Gundam wing A/C / Spirited away crossover
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 7: Heero's return and meeting Hilde.
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"DUO SAYS THERE'S SOMETHING STUCK IN THE SPIRIT'S SIDE!"
The simple sentence Quatre yelled confused Relena beyond belief until she realized something, if the spirit had something inside it, then it might not be a real stink spirit. She hurled herself over the railing of the balcony she was on and flew down to where Quatre was tugging the object with Duo. Relena produced a rope as the scent of gold stung her nostrils, this spirit was filthy rich. "Quick you workers!" She yelled at those watching as she produced a rope. "Get down here now and help!" She threw the rope to Quatre but Duo caught it. Careful not to look at the floating mass of wrinkles in the skintight dress, Duo set about tying the rope.
Spirits took the other end and on Relena's greedy promptings they heaved until the junk inside the spirit came loose. Bicycles, shopping trolleys and much more human rubbish covered in slim lay on the floor, then the water from the overflowing bath began to wash away the dirt to reveal sparkles of gold, the spirit had left them nuggets of the precious metal. "By Allah!" Quatre exclaimed from where he stood, he'd been forced to move back to the big tub area's entrance by the junk. "It's gold!" as he said this spirits began to try and push past him. "Stop it you fools." Relena hissed irritably, "Our guest hasn't left yet and you are going to be giving the gold to me anyway." They protested briefly but then became quiet.
Duo had fallen back into the tub once all the junk had been pulled away and now a wizened head poked out of the water. //'Well you did a very good job, Shi.'// The dragon spirit shook his head and the hair that had been plastered there was flung out into a mushroom shape, a long crooked nose poked through a gap in its hair. //'I'll have to leave now but I leave a gift for you in parting. Something for your parents and something I have been holding until you returned to collect it.'// The dragon smiled at him and gave a freaky laugh before it burst out of the water and through the doors that Relena had hastily made the servants open. She waved him off then sped for the gold, getting it all before so much as a speck could be taken as a tip. Duo stood ignored by the tub holding a strange ball of what smelt like herbs and a small cross that dangled from a thin silver chain.
It sparkled in the light that reflected off the water left in the tub. Duo stood entranced until Relena, on a gold high, flew over and glomped onto him, causing his breath to escape him completely. "You've made me rich." The blonde banshee hissed to him, "That was the great dragon spirit of the river 'G' he's rich and powerful and will most certainly come back!" She hopped away from Duo, never noticing the cross hanging from his limp hand, but as she passed Quatre on his way to Duo she stopped and called out to him. "Quatre? Just how exactly did Duo tell you that the spirit had something in its side?" Quatre did well not to betray his emotions as he lied at smoothly as possible. "He was making signs at me through the water." His eye never wavered even as Trowa walked over. Relena searched his mind briefly but didn't see the lie. She nodded to him and walked away.
Quatre heaved a sigh of relief as he walked over to Duo who was stuffing a chain down the front of his shirt. Quatre paid it no heed and went right up to the soaking braided teen. "That was brilliant Duo!" Quatre exclaimed and hugged him, although not as tightly as Relena had, "Everyone will be celebrating tonight, Relena said that she's going to let all the workers have Sake, not that you can drink any though." Duo smiled wryly and shook his head. //"I won't drink that stuff anyway, Alcohol only kills you faster."// The blonde worker laughed and lead Duo back to the workers quarters, Trowa following silently behind.
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Duo woke the next morning after having a dream about running down to the pig pens to give the medicine from the river spirit to them, only to find that he couldn't remember which one's they were. The dream disturbed the braided teen and he had to shake it off as he rose to full consciousness and sat up. The room was empty save for Duo. The braided teen wondered where everyone had gone as he pulled on his shirt and apron. He stepped into the hall and looked out the windows on the other side of the corridor. 'What time is it?' the stray thought ran through Duo's half sleep clouded mind. 'Why didn't Quatre wake me up if Wufei has already lit the boiler?' Duo opened the sliding doors to the balcony and stared absently at the sky for a long moment before he realized the scene playing out before his eyes. A white scaled dragon with silver and dark blue fur was flying through the air twisting this way and that as it tried desperately to avoid the small white birds that chased it.
Duo looked closer as the dragon dove for the water and noticed red smudges along its sides that could only be blood. Duo's eyes clouded as a memory from the deepest part of his mind struggled to the surface. //"HEERO!"// Even in his own mind the voice was desperate as he called franticly to the wounded dragon. Somehow through the haze of pain Heero turned himself toward the braided boy and plunged toward the bathhouse. Duo jumped to one side as Heero hurtled into the sleeping room behind him and scrambled to shut the doors on the little white birds, then he noticed instead that they where in fact... paper.
'Who would send paper birds after Heero?' Duo thought only briefly as the white objects slammed against the half closed door. Duo watched as the ones that had made it in began to loose their power until they began to float back out into the sky. Duo watched them go, unaware that a ripped paper bird was attached to his back as he remembered Heero. He span around to see the workers sleeping quarters a complete mess, Heero lay coiled in the middle of it all coughing up blood and quite unable to change back to his human form. //"Heero..."// Duo's mind voice moaned hopelessly as he ran to capture the dragon's head. He held it for only a moment before something happened. Violet energy began to radiate from Duo's chest and the dragon jolted out of Duo's grasp to look at him. Something deep in his eyes shined with a sudden awareness that would have shocked Duo if it hadn't been what he'd wanted to achieve.
Then just as suddenly something else seemed to take hold of the spirit and Heero thrashed as an invisible something tried to pulled him away from Duo and in the end it succeeded. Heero was forced to fly as he spat up more blood and moved tipsily upward toward the one place he didn't want to go.
Relena's office.
Behind him Duo watched him fly before he caught a flash of pink in the air. Duo suddenly didn't need his voice as in his mind a feral growl radiated out to everyone in the bathhouse. Under his shirt the cross glowed hot, Duo ignored it at the anger passed, but a sense of urgency took its place instantly. Some instinct was yelling at him to find Heero at any cost. In a flash Duo was no longer standing in the hall, and as he ducked around the spirits in the bathhouse all anyone could see was a magenta colored blur with a tail of brown flying out behind it.
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Duo would have growled in frustration if he'd had his voice. He'd decided to avoid the rest of the workers after meeting up with Quatre. Apparently he'd been the one to let him sleep in after what he'd done yesterday, but Quatre had also known that Duo was to blame for the growling in the workers head's that had convinced them that the whole building was possessed. He'd been scolding Duo for barely a few seconds when the teenager had rushed past him and up a set of stairs, startling spirits and workers alike. Now Duo was standing on a roof outside a window. He looked around for any way up the metal walls and almost instantly found a ladder, but to reach it he'd have to climb out over a pipe that hardly would have supported his weight if he were any bigger than he was. Not for the first time he thanked god for it.
'Now, lets hope I'm not rusty on my skills.' Duo thought to himself as he tied up his sleeves and the legs of his pants. With that done he took a deep breath and began to run. Skipping over the pipe he was still to heavy and it began to come away from the wall. Duo ran harder and wrapped himself around the ladder as the end of the pipe fell to point to the deep water below. Duo let out a breath he'd been holding and began to climb, he was almost at the top too when he felt a slight tap on his shoulder. Duo looked around and almost let go when he saw the ugliest, gaudiest pink bird he'd ever seen. Then he realized that it was heading for the bathhouse when he saw the vulture like harpy man underneath it. 'Shit! Relena!' Duo climbed as fast as he could and pressed himself into a window frame as the two bird people flew past.
Duo sighed silently and went about inspecting the stained glass window. It was a simple hook lock, no problem for the master thief he was. A piece of wire from his braid later he was in. It turned out that he'd chosen to enter via the bathroom window in what he could only assume was Relena's private apartments. A huge tub stood in one corner and Duo wondered why in hell would Relena need something that size, //"Duh! The baby!"// Duo smacked his head and went to the door. Looking out he found himself in some kind of nursery. The walls were padded and a few cushions and threadbare blankets lay around in disarray among broken toys. As Duo ventured further in he heard someone grumbling.
"God Dammit! Why can't she just die already and let me out of here!" Duo span to find a gigantic toddler smacking the padded wall relentlessly as it grumbled in an endless litany. "First I get caught playing messenger and now when the master finally comes back he doesn't remember a thing and I can't do anything about it for Shinigami's damn sake! Well at least the damn banshee hasn't figured it all out yet..." Hilde trailed off as she swore she heard someone laugh. She turned as fast as her chubby body would let her and gaped at the sight of the person behind her, grinning like a maniac. //"You must be Hilde."// The girl turned toddler gaped. //"That was one spectacular kick you gave the pink witch on the night I got here."// Hilde shook off her shock and gave him a baby like smirk. "Well I try my best but I won't feel better until I can try stomping on her." Duo's eyes twinkled with mirth before he began to panic as a tug in the region of his heart reminded him of Heero. He crossed the room swiftly toward a second door and listened.
"Oh no Heero! What happened to you oh how I wish I could help you but I know my love will get you through." There was a roar of protest. "Now, now Heero, that's just the pain talking." There was a knock at the door. "WHO IS IT?" Relena yelled, sounding seriously pissed. A quivering voice answered when the door opened. "Oh, Miss Relena, the boy you told us to watch, Duo, he's... missing..." He trailed off in fear. "WHAT!?" Duo would have laughed if the situation hadn't been so serious. "I TOLD YOU TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE LITTLE REINCARNATED HELL SPAWN!" Duo felt the blood drain from his face. "We we're, but he just... vanished..." Relena raved and a door slammed as she stormed out to look for Duo herself.
There was a soft thud behind him and Duo span around. "Don't be alarmed Shi, I swore a long time ago that I would see Relena's downfall and if she's that angry about you going missing like that she must be afraid of you." The cornered animal look in Duo's eye's faded, until he focused on the noise in the room beyond again. Three new voices where speaking.
"Why don't we just get rid of him while she's not here?" A snide female voice said faintly.
"Why should we? Relena hasn't realized the boy is up here yet so why don't he just hand him over?" A second voice said calmly, a hint of an Asian accent in her voice.
"How did you know?" Hilde said coming out, Duo cautiously in tow. The pink haired head would have shrugged if she'd had shoulders.
"Who can mistake an aura like that?" No one said anything after that though as Duo let out a silent cry and rushed to where Heero lay, struggling to breathe. 'Hee-chan, don't fall asleep now, I don't want you to die, not yet...' Duo and said it soundlessly but... wasn't that his own voice he was hearing behind him? He quickly settled Heero's head back down and turned around singing the rudest song he knew. Sure enough his voice echoed it audibly and Hilde laughed. Duo traced it to a bottle on the shelf behind the pink desk. It glowed bright purple as he got near it. Jumping a little Duo grabbed hold of it and the violet light inside was echoed by a flash from his cross and the bottle dissolved, the violet light streaming into his throat.
Duo coughed for a moment before his voice cleared and Duo looked up smiling. "I can't believe it took almost loosing it to make me appreciate how cool my voice is." Hilde snorted while The scary eyebrows of Dorothy raised delicately. "I find it more of an annoyance Mister Maxwell." The blonde 'head' said haughtily. Duo glared at her but jumped when another voice spoke behind him. "Don't make me have him drop kick you through a window Dorothy." They all turned to find a man with pale platinum hair and blue eyes that shone with hidden power.
"Hello." He said pleasantly, "My name is Zechs, I am Relena's brother and I've come for the dragon, so please be kind enough to hand him over."
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Ohhh, long chappie! Well I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter too, I thinkies that I'll leave it as a itty bitty cliffhanger. :P
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 7: Heero's return and meeting Hilde.
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"DUO SAYS THERE'S SOMETHING STUCK IN THE SPIRIT'S SIDE!"
The simple sentence Quatre yelled confused Relena beyond belief until she realized something, if the spirit had something inside it, then it might not be a real stink spirit. She hurled herself over the railing of the balcony she was on and flew down to where Quatre was tugging the object with Duo. Relena produced a rope as the scent of gold stung her nostrils, this spirit was filthy rich. "Quick you workers!" She yelled at those watching as she produced a rope. "Get down here now and help!" She threw the rope to Quatre but Duo caught it. Careful not to look at the floating mass of wrinkles in the skintight dress, Duo set about tying the rope.
Spirits took the other end and on Relena's greedy promptings they heaved until the junk inside the spirit came loose. Bicycles, shopping trolleys and much more human rubbish covered in slim lay on the floor, then the water from the overflowing bath began to wash away the dirt to reveal sparkles of gold, the spirit had left them nuggets of the precious metal. "By Allah!" Quatre exclaimed from where he stood, he'd been forced to move back to the big tub area's entrance by the junk. "It's gold!" as he said this spirits began to try and push past him. "Stop it you fools." Relena hissed irritably, "Our guest hasn't left yet and you are going to be giving the gold to me anyway." They protested briefly but then became quiet.
Duo had fallen back into the tub once all the junk had been pulled away and now a wizened head poked out of the water. //'Well you did a very good job, Shi.'// The dragon spirit shook his head and the hair that had been plastered there was flung out into a mushroom shape, a long crooked nose poked through a gap in its hair. //'I'll have to leave now but I leave a gift for you in parting. Something for your parents and something I have been holding until you returned to collect it.'// The dragon smiled at him and gave a freaky laugh before it burst out of the water and through the doors that Relena had hastily made the servants open. She waved him off then sped for the gold, getting it all before so much as a speck could be taken as a tip. Duo stood ignored by the tub holding a strange ball of what smelt like herbs and a small cross that dangled from a thin silver chain.
It sparkled in the light that reflected off the water left in the tub. Duo stood entranced until Relena, on a gold high, flew over and glomped onto him, causing his breath to escape him completely. "You've made me rich." The blonde banshee hissed to him, "That was the great dragon spirit of the river 'G' he's rich and powerful and will most certainly come back!" She hopped away from Duo, never noticing the cross hanging from his limp hand, but as she passed Quatre on his way to Duo she stopped and called out to him. "Quatre? Just how exactly did Duo tell you that the spirit had something in its side?" Quatre did well not to betray his emotions as he lied at smoothly as possible. "He was making signs at me through the water." His eye never wavered even as Trowa walked over. Relena searched his mind briefly but didn't see the lie. She nodded to him and walked away.
Quatre heaved a sigh of relief as he walked over to Duo who was stuffing a chain down the front of his shirt. Quatre paid it no heed and went right up to the soaking braided teen. "That was brilliant Duo!" Quatre exclaimed and hugged him, although not as tightly as Relena had, "Everyone will be celebrating tonight, Relena said that she's going to let all the workers have Sake, not that you can drink any though." Duo smiled wryly and shook his head. //"I won't drink that stuff anyway, Alcohol only kills you faster."// The blonde worker laughed and lead Duo back to the workers quarters, Trowa following silently behind.
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Duo woke the next morning after having a dream about running down to the pig pens to give the medicine from the river spirit to them, only to find that he couldn't remember which one's they were. The dream disturbed the braided teen and he had to shake it off as he rose to full consciousness and sat up. The room was empty save for Duo. The braided teen wondered where everyone had gone as he pulled on his shirt and apron. He stepped into the hall and looked out the windows on the other side of the corridor. 'What time is it?' the stray thought ran through Duo's half sleep clouded mind. 'Why didn't Quatre wake me up if Wufei has already lit the boiler?' Duo opened the sliding doors to the balcony and stared absently at the sky for a long moment before he realized the scene playing out before his eyes. A white scaled dragon with silver and dark blue fur was flying through the air twisting this way and that as it tried desperately to avoid the small white birds that chased it.
Duo looked closer as the dragon dove for the water and noticed red smudges along its sides that could only be blood. Duo's eyes clouded as a memory from the deepest part of his mind struggled to the surface. //"HEERO!"// Even in his own mind the voice was desperate as he called franticly to the wounded dragon. Somehow through the haze of pain Heero turned himself toward the braided boy and plunged toward the bathhouse. Duo jumped to one side as Heero hurtled into the sleeping room behind him and scrambled to shut the doors on the little white birds, then he noticed instead that they where in fact... paper.
'Who would send paper birds after Heero?' Duo thought only briefly as the white objects slammed against the half closed door. Duo watched as the ones that had made it in began to loose their power until they began to float back out into the sky. Duo watched them go, unaware that a ripped paper bird was attached to his back as he remembered Heero. He span around to see the workers sleeping quarters a complete mess, Heero lay coiled in the middle of it all coughing up blood and quite unable to change back to his human form. //"Heero..."// Duo's mind voice moaned hopelessly as he ran to capture the dragon's head. He held it for only a moment before something happened. Violet energy began to radiate from Duo's chest and the dragon jolted out of Duo's grasp to look at him. Something deep in his eyes shined with a sudden awareness that would have shocked Duo if it hadn't been what he'd wanted to achieve.
Then just as suddenly something else seemed to take hold of the spirit and Heero thrashed as an invisible something tried to pulled him away from Duo and in the end it succeeded. Heero was forced to fly as he spat up more blood and moved tipsily upward toward the one place he didn't want to go.
Relena's office.
Behind him Duo watched him fly before he caught a flash of pink in the air. Duo suddenly didn't need his voice as in his mind a feral growl radiated out to everyone in the bathhouse. Under his shirt the cross glowed hot, Duo ignored it at the anger passed, but a sense of urgency took its place instantly. Some instinct was yelling at him to find Heero at any cost. In a flash Duo was no longer standing in the hall, and as he ducked around the spirits in the bathhouse all anyone could see was a magenta colored blur with a tail of brown flying out behind it.
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Duo would have growled in frustration if he'd had his voice. He'd decided to avoid the rest of the workers after meeting up with Quatre. Apparently he'd been the one to let him sleep in after what he'd done yesterday, but Quatre had also known that Duo was to blame for the growling in the workers head's that had convinced them that the whole building was possessed. He'd been scolding Duo for barely a few seconds when the teenager had rushed past him and up a set of stairs, startling spirits and workers alike. Now Duo was standing on a roof outside a window. He looked around for any way up the metal walls and almost instantly found a ladder, but to reach it he'd have to climb out over a pipe that hardly would have supported his weight if he were any bigger than he was. Not for the first time he thanked god for it.
'Now, lets hope I'm not rusty on my skills.' Duo thought to himself as he tied up his sleeves and the legs of his pants. With that done he took a deep breath and began to run. Skipping over the pipe he was still to heavy and it began to come away from the wall. Duo ran harder and wrapped himself around the ladder as the end of the pipe fell to point to the deep water below. Duo let out a breath he'd been holding and began to climb, he was almost at the top too when he felt a slight tap on his shoulder. Duo looked around and almost let go when he saw the ugliest, gaudiest pink bird he'd ever seen. Then he realized that it was heading for the bathhouse when he saw the vulture like harpy man underneath it. 'Shit! Relena!' Duo climbed as fast as he could and pressed himself into a window frame as the two bird people flew past.
Duo sighed silently and went about inspecting the stained glass window. It was a simple hook lock, no problem for the master thief he was. A piece of wire from his braid later he was in. It turned out that he'd chosen to enter via the bathroom window in what he could only assume was Relena's private apartments. A huge tub stood in one corner and Duo wondered why in hell would Relena need something that size, //"Duh! The baby!"// Duo smacked his head and went to the door. Looking out he found himself in some kind of nursery. The walls were padded and a few cushions and threadbare blankets lay around in disarray among broken toys. As Duo ventured further in he heard someone grumbling.
"God Dammit! Why can't she just die already and let me out of here!" Duo span to find a gigantic toddler smacking the padded wall relentlessly as it grumbled in an endless litany. "First I get caught playing messenger and now when the master finally comes back he doesn't remember a thing and I can't do anything about it for Shinigami's damn sake! Well at least the damn banshee hasn't figured it all out yet..." Hilde trailed off as she swore she heard someone laugh. She turned as fast as her chubby body would let her and gaped at the sight of the person behind her, grinning like a maniac. //"You must be Hilde."// The girl turned toddler gaped. //"That was one spectacular kick you gave the pink witch on the night I got here."// Hilde shook off her shock and gave him a baby like smirk. "Well I try my best but I won't feel better until I can try stomping on her." Duo's eyes twinkled with mirth before he began to panic as a tug in the region of his heart reminded him of Heero. He crossed the room swiftly toward a second door and listened.
"Oh no Heero! What happened to you oh how I wish I could help you but I know my love will get you through." There was a roar of protest. "Now, now Heero, that's just the pain talking." There was a knock at the door. "WHO IS IT?" Relena yelled, sounding seriously pissed. A quivering voice answered when the door opened. "Oh, Miss Relena, the boy you told us to watch, Duo, he's... missing..." He trailed off in fear. "WHAT!?" Duo would have laughed if the situation hadn't been so serious. "I TOLD YOU TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE LITTLE REINCARNATED HELL SPAWN!" Duo felt the blood drain from his face. "We we're, but he just... vanished..." Relena raved and a door slammed as she stormed out to look for Duo herself.
There was a soft thud behind him and Duo span around. "Don't be alarmed Shi, I swore a long time ago that I would see Relena's downfall and if she's that angry about you going missing like that she must be afraid of you." The cornered animal look in Duo's eye's faded, until he focused on the noise in the room beyond again. Three new voices where speaking.
"Why don't we just get rid of him while she's not here?" A snide female voice said faintly.
"Why should we? Relena hasn't realized the boy is up here yet so why don't he just hand him over?" A second voice said calmly, a hint of an Asian accent in her voice.
"How did you know?" Hilde said coming out, Duo cautiously in tow. The pink haired head would have shrugged if she'd had shoulders.
"Who can mistake an aura like that?" No one said anything after that though as Duo let out a silent cry and rushed to where Heero lay, struggling to breathe. 'Hee-chan, don't fall asleep now, I don't want you to die, not yet...' Duo and said it soundlessly but... wasn't that his own voice he was hearing behind him? He quickly settled Heero's head back down and turned around singing the rudest song he knew. Sure enough his voice echoed it audibly and Hilde laughed. Duo traced it to a bottle on the shelf behind the pink desk. It glowed bright purple as he got near it. Jumping a little Duo grabbed hold of it and the violet light inside was echoed by a flash from his cross and the bottle dissolved, the violet light streaming into his throat.
Duo coughed for a moment before his voice cleared and Duo looked up smiling. "I can't believe it took almost loosing it to make me appreciate how cool my voice is." Hilde snorted while The scary eyebrows of Dorothy raised delicately. "I find it more of an annoyance Mister Maxwell." The blonde 'head' said haughtily. Duo glared at her but jumped when another voice spoke behind him. "Don't make me have him drop kick you through a window Dorothy." They all turned to find a man with pale platinum hair and blue eyes that shone with hidden power.
"Hello." He said pleasantly, "My name is Zechs, I am Relena's brother and I've come for the dragon, so please be kind enough to hand him over."
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Ohhh, long chappie! Well I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter too, I thinkies that I'll leave it as a itty bitty cliffhanger. :P
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/