Same disclaimer stuff as before in chapters 1+2… 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mermaid's Curse
"The mermaid's ashes," Wufei gasped. "Now I see, Trowa. You wanted to mermaid's ashes, didn't you? The real reason you bought up all that land was so you could find the ashes and bring Master Quatre back to life."
Trowa smiled looking up at the ceiling. "He was beautiful," he said. "Several years after Quatre passed away I found him in a field of red flowers. He looked exactly as if he was alive. Quatre's body was even more stunningly beautiful than when he had been alive."
'Quatre,' Heero thought as he looked to the floor. 'What happened in Red Valley?' The blonde's voice rang in his mind, 'Take me with you…promise. I'll be waiting in Red Valley. I wish I could live forever, too. I want to go with you, Heero.'
"Well, then," Trowa said turning to leave, his cane clunking the floor as he walked. "I must be getting back. I'm concerned about Quatre." He turned to the thug who had come with him. "I'll leave the rest to you," he said. "The young one in particular. Please cut his head off, otherwise he'll come back to life."
Heero stared at the old man in disbelief.
"Y-you mean to-" Wufei stammered.
"Of course," Trowa returned. "I must, in order to protect Quatre."
"Why you son of a-!" Heero screamed charging at him but was cut short by a swift blow to the stomach by the thug's knee.
The thug started a chainsaw that was in the shed and knocked Heero over. He then put his foot of Heero's back to keep him from moving. The saw came down and Heero felt excruciating pain in his neck but he would hot call out.
Wufei grabbed the closest idem he could find, a pole. He ran up to the thug and slammed him over the head with it. "Stop!" he ordered.
He paused a moment to look over and see whom had hit him. With one powerful punch to Wufei's chest he sent him flying into a cabinet.
"Ungh," Wufei groaned.
Heero wasted no time and tried to crawl to the window. The thug was gaining and he knew it.
The lackey grabbed Heero by the head and lifted him up. With the other hand he raised the saw to Heero's neck.
"H-Heero!" Wufei called out. "No!" He came running up rammed his elbow squarely in the thug's back. The force sent them forward and Heero's feet crashed through the window.
The saw came down and into Heero's shoulder. He grabbed hold of the lackey's arm and as he went through the window he placed his feet on the wall outside. With all his strength he pulled the man out through the window but went tumbling down after him.
"Heero-o-o-o!" Wufei yelled running to the window ledge.
Heero landed in an awful heap at the bottom. Everything in his body hurt. He struggled to rise.
"Heero!" Wufei yelled. "Are you alive?"
"I…I haven't got the time to kick the bucket right now," he groaned. 'I've got to find them before Trowa does. Duo's in danger.'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A dog barked in the distance. Sounds of men's footsteps could be heard behind them.
"They've come after us!" Duo hissed. "Hurry!"
"There!" a man shouted.
"This is the wrong way," Quatre protested. "Red Valley…I have to go back." He turned to go the other way, straight into the ones who pursued them.
Duo turned and saw a trash can. With a powerful kick he knocked it over to block the men. "If we're caught, you won't be able to meet Heero!" Duo shouted grabbing the blonde's hand and pulling him forward. "Baka!"
"I told him I'd be waiting in Red Valley. I promised Heero."
"Yes, so you keep saying," Duo said pulling him farther.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"That day Quatre went into Red Valley to meet me," Heero said. 'Quatre dies because of you!' returned from his memory. 'He said he's be waiting for you in Red Valley.' He sighed. "If I had gone to Red Valley…"
"If you couldn't meet him then why did you signal that you would?" Wufei asked.
"What?" Heero turned to the grim man driving the car.
"You know. The signal you and Master Quatre used to use," Wufei said. "You put three stones behind the roadside guardian. When you could meet you would remove the middle stone. When you couldn't, you'd leave it there." He sighed. "I remember clearly. Master Quatre said you had made a promise."
"I-I didn't move the stone," he stumbled. "Which means someone else…"
"It was a small village," the oriental man confessed. "It's possible someone else knew your signal."
'So Quatre believed the phony signal,' Heero thought. 'And went to Red Valley?'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Duo pushed Quatre into the crowd at the mall. They rushed past a mirror and Quatre stopped, his feet rooted in the spot.
"What is it now?" Duo demanded.
Quatre stood looking at himself and then pulled a necklace from the shelf. "It's pretty," he said. "I wonder if Heero will like it?"
Duo glared at the blonde. "Let's go!" he stormed and pulled Quatre along.
"Ah!" the salesclerk called. "Gentlemen!"
Duo looked behind him to the two men who were searching for them. "Those men will pay," he said to the saleslady.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Ah!" Quatre called climbing up the path. "It's this way. I know these hills."
"Red Valley?" Duo asked.
"Just a little further." The birds cried and screeched above and Quatre fell to his knees, shaking.
"What is it?" Duo asked looking back.
The blonde covered his ears, still shaking. He rocked himself back and forth as his eyes widened with fear.
"You're afraid?" Duo pulled the blue eyed boy close to him. "They're just birds."
"Quatre," came the voice of Trowa as he climbed the path towards the two boys. "I can't believe my eyes. To think you would actually come here."
"The old man!" Duo hissed.
"Let's go home, Quatre," he said. "You can't survive in the outside world."
"M-Mr. Barton!" the man beside him yelled. "You mustn't! The young master looses control of himself when he hears the birds crying."
Trowa turned to him. "He would never harm me." He turned back to the boys. "Now, then, Quatre," he said extending his hand.
Fire in his eyes, Quatre stood quickly, grabbing a large rock and bashing it over the green-eyed man's head.
Trowa fell to the ground from the blow and looked up at his beloved in disbelief. Blood dribbled down his face and into his dimmed green eyes.
"M-Mr. Barton!" his lackey cried.
"Q-Quatre," he stammered. "How could you? It was I who brought you back with the ashes!"
Quatre turned and hurried down the path.
Duo headed after him, looking back only once.
"What are you waiting for?" Trowa asked looking away.
"Sir?" inquired the man.
"Dispose of them."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Getting more interesting?
Next chapter's the last ….*tear*
