A.N: I don't own gundam wing although I do own anything that I have created for the soul purpose of this fic. If you wish to take anything you have to ask first. Revised x2

Mythical Times

Chapter 1

The Renaissance was and always will be Thorns favorite time of the year.

This year, though, was the most special since she had A) just turned 18 and B) her band, Wicked, had been given permission to perform their own songs for everyone's enjoyment. And boy…did everyone enjoy it.

But it was the bands break right now and she was going to use this time to her advantage.

Thorn ran a hand through her raven black hair that reach a little past her shoulders and got wavy as it reached the bottom. Her honey golden eyes searched for the store she had seen earlier. The one that had caught so much of her attention with the huge crowd huddled around it and all.

Her outfit today, since it must be described, consisted of a dark green belly shirt that had loose sleeves that hung off her shoulders, a dark brown skirt that reached her ankles, a black velvet bodice vest that tied in the front with a silver cord, and a loose hip-hugging sash with silver suns, moons, and stars covering the black translucent cloth.

Thorn gave herself a mental pat on the back. She had actually found the shop that she was looking for. Though the crowd had significantly dispersed itself, she had still found it. That was an accomplishment in itself, seeing as her sense of direction was next to none.

Or in plane terms: Her mental compass pointed west when she needed to go east

'Ahh yes, the pendants I was looking for,' she thought upon entering the little booth. She walked over to the pendants and picked out a Wicca pendent with crescent moons at the five points and a growling tiger head in the center of the star. She grabbed the other pendent that she had looked at earlier which was a silver cross with a snake wrapped around it and rubies for eyes. She went to go pay for them when she noticed that the ear on the tiger was chipped off.

That just wouldn't do. She sought out a worker and pointed to the damage. "Excuse me but this has been chipped and I didn't see any others like it over there. Do you happen to have any others like this in storage?" Thorn asked the manager, showing her the Wicca pendent.

Nodding the store manager said, "Yes we do. Please come with me." The manager walked into a back room with Thorn following closely behind. She stopped as the manager began to go through some boxes and then walked back to Thorn with the same necklace Thrown had just shown the manager. "Here you go miss. Do you want me to look for a better snake cross? I believe that we have a finer made one in here."

"I guess." Thorn replied as the manager began her search for the new item. Suddenly Thorn got this strange pulling sensation and, after a wave of dizziness had washed over her, a large bright ring of light formed close to where she was standing. Thorn screamed as the light sucked her in before the ring shrunk until it disappeared.

The store owner turned around at the scream only to discover that Thorn was missing. "Well gosh she ran off without paying, how rude." The manager mumbled. With a humph she shut the dusty box lid. "I wonder why she screamed. Probably a spider." The store owner shrugged and went back to the front of the store.

Thorn landed with a thud on hard moist ground. She gave a small 'ompf' before she slowly rose to her feet and dusted the dirt of her sore bottom. She looked around.

"Where the hell am I?" Thorn asked no one in particular. She was on a dirt road that was surrounded by forest. In the distance she could hear the ting of what sounded like pickaxes and the bark of dogs.

"What are you doing human? Get back to work!" said...'I must be imaging things...no that is defiantly real'... an ogre? Yes, it was indeed a large green ogre.

"What? Work? What work?" Thorn asked taking a step back. The ogre smelled absolutely horrendous and those big sharp teeth jutting out of its bottom lip wasn't helping her reaction much.

"Don't play games with me human or I will throw you in the dungeon and whip you." The ogre said coming closer. Thorn made an 'eep' before dashing off full force into the woods. The ogre attempted to follow but stopped. "Oh I won't even bother. That human will get killed anyway in the Forbidden Forest (1)." The ogre walked back to where the other humans where hard at work.

Thorn kept running full blast until she began to get tired. By that time it was beginning to get dark and everything looked the same as the next. She sighed and began to walk; sooner or later she would have to find a dry, safe place where she could sleep the night. She looked ahead and thought that she had seen something. She walked closer and found herself looked at a guy that looked about her age with black hair slicked into a ponytail and black slanted eyes. 'Looks like I found another person. I wonder what he is doing out here all alone?' she thought as she approached him. When she came close enough to him he looked right at her and gave her a closed mouth smile. Thorn approached him meekly and then stopped.

"Hi." she said. He was not even a head taller than her. She had to guess that he was only 5'7" or so.

"Hello… dinner." He said. Thorn looked slightly confused.

"Dinner?" Thorn asked, cocking her head to the side. He smiled again but this time he did show his teeth and revealed a pair of way too sharp canines. That was when she realized what he was talking about. She gasped. " You...Your a v...vamp...vampire." she stuttered.

"Yes." he said in a seductive voice as he began to approach her. She took a step back. "You are going to be the best dinner I have had in a long time, although you are a little too skinny for my tastes, you will still make a good meal." he said as he took another step forward.

"Not tonight buddy!" Thorn said as she took off again full blast. 'Now I am glad that I was on the school's track team.' she thought as she ran some more. She could hear his footsteps behind her. That distracted her enough that she fell through some bushes and rolled down a forest covered, steep hill. When she finally stopped she was upside down (on her head), in the dirt, with leaves and branches stuck in her hair and on her clothes. "Ugh. I am really started to hate this place. Where ever this place is." she said as she got up. She pulled a few branches and leaves out of her hair before, in the back of her mind the theme to Jaws started to play. (bum bum... bum bum...bum bum bum... bum bum bum you know the rest.) Her mind was warning her that vampire was still around, probably trying to sneak up on her. She looked around, her mind screaming 'WARNING!WARNING!INCOMING DANGER!'. She heard something from above and saw the vampire sitting above her on a tree branch grinning at her.

"Dinner time!" he said with a smile on his lips.

"FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!" She screamed as she scrambled through the bushes. She heard him laugh and jump to the ground after her. She ran for what seemed like an hour until she slammed into something that was taller in height to her. She fell on top of whatever it was and it made a few noises as it hit the ground. She looked up into a pair of indigo eyes. She blinked a few times, as did it. She then noticed that it had pointed elf ears and a long chestnut braid flowing from its head. At first she thought that she had ran into a female elf but that quickly changed as she noticed the contours of the body that lay beneath her and blushed.

"Hello." he said in a way too perky voice for someone that had just been practically run over by another person.

"Umm...hi." Thorn said while still blushing. She got off of him as the vampire came running through the bushes. He stopped when he saw the guy Thorn had ran into.

"Elf... you better give me back my dinner." He growled. The elf scratched his head.

"So THAT is why she was running so fast. She was trying to get away from you, Wu-wu." He looked at Wufei who was growling because of the nickname and then at Thorn. "Am I right?" he asked Thorn. She nodded her head quickly.

"Duo, just give her back to me so I can eat." He growled again stepping towards Thorn. Thorn quickly darted behind Duo.

"Aww Wufei, leave her alone. She is just a human and apparently quite frightened of you." Duo said as he patted her on the head. She made a face that said 'damn right'

"She has a good reason to be frightened. Now give her to me, I am very hungry." Wufei said stepping closer to grab her from behind Duo.

"I am not your dinner." she said quietly as she stepped out of his reach, her hands still clutching the back of the elf's tunic.

"See, she doesn't want to be your dinner. Now go find some other creature to feed on." Duo said. The vampire, Wufei, gave another growl and turned away.

"Fine I will see you at sunrise." he said before taking the shape of an owl and flying off.

"Damn vampires." The elf said and turned to Thorn. "Well now that I saved your blood can I have a name from you, fair damsel?" He said and bowed.

"My name is Thorn and I am definitely no fair damsel. I am just your average teenage HUMAN girl in a scary forest during the middle of the night." She said.

"I was kinda wondering, but why aren't you working like all humans do in this region? They are slaves." He said as he looked at her. "You sure don't look like a slave or a servant. You look more nicely dressed, like the humble women in the fairy tales from my village." He said.

"Well I am not from around here. So what about you? What is your name?" She asked.

"My name is Duo. I'm an elf but you can already tell that, cant you?" Duo watched as she nodded. "Well at least you're a smart human." He said with a smile. Thorn gave him a look and Duo just laughed. When he stopped laughing a strange noise came from somewhere nearby. "What was that?" Duo asked, looking around with his hand on the hilt of a curved dagger at his waist belt.

"Umm...that would be my tummy saying its hungry." Thorn said sheepishly with a lopsided grin. Duo blinked a few times.

"That was your stomach? Wow it sounds like a werelion." Duo said with a laugh. "I guess I am going to have to get you some food. Unless, that is, you can hunt for yourself?" Duo looked at her, probably searching for some kind of weapon. Thorn shook her head no. "I thought so, come on." He coaxed.

They walked through the forest for 10 minutes until they came upon a cave with a light inside. Duo brought Thorn inside to a fire lit cave with beds made of leaves covered with deer skin, a few furs here and there, tools, and other things.

"Welcome to Wufei's and my home." Duo said.

"Wufei?" Thorn asked.

"Oh, Wufei was that vampire that was chasing you." Duo said happily. Thorn paled.

"He isn't going to eat me while I'm asleep is he?" Thorn asked.

"No." Duo said and motioned for Thorn to sit down. She sat down on one of the beds and found it comfortable for a bed made of leaves and deer skin. He smiled at her. "You do know that is Wufei's bed. You can tell by the little bloody dots on it."

"Eep!" Thorn said before jumping off the bed. By this time he was rolling on the floor laughing. She growled at the happy elf. "Your new name is Duo The-Happy-Go-Lucky Elf! I hate you." She said and stormed to another bed on the other side of the room, preferably to pout.

"You humans are funny!" Duo said wiping some of his tears away. She mumbled something under her breath. "Hey! I heard that!"

"OH BIG DEAL!" she screamed at him.

He shut up.

Quickly.

"So are you hungry or not? Because I can always stay here and not hunt. Although it would get rather annoying if your stomach kept making those loud noises all the night." Duo said.

"Yes would you please get some food. It would make me so happy. I would love you again." She said with big puppy dog eyes and her hands clasped in front of her.

"You love me?" he asked. He took tiny steps in her direction with a large grin on his face.

"Eww...no. That was just an excuse to get you to get some food." she said giving him a face. He threw an arm over her shoulder.

"You can always share my bed tonight so Wufei can't hurt you." He said with a hopeful grin. She shoved him away.

"Why don't you just go hunt and let me think about it." she said shooing him away towards the entrance of the cave. He gave her a large hopeful smile as he exited, at the same time she gave him the only smile she could muster up. She let out a sigh of relief when he was finally gone and laid down on the bed. She tried her hardest not to fall asleep but she was just too tired and soon drifted off into a deep sleep.

A sleep filled with hidden memories.

Thorn was in a forest that looked like the one that she had been chased through. In front of her stood a large stone tower with gardens of herbs, flowers, and foods near it. In one of the gardens was a young women about Thorns age picking herbs and putting them in a large woven basket, it's handle was tied with colored ribbons. She couldn't tell what the girl looked like but she could see that the girl had long black hair done in a loose braid. When the girl turned around, Thorn gasped. That girl looks exactly like me!

Indeed the girl looked like Thorn except with longer hair. She was wearing a flowing white one shouldered gown, an emerald green sash that tied to the side around her waist, a wreath of light green and white flowers seated on her head, and beautiful silver jewelry decorating her being. The most beautiful was the silver amulet that hung around her neck with various designs etched into it and jewels.

Thorn watched as a man emerged from the forest. The girl looked at the man with a confused look as he lifted his staff and called to her. Thorn watched as he shouted at her as he slammed the butt of his staff into the ground. The girl cringed as if she was being poked at with a pitch fork. A glow was emitted from the staff that he carried. The girl looked horrified as a ball of energy was sent at her.

"Look out!" Thorn screamed.

Thorn was shaken awake as she screamed. When she finally opened her eyes she was staring into a pair of worried indigo orbs. She was breathing heavily and was covered in a fine sheen of cold sweat. She looked at Duo and then at the other person in the room. The vampire, Thorn thought as she looked the dark haired young man over.

"Are you all right? You were screaming like someone had placed a binding spell upon you and there was a hungry dragon ready to gobble you up." Duo said calming down a bit. He looked better now that he knew she wasn't really injured.

"It was nothing."

"No it wasn't by the way you were screaming. What happened?" Wufei asked. Thorn opened her mouth to answer him.

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