peace knights 6

Duo's POV


“Duo!” Heero yelled in shock as he ran towards in the unconscious boy.

He kneeled in front of the boy, not really sure of what to do. He only knew he had to do something. His mind was in a whirl. Everything seemed so unreal to him.

Maybe I can put him on the bed? Or maybe I have stopped his bleeding first? Or must I check for his injuries? What shall I do? Will it be okay for me to touch him? What if I hurt him? Heero thought as he felt his heart beating faster and faster, can I accept the fact if he is really dead?

He lifted a shaking hand towards the unconscious form on the floor.

Please be alive! I don’t know what I will do if you are not, Heero begged mentally.

His shaking finger reached the unconscious boy’s neck and trembling, he found a pulse. It was weak but it was there. He dropped his hand in relief and tried to think of what to do. His mind was still in whirl. An arm pulled him backwards as someone took her place opposite him.

“Sal…Sally?” Heero asked in a shaky voice.

However, Sally ignored him and started to check Duo’s injuries. Someone pulled him up to his feet, moving him away from Sally and Duo. He was so disorientated that he did not protest to being lead around.

“Trowa?” Heero looked at his brother who had led him to a chair some distance away yet he was still able to see what Sally was doing, “will… will he be alright?”

“Don’t worry,” Trowa said simply as he rested a hand on Heero’s shoulder.

Heero shook his head as he started to glare at the healer, scrutinizing her every moves. A hand patted his shoulder again. Heero looked at his brother to find him giving him an amused smile. He glared at him but Trowa only shook his head.

“Calm down and stop glaring at Sally,” Trowa said simply, “she knows her job. Let her handle it.”

Heero grunted but he did try to stop glaring at her. He only looked at her with a threat that said clearly “I will kill you if you make a mistake!” He did control himself from going over and demand an explanation for every action Sally made. He did.

“Heero,” Trowa warned quietly.

Just then, Sally yelled at her apprentice, Sylvia, to get some clean water. That was it. Immediately, Heero dashed to the bath room and appeared with a basin of water.

“Prince Heero?” Sally asked a bit, stunned at the speed Heero was using.

“You asked for the water,” Heero replied, his eyes fixed on his slave on the floor, “how was he?”

“I have already closed the wound with my gift. I need to wash the blood off before I bandage his wound to prevent it from opening any time too soon,” Sally explained as she started to clean the blood away.

“There’s a lot of blood. Will he really be alright?” Heero demanded.

“I did not say he will be okay, Heero. The thing is head wounds bleed a lot. So having all these blood did not say anything. You have to understand a head wound is complicated. It might be fatal yet it might not. It can have different types of side effects. For example the loss of memories,” Sally explained as her hands never stopped moving.

“Memories?” Heero muttered as he turned slightly to look at Trowa who did not seem to have heard their conversations.

“The very bad news that I have now is that,” Sally hesitated to tell Heero.

She did not know how the crown prince would take to this news. Though the boy had only been in this castle for a few days and he was unconscious for the most part, she knew that prince Heero had been close to the boy.

“What is it?” Heero snapped though he was dreading the news.

“If he did not wake up before tomorrow night, he might stay that way for the rest of his life,” Sally said quietly.

“Why?” Heero demanded, “I thought you said that he is going to be alright?”

“I don’t know if there’s blood clot or any brain damage. I don’t know what side effects there might be. The worst that might happen is forever in coma or not being able to move,” Sally answered calmly.

“So if he wakes up before tomorrow night, then he will live on?” Heero asked quietly as he glared at the unconscious boy.

“You know, prince Heero, glaring at him without him knowing will not help him to wake up,” Sally sighed, “I need to find him a clean bed. Zechs?”

However, before Zechs got into the room, Heero carried the boy gently in his arms and laid him down on his bed.

“Prince Heero, someone had to take care of him throughout the night,” Sally said as she watched Heero tucked the limp body into his bed.

“I will,” Heero said simply as he settled down in the armchair besides the bed.

“But… but Heero you will have to stay all night and waited for him to wake up,” Sally said, exasperated, not sure that the prince actually understand the responsibility he wanted to take up.

“Then I will stay up the whole night,” Heero said determinedly.

“But…” Sally tried to protest but someone tapped her shoulders to get her attention.

“Let him,” Trowa said once he got Sally’s attention.

Sally only sighed as she looked over to see the other prince standing behind her, shaking his head with an amused smile.

“Fine! Then I will get one of the maids to clean up the place and check on Duo first thing tomorrow morning. Or better yet, prince Heero, please call me the moment he opened his eyes,” Sally said firmly as she fixed a glare at the crown prince.

However, Heero did not even spare her a gaze but he did grunt a reply. Well, that was all she could get from him. She gathered her things and made her way towards the door when she remembered something.

“Have any of you see Hilde? I thought she was injured too?” Sally asked. Actually Wufei only said that she was just unconscious but he had not stopped and checked on her or Duo.

“Treize took her to her room. Wufei is with them. They wanted to ask questions about the assassin. She was only unconscious though you might want to check up on her,” Trowa replied simply as he started to head out of the room after Sally.

Sally raised an eyebrow as she glanced at Heero then at Trowa. Trowa only shrugged and gave her a look that said he was not needed so he was off to his room.

“Going back to the banquet or Quatre?” Sally asked with a grin.

Trowa only shrugged then headed in the direction of his room.

Sally grinned as she watched prince Trowa walked away. She knew the two princes were attached to the new boys. Well, they were so sweet together. All of them even Duo who was more often asleep than awake for the few days he was here. She knew that the boy was attached to the crown prince. Every time she tried to get the prince to leave the room to examine the boy, the boy would reach for Heero’s sleeve secretly, at least in her opinion since Heero never did realize. Well, he was too busy glaring at Sally at the suggestion that he should leave the room.

“What do you mean you did not see him?” Sally could hear Wufei’s loud ranting from Hilde’s room as she approached. Well, seemed that the dragon was angry again.

“He hit you, onna! How can you not have seen him? Even if it is from behind, you would at least try to see what happened!” Wufei continued to rant.

“Calm down, dragon! You are spouting fire,” Treize said, trying to calm his lover but it only got worse.

“You think this is funny? Amusing? I have you know that it is not!” Wufei yelled as he continued to rant more about the injustice that how an assassin could get pass a protective ward set up by him.

“Well, what was the objective of the ward?” Treize cut in before the enraged dragon could continue with yelling about injustice.

“To keep the prince safe, of course!” Wufei snapped, upset that Treize broke his rant.

“Then the assassin could not be after the prince?” Sally asked as she stood in the doorway.

“Of course! If not he cannot even get into the room. My ward will always work!” Wufei yelled angrily, “and what are you doing here, onna?”

“Can’t you pay some respect to a healer, sorcerer? I am here to check up on Hilde.” Sally replied in exasperation. Wufei really needed to work on his attitude sometimes.

“Nope, I don’t even want to try, onna,” Wufei replied immediately as he turned to look at Hilde who seemed to be in a daze, sitting on her bed, “Hilde?”

However, he did not get any reply. Hilde seemed to be lost in her thoughts. Irritated at the lack of response, Wufei yelled at her which made Hilde jump in surprise.

“What?” Hilde asked, startled.

She had been lost in thoughts about the assassin. She did not tell the general and sorcerer that she did see the assassin. She turned back when she saw the shadow of the assassin. However, the assassin had covered his face and was wearing black long sleeved shirt and pants. Yet, she still felt a familiarity about the assassin. It was as if she had seen him before. She could not put her finger around it.

“Hilde?” Sally called again.

Hilde jumped a bit. She turned her attention back to reality again. It was then she realized she was facing a steaming dragon, an amusing dragon and a concerned doctor.

“Sorry, I am just thinking about the assassination. Maybe it was not the prince he was after? I mean at least half the staff knew that the prince would be at the banquet, right? So that’s means he is after Duo?” Hilde voiced out her doubts.

“Duo’s just a slave. Why would anyone want to kill him? He’s not even here for more than a week!” Sally protested.

“But then if Heero was there and the assassin could get into the room, won’t Heero be in danger as well?” Trezie asked thoughtfully.

There was a stunned silence before someone ran out of the room in a hurry and shouts and footsteps followed closely behind.

“Dragon! Stop! What do you think you are doing?” Treize called as he ran after the running sorcerer. He cursed as he realized that Wufei had run at his full speed. It was almost an impossible task to catch up with Wufei when he ran that fast. Even if he was the great general and Wufei was just a sorcerer.

By the time he managed to catch up with Wufei, he was just in time to witness a bright light, followed by the fall of Wufei’s body. He dashed in time to catch his limp body before he fell to the ground.

“Are you alright? what have you done, dragon?” Treize asked frantically.

Luckily, Wufei was just drained of energy. That spell he had just cast must be very strong to take so much energy.

“What’s going on here?” Heero’s voice broke Treize’s thoughts.

“Well, just that Wufei here got some explanation to do,” Treize shook the body in his arms gently, “come on, dragon, you got to explain what you have done before you go to bed.”

“Don’t want to wake up! I’m tired! Want to sleep,” Wufei mumbled as he tried to bury his head into Treize’s chest.

“Come on, dragon! You can’t sleep now,” Treize said with an amused smile, “come on! Prince Heero definitely needs to know what it is that you have done to his room!”

“But it is injustice that I have to wake up when I am so tired!” Wufei cursed as he refused to open his eyes.

Treize was about to say something when he heard a snort. He turned as he remembered that prince Heero was still looking at them, waiting for an answer. No doubt he found this scene funny. After all, who would have thought that his dragon, the sorcerer, could be so adorable? But then, if Wufei were to continue this, all the respect had tried so hard to get would all be lost.

“Hey, come on, dragon! Prince Heero is still waiting and looking at you! If you don’t want to wake up, I will have to do something drastic,” Treize threatened softly, “something you will never live it down for years.”

Wufei’s eyes opened slowly as he heard the phrase “prince Heero is looking” and then he heard footsteps approaching quickly. He was tired. He knew he should not cast such a strong spell. But then, he had vowed to protect his friends and Heero was one of his friends and possibly Duo as well. He could not allow someone to hurt the vulnerable boy. The boy seemed so sad and he wanted him to smile.

It was then something broke his thoughts. He opened his eyes in shock as he heard a snort and a loud feminine “oh!” that he recognized to be that onna healer. He pushed Treize away with newly found strength and he stood on his weak feet, leaning against the wall.

“Treize! How could you do such a thing with… with Heero and that onna looking?” Wufei yelled as he looked around with a red face.

The prince was smirking and the onna was giggling. Wufei glared at the culprit in anger and embarrassment. Yet, Treize just smirked at him.

“Why? Don’t you know that was how sleeping beauty is awakened?” Treize deadpanned.

“I’m not sleeping beauty!” Wufei yelled as he started to rant about injustice while glaring at the general, “you’re so dead!”

“Well,” Prince Heero interrupted the dragon’s threat about what he was going to do to the general for kissing him in front of people especially when an onna was present. Heero really did not want to know what his closest friends did in their private lives.

Wufei stopped his ranting immediately as he realized that Sally and Heero were still there. He turned redder if that was possible and looked at the floor.

“Aren’t you going to tell me what spell have you cast on my door or room?” Heero asked impatiently. He had wasted enough time, standing here, looking at the short entertaining drama between his sorcerer and his general. Now he wanted to go back to the bedside, looking after Duo. He wanted to make sure he was alright.

“Umm… maybe showing is better than telling?” Wufei asked, hesitating. Now that he thought of the spell, maybe it was a bit overboard.

“Can we go inside the room to talk? It might be better if we kept it to ourselves and only released part of the spell to the rest of the castle,” Wufei explained.

“Hn,” Heero entered the room without hesitation.

“Umm… onna! I got something to ask you! Treize, can you go in first? I need to prove something,” Wufei said with an innocent smile. He was trying hard to look innocent. It was payback time.

“Okay,” Treize hesitated. That smile on Wufei’s face made him hesitate. His dragon never smiled that innocently. But then what could he have done? Heero had gone into the room.

“What is it you need help with sorcerer? After all I’m just an onna,” Sally asked, curious.

“Just wait and see onna. It’s payback time,” Wufei hissed as he looked at Treize who was entering the room after Heero.

Suddenly, Treize felt a force as he was suddenly thrown backwards and collided with the wall on the other side. He groaned as he sat up.

“What was that?” he asked groggily before he snapped, “Dragon!”

“Payback!” Wufei smirked as Sally giggled. Heero just looked back with a smirk and walked back out of the room.

“Well?” Heero asked, his voice showing a hint of amusement. It was not everyday that he got to see his general fall to the ground. Actually it was also not everyday he got to see the sorcerer’s face so red either.

“Yes! Well, I demand an answer too, dragon!” Treize demanded as he brushed his pants.

“Umm… maybe Sally wants to try as well?” Wufei asked as he continued to lean against the wall. He was actually trying very hard to stay on his feet. The spell drained him.

“Of course not I am not stupid,” Sally protested, “so what did you do, sorcerer?”

“Well, I placed this spell to keep people out of the room. That’s all,” Wufei said simply.

“And?” Treize prompted. He knew that could not be all. After all, he knew his dragon never does things by half.

“Okay, maybe it keeps everybody out except prince Heero and Duo,” Wufei answered as he looked at the floor. Well maybe it was too extreme.

“What do you mean by that?” Heero narrowed his eyes, not liking what he had interpreted from Wufei’s sentence.

“I just mean that only the two of you can enter or exit from the room,” Wufei shifted nervously. He knew that prince Heero was going to be angry with him. Now that, he thought about it. It would cause a great inconvenience especially now that Duo was injured.

“Great! Dragon, you never do things by half,” Treize sighed, “so how do you expect Sally to look at Duo if she could not enter?”

“Umm… maybe break through the wall? Or maybe carry Duo out?” Wufei suggested hopefully but at Heero’s glare, he sighed, “umm… just kidding?”

“So?” Heero snapped, “What should we do now? Baka definitely needs Sally to look at him and I need people to carry food and clean up the room. How do you expect us to do so?”

“I’m sorry, prince Heero. But I did make sure that I put a spell to allow you to allow some people to pass through. You just have to say a few words to the person to allow him or her inside,” Wufei explained and added softly as Heero continued to glare at him, “I just want you and Duo to be safe.”

“I know you mean well, Wufei,” Heero said softly, “but next time, please think before you act.” He was angry with him for acting so irrationally but he knew that Wufei was just trying to protect him. Wufei tended to act in extreme ways. But it was these extreme ways that showed how much he cared for his friends or family. Wufei had lost a lot of things in his short life.

“I’m sorry, prince Heero,” Wufei apologized, “well, do you think you can allow Treize, onna and myself to enter the room?”

“Of course, what should I do?” Heero asked as he looked into the room, towards the bed. This was taking far too long for his liking.

“Just go into the room and say “I allow you in”, that’s all,” Wufei replied as he moved closer to the door, gesturing the other two to do so.
“I allow you all into the room,” Heero spoke in a monotone before returning to his spot besides his bed where Duo was sleeping in.

“Well, so sorcerer, how about you making the first move?” Sally raised her eyebrows in question.

“Why should I? I thought it is always ladies first?” Wufei replied, smirking a little.

“Oh? I thought I am an onna not a lady?” Sally retorted easily.

“Just go in, dragon,” Treize said as he pushed Wufei into the room.

“How is he?” Sally asked as soon as she entered the room after the sorcerer and the general.

“He hasn’t woken and he did not even shift or make any sound at all. Is that normal?” Heero asked, worried. He knew he was acting a bit out of character but he did not care. He only wanted the boy in his bed to be okay, to smile at him.

“It is okay. Give him some time,” Sally smiled reassuringly at the prince, “he will make it.”

“He’d better be if not I’ll kill him,” Heero threatened as he glared at the sleeping boy.

Sally smiled at the absurdity of the sentence, “well, like I say before but I will repeat, glaring at him when he is unconscious will not help, my prince.”

“Yes. I agreed with Sally. It is useless unless you can light fires with glares like Wufei,” Treize said with a smile. It was not often that he could see the prince caring so much for another person. Usually, Heero would just hide his feelings.

“Okay, I am really leaving now. But remember to call me the instant he woke up,” Sally said after a few minutes of Heero glaring at both Treize and herself. It was fun to tease the prince but then she did not want to die now. She was still young after all.

“And I think I should take my leave now with him,” Treize said as he pointed to the sorcerer who had dozed off in one of Heero’s armchair some distance away from the bed the moment he sat down in it, “are you sure you will be alright , my prince?”

“Hn,” Heero grunted as he resumed to glaring at his slave on the bed.

Sharing a smile with Sally, Treize picked Wufei up and they exited the room quietly. Heero just continued to stare at the boy’s heart-shaped face.

He’s so beautiful. He looks so innocent yet those eyes say volumes of hardships and pain he endured, Heero thought as he stroked the boy’s hair gently, he’s an angel. A fallen angel. I wonder how he looks like when he smiles. It must be beautiful.

“Sleep well, baka, and get well soon,” Heero whispered gently as he watched the boy silently.


~in Duo’s pov~

“Where am I?” I asked myself but no sound seemed to come out.

It’s weird but I couldn’t seem to open my eyes. It had seemed like a long time since I was aware of my surroundings.

“Who am I?” I asked myself again. It was still the same. No sound came out.

It seemed that my memories are all blurred. Images flashed across my mind. What was happening?

“Am I dreaming?” I tried again but the result was the same.

“Sister Helen! Sister Helen!” a voice cried. Was that my voice? Why was I crying? Who was I calling?

Then there was another voice and a blurred face, ‘don’t worry kid, you are alright. We will stay together. I will always protect you.” Who was that? Why couldn’t I see his face? However, I… I felt that I trusted him.

“No! No! Let me go! Don’t hit him! Stop it! Stop it!” it was my voice! Who was I shouting at? What had happened? Why couldn’t I see anything?

All I could feel was pain. It was so painful. I thrashed about. Stop it! Stop the pain, please! There were a lot of voices going around my head.

“You useless slave!”

“You deserved to die!”

“You must obey what your master says no matter what!”

And then there was pain again. The feeling of something hitting me painfully. Again. And again. Stop please. I tried to scream, to beg, to do anything to stop the pain. But no sound came out.

Then as suddenly as they came, they stopped. I could hear a voice speaking in concern.

“It’s alright, baka. You are safe. No one is going to hurt you. I will protect you,” the voice said gently.

Somehow I trusted that voice. I could feel gentle hands holding me, stroking my hair gently. The hands and voice eased away my pain. Slowly, I tried hard to open my eyes. It seemed to be a long time since I opened my eyes. My eyelids were so heavy. Slowly a little by little, I opened my eyes.

Then all I see are blue cobalt eyes staring at me in concern.

I smiled.



To be continued…..