Scarlet Love
Chapter Ten:
Fighting Ambush
By: NightChild
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As Duo ran, he noticed a blur of white at his side. 'Trouble.' He suddenly skidded to a stop, looking around for the flash of blurred white. Abruptly, someone dropped out of a tree right in front of him. The person stood up, his form backlit. "It's been a long time, Maxwell." Said a young man's voice, a voice that Duo recognized.
Duo looked at the young man standing in front of him. "Wufei?" he asked disbelievingly. The young man who had jumped from the tree nodded. "What…where…how?" Duo asked all at once.
Wufei sighed. "It's not important right now, Maxwell. What is important is that Yuy is heading knowingly into an ambush." Stepping so he wasn't backlit any more, he pierced Duo with his onyx gaze as he said, "I tried to tell him, but he ignored me. Yuy is now The Perfect Soldier again." With that, he turned and ran off in the same direction that he was running in before he had sensed someone heading toward his position and had jumped into a tree to ambush whoever it was. Turned out to be Maxwell, which he wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not, but he didn't have the time to dwell on that. He had to catch up with Yuy before the ambush was sprung.
It took a moment for it all to sink in for Duo, but when it did, he darted off after Wufei, hoping that he could get to his secret love before something horrible happened. 'Heero…'
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Heero knew he was being followed, but that wouldn't stop him. He had to complete the mission he had decided was his to take. Destroying whatever NRF was, was the only way to ensure Duo's safety, and everything else was irrelevant, including his own life. Nothing could stop him and if anything or anyone tried to, they'd be dead before they know what hit them.
Running faster than what should be humanly possible, he forced all thoughts from his head beside, 'Only the mission matters. My life has no meaning. I cannot fail Duo. I will not fail. I will die first…'
His thoughts were snapped off when he felt something hit the left side of his face hard, making his head snap back and his jaw pop from the force of the blow, but he kept his feet under him and refused to let himself acknowledge the sting of pain in his face and the trickle of blood that was now dripping from the corner of his mouth, down his chin and onto the dirt path. He felt the air pressure change around him and blocked a punch that was thrown at him with his left forearm.
Quickly, he glanced around and saw that he was now surrounded by about twenty soldiers in the NRF uniform. They were all posed for instant hand-to-hand attack and all looked younger than himself or about his age. 'They're my enemy.' With that, he launched himself at the nearest soldier and landed a firm punch to the young man's face, knocking him off his feet and unconscious.
Heero was instantly fighting off all of the opposing force that stood around him.
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The obvious sounds of a giant fistfight reached Wufei's ears as he ran. 'I'm too late, it's already started.' He thought as he raced faster, hoping to offer at least some help to Yuy. But he was nearly positive that no matter what he did--if he could get there before the rest of the ambush plan was set into play--it wouldn't matter, Yuy would still be captured and… He forced his thoughts away from that; he would not let them have Yuy…for Maxwell's sake.
Trees blurred by him as he pushed himself on, they couldn't be that much farther off…if they were, he wouldn't make it in time to even stall the ambush's planned events. 'Faster.' He thought as he leapt over a fallen log in his path.
A gunshot echoed through the dense forest, bringing Duo and Wufei to a dead-halt. "HEERO!" Duo's cry ran out after the gunshot and Duo's form dashed by a stunned Wufei. And all seemed to move in slow motion…
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AN: Wow…okay…you're all gonna hate me for that cliffie, hm? Oh well…I hope to get the next chapter out sometime next week or something.
Special thanks go out to Ryll-chan (Emilie Grant) for being my beta…and to LadyDragonWolfKnight for catching spelling/grammar errors in chapter nine.
THANK YOU to Reaper02Angel, Duo-js, LadyDragonWolfKnight, Seki Shinigami, Keiran, violet_eyes, Blue Eyed Angel2, PATTY 40, Shinigami's Forlorn Angel, MusumeMarron, and lilly kay for reviewing.
Until next time…
Ja`ne