Embracing the Light and the Darkness

By: Quatre-Chan

Prolouge:

WuFei sat upright in his bed. He stretched for a moment before getting up and hopping into the shower. He got out about ten minutes later, got dressed and slowly walked toward the kitchen, ‘Every day it’s the same thing. I get up, take a shower, eat breakfast, go through the rest of the day… which is usually non-eventful, go up to my room, look at the lake from my window, go to bed and have some bizarre dream with some winged female sitting in the middle of the same lake that's behind the house. It’s the same damn thing.’

He sat down with his comrades and ate breakfast. Time moved slowly from then on. There were no missions for the time being. Until night fell, Quatre and Trowa were curled up together on the beach, watching the water brush onto the sand. Heero was waiting for a new mission and Duo was watching TV and when he wasn’t doing that he was raiding the fridge.

WuFei was in his room. He looked at the clock on the nightstand, 11:30 it read. ‘Time for my nightly ritual of looking at the lake.’ He thought. Normally he looked at the moon’s reflection, but tonight he was looking at a person or a thing in the middle of the water.

“It can’t be…” he rubbed his eyes, “I’m not hallucinating, there is someone there.” He yawned, “But I’ll go meet this person in the morning.” He laid on his bed and fell to sleep, only to be greeted with the same dream.

The next morning, the Chinese pilot arose from his bed and looked out the window, ‘It’s gone…’ he thought. He walked into the kitchen and sat at the table.

“Is something troubling you, WuFei?” The Arabian boy asked, he had always been the most caring.

“Well…” he sighed, “I keep having this dream where I meet this girl with angel wings, but it always ends before I can get her name and last night I could have sworn I saw her in the middle of the lake.”

“You’ve been around Duo too long.” Heero said.

Duo laughed, “Yeah!” he stopped to think about that, “Hey!”

“I’m sorry WuFei, but I think Quatre and I will have to agree with them.”

WuFei stood up, “Fine, laugh at me, but I know what I saw.” He walked off.

That night the Chinese pilot lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling, “I know what I saw… and I’m going to prove it…” he sighed and fell asleep.

Chapter 1:

WuFei was walking through the woods to get to the lake that was behind their current safe house.

Something was bothering him. The night before last he looked at the lake from his bedroom window. He saw some kind of angel or winged goddess sitting on a rock in the middle of the body of water. When he told his comrades about his ‘sighting’ they just laughed and told him that he’d been around Duo too long, but he knew what he saw and he was going to prove it.

He stepped onto the sandy beach and sure enough there was the mysterious person. This person was female and didn’t look too much older than himself. The girl had short brown hair that was styled like Noin’s, she was wearing a long blue garment and from her thighs down to the end of the garment the sides were missing. Other than her more or less revealing attire, she was wearing black knee-high boots and two armlets, but the thing that caught the salutary dragon’s eye were her wings. She had two angel wings, but the one on the right was black and the other was pure white. He was in awe over the sight of this person in the middle of the lake with moon’s light shinning to make a wondrous reflection in the water. ‘What beauty…’ he thought.

The girl looked up at the moon, ‘Am I good or evil? Am I light, light as day or dark, dark as the night?” She turned her gaze to the beach. Her visible blue eye caught sight of the Chinese pilot. She stood on the rock and glided onto the beach.

WuFei walked up to her, “Excuse me? If you don’t mind me asking, who or what are you?” he asked cautiously, afraid she might attack.

“My name is Celes Kaze. I’m a sorceress without a purpose, until my fate has been decided.”

“What do you mean by ‘until my fate has been decided’?”

She sighed and lowered her head, “My wings represent the light and darkness, the good and evil. Depending on which side wins the war is the side I’ll end up with. Either way my existence is meaningless because I’ll become nothing more than a puppet.”

The Chinese boy put a hand under Celes’ chin and lifted her head, “Who’s the light and who’s the darkness?”

She looked into his eyes, “I don’t know who the light is, but the darkness is the Romefeller Foundation and OZ.”

‘Then the light must be me and the other pilots’ he thought. “Celes, let me help you. I think I have figured out who the light is and if I’m right you definitely will become part of the light side. Then you’ll know that your comment about being a puppet was unjust. Will you except my assistance?”

Chapter 2:

She gave him a half smile, “I’d appreciate it, but why do you want to help me?” she was confused, no one has ever treated her this kindly.

“I really don’t know why. I guess it’s because I feel like that I’ve met you before.” He smiled a bit and he could feel the blush coming into his cheeks.

“Well I guess that’s a good enough reason, by the way, you know my name, but I don’t know yours.”

The black haired pilot looked into her eyes, his own eyes were much kinder, “My name is WuFei Chang, but you can call me Wu-Chan if you’d like.”

‘Wu-Chan… that sounds so familiar.’ She shook her head, “Well then WuFei, what should we do now?”

“We can go back to the safe house and talk to my comrades.” The long banged girl nodded in agreement. She folded her wings in front of her and walked with WuFei back to the house.

Chapter 3:

WuFei lead her into the kitchen. She sat down at the table and waited until WuFei had returned with his comrades.

She felt something against the back of her head it was a gun by held non other than Heero Yuy. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye, ‘He must have been hiding in the shadows.. .’

“I don’t know who you are, but I’m not about to let an outsider interfere with our mission.” He slowly moved his finger towards the trigger.

“Yuy, stop!” WuFei walked into the room the other three pilots, “Put the gun down, I’m the one who brought her here, but if you were in here before hand, I guess you already knew that.” The Japanese boy lowered his gun and approached the three boys. He glared at the black haired pilot, ”I thought we weren’t going to involve outsiders. Our lives are at stake here, if we screw up it’s over. I know you know that, so why did you bring her here?”

“Because she’s going after Romefeller and OZ as well. I figured that she might be of some help to us.” He sighed, “Besides, she needs our help.”

Duo looked at Celes for a moment, then smirked, “Hey, how much did “Mr. Justice” over there pay you to dress like that?”

“Like what?”

“Like a compete slut. How much did he pay you?”

She arched an eyebrow, “Excuse me?”

“He’s been dreaming about some crazy bitch, who sits in the center of a lake and she has wings and dresses like a complete slut. So how much did he pay you to dress like that?” his eyes widened, “Or is he paying you for sexual favors?”

Celes was getting angry. She shut her eyes and put her hand into a fist, ‘I’m not a whore!’

“Maxwell…” he did the kill motion.

Duo continued to look at the winged female. His eyes widened again, "So you're the crazy bitch!"

“That’s it!” she stood up and ignited a ball of flames in the palm of her hand, “Fire Ball!” she threw the ball of flames at the longhaired pilot.

Duo shrieked and jumped into Heero’s arms. The fire ball missed its original target and hit Quatre in the shoulder.

The blond Arabian let out a soft cry. Celes was shocked that she missed her target, “Oh my God, I’m so sorry. Let me heal that for you.” She started to walk towards the pilot of Sandrock.

Trowa pulled the injured Quatre closer, holding him protectively. Heero dropped the American pilot on the floor and once again aimed his gun to the sorceress’ head, “Make one more move and omae o korosu.. .”

She stopped in her tracks and looked at Quatre, who was now crying softly in pain. Trowa let go of his love and ran towards the bathroom to get him some Aleve( TM ).

“Shoot me…” she whispered quietly

Heero moved his finger towards the trigger, “Fine.” He said coldly.

WuFei kicked the weapon out of the other boy’s hand, “Leave her alone! She wants to fight OZ, there’s no reason you should kill her!”

“I never thought you’d defend a women.” Duo smirked.

“You don’t strike me as an enemy, but I will kill anyone who gets in my way.” He looked at the other pilots, “We’re attacking the OZ base that’s north of here tomorrow morning.” He glared at Celes, “ If you aren’t an ally of OZ, you will assist us in assassinating Treize Kushrenada.” He grabbed Duo’s braid and dragged him back to their room.

Quatre and Trowa walked back down to their room.

“I’m going to bed too. I’ll sleep on the couch and you can have my bed. My room is the first door to the right, so come in when you’re ready.” He walked away.

She sat at the table again, ‘Why didn’t you let him kill me, Wu-Chan? I wouldn’t have to go through all this pain if I were dead. Even now I am nothing but a puppet…’ a single tear rolled down her cheek.

Chapter 4:

It was 2:47am. The Arabian pilot walked silently down the hall, gripping his shoulder all the way to the kitchen. It didn’t hurt much since he took the pills Trowa had given him, but he wanted to get an ice pack to stop it from swelling.

He walked into the kitchen and looked at the table, “Are you alright? You look depressed.” He opened the freezer and took out an ice pack. He put it on his shoulder and sat next to the long banged girl.

“You’re not scared of me?” she looked at his shoulder, “I’m sorry I hit you.”

“Don’t worry about it. All of us would love to do something like that to Duo. Besides, Heero had no right to hold you at gunpoint and Trowa just held me like that because he was afraid you were going to kill me. The last thing he wants is to be left alone.” He smiled, “I know you’re not evil.”

“How can you be so sure?”

He let out a soft sigh, “My space heart told me…” he winced at the pain returning into his shoulder.

“Here, let me heal that for you.” She stood up and spread out her wings. A ball of light appeared in her hands light of heaven, gazing upon us with such beauty. I call on your power to heal all the wounds of the innocent… Purity Light.”

The blond shut his eyes, afraid that the light that was now surrounding him was going to devour him. He opened his eyes a few moments later and looked at his shoulder. The pain, the mark, they were gone. He looked at the girl, “Thank you, but how did you do that?”

“As you can see, I’m a sorceress. I can use white and black magic.” She walked to the window and put her hand into a fist, “It’s because of these wings. If I didn’t have these wings, I wouldn’t have been shunned by my family and chased out of my hometown. If it weren’t for these wings, I wouldn’t have to go through this pain.”

“I think your wings are beautiful.” The tall figure walked into the kitchen and sat next to his beloved Quatre.

“But Trowa, a few hours ago you said…” he was silenced by his lovers slender finger.

“I know what I said and I take it back. I saw her heal you and for that I’m grateful.” He gave a small smile to Celes as gratitude.

The pilot of Sandrock arose from his chair, “We better get to bed so we don’t botch our mission.” He took Trowa’s hand, then looked at Celes, “Goodnight.” They left the room.

Celes’ eyes quivered as she watched the sea of stars, ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this.. .’

Meanwhile at the OZ base.. .

Lady Une approached her superior, “Master Treize, are you sure she’s heading this way?”

“Of course and Lady Une make sure we are ready for when she does come. She is the key to opening the sealed door and when she does, we’ll be one step closer to winning this war.” He looked at the picture that he held in his hand, “Isn’t that right.. . Celes?”

(*****Author’s Note: Quatre-Chan here, I’m just putting this note here because I need to explain something that I messed up on. In this chapter you will notice that there are some numbers that represent ages. I know the G-boys are 15, I know how old Celes is and I even know Zechs is 19. But for some reason I thought Treize was 38 instead of 24, so in this in this fic Treize is 38. Must have been that Dr. Pepper.. . mmmmmmmmm Dr. Pepper.. .*****)

Chapter 5:

The next morning, the five Gundam pilots re-joined Celes in the kitchen. Heero looked at his companions, “Here’s our plan, we sneak into the base, get what we need and get out. It’s that simple, however Celes, it is possible that they know you’re coming. So might not be able to use your magic.”

“Here take this.” WuFei walked over to her and handed her a sword, “This is one of my extra swords, I hope you know how to use it.”

“I do and thanks for your help.”

Duo let his crooked smirk appear on his face. He began to sing a goofy little song, “WuFei and Celes, sittin’ in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!”

“Domina, Baka!” Heero hit the American pilot in the back of the head, “Lets go.”

They snuck into the base successfully. They walked into a large room. There was nothing in the room except shadows and a large black door with a crest of a white and black wing on it.

“Welcome, Gundam pilots.” The person walked out of the shadows, “I’ve been waiting for you.”

“Treize.. .” WuFei snarled.

The leader of OZ let a small smile emit from his lips, “Know come to me.. . Celes.” He flicked his wrist.

Celes’ black wing flashed for a moment as if something was activated and her eyes became dim almost if she didn’t have a soul. She walked towards Treize. “Celes, don’t listen to him! You don’t know what you’re doing! Celes!” Quatre shouted. Treize’s smile turned into an evil grin, “Celes, get rid of them.” “As you wish.. .” she turned faced the G-boys. She spread out her wings and pulled them back, “Wing Blade.. .” She brought and released one feather from each wing that turned into blades in mid air.

The blade from her white wing raked against Duo's shoulder.

The Arabian pilot looked in Trowa’s direction, “Trowa, look out!” he pushed the pilot of Heavyarms out of the way and was impaled in the chest by the black blade. He fell backwards into Trowa’s arms.

Trowa lowered himself and Quatre to the floor, “Quatre? Talk to me, Quatre!”

Heero drew his gun on the long banged girl, like he had done the night before, "Move and I’ll shoot.. .”

A small green glow formed in and around her hands. She glared at the Japanese pilot, “Midori no.. . Shippu.”

A gust of wind sent Heero flying into the back wall.

“Celes, stop it. You’re becoming what you didn’t want to become. You’re becoming a puppet.” The Chinese pilot reasoned.

“Thunder Ball…” she threw a ball of lightning at WuFei.

The salutary dragon fell to the floor and struggled to get back to his feet.

“Now Celes, come here and open the sealed door.”

The winged sorceress turned around and walked up to the door. She put her hand on the crest, "Light and darkness, I call on thy power to break the seal.. .”

A bright light filled the whole room. The longhaired pilot knelt down next to Heero, “Can you get up?”

Heero nodded and got to his feet. Trowa picked Quatre up, “Let’s get out of here while we have the chance.”

Duo and Heero nodded and ran towards the door. Trowa and Duo ran into the hallway. Heero stopped in his tracks and looked at the Chinese pilot, “WuFei, we failed. We’ve got to get out of here.”

“I know we failed, Yuy, but I promised to help Celes in anyway I could. I’m not about to brake my promise. I will not leave her behind.”

“Do what you want.” He ran into the hall and re-joined the others.

The light dimmed. Treize held a small glass orb, “Now that I have what I need, I no longer need you.” He snapped his fingers.

Celes looked at the no longer sealed door, “What have I done?”

“You did exactly what I commanded you to do. You released the power that your biological mother sealed away sixteen years ago.”

“There’s no way you could know my birth mother.. .”

He smiled, “Your mother’s name was Selene Kaze, she was a well known sorceress. When I met her it was love at fist sight. A few months after we met, we got married and the result of our love was you.”

“You’re my father?”

“That’s right. The Romefeller Foundation didn’t approve of the marriage and we gave you to that family in Keena. OZ was supposed to be excepted not feared, knowing that I killed your mother, but before I did so, she sealed away this power making sure you were the only one who could open it. When we gave you up we didn’t tell your “family” that you would become a sorceress yourself, in hope that you would come here and open the door. Your mother had wings just like yours except both of her’s were white. As you grew up, you became confused and your wings took on light and darkness. I guess now it doesn’t matter because I’m going to kill you.. .” he took out his sword and brought it back, “For this I am sorry, my dear daughter.. .Celes.” He thrust his sword forward.

The Chinese boy got to his feet and pushed Celes out of the way and took the full force of the blow. He fell to the floor.

Treize looked at the wounded boy, “A Gundam pilot.. . I’ll finish you later and don’t think I won’t kill you, Celes.”

The blue eyed girl crawled over to WuFei, “WuFei? WuFei!”

The leader of OZ looked around the room, now realizing that the other pilots were gone. He glared at one of the near by soldiers, “Put those two in a cell.” He looked at Lady Une, “And Lady Une, tell all personal to find the Gundam pilots and shoot them on sight!”

Chapter 6:

The four Gundam pilots were hiding in an old infirmary. Duo peeked his head out the door after four soldiers ran by. He looked to the right then to the left. He pulled himself back inside and shut the door, “They’re gone.” He tore the rest of his sleeve off and winced at the pain in his shoulder. The longhaired pilot plopped himself down to the floor and leaned against the wall.

Heero knelt down next to the American boy. He looked at his shoulder, “Baka.. .” he muttered. He tore a piece of his tank top off and wrapped around Duo’s wound.

“Heero, why?”

The Japanese boy looked at him, then walked over to a bed where Trowa had laid Quatre down. “How is he?”

Trowa looked at his lover’s stab wound. He finally managed to pry the blade out of the blonde’s chest, but he couldn’t stop the bleeding. He looked at Heero, “Not so good. If we don’t stop the bleeding soon, he’ll.. .” he sighed

‘Why is everyone falling in love. Love has no value in a war. If you get too attached you could end up getting hurt. It's just better to rely on yourself. Soldiers don't have feelings.' Heero thought

“Tr.. .owa.. .” The small Arabian said quietly as he slowly opened his eyes.

Trowa took his hand, “Yes, I’m here.. .”

“Can you stop.. . the bleeding?”

The green eyed pilot looked around the room. He spotted an unopened box of tissues and a roll of medical tape, “Heero, give that box of tissues and roll of tape.”

Heero walked over to a desk and retrieved the materials. He set them on a small table that was near the bed. Trowa helped Quatre sit up. He removed the blonde’s shirt and vest and taped the tissues over the wound. “This will have to do until we can get you some medical attention.”

Quatre began to shiver, “I’m cold.. .”

“Here.” Trowa took off his shirt and put it on Quatre. He rubbed his hands up and down the Arabian’s arms.

Heero watched them, ‘Love is not needed. So why does my heart feel that I should have someone care for me like that.’ He looked at Duo for a second, then looked away and shut his eyes, ‘No, I can’t. Soldiers have no feelings.’

The blond looked at the Heavyarms pilot with sparkling blue eyes, “Trowa, don’t blame Celes. She was under Treize’s control. Because of her black wing, he was able to take control. So, please don’t blame her.”

“The people who are after our lives are our enemies. She tried to kill us, so what makes you so sure that she’s not responsible?” Heero snarled.

“My.. . space.. . heart.. .” he fell forward and passed out in Trowa’s arms.

~ ~ ~

“Get in there!” the OZ flunky yelled as he pushed Celes and threw WuFei into the cell. He locked them in and turned on a magical barrier.

Celes fell to her knees, “Gomen nasai, Wu-Chan.. .”

“You don’t have to be sorry, Celes.. .”

“WuFei?” she crawled over to the salutary dragon and picked up his upper body.

He looked at her, his eyes were half shut, “I like it better when you call me Wu-Chan.”

“I’m so sorry.. .” she looked away from him.

The Chinese pilot slowly lifted his right hand and put it to her cheek, “I told you, you don’t have to be sorry. I promised to help you and in my mind that also meant that I had to protect you.. .”

“Wu-Chan.. .”

He put two fingers to her lips, “Ai shiteru.. . Celes.. .” he shut his eyes. Soon there was no life left in his body.

“Wu-Chan? Wu-Chan!!!!” A tear trickled down her face and hit WuFei’s hair. Her black wing started to glow for a moment and the cell was filled with a white light.

The light vanished and Celes looked at the wound on the salutary dragon’s side. The wound was gone. Any evidence of the mark being there was gone. Even the blood on his jacket was gone.

WuFei opened one of his eyes, “Celes, your wing.. . it’s white.. .”

~ ~ ~

Duo paced back and forth in the small infirmary, “Okay, we’ve got to get out of here and get Quatre to a doctor.. .”

“We could leave now since there are no soldiers in sight.” Heero suggested.

The American pilot stopped and looked at the Wing Gundam’s pilot, “If we do that, we’ll leave WuFei and Celes behind.”

“I know and I don’t care. WuFei’s feelings got in the way and now he’ll pay the price. He knew our mission was to kill Treize, not fall in love with that outsider. Love is not needed.”

“You listen to me, Heero Yuy!” Duo yelled and got in his face, “Everyone deserves to have love welcomed into their hearts. Quatre and Trowa have welcomed it and they’ve never been happier. WuFei has finally found it, why can’t you except it?! Love is love, Heero, you can’t change that! Maybe if you had a little in your heart, you wouldn’t be such an ass!”

The Japanese pilot grabbed the collar of Duo’s shirt, “Love is not needed in a war! Don’t fool yourself, love is just an ideal too! I thought WuFei was the saner one out of the three of you, I guess I was wrong. He fell for the idealism and look where it got him. Like I said, love is not needed.”

Trowa looked at Quatre, then at Heero, “I never believed in love either, but then I met Quatre and he changed my life. Love is needed just not when you’re fighting. Duo’s right about everyone deserving love and WuFei has it now. Think of it as a mission, a mission to help WuFei and help him live the life he wants with someone he cares about. I truly believe in love and I know,” he looked at Quatre, “that Quatre would agree with everything Duo and I have just said. Even if it means his life, I know my blond angel would want WuFei to be happy, so I say we go after him.”

Heero let go of the longhaired boy’s collar and glared at Trowa, “All of you are fools, but I’ll say this, mission accepted. We’ll go after him and maybe we’ll find a way to seal that power back up.” He opened the door, “We have to stay together and Trowa, you are responsible for keeping an eye on Quatre. Don’t leave his side.” He walked into the hall.

‘Maybe we got through to him…’ Duo thought. He and Trowa followed the Japanese pilot.

Trowa looked at the Arabian boy in his arms, “I won’t leave you.. . I promise.” He whispered

~ ~ ~

WuFei and Celes sat in the cell. The Chinese boy looked at the jacket, “Man, if your tears can get blood stains out I should have you come to the house on laundry day.”

Celes giggled, “I’m so relieved that I didn’t lose you. Now the only problem is, how are we going to get out of here?”

“You said that this a magical barrier, so you can’t use magic until the barrier’s broken.”

She nodded, “Yeah, that machine over there is controlling it. Nothing magical can get through it, but if I aim the sword you gave me correctly.. . I might be able to destroy it.” she held the sword in her hand and looked at it.

WuFei put a hand on her shoulder, “I believe in you and I love you.. .”

“I thought I imagined that. No one’s ever told me they loved me before, but I think I know what it feels like and if I’m right, then I love you too.” She sighed, “Although I have to admit, I’m surprised you’re not going to curse me for being Treize’s daughter.”

“I would never do that to you.”

She smiled, “My mother was right.”

“Huh?”

“When I started to wonder my mother spoke to me in my dreams. She told to find a man by the name of Wu-Chan. She said that if I found him that he and his friends would help me and that I’d find love and happiness with him.”

The black haired pilot moved closer to her and kissed her on the cheek, “Let’s get out of here.”

She and WuFei stood up. She threw the sword through the barrier and broke the machine. She held out her hand and blasted the door off. They stepped out of the cell. The long banged girl grabbed her sword, “Now, let’s go after Treize!”

Chapter 7:

Heero’s party ran into the main room. The Japanese pilot looked around with Duo right behind him.

Trowa knelt down and set Quatre on the floor and held his upper body. The blond opened his eyes half way, “Trowa.. .”

“Shhh.. . close your eyes and rest.”

He shut them again, “Be careful.. .”

“What makes you think there is a way to seal that power?” Duo asked.

Heero stopped and pondered that thought, “I don’t know.. .”

A miniature laser gun on the far corner of the left wall was monitoring the room. The longhaired boy looked up, “A laser gun.. . cool.” He continued to walk, then suddenly stopped. “A laser.. .gun?” he looked at Quatre and Trowa, “Get out of the way!!!”

The laser from the gun was released and was headed for the two pilots on the floor.

“Winds of protection!”

A wind barrier formed around the two boys and disintegrated the beam. Trowa looked behind himself, “WuFei!”

WuFei and Celes ran into the room. The winged female knelt beside the wounded blond. She shut her eyes and held her hands over the injury, “Winds of Healing.. .”

A cool green breeze settled on Quatre’s chest. She looked into Trowa’s eye, “I healed the injury, but he’ll still have the side effects from the black wing. He’ll basically feel like he has the flu for about a week, so just take care of him.”

Heero walked up to her and grabbed her arm, “Why don’t you heal the illness too?”

She struggled under Heero’s grip and the more she struggled, the tighter his grip got, “My magic isn’t that far advanced. I haven’t learned how to heal illness yet.. . Ahhhh, you’re hurting me.. .”

The Japanese pilot let go of her arm, “This is all your fault, you know.”

The laser gun was now aimed at Heero. Celes looked up at the gun and fired a ball of energy at it.

“Well done, Celes. Now kill them.” Treize flicked his wrist as he entered the room.

She didn’t move. The OZ leader looked at her in confusion, “Why aren’t you obeying me?” he looked at her wings, “Your wing is white.. .”

“That’s right. You no longer have control of me, so I don’t have to listen to you, Treize.”

He let a small smile cross his face, “Come now, Celes. Call me daddy, after all you are my daughter.. .”

“I’ll never call you anything that is close to the word father because a father is someone who takes care of his kids and you never did that! If anyone has to die it’s you! All the pain and suffering you caused all the innocent people here and not to mention what you did to me. You don’t deserve to live, you no good bastard!”

“Well I’m afraid you’re the one who is going to die.. .” he threw the glass orb onto the floor, “Trigon dragon I summon thee!”

The orb glowed and shattered. A huge dragon appeared before them. The long banged girl looked at her comrades, “Get out of here! This is my fight.. .”

Trowa picked up Quatre and made a mad dash for the hall. Heero and Duo followed.

“Don’t even think about running away, Treize.” WuFei held out his sword.

Treize smiled, “I except your challenge.. .” he took out his sword.

Celes formed a protective barrier around the area she was to be fighting in. The dragon let out powerful breaths of lighting, ice and fire.

She was caught in one of the blasts and fell to the floor.

She took out her sword and struggled to get back to her feet, ‘I hold the light.. .’ She looked at WuFei, who was having problems of his own, ‘I hold the light.. .’ She thought about the other G-boys, ‘Light and darkness.. .’ She thought about how kindly WuFei and Quatre had treated her, “I hold the light and the darkness!”She got to her feet and held the sword in front of her. A mysterious wind started to blow, “Lights of heaven and the flames of hell.. . I call on the power of light and darkness” A black and purplish mist started to surround the blade of the sword. “Combine this energy, with the innocence within me.. . I summon the blood and tears shed by innocence May all of thy power be stored in my heart Let it flow from my body to the sword before me.. .” The mist around the blade was jet black. She boosted herself into the air, right above the dragon’s head, “Hell’s Condemnation!” She brought down her sword and sliced the dragon in half.

“It was a good fight, kid, but now I shall take my leave and I’ll be after you again, Celes!” he ran off.

The barrier vanished and so did the dragon. WuFei put his sword a way and ran towards the fallen girl. He knelt down next to the girl, he lifted her upper body into his arms, “Celes, what happened to you?”

“I can summon my powers at will. My wings will only appear when I call on my magic, so as of right now I can be normal.” She fell asleep.

The Chinese pilot picked her up and walked out of the base.

* * *

Three days later…

Quatre looked at his lover, “Trowa, thanks for taking care of me. I know this is a pain in the butt.” He sneezed.

“I don’t mind and bless you.”

“Trowa,” he coughed, “could you get me something to drink?”

He smiled, “Sure.” He got out of bed and left his room.

~ ~ ~

Duo awoke from his bed and walked over to Heero’s and pulled on his arm ,”Come on, Heero get up! I’m hungry and it’s your turn to cook breakfast!”

“Duo, this is the one time in my life when I actually want to sleep, so leave me alone!”

“Too bad!” he pulled the Japanese pilot out of bed. Heero glared at him from the floor, “Fine, but I’m going to kill you later!” he got to his feet and he and Duo walked down the hall.

They stopped at the end of the hallway and saw Trowa peeking around the corner.

Duo looked at him, “What are you looking at?”

The green eyed boy silently pointed to WuFei and Celes who were standing in front of the door.

WuFei smiled at her, “I’m going to miss you. Are you sure you have to leave?”

“Yes. I need to find more people like myself. Vampires, sorcerers, whatever, if they join me I’m sure we can make a difference.”

“I wish you the best, but don’t forget you have five friends right here. And you’ll.. .” he was silenced by two of her fingers.

“Yes and ai shiteru, chibi ryu…” she kissed him on the cheek lightly. She pulled away and walked out the door, shutting it behind her.

“I love you too” he whispered. He turned around and became face to face with Heero, Duo and Trowa.

“I can’t believe you let her go like that!” Duo yelled.

“She had to, but she’ll come back.”

Heero raised an eyebrow, “How can you be so sure of that?”

“She has to.”

“Why’s that?” Trowa questioned

He smiled, “Because as of now, she’s my fiancé.. .” he walked passed them.

“Fiancé?!” The braided boy ran over and tackled the salutary dragon.

WuFei struggled under him, “Get off me Maxwell!!!!!!!!”

~ ~ ~

Celes looked at the safe house in the distance, “Forever and always… ai shiteru, Wu-Chan…” She continued to walk and thus starting a new chapter in the war of A.C. 195.

The End