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Title : From Far Away epilogue
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mine. From Far Away Epilogue
Light...
Bright blinding light enveloped him as Duo felt
himself falling into bottomless pit. The light was relaxing, making him feel so
safe, so contented....
THUMP
"Ouch" Duo groaned as he hit some
hard surface with his face. What happened.....
"Duo?" A soft feminine
voice called him. It was the voice he knew well, whose owner he loved. Duo
rolled onto his back and looked up to a middle aged woman kneeling next to him.
"Sister Helen..." Duo blinked in confusion.
The woman called
Sister Helen smiled. "Thank God, you're okay."
Duo sat up slowly,
somewhat still feeling confused. He felt he had forgotten something. Something
important for him. "Where am I?"
"Not far from the orphanage. I was
walking when you suddenly fell down in front of me."
"I fell down?" Duo
frowned and looked up to gray sky over him. "Where did I fell down from?"
"That's the question I wanted to ask you as well." Sister Helen answered
as she helped Duo to stand up. "You seemed to fall down directly from the sky
and surprisingly, you landed on the ground with your limbs intact."
"Oh"
Duo scratched her head. He really felt he had missed something.
Someone.....
"You left the orphanage only two days ago but you have
changed much. Where did you get that strange outfits you're wearing, Duo?"
"Huh?" At Sister Helen's question, Duo looked down and widened his eyes
at the clothes he was wearing. Instead of wearing his usually black priest
outfit, he got a black tunic and pants with violet waistband. Over the tunic was
soft violet vest. Where did he get all these clothes?
While Duo was
assessing his clothes, Sister Helen continued on, "Not only your outfit, you
look taller and more built. Where have you been, Duo?"
Still deep in
thought, Duo answered automatically. "I was with Heero...." Duo blinked at his
own answer.
Heero....
Who was Heero?
"You were with
Heero? Who is Heero?" Sister Helen asked the same question Duo was asking to
himself. "Is he your new friend?"
Friend? Duo frowned. It felt wrong to
think Heero as his friend only..... No... Heero was not a friend... Heero was
more than just a friend..... Heero was.....
"Heero is..... " Duo frowned
deeper, trying to search his forgotten memories.
The brown hair which
always looked like it had never been combed.
Prussian blue eyes which
were the window of the owner's soul.....
Wiry body which protected him
always....
And the smile which was reserved for him only....
....
Heero was .....
"My soul mate....." At his own whisper, Duo found all his
memories flooded back into his mind. There was a big battle and they were
involved.... The fight against something evil..... and then..... fireballs....
..... explosion...
"HEERO!" Duo shouted as the realization of
what just happened to him settled in. He quickly looked around, searching for
the person he loved most. {{HEERO! Answer me!}} Duo called again, verbally and
telepathically, ignoring Sister Helen's confused look on him. He had only Heero
in his mind. He refused to believe that the explosion had sent him back to his
world and left Heero alone there, engulfed by the explosion.
He denied
that reality.
Duo called and shouted for some time but no one answered
him.
"HEERO, Answer me!!!" Duo shouted as loud as he could, almost
bursting in tears as he was forced to accept the cruel reality. {{HEERO, please
answer me!!}}
No matter how long he called, Duo got no replies. Head
bowed, shoulders slumped, Duo hugged himself, not willing to accept the reality.
The reality that his Heero was gone....... That he had left Heero ......
Sister Helen walked into the chapel where she knew
she would find what she had been looking for. She walked till she stood next to
the still figure sitting on the bench and gazing up to the big cross on the
wall. "Duo, it's lunch time." She said to the figure whom showed no signs of
acknowledging for her words.
Sister Helen sighed, feeling helpless as
she saw the lifeless violet eyes, which once shined brightly. It had been three
days since she found Duo falling in front of her. Duo had shouted and called for
someone she didn't know and then the braided boy became quiet and looked broken.
She managed to move him into the orphanage and then Duo told her what had
happened to him with eyes so far away, as if he was lost in his memories.
Duo told her everything and she found it was hard to believe what Duo
was telling her, but at the end she believed it. She believed it when she looked
into Duo's broken eyes and forlorn expression. She had never seen him like that,
not even when the man who once took care of him had died. And after the boy told
her everything, Duo Maxwell stopped smiling, stopped laughing.
He had
stopped living ....
Though his body moved when she urged him to move but
Duo's mind was somewhere outside the body.
Sister Helen sighed again and
put her hand on Duo's shoulder. The boy was sitting still, eyes still far away,
lost in the past. "Please Duo, you have to eat or you'll be sick."
No
answer.
"You can die if you don't eat, Duo." Sister Helen kneaded the
tense shoulder gently but still the boy gave no sign of moving. "I'm sure Heero
wouldn't want you to die like this, Duo."
The word 'Heero' made the
braided boy blink. "Heero?"
"Yes, Heero." Sister Helen answered. "Heero
would want you to live, Duo."
Duo blinked again and she could see his
mind returned to his body. "Heero...... love.... "
"Yes, Duo. Heero. The
one you love."
"My Heero....." Duo trailed, eyes still fixed on the big
cross on the wall. "Mine...."
Sister Helen let out a small gasp as she
saw the tears fell down silently from Duo's eyes. "Duo?"
"He was denied
happiness and anything a normal child would have..... The only thing he wanted
was to be with me..... I promised I would never leave him, but yet I left
him.... I let him die alone....."
For once, Sister Helen didn't know
what to say.
"We promised to be together... in life and death...." Duo
continued on, not realizing he was speaking at all. "I was supposed to sacrifice
myself only, but he wanted to be with me. He wanted to die together with
me........ but yet, I am alive and he was...."
"Stop it, Duo."
Sister Helen squeezed Duo's shoulder soothingly but Duo suddenly shoved
her hand away and stood up abruptly. "It's not fair!!" The braided boy shouted
as he glared at the big cross in front of him. "All I wanted is to be with
Heero. I don't ask for gold. I don't ask for glory. I don't ask for anything but
to be with him and yet I'm denied of the only thing I ever ask for."
"Duo, calm down...." Sister Helen tried to make him sit down but Duo
stood still.
"I want to be with Heero. Dead or alive, I want to be with
him." Duo spoke to no one angrily, eyes still fixed on the big cross and tears
slid down on his cheeks. He bowed his head down and whispered brokenly. "Is it
too much to ask?....... "
Before Sister Helen had time to say something,
a yellow light suddenly radiated from Duo's chest, filling the chapel with its
light. She tried to see between the lights and let out a surprise gasp as she
saw a golden cross float in front of Duo and a boy with golden hair emerged from
the cross.
"Solo....." Duo whispered in surprise and disbelief, somewhat
feeling a hope to be with Heero once again.
"Me and the other kids can't
stand watching you look so sad like that, Duo. Do you really want to be with
Heero?" The golden haired boy asked Duo. He seemed to talk in strange language
but strangely Sister Helen could understand what he meant.
Duo nodded.
"Yes, Solo. I want to be with him."
"I can send you back, but I can't
alter the time. You will arrive at the same time you disappeared from him, in
another word, you will arrive at the time the fireballs are about to explode and
you'll die as soon as you meet him." Solo pointed out.
For the first
time in three days, Sister Helen saw Duo smile and she heard his peaceful voice
answer Solo calmly. "I don't care, Solo. If I die, I will die together with him.
We won't be separated then."
"You are alive, you still can find another
boy in your world that..."
Duo cut Solo's words. "No Solo. I don't want
anyone else but Heero. I'm as good as dead right now. I can't function without
Heero with me." The braided boy looked at Solo and spoke with a final tone that
couldn't be argued. "He is my life."
Solo sighed. "You really love him,
don't you?"
"Yes." Duo answered it without hesitation.
Solo
smiled sadly. "I'll take you back to our world then, Duo."
Sister Helen
could see Duo brighten up at the sentence. "Thank you, Solo." Duo smiled.
The boy seemed to glow into life once again. She was happy for that, but
still what the golden boy said was absurd for her. Sending Duo back, only to die
there was something she wouldn't allow. "Duo, no! Don't listen to
him."
Duo turned to her and she was stunned as the braided boy smiled
warmly and hugged her. "I love you and the other kids here, Sister Helen, but I
love Heero most. I can't live without him and I choose to die with him rather
than being separated from him forever." His whisper sounded so final to the
woman that she found her tears rolling silently, realizing she could do nothing
to stop the boy. She could feel a soft kiss on her tears stained cheek "Don't be
sad, I'm happy to be with him, Sister Helen. You should be happy for me too."
Duo then withdrew, still smiling at her as golden light enveloping him.
"Good bye, Sister Helen."
And then the golden light became brighter and
brighter that Sister Helen had to close her eyes. The chapel was empty at the
time she opened her eyes. No sign that Duo had ever been there. He had gone to
meet Heero. She was shocked at the reality that Duo had gone forever from her
side.
She didn't know how long the time had passed until a soft tug on
her robe snapped her from her shock. Quickly wiping away the remainder of her
tears, then turned and saw one of her boys. "Yes, Gary?"
"Sister Helen,
where is Duo?" Gary asked her.
Sister Helen scooped up the boy. "Why do
you ask for him?" about of him, Sister Helen. He looked so sad since he returned
back here so the other kids sent me to ask him what made him sad." The little
boy answered.
Sister Helen hugged the boy affectionately. "He has gone
to a place far away from here but he is happy now."
"Really?" Gary
blinked. "Is there something that makes him happy at that far away place?"
An image of the smiling violet eyed boy flashed before her eyes and
Sister Helen found she smiled. "Yes... someone he loves....." She wouldn't cry
again. Duo had said he was happy and she would be happy for him too.
As the golden light engulfed him, Duo found himself
falling once more. However, this time he kept his eyes open. He could see a
black dot far down there and as he got closer the dot became a figure he had
known so well.
Only one person had messy brown hair, Prussian blue eyes,
and white wings and it was his soul mate.
It was Heero.
Although
time seemed to stop for Heero and the fireballs before him, but Duo didn't care.
He smiled happily as he fell right into the spread arms of his lover and hugged
the boy tightly. "I'm home, koi." He whispered contentedly
Right after
Duo wound himself with Heero, the time ticked once again. The fireballs exploded
but they would never be separated again. Three days
later.
Relena sat in her chamber with Wufei and her guards around the
table. The soldiers and her people were overjoyed when they returned and
announced that the Prophecy had been fulfilled and they would build a new world
with peace as what the other rulers had agreed. They were discussing about
building and repairing the area that had been attacked by Heero's impostor when
Wufei cried out in pain.
"Wufei, what happened?" Relena looked worriedly
at her fiancée.
"Something hit my head." Wufei rubbed his head and held
up a small wooden chest, which usually would have been used to keep an amulet.
"What is this...." He grumbled as he opened the chest and promptly dropped his
jaw. Relena was surprised and looked inside the chest as well. She gasped in
surprise and widened her eyes.
"What's up, Relena?" Quatre asked
curiously. Sitting beside Wufei, he tilted his head to see the chest as well and
promptly cried, squeezing his lover's hand tightly as he recognized the item
inside it.
"Quatre?" Trowa was worried.
"What's inside the
chest?" Hilde asked curiously.
"See for yourself." Wufei, who had
finally regained his composure and closed his jaw, turned the chest to the
others. He wasn't disappointed to see Hilde, Sally, and Noin gasped in surprise.
Trowa also looked into the chest and saw a golden cross that looked
fractured and very fragile and a patch of paper, which contained two sentences
and a sign.
Please take care of Solo's cross. We will visit you all
someday.
D & H
Trowa widened his eyes, blinked, and then
smiled. "So they are alive."
"YES!!" Came a loud chorus from the other
six that almost made Trowa jump out of his chair because of surprise.
A slender figure with long chestnut hair watched as
his lover knelt and put the flowers on the gray ground that used to be Elwan
village, muttering telepathically. {{They don't deserve your flowers,
Heero.}}
The short haired boy stood up and walked toward his pouting
husband. {{They were my parents, Duo.}}
Duo sighed and gathered his koi
into his arms. {{This will be the only time you do this, kay?}}
Heero
nodded. {{I think I have to thank them for bearing me or else I wouldn't have
met you.}}
Duo snorted. Heero was too kind for his abusive mother and
ignorant father. {{Better thank Solo and the kids for saving us}}
He
still could remember three days ago when he found a barrier around them that
protected them from the explosion. Heero's barrier had been destroyed by the
explosion but this unknown barrier was strong enough to keep them safe. He then
heard Solo's weak voice and learned that Solo and the other children had made
the barrier from their souls, taking the risk of destroying their souls because
they didn't want them to die like that. Thankfully their souls were strong and
they only needed a long rest inside the cross to heal their souls so Duo sent
the cross to their trusted friends to guard.
{{Talking about Solo, do you
see any ghosts around here?}} Heero asked hesitantly, breaking Duo's musing.
{{No, I don't see any of them right now.}} Duo answered reassuringly. He
knew Heero would feel guilty if the villagers didn't rest in peace and became
ghosts. Duo didn't lie of course. He didn't see any ghosts at the moment, but he
knew there was a ghost floating at the entrance of the village they had passed.
A ghost of a man whose face Duo had remembered from Heero's dream. Duo ignored
him and pretended not to hear him. He had no intention to help the
abusive-and-would-be-rapist-but-got-killed-old-man-ghost.
It was a
perfect revenge to let the man's ghost wander in this burnt village and watch as
he was the one who got the boy the ghost once wanted. Duo knew he didn't need to
do anything to show the ghost since the bonding bracelets on their wrists were
more than enough to make the ghost scream angrily. Those bracelets were made
from the chains of Solo's cross as their signs of gratitude of what the children
had done for them. If not for them, he and Heero wouldn't have lived.
Duo kissed his husband gently. {{Let's get out of here.}}
{{Where
do you want to go?}} Heero raised an eyebrow.
Duo grinned. {{How about
finding a place where I can ride you?}}
Heero snorted and broke their
embraces. A pair of angel wings emerged from the short haired boy's back. Before
Duo had time to do something, Heero had flown up to the sky, leaving his mate on
the ground. {{You have to catch me if you want to do that.}}
Duo chuckled
loudly. {{Oh, ride you I will.}} After saying the words, he disappeared from the
burnt village, leaving one ghost which would surely haunt that place.
Laughter echoed from the sky above as the braided boy literally tried to
ride his winged mate.
{{I think it will be easier to tame you than a
Pisces, Koi.}}
{{Duo!! Omae o korosu!!}}
Wind blew lazily, birds
chirped happily, and the sun shined softly over the land as the couple flew
higher and disappeared into white clouds, ready to begin their next
adventure.
Together always.
OWARI FOR REAL
Author's Final
Note
Thanks to Oceana for the idea of the scene on Heero's village. Yes,
this fic finally meet the end. It has almost been a year since I first post the
first part and at that time I never thought it would reach over 200 pages in my
Word document. I really love writing this story and this is maybe the longest
fic I ever write. This fic is based on Kyoko Hikawa's Kanata Kara for some early
parts and got mixed with the ideas from my twisted mind. So at the end, this fic
had strayed faaaaarrrr away (just like its name ^_~) from the real story. If you
are interested in the real story, you can find it in http://kanata.tsx.org where
I got a lot of information about it.
I want to thank to Syn-chan and Ume
for encouraging me to write this story. This story will never be as good as you
all read right now if not because of them. Thanks to Snow Tigra, Misuzu, Sarah
Star, Caroline Proulx, and Hazard Blue for lending their time to beta some parts
of it. And many thanks to Jana, Lady Tora, Dacia, Saphire Kitten, Bella, Lady
Nagisa & Cloudy, Chiaki, FireHeart, Ruby Moon, Lena, Ox King, Lil Lady and
the others who archive this fic on their sites. Lastly, my biggest thank to all
of you who have read and commented on this fic. I'm so happy to receive over 900
messages for this fic. I always reread them when I'm down or stuck with
storyline. They all enlighten my mood and help me in continuing this fic and
ending it well. Thank you very much *bows down* Many of you ask me about the
sequel. I can guarantee that the sequel is in my list to write, but I can't tell
you when I'll write it. I have so little time to write two fics at the same time
and I still have a couple of long fic ideas in queue. Let's let Duo and Heero in
this story rest for a while and someday we will meet them again in the sequel.
(With Heero in his always-sore-ass, of course *gets thwapped by sore bottomed
Hee-chan*) If you have any ideas of what you want to read on the sequel, feel
free to email me about it. I'll see what I can do ^_^
See you in another
story.
~Akuma~
Hee-chan : Finally my ass can rest! Akuma :
hmm.... The next fic will always have you in sore ass condition in every part of
it, you know. Hee-chan : NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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