Lunar Succession

Author: ~Heartless Spirit~

Disclaimer: I don't own SM or GW. I DO own Dederi, so
no stealin'!
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Lunar Succession
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Chapter 3-My Dear Assailant and Her Reluctant Crew
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Dederi put up an offensive stance as Wufei stared.
The raven-haired assailant grinned maliciously as she
watched Wufei put up his katana. She noticed his 
stance and smirked. "You need a better stance, Chang.
I can see many openings for attack."
Wufei stared incredulously, although his katana didn't
dare move an inch. After a moment of silence and 
confusion, Wufei raised his voice to answer. "What?!"

Nova sighed and put her hand to her cheek. "Oh, yeah.
Forgot about that." Haruka turned to the blond-highlighted
assassin. 

"Forgot what?!" Haruka's voice grew rather aggravated.

Nova looked at Haruka. "Our Romeclyst superior, Countess
Rozielle, had instructed Dederi to destroy Gundam pilot
Wufei Chang, colony L5; Shenlong Nataku."

Heero heard this and immediately put his handgun onto
Nova's head. "Omae o korosu. Who are you?" Heero's
eyes pierced the souls of all who were near.

Nova sighed as she put up her hands. "I am Nova. I cannot
tell anything else, or else I will get it from my
partner."

"Is your partner the one that's having a glare match
with Wu-man?" Duo asked.

Nova nodded cautiously.

Heero gritted his teeth. "Who do you work for?"

"I will not tell you."

"Omae o korosu if you don't talk." Heero tightened his
grip on the trigger.

"I'll die before I talk."

"Fine." Heero said.

Minako stepped forward. "Nova-kun..." Minako was about
to stop the trigger from being pulled but Nova put
her hand out, motioning her to not move and let it go.

Dederi was about to advance an attack towards Wufei
but halted when she heard indistinct pleading from one
of the senshi. [Mercury?] She turned around and saw
Heero about to pull the trigger on Nova. "Kuso.."
Dederi threw her katana onto the grey concrete and
began to run towards Nova.

Ami pleaded. "No! Please don't! We don't have to kill 
each other!" Her blue eyes shimmered with tears.
Heero's prussian blue eyes stared at Nova emotionlessly.
He pulled the trigger.
"KUSO!" Dederi pushed Nova out of the way as the bullet
shot out of the gun. Dederi dropped to the ground in
pain. The bullet had shot through her left shoulder,
barely missing her top ribs. The assassin now writhed
in pain, shimmering tears flowed through her eyes as
red and black fluid secreted from her injury.
The senshi gasped. Hotaru knelt down and examined her
wound, despite her extreme fear of Dederi and her
red and black blood. Hotaru whispered sadly as she
touched the wound. "She-she...she's going to die if
we don't get her treated..I can't heal this wound..
We must get the bullet out first!" The senshi of
destruction and rebirth held her hand to Dederi's
neck. "And her pulse is weakening..." 

The Chinese warrior ran up to the place where the boys
and senshi crowded around. "What is going on now?"
"Heero shot one of these girls. Your assailant, to be
precise." Duo said, not taking his eyes off the bleeding
girl.
Rei, although disliking Dederi as much as the others,
spoke to the boy with platinum blond hair. "Please,
I know you don't trust us but we have got to get Dederi
to a hospital. If we don't.." [Another descendant of
the moon kingdom will die and another leader will be
needed..]

Quatre whispered to his braided comrad, who was also 
staring at the bleeding girl. "Duo, should we help them?
I can't decide whether-"
Duo shook his head. "Sorry, Q-man. I don't know either."
Heero stared at the writhing body of the female assailant,
his prussian blue eyes were uncertain.
"Well, I guess we can't just leave her here. Okay, we'll
help." Quatre nodded as he bent over to put Dederi on his
back.
Heero shot a glare at Hotaru. "On one condition. You
have to tell us who you are and where you are from, and
who you work for."

Hotaru and the other senshi nodded.

Nova, momentarily knocked over and onto the ground by her
Romeclyst comrad, sighed sadly as she knelt beside Dederi,
who was about to be picked up by Quatre and Duo. She
shook her head. "Do you always have to get shot instead 
of me, baka?"
Dederi sighed painfully as she strived to answer Nova's
question. Dederi scoffed, "Of course, Nova-kun. You're my
only partner. And," Dederi coughed up blood as she
continued. "You're the only friend I've got now." 

"We should get her to the hospital now if you want her
to live." Trowa said, looking at the senshi with his
shimmering emerald green eyes.

(Place: Sanq Kingdom Memorial Hospital)

Quatre, the pilots, and the senshi burst through the glass
hospital doors. "We need help now!" Minako yelled as she
ran to the receptionist's desk. "Our friend needs help!
Please!"
The nurse's eyes settled upon the unconscious girl
on the Arab boy's back. "Oh goodness!" She picked up
the phone and paged the doctors of the emergency ward.
A split-second later, doctors and nurses came rushing
towards them with a stretcher beside them. They lifted
Dederi off Quatre's back and onto the stretcher as
a few nurses prepared the IV fluid bags and some other
materials. The doctors then rushed the stretcher through
the bustling hallway, leaving the pilots and the senshi
to deal with the nurses that urged them to stay in the
waiting room until their friend was out of the ER.

(Time Change: 4:02:34 PM; Hospital)

Nova paced back and forth in the silent waiting room,
her highlighted hair swished and swayed back and forth.
"Ooh, I can't stand waiting..." She complained.
The senshi had now detransformed, much to the pilots'
suprise. Ami motioned Nova to calm down. "Nova-kun.
It's going to be alright, you don't need to worry.
It'll be okay." [I can't stand waiting either..]
Michiru sat down next to the magazine shelf with Haruka,
although they didn't read anything. Michiru held Haruka's
hand. "Haruka-chan, do you think Dederi will turn out
to be alright?"
Haruka squeezed her girlfriend's hand gently. "Don't worry
Michi-chan. She's strong, if you haven't noticed."
[I hope she's okay. But can I bring myself to trust that
assassin?] Haruka sighed. She didn't know what to think
anymore.
Rei sat on the floor, meditating quietly. [I wish I could
consult the sacred fire. Then I'd know what to do..]

Duo and the other pilots sat in the other corner of
the waiting room. The braided American leaned on his
arm. "Man, Heero, why'd you have to go and shoot that
girl anyway? We wouldn't be in this mess." Heero shot
his 'friend' his famous death glare. 
"I meant to shoot that other girl, Duo. Anyway, none
of those girls can be trusted."
Trowa opened his eyes as he leaned on the back of his 
chair. "What I don't understand is, how could those girls
survive such a fall from the sky? And why did they seem
so hostile to that girl Heero shot?"
"Good questions, although unfortunately I don't know the
answers to any of those." Quatre said regretfully.
"They're all just a bunch of weak onnas." The Chinese
one said. [Although I must admit the one that attempted
to kill me was a bit formidable.]

One doctor then walked through the waiting room doors and
walked towards the girls. Hotaru and Nova stood up
excitedly as the brown-haired doctor stood in front of
them. "Doctor, is Dederi going to be alright?" Nova
asked, her sparkling eyes shimmering with hope. 
"Your friend will be fine. She can go home today, if she
wishes to. But, she must stay out of strenous activities
for a few days. Then she'll be back on her feet. You
can go see her now, too. She's in room D5 on the third
floor." The doctor informed.
"Thank you doctor." Hotaru smiled.
"No trouble at all. Now, if you excuse me, I must get
to my next appointment." The doctor then walked out of
the room and down the hall to try and find his patient that
had swallowed a pen.

Minako sighed in relief. "Oh thank Kami-sama she's okay!"

"We should probably tell those boys we can see Dederi now,
shouldn't we?" Ami asked.

"I'll go tell them. You go along ahead. I'll catch up."
Makoto laughed. She walked over to the five boys who
were now looking at her in confusion. "Hey, we can see
Dederi now. You guys coming or what?"

The boys blinked, but soon followed the brunette
out the room.

Dederi lay on her hospital bed, groaning as she opened
her eyes. She had just gotten better from that shot and
she was still in pain. "Shimata..I'm never taking a bullet
for that girl ever again." Dederi rubbed her sore head
as she sat up. Nova and the others rushed in, 
worried and relieved expressions on their faces.
Another wave of people rushed in, particularly Makoto
and the pilots. Dederi spotted Wufei.
"Kuso, I didn't finish my mission." Dederi was about to
walk out of the bed when Haruka restrained her from doing
so.
"Oh no you don't. You're going to stay immobile for a 
few days, got it?" Haruka said as she pushed Dederi
back onto the bed.
"The question is, though, where are we going to stay?
We are not native to this place, and we don't know
our way around, OR have any money." Setsuna sighed
sadly. For once, the guardian of time had been out of
ideas.
"Good point." Minako agreed as she sat on the foot of
Dederi's bed.

"You could stay at my mansion if you'd like, if you don't
mind staying with the five of us." Quatre offered,
not paying attention to the glares Wufei and Heero were
giving him.
Michiru's eyes widened. "You wouldn't mind?"
"Really??" Minako smiled widely.

"I don't mind at all. Besides, we can't just leave you
here, now can we?" Quatre turned to his friends,
who were speechless, but nonetheless glaring at him.

Duo spoke up. "Q-man, you sure about this? I mean, they're
total strangers."
"And we do not know anything about them at all." Trowa
replied.
"This is injustice.." Wufei muttered.
Heero just glared.
"Well, its my mansion, and if you don't like it you can
always leave." Quatre crossed his arms in defiance.
The other four pilots looked at each other for a moment,
then nodded reluctantly. "Fine."

Quatre turned back to the girls, who now looked at him for
an answer. "They said it's okay." 
"Yay!" Minako hugged Quatre, who's cheeks turned a rosy
pink hue. "Arigato Gozaimasu!"
The other girls laughed at Minako's enthusiastic action.

Duo looked as Minako hugged his Arabian friends. He
grinned mischieviously. "This might be a good thing
after all."

Dederi turned to Nova, who was sitting next to her as she
laughed. "Nova-kun, I have a question for you."
Nova chuckled. "What is it?"
Dederi smiled at Nova's chuckle, but then frowned with
uncertainty. "Should I...Should I continue my mission?"
Nova stood up suprisingly and stared, her mouth agape.
The others turned to her, although Nova didn't notice that
at all. "Dederi-kun?! Y-you're actually willing to-"
"Hai. I'm willing to turn down a mission."
"But.."
"No, Nova-kun. Besides, they're'll be other missions."

[Missions?] Heero thought.
[What the heck is going on?] Duo scratched his cheek.
[What mission?] Trowa wondered.
[Huh?] Quatre thought.
[She's not going to kill me?] Wufei was suprised.

Nova sighed. "It's your choice, Dederi-kun. Although,
Rozielle will have your head for it."

Dederi laughed. "Like she'll be able to."

Quatre had absolutely NO clue about what the two girls
were talking about, but he decided it would be better to
talk more about everything when they got to the mansion.
"We'd better, uh, get going. Don't want to stay in the
hospital all day, now do we?" Quatre laughed nervously.

The girls and his comrads nodded.

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