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Part 1:
Nightmares

The morning was warm. Spring had finally been allowed to arrive inside the colony. As he walked around, Chang WuFei felt out of place but familiar with his surroundings. He slowly made his way to the back door of his home. It was already opened. He stepped out and looked over to the corner of the garden, towards the small fish pond. A little girl was slumped over the pond, talking to something on the floor. The slight wind carried her soft voice towards the house. She was wearing a typical Chinese suit, lavender with gold trimming on it. On each V-shape cut of the suit there was a three-leaf flower shape embroidered in teal and outlined with in gold, his mother's family crest. Her long black hair was tied back with a single red ribbon. WuFei quietly walked up to her and as usual, MeiLi was talking to the small pond turtle which he had bought her a few months back. The moment the turtle saw him it turned and quickly made its way back into the pond. After a while the girl broke up the remainder of the old lettuce she had been feeding the turtle and tossed on the pond.

"It's a nice day, isn't it WuFei?" she looked up at him with a smile.

He smiled back. "Don't you have classes today?" he asked her.

"Yes," she answered getting up, "but if I don't feed the turtle, no one else will." WuFei watched as MeiLi make her way back into the house. He closed his eyes. It all felt so good. So very good to finally be back home again.

He opened his eyes and found himself inside a mobile suit's cockpit. He was inside his gundam. He stared at the screens in disbelief. A colony was smothered in yellow and red flames. It was blowing up from the inside. One by one, he watched as explosions engulfed the old colony, giving off a dazzling display of color.

"No," he whispered to himself, "No... It can't..." He unbuckled himself from his seat, leaning forward to touch the monitor in front of him with his hand. He watched in horror as the colony continued to be destroyed. "NNOOO!!," he finally wailed at the top of his lungs, pounding the monitor with both his fists.

WuFei sat up on his bed in a cold sweat. He could feel his heart racing as he gasped for air. He was shaking all over. "No," he muttered to himself, leaning forward. "It was just a dream," he told himself as he put his hands on his head. "It was just a dream," he continued calm himself. It was a dream, yet his throat was sore and his left hand was in pain, throbbing, like he had hit something hard. He examined it and found that there was blood on the back it. Stunned, he examined the blood carefully and quickly realized that it wasn't his.

"You're strong even in your dreams," a voice came from somewhere below him. He looked over the side of his bunk bed. Sally Po was sitting on the floor with her hands to her face. She tugged at the end of her Preventer's jacket and put it under her nose. The sleeve quickly absorbed the blood that was flowing from her nose. "Well, at least you're awake now," she said in a chirpy voice, "it looked like you needed to wake up."

"I'm sorry," WuFei said as he jumped down from his bed, "I didn't mean to..."

"It's ok," Sally replied, "like I said, you needed to wake up."

WuFei left the room quickly. Sally sat on the floor with her head leaned back. Small red objects where floating around in the air. It was her blood. The gravity on the ship was enough to hold down large objects, but not small or weightless ones. "He's pretty strong for being so scrawny," she said to herself as she stood up, "They're all pretty strong, even though they look like they've barely eaten."

The blood finally stopped flowing. She looked at WuFei's Perventer jacket, which he had been using as a pillow. It had begun to float a little now that there was nothing holding it down. Soon, something white caught her attention. She reached over to one of the pockets and pulled out an old photograph. Besides a single large tear and a missing bottom right piece, the picture was in perfect condition. On the back there was something written in Chinese. Even though she was of Chinese decedent herself she was unable to read this nearly forgotten ancient language. The picture was of WuFei and a little girl. WuFei looked to be somewhere around the age of ten, maybe twelve at the most. He was wearing his typical white suit with his hair pulled back. He was holding what looked to be an eight year old girl in his arms. Both of them had broad smiles on their faces. In the background she could see heavy curtains and incense burning. They seemed to be in shrine of some sort, she thought to herself. "I wonder who this is..?" Sally said to herself softly.

"MeiLi," WuFei's voice came from behind her. She jumped. She hadn't noticed when he had returned. Hastily, she placed the picture on the edge of the bed.

"Ohh..." Sally said, "That was quick."

WuFei tossed a roll of toilet paper to her. He gave a small leap to get back onto his bed. Again, he folded the jacket and placed it under his head as he lay down. The picture began to float around in front of him. As Sally wiped the last of the dried blood from her face, she watched WuFei as he stared at the photograph. He had that cold expression on his face again.

"Is she a friend of yours?" she asked, "she's cute."

"She was my sister" he replied coldly.

"Sister?!" Sally looked at him surprised. His face was still cold. "Shouldn't you go to her?" she asked after a brief moment of silence, "Or, if you'd like, we can bring her aboard this ship and..."

"I said 'was'," he interrupted, "She was my sister."

Sally was puzzled for a moment. She leaned forward onto the top bunk and began, "It's not good for family to fight. Did she do something to you? Or did you do something to her to upset her?"

WuFei's expression softened a little. "She died," he said softly.

Sally stood up straight. "I'm sorry," she said as she realized what she had done, "I didn't mean to..."

"It doesn't matter," he answered coldly again. "You didn't know... no one did. Not even Duo when he gave me that letter." He cracked a small smile. "I guess that guy really is Shinigami in a way... even if he didn't know it at the time."

Sally sat down on the bottom bunk. A sister? Never in her life would she have imagined that WuFei had a sister. The only person that Sally had ever known about that was important to WuFei was of the girl MeiLan. And even so, she knew very little of her. But, a sister?

"MeiLi was only four years younger then me," WuFei began softly. Sally looked up surprised. “Our parents wanted to go down to earth, to China, but they knew our clan was forbidden to ever return. I don't know why we were and I don't really care. But they went anyways. The government of the time arrested them. Master Long tried to reason with the government to let them have a safe return to the colony, but he couldn't do anything. I have no idea what happened to them after that. I was only nine at the time. MeiLi was barely five. She wasn't old enough to remember them." He paused for a moment. "I tried to be a good brother, but we were always fighting... we never agreed on anything... I never got to tell her that I was sorry for all those times... those times I hurt her." His voice grew shaky with the last sentence. Sally could hear him holding back his grief.

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Author's Note 7/7/08:
So I just got back from the Anime Expo where I was part of a fanfic writing panel and was greatly surprised by the turn out of people. Wow, I was scared shitless to be sitting up there on that stage. Anywho, it was great and I was really happy to see that a lot of people were genuinely interested in what we had to say. I thank you all for being there and I'm sorry if we didn't get to your question. It was a blast and from my understanding we're doing it again next year.

Anywho, seeing as how so many people turned up and all I thought I should be a good enough writer and do what some of my fellow collegues said. So now, I'm going back through the few fics I have here and fixing them up... 'cus, like it was said in the panel, there are so many horrible and stupid mistakes made in these stories that it's shameful. So be a lil pacient and I'll revamp these fics once chapter at a time.

Thanks and enjoy the read!