Intro: This fanfic is brought to you by TWO authors-- Duo's Only Chick and myself. So, PLEASE keep that in mind when you review! Don't forget to stop and praise Duo's Only Chick for her half of the effort! I know I still do! ^-^' Oh, and sorry for the last chapter taking so long. *hides behind DOC* -Michiki
"So what do we do now?" Duo asked Heero.
"Seeing how Treize is our only true enemy here, we need to figure out a way to leave our cities protected and deal with Treize ourselves. Heero hid a smile at the baffled expression in Duo's face.
"And just how are we going to do all that?" Duo had a guess but, if his guess were true, there would be much at stake for the two kings.
"With the aid of the dark and light peafowl, of course" concluded Heero as he proceeded to drag Duo inside.
~*~
Duo was just about ready to rip out his hair in frustration. He looked at Heero across an ebony table as if Heero had gone mad.
"Let me get this straight," Duo breathed. "You want both our cities to go back in time and have our troops surround the Sand City before Treize can do anything drastic?"
Heero nodded from across the table.
Duo covered his face with his hands and mumbled, "Now I KNOW you've gone mad."
"Is that the best you can come up with?" Duo questions. Heero nods. "You are really testing my trust on this...you are up to something, aren't you?"
Heero's lips turned up into an evil smile. "Wisdom is having a lot to say and not saying it."
Duo knew that Heero had other plans drifting around that messy-haired head of his. If only he had telepathy. Shrugging, Duo agreed, "It's now or never. Let's get this over with."
"Duo, if anything happens..." Heero began but thinking better of it kept his mouth shut. "Just, be careful."
~*~
When a peafowl with power dies, its body converts to stardust. Since there hasn't been a proven way to kill a powerful peafowl, other than letting it die of old age, the light and dark peafowl agreed to transform into one single feather each. That assortment of white and black peafowl feathers was held in the hands of each of the soldiers from the light and Dark City. Heero had organized the Light and Dark troops into a circle surrounding his own city in preparation of the time jump. Luckily for them, they only needed to go back one day in time.
In order to be able to keep everyone from going into the wrong time sector, one person had to remain in the center of the city. That person was Duo. Duo stood on a platform surrounded by dozens of peafowl, one for each of the people stepping into the past. Closing his eyes, he chanted the incantation that Heero taught him. Swirls of black and white energy whirled around Duo, encasing him in a dome of immense power. That power expanded out towards the soldiers and their leader, Heero.
---Unknown to Duo, the incantation was also meant to fulfill the chanter's present desire. What Duo wanted more than anything at that moment was to...---
~*~
Duo opened his eyes to find himself hovering atop water. The vastness of the water was so great that Duo could not even see any land. A strange white pattern began to traverse across the water that was directly in front of Duo. Once complete, the circular pattern glowed, creating a transparent figure above it. The figure was the spirit of King Dhul.
Duo's eyes widened. "F-father? What are you doing here? Where am I?"
King Dhul smiled gently. "Hello, Duo" His voice stated, washing over his son in gentle waves. It sounded distant, even though his father was standing a few feet away. "You have been temporarily displaced to a world between the spirit world and the mortal world, where a spirit and a mortal can meet. Prince Heero's spell allowed you to see what your heart most desired, and so you were allowed to speak with me."
Duo frowned. "What do you mean, father? Heero's incantation?" Thinking back, he remembered that he had last been reciting the sacred words of Heero's people. "My heart's desire was to speak with you. I don't know how to run a country, father, and I can't go to war against Heero."
King Dhul nodded. "I don't want you to go to war against Heero. The war of the two cities should have ended when Heero's father and I had passed on to the spirit world. We do not expect you to continue our battles, and we hope that you can reach a state of peace with the Sand City as well. Both of us believe that you have the power to overcome the problems and troubles that we caused in order to attain a peaceful environment for our citizens."
Duo nodded. "We won't fail either of you, Father"
Kind Dhul smiled. "I know you won 't, Duo. Your love for each other will hold you together and bring all three cities into one."
Duo's eyes widened. "H-how did you know about that?"
Dhul's eyes glinted mysteriously. "We've been watching you, Duo. We're very proud that you came up with a plan to defeat Treize."
Duo bowed slightly. "Thank you, Father."
Dhul bowed as well. "I have to leave now, we've had our talk. Be prideful, Duo, and remember that the lives of the citizens should be lived in comfort and peace."
Duo watched as the image of his father slowly faded away, and the silvery white pattern swirled away across the water. "I hope you're ok, Heero..." He murmured softly to himself before his eyelids drooped and he fell into a deep sleep, awaiting the return of the prince to free him from the slumber of the spell.
*~*
Heero and his troops were found completely surrounding the Sand City. Treize and the wise men that followed him, including his sister Dorothy scowled as Heero circled around them.
"Tell me, Treize," Heero taunted in a deep voice. "Do you still wish to witness more of the power of the dark peafowl?"
Treize was even more frustrated than before. Apparently, Heero had gotten the City of Light on his side and they used the peafowl to do it. Though he did not know how, this only increased Treize's desire to harness the peafowl's power for himself. His eyes darted to the two peafowl feathers, tied to a sash that peeked under the folds of Heero's cape.
"Power and wealth is more important to me than anything else," Treize replied with a smirk. "I am human, after all."
Heero frowned, calming his suddenly nervous stallion with a hand. "And is it human to endanger so many innocent people?" Heero motioned towards the inhabitants of the Sand City that were crowding around and growing insulted at Treize's words.
Treize slowly approached Heero's stallion. "I said that they don't matter to me!" Treize screamed before snatching the peafowl feathers from Heero's sash.
"Wait, don't!" Heero warned before getting thrown off his horse's back and hitting the ground. Heero scrambled to his feet swiftly, reaching out to hold on to his stallion's reigns in order to steady him. He turned towards Treize just in time to see him form a forcefield around himself, the light and dark powers consuming him.
"I feel the power coursing through me!" Treize yelled while laughing maniatically. The dark and light forcefield closed in on him, shrinking him. A flash of light caused everyone to shield his or her eyes...
A moment of silence ensued as the light faded away to reveal what was left of Treize. Heero sighed as peals of laughter broke the silence.
~*~
Heero took Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei with him to the center of the City of Light along with Treize. If his guess were correct, then Duo would be there. Urging his stallion to a stop, Heero dismounted. Handing Treize to Quatre, Heero made his way up several flights of marble stairs and unto a white platform. At first, Heero thought that he was wrong, for the platform was empty. However, a dark circular patterned appeared above the platform moments later, bringing Duo back from the dimension that he was in. Heero walked up to Duo, placing a hand on his cheek and kissing him lightly.
"Heero?" Duo wondered. "How did you know that I would be here?"
"It was only a guess," Heero answered. "Are you all right?"
Duo nodded before folding his arms and pouting. "That was a very dangerous thing you did back there. You sent me to another dimension. How could you have possibly known that I would return?"
"I didn't know for sure that you would return, but I would have definitely gone into that dimension in order to bring you back if you didn't," Heero replied while pulling Duo into a tight embrace. "Because I wouldn't possibly leave behind something sacred to me...I couldn't possibly leave you."
Duo pulled away from the embrace in order to give Heero a deep kiss. "I'm glad that nothing happened to you, either," Duo said with a smile. "But, whatever happened to Treize?" Heero's brows came together in a frown. "Damn, was it that bad?"
"No," Heero explained. "It's just that...Well, see for yourself." Heero took Duo's hand as he led him down the stairs and towards Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei.
"I still don't understand," Duo complained. "What happened to Treize?"
Quatre stifled a laugh as he placed a bundle into Duo's arms. "There he is."
Duo lifted the corner of the blanket in his arms and ended up looking into the dark blue eyes of an infant Treize. "He's a baby?"
"That's not the only thing," Trowa countered. "He's also-"
"Female," Wufei finished.
"How-?" Duo began.
Heero put a finger to Duo's mouth. "Trust me, it's better that you do not ask."
~*~
Thus, the three cities united to become the Grand Kingdom of Gold. Under the rule of the five kings Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei, the kingdom prospered in peace. Hilde, Sally Po, Une, and Noin often aided in the most important decisions concerning the wellbeing of the people while Dorothy watched after her older; turned younger, brother. Zechs became the leader of the soldiers and often stopped by a certain fountain to send a prayer to the spirit of the peafowl Lavynhi. Finally, all of the peafowl became golden in color and were free to wander about the kingdom. After all, without the peafowl, the occupants of the Kingdom of Gold wouldn't be safe.
Unfortunately, as there were good rulers, there were also selfish ones. One selfish ruler stood outside the barrier that temporarily protected the City of Gold. She was the Empress Relena that came to reclaim what should have been rightfully hers...
The End?
~*~*~
DOC-Well, I guess this is it...first fic I've finished in a while! ^^;
Sherpock-no kidding.
DOC-*glares at muse*
Sherpock-anyways...
DOC-yes, getting back to the footnotes...I would like to thank Michiki for pulling me into this project and writing it with me...and that picture you and Chardae sent was awesome!
Sherpock-all in all it was a job well done.
DOC-*grins* agreed! *random applause in background* *hands out finishing certificates and gift of pocky* woohoo! ^^
Michiki-*all teary eyed* It's finally finished. I'm so happy. *glomps DOC and Sherpock* Thank you so much!
Chardae- And the leader of the magical golden peafowl LEAPED into the air chasing around the baby Treizina...!
"So what do we do now?" Duo asked Heero.
"Seeing how Treize is our only true enemy here, we need to figure out a way to leave our cities protected and deal with Treize ourselves. Heero hid a smile at the baffled expression in Duo's face.
"And just how are we going to do all that?" Duo had a guess but, if his guess were true, there would be much at stake for the two kings.
"With the aid of the dark and light peafowl, of course" concluded Heero as he proceeded to drag Duo inside.
~*~
Duo was just about ready to rip out his hair in frustration. He looked at Heero across an ebony table as if Heero had gone mad.
"Let me get this straight," Duo breathed. "You want both our cities to go back in time and have our troops surround the Sand City before Treize can do anything drastic?"
Heero nodded from across the table.
Duo covered his face with his hands and mumbled, "Now I KNOW you've gone mad."
"Is that the best you can come up with?" Duo questions. Heero nods. "You are really testing my trust on this...you are up to something, aren't you?"
Heero's lips turned up into an evil smile. "Wisdom is having a lot to say and not saying it."
Duo knew that Heero had other plans drifting around that messy-haired head of his. If only he had telepathy. Shrugging, Duo agreed, "It's now or never. Let's get this over with."
"Duo, if anything happens..." Heero began but thinking better of it kept his mouth shut. "Just, be careful."
~*~
When a peafowl with power dies, its body converts to stardust. Since there hasn't been a proven way to kill a powerful peafowl, other than letting it die of old age, the light and dark peafowl agreed to transform into one single feather each. That assortment of white and black peafowl feathers was held in the hands of each of the soldiers from the light and Dark City. Heero had organized the Light and Dark troops into a circle surrounding his own city in preparation of the time jump. Luckily for them, they only needed to go back one day in time.
In order to be able to keep everyone from going into the wrong time sector, one person had to remain in the center of the city. That person was Duo. Duo stood on a platform surrounded by dozens of peafowl, one for each of the people stepping into the past. Closing his eyes, he chanted the incantation that Heero taught him. Swirls of black and white energy whirled around Duo, encasing him in a dome of immense power. That power expanded out towards the soldiers and their leader, Heero.
---Unknown to Duo, the incantation was also meant to fulfill the chanter's present desire. What Duo wanted more than anything at that moment was to...---
~*~
Duo opened his eyes to find himself hovering atop water. The vastness of the water was so great that Duo could not even see any land. A strange white pattern began to traverse across the water that was directly in front of Duo. Once complete, the circular pattern glowed, creating a transparent figure above it. The figure was the spirit of King Dhul.
Duo's eyes widened. "F-father? What are you doing here? Where am I?"
King Dhul smiled gently. "Hello, Duo" His voice stated, washing over his son in gentle waves. It sounded distant, even though his father was standing a few feet away. "You have been temporarily displaced to a world between the spirit world and the mortal world, where a spirit and a mortal can meet. Prince Heero's spell allowed you to see what your heart most desired, and so you were allowed to speak with me."
Duo frowned. "What do you mean, father? Heero's incantation?" Thinking back, he remembered that he had last been reciting the sacred words of Heero's people. "My heart's desire was to speak with you. I don't know how to run a country, father, and I can't go to war against Heero."
King Dhul nodded. "I don't want you to go to war against Heero. The war of the two cities should have ended when Heero's father and I had passed on to the spirit world. We do not expect you to continue our battles, and we hope that you can reach a state of peace with the Sand City as well. Both of us believe that you have the power to overcome the problems and troubles that we caused in order to attain a peaceful environment for our citizens."
Duo nodded. "We won't fail either of you, Father"
Kind Dhul smiled. "I know you won 't, Duo. Your love for each other will hold you together and bring all three cities into one."
Duo's eyes widened. "H-how did you know about that?"
Dhul's eyes glinted mysteriously. "We've been watching you, Duo. We're very proud that you came up with a plan to defeat Treize."
Duo bowed slightly. "Thank you, Father."
Dhul bowed as well. "I have to leave now, we've had our talk. Be prideful, Duo, and remember that the lives of the citizens should be lived in comfort and peace."
Duo watched as the image of his father slowly faded away, and the silvery white pattern swirled away across the water. "I hope you're ok, Heero..." He murmured softly to himself before his eyelids drooped and he fell into a deep sleep, awaiting the return of the prince to free him from the slumber of the spell.
*~*
Heero and his troops were found completely surrounding the Sand City. Treize and the wise men that followed him, including his sister Dorothy scowled as Heero circled around them.
"Tell me, Treize," Heero taunted in a deep voice. "Do you still wish to witness more of the power of the dark peafowl?"
Treize was even more frustrated than before. Apparently, Heero had gotten the City of Light on his side and they used the peafowl to do it. Though he did not know how, this only increased Treize's desire to harness the peafowl's power for himself. His eyes darted to the two peafowl feathers, tied to a sash that peeked under the folds of Heero's cape.
"Power and wealth is more important to me than anything else," Treize replied with a smirk. "I am human, after all."
Heero frowned, calming his suddenly nervous stallion with a hand. "And is it human to endanger so many innocent people?" Heero motioned towards the inhabitants of the Sand City that were crowding around and growing insulted at Treize's words.
Treize slowly approached Heero's stallion. "I said that they don't matter to me!" Treize screamed before snatching the peafowl feathers from Heero's sash.
"Wait, don't!" Heero warned before getting thrown off his horse's back and hitting the ground. Heero scrambled to his feet swiftly, reaching out to hold on to his stallion's reigns in order to steady him. He turned towards Treize just in time to see him form a forcefield around himself, the light and dark powers consuming him.
"I feel the power coursing through me!" Treize yelled while laughing maniatically. The dark and light forcefield closed in on him, shrinking him. A flash of light caused everyone to shield his or her eyes...
A moment of silence ensued as the light faded away to reveal what was left of Treize. Heero sighed as peals of laughter broke the silence.
~*~
Heero took Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei with him to the center of the City of Light along with Treize. If his guess were correct, then Duo would be there. Urging his stallion to a stop, Heero dismounted. Handing Treize to Quatre, Heero made his way up several flights of marble stairs and unto a white platform. At first, Heero thought that he was wrong, for the platform was empty. However, a dark circular patterned appeared above the platform moments later, bringing Duo back from the dimension that he was in. Heero walked up to Duo, placing a hand on his cheek and kissing him lightly.
"Heero?" Duo wondered. "How did you know that I would be here?"
"It was only a guess," Heero answered. "Are you all right?"
Duo nodded before folding his arms and pouting. "That was a very dangerous thing you did back there. You sent me to another dimension. How could you have possibly known that I would return?"
"I didn't know for sure that you would return, but I would have definitely gone into that dimension in order to bring you back if you didn't," Heero replied while pulling Duo into a tight embrace. "Because I wouldn't possibly leave behind something sacred to me...I couldn't possibly leave you."
Duo pulled away from the embrace in order to give Heero a deep kiss. "I'm glad that nothing happened to you, either," Duo said with a smile. "But, whatever happened to Treize?" Heero's brows came together in a frown. "Damn, was it that bad?"
"No," Heero explained. "It's just that...Well, see for yourself." Heero took Duo's hand as he led him down the stairs and towards Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei.
"I still don't understand," Duo complained. "What happened to Treize?"
Quatre stifled a laugh as he placed a bundle into Duo's arms. "There he is."
Duo lifted the corner of the blanket in his arms and ended up looking into the dark blue eyes of an infant Treize. "He's a baby?"
"That's not the only thing," Trowa countered. "He's also-"
"Female," Wufei finished.
"How-?" Duo began.
Heero put a finger to Duo's mouth. "Trust me, it's better that you do not ask."
~*~
Thus, the three cities united to become the Grand Kingdom of Gold. Under the rule of the five kings Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei, the kingdom prospered in peace. Hilde, Sally Po, Une, and Noin often aided in the most important decisions concerning the wellbeing of the people while Dorothy watched after her older; turned younger, brother. Zechs became the leader of the soldiers and often stopped by a certain fountain to send a prayer to the spirit of the peafowl Lavynhi. Finally, all of the peafowl became golden in color and were free to wander about the kingdom. After all, without the peafowl, the occupants of the Kingdom of Gold wouldn't be safe.
Unfortunately, as there were good rulers, there were also selfish ones. One selfish ruler stood outside the barrier that temporarily protected the City of Gold. She was the Empress Relena that came to reclaim what should have been rightfully hers...
The End?
~*~*~
DOC-Well, I guess this is it...first fic I've finished in a while! ^^;
Sherpock-no kidding.
DOC-*glares at muse*
Sherpock-anyways...
DOC-yes, getting back to the footnotes...I would like to thank Michiki for pulling me into this project and writing it with me...and that picture you and Chardae sent was awesome!
Sherpock-all in all it was a job well done.
DOC-*grins* agreed! *random applause in background* *hands out finishing certificates and gift of pocky* woohoo! ^^
Michiki-*all teary eyed* It's finally finished. I'm so happy. *glomps DOC and Sherpock* Thank you so much!
Chardae- And the leader of the magical golden peafowl LEAPED into the air chasing around the baby Treizina...!