A Midsummer Day's Nightmare
Chapter Three:
Dorothy gasped when she entered the clearing, spotting Heero Yuy in the moonlight, lying against a rock that looked rather uncomfortable to—er, sleep on? She frowned, looking at him as she wiped away a tear that managed to leak through her barriers from Quatre's harsh words. She knew he was just frustrated, but…
Didn't he say something to her about killing Yuy?
She gasped, picking up her skirts as she rushed over to him, bending over slightly to poke the body. "Sir Yuy?" She whispered, eyebrow's raised as she looked over his body. She didn't see any blood.
So, she did the most intelligent thing she could think off—" Are you dead, sir Yuy?"
Heero groaned at her poking and prodding, eyelids fluttering open. He blinked. The moonlight washed over her pale skin like a unearthly glow as she gazed at him with those beautiful icy blue eyes. Her long blonde hair was like a silk cloak, wrapping around her body like a shield against demons.
"Beautiful…" He whispered, his subconscious snorting at himself for being so love-struck. Talk about out of character.
Dorothy snorted at him—" You mock me, sir, and I do not appreciate it." She harshly growled at him, "Why don't you continue to go on your little love trip with that rose—" she gestured to Relena—" and leave me to my woes?"
"Woes?" Heero stood up, crossing his arms over his chest. "Why would one such as yourself have woes? Do you know that many would love to be with one such as yourself?"
"Who?" Snapping back, she replied, "My love Quatre certainly not!"
"Me?" Heero questioned, reading her face for anything.
Laughing coldly, she stopped for a moment, "Surely you jest!"
"I jest not—" She slapped him, hard.
Heero stared at her, raising a hand to his cheek. "I guess I deserved that."
"No you didn't." Dorothy grumbled. Heero nodded mutely at her, still leaving his hand on his cheek. "You deserve THIS!"
Heero froze for a moment in confusion, thinking, 'What the HELL did I do!'
She punched him, hard.
Nodding to herself at her handiwork, she spun on her heel, leaving and making her way back into the forest.
Heero followed after her, regaining himself from the punch thrown at his abdomen.
Relena blinked, groggily opening her eyes to look around the forest to gain her surroundings. She yawned, knowing the moon was still high in the night sky. Her eyes fell onto the rock where Heero was.
She blinked—the word that stuck in her mind was "was". "Heero?" Her voice was small in the huge forest, "Where are you?"
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"You WHAT!" Zechs all but exploded, his cheeks and face flushed as he leaned over a nervously laughing fairy of his—more specifically, Duo Maxwell.
"Uh… I suppose I got the wrong one?"
"That sounded more like a question than a response." Zechs grumbled before clearing his throat and pointing an accusing finger at his minion. "How could you screw this up! It was SIMPLE!"
"He goes through more mood swings than me." Hilde said calmly from a rock she had picked, farther away from the two fighting fairies.
"Hey, I did get it right!" Zechs glared harshly at him, perhaps trying to kill him on spot with the deadly look. "You—" Duo pointed an accusing finger at his King, "—Didn't give me the right description!"
Zechs turned red at the accusation. "I--!"
"—Didn't know there was more than one person in the Wood?" Hilde supplied, interrupting the quarrel.
Both spun around and glared at her.
"How dare you insult your King, lowly maid!" Zechs said in obvious outrage.
At the same time as King Zechs, Duo shouted, "How can you side with him!"
Hilde stared at the two, the sentences said at the same time having made no sense overlapped the way they were. Duo turned slowly, as did Zechs, and they both looked at one another.
"This is all your fault…" The older man muttered under his breath, crossing his arms over his chest.
The forest went oddly silent for a moment.
"Did not." Duo hissed out, narrowing his eyes.
"Did too."
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did not—UGH!" Duo screamed, throwing his head up in frustration and then jabbing Zechs in the chest angrily.
"Duo…" Hilde said, trying to calm her quite angry lover with her soothing words, which didn't work too well when she said, "What the hell are you doing now?"
"Now! Now!" Duo spun on his heel, "What was last time!"
Sighing, she rubbed the side of her face, letting her breaths out in an exasperating tone as well as her words, "When you tried to give M'Lady a magical seed to grow a beanstalk?"
Duo laughed nervously, "Oh yeah…" Then, he remembered what he was doing and turned back to Zechs.
"Yes?"
"I quit."
"What!" Both Hilde and Zechs said at the same time.
Duo shrugged, "It's not like I'm getting paid for it." He closed his eyes, crossing his arms with defiance across his chest, "I QUIT!"
"You can't do that!" Hilde said in horror.
"Why not?"
"Because it's not in the script." Hilde nodded and put her hands on hips.
"Soooooo…..?" He drawled out in a mocking tone.
"You signed a contract."
"Damn!"
"That's damn right, sir!" Hilde reprimanded, grabbing Duo's pointed elf ear, "Now, come on, you!"
Zechs cupped his hand around his mouth to amplify his voice to the two lovers, "Make sure that you find that other man and get it right this time!"
Duo grunted between his cries of pain as Hilde continued to drag him by the ear until he slapped her hands away.
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Relena looked around the woods, getting nothing but animal noises and the sounds of the trees and bushes rustling in the wind. "Heero?" She called, searching the woods for any sign of her lover.
She paused in her search and squinted her eyes in concentration, listening closely. She halted. There it was again… it sounded almost as if there were… people?
Eyes shining with hope, the maiden made her way towards the sounds and came upon… Heero, Dorothy, and Quatre.
She blinked.
"I love you more than he can, Dorothy!" Quatre protested, love shining in his eyes as he looked at the blonde-haired 'Ice-Queen'.
Off in the tree, invisible to all eyes but of his kind, Duo snickered softly to himself. Oh the wonders of being a fairy. And, he got the right human this time. He smirked—his life was wonderful.
"That's not possible—how can he, the one that shunned you—be more in love with you than me?" Heero protested, making Relena gasp.
"Heero!" The woman cried, "I was so worried about you!"
"And I not you." He glared at her.
She looked at him with hurt eyes, "Why did you leave without me?"
"To get out of your horrible sight." He harshly snapped, "My eyes were burning with pain."
"Dorothy, love…" Quatre pleaded, trying to get closer to the woman who seemed more beautiful than the world.
"Now, once more," Dorothy cried, "You mock me all!"
"How so, when our—no, my love, is pure?"
Heero grunted in response to that, "Mine is better than his. Gold is better than silver." Quatre glared at him.
"How could you take my love away from me in such a cruel way! We were to be happy! Why so, wench!"
"Please!" Dorothy mocked back, "You are in this too, woman—how you mock me with these men! To tell me I'm beautiful and swoon me!" She slapped Relena across the face.
"For doing so, you will pay!"
Heero restrained Relena from attacking Dorothy, "You will not cause harm to her."
She looked up at her love, "Why choose her? Our love is true!"
"Stay with her, Heero, and leave me to the one I wish to be wish."
"How about you get her, Quatre?" Relena looked at him with horrified eyes.
"No, I think I'll stay with Dorothy."
Duo rolled his eyes from up in the tree, looking at a wooden watch he had gotten, made from the latest oak in stock. "This is taking WAY too long!" He muttered, closing his eyes as he cast a spell over the four members of the group below.
"Hilde?" He whispered, opening his eyes and smiling when he saw her.
"Well," she replied happily, "Someone has to help you set things straight!" She pulled out a vial of blue nectar from her skirts.
"Thanks!"
Then, between kisses and words of love, the two fairy-folk set about, putting the nectar on the right people, as well as the antidote.
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"My daughter is missing, same for Yuy, and Winner has gone after them and Dorothy follows him." Darlain grumbled, "Can my day get any worse?"
"Oh shut up!" Treize said with a laugh as the two continued on their way around the meadows near the forest, "Fox hunting always cheers us up!" (1)
"What if my daughter turned into a fox?"
"Well, I guess that Mister Treize would have already killed her then, right Mister Treize?" Une replied back from her horse as the group of people entered the forest, hounds sniffing the air.
One dog stopped, sniffing closely, and then howled.
"Well, the hunt is on!" Treize said as he spurred his horse forward, the other folks behind him following eagerly to get a chance in the sport.
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Groaning, Dorothy's eyes fluttered open as she yawned, stretching her limbs and blinking as her eyes took in the morning light. Birds chirped, singing the new day's songs as they flew from branch to branch, chattering happily as they ate their breakfast and fed their fledglings.
"Beautiful," she whispered to herself, letting her arms prop her up. She felt a touch of skin against her outstretched hand and turned, seeing the fair-haired blonde she fell in love with, and still was.
"Mmm." The blonde mumbled incoherently, rolling over on his side to face Dorothy. She held her breath and reached a hand forward to touch his shoulder gently.
"Quatre?"
The blonde's eyes opened, focusing to the person in front of him. A smile formed on his face, "Dorothy…"
Blinking in confusion, she let the blonde embrace her and she held her breath—letting her body relax into his and let a smile grace her lips as well. "Quatre…"
"Will you marry me?" Her eyes glittered brightly with happiness.
"Dorothy?" The blonde looked up to see Relena, hand in hand with Heero, making their way towards the two new lovebirds. Relena smiled when she saw them embraced together and stopped, leaning against Heero as he wrapped his arms around her in silent comfort and love.
"RELENA!" All four teens turned their heads to see a hound running towards them, tail wagging, with Treize and Relena's father charging at them on horseback with Une following behind with other lords and ladies, an amused look on her face.
"Oh…" Heero's arms tightened around her and she looked up at him with a reassuring smile on her face.
"Quatre?" Darlain exclaimed, rather loudly as he saw the blonde embracing another woman—that was certainly NOT his daughter!
The blonde lord stood up and held Dorothy in his arms still as the two men, and approaching group of lord and ladies. "I wish to make an announcement."
"Really?" Treize said, looking at the blonde with a raised eyebrow, "And what would that be?"
"I'm going to marry Dorothy, not Relena." The crowd gasped at his words. Dorothy rolled her eyes at them.
"I'm going to marry Relena." Heero declared, eyes narrowing in a glare as he threatened anyone to object. The crowd took an uneasy step back from the glaring teen.
"Now wait a minute!" Darlain said, arms cross sternly as he looked at the couples.
"Oh shut up," Treize said with exasperation, "They are going to marry or I'll make you marry a donkey." Darlain stared at the Duke with shocked wide eyes.
Dorothy snickered and Relena gave her father a pitiful look.
"Fine." The older man grumbled as he let his shoulders droop.
"We can have our weddings together." Une supplied as she smiled warmly at the couples, glad to see no one lost their head in the process.
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"Well," Noin wrapped her arms around her husband as he gave her a warm embrace, "I'm glad that all of that is over. If you wanted the child so bad, all you had to do was say "please"."
Zechs pouted, "But I got what I wanted." Noin laughed lightly.
"I love you." Zechs hugged her, mumbling the said thing into her ear.
"So the couples are married and we all live happily ever after?" Noin nodded, adding, "How do you think all fairy tales end?"
Duo popped up out of no where, "Boo!" Zechs glared and Noin laughed. "Aw, come on! Aren't you even a little scared?"
"No." They said at the same time.
"Fine," the fairy grumbled, turning to face no one in particular as he grinned. "T'was only a dream…" Duo whispered, pointed ears wiggling a little bit. He grinned like a Cheshire cat and bowed, disappearing into thin air.
Heero jerked awake, panting as he wiped the sweat off his brow, shaking his head back and forth. "One crazy dream…" He muttered under his breath. And he thought his nightmares were weird, even sometimes scary. That was just…creepy.
Sighing as he leaned back against the cool pillows, she closed his eyes and rubbed his fingers against his slightly throbbing head. "That is the last time I let Duo get away with spiking my drink…" And with that oath, he fell asleep again.
OWARI
Author's note: It's over! Gasp! Thanks everyone for the reviews!
(1) I don't support fox hunting in any way. I love foxes. :hugs: Which is part reason for the nickname Red Tail
Love, Red Tail