I've decided to make this a all five pilots pairing.

Tears of the Dragon

Wufei curled up in the corner of the tiny cage he was in, resting his chin on his knees. One hand gripped one of the metal bars, while the other wrapped around his legs. Wufei shivered in the cold morning air. The slave master, Xellos, had died the fore night because of a heart attack. All of the remaining slaves that belonged to Xellos were being sold.

Wufei shivered trying to keep his teeth from chattering. The thread bare, tattered clothes he wore not helping to keep the cold at bay. A thin frost made everything glitter. The other slaves weren't faring any better.

Wufei hid behind his grimy hair as a noble passed, not giving him a second glance. Like all of Xellos's slaves Wufei was filthy. And while others were making an effort to attract attention Wufei hid his beauty behind the dirt not wanting any attention.

The sound of voices caught Wufei's attention. Looking from behind his curtain of hair Wufei watched a messy brown haired noble on horseback talking to the person that was selling them while he looked at each slave in turn.

Behind him three more horses with riders were looking as well. On each of there necks was a slave collar. Even from the distance Wufei was away he could tell how expensive the collars were, each had a unique and different design to it but all had the same master mark on them.

All the slaves were wearing expensive looking cloaks to keep the cold out. The noble was wearing a trench cloak, his cloak resting in front of him on the saddle. Every once in awhile he would get off his horse to take a closer look at a certain slave only to get back on.

Wufei shifted his position watching the four riders out of the corner of his eyes. The slave with short blond hair said something, the noble and the slave with long chestnut hair done in a braid turned to talk to the blond slave. The third slave who had short hair except for the long bang that covered half his face, continued to scan the slaves without moving from his position.

Wufei decided to ignore them resting his head against the bars his bangs still hanging in his face. Wufei's eyes fluttered closed his lips trembling from the cold. He pulled his limbs as close to him as possible trying to warm his rabidly numbing body. He distantly heard the noble and his slaves voices drawing near as they came to his cage, but his mind was to far gone to react.

Gentle hands lifted him, Wufei struggled away from them even in he's almost unconscious state. His eyes fluttered open for a moment locking with worried Persian blue eyes before they slipped closed again. A heavy fabric was wrapped around him as he was hugged close to a warm body. Words of comfort were murmured as Wufei slipped off.

Heero looked at the slaves in the cages most not arousing his interest, and those that did didn't arouse his interest enough. Shifting his weight on his trusted stallion Wing, Heero glance behind him at his three slaves who were talking about something. Trowa left the conversation quietly giving his stallion a slight nudge to get it to come along side his master.

Heero reached a hand out and brushed Trowa's cheek gently with his thumb, Trowa leaned slightly into the caress. A soft smile only Quatre, Duo, and himself saw graced Trowa's features for a second before disappearing. Heero turned his attention to the cages half listening to Quatre and Duo bickering playfully with each other.

Heero nearly passed by the cage that they had neared when the figure shifted his dirty black hair falling out of his face. The dirt and filth that covered him could not hide his beauty. Heero pulled back on Wings reins and dismounted to get a closer look. Heero whirled around to the person that was selling the boy.

" Open the cage" Heero's demanded his voice commanding.

Heero looked at the teens blue lips and white tipped fingers and toes. As soon as the cage was open Heero went in grabbing the boy gently. The boy whimpered and struggled away from his hands. Heero settled the basically unconscious boy in his arms. The boys eyes fluttered for a second before opening, Heero looked into coal black eyes worriedly for a second before they closed again.

Duo appeared next Heero holding his cloak ready to wrap around the freezing slave. Trowa had Quatre wrapped in a hug trying to comfort the empathic blond. Heero deposited the boy into Duo's arms wrapping him in his cloak before taking him back once he had gotten on his horse.

"We'll talk about the papers of the slave once I know he's out of danger" Heero said to the person selling the slave, who just nodded.

Heero murmured words of comfort to the whimpering boy in his arms as he and his slaves hurriedly made there way back to his mansion.

Authors note:

How was that?