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Duo's Child

Chapter 21

Duo woke up Tuesday afternoon and practically dragged himself out of bed. His head ached, his stomach grumbled, his breath stank. Above all, he felt like he weighed a ton.

After Duo did his usual ordeal every morning in the bathroom, he changed his clothing and proceeded down the stairs. By the time he reached the bottom step, he heard the television on. When he went into the living room, he found Uno playing Heero a video game—and amazingly kicking his ass—Quatre sitting and watching, and a pile of food on the coffee table. His eyes locked onto the food.

"Good morning, Duo. Sleep good?" Quatre asked, smiling at Duo.

"Food." Duo grumbled. His stomach grumbled soon after and he sat besides the table. Before Quatre could have a chance to protest, Duo reached over and grabbed a handful of cookies. He began stuffing his mouth.

"Well, they were for the meeting I have later on, but I guess I can bring some tea…again." Quatre said, putting away the saran wrap. "How did you sleep?"

"Like the dead!" Duo replied with so much food in his mouth, you couldn't understand him.

Quatre sweat dropped. "Lovely. Listen…Duo."

"Yeah?" Duo asked, pigging out on cookies.

"Um…about Relena's time with Uno—"

"No." Duo snapped up at Quatre.

"But Duo—"

"No!" Duo growled. "I'm not letting her have Uno as a Barbie Doll! Not in my lifetime, and believe me, I'm harder to kill than she is!"

"I can vouch for that." Heero stated flatly.

"Heero, you're not helping."

"Quatre, why not ask Uno if she wants to spend time with her?" Uno looked up at Duo when the game ended. "What do you say, Uno? Stay with Relena?"

Uno blinked up at him. "Who's she?"

"That girl you met when Quatre had his meeting." Duo replied.

"No!" Uno shouted and hugged at her braid. Heero smirked at her actions.

Duo grinned up at Quatre. "See my point? The trend carries."

"Uno, why don't you like her?" Quatre asked.

"She scares me!" Uno pouted. "She's got a big head and a big face and is always staring at me. I think she's going to eat me!" Uno shuddered at the thought of remembering when she first met Relena and how Relena had looked like she was going to eat Uno.

Heero laughed out loud. Duo smirked, but when he heard Heero's laughter, stopped and stared in silence at the Perfect Soldier. He was actually laughing!

"Well, I guess that'll do." Quatre dropped his head in his hands.

"So Quatre, when are we going to go exploring the house?" Duo asked, changing the topic.

"Don't you mean the mansion?" Quatre smirked, turning Duo's words around on him.

Duo rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever man. So, when?"

Quatre shrugged. "I have to first see if my meeting is still going to go on today. The Chancellor is kind of sick, so the meeting might cancel."

'Hey, isn't it true that if you disappeared, the entire committee would fall?" Duo pondered up into the air above.

Quatre blinked and looked down quietly. "They do pretty much run off of my schedule and plans. But I don't think they'll perish if I died."

"It more than likely depends." Heero interrupted with his bit of information. "If Quatre had died before sending word out to the rest of the committee, then yes, they would fall and the board of the Earth Sphere would begin to fall as well."

Heero's words left a quiet room. Uno stood up and stretched.

"I wanna' go eat." She looked down at Duo, who had obvisoully eaten' up all the cookies.

Duo nodded. "Same here." He stood and picked up Uno. Uno giggled, hugged Duo's neck, then the two went into the kitchen.

"When do you wish to explore what Duo and I had found?"

Quatre sighed. "I guess…let me contact the Chancellor and tell everyone that the meeting is off. I have been feeling kind of weary lately. I guess it's because of too much work."

Uno was digging in her black trunk Hildie had given' her. She had placed the trunk at the foot of her bed and stuffed so much in there that it was hard to find whatever she was looking for…like a certain key to open and unlock a hidden world. She was grumbling by the time she reached the base of the trunk and found the little black box she kept it in. She sat back and looked at it, smiling, then stood up and ran out of the room.

Wufei was walking out of the first floor hallway when Uno nearly landed on top of him from the second floor. He stopped and blinked down at her. She smiled up at him, grabbed his hand, and intended to pull him into the living room.

After a moment of struggling, she realized she hadn't moved and her socks were slippery. She looked back at Wufei as he just stood there, smirking at her.

"Would you like me to follow you?" Wufei had asked. Uno growled and nodded her head, her braid flipping around.

When Uno had reached the living room where the rest of the group was supposed to be waiting, Wufei tapped her on the shoulder and whispered into her ears.

"I believe they are waiting for you in the library."

Uno stood there and blinked a few times. She looked up at him and glared him.

"Oh shut up." She spat her tongue out and ran down the hallway. Wufei smirked and followed behind.

When she entered the library and saw everyone else in there, she handed Duo her little black box.

"Ah, so this is that box you were telling me you found outside." Duo took it and looked at it. Uno nodded. The box was palm sized and a typical cigarette box you can find in stores. When Duo opened the box, he saw a deck of Hentai playing cards. Duo blinked at them and took out the first one, showing it to Uno.

"What are you doing with these?" He asked, nicely and calmly as possible. Heero blinked at the card and smirked.

Uno smiled. "Ricky gave them to me. He said he already had a pack but his brother gave him another one."

"…Do you know what this is?" Duo asked, still as nice as before. Quatre was biting his lower lip, trying not to smile. Uno nodded her head.

"Hentai." She smiled up at him.

"And do you know what Hentai is?" Duo asked, still trying to remain calm, but struggling now.

Uno nodded again, her braid flipping around.

"What?" He asked.

"Porno." She smiled.

Quatre dropped his head in his hands, his face entirely red. Trowa shut his eyes and smirked, chuckling somewhat. Heero was watching Uno and wondering—as well as Duo—how she knew about porno at such a young age.

They both found out and felt stupid at her response.

"You and Heero read it all the time; what's wrong if I read it then?" Uno blinked up at Duo, curious. Duo blinked and became at a loss of words.

"I uh…eh-let's just pretend I didn't see these cards." Duo took them out and handed them to Heero. Heero looked at the cards some then placed them on the window ledge. Duo then removed the thin sheet of black painted wood out from inside the box and found the jewel designed key. He lifted up the key and looked at it as he placed the box back down on the table.

The key was heavy and gold. There was a magnificent blue emblem on the top of the crest that looked like a fountain. The key around the emblem looked ornate, very much posh compared to Duo's tastes. Duo turned it around some, blinking at it, then handed it over to Quatre.

"That is some key." Duo said.

Quatre looked at the key and shrugged. "I guess my father loved class more than I thought."

Quatre stepped up to the door, leant over, and inserted the key into the lock. It went right in without a problem, as if it were waiting centuries for the door to be opened. He pushed it all the way in before turning the key and hearing a loud clicking noise, that seemed to have echoed through the entire room; it also echoed through the hallway on the other side of the wall. Quatre finished turning the key and grabbed the doorknob. It opened perfectly fine and when he pushed the heavy mahogany door aside, the little library was suddenly greeted by an unusual sight. Strong winds of cold air blew in from the hallway, which had a very distinct smell of fragranced flowers. The colors of the room were yellow gold with opal, striped and extremely high class.

Quatre stepped in first. A huge window stood besides him and looked out upon the backyard, a tall rose hedge was on the side of the yard. The hallway spanned about a hundred feet or so, nothing lengthening the room except for a beautiful desk besides the library door, many windows on the right, and another mahogany door at the end of the hall. The floors were of a golden yellow barber carpet; the walls were papered with striped yellow gold and opal white; it reflected the sun in a tremendous fashion. The ceiling was high glossy white and sparkled down at the six characters as they stepped into the room. Beautiful gold and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling every twenty-five feet.

Duo looked up and around then whistled. Quatre was in a daze. Trowa was looking around the hallway and out the windows while Heero walked down the hall to the door at the opposite end; he found it locked. Wufei stepped up to him.

"Quatre's father must have spent a fortune keeping this house up." Wufei mumbled. Heero nodded.

"Quatre…I had no idea you were this rich." Duo said in aw.

"I had no clue!" Quatre was entirely shocked. Uno stepped into the hallway and looked out the window.

Quatre stepped up to the desk. There was a small dressing chair beneath it; its cushion patterned with the same fabric of that of the hallway walls. He sat down on the chair, instantly feeling the comfort as if the chair had never been sat upon. Trowa stepped up to him from behind and looked at the desk. It had no scratches on it; nothing was mismatched. There was a small tiffany lamp in the corner with parchment in the center; a feather pen lay on the side of the side next to an enclosed case of ink. Quatre checked the drawers of the desk and found a note neatly folded up in the center drawer. He withdrew it, shut the drawer, and turned around in the chair. When he read the first couple lines, he nearly wanted to faint.

His father had written him a letter.

"Quatre, what's on the note?" Duo had asked. Uno held on to Duo's hand and Duo rubbed her back.

It took a few moments for Quatre to catch his breath before he was able to continue on.

"It-it's from my father." Quatre felt his breath get stuck in his throat and he coughed a little. "It reads:

Quatre

Well, I guess the day has come that you have finally found the key and the door I have secretly hid. Behind the door, lays an entirely new world for you; some of which you may never care to know…other's you would rather not know.

I had enclosed the mansion off after your mother's death. I have built on the section you are currently living in so I wouldn't have to explain the reasons for ever having to leave. The loss of her body and soul was too much for me to handle so I simply made a choice to lock away the memory and run from the pain. When you fled to fight in the war, I then realized that you may have the courage to openly unlock the mystery behind the Security door at the other end of the hall.

Yes, Quatre, the door opposite than the one you have entered is the main Security room for the entire mansion. This house wasn't built by my idea. It was built for a man whom you had never known about; a man who was able to change the future of his time before the world had its pacifist leader. His name was Jonathon Howard Blassimeer; he was a wonderful man.

Like you, he fought in the Federation Wars as a normal pilot of an enemy mobile suit. I had lived in a flat up in the college town of L4; I was in study of becoming the governmental icon you saw me the as. I was outside of the flat, taking care of some business, when an enemy soldier ran up to me; he looked like he was in great pain so I helped him up to my flat and cared for his wounds. He told me he some how survived the explosion of his mobile suite and I told him that Allah may have wanted him to change. I let him stay for as long as he needed until he could gain back his strength; I helped an enemy of the colonies from being killed.

During the three weeks he stayed with me, I learned about his life as he had learned about mine. We spoke about common differences between the two of us and shared a good time. I must truly say a man is not an enemy until they join sides with the devil; Jonathon was only misguided. I told him to not return to the battlefield as he so desired to, and told him that if Allah had let him live from that explosion, then surely he had wanted him to change the ways of the world. I told him to not return, and instead, seek out those on this colony who may help him. I explained that no matter what he does, he is forever an ally of this colony.

He admired my courage in taking in an enemy soldier and admired even more that I had taken the time out of my busy schedule to attend to his wounds and talk with him as a friend. He took my advice, fled from the Earth as I had told him to stay here, and he had found the answer he was looking for.

He had met Heero Yuy and he had told me the man was more than the idol you fight for today. He had explained things to the pacifist leader that were unknown to him at that time; it was Jonathon Howard Blassimeer that had offered the deal for Heero Yuy to carry out with the wishes of becoming the pacifist leader.

In response to helping him out, Jonathon had sent me a letter with a key. He stated that he had thanked my kindness and concern for taking him in when he needed it the most and befriending a man who was misguided. He had liked sharing the thoughts that counted between humans instead of the knowledge and admired my courage. He had sent me a key saying that I may take his mansion as a gift for my kindness; the mansion was built by his fifth great grandfather and was passed down through generations until it went to him. He had decided to give it to me as a token of our friendship.

It was the end of the week, only four days later, when the news media stated his body was found assassinated in the enemy cells of who he used to fight for.

Quatre, my dear boy, the day has finally come that I can give you this same very key he had given me and pass the heirloom down to you. Do not fear the rest of the mansion as many parts of it you will not like. Blassimeer's former relatives dealt with other wars such as your own and used the mansion as a fort, which is why you will see Security Check rooms and Weapon Check rooms through out the mansion and the entire Court Yard a giant maze. His former family had great ranks in the Federation Wars and had many members of the facilities living within this mansion. They held the captured in the Medieval Wing, worked in the TechnologyCenter, and even trained in the Military Wing.

Inside the Security Room at the end of this hall, you will see technology that the wars you fought in did not have. You will find maps that show the entire mansion and all of its attributes. You will find things out that you may have never thought possible. Please do not get lost within these walls; it is a very huge mansion and tempting to run off within.

Quatre, my son. I wish I could be with you now, but fate has pulled us apart. I have done my share of work and Allah had decided I was finished. Please stay in good health and remember who you are.

Your father

Quatre had trouble breathing and started to shake.

"My father…he…he was expecting all of this." Quatre felt light headed and luckily, Trowa was behind him so he could lean into his friend.

"Quatre…are you sure you want to look around?" Trowa asked, concerned for Quatre's health.

Quatre nodded. "Yes; my father handed this mansion down to me. I have to see what lies beneath the other door." Quatre stood up, put the note back in the desk, and started walking down the hallway. He inserted the same key into the lock at the door at the end of the hall and opened it. This time, there was a loud metallic clicking noise that echoed through out the hall. When the door opened, all they saw was a black room. Quatre, being the one in charged of the house, took a deep breath before stepped his foot through the door. Instantly, a switch he stepped up lit up the entire room and Quatre was taken aback when he saw the endless rows of computers spanning the sides of the room. Monitors were lined up all along the walls, each shut entirely off. In the center of the room stood a humongous column with monitors entirely surrounding it. Heero stepped into the room and looked around. Duo and Uno gawked at the electronics. Wufei and Trowa stood staring at the many monitors that were shut off.

"Quatre…what did your dad say that guy did for a living?" Duo asked, looked at the keyboards, switches, keys, and buttons that lined up all along the vast square room. The ceiling was metallic with recessed lights. The metallic floors sounded each footstep.

"I have never seen a room like this before; even in Oz." Duo blinked around.

Heero stepped up to a rack with walkie-talkies and other technical items. Trowa stepped up to a computer panel in the center of the right side of the room. He looked around at the switches.

"There's a switch that say power. Should I push it?" Quatre stepped up to Trowa. He nodded. When Trowa opened the glass case it was hiding behind and pushed the button, all the monitors in the room flashed on at the same time and went to static. The computers booted up and the room started to sound like an engine room. Trowa shut the glass case and when he did, the computer screen besides him flashed on and read 'enter' on the monitor. Following orders, Trowa hit enter on the keyboard and the screen started booting up.

"What's it doing?" Duo had asked.

"It's warming up and taking in the many absent years it was shut off." Heero stepped up to them.

"How do you know that?" Duo asked, growling.

"Because the binary codes are counting the years from now, backwards, to when it was last shut off." Duo sweat-dropped; he forgot Heero could read just about any computer language.

When the computer finished loading, the room itself seemed to become alive as each computer started to activate its response systems and terminal lodgings; it was updating itself.

"System malfunction." A female voice rang out. Quatre spun around to the center column and took a look at the monitor and single keyboard hanging from the bottom of the screen.

"System malfunction. To repair and return to previous load, please hit enter. To abort, please shut down security system. To ask for help, please turn on voice activation."

Duo blinked. "Voice activation?"

Quatre stepped up to the monitor and looked around. Trowa walked around the room and found a door opposite from the one they had entered. Wufei turned around to the heavy machine box standing behind him; there were dozens of switches all over it—it looked like the system's server and connection devices. Heero pointed Quatre to the switch a few feet down from the power button Trowa pushed. Quatre walked over to it and hit it.

"Voice activation on." The female voice spoke again.

Trowa looked over to the wall in front of him, the left wall when they entered the room, and noticed it was the only wall without monitors. There were computers below it, but the entirely wall was bland. He looked closer and found the entire wall was the monitor. He smirked.

"Tricky devil." Trowa mumbled.

"Um…could you please explain the System malfunction." Quatre asked kindly. Duo gave him a goofy look and smirked.

"Even to a machine, Quatre's as sweet as he can be."

"Registering voice activation. Please state your name."

"Quatre Raberba Winner."

After a few moments of silence, the voice returned.

"Quatre Raberba Winner," it sounded like Quatre's voice only it had a machine echoe to it. "Welcome." Quatre smiled. "System malfunction. The machine was turned off thirty-six years ago and must repair itself to work properly."

"What happened?" Quatre asked.

"Machine outdates every four years and updates itself to its current state."

"Oh..." Quatre felt kind of new at the house again.

"Repair and return to previous load?"

"Yes."

"Activating system occurrence." The voice disappeared and suddenly, all the computers, screens, monitors—everything—turned itself on and the static disappeared. The system repaired itself, quiet loudly as well, and soon everyone could see the monitors showing something from all over the mansion; they were security cameras. After a couple minutes of repairing itself, the huge screen Trowa was looking at a moment ago turned on and displayed a current map of the mansion.

"Satellites indicate new changes were made to the Blassimeer mansion. Update senses?"

"Yes." Quatre replied.

"Updating senses." Everyone stood still and watched as a 3Dimensional view—and life like as well—spun around on the screen and showed every angel and attribute of the entire mansion. For the first time, Quatre was able to see what his house had really looked like and agreed with Duo, this was truly as big as a castle.

"Updating senses, complete."

Duo stepped up to a machine in the corner of the room left from when they entered.

"Hey Quatre…what's this?" Duo had asked. In response, the machine answered.

"The recording box is a machine that records each known event it spots throughout the entire mansion and labels it when the tape is finished." Duo sweat-dropped and looked up at the screen.

"You can speak to me like you have your own brain?"

"Yes." Duo sweat-dropped again and felt entirely stupid just then.

"Okay then!" Duo looked to the empty case besides it. "Then why don't you have any taped occurrences?"

"They were erased for explicit purposes. My sources indicate that there are six people present in this room and living in this mansion. Is this true?"

"Yes." Quatre answered.

"Calculating voice activations. Please state your name."

"Huh?" Duo looked over at Quatre.

"Heero Yuy."

"…Um…I guess," Duo looked up at the screen where it looked like it was recording each members voice. "Duo Maxwell." He stood proud.

"Trowa Barton."

"Wufei Chang."

"Quatre Raberba Winner."

Duo knelt down to Uno. "Your turn sweet heart."

"Uno Maxwell." Uno answered.

The machine rerecorded each member's voice.

"Voice activation complete."

"Hey Quatre," Duo handed Heero a walkie-talkie. "Let's all keep in touch so none of us gets lost. Okay?"

Quatre nodded. "Good idea. I'll stay here and help you out if you do get lost. Somebody has to be back here to make sure nothing bad happens and to give out the ideas incase one of us gets lost."

"Great…so…what happens now?" Duo asked, handing Uno a walkie-talkie.

"Me?" Uno asked.

"Yeah…you can handle yourself." Duo smirked. "Besides, nobody's here so you're safe."

"Here." Heero stepped up to Uno and handed her his old gun he had throughout the wars.

Uno and Duo blinked.

"You're giving her a gun?!" Duo snapped.

"Incase anything does happen."

Uno took the gun and smiled. "Thanks."

"Safety's on." Heero stated before going to the other door.

Uno nodded.

"Oiy...great…now I'll be having two of you running around like insane people." Duo grumbled and followed Heero.

All but Heero entered the door on the left of the room. Quatre turned to look at him in question.

"Heero?"

"I'm going to check out that door." Heero stepped up to a door practically hidden behind switches and opened it up.

"Alright! Take care!" Quatre waved off. When both doors shut, he faced the big monitor again.

"Please mark each person's routine."

"Calculating markings." The screen split into five boxes, each showing the cameras filming a particular area. All but Heero were on each one; he was on his own.

"Man, this place is HUGE!" Duo look around to the couches and chairs placed in the seating area of what is supposed to be another living quarter. "Where are we again?" Duo turned to face Trowa.

"You're in the original living quarters." Duo sweat-dropped when Quatre's voice came from the walkie-talkie on his belt. "The hallway we originally came from was once an old game room."

Uno continued walking and turned right at the closest corner. She stopped and found a closed wooden door. Breathing deep and checking the safety on her new gun, she proceeded towards the door. When she opened it, she was brought on by a wave of fresh air and a mix of mold and dust. Part of her wanted to sigh in relief while another part wanted to throw up in disgust.

Wufei continued walking to the opposite end of the long hallway and found a staircase at the end of the room. He thought about checking it out, but decided against it when he found a door hidden behind the case and in the corner of the back and right wall. Grabbing hold of his sheathed sword, he opened the door and stepped inside. The only thing that came to mind was noticing the dark and dreary walls of a long hallway that curved right at the end.

Duo stretched and walked away from Trowa. He turned right at the next hallway as Uno had and dragged his feet towards the door.

"Hey Trowa, you take this place, alright? I'll go check to see what's behind this door."

"Alright Duo. Be careful out there." Trowa was looking at the plasma screen television encarved into the wall above a fire place. The prices this Blassimeer man must have paid could have probably bought out the entire colonies and planet both!

Deciding to continue, Trowa walked around the first floor to find three bedrooms and bathrooms, a small kitchen and a small dining room. Looking around at the walls, at its lush white carpet and rich yellow-gold striped wall paper, he found the staircase at the end. Going up stairs, he found a piano room at the far end of the entire wing, a bunch of artist and play rooms, and a second living room. He smirked and pressed his hands to his hips as he stood in the middle of the living room. The place was magnificent to say the least. He was going to enjoy living here even more, now that he knows what lies behind the hidden secret library door.

Wufei carefully walked down the hallway in a disturbed mood. The first door that was to his right that he went through was a showcase of holding cells and the room after that was a torture chamber showcase. Deciding not to follow through the third door, he returned to the original hallway he entered and continued to walk down the curved hallway. An entire row of doors lined his right side while different hallways lined his left. As he entered each door on his right, he found they were all bedrooms. A room at the end caught his attention as it was the Knight Room. He followed the door on the corner of the place and came out to a hallway, which later led to a range for target practice—archery target practice, that is. He followed more doors until he found the weapon room—which had numerous weapons man kind had ever seen, including the pieces of the original RX-78 Gundam from centuries ago when colonies were first created. He found a library and unfortunately read a few of the titles; they made him sick to his stomach.

By the time he managed to reach the second floor without vomiting from the information he found in the books, he was greeted by nearly a dozen bedchambers for workers who had apparently lived in this wing at some time. He took in a deep breath and began walking down the long narrow hallway, counting up all the rooms until he came to a stop at the end of the hall. He counted fourteen rooms, each holding six beds, and a very large bathroom at the end of the hall. He returned to the front of the hall and followed the left wall around to two more doors. The first, turned out to be a sanitizing room; probably where they washed off all the distress from the day's work. The last was a humongous room with hardly anything for decoration. A neon green switch glittered in the dark from besides the door and when Wufei flipped the switch, was greeted with absolutely nothing save for several chairs, each lined up with chains bolted to the floor.

"What kinds of people were these?" Wufei turned off the lights and shut the door firmly.

When he returned to the first floor, he noticed a staircase in the far corner of his eyes, hiding in the dark shadows of the showcase room of the holding cells. Wondrous as to what it could lead to, considering he just witness several disturbing things already, he reentered the showcase rooms and proceeded downstairs…to the basement. The second he landed on the bottom step and then to the floor, the stench of rotting skin and dried blood reached his nostrils. Slowly, he stepped down the tiny make-shift hallway, watching as light flickered across the walls and wavered in firey dances.

"The mansion must have gas-lit torches." Wufei mumbled to himself.

When he turned the corner, it hit him then that this mansion wasn't just an innocent house anymore. What he thought was disturbing to him before was merely a child's book verses a real monster. The room was large, larger than the confinement room where he found the chained chairs. He stepped only three feet into the room and already wished he had never taken this route. To his left was a long hallway of holding cells, many with encrusted blood soaked into the bars. Something, however, caught his eye and forced him to take a few extra steps down that hall. Wufei stopped among the first door when he found a skeleton—still in tact—sprawled out across one of the many benches. His heart paced up, his body chilled to an icy touch, his blood ran cold. Wanting to run away, but having curious feet, cursed him into returning to the torture chamber and taking a closer look at everything. Rotting corpses were still in position compared to where they were as they died. Some stretched out on tables, some with spikes ground out through their bodies. One crunched up in a hanging cell above the entire room. The walls were scraped with weapon dents and cuts along with finger nails, smeared with old blood, marked on by—apparently scientists who have tried several things on human beings.

Wufei felt like he was in hell. When he was about to turn around, a final door grabbed his attention and, even though he saw enough to stray him away from battles for good, saw fit to seek out this door as well. He stepped up to it and looked at a mechanic switch on the side. It was paneled and when he pressed the button, the mechanic door slid up with a loud hum. When it lifted, dust fell from the ceiling and he found just how dark it was dark it was inside. He took a small step forward and nearly slid down as the ground tilted at an unusual steep slope that only lasted two feet before letting off completely. Grunting in pain, Wufei grabbed hold of a railing on the side of the wall and pulled himself to his feet. He looked up and saw a red light on the wall. When he managed to get his hand on it, he turned on the lights and found what he was about to fall down into. He hung there and looked down below him to about fifty feet from the ledge he fell from. It was solid, but covered and filled with bones. Skeletons of all sorts: humans, animals, you name it. But it was mostly humans; that scared him enough. Whimpering with fear and pain, panicking from nearly falling, Wufei pulled himself up to the ledge and hoisted himself up. Grabbing hold of the door's edge, he pulled himself to the floor's level. Quickly, he slammed his hand against the panel switch and took off running out of the Medieval Wing.

He was going to kill Quatre for deciding on touring the unseen parts of the mansion, and he won't need this Medieval Wing to help.

Duo was just about disgusted with classical music by the time he went through the door leading him to the Western Wing. The Classical Wing constantly played music made by orchestras and symphonies so much, he was about to want kill Quatre's violin and Trowa's flute the next time he hears them play. Duo stopped when he saw the door to his left. It looked like the entrance to a Saloon. And when he went in, found it was the entrance to a Saloon. Duo grinned and stuffed his hands in his front pockets as he walked up to the bar. There was a mirror all along the back wall with countless drinks lined along the shelves.

"Well I'll be damned. This bar's got just about all the drinks I recken I know of." Duo spoke with a hick accent. He paused and blinked then leant over the polished bar. "Even some drinks I haven't heard of."

He turned around and looked around the room. Poker tables and little eating tables with chairs, a piano in one corner with a dance floor right besides it. This Saloon had it all. Duo grinned and walked out of the room. He'd found himself a new best friend; after all, Quatre said it is healthy to drink a little wine a day, he just didn't say what kind. He found the room across from the Saloon was a large office with loads of filing cabinets listed of data entries and guns. There was a weapon room at the far left turn of the hallway, which led to the gun range; he'd have to tell Heero about that place. When he took a look at all the weapons, all the guns placed in the racks, he never knew there were so many rifles. This mansion had at least two of everything! He exited the gun range and proceeded to the door across from him. When he found it, he wished he hadn't. Everywhere were animals, big and little, on flight and in swim, standing or hanging there, staring at him. Thousands of eyes were watching his every second. Duo stepped into the room. A huge tiger stood with his teeth bared, staring at the front door to the room. A baby tiger bared it teeth to the back door. Duo went to that back door, silently, and prepared for what was next to come. Unfortunately, when he opened it, the stench of blood rose to his nose. The room was filled with fake eyes and utensils for taxidermy. There were no other doors. Duo wanted to stay in the room longer, but the sickness was filling him up so he spun around and shut the door after he left. He took a deep breath and relaxed as he looked at the fish hanging on the wall. The man living here enjoyed fishing, but he also enjoyed the excitement of a wild hunt. Duo stepped up to a large stuffed black panther. He blinked.

"Weren't these almost extinct?" He looked down and read the label. "Black African Panther. AC 52."

Duo looked back up into the poor creature's fake eyes. "Son-of-a-bitch had a family of murders." He stroked his hand over the animals head. "Poor thing."

It was about an hour and half later when Duo finally left the dead animal room. He walked around and read all the labels of everything in there. Most of the animals were killed right out of Africa; a few from the states. One very-in-particular Blue Jay and Dove combo wad taken right out of his home-town colony; those creatures alone were extremely rare because the scientists were only able to make so many mate. Slowly dragging his feet down the hallway and past another security check room, he turned and went up the staircase to his left. He blinked when he reached the top step and look around over the banister. All the doors looked the same. He went to each one and counted up one closet, six bed chambers each holding four beds, two big bathrooms, and a semi-small closet.

Duo yawned, feeling suddenly tired and wanting to relax in one of the rooms, but decided on touring more first. He went back down stairs and headed down the hallway towards a black door.

Uno replaced the Book of Gods back into its slot on the self and continue looking up at all the shelves. Apparently the Classical Wing's library showed more than just encyclopedias and fiction. She stepped up to one of the doors to the room and looked at a huge fountain in the middle of the reading section. It was magnificent, gold trim with a crimson tile, a beautiful angel placed on top of it all, holding a container of some sorts, spilling the water into the pool of the fountain. She liked looking at it because it made her feel comfortable; she no longer felt like the only girl in the entire mansion anymore.

Uno stepped up closer to the fountain and read the description placed at the feet of the Goddess. It read:

Through beauty and love, my glory shall pour across the seas and oceans of the world, in the name of Aphrodite.

Uno smiled at the phrase. She looked back up to the statue and felt more relaxed. Even when this side of the mansion was in secret, the fountain was still in working condition; either that, or it just turned back on when they reactivated the power. Uno shrugged and left the library. Besides a dozen book cases, the beautiful fountain, and some security and weapon check room, the place was empty. In the hallway, she started heading towards the open space before her when a door to her left shined of turquoise, jade, and emerald. It caught her eye and therefore she went inside. When she did, the lights automatically turned on by themselves and she was overwhelmed by the sight. A grand piano sat before her. On the opposite end of the long stretched room were several dozen other instruments, some of which she knows about and many other's she has never seen before. Placed in the middle and around the rim of the room were elegantly designed cushioned couches and chairs. A magnificent chandelier hung from the center of the ceiling, smaller versions of that same design hung from the walls. The wall paper was rich; gold and a very light shade of pink. The floors were tiled antiquely with a nice shade of jade and pearl.

Uno walked towards the center of the room and spun around with her arms wide open. She was enjoying everything about the mansion and all its hidden secrets. The people who have owned the place must have been quite enormous with their load of cash; after all, they liked to show it off. When she exited through the doors at the end of the room, she found the sudden appearance has changed a small amount. There were still beautiful couches around her with elaborate coffee tables and lamps, but the flooring was back to the gold barber carpet from that of the hallway. She walked around the corner of the wall and found it was from the hallway; this was a sitting area. Uno sighed and tried the next couple doors. She found a wonderfully decorated office and a bathroom fit for a king. She returned to the hallway and pushed her fists against her hips. Sighing and smirking, she stared up at the pearl staircase and jaded steps. This mansion was even more amazing than it appeared on the outside.

Taking each step one at a time, being extra cautious about leaving marks or scratches, she made her way up to the second floor. Upon landing, she found the same decorated walls and floors as a wide and spacious hallway circled around the staircase balcony. Cushioned couches and tables were placed at random places adjoining with each other; another seating area. The doors lining around the hallway all looked the same typical brown, but as she stepped up to them, found they were trimmed with gold. She found six bedrooms and four bathrooms. Each bedroom had four beds and each decorated elaborately. Each bathroom was elegantly designed for royalty, fit for a king.

Upon checking the last door, following the circular pattern of the hallway, Uno found herself in what appeared to be the statue room. More beautifully sculpted people were standing in formations around the room. It looked like the statue from the fountain in the library belonged here. Each statue also appeared to be a fountain piece; probably was able to switch out with the Aphrodite one downstairs. Uno stepped up to the biggest and largest statue she had ever seen. It was set sternly in the middle of the room, bolted to the floor so obviously it wasn't capable of moving to the library. The man was greatly enormous. His arms were bulky and one lifted high over his head; well above four to six feet for Uno's height. He looked serious and angry in his face. His body was built rather muscular; it looked like a towel was draped over his shoulder and wrapped around his waist.

Uno looked down to the mans feet and read the inscription. It stated:

Lightening will strike, thunder will boom, but rain will never help cease my wrath.

Uno blinked at him and looked up at his balled fist above his head. It was gripping tightly onto a lightening bolt. Uno swallowed back the spit stuck in her throat and slowly turned around to leave the room. The Classical Wing was elegant, yes, but filled with mystery that she wasn't understanding.

Wufei kept his eyes shut for more than the hour he took upon the floor outside the Medieval Wing; at least he returned to the original living quarters where no thought to the horror's he had just witness could be seen. He sighed heavily. He should have listened to his instincts when he found the library and the books in there. The Book of the Dead, The Encyclopedia of Human Anatomy, The Dictionary of Human Diseases, Epidemics, and Viruses—he was used to things like that; but seeing things like The Instructional Usage of Human Depository, Ethical Uses of Human Bodies, and the worst he's seen yet, Autopsy on Live Creations.

Wufei shuttered. Quatre was certainly going to get it for this. True, Wufei stumbled across the wing on his own doing, but even Duo wouldn't have enjoyed seeing what he had. Hell, at least he had enough balance to grab himself before he fell into the pit of the unknown with body parts and skeletons of what-used-to-be-alive, down below the earth's surface. He knew for a fact that Duo would have slipped and fallen and still be down there hours later when they were resting from this touring.

He also wanted to kill Quatre for making them all do this because that little stumble had caused him to scrape his leg and rip his clothes. Quatre will get it from him later. He was certain of it.

Heero put the MG40 back on the rack with the rest of the set. He spent the last four hours looking closely at every gun, rifle, cannon, you-name-it listed in the entire Military Wing. A few times he decided to take some of them and try them out with the Gun Range. He found the usual cop issue Beretta was just like another gun when he shot with Colt S.A.A. He even shot it like the old western cowboys shot it; on the side with his opposite hand poppin' the trigger.

Heero shoot his head grinning as he stepped back out into the hallway. A much larger weight room was across from the Gun Range and Gun Room; he found out when he opened the door and flipped on the switch. The same machinery was in here that Quatre had in the newer room, but more of it; as in, the rest of the set. It looked like an actual military camp. A metallic door set along the wall to the left of where he entered and when he stepped through, found it to be the gymnasium. He smirked knowing Trowa would be just as pleased as he about training Uno in a better, higher quality facility than the one Quatre had running for them. It actually looked like an Olympic set right here inside Quatre's mansion.

Heero left the Gymnasium and Weight room and stepped through a door across the hallway. Greenish-brown wooden bookcases lined along the walls and in the center of the room. He walked down the isles and read a few of the titles. Obvisoully the section had only true facts and information because there were no fictional stories listed.

Heero took down a book off the shelf labeled, The End of Tomorrow. He skimmed through it and found it was written just before the Zeon wars. He looked back to the cover letters of the book and read the date. Just as he had thought; Universal Century 79. He replaced the book slowly while thinking to himself. He then proceeded to walk up and down the isles reading random titles of the books. Wars to Rags; Fight, Flight, or Fright; The Horrors of Humanity; Machine or Man? Heero questioned the last book and took it off the shelf. Machine or Man appeared to be about a nameless company trying to turn humanity into machines; unfortunately they did not succeed and destroyed all evidence of the fact.

He shook his head and replaced the book again. Upon exiting the room out of a door near the back of the wall, a big flag fell against his face. He shut the door behind himself and stepped in, letting the flag fall back into place, then spun around to look at were he just was. The library door was hidden behind the Earth's flag.

Heero smirked. How unusual considering should anything happen, all the suspect would have to do is run out of the office room and circle around to the library room, considering they were only a few yards apart. There was a bunch of maps hanging on the wall across from the big mahogany desk. The one in front was of Earth and several behind of the different countries on the planet. After the seventh map—don't forget there were about twenty-five or more hanging—he found maps of the colonies, exits and entrances, routines that he, himself, did not think existed, and even airline shafts that were not used except for emergency purposes. This man had everything in preparation incase a war broke out, and yet Master Winner had talked him out of it.

Heero left the room and stepped up to a door around the corner of his right. Besides a bathroom with a small, almost hidden doorway and the secret passage from the library to the office, he found nothing unusual about this room. The next door he walked into was the door leading to what he would be sending Uno to for a long time; a true military style, training and obstacle room. It looked very much like the one he had to train with when he was younger, only more completed. He didn't feel like he had to explore the room just yet; let it be a surprise to him and Uno at a later day. Instead, he retreated to the hallway and went upstairs.

When he stopped upon the last step and looked around, his awareness went up completely. The place looked abandoned, but then again the whole house was. He shook his head and looked at each door, counting up a total of seven bedrooms each with eight bunk beds in side, and one large bathroom. This Blassimeer man knew about military bunking; each room looking like it was in some metallic dome-shaped building from the Army. The last, and cornered door, he entered was a weapon room. It displayed the same weapons he played with downstairs, only one of each this time with not even nearly half the ammunition.

He returned downstairs and continued down the long hallway he entered several hours before.

Duo leaned against the arcade wall of the Music Wing in sighed deeply. For the past hour and half he'd been playing arcade video games in Quatre's own home! He was more in love with this mansion than he used to be. The first thing he saw when he entered the doors of the Music Wing were the glassy arcade doors that said, 'ARCADE' written in big red letters.

He exited the arcade and proceeded to the door he passed up upon walking in original direction. The door was black and it said 'Photo Shoot' on the glass window. Stepping inside, he found numerous cameras lined up along the wall with a rack of infinite numbers of back drops to choose from. He stepped up to a computer and touched the screen. It flipped through all the images just recently taken and finally went to the main screen. He smirked as he went down the category list of options to take pictures of. Babies, friends, custom; there were countless sections. He scrolled down until he found a section he wasn't planning on seeing.

"Pornography?" Duo clicked the topic and looked at all the images taken for that shoot. It was packed.

"God…this Blassimeer guy was pretty popular with the ladies." Duo clicked on the Playboy and Penthouse subtopic. "Especially the famous ones."

It took him a few extra minutes to leave the photo shoot room and when he did, he was grinning with anticipation. Besides the pornography images that are allowed to be taken in the room, this wing had nothing bad to it. He stepped around and found the next room was a bathroom—a quite elegant designed one he might add—and an instrumental room.

"Oh my God…" Duo mumbled to himself as he stepped up to a crystal electric. "This is the Crystal 500, the guitar I have always wanted!"

Duo didn't touch his pride and joy of findings. Instead, he turned around and found the rest of the Crystal collection along with several other ones. This wing was extremely wealth to have the ability to have all the most popular instruments around. Especially if there were signed ones hanging outside in the hallway of the main halls AND autographs of the most famous musicians ever in all times.

Duo left the Instrumental room and glanced at all the autographs and icons hanging on the wall as he made his way around the dance floor, located in the center of the wing; there was a DJ station in the front of the dance floor. He saw pictures of Elvis, Queen, Sonny and Cher, and even rock singers from his favorite times that he remembered hearing on the walls. This man was quite the popular one.

Another door Duo entered in was the Kitchen, or as he looked at it, the Buffet Room. There were tables and tables of empty trays where obviously food would be stored for the public. Punch bowls and refrigerators were in different locations. Some eating tables were in the back of the room. Across from the Kitchen was the Recording Studio. In there he felt like he was about to faint.

"I always knew I was an excellent singer…now I can prove it!"

Duo looked around at all the buttons and switches of the Rec Room and then into the glass paned rooms designed specifically for those who are auditioning. When he left the Recording Studio and started walking away, a heavy black door appeared to his right. Upon opening, a thick gush of cold air struck him and he carefully took another step in. A blue light lit up besides him and pressing it, Duo was about to pass out. For a long stretch there were so many cars that he'd remember reading out in magazines. There were classics, imports, luxury, solars, concepts; the works.

"Oh my God." Duo mumbled and stepped up to a classic 1954 Swallow Doretti Coupe. "It's heaven. I've fallen off a cloud from God's home and into the real heaven."

Duo looked into the windows of the car before jumping to another and so forth. Each car had well over the stocked titled and no where near a thousand miles on it. He wound up getting too involved in the room that he no longer cared about the rest of the wing. He was in heaven and he wanted to stay there. When he got to the end of the room, he noticed the wall looked a bit funny and stepped up to a panel at the end in the corner. He didn't have to press it to know it was the garage door opener. In fact, this was the largest room he had ever seen in his entire life; not counting the hangars for the Gundams.

He sighed and stepped through the door he thought he came from and froze when he found he exited another way. Besides him were another weapon and security checking room and to his left was something he hasn't witness. Heading that direction, he began to smell a familiar scent. When he entered, he found he was right. It was the incense room. He smirked when he found the usual smoking toys on the shelves in the back.

Turning and leaving, he followed the stair case before him up to the second floor. There were couches and a catwalk and more dancing areas and even more doors along the walls. He didn't think it could get any better than this.

The first door was the enormous bathroom; strangely enough there were couches in there too. The next was a VIP room; this place wasn't just for those who lived and worked here…it was also a night club for outsiders. The following rooms were guest bedrooms and a bathroom for all. Duo sighed when he was leaning on the catwalk banister and stretched.

"Oh…tiring. I wonder who to go chase now that I've found enough enjoyment to last me for the rest of the year."

Wufei woke up when he was taking a nap in the lounge chairs in the library of the Oriental and Antique Wing. This wing at least made him feel comfortable and relaxed. It was fancy and dressed for royalty, but it wasn't too high class that he didn't feel like he didn't fit in. He left the library and entered the room besides it. When he stepped in and turned on the lights, he felt a big emotion of strength fill up inside him. It looked like a dojo, and by the floors, walls, and posters hanging on the wall, it was. It was a martial arts room and he knew he'd be in this room for quite a very long time in the future. He wanted to take a closer look around but didn't want to spend more time considering it was already two in the afternoon.

Instead, he left and checked out the other rooms around in the wing. Across from him was the China and Statue room. Wufei smirked and looked at each antique standing up. A lot of the statues looked like replicas, but when he looked closer, he found they were not. They showed the scratches and chip marks, the look of a thousand years of decay, and even smudges and tarnish spots. Following the door in the back of the room, he wound up in the Aquarium room. Enormous and thick glass tanks filled over head and pretty much the entire room. He stepped into the room, feeling like he was walking through a hallway, and stopped when he found a nicely designed lounge chair and couch across from one another. The tanks lit up a glow of light enough to see in. It formed a hallway through the room and had a very small place to sit and enjoy the scenery of the sea.

He followed the fish tank hallway—which was obviously empty of marine life—until he entered through another door at the end. It was the living room. Another television, more couches and seating, and an elegantly designed coffee table. Everywhere he had been today had shown some sort of family room; even the Medieval Wing. He followed through the hallway and found more guest rooms; each guest room had its own bathroom.

Across from the living room was a magnificent, elaborated, designed door made of a rich mahogany and cherry oak. It had gold trim and designs of classy symbols on it. Wufei stepped up to it and tried the door knob; amazingly enough, he found the door was locked. He tried again and jiggled the knob, hoping it was stuck, but the door wouldn't even bulge.

"I learned already. If something doesn't want you to go inside, don't disobey orders." Wufei slowly backed away from the door and turned to leave.

Heero stepped out of the equipment room after carefully looking around each piece of machinery. There were dozens of computer systems and technical things in there. It was starting to look like a video game; in fact, this HOUSE was starting to make him feel like he was walking through Duo's Resident Evil video game.

He reentered the hallway and stepped on into another room. It was an office. He looked at all the files left on the tables and read the names. Obviously these people did the same things as Resident Evil had done; they were all testing grounds for science and research. The next couple rooms were more offices and lastly he found two computer rooms at the end of the hall.

Heero sighed and rolled his eyes when he stepped up to the computers. Nothing would turn on in this wing without the proper password. He knew he could hack into the systems to failsafe the system and find out what was going on, but he decided that if it was shut off for a reason, let it stay the way it was.

The next room was massive and had cages all over the place. Dozens of computers and tables sat in random places. Desks and filing cabinets were in the corners. He had stepped out of the animal planet and into the animal hell. This was the nesting grounds for animal experimentation; better not let Quatre find this out. He looked at the back wall and to the metal door with a heavy-duty window on it. Upon opening it and standing in the doorway, he looked around and noticed at least two dozen dog kennels. These people were experimented on dogs and other four legged creatures that roamed the lands. He shut the door and exited the room through another door he found.

He now realized that he stepped out of the science laboratory and into the medical laboratory. There were pretty much the same things in this room that the last had, only with the exception of beds. It still had cages. It still had tables and desks and filing cabinets. Only this time it also had cots for testing human beings to sit and lay down. Heero felt disgusted enough. He thought their scientists were crazy in the head; these guys were flat out fucked up.

Uno smiled up at the large stuffed horse at the end of the hallway in the Western Wing. She didn't know much of what she saw, but she did like the stuffed animal room. She walked through the next door and saw a long row of doors. Looking into each one she saw they were guest rooms. Traveling down the hallway, she looked carefully. This place went from historic and western to what appeared to be classy and rich. She turned the corner until she saw another living room. She smiled and ran up to sit on the couch across from the living room. In front of her was a glass coffee table and a few magazines lying on top of it. She leaned over and looked at the covers. They were old, dated far back into a war with a company named Zeon.

Uno shrugged and looked to an end table besides her at the end of the couch and saw something shiny that caught her eye. She crawled over the cushions and sat on the end of the couch. It was a blue key that grabbed her attention. At the base of the elaborate table lamp was a golden key with blue and other pretty colors on the emblem. She picked it up and looked at it. It looked like the skeleton keys Duo had her learning about. She thought for a moment and a thought came to her mind. It probably went to the door in the western wing that looked fancy.

She hopped off the couch and ran back down the hallway from the way she came. She exited this new wing and reentered the Western Wing. She ran up to the door at the end of the other hall and tested the knob. The door opened.

Uno grumbled. "I thought it was locked." He stepped on through and put the key in her back pocket.

The door shut behind her and she looked around. It was a weird place she wasn't sure what it was. There was a second floor above her and it had most of the flooring cut out. She followed the hallway around the main part of the wing until she got to another seating area. Uno looked up at a few of the pictures. A lot of them looked old and were miscolored; some of them looked fairly new. She blinked when she got up to a wall light that looked like a five pronged candelabra. It was the only one around so why was it there all by itself?

Uno tried to stretch and grab it but found she was too short. Instead, she jumped and managed to grasp the middle prong. To her caution, the thing bent downwards and Uno fell to the floor. When she looked back up at it, it returned to its original spot and the wall to her right moved and slide behind the other walls. Uno stood still and stared into the newly found hallway. The walls were cream and the carpet was off-white. There was an elegant painted picture across from her of a woman holding a little boy in her arms; the boy looked dead and the woman looked evil.

Uno reached around to her back and withdrew the gun before she stepped forward. As soon as she stepped in, the wall slid back to place. Uno spun around on her heels and watched in horror as she was locked in. Turning back to the hallway, her heart beating fast, she sucked in her breath and continued on down the path.

"Don't panic; if Duo can't find you, that computer system can." Uno told herself.

She continued to travel down the hallway until it curved right and came to a dead end. To her right again, a U-turn from how she entered, were two humongous doors, both richly carved. She reached out and twisted the right doorknob. It opened and she pushed open the door. When she stepped into the room and carefully let go of the door, her nerves began to act up when she found it was entirely pitch black. The door slammed shut and Uno spun around to face it. Her heart beating heavy and her breath stuck in her throat, Uno stepped back up to the door. A pink light glowed to her right and Uno reached up to press it. When it lit, it took her an extra minute to gather her senses.

She stepped back when she looked at the door she had just entered, shock filling her senses. All around the door were shelves lined with over a hundred books. Slowly, her eyes enlarged and taking in every detail, Uno turned around to get a good look at the room. The walls were nothing but shelves of books, three to four floors up. There were a few doors on either side of the room, but even other them the shelves stopped and continued on the other side of the wall. Books upon books upon books lined along the edges of the room she had stepped upon. Before her, across from the door she had entered, were several lounge couches and a massive fireplace. Two gold staircases started on either side of the fireplace and joined on top at the second floor. A balcony circled around the entire room for up to at least another floor. Uno looked straight up to the ceiling where the glassed in windows let her peer out into the sky above. Obviously at night, the room would glow into an enormous shine with all the stars to shine down into it. The third floor balcony curved up to enter another staircase until it reached the very top and had, from what she could make out from down below, two arm chairs and a tiny room, made specifically for a reader to read in silence with nothing but the night sky to keep as company.

Uno stepped, slowly, up to the first door on her right, gun forgotten as it was dropped when she looked around at the room. There was a very big closet besides the door where she came in from and a bedroom besides that. Following down the hallway, and looking at the number of books lined up, she found an office for studying, a movie theater room with a panel besides a wall for the movies to switch to another row, a dining room with a kitchen just off that, and hidden behind the fireplace was some room with security machines and weapons. Across the wall was a relaxation room, a video game room—a place she would have loads of fun in—an anime room with another paneled wall to switch the selection of anime, and a formal dining room.

She stepped into the formal dining room and turned on the lights. A glassy elegant table sat in the middle of the room and stretched out far to the other side. Beautiful chairs and more furniture sat in the room and she followed the table down to the other wall opposite from the door she had entered through. A few double glass paned doors lined along the back wall with a classic frosted appearance. She opened through one of them and upon her entering; the lights went on by themselves and lit up all over the room. The lights were candelabras, chandeliers, everything royal and famous. The floor was designed beautifully and richly, the windows along the right side of the room shined out to the trees and makeshift lands of a temple.

A door stepped out of the elaborate white wall to her left and as Uno stepped up to it, quirked her eye brows at it. It looked rather familiar. She reached for the doorknob and found the door was locked and wouldn't move. She sighed and looked at the door. It was designed with so many images; a thought came to her head. Quickly, she removed the key from her back pocket she had found on the table in that living room only hours ago and inserted the golden key to the lock. It clicked and opened and when she left the room, she found she was back where she had started…in the living room where she found the key.

She felt like she was running around in the mansion of Resident Evil…and sadly enough, she forgot her gun.

Wufei was dragging his feet by the time he made his way back to the original living quarters. Quatre had better give him something for searching through his entire mansion. While Quatre was resting and taking a break from life, he had to nearly kill himself in the damn Medieval Wing. Wufei stopped and stared ahead of himself to a door he must have missed when he first came through. He stepped up to the door and opened it. A freshly new scent of grass filled his lungs and he shut the door behind himself.

"Well at least it isn't mildew or scum of a skeleton." Wufei muttered.

He was walking through the hallway made of tall hedges and grass when he came to an opening. He stopped and looked around carefully. There were only two other ways to go, but if he knew one thing, it was that mazes were usually best created in gardens. Shaking his head and shutting his eyes, he turned to go back to the start.

"I'm not willing to get lost and stuck in a snake hole again. One time was enough. If Quatre wants me to explore everything while he sits on his butt, he can explore this on his own."

"Everyone, this is Quatre; can you all hear me?" Quatre spoke up in his walkie talkie.

"Quatre…most of us are right here." Duo grinned. Quatre spun around to see Wufei, Duo, and Trowa standing against the wall where the door to the start of the day was.

"Oh…well, it's about five o'clock. I was wondering if you all were ready to stop for the day." Quatre smiled.

Wufei stormed past Quatre to the computer system. "I'm not going through any more of your mazes again. If you want to explore your court yard, I suggest you do it on your own." Wufei looked up to the computer showing the floor plan of the mansion.

"What happened to your clothes, Wufei?" Duo asked.

"I found the Medieval Wing."

"Ooooh, a Medieval Wing!" Duo's eyes lit up. "Really! With a real torture chamber and trash pit!"

Wufei looked at Duo questionably. "You should have found it instead. I nearly fell in and couldn't have gotten' out if I had."

"Wow! I can't wait!" Duo grinned and hugged himself. "I love things like that!"

Trowa looked at Duo and slowly backed away. "Right…"

All four stepped up to the screen showing the blueprints of the house. Duo stared at the parts that shown the Medieval Wing, Trowa at the Classical Wing, and Quatre at the Western Wing; Wufei was looking for the Court Yard but never found it.

"Quatre." Came a flat voice from the side. Quatre, Duo, and Trowa turned to see Heero and Uno. "Did you know Blassimeer tested on animals?"

"He did?!" Quatre's eyes enlarged. "That's awful!"

"He also has an entire military training facility." Heero shut the door behind himself.

"I bet you're crazy about that, eh?" Duo grinned. He looked at Uno. "What did you find?"

"Heaven."

All of them sweat-dropped.

"Say what?" Duo asked again.

"A really big library with all the works!" Uno smiled up at him.

"Scaling Victorian Wing." Stated the feminine computer voice. "Victorian Wing is roughly over four thousand square units."

"Holy shit-that room's huge!" Duo shouted.

"Duo, please watch your language." Quatre frowned at him.

"Units?" Uno asked, looking up at Heero.

"It's a form of measurement; I'll explain later in your trainings." Heero stated.

"Hey Quatre, ask the computer to explain what the wings were used for." Duo shrugged. "Could come to some use."

"Will you please explain the history of each wing?" Quatre asked kindly.

Wufei tilted his head back a little. "I'd rather not know what the Medieval Wing was used for."

"Blassimeer Court Yard; this area was designed by Lord Blassimeer in an attempt to lose an enemy should the premises get invaded. Hidden walls and doors are secretly assigned junctions and actions. This wing is also used as a relaxation method, brought on by the minds of several mediators." The computer displayed the 3 dimensional view and birds eye view of the Court Yard, realistic photos from right outside and from the computer's form before it was built. It displayed the pictures for each and every wing.

"Original Living Quarters; this wing was only allowed to those living in the mansion. Workers who lived here are not allowed to enter these halls. The Medieval Wing is designed in the early seventeenth century but not designed until the later year around the Zeon wars. This area is formed specifically for the usage of torture and confrontation. Should an enemy be captured, this wing was the working area to gather enemy data and hold the prisoners."

Wufei looked away. "How many people have been brought there?" He asked, staring at the exit door to return to the real world and out of Quatre's illusionary mansion.

"Sources indicate the last total number of workers is fifty. Last total number of prisoners, four thousand, six hundred, eighty two."

Quatre's mouth dropped as did Trowa's and Heero's. Wufei shut his eyes and shook his head. Uno looked at a grinning Duo.

"This is disgusting." Wufei sneered.

"What kinds of work was done in the torture chamber?" Duo asked, making it get even sicker to listen.

"Torture objects have been replaced well over a dozen times. Human remains indicate that over five thousand have died here. Only four thousand, six hundred, eighty two have been prisoners; the library holds seven thousand books, articles, newspapers, and magazines regarding torture, obituaries, human anatomy, dissection, science of the brain and body, diseases…" The computer continued on.

"That's enough." Wufei cleared his throat, remembering his earlier journey. "Continue with the history of this mansion."

"The Classical Wing was formed for Blassimeer's tastes and designs. Workers living on the second floor were a level up from Medieval. The Military Wing was designed for military use only. It was here that well over half the military of Zeon was trained and prepared for war. Oriental and Antique Wing was created for the collections Blassimeer held."

"He was a collector." Quatre smiled.

"Blassimeer was a collector of a million ideals and forms. Two million artifacts have once been stored in this wing. He later sold them to museums for militia purposes." The computer explained.

"Damn." Duo mumbled.

"The Western Wing was designed to suit the workmen's needs. The Saloon allowed relaxation and a drink from all over the world. The Hunting room portrays the animals Blassimeer hunted and killed on his trips across the planet of Earth. The Gun Range allowed extra training to those in need of it. Workers living on the second floor were another level higher than Classical Wing. The Technology Center allowed medicines to be found by working on human and animal experimentations. Prisoners from the Medieval Wing would more likely be brought over to this wing to be used as human testing. Should the human or animal die, their remains would be moved back to the Medieval Wing and thrown into the trash pit."

Wufei looked down and sighed. "I thought I saw animal skeletons at the pit of it all."

"You really saw skeletons?" Duo's eye shot back up. Wufei nodded at him. "Alright!"

"The Music Wing was designed specifically for entertainment purposes. When on vacations, the worker would have the choice of staying and joining the club or leaving. Blassimeer would open this part up for public use and allow musicians, guests, and even famous people to come to his club, The Blassimeer Club. Playboy and Penthouse once modeled at the five time winning photo shoot located near the entrance of the club."

Duo grinned. "And a lot of those pictures were great too." He was grinning and looked over at Heero. When he noticed Heero's flat face, he dropped his grin and looked back to the screen.

"Designed especially for Blassimeer's latest girlfriend was the Victorian Wing. This wing is the entire Victorian Library on it's own with the exception of the Victorian Dining Room, which connects off to the Oriental and Antique Wing." The picture on the screen showed Wufei what was locked behind the door. "This wing has in it, a theater, anime, video game, kitchen, and bedroom. It also has a glass tower located at the very top of the ceiling, surrounded by the astrological ceiling. The library holds well over fourteen million books updated to the Zeon wars, many of which were original copies of few published selections. After Blassimeer's near-death experience, Blassimeer and his girlfriend had a terrible break up and parted. Hatred brewing in his system but the love of the created room and design, Blassimeer hid the original entrance behind a secret door located in the Music Wing, near the entrance of the Club, and locked the only other door up; that second door is located in the Oriental and Antique Wing. It was the only part of this mansion that had never been in use since the mansion was in working conditions, until today."

Everyone looked at Uno. Uno blinked and shrugged, lifting both her arms and hands.

"What? I didn't mean to find it." Uno smiled, a little nervously.

"Quatre, we should go and get something to eat." Trowa stated. Quatre looked down at his watch.

'Oh, you're right." Quatre turned and faced everyone. "How about this, since you all walked my mansion for me and activated the entire thing, I'll take you all out to Winston's Pure and Sure Diner."

Duo's mouth dropped. "You serious? That place is like…high dollar!"

Quatre laughed a little. "I can afford and it," he looked at Wufei's appearance, "by what it looks like a lot of you went through, you could use the pay."

"Give me a couple years and maybe you earned your forgiveness." Wufei sneered him.

"Oh wait…one thing I've been wanting to know." Duo began.

"What?" Quatre asked.

"What's with all the Weapon and Security Check points and rooms?" Duo faced the computer screen. "Huh? What with that?"

"Weapon Check Room and Security Check Point; these rooms were designed in case of invasion. Should an enemy invade the Blassimeer mansion, the workers would have key points to contact their comrades and load up with ammo. The Court Yard is designed specifically for this purpose. With the Court Yard's mazes, hidden passages, secret doors, and moving walls, enemies can get lost and never found again until the computer log's them in and tells the higher level of their awareness."

"Cool; so if we got lost and had people chasing us down, we could still kick ass." Duo grinned and 'thumbed up' at Quatre. Quatre dropped his head in his right hand and grumbled.

"Duo…stop cussing."