Rebekah Friis
10-26-00
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Story Idea
Daughters of the Shinigami
It was a century after the rebellion that brought the Gundams into existence. They had been the most glorious machines ever seen. Duo was the last living Gundam Pilot. He had been alive for 100 years when a small girl began following him to all of his destinations.
Finally one day she approached him. "S-sir," she said, "I am looking for the Gundam pilot Duo Maxwell. When I saw you I felt something inside of me, you are him, the Great One, the Shinigami." He was greatly surprised to see anyone willing to talk to him, much less anyone call him the Shinigami. "Who are you?" he questioned.
"I am a demi-god, I hold the key to your immortality, that is if you are indeed Duo Maxwell."
"I am a Gundam Pilot but I don't know where Duo is."
"If you aren't Duo, then who are you?"
"My name is Heero Yuy. If you have a problem with my being out of contact with Duo then leave."
"Why are you lying? Heero Yuy is Dead!"
Duo smiled and said, "If I had wanted to have people following me I wouldn't have told you who I am. I admit to my being Duo Maxwell. I hope that you don't expect me to do anything special. I was just a soldier in a battle for freedom. Others were even more heroic than I, that is if I was heroic at all. Now I need to buy some food. Good-bye."
"But—wait. I need you to help me."
"I just said that I am an ordinary old man, why can't you leave me alone?"
"The Shinigami is NOT an old man, nor is he ordinary."
She ran quickly away sobbing. Duo thought, what did she mean by not ordinary? I am too old. He bought his food and didn't notice when he forgot his change. He kept thinking about the Chibi girl, what if he was supposed to take this 'key to eternal life'? Duo was walking around he didn't even notice that he was walking by Quatre's old mansion. Soon he was in the bad part of town, all of the buildings were falling down, he noticed a ramshackle old house, it had a huge hole in the roof, a small flickering light was noticeable in one of the aft windows. He stood there; this was where he had lived as a boy. He then could smell fire, hearing it crackle, the tiny flickering light began to grow, it took Duo several minutes to realize that the house was on fire. He could hear muffled screams in the house. Cries for help, he went into ;-) auto-pilot. He kicked the door in. He ran through the house calling where are you. The screaming suddenly stopped. Dead silence except for the roar of the fire. He ran upstairs and went to his old bedroom. The door was locked. He kicked it in. To his surprise the girl was laying unconscious, a huge man was kicking her and was using some pretty bad language. "Stop it, my god, do you want to kill her?" he yelled. The man looked up.
"Come on old man, you think that you can take me? I am the best. She wouldn't come and be my girl so I had to knock some sense into her."
"You monster!" Duo noticed his miniature Deathscythe in the corner. "I am Duo, the Shinigami, I say be gone before I kick you sh-tless." Althought Duo was normally calm he felt such a huge rage.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha," the younger man was laughing so hard, "what a joke! I'll kick you're a-s!"
Duo grabbed the scythe and he felt a sort of electrical surge run through him. He lunged forward, the man kicked at him; Duo blocked with the scythe. Then the man pulled out a gun, "Back off you freak! I'll kill you if you don't!" Duo laughed, he felt younger, more energy ran through him. He swung the scythe. Blood squirted from the man's neck. Duo had not cut completely through, leaving the man alive. He carried the girl and his scythe inside and left, worried the dying man's gurgling screams would wake her. She needed a doctor. He took her to Quatre's old home, he was the new owner but it felt like it was Quatre's. When the ambulance arrived he was feeling ill. After they asked him what happened they carried her off on a gurney. Duo had purposely left out the death off the stranger. He had his first chance to look at him self; he was still feeling powerful. To his surprise his hair was back to its original chestnutty color! He was 100 years old and he looked 15 again. This made his heart sadden, was his miniature Deathscythe the key to his immortality? He had to go see the girl, he needed to know. Perhaps it was just an illusion.
He went to the crypt. Maybe, just maybe he could revive the others. He would love to see them. The Gundam pilots made a pact to be mummified with their organs intact. They had also buried Relena in the crypt. He felt sick entering this place; he felt energy crackling in the air when he entered the graveyard. He unlocked the door. Lightning came from his hands as he drew nearer to his friend Quatre's coffin. He opened the lid, a tear fell from his eye as he remembered how Quatre had died. The face looked so thin like it had after he had started the Chemotherapy. Leukemia, they said it was the worst case ever. It was also in a new form of cancer. The day after Quatre had died they had discovered the cure for Cancer. As the tear hit Quatre in the face Duo laid his hands on him. A jolt of electricity came from him and Quatre began to breathe. After 80 years of being dead and mummified he was back.
Duo ran to Wufei's coffin, forcing the lid off was hard, He remembered the night that Wufei had died. He was shot in the back for being a Gundam pilot. Actually he had saved Duo's life. Crying even harder Duo put his hands to Wufei's heart and he too was alive again.
Duo cracked open Trowa's coffin, he couldn't help but cry out at the sight of his friend. Trowa had died after he jumped in front of Relena, after Lady Une had shot at her. The force of the blow sent him and Relena through the air. They went off of the roof and fell 9,000ft. They were barely recognizable. He was afraid to bring him back, he didn't touch him and walked to Relena's resting place. He opened the grave and collapsed sobbing onto the floor. What if this was all a dream? He wanted this to be real but it was so impossible.
He took a deep breath as he walked past his own tomb. He walked down the narrow hall to the grave of his friend, Heero Yuy, the one who had died the worst death. He had been there for the destruction of the Gundams. In fact Heero had refused to leave Wing Gundam as they were destroyed. He had been literally burned alive. He was actually still living but he was beyond a normal life and thus was put in a form of stasis that allowed him to think and live but protected his body. His body was burned to the worst in history. But that was Heero for you, he would take a licking and keep on ticking. Duo opened the door, he slid in the room. All of the machines were bleeping and humming which unnerved Duo even more. "Hey, Heero." Gulping Nervously. "I know you don't like visitors anymore, but I brought most of the others back to life. I hope that I can help you heal. Maybe rejuvenate your body."
"Go away Duo," Heero replied in the robotic voice, "I think your trying to get my hopes up is cruel. When you put me here we determined that you were a bastard. I had thought that this was beyond you. I want to die."
"You can die whenever. I am truly serious when I say that Wufei and Quatre are alive again."
Duo walked over to the 'storage unit' for Heero's charred body. The air was crackling with electricity again. Duo reached in and touched Heero. Duo collapsed after he removed his hands. A few hours had passed and he woke up back at Quatre's mansion, in his bed. Quatre walked up to him, "My god, you healed me! Heero is downstairs, you healed him too!"
"What about Wufei?"
"He was the one who carried you here."
"Do you remember everything? What it was like to die?"
"We all know everything that has happened since we died. Dying was beautiful. All you feel is happiness."
"What happened? Why am I here?"
"After you healed Heero you collapsed, you were near death. When you were carried out to the Outer Crypt by Heero you had a lot of energy rush to you from our bodies. We also brought your miniature Deathscythe."
Soon there will be more. What about the girl? What of the rest of them? Will Duo survive reviving them? Will Trowa and Relena be able to be brought back? Tune in next time as the Daughters of the Shinigami saga continues.