Little one

Too scared to see

Open your eyes

And look at me.

I am no monster

Though you have been told

That I will bite

If too close you come.

From The Silent Scream by Hilde Schbeiker

After I had officially freaked out my new master, he decided that he didn't like me too much and locked me in the room with the swords, commenting that when the person who stayed here returned- a 'Woof-uh' or something- I was supposed to do my best to drive him ballistic. As he turned away down the stairs, I heard him muttering something about just how badly he was going to kill Heero. Oh, how loudly I laughed within my head.

As to this 'Wuffugh' person- well, if he was Duo's enemy, I'd be damned if I tried to bother him. I took a second look around the room, much more carefully then the first, and discovered two loose floor boards, a safe and a few small black boxes beneath the clothes in the drawers, and I even found out that when I tilted a certain elaborately-carved handle on a certain katana that two-foot wide circular cut of the wall behind the head of the bed would come out, revealing a dazzling array of weaponry as well as a curious metal pole that ran straight down through a hole in the floor of the tiny compartment.

I decided that this was, indeed, very curious, but decided also that inspection would be best left until later, and went about checking the insides of the various boxes and safe in the dresser. Tough luck- a few credit cards, cash, two pathetic guns, and-spread between five or so velvety boxes- a collection of Chinese coins and ornaments.

I sighed and turned back to the strange secret hole in the wall. Figuring it best to go step-by-step through this room, I began by moving to a stack of gorgeous boxes; wood, velvet, a few pure gold and silver. I selected a small box of a reddened wood with silver trim, and opened it to find a breathtaking obsidian-bladed dagger with a silver blade embedded with a sapphire, ruby, and emerald. I gasped, for never had I seen something as incredible as that which lay so perfectly on its bed of shimmering grey silk.

I gripped the dagger carefully, then slid it slowly down my thigh where the tight leather could hold it in place. Stealing? Maybe. Did I care? Not a bit; it would be another week or so before my claws could do any protecting of me, and that was only if my ignorant new master forgot to enforce the filing and trimming of my natural weapons. I carefully replaced the box before moving on to a separate stack of what I hoped were guns. Carefully did I reach out toward the first box- very carefully, for I knew nothing of the handling of a gun, and feared that only in opening the box it may go off.

I scowled as I heard the sound of footsteps on the stairway, and ran outside of this new place to quickly put the wall back and bed. I proceeded to pack quickly and silently the few stray items I had neglected to replace before lying sideways on the neatly kept bed as the key turned in the doorknob.

'Click' sang the gun as an oriental man with fiercely gelled black hair and narrowed black eyes rose his gun. "Who're you?" He demanded with a growl.

"... I have no name that I am aware of," I said, and rose lazily to a sitting position, casually moving my tail so that it would dangle over the edge of the bed. "But I am the unwilling servant to Duo."

"Maxwell? Has an Astheme?" He said in a baffled tone. "Where in the name of everything just did he get an Astheme?" He shrugged the matter off and lowered his gun. "Well, get out of here, go clean Maxwell's room or something."

"I have been given orders by my master to stay here and bother you."

"And you are being given orders now by your master's superior to get the heck out of my room, onna."

I seethed at the name, but nodded curtly and left for my master's room- only to find that the door had been locked. I sighed and returned to the room, but found that it had been locked as well and Wufei refused to open the door for her. "Go see your baka master, onna!"

I walked daintily down the steps, taking careful note of a slight draft coming from near the center of the staircase, and that there was a slight difference in color that would be invisible to a naked human eye but was obvious to me in the fading light.

I sighed as I walked into the living room where Duo had settled- loudly. "Master, I'm afraid that I will not be able to carry out your order." He looked up from his movie, startled; upon noticing that it was only me, he turned back to the flick.

"Why not? I'm your master, right? So you have to do what I tell you. And why didn't you stay in Wufei's room like I told you? Stupid cat..." he muttered, turning his full attention back to the screen.

"I'm terribly sorry, master," I said silkily, "but I have to do anything that my master wants and orders me to, unless the order is contradicted by another person who could give him or her an order. Wufei informed me that he is your superior, and therefore I must listen to him above you." I assumed a position of attention, noting with amusement the settle of my top as I placed one hand over the other in front of me. I felt his eyes scan over me, and I gently wrapped my tail around my mostly bare thigh; the relief from the cold was a horrible torture to hold a straight face through, but it was important that I played my part to the fullest until I managed complete control over this man- no, this boy. The cold of such clothes as I wore would have to be endured for the time.

"Wufei is not my superior, baka!"

"Of course, master, but I had to confirm the information before I disobeyed his order."

"No you didn't! All three of us that live here are the same age and we're all equals except for ME because I am the Shinegami! Now go do what I said!"

"Gomen, master, please forgive me, but it would seem that Woofy has locked his door."

"Woofy?" Duo said curiously, a glitter in his eye. "Woofy..."

"I am gomen, master- is that incorrect?"

"Of course not! You will ALWAYS call him Woofy, got it?"

"Yes, master."

"As to his door... Borrow my keys," he said, tossing me a keychain brimming with the small metal objects. I caught them easily and swirled them around a slender finger as I left, allowing my left hand to rest on my bare, icy waist. I smirked. He had given me every key in the house. It would take perhaps the night to make duplicates from wood using my new, glimmering knife. I smiled venomously as I waltzed up the stairs.

"Knock knock, Woofy," I called sweetly as I opened the door.

"MAXWELL!!" He screamed upon my entering.

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Well, here you go- thanks for the tip btw Jen.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

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Well, I'll probably be able to completely finish this fic before school starts back up on January 6, and starting this Wednesday or so I'll probably be able to post on a daily basis.

I AM IN NEED OF AN EDITOR. If possible, I would like to have someone offer by Sunday so that I can get the whole piece back and edited Tuesday or even Monday. No editor, I'll have to get Artemis to do it, and she's been forbidden to almost everything- including ff.net- so it could take a few weeks before I begin my little posting frenzie. -_- Btw peeps, I highly reccomend Artemis as a writer- do an authoress search for operation: mystic waters and you'll find her account. I've heard that her Pokemon fic is good, but I don't do Pokemon, or even review her fics(as justice to her not reviewing mine, no matter how good of an excuse that lying lil' onna can come up with).