Dragon Lady: I'm Baaaack!

Ken: Run for your lives.

Dragon Lady: *smacks muse with paper fan* Be nice you.

Ken: *rolls eyes while rubbing head* Oh come on, you set yourself up for that one.

Dragon Lady: =P

Ken: Anyway…

Dragon Lady: I'm not going to let this muse rant get overly long. I have a bad habit of rambling. Why do I allow myself to babble?

Ken: …*innocently* Because wasting anything, especially time, is a specialty of yours?

Dragon Lady: *growls* What did I just tell you, Ken?

Ken: …

Dragon Lady: *sighs* Right. Well. Here's Part Two. I hope everyone likes it as much as they did Part One…

Ken: Be warned, this is dl's pathetic version of humor.

Dragon Lady: Ken!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Trouble With Love

By: DigimonDragonLady

Wufei tip-toed quietly around the house, and used the alternate entrance to the sitting room. Thankfully, somehow, he had managed to loose Maxwell. But his racing pulse was still certain that Duo was lurking in any shadowy area, just waiting to spring out at him.

He cautiously peered into the room before he entered, checking to make sure that the aforementioned Gundam pilot was no where in sight. He breathed a sigh of relief to find that he was not, and slipped silently into the room.

He frowned in the direction of the couch, where the Gundam pilots of Sandrock and Heavyarms were curled up against one another, apparently oblivious to his presence. Wufei made a face of disgust at them for their overly public display of affection.

That's when he heard the other door to the parlor open. He relaxed when he saw that it was only Relena entering. She shot a curious glance at Trowa and Quatre before stalking up to Wufei.

"Where's Duo?" she demanded. Maxwell had obviously managed to escape her grasp, as Wufei had his, and Heero was not tagging along devotedly after Relena, so he assumed that that meant that she had managed to loose him as well.

"I don't know," Wufei growled. "I'm trying to stay as far away from him as possible."

Relena narrowed her eyes. "Are you insulting my Duo?"

"Listen, woman," Wufei grumbled. "I have absolutely no interest in him. If you want him, you can have him."

Eros peeked into the room. He grinned in delight when he saw the perfect opportunity presenting itself right before his eyes. He pulled an arrow from his quiver and set about making the Chinese boy his next love target.

"Good," Relena returned sniffily.

Wufei swallowed and blinked as his eyes were almost blinded with visions of Relena. The power of Eros' arrow overcame him so fast that he had no time in which to fight the effects.

As Relena turned to move away from him he instinctively reached out and grabbed her hand, halting her. She turned her disdainful eyes on him, but to Wufei, they were full obviously of the same kind of deep love that he felt for her.

"For you must realize, Relena," he said lovingly, "that the only one I could ever desire is you."

"Me?!" Relena looked at him in disgust.

"Yes!"

"I don't want you. I love Duo! Let me go this instant!" She tried to pull away from him.

"But Relena…"

At that same moment Duo and Heero burst into the room, and Quatre and Trowa finally became aware that they were not alone in the room. They blinked at the other assembled Gundam pilots and Relena Peacecraft.

"Wufei!" Duo exclaimed joyously.

"Relena!" Heero echoed Duo's sentiments.

"Duo!" Relena cried, trying to pull herself away from Wufei. "Duo, my love, save me!"

But Duo wasn't paying any attention to her. "Wu-chan!" His eyes teared up when he noticed him with Relena's hand in his. "How could you!" he accused. "Isn't my love good enough?!"

So it was Heero who came to the rescue of the Lady Relena. She scrambled quickly away from Wufei, only to be caught by Heero instead. "Get your hands off me!" she screeched. "Duo, help!"

Duo was too busy crying his eyes out over Wufei to do Relena any good, however.

"Release Relena at once," Wufei ordered Heero.

"Relena is my only love," Heero responded, eyes narrowing dangerously. "I would never let her go."

"The lady obviously does not desire your company, Yuy," Wufei growled.

"You're mistaken, it is you from whom she wants to escape."

"Trowa…what are we going to do?" Quatre asked, eyes wide. He watched as Heero jumped forward, fist cocked to be swung into the Chinese boys face, but Duo grabbed onto his arm.

"Don't you hurt Wufei!"

Heero snarled and shook Duo off, throwing him to the ground.

"DUO!!" Relena cried, immediately at his side.

Duo struggled vainly to remove himself from her clutches and get back to protect Wufei.

Trowa watched the whole thing silently.

"Oh, forget it. I'm tired of always being the peacemaker around here," Quatre complained. "To hell with all of them." Then he launched himself at Trowa again.

They were interrupted however, when Wufei sent Duo crashing into them. The boy had somehow gotten himself free from Relena, but apparently Wufei was in no mood to deal with him at the moment.

"Hey!" Quatre squeaked indignantly.

But Eros had already brought himself to the point where he was easily able to disrupt the love lives of Trowa and Quatre to do as his mother had ordered and "punish" the mortals. And so Quatre was hit with another one of his magical arrows.

"Duo Maxwell get off of me --"

Quatre blinked and then his face lit up like a little kid at Christmas. "Oh, Duo!!" he threw his arms around the braided boy.

"Quatre, let go of me!" Duo whined, slightly discouraged at having to fend off just about everyone, or so it seemed, except for Wufei.

"But, I love you, Duo!" Quatre nuzzled his cheek.

"Love him?" Trowa repeated. "But, Quatre! I thought you loved me!"

"Loved you, Trowa?" Quatre frowned at him. "Never while I have my Duo."

"But, but…"

Duo broke away from Quatre and bounded over to where Wufei and Heero were still at each other's throats, with Quatre hot on his heels. He pounded on Heero's arms. "Stop it, how dare you hurt Wufei!" he shouted at him as he did.

"You are beginning to get annoying!" Heero snapped at Duo. He threw him backwards for what had to be the twentieth time, and Duo took Quatre to the floor with him. Of course, Quatre was more than happy to have Duo to himself again, and wasted no time in securing his arms around the Deathscythe pilot.

"Everyone just stop it!" Relena screeched. "Stop fighting! Duo Maxwell how dare you want that little blond more than me!"

"Don't you insult Quatre," Trowa snapped at her. "If Duo had any brains at all he should have realized that Quatre was the perfect person to fall in love with a long time ago!"

"Are you insinuating that my Duo isn't intelligent?!" Relena snarled. "I should teach you a thing or two, Trowa Barton!"

"I'd like to see you try."

With a scream of furry Relena launched herself at Trowa.

Eros was laughing so hard that the immortal matchmaker was in tears. In another second, he had shot the battling Heero with a second arrow as well, and now the Japanese boy was head over heels in love with Trowa.

The conflict was only escalating. Now Relena was once again desperately fending off Wufei, while at the same time trying to reach Duo. Quatre, for someone so small, was succeeding in keeping Duo in a tight grip that in turn kept the braided boy away from Wufei. Trowa was now fighting off Heero's advances in order to reach Quatre.

It was just too funny a sight for anyone to take.

And their conflicts were still escalating.

Eros blinked as his mother appeared by his side.

"Enjoying your revenge, mother?" he inquired.

The goddess smiled as she observed the squabbling teenagers. "Most definitely," she agreed.

They had become visible, but none of the mortals in the room had even noticed. They were all much too wrapped up in their other dilemmas to see the beautiful love goddess Aphrodite, and the winged matchmaker extraordinaire.

"One more shot ought to do finish the job…" Eros commented, training his arrow on Duo.

* * *

"Hold it right there!" a voice instructed. In another second, the goddess Athena had appeared in front of Aprhodite and her son. "Just what do you think you're doing?" she demanded angrily, surveying the scene before her.

"Punishing these mortals who would dare to insult my holiday," Aphrodite hissed.

"Well, you've done what you set out to do," Athena scowled. "You've made a mess of their lives. So your revenge is finished. Return them to their natural states immediately!"

"Why should you care what happens to them?" Aphrodite crossed her arms.

"This particular group of mortals is under my protection. They are my pawns in my game with Ares, and they will remain untouched by interlopers and game players such as yourselves," Athena narrowed her eyes.

Aphrodite scowled. She looked as if she wanted to protest the issue further, but she relaxed her arms, which she had clenched into fists at her side, and nodded reluctantly at Eros, as she disappeared back to Mount Olympus.

"I'll trust you to set everything right," Athena told him. "And if I find out later that you have not…" She left the threat hanging as she too left to return to her home.

Eros gave a sigh of relief as he surveyed the room. As much as he had enjoyed himself that day, he hadn't really been looking forward to leaving the poor mortals in such a state. He was glad that Athena had given the order, instead of making him go against his mother's wishes.

From a pouch that he carried at his side he pulled a packet of powder. Once again returning to his invisible form, he flew over the heads of the occupants of the room, scattering the powder over them.

He stayed just long enough to see the antidote powder begin to null the effects of his arrows, before winging out of the house, and off for home for some well deserved rest; his shoulders and arms were aching.

* * *

"Whoa," Duo sat up, disentangling himself from Quatre and shaking his head to clear away the fading fuzziness.

"What on Earth was all of that about?" Relena asked, allowing Heero to help her to her feet. She wobbled rather unsteadily.

"Quatre, are you all right?" Trowa asked softly, kneeling beside the boy.

"Yes…" the blond answered slowly, as if not at all sure that he was speaking the truth. "Just a little dizzy, I think. That's all."

"Whatever was happening to make us act that way has stopped…" Heero commented.

"I wonder what it was?" Quatre asked. "It felt…" he looked at Trowa and blushed. "Strange. But wonderful at the same time."

"But it wasn't real," Wufei said.

"No," Heero agreed. "What we were feeling was all just a lie."

"Just goes to prove that love's a really powerful force to be messing around with 'ya know," Duo said, shooting a pointed look at Wufie, as if that settled their argument from earlier.

The Chinese boy merely grunted.

"I know there was no way I could have feelings for Duo, of all people," Relena shuddered. "No offense…" she said quickly.

"None taken," Duo replied. "'Cause I know that Wufei is the last person that I'd chase mindlessly around declaring my everlasting love for…Now maybe Heero…"

"Huh?" Heero looked up, apparently he'd been off in his own little world.

Duo grinned innocently at him. "What? I didn't say anything. Those love effects must still be wearing off…"

"So…" Wufei looked around at them uncomfortably, avoiding making eye contact with Duo. "Do we all agree never to mention this strange…occurrence ever again?"

"Agreed," Duo nodded.

"Yeah," Heero muttered. "Definitely."

"What about you Quatre --"

Duo blinked as they observed Quatre and Trowa. "Hey, um, guys…that spell, curse, thingy, whatever it was is kinda over now…so you don't have to um…you know…"

Quatre broke away from Trowa, licking his lips. "What did you say, Duo?" he asked, looking up at him innocently.

"Well, never mind then," Relena blushed, looking away.

Wufei swallowed.

"All right then, now that everything here is settled," Duo said. "No hard feelings and what not…who's up for a Valentines Day night on the town?"

"DUO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dragon Lady: *gasps* There. Done! ^^;; And yes I know a lot of parts of that were awfully confusing. It was supposed to be. Adds to the story and what not. ~_^

Ken: Its shorter…

Dragon Lady: =P Its finished.

Ken: *shrugs* Whatever.

Dragon Lady: *laughs* And I wanna make this story into part of a series where the Gundam pilots end up ticking off a variety of different gods for various reasons…^^;

Ken: o.O Do you realize how many unfinished stories you have? And you want to start another one?! A series?! -_-;;;;

Dragon Lady: *looks over various unfinished fics* Um…^^;;; But my friend and I had this really cool idea and…

Ken: *ranting* What is happening to your Digimon stories?! You had better not leave them unfinished so you can write stories for some other anime! I'm your muse, you have to do as I inspire!

Dragon Lady: *clamps hand over Ken's mouth* Well, then you're obviously inspiring Gundam Wing stories, then aren't you?

Ken: *glares*

Dragon Lady: Review!! Please! I know the "humor" is really bad…but throw me a bone here!! ^^;;;;

Ken: -_-;;;