The last chapter! Drumroll please! *Drums on keyboard with chopsticks*. The absolute last chapter in the series, although I may do a prequel. I hope everyone likes it.

Thanx go to: Fran, Jas, Nora, Komal, Corrine, Sufia, Jessie, Renou, Zage, Lee, shinigami195, all the people from ff.net, the people who used to write lists, anyone who's ever reviewed me, those at soupfiction, Stephen king, my people from baka neko, the peeps from the Voldy board, the people in the music industry who refuse to sign any more garage and R&B contracts, the members of the taycer, myself and my many personalities, the voices in my head, all the freaks of the world, all the voices in the heads of the freaks of the world, all the voices in the world, the left behinds, the Goths, the PUBES (Public Underdogs of the Beautiful Escapist Sect), the circus freaks, the nice people who kill spiders, and all the preps for giving us something to laugh at (namely, you!).

Ok, if I could think of any more people to thank I would, but I cant, so bye! (If you think you deserve to be thanked, flame me. But if you haven't been named here, then I prolly don't know you and you prolly don't deserve to be thanked cos I've named just about everyone, so bite me!)

The loss of duo maxwell

CHAPTER NINE

"Listen, lady Une, I'm sure you have a wonderful reason for keeping me here, but will you stop cleaning your glasses and get on with it?" Castor had been sitting there for 20 minutes and his sister hadn't said a word. She just sat there staring at him and polishing her glasses. Castor was surprised there was any glass left.

" Leave." She sighed and placed her glasses back on, then leaned back in her chair and seemed to contemplate the ceiling.

"Wait, you call me here, make me sit here for hours and then just send me home? Jesus! What the hell kind of game is this?" he was furious, and jumped out of his chair, knocking it over in the process.

" No. Leave the property. In fact leave the country. If you want to live that is."

All castor could do was stare at her slack jawed. " Castor. I'm not your sister. Your name isn't castor. It's Duo Maxwell. I kidnapped you and brainwashed you because you are a powerful enemy to me. You don't know why, but I do. And that is enough. I planned to marry you off, but you are starting to regain your memory. The Taycer warned me about this. They said that your dark side was too strong. They told me. Now run." Too confused to do anything but open and close his mouth like a goldfish, duo just stood there. Lady Une wasn't his sister? Really his enemy? He was taken from his friends and planted here. Maybe even taken from his family. It was too much. He plonked himself down in the chair. Lady Une was still staring at the ceiling.

"If you do not hurry they will take your life. Today or tomorrow. I only warn you because I got you into this mess and it doesn't feel right to me. Now go." In the midst of this duo could hear someone walking slowly down the hall. The door open and duo stood up to greet however had entered. As he rose and turned, he came barrel to chest with a gun.

Gravel screeched under the tires of the Ferrari as lily pulled on the brakes so hard that she shot through the windscreen. The glass had shattered easily, but none clung to her skin as she rolled across the driveway. She picked herself up immediately and ran towards the huge house. Pushing aside housemaids and a butler, she flew up the stairs just in time to hear two gunshots and see a figure dart out of a room and down the sweeping staircase. With no doubt in her mind as to what had happened, she came running into the room and was met by the sight of duo, lying on the floor with a gunshot wound slowly spreading blood out in a circle on his black shirt. The blood seeped out onto the carpet and had turned the cream shag a sickly shade of rust. Already it formed a puddle. He was dead. She fell to her knees and cradled his upper body, kissing him all over his face and forehead as if her love could bring him back to life. Sobbing like a child she didn't even notice that lady Une was slumped on the floor in front of her chair, and what looked like a rose was blooming on her chest. The assassin had taken out its targets with brutal quickness, and both were dead before they fell to the floor. Screeching like a banshee, lily knew that she had to undo it all. As her love lay dead in her arms, she knew that though the price to pay would be terrible and great, it had to be undone.

"Listen, lady Une, I'm sure you have a wonderful reason for keeping me here, but will you stop cleaning your glasses and get on with it?" Castor had been sitting there for 20 minutes and his sister hadn't said a word. She just sat there staring at him and polishing her glasses. Castor was surprised there was any glass left.

" Leave." She sighed and placed her glasses back on, then leaned back in her chair and seemed to contemplate the ceiling.

"Wait, you call me here, make me sit here for hours and then just send me home? Jesus! What the hell kind of game is this?" he was furious, and jumped out of his chair, knocking it over in the process.

" No. Leave the property. In fact leave the country. If you want to live that is."

All castor could do was stare at her slack jawed. " Castor. I'm not your sister. Your name isn't castor. It's duo Maxwell. I kidnapped you and brainwashed you because you are a powerful enemy to me. You don't know why, but I do. And that is enough. I planned to marry you off, but you are starting to regain your memory. The Taycer warned me about this. They said that your dark side was too strong. They told me. Now run." To confused to do anything but open and close his mouth like a goldfish, duo just stood there. Lady Une wasn't his sister? Really his enemy? He was taken from his friends and planted here. Maybe even taken from his family. It was too much. He plonked himself down in the chair. Lady Une was still staring at the ceiling.

"If you do not hurry-" lady Une was interrupted by the entrance of a young girl, who ran into the room and grabbed duo. She scooped him up so he was standing. She had put her hands on his face and was kissing him passionately when the door opened again and a soldier entered carrying a gun. He shot at where he knew duo to be, and lady Une, and then fled the seen. Duo felt himself shoved backward as the shot sounded by the young girl. Duo had been startled by the gunman's entrance, but was fortunate, as the bullet aimed at him had apparently missed. It was only when he glanced down at the girl did he know that the bullet had found a mark. She looked down at her chest where a dark spot had formed and then looked into duo's eyes. Duo saw something in them, a sadness or despair so deep that it hurt him to think about it. A red rose of blood bloomed on her chest and her knees gave in as she slumped onto him. Duo caught her before she could hit the floor, and lowered her to the ground. There he held her while she struggled to say something. Looking closer, he recognised her as the girl from his dream. Could this girl be a sister of his? No, not possible. The way she had kissed him, she must be a girlfriend or something. But they looked so much alike. Almost like she had been moulded into his shape.

" What is it?" Duo rocked her gently and ran his hand comfortingly through her hair as he whispered to her.

" Duo, mee geeb, mee ying. Mee ying dee enorim. Ne un may nan est dee. Dee er mee douler, shinigami. Mee Nomen. I was too weak. Orevwa."* Though again she was speaking a foreign language he understood her. He looked deep into those eyes that seemed always to change. You were deceived into thinking that they were blue, but then they'd be green, then brown. She saw the chain around his neck and smiled. "You got my present." She tried to lift her arms and she tugged at something by her neck. But she was too weak and her arms fell back limply. With trembling hands duo reached out and pulled a chain from underneath her black shirt. It was the same as his, almost exactly. The girl was really pretty and as she sagged in his arms she had a smile on her face. Then, her eyelids with their long eyelashes fluttered closed, and her chest stopped heaving for every breath. She was gone. Duo couldn't help shedding a tear for this girl, who though he did not know her, seemed to have given her life for him.

"What should we do?"

"We have to go in there."

The voices were soft and hushed. Respectful and a little sad they carried on while they watched Duo cradle the girl's body and sob quietly.

"We can't."

" Yes, he won't understand. He may try to fight us."

"No, that is not why. He just needs some time. I have no doubt that he will understand if we explain what we know properly."

"But how can he understand if we don't even know whats going on?"

"He is shinigami. He will know."

" I hope you're right Trowa. If his clone was half as powerful as he is, I don't want to get in a fight with him."

" Not a clone, a soulmate. Only one with such true feelings can fight and give their life for another, like she did. And only one who has lost something wonderful that he didn't know he had can cry like he does." Replied Trowa, nodding in Duo's direction. He stopped leaning on the wall, and turned around, signalling that they should leave. As the pilots walked away, the soft sound of Duo's sobs floated after them.

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* These words are in DiShin, the language used by the Taycer. they translates into:

Duo, my brother, my love. I will love you eternally. No one must ever change you. You were my friend, shinigami. I'm sorry. I was too weak. Goodbye.



I'm afraid to say that's it. No more in this series (well duh Einstein, ya just killed off the main character) if anyone is confused just post it in your REVIEW (is that a foreign word to some people?) and I'll be happy to elaborate

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