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Warnings: see previous chapters.

Parings: the usual.

Chained

Chapter Twelve: The Battle

Heero and Duo didn't make it to the doors before they were thrown open and men started flooding in. Heero ran forward faster drawing two of his five swords and attacked full force with everything he had. Elves , and to his surprise dwarves, fairies, and pixies, fell to his blades. An Elf fell behind him and he turned to see Duo grinning there before turning around and taking out another Elf.

"I don't know how they broke threw the defenses so quickly, but somehow they managed to get the other species involved in this as well." Heero said while slicing down another three dwarves in a single swing. Duo laughed out as he jumped back and hit a fairy with the back of his scythe.

"Yeah, well, you know there preparing for war." Duo said. Heero noticed that Duo wasn't killing anyone, just knocking them out.

"You know Duo your going to have to kill, there not going to give you the same treatment." Heero said spinning to attack another enemy.

"When I truly feel my life is threatened I will kill until then I will continue fighting my way Heero." Duo say. Heero smiled and slide his sword threw the stomach of an elf just passed Duo, bring him close to Duo face to face, the noses almost touching.

"Then please me more careful." He said will a smile. Blood dripped onto his check and he noticed that Duo scythe was next to his face, blood running along it's blade, an elf's head stuck on the end.

"Should I say the same thing about you." Duo said with a smile thrusting his sword behind him to knock a pixie away from him. Then spun around and continued his battle while Heero laughed and continued him. At that time Anubis, Apollo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei entered the picture. Quatre rushed forward a staff appeared him his hand, he thrust it forward and screamed out a single word.

"Maganac!" There was a bright flash, and suddenly three large men standing before them rushing into battle. "Fight hard Rashid do not let them fallow us." Quatre ordered. The larger of the men nodded and started crushing men around them. Quatre turned to the others. "Half the castle is on fire, the city is in ruble. Heero we have to leave or we won't have a chance. Treize and Zechs are finding horses for you, but we have to leave."

"I can't just leave my kingdom like this." Heero said. Quatre grabbed his shirt and made his look at him.

"Listen to me, they snuck in from all sides, Wufei's men have all died fighting, but there's to many, your people are fleeing into the woods, we'll have a better chance later if we stay alive." Heero looked back at the men fighting. Quatre was right. Heero sighed and lead them out another way.

They were almost to the kitchens when Heero heard the cries of the children. He watched Duo turn wide eyes.

"No there still in the castle." He said, Heero stopped him from running back into the castle. "I have to save them." He said fighting against Heero.

"Listen, I'll meet you at WING POINT, Treize and Zechs will know where that is at, just fallow the cliff side into the forest." Heero turned around and ran back the other way, the others didn't hesitate and left the castle threw the kitchen, while Heero made his way to find the child that was still in the castle, avoid anyone on his way.

The small group of five on horses made there way threw the gates of the castle and made there way along the cliff, but had only gone a few feet when Trowa had stopped, his eyes on the highest tower over the cliffs and oceans below. Every one fallowed his lead and spotted Heero fighting with Eisor on the balcony, a fire threatening them. In one of Heero's arms was a child with bright red hair.

Heero and Eisor were going back and forth, brutal blow after brutal blow, words were not even a possibility as it took all of there energy just keep the others blows from drawing blood. Below them the others watched with horror as the two fought, a small child caught in the battle. There was no doubt that without the child in Heero's arms Eisor would have already been taken care of.

Then, there it was. Heero's blade found itself deep within Eisor's gut. Eisor feel out of sight from the others, and Heero was frantically looking around. The fire was completely blocking his way down from the tower, and with nothing else to do, he jumped.

"NO!" Duo and Trowa said at the same time. Duo jumped off of Anubis' back and his large black feathered wings ripped from his back, and he was in the air before even a second past. His wings were beating sloppily but he was flying quickly towards Heero. And with enough force to bruise the both of them Duo crashed into Heero. Though instead of slowing down or flying up wards the three figures plummeted downwards, faster then they had been before.

"Heero drop her." Duo yelled out.

"What! No!" Heero yelled back.

"Please! Trust me!" Duo called back to Heero. Without another word Heero dropped the child and watched as he was caught below by Anubis. But Duo and Heero plummeted past the group and the cliff side toward the water.

"Duo stretch your wings out!" Heero said.

"What the hell do you think I've been-" There was a sudden jerk upward as Duo's wings snapped out and the two were gliding only three feet above the water. "-trying to do." Heero pointed to there left.

"Go that way Duo, there's a small beach." He said. Duo turned them roughly and they headed towards the beach. Heero noticed they were getting closer to the water and looked up at Duo and found he was loosing consciousness. "Duo are you okay?" Duo nodded. "Well your headed for the water." At that Duo flapped is wings and lifted them another foot, not much for the size of Duo's wings. When they flapped again Heero saw red and notice that one was bleeding badly.

"Heero, I don't-"

"Duo we're almost there." Heero said, trying to keep Duo going. He felt Duo's head land on his shoulder, but before he could react Duo's wing dipped into the water and threw them off balance, slamming them into the ground of the beach and sending them rolling. Heero heard a sickening crunch and a crack near his head and felt Duo roll over him, before Heero himself slammed into a rock and was left unconscious.

It only lasted for a second before Heero was sitting up again shaking his head to clear it. A shadow stood over him and when he looked up he found himself at the mercy of a tall elf.

"You killed Eisor, I will kill you for that." Heero closed his eyes and the blade was thrust at him, but found that it never came. He opened his eyes and saw a hooded cloaked figure, who looked to be black fire, holding a scythe in bony hand standing in front of him. All Heero could think about was death. Something was out of place, there was a sword tip sticking out from the flaming black cloth. The elf feel, his head gone from his body, no blood spilling from his neck.

Heero blinked and looked back up to the figure in front of him and found Duo's back. Wings broken and bloody, one arm was broken, the other was bleeding badly, and there was the tip of a sword sticking out from his back. Heero stood and caught Duo was he slipped to the ground. Heero lowered him gentle and carefully removed the sword, Duo heaved and the act and coughed blood up, spilling it over his chin and down his neck.

Anubis came up to Heero feel to his side and pushed him away, placing I\his own hands on Duo's chest. Duo grabbed Anubis's wrist and tried to speak. Apollo joined Anubis on the other side and made Duo look at him.

"Duo concentrate." He said. Duo's eyes closed in pain and tears squeezed out. All Heero could do was watch as Duo laying dieing on the ground. Quatre was crying in Trowa's chest, Trowa holding him protectively in his arms, the small elf child was crying in Treize's arms and Zechs closed his eyes and looked away.

"Duo, don't you dare do this." Anubis yelled out. Duo's eyes snapped open and Heero watched with wide eyes as Duo was engulfed in black flames. Thinking that Duo was burning Heero crawled forward from where he had been sitting, but Anubis stopped him.

"You can't let him die." Heero said. Anubis smiled a small smile and pulled Heero into his embrace.

"He's healing. It'll take a few hours, we need to get out of here before anyone else finds us." Apollo said. He stood and changed back into his horse form. Anubis stood also.

"Put Duo on my back, you may want to ride also and keep Duo from falling." Heero was about to ask something but Anubis cut him off.

"Don't worry the fire won't hurt you unless you mean harm to him." Anubis said, then changed into a large black stallion. Heero lifted Duo from the ground and handed him to Trowa. He mounted Anubis and Trowa helped put Duo in front of Heero on the large horse.

Heero took off towards the forest, followed buy Trowa on his dun mare, Quatre on Apollo, then by Treize on his white steed with the child in front of him, and Zechs on his paint mare, pulling another white steed behind them, Heero's horse Zero.

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