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.
A very special thanks to all the people who have read this story and a VERY special thanks to all those who have reviewed! Thanks a lot for your support. Special thanks goes to Killy and Katie. You two have reviewed the most ^_^
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Chapter 6
Heero and Li Mei were the last to arrive at the hangar of the safe house, Wing slowly walking into the large metal shed and backing into its corner. Heero waited for a few moments before he shut off the engine, turning his camera around to view the other four gundams. They were already powered down, their pilots waiting by the feet of their gundams watching Wing as it settled down. A low whirring sound marked its powering down and they watched warily as the cockpit door opened with a burst of steam, the soft hiss the only sound. A long, pale leg came out first, followed by a skirt and then the rest of Li Mei, she looked towards them, a look of uncertainty on her face as she clasped her hands in front of her, her long slim fingers clenching and unclenching around each other. Heero quickly appeared next to her and gave them all measuring looks. They stood like that, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa and Duo by the feet of their gundams staring upwards at Li Mei and Heero, their eyes filled with mixed emotions.
"I guess you'd all like an explanation." Li Mei said softly, her eyes moving downwards as she squeezed her hands together.
"Damn right!" Duo replied. Li Mei seemed to wince slightly but she tilted her chin up and nodded.
"Hn. Let's go inside." They watched as Heero picked Li Mei up, bridal style, and jumped off his gundam. He landed lightly, his knees bending to take the brunt of the fall. Without a backwards glance, he continued out of the hangar, Li Mei still held tightly in his arms. They got a brief look of her eyes as she glanced over Heero's shoulder. There was a look of regret on her face before Heero turned to walk towards the house.
"I think we should follow them." Quatre had already started to follow Heero and Li Mei out of the hangar as he spoke. Trowa followed behind him silently. Duo started to follow too, but when Wufei hesitated, he turned back.
"What's up Fei-chan?"
"There's something wrong here." Wufei said, annoyance lacing his voice as he stared at the hangar doors.
"What?"
"I don't know. There's just something very strange..." Duo rolled his eyes and grabbed Wufei's arm.
"Of course there's something strange going on. Heero's girl friend has three eyes." He dragged a reluctant Wufei back to the safe house.

"Where do you want me to start?" She asked. She sat on the end of the couch, her hands folded neatly in her lap, her right leg crossed over her right. Heero sat right next to her, practically glued to her side. His arm was draped over the back of the couch and around her. The other pilots were sitting opposite them. Wufei was sitting on a single chair while Trowa, Quatre and Duo sat on the other couch.
"What's going on? Who's Shing? And why does he want you?" Wufei asked tightly, his eyes watching her with mistrust.
"Ah. I'll have to start of by telling you about my... my people. Or what's left of them." She said. It was only then, did they realise how soft her voice actually was. It had dropped down a little at the mention of 'her people' and they had to strain to hear it. She visibly took a deep breath.
"I am one of the last of a dying race. We are known as the Sanjiyan Unkara, or the Triclops." She paused. Duo, ever curious, opened his mouth to ask a question but she put up a hand and gently shook her head. "Please Duo, Mr. Maxwell, let me finish. If you have any questions after that, you may ask them."
"All right." Duo replied a little reluctantly. Li Mei gave him an apologetic smile.
"I'm sorry, I just have to finish telling you about my race before I lose my nerve. We are not meant to reveal ourselves to humans."
"I can imagine." Wufei said dryly. Heero frowned as Li Mei sighed and continued.
"We are a race of beautiful and long living creatures. We are very closely related to the spirits of your world in the way we can move between planes of existence and wield magic in our own rights. We are quite capable of communicating with spirits." She looked up, her face calm, neutral, and looked at them. There were varying degrees of disbelief and scepticism, but they didn't interrupt her.
"Despite our powers, we have slowly become a degenerate race. Most our Elders have become decadent, callous and lazy while the young have become extremely emotional and will often develop split personalities. What I mean by split personalities is that we have dual natures. Some may be extremely kind but once their Sanjiyan awakens, they become blood thirsty monsters. Or it may be vice versa. Some of my people believed that this mental death would bring about the death of our race, the ultimate end of our people." She looked down at her hands again, her face filled with different emotions.
"We are ruled by a monarchy, a male or female, it doesn't matter. A single line has ruled the Sanjiyan for over three thousand years. The last Kaiyanwang, the title we give to our rulers, was a female Sanjiyan by the name of Yin Feng. She and her consort, Zhijian, were great leaders who saw how our race was dying." She paused and looked up with sad eyes.
"You must understand, our race, small as it was to begin with, only a thousand or so four hundred years ago, and Kaiyanwang would do anything to save our people. In a final bid, she suggested that we interbreed with humans, therefore shortening our life spans but also continuing our race. It was not taken well by many Sanjiyans." She sighed deeply and spread her hands.
"There was a great revolt among the Nobles who were disgusted at the thought of actually condescending to consort, let alone breed, with humans. It split our race in half. Many of the young ones and a few older and more experienced ones followed Kaiyanwang while almost the entire Noble class defied Kaiyanwang and decided to establish their own kingdom of sorts. They moved to Europe. We, the ones in Tibet, never heard of them again. Until the massacre. Because we had begun to interbreed, our powers and our attributes that made us different from other races, began to weaken, as our bloodlines mixed with yours." She took a deep steadying breath.
"We lived for hundreds of years without hearing from our brethren in Europe and we began to spread out across the Asian region, many of us moving around China and Japan. For years we lived among humans, learning about your culture, about your tendencies and beliefs. It may have taken us a few years, but we quickly adopted your ways and began our lives as 'humans'." She smiled slightly.
"We had no problems in finding mates and quickly began to interbreed. Don't get me wrong, those who did find mates loved and cherished them, protected them and kept them happy. We did not use them as objects necessary for life. Sanjiyan have a very low birth rate to compensate for our incredibly long life spans so there were no children born from those unions for many, many years."
"Because we do not age at the rate humans do, our continued youthful looks confused many people. We grow very slowly. We will take many years to even grow from infants into toddlers, a great disadvantage. Despite the love and caring between the Sanjiyan and human couples, there were serious questions to be asked. Not only because of our ageing, but also because of little things. Our ability to communicate with spirits gave us insight into many things that lead to our slight ability to predict the future and our intense dislike for places of worship also gave much to question. With no other choice, we told the humans that had become part of our families about who and what we really are. Surprisingly, they were very understanding and quite supportive. Many of them insisted that we write down our history in order to help the, if any, children that were born from the unions. And so we did. We wrote a book about ourselves and the many things we can do and have done. That book has been lost in the past century though." She sighed. "A great loss."
"But soon after we told our humans about our people, the first children were born and there was great rejoicing within our families. When the children rapidly grew like normal human babies, we were very happy, convinced that they would age at normal rates and live as long as humans." She smiled in remembrance but then her smile slipped and she shook her head. "But it wasn't to be. When they reached puberty, around twelve to fourteen, they stopped growing, slowing down until they didn't seem to age at all. Because we had told them from birth what we were and had told them about our history, it didn't seem to matter to them but it did cause severe problems. Adults can lie about their age, they can say that they just age well. Children and preteens however, cannot. There would be serious questions raised about their health and that would cause unwanted attention that would most likely be very bad for our people. We were forced to become a nomadic race, moving from place to place when it became apparent that people were noticing how we never changed."
"But the greatest sorrow that we met was when the human mates began to grow old and die. We do not care about physical beauty as we are a race that are surrounded by beauty, but when the spouses began to die, we began to despair. The younger Sanjiyan didn't know what to do and so Kaiyanwang and the Elders told them of a spell. This spell made the human, or whoever it was cast on, immortal as long as the Sanjiyan who cast it lived. But immortality comes at a great price. In exchange for this immortality, the spell demands the soul of the person the spell is being cast on."
"The soul?!" Duo burst out.
"You eat people's souls?" Wufei grated out. She shook her head vehemently.
"No! We do it with the permission of those we cast the spell on. We would never do it without the permission..." She paused and then looked at Heero. Her face fell and she bit her lip. "I, that is, we do not do the spell unless both parties care for one another and are willing to give up their lives to save the other. It doesn't work without consent. They are then marked with the Sign of Wu." Heero squeezed her shoulder and she gave him a small smile.
"Many were wary and reluctant to use the spell on their mates and some never did. The humans were quite prepared to become immortal if it allowed them to stay with their families but some were not and the Sanjiyans and their children sadly watched them die."
"Despite this, we lived in peace for several centuries. But peace, as you all well know, does not come without a price. The new generation of Sanjiyan became less powerful and therefore less inclined to use the power that was their heritage. As a result, they were not strong enough for the battle that was to come." She looked up, her large eyes filled with sorrow and anger. "We originally come from another dimension that runs parallel to yours, a land that we all called home. In this land, a great war was fought. Thousands died, both Sanjiyan and humans alike. The Nobles and their followers, both Sanjiyan and human, got it into their minds that with their superior powers, they could take over the world and rule it, changing it as they saw fit." She shook her head.
"This lead to a new discovery about Wus to happen. As well as becoming immortal age wise, we found that a Wu can also survive death through injury. Their bodies would not die and they took upon themselves a completely new role. They became protectors of their Sanjiyans." She shook her head. "But it didn't stop the deaths. The Sanjiyan knew what was the source of their invincibility and took full advantage of that, many young Sanjiyans far too weak to put up a decent fight. They were slaughtered like pigs." Her hands clenched into fists and she bared her teeth in anger, her dark eyes flashing with fire. "Shing and Ballard lead the attacks and killed many with their own hands, my parents included. And enjoyed it. He tried to marry me in an attempt to become my consort and take over the title of Kaiyanwang."
"Your mother was Kaiyanwang?" Quatre asked in surprise.
"Yes. I was the next in line to the throne of the Sanjiyan. He tried to convince me that he was not insane, he was merely looking for a way to turn this world in a place that would show the Sanjiyan the respect and fear they deserve."
"Why would he think that you would marry him?" Duo asked. She looked away and sighed deeply.
"There was a time, long ago, when we were expected to marry."
"You were engaged to him?!" She winced from Quatre's outburst.
"Yes, my parents decided it would be a good match. He wasn't... always a blood thirsty murderer. He was an Elder, one of the few that joined Kaiyanwang. He's several centuries older than me. But a century or so before the great war, he went insane. Because many Sanjiyan's desired to become human, he started to experiment with spells and certain artefacts that could possibly grant their wishes. He soon found one that had the capabilities to do so. It was an artefact called the Ningen no Zou, or the Statue of Humanity. It had been used before by demons and other supernatural beings to become humans. Shing thought that it might help us. He did a lot of research, travelling all over the world for many years. When he returned, he brought with him the statue and the instructions on how to perform the ceremony. It required three Sanjiyan. Two would have their powers stripped from them and then it would be passed onto the third. Shing volunteered to be the third as he was the only one who knew the spell. Two other elders decided to try to become humans as they felt that they had lived and done all they could and they had nothing to lose." She looked away.
"The process did work and the Elders became humans, but the overload of power to Shing caused an accident and he... he went insane. He murdered the two Elders and fled with Ballard to Europe to join the other Sanjiyan's as he said that he had seen how weak humans were and how they were meant for nothing other than slavery. That was the last we had seen of him until the war began." She paused.
"The rest is history. Neither side had enough leverage as though they had power, we had sheer numbers. The war ended with no winner as there were too many casualties." She spread her hands and looked up, her eyes telling them she was done. There was complete silence. They stared at her, not quite sure what to make of what she had said. Quatre coughed into the awkward silence and Li Mei sighed, her eyes falling to her lap.
"Let me get this straight." Duo looked at her as he scratched his head with a small frown. "You're a Sanjiyan Un..., uh, Triclops. You're the heir to the throne of the Sanjiyan, you're really old," Li Mei cringed, "and this psychopath called Shing is trying to get you to marry him."
"Is a round about way, yes."
"So how old are you, really? You don't look older than fourteen."
"I'm two hundred and fifty-seven years old." Duo whistled.
"Man... you're old." Quatre choked and looked at Duo.
"Duo!"
"It's okay." Li Mei replied with a small smile.
"Just before we left that base, you had three eyes. How come you only have two now?"
"Ah. A Sanjiyan can choose to open or close their third eye. I am a younger Sanjiyan," She laughed a little at Duo's sceptical look at the word young, "Yes, I am young. My mother was... was over one thousand years old before she was killed, my father older still by two hundred or so years."
"You acted different when you had three eyes. Do you have a split personality?" Quatre asked.
"Ah. As I said before, the younger Sanjiyan's did have split personalities. In my case, and the case of many others, we share our bodies with another being. I don't know why, but many Sanjiyan's are born with two... what's the word, minds I guess. No, souls. My other personality's name is Shirin. She's very... um, interesting."
"Why would you have two souls?" She shrugged.
"I guess, from what Shirin's told me, that my ancestors believed in reincarnation and that meant being reborn in the body of another Sanjiyan. Shirin's very old, far older than my mother. Or so she says."
"So what's her personality like."
"Ah. She's a very, um, forceful," Heero snorted and Li Mei rolled her eyes slightly, "and stubborn. She's... interesting." She finished off.
"Can we talk to, uh, her?" Li Mei shook her head.
"Trust me, I don't think you want to. She doesn't like humans."
"Oh."
"Hey... you said that Sanjiyans made their mates their Wu's... Does that mean that Shing and Ballard were... you know..." Duo paused and raised his eyebrows. Li Mei looked at him blankly. Duo coughed.
"You know..." Duo tapped his index fingers together.
"Ah..." Li Mei tilted her head. Heero smirked slightly. He leant over to whisper in her ear.
"He wants to know if they were in an intimate relationship." Li Mei blushed bright red.
"Ah! Oh no! You have it all wrong!" Li Mei composed herself and smiled. "Shing and Ballard weren't in a relationship. Shing had made Ballard his Wu long before I was born. Ballard had saved his life and in return, he offered Ballard immortality. Obviously, Ballard accepted."
"Oh."
"What's this Court and who were those people in those tubes?" Quatre asked, his face paling at the thought.
"The Court was a group of people that protected the Royal Family. They're sort of like the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Emperors. I-most of them were killed just before my Mother and Father died and the remaining seven took me before Shing could and they hid me and locked me in the crystal until Heero found me.
"Found you?"
"We were separated. He forced the Court to take me away while he played decoy."
"Wait, wait. Hold up. You said before you were locked in that crystal thing for four hundred years. That means..." Duo turned to Heero, his eyes wide. "That means he's over four hundred years old!"
"Are you a Sanjiyan, Heero?" Quatre asked carefully. Heero shook his head.
"No."
"So how could he be alive..." Quatre trailed off, his eyes wide.
"You're a Wu." Trowa said. Heero nodded.
"Where's your mark of... uh, Wu? We've never seen it." Heero brushed the hair away from his forehead and there, against the pale skin was a dark red symbol. The Sign of Wu.
"What did you do to Heero?" Wufei asked in the lull of the conversation, a frown on his face. Li Mei looked away.
"I didn't mean to. It was an accident." She said softly. Heero shook his head and gently squeezed her shoulder.
"I've heard of the Sign of Wu and it doesn't seem like you described it. I quote, 'Wu, or the sign of nothingness. When a Sanjiyan consumes a soul, the "Wu" mark appears on the victim's forehead. The "Wu" is a near-indestructible, soulless being who will only die when the Sanjiyan does. The status of "Wu" can be revoked or changed via extremely powerful magics, like the humanification process...'" Wufei said bluntly. "I have heard of your kind before."
"I..." Li Mei bit her lip. "I-He would have died!" She said, her eyes filling with tears of guilt. Quatre put a hand on his chest and looked at her sympathetically. Her guilt was eating away at her.
"Wufei." Heero said coldly, his eyes glaring at him. "I said she could."
"Right. Keep telling yourself that. Anything that steals souls is a demon." Wufei suddenly found himself hauled out of his chair and dragged to his feet. He looked into the icy prussian blue of Heero's eyes and felt a tinge of fear at the protective anger he saw.
"She. Is. Not. A. Demon." Heero bit out. Li Mei grabbed his arm.
"Hey! Cool it Heero!" Duo said as he stood up.
"Heero!" He could hear his friends calling his name, asking him to calm down but he wouldn't, not until he made Wufei see that he was wrong.
"Heero! Stop it!" Heero continued to glare at Wufei.
"Do you know how hard and how long she fought to save her people? To save the humans who got caught in the crossfire?" He tightened his hold on Wufei's shirt. "She almost died, she almost married Shing", Heero spat out the name, "just to stop the blood shed."
"Heero, please, that's enough." Heero let go of Wufei, shoving him so that he fell back into his chair.
"I understand where you're coming from Wufei, but we aren't demons. Making a Wu is not a thing we take lightly. You can ever only have one Wu. That's why we do not take it lightly. We only ever take the soul of someone who is willing. I took Heero's soul in an effort to keep him from dying when he tried to save me from dying."
"How did you two meet?" Quatre asked. Li Mei looked at him for a long moment.
"That's a very long story."
"We have a lot of time." Wufei said as he straightened his shirt and glared at Heero."
"I see. Very well. I will start at the beginning." Li Mei took a deep breath another deep breath and told their story.

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A.N Mm kay, most of my info comes from the 3x3 Eyes Digest (http://www.sazan.net/digest/). If you want to know more about the actual series of 3x3 Eyes, got there. Its a VERY helpful site if you wanna know anything 'bout 3x3 Eyes. ^_^
Yes, the next few parts will be about Li Mei and Heero. The other pilots won't appear. I'm really sorry if you don't like that, but I have to tell Li Mei and Heero's past. It'll prolly be split up into three or four parts, mm kay? Just be patient and before you know it, there will be moer action and stuff. I'm really sorry if you don't like that.