Author's note:
'Dear god, look here she goes again, making another story!' Must be what's going through your mind right now.
UU It's it sad that I've got over 30 stories and only about six are completed. Soon to be more though, hopefully! Plus about two have been put on hold for a very long time. If anyone wants 'With You' my Inu story go ahead and take it if you email me first. I didn't really care for that one in the first place really… -Red Tail
Okay, here we go again. After making the thirty-third disclaimer or something I think people would realize this:
Disclaimer: I don't own the title…it's a Guns N Roses song (Appetite for Destruction).I don't own Tarzan. If I did I would sell him to buy GW . Oh, by the way, I don't own Gundam Wing and I never ever will.
Warnings: Relena bashing. Most likely, if not then forget I ever said anything. This is also a 1x2 story, which means that it's slash. I don't think I need to go further. There will most likely be gore and violence. What can I say…I'm sadistic.
Pairings: 1x2 (Relena likes Heero so I guess that would be Rx1 or whatever)
Ratings: PG-13 for violence and swears, if not in English or Japanese than in Monkey-talk or hisses.
Story note:
I've altered this obviously for Tarzan because 1) I can't picture Heero running around like an ape and acting like that… and 2) I refuse to make a Duo and Relena story.
This story is set in South America due to the fact that Africa doesn't have the type of animal I needed to make this story work.
Key:
"Regular speech."
"Animal tongue—in leopard or monkey it will say."
Welcome to the Jungle
By: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)
Author's note:
'Dear god, look here she goes again, making another story!' Must be what's going through your mind right now.
U.U It's it sad that I've got over 30 stories and only about six are completed. Soon to be more though, hopefully! Plus about two have been put on hold for a very long time. If anyone wants 'With You' my Inu story go ahead and take it if you email me first. I didn't really care for that one in the first place really… -Red Tail
Another thing…UPDATE YOUR STORIES PEOPLE! (Basically, it goes like this… I'm bored. So I make tons of fics. I update tons of fics. I do nothing and am ready to tear my hair out. That's the only reason for my sudden burst of updates and new stories (Letsee, there was Silent as the Grave, Can I Take My gun to Heaven, What Lies Beneath, Welcome to the Jungle, Pieces of Us, I'm with Him:sigh: ARG! Okay, basically the point of this is… UPDATE YOUR STORIES! I'M GONNA DIE OF BOREDOM HERE!)
Okay, here we go again. After making the thirty-third disclaimer or something I think people would realize this:
Disclaimer: I don't own the title…it's a Guns N Roses song (Appetite for Destruction).I don't own Tarzan. If I did I would sell him to buy GW . Oh, by the way, I don't own Gundam Wing and I never ever will.
Warnings: Relena bashing. Most likely, if not then forget I ever said anything. This is also a 1x2 story, which means that it's slash. I don't think I need to go further. There will most likely be gore and violence. What can I say…I'm sadistic.
Pairings: 1x2 (Relena likes Heero so I guess that would be Rx1 or whatever)
Ratings: PG-13 for violence and swears, if not in English or Japanese than in Monkey-talk or hisses.
Story note:
1-) I've altered this obviously for Tarzan because 1) I can't picture Heero running around like an ape and acting like that… and 2) I refuse to make a Duo and Relena story.
2-) This story is set in South America due to the fact that Africa doesn't have the type of animal I needed to make this story work.
Key:
"Regular speech."
"Animal tongue—in leopard or monkey it will say."
Welcome to the Jungle
By: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)
The stars speckled the big, wide sky as Duo smiled at the canopy of leaves trying to hide them from him. He inhaled the smells of the rainforest, the sounds of animals stealthily making their ways around in the forest. A leaf fell and landed gently on his nose and he giggled lightly, making sure as to not disturb his mother.
He curled up tighter into a ball, feeling the soft, warm fur of his mother. Her breaths were slow and relaxed, slowly lulling him back to the dream world he managed to escape from. He reached slowly for his braided hair, pulling it into his hand and holding it tightly.
With a soft smile on his lips, he closed his cobalt, almost violet eyes and sighed in content. The only thing that was missing was someone that looked like him. No matter what his mother said, she couldn't deny it that he was 'different'.
Perhaps he was odd, different to others and he was always conscious about that. He always tried to keep on his cheerful jester's mask though, never giving up hope that one day he would be accepted into the pack.
His hair grew longer than his family, his mother tying it in a braid that seemed familiar from some place else. Mother had told him that she found his hair like that and learned how to put it up as they let his hair grow free like the jungle vines. He had a slim body, muscles toned out, but not bulging in a freakish way. In a way, he had a feminine look to him, cherubic features and a heart shaped face.
He let a sigh escape his lips, chest rising and falling rythmmically as he closed his eyes away from the beautiful jungle at night. He shifted, his body aching as he landed on a rough spot and pulled down another leave, curling up beside his mother's warm body. He smiled lightly when he saw she was already asleep.
The day had been long, even Duo admitted, travelling all day to escape the now flooded lands of their home like they did yearly. Kercheck, being the leader, declared for them to head near the mountains where they would have an abundance unlike any other.
Stretching a little bit, he relxed himself as best as he could and drifted off, knowing deep down with an ominious feeling in his gut that the dreams this night wouldn't be any better than the last.
"Sister Helen!" a voice called, sounding over the endless sea of darkness and mist swirling at his feet. A light began to form, filling the darkness and replacing it as he welcomed it with welcoming arms and a warm embrace, despite liking the dark. He always did like the dark, he called himself Shinigami after all.
Duo saw the blurry image of a child running and leaping into a blonde haired person's arms. Funny, he thought, she looked like him.
Furrowing his brows together, he knelt, trying to move forward until he stopped. Red flames were every where and the prowling shadow of a cat was near him. Coughing, Duo looked with wide eyes at the child.
"Ooo-ee-awh!" He shouted, trying to make the child understand that he needed to get away from the yellow-hot stuff that burned and killed.
The animal dressed in black rushed towards him, throwing him out the window and shards of glass assualted them, the amimal using her body to shield him as a howl from the large cat was heard.
Duo frowned when he saw the boy try and shake the animal awake, crying. No breath came in or out and didn't stir at al. Duo noticed the creature didn't move at all…
Jerking awake, Duo panted and awoke sharply from the dream. 'No,' he commented, 'nightmare.' The stars no longer lined the blue velvet sky and instead the leaves sheltered the forest from the sunlight, a thick but damp feeling in the air. It was beautiful none the less.
Birds chirped merrily in the morning, pecking away at nuts and berries as lemurs and monkeys swung from branches and landed lightly on large tree's. Fruits were strewn all along the vines drapping from the canopy of the tree's leaves, the distant cries of other primates heard. On the ground floor, the shriek of a jaguar catching it's breakfast was heard distantly.
Despite the rainforest's normal temperatures, they were colder near the mountains close enough to walk to. Duo knew for a fact that the prided 'Zero' pack as they called themselves roamed on the mountain, the territory claimed as their own. Sometimes, the pack ventures near enough from the mountain to enter the rainforest, food more plentiful in these parts.
Which was exactly why the leader, Kercheck, led the herd this way, the climate more moderate for their liking and the pack of snow leopards keeping at bay any dangerous animals such as numerous jaguars and large predator animals like that. Other than that fact, their normal grounds were currently flooded, the river yearly taking it's toll on their lands before sinking back to it's normal level.
Duo shivered inwardly, the picutre of the pirahna he once ran into flashing in his mind as the herd once didn't make it out in time for their departure safely. There were three lost that year, two small and one adult male trying to save them but getting eaten by the flesh-eating fish.
Closing his eyes to take a deep breath, he gulped in fresh air to bite back the bile creeping up his throat. He remembered the blood staining the water and the body parts rising to the surface as the razor teeth finished off one of his fellow family members. Many wept and cried for the loss.
A sudden shriek brought him quickly from his thoughts, Duo gazing at his mother who was jerked away also. Her brown hair seemed to stand at end as well as everyone else's on instinct that something was not right here.
A snarl and hiss was heard, Duo looking over the nest build from palm leaves and vines to the ground below. A flash of white instantly stood out, the moving lithe bodies of the animals turning like a motor as the pack ran together as one.
Kercheck, sensing the disturbance looked up from his watchful gaze to look at the new intruders. And the leopards didn't seem very happy at all for the new people claiming their territory.
He felt a throaty hiss flow out of his throat, forgetting that this was their territory in the first place and opened his mouth to show his long fangs, almost as deadly as elephant tusks.
Getting up quickly from his resting position, Duo didn't have any time to stretch his lean muscles as he lunged back down into the bundle of leaves to find and remove his spear. Quickly, he then grabbed a nearby mossy vine in his hand and his flexible foot and swung over to his concerned mother who watched the fight with hardened eyes.
"What is going on?" He questioned with worry in his eyes as he stared at his mother. Pointing below, Duo jerked his head to look at the pack leader, the alpha Kercheck snarling at the intruder—a pack of snow leopards. One stood out from the pack, snarling at the ape.
Grabbing his spear from the mossy tangles of wild jungle flowers sprouting around his nest, the memories of the weird dream were long forgotten as he took the vine once more into his sturdy grasp and swung down with ease and worry as he saw his 'father' fall.
The herd cried with outrage as a thin blood line appeared on the gorilla's cheek, the warning scratch from the snow leopard taking it's toll in managing to infuriate the apes and the leader. The cat's howled with pride at his or her own, a female doing the toll to a alpha male.
He thrust the spear forward, the leopard shocked as he would have taken the blow— Had not the odd member of the leopard pack jumped in, getting howls of compliments from his pack as he saved one of the females in the pack, which was in fac the boy's 'mother' also.
The boy was wild looking, similar to Duo himself. He was momentarily shocked as well as the other person. He had unruly dark brown hair with long bangs that hung over his eyes. His eyes, Duo noticed, were so intense and enthralling. They were the deepest shade of blue, prussian. The wild looking youth narrowed his eyes, muscles that seemed to be corded to his muscles and bones tightly tensing as he stared at his opponent.
On impulse, Duo tried to lunge at the new fighter, the boy easily dodging, his long baggy white pants making no sound in the wind as he gently jumped into the air and landed to the side, hissing with venom at Duo.
Blinking, he somehow knew the boy was trying to communicate with him. To prove his point, the boy angrily pointed to the looming South American Mountains and then punched the soil roughly.
Duo nodded dumbly in understanding; this was their territory. He continued to stare at the person in front of him that looked like him—the only one besides himself he had seen that resembled him.
With another hiss, the snow leopard man called Heero launched himself at Duo, tackling him to the ground roughly as Duo's spear managed to lodge itself through Heero's side.
Looking down with barely a wince, Heero looked back up from the wound and glared at the 'ape' coldly and Duo froze for a moment. "Get…out…" Heero snarled out through clenched teeth, his pointed canine fangs sharp and gleaming ivory in the light.
Duo nodded with wide cobalt eyes as he scrambled to his feet and told the other's what happened. Grumbling, the herd began to move out and head back towards the close shore once more.
Inside, Duo promised to see that boy again. He turned to see the fleeting back of the teen walking with the leopard, on two feet instead of fours as he held onto his side. His pack moved in around him, nuzzling up to him as he snuggled with them once more in their territory.
'I promise I'll be back.' Duo swore, eyes softening as he saw the pack try to lick the boy's wound clean. The boy gently rubbed a cat's muzzle, rubbing the tender flesh behind the ear as he ignored the eyes he felt upon him.
Duo sighed heavily, something different about the boy perplexed him in an odd way. He never knew that there were strangers like him.
He frowned, shaking his head and dashed off, his long braid slapping against his backside until he took a running leap and jumped into the air onto a nearby vine and swung through the treetops gracefully, missing trees he would have collided with.
……….
"Mother?" Heero questioned as he looked up from a small pup resting on his lap. He gently took the scruff of the playful cub and put him on the leaves nearby, the playful little cat snarling and biting into a large leaf as he shook his head, ripping it with his sharp growing fangs.
"Hm…?" The female cat questioned, nursing her wound from the fight with that alpha ape.
"Why was that…ape like me so much?" Heero questioned as he curled against his mother, using his hands to rustle her fur and massage her tightened muscles. She always got like this when she was reckless, almost like him.
The cat took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, the equivalent to a sigh Heero assumed. "I don't know. That ape didn't prove his worth though."
Heero tilted his head in curiosity and his mother licked a tender mark on the wound and he hissed, snapping his eyes open as he mother nuzzled him with her head. "What do you mean?" He questioned, mewing lightly as he winced with pain while pulling himself into an upright position.
"Rumors dear." The sly cat replied, squinting her blue eyes to look up at the canopy roof of their home. "We're unlike other packs you know, we hunt together unlike other snow's.(1)"
Heero nodded, "Our kind are stubborn, like you." He teased and she flicked her tail at him to mock him back as her lips curled upward to represent a smile of some sorts.
"Well, we welcome those like us and able to care." She purred as Heero started to stroke her fur. "Like you," She commented, "That—ape isn't welcomed in his pack unlike you."
"You mean Keiba?" Heero questioned, looking at the alpha male in their pack, Heero close to one but not willing to fight the snow leopard. Those knew that once fought, the looser must accept defeat or leave the pack to find a new pack to dominate. Much like wolves, only human's seemed to think otherwise.
Such a silly thought that they lived alone, shooing their offspring off when they were old enough. Of course human's failed to study the fact that they returned after a half of a year or less of living on their own.
Keiba came up to Heero, flicking his tail at him as he nuzzled Heero, "Good work." He commented, nuzzling his mate, Heero's mother. "I'm proud to have a pup like you."
Heero nodded in respect, knowing for a fact from the other females that his mother had yet to have a child, being what other animal's called 'barren'. "Would it be wise to go back home?"
"Why?" Another female, one that happened to enjoy the company of the silent boy questioned. "We have yet to find our meals for the day."
Heero nodded, understanding that point. "I don't know," He squared his shoulders, looking off into the distance that strange boy left in and a shiver went up his spine. He narrowed his eyes; "Something doesn't feel right."
A light wind that managed to escape through the canopy blew at them, blowing their fur and Heero's bangs lightly. Leaves rustled and the cub near the brown haired youth stopped playing, looking with a curious gaze at a butterfly fluttering past him.
Heero grabbed the curious pup without a second tough, instinct taking over as he watched over his family with Keiba. He closed his eyes, letting the warm air hit him once more before they left to the mountains and their snowy habitat once more.
He didn't mind the cold and they often found animals for him to use for clothing. He let his gaze fall to his white baggy pants that fell about half an inch below his heel, the many rabbit pelts sewn together so neatly it looked like it was from the same animal. The bottoms of them were dirty, but that was to be expected. Yet they never got in his way, helped him blend in and also were warm.
"Right he is." A cub added, fur on end as he howled in protest to his mother picking him up gently with her teeth by the flap of skin on his neck.
"If it's dangerous, Keiba and Heero will take care of it." The mother commented, dropping her child to face the mountains, nudging the little baby with her cold nose. Her whiskers tickled the younger pup that snorted in response.
"Something bad is going to happen." Heero commented, reaching up to finger the odd tattoo he had since he was small that never seemed to stretch or grow out of him as he grew and matured. It looked just the same as when he was first found by the Zero pack. "I can feel it." He narrowed his eyes, turning with the pack.
The faint horn of a ship coming to explore the new land sounded, waters crashing against the steel hull of the ship holding eager passengers from England.
TBC
(1)-Snow's is simply what the snow leopards call themselves.
Well, what did you all think? Like it? Hate it? Comments and feedback is always loved! . I decided to try a little something different for this story, for those who can tell between the difference in this fanfic and my others.
Liebe, Red Tail