Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Memory of a Lost Soldier ❯ Chapter two ( Chapter 2 )

DISCLAIMOR: THE ONLY CHARACTER I OWN IS ADINA.

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It's been a week now. Trowa still had no idea what had happened to him. Ever so often he'd get a certain reaction. He'd suddenly get cold and shiver terribly. It tore Catherine apart to see her dear brother this way. She wanted to help him in every way possible, but she didn't know how. She felt so powerless, even to help her own flesh and blood, but she still knew to protect him. No matter what, that was her resolve.

One day Trowa was by the lion's cage. As he was feeding it, he could've sworn that the wind switched direction and noticed a certain chill in the air. That very chill ran up his spine as he got up to look around. He saw nothing and concluded it was just his imagination. That is, until something caught his eye. In the dark corner he saw a shadow watching him. It didn't move, and neither did Trowa.

"Who's there?" he finally spoke.

The shadow shimmered and Trowa took a step back tripping on the bucket full of the lion's food. He fell backwards and the pail clashed as it fell over. Catherine heard all the noise and came to see what was going on.

"Trowa? Are you all right?" she asked kneeling beside him. "What happened?"

"I saw...I saw..." he started, looking at her. He looked back at where the shadow had been. It was no longer there. Was it a dream? A ghost?

"Saw what?"

"Oh, it was nothing."

"Are you sure?"

"Yea. Yea, I'm sure."

"Why don't you go on outside. Some fresh air will do you good. I'll finish taking care of the animals."

"All right, Cathy."

She watched him leave the tent. She knew that he kept on saying that he thought he saw something, but he never said what. She thought that the cause was the amnesia. She sighed. How ironic. He was always so secretive and now he seemed more that way.

"You'd think he'd be a little more open now," she said to herself. She kept watching until she couldn't see him anymore.

Meanwhile, Trowa headed down to the park. He walked down a path that had flowers on both sides. He continued walking, hands in pockets, deep in his own thoughts until he saw a lake to his left. He stopped and looked at it. The sun shone on the water that made it appear as glass.

Then he saw it. A tree was near the lake and underneath it was that mysterious shadow. Trowa decided to go to the tree and see exactly what that shadow was. To see if it was real, or his imagination. Before he got there, it disappeared once more. Trowa looked all around the tree, up, down, and around it. Once more, it had vanished.

He sat at the base of the tree looking out at the lake. Birds flew around and there was a cool, gentle breeze. In an instant that very breeze grew cold and seemed to blow upwards into the tree. When it was over, Trowa looked up and on one of the tree's lowest branches was the shadow. Trowa looked at it, awed, and it looked back at him.

"Tell me who are you?" he asked. He dared not make a move, for fear that it may somehow get scared and vanish once more.

That wasn't the case. The shadow seemed to shimmer and materialize. Once it had done so, it had become a person, shaded by the leaves of the tree. The person dangled their feet off the branch, then jumped down and stood next to Trowa. He could not see the person's face, for it was still shadowed.

"You have no reason to be afraid Trowa," said a girl's voice.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?"

The girl stepped into the light. She had long, raven hair that cascaded around her face blew gently in the wind. Her brown eyes held a power of wisdom that was beyond her years. She wore white jeans and a short red shirt with no sleeves. Trowa looked afraid, but his fear vanished once she smiled warmly at him.

"My code-name is Adina. I've always known you."

"Did I know you before I lost my memory?"

"No, you didn't. You probably sense something like you've known me from somewhere, but we've never met until now."

"You're right. You do seem familiar."

Adina sat next to him under the tree. She looked out to the lake.

"I hate to see you like this," she said.

"What do you mean?"

"This is all my fault. It's my fault that you ended up this way."

"I have no clue what you're saying."

"Your loss of memory," she said turning to face him. "I was supposed to protect you...and I failed."

"Protect me?"

"It's rather complicated to explain, especially in your state. Though, I'll try to make this easy to understand. I too have a mission. Not in a war, but to protect people. There are certain beings that are chosen to have this task. We are very much human, it's just we have a different ability than regular humans. Our jobs are to protect a certain person from any harm. My job was to protect you. In my shadow-like form, I am able to do that. However, with things heating up in battle, I began to have certain doubts. Because of my lack of faith in you and in myself, this is what happened to you. An accident that should never have happened. However, all hope was not lost. I had found you drifting in space. I cried over you thinking you were dead. But in my heart remained hope that you would live. I took you to this colony where I saw a carrier, and pushed you in their direction so they'd see you and take you in. As soon as I saw that they had you I left, thinking that it would be all over. I blamed myself continuously. Recently I found out that you were alive. That's why I'm here now. I came to find you."

"So you're the one that saved me," Trowa said in awe. "I thought I remembered a shadow bringing me here. I just kept on convincing myself that was just a dream."

"No, it was no dream. Do you understand what I was telling you?"

"Yes, somewhat. I think I had some kind of dream about you too."

"It's a possibility. We guardians do appear in dreams."

"So, you're like my Guardian Angel?"

"I suppose you could say that," she said with a smile.

"Why did you come to find me?"

Adina's smile quickly faded and looked at him seriously. She stood up and the wind blew gently and her hair flowed in it, shining like silk.

"Remember," she said.

"What?"

"You must remember your past!" The wind blew harshly again and Trowa covered his face. When it was over he looked to where Adina had been standing. She was gone.

"Adina!" he called. He looked everywhere, but could not find the girl that claimed to be his guardian. Giving up, and with much more needed answers to the many questions he already harbored, he headed back to the circus tent.

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