Chapter 4: containment
Disclaimer: do I look like the kind of person who owns anything, let alone Gundam Wing? Don't answer that!
A/n: there's nothing to say so I won't say anything.
Heero woke up bright and early at 5:00am exactly, he didn't want to wake up the other pilots just yet so he took out his laptop and started typing.
Wufei woke up at 9:00am, Naomi was already awake and reading a science fiction book.
"Good morning Wufeikins" said Naomi to bother him.
Wufei raised an eyebrow at the use of the name 'Wufeikins' but just shook his head and got out of bed.
Duo woke at 10:30 with a splitting headache. He got up and hobbled down the hall to Quatre's room, who had always given Duo an aspirin when need be. He didn't bother knocking and just opened the door. Duo could see Quatre curled up under the covers, which was odd since Quatre was always awake before Duo.
"Get up Quatre, it's 10:30." Said Duo pulling the covers off the bed.
Sitting on the bed was the amber wolf, a.k.a. Quatre. Duo stopped pulling the covers and slowly backed away from the sleeping wolf.
There was a light knock at the door and Naomi poked her head in the room. "Breakfast will be ready-" Naomi stopped when she saw the wolf. Wufei, had of course, told her Quatre was a werewolf but Naomi had been expecting a ginger snaps kind of werewolf ((for those of you who don't know ginger snaps is a very good werewolf movie, in which the werewolves don't look absolutely fake like every other werewolf movie)) but Quatre was a majestic wolf. Suddenly a crash was heard in the next room and someone was heard ranting in Chinese. Quatre leapt to his feet, saw Duo, and growled. Duo sprinted to the door knocking Naomi and himself to the floor. Quatre barked furiously. Duo kicked the door shut before Quatre could come through. He remembered Naomi and walked over to help her up. Wufei and Trowa ran in from the next room to see what was wrong. Crashing sounds came from inside the room and the sound of ripping material.
"We've gotta find a way to fix this." Said Duo loudly.
"Might already have one." Said Heero walking out of his room.
"What do you mean?" asked Trowa.
"Gundanium is a strong pure metal, as you know. In all the myths silver weapons have killed werewolves. Silver is a pure metal also, but not nearly as strong as Gundanium. I am thinking that if he as Gundanium piercing it should be able to quell, or completely stop his werewolf attacks." Said Heero. ((A/n: I don't know much about Gundanium so just bear with me and pretend that is all true.))
"Were will we get a ring made of Gundanium?" asked Naomi.
"Apparently there was a group of hippies who right after the war ended had body piercing done with rings made of scraps of Gundanium to show that we didn't need Gundanium for Gundams any more."
"Someone's been doing their homework." Said Duo
"But even with that, where will we get a hold of one of these Gundanium rings?" asked Wufei
"They sell them at most gift shops." Answered Heero, "While you guys were sleeping I found the location of the nearest gift shop and bought several of these rings" Heero pulled a plastic bag, filled with little round rings, out of his pocket. "We'll give him the piercing after breakfast."
Everyone seemed to think this was a good idea so they sat down to breakfast. About Halfway through the meal Quatre came in, shame faced.
"I'm so sorry Wufei, Naomi. I'll pay for the damage I've done." He said politely.
"It's not your fault Quatre." Said Naomi, trying to cheer him up. This had the exact opposite effect on Quatre.
"I can't keep doing this." Said Quatre angrily.
"We might have found a way to fix it." Said Heero.
Quatre looked up at Heero in surprise.
Heero than explained what he planed to do.
Quatre looked a little frightened at the prospect of having a piercing, but since there was no other way he agreed. They cleaned up the dishes and went into the living room. Quatre sat down and the guys tied his arms to the chair in case he turned into a wolf.
Naomi was going to be the one to pierce, since she had done this before with her little sisters.
"What's he gonna get pierced?"
"Just his ear for now." Said Heero.
"Ok, that I can do." Said Naomi, she tried to smile reassuringly at Quatre but it didn't help much.
She positioned herself near Quatre's head and said, "It really doesn't hurt all that much." She grabbed the sanitized needle and without a second thought plunged it into Quatre's right ear lobe.
Quatre bit his lip as Naomi quickly put the Gundanium ring in his ear.
"All done!" said Naomi proudly, wiping the little bit of blood off Quatre's ear with a cotton ball.
"Cool! Now all you need is green hair and you'll be on your way to being a punk." Said Duo cheerfully.
Quatre allowed himself to smile and said, "guess you're right Duo."
"Do you feel any different?" asked Wufei.
"Not really" said Quatre
They all looked slightly worried but they swallowed their worries, and tried to decide on something to do.
Wufei, Naomi, and Quatre all wanted to meditate. Duo wanted to play Crash Team Racer with someone, who ended up being Trowa. Heero wanted to research werewolves more extensively. They all went to do what they wanted.
The day passed without event and soon they were all off to sleep again.
Quatre sat on his bed rocking in fear. He had spent the majority of his day fixing everything that he had broken but now that everything was fixed he had nothing to occupy his mind. He started nervously pushing his bangs out of his face. They kept poking him in the eye. Quatre was getting very frustrated, his fingernails started to lengthen into menacing claws. He ripped at his bangs and locks of blonde hair fell to the ground. Amber fur started to grow up his arms like ripples in a pond.
"I'm not going to change, I'm not going to change." Quatre repeated to himself over and over. He started nervously scratching at his arms leaving long streaks of blood with no scratches underneath. The scratches healed almost as soon as he made them. Quatre didn't even notice his claws were breaking through the skin. A pale ray of moonlight fell through Quatre's window and on to his forehead. Quatre felt himself calm down and his claws retracted into his fingers without a trace and the fur started to thin out. Moonlight seemed to have the opposite effect on him than in all the legends. The moonlight sang through his veins, lulling him into slumber. Quatre reached up a hand to touch his earring than finally fell asleep.