Gami1x2: Okay I have to thank everyone right now. In my first story Pirates of Angels and Demons I had many people review, but Tyleet88, and Bigsister2 have been my biggest fans, thank you so much. You see I'm an artist, I can draw and paint and thought I would give my hand at writing, and I hope that I improve and that you guys continue to enjoy my stuff. I have in turn read some of your guys work and I love them. Seriously. Thank you. And Thank you Wind dancer 1981 for the review I really appreciate it.
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Chapter Two: Maxwell's secret.
Duo opened one eye and looked at his surroundings. /huh, home, well. Maybe it was a dream, maybe 'all' of it was just a dream./ Duo sat up and looked out his wind. It was night and the rain was pouring down from the sky. There was a flash of lightning and a loud roar of thunder. Duo turned to his door, when Solo walked in carrying a bowl of soup.
"Oh, Duo. I was goin' ta wake ya." Solo said with a sad face. "You've been asleep fur a few days now, and I thought you where getting' sick too." Tears started trailing down Solo's cheeks. "And I don' wanna loose ya too."
Duo got up and pulled Solo into his arms. Solo was five years younger then Duo, making his thirteen, the boy had lost his parents in a werewolf attack, and had lost his sister shortly after to virus. /So it's not a dream./ Duo thought. He said. "It's okay Solo, I'm here, I'm okay."
Solo nodded. "I know…but-."
"No buts. How many days was I sleeping?" Duo asked.
"Two, almost. Ya came home at dawn, yesterday, and want ta bed. The sun went down about an hour ago." Solo said, putting Duo's soup down on the table. "You should eat." And at that moment Duo's stomach growled. They both laughed.
"Yeah! I should. How are Heldi, and Alex?" He asked taking to bowl in his hands and drinking down the chicken noodle soup quickly.
"There okay. I sent them to bed already." Solo said. Duo nodded.
"Father Maxwell will be home tomorrow. He'll take care of Sister Helen and everything will be okay, alright? Now you should go to bed, you need your rest as well." Duo told Solo.
"Oh come on Duo, can't I stay up with ya?" Solo asked. Giving Duo the biggest, saddest, puppy eyes he could muster. Duo sighed, how could you say no to that.
"One hour, that's all." Duo said, Solo jumped up and hugged Duo.
"Heero calm down!" Trowa said trying to get his master to sit still. Heero look fully awake and alive. Something that Trowa had not seen in many years. "Heero sit still." Trowa said again this time putting his book down to make the point that he couldn't read with Heero moving around the room like he was.
"You don't understand. It's been two days and I still feel that boy's blood in my veins. It makes me….happy." Heero said, stopping for a moment to think of what word to use. His eyes widened when he said it. He turned to Trowa. "He makes me feel…alive again. Like I did before I got sick."
"You said that a few years ago with that demon girl Relena, and when you finished off her blood, and went to make the transfer with yours she died. What make you so sure that this one has the blood of death? Especially, when death is death and not life. I think that woman got her predictions wrong. How can death make you live again?" (1). Trowa asked. Heero had to stop again and think.
"I don't know, but if she's right then I will no longer required drinking blood to live. And at the same time I will be immortal. As much as the prospect of living forever sounds like a boring fate to you Trowa, I plan to make this boy my lover, and spend the rest of my days with him." Heero said. From dinking the boy's blood he had his whole history. Though a lot of his childhood was blank. He knew everything about the boy that the boy himself knew.
"I'll never understand you Vampires." Trowa said returning to his book.
"Yeah well it's not like you ELVES are very understandable." Heero said. Trowa lifted an eyebrow but kept reading.
"Are you even listening to me anymore?" Heero asked when Trowa turned the page.
"Heero did you know that humans believe in a God. Many different types. When you where human which one did you pray to?" Trowa asked.
Heero sighed in an annoyed way and grabbed his face with his hand, pulling in down. He looked at Trowa and said: "None. Now if we could please get back on the topic at hand." Heero said.
"Heero, if you want my advice I say to just continue what you're doing. Drain the imps blood, and do the transfer. If he survives it then it was meant to be, and if you no longer crave the blood of humans, then there's a bonus. However if your too afraid for the boy's death, then suffer away, living an eternity drain life from humans, and get over it." Trowa said. "Quiet honestly, this is not my problem. I'm your friend Heero, but I can't tell you want to do."
"Then I'm going to continue." Heero said with a nod and left the room. Trowa smiled to himself. He would never understand Vampires.
Father Maxwell entered the church, dripping wet. The rain had not let up all night, and most of the day. It was five o'clock in the evening and he was chilled to the bones. He quickly removed his coat and hung it up on the hooks to dry. He turned to head for the kitchen when he say Duo and Solo headed in his direction. He smiled.
"Hello, boys." He greeted, pulling each on them into an arm and hugging them. Duo pulled away slowly.
"Father." He greeted.
"How is sister? Is she feeling better?" Maxwell asked. Duo and Solo's heads dropped.
"I'm afraid she…" Duo chocked and couldn't finish. He still couldn't believe it himself. There where warm arms around him and a comforting tone.
"It's okay my son, she's in Gods arms now." Maxwell pulled Solo into his embrace as well. "How are the little ones taking this?"
"They don't understand, they still think that she's going to come home any day." Duo explained. Maxwell nodded. He lead the boys into the kitchen.
"Has everyone eaten tonight?" Maxwell asked, both boys nodded. "Good, Solo would you please give the little ones a bath and prepare them for bed, I have to talk to Duo for a moment."
"Sure thing, Father." Solo left the room. Maxwell motioned for Duo to have a seat. And prepared them both a cup of strawberry and peaches black tea. He handed a cup to Duo and sat down across from him. Taking a sip of his tea.
"Duo, what are those marks on your neck?" Duo's eyes widened, and his hand went to where the Vampire had bitten him the night before. He had looked in a mirror to see if there where any marks and there where none.
"What marks?" Duo asked.
"I may be getting old Duo, but I can still see better then ever. And I see two tiny indentations on your neck. Did you have a problem when I was away?" Maxwell asked. Duo decided to tell the truth.
"When sister stopped breathing the other night I panicked. I needed to be alone so I ran out of the church and to the forest. I just wanted some fresh air and to be away from everyone. I don't know how long I was crying, maybe an hour, maybe two. But when I finally stopped a guy had snuck up on me and told me not to cry. I turned around and I noticed he was a Vampire, so I ran. I ran as fast as I could, but he was too quick. So I headed for the church, remembering that you told me a Vampire needed to be invited in. And that a normal person would just walk into a church. But again he cut my path off, he…he bit me…and he…um." Duo started to get nervous. He didn't know if he should tell Father Maxwell that he was molested also.
"It's okay Duo you do not need to continue if you feel uncomfortable. But I guess since your still alive that this vampire needs something from you and will be back. So I think I should tell you something. About your past. I think your old enough to understand the truth, or at least the whole story." Maxwell said. Duo nodded. He knew Father and Sister, didn't want him to know his past until he was ready. And form some of the dreams he had, he knew that it wasn't going to be a happy one. So Maxwell started his story.
'The beginning is always a good place to start. You were born in the El-Two village. Though it no longer stands. El-Two was the center of attention when is was alive and busy. It was the heart of gambling, or murders, rapes, and abuse. Prostitution was a religion in El-Two, and well your mother didn't want you to grow up in that. Your mother was Dolina (Dol-en-ha), though I do not remember her last name. she was a powerful, yet very loving Demon. Your Father was Kii (key) Maxwell, my son"
Duo gasped.
"How come you ever told me that you where my Grandfather?" Maxwell smiled sadly.
"Because, I didn't want you to know your past until you where ready Duo, and I'm a major person in that past, you may even hate me after I finish." Maxwell said. Duo nodded sadly. "Anyway, your father was also a Demon, you see my wife was a Shinigami. A bringer of death. But she was not evil, and in fact she was full of life and love. Much like you Duo.
"Well, when Dolina told Kii that she wanted to move to El-One instead of staying in El-Two he agreed. And they packed there stuff and left, leaving the awful place behind them. But it was not meant to be. On the road to El-One, a Vampire by the name of Dermail attacked their small traveling group. Dolina was killed protecting you. Kii saw her fall and went mad with the lost of his love. He killed Dermail with a piece of the wagon wheel. But when he finished he found he was the only one standing from the group of ten they where traveling with, that is himself and you anyway.
"He brought you here. But he was wounded gravely. I promised him I would take care of you. And he told me that you where special. That you had a destiny, and that I should keep you safe. I found out later, just before he passed away, that Dermail had been sent by Treize to kill you. Because you where the Son of four elements. So I looked into Dolina's past and I found out that she was the daughter of a demon of the wind, and a demon of the earth. I myself am a demon of water (2), and my wife was a demon of fire. So you Duo are all four. But when something like that happens, there are only two out comes. Death or Life.
"We believe that you are the demon of Death, considering that our family has a long line of Shinigami's. your grandmother, and your mother for example."
"So you can be both, of element and Death?" Duo asked. Taking all this news quiet well.
"Yes, in your case you're a little of everything. But, I few years ago a woman came to me and told me that a Vampire had finally come to see her and ask her what he had to do to stop taking blood form mortals, and she had told him to find himself a death demon. She came to warn me." Maxwell said. Duo sighed.
"So I'm supposed to go with the Vampire? Are you telling me I'm suppose to just give my life up and become this monsters last meal? How can I do that? I have Solo to care for and Heldi and Alex." Duo said, he was getting mad now.
"No Duo, you don't understand. He killed the last death demon he tried to turn; I don't want that to happen." Maxwell said, grabbing the boy's hands.
"Then why are you telling all of this to me now?" Duo asked.
"So that you can be prepared. When is he suppose to come back did he say?"
"Three nigh-tonight." Duo closed his eyes and put his head on the table. "He's suppose to come tonight."
"You'll just stay inside the Church tonight. He can not reach you in the house of God." Maxwell said. Duo nodded and looked out the window. The sun was already touching the horizon. Would he last threw the night, or would tonight be his end.
"I don't want Solo with me. If anything does happen I don't want him to know what happened. I don't want him to know I became a Vampires meal. He already hates them so. I'm afraid he would go after it if he knew. And that would kill him." Duo said. Maxwell agreed.
Yeah! I have a huge surprise in the next chapter! I love working Graveyard, I have nothing better to do then Write stories and draw. And read Lemons, hmmmmm, lemons.
Sample:
'You think God will protect you from me. My little demon."
(1): If you watch gundam wing you will notice that Heero and Trowa DO talk. But only when they got something to say. Unlike Duo who will say anything to keep the silence away. And boredom (2) Even though he's a demon of Water he hates his cloths being wet and sticking to him uncomfortably, I mean who wouldn't.