Chapter 6
The information Quatre and Heero had unexpectly come upon left them in a indecisive mood. Heero wanted to confront Kana and Duo. Do what he does best and eliminate the problem. Quatre on the other hand needed more proof. He also wanted to wait for Trowa to come. Trowa knew more about this kind of stuff then he did. He would be able to help out a whole lot more. The heavyarms pilot was arriving that morning, the day after Heero, Duo and Kana had arrived. Obviously Quatre had his way. He convinced the Perfect soilder that in wouldn't help to just charge into a situation that they knew very little about. For all they knew Kana could have no idea that her name meant such a horrible thing. Quatre wondered if that were true, if her parents knew that they named their baby girl such a terrible name.
The night before, Quatre didn't see much of Kana. Her and Duo seemed to be getting along very well. Another reason Quatre didn't want to go and accuse the girl on the assumptions he and Heero had made, was that Duo probably wouldn't be to happy about it all. After dinner, Kana asked if she could go look through some books. She complained about not having the proper books and resources to help Duo so Quatre happily obliged to let her look at his library. Actually it was more of Trowa's liabrary since most of the books were his. Kana seemed impressed by the collection Trowa had. Quatre was still feeling that awful vibe every time he was around the red head. She seemed very pleasant but her presence was making him sick. So sick that he retiered to bed early in the night.
Duo had gone to bed early aswell, after Kana had suggested that he should get some sleep and Heero inisted that he get some rest. Kana stayed up a bit longer going through some more books. Heero kept his eye on her until finally she too went to bed.
Kana was up before dawn. A very unusual happening since she frequently slept till noon when she didn't have to work. But this was going to be an unusual day and she was too excited to stay in bed. She had decided after much thinking late into the night on how she was going to go about Duo's "training." Opening the door to the God of Deaths bedroom she quietly tip-toed in. His sleeping form looked so peaceful. All curled into a small ball his knees near his chest, a goofy grin plastered on his face. Kana almost felt guilty about what she was about to do. Almost. She tried to keep her giggles quiet as she got closer to him. Bending over so her face was no more then a few inches from his ear. She took in a deep breath, his sweet smell wafted past her nose. "WAKE UP!!!!"
Duo bolted straight up and out of bed, tripping on the tangled up sheets and falling on the floor. He tried to free himself for the prison of bankets and finally bringing himslef back up on the bed. He frowned something awful at Kana as she stood there grinning. "What. The. Hell. Was that for?"
"It's time to wake up and get ready. You have officially started your training of becomeing the most powerful living thing on this planet.... next to me of course."
If Duo hadn't been so tired and shook up from his morning wake up call he would have said something witty back. Unfortuanatly, his brain was still sleeping like the rest of him should've have been. Instead he just grumble and got up.
Kana stopped breathing for a moment. Duo's figure had been hiding behind the bed as he used it to sit up right. But now that he was up she got an eyeful. His top half was nude and his black boxers made him look.... "Yummy" She thought in her head as she licked her dry lips. His chest, well defined and his stomach like a wash board made her legs feel like they were going to turn into to jelly right there. Shaking her head she thought of other things. He started to walk to the bathroom, carrying a shirt and pants. She followed him with her eyes, his hair was coming out of it's usual tight braid. She breathed again once he closed the door behind him.
"Stop it!" She scolded herself. "No, I can't think like that." She continued to mumble to herself as she walked out of Duo's bedroom heading for the kitchen. "Bad Kana!"
* * * * *
Duo slowly made his way to the kitchen. The shower didn't help him wake up any and he kept running into walls. Kana had her back to him when he entered the room. Heero sat at the table, arms crossed staring at him as struggled to braid the end of his hair. Suddnely a hot mug with brown liquid was shoved under his nose.
"Here, drink this." Kana instructed him.
He took the cup, "What is this some kind of special drink to make me strong?"
Kana lifted an eyebrow, "No, it's coffee. It'll wake you up." She took a sip of her own.
"What time is it?"
"6:30" Quatre answered from behind Duo.
Duo wanted to die and felt like he was going to die and the day hadn't even really started. Kana went to the table Heero was sitting at, Duo and Quatre followed. Once they were all seated she took another sip of her coffee and placed her mug firmly on the table. "Ok. You are the God of Death."
"Yeah, I think you already told me that."
"No interupting! You are actually becoming the God of Death. You have a power that surpases any normal human being, demon and any other supernatural force. It just hasn't blossomed yet. It's an unknown power so I can't tell you what it is or what it feels like when it finaly comes. All I know is that it is so mighty that it could in theory destroy the world. You also have a demon inside of you that I believe is giving you some of your power. It's been locked away just like your power for the past 19 years. Soon it will try to take control of your body, use it for it's own purposes. But that's not the problem. The problem is," She had to think on how to word this. She took another sip of her coffee, licked her lips and continued, "It's just that because you don't know how to control your power yet, it might end up taking control of you. Since the demon is part of your power it will in turn take over your body and the prophesies will come true. Another thing is that well...." she ran her hands through her hair, "This whole thing will be like.... it'll be like puberty. I know that you didn't exactly have to most normal childhood but-"
"What do you mean like puberty? I'm not going to get hair in spots I dont want hair am I? I'm not going to turn into some freak like the thing I killed?"
"No, at least not to my knowledge. I mean like you'll go through mental and spiritual changes. Definate mood swings. I think that's why Father Cambell wanted you dead. These mood swing things will be an outburst of power. What will happen to you and the people around you will depend if they are negative or positive outbursts of power."
Duo looked confused and Kana really didn't want to get into the details but he just had to ask, "What will happen if it's negative?"
"Well if you're angry then that emotion might take over. Add that with your gift and not to mention that little demon inside of you, we could be looking at death."
"Death of who?"
She just looked down. She could see her relfection in her coffee, "Innocent people most likely. Who ever is close by. Perhaps all of us." She didn't have to motion the Heero and Quatre whe she said us. Duo knew who she was talking about. The room fell completely silent. Kana didn't want to say anymore unless he asked her to. But he didn't.
Instead Duo got up with a smile on his face, "Well in that case. We better get started then!"
* * * * *
Duo was standing in the middle of a cirlce of sidewalk chalk. He followed Kana as she drew more around him with the large peice of chalk that Quatre had given her.
He reconized the symbol she was drawing, a star with a circle around it. "Isn't that the sing of the devil?"
She stopped "Huh.... no.... this is a penticle" She continued finishing the star and drawing a few symbols here and there inside the cirlcle. "There we go." Dusting off her hands she skipped over to Duo, avioding certain spots of her art work. Grabbing onto him for support as she jumped into the small cirle surrounding him, "Oops...." She balanced herself back upright and then sat down, holding onto Duos arm and draging him with her. They both crossed their legs, knees touching. "Now what I need you to do is to focus on something. It can be an object, it's easier if it's a simple object something that you can concentrate on. Or maybe try a person or a word, or a name of a person." She shrugged and Duo nodded. "Close your eyes and focus on whatever you want and nothing else."
He shut his eyes and thought about what to focus on. Many things came to his mind but one stood out the most. A scythe. It being the weapon of death he thought it would suit the situation. A long black staff appeared in his mind, with a sharp curved blade at the end. It spinned slowly the blade glistening. A voice could be heard in the background. Duo didn't pay much attention to it, but it seemed to be chanting something in another language.
The scythe abruptly vanished and Duo was left in total darkness. Then a light came towards him, encircling him. His arms went up in protection covering his face. Then it was all gone and he found himself in a different place. A place he knew all too well. He was on L2 in the old neighboorhood where he grew up. The place looked like a dump, just the way he remembered it. Suddenly he heard a cry of a child. Running towards where he heard the scream his heart stopped. There he was, with Solo. Duo stood there watching himself cry over the dead boy. All of his memories of that day came back to him. Solo had the plague and he had went to go get the antidote but didn't make it back in time. A lump fixed itslef in his throat as the memories of that day played themselves right before him.
"Duo."
Duo turned around, the secenery behind him had changed. He was now at the Maxwell Chruch or what was left of it. The person who had called his name was Father Maxwell but he wasn't calling the older Duo.
"Father Maxwell!" The boy wept, he left the body of a woman that he had been crying over. Sister Helen, Duo reconized her.
Again memories of Duo's past came flooding into him. He tried to hold back the tears but when he saw Father Maxwell die in his own younger arms he couldn't help himself. His knees gave way and he began to weep as his surrounding changed again. This time he could see Deathscythe fighting, he could also see himself inside of the gundam. Not only could he see himself through the gundam but he could also see the soilders he was fighting. He saw their faces when he sliced through their suits with his scythe. But that wasn't the worst part. He didn't think about it at the time he was fighting these men but he had thought about it after and now. These men had families, had people who loved them and now would never see them. Their screams filled his head until he couldn't take it anymore. So many people had died through his hands and now they had come back to haunt him.
* * * * *
The people all around her yelled and screamed for her attention but she just kept on walking. All their faces were dead to her and to the rest of the world. She had shed her tears for some and gloated over others. This path was one she walked often nothing seemed out of the ordinary for her. The trick was to just keep going, don't stop for anything and above all do not look them in the eyes. Once you look into the eyes of a dead loved one all is lost. Her face was as cold as stone as she passed the sea of people surrounding her.
Everything around her was gray, no other color except for gray. She slowly closed her eyes and then opened them. The landscape changed from something she reconized to a whole new world. There were buildings crumbling, people screaming, she saw mobile suits everywhere, destroying everything. In the middle of it all there was a boy, sitting on a chunk of a wall, or what was left of the wall. He had his head in his hands his whole body shaking violently.
Kana ran over to him, getting down on her knees to look at his face. "Duo!" He looked up at her, his eyes red from tears. "Duo it's ok."
"They are all dead! They are dead because of me!" He wailed at her as more tears streamed down his face.
"Duo whatever has happened it's in the past. It doesn't matter-"
"It does matter. Why else would I be seeing this? Why am I seeing all the death I've caused?"
"It's your power Duo. Your power is rooted in all of this. The spell I did is showing you where your power comes from."
His violet eyes went empty, the cheerfulness in them lost, "My power caused this!! This is what my great gift is?! Death!!"
"You're the God of Death. It wasn't your fault. It's your destiny."
Duo's face was a loss of emotion. Kana wiped away the tears on his cheek. "It's ok Duo."
"It's not ok. If this is my destiny, then I'm going to keep killing. I'll always be the God of Death. Anybody who gets close to me will die. It'll never stop."
"Oh..Duo......Duo, I promiss I'm going to make it stop."
He shook his head, "You can't, nobody can stop me. I'm a monster."
She held his face in her hand making him look her in the face, "Duo you are not a monster! I'm going to help you! You have my word, I'll do everything I can to help you."
Duo started to cry again, mumbling to himself. Kana drew him down to her letting his head rest on her shoulder. She combed her fingers through his hair trying to comfort him as he wept.
The information Quatre and Heero had unexpectly come upon left them in a indecisive mood. Heero wanted to confront Kana and Duo. Do what he does best and eliminate the problem. Quatre on the other hand needed more proof. He also wanted to wait for Trowa to come. Trowa knew more about this kind of stuff then he did. He would be able to help out a whole lot more. The heavyarms pilot was arriving that morning, the day after Heero, Duo and Kana had arrived. Obviously Quatre had his way. He convinced the Perfect soilder that in wouldn't help to just charge into a situation that they knew very little about. For all they knew Kana could have no idea that her name meant such a horrible thing. Quatre wondered if that were true, if her parents knew that they named their baby girl such a terrible name.
The night before, Quatre didn't see much of Kana. Her and Duo seemed to be getting along very well. Another reason Quatre didn't want to go and accuse the girl on the assumptions he and Heero had made, was that Duo probably wouldn't be to happy about it all. After dinner, Kana asked if she could go look through some books. She complained about not having the proper books and resources to help Duo so Quatre happily obliged to let her look at his library. Actually it was more of Trowa's liabrary since most of the books were his. Kana seemed impressed by the collection Trowa had. Quatre was still feeling that awful vibe every time he was around the red head. She seemed very pleasant but her presence was making him sick. So sick that he retiered to bed early in the night.
Duo had gone to bed early aswell, after Kana had suggested that he should get some sleep and Heero inisted that he get some rest. Kana stayed up a bit longer going through some more books. Heero kept his eye on her until finally she too went to bed.
Kana was up before dawn. A very unusual happening since she frequently slept till noon when she didn't have to work. But this was going to be an unusual day and she was too excited to stay in bed. She had decided after much thinking late into the night on how she was going to go about Duo's "training." Opening the door to the God of Deaths bedroom she quietly tip-toed in. His sleeping form looked so peaceful. All curled into a small ball his knees near his chest, a goofy grin plastered on his face. Kana almost felt guilty about what she was about to do. Almost. She tried to keep her giggles quiet as she got closer to him. Bending over so her face was no more then a few inches from his ear. She took in a deep breath, his sweet smell wafted past her nose. "WAKE UP!!!!"
Duo bolted straight up and out of bed, tripping on the tangled up sheets and falling on the floor. He tried to free himself for the prison of bankets and finally bringing himslef back up on the bed. He frowned something awful at Kana as she stood there grinning. "What. The. Hell. Was that for?"
"It's time to wake up and get ready. You have officially started your training of becomeing the most powerful living thing on this planet.... next to me of course."
If Duo hadn't been so tired and shook up from his morning wake up call he would have said something witty back. Unfortuanatly, his brain was still sleeping like the rest of him should've have been. Instead he just grumble and got up.
Kana stopped breathing for a moment. Duo's figure had been hiding behind the bed as he used it to sit up right. But now that he was up she got an eyeful. His top half was nude and his black boxers made him look.... "Yummy" She thought in her head as she licked her dry lips. His chest, well defined and his stomach like a wash board made her legs feel like they were going to turn into to jelly right there. Shaking her head she thought of other things. He started to walk to the bathroom, carrying a shirt and pants. She followed him with her eyes, his hair was coming out of it's usual tight braid. She breathed again once he closed the door behind him.
"Stop it!" She scolded herself. "No, I can't think like that." She continued to mumble to herself as she walked out of Duo's bedroom heading for the kitchen. "Bad Kana!"
* * * * *
Duo slowly made his way to the kitchen. The shower didn't help him wake up any and he kept running into walls. Kana had her back to him when he entered the room. Heero sat at the table, arms crossed staring at him as struggled to braid the end of his hair. Suddnely a hot mug with brown liquid was shoved under his nose.
"Here, drink this." Kana instructed him.
He took the cup, "What is this some kind of special drink to make me strong?"
Kana lifted an eyebrow, "No, it's coffee. It'll wake you up." She took a sip of her own.
"What time is it?"
"6:30" Quatre answered from behind Duo.
Duo wanted to die and felt like he was going to die and the day hadn't even really started. Kana went to the table Heero was sitting at, Duo and Quatre followed. Once they were all seated she took another sip of her coffee and placed her mug firmly on the table. "Ok. You are the God of Death."
"Yeah, I think you already told me that."
"No interupting! You are actually becoming the God of Death. You have a power that surpases any normal human being, demon and any other supernatural force. It just hasn't blossomed yet. It's an unknown power so I can't tell you what it is or what it feels like when it finaly comes. All I know is that it is so mighty that it could in theory destroy the world. You also have a demon inside of you that I believe is giving you some of your power. It's been locked away just like your power for the past 19 years. Soon it will try to take control of your body, use it for it's own purposes. But that's not the problem. The problem is," She had to think on how to word this. She took another sip of her coffee, licked her lips and continued, "It's just that because you don't know how to control your power yet, it might end up taking control of you. Since the demon is part of your power it will in turn take over your body and the prophesies will come true. Another thing is that well...." she ran her hands through her hair, "This whole thing will be like.... it'll be like puberty. I know that you didn't exactly have to most normal childhood but-"
"What do you mean like puberty? I'm not going to get hair in spots I dont want hair am I? I'm not going to turn into some freak like the thing I killed?"
"No, at least not to my knowledge. I mean like you'll go through mental and spiritual changes. Definate mood swings. I think that's why Father Cambell wanted you dead. These mood swing things will be an outburst of power. What will happen to you and the people around you will depend if they are negative or positive outbursts of power."
Duo looked confused and Kana really didn't want to get into the details but he just had to ask, "What will happen if it's negative?"
"Well if you're angry then that emotion might take over. Add that with your gift and not to mention that little demon inside of you, we could be looking at death."
"Death of who?"
She just looked down. She could see her relfection in her coffee, "Innocent people most likely. Who ever is close by. Perhaps all of us." She didn't have to motion the Heero and Quatre whe she said us. Duo knew who she was talking about. The room fell completely silent. Kana didn't want to say anymore unless he asked her to. But he didn't.
Instead Duo got up with a smile on his face, "Well in that case. We better get started then!"
* * * * *
Duo was standing in the middle of a cirlce of sidewalk chalk. He followed Kana as she drew more around him with the large peice of chalk that Quatre had given her.
He reconized the symbol she was drawing, a star with a circle around it. "Isn't that the sing of the devil?"
She stopped "Huh.... no.... this is a penticle" She continued finishing the star and drawing a few symbols here and there inside the cirlcle. "There we go." Dusting off her hands she skipped over to Duo, avioding certain spots of her art work. Grabbing onto him for support as she jumped into the small cirle surrounding him, "Oops...." She balanced herself back upright and then sat down, holding onto Duos arm and draging him with her. They both crossed their legs, knees touching. "Now what I need you to do is to focus on something. It can be an object, it's easier if it's a simple object something that you can concentrate on. Or maybe try a person or a word, or a name of a person." She shrugged and Duo nodded. "Close your eyes and focus on whatever you want and nothing else."
He shut his eyes and thought about what to focus on. Many things came to his mind but one stood out the most. A scythe. It being the weapon of death he thought it would suit the situation. A long black staff appeared in his mind, with a sharp curved blade at the end. It spinned slowly the blade glistening. A voice could be heard in the background. Duo didn't pay much attention to it, but it seemed to be chanting something in another language.
The scythe abruptly vanished and Duo was left in total darkness. Then a light came towards him, encircling him. His arms went up in protection covering his face. Then it was all gone and he found himself in a different place. A place he knew all too well. He was on L2 in the old neighboorhood where he grew up. The place looked like a dump, just the way he remembered it. Suddenly he heard a cry of a child. Running towards where he heard the scream his heart stopped. There he was, with Solo. Duo stood there watching himself cry over the dead boy. All of his memories of that day came back to him. Solo had the plague and he had went to go get the antidote but didn't make it back in time. A lump fixed itslef in his throat as the memories of that day played themselves right before him.
"Duo."
Duo turned around, the secenery behind him had changed. He was now at the Maxwell Chruch or what was left of it. The person who had called his name was Father Maxwell but he wasn't calling the older Duo.
"Father Maxwell!" The boy wept, he left the body of a woman that he had been crying over. Sister Helen, Duo reconized her.
Again memories of Duo's past came flooding into him. He tried to hold back the tears but when he saw Father Maxwell die in his own younger arms he couldn't help himself. His knees gave way and he began to weep as his surrounding changed again. This time he could see Deathscythe fighting, he could also see himself inside of the gundam. Not only could he see himself through the gundam but he could also see the soilders he was fighting. He saw their faces when he sliced through their suits with his scythe. But that wasn't the worst part. He didn't think about it at the time he was fighting these men but he had thought about it after and now. These men had families, had people who loved them and now would never see them. Their screams filled his head until he couldn't take it anymore. So many people had died through his hands and now they had come back to haunt him.
* * * * *
The people all around her yelled and screamed for her attention but she just kept on walking. All their faces were dead to her and to the rest of the world. She had shed her tears for some and gloated over others. This path was one she walked often nothing seemed out of the ordinary for her. The trick was to just keep going, don't stop for anything and above all do not look them in the eyes. Once you look into the eyes of a dead loved one all is lost. Her face was as cold as stone as she passed the sea of people surrounding her.
Everything around her was gray, no other color except for gray. She slowly closed her eyes and then opened them. The landscape changed from something she reconized to a whole new world. There were buildings crumbling, people screaming, she saw mobile suits everywhere, destroying everything. In the middle of it all there was a boy, sitting on a chunk of a wall, or what was left of the wall. He had his head in his hands his whole body shaking violently.
Kana ran over to him, getting down on her knees to look at his face. "Duo!" He looked up at her, his eyes red from tears. "Duo it's ok."
"They are all dead! They are dead because of me!" He wailed at her as more tears streamed down his face.
"Duo whatever has happened it's in the past. It doesn't matter-"
"It does matter. Why else would I be seeing this? Why am I seeing all the death I've caused?"
"It's your power Duo. Your power is rooted in all of this. The spell I did is showing you where your power comes from."
His violet eyes went empty, the cheerfulness in them lost, "My power caused this!! This is what my great gift is?! Death!!"
"You're the God of Death. It wasn't your fault. It's your destiny."
Duo's face was a loss of emotion. Kana wiped away the tears on his cheek. "It's ok Duo."
"It's not ok. If this is my destiny, then I'm going to keep killing. I'll always be the God of Death. Anybody who gets close to me will die. It'll never stop."
"Oh..Duo......Duo, I promiss I'm going to make it stop."
He shook his head, "You can't, nobody can stop me. I'm a monster."
She held his face in her hand making him look her in the face, "Duo you are not a monster! I'm going to help you! You have my word, I'll do everything I can to help you."
Duo started to cry again, mumbling to himself. Kana drew him down to her letting his head rest on her shoulder. She combed her fingers through his hair trying to comfort him as he wept.