The Mermaids Scar…Gundam Style
Chapter 6
AnimeCat: Yes, sorry for OOCness and the short chapters. The Mermaids Scar was a very short anime, only 40 minutes. I was just trying to pull the story out a little bit.
Anyway, review!! ^_~
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With a horrible realization, Heero knew that the Lost Soul was Relena.
No…it's not Relena anymore… He thought numbly. "Duo!! I'll handle this! Take Mariemaia and run!!"
Duo nodded, swallowing hard and losing all color in his face. Heero didn't waste another moment before leaping onto the monster, pulling it pushing it, nothing mattered-- he just had to get the damn thing away from Mariemaia! It uttered a loud roar of rage and its hands groped wildly for him, Heero winced as claws took hold and ripped at his flesh.
Duo paused for a split second, then raced towards Mariemaia and pulled her away. I have to get her outside, then I'll come back and help him… As he and Mariemaia ran past Une's motionless figure on the floor, he gulped again, And maybe save her…oh God…
He heard a low moan that seemed to ring clear despite the monster's grunts and growls as Heero furiously tried to fight it. He looked down…and his heart leapt into his throat at what he saw.
Une…her face covered in blood…her eyes wild, dangerous…bloodthirsty. She was crawling on her knees, staggering, trying to return to her feet. Her breathing was ragged and hoarse, blood still poured from her chest and her mouth.
"Come…back…here…" She gurgled in a voice filled with so much hatred it stung. Pale foam covered her lips. Mariemaia took a terrified step back, pressing into him. Her eyes were locked with Une's. "Come back!!!" Une raged.
A scream erupted from Mariemaia as Une hurdled toward her, literally heaving her body off the ground, and another one as Une furiously sank her teeth into Mariemaia's shoulder in a desperate attempt to stop the girl from running. Duo shrieked in surprise and pulled Mariemaia away frantically as her shirt bloomed with blood like a rose in spring. Une collapsed back to the ground, seemingly dead.
His heart pounded as he steered Mariemaia outside, and all the way to the end of the walk. Upstairs, either the monster or Heero sent something crashing through the window, bringing a heavy shower of glass on them. Without hesitation he reached for the girl again and shielded her. His eyes shot open as a piece of glass tore his cheek, a skin wound but it hurt like fire from the speed at which the glass had come by. Blood slowly crept down his neck and dried seconds later.
A small tingle in his cheek told him that he was fine.
"Duo?" Mariemaia asked softly, her voice giving the impression that she was close to tears. He looked down at her. "You're hurt!"
Wildly he looked back up to the second floor as he wiped away the dried blood and mumbled lowly, "It's nothing,"
Mariemaia's eyes widened in surprise and in some sense, excitement.
There was no wound.
"…Duo…"
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The creature pounded him into the wall, constricting his chest until Heero's body was raging for oxygen. He kicked it away momentarily and breathed deep before it came again.
He searched the room desperately for a weapon. Finding nothing, he grabbed Mariemaia's desk chair and hurled it at the beast. It dodged, sending the chair crashing through the window.
The beast charged at him, sending him sprawling to the ground, again knocking the air from his lungs. Clumsily he flung his arms about, reaching for something to grab on to, anything to pull himself back up.
Heero's hand found the top of Mariemaia's desk, and his fist closed around a pair of large scissors. Relief flooded through him, and he instantly knew how to use his new weapon.
Pulling all of his possible strength together, he brought himself back up and leapt at the monster. His first attack failed, and as he fell toward it, the thing sunk its' long jagged teeth into Heero's shoulder.
Heero's head sunk into a murky state of pain, and felt weakened immensely. His head spun dizzily as his arm soaked in blood, and the lost soul released its teeth from Heero's shoulder. Its hot breath that smelled of death and rot rolled over him in waves, making him sick to his stomach.
Fighting the urge to throw up and feeling the reassuring strange tingling in his shoulder, Heero once again aimed the scissors at the creature.
Heero shut his eyes as the blade tore through the beasts' gaping mouth, and a pale, thick liquid poured out as the blade sliced its way through. Heero braced himself and brought the scissors up, through its head, and back into its brain, showering him with the pallid blood.
There was a deep rumbling roar, and it collapsed, dead.
Heero let out a slow breath, and weakly collapsed to his knees. He pulled his arm from the mess, and dumbly stared at it and the unconscious Une. Thinking about the pretty Relena who would never see her wedding, and the poor boy that would never know what happened to her smothered Heero with guilt.
With a heavy sigh filled with sorrow and remorse, Heero stood and tried to help Une.
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A branch hit him in the face. Duo let out a low groan of annoyance as he swept it away.
"Mariemaia, where are we? Are we almost there?" Duo whined weakly. The tiny redhead ten feet from him, partially hidden by branches of a dogwood, turned to him and smiled faintly.
"We're almost there, Duo. Don't worry." She assured him. Duo shrugged, but a persisting thought kept nagging at his brain. Not to mention he was worried sick about Heero. The sky was darkening…in less than an hour it would be pitch black.
"Yo, Mariemaia, how did you get your hands on poison for the Lost Souls?(1)" He questioned.
Mariemaia didn't answer, and Duo didn't miss the pause.
"We're here." She informed him a spilt second later. Duo brushed a small bug from his face before stepping closer to the small wooden shed that Mariemaia was entering. As he approached the door, Mariemaia had lit a lantern, and it filled the shed with a warm glow of light.
She turned to him as he stood in the doorway, glancing around casually. When his face met hers, and his bewildered eyes met her stony ones, Duo's nagging little feeling had exploded into foreboding dread. Something isn't right here!! Something is very wrong!!! He thought wildly.
"Mariemaia…?" He asked uncertainly. "Where's the poison?"
There was a cold pause, and Duo's dread was climbing to a dangerous peak.
"Duo," She began quietly, "It's very possible that both Heero and my mother are dead by now."
"What?!" Duo shrieked as his eyes bulged open in shock. Her shoulder!! His mind screamed. Duo's hand shot down, and pulled Mariemaia's collar away from her injured shoulder as she continued to watch him indifferently, not moving.
The dread reached its breaking point, and Duo gasped loudly.
Mariemaia's shoulder was completely and utterly fine.
Dried blood had congealed at her shoulder, but there was no wound.
"What the hell?!" He stammered, shouting.
A blinding pain erupted from his stomach and charged through his body, bringing him to the ground. Little bright colored dots appeared in his vision as he stared at Mariemaia's shoes, unable to even lift his head.
His eyes rolled up, and could see her looking down at him. She held something small and metallic.
"This is something called a stun gun." She said indifferently as a still darkness claimed him, a darkness filled with pain and terror…
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AnimeCat: Heh, sorry for the wait. I had a bit of writer's block for a while, and I'm working on future fics. Thanks for your patience, minna-san!
Review!!
1-I don't know, Mana says this in the anime. I think Mariemaia told Duo in time past that she had a poison for Lost Souls somewhere, which would explain them wandering around in the woods, ne?