This story will be a Yaoi.

Yaoi means GUY with GUY!

Yuri means GIRL with GIRL!

And

Straight means GUY with GIRL! Or GIRL with GUY!

You have been Warned ! Now that we're all on the same wavelength here, let's start the story!

1) thoughts = ' insert thoughts '

2) italics is mind speech

The Flash are what I'm putting to show that Ernest is reading Gareas' mind in this one and when it ends it'll say End Mind Reading.

(X) is pov and or time jump

Ch,10: Parting Paths

"Hiead…?"

Said boy looked away from the window sill he was currently sitting on, looking out to the many stars in the sky. He let his gaze full upon Zero, the stupid human boy that seemed to fill almost every image in his mind.

"What?"

The brunette thought for a moment not completely sure as to how to address the problem. He closed his eyes trying to think of what he could possibly say, but he wasn't one for thinking so it didn't last too long.

"Hiead, I felt something."

"….And?"

"What do you mean and?" Zero growled tempted to attack Hiead with the blanket he currently had wrapped around himself. "Look you idiot I'm serious! There's something weird going on!"

"And what am I supposed to do about it?" Hiead asked his voice a lot louder than he'd of wished it.

Zero looked away taking a few steps back frowning. He didn't want to get into a fight, not right now.

"I sensed something…." 'I don't want to say this, but no one else is around to talk about it.' He thought to himself swallowing his pride. "I'm scared. Something woke up, there's a new power moving around…." With that said he slumped onto the floor, back against wall.

The silver haired boy studied him curiously though you wouldn't know that by looking at him. Not a hint of the emotion ever crossed his features. Without saying a word he got down from the window sill and closed the distance between them.

"Get up." He demanded his voice cold and sending a shiver down Zero's back. Zero couldn't find the words to protest though he wanted to and did as he was told. The minute he was on his feet Hiead roughly grabbed him by the shoulders and shoved him back into the room he had just walked out of.

"You make me sick." Hiead growled slamming the door shut with his foot. He kept pushing Zero though until the boy was pushed onto his back on the bed. "Do you feel it Zero?" Hiead asked. "Do you feel the magic, the power and its strength? It's suffocating isn't it? Hard to move?" He asked his voice now taunting.

Zero's eyes widened, but he nodded slowly. The longer he was here, the harder it seemed to even breath.

"That's good." The Winglie answered with a smirk. "What you feel is the power of the Winglies. There magic is beyond that of any dragon!" He ended up screaming out the last part. He took a few deep breaths trying to regain some control over himself. He closed his eyes and slowly let go of Zero.

Zero stayed in place, held by fear then noticed that Hiead was shaking.

"Hi-"

"Shut up!" Growling Hiead walked out of the room not saying another word.

Zero watched him not completely sure as to what just happened. He wondered though if there was more to the boy than he realized.

(X)

"And then I met Kira here." Ernest finished Kira's story with a smile. Everyone else, including Gareas, sat around a table at the local tavern eating dinner. And all of them, but Gar, seemed interested in hearing the story.

"So you're a sorcerer." Clay said pushing his glasses up. "And a red dragon discipline is a pretty big feat, I can't believe you've made it that far."

A smile crossed Kira's face. He'd been worried that due to the professions he'd chosen, he'd once again be shunned.

"Thank you. Not many people appreciate the work I've done."

"So, where do you work? And for who?" Clay went on ignoring the nervous glances he was getting from everyone else.

"Clay!" Erts finally cut in glaring at his lover. This only gained a laugh from Kira though.

"It's alright. This question I am quite used to. I work for Queen Teela and her four sacred sisters." He answered honestly.

"WHAT?" Was the word that echoed from everyone's mouth causing more than a few people to turn around and stare.

"Is it really that shocking?" He asked blinking a bit and placing the fork in his hand down on the table.

"So you know who I am?" Ernest asked sighing a bit. He had hoped he'd finally found someone who liked him for who he truly was, not for his title.

"You mean being a prince? Yes, I am aware of you and your brother's title. Though what do titles really mean?" The smile was back on Ernest's face before he even finished and then….

"Only among other high ranking people. That rule doesn't count for commoners." Gareas said. And the smile was gone.

"Gar!" Yu growled eyes flashing. Gareas ignored him though. The small neutral agreement they had, had in the valley of corrupted gravity was gone.

"Kira! By any chance do you know how Fletz is doing?" Erts asked trying to change the subject. They had already had enough problems with Yu and Gareas fighting on the way there.

"I think you have it wrong Gareas." Kira answered slowly making sure he answered properly. "Commoners easily relate to other commoners and therefore rarely use any titles. However…a higher ranked person or a royal man or woman usually demand their titles to be used to show just how better they are then others…"

A awkward silence fell over the table. Ernest quickly realized that Gareas and Kira would never get along.

"Well then, that proves my point doesn't it sacred brother Kira?" Gareas asked growling.

"You know." Ernest said standing up glaring at Gar. "What right do you have to become angered, because of my friend, when you call out for some woman in your sleep!" He growled walking out of the tavern.

Gareas said nothing, but obviously seemed extremely embarrassed. He hadn't even known he'd called out someone's name. Kira got up and walked out of the tavern though cutting Gar's thoughts off and caused him to growl more. He got up and followed after Kira.

This in turn caused Yu to stand up and go after and then Erts followed him as well.

Rio and Clay sat there alone, at the table awkwardly looking at all the plates and chairs then to each other.

"So…." Rio started, but Clay got to his feet sighing.

"Let's go make sure no one kills anyone." He said walking out. A sob escaped Rio's throat at that and he slowly got to his feet following Clay.

"Rocky…."

"Ernest!" Gareas screamed out looking around. There were six different ways he could of went and even though Gar had been right behind him, he'd somehow lost him. He heard a sound, some rocks moving, and looked around again instantly. "Ernest?" He kept his eyes scanning and then got a glimpse of Ernest walking pass an ally way. "Ernest!" He screamed dashing down the way and grabbed Ernest by the wrist causing him to freeze in his tracks.

Flash

The village seemed to be going up in flames everywhere. Smoke, flames, screams. No matter where you looked this is all you could see. Gareas was there, a lot younger than he was now and was being held by a much younger Dabas.

"No! Father!" Gar tried to pull away from Dabas as he held the child back from running into the flames.

Flash

"My name's Zero! My dad is Dart so don't forget it!" A younger Zero said with a grin pointing to himself.

A young teen Gareas just sat there on his bed and rolled his eyes.

"Zero…" Dark snickered shaking his head. "Don't stand behind my title. Become strong and make your own."

"Nice quote." Gar said with a smirk.

Flash

Gareas now in his current age was holding a beautiful woman with long blonde hair. She was wearing a light blue dress and seemed to be very pale.

"Leena…" Gareas fell to his knees holding the woman in his arms. "Please no…Don't die on me! I need you…..LEENA!"

End Mind Thoughts

Ernest stared at Gar in shock. Leena was dead? Now he felt horrible. He had no doubt reopened closed wounds and with Kira rubbed salt into them...

"Gareas…"

"Look. I can understand why you got mad at me about dinner, but you know nothing about Leena." Gar growled clenching his fist. "I loved her more than anything. She was the only thing that kept me going when I was a kid. So go ahead, hate me, but don't you dare ever use Leena's name in any way that will blemish her good memory in my mind or anyone else's." With that said he turned his back to Ernest and walked off.

Ernest watched Gareas walk away in shock. He had been jealous of a dead woman and even worse. Instead of just confronting Gar about it, he'd jumped to conclusions and tried to make her look like a bad guy.

"I'm so sorry…" He whispered looking away his eyes falling on some flowers near him. He knew Gareas couldn't hear him though. "The city of flowers…always so beautiful…"

(X)

The boy smiled jumping off the roof of a house near by. His dark red eyes locked onto Gareas, dark blonde hair pushed back by the wind. He walked towards Gar without hesitation, a short black top on that stopped short over his chest clearly showing all his muscles including his belly button. His pants were also black that started a bit below the waist, his black boots seemingly invisible looking as if they were really just part of his pants.

"It's a pain isn't it?" The boy asked a hint of laughter in his voice.

Gareas stopped and turned around to regard the boy. He could of only been a bit taller than Zero, yet the boys eyes showed that he was much older than said boy.

"What do you want?"

"What do I want?" The boy echoed. "You're the one who asked for something. You wanted Leena back. In order to do so, you had to give up something in return, that was Ernest." He snickered and walked closer to Gar. "You have passed. You wish Leena to be brought back, come with me. I will in turn take you to someone who can grant your wish."

Gareas stood there in shock. Who was this kid? More importantly, could he really get Leena back? He figured even if the kid couldn't, he really had nothing better else to do and decided to play along with things at least for a little while.

"Tell me. What must I do?" The boys eyes lit up and a smirk crossed his face.

"Come with me human. We shall give you back what's yours."

(X)

Yu was the first to find Ernest after his encounter with Gareas. He noticed quickly from the way Ernest was kneeling down next to some flowers that something was wrong.

"My lord?" Ernest made no move to answer and thus Yu walked over to him. Slowly, gently lying a hand down on his shoulders. "Prince Er-"

"Yu…am I really that awful?" Ernest asked without turning around. He was shaking now Yu noticed, and his voice seemed to show that he was near tears.

"My lord I could never ask for a better person to serve."

"I don't mean like that…" The blonde replied turning around from the flowers and looking up at his one true friend. "I mean…how could I….the girl…Yu she's dead…I went and tried to make him jealous…and she's dead.." his voice trailed off and he lowered his head trying to hide his tears.

Yu frowned at this swearing to kill Gareas later and wrapped his arms around him.

"You're not evil….you just didn't know…"

Ernest closed his eyes trying to find comfort in Yu's words. When he had been younger and his powers more out of control, most kids considered him nothing ,but a demon. He wasn't completely sure as to why they did, but they had. The only person he'd ever been able to be "normal" around was Yu.

"You're the only person to think that…"

"No…Erts loves you and would never think ill of you in any way."

Ernest sighed closing his eyes ,but he couldn't relax. He was too far gone he realized. He was quickly spiraling down into the blackness of his heart, and he knew he'd be there for awhile. Once he hit that spot, he had a hard time getting out.

"…brother?" Erts voice cut in through the darkness and caused both Yu and Ernest to look up at him. Without really thinking, Erts walked over to Ernest and got to his own knees hugging him. "Brother please…there's nothing wrong with either of us…we're just different…that's all."

"What if we are demons?" Ernest asked seriously.

"If we were. Then so was father."

They all fell silent and sighed. Looking to the sky they saw a shooting star, but none of them made a wish. To them at this moment, there seemed no point. They felt utterly hopeless as though they had no chance at achieving anything, but more problems.

(X)

The rest of that night Zero stayed up staring at the ceiling of the room. From the other room across from him he heard the loud noises of what must have been Hiead breaking or hitting things. He turned over in the bed closing his eyes and trying to get the image of Hiead holding him by the shoulders and pushing him down onto the bed out of his mind. For some reason, he hadn't wanted it to stop there. He'd wanted Hiead to keep going, to maybe even get on top of him and …hit him? He hoped.

'I Can't be thinking like this,' Zero mentally scolded himself. What would the others think if he came back with someone like Hiead as a boyfriend? No he had to get over him and quick. Besides, what reason did he really have to like the insane guy anyway? No one in their right mind would, but of course, Zero was no where near his right mind.

'I Can't even sleep,' He mentally screamed now putting the pillow over his head. 'Why me?' He sighed again and stood up. Maybe if he got yelled at by Hiead again, not only would he get over him, but maybe he'd get lucky enough for Hiead to throw something at him and knock him out. Grinning like the idiot he was, he walked out of the room and headed across the hall.

Without saying a word or even knocking, Zero opened the door and walked in only to stop dead in his tracks. Hiead lied on the ground covered in blood, his clothes slashed, his breath coming in gasps. The window had been thrown open, and a man in a black cloak stood there holding a glowing blue sphere in his hand.

"Zero….get it!" Hiead begged through gritted teeth. Without thinking, Zero charged at the man, but before he even got close he was gone.

Zero turned around slowly looking to Hiead and ran over to him.

"Are you okay?" He asked getting to his knees and helping Hiead up. Hiead instinctively tried to pull away, but he was to weak from the lost of blood and fell foreword into Zero's outstretched arms. "Hiead…"

"I hate you…" The silver haired boy whispered and finally passed out. Wincing at the words, Zero got to his feet pulling Hiead up with him.

"Okay. You saved me, time for me to repay the favor." He lied Hiead down on his bed and walked out looking for some type of healing potions or bandages. He found some healing fog in one of the drawers Hiead had and took it out quickly running over to the boy. He took off the lid of the bottle and propped Hiead up opening his mouth and poured the liquid into his mouth. "Come on, drink." He said hoping that the Winglie wouldn't choke.

A few minutes passed, but the liquid was gone as was all of Hiead's wounds.

Zero let out a sigh of relief and smiled down at the boy. It was a good thing he couldn't sleep, or Hiead may of already been dead. Now though wasn't the time to think of that. Now was the time for Zero to get up and go through every part of the boy's house until he found out why the heck he was the way he was, and how to get out of this city.

"This should be fun."

TBC

Yes, it took forever but I finally did it. I updated!