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"Heero!" Quatre says harshly. Heero wakes with a start.
"What?" Heero asks grumpily.
"Duo's gone! Trowa says that there has been an assassin following us!" Quatre exclaims. Heero quickly stood from his makeshift bed. Wufei was already up looking for tracks.
"Here I found some!" Wufei states. Heero rushes over and looks. There were two sets of tracks. Heero looks at Quatre.
"Stay here Quatre. We don't know if they want something other than Duo. We will be back," Heero says. Wufei nods in agreement and kisses Quatre then follows Heero into the thicket of the woods after the tracks.
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Duo grumbles in annoyance. He glares at the man sitting in front of him.
"Did you have to wake me up this early to talk, really? You know I like to sleep," Duo scolds. The man chuckles.
"So what are you doing now?" Duo asks. The man glances away.
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Heero and Wufei busts through the thicket where he hears voices from. There sat Duo before a man wearing heavy leather and armor. Heero immediately draws his sword from its sheath and points it at the man a glare evident on his face.
Duo turns to see Heero with his weapon drawn. His eyes widen.
"Heero no!" Duo exclaims and jumps in front of Trant. Heero narrows his eyes and stops.
"There is an assassin after us since we left Tomina. How do we know he isn't it!" Heero growls. Duo smiles.
"This is Trant. I've known him for since I was little. He left a few years back. He came to tell me that he had been the one to kill me but he was making sure it was me. He wanted to tell me that there will be many others that will be after us now," Duo states. Heero narrows his eyes.
"Then why did he take you away from the camp?" Heero states. Suddenly there is a loud boom coming from the campsite. Wufei's eyes widen.
"Quatre," He says lightly. He turns and runs back towards the camp.
"If I find out that you were in on this…or if our companion is hurt I will kill you," Heero says harshly. Trant nods. Duo stands and follows after Heero.
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Quatre waits in front of the fire. He stared patiently for his lover and his cousin to return
with Duo. He hears a rustle of bushes and he looks there with a smile. His smile quickly vanishes and he stands his hands crackling with golden magic. There at the edge of camp stood a lone figure. It had on a green hood and cape that covered its body not allowing anyone to see if it was man or woman.
"Who are you and what do you want!" Quatre questions. The cloaked figure answers by throwing a dagger at Quatre. Immediately Quatre reacts his reflexives kicking in and protecting him while keeping an eye on the figure. The figure pauses and slowly bends its arms to finger the dagger on its belt. Quatre scanned over the figure and looked behind it trying to see if the group was coming back. No such luck.
In a split second the figure throws another dagger and as Quatre dodges it along to come face to face with the assassin. Quatre held back his shock as the assassin hit him in the stomach. Quatre recoils and launches his fist at the attackers face. It lands soundly. The assassin's hood falls back to reveal a woman. Her eyes were a muddled purple and she had short curly brown hair. Quatre backed from her only to have her ready another dagger to attack him with. She springs forward and slashes at Quatre's stomach. It lands. Quatre hisses in pain and creates a long light weight sword that carried a golden hue from his magic. He tries to ignore the blood dripping from his wound and rushes forward to attack her. She goes to dodge but he swings landing a sickening blow to her stomach. Her side gushes blood and the blow makes her stumble. She leans against a tree. She looks at him and smirks. He looks at her in confusion until he sees a purple glow from her. His eyes open wide in horror. He can only make a shield as large as his head before her body glows completely purple and explodes. He flies back and slams into a tree. He falls to the ground and slips into unconsciousness.
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Wufei runs as fast as he can towards the camp. His heart was hammering in his chest as it constricted from the worry. He had never felt so nervous as he did then. He stops when he reaches the camp and can only look on with horror filled eyes. Everything at the camp was up in flames and destroyed. He almost fell to his knees until he saw Quatre over by a tree. Wufei quickly rolls Quatre over and checks to see if he is still breathing. Wufei lets out a sigh of relief. Wufei then checks over his lover's body trying to find any wounds. He finds the stomach wound first since it had bleed through his shirt.
Wufei immediately set to work on the wound. Thankfully he had bandages in his pocket. He wrapped the wound as best he could with limited supplies. Once he was content with the blonde's torso wrapped he checks the man's body for other injuries. His face pales when he looks at his lovers back.
On Quatre's back were wounds scattered everywhere. There were burns and open lacerations on the man's back. Wufei didn't know what to do. The wounds would not be able to close without stiches and they only had bandages left to cover the wounds. Wufei knew that if Quatre did make it that it would be extremely unpleasant and painful.
Wufei turned when he heard the strangled gasp. There next to a distraught Heero was Duo. Wufei glares at the violet eyed man. He stands and stalks over to Duo his rage showing.
Duo could only watch in an odd mixture of horror and fascination as Wufei's body changed. Wufei's skin began to scale over with white scales and his eyes changed to a black cat's eye. Duo swore he could see a dark shape of a dragon behind Wufei looming over him.
"This is your fault! If you hadn't run off with…with that assassin then Quatre wouldn't be hurt! Do us all a favor and be a good, submissive boy! Just because you are now free of your guardian does not mean you can do what you want! There is a war going on and you are the key! Grow up and think of all the people that your help depends on!" Wufei hisses. Duo could only stare at the looming dark creature that puffs out fire from its nostrils, its blearing black eyes staring at him in anger. That was when Duo realizes what form Wufei's shift is.
Duo who is so fascinated with the looming figure doesn't notice the exotic in front of him getting angrier. Heero who knows that the man is in trouble diverts his friend's attention.
"Wufei your aura is showing," Heero says calmly. Wufei immediately calms himself gives Heero an ashamed look.
"I know…you're getting better at controlling it. It's just your anger takes hold of you," Heero whispers. Wufei nods. Heero notices that Duo was no longer near them. He looks over to see Duo peering and testing the wounds with his fingers. He has to hold Wufei back when he sees Quatre shift in unconsciousness. Duo grabs the bag from his back, which he was glad he had taken with him when he went with Trant, and shifts through it.
Wufei and Heero blinks in surprise when Duo pulls a needle and thread from his bag. They then watch in fascination as Duo stiches the wounds up on Quatre's back. When he finished Duo looks at Wufei and Heero with hopeful eyes.
"I need help putting a different shirt on him," Duo states. Wufei immediately moves to help him. Once the shirt was on Wufei sat Quatre up against a tree. Duo looks at Heero.
"I don't think it would be a good idea to stay any longer. I say we push forward until we get to camp. How far away is it?" Duo asks.
"On horse-back it only should take a couple more hours and I have to agree with you. Quatre's wounds are too serious to not have a proper medic look at them. How did you know how to do that though?" Heero questions. Duo gets a faraway look in his eyes and answers.
"When you have no one to help you, you tend to get good at stitching yourself up," Duo whispers. Heero immediately doesn't ask any more questions like that. Duo looks at Heero.
"What are auras?" Duo questions. Heero sits next to Duo, who was by the area they entered from.
"Auras are the image of our shifter form. It tends to show up when you have a strong emotion bubbling up. Our emotions control our shifts, so earlier Wufei was so angry that his aura was showing. You can control your aura easily if you can control your emotions. Though using your aura in special time's works like in intimidation or at the start of a battle to scare your opponents," Heero explains. Duo nods. He stands up and goes to his horse, which had somehow gotten free along with the other horses during the fight, and turns to look at Heero.
"Are we ready to set out for the encampment?" Duo asks. Heero looks at Wufei who had already had Quatre in his arms and on his horse. Heero looks back at Duo and nods. Heero climbs onto his horse as Duo does. Heero whistles to the rider less horse and it trots over to him. Heero grabs the reins and kicks the horse to start to trot. Duo and Wufei follow after their leader.
As they ride away from the destroyed camp a pair of purple eyes watch as they go. From the shadows the assassin who had wounded Quatre watches as the group rides off. She smirks and brings her hand up to look at the purple whimsical ball of light in her hand. She frowns as the purple ball of mist flickers to gold and then back. She immediately looks at the riders and narrows her eyes at them. She clenches her free hand tightly and turns tucking the purple ball back into her pouch. She gets onto her slate gray horse which stands at 17 hands and slowly follows after the group. She knew that if she waited long enough everything would come into play and her employer would be very happy with her accomplishment.
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Wufei could only look down at Quatre with worried eyes. The man had started to turn, shake, and moan his body braking out in a sweat. Wufei would have thought that it was from his wounds except for the fact that Quatre's body was shining a light purple. All Wufei could do was wait for their medic to check over the blonde and hope that he was alright.