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Written for the 20k in 20 weeks challenge, the Anime and Manga Writing Diversity Challenge, The If You Dare Continued Challenge, The Disney-A-Thon Challenge, The One Million Words Added Competition.

Prompt for this chapter: "And so here we are, all over again." A multichapter fic with exactly 15 chapters, Magical Effect, Write about someone trusting a stranger and the result (Snow White).

A/N: Harry Potter is Wufei Chang in this fic and he is also a magical creature!

Chapter 3

***Time Skip by 3 years - After the Endless Waltz during years of peace***

Wufei let out a heavy sigh as he sat in his room alone staring at the wall, sweat coated his body as he regained his breath. Sunlight threatened to spill into the bedroom through the crack in the curtains while a soft tweeting sound from the birds outside entered through the gap in the window.

Groaning softly Wufei raised his hands and put them on his head as he tried his best to ignore the sharp pains that coated his body. Acid began to pour at the back of his mouth while his eyes turned into snake eyes, his whole body felt dry and itchy making him want to peel off his skin.

'Just great, just bloody great. It is that time of year again.'Wufei thought as he allowed his hands to slowly drop down only to wince in pleasure and pain as his fingers dug into his skin causing the itching to stop slightly. Pulling his hands away Wufei looked down at his fingers only to groan at the sight. 'Snake scales, it seems I was correct. I wonder how I am going to hide this from the others. They just think that my eyes change when I get angry and I have magic. How am I going to explain to them that I am more reptile like than they thought.'

With a final heavy sigh Wufei allowed himself to fall backwards onto his soft bed and stared up at the ceiling. Thoughts ran through his mind as Wufei began to try and think up of a plan.

'How am I going to handle this? Unlike during the war I cannot just hideaway in my Gundam for this time of year. What will the others think?' Wufei thought only to let out a low groan as the faces of Duo and Heero flashed in front of him. 'Damn, I had thought that now the war had ended they would no longer be interested in me...I thought that those few wonderful months together would only be short term. How am I going to cope with them trying to make me join them while I am shedding?'

As he laid on the bed staring at the ceiling Wufei allowed his mind to drift towards his romantic life in an attempt to solve one problem. His sensitive hearing picked up the soft footsteps walking along the hallway causing him to become glad that he had remembered to lock the door before allowing himself to totally relax.

'I wonder if Duo and Heero would understand if they turn out not to be my mates. I really hope they are and all of those surprised kisses from Duo and those hugs from Heero were wonderful, they had...they had something to them that just made me feel loved and protected.' Wufei thought as he began to rub his back against the bed in an attempt to relieve some of the itching and pain. 'I wonder if it is possible to find any of the potion ingredients in the desert that we had on L5...it would be an easier way to find out if Duo and Heero are my true mates then making them...'

Letting out another heavy groan and shaking his head Wufei sat up and wiggled slightly as he felt the lose scales on his back. Just as he began to wonder if a nice warm shower would be of any help a sudden knock on his bedroom door caught Wufei's attention.

"Fei! Are you in there?" Duo's voice came from the other side of the door, Wufei sighed heavily in reply, with how he was feeling he was in no mood to deal with Duo's antics.

"What do you want?" Wufei asked without moving from his position on the bed.

"Want to go swimming? Quatre has even had that special dragon fountain instead in the middle of the pool that you liked so much," Duo said excitedly before his tone took on a much more suggestive quailty to it. "You know, both Hee-kun and I would be really happy if you wore that pair of black and gold coloured swimming trunks that we got you last Christmas."

"Maxwell," Wufei growled out in a warning tone, unable to help himself. "I will not join you, I am not in the mood. I am going to go and take a warm shower-"

"But would you not prefer to go swimming with us? It is sort of like having a shower and we could have some fun," Duo said, Wufei could easily hear the tone in Duo's voice.

"No, I am not going to come swimming with you," Wufei growled out as he stood up off the bed. "I am not in the mood t-"

"Wu-Wu, you do not have a choice," Duo's voice said once again, this time it held a warning tone that had the hairs of the back of Wufei's neck standing up. "You only have to options, you can come out willingly and join us for a swim or we can do this the hard way. Wufei it is hot, we are in the middle of a desert and we are not about to let you overheat."

"I am not going to overheat," Wufei snapped out while doing his best to ignore his earlier behaviour before he had retreated to his bedroom. "I am fine."

Wufei waited for a few moments for Duo's only as he stared at the door only to frown slightly when he got none. Using his sensitive hearing to his advantage as he listened to the soft mutters on the other side of his bedroom door. It seemed there was someone else on the other side of the door with Duo.

'I am not in the mood to go outside and swim, especially with the headache I have.' Wufei thought as he turned around to face the curtained bedroom window, turning his back on the door. 'I should of known better than to stay in my human form longer than a week. I was a fool to think that I could ignore my creature side's needs...once Duo has left me be I think I will find a quiet place to shift into my other form.'

Making up his mind Wufei began to undress, not noticing how the door handle was forcefully pushed down all the way even through it was locked. As he pulled his top over his head Wufei paused and looked over his shoulder only to wince at the sight. His back was covered in a mixture of dry skin and scales, it looked just as sore and uncomfortable as it felt.

'By the looks and the feel of how things are processing this is going to be a very uncomfortable time for me.' Wufei thought as he finished removing his top. 'At least we are in the desert for now, the heat should help to dry everything out...I just need to remember to take lots of showers and put some moisturiser on to try and help things along.'

"Alright Fei! This is your last warning!" Duo's voice shouted out causing Wufei to groan. "Are you going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

"Neither," Wufei snapped out as he started to turn towards the door.

The next few seconds passed by in a blink of an eye to Wufei. His bedroom door suddenly burst open and was thrown across the room causing Wufei to have to quickly dodge aside. Heero and Duo walked into his bedroom only to gasp in shock when they spotted Wufei and his back.

"W-What happened to your back?" Duo asked with wide lavender eyes as he stared at Wufei's back. "It looks like some strange creature from your old world has attacked you!"

Fear washed through Wufei as he tried his best to come up with a belivable lie. His heart pounded in his chest while his mind whirled around madly, this was the very last thing that he wanted Duo and Heero to see. As the two people that Wufei wished the most to be his mates he did not want them to see him in any other condition that was not perfection.

"I...I...my skin is simply dry," Wufei said simply, feeling like a fool slightly. "I was going to go and have a shower to help."

Biting his lower lip, while being careful of his sharper than normal fangs in his mouth, Wufei stood and waited for Duo's and Heero's reactions. Instated of getting a verbal reply through Wufei watched as Heero silently walked towards him with a thoughtful expression on his face. As the pilot got closer he raised a hand only to place it carefully and gently on Wufei's back when he came to a stop just behind Wufei.

"H-Heero, what are you doing?" Wufei asked in surprise, his whole face went bright red as he watched Heero begin to look over and rub his back. "Is something wrong?"

"You have not been taking care of your other side," Heero said bluntly. "I have not seen you in your none human form, you promised you would spend more time in it when the war finished."

"I will but I have not found a suitable place to do so, I have also been extremely busy," Wufei protested as he tried to come up with a believable lie. "I have also been busy with my work for the Preventers."

"So it has come down to this huh? This brings back so memories," Duo said with a good nature grin on his face through both Wufei and Heero could easily see the concern for Wufei in them. "And so here we are, all over again."

"What are you talking about Maxwell?" Wufei growled out only to gasp in surprise as Duo placed a soothing warm hand on his back and gently removed one of his scales that was just hanging on by a thread. "M-Duo..."

"I guess you were too out of it the last time this happened to remember," Duo said only to get a grunt of agreement from Heero. "We know that you are starting to shed again Fei."

"How did you know?" Wufei asked as he tried to hide his emotions. "I do not remember anyone ever finding out besides the time I told you about...about my past."

"During the war, you returned home injured and you would not stop itching," Heero stated with a pointed look. "Duo and I worked out what was going on while we were looking after you."

"And that means that we know how to look after you and how to make things all better for you," Duo said with a large cat like grin on his face. "So you are going to come down to the pool and let Heero and I look after you...Q-bean and Tro-bear can help to if they want to."

"If you helped me before then why do I not remember?" Wufei asked harshly, he easily remembered the time he had returned to the safe house injured but not the part about him shedding. "Besides, shedding is a very delicate process, because how sensitive our bodies can get and some of the locations only mates or humans are allowed to help us out."

Wufei frowned as he watched Duo and Heero exchange a knowing look with each other. That simple glance between the two other pilots had Wufei suddenly feeling as if he was torn in half. It was easy for him to see that they shared a special connection, one which Wufei had wanted to develop with them only for him to have to push himself away from them. He did not want to get too close to them, even if all three of them were unofficially going out together, just in case it turned out that Wufei was not their mate.

"What?" Wufei snapped out with a weak glare, he was enjoying the feelings of Duo's and Heero's hands too much on his back to get too angry.

"We also know about the other truth," Heero stated blankly causing Wufei to freeze. "We know that you have been pushing us away in case we are not your real mates even though we have been showering you with kisses and hugs. We know that it is because you are scared about us not being real mates.

Duo gave a smug knowing grin. "Which is a load of rubbish. Hee-kun and I did a lot of research after you told us about your past and how you are not human. We found out that we defiantly are mates without a doubt because of the way we-"

"WHAT!" Wufei shouted out in shock as he stared open mouth at his two hopeful mates. "I...I know that we all have feelings for each other and we have done...a lot of romantic stuff together." Wufei glared at Heero and Duo only for it to be ruined by the blush on his face. "But how do you even know that we are defiantly mates? How do you even know about that worry of mine?!"

Duo grinned and pulled a very familiar black notebook out of his trouser pocket. "Really Wu-Wu you should think up of a better place to hide your diary than in your bedside table draw."

"MAXWELL! How the hell did you get into that draw?" Wufei yelled out, missing the amused look on both Heero's and Duo's faces. "This time I combined TEN different types of security to protect my diary!"

"What do you expect?" Heero asked with a pointed look at Wufei. "It is Duo we are talking about."

To Be Continued...

Depending on what happens in each chapter and how things go will depend on the length of them through all of them will be over 1,500 words long.

Also, go and read and review Recreated Fire by Mai Kusakabe, it is a HP/OnePiece crossover with the pairing Ace(Harry)/Marco : )