Chapter Eight

Volaer to Demon

"Send out Bane." He will take care of them. Tell him not to kill the boy we want, he can do what he wishes with him, just make sure he's not dead." Lady Une ordered. The man standing before her looked terrified.

"Bane? Ma'am. Are you sure?" He asked, the last one to go near Bane was smashing into a pulp of blood and bone dust.

"Do not question me, do as I say." She barked out.

"Yes ma'am." As much as he was terrified of Bane he was three times that much afraid of Une. The dark witch had more power then most wizards and witches of her class.

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A terrified screeching sound woke them up, just as dawn was approaching. Heero was the first one to his feet, causing Duo to fall onto the ground, hitting the back of his head.

"Hey!" He cried out sitting up and holding the back of his head and glaring up at Heero.

"What do you think it is?" Trowa asked, readying his bow. Quatre helped Duo to his feet.

"I don't know, sounded like a dragon." Heero said. The screech came again and Duo gasped running past them and into the direction it was coming from. Heero caught him by the arm and pulled him back to him.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"That's a baby dragon, Heero." Duo cried out, pulling his arm free and taking off again towards the forest. Heero looked at Trowa.

"That first one didn't sound like a baby." he said. Trowa nodded and disappeared into the shadows. He could travel faster in the shadows. Heero and Quatre went after Duo into the forest. Heero and Quatre had almost caught up with Duo when they suddenly broke through the forest and found themselves in a clearing. A large red dragon was slain before then, three younger ones of the same color, carelessly torn apart. Trowa stepped out of a shadow.

"I can't find anyone here." He said.

"Because you don't look hard enough." They looked up to see a man sitting on a high tree branch, drenched in the blood of the dragons.

"How could you!" Duo screamed. "These are ancient creatures, guardians of Kelas, and you carelessly spill there blood, for what reason?" Duo yelled out to the man. The man only laughed and jumped down from the tree, landing on his feet directly in front of Duo, grabbing his chin in his hand. Heero jumped forward, the man waved his hand from front to back sending Heero away from him.

"You must be Duo. Very pretty." The man said leaning in closer to Duo, his lips almost touching his. Duo tried to pull away but the man was strong. He wrapped his fingers around the mans wrist and pulled as hard as he could.

"Let him go." Quatre said standing ready to fight two long blades that curved in his hands. The man laughed at him.

'Oh, and what are you going to do about it little Healer." Quatre made a move but a force sent him flying into a tree, he slid to the ground unconscious. Trowa started to sink into the shadows for a sneak attack but the man just laughed and Trowa froze screaming out in pain. He was half way threw his shadow and stuck like that and it was cutting into his abdomen.

"They should have just sent me in the first place, you are all weak." He said laughing, tightening his grip on Duo's throat, lifting him off the ground. Duo kicked towards the man, Duo's eyes rolled into the back of his head, finally out of oxygen, and his body went still. He wasn't dead, but his body couldn't function without the oxygen.

Duo gasped for deep breaths as he was dropped to the ground. The man that had been holding him laying next to him, blood trailing down his head. Duo looked up and saw Heero standing over him, a large rock formed club in his hands.

"Are you okay?" He asked. Duo nodded his head, he got to his feet and started to walk towards Trowa and Quatre, to help them. A hand wrapped around his foot and brought him to the ground. Heero swung at the man again, but suddenly froze, struggling to move. He was thrown away again, this time crashing though a dozen trees, breaking each of them in half as he went, and finally slamming into a large stone a hundred feet away, his body fell limp on the ground. Blood trailed down his forehead to his chin.

"Heero!" Duo called out, then he was pulled and found himself laying under the man who was attacking them.

"I think you should know the name of the man who will end you're freedom once and for all. My name is Bane. I'm a Master of Force, and I once use to be a Volaer, but that was a long time ago. I'm considered a Demon now." He said with a smile, his sharp teeth bared. "Did you know that is takes five hundred years for a Volaer to become a Demon, but you did it in two minutes."

"What?" Duo asked, still trying to free himself from Bane.

"Yes, the bitch mother, and her 'blessing' gift. The gift of power. To become a demon. And this…" Bane touched a spot on Duo's forehead a small circlet appeared from seemingly nowhere. "Is what is keeping you're power away, just like me." Bane pulled his bangs back, an acid green gem on his forehead.

"Get off me!" Duo yelled struggling more under the man. Duo froze when the man started the pull at his gem. Then struggled more frantically, trying to pull his head away from Bane's hand.

Heero blinked his eyes a few times and looked towards where Duo and Bane where on the ground. He got up, stumbling back on the ground, his head dripping blood. He looked at Duo, and tried to get up again. Duo was screaming in full volume now. An ear piercing sound that forced Heero back to the ground covering his ears. Trowa also covered his ears, blood already dripping from them, Duo was only a few feet away from him.

Heero watched in shock as Bane removed a circlet from Duo's forehead, thin chard of iron followed it. He could faintly hear Bane talking now that Duo had stopped screaming, his eyes blank of all emotion and his body limp under Bane's. "Ever wonder why someone would be weak against iron?" He asked, he tossed the gem and the three inch long chard of iron away from him.

Heero forced himself back to his feet, getting closer to Bane, who didn't notice him. He was too occupied with Duo. Heero noticed that Duo's body was violently twitching now, and Bane was backing off him, smiling from ear to ear in an evil grin.

Duo got to his feet, his eyes nothing but glowing purple pools, streaming down his checks like blood. He lurched forward and a single wing ripped from his back, at first it was feathered, but the feathers faded away to reveal the white bones, the bones soon turned black and a thin, ragged leather film stretched from bone to bone.

"What have you done to me?" He asked, but his voice was monstrous and echoed against nothing. He fell to his knees, his head on the ground as spikes shot out from his spine, and a tail grew out from his back. Bane stepped closer to him and made a grab for him. But Duo grabbed his hands in one of his.

"You killing them." Duo said, speaking of the dragons. "You hurt me friends!" He started pulling Bane's arms in separate directions. Bane started screaming.

"What? How?" Bane questioned in fear. Heero felt the force of Banes power around him, it was tearing at Duo's close, at his skin, but doing little else. There was a sickening rip sounds as Bane was split into two. Then Duo fell forward and screamed out in pain, a huge blade through his gut, the last of Bane's powers sent to kill Duo.

Heero ran to his side, Duo looked up at him and flung out his hand, Heero was sent flying again, only a few feet this time, and rolled a few feet, with his head injury it was enough to make him stay there.

"Heero, get the circlet." Trowa said, still stuck in the damn shadow. Bane's power was still circulating in the small clearing.

Duo laid on the ground, clawing at the sword in his stomach. His feet had transformed into scaled thick clawed legs, that looked more at home on a dragon then on his body. Heero rolled onto his stomach and looked for the circlet. Finding it a few feet away. He picked it up with his power and brought it to Duo, the creature before them was too busy with the sword to notice the iron and the gem heading for his head. He threw his head back as the iron pushed into his forehead.

This time it was Duo screaming, and there was no wing, his legs sinking back to normal, and his spikes sinking back into his back, tail doing the same. Finally Trowa was able to pull himself out of the shadow a deep gash across his stomach. He ran to Quatre and shook him. He needed to wake up. They were all injured with life threatening wounds, but Duo was more critical.

Ceri opened him eyes slowly and spotted Trowa, then saw the gash and touched it. It healed almost immediately. He started to nod off again, but Trowa shook him again.

"Quatre, Duo and Heero, they're dieing." Quatre opened his eyes wide and looked at Duo who was now jerking violently on the ground, sword still in his stomach. Heero laid a few feet away, blood pooling around his head. Quatre got to his feet and with the help of Trowa made her way to Heero first, Duo wouldn't die, but Heero would. He put both of his hands on his head and healed him. Heero laid there breathing hard and trying to clear his vision.

Quatre made his way to Duo.

"Pull the sword out." He said, Trowa went to pull the sword out but was shocked instead and thrown a few feet back. The shock also went through Duo, he cried out in pain.

"Let me." Heero said, his hand turned to stone and he gripped the sword. It sent a shock through both Heero and Duo, Heero didn't feel it though, Duo just jerked violently on the ground. Once the sword was out Quatre went to work on healing Duo. As soon as he was heal he collapsed onto him, fully drained of his powers and energy. Heero pulled him off Duo and laid him flat on the ground. He then went over to Trowa and lifted him off the ground, he was jerking slightly, but his breathing was normal.

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Trowa was the first to wake, he was shaking slightly and felt that every nerve in his body was on fire.

"Do you know who that was?" He asked Heero, sitting up slowly.

"I've never seen him before, but he mentioned 'they' which I'm thinking is Trieze and Une." He said, sitting next to Duo, pulling his head into his lap.

Quatre was the next to awaken. He healed Trowa again, this time fixing his bleeding ears and shot nerves.

"Is he okay?" Quatre asked.

"He stopped jerking about five minutes ago. But his breathing is still strained." Heero said.

Duo woke up three hours later, opening his eyes and starring at Heero for a few minutes.

"What happen?" He asked, yawning and stretching like he had been asleep the whole time.

"You don't remember?" Heero asked. Duo looked at him like he was crazy.

"You have blood all over you're head." He said.

"I'll tell you later Duo." Heero said bowing his head next to Duo's.

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I have a zoo here so I do get hurt a lot, the horse is really skittish and my sister ran up on him so he kicked out. I took it like a man, LMAO. Actually it hurt but if he would have kicked my sister it would have been her head, and that would have been so much worse. :D