Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Peace Children ❯ Chapter 22 ( Chapter 22 )

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Peace Children Chapter 22

Kali ran in the direction of the noise, the direction where Hilde was. Kali was surprised at the strength of her emotion for the older girl. After all, she had Catherine now.

Kali looked around for Hilde, and finally found her behind some brush. Apparently, she had crawled there after being shot.

The amount of blood Hilde had lost was astonishing. Kali felt wildly for her pulse, sighing in relief when she finally found it. Kali was no doctor, but she knew by the pool of blood around Hilde that there was virtually no way she would survive.

'Not if I can help it,' Kali mentally growled. She grabbed the hem of Hilde's shirt and pulled it over her breasts, fully exposing the wound. Kali's fingers danced around the opening - getting a feel for it - before plunging into the wound to retrieve the bullet.

Kali pulled her fingers from the gap in Hilde's stomach, her hand covered in the young woman's much needed life fluid. She wiped on hand on her jeans, then she gathered Hilde into her arms.

She put her clean hand over Hilde's wound, leaning down to place her over the girl's own. Her magic should have been depleted to the point of being non-existent, but for this - for Hilde - Kali somehow found more. A brilliant whit light appeared from her hand and mouth, as she healed Hilde and breathed life into her.

Kali could feel herself draining; she was giving everything she had to save Hilde. Kali continued reviving the girl, but she was so weak that she didn't realize when Hilde was out of danger.

***

Hilde awoke in the arms of an angel. The angel was kissing her, and there was a bright light everywhere.

Suddenly, Hilde felt arms around her, pulling her away from the angel. 'No,' she thought. 'My angel. Let me stay with my angel.'

The arms did not respond to her silent pleas. Instead, they pulled her away further, revealing her angel to be none other than Kali. A very pale, very bloody, Kali. "NOO!" she screamed, wrenching away from Quatre's arms.

Hilde scrambled over to Kali, mindless of her shirt, which was pushed up to reveal her in all of her glory. She gathered the smaller girl into her arms, rocking back and forth with her. "It's going to be okay. Baby, everything's gonna be all right. I don't know what you did to heal me, but... thank you. You shouldn't have done that; now you've gone and hurt yourself. You have to be okay. You just *have* to. I love you." Hilde rambled on, more to herself than to Kali, until she rocked herself to sleep.

***

Cassandra, now dressed in a long flowing robe, examined her daughter and her soon-to-be mate. "They'll be okay. They just need to rest." she concluded. "However, we don't have time for them to recover. Somebody will have to watch them while the rest of us go and rescue Heero."

Catherine looked at the slumbering girls. "I'll do it." she volunteered. "Just, can we take them somewhere else? In case it gets cold."

Cassandra smiled at the girl's -no, the woman's - eagerness to be alone with the two girls. She agrees with the Cathy and told her to go stand by the two girls, touching at least one of them. Catherine complied, threading her fingers through both girls' hair. Cassandra then visualized where she wanted the girls to go, instantly transporting them to Kali's room back at her house.

Cassandra noticed Trowa staring at her, eyes wide in amazement. "As I said, powers no prophet should have." She motioned for the others to get in a circle around her. "Now, we need a plan before we go get Heero. Any suggestions?"

***

Heero felt his power draining from him. He know the machine would kill him, but he didn't car about that. What he cared about were the lives of his babies, Duo, and Trowa. All four would die if he did. Besides, Quatre would kill him if anything happened to Trowa.

Heero tried to lift the lid to the tube, but he couldn't even lift his arms. He couldn't even wiggle his fingers. But, for some reason, he could feel the others.

After the Collectors had brought him in the white room for the second time, he had retained the power to feel Kali, Duo, Odin, and now his children. He figured his magic must be growing.

Heero tried to send a message to Duo, or Kali, or Odin but he couldn't. Receiving was the only power the Gundamium hadn't neutralized, it seemed. Instead, he zeroed in on what they were saying, hearing their conversation through Duo.

***

"So, is everybody clear on what we're going to do?" Cassandra asked the others. Everybody nodded their heads, but she decided - for some reason - to go over it again. "Okay, Odin says the building is shaped like a five- pointed star. Heero will most likely be in the white room, in the center of the star. The white room is made of Gundamium, a magic neutralizing alloy, which is why neither Duo nor Odin can feel him.

"The room Heero will be in is heavily guarded, so Meiran and Wufei will change to their dragon forms. They will attack the base from outside, hopefully distracting a good portion of the maggot Collectors. At the same time, the rest of us will attack from the inside. I will teleport us in to the lab from Trowa's vision, because we can't go directly into the white room; it's blocked and we would bounce back.

"Odin, Quatre, and Trowa will stay there and release any Mystical prisoners from their stasis, while Duo and I find the white room."

"But --" Odin started to say.

"Don't argue with me, 'Din," Cassandra interrupted. "Duo and I are the only ones with any kind of active magic. Granted, Duo's comes from Heero, and we're not sure exactly which ones he has yet, but still, he may have some good defensive magic. *And*, someone needs to protect Trowa. He dies, Heero dies.

"Now, are we all clear on what everyone is to do?"

"Yeah," Duo said. "But, you *do* know how small our changes of success are, don't you?"

"Yes," Cassandra replied. "But, would you rather do nothing?"

Selune