Warnings: yaoi, fantasy, magic, AU

Disclaimers: *pouts* I don't own them, I'm just borrowing them *cries* They're just so kawaii!!

Comments: Yeah it's been revised. Sorry about the inconvenience of my bad typing folks. ^^ There's nothing new aside from the I replaced the words with the real stuff type. So yeah. ^^ you don't have to reread it again.

Spellcaster 2

Heero glared at the prisoner tied down to the tree. There's was something weird about this all. What was an elf doing here? In fact, how can an elf even exist?! He shook his head then stood up hopping down from the rock he had been sitting on and walking over to the thief. He frowned down at the male still knocked out. It had to be a male, even for all his beauty, his chest was extremely flat and the tight black tunic he wore proved that even with his slender frame his body still had muscles. Beauty? Heero shook his head of that thought then took hold of the end of the braid of hair. It was long and extremely soft, almost silky like letting it be know that the elf took very good care of his persons. Suddenly the man shifted slightly, his eyelids twitching, a good sign of him being close to consciousness.

As the thief opened his eyes, Heero's mouth fell slack just slightly. He'd never seen such splendor. The eyes were a weird shade of indigo or some type of bluish-purple color. He shook his head getting his feelings back in line then glared at the man. The man for his part blinked a bit in startlement at the sudden close encounter before a little sly smile slipped onto his lips. "I think you're having a bit too much fun watching me, eh?"

Heero ignored the attempt at a joke and the slight blush that wanted to appear on his face and grunted then held up the cross he'd kept hold of earlier. "What is this?" The cross automatically tucked against his hand trying to slip free and return to its owner. Heero had known that it would do that. It'd been doing that throughout his whole watch. He found it kind of odd in a way for something not alive to feel a need to return to its owner.

"Uh...a cross?" The braided male said forfeiting confusion and half-truths in the place of the inevitable answer.

Heero nodded slightly and started swinging the cross back and forth before the boy who watched intently and swallowed. The cross continued pulling against his hand as he did this. "What are you doing with it?"

The man smirked turning his eyes from the cross to Heero's. "Inheritance."

Heero shook his head. "You're a thief. You probably stole it."

"Now...why would I want to steal a cross?" the male said rocking the heel of a foot back and forth on the ground.

Heero just blinked catching the nervous action. "Cause you're a thief."

This time the male glared at him. "I may be a thief but I am not a liar! So don't even think of accusing me of stealing my own stuff!"

"Hn." Heero stood up sliding the cross into his tunic pocket then delivered a glare of his own. "You're still a thief. You will be turned in to the Sanc Kingdom tomorrow. There's no question that they may execute you on the spot."

"Seems to me you don't know the Sanc Kingdom very well hm?" The thief shifted slightly again, getting more comfortable it seemed as he looked up at Heero with another grin. "They're a pacifist nation, of course they won't execute. They'd barely keep someone in a prison, and if they did they'd probably only end up feeding the poor guy into being overweight to the point that he won't wanna leave."

"Fine…I'll execute you myself before we get to the Sanc Kingdom," Heero said, something deep inside tell him that there was not way he'd be able to pull that off.

"Oh really?" The little thief stood up, the ropes falling slack to the ground as he stretched, giving a little mischievous grin to the Heero.

Heero glared at him. He's a thief, of course he knew how to untie a knot…baka Heero. "Sit down, elf."

"An elf, really?" The thief blinked comically his expression blank for two seconds before a goofy grin broke out on his face. "You sure there's an elf here?"

"Don't play games with me…I've seen your ears, elf."

"So I have pointy ears, that doesn't mean I'm an elf. Lots of people have pointy ears. In fact, a lot of people have bucked teeth. But you don't see me calling them horses now do you? No that'd be an insult to a horse."

Heero glared at him, his eyes watching for any movements to be suspicious of as the boy elf started walking circles around him. "Then what are you?"

"Well…let's see…." The thief rested a hand to his chin, pretending to be deep in thought, even making an eyebrow twitch slightly. "I have pointy ears…I'm fast…I look good…I got long hair…I'm pretty…." He stopped circling him, dropping his hand to his side and grinned. "Sounds like I'm an elf."

"So you're an elf."

"Nah ah ah," the thief said waving a finger back and forth. "I said I sound like an elf, I didn't say I was an elf."

Heero grunted, getting annoyed with this quickly. The little thief was playing games with him. He didn't have time to be playing games nor did he feel up to it. "Just answer my question, are you an elf are aren't you?"

"Well…." The elf flopped down on the ground, folding his legs beneath him and resting his hands on his knees rocking slightly as he watched him. "Do you believe in elves or don't you?"

"Hn…." One of Heero's eyes twitched as he looked down at him…maybe he should kill him now and be done with this. "No. I don't believe in elves, and there's no such thing as magic." At least, that's what he was taught, even though stuff he'd went through not to much earlier did seem a bit…odd.

"Fine," the thief pushed up to his feet with a grunt, and gave a little bow giving a grin up at Heero. "Then I don't exist do I?" As he said that, he faded from sight right before Heero's eyes leaving him staring in confusion and a bit of shock at the place he once was. Heero looked around quickly, searching for the elf till he heard a whistle and looked up towards the trees. The elf stood there with a grin on his face, holding up the cross that swung back and forth in front of him.

"You know, since you're so nice, I'll leave you my name." He hopped down from the tree standing up straight and tucking the cross away. "Name's Duo." He winked. "Where there once was a solo, now there is a Duo. Catch ya later." He blew a kiss at Heero cackling as he turned and jumped off into the darkness.

Heero grunted again, clenching his hand tightly around the sword. Why didn't it do anything this time, when he wanted it to? He looked over at the others, still fast asleep, confused as to why they hadn't woken up with all the sounds and such going on. Already this wasn't starting out as a good mission.

Duo snickered as he moved through the forest heading in the direction of the Sanc Kingdom. He'd had fun teasing the boy and the little sleep spell he'd whispered after the others fell asleep might last a little longer. But something about that certain soldier bothered him. For one, he didn't fall asleep like the others did. And for something else, he seemed to have some sort of power. But he said he didn't believe in magic. So how…?

"It's not my busy or anything but…." He tapped a finger against his chin as he walked, talking quietly to himself as his black panther friend, Scythe, hopped from the trees landing beside him to walk with him. The black panther was always with him, his comforting friend till the end. "Why would they be heading to Sanc of all places? I mean, sure it used to be a beautiful city." He reached down unconsciously rubbing a hand over the top of Scythe's head, smiling slightly as heard him purr. "Maaaybe they don't know about how bad it's gotten yet. Maybe they're like tourist and they got lost or something. Heh." He stretched his hands up above his head yawning slightly as he blinked sleepily. "Guess I'll just keep following them for a while, heh Scythe ole pal?" The panther gave another purr to that, nuzzling it's head up against Duo's leg. "Whoa there buddy, I guess you're hungry huh? Didn't ya eat already?" Duo paused as he seemed to listen to something. "What do you mean you haven't eaten yet? Some hunters you say? A girl? …Hmmm, alright lead the way!"

Duo followed swiftly after the panther, moving quietly along, elfin ears picking up sounds almost as well as the panther as they got closer. He slowed and kneeled behind a bush peeking over it to look at the three men surrounding a girl tied up and on the ground, her face hidden underneath a sack. The three men were big burly guys with facial hair pretty much all over, not the prettiest sight at all. Duo shook his head…these guys were nothing, they'd be easy to take out. "Guess I'll teach them a lesson on not to mess with people smaller than them, hey Scythe?" he whispered standing up and walking out towards the guys.

"Hey, fellas!" The guys quickly turning to look at him, then started laughing, the size difference very obvious since Duo was quite small. In fact, if he was right, he was a rare small compared to other elves.

"Heh," one pointed towards him, laughing still. "Looks like we have another girl to play with, boys." The others laughed hard at that.

"Hey now wait a minute." Duo blinked looking over at them, giving off the look of innocence and weakness. "Did you just call me a girl?"

"Duh. No guy's gonna look that pretty."

"In your case I can see that," Duo muttered under his breath clearing his throat and going along with it, even if he lacked certain things to be a…female. "Ok fellows, so what are we playing?" He headed over towards them, ignoring the leering looks they gave him. Riiiight. "Hey I got a game!" he said stopping before one of them looking up at him with a grin, bangs falling over his eyes cutely. "It's called, duck duck…" he lifted up a leg slamming it into the man's crotch with a grin, watching the man fall over in pain. "goose!"

"Hey!" one of them growled running towards him throwing a fist out towards him.

"Or maybe…man around the rosy?" He grabbed the hand with his own two smaller hands as it came close, and flipped the man over him slamming him into the ground. "There's also a bit of hop scotch too you know." As he said this, he jumped up into the air as the other man tried to grab him, and landed down on his head grinning still as the man fell off balance and fell over.

"Why you little!" The guys struggled up to their feet starting towards him menacing.

Duo rolled his eyes. "Aren't you done playing now? I really don't feel like playing you with any more. You're such sore losers." He smirked then held up a hand and snapped his fingers, watching as Scythe came from the trees, growling towards the men. The men looked at the panther with wide eyes and yelled as they turned running off, Scythe close on their heels.

Duo rubbed behind his head. "Well…guess Scythe won't be hungry for a while, those are some really fat guys. I'm sure they won't make it that far." He shrugged and turned kneeling down in front of the girl, giving a smile of reassurance as he reached for the bag. "Hey, don't worry, I ain't gonna hurt yas ok?" He took of the mask, the smile quickly slipping from his face to become a shocked look as he took in the girl's features. "Hilde?!"

TBC….

*blinks* I'm so bad…..*whistles* I like doing cliffhangers…so sue me^^;