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"A GW Fairy Tale"Written By: t-shirt View Art work for 'Fairy Tale' Click HERE 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/Fantasy, Angst, SAP! Lots of sap,
fluff, a brief lemon or two Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5xM I blame this one on Shev cause she’s the one that shoved this bunny up my skirt *snerk* Beta’ed by the sweet Mechante *hugs* thanks sugah! Summary: Hiiro takes a trip into the lush canopy of an ancient forest and discovers much more than new spices of fauna. View
Art work for 'Fairy Tale' Click HERE "A GW Fairy Tale" Ch 2 I sat bolt upright in my bed almost collapsing my tent as the air rushed painfully into my lungs. My skin was damp and cold and my body trembled uncontrollably right down to my very bones as my arms closed around my chest. I couldn’t stop shaking but knew it was night. It had been a dream after all but… it had seemed so real. And why was I so cold? Slowly my senses began to clear but it brought me no comfort as I realized I was soaking wet. My hair and clothes were drenched yet there was no scent of rain in the air. I scrambled outside and peered into a starlit sky, more confirmation that my soggy condition was impossible unless… The thought was frozen by a sudden, deep throated and threatening growl from beyond the edge of camp. When I turned slowly to investigate I saw only the reflection of two, bright amber eyes glowing in the darkness and wondered how long my luck at living would hold out. “What have you done?” a gravely tenor growled and I had to stop and shake my head. Was I still dreaming? “I… who are you?” I had only a moment to wonder what the hell was going on before the beast sprang from the brush, its massive paws slamming into my chest knocking me back to crash hard into the Earth. Pain lanced through my chest and down both arms and I felt the crushing weight of a huge wolf pressing me into the ground. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?” the creature growled again, his breath rank with the stench of death as it washed over my face and burned my nostrils. “I… I don’t know!” I wailed, fearing being ripped to shreds. “What do you want?! Who are you!?” “I should have pity on you and devour you now,” it snarled, forcing me to turn my face into the ground with its snarling mouth. My heart hammered frantically while my mind raced in search of a way to protect myself but the beast far outweighed me and had me pinned beneath him, he could have taken my life anytime he chose. So why didn’t he? “Who are you!” I barked feeling my nerve bolstered by the fact that I was still alive. “My name need not be known to you, foolish little man thing,” he growled low and menacing and I dared to look at him, his eyes afire in the night with that otherworldly glow and I suddenly realized what he must be and my speculation escaped my lips before I fully understood it’s meaning. “Oguchi no Magami.” I had never seen a wolf smile before. It was a decidedly… frightening experience. “You speak as if you truly believe,” he grinned and pressed his weight in to my chest until I thought for sure my bones would splinter. “If his existence means I must believe in you,” I ground through clenched teeth and blinding pain, “Then yes, I believe.” I was suddenly less than important to him as he crouched and snarled and a second canine form suddenly burst from the brush and slammed into his side. I coughed and wheezed as the air rushed back into my lungs and tears of pain and frustration ran down my cheeks as I scrambled, trying to stay out of the way of the snarling, thrashing wolves warring in the camp. “Stay down!” I rasped though it ripped at my throat to warm my classmates as they one by one awoke. Trowa snatched Quatre by the hand as he darted by his tent dragging him toward the relative safety of the trees, his body shielding him once they had ducked from view but Meilan was not so lucky. Her tent went down in a flurry of fangs and teeth as the beasts tumbled over the ground. She screamed and I heard Wufei’s enraged roar before the wolves, snapping and snarling, chased one another into the darkness. I wanted to go to her but found my body still too weak but Wufei was already there ripping the tent open in his search. He found her seemingly unharmed save for being frightened half to death and I saw something I had not thought to ever see in my life when he took her into his arms and thanked the Gods for her health. “What the hell was that!?” Quatre cried but then Akami was there, fully clothed, his temple bleeding profusely and a rifle in his hand. “Is anyone hurt?!” he shouted and receiving no certain confirmation ran off into the woods in the direction of the wolves. “Akami!” I shouted understanding full well he stood no chance against the wolf god but he paid me no heed and disappeared into the darkness. “Is she all right?” Quatre asked going to Wufei’s side and he unbent enough to nod uncertainly. She gave him a watery little smile and allowed him to pull her to her feet and inspect her more carefully while I tried to pull the edges of reality back around my shoulders. “What just happened?” Trowa asked laying both hands on Quatre’s shoulders. I had no idea where to even start. “I was visited…” Gods, it sounded so crazy. “… the wolves…” How do you say I got my ass reamed by a wolf god? “I thought wolves had been hunted to extinction in this forest,” Wufei commented crossly. “He was no ordinary wolf,” I tried but it seemed a pitiful excuse for an explanation. “Obviously!” Quatre snorted. “That thing was a big as a horse. Since when do we have giant wolves in the forests of Japan?” “I don’t know,” Wufei commented. “But their presence could very well cut our visit short.” “No! I won’t let him drive me off! He’s out there somewhere and he wants me! I know he does and I’m not leaving him! I don’t care what you or that stupid wolf has to say!” It was out of my mouth before I even realized what the hell I was saying. The dead silence that reigned once the words had fluttered away on the breeze gave testament as to just how insane it had sounded and I watched my classmates stare at me as if I might go rabid on them at any moment. I didn’t know what else to say. I had meant every word but none of them could have possibly understood. They hadn’t seen the fairy creature, hadn’t held him in their arms… but… that had been a dream… “Hiiro?” “He’s real, Quatre,” I tried but only managed to change his fearful expression to one of sympathy. “I swear…” “Who?” Meilan gently inquired. “The fai…rie.” Damn, I even sounded nuts to myself. “I suspect you might have a touch of Satou fever,” Akami said stepping back into the light and for a moment, just an instant in time I thought I saw an amber glimmer in his eyes. But the firelight flickered softly and I sighed at my own foolishness. “Have you been bitten by anything?” he asked coming abreast of me. He sounded as carefree as ever but upon closer inspection he looked worn to the bone and I wondered as I looked upon his dirt sodden face where the wound I had seen earlier had gone. “I… don’t think so,” I replied taking inventory of my body. “You’re soaking wet,” Quatre supplied. “Could that be from night sweats?” “Possible,” Akami nodded touching my forehead. “Should we get him to a doctor?” Trowa asked. “No,” our guide replied. “It’s a common condition for anyone mildly allergic to the Satou spiders that make their homes in the under brush here,” he explained and I felt my heart tightening in my chest. It couldn’t be. He had not been a figment of my imagination. He had not been a hallucination. “You’ll be fine,” he told me. “But you might experience some altercations in reality, strange dreams and the like. Have you had any nightmares?” “I…” No, the dream was mine alone. If it had truly only been a dream then it would remain mine so I shook my head. He gazed at me for a long moment in which I felt as if my soul had somehow been stripped bare before smiling and clapping me on the shoulder. “What about those wolves?” Wufei gently demanded. “They belong to a breeding preserve near here,” Akami explained and something very uneasy settled in my crawl. “They escaped earlier this evening but there was no way to warn us in time. I tracked them to the edge of the ravine. They’re headed straight into the trapping zone so I doubt we’ll have any more problems with them. I’ll check and make sure in the morning.” He was lying; I could smell it on his breath. “If he was only a wolf,” I dared inquire and got several cautious appraisals for my trouble. “Why didn’t he eat me?” The smile Akami flashed me when he flippantly replied, “Maybe you’re not his type,” stilled the blood in my veins. I had seen that sort of smile before, on the lips of Oguchi no Magami. My little tent suddenly seemed horribly inadequate protection. We spent the remainder of the night restoring camp. Meilan’s tent had to be completely torn down and set up again, something Wufei insisted on doing while she rested by the fire in a blanket and sipped the coffee he had made her and I was beginning to think maybe I really had lost my mind watching him dote over her. I noticed Trowa stayed close to Quatre for the duration as well and Akami, though his presence was known, seemed to effortlessly avoid all of us. He knew what was going on, I had no doubt of that. What I couldn’t figure out was why he was hiding it from me. I had seen the truth after all, had held it in my arms. I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts, realizing that I was having trouble sifting the reality from the dream and felt doubt over my own perception for the first time. Had it been a dream? Had he been nothing more than my own desperate desire to hold such perfection in my hand? I felt hot just thinking about it, how soft his body had been, how deep his kiss and took myself off to the riverbank to cool my face. The morning had broken, setting the flowing water ablaze with sparkling lights. There was a small rock fall just upstream, nothing but a two foot dip in the riverbed but it made the water sing gently in the growing light. It was peaceful, serene and I found myself exploring the bank. Searching out smooth stones in the cascading water, fascinated by the abundant variety of algae and grasses that shared this place until a sound came to my ears. It was not so different than the steady bubbling of the rock ledge but louder and my heart tightened in my chest as I rounded the bend and saw the falls. I had never been to this place yet I knew it well. I had visited it in my dreams only the night before. There was the spot where he had bathed, the place where I had first tasted his lips and my anxious heart took me into the water but I couldn’t find where we had lain on the far bank. The place in the sand where he had lain so sweetly beneath me did not seem to exist and it tore at me to think it had really been nothing more than a dream. The devastation of that thought brought me to rest on a rock near the fall and by chance I happened to glance down at the sandy place between it and the lapping waters edge. That was the place, I was as sure of it as I was of my own name but it was much too small to have accommodated us… unless…. “Morning, lover!” I fell backward off the rock right into the river as his small form zoomed into view and he laughed delightedly at my plight. I scrambled, blinked and sputtered probably a little more than was necessary but I liked the sound of his laugher. “You’re… how did you…?” “You’re very stubborn?” he chuckled, coming to light on the rock. “I’ve never had to call anyone as hard as you. Do you have something against camping or something?” “No… I just… call me?” I stammered, drawing my soggy self from the creek bottom. “What?” he smiled when I couldn’t stop grinning at him but the coy little look he gave me was so reminiscent of his expression in the dream all I could do was stand there and wonder if I could look anymore idiotic if my ears actually did burst into flame. “You’re… real,” I evaded, stepping toward the bank. “Don’t let old Akami mess with your head,” he grinned as he took flight. “I know willow trees with more bite in their bark.” I was inclined to laugh at the comment but felt a tug at the drawstring on my pants as he zoomed by and was too busy scrambling to keep them from falling down around my ankles to do much more than a carp impersonation. “Damn it! What the hell are you trying to do!? Drown me!?” I gasped when he was suddenly in my face drawing back reflexively as if a bug had tried to land on my nose, my eyes were wide and I looked fairly stupid I would imagine but I couldn’t stop staring into those sparkling, amethyst eyes as he smirked and replied… “You weren’t so shy last night.” He seemed highly amused when I fell back into the water again. “That… that was real?” I choked, unable to look at him directly as I busied myself trying to right my pants and retain some form of dignity. “I should hope so,” he smiled, flitting up to hover before me. “It took me two years to get you in that position,” he told me and I felt my mind go utterly blank. “I must say,” he sighed, moving close enough that my eyes crossed to look at him. “You certainly didn’t disappoint.” He was no more than six inches tall but I felt a rush the size of Mt. Fuji when he kissed me on the nose. My first impulse was to kiss him back in a much more intimate way but… well… he was… “How did we…? “ Shit! I couldn’t just say it out loud! “Fairy dust,” he chuckled, lighting on my knee. For a moment I thought about gasping in awe but what came out of my mouth was a jovial, “Bullshit.” I had never seen a smile quite that dazzling before. “Then how would you explain it?” he asked, kicking back with both hands behind his head. “I don’t know,” I shrugged. “Maybe your kind are telepathic or something.” “Oh,” he snorted amusedly. “So you believe in telepathic fairies and gods that take the form of wolves but not magic?” “I believe in you,” I smiled, leaning closer. “Anything else is optional.” “That’s very… convenient,” he smiled, scooting over so he could touch my face. “Duo,” slipped softly from my lips and I had to stop and wonder why before I understood. “That’s your name, isn’t it?” “Yes,” he confirmed and my shoulders tingled at the tiny tremor in his tone. “Duo,” I breathed again, loving the feel of his tiny hand on my cheek and suddenly felt that boiling in my belly again. The next thing I knew I was treading water and looking up as he peered over the edge of the rock. It took about two seconds to put it together with what had happened in the dream and I understood I had been shrunk down to his size somehow. Be it magic or simply a trick of the mind I didn’t care because he was floating down to me, his arms outstretched and I took him into mine without question. His wings hummed softly as he drew us to the bank and the moment my feet found ground I drew him close and kissed him with all the feeling that was swirling around in my heart. It was a decidedly self-empowering thing to feel him shudder under my touch. “Damn,” he rasped softly, his eyes clouded and misty with newborn passion and I laid him back on the warm sand. “Wait.” It was not what I wanted to hear. “Please… don’t…” Nope. “We have to be… careful… mmm…” I was being exceedingly careful and saw no good reason to stop. My hand slithering down his body drew from him the sweetest little whimper and I knew I was lost. There was nothing I wouldn’t do to ensure he kept making those sounds; to give him whatever glory I could I would break down the very gates of Heaven and drown him in the spring of life. He sounded very much as if he were drowning before I finally granted him nirvana and I took my greatest joy from his rapture. It had been even better than the first time though the tears on his temples were more from exertion than emotional overload. “Elm’s blood,” he sighed heavily, still trying to catch his breath. “You truly are the one.” “The only one,” I agreed, hoping he understood I would stand for no other as I kissed him. I got only a moment to enjoy the sumptuous sensation before I was unceremoniously ripped from atop him and dumped in the river again. I came up spitting and sputtering and fighting mad and came face to face with the determined, angry visage of a young girl. A pixie actually, as she too had wings upon her back that, at the time, where buzzing angrily from where she glared down at me from beneath her little, cranberry red hat. “Who the hell’re you!” I roared lunging for her but she was suddenly behind me shoving me back under as she shouted. “Duo! Run!” I think she might actually have drowned me if I hadn’t managed to get a grip on her and pulled her under with me. We both came up coughing and wrestling and spitting mad until we heard Duo’s uncontrolled laugher from the bank and stopped. Her wrists where clasped in my hands, her head bent as if to bite my shoulder, our bodies entangled in the shallow of the stream while Duo busted a gut and rolled around in the sand. “Y… you two… look so… stupid!” he howled and she was suddenly gone. Duo yowled even louder when she dumped a skirt full of water on his head and then I was the one laughing while she glared at him. “I thought you were in trouble!” she scolded. “I was,” he chortled. “I think he wanted seconds.” “Seconds!” she gasped, smacking him repeatedly over the head as she wailed, “What…have…you…done!” But then he had her in his arms and they were tumbling over the ground and I felt something angry and protective rear up from somewhere deep in my bowels. “He’s mine!” Duo grinned, pinning her to the sand. “You idiot!” she spat, struggling fruitlessly to free herself as I calmed the beast in my belly with the fact that they seemed to just be friends. “I can’t believe you’d be so stupid! He’s gonna have your wings for this!” “Let him take them if he can,” Duo smirked, bending to nip her on the nose while I tried to get my eye to stop twitching. “You’re an arrogant fool,” she sighed, relenting. “Love calls the foolish heart,” he smiled, tossing me a glance that turned my irritation to utter wonder. “He might let you join him in Hell when he finds out what you’ve done,” she snipped, bucking him off. “Heaven or Hell,” he replied in a much more serious tone, “Anywhere with him would be better than here.” “Duo,” she sighed while I dragged my soggy self from the creek again. “He’s very beautiful but you know you can’t just…” “That was a bit of a happy surprise,” Duo cut her off, turning to grin at me as I shook the water out of my hair. I got a very strange feeling down in the pit of my stomach under his adoring gaze. He hadn’t even known what I looked like? I thought back while they argued and realized that over the past couple of years my desire to come here had become the sole purpose of my life. Then it came to me that I had been fascinated with the deep forest for as long as I could remember and the idea of fate suddenly wasn’t such a far-fetched notion. “By Gaia’s skin, Duo!” she was shouting in exasperation. “You know you can’t just summon humans anytime you want!” “It’s not like I had a choice, Hilde!” he retorted. “I thought he was just a dream for the longest time!” “Enough!” I barked, not liking the way my chest hurt when he was upset. “I have no idea what you two are talking about,” I told her, taking him in my arms, “But I’m not leaving him. No matter what the cost.” “You’ve bewitched him,” she droned. “I don’t care what he’s done,” I informed her. “I love him,” I said and surprised even myself with the conviction in the words. “Not even the Gods themselves could ever take that away.” “You see,” he grinned in a most satisfactorily drunken way. “No spell in the world could exact that depth of feeling.” I was consoled by the fact that she seemed to accept that as a given but she was obviously not to be swayed. “You better hope he’s right,” she said, her eyes narrowing dangerously, “Because you’re about to find out what power resides in the heart of a jealous god.” He had turned in my arms and kissed me before she completely disappeared into the brush. “Duo,” I managed and he turned his energy into a tight embrace. “What was she talking about? Who is he?” “Nobody,” he sighed. “It doesn’t matter.” I wanted to press the subject but he was kissing me again and the next thing I knew we were raising off the ground. “Duo?!” “Hang on,” he grinned and though I could feel the strain in his arms we were suddenly moving through the trees. He kept low, thankfully, because even at four feet off the ground the fall might have killed me if he’d dropped me. Our positions shifted until we were clasping each other’s wrists as I dangled below him and my eyes suddenly went wide with terror when a huge, feathery body suddenly appeared out of nowhere and snatched me out of his grasp. “HEY!” he barked, zooming after us and I had a moment to stare into the double-lidded eyes of my captor before I fully understood I was being held in the beak of a gigantic hawk. “GIVE HIM BACK!” Duo roared but I was suddenly being jostled every which way as the great bird clamored for a foothold on the branch of an ancient elm. It seemed horribly tragic that my visit here would end with my becoming a meal for the local wildlife but there was little I could do about it when it tossed me in the air in preparation to swallow me but then Duo was there, scooping me up before its sharp beak could snap closed. “What are you doing!?” the hawk shrieked, taking flight after us. “I won it fair and square!” “He’s mine!” Duo shouted but with my added weight there was no way he could outrun the agile bird. “He said I could have it if I took it from you!” “NO!” But we were falling closer to the ground by the moment. “What do you need with a human?” the bird reasoned, following us to the ground. Duo was panting heavily from the flight when we slammed into the Earth, the bird landing in a flurry of flapping wings and flying leaves right behind us. “Who said you could eat me!” I demanded, hoping to glean some information from the strange encounter. “You knew his name last night,” the bird replied in an amused tone as it cocked its head. “Perhaps that is why he offered you to me as my breakfast?” The wolf. I was a bit disappointed to not hear a name I didn’t already know but it made sense. “Tell him if he keeps it up I’ll make sure Akami is no where near this wood come the next full moon!” Duo growled stepping protectively between us. The bird cocked its head until I thought it might rotate all the way around trying to get a better peek at me. “Threatening a demigod is not a good practice if you wish to keep your pet.” “I love him!” Duo retorted. “I am not a pet,” I felt compelled to explain, taking a place by his side as I was beginning to feel like a coward in his shadow. “Step forward,” it beckoned, doing so itself but I decided to hold my ground. I’d be damned if I’d back down to a bird. “There is nothing to fear,” it said and its tone had softened in spite of its perpetually scowling features. “If you have captured Duo’s heart then you have earned my loyalty as well. Let me have a look at you.” It was Duo’s suddenly radiant smile that encouraged me to do so but I still felt a tight knot of foreboding when the thing’s sleek head moved forward. It looked me up and down, cocking its head this way and that until finally taking a deep sniff of me and jerking back to sneeze as if to blow a foul stench from its nostrils. “Foolish imp,” it rasped, ducking around me to peer at Duo but he was grinning unrepentantly and I realized we must still reek of sex. A sudden noise sent them both so quickly into the shadows I found myself staring dumfounded into the empty clearing until Duo’s hissing caught my attention and I joined him just as an enormous boot landed where we had been. “Trowa,” Quatre’s voice gasped and I understood who we were looking at before my eyes could make sense of their mammoth forms. “Not here…” “Not here,” Trowa echoed, pushing him against the trunk of a large oak. “Not in your tent, not in camp. Quatre,” he breathed, bending to nip at his captive’s neck. “You’re making me insane.” Duo giggled, snatching me up to carry us to a higher limb where we could see better as Quatre whimpered and melted under the taller boy’s touch. “But…the others…” “Are preoccupied,” Trowa reasoned, kissing him so fervently Quatre’s breath hissed inward in a heated rush. “Pervert.” The sound of the hawk’s quiet thrum right behind us almost made me fall off the limb and Duo giggled madly under his breath as he caught at me. “You should leave them their privacy.” “But they’re fascinating to watch,” Duo grinned with a bit more enthusiasm than I was comfortable with. “T…Trowa,” Quatre panted softly and my eyes were drawn to look at where the taller boy’s hand was slipping down the back of his loosened pants. “Maybe she’s right,” I ventured. “Don’t be such a spoil sport,” Duo pished. “It’s just getting good.” And indeed it was as Trowa had successfully divested him of his pants and coaxed one pale leg to encircle his hip. I had suspected this sort of relationship existed between them but having it boldly laid out in front of my face was making my blood begin to burn. “Duo…” “Shhh,” he hushed, moving closer and suddenly all I could think about was doing to him what Trowa was about to do to Quatre. “You both need a lesson in good manners,” the hawk groused, seizing Duo by the braid and me in one talon. “Get off!” Duo hissed. “Trowa,” Quatre moaned, receiving a desperately breathed… “It’s just a bird,” from his lover. “Yes… but… “ But then Quatre cried out and I had a feeling he wasn’t going to be concerned with anything but Trowa for a while as the hawk forcibly carried us away. “Sunhawk! Put me down!” Duo growled. “Stop wriggling before you make her drop me!” I warned. “You’re no fun,” Duo groused, wrenching free to fly along side us. “That’s because you’ve snatched it all up for yourself,” the hawk chuckled. “Leave a little for the rest of creation.” “Put him down,” he demanded. “That is entirely undignified.” “Quite right,” she agreed, landing rather awkwardly to keep from squishing me against the limb of giant elm. “Thank you,” I panted, wishing not for the first time I had a pair of wings of my own. “He, at least, appears to have good manners,” she told Duo rather haughtily and I swear, if a bird could smile she did when she cocked her head. “You certainly could have chosen worse.” “There was no choice,” Duo grumbled, worrying over his tattered braid. “The heart’s intention?” she mused playfully turning her head upside down to peer at me and I had the urge to laugh and push her away so I did. “Then I wish you luck,” she said, falling from the branch with that smile in her tone as she called back to us, “You’re going to need it!”
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