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"The Gobanme Star"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/Galactic Adventure, Lemons (non graphic), some bad language, somewhat fem Quatre, yuckables ^-^, fuzzies and fluff abound lol, some angst, clueless Relena in the begging Beta'd by Mechante Fille Pairings: Eventual quintette w/(1x2)x5),3x4 dominance
though it begins briefly with 1x4, 2x5 Summary: Five young men learn through their trials
and adventures that they are not only bound together in every possible
way but the key to order and prosperity in the universe. Enjoy! ^-^ "The Gobanme Star"
Ch 12 Aiken was a complete mystery to all but her own people. All that was known of the planet was that it was covered with dense rainforests. The thick canopy of the huge trees had proven to be an impossible shield to penetrate, leaving the inhabitants of the planet to themselves for generations. To anyone on the outside, it was nothing more than a big leafy ball in the sky. Trowa had insisted on taking the controls when they arrived and Hiiro was glad he had. He took them through a kind of maze through the treetops. Even Duo was disorientated by the time they emerged into more open space. Their jaws dropped when they did. It was massive. There was room down there for an Alturian cruiser. Between the canopy and the planet’s crust, which was lost somewhere in the depths of the shadows beneath them, was a thriving community of tree dwellers. The city was literally built into the massive trunks. There were speeders of a sort but nothing like they’d ever seen before, most were more like the hover rod Duo had given Trowa in St. Helen’s. Nothing more than a wire or stick with an anti-grav device attached but these didn’t seem to need anything to propel against as there was nothing but air under any of them. Curiously there was no communication between Trowa and anyone on the planet. Hiiro kind of got the feeling that anyone that could actually find this place wasn’t considered a threat. There was also no one to meet them when they disembarked on the landing platform that was suspended between the trunks of some of the massive trees. Much to their discouragement, there was also nothing more than a thin wire connecting them to the nearest housing twenty meters away. Trowa didn’t even blink an eye as he strolled casually out onto the wire and walked across to disappear into the housing across the way. The others looked at each other then peered down into the darkness below them. None of them could tell just how far down it went. Hiiro was just contemplating the walk over when Trowa emerged from the other side in a small, three man speeder. Well, at least it had three foot rests. It was actually more of a long staff with thee pads to step on and a hand hold encircling the top. Trowa showed them how to use it, then lifted Quatre onto his back and carried him across the wire while the others used the speeder. They picked up another one for him and Quatre to use on the other side then followed the tall boy through the trees until they started to thicken and the skyways were beginning to get busy with traffic. It was odd though, how everyone just seemed to move out of Trowa’s way. Even odder when Hiiro looked back to see most of them had stopped dead in their tracks to stare at them. He recalled that most of these people had never seen anyone that wasn’t of Aikenian descent and tried not to feel like a fish in a candy bowl. They crossed a huge area where the people paused and watched them as they approached a massive housing carved into the trunk of an ancient tree that had to be a hundred meters in diameter. The housing turned out to be some sort of cathedral several stories deep, the upper most of which was an assembly hall adorned with huge statues and arched windows hung thick with heavy vines. This was where Trowa led them. There were several people waiting for them when they stepped off the speeders. A shorter man, a bit dumpy with a bald spot on his head and raw sienna robes, knelt and kissed Trowa’s hand then touched his forehead to where his lips had rested in greeting. The tall boy smiled but otherwise didn’t further acknowledge as he moved on down the center of the hall. The other two men and one woman that were with him fell quickly into step beside them as they moved toward the end of the hall. It became clear rather quickly that they were entering more than just a cathedral as the thrones at the end of the aisle came clear. There were two side by side, one stood empty but the other was occupied by a young blond girl whose smile brightened with every step they took. When they reached the bottom of the steps that led to the raised dais her obvious elation got the better of her and she sprang from her seat and rushed down the steps to meet their tall teammate. They all stared in mild shock as the girl threw her arms around Trowa’s neck and kissed him. Trowa held her close and returned the kiss, letting the young queen sink into his arms. Hiiro glanced at Quatre to try and catch his eye but the blond boy appeared to be in a mild form of shock. ‘Midii,’ Trowa greeted, still holding the girl close as he turned to face his lover. ‘This is Quatre,’ he smiled, holding out his hand to him. Quatre slowly thawed and allowed himself to be pulled forward until Trowa had him pulled gently against his side as well. ‘So you’re the one that has brought this light to my husband’s eyes,’ the girl smiled, reaching out to touch Quatre’s face. ‘You’re what?’ Duo interjected in astonishment. Hiiro felt damn good to see Duo had a pretty good fish face himself. ‘Midii is my wife,’ Trowa explained, watching Quatre’s eyes very closely. ‘And you are my heart,’ he smiled at the blond boy to reassure him as he bent to kiss him as well. ‘You’re the friggin’ King of Aiken?!’ Duo gasped in exasperation. ‘High Priest,’ the girl giggled as she watched Quatre shudder under the power of Trowa’s kiss. ‘There is no monarch here,’ she explained, wiping the shiny saliva from the blond boy’s mouth as she smiled affectionately at him. ‘Geez!’ Duo barked, tossing his hands in the air and flopping down on the steps. ‘Any other little tid bits we might wanna know about?’ he asked, peering up at the tall boy who was now nibbling on Midii’s neck. ‘Your cloaking abilities give you the status of something of a god here,’ Trowa explained as he pushed his lovers toward a door on their left. ‘You might want to explore, but stay out of the lower levels; nothing human survives deeper than A204,’ he warned as he picked Quatre up, kissed him and followed Midii from the room. ‘Shit!’ Duo groaned, falling back on the steps as his frustration washed over him. ‘Come on,’ Hiiro chuckled. ‘You’ll feel better once we’re out of range.’ ‘There is no range,’ Duo groused, letting Hiiro pull him from the floor. ‘Ah… shit,’ he breathed as he lost his balance and tumbled into Hiiro’s arms. ‘Damn it,’ he breathed, shaking his head to rid it of the fog that was quickly overtaking him. ‘That bad?’ Hiiro asked. He could feel it too. The heat that emanated from their blond friend whenever he was stimulated was washing over him again. He could taste the boy in the air. ‘Shit, get me out of here,’ Duo rasped, swooning slightly under the heady assault of Quatre’s passionate nuance. The longhaired boy calmed considerably once they were out in the fresh air again. They took the speeders and went to look around. Everywhere they went the people spread out and gave them a wide berth. Trowa hadn’t been kidding about that god like status. Duo’s reputation seemed to have preceded him even to this place. Several times they landed to find a small pile of offerings, breads or wrapped meats and cheeses, even one ruby necklace that Duo slipped around his neck letting the blood stone contrast against his ebony attire. They spent a couple of hours exploring the city before a young girl approached them and told them Trowa had requested they return to the cathedral. When they got there the tall boy was draped in his throne with Quatre laying lazily in his lap and his queen kneeling on the floor in front of them feeding the blond boy some sort of small fruit that resembled grapes as she giggled at him. Hiiro saw a hint of movement where Duo had been standing a moment before as the boy went into full stealth and faded back into the prince’s shadow. Even Hiiro could feel the distaste running off of him as the queen’s laughter slowly faded when Quatre suddenly sat up and looked at Hiiro, clearly alarmed by what he felt there. ‘Duo?’ the blond boy called, trying to ascertain where the braided boy might be. ‘He’s sulking,’ the prince grinned then huffed as something hit him in the back. ‘It’s time we dealt with that as well,’ Trowa interjected. ‘How?’ Duo’s disembodied voice echoed through the hall. ‘You must face it,’ Trowa told him, feeding one of the fruits to his wife. ‘You best chain my ass to the wall if you’re plannin’ on lightin’ him up around me,’ the braided boy warned sarcastically. ‘Your imbalance has nothing to do with Quatre,’ Trowa told him. ‘This is your own cross to bear. You have only to find the center and all will be well,’ he smiled kissing the girl’s lips. ‘Uhhgggg,’ Duo shuddered. ‘Do you really have to do that?’ he groused as Hiiro felt him bury his head in his back. Wufei burst out in giggles as the girl turned her head toward the voice. ‘Surely you don’t begrudge him the delicacy of a woman’s touch?’ she smiled. They all laughed as Duo’s hooded head popped up, playfully hissing at her like a mad cat then disappeared again. She chuckled with them though her expression was clearly bemused. Hiiro and his lovers were offered a room high above the cathedral that night. It was a little like being in the top most room of a high tower in a castle keep. It was small but roomy and had tall, arched windows that over looked the entire city as it spanned out between the trees like some enormously complicated spiders web. The three boy’s were piled up on the bed, Duo laying against Hiiro’s chest with Wufei’s head in the longhaired boys lap as they watched the news looking for any new information when Duo sighed heavily and closed his eyes. ‘What is it?’ Hiiro asked, bending to kiss his neck. The shiver the action caused went way deeper than the prince had expected it too. ‘He’s coming,’ Duo sighed again. ‘Quatre?’ Wufei asked, feeling the slight tremor in his lover’s body. ‘It’s getting worse,’ Hiiro pointed out unnecessarily. ‘It’s alright,’ Duo insisted. ‘Like hell it is,’ Wufei objected. The Chinese boy hadn’t been aware that Duo was this acutely affected by the blond boy. Duo rolled his eyes and smacked him on top of the head. ‘I can handle looney tunes 607 I think I can manage this,’ he groused. ‘Except that you don’t have to,’ Trowa interjected as he and Quatre entered the room. Duo looked up, drawing a deep breath as he offered Quatre a small smile and openly tried to keep his ass in his seat instead of glomping the boy. ‘What’s his problem anyway?’ Wufei asked, sitting up. ‘He is acutely susceptible to my natural emanations,’ Quatre explained. ‘So what?’ Wufei asked, glancing between them. ‘You’re like some sort of emotional aphrodisiac to him?’ ‘Something resides inside him,’ the blond boy informed him, coming over to sit on the bed beside Duo. ‘You’ve all felt it when we’ve been together,’ he pointed out as he reached out to touch his cheek. ‘Kitten,’ Duo sighed, helplessly leaning into the touch. ‘You reeeeealy don’t wanna do that,’ he warned. ‘We can show you a way to cope,’ Trowa offered. ‘I don’t want to stop feeling this,’ Duo said softly, turning to kiss the blond boy’s palm. ‘I said cope not cure,’ the tall boy pointed out. Duo nodded, still nuzzling Quatre’s hand as he drew it away. ‘Come on,’ Quatre smiled, taking his hand and pulling him from the bed. ‘Where are you going?’ Hiiro asked. He was concerned for his lover and regretted the implication that they should stay behind. ‘To the alter in the upper layer of the canopy’ Trowa told him. ‘You can see the stars from there. We’ll send for you when it’s done,’ he assured him. ‘Don’t worry,’ Quatre smiled at the prince, offering him a small kiss before they led Duo from the room. It was a short trip into the canopy with the aid of one of the speeders. Duo soon found himself in a leafy cocoon type tunnel, leading them further toward the sky. Another moment and they stepped into an octagon shaped area that was open to the sky were about a billion stars seemed to hang just out of reach. ‘Wow,’ Duo breathed, lifting his hand toward one of the brilliant points of light. ‘Oh, Trowa, it’s so lovely,’ Quatre breathed, spinning around slowly as he looked into the night sky. Duo’s eyes quickly dropped from the starry expanse in favor of the more accessible beauty just five feet away. He felt his chest swell as he watched the boy spin slowly, his huge cerulean eyes sparkling as they reflected the light of the endless sky. ‘Damn it, your fuckin’ incredible,’ he sighed, forcing himself to turn away. ‘So!’ he barked at Trowa, clapping his hands together. ‘How do we put cork in this so I can function around Mr. Wizard here?’ Trowa chuckled and instructed, ‘Sit down,’ offering him a seat on the low alter in the center of the circle. Duo did has he was told and found the flat surface surprisingly soft and warm. It had looked to be rough stone but gave when he sat on it and seemed to emanate a warmth all its own. ‘Now what?’ Duo asked, somewhat nervously. Trowa smiled and held out his hand, pulling Quatre closer when he took it. Duo’s pulse raced as he stood the blond boy in front of him. Quatre smiled softly then reached up and touched his face as he moved closer. Duo swallowed, hard. ‘If you expect me to learn to resist him I’m gonna fail miserably I can tell ya that right now,’ he warned as his chest began to labor for air. ‘Hell, I don’t even want to,’ he confessed as Quatre leaned in even closer. ‘You have to face it,’ Trowa reasoned, leaning in behind his lover, pushing his slight body forward until he rested between Duo’s thighs and pressed lightly against his body. ‘Nothing is ever as frightening as it seems.’ ‘He... doesn’t frighten me,’ Duo breathed as his eyes slide shut and Quatre kissed his jaw. ‘Ah, fuck no, that ain’t fear,’ he gasped as the blond boy’s lips nibbled down his throat. Something gripped his stomach like a steel vice as Trowa started to pull the boy out of his arms. ‘Wait!’ he gasped, pulling him back. ‘Ok ok... so maybe I’m a little scared,’ he admitted. ‘Of?’ Trowa prompted, letting his lover move back in again. Duo sighed and pulled him closer, relishing the feel of his velvet mouth on his tingling skin. ‘Loosing,’ Duo said softly. ‘Loosing the chance to share it with them.’ ‘It sleeps,’ Quatre whispered. ‘Awaken it,’ Trowa added softly, kissing the back of Quatre’s neck. ‘What if it... consumes me?’ Duo asked, uncertainly as his hands slipped down between their bodies to cup Quatre’s ass and pull him tight against his groin. He felt his chest swell again, pulsing with a life not completely his own. ‘It consumes you now,’ the blond boy moaned, leaning into the affection as Trowa’s hands slid down his sides to his stomach as he pushed his hips into him pressing him between himself and Duo. ‘Good point,’ Duo hissed. ‘Help me?’ he asked, reaching up to kiss the blond. ‘You must face this alone,’ Trowa told him. ‘Shit,’ Duo breathed. ‘I... fuck I …’ he wanted to say he couldn’t but Trowa’s words echoed in his head, ’Nothing is ever as frightening as it seems.’ His mind flashed on a moment of free fall into the mouth of an active volcano, then the look on Hiiro’s face as he sent them both over the edge of infinity, then the soft touch of Wufei’s lips on the back of his neck as they all made love in the dark and his violet eyes suddenly set like diamonds. Quatre hissed and arched back into Trowa as the flood gates opened. A moment later Duo dove on him and kissed him as the boy lit up like a flood light, the overflow of energy exploding from him in a shaft of light that reached for the distant stars. Down in the room on top of the cathedral where Hiiro was curled up next to Wufei’s shoulder, the two boys suddenly gasped and arched back as they were hit with an energy wave that rocked their very existence. The heat was incredible, frying every fiber of their being at once. It was the single most exquisite feeling either of them had ever had. Slowly the light dimmed and backed off to a steady pulsing glow around the blond boy’s body. Hiiro and Wufei lay laughing on the bed as they tried to catch their breath far below. Duo’s kiss became softer, slower and more intimate as he slowly drew the blond boy back from the edge of insanity but he didn’t stop. He kept kissing him as his hands began to roam over his body. Quatre whimpered and leaned into the touch as Trowa brushed his hair back from his eyes. Duo drew him up into his lap and started untying his shirt. About the time the longhaired boy began to push the shirt back off his pale shoulder so he could taste the tender skin there, the blond boy whispered, ‘Trowa,’ and he felt his stomach knot. It wasn’t as bad now, though. He knew he could back away without wanting to kill something. Whatever he’d been denying to himself had been exposed but it didn’t really make him want him any less. It just made it easier to cope with. He stilled and pulled back to look into the tall boy’s emerald eyes. Trowa gazed at him with no small amount of wonder then reached up to touch his chin. ‘You’re an amplifier,’ he said almost reverently. ‘A what?’ Duo asked, glad for the moment longer the blond was left sitting on his over excited lap. ‘You amplify his power,’ Trowa explained. ‘That’s why you’re so sensitive to him. You two just lit up half the damn planet,’ he chuckled. Duo laughed with him. ‘Well at least someone’ll get laid tonight.’ ‘Mmm,’ Trowa agreed then leaned over Quatre’s shoulder and kissed him softly. His heart began to thunder as the blond boy’s hands fidgeted with his broach until it fell away, leaving him gloriously nude beneath the two boys. Trowa finished removing Quatre’s open shirt and pushed them all back on the alter. He released Duo’s lips as Quatre came around to claim them as his head hit the soft surface and he groaned… ‘Ahh, hell yeah,’ then kissed the blond boy with every ounce of desire in his soul. Somewhere not far below Wufei hissed as Hiiro pushed him further into the fog, each vitally aware of their missing lover’s state of being as the boy’s energy washed through them. Hiiro savored the feeling of both Duo and Quatre’s heat as it bathed his spirit with their light, pushing him to take his Chinese lover to places far beyond any they had yet to achieve. He woke the next morning with both Wufei and Duo snuggled up beside him, though he couldn’t recall when the longhaired boy had rejoined them. He smiled remembering the serenity that had permeated him after the apex the night before. It had almost been as if he’d taken all three of them at once in an epic, cumulative release. Duo stirred when he kissed his hair turning to offer him his mouth. Hiiro could still taste the blond boy’s sweetness and something... else. Something he’d felt the night before but hadn’t recognized. It became clear to him as the morning breeze brushed by, carrying the scent of the forest with it. The foreign flavor was Trowa. He smiled again, he’d felt all four of them. Duo kissed him again, moving up so he was hovering over his chest. It was so clean and clear. Pure Duo. It made his heart race as his body began to respond. He hadn’t realized until that moment how clouded the braided boy’s intentions had become over the past two months as he battled his obsession with Quatre. Now it was all Duo; the underlying reluctance was gone. The hidden need had vanished, taking with it the frustration and doubt that Hiiro hadn’t even realized was coming between them. He tried to pull back so he could look into Duo’s eyes but the braided boy refused to release him as he slipped one of his hands into Wufei’s and climbed on top of the Japanese prince. The Chinese boy squeezed his hand as he slowly awoke and watched his two lovers’ sink deeper into each other. Hiiro ran his hands down Duo’s bare back and under the fold of sheets that had pooled around his hips as he straddled the Japanese boy and explored his mouth, turning him slowly so that his back was facing their Chinese lover. Wufei accepted the invitation gratefully moving in to kiss Duo’s neck before the braided boy turned and offered him his lips. When Duo pulled back Hiiro took a turn with Wufei as he pushed Duo’s hips back into him teasing him with the soft flesh of the boy they both loved so much. They spent a good part of the morning wallowing in the perfect balance they created between them as they rediscovered their longhaired lover. It was damn good to have him back. They were all piled up on the bed relaxing in the afterglow when Quatre knocked and entered sometime later. None of them bothered to move from their comfortable position as the blond boy grinned and entered. ‘Trowa has the ship ready,’ he told them. ‘Already?’ Duo sighed as he played with a restless lock of Hiiro’s hair. Quatre chuckled. ‘Well, I’m sure we could talk him into a few more hours if we tried,’ he grinned, crawling into the bed to lie on Hiiro’s chest. He laid several little kissed along the boy’s firm body then accepted a small kiss from Duo. The prince smiled and cuddled him close, nuzzling his hair as he pulled Duo tighter against his side. ‘Keep that up we’ll need more than a few hours,’ Trowa grinned from the doorway. ‘Damn,’ Wufei swore with an evil grin. ‘And here I thought I might get a shot.’ ‘You don’t do guys,’ Duo reminded him. ‘Quatre’s no more a guy than you are,’ Wufei sniffed. ‘I think you’re in some serious denial,’ the braided boy chuckled, rolling out of the tangle of limbs. ‘One way to find out,’ Trowa said, ripping off his shirt as he headed for the bed. ‘Whoa!’ Wufei barked, half jumping out of it. ‘It was a joke! I was joking! Geez!’ Trowa had already crawled up over him before he got the words out but stopped as he spoke and grinned down at the flustered Chinese boy who grimaced as he tried to disappear under the covers. Trowa leaned down so close to his face his breath tickled his lips. ‘Let me know if you change your mind,’ he smiled, holding the pose a moment before he pivoted and kissed Duo playfully. Quatre suddenly squealed as if someone had goosed him and started squirming around in the bed, laughing his ass off as Hiiro tickled him senseless. A moment later Wufei’s deep gawf joined him as Duo attacked his ribs, sending him into a giggle fit as Trowa snatched up one of Duo’s feet and began to gnaw on it until the braided boy was laughing uncontrollably and fighting to get away. This was the scene Midii walked in on that caused her to bark out a loud laugh and hold her stomach as she was overcome with the giggles as well. Hiiro slowed his torture of Quatre’s ribs as Duo’s head popped up half in and half out of the sheets; all that showed of Wufei was his legs and Trowa still had a mouthful of Duo’s instep as they all stilled and looked at the hysterical girl as if she’d lost her mind. She laughed so hard she ended up on her knees before she could catch her breath. ~ * ~ tbc... |
