Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Generation Extreme ❯ Mars's Fire Reading ( Chapter 4 )

As she sat on a park bench and sobbed a man came up and presented her with a flower. A buttercup.

Hope: wha' what?

Man: You looked sad. I was hoping I could see you smile. All I've seen is you yelling at me.

Hope: You-

Man: My name's Scott. I go to Oldrage High School. I'm a Sophmore.

Hope: I knew that.

Scott: How?

Hope: Sailor Mercury, she's a genius. She figured some of that out.

Scott: Which part?

Hope: Your age. *wiped eyes* I just got dumped by my boyfriend, I was kinda hoping you'd be him.

Scott: *smiles* Sorry to dissappoint you.

Hope: No. I didn't mean- Okay, rewind, alright, my name is Hope, I'm 15, you know about the whole Mars thing, ummmm, my parents died in a fire on this day a year ago, and I now live with a fake family I can talk into anything. I have an older fake brother name Barret, and he likes me more than I like him, I like him as much as I like school. So, that tells you something...

Scott: Scott Mayfield, I'm 16, you know about my thing... My parents are still alive, but I don't live with them, they're split up and I don't like their girlfriend and or boyfriend. So I live with my older brother, I have an older brother, named Freddrich, and he's 19...

Hope: Nice to meet you.

Scott: *bumps her over and sits by her on the bench* I think so too. I would've helped you that one time, but, you seemed to need to do it on your own.

Hope: Thanks-

Alex burrows over, nods to the guy and glares at the girl.

Alex: Heero's alive!!!!

Hope: That's not possible-

Alex: Did they ever find a body?

Hope: No, but-

Alex: Did you ever find anything that was theirs?

Hope: No, but-

Alex: They're alive!! I think I passed Rei on my way here.

Hope: *jumps up* Knee-length purple hair? Purplish eyes?

Alex: Yup.

Hope: Why didn't you bring her too if you thought she was my mother you idiot?!? I'd believe you if you had her here, but, I could say I just saw Santa Claus, but would you believe me?

Alex: No.

Hope: What if he was here talking to you? Would you be able to not believe me?

Alex: No.

Hope: Exactly. Where was Heero?

Alex: Iris's garage. He was talking to a mechanic.

Hope: Hm. *flicks up top of watch* Iris?

Iris: Hey, Hope-

Hope: Was Heero just there?

Iris: Honey-

Hope: Alex just told me he was!! Was he or was he not there?

Iris: He might've, I'm at home-

Hope: Call Gina and try to get a read on our parents, okay? I'm gonna see if I can find them.

Iris: Alright...

Hope: Bye.* snaps it shut* Hm. *pulls on tops of shoes and they pull up into knee-high boots, and she qickly transformed* No body'll mess with fire. *winks* Bye. *takes off running*

She found probably every younger brown-haired man, and every girl with long dark hair in all of Tokyo, and had stopped each one before passing by Quatre. She spun and grabbed his arm. He looked at her.

Quatre: You can see me?

Hope: Of course I can, Quatre!! You remember me, Hope? I'm Heero's daughter. Sailor Mars?

Quatre: Yeah. I miss Iris. Take me to her, I can't find her.

Mars: Where's Mina?

Quatre: She's still alive, so're Heero and the other girls, Only Greg, and Darien and I died-

Mars: *surprisingly calmly* Okay, this way. *she takes him to Iris's new home* Up there. *walks to door* iris!!!!

Iris: It's late, Hope-

Hope: Look. *Iris looked impatiently and gasped*

Iris: Dadeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Quatre: Iris! *huggle* I've missed you- so so much.

Hope: *looks up and Alex is watching from a streetcorner. She jumped up, ran and jumped a few rooftops and hopped down next to him* Hello.

Alex: Hey.

Hope: Could you bring them back?

Alex: I doubt it. I'm sorry, but what with having only one god parent, and taking after my mom most... I'm sorry. *looks at sidewalk* I really am.

Hope: Hey- *he looks up and she hugs him* I know what it's like to be helpless, and I know how much it kills me, so I can only imagine, but, I want you to know this, no one else will ask, I'm the bigmouth. They'd be too embarassed, and don't worry, we won't expect you to try.

Alex: Thanks.

Hope: C'mon, I'll take you to a fire reading. Follow me. *Runs off and he follows, not having a clue {but curious as to} what a fire reading was*

Alex: What is a Fire Reading?

Hope: In here! *Jumps into a yard and makes a secret mad dash across, he does the same and follows her into a shrine* So, Like my old house?

Alex: You left because of the family thing?

Hope: Yeah. *lights a fire as Hope again* C'mere and sit by me, like this, on your knees. *she instructed him then put her fists together to make one and with each of the words her mom had taught her she made her fingers do a different sign, then began her question* Fire, great, wondorous Fire. The light of my life, the life in my soul. Please, tell me where the old scouts are, it's crucial we find them...

the fire roars and an image appears, the image is of their parents. A voice thunders in her mind, and then she asks

Hope: Do you know why they did not die?

Once again it roared and flickered.

Hope: Will we get them back, as a whole and be able to instruct us on our journey of protecting people?

Roar, and then it stayed that way for many minutes, and Alex was afraid she'd annoyed it and they were going to be burned to a crisp, but then two things came out of the fire, a medium-sized bird, and Box.

Hope: Thank you for your gifts.

It roared and a sun appeared with flowers intwined around it depicting a happy picture, and she smiled.

Hope: So mote it be. *the fire shrunk to a normal size* It was annoyed, and amused by your gaping maouth, but it only ammended it when I told it it was your first time, and so it chose to give you a gift too rather than scare you. It wanted to spit sparks at you for fun. *hands him the box* It's yours, what ever it is. This beauty, however, is now mine.

Alex: What is it?

Hope: A pheonix, or firebird. It dies, and burns to a cinder, then a baby Pheonix rises from it's ashes. It's name is Pyro. *it waddled over and sneezed a feather into her lap, and she put it in her hair* Hello, darling, I think we'll be really good friends, right?

Pyro: I'm not a girl, ya know.

Alex: *scared* It TALKED!!!!!!!!!

Hope: All of our pet-friends-instructors do. It's tradition.

Alex: It's odd. That's what it is!! Outright odd!!!

Hope: I suppose you still haven't met Diana, Luna and Artemis.

Alex: Please tell me it's some more scouts.

Hope: They're talking cats.

Alex: Goodness. *looks at box* Can I open it now?

Hope: The fire is waiting for you to.

Alex: Oh. Sorry. *opens it and stares* What is it?

Hope: I don't know, how about you show me.

Alex: *takes it out* I've never seen anything like it before.

Hope: I have. I know exactly what it is, too. Those're gloves, that's a helmet, and that's a suit.

Alex: For?

Hope: A Pilot. The Fire told me you'd be one last time I came, and it thought you were such a funny little boy it'd help you along. *BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP!!!!*

Iris: Mars!!!

Hope: I'm Hope right now.

Iris: They told me a Gundam just came in. One named Deathscythe. Sound familiar? I can't place it.

Alex: Did the Fire-?

Hope: *grinning and nodding* I believe that was Duo's Gundam, but now I think Alex'll take it over.

Iris: This thing is sweet, I mean that's what Jon told me, I'm in my car right now, driving over, where are you two?

Hope: My old Shrine.

Iris: Fire reading?

Hope: All good news. I'll tell you when you pick us up. So Alex can check it out, help you fix it.

Iris: Right.

Alex: Deathscythe? Whoa, I can't believe you girls'd help me out so much.

Hope: I think I'll take that as a complement?

Alex: Yeah- I didn't mean-

Iris: Aw, shut up, you made the mistake of expressing a statement around Hope, and now she won't let you alone about it...

Alex: Lovely.

Hope: Isn't it just?

Iris: I'm here, guys, at the bottom of the steps, hurry up.

Hope: Got it. *snaps it shut and runs across the yard with the bird streaking after her*

Alex: Girls. *runs out too*