Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Vampires call ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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Wow, no one's killed me yet for killing Duo! Does no one love him anymore? I shall hold his funeral myself then. Okay, I think I've had too much soft drink and not enough sleep.
 
To any who are interested. I am hopeless at writing scenes going any further than a few kisses. So anyone who is interested can write said scenes for ch5 of Vampires Call, ch36 and 26 of Surrey Troubles, and/or ch9 of Dreams and then email them or it to me at kirallie@ausi.com . I will read them and then use the ones that fit best in the stories and say they came from you. Remember to make them appropriate for ffnet and MediaMiner.
 
Chapter 11
 
 
Heero gently laid his mates body down, brushing chestnut bangs out of the way before carefully closing the vacant amethyst eyes. He ignored the near paralysing pain in his heart and stood to face Dorothy and Relena, fangs bared and eyes glowing with pure rage. Relena was smart enough to take a step back but Dorothy simply smirked at him. Heero stepped towards them and then shook his head slightly, he could feel something pushing against his mind but his rage gave him the strength to fight it, for now. Knowing he couldn't hold out forever he attacked. Relena screamed but it wasn't her he was aiming for, Dorothy was the far larger threat with that pendant. He staggered as a fist slammed into the side of his head. He turned to see Wufei standing there, eyes blank and swore. He didn't have time to fight him, not with his ability to resist slowly deteriorating. He turned slightly to see Trowa and Quatre moving to contain him. He couldn't hurt his Childer. He turned back to Wufei; he would have to go through him then. He lunged forward and snarled mentally as he felt his body slowing against his wishes. He landed and tried to move but his body wouldn't respond.
 
“Really Heero, killing your mate and attacking your friends. That's not very nice now is it?” Dorothy nudged him with a foot, rolling his limp body over so that he was staring at the ceiling.
“Whatever should we do with you?” She smirked again.
“He's yours Childe.”
 
“Thank you Sire.” Relena simpered. A delicate hand came into view, reaching out to touch him and Heero cringed internally. Shocked silence filled the room as a tanned hand grabbed hers from out of nowhere.
 
“No one touches what is mine.” Heero was sure he had died, that was the only explanation for his hearing that voice again. He felt the power holding him break and rolled to his feet only to stare in shock. Duo was standing, head bowed and hair shadowing his face, holding Relena's wrist in a tight grip. But the most shocking thing was the two pitch-black wings extending from his back, like a raven's.
 
“How?” Dorothy whispered and they could just make out the smirk on Duo's face. He moved fluidly and almost too fast to be seen and Relena screamed as her wrist snapped and she was tossed aside. He turned towards Dorothy and she instinctively stepped back.
 
“Duo?” Heero whispered in shock, unable to believe his eyes.
 
“Not exactly. Don't worry though he'll be fine.”
 
“Who…what are you?” Dorothy stammered and Duo slowly raised his head to reveal purely amethyst eyes.
 
“Shingami.” Duo whispered and then moved. The blade that had been impaling his chest was suddenly in his hand and then sticking out of her chest. As the blade entered the power holding the other three vampires snapped, freeing them to look around in confusion. Quatre whimpered slightly and half collapsed into Trowa's arms as he felt Duo. Heero heard Wufei curse quietly but couldn't take his eyes from his mate, the mate he had killed. Shingami held his hand out and Dorothy's body was consumed by shadows. He walked over to Relena and she tried to scramble away but he moved to quickly for her to escape. He placed his hands on her face and she screamed before suddenly going limp.
“She'll be fine now that Dorothy's interference has been removed.”
 
“Duo.” Heero took a hesitant step forward but froze, hand half raised towards his mate. Shingami looked over at him and smiled.
 
“Duo doesn't blame you Heero, though I doubt you'll believe until he tells you himself.”
 
“What?”
 
“Am I? That is complicated. I have been with Duo all his life though he has always pushed me back when I have tried to help him. It is only because he died that I was able to come forward now. Do you remember what he tried to say as he died? He meant it with everything he is. Perhaps we shall meet again one day.” With that the wings vanished and Duo's eyes rolled back, his body going limp. Heero barely managed to catch him before he hit the floor.
 
“Papa? What happened?” Quatre was rubbing his arms as if cold still held in Trowa's firm embrace.
 
“I'd like to know as well Yuy.” Wufei added and Heero nodded distractedly as he checked Duo over. He was breathing and there was no sign of the wound that had taken him away supposedly forever.
 
“Not here. We need to get home.” Heero shifted Duo in his arms so that he lay more comfortably and started walking for the door but then he stopped.
“Get Dorothy's pendant, it is too powerful to be left here.” Trowa bent and removed it from what little was left of the vampiress.
 
“What about her?” Wufei pointed to the unconscious Relena.
 
“Leave her, as Dorothy's Childe all this is hers.” With that Heero walked out the door.
 
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Heero gently washed the blood from Duo's chest as the mortal continued to sleep. They had made it home just before sunrise and had instantly collapsed in their respective beds to sleep. As far as Heero could tell Duo had not stirred once and despite Shingami's words he was worried. What if he never woke? Sure he had been brought back from death physically but what about the most important parts of him? Heero leant down to inhale his mate's familiar scent, nuzzling into his neck and then moving to the claim mark he began to nuzzle and lick it, hoping for a response.
 
Duo was floating. It was warm and wonderful and he wanted to stay forever. He felt something moving at the edge of his awareness, something that made a rustling sound, like lots of feathers moving in the wind. He felt more than heard an amused chuckle and tilted his head to the side.
 
“Who's there?”
 
“You know who I am though you have done your best to ignore and suppress me.” A dark voice answered from seemingly nowhere and everywhere at once. Duo shivered, yes he knew this voice. It was the voice that whispered so seductively whenever he was in danger, a voice that he had never answered.
“What, no answer little one?”
 
“Shingami.” Duo whispered. He stiffened as feathery wings seemed to wrap around him but nothing happened.
 
“If you had only let me out early you would not have died.”
 
“WHAT!”
 
“Think back Duo.” Duo thought and then paled.
 
“Heero…he killed me. No… he didn't want to, he tried to save me but it was too late. That bitch!” Shingami chuckled.
 
“She is dead, we killed her.”
 
“We?” Duo questioned but then images flooded his mind of everything that had happened since he'd `died'.
“Oh. So I'm alive?”
 
“Of course, I could hardly allow you die like that. What do you take me for?” Duo figured it would be safer to not answer that question.
 
“So if I'd let you out we could have skipped the whole kidnapping by drug using slavers and Heero?”
 
“The slavers yes. Heero well…I like him, he's good for us. Side's I'm not the one whose dieing word was love, not that you fully got it out but it was enough to get across what you meant.” Duo blushed.
 
“So, what now?”
 
“Simple. You wake up and I go back to sleep till you need me again. And from now on let me out! Bringing you back from the dead is not fun!”
 
“What about when Heero wants to turn me?”
 
“That's different, you won't truly die. Anyway it won't be a normal turning since we are one. How do you kill the god of death after all?” With that the feeling of wings withdrew and Duo's eyes opened.
 
TBC…