Demon Heart
Heero
gasped as he felt the energy in the room change, and Duo's wings started to
drip with blood again. The chestnut
haired boy raised a hand and brushed some of Heero's hair out of his eyes,
leaning in to lay a soft kiss on his neck, the blood in the white winged
demon's veins pulsing under his lips. With one quick movement, Duo sank his fangs in, drinking the blood that
flowed into his mouth eagerly. Trowa
smiled and disappeared, Wufei not far behind as Duo moved the two of them
towards the bed. Heero was shaking, his
body wanting to respond to the pleasurable administrations of his God, but he
couldn't find the strength to move.
"Here,
drink love."
"I… I'm not your lo-"
"You are, now and forever, and you know it."
"I-"
"You'll pass out if you don't eat, and I'm not going to keep bringing you back
if you don't want to co-operate."
"I can't… I'm not pure enough for you
to claim as your Life Mate."
"You are, now stop arguing. Just
drink."
Duo held
his wrist up to the dark haired boy, and felt the eager bite of his white
demon. With a smile he leaned in and
drank again, pausing to breathe and pull his wrist back long enough to get a
kiss in. Heero drank as if he were
starving, and felt his power soaring, mixing with Duo's, surrounding them as he
let the God of Death devour his mouth with his own.
"Yours…"
he breathed as the long haired boy licked over the bite wound a few times,
closing it completely, a small tattoo appearing in its place.
"Mine." Duo agreed, lips claiming the boy's beneath
him while his hands worked off the pants he'd neglected to remove earlier. "Forever mine Heero…"
"Please… God…"
"Duo will work just fine… no need for formalities
lover, not ever…"
Words
were forgotten as Duo took them away from the heat of the bedroom, to someplace
a little more suited for the occasion. He removed his robes, wings long since disappeared, and only their cries
filled the night air as their claim on one another was completed.
"Yes." The other rider replied, stopping his horse,
"Vampires. Keep your guard up Relena."
"Always. I
hope Duo wasn't out hunting…"
"Why do you care about that boy so much? He's not even of Trieze's blood, and-"
"He's got strong magic Zechs, you must feel that. Besides, he's not your normal Wiccan, if even that. There's something dark and mysterious in
him, almost as if he weren't even Human."
"I don't know… lets get home, I have something to
finish."
They rode on, Zechs pushing a stray lock of platinum
blonde hair back behind his ear as he kept his eyes open for any sign of a
threat. He could feel something wasn't
right, there was a heaviness in the air, and it smelled like the dead. True, they were riding through what the
citizens called the "Forest of the Night," but he had never felt the presence
of Vampires quite so strong. As a
matter of fact, he hadn't felt them or any other magic force in the forest this
strong and late at night.
As they rounded the corner onto the final stretch
back into town, the hair on the back of his neck stood up on end as thousands
of fireflies swirled around them, then headed towards a small moonlit
clearing. A dark figure stood in the
center of them, a wide smile on its face, and with a slight laugh, raised its
arms to the sky. The fireflies swirled
around, the air becoming cold and wind slowly rushing in around the fae like
creature.
Relena leaned forward in her saddle, trying to get a
better look at the being, and being clumsy, her hand slipped off the
pommel. Zechs caught her before she
could fall off the horse completely, but failed to prevent the small yelp of
surprise that had escaped her.
The creature stopped dancing, and whirled to face
them, eyes glowing red, long hair whirling around, falling over pale shoulders
and into its beautiful face. The
fireflies swirled around his feet, and as the temperature of the air dropped
even more, the wind blew them up in a flurry of what looked like glittering
yellow light.
The
horses backed up uneasily, and Zechs could only stare at the being as its hair
wove itself into a long braid, and a white tie appeared at the end. The energy flowing through the air was
incredible, and although he couldn't pin point it, he knew it had something to
do with this creature.
"Zechs,
what's going on? What is that thing?"
"I don't know…"
The
creature let out a low growl, and the light around him started to dim. Zechs strained his eyes to see the
being. Something was dripping off its
cloak, or what seemed to be a cloak. With another growl, the cloak burst off the fae and stretched up to the
sky, the moonlight outlining the shape of two massive black dragon like
wings. Relena gasped as the light in
the small clearing was completely snuffed out as the being jumped into the air,
landing on a branch just above their heads. His wings were stretched out behind him, eyes glowing as he looked at
them. His braid laid over his shoulder,
and as he growled again, another figure dropped onto the branch.
"You!"
Zechs spat as he recognized Heero.
"I don't think you belong here." Heero said as he felt the hair on his neck
stand straight up as Duo's power surrounded him.
"You're the one who doesn't belong," Relena said for her brother, moving her
horse in front of Zechs. "You took my
brother's rightful property away from him, for the sake of satisfying your
endless hunger for blood. If we were
any where else, I would have you begging for mercy, you heartless bastard!"
"Relena!" Zechs reprimanded in near shock.
"How lady-like." Duo said sarcastically, a devious
smile playing across his lips, his canines visible to the two witches.
"I'd watch my tongue if I were you…" Heero added,
shifting his position so that his arm was holding Duo back.
"Since when does Dorothy allow her 'children' to
play in the Forest? I was unaware that
the Order had changed." Zechs said, refering to Duo's dancing.
"Dorothy is no longer with us, I saw to that
myself."
Zechs
stared at Duo as he flapped his wings, a spray of blood flying off them, and
splattering Relena's pale blue dress. His eyes widened in shock as Heero moved like a cat, rubbing the top and
back of his head against Duo's neck, nuzzling his throat in passing. The winged boy kissed his shoulder, and
Heero leapt down to the ground. With a
speed that Zechs could not remember ever seeing in a creature of darkness, he
was gone, and when he looked up at Duo again, saw that the boy had moved to a
different tree.
He
brought a wing around front of him, extending it fully as he moved to lick the
blood running down the shiny black membrane of his wing. He saw Relena pale as she watched him, and
smiled. He pulled out a small dagger
and ran it across his palm, the same that he had cut open in front of Dorothy
earlier that day, and let the blood pool there before extending his hand to
her.
"Care to
try it?" he asked seriously, his eyes slowly returning to normal.
"Stay away from her!" Zechs shouted, unsheathing his
sword and moving in front of his sister.
"Such a demand for a man who could die like that!"
Duo laughed, eyes flaring then returning to their violet color as he snapped
his fingers to accentuate the last part of his sentence, the cut healing over
instantly.
"I will not allow you to bring harm to her Demon, so
help me Gods!"
Zechs
swung at the long haired boy, who dodged, but the tip of the blade just grazed
his cheek. He jumped up one branch, and
settled on his perch just in time to see Heero tackle Zechs from his horse.
"Don't
touch him!" he growled, eyes glowing ice blue as he snapped his jaw at the long
haired blonde man. "Or you'll answer to me."
"A little over protective of your charge, aren't
you?" Relena interupted, holding her own sword out at Heero's throat. "Make one move, and I'll cut your head off."
"Rrraaarrrgh!"
Duo leapt
from his perch and the clang of metal on metal echoed through the air as
Relena's would be lethal blow came down. With wide eyes, she looked upon the Deathscythe, it's intricate blade
shining in the light Duo's cross was displaying. He disarmed her easily, and in one motion, had Zechs off Heero,
and both were safely back in a tree. Heero's eyes were flashing between white and blue now, and Duo knew that
he couldn't hold him back if he went off. Heero may have been his compliment, but he knew enough not to make the
White Demon even more angry.
"Go ahead
love." he whispered, stroking between Heero's shoulder blades.
"If I do, you have to promise not to let me kill
Zechs."
"You won't."
"Promise me Duo!"
Heero's
voice echoed through the forest, birds taking flight as his wings ripped
through his back, blood dripping down them and onto the God of Death's back and
hair. Duo smiled and licked a stray
drop from Heero's cheek, and leaped backwards onto a higher branch. He motioned for his lover to do as he
pleased, and Deathscythe appeared in his hand.
"I
Promise Heero." he said, shaking the blood out of his hair and off his skin.
"Hm."
Heero
leapt down to the ground, wings folded casually behind him as he circled both
Zechs and Relena. Zechs was still on
the ground, his horse long gone, and Relena stood near by, her horse's nostrils
flaring in warning to the white winged boy. He smiled, and with a flick of his wrist, the horse reared, tossing
Relena to the ground. As the animal ran
off, Relena scurried over to her brother, who had stood up, and was trying to
find a way to his sword, which was behind Heero.
"What are
you?" the blonde man asked cautiously.
"His Life Mate."
Zechs looked to Duo, who gave him a
toothy smile and saluted him. He spun
Deathscythe around a few times and then it disappeared. The Death kanji flashed on his cross for a
brief second and Relena gasped. Zechs
hadn's seen it.
"Zechs,
he's… he's… Shinigami-sama…"
"At your service, Relena. Oh, and by
the way, my answer's still no."
"What?"
"I'm never going to paint you, my canvas has a much
more interesting subject to capture…"
Relena's
eyes widened and she covered her mouth in shock. She had finally made the connection: Duo, her Duo, was the God of
Death!
Heero's
eyes flashed, and he thrust both swords into the ground, blood spurting up from
below the soft grass, pooling around his feet. Zechs covered his mouth to keep from vomitting as Heero pulled the
blades out of the earth and the blood flooded back into the holes with a
sickening 'slurp.' Relena backed up
even further, her back pressed up against a tree, and she jumped when something
warm and wet dripped on her shoulders, some splattering on her cheek. Looking up, both she and her brother saw a
small green dragon perched on a branch, a white rabbit in it's claws, twitching
as it's life blood ran from the punctures the beasts claws had made.
"Looks
like you've made a friend." Duo said as the dragon started eating, "it's not
everyday that a dragon lets the blood of its kill fall."
Relena
backed up into her brother's arms and Heero jumped up onto the branch with is
lover. He folded his wings over his
back and settled down like a lazy cat, head in Duo's lap. He closed his eyes and a content purr
rumbled in his throat as Duo rubbed between his wings and at the base of his
neck. Zechs could only stare as Heero's
wings started to drip with blood, which as it fell to the ground, sprouted wild
flowers of every kind. He'd never seen
a demon create life, only destroy it.
Duo
flapped his wings once, the rush of air and spray of blood that spread around
and under them blowing the flowers away, and as the blood swirled into a
glittering light, the soft petals turned into butterflies of every color and
shape. One flower remained on the
ground: a dandelion. A solitary drop of
the crimson liquid fell on the head of the flower, and it sprang to life, as a
firey faery, sheer wings catching the moonlight as it took off into the
forest. Relena stared at Duo, who
stared straight back, and suddenly started shaking. Zechs could feel her go limp in his arms as she passed out, burning
up with fever.
"What did
you do to her!?" he demanded, standing with his sister in his arms.
"Nothing, it was the flower." Duo replied as Heero
sat up reluctantly and shook himself off.
"Bull shit! A flower can't-"
"If it wants to, a flower can withstand Death's touch. Flowers live and die, yes, but who do you
think makes them return to the Earth so they can bloom again the following
year? You should see my desk, littered
with thousands of things to do."
"You mean the names of thousands of people to
kill! Let her go, or I'll-"
"You'll what?" Heero spat, jumping down and landing in front of Zechs, his
wings extended behind him.
"You'd be dead right now if we weren't in this God
forsaken Forest."
"This Forest happens to be my garden Zechs, and the world is my playground, so
I'd watch where you step. Father
Maxwell may have been able to banish Lucifer, but believe me, I'm not so easy
to get rid of."
Heero let
out a loud roar and Zechs' horse came trotting over, it's eyes glowing
white. He smiled and took the reins,
and turned back to the blonde man.
"I
suggest you get her to a doctor, before the fever gets worse." he said, handing
the reins to the man.
"You haven't won yet Duo Maxwell, make no mistake
about that!"
Zechs
mounted his horse, Relena craddled in his arms as he took off out of the
forest. Duo landed next to his white
winged lover and wrapped his arms around his waist, head on Heero's
shoulder. The blue eyed vampire turned
his head to catch the chestnut haired boy's lips, and in a swirl of red they
were gone.