami
(Last time)
Heero looked around at the devils, Shinigami, and pilots. He realized he must have been using Sight. Every one of them glowed, but eight stood out. He saw Virginia, who was mostly blue, and Duo, mostly yellow. Gene was with two other females, one who glowed every single color and one the glowed mostly brown. Gene himself glowed black. Quatre glowed mostly gray, Trowa mostly Green, and Wufei mostly Purple. They all had little bits of the other eight colors mixed in. He knew without looking that he was glowing mostly red.
The nine Guardians.
(Now)
Duo looked around. He had been fighting one minute, the next everything was up in flame, and after that was nothing.
He looked towards Heero, who was glowing red. Then the aura faded, and the eyes faded back to blue. He was holding something that looked like a medieval sword, with several modest rubies on the hilt.
"What the hell just happened?" Wufei asked, looking at Shina. "And what did you give us?"
"Exactly that, mortal," a large, red winged demon replied. "Hell just happened. We – or more accurately, Shina – were under attack from a force of demons strait from hell."
"As for what I gave you, I was simply returning weapons that were yours to begin with." Shina said. "Those weapons were made for you, in response to what your chosen weapon is. Heero, you have a long sword, Duo, a scythe, Trowa, bow and arrows, Quatre, sickles, and Wufei, a katana. These were yours a long time ago. Mine is a whip, though I also work well with a scythe, glaive, or daggers. You will also find that you work well with other weapons, and not so great with others."
Silence.
Heero sighed. "What she is trying but failing to say is that she has had these for a long time. We used to have them and she is now giving them back. The type weapon you were given is the weapon you work best with."
"I don't recall ever owning this." Trowa stated, looking dubiously at the bow in his hand.
"That's because you've been dead since you've last owned it." Duo commented, not taking his eyes off Shina, who nodded.
"That's right. There was a group of us, nine in total. Now, the five of you plus me equals six." Her voice turned to a vague sarcastic wonder. "Now I wonder who the other three could be?"
"Lady that would be us." Said the woman dressed in brown dryly. "Let us introduce ourselves. I am Leanne, of Fighting."
"I am Yudisey, (1) of Chaos." Said the other, multicolored woman.
"We have met before, though I did not tell you who I was. I am Gene, of Healing." Said the man in black.
"Ah, yes, now I remember." Virginia laughed softly. "And I will tell you this right now. Gene, as the oldest, ranks above you when I am not around. Heero also shares that responsibility. Should anything happen to me, those two will lead you."
"What if we don't want to be part of your little group?" Wufei asked.
"You have the choice to act as not part of the group, but you cannot choose to not be in it. You are all bound to each other, and not even death will break those bonds. Sorry, but the task was given you a long time ago, and thus you cannot not be a Guardian."
"Are all of us Guardians?" Quatre asked, noting that the Shinigami and devils had all left. "If we are all part of this group then wouldn't we be able to do magic and stuff?"
"Ah, but you all can do magic." Shina commented. "You use your "magic" every day, Quatre. You are an empath, some one who can feel the emotions of others, and can to some degree change them. Surely you must know what I am talking about? And yes, you are all Guardians." She looked extremely pleased with herself for some reason.
"We can all do magic? Where was that during the war?" Wufei asked.
"Sleeping, where it could not do you or someone else any harm. You, Wufei, are a psychic mage, and have the ability to tell the future to a certain degree, mind speak, and to attack or control the mind of another." Shina replied
"What about the rest of us?" asked Trowa.
"Well, you are an earth mage. You can make pretty much anything grow at any pace you'd like, and you can cause earthquakes. Duo stands for air, which means that he can call lightning, suffocate people, etc. Heero is a fire mage, which is pretty self explanatory," she said looking around at the still smoldering remains of the demons. "Gene is a Healer, again self explanatory. Leanne is a fighting mage; she can adapt to any weapon within a few minutes and she can move other's bodies against their will. Yudisey is a chaos mage." She finished.
"What can Yudisey do?" Quatre asked.
"That's my secret." Yudisey laughed, winking at him.
Shina smiled slightly. "In the nature of chaos, no one really knows what they can do until they do it. Things just… happen around them, though they maintain that they know what they are doing."
"What are you?" Trowa asked.
"I am a water mage. I can do illusions, create water, drown or dehydrate things, etc."
"She has quite a few other powers, too." Duo said. "She is touched by Death's power, as she is a Shinigami, and she can suppress or create memories." He sounded bitter over this.
"Please don't be upset." She said. "You should know why I did it."
"Yea. Lot of good it does me." He paused, glaring at her slightly. Then he smiled. "But now I have a sister again!" He laughed, flinging himself at her and nearly knocking her over. She returned the hug just as enthusiastically.
"You can see the resemblance." Heero noted, looking at the two siblings. "Though this isn't what she really looks like, it is the image she takes when she acts as Shina."
"What does she really look like?" Wufei asked, curious.
"Much like she what you are used to, white hair, pale skin, etc. The only real difference a pale blue, eight-pointed star that is on her forehead." Heero replied. "It marks her as Queen, or as the future Queen."
Shina grinned. The mark that Heero had described flashed briefly on her forehead.
"Well, I think that we should all go back to the house. Do we have any ingredients for cookies?" Shina asked, as her hair and clothing faded back to their original colors, leaving her as Virginia.
"Is that all you think about?" Wufei asked. "Food?"
"Well, now we know where Duo gets it from." Trowa commented. "It runs in the family."
(Space)
Eileen was furious.
"HOW DARE SHE!" Came the angry shriek. "I HAD HER! SHE WAS MINE!"
Devron watched from his perch on the rafters. Shina has to kill her now, he thought. Eileen has gone completely mad.
"I told you it wouldn't work." He said, drawing her attention. "She is still much, much stronger than you, dying or not. She has to be, it's her job."
"You!" Eileen spat, glaring at Devron. He reflected that if looks could kill, He'd be roasting over a fire. "You made sure she would win! You ruined my plan!"
"You don't know that. And I did very little towards the battle itself, the fire Guardian was the one who burned your army to a crisp."
"HOW DARE YOU! YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN! I WOULD HAVE WON IF YOU HADN'T INTERFEARED! DIE!" She screamed, flinging a bolt of energy at him, which he managed to dodge at the last moment, flinging himself to another rafter.
She kept on throwing energy at him.
Devron winced, knowing that this could not continue for very long. I would kill her myself, but I am not strong enough, and she is not stable.
I need to warn Shina.
She'll know what to do.
With that thought, he dodged another blast and teleported himself to safety.
At least, I hope she'll know, because we're all dead if she doesn't.
(Change point of view)
Eileen watched that annoying devil disappear. That should be the last time I see him. , it's all his fault that the bitch triumphed. If he hadn't done… something… I would have won!
It's all his fault!
I'll start making new plans. It has become obvious that I can't rely on others; I'm going to need to kill her myself.
Then I will rule.
(Space)
"Lady, you look extraordinarily pleased with yourself, which is rarely a good thing. What is going on?" Gene asked, looking at Virginia with a look of dread.
"Nothing much." She replied, happily humming and smiling cheerfully.
"I am distressed that you did not say "nothing"." Gene commented.
"Well, don't be." She paused. "Well, OK, you can be distressed. I have decided to let the three of you help teach the five boys out there until they remember everything on their own."
Leanne laughed shortly. "Not. We'd all kill each other."
"I have to agree. That may not be a good idea. Ooohhh, I know. How about YOU teach them, Lady?" Yudisey suggested.
"No, I've decided to let you three have the honor. If it's any consolation, Heero already knows all the basics." She said, still smiling happily.
"That's… not much help. It just means he can set us on fire if he gets annoyed." Gene pointed out.
"Who's setting who on fire, and why?" Duo asked curiously as he bounded into the kitchen. He sniffed the air. "Ooo, what are you making, Vir?"
She smiled. "If I have anything to say about it, no one will be setting anyone on fire for any reason. And I'm making angel food cake."
"Yum. Glad about the fire. Do we have any food that is readily available to be consumed?"
Yudisey rolled her eyes, and pushed a plate of cookies towards him. "Cookies with caramel, milk chocolate and white chocolate chips in them. If you had a choice, who in this room would you like to learn how to control magic from?" She asked.
"He grabbed a cookie and began eating it, thinking over the question. "Umm… you, because I think you would be the most fun." He said, looking at Yudisey.
Virginia tried to smother a laugh, Gene choked on the water he was drinking, Leanne's mouth almost hit the floor, and Yudisey smiled dryly.
"You would willingly let yourself be taught by a chaos mage?" Leanne asked in amazement, glancing at Gene who was still trying to collect himself.
"Well, yeah, why not?" Duo asked, grabbing another cookie.
Gene finally spoke up. "Because… because…"
Yudisey cut him off. "May I remind you who you sleep with?" She asked sweetly.
Gene winced and shut up.
Duo raised an eyebrow at Virginia. "Oh, they're together. Have been for a while. Soul bonded, actually." She paused. "You didn't know?"
"No." He replied. "Not that it matters, except that now I can't hit on her." Yudisey rolled her eyes, and the others acted as though they hadn't heard. "When will the cake be done?"
"Is food all you think about?" Leanne asked.
"Ahh, no. I also think about fighting, playing, etc." He said, smiling happily.
Virginia smiled, and decided to pull them back on topic. "Would you like to learn from Yudisey?" She asked kindly.
"Well, yeah. As long as she doesn't mind."
"Oh, I don't mind. You're probably the only willing student I'll ever have." Yudisey commented dryly. "Can't miss this opportunity."
Virginia smiled again. "Well then, you two can work out when Yudisey is going to try to force info into Duo's head. As for the others, I suggest one of you take Quatre and Trowa and the other one take Heero and Wufei. You two can work that out, right?" She asked cheerfully.
They looked at each other. "Are you sure you can't take one or all of them? You've already started to teach Heero." Gene pleaded.
"Gene, you know perfectly well I won't be here forever. Best that they get used to you now, rather than later." She replied. "Now who wants to tell the other four?"
(Space)
"How's it going?" Virginia asked, poking her head into the room where Gene was teaching Trowa and Quatre. She had suggested those pairs for a reason. Since Gene was soul bonded to Yudisey, she hoped he would be able to see the bond growing between Quatre and Trowa. It was small, but there.
"Remind me to kill you later." Gene said cheerfully. He got up and walked over to her. "Actually, it's not going too badly. Both show a willingness to learn, and Quatre already knows how to do everything on an instinctive level. He's helping me with Trowa." He tilted his head to the side, and she felt his mind brush hers.
/Sister(2), are they soul bonded/ He asked.
She smiled. /Yes, they are. That is why I wanted you to teach them./
/Ahh…/ He walked back to the pair, who were talking quietly, and began to speak to them again.
She withdrew herself from the room, and continued on to where Leanne was attempting to teach Heero and Wufei.
Well, she is succeeding in teaching Heero; it's Wufei who's being difficult.
Heero looked up, despair on his face. Leanne and Wufei were arguing next to him.
/Save me/
/Ahh, no, sorry. How is it going/
/Not great. It's mostly Wufei's fault, he thinks she's mocking him or something./
She smiled at him. /They'll get over it./
/I'm going to need proof to believe you on that one./ He sent, disbelief evident.
/Let's just say I have the knowledge of another life./ She sent, making it sound mysterious.
/Whatever you say. But please give me something to do; Leanne's time is mostly taken up arguing./ He begged.
/Practice grounding and centering. If that gets boring, light a bit of Wufei on fire without hurting him. That should stop the fighting for a bit./
/Thanks./
She nodded once at him, and then left quietly, amused that neither Leanne or Wufei had realized that she had been there. Suddenly she heard a yelp from Wufei.
I guess Heero got tiered of it very quickly.
Quickly she debated whether or not to check up on Yudisey and Duo. Deciding she liked existing in one piece, she began heading once again for the kitchen.
/It will be interesting to watch them learn, no/ She heard, sensing Death near her.
/Indeed, it will be./
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(1) This is pronounced U-di-see, long U, short I, and accent on the first syllable. Give it a try!
(2) No, they are not blood siblings. Gene is just using another mode of addressing her, one that is less formal, and it signifies that they are close, and is reminiscent of how close they were as a circle before all of them died.
So, did you all like it? I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I had a lot of stuff going on over break. But I will finish this story, as long as I get reviews.
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Thanks for reading!
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