by WSJ
Duo and the Dragonriders
Disclaimer: C chap 1
Summery: C previous chap.
Warnings: Psycopathic freak alert! Duo's dad is cracked!
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"Hey Duo, how come I'm the only one without a girlfriend?" Quarte asked.
"You?!? You think you have girl problems? Hilde won't leave me alone!!! She's a worse stalker then Relena is with Heero!!!!!" (1) Duo retorted, rolling his eyes at his blond friend.
The two boys were on the way home from their music lessons, which happened to be in the same studio. Quatre was swinging his violin case back and forth in time with their steps and Duo's guitar was slung over his shoulder.
Quatre laughed. "At least girls take intrest in you! Most of the ones that see me think I am a girl..."
"Hey, Hilde's the only girl who takes intrest in me! You call this long brown thing hanging down my back not looking girlish? Most girls think I'm 'one of them' and ask me to come over to their houses for makeovers." Both boys shivered in horror.
"Well, I can assure you you aren't."
Duo whirled around. "Who was that?" The gruff voice seemed familiar somehow...
"You heard it too?" Quatre asked, a faint look of releif crossing his face. "I was afraid it was just me..."
"Hey, up here!"
They looked up and their jaws dropped down. Hovering above them was a huge silver dragon. There was a gold saddle strapped to it and a rider sat on top. He reined in the dragon and with a beat of its wings it settled on the ground in front of them.(2)
The rider slid off and bowed deeply to Quatre and Duo. They gawked at his old-fasioned clothes and cape. A crown of gold circled his forehead and his long black braid and beard were wild and uncombed.
"How would you know?" Duo asked. (3)
"'Cuz I was there!" the man said proudly, causing Quatre and Duo to anime-fall and twitch violently. "I'm Kay Maxwell, (4) my wife's name is Laura. Would you two wanna come flying with me?"
Duo sweatdropped. "The hell? Maxwell? Sure, let's go, I wanna meet this 'wife' of yours... You psyco." he added so only Quatre could hear.
Kay raised his hands to his lips and let out a peircing whistle, causing both our boys to cover their ears. Instantly two dragons dived from far above and landed in front of them. "Duo, you ride Lilyscale, you" he pointed to Quatre, "Ride Moonheart."
"How would you know my name? You some great-uncle of mine or something?" Duo asked.
Kay frowned. "Might as well tell you. I am your father. (WSJ & Rosie: *a la Luke Skywalker* NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *giggle uncontrolably*)"
Duo's eyes misted over. "I'm not surprised. I see a lot of myself in you. I was told my parents were very old-fasioned. They didn't want that for me, so they left me at the Maxwell Church. Father said they promised to come for me someday. I guess today is that day." he said.
They heard a scream and turned to see Moonheart trying to buck Quatre off. "Moonheart! Sit!" Kay commanded.
She did and Quatre began sliding backward toward the tail. The spiked tail. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Quatre screamed louder. Duo caught him just in time. "Whew, thanks buddy..." Quatre said.
"Hey, what are best friends for?" Duo asked.
They desided to switch dragons and Duo mounted Moonheart while Quatre climbed up on Lilyscale. Kay boarded the dragon he said was named Silverwing.
As they flew above the clouds they noticed another band of dragons flying nearby. They drifted closer and saw a woman, obviously pregnant, mounted on a red dragon. Flocked around her were six or seven children on dragons of various sizes and colors.
"Laura! This is Duo, our son, and his best friend Quatre!" Kay called to the woman.
She flew closer and Quatre nodded she had the same dark brown hair and wide eyes her son did.
"Duo, this is Laura, your mother."
Duo noted the kids, as well as her swollen belly, and sweatdropped infinantly. "Do you ever stop?"(5)
Laura grinned, a wide grin, just like Duo's, and chuckled. "Do you really want me to answer that? These are your brothers and sisters, Lance, Richelle, Marissa, Lila, John and EllaMae."
"So, are you ready to join the dragonriders?" Kay asked.
Duo nearly choked and looked back at Quatre, who shrugged. Duo frowned and turned to his father. "Sorry, I can't dad." He had never called anyone that before. "I have friends and responcibilities at home. Who'd stop Heero from stripping DeathScythe if I left? Who'd annoy the living crap outta Wufei? And what 'bout Q-man here? We're friends till the end!"
Kay smiled saddly. "I understand."
When they landed, Duo slid off Moonheart and waved good-bye as his mother and father took off. "Bye mom, dad! Come visit soon!" he yelled.
He turned to see Quatre furvently kissing the ground. Feeling Duo's eyes on his he looked up and smiled sheepishly. "So, you've been wondering your whole life. Now you know. You've finally found your family, and lost them all in one day."
"Nah... Kay and Laura may be cool, but I can't think of them as family. Too weird. You guys are my family, Q. You, Heero and the whole Gundam Squadron."
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(1) I now firmly believe in 02xHS, but you'll see in a few chapters why I don't want Du-kun to have a girlfriend...
(2) Yeah, I know, this is practically and impractically impossible, especially in the GW universe. Where would they have hidden during the war? But give me a break, I was obsessed with Duo, obsessed with dragons and naturally put the two together.
(3) Notice a complete lack of shock? Yeah, I fig'red...
(4) As I keep stating time and again, I knew nothing of the pilots' pasts when I wrote these. Originally the passage where Duo dictates his past to Kay went something like '...to my aunt to raise me. Aunt told me that...'
(5) That was added as I typed. Two years ago my naive little mind wouldn't have dreamed of writing something like that in.
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Duo: *sweatdrop* The violin and guitar vanished...
WSJ: Shush you! No point in pointing out plotholes. ANyway, the reason I haven't updated in ages is because I lost the notebook all these were written in. ^^;; I found it in my closet...
Quatre: Er...
WSJ: *oogles* Geez... I was soooo bad... The original illistration for this chapter is pretty funny. Kay looks seriously insane. *shivers* That look in his eyes... I wish I had a scanner, then I'd show you. ^_^
Next twisted tale: Trowa and the Greatest Show On Earth: Cathrin storms out of the circus in a huff after a fight with Trowa. Trowa calls Duo and Relena for advice (don't ask me why...) and ends up getting more then he bargained for.