(Collapses, falling across her chapters.) Please...water! Okay now I KNOW I'm almost done. I know cause it has to be. As much fun as this is, I really do not want to continue writing this for an eternity and have edged ever closer to becoming lazy and dropping these stories. not picking it back up for months or even a year. But don't worry, I won't do that simply bacause I feel so damn obligated to all you people to complete this story before the next millenium...or at least the end of the world...whichever comes first. So I just rambled on for nothing.
Oh right, I don't own Gundam Wing either.
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The screens above moved in for a close-up on Duo and any doubt Wufei might have had was destroyed with one shot. No that braid was trademark to Duo, no one else. But this couldn't be the same boy he had seen three months ago alive and well. His eyes were harsh and wild, like an untamed beast ready to unleash it's fury on the world. His body had bulked up since he last saw and his chest, his entire body seemed wider with the more muscular physique. There was a scar that ran across his left cheek and his entire right ear appeared tobe missing, like someone had begun to eat him away but only got to his ears. How could this be Duo? How could he have changed so much in such a short time?

The announcer came on, jolting Wufei and Quatre out of their trance. "Ladies and gentelmen you're all in for a treat tonight! You've seen our Deathscythe triumph over his first match. You've seen him take on the Psycho and win battle after battle. But nothing my friends, nothing in our history shall compare to this final match as Deathscythe contends with four fighters in a duel to the death fight to the finish!"

Quatre paled. "Oh no."

Wufei scowled. "Damnit they had better hurry."
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It was fairly easy to hack into the door to the holding cells. The crowd actually provided a cover for him as he unlocked the door. It was easy, Heero didn't like easy, not when he had determined the job tobe a lot more difficult then it actually was. He made a note to keep his guard up and slipped through the open door, making his way down through the cooridor and searching for his friend. The path was straight, there were little to no doors, all of which held prisoners. Heero ignored them all and stayed with the door Xander had directed him two. He knocked out the guards with few problems and took their key, unlocking it and stepping through. As he walked down the stairs he drew attention from the prisoners and came upon the cell of a dieing man laying on the floor bleeding. Immediatly Heero used the key to open the cell, kneeling to the boy's side.

"Duo, where is he?"

The dieing man smiled. "He knew you'd come. You're Heero right? I'm David."

"Where is Duo?"

"He's in trouble, their making him fight. The doors are timed, you have to get out now before it locks you in."

Heero glanced over as the door closed. He turned back to David. "Too late."
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Duo watched his opponents, adrehnaline rushed through his body and he gripped his blades harder, a hunger boiling inside of him. He didn't understand what had bothered him before. Of course he could fight, it was easy, he hungered for it, the violence, the aggressivness. He watched his opponents as they came out one by one.

He saw one move and he charged, heading for that one first. Duo ran up the rocks and jumped down, instantly catching up with one of his opponents. He saw the fear in the other man's eyes as he crossed the two blades over his belly, taking him down instantly. Duo felt an instant rush as he cut the man, fueling his anger. Shinji, Shinji this was all his fault. If he made him pay, eliminated every fighter he would lose, maybe he could even get to him, tear his throat out.

The next enemy attacked, stabbing Duo through the arm. The former pilot turned around, anger sustaining him as he attacked the man. He spun, cutting through his throat and jamming the knife up his skull. It felt good, refreshing, but it still didn't help to calm him. So he attacked again, going after the third fighter. The fear in the man's eyes as Duo approached proved that he knew he would not live to the next fight. He was face to face with a true killer now. The man blinked and suddenly realized Duo was no longer charging, in fact he wasn't in sight. He realaxed slightly until he realized that he didn't know where Duo was at all, the worst mistake was loosing track of your quarry. Suddenly Duo moved up behind the man, closing his arms around his throat and twisting his neck until it snapped and he dropped like a doll.

There, now there was only one standing in his way. Duo looked around, searching for the forth until he came upon the older man, the soldier he had seen before. Kent grinned as he watched Duo, moving slowly and keeping a fair distance from the Deathscythe pilot. "It's just you and me now 02. I have to say you really did re-learn your old ways quickly, but there is a reason why I'm still alive as a fighter. You won't kill me as easily. We're not in space anymore boy, you can't kill me like you did my friends!"

Duo just watched Kent, dropping his blades and grabbing a sword from the wall. "I'll kill you too."

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Quatre watched in horror as his friend participated in a slaughter he hadn't seen since the war. No, he had never seen anything like this before, how could Duo do this? This wasn't him! But it was Duo, he was in trouble, something was horribly wrong. "Wufei we have to help him. We have to help Duo!"

Wufei shook his head. "That isn't Duo Quatre, that is a monster."

"Wufei please!"

Xander shook his head, smiling to himself. "Your friend is lost. No one escapes madness."

Quatre watched in shock as he witnessed Duo snap another man's neck. His heart jumped and a pain grew to fill a void that Duo's sanity had left. "Duo."