Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Demon Seed ❯ Chapter 4

GW and its characters don't belong to me but to Sunrise/SOTSU Agency, Bandai etc. etc.

Well, here it is the next part to Demon Seed, never thought it'd get here but it did, hope it was worth the wait for whoever reads this. Still no lemon, but it's coming soon, I'm sure.

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"Will you slow down please?" We're a little new to riding here."

Heero leered his gaze sideways at his newest companion's huffy voice. "I told you I wasn't slowing down."

She gave him a glare back. "Well, you're riding fast on purpose. Don't think I don't know you're trying to lose us."

"Oh you think you can read my mind now do you?"

"I can as a matter of fact, ever since, you bit me I can sense your true feelings, your thoughts aren't as clear to me, though."

This caught the Stalker's interest and he slowed his horse's gait so that she could catch up beside him. "Look back at those two. Can you sense what they're feeling?"

Relena turned her head as best she could, focusing her attention on her two childhood friends. She caught her breath and her wide eyes shifted to look back at Heero, who was holding an intrigued gaze of his own upon her.

"When I bit you it obviously turned you even more. Each of us have our own abilities, I guess that's what you would call them. You obviously are developing the sense of being able to read minds, or at least have an intuition into people's true feelings. Only time will tell I guess."

The young blonde girl shook her head and groaned. "I think I'd rather not be able to sense other's thoughts, so many of them are sad. It's as if nobody feels any real joy or hope, just despair and dread for the coming days."

Heero's expression towards her eased somewhat and he hoped she wasn't going to start crying like baby. He was a Demon Stalker not her caregiver. The last thing he wanted was to have to deal with her tears.

She suddenly was glaring at him. "Don't worry, Stalker, I'm not going to break down in anyway. I don't expect you to take care of me or my friends, I only wish to stay with you until I feel your debt to us is paid in full." She then nudged the flanks of her horse and the beast quickened its pace and passed Heero.

"I thought you didn't know how to ride?"

She stopped her horse abruptly and turned it sideways to him, blocking his path.

"I'm quite the fast learner, Mr. Yuy, or have you not noticed!" She then abruptly turned her horse and took off on it full force.

"Stupid girl! You don't know what lies out there! You're gonna get yourself hurt!" Heero growled out the warning as he sped up his own steed to take off after her.

"Hey! Where are you two going? You can't leave us!" Duo yelled but knew his words fell on deaf ears. "Damn that guy! What the hell did he say to upset Eena so much? I swear I'm gonna..."

"Calm down, will you Duo. Eena will be back. She won't leave us. Besides. We could use a break, I know you have to be sore."

Duo slid himself to the side a little on his saddle. "Come to think of it, yea, you're right. I am."

"Aren't I always?" The two youths halted their beasts and slid off of them making their way into a grove of shade trees where they tied the horse's reins to some sturdy branches. They sat down as easily as they could and leaned back against a tree, sighing in unison. Duo entwined his fingers and placed them across his stomach, Hildie crossed her arms against her chest and leaned sideways until her head was resting on her friend's shoulder.

"Duo, what do you think is going to happen to us now?"

"Don't know. But I do know if we all stick together we'll be okay." He took a hand from his stomach and cupped Hildie's upper leg in a gesture of comfort. She in turn took one of her warm hands and covered it. Duo's equilibrium felt somewhat off, but it wasn't a bad feeling, he guessed, so he decided to leave their hands as they were. He looked down at her and noticed that her eyes were closed and her breathing was even. She looked so peaceful and pretty, wait did he just think of her as pretty? He pushed the thought out of his head chalking it up to his own fatigue as he tilted his head and rested it on top of hers to join her in a little nap.

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"My son is an excellent warrior, his skills can be surpassed by no one, human, nor demon. It seems, however, his mind is much too scattered as of late. He questions me too much and too often, and now, with the knowledge that his sister may be out there, alive, well, my nephew, I think you understand where I'm coming from."

The man the king spoke to, held a white gloved index finger to his full lips as he listened to the old man intensely. His floor length, royal blue cape draped over his shoulders and flowed behind his tall and regal form as he walked. "Yes, my cousin has always been a tad on the emotional side hasn't he? Well, with all due respect uncle, your decision to place him in charge of your entire army was a bit premature, considering."

"Yes, yes, I realize my mistake now, he is too young and has much to learn. I thought by raising him as I did from infancy I would have stunted in him any kind of human nature that was the very essence of his mother. Human females I swear are troublesome mates. I should have been as wise as your father and married one of my own kind, then, my troubles would be less burdensome. But I was so eager for an heir I did not want to wait the allotted time."

The younger male nodded his head in agreement, ignoring the few stray locks of his ginger hair that lay against the side of his forehead, their natural curl unhampered by the other hairs on his head that were slicked back in soft, sleek waves. "But remember, uncle, even my father was not immune to the deadly trickery of the human female."

"Yes, and now it seems that half brother of yours I left alive is causing trouble in his own right, he is the one Milliardo fell to, well, him and his little sister." This brought laughter to the Count as well as to his nephew, Treize Kushrenada. He was not, an actual blood relative of the Peacecraft's but his father had been a close friend of the Count's and he was raised as if he had been an actual son to him. Treize was two hundred, eighty-six years Milliardo's senior, and though he was still considered a young vampire himself, he had always had a dignified, aristocratic heir, which made him appear older then what he was.

As their chuckling died down Treize questioned the Count about exactly what it was he wanted from him. King Peacecraft invited his adopted nephew into his private study and with his hands directed his attention to a portrait that hung upon the wall.

"My daughter, the Princess Relena, this is an older portrait of her of course, and I'm sure by now she has no doubt changed. However, she is the very vision of her mother whom you see holding her upon her lap. The girl herself was an accident and so I care not for her, only the power that she can bring to me, if she can be placed fully under my control."

Treize stepped back and studied the two females, his eyes fixating heavily on the late queen. "Very lovely, I can see why you fell into her web so easily. And, you say, that your daughter resembles her to exact detail?"

The Count grinned and chuckled again. "I have always planned on Milliardo becoming my heir, but, since he has been proving himself weak lately, then I have come to question his ability to ever be able to rule."

Sapphire eyes narrowed and leered sideways at the king. "Exactly what is it, my lord, you are trying to say?"

"Come now, my boy, I know you are not so dim. Return Relena to me, alive and under control, and I will guarantee you succession of my throne. Also, if you wish, then you may have my daughter in anyway you see fit, as your slave, as your queen, just as long as she is my puppet so that I may use her power as I see fit."

"The combined lands and control of your lands along with my own is quite tempting, not to mention having an alluring woman serving my every need, and desire. If, I agree to your deal, what is to become of my dear cousin, Milliardo?"

The king stroked his long white beard and frowned. "As much as I hate to say this, there can be no threat to your succession. After you have him assist you in finding his sister, then, kill him. But make it a painless, quick death, I love him after all and do not wish to see him suffer."

"Then, my lord, my adopted father, I shall most assuredly carry out your will and adhere myself to your plans."

Just outside amid the castle grounds stood a clenched fisted cowling Prince Milliardo. His gift had been enhanced senses, beyond those of even normal vampires. He had heard every word of the discussion between his father and cousin. "Kill me and give Treize the throne? Never. Father, you have hurt me more than you will ever know and my love for you is no more, for I am now your enemy."

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"Eena! You are truly pissing me off!" Heero yelled the words into her ears as he grabbed her mount's reins and jerked them back bringing the horse to a rearing halt. Eena screamed as she fell off backwards but lost her breath as she slammed to the ground and began rolling down a shallow incline on the side of the road. The Stalker cursed again and slid from his horse. He looked down the hill and saw the girl raise herself onto her arms and cough. Assuming she was unharmed, he took the reins of the animals and led them behind him, tying the reins to a heavy tree that had fallen ages ago.

He hunkered down beside Eena who was still on her knees and hands trying to catch her breath; her face, hair and clothes were powdered with dry dirt. "That was a foolish stunt you pulled back there. Be lucky you are what you are or that fall could have easily killed you."

"As if you would care!" She spat back, slapping away the hand that he had extended to her. "You are a coward you know? You deny yourself your true feelings and think that makes you more of a masculine, or a better warrior or whatever the hell you consider yourself to be! But you don't have the honor to even comply with an agreement, verbal or otherwise!"

"You are such a little bitch!" He sneered as his self-control snapped and he grabbed her by the shoulders, jerking her up. She resisted and kicked at his feet, tripping him up and causing them to both fall onto the ground, he on top of her. But, Heero had managed to stay on his knees, however, and grasp her flailing wrists, which he was holding by the sides of her head. "You are so young and stupid! How dare you think you know anything about life, let alone mine!"

Heero stopped his ranting long enough to focus onto her eyes which he could see quite clearly even through the dark wisps of bangs that hung down over his forehead. She was looking straight back into his; silence surrounded them save for the sound of their heavy breathing. Out of the corner of his eyes he noticed that her lips were parted, and though they were a little dry and chapped they were enticing none-the-less. He instinctively parted his own lips and closed his eyes trying desperately to fight off the feeling of wanting to do nothing more than kiss her right at that moment. No, he told himself, she may have been of age, but she was still much to naïve and vulnerable. With a heavy sigh he pushed himself off of her and onto his feet. He turned from her and found himself holding onto a tree to steady his balance, though by outward appearances one would think he had never lost his cool.

"Most girls my age are married by now and mother's of their own you know."

He opened his eyes hearing her words, but kept his back turned from her. "If that's what you want, then do it. I don't care."

"Lucky, for you, it's not what I want." She seemed to glide in front of him and was looking up at him. He pulled back his head in mild surprise that her mood had changed so rapidly from anger, to calm and now to amusement.

"How will I be lucky knowing I'm going to have a kid lagging behind me?"

She clasped her hands behind her back, shrugged and smiled. "The words I spoke to you earlier seemed to have been in error. You sir, have much more honor than you even know." She turned from him then and walked over to her horse, untying its reins. "Besides, Mr. Yuy. I won't be ignorant forever, and we do have forever, do we not?" She mounted her horse and turned to the direction of the road. "I'm going back to look for my friends. Are you coming? After all, we do have a verbal agreement."

He stood a few seconds by the tree, somewhat dumbfounded as his mind tried to digest her words. "What the hell? An eternity with that girl will drive me insane." He couldn't help but smile a little to himself as he straddled his own horse and began to go after her. "But then, those who know me claim I'm not sane to begin with."

TBC...