**BAH! I AM SOO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! I HAVE NOT HAD THE BEST OF LUCK AND WAS IN ANOTHER WRECK AND I'M HOPING MY NEW CARS ISN'T TOTALED. AN ELDERLY LADY RAN THE STOP SIGN AND IT GAVE ME A MENTAL BREAKDOWN SINCE I'M STILL RECOVERING FROM THE LAST WRECK ME AND MY BESTIE FRIEND/SISTER WERE IN RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS BUT I AM CALMED DOWN AND KEEPING FINGERS CROSSED FOR GOOOOOD LUCK! IF ANYONE HAS ANY GOOD LUCK TO SPARE FEEL FREE TO SHARE SOME WITH THE POOR CURSED WOMAN! So this is the second time writing this since my computer froze and for SOME reason did not keep my story! Well anyways here it is... AGAIN! I doubt it will be as good as the first since it had quite a bit of funny moments I can't fully remember BUT for anyone interested in seeing the picture I put up go to kitkitshinigami . deviantart . com and go to my gallery and find 'Friends' should be Duo and Heero as children in their other forms ^^ any who I feel the need to warn everyone that this chapter will have torture... and parts will reallly be scary (raaaaape warning) ! Be warned and please don't kill me about it... promise it'll get better ^^ On other news lets get this party started =3 **

Chapter Eight: In the Darkness of Night

A few weeks had passed since the attack on the city that left three hundred and forty-two civilians dead, and Quatre was at his wits end. His mansion had been turned into shambles since he had, out of the kindness of his heart, ask Heero and Duo to stay until things calmed down. Duo could not sit still, and it seemed that everything dangerous followed him around since he always stayed in trouble for something or another. Quatre would never forget the few incidents that had happened revolving around one Duo Maxwell.

Quatre had been heading to the kitchen so he could make himself a nice, hot cup of tea, but when he stepped into the kitchen it was like a bomb had exploded. Flour covered the entire kitchen, all over the floor and counters and every nook and cranny. Leading from the large pile of flour were small, foxy paw prints heading away outside to no doubt hide. Heero, also seeing the mess marched out and pulled Duo from under the porch and the laughter started. Duo was in his fox form, ears flattened and covered with at least half the flour. The other boys had laughed until nearly dieing from how Duo looked, even when Duo sneezed a large puff of flour came out as a cloud.

After the whole flour incident and a few others, Quatre had finally deemed the other as cursed with rotten luck! It was as though Duo walked around with a bright sign flashing on his back that stated 'Please, assist with a kick in the ass!' There had been much debate on what to do with the braided male in order to keep him out of any further trouble. All had come to agreement, very much against Duo's rather loud protests, that Heero would be babysitting the young man to keep him out of trouble. Duo was growing very tired of being watched and followed wherever he went in the large, spacious house. Soon enough Duo was sprawled upon the large couch in front of the television dozing peacefully. He figured if he did absolutely nothing, then nothing could happen and nothing would get broken! Oh how wrong he was though, since as he had just gotten into his dreams, a loud crack resounded in the room. The leg upon the couch broke and caused the couch to flip, Duo being rolled across the hardwood floor. Laughter surrounded Duo as he woke with a groan and sat up to glare at the couch that lay on its side. Once the laughter filled his ears, his face blushed a bright red in embarrassment as he ducked his head and found his arms crossing over his chest.

"You see Quat? I can be sleeping and disaster strikes at every turn!" Duo huffed out in agitation.

"Well, Duo it just means lady bad luck must harbor a deep love for you is all." Quatre said around a large smile.

"Don't worry Duo, we are going back home today where you can destroy whatever you wish." Heero grunted out.

Duo perked up at those simple words of going back home. He missed his room and his apartment life he shared with Heero. Before anyone knew what happened, he was up on his feet and dragging Heero off behind him bidding Quatre goodbye and thanking him for the stay. Heero just gave a wave as he was pulled out of the mansion and down the walkway by a very eager Duo. Heero continued to be drug through the entire city and down many blocks and sidewalks before finally Duo stopped in front of their apartment complex. Heero chuckled at the pure look of joy and love on Duo's face at being back home, with all his tons of junk.

The two made their way in the building and straight to the elevator before going all the way to the top and to their door. Heero seemed pleased that their door was still locked and secure so he pulled his keys out and let them inside of the untouched living quarters. Duo went straight to the living room and cranked up the air before flopping upon the couch he knew would never let him down... or fall and breathed a happy sigh of contentment. Heero made his way to the kitchen and pulled open the fridge before scowling. Inside was milk gone bad, food gone bad, and other things far past their expiration date. Being away for a few weeks took a toll on their beautifully stocked fridge. Heero knew they would need to go grocery shopping or they would be doing a lot of ordering out for food.

After dumping and pouring out all the bad food and beverages that were beyond their healthy time, Heero also moved into the living room to watch Duo lounging about. With a slight snort, Heero moved over to the desk where he began to boot up his computer to do a few reports. While he sat at the desk, his fingers began to roll along the keys as he began to type and look up various, secretive information before storing it in various places for safe keeping. Heero continued to work even as the ringing of the phone startled Duo from his slumber. With many unintelligent words from Duo he slunk his way over to the phone and picked it up rather grumpily.

"Yeah what you want?" Duo slurred out around a yawn.

"FINALLY! Duo Maxwell where have you been you lazy ass? The shop is behind and we could use your amazingly talented fingers anytime you get motivated to get down here!" The voice of Duo's friends fussed.

"Hey Howard, nice to hear from you once in a blue moon... and sure I can come by this evening for an hour or two... we need groceries anyways or I'll starve to death, sound good big guy?" Duo asked with a roll of his eyes.

"Sure, sounds good to me brat, now don't get lost on the way here!"

With that, Howard hung up and left Duo to putter around the apartment before he moved to sit right upon Heero's lap before yawning. His head rested upon the shoulder of Heero as he allowed his eyes to slip gently closed. Heero paused in his work to gently wrap his arms around Duo and burrowed his nose into the long haired man's neck before purring happily. Heero loved how affectionate Duo was, and how he never cared about what others thought or said. He sighed and nuzzled into Duo gently before pulling back gently to press his lips against the others lovingly.

"Go on Duo and get ready, I'll make a list for groceries for you to get on the way home." Heero muttered lifting Duo gently.

Duo just heaved a sigh before he stepped away from Heero and moved off to his own bedroom slowly. He removed the clothes he was currently wearing and pulled on a pair of faded, ripped jeans with a rather old looking black tee shirt he normally did his work with. The last thing he did was pull on his sneakers and then moved out to the kitchen where he propped upon the counter. Heero was leaned over the counter, pencil in hand as he scribbled down some groceries they needed to get them by for the next few days. Heero made the list short, so Duo would not be out on his own for too long, and he thought it would be the safest option!

Once getting his list for food, Duo moved out the door after a rather nice kiss from Heero and made his way down to the elevator. He rode it all the way down to the lobby and took off to the streets and towards the body shop he worked at from time to time. He could not help the large grin plastered to his features as he was once again out in the open, enjoying the night life and the fresh air. He made the stroll to the shop as pleasurable and enjoyable as possible. Coming to the shop he was met by Howard. The man was up there in age, and always wore bright, colorful Hawaiian shirts with a pair of shorts, no matter what the weather. With a strong pat to Duo's back, he was tugged inside and showed the cars lined up that needed looking at and work done to them. It was enough to even get to Duo, who looked with large, shocked eyes at how MUCH work he looked at just now.

Hours slipped away as the evening sky turned to blacks and purples signalling it was night fall. Duo had been working very diligently non-stop. He had already completely repaired four vehicles and seeing the remaining five cars still waiting, Duo figured it was a good time to call it quits for the night. He packed up everything, putting all the tools back in their proper places before he stepped out into the cool air, locking up the shop behind him. Once the shop was secured, he turned and made his way down the street, hands diving to rest within his pockets as he started to whistle a nice, merry little tune. He was making his way to the grocery store so he could get some food and a few drinks to keep Heero and himself happy. The further he moved down the ever winding sidewalk, the more Duo started to feel he was being watched, and rather intently as well. He made sure to keep his pace even and kept his face straight ahead, so he would not seem suspicious as he pushed his ears to hear anything unfamiliar to himself. Suddenly all the hair along the back of Duo's neck stood up as though electricity was shooting through his veins and Duo took off into a full blown run. His feet pounded upon the cement as many footfalls sounded behind him. Duo ran with everything he had and turned to duck within a near by alley as he gasped for breath, trying to find the best place to hide. He found himself morphing into the shadows as the people in hot pursuit ran past the alley not seeing him in the shadows. Duo felt a wave of relief sweep throughout his entire body as he stayed where he was, feeling as though they had continued on their way and he would be able to get home to Heero, but it wasn't meant to be. He felt a sharp sting within the side of his neck that burned and felt like a heated liquid being poured over his body. He gasped as his hand flew up to his neck and pulled out a dart with a bright yellow tag on the end. The once bright, vibrant eyes began to dilate and become blurred and unfocused as Duo's body slowly slumped and slid down the wall as he was soon knocked out from the drug coursing through his veins.

Once his body was out cold, a sniper upon a nearby rooftop called in the location and for the men to come back around and prepare the body to be moved. Once the men, all dressed in black, got back to the body they were startled as a side door swung open and light poured into the alley. The brightness allowed the person to see the men chaining the out cold boy, and in the persons opinion this was a very bad sign. The person stepped out with bright, piercing violet eyes and long, black hair with soft blue highlights. She was slender and dressed in a rather interesting burlesque dancing outfit, her body showing much skin and her hair pulled up high and cascading down around herself with feathers sticking out. She glared as vines began to swirl gently around her feet as she looked ready to chew someone's face off.

"What the hell is the meaning of this? I really hope you are not abducting this poor boy... if so I would have to assume you are the ones responsible to all the missing people." she hissed out dangerously.

"Quick! Grab the girl! She's seen us plus Zechs could use another test subject since the girl is not human!" The sniper called out frantically.

Fern, the young woman was grabbed and man-handled as she kicked, bit, and screamed out bloody murder. She found her fists connecting with body parts and faces as her feet and legs lashed out as well like a wild beast trying to be taken down. Finally, the men were fed up and placed a cloth over her mouth and nose as a strong, pungent odor filled her senses and had her sagging in the arms pulling and tugging at her. The men moved, dragging her to a rather large, solid black van with hardly any windows upon it. After the girl had been chained and tossed inside, they went back and hoisted up Duo and threw him rather uncaring into the back right on top of the girl. All the men loaded into the van and the vehicle sped off with the sound of screeching tires. A pair of angry, teal eyes looked out of the alley and watched the van speeding off. The person who had just witnessed her sister being abducted jumped upon her motorcycle and took off, speeding like a demon out of Hell after the van. With her pristine white helmet on, it was hard to tell what she looked like since she was completely covered in a riding outfit of white leather. The bike followed after the van at a safe distance as both moved out and away from the City limits. The van eventually turned off the road to a long, winding road that lead to a large, fenced in facility with many guards posted all around. The bike sped past the road to not seem suspicious as she recognized the facility as the science nut, Zechs work place where he developed cures for diseases and everything else along those lines. Finding what she needed, she found another way to get back to the city and knew it was time for action. she would be calling in the big guns and searching for the King. She knew with the effort taken to capture the braided boy, that he was very important and to her it meant only one thing, and that was that the boy was the lover of their King. Finding the king though would be no simple task, she would have to pick the city's lock and pry into anything she could without leaving anything behind. With her internal thoughts, she sped through the night to her club, after all she had much work to do.

It felt like an eternity, but slowly Duo found himself coming to with a rather killer migraine. His eyes glanced slowly around as he came to discover he was strapped down to a hard, metal table. He struggled against the straps binding him and found he was unable to move with how many there were. He finally sighed and settled himself to just glare up at the ceiling, not even jumping when the heavy door swung open to bang against the wall. A rather tall figure stepped into the room and into Duo's line of site before blue eyes peered down at the tied up individual. Duo took note that the man favored Relena and had long, platinum- blond hair that fell down to his hips. Duo just stared at the man without showing any sort of emotion to give away any vulnerabilities.

"Well, it seems we have caught quite the smart ass." Zechs spoke coldly, "I am Zechs, and this dear boy will be your miserable home until you die...once I've had my fun of course!"

Duo could tell by the look in the man's eyes that he had lost all of his mind somewhere in the great beyond and felt the need to share himself with the world. Duo stayed perfectly still as he watched the man pull out a very long, foot long needle that was attached to a syringe filled with dark red liquid. Duo stiffened a bit at the horrendous sight, since he was an avid hater of all objects needle wise. Before Duo had much time, his shirt was ripped, exposing his stomach to the lunatic of a man, who chuckled and brought the needle to the pale flesh and shoved it painfully into the soft tissue of Duo's abdomen. Zechs watched as Duo shivered violently, his skin breaking out into chills before the convulsing began. Duo's body looked like it was seizing as he thrashed about on the metal table painfully, which just brought a chuckle from Zechs lips as he watched intently.

Duo did not know how long his body convulsed upon the table, but he was so very tired and his body felt heavy and nauseated. Eventually his body calmed down as he gasped, panting heavily, his hair sticking to his face as his eyes rolled to look to Zechs. Watching everything, Zechs was very impressed and pleased with how Duo had responded. If it had been anyone else they would have died within the first couple of minutes of having the drug injected, but with Duo still being alive it showed his resilience and thus proved him to be a perfect test subject. It did not take long before Zechs approached Duo once more with more syringes and medical tools, along with another tall, stern looking man to assist him.

"See Treize? He is proving to be quite the specimen already!" Zechs smirked, "Now lets see how much pain he can handle..."

Zechs picked up a scapulae and moved to Duo's forearm before sliding the sharp edge against the flesh which caused Duo to flinch. Dark red blood seeped swiftly form the cut as Zechs moved and pulled out a clear jar, where inside crawled a form of a parasite. Unscrewing the jar, Zechs moved and tipped the jar over, the parasite landing upon Duo's bloody arm before digging its way into the cut. Duo was trying to put his mind elsewhere, but with the parasite burrowing into his arm he felt a strong burning sensation that made his whole arm throb angrily. The fingers upon his hand twitched on their own as he found himself gritting his teeth against the pain radiating from his arm.

"That is a very poisonous parasite... it doesn't do any damage, but it's body secretes a poison that the body begins to attack as a foreign invader... beautiful isn't it?" Zechs laughed out as he moved, running his fingers through the long, silky braid. "Hmmmm he is a very pretty piece of trash.."

"He is Zechs."

"Well then, we must put him into his place as a mere pet." Zechs growled out.

Zechs moved and dug the scapulae into the tender flesh as his teeth moved and bit down upon Duo's lower lip in a strange form of a kiss. Duo was appalled and highly disgusted as he began to struggle in his binds, turning his head to the side away from Zechs' face. It did nothing but anger Zechs as he reached back and slapped Duo harshly across the face which immediately began to bruise. Being fueled by his anger, Zechs began to cut off bits and pieces of clothing until slicing and carving into the exposed, creamy flesh. Blood slowly began to cover Duo's body from the various, many cuts as he winced, his breathing a bit more rapid as fear sparked deep within his heart at what this crazy man was doing. Zechs was far too gone in his happy mind, his fingers dropping the sharp object as his fingers drew patterns and words upon the skin of Duo, fingers digging into the cuts to cause more blood to trickle out. Blood even dripped down the table and onto the floor in a few puddles. All the blood also caused Zechs to become more than a bit excited as he leaned down to look intently at Duo while he worked on unzipping his pants. In the very silent room, Duo was suddenly very aware of Zechs undoing his pants, and Duo broke out into a cold sweat, internally pleading for the blond to not touch him like that. Zechs though, did not seem to care as he began to fiddle and mess with the straps upon Duo's body. Duo had forgot that Treize was in the room until he felt a sharp prick in his neck as a clear fluid was injected into his body. Within a few moments, his body felt heavy and he could not even move, barely able to breath as he was unstrapped and picked up by the lunatic. Zechs moved from the room and carried the boy down the hallway until he made it to a room with a rather large bed within it and nothing else. Duo was dropped upon the bed and soon joined by Zechs who held a predatory look in his hostile eyes. Treize watched from the doorway rather impassively, since this kind of torture was really not his thing, but he would be damned if he voiced THAT to Zechs. Treize felt a bit sorry for the boy for what was going to happen to him in a few moments, after all he knew from experience just how Zechs could get when he was in one of his moods.

A sharp scream tore from Duo's throat as Zechs shoved his hardened erection fully within the tight confines. Duo had gone straight past hell to the fire pit as his body felt torn in half, his body throbbing and burning with such an intensity that tears stung the corners of his eyes. He wanted to rolled away from the man and run, but hos body was unresponsive due to the drug they had given him. He could only lay there and scream in pure horror as his body was raped savagely. Duo felt the blackness closing in on him when he felt another sharp slap to his face and nails digging into his flesh and clawing at him. He soon slipped into the darkness where he could get some peace and rest from all the pain. His heart cried out painfully for Heero and his friends, cried out to be taken away from such a horrible place and to be back in warm, loving arms.

It did not take Zechs long to empty himself out into the torn, battered body with a growl of pure triumph. Once being finished he looked down at the bloody, torn, and shattered body of Duo Maxwell and laughed in pure joy and pleasure at the sight. It was simply beautiful to Zechs and he knew having this one around would indeed be fun! He turned and ordered Treize to carry the boy to his cell and leave him there as he was before Zechs left to go take a shower to rid the blood from his body. Treize knew better than to disobey and so he carefully lifted the boy up and took him back to the room he would be kept and he placed him on the cot before locking the door and heading off to Zechs' office.

Within the City, a roar of pure agony and rage filled the night as Heero fell to the ground upon his knees. He had felt something was wrong when Duo had not returned home and so he had called Quatre and the others so they could scale the streets in search of Duo. They had been searching and asking anyone they could when Heero just froze in place, his eyes glowing a rather eerie color before he roared out in anger and hit the ground, his fists pounding into the cement, causing cracks and a large indentation to form. While he shed his tormented cries into the air a motorcycle came to a halt before them. The helmet was removed to show short white-blond hair with light teal highlights and the bright teal eyes. She watched the man upon the ground before bowing in respect.

"This is no time for the King to loose it, if you want your mate back, we have to work together and launch an attack..." Her voice was calm and collected as he stood tall and proud.

"Who are you?" Trowa asked.

"Myst, and I am here to lend you a hand in getting back the missing people, since it's the same people who took lover boy... and my sister Fern. I know where they are, but it wont be easy to get in... I am assuming with how he is acting, something has happened to his mate, and where they took him, I wouldn't be to certain if he'll be alive for too long." She spoke, earning Heero's attention.

"WHERE THE HELL DID THEY TAKE DUO?" He demanded.

"To the facility owned and ran by Zechs, also known as Milliardo Peacecraft, but we need to plan carefully, and be level minded or you'll get your lover killed and all of us in the process." It took much effort but Heero had agreed and together, with Myst in tow, they made their way back to Heero's apartment. Heero kept his hand over his chest as though in agonizing pain, but he stayed alert as he watched Myst make phone calls. Heero already sense she was not human and sensed she had been telling the truth. He figured that the War would be happening now and the world would pay, ZECHS WOULD PAY DEARLY WITH HIS LIFE!

~End Chapter Eight~

-Peeks down from her hiding spot up high within a tree- I AM SOOO SORRY DUO HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT! It's key though for my story -sniffles- plus sorry for any typos, I am writing this with a rather killer migraine! I do hope you enjoyed it! To let you know Fern and Myst are my own characters, created by me so therefore MINE MINE MINE! Anyways, hope to stick with me since the plot is thickening and Myst is going to blow up the world to get her sister back and together they will rise a force more frightening than Zechs can even try to understand MWAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! Let me know what you think!