Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ The Trap of the Black Princess ( Chapter 7 )

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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I

7. The Trap of the Black Princess *************************************************************************** *****

"WUFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIII!"

Horrified Duo stared at the hole, where Wufei had disappeared only seconds ago. Immediately he wanted to follow him but Heero prevented him from jumping into the hole by pulling the braided boy down to the ground.

"Are you nuts? Stay here, will you! You can't do anything." Heero shouted.

"But I must help him! Wufei..." Duo sobbed.

He didn't even know if he would see the Chinese ever again. But still Duo had to fulfil his promise.

"Why do you want to help him? He's a ghost and probably killed all those men at the temple!"

"No, you're wrong! It was this demon and he forced Wufei to bait them. But I see that you don't understand something like this...that I love him and I don't care if he's a ghost or a human being!" Duo said.

Heero was silent for a moment before he spoke again.

"I understand. But don't worry. I've banned the demon. He won't cause any damage for the next hundred years. I'm sure your friend is safe now. It's for the best if you go your way!" the Japanese said to the braided boy, who still was sitting on the ground.

"No. I promised Wufei to bury his ashes in his hometown. And that's I'm going to do tomorrow. Can you help me, please? I don't know if I can do it all alone!" Duo asked the swordsman.

Heero stared at him, not knowing what to say. He lived in this temple for two years now, without any contact to the outside world. And now someone needed his help. What should he do?

"Okay, I'll help you, because I've nothing else to do at the moment. But we have to get up by dawn, since it's going to be a long day for us." He finally said.

At this words Duo smiled of joy.

"Thank you!" he said and embraced the young swordsman stormy.

This one blushed of embarrassment and calmed Duo down.

"Never mind! But let's go to bed now. We have to get up early!" Heero replied.

Duo nodded and followed him back to the temple.

*

The next morning...

Heero and Duo had gotten up before dawn and prepared their approaching journey. Now when it was a little brighter, both young men were at the cemetery and at Wufei's grave. At the moment Duo was digging after his urn. After some minutes he came across something hard.

"I believe I found it!" he shouted and started to dig on with his hands.

Soon he had dug out five urns. Puzzled Duo stares at them. Which was the right one now?

"Ahem Heero I think we have a problem. Which is Wufei's urn?" the braided boy asked.

"Hnnn, we have no time to choose the right one. Take them all in your back-basket! Is that possible? Anyway do you still have the sutra I gave you?" Heero asked after a searching glance at the cloudy sky.

"Of course I have! Why?" the braided boy nodded and got his back-basket.

"Take it out! Or else everything would be in vain, because the ghosts wouldn't come with us."

"Oh!"

Duo took the book out and put it under his clothing. Then he packed all urns into the basket and got on his horse and both boys began their journey. They were riding the whole day long, without any break just to reach their destination in time. On the way some of Zechs' vassals attacked them, but the Japanese swordsman finished them off with his pins.

Finally they reached a tavern and decided to stay there overnight, since it had been become dark and it rained. Both young men went inside. As Duo looked around, he couldn't discover a living soul. Everything's seemed abandoned, though the whole place was festively decorated, as if a party had been taken place.

"Do you know if anybody's here?" Duo asked.

"We'll see!" Heero replied and began to call for the owner of the tavern, but got no answer.

"Perhaps everybody is dead!" Duo guessed.

At that time a groan could be heard and very suddenly a young, sparse dressed man straightened up, who was yawning aloud, his wine glass half empty.

"Who's dead? What do you want anyway?" he murmured with a sleepy voice.

Heero and Duo cast meaningful glances at each other, but didn't say anything.

"We need a room for the night. Do you have one?" the Japanese asked.

"Naturally. If you would follow me...!" the man said and took them to an empty room.

There Heero took the candle from the man and sent him away. When he was gone, Duo put his back-basket down and started to put up all five urns onto the table in one line.

"Wufei, can you hear me? It's me, Duo!" the braided boy whispered.

But nothing happened, until he heard a few soft, whispering voices. And then *they* appeared in front of them. They - that were four female ghosts, who had been resting in the other urns. But he couldn't see Wufei anywhere. Hopefully they hadn't taken the wrong urns with them.

"You have called, master?" all four breathed at the same moment.

Duo sweatdropped and look at Heero at a loss. What should he say now?

"Let me do this! You there...Take your urns and leave!" he shouted.

The four ghosts took their urns and vanished, like Heero had told them and only one urn was left. That must be Wufei's. Duo took it in his hands.

"Wufei, if you can hear me, please come out!" the braided boy begged.

"Why do you call me in the middle of the night?"

The owner of the tavern suddenly stood at the door and yawned aloud again. Meanwhile Duo tried to calm himself down, because the man almost had scared him to death. Why did this guy also have to sneak close to them? Apparently Heero agreed with him, since he really got angry.

"We didn't call you. You're the one who sneaks around in the middle of the night. And now go!" he snarled at the man.

"Okay!" the man yawned back and was gone.

Heero sighed and turned round to Duo. Suddenly he froze. Duo noticed it and was worried.

"What's the matter?" the braided boy asked.

"Behind you...!" were the only words the swordsman said.

And now Duo also turned round. His eyes began to sparkle for joy, when he realized who was standing behind him.

It was his Wufei.

*

"Wufei!"

Duo was overjoyed. His beloved Wufei was with him again. Immediately the braided boy embraced the Chinese fiercely and also Wufei seemed to be glad to be with Duo again. Heero looked at both with a tiny smile on his lips. Who would have thought that a ghost and a human could love each other?

The swordsman turned to go, because he knew he only would be in the way now. So the Japanese headed for the door when Wufei suddenly fell on his knees right before him, his head bowed respectfully.

"I just wanted to thank you for your help, especially since you know *what* I am!" the Chinese said.

Heero turned red again, because somehow he felt embarrassed that a ghost was thanking him.

"Never mind! It's for the best if I let you two turtle-doves alone. I'm outside, looking for the horses, if you need me!" the Japanese swordsman replied and left.

Wufei and Duo stayed behind. The latter one wrapped his arms around the Chinese boy's neck and gave him a small kiss on it.

"I was so scared that I would see you never again, when you disappeared into that hole." The braided boy whispered.

Wufei turned round to face his love.

"I know. But I'm afraid that we only have time till dawn. Then I must return into my urn and I don't know if I see you ever again after this night." He said sadly.

Duo nodded. Wufei was right. If he had buried the Chinese's ashes, he would never see him again. Everything they had now was this last night together.

"Then please let us spend this last night together." He finally murmured.

Wufei smiled and then guided them both over the only bed in the room. There they lay down and were enjoying each others company, cuddled together and looking at each other.

*

Meanwhile Heero had gone outside to check on their momentary situation after the incident with the tree monsters this afternoon. The swordsman suddenly had a really strange feeling in his stomach. But he couldn't see anything suspicious, also not the owner. In fact it was really silent, too silent for Heero's taste.

Suddenly a noise startled him and he spun round, but there was nothing. He could tell that something wasn't right and he would find it out. Heero concentrated on his mind and murmured something quickly while making movements with two fingers of each hand, before he put them on his closed eyes. When the Japanese opened them again, he saw his surroundings in a different light.

The whole area had rapidly changed and not for the better. He saw a strange blue smoke hanging over the place and the swordsman knew this phenomenon too well.

"Evil smoke! Shit, that's not good. "

With a bad foreboding he ran to the dark kitchen, where he also couldn't see a single soul. On the stove Heero saw a big pot, in which something seemed to cook because of the horrible smell. Carefully the Japanese opened it and immediately his eyes widened.

In the gigantic pot the heads of four men were lying. Quickly the swordsman closed it before he began to felt sick. Human victims - another bad sign.

Heero ran back to a wall who caught his attention and where he tore off a piece of textile and froze. Behind the cloth was a wall that was completely consisting of countless human skulls. The swordsman narrowed his eyebrows. So his foreboding was right and he didn't get the random signs wrong. All this could only mean one thing - a ghost wedding.

The whole house was haunted. He had to get the others and then away from the tavern as fast as possible.

*

Duo and Wufei were looking at the painting, when Heero stormed into the room. Frightened both young men stared at him.

"What happened?" Duo asked puzzled.

"We have to get out of here! The whole house is a trap. So hurry up!" the Japanese yelled.

Immediately Duo and Wufei jumped up and hurried to the door, after Duo had grabbed Wufei's urn, but not his painting.

"Come on, hurry up!" Heero pushed.

"Oh no, I forgot my painting!" Duo suddenly shouted.

"Get it tomorrow! We have no time now." The swordsman answered and rushed further.

All three of them were running towards the exit. But when they had reached it, they were flung back because of an invisible wall that was blockading the way out. When they tried to get up, a hurricane-like storm came up and carried only Wufei away, who quickly vanished behind an invisible gate.

"Oh no...Wufei!" Duo shouted and wanted to follow him, but Heero held him back.

"Stay here, will you! Or are you so tired of life? Whoever caught him is the same person or power, who had cursed this place! Did he say something to you last night?" the Japanese asked calmly.

Duo sniffed shortly.

"He mentioned to getting married to a female demon named "The Black Princess". Wu also said that she was the sister of that tree demon we fought last night."

The swordsman frowned at this unexpected news.

"Hnnn. That would explain quite a lot. I've heard of her and if everything is true, she's worse and more dangerous than her brother. And this tavern was perfect to get her groom." He spoke.

"So what are we doing now?" the braided boy asked.


"It's simply. We assault hell!" the Japanese swordsman suddenly grinned widely, causing Duo to laugh nervously.

The braided boy was really scared at the swordsman's sudden change of mood. But before he could say anything, Heero had taken out his sword and his bag with the pins. The swordsman gave one of them Duo.

"Take that and let's go! We have to find your friend before daybreak or we'll never come back! Do you understand?"

Duo nodded and followed Heero. This one was concentrating all his powers at one point and shortly after that the blade began to glow scarlet as if it was burning.

"Now close your eyes and don't open it!" he shouted and grabbed Duo's arm.

The braided scholar did as he was told. Heero made an attacking movement with his sword at the spot where Wufei had disappeared and opened an entrance for them that way. After that he grabbed Duo and both young men started their uncertain rescue journey.

*

It became a stormy and uncomfortable journey. Although Duo's eyes were closed all the time, he could feel the ice-cold wind storming into his face. Heero indeed had his problems to get them to their destination safely, because it wasn't only dark, stormy and foggy, but there also were lots of stones, which hit them both painfully.

Heero only hoped that it would end soon. And in fact, finally the wind dropped and the Japanese landed them both safely on the ground.

"Can I open my eyes now?" Duo asked.

"Yes."

Slowly the braided boy opened his eyes and looked around. So this was hell. What he saw, was a gloomy, stormy place without any trees or any signs of life. It really made him shiver with fear. And somewhere out there was Wufei.

Suddenly they heard the neighing of several horses and then their closer coming galloping noises. Heero and Duo carefully ran towards their direction, but they stopped abruptly, when a dark procession quickly came up to them through the fog.

At the top were the carriers of the banners. Then men with a kind of umbrellas and some with spears followed. Following four men carried a black veiled sedan-chair and at the end several riders on their horses formed the close of the ghost procession, which moved right trough the two humans, as if they weren't real.

After the first shock Duo took a closer look at the figure, who was sitting in the litter. Then he recognized his beloved Chinese.

"Oh my god...that's Wufei! WUFEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Duo cried.

The Chinese firstly believed to get something wrong, but then he saw the braided scholar and couldn't believe his eyes.

"DUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he screamed.

Duo began to run after the procession, but as suddenly it had appeared as suddenly it vanished again and Wufei with them. Immediately the scholar stopped.

"Why can't they see me?" he asked suddenly thoughtful.

"Ghost's aren't able to see human beings in their own world. But that's a problem I can solve!" Heero replied and set one of his magical amulets on fire, just to stuff it into Duo's mouth.

This one uttered some protesting noises, but calmed down quickly.

"Can you explain me why you did that? Are you trying to kill?" Duo hissed at the swordsman.

"I'm sorry, but this was the only possibility. But now the ghosts can see you!"

"Oh!"

"Well, then let's go!" the Japanese shouted.

Both young men started to run into the direction, where the procession had vanished. After some minutes they stopped very sudden, because they realized a big problem right before them.

"Oh, oh!" were the only words that came out of Duo's mouth.

*

The big problem turned out to be a big troop of grim ghost soldiers, who were standing like an accumulation of rocks in front of a still darker, pyramid-like throne and were waiting for them. The throne himself was covered with black veils and his stairs decorated with lots of black human skulls.

Suddenly a loud, female voice roared through the whole area.

"Who are you that you dare to enter my empire? No mortal has gone through the Hell Gate before. You're either really courageous or really stupid!" the voice said.

Before Heero or Duo could answer something, they looked towards the direction of the voice and saw a figure sitting on the throne, who turned out to be a girl in a long black and sparkling robe. She had long blond hair and her skin was unhealthy pale. But the strangest things were her eyes. They had the color of gold, but were blank without any pupil. And she had the same smirk on her lips as Zechs.

Both young men just stared at her. So that was the notorious "Black Princess". The princess chuckled at the sight of the two dismayed humans before her and snapped her fingers. After that a soldier dragged Wufei to the foot of the throne and threw him to the ground. Then the man chained the Chinese there, giving him a hook to the chin when Wufei tried to defend himself against it.

Immediately Duo got angry and if Heero hadn't held him back he would have run to him. This man dared hurt his Wufei.

"What are we doing now?" the braided boy asked.

"Run!" Heero answered.

Duo already wanted to ask for the reason but then he saw that the whole ghost army started to run after them and it really was the best to flee. Both men ran as fast as they could, the ghostly army right on their heels.

After a minute or so they stopped.

"Okay, I have a plan. You rescue your friend and I take care of these ghosts." Heero explained quickly.

"And how shall I do that?" Duo shrieked.

But then he was in the air yet, screaming aloud and flying towards the throne, where the female demon visibly enjoyed the sight of her prisoner and the sight how her army tried to finish Heero off. This one simply had given Duo his sword and flung him towards the opposite direction. The sword took care of the rest.

Meanwhile Heero had painted magical signs on his both palms, before the soldiers started to attack. And the swordsman defended himself by bombarding the lines of fighters with the energy of the magical signs. He soon succeeded in destroying some of the ghosts.

But there still were lots of soldiers. But the Japanese didn't give up, but continued and slowly the lines got thinner. In the meantime Duo landed safely at the spot where Wufei had been chained.

"Whoa, what a journey! Am I really there?" he wondered, but then saw Wufei right before him.

"Duo, what are you doing here? Be careful or she will notice you!" the Chinese said with one glance at the demoness, who was too busy to watch the fight of Heero.

"Come on, I'll free you!"

Wufei hesitated for a moment, but then lifted his bound hands in front of his face. Duo raised Heero's sword and broke the chains around the Chinese's hand and the ones, which bound him to the throne.

"Thank you, Duo!" Wufei smiled.

"You're welcome! Let's go!" Duo smiled back and took Wufei's hand.

Both boys were ready to flee, when a dark warrior was riding towards them, armed with big and deadly looking battle-axes...

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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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Okay, I know it slightly sucks but it is late and my concentration slowly went off. And I'm really sorry for the 5xR Pairing. So don't kill me. But I imagine her like a mixture from Mistress 9 and Sailor Chaos from Sailor Moon (Yeah, I know, but they look cool and they are so wonderful evil. ^^O). So, then goodbye till the next chapter.

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