He paced the grove Terra had taken them to
after Duo left; his wings were flexed and blood coated the ground. Terra sat back on a large rock, her face
cast downward, eyes shut, and hands clasped at the crystal at her breast. Her hair was down again, blowing in the
slight breeze that surrounded her, and Heero kept his distance.
What have you done Duo? What in the name of the Creator have you
done?! he thought, stopping and looking up at the sky. I felt your power rise beyond even that
of Lucifer's, and then-
He turned to look at Terra, her face still
reflecting her meditation. He took a
step towards her, and she looked up, eyes glowing silver. She smiled and stood slowly.
"Lucifer is alive, isn't he?" asked the
White Demon as his wings disappeared and Terra turned to look out into the
Forest.
"Not
exactly. His Power lives in Duo, and
his soul in the Deathscythe. Your
mother, however much she hated him, could not let Michael kill him, so she
split his realm into 5, the larger pieces belonging to Duo and yourself. You already know who hold two of the
remaining three peices."
Heero's eyes widened as realization hit.
"Trowa
and Wufei!"
"Yes. Trowa served Lucifer from the time of your
father's death, and it was Trowa that introduced Lucifer to Solo…"
"And
Wufei?"
"Although Wufei is a vampire, he is also the last of the Dragons. His mother was Nataku, his father a human
mage. He is a true blood Wiccan, a true
blood Dragon, and a reborn Vampire. The
wings Duo gave him were already his, but needed a little 'push' before they
could break free the magic tie both his parents placed on him. Lilith thought it only fair that the last of
a magestic race and one so close to Lucifer be entrusted with parts of his
realm. The third I don't know much
about, except for the fact that he's about Duo's age."
"And
my Father… you said Trowa served Lucifer from the time that he died… who was
he?"
"Kain."
Heero paled, and his mind was thrown into a
black void that he had not known since Dorothy released her claim on him as her
subordinate. It was as if he were
floating somewhere in space, the stars just beyond his reach. He could look down and see nothing but black
and stars. He could hear Terra's voice
as she continued, and images of the past filled his minds eye vision.
"You know that your mother and I are like
sisters, her the darker of the two of us. When I created Uranus and Chronos, she created Michael, Lucifer and
Kain. You know the story behind her
first two sons, but Kain was always the mystery. She left him to fend for himself when he was about 10 years old,
tired of feeding him every day, and those he fed off from then on out became
his followers. It wasn't until he hit
puberty that he started to change those he fed from.
"After about 200 years, the humans began to
hunt Vampires, and when all but three of his Children had been killed, he
turned to his mother for help. She
denied him that, of course, and he took to other ways of getting it…"
Heero couldn't tear his gaze away from the
scene that displayed itself to him. ~A
large man with long dark hair forced himself on a girl who looked about 15
years old, her long firey red hair pulled back brutally by another girl, her
hair short and a dark blue color. The
man groaned as he broke the red haired girl and then bit into her neck. Screaming, her eyes turned silver, and the
tears streaming down her face turned red, mixing with the blood running down
her throat.
'K-Kain…' she whispered, eyes still silver.
'You
should have never left me mother… you should have never left me alone!' he
replied, voice dripping with venom as he pulled a crystal dagger from his belt
and slit his wrist open, 'drink it!'
'NO!'
'Drink
it!!'
He forced the black blood down her throat
as he continued to rape her, his blood and semen flowing into her as if they
were her own blood. She continued to
cry her tears of blood as he left her, naked, broken and bloody on the floor.~
"Two days later, Kain returned, and took
her again. It remained like that for
the next year or so, until she conceived his child, and after that until she
was a full blood vampire. The girl that
had always accompanied him came back everyday to make sure your mother had not
destroyed you, and then one day she came back, with the dagger that your father
first used to feed his blood to her."
~ Lilith sat in her dark room, hands
rubbing her pregnant stomach soothingly when the door opened and the blue haired
girl, still as ageless as she had been before, walked in. She was dressed all in black and carried a
gold object with her. Lilith stood up
and placed a hand protectivly on her stomach. Her expression was one of shock as the girl kneeled before her, head
bent and the object held up to her.
'I am sorry.' the blue haired girl
whispered.
'A
little late for that!' snapped a cold and bitter voice as Lilith turned on her
heel.
'I
am sorry to have to tell you that your son has been-'
'He's
DEAD?!'
Lilith whirled back around, crystaline
tears falling down her face, her vampiric canines showing in her smile.
'Yes. He wishes you to keep the child, so that his son may know what he
himself did not.'
'His
son?! HA! The child is mine, and I will see that he never knows of his
father! Go back to your hole Hilde,
there is no place for you here!'
Lilith's eyes flared silver for a split
second and she was standing before the girl in the dress Heero always
remembered her wearing: Black, form
fitting dress, disolving into the floor, and blending into her skin at her
wrists and neck.~
"Shortly after, you were born, and raised
as both a wiccan and a vampire. When
you were 14 years old, your mother completed your training as the Perfect
Soldier, and she gave you to Dorothy. From then on back your memory had been erased, and all you knew was what
you were, not what you were meant to be."
Everything was blown out to white and Heero
found himself standing an arms length away from Terra, crystaline tears flowing
down her face. He saw pain in her deep
blue eyes, and she pressed a palm to his cheek.
"You don't remember anything before Dorothy
telling you to find the child that Shinigami had claimed as his own, do you?"
she asked.
"I
only remember being allowed to come to Earth to see you as a shadow… and even
then I was still in my first 100 years."
"Oh
Heero… if only your mother knew…"
"If
only she knew what Terra?" a new voice said from behind them.
-in
Paradise-
Duo walked out of the now restored dome
building, back to the waiting area he'd been earlier. Some of the same angels were gathered there, some new ones had
come to stare at him. He took note of
one couple in a gazebo to his left. The
boy caught his eye almost immediately, and kept it.
He had bright blue eyes, and short platinum
blonde hair, almost as blonde as Zechs's hair, before it was tainted red with
blood. His bangs fell ever so slightly
in his face. He was dressed in white
robes, almost toga-ish looking, and his small pristine white wings were folded
at his back. Duo smirked as he noticed
the golden halo above the girls head, and then looked to the boy. No halo.
Mentally he made his robe catch on some
near by brush, and turned to untangle it. He took a quick but thorough look at the boy's face before it hit
him.
He WEARS his halo! he thought as a
glitter of gold peeked out from behind the boys golden hair, and a single gem
set in the center of the thin band.
Duo's eyes narrowed as he recognized the
gem as a sapphire, and one of the deepest blues he'd ever seen. He finished his looking and stood to leave. The girl the blonde was with was really of no
concern to him. All he knew was she was
older than the boy, had short blue hair with longer bangs, and deep blue eyes,
almost blackish. That's all he really
cared about as he headed to the door he'd come into Paradise through, a few of
the angels snickered.
"I didn't think 'Gods' had to worry about
things like that."
"Phoebe
wouldn't even stop walking."
"Don't
forget, he's not a God."
"Yeah,
becase 'Gods' don't get caught on things like that."
Duo'd had enough of their snide
comments, and stopped walking. Ever so
slowly he turned his head over his right shoulder to look at the boy that had
passed the last comment he'd heard. His
eyes were narrow slits of violet as he smiled, canines perfectly visible to
everyone of them, and then started walking again, letting his wings unfold.
"Who says I didn't make myself get caught?"
he said quietly, waiting for the reply.
"Yeah,
right!" they all laughed.
"Hmph…"
Duo flapped his wings once, and a great
rush of invisible energy flew out from around him, cracking the cobblestone
pathway he walked on, and causing a mini earthquake within a 1 mile
radius. The gazebo shook, and the girl
in it pitched forward, only to be caught by the blonde boy. Blue eyes narrowed as they looked over a
pale shoulder at the retreating God of Death, and widened as the dark figure
turned to wink at him before continuing on its way.
-back
on Earth-
Heero moved protectively in front of Terra,
his blue eyes glowing brightly as he let out a low gutteral growl. Terra could only watch as the white peasant
shirt he wore slowly started to turn red.
"Show yourself!" he demanded, the shirt
returning to its former color.
"And
what would you do if I did little boy? I'm much older than you, you know that don't you?"
Heero took a quick sniff in the air,
and his eyes narrowed. Terra smelled it
too. The air carried the smell of the
dead. She put a hand to the crystal at
her chest, and a large tree started to glow a faint green color. She smiled and stepped out from behind
Heero, a hand on his shoulder keeping him calm as he could now see the glow as
the being moved from behind the tree to another.
"So, you can finally move about in the
daylight can you?" teased Terra.
"Oh
I've been able to walk amongst mortals for a very long time, you know that."
"I
guess you can teach an old dog new tricks." Heero stated stoicly as he
disappeared, "but then again, you're too old to remember the old ones!"
He grabbed the girl and pinned her arms
behind her back, dragging her out into the clearing. Terra smiled as she struggled against his iron like grip and was
forced to her knees. A tree root flew
up from the earth and tied her wrists, another around her neck, keeping her
head bowed. Heero nodded in approval
and kneeled down in front of her, tilting her head up so he could look into her
silver blue eyes. He smiled and snapped
his jaw at her. She gasped.
"Do you recognize me?"
"*
SPIT * why should I?!"
"Does the name Kain mean anything to you?"
The girls eyes widened as Heero glared into
her, his mind touching hers as she let her control slip. An image of Lilith holding a baby wrapped in
white silk flashed through both their minds and Heero smiled before
standing. The girl just stared at him.
"You're… you're Kain-sama's son!" she
breathed, partially because of the branches around her neck, but also out of
shock.
"Very
good. Do you remember what he did to my
mother? What you did to my mother?"
"How can one forget something so disgusting?"
Terra's eyes narrowed and the root around
the girls neck got tighter.
"Little
bitch! You stood there and laughed as
she screamed!" shouted the Earth Goddess. "You remember the sickening pleasure you got out of it to watch him hurt
her, over and over again!"
"I
never said I didn't, but you were there, weren't you Terra?"
"Shut up!"
"You
watched as your little sister got herself fucked, so many times you watched…"
"That wasn't my intention! She was
screaming! Calling out for someone to
stop it! How could I not listen when
her power pulled at my own!? He would
have died long before had I the power to kill!"
"But
you do, don't you? If you can create,
why can you not kill?"
Heero could do nothing but stare as Terra
lashed out and smacked the girl, her tears flowing freely down her beautiful
face as she lashed out again and again, screaming. She hit so hard she drew blood. Heero shook his head clear and grabbed the raging Goddess. She fell to her knees almost immediately.
"Lilith was made to be the other half of
the Earth. My Spring and Summer to her
Fall and Winter! But instead she was
denied her title as Goddess of Earth, because she was refused by the son of
God!"
Heero watched as Terra started to become
transparant, and she looked up at him with sad eyes. He took her hand in his and shared a memory that he had long
forgotten.
~'You are a Goddess, but not a Goddess of
Earth. This planet does not need two
Guardians to watch it flourish.'
'Then
what am I!?'
'I
cannot allow you to be called the Goddess of Life [1], because you are
not. You are the darkness Lilith, and
thus you shall be the Goddess of the Night. That is your power.'
A slender hand reached out and traced the
face of a very young Lilith, and Terra could see her sister become very much at
peace.
'I will allow you this though: One of your children will bring about the
greatest thing this planet has seen since you and your sister were born.'
'I
don't understand father!'
'In
time you will my daughter, in time you will.'
The room darkened and Lilith sat down,
tears of red flowing down her face. ~
"The Creator… Father… he knew that Lucifer
would be born and cast from Heaven…"
She looked up at Heero and he nodded
and let go of her hand. She disappeared
completely, leaving Heero with the girl. He snapped his fingers and the root binds let go, the girl falling to
the ground.
"So you're Hilde, huh? Kinda scrawny for an age old vampire that
served my father." he said, turning his back on her.
"You're
father is dead, and it was your lover's fault that our race is dying!" she
spat, glaring up at him.
"My
Lover has nothing to do with this! You
allowed my mother to be –raped- by that monster I dare to call my FATHER, and
you expect to LIVE!?"
"You
can't kill me. You couldn't even put a
scratch on me! You're just a simple
little boy."
She shifted into the shape of a black
leopard and charged at him. He merely
let his wings be seen, and the large cat was blown backwards. Standing, it growled at him fiercly and
charged again, claws ready to splice into anything.
Heero shifted to make the fight a little
more fair, into a white lion, and for awhile they fought this way, before Terra
decided to ground both their powers.
"If you are fighting to kill one another,
then DO IT!" her voice bellowed and swords appeared before them both, "Silver
and Wood, the two elements that when combined can kill a vampire."
-at the tree leading to Paradise-
Duo walked into his Forest and took a deep
breath. He caught the scent of a very
old vampire almost immediately and took off. He could feel Heero's heart beating in his own chest, and he could feel
the sweat and blood running down his body.
Please let me get there in time! he
pleaded silently as he raced through the trees, following his lovers scent and
mental link.
-the grove-
"DIE!"
Hilde disarmed Heero with one strike, and
he was lying on his back, the tip of her blade at his throat in seconds. Sweat dripped into his eyes, but he knew
better than to blink. If he blinked he
was dead.
"You're good, but I'm better." she spat,
her saliva spraying his face as she brought the blade back.
"Rrrrrrrrraaaaaaggggghhhhhhhh!!"
The scream echoed through the forest as
Hilde's blade met that of Deathscythe, her eyes fixed to the dark figure
standing before her. She couldn't make
out where she'd seen him before, but there was definitly something familiar
about his power…
Duo pushed her back, the blade of her sword
shattering, and as she fell he reached back and helped Heero to his feet. He could feel Terra's grounding leave him,
and the pain that shot through his lover as his wings flexed underneath his
skin. The braided boy took one look at
the three cuts on him, and knew that he didn't have much time before he
couldn't hold them any more.
He licked the cut on Heero's cheek, then
his shoulder, healing the wound immediately, and then moved to his throat. Hilde's own nails had slit through a major
vein in his neck, and his shirt collar had started to turn red.
"What are you?" Hilde breathed as he sat
down, Heero's back to his chest.
"Who
do you think I am?" growled the God of Death as he ripped his own wrist open
with his teeth and held it to Heero's lips.
The familiar feeling of Heero's canines
clamping down on his skin filled his senses, and Duo could only groan as his
lover lapped at his blood. Duo never
dropped his gaze from Hilde as he lapped at the wound on Heero's neck. He could feel his lover moan in
response. Hilde backed up as Heero
suddenly pulled away, pitched forward and let out an ear piercing scream as his
wings ripped through his back and blood flew over everything.
"Shi-shi- Shinigami-sama!!" she gasped,
pressing her head to the ground as soon as she saw the White Demon bite into
Duo's neck, his crest of Death glowing softly on his forhead.
"Care
to tell me –ah- why you attacked –ooh- my Life Mate?"
"I
didn't know! Gomen nasai!"
"Hmmm! I would leave if I were you."
She disappeared into the forest as Duo
screamed in pleasure, Heero's hands running over his stomach and groin. Terra walked away from the tree she'd been
behind, a smile on her lips as a tear fell from her cheek. A vine of crimson and black roses grew
immediately around the tree, and a solitary drop of blood fell from the first
rose to open.
I hope you plan on telling him. she
shot mentally, catching a familiar shadow as it retreated into the coming
darkness.
When
the time is right, I will tell him Terra, but only when the time is right….
~!*TBC*!~
AN: I know, I know, I did another cliff
hanger. Email me if you know who the
couple in the gazebo is, or if you know who Terra's talking to as she leaves…
It'll all be revealed later, but I wanna know if you guys are as perceptive as
I think you are… Next chapter'll be out
in a week or so. Until then! Ja ne minna-san!
T.K.
Yuy