Title: Two Worlds

Author: Lyndaura

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em…… well I do, but shh! Don't tell!
Spoilers: TWT?
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Archive: Ask and you shall receive
Warnings: New Character, light language, violence, paranormal (different dimensions, fantasy people, talk of magic, general science-fiction paranormal that you would find in knights and dragons science-fiction books) explained scientifically (well sort of)
C&C: All welcome, especially constructive criticism, though any attempt to further inflate my ego will be graciously accepted J
Authors Notes: You think I know what I am doing? Ha! That's a good one. Do to lots of criticism on my big word thingy I did last time, I cut down on that. I got the idea for this while I was talking to Pyro George. By the way he says 'hi' and waves his little green chibi monkey paw! He's really cool…… he gave me a Zippo and then he told me to burn things…… that will come later in the story though, but first I have to come up with something close to a plot…… hmmm…… got any ideas Pyro George? Hey! Put down the matches! Ahh! My hair! Here read this while I put my hair out……

Part 2: Valley of Angels

"My name is Katara, welcome to the Valley of Angels."

"Valley of Angels?" Duo looked the teenager over. She was wearing a long dress that reached to her high-heel clad feet and the stunning red dress that was quite revealing while still maintaining decency.

Her dress began at a simple gold necklace around her neck and spread out into a triangle that covered her chest tightly and then swooped down to the bottom of her back. A diamond studded gold chain accented the dress, as it was worn loosely around her waist. Duo looked at her exposed legs and noticed the slit than ran along both legs went well up into her hips. Duo was never one to condemn slutty clothing, so he just smiled and basked in her beauty.

"The English translation at least, here they call it 'Castalia'," she explained and glanced over the other boys that were marveling at her fashion.

"Who are you?" Wufei finally bolted out after he had gotten over the initial shock, "And where are we?"

"I thought I already answered that," she shifted her weight onto her other leg causing one hip to bulge out and expose itself.

"Where is Castalia? Globally," Heero specified.

"Oh, you mean Terra didn't tell you?" Katara thought about the implications for a moment and then smiled again, "Come with me, I have a lot to discuss with you."




"Well, this is another dimension. There are others, but this is the only one compatible with Earth that we know about. Wouldn't want to travel to a dimension with no oxygen would you?" she began obviously indecisive on how to proceed.

"So this really is another dimension?" Quatre asked in disbelief.

"As sure as day," Katara smiled. They were walking along a dirt road that seemed to be leading nowhere. They had long since past the 'wheat' field and were now traveling along clear plains for as far as the eye could view.

"How do we get back?" Heero asked, not caring whatsoever of the implications of his question.

"You must find a positively charged stone and get a mage, sorcerer or sorceress to get you back," she smiled. She was enjoying this apparently.

"Positively charged stone?" Wufei scoffed at the idea, "What the hell are you talking about onna?"

"Didn't Terra mention the stones?" Katara suddenly didn't look very pleased.

"Yes," Heero answered curtly.

"Well, the ones on Earth are negatively charged, and that will send you here, the stones here are positively charged and will send you to Earth, and then the ones that are neutrally charged…… well don't ask," she took a deep breath and kept walking.

"What are we doing here?" Trowa asked in his usual direct and calm manor.

"I'm not quite sure yet, we still haven't received our mission instructions from headquarters yet. Luke will have them as soon as we get to the safe house," she suddenly began to walk faster.

"Luke?" Duo asked curiously.

"My partner," Katara informed and then began to increase her pace even more so.

"How come you speak English, are you from Earth?" Heero connected the dots mentally.

"Well, sort of," she began to look uncomfortable, "We're almost at the safe house."

The rolling plains soon turned into more fields of unfamiliar and exotic plants. The five pilots looked more than out of place with the surroundings. Although they resembled farming, the pilots didn't recognize the plants. They were aliens in an unknown land. All of them were still very speculative about the concept of a different dimension, but they played along with the idea for now.

"I know there is a lot you want to ask," she began not knowing how to continue, "But I think you should save your questions till later, I need to concentrate."

"On what?" Quatre seemed quite distressed at this, but he was always over reacting to situations.

"On energy, I'll explain later," she shook her head and started to lightly jog. Heero wondered how she could run on such inappropriate footwear, but ignored the logic and tried to focus on what she was doing rather then her attire. "Run!" she suddenly screamed and set off on a full sprint. The other pilots quickly followed trying to keep up the pace.

Out of the green of the elevated fields came a soaring reptilian creature, with a wing span twice that of its body's length. It beat its wings furiously and swooped down just behind the six travelers.

Katara whipped around and held out her staff and blared at the emerald dragon, "Kasta Belevia Ne Tacko!" But the dragon only returned her comments with a violent roar. Heero halted and twisted to see the woman challenging the enormous beast. He estimated the size of the scaled dragon to be of almost that of three stories. How the dragon could hide in the fields like that was far beyond Heero
but he again had to dismiss logic and continue with his instincts.

She's going to kill herself.

The other boys soon heard the growl as well and rushed to Heero's side. Katara then closed her eyes and drew a deep breath. The stone upon her staff began to glow and seemed to throb like the beating of a heart. She held the crimson stone above her head. Soon to the surprise and astonishment of the other boys she began to levitate. There seemed to be a mystical aura around her, a shield or sphere of light that kept her raised high above everyone else. She stopped rising as soon as she was eye-level with the humungous beast.

"What the hell is she doing? The stupid onna is going to get eaten!" Wufei viciously bellowed. No one could contradict Wufei, but they all were silent in quiet reverence to what they perceived.

The dragon began to hyperventilate uncontrollably and then lashed out at Katara. A great flash of light emanated from her staff and then the dragon cried out in aguish, over come with uncontrollable seizures. The monster fell to the ground and tried to vain to scratch at his scaled chest. Moaning in suffering and pain he finally stilled. His mighty tail gave one last violent thrash and then it too ceased movement. His eyes rolled into his head and he lay motionless until Death came and took him to his final resting place.

"What did she do to him?" Quatre ran to the now unconscious woman. They had all been so entranced with the drama of the dragon that they had forgotten about the woman and how the light had faded and she dropped to the ground in a silent unmoving heap.

"What did she do to herself?" Duo bent down beside the woman.

"Move out of the way," Heero commanded and Duo backed away from the injured woman, her fate not known. "She's hurt, bad." Heero used his one good arm to inspect her.

Wufei moved to the dragon and offered a peaceful prayer for it. His clan had once believed that they were the direct descendents of dragons. When he was younger he had had faith in that fact with his full heart, but recently he wasn't as sure. Now he knew that it was true. He felt a connection with the dead
creature and understood what the elders had meant by all the stories.




"Can anyone explain to me what she just did?" Quatre asked meekly eying Trowa, who gently held the woman, as well as Duo who was carrying her huge staff.

"We are in a different dimension, we can not apply regular rules of logic and science here," Heero sighed.

"You actually believe that?" Wufei was both astounded and disgusted

"What was it that you just saw?" Heero shouted back, "An illusion, a trick with light? How do you explain what you just saw?"

"I don't know yet, but I refuse to believe that I have been teleported to an alternate dimension!"

Suddenly there was a flash of light and a man appeared before them.

"Katara!" he screamed and leapt at Katara, prying her from Trowa's protective grasp. "What the hell happened here?" he demanded. He was about 6"5 and very brood shouldered. His hair reached to the middle of his back in a blonde tress and his voice was deep and booming. His shoulders were clothed in a massive scarlet cloak that fell to the ground and he too possessed a staff. His attire underneath the cape was hidden, but they could tell that it was dark at the least. If his height was not intimidating, his muscles that could be viewed from underneath the cape were enough to make Heero second guess taking him on.

"I asked what happened?" he repeated in a more sinister tone.

"There was a dragon," Heero finally spoke given that no body else was going to answer.

"Dragon? She didn't……" he shook his head angrily. "Are you the captives sent by Terra?" he asked them suspiciously.

"Yes," Trowa answered curtly, finally finding his voice.

"Come with me," he motioned them to follow him and he turned around and lead the five unsuspecting boys to the awaiting hide out.




The walk there had lasted an hour in silence after the man came and took Katara. Trowa was grateful for the relief of his arms, but still questioned the man. Duo had held onto the staff protectively and wouldn't let the man near it. The man simply laughed and shrugged Duo's actions off, but Duo would not let himself trust the man.

"We're here," their guide finally announced crossing over a hill and arriving at a large barn.

"Um, a barn?" Duo cocked his head and saw the wooden barn, or what at least appeared to be wooden.

"That is the closet thing to it on Earth, yes," he answered.

"Enough with the alternate dimensions crap," Wufei's eyes burned through to the man's.

"You still don't believe?" he shook his head. "Fool."

"Don't you dare call me a fool!" Wufei charged at the man. The man held out his staff and Wufei was thrown fifty feet across the field.

"How did you do that?" Heero demanded.

"Didn't Katara or Terra explain that to you?" he asked bewildered.

"No, I was going to ask her about her staff, but she told us to shut up cause she had to concentrate. In nicer words of course, but then the dragon came, and then you, and I'm confused," Duo answered.

"I would be too," he nodded and brought them into the barn. "I'll explain everything I swear, I just need to get her some…… water," he placed her gently on a stack of what appeared to be grass.




"So you see, there is energy surrounding us, and when we have these stones, we can harness that power and do whatever we like with it. The stone that I have allows me to control the elements to a certain extent, and the stone that Katara has, well, it allows her to do things with her mind, like telepathy, telekinesis and some other stuff. She doesn't use it unless she has to, but often times she
is forced to. She is a lot more liberal with her magic then I am though. I'm just worried about her taking on a dragon. Dragons are one of the few mystic animals that don't have a conscious mind, well, it does, but it doesn't talk, or know the difference between right and wrong, and it doesn't feel compassion or love. So it's harder to do things to its mind. The only way she could affect it and not allow it to eat you guys was for her to make it feel pain and then make it think it was dying. When the dragon believed it was dying enough, it did die. Mind over matter. Or at least that is what I understand from what you described."

"You said telekinesis? Why didn't she just move the animal away?" Quatre asked still obviously unsettled by the death of such a being.

"Dragons are mystic creatures, mystic creatures can use the energy, or as you would put it, magic, themselves. This means that there is a special shield around them that makes it hard to use magic on them. In this case trying to move a hungry full-grown dragon was not exactly easy, but it was easier to affect the mind like that when it was in a vulnerable state as it was presented in," the man dabbed some more liquid on Katara's head. "But as I said, it was difficult, the strain on her caused her to faint."

"Will she survive?" Quatre asked worriedly.

"I'll bring her to the King's healer tomorrow, she'll be fine."

"King?" Duo looked up at him, "We're going to the King?" Duo began to get excited.

"Yes, those are our orders, to go to the King," the man reapplied the cold compress to her forehead sending unconscious shivers down her spine.

"By whose orders?" Heero had been wondering a long time about that matter. Who was leading the terrorist party that called themselves the 'Fallen Angels'?

"By Dirk Dellgate," the man answered.

"What is your name?" Quatre questioned casually allowing himself to steal a look at the unconscious woman. He owed her his life.

"My name is Luke," Luke sighed.

"Katara mentioned you," Heero seem considerably more relaxed.

"Yes, sorry I couldn't meet you with her but I had to receive orders from Terra," Luke leaned back against the wall.

"You're working for Terra?" Wufei asked. He disliked the woman greatly. He would never say that he hated her. Hating was for weaklings.

"I dislike her too, but I still have to work for her. So yes, I do work for her," Luke sighed, "I won't hurt you though. Despite Terra, the rest of us are okay people. It's just the leadership that sucks, but then again being the daughter of Dirk Dellgate will get you what you want when you want it, right?" Luke rubbed his head, he had a headache.

"She's the daughter of Dirk Dellgate?" Duo was in deep thought, "So she's second in command I gather. Right?"

"That's correct," Luke nodded.

"She was one mean bitch," Duo laughed.

"What do you mean was? She still is! Frig, you should see her when she's on a mission, she's twice as mean. What she did to you was in her spare time, like for fun. When she's on a mission, she gets REALLY nasty," Luke was perfectly serious but was smiling nonetheless.

"I don't wanna know," Duo shook his head and laughed.

"I don't know about you, but I'm really tired, what do you say we hit the sack?" Luke suggested.

The boys shrugged and settled in, except for Wufei who offered his services in keeping guard over the sleeping companions. Luke knew it was because he didn't trust Luke, but he didn't mind. He knew he would have to earn Wufei's trust, and hopefully he would soon because he knew there was going to be bad news tomorrow. Terra never came to Castalia if there wasn't bad news.

And so as the 'sun' set the barn grew darker and they all slept serenely as Wufei supervised them all of them with a watchful eye.




Morning came as a trumpet heralding the returning victor of a war. Sudden and bright, the gracious warmth awakened the sleeping pilots and sorcerers. Animals were cooing sounds of nature to soothe awake the pilots. Heero cracked his neck and felt his injured arm. He cracked it back into place and fished around for an appropriate splint. Wufei touched his shoulder; it had long since stopped bleeding, but that fact alone did not prevent a wince of pain from Wufei. Duo yawned loudly and was quickly reminded of his hairline fracture that sent chills of pain suddenly cascading along his face. Quatre felt the dried blood at the side of his head. He was almost immediately discontented at the staggering headache that caused the warm sunlight to inflict so much throbbing. Trowa stretched his aching muscles. He was lucky; all they did was drug him.

Duo lazily glanced over to see Katara curled into Luke's loving arms. Snuggled tightly and deep in sleep Duo silently directed the pilots' attention to the pair. Quatre blushed a little and Heero just shook his head. Wufei rolled his eyes and Trowa merely nodded.

"I think they are cute together," Duo commented careful not to agitate his jaw.

"I agree, they do seem quite happy together," Quatre momentarily forgot about his slight migraine.

"They shouldn't let their emotions get in the way of the mission. It could compromise and situation," Heero scowled.

"Stop being such a Meany, I mean they must really like each other," Duo grinned at the way both of them were apparently smiling in their slumber.

"Heero is right, you can't let you feelings get in the way of your work. They should have kept their relationship purely plutonic," Trowa brushed some dirt off of his shirt.

"If you want to know my opinion, it's that they have a personal life and that's the way it should stay, PERSONAL. We have no right to be getting into their business and making our own assumptions," Wufei scolded and approached the other pilots, he was exhausted from attempting to stay up the entire night.

"Wu-man, you look bad, maybe you should get some more sleep," Duo looked at the dark circles under Wufei's eyes, and his hair not looking as neat and tightly bound as usual.

A moan came from the general direction of the two sleeping sorcerers, "Is it morning?" Katara's voice was heard. All eyes were focused in that direction. Katara opened her eyes and smiled, and then her eyes popped wide open and she scrambled from Luke's arms.

"Katara? What's wrong?" Luke was jolted awake and then realized the position they were in and Katara's reddening facial features.

"Sorry," she apologized and brushed the grass off of her.

"No don't be, my fault, I'm sorry," he got up and held out a hand to help Katara up. Both of them were now very red and obviously embarrassed. Katara winced as she felt her aching leg.

"Is it broken?" Luke grew suddenly concerned.

"I'll be fine," Katara sat down and a deafening crack was heard and Katara let out a slight grunt of pain.

"Hey Heero! I found a relative of yours!" Duo joked and laughed out loud.

Katara accepted Luke's hand to get up and he turned a slightly darker shade of red.

"Maybe they weren't together," Quatre whispered to Duo.

"I don't know, either that or they didn't want us to see," Duo offered. Quatre nodded his understanding and they began to walk to the other side of the barn.

There at the door of the barn a young child stood looking at all of them in astonishment.

"No Kala Oh Tobaka Estasia Nobluta!" she seemed more then quite scared.

"Shh," Katara whispered to her.

"No Kala Oh Tobaka Estasia Nobluta!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and started crying.

"Oh crap," Luke reached for his staff, but Katara motioned for him to be still. Instead, she reached for her own staff and approached the girl.

"Balata no makeo," the girl back away fearfully.

"Shh," Katara reached and touched the girl's cheek. A soft glow of blue light surrounded both of them and when the light faded, the girl was smiling.

"Tolesta," the young girl smiled and ran off into the field toward a hidden house.

"What the hell just happened?" Wufei asked the same question that was on all the gundam pilots' minds.

"I made her think that we were the equivalent to kittens," she smiled and walked out into the open.

"Did you just do that with the…… energy or whatever?" Duo asked amazed at how she could do that.

"Yes she did, and she shouldn't of because she is very weak right now. You need to rest. I'll get some horses and then we can leave," he left the barn.

"Horses?" Wufei asked knowing that they shouldn't have any of the same animals on a different planet, or dimension or whatever they were claiming it to be.

"Horses have been a newly introduced species. It happened about three hundred years ago when there was a natural rip in the barrier, and several of your animals came into our world. One of them was horses," Katara smiled and leaned against the wall.

"A natural rip?" Heero questioned.

"Yeah, they happen after a natural disaster sometimes. The energy is so much that it naturally rips the barrier. Its dangerous, but we can't help it," she rubbed her temples. Luke was right; she was far too weak to try any more spells.

"Why is it so dangerous?" Quatre asked confused.

"There are monsters, terrible beasts that can get in through rips. Usually if one does get in they are only the smaller less harmful ones. You can kill them with magic, but still, they have been known to wipe out entire cities in minutes. They are classed by numbers, like a class one is the weakest, and then a class six is the strongest, in theory. No one has ever seen a sixth class monster, but the theory is that they are out there, but anyone who has seen one hasn't survived. The direct English translation calls them 'ghosts'," Katara explained patiently.

"Have you ever seen one?" Heero asked intrigued.

"Unfortunately yes, but I don't want to talk about it."

"But……" Duo started.

"DROP IT!" she suddenly snapped.

"Whoa! Okay," Duo took a defensive step back.

"Sorry, I just don't want to talk about it," she swallowed.

"These 'ghosts', where are they from?" Heero asked even more interested at the reaction given by Katara.

"The void. It's the only place where they can be kept. A great mage cast them there thousands of years ago. They have been there ever since, gradually growing stronger and more deadly. It's feared that the barrier may be growing weaker due to all the rips that are constantly occurring. We're fine though, as long as a large rip doesn't happen. We can handle whatever comes through, and the barrier will be able to fend the stronger ones off for another thousand years before we have to strengthen the barrier," Katara explained easily.

"There was a rip that was formed when we came through, could a ghost have come through then?" Heero asked. He wanted to know as much about them as possible in case he came across them.

"No, probably not. You guys went through quite quickly, but the more people, and the more time it takes to close the rip, the more chance there is of a ghost getting out."

"What do they look like? What are their fighting tactics? How do they kill? How do you kill them?" Heero bombarded her despite Katara's sudden reluctance to the question.

"They look like black demons. They're big, enormous, twice the size of a gundam. They basically look like a black cloud with a head, arms and legs. But their eyes…… they are pure red. Evil creatures I swear. They don't have a fighting tactic. They go for blood. They kill quite painfully. They breathe out poison
that rots your flesh off, and then eat the remains, often when the person is still alive. The person has to spend the next two days being slowly digested. It's sick. You can kill them with a purity spell. Only the most powerful mages can control the spell tough. But that has only been able to work for class four and under. A class five ghost is practically invincible. The only way to kill it is for you to force it to take a host and then kill the host. It's a sad reality and I don't want to talk about this subject any further."

"What subject?" Luke appeared at the door.

"Nothing, you have the horses?" she slapped on a fake smile and he nodded.

"Come on, we're going to see the King," she announced and approached the awaiting horse.




The palace court yard was enormous and overflowing with servants and royals. Store stands were scattered everywhere and the wealthy were bargaining with the poor shopkeepers in a foreign language while others looked on in interest. The castle stood far above the rest of the city in white splendor. The white horses that Luke had obtained fit perfectly in the surroundings, except for the riders, which everyone took the liberty to stop and stare at fearfully and hatefully.

"Why is everyone staring at us?" Duo finally spoke up.

"They're looking at us because anyone who wears red is a sorcerer. They're looking at you because of your clothes and because you are riding with us," Katara moved gently with the rhythm of the horse.

"They don't like sorcerers much?" Wufei stated more than asked.

"No, let's just say a couple of murderous savage sorcerers can give the rest a bad name," Katara laughed weakly.

"That's an under statement. Ten years ago there was a band of sorcerers that wiped out six hundred men, woman and children for fun. They then killed the Queen and the King barely managed to escape alive. He was so grieved to learn that his wife had been killed along with their unborn son that he refused to take the throne again for three years," Luke elaborated.

"Ouch," Duo commented.

"If it weren't for Katara doing her little thing, the King would never have taken the throne and the kingdom would still be in ruins," Luke smiled as Katara gave him a playful shove.

"Shut up!" Katara smiled as she scolded.

"What? There is nothing wrong with them knowing what an excellent sorceress you are," Luke laughed and she punched his shoulder.

"Doesn't take compliments well eh?" Duo chuckled.

"Shut up or I'll turn you into a frog!" Katara yelled back at Duo.

Duo laughed at the joke and they came to the gate to the castle. Luke dismounted and helped Katara down. Katara approached the horse keeper and whispered something to him. Her staff glowed for a moment and his eyes went hazy.

"Kata Belsta Ma No Neiko," the stable master nodded and took the horses away as the pilots dismounted.

"Katara, you shouldn't be using anymore magic," Luke whispered harshly, "Especially in front of these people!"

"Loosen up, it was a small spell, I'll be fine," she assured and walked back to the pilots. "Shall we proceed?"

"Um, one problem, we don't understand a thing these people say," Duo brought the information to her attention.

"No problem, I'm an expert at translation spells," Katara smiled.

"You aren't doing anymore spells," Luke commanded her.

"If you aren't forgetting, I am in command her and I say that I can cast more spells. Thank you for your concern, but I'll be fine. Besides, if I faint you're here to catch me, right?" she smiled and turned less serious as she spoke the last section of her dialogue.

Katara raised her staff and closed her eyes. Then a small green light surrounded them and the stone at the top of the staff glowed and then stopped and the green light disappeared.

"That's it?" Quatre asked amazed that he felt no strange tingling or euphoria, or anything at all.

"Yes, now when people speak Castilian, it will sound like English to you," Katara explained while smiling.

"No more spells," Luke took Katara's arm strongly but still gently and urged her.

"Fine," she relented.

"Promise?"

"Fine!"

"Katara?"

"What?"

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."




Katara barged into the throne room. Her stride was long and powerful. They now understood the purpose for such a high slit in her dress; her stride was so gracefully elongated. She looked around and seemed irritated.

The room was lined with beautiful and intricate stained windows. Each picture told a piece of the kingdom's history. Many armed guards stood watch over the man sitting in on the throne. Beside him was an elegant, young and radiant woman. She seemed scared for a moment when the group came in uninvited, but after a calm tap on the hand by her apparent husband, she seemed relieved.

"Where is King Lowe?" she bolted. Heero suddenly tensed up. He hadn't heard that name in a long time.

"My name is King Dirk Lowe. My father, former King Odin Lowe, is dead."

~End Part 2 -- Valley of Angels~

Author's Tidbits: I now have no hair. Oh well, there's always wigs. Well, that was a totally different format than my other one. Well? What do you think? Which one's better? E-mail me and tell me what you think so when I write the third installment, I know which format to write it in. Well, did I have enough conflict in it? I mean, I had to explain a lot of things in this one, but I was afraid I didn't put in enough plot. AHH! I need to know what you think! E-mail me, or Pyro George, he wants to know where you can get mini Zippo lighters, the ones he owns are too big for his little chibi monkey paws. Ahh! He hit me! He actually hit me! That's it; I've always wanted to know what monkey brains tasted like!

P.S. Will work for comments! Need comments! Now! Please! AHH!

P.P.S. Sorry, Jolt can give you wicked hallucinations.

Chapter 3