Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or Elf Quest no matter how much I wish! And I hope you like the ending; I'll tell you one thing you don't see it coming!
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Will I Remember How to Sing?

Have you ever had a dream that was so real that you could swear it was real? Did ever wonder if this life we were living was someone else's dream? Have you ever wonder if dreams were images of your youth or maybe past lives? If so remember this: dreams are never what they seem.
Elf_fox
Dream Thoughts a poem
Chapter 1

Duo was standing in a forest. The only light came from the fireflies, stars and the moonlight. He looks up and sees two full moons gazing down on him. A twig snaps behind him. He turns only to see a black wolf with a white ring of fur around his neck. Duo meets the gaze of the wolf calmly. The wolf's eyes are the same violet blue as his own. Duo sees a flicker of movement behind the wolf. More wolves, their eyes reflecting what little light there was. There were more than 15 wolves closing in on him, but he's not afraid. The black wolf in front of him, who is the alpha male, catches his gaze.
"I've been looking for you a long time old friend," says the wolf. Under normal circumstances a wolf talking to him would have freaked him out, but right now it seems to be the most natural thing in the world and he just nods.

The wolf flings back his heads and starts to howl. The other wolfs join in. When they stop all the wolves look at him and seem to be waiting for him to do something. Then everything changes. He is being held on the ground by giant humans. One on each arm, another holding his head still, and one more sitting heavily on his chest almost suffocating him. The humans are only wearing loincloths, the human on his chest laughs insanely and raises a blood stained dagger above his head. The sight of the dagger scares Duo almost to the point of hysterics, but not because he knows it will be used on him. Duo's gaze is filled with the sight of the human on his chest; he can hear the wolves coming to aid him. Yet he knows they will not make it in time. As the dagger starts its downward swing he gazes at the two moons and feels no fear. All he can feel is regret over not being able to finish something and sadness over not finding someone very important to him. As the dagger finishes its downward movement to bury itself in his eye.

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With a loud gasp Duo sits straight up in bed. He makes no other noise; something in him tells him to make no noise that will alert the enemies that surrounded him. Where in the world did that dream come from he wondered? He had dreamt of the wolves searching for him before, but never the humans. As Duo shakes the feeling of being surrounded by enemies away he looks around. He is in the room that he shares with the other gundam pilots and he is the only one awake. A pair of annoyed eyes betrays the presence of the cat that had started to hang around the base.

The cat had been sleeping on Duo's chest when Duo woke up with a start making the cat fall onto the floor. The cat leapt back onto the bed, it can sense that Duo is uneasy. It likes Duo and thinks that Duo is very smart, though not as smart as a cat, but smarter than the average human.

In the cat's mind things are put in six different categories: humans, prey, things that don't move, things that move but shouldn't (cars, mobile suits, etc.), plants, and animals that are not prey. The cat had no idea what category Duo belonged in. Though he looked like a human he did not smell like one. Humans smelled terrible to a cat. They smelled of killing for pleasure not food, a gluttony for power and pleasure, of chemicals that made the cat's head spin, and whatever emotion they were feeling at the time. Duo, however, smelled of wolves, plants, of killing for food and to protect someone or something not for the pleasure, he smelled of things that move but shouldn't, and he also smelled of something that the cat had never smelled before something alien but kind. He smelled of all this but not one ounce of human, the cat was seriously thinking of stopping to try and figure out which of the six categories Duo belonged in and making a new one to put him in.

"So you're the one who woke me up," said Duo with a smile. That's another thing the cat, thought crossly, how come all other humans speak nothing but gibberish but I can understand every word that comes out of his mouth?

Duo reached out his hand and started to pet the cat, the cat closed its eyes and began to purr loudly. A smile began to grow on Duo's face. Remembering how he had stopped Heero from shooting the cat for scratching him when he had tried to pet it. The cat had also taken a swipe at Quatre and Wufei. Maybe I'm a cat person he thought. Then he shook the thought away remembering the cat had taken a swipe at Trowa who had a lion eating out of his hand. It must just like me Duo decided. He had always had a special place in his heart for animals, ever since he was small. When he had been at Maxwell church, all the children always coming and going, the only ones who had stayed with him were a group of stray cats. He also had very fuzzy memories of the cats talking to him, but that was plane silly. Animals could not talk, that law of nature had been imbedded into his head by the sisters of the church. The other law imbedded into his skull was that plants did not talk. The others would think him crazy if they knew that he, when he was little, had talked to plants. Not the normal small talk but whole conversations. Duo sighed it didn't matter anymore. Those days were gone; the only thing he had left of it was a respect of animals and an adoration of plants.

Duo smiled once more at the happily purring cat then looked up and frowned. The feeling of being surrounded by enemies had not left. Duo looked once more around the room. There was Quatre and Trowa sleeping in their separate beds that were placed on one side of the room. Wufei was on one side of Duo's bed and Heero on the other. Duo wrinkled his nose in slight distaste at the loud snores that came from Wufei. Then Duo's gaze fell upon the sleeping form of Heero. Duo's gaze took on a fatherly glow as he watched Heero. He looks so peaceful when he sleeps thought Duo. Duo sighed in confusion he had no idea why he was so protective of Heero; it wasn't like he was Heero's dad or anything. Duo's gaze left the sleeping body of Heero and traveled to the window that faced the woods that surrounded the base. He saw something move in the woods. He felt his heart leap in his chest, had he just seen a wolf? Duo got out of bed and picked up the cat, the cat's only reaction was to snuggle against Duo's chest, he was just happy that he was still being petted, and then he made his way to the window. Duo looked out at the beautiful woods but what he saw was no wolf. Duo went to Heero's bed and began to shake him.

"Heero wake up!" whispered Duo

"Stop it Duo and get that stupid cat away from me." Said Heero in a slightly drowsy monotone.

"Heero two things. One the cat is not stupid, it's the one who woke me up and two we're been surrounded by enemy soldiers. So wake up and help wake the others."

At the news that they were being surrounded Heero woke up fast and helped Duo, who was still holding the cat, wake the others. Thankfully they had all worked almost to the point of exhaustion the day before and they all had fallen asleep is their cloths.

"We need to get to our Gundams," said Quatre "It's the only way we'll be able to hold off so many soldiers."

"I agree with Quatre. We need to get to our Gundams," said Trowa. Duo blinked at Trowa for a few seconds because that is the most he had heard him say all day.

"But how will we get to them, the soldiers are between us and the Gundam hanger." Duo replied

Heero's eyes suddenly widened as he thought of something.

"The girls!" exclaimed Heero. Relena, Dorothy, Catherine, and Sally were visiting and were sharing a barracks. 'They are bunked in the barracks right next to the Gundams and if those soldiers know that we have Relena here they might hurt her."

Duo looked at Heero sadly. His fatherly feelings for Heero once more surfaced. He could see the worry in Heero's eyes. Heero loved Relena, but wouldn't admit it to her or himself. Duo had the feeling that if Relena was killed Heero wouldn't be far behind her, but he would do the honorable thing and take her murders with him. Maybe he would actually succeed this time, Duo thought with a smile thinking about all the times that Suicide Boy had tried to kill himself without success.

"Duo! Would you have at least enough honor to listen to our conversation?" asked Wufei. "And for Nataku's sake, put that stupid cat down Maxwell."

Duo shook his thoughts away and put on a large smile.

"Of course I'll listen Wufei, but you should apologies to the cat he is not stupid. He's the one who woke me up and, unlike you my friend, he doesn't snore!" With that Duo put the cat down gently. Up to that point the cat had been in Duo's arms, being petted, purring happily and listening to the only side of the conversation he could understand, which was Duo's voice. He was quite upset at being called stupid and being put down, so once Duo had straitened up he leapt onto Duo's shoulder, hissed at Wufei, and started to wash himself. Duo smiled at the cat that had perch itself on his shoulder and listened to Wufei stutter about justice and him not snoring.

"Now is not the time to argue, and yes, Wufei, you do snore." Smiled Quatre

"Very loudly too," said Duo and with out missing a beat continued on with the conversation, "Okay Quatre you're the plan man, so what do you think we should do?"

"Well, I think we should..."

(I'm going to skip the fighting part. Please don't flame me because of it, it's because I can't write action to well and I don't want it to ruin the rest of the fic. So I'll just go over what happened.)

Duo stared up at the business end of a knife; Quatre's plan hadn't worked as it was supposed to for two simple reasons. One they hadn't expected so many soldiers and two they had the girls hostage. The resulting fight had ended up with the other pilots being surrounded trying to protect the girls with what little ammo they had left and him being pinned to the ground with the guy on top of his chest threatening to kill him if the others didn't stop firing. The cat had run into the woods calling back that it would find help, but Duo didn't think too much into this because animals couldn't talk. Duo looked back at the guy that was holding the knife, he was being held down, and just like he had been in the dream except that the humans weren't giants also the clothing was different. Duo looked at Heero who was aiming at the guy that had the knife, but had to shoot a different soldier because the soldier had grabbed Relena and was trying to drag her away. The guy on his chest shouted something that sounded like I warned you and the knife started its deadly arch down. As Duo watched the knife he felt calm as if he knew he wasn't going to die just yet. Just as the blade was going to reach him a large black mass leapt out of the woods and launched itself at the guy on Duo's chest. The impact threw the man back, neatly breaking his neck. The guy dead the black wolf with a white color flung its head back and let out a long drawn out howl. Then all hell broke loose as wolves of all shapes and colors streamed out of the woods and started attacking the soldiers, who were running around scared shitless. (Wouldn't you be? I mean come on over 15 wolves are pouring out of the woods and are attacking you.)

Duo stood up and looked at the cat that was strutting out of the woods looking very smug. The cat had reasoned that if Duo smelled of wolves then he would find wolves to help him. Duo turned his head away from the cat and met the violet blue eyes of the black wolf. The rest of the wolves, with all of the soldiers either dead or running away screaming something about werewolves, were surrounding Duo. The other pilots and the girls just stared helplessly at him. The black wolf once more pointed his snout to the heavens and let out a howl, but this one was happier and seemed to be summoning something in him to the surface. Duo felt as if something had broken out from within him. It flowed through his body and leapt out of his throat and he suddenly felt as if he were suddenly freed from a long confinement. Duo felt true freedom for the first time in 15 years, as he sang with the wolves. After Duo's voice joined the black wolf's the other wolves, one by one, started to add their voices to the spiraling duet.

The others watched as Duo sang with the wolf when it started to get hard to look at him directly. It seemed as if Duo was absorbing all the moonlight around him. Soon they all had to cover their eyes from the blinding light that was Duo. Suddenly the light and the wolf song vanished like mist in the morning. As they lowered their hands none of them could believe what they saw. Where Duo had stood there was now a creature the size of a child. Its hair was in a braid that just brushed the ground, gray streaks ran through it and they could swear some of it was green. The creature had the same violet blue eyes as Duo but they were much larger, it had long pointed ears and four fingers on each hand, it was dressed in a black and silver leather outfit, and it held in one hand a scythe made of black wood with a silver colored crystal for a blade.

Duo smiled at the wolf who smiled back.

"We've been looking for you a long time, elf friend," said the wolf "I was beginning to worry about you."

"I'm sorry I made you worry Whitecollar, old friend. And I'm sorry that I have not yet thanked all of you for saving me, my friends." The wolves started to bark happily and Duo spying the cat made his way through the sea of waging tails and wet tongues. When he reached the cat he knelt before it.

"I must thank you for finding the wolves and leading them to me. I owe you my life. Will you please tell me your name?" asked Duo.

"Sure. My name is Swipe. And you don't owe me nothing, all I want in exchange for saving you is a good home and for you to tell the insolent human with the small black ponytail that I'm not stupid. So your elf huh? Always wanted to meet one," answered Swipe

"Yes I'm an elf. Swipe huh? It suits you. And as far as I'm concerned you will always have a home with me. And I'll tell him you're not stupid. By the way his name is Wufei," with this said Duo got up and made his way to his friends who were still huddled together. To this point he had been speaking in English for the benefit of his friends and he sighed to himself thinking about all the questions they would probably ask him. At least I will know the answers to those questions he thought to himself as he made his way toward them followed closely by a sea of wolves and a cat. Half way to his friends Whitecollar nudged him sharply from behind. Duo stopped and looked at the large wolf and smiled knowing what the wolf wanted. Without a second thought Duo got on his back and rode the rest of the way to his friends. Duo rode toward them deep in thought; yes I'll know the answers because I now know the answers to my own questions. Duo now stood in front of them.

"D-D-Duo?" stuttered Heero

Duo looked at him, I even know the answer to the question that bugged me the most and it's time for the answer to be heard. Duo's gaze locked with Heero's and said:

"It's good to know you are well... Nephew."

END:)
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So were you surprised?

I am not sure if I'm going to add another chapter to this. I have no ideas for a second chapter! If you have any ideas on a second chapter or just want me to add to this please e-mail me I'd love the help.