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     Knight Productions present........

      An Iczer 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 monstrosity, larger than they had ever fought
before.  For some reason, the Black and Gold Iczelions were not present 
and it was up to Nagisa and Kawai to fend against this thing, possibly 
one of the leftover Chaos Geas.  Nagisa took the initative and flew up 
to fire at the monster's face. 

	As soon as Nagisa flew up to fire at the monster's head, she could
sense that Kawai had positioned herself to keep any of the Gea's metal
 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 attacking the monster she sped down to catch
the falling Kawai and lower her the rest of the way to the ground. 
Strangely, the Gea did not attack, and seemed to fade away.  

	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.  Then she
screamed.

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

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

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

	<God, why am I still having that dream?> she thought.  <And why did 
I feel like a part of me died when Kawai died?  And what was she trying 
to tell me?>  She sighed.

	She swung out of bed and looked at herself in the mirror.  She had 
changed a lot in the four years since she had become an Iczelion.  Her 
figure had filled out somewhat, and she had a growth spurt over the four 
years.  She had let her hair grow a bit as well, so it came down to just 
past her shoulder blades.

 	She sighed.  Even with her development over the years, she still hadn't
found anyone special.  <What's wrong with me?> she thought as she looked 
in the mirror.

 	Just then, the phone in her apartment rang.

	She answered.  "Hello, Nagisa Kai speaking."

	"Nagisa?  Anything wrong?  I thought I heard you screaming."

	"Oh, hi Mamoru.  No, nothing's wrong.  I just had a bad dream.  Nothing 
to worry about."

	"Okay....if you say so."

	"Really, I'm fine.  Thanks for the concern.  I'll see you after break."

	"Heh, if I'm still in one piece after the hot springs trip I'm going on
with Usako and her friends."

	Nagisa laughed.  "Well, I'll see you after break, in one piece or not.  
Bye."  She hung up the phone.

	She looked at the clock.  5:45 A.M.

	<No way in hell I'm going to get back to sleep after something like
that!> she thought.  She went to the small kitchen to grab some breakfast. 
Looking in the refrigerator, she made a face.

	"Last time I eat any of Mom's ham and wasabi meatloaf suprise." she
muttered, looking at the lump of....something her parents had sent her.  

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	Across the street......

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

	21 year old Kawai Kawai awoke from her dream in a sheen of sweat.  She
looked around her empty apartment for a second before she got a hold of her
senses.  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 not worry about classes!>  

	And with that, she got out of her sweat soaked bed and headed for 
the shower.  Along the way, she paused and looked in the mirror.  Like 
Nagisa, the last four years had been very kind to her, giving her body a 
fuller, more athletic figure.  She did keep her hair the same length,
though.  

	Unfortunately, like Nagisa, she did not have someone special to share
her life with.  She sighed.  <There has to be someone out there for me.>
she thought.  <I just don't know what's wrong with me.>  She shook her
head.  
"There I go, thinking about my love life-what there is of it-again."  She 
headed off to the shower.

	"Last time I eat anything my neighbor cooked." Kawai muttered.

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	Later, in a park near the college that both Nagisa and Kawai were
attending, Nagisa was sitting on a bench, trying to sort out the dream she
had last night.  This particular bench had become her favorite spot for
studying, or just relaxing and watching life go by.   

	About four years ago, Nagisa would have not noticed anything special
about this 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 and all those living on it. 

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

	A tap on Nagisa's shoulder interrupted her reminiscing.  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."

	The two girls looked pensive for a second as they remembered the 
toughest fight they had ever had as the Iczelions.  In the final fight
against Chaos, they were losing.  But somehow, Nagisa had found the power
to defeat Chaos.  In the process, her Iczelion suit had acquired a new more
sleeker and powerful form.  No one could understand where her new Iczelion
Plus
form had come from.  Even Nagisa's Iczel was at a loss to explain.  But,
the result was the same.  Chaos was defeated.  And afterwards, Nagisa
couldn't
call up the Iczelion Plus.  No one understood why.

	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 Kiiro are
somewhat older and younger-in Kiiro's case-than us, it would be right to be
friends with Nagisa.  But I can't help but feel that there's....something
else as well.  Something that remains to be seen.>

	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 making out near the water'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 meant, and what it said about
her feelings about Kawai.  "I don't know....maybe the AC was set too high 
in my apartment."

	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, in Nagisa's apartment, Nagisa was fiddling around with a
telescope that her parents had bought for her when she left for college, in
the hopes that she would lose interest in a pro-wrestling career.  

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

	But she *was* starting to lose interest in the sport itself.  

	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...or worse.  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, well, what stars were showing against the city lights and
smog. 

	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 at the 
misaligned telescope and looked through the eyepiece to see if her
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 balcony
of her apartment, which was in the building across the street from Nagisa's
own apartment building.  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 definitely 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, Kiiro, 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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   Somewhere else...

	A shadowed figure stood in the darkness.  

	"I have revived your spirit at great cost to myself."a voice sounded in 
the darkness. "You now serve me.  Do you understand?"

	"Yes, my Lady." the figure said.

	"I will give you one last chance to destroy the Earth Iczelions.  Start 
with the Silver and Normal Type Iczelions.  I understand you have a score 
to settle with them?"

	"Oh, yes, my Lady." the figure said.  "I indeed have a score to settle,
and I swear to you, by my hand, Nagisa Kai will die."

	"Excellent." the voice said.
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   End Part 1
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   Author's Notes:

   Oh my!  My first story set in the Destiny's Path universe!  Be worried
now.  <VEG>

   Okay, seriously now, 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.

   Okay...the mysterious voice will be a major cause of hurt in Destiny's
Path.  

   Who it is, however...remains to be seen.  

Ja ne!

Brian Yaple
Knight Productions
BYapes@erie.net
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"No box is big enough to contain our imaginations."
Tara Hartwick (RIP)- The Spot (www.thespot.com)- June 6th, 1995

"Tuski ni kawatte, oshioki yo!" - Sailor Moon

"Chinmoku no hoshi Dosei o shugo ni motsu.  Hametsu to tanjou no senshi,
Sailorsaturn!!"

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