Death's Slave--

By: BluJester

Duo was still looking down at the spot where Heero had been. Lying on what must have been the other side of Heero was that same dead puppy.

The puppy's lifeless brown eyes were open again and stared at Duo. Duo couldn't stand watching the puppy so he turned his head away facing Heero who was towering above him with a gun aimed at him yet again.

This brings a whole new meaning to the words Endless Waltz.

As Duo looked up a Heero he noticed Heero's tank top was now the color of dried blood. Duo was about to beg Heero for his life, I'm so not dressed to kill! when Heero seemed to remember him.

Heero's eyes widened as he realized it was Duo his gun was pointed at. He immediately dismissed Duo as a threat and started checking their surroundings for any danger. Once he realized there was no one else around he turned back to Duo. Heero holstered his gun behind his back and finally acknowledged Duo simply stating "Duo".

Heero's eyes were their usual emotionless cobalt but Duo was still wary. "Heero are you… you?" Duo waited for a response.

Silence, Heero didn't even move, nothing.

How can I figure out if he's the normal Heero?

Suddenly Duo yelled as loud as he could in a sing-song voice.

"Hee-ro! My Hero!" Duo waited for a response once more.

Finally his efforts were rewarded as he heard a faint "hmm… baka."

Duo's eyes closed in relief and a smile spread over his face. "Hey Heero buddy, get me outta here will ya."

Heero slowly circled the pile of junk atop Duo calculating the best way to recover the trapped Deathscythe pilot.

Heero decided on a course of action and immediately started heaving things off Duo. Duo opened his eyes to watch and wondered how so much rubbish had gotten on top of him.

I swear I just saw parts of a mobile suit and … Is that a bed frame?!?!

It didn't take Heero long till he was finishing up.

Once Duo was free from the garbage heap he quickly jumped up and away from the filth around him shaking his clothes off.

Heero crossed his arms and watched Duo's antics. Duo hopped around trying to wipe off his braid, Heero was sure he heard Duo muttering "my poor baby" to his braid.

Although he looked relaxed Heero was fully alert, he couldn't remember how he arrived -wherever he was- and he didn't know why Duo was with him. Last thing he knew he was on Earth and Duo was on his way to L2. Now they were in a trash heap. Questions ran through Heero's head... Was he drugged? Were they captured? He decided they must be on Earth; there was gray sky as far as the eye could see and besides Duo nothing moved. Trash was everywhere heaped piles of decomposing litter making mountains. A tangle of wheels and corroded wire marked a site where the supermarket trolleys seemed to come to die.

Suddenly Heero noticed something besides Duo moving. His eyes zeroed in on the puppy while his fingers inched toward his gun. The puppy jerkily got to its feet, Duo noticed this also and quickly hid behind Heero. Zombie puppy or Heero Yuy? Real hard choice. At least I know Heero wants to kill me, zombie puppy might want to eat me alive as I watch -I swear I've watched to many horror movies.

But instead of attacking and eating them the puppy turned its face toward the darkening sky and howled. Its ear piercing shriek forced both Duo and Heero to cover their ears. Just as the noise was starting to get unbearable, the puppy stopped.

Duo and Heero unplugged their ears and watched in shock as the puppy collapsed. Duo continued to remain in shock as Heero pulled out his gun and shot the already dead puppy until his clip was empty of ammunition. Duo's eyes were open wide as he watched the puppy turn into a small heap of bloodied fur and bones. The smell wasn't that great either.

A shadow loomed over Duo and Heero. Logically there shouldn't have been a shadow since the sun was not out, but as Duo and Heero were about to find out, they weren't in a very logical place, or even a place at all – well at least not on their plane of existence.

Duo was the first to notice the shadow and as he turned around he was still partly dazed from witnessing Heero's puppy massacre. When his eyes finally landed on what was behind him his mouth went slack and only one thought entered Duo's mind.

Huh?

TBC...

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P.S. I stole a line from the book Good Omens, kudos to anyone who spots it.