DISCLAIMER
I don't own any of the GW characters (such a shame too) and I don't own 3x3 Eyes and all that other stuff that goes into disclaimers.
Yeah, um, This is a GW crossover with 3x3 Eyes. Um, sorry, there's prolly not going to be any Pai or Yakumo popping up anywhere (Sorry fans ^_^) but I am using their concepts and so on and so forth. There is YAOI in here so if you don't like it then don't read, ne? Um, pairing's are 1xOC, 2x5, 3x4. It's KINDA an AU cuz there's magic and stuff but... not really.
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Chapter 3
He blinked and then realised he was standing in nothingness. He looked all around himself, up, down, everywhere. There was nothing. He was surrounded by darkness.
"Who are you?" He twisted around and came face to face with the girl in the crystal.
"Li Mei!" He said, his arms reaching out instinctively to wrap around her. She pulled back, her large eyes narrowing dangerously. It was then that Heero saw the crimson eye staring at him coldly from the middle of her forehead. He stepped back wearily.
"Shirin..." He said uneasily. Before him stood the violent, unpredictable and vicious counterpart of his beloved Li Mei.
"How do you know me, human?" She snapped out. She stood straight, tense.
"I'm Heero. Don't you remember me?" She glared, the crimson of her eyes darkening.
"I know no one of that name." She paused, looking him up and down, a vicious smile turning up the corners of her lips. "But I do know you are trespassing in our mind."
"I'm here for Li Mei." He grated out, his unease increasing.
"Li Mei? She is not aware at this time. I am. And I find it insulting that you have decided to invade our mind so. Prepare to die." She held her right hand out in front of her, a small ball of light appearing in her palm. She clenched her fingers shut, the light extending on either side of her hand. A gold staff about three feet long appeared in her hand, long and cylindrical with a large ring at the end.
"Shirin! I am not here to harm you! Why don't you remember me?" He snapped out. She didn't reply but slashed her staff at him, an electric blue crescent of energy marking its path through the air. Heero dodged to the side and he twisted around her arm but wasn't fast enough to get her in a lock as she leapt away. He watched as she floated back down to his level, her dark eyes eyeing him carefully.
"Who are you, to challenge a Royal Sanjiyan?" She asked.
"I am Heero Yuy!"
"I know no one of that name!" She cried as she leapt at him, her staff held at her side as she swung in a wide arc. Heero rolled under the slash, coming up behind her and he grabbed her around the chest, pinning her arms to her side.
"I am Heero Yuy. Why don't you remember me?" He asked again. She snarled, quite insulted that he had touched her and pushed herself backwards and up, the back of her head slamming into his nose. Heero stumbled back with a curse, the unexpected pain causing him to release his hold. He felt her hand touch his chest.
"How dare you touch me! Die!" She screamed angrily. A ball of electric blue magic gathered where her hand was, the explosion sending him flying backwards, head over heels.
"Ah!" Heero cried out in pain as the ball ripped right through him. He fell on his face, coughing up blood, his eyes clenched shut in agony as his body refused to die.
"What? You're still alive? What are you?" He cracked open an eye and saw her feet. He looked up slowly, sluggishly to meet her angry and curious gaze. She sat down by him, quite confident that he couldn't hurt her.
"I am Heero Yuy."
"You have said that before human. It means nothing to me."
"I am the Wu of Princess Li Mei." An angry hiss and Heero cried out again in pain as he was hauled to his knees, an angry Sanjiyan glaring at him as she held him up by his hair.
"Li Mei has NO Wu! I would know if she did! She has not chosen a protector and would never choose one without my knowledge or consultation! You lie!" She threw him viciously across the area where he rolled to a stop, groaning in pain. But yet, there was no denying that he was still alive after having his chest blown apart. She glared at him from across the shadowed area, eyes calculating in their inspection.
"I am Heero Yuy. Wu of Princess Li Mei. Why don't you remember?" Heero gasped out as he lay there, too weak to move but too stubborn to give up to the pain. Even as he spoke, he could feel his body regenerating, slowly and painfully.
"You keep repeating that human. I have no knowledge of what you speak of." She said coldly.
"I am Heero Yuy, Wu of Princess Li Mei." He repeated stubbornly.
"Silence! You are not! How dare you say that!" Heero was sent flying by another energy blast. He didn't even scream this time, all he could manage was a painful groan as his blood pooled around him.
"Will you tell me the truth or not? I am speaking to you, human!" He jerked as she kicked him viciously in the side.
"I am Heero Yuy, Wu of Princess Li Mei." Another savage kick made him roll a few times, his barely regenerated ribs cracking under the force. He hissed.
"That was not the answer I was looking for. I repeat my question. Who. Are. You?" She grated out between clenched teeth.
"I am Hee-" She cut him off before he could finish his sentence, grabbing him around the neck and dragging him to his knees. She snarled down at him angrily.
"You speak nonsense!"
"I am Heero Yuy. Wu of-" She slapped him. He coughed slightly as blood dribbled down his chin. "Wu of Princess Li Mei."
"Liar! If you tell me the truth, I will end your pain." She began to crush his throat in her deceptively slender hand. Heero struggled to breathe, to speak.
"I... am He-Heero Y-Yu-Yuy. Wu... of Prin...cess Li Mei."
"Maggot! You continue to lie!" She screamed, back handing him angrily. Heero heard the loud crack as his jaw broke and he groaned.
"If you tell me the truth, I will stop your pain." She tightened her grip around his throat.
"I... 'm H'ro Yuy. Wu of Princess Li Mei." He choked out despite his pain.
"Shirin! That is enough!" The pressure around his throat disappeared and he slumped forward onto his hands and knees as he sucked in air despite his ruined jaw. He grunted in pain as his body began to heal itself. A pair of slim, warm arms wrapped around him tightly, protectively and he looked to the side. Crimson eyes and a smooth forehead greeted him.
"Heero? Are you all right?" He nodded slowly. She smiled widely and a pale electric blue glow surrounded them both as she sped up his healing. Within moments, the agony that had raced through his system faded away and he wrapped his arms tightly around the small, slim girl who sat by his side.
"Li Mei!" He said, desperately, afraid that this was all a trick his mind was playing on him. He looked down into her familiar face, loving smile and felt tears prick the corners of his eyes. He ducked his head, crushing his lips against hers, her soft gasp of welcome drove him to deepen the kiss and he tilted his head to the side slightly as he poured everything he was feeling into the kiss. The hope, the passion, the desperation, the fear and finally, the love. All the love he felt for her was expressed in the kiss and she melted in his arms. He groaned softly as she returned everything in his kiss.
"Oh Li Mei..." He said softly against her lips and he felt her smile in return.
"This is all very well and touching, but you're making me sick." The scornful voice off to the side made him growl and he turned his face away to glare at the blood stained girl standing off to the side. She growled back.
"Stop it Shirin. I think you've done enough." Li Mei said curtly as she lowered her head to rest against Heero's chest.
"Oh come on. I was just making sure that he hadn't turned into a weak and pathetic excuse of a protector in the years we've been separated. You know how his kind tend to get. All weak and weepy." She muttered, another scornful look tossed in Heero's direction before she looked away.
"Humans aren't weak, Shirin." Heero replied coldly. She snorted.
"Yeah. Right." Hero looked as though he was about to say something else but Li Mei suddenly punched him in the stomach. It didn't hurt but it made him turn to her in surprise.
"What?" He asked, his eyes wide. She was frowning up at him.
"You. You left me all alone. I was scared." His eyes softened.
"I'm sorry." She buried her face against his chest.
"I hate you." She muttered. Heero stroked her hair lightly.
"I'm sorry. I didn't want to leave you alone. I was forced to." She nodded against his chest.
"I didn't mean it. I love you so much. Love you Heero. Love you lots." The familiar phrase brought tears to his eyes.
"Love you too." He choked out. He pressed his cheek against the soft silk of her hair as he hugged her tightly.
"It's good to see you haven't become weaker in the four hundred years of my absence. I would hate to see you become weak and pathetic like your kind is so prone to becoming over time." He looked at Shirin from the corner of his eye and snorted.
"I'm not really human anymore." He said baldly.
"That's right. You're part of the undead now, aren't you?" She laughed, a strange sound, reminding him of an insane maniac and he told her so.
"I'm not insane." She retorted.
"Hn." He remarked. She grinned again and stepped back, sitting down on a large throne that had risen up behind her.
"Despite my... welcome," Heero snorted and rolled his neck slightly in remembrance, "I am quite glad to see you."
"I can imagine." He replied dryly. She laughed again.
"Ah. Ever so witty." She said sarcastically.
"Hn."
"Talkative as ever, as well. I just can't see what Li Mei sees in you." Heero rolled his eyes, already knowing what was coming. He'd heard this before. She snorted when she saw his gesture.
"You're so boring Heero."
"He is not!"
"You're so easy to bait Li Mei, my dear." Her Sanjiyan muttered. "Where he's concerned, anyway." She added as an after thought. Li Mei stuck her tongue out at her and Shirin returned the gesture, quite unexpected from her outward personality.
"So you were just testing me? All that... violence was a test?" She smirked.
"That and I love seeing blood." Li Mei sighed and Heero rolled his eyes.
"You're weird." Li Mei said.
"But that's why you love me." Shirin said with a wink.
"A bit hard not to. You do share my body."
"True. True." Her eyes suddenly turned serious. "But Heero, seriously, I can sense the brooding of the world beyond our crystal prison/haven. What's going on?" She demanded.
"Yes. There is a war going on right now." He stated. He felt Li Mei's arms tighten around him and he stroked her hair comfortingly.
"How predictable. You human's can't keep yourselves from killing each other for very long, can you?"
"Sanjiyan's were responsible for the death of the entire Court and far beyond." He said coldly. Shirin had enough grace to flush and look away.
"What kind of war? Are there lots of people dying?" Li Mei asked softly.
"Lots of people die in wars."
"Are you a soldier?"
"You could say that." He said hesitantly.
"What do you mean?" He shrugged slightly.
"You have to see it to believe it." She nuzzled his neck and rubbed his back.
"I can imagine what you've been up to in the last four hundred years." She said in amusement. He smiled, a genuine smile, his entire body relaxing and he hugged her, grateful for her familiar warmth.
"What is this place?" Heero asked after a moment as he stared around the barren landscape.
"It's a minds cape of sorts. We have been completely aware of everything around us since we were sealed." Li Mei tightened her grip around him and he frowned slightly.
"I missed you so much Heero..." She leant up and kissed him deeply, craving the intimate contact that they had both been denied for so long.
"I'm so sorry I couldn't find you before." He hugged her reassuringly, knowing her extreme dislike, fear even, of being alone.
"It's okay. I could feel you searching for me. I couldn't help..." She trailed off and sighed deeply.
"That's all right. I found you and that's all that's important."
"Mm." She murmured under the comforting caress of his hand against her hair.
"How are we going to break the final ward?" Heero questioned as after a while.
"What ward?" Shirin asked as she sulked, annoyed at not having Li Mei's attention on her as she had for the past four hundred years.
"The ward that was placed on the crystal casing."
"Oh. That. It's already broken." Shirin replied.
"What?" Heero asked dumbly.
"You broke it. When I acknowledged you as our Wu, it broke." Shirin sighed in boredom as she started hanging over the arm of the throne, her head almost touching the ground. "So... as of now, we're free to go. I mean, we haven't moved in four hundred years!
"So... are we getting out of this place or not?" Shirin asked irritably as she sat up and kicked at an imaginary rock on the ground. Heero nodded slowly and stood up, pulling Li Mei with him.
"Yes."
"Good. I was getting bored of this place!" There was a brilliant flash of light and they disappeared.
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[1] This is part of the scene in the anime where Yakumo's 'bout to cut Mycine into pieces. Y'know, the part right after Pai's shot Ryouko (that ugly purple thing that kidnapped Steve Long).