I KNOW I borrowed that line from 'Legend of Dragoon' it sounded cool, and seemed to fit into the plot. Leave me alone! Wah. . . . . Lol. Just joking, anyway, I had to rewrite chappie 3 because my comp went LOCO on me! (Crazy) So this might be a little different. WAH! I also had chappie 4 and 5 ready too, then the (%*#$&# comp did that. Evil . . . . .

Chapter 3 (I finally caught up)

"Was that an earthquake?!" Duo demanded stumbling out of the kitchen. Heero stared at Duo, then at Soa. The golden eyed boy shrugged showing a feeling of carelessness and continued up the stairs. However, worry clouded the youth's eyes.

"I don't feel so good. . . . ." Garda mumbled. Soa looked at her.

"What's wrong?" Heero wanted to know looking at her, she was beginning to dull in shine.

"Damn, the earth is weakening." Soa murmured.

"What?"

"Never mind." Soa replied hastily to Heero and motioned for him to keep moving up, they continued down the hallway and stopped at the last door. Heero opened the door and signaled for Soa to walk in. Promptly doing so, the young god observed the room, white painted walls, a sliding glass door that opened up to a balcony, and a double bed covered with white and blue quilts. On the far side was a wooden desk, on it was a laptop, a lamp, and some other things like paper, a stapler, and some clips. Nothing big, Soa snorted, trust it to Heero to have a back up work place.

"Thanks Alex." He said softly.

"No problem, and if you need to *leave* I'll . . . . . . . . I'll make sure no one disturbs you." Heero offered. Soa shook his head.

"No need, I might not need to go out tonight."

"Still . . . . . ."

"The over protective mother again? Thanks you for the offer but no thanks." Soa replied giving a lopsided grin. Heero sighed,

"Whatever you say." He closed the door with a soft click. Soa smiled, he grabbed one of the many pillows off the bed, placed it onto the table and laid the sleeping fairy on it gently. Then grabbing a small towel, like the ones you use for your face, he slowly wrapped it around her like a blanket.

"Night Garda."

"G'night" She mumbled and sighed happily. Soa smiled, taking off his shirt and shoes, he left only his jeans on and climbed into bed, closing his eyes, he never remembered falling off into sleep.

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Blood, everywhere was blood, Soa was in a sea of it. A great shadow lurked ahead of Soa, Alex and all the pilots lay on the ground, eyes wide open and blood dripping off their lifeless bodies. Soa dropped next to his best friend's form,

" . . . . . . .Alex?" He whispered, suddenly he saw movement, in front of the shadow stood Duo, he looked worn out blood dripped from his arms where there were gashes.

"Duo. . . . . . . ." Soa muttered in disbelief.

"My day of retribution has come!" A large and bone chilling voice yelled. With a blast of fire that issued from the monster's mouth, the flame enveloped Duo.

"DUO!" Soa cried out in panic.

"Your turn." The shadow commented with an evil smirk, it smiled and shot a burst of flame at Soa, he felt the heat all around him, burning him, killing him . . . . . . .

Soa sat up in bed with a start. Looking wildly around he panted, it had all been a dream, except for the heat. Fanning himself Soa got up and walked out onto the balcony. He found someone he hadn't expected at all.

"Good day, Chrysaetos . . . . . ." The wind called out in a faint voice. Soa smiled.

"Sister wind. How come you're here? You're usually in the north by now."

"Things are changing Soa, be careful." The goddess of wind whispered and vanished.

"She always was the mysterious one, wasn't she?" A voice said thoughtfully. Soa spun around to find Heero standing there.

"Yeah." Heero stood next to Soa allowing the gentle breeze blow across his features. (FACE people FACE!)

"How come you're up?" Soa asked his friend.

"I heard you." Heero commented after a moments hesitation. The braided boy stiffened.

"What?"

"You were groaning quite loudly, and I'm right next to your bed, just on the other side of the wall in fact." "What did you here?"

"Something not too clear. You said my name though, and your brother's. Need to talk?" Heero suddenly asked looking at him. Soa raised an eyebrow.

"I knew it! You're not the god of courage! You're the god of protection."

"Funny." Heero muttered sarcastically. Soa chuckled lightly. Then looked back at the open scene.

"Say Alex?"

"Hm?"

"Why are you still on earth? I mean, Duo and you should have come back to the Ethereal realms a LONG time ago, so how come you're still here?"

"That, I don't know." The boy murmured thoughtfully.

"Ah well." Soa shook his head and pulled on his shoes and shirt.

"Going out?"

"Yep. Too hot here." Soa replied and thought carefully 'And too distracting' he had to think for a few moments.'

"No worries, I'll stay and watch her for you." He said gesturing to Garda.

"Thanks. See you in a bit." Soa said while climbing onto the edge of the rail, he gave a tiny wave the dropped face first off the balcony. He plummeted a few feet before sparking a few specks of gold, then flew high up into the sky as a golden eagle.

"Show off." Heero snorted and walked into the room. Sitting on the chair next to the desk he turned on the laptop, might as well do some work while he was waiting.

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Playing his part as the god of Destruction, Soa flew right over a few telephone poles and clipped the wires in his claws, had he been a normal bird, that would have been impossible. Then again, being a god. . . . . .

This part of the job was awful, causing so much anger and pain, but what could he do? So with nothing left, Soa diver down and spiraled in and out of traffic, cars screeched, horns blared, and people screamed angered. Soa sighed and flew high again, that was enough for now, he decided that he needed some fresh air, this city was far too polluted. So with nothing left to lose, he sped off at top speed and before long he was zipping over a field of grass. Soa suddenly felt something at the back of his neck, turning around he stared at a figure. It was cloaked in black, it seemed familiar for some reason . . . .

"It can't be . . . . . . . .NO!" He yelled out as a bolt of thunder magic whipped past his head, he dodged it quickly and flew away, if that was who he thought it was, then one young god would never be able stop him alone. He felt the heat of magic as they narrowly missed his light, feathery body by inches. He thought he was doing good, but he wasn't good enough. Next thing Soa's mind could register was that his chest was burning and that he was falling. His back hit the grass with a soft thud and he lay there, near death.

"That's one down. Only one to go." The cloaked figure commented and walked away, an evil smirk playing across his lips.

~~~~~~~ "I'm hitting the sack." Duo said standing up with a yawn, he stretched and walked lazily up to his room, opening the door he got a bit of a shock to see bright colors flashing on his bed. Turning on the light he grinned, Duo had completely forgotten about presents as Soa had come into the dinning hall that night. He plopped down onto the bed and began to carefully unwrap them, Hilde had gotten him a walkman, and wouldn't you know it? A police handbook, 'For laughs' as the note had said. He sighed and picked up the next one a small grin tugging at the corners of his mouth. Quatra ad given him a coffee machine.

"AWESOME!" Duo yelled completely forgetting everyone else.

"Duo, PLEASE!" Wufei yelled out while pounding on the wall. Duo sighed and said softly 'sorry'. Next up was Trowa, he seemed to think this would be funny, it was a chibi Duo with little bat wings taped to his arms, and he looked like he was gliding on the wind. Held up in the air by a little glass hold.

"Funny Trowa, very funny." Duo muttered but nonetheless smiled. Wufei has gotten Duo a sword,

'Since you steal mine so many times, maybe now you'll leave mine alone.' The note read. The youth smirked. Heero was unusual. How many people got you a fountain that was shaped like heaven? Small clouds had little carved holes at the sides which let the water drip out onto the next cloud, there were only 5 clouds, it all ended up in a small lake at the rim where a fairy that looked just like Garda grabbing some water in a nutshell. Duo stiffened, was it possible that Heero knew what the Ethereal realms looked like because. . . . . . . Duo shook his head. Absurd. Duo set it down gently and opened the one from Sally, a watch. Obviously she knew how often Duo was late for something. Relena had gotten him a glass angel, her hair was outlined by gold, and she kneeled by something. Mounted on a rock of crystal she looked sad even though she smiled. It made him wonder about Relena's intentions. The last was from Soa, damn! He hadn't gotten Soa anything, well. He'd pick up something tomorrow. He unwrapped it, it was a silver rod, there was leather wrapped in the center, obviously done for the user to place his hands on it. Slowly, Duo gripped the leather wrapped area with two hands, the rod expanded until it was taller then Duo. A small flash at the top grabbed his attention and a blade of green fire shot out. Just like Deathsythes's weapon. A note came with it.

'This was your favorite weapon, not really a gift, but I think it's time it was returned to you.' Duo smiled, Soa really did know what to do for a brother.

Disclaimer: Not mine.