Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ Duo's Long Journey ( Chapter 1 )

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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I

1. Duo's long journey
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Duo hated his life. He was here in the deepest wilderness, somewhere in the mountains, all along with his only piece of luggage, a back-basket. And it was so hot and sultry on this day and his clothes were sticking to his body. It was awful. And the longer he stayed in this desolated area, the hotter it got and the more he sweated. In short, he hated his life, his job, this area and this climate. Everything.

Duo sighed and began to look around. Only grass, lots of forest and rocks. And not forget to mention the fog. And it was so hot. Why did he also must have such a stupid and low paid job? The only thing he did was to walk trough the whole country. And why? Only to recover debts from various people. Duo sighed again.

"God, it's so hoooot. If I only could find a river or something similar, that would be really helpful." He murmured to himself.

But the braided boy saw nothing. So he decided to walk on. And then he was lucky. After a while Duo came to a mountain river where he could cool himself down. It was so refreshing for him.

"Aah, that's much better!" Duo said and took a gulp of cool and crystal-clear water which ran down his throat.

The water was palatable and worked real wonders. He already was much better, so much that his stomach was rumbling loudly. When he had found a meadow, Duo took off his back-basket und got a wrapped up piece of bread out of it. He was so glad to be alone, because his stomach was making such a loud noise. Or else it would be too embarrassing for him.

(God, I'm so hungry. I could eat a whole pig.) He giggled mentally und bit hearty und hungry into his little meal.

But he regretted it right away.

"KYAAAAHHHH! WHAT THE......?" he yelled suddenly.

Cursing Duo rubbed his aching teeth. Unfortunately he had to find out that his meal wasn't that fresh anymore. On the contrary, it had been so hard that it smashed the stone to pieces, when Duo angrily flung his former meal on him.

Shocked and partially frustrated he kicked the uneatable part somewhere into the nirvana. But all he succeeded was a brand new hole decorating his shoe. The boy with the long plait sighed once more. Now everything only could get better or much worse, as he found out hours later.

Not only that his way went steep downhill and his right shoe was totally ruined. After a while, out of the blue, it suddenly started to rain and this rain turned into a cloudburst. His umbrella was useless because he was totally perforated.

Completely soaked from head to toe and starved out, Duo finally found a simple woodened shelter which gave him some safety from the rain. Exhausted he let drop his back-basket and sat down to rest and wait for the rain to stop.

Suddenly he heard battle noises and saw a group of men running towards him, which were hunted by a man with a sword in his hand. Horrified he watched as the man with the sword beheaded one of the men of the group.

"The same will happen to you!" the man with the sword in his hand yelled and made short work of the other men.

After he had given back a bag to the man, the last of the group threw himself onto his knees and begged for mercy. But it was futile. He also lost his life like his comrades and his blood splashed into Duos face. As the man with the sword had finished his work, he walked to the shelter and sat down there, where Duo had been sitting a few moments ago.

The young man with the long braid had decided it would be better if he went out of the man's way and was standing now in the rain again. The man got out of his bag some rice balls and bit into one. Duo risked a glance at the rice balls and sighed internally. He still was so hungry and there was no change in sight.

But as if the man could read his thoughts, he took one of his rice balls and tossed it to Duo. Duo caught it and couldn't believe it, that he was holding something edible in his hands. Hesitating he looked at the food in his hands. First, as the man cast an inviting glance at him, Duo took a bite. The rice ball tasted excellent. Yet he wasn't hungry anymore.

After an entire while the man got up and went his way. When Duo couldn't see him anymore, he threw the ball away, ran to the shelter and grabbed his back-basket. Then he was running through the muddy path towards the next village as fast as he could.

*

A crowd was standing and pushing right before a wall. On the wall were several "Wanted" posters with the faces of some men on it. Two bounty hunters, one of them with an eye-patch, forced their way trough the crowds and then tore down some of the posters.

Then they compared the faces on the posters with the people around them and also with Duo's face that was now a little bit drier. Both men pressed him against a stand that sold magical amulets and compared his face with the posters. Fortunately it wasn't shown on any of the posters and so they left Duo in peace.

Duo decided to do his job as quick as possible. He only wanted to stay there as long as if it was necessary. When he started to leave the stand the trader noticed some of his amulets on Duos back and ran after him.

"Hey, you there! COME BACK!!! IMMEDIATELY!!!" he shouted after Duo.

Duo stopped.

"What's up?" he asked.

"Can you explain that to me? Why are my expensive amulets on your back?" the trader asked and started to take off the pieces of paper from Duos back, which had left behind a pattern on Duos clothes.

"I don't know. I don't need any of your amulets." Duo replied.

But to his surprise the trader started to laugh.

"Oh, I think you will need them soon."

He laughed some more and started to leave heading back for his stand. And Duo had enough. He only wanted to get out of this village. Unfortunately the rain had soaked his book of debts so that Duo couldn't read anything more. And so he also could forget his job. It was already late and since Duo didn't have any money he had to look for a free night quarters.

He asked a man and the man told him about an old temple somewhere in the forest where he could sleep. But the man also warned him that the temple was haunted. But Duo didn't care. But strangely the whole village seemed to have heard his conversation and was looking now at him though Duo didn't notice it. However as Duo turned round the village people went on with their work.

Duo sweatdropped and decided to leave. Behind his back all people started to discuss loudly. Duo again turned round and they grew silent. Duo went on and at the same moment he heard the discussion again. Then the same game again. Duo turned round and the people grew silent.

//Only lunatics here.// was his only thought.

On his way out of the village, he passed by a trader, who sold paintings. Duo looked at the beautiful paintings, especially one of them. It showed the picture of a young Chinese man, who had such beautiful onyx eyes. Eyes, so black and clear like a starry night. So fascinating. Those eyes caught him as if they had a kind of magical powers.

Duo sighed. If he only had some money, he would have bought this painting right away. But unfortunately he had none so he finally left the village.

*

And once more it was night. Duo, only armed with a lamp, or rather a lantern, carefully walked through the dark forest. It had taken an eternity to reach the forest and now Duo cursed himself for not looking for another night quarters.

As he started to turn round, he regretted it immediately. It was not only pitch-dark and foggy. When he suddenly heard the howling of the wolves, an ice-cold shudder ran down his back. And then they were there. Some of the wolves were running behind and next to him and Duo started to be afraid and began to run.

His lantern was the only thing that seemed to protect him. But then he stumbled over a root and dropped his lantern. The light went out and Duo fled panic-stricken, still hunted by the wolves. Finally he reached some old walls which seemed to belong to an old temple. Duo ran in.

Strangely the wolves didn't follow him. It seems as if Duo was safe now and he heaved a sigh of relief. Then he looked around. This seemed to be the temple the man in the village had been talking about. Let alone the stormy weather within the walls, the temple seems to be normal. Only a little dilapidated. Besides, Duo didn't believe in ghosts, demons etc. He wasn't superstitious like the people in this village. At least he was not THAT superstitious. Carefully he went on, but it seemed that he was not alone.

Suddenly, out of the blue Duo heard a loud battle cry. Frightened he looked above and his eyes widened. Was that a demon? But Duo was wrong. Out of the dark of the night a young Japanese with a drawn sword in his hands jumped towards him. He was at the same age as Duo and wore simple, dark clothes. His long, dark brown hair was messy and tied back into a ponytail.

With a loud cry the young man came up to Duo.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Duo ducked to avoiding the blade. But nothing happened. Instead he heard two blades fighting with each other. Blade on blade. Metal on metal. Behind his back a second, older man had appeared and was fighting now with the young man. Duo didn't know the second man, but he seems strangely familiar to Duo. With fascination, but also with fear he watched the fight.

Both men jumped und flew across the temple walls, over railings, roofs and balconies, not knowing any physical laws. No one of them wanted to lose the fight. And so Duo tried to get out of the men's way, but hardly succeed.

And then...they suddenly stopped their fighting just as they had started it. Normally Duo ought to have been happy. But the fact that two blades were aimed at his throat made the young man with the long braid really nervous. He swallowed hard. No, he didn't like his situation at all.

None of them made a single move. Duo was afraid to make a false move because he could imagine what the other would do with him. He slowly looked back and forth between both fighters which were looking at each other not making a move.

"Sorry, but are you two ready with your fight?" Duo asked carefully.

But the men didn't answer. But then the young Japanese began to speak.

"Treize, we both are fighting for a very long time now. Although you are living here in this temple for two weeks, you didn't win any of our fights until now. But I must say you're really stubborn. You never gave up." He said smirking.

"Don't be afraid! I'll beat you someday, Heero." Treize replied with a slight smile.

"Bullshit. You only waste your time. You're too rude and not concentrated enough. You must practise much more to reach your goal. Your blows are very quick, but they have no effect."

Heero made a short break before he continued.

"If you don't keep cool you won't gain greatness. That's all I can say!"

But Treize lost his patience.

"Don't talk rubbish but fight, you know?"

Duo decided now would be the best time to interfere, before both men possibly would kill him.

"Sorry, if I do interrupt. And I know it's none of my business what you're doing here. But why do you still insult him? You have beaten him already." He said to the young Japanese.

The he turned to Treize.

"And why do you chase him? He already seems to avoid you. Please make it all up and become friends instead fighting against each other." Duo stuttered nervously.

Both men looked at each other, silently.

"NOOOO WAYYYYY!" Both yelled at the same time und took down their swords.

"Such a loud mouth!" Treize growled and put his sword back into his scabbard.

Then he turned round and left the temple. Duo und Heero stayed behind. But then Heero also got ready to leave the place. Duo wanted to follow him, but he saw the man's blade aimed at him again.

"What do you want from me? Do you looking for something or what?"

"I'm looking for a place for the night!"

Duo was becoming nervous again when he saw the blade. But the young swordsman took his blade down and Duo sighed.

"That's impossible!" was the only answer Heero gave Duo and started to leave.

"And why not?"

Heero stopped and looked earnestly at Duo.

"Do you have courage?"

The young book scholar wondered about this question.

"Of course I do!" he grinned and tapped himself on his chest.

The Japanese raised an eyebrow. Does this boy really believe to be courageous? He decided to put him to a test. Heero lifted one arm and pointed at the sky.

"Then look at that point!"

Duo looked at the spot Heero was pointing his finger at, wondering what was up there.

"BOOOOOOOOO!" Heero made.

Frightened Duo hid behind Heero's back. Then the young swordsman started to laugh. When he had calmed down he became serious again.

"Baka. Only one cry and you will hide. And when then a tiger appears, you will run away."

"WHAT? What do you mean?" Duo asked incredulous.

But Heero went on without an answer till Duo ran after him and stopped him.

"What do mean with tiger? Are there any tigers in this place?"

"There is something more horrible in this place! But now......GO AND DON'T COME BACK!!!" Heero yelled and aimed his sword at Duos throat again.

"O...Okay, I'm going!" Duo stuttered.

"And I do too!"

With these words he made a jump, which resisted all known physical laws, and disappeared, leaving Duo behind. On the one hand he was glad that the lunatics weren't here anymore. But on the other hand Duo thought about the words Heero had said and the spooky atmosphere of this place contributed its part in addition.

Duo decided it really would be better to go inside. Slowly he went upstairs on the old woodened staircase into the interior of the building. When he reached a room he firstly looked around, not knowing that he was watched by a young man. Duo continued walking and finally reached another room which seemed to be suitable for his night quarters.

He set down his back-basket. In the meantime the young man watching him, it was Wufei, disappeared backwards into the fog. Meanwhile Duo had lighted an old oil lamp he had found. He also had found an old mattress which was all right with exception of some stains on it.

But Duo didn't see that the light of the lamp was shining up to the attic and released the sight at some shapes which were lying there motionless.

*

In the meantime Treize had pitched his night quarters in the forest where he had found a waterfall and made a fire there. At the moment he was busy to take care of his wounds. But his thoughts still were at his fight with Heero. His own little private quarrel with the young Japanese swordsman already took two weeks and he never had won a fight. And this fact made him so angry.

"You'll see. One day I'll beat you, because I'm the better one from the two of us!" he murmured angrily and bandaged his wound at his shoulder.

Suddenly he heard a noise inside the water as if someone or something was swimming in it and looked up. Then he saw him. A young man und full dressed. Treize had to take a look at him und got nearer to the place where the young man was. The young man, Wufei, took a handful of water and let it slowly run over his face.

Treize couldn't deny that this young man was really beautiful and that he somehow was attracted to him. Slowly he got nearer to him. Wufei smiled and looked at him with his piercing black eyes. Treize could feel his body's reaction. As if he was in trance Treize waded on into the water, but Wufei swam away. But he gave the older man a sign to follow him.

Treize of course didn't hesitate a moment and followed him. When they were out of the water again, Wufei threw himself onto the ground and pulled the older man down to him just to give him a tender kiss.

The other didn't hesitate and started to suck and to lick at Wufei's neck. But he didn't notice how Heeros eyes suddenly darkened and the young man made a hardly noticeable move with his arm. And Treize didn't hear the faint sound of several little bells which were the sign for Zechs to come. And as the ringing died away the demon was on his way to his new prey.

*

Meanwhile Heero sat in another part of the temple and was meditating. Suddenly the young swordsman startled up, because he sensed a strange, creepy aura. He looked around and then he saw the shadow through the thin wall moving very fast. The storm outside pushed open his door and Wufei quickly grabbed his sword and followed the shadow.

*

Duo also had heard something and tried to open a door. But he only succeeded injuring his finger. The tiny dot of blood and the smell of it was enough to wake up the figures at the attic. They stretched themselves, as if they had slept for a long time and started to let out horrible guttural noises. But Duo didn't hear it.

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Wufei kissed his way down Treizes neck when he sensed the aura of his master who was on the way. He stopped and disappeared to the side. Treize wondered where the beautiful young man suddenly was. It had been so nice. Instead he saw a shadow moving with incredible velocity towards himself. He tried to grab his sword but Zechs was quicker und Treize gave a last loud scream before the demon reached him.

"WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!!!"

It was too late. Zechs forced his way into his prey und started to suck out all his body fluids out of him. Treize tried to defend himself against the demon and kicked with his foots in the fire but he had no chance. Adamantly the demon continued his cruel work.

Because of the big loss of his body fluids Treizes skin quickly collapsed until only his bones and the empty blood vessels could have seen. Wufei once more watched the whole scene and it affected him deeply. This time he couldn't hold back his tears. Why did Zechs force him to do such things?

But it was no use. He couldn't refuse. If he would refuse Zechs would do the worst things with him. Wufei only could hope for redemption.

*

Heero had a very bad feeling as he followed the shadow. He made a big jump from the balcony of the temple and ran down towards the waterfall where he supposed Treize. But when he arrived there, the young swordsman froze. All he found was the crumpled corpse of his rival Treize lying in the water.

Slowly he settled down next to him.

"Treize, no matter how ambitious you have been, you died like a nobody. What an irony!" he said.

Then he picked up the corpse.

"Don't worry. No matter which discord had been between us, I don't let you rot here. I'll promise!"

Heero would arrange a decent funeral for his rival because he still couldn't believe that Treize was dead. In fact they had been rivals, but such a cruel death no one had deserved, not Treize either. And now, everything was over.

But suddenly...**

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Tsuz&uacu te;ku -> to be continued... (?)
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BGM: A Chinese Ghost Story I Opening - Leslie Cheung; Tao Tao Tao - Jacky Cheung (ACGS III OP); Man's Road - America; Santi - U - Macross +; Fuzzy na Itami - PSY - S; Sweet lovely Midnight - Shinichi Ishihara...
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*looks around* Oh, such a nasty and mean little cliffhanger. I'm cruel. *laughs* Yeah, what happens next? Just wait for the next part. Harharhar.

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