Treasure Found

Chapter 10

Gundam wing

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Rating: mature to be safe

Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 6x5

Warnings: mpreg, language, OOC, AU

Summery: AU The Gundam boys are wolfeans (have a wolf and a human form) in of world of Mercia that contains elves, fairies, and other fantastical creatures. Prince Heero of Dane is searching his lands for his mate. Will he find him before the Picts find the enchanted Jewel of Ludeca and seize war on all of Mercia?

Stagnate Feelings

Hearing the midday bells toll, Duo cursed silently to himself. He hadn't realized that the morning had passed as he conversed with his friend, Quatre, informing each other of the change in their lives and what had happened earlier with the prince. Turning to his best friend, Duo excused himself saying he had to help Howie with stable business and ran off.

Sprinting through town again, the braided beta headed straight for the livery, knowing his guardian would be in the back of it either cleaning after the horses or still training his newest horse. Seeing that the stalls were pristine for the midday, the teen headed to the back paddock and found the old alpha trying to lung a spirited horse.

Shuffling his feet to alert them of his approach, he went to the fence and leaned against it just watching the old man calmly working to settle the horse down. After a few minutes, Howard had the horse walking evenly around in a circle.

"She's a quick learner, Howie." The boy said after giving an appreciative whistle.

"Why do you think I picked her boy?" came back sarcastically. 'Uh oh, he's upset again.' Duo thought to the alpha's comment. "I thought we went through it this morning. Oh well, doesn't really matter now."

"What I do now?" the boy whined while batting his eyes and pulled his best face of innocence.

Howard just grunted sending a nasty glare towards the boy and brought the horse to a stop before slowly approaching her to lead her back to the barn. He brushed by his ward without a glance and stabled the horse. The old eyes saw that the braided beta had followed, but stayed in the breezeway to stay out of the way, which was alright with him. He was reluctant to begin the mornings conversation again. When he began to brush the filly down, he let out a frustrated sigh.

"Its not you I'm mad at kid." He paused and went to the other side of the horse to continue grooming. "I'm just worrying what you got yourself into this time. This is your matter, and I can't step in and solve everything if it goes wrong."

"Howie" Duo started, "I…I" he couldn't think of what to say, it was unusual for the alpha to be lachrymose. "Wow" he exclaimed suddenly, "I speechless." That brought a chuckle out of the old man.

"Ah, don't mind me brat, I know you'll be okay. After all, you did learn from the best. And I have to remember you're practically an adult now. It just seems that you should still be that wide eyed brat I found in that barn." His eyes glazed over as he remembered that life altering day. "Now come on, we still have to get ready to go float some teeth." With that, the two finished brushing down the filly and gathered their supplies to make ready for their slight trip. In no time the two were riding out of town heading to the human's farm.

An hour later, the pair were hard at work with their hands in a multitude of horse's mouths. Duo really hated this job. He would much rather be mucking the stalls or beating out his frustrations on a searing hot piece of metal in the scorching forge. Having drool running down his arm was not an enjoyable thing for him.

"Howie, I have t'a tellya, you so owe me for this." Duo complained.

"Ya get fed don't cha." Howard deadpanned. Duo only snorted back. Together the two worked for a few hours, then slowly made the long journey home.

Sbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbssbsbsbsbsbbsbsbs

Listening to the bells tolls telling it was six o'clock and dinner time, Heero figured the braided beta had enough time to have settled down. Glancing at two of his guards and seeing their attention focused on him, he motioned to them that he was heading out. Without a word to indicate where he was going or leaving a note to anyone else in his party, the prince quickly made his way across to the livery.

Entering the barn, Heero took a deep breath and tried to see if the violet eyed boy was there. Unfortunately there were too many smells and he could not pick out the beta's scent. Walking around and calling out with still no trace of the braided beauty, Heero gave his guards a puzzled look before abruptly changing his stride and headed to the boy's home.

Reaching the tiny house, the young alpha firmly knocked on the door and waited. Not hearing anything he pounded his fist on the door. The temper he had spent time cooling earlier was beginning to show its ugly head. Again he spun around and headed off not telling his protection the destination.

Although he had never been to the healers house, he easily found it by detecting the heavy scent of his advisor hanging around the place. Once more he was banging heavily upon a door. Luckily this one opened with a smiling face behind it.

"Oh" Quatre exclaimed, surprised to see incensed blue eyes glaring at him. "Greetings Your Highness." He gave a short bow and stepped aside to bid the prince entrance to his simple dwelling.

With a soft grunt the chocolate haired alpha brushed past him and sought out his friend. When all were gathered in the kitchen, Heero questioned the new couple in a brisk voice.

"Where is Duo?"

"Well he was here earlier, but he left around noon." Quatre said, then seeing that the prince was not satisfied, he continued to hedge, "he may have gone off with Howard." That was the wrong way to say that the blond quickly found out as a low growl came from the chocolate haired alpha. He then quickly amended "sometimes they have to go to the different farms and do work for the farmers. They're usually back by dusk. But sometimes they have to go to one of the border towns of the humans."

Again the prince was growling. He hadn't expected the braided beauty to leave, let alone go to the human country, on the border or not. All in the room noticed the chocolate haired alpha become more agitated and his friends knew they had to placate him before the he did something he would later regret. Trowa was the one to come to the rescue by asking his future mate to explain more about Duo's duties.

"Well, he is usually the one Howard has travel with him. Even though two others do work at the livery too, Howard has Duo handle things." Quatre explained, giving further insight to the braided beta's life. "Most days Duo cleans the stalls in the morning and then does his other chores, whether its collecting hay and grass to helping break in the new horses, or…or working in the forge." The blonde seemed a little reluctant at the end and leaned into Trowa, who was standing behind the beta with both hands on the elfin shoulders. "But most don't know that he does all that, the town just thinks he mucks the stalls.

"Thank you." The prince said in his cold voice before turning and going back to his hotel room. He was actually reluctant to leave, but knew that he had to calm himself down again. Even he had picked up the tension he was causing to rise in the room.

Just out side of the inn, the prince's vibrant blue eyes saw the mayor nervously pacing before the entrance, he didn't doubt that the man was waiting for him. A second later the arrogant man noticed the prince and quickly made his way to block his highness. Luckily for Heero, he had two of his guards on his heels who quickly stepped in front to intercede the man.

"Your Highness" the mayor loudly exclaimed with a flourished bow. "I beg for a moment of your time." His beady eyes flickering between the three standing proudly before him.

"Speak" Heero ordered not really interested.

The old wolfean gave a quick glance behind him showing he had preferred to talk in private, but the prince made no motion to move off the porch of the inn.

"Since it is your last night in Caledonii, I invite you and your party to dine with my mate and I." Never once did the man stop shifting both his focus and his hands. When he saw the cold blue eyes of the prince intensify, the mayor began to sweat profusely.

"I must disappoint you, mayor, that I must decline your offer. You should have offered your table to myself the first day of my visit, not moments before I dine on my last day here." Everyone near could feel the frost emanating from the prince's cold words. He was still upset over his missing beta. When the old mayor opened his mouth, Heero began a low growl, he was not in a mood to listen to the groveling of a petty old fool.

By this time, Wufei and Maddox were drawing near having been waiting in the parlor of the inn for the prince's return. When the prince saw them, he turned and headed straight for the tavern, disregarding the mayor as if he were a muddy puddle to be walked over. All followed him except for the red face mayor, who made his own beeline to his own abode.

About an hour later, the five wolfeans were just finishing their meal. During the whole affair, no one dared to break the silence reigning over the table. The only conversation that took place had been when Xerxes told where they went and what had been told by the blonde beta. It was obvious the prince was still in a mood, unfortunately no one understood the real reason as to why. It had been believed amongst the guards that Wufei had cleared up the matter dealing with the braided beta, so no knew what was irking the chocolate haired alpha.

To make matters worse, the whole tavern was exceedingly busy. Everyone knew the prince was to leave in the morning and wanted to see him one last time. Rumors of the braided teen storming out of the prince's room had spread. Many of the eligible bachelors wanted another shot at gaining the yet to be king's favor. None had believed that the orphaned beta stood a chance of winning over an alpha, let alone a prince.

Luckily for the royal party, or maybe the would be suitors, no one approached the irked prince. His aura radiating his foul mood had the towns people keeping their distance. It was a night that the guards did not have to work that hard to keep people away from the prince, he was doing that all by himself.

Unable to take the tension, the black haired beta let out an exasperated sigh and asked, "what is troubling you, Heero?"

"Nothing." the prince clipped out.

'Well that helped a lot', Wufei thought with a roll of the eyes. Quietly, the group left the table, with the guards assuming they were going back to their room. They found out quickly that their prince had other plans as he made his way back to the stables. He repeated what happened their earlier, and with the same results. Then he made his way to Wing's stall and gave a most frightening glare to the three guards, warning them to back off for awhile. The three went to their own horse's stalls to tend them.

Wufei could tell that his long time friend was troubled, but could not figure out what it was. It seemed that everything started happening when they came to this backwater town and he could not wait till he was out of there. Hoping the alpha would open up now that the two were close to being alone, he entered the stall with his friend and took up a brush to help the prince groom the gelding.

"Do you think he left because of me?" Wufei almost missed the quiet question. 'So this what's troubling him', he thought.

"No, I think he is just out doing his job." The prince nodded his head showing he heard the reply and the two continued to brush and wait.

TBC