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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 3 “Duo..MM!…” He was all over me, hands, mouth and hips drawing me down into a crevice where a small bed of moss had made its home. I thought my brain would bake in the heat when he suddenly pulled away, his fingers coming to play along the swollen, slick surface of my lips. “You humans are a strange lot,” he said softly and though I was interested in his words my body wanted to render him unable to speak. “Why was the fair one reluctant to surrender?” “I suppose he didn’t want to get caught,” I replied, trying to keep my mind on the conversation while my hands were questing for reasons to abandon it. He hissed deliciously when I found one but persisted. “Is lovemaking a sin for your kind?” he asked, exposing his throat for my approval so I gave it to him and relished the flavor of his skin. “Ut un.” “Then why…?” I almost forgot what the question pertained to as he had moaned it in this savory purr and had to stop to think about it for a second. “Probably because they’re both men.” He looked up at me with the most adorable expression of complete incomprehension in his eyes; I laughed and kissed him sweetly. “Same sex intimacy is… frowned upon by many people in my world,” I tried to explained. I laughed right out loud when his reply was, “No wonder there are so many of you.” But then he was kissing me again and I forgot my comrades, the phobic tendencies of the human race and everything else in creation as he drew me into himself and reminded me of my true purpose in life. Knowing that birds and animals were now beings that could be understood and interacted with on an equal plane with myself probably tainted the joining somewhat but we were mostly sheltered in the lee of the crevice so I took him without hesitation. I wondered, as he rose up to meet me, putting everything he was into his efforts and sealing a vow neither of us had to speak once again, if it was possible for the feelings I had for him to keep growing deeper but by the time it was over I had no doubt they had already surpassed comprehension. If it was a spell I hoped it would never be broken, if it was a dream I prayed it would never end and I held him cradled gently in my arms, his body slick with sweat and the scent of our still joined bodies thick in the air when I told him… “I love you.” His arms gripped me tightly, not allowing the kiss I wanted to give him. “Duo?” my confusion turned to mild alarm when I realized he was on the verge of tears. “Enough that you could let me go?” he rasped and suddenly I was clinging to him just as tightly. “Oh Gods, Duo. Please,” I heard myself beg. “Please don’t ask that of me.” “Hiiro…” he began and I knew the time had come for him to explain what was going on but my bad luck with this subject held fast as something huge crashed through the underbrush and slammed into our tree. “What the…!?!” I gasped as Duo flitted into the air. I wasn’t quite sure what to think when he suddenly yelled, “Dragon!” but I had a feeling things were fixing to turn bad. I hate it when I’m right as I suddenly had a face full of feathers as some creature tried desperately to claw its way up the tree. I had gotten hopelessly entangled by the time a huge, green snout lunged upward, clamping down on the tail feathers of what turned out to be a massive, albino eagle and dragged us both back to the ground. “HIIRO!” Duo cried, darting after us but the huge, green lizard was thrashing about so frantically he couldn’t get close. It was a bit of a balm to realize the attacker was not some mythical creature but one of the komodo dragons that populated the denser forests. This did little to lessen the danger as a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and poisonous saliva snapped and hissed at its prey but at least I wasn’t dealing with fiery breath and wings. Though the wings I was being bludgeoned with were nothing to be ignored as the eagle fought desperately to free itself. Duo shouted again, sounding infuriated by his helplessness and I realized as the dragon whipped and slammed into another tree I was going to have to deal with this one on my own. I looked wildly around as those teeth almost snagged my arm and the eagle screamed at the loss of a couple of more stark, white feathers that being six inches tall had its drawbacks. Well, I still had my brain so I quickly took in what assets I had as I forced the eagle down keeping its head from being slammed against a tree trunk. Its green eyes stared up at me wildly but I saw in them the understanding that I had just saved its neck and something very strange took place. It was almost as if he were suddenly working with me, his movements changing from those of desperate flight to ones of calculated defense. There was no thought involved when I jumped onto his neck and shouted my commands and no hesitation when he moved to obey them and suddenly we were on the move. The dragon hissed madly and came crashing along behind us, tearing through the underbrush with the determination of a devil but I’d had a moment to get my bearings. I’d been studying these lands for as far back as I could remember and knew the subtle lay of the land. My partner moved swiftly in spite of the bushes and branches tearing at his wings and gave a great cry when we suddenly burst out over the top of a cliff, the dragon slithering to a stop just in time to save it from a nasty fall as the eagle spread his enormous wings and took flight. I had known only one thing that felt better in my life and it came along side us crowing triumphantly only moments later. “That was amazing!” Duo laughed, running sidelong into us so hard in his hurry to cling to me the eagle rolled over in the sky. “It was scary as hell!” I laughed, holding him tightly while he kissed me. “Terrifying!” the bird agreed, taking us higher in his excitement. “I thought I was dead until you showed up!” “Where do you roost?” Duo asked, indicating this forest was not the eagle’s home. “Wherever this man calls home!” he shouted, heading for a small outcropping along the cliff. I was… stunned and oddly proud that he would say such a thing. Once we had landed I got a good look at him and saw that he was truly a spectacular sight. Albinos of any species usually have red eyes but he was rare even among the rare with his luminous green. He was also a good deal larger than any eagle I had seen in my time and I wondered how he had managed to get himself into trouble with an earthbound dragon. “Are you all right?” I asked, going to check him over. “A few missing feathers,” he chuckled, affectionately raising his wings so I could have a look. “Does it hurt?” It looked a bit red where they had been jerked out. “No where near as badly as being eaten by a dragon,” he laughed but the humor had bled away. I felt that odd sensation again when he turned his face to me, his head cocked in that same strange fashion the hawk had used when he said, “I owe you my life.” I wanted to argue the point but decided it was true which just made it seem as if arguing would belittle his feelings in some way so kept my mouth shut. “Maybe you can repay the favor someday,” Duo smiled, melting into my side, my arm slipping possessively around his waist. “And here I shall remain until my dept is repaid,” he said bowing his head low before me. It stuck me as very strange that the act didn’t make me uncomfortable; on the contrary, I felt very moved that such a noble creature would offer me his allegiance. It was almost as if refusing would defile his spirit, not to mention the fact that I didn’t want him to go away. “Have you a name?” I asked. “I will when you have given me one,” he smiled. “Zero,” came to mind because of the pure absence of color in his pristine form. “Partners then,” I smiled, earning me a bright smile from his green eyes. “Partners,” he repeated and I was shocked when he reached a feathery wing forward to take Duo’s hand and nuzzle it with his beak as he added, “I am honored to be of any service to Shinigami’s light.” Shinigami? “…” Oh shit. “Duo?” “Do you hear that?” he commented, moving away as if to listen to the breeze. “Duo,” I repeated, growing tired of his evasions but then the sound of a woman’s shriek rose from the riverbank some distance below. “Magami!” Duo snapped, taking flight and I hopped on Zero’s shoulders without thought as he leapt into the sky. “Duo!” We plummeted straight down until we were safe within the canopy then followed my wayward lover until the shouting of both Meilan and Wufei rose to a deafening pitch. Duo looked decidedly disappointed at the absence of the wolf god but the warring couple before us raged on as we joined him where he pouted behind a wide leaf. “Why don’t they just mate and get on with it,” he grumbled. “Looks more like they would rather duel,” Zero observed, ducking as a stone Meilan hand hurled at Wufei zoomed by. “Let’s go find the others,” Duo suggested. “They were far more interesting.” “Do you hear that?” Zero asked quietly. “No,” I replied but Duo’s ears had perked up. “It’s too quite,” he observed and I looked at him as if he’d lost his mind as Wufei shouted something that sounded grossly obscene even in Chinese. “The animals are silent,” he explained and I suddenly realized he was right. Not a bird, bug or fish seemed to inhabit the strangely silent woods where my fellow humans stomped around completely unaware until the great form of Oguchi no Magami sprang. “Watch out!” Wufei shouted, stepping immediately between the girl and the snarling wolf but I knew he had no chance against the wolf god and spurred Zero into the air. “Wufei!” I shouted too late as Magami lurched forward but my Chinese friend surprised us all by placing a well executed kick to the side of his head, throwing him off balance and slamming his massive form into the gravelly creek bank. “Wufei!” I shouted again as Zero came to hover, flapping frantically to hold his position while I tried to warn my friend. Wufei hadn’t heard me or perhaps his mind simply dismissed the possibility that I would show up six inches tall on the back of an albino eagle, but regardless he appeared to think Zero and I were attacking them as well and attempted to bring us out of the sky. “Run!” I managed before Zero had to dodge a vicious blow but then Wufei had to turn his attention back to the more dangerous visage of a slavering wolf as Magami regrouped. I didn’t like the glint in the wolf god’s eyes. They spoke of certain death should he land a blow and spurred me to try harder. “Wufei!” I shouted again, guiding Zero to fly about his head. “You can’t win! He won’t die! You have to run!” My misplaced concern cost my friend a single moment as he gaped at us in sheer shock that allowed Magami an opening he took with a deep throated snarl and his fangs would certainly have ripped Wufei’s throat out if Meilan hadn’t swept his feet from under him. Zero shot into the sky as powerful jaws snapped on thin air and Magami’s raging, snarling form crashed into the ground. He did not lose his footing this time however, and turned almost instantly toward the fallen Chinese boy. I was certain Wufei was going to die when the second wolf suddenly launched itself from the brush and slammed into Magami’s side. Meilan snatched Wufei to his feet as the two wolves rolled and separated each baring tooth and claw as they circled one another. “Run!” I shouted to my comrades again and Meilan’s eyes caught mine, her expression one of pure determination as she dragged her reluctant partner toward a nearby stand of trees. I followed and tried not to take it too personally when Wufei glared at me as if I had insulted his intelligence by appearing in such a state as we lighted on a branch. “You have to get out of here,” I told them as what I now knew to be Akami dodged Magami’s rushing advance. Wufei’s mouth fell open but nothing came out and he snapped it shut again when Duo zoomed up to land beside me. I watched his eyes grow wide as I tucked my new lover close by my side and grinned unabashedly at his utter dismay. “Is he a god?” Meilan asked, turning her attention back to the snarling wolves by the river. “Don’t be absurd,” Wufei scoffed but there was no conviction in his tone as he watched Magami jump ten feet in the air and round on his foe. I was once again utterly shocked when Duo smiled and replied, “Women are so easily bemused.” Wufei’s smile brightened in his appreciation of the comment until my lover added, “You’d think she’d know a demigod when she sees one.” Then it was Meilan’s turn to grin. “We should go,” he sighed, almost seeming bored with the battle going on nearby. “They’ll probably be at it for a while.” “How do you know that?” Meilan asked, allowing Wufei to guide her reluctantly into the trees. “The moon is waxing,” Duo explained, joining me on Zero’s back. “It will be full tonight. The mating ritual has begun.” “But,” Wufei began, tossing a curious glance over his shoulder. “Weren’t they both males?” “What is this infatuation with opposite sex intimacy?” my lover grumbled as Zero glided from tree to tree. “Does your size muddle your brains?” “Well, sex is meant for… procreation,” Wufei pointed out defensively. “If you’re a sloth,” Duo scoffed and I laughed and held him tight while we glided to a tree ahead off our companions. “If everyone thought like you the only time anyone would lay together would be during a female’s heat.” “Humans don’t…” “I know that!” Duo cut him off. “Neither do we but that just makes it all the more confounding why you would want to limit your pleasure to opposite sex encounters. No offense,” he offered nodding to Meilan as we sailed by. “But especially between males. We are, after all, fully equipped for any situation.” “You’re turning me on,” I whispered in his ear, pulling my hips tight against his ass. “And even when mating to breed,” he added, turning to smile invitingly at me. “In the end, it is all spawned by the need to please.” I kissed him because I needed to and he kissed me back until I was urging Zero off in another direction. I have no idea where he took us and didn’t really care by the time we arrived as Duo was doing a fine job of cooking whatever thoughts might have floated to the surface of my mind. Zero disappeared once we slipped from his back and I laid Duo down in what turned out to be a bed of fluffy down feathers. We had to be in a nest, though who it belonged to was lost to me since our feathered companion was a male. It didn’t matter and I didn’t care past the point of it supplying me with a wonderful torture device for driving him completely out of his mind. I had never seen anything so beautiful as him stretched out in a bed of dapple down, his face scrunched up in ecstasy as the sun danced in his hair and sparkled along the length of his wings. When he surrendered, his lithe body thrashing rapturously beneath mine, I swore I saw the light of Heaven in his eyes. I held him for hours afterward. Until his body had long since cooled, until the traces of his tears had dried in the waning sunlight and all the Earth seemed to lay in quite admiration below us. I felt something stir inside him, a subtle change that told me his mood had shifted darkly and knew I didn’t want to hear what he had to say when he spoke under the golden glow of the sunset sky. “He will come for me in the night.” I could barely breathe and had to try more than once to speak before I finally rasped a shaky, “Who?” But he didn’t answer me. “He always comes when the moon is at its peak.” The mating ritual. “Duo?” The fear of losing him was almost debilitating and I realized I was clinging to him so tightly he could hardly breathe. His eyes turned to gaze into mine and I suddenly knew what hell would be like. I would die a thousand deaths to never see that expression in his eyes again. “There are those who do not believe,” he told me, the pleading tenor of this tone making my eyes sting as I prayed for some way to take his pain away. “But I have never given myself to him,” he told me and I crushed him to me even tighter, understanding his fear had been spawned by some doubt in his heart that I wouldn’t believe. “Why?” I ground between clenched teeth. “Why does he want you so badly?” “I am his light,” he replied softly and I drew back to blink at him in confusion. “I am the beacon,” he explained. “For eons I have called the spirits of man for him. I draw them here, and he guides them to their final destination.” “He kills them,” I clarified and his eyes moved away. “Duo,” I whispered, calling them back. “You’ve done nothing wrong. You call the souls that were meant for death anyway, right?” But the words seemed to bring him little comfort as he gazed at me and tears spilled freely from the corners of his eyes as he explained, “All…save you.” “Will he kill me then?” I asked, fearing not for the loss of my life but my absence from Duo’s. But he shook his head and held me close as he swore, “That will never happen.” I had no idea what to say or do so I kissed him and wrapped him in my arms and tried to think of some way to appease the God of Death. It seemed a daunting task after having taken his lover who he had been patiently waiting to accept him for who knew how many hundreds of years. I had no idea how long fairies lived but Duo had indicated it had been a very long time. Then there was the fact that I had been summoned before my time. Whether that meant he would guide me to the netherworld anyway or simply return me to my natural state and disappear with Duo mattered little. Either possibility was unacceptable. I had to think of some way to make it right, to stay by Duo’s side and somehow, someway, defeat the God of Death on his own ground. “AH!!” I think we both just about had a heart attack when the hawk suddenly appeared at the nest’s edge. “Sunny! Damn it! You scared me half to death!” Duo exclaimed. “What are you doing in my nest!?” she retorted angrily, flapping her wings madly in her agitation. “Trying not to fall the hell out at the moment!” he growled while we both clung on for dear life. It was at that moment that we heard a horrific screech and Zero suddenly swooped down almost taking Sunny’s head off with his deadly talons. “Stop!” I shouted and though he didn’t go for the killing blow again he did manage to land squarely over us and glare at the resident hawk. “It was I who brought them here!” he twittered at her. “Whatever objections you have should be taken up with me!” She stared at him for a long moment as if sizing him up before evenly replying, “As you wish,” and taking flight. We all looked around but she had disappeared, then Zero screamed in pure rage as a brown bullet shot from the sky and raked him from crest to tail feathers. His eyes flashed with fury as they searched the canopy below but she had disappeared again. I sheltered Duo as he spread his wings and took off for the heavens. A moment later Sunny streaked by from below and knocked him head over heals causing him to tumble in a flurry of snowy feathers into the trees below. “Pompous ass,” she sniffed, landing lightly on the edge of the nest. “Are you all right?” Duo chuckled. “I’m more worried about Zero,” I commented, searching the depths of the branches below. “He’s fine,” she sighed. “Though why I spared him is beyond me.” “He’s our friend,” I reminded her. “I suppose that is reason enough,” she smiled but it left her quickly when he popped back up all bristly and full of indignation. “Madame! That was entirely uncalled for!” “Call me Madame again and I will have another reason to hear you scream,” she replied coolly. He clicked his beak and ruffled his feathers making him look twice his size but it did little to intimidate the sleek hawk so he finally gave up and deflated in a heaving sigh. “My apologies,” he offered, regaining some of his dignity as he straightened. “I was unaware that his nest was currently occupied. There is no evidence of recent young.” “It is last year’s accommodations,” she informed him. “Well, I’m afraid we’ve ruined it now,” Duo cut in. “It’ll smell like sex for weeks after this afternoon.” I choked on the words even though they had not come out of my mouth but it appeared to highly amuse him so it was not a completely useless reaction. “You are welcome to it,” she said in that soft tone that sounded like a smile and I was moved when her head came to nuzzle Duo’s cheek. “It will be my gift you,” she said gently then stole away the warm feeling in my chest when she added, “Should you survive,” and fell away, soaring off into the distance. I watched her fade into the sunset as a foreboding settled over the land and Zero quietly observed, “A most impressive female.” “She’s not an eagle,” Duo pointed out. “And he is not a fairy,” he countered haughtily but Duo seemed less than amused as he requested… “Take us to find Akami.”
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