Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Diana ❯ Diana ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

A white and purple figure stepped out of the huge ship that had landed on part of the escaping ship. Its long white tail flipped back and forth and looked around. Its black eyes stopped on the young ruler, Starcrest Darius Moon.
" Well, hello Starcrest." Freiza grinned.
" Hello Freiza." He grit out.
" Where were you planning to go with this space ship?" He nodded his head over to the ruined Lyona-jin space craft.
" No where." He lied.
" Now, now. You know I don't like it when you lie." Frieza walked up to him and grinned. His tail lashed out and slapped him hard across the face. The other Lyona-jins standing by started and glared at the alien.
" Leave him alone!" Diana's voice soared over the area. " It's me you want, right? Come and get me you lip stick wearing, genderless, freak!"
" Diana!" Starcrest shouted.
" No!" She snapped back. " I will not have my people under the tyranistic hand of this lilly pad lizard. We are a free planet and that freedom was already paid for by the blood of our ancestors. We will not give it back!" Diana growled and glared daggers at Freiza.
The lizard man just laughed. " Such bravado. Such brave words. How can you keep spitting those out and not wonder what the concequences are?" He asked.
" I know what the concequences are, Freiza. Are you ready to end you life today?" She asked in a low hiss. " Because I am more than ready to fight you."
" Diana! No!" Heero ran up and pulled her away. " We are not ready to lose you."
" What's this?" Freiza's voice barked. " You're housing humans here as equals?"
" Yes." Starcrest said proudly. " They are like us in every way, just without the tails."
" Ah, weak and spineless." Freiza grinned.
" They are not weak and spineless!" Vegeta snapped. Diana and Starcrest whipped their heads around to stare wide eyed and slack jawed at him. " They are a proud race and a powerful one too."
" Prince Vegeta, how nice to see you here." Frieza smiled. " Why are you defending them? They are under you."
" Actually, they are right at my level, Freiza. Why don't you use a scouter and check out their power levels. You'll find that they have excelled even your most powerful goonie." Vegeta smirked.
Freiza blinked and ordered for a scouter to be brought to him. A soldier rushed out and handed him a scouter. He fixed it onto his head and checked out Starcrest's power level. Even at a relaxed state, he was well above four million. He turned his head and looked at Diana. She growled and the scouter vaporized.
" Leave now or I'll kill you and sell you for dog meat." She hissed.
" We shall see." Freiza smiled and walked back onto his ship. They left in a hurry.

Diana turned to Vegeta and stared at him for a moment. She placed her hand on his head to check for a temperature. Vegeta slapped her hand away.
" I'm not sick." He growled.
" You have to be to save our skins." Diana said still looking him over. " But if not, then thanks anyways." She straightened and smiled at him.
Vegeta snorted and turned. He stopped and looked at Grean and Letsu. He looked over his shoulder at Diana. She shrugged and sniled.
" They're yours." She said and bowed gracefully to him.
Vegeta smirked and walked off.
Heero draped an arm over her shoulders. Starcrest walked over to his little sister, upset that she pulled such a stunt.
" You could have been killed! Are you that dense?" He snapped at her.
" True, but I'm still here, aren't I?" She looked at him. " Besides, it was worth seeing the shocked and scared face on that freaks face." Diana laughed.
Starcrest looked at her and shook his head. Diana will always be Diana, wild and untamable.

Late that night, Diana slid out of Heero's arms and wrapped a robe around her. She looked out the windows and into the starlit sky. She could see Vegeta-sei as plain as day. It hovered in their sky like a huge red moon. The other moon was a little smaller and a creamy white. She sighed and wondered how many more times will Freiza come to terrorize them and try to get them to bow to his will. Diana jumped when strong arms wrapped around her waist.
" What's wrong?" Heero's soft voice whispered in her ear.
" Nothing, I was just thinking."
" About what?"
" When we could actually get rid of Freiza once and for all." She looked down and ran her hand over his hands. " Maybe then, we would be able to establish the Dragon Rings and have faster transprotaion throught the galaxy."
" Always looking to make life easier for others than yourself." Heero chuckled and swung her away fron the window. " Why don't you indulge yourself from time to time. You've told me that everytime you try to take a vacation, it all get's screwed up. You end up fighitng someone and you never get a good rest. All this stress will kill you Di."
" I know, but ... there's so much to be done." She said and lay her head on his shoulder. " So ... much ... " She murmured and closed her eyes.
Heero smiled and scooped her into his arms. He walked back to the bed and lay her down gently. He slid in beside her and pulled the covers up to their chins. His arms snaked around her waist and held her close.
" So much to do, and never enough time." He whispered and snuggled close.

Heero woke up with him alone in the room. He looked around and found no trace of Diana. He yelped and feel out of the bed when the window shattered and a ball thumped to the ground. He slipped on the robe Diana had last night and picked up the object. He turned it over in his hand and looked out the window.
" Hey!" Diana waved to him from on the ground. " Good morining." She shouted and flew up to the window. " Sorry about that." She laughed as she took the ball from his hand.
" How early did you wake up?" He asked rubbing his eye.
" About six." She said.
" Too early." He grabbed her wrist and yanked her inside the room. He threw her onto the bed and covered her mouth with his. " You need to learn how to sleep in."
" What time did you wake up on your missions?" She asked grinning.
" I slept when I needed to." He murmured and started to untie her baseball pants.
" Heero!" She gasped as he growled and slipped her shirt off with easy movements.
" You are mine, now and forever." He chuckled and kissed her again.

A few hours later, Diana was back outside, playing baseball with her team of players. Heero was relaxing on the steps, watching her. He looked up when Starcrest came over and sat next to him.
" So, how were the missions?" He asked.
" They were fine, until Duo messed one up on accident, or so he says." Heero sighed.
" What happened?"
" We were supposed to meet up at a certain location, but he arrived late, almost making the rest of us lunch meat. He said that the area he was in was full of booby traps. I say that's a crock." Heero snorted.
" That's bad. Was the mission successful?"
" Yes." Heero said. " We will soon be able to down load all of Frieza's information and be able to scramble his entire system and back up systems in a few days."
" Very, very good." Starcrest said. " Does Diana know?"
" Not the full scale of the operations."
" Good." Both turned and looked at her as she ran to third base. She turned and looked at them. Diana smiled and waved, blowing a kiss to each. " I hope she approves when I tell her. You know that she hates it when someone has a handicap, even if it's the enemy."
" Always like to fight fair." Heero chuckled. " That's your sister."
" That's your girlfriend." Starcrest retorted and they both laughed at that.

Heero looked up as a space ship was landing. The doors opened and Helen steped out. She smiled at Heero as she walked up to him.
" Hey Helen, long time no see. How's Anna and Shae?"
" Arguing as usual. Where's Diana? I was hoping for a spar today."
" Why?"
" Everything's boring on Vegeta-sei. No one want's to do anything." She shrugged.
" Last I saw, Diana was walking through the Halls of Memories." He pointed towards the castle. Helen thanked him and Heero got back to reading battle plans and organizing.

Helen trotted through the halls and came to the Hall of Memories. A hall dedicated to all the Lyona-jins that helps bring freedom to their world. She found Diana kneeling at a picture. She had her head bowed and eyes closed. She walked quietly up to her, hoping to scrae her.
" Hold up a minute." Diana said holding up her hand. Helen stopped and silently cursed. Diana lifted her head and opened her eyes. She looked at the picture and sighed, then she got to her feet and looked at Helen. She brushed off dust on her pants and straightened her shirt out. " Hey Helen. What's up?"
" Nothing much. Just wanting to spar." Helen shrugged.
" Already?" Diana gawked. " After the last beating I had given you, I though you would have quit." She laughed. Helen growled.
" That was lucky because I wan't feeling too good." She snorted and flicked her tail.
" Oh, don't be that way, Helen. Remember all those time you beat the snot out of me?" She said and clasped her hands behind her back. Her lion tail flicking back and forth in anticipation.
" Yeah, but then you'd always say you let me win." Helen frowned.
" You believed me?" Diana stopped. She blinked a few times them burst into riotous laughter. " Helen! Come on! When have I ever let you win?"
" There's rumor out that you are a thousand times stronger than Freiza, Diana. Saiya-jins do not play around when someone's packing ten million atom bombs in one puch." Helen turned and stared at her, all serious.
Diana stopped and looked at her friend. " They actually believe I have become the strongest being in the galaxy?"
" No, in the universe Diana. You have made Vegeta determined to get stronger than you-"
" Surprise, surprise." Diana snorted.
" And he intends to beat you to Freiza! He's going to get strong enough to kill Freiza himself!" Helen said in a near shout. Diana stopped.
" Why is he going to be that idiotic? Just because I am stronger than he is and I threatened to kill Freiza?" Diana asked, trying to understand it all.
" Yeah."
" We have got to stop that maniac!" Diana said and ran out of the hall with Helen close behind.

They burst out of the door, scaring Heero. He looked up and screamed as Diana instantly shifted into her dragon form. White freathers rippling over her body. Pale rose, jade green, and white under feathers caught the wind as she lifted into the air. Her platinum talons sparkled in the afternoon sun as he triple row of rose colored spikes flattened against her head and neck. Heero saw Helen leap into the air and land on Diana's back. They flew straight into the atmosphere and into space.
Note: Lyona-jin dragon forms are able to create a shield around their bodies and the bodies of their passengers to capture in beathable air when they travel through space. They also can go to speeds as fast as a a bullet train in the emptyness of space like it was on a gravitated planet.

Diana broke through the atmosphere of Vegeta-sei. The race there gasped and dodged out of the way as the huge dragon swooped low and flew for the castle. She lifted into the air and cleared the castle walls, then she landed gracefully in the center of the courtyard. Letting Helen down, she sucked in a deep breath. Helen dove for cover and covered her ears.
" VEGETA!" Diana roared. It litterally shook the castle foundation and echoed across the planet.
" Excellent projection." Helen said rubbing her slightly ringing ears.
" Why, thank you." She bowed and shifted back into her human form. Both looked up as a fuming and partly freaked Vegeta flew out of a window and landed not so gracefully on the ground.
" What do you want woman?" He snarled.
" I am not going to have you go off and ... wait a minute! What am I saying! Go and get yourself mutilated by Freiza! It'll get you out of my hair!" Diana said pushing Vegeta off towards the training rooms.
" Diana!" Helen snapped.
" Oh, all right." Diana roller her eyes and faced Vegeta. " Look, just because I mat be stronger than you doesn't mean that I will go off and train till I pass out. I am not going to go off and hunt down that abomination, I have no intentions to do so. So, you can stay here and still train but I want this idea of training till you're stronger than me and going off to kill Freiza out of your miniscule brain."
" You are not my mother, brat." Vegeta snapped. Diana faultered and glared at him.
" Helen, he's about two seconds from getting the evil me all up in his face! Help me!" She growled out between gritted teeth.
" Vegeta, if you do not do as Diana says, then I will ban you from the training room and from anything that deals with fighting." Helen said.
" What can you do, girl?" He glared at her.
" Remember, brother-in-law. I can do many things." Helen grinned.
Vegeta gulped and accepted his defeat. Diana nodded and shifted back into dragon and flew back to her planet.

Diana landed back on her planet and she was just about starved from using up so much energy. She walked sluggishly to the castle doors and shoved them open. As she dragged her almost lifeless body inside her nose caught scent of her most favorite food in the entire universe. She perked up and ran as fast as she could to the dining hall. Her mouth dropped open at the sight on trays of fresh lasagna and salads. She slurped up her dripping drool and rushed to her seat. Dropping down she awaited her plate.
" Nice for you to join us Di." Starcrest said looking at his food deprived little sister.
" Shut up and pass the food!" She said quickly.
" What did you spend your energy on this time?" He asked as he watched a butler set a plate before her. He had to lash his hand back before it disappeared in the dark cavern of her mouth.
" Talin o Wehea." She said around a mouth full of food. She gulped it down and wiped her mouth. " He was intending to train hard and then go kill Freiza."
" Why?" Starcrest asked and ate sowly, mainly watching his sisters food vanish quicker than it could be set down and none of it flying around the table.
" He's upset that I'm stronger than he is." She said simply and took a long gulp of water. " In my opinion, I'd say he's a fool for being so jelous. I mean, we are on the same side as he is."
" Right."
" And so when he needs help, we'll be there for him." She shoved a piece of lasagna in her mouth.
" But you must take into count his pride." Starcrest said pushing away his plate, suddeny loosing his appetite.
" True, but then when he get's his butt whipped, he'll be glad that we were there for him!" Diana grinned as she wipped her mouth and took a sip of water. " So, how was you day today?" She asked casually.
" Fine." He said with a weak smile.

Diana was asleep in bed before Heero even came up. He opened the doors and found her curled in a tight ball in one corner of the bed. He smiled ans hook his head. Heero shook her awake and watched as she slowly unfolded from her odd tangle of limbs.
" When you get back?" She asked in a yawn.
" A few minutes ago." He whispered and helped her get under the sheets.
" Where you go?" She muttered as he started to slip out of his clothes.
" On a mission." He said. " Where did you go eariler today?"
" Had to get Vegeta to put his head on straight." She said and snuggled against him as he slipped into the bed. Heero circled his arms around her and soon fell fast asleep.

Starcrest lay in his bed, still awake and thinking of the things he had to do. He had to finish that alliance with the Felini-jins and help with the Dragon Rings project. His mind spun about all he had to do. He sat up and walked over to the window. Opening the elaborately decorated panes, he breathed in the cool night air. Starcrest sighed and wished that his and Diana's parents were still alive. They would have handled everything perfectly, and he still had yet to find a wife. He sighed and glanced up as a star shot across the deep blue sky.
" Is something wrong, Crest?" The Prince turned to look down at an adult gray cat with jade green eyes. A silver cresent moon sat in the center of its forhead.
" Oh, its you Lunan." He said in a breath of relief.
" Who else would be up at this late hour. You, I believe are supposed to be sound asleep dreaming of lovely women." The cat said and jumped up onto the window sill.
" Is there anything you need at the moment, cat?" Starcrest asked grinning at Lunan. " Besides bothering me?"
" Nothing comes to mind." Lunan flicked his tail. " So, why are you up?"
" I've been thinking."
" About the things you have to do?" Starcrest nodded. " I see. Maybe a soothing bath will untie all thise knots and relax you." Lunan suggested and jumped onto his shoulder. " Besides, T.J. will be coming soon and he will be of imense help on testing the Dragon Rings."
" I sure hope so."
" And he hopes Freiza will come for a visit, also."
" Why?" Starcrest looked at his cat companion.
" He has a score to settle with ' that abomination to the enitre galaxy'." Lunan said mimicking T.J. perfectly. Starcrest laughed and walked into his private bath. Lunan leaped off his shoulder and shut the door, giving the prince all the privacy he needed.