The Secrets of the Gods

I unfortunately don't own the G-boys; if I did I would be much happier, wallowing in money. But I don't so don't bother suing; I don't have anything, I'm a poor college student people! Unless of course you want a couple blood thirsty dust bunnies....I got plenty of those. Comments are always appreciated....craved actually. REVIEWS!!! I NEED REVIEWS. Uh...sorry....I'm ok now. So please, review; let me know what you liked, what you didn't, the good, the bad and the ugly basically. However flames will be laughed at, so I wouldn't even bother.

Now for the Reviewer Responses:

Crysania Fay: You're evil aren't you? Tortureing poor Duo...I would never........honest.....well....uh....anyway.....er...ok next reviewer..lol

inthefire2002: sorry mate, i thought i had explained that. yes Odin is Quatre and Shinigami is Duo....and for future referance, if there is someone called Shinigami in any GW fic then most likely they are refering to Duo, since Duo is Shinigami a.k.a. God of Death. And just to give ya a heads up, I'll probably be switching back and forth from Quatre's/Odin's to Duo's/Shinigami's POV; sometimes the other guys will be in there but I'll never refer to them in the first person. I hope that clears that up for ya.

Windy River: Well, it wasn't exactly soon, but I did update. So that counts, right???

We raced out of the house; I was all but carrying Heero. I paused at the side of the house; I could hear the beat of about fifteen hearts; I know there were more then just fifteen of them, where were they?

Chapter 3

"Duo, they're moving this way..." Heero whispered into my ear; I surpressed a shutter. Now was sooooooooo not the time to be distracted. I forced myself to concentrate on finding a clear way to the gundams. We needed to get out of the yard. We were vulnerable here. If we could get into the forest, then I could use the shadows to our advantage. However, I had to get to the forest first. And with Heero not at his usual abilities; my speed wouldn't be up to my normal abilities.

"Thirce damn Odin," I growled under my breath, momentarily forgetting that Heero was pressed close to my side and could probably hear me; "when I find him I'm gonna skin him alive, then I'm going to dump into the ocean....after that I'm going to open a gate to ninth hell and I'm going to freeze his lil' white Arabian ass off...."

"Duo..." Heero said, glancing at me from under his hair; "Don't you think we should move?" I glanced behind us in time to see a couple soldiers turning the corner. Without thinking I pulled the shadows of the house around us, effectively shielding us from sight so long as we didn't move.

"Don't move Yuy." I said, putting as much of a command into those three words as was possible. The soldiers walked by, oblivious to the fact that they had just walked by their prey. Heero watched the soldiers stroll on past, there was a slight frown on his face. I pushed it to the back of my mind...I would worry about that later.

I glanced around as soon as the soldiers were out of sight. The tree line was roughly twenty feet away. Not far; normally I would have no trouble getting over there without being noticed.

"How steady are your legs, Heero?" I asked, keeping my attention on the where-abouts of the enemy. "Can you run?" Heero shook his head.

"Negitive." He said, and I bet that he hated admitting that he couldn't do something. "Whatever you guys gave me is affecting my coordination. I can barely stand without falling down."

I swore in several languages; again my thoughts running on how I was going to KILL Odin when I got my hands on him! There were two options left to us....well actually three but the third one was totally not happening; the others however... one: to move slowly supporting Heero and hope to all the Gods the enemy didn't see us...or two: to pick Heero up and carry him bridal style thus allowing me to sprint across the yard. Guess which one I choose.

"Heero please don't kill me 'till this is over..." I muttered as I scooped him up into my arms. He gave a surprised grunt, and his hand spasmed on my shoulder; which was not the reaction that had thought he was going to give me; though this was Heero, he'd probably wait until after we were in the clear before trying to kill me. In any case I hated to think what this did to his pride...though an even worse case; what would Heero think when...no if he ever found out that I was female? I shook my head to clear it of such thoughts. I glanced around again; more soldiers had arrived, they were all over the lawn. The likely-hood of getting to the tree line unseen was pretty much non existent. Oh well.

I wrapped a bit of shadow around us, hoping it would blur our image enough that the soldiers wouldn't be able to get off a good shot; then I took off. I raced across the twenty feet to the tree line; Heero was lighter then what I thought he would be, but still it was akward thying to run with him in my arms. Shots were fired, a couple bullets whizzed by my head, and one grazed my thigh, but other then that, we got to the tree line without injuries. I raced through the trees, drawing even more shadows around us.

I raced through the forest; the trees a mere blur. I could sense danger all around me; I knew I was still being hunted. Heero appeared to have fallen asleep again; thankfully. I really did not want to attempt to explain to him at the moment, how I was able to travel so fast. It was three miles to the cave that we had hidden the gundams.

Scythe.. I called, Put the stealth cloak on and be on guard

Stealth cloak in place; came the reply. Do you wish to include the other gundams as well, Shinigami?

Is there anyone around? I asked, trying to divide my attention between mind-speaking the spirit Scythe; whom lived in my gundam, keeping the shadows wrapped around Heero and me, and watching the uneven ground I was racing across.

No, I sense no other creatures, human or otherwise...unless you include the bats and snakes. The gundam relpied; damned smart-ass machine...

Yes, cloak the others.... I said, then I caught movement in the corner of my eye. "Shit!" I heard the TWANG of a bow string and the soft whistle of the shot. I knew I wouldn't be able to dodge; I was moving far to fast. If that bolt hit me, it would go straight through, I was sure of that. I didn't want Heero to get hit. So instead I twisted, hoping that I could twist enough that the bolt would take me in the shoulder, thus missing Heero. Time seemed to slow down as I watched the bolt come towards me, and me unable to do anything about it. I watched as it pierced my skin and splintered bone. I snarled in pain and fury as time sped up and I was spun around by the force of the shot. I landed on the ground hard enough to snap the arrow shaft off. I clutched at my wounded shoulder; swearing. I mean really, who in the hell uses arrows any more?!?!

"Well well....look what we have here, girlssssssssss." A feminine voice hissed close by. I struggled to sit up. Heero was a few feet from me, attempting to do the same. I glared at the woman who spoke. Woman? I mentally swore again in ever demoinic language I knew...I think I might have even made a few up. The creature-creatures- since there was three of them, were not normal women. They were Medusas; a breed of Gorgons(1). I heard the dry rasp of scales on leaves, indicating that one of them was moving. I glanced over at Heero who was starring at the head Medusa in disbelief. Not that I can blame him, it wasn't everyday that a creature out of legend attempt to kill you with an old fashion weapon.

"It's been a while, Pain; how ya been?" I ask, plastering a manic grin on my face. The Medusa glares at me; for the second time that night I thanked the Great One that I wasn't human, becoming a statue wasn't all that appealing to me. Lucky for me, the Medusas seemed to be ignoring Heero.

"You find ssssssomething funny demon child?" Pain hissed, the mass of snakes that made up her hair hissed at me as well.

"You know I always find you funny, Pain deary." I purred, I hoped that I could keep them focused on me, and at the same time get my feet under me so that I could lunge at the three.

"Sssssisssster..." One of the other Medusas hissed, I wasn't familiar with this one, "Look, our lil Sssssshinigami hasssss a friend." My heart skipped a beat, as Pain turned to glance at Heero. I shifted my weight to the balls of my feet, I felt my claws lengthening. Man I did not want Heero to know about me; not yet. Damn these bitches to all nine hells, for making me do this.

"Well, well....what do we have here???" Pain practically purred...can snakes purr?

"Leave him be, Pain." I growled, I felt the winds shift as I began the Change. The Medusa's noticed the wind's change and the sudden chillyness of the air.

"Ssssssso, the boy isssss important to you, Ssssssshinigami?" Pain asked in an inquisitive hiss. I surpressed a growl as one of the other Medusa's slithered forward and grabbed a handful of Yuy's hair, pulling him closer to her face. Her tongue darted out to lick the side of his face.

"Hmmmm....he'ssssss got a wonderful tasssssste." She hissed. I watched in horror as Pain began to slither over to her sister and MY Heero. I saw Heero's hand drop away from the Medusa's arm to hang limp at his side. Had he passed out? No, I watched, as evil smile curving my lips, as Heero slowly reached for the knife he somehow kept hidden in the back of his shorts. With a motion that was barely slowed by the drugs coursing through his system, Heero slashed at the Medusa's arm. She shrieked in pain and rage, flinging Heero away; Heero hit the ground and rolled, barely escaping the glare Pain sent his way. I breathed a small sigh of relief the Heero dodged that glare; then I launched myself at the distracted serpents. Twin knives appeared in my hands, as I slashed at the three, conviently severing the strings of their bows. Then I sprinted to where Heero crouched behind a tree; scooped him up without even stopping and ran. I felt the Medusa's glare at my back; I tucked Heero closer to my body, shielding as much as possible from their glares. Heero shifted slightly to look over my shoulder;

"Don't look Heero." I stated firmly, "If they catch any part of you in that glare then you're shit out of luck."

"Nani?"

"Those are Medusa's, Heero, like straight out of a freaking legend....they can turn you to stone with a single look. Well that look happens to be a glare, and trust me if looks could kill, we'd be soooo dead right now."

"So why aren't you turned to stone?" he asked. It was a perfectly reasonable question; I knew it was, and damn it all to hell I couldn't lie to him. What was I suppose to say...uh well Heero I happen to be a Goddess of death....yeah notice I said God-dess...not god...heh heh heh......yeah right! So I'll have to tell a half truth....

"I'm kinda immune to it..." I said hoping that he didn't think of any other obvious questions that I didn't particularly wish to answer at the moment...or ever actually. I mean it was the truth...I was immune to the magic of the Medusa's...he never asked why.

Instead of going directly to the Gundams, Heero suggested we circle around, and wait. We didn't know if Quatre, Wufei or Trowa had gotten to their suits yet, so we didn't want to lead our hunters directly to them.

Luckily for me, once we found a place to camp, the drugs kicked in again, and Heero was out cold for the rest of the night and most of the next day . Which was a small blessing to say the least, I didn't have to worry about trying to dodge Heero's questions about what happened today.

Around sundown, Heero began showing signs of waking up. Unfortunalty, around sundown was also when I started hearing noises out in the forest.

"Duo..?" Heero said, sitting up looking for his partner. Duo sat on the other side of the camp, staring out into the forest. If Heero didn't know better he would say that Duo wasn't even breathing; he had never seen the DeathScythe pilot so still.

"Duo?" Heero said louder, Duo looked over, his eyes dark, something swam just beneath the surface of those eyes, something that sent a chill up his spine. Duo moved over toward him, moving silently, and crouched beside him. He placed a hand over Heero's mouth as he opened it to question the braided boy.

"Listen..." Duo said, his voice barely above a whisper, "The forest is silent, something it wrong..."

He was right.; there were no bird singing, no squirriels foraging, even the trees seemed to hold their breath for whatever was coming. Heero stood slowly, stretching out his muscles in case they need to run or fight. Suddenly Duo's head snapped around and he lunged at Heero; "Look out!" he yelled, pushing Heero to the side. Something hit him in the chest, sending him spinning backwards, to land hard on the ground. I heard the sickening CRACK as something broke. Duo didn't move. He wasn't dead, Heero could tell that by the fact that his chest still rose and fell, but...how badly was he injured? Suddenly pain lanced through Heero's leg, followed immediately by pain in his arm. He went down to his knees, gasping at the suddenness of the pain. Heero starred down at his shoulder, a gun shot wound? But where was it coming from?

There was the crunch of leaves behind him, Heero whirled gun instantly in his hand. There was a sharp CRACK and the gun vanished from Heero's grip, his hand was slightly numb. Five figures stood in front of him; four were wearing OZ uniforms, one was wearing a pair of leather pants, nothing more. It was that one that held the whip in his hand.

"Move and we kill you're lil friend over here." One of the officers said, I glanced at Duo who was beginning to stir. He was pushing himself to his hands and knees. The man with the whip walked over and casually kicked Duo in his ribs. There was a distinctive sound of bones cracking. Duo started swearing, though it wasn't in any language that Heero knew...or had even heard in his training. However, it seemed the man with the whip knew exactly what Duo said, his face became red and he glared at Duo just before he kicked the braided pilot again. Suddenly there was a sharp pain in Heero's neck, he whipped around, instantly angry that he had allowed the enemy to sneak up on him, then darkness surrounded him.

1. ok I know that in mythology that Medusa is a single creature; but in my story I have made the creature known as a 'Medusa" into a sort of subspecies of Gorgon. Like a Lab is for Dogs.

I'm sorry its taken me so long to get another chappie out to you folks; but school is killin' me. Plus I'm trying to figure out how to write the next few chappies in Eternal Darkness, so hopefull for anyone interested I'll have another chappie of that ready here soon. Hopefully. Have patience my faithful fans....I'll update as quickly as I can! If there are any question feel free to ask them and I'll try my best to answer them.

Oh, if you by chance happen to have any mythological creatures, whether they are OC or just a fav mythological beast you want to add to my story, send me their info; you know name, species, powers, etc. I'm in need of charcters and I happen to suck at names. So feel free to add a couple charcters.

Till next time....chow babes.

Nyx