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Part Eight
By Figgy
Email: tura14@hotmail.com
“Land! Quatre! Quatre!” She turned and stopped, mouth dropping. The blond boy was leaning against a mast, snoring in a sickeningly cute manner. “Aw.” A devious thought entered her mind and she walked over to the sleeping boy, leaned forward and… well, Quatre experienced the Sleeping Beauty scenario first hand.
“Mmph!” His exclamation was muffled and Dorothy pulled back, laughing merrily. “Dorothy!” He stared at her, blue eyes wide, and she giggled even harder.
“Oh god! You should see your face!” She gasped between laughs and he growled at her.
“Just surprised!”
She giggled some more, then fluttered her eyelashes at him coyly, “Do it again.” Dorothy nearly purred and Quatre blushed, raising an eyebrow.
“Do what again?”
She inched closer to him, “That growl. It was so… Masculine.” Dorothy smiled up at him, keeping her laughter back as he flushed a deeper red.
“Oh. Uh. Er.” And then Quatre did something she least expected. The blond boy’s look of shy innocence changed into pure devious mischief and he swept her off her feet and leaned closer to her face. “Dorothy, you really shouldn’t tease so much… But…” He leaned even closer, their lips almost touching. Dorothy’s eyes locked on his lips, just one more inch.“Grrr.” She jerked in surprise and stared at him, then blinked as he dropped her and she landed in a heap at his feet. He laughed at her face now, “You asked me too!”
“Argh! Come here you little blond rat!” Dorothy got to her feet and the crew all watched in horror as their captain chased her prisoner around deck.
“A mission?” Heero’s eyes lit up at the very word and Trowa restrained a groan and forced a smile.
“Yeah, a mission… But nevermind… I’m not sure if you’ll be able to handle it.” He glanced behind his shoulder where Duo was with Hilde, doing…The acrobat blushed and looked straight ahead again. ‘I didn’t even know it was possible to make out while walking! Won’t they trip or something?’ His thoughts were answered as the group heard a crash and turned to see Duo and Hilde in a heap.
“Oops.” Duo grinned sheepishly as Hilde got up, brushing dust off herself.
“Oops indeed!” Hilde helped him to his feet and the group resumed walking.
Heero nearly snarled at Trowa, “Can’t handle it? I can handle anything.”
Trowa shook his head, “I’m not sure, Heero… Maybe I should get Duo to do it.”
“That baka?! I can do it! Just tell me damn it!”
“Promise you’ll do it.” Heero hesitated; there was a strange gleam in Trowa’s eyes… But since he’d never seen mischief on the stoic acrobat’s face before Heero pushed the worry aside.
“Promise and I’ll accomplish it...”
Trowa smiled widely, and now Heero had a really bad feeling, “Your mission consists of two things; the first is telling the truth to one simple question. Do you love Relena?”
Heero’s mouth dropped open and Trowa had the privilege of seeing Heero surprised. Then Heero’s eyes narrowed and he muttered, “I’ll kill you… Yes.”
Trowa leaned forward, “What was that? Didn’t quite hear you.”
“YES DAMN IT!” The group stopped and everyone stared at the yelling Heero. Since no answer was offered they stopped staring and resumed walking once more.
Trowa nearly danced a jig, “Good! Now the 2nd part is, remember you promised, to serenade Relena.”
Heero’s eyes nearly bulged out of his head, “WHAT!? Are you crazy!? I’ll KILL YOU!”
Trowa tsked, “You promised.”
The Perfect Soldier grumbled, threatened, then finally shoulders slumped and his head hung. “Mission… Accepted… I’m going to kill you Trowa Barton…” Heero raised his head and saw Trowa grinning at him. And for some reason a thought entered his mind. ‘He doesn’t think I can do it… I’ll show him! I’m the Perfect Soldier and can accomplish anything, even dating a Relena who’s still kinda pissed at me…’ So with shoulders back and head up, Heero Yuo walked over to Relena Darlian and started his mission.
“Um… I’ll ki…” He shook himself, “Hello Relena.”
“So this is Ravyn Woods.” Dorothy looked around in awe as the two disembarked from the ship. They were both feeling more confident ever since the incident with Ex-captain Daniel… And with Quatre along as an excuse, Dorothy found it quite easy to sneak away from her crew. And soon… Quatre and Dorothy were free.
Quatre quickly undid the chain collar and tossed it aside, rubbing his neck, “Glad to be rid of that!”
“Aw, but it was so cute!” She leaned close, whispering so her lips grazed his ear, “And definitely sexy.” She jumped back before he could react and started walking off. They were definitely feeling more confident and a contest of sorts was being waged between the two… And the best thing about it was when one finally broke, there were no real losers in this contest, just two very happy winners. (No pun intended)
“Dorothy! Wait!” He chased after her and Dorothy looked over her shoulder and winked at the boy before dashing away into the woods, laughing. Quatre chuckled and gave chase, following the sound of her laughter.
“Yoo-hoo! Over here!” Dorothy waved a hand at him, teasingly, then bolted off again and he growled as she ran out of his sight. Then he grinned and began tracking her, after all he hadn’t been a Gundam pilot for nothing.
“Here Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy!” He called as he followed her path, then stopped and let out a mild curse. Dorothy, after all, hadn’t been a trained spy for nothing. He looked around, completely confused now and growled.
“You really shouldn’t do that! You know what it does to me!” Dorothy appeared, leaning against a tree, fanning herself with a large fern plant. She tossed her hair over her shoulder and Quatre grinned widely.
“No I don’t. What does it do to you?”
“Hmm…” She pushed away from the tree and tapped her lips, pretending she was thinking hard. “Now let me think…” He growled again and grabbed her around the waist, swinging her and she started laughing. “Oh yeah! Now I remember!” And the two kissed…
“I swear I hear people woman!” Wufei yelled at Ruby who was fluttering around his head. She glared at him and that strange aura of magic surrounded her.
“I am Ruby! Don’t start that woman stuff with me! You’re deaf!”
“No
he’s not! You’re ears are just too tiny to hear
anything.” Foxy retorted, putting her chin on Wufei’s
shoulder.
Ruby glowered,
“Well at least mine are the size of tents!”
“HOW DARE YOU! Come here you firefly!” Foxy lunged at her, but Ruby flew out of the way. Foxy started turning red in the face as Ruby kept taunting her and made several grabs for the fairy.
“You know… You people are always arguing.” Jewel calmly stated to Heero and Relena, but was ignored by the two. Relena was staring at Heero in shock as he handed her a flower and Jewel sighed and let the two pass her by.
“Hello again.” Trowa’s quiet voice caused the singer to jump and she turned to face him. Then walked by his side.
She chuckled nervously, “That was some…uh…experience back there with the spring, huh?” Jewel watched as he raised an eyebrow, surveying her face.
“Yes, you could say that…”
Jewel, gathering most of her courage from Foxy (the girl has tons to spare what with flirting with Wufei and taunting Ruby all the time), “Would you care repeating it?”
He blinked in surprise at her question and before he could answer Duo started yelling from the front of the group. He and Hilde had long since moved to the front, having given up their make out session after tripping two more times. The group quickly gathered around Duo and stared at the image he was seeing from behind a bush.
“It’s Dorothy!” Relena cried out happily, then she turned red… Then started grinning widely and nudged Hilde.
“And she’s with Quatre.” Hilde added and the two exchanged knowing looks.
“Always knew they’d get together some point.” Ruby had joined the girls’ whispered conversation and the group peered at the kissing couple.
“Hey! It’s PRINCIE!”
“SHHH!”
But it was too late, Foxy’s shout was heard and the couple turned to face the bush. Dorothy and Quatre both trying to step in front of the other and protect… Till Quatre growled and Dorothy started giggling. “Who’s there?” Quatre yelled and the group decided it was time to end the charade and burst into the opening.
“RELENA!”
“QUATRE!”
“DOROTHY!”
“TROWA!”
“HILDE! Hey, shoo ya stupid firefly!”
“I AM NOT A FIREFLY! I AM A FAIRY NAMED RUBY! ARGH DOROTHY!”
Foxy started laughing hysterically in the background as the outsiders joined the two newcomers. “Firefly!”
“Tent Ears!”
“HEY!”
Relena sighed, “Not a second goes by…” She turned and saw Heero staring at her and started blushing, “What?”
Heero, the Perfect Soldier, the man who could do anything at anytime, found that his tongue was tied in knots. “Uh…Um…Youlookreallypretty.” It all came out in one long string and Relena’s eyes widened.
“Huh?”
“HE SAID YOU LOOK REALLY PRETTY!” Foxy yelled so all could hear and the reunited group turned to stare at the blushing Heero.
He, however, turned his cold eyes on a furry female. “I’ll kill you.”
“Eep!” Foxy hid behind Wufei as Heero slowly started advancing… When a hand on his arm stopped him and he turned to see Relena with a slight flush to her cheeks smiling at him.
“Thank you, Heero. Now let’s rest for awhile and…” She raised an eyebrow as she surveyed Dorothy’s strange black pirate garb, then Quatre’s clothing…or more likely, lack of clothing since he only wore pants. Under the girls eyes Quatre was slowly turning red.
“Heehee… Hey, anybody have a shirt I could borrow?” And before any of the guys could answer a chorus of voices spoke up.
“NO!” Yelled every female in the group, even Relena who blushed even more and glanced at Heero… Who was now sending Quatre his death glare. She giggled and took his hand; she didn’t know what had made him start admitting things but she liked it… And this obvious jealousy was an extra bonus!
The group sat down, after introducing Jewel and Foxy, and slowly Quatre and Dorothy heard their stories… Then told their own… Minus a few things, like a little grape incident… And slowly night settled on the group and sleep came…
(There ya go! Slowly getting over my writer's block! ^_^, however the next part is a lot more serious than the others... Sawy! but it had to happen!