Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Peace Children ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and none of its characters are mine. None of the mystical creatures are of my creation. Seelie and Unseelie, the way I use them here, were created by Laurel K. Hamilton. Hands of power were also created by Laurel K. Hamilton. The story and all original characters are mine. If I forgot to credit anything to its rightful owner, please email me, and I will credit it to them.

Pairings: 2x1 eventually, 3+4, 5+? OC+? 13+11 Rating: NC-17, eventually Warning: eventual lemon, no spoiler, AU, definite yaoi, possible yuri, OOC, angst, more as it comes

Author's notes: 'blah' = thoughts 'blah' = mind-speaking



Peace Children

Chapter 4

"What the fuck was that?" Duo demanded, startling Heero from his memories. Or maybe it was the pain that suddenly coursed through his body that broke him away from seeing anymore.

Heero's entire body felt like it was on fire, and maybe it was, for all he knew. He couldn't see, even though his eyes were wide open. He was blind.

He was afraid and he started to panic. He reached out to his sister with his mind, but he couldn't feel her. He couldn't feel anyone. With fear in his voice, he cried out for her.

"Kali!" he screamed, but his voice was so weak, it came out as a whisper. "Help me, Kali."

The pain vanished from his body, and he was floating. At least, that's what it felt like, or didn't feel like. He didn't know. He couldn't feel anything; not the ground under him, not Duo's body scrambling to get off of him, not anything. He couldn't hear, either. It was like someone had hit the mute button on the world.

He couldn't see anything, and then suddenly the world went white.

***

Duo was confused by what he had just seen. Everything was going great until he saw those images, whatever they were. And then something happened to Aldin. He started shaking. His eyes were looking around wildly, but it was like he couldn't see anything. And he was calling for someone in a hoarse whisper. It sounded like Kelly or something.

Then he just stopped. He stopped shaking, stopped looking around, stopped calling for Kelly. He just stopped. Duo approached Aldin's body.

`Oh, shit,' he thought, as he put his hand on the boy's chest. `He's not breathing.'

"Help!" Duo cried out. "Help me! Somebody, help me!" Duo held Aldin in his arms, the boy's head in his lap. "Please, somebody, anybody, HELP ME!"

Duo brushed his baby's hair out of his eyes. "It's going to be okay, baby. It's going to be okay. Somebody's going to come and it's going to be okay." He barely noticed when Hilde and Sera came running into the area.

"What did you do to him?" Sera demanded.

"He's not breathing," was all Duo could say, still stroking Aldin's hair.

"Hilde, call and ambulance," Sera commanded. "And you, Duo, you get away from him."

When Duo refused to leave his angel's side, Sera bodily removed him from her brother. Then she got down on the ground and started administering CPR.

"The ambulance is on the way," Hilde informed them, as Sera continued to breathe for her brother.

***

`Where am I?' Heero thought as he sat up, his right hand holding onto his head. `Man, my head hurts.'

"Hello?" he called out. "Is anyone here? Where is here? How do I get out?" He stood up and looked around, but all he saw was blackness.

"Hello," said a voice.

Heero whirled around to look for the source of the noise. It was a little girl, who looked to be about 8 or 9.

"Who are you?" Heero asked. "Where are we? Why am I here? How do I get back home?"

"Whoa, whoa," the girl said. "One question at a time. Okay, first things first. You wanted to know who I am. My name is Marimaeia. We are in what is commonly referred to as Limbo. You are here to remember. Only you know how to get back. That answer all your questions?"

"No," Heero answered truthfully. "Why am I in Limbo?"

"Because that's where I am, silly," Marimaeia laughed. "But, seriously, we're on a time limit. Where's your sister?"

***

Suddenly, Kali collapsed.

***

Heero's mind was spinning. First, something strange happened to his body. Then, he was here in Limbo. Now, that weird girl asked where his sister was, and she appeared.

"Heero? I'm so glad that you're okay!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms around her brother. "I was so worried." Kali looked around, noticing where she was, or rather, where she wasn't, for the first time. "Where are we?"

Heero pointed to the child. "Ask her."

***

The ambulance arrived right after Sera collapsed. Hilde led the EMTs to where her new girlfriend's brother lay. She gasped when she saw Sera unconscious, too.

Hilde sank to the ground in emotional agony as the professional healers radioed for help and went to work trying to save the twins' lives.

***

"We're in Limbo," Marimaeia told Kali. "I'm dead. We're in Limbo because I'm dead. The two of you are not, yet. I'm you're guide, Marimaeia. Now can we please move on?!" The girl looked from Heero to Kali, who were frantically nodding their heads.

"Okay, then. As you both know, you two are quite different from other people. That's because you aren't human. You're Mysticals, which are all of the mythical creatures you have ever heard of. And you're not just any Mysticals either; you are the combination of almost every mystical that was alive at the time of your creation."

Mari could feel the skepticism coming off of the twins in waves, but decided to ignore it for now. "You were created to bring peace to the Mysticals, to form a bond between all of their species, so that they could kick the crap out of the Collectors. But only one of you was created for that purpose.

"When the Mysticals created the Sith Leandabh*, the Peace child, they produced an imbalance in the universe. Fate corrected this by making the Codagh Leanabh, the War Child. One of you is Sith, the other is Codagh. You are here to learn who is which."

***

Both siblings were in ambulances on their way to the hospital. Suddenly, the machines monitoring both of their hearts flatlined.



*Sith Leandabh is Peace Child in Gaelic, Cordagh Leandabh is War Child in Gaelic.



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