Akieen Cloud

Satsuki snorted as he ran into the wall and peaked around the corner smileing, she grined wider as her blushed. "Apology accepted." She turned and rested her arms on the pole agian. "Damned Nine army, who do they think they are?" "SATSUKI!" Satsuki turned and looked as a girl a ear blow her ran up to her breathing heaviyl. "T-They told me I have to fight..." "WHAT! your to young...no wonder he said casulties. Right, I'll talk to them don't you worry." Satsuki watched sadly as the gril nodded and walked away. "Poor thing, she;ll be one of the first to go..." She hung her head and moved on. 'Some of them shouldn't have to see this mess..."

Daimond halls is a large castel set in the north and secluded from the world. Training Mages, Archers, Demons, and other gaurieans for the apocoliptic battle of the next year. Many students are put into battalions to learn to fight as a unit and a team. Many things happen in Daimond Halls to challange the students and things are never what they appare. Trained to fight and protect the students are turned to the world as gaurdieans of the earth and people. The enemy are is the Ruby Tower, leaded by a ruthless mage the controls fire and all it's propeties. He is bent on destroying the world and creating a new age of nothing but magic useres killing he normals and leavign the gifted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyau walked through Daimond Halls as a trainiee and looked up the stone halls to see if anyone found her to be late. She began to run as the bell rang above her head and sqealed as she ran into Chip, the meanest Trainer in Daimond Halls. "Late again Miss Angelwing. Follow me." Lyau sighed and rolled her eyes, this was the fifth time in a week. And she had her qualifiying exam today. "Chip can't this wait? I have an exam to take in 5 minutes!" "You should have thought of that befre you were late." Lyau slumped, her bag hanging off one shoulder. "Man this is bougus...I thought I'd actually make a battalion this time, if not for fire breath here." "I can hear you Angelwing." "Like I care?" Lyau looked in on her class as she walked by, she should be there, taking that exam and going to the final battle with them...she promised her-self a long time ago that she'd make it and she would. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK here's the deal, not much but this is what I need...prime example. Name: Lyau Angelwing Age: 18 (have to be at least 17 to be in the final battle and the age ranges to 21) Class: Archer and wind mage. (allowed 2 classes ONLY! wepon and magic) Rank: Trainiee (you got trainiee, trainer, newbie, and released*graduated*) Personality: Lyau is a gril who wants to do something with her life and refuses to be left behind, loves to hang with her freinds and is somewhat of a trouble maker. Bio: She was sent to Daimond Halls after being abandoned in the woods next to the school. Raised by the late head of the castel she became a student and soon a trianiee. Now at 18 she wishes to join the fight for the earth and protect the people. Apperance: Lyau is slightly tall with dark purple eyes adn forest green hair(Natural by the way) that reacher her butt. She wears a long skirt that is slit to mistheigh and a tube top tha tis white which coenside with the blue skirt. She has 3 silver braclets on her left arm and a silver ankelet. Goes barefoot and carries her bow and satchel with her school bag every where she goes. fair in beauty and simple in looks.

Vey felt better and began to have her normal spunk back she wraped an arm around Jericho's neck and joke throttled him. "You seem in much better spirits today." "Thats because I saw your funny face." Heero choked on his drink and coughed as he tried to laugh. "Vey..." "Yea yea I know Jericho. 'Act your age for once.' Right?" "Yes." "No." Vey sat down next to Cliff across form Heero and looked around. "Hey where's Katrina?" Heero shrugged and Jericho arched an eyebrow. "Like I care?" Vey smiled wickedly. "You like her, you just hate to admitt it...or do you LOVE her? Is that it?" A fork landed in the table by her hand, Jericho's eyes narrowed to slits. "Watch it kid." "Oh, did I hit a nerve?" Jericho picked up and knife and Vey mimcked him. "Engaurd!" Vey threw tha knife into the table and yelled comicly running up the steps to the deck, Jericho not far behind. She reached the mast pole and shimmied up it. Jericho looked at her eyes wide. "You climb like a monkey!" "Monkey is as Monkey does. I've had to get away from many an angry baker in my life so I learned the basics." "Your ridiculous." "Your the one who's embaressed about how he feels." A knife embedded it-self by her cheek. "WHAT? I was only saying the truth." Jericho began to climb the mast, Vey sqealed and shimmed more as Katrina came from her room. "NO NO NO! STAY AWAY!"

Mina choked on a sob and nodded. "I remeber...I was so frightened. I'm much older now and those are not troubles that worry as much as back than. My worries are that my people will not respect me or dislike me for the fact of that I am a half-breed...TJ what was mother like? Was she pretty?" Mina looked up at him and blinked as more tears trailed down her cheeks. She wiped them away and blushe in embarssesment. "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't ask you that..." Mina looked away from him and sniffed. "I miss him TJ, father always knew what to do and now that I am alone...other than you, I have no clue where to go from here...I'm scred TJ, I don't know where to go..." Mina wiped her eyes and looked at the sun as it begane to hit midday. "I just feel so lost..."

Tallie headed to her room and lay down on the bed. "whats with this place...to many strnage things going on... and Tobais won't talk to me anymore.....man! this sucks!" SHe rolled over and slowly dell a

Satsuki looked Yuea up and down, he was alright, not so bad but she didn't like his additude. "I hyave a name and it's not CHICK. It's SATSUKI, remeber it I may just save your life one day." She rested her hands on the large pole across her shoulders and paced about the room looking at this and that. "Man these dumb-" A instructor walked in unannounced and Satsuki blushed. "Dumb idiots who made this piece pf art need to learn to paint...." "Satsuki, lanugae." Satsuki nodded and galred at he other two as the snikered. "Right sir sorry." "Thats alright just don't let me hear it agian." "Got it."

Satsuki looked around and coughed. "All these light weights...they don't belong here." She took the diploma and walked away running into Omrie.He smiled at her and nodded. "What are you looking at?" SHe walked away looking back at him. [I]He's not such a bad guy...kinda cute.[/I]

Vey looked at the ceiling for the 18th time and cursed explosively. "They think I'm a bloody child...I know that I did that wrong, I was prepared fir that...I am not stupid and I know that I'll probably never hear from this ear again. And I don't blame anyone but my-self." Vey walked up the steps to the deck and looked up at the night sky to the moon. She felt her tears well up in her eyes and looked down at her feet. She put her hand to her injured ear and sobbed. Sh e looked back as a floor board ceeked and gasped as Jericho looked at her softly. "Hey shortstuff, you ok?" Vey blinked back her tears and nodded than shook her head. "I messed up Inblade, I messed up sp much, I put every one in danger...I messed up..." Jericho sighed and put a hand on her shoulder. "Hey your ok, no one died, Your okay." "NO! I'm not ok! I messed up and I almost got Katrina in danger. I mesed up..." Vey looked down and sniffed. "I messed up..."

Satsuki closed her lips around the metal wire in her mouth and arched an eyebrow. "Satsuki. Pleasure I'm sure but no time." She pushed past them and into the hall where many more students waited nosiely. "Alright worms and wormets! get it together! you know your all supposed to be in you ranks so get there!" She looked over at a girl who rolled her eyes and scoffed at Satsuki. "You got a problem?" "No, but you comin in here acting like you own the place-" "For now...I do, deal with it." Satsuki moved through the ranks moving people into line and every now and than smaking a head to quiet a person. "Now, ATTENTION!" The room moved together as one into attention, Satsuki took her place with the other two at the front and waited for the instructors to arrive. "No one moves and no one talks. got it!" "GOT IT!"

Tallie busted from the bushes and fell right inot the water, she came up sputtering and wet. "what the hell? I didn't know that this was here...Sakura?" Tallie looked up at Sakura and frowned. "What-Wait! did you see something weird go this way? Like an animal or something?" Sakura shook her head. "Damn. thanks." Tallie stood and made her way throught the bushes on the other side of the water and kept looking for something that wasn't there.

Vey stuck out her tounge and wiped some sweat form her face. "You think I don't know that mate? I do but whats the point in being so down when you can have fun?" "FIRE ALL!" Vey lit the fuse and held tight to the cannon infront of her as it blasted." "Hot damn these things have some power!" She and Katrina rolled the cannons forward agian and listened carefully for another command from Heero. "captin everything alright?" "Get ready!" Vey rolled her eyes and smiled. "Thats nice,I just realized somethin...Those dogs ruined my breakfast!" Katrina looked horrified. "How can you think of somethig like food at a moment like this?" "My father always told me to make the most and I'll be damned if I'm going back on that now. deal with it, or leave me the hell alone Katrina." Vey looked at Katrina, her eyes serious and full of determination.

Tallie was downcast, Tobais had not talked to her all day and now she just lay on her bed wondering, til a large shadow dropped infornt of her window, she saw the form of a large animal run across the grounds and gasped, it was heading for Tom's room. Tallied opened the window and jumped out, she felt the ret of the bones in her ankle shatter and she gritted her teeth but got up and kept moving, sparks told her she reconized this figer but couldn't remember.

Soji gasped. "Oh my gosh! Dryoga. Vynlen, I am so sorry. I didn't realize tha it was you...is everything alright?" Dryoga nodded his large scaly head and looked at Vynlen, Soji smiled at the pair. they were close and unbearibly so. "So what have you been doing?" Dryoga looked at the bags clutched in Vynlen's grasp. "I see, well you had better get to the keep now that this rain has died down enough for you to fly." As Dryoga leapt from the ground and into the sky she looked back at the girl. "I must go now. Becareful." Soji turned the horse back towards the keep and rode away, prince Kal deep within her thoughts.

Mina's eyes filled with tears and she launcher her-self into his arms. "TJ, why? Why was i never told? Why did father find it nesissary for me not to know?" She buried her-self deeper as if trying to hide from the world." "All I want to do is lead these people as I should, but they will never respect me as a half breed. As a dirty blooded monster that was just droped onto their doorstep." TJ held her away from him and looked at her and shook her firmly. "You are no monster." Mina sniffed and blinked as the tears continued to flow. "TJ! I can't so this anymore! I can't pretend that it dosent hurt. What am I gonna do? How can I face my Coven now? Did they know?" She looked up at TJ her cheelks flushed and eyes ter stained. She sniffed and leaned into him buring her face in his chest. "Just hold me TJ, Don't leave me alone again like you did before...Don't leave me to do this on my own." She held onto him as oif her were a lifeline. "I'm so tired of being alone."

Satsuki straightened her self and yelled at the boy that passed her. "HEY WATCH IT YOU JERK!" she huffed and kept going. She was headed to the main room she was called because somethin had happened. She reached the double doors and looked at the teo boys there and narrowed her eyes. The long black pole supported on her shoulders and the whip hooked to her belt under her cap. She archered her eyebrows and twitched the thin piece of metal in her mouth. "So you two as well eh? Whatever. Lets go. 3 rules, 1. Don't touch me. 2. Don't speak to me. and 3. I'm not your friend we get stuck together than I'll think about it till than you just know me and it's Satsuki. know it, learn it, deal with it." She opened the doors and walked in leaving both boys staring at her.

Vey whooped loudly and ran for the front of the deck on jumped performing a perfect dive stright between Heero and Jericho, she poped up and splashe Heero in the face. She looked up At Katrina and smiled. "Come on in!" "No thank you!" "Why not?" "I'm not as immature as most." Vey held her laughter in as Cliff threw her in. He called down to them laughter in his voice. "I'll mantian ship Heero, You all have fun." Vey dived under the water and floated to the top. "This reminds me of my family on the ship. Every time there would be a storm we lived through we always took the opprotunity to relax and be thankful that we lived. My mother...my mother would alway go below and help the cooks make the best meals...and father-father, he would play cards and laugh with the crew. When we were kidnapped and taken hostage, well I was so young but all I know was that I haven't enjoyed being inthe water til now." She lay on her back and sighed, closing her eyes ahe relaxed and floated there for a while. Heero cleared his throat. "Well, lets get underway." Vey poped up and begun to climb the anchor chain. "Ai Ai captin." "Vey..." "It's a sentament!'' Heero blinked and Vey gigled she hopped onto the deck and shook rather doggedly getting Cliff wet in the process. "Sorry." She ran and jumped releasing the sials and helpe dhte others back aboard. She stoped Heero as he walked past her and held his arm in a firm grip. "Look I wanted to thank you for what you did for me, no-one other than my parents risked them-selve for me and that means a lot to me whether you know it or not Heero. So where ever you go. I'll be following right behind you." She ran and began to relaese the rest of the sails and help get the ship ready as Heero took his place by the wheel once agian. Vey looked up. "Where to captin?" Heero smiled at her antics. "Where ever the wind taked us." Vey nodded and took her normal spot at the stern looking out at the water.

Mina looked at Luna and glared. "Your not helping...and the fact that my father kept this from me hurts more thann anything." Luna looked shocked. Mina stood and moved away from her. "If anyone asks, I'm gone.TJ knows what I mean." Luna nodded and blinked. "I still don't know why your taking it so hard." "A half-breed is despised amoung my people, thats why. Now if you excuse me." Mina jumped out the window and ran for the one spot no-one could find her. A small clearing with a little lake in the middle, her and TJ went there when they were children, only he knew about it other than her.

Relena fell to her knees and sobbed, she'd let them down and now she had to pay the price. "What am I doing here?" SHe looked around the room full of skeletons and gasped as she found a pile of bones and skin that looked like her...or well her dres sanyway. "No...I'm dead...THE OTHERS!" She took a dep breath and lay down onto p of her body and felt heat surge throught her... MEANWHILE: Dark Relena laughed s Heeor and Duo fought over what they were to do. "You can do nothing your trap-what?" A large hole appered in Dark Relena's stomach and she wailed as if in pain. "NO! whats happenign to me?" A light laugh as heard through the house. [I]HEERO, DUO, WUFIE, TROWA, QUATRE....I HAVE DONE IT, I HAVE SET MY-SELF FREE, FIND YOUR BODIES AND FUSE WITH THEM, IT'LL WORK, TRUST ME...THANK YOU, FOR EVERYTHING...[/I] Dark relena doubled over adn cried out in pain, she looked at Dark Heeor with tears and screamed. "Don't let them take me love! SAVE ME!" Heero walked to his body and fused with it oerfectly becoming whole again. Relena fell to the floor in a crumpled heap, she looked up at Heero with cornflower blue eyes and smiled weakly, her life fading from her old body. "Thank you for setting e free boys...thank you." She disappered in a cloud of dust. Heeor turned and nodded to the others and together they ran for their respective rooms.

Mina sat down across from Bruon and sighed. "Now whats this all about?" "Well we were attacked-" "Yes, I know that, you tols me that at the gate, I want to know why you cam e to MY coven. I have nothing of use to you." "I heard that your father just died and I was wondering how vunerable your land was...seems very to me." Mina had the Vampire pinned against the back wall quickly. "Do not think that jsut because I am a women that I am vunerable. Got that?" "Got it, Half breed." TJ stood and had his hand on his weapon, Mina let go slightly. "What did you call me?" "A half breed. Your part Human girl." "Wha- I do not belive you!" "Why do you think he ordered you to be protected and watched over?" Mina looked over at TJ tears flowing down her cheeka dn welling from her eyes. "Is it true TJ? Am I a h-half breed?" TJ looked away and Mina felt her heart constirct. "Why- Why was I never told?" She threw back her chair and ran from the room, Bruon smileing triumphantly.

Vey walked around the deck sining an off version of B-I-N-G-O. "B-O-R-E-D, an that o yes is what I am now...hmmm a weird looking dorr to who knows where...looks intresting." Vey shifted from where she was heading(no where by the way) and went to the door. She looked around and hopped in. "WHOA! wonder if the captin knows about this place...to tell or not to tell....tell." Vey jumped back to the decka nd called the captin over. "Hey Cap...Heero! Over here think I found somethin!" She droped back down amoung the assortment of pappers and boxes. She looked up as Cliff, Heero, Katrina, and Jericho looked in on her. Jericho smiled. "Congrats, you found the cargo hold." Vey flushed crimson. "I know what a cargo hold looks like you ass! I DID grow up on a ship. And THIS is no cargo hold...what do you think captin?" Heero looked at her. "It's Heero and I dunno." Vey rolled her eyes. "So cool headed." Cliff smiled and walked away with Jericho.

Tallie ran for a whle just to run, her ankel killing her tha whole way. She limped up to Tobais and smiled. "Hey heard you had some wounds to show off?...whats the matter?" Tobais had a look on his face that made her nervous. "Not back to the 'I dont like people thing'?" Tobais looked away. "Please..." Sakura walked by them and Tallie saw out of the corner of her eye Tom limping to catch up. She frowned and touched Tobais's hand gently. "I'll be right back. TOM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF BED! THE NURSE SAID NOT TO STRAIN YOUR-SELF!" Sakura turned around and sighed. "sakura get him back to his dorm now before he kills him-self." Sakura nodded as Tom frowned at her. Tallie winked. "welcome..." She went back to Tobais and sat next to him happy just to be there.

Vey was up and about in little than 2 minutes and wondering around trying to find the kitchen. "Man doesnt this place have a mess hall or something?" Cliff walked down and laughed. "What seems to be the problem little one?" "little...yea, I'm starving and there seems to be no food here savvy?" Cliff smiled and nodded, he motioned to her to follow him and she did obediantly. After eatting she walked back up to the deck, now full she acted somewhat mature and older. "This really is amazing...I wonder how he came upon this particular ship..." She looked up at Heero standing infront of the mast and smiled, she ran for the stern and poped up infornt of Heero startleing him. "HI! whatcha doin?" "Nothing." well thats apparent...whatcha doin?" "Nothing." "Yea, we got that...what are you doing!?" "I'm looking at the water happy?" "Yup, thanks. Look I know that I may be immature and not listen well. But you can count on me for the tought things. I know how to get ouuta a jam if ya know what i mean k?" She gave Heero her best smile and ran off once she spotted Katrina .

Vey was hanging off the stern of the ship, her bandana gone so the wind ruffled her already messy balck hair. She turned and gave the rest of what little crew they had a huge smile and looked up. Her eyes got over bright with excitment and she took a running leap and latched onto a rope and begun t climb up to the top of the mast. "WOW! You can everything." "Get down here! There's work to be done!" "Ai Ai mon capiton!" "Don't call me that!" Vey laughed and returned to doing her chores. Katerina looked at Vey and frowned. "You act like a child." "So? I live longer." She heard Cliff chuckle and smiled.

Tallie sighed heavily as the nurse prodded and poked at her til she found a few tender spots and her broken ankel. "OW! what are you doing! That hurt!" She turned as she heard a snort of laughter, her eyes narrowed as they landed on BT, she smiled and leaned down to the nurse. "Um- I think he's hurt too ya know?" BT looked up and blinked. "What? oh, yes, BT come here please..." "No." "Now." "No." Tallie had the satifaction of watching BT get followed through the office getting pocked and prodded as she was, she laughed as she hopped down and went to visit Tom.

Vey rounded the corner as she shoved the last bit of bread into her mouth almost choaking. "GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE THEIF!" Vey turned her head and stuck out her tounge. "Ya gotta catch me first savvy?" She laughed as the baker gave a frustrated growl. A nearby pedestrian grabed the back of her shirt as she blew pat. "Hey let me go you scurvy dog!" The person shook her roughly to quiet her but it only made her fight him more. "Pillard bunk rat! I said let me go!" She all of a sudden went limp in his grasp. "Bloody hell...why is it alway the stronger ones that catch me?" she twisted form the large baggy shirt and slipped out, the crude cut white shirt framing her and showing her midrift. She looked up at Heero and frowned. "Hmph, yer no older than me...whats ye name?" Heero arched an eye brow as the baker round the next corner and began asking people if they had seen her. "Old bliter... oy, ye think ye hide me...just for a round?" He looked at her funny. "Please?" He nodded and she his behind the corner. He led the baker in the other direction and looked at her. "Your pretty crafty...you needa job or a ship?" "Sure...when do ye need me?" Tomarrow meet me at the dock." "Got it sailor. See ye than savvy?" Heero nodded and left with Vey looking for more food to pilfer.