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Chained
Chapter Seven: The Fight.
-----(Duo preparing)-----
"Here Duo, Trowa brought this by." Quatre said handing Duo his scythe. He didn't meet Duo's eyes and kept his head bow. Duo took the scythe carefully. Took a deep breath then stood.
"Quatre I'm sorry I snapped at you." Duo said. Quatre sighed and smiled at Duo, though the smile was forced.
"Trowa said you can use any weapons here, and to take as many as you can carry in a battle. He said you will need it, that Heero is pretty…well…good." Quatre said. Duo nodded. He looked around the room he was in. There were swords, daggers, arrows, bows, axes, and spears. Duo smiled pulling two swords off the wall with there sheaths and tying them to his waist. He grabbed two daggers, putting one in each boot, and another for hit wrist, hiding it in his tight sleeve. Spotting small but thick needles, he smiled even more and put them into his braid strategically at the end. Not wanting to weight himself down he stopped there and turned to Quatre.
"To tell the truth Quatre, I'm scared." was all he said before leaving the room and entering the castle grounds.
-----(Heero Preparing)-----
"I gave him some advise, if he took it, he'll have more then just his scythe. He at least deserves an advantage." Trowa said. "Make sure you don't use the bond to defeat him, it would be unfair." Heero nodded. Heero strapped his swords to his sides. Three to the left and two to the right.
"I will only need my swords." Heero said. He looked at Trowa seriously. Heero stood and left the castle, fully prepared for a battle he would have to fight, without killing the demon.
-----(The Fight)-----
Duo looked up at Heero keeping a calm face, but his body shock uncontrollably. He gripped his scythe tightly, his knuckles going white. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Heero put his hand on one of his swords to his left and stood still in front of Duo.
"Are you ready?" Heero asked, his voice was dangerous. Duo could tell the elf was prepared for a battle, not a simple fight. He nodded his head and quickly jumped to the side as Heero lunged forward. He landed gracefully on his toes and lunged forcefully at Heero, his scythe tip catching Heero's cloths, ripping the sleeve. Heero smiled and swung his sword around to Duo's side.
Duo jumped back again, spun around and swung the scythe around towards Heero's neck. Heero ducked and lunged under Duo's scythe to make a move towards his stomach. Just in time, Duo swung his scythe upwards, knocking Heero in the chin with the butt of the scythe knocking him back a few feet. Heero gained his balance quickly.
"Your not bad, Duo." Heero said taking a few steps to the right, Duo took a few to the left. Not letting his guard down.
"I don't plan on being your slave." Duo growled out and lunged for Heero. He swung his scythe under hand and up wards toward Heero. Heero spun around quickly and slammed the back of his fist into Duo's temple, knocking the boy down to the ground and roll away a few feet. Duo got up quickly looking for his scythe and spotting Heero kicking it away. Duo cursed and unsheathed both swords.
"I'm not going to play any more Duo, so I expect you to become serious too." Heero said. He unsheathed a sword from his right. Duo started panicking slightly, he hadn't been playing. Every time he blocked Heero it was by seconds. Duo took a few step's forward swings his swords and swung towards Heero. His swords were moving together, same angle one just above the other, so when Heero blocked it only took one sword. Duo realized his mistake, one second too late, but also noticed that Heero sword cut threw the one inch space of cloth that wasn't covering skin, just under his armpit, dangerously close to his chest.
Duo spun away hard, forcing the sword out of Heero's hand, and allowing his braid to whip Heero across the face. Heero's head snapped to the side and his, now free, hand went to his cheek. Three deep gashes were bleeding down his face, the first cut just under his eye, the third and the worst split his cheek from his lips to about an inch back, the third along his jaw, which if it was any lower would have sliced his neck pretty bad. He growled out and withdrew another sword from his left side.
Duo, correcting his earlier mistake, swung his swords at different angels and apart this time. Heero stopped one Sword from hitting his head and the other from slicing his stomach. He's eyes met Duo's and widened slightly. There was fear there, but there was rage lacing around the fear. Murderous rage. Heero roughly pushed Duo away, the boy stumbled back a few steps but quickly gained his balance.
Quatre and Trowa could only watch in shock as the two fought. Quatre had almost ran into the battle himself when Heero's sword almost pierced Duo's chest. Trowa had stopped him. But then when Duo returned the attack with his deadly braid, it was Quatre's turn to hold Trowa back.
Again the two lunged forward at each other. Heero dropped at the last moment and swung around, kicked out his foot and swiping Duo off his feet and onto his back, Heero noted in the back of his head that the deadly braid had ended up away from Duo's back. The fall caused Duo to hit his elbows on the ground in an attempt to catch himself, forcing his to drop his swords. Duo ignored it however and quickly kicked out his own legs, catching one of Heero's in the process and bringing him down to his side.
Heero dropped his swords so he could remove the ones that were still on Duo's side. He straddled Duo's body and started searching it for another weapon. Duo struggled against him, he punched him in the cheek that was injured and sent him back to the ground. Duo rolled away from Heero only to have his braid tugged and forced him back onto his back. He turned to Heero, who hand his braid in his bloodied had, two needle like blades sticking threw his hand.
Heero quickly removed the blades and threw them away from then. Duo rolled away from Heero again, ignoring the pain in his neck, but his braid slipped threw Heero's bloody hand. Duo got to his feet, as Heero got to his.
"Ready to give up yet." Heero asked, spitting blood out of his mouth. Duo didn't answer him but lunged forward with no weapons in hand. Heero unsheathed his sword and hit Duo in the head with the butt of the sword. Duo fell to the ground, dazed. Heero stood over Duo and reached down to grab his chain, still connected to the collar and lifted Duo to his feet. As Duo was pulled up he grabbed one of the hidden daggers and slammed it into Heero's side.
Heero winced and pushed Duo away, grabbing the sword and pulling it out of his side. He looked back up to see Duo standing a little wobbly with another dagger in his hands.
"I thought you said you weren't playing anymore." Duo growled out. "You've had plenty of chances to kill me." Duo spat out. Heero smiled, his hand clutching his side.
"If I killed you then you wouldn't be my slave." Heero said calmly.
"I'm going to kill you before I become your slave." Duo spat out.
"I doubt it." Heero said. Heero started walking towards Duo. "Are you going to kill me Duo." Duo eyed Quatre warily. He knew Quatre had told Heero that he doesn't kill people.
"I've done it before…if I have to I'll do it again." Duo growled out. Heero narrowed his eyes dangerously. Duo swung the dagger. Heero caught it and pulled Duo to him, turning Duo around and forcing his arm painfully behind him back. He wrapped a foot around Duo and pushed forward bringing both to the ground. "No, let go of me." Duo yelled out, trying to struggle against Heero. Tears threatening to spill. "Please, I lost just let go." Duo whispered. Heero got off Duo and stood up. Heero pulled Duo to his feet. Duo didn't look at Heero, just walked into the castle without a word to any one. Quatre ran up to Heero.
"Thank you." He said sadly. "For not injuring him." Quatre turned to head after Duo but Heero caught his arm.
"Don't go after him. This will be hard for him." Heero said. Trowa came up to them with Sally fallowing. Heero let Sally heal his wounds, smiling when she commented on the cuts on his face. "Duo fought well, Quatre. With a little training I'm sure he could become a threat to even the oldest of elves." Quatre smiled half heartedly.
"You know, I think this was the last straw." Quatre said. Heero lifted en eye brow but didn't say anything. "For Duo I mean. He cried when we were in the dinning room. I've never seen him cry before."
"He'll be okay." Heero said. "I'll have another talk with him. Maybe we could reach an understanding." Heero said.
"Good luck, he's pretty stubborn." Quatre said. He turned and walked toward the gardens, to leave the brothers alone.
"Trowa, will you do me a favor?" Heero asked, watching the blond boy turn the distant corner leading to the garden." Trowa looked at Heero and nodded.
"As long as it doesn't hurt Quatre." Heero's eyes widened and he looked at Trowa.
"Just because this happened doesn't mean I'm going to hurt them. I restrained from drawing blood from Duo. I would just like it if you kept Quatre away from Duo until I can get him back to his 'normal' self, whatever that may be." Heero said.
"And how are you planning on doing that?" Trowa asked.
"I have no idea." Heero said. He left Trowa on his own, as he entered the castle in search of the beaten demon. The first step to helping anyone get over something, is to find out what exactly that something is. As much as Heero knew that some of it had something to do with being caught and forced into enslavement, he had a feeling that there was more to it.
-----(end chapter)-----
Yeah finished. Sorry Duo's really OOC right now, but again I needed him to be to get to this point. Don't worry though, Duo gets a little better in the next chapter as things start to heat up between him and Heero, and Wufei provides a little surprise in the chapter after next. Review please.