Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Gundam Wing on Mount Olympus ❯ Home Again ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter 13: Home Again

“I'm worried about Hadeya,” Quatre moaned. “You know how wild the kids can get when they're bathing.”

“He'll be fine,” Trowa murmured. “He's a demigod; how much harm can they do him? Do you mind if I move your leg over here?”

“Oh!” Quatre groaned. “Just what are you planning to do? Oh, my!”

“Oh, yes!” Trowa grunted eagerly. “Stay just like that!”

“Oh! Oh! Oh!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

In the room next door, Duo grinned. “Sounds like Trowa and Quatre are having fun. We should be having fun, too. Why are you still dressed, Fei?”

“Even I like to get seduced every once in a while,” Wu-Fei replied, a little miffed. “All you ever want to do is yank my pants down and start pounding away at me.”

“So it's my fault your ass turns me on?” Duo said with a long sigh. “Fine. How's this?” He lifted the tip of his braid, pulled off the ribbon and began slowly to unweave his hair.

Heero immediately knelt down beside him. “Let me do that.” He took over unwinding Duo's braid, stroking his fingers through the long brown waves appreciatively. “Why don't I brush it for you?”

“Please do.”

Wu-Fei watched while Heero slowly and luxuriously pulled the brush through Duo's long hair, smoothing it into neat waves that rippled down his back and draped across Heero's knees. Finally, Wu-Fei moved closer and slid a hand down Duo's hair.

“Man, how do you manage to keep your hair so soft? You don't even have split ends. That's not fair.”

“I attribute it to clean living and a healthy life-style.”

“What?!” Wu-Fei choked. “You?!”

“Eating right and regular exercise?” Duo ventured.

“You eat raw entrails!”

“Upright moral character?”

Wu-Fei lifted an eyebrow.

“Good genes,” Duo finally gave in resignedly.

“I suppose I can accept that.” Wu-Fei stroked Duo's hair again. “It is pretty nice though.”

Duo turned and looked at Wu-Fei. Then he glanced at Heero. “Let's take his shirt off. I bet his scales need oiling.”

“I don't itch.”

“Think of it as preemptive oiling. It's good for you and we are planning to go back to Mars tomorrow. You always itch when we first go home.”

“That's true,” Heero agreed. “Take your shirt off. I'll get the oil.”

“You should take your pants off too,” Duo suggested with a straight face. “Your scales do extend down onto your backside.”

“I know where my scales are,” Wu-Fei scowled. “And I still say you're just looking for an excuse to get me out of my pants.”

“Who, me?” Duo blinked innocently. “Just to prove I have almost no ulterior motives, I'll let Heero oil your butt.”

“Gee, thanks.”

“He's right, Fei,” Heero said calmly. “You'll thank us tomorrow. Take your clothes off.”

“Oh, all right!” Wu-Fei stripped out of his clothes and stretched out on his stomach, revealing the gleaming, iridescent scales that swirled across his shoulders, down his back and up onto his cute round buttocks. Heero poured oil into his palm and handed the jar to Duo. Then he warmed the oil between his hands by rubbing them together briskly before smoothing the oil over Wu-Fei's butt, bringing out the richness of the scales' colors. “Ah!” Wu-Fei sighed. “Maybe you're right and I was due for an oiling.”

“Told you,” Duo said cheerfully. He poured a thin stream of oil across Wu-Fei's shoulders and down his spine. Then he pressed his hands into the oil, spreading his fingers as he worked it across the shining scales.

“Oh, that feels good!” Wu-Fei groaned. “You can keep doing that for as long as you want.” He closed his eyes contentedly. He didn't even protest when Heero's sliding hands kept wandering beyond the actual extent of his scales.

After awhile, Heero looked at Duo and lifted his eyebrows.

Duo grinned back at him. “Three-way?”

“Yeah.”

“Cool!”

In their room two doors down, Zechs reclined on cushions on the floor trying to maintain some dignity while Treize licked his toes.

“I thought you were going to strip me naked and ravish me,” Zechs said breathlessly.

“I'm getting to that,” Treize replied. “Don't rush me.”

“You're getting me excited.”

“Good.”

“But I would be more comfortable naked.”

“Feeling a little constrained, are you?” Treize sat up with a smile. “Well, I was planning to take your pants off anyway so I can lick my way up your legs.”

“Oh!”

Treize pulled Zechs' trousers down slowly. “You have such beautiful legs. Your thighs are slim but so firm and magnificently muscled. And your calves…” Treize slid a hand from the back of Zechs' knee to his ankle. “This is really nice. And then there are your ankles.” He lifted Zechs' right foot and gently licked the inside of Zechs' ankle, right on top of the bone.

Zechs giggled. “That tickles!”

“It was supposed to. Now this, on the other hand…” Treize caressed the arch of Zechs' foot with a full, wet stroke of his tongue.

Zechs shuddered. “Treize!” he groaned.

“I claim everything from here to your chin as my personal playground,” Treize announced. “And I'm putting an option on the rest.”

“I get no say in the matter?”

“Absolutely none.”

“Brute.”

“You know you love it.”

Zechs smiled affectionately.

Outside, a soaking wet Hadeya was scrambling for the edge of the bathing pool. “Cease fire! Cease fire!”

Alexa giggled. “You're losing, Hadeya!”

“I know!” Hadeya gasped. “But I cannot breathe underwater!”

Roku exploded to the surface, blowing bubbles through his whiskers. “You were only under for a minute or two!”

“I thought I knew how to fight,” Hadeya wheezed. “I once beheaded three men with a single stroke of my sword. But you two are terrifying!”

Alexa laughed and flung herself onto Hadeya. “You're funny, Hadeya!”

Roku laughed too. “Yeah! We'll spot you this time. Ten second head start.”

“I want twenty seconds!”

“Ok, go!”

“Damn! I'm not ready!” Desperately, Hadeya disentangled himself from Alexa and scrambled across the pool while Roku counted aloud. He just had time to get in position and turn around.

“Twenty!” Roku shouted and he splashed across the pool, not so much swimming as bounding through the water. Alexa grabbed onto his tail and let him propel her across as well.

“Odin help me!” Hadeya cried an instant before he was submerged by his laughing companions.

Later on, the three of them lay panting by the side of the pool, clean and thoroughly exhausted.

“You almost had us on the last one, Hadeya,” Roku panted. He stood up and shook, flinging more water on the other two.

“I think I'm getting the hang of it,” Hadeya chuckled, shielding his eyes from the cascade of water showering out of Roku's fur. “But next time I want Alexa on my side. She's tough.”

“That's just because Roku's not using his claws.”

Hadeya's eyes went round. “I have seen your claws! How do you avoid injuring the other participants?”

“I'm careful. We should get to bed before Mama yells at us.” Roku tipped his head to one side and listened. “Although everyone's pretty distracted right now.”

Hadeya blushed. “You mean they're…?”

“Yeah, but they're always doing that. You'll get used to it. We should dry off and go to sleep.” Roku led the way to their room, where Alexa and Hadeya dried themselves off and then attacked Roku with a towel, roughing up his fur to dry it. Then the three of them curled up in a tired heap and passed out.

In the morning, Quatre peeked in at the sleeping trio and cooed, “Isn't that sweet?”

Hadeya was lying on his back with Roku's head resting on his tummy and Alexa's head cradled against his shoulder.

“That is sweet,” Trowa echoed. “But if Roku is still asleep at this hour, he's going to wake up ravenous as a… well… as a tiger.”

“Good point, let's order some breakfast.” Quatre stepped out onto the patio and clapped his hands. “We should eat before we return anyway. I was planning to have us arrive around dawn.”

“Which I'm sure Duo and Roku will view as an opportunity to eat again.”

“That's what I figured.”

Servants appeared and Quatre ordered breakfast. He had just finished when Duo came out his room.

“Bring two of what he just asked for,” Duo commanded.

Quatre frowned at him. “I ordered extra!”

“Of course you did.” Duo poked his head into the children's room. “Now that's what I call adorable.”

“What is?” Zechs asked, stepping out of his room with Treize at his side.

“That.” Duo pointed through the door and Zechs looked in.

“I think it should bother me that my little girl is sleeping with an older man.”

“He's just a boy,” Treize assured him. “He's not that much different from Roku, really.”

“I think Roku might be more worldly,” Trowa remarked.

“But still…”

“My son is perfectly safe!” Heero growled. “Why isn't there any food yet?”

“We just ordered it.”

“Good.”

“You look a little tired, Heero,” Quatre said. “Are you feeling all right?”

“He just didn't get much sleep,” Duo said with a wide grin.

“You didn't either,” Heero grumbled. “Why are you so damned perky?”

“Strong moral fiber.”

“Don't start that shit again!” Wu-Fei snapped. He had dark circles under his eyes.

“Can I help it if two hours of solid sleep is all I really need after good sex?”

“Was it only two hours?” Wu-Fei rubbed his eyes. “I'm going back to bed after we get back to Mars.”

“Me too,” Heero echoed.

“Wimps!”

“Mama!” Roku bounded into their midst and dashed around Quatre's legs. “Is breakfast coming? I'm hungry! We played mobile suit attack until really late. Alexa and I teamed up against Hadeya so she did the water attack and I did the land and air attack and Hadeya had to defend all three and he nearly drowned twice and Alexa and I won all the games but Hadeya almost won the last time even fighting both of us because he got really good at it.”

“Mommy!” Alexa took a running leap and landed in Zechs' arms. “Roku showed me how to hold my breath underwater for nearly two minutes so I could be a Cancer mobile suit.”

“That's how they nearly drowned me the first time,” Hadeya admitted ruefully. “Good morning, everyone.”

“Good morning, Hadeya.” Quatre looked him up and down. “You don't look too badly damaged.”

“Only my pride as a hero of Asgard suffered.”

Servants arrived with breakfast and everyone immediately sat down to eat. As they were finishing, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Artemis and Hermes strolled up.

“My friends,” Hera said, “we have come to wish you Godspeed on your journey. We shall spin tales of your visit for years to come.”

“Thank you, Lady Hera,” Treize replied graciously. His words were echoed by the others.

Hermes held a fat pouch out to Duo. “Here is your share of the winnings from last night.” As Duo took the pouch, Hermes pulled him into a warm embrace. “I shall miss you, Master Duo. I've made more money betting with you these past weeks than in the dozen years prior.”

Duo patted Hermes on the back. “Always glad to help out a like-minded gambler, my friend.” Duo pitched the pouch to Roku. “If you would be so kind, my son.”

Roku caught the pouch neatly out of the air with his teeth and tucked it out of sight between his legs.

“All right, then.” Quatre clapped his hands. “Let's gather everything up and get ready. No point in lingering over the goodbyes.”

Everyone scurried off to collect cloaks, backpacks and other belongings. When everyone was assembled again with their goods packed onto backs and tucked under arms, Quatre herded them all together. “You might want to stand back a ways,” Quatre recommended to the watching gods. “I've never really quite figured out the range on this particular spell.” The gods backed up as Quatre produced his spell book. “Take us back to Mars at dawn following our last departure.” He opened the book to the first page and calmly read the spell.

Once again, the world shifted and they found themselves back in their living room. The large chronometer on the wall set the time at just an hour before local dawn the morning after their departure.

“That really is amazing,” Treize remarked.

“It is astonishing!” Hadeya exclaimed. “Everything changed in an instant! Even crossing the Rainbow Bridge takes time.”

“It's a different kind of magic,” Quatre said. He closed his spell book and tucked it back into his pocket. “Let's get unpacked. By the time we finish, Sally and Noin should be up.”

“Noin's probably already up,” Zechs said. “She's an early riser anyway and we did say we would be back this morning.”

“That's true.”

In fact, they had barely started unpacking and Zechs and Treize had not yet returned to their own cottage when Sally and Noin knocked on the door.

“You did make it back in one night!” Sally said cheerfully. “How was the trip?”

“Interesting and educational,” Wu-Fei said. “I brought back a few artifacts that you will find quite interesting.”

“Wonderful!”

Noin studied Alexa carefully. “You look a little bigger, Alexa.”

“I am bigger,” Alexa said proudly. “But Uncle Quatre says I'll grow at a normal rate now.”

“That's good, I guess,” Noin said with faint confusion in her voice.

“Mommy says I can go to school with Roku now and no one should notice anything odd about me.”

“Did you decide what name you're going to call Treize by?” Sally asked. “Remember, Quatre was going to cast a spell dissociating his name from his face, but it would work better if people didn't hear his name in his presence?”

“I'll go by Zechs' last name,” Treize said calmly. “Alexa can use that name too, and that way the whole family will use the same name.”

“That makes sense.”

“Yeah, sure,” Noin scowled.

“Hey, who's that?” Sally said suddenly. Her eyes, bright with curiosity, were fixed on Hadeya. “He's not a Greek god, is he?”

“No,” Heero said quickly, but he instantly regretted speaking when Sally's eyes fastened on his face.

“I must say he looks an awful lot like you, Heero. Is he a relative of yours?”

Duo snickered. “I told you it would be obvious.”

“You mean he is a relative of Heero's?” Noin exclaimed incredulously.

“Good ahead, Heero,” Duo said brightly, “tell them who he is.”

“You suck, Duo,” Heero growled.

“Yes, I do, but you're going to have to explain him sooner or later.”

Hadeya shifted uncomfortably under the two women's scrutiny. He threw a desperate look at Heero.

Heero sighed. “Without going into any details, which will not be forthcoming…” He glared around at everyone pointedly, “this young man happens to be my son. His name is Hadeya.”

“But he's older than you,” Sally pointed out.

“Only because he was born in the past!”

“Which trip did you sire him on?” Sally asked excitedly.

“The previous one,” Duo volunteered.

“Really? So who is his mother?”

“I told you: no details!” Heero shouted.

“But…”

“No! You know everything you need to.”

“Oh, very well,” Sally sighed. But she winked at Duo.

“But wait a minute,” Noin spoke up abruptly. “If you sired him in Asgard in the time of the Norse gods, how did you find him on Mount Olympus? Or did you swing by Asgard and pick him up?”

“We sort of stumbled across him and decided to bring him home,” Duo said.

“That doesn't make any sense,” Noin exclaimed. “Asgard, if it really existed, occurred thousands of years before Ancient Greece.” She stared at Hadeya. “How old are you?”

“Um… well…” Hadeya mumbled.

“You can't really apply linear timelines to eternal civilizations,” Quatre said in a scholarly tone. “It's possible Asgard and Ancient Greece existed simultaneously.”

“You're feeding me a load of crap, aren't you?”

Quatre flushed. “It is possible.”

“What is? That they existed simultaneously or that you're feeding me a load of crap?”

“Yes.”

Noin glared at him. “Fine! I'll quit asking.”

Sally chuckled. “It's probably better not to ask. I'm sure Heero will have plausible background information for him in the computer systems before midday.”

Heero nodded sharply.

“Anyway, I'm glad you've returned safely,” Sally continued. “I hope you'll be able to stay awhile this time.”

“It's not like you know we've been gone,” Quatre said.

“I know, but I worry about you nonetheless.”

“Thanks. We should be able to stay put for a while this time. Quite honestly, I'm ready to do some solid scientific research.”

“Your research better not involve me this time!” Zechs spoke up immediately. “I really will cut off your balls if you get me pregnant again.”

Quatre held up restraining hands. “Don't worry! I'm not planning to do reproductive research this time. Maybe just a little simple genetic research.”

“Why doesn't that sound any safer to me?”

“It will have nothing to do with you, I promise.”

“Good.”

“It's time for work,” Noin announced. “You guys ready?”

“Yeah, just a second.”

There was a bit of a scramble and then everyone but Treize and Hadeya was ready to leave for work or school. As they headed out the door, Hadeya stared up at the Martian dome in amazement.

“Is this science or magic?”

“All science,” Treize said with a smile.

Hadeya shook his head. “I think the magic would be easier to understand.”

“Perhaps. Help me take stuff home to my cottage and I'll start explaining.”

“Do you think it was really all right for me to come home with my father like this?”

“Of course! You're part of the family and families belong together.”

-o-o-o-o-o-

And so Gundam Wing on Mount Olympus comes to a close! I hope you enjoyed this story. The boys' family is still growing and that is sure to lead to plenty of excitement. What will be the result of Quatre's next experiment? Join Heero, Wu-Fei, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, Roku, Treize, Zechs, Alexa and Hadeya in their next adventure: Gundam Wing in the Wild, Wild West!