standbyme2

Kei looked up from talking to Quatre as the great bell echoed throughout the corridors of the after colony gym.
“ Oh thank Nataku Mew!!” she yelled running down the stairs two at a time and body slamming the heavy oak door before wrenching it open. Mew blinked her blue eyes as the brown haired girl threw herself into her arms like a braided tornado
“ Mew ya gotta help her I dun know what to do!! She wont even talk to me!!” she cried, in truth Kei was a little hurt Ele hadn’t been able to share her fears with her, after all they lived and worked together all this time, she had hoped that they had grown to be close friends, but she also knew Ele could be very secretive and didn’t really share her feelings with anyone…except the fanged trainer now stood on their doorstep. If it had been anyone but Mew Kei may have resented her friend turning to outside help but she also knew Ele and Mew were not as other trainers she just hoped Ele’s trust in the cat girl was well placed
. Blue mew frowned and prised the girl off her, smoothing out her grey sweater and glancing at Kei’s destroyer who had come up behind his trainer to try and calm her his violets eyes clouded with worry.
“Keirra calm down please how is she towards the bishonen?” asked mew chewing her lip, things were definitely worse than she feared, she could feel it in the atmosphere of the gym and the silence inside did little to calm her fears, on her last trip to the ac gym the air had been alive with music, shouting, laughing and the clash of swords, now the air was most definitely dead…the gym was in mourning with it’s leader.
“She wont go anywhere near them…and if she even sees one a me she just looses it again” sighed Kei’s destroyer hugging his trainer “ the angel a war aint happy either they could do with each other, but she just sits in that damn room crying!! She won’t even let us help!” he snapped, his nerves raw
“She could do with Wufei but the arrogant selfish lil jerk just dun care he nearly killed her!!” spat Keirra her violet eyes flashing as she ushered mews bishies into the hall and closed the door behind them, mews eyes went wide
“Elspeth’s dragon prince nearly killed her?!!” she gasped, she knew the dragon prince was hard to handle, shortly after the battle at the I.B.L headquarters Ele and her had laughed about how it really gave a trainer confidence where their bishonen turns round mid battle and calls them “ a stupid onna” but as far as she knew that had been Wufei’s only flaw. Kei nodded, looking grim and pushed the fringe off her face with a sigh
“Yeah only he aint a dragon prince no more, he evolved again don’t know what he is now” the junior gym leader saw Mews bewildered look and frowned “ Ele didn’t tell you about this?!!”
The digi class trainer shook her head and pursed her lips, feeling a sudden sense of guilt, she should have stayed in closer contact with her friend, but then again Elspeth hadn’t written either. Their lives had caused them to drift apart and loose what had once been a very close friendship, but she was back and was going to get the ac gym leader back on her feet if it killed her, sitting down on the leather sofa she folded her arms and crossed her legs looking expectantly at Kei
“Sit and tell me everything” she growled ignoring Mateo’s worried look
“Madame, you are not going to interfere with Elspeth’s bishie are you?!” Mew just shot him a look before turning her attention back to Kei. Keirra shrugged her shoulders and collapsed exhausted in the chair opposite Mew, her body silhouetted from the light pouring in from the star window at the top of the stairs and sighed.
“ Jeez where to start” she moaned rubbing her temples
“I always find the beginning a good place. Mateo go with Kei’s destroyer and see if you can find something to drink…preferably strong Kei looks like she could do with it and if I’m going to see Ele I’ll definitely need it” called Mew waving her hand in the direction of the door oblivious to her bishonens outrage.
“Madame.” started Mateo slowly trying to keep his temper in check
“Chill buddy leave the girls to it we’re all a bit stressed and ya best outta it, come on ya could probably do with a drink too…. and I know where Ele’s emergency bottle of jack Daniels is” grinned Kei’s Duo grabbing Mateo by the arm and hauling him towards a door
“I don’t drink that” sniffed Mateo reluctantly following Duo down the gothic corridors

“Yeah whatever we’ll get Q to make ya up one a those girly drinks with a stick in it” smirked Duo “He don’t drink but man can Kei’s noble shake a cocktail”
Mew watched her bishie go through narrowed eyes before turning her attention back to the worn girl opposite her.
“Right. Wufei. tell me everything and leave out no detail” she called crisply in a business like tone, she wanted to see the dragon prince she’d had her suspicion about him since she first met him a faint pulling in her mind from her psychic abilities had hinted at it but she’d need to see him again to be sure.

***

Kei shook her head as she sighed. The question was simple enough. What
happened between Ele and Wufei? Why couldn't she just come right out and say
it?
       "I'll try to say this, but no promises Blue, okay?"
       The blond closed her eyes. "That's fine."
       Mateo and Kei's Destroyer walked back in carrying the drinks. While
the Destroyer handed his trainer a shotglass full of Jack Daniels, Mateo knew
his trainer all too well. Taking the large wineglass of whiskey from her
bishonen, Blue immediately sipped at the beverage, while Kei and her bishies
just stared.
       "What?" Blue laughed as she pulled the glass from her lips. "Haven't
you seen someone drink?"
       "Uhh... well Blue," the Destroyer whispered as he sat down next to his
trainer. "It's ten thirty in the morning. And I thought that catgirls weren't
supposed to drink any alcohol."
       The three bishonen that belonged to Blue just laughed.
       "Madame," Mateo smiled, passing his trainer a cigarette, "name the
last day you didn't take some form of any drug, over the counters and alcohol
included."
       "That is inappropriate Mateo." Blue said, pushing the cigarette away.
"This is not the time or place to talk about my life. If you can't follow the
rules, you can go sit in the van." After taking another sip of the whiskey,
Blue handed the glass to Mateo, who silently held the glass. "Please, tell me
what you can about that Dragon Prince."
       Kei nodded as she downed the shot of whiskey. "It started a while
ago... I don't know how long. I wasn't here the day it happened.
       "Ele has always loved all her bishonen. She wanted to make them all as
strong as possible, since this is one of the final gyms on the path to the
IBL. Wufei couldn't see it.
       "He put up with her training, and he evolved to the Dragon Prince. He
was quite a powerful fighter, as you know. He hadn't lost a battle, until he
met your Kaizer. Please, don't take offense, but I feel that was a total
fluke. Just based on levels, the Dragon Prince should have easily defeated
your Kaizer."
       "Kaizers are quite powerful at all levels. They have many dark and
status attacks, which help to make them equivalent to a normal type bishonen
ten levels their superior."
       "Oh." Kei frowned. She had a lot to learn about the other types of
bishonen in the world. "Anyway, he never really respected Ele. My Wufei is
quite rude, but he does admit that he needs a trainer. I don't think Ele's
ever did. Yet he stayed around. He trained with all her other bishies. He
grew stronger.
       "That's when it happened. He was around level 63 or so, and Ele wanted
him to train with Shinigami, because they were close in levels. Like I said,
I was at an IBL convention representing the gym, and I didn't see what really
happened. But Shinigami, who was in the infirmary when I came home, told me
that he had been training with the Dragon Prince, and that Wufei evolved.
       "I didn't know that there was a higher evolution of Wufei. Neither did
Ele.
       "Anyway, Shinigami said that they were just practicing. I guess Ele
started cheering too much when one of Shin's attacks hit Wufei just right.
Wufei lost it. He began to attack Shinigami with all his might, screaming
insults to the bishonen and Ele. Shinigami was being destroyed, and Ele was
getting nervous. She ran in to the arena and grabbed Wufei in mid attack. She
thought he calmed down, because he stopped attacking Duo. She was wrong.
       "She started yelling at Wufei for training too violently with
Shinigami, and that he was going to kill him."
       Kei pulled her knees close to her chest and hugged them. "Wufei said
he didn't want to be trained by such a weak trainer anymore. He said he was
sick of how she kissed her precious Shinigami's ass and left all the other
bishonen to fend for themselves. He started to attack Ele, and thank God the
Angel of War was nearby.
       "Heero ran in to pull the Dragon Prince off of his trainer and stop
the madness. Instead, as he stood watching, Wufei's eyes rolled white. He
started to change... he grew to about three times his size as the Dragon
Prince. He wasn't even humanoid anymore. Ele panicked. She grabbed a Master
Ball from her belt, and held it out towards the new evolution.
       "While Heero continued to use his annihilation attack on this new
evolution, Wufei screamed in his new, growling, dragon hiss that he hated
Ele. He hated the gym. If he were to be kept at this gym, it would have to be
in a ball, because he would leave if he wasn't. Ele was able to get him
inside the master ball, and he's stayed there for almost a year and a half."
       Blue and her bishonen hadn't moved during the last part of the story.
She could not believe that Wufei would ever turn on Ele.
       "He was one of her favorites..." Blue whispered as she choked on a
sob. She couldn't allow herself to cry, not even for her friend. She reached
for the glass of whiskey and chugged the rest. "And I'm guessing that we have
no idea where her damn Shinigami is."
       Kei nodded. "Yeah. He's been missing for about a week. She won't talk
to any of us about it."
       "Then I'll just have to go see her." Blue said, standing up from her
seat between Mateo and Koushiro. "Guys, you stay down here." Blue began to
walk through the dark halls. "She still in the same room?"
       "Yeah." Kei called as she trotted up behind Blue. Unfortunately, Kei
didn't realize that Blue had a psychic ability, and she was immediately
stopped as the blond waved her hand toward the junior gym leader.
       Sitting back down on the couch, Kei sighed as she leaned against her
Duo. "Is she always that much of a bitch?"
       Mateo just chuckled as he lit another cigarette. "You have no idea
Mademoiselle."

***

Blue sighed as she stood outside the wooden doors of Ele's bedroom.
There were so many things she wanted to say to her friend. To let her know
that it would all be okay. To let her know about her new relationship with
Nick. To just find out how Ele had been holding up over these last few years.
       Instead, she just laughed. Both Nick and Mateo had been teaching her
to sing, and Blue raised her voice as loud as she could. She and Ele had come
up with this as children as they talked about how great they would be as
Bishonen trainers. They changed the words of the Tootsie Roll song to fit
Ele's favorite bishonen, her chibi Duo. It would have to make the other blond
emerge from her room.
       "The world looks mighty good to me, cuz Shinigami is all I see!
Whatever it is I think I see becomes the God of Death to me!"
       Blue finished the song and leaned up against the door. From inside, she could hear movement, and she smiled. It worked.
       "Miya, you are the biggest idiot in the whole world." Ele yelled through the door.
       "You're going to have to let me in Eleanor! I've finally learned how to break down doors with my telekinesis!" Blue laughed as she started knocking on the wooden door.
       Slowly, the door opened, and Blue saw her friend. Ele was dressed in
all black, like usual, but it looked more like she was in mourning rather
than the gothic feel she tried to keep when she was at IBL functions. Her
hair was down, and from the looks of it, needed to be brushed or shaved off.
       "God you look like hell." Blue laughed as she walked in the room and
plopped on the bed.
       "And you're drunk off your ass." Ele chuckled as she looked down at
her watch. "And it's not even noon yet."
       "Well, you know me... I've got to numb the pain of my existence. And
besides, I broke up with Yamato when he evolved. I haven't been the same
since."
       In spite of her pain, Ele gasped. "How the hell did that happen? Weren't you two even planning on trying to have children?"
       Blue shrugged. "He evolved to Mateo, told me I was a bitch, and I decided that I didn't need any more of his shit."
       "So did you let him go?" Ele whispered, knowing that her friend most likely knew about her situation with Wufei. She wanted to see how someone else handled a similar situation.
       "I told him to go out in the wild. He was to attached to my Yagami Taichi though, so he was only gone for about six weeks before he came back. He even brought back a Nick Carter that he had toured with, and well, now Nick and I are a thing."
       "You mean to tell me that you've been illegally in a relationship with your bishonen for this entire time?" Ele sighed, pushing Blue over so she had room to sit on the bed.
       "Nope. Not illegally. Nick doesn't battle, and he came to me. Last I checked, that was perfectly legal." Blue hated worrying about feelings. She was never the type to hold back on her thoughts. "So where the hell did your Shinigami go to?"
***
In spite of Blue making her laugh, a cloud settled over elspeth at the mention of Duo’s name, she hunched on the bed and stared at her hands before replying slowly
“He didn’t go…Shinigami was stolen” Mew narrowed her eyes and snarled
“Who and how?!! Names now and well get them later”
Ele sighed and picked up the picture of her duo and wufei from her bed, she touched the glass briefly before setting it back down and turning away.
“They were going to kill Hotura if he didn’t go” Mew leaned back on the bed and pushed the hair from her face before answering
“Who or what is Hotura?! And how the heck is this Hotura holding such a sway over you and duo?!” it couldn’t be a bishonen, there were no gw bishonen named Hotura and Ele was very particular about only ac bishies at the ac gym.
Ele turned back round and met blues gaze, her emerald green eyes locking with Blue's icy ones
“Hotura is shinigami and the angel of wars daughter” she replied simply, understanding dawned on blue, she understood bishonen genetics all to well hell they’d made her.
“So you’re playing god now Ele?” mew spat coldly, Ele flinched at her friends tone and slid down the wall her hand groping vainly in a heap of bottles beside her for one that might still hold a few comforting drops of alcohol. She shook her head
“It’s not what ya think mew!! I would never do this for me but the motto here is strength through compassion, Heero and duo..they..they so badly wanted a child but they were both male and couldn’t and..and duo begged so I started reading your parents work I’d do anything for him you know that!!” sobbed the after colony trainer, resting her forehead on her knee, mew squirmed and had a brief momentary lapse in her hard assed exterior and put her arms round her friend
“It’s ok Ele it’s ok I’m sorry I thought you were doing the whole breeding a better bishie thing, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to class you in with the genesis group” suddenly Mew felt Ele stiffen and begin shaking.
“Oh god Ele don’t tell me genesis got duo!!”   Ele raised her puffy eyes and mew knew through the anguish in them that duo was with genesis
“It..it started when I managed to clone duo’s genes they..they found out somehow…contacted me wanted me to work for them…do all their sick cross breeding experiments, fire types with water…angels with demons…showed me what they’d done so far..it was horrific, none of their ..their subjects lived past a day ,their powers killed them i..i told them no way, then they threatened the gym if I didn’t give them samples of my bishies genes to work with.” The green-eyed trainer broke down once more filling the room with her choking sobs and tightening her grip on her friend.
Mew felt sick to her stomach she’d no idea genesis had got that far, in Heighton view they’d not had this problem but it seemed genesis was getting stronger in their search to breed “ the ultimate bishonen” her friend downed what was left in the bottom of a random bottle on the floor, shuddering as the bitter alcohol hit her empty stomach before she continued
“They broke into the gym one night took the Hotura that was growing and demanded shin be handed over or they’d kill her..so duo went …to save his lil girl and..and I don’t know what to do!! Or how to get him back I’m useless I’m just gonna lie here and die!!” moaned her friend puddeling on the floor, Mew narrowed her eyes.
“Ele get up and dressed properly and sort your self out!!” she snapped dragging the blonde up by the arm
“I am not one of your bishonen to boss around!! Pull that I’m so in control crap on someone else!!” snarled Ele jerking her arm away and falling backward sprawling on the floor, she glared up at the cat girl angrily, eyes blazing“ I’m a trainer in my own right!!” mew growled and brought her hand hard across Elspeth’s right cheek filling the room with a loud crack. Ele gingerly touched her now bruised face and raised her eyes to the fuming Mew.
“Yes you are a trainer!! You are a gym leader for Christ’s sake!! so stop acting like some pathetic take care of me girl “ mew pointed at the door and continued to yell “ you have some of the most powerful bishonen in the bishie league out there and they need you, you are the only one who can use them!!! Duo needs you to get him out of that hell hole so get up and prove my friend is still alive and not turned into some Barbie wannabe!!”
Ele frowned and then stood up and looked at mew who was still crimson and breathing hard “ thanks” she whispered “ I needed that,you’re right, they are my bishonen and I abandoned them” she picked up the scissors from the side and grabbed her hair cutting it off to her shoulders “ I couldn’t be assed to try and sort that out” she smirked at mew, mew just smirked back
“Not bad now if the self pity is over I think Heero needs you” Ele quickly pulled some clean clothes on, black jeans and a mini black fleece and opened the door, then turned to face mew again
“Yeah but I have one more thing to take care of” mew raised her eyebrow and folded her arms looking at her childhood friend “ explain”
Ele looked grim and squared her shoulders walking out the door and down the corridor her measured steps ringing out with determination. Intrigued mew followed trying to probe Elspeth’s mind
“No mind games kitty you’ll see” whispered Ele as she stood in front of the case that contained the master ball holding wufei.
“Elspeth!!” warned the cat girl now at her side putting a restraining hand on her arm as it reached out for the dragon ball, the trainer turned and lifted the clawed hand from her arm with sad eyes.
“Mew, I am the ac gym leader, how can I save duo if I can’t even control my own bishonen?……besides if they have my shinigami under their control wufei is the only one strong enough to take him down” mew growled in frustration her fangs gripping her bottom lip, she knew Ele was right but she was worried for the girls safety.
“Can’t you use Heero?” she reasoned desperately. Ele looked at her angel of war and shook her head
“He couldn’t hurt duo he’d sooner die” she whispered ,no wufei was the only one..if he killed her it was a risk she’d have to take, she didn’t get to be gym leader by being a coward.
At the sound of voices Kei appeared at the bottom of the stairs, her face frozen in shock
“ELE NO HE’LL KILL YOU!!!” she yelled racing up the stairs, at the sound of kei’s voice the angel of war turned from his place by the window, for the first time emotion showing on his face, it was fear.
“Thanks for the faith Keirra” snorted Ele picking up the ball and turning it over in her hands, she traced the shiny black surface with her fingers, feeling the warmth of it against her skin “ wu…” she whispered she’d nearly fallen for that arrogant son of a bitch the wound he left her was still raw on her heart. Keirra looked guilty
“It’s not that Ele I..I just dun want ya hurt not with shinigami gone and all “ she mumbled looking at her feet
“Everyone back!!” ordered Mew as the other bishies gathered at the stairs drawn by the noise “ if it gets ugly I’ll help Ele…” she was cut short by the blonde holding up her hand.
“I appreciate it kitty but I gotta do this on my own” mew looked uneasy but backed off as Ele pressed the button on the ball and uttered the words she had never spoken before
“GO TSCHINOE RYU!!” the others shielded their eyes from the blinding flash that exploded from the ball, Ele stood her ground her short blonde hair blowing round her face as wufei turned to look at her, his eyes a glowing yellow, his hair hanging loose round his shoulder and an unearthly green glow shining from him.
“I told you to leave me alone onna I will not tell you again!!” he didn’t speak, the words slid from his mind like liquid venom into his trainers head. Ele winced then swallowed trying to steal her fear before walking up to wufei and staring him in the eye.
“I need your help ryu-ch…uh wufei I am begging ” she whispered trying not to cry again as she had nearly said her old pet name for the earth dragon. Mew watched wufei carefully waiting for him to make one wrong move, at ele’s mention of his name however she could have sworn she saw him soften for an instant. He brought his hand up and looked to be about to touch ele’s cheek but she shrank back frightened. Grunting he dropped his hand and turned away the air shifting round him from his energy
“What do you want onna…something for your one true love Maxwell?” he spat , mew winced at the jealousy behind his words and tried to probe deeper, she had definite suspicions now.
“I need you to help me get duo back yes..if you want to kill me then fine do it you can have whatever you want” growled elspeth glaring at the dragons back “ just be my wufei one last time” she added with a whisper
the dragon turned back his eye black once more an almost hurt look upon his face.
“I did not mean to put you in hospital onna…fine I will help your beloved Maxwell, in return I want my freedom” he snarled, Ele hung her, head so he did hate her he wanted to leave, their eyes locked again.
“Agreed on the condition before you go you tell me what I did wrong and why!” she sent mentally, she didn’t want the others to know, the dragon mealy nodded and walked off down the stairs, the other bishies parting for him without a word
“ I missed you wu” Ele whispered raising her eyes to the painting of her father that hung above the stairs below the gym motto “ strength through compassion”. Wu turned and smirked at her then carried on walking
“he heard me?!!"
“He knows your thoughts” whispered the angel of war by her ear putting his arms round her and hugging her, Ele hugged back Heero was as usual her wall of strength.
"Well now that’s sorted maybe we can start doing something to those bastards!” grinned mew gleefully “ Kei round up my bishonen and Elspeth’s..all of them I believe we are going to war”