"Heero, we need to find shelter, the horses are freezing, and personally…SO AM I!" Quatre yelled over the wind to get the message to Heero

"We'll stop at the end of the passage, once there I'll block it with an avalanche so the soldiers won't be able to get to us." Heero explained, trying to be heard over the wind.

Very slowly they headed into the passage, it was narrow, slippery, and the snow was up to the horses chest, making their traveling slow. Duo took the lead, Deathscythe made a path with her body for Sandrock, Heavyarms, and Shenlong to fallow in, while Heero on Wing took up the rear, he would collapse the pass once he passed threw it.

Duo heard the rumbling, then Heero shouting something, then the ground beneath Deathscythe shook. Before Duo knew what was happening Deathscythe was running through the passage at a frantic pace, he looked behind him and saw the others also galloping, well the best the could, out of the pass, the wall of snow behind them gaining on them. Duo watched in horror as the snow over took Heero, then Wufei, then Trowa. Duo quickened his pace and made it out of the passage, Deathscythe jumped onto a ledge and into safety as the snow rushed passed her.

Duo looked around and found only white snow. He started to panic and jumped off the ledge into the snow, sinking in up to his waist. He started digging threw the snow looking for Quatre who had been the closest to him. "Deathscythe, go find Wing." Duo ordered. Wherever Wing was Heero was sure to be.

Duo fell back as Sandrock pulled herself out of the snow dragging Quatre with her. "I'm going to kill him." Quatre said, dusting himself off and trying to catch his breath.

"Quatre you're okay." Duo said, then stood up and started looking for the next one, Trowa. He didn't have to look very long, Trowa just walked out of a shadow, his horse following him. He looked pretty pissed too.

A whole melted away and Wufei pulled himself up, he burned more snow away and Shenlong was free.

"That bastard." He growled out. Duo ran passed him to where Deathscythe was pawing at the snow. Wing jumped out of the snow and looked like he could kill. Duo fell to his knees and started digging in the snow for Heero. He uncovered his hand and lower arm. It was cold a stiff. Duo started panicking anymore and dug Heero out to his waist.

"Heero!" He yelled, he pulled Heero's head into his lap a little surprised to find it warming up. He looked at Heero's face and jumped backwards when his eyes popped open suddenly. Then he cried out and hugged Heero's head. "You scared me, I thought you were dead." He said. Heero pulled himself out of the snow the rest of the way.

"Why would you think that?" Heero asked pulling Duo into his arms.

"Because you were cold and stiff." Duo said, Heero grabbed Duo's hand.

"Like this?" He asked, his hand turned cold and stiff around Duo's, Duo sighed in realization.

"You turned yourself into a rock." He said.

"Yeah." Heero said.

"I'm going to kill you." Both of them looked to see three very unhappy people looking at Heero.

"You could have waited until we were actually out of the passage, you ass." Wufei said, Heero rolled his eyes and got to his feet, bringing Duo with him.

"Heero you really could have waited." Quatre said.

"I don't think it was Heero." Trowa said.

"Oh and who was it?" Wufei asked.

"A Deer." Heero said. Both Wufei and Quatre raised their eye brows in question. Heero pointed behind him and they looked, seeing a large buck half way berried in the snow, it's neck broken. "I saw it walking along the edge, and it set off the avalanche, not me, notice how there are no rocks, I can't control snow." Heero pointed out.

"Okay, well, would you mind making some shelter?" Quatre asked, wrapping his arms around himself. Heero nodded and lead them out of the passage. He punched the side of the wall, and Duo starred in shock as a large whole, bigger then the cave he had been trapped in appear. It was big enough for all of them, and the horses. They went in quickly to settled down. Heero looked up to see Duo still standing outside shivering, his eyes wide. He went back out to him.

"Duo, it's okay." Heero said, Duo shook his head and backed up a step. "Duo I'll be right with you."

"I can't…I can't go back." Duo said, his eyes glazed over in fear. "I can't." the others watched from the cave. Duo turned to run but Heero wrapped his arms around him, causing them to fall into the snow. "I can't." Duo was yelling over and over.

"Duo we need to get you out of sight, if Oz comes looking for you…what about the snow, it's cold, the cave is warm." Heero tried, but Duo was having none of it. "You're going into the cave one way or another." Heero said. He placed his hand on Duo's and slide it up his wrist, under his sleeve. "Duo." Duo looked up at Heero, eyes still glazed over.

"It's Iron." Duo's eyes widened more and he tried to pull his arm away but Heero was stronger and had a good grip on him. "Listen to me!" Duo froze. "It'll drain you of your energy, but it won't hurt, I've manipulated it." He explained, brushing the snow off Duo's face with his other hand. Duo felt the cool stone wrapping around his wrist. His body went lip and his eyes closed half way.

"If it hurts blink twice." Yorik said, knowing full well that Duo couldn't move. Duo only blinked once after a few seconds. Heero lifted him off the ground and carried him into the cave. He turned and closed it off, hiding them from the word, leaving only a crack for air.

Quatre laid a fur out for Duo, Heero gentle put him down on it. He leaned down, looking Duo in the face.

"If I take it off you have to calm down and you have to be quiet. You can talk and laugh and stuff, no screaming or yelling. Got it." Heero said. Heero removed the bracelet. Duo was still too weak to move so he just laid there.

"I'm hungry." He said, not looking at the cave walls, or the people in it. He was shaking, and he still felt certain that he was going to be stuck here. He felt someone lift him and sit behind him, one leg on either side of him, pulling him back to rest on him. "I'm right here, and I'm never leaving your side."

A few minutes later, Duo had food in front of him and a cup of tea.

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Lady Une tapped her figures on her desk in irritation. Cudra had failed, Bane had failed, and there over search of the Elone Kingdom was turning up nothing, other then ten dead guards and one who was currently stuck in the ground, with two broken arms. A knock came on the door, drawing Une from her thoughts.

"Enter." She said, the man entered and shut the door behind him. "What is it?" She snapped.

"Moni has died, he froze during the night because of this damn snow." Une sighed, changing her list to eleven dead guards.

"And the search of Nyne?" She asked, well if he wasn't coming in here happy, then nothing turned up.

"That stable master said that a small group left in a hurry right after it started snowing. There was an avalanche a few hours away, caving in the only pass to the Port. The tracks stopped there." Une actually smiled, this was a good thing, maybe she would get them after all. "And Moni had a message." Une waited without saying anything. "One of the attackers, messy black hair was all he said, has requested to meet you in person."

"So Heero wants to meet me in person, does he." Lady Une said, that got the mans attentions.

"Heero?" He asked.

"Leave." She barked out, the man did as he told with or without his answers. King Trieze stepped out of the shadows laughing.

"I just had the best meeting with his Supremacy Zechs." He said.

"Are you sure we can trust him King Trieze. I mean with his position and all at-" Trieze put a finger on Une's lips.

"Yes we can, I have trusted him with my life for many years now."

'But he wouldn't even give you the location of Duo…and how do we even know that Duo is the boys name." She said pushing his hand away.

"Lady Une, do you trust me?" He asked.

"Yes." She said without thought.

"Then trust his Supremacy, he is one of the most power Volaer's on the planet."

"Then how come you don't just use him for your plans?"

"Because there is only one who can control death, and we both want him under our control."

"Then what should I do now?" She asked.

"Send Bane again, but this time tell him just to torture the boy not to try and bring him here. We want the boy to have some control of his powers by the time we have him. Tell Bane to kill him, he should have fun with that." Trieze said. "And have him torture the others too, I think it would be good for him to have a little fun." With that Trieze walked back into the shadow, but Une stopped him.

"Are you going back over there, now?"

"Yes, I have quiet a night planed out for us." Trieze said with a smile.

"What about your kingdom?"

"What about it, I have you here." He pulled away and entered the shadow, a portal to another castle, very far away, there was a tall long haired man waited for him.

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"Here!" Duo looked up to see Wufei holding a sword out for him. He stood and took it slowly.

"What's this?" He asked, Wufei starred at him. "I know it's a sword." He said, he lifted an eye brow at him. "I mean why do I need this?" He asked.

"Because, I'm going to train you how to fight with it. A dagger is a good weapon, but it'll do you little good in a battle." Wufei said and readied his sword. Duo stood in the same stance. And that was what they did for two days, practiced sword fighting. Duo picked up on things quickly, but he was slow and weak compared to Wufei. So on the second day when Duo fell to his knees tired and worn out from the exertion of the play battle with Wufei, he knelt down next to him.

"Every night I want you to go through all the movies I showed you, they will build up your muscle and the more you do them the faster and smoother you get. I also want you to try to add your power to it, you have such a wide variety of power that I'm sure you can become creative with it." He said. Duo only nodded and crawled to the fur that he slept on, collapsing in a heap in it and closing his eyes, listening to the others talk.

Trowa came back into the cave a few minutes later through a shadow in the corner. "Its finally stopped snowing, but the cave is completely buried." Trowa said sitting down next to Heero. Heero opened his map and spread it out on the floor, he measure the distance from their location to the Port.

"It's two days to the Port."

"It may be harder for Lady Une to send her goons after us once we cross a little bit of open waters." Wufei said, sitting down next to them.

"Maybe, but we've been stuck in here for two days, now, the Oz Guards could either be close or on the way to the Port, or something else for that matter. After that guy, Bane? Was it? I just don't think I want to know who or what else she may send after us." Heero looked over to see Duo sleeping on the fur, he smiled. "Well leave first thing in the morning." He said and stood to go over to Duo. Trowa stopped him by standing and stepping in front of him.

"Heero, you should be careful with him, he may not fully understand your intensions." Trowa said.

"And what do you think my intensions are, Trowa?" Heero asked narrowing his eyes. Trowa just shook his head.

"Just remember that he's-." Heero just walked past him sitting down with Duo and lift a rock wall to give them privacy, like he had every night. "Ass." Trowa mumbled walking to Quatre who was also already sleeping.

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The plot thickens. LMAO.