Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing... Damn...
Pairings: Of course there will be 1 on 2 on 1, but there maybe some others lurking behind the bend...
Warnings: Shonen Ai. Action. Adventure. Drama.
Author's Warning: This will mark the beginning of a 3 arc story. I have been watching a lot of action films, and I have yet again been inspired. Each arc will contain it's own chapters, but all stories will be interconnected. You'll see in the end what I mean. I have not yet planned out how long this story will be, or how long I have planned to write it, but I thought we would play it by ear. Advanced warnings, I plan to include violence, action, language, and a torment we all know as love. Some of the terms used in the story have been taken from movies, but they will be given their own credit. I have taken some, for example, from Star Wars. Eh... you'll know what I mean.
Note: Finally, I have written again. I was looking through my computer folders and noticed a lot of unfinished fics. Well, that's not going to stop now. Enjoy!
Arc One
Something Lies Beyond The Stars
Chapter One: A Star Dies
Ben awoke with a start. He looked around his bedroom and saw that the shadows on his walls were long and dark. It was still night. He sat up and looked to his right, his wife Janae was still fast asleep. He looked to his left at his nightstand clock, and noticed that it was only 3 in the morning. He had been awaken by a noise. What it was, he couldn't remember. He kept thinking as he ran a hand through his auburn hair. What was that noise? Where did it come from? He thought as he swung his legs over the side of the bed, and placed his feet flat on the marble floor, the coolness of the stone felt good in the heat of the summer night. It was 98 degrees on Tanikan, the fourth planet in the system of Madras the 12th star system controlled by the Republic, and the summers tended to be hotter because of the heat of the 5 suns. Ben slipped out of bed, and looked back at his sleeping wife, and then turned back to the doorway that was across the room. He moved soundlessly across the stone floor, and the light sensors in the hall turned on the yellow light of the hall, he walked through to the kitchen to get himself a glass of water.
As he neared the doorway to the kitchen, he again heard a noise, the noise that roused him from his deep sleep. A muffled kind of cry, but where it came from was yet undetermined. He walked to the front door, and pressed his ear up against the door, and it was there that he heard it again. He grabbed a club that was next to the door, and let his hand hover over the door release, and in one swift move, pushed the button and swung the club over his head, and with a -swish- the door slid over, revealing... nothing. No one was there, he poked his head out, but Ben saw nothing. Yet he heard the noise again, and he looked down. And on his front step, a bundle wrapped in white linen was moving fitfully. He knelt down, and moved over the linen, to reveal the head of a baby. His heart-shaped face was framed by chestnut brown hair, and the most remarkable violet eyes. The babies eyes looked up at Ben, and his chubby hands reached out to the man, imploring to be held.
Confused, Ben looked around again, lifting the baby in his arms and walking out into the night. But saw nothing. Tanikan was a desert planet, yet there was nothing around for what looked like miles. Who would leave a baby here? And how can they have gone so quickly? There are no animal tracks anywhere... Ben looked at the ground, scouring for ground for animal or human prints, but finding nothing. In the East, one of Tanikan's 5 suns was beginning to rise, and the heat was beginning to rise as well. With no one in sight, Ben held the baby close, and walked back to his doorway, stepping through it, and sliding it shut behind him with another -swish-.
25 feet from the small house, a figure, wrapped in a brown traveling cloak shifted his position. Letting his defenses drop, he reappeared to normal people. Mounted on a desert Maeka, he wrapped his cloak closer to his face, his hazel eyes starring at the lights in the house. The animal snorted, and received a pat on the head. The lights in the house turned off, and once again, the house was enveloped in darkness. 20 minutes ago, he had left the baby on the front step, and awoken Ben Solo with his mind, watched the man come out and look around confused, then carry the small child inside. The man on the maeka remained there, thinking of everything that had transpired within the last few days, and wondering if saving the life of this child, had been enough to honor the mother that had died in her struggle to deliver him, and to ask the forgiveness of the father that he had let down, and eventually lost forever. With a sigh, he pulled the reigns on the maeka, and turned in the opposite direction, towards the rising suns. Though he had not been to Tanikan in 10 years he knew that the second sun should have risen 10 minutes ago. Only a light orange haze followed the first sun, and nothing else. That only meant one thing... a star had died.
To Be Continued...
End Notes: Ok, so that's the first part of a very long arc that I have planned. So leave me a comment! And tell me what you think so far! Can you guess the name of the little boy in the white linen? Who is the stranger leaving children on doorsteps? Tune in next time for another installment!