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"Duo's Demons"Written By: t-shirt Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and its characters are
copyright to Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu Agency, and associated parties.
I make no money with this fic. Rating: NC 17 Warnings: AU/Action/Adventure, Angst, fluff, non-graphic
lemon, ssssssap, yuckables ^-^ Pairings: Eventual 1x2, 3x4, background 1x5, attempted
2xOC but Duo isn’t having much luck getting laid *snicker* go figure Summary: An ancient Demon Lord is intrigued by
a child that one of his favored few finds after his family had been
annihilated by others of their kind. The Demon decides to keep the
child as his presence brings some relief from the overwhelming boredom
of his infinite reign. However, things change after a time in which
the amusing child grows into a devastatingly beautiful young man.
"Duo's Demons"
Ch 7 ‘Duo?’ Solo spoke softly as the longhaired boy's violet eyes fluttered open. ‘Hey,’ his friend smiled warmly touching his hand. ‘How’re you feeling?’ ‘Where?’ Duo asked in a raspy, wisp of a tone he hardly recognized as his own. ‘My place,’ the blond boy informed him. ‘Hilde?’ ‘She’s alive,’ he told him. ‘She’s got a couple of broken ribs but she’ll heal ok,’ he assured him. ‘Sorry,’ Duo apologized, feeling his soul droop along with his tired eyes. ‘Not your fault,’ Solo consoled. ‘Looks like they’ve all disappeared though,’ he smiled. ‘So our troubles are over huh?’ he chuckled optimistically, an uncertain confusion brushing his expression when his words seemed to cause the violet eyed boy great pain. ‘How long?’ was his next question. ‘About twenty five hours.’ ‘Sunday night?’ ‘Yeah, hey, you shouldn’t be trying to get up.’ ‘Where’s Hilde?’ Duo asked forcing his aching body to move in spite of his friend’s objections. ‘St. Mary’s,’ Solo replied resignedly. ‘Come on, I’ll take you.’ They found the girl resting quietly in her hospital room and Duo silently thanked Trowa again for his timely rescue. She was battered and looked exhausted, but all in all whole in spite of her encounter. She, as well as Solo, was amazingly accepting of the wondrous story of his up bringing making it even harder when it came time for Duo to say goodbye. ‘What?’ she asked as the fear and sorrow flooded her big, brown eyes. ‘I have to go,’ he told her. ‘I’ll come with you,’ Solo offered. ‘You never could look after yourself,’ he chuckled, but it was short lived when he saw the resolve in Duo’s eyes. ‘Not this time,’ he told him, smiling to show how much he appreciated the offer as he leaned down and kissed Hilde on the cheek. ‘Take care of each other,’ he told them. ‘Duo,’ the girl breathed desperately. ‘Come back and visit us, ok?’ she asked, begging for some indication that he wasn’t planning what she was afraid he was planning, but he could only offer her a loving smile which he also directed at Solo. ‘You better kiss her before someone tries to change her mind,’ he told him moving toward the door. He left while the boy was still blushing madly and the girl was distracted by his reaction and headed straight for Tauhuna Rock. He was early when he arrived so he crawled up on top of the sentinel stone and sat watching the stars through eyes he knew would never see them the same way again. One way or another, it ended tonight. ‘Come,’ Shagu’s gravely tone disturbed his silent watch. She said nothing more as she led him into the dark forest. Her many pods and skirts making it impossible to loose her in the darkness as she rattled along. He followed her deep into the thick underbrush then the slope of the ground began to rise. Another twenty minutes climb found them breaking the tops of the trees and moving out where the forest thinned, revealing the wide open sky where a huge, blood moon hung low against the unwavering stars. ‘There,’ the old woman whispered as if frightened to be heard in this place as she pointed to a crag in the cliff side. ‘Take this,’ she told him handing him one of the pods from around her neck. ‘Pour it into the lake of fire,’ she instructed. ‘If the Gods favor you they will speak,’ she told him then she was gone. He couldn’t even hear her rattling anymore as an absolute silence descended on the mountainside. It was another five minute climb before he reached the crevice and slipped inside, the heat of the mountains core beating him back, but he pushed onward, the beautiful shimmer in Hiiro’s dark eyes beckoning his every step until a soft orange glow glimmered up ahead. Soon the tunnel opened up into a large cavern where a large lake of molten lava lay sprawled within the volcano’s heart. It was an impressive sight to say the least, but Duo hadn’t come to see the pretty fire. He pulled the pod from his waist and emptied the contents into the quagmire, a hideous steam rising from the bubbling remains that turned his stomach and stung his eyes and then silence prevailed. ‘Hello!’ he called, feeling a tad silly for having believed the woman’s story, but then his pulse jumped as the very mountain itself seemed to groan in reply, a thousand voices calling out to him at once from the murky depths of the lake. ‘Sssssspeeeeakk.’ ‘I want to be with Hiiro,’ Duo told it... them…whatever it was. ‘Yyyyou hahhaaaaave beeen wiwitithh hhiimmm,’ the strange chorus intoned. ‘I want to lay with him,’ Duo replied, hearing only a hissing sound in response. ‘He cares for me,’ he said defiantly. ‘If you truly worship him then you know this to be true!’ he shouted. There was a long silence to the point he was just about to repeat his request when the voices spoke again. ‘Yyyoooouuu mmmuussussttt bee asss onone wwitith hhhimmm tooo sssuurviiive.’ ‘I will pay your price,’ the longhaired boy told it firmly. ‘Take whatever you want just grant me one night with him,’ he begged. Again he wondered at the lengthy pause and was just about to speak again when the mountain suddenly rumbled and great, noxious fumes began to bubble to the surface of the lava pool below. The stench was so bad he thought he might pass out, his eyes watering and his nostrils burned as wave after wave of the putrid gloom wafted over him bringing him slowly to his knees as the voices spoke again. ‘Thhee sssuupliiicaaaatition iiisss nnniiiggghhh,’ it said and then suddenly the bubbles stopped rising and all fell as silent as the grave. Duo stood for a long time just staring into the glowering cave. He didn’t feel any different. He’d expected some sort of change to occur when he was turned into a being that could withstand Hiiro’s touch, but for all the world he felt exactly the same. Curious as to his new station in life he walked over to one of the walls that were lined with jagged rocks and calmly reached out slicing his arm on one. His breath hissed as the pain lanced his arm and the red blood in his veins seeped out and spilled onto the black rock below. Confused, he turned his attention back to the silent cave. ‘Why do I bleed?’ he shouted, but no reply came. ‘Why doesn’t it heal?’ he yelled again, the only reply his own voice echoing off the cavern walls. He paused to stare down at the slow trickle of blood flowing from his lacerated skin, his mind working frantically on a conclusion that his heart simply refused to believe. There was no other explanation however. ‘You changed him instead of me!!’ he bellowed into the silent cave, his anger over his own foolishness gripping him like an iron vice. ‘You made him mortal!? What are you stupid?!’ he growled, a soft bubble breaking the surface of the lava as he spoke. ‘He’ll be unprotected from those assholes that tried to kill him if he’s mortal you dumb son of a bitches!’ he shouted as more bubbles rose. ‘What kind of fool idiots would turn a god into a man at another man's request!?!?!’ he roared. ‘Tthhhhheee chooooiiccee wawasss hhiiisss.’ ‘No,’ Duo breathed backing towards the tunnel as he shook his head in denial. ‘No way,’ he breathed turning and running full out back to the entrance where he skidded to a sudden halt at the sight of his three lesser demon guardians. He couldn’t speak, he truly couldn’t find the words to even begin to express his sorrow over what he’d just done so he just stood there, his arm still bleeding slightly as he panted and cried silent tears of unmitigated grief. They said nothing as the three of them surrounded him wrapping him tightly in their arms. His injury had disappeared by the time they reappeared in the nether realm as well as his clothes which had been replaced by a flowing black gown. He was barefoot and his hair was no longer in its usual braid but weaved loosely about his person in an elaborate configuration of graceful swoops and swirls that hung down embracing his body in a sea of chestnut stars. They had appeared at the base of a set of stairs, white marble that led to a gothic cathedral of tall pillars that reminded him of something out of a Sinbad movi,e but there was nothing humorous about it now. He paused looking back at his demon friends, almost wishing they’d take him away again so he wouldn’t have to face the Master in his mortal state, but he knew he had no other choice but to face his sin. Hiiro had chosen this fate, that’s what the voices had meant. They’d sent out his plea to the only being in all creation that could possibly have granted it, the Demon Lord himself and he’d accepted for no other reason than to service Duo’s selfish desire. He would offer himself fully to him now as his life was no long his own. It now truly belonged to Hiiro. He took one last, long, deep breath and looked back at Trowa, Quatre and Wufei again, watching as they slowly faded out then turned to face his fate. Within the circle of pillars lay an altar of stone and wood. On the altar were many pillows and draping cloths of ebony and scarlet, a stark contrast to the milky white sheen of the marble room. On these lay the prone form of Hiiro. He was wearing nothing but a small white cloth wrapped loosely around his hips as he lay comfortably back on the altar, one hand under his head, his eyes closed, his tanned chest rising and falling in a steady rhythm and Duo’s heart began to instantly race. As if on cue the Demon… no... Hiiro’s eyes slowly opened, a small smile gracing his lips as he rose and offered Duo his hand. The long haired boy collapsed at his feet kissing the offered appendage as the tears flowed freely from his eyes. ‘Please don’t cry,’ Hiiro pleaded, stroking his thick hair with his free hand. Duo’s tears slowed to a stop, his determination to obey his Master's commands steeling his will as he turned his violet gaze upward. ‘What is it?’ Hiiro asked, smiling at the look of pure disbelief on his face. ‘You’re just …you’re so beautiful,’ he breathed. ‘You chose the form,’ the blue eyed boy informed him. ‘No wonder,’ Duo chuckled. ‘You have good taste,.’ Hiiro told him lifting his chin to kiss him softly and Duo’s entire universe suddenly shifted. ‘Are you alright?’ he asked as the longhaired boy trembled and swayed. ‘Y...yes,’ Duo replied feeling decidedly dizzy but not so totally overwhelmed that he felt he might actually shake apart if they continued, which Hiiro did a moment later, kissing him again only this time he drew him into his arms and into his lap and over top of him and kissed him wholly with all of the love and feeling he held for him. Duo was shaking like a leaf and crying again before he relented. And for a moment, an instant in which he suddenly realized he had been and always would be Hiiro’s only true equal as he loved him just as much and Hiiro loved him back, he felt the first real freedom he’d ever known in his short life and in that instant, he offered it up to his Master gratefully, and with a full heart joined his lover on a path that would truly make them one even if only for one brief instant in time. In less than the blink of an eye that moment was over and the pair found themselves sated and laying in each other’s arms soaking up what little remained of their time together and Duo couldn’t help but wonder… ‘Why?...Why didn’t they just turn me into a demon instead?’ ‘This is better, ne?’ Hiiro chuckled kissing his hair. ‘But... you’re not safe like this are you?’ ‘Shhh,’ the blue eyed boy hissed softly, pulling him tight. ‘You’ve got to change back,’ Duo pressed on pulling away. ‘Before the others figure it out.’ ‘They already know,’ Hiiro told him, brushing the ruffled bangs from his bewildered eyes and kissing him gently. ‘But… why haven’t they…?’ Duo’s eyes went wide and he pulled away as the awful truth seeped into his brain. ‘Their waiting for you,’ he breathed in shock. ‘Their waiting to kill you aren’t they?’ ‘It is a small price to pay,’ Hiiro reasoned. ‘No!’ the longhaired boy barked extracting himself from the folds of clothes and sheets, his black robes billowing around him as he strode towards the exit. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘I was willing to give my life,’ Duo growled in pure determination, ‘But I will not let them take yours!’ ‘What have I to live for?’ Hiiro asked softly and Duo stopped in his tracks. ‘You will die and I will be left here with nothing more than a memory,’ he pointed out. ‘What good can come of an infinity of longing?’ he asked. ‘It is better to let it end here,’ he reasoned, once again offering his hand to the longhaired boy. Duo felt the tear rolling down his cheek even as he returned to grasp it, but he never made the distance before Zechs' huge form suddenly crashed through the roof sending stones and boulders bouncing everywhere as he hissed and spread his gargantuan silver wings between the pair. ‘Leave him!’ Hiiro bellowed standing to stride proudly across the floor as Zechs reached for Duo. ‘His life belongs to the voices of Shraleah,’ he told him sternly. ‘I’m sure I can compensate them with something far more interesting that this little whelp’ Zechs growled picking Duo up in his huge hand and licking his entire body with his huge, crimson tongue. ‘RELEASE HIM!’ Hiiro roared, only to find himself sliding across the floor where the demon had batted him effortlessly before taking Duo and heading for the altar, his form shrinking and changing into something more appropriate for the task until the longhaired man that had been Duo’s teacher remained. His eyes however, no longer resembled that of any mortal man as well as his strength which he demonstrated by knocking Hiiro back into the wall twenty feet away when he tried to retrieve his lover again. Duo fought against him, but he was not only no match for him physically, he was dealing with a full demon now and found it impossible to resist his demands. Hiiro screamed in rage spitting bright red blood from his mouth as he dragged his battered body to his feet and charged once again. Zechs laughed with glee never wavering from his demands on Duo as he back handed the blue eyed boy sending him crashing into a pillar so hard he busted it and brought it tumbling down as the longhaired boy cried out his name and sobbed helplessly. A moment later Zechs was suddenly prepared to take him as his own as Hiiro lay in a bloody heap on the marble floor and Duo screamed; then, just as suddenly as it had started it stopped. Zechs had disappeared. For a moment, Duo blinked his terrified eyes, wondering where he’d gone, but a quick look around proved that he was now embedded in the far wall of the room in a kind of upside down lopsided pose that Duo really didn’t take much time to analyze before he jumped up and headed straight for Hiiro, but he found himself bouncing off something big, black and hard as a rock before he’d made the distance. He shook his garbled head and gazed up at the strange wall. It shimmered with an eerie purple iridescence that sparkled with an evil too deep for Duo’s frail mind to comprehend. Slowly, cautiously he followed the line of the tapering mound upward, over and around until his eyes made out the form of what looked like the hips of an animal, a goat perhaps but the tail that had stopped his progression more resembled that of dragon lore. The body was humanoid but bore no real resemblance other than the shape of the rib cage and chest which led into arms that moved like a human's but were clawed and wicked on the ends with sharp talons like that of a bird of prey. A dark ridge ran down it’s spine from the center of its brow to the tip of its massive tail that looked like a row of lethally sharpened, ebony knives, each one clicking and shifting as it moved, a motion so graceful and fluid it looked as if it were nothing more than a cloud of ink underwater, but the most horrifying thing about it was its eyes. Blue eyes that bubbled with scarlet flames and purple lightning that leaked from its glowering orbs crackling and dancing along its ebony skin. Duo had seen those eyes before … ‘Treize.’ ’Duo.’ ‘Shit.’ The creature laughed and blinked its strange, horizontal eye lids as he lowered his huge, cow of a head down to where the longhaired boy coward in a ball on the floor. ’Bellus.’ Duo shivered. He didn’t really care for being called pretty in this being’s voice. ‘Father,’ Hiiro’s broken tone drifted weakly up from the far corner as he desperately tried to pull his broken body from the floor. ‘His life,’ he rasped spitting blood and fluids from this mouth as he moved. ’Shraleah.’ Hiiro nodded. The creature regarded Duo for a long moment then a grin spread along his thin lips that Duo found he could not bear to look upon for it was the epitome of all things evil. ’Nulus…Existo,’ the creature intoned and Duo suddenly screamed in agony as Hiiro crashed to the floor. ‘Please,’ the blue eyed boy begged as he watched his lover thrash about on the marble floor screaming pitifully, but the creature took no pity on him going so far as to chuckle darkly as he effortlessly climbed the walls so he could watch from a perch along the corner of the top of the room. ‘Duo,’ Hiiro ground out through clenched teeth as he did his best to crawl over to where he could touch his twitching hand, but the moment their fingers touched he suddenly found himself in the steely grip of his platinum haired brother. ‘Time to die’ the gray demon hissed squeezing him hard, his bones cracking and breaking under the strain until a new tenor suddenly filled the air. A sound so pristine in its intent it was like the first cry of a new born child as it gently commanded…. ’No.’ Zechs stopped dead still, his icy eyes turning to regard the silent ebony figure lying on the stark white floor and for a moment nothing stirred save for the silent grin that spread over Treize’s lips. ’Release him,’ the voice intoned as the little black puddle began to stir. Hiiro’s eyes cracked open, a small smile playing on his lips at the sight of his lover’s tenacity, but it was instantly replaced by something a little more confused and amazed like the one currently on Zechs' face as the boy’s black robes seemed to spring to life and embrace him. Both of their eyes widened considerably, Zechs dropping his broken brother on the floor as he hissed and backed away from the rising ebony form. Hiiro’s grin widening even further from where he lay limply on the marble, watching as two mammoth, black leather wings spread out from the small shadow giving birth to the single most beautiful creature he’d ever laid eyes on in the eternity his life. His skin was black but not pitch, it had that same eerie iridescent shimmer as Treize, but just more of it. The purple lightning that danced in Treize’s eyes appeared to prefer to roam the entire expanse of Duo’s impressive form. Unlike Hiiro or Zechs, his face hadn’t changed much, his eyes were still violet and his lines still supple and long, but he how bore the tale tell fangs and thicker skin of a fully endowed Demon Master. He also had a rather impressive set of horns, but they were much more delicate than Hiiro’s massive appendages and the long locks that the Demon Lord had so treasured through out his life had grown to an even more impressive length, covering most of his back and legs to trail along the floor in puddles of shimmering chestnut. Another small difference between himself and the other two Demons was the long tail that protruded from the tip of his spine like that of the creature watching from the rafters giving him a decidedly unfair advantage in a fight since it was equipped with a rather lethal edge and was fully under the violet eyed demon's command. ‘A demon,’ Zechs hissed, moving cautiously around the new addition. Duo smiled and with a flick of his wrist sent him slamming up against the far wall of the room, knocking down several pillars in the process that buried him very nicely. It took him a second to extract himself growling, ‘Why?!’ as he did so. ’It has always been so,’ Duo replied for Treize going to Hiiro’s side. ’I was an unware as you,’ he informed them. He wasn’t actually as large as Zechs and Hiiro, standing only about twenty feet tall, but he was no less impressive for his lack of height. ’Until our Father awakened me,’ he told them, smiling down at Hiiro’s battered but grinning form. ‘We are the same,’ Zechs ginned watching as Duo scooped Hiiro into his arms. ’Kill the human and join us in everlasting domination,’ he coaxed hopefully. ’We are not,’ Duo told him holding Hiiro to his chest. ’I am neither demon nor human anymore,’ he told him turning blazing amethyst eyes upon him as he grinned. ‘I am separate because I still possess a human soul. I am Shinigami,’ he declared. ’And unlike you... I have someone who loves me.’ he told him as his shape shifted even as his lips melted together with Hiiro’s. The blue eyed boy in his arms hissed in response, his broken body giving into the pain as his mind and soul were swept away in the delectable tide of Duo’s demonic kiss. ‘I will not guide your soul to the hereafter,’ he told his lover gently. ‘Will you stay here with me?’ he asked kissing him softly again. Hiiro couldn’t manage a verbal response so he just nodded and smiled. ‘I love you,’ Duo told him, bending to kiss him again, but this time the boy in his arms suddenly jerked and arched back drinking in the enormous amount of energy his lover was pouring into him. A moment later Duo was being pushed back and down and flailing in the Demon Lord's arms as his eyes blazed with a power surpassing his former glory for now he held the heart of his one true love and there is nothing in this realm or any other that is more powerful than the unbreakable bond of love. He broke away feeling both his heart and body healing at a rapid rate, though he had to steady Duo on his shaky legs as he stood and looked up at the creature along the ceiling. ‘Father,’ he said, calling the odd being down to their level again. ‘Thank you,’ Duo smiled kneeling to kiss his clawed hand. The creature only grinned its evil grin then suddenly and with a grace and swiftness the likes of which Duo had never dreamed possible, it was gone. Duo wondered for a moment if this being could really be his father, but upon reaching deep inside himself he couldn’t deny the part of him that belonged to him. He was still human as well but the seed that had been planted inside him so long ago had been awakened and allowed to come to full bloom. Was this a reward for Hiiro for long years of faithful service? Who could say? The will of the purity was unknown even to its subservient. Long had the lines been tainted by human blood, but their souls had been forgotten eons ago. Duo would be the only one of his kind. The only one bearing any responsibility to the human race as he guided them to their just reward and Hiiro would be right there by his side… forevermore. He was very happy, a gleeful grin spreading over his mouth that gave his lover reason to quirk a curious brow. ‘Wonder how Trowa would taste with ranch dressing,’ he grinned. ‘What about Wufei?’ Hiiro wondered. ‘Think he can handle us both?’ Duo smiled making Hiiro laugh, that rolling, thunderous, beautifully honest laugh as he snatched him up and carried him away. owari :)
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