By: Silver Nights
Chapter 2
"Everyone, I would like for you to meet our two new students, Alan and Ann Granger. Please make them feel welcome" introduced Usagi's teacher Ms. Haurna.
Ann had light reddish brown hair that blended nicely with her light brown eyes. Her brother who stood next to her had sandy blonde hair with blue eyes and both of them were dressed in their school uniforms. All of the girls were admiring Alan's looks, he looked like a model every time he'd smile.
"Oh he has such beautiful hair" wailed Usagi as she had hearts in her eyes looking at the gorgeous young man and admiring every feature he had.
"I'll say" agreed her best friend Naru who had hearts in her eyes as well.
"What's so great about him?" asked Gurio feeling a bit jealous.
"Everything!" both agreed Usagi and Naru at the same time. Gurio rolled his eyes and sighed with a little sweat drop on the side of his head.
Quatre closed up his suitcase and started to pack utensils in a book bag that he had brought with him. Duo watched his friend pack up for his long flight back to his own colony.
"So there was no sign of OZ?" asked Duo glancing over at Quatre.
"Nope, no connection between that big explosion with the enemy" answered Quatre as he threw his book bag over his back.
Duo sighed and looked at all of his friends who were done packing and waiting to leave, "Well I guess there's no point of me staying here on Earth" confessed the braided pilot as he pulled out his suitcase. He didn't even unpack his things from the hospital. Everything was left in perfect condition.
"But what about your apartment?" asked Trowa
"If I ever want to get out of the L2 Colony, I can always come back here. But if everyone is going to their original colonies, then why not do the same" replied Duo.
"So I guess this is good bye to all of us, right?" asked Quatre as he looked around the room. No reaction from anyone. It was true, they were all going to their own colonies and going back to fighting the war.
"Hey who knows, we might run into each other during a battle in space or even a mission" smiled Duo as he tried to cheer everyone up.
Heero looked at the time from the clock in the apartment, "We better get going, the taxi should be here by now."
Everyone agreed and headed out the door. They got down to the lobby of the apartment building and walked outside and saw the taxi waiting for them their. Quatre paused and turned around to speak to Heero, "How are we all going to fit in their?"
Heero looked at the taxi and decided to be generous, "You guys go ahead, Duo and I will wait for the next one. We'll meet you at their at the Spaceport".
"OK, see you guys their" waved Quatre as he followed Wufei and Trowa to the cab. Once they got in, the cab drove off away with the three Gundam pilots. Heero and Duo waited outside alone while looking for another taxi to come get them.
"So Heero, what do you plan to do when you get back to the L1 colony?" asked Duo.
"Complete some missions, you?" returned the question to Duo while glancing over at him.
"Probably the same exact thing, I just wish this War would be over" sighed Duo as he looked up into the sky. He then heard a conversation coming around the corner, he took a glance to see a boy and girl about his age coming home from school it sounded like they were arguing about something.
"Ann you just can't keep getting jealous over these silly school girls, we're suppose to act like brother and sister" reminded Alan.
"I can't believe you have the nerve to flirt with stupid humans Alan!" hissed Ann as she turned away from Alan. Ann looked ahead of her and then gasped as she saw Duo looking right at her, she started to blush like mad as they made eye contact. "He's so handsome, he compares to Alan" she thought while walking closer towards him.
As Ann walked closer, she was about to say something to Duo to strike up a conversation until she felt dizzy and her vision was becoming hazy. She then collapsed on the ground and started to gasp for air. Duo went into panic. "Hey Miss are you OK!" asked Duo as he ran up to her and lifted her up and let her rest her body on his chest. Heero turned around to see what was going on.
"Heero! We need to get her to a doctor now!" ordered Duo with the shaking school girl wrapped around his body.
"Get your hands off of her!" demanded a manly voice and grabbed Ann out of Duo's arms.
Duo backed away and made eye contact with the boy, "Hey what gives? She needs help!"
"Not from you!" snapped Alan and he scooped up Ann in his arms and turned around and carried her all the way home.
"Weird…" thought Duo as he watched Alan run across the street with Ann in his arms and he ran inside the apartment building that was across the street from his.
"Duo, Come on!" waved Heero as he was getting into a taxi. Duo grabbed his things and got one more look of the strange couple, but they were no where to be found. Duo got into the taxi with Heero and they drove away towards the Spaceport.
Alan watched them both leave from the window of their apartment building, "That was a close one". He then transformed both him and Ann to their real identity. Alan pulled out his flute and started to play his beautiful melody and they both went into their own world where precious 'Doom Tree' was living. Alan rested Ann's body on a big and thick branch and continued to play his music while energy was being transported into Ann's body. Moments later, Ann shot up filled with energy and looked more healthier.
"I feel great!" she announced as she stretched her arms in the air with a big smile on her face.
"That was a close one Ann, that boy wanted to help you out" warned Alan.
"I know, that means he cares for me" blushed Ann.
"What!"
"Oh nothing" weakly smiled Ann. Alan focused his eyes on his flute and continued to play more music. Ann looked at the Doom Tree and noticed it was starting to wilt. "Alan, what are we going to do? Look at the Doom Tree".
"We will give it life energy, Earth has plenty of that" explained Alan as she showed Ann pictures of humans, animals, and plants.
"Here, pick a cardigan and it will go out and collect us lots of energy for us to fed on" said Alan as he pulled out a deck of cards.
Ann picked a random card and it was an image of some monster that was similar to a flower. "What good is this one?"
"It will collect energy from various locations, but in this case I would like for it to go to a really packed area, like a mall or supermarket. A place that is loaded with humans" lectured Alan. He then brought his flute up to his lips and played his music again to wake up the cardigan.
"I'm at your command!" roared the monster as she was ready to go out and look for energy, and it left Ann and Alan alone in the Doom Tree and went off into the night.
Heero and Duo both entered the Spaceport to see many people traveling, either going to space or just coming back from a long trip. Heero led the way to their gates and Duo wasn't quite ready to say his 'goodbyes' to his friends just yet. As they walked a little farther, they found Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei just finishing up some coffee. Quatre waved them to come over. Heero and Duo caught up with them and they walked together until they had to go their separate ways to the different gates since they were going to different colonies.
"Well, I guess this is goodbye" spoke Quatre looking at everyone.
"I guess so" agreed Trowa.
"Who knows when we'll be together" sighed Duo and he turned away.
Everyone was dead silent, Heero looked over towards the L1 gate, "Goodbye everyone" and waved to all of his friends and took a seat waiting to be called. Duo did the same exact thing, went to his gate and had a seat and so did the others.
"Hope to see you all soon" waved Trowa as he walked towards the L3 gate.
"Have a safe flight everyone" cheered Quatre as he sat down by the L4 gate.
"We'll all meet again" commented Wufei to himself as he walked towards the L5 gate.
Duo looked up at the ceiling with his arms behind his head, "Man, I hate to leave them all" he thought to himself.
Just then, there was a cry of a women screaming and Duo turned towards the direction from where the scream came from. His eyes got big from what he saw in the far off distance from downstairs were the entrance to the Spaceport was. "What the hell is that!" gasped Duo as he saw a large monster that looked like a plant. It was sucking energy out of innocent people.
The rest of the pilots joined Duo and looked to see what was happening, "What is that thing?" asked Quatre. Heero winced his eyes as he studied the monster. Trowa's eyes then grew big. "Guys, I have a feeling something similar like this happened to me, long ago" announced Trowa as he was staring at the monster in the distance.
"I kind of feel the same way too" admitted Wufei.
"Same here" agreed Heero as he watched the innocent get the life sucked out of them.
The monster then looked up over towards the Gundam Pilots and flew up towards them. The five boys panicked but turned around and all five of them spilt up and started to run in their own different directions.
Luna yawned as she stretched on the couch of the Tsukino household. She was still half asleep until she saw the breaking news on the T.V of a monster attacking the innocent at the Spaceport.
"It appears at the Tokyo Spaceport, a mysterious monster has been attacking people and stealing their energy. Police cannot defeat this thing, neither can AHH!" and the monster had attacked the reporter and the camera went out.
Luna turned off the T.V and looked up the staircase and saw the light on in Usagi's room and she could hear the sound of the teenagers laughter, "Time to revive Sailor Moon"