Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ In the Cave of the Lion ( Chapter 3 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Terrenis-chan 
The second night. Duo is at Wufei's home and then Zechs appears...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
The second night. Duo is at Wufei's home and then Zechs appears...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I
3. In the cave of the lion
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While Duo was going back to the temple, the zombies from the attic meanwhile were lounging in the sleeping room. They had been climbing down the ladder and were waiting now for their next prey, which meant exactly they were waiting for Duo.
This one was very tired. It had been a very long night for him. And he still couldn't forget this lovely Chinese boy he had met. Secretly the braided boy hoped to see him again. But for the moment he only wanted to get some sleep. But when he tried to open the door to his room, it was blocked. The ladder, he had used, still stood at the same spot and made it impossible to open the door.
Duo shortly pushed against it and the ladder with all the zombies crashed through the rotten woodened floor. The braided young man came in and saw the big hole decorating the floor and sweatdropped.
But what had happened with the zombies? These ones had ended up in the lowest part of the temple, a dark and cold place which could be described as a sort of cellar. But as soon as the zombies were seeing the moonlight shining through a hole in the wall, they hid themselves in the dark because they were afraid of it.
Meanwhile Duo stood before the big hole and tried to find out what was down there, because he had heard odd squeaking sounds out of it. He bent down and stretched out his arm into the darkness of the hole. Exactly like the un-dead, too. Only centimetres separated both of them. And nearly the zombies reached their goal. But they didn't.
Suddenly Duo withdrew his arm.
//Oh, I'm sure, it's been only some rats!// he thought.
Finally he took an old woodened door, which was big enough and covered the hole up. And in the end he could go to sleep.
*
And finally a new day began.
The sun was shining and the temple wasn't looking that spooky at all. But it was a deceptive sight.
Inside Duo still tried to find out, how such a big hole had gotten into the floor. He held a lamp in his hand and was shining into the darkness of the hole with it, when he heard someone knocking at the door. Frightened the braided young man turned off the light. Who could that be? No one knew that he was here, except Wufei and this crazy Japanese guy...
Duo's eyes widened. Of course, it only could be this Japanese swordsman, who had hunted him and Wufei through the forest last night. Gods, what should he do? He didn't want to die. Duo searched for a suitable hideout, but he only had the woodened board. So he hid himself behind it, knowing that it was his only possibility.
*
Heero had mused over the whole night, what he should do now. But first he had to get rid of this book scholar. It was much too dangerous for him in this place. The best he could do was to scare him away.
And so he was standing now in the front of the room where he expected the scholar to be. The Japanese knocked and then he could hear hectic footsteps inside, which grew silent after a moment. Curiously Heero opened the door and saw no one. The scholar did must hide himself and apparently behind this big woodened board.
Heero went straight across the room to it and waited. After a while Duo poked his head out of it and looked directly into Heero's face. Immediately the book scholar startled awfully. What did this crazy guy only want from him? Possibly kill him?
But the Japanese didn't want to do anything in this direction. On the contrary, he smiled at Duo and began to chuckle.
"Ohayo. And, have you slept well?" he asked.
Duo only nodded.
"And have you found some ghosts tonight?" Heero asked again.
"N...No. I didn't find anything. Why do you ask?"
"I just was curious. And you are sure you didn't find anything?"
"N...No, absolutely nothing." Duo stuttered.
Heero started to laugh and Duo sighed of relief. He really had expected the worst. And so he also began to laugh, until the Japanese suddenly got angry and was grabbing Duo's collar.
"BAKA! I'M SERIOUS. I KNOW YOU WERE IN THE FOREST LAST NIGHT. I SAW YOU. WHAT WERE YOU DOING THERE?" he yelled.
Duo, frightened by the sudden outburst, didn't know what to say. Heero shoved him further to the hole and then stopped. But both men didn't know that the zombies down in the hole were active again. They looked up to the opening where Duo's ass was hanging tempting. Meanwhile this one had found back his speech and he also got angry.
"Let me go! It's none of your concern, what I was doing there." Duo snapped back.
Heero chuckled.
"I give you a good advice. LEAVE THIS TEMPLE, IMMEDIATELY! This place is haunted." He growled then.
"Prove it. Show me your ghosts. I...!"
The Japanese interrupted him.
"SHUT UP! You stupid book scholar, ghosts weren't ghosts if you could see them so easily. By day you can't see them, because they don't show up until night!" he snarled.
Meanwhile Duo had managed it to free himself, but he only sank more down into the hole, so that the zombies could get a hold of his clothes.
"I don't believe you. I bet you only fib. Then say your ghosts that they can catch me if they feel like doing this."
That was too much for Heero. He had enough. The Japanese bent down to the braided boy and grabbed his collar again, pulling him up. There was a tearing sound as the back part of Duo's clothes tore off and fell into the zombie's claws. But Duo didn't notice it.
"WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME? YOU'LL THINK ABOUT ME, WHEN YOUR ASS IS IN DANGER. AND NOW...GO OR I'LL FORGET ME AND KILL YOU!!!" the Japanese screamed and stormed out.
"FINE! GO AHEAD! I KNOW YOU CAN DO THAT TO INNOCENT PEOPLE." Duo yelled after him.
Angrily the young swordsman stopped and turned, glaring at Duo with his cobalt blue eyes.
"Don't ask for it or I'll really do it!" Heero whispered with doom in his voice.
Then he was gone. Outside the Japanese boy stood still and sighed.
"I hope he's clever enough to go voluntarily. But it's too dangerous in this place and it was the only way to get rid of him!" he murmured to himself.
*
In the meantime Duo had some doubts, but he put them aside.
"GHOSTS? I'm sure he was just kidding."
But what if Heero was right and this place really was haunted?
(No, Duo. He only wanted to scare you away.)
Yes, that's it. This crazy Japanese only had wanted to scare him. And after all he had a date with a certain pretty Chinese boy tonight. And he certainly didn't want to miss it. Just now he realized the loss of some parts of his clothes. But where could it be? Puzzled he only shrugged his shoulders and took his book out of his back-basket.
Something had come to his mind. It was a sudden idea and he simply had to write it down. And it wouldn't disturb anyone, if he wrote it in his book. Then the braided scholar took a feather, which he used for writing, in his hand and dipped the tip into a barrel of ink and started to write. But suddenly he heard those strange squeaking noises from inside the hole again and they really began to get on his nerves. What the hell was that?
Finally it became so bad, that he dropped his ink barrel into the opening, doing a clumsy movement. Duo sighed. Why did something like this always happen to him? Cursing and complaining something about injustice he put the ladder into the hole, so that he could climb down.
But however, he didn't notice again that the ladder stood on a zombie who was laying there und uttering such squeaking sounds. And there only were much more zombies waiting for him. But all that didn't bother the braided boy. He only wanted his ink barrel back.
When he arrived at the bottom of the stairs, Duo stood still and looked around.
(Okay, it's not exactly the place where I would live forever. Much too uncomfortable in my opinion.) He thought as he let his gaze wander.
Everything here was dark, damp, scary, and there was a musty smell all over the place. And then there was this strange feeling that he wasn't alone down here. Something was here and it wasn't friendly. So Duo decided to search his barrel and then get out of there as quick as possible. Carefully he went on, not knowing that he had company.
Behind his back two of the zombies had decided to scare Duo to death a little and were following him with stretched out arms. But just when they reached the braided boy and wanted to catch him, Duo bend down and both zombies only grasped the empty air.
And then Duo abruptly straightened up and knocked his head against an old woodened, splintered door, which dropped backwards and buried both undead ones between other pieces of wood. Duo on the other side rubbed the aching back of his head, but moved on.
While the zombies tried to free themselves out of their awkward situation, Duo had found a window and tried to open it, just to get a better view and that he could see where his writing utensils could be. He moved some woodened boards aside and opened the window to let in the sun and some fresh air.
But the zombies didn't seem to like the bright morning sun. When the first rays of light hit the undead creatures, they started to squeak like mad and to tremble and to smoke, until they started to disintegrate in their components. At the end of the process only a slimy, sickening and stinking liquid was left behind.
Duo didn't notice anything, what had happened with the undead creatures. He stretched his body for a moment and then turned round. And finally he saw his ink barrel, which was lying in the middle of a nondescriptly liquid. He fished it with two fingers out of the slimy fluid and looked at it with mixed emotions.
After that he smelled at the stuff and made a face. The slimy stuff on his fingers was so disgusting and foul-smelling that Duo was going to be sick. It smelled like a mixture of rotten eggs, spoilt fish and rancid butter, which had been lying in a musty grave for a century (x_X). He had to get out of here, quickly.
Besides, Duo still wanted to go back to the village to get some new clothes and something to eat. The braided boy giggled at the thought what the people in the village would say if they saw that Duo was still alive. They would get the shock of their lifetime.
*
Later the evening...
Duo was eating when he thought about the past day's events. The people in the village really couldn't believe their eyes as Duo was standing before them alive. They could hardly believe that he had slept one night in the notorious Nataku temple.
And when he went to settle his things, all of them were following him as if he was a small sensation. After recovering the outstanding debts and buying some food, clothes and new lanterns for the way home, Duo headed back for the temple. This time he wasn't afraid of the wolves, because he didn't see them. But when the braided boy suddenly heard their howling, he tried to hurry up.
Yet it wasn't the howling of the wolves that he had heard. It was Wufei, who only had wanted to tease him. The real wolves were hanging in the branches of some trees, stunned by Wufei. Finally Duo reached the temple and was now sitting here and looking forward to his date.
After the dinner Duo walked to the small pavilion at the lake again. But this time something had changed. It was something different, something crueller and something creepier inside the small house and was resting there. And Duo was about to run into the creature's arms.
*
Wufei was sitting in his room, when he sensed Duo's presence near the pavilion. But he also sensed the presence of the creature and the danger Duo was in. Immediately he began to play his instrument, that Duo would hear him.
And it worked.
Duo heard the music and started to walk towards it. Several minutes later he reached a bigger house. The entrance of the house also was hemmed by two big statues. One window was brightly illuminated. Duo wondered if it was the window of Wufei's room.
And as if the braided young man had said it out loud, someone opened the window and the mentioned one appeared.
"Hey Wufei, it's me. Duo!" Duo shouted softly.
Wufei noticed him, but shut his window. Duo was confused. What had he done wrong now? The braided scholar sneaked nearer and began to shout again:
"Wufei! Wufei! Can you hear me?"
This one hid himself behind the curtain of his window.
(Why is he here? I told him yet, that he shouldn't come back to me. Zechs is going to kill him.) The Chinese thought.
Fortunately the mentioned demon wasn't there at the moment, but he could come back every minute.
In the meantime Duo had begun to climb up the tree in front of the house, until he had reached the window and knocked. Wufei hesitated for a long moment, but then opened the window.
"What are you doing here? I have told you yet not to come back." The Chinese boy shouted.
"But..." Duo began, but stopped.
Wufei looked at Duo and sighed, before he dragged the braided boy inside. He closed the window, after he had looked around quickly. In his room Duo looked around, too. Wufei's room was simple, but 1000 times more comfortable than his own room at the temple.
"What are you doing here? You shouldn't have come back." Wufei asked again and got nervous.
"I just wanted to say goodbye. I leave tomorrow." Duo answered.
"Tomorrow yet?"
"Yes. But I'll come back to see you again." Duo said and looked at the angelic face of the Chinese boy.
"Oh! I understand!" Wufei said.
Maybe it was the best for them, although he liked the braided scholar a lot. But he was a ghost and Duo a human being. It wouldn't work out well.
Suddenly he got nervous. Someone was coming nearer and Wufei knew who it was. His 'Sister'. Somehow he had to hide Duo, immediately. But it nearly was too late. Through the thin walls he already could recognize the shadows of three women.
"K'so!" he cursed.
"What's up?" Duo wanted to know, surprised, why the Chinese suddenly had changed his mood.
But this one was worried about more important things at the moment. Things like hiding Duo for example. He looked round, but only saw his bath tub. Well, it had to do it. Wufei grabbed Duo's arm and pulled him to the tub.
"My sister is coming. She mustn't find you, because she has a fine nose. It would be the best if you hide yourself into the water and don't say a word. Do you understand?" he said.
And before Duo could protest, Wufei pushed him underwater just in time. One moment later the door was opened and three female ghosts entered the room. It was Une and two servants. They saw Wufei reading in a scroll.
Une came closer to the Chinese boy. She was several years older than Wufei and wore a long, white robe, while one part of her hair was done up into an odd longish roll.
"My dearest brother Wufei..." she said.
Wufei looked up of his scroll and glared at the older woman.
"I'm not your brother, Une! So don't act as if we were related." He spoke.
Une just glared back and then smiled.
"The master is waiting for you. I hope you're ready!"
"I'm ready in a moment!" the Chinese snapped back and got up from the floor.
But in the next moment it was getting stormy outside. Suddenly the window flew open and a shadow flew inside Wufei's room. It got closer to the small group with a tearing velocity. One second later Wufei received a painful blow into his face and was flung across the room.
Zechs had arrived.
Wufei touched his aching lip. His lower lip was swollen and bleeding. When he looked up, he saw Zechs standing there. The demon was wearing his black, rich decorated gowns like usual and one half of his long platinum blond hair had been done to a bizarre, crescent moon-like coiffure. And he looked really furious.
Zechs grabbed Wufei by his black hair painfully. This one cried out with pain.
"You son of a bitch, I know you're hiding someone. One of those mortals. Where is he?" he screamed angrily.
"No, I'm not hiding anyone." The Chinese stuttered, trying to loosen Zechs' grip.
But the demon only strengthened his grip and got closer to Wufei's face till only few millimetres separated both men. Wufei could feel the ice-cold breath of the demon on his skin and gritted his teeth, just to say nothing, which he could regret later.
"And I say you're lying!" Zechs hissed into the young man's ear, before he gave Une an invisible sign.
Une smirked coldly and let a white piece of cloth drop in front of Wufei onto the floor. This one froze. It was the cloth he had used for his message to Duo. How could it get into her hands?
Zechs also smirked, but then he got angry again.
"You have dared deride me. I'm afraid, I have to punish you. Une, give me my whip!"
The ghost woman gave the demon, what he wanted. This one whipped a few times onto the floor, before he turned to Wufei and began to hit the Chinese boy with his whip with blind rage. At the same time he screamed furiously:
"You're doing what I'm saying, will you! Otherwise I'll destroy your ashes. You know what will happen then."
Wufei knew that Zechs was right. He had made a mistake and was now paying for it. And because of that the Chinese endured every hit of the whip with gritted teeth, until Zechs had fairly calmed down and let drop the whip. Although he was a ghost, his back hurt like hell. But he wouldn't cry. No, he wouldn't give Zechs this satisfaction.
"Take care of his wounds!" the demon commanded.
Une gave one of her servants a sign, which was coming nearer and holding a tray with several small jars, which contained different ointments. Une pulled the clothing off from Wufei's upper body and started to clean up the red welts onto his back.
While Zechs watched them, he continued speaking:
"Because it's your first offence, I'll make an exception and forgive you. I hope you don't have forgotten that I sold you to my sister, the black princess. She was very interested in you and that's why you are going to marry her in three days. She doesn't may be a beauty, but in return she is one of the mightiest demons I know.
Although, I must say I can understand why she did choose you. Not many people have such a beautiful and immaculate face and body like you. I really have to say I can feel a touch of jealousy in my heart. But to change the subject, I'm still hungry and need a human victim tonight. What are you going to do about it?"
"I can get you one yet, master!" Wufei said and dressed again, when Une was ready.
"That's good! And who does know? Maybe I'll show you my gratitude! You know what I mean."
The demon smiled and touched Wufei's injured lip, just to caress his cheek after that. He began to laugh.
"Une, you ought to follow his example! But not now! We have a lot of things to do. Come on, we're going! See you later, Wufei. And don't forget your promise."
Une cast a cold glance at Wufei and then followed Zechs with her servants. The young Chinese man stayed behind. Alone. He knew what the demon had meant with his "gratitude". After all, he had shown his gratitude very often in the past months.
Suddenly a loud gasping caught his attention again. A soaking wet and gasping for breath Duo, sticking to the edge of the tub, dropped in his field of vision and a hint of a smile flitted over Wufei's lips. He simply had forgotten Duo's presence here in his room.
"Gods, I didn't know at all, that I could hold my breath that long...Need air!" he gasped and took a deep breath.
Wufei helped Duo out of the cold water. Fortunately the braided boy hadn't noticed what had happened several minutes ago, but he saw Wufei's injured lip and was shocked.
"Oh my god, what's happened? Your lip is injured!"
He wanted to touch it, but Wufei turned his head.
"It's nothing. But you really have to go now!" he said.
"But...!"
"Go to the pavilion and wait there for me! Okay?"
Duo nodded and then headed for the small lake with the pavilion. There he was waiting for his Wufei.
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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BGM: Pretty when you cry - VAST; Sayonara - Gackt; Alone - Heart; Red Zone - Janne Da Arc; Your Secrets - Momoko Kitadai; Psycho Stalker, Poison Rain - La'Cryma Christi; I For You - Luna Sea; Teardrops - Massive Attack...
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And another part finished. And as you can see, the really odd pairing is 5xR. *sweatdrop* But I don't want any flames because of that. I really think about drawing some pictures to the story, but I don't know yet. I mean I'm not that untalented but I seldom draw. The last time I did this was some years ago. Well, I think about it.
I still don't know when I'm going to translate the remaining 17 parts, because I want to write on my other stories as well. But I promise to do it when I've got the time.
Do you like it? Just write me an e-Mail to:
Terrenis@web.de or terrenis-chan@gmx.net
Ja ne!
^-^ Terrenis-chan ^.^
A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I
3. In the cave of the lion
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While Duo was going back to the temple, the zombies from the attic meanwhile were lounging in the sleeping room. They had been climbing down the ladder and were waiting now for their next prey, which meant exactly they were waiting for Duo.
This one was very tired. It had been a very long night for him. And he still couldn't forget this lovely Chinese boy he had met. Secretly the braided boy hoped to see him again. But for the moment he only wanted to get some sleep. But when he tried to open the door to his room, it was blocked. The ladder, he had used, still stood at the same spot and made it impossible to open the door.
Duo shortly pushed against it and the ladder with all the zombies crashed through the rotten woodened floor. The braided young man came in and saw the big hole decorating the floor and sweatdropped.
But what had happened with the zombies? These ones had ended up in the lowest part of the temple, a dark and cold place which could be described as a sort of cellar. But as soon as the zombies were seeing the moonlight shining through a hole in the wall, they hid themselves in the dark because they were afraid of it.
Meanwhile Duo stood before the big hole and tried to find out what was down there, because he had heard odd squeaking sounds out of it. He bent down and stretched out his arm into the darkness of the hole. Exactly like the un-dead, too. Only centimetres separated both of them. And nearly the zombies reached their goal. But they didn't.
Suddenly Duo withdrew his arm.
//Oh, I'm sure, it's been only some rats!// he thought.
Finally he took an old woodened door, which was big enough and covered the hole up. And in the end he could go to sleep.
*
And finally a new day began.
The sun was shining and the temple wasn't looking that spooky at all. But it was a deceptive sight.
Inside Duo still tried to find out, how such a big hole had gotten into the floor. He held a lamp in his hand and was shining into the darkness of the hole with it, when he heard someone knocking at the door. Frightened the braided young man turned off the light. Who could that be? No one knew that he was here, except Wufei and this crazy Japanese guy...
Duo's eyes widened. Of course, it only could be this Japanese swordsman, who had hunted him and Wufei through the forest last night. Gods, what should he do? He didn't want to die. Duo searched for a suitable hideout, but he only had the woodened board. So he hid himself behind it, knowing that it was his only possibility.
*
Heero had mused over the whole night, what he should do now. But first he had to get rid of this book scholar. It was much too dangerous for him in this place. The best he could do was to scare him away.
And so he was standing now in the front of the room where he expected the scholar to be. The Japanese knocked and then he could hear hectic footsteps inside, which grew silent after a moment. Curiously Heero opened the door and saw no one. The scholar did must hide himself and apparently behind this big woodened board.
Heero went straight across the room to it and waited. After a while Duo poked his head out of it and looked directly into Heero's face. Immediately the book scholar startled awfully. What did this crazy guy only want from him? Possibly kill him?
But the Japanese didn't want to do anything in this direction. On the contrary, he smiled at Duo and began to chuckle.
"Ohayo. And, have you slept well?" he asked.
Duo only nodded.
"And have you found some ghosts tonight?" Heero asked again.
"N...No. I didn't find anything. Why do you ask?"
"I just was curious. And you are sure you didn't find anything?"
"N...No, absolutely nothing." Duo stuttered.
Heero started to laugh and Duo sighed of relief. He really had expected the worst. And so he also began to laugh, until the Japanese suddenly got angry and was grabbing Duo's collar.
"BAKA! I'M SERIOUS. I KNOW YOU WERE IN THE FOREST LAST NIGHT. I SAW YOU. WHAT WERE YOU DOING THERE?" he yelled.
Duo, frightened by the sudden outburst, didn't know what to say. Heero shoved him further to the hole and then stopped. But both men didn't know that the zombies down in the hole were active again. They looked up to the opening where Duo's ass was hanging tempting. Meanwhile this one had found back his speech and he also got angry.
"Let me go! It's none of your concern, what I was doing there." Duo snapped back.
Heero chuckled.
"I give you a good advice. LEAVE THIS TEMPLE, IMMEDIATELY! This place is haunted." He growled then.
"Prove it. Show me your ghosts. I...!"
The Japanese interrupted him.
"SHUT UP! You stupid book scholar, ghosts weren't ghosts if you could see them so easily. By day you can't see them, because they don't show up until night!" he snarled.
Meanwhile Duo had managed it to free himself, but he only sank more down into the hole, so that the zombies could get a hold of his clothes.
"I don't believe you. I bet you only fib. Then say your ghosts that they can catch me if they feel like doing this."
That was too much for Heero. He had enough. The Japanese bent down to the braided boy and grabbed his collar again, pulling him up. There was a tearing sound as the back part of Duo's clothes tore off and fell into the zombie's claws. But Duo didn't notice it.
"WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME? YOU'LL THINK ABOUT ME, WHEN YOUR ASS IS IN DANGER. AND NOW...GO OR I'LL FORGET ME AND KILL YOU!!!" the Japanese screamed and stormed out.
"FINE! GO AHEAD! I KNOW YOU CAN DO THAT TO INNOCENT PEOPLE." Duo yelled after him.
Angrily the young swordsman stopped and turned, glaring at Duo with his cobalt blue eyes.
"Don't ask for it or I'll really do it!" Heero whispered with doom in his voice.
Then he was gone. Outside the Japanese boy stood still and sighed.
"I hope he's clever enough to go voluntarily. But it's too dangerous in this place and it was the only way to get rid of him!" he murmured to himself.
*
In the meantime Duo had some doubts, but he put them aside.
"GHOSTS? I'm sure he was just kidding."
But what if Heero was right and this place really was haunted?
(No, Duo. He only wanted to scare you away.)
Yes, that's it. This crazy Japanese only had wanted to scare him. And after all he had a date with a certain pretty Chinese boy tonight. And he certainly didn't want to miss it. Just now he realized the loss of some parts of his clothes. But where could it be? Puzzled he only shrugged his shoulders and took his book out of his back-basket.
Something had come to his mind. It was a sudden idea and he simply had to write it down. And it wouldn't disturb anyone, if he wrote it in his book. Then the braided scholar took a feather, which he used for writing, in his hand and dipped the tip into a barrel of ink and started to write. But suddenly he heard those strange squeaking noises from inside the hole again and they really began to get on his nerves. What the hell was that?
Finally it became so bad, that he dropped his ink barrel into the opening, doing a clumsy movement. Duo sighed. Why did something like this always happen to him? Cursing and complaining something about injustice he put the ladder into the hole, so that he could climb down.
But however, he didn't notice again that the ladder stood on a zombie who was laying there und uttering such squeaking sounds. And there only were much more zombies waiting for him. But all that didn't bother the braided boy. He only wanted his ink barrel back.
When he arrived at the bottom of the stairs, Duo stood still and looked around.
(Okay, it's not exactly the place where I would live forever. Much too uncomfortable in my opinion.) He thought as he let his gaze wander.
Everything here was dark, damp, scary, and there was a musty smell all over the place. And then there was this strange feeling that he wasn't alone down here. Something was here and it wasn't friendly. So Duo decided to search his barrel and then get out of there as quick as possible. Carefully he went on, not knowing that he had company.
Behind his back two of the zombies had decided to scare Duo to death a little and were following him with stretched out arms. But just when they reached the braided boy and wanted to catch him, Duo bend down and both zombies only grasped the empty air.
And then Duo abruptly straightened up and knocked his head against an old woodened, splintered door, which dropped backwards and buried both undead ones between other pieces of wood. Duo on the other side rubbed the aching back of his head, but moved on.
While the zombies tried to free themselves out of their awkward situation, Duo had found a window and tried to open it, just to get a better view and that he could see where his writing utensils could be. He moved some woodened boards aside and opened the window to let in the sun and some fresh air.
But the zombies didn't seem to like the bright morning sun. When the first rays of light hit the undead creatures, they started to squeak like mad and to tremble and to smoke, until they started to disintegrate in their components. At the end of the process only a slimy, sickening and stinking liquid was left behind.
Duo didn't notice anything, what had happened with the undead creatures. He stretched his body for a moment and then turned round. And finally he saw his ink barrel, which was lying in the middle of a nondescriptly liquid. He fished it with two fingers out of the slimy fluid and looked at it with mixed emotions.
After that he smelled at the stuff and made a face. The slimy stuff on his fingers was so disgusting and foul-smelling that Duo was going to be sick. It smelled like a mixture of rotten eggs, spoilt fish and rancid butter, which had been lying in a musty grave for a century (x_X). He had to get out of here, quickly.
Besides, Duo still wanted to go back to the village to get some new clothes and something to eat. The braided boy giggled at the thought what the people in the village would say if they saw that Duo was still alive. They would get the shock of their lifetime.
*
Later the evening...
Duo was eating when he thought about the past day's events. The people in the village really couldn't believe their eyes as Duo was standing before them alive. They could hardly believe that he had slept one night in the notorious Nataku temple.
And when he went to settle his things, all of them were following him as if he was a small sensation. After recovering the outstanding debts and buying some food, clothes and new lanterns for the way home, Duo headed back for the temple. This time he wasn't afraid of the wolves, because he didn't see them. But when the braided boy suddenly heard their howling, he tried to hurry up.
Yet it wasn't the howling of the wolves that he had heard. It was Wufei, who only had wanted to tease him. The real wolves were hanging in the branches of some trees, stunned by Wufei. Finally Duo reached the temple and was now sitting here and looking forward to his date.
After the dinner Duo walked to the small pavilion at the lake again. But this time something had changed. It was something different, something crueller and something creepier inside the small house and was resting there. And Duo was about to run into the creature's arms.
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Wufei was sitting in his room, when he sensed Duo's presence near the pavilion. But he also sensed the presence of the creature and the danger Duo was in. Immediately he began to play his instrument, that Duo would hear him.
And it worked.
Duo heard the music and started to walk towards it. Several minutes later he reached a bigger house. The entrance of the house also was hemmed by two big statues. One window was brightly illuminated. Duo wondered if it was the window of Wufei's room.
And as if the braided young man had said it out loud, someone opened the window and the mentioned one appeared.
"Hey Wufei, it's me. Duo!" Duo shouted softly.
Wufei noticed him, but shut his window. Duo was confused. What had he done wrong now? The braided scholar sneaked nearer and began to shout again:
"Wufei! Wufei! Can you hear me?"
This one hid himself behind the curtain of his window.
(Why is he here? I told him yet, that he shouldn't come back to me. Zechs is going to kill him.) The Chinese thought.
Fortunately the mentioned demon wasn't there at the moment, but he could come back every minute.
In the meantime Duo had begun to climb up the tree in front of the house, until he had reached the window and knocked. Wufei hesitated for a long moment, but then opened the window.
"What are you doing here? I have told you yet not to come back." The Chinese boy shouted.
"But..." Duo began, but stopped.
Wufei looked at Duo and sighed, before he dragged the braided boy inside. He closed the window, after he had looked around quickly. In his room Duo looked around, too. Wufei's room was simple, but 1000 times more comfortable than his own room at the temple.
"What are you doing here? You shouldn't have come back." Wufei asked again and got nervous.
"I just wanted to say goodbye. I leave tomorrow." Duo answered.
"Tomorrow yet?"
"Yes. But I'll come back to see you again." Duo said and looked at the angelic face of the Chinese boy.
"Oh! I understand!" Wufei said.
Maybe it was the best for them, although he liked the braided scholar a lot. But he was a ghost and Duo a human being. It wouldn't work out well.
Suddenly he got nervous. Someone was coming nearer and Wufei knew who it was. His 'Sister'. Somehow he had to hide Duo, immediately. But it nearly was too late. Through the thin walls he already could recognize the shadows of three women.
"K'so!" he cursed.
"What's up?" Duo wanted to know, surprised, why the Chinese suddenly had changed his mood.
But this one was worried about more important things at the moment. Things like hiding Duo for example. He looked round, but only saw his bath tub. Well, it had to do it. Wufei grabbed Duo's arm and pulled him to the tub.
"My sister is coming. She mustn't find you, because she has a fine nose. It would be the best if you hide yourself into the water and don't say a word. Do you understand?" he said.
And before Duo could protest, Wufei pushed him underwater just in time. One moment later the door was opened and three female ghosts entered the room. It was Une and two servants. They saw Wufei reading in a scroll.
Une came closer to the Chinese boy. She was several years older than Wufei and wore a long, white robe, while one part of her hair was done up into an odd longish roll.
"My dearest brother Wufei..." she said.
Wufei looked up of his scroll and glared at the older woman.
"I'm not your brother, Une! So don't act as if we were related." He spoke.
Une just glared back and then smiled.
"The master is waiting for you. I hope you're ready!"
"I'm ready in a moment!" the Chinese snapped back and got up from the floor.
But in the next moment it was getting stormy outside. Suddenly the window flew open and a shadow flew inside Wufei's room. It got closer to the small group with a tearing velocity. One second later Wufei received a painful blow into his face and was flung across the room.
Zechs had arrived.
Wufei touched his aching lip. His lower lip was swollen and bleeding. When he looked up, he saw Zechs standing there. The demon was wearing his black, rich decorated gowns like usual and one half of his long platinum blond hair had been done to a bizarre, crescent moon-like coiffure. And he looked really furious.
Zechs grabbed Wufei by his black hair painfully. This one cried out with pain.
"You son of a bitch, I know you're hiding someone. One of those mortals. Where is he?" he screamed angrily.
"No, I'm not hiding anyone." The Chinese stuttered, trying to loosen Zechs' grip.
But the demon only strengthened his grip and got closer to Wufei's face till only few millimetres separated both men. Wufei could feel the ice-cold breath of the demon on his skin and gritted his teeth, just to say nothing, which he could regret later.
"And I say you're lying!" Zechs hissed into the young man's ear, before he gave Une an invisible sign.
Une smirked coldly and let a white piece of cloth drop in front of Wufei onto the floor. This one froze. It was the cloth he had used for his message to Duo. How could it get into her hands?
Zechs also smirked, but then he got angry again.
"You have dared deride me. I'm afraid, I have to punish you. Une, give me my whip!"
The ghost woman gave the demon, what he wanted. This one whipped a few times onto the floor, before he turned to Wufei and began to hit the Chinese boy with his whip with blind rage. At the same time he screamed furiously:
"You're doing what I'm saying, will you! Otherwise I'll destroy your ashes. You know what will happen then."
Wufei knew that Zechs was right. He had made a mistake and was now paying for it. And because of that the Chinese endured every hit of the whip with gritted teeth, until Zechs had fairly calmed down and let drop the whip. Although he was a ghost, his back hurt like hell. But he wouldn't cry. No, he wouldn't give Zechs this satisfaction.
"Take care of his wounds!" the demon commanded.
Une gave one of her servants a sign, which was coming nearer and holding a tray with several small jars, which contained different ointments. Une pulled the clothing off from Wufei's upper body and started to clean up the red welts onto his back.
While Zechs watched them, he continued speaking:
"Because it's your first offence, I'll make an exception and forgive you. I hope you don't have forgotten that I sold you to my sister, the black princess. She was very interested in you and that's why you are going to marry her in three days. She doesn't may be a beauty, but in return she is one of the mightiest demons I know.
Although, I must say I can understand why she did choose you. Not many people have such a beautiful and immaculate face and body like you. I really have to say I can feel a touch of jealousy in my heart. But to change the subject, I'm still hungry and need a human victim tonight. What are you going to do about it?"
"I can get you one yet, master!" Wufei said and dressed again, when Une was ready.
"That's good! And who does know? Maybe I'll show you my gratitude! You know what I mean."
The demon smiled and touched Wufei's injured lip, just to caress his cheek after that. He began to laugh.
"Une, you ought to follow his example! But not now! We have a lot of things to do. Come on, we're going! See you later, Wufei. And don't forget your promise."
Une cast a cold glance at Wufei and then followed Zechs with her servants. The young Chinese man stayed behind. Alone. He knew what the demon had meant with his "gratitude". After all, he had shown his gratitude very often in the past months.
Suddenly a loud gasping caught his attention again. A soaking wet and gasping for breath Duo, sticking to the edge of the tub, dropped in his field of vision and a hint of a smile flitted over Wufei's lips. He simply had forgotten Duo's presence here in his room.
"Gods, I didn't know at all, that I could hold my breath that long...Need air!" he gasped and took a deep breath.
Wufei helped Duo out of the cold water. Fortunately the braided boy hadn't noticed what had happened several minutes ago, but he saw Wufei's injured lip and was shocked.
"Oh my god, what's happened? Your lip is injured!"
He wanted to touch it, but Wufei turned his head.
"It's nothing. But you really have to go now!" he said.
"But...!"
"Go to the pavilion and wait there for me! Okay?"
Duo nodded and then headed for the small lake with the pavilion. There he was waiting for his Wufei.
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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BGM: Pretty when you cry - VAST; Sayonara - Gackt; Alone - Heart; Red Zone - Janne Da Arc; Your Secrets - Momoko Kitadai; Psycho Stalker, Poison Rain - La'Cryma Christi; I For You - Luna Sea; Teardrops - Massive Attack...
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And another part finished. And as you can see, the really odd pairing is 5xR. *sweatdrop* But I don't want any flames because of that. I really think about drawing some pictures to the story, but I don't know yet. I mean I'm not that untalented but I seldom draw. The last time I did this was some years ago. Well, I think about it.
I still don't know when I'm going to translate the remaining 17 parts, because I want to write on my other stories as well. But I promise to do it when I've got the time.
Do you like it? Just write me an e-Mail to:
Terrenis@web.de or terrenis-chan@gmx.net
Ja ne!
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