I'm back and really tired. But I found the energy to 
upload this chappie. It's not as long as I promised because 
the chapter was too long and I had to split up. To make up 
for it this chapter has the long awaited action scenes. I'm 
really sorry guys. I'll try to upload the chapter by 
Saturday. It would be sooner but I have to go back-to-
school shopping. Updates will be sparse until winter 
vacation because my parents have said they are cutting my 
Internet time since my grades weren't too good on the last 
report card (which I've hid successfully from them until 
now :( ). So don't kill me. Just read this chapter.
Chapter V- Getting There
(Important note: There is lots of hopping around on 
this chapter on the different pairs. Its important to know 
that all these events will be happening at the same 
time…nearly the same time. You’ll see why I’m being so 
mysterious in the next Chapter, promise. And just to warn 
you this chapter is somewhat bloody, nothing you wouldn’t 
see on the Disney channel ^__^)
*Rei and Wufei*
They had been running through the long (and seemingly 
empty) corridors of the vast palace in utter silence. "What 
did you mean by what you said earlier on-Rei?" he corrected 
himself. "What?" Rei asked puzzled. "About the Queen." Rei 
didn’t answer. Wufei left it alone for about two more 
minutes of silence. "She’s gone…It’s a part of my life that 
is better forgotten," Rei belatedly answered. Wufei left it 
alone once more. "Turn left here," he said. They both did 
and froze in their tracks at the scene before them. 
There were ten men in the hallway. They were walking 
slowly to what looked like the stateroom. The men (who were 
heavily muscled) were either unarmed or had a handgun. Rei 
thought she felt something in the air. But she didn’t have 
the leisure to assess her feelings. 
So far the men (who were most likely their assassins) 
hadn’t noticed them. Well that didn’t last for too long. 
One of the men turned and saw Rei and Wufei sneaking behind 
them. "I guess we’re busted," Rei said. The man turned and 
alerted his companions. Before they could get their weapons 
up Wufei dashed in. 
He took his katana and ran one of the men through. He 
collapsed as Wufei looked for the next guy. "Get him!" one 
of the would-be assassins yelled. Wufei kicked one guy in 
the jaw and was about to finish him when one of the guys 
grabbed him by the ankles and lifted him by the waist. 
Wufei was now held over the guy’s head like he was a 
weight. Rei felt really weaponless. "Hey let him go!" she 
shouted. The man ignored her. Rei ran and kicked the man 
who held Wufei in the crotch. He didn’t appear to feel it. 
"I said let him go!" Rei punched him in the chest. "Shall I 
let her have him guys?" the man asked his friends. There 
were shouts of ‘yeah’ and ‘hurry up’.
The man literally threw Wufei at Rei, sending them 
both crashing into the wall. Rei’s skull hit the wall and 
she blacked out briefly.
When she regained consciousness she heard someone say 
"Finish them off Phil." Wufei was in standing in front of 
her though not quite protectively. He had a gun in his hand 
and looked like he had been using it. But that was strange 
in itself because all of their enemies were standing 
(except for the one Wufei killed which had mysteriously 
disappeared…). 
Wufei aimed for a man’s heart and fired. The bullet 
sped though the air and missed. "What? It was aimed 
perfectly," Rei whispered. Wufei, out of bullets, threw the 
gun at the man’s head. The man unharmed, laughed. Rei 
stood, prepared to defend herself. She was angry, really 
angry. The man’s laughter was really getting to her.
"Serenity-sama show me how to use my power," Rei 
prayed silently. Then Rei began to feel warm…really warm 
and tingly. The heat was a comfort. "Where is it coming 
from," she whispered. Then she got her answer. She looked 
at her hands. She had vines of fire on them, that wasn’t 
odd because she always had them. But they were glowing. 
"Hurry up. We have to go meet with the others. Just finish 
them off!" a man said. Rei realized that they couldn’t see 
her because Wufei was still standing in front of her.
The sound of the man’s laughter at her was repeating 
in her head. It was getting louder. Her head began to 
pound. Rei covered her ears with her hands to make the 
voices stop but they didn’t. With the never ending laughter 
and the pain it was too much. 
"SSSSSStttttttttoooooooopppppppp!" Rei screamed. The 
good thing was that the pain stopped, the bad thing was 
that all eyes were on her. She looked at her hands now and 
saw that a ball of her element, fire, floated over each of 
them. "Rei, what are you doing?" Wufei asked. Rei, 
preoccupied with something else, vaguely realized that 
Wufei did not call her ‘onna’ or ‘weak onna’ this time. 
She looked at her hands again and back at the 
assassins and grinned. "Hey lady what are you laughing at?" 
"Do you think your tricks can save you?" The men asked.
Rei stopped laughing and threw a ball of fire at the 
speaker. The man was thrown backwards by the force of the 
blast into the wall where he passed out. Rei smiled and 
threw the remaining fireball at the man who had previously 
laughed at her. He was thrown beside his fellow assassin. 
"Um…Rei do you know what you’re doing?" Wufei asked 
nervously. 
Rei laughed at his discomfort. ‘Serves that baka 
right,’ she thought. The seven remaining men looked scared. 
Rei concentrated on her empty hands. She felt the similar 
tingling sensation but other then that, nothing happened. 
While she was trying in vain to grow another fireball a man 
took the opportunity and lunged at her with his knife.
Rei looked up and saw the man running at her, knife 
in hand. She panicked and screamed. There was a bright red 
light…no it wasn’t a light. Rei was staring into a wall of 
fire. She backed up abruptly and in doing so she bumped 
into Wufei. "What did you do onna?" he asked in awe of the 
flames. 
There was a large wall of flame from the floor to the 
ceiling separating Rei and Wufei from the assassins. "What 
did I do?" she whispered. Touching the mesmerizing flames 
she found that they didn’t burn. But Wufei, curious, did 
the same things and burned his finger. Wufei looked at his 
watch and found that they had two minutes to get to the 
stateroom and told Rei.
She panicked again but forced herself to calm down. 
Looking past the flames she saw the assassins were getting 
their wits together and were preparing to leave. "I can’t 
let them leave." Without really thinking about it she swept 
her arms through the flames. The firewall vanished. 
"Onna, do that fire thing again. Trap those 
assassins," Wufei ordered. Rei was angry at the tone of his 
voice but knew it had to be done. She just wasn’t sure how. 
Then she reached her hand out to the retreating men. Fire 
rose from her hand and surrounded the men, stopping them in 
their tracks. The coil of fire spun around the men, not 
touching though, in a tight spiral.
Rei then sank to her knees in exhaustion. "Can you 
keep them in the cage like that?" Wufei asked. Rei nodded. 
"It should hold even if I’m not here. And I don’t think it 
will burn the palace down…" Wufei retrieved his katana and 
returned to Rei’s side. She had fainted again. "I know I’m 
not going to like this but she might be useful later," 
Wufei said aloud. 
He slung the unconscious Rei over his shoulder like a 
sack of potatoes. Rei woke up instantly and began to pound 
on his back. "Put me down! Baka, put me down!" she 
screamed. Wufei smirked and dumped her on the floor. Rei 
was about to protest her treatment when Wufei started to 
run in the direction of the door to the stateroom. Rei 
rallied her remaining strength and followed the man with 
the ponytail.
They did reach the door. But before they reached it 
they heard a gunshot…they were too late…
*Minako and Duo*
Minako was following the man in the priest’s outfit. 
‘Why does he wear that…’ she wondered. But she was afraid 
to ask. There was no talk between them because they were 
still embarrassed about the whole shower incident. Minako 
sighed. "What’s wrong?" Duo asked automatically. 
"Nothing…well it’s just that I don’t like fighting. I’m 
sick of fighting and now I’m expected to do it all over 
again. I just want to have a happy life." "What are you 
talking a-" Duo stopped talking as they came across a group 
of ten men. 
They were huge well-muscled men. "The assassins," 
Mina said. She instantly covered her mouth as she realized 
her mistake. But it was too late; they had been spotted. 
Duo pushed Minako behind him and pulled his gun out and 
fired at the advancing men. The gun must have been 
defective or something because all ten shots he fired 
missed. And the thing was, he only had ten bullets in the 
first place. He threw the gun aside and charged the man 
nearest to him. Duo’s shoulder slammed the unsuspecting 
assassin onto a marble statue. 
The statue and the man were both down for the count. 
"Damn…Relena’s going to kill me again!" Duo cursed as he 
looked at the broken statue. "Duo look out behind you!" 
Minako yelled. Duo turned and as he did his face connected 
with a man’s fist. Duo stumbled backwards and clutched his 
now swelling black eye. 
Minako was lucky. The men either didn’t notice her or 
thought she wasn’t a threat. So she closed her eyes. "I 
don’t want to fight but I don’t have a choice anymore. But 
since I have to fight I need to make sure the time weave 
doesn’t collapse. Serenity-sama please don’t let anybody 
else get hurt. Give me the power to defeat these evil men." 
Mina opened her eyes. 
Her hands started to tingle. She looked at her hands 
and saw that her gold heart-chain tattoos were glowing. 
"What the," she whispered. Mina heard a loud noise and saw 
that one of the men had given Duo a savage kick to the 
side. 
This fueled Minako’s growing anger. "Please hurry 
up," she said to nobody in particular. Then a whip appeared 
in her right hand. It was formed with gold heart links made 
out of…she didn’t know what. In her left hand floated two 
small balls of pink light. They radiated love. "Well thanks 
Serenity-sama."
Minako was curious as to what the balls did so she 
tried them first. "Hey ugly! Get away from Duo!" she 
yelled. The men looked up from their ‘work’ and at Mina. 
"Or what?" a man asked. Minako had hid the whip behind her 
back, using it as a last resort.
She took her left hand and blew on the two balls. 
The pink ‘love balls’ floated over to the men who 
were beating up Duo. The balls touched the men and 
disappeared inside of their bodies. Minako and Duo waited 
impatiently for the results. 
The two men spaced out for a minute. Then the first 
one shook his head as if to shake off something. He looked 
at one of the other men, not the one who also was also hit 
by the ball. Then he ran up to the man and slung his arm 
around him as if to hug him. "Did I ever tell you that you 
were always my favorite friend?" the ball struck man asked 
the other assassin who looked uncomfortable. 
The second man who got struck by the ball took the 
man nearest and kissed him. The normal man pulled away. 
"What the hell is up with you? I don’t swing that way," he 
said. The second man sighed, hearts filled his eyes. 
Minako started to laugh. All eyes…mostly were on her. 
"Turn them back you witch!" a man screamed. "Come give 
daddy some sugar!" the first man said. The guy he was 
‘molesting’ ran down the hallway to get away but the ball 
struck man was in heart pursuit. Minako smiled. They were 
going in the direction away from the door. The second man 
promptly did the same and chased his ‘boy toy’ down the 
hall way yelling ‘come back. I only want what you want.’
Minako tried to keep a straight face through the 
angry looks thrown from the five remaining men. "Get her!" 
Minako took her whip from behind her back and knocked the 
weapons out of their hands. She stood in front of Duo 
protectively and brandished her whip.
Duo by this time was up and was about to pay them 
back for what they did to him but Minako stopped him. "Let 
me Duo-kun. You need to rest. You do look pretty beat up. 
And we don’t have time…I got an idea!" "Minako…what’s that 
look on your face? You are starting to scare me," Duo said 
nervously. 
Minako laughed maniacally. She took her whip and 
concentrated. It disappeared to her surprise. "Well, I’ll 
be damned…how does this whip work!" she screamed out. Then 
she felt something tingling in her right hand and had 
another idea. She held her palm out in front of the group 
of assassins. A chain of heart energy whirled out of her 
hand and wrapped around all of the men, effectively tying 
them up. Duo whistled at the impressive scene in front of 
him. A chain of glowing hearts tied up all five men. 
"Weird but impressive," he commented and turned to 
Mina. But Mina wasn’t there; she was collapsed on the 
floor. Checking his watch he saw they had three minutes to 
get there.
Duo picked Mina up in his arms and ran full speed for 
the door. He did reach it but right when he pulled the 
doorknob there was a loud gunshot. Minako woke up groggily 
after hearing it. "We’re…too late…" she whispered. 
*Trowa and Quatra*
For the sake of consistency I should at least say 
what happened to Trowa and Quatra. A one liner really. 
They went to get reinforcements from the security 
wing and got a couple of soldiers. When they were half way 
to the stateroom they heard a loud gunshot. They were too 
late.
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That was the end of the chapter. The fight was a 
little…weird and possibly confusing. If you were confused 
then just e-mail me and I’ll straighten it all out. I’ll 
update by Saturday or so. Goodbye!
-_-