Chapter 11

Heavy hooves slammed into the ground, the muscles springing the horse forward, as it pushed off the ground, in a gallop. The white horses ears were pinned back in irritation, but his rider ignored it. Desperately watching the sky. There was nothing there the fog had cleared up, and there was no sign of Solo or Duo.

Heero was suddenly thrown off Wings back as the horse forcible stopped from running and starred at Heero. Heero stood and starred at the horse, both glaring. Heero finally reached for the reins but Wing snapped at him.

"I need to save him, Wing. I need to get him back." Heero growled out.

"And how do you plan on doing that alone?" Heero looked over and saw Wufei, Quatre, and Trowa coming towards them, a fourth horse without a rider joining them. It was Wufei who had spoken.

"If you rush Wing, galloping him to Trieze's castle three days away, the horse will be of no use to you. Not to mention the ride will leave you weak from hunger and exhaustion." Trowa pointed out.

"You can only save Duo if you have enough energy and brains to do so, do not go rushing into your death." Quatre added. Heero sighed and slumped his shoulders falling to his knees.

"It won't matter then. Once I get into OZ Duo will already be at Dark Cloud with his brother, being tortures, and killed for as long as he is on this earth." Heero mumbled.

"Not true." Wufei pointed out. "Trieze knows that Duo has some meaning to you, I mean he was there with the demon saved you and your father, I have a feeling Trieze will want to keep Duo in the castle, at least until you get there. Which gives you plenty of time. About the torture however, I can not guarantee anything. But if Duo is tortured he will survive it and you can help him heal." Wufei said, though his voice chocked at the thought of Duo being tortured.

"He protected me, Wufei, and I couldn't provide the same protection-." Heero started.

"Enough, Heero, Duo flew from a dragon, something I have no doubt he has done before. I don't think he expected you to be able to fight Solo yourself. He knows the strength of his brother. Heero he tried to get Solo away from you. Not himself. When you pushed him behind you, he was going for his scythe." Quatre said.

"He is still considered a wild animal Heero. Though they are intelligent they are beast of the wild. Demons think like animals and are possible far more brutal then humans. You saved his life, that there is enough for Duo's mind to think that he owes that to you. I have no doubt that he would sacrifice his life to protect you. So you need to stop and think, if you waste your life by just charging into Oz Castle with no thought or plan of what needs to be done, then everything Duo has done will be in vain." Trowa pointed out. Heero nodded. They had a point.

"We will rest for tonight and start fresh tomorrow. If you cannot sleep Heero I have my potions. But you need to rest, you need to be strong if you're going to save Duo." Wufei said, dismounting from Nataku.

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Solo tossed the bundle in his arms to the ground causing Duo to moan out his pain and curl in on himself. His wings folding around himself tightly. Solo kicked him in the side hard and Duo cried out blood spilling from his lips.

"Ah! Solo, glad to see we came to an agreement." Trieze said with a smirk as he entered the room and found the larger demon kicking the smaller one. "Is this the little birdie that saved Heero?" Trieze said bending down and grabbed a fist full of Duo's hair, forcing his head back. Duo glared at him and spit blood onto Trieze's face. Solo laughed out a bit and smirked.

"Looks like he's managed to learn a few things from me after all." He said. Trieze was about to back hand Duo but Solo caught his hand. "I don't think so." Solo said dangerously.

"What do you care?" Trieze asked.

"This is still me brother." Solo said, Duo eyed him suspiciously.

"What do you care, you're a demon, you have no-" Solo grabbed Trieze's shirt and lifted him off the ground. "What are you doing?" Trieze growled out.

"I brought him here so that you could get the boy you wanted, I never said you could torture him." Solo said. Duo stumbled onto his feet.

"A change of heart Solo?" Duo asked weakly stumbling to the left until he grabbed the wall for support.

"Never, I still hate you for killing mother, but you are still my family Duo." Solo said his glare a deadly one. Duo rolled his eyes.

"Put me down at once." Trieze said calmly. Solo made a move to grabbed Trieze's face in his hands but several men gabbed him, more coming towards Duo. Duo pushed them off but was quickly over come. Solo however was more of a challenge. He managed to kill six of the men before another eight got him pinned to the ground.

"What is this?" Solo growled out, trying to get free. Trieze smiled at him.

"Your death King Solo. I will be taking over Dark Cloud as well." He said with a smirk of his own.

"Then you will die."

"Not if I have your wings as a treasure, showing them off to your people should do the trick." Trieze said. Solo's world went black as something sharp connected to the back of his head.

"What should we do with them sir?" One of the men asked.

"Take them to the dungeon, I may need them alive yet, make sure they are chained securely." Trieze said with a smirk.

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Yeah another chapter, and things change, lol, I'm going to do a little redeeming for Solo, but not to much. Lol.