.Chapter 4

There was a knock at the door and Heero peeked through the door and smiled when he saw Duo standing out in the hall. Duo gave a small smile.

"Come, we've a lot to talk about."

Closing the door behind him, Heero walked beside Duo in silence, he noticed Duo's wings were no longer out, this reminded him of the many questions running through his head, but he felt it wise to wait until they were in the privacy of Duo's sanctuary first.

Duo kept quiet and wanted so much to break the wall of silence between them while they walked down the hall but he bit his lower lip. He frowned when he saw a few feathers fall from Heeros' wings and slowly flutter to the ground. It was then that he realised that Heero was missing several feathers.

Upon thier arrival, Duo ordered the guards to leave them in peace and they were left alone within the beautiful confines of the place duo called his sanctuary.

Sitting down on a scarlet coloured love-seat made of fine silk, Duo sighed,

"So what do you want to talk about first?"

Heero sat down as well and turned toward the dark prince,

"Well first of all, can you explain to me about your wings?"

Duo chuckled as he scooted forward a bit and revealed his wings once more.

"Well this is going to be a long story so I hope you are comfortable."

He had a lost look on his face and was gently gliding his fingers across his wings.

"My mother was an angel named Becca and of course, my fathers' name was the God of Death "Lucifer"."

"How did your parents meet?"

"Well I never met my mother and have only heard the stories from my father, He told me my mother was the most beautiful being he had ever seen and of how he used to be the highest rank in heaven compared to your Lord and he slowly started to rebel against him. At the time my mother was pregnant with me and hid as the wars began." My father was cast out of Heaven and sent to become a minion of a ruler-less Hell and with time he became the Dark Lord."

"If you were born of two parents from heaven then why do you have two different wings?"

"Well in the beginning I did have two angel wings and my mother had me live with my dark father due to her fear of your Lord taking revenge on me for my fathers actions. As time went by, one of my wings slowly began to transform into what you see now, and my father waited until i was of age to rule the kingdom to tell the truth and his plans of venegance."

"Revenge of what?"

"My father had learned that my mother was captured from hiding and charged with accomplising my fathers conspiracy to over-throw the Heavens and had her chained to the highest peak of the clouds, with no chance of redeeming herself. Enraged he called upon his demon horde to break through the city doors and bring his wife to him, many attempts failed. He grew restless every passing day and decided to try himself and in the end he was killed. I was pro-nounced the "New" Dark Lord and took over command of Hell."

Heero's eyes were filled with sadness and Duo could tell he was trying not to cry at this sad story.

"I'm sorry to hear of your sad fate Duo, I wish there was something I could do."