Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Battle For The World ❯ Chapter 2

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Title: The Battle For The World
Author: Sefarina Malaika
Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5xS
Warning: Language, yaoi, AU, OOCness, some character descriptions used from the novels DragonLance
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or DragonLance...although it would be cool

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Part 2

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Duo packed his bags into the small boat that his clan provided him with. He was still peeved at them for making him leave so there was no thank you's exchanged. He said goodbye to his parents for he knew that they didn't want him to leave. Everyone else could kiss his ass for all he cared.

"Remember, the boat with bring you to a city called Himansa just outside of Clyssandria. Make your way there after you land. Because the boat is enchanted you won't have to worry about t it capsizing. We are going to miss you so much." Linniona hugged her son. Her golden eyes full of tears.

"I'll remember, don't cry mom. It'll just make things harder. I'm going to miss you to." Duo hugged his mother back.

"Be careful son." Amika said as he put a hand on Duo's shoulder.

Duo gave his mom one last hug and turned to his boat. Pushing it out to sea, he gave his parents one last look of pain and glared at everyone else that was part of his clan. Heaving a sight he settled himself down for the long journey ahead of him.

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"We should be arriving at Clyssandria in a few hours Master Quatre." Rashid, Quatre's escort informed him.

"Ok, thanks Rashid." Quatre looked behind him at the forty Maguanac guards that were to help princess Relena's army. He leaned down to his palomino stallion and patted its neck. "Just a bit farther Sandrock."

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"This is unjust. I can't believe you beat me. And your horse is female." Wufei ranted.

"Hn, it's not my fault that your horse is slow." Heero commented." Besides you're the one that wanted to race."

"Because I thought I would win." Wufei rebuked.

"Hn, well you didn't. Come on Wing." Heero squeezed his white Morgan's sides to make her go.

Wufei huffed as he made his dapple gray gelding walk. "Don't worry Nataku, we'll get him next time."

Heero chuckled as hey continued to walk down the path. The two hundred men that they had assembled had already left a few hours before them with Dorothy. The two cornels were now riding the rear to make sure no one was following.

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Trowa was now walking the streets of Himansa, looking for a stable. Having swum most of the way, he had had no need for a horse. Some one yelling at the top of their lungs registered in Trowa's pointed ears as he turned towards the voice.

He soon came to a stable where an older man, seeming to be the owner was arguing with some one about Trowa's age. The youth turned around flailing his arms around exasperatedly, making Trowa nearly fall down. The boy, it appeared, was beautiful. His ears had picked up some of the conversation, which had to do with money and a black lipizaner stallion.

"Excuse me, I'm looking to buy a horse." Trowa intervened.

"Of course. Come this way." The stable owner directed with his arms.

Making a crude remark, the boy beside Trowa settled for glaring at the man. Finishing up with his glare, the boy turned to Trowa. "Hi, I'm Duo. You are?"

Trowa regarded the boy, whom called himself Duo with suspicion, "Well come on, I'm not going to bite. I was only being polite Sheesh. These people, so rude." Duo began to shake his head, his braid swishing from side to side.

"It's Trowa."

"Huh?"

"I said its Trowa. My name is Trowa."

"Oh well why didn't you say so. Please to meet you Trowa. Where you from?"

"…"

"Come on, it's not like I'm going to hunt you down or something." Duo pestered.

"Zointalina."

"Oh cool, you're a Dragonesti elf. You're the first one I've ever met. Why are you all the way out here?"

"I'm going to Clyssandria."

"Really?! So is I. Maybe we could travel together, well that's if I even get a horse." Duo glared at the stable owner once again, who was waiting impatiently for Trowa to follow him.

"Hn, which one is it tat you want?" Trowa asked. Catherine had made sure that he had enough money for supplies and extra horses to last him sometime.

"You're going to get me one?!" Duo asked, puzzled. This was the first person that had been nice enough to him since he arrived in this town.

"Ya, I've got enough, besides we don't need someone like you causing trouble where ever you go." Trowa commented dryly.

"Oh cool!" pulling on Trowa's arm, Duo dragged him to one of the back stalls, where a black lipizaner was. "This one." Duo pointed at the stallion like a child would for candy.

"Hn, alright. Sir I'll take this one and that chestnut red Arabian." Trowa's said as he pointed to a mare further down the stable.

"Alright. They'll be ready in thirty minutes. Do you have any tack?" the stable owner asked them.

"No."

"Well since you are buying the two most expensive ones, I'll throw it in, no cost."

"Alright."

"Does he have a name?" Duo asked, pointing at the stallion.

"Him? No, no ones ever had him long enough to name 'em."

"Oh cool!" exclaimed Duo as he walked towards the stall once again. Putting his arm through the bar he waited patiently.

"What are you waiting for boy? He won't come-" As if to prove him wrong, the stallion moved towards Duo's hand and nuzzled it.

"That's a good boy, Hmm. I'm going to call you Shinigami." Duo rubbed the horse's forehead.

Trowa shook his head at his new traveling partner. "Does the mare have a name?"

"Her? That's Heavyarms."

"Hn, ok, we'll be back in thirty minutes. Come on Duo." Trowa tugged on Duo's sleeve indicating that he was leaving.

"Ok, I'll be back soon Shinni. Thanks man, Heh sorry about all the stuff I said before." Duo apologized to the stable owner.

"Think nothing of it."

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"Oh good you made it in one piece. Are these all the guards you could bring?" Relena gave Quatre a hug.

"Unfortunately yes. They would only give me forty guards. I'm sorry Relena." Quatre informed.

"Don't worry about it. Dorothy said she would get two hundred of her men along with her two strongest cornels. Some one from Zointalania is supposed to come and see how much help we will need. I have my own army of over a thousand men or so." Relena said attempting to make Quatre feel better. It had obviously work because Quatre's guilty look disappeared.

The sound of a trumpet off of their right caught their attention. Soon Relena's butler Pargan entered the room.

"Miss Relena, General Dorothy is here with her men."

"Thank you Pargan. Send her in." Pargan bowed and retreated to get Dorothy.

"Dorothy walked in a few minutes later, to give her status of her men.

"Quatre, Relena." She nodded her head at each one in turn.

"Dorothy. It's been a while." Quatre commented.

"It has, hasn't it? Why I do believe last time we talked you were just an apprentice and now your what? A high mage? From what I hear, you're just a few positions below the Arch mage." Dorothy put her hands on her hips.

"Heh, ya something like that. So Relena tells me you brought your two best colonels. I'm looking forward to meeting them." Quatre responded.

"Yes, where are you colonels Dorothy?" Relena inquired.

"They should be here in a few hours. They left a bit after my men and myself." Dorothy informed the two in front of her.

"So while we wait, how about something to drink?" Relena being the kind hostess that she was, offered.

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Heero and Wufei rode up to a forest like town. I the middle was a gigantic tree that split off into four different directions. At the very top of each section was a canopy like tower. In the very center of the four sections was the fifth tower, where their meeting, balls and other great gatherings took place.

They were to meet Dorothy on the second floor of the center tower when they arrived. As they neared the royal stables they passed a shop where a black lipizaner stallion and a chestnut red Arabian mare were tied up. As soon as Wing passed the stallion, she began to buck and rear.

"Woe, stop girl. Calm down." Heero tried to coax his horse. The next thing he knew he was on the ground flat on his back and his horse was now beside the stallion.

"Are you ok Heero?" Wufei asked, suppressing a snicker.

"Hn, I'm fine." Heero stood up and went to retrieve his mare. Reaching her, he began to reach for the reins when a tenor voice caught his attention.

"Hey! Get away from my horse!" Heero looked up to identify the person, which the voice belonged to. His eyes fell on a boy about his age. He had beautiful violet eyes and a long chestnut braid. He was beautiful to say the least, although Heero couldn't find the words to describe the fae youth.

"Hn, I wasn't going near your horse. I was getting mine." Heero caught the reins of his mare and began to walk away. A hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Heh, sorry about that. My name is Duo, what's yours?" Duo attempted. Maybe this guy would be more talkative than Trowa. Now that must have been the most boring travel he'd ever been on. Trowa had said a total of two sentences the whole time that they had ridden, and it had driven Duo nuts.

"Hn." Or maybe not. Duo's bubble burst.

Still grinning he asked, "So your name is Hn? Interesting. I've never heard that one before. And they have some pretty strange ones from where I come from. Where do you come from? This is my friend Trowa, he's from Zointalina. He's a Dragonesti elf. Let's see by the looks of it your a warrior right. Oh but you have magic sacks to, so you must be a mage as well. I'm just a wizard, mage, magic user, what ever you want to call it. You never did tell me your name." Duo stopped himself as he noticed the look of utter befuddlement on the boy in front of him's face.

Wufei attempted to stifle a snicker when he saw Heero's face. Seeing that his friend wasn't going to say anything, he spoke up." Duo is it? This boy here, who seems to have lost his voice, not that he ever used it to start with," He mumbled under his breath, earning himself a glare from Heero, "is Heero, one of General Dorothy's colonel's. My name is Chang Wufei, her other Colonel. We are from Dizandria. What about you?"

"Me, well I'm from...Hey this is my friend Trowa. He's a Dragonesti elf." Duo changed the subject abruptly.

"Yes, we've already covered the fact that his is your friend and where he's from as well as what he is. Now what are you and where are you from?" Wufei asked once again.

"Yes Duo, where are you from? I don't believe I caught it when we first met." Trowa spoke for the first time.

"That's because I never threw it." Duo muttered. "Uh...well...lets see...to start off with...I'm an Irda, and no they are not extinct...and well I'm from an Island in the middle of nowhere, Is that good enough?" He asked.

"I suppose, for now anyways. What brings you to Clyssandria?" Wufei asked as he absorbed the information the talkative boy in front of him produced.

"I don't know. I met Trowa In Himansa. He's supposed to meet Princess Relena, and I was just along for the ride." Duo shrugged.

Heero snapped out of his reverie at the mention of Relena. "What do you have to meet Relena for?" Heero asked as he turned to face Trowa.

"A message was sent to my people, that they had to send some troops to help fight. They sent me to see how many troops they were going to need." Trowa answered monotonously.

"I see, well we are on out way to the castle right now. Your welcome to come with us." Heero told Trowa as he mounted Wing.

"Alright." Trowa mounted Heavyarms. "Duo, get on your horse, we are leaving."

"Uh, what business does he have with the princess?" Heero asked as he looked towards the fae youth once again.

"None. He's just a bringer of trouble and you don't want him running a muck around Clyssandria."

"Ok. Stay beside us at all times." Heero agreed as he watched Duo mount his own horse. Heero's eyes lingered on the odd, beautiful boy for a few more seconds before he averted his eyes to the road. 'Where did that come from?'

Before Duo could grab hold of the reins properly, Shinigami trotted up beside Wing and slowed to the same pace as her. Duo looked to his side to smile at Heero but found that the boy was looking straight ahead. 'Damn, and I thought my homeland had beautiful habitants. Although they are, but there's something else about him that makes him different. But I can't figure it out.'

End Part 2 TBC