Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Angels Take Flight ❯ Angels Take Flight Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Angels Take Flight

By Sabersonic

Chapter 3

Relena Peacecraft was stunned. She could not comprehend that she was going to an orbital colony. Sure she might handle moving to another city, but off the planet! Relena couldn't believe it.

"Zechs, are you serious?"

"Dead serious Relena. I just got a call from the base Commander. He said that both of us are being relocated to Island One. The Draconians could live with us if they like."

"We have no where else to go." Trieze said and the twins nodded in agreement.

"I know it will be hard for you, since leaving the planet isn`t an everyday experience. But I`m sure that we`ll be able to handle it."

"But what about Quatre, Trowa, and the others....?" Relena started to shed tears to the thought of leaving her friends behind.

"Don`t worry, we can always talk to them by vid-phone-"

"But it won`t be the same!" Relena ran to her room. Heero was about to go after her when Trieze stopped him.

"Maybe it`s wise to let her fury calm down nephew." Heero was about to argue against it, but decides not to.

"Great, now I`m the bad guy."

"Don`t blame yourself, it was not of your choice." Trieze advised Milliardo.

"Yah, well I still don`t like it." Then Heero went to Relena's room, hoping that he would somehow calm Relena down. In her room, Relena was crying because she would be leaving her friends like all the other times she had to move throughout her life. Then she heard someone knock on her door.

"Go away!" She half yelled, half sobbed. Then she heard someone land on her window and started to tap on the glass. She went to the window and opened it, allowing Heero to enter the room.

"Relena-" But she caught Heero off guard as she flew into his arms and cried in his chest. "Relena?" He did not know why she was crying so hard.

"I just- I just- I just can`t keep on doing this!" Relena sobbed, her tears moistening Heero's tee shirt. "I don`t want to move anymore!" Heero rubbed her back to comfort her, but it seemed as if her grief was stronger. After some moments of tearful sorrow, Relena was calmed enough to look up into Heero's eyes. She could feel that she could look into his Prussian Blue eyes and all her troubles would wash away, and she was so close to him. Her body was almost touching his, separated by a layer of clothing. Heero leaned his forehead against her own and simply closed his eyes. Relena started to blush, he was so close to her, so very close. She decided to close the gap and capture his lips with her own, a desire that could not be fully satisfied.

Heero's own eyes had suddenly widen to an abnormal size, he did not expect this kind of contact with her. The suddenness had surprised him, but the soft and tenderness of her lips soon faded his worries away. He rather enjoyed this kind of contact, it soothed him in a way, something that he couldn't describe. Then Relena pulled Heero towards her lips, deepening it more than it was, almost all of his senses were focused upon the kiss and for some unfathomable reason he wanted to enjoy every moment. As he drunk into the pleasure of a human kiss, his hand unconsciously wandered around her back. These wanderings made Relena moan in pleasure. The hands then reached the shoulder blades and felt something and he snapped out of the trance of the kiss. From that snap, the kissed ended as he violently tore their joined lips from each other.

"What`s wrong Heero, didn`t you like the kiss?" Relena's voice held disappointment, her first kiss was suddenly ended too swiftly and she wanted to know why.

"Well I do, it`s just that, well I felt something odd about your back."

"Huh?" Relena just became more confused then before.

"I really don`t know, but something`s out of place of it."

"Where did you find it Heero?"

"Right around here." Heero placed an index finger upon her shoulder blade, and for some odd reason, the touch actually pleasured her for some odd reason. "Is that normal Relena?"

"Well maybe you should look at it." She turned around and lifted the back side of her shirt to reveal her back. Just as this happened, Heero rapidly turned around to avoid the site of it. Even though he was a Draconian, he still had enough senses to know when to look away when a girl was undressing. Relena looked back and couldn`t hold back the smile. Always the gentlemen, or gentle-Draconian.

"It`s okay Heero. You`re not doing anything wrong." He reluctantly agreed and placed an open hand upon the area where he felt the oddity. As he rubbed the area and hearing Relena's moans from it, he felt something that was out of place. Then he slowly closed his hands around it and he held something. Whatever it was, it was as soft as Relena's skin. Heero was getting very confused, he wasn't sure if this was normal for humans or not. He pulled upon it and saw something white in his closed hand, this caused Relena to giggle.

"Heero hehe, that tickles..." Then he just pulled it and what he saw was odd. The thing in Relena's back was a wing, a Draconian wing. He pulled the wing out and gasped, something was diffidently out of place for Relena.

"Heero, what is-" Then she saw a wing, but it wasn't Heero's for his wings were absorbed into him. Then that leaves- the wing was hers. She had a wing, and logically she would also have a wing to match up with her unfurled one. "Heero, could you get my other one out?" Heero complied and unfurled her other one and folded it behind her. She turned around to meet Heero with wide eyes. She had wings, like Heero does.

"B-but how was this possible? You`re human, are you not?"

"I guess that the story was true."

"What story?" Relena then asked him to sit with her on the bed and she told Heero the story that Milliardo was telling her when they were on their way to the campsite. The story about when a World War I soldier took care of a wounded Draconian and the two fell in love with each other.

"And I guess that`s how I got these wings..." Relena finished the story. Heero was trying to contemplate on what she had told him.

"I`ve heard of Draconians being bonded to Humans, but I thought that they were mere rumor. I guess that they were true after all."

"But how am I going to hide these?" She motioned to her newly found wings. "I can`t go around public with these out? No offense Heero." He nodded and placed his hand next to her head, only the fingertips touching it. Then he closed his eyes and breathed out, Relena closed her and she felt her wings being furled into her back. Then she opened up her eyes.

"That was a mind meld that helps us teach the offspring on how to unfurl and furl their new wings." Relena blushed.

"Thank you Heero, but do you think that you could teach me how to fly with them?"

"I would, but I would need permission from your brother."

"Oh no, you don`t want to go there. Zechs`ll freak when he sees this. Maybe some other time."

"Yes, but we still have to tell him that."

"I really don`t think-"

"You can`t hide this forever Relena, sooner or later they`ll find out about it." He was right, Milliardo will find out about the wings sooner or later and she would have to face it. Relena nodded and the two went down to the living room.

~*~

Miliardo, Alia, and Treize were in the living room, trying to figure out how to work this move out for Relena, when she and Heero came down.

"Um Relena...are you feeling better?" Milliardo asked and she nodded.

"Zechs, there`s something I have to tell you."

"What, what is it Relena?" Then she started to take off her shirt. "What the-Rel?! What are you-" As she pulled the shirt over her head, she unfurled her wings. Milliardo's jaw just hung as the feather's shimmered in the light. "Bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu......"

"How is this possible?" Alia softly spoke. Trieze was just as mystified from the site, a human having Draconian wings.

"So it must be possible for a Human and a Draconian to bond...So the rumors must be true..."

"But how can this be? We did not sense her ancestry...."

"The addition of human bonds to the DNA must have masked it from us." Trieze then turns to Milliardo. "I wonder....."

"Hold on there, how can I be a Draconian? I mean I am a normal human being...aren`t I?"

"That`s what I though before I discovered my wings." Relena said to Milliardo about her surprising heritage.

"Then how`d you discover yours eh?" Relena then looked at the ground and blushed lightly. "Never mind, I don`t want to know."

"It was accidentally found. It was a total shock to me, we never thought that it would have been possible for a Draconian and a Human to bond-"

"Hold on a minute. What is this bond that you keep on mentioning?" Milliardo interrupted, not wanting to be lost.

"Well to us, a bond is when two Draconians-"

"Enough information for me. Do not want to know more, really!" Then an idea sparks in his mind. "Say.......If Rel`s half Draconian..."

"I think the DNA is more isolated than-"

"I know that!" Milliardo barked. "Though the idea of me having wings is a good idea..."

"Well it is possible, the chances of both having the same-" Then Milliardo begins to grunts as he tries something. "Come on you stupid wings, pop out! Come on, come on!"

"Um Milliardo, I do not think that-"

"I know what I`m doing. Just hold on a bit Heero. They`ll pop out sooner or later." Continues to grunt and strain.

"But Zechs, the wings just don`t-"

"I think I feel something." Then there was a long, loud trumpet like noise echoing throughout the room.

"Ookkaaaayy, not exactly what I was expecting."

"God, Zechs!" Relena wafts the odor from her nose. "What did you eat last night."

"Taco Bell."

"That`ll explain it. Ugh." Then she sees that the other Draconians were unaffected. "Why aren`t you`re lungs crying out for air?"

"When you live like a Draconian, you learn to mind the odors."

"Okay, too much information! Not very pretty! No want image!" Milliardo almost screeched.

"Like you`re not?" Relena held her nose, seeing as wafting wasn't good enough.

"I didn`t say anything!"

"Well you`re lips didn`t."

"Real funny....." The three Draconians see that they should leave or find themselves involved in this conflict.

~*~

Some time later, Heero was giving Relena flying lessons on how to use her wings. Though he thought that she would become scared once she begins flying, but he found that Relena seemed to be taking it rather well for a human-raised Draconian/Human breed. Relena giggled as she felt the air flow across her feathers and her hair and looked upon the ground of urban San Francisco. It was Relena's greatest dream to fly like this, she had spent most of her life daydreaming of flying like the birds and today she was flying with a pair of wings of her own.

"Alright, I`m going to let go of your hand. Keep yourself steady and don`t loose your balance." He let go of her hands, she stumbled a bit, but then aligned herself and was now flying on her own.

"Oh god, I love this." Relena was doing barrels rolls and loops while Heero watched in awe. Maybe she was more skilled in flying then he thought. Then she flew under him and faced him while flying upside down.

"Are you enjoying this Relena?" He said while smiling. She nodded and touched his face with her hand.

"I love you Heero." She said, bringing him closer to her.

"I love you too Relena." He kissed Relena in her lips, fully enjoying the taste of her kiss and the warmth of her lips. Finally they headed to the ground and find Milliardo talking to Trieze and Alia.

"So what you`re saying is that even though I`m part Draconian, I don`t have any wings?"

"Yes, there were some of us who were born without wings. We call them the Cursed because they cannot escape for they have no wings to use to fly away from Arachnid attacks. Not many of them lived as long as we do..." Then he looked down. "That`s how I lost my love, she was born with no wings and was lost during a battle here on your world. I never saw her again...."

"Man, that is just so sad...." Then looked to find Relena done with her lessons. "Oh and Relena, don`t forget that baby sitting job for Mrs. Une."

"I won`t." furling her wings and going into the house. Heero followed her.

"Would you need any help in overlooking the offspring?" Relena shook her head.

"No, I think that I can handle looking after Marimeia." Then Heero looked upon Relena quizitively. "What?"

"Marimeia is the name given to my infant cousin some time ago."

"Really? Maybe you should come with me, you might find that it could be useful later on..hehehe" She blushed.

"Draconian males are natural offspring caretakers if that is want you are referring to." A few hours later, it was time for Relena to go to her history teacher's house to take care of her child while she attended a School Board Meeting.

"And make sure that Marimeia doesn`t stay up after 9:30, okay?"

"I won`t Miss Une."

"Good, I`ll be back soon." Miss Anne Une left her daughter to the care of Relena and Heero. As the history teacher left, Relena went to find Marimeia who would be hiding from her and play hide and go seek. Relena always went to find Marimeia ever since the little girl learned to crawl.

"Do you need any assistance Relena?"

"Oh I`m pretty good at finding her. I usually find her in around five minutes." Relena said as she looked behind furniture. Heero, however, knows of a quicker way to find Marimeia. The nasal cavities of a Draconian are much more sensitive then that of a human and almost superior to a dog's sense of smell. He thinks that it would have been faster to seek the little girl if he only had her sent, but then suddenly his nose caught whiff of a familiar odor. This odor was mixed with other senses, but it was familiar none the less. He followed it to a door and when he opened it, a small, seven year old red headed child popped out.

"You found me again Relen-" But she stopped what she was saying. Marimeia looked upon Heero like some kind of a memory from long ago. The two of them stared at each other for some time before Relena dashed up to them.

"Huh? Is there something wrong you two?" Then Marimeia slowly pointed at Heero.

"You`re.........you`re my cousin aren`t you?" Heero nods.

"Huh?! What do you mean by that Mari?" Relena's eyes widen to show that she was dumbfounded as to what just happened.

"It`s a Draconian Bond that we simply called the Shahun, in which clan members would instantly identify each other when they are apart." It took some moments for Relena to sink this information into her mind.

"So what you are saying is that Marimeia`s a Draconian, and your cousin?"

"Yes." Another surprise in Relena's life. She never really thought that Marimeia wasn't human, that she was part of a race of god-like beings.

"I think that I need to sit down for this one...." Heero helped her to the sofa in the living room. Knowing that there are such beings that are almost godlike was strange enough, now that one of her closest friends was actually one of them and this was too much for Relena to believe. She could have sworn that that could have been a plot twist in some cheesy soap opera. She guessed that Miss Une was correct, Marimeia was her little angel, or to be more precise her little Draconian.

~*~

It was 11:30 when Miss Une returned from the board meeting. She unlocked the door and saw the Draconian Heero, Relena and her adopted daughter Marimeia. But it wasn't the fact that Marimeia was up past her bed time that she was shocked, it was the fact that her wings were unfurled.

"Marimeia! I told you never to show your wings-"

"I know Mama, this is Heero my cousin!" Marimeia directed towards Heero. Miss Une was shocked again, a relative of her adoptive Draconian daughter was here in her own house. She had always thought that her family was killed off when a blond, wingless Draconian wanted her to protect her infant Marimeia before she died from loss of blood. Miss Une has always cared for, protected, and loved Marimeia for seven years and now a living relative of her has returned.

"So you basically know about Marimeia being a Draconian right?" Miss Une nodded.

"Yes, ever since I found Marimeia I`ve always know that she was special, that she was not really human. I thought that she was the only one...."

"Yes Mama, and also my daddy`s here!"

"Y-your daddy?" Marimeia nodded her head with excitement.

"We can be a real family Mama, just like you wanted!" She looked as if she was ready to jump walls from excitement.

"Well I don`t know what to say-"

"Let`s go visit daddy!" Marimeia was about to jump in excitement when Heero placed a hand upon her shoulder.

"You may have to wait until tomorrow little cousin, it is past your bed time."

"But Heero, I`m not tired...."

"Come on, you need your sleep." Heero lead Marimeia to the stairs.

"Aw.. do I have to?" Then Heero started to tickle her sides. "Hehehehe! Hey! That`s not fare!"

"Come on, off with you." Heero chased Marimeia to her bedroom. Sounds of Marimeia giggling could be heard.

"Come on! Stop it! Hehehehehehe, I give up! Stop it!" Relena and smirked as they heard Heero bonding with his long lost cousin. Miss Une sat upon the couch and turned to Relena.

"Hn...so is her father going to take Marimeia with him?" Relena just shook her head gently.

"I don`t think so, for one thing Trieze doesn`t have a place to go home anymore and I don`t think he would ever want to take Marimeia away from you."

"That`s his name? Trieze?"

"Yep, that`s his name."

"Hn...odd name....must be Germanic in origin..."

"I don`t think so, for one thing he`s a Draconian. A totally different species then humans."

"Well they could have fooled me and Darwin." The two giggled and started to share stories that were related to the Draconians. They talked for quite some time before Heero interrupted them.

"I don`t want to be a bother, but I think now would be a good time to leave for home."

"Yes, it`s getting quite late." Relena turned towards Miss Une. "Well I hope that we`ll meet again Miss Une."

"Please, call me Anne. And I hope that you won`t take this move too hard." Relena nodded and the two left for the house, which was almost half empty of belongings and loaded upon a mover truck. By morning, little was left in the house that reminded the Peacecrafts and the resident Draconians that it once held a family within its walls. Relena was allowed one day to visit her friends before they had to report to the space port in southern San Francisco with Heero and Alia accompanying her. Trieze, in hearing that his only spawn alive in Miss Une's residents, went towards the place where Marimeia had been living for many years. They were told to meet him at the space port main lobby. Milliardo, in the meantime, was left alone in the entire house.

"Well, might as well do something." Milliardo then took the car and drove towards the base to retrieve his items at his desk and to visit Lucrezia Noin, who was also transferred to Island One.

"So Zechs, saying your last goodbyes then?" Noin asked the object of her affections.

"Not really, in fact I`m not going to even miss this base. The only thing I like about this place is also going to Island one."

"Yes, but I`ve sorta grown fond of the base-"

"Well personally I`m glad that I`ve being transferred away, the staff sucks, my superiors complain and don`t do a thing about anything, and the pay sucks, did I mention that the staff sucks?"

"I don`t think that you`re really a people person Milliardo. You always find fault in everything and everyone."

"Blame it on my dad, he was the one who raised me like that." After Milliardo gathered his desk belongings, he and Noin drove to the space port. Already they're seeing the small atmospheric shuttles <de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_Atm-Shuttle.htm> for transporting small number of military personnel and large cargo shuttles that are merely large cousins to the small atmospheric shuttles.

"Hn.....looks like every Earth Force personnel in the entire bay area is being relocated."

"Well I hope that no one else at the base transferred. Hey look there`s Relena, Alia and Heero." Milliardo pointed towards the three that just arrived. He assumed that they landed some ways away from the spaceport to disclose their identities as Draconian descent.

"Where`s that other one, Trieze?"

"Uncle Treize has decided to say with Marimeia." Heero answered for Trieze's absence.

"Um...well..I guess we can let him live here on the Earth." The group then loaded their belongings upon the shuttle and strapped themselves to their seats for the shuttle launch. The shuttle roared from the launch strip and rocketed into space in a thunderous crack. Upon the window seat, Relena saw the sky turned from the familiar bright blue into the darkness of outer space with starks breaking through the jet black void.

"Goodbye....Earth.." Relena whispered as the shuttle headed towards the nearest refueling station for the long flight towards Island One.

~*~

Sorry for the long wait, but here we go. Chapter 3 of "Angels Take Flight". I hope that you people enjoy this as much as I do. Please review and/or e-mail me at Sabersonic@Hotmail.com

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