Part Three

By Figgy

Email: tura14@hotmail.com

            Heero and Hilde walked into the casino, eyes darting around. No one noticed them; they were all too busy watching some girl sing. Hilde snorted, “Typical males.” Heero only grunted, ignoring the girl as he tried to sense someone… He sense four… Hilde was one, so where were the other three?
             “You sense the other three, right?” Hilde asked and he nodded. Her head turned slowly, her eyes closed, and she pointed. “One’s that way.” They pushed through some men and spotted a stunned Dorothy. Hilde took one look at her outfit and burst out laughing. “Chilly, Dorothy?”
             Dorothy blinked and turned to glare at her. “Oh shut up!” She took them both in, grinning slightly. “So we’re all stuck in some old western it seems…” Then she paled as she took in Heero again. “Uh… Maybe we should go ya’ll!”
             “Why? There are two others here!” Hilde gave Dorothy a questioning look and Dorothy shook her head. ‘If he sees Relena he might freak! Ah!’ Dorothy grabbed Heero by the arm and tried steering him outside, but he remained where he was.
             “Come on! Let’s go!” She tried to give an innocent smile, but could tell he wasn’t buying it.
             “What are you hiding?” He asked, his voice low and dangerous. Dorothy sighed and very hesitantly pointed toward the singing girl. Heero looked, an eyebrow raised. “What? It’s a singing girl.”
             “Heero… That’s Relena.”
             “WHAT!?” Heero rushed forward, the two girls pushing through the crowd to chase after him. Heero skidded to a stop as Relena leaned close to some blond guy with a mustache and felt his blood began to boil. “I’LL KILL YOU!”
             Hilde’s eyes widened as she realized the truth; then let out a yelp as fingernails dug into her ski. She turned to see Dorothy, eyes wide with shock. “THAT’S QUATRE! She’s about to kiss MY QUATRE! STOP! I’LL KILL YOU!” Heero and Dorothy shouted nearly at the same time and leaped forward.
             Hilde’s eyes widened even more as she saw Dorothy tackle Relena and Heero tackle Quatre. She winced, “This is not gonna be pretty…” She sighed, “I can’t let them do this…” But it was too late really… Their attacks had caused the rest of the place to explode into chaos and Hilde ducked as a chair flew her way. “HEY!” Hilde pulled out her guns and shot them both, silence suddenly reigned and people turned to stare at her.
             “Lightning Hilde!” Someone yelled and she grinned. She kinda liked the reaction she got.
             “That’s right! Now stop right there and return to your original activities.” She gave them all a threatening glare. “I mean it.” A few grumbled but slowly they returned to their original spots and Hilde holstered her guns. “Good, now.” She turned to her four friends and a chair flew over her head. “AH!” Fighting had started again. ‘Argh!’ Hilde ducked behind a table as a gunshot rang out. “We’re all going to die and it’s your faults, jealous idiots!” She hissed at her four friends. They weren’t paying attention… Relena was too busy keeping Dorothy at bay with a chair… While Quatre was clinging to Heero singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
 

             “SHERIFF! SHERIFF! FIGHTINGS AT THE CASINO!” A man came yelling down the street and Wufei and Trowa exchanged looks. Trowa rolled his eyes as Wufei rubbed his hands together.
             “Finally! Justice shall be served!” Wufei ran off and Trowa sighed.
             “I think that spell messed with your head, Wufei.” He blinked and stared at the yelling man, “Which way’s the casino?” The man pointed and Trowa groaned in annoyance. “WUFEI! YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!”
             Wufei stopped and came back, sulking.

 
             “Dorothy, I swear I didn’t know!” Relena shrieked as Dorothy grabbed the chair and yanked it out of her hands. The blond girl eyes narrowed dangerously as she advanced on Relena. “Dorothy, I’m telling the truth! I just thought he was some random guy and I was mad at Heero and I wanted for once to not be so innocent!” Dorothy stopped and sighed.
             “Oh fine… I believe you…But next time, chose a different guy!” The two girls grinned at each other then both yelled as two drunken brawlers nearly ran into them.
             “We caused this!” Relena and Dorothy ducked behind the table Hilde was using as a shield and peeked over the edges.
             “You and your jealous boyfriends… Actually, only one was jealous…The other’s drunk.” Hilde giggled, pointing out Heero who had long since given up on being mad and was just trying to pry Quatre off of him.
             “Oh god… Quatre!” Dorothy shook her head, “We’ve gotta stop this!” She turned and spotted one of Hilde’s guns. “Use your gun again! Maybe it’ll quiet them down enough for us to get out of here!”
             “Maybe…” Hilde stood up, a gun in each hand and fired at the ceiling. Silence reigned and people turned toward her…    Suddenly another shot rang out and they all turned to see a mad Heero pick up his hat…Which now had a bullet hole in it thanks to the drunk Quatre.
             Quatre stared at the gun in his hand, “Hee.Bang.”
             “Lightning Hilde and Snake-Eyes Winner!” Someone shouted and Hilde raised an eyebrow.
             “That name again! Wait…Snake-Eyes?”
             Quatre waved at her cheerfully, not noticing the fact every other cowboy and saloon girl was watching him with fear. “That’s me! Hi Hilde!”
             “Somebody get the sheriff! There’s gonna be a gunfight!”
             The sober ones, aka Heero, Relena, Dorothy, and Hilde exchanged looks. All thinking the same thing, ‘A gunfight?!’
 

             “Sheriff! Deputy! Lightning Hilde and Snake-Eyes Winner are getting’ ready to shoot it out!” A girl gasped out to Trowa and Wufei and nearly glomped Trowa. “Ya just gotta do sumthin’!”
             “Yes, ma’am…Could you please get off of me?” Trowa pried the girl off.
             “Get off of him weak woman! We must see that justice is served!” Wufei ran off and Trowa sighed before chasing after him. The two soon reached the tavern and stopped, seeing the scene. The windows had been broken with chairs and some drunken cowboys were moaning on the ground as saloon girls tried to help them up. The two were about to race inside when four very familiar people rushed out of the tavern… Two helping a fifth person.
             “Justice must be put on stall…” Wufei muttered as the other spotted them and raced over.
             Hilde holstered her guns and giggled at their outfits. “Sheriff, eh Wufei? Bet you’re loving this role!” She reached up and removed her hat that had somehow remained on her head during the brawl and shook some dust off of it.
             Trowa’s eyes scanned the group and he frowned. “Have you seen Jewel and who’s that?” He pointed to the fifth person, some guy with a mustache that was singing 76 bottles of beer. Then he did a double take as he realized a lot of things suddenly… One, the singing guy was a drunk Quatre. Two, Relena and Dorothy were wearing saloon girl outfits. Three, Heero was trying to cover Relena up and she was glaring at him.
             “Heero, stop it!”
             “Mission Not Accepted!” He nearly yelled and continued trying to block her from others’ sights. Dorothy grinned, then kneeled beside Quatre.
             “Yoo-hoo! Quatre, stand up and stop singing!”
             “Not Quatre! I’m Snake-Eyes!” He started laughing and Dorothy groaned as she helped him to his feet.
             “What happened to him and why are you dressed like that?” Wufei was keeping strangely quiet as Trowa asked all the questions.
             “Guess.” She sighed and motioned for him to take Quatre’s other arm and help her support him. “These are our roles here… Like you’re a deputy… And he drank too much.”
             “Wait… Snake-Eyes? That’s what that woman was yelling about… And Lightning Hilde.” He looked at Hilde who shrugged with a grin.
             “Seems we’ve got reputations!”
             “Wufei, cou-.” Trowa stopped and looked around, “Where’d he go?” Relena pointed over to where some cowboys were being tossed around like rag dolls and he could see Wufei fighting them while yelling.
             “JUSTICE SHALL BE SERVED!”
             “Oh boy…”
            Relena started dancing around them all, “So, let’s find the others and then wait till we jump again! Heero, do you have that pendant?”
            Heero pulled the necklace out from under his shirt and nodded, glaring at Relena. “First you get some clothes.”
            “Jealous, Heero?” She batted her eyelashes at him, smiling. “You shouldn’t be! After all it’s not like we’re married or even dating!”
             “WILL YOU PUT CLOTHES ON IF I MARRY YOU!?” Heero yelled and Relena’s jaw dropped open… As did the others.
             “Duo is going to be so upset he missed this.” Hilde whispered.