Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Time and time again ❯ Chapter tweleve ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 12

 

Leslie's training

Leslie walked down the hall thinking, `Geeze this is weird. Why does Heero want us to carry out missions or whatever anyways…?' She turned in to door and closed it behind her. Barely having enough time to look around the room she noticed a long bamboo pole flying towards her. Out or reflex and not wanting to be hit with a very blunt object she caught it. `What's this for?' she asked herself, then, looking up upon hearing hurried footsteps her question was answered. Wufei was running towards her with a similar pole in his hands, at readying an attack. “What are you doing?!” Leslie exclaimed out of surprise and managed to block Wufei's attack.

Wufei didn't answer but only tried to hit her with his pole again, and to his annoyance she managed to block him again.

“What do you think you're doing?” Leslie yelled as she barely dodged a swing at her head and retreated to the other end of the room.

Wufei smirked and ran after her, `So that's what Maxwell wanted my clothes for', he thought, annoyed that he had been too annoyed to ask why Duo even wanted some of his clothes.

 

Heero had heard what sounded like a yell somewhere between surprise and terror after Leslie had entered the martial arts training room and headed down the hall to see what was going on. When Heero opened the door a crack he saw Leslie managing to block all of Wufei's attacks, `I guess I was right about them or that girl at least.' Heero thought as he closed the door and headed the opposite way to see how Ariel was doing.

 

“You look funny in my clothes”, Wufei commented under his breath as he tried to trip Leslie.

“You don't look so great in them either.” Leslie retorted, causing Wufei to loose his concentration on tripping her. She took the opportunity to knock his feet out from under him with her pole and put a foot on his neck.

`She beat me?' Wufei thought in anger and annoyance as he attempted to catch his breath. `She's not even out of breath either, even after fighting for 10 minutes.'

“What in the hell did you think you were doing?” Leslie demanded as took her foot of his neck, “I thought you were supposed to actually teach me something, not come running at me with a bamboo pole!”

“I needed to see what your ability was,” Wufei stated simply as he got up. “I'm surprised such a weak ona was able to even beat me when I wasn't using my full ability.” He added and smirked at the irked expression Leslie wore at being called weak as he picked up his pole. `It is still quite surprising that she could even block any attack let alone beat me.' He thought remembering he had tried to sneak up on her when she had first entered the room. “Where did you learn that?”

“Learn what?” Leslie asked clueless.

“When you knocked me over, where did you learn that?” Wufei asked, narrowing his eyes at her suspiciously.

“Hu”, Wufei grunted, not satisfied with her response, he suddenly lunged at her with his pole again.

Leslie stepped to the side and hit him in the gut with her pole. “What are you trying to do now?” she asked in an annoyed tone as she watched Wufei try to regain his composure.

This went on for another half an hour before Wufei finally decided to actually teach her something.

“Oi…” Leslie sighed as she closed the door to the training room and headed towards the room Trowa was in. She passed Ariel and briefly thought about warning her about what Wufei might do but decided other wise. Leslie came to another door and opened it only to see a knife wiz past her head and stick in the wall. “Eek!” she exclaimed and quickly closed to door again.

“Oops.” Trowa said under his breath and opened the door. “Sorry about that.” Trowa said to the blonde girl.

“Uh-huh….ok.” Leslie said and looked around the room.

“I'm Trowa; I'll be teaching you some basic gymnastics.” Trowa said noting that Leslie looked a little confused.

“Ok, but I really suck at this…” Leslie commented trailing off.

“Hm well, we'll start with something simple then.” Trowa said, and began to tell her what stretches to do before they started.

 

Ariel's training

Ariel walked down the hall toward the room that Trowa was supposed to be in, `Hm I wonder why Leslie and I aren't together for this thing.' She thought as she approached the room she needed. Ariel opened the door, and spotted the tallest of the pilots, Trowa who was setting up equipment. “Um hello…” Ariel greeted cautiously, not sure if he had heard her enter.

Trowa turned around to see a girl standing in the door way, he remembered her name was Ariel and that Heero had told him earlier she would be coming in first. “Hello. It's nice to see you and your friend aren't tied up again.” Trowa greeted as he approached the nervous looking girl. “I'm Trowa,” he greeted and had her follow him to the end of the room where he had been setting equipment. “Have you ever done any kinds of gymnastics before?”

“Yeah, but not for a real long time,” Ariel answered as she looked around the room.

“Ok, well let's just start off with something easy.” Trowa responded and walked a few feet away from Ariel over the padded floor and did a round off. “Do you think you can do that?”

“Yeah,” Ariel responded and did what she was asked.

Trowa nodded, “Why don't you show me anything else you are able to do, so I know what I need to teach you.”

“Um, ok, but I can really only do that and a cartwheel.” Ariel responded and demonstrated.

“I think I'll teach you how to do a back flip for today.” Trowa said and began helping her get stretched out properly before they really began.

An hour passed and Trowa found himself surprised at this girl's agility compared to a few nights back when she and Leslie had tripped over each other.

Ariel exited the room and headed down the hall to the door she saw Leslie leaving from. When Ariel passed Leslie she noticed she looked very tired, a bit annoyed, and as if she had something to tell her but didn't as they passed by each other with little more than a nod.

Ariel walked into the new room and barely had time to close the door behind her when a long bamboo pole came whizzing at her. Ariel caught it with out really thinking and looked at the pole in confusion. Her many questions were answered when she noticed Wufei lunging towards her with a pole similar to hers. “Whoa!” She yelled in surprise when it finally sunk in that he was going to hit her. Ariel quickly leapt to the side to avoid being hit.

Wufei had noticed her slow reaction as a result of confusion and easily redirected his attack, `this ona seems slow witted.' Wufei commented to himself and smirked, a moment later he was kicked very hard in the stomach by Ariel.

“What was that for? What are you trying to do?!” Ariel asked in annoyance.

`They both seem to have skill…' Wufei remarked to himself as he attempted to ignore the pain in his gut and take a breath.

Hello? What did you think you were doing?” Ariel asked again and quickly ran out of the way of another attack.

Wufei ignored Ariel's questioning of the obvious and tried to trip her as he had tried to do to Leslie, but Ariel jumped.

`What the heck is going on here?!' Ariel thought in panic as she attempted to take a swing at Wufei with her pole only to miss pathetically.

 

Heero was sitting in a near by room as a precaution if the two girls caused a problem for Wufei or Trowa. He doubted though that even if a problem arose that it couldn't be handled by either boy, they were just girls after all, and had no fighting skills as far as he knew. Heero had heard Ariel enter the training room Wufei was in and wanted to see how she was doing. Heero walked down the hall and opened the door a crack to see Ariel managing to dodge Wufei's attacks, `This is good, I was also right about this girl.' He thought and closed the door.

 

Ariel narrowly avoided another swing of Wufei's pole and once again tried, and failed to hit him.

`I can't believe this- she is actually able to dodge my attacks.' Wufei thought as he tried to hit Ariel again. Only this time he made the mistake of leaving himself open and soon found himself being kicked in the gut again and once again lying of the floor.

“Humph…What are you trying to do? Kill me?!” Ariel asked angrily as she tried to catch her breath.

“I was testing you, to see how good you were. I am surprised you were able to beat me despite the fact you didn't stand and fight, unlike your friend.” Wufei answered as he stood up and dusted himself off.

“Ok, but couldn't you have figured that out had you actually bothered to teach me something instead of rushing at me with a pole?” Ariel asked, crossing her arms- she would have stood and fought, had he been fighting with out poles.

Wufei shook his head and for the next hour actually taught her something rather than charging her with a pole. `This is surprising.' Wufei thought as he and Ariel walked down the hall and towards the gundam hangar where they would meet up with Trowa, Duo and Leslie.

“So…um what are we gonna do now?” Ariel asked nervously.

“You and that other ona are going to be learning about mechanics.” Wufei replied and led Ariel down a flight of stairs and into the gundam hangar.