DISCLAIMER: DAMN THE MAN! I DON'T OWN GUNDAM WING!!!!
Chapter 1
Duo Maxwell hated the cold. He couldn't understand for the life of him why Yuy had chosen to go to Russia. Sure, their business took them everywhere, but Moscow in the middle of winter was always a bad idea. He would rather be in Jamaica sitting on the side of the beach sipping alcoholic drinks with little umbrellas in them. Instead, he would be out in the cold all night hunting deadly creatures. Life truly wasn't fair.
Duo couldn't sleep a wink he really hated flying. Not flying in general, but flying long distances to places he didn't want to go, like Russia. A seventeen-hour flight lay ahead of him and he needed entertainment better than the stupid in-flight movie.
"Heero?" Duo tried to wake the sleeping Japanese man. Unfortunately, Heero was a sound sleeper and Duo's whispering wasn't going to wake him. Realization of this fact came quick and Duo started other measures of annoyance.
"Heero!" the braided man raised his voice and shook the other man violently trying desperately not to wake the rest of the plane.
"Hai?" the Japanese man responded calmly keeping his eyes closed.
"Good, you're awake." Duo grinned Cheshire-like and stared out of the laughably small plane window.
"You woke me, of course I'm awake. What do you want?" Blue eyes glared at the back of a braided head.
"Why Russia?" Duo asked turning violet eyes to meet Prussian blue.
"Because that's where they were spotted." Heero said making himself comfortable.
"Bullshit! They were spotted in Italy and France as well. Why can't we go there?" Duo said trying to get the Japanese man to pay attention to him.
"Because the Queen's guardians were spotted in Russia." Heero responded, closing his eyes again.
"You sure this isn't about Relena?" that got Heero's attention. He sat up quickly, eyes narrowed and staring at the braided man; Duo smirked back at him knowing that he'd struck an extremely sensitive nerve.
"This has nothing to do with her. This is our job." Heero growled.
"Sure, it doesn't. That's why you're running as far as you can from her, taking us both from America to Russia; from the beautiful sandy shores of America's sea to shining sea to the cold, rainy depths and bowels of Russia filled with snow and wolves. Can you see why this isn't appeasing to me and why I'm skeptical?" Duo was being a bit over-dramatic.
"Actually, if I wanted to get as far away from Relena as possible, I'd go to Japan." Heero quipped and put his headphones on his head and turned the volume up full blast. Duo glared as he watched the Japanese man ignore him. The braided man turned back to the window and watched the blue ocean.
"I can't believe we're doing this to run from Relena! Well, I hope they're enough Nosferatu to keep me busy." Duo said and tried in vain to get some sleep.
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On the other side of the jumbo jet sat a handsome blonde man that didn't look over the age of twenty and a green-eyed man that accompanied him. The blonde man, who had earlier declared that he wanted the window seat, was presently looking out said window staring at the vast ocean.
"You should get some sleep. When we get to Moscow we're going to be very busy." The green-eyed man said to the smaller blonde.
"Trowa, when we get to Moscow it will be day time, we don't work until the night." The blonde replied and continued to stare out the window.
"Okay, Quatre, but when you're tired don't complain to me." Trowa said, and closed his emerald eyes in order to get some shut-eye.
"Why are we going to Russia again? You know how much I hate the cold. Remember when we were in Chicago last winter and how I almost froze to death? I'm Arabian, Trowa, I need sand and sun, not snow and ice." Quatre said sarcastically. This elicited a chuckle from Trowa's lips as he listened to the rant of the blonde haired blue-eyed Arabian.
"Vamps have been spotted. The Queen's pureblood guardians have also been spotted. It's our duty. As for the weather, we'll stop and get you a large winter coat to combat the cold." Trowa said, "now get some sleep."
"Fine, but you owe me one." Quatre said and tried to get comfortable for the rest of the trip.
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"Sisters join together!" a growl sounded over the dark streets of Moscow.
"Have you found one?" a redhead asked running towards the dark-haired woman that screamed.
"Look at her," the dark-haired woman pointed to a woman walking into a hotel, "she's more perfect than we could have ever dreamed. She's an exact match."
"She is. Good work Hilde." The redhead said.
"Where are Jinakel and Sally they must see her so that we may make our plans for the next month?" Hilde asked.
"We're right here, Catherine, did she find her?" Sally asked the redhead.
"Shhh. Do you all smell that? I smell vamp blood." Jinakel said, sniffing the frigid air.
"I do smell the stench of the Tainted. Everyone, protect Jina." Sally said and poised herself for battle. The other girls followed suit, Catherine pulling knives from her white leather pants and Hilde loading her crossbow under her long, velvet black cloak. Jina had a large sword that she only used when it was needed.
The darkness of the alley was no hindrance to the four pureblood vampire women. They watched as the dark minions scurried up walls and listened as they whispered their voices sounding like elephants stomping and trumpeting.
"We know you're hear Marquise, show yourself!" Hilde yelled to the dark night.
"Gladly." A blonde, longhaired man appeared, dressed in all black with the exception of his crimson tie. He bared his fangs in the sadistic smile that the Tainted always gave to the Pure.
"We want no quarrel tonight. Why have you come?" Sally said, trying to find a common ground and not spill blood tonight.
"We've come for your Vessel. Just give her to us and there will be no quarrel tonight." Marquise smirked back brushing his tongue over his sharp, white teeth.
"You know we cannot do that." Catherine spoke, pushing Jinakel behind her.
"Then quarrel we shall!" Zechs screamed and the minions charged the four women. All the ladies covered Jinakel, circling her in a sphere of protection.
"Jinakel, get out of here! We'll meet you." Hilde shouted and Jinakel sprouted her wings and flew away. The fight raged throughout the city streets, splattering vamp blood on the building walls and onto the cold pavement.
The girls were running out of options, there were only three of them and about fifty vamps. They had been in worse situations before, but with Jinakel who was an excellent swordsman.
Now it was Hilde holding off twelve vamps with her arrows, shooting them down from the tops of buildings as well. Sally got about ten with her Chinese stars. Which left about half for Cathy to kill with her knives. All of them were running out of weapons and would soon have to resort to feeding on the other vamps.
"What's the matter Purebloods, are you afraid of us?" Zechs asked jumping from the highest ledge on the highest building. About ten vamps were closing in all three of the women, yet they stood at a fight stance.
"We'll never surrender the Vessel." Hilde said, shooting an arrow into one of the vamps hearts.
"Well girls, I guess we'll just have to feed on them." Sally said snarling and biting off a hand of a vamp that had gotten too close. The others followed suit and soon many of the vamps were running away.
"Jinakel!" Sally screamed into the heavens, knowing that the vamp would hear her. With a thump Jinakel descended from the sky.
"Is everyone okay?" she asked, but was cut off by a large blade aimed at her neck and a man holding her arm behind her head.
"Let her go, you know not what you're doing." Sally said, screaming at the man that held Jin.
"She's a vamp. I saw her land. You are all in grave danger." The Chinese man with the shoulder-length black hair said.
"Let her go. She means no harm to any of us. She's as gentle as a lamb." Hilde said.
"She is a vamp. A disease here in Russia. I need to destroy her." The man said.
"Please sir, she is not a disease, she is the cure." Catherine said. Jinakel realized that negotiating with this man was not going to do any good. She elbowed him in the stomach after searching endlessly for a weak spot and drew her sword accidentally cutting his shoulder. He countered her quickly, only hunching a bit when she elbowed him and fighting with his weaker hand because of his flesh wound. She cornered him with her large sword, pointing the tip of the blade at his throat. He dropped his blade and bowed to his knees accepting defeat and death if it were to come.
"I don't want to fight you. I only use this sword for vamps." Jinakel said trying not to bear her teeth.
"You are a vamp, how am I to trust you?" the man said, still not standing.
"I have not killed you yet. I could have snapped your neck or run you through or worse eaten you, but I didn't. I don't kill or feed on humans, only on other vampires." Jinakel said lowering the blade from the man's throat.
"A vampire that kills other vampires?" that man said mostly to himself. He finally stood on his shaky legs.
"We are all like that. All four of us." Sally said walking up with the others behind her.
"But how?" the man was completely confused. In all his years of slaying, he'd never met any vamp that would not feed on a human.
"Please friend. We must leave this place before the Tainted flood it. Come with us." Sally said trying to calm the man with her voice.
"Wufei. The name's Wufei." He said smiling at Sally. Sally didn't dare smile back lest she frighten him with her fangs.
"Will you follow us to our home, Wufei? I assure you that we will not hurt you. Besides, you have an ugly wound." Sally asked. Wufei looked skeptical but he felt in his heart that she was truthful and trusted her.
"I will go." Wufei said and followed them to their apartment.
Wufei was surprise to find out how vampires lived. When he thought about the mythological creature's dwellings coffins and graveyards and boarded windows always came to mind. This was obviously not true for this group of women. Their place was immaculate a large loft apartment that was furnished with plush couches and not a coffin in sight; the windows weren't even boarded.
"Please sit." Sally said offering Wufei a seat.
"We're sorry we have no food to offer you." Hilde smirked and sat on one of the small cushions by the fireplace.
"What is this business? Vampires that eat other vampires are not possible." Wufei said looking around at the four sets of eyes that were staring at him.
"Calm yourself. My name is Jinakel, you've met Sally, the one in the white is Catherine and the elfin one is Hilde. We are all vampires, but pureblood vampires." Jinakel said trying to calm Wufei.
"That is just a myth. Purebloods were all eradicated when the Queen was killed, that was over ten thousand years ago." Wufei said his skepticism rising.
"I see you know your history. But the queen didn't die. She sent her soul into a vessel to be protected then reincarnated. Treize, the master of the Tainted vampires that you've probably come into contact with is trying to stop that from happening." Hilde said.
"Why? Why would a vampire not want his queen to be reborn?" Wufei queried.
"Because, her last words to him before he killed her were I will slay you and your kind and eradicate them from the earth when I am reborn. The scripture says this." Sally said bringing peroxide for Wufei's wound.
"Why are you in Moscow then?" Wufei asked yet another question.
"We found the incarnation of our queen. Well, actually the queen's sword found her. The sword of Queen Hadilah Badri was taken to the…"
"Moscow Museum of Natural History, I read the paper today. This is all too weird." Wufei said flinching at the sting of Sally tending his wound, "Watch it woman!"
"Suck it up." Sally said putting a bandage over the small flesh wound.
"So, who is this incarnation?" Wufei asked sarcastically.
"She is the museum curator. I've been watching her all day." Hilde said.
"All day. You can walk during the day?" Wufei looked stunned.
"Yes, one of the perks of being a pureblood. Although we have to wear sunglasses and sun block wherever we go. It's like we're on the beach wherever we go." Catherine chimed in.
"So, how do you propose to getting your queen into this museum curator?" Wufei was sure he'd lost his mind, but he was just going to go with it.
"The Queen is in me so I will have to turn the curator and give her the blood of our queen. I would not touch a mortal otherwise." Jinakel said, seriousness evident on her face.
"And this will eradicate all bad vamps?" Wufei asked putting an emphasis on the word bad.
"Yes. The Queen's power is strong enough to do that. She gave her dying word. Will you help us friend Wufei?" Jin asked hopefully. Wufei was silent for a while. The thoughts of helping something he'd always been told to fear making him uneasy.
"Yes. I will help." He gave his word and Wufei's word was his bond.