| Gundam Wing: Legend of Mystiks Chapter 15 � He can ask for leave himself.� � He is in shock. He cannot ask for leave himself so I�m saying he gets it, whether you like it or not.� � Then I�m going too.� � Don�t be silly. You wouldn�t last three seconds in the Seventh Dimension, even with your element power helping you.� � Then what makes you say Duo can survive?� Shinigami snarled angrily, � A child of the Seventh Dimension can handle the Seventh Dimension itself! As my son he can be completely at ease there!� He realized what he�d said too late. <So much for that normal life I tried to give him.> The surprise was obvious, even on the faces of Heero and Trowa. Duo was the son of Shinigami? That would make him something on the level of a prince! He could kill people at will or even damn them for eternity! Shinigami humphed. � As I said, he�s going with me. When he wishes, he shall return, but not a moment before.� � Shinigami-sama?� � Hai, Halcyon?� he snapped in frustration. <Mystiks and humans are so curious!> She stepped back. � What do you want done with the Ferals?� Shinigami looked around. � I don�t care,� he spat. � If you don�t want to take care of it, then I will. It won�t be the first time.� � Sir?� � I�ll be in contact.� The Death God disappeared into a black silhouette-aura, leaving everyone else to speculate on what happened. *~*~* Shinigami appeared in the meadow and released Duo, who looked about in awe. He went over to the only grave marker in the field of flowers and knelt before it. � Please forgive me, Lily. I would�ve returned sooner, but I was watching him and keeping him out of trouble.� � You kept me out of trouble?� Duo asked, kneeling beside his father. � Hai. Who do you think helped you out whenever you were about to be caught for stealing?� � You made the crowd close up like that?� � It was nothing complicated. Many were Reapers that I always had spying on you. They�d bump people into the way of the shop owners. I couldn�t interfere directly, but I made sure you never got into terrible trouble.� � Domo arigatou.� � It was the least I could do.� Duo looked down at Cosmos� serene face. � Why do those we love always die?� � I don�t know. We must just be drawn to souls who plan to die soon. The more we feel for someone the sooner they�ll die, it seems.� Shinigami sighed. � We both lost two Reapers we love to Ferals. The same Reapers. And we never got to say good-bye to them either.� Duo looked up at his father, meeting the face his own mirrored very closely. � What did my okaasan look like?� � Nani?� � I was wondering, since I look exactly like you.� � All Deaths have looked like you and I. Anou, except one. But nobody can recall what she looked like.� � A female Death?� � Hai. Very rare obviously, since there�s only been one since Time began. She was different because she wasn�t a Reaper or a Mystik. Her origins and race remain a mystery to this day.� � Matte. I thought you had to be a Mystik to be a Reaper.� � Iie. Usually you are one or the other because of the pressure to perform to the standards of everyone else. There�ve been a few that were both, but they were the exceptions, not the rule.� � So Okaasan, Cosmos, and I are exceptions?� � Not quite. Your okaasan and Cosmos are exceptions, but you are a double exception. You�re a Reaper, Mystik, and Death God all rolled into one. You�re the first of your kind, so to speak.� � What about you?� � Me? I�m just the God of Death.� � So Cosmos and Okaasan are more special than you?� � Hai.� � Wow!� Duo paused. � How did Cosmos get to be a Reaper? She didn�t just send in a resume.� � Cosmos has been working for me since she was six months old.� � Masaka!� � Iie. She could utilize the magic of flight somehow and she did her job well. And before you start thinking I�m some kind of cruel monster, she snuck out one time when another Reaper was sick and took their place without my knowledge. She has always been extraordinarily intelligent.� Duo rolled this over in his head a while, then remembered what he�d asked first. � What did my okaasan look like?� � Nani? Oh . . . Anou, she had chocolate-colored hair with natural copper-colored highlights and the softest brown eyes.� � Was she pretty?� � Absolutely beautiful, Duo.� � I got all my looks from you, but what did I get from her?� � Her personality and her ways. I�m not a social person. I�m more withdrawn, as most Deaths are. You are a very . . . gregarious person. You can be solitary, but prefer company to talk to.� � Cosmos likes to talk.� � Not always. She�s like you. When she wants to talk she chatters incessantly about nothing in particular, as if to just hear her own voice.� � . . . Cosmos wasn�t born a Reaper.� � Iie. She was born a Mystik. Her parents were killed, but her otousan brought her in before her died.� There was a pause. � It was hard to watch both of you at the same time because you�d get into trouble at the same time in different places. Quite annoying.� � Who did you go after first?� � You.� |