Same disclaimer stuff as before in chapter 1… This story is in no way mine. The basic outline is by Rumiko Takahashi (Yes, the one who wrote Ranma ½, Inu-Yasha and Maison Ikkoku). I merely took the gundam boys and stuck them in it. I have added a few things but not much. If you would like the original then read "Mermaid's Scar" by Rumiko Takahashi.
Hope you like it ^_^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mermaid's Curse
"Unh," Heero groaned coming around. The metal floor was so cold.
"Awake are you?" the old man growled.
"Wufei," Heero said looking up at him. "What are you doing?"
"Baka!" Wufei yelled pulling on the handcuffs that bound him. "Thanks to you, they caught me too."
Heero looked to his own wrists to see that he too had been chained. "Where…are we?"
"On some construction site, from the looks of it," he replied curtly.
"Heero," came a voice as two men entered the shed. "I can't bare having you under the same roof as Quatre, not for one second." An old man towered over Heero, his hair blocking half of his face and his green eyes blazing. He leaned on his cane looking at Heero.
He looked up and back to the man.
"Trowa," Wufei gasped. "What on Earth are you-"
"Trowa..," Heero repeated the name.
"Heero," the old man said looking down upon him. "You're to blame for everything. What business do you have coming back here after all these years?"
"Why you!" Heero yelled. "What have you done with Duo? What did you do to Quatre?"
Trowa glared at his prisoner. "What did I do? Quatre…Quatre died because of you!" he yelled smacking Heero hard with his cane.
"Di-died?" Heero stammered as he rubbed his jaw and looking to the green-eyed man.
Trowa fell to his knees and braced himself against his cane. "Poor Quatre," he sobbed. "Poor Quatre."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quatre walked down the stairs slowly.
"What do you think you are doing?" he could hear the boy demand.
"We're going to give you a good time before you die," a thug explained.
Noises of struggling could be heard from a room not too far off.
"Keep your filthy hands off me!"
"Hold still, brat!"
Quatre walked into the room and raised the knife in his hand. With one clan stroke he brought it down upon the thug's back.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"You said Quatre died?" Heero demanded.
"I don't understand," Wufei shouted. "Then who is that Master Quatre?"
"Wufei," Heero said. "Did Quatre tell you the legend of the mermaid's ashes?"
"You mean the nun?" he asked. "That repaid a kindness with mermaid's ashes to help trees and plants grow?"
Heero nodded. "Yes, but there's another version. A gruesome legend of the ashes."
"Another legend?" Wufei asked.
Trowa looked up to them, listening.
Heero nodded again and began to tell the story, "The nun spent the night in one of the village homes, but the master of the house killed her and stole the ashes. Some of the ashes however remained on the corpse of the nun. The nun came back to life and crawled out of her grave. She looked exactly as she had in life but inside she had become a demon without a soul, and went through the village killing everyone she met."
"Stop it!" Wufei cried. "You expect me to believe such a ridiculous story? Quatre was so kind. He could never become a soulless demon."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quatre stood ready to pounce again. Blood dripped down his hand and along the blade. Red splattered the floor.
"You saved me?" Duo asked.
Quatre turned to the boy, lowering the knife. "I made a promise," he said. "Red Valley…"
Duo looked into his intense blue eyes.
Quatre turned smoothly and headed out. "I have to meet Heero in Red Valley."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A man came into the shed and whispered something to Trowa.
"Find him before dawn," was his response. "Do not harm him in anyway."
"And the boy?" he asked.
"Use your own judgement."
"Yes, sir!" he replied and swiftly left.
'Duo and Quatre have escaped?' Heero pondered.
"This won't do," Trowa said looking out the window. "Quatre still isn't accustomed to the outside world."
'Where?'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quatre walked out of the house and into the darkness of the night.
Duo was not far down as they followed the street. 'If I follow this man I'll find Heero,' Duo thought. 'In Read Valley…'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Told you it was shorter…a lot shorter!
Next one's probably the same length ^_~