Author: < ahref="mailto:heero_forever@hotmail.com">Lyndaura

Author's Comments: Some of the things in this chapter won't make too much sense till the ending, okay? But just try to remember everything that I wrote, because everything in here IS important. Well, Pyro George thought this was a really stupid chapter, but I thought that I had to include some plot stuff, because I have such a killer ending in mind (and the ending to the sequel, but I can't get TOO far ahead of myself) and you would want some hints or else it won't make sense. He thought that I didn't do a very good job describing…… well you'll find out. Okay? But there is method to my madness (I'm just kidding, no there isn't).
Special Mention: Um…… I guess it would be Tiff, because yet again she came to the rescue when I needed inspiration (although I'm not sure that she knows that she did ^_^) and my bestest bro Graham, although he probably will never read this, he is still awesome and I thought that I should mention it to everyone else out there. ENJOY!!! ^_^ Oh and to Vicky, if she is reading this, thank you! I really would like to hear your criticism, and comments!

Two Worlds Chapter 10
When Guilt and Deception Go A Walking, Guilt Always Does the Talking……

The wind softly blew past Heero as Emily walked away. He was torn inside, trying to calm himself. Everything that had happened in the past few days was clouded in his mind and he felt swallowed up by the confusion. Heero suddenly felt the undeniable urge for slumber, as the darkness swam toward him, he felt an undying sensation that something was wrong with Emily. Something deep and sinister lurked beneath her deceiving exterior.

Then the abyss engulfed.




Heero found himself on the ground once again, starring up at a little girl, her dress blowing in the wind gently. Her smile was so warm……

Heero scrambled away from her. I'm hallucinating…… not her again. It can't be……. She died so long ago……

"Hey mister," she giggled at his startled, nervously on-guard reaction.

I wish I had my gun……

"Are you lost?" her innocent voice questioned cheerily.

"I was lost since the day I was born," and now it was truer than the first day he spoke it. Deja vu overcoming every inch of his body, his mind thinking faster than logic could direct, Heero struggled to grasp the consciousness that was being torn away from him.

"You won't be lost if you find Lazarus," the girl giggled again and looked at him.

"Lazarus?" Heero questioned as he stared her down. He was trying to control his breathing, but his heart was beyond help.

"That is where your destiny lies," the girl spoke as if reading from a book.

"I don't believe in destiny," Heero answered almost out of habit than anything else. His eyes blurred, and he was barely aware of the flower tossing in the breeze, held so gently in her soft and tiny hand. So fragile, delicate and so easy to // ……Destroy…… // take a hold of, and protect for as long as it remained //……begging to be blood-stained……// gentle and pure.

"You are so silly……" she laughed at him and then approached him, "You are tired. Soldiers are always tired. But they cannot rest if they have not fulfilled their purpose. As it was Relena's purpose to help stop the war, it is also her purpose to give her life to peace. So it is your purpose to find Lazarus and to resurrect the hope that was lost……"

The girl began to fade away as she handed Heero the flower clasped in her graceful palm.

"Who is Lazarus?" Heero sternly demanded as she disappeared from him. He looked down at the flower and felt the urge for // ……Death…… // sleep once more. There was just so much confusion for him to handle.




Emily continued to walk and braced herself for Katara's reaction to her course of action involving Heero. Emily felt the anger sizzle in his soul as Katara was brought back into full consciousness.

// What the hell did you do? //

// You lied to me. //

// I did WHAT? //

// You L-I-E-D to me. //

// When did I do that? //

// You said that I was control and you were power. Do you remember that? You said that you were the power, but you needed me because I was control, and I needed you because you were the power. Do you remember Katara? //

// Yes…… //

// THEN YOU LIED!!! We're not being separated into power and control, we are being separated back into our personalities! //

// What? We are? But I was sure that it was power and control…… //

// You knew what was happening, you were using me! //

// No, I wasn't! You have to believe me, I'm as shocked as you! //

// You were using me, just as you are using Heero right now! How can you dare to play with people's emotions like that…… especially LOVE! //

// That is not true! I…… I like Heero…… and I want to be rejoined with you. Don't you see that? Why would I do something like that to you and Heero? I need you guys, and I…… I love you Emily, I love you like the sister I was deprived of so long ago. And Heero…… I know I could grow to love him……//

// You don't know how to love…… I don't think you have ever loved anyone in your entire life! //

// I have so! I love you like a sister, and…… I don't know where you got the idea that I would do something like play with Heero's emotions, they're fragile enough! But I need you guys, I would never dream of doing what you are proposing I did. //

// I don't believe you…… //

// You have to. Please…… I would never hurt you or Heero in anyway! //

// But…… //

// You misunderstood, you're under a lot of stress, and so am I. It was a simple mistake, its not your fault, lets just drop the subject and forget about it. //

// But what about what I said and did to Heero? Don't you care the least bit that I ruined everything? //

// Not all is lost, its going to be more difficult, and that means that I need you more than ever right now, okay? We don't have a lot of time, and there is so much to do. I need you right now…… //

// You're taking this too lightly…… you usually would have ripped my head off for proposing such an idea to you. //

// Let's just say I had some time to think. Just because I have a bad temper sometimes doesn't mean that I am totally irrational. //

// Still…… //

// Why are you still second-guessing me? I have forgiven you and I have been as nice as my patience will allow, please stop insulting me like this. I understand that you are under stress, but as you pointed out before, I can't take too much more of this. //

// Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. //

// I'm going to have to think about how to handle the situation from now on. Just promise me that you'll let me take over anytime I need to okay? //

// As long as its only when you need to. //

// Only when I need to. //

The mental link was broken and Emily felt strangely refreshed and happy inside. She had been wrong, and everything was fine, and would be great. A smile danced across her face involuntarily. She almost felt giddy as she totally forgot about the past events that had taken place between Heero and her, but instead she looked forward to whatever Katara had planned for her.

Emily's step had an extra bounce in it that caused her chest to jiggle slightly more, which caught Luke's eye as she came into sight. The smile was almost alarming as she swung her hair back and forth in a practically jovial fashion. Her eyes flared with laughter and her energy level seemed higher than usual. Her beauty stretched out and grabbed him, making him forget the startling events that had happened during her short absent. He suddenly became jealous of Heero as she had spent what felt like an eternity with her. Luke had the sudden urge to run to her and sweep her into his arms and kiss her. He needed her touch……

The thoughts were quickly disrupted as he tried to control himself. He needed to get Emily to Sage.

Immediately.

Emily was walking towards the camp when she saw huge wings resembling glass wrapped almost cocoon like around Sage.

Emily's heart froze.

// What do I do? //

// Shit. Go to her now! She can't do this…… not NOW! //

Panic overtook Emily and she ran toward Sage. The glass shone in the light, glinting danger and fear. Emily ran to Sage and started to cry.

"Sage!" she cried out quickly and urgently. The figure within the wings didn't stir, though desperate sobs could be heard from within the glass cage, "How long has she been like this?"

"She started vomiting and then she started shaking, I guess ten minutes ago. I tried to hold her, but she refused to be touched. She even used magic to keep me away from her, when I did touch her skin…… she was just so hot!" Luke was confused and scared. He had heard stories of what happened to fairies when they went into such a stage……

"How long has she been concealed in her wings?" Emily pleaded with Luke again.

"Five minutes," Luke answered

"FUCK!" Emily swore and then started to pound on Sage's casing. "Sage!!!"

"What the hell is happening?" Duo finally screamed over Emily. He had repeatedly tried to get it out of Luke before, but Luke had been trying to search for Emily through magic before, but she had a shield around her, and he couldn't locate her.

"Sage has trapped herself in her wings," Luke shouted back, watching Emily hopelessly.

"Wow! That sure helps me!" Duo rolled his eyes back, "What does that mean?"

"Fairies do it when they're really scared or frightened, its rare that they do it and it's a last resort. Its like going into shock, sometimes they wrap their wings around themselves so tightly that they suffocate themselves. They have no real idea of what their surrounding is, and they view everyone as a threat. They'll kill anyone who goes near them. They basically go insane," Luke explained quickly as his chest pounded up and down.

"Then why the hell is Katara trying to get Sage out of it?" Duo was suddenly even more concerned for everyone's safety. The same thoughts were shown on the other pilot's faces. The situation that they had been forced into was far beyond their comprehension, and the direness of the circumstances remained a mystery as Emily cried out to Sage, not relenting, though her voice was becoming hoarse rapidly.

"Because if a fairy stays in that stage for long enough they will self destruct and kill everything within a ten mile radius," Luke shouted back. Emily had broke down and was crying against the wings.

"What made her so scared in the first place?" Quatre cut into the conversation.

"I don't know, that is what is so important, it could be something that is threatening us too," Luke ran his hand through his hair nervously, "How long till she self-destructs?"

"A minute," Emily called back trying to pry the wings apart.

"You know prying the wings apart won't work," Luke angrily growled.

"I know that too, but do you have a better idea?" Emily's words trembled.

"Can you use your magic?" Luke asked after a moments thought.

"No, you know that! Magic doesn't work on fairy wings, especially when they go clear!" Emily wiped at her eyes furiously, trying to think.

"Why not?" Trowa asked trying to assess the situation, just like he was taught.

"The wings of a fairy can't be broken, nothing works against them. Not magic, not heat, nothing," Luke answering.

"Can you try a telepathic link?" Quatre suggested.

"It won't go through the wings," Emily answered frustrated.

"What usually gets fairies out of this?" Quatre asked again, trying to think.

"When the danger goes away, they usually go back to normal, well……"

"What?" Wufei growled impatiently.

"Most don't come out……" Luke answered as Emily resumed her pleading with Sage.

Trowa sat calmly trying to think. The calm before the brainstorm, Trowa idly mused to himself. He didn't usually think those things, or at least, he never said them out loud, but it helped him relax at this time. His mind just seemed to go blank. Totally blank…… calmness seemed to soothe its way into him. He was unaware of any of the screaming or vulgar language that was transgressing around him. Just calmness, peace and nothingness. Trowa thought for a moment that he was dead.

In an instant his eyes popped open, unaware of what caused them to do so. It was like watching a silent movie. Everything was in black and white, without any sound, and in slow motion. Sage was a glowing white, almost angelic. Emily was shaking her head, her lush hair tossing at her face, she was slightly grayish, but still white. Luke was tinged with gray, darker than Emily by far, but still lighter compared to the black around him. Standing in front of him was a little girl…… in colour. If Trowa had known more of Heero's past, he would have recognized her as the cause for Heero's 'retraining', stripping of his humanity.

She smiled at him, the large hat she bore, blew in the wind wildly. In her gentle miniscule hand she held a small flower. She handed him the gift and bashfully looked down at the blowing grass.

"Who are you?" The words were heard, but not spoken as Trowa looked at her, not knowing who she was, but knowing that she had some special message to give him.

"My name is girl, and I am a girl. Quatre is a Quatre, Duo is a Duo, Wufei is a Wufei, a silly little Wufei," she smiled and giggled, "And Emily is not quite an Emily, and Katara is not quite a Katara, and I guess Luke is a Luke, but he isn't quite the right Luke. Sage is definitely a Sage though."

"Who am I?" Trowa blinked his eyes steadily as his thoughts were vocalized.

"I'm not allowed to tell you who you are. You have to find that out for yourself," the little child laughed and smiled, causing her rosy cheeks to bunch up into small round balls of joy. "But you already knew that."

"You have a message for me……" Trowa had a steady sense of…… knowing…… in the thought. He knew he was right, the formula just fit…… it was too right to be wrong, no one needed to point that fact out to him.

"You're silly…… almost as silly as Wufei…… silly Wufei!" With a gorgeous and enchanting smile, she faded away from view and the rest of the world came back into focus.

"Why the hell is that onna banging on Sage's wings if we are supposed to be assuring her that she is safe?" Wufei screamed at Luke, as if he were responsible for Emily's actions.

"Sage isn't scared of her, Katara poses no threat to Sage," Luke snapped, angry at the lack of confidence, although the result less performance was nothing to provoke awe inspiring faith in their capabilities.

"You said that everyone is a threat to them when they are in this state of mind!" Wufei retorted violently.

Luke paused for a moment, starring Wufei down, "She will stay like this till someone gets her out of there, if there is any hope, Katara will be able to get her out, unless you would like to try your luck Wufei," Luke snarled. The two shot dagger-sharp stares at each other as they were both too stubborn to admit that the other had a point.

Trowa sat contemplating what the little girl had said. There had to be something else in what she was saying. Why didn't she say anything about him? She said that he still had to find himself, but why would that be pertinent to the immediate problem? Was he supposed to help Sage? But how? Sage didn't trust him, he barely knew her.

Luke ran to Emily's side suddenly, throwing her to the ground, "She's drawing power, she's going to self-destruct!"

~End Chapter 10~

Author's Notes: Meh. Like the name? I knew you didn't notice…… no one ever notices the name of the chapter. I put all this thought into what its called, and you ignore me! * Bawls on Duo's shoulder * One day I should just put something really weird…… and totally incoherent, and see if anyone notices…… (You know when you have no life when……) Well, seriously, how did you like that? Once again, I was supposed to have a lot of other crap in there, but once it got to 16 pages, I knew I could split it in half. Oh well…… Well, I am getting very close to either killing Relena or not killing her…… so add your votes, every vote counts! And um…… Praise Pyro George?

~Lyndaura~

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