Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ For Love of Darkness ❯ Eastern HQ ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: Same as every other disclaimer in this fandom. Don't own Gundam Wing or FMA, so don't sue me!

 

Pairing(s): Ocx2, 5x2, 3x4

 

Warnings: AU, crossover, LEMON or LIME (I can't decide! *rushes off with writer's block and nosebleed*)

 

Chapter 6

The Other Side of the Gate: Eastern HQ

 

1913, June 22nd (AC 201, June 29th)

Nobody paid any attention to the two young men hopping off the train just arriving from the South. They wore plain, non-descript clothes, and their only luggage was the pair of small bags they carried.

“Goddammit!” Duo swore. He stretched, loud cracks echoing throughout the station. Wufei suppressed the urge to wince. “They need to make those seats more comfortable.” Duo looked over at Wufei. “Ready to go?” Wufei nodded, and the two walked outside into the busy Eastern City streets. It was a twenty-minute walk to the Eastern HQ; they spent it preparing to meet with Colonel Mustang.

Finally the two arrived at the large base. The guards at the gate checked their IDs and allowed them through. Duo sighed when they got into the cool building. The East was too damn hot in the summer.

“Hey, you two!” The pair turned to see the speaker.

Duo lit up. “Maes! How's the daughter?”

Lieutenant colonel Maes Hughes immediately whipped out his wallet. Nearly three-dozen pictures of Elicia unfolded from the leather wallet. “She just learned how to ride her little tricycle! See?! Right here!” He shoved the picture at them.

Duo grinned. “I see. She's very cute.” He grabbed Wufei's hand and took off down the hall. Hughes didn't even notice; he had already found another victim.

They only stopped when they reached Colonel Mustang's office. Wufei knocked softly. “Come in,” Roy's voice, barely audible, slid through the wooden door. The two soldiers walked into the office.

 

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Roy watched Duo Maxwell and Chang Wufei move across the room. Duo Maxwell had become a State Alchemist almost three years ago while his companion joined Intelligence to serve under Hughes. Duo seemed to have a natural gift for stealth, and he was often sent to gather information on Amestris' enemies. The pair scanned the room silently. `So young, and they've already got the stares of killers.'

“Hey, Roy. How's work been treating you? Riza take you out for target practice yet?”

`The same old routine…' Roy thought darkly. “Not yet, but I get the feeling she's about to. And I don't think I'll get a choice in the matter.” It was the same answer Roy had given the young man the last time Duo had asked the question. `The same old routine…' “You two are to head to the South. There's a rumor about strange blood-drinking humans down there.” Duo's violet eyes widened. Roy knew then he had the strange braided State Alchemist. “Here are your tickets. You'll be leaving tomorrow night. I suggest you get some sleep. I hear these bloodsuckers work at night.” Duo and Wufei stood up. “Oh, and Ed's here.”

 

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The two former Gundam pilots left Roy's office and began walking down the hall to the apartments the military provided. Both of them were thinking of the upcoming mission. For three years, they've been hunting Eriks and Nikolai. The pair of Rogues was building an army of Vampires, but Duo and Wufei had joined the military of this world to prevent them from causing too much trouble.

“Well, if it isn't Maxwell and Chang.”

The pair paused. “Ed, what the hell is your problem?” Duo said, turning to face the diminutive alchemist.

“I'd hoped you'd disappeared on your last mission. You two do that a lot.”

Wufei frowned. “Be quiet, brat,” he growled.

Edward glared at the slightly taller Chinese young man. “Why are you here anyway?”

“What the fuck do you think we're here for, you dumb little brat!” Duo snapped. “We were assigned here. Just like you were.” He took a step towards Ed, unconsciously baring his fangs at him. Not many people in this world knew that Duo was a Vampire, and he intended to keep it that way.

Ed backed up a little bit in shock. He had heard about the bloodsuckers and their strange canines. If a State Alchemist was one, he was a threat to everyone around him. “Yeah, whatever,” Ed said, waving off the Vampire. He walked away, muttering about stupid men with waist-length hair and violet eyes.

Duo snickered at the retreating back. “I win again…”

“I think he saw your fangs,” Wufei said calmly. Duo froze. He'd never quite gotten over the fact that no one would accept him here because of Eriks and Nikolai' army-building, and the last thing he needed was another State Alchemist, a trained one no less, hunting him down. “We'll have to keep an eye on him. You need to eat soon.”

Duo shrugged.

 

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Wufei watched Duo close the bedroom door. In over two years since becoming a Vampire, the braided pilot had refined his eating to an art. He walked across the floor and pressed himself up against Wufei's bare chest. He stretched up to lick Wufei's neck. Wufei shivered. Already the Vampire's touch was causing the familiar, almost addictive euphoria to rush through the Chinese Magician. He barely noticed Duo slide sharp fangs across his artery.

Suddenly, Wufei grabbed the lithe Vampire, earning himself an “Eep!” and lifted Duo up. He dropped Duo on the bed. Pinning him to the soft mattress, Wufei leaned down and kissed Duo on the lips.

Duo gasped in delight when Wufei practically tore their uniforms off in his haste to get naked and nearly screamed when Wufei began his long, slow, lovely torture…

 

-----(A/N: Damn. No sex… DX)-----

 

Duo wandered into the officers' kitchen. It was dark, but even without the added benefit of being a Vampire, he could see perfectly. He walked over to the refrigerator and quickly picked out a bottle of water. He froze when he saw Edward Elric standing in the doorway, preventing his escape. He tried to force down the panic he felt and look completely at ease. He wasn't completely sure it worked. “Can I help you, Ed?”

Ed frowned at the other alchemist. “I know your secret, monster.”

Duo's heart stopped beating. He thought Ed hadn't seen his fangs, but he was wrong. The hostility the blond alchemist held for him reminded Duo of the OZ and Alliance soldiers. “What do you mean?” he said innocently.

Ed took a step forward. Duo retreated slightly, placing the bottle of water down on a table. He fingered the band around his wrist. In that respect, he was equal to Ed; he didn't need to waste time drawing transmutation circles. He had the experience over Ed, and he wasn't afraid to use dirty tricks to win. “I saw your teeth. You're a bloodsucker just like the ones causing trouble right now.”

“I'm not like them,” Duo said calmly.

Ed smirked. “So you admit it. You're a monster.” He took another step forward.

Duo flinched slightly from the venomous words. Wufei had always made sure to protect him from the hatred associated with his condition. Now he had to fight on his own. He decided to use the one weapon at his disposal. “I am not a monster. Look at you, Edward Elric. You have a metal arm and leg, and your brother is just a soul encased in a suit of armor. Destroy that armor, and your brother ceases to exist.”

Ed growled angrily. “Don't insult my brother!” he yelled.

“What? Don't like that? You're just a little kid pretending to be an adult. How many people have you killed, Edward Elric? How much blood do you have on your hands?”

Now Ed was the one to flinch. “I didn't join this organization to kill people.”

“You're an idealist, Edward Elric. This is an army. You fight wars; you kill people. That's what you do in an army!”

“Don't talk to me like you know what it's like!” Ed snapped. His explosive temper was nearing the breaking point. “Do you know what it's like to watch your mother die holding your hand?!”

Duo dashed forward, impossibly fast. He grabbed both of Ed's wrists in different hands and slammed him up against the doorframe. “Do you know what it's like to know you caused the only woman to treat you like your mother to die?” he asked simply. Ed stared up into violet eyes. He could see the haunted look in those depths, a look that a 20-year-old man should not have. `What has he seen?' Ed thought. `What has he done to get that look?' Duo growled suddenly. “You really don't, do you? I held her as she forgave the ones who attacked the church and thanked God I was alive, that I was away from the church when it was destroyed. Father Maxwell was a peaceful man, but he died because rebels took over the church. Over 200 men, women, and children, innocents, died. Now tell me, Edward Elric. Do you know what it's like to feel true loss?”

Duo released the younger alchemist, and Ed slid to the ground. He was dimly aware of the bottle of water floating by overhead. He had heard about the braided young man's ability to use air itself to fight. “Would I have been able to beat him if we fought?” Ed asked the empty room. Of course, it didn't answer back.

 

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Duo sat down on the uncomfortable seat, sighing. One of these days, he was going to invent the world's most comfortable train seat cushion. Hell, even his pilot's chair was more comfortable to sit in. He lay down and tried to get some sleep before the train started moving. They had the entire car to themselves.

Wufei sat down in the seat facing Duo's. “Elric did not seem happy to see you this morning,” he said simply. Duo cracked open one eye and looked at him. “What did you do, Duo?”

Duo sighed again. “He and I just had a small disagreement in our views of the army.”

“Duo. Nothing is ever `small' with you. Now I'll ask again. What did you do to him?”

“It's really nothing, `Fei.” The boy grinned and fell silent, looking out the cabin's window as it pulled out of the station, but Wufei could still feel the threat behind the smile. He decided to wait for another time.

 

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The small town of Deluge Valley was named after the abnormally high amounts of rain the region got throughout the year. The houses were built on platforms to keep them above the flood zones. It also kept the residents relatively isolated. It was the perfect place for a Vampire to take over.

Duo and Wufei walked on the large walkways leading from house to house. The rain beat down on them mercilessly, and they were surrounded by fast floodwaters. Other than the gentle sound of the falling rain hitting the water around them, the village was quiet. Too quiet. The pair of experienced fighters remained cautious.

“You should not be here, government dog,” a nasally voice whispered from behind them. The two spun. Wufei's fire magic was useless in this wet atmosphere, but the Magician was skilled in more than just flames. The Vampire screamed in terror as plants sprouted out of the wooden planks and wrapped around his body. “Hey! What is this?! This ain't alchemy!”

“We need information, and you're going to give it to us,” Wufei said coldly, ignoring the Vampire's frantic crying. He felt weak; any type of magic was harder to perform in this world and required more energy. Attracted by the noise, more Vampires were starting to emerge from the houses. Wufei ignored them; Duo was a trained soldier after all. Duo would back him up as he got the information needed. “Who is the one responsible for this?”

The Vampire looked defiant until Wufei tightened the vines. He screamed in pain. The other Vampires looked at each other warily. “He said his name was Nikolai! No last name! Just Nikolai!” Wufei loosened the plants. The Vampire sagged in his bonds.

“Where is he?”

“Eastern HQ. He went to the Eastern HQ.”

Both Duo and Wufei froze, and the Vampires immediately lunged at them. Duo ducked under a pair of Vampires, who crashed into each other, as Wufei drew his firearm from his shoulder holster. When he started to have trouble performing his magic, he had begun to seal magic into bullets. Duo generously offered to use the magic he had stored from feeding on the Chinese Magician for the bullets.

Wufei fired off rounds of Light energy into a trio of Vampires, and they immediately dissolved. “Low-ranking Vampires from a prince?” Wufei asked Duo almost absent-mindedly. They knew that Nikolai, the one who had changed Duo, was the biological son of King Dante, and that Duo was considered an elite in the Vampire hierarchy because of the man's rank. But for such weak Vampires to come from the Vampire prince meant that… It was not Nikolai but one of his own changed victims that changed the villagers. “We have to take care of this now, Duo,” Wufei called out to his friend. Duo nodded. His bracelet glowed softly, and Wufei felt his hair being pulled by the wind collecting near the braided young man. The Vampires had only enough time to glance at each other before the wind lashed out, cutting them down where they stood. As each of the unholy creatures died, their bodies disintegrated into dust, which mixed with the falling rain to make mud and be washed away. The two soldiers came together once all of the Vampires were dead.

“We have to get back there, Wufei,” Duo whispered.

Wufei nodded silently. “I'm going to make a call first. If Nikolai's going to attack Eastern HQ, Colonel Mustang will need to know about it and prepare.” He went into what looked like the bank of the town, Duo close behind. Immediately, the stench of old blood and rotting flesh assaulted their senses. Bodies laid everywhere. Some had their throats ripped out by the Vampires, and some had broken necks. A few had killed themselves in the corner, surrounded by dead children. The bank was probably the last stand for the unchanged humans in the village. Wufei glowered at the carnage; Duo quickly fled the building, the bloodlust rising in his mind.

The telephone was sitting on the lone cashier's counter, almost untouched by the violence that had occurred there. Stepping over the young woman with a hole in her chest lying near the phone, Wufei picked it up and dialed the Eastern HQ's phone number. “This is Major Chang Wufei calling from Deluge Valley. I need to speak with Colonel Mustang right away.”