Sutoomu: Okay, here's the chappie where the story is sort of explained! I have a few things I should say before the boys discover I'm making another intro, since I always go off topic...Anyways. Number One-I want to give an enormous heaping helping of thanks to Hawk, my beta! Yay, Hawk! Number Two-I decided to start using the policy of 'You review me, I'll review you!'. I like reading and reviewing a lot! Number Three-I'm going to get a muse soon, I hope! Number Four-Link and Hawk won't be in this intro or the endo, since I let Hawk borrow the car and forgot Link was still sleeping in the trunk... ! Heheh... Number Five-

Duo: Hey!

Sutoomu: -Duo is here, so that's it for now. But this is the tenth chappie, and I'd really, really, really like reviews, pleeeeeaaaassse/gives best puppy eyes/

Duo: How come you didn't tell me you were doing another intro?

Sutoomu: Uh...O.O No reason, heheh.../sweatdrops/

Duo: Wufei's cookin' pancakes. /rubs his hand in glee/ Shall we go watch?

Sutomu: Yay, breakfast and a show!

Duo: Uh huh! We get to see Wufei put the 'break' in 'breakfast'/runs off towards the sound of curses and banging and crashing from Wufei/

Sutoomu: Hee-hee! Anyways, I hope this chappie is good, because I didn't really have it beta-ed...I should have...but I didn't...yah...

Duo: Storm, hurry up/Sutoomu hears Duo laughing his head off/

Sutoomu: Right!

Disclaimer: I, Sutoomu(Storm), do NOT own Gundam Wing in any way. None at all. This fanfiction was made purely for fun and does not get me money in any way. Besides, it's not as though I have any money to be sued for...

Sutoomu: Off to the fun/stops and thinks/ Normally, I'd be freaked out that Wufei was destroying my kitchen...but I'm in a hyper mood, mwuhahahaheh/blinks and stops laughing/ I'm creeping myself out. Ba bai, have fun reading chappie ten!

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Existence faded back in slowly, like watching a slide show, each visible object coming in just before another did. The brilliant light faded until it only hung on the edge of the GW boys' minds, and then time began again, and the boys jerked back to life, looking around the room. They all stood on a large circular platform with Link, Zelda, and Sheik. The five Sages were still around them, but in a hexagon with a new member. Each of them stood on a small circular step.

"Holy shit!" was the first thing anyone heard. Duo was gaping once again, along with the other four pilots, for the who-knows-how-many time since he had come to Hyrule. He held a hand to the back of his head as if to keep it from falling off as he stared upwards into a never ending ceiling. He rushed to the edge and peered down into a never ending floor, then his eyes roamed about to the various plaforms of white light shining vertically. "Nothing up...and nothing down..." he mumbled in a daze. "We're hovering on thin air on a round platform. I don't know whether to be freaked out or totally giddy."

"Neither, please...," Wufei said, but it was just an automatic response, seeing as how his focusing functions were locked on the same things Duo's were.

"Welcome," Nabooru spread her arms. "To the Chamber of Sages. It's not much, I know..."

"What the fuck are you talking about, not much!" Duo yelled.

"Duo!" Quatre shouted, appalled at Duo's language.

"Sorry, Quat," Duo replied quickly. He had tried to make it a habit to watch his cursing when he was around Quatre and the others. Deep inside, he thought it was a bad habit, so it wouldn't hurt none if he somehow stopped altogether. "This place is...is..."

"Odd," Trowa supplied, looking around with his one visible eye.

"Hell yeah!" Duo exclaimed again. Quatre opened his mouth to say something, then shook his head and simply rolled his eyes instead. "Its beyond odd. It's totally cool and totally creepy. Supernatural and phenomenal..."

"Such big words," Ruto said. Duo gave her an 'I-ain't-stupid' look and a glare. She reminded him of Wufei, except he knew Wufei never meant any of his insults, since the Chinese boy was just a softie at heart.

"Let's get started," the newcomer, a balding man with a bushy white beard and a round belly covered in a yellow type robe spoke in a deep, basitone voice.

"This is the Spirit Rauru, the Sage of Light," Saria introduced them. Rauru's gaze scanned the GW boys. Wisdom and knowledge shone in his wrinkled eyes. He seemed to waver in and out of sight now and then when he moved. His gaze stopped on Quatre and he smiled.

"So, you are a Spirit Sage?" he directed his question at the blonde.

"I'm a...a what?" Quatre asked, confused. "I don't understand."

/You are a Spirit Sage/ Rauru replied.

Quatre's hand flew up to his head and he closed his eyes. /Get out! Get out of my mind/ he ordered mentally. This felt too much like in the war, when he had heard their crying voices in his head...he had apologized so many times, but it never made them stop crying out in pain and rage and sorrow.

/Do not worry, young one/ Rauru said. /I am not evil. Relax, and you shall know./ Quatre was wary, extremely wary. He was ready to block it out, to close off his emotions. He hated to do that, but he didn't want to feel anymore strange spirits. He didn't want to talk to the spirits anymore.

"Quatre?" Trowa's voice permeated through the cloud of thoughts, and he automatically relaxed, feeling safe as Trowa's strong empathic spirit flowed over him. "What's wrong Quatre? What's he doing to you?" From Trowa and the others viewpoint, Rauru was staring at Quatre with his crinkly, wise eyes, and now Quatre was holding his head tightly in both hands with his eyes clenched shut. He looked to be in pain, and Trowa would kill anyone who caused his Quatre pain.

Quatre's relaxing let Rauru's full spirit flow into his heart, and he breathed deeply until he realized it wasn't hurting. Rauru's spirit was warm and bright, filling him with positive emotions. There was not a negative emotion in it, and he opened his eyes and looked up at Rauru, sharing a long and knowing look. /You have been through quite a lot, young Spirit Sage/ Rauru said sadly.

"What the hell did he do to you?" Duo spoke this time, since Trowa was too busy glaring at Rauru, tensed to attack him if Quatre gave the slightest hint of pain.

"I'm fine," Quatre assured Trowa. It was highly unlikely that the silent boy could even touch Rauru, much less hurt him. He was dead and a Spirit.

"What happened?" Wufei asked. "And what is a Spirit Sage?"

"Spirit Sages are beings who can communicate with the dead," Impa looked at Quatre with an eyebrow raised. "There has not been a Spirit Sage for many years. The last one was corrupted by Ganondorf and is evil now, a ghost merchant, collecting an army of negative spirits."

"Quatre ain't corrupted one bit!" Duo spat in venomous defense of his friend. "If anything, he's too damn sweet and nice and naive."

"He's not naive," Heero corrected monotonely.

"Like I said," Duo continued without missing a beat. "And he's doesn't talk to the dead, so he can't be a Spirit Sage."

"Duo," Quatre interrupted him before he went on a really long jumble of words. "Stop. I ca...I can talk to...to the dead." Quatre had never before spoken the fact out loud, not wanting to believe it. But he had to come to grips with the fact sometime or later.

"You can?" Duo whispered with disbelief evident in his voice. "But..."

"You know I'm an empath and that I can feel people's emotions," Quatre began to explain. They nodded. "You know why I hate to fight...?"

"You once said you didn't like the feeling of people dying," Trowa supplied.

"Well, it wasn't only that. After they died, I could still feel them. I could still feel their anger and pain even after they were dead. And I could hear them."

"Hear...them?" Heero repeated.

"They spoke to me. They yelled at me and cursed me and hated me," Quatre was tense, and he had his eyes closed, painful memories flying across his mind. "For killing them...and they hurt me so much, so many dark emotions."

"Quatre...," Trowa reached out and took him in his arms as Quatre continued.

"Do you remember how I apologized while killing them?" Quatre asked.

"Yes," Heero replied as Duo said. "Yeah..." and Wufei nodded.

"I was trying to get them to stop yelling at me. I kept saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry', but they still hated me. I tried to tell them why I did it, but they wouldn't listen."

"So you can hear and talk to ghosts?" Duo asked.

Quatre slowly nodded. "Remember when I refused to stay in that one safe house? The one the town people said was haunted?" Duo thought for a moment, then nodded. "It was," Quatre continued. "There was a family who was assassinated in there."

"Holy crow," Duo whispered.

"He is a Spirit Sage," Saria whispered right after.

"My empathy...actually, my empathy is more than just feeling people's emotions," Quatre realized. "It's like I can feel people's souls. Before and after they die. I can only speak with spirits mentally, though."

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Heero asked.

"I guess I thought you would think I was crazy or something," Quatre ducked his head. "I had no physical proof I could talk with spirits. I thought I was crazy."

Duo blinked. "Your no more crazy than I am, Quatre."

"I'm sure that's a huge relief to him, Maxwell" Wufei said sarcastically. Duo stuck out his tongue at him and pouted.

"We would have believed you," Trowa assured him.

/You have long kept this secret, young one/ Rauru spoke in his mind. "If you were staying, perhaps we could have found someone to help you control your abilities. But we must return to business now."

"Yes," Darunia agreed. "Zelda, we will need your help with the portal. Link, Sheik, you two will help find their time."

"Okay, let's do this thing," Duo shouted.

"You, uh, actually don't do anything," Zelda explained.

"I don't? Darn," Duo snapped his fingers at his bad luck. Zelda had moved to stand inbetween Rauru and Nabooru, raising her hands as they did, preparing for the spell they needed to conduct to create the portal.

Nabooru hands dropped to her face as though to shield her as a sudden light washed over them, bathing the Chamber, illuminating everything. Nabooru gasped beside Zelda as a stream of silver passed through her middle, taking a small silver colored ball of light from her center before leaving out through her back. She began to float up after it passed her through and suddenly she felt very cold and empty.

Similar looking rays of light had shot through the other four living Sages, red through Darunia, green through Saria, violet through Impa, and blue through Ruto. Each of them felt a sudden coldness and smptiness inside and began to rise off the floor. A similar light came from Rauru, holding a golden light, but it emerged directly from him and he stayed on the ground. The six Sages, five pilots, Zelda, Link, and Sheik all watched as the six beams of colored light with matching spheres of light on the front flew up and began to swirl around each other. They looked somewhat like faeries playing, but with long trailing tails. Halo and Navi flew up themselves, curious about these strange lights. They suddenly stopped and hovered about five feet above everyone's headsexcept for the five Sages who had floated about four feet up off the ground and waite dthere for a moment, pulsating. There was a sudden powerful surge of light within each of them and they shot out, each towards a different target.

"Duo!" Heero yelled as the violet one hit Duo straight in the chest, entering him without breaking the skin. Duo gasped and held his chest with his hands, breathing heavily. Heero had no time to go to his love as the blue one hit him much the same as it had hit Duo, entering his chest. A sudden feeling of warmth and incredible elation overwhelmed and overpowered him and he had to force himself to breath much as Duo had. The red light had entered Wufei, who was on his knees, and the green one had gone for Trowa. Quatre had been hit square in the chest by the silver colored sphere, and the golden one...the golden one had entered into Sheik. Both the last boys were also on the ground, breathing heavily, and Heero realized he too was on his knees, and Duo and Trowa had also joined the others on the floor.

They still had enough of their senses to see the large white light shoot out from the center of the upwards nothingness and enter Link's chest. He fell forward and then...the light vanished. The illluminating lights swept away, and the Chamber returned to its normal glowing blue. But the Sages remained floating, and the boys, Sheik, and Link remained on the ground. Rauru was smiling, with a face that shouted 'I-know-something-you-don't' on it. He cast an annoyed and amused glance towards the five floating Sages and sighed.

"Could you five please regain your footing?"

"How?" Ruto snapped.

"Think 'heavy'," Rauru explained. A moment later, Darunia landed, followed quickly by Impa, Nabooru, and Ruto. Saria couldn't seem to float down, and she giggled.

"I never was very heavy," she said. Zelda ran to her and reached up, grabbing her ankle before she floated away into the nothingness. Once Saria had her feet ont he ground again, she managed to stay there. All five of them were wavering in and out of sight liek Rauru did. "This is fun!" Saria laughed. "I'm a Spirit, just like Rauru."

"We're dead...," Ruto said with a horrified expression.

"Yes, you are dead," Rauru confirmed. "But do not worry. It is only temparary, until your powers return."

"What?" Nabooru looked sharply at Rauru. "What is going on?"

"That's what I'd like to know," Duo groaned, standing up. He winced as he mvoed, and continued to breathe deeply. "That hurt but...at the same time...it felt great!"

"It still hurts and feels great," Wufei mentioned, standing as well. He also was breathing harder than before. All of the GW boys were having a harder time.

"It's like an enormous pressure of overwhelming power," Duo laughed, then caught his breath. "Damn, too...much...pressure! Collapsing...!"

"Stop dramatizing, Duo," Heero said.

"It's not that bad," Quatre reassured himself. It had a certain resemblance to stress, but entirely physical, not mental.

"What is it?" Wufei growled. "That's what I'd like to know."

"It is the Power of the Sages," Rauru replied.

Duo scrunched up an eye and made a face. "The whatsis?"

"The Power of the Sages."

"Our power!" Ruto exclaimed. "I'm dead, and now I have no power?"

Quatre looked at Rauru. "Explain, please." He sent a stronger demand mentally before he could check himself.

"Yes, perhaps I should," Rauru let a small smile grace his lips before becoming serious again. "Three and a half months ago, Link went back for a visit to his childhood. He stayed longer than he was supposed to..."

"And some idiot decided to stir up trouble while Link was away," Nabooru interrupted.

"Hordes of redeads and poes and skeletons in Hyrule Field," Darunia rumbled. "Dark creatures of all kinds in the Temples. Almost as bad as when Ganon was free."

"Why didn't you take care of them?" Link asked. "I can't be around to protect you all the time."

"Haha, Link," Ruto said. "We were a little busy with another problem."

"Someone has set assassins upon them," Rauru continued. "There have been numerous attempts on their life, keeping them distracted, which let the hordes roam with a ver long leash."

Link looked stunned. Stunned and enraged. "Who's doing this? Not Ganondorf?"

"Ganon has been sealed," Zelda said with great conviction in her voice.

"The assassins were Gerudo," Rauru said. Fire sprung up in Nabooru's eyes as she looked away from them. "Nabooru says they are a rebel group, who were loyal to Ganon. They are not under her control."

"She was almost killed by one!" Saria exclaimed sadly.

"I conversed with the Goddesses," Rauru bowed his head at their name in respect. "They told me this new enemy has much power and more resources than Ganon had. It was decided that, as long as the Sages were alive, they would continue to be targeted. While Darunia, Impa, and Nabooru are capable of defending themselves physically, Ruto and Saria are of a low in that area, and sooner or later, the assassins would get through, whether by stealth or great number. They decided it was in Hyrule's best interests to bring some relief Sages to Hyrule, ones better at defending themselves."

"Us," Trowa said.

"Yes, you," Rauru smiled knowingly. "You five are Sage reincarnations, as is Sheik. Link is simply the Sage of Time."

"Sage of Time?" Link gawked.

"You were the Hero of Time, Link. The Goddesses have simply improved your power somewhat."

"Hey, hey, hey...," Duo spoke, getting everyone's attention as they stared at him. He took a deep breath. "We're WHAT!"

"Sage reincarnations," Impa replied, unaffected by Duo's shout. "I knew they existed, but I never thought they would come out before we died naturally."

"Normally, they wouldn't," Rauru agreed. "But these boys aren't your direct, next-in-line Sage reincarnations. They wouldn't have appeared until you all were truly dead like usual. But, since I am the only one who is dead and has a true Sage reincarnation," he looked at Sheik. "The Goddesses chose to go forward in Time and choose later ones already born for you."

"So I am a true reincarnation?" Sheik asked. Rauru nodded, and Sheik and Link shared a look the others couldn't discern.

"Is being a Sage supposed to feel this way?" Trowa's collected voice cut through. They all looked at him, breathing heavier than normal as were all of the GW boys.

"No. That was a slight drawback to the plan," Rauru admitted. "You are from another Time, and your power most likely has weaker abilities or such than the power from our time. So you cannot use the power of our time as you are now."

"What's the point in it, then?" Duo asked.

"The Goddesses have created a way for each of you to properly use the power. They have created Weapons for you, which will help you control the power. There is one for each of you in your Temple, waiting for you to collect it. It should be a relatively easy task."

"What kind of Weapons?" Quatre asked. He did not like the thought of having to take up another weapon of any kind and use it to kill and destroy.

"Magically enchanted ones, designed for each of you specifically. You must go rigt away to retrieve them because, the longer you are without them, the harder your situation will get, until you eventually die."

"Die...?" He felt like he was being blackmailed. Take up a weapon or die, Quatre! He knew it was just a silly feeling so he shoved it away.

"Your body functions cannot handle the extremity of the power," Rauru said. "The Weapons are a sort of buffer."

"Where are they?" Heero asked, getting straight to business. Despite his somewhat suicidal tendencies in the war, he truly had no desire to die. He had Duo now, and friends and a job and a home. Life was good...excepting this unscheduled jaunt through time.

"Heero's weapon is in the Water Temple, Duo's the Shadow Temple, Trowa's the Forest Temple, Quatre's the Spirit Temple, and Wufei's is in the Fire Temple. I can only give you mental directions," Rauru closed his mind and five different paths appeared in five minds. One to a lake, one to a graveyard, one to a maze of woods, one to a desert, and one to a volcanic mountain. "Since the Sages are now entrapped within this Chamber as I am until you are ready to be sent home, they cannot guide you, and Link must stay here in order to gaurd Hyrule. Zelda is ruler-she must stay in Hyrule-and Sheik must wait as well until you return for his powers to fully manifest themselves completely. Link can give you any extra directions needed, but he cannot guide you. You must each go alone to your Temples and retrieve your Weapon, and do so immediately."

The five stared at Rauru for a moment. "Heck, why not?" Duo shrugged.

Heero let a smirk slide onto his lips as he spoke. "Mission accepted."

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Sutoomu/claps in joy/ And that is the tenth chappie, wahoo! I hope you liked it, and I hope it cleared up any questions. If you have any new questions or don't understand something, just e-mail me and I'll explain. What kind of Weapons will the GW boys get? Guess, and continue on to see if you were right...

Quatre/comes in room with a bucket and a mop, syrup and pancake batter dripping from his face and hair and shirt/ Since you seem to be completely Duo-itized...

Sutoomu: Duo-itized/blinks/

Quatre: Acting like Duo does. Hyper, crazy, psychotically insane!

Sutoomu: Hey, that's one of my titles! I am Storm, Impulsive Randomizer and Psychotically Insane!

Quatre: Riiiight/Quatre rolled his eyes. he must not be feeling nice and polite since he was soaked in an uncooked breakfast/ Now, since you are, as I said, Duo-itized, I am taking responsibilty for getting your kitchen cleaned up.

Sutoomu: Aaaw, Quat, that's so sweet! Offering to clean my kitchen...

Quatre: No/shoves bucket and mop in Storm's hand/ I am making you clean up your kitchen. You and Duo and Wufei. Wufei, since he made the mixer explode, Duo, since he melted the frying pan and started the batter fight, and you, since you watched it happen and threw the flour bag on Heero. Oh, stay out of his way. He's cleaning himself up and is very, very angry.

Sutoomu/swallows/ Heheh.

Quatre: Get to work, woman/smiles as he says it so Storm knows he's joking/ Me and Trowa will be taking a bath.

Sutoomu/whistles/ Go Quat/runs out of room/

Quatre/rolls his eyes and sighs in exasperation/ Those two.../shaked his head while 'tsk'ing/ ...and she was always so level-headed before...