Author: Little Manga Neko
Warnings: AU... very AU, Angst, Death, Vampires.
Rating: R
Pairings: 2x1, hints of 3x4 and 5x6x13.
Disclaimers: I don't own GW. Wait a minute, why don't I own GW *bonks head repeatedly on door* Why? WHY?! WHY!!!
Author's Note: Dedicated to Chin... Heh heh. She sent me her army of naked chibi Hee-chan muses to hump me into inspiration. And gave me a chibi naked Heero muse too keep. =^_^= LMN
Eien Houyou (Eternal Embrace)
~The gleam of teeth, The wince of pain.
The crystalline tears upon your face.
Nothing can take what I claim as mine.
Or tear you from my eternal embrace. ~
I awoke instantly from death, the dust of destruction filling my lungs. If I had needed oxygen to breath I would surely be choking now. Fools, they thought I would be eliminated if my body was destroyed. The ruins of my favorite castle surrounded me and I promised the traitors would taste my vengeance. God preserve their souls if my Heero was hurt in anyway.
But I felt odd, still slightly weak. I have awoken too soon... some of my powers were still dormant. Why...? The answer is there on the edge of my consciousness. Pain and fear an agonizing sense of drowning in loneliness. The scent of blood fills my nostrils and I recognize the familiar tang. Heero... he is desperate... he is calling me. Rage fills my veins and I cannot control an angry hiss.
Why is he alone? I know not everyone could have died, why have my advisors not taken him home? Why is he so desperate? Does he not remember that I only sleep?
*****
Heero shivered under the cotton blankets, his body wracked with nauseating pain as it pulled bloody edges together to heal. Wounds closing and leaving pale white scars. It had been months since he healed this fast. The last time was when his Shinigami was still alive. But he didn't wonder what it might mean. His hope is far too fragile to gamble on desperate illusions. So he ignored it and the news of the next morning wiped the memory away.
That morning when he awoke the news was all over the hospital. In the capital of the human federation they had been found. The two Ellowyn who had been set up by the federation as part of the pseudo government had been found with their three human advisors. Their feet touching, hands out stretched like some kind of flesh star. They would have been beautiful arranged like that if not for the fact their stomachs had been sliced open. Their entrails surrounding their bodies and entwined like a grotesque parody of glistening confetti. Weirdest of all was their eyes. They had been burned out of their sockets leaving charred holes. But who was to blame? The old government had been abolished. No one else stepped forward to rebel against the human government's influence.
The Ellowyn to a man refused to take the place of their non existent leader. Instead they waited docilely for a leader to come to them. After the spectacle at the human capitol no one was willing to step up and rule so they tried to place a human on the Ellowyninsh 'Throne'. And that's when the Ellowyn started disappearing. Even a few humans disappeared. It was suspicious indeed.
*****
I know I should have taken longer and enjoyed killing the pretenders to the throne. But my ability to manipulate small areas of time had yet to recover completely. And I don't have time to leave my Heero alone much longer. I am hungry, not quite starving but the need to feed makes my fangs ache and my mouth go dry. But I must make sure my revenge is complete.
My loyal subjects have sensed my awakening; they are returning and gathering close to the old capital in preparation. Ancient forces protect the home world and have begun to awaken so the cycle might be complete. The people seek that protection somehow sensing my play with the humans is at an end. Like pilgrims they pack few belongings and seek a Mecca only few of them remember. We have always been a long lived race, until now we made up in years what we lacked in progeny. Unlike the humans who spread like psoriasis across the fertile skin of the universe.
The fact that some of my own kind have forgotten what we are disturbs me, soon enough they will see. Those left behind will learn all to well a body cannot survive without a soul to feed its heart.
*****
It was not the dead of night when the time came, but the brilliant calm of afternoon.
"Yuy, Heero. Get up off your sorry ass. There's a guest for you in the visitors center. Hmph, still haven't managed to scare off all your family yet huh?" The bullishly large orderly sneered at Heero jerking him to his feet when Heero rose too slow for his liking. He didn't do more when he noticed that freaky blonde kid was watching him from the hall with that smile. The one that was far too blood thirsty for such an innocently sweet face. He and his roommate were always following Heero around. Much to the displeasure of several individuals who had wanted to sample the skills the mysterious Shinigami was so enamored of.
*****
He sat there quietly, a skinny kid in black jeans. His shirt proclaimed proudly 'I'm not misunderstood. I'm just too damn evil.' and his girlishly long hair in a high ponytail. As He listened to the nurse whisper condolences about his poor dear 'cousin' with half an ear, Duo surveyed the room. It was exactly as Wufei had described it. For his loyalty the Chinese boy and his lover had been given leave to join their partner - an Ellowynish noble - on the home world.
He felt the approach of one of his highest generals and mentally warned him it was time to leave. But nothing could prepare Duo for the sight that greeted him as Heero entered.
His beloved was half dragged in by some hulking Neanderthal. His pretty blue eyes swollen and rimmed red from too many nights of tears. Myriads of scars decorated the slim arms and whispered that Heero was hurting himself again. So did the gauntness of his face. Damn it, if he had known. If he had guessed how bad it had been for his beloved... he would have sent Heero away during the last battle. But he had been cocky, sure there was no threat. There hadn't been a threat from the humans. The killing blow had come from traitors in his own ranks.
Quatre had told him how he had followed Heero to this place but hadn't been allowed near him. For the past year Heero was only allowed to get close to his family and a few staff members. He bit back a growl at the deadened look in those weary eyes and smiled as he watched Heero's whole face transform.
*****
I had been working that day on double shifts. Being a janitor sucked but the pay was good and would put my kids through college one day. The scene I saw passing by the visitor's room was surreal though. After graduating with a doctorate in contemporary art I never thought I'd use the word in real life. The patient with those weird Prussian eyes looked up and almost started to well... glow with happiness like some after school special. Tears running down his cheeks he threw himself at the other kid wearing the big sticker that said VISITOR. As if were too dumb to mistake the loonies for the sane people. Hmm considering some of the things I see on my way home maybe the sane ones are the people we got locked up in here with the barred windows to protect them from the insanity of the world.
Then this is where it began to get freaky. As the long haired teen held his arms open his clothes began to shimmer slightly and change. A cloak of darkest black draped his shoulders and as the other boy curled into his chest he closed his arms. His cloak shielding the smaller boy from view... smaller boy? Just seconds ago they had seemed the same height. I glanced up and instantly regretted it.
The face I saw was so painfully beautiful, so grotesquely inhuman I wondered vaguely how we could ever have imagined it to be so? Thin lips pulled back to reveal deadly looking fangs and eyes burning like embers of fire seemed to judge us all and found us lacking.
"Guilty." I heard the whispered accusation in my head though I didn't comprehend what I could possibly be guilty of. Maybe being alive was enough of a crime. He started hissing in a low voice as Mueller snapped out of his daze and stepped forward. It took me a moment to realize the sibilant sounds were actual words before premonition caused me to squeeze my eyes shut. But through my lids I could still see that scene growing brighter and brighter. The brilliance of it all blinded my eyes, deafened my ears and in that moment I saw it all. My life or all it was and all it could have been. I knew a happiness so profound I didn't care that same light was eating away at me from the inside out as marrow felt like it had been turned to acid.
The screams surrounding me told me not everyone's memories of an unlived future were as pleasant.
*****
I smiled as the Judgment Light filled the building killing all within the walls according to their deeds. The building itself was beginning to crumble from the strain. So I stepped back still holding my precious burden and said my final goodbyes to that world. In the coming dark the Judgment Light would grow covering the very planet and searching out every trace of life on that barren rock.
Poor human souls, they shouldn't break the rules of the game if they can't afford to pay. Just being close to Heero made me feel infinitely stronger. Leaving the falling building behind I stepped back... through a space... through time... through the bounds of reality. I am not sure which. All I know is we were finally home... and safe. In one of the strongest areas of old power on the home world-the Tower of Eternal Night.
Relaxing, I choose to forget what I had just done, forget the fact by destroying that planet I had either successfully started another war that I would not be there to finish or had ended the centuries long game completely. I could care less about the useless politics and strategies of dealing with those pseudo intelligent fools. All that really mattered was that my beloved was here.
*****
Dropping his cloak Duo picked up Heero gently soothing the boy whose sobs had subsided to hiccups.
"Don't leave, don't leave, don't leave." he mumbled over and over.
"Shhhhhh, it's ok chylde. I'm not going anywhere without you ever again." Duo nudged his way into Heero's thoughts hoping to offer solace. What he saw shocked him. He saw himself dying over and over again. In so many ways all the while Heero himself was held back by those who wore the false guise of friends and family.
Pulling himself back to the real world he realized surprisingly Heero's hands were firmly locked in his hair, guiding his mouth closer to Heero's neck. Hunger kicked in full throttle but he fought it.
"No Hee-baby... now is not the time, you're so upset you're shaking."
"I... I need it. I need to feel you're real, that you're alive... I need your touch. Everywhere."
With a low groan of surrender Duo ignored the whispering remains of logic and pulled Heero close. Latching on to that pale throat he breathed in the rich scent that was Heero's alone as he licked and suckled that soft skin. Burying his fangs deep into Heero, he let the warm blood roll over his tongue and filled his mouth... then his body with a heat like no other ever could. The fact that Heero not only consented, but gave freely made it all the sweeter. It took so much less to satisfy him and Heero wasn't even dazed when Duo pulled out.
In fact Prussian eyes met his alight with fire. Heero didn't need to say the words as his hands already moved ripping expensive fabric, his lips mouthed against the pristine flesh revealed and his heart beat in time with Duo's.
"Mine."
"Yours beloved, always." Heero had never been the aggressor before, had never been this demanding in bed. But Duo wasn't about to object. Anything he wanted Duo would give him. If he asked Duo to destroy the universe he would, and go to hell with a smile on his face. Lips sought their mates among low moans as Duo's tongue swept deeply into Heero's mouth. Tasting his heat and groaning as a firm hand gripped him in a slick grip. Heero was using his own precum to lubricate his touch on Duo and the scent of his passion on Duo's body was all it took. Duo's whole body clenching tightly as he came with a moan into Heero's experienced touch with a sigh.
Barely able to breathe when Heero smirked at him wickedly then used his cum soaked fingers to press against his own opening. Eyes never leaving Duo's face as he watched the enthralled expression on his lover's face. Pressing one finger slick with still warm cum against the tight pink pucker he grimaced slightly. Hissing slightly against the uncomfortable feeling that came as he spread himself wider. Fucking himself with two then three fingers as he licked his lips. Watching Duo become erect again at the sight before him. Kneeling over Duo he grabbed his cock still anointed with its own seed and positioned himself.
Duo's hands gripped Heero's hips and without warning he pushed Heero down as he thrust up. Spearing his lover so intimately as Heero gave a low wail of surprise. He felt so incredibly full, fuller then he remembered, more complete. Heero was sure the slow burn of penetration would never end but then he was finally seated ass to balls on Duo. Panting slightly at the strain as he desperately tried to accept this feeling.
"Now." He whispered and Duo needed no more command. Using his superior strength to guide Heero's hips up then thrust him back down enjoying the low keening sounds that fell from those pretty kiss bruised lips. Heero used one hand to brace himself as the other began to pump his cock frantically.
"Mmmm yes... so tight."
After a year Heero was almost as tight as the first time but what was really exciting him was the fact that this was his Heero, his lover, his precious, his...
"Ahhh!!" With a wordless scream Duo came, the warm streams of cum pulsing in him set off Heero's own orgasm. Head thrown back, mouth open, his unseeing eyes never left Duo's.
Afterwards as Duo cleaned them up then wrapped a blanket around them both, Heero slept. This time there were no nightmares.
*****
Kissing the slightly damp forehead I disentangled Heero from me and slipped on a robe of state. I looked outside to see the bonfires and celebrating. Just what they celebrated I wasn't sure, but then Ellowyn were a generally pleasure loving race. When there was no game to play or role to follow they would party for months on end about the simplest things, like the fact it had rained.
Somehow they all realized this game was over and I was done playing with the humans. Roles were cast off and life began anew. Many had new companions or fond memories and the tedium of eternity had been relieved slightly. I had triumphed; I had found Heero again which mattered more than anything else. And I wondered how long before she remembered who he truly was.
It had always been the same way. My beloved, my soul bound, my life mate would tire of court and the endless parties. Then she would disappear into the night to destroy his body and be reborn in a new womb. And I would begin the game searching across time and space to find him. His rebirth was needed not only did it start a new game, but it brought new blood into the old lines. There had been so many, The Vampry, The Kitsune, The Nagi, The Veela, The fairies, The Incubi, The Merfolk, The Atlantians, and so many more... now humans would be added to that list.
"Duo." He whispered my soul name for the first time in years and I turned smiling to my mate.
"Yes Heero?"
"The game is over?" I nodded to his question and watched in appreciation as he shifted.
Pale skin gaining a creamy tone, wild locks whipping around on their own, and his hair was as sentient as Medusa's snakes. Prussian eyes deepening and becoming almost black as ruby lips glistened with a poison I was thankfully immune to. His form lengthened and broadened till he could meet me eye to eye. Native markings appeared in intricate patterns on the side of his face and down his neck to cover both arms but he kept his wings back unfortunately.
"I missed you."
"I was always here."
"I loved him."
"He loved you."
"Will I see him again?"
"He was still me, just in a gentler form."
"I know..."
"You will see him again. After all, when have I ever denied you anything of myself?" I couldn't help but smile at that.
"Then is it any wonder I love all of you so completely?" I returned licking my lips.
"Hn... horny vamp. Come, let's tell our people, Emperor Seikigami has returned... Then we can play however you want." I almost moaned at the images conjured by those simple words as he dressed then I took the proffered hand and followed my love... into forever.
~The Breath of Life, The Kiss of Death.
The crystalline tears upon your face.
Nothing can reach me as I lie here.
Safe within your eternal embrace. ~
OWARI
Well I finished another one... I'm not sure if I liked it though. It kept trying to turn into a series. Bad fic *LMN smites fic* Oh well. Ja until next time. LMN
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