Okay, the story is this.  I'm currently stuck on writing The Circle
Opens, and this idea popped into my head and wouldn't leave me alone. 
So, here it is.  Enjoy, and flames, small arms fire and tactical
nuclear weapons can be sent to the usual address.
  
   MSTings and C&C appreciated.  :-)
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     Knight Productions present........

      A War Girl Iczelion story......

   Where Does My Heart Beat Now?- Part 1
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   All series are copyright their original creators and the companies
that sponsored said series.  Absolutely no money is being made off of
this.  I'm just doing this for fun.  I'm also a college student, so I'm
perpetually broke.  :-) 

Please don't sue me.
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   The dreams started as they always did.

   Nagisa Kai, also known as the Iczelion Normal Type, was flying
alongside Kawai Kawai, also known as the Silver Izcelion.  Ahead of
them was a huge tentacled monstosity, larger than they had ever fought
before.  Nagisa took the initative and flew up to fire at the monster's 
face.  For some reason, the Black and Gold Iczelions were not present 
and it was up to Nagisa and Kawai to fend against this beast.  

   As soon as Nagisa flew up to fire at the monster's head, she could
sense that Kawai had positioned herself to keep any tentacles off of
Nagisa as she made her way up.  But in protecting her, Kawai forgot
about any tentacles that were behind her.....

   Nagisa spun around at the choked off scream.  Kawai had been stabbed
from behind by one of the tentacles, and she was falling swiftly to the 
ground.  Nagisa forgot about the monster she sped down to catch the 
falling Kawai and lower her the rest of the way to the ground.  

   By the time they got to the ground, Nagisa's hands were soaked with
Kawai's blood, and for some reason, the Iczelion's emergency 
life support was not activiating, and she was dying.

   Kawai raised a blood covered hand to touch her friend's face. 
"Nagisa....before I....die....there's....some....something....I...I.
..have t-.....to say......"

   "Shhhh, Kawai."  Nagisa said, trying to think of a way to save her
friend's life. " You can say it after I get you to a hospital."

   "No.....have to say it....now." Kawai gasped.  She motioned Nagisa
closer. "Nagisa.....I....I...lo....."

   And she died.

   Nagisa raised her head, her eyes wide and empty in shock.  The she
screamed.

   "NOOOOOOOOOOOO...........!!!!!!"

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   "NOOOOOOOOOOOO.......!!!!!!!!"

   18 year old Nagisa Kai awoke in her bed, covered in a thin sheen of
sweat, the only evidence that she did not have a pleasant night.

   <Cripes!  That's the third time this week I had that crazy dream!>.
she thought in frustration, <And I still can't figure out what she
wanted to tell me!> She then sighed.  <At least it was just a
dream....but why do I feel like my heart just broke?>

   She shook her head.  "Last time I eat any of Mom's ham and wasabi
meatloaf suprise." she muttered.  

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   Across town......

   "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......!!!!!!!"

   18 year old Kawai Kawai awoke from her dream in a sheen of sweat. 
Thankfully, her parents were away at a business meeting, so there was
nobody in the house to wake.  The dream she had was, for all intents 
and purposes, an exact copy of Nagisa's dream, except in Kawai's 
version, it had been Nagisa who had gotten stabbed and subsequently 
died. 

   <Why am I still having this dream?> she thought in frustration. <And
why am I feeling like a part of me was ripped out when Nagisa got
stabbed?>  She then adopted a look of intense concentration.  <And 
what was she trying to say to me when she died?>

   She then looked at the clock.  5:45 AM.  

   <Well, might as well get up,> she thought, <there's no way I can get
back to sleep after something like that!  Thankfully, it's Spring
Break, so I can take my time.>  

   And with that, she got out of her sweat soaked bed and headed for 
the shower. 

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   Later, in a park, Nagisa was sitting on one of the park benches, 
still trying to sort out the dream from last night.....and failing 
miserably.  Sighing in frustration, she looked up and watched the park 
and the people walking through it.  

   About four years ago, Nagisa would have not noticed anything special
about the park in general.  But four years.....and a certain red and
white trimmed robot-that could incidentally transform into her Iczelion
battle suit- had appeared, she had been shoved squarely into a destiny
she had never wanted.  But she had accepted the role she had to
play-to protect the Earth an all those living on it. 

   Suffice to say, this kinda altered her outlook on life.

   A tap on her shoulder interrupted Nagisa's reminicing.  She looked 
up to see Kawai standing by her.

   "Hi Nagisa!  What are you doing here all alone?" Kawai asked.

   "Oh, hi Kawai." Nagisa replied. "I don't know.  Just sitting.....and
remembering the last four years."

   Kawai laughed, which Nagisa thought for some reason was one of the
sweetest sounds in the world.  "Yeah, it has been a crazy four years. 
But I wouldn't give it up for anything ."  She sat beside Nagisa on the
bench.  

   "Why?" Nagisa asked.  "All we've done is risk our necks fighting 
every monster that comes out of the woodwork, both here and from 
space." She sighed.  "Sometimes I still wonder why we're still 
fighting.  We finally took out Chaos after all.  There shouldn't be any 
more trouble."

   Kawai looked over at her green haired friend.  Of the four women who
were chosen to become the Iczelions defending Earth, she felt closest
to Nagisa, who was the same age as her .  <Maybe that has something to 
do with it> Kawai thought, <considering that both Nami and Kiro are
somewhat older that us, it would be right to be friends with Nagisa.
 But I can't help but feel that there's....something else as well.>

   Kawai looked over at Nagisa.  "Nagisa, remember what I said to you
before you finally joined us?"  At Nagisa's nod, she continued.  "I
said that we are to protect the most important thing of all."  She 
then looked around the park and pointed something out.  "See that 
tree?" She then pointed to the lake, the nearby city, and finally to a 
young couple snuggling out near the ater's edge.  She then turned to 
look at Nagisa.  "That's what we're here to protect.  This planet, and 
all life on it."  

   Nagisa looked thoughtful for just a second, then smiled-a smile that
Kawai found irresistibly cute.  "I guess you're right.  If we fail,
all this could be gone." She swept a hand out to indicate the
surrounding area as a whole.  "I'm sorry for making you bash it into
my skull....*again*.  I guess I wasn't sleeping well last night."

   Concern appeared on Kawai's face.  "Oh, why?"

   Nagisa paused.  She did not want to tell Kawai about her dream just
yet, on account of that it might spook her, and for the fact that
Nagisa herself hadn't figured out what it eant, and what it said about
her feelings.  "I don't know....maybe the AC was set too high in my
house."

   Kawai just nodded.  One of the effects of her friendship with Nagisa 
was the ability to sometimes manage to read her friend's moods, and she
could tell one thing about her friend now.

   She was lying through her teeth.  But she could also tell that 
Nagisa wasn't ready to talk about it yet.  Kawai could respect that, 
and it also gave her time to sort out *her* dream and the meaning 
behind it.

   Nagisa then looked down at her watch.  "Well, I gotta go.  Have to
make a two mile run before I get home."  She got up from the bench and
started running.  "See you later, Kawai! "  

   Kawai leaned her head back over the bench, letting her long brown 
hair spill out over the back of it.  <What is going on with me?> she 
thought.

   Unknown to her, Nagisa was having the exact same thought as she ran
for home. 

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   Later on, at Nagisa's house, Nagisa was fiddling around with a
telescope.  Her parents had bought her the telescope in the hopes that
she would lose interest in a pro-wrestling career.  

   A snowball had better chances in hell than that plan working.  

   Still, it was fun to watch the stars.  That fun, of course, being
tempered by the knowledge that there were some beings living near
those stars who wanted to turn Earth into a ball of cinder.  Not that
the Iczelions and other groups would let them, of course.

   Right now, she was trying to find a area of space that her Iczel has
asked her to look at for the past two weeks.  <I wish it could at
least tell me why I'm looking!> she thought looking through the
telescope's eyepiece.  Right now, she was just looking at a blank area
of space, devoid of anything except for the shining stars of the Tokyo
nighttime sky.

   Nagisa reached over to a plate of munchies she had left on her
nightstand.  While she leaned over, some of the gears in the 
telescope's tripod came loose and the telescope tilted downwards.  
When Nagisa turned back towards the telescope, she muttered a curse and 
looked through the eyepiece to see if the telescope needed refocusing 
as well due to the shift.  What she saw nearly took her breath away.

   Kawai was sitting outside, watching the nighttime sky from the porch
of her house.  She was wearing a terry bathrobe and looked like she
had just gotten out of the shower.  To Nagisa, she was one of the most
beautiful things she had ever seen.

   When Kawai got up to go inside, Nagisa quietly capped the telescope
lens and put the telescope away.  She then went over to her bed and
flopped down on it.  There was only one thought running through her
addled brain.

   <Kawai.  Am I attracted to her?>

   She turned on her side and closed her eyes, then reopened them for a
second.

   "Yeah, I guess I am."

   She went to sleep with Kawai's image in her thoughts.

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   Elsewhere......

   "Are you sure?"

   "I'm positive.  They defintely are attracted to each other.  The
problem is that neither one of them knows about the other's feelings."

   "Well, I won't stand for that.  Those two deserve each other.  They
just look right together for some reason."

   "I agree.  So, what are we going to do?"

   "Well, Kiro, they're our friends.  I say we play matchmaker for 
them."

   "Nice concept, Nami.  But do you have a plan?"

   "Of course."

   "That's what I was afraid of."

   "Excuse me???"
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   End Part 1
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   Author's Notes:

   Oh my!  My first non-Destiny's Path story!  Or is it?  <EG>  You 
never know.  <VEG>

   Okay, seriously, a blind man living in a Tibetan monastery for most 
of his life could figure out where I'm going with this.  The fun part 
is, however, not in the destination, but in the *how * you get to that
destination.

   The only thing I'm going to say is that if *anyone* has any beef 
over how the various scenes were written (anything OOC?), *please* 
don't hestitate to e-mail me on it.  Andrew Dyon, that includes you as 
well, since you're the only other person on the FFML-that I know of- 
who's written Iczelion fanfics.

   Anyways, keep watching this space for the second part, as well as 
the next part of Destiny's Path.  They will be coming out soon, barring
any interruptions from RL.

Ja ne!

Brian Yaple
Knight Productions
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