Soul Keys

Chapter 8: Last Chapter

Milliardo looked at the two having their fun together on the white sands of the beach and the blue surf of the ocean. Ice blue eyes stared out from under so- blonde- that- it- looks- white locks. He frowned and looked at what had bugged him, he was growing ears and a tail. His spirit had a mind of it's own sometime. Usually Wufei could keep the stupid beast in check, however today, Wufei wasn't around to yank the chain of control. 'Quit, I'll get to that soon enough, you can be patient.' Milliardo thought spoke to the insullent pup.

'No, I want tiger.' It mentally pouted.

'Damn it, he's still on the colony and he's busy, you.... You....' Milliardo growled.

'I'm not a pup anymore.' It retorted.

'That's right, you're a teenager right now and all you think about is mating." Milliardo replied.

'Well, hurry it up, we haven't got all day, the sooner this is done the sooner we can go back to Tiger.' It argued.

'Fine.' Milliardo thought to him, carefully.

Soon, the change was already effecting the physical body, the mind of Milliardo still had hold of the bodily control though. Tail, fangs, claws, and fur sprouted from his body all at once just as swiftly as a lightening bolt. The energy of the entire sequence shot through his very being with the viciousness of his beast spirit itself. Until a white wolf boldly stepped from the spot that it had fallen unto the ground.

Duo happily watched as Heero rolled around in the shallow water, his fur was soaked with it but, that only encreased the obvious appearance of Heero's scales. Duo stood and called out to the child- like personality of Heero's beast spirit, his animalistic mind was warning him of a potential danger, though whether or not it was a true threat he couldn't determine but, he would feel safer with his koi closer by himself. Duo watched the hyper beast before him as it ran circles around his body. 'It's nap time.' He merely stated.

'What's nap time?' He asked, cocking his head to the side.

'It's a game, you lay down and pretend to sleep until I say who wins.' Duo replied, gently while scanning the area around them for any signs of movement.

A sudden flash of white caught his eye as he watched the woods farthest from where they sat as he waited for the beast to show itself. Soon, the threat that Duo was being so cautious about appeared. A wolf with fur the color of snow and eyes as cold as ice looked down upon the two of them. It's stance wasn't one of a preditor on the hunt though, but, of one who was just curious. And he moved slowly, cautiously towards them, as though trying not to scare them off. 'Duo, I'm not here to harm you I am here to ask for your assistance, that is all.' Milliardo stated, calmly.

'Wind?' Duo asked, confused. 'What the fuck?'

'I just noted that you had a newly found soul beast with you. My beast spirit is rather out of control and I was hoping that by building up a pack for it would help ease it's persistance.' Milliardo replied.

'You know we're both living on the colonies though, Milliardo.' Duo pointed out.

'What if I provide housing for the two of you and you would have the endless skies of the Earth and Heero could visit the beach whenever he wished.' Milliardo replied.

Heero looked at Duo with his largest, most innocent eyes of pleading. 'Fine. Only because he begged but, when he gets back to normal, he'll be pissed off at you.' Duo replied.

'That's fine by me, now that my beast will have his pack.' Milliardo replied.

'Duo, what's a pack?' Heero's beast spirit asked.

'It's a group of beings that live and work together.' Duo explained, patiently.

So, with that all settled the group separated, Heero and Duo prepared to move down to the Earth as decided was best for their beast spirits. While, in another part of the exsistance of men another problem was brewing...

For, the reason that so many people were discovering their beast spirits was do to the fact that a war and minor conflict had taken place. As expected, there was one couple living together, one already had his beast spirit while the other just had received his key and was to change later that night. "Well, my dear cat, tonights the night." Quatre replied.

"I know, koi, I know," Trowa replied. "Guess what? I heard from Milliardo and Wufei and they said that Duo and Heero are also one of us."

"Ah, so the group only awaits my change." Quatre stated to himself.

"Yes, my Little One, yes." Trowa replied.

So, shall we have it now?" Quatre asked.

"Yes, that is why I came home so early, silly, let's get you ready," Trowa replied. "Lay down on the bed, that's it.... Now, say your chant."

"Aia, salam est pasuss sitala et alcaime soultuse." Quatre stated.

The change over took his small frame and he groaned as his back arched. Trowa was calm until that point, he knew something wasn't normal about this, it just didn't seem proper. "No, Quat!" Trowa exclaimed, immediately by his love's side.

"Tro- wa... Hurts...." Quatre moaned, as his body spasmed uncontrollably.

"I'll call up Milliardo and the group, they'll know what's up with this." Trowa stated, more to reassure himself instead of Quatre.

With that, he called the home of the four former pilots. "Hello? Duo, something's up with Quatre. No, come over here, please, it's hard to explain." Trowa said into the phone.

"Right, right, expect all of us over there right away." Duo replied into the phone.

"Thanks." Trowa stated, before returning right at Quatre's side.

"Shh.... Love, it'll be okay, you'll be just fine." Trowa soothed as he held the blonde's hand.

It was only a few minutes later that Heero, Duo, Wufei and Milliardo all burst into the room. "Okay, I think I understand what's going on here, I've read about it in my own book. His gentle nature is making it hard for his beast spirit to manifest itself, stay back while we try to get his mind to relax into the animal it should receive." Duo commanded.

"Tro.... Wa....." Quatre moaned.

"Hand me a wet cloth, we need to get Quatre to relax, to get his body to accept the transistion." Stated Duo.

As hours ticked by there was no sound from the bedroom as the others, including Trowa sat outside of the building. Trowa was pacing back and forth as Wufei found escape in his animal form on the couch and Milliardo kept subconciously stroking his own koi's fur. Soon, Duo emerged from the bedroom and motioned for Trowa to come in. "It took a long while but, now that he's gone through it once, he won't have as much trouble as he did now."

"So, what beast does he have?" Heero couldn't resist asking.

"One of the smallest, and gentlest I've ever seen." Duo replied. "Go see for yourself."

Trowa entered the room first, and removed the covers from his koi's new form, and beheld a fox with ears seemingly too big for it's head and paws too big for it's legs and soft, blonde fur. "My Little One." Trowa sighed, hugging the sleeping fox to himself.

"Awe...." Duo's voice floated to the unibang pilot's ears.

"He looks so harmless." Heero couldn't help but comment.

"Yes, but, even beasts can be peaceful ones as much as they can be fierce." Milliardo added.

Quatre's eyes slowly opened slowly revealing his huge aquamarine eyes. And this was how all of the former pilots of the gundams were reunited together once again. They all moved in close to Milliardo's and Wufei's place and all enjoyed their secret only with each other. And maybe that was how all happy endings can and should be.

End Story: Don't worry, I'll be coming out with new ones soon.