Dragon Quest

Ch 12

The Earth Shrine.
(Part II)

By Fire Dragon and
Water Dragon.







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"We should stop for the night." Janus stopped his horse in the middle of the clearance.

"That might be a good idea." Quatre nodded.

"Hey, is it just me or this is the spot where we turned last time?" Rei looked around.

"It surely looks like it." Usagi blinked.

"I don't know…all clearings look the same to me." Lluvia shrugged. At all this Janus had dismounted his horse and was taking the harness of it's mouth while Trowa did the same with his horse.

"C'mon, let's set the camp." Duo nudged Heero who nodded.

"We'll find some wood for the fire." Mamoru said as Usagi gave the reins of her horse to Ami and winked at her. Behind them, Wufei looked at them before leaving, walking into the forrest trying to find Nataku who had been following them from a distance so Janus wouldn't be able to see her.

"Well, that leaves the cooking to me." Makoto grinned.

"I'll help." Quatre said while Trowa walked behind both teens who talked lively to each other.

And with that, all started to prepare the campsite for the night while Janus watched them work together.

"Geez, look at them work like ants!" Lluvia made a face.

"Well, at least they know how to work together." Ishtar admonished her.

"Bah," Janus snorted, "give them a little shake and ye will see their relationship fall like a card castle." He shrugged and then moved away; Ishtar's eyes boring on his retreating form.

"You don't trust him do you?" Lluvia asked the older woman.

"Not one bit" Ishtar narrowed her eyes.

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"Are you sure we're going the right direction?" Duo asked for what it seemed the twentieth time since they had resumed their journey that morning.

Grunting, Janus preferred to ignore him, just as he had done for the last seventeen times, and continued making his way towards the Earth Shrine.

"I think it would be best if we stop for lunch." Mamoru stopped his horse.

"We should continue." Heero shook his head. "We can eat on the horses."

"The horses need rest." Trowa countered.

"Yeah, and I'm starving!" Duo grinned while all the girls nodded. Shrugging, Heero turned and dismounted with the others.

Once all were doing their chores Janus approached Heero, who was taking the packs off the horses.

"'Tis a shame young Lord." Janus shook his head.

Frowning, Heero turned to see the older man. "What do you mean?" He questioned.

"The others." He pointed with his chin, "they didn't respect ye nor yer command." He shrugged.

For his part, Heero frowned even more. "Hn." And with that he walked towards the camp.

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"But Trowa!!!" Duo, Minako and Usagi whined. "We just ate the same thing yesterday!" The three teens pouted.

"C'mon you guys, you should be thankful that we're cooking." Makoto took Minako and Usagi by the ear while Duo quickly covered his ears with his hands.

"Fine." Minako and Usagi said defeated.

"So…" Makoto turned to Duo.

"Ok." Duo looked at the ground.

"Great! Now let's go find the plates." Makoto, still holding the two girls by the ears, walked to the packs, bumping in the way with Heero who looked as if he was thinking hard on something.

Back in the camp, Trowa kept chopping and dicing vegetables while keeping an eye on the steaming pot.

"How shameless of them." Trowa looked back to find Janus looking disdainfully at where the others had left. "Treating his lordship as if ye were a mere maid." Janus frowned.

"They are just children." Trowa's calm face never wavered. "And anyway, I like cooking."

"But are ye sure they appreciate all your troubles?" Janus asked as Usagi came back with the plates.

"Umm…Trowa, could you please don't put carrots on mine? I kinda don't like them." Usagi made a face before taking some of the food and walking towards the others.

"A maid I say." Janus shook his head while walking away.

The dinner went uneventful as one by one the teens seemed to get lost in their thoughts, strangely, right after Janus moved away from them.

"Should we do something?" Lluvia glanced worriedly at Ishtar.

"Nay." The older Dragon Spirit shook her head. "I'm sure they're smart enough not to fall for anything stupid." She said. "Just watch out for him." She looked at the elderly man. "He's bad news."

"Ok." Lluvia shrugged as now all ate in silence.

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Once again, morning found the young avatars ready to leave.

"It's time to go." Heero said as he mounted his horse.

"But don't you think it's too early?" Mamoru frowned.

"We don't have time to loose." Heero turned his horse and moved towards the forrest.

"Fine." Mamoru shook his head. "Let's go everybody!" He too moved towards his horse.

"Very well done milord." Janus' horse trotted close to Heero's.

"Hn." Heero spurred his horse, moving away from them.

"This is gonna be one hell of a trip." Ishtar lamented while Quatre frowned.

"What is it?" Wufei asked his blond friend.

"I don't know, I'm picking strange vibes from everybody." Quatre said uncertain.

"Nah, it might just be breakfast!" Minako joked not noticing Trowa's hard gaze on her.

"C'mon you guys, let's go." Rei said as Ami and Usagi mounted their horses besides her.

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"Here." Janus sighed as he stopped his horse and dismounted after riding for most of the morning.

"Have we arrived?" Ami asked raising her eyebrow.

"It doesn't look like a shrine to me." Wufei shook his head.

"Well, not all of them look as big as the Fire Shrine!" Makoto retorted.

"Nay, 'tis just but the entrance." Janus said. "But from here on we can't take the horses with us since the path's too narrow for them to walk." He said receiving several groans in return.

Moving towards where the path started, Trowa and Makoto stared baffled at what was in front of them.

"It's something wrong?" Quatre asked.

"No, it's just that we've been here before." Trowa whispered in awe as in front of them stood a replica of the Earth Trial.

"Ok now, do you think we'll find another note?" Makoto joked.

"This way lads," Janus walked towards a steep path filled with exotic plants "be careful for I have not been beyond this parts." He said before disappearing.

"We have to climb all the way up there?" Duo sighed.

"You sound like an old woman." Rei snorted.

"C'mon, it's no time for discussions now. Let's unload the horses; each of us must carry at least some of the provisions in case we need them." Mamoru said.

"And who put you in charge?" Out of the blue Heero replied hotly, walking towards the taller man.

"I thought you wanted us to move faster! And nobody put me in charge!" Mamoru all but yelled, gaining everybody's attention now.

"Calm down, both of you." Quatre looked at them bewildered.

"Can it Q-man you try to fix everybody's problems but your own!" Duo yelled.

"Stop it Duo, Quatre hasn't done anything to you!" Minako stood in front of the former 04 pilot while his face paled significantly.

"And what do you care?" Came a low, not to mention dangerously sounding, voice from Trowa. "Is that maybe you're interested in him?" The tall man asked between clenched teeth.

"You're talking nonsense! And this conversation's getting way out of hand!" Ami joined them.

"And who are you to tell us when the conversation's getting out of hand?" Wufei barked.

"Don't talk to her like that!" Rei hissed.

"And what are you gonna do about it onna?" Wufei glared daringly.

"I can punch the shit out of you!" Makoto stood in between them while Heero and Mamoru looked at themselves with murderous intentions on their faces.

Behind all of them stood Lluvia, Ishtar and Usagi while Janus was nowhere to be seen.

"For the love of Selene, what's happening?" Usagi watched as her ten friends fought. Now, in the verge of tears, Usagi's vision blurred, leaving her with just shadows outlining her friends. Those outlines changed from their dark colorings to several distinct colors. Blinking the tears away, Usagi now focused on her surroundings as the auras still circled them.

One by one, Usagi noted that their usual clear, vibrant colors were now tainted with deep, dark greens, reds and blacks while a strange gray 'mist' floated surrounding them.

"Ishtar?" Usagi weakly looked at her. "What does dark green, red and black mean?" She asked scared.

"Those child," Ishtar turned to see her with a blank face, "are the colors of envy, anger and death." She responded.

Usagi's breath was caught on her throat as her eyes widened. Turning to see Mamoru and Heero, she hurried towards them. "Mamo-chan!" She ran towards Mamoru, restraining his arm as the black haired boy was about to strike Heero.

"Let go Usako!" Mamoru growled.

"No!" She shook her head fervently. "I won't! can't you see? You're being manipulated!" Usagi's eyes brimmed with unshed tears.

"We're not being manipulated; we've just taken a blindfold off our eyes." Heero sneered.

"No! you have to believe me, there's something here that's making us act this aggressively!" Usagi yelled as the others stopped their argument to listen to her.

"Something?" Wufei said, instantly making everybody very alert of their surroundings.

"Let me see." Ami took her mercury computer out.

"No! I don't care if there's something on the air or not. He has to learn to work with others!" Mamoru shook his head.

"Others?! I was doing well by myself! I don't need somebody else to tell me what to do!" Heero snapped angrily. (FD: o.0 really? Well, that's new ^-^)

"Please Heero!" Usagi turned at the glaring man. "The Dragon Knights are two for a reason. We are here to help each other no to compete against ourselves!" Usagi pleaded.

Behind her, Trowa stiffened and Makoto's eyes widened at Usagi's words.

"The trial."

"The note." Both teens whispered. Shaking their heads, both teens walked towards were Mamoru, Usagi and Heero stood.

"Heero." Trowa put a hand over his friend's shoulder. Meanwhile, Makoto walked in front of Mamoru, who was now watching the other two man's interchange.

"Mamoru, what she says is true." Makoto looked at him in the eye. "We already went thru this in the trial –although it didn't blow up as ballistic- but anyway, we have to be a team." Makoto looked at them.

"So, you're saying that somebody did this in purpose?" Duo raised his eyebrow.

"C'mon, Ami was about to punch Trowa in the face! If that's not being controlled I don't know what it is." Rei said seriously.

"Well, I'll give you that." Wufei snorted.

"It's gone." Everybody turned to see Usagi.

"What's gone?" Minako asked.

"The stuff, the mist that was all around us." Usagi blinked.

"Anyway, that doesn't settle our discussion." Mamoru looked at Heero.

"No it doesn't." Heero glared back. Suddenly, Mamoru straightened out and offered his hand.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to sound so pushy." Mamoru apologized.

For his part, Heero blinked several times as he found himself thrown out of balance for the abrupt change of demeanor of the man in front of him.

"O…k." Heero blinked, totally speechless.

"What?!?! And you're just gonna drop it like that?!" Wufei blinked surprised.

"Hey!" Ishtar hit him upside the head. "Let them be." She admonished him as the Fire Knight sulked while rubbing the back of his head.

At the other side, Heero eyed Mamoru's hand suspiciously as the older man looked at him without any trace of anger or rancor on his face.

"C'mon Heero, what they said is right, if we want to finish this we have to work as a group. And anyway, we are not enemies, quite the contraire, we are all friends here." Mamoru said.

Hesitantly, Heero took the offered hand into his, remembering the time when he had done the exact same thing with Zechs Marquize, most of all, how that particular situation ended up. Shaking his way the unwanted thoughts, Heero finally shook Mamoru's hand.

"Anyway, how did all of this started?" Quatre tilted his head to one side.

Blinking several times, everybody seemed to finally remember at the same time. "Janus!" They all exclaimed, making Lluvia roll her eyes.

"And you said that they wouldn't fall for anything stupid." The girl sighed.

"Well, it's not my fault that they're so slow and gullible!" Ishtar hissed.

"Where is he anyway?" Minako asked.

"He went that way." Usagi pointed to the last place he had been seen.

"We should start moving if we want to get to the Earth Shrine then." Trowa said.

"Yeah, I have several things to talk to our 'guide'." Makoto said hitting her open palm against her fist.

"Well, shall we go then?" Mamoru turned to Heero.

"Hn." The former nodded, already walking towards the path.

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"Ok, that's it! We're lost for sure!" Duo shook his head after walking for about an hour.

"We're not lost, we're just a little side tracked." Minako consoled him.

"There's a large structure that way!" Ami said closing her computer.

"Yeah, that's my Ami!" Makoto smiled.

"What are we waiting for?" Rei walked towards where Ami had pointed.

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"And how pray tell are we gonna cross here?" Usagi rubbed her temple as in front of them stood a large gorge.

"There's a place narrow enough to jump, that way." Wufei said, his eyes vacant for a few seconds.

"Let's go then." Quatre nodded.

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"Oh no, hell no! I'm not jumping that!" Lluvia exclaimed as the 'narrow' path which Wufei had mentioned was at least a 15 feet gap with a drop of 200 feet straight down.

"It's not that bad." The boys blinked as Ami watched the hole with confidence.

"It should be easy." Usagi nodded.

"Easy?" Heero raised his eyebrow as the thought of the girls saying that the gap, that even for him seemed almost impossible (although he wasn't saying that to them), was easy to jump.

"Yup, what is it…about one, two buildings apart?" Minako dismissed it lightly.

"It's a piece of cake." Makoto nodded.

"And anyway, can't you just turn into a ball of light and fly over it?" Wufei asked.

"Oh, shut up!" Lluvia pouted, turned into a blue light and flew to the other side.

"Children." Ishtar shook her head before doing the same.

"Anyway, we can't jump that far." Quatre shook his head.

"Don't worry, we'll take care of that!" Minako winked at him.

"C'mon girls!" Usagi smiled.

"Right!" The girls said as a light surrounded them and after it faded it left them wearing their fukus.

"Let's get going." Makoto walked towards Trowa. "Sir, your ride awaits." She smiled as without any warning she grabbed the tall boy by the waist and with a swift movement, she jumped with the startled man on her arms while the others snickered.

"Your turn." Rei said. Not giving time for Wufei to react, she grabbed the Chinese boy and jumped to the other side of the ravine.

"Quatre?" Ami and Minako neared the blond.

"I guess." He picked down at the endless drop.

"Don't worry, we wont let you fall." Ami promised. Nodding, Quatre allowed both girls to hold him as he closed his eyes the moment that they jumped.

"Wow." Duo grinned, eyeing as Usagi winked at him when the others weren't looking. Getting what she was hinting at, Duo quickly put his arms around Heero's slim waist and winked at her just as they disappeared.

"What was that all about?" Mamoru blinked.

"Nothing Mamo-chan, nothing." Usagi giggled while giving him a peck on the cheek. "The others are waiting." She smiled, taking Mamoru's hand in hers and jumping with him. (FD: no people, he didn't transform.)

"Now, I think we go down." Quatre looked at the path that lay below them.

"No prob." Minako smiled while her chains uncoiled from her arms.

"I still think she's boasting." Makoto snorted.

"Of course she is." Rei shrugged, taking the chain in her hands and lowering herself.

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"Ok, so what now?" Wufei asked as they lost sight of the shrine.

"This way." Trowa walked behind two small squirrels.

"O…k…" Usagi blinked, following the former 03 pilot.

"Great, now we're following squirrels, what's next? Bunnies?" Lluvia mumbled, walking behind Usagi, which made the girls and Mamoru chuckle.

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"Wow." Duo whistled while the others gaped at the outer patio of the Earth Shrine.

"I don't know about you, but I have no idea how somebody can miss something that big." Ami said quietly.

"Yeah, how can a place the size of three football fields disappear?" Mamoru frowned.

"Well, it is standing right here, so it just couldn't have disappeared." Lluvia shrugged.

"Unless something happened to the people that came here." Heero said monotonously. "And it made them never come back to the town." He finished with a tone between dead serious and a I-want-to-scare-the-crap-out-of-you kinda way.

"Stop it! Your giving me the creeps!" Lluvia hided behind Ishtar.

"Hn." Heero shrugged as a small tug on his lip was the only insinuation that the former had been his intension.

"Well, shall we?" Makoto walked towards the patio.

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"Ok, if I was impressed before, I'm speechless now." Wufei blinked as in front of them stood a magnificent structure.

The building was a layered five stories tall, hundreds of thousands of stairs raised from where they stood to the flat top where a small shrine rested while plants and vines covered most of it. (FD: just picture the temple of the Sun and the Moon in Mexico).

"Thanks the gods I jogged every morning, because this is gonna be one hell of a workout." Mamoru sighed looking at the steps.

"It's not that bad." Trowa shrugged.

"Let's start, why don't we?" Ishtar took a step forward.

"Feh, talk for yourself sister." Lluvia snorted and transformed, flying to the top.

"Well, see ya at the top!" Rei grinned as all the girls began jumping the stairs at a fast pace (FD: remember that they're still transformed).

"Here I go." Mamoru began climbing the stairs; besides him, Heero narrowed his eyes and began jogging after Mamoru.

"Damn it! why do they always have to do things the hard way?" Duo shook his head as he took Quatre's and Trowa's arms and smirked at Wufei. "Hey Wu, are you coming or do you prefer to sweat like a pig for the next half an hour?" The braided one laughed.

"You know Maxwell, for the first time I'll accept your offering full heartedly." The Chinese man grabbed Duo by the shoulder; seconds later, all four disappeared and reappeared at the top just as the girls arrived one by one.

"About time you got here." Wufei snorted as the two huffing teens finally got to the top.

"Yeah, we were ready to make camp and wait for you." Usagi joked.

Giving a snort, both boys straightened trying to conceal their exhaustion, however, their traitorous bodies gave it away by the amount of sweat coming from their bodies and their short, quick breaths.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Rei entered the Earth Shrine. Upon entering the dark compound, the group could clearly see as at the center of the large room on a pedestal floated the green Dragon Tear which throbbed with a jaded light.

"You ready?" Makoto asked Trowa as both positioned themselves in front of the little pedestal. Nodding, the tall boy sighed and looked at Makoto while both stretched their hands at the same time, retreating the pulsing jewel without any trouble.

"Time to go." Ishtar walked to the exit.

"Yep, our work here is done." Duo grinned, stretching.

"Not so fast." A voice said from behind the pedestal, making the group turn abruptly.

"Ye are not permitted to leave with that." Janus said. Faster than the eye could register, Heero lifted his hand, pointing his now loaded gun to the elder's head.

"Hey, where did you get that from?" Duo asked, however, his question was unanswered.

"What do ye think yer gonna do with that?" Janus raised his eyebrow, "kill me?" He mocked.

"I can surely try." Heero said on his monotone voice.

"But you wouldn't be afraid now would you?" Trowa said as the others raised their eyebrows. "A Dragon couldn't' be killed by a human weapon." He raised his hand, showing the Dragon Tear that now pulsed wildly.

"Correct. Now, put. That. Back." Janus stressed each word.

"Stop being so damned stubborn!" Ishtar yelled, surprising everyone out of their skin.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Janus snapped back.

"Please, we don't have to fight. We have what we came for and we found the Dragon Spirit so I suggest that we go." Lluvia said.

"I'm not goin' anywhere!" Janus yelled.

"You're coming with us." Ishtar said deadly serious.

"Ye can't make me." The elder man crossed his arms.

"You can't ignore the Wyrd Janus, it is your destiny." Ishtar took a step closer to the man.

"Destiny, blah, the fates don't know what the hell they're doing!" He yelled. (FD: -.# ouch, flamed by my own character again!)

"I don't care what you think! Wyrd[2] is unbendable, and you're not deserting us this time! You're going with us even if I have to drag you all the way there." Ishtar hissed between her teeth.

"C'mon you guys, don't be so hard on him. He was just testing us…right." Usagi looked uneasily at them.

"Sure, that must be it." Quatre tried to advert the attention from the two Dragons.

"I think we should camp for the night here and begin again tomorrow morning." Trowa turned and he headed towards the exit, making the others dismiss the two and began to prepare for the night.

"I'll be watching you." Ishtar hissed before turning and walking away; Lluvia right behind her as the girl glanced towards the old man.

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"Wow Trowa, you outdid yourself this time." Quatre sighed contently while putting his plate aside.

"Say Heero, where did you get your gun from?" Duo asked as he remembered when Heero had made his gun appear.

"I brought it with my gift." The cobalt eyed boy shrugged.

"You got your gift already?!?!" The girls squealed.

Nodding, Heero stretched his hand and 'puff' his gun appeared on his hand.

"Wow, cool!" Minako watched in awe.

"So you can bring anything from anywhere?" Ami raised her eyebrow.

"No." Heero shook his head. "I have to know exactly what it is nad where it is to be able to bring it."

"Can you bring your Gundam?" Wufei asked.

"Negative. It's mass is much too great to bring, the strain would be unbearable. It took me a long time just to bring the bullets one by one as to try to bring something as big as Wing." Heero said.

"Well, there goes that idea." Wufei grumbled as Nataku seemed to snicker.

"Heero, my man!" Duo put a hand over the other's shoulders. "There's a pizza on the fridge, third row to the left. Do you think you can bring it here?" Duo put his puppy dog eyes, pouting at the startled youth, however, Heero's surprise at the violet eyed boy turned to annoyement.

"What do I look like, the delivery boy?" Heero asked, amusement dancing on his eyes at Duo's crestfallen face.

"Aw, c'mon don't be so mean! I'll give you a great tip!" Duo grinned slyly.

"Duo! Heero's power should be employed for a more constructive campaign." Wufei admonished the braided boy.

"Ah, no fair Wu-man!" Duo blew him a raspberry.

"Say Janus," Rei looked at said man, "when we were in the town, the people said that you knew this place because of all the time that you had lived there." She said. "But how can that be when you're a Dragon; weren't you supposed to have escaped not so long ago?" She asked.

"Not quite." Ishtar was the one to respond. "We have been out for a long time now, almost 100 years. Janus here, however, was one of the first to get out almost 200 years." She glared at the Dragon of Earth.

"200 years?!?!" All stared.

"But how is that nobody noticed until recently?" Makoto asked.

"Because they're idiots." Lluvia shrugged, receiving a hit on the head by Ishtar. "Hey!"

"What did you mean he was 'one of the first to get out?'" Mamoru frowned.

"Well, we're not really sure what happened, but one day the seal broke, and we were separated from our bodies." Ishtar said. "We didn't know what to do at first, the Dragon of Chaos and Light fled just as the seal cracked, but the rest of us remained within the Valle." She took a breath before continuing. "After those two left we supported Gaia ourselves, but one day Janus here left the burden to just us the three left. After the years passed, the Dragon of Wind left too, followed by the Water Dragon and after a while I left too." Ishtar shrugged.

"But why did you leave?" Usagi asked.

"Why should I had stay for? Janus snapped. "Sati was right! Why should we help them humans when they forgot 'bout us?! Look around ye! There's nothin' here! They forgot their duties, why should we remember ours?! They thought they could do it themselves, leavin' the temple an' expectin' us to give them everything with arms open! Bah, Sati said 'tis was gonna happen, and it did." Janus snorted.

"Sati? Who's Sati?" Ami asked.

"She's…she's the Chaos Dragon." Lluvia picked up Nataku and hugged her.

"Well, enough of old stories. We should rest, tomorrow's gonna be a long day." Ishtar stood up.

"I'll wash the dishes." Quatre stood too.

"I'll help." Trowa picked his pate and Duo's plate.

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"You didn't have to do this, you already cooked for us." Quatre said as he dried the last dish, watching as the tall boy sat heavily on a trunk. "What's wrong?" Quatre blinked while sitting besides the visibly stressed boy.

Giving a sigh, Trowa looked at Quatre in the eye, watching those baby blue eyes intently. Collecting his courage, Trowa's piercing green eyes softened as he watched the blond boy in front of him.

"I'm sorry. I was in no position and had no right to say what I said earlier." Trowa finally said, waiting for the other's response, fearing the worst.

"Oh, that." Quatre lowered his gaze to the ground. "Well, we were being manipulated, you couldn't control it." He finished lamely.

"But I could!" Trowa put his head on his hands. "I-I felt jealous of Minako…I'm sorry." Trowa stood up quickly, followed closely by Quatre who stopped him.

"Don't be. I-I was jealous too…of Makoto." Quatre blushed as Trowa's visible eye widened. "You see, I…was jealous of all the time Makoto and you spent together." Quatre whispered.

Thousands of thoughts passed on Trowa's already confused head; was he hearing right? Was Quatre actually saying what he thought he was saying? Well, there was only one way to find out. (FD: Yeah, right, like he couldn't just ask.) Taking a step closer to his angel, Trowa looked again into those two pulls of blue.

"You don't have to be jealous of Makoto…or anyone else." Trowa whispered.

"I…I don't?" Quatre's voice trembled as Trowa's lips were but millimeters from his.

"No, never." Trowa said finally getting rid of the small space between them.

Tenderly, both boys held each other. It was not a deep nor passionate kiss, it was just a lingering kiss which held all the love and affection that they felt for each other. With one last kiss, Trowa let him go, as the other's eyes fluttered open.

"C'mon little one, let's go. Tomorrow's a new day." Trowa hugged Quatre, who hugged him in return.

"Yes, tomorrow's gonna be a good day." Quatre snuggled closer while they walked towards the camp.

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Dictionary meaning:
[Janus] Double face.

[Wyrd] On Norse mythology (Northern Europe, Germany, etc. as well as the British Isles) An unchangeable fate.

Fire Dragon: God damnit! I'm done doing 30 pages chapters!!!! .! From now on I'm making my chapters 7 to 10 pages! This was a total bitch to write I'll tell you. Jeez, that was just so sappy! But ladies and gentleman, that was my first romantic Shounen ai moment! *stands up and bows*

Anyway, my next chapter's gonna take a very long time since I'm remodeling my site…again…. so I'm not gonna have much time to write for the time being. It seems that each time that I have a break I end up with more stuff to do than before T-T. Oh well, I'll try to do as much as I can but I'm not promising anything. Thanks to all my readers! Ja ne.

Note: *Fire Dragon's holding a very large bottle of Tylenol* For all of you that want me to change it for straight couples, your giving me a headache, I already told you THIS IS A SHOUNEN AI FIC!!! I'm not gonna change my characters nor my parings! So please stop pestering me! I'm a great fan of yaoi *waves her yaoi for ever flag* so get that into your brains. Thank you for your reviews though and please just try to understand the story as it is.