Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Lost and Found ❯ Chapter III ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter III

Emma hummed to herself as she stood trying to get the grit that had melded to her body, off. She was glad to be getting cleaned and couldn't wait to soak in the large hot bath that had been shown to her by a few of the servant girls. Emma looked down at her chest again. They think I'm a boy? I had better find a tight wrap to hold down what will give me away. I'm sure there will be some in the infirmary. I'll just go in complaining of a headache and "borrow" some. She turned the shower off and wrapped the yellow towel around her body. She stepped out and went to open the door that led to a swimming pool sized bath. It was very lovely with its three waterfalls and a tiled table in the middle surrounded by tiled stools that were under the water while the table was slightly above to keep the surface dry. Rocks lined the bath's bottom and there were boulders in and out of the water, in perfect shapes for sitting and lounging on. She looked around and noticed that three servant girls were busy throwing ladles of smelling salts into the bath water. One of the girls noticed her and got the attention of the other two. They started blushing and giggling while whispering at each other. Great… they think I'm guy too… Oh well… "Um… thank you.. Err, that'll be all." She loosened the towel so that it hung loose about her so that when the three girls passes, they didn't notice anything too odd, but kept it tight enough so it wouldn't fall off.

Seeing the girls blushes as they walked by her, made her blush and she turned her head away from them to look indifferent. When they shut the door behind them, Emma let out a relived sigh then walked into the bath, keeping the towel about her body as she entered the warm waters. She practically swam over to a waterfall that was more or less hidden by large boulders, holding the towel as best she could as she went along. On arriving at the waterfall, she sat at the rock that was placed on the floor and leaned back so that the falling waters massaged her upper back.

She had just started to relax by tilting her head back, but in doing so she saw the bare end of, from telling by the braid, was Duo, jumping over her head and into the water. The splash was huge and water got into her face. "GYAA!!!" She had let go of the towel to keep her eyes safe and was glad that her body was under water from her collarbone down, for she heard the laughter of the other four boys. They had all entered the pool quietly, unlike Duo. "Hey, Emmer! Sorry `bout that!" Duo gave her a big grin. "Why don't you join us over here, huh? We can tell you more about ourselves!"

Emma looked at the other Gundam pilots who out of them all, only Duo and Quatre were smiling. She then noticed that they were all in the buff and glad that they were waist deep in the water. Then she thought about herself and scrambled for the yellow towel. "Um, I guess I could…" She gulped and re-wrapped the towel around her body, half swimming over to the pilots.

"Why don't you take the towel off?" came the unemotional voice of Heero. Thus made Emma blush. "Well… I'm kind of self conscious about my body."

"Ah! There's no reason to be shy!" Duo clapped her back and she stumbled forward a little.

"If he doesn't wish to remove the towel then leave him be." Trowa said in a voice that said not to pursue the matter further.

"Well, I guess we'll tell you a little about ourselves besides out names." Quatre smiled as he sat on an underwater rock. "My Mobile Suit was the Sandrock Gundam, and I pretty much stay here unless I'm called on by the L-4 Colony to settle some dispute or other. I am now the head of the Winner Family. This came about after my father's death noble suicide to save the colony from destruction during the war."

"After that happened, he went crazy and started blowing things up! Not to mention that he's a pacifist or anything and has way too many older sisters, no brothers!" Duo said with a smirk that made Quatre blush.

"Well what about you Duo?" Emma asked him, still maintaining the low octave voice.

Duo was taken aback, "Me? Well um… I was orphaned at a very young age. I don't know who my parents were. I was practically raised on the streets before living in a church orphanage. I took on the last name of Maxwell after the massacre there. My MS was the Deathscythe Hell. I didn't want my buddy to be a part of Project Meteor, so I stole the Deathscythe and came to Earth to hide out with Howard on the Pacific Ocean. I spend most of my time trying to avoid this chick named Hilde, who was once a soldier for OZ. I'm also known as the God of Death and the Great Destroyer! That just about sums it up." He gave another smile.

"You talk to much." Came the voice of Wufei.

"You hardly talk at all unless it's to start up an argument!" Duo clenched his fists.

"And obviously he succeeds in doing so." Emma said with a smile at Duo. "And I get this feeling that you wont say much about yourself." She looked at Wufei.

"I'll only say that I come from the L-5 Colony and I once piloted the Shenlong Gundam which was also named Nataku."

After his dead wife. She thought to herself, then smiled at him, "Thank you for sharing that much with me." Wufei looked at her disbelievingly for a moment, dropping his cold front, before realizing what he was doing and looked away. She chuckled at this.

"My Gundam was Wing," Heero spoke up, still with no feeling to his words. "I was trained since I was young to be a fighter. Though sometimes I periodically question the motives of my missions, I always accept them."

"Even if they might lead to your death?" Emma blinked. Heero said nothing but only nodded. Emma sighed, then looked towards Trowa. "And you?"

Trowa shrugged. He was leaning against one of the pool sides and had his arms crossed again. "I too was trained to be a fighter. My MS was the Heavyarms Gundam. It was created on the L-3 Colony. I don't know too much about my own past, but I travel with a space and Earth Circus where my sister works.

Emma nodded, "Why do you say `was'? Did something happen to the Gundams?"

Quatre sighed, "After the short war with Colony L-3 X18999, we destroyed our Gundams to show that we would no longer fight as pawns of wars but to maintain peace."

"Makes sense." Emma shrugged. Not noticing anything that duo was doing, he had snuck up behind her and pushed her under the water. In an angry fit she chased him around the bath, trying to get back at him for his mean prank. The others only laughed as they watched Emmer chase Duo around while trying to keep the big towel wrapped around her body.

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She had successfully gotten the wrap and was glad she wouldn't have to use tape to hold down her curves. Quatre had one of the servants show her to a bigger room nearer to the guys instead of using the room that they usually saved for short-term guests. Emma blushed again as the servant kept making small mistakes while staring at Emma. I must make a pretty handsome boy to be getting this kind of attention. She had thought at one point, and was glad when the girl had left. She plopped down on the bed and looked around so that she could get a good idea of where everything was.

The clothes that they had given her fit perfectly and were in the same colors and almost the same fashion as the ones she had worn before. Loose black slacks and a loose green button up shirt. Quatre must have sent a servant out to find an exact likeness to her original clothes. She reached over and grabbed the little black almanac that had been brought from the other room. She also grabbed the glasses and put them on. Emma flipped through the book to the page that had the date for that day. She quoted what it said. "Moon phase: Quatre. Planet Venus. You will find what you seek." She closed the book and took of the glasses, then fell to sleep.