I would like to appologise for not being on lately...Reality has set in I'm afraid and I haven't been able to write as much as I once did.
Chapter 5
Quite a tale...
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Waking up inside of a dark cold room had the girl jolting upright from her position on the floor. Looking at the shelves and wine bottles in the room, she could only assume she was in a cellar. So, I am being kept against my will for bringing my brother back? ...Ignorance runs rampant here, it seems... She searched the room from top to bottom to only find one tiny window to the outside, and the main door up some stairs. It was locked from the outside, so she presumed it was guarded.
Daylight grew outside, so she knew she had been there for some time. Her weapons gone, she looked around for a replacement of sorts and prepared to escape with any means necessary if she had too.
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Relena woke up with the daylight streaming out of her balcony windows. Immediately, she whipped her head around, searching for Heero. Please let it not be just a dream...Anything but that...
"...Goodmorning, Relena..." Heero was sitting at the window sill, sipping her cold tea.
"Heero!" She lept from the bed and wrapped her arms around him, happily squeezing the breath out of him.
Heero, stunned by such enthusiasm, merely excepted the onslaught of happy tears and rib crunching bear hug. He winced but smiled slightly at her as she didn't let go for a time. "...Don't blame me if your rug has tea stains..." he said quietly.
"Damn the tea! Where have you been!?" she looked at him, eyes full of wonder and relief.
Heero frowned slightly. It was too much relief to be only a short amount of time. "Good question, by how your hugging me..."
A blur of brown opened the door and Heero was glomped by an estatic Duo. "Heya Buddy!!! Back from the dead!"
"Oomf! Get-OFF!" Heero shoved him away, sprawled on the floor. Grabbing the tray as a shield, Heero glared at Duo with surprise.
Duo, unperturbed, tried for another hug as Relena laughed at his antics. "You're alive! I'm so happy I could kiss you!" he exclaimed happily.
Heero widened his eyes and slammed the tray into his face, "Auta Miqula Orcu!(Go kiss an Orc!)" He froze as the words left his mouth. "What in the..."
Duo winced from behind the tray, which now bore a strong resemblence to his face. "Say that again?" came his muffled reply.
Trowa and Quatre coughed slightly from the doorway, while Wufei grumbled in the hall. "Is he done attacking Heero, yet?"
Heero stood up and leaned against the wall, trying to figure out what he had yelled at Duo. Relena didn't seem to notice, or care and waved them in, "Yes, for now anyway, Wufei."
Quatre waved cheerily to Heero while Trowa nodded, a small smile on his face. "Welcome back."
Heero frowned again, "Everyone keeps saying that..."
Wufei shrugged and nodded to Heero, then Relena. "What I want to know, is what is with the outfit? A little medievil, don't you think?"
"Maybe its a costume..." Quatre offered, puzzled as his asian friend.
Trowa sighed, "Guys, calm-"
"Hey, it's ok, Heero just got kidnapped to do a play for the jolly green giant!" Duo slung an arm over Heero's neck and smirked.
Heero looked at the arm as if wondering how best to sever it from Duo's arm when Noin popped into the room, "Oh, good, you're awake."
Heero looked up at the ceiling and tried to count to ten before saying, "Yes, I am awake, now will someone tell me why that is so damn important!?"
Duo's smile faded slightly while the others also got grimmer. Relena looked at them all with troubled eyes before asking, "There's more to this than your telling me and Heero..."
"Well, we uh, sort of caught the person responsible for your wardrobe change..." Duo said trying to smile.
Heero blinked, "Explain this from the beginning before anyone else gets confused...."
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Pagan unlocked the cellar door, talking as he did so, "I do wish you had not put the young woman down there...It gets ever so cold in the cellar."
Heero stayed quiet as the old man opened the door. The others had insisted on stepping in first before him and he glared at them as he took a step inside. Before anything could be done, a mesh frame from the wine racks flipped down and pinned Wufei, Quatre, Trowa, and Duo.
Heero had held held Relena back but now stared as a lithe girl jumped down from the rafters to the ground.
"Oomf...Get off of me, you idiot." Wufei growled.
"Hey, can't help where I land..." Duo gave a half a laugh.
Quatre groaned where he was, pinned between Duo and Trowa.
Trowa grit his teeth but smirked, "It appears, we have had a carpenter with us."
Heero glared at the girl where she stood in the shadows. She stared right back and said, "Toror." then inclined her head in a respectful way to him.
"..." Heero looked at her then at the makeshift trap she had made. It was funny, but he wouldn't let the others know what he thought of it. "Do you have a name?" he asked her stiffly.
Elyn meanwhile was relieved that he was up and around. "Amin n'rangwa, Toror..." She started speaking rapidly and fluidly. "Please brother, you must understand me. I did not take you captive, as your comrades obviously believe. My name is Elyn and I have come in search of..." the girl went on but Heero merely stared at her. Did he even understand it?
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It was a beautiful language, whatever it was, but understanding it would be a problem for him apparently. Heero was beginning to think the strange words he had spoken earlier were from this language, but kept silent. The fact that the girl looked just like him suggested that she was either related, or a clone.
Relena frowned, "How can she have gotten into the country with her language only?"
Grunting slightly as if annoyed, the girl took a breath and held it before saying one word, "Elyn." She touched above her collar bone to signal it was her. "Elyn." she repeated.
Heero blinked. He was quite unsettled by all of this. Especially since he felt he was looking through a painted mirror. A warped mirror with a sense of humor. She looked just like him. Only, female. He could feel Relena behind him and out of the corner of his eye see her make the same staring comparison as he was doing.
A crashing sound jerked everyone's attention to the other gundam pilots who got up out of the mess with several odd groans and grunts. Duo pulled a piece of wood out of his hair and grumbled, "Ugh, her Jane, me sore, annoyed, and freaked." In Heero's opinion, Duo looked more freaked than he did anything else.
"...I'm Relena." Relena smiled hesitantly but it faded before she asked, "Why did you take Heero?"
Elyn blinked and her eyebrows slightly narrowed before she said very slowly, "...I....S-save Toror...Save, yes?" She looked frustrated by the language barrier but she seemed to have caught parts of it already.
"Yeah, we can see he's alive and well but," Duo said bluntly.
"Why did you take him in the first place?" Zechs asked coldy. Noin watched the girl look from both Duo and Zechs with such focus that she seemed to be memorizing each sound.
Confused, she looked to Heero and placed her hands out towards him in a silently plea. "Toror...I know not....words to say..."
"Oh for crying out loud." Heero said with a groan. That made everyone stare at him but he ignored it. "Take this all from the beginning." His head was pounding and he still had on the ridiculous outfit minus the cloak.
Quatre piped up, "Um, since we know she's not going to kill someone...perse." he added hastily as Wufei glared at him and thumbed at the trap, "Can we take this conversation upstairs?"
Relena was about to say absolutely but Zechs said, "Not until we find out how many there are. Or are all of you saying that this girl managed to abduct Heero all by herself?"
The silence issued forth enough to make Duo snort derisively. Trowa commented quietly "Now she's an alien..."
Elyn cleared her throat at this time and commented, "Not."
Duo blinked and chuckled. His head still hurt from her kick but she had lightened the mood with that word. "At least she has a sense of humor."
Elyn sighed and spoke slowly but with a little more confidence. "You left him alone in building...I merely...Took him to..." she muttered in her language again before she said, "Heal. Heal him. Why must...I have...Other, motive?"
"...Because you do." Heero replied bluntly making everyone stare at him again. He was tired of this already. Did he have to spell it out? "You wouldn't have knocked out Duo if you didn't have motive."
Elyn nodded to Heero as if he was adding to what she was saying. "Toror, you understand me." She looked more relieved about this than anything.
Quatre looked to Trowa who shrugged, "It appears she admits she has motives but she doesn't like explaining herself."
Duo commented, "Typical girl. I like her."
Wufei grunted and replied, "You like her because she's stronger than you."
"What?"
Noin cleared her throat now and Elyn stared expectantly for something to be said. She waited until everyone caught her eye then chuckled. Then she said, "Let's get upstairs, shall we, Zechs? Standing around her bickering while we still have no answers is not the best solution."
*****more soon
Elyn Yuy