Warnings: torture, citrus, 2x1
disclaimer: huh?
Sorry for the long wait. it has been very hectic here. but here is the third chapter, which seems to me missing something to me, but read it and tell me how it was. Thanx and enjoy!
**Thank you to everyone who has reviewed!!!!!! I love you guys! you guys are great!!!! I know that last chapter was a little violent, especially towards Heero. Though I hate to tell you that I thought that it was rather watered down, and I was going to have a more gory violent one later. I was actually going to do that in this chapter but you guys have convinced me to hold off on it for a little while, maybe I won't do one TOO bad. I'll have to see what I feel like when the time comes. thank you again to all my reviewers!!**
// thought //
On with the story!
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Chapter 3: Obedience (revised)
The night was long for Heero. The floor was hard and cold, and the slight breeze coming through the open window was constantly sending a shiver down his spine. Not to mention the spikes from the waist band that kept moving around, reopening the wounds every time he tried to move. The only good thing was that Duo had retracted the spikes from the collar before he went to bed. He eventually settled to sitting in the corner, his knees brought up to his chest, arms wrap around his legs and his head resting on his knees.
Heero finally found sleep in this position but was awoken all to soon by the roosters screaming and Duo waking up in a very noisy unprince-like manner. Heero slowly unwrapped himself, careful not to move his waist to much to prevent the spikes from moving and found himself sitting in an Indian style position.
Duo yawned, sounding as if he was trying to imitate the roosters, and stretched on the bed, slipping under the covers to hide the light from his face. From the corner of his eye, Heero saw the covers moving around before he saw Duo's head reemerge from the opposite side he had entered, and look in his general direction. By the time he had gotten his bangs out of his face, Heero was no longer looking at him, but had his face turned toward the wall, examining it.
"You look absolutely delicious!" said Duo, a hungry smile on his face, "Why don't we see how well you are in bed, hmm?" Duo started to climb out of the heavy covers that had tangled themselves around him, and crawled over to Heero, who still wouldn't look at him.
Duo crawled over the floor slowly, delaying the encounter and trying to get Heero to acknowledge him. He didn't. Heero was still sitting Indian style so Duo decided to take the opportunity and crawled into his lap, wrapping his arms around Heero's neck. Though he didn't get the desired effect of Heero turning his perfect face to him, he did feel his body tense up which sent a sly smile to his lips.
"Come on Heero, you can look at me. I'm not going to bite you, well, not hard anyway." He leaned in to place slight kisses down Heero's neck, sending another unnoticed shiver down Heero's spine.
Duo's lips brushed against the side of Heero's neck, above the collar, blowing lightly at first and then placing soft, gentle kisses across his neck. When he wasn't getting any response he started to use his teeth, taking a little of the skin and biting softly, not wanting to break the skin. One of Duo's hands moved away from Heero's neck to run down his bare, muscled chest. His fingers barely touched the skin, tracing the contours of the chest.
Heero, who had decided it was much easier to submit to Duo's will than face another beating had been all ready to obey orders today. But this was going to far. He weakly attempted to push Duo off of him, using all the strength he had left. He was only successful in pushing Duo's body a few centimeters away from his own, but it was enough to catch Duo's attention.
"So, you are still alive. Well that's a good thing, I was starting to worry!" He said as he moved closer to Heero, wrapping his arms around his waist. However, before Heero could react and try to get Duo off of him, he felt the waist band being removed. He looked at Duo quizzically. "I had a dream last night. It was good. I think I'll give you a second try and take this away from you. But just remember, I can put it back on just as easily as I took it away."
Duo removed himself from Heero and walked to a chest along the wall, and deposited the waist band inside it before walking back to Heero. "Come, lets have breakfast, I'm famished!" Duo held his hand out to Heero to help him up. Heero, who was shakily getting to his feet, reluctantly accepted it.
Hand in hand they walk to the other side of the bed chamber where a table was set up with two place settings. Duo lifted a chain that was connected to the wall near one of the seats and connected it to Heero's collar. "This is just to assure that you don't go anywhere if I have to go." Once the chain was connected and Heero was sitting, Duo walked to the other chair and sat down.
The table was full of food. A wide variety of muffins filled the center bowl, stemming eggs sat in another bowl next to the muffins. Bacon and sausages were piled high on a plate, and a platter of fruit and cheese sat off to the side to finish the feast. And a jug of milk sat in a ice box to keep it cool.
"Eat up my sweet! you have a long day ahead of you!" Duo took no time at all to fill his plate with a selection from each plate, bowl and platter, and it took him even less time to finish his first serving and start to pile up his plate for a second time. It wasn't until he was about to stuff his face for the second time that he noticed that Heero had only taken a small corn muffin and was only nibbling at it.
"Come on, what's wrong? Eat! Your going to need your strength. Believe me. I'm not going to change what I had in store for you today, and if you decide to go on without food in your stomach than that is fine by me. But don't think for a second that I will lighten up on you. Do you understand?" A slight nod showed he had been herd. "Good" and with that Duo stuffed his face for the second time that morning.
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Heero had only managed to eat half of the muffin he had taken. He had not received much food on the long journey on the slave ship and he was in no mood now to improve his eating habits. So far the morning had been easy. After breakfast Duo had started Heero on Dusting his study. This was easy enough as it only consisted of wiping a brush across everything in the room a few times. And because there was hardly any dust in the room, due to house servants cleaning it everyday before Heero arrived, it took not time at all.
As Heero made his way around the room, Duo sat at his desk doing work. Or rather, looking down at his papers for a few moments only to have his attention drawn back to the young man dusting his study. Duo was brought out of his admiration of his slave by a slight knock on the door. Heero looked over to Duo for instruction, "Open the door for them," said Duo, leaning back into his chair.
Heero walked to the door, and pulled it open, standing to the side to let the person in. A guard walked in, panting a little.
"Sorry to interrupt, my Lord. But something has happened."
"What?" said Duo sitting up in his chair.
"The servants are unable to collect eggs from the chickens."
"...What? what exactly do you mean, George?"
"The women collect the eggs and put them in the baskets, and tun back to collect more eggs. But when they turn back to the baskets the eggs they just put there are gone! And when they look under the chickens that they have already removed the eggs from, they find that the eggs have been replaced!"
"How?"
"They don't know, my Lord. The women have driven themselves to tears. They have been struggling to collect the eggs for the past hour. They feel God is punishing them for some wrong they have committed."
"Well that is just ridiculous. What wrong have they committed?"
"They do not know."
"I should go and talk to them, and try to cheer them up. Tell them that they have done nothing wrong and I will be down shortly. Oh, and after you do that, get the wizard."
"Yes, my Lord." Said the guard as h bowed to his prince and turned to leave. Heero opened the door for him and stood to the side once again, letting the guard out, then closed the door behind him and walked back to the spot he had been dusting before the interruption.
Duo straightened his papers on his desk and took a chain out of the bottom drawer to the desk.
"Now, my pet, I do not trust you to be left alone in here yet, so I must chain you again." Duo walked over to Heero and connected the chain to the collar, then led Heero to the other side of the room where he connected the chain to the wall. "That's a good boy now. Stay right here and I will return as soon as I can." He said, placing a light kiss on his slaves lips before leaving the room to calm the servants down.
As soon as the door closed behind Duo, Heero let off a small smile.
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Duo reached the chicken coop shortly after. The women were still desperately trying to collect the eggs, all, of course, to no avail. Duo could hear their pitiful sobs. He cleared his throat to announce his presence. Immediately the women stopped and bowed to him.
"What seems to be the matter here?" he asked
The woman closest to him answered, "Ww...we ca-ca-can't get th-th-the eggs!!" she said, bursting into a fresh set of tears.
"Well then they obviously don't want to leave their mothers today. Leave them and find something else to do." and as an after thought he added, "Cheer up, nothing is wrong, you won't be punished."
"Thank you, my Lord." the women chimed as they started to leave the chicken coop.
Just as the last woman left the coop, a young man could be seem walking towards it. This man looked to be about the same age as Duo, though a little older. He had a strange hair style, that only let one bright green eye to be revealed. No one could figure out how he did it, but Duo new. This young man was the castle's wizard. He used his magic to keep the hair in its odd form.
"My Lord, what seems to be the problem here today?" said the young man who had finally reached Duo.
"Trowa, so good to see you. There seems to be a problem of collecting eggs this morning."
"Oh, well, whatever do you mean?"
"It seems as if everything an egg is taken, moments later it mysteriously is replaced where it was taken from. The women have been trying all morning to collect the eggs."
"Well, that is surely suspicious. What would you like me to do?"
"Well first I would like you to see if you can discover who set this trick, and then I would like you to stop it so that women can do their job!"
"I shall try my best to accomplish both."
"Thank you. I would love to stay and watch, as I love watching you work, but I must go make sure my new slave is still in my study. Once you have finished come find me and tell me everything you have learned."
"As you wish, my Lord."
Duo left Trowa there to hopefully discover who the culprit was, and made his way back to his study, where he found Heero busily dusting the books. Heero made no knowledge at all to having heard Duo enter the room, but Duo had other plans. He walked over to his slave and slipped his hands around his waist, resting his head on the back of Heero's shoulder.
"hmmm....This is nice." Duo's hands started to wander, he left one wrapped around Heero's waist to draw invisible circles around his navel, but the other he let rise to the chest. Where it rubbed against the smooth, tuff muscle. Heero ignored Duo and kept dusting. This increased Duo's need and made him more adventurous, moving his lower arm down to the loin cloth. His fingers reached the edge of the cloth, threatening to enter before Heero showed his discomfort by trying to buck away. However, Duo's arms were strong and tightened around him, which only made Heero panic more. He tried to wriggle out of Duo's tight hold, elbowing Duo hard with his free arms.
After the second blow from the elbows, Duo let go of Heero with the arm he had wrap around him chest and caught both of the frantic boys arms before wrapping his arm back around him, making sure Heero's arms were trapped firmly in the hold. In all the excitement Duo lost his control and dug his teeth into Heero's neck. Heero froze as he felt his blood trickle out of the wound and trickle down his neck. He felt Duo places his lips over the wound and suck the blood. He felt the blood being suck out of him; forced out of him, and into Duo's waiting mouth. He felt the little energy he had slipping from him. His knees gave way, but Duo didn't notice, his strong arms kept his prey up.
A knock sounded at the door, drawing Duo out of his blood lust.
"What is it now?" he groaned, releasing Heero, who slumped to the floor, and wiped his mouth of the blood.
"Come in!" he called.
The door was opened and Trowa walked in. "Ah! Trowa, what did you find out?"
Trowa walked up to Duo and whispered, "Nothing, absolutely nothing. There was no trace of magic ownership."
"Magic wasn't used?"
"No, no, magic was used. that sort of thing can not be done without magic. But all magic has a mark of their owner. Very good wizards and witches can hide their mark, but even then a little something is left over, but it is not enough to determine who set it. But who ever did it is one powerful wizard or witch because I have never before seen or herd of anything like this. Not a trace! That's unprecedented!"
"So what exactly does that mean?"
"I don't know. If there is someone that powerful in this area who wants to cause you trouble I don't know why they would do something so idiotic as that. If they had that much power, one would suspect that they would do something that would cause more damage."
"Well, wha-" Duo was interrupted by another knock at the door. "My God!" he said through clenched teeth.
"Come in!" he cried.
The guard from earlier that day entered the room, he was panting heavily, obviously having run from somewhere in to castle to Duo's room very quickly.
"What is it?"
"Sorry, my Lord, but the ceiling the Queens personal wash rooms has disappeared!"
"WHAT!?"
"It's completely gone, the sun is shining in on the Queen!"
"How did this happen?"
"No one knows. One of the Queens maid came screaming out of the room when it happened. And my Lord?"
"Yes?"
"There are no more steps."
"What do you mean there are no more steps?"
"The steps have all turned into slides. Its quite fun to get down, but damn near impossible to get back up!"
"Gone? No steps? Ha! Trowa, did you hear that, there are no more steps, and we have a skylight in the Queens washroom!"
"Yes, I have heard."
"What can you tell me about it Trowa?"
"Absolutely nothing. Its being done by the same person, and I can't track them." Trowa felt horrible. He was loyal to his prince, and hated it when he could not help. And this was something that needed helping.
"Thank you George, I'll think of something to do."
"Thank you, my Lord." and he turned and left the room.
"All right three strange things in one day. Its a record!"
"Duo this is serious. We have to find out who is doing this."
"Yes, I know that, but it seems like we have a little problem with that. I don't do magic, and you can't track them. So how shall we do this?"
"Well, what do you know about your new slave?"
"What?"
"What do you know about your new slave?"
"Why, what does that have to do with anything?"
"I don't know, but you got him yesterday, and these weird things are happening today. He hasn't even been here a full day and things are happening."
"You said a powerful wizard is the only one who can hide like this, how could the boy be doing it?"
"I never said the boy was doing it. But he was banished right? Maybe he knew someone, or something and they are doing this."
"Why would they be doing stupid things like that and not do anything to help the boy?"
"Well I don't know everything, but I have a feeling the boy is related to all this somehow."
"You may be right, but look at him, he's passed out, and only 17 or so, how could be possibly be doing it, and he can't be in contact with anyone because he doesn't speak!"
"All I'm saying is be careful, and watch him carefully."
"All right I will. And you, I want you to try your best, do everything you can think of to discover who is doing this."
"Yes, my Lord." Trowa showed himself out of Duo's study and back to his rooms to find some way to solve this mystery.
When Trowa left, Duo turned back to Heero and picked him up and carried him to his bed, where he placed him down. "What are you doing to me?" he whispered to the unconscious figure. He walked into his washroom and soaked a small towel in cool water before bringing it out and placing it on Heero's neck that still had blood trickling out.
//Why did I drink his blood like that? That's disgusting! I don't even know where the idea of that came from. But his blood is so good, it's addicting!//
Duo was startled by his train of thought. "I liked his blood?" he whispered to himself, "Am I a vampire? No, I can't be, I only want his blood, no one else's. What's happening to me?"
The setting sun cast gloomy shadows across the room, and Duo realized fully that something really wrong was happening, and he didn't know how to solve it.
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and there we go, the long awaited third chapter! I'm sorry it took so long, and it turned out a LOT different from what I was expecting. But isn't that the fun of writing? well I hope you all enjoyed, and please, please, please! if you have any ideas or and suggestions or criticisms (other than my spelling and grammar cause I'm trying to fix that) please tell me. ideas help produce chapters quicker! anyway, enough blabber from me. I must go and put this up before work! again, I hope you enjoyed it!
disclaimer: huh?
Sorry for the long wait. it has been very hectic here. but here is the third chapter, which seems to me missing something to me, but read it and tell me how it was. Thanx and enjoy!
**Thank you to everyone who has reviewed!!!!!! I love you guys! you guys are great!!!! I know that last chapter was a little violent, especially towards Heero. Though I hate to tell you that I thought that it was rather watered down, and I was going to have a more gory violent one later. I was actually going to do that in this chapter but you guys have convinced me to hold off on it for a little while, maybe I won't do one TOO bad. I'll have to see what I feel like when the time comes. thank you again to all my reviewers!!**
// thought //
On with the story!
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Chapter 3: Obedience (revised)
The night was long for Heero. The floor was hard and cold, and the slight breeze coming through the open window was constantly sending a shiver down his spine. Not to mention the spikes from the waist band that kept moving around, reopening the wounds every time he tried to move. The only good thing was that Duo had retracted the spikes from the collar before he went to bed. He eventually settled to sitting in the corner, his knees brought up to his chest, arms wrap around his legs and his head resting on his knees.
Heero finally found sleep in this position but was awoken all to soon by the roosters screaming and Duo waking up in a very noisy unprince-like manner. Heero slowly unwrapped himself, careful not to move his waist to much to prevent the spikes from moving and found himself sitting in an Indian style position.
Duo yawned, sounding as if he was trying to imitate the roosters, and stretched on the bed, slipping under the covers to hide the light from his face. From the corner of his eye, Heero saw the covers moving around before he saw Duo's head reemerge from the opposite side he had entered, and look in his general direction. By the time he had gotten his bangs out of his face, Heero was no longer looking at him, but had his face turned toward the wall, examining it.
"You look absolutely delicious!" said Duo, a hungry smile on his face, "Why don't we see how well you are in bed, hmm?" Duo started to climb out of the heavy covers that had tangled themselves around him, and crawled over to Heero, who still wouldn't look at him.
Duo crawled over the floor slowly, delaying the encounter and trying to get Heero to acknowledge him. He didn't. Heero was still sitting Indian style so Duo decided to take the opportunity and crawled into his lap, wrapping his arms around Heero's neck. Though he didn't get the desired effect of Heero turning his perfect face to him, he did feel his body tense up which sent a sly smile to his lips.
"Come on Heero, you can look at me. I'm not going to bite you, well, not hard anyway." He leaned in to place slight kisses down Heero's neck, sending another unnoticed shiver down Heero's spine.
Duo's lips brushed against the side of Heero's neck, above the collar, blowing lightly at first and then placing soft, gentle kisses across his neck. When he wasn't getting any response he started to use his teeth, taking a little of the skin and biting softly, not wanting to break the skin. One of Duo's hands moved away from Heero's neck to run down his bare, muscled chest. His fingers barely touched the skin, tracing the contours of the chest.
Heero, who had decided it was much easier to submit to Duo's will than face another beating had been all ready to obey orders today. But this was going to far. He weakly attempted to push Duo off of him, using all the strength he had left. He was only successful in pushing Duo's body a few centimeters away from his own, but it was enough to catch Duo's attention.
"So, you are still alive. Well that's a good thing, I was starting to worry!" He said as he moved closer to Heero, wrapping his arms around his waist. However, before Heero could react and try to get Duo off of him, he felt the waist band being removed. He looked at Duo quizzically. "I had a dream last night. It was good. I think I'll give you a second try and take this away from you. But just remember, I can put it back on just as easily as I took it away."
Duo removed himself from Heero and walked to a chest along the wall, and deposited the waist band inside it before walking back to Heero. "Come, lets have breakfast, I'm famished!" Duo held his hand out to Heero to help him up. Heero, who was shakily getting to his feet, reluctantly accepted it.
Hand in hand they walk to the other side of the bed chamber where a table was set up with two place settings. Duo lifted a chain that was connected to the wall near one of the seats and connected it to Heero's collar. "This is just to assure that you don't go anywhere if I have to go." Once the chain was connected and Heero was sitting, Duo walked to the other chair and sat down.
The table was full of food. A wide variety of muffins filled the center bowl, stemming eggs sat in another bowl next to the muffins. Bacon and sausages were piled high on a plate, and a platter of fruit and cheese sat off to the side to finish the feast. And a jug of milk sat in a ice box to keep it cool.
"Eat up my sweet! you have a long day ahead of you!" Duo took no time at all to fill his plate with a selection from each plate, bowl and platter, and it took him even less time to finish his first serving and start to pile up his plate for a second time. It wasn't until he was about to stuff his face for the second time that he noticed that Heero had only taken a small corn muffin and was only nibbling at it.
"Come on, what's wrong? Eat! Your going to need your strength. Believe me. I'm not going to change what I had in store for you today, and if you decide to go on without food in your stomach than that is fine by me. But don't think for a second that I will lighten up on you. Do you understand?" A slight nod showed he had been herd. "Good" and with that Duo stuffed his face for the second time that morning.
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Heero had only managed to eat half of the muffin he had taken. He had not received much food on the long journey on the slave ship and he was in no mood now to improve his eating habits. So far the morning had been easy. After breakfast Duo had started Heero on Dusting his study. This was easy enough as it only consisted of wiping a brush across everything in the room a few times. And because there was hardly any dust in the room, due to house servants cleaning it everyday before Heero arrived, it took not time at all.
As Heero made his way around the room, Duo sat at his desk doing work. Or rather, looking down at his papers for a few moments only to have his attention drawn back to the young man dusting his study. Duo was brought out of his admiration of his slave by a slight knock on the door. Heero looked over to Duo for instruction, "Open the door for them," said Duo, leaning back into his chair.
Heero walked to the door, and pulled it open, standing to the side to let the person in. A guard walked in, panting a little.
"Sorry to interrupt, my Lord. But something has happened."
"What?" said Duo sitting up in his chair.
"The servants are unable to collect eggs from the chickens."
"...What? what exactly do you mean, George?"
"The women collect the eggs and put them in the baskets, and tun back to collect more eggs. But when they turn back to the baskets the eggs they just put there are gone! And when they look under the chickens that they have already removed the eggs from, they find that the eggs have been replaced!"
"How?"
"They don't know, my Lord. The women have driven themselves to tears. They have been struggling to collect the eggs for the past hour. They feel God is punishing them for some wrong they have committed."
"Well that is just ridiculous. What wrong have they committed?"
"They do not know."
"I should go and talk to them, and try to cheer them up. Tell them that they have done nothing wrong and I will be down shortly. Oh, and after you do that, get the wizard."
"Yes, my Lord." Said the guard as h bowed to his prince and turned to leave. Heero opened the door for him and stood to the side once again, letting the guard out, then closed the door behind him and walked back to the spot he had been dusting before the interruption.
Duo straightened his papers on his desk and took a chain out of the bottom drawer to the desk.
"Now, my pet, I do not trust you to be left alone in here yet, so I must chain you again." Duo walked over to Heero and connected the chain to the collar, then led Heero to the other side of the room where he connected the chain to the wall. "That's a good boy now. Stay right here and I will return as soon as I can." He said, placing a light kiss on his slaves lips before leaving the room to calm the servants down.
As soon as the door closed behind Duo, Heero let off a small smile.
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Duo reached the chicken coop shortly after. The women were still desperately trying to collect the eggs, all, of course, to no avail. Duo could hear their pitiful sobs. He cleared his throat to announce his presence. Immediately the women stopped and bowed to him.
"What seems to be the matter here?" he asked
The woman closest to him answered, "Ww...we ca-ca-can't get th-th-the eggs!!" she said, bursting into a fresh set of tears.
"Well then they obviously don't want to leave their mothers today. Leave them and find something else to do." and as an after thought he added, "Cheer up, nothing is wrong, you won't be punished."
"Thank you, my Lord." the women chimed as they started to leave the chicken coop.
Just as the last woman left the coop, a young man could be seem walking towards it. This man looked to be about the same age as Duo, though a little older. He had a strange hair style, that only let one bright green eye to be revealed. No one could figure out how he did it, but Duo new. This young man was the castle's wizard. He used his magic to keep the hair in its odd form.
"My Lord, what seems to be the problem here today?" said the young man who had finally reached Duo.
"Trowa, so good to see you. There seems to be a problem of collecting eggs this morning."
"Oh, well, whatever do you mean?"
"It seems as if everything an egg is taken, moments later it mysteriously is replaced where it was taken from. The women have been trying all morning to collect the eggs."
"Well, that is surely suspicious. What would you like me to do?"
"Well first I would like you to see if you can discover who set this trick, and then I would like you to stop it so that women can do their job!"
"I shall try my best to accomplish both."
"Thank you. I would love to stay and watch, as I love watching you work, but I must go make sure my new slave is still in my study. Once you have finished come find me and tell me everything you have learned."
"As you wish, my Lord."
Duo left Trowa there to hopefully discover who the culprit was, and made his way back to his study, where he found Heero busily dusting the books. Heero made no knowledge at all to having heard Duo enter the room, but Duo had other plans. He walked over to his slave and slipped his hands around his waist, resting his head on the back of Heero's shoulder.
"hmmm....This is nice." Duo's hands started to wander, he left one wrapped around Heero's waist to draw invisible circles around his navel, but the other he let rise to the chest. Where it rubbed against the smooth, tuff muscle. Heero ignored Duo and kept dusting. This increased Duo's need and made him more adventurous, moving his lower arm down to the loin cloth. His fingers reached the edge of the cloth, threatening to enter before Heero showed his discomfort by trying to buck away. However, Duo's arms were strong and tightened around him, which only made Heero panic more. He tried to wriggle out of Duo's tight hold, elbowing Duo hard with his free arms.
After the second blow from the elbows, Duo let go of Heero with the arm he had wrap around him chest and caught both of the frantic boys arms before wrapping his arm back around him, making sure Heero's arms were trapped firmly in the hold. In all the excitement Duo lost his control and dug his teeth into Heero's neck. Heero froze as he felt his blood trickle out of the wound and trickle down his neck. He felt Duo places his lips over the wound and suck the blood. He felt the blood being suck out of him; forced out of him, and into Duo's waiting mouth. He felt the little energy he had slipping from him. His knees gave way, but Duo didn't notice, his strong arms kept his prey up.
A knock sounded at the door, drawing Duo out of his blood lust.
"What is it now?" he groaned, releasing Heero, who slumped to the floor, and wiped his mouth of the blood.
"Come in!" he called.
The door was opened and Trowa walked in. "Ah! Trowa, what did you find out?"
Trowa walked up to Duo and whispered, "Nothing, absolutely nothing. There was no trace of magic ownership."
"Magic wasn't used?"
"No, no, magic was used. that sort of thing can not be done without magic. But all magic has a mark of their owner. Very good wizards and witches can hide their mark, but even then a little something is left over, but it is not enough to determine who set it. But who ever did it is one powerful wizard or witch because I have never before seen or herd of anything like this. Not a trace! That's unprecedented!"
"So what exactly does that mean?"
"I don't know. If there is someone that powerful in this area who wants to cause you trouble I don't know why they would do something so idiotic as that. If they had that much power, one would suspect that they would do something that would cause more damage."
"Well, wha-" Duo was interrupted by another knock at the door. "My God!" he said through clenched teeth.
"Come in!" he cried.
The guard from earlier that day entered the room, he was panting heavily, obviously having run from somewhere in to castle to Duo's room very quickly.
"What is it?"
"Sorry, my Lord, but the ceiling the Queens personal wash rooms has disappeared!"
"WHAT!?"
"It's completely gone, the sun is shining in on the Queen!"
"How did this happen?"
"No one knows. One of the Queens maid came screaming out of the room when it happened. And my Lord?"
"Yes?"
"There are no more steps."
"What do you mean there are no more steps?"
"The steps have all turned into slides. Its quite fun to get down, but damn near impossible to get back up!"
"Gone? No steps? Ha! Trowa, did you hear that, there are no more steps, and we have a skylight in the Queens washroom!"
"Yes, I have heard."
"What can you tell me about it Trowa?"
"Absolutely nothing. Its being done by the same person, and I can't track them." Trowa felt horrible. He was loyal to his prince, and hated it when he could not help. And this was something that needed helping.
"Thank you George, I'll think of something to do."
"Thank you, my Lord." and he turned and left the room.
"All right three strange things in one day. Its a record!"
"Duo this is serious. We have to find out who is doing this."
"Yes, I know that, but it seems like we have a little problem with that. I don't do magic, and you can't track them. So how shall we do this?"
"Well, what do you know about your new slave?"
"What?"
"What do you know about your new slave?"
"Why, what does that have to do with anything?"
"I don't know, but you got him yesterday, and these weird things are happening today. He hasn't even been here a full day and things are happening."
"You said a powerful wizard is the only one who can hide like this, how could the boy be doing it?"
"I never said the boy was doing it. But he was banished right? Maybe he knew someone, or something and they are doing this."
"Why would they be doing stupid things like that and not do anything to help the boy?"
"Well I don't know everything, but I have a feeling the boy is related to all this somehow."
"You may be right, but look at him, he's passed out, and only 17 or so, how could be possibly be doing it, and he can't be in contact with anyone because he doesn't speak!"
"All I'm saying is be careful, and watch him carefully."
"All right I will. And you, I want you to try your best, do everything you can think of to discover who is doing this."
"Yes, my Lord." Trowa showed himself out of Duo's study and back to his rooms to find some way to solve this mystery.
When Trowa left, Duo turned back to Heero and picked him up and carried him to his bed, where he placed him down. "What are you doing to me?" he whispered to the unconscious figure. He walked into his washroom and soaked a small towel in cool water before bringing it out and placing it on Heero's neck that still had blood trickling out.
//Why did I drink his blood like that? That's disgusting! I don't even know where the idea of that came from. But his blood is so good, it's addicting!//
Duo was startled by his train of thought. "I liked his blood?" he whispered to himself, "Am I a vampire? No, I can't be, I only want his blood, no one else's. What's happening to me?"
The setting sun cast gloomy shadows across the room, and Duo realized fully that something really wrong was happening, and he didn't know how to solve it.
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and there we go, the long awaited third chapter! I'm sorry it took so long, and it turned out a LOT different from what I was expecting. But isn't that the fun of writing? well I hope you all enjoyed, and please, please, please! if you have any ideas or and suggestions or criticisms (other than my spelling and grammar cause I'm trying to fix that) please tell me. ideas help produce chapters quicker! anyway, enough blabber from me. I must go and put this up before work! again, I hope you enjoyed it!