Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Peace Children ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11 )

Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and none of its characters are mine. None of the mystical creatures are of my creation. Seelie and Unseelie, the way I use them here, were created by Laurel K. Hamilton. Hands of power were also created by Laurel K. Hamilton. The story and all original characters are mine. If I forgot to credit anything to its rightful owner, please email me, and I will credit it to them.

Pairings: 2x1 eventually, 3+4, 5+? OC+? 13+11 5+M H+OC (Kali) +H Rating: NC- 17, eventually Warning: eventual lemon, no spoiler, AU, definite yaoi, possible yuri, OOC, angst, more as it comes

Author's notes: 'blah' = thoughts 'blah' = mind-speaking

<<blah>> = Low Mystical

A.N. Low Mystical is different from High Mystical in that humans can hear it, it can be translated, etc.



Peace Children Chapter 11

"What do you mean?" Odin asked Wufei. "How do you even know what night it was?"

"Because I was there," Wufei eyed Odin contemptuously, knowing what he used to be. "When the Collectors caught my family, they killed them instantly. It's impossible to harvest a were-dragon's power, so they were of no use."

"Okay, so back up." Quatre said. "You're a *were-dragon*?" Quatre was finding this hard to believe. First, Trowa's a prophet. Then, that Heero boy is a Peace Child. Now, Wufei is a were-dragon? What are the odds of three people out of six being non-human?

"Yes," Wufei stated simply.

"How did you get away if your entire family was killed?" Heero asked.

"I was not with my family after the ceremony ended. I was watching the children of several friends of my mother. I believe I may have been watching Trowa and his sister as well."

"How could you have been watching Trowa and Catherine?" Duo asked. "Trowa's the same age as us, and Cathy's five years older."

Heero smiled. He knew the answer to that one. "Were-dragons age much slower than humans," he said. "They age about one year for every six and a half humans do. Looking at Wufei, I would say he's about 120."

***

Kali could feel eyes on her as she watched Zechs burn. "Come out, come out, wherever you are," she called out in a sing-song voice, smirking all the while.

Catherine noticed this, and for the first time in fifteen years, was afraid. She knew that this girl could be cruel; she had shown that when she set that guy on fire. Cathy also knew that this girl had some kind of power, because prophets were only assigned to the best. 'Please, don't let her find me here,' she thought as she hunkered down to make herself less noticeable. Catherine looked up and could not see the girl anymore. In her musings, the girl had disappeared.

"Boo!" somebody shouted from behind her and Cathy jumped. She turned around to find the girl right behind her.

"Hello," she squeaked out, before fainting from fear.

"Well, that was interesting," Kali said, dragging the girl from the trees over near the car.

***

"Damn," Hilde said, turning to face Wufei. "Is this true?"

"Almost," Wufei said, wishing he had never said anything. He felt uncomfortable under the others' scrutiny. "I'm 117 years old. However, were- dragons live over 500 years, so I am considered an adolescent among my people."

"I think we should all leave," Trowa said, looking at Heero. "Something bad is coming. Soon.. Heero, you need to get dressed so that we can get out of here."

Everybody nodded their consent to Trowa's proposal and started to leave the room so Heero could change.

"No need to leave," Heero said, sliding off the bed. He stood up and spoke one word. "Gemini." In the bed where Heero had been seconds before, appeared a sleeping duplicate of himself. "Now, for the clothes," he whispered. Heero concentrated much like Kali did when she realized she was almost buck-naked running down the street.

As his clothes changed, his features did, also. He grew shorter and more child-like, a chibi version of himself. The change finished and Heero opened his eyes to the awed faces before him. Heero stood before them, in a red polo shirt and blue jeans, looking for all the world like he was six years old again.

"Disguise," he explained in his child's voice. Pointing to the bed, he said, "Distraction." Linking his hand with Odin's, Heero said, "Let's go, Daddy."

***

Kali sighed as she walked away from the mystery girl over to the burning Zechs. She threw water from her fingertips onto the now-dead rapist. She had wanted to kill *him*, not the forest, with the fire.

As the flames were quenched, Zechs' burned and blackened body was revealed. Kali was depressed at the sight of the corpse. She had always liked Zechs. She wouldn't have had to do that if he hadn't hurt her brother.

Kali gathered enough power to melt Zechs' body into the ground. At least that way, Relena would never have to see him like that; a body would never be found. They would probably just assume that he had run off.

Kali sighed again as she walked back to the mystery girl. She missed Heero. Kali knew that they were supposed to be enemies now, Marimaeia had told them so, but she still loved him.

The supposed War Child bent down to shake the unconscious girl awake. The girl opened her eyes and looked around.

"Well, it's nice to see that you're awake," Kali said. "Now, who are you?"

***

"Deploy Unit 5 to Mercy Hospital," J ordered Collector Alex after having the remains of Item M disposed of. "Our plans are going to have to be ahead of schedule."

Alex nodded to his superior and walked out of the lab to inform Unit 5 of their mission. When he was gone, J called the local leader of the Collectors in the area where the Peace Children were.

"I've thought of another idea for our book,*" he said when the line was answered.

"Well, please, tell me," Professor G said to the good doctor. "I'm always eager to hear your ideas."

"Collection Item M convinces the Peace Children that one is the Peace Child and the other is the War Child. While doing so, she places mental blocks on them, thus concreting the story that they are enemies by making them not be able to feel each other." J replied to G. "But, she places faulty blocks in the Children, and before the good doctor can make her fix them, she kills herself."

"This is disturbing, so far," G said to J. "But, please, continue."

"After this, the doctor sends out a unit to capture the boy child before the blocks completely break down. They capture the child and take him back to the lab.

"After the blocks break, the girl child comes to rescue her brother. She is captured, and the Agents harvest the children's powers to use in destroying every Mystical on the planet, thus ridding the world of their inhuman evil."

"I'd read that book," G laughs to J.

Selune

*they're talking in code