From Dawn to Dusk

::Warnings:: ::Pairings:: ::Disclaimer:: All apply from prologue

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Chapter 4

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Duo and Quatre walked up to Duo's house in silence. Duo had been thinking about this afternoon's 'incident'.

"Well, I guess I'd better go in and study for that math test tomorrow. Yuck!" Duo stuck his tongue out to emphasize his dislike to Quatre. Quatre giggles at the funny face he had made.

"The feeling is mutual! Hee hee! Okay. See you tomorrow!" He turns and starts to jog away from Duo, but after a few steps turns back to yell at him. "Oh! And get up earlier tomorrow morning!" Duo gives him a big raspberry and Quatre returns the gesture, just before the both begin to laugh.

"Bye!" Duo yells as Quatre runs off. "{sigh} I hate math.." A shadow jumps from the apple tree in his yard and land silently in the shadow of the trunk. Duo is just about to step up onto the porch when a semi- familiar voice speaks to him from the shadow of the tree.

"How much did you see?"

"Yeeeaaaakkkk!!!!!" Duo trips and falls flat on his face. "Ow..."

"Well?" Wufei walks casually from the base of the tree. Duo puts his hand over his heart and breathes in deeply.

"Oh. {sigh} Wufei! You scared the bajeezus[1] out of me! Don't sneak up on me like that! Ever heard of a heart attack? 'Cause I think I just had one! Whoof! Oh, boy."

"How much did you see?" Wufei demanded.

"Of what.?" Duo asked, giving him an odd look.

"{sigh} Of the fight, you pervert! How much did you see?"

"Oh, well..um.. I just got there when you were walking away and saw mw.?" //I'm such a bad liar. I hope he buys it!//

"I don't like being lied to. I can tell you're lying, Duo. Out with it."

"Okay, okay! I saw everything. His punch, you floating, that weird light. I was there for the whole thing. By the way, how did you know my name? I never told you."

"Quatre. What were you doing there any way? Are you a spy.... or maybe and admirer?" He smiled slyly at a thoroughly dumbfounded Duo.

"Huh? What?"

"Nothing," he said as he smiled and shook his head to show he was joking. "{sigh} I had a feeling you'd find out my little secret, but I didn't think it would be so soon. I guess you want an explanation for all this, huh?" He looked Duo straight in the eyes, making him shiver involuntarily.

"Of course! I gotta know I wasn't dreaming.. or hallucinating for that matter, after all, chemistry was my class before lunch... Come on in."

"Will your parents mind?"

"Naw. They're off on their 3rd 2nd honeymoon. They won't be back for two and a half more weeks," he said shrugging.

"Okay. Then I'll explain it all."

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Duo hands a mug of coffee to Wufei and sits by him on the couch.

"So, now that we're situated, tell me what you did and how you did it." Duo looked anxiously at the other boy.

"I've never told anyone this before, so it may be hard for you to believe," he began.

"Well? Stop procrastinating and talk!" Duo demanded.

"Yeesh! Pu-shy! Okay!" he said cringing back a little.

"I guess the only way to explain this is. I can use magic." Duo looks at him with one eyebrow raised. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Now that needs and explanation."

"Definitely."

"I'll start back at the beginning. I am only half human. My father was human, and my mother was of the tribe Enjem. The Enjem people can use magic, hence my magic use."

"So where are your parents now?" Duo asked, obviously intrigued by the story that was slowly unfolding before him.

"What I said to Heero was true. They're both dead. Murdered," he said hanging his head so Duo couldn't see his face.

"By who? Do you know?" Duo started a long 'sip' of coffee as he waited for Wufei to continue.

"I know who. The Enjem leaders did it."

"{spit}{choke}{cough} Wh-what? Why would they do that to one of their own people?" Duo asked, horrified.

"{sigh}" his voice was filled with sadness at the memory that was being brought up. "I was four at the time. Even by then I was using magic. See this?" Wufei unbuttoned the top buttons of his shirt and pulled down the blue tank top to show him a symbol that appeared to be two eyes, one vertical, one horizontal, inside a diamond that looked to be burned into his skin. "This is the sign of an Earthen magic user."

"So? What does that have to do with your parents being killed?" Duo asked a little impatiently.

"This is what she was killed for."

"But you said the Enjem could use magic," said a confused Duo.

"They can, but humans can't."

"Um.. I don't follow.. This is way over my head."

"She gave my father the power to use magic. The elders disapproved, warned- no threatened that if she didn't sever all contact with her human husband, they would kill them both. She refused and they followed through. She was able to hide me from them," as he continued his voice became mixed with anger, "but they did their deed with great pleasure and left. Left me with those brutal images etched in my brain. I've seen those images in my slee. I vowed revenge right then and there. As a four year old, I knew what I had to do."

"Wow. You've been on your own since then?" Duo asked, wondering if he should have just left the conversation there.

"Naw," he said, regaining composure. "I was in three different foster home, from which I ran away, and stayed with countless other families until the Kinkjan found me."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it. Who are 'the Kinkjan', and why are they after you?" said Duo in a relatively high pitched squeak.

"I have a few 'special' powers I should tell you about. I have the power to teleport to other planets, for one. Kinkjan is a planet I caused a 'little' ruckus on," Wufei replied nonchalantly.

"And just how much is 'a little'?"

"Um. well. I. uh."

"Come on!"

"I almost destroyed the whole planet.?" He said cringing as Duo's eyes grew wide.

"WHAT?!?!?!?!?" Duo yelled at the top of his lungs.

"One of the Enjem powers is the ability to change into an animal, that's the form they stay in most of the time. My mother could change into a snake. The hybrid of a human and a reptile Enjem is, well, just look." Wufei took off his shirt and turned his back to Duo.

"Wow! Awesome tattoo!" Duo exclaimed.

"It's not a tattoo. It's my actual skin. That is what I can change into." Wufei brought his shirt back down and looked at Duo.

"A dragon? Wow. It's the same color as the shine of your eyes." Wufei nodded quietly, as if that explained everything. "But what does it have to do with Kinkjan?"

"A lot. When I was there, I was about five. It was right after my parents' death. I used my powers carelessly, then. I changed into a dragon and caused total devastation to their cities, farms and people. I only left about a third of the planet there.

"Um....." Duo motioned for Wufei to continue, if there was more to say.

"There is also a legend I am part of."

"Really?"

"Yeah. It says that the one born as the teal dragon is to be called 'Dawn's Dragon'. This dragon will fight many battles, but after a great battle and victory, he will find his paired dragon, 'Dusk's Dragon'."

"What color is she?"

"Supposedly a kind of blue color, but I really don't know. I haven't found her yet. I've fought so much I've lost count, but I guess none of them have been big enough."

"You've fought that much on Earth?" Duo asked in awe.

"Oh, no! Almost all of them have been on other's planets."

"Oh. Okay. Huh," Duo said, sitting back.

"You don't believe me, do you?"

"Oh, no. That's not it at all. I just don't know what to say or how to react to all that. You have so many conflicting emotions in your life at one time. It's just mind boggling."



"Well, now that you know the truth, I'd best be going." Wufei stands and stretches his arms, grabbing his kimono top in the process.

"Where do you live?" Duo asked as he started to walk him to the door.

"Live? Nowhere. I've got a temporary shelter made in the park." They stop at the door as Duo crossed his arms over his chest.

"The park? I just can't allow that."

"What?"

"I can't allow that."

"I don't get what you're saying." Wufei looked quizzically at the other boy.

"I figure now that we know everything about each other, I think we must be friends. I can't send a friend to the park to live for who knows how long.," Duo said, making sense of it.

"That's not quite true. I don't know a thing about you, Duo."

"Fair enough. What's there to know? I've lived here, in the same house and known the same people my entire life. That's it. Nothing special."

"Well, now," Wufei said smirking, "Was that so hard.?"

"So, now that you've decided to stay, there is time for you to get your stuff between now and supper. So go get it. We have an extra room upstairs and you can stay there until you find another suitable establishment," Duo said, er, ordered.

"I guess you've settled it. Okay."

"Okay. Dinner will be ready in about 20 minutes. Be back by then."

"Yes, sir!" Wufei saluted him, then marched out he door. Duo closed the door and walked to the kitchen muttering something about a strange people. //I guess my vow of not getting to know anyone has just been broken.// Wufei thought to himself as he walked silently down the street. //I just hope he doesn't get caught in the middle of all this. They can't find out. He mustn't get stuck with my problems. Period.//



TBC



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[1] Thank you "Matrix"!!!!!