Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Eternity Reborn ❯ Chapter 3: On the Other Side ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Xander B 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Angst / Supernatural / Romance / Fantasy / Action | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 08.23.2007 | Updated On: 07.10.2008 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 538 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Angst / Supernatural / Romance / Fantasy / Action | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 08.23.2007 | Updated On: 07.10.2008 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 538 | Status: Completed
Eternity Reborn
Chapter 3: On The Other Side
(Vampire Hunters' Headquarters)
(Heero)
"Trowa, bring me the map," I ordered sharply over to the other room, waiting impatiently for the feline to obey. Trowa came in holding the rolled up map, his spotted leopard ears swiveling atop his messy hair. I pointed at the table as I looked through the many drawers of my desk. Trowa put it down and unrolled it, sighing to himself, his tail swishing behind him in slight irritation. I quickly looked over the map he'd set out, ignoring his unique appendages. Trowa stood next to me to look as well, our shoulders nearly brushing with the close proximity. That was when I felt something soft and furry slip under the back of my shirt.
"Trowa, control your tail before I break it off," I threatened calmly. Trowa chuckled and removed his tail dutifully, allowing it to curl around his waist almost like a fur-covered belt.
'Were-leopards! They were always trying to seduce people!' I ranted distractedly in my mind. Trowa was one of very few weres that still lived. Many of them were killed off in the 18th century. They were relatively common before that, living in forested areas in large prides and packs. They were hunted to become slaves to the rich dignitaries and the members of the royal families in several countries, but they began dying out as their numbers in the wild dwindled and most died in captivity, contracting human diseases. Most only had animal-like ears and tail as well as sharper incisors, nails, and a very keen sense of smell and sight.
I had found Trowa three years ago, wandering around in the dangerous streets of London, half-starving and filthy. I didn't know it then, but Trowa would become the biggest pain in my ass. Were-panthers usually stayed in prides with their whole family, but Trowa had been lost from his, so now he believed that I was his adoptive family. Were-panthers are very insecure, needing some sort of stability to keep them sane. Once they find someone to latch onto, they don't let go. For Trowa, that meant me.
It also didn't help that Trowa was fully matured now and trying to screw everything that walked. He was in search of a mate as most weres his age would be, but unlike most weres his age, Trowa was not with a family pride. Unfortunately, he hadn't found a suitable mate yet. He kept insisting that I would make a great mate, but I kept trying to explain to him that he was confusing friendship with love. He didn't get it.
"What are we looking for Heero?" Trowa's cool voice broke through my thoughts, thrusting me back into the present and the situation at hand.
"Oh, we're looking at the Saishi region. I have a feeling that that's where those vamps are holed up," I explained, gesturing to the area outlined on the map. Trowa nodded quietly in understanding, his eyes following my hands as I pointed to the different places on the maps surface.
"There!" I jabbed my finger into a spot on the paper. I didn't know how I knew, but I did. They were there.They had to be. We'd been trying to find them for months. They were more than likely responsible for the numerous break ins that had occurred at the Order's offices where important documents had been stolen and also for the many disappearances of young teens and other homeless people out on the streets in the night.
"Should we go and investigate?" Trowa asked, looking at me with bright, slitted emerald eyes, the pupils dilating and contracting with the possibility of a conflict.
"Not yet. I'm going to send Wufei in first. Where is he?" I asked, wondering why he hadn't come to see what we were doing. Trowa thought for a moment, nibbling his lip.
"In the library, I think. That's usually where he is," he answered after a second.
"All right. I'm going to go get him, can you make up a smaller version of that map?" I asked as I walked out the door. Trowa just nodded as he went to get the things he'd need to make the second map.
I walked down the spiraled staircase towards the huge library, which surprisingly had not had any attempted break ins. Sure enough, as I entered the library, I saw the Chameleon. Curled in a high-backed, Victorian style chair with a huge book in his lap, was Wufei. He looked up at me as I approached. He blinked first with his outer eyelids, then his inner eyelids, watching me with slitted onyx eyes.
Wufei was another commodity I'd come across during my years in Europe and Asia. I'd traveled through China shortly before I'd found Trowa in England and had found Wufei working as an imperial thief. I'd actually thought to turn him in to the palace guard when he had suddenly changed his appearance. I'd very nearly let him go in my shock. Luckily I hadn't, instead, offering to take him with me. He had accepted only because he felt it would be a more honorable profession than what he had currently been doing.
Wufei, being a Chameleon wasn't a whole lot different than a were, although he was a shape shifter. His only defining attributes were a heightened sense of smell, sight, and taste, an extraordinarily lizard-like tongue, and double-lidded, slitted eyes. He was fairly unique to say the least.
"I have a favor to ask of you, my friend," I spoke quietly to the ebony-haired man before me. He nodded, closing the heavy volume he'd been reading and waiting for me to continue.
"I need you to go into the Saishi region and do some reconnaissance on the vampires there," I explained, gesturing slightly with my hands as I spoke. He nodded again, accepting the job. Wufei rarely ever spoke, usually just settling for nods and hand gestures. He was very loyal and believed strongly in justice, but I think he was embarrassed to speak, afraid someone would notice his long, forked tongue. He wasn't ashamed of himself, or I was almost certain he wasn't; he just didn't want to scare away friends or possible mates for that matter. Wufei's ancestry was confusing and pretty much unknown. His family had been wiped out almost entirely. His type were similar to reptiles. He was a very interesting and mysterious individual, but I trusted him entirely. He would get the job done and probably better than it needed to be.
"Trowa is making you a map now, so prepare yourself and meet him in the foyer in half an hour. You'll leave right away after that," I said, looking to him for some sign of understanding. He nodded once more and then disappeared out the door, no more than a wisp of air.
I walked back up to my room. I sighed and looked out the window wistfully. I rested my forehead and fingertips against the cool glass, gazing out into the streets below. Trowa and Wufei weren't the only ones wishing for a mate. I had been hoping to find someone to share my life with, but so far I hadn't found anyone suitable. How did you explain to someone that your career was basically to kill off the demons of the world and rid the universe of bloodsucking fiends?
I didn't really have time to look either. I was lonely and I had a feeling I would be for a long time to come. I had a hard enough time warming up to people. How was I supposed to find a nice, respectable person that I was attracted to, would accept my lifestyle, not question my absences, and be able to take my personality? Not to mention, they would have to be able to even have the chance to spend any length of time with me, which just never seemed possible with my life.
Wufei returned after only two days of recon. He came straight to my room, bypassing Trowa. He barged in without so much as an apology for his rudeness, which just wasn't like him. I knew something had gone awry immediately.
"Heero, there is a new vampire there. He is not like the rest. He can enter the sun. He is so frightening. He is stronger than any I've ever seen. Something important is going on there. I could not decipher what, but they also have acquired a seer. This is big Heero, bigger than we anticipated," he spoke in a rapid hissing whisper. My eyes widened. A Seer? A vampire who can enter the sun? What were they planning?
Suddenly, there was a loud ruckus down in the main hall. I glanced at Wufei. He blinked and shrugged, not knowing any more than I did. We ran down the steps two at a time. As I entered the hall, I saw the most beautiful and dangerous creature I'd ever laid eyes on. He looked at me in shock, his expression almost comical as his jaw dropped.
"H-Heero?" he asked incredulously, his voice high with disbelief. He looked as if he might cry. He had long, chestnut-coloured hair, falling nearly to the backs of his calves and dark blue-violet eyes that shone with unshed tears as he looked at me as well as an extremely pale, blemish-free complexion. He was breath-takingly beautiful.
"Heero!" Trowa yelled, trying desperately to gain my attention. I blinked and shook my head, breaking myself from my thoughts.
"What are you doing here? Who are you? And how did you find this place?" I interrogated harshly as I grabbed a crossbow from the wall. Weaponry was hung all about the mansion, just in case of something like that. His eyes narrowed in challenge.
"It's a shame that you don't remember me. You really are just like him. You look like him and act like him. You even smell like him. I bet you'd taste like him too. Why don't you let me find out?" his eyes were so alluring as he spoke, licking his lips hungrily. Before I knew what I was doing, I was walking towards him, dropping the crossbow to the floor.
"That's it. Come to me," he beckoned softly, his voice serving to only draw me closer. I obeyed and walked towards his open arms. Trowa and the others screamed at me to 'stop', to 'snap out of it,' but I couldn't break the spell he'd casted over me. I paid them no heed.
As I reached the vampire, he reached out and grabbed me, pulling me into his chest tightly. He pulled me in close and kissed me, causing me to bend my knees in order to reach his lips as I stood taller than him. My eyes closed of their own accord. I felt a slight twinge of pain as he bit my lip and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of my mouth, but I let him do it. What was I doing? He was a vampire. I couldn't help it though. It felt so right, so familiar. He pulled back too soon, but I gasped for air anyway. I gazed down at him. His eyes glowed slightly in...happiness?
"Duo..." it slipped from my lips before I knew I'd spoken. He smiled beautifully and then he screamed. I looked down at him in shock and confusion. Wufei had crept up behind him and stabbed him through the back with his silvery katana. The sword protruded from the front of his torso as well. I could see a single drop of blood fall to the floor from the sword's tip and before it even reached the floor, this vampire had Wufei two feet above the ground, held up against the wall by his neck. Wufei struggled for breath, katana slipping from his hand. Trowa ran to aid the Chameleon, throwing holy water on the vampire, whom only blinked and then laughed.
"Are you serious? Holy water? You've got to be joking. That actually hurts those inbreeds?" he looked amused, like he knew some kind of joke that was at our expense. Trowa seemed utterly confused, dumbfounded really. The vampire squeezed Wufei's neck, making him gasp for breath and struggle for freedom.
"Duo!" I exclaimed, hoping to catch his interest again. Why did I keep saying that name? The vampire locked eyes with me. 'It's his name,' I thought in realization. How did I know it? He dropped Wufei, who scrambled backwards to the wall,out of the vampire's reach.
"I'm sorry, Heero," he whispered in earnest apology before he took off out the door.
TBC...
Author's note: Wufei is a chameleon type creature. The eyes and tongue thing have to do with lizards and reptiles. He's kind of like Mystique from X-men, except not blue and naked all the time. Anyway, review please and I'll post more as soon as I can, I promise.
*huggles*
Angel
Chapter 3: On The Other Side
(Vampire Hunters' Headquarters)
(Heero)
"Trowa, bring me the map," I ordered sharply over to the other room, waiting impatiently for the feline to obey. Trowa came in holding the rolled up map, his spotted leopard ears swiveling atop his messy hair. I pointed at the table as I looked through the many drawers of my desk. Trowa put it down and unrolled it, sighing to himself, his tail swishing behind him in slight irritation. I quickly looked over the map he'd set out, ignoring his unique appendages. Trowa stood next to me to look as well, our shoulders nearly brushing with the close proximity. That was when I felt something soft and furry slip under the back of my shirt.
"Trowa, control your tail before I break it off," I threatened calmly. Trowa chuckled and removed his tail dutifully, allowing it to curl around his waist almost like a fur-covered belt.
'Were-leopards! They were always trying to seduce people!' I ranted distractedly in my mind. Trowa was one of very few weres that still lived. Many of them were killed off in the 18th century. They were relatively common before that, living in forested areas in large prides and packs. They were hunted to become slaves to the rich dignitaries and the members of the royal families in several countries, but they began dying out as their numbers in the wild dwindled and most died in captivity, contracting human diseases. Most only had animal-like ears and tail as well as sharper incisors, nails, and a very keen sense of smell and sight.
I had found Trowa three years ago, wandering around in the dangerous streets of London, half-starving and filthy. I didn't know it then, but Trowa would become the biggest pain in my ass. Were-panthers usually stayed in prides with their whole family, but Trowa had been lost from his, so now he believed that I was his adoptive family. Were-panthers are very insecure, needing some sort of stability to keep them sane. Once they find someone to latch onto, they don't let go. For Trowa, that meant me.
It also didn't help that Trowa was fully matured now and trying to screw everything that walked. He was in search of a mate as most weres his age would be, but unlike most weres his age, Trowa was not with a family pride. Unfortunately, he hadn't found a suitable mate yet. He kept insisting that I would make a great mate, but I kept trying to explain to him that he was confusing friendship with love. He didn't get it.
"What are we looking for Heero?" Trowa's cool voice broke through my thoughts, thrusting me back into the present and the situation at hand.
"Oh, we're looking at the Saishi region. I have a feeling that that's where those vamps are holed up," I explained, gesturing to the area outlined on the map. Trowa nodded quietly in understanding, his eyes following my hands as I pointed to the different places on the maps surface.
"There!" I jabbed my finger into a spot on the paper. I didn't know how I knew, but I did. They were there.They had to be. We'd been trying to find them for months. They were more than likely responsible for the numerous break ins that had occurred at the Order's offices where important documents had been stolen and also for the many disappearances of young teens and other homeless people out on the streets in the night.
"Should we go and investigate?" Trowa asked, looking at me with bright, slitted emerald eyes, the pupils dilating and contracting with the possibility of a conflict.
"Not yet. I'm going to send Wufei in first. Where is he?" I asked, wondering why he hadn't come to see what we were doing. Trowa thought for a moment, nibbling his lip.
"In the library, I think. That's usually where he is," he answered after a second.
"All right. I'm going to go get him, can you make up a smaller version of that map?" I asked as I walked out the door. Trowa just nodded as he went to get the things he'd need to make the second map.
I walked down the spiraled staircase towards the huge library, which surprisingly had not had any attempted break ins. Sure enough, as I entered the library, I saw the Chameleon. Curled in a high-backed, Victorian style chair with a huge book in his lap, was Wufei. He looked up at me as I approached. He blinked first with his outer eyelids, then his inner eyelids, watching me with slitted onyx eyes.
Wufei was another commodity I'd come across during my years in Europe and Asia. I'd traveled through China shortly before I'd found Trowa in England and had found Wufei working as an imperial thief. I'd actually thought to turn him in to the palace guard when he had suddenly changed his appearance. I'd very nearly let him go in my shock. Luckily I hadn't, instead, offering to take him with me. He had accepted only because he felt it would be a more honorable profession than what he had currently been doing.
Wufei, being a Chameleon wasn't a whole lot different than a were, although he was a shape shifter. His only defining attributes were a heightened sense of smell, sight, and taste, an extraordinarily lizard-like tongue, and double-lidded, slitted eyes. He was fairly unique to say the least.
"I have a favor to ask of you, my friend," I spoke quietly to the ebony-haired man before me. He nodded, closing the heavy volume he'd been reading and waiting for me to continue.
"I need you to go into the Saishi region and do some reconnaissance on the vampires there," I explained, gesturing slightly with my hands as I spoke. He nodded again, accepting the job. Wufei rarely ever spoke, usually just settling for nods and hand gestures. He was very loyal and believed strongly in justice, but I think he was embarrassed to speak, afraid someone would notice his long, forked tongue. He wasn't ashamed of himself, or I was almost certain he wasn't; he just didn't want to scare away friends or possible mates for that matter. Wufei's ancestry was confusing and pretty much unknown. His family had been wiped out almost entirely. His type were similar to reptiles. He was a very interesting and mysterious individual, but I trusted him entirely. He would get the job done and probably better than it needed to be.
"Trowa is making you a map now, so prepare yourself and meet him in the foyer in half an hour. You'll leave right away after that," I said, looking to him for some sign of understanding. He nodded once more and then disappeared out the door, no more than a wisp of air.
I walked back up to my room. I sighed and looked out the window wistfully. I rested my forehead and fingertips against the cool glass, gazing out into the streets below. Trowa and Wufei weren't the only ones wishing for a mate. I had been hoping to find someone to share my life with, but so far I hadn't found anyone suitable. How did you explain to someone that your career was basically to kill off the demons of the world and rid the universe of bloodsucking fiends?
I didn't really have time to look either. I was lonely and I had a feeling I would be for a long time to come. I had a hard enough time warming up to people. How was I supposed to find a nice, respectable person that I was attracted to, would accept my lifestyle, not question my absences, and be able to take my personality? Not to mention, they would have to be able to even have the chance to spend any length of time with me, which just never seemed possible with my life.
Wufei returned after only two days of recon. He came straight to my room, bypassing Trowa. He barged in without so much as an apology for his rudeness, which just wasn't like him. I knew something had gone awry immediately.
"Heero, there is a new vampire there. He is not like the rest. He can enter the sun. He is so frightening. He is stronger than any I've ever seen. Something important is going on there. I could not decipher what, but they also have acquired a seer. This is big Heero, bigger than we anticipated," he spoke in a rapid hissing whisper. My eyes widened. A Seer? A vampire who can enter the sun? What were they planning?
Suddenly, there was a loud ruckus down in the main hall. I glanced at Wufei. He blinked and shrugged, not knowing any more than I did. We ran down the steps two at a time. As I entered the hall, I saw the most beautiful and dangerous creature I'd ever laid eyes on. He looked at me in shock, his expression almost comical as his jaw dropped.
"H-Heero?" he asked incredulously, his voice high with disbelief. He looked as if he might cry. He had long, chestnut-coloured hair, falling nearly to the backs of his calves and dark blue-violet eyes that shone with unshed tears as he looked at me as well as an extremely pale, blemish-free complexion. He was breath-takingly beautiful.
"Heero!" Trowa yelled, trying desperately to gain my attention. I blinked and shook my head, breaking myself from my thoughts.
"What are you doing here? Who are you? And how did you find this place?" I interrogated harshly as I grabbed a crossbow from the wall. Weaponry was hung all about the mansion, just in case of something like that. His eyes narrowed in challenge.
"It's a shame that you don't remember me. You really are just like him. You look like him and act like him. You even smell like him. I bet you'd taste like him too. Why don't you let me find out?" his eyes were so alluring as he spoke, licking his lips hungrily. Before I knew what I was doing, I was walking towards him, dropping the crossbow to the floor.
"That's it. Come to me," he beckoned softly, his voice serving to only draw me closer. I obeyed and walked towards his open arms. Trowa and the others screamed at me to 'stop', to 'snap out of it,' but I couldn't break the spell he'd casted over me. I paid them no heed.
As I reached the vampire, he reached out and grabbed me, pulling me into his chest tightly. He pulled me in close and kissed me, causing me to bend my knees in order to reach his lips as I stood taller than him. My eyes closed of their own accord. I felt a slight twinge of pain as he bit my lip and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of my mouth, but I let him do it. What was I doing? He was a vampire. I couldn't help it though. It felt so right, so familiar. He pulled back too soon, but I gasped for air anyway. I gazed down at him. His eyes glowed slightly in...happiness?
"Duo..." it slipped from my lips before I knew I'd spoken. He smiled beautifully and then he screamed. I looked down at him in shock and confusion. Wufei had crept up behind him and stabbed him through the back with his silvery katana. The sword protruded from the front of his torso as well. I could see a single drop of blood fall to the floor from the sword's tip and before it even reached the floor, this vampire had Wufei two feet above the ground, held up against the wall by his neck. Wufei struggled for breath, katana slipping from his hand. Trowa ran to aid the Chameleon, throwing holy water on the vampire, whom only blinked and then laughed.
"Are you serious? Holy water? You've got to be joking. That actually hurts those inbreeds?" he looked amused, like he knew some kind of joke that was at our expense. Trowa seemed utterly confused, dumbfounded really. The vampire squeezed Wufei's neck, making him gasp for breath and struggle for freedom.
"Duo!" I exclaimed, hoping to catch his interest again. Why did I keep saying that name? The vampire locked eyes with me. 'It's his name,' I thought in realization. How did I know it? He dropped Wufei, who scrambled backwards to the wall,out of the vampire's reach.
"I'm sorry, Heero," he whispered in earnest apology before he took off out the door.
TBC...
Author's note: Wufei is a chameleon type creature. The eyes and tongue thing have to do with lizards and reptiles. He's kind of like Mystique from X-men, except not blue and naked all the time. Anyway, review please and I'll post more as soon as I can, I promise.
*huggles*
Angel