Chapter 3: friends?
Duo looked from Quatre to Dorothy, and back again. He had made up his mind. He was gonna get Quatre and get the hell outta here. He scooped Quatre into his arms and started to run. He ran, and ran until he finally found were Heero, Trowa and Wufei were camped. They had been with Duo, looking for Quatre before Dorothy had come for Duo.
"guys!!" he yelled desperately.
All his copilots ran out of their tents and saw Duo, carrying the unconscious Quatre.
Heero was the first to recover from the sight of the bloody Quatre. "Wufei get the first aide kit, quickly!"
"no, no, time" stammered Duo, "she'll follow. Get in the car!"
the pilots realized this was no time to ask questions, grabbed their stuff and threw it in the car. Heero jumped in the drivers seat, Duo in passenger, and Quatre, Wufei and Trowa in the back. Wufei quickly started to patch up Quatre's wounds as best as they could.
"What happened?" asked Heero anxiously.
"Dorothy and Quatre are wolves" stammered Duo uncertainly.
"What?!" asked Heero.
"I don't know. They changed into wolves and back again. But Dorothy was different this time—she – she was vicious, and Quatre almost attacked me then he changed back. She was going to kill him."
Wufei suddenly noticed that all Quatre's wounds had healed up. Now the only trace of them was the puddles of blood. Trowa noticed also.
"His scratches have healed." Wufei whispered unbelievingly.
Quatre suddenly regained consciousness. He leapt away from his copilots into the trunk of the car. He felt out of control. His head was spinning and his limbs felt like they were on fire. He was changing back into a wolf.
The pilots watched dumbfounded as they saw Quatre's limbs change shape and size. Amber fur sprouted up all over his body. Quatre howled in agony.
"JESUS CHRIST!" screamed Heero when he saw what was happening. The car screeched to a halt.
Quatre snarled at his assembled friends and leapt at Wufei, who happened to be closest. Before Quatre could bite him however Trowa whacked him in the back of the head with the first aide kit. Wufei took the opportunity to clamp his hands over Quatre's jaws, so he couldn't bite anyone. Duo grabbed some bandage tape and wrapped it securely around Quatre's jaws. Quatre struggled with rabid ferocity but was soon overpowered by his friends. They tied his fore legs to his back legs, and put more tape around his mouth.
The guys sat trying to regain their breath.
Duo took a deep breath and was about to say something when he smelt something unusual. "Hey guys what's that smell?" Duo asked. Wufei sniffed the air and quickly covered his nose with a sleeve. The others noticed the smell too, but before they could say something Quatre changed back.
"Drive!" said Quatre through the tape, "it's the smell of blood"
Heero looked into the rearview mirror he could see the lean form of Dorothy, "Shit!" he exclaimed, he quickly put the petal to the metal and they were driving again.
Wufei took the tape off Quatre's mouth but when he was about to take it off his arms Quatre said, "no keep me tied! I could change back at any time"
So Wufei grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around Quatre's shoulders. Quatre smiled weakly in appreciation.
They drove in silence for several minutes until Heero asked, "Quatre what has happened to you?"
Quatre closed his eyes and began his tale…
"As you know I've been traveling around the world, but what you don't know is I was traveling to find some sort of purpose. Yesterday I had explored the forest all day and when I came back Dorothy was in my bed. When she woke up she had fangs and before I could do anything she was by my side biting my neck. She than slit her wrist on her fangs and pressed it to my wound. This morning when I woke up I thought it was all a dream, but I still had a scar on my neck" Quatre moved his head so they could see the scar. "Than Duo came and I don't remember the rest" said Quatre unhappily.
Heero nodded that he understood than asked Duo, "what happened next?"
((I'm gonna be a lazy authoress now because you know what happened so there's no need for me to type it out.))
When Duo finished the guys sat in silence.
The silence continued the rest of the drive. Finally a largish house came into view. It was Wufei's house. They had gone here because it was the closest. Heero pulled into the driveway and killed the engine. They all sat there for a minute. Trowa suddenly reached into his pocket and pulled out a pocketknife. He quickly cut Quatre's bonds, this time Quatre didn't protest. Quatre pulled the blanket closer to himself. Wufei opened his door and walked up to the house. He pulled his house keys out of his pocket, picked out the right key than opened the door. He looked back into the car before he walked in, he left the door open. The other guys sat for another couple seconds before getting out and walking up to the house. Inside they could faintly smell burning incense and could hear the murmur of voices. Wufei's house was decorated with Chinese paintings and the furniture was futons, low tables and a couple of rice mats ((not quite sure what would be found in a Chinese house but you get the general drift.)) Heero, Duo, Trowa and Quatre stood there looking around when a door opened. Naomi (Wufei's wife) emerged followed by Wufei.
"Hi guys, I hear you've had a bad time. I made some dinner but I wasn't expecting Shinigami, so I don't think it will be enough." Said Naomi with a glance at Duo.
Duo smiled proudly.
"Why don't you guys take showers while I make some more food. You guys smell really bad!" continued Naomi, wrinkling her nose.
It was decided that Quatre should take a shower first since he was covered in blood. Wufei gave Quatre some clean clothes out of a nearby closet, they fit Quatre a little big but they would suffice.
Once they had all cleaned up they went into the dining room for dinner. The pilots (excluding Wufei) were a little surprised when Naomi brought out 3 huge pizzas.
"I thought we were going to have Chinese." Said Duo
"I'm sick of Chinese food." Said Naomi, "I'm not dissing my culture or anything but eating it every day gets rather boring."
Duo nodded in approval. They than all dug in, except for Quatre. Duo looked slightly concerned at Quatre's lack of appetite, "aren't you gonna eat anything Quatre?"
"I'm not hungry." Said Quatre quietly. Nobody else commented on the subject.
After dinner Wufei showed each of them their rooms and they all went to sleep, leaving the mess from dinner on the table.