Stand By Me? Ch. 4
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?"