i beleive ive confused and lost a lot of people...if your reading this. hopefully, it will tie back into the rest of the story like i hope it did...im tryint to tie up the loose ends...and i beleive its coming along well in my mind. hope you like it.

Disclaimer: i dont own the pilots...i wish i did, but sadly i don't.

Chapter, the Twentieth

Elsewhere

"I'm telling you, it was right here! I felt it! Two impulsive bursts of energy right here."

Vicky stood in the middle of a nice kitchen, she was facing the refrigerator and gesturing wildly to the door. The other occupants in the room, Duo, Heero, and Kaori. They all stood to one side as they watched the warrior woman making a fool of herself. Kaori felt a little bit of energy flowing through the area, but not enough to bring all of them down here at once. Humans were always having random bursts of energy, though there was the possibility that they had, after two years, finally found Alex.

"I highly doubt it was her. How many times have we felt random bursts of energy from humans?" Kaori asked, staring at Vicky as she opened the oven and peeked inside.

"But, Kaori, despite the fact that humans can have random bursts of energy, how many have had that happen one right after the other? On top of that, how can you not feel the energy flowing through this house. There was a very powerful being walking through these rooms just a little while ago." Vicky had opened the fridge as she spoke and had started pulling random food cartons out in an attempt to figure out what they were. Maybe she should do what Alex did and take a temporary leave of absence.

"It's not the fact that I can't feel it. I feel it very well. But, how do we know it's Alex?" Kaori had had enough of Vicky and her snooping around, so she had grabbed the back of the girls cloak and yanked her back, away from the oven before she hurt herself. Human ovens were extremely dangerous and could possibly blow up if not handled correctly. The last thing any of them needed was to decimate some random human's house all on the guess that this human could possibly be Alex in disguise.

The two humans watched, amused, as the two heavenly beings that had become very good friends of theirs over the past two years bickered over the current problem. They'd been trying to locate Alex for the longest time, and, as she had promised, Alex was proving to be a very difficult person to find. The funny part was, that only a year ago, Heero had come out of his hermitage (mermitage?)(1), in which he had also been trying to find Alex. Duo had been less hidden about his attempts and had quickly befriended Kaori whom he was traveling around with, as well as Vicky, for the year in which both Heero and Alex were in a Hermitage.

Vicky was quiet for a few minutes as she contemplated how to answer Kaori. "How do we not know its, Alex?" she asked, turning to face the dark haired Goddess.

"We don't know and that's the problem. We cant just randomly enter someone's house and expect to find Alex. She'll probably look a lot different as a human then as a Goddess."

Heero, who'd been quiet for the duration of the conversation, piped up, "I've seen what she looks like as a human…"

The bickering stopped as both heavenly deities turned to face the dark-haired teen. He shifted nervously as the atmosphere of the room became significantly more restrained and hostile. The temperature must've dropped as the energy of the two beings pulled in the heat as they prepared to leap upon the unsuspecting human and thoroughly throttle him for withholding such valuable information for not only one year, but two. Duo stepped away from Heero, out of harms way as he felt the negative power forced in his direction.

Vicky, in a very low, very menacing voice asked, "You know what she looks like as a human?"

"Yes…" Heero replied, not liking the way the two women stared at him. He watched as Vicky started cracking her knuckles and began to walk towards him. Kaori had taken her pole out and had joined Vicky in her approach.

Kaori decided to stay silent and just glare at the human Vicky continued to question him. "And how long exactly….did you know this…?"

"Ten years…" he replied, starting to inch his way to the kitchen door and out into the wilderness. The two women, sensing his retreat from their presence, stood in front of the door and immediately, showed him the full power of their glare. He turned to his friend and noticed the look of shock upon his face.

"You've known what she looked like for ten years as a human and we've been trying to find her for the past two and you haven't said anything at all!" Duo was pissed at his friend. The fact that he withheld such valuable information boggled his mind. "In your very own classic words, I am going to kill you, Heero Yuy!" He leaped at his friend who jumped away and ran through the apartment, out the back door, leaped the fence that connected the apartment's backyard with the one opposite it, and continued running. The two heavenly Beings and a pissed of gundam pilot were following closely behind.

About halfway down the street, both Vicky and Kaori grounded to a halt and turned around towards the direction of the apartment they had just left. They watched as the two gundam pilots went farther and farther away, the sounds of Duo yelling, 'Come Here, Heero, lemme knock some sense into that head of yours! To think that you would withhold something such as this!' moving farther and farther down the road. The two ladies back-tracked to the apartment and looked through the window. They saw a teenage red-headed girl enter. They watched as she laid her keys out on the table and sat in a chair, leaning back and placing her hands over her eyes before reaching back and stretching as the chair wobbled on its back two legs. She yawned and took off her jacket, watching as it fell to the floor. Almost immediately, the jacket flew to the coat rack on the wall of its own accord. Both deities gasped as they felt the power coursing through the window.

Vicky was ecstatic, "That's her! That's her! I told you I felt it! You didn't believe me cause I'm only two years old in heaven's years, but I. Told. You!"

"I didn't doubt you for a minute, but that was all the proof I needed. That red-head is Alex. We haveta talk to her."

Immediately the red-head turned her head sharply to the window. Both Vicky and Kaori ducked down under the planter hanging on the window sill. They felt as the girl came to the window and looked out. She knew they were there. She knew that they knew who she was. Suddenly, she spoke to them.

"Vicky, Kaori, Come out from under there!" She spoke with authority. Her voice held seriousness that only Alex could conjure up. They stood up, Kaori stretching her wings out with purple feathers fluttering to the ground. Vicky allowed her cloak to shield her against the wind that was blowing through the area.

The red-head, Alex or whatever she was calling herself at the moment, motioned for them to come in. It was time to have a talk with the two of them.

-end 4 now-

(1)...that would be what i almost wrote...kinda sounds like something a mermaid would have...

Questions? Comments? Still sick, my sprained ankle is still painfully hurting me...cause i walked on it for three days..once in heels and twice through out Cedar Point...leave a review. plz. it would be nice to know what soem of you think of this. hopefully im begining to unconfuse you, if your confused.