Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Death Becomes Her ❯ Death's Presence ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Heero had a strange premonition about Relena's fate some nights ago. The soldier recalled seeing Relena clutching herself on the floor, in pain. Her lips moved as if she was attempting to say something but she was inaudible. However, with Heero's extensive military training, he was able to depict the precise words escaping through her gentle lips.

"Death is coming," Relena repeated, as she sat motionless. "Death is coming."

Suddenly coming back into reality, Heero jerked from his seat and thought that his dream was more than a nightmare. It was happening!! He raced out of this room and sped to the nearest space shuttle where he made his destination back to Earth, back to Relena, back to where he belonged.

As he waited impatiently for his arrival, he thought about the past. Relena's attractive features lingered clearly across his mind; her passionate eyes, her golden hair, her smile. He never should've left her but he had no choice. As they spent more time together, he was beginning to feel something that he has never felt before. Was it love? Regardless of what it was, it was unfamiliar to him and he knew that he had to escape this new sensation or else it could lead to his downfall as the "perfect soldier."

He did care for her well-being and her safety but was the only reason strictly professional or did he truly have feelings towards the former Queen? Too many questions rang through his head like the consistent ticking of a metronome.

"I'm coming Relena, please hold on" pleaded Heero as he increased the shuttle's speed.

Something was terribly wrong and he could sense it in his bones. What could it be? As the shuttle skyrocketed across the solar system, he encountered the moon, the same moon Relena was entranced by. "That moon," Heero thought, "there's something about it. But what?"

~10 min later~

Heero finally reaches the Peacecraft mansion and breaks open the front door without any mercy. He had to find Relena and make sure she was safe. As he reaches her bedroom door, a force whirled him across the hallway and knocked him down. Smoke and fog clouded the air and Heero could sense the negative energy emitting from behind the door. The perfect soldier pushed the wooden frame with all his might, yet again something shifted his weight and he found himself on the floor. "Was it a ghost?" he thought. Whatever it was, he couldn't get to Relena.

"RELENA….. answer me." Heero pleaded in the hall.

Relena heard a voice in her mind. It sounded like Heero but he couldn't be here. He left so long ago. Weakened and vulnerable, she anticipated that she was imagining things. She felt so weak. Whatever the fog was surrounding her, it was draining her life force away. A part of her desired her to give into the temptation but then that voice kept her conscious.

"Heero, is that you?" Relena gasped.

"Relena, what's wrong? Please open the door." Heero answered her.

"Heeeeerrrroooo. Help please!" Relena yelled but it hurt so much. She didn't have any energy left to hold onto this reality.

Heero heard her plea and used every once of strength in him to pry open the doorframe. Gradually, the fog lifted from the hall and he could vividly see the door handle. Without thinking twice, he pulled out his gun and fired two shots at the door. Thinking it would be faster using the direct approach than to knock the door down physically. The door creaked and it fell down with a giant gust of wind. He was in!

What he witnessed in that room was almost unimaginable. Fog was surrounding Relena as she stood motionless. That fog! It was the same fog that he encountered outside her room.

Relena heard something from the corner of her right ear and she knew that Heero has come back to her. Too weak to open her eyes, she used her last ounce of strength to say,

"Heero, please you must go. It's too dangerous. It's …. "

She fainted.

"RELENA!!!" Heero hollered. "Get away from her," he yelled to the smoke. The smoke surrounding her then parted and it drifted out of the room, into the cold night air. The substance that held Relena up was no longer there and she collapsed to the floor. Heero ran to her aid and caught her gently before she reached the carpeted floor.

"Relena," Heero thought. "If only I had been there."

~Hours later~

Relena was rushed to the hospital and under Heero's careful eye, she remained stable in her condition. The only problem was that she couldn't wake up. Heero knew she wasn't dead but why couldn't she resume consciousness? Something was wrong. Whatever that fog was, it took something out of her. Her essence. He then realized that Relena's body was physically there but her spirit and her soul was not. IT had taken her. He was too late. He didn't reach her in time.

Heero had a new mission now. He had the intention of retrieving Relena's soul but he needed help and he knew just where to find it.

TO BE CONTINUED …