AN: This is an alternate reality fiction, as well as Gundam Yaoi, supernatural, and extremely OCC on some levels. I don't own Gundam Wing, but damnit I wish I did.
Demon Heart
Chapter 7- Fighting a Loosing Battle
Terra lead them through the forest to a large, old tree, that seemed to radiate wisdom and power. She smiled and pushed aside a large rock near it, revealing a dark stairwell. Duo stepped forward and smiled at her.
"Wish me luck." he said as he took the first step down.
"I'd go with you if I could, but you know what they would say if I showed up." Terra said quietly, her eyes never once leaving Heero.
"I know. Same with Hee-chan. They still don't recognize him as a God. Oh well, see ya later love!"
He kissed his lover soundly before disappearing into the darkness, and Terra turned back to the White Demon. He turned away from her, his robes fading away and being replaced with a pair of black lace up leather pants. She took note of the veins in his back, and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"You've already merged your realm with his, haven't you?"
"The day he claimed me as his Life Mate it was his, just as his is mine."
"Does your mother know?"
"She knows that we're Mates, but she has no knowledge of the merger. She does not like the fact that I've mated with him either."
"As far as she is concerned, you were meant only to protect him from Michael, not fall in love with him."
"Exactly."
Duo reached the end of the stairs, and stood before a large white 'field', bustling with angels and every other type of White being. He snorted in disgust and moved towards the large domed building in the center.
"I don't believe it!"
"He can't be here!"
"I didn't think the likes of him were permitted into Paradise?"
"He's kinda cute…"
"Yeah…"
Duo ignored the angels comments as he made his way to large gold doors. They opened on contact, and he was soon standing in the middle of a large circular room, Gods, Goddesses, and Deities of every nationality and religion seated around him. He spotted Uranus and Chronos almost immediately, Lilith sitting between them.
"Mr. Maxwell." the Greek Messenger God said as he buzzed around him on winged sandals.
"My name is Shinigami little man." Duo corrected coldly, "Now buzz off."
With a flick of his wrist, Hermes was flung back into his seat, and murmurs went through the room like a wave. Duo locked eyes with Lilith and smiled, his eyes flashing red once, and his canines fully extended.
Uranus, in his physical form, stood up, and cleared his throat before speaking.
"It has been brought to our attention that you wish to merge your realm with that of the White Demon. Is this true?"
"No."
More murmurs went through the room.
"I wish to inform you all that the realms have already been merged… some hundred years ago."
The room burst into a ball of noise, and Uranus sat down, obviously in shock. Chronos looked over at him and they began talking. Lilith stared straight at the braided Shinigami, and then stood up.
"Mi Lady." Duo said respectfully as he bowed.
"Do you honestly think that he loves you?" she asked flatly, her flame red and black hair moving with the small rise of power she was displaying.
"I don't think, I know."
"Then you are more naïve than I thought."
She walked down to him, her dress much like Terra's in the fact that it faded into that which she walked on, but it came up her neck and 'melted' into her skin, and then 'melted' into jagged points on the back of her hands. Her long black fingernails were intimidating, as was the black make-up, but Duo didn't flinch. She stopped before the kneeling boy and in one quick motion, lashed out. A thin line of blood ran down his cheek where her nails had cut the skin. He ran a finger over the cut, healing it instantly, and with a wicked smile, blew the blood from his finger. It swirled in the air, and Deathscythe materialized before him.
She stepped back with a smile and then returned to her seat. She glared at him, her eyes glowing silver as he stood and slammed the end of the ancient scythe on the floor, a ripple passing over the room, blood slowly oozing out from under the edges of his robes. A couple of gasps went around the room as every ounce of light was sucked in towards him, leaving them in total darkness.
"You all seem to underestimate me." he said, eyes glowing red. "You don't believe I am a God because I was not born like one. You refuse me my right to sit on the Council because I am not 'pure' like the rest of you. Well I have news for you: I am more 'pure' than all of you combined.
"You all have had children, and you all grant them the right to be called a Demi-God. Why is it then Lilith, that you do not grant your son the right to be called a God, when he is just that? He is the God of Life, that which the Creator denied you. Are you so full of hate that you will not allow him to be what he is?
"Aphrodite, you know better than anyone that no one being can be denied the right to love, am I correct?"
Aphrodite nods.
"Am I also correct to assume that when two Gods consummate their love, the realms are automatically merged to some extent?"
Another nod.
"Then when Lucifer claimed Solo Takai, a lesser Vampire, as his Life Mate, his realm was automatically opened to the Vampire to come and go as he pleased, right?"
"Only if blood was shared." the Goddess of Love and Laughter stated.
"Which it was." a small voice said.
The council turned to where the Morning Goddess sat, and Helios glared at her. Dawn stood up and looked at them all.
"When Michael cast Lucifer from Heaven into the Forest of the Night, I was told that it was to forever be covered in darkness, and should I ever shed the light of day upon it, I would be stripped of my Power and sent to live amongst mortals. But according to a Council ruling, those of us who hold a part in the daily cycle of the Earth must not leave any part of our duty undone. My job is to bring dawn upon the entire world, the Forest included. For as far back as anyone of you can remember, I have been spreading light across that Forest, and you all should know that it was Michael that kept Lucifer from his place on the Council. It was Michael that had him killed, and split Hell into five separate realms. Whether or not you all want to believe it, Duo Maxwell IS Shinigami, and as the God of Death and Lucifer, aka 'Satan', were one in the same, he is entitled to his father's realm, in its entirety."
She started to glow white, and walked to the bottom of the steps, and the blood on the floor parted so she could walk out to the center podium. Duo looked down at her and smiled at the little Goddess as she pressed her palms together, here eyes locked to Lilith. Cold, narrow silver eyes glared back, and Chronos stood, his long deep purple hair still touching the floor.
He materialized his staff, the lantern on the top glowing brightly in the darkness, and Duo's eyes flared. The staff flashed red once, and the light blew out, glittering light flying through the room and swirling around the God of Death as he continued to stare at Lilith.
"Mr. Maxwell, you have no right to-"
"My name is Shinigami old man, and I would highly recommend remembering it."
The blood seeped up the steps and started to lap at Chronos' sandals, as well as all the others on the first rise of seats. The God of Time and Order's hair slowly started to go from purple to black, and his eye widened as he clutched at his throat. Uranus pulled formed a bright sphere of white and gold light before him, and Duo merely smirked as Dawn did the same, only hers was white and silver, and when she smiled, it sucked the Sky God's energy into it, and she let it solidify into a sharp, 12 pointed crystal.
Chronos sat down, his hands clawing at the golden table before him, and his staff clattered to the floor as Duo let his hold on the elder God go and Chronos could finally breath again. Uranus was thrown back into his seat, as was every other Deity in the room, and crimson ribbons of blood flew around them, keeping them still. Lilith was the only one to remain standing, besides Dawn.
"You all have disgraced your names by turning your backs on the Mortals. You have left everything up to nature, and SHE cannot take it anymore! I am the only one of ALL of you that has lifted a small piece of that burden from her shoulders by bringing the light out across the planet. She created all of you, and this is how you show your thanks? Your RESPECT!? Your LOVE!!?? She is your MOTHER, for GOD'S sake! The Creator gave her life, to sustain the Mortal lives he would then give to her. She gave you all life to help her maintain that balance, and you brought your children into God-hood to take the burden off yourselves! You are nothing but self-centered, egotistical, IDIOTS who wouldn't know your own heads from a Dragon's ASS!!!"
//I resent that remark onna!//
oops! Sorry Wufei…
The blood had seeped up every other riser, and was slowly making its way up the domed ceiling, headed for the stained glass at the top.
"You're crazy!" Chronos said as he still tried to catch his breath.
"No, he's dead." Lilith replied, her eyes glowing silver completely.
"You're right, I am."
"You're mortal body can still die Shinigami, and I will see that it is destroyed. My son will learn that there is no place in a demon for such foolish notions like Love and Friendship!"
She sent a blast of invisible energy at him, and with a smile, Dawn stepped before it. The power dispersed around her out stretched arms, and Duo slammed the blunt end of his scythe to the ground. The glass shattered, and fell soundlessly around him, swirling like an faeries dancing in their circle.
Dawn backed up into his legs and looked up at him. Golden blood trickled down her chin and throat, and her eyes flickered silver briefly. Blood red eyes narrowed as his ear piercing scream cut through the room, the glass swirling around him shattering and swirling faster.
Lilith smiled and pulled the crystal like dagger from the Golden Goddess's gut with a simple click of her wrist. All the others in the room had a gold apple in their mouths, obviously Lilith's way of gagging them, and Duo could feel their Power reaching him.
He brought Deathscythe's blade down to the pool of blood surrounding him, and with one quick motion, his eyes never leaving Lilith's, drew a circle around himself. The blood around him and to the cut he'd make disappeared, and as his eyes flared and Dawns lifeless body fell to the floor before disappearing, the glass fell. The sound echoed through the room as the blood shot up the wall, leaving not a drop behind, and everyone it had touched shimmered out of sight. From the one point of glass remaining in the dome, a single drop of blood fell, and landed on the crimson colored crystal embedded in Deathscythe. It shimmered and changed shape.
The blade was now a double beam of some sort of green energy, the staff itself incredibly intricate, with jewels and filigree more elaborate than Lilith had even seen on the gates to the Archangels Palace… the resting place of the Creator. She could only blink as he unfolded his wings, and the blood dripping from them was golden, not red. His eyes went from red to silver and then back again, and as he stared at her, she could feel the others whirling around her.
"you're not a Goddess!"
"You're a reject!"
"Insubordinate bitch!"
"No wonder Eve won Adam and you didn't."
Their voices boomed in her ears, and she gripped at her head in attempt to make them stop. Duo laughed in a voice that wasn't his own as she stumbled down the steps towards him and fell at his feet.
"Make them stop!" she shouted.
"No."
"PLEASE! MAKE THEM STOP!!!"
"You allowed me to be thrown from Heaven… You allowed that fool Maxwell to banish me from my own domain… you refuse the White Demon his right to claim God-hood… I should kill you for that… Mother." Duo said laughingly as she rocked back and forth, trying to block the voices, "You refuse my heir, my SON, the right to what was mine, and what rightfully should have been mine. That is going to change, and you are going to give him everything he wants, no questions asked. You will serve him like the wench you are, and you will like it! Or else THEY will torment you for the rest of your eternally damned life!"
The voices in her head laughed at her, their eyes filling her minds eye as Duo laughed again. She pulled her dagger out from where ever she put it, and slit from the inside of her elbow to the outside of her wrist, black blood oozing out as she cried, tears streaming down her face.
"Anything! Just make them stop!!" she screamed, her blood dripping slowly down her arm, some on her face.
"And the blood is my insurance? Smart, or incredibly stupid, but it will suffice." Duo materialized a large jar, labeled respectfully with 'Blood of the Night', and held her bleeding arm above it. Slowly it filled, and a silver seal appeared over the jar as her wound healed over. Duo chuckled and all the spirits of every other deity, save Dawn, swirled around him, through him, and finally they surged all at once, into his cross. It glowed softly for a few seconds before returning to normal, and Duo looked down at Lilith. Her breaths were short, and her tears were drying on her face. He smiled and turned to walk away, the gold blood on his wings turning red again, and he glanced back over his shoulder.
"Thanks for everything, Granny." he laughed, his voice his again.
Lilith looked up at him as he left, and wondered if he had any memory of what had just happened. For her own sake, she hoped not…
~!*TBC*!~
I know, I know, you all hate cliffhangers, but I couldn't help myself. I hope it wasn't too confusing… given that I wrote it, I understand it, but if you guys have any questions, feel free to leave them in a review, or email me. Either way I'll get back to you. Gotta run! More chapters to write ya know! Ja ne minna-san!
Demon Heart
Chapter 7- Fighting a Loosing Battle
Terra lead them through the forest to a large, old tree, that seemed to radiate wisdom and power. She smiled and pushed aside a large rock near it, revealing a dark stairwell. Duo stepped forward and smiled at her.
"Wish me luck." he said as he took the first step down.
"I'd go with you if I could, but you know what they would say if I showed up." Terra said quietly, her eyes never once leaving Heero.
"I know. Same with Hee-chan. They still don't recognize him as a God. Oh well, see ya later love!"
He kissed his lover soundly before disappearing into the darkness, and Terra turned back to the White Demon. He turned away from her, his robes fading away and being replaced with a pair of black lace up leather pants. She took note of the veins in his back, and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"You've already merged your realm with his, haven't you?"
"The day he claimed me as his Life Mate it was his, just as his is mine."
"Does your mother know?"
"She knows that we're Mates, but she has no knowledge of the merger. She does not like the fact that I've mated with him either."
"As far as she is concerned, you were meant only to protect him from Michael, not fall in love with him."
"Exactly."
Duo reached the end of the stairs, and stood before a large white 'field', bustling with angels and every other type of White being. He snorted in disgust and moved towards the large domed building in the center.
"I don't believe it!"
"He can't be here!"
"I didn't think the likes of him were permitted into Paradise?"
"He's kinda cute…"
"Yeah…"
Duo ignored the angels comments as he made his way to large gold doors. They opened on contact, and he was soon standing in the middle of a large circular room, Gods, Goddesses, and Deities of every nationality and religion seated around him. He spotted Uranus and Chronos almost immediately, Lilith sitting between them.
"Mr. Maxwell." the Greek Messenger God said as he buzzed around him on winged sandals.
"My name is Shinigami little man." Duo corrected coldly, "Now buzz off."
With a flick of his wrist, Hermes was flung back into his seat, and murmurs went through the room like a wave. Duo locked eyes with Lilith and smiled, his eyes flashing red once, and his canines fully extended.
Uranus, in his physical form, stood up, and cleared his throat before speaking.
"It has been brought to our attention that you wish to merge your realm with that of the White Demon. Is this true?"
"No."
More murmurs went through the room.
"I wish to inform you all that the realms have already been merged… some hundred years ago."
The room burst into a ball of noise, and Uranus sat down, obviously in shock. Chronos looked over at him and they began talking. Lilith stared straight at the braided Shinigami, and then stood up.
"Mi Lady." Duo said respectfully as he bowed.
"Do you honestly think that he loves you?" she asked flatly, her flame red and black hair moving with the small rise of power she was displaying.
"I don't think, I know."
"Then you are more naïve than I thought."
She walked down to him, her dress much like Terra's in the fact that it faded into that which she walked on, but it came up her neck and 'melted' into her skin, and then 'melted' into jagged points on the back of her hands. Her long black fingernails were intimidating, as was the black make-up, but Duo didn't flinch. She stopped before the kneeling boy and in one quick motion, lashed out. A thin line of blood ran down his cheek where her nails had cut the skin. He ran a finger over the cut, healing it instantly, and with a wicked smile, blew the blood from his finger. It swirled in the air, and Deathscythe materialized before him.
She stepped back with a smile and then returned to her seat. She glared at him, her eyes glowing silver as he stood and slammed the end of the ancient scythe on the floor, a ripple passing over the room, blood slowly oozing out from under the edges of his robes. A couple of gasps went around the room as every ounce of light was sucked in towards him, leaving them in total darkness.
"You all seem to underestimate me." he said, eyes glowing red. "You don't believe I am a God because I was not born like one. You refuse me my right to sit on the Council because I am not 'pure' like the rest of you. Well I have news for you: I am more 'pure' than all of you combined.
"You all have had children, and you all grant them the right to be called a Demi-God. Why is it then Lilith, that you do not grant your son the right to be called a God, when he is just that? He is the God of Life, that which the Creator denied you. Are you so full of hate that you will not allow him to be what he is?
"Aphrodite, you know better than anyone that no one being can be denied the right to love, am I correct?"
Aphrodite nods.
"Am I also correct to assume that when two Gods consummate their love, the realms are automatically merged to some extent?"
Another nod.
"Then when Lucifer claimed Solo Takai, a lesser Vampire, as his Life Mate, his realm was automatically opened to the Vampire to come and go as he pleased, right?"
"Only if blood was shared." the Goddess of Love and Laughter stated.
"Which it was." a small voice said.
The council turned to where the Morning Goddess sat, and Helios glared at her. Dawn stood up and looked at them all.
"When Michael cast Lucifer from Heaven into the Forest of the Night, I was told that it was to forever be covered in darkness, and should I ever shed the light of day upon it, I would be stripped of my Power and sent to live amongst mortals. But according to a Council ruling, those of us who hold a part in the daily cycle of the Earth must not leave any part of our duty undone. My job is to bring dawn upon the entire world, the Forest included. For as far back as anyone of you can remember, I have been spreading light across that Forest, and you all should know that it was Michael that kept Lucifer from his place on the Council. It was Michael that had him killed, and split Hell into five separate realms. Whether or not you all want to believe it, Duo Maxwell IS Shinigami, and as the God of Death and Lucifer, aka 'Satan', were one in the same, he is entitled to his father's realm, in its entirety."
She started to glow white, and walked to the bottom of the steps, and the blood on the floor parted so she could walk out to the center podium. Duo looked down at her and smiled at the little Goddess as she pressed her palms together, here eyes locked to Lilith. Cold, narrow silver eyes glared back, and Chronos stood, his long deep purple hair still touching the floor.
He materialized his staff, the lantern on the top glowing brightly in the darkness, and Duo's eyes flared. The staff flashed red once, and the light blew out, glittering light flying through the room and swirling around the God of Death as he continued to stare at Lilith.
"Mr. Maxwell, you have no right to-"
"My name is Shinigami old man, and I would highly recommend remembering it."
The blood seeped up the steps and started to lap at Chronos' sandals, as well as all the others on the first rise of seats. The God of Time and Order's hair slowly started to go from purple to black, and his eye widened as he clutched at his throat. Uranus pulled formed a bright sphere of white and gold light before him, and Duo merely smirked as Dawn did the same, only hers was white and silver, and when she smiled, it sucked the Sky God's energy into it, and she let it solidify into a sharp, 12 pointed crystal.
Chronos sat down, his hands clawing at the golden table before him, and his staff clattered to the floor as Duo let his hold on the elder God go and Chronos could finally breath again. Uranus was thrown back into his seat, as was every other Deity in the room, and crimson ribbons of blood flew around them, keeping them still. Lilith was the only one to remain standing, besides Dawn.
"You all have disgraced your names by turning your backs on the Mortals. You have left everything up to nature, and SHE cannot take it anymore! I am the only one of ALL of you that has lifted a small piece of that burden from her shoulders by bringing the light out across the planet. She created all of you, and this is how you show your thanks? Your RESPECT!? Your LOVE!!?? She is your MOTHER, for GOD'S sake! The Creator gave her life, to sustain the Mortal lives he would then give to her. She gave you all life to help her maintain that balance, and you brought your children into God-hood to take the burden off yourselves! You are nothing but self-centered, egotistical, IDIOTS who wouldn't know your own heads from a Dragon's ASS!!!"
//I resent that remark onna!//
oops! Sorry Wufei…
The blood had seeped up every other riser, and was slowly making its way up the domed ceiling, headed for the stained glass at the top.
"You're crazy!" Chronos said as he still tried to catch his breath.
"No, he's dead." Lilith replied, her eyes glowing silver completely.
"You're right, I am."
"You're mortal body can still die Shinigami, and I will see that it is destroyed. My son will learn that there is no place in a demon for such foolish notions like Love and Friendship!"
She sent a blast of invisible energy at him, and with a smile, Dawn stepped before it. The power dispersed around her out stretched arms, and Duo slammed the blunt end of his scythe to the ground. The glass shattered, and fell soundlessly around him, swirling like an faeries dancing in their circle.
Dawn backed up into his legs and looked up at him. Golden blood trickled down her chin and throat, and her eyes flickered silver briefly. Blood red eyes narrowed as his ear piercing scream cut through the room, the glass swirling around him shattering and swirling faster.
Lilith smiled and pulled the crystal like dagger from the Golden Goddess's gut with a simple click of her wrist. All the others in the room had a gold apple in their mouths, obviously Lilith's way of gagging them, and Duo could feel their Power reaching him.
He brought Deathscythe's blade down to the pool of blood surrounding him, and with one quick motion, his eyes never leaving Lilith's, drew a circle around himself. The blood around him and to the cut he'd make disappeared, and as his eyes flared and Dawns lifeless body fell to the floor before disappearing, the glass fell. The sound echoed through the room as the blood shot up the wall, leaving not a drop behind, and everyone it had touched shimmered out of sight. From the one point of glass remaining in the dome, a single drop of blood fell, and landed on the crimson colored crystal embedded in Deathscythe. It shimmered and changed shape.
The blade was now a double beam of some sort of green energy, the staff itself incredibly intricate, with jewels and filigree more elaborate than Lilith had even seen on the gates to the Archangels Palace… the resting place of the Creator. She could only blink as he unfolded his wings, and the blood dripping from them was golden, not red. His eyes went from red to silver and then back again, and as he stared at her, she could feel the others whirling around her.
"you're not a Goddess!"
"You're a reject!"
"Insubordinate bitch!"
"No wonder Eve won Adam and you didn't."
Their voices boomed in her ears, and she gripped at her head in attempt to make them stop. Duo laughed in a voice that wasn't his own as she stumbled down the steps towards him and fell at his feet.
"Make them stop!" she shouted.
"No."
"PLEASE! MAKE THEM STOP!!!"
"You allowed me to be thrown from Heaven… You allowed that fool Maxwell to banish me from my own domain… you refuse the White Demon his right to claim God-hood… I should kill you for that… Mother." Duo said laughingly as she rocked back and forth, trying to block the voices, "You refuse my heir, my SON, the right to what was mine, and what rightfully should have been mine. That is going to change, and you are going to give him everything he wants, no questions asked. You will serve him like the wench you are, and you will like it! Or else THEY will torment you for the rest of your eternally damned life!"
The voices in her head laughed at her, their eyes filling her minds eye as Duo laughed again. She pulled her dagger out from where ever she put it, and slit from the inside of her elbow to the outside of her wrist, black blood oozing out as she cried, tears streaming down her face.
"Anything! Just make them stop!!" she screamed, her blood dripping slowly down her arm, some on her face.
"And the blood is my insurance? Smart, or incredibly stupid, but it will suffice." Duo materialized a large jar, labeled respectfully with 'Blood of the Night', and held her bleeding arm above it. Slowly it filled, and a silver seal appeared over the jar as her wound healed over. Duo chuckled and all the spirits of every other deity, save Dawn, swirled around him, through him, and finally they surged all at once, into his cross. It glowed softly for a few seconds before returning to normal, and Duo looked down at Lilith. Her breaths were short, and her tears were drying on her face. He smiled and turned to walk away, the gold blood on his wings turning red again, and he glanced back over his shoulder.
"Thanks for everything, Granny." he laughed, his voice his again.
Lilith looked up at him as he left, and wondered if he had any memory of what had just happened. For her own sake, she hoped not…
~!*TBC*!~
I know, I know, you all hate cliffhangers, but I couldn't help myself. I hope it wasn't too confusing… given that I wrote it, I understand it, but if you guys have any questions, feel free to leave them in a review, or email me. Either way I'll get back to you. Gotta run! More chapters to write ya know! Ja ne minna-san!