He was walking to the park and looked up at the sky, it seemed that a storm was waiting for the night before it strikes with full power.
That didn’t scare him the least, after all, he was the perfect soldier…but not anymore…before he never felt pain, even when most of his bones were broken. Nothing bothered him, until that night when he danced with her. Ever since, there was always a constant ache in his chest…Ah…it’s nothing, just the stress of the day….he lied to himself.
He sat in one of benches and looked at the park, there were children playing…such a familiar sight…but he didn’t want to remember…suddenly there was a tug at his sleeve and he looked…it was a little girl with sea-green eyes and light brown hair with her puppy looking at him…those eyes…he smiled…she looked so familiar…but who? Those braids. “Sir, why are you sad?” He couldn’t help but smiled, “I’m not sad, what’s your name.” Suddenly the puppy got loose and ran away… “No…don’t run away from me again…no” said the girl as she ran after the dog… Those words…the same uttered by her when he first left her during party night… suddenly from the corner of his eyes he saw a shiny sparkle, followed by four more… “what?? Mobile suits?? But why here?? These are children…” He looked again but the park was suddenly deserted…only a familiar little girl…not the little girl… it was …it was… Relena??? She was wearing her school uniform looking at the mobile suits… “Run Relena!!!” but she couldn’t hear him… he wasn’t there… he couldn’t move… The mobile suits were after her!!! Why her??? Before he could do anything, the mobile suits were shooting…at her!!!
There was blood everywhere… his blood?? No, it was hers… she laid there immobile… but he couldn’t move…couldn’t get to her to hold her… With she gone…there will be no peace…but that wasn’t the only reason that tears were crowding his vision…with her gone…nobody else would love him…nobody else for him to love… He can hear her utter her last words “He-Heeroo…don’t run away from... me”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”
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“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! RELENA!!!!” he screamed as he sat up… he was covered in his own sweat…he face covered in sweat and…and…tears…that he didn’t even realize. It was a dream…no a nightmare… “Relena….”
It’s been five years since he has last seen her. He had planned to protect her but Dr. J had another job for him, he was to be back in colony L1 to help his people with rebuilding everything that had been destroyed, destruction that he was somewhat responsible. Dr. J thought that this might be a chance to amend the guilty heart of the perfect soldier.
He has dreamed of her often…but never so real like this… he got up from his bed and headed toward the bathroom and took a cold shower… what happened?? He wondered…he tried to find the meaning of this horrendous dream…he had… what was it… Oh God…Relena is in trouble!!!
He jumped out of the shower with just a towel around his waist…he ran to turn on the TV and sat on the couch in his humble one bedroom apartment…just what he feared the most…a TV announcement concerning the Peacecraft leader…
The TV announces:
“It has been five years since the last attempt to kidnap and eliminate Vice Foreign Minister Relena Darlian Peacecraft, even there have been other attempts at her life later but none as gruesome as fearless as the one attempted today. Just as people thought that Miss Peacecraft would finally find the safety she deserved and provide peace to the world, another attempt at her life occurred after the meeting held the alliance towers this afternoon…”
“Who??!! Who dares??!! I would kill….” He thought to himself…as the news continued…
“here’s a footage that was all caught on tape when the incidence occurred…” the announcer said.
And he watched:
~Relena was stepping out of the building with her two strong bodyguards when suddenly there was a gunshot and she was immediately covered by a large strong body…her eyes…bewildered with fear…the body on top of her not moving…Oh my god…everybody was screaming… ‘protect Miss Relena!!!’ could be heard as the other bodyguard tried to pull her out of there…but she didn’t move…she was holding onto the other body… the bodyguard that just died for her… ‘no!!! we can’t leave him!!! Someone save him!!!’ she would not let go of the body…~ That was Relena, he thought, not caring about her safety but worrying about her bodyguard… he could feel his anger rise as he saw the tears forming in her sea green beautiful eyes…eyes full of compassion and touching everyone who knew her…touching his once shielded heart.
~She wasn’t scared… ‘please…don’t harm others…’ she thought to herself… she still held on to the body that just saved her…her hands adding pressure to the wound the body has sustained…she would not leave him to die…shots were heard everywhere…oh god…there were more than one assassin… suddenly a dark shadowed stood in front of her…with the gun raised and said ‘goodbye princess’ but before he pulled the trigger someone kicked the gun of the guys hand and kicked his head breaking the killer’s neck… ‘Wufei…’ ‘Miss Relena, you need to get out of here!!!! Please!!!!’ ‘but…what about him??’ suddenly she felt strong arms wrapping around her waist and pulled her with such strength she had to let go of the dead body… ‘Duo??’ ‘yes ojousan…we must go!!!’ without her saying anything he pulled her with him… there were still shots…they were running towards a van where she saw Trowa with a machine gun stood there by the door and Quatre in the driver’s seat… ‘Be careful!!!’ screamed Trowa as he raised his gun and shot into the sky but not before another shot was heard and Relena felt a sharp pain cursing through her lower back and fell but Duo caught her before she fell face towards the ground…she could see the fear and concern on Duo’s eyes…Trowa shot and a person felt from one of the building’s above…Duo carry Relena the rest of the way into the bulletproof van and they drove off…~ “All the assassins died, either they were killed by the security guards or committed suicide before they were caught, this seemed more like a plan assassination than a random killing…the alliance….” The reporter continued…
Heero was standing in front of the TV with each hand on each side of the screen watching every horrendous movement…he saw blood…Relena’s blood when she was shot… “Relena…” He felt such a pain deep inside him… a pain surely stronger than the one she felt when the bullet penetrated her right leg… He saw his comrades desperately trying to get her out…he saw how she would not leave her dying bodyguard without even considering her own danger…she always thought of others safety and welfare before hers… that was why he felt in love with her…with her heart, with her pure soul…
His comrades, best friends, kept their promise before he left to keep her safe…for he was sure the kidnapping was not going to be the last attempt at her life… He knew it… but he still left…He hated himself at that moment…He knelt down in front of the TV and looked down at the floor…
Now he had a new mission… a mission he vowed he would not fail even if it would cost him his life…He had a new mission….