Hi!
Ok. Jjinks brought up a good point. Originally, Heero would have been with Virginia. However, it will not change the story if Heero is paired with Duo.
So, I'm going to leave it up to you.
You all have two chapters to respond. Is Heero going to be paired with Duo, or Virginia?
And no, moonpixi, I am not going to make it Virginia/Duo. We are deciding who HEERO will be paired with, not who Virginia and Duo will be paired with, and under no circumstances will they be paired with each other.
Um, this is going to sound really, really dumb, but… what is "WOOT"?
Thanks to Sutoomu, moonpixi, Jjinks, Serenity Maxwell, deppforever07, and Vwolf Yujutsu, who all reviewed.
I'm so glad that I write these notes for a grand total of 6 people.
Oh, by the way, in the last chapter when people were mind speaking, the question marks did not show up. So whenever they were mind-speaking and there was no punctuation, there was supposed to be a question mark.
Umm… this chapter is going to be kind of short, but I hope you all enjoy it anyway!
Disclaimer: All of these long, cold nights I have sat in my secret Lab, testing the limits of Alchemy, and turning dirt to pure Gold, and yet my search for the secret of owning Gundam Wing comes no nearer to completion.
Enjoy!
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Shinigami
(5 months have passed. It is August)
Virginia smiled to herself. Gene, Leanne, and Yudisey had been teaching their respected "pupils" for about 5 months. All of them were making quite a bit of progress. Well, Leanne and Gene were making progress. She assumed that Duo and Yudisey were making progress, but she could not say for certain. She was kind of scared to go check on them.
Lightning and Chaos… not something I want to get in the middle of.
She felt Heero's presence brush across her mind. /You were a little too right for my taste. / She "heard".
/How is that? / She asked back.
/Leanne and Wufei… if I hadn't been here in the beginning, I wouldn't believe that they once were constantly arguing. /
/Why/ She sent more of a picture than the word.
She sensed him sigh. /Because now they are working together very well. Almost to the point of excluding me unless I speak up. And even then, they seem startled, as though they didn't know that I was there. /
Virginia smiled quietly to herself. /Well, the best thin you can probably do is wait for the infatuation to wear off, and then they will act sort of like Gene and Yudisey. /
There was silence for a few minutes, though she did not feel Heero pull away. Then he spoke again. /Do I even really need to be here? /
/Why do you ask? / She asked curiously.
/Because I remember pretty much everything about my former life, which includes the spells. The only thing I lack is practice. /
Virginia pondered that for a few minutes. /How far ahead of Wufei are you? / She asked finally.
/About 4 thousand years ahead. Actually, I think I am ahead of Leanne, too. /
She laughed at that. /If you remember everything, then that is very possible. But why do you think that? /
/Because when she gave me a higher level spell to work on when I showed her that I was well ahead of Wufei, she made a rather large mistake on part of the wording. Actually, the fact that she is still using words was kind of a clue. /
/All right, I think you can disengage yourself from the two of them. You have to remember, none of them are adults yet – they are all under 4 thousand years old. You, however, have almost all your memories from your last life, which gives you the wisdom of a young adult of our people. /
/Thank you. / He sent thankfully, relief evident in his "voice". Virginia felt his touch recede.
Ferrana, one of the two Shinigami who had first seen Duo, popped into the room right next to her. She made a small bow towards Virginia.
"Does he really remember everything?" Ferrana asked Virginia.
"Almost everything. He won't remember everything until after I have died. But he does know enough to be considered a master in his field. I don't see any reason to keep him around the other two anymore, as he has started to pick out mistakes that Leanne is making." She replied with a small smile. "What can I do for you?"
"A Devil names Devron has asked to meet with you on neutral ground." Ferrana replied.
"Did Devron specify where?" Virginia asked.
"Yes, actually. He suggested the desert world of Wüste."
"Alright. Tell him that I accept. I'll meet him in Wüste in two days time."
(Space)
"What I don't understand is why you don't seem to be taking this threat seriously! Eileen is obviously insane! You would be doing her and the rest of existence a favor by killing her!" Devron shouted at the Lady. Why wasn't Virginia listening to him? She had accepted his information about Eileen and her plan to kill the future Queen personally, and then seemed not to care.
"I am taking this seriously. Don't worry; I have almost everything under control. Eileen will not kill either me or the other Guardians." The Lady said calmly.
" 'Almost everything'! Well, how comforting! I'm so glad to know that you are going to take care of the matter!"
"You know as well as I do what has to happen. Calm down for a moment, and think. If you were me, and in my place, what would you do?" She asked.
Devron opened his mouth to shoot back a cruel remark, but then shut it again. She was probably right; she was always right.
And he would have made the same choice that she did.
He turned and fled, too angry to say good-bye, even though it would be the last time he saw her. He could not come to her aid this time; she had forbidden it.
The wind still carried her last words to him, even though he did not wish to hear them. "Good-bye. Until we meet again."
(Space)
Kitten curled up in her father's embrace. "She slips a little farther from us every day." She said sadly.
Death looked down at his daughter, knowing what she said was true. Well, not quite. "You mean she slips closer to us every day. She's dying, which would bring her into our realm."
"No, I mean she slips away. She has been… closing herself off, a little bit at a time. She is distancing herself, and I can not figure out why." Kitten said, sounding very upset.
"Remember that she is fading, which can be very painful, yet she has dealt with it for many, many years. She is nearing the end, and so the pain of simply living is becoming too much." Death responded. Kitten pulled away.
"Do you know how it will end?" She asked, switching from upset to worried.
"Of course I do."
Kitten waited for him to elaborate. "Well?" She asked when it was clear her father wasn't going to.
"You'll see. You have to wait too, just like everyone else." He paused. "But you won't have to wait long. The end is approaching."
"But that's horrible! Can't the healers do anything for her?"
"They've been trying, but there is no real cure for lacking the will to live." He replied.
"But… her Guardians have been reborn. Doesn't that count for something?" She asked.
"It's too late." Death sighed. "The events have been set in motion, and no power that exists can change the course of the future now."
(Space)
Virginia looked up from the book she was reading. The wind invaded the tree she was sitting in, whispering softly and urgently to her, telling her what was going on.
It won't be long now. Eileen has decided to make her move. I just hope that I am strong enough to deal with her, and that I have the will to deal with her when the time comes.
There is more than one life at stake here…
(Space)
Eileen hissed, seeing the pitiful number of demons that had answered her call.
Well, I'm just going to have to deal with it. It's less than I would like, but it should be enough to distract everyone from Her. Then, I can move in, and destroy Her! She won't stand a chance, not against me. She's too weak, and she is dying. Easy prey.
"Listen to me, all of you! The time is now! All you pathetic creatures need to do is keep the Guardians from their Queen! Is that too much for you sorry excuses for demons to handle?" She shouted at them.
She heard murmurs in the assembled mass, but chose to ignore them.
"Then let us go! I will lead you, and there is no way that we will lose!"
That devil was wrong; there is no way that I will not triumph…
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Yeah, really short. But that is where I'm going to leave it off for right now. There will be one more chapter after this, and then an epilogue.
Wow. There was a lot of thinking in this chapter, and not a lot of action. But there will be plenty of that next chapter.
I found the techno version for the song "Simple and Clean" from Kingdom Hearts, and it's all I can listen to. I just LOVE it.
Yeah…
So, if you could, please please PLEASE review, and tell me who Heero should be paired with.
I hope you all enjoyed it, short as it was…
DarkLady