Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ The Final Fight ( Chapter 20 )
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By: Terrenis-chan 
The final Battle against J is up. But what does it mean for Duo's and Ryu's love.
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.07.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 169 | Status: Completed
The final Battle against J is up. But what does it mean for Duo's and Ryu's love.
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.07.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 169 | Status: Completed
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story II
11. The Final Fight
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A few hours earlier.
After they had left the temple, Heero, Duo and Ryu had gotten hold of some horses and then ridden towards J's temple as fast as possible. Shortly before they reached the temple, the weather had suddenly changed for the worse.
"Gods, what an awful weather!" Duo shouted against the howling wind.
"I guess the demon is responsible for it. But we have no time to stop or your friends will be dead soon! Come on, follow me!" Heero yelled and rode on.
Ryu and Duo nodded and followed him. About three hours later they finally reached the priest's palace. Heero could see a bright red light shining from far away and had no good feeling. And then he saw why. The light turned out to be some sort of magical chains, forcing a young man to the ground. And then a blond girl stepped forwards, raising a sword above him and planning to kill him.
Heero had to prevent her from doing. And so he went into action. He flung one of his daggers at the girl and hit her in the midst of her stomach.
"If I were you I would leave, unless you have a strong death wish!" he spoke to Dorothy.
The blond girl glared at him.
"You can hurt me, you can kill me, but you will never defeat my master! He will return to his whole strength and cover this land with darkness before making it to a part of his new empire!" she spat, wincing as pain shot through her body.
Ignoring it, she began to crawl towards the place, where the priest was standing.
"Shall we kill her?" Duo asked the Japanese.
"No. I don’t think it's necessary. Let's look after the others!" the latter one said and turned to the warrior monk, who was still sitting on the ground.
Taking a deep breath, he stretched out a hand, which the monk gratefully accepted.
"So you're here!" Trowa said quietly.
"Yes. It's been a while since our last meeting......Brother!"
"Yes, indeed!" the warrior monk answered back, his face as neutral as Heero's.
Duo thought at first, he had gotten something wrong.
"Ahem, sorry to disturb you, but......do you know each other?" he asked carefully.
Neither of the two answered for a while, until Heero broke the silence.
"Trowa is my elder brother. We haven’t seen each other for 10 years, although I was already surprised, when that baka mentioned you!"
"Like I was!" Trowa said, before he and Heero began to chuckle.
"Hey!" Duo sulked.
That broke the tension between the brothers and they laughed, embracing each other.
"It's good to see you again, brother! Come on, let's go to the others!" Trowa finally said.
The Japanese nodded and followed him with Duo.
~*~
Meanwhile Ryu looked for his father and brother.
"Father? Quatre? Where are you?" he shouted.
"We're here!" a voice shouted and Ryu saw them hiding behind one of the stairs.
"Father! Quatre! Are you alright? I was worried!" he exclaimed relieved, rushing to them.
"Ryu, my son! I'm glad to see you again!" Mr. Winner said and embraced the Chinese.
"I've thought they've caught you, too!" Quatre smiled and also embraced his brother.
"As you can see, I'm alive!"
"Hey, nice to see again!" Duo yelled suddenly, grinning, when he, Trowa and Heero joined them.
Quatre was about to answer when suddenly a loud scream echoed through the storm.
~*~
Dorothy dragged herself towards the spot, where the priest was standing. Although she was in pain, she ignored it. She had to get to him.
"Master, I'm here!" the blond girl gasped when she finally reached him.
The demon priest looked and a small, cruel smile appeared on his lips. Then he knelt down to the wounded girl and cupped her chin in his hand.
"My dear Dorothy! You've been always loyal to me!" he whispered.
Dorothy smiled.
"I would do everything for you, J-sama!" she breathed.
"I know. Now I need you to do me a last favour!"
"What do you wish, master?"
J smirked and ran one of his fingers over her cheek.
"Please die for me!" he whispered before he showed his true face.
Dorothy's eyes widened, when she realized what he wanted and began to scream.
That was the last thing that could be heard before the demon priest killed her.
*
"What's that?" Quatre asked.
"The demon. We should be careful. He can be anywhere." Heero said.
As soon as he had spoken those words, J attacked. Right away he threw himself at Ryu, but this one drew the bow, which he had gotten from Heero, and shot an arrow at the demon priest. Although J was faster than the arrow, he turned his attention now against Duo, who fell back at first, until he noticed that he was holding Heero's bag with the magical metal pins in it. Not hesitating, he took one out and thrust it in J's back.
J screamed shrilly and arched his back, but wasn’t dead. Now it was Heero's turn. He drew like a flash a sign on his palm and started to bombard the demon with magical explosions. When the dust clouds had disappeared, the priest had also vanished.
"Where is he?" Duo asked.
"I don’t know. But he's still around. We should stay together." Trowa said, looking around.
The group assembled on one spot, when Heero got alarmed.
"He's coming to us. Stay together. I'll put up a defence barrier!" he shouted.
Then the Japanese made a move with his hand and the magical sword shot out of the box on his back and turned in a circle of swords. Heero made another move and the swords fell down, forming a protective circle around them.
"I hope it will last for a while. Maybe it's better, if you sit down!"
All of them nodded and did as Heero had said. Only Trowa and Heero didn’t sit. They were busy to watch the area. Then the earth began to quake and Trowa instructed them to repeat the magic words, which he told them. Said, done. While the earth quaked, a tear began to force its way towards the circle of swords. Suddenly steam shot out of the opening and flung the swords, which landed back in Heero's box.
"Damn it! He has escaped from the swords circle! WE SHOULD FLEE AND NAMELY ON THE SPOT!" he yelled.
Everyone got up and began to run. Just in time, since the ground began to break open behind them. The demon had disappeared into the ground and was now chasing them.
"Okay. Take yourselves by your hands, then we can fly together or we'll die!"
Said, Done. Everybody took the hands of his neighbour and rose up in the sky. Well...Everyone except Duo. This one was unlucky, because Ryu tore up his sleeve by accident and so Duo stayed on the ground, which he didn’t funny.
"Hey, don’t forget me!" the braided boy screamed desperately and ran for his life.
"Duo! We have to get back and get him or the demon will kill him!" Ryu yelled.
They turned back and landed there, where Duo was. The braided book scholar was jolly glad, because the demon was getting nearer and nearer.
"Thank God! You came to rescue!" he said.
But he had hardly finished his sentence, when the ground beneath them collapsed and a hideous monster shot out of it. It looked like a gigantic monster insect, being able to fly (^^: Okay, just imagine an oversized mixture of an ant and a myriapod *shake*).
"Hold on!" Heero yelled, before the demon rose up in the skies and took them away on an uncomfortable trip.
He had taken his sword in his hand and was looking for a suited spot to thrust it into the demon.
"Don’t think that you will get the better of me, you ugly microbe! Then you picked a quarrel with the wrong guy!"
~*~
In the meantime, Duo was crawling forwards to help Heero and Trowa.
"Where are you going to?" Ryu shouted.
"I'm going forwards to help Heero!" Duo shouted back so that Ryu could hear him.
"Please be careful!" the Chinese whispered.
"I always am!" Duo grinned and crawled on, until he reached Heero and his brother.
"Okay, what are we doing now?" Trowa asked.
"We break through his skull, when I've counted till three! ONE, TWO, THREEEEEEEE!"
Together, Trowa and Heero thrust the Japanese's sword deep into the skull of the monster, until slime gushed from the wound and splashed them completely. The demon let out a horrible roar of pain and tried to shake off his involuntary guests. He bumped a few times against a mountain and almost succeeded in making Duo fall down from his back. Only Ryu, who grabbed Duo just in time, prevented the braided boy's inevitable fate.
But it didn’t last long. When the demon bumped once more again the mountain, Duo lost his hold and he fell from the demon's back with a loud scream.
"Duoooooooooooo!" Ryu screamed and jumped after the braided boy.
Shortly after, he reached the braided scholar and held him tight to his body. Both boys were now falling with their heads downward in the direction of the ground.
"R...Ryu!" Duo stuttered, finding himself looking into Ryu's beautiful dark eyes.
Ryu smiled at him and Duo blushed. He hadn’t expected that Ryu would help him, at least not like that. It was a nice feeling to know that some cared for him, although he would die soon. The braided boy was also astounded at the emotion, which he saw in the Chinese's. Could it be...?
//It's strange to know, that he isn’t my Wufei, although he looks like him. And it's stranger that he, Ryu, is holding my heart in the same way as Wufei does. Maybe he is Wufei in his own way! And now that I know I can die in peace!//
Duo closed his eyes, expecting the impact with the ground. But nothing of the kind happened. Above them, Heero had decided that it was time to leave the sinking ship, or rather, demon in this case.
"Swords, fly!" he yelled and sent his swords on the way.
Duo and Ryu found hold on two of them, Ryu supporting Duo, and surfed away from the monster. Quatre and Trowa followed shortly after, Trowa supporting the blond boy, as well as Heero and Mr. Winner, who was given two extra swords as support (^^: *sings* EVERYBODY'S SURFIN'...).
The demon began to chase them again, but Heero sent the unused swords straight into his throat. This one roared, deeply afflicted. The group finally landed safely on the ground. Just then Heero started his next attack and bombarded the monster with magical blasts.
"That's for you, devil!" he yelled.
Then Trowa came to help. He had thought about a way to get rid of that demon. Since the demon was in the middle of a ravine, the young monk had suddenly a very good idea. He concentrated his powers and shouted:
"WIND! FIRE! THUNDER! LIGHTNING!"
At once both sides of the ravine started to push together and to crush slowly the gigantic monster in it, until it had disappeared.
"Wow! You’ve made it!" Duo cheered.
Heero sighed. Had the whole country gone crazy? Never in his entire life as a warrior had he seen that one single demon had managed it to confuse a whole country. Maybe he shouldn’t have stayed that long in his lone temple, distancing himself from the rest of the civilisation.
"I don’t know, what's going on nowadays. Everything's so confusing. One can't distinguish a demon from a human!" he murmured.
"Don’t worry, brother! Maybe you're right! But since we have now found each again, you can come with me if you like." Trowa said, putting one hand on Heero's right shoulder.
"Yeah, don’t blame yourself! Luckily you were at the Nataku Temple or who knows where we would have found you! Hey, why don’t we fight together in future? We're such a great team!" Duo threw in.
Trowa and Heero exchanged a few meaningful glances.
"Forget it! As I have mentioned before...you're too dangerous for my health. I'd still like to live for some years! So it's really better if we go parted ways! But if you should ever have a problem with demons or something similar again, then don’t hesitate and come to me!" the Japanese replied half-smirking.
Duo flushed deeply with embarrassment and the rest began to laugh. Suddenly...**
"WHAAAT??? WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?" Duo lamented, almost collapsing because of the tension.
"Can't you wait a minute? I need something to drink!" Wufei tried to glare at the braided boy, who just smirked.
After taking a sip from his drink and clearing his throat, the Chinese told the rest of the story.
**...Suddenly, without any warning, the dead-believed monster shot out of his stony prison and grabbed Trowa from behind. This one was too surprised to use his weapons. He just screamed for help, when he tried to free himself.
"DAMN IT! LET ME GO! COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME?"
The rest had slowly fallen back, also startled about the sudden change of events. They were more horrified, when the demon pranced and slowly started to swallow the young monk.
"Oh my god! Trowaaaa!" Quatre yelled totally stricken with horror.
Heero narrowed his eyes. How could this creature dare eat his brother? Getting furious, he jumped up to the mouth of the monster, where he luckily found hold.
"Here, take my hand! Can you pull yourself out?" the swordsman asked his brother and held out a helping hand.
Trowa tried to get it, but in vain.
"I'm sorry. It's impossible!" he groaned, before he slid completely down inside the demon.
"Damn!" the Japanese cursed and jumped after him, seeing no other way.
*
Meanwhile the monster rose up again in the sky. The rest of the group, who had stayed on the ground, followed him in order not to lose the contact with their two trapped friends.
"I hope they are okay!" Quatre murmured worried.
*
Okay was not the right word to describe the awkward situation, which the two of them were momentarily in. Somehow the monster had managed to wrap them in a sort of slimy cocoon in the midst of the stomach, to kill them that way. While Heero still had most of his strength, Trowa was worse off. The injuries and the events of the past days were finally taking its toll.
He was very weak and barely addressable. Heero, on the other side, had by no means the intention to rot in his cocoon.
"Hey Trowa! Can you hear me?" he hissed.
The young monk just let out a weak moan.
"We have to get out of here! That’s it! Our soul must be separated from our bodies. Then we can save us." Heero continued to speak.
"How should that work? My power is at its end. I don’t know if I can do this!" the young monk murmured weakly.
"Would you rather rot in this cocoon?"
Trowa thought about this for a moment.
"No. What do I have to do?"
Heero smiled. His brother hadn’t changed a bit in all those years. But now getting out of the stomach of this monster was the most important thing.
"Okay, I want you to bundle all your strength and repeat after me! BODY, STAY; SOUL, RUN AWAY!" the young swordsman spoke.
Trowa did as Heero had said. He bundled his last remaining powers and said:
"BODY, STAY; SOUL, RUN AWAY!"
And it really worked. Trowa and Heero could successfully separate their souls from their mortal bodies. Immediately Trowa regained his full strength. Both young men now bundled their strengths and shouted at the same time:
"WIND! FIRE! THUNDER! LIGHTNING!"
The spell brought Heero's magical swords to assemble around them. Then they shouted again:
"LIMITLESS SKY AND EARTH: HELP USSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
*
Duo and the others turned round when they heard a loud rumbling in the air. Shortly after, a spectacularly gigantic explosion finally destroyed the demon. The mortal shells of Heero and Wufei were flung out and landed roughly on the ground.
"Trowa! Heero!" Quatre shouted with joy, already running to them.
While the blond boy was taking care of Trowa's body, Duo ran to Heero's, whose soul returned at once in it. Still dazed, Heero got up and shook off the dusty cloud in his brain. Taking a look at his brother's motionless body, he realized that Trowa's soul must be still out there.
"TROWA, WHERE ARE YOU? YOU HAVE TO GET BACK INTO YOUR BODY OR YOU'LL DIE! DON’T YOU DARE LEAVE ME ALONE AGAIN OR I'LL CHASE UNTIL YOUR NEXT LIFE!" he yelled, looking around for the soul of his brother.
Moments passed by without any sign of it and Heero began to get worried. The swordsman knew if he didn’t show up soon, all would be too late.
Suddenly a flash caught his attention and then he saw it flying towards them. Relieved, the Japanese began to give instructions.
"Okay, he's coming. As soon as he's here, you two grab him, because I fear his strength won't be enough for him to return on his own."
Duo and Quatre nodded. Soon they saw the soul coming up to them and got ready.
"Okay! I count till three and then it's your turn! One...Two...THREE!" Heero yelled.
The braided and the blond boy grabbed the straying soul and helped it back into Trowa's body. One moment later this one's eyelashes fluttered and he released a deep, shuddering breath. Duo and Quatre began to smile with joy and Heero was also glad that everything had gone well and he had not lost his brother again.
Duo was relieved that everything was over now. Then his gaze fell on the ground and he saw his scroll with Wufei's painting lying there. When he bent down to pick it up, his hand collided with another, Ryu's hand. The Chinese blushed faintly, like Duo did, but there was something in his eyes that disturbed the book scholar.
This and the sudden back-drawn hand of the Chinese. Puzzled, Duo looked into Ryu's face and saw the sadness in those eyes. The braided boy wanted already to ask what was wrong, but deep in his heart he knew the answer. Now that everything was over, life would go back to normal. Ryu would marry his betrothed. But what about himself?
He would again travel the country and collect debts. Life sucked sometimes!
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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Hey, it's almost done! Hope you liked that part, too. I was gracious with Trowa and let him live. In the German version he did die. *giggles*
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story II
11. The Final Fight
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A few hours earlier.
After they had left the temple, Heero, Duo and Ryu had gotten hold of some horses and then ridden towards J's temple as fast as possible. Shortly before they reached the temple, the weather had suddenly changed for the worse.
"Gods, what an awful weather!" Duo shouted against the howling wind.
"I guess the demon is responsible for it. But we have no time to stop or your friends will be dead soon! Come on, follow me!" Heero yelled and rode on.
Ryu and Duo nodded and followed him. About three hours later they finally reached the priest's palace. Heero could see a bright red light shining from far away and had no good feeling. And then he saw why. The light turned out to be some sort of magical chains, forcing a young man to the ground. And then a blond girl stepped forwards, raising a sword above him and planning to kill him.
Heero had to prevent her from doing. And so he went into action. He flung one of his daggers at the girl and hit her in the midst of her stomach.
"If I were you I would leave, unless you have a strong death wish!" he spoke to Dorothy.
The blond girl glared at him.
"You can hurt me, you can kill me, but you will never defeat my master! He will return to his whole strength and cover this land with darkness before making it to a part of his new empire!" she spat, wincing as pain shot through her body.
Ignoring it, she began to crawl towards the place, where the priest was standing.
"Shall we kill her?" Duo asked the Japanese.
"No. I don’t think it's necessary. Let's look after the others!" the latter one said and turned to the warrior monk, who was still sitting on the ground.
Taking a deep breath, he stretched out a hand, which the monk gratefully accepted.
"So you're here!" Trowa said quietly.
"Yes. It's been a while since our last meeting......Brother!"
"Yes, indeed!" the warrior monk answered back, his face as neutral as Heero's.
Duo thought at first, he had gotten something wrong.
"Ahem, sorry to disturb you, but......do you know each other?" he asked carefully.
Neither of the two answered for a while, until Heero broke the silence.
"Trowa is my elder brother. We haven’t seen each other for 10 years, although I was already surprised, when that baka mentioned you!"
"Like I was!" Trowa said, before he and Heero began to chuckle.
"Hey!" Duo sulked.
That broke the tension between the brothers and they laughed, embracing each other.
"It's good to see you again, brother! Come on, let's go to the others!" Trowa finally said.
The Japanese nodded and followed him with Duo.
~*~
Meanwhile Ryu looked for his father and brother.
"Father? Quatre? Where are you?" he shouted.
"We're here!" a voice shouted and Ryu saw them hiding behind one of the stairs.
"Father! Quatre! Are you alright? I was worried!" he exclaimed relieved, rushing to them.
"Ryu, my son! I'm glad to see you again!" Mr. Winner said and embraced the Chinese.
"I've thought they've caught you, too!" Quatre smiled and also embraced his brother.
"As you can see, I'm alive!"
"Hey, nice to see again!" Duo yelled suddenly, grinning, when he, Trowa and Heero joined them.
Quatre was about to answer when suddenly a loud scream echoed through the storm.
~*~
Dorothy dragged herself towards the spot, where the priest was standing. Although she was in pain, she ignored it. She had to get to him.
"Master, I'm here!" the blond girl gasped when she finally reached him.
The demon priest looked and a small, cruel smile appeared on his lips. Then he knelt down to the wounded girl and cupped her chin in his hand.
"My dear Dorothy! You've been always loyal to me!" he whispered.
Dorothy smiled.
"I would do everything for you, J-sama!" she breathed.
"I know. Now I need you to do me a last favour!"
"What do you wish, master?"
J smirked and ran one of his fingers over her cheek.
"Please die for me!" he whispered before he showed his true face.
Dorothy's eyes widened, when she realized what he wanted and began to scream.
That was the last thing that could be heard before the demon priest killed her.
*
"What's that?" Quatre asked.
"The demon. We should be careful. He can be anywhere." Heero said.
As soon as he had spoken those words, J attacked. Right away he threw himself at Ryu, but this one drew the bow, which he had gotten from Heero, and shot an arrow at the demon priest. Although J was faster than the arrow, he turned his attention now against Duo, who fell back at first, until he noticed that he was holding Heero's bag with the magical metal pins in it. Not hesitating, he took one out and thrust it in J's back.
J screamed shrilly and arched his back, but wasn’t dead. Now it was Heero's turn. He drew like a flash a sign on his palm and started to bombard the demon with magical explosions. When the dust clouds had disappeared, the priest had also vanished.
"Where is he?" Duo asked.
"I don’t know. But he's still around. We should stay together." Trowa said, looking around.
The group assembled on one spot, when Heero got alarmed.
"He's coming to us. Stay together. I'll put up a defence barrier!" he shouted.
Then the Japanese made a move with his hand and the magical sword shot out of the box on his back and turned in a circle of swords. Heero made another move and the swords fell down, forming a protective circle around them.
"I hope it will last for a while. Maybe it's better, if you sit down!"
All of them nodded and did as Heero had said. Only Trowa and Heero didn’t sit. They were busy to watch the area. Then the earth began to quake and Trowa instructed them to repeat the magic words, which he told them. Said, done. While the earth quaked, a tear began to force its way towards the circle of swords. Suddenly steam shot out of the opening and flung the swords, which landed back in Heero's box.
"Damn it! He has escaped from the swords circle! WE SHOULD FLEE AND NAMELY ON THE SPOT!" he yelled.
Everyone got up and began to run. Just in time, since the ground began to break open behind them. The demon had disappeared into the ground and was now chasing them.
"Okay. Take yourselves by your hands, then we can fly together or we'll die!"
Said, Done. Everybody took the hands of his neighbour and rose up in the sky. Well...Everyone except Duo. This one was unlucky, because Ryu tore up his sleeve by accident and so Duo stayed on the ground, which he didn’t funny.
"Hey, don’t forget me!" the braided boy screamed desperately and ran for his life.
"Duo! We have to get back and get him or the demon will kill him!" Ryu yelled.
They turned back and landed there, where Duo was. The braided book scholar was jolly glad, because the demon was getting nearer and nearer.
"Thank God! You came to rescue!" he said.
But he had hardly finished his sentence, when the ground beneath them collapsed and a hideous monster shot out of it. It looked like a gigantic monster insect, being able to fly (^^: Okay, just imagine an oversized mixture of an ant and a myriapod *shake*).
"Hold on!" Heero yelled, before the demon rose up in the skies and took them away on an uncomfortable trip.
He had taken his sword in his hand and was looking for a suited spot to thrust it into the demon.
"Don’t think that you will get the better of me, you ugly microbe! Then you picked a quarrel with the wrong guy!"
~*~
In the meantime, Duo was crawling forwards to help Heero and Trowa.
"Where are you going to?" Ryu shouted.
"I'm going forwards to help Heero!" Duo shouted back so that Ryu could hear him.
"Please be careful!" the Chinese whispered.
"I always am!" Duo grinned and crawled on, until he reached Heero and his brother.
"Okay, what are we doing now?" Trowa asked.
"We break through his skull, when I've counted till three! ONE, TWO, THREEEEEEEE!"
Together, Trowa and Heero thrust the Japanese's sword deep into the skull of the monster, until slime gushed from the wound and splashed them completely. The demon let out a horrible roar of pain and tried to shake off his involuntary guests. He bumped a few times against a mountain and almost succeeded in making Duo fall down from his back. Only Ryu, who grabbed Duo just in time, prevented the braided boy's inevitable fate.
But it didn’t last long. When the demon bumped once more again the mountain, Duo lost his hold and he fell from the demon's back with a loud scream.
"Duoooooooooooo!" Ryu screamed and jumped after the braided boy.
Shortly after, he reached the braided scholar and held him tight to his body. Both boys were now falling with their heads downward in the direction of the ground.
"R...Ryu!" Duo stuttered, finding himself looking into Ryu's beautiful dark eyes.
Ryu smiled at him and Duo blushed. He hadn’t expected that Ryu would help him, at least not like that. It was a nice feeling to know that some cared for him, although he would die soon. The braided boy was also astounded at the emotion, which he saw in the Chinese's. Could it be...?
//It's strange to know, that he isn’t my Wufei, although he looks like him. And it's stranger that he, Ryu, is holding my heart in the same way as Wufei does. Maybe he is Wufei in his own way! And now that I know I can die in peace!//
Duo closed his eyes, expecting the impact with the ground. But nothing of the kind happened. Above them, Heero had decided that it was time to leave the sinking ship, or rather, demon in this case.
"Swords, fly!" he yelled and sent his swords on the way.
Duo and Ryu found hold on two of them, Ryu supporting Duo, and surfed away from the monster. Quatre and Trowa followed shortly after, Trowa supporting the blond boy, as well as Heero and Mr. Winner, who was given two extra swords as support (^^: *sings* EVERYBODY'S SURFIN'...).
The demon began to chase them again, but Heero sent the unused swords straight into his throat. This one roared, deeply afflicted. The group finally landed safely on the ground. Just then Heero started his next attack and bombarded the monster with magical blasts.
"That's for you, devil!" he yelled.
Then Trowa came to help. He had thought about a way to get rid of that demon. Since the demon was in the middle of a ravine, the young monk had suddenly a very good idea. He concentrated his powers and shouted:
"WIND! FIRE! THUNDER! LIGHTNING!"
At once both sides of the ravine started to push together and to crush slowly the gigantic monster in it, until it had disappeared.
"Wow! You’ve made it!" Duo cheered.
Heero sighed. Had the whole country gone crazy? Never in his entire life as a warrior had he seen that one single demon had managed it to confuse a whole country. Maybe he shouldn’t have stayed that long in his lone temple, distancing himself from the rest of the civilisation.
"I don’t know, what's going on nowadays. Everything's so confusing. One can't distinguish a demon from a human!" he murmured.
"Don’t worry, brother! Maybe you're right! But since we have now found each again, you can come with me if you like." Trowa said, putting one hand on Heero's right shoulder.
"Yeah, don’t blame yourself! Luckily you were at the Nataku Temple or who knows where we would have found you! Hey, why don’t we fight together in future? We're such a great team!" Duo threw in.
Trowa and Heero exchanged a few meaningful glances.
"Forget it! As I have mentioned before...you're too dangerous for my health. I'd still like to live for some years! So it's really better if we go parted ways! But if you should ever have a problem with demons or something similar again, then don’t hesitate and come to me!" the Japanese replied half-smirking.
Duo flushed deeply with embarrassment and the rest began to laugh. Suddenly...**
"WHAAAT??? WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?" Duo lamented, almost collapsing because of the tension.
"Can't you wait a minute? I need something to drink!" Wufei tried to glare at the braided boy, who just smirked.
After taking a sip from his drink and clearing his throat, the Chinese told the rest of the story.
**...Suddenly, without any warning, the dead-believed monster shot out of his stony prison and grabbed Trowa from behind. This one was too surprised to use his weapons. He just screamed for help, when he tried to free himself.
"DAMN IT! LET ME GO! COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME?"
The rest had slowly fallen back, also startled about the sudden change of events. They were more horrified, when the demon pranced and slowly started to swallow the young monk.
"Oh my god! Trowaaaa!" Quatre yelled totally stricken with horror.
Heero narrowed his eyes. How could this creature dare eat his brother? Getting furious, he jumped up to the mouth of the monster, where he luckily found hold.
"Here, take my hand! Can you pull yourself out?" the swordsman asked his brother and held out a helping hand.
Trowa tried to get it, but in vain.
"I'm sorry. It's impossible!" he groaned, before he slid completely down inside the demon.
"Damn!" the Japanese cursed and jumped after him, seeing no other way.
*
Meanwhile the monster rose up again in the sky. The rest of the group, who had stayed on the ground, followed him in order not to lose the contact with their two trapped friends.
"I hope they are okay!" Quatre murmured worried.
*
Okay was not the right word to describe the awkward situation, which the two of them were momentarily in. Somehow the monster had managed to wrap them in a sort of slimy cocoon in the midst of the stomach, to kill them that way. While Heero still had most of his strength, Trowa was worse off. The injuries and the events of the past days were finally taking its toll.
He was very weak and barely addressable. Heero, on the other side, had by no means the intention to rot in his cocoon.
"Hey Trowa! Can you hear me?" he hissed.
The young monk just let out a weak moan.
"We have to get out of here! That’s it! Our soul must be separated from our bodies. Then we can save us." Heero continued to speak.
"How should that work? My power is at its end. I don’t know if I can do this!" the young monk murmured weakly.
"Would you rather rot in this cocoon?"
Trowa thought about this for a moment.
"No. What do I have to do?"
Heero smiled. His brother hadn’t changed a bit in all those years. But now getting out of the stomach of this monster was the most important thing.
"Okay, I want you to bundle all your strength and repeat after me! BODY, STAY; SOUL, RUN AWAY!" the young swordsman spoke.
Trowa did as Heero had said. He bundled his last remaining powers and said:
"BODY, STAY; SOUL, RUN AWAY!"
And it really worked. Trowa and Heero could successfully separate their souls from their mortal bodies. Immediately Trowa regained his full strength. Both young men now bundled their strengths and shouted at the same time:
"WIND! FIRE! THUNDER! LIGHTNING!"
The spell brought Heero's magical swords to assemble around them. Then they shouted again:
"LIMITLESS SKY AND EARTH: HELP USSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
*
Duo and the others turned round when they heard a loud rumbling in the air. Shortly after, a spectacularly gigantic explosion finally destroyed the demon. The mortal shells of Heero and Wufei were flung out and landed roughly on the ground.
"Trowa! Heero!" Quatre shouted with joy, already running to them.
While the blond boy was taking care of Trowa's body, Duo ran to Heero's, whose soul returned at once in it. Still dazed, Heero got up and shook off the dusty cloud in his brain. Taking a look at his brother's motionless body, he realized that Trowa's soul must be still out there.
"TROWA, WHERE ARE YOU? YOU HAVE TO GET BACK INTO YOUR BODY OR YOU'LL DIE! DON’T YOU DARE LEAVE ME ALONE AGAIN OR I'LL CHASE UNTIL YOUR NEXT LIFE!" he yelled, looking around for the soul of his brother.
Moments passed by without any sign of it and Heero began to get worried. The swordsman knew if he didn’t show up soon, all would be too late.
Suddenly a flash caught his attention and then he saw it flying towards them. Relieved, the Japanese began to give instructions.
"Okay, he's coming. As soon as he's here, you two grab him, because I fear his strength won't be enough for him to return on his own."
Duo and Quatre nodded. Soon they saw the soul coming up to them and got ready.
"Okay! I count till three and then it's your turn! One...Two...THREE!" Heero yelled.
The braided and the blond boy grabbed the straying soul and helped it back into Trowa's body. One moment later this one's eyelashes fluttered and he released a deep, shuddering breath. Duo and Quatre began to smile with joy and Heero was also glad that everything had gone well and he had not lost his brother again.
Duo was relieved that everything was over now. Then his gaze fell on the ground and he saw his scroll with Wufei's painting lying there. When he bent down to pick it up, his hand collided with another, Ryu's hand. The Chinese blushed faintly, like Duo did, but there was something in his eyes that disturbed the book scholar.
This and the sudden back-drawn hand of the Chinese. Puzzled, Duo looked into Ryu's face and saw the sadness in those eyes. The braided boy wanted already to ask what was wrong, but deep in his heart he knew the answer. Now that everything was over, life would go back to normal. Ryu would marry his betrothed. But what about himself?
He would again travel the country and collect debts. Life sucked sometimes!
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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Hey, it's almost done! Hope you liked that part, too. I was gracious with Trowa and let him live. In the German version he did die. *giggles*
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