Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Peace Children ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

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Peace Children Chapter 8

"Who are you here for?" Heero asked the prophet. "Me or her?"

Trowa disentangled himself from his jealous love and looked at the boy. "I believe that I am to advise you." Seeing that the boy was about to say something, probably ask him how he knew, Trowas raised his hand to silence him.* "I know that it's you, because when I saw you, you glowed. No one said anything about a white glow around you, so I assume that I am the only one who saw it, who still sees it." When Trowa said that, Heero looked for the glow around himself. "You can't see it, no one can, except for me. It's the Fates way of telling me that you are the one I will advise. It happens to all faidhs when they meet their king, queen, or whatever." he said, gesturing to Heeros as he said that last thing. "Anyway, I believe introductions are in order. I'm Trowa Barton. He," Trowa pointed to Quatre, "is Quatre Winner, and he is Wufei Chang."

"Nice to meet you," said Heero. "I am Heero Yuy, though Wufei met me as Aldin Lowe. The man over there is my father" Heero pointed to where Odin was, "Odin Yuy, formerly known as Daniel Lowe."

"Now that we've all met," Quatre said, still glaring at Heero, "I think me, Wufei, and Hilde would like to know what the fuck is going on."

Duo ran over to the newly awakened Hilde. "Did anybody get the number of that truck?" she asked, rubbing her head.

***

Kali had been driving for a while, laughing at how easy it had been to get this car from that guy, when suddenly she remembered her test.

*Flashback*

She had been in Limbo with her brother, when that kid had touched her.

Suddenly, Kali was a little baby, a newborn. She was being put into a really nice crib by a very handsome man. Heero was being put into the same crib by a stern looking woman. The man left and in came a young lady, no older than 20 or so. The two women conversed for a while. It sounded like the older one (Une was the name that came to Kali's mind) was giving the one identified as Esme instructions. Une left, and Kali and Heero were gurgling happily as good babies should. Esme came to check on them. She seemed nice, so Kali sent her a nice thought.

Then, everything went wrong. A bad man with a sword burst into the room. Esme didn't even see him coming. He sneaked up behind her and snapped her neck. Then, to add insult to injury, the bad man took out his evil sword and cut off the nice nanny's head.

Kali could feel the fear rolling off of her brother in waves. She knew when he had made the decision to save both of their lives by bonding with the bad man instinctively.

'Kill him,' a voice came into Kali's mind. 'He killed Esme. He's a Collector. Kill him.' Kali didn't want to kill him. She realized that this was just a test, and that was the man that had raised her and Heero. She loved him like a father. He raised them with love, and they had a good life.

'A good life?' the voice asked. 'Always running from people who want to put you in a tube and suck out your essence it a good life? If you kill him now, you and Heero could easily wipe out the Collectors in a few years.' Kali was wavering, but still not convinced. 'I can see that you're not sure. But if you kill Odin now, this won't happen to Heero.'

Kali was suddenly watching Heero's test. He was in a car, handcuffed to the door handle. A guy Kali recognized as Zechs Merquise was pounding into her brother, who was begging him to stop.

"This never happened." Kali denied what she saw. "This is just his test. He would have told me if he was raped. This never happened."

'Yes, it did,' the voice said. 'He just never wanted to burden you with his problems. But you can stop this from happening; all you have to do is kill Odin.'

Kali was back in her infant body. Heero was trying to convince Odin to bond with them. 'No,' Kali thought. ' I will not let that happen to Heero.'

Kali turned the full force of her 8 hour-old power on Odin, ripping his body to shreds.

*End Flashback*

Kali swerved the car as she came out of remembering her test. "I couldn't help you then, Heero," she said. "But I can sure as hell get vengeance for you now." Kali's foot pressed down on the accelerator as she sped to Zech's house.

***

"Did anybody get the number to that truck?" Hilde asked, rubbing her head. Duo ran over to check on her.

"Are you okay?" he asked. "What happened?"

Hilde felt like her head was about to explode. "Sera hit me," she said. "Where are we?"

"We're in Heero's room," Duo said, checking to see if his friend was okay. "Odin found you unconscious in Kali's room and brought you over here."

"Okay," Hilde said, relaxing in the chair. Suddenly, she sprang up out of it. "Wait a minute. Who's Kali? Who's Odin? Who's Heero? What's going on?"

The boy Hilde knew as Aldin came into her field of vision. "I'm Heero," he said. "My dad, over there, is Odin. Sera's real name is Kali." He seemed nervous to ask Hilde this, but he forged ahead anyway. "What exactly happened to knock you out?"

Hilde hadn't digested what Heero told her, so she decided to grab onto his question, in the hopes that what he had said would make sense afterward. "Well, what happened was this. Sera was in the bed in her room. She was passed out, unconscious, you know. Then, she was awake. She started babbling about peace and war and heroes. She wanted to know where the hero was. In retrospect, I suppose she wanted to know where Heero was. But, then, I didn't know who or what she was talking about.

"She was getting upset and started to leave. I remembered the doctor's orders and tried to make her get back in bed. That reminds me. You," she pointed to Heero, " get back in bed."

Heero stared to protest, then thought better of it. He wordlessly climbed back into the hospital bed.

"That's better. Now, where was I?" Hilde asked herself. "Oh, yeah. Sera was not going to get back in bed, and I was not about to let her leave and go and get herself hurt. I guess I should have. After about a minute of this, Sera up and whacks me across the face. The force of the smack knocked me off my feet and I fell and hit my head on the floor. That's what really knocked me out. I don't remember anything after that.

Selune

*Not literally, just a gesture for Heero to not say anything.