Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ In Captivity ( Chapter 11 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Terrenis-chan 
By a mistake Duo ends up in the prison where he's going to executed soon...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 229 | Status: Work In Progress
By a mistake Duo ends up in the prison where he's going to executed soon...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 229 | Status: Work In Progress
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story II
2. In Captivity *************************************************************************** *****
A few days later Duo reached a village, which seemed familiar to him. At least he had the feeling it was. And the braided boy wasn't completely wrong, because this was the same village, where his first adventure had begun. But everything had changed since the time, where Duo had been there for the first time.
It wasn't only very stormy, but the streets were also deserted. The only things were leaves, which the wind was blowing through the empty streets. In former times there had been lots of crowds and traders with their stands and snack bars. But now - not one single soul. Duo couldn't believe how everything had changed.
But it wasn't only here in this village. On his journey he had seen the same in other provinces, as if something changed the whole country. Of course Duo didn't know what was going, but he really had other problems at the moment. When the braided boy went across the empty market place and looked around, a gust blew away an old awning.
Duo frightened when he caught sight of the battered body of a man which were lying beneath the awning. What had happened here? Why everything had changed? But it still should become worse soon.
Inside a house two women watched the newcomer with curiosity, but also with mixed feelings.
"Who is the young man?" the younger one of them asked.
"A book scholar, as it seems. He wasn't here for a long time." The older woman answered.
"A lot has changed in the meantime."
The other woman nodded. Duo himself didn't catch anything from the conversation. He went on until an uncomfortable noise broke through the silence. Duo tried to locate the source of the noise till he noticed that it was his stomach, which rumbled.
//Right, I haven't eaten anything for a few days now.// he thought, blushing.
Duo decided to take care of his problem and began to look for place, where he could get something to eat. Since there wasn't any snack stands anymore, he had to search for a tavern, whether if he liked it or not. After a longer search he finally found one, which strangely also seemed familiar to him.
Then Duo also remembered why. He had been there, shortly before he had met Wufei. Maybe there was something to eat inside. After he had bound his horse at a stake, the braided boy went inside.
Indoors it was full. Several men sat at the desks and looked grim at him. Fortunately Duo couldn't read thoughts or else he immediately would have disappeared again. But the braided boy went on carefully. Somehow he didn't feel well in this company.
While he was searching a free desk and finally found one, the men followed him with their gazes. Duo put down his back-basket and sat down, feeling more uneasy with every moment. Maybe it had been a mistake to come in here.
In the mean the cook, a rather dusky man, stirred into his big pot with the soup in it, laughing strangely again and again at the same time. Finally he served Duo a bowl of soup.
"Here, your soup, sir!" the cook.
"Thank you very much!" the braided boy replied.
Then Duo grabbed his chopsticks and began to eat. He took a small piece of meat and bit into it. It looked strange but tasted good. Duo really had wanted to know what it was and he got his answer quickly. Suddenly another man came in, carrying a bloody horse-leg and a saddle and then dumping both things at the cook. Duo got suspicious, when he saw the action.
A horse-leg? Could it be...? Duo looked outwards, where originally his horse should be standing now, but which it wasn't. Immediately Duo had misgivings of trouble and should be right in the end. Shortly after the man a dog came to him, carrying a human hand in his muzzle.
Now Duo knew what he had been eating and he felt sick, very sick. Immediately spat out his food and gasped. Somehow he tried to rid off the taste in his mouth, but unfortunately failed.
When he felt something better, the braided scholar suddenly saw the cook coming up to him, a big knife in his hand and smirking. The man slowly went towards him past at a basketful with human bones and skulls.
Duo gulped. He really didn't like his situation. And when the other men, who had watched him all the time, also drew swords and other weapons, Duo knew that he was in a fix.
"Well, pretty boy, do you want to collect debts here? How much do already have?" one of the men asked.
But before Duo could answer, another group of men got nearer to the tavern, which also didn't inspire confidence. They were leaded by a man with a black eye-patch and a red scarf on his head.
Bounty hunters.
"There are the criminals." He shouted.
When the criminals, who threatened Duo, saw the group of bounty hunters, they cursed and began to flee.
"Seize them!" the leader shouted.
Immediately his colleagues ran after the fugitive men. But also Duo didn't have a good feeling at this matter and wanted to flee as well. But he was too slow. And so the bounty hunters caught him easily. Two men held the braided boy tight, while the one with the eye-patch compared his face with a "wanted" poster.
"Are you Bing Chow?" he asked Duo.
"No, sir. That's easy to see: He has a beard, which I haven't. I'm not a criminal! Honestly!" Duo stammered.
"Nonsense! That isn't a proof. A beard can be shaved off. Take him away!"
"But I didn't have done wrong!" Duo begged.
But it was in vain. The three men dragged the poor scholar along to the jail.
*
"And in there with you!"
Hardly arrived at the prison, Duo was pushed rough into a cell, where he landed on the floor. When the door had closed behind him, the braided boy got up like a flash and rattled at the iron bars, which separated him from the freedom.
"I'M INNOCENT! I'M NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT! I'M INNOCENT! I'M NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT! I'M NOT THIS BING CHOW! SO LET ME OUT! BING CHOW IS ANOTHER ONE!" Duo yelled desperately.
"Now be quiet and don't yell so loud!" another voice replied, coming from one corner of the cell.
Slowly and carefully Duo looked around and saw an old man with a half bald head crouching at a wall, writing something with chalk or something similar. Duo got nearer to him.
"But I'm really not this Bing Chow. My name is Duo!" the braided boy said.
Suddenly the old man abruptly got up, so that Duo fell on his back. The old man bent above him and grabbed him at his clothes.
"I'm like you. It is also my destiny to be a prisoner!"
With these words he let go of Duo, but then spoke on:
"It's my parent's fault. They sent me to this damn school. And then I began to write books. When I wrote guide-books, it was called I had given away state secrets. When I wrote some historical, it was called I was discontented. When I wrote about military strategies, it was called I would call on to a rebellion.
And when I finally started to write fairy tales, it was called at once, I would glorify the superstition. And in the end I only could write biographies. Unfortunately the man was arrested as a rebel. And so I'm here! Lifelong!"
The old man started to write with the chalk at the wall again.
"And so it is my fate to conclude my life at the prison!"
Duo had listened to the man's story, when he felt something crawling into his clothing. As he took a closer look, he saw that it was a cockroach.
"A cockroach!" he screamed and tried to get rid off the insect.
Immediately the old man turned to Duo and looked around.
"Where? Where is it? Ah...here!"
Triumphing he held up the vermin and looked at it for a moment, before he put it into his mouth and chewed on it enjoyable. Duo made a sicken face. This old one was totally crazy.
"May I ask you for how long you have been here in the prison?" Duo asked after a while.
"I was the same age as you, when I was taken to prison. And now look at me. Then you can imagine how long I've been here."
"That must be an eternity!" Duo whispered.
At once he had the stupid feeling that he was going to end like his cell partner, as an old, crazy man. And that was an imagination, which made him really depressive. Immediately the braided boy jumped up and started to rattle at the iron bars again.
"I'M INNOCENT AND NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT OF HERE!" the braided boy started to yell again.
But the only thing, with whom he succeeded was that his fellow prisoners also started to yell aloud and to kick up a racket. And that was the moment where Duo realized that he had turned out of the frying-pan into the fire. He never would get out of here again. Never again.
*
Frightened Duo snapped out of his dream. It had been a nightmare, like almost every night since he was at the prison. It was a nightmare of ghosts, demon and - Wufei. The braided boy didn't even know how much time had passed. It could be months or only days, which had passed by.
Duo didn't know. Everything he wanted now was freedom and a bath because he was so dirty and his hair so matted.
"Do you have another nightmare?" the old man asked.
Duo only nodded.
"What's up with you? You have a nightmare every night. If I were you I would look at the calendar on the wall. You're already here for so long and still you haven't settled in."
The braided boy looked at the aforementioned spot, where countless lines were. Was he really here for that long?
"Soon you won't even know your name anymore, Bing!"
"My name is Duo and not Bing!" Duo protested.
"BING CHOW! FOOD!" one of the guards suddenly shouted and shortly after someone put a bowl with food in front of him.
Duo took a closer look and couldn't believe it. In the bowl was a roasted chicken wing with rice and vegetable.
"A chicken wing, a roasted chicken wing! Finally I'm lucky again." The braided scholar was glad.
Duo was overjoyed. Finally his run of bad luck seemed to end. Greedy he began to shovel the food into his mouth. But the chicken wing he offered to the old man.
"Here, sir. A chicken wing for you!"
"No, eat it alone. I renounce! I rather eat my cockroaches. But I have to tell you something after the meal."
With these words the old man started to cross out Duo's name at the wall.
"Why do you cross out my name?" Duo asked curiously.
"Everyone, whose name is written here, had had chicken. Chicken is only for doomed men. As soon as you have eaten it, you'll be escorted to the executioner's block. And then..."
The old man made head-off-sign with his hand and Duo suddenly felt so sick, that he spat out the remaining food, panicking. He didn't want to die yet. When he looked through the window, he could see the two executioners, who prepared themselves for the execution.
"But you have said that executions always were at noon and not at midnight." Duo said.
"There aren't laws anymore, which you can depend on. Corrupted civil servants simply do bungle everything. No one knows who and why he had been executed in the dark."
Depressed and sad Duo settled down onto the floor.
"There is simply no justice in the world anymore. What shall I do now?"
Tears began to spill from his eyes and then he started to weep silently to himself.
*
Meanwhile the executioners started to sharpen their sword, while an old civil servant tore his book apart and repeated again and again:
"That's none of my business! That's none of my business!"
*
The old man was reading while Duo seemed to put up with his fate. He put down his back-basket and started to rummage in it. He took out Wufei's picture and looked at it. How he missed the Chinese boy! Too bad, that he would never have a chance to see him again or his rebirth.
Suddenly the old man spoke.
"Bing or Duo, I like you. You are different from the others. Someone like you is rare in this world...Okay what I'm trying to say is that you don't have to die if you don't want to..."
"Nani?" Duo stared puzzled at the old man.
This one only smirked and shooed Duo aside. Then he pushed the straw aside, so that Duo could see an almost invisible exit.
"It's been a while since I let out someone. That's an exit which leads outside. Go and start a new life."
"Really? But why don't you have used this exit?" the braided boy asked again.
"Here I can write my books in peace! And maybe I can let print them later. So don't worry about me." The old man spoke, pushing a bundle in Duo's hands.
"Take this bundle and now go and never come back! And good luck!"
The old man pushed Duo into the tunnel, but for a moment he came back.
"And what about you?" he asked worried.
"Don't worry about me! The guards like to listen to my stories and as long they don't end, they aren't going to do anything to me."
"But how do you want explain..."
"Listen to me. That's my problem. And now go, I can hear the guards coming." The old man hissed.
"Thank you for everything and be careful!"
With these words Duo disappeared into the tunnel just in time. When he was gone, the old scholar closed the tunnel and continued reading his book while Duo was crawling towards freedom.
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
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BGM: A Chinese Ghost Story II OP - Jackie Cheung; Is the End - Lastier; Beat of Destiny - TWO - MIX; Vampire's Talk - Luna Sea
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Sorry for the short chapter. I hope it doesn't suck that bad.
Just write an e-mail to me:
Terrenis@web.de or terrenis-chan@gmx.net
Ja ne!
^-^ Terrenis-chan ^.^
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story II
2. In Captivity *************************************************************************** *****
A few days later Duo reached a village, which seemed familiar to him. At least he had the feeling it was. And the braided boy wasn't completely wrong, because this was the same village, where his first adventure had begun. But everything had changed since the time, where Duo had been there for the first time.
It wasn't only very stormy, but the streets were also deserted. The only things were leaves, which the wind was blowing through the empty streets. In former times there had been lots of crowds and traders with their stands and snack bars. But now - not one single soul. Duo couldn't believe how everything had changed.
But it wasn't only here in this village. On his journey he had seen the same in other provinces, as if something changed the whole country. Of course Duo didn't know what was going, but he really had other problems at the moment. When the braided boy went across the empty market place and looked around, a gust blew away an old awning.
Duo frightened when he caught sight of the battered body of a man which were lying beneath the awning. What had happened here? Why everything had changed? But it still should become worse soon.
Inside a house two women watched the newcomer with curiosity, but also with mixed feelings.
"Who is the young man?" the younger one of them asked.
"A book scholar, as it seems. He wasn't here for a long time." The older woman answered.
"A lot has changed in the meantime."
The other woman nodded. Duo himself didn't catch anything from the conversation. He went on until an uncomfortable noise broke through the silence. Duo tried to locate the source of the noise till he noticed that it was his stomach, which rumbled.
//Right, I haven't eaten anything for a few days now.// he thought, blushing.
Duo decided to take care of his problem and began to look for place, where he could get something to eat. Since there wasn't any snack stands anymore, he had to search for a tavern, whether if he liked it or not. After a longer search he finally found one, which strangely also seemed familiar to him.
Then Duo also remembered why. He had been there, shortly before he had met Wufei. Maybe there was something to eat inside. After he had bound his horse at a stake, the braided boy went inside.
Indoors it was full. Several men sat at the desks and looked grim at him. Fortunately Duo couldn't read thoughts or else he immediately would have disappeared again. But the braided boy went on carefully. Somehow he didn't feel well in this company.
While he was searching a free desk and finally found one, the men followed him with their gazes. Duo put down his back-basket and sat down, feeling more uneasy with every moment. Maybe it had been a mistake to come in here.
In the mean the cook, a rather dusky man, stirred into his big pot with the soup in it, laughing strangely again and again at the same time. Finally he served Duo a bowl of soup.
"Here, your soup, sir!" the cook.
"Thank you very much!" the braided boy replied.
Then Duo grabbed his chopsticks and began to eat. He took a small piece of meat and bit into it. It looked strange but tasted good. Duo really had wanted to know what it was and he got his answer quickly. Suddenly another man came in, carrying a bloody horse-leg and a saddle and then dumping both things at the cook. Duo got suspicious, when he saw the action.
A horse-leg? Could it be...? Duo looked outwards, where originally his horse should be standing now, but which it wasn't. Immediately Duo had misgivings of trouble and should be right in the end. Shortly after the man a dog came to him, carrying a human hand in his muzzle.
Now Duo knew what he had been eating and he felt sick, very sick. Immediately spat out his food and gasped. Somehow he tried to rid off the taste in his mouth, but unfortunately failed.
When he felt something better, the braided scholar suddenly saw the cook coming up to him, a big knife in his hand and smirking. The man slowly went towards him past at a basketful with human bones and skulls.
Duo gulped. He really didn't like his situation. And when the other men, who had watched him all the time, also drew swords and other weapons, Duo knew that he was in a fix.
"Well, pretty boy, do you want to collect debts here? How much do already have?" one of the men asked.
But before Duo could answer, another group of men got nearer to the tavern, which also didn't inspire confidence. They were leaded by a man with a black eye-patch and a red scarf on his head.
Bounty hunters.
"There are the criminals." He shouted.
When the criminals, who threatened Duo, saw the group of bounty hunters, they cursed and began to flee.
"Seize them!" the leader shouted.
Immediately his colleagues ran after the fugitive men. But also Duo didn't have a good feeling at this matter and wanted to flee as well. But he was too slow. And so the bounty hunters caught him easily. Two men held the braided boy tight, while the one with the eye-patch compared his face with a "wanted" poster.
"Are you Bing Chow?" he asked Duo.
"No, sir. That's easy to see: He has a beard, which I haven't. I'm not a criminal! Honestly!" Duo stammered.
"Nonsense! That isn't a proof. A beard can be shaved off. Take him away!"
"But I didn't have done wrong!" Duo begged.
But it was in vain. The three men dragged the poor scholar along to the jail.
*
"And in there with you!"
Hardly arrived at the prison, Duo was pushed rough into a cell, where he landed on the floor. When the door had closed behind him, the braided boy got up like a flash and rattled at the iron bars, which separated him from the freedom.
"I'M INNOCENT! I'M NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT! I'M INNOCENT! I'M NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT! I'M NOT THIS BING CHOW! SO LET ME OUT! BING CHOW IS ANOTHER ONE!" Duo yelled desperately.
"Now be quiet and don't yell so loud!" another voice replied, coming from one corner of the cell.
Slowly and carefully Duo looked around and saw an old man with a half bald head crouching at a wall, writing something with chalk or something similar. Duo got nearer to him.
"But I'm really not this Bing Chow. My name is Duo!" the braided boy said.
Suddenly the old man abruptly got up, so that Duo fell on his back. The old man bent above him and grabbed him at his clothes.
"I'm like you. It is also my destiny to be a prisoner!"
With these words he let go of Duo, but then spoke on:
"It's my parent's fault. They sent me to this damn school. And then I began to write books. When I wrote guide-books, it was called I had given away state secrets. When I wrote some historical, it was called I was discontented. When I wrote about military strategies, it was called I would call on to a rebellion.
And when I finally started to write fairy tales, it was called at once, I would glorify the superstition. And in the end I only could write biographies. Unfortunately the man was arrested as a rebel. And so I'm here! Lifelong!"
The old man started to write with the chalk at the wall again.
"And so it is my fate to conclude my life at the prison!"
Duo had listened to the man's story, when he felt something crawling into his clothing. As he took a closer look, he saw that it was a cockroach.
"A cockroach!" he screamed and tried to get rid off the insect.
Immediately the old man turned to Duo and looked around.
"Where? Where is it? Ah...here!"
Triumphing he held up the vermin and looked at it for a moment, before he put it into his mouth and chewed on it enjoyable. Duo made a sicken face. This old one was totally crazy.
"May I ask you for how long you have been here in the prison?" Duo asked after a while.
"I was the same age as you, when I was taken to prison. And now look at me. Then you can imagine how long I've been here."
"That must be an eternity!" Duo whispered.
At once he had the stupid feeling that he was going to end like his cell partner, as an old, crazy man. And that was an imagination, which made him really depressive. Immediately the braided boy jumped up and started to rattle at the iron bars again.
"I'M INNOCENT AND NOT A CRIMINAL! LET ME OUT OF HERE!" the braided boy started to yell again.
But the only thing, with whom he succeeded was that his fellow prisoners also started to yell aloud and to kick up a racket. And that was the moment where Duo realized that he had turned out of the frying-pan into the fire. He never would get out of here again. Never again.
*
Frightened Duo snapped out of his dream. It had been a nightmare, like almost every night since he was at the prison. It was a nightmare of ghosts, demon and - Wufei. The braided boy didn't even know how much time had passed. It could be months or only days, which had passed by.
Duo didn't know. Everything he wanted now was freedom and a bath because he was so dirty and his hair so matted.
"Do you have another nightmare?" the old man asked.
Duo only nodded.
"What's up with you? You have a nightmare every night. If I were you I would look at the calendar on the wall. You're already here for so long and still you haven't settled in."
The braided boy looked at the aforementioned spot, where countless lines were. Was he really here for that long?
"Soon you won't even know your name anymore, Bing!"
"My name is Duo and not Bing!" Duo protested.
"BING CHOW! FOOD!" one of the guards suddenly shouted and shortly after someone put a bowl with food in front of him.
Duo took a closer look and couldn't believe it. In the bowl was a roasted chicken wing with rice and vegetable.
"A chicken wing, a roasted chicken wing! Finally I'm lucky again." The braided scholar was glad.
Duo was overjoyed. Finally his run of bad luck seemed to end. Greedy he began to shovel the food into his mouth. But the chicken wing he offered to the old man.
"Here, sir. A chicken wing for you!"
"No, eat it alone. I renounce! I rather eat my cockroaches. But I have to tell you something after the meal."
With these words the old man started to cross out Duo's name at the wall.
"Why do you cross out my name?" Duo asked curiously.
"Everyone, whose name is written here, had had chicken. Chicken is only for doomed men. As soon as you have eaten it, you'll be escorted to the executioner's block. And then..."
The old man made head-off-sign with his hand and Duo suddenly felt so sick, that he spat out the remaining food, panicking. He didn't want to die yet. When he looked through the window, he could see the two executioners, who prepared themselves for the execution.
"But you have said that executions always were at noon and not at midnight." Duo said.
"There aren't laws anymore, which you can depend on. Corrupted civil servants simply do bungle everything. No one knows who and why he had been executed in the dark."
Depressed and sad Duo settled down onto the floor.
"There is simply no justice in the world anymore. What shall I do now?"
Tears began to spill from his eyes and then he started to weep silently to himself.
*
Meanwhile the executioners started to sharpen their sword, while an old civil servant tore his book apart and repeated again and again:
"That's none of my business! That's none of my business!"
*
The old man was reading while Duo seemed to put up with his fate. He put down his back-basket and started to rummage in it. He took out Wufei's picture and looked at it. How he missed the Chinese boy! Too bad, that he would never have a chance to see him again or his rebirth.
Suddenly the old man spoke.
"Bing or Duo, I like you. You are different from the others. Someone like you is rare in this world...Okay what I'm trying to say is that you don't have to die if you don't want to..."
"Nani?" Duo stared puzzled at the old man.
This one only smirked and shooed Duo aside. Then he pushed the straw aside, so that Duo could see an almost invisible exit.
"It's been a while since I let out someone. That's an exit which leads outside. Go and start a new life."
"Really? But why don't you have used this exit?" the braided boy asked again.
"Here I can write my books in peace! And maybe I can let print them later. So don't worry about me." The old man spoke, pushing a bundle in Duo's hands.
"Take this bundle and now go and never come back! And good luck!"
The old man pushed Duo into the tunnel, but for a moment he came back.
"And what about you?" he asked worried.
"Don't worry about me! The guards like to listen to my stories and as long they don't end, they aren't going to do anything to me."
"But how do you want explain..."
"Listen to me. That's my problem. And now go, I can hear the guards coming." The old man hissed.
"Thank you for everything and be careful!"
With these words Duo disappeared into the tunnel just in time. When he was gone, the old scholar closed the tunnel and continued reading his book while Duo was crawling towards freedom.
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Tsuzúku -> to be continued...
********************************************************** **********************
BGM: A Chinese Ghost Story II OP - Jackie Cheung; Is the End - Lastier; Beat of Destiny - TWO - MIX; Vampire's Talk - Luna Sea
******************************************************************* *************
Sorry for the short chapter. I hope it doesn't suck that bad.
Just write an e-mail to me:
Terrenis@web.de or terrenis-chan@gmx.net
Ja ne!
^-^ Terrenis-chan ^.^
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