Beyond Heaven
Author: ForeordainedDestiny
Category: yaoi… adventure… supernatural angel, demon and monster stuff…
Rating: PG-13 (It used to be R, but I changed the rating… Seeing as there is no
overly sexual stuff.)
Pairings: 1x2 inadvertently … mentioned other pairings… And the rest will come
out in their own good time…
Warnings: yaoi… YAOI… Y-A-O-I… Get it? Got it? Good.
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing characters and universe are the property of the
copyright owners. They're not mine.
Feedback: I love any and all kinds of feedback! Please review!
Notes (Please Read): Another update… Came as a surprise to me, actually. Your reviews really helped me this time. Thank you very much. Now for this chapter… I apologize for the very confusing dialogue, but bear with me. When I started this story, I had no idea how the fic was going to end, but now I know. Also, I HIGHLY SUGGEST that you read the Legend of Beyond Heaven at the beginning of the first chapter… Again.
Thanks to: Kyra (as you wish… ^^ And yes, I had to end it there. My creativity was at its end.), Stephanie Maxwell (Oh, I bet you do. Hell, even I don't know what's going to happen to them. Funny, eh?), AikoNamika (*gets shoved* Hey! Easy on the writer! I'm trying the best I can!), Xanthos Samurai (Well, well… Looks like I can write wings after all. Wooh. Sankyuu very much- And I know it wasn't my best… *weep*), " (Thank YOU for loving my story…), DeathScytheAngel (Sorry, I don't mean to make you crazy… But hey, this is my first time writing a supernatural story. Didn't turn out that bad, eh?), romanceinthemoonlight (Sorry I cut it off… I now realize how bad of me that was.), Akurei Hikari (Hehe. You better believe it.), violet_eyes (You get the award for the funniest review. Thanks for all the compliments), Link Worshiper (I know I'm bad.. My chapters are short and my writing is crappy… Go ahead and sue me please. *cry*), GoldenRat (Oh, I don't know about that… Beyond Heaven is pretty screwed right now. Hehe.), and Hakumei (Yes, I shall obey your commands! Haha… The readers are important to me.).
"It's all up to you, Heero. Kill everything you see- I don't care if it is a man, woman, child, animal- kill them all. Everything is your enemy, understand?" There was yelling, almost to the point of screaming and Duo opened his eyes. Everything was so surreal. It was as if he was in a dream, his vision had become blurred at the edges and the colors not as vivid. He was underground, he knew that much, and very disoriented.
The Demon stood up and looked around. It was a bomb shelter, heavily barraged, and the lighting was extremely dim, flickering every minute or so. There were two people standing there, as straight as boards.
One was a larger man, staring down at a younger, slim figure and raising his voice to him. They were both in uniform, but the larger of the two looked nervous and sweaty, his formal jacket unbuttoned. The smaller teen stood as if he had a steel pole for a spine and faced his superior's yelling stoically.
"Heero…" Duo whispered, stepping closer. He reached out to touch the tortured human's shoulder, but his fingers ran straight through Heero's arm.
"Mission accepted, Sir."
Duo watched in horror as Heero drew a weapon from the holster at his side. It was something he had never seen before, but had a feeling that it was deadly. The soldier-teen swiftly raised it to his superior's forehead and fired without a second thought. He never even had a chance.
"Everything is my enemy."
"Oh my gods, Heero…" Duo whispered as he felt his heart begin to ache. He whirled around, his emotions flaring. "Why am I here?!"
"Because the world wishes."
"What?"
The bomb shelter gave a wrenching shudder and Heero was instantly on alert. He took off at a dead run down the long halls. The Demon's eyes widened and he took off after him, trying to figure out where the strange voice had come from. It was strange and obviously someone he had never heard before. It had a strange, ethereal-like quality to it and was neither male nor female.
"Heero, don't!" It was useless.
The human and the shadow came to a large holding area. There, rested a giant being whose sheer size and mass made Duo take a step back. It was apparently made out of metal and created to look humanoid, with two legs, two arms, a torso and a head.
"It's a weapon…" Duo realized, as he watched Heero climb into a space in its chest. The opening closed and swallowed the human up.
The thing sprang to life and stood with a mighty groan. Duo realized that this is what the humans called a machine. His vision went black and he could feel himself being re-located to another place… but not another time.
He stared down at the wasteland that he was above of. Wait… No. He was moving… He was sitting on top of the machine's shoulder as it walked and fought. Duo was in the middle of a war, riding the one thing that had the capacity to destroy everything. Down below, all around him were similar machines, and they were all firing their separate weapons in a fury. Duo clutched the warm metal for fear of falling off.
"Mage Wufei was wrong!" He shouted into the sky. "The war has not just begun! It started years ago, here! On this wretched earth filled with humans who have grown too big for themselves! Beyond Heaven was only born because the mortal, human Earth was destroyed!"
Then came a horrible realization.
There were different kinds of machines. There were different sides… Three to be exact. They all displayed their different colors proudly, save for one, Heero's. Heero's machine was not like the others and it seemed that he fought for no side, but for his purpose.
"They're just… They're just like…"
"Yes… Strange, isn't it"
That voice again.
"Who are you?" Duo asked desperately, his braid unraveling in the wind and his amethyst eyes bright.
"You know the truth now, Demon. If I had known that history would repeat itself, I would not have endangered the world."
"What's happening?! This is the past, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is. Half an hour from now, the different sides will set off five atomic bombs, unknowingly located at specific key points of the earth, causing the core to react. The three forces will be powerless to stop it their terrible mistake. So they will have destroyed themselves."
Duo's hands gripped the metal.
"And what about Heero?"
"I will take care of the world."
"I don't care about the world! What will happen to Heero?! Is it as he said?! Will he be thrown into the sky and land in Beyond Heaven?"
"Apparently so. Now Demon, tell me what you know. The clock is ticking."
A large explosion went off a mile or so from where Duo and Heero were, but he could feel the earth shudder from the impact. Hundreds of humans were killed with that single blast, and that was not even the start of it.
"I… The three sides… It all makes sense… and yet, doesn't."
"Angel, Demon, and Beast. Yes… That is what you see here, correct?"
"No, I see machines! But the humans are inside the machines, piloting them, right? There are no creatures from Beyond Heaven here!"
"That is because their spirits have not been re-born yet. Out of all the dead bodies here, can you find yours?"
Duo's blood ran cold. His eyes moved around the battlefield, shifting nervously, and his chest tightened.
"What…" He choked out. "Was the purpose of Beyond Heaven…?"
"To start all over again. These poor souls who engage in battle now are the product of their own selfishness, but were given another chance. They spoiled that chance as well."
"W-What will happen to my world?"
"The very same thing. Sadly, history has a way of copying itself over and over again."
"I will die?" The Demon stared up at the sky, his hands trembling.
"No."
"Everything is my enemy… Everything is my enemy…" The soldier whispered, carving the mantra into his brain. His hands flew over the keys and gripped the controls as if they were his lifelines. "I will not fail."
Sweat dripped down his face and the strain upon his body was so great that shivers wracked his body every so often. But Heero was efficient, as he was trained to be. Enemies were taken down swiftly and effectively…
He knew he was going to die once this was over. But it wasn't over until every single one of his enemies were gone, so he did not stop. He could not stop. He was not allowed to stop. Also, the Zero system was taking its toll on his mind.
The illusions came and went, sometimes featuring images of his nonexistent past childhood, his training, and the beginning of the war. He wondered how he had come to fight on his own, and why he had not joined a side.
"Who are you?!"
"I have no name. I am a Nameless."
"Oh my gods… The legend… You're really a Nameless… Why am I here?!"
"Because the world wishes."
Duo frowned.
"That's the same answer you gave me before… I don't understand."
"Of course you don't."
"Tell me about Heero! Why was he brought to Beyond Heaven?! Why was he the last human?!" The Demon shivered, and with what empathy powers he had, could feel Heero's emotions. The war was destroying him.
"Yes, lets talk about Heero. What did you notice about him upon coming to this world?"
"He… He was cold… Like he's always been, from when I knew him as 01. I thought that was just because of what the Angels did to him, but that's what he really was like. No emotions… And he didn't choose a side! Why isn't he fighting for one of the three human forces?" Duo asked, his hair whipping around in the wind. The air had grown thick with dust and whatever else polluted it, so it made it hard to see. The sun was going down.
"Heero was pure… He was tainted by human greed and selfishness- He would have made a perfect Beast, wouldn't he? But the boy never had enough arrogance to become an Angel either. He would have become a Demon if it hadn't been for his loss of emotions. They were stripped from him to protect him."
"But there are no creatures like that here! Do you mean… that the human's fates were already set? That their souls knew what they would change into when this world ended? Why was Heero saved?"
"I apologize for speeding this along. We have less time than I thought. The humans tried to turn Heero into their own weapon, but he resisted. He fights alone now. Heero is not only the last human, but he is also the last remnant of the world and everything it represents. Heero is the world."
Duo gasped, glancing downward, where Heero was being destroyed from the inside out. He remembered what the Nameless had said… Because the world wishes…
"He wants me to live?"
"Yes, that is his wish. When you uttered his name in Beyond Heaven, you unlocked his mind. He knows what will happen now… And he needs you."
"Then let me go to him! I don't know what to do! I can't talk to him, I can't touch him, and now he's locked inside this thing!"
"Shh, try not to be angry. Do you love Heero?"
Love was not a thing that Demons spoke of lightly. He cared for the human, but loving was an entirely different matter. Another large explosion rocked the earth.
"Hurry, Demon… We don't have that much time left… Only a few minutes…"
Duo's heart pounded painfully in his chest. He remembered the first time they had met, while he was trying to escape from the Angel's castle and the run-in with Zechs. The time when he had heard him scream… And felt compelled to come to his aid. Heero was important to him, but love? What was love?
"Demon! Please!" The Nameless sounded desperate for once.
Their time was up.
There was one huge explosion, and then the earth began to quiver and shake, the tremors growing more and more harsh by the minute. It was as the Nameless had said: The bombs near the earth's core had gone off, and the core began to react. It grew hotter and hotter till it could no longer control itself, forcing its molten essence to spurt forth. Several chunks of land had just broken off with the explosion after suffering from many explosions already- The air was littered with Earth, the layers of the atmosphere were all blending into one, and the sun was setting.
"What's happening?" Heero gasped, staring out at the battleground. It had suddenly gotten very hot in his mobile suit… Then the alarm began to sound.
"Warning… Overheating… Warning… Overheating…" The mechanical voice repeated. Heero flipped a switch and dashed out onto the platform, staring at the sight before him.
"This is the end," He said blankly, his eyes growing very dull.
The chunk of land that his mobile suit was standing on broke off abruptly and he fell. But instead of falling to the burning ground covered with lava, carcasses and broken mobile suits, he fell upwards. It was sunset, yet he was surrounded in a very bright light, going higher and higher.
"Heero!!" Duo watched, his eyes impossibly wide, as Heero began to descend to the heavens, and beyond. "No, I won't let it happen to you!"
He gathered all of the power he had left within him, and cast the best levitation spell he could manage, rising to meet the human. With a great shout, he let out one last burst of power and wrapped his arms around Heero as tightly as he could manage. Duo held onto Heero with all his might.
"I love you… I won't let anything happen to you… You're safe…" The Demon said to the human.
They were so high above the ground that it had become hard to breathe; yet they were still rising. Heero's eyes had closed and had become unresponsive…
"Heero? Heero, wake up!" Duo took a deep gulp of the thin air and pressed his lips to Heero's, forcing the air inside. "You wanted me to stay alive! But there's no sense in that if I can't be alive with you!"
The creature's body began to change once more, the twisted tattoos from before appearing, and then disappearing at random. The black wings did not show, but his body shivered and there were deep, bleeding wounds where the wings should have been.
"Heero…" Duo said raspily, finding it hard for even a Demon like himself to breathe. But still, he did not loosen his grip on the human.
"Thank you, Demon. You have helped the world."
"H-How can that be?! Heero isn't waking up… And the human planet will soon be nothing but dust!"
"Things will be different when you wake."
To Be Continued.
Well, two months for this one… I think it's a record. I actually wrote this in two days, but I didn't get inspired to write it until now. I don't really know how many chapters there are left, but I'm guessing there will either be just one more, or one more and an epilogue. I apologize if this is confusing… Feel free to ask me any questions. Again, your feedback is very much appreciated.
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