Of Friends, Family, and Magic

by Shinigami-chan

Duo and magic don't seem to mix and who is the kid? sorry. put the wrong censer on it.

1. Of friends Family and Magic ch1

Chapter 1

"Heero, do you think that Treize is going to be there?" Quatre Reberba Winner asked his companion as they approached a set of double doors. The five Gundam pilots were on a mission to the OZ headquarters to gather information and to get something.

"Yes. that is why we have to be careful. If anyone could identify us pilots, he could and so could Zechs." Heero Yuy said quietly in response to the small blonde's question as they stopped in front of a huge set of double doors for a moment to straighten their ties and coats before entering the ballroom.

"Well than, I guess we should head on in. Trowa and the others have been in there for a while already." Quatre said quietly as they pushed open the doors.

Inside they saw hundreds of people dancing and talking at OZ's annual Spring Ball.

"You try to find Trowa and see if he's found anything out about the book. I'll find Duo." Heero said and then left the blond as he headed for the most likely place to find the cheerfully annoying pilot of the Gundam Deathscyth Hell.

Duo was most definitely not happy as he stood in the shadows near a pillar in the corner of the ballroom. Dress in a floor length ball gown in black and purple with his long hair loose and flowing around and down his back, Duo Maxwell was ready to kill the next man who approached him and said how beautiful 'her' eyes were.

'I'm going to kill Wufie for suggesting this.' he thought sourly as he glanced around at the few people near him. Duo had thought the idea for one of them to gather information from the women by posing as a woman was a great idea but he had never thought that he would be the one who had to do it. If that in itself wasn't bad enough, the truly torturous part had come when the others had decided that he had needed some make-up. they had drafted Katherine Bloom, Trowa's adopted sister from the circus, to do his hair and make-up.

She had refused to leave his braid alone and had firmly brushed off his attempts to convince her that the braid would be fine saying that the braid was to recognizable, even if he was dressed as a girl. She then proceeded to put him in a corset to give him an hourglass figure and had him but on a padded strapless bra that gave him a C bust size. The purple under skirts came next followed by the strapless black dress with small purple designs at the bottom of the hem of the skirt. the long black evening gloves came up to his elbows and the tasteful black choker accented his long slender neck. The make-up came next. She managed to tastefully bring out his high cheekbones and enhance his purple eyes to the point that they almost dominated his face. She had finished with simply brushing out his long hair until it swirled around his knees. Katherine had been surprised at the length as it only reaches his hips when confined in his usual braid.

Twenty minutes later, he had finally been allowed out of Katherine's dressing room dressed as he was now but he has firmly refused to carry that purse that went with the dress. He had hoped to get out of there before the guys could see him but Trowa and Quatre had been guarding the back of the tent so he couldn't escape be crawling under the canvas and Heero and Wufie had been standing right in front of the door. When he had emerged, Trowa and Quatre had come around from the back. They had smothered their smiles and grins as he stopped in front of them and Duo had been ready to start swinging at them until Heero had said in a cold voice, "Trowa will be your 'date' for tonight. Make sure your find out what we need Duo."

"Only for you, Heero, but if you ever make me do something like this again, I will make sure the rest of your very short life miserable." Dou had snapped.

As Duo was remembering this, he failed to notice a figure approaching him.

"I thought that you were going to find what you could about the book Doctor J and the others want." The sound of the cold voice from right behind him broke Duo from his reflections. He almost gave himself whiplash as he turned to face who had spoken.

"Don't sneak up on me like that Heero." he snapped as he turned to face is friend.

"I shouldn't be able to, Duo." Heero said softly.

"So have you heard anything concerning our mission?"

"Yeah. I over heard Dorothy Catalonia talking with Lady Une. She said the book his Excellence had wanted was locked up in the vault, along with a bunch of other books and scrolls that similar writings." Duo said as he adjusted the bodice of his skirt.

Before Heero could say anything to Duo , the music started again with a slow waltz. noticing that they were attracting unwanted attention by standing close together, alone in the shadows, Heero held out his arm to his companion and asked if he wanted to dance. Seeing his companion's surprised expression, he explained. "We are attracting some unwanted attention by standing close together in the shadows like this. By dancing with the four of us, you can get everyone's information with out looking like something was going on."

"All right then, let's dance!" Duo said with forced cheerfulness then muttered, "I just that I don't fall off these heels."

Heero just grunted and lead him onto the dance floor.

As Duo and Heero twirled around the dance floor with the other dancers, Trowa Barton watched them with an emotionless eye. 'They should have done that to begin with instead of talking in the shadows like that.' he thought then turned to his companion. "you should dance with Duo next, Wufie."

Wufie Chang snorted in disgust at the thought of dancing with the longhaired pilot. "I don't think so Trowa. There is no justice in dancing with that idiot." he said in a firm voice then pointed out their blond haired friend to Trowa as he approached.

"Finally, I thought I would never find you guys." Quatre said as he stopped in front of the two other pilots. "Have you two seen Heero or Duo?"

"They are currently dancing past us at the moment." Wufie said as he nodded at the couple closest to them as they swept by one the dance floor.

"What are they doing?" Quatre exclaimed as he watched the two one the dance floor.

"They are sharing information that way so they can prevent anyone from becoming suspicious." Trowa said calmly.

"I guess that makes sense. So who is going to dance with Duo next?" Quatre asked, looking between Trowa and Wufie.

"I refuse to dance with the idiot." Wufie said as he firmly crossed his arms over his chest.

"I guess I'll go then and you can go after me, Trowa." Quatre said quietly as the song ended and the dancers quietly applauded the orchestra.

"May I have this dance?"

Duo turned and smiled at Quatre, who stood just behind him.

"Sure. Just don't be thinking this will ever happen again." he said as the dance began.

"I found out a little about the book the Doctors wanted." Quatre said quietly as they danced. "I overheard some of the soldiers stationed around the room that it was just a book with incantations in it."

"You mean like a witch's spell book?"

"Yeah."

"Well if that's true than why would Treize want it and more importantly, why would the Doctors want it?" Duo asked.

"I don't know but I have a bad feeling about all of this." Quatre said softly for Duo's ears only.

"Same here, Q-man."

"Can I stop now?" Duo asked Trowa as the song they were dancing to ended.

"Yes. Wufie won't dance with you any way." Trowa said as they headed off the dance floor.

"You have to find me a place to take off these heels, Trowa. My feet are killing me!" Duo said and Trowa lead him over to a bench that rested against a wall, quietly laughing. "Thanks, I seriously don't see how women do this all the time." he complained as he took off the three inch black heels.

As the two Gundam pilots sat on the bench, Heero, Quatre, and Wufie came over.

"We found out where the vault containing the book is." Heero said as he leaned against a pillar that was next to the bench.

"So can I change now?" Duo asked eagerly.

"No. We need you to distract the guards until we can knock them out." Quatre said with a small smile at the disappointed look on Duo's face.

"Oh, all right. What do I have to do?"

"How come we have to stand guard?" the first guard said to his partner as they stood guard in front of a door leading to the vault.

"I know. It's just a bunch of musty old books and scrolls. I wish we could..." the second guard didn't get a chance to finish his thoughts as he was tackled to the ground.

"Please help me!"

The startled guard looked up into the most startling pair of purple eyes he had ever seen while his partner stared at the woman's body, drooling slightly.

"Please help me! There's this guy after me and I'm so scared!" she whimpered as she was helped to her feet by the guard that had finally stopped looking at her body.

"Um... I'm sorry but we were told to keep everyone away from this area." he said as he stared at her chest which was heaving with emotion. "Let me take you back to the party, everything will be fine." he said and started to lead her away.

"But what about me?!" his partner asked indignantly.

"You need to stay here to protect the vault or we'll both get into trouble if our supervisor ever found out." the guard said as calmly as he could with a beautiful woman clinging to him like he was the only man in the world. As they walked away, his friend was knocked out and dragged into an open doorway before he knew what was happening.

The guard, who was walking with the beautiful woman, was suddenly pushed up against the wall of the hallway. He was surprised to feel her press up against him and was even more surprised to feel her lips press against his and her tongue slip into his mouth. It was a long and deep kiss that lasted until he abruptly was knocked out by a punch to the side of his head.

"About time, Heero." Duo said as he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand while looking at the cold face of the Wing pilot.

"What the HELL was that about?" Heero demanded coldly as he stared at Duo.

"You told me to distract him until you knocked him out. I couldn't think of anything else." Duo said defensively, then added in an angry voice, "And what took you so long to knock him out?"

Heero refused to answer and instead dragged the guard's body to the room that Wufie had deposited the other guard's body after he had knocked him out. After all, The Perfect Soldier couldn't really tell the guy he was secretly in love with that he had gotten a thrill out of watching Duo act like a woman and was jealous of the guard for kissing Duo like he had wanted to for months.

Duo, unaware of the thoughts going through Heero's head just stormed back to the rest of the guys where they were waiting in front of the vault door. He was just to angry at Heero for waiting so long that he had had to use his last resort which was something that he had wanted to do only to Heero if he had ever worked up enough courage to do that to the cold, hard pilot.

"Just pick the lock." Heero said after he had closed the door to the room the guards were in.

"Fine, fine, but this book better be pretty damn important." Duo snarled as he pulled up his skirts, exposing his long legs as he untaped a small leather package from his upper thigh. Opening it, he removed his lock picking tools as the vault had an old fashioned locking system instead of the usual electronic locking system.

"I'll have you inside in just a minute." he said as he set to work. Within a minute, the lock was sprung and they were inside and Duo was busy with a security system that had been installed on the second door that lead to what ever was currently held in the in the vault.

"There. It's safe to go ahead and get what we came here for." Duo said as he packed up his tools and taped it back onto his leg. The five pilots entered the room and Duo swore softly.

"I thought the Doctors wanted one book not one hundred!" Quatre exclaimed as he looked at the huge pile of books and scrolls on the large table in the center of the room.

"Don't exaggerate Quatre. There are only about ten books and twenty scrolls." Wufie said, disgusted.

"Does anybody know which one the docs want?" Duo asked as he stared to go through the pile of scrolls and the others shook their heads.

"But how are we going to move them all? After all we can't just leave all of them here since we don't know which one they want." Quatre said and the others nodded.

Trowa walked over to the corner of the room and picked up two bags that were sitting there. "We can use these." he said and handed on to Heero. They quickly packed up the books and scrolls and headed out of the room.

"We need to lock up the outer door again before we leave. The next guard shift should be starting soon and we might want some time to escape before they start looking for us." Quatre suggested and the others nodded in agreement as they entered to hall way again but it was no longer empty.

They turned at the sound of soft clapping that was coming from the shadows and saw Zechs Marquee slowly walking towards them. "Well done." he said as he stepped into the light. "You acceded my expectations but I have just one question."

"And what is that?" Heero snarled as he tossed the bag he was carrying in Duo's general direction and slipped into a fighting stance with Wufie right behind him.

"Why the hell are you wearing a dress, Maxwell?"

"Not by choice." Duo said as a sweat drop appeared on his head, then added in a deadly voice, "But if you ever tell anyone about this, I will personally hunt you down and kill you."

"Don't worry, no one would believe me anyway."

"How did you know we were here?" Wufie snapped.

"We realized that once word of the boos got out, like it always does, you five would come after them and what better time then when there would be hundreds of guests roaming around?"

Zechs said smugly and Trowa nodded.

"Makes sense. We should have realized it before." he said and got nods of understanding from the others.

"So now what?" Heero asked.

"Now I try to stop you." Zechs said as he lunged at him. Heero nodded and got ready to fight.

As they fought, Duo picked up a scroll that had fallen out of the bag that Heero had tossed at him. "Hm...I wonder what this says." he said and then read the top half of the scroll to the best of his abilities.

At the end, he felt a tingle run through his body and heard a soft popping sound so he stopped and looked around at the others. "I have no clue as to what that was. Did any of you guys understand it?" he asked then noticed that all activates around him had stopped, including Heero's and Zechs' fight. Everyone was staring at him with incomprehension on their faces.

"What! What are you guys staring at?!" he asked wildly looking around. Looking down at himself, he noticed that he was glowing faintly purple.

"D..Duo? Where did you get those big black wings?" Quatre asked hesitantly, his face suddenly pale.

"Wings? What wings?" Duo asked, confused.

"The big black ones that are sticking out of your back, Maxwell." Wufie said.

"What?!" Duo shrieked as he twisted to look over his shoulder and sure enough there were two big wings covered in black feathers.

"Sh!" Trowa hissed at Duo as his loud exclamation echoed down the hall.

"Guys, I think we should get Duo home right now." Quatre said urgently and the others nodded.

Heero turned back to Zechs, who was still mesmerized by Duo's wings or something. Before he could pull himself together again, Heero punched him across the face, instantly knocking him out.

He dropped him into the room with the guards, then turned back to the others. Seeing their surprised faces, he said coldly, "We have a fight to finish with the mobile suits." and left it at that.

"What was on that scroll you read?" Quatre asked Duo as they entered the safe house they were currently staying at.

"I don't know, maybe a spell for wings!" Duo shouted the last past as he stomped down the hall to his room and slammed the door behind him.

Quatre sighed and turned to go to his own room. Duo had been angry and sarcastic since they had left the OZ headquarters. Quatre had noticed that his voice had sounded kind of high, though it had lost none of its huskiness. Suddenly he heard a scream of horror coming from Duo's room.

He slammed open Duo's door with the other pilots right behind him. As they all crammed into the doorway, Quatre stopped short as he saw what had caused him to scream.

Duo had been undressing, feeling a little off balance and strange though he had just assumed that it was because of the wings. He had quickly found out how wrong he was when he had removed the dress.

He had breasts.

He had quickly felt between his, or rather, her legs and found nothing between them. That was when Duo had screamed.

"I'm a fucking GIRL!!!"

"Don't belabor the obvious, Duo." Heero said coldly. His face didn't show his inner mess of confused feelings, which were composed of horror, curiosity, and surprise. His solider side took over and tried to get through to the hysterical girl in front of him.

"But look at me! I have wings and boobs!" she shrieked, pointing to herself, but stopped when she looked at the others.

Wufie had his back turned and was as stiff as a broomstick. Quatre had fainted into his lover's arms and Trowa was trying to revive him. And most surprising, Heero was standing there, determinedly liking only at her face with a blush that turned his whole face red.

Spinning around, Duo grabbed a shirt off the bed and held it over her chest. "Perverts! Get out!" she shrieked. She watched as Heero pushed the others out the door then closed it softly after himself. Sighing, she pulled the oversized t-shirt she had grabbed and pulled it over her head. Realizing that her wings were in the way, she pulled it off again and cut some holes in the back for her wings to slip through.

"I don't believe this." she muttered as she slipped the modified shirt back over her head. "First they have me dress up as a girl, then Zechs sees me like that, then I turn into a girl with wings! It's gone from bad to worse and now I have to live alone with four guys."

Pausing in the act of pushing her wings through, she thought about what she had just said. "Well, I can't really say that they're the worst guys to be around under these circumstances. Wufie is to much of a prude, Quatre and Trowa are together and Heero would never do anything anyway, him being Mr. Anti-social and all." She said as she finished getting her wings comfortable and pulling on some sweat pants.

She went to the bathroom that was connected to her room thinking, 'I have to get this make-up off and put my hair up. Then I'll feel much better.' She scrubbed her face with a wet washrag, still thinking about what had happened to her today. Without the make-up, she could tell that her face had changed as well as her body. His heart-shaped face was still the same, but now her already high cheekbones were even more prominent. her eyes were bigger, and her eyebrows were slim and graceful as they arched over them. Her lips were full and pouty and Duo could tell that she really was gorgeous.

Sighing, she quickly braided her hair and left to confront the others. She found them in the living room, looking through the scrolls and books.

"Um...I'm sorry for freaking out like that you guys. I'm just having some trouble adjusting to this." she said meekly and the others nodded in understanding.

"That's ok." Quatre said with a smile as he made room on the couch for her.

"So..um..what are you guys doing with this stuff?"

"We're trying to figure a way to change you back to normal." Trowa said as he handed a scroll to her.

"Which scroll is the one I read earlier? I only read the top so maybe the bottom is the reversal spell." Duo said as she looked around at everyone.

"Um..I think it's that one." Quatre said, pointing to the one in Duo's hands.

"Yeah, thanks. This looks like the right one. Well, here goes nothing." Duo said and started the incantation at the bottom of the scroll. As she chanted, she noticed that she was glowing softly again, and when she looked up at the end, she saw that both Quatre and Trowa were glowing a soft golden color as well, which slowly faded after a moment. As they opened their eyes, which had fallen shut, Duo noticed something strange. Trowa had Quatre's blue eyes and Quatre had Trowa's green eyes.

Trowa suddenly gasped in horror as he stared at the small blond next to him on the couch, then abruptly put his head in his hands. "Oh Allah!"

"Are you ok, Trowa?" Heero asked the tall pilot.

"I'm not sure." Quatre said as he stared in mild horror at himself.

Duo realized what had happened before Heero or Wufie did. "Shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT! I am so sorry guys!" she wailed.

"What do you mean, Duo?" Heero demanded as he looked at her worriedly, though it didn't show on his face.

"Trowa and Quatre switched bodies! Only their eyes switched with them." Duo moaned.

"What the hell possessed you to say a spell you didn't understand?!" Wufie demanded angrily as his brain, already stunned by what had happened to Duo, finally realized what she had just said.

Duo didn't answer as she stared at the Chinese pilot. "Leave her alone, Wufie." Trowa said in an emotionless voice.

Hearing Quatre's voice so devoid of any emotions, even if it was Trowa, made Duo cringe. She jumped up and ran out of the room before anyone could say anything else. She flung open the front door and, using her new wings, took flight for the first time. As she flew away, she faintly heard Heero call her name.

"Duo!" Heero yelled as he raced out the front door. He caught only a fleeting glimpse of her as she flew away before she was out of sight over the forest. Sighing, he turned around and glared at Wufie who was in the doorway next to Trowa and Quatre.

"If anything happens to Duo, I will kill you." he snarled then pushed past the stunned trio and into the house.

As he stormed to his room, which was right next door to Duo's, he thought of the look on Duo's face right before she had taken off. To his eyes, it had been full of horror and self-loathing.

'I hope she doesn't do anything stupid.' he thought as he opened his laptop and began typing.

Wufie also returned to his room thinking of Duo's face when she had looked at him after his angry question. She had just looked so lost and a lone, as if her whole world was a nightmare that she just couldn't wake-up from.

Gone was the laughing, joking young man that was forever pulling pranks on all of the pilots that Wufie knew so well. This female form was so different. It was worse in his opinion since Wufie believed that all women we weak and silly.

"He changed from an idiot to a weakling." he muttered to himself as he paced around his room. "I have to get out of here for a while."

With that he grabbed his motorcycle and disappeared in the opposite direction that Duo had flown off in.

"Do you think Heero was to hard on Wufie?" Quatre asked as he tried to figure a way to push the long hair back, out of his eye.

"No. With all the changes Duo has to get used to, Wufie really shouldn't have said that. It's hard enough to deal with being turned into a girl with wings, but now she has to deal with accidentally switching our bodies." Trowa said as he tried to reach his stuff on the top shelf of the closet.

"Um...Quatre, could you please get that blue box on the top shelf?" he asked with a sweat drop.

"Sure." the taller boy said as he reached up and easily grabbed the box Trowa wanted.

"Thanks."

As Duo flew, she thought about what she had done. "It wasn't enough that I had to mess with something I had no clue about and change myself into a girl with wings," she berated herself, "But I had to do it again! Because of what I did, I just screwed up Trowa and Quatre. How could I do that to them? Quatre puts up with me in his houses between missions and Trowa has save my ass a number of times!"

Trying to get away from her thoughts, she speed up until she was skimming just above the tree tops at incredible speeds. It worked for a while as the speeds and the view distracted him long enough, that is, until she though of telling Heero and the others all about it.

That thought brought her crashing back to reality. Sighing she slowed down and landed on a large branch at the edge of a clearing in the middle of the forest. Sighing, she closed eyes and leaned back against the trunk of the tree.

Just as she started to doze off, she heard a sound from beneath her at the foot of the tree. 'What was that?' she thought as she pushed her bangs out of her eyes. Looking down, she saw a young boy about nine or ten leaning against the tree. She heard the faint sound again and recognized it as a small sob.

Gently floating down to the branch right above the kid, she saw, thanks to the full moon, that his clothes were old and raged, and he looked half starve. He wiped at his face with a grubby fist, leaving a smear of grime across his already dirty cheek. He had long mane of tangle of either blond or light brown hair that fell half way down his back and into his eyes. because it was dark and the kid's head was bowed, Duo couldn't see what color his eyes were. Coming to a quick decision, she flew down and landed next to the youth.

"What's wrong?" Duo asked as she knelt next to him.

"Who are you?" the boy asked warily as he looked up at her.

"A friend. My name's Duo."

"Really? My name's Trio." he said softly as he wiped at his eyes again.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

Trio hesitated for a second. He had learned a long time ago never to trust someone he had just met. But he had also learned to listen to his feelings and right now his feelings were telling him that this girl next to him was someone he could trust.

Looking at her, he saw a beautiful girl with long dark hair wearing black sweat pants with an oversized t-shirt with something big and black right behind her. Before answering her question, he asked one of his own.

"What is that big black thing right behind you?"

"Um...those are my wings. Don't ask." she said hastily when he opened his mouth. "I don't usually have wings."

Oh...ok. Well I'm from L2 colony and I'm an orphan I guess." Trio said, gaining Duo's full attention.

"You guess?"

"Yeah, I lived with my mom until I was about five until she disappeared. Before she did, she told me that I had a brother about five years older then me. She said that when I was born, she couldn't take care of both of us so she had to leave him." Trio said, then paused to wipe his eyes again before continuing.

"Lived alone or with some friends until this guy said that he would take me to his home but he got killed right before we were supposed to come here to Earth. I figured that Earth had to be better than where I was so I snuck on to a shuttle and came here." Trio finished, leaving out a lot but leaving just enough to get her measure.

"I grew up on L2 too, but I don't remember my family. I just went from place to place, trying to survive. I watched everyone around me die one by one. Some to drugs or starvation and others to the plaque about six years ago. Then, a bunch of them during the Maxwell Massacre. After that, I was chosen to under go special training and then was sent here to Earth about a year ago."

"What training?" Trio asked. Duo seemed to have as bad a childhood, if not worse than his own.

"I'll tell you about it later. But for now, would you like to come home with me for now? At least long enough to eat something." Duo added seeing the hesitant look on Trio's face.

After a minute, he nodded slowly. Giving him an encouraging smile, Duo stood up and pulled him to his feet. "The house is pretty far away so unless you want to walk, we'll fly." At his excited nod she grinned. As soon as he has looped his bag over his shoulders, she scooped him up and took off into the night sky.

"By the way, I have to warn you, I live with four other guys. I'm sure that they'll like you, even if they don't show it. Heero is always so cold and hard, and Trowa never shows his emotions. You'll like Quatre, everyone does. He's so happy and sweet. Now Wufie always acts like everyone in below him so don't pay any attention to him." Duo chatted as they flew on.

As they landed in the front yard of the safe house, the front doors opened and Quatre, in Trowa's body, came charging towards them with Trowa and Heero right behind him.

As they approached, Trio wrapped his arms around Duo's waist and she wrapped her arms and wings around him, covering him completely.

"Duo! Are you all right? Where have you been?" Quatre asked worriedly as he reached her.

"I'm fine Q-man, I just needed to get some air. You know, clear my head." She said quietly and the others nodded in understanding.

"Wufie seams to have had the same feelings as he took off right after you did." Heero said quietly.

"Is he back yet?" Duo asked.

"No." Trowa said.

"Why?" Heero wanted to know.

"Well, I wanted all of you here when I introduced someone to you guys." Duo said and slowly opened her wings.

"Um…Duo? Who is this?" Quatre asked as they stared at the young boy clinging to Duo's waist.

"Guy's this is Trio. I found him out it he woods and we got to talking and it turns out that he's just like I used to be so he's going to be staying with us for a while. Is that ok guys?" she asked in a rush.

"That's just fine with me." Quatre said with a smile. Trowa just nodded and Heero remained silent. "It's very nice to meet you Trio." Quatre added as the boy looked at him suspicious eyes.

"Come on Trio, let's get something to eat. I'm sure you're hungry." Duo said as she pried the boy's arms from around her waist. At the boy's nod, she ushered him into the house and down to the kitchen.

Quatre quickly followed them with the others right behind him. The found Duo rummaging through the fridge as the boy sat at the table, his head lowered as he watched his hands plucking at his backpack's straps.

Duo pulled out some sandwich meat and some spreads, grabbed some bread and made a couple thick sandwiches, which she put in front of the boy, then made two for herself and sat down across from him.

Heero, Trowa and Quatre watched amazed as both sandwiches were finished in a minute flat. Quatre sighed and grabbed two Cokes out of the fridge and put them in front of the pair. These too were finished faster then normal.

"Thank you." Trio said as he finally looked up. The four Gundam pilots gasped in shock as they stared at him in silence. Trio's violet eyes were confused as he stared at them in confusion. He jumped in surprise as Duo jumped up and ran out of the room. She was back a minute later with three pictures in her hands.

Sitting back down across from him, she asked Trio, "Do you have a picture of you mother?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Can I see it?"

"Sure." He said a pulled a picture from his back pocket.

Taking it slowly, Duo stared at the picture, then handed one that he had brought down to the startled boy.

"Where did you get this?" the boy whispered.

"That's my mom." Duo said just as quietly.

"But that's impossible! I have a brother, not a sister!" Trio yelled as he jumped to his feet.

Duo handed him the last two pictures. "This is what I usually look like, and this is what I looked like when I was your age." The first picture was of Duo standing at his Gundam's foot, wearing his usual black outfit. The second showed a young Duo standing next to Professor G who had trained him. He was wearing old threadbare clothes and had a serious expression on his face.

Trio stared at the picture of young Duo. It was obvious, even to him that they were nearly identical except that Duo's hair was darker. Looking at the back of the pictures he read the inscriptions written there.

'Duo Maxwell, age 11, with Professor G. year ac 190.' Was on the back of the younger Duo picture and on the back of the other one, 'Duo Maxwell and Deathscyth's toe! Year ac 195.' Looking up at the girl across from him, he asked in a confused voice, "If this is you, then why are you a girl and where did you get the wings?"

"Well you see, I was curious about what was on this scroll that the Doctors wanted so I read it and this ended up happening." Duo said as she gestured to herself.

"Did anything else happen with these scrolls?" Trio asked curious, but his curiosity fled when he saw Duo's expression fall.

There was silence for a moment as Duo looked at her hands. Finally, she spoke up. "I thought that the spell at the bottom half was the reversal but it ended up switching Trowa and Quatre's bodies."

"Oh." Was all Trio could say.

"Guys, I'm going to go to bed know." Duo said softly, not looking at anyone, then left.

"This has to be very hard on him…uh her." Quatre said and the others nodded.

"Yes. She hasn't cracked a joke or even smiled that much." Trowa said softly.

Upstairs in her room, Duo lay sprawled on her bed and tried to figure out how she had a little brother. 'How could she give us both up like that?' she thought as she grabbed a pillow and hugged it tightly to her chest. 'We were only around five when she gave us up.'

Her mind shifted to other things as she turned back onto her back and stared up at the ceiling. "How could I do that to two of my best friends? I don't deserve to fight with or even live with them." she said softly to herself as she got up from the bed. She quickly threw a few things into a backpack and then changed into her usual priestly looking outfit, after making some necessary modifications for her wings.

When she was dressed, she looked in the full-length mirror that was on her closet door. she was slightly surprised at how she looked. The pants molded themselves to her long legs and the shirt strained against her chest. 'I have to get a bigger version of this outfit.' she thought regretfully.

Grabbing a piece of paper, she hastily scrawled a note, which she left in the center of her black bedspread addressed to Heero before she could have second thoughts.

"I'm going to go check on Duo." Heero said as he left Trowa and Quatre as they showed Trio to a bedroom he could use.

"Alright, you seem to be closer to her than any of us." Quatre said as he put some clean sheets on the bed for Trio, who looked like he was going to pass out where he stood.

As Heero approached Duo's room, a sense of something wrong filled his mind. It increased with every step until it was almost unbearable.

He entered the room quietly and immediately realized that the one he secretly loved was gone. As he turned to leave, a flash of white on the black covered bed caught his attention. Seeing it was addressed to him, he picked the note up and opening it, read it quickly.

Dear Heero,

I'm sorry but I can't stay here with you and the others anymore. I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me. Please tell Trowa and Quatre sorry for me and I'll come back after I work everything out. Please take care of Trio for me and the same with Deathscyth Hell.

I love all of you too much to hurt you guys again so please don't come after me.

Duo Maxwell

In shock, he reread the note again before bolting out of the room. He ran into Trowa and Quatre as they were coming out of Trio's room where they had just put him to bed. "Guy's we have a problem." he said quietly and handed them the note.

After scanning it, Trowa looked at Heero sharply. "You mean that she left because of us?" he demanded.

"Yes."

"We have to go after her." Quatre said sharply, surprising the other two.

Trowa and Heero looked at him in shock. Never before had they heard this much fury in the gentle pilot's voice.

"This is all Wufie's fault. If he hadn't..." he started but was interrupted by the Chinese pilot as he walked up to the group.

"If I hadn't what, Quatre? What's going on?" Wufie demanded.

"You've managed to convince Duo that she's to much of a danger to be around us!" Quatre shouted, surprising all present. This was a very different Quatre then they were used to.

"Now Duo's gone because she loves us to much to put us in any danger! In her condition right now, there's no telling what she'll do. She could wind up dead." Quatre continued but was cut off as Trio opened his door.

"Did you say Duo's gone?" he asked quietly. At the sharp nod from Heero, Trio turned around, grabbed his backpack and shoes, and headed for the front door.

"Where are you going?" Heero snapped.

"To find Duo. She is not going to abandon me here." Trio snapped as he sat down at the top of the stairs to pull on his boots.

"Duo didn't abandon you. In her note, she told me to look after you until she got back." Heero snapped as he grabbed the boy by his shoulder. Dimly behind him, Heero heard Wufie ask, "Who is this kid?"

"My name is Trio. I'm Duo's younger brother." he snapped over his shoulder as he adjusted the straps of his backpack on his shoulders. Turning around he said softly to the four guys in front of him, "You claim to be her friends but you do nothing to help her."

"That's not true. I'm going to go look for her and Heero and Trowa will help." Quatre said as he took a step towards the boy.

"I'll try to find a counter spell." Trowa said quietly and Heero said he would go with Quatre.

Wufie was still trying to get used to the fact that this kid was the idiot's brother. "Um...I guess that I'll go out and look for him." he said but Heero snapped, "Forget it Wufie. You've done enough damage. Stay here and help Trowa translate the spells."

Oddly enough, Wufie just nodded. Heero turned back to Trio and said, "You stay here. It will be light in a couple hours and you're about to pass out."

"Well then, let's go." Quatre said and the group split up. Heero and Quatre went to the garage and each picked out something to search in. Heero picked his motorcycle while Quatre took a small black car.

Trowa and Wufie sat down on chairs in the living room while Trio curled up on a couch to take a quick nap. "These scrolls look like there in Latin." Trowa commented as he looked at a scroll.

"Quatre has a Latin dictionary in the library." Wufie said and stood up and hurried out of the room. He was back a moment later with a huge, leather bound book in his hands.

"Why don't we translate the scroll Duo read." Trowa suggested and Wufie nodded.

"You translate while I read." Wufie said as he handed over the book. Working back and forth, they were half way through the first incantation before Wufie stood up to stretch his legs and get something to drink, two hours later.

While he was gone, Trio woke up from his brief nap and asked Trowa softly, "Can I see how much you've gotten done?"

Taking the paper from his outstretched hand, Trio said thoughtfully, "You've translated four out of eight lines from the spell that changed Duo into a girl with wings, hmmm." he said thoughtfully as he picked up the original scroll and looked at it.

"Trowa," he said softly, "I understand what this says."

"What do you mean?" Trowa asked.

"I mean that I know what this says!"

"How can you? It's in Latin!" Trowa exclaimed.

"This guy I used to live with spoke really bad English so he taught me his language so that we could talk to each other. I just never knew what language it was." Trio said excitedly.

"Well that will certainly simplify things." Heero said from the doorway.

"What are you doing here?" Wufie said as he came up behind the Japanese pilot.

Trio ignored the two in the doorway and picked up another scroll from the table. "This is a really small spell, Trowa." he said.

"What does it say?" Trowa asked, curious.

"It says, 'All you who are young but old, and old but young, you shall be young again. Turn back the clock, change yourself back, change time about you.'" Trio read. Still looking at the scroll, he said, "Since I read it in English, nothing should happen. Right Trowa?"

When he received no reply, he looked up and almost fell over. Where Trowa had been sitting, a small boy that looked like Trowa's real body was curled up asleep with his thumb in his mouth. In the doorway, there was a little Heero curled up with a tiny Wufie. All three of them looked like they were around three years old.

"Oh my God! What have I done?" He whispered, shaken. He quickly went over and carried Heero and Wufie, one at a time, and put them on the couch. Then he covered all three with blankets he had taken from the hall closet. Sighing, he sat down at the table to try and find another spell that would reverse it and turn them back into the sixteen year-old guys that they had been.

'I wonder why Trowa's original body is here and not the one that he had been in?' he asked himself silently then sighed. 'Maybe I should write down the translations like they were doing.' then sighed again as he started the laborious chore of translating and writing down the hundreds of spells and incantations in the rest of the books and scrolls.

Quatre, back in his original body, was on his way back to the safe house as fast as he could without getting pulled over. He was in shock. One minute, he was in Trowa's body, driving on the highway, when all of a sudden he had started to glow again. He had slammed on his breaks, almost causing an accident, just as his body shrank down and became his original body.

'I wonder what happened.' he though as he pulled into the driveway. It had taken an hour to get back. 'Maybe Trowa and Wufie found the reversal spell or maybe Duo's back!'

Opening the door, he was almost run over by three small blurs that were chasing each other around the front hall. "What's going on?!" he cried.

"Quatre!" the three small blurs shouted as they rushed towards the dumb founded teenager in the doorway. The three streaks resolved themselves into a small Trowa, Heero and Wufie, all of which had giant smiles on their faces at the appearance of Quatre.

As Quatre stared at the charging kids, Trio came out of the living room with a tired look on his face. "I'm so glad you're back. You're Quatre, right?" he asked nervously, but smiled in relief at his nod.

"What happened to them?"

"Well, you see, I understand Latin but I thought it wouldn't activate the spell in English so I said it and it worked! I'm so sorry but it reversed the spell on you and Trowa though." Trio said in a rush.

"Show me this spell you said." Quatre said firmly and took a step towards the living room, but abruptly fell flat on his face, due to Trowa and Heero, who were clinging to his legs.

The children burst out laughing at the sight of the blond Arabian sprawled on the floor and swarmed all over the stunned teenager. Chuckling a little, Trio hurried over and began to pick the kids off of his back where they were playing.

"I'm sorry, they did the same thing to me." he said as he grabbed Heero and Wufie's hands and dragged them away from Quatre, leaving him to deal with the happily giggling and smiling Trowa.

"If you don't behave I won't get you any candy." Trio threatened and the children immediately calmed down and walked back into the living room, where they sat down on the couch like little gentlemen.

"Wow, I can't believe that actually worked." Quatre said as Trio helped him up and they entered the living room.

"They'll be going off the walls in five minutes." Trio whispered. In his regular voice, he said, "I've been trying to translate the spells, but I haven't gotten a lot done because of these three little devils here."

"So where did you learn Latin?" Quatre asked and Trio told him the story that he had told Trowa earlier.

"These are the spells I've managed to translate so far, but just don't speak them, even in English!" Trio said urgently, and Quatre nodded.

"Trust me, I won't!"

"Something has happened to the others." Duo said to herself as she flew towards the safe house. She had felt the tingle of magic while she had been flying over the forest and had decided to see what had happened. Now she was flying at her top speed back the way she had come.

Landing in front of the house, she barged though the front door, but stopped in shock at what was going on in the front hall.

Two small children were running around with Quatre chasing them, yelling at them to stop running into he house. Trio was trying to clean crayon and colored pencil drawings off the wall while another child was coloring on another section with markers.

"Enough! What id going on here?" Duo shouted, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and stare at her in shock.

"Duo!" the three children yelled as they ran towards her as she still stood in the open doorway.

"Heero, Wufie, and Trowa, stop right there." Trio said in a firm voice. The kids stopped just short of their target.

Duo just stared at his best friends. At three years old, they were happy, bubbly, balls of energy. Heero snapped Duo of her trance as he said, "But Trio, I just wanted to say hi."

"I know, but just don't jump on her like you did to Quatre."

"What...happened...to...them?" Duo asked slowly. She was too shocked to say anything else.

Trio quickly told her what had happened and then just watched as Duo picked up Heero, grabbed Wufie's hand and told Quatre to grab Trowa and take him to her room, then turned and went up the stairs without saying anything to him.

Quatre followed Duo up the stairs and wondered what was going on in her head. She hadn't said anything after ordering him to bring Trowa up to her room. Trio's face had been expressionless as he had watched them leave him by the front door, but Quatre knew that he had to be feeling pretty bad right now. After all, the only person related to him, had just shunned him with her silence.

Duo let go of Wufie's had just long enough to open her bedroom door, then led the little boy in. Quatre and Duo put all three little boys into some of Duo's t-shirts, which were huge on the kids, and put them into Duo's oversized bed, tucking them in.

"You three go to bed now." she said softly and they obediently closed their eyes. With in a few minutes, they were asleep. Duo stayed there for a minute, just staring at Heero, then sighed and headed back down stairs.

Quatre silently followed behind her as she headed towards the living room. The entire time they had been upstairs, she had only spoken those six words. Figuring that Duo would want some time alone with her brother, he went into the kitchen to make breakfast. After taking care of three hyper active for a couple hours, and Trio had been doing it for twice as long, he figured that they could all use a good breakfast.

Duo went straight to the living room where she was sure Trio was. There was no doubt that she was angry, but she was basically angry with herself and only a tiny bit at Trio and that was fading with every step she took, until she was only angry with herself. She was angry because she had run away and left the others along, leaving them to try and ease her own guilt.

"Trio, we need to talk..." she said as she entered the room, fully expecting to find her little brother there, sitting on the couch or something, but he wasn't. Quickly checking the other rooms, she found no sign of him, so she dashed towards the kitchen to tell Quatre.

Sliding on the slick hallway floor, she slid right by the door before managing to stop and enter the kitchen. "He's gone!" she gasped.

"What do you mean gone?"

"I mean that he's nowhere in the house and his pack is gone, too!"

"Stay calm Duo. We need to find him but someone needs to stay with the others." Quatre said as he turned off the heat under the pan on the stove. "You head out and if I can find some to watch them, then I'll join you. If not, then I'll stay and watch them."

"Ok, I hope that he's all right." Duo said worriedly as she left the blond pilot as he picked up the phone. She took off, just as the sun was reaching above the treetops, flying above them as she searched for her newfound brother. She hadn't meant to drive him away, but everything was just so confusing. She knew that she wasn't acting like her usual annoyingly cheerful self, but just hadn't been able to put that mask back on since the party.

I'm reposting this because my friend kept complaining about the bad spelling.

Shinigami-chan