Duodin, Can I show you the world?

Duodin-Can I show you the world?
Disclaimer: ^^;;; Do we really have to say it?!? *Pulls out checklist*--;;; Sparky does not own the GW boys or Aladdin. Sparky wishes she did else I wouldn’t have to type this damn disclaimer! Sparky will not send rabid squirrel monkeys in any shape or form towards Relena! It is not her fault that she wants my Fei baby bad. Disney owns the following version of Aladdin and any original characters I create are mine and can only be used with my permission. Blah…blah…you get the point.
Created: Friday, June 15, 2001
Revised: Monday, March 14, 2005
Warnings: Yaoi-yes Martha. There are boys in this here story! Lemon, Angst, Romance, OOC,
Rating: There is actually a range. Wow! PG-NC17
Pairings/Groupings: Overall-5x2 6x4x3, 1xM
Notes: I know that it is a little late for Valentine’s Day but what the heck. Let’s pervert the mind a little bit, shall we?
Criticism or comments: Please email at dreamersisle@yahoo.com

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Chapter two:
A snake’s skin….

Wufei refused to listen to anything Lady Relena tried to say. Each whine from the blonde haired woman felt like razor sharp teeth grinding on his mental state and just one more word from her poisonous lips and she would be one step away from getting placed on Nataku’s dinner menu. His father’s words were making him nauseous, fearing for his life and his future.

“Wufei and Meiran…” His father began, “Your birthday celebrations are at the end of the week. You both know that the law commands that you must be married before your seventeenth year.”

Lady Relena nodded in agreement with her lord, the sultan, though her glowing blue eyes spoke volumes towards the twins.

“Father…” Meiran finally spoke up, sensing the impending nausea radiating from her twin. “Wufei and I both agree that the law is wrong.” She walked over to her brother, leaning on his strong muscular form while she pleaded their case to their father. “You have always taught us to be our own person. How are we to be joined with someone when we don’t fully know ourselves? I do not want some impotent bore to be my husband, someone that will manipulate…” Her dark eyes slowly turned, glaring at Lady Relena. “…my actions like a scorpion waiting to strike me at my core. I will not become an object like a precious jewel abandoned with other treasure solely because of my lineage. I need someone who understand me and love me for the woman that I am. That is what you have always taught us, isn’t it Father?”

Shalamar grumbled. He was not in the mood for this speech again. Gazing into his daughter’s eyes the question of all questions popped up again-Why did he have to have two of the most stubborn children in all of the creator’s heaven? The sultan sighed as he walked slowly over to his daughter, each step shaking his fragile bones. His agility was not as flexible as when he was their age as he gazed deeply into the endless darkness of his daughter’s eyes. There before him Shalamar stared at his youngest child, his only daughter. Her oval face was rounded yet angular like her descendents from the east and though his dearest baby princess was raised in the desert, Meiran’s skin refused to be as brown as his. The young princess’ skin tone retained the softness and delicate features unparallel by the other princesses of her stature. Her beautiful mother’s features had blessed Meiran’s form. “Desert flower, it is not only the law that I am worried about. I am old. I am not the mighty warrior that I used to be and I will not live forever in this lifetime. All I want is my little dragons to be safe. Remember, I am a father and a mother to your two and I worry.”

Wufei sighed in understanding. His rebellion against his father and the country’s laws grew steadily with each passing season. The young prince couldn’t help himself. For a person to be his mate, Wufei wanted more than a rouged up face and shiny trinkles. Though he did not leave the palace he had never lacked for the female companionship. Princesses were visiting the palaces before he could walk and even then Wufei grew tired of them. The lessons were always the same. Most princesses from the other realms cared about money, land or prestige. Each visit became a game, a competition of who could gain his attention. Wufei was tired of the games that these conniving women played with him-their coyness and manipulation. They all seemed to crave power simply because of Wufei’s name and the great riches that his land would provided.

But this was to all that troubled the young prince. There was another thing that Wufei didn’t quite understand. Women seemed to bore him even when he tried to have some type of attraction towards them and the results always ended up with an overwhelming sense of nauseous ness. Women practically made his ill. He quite didn’t understand why this was happening. Puberty did wonders to his looks, looking like a male version of his mother with her huge dark eyes, silky jet black hair and feminine face but it had not been too kind to him when it came to female gender. The only people that he felt comfortable with were his sister, the men of the royal guard and his father, of course. Why couldn’t he find someone like his sister? Someone that was strong, intelligent and full of spirit. A person that would challenge him mentally as well as physically and a dreamer like himself. Why couldn’t a woman be more like a….a man?

Then there was the problem of attaining his freedom. In all of his sixteen year, Prince Wufei was always sheltered. He had never been outside to the real world, the world beyond the castle. What was it like for an ordinary person to ordinary things and lead an ordinary life? It must feel wonderful to feel the cold water running through your hands from a stream while sitting on the hot sands of an oasis. He could visualize in his mind the sand flowing coarsely through his roughened hands. If he thought hard enough he could feel his hands rubbing the sand together, feeling the coarseness of each particle. How wonderful it must be to stand under a waterfall, cooling ones’ body after a day of exercise or feeling the shade of the tall palm trees against one’s skin. Life must be an adventure on the streets of Aquabra, the occupants surviving day by day against the elements just from your ingenuity alone. Oh how Wufei wished he were poor.

Lady Relena looked towards the setting sun. Time was running short for what she had to do today. “My lord, we have things to discuss…. concerning the extraganza.”

Shalamar grumbled, caressing both cheeks of his children before he turned and motioned for Lady Relena to follow behind as he headed for the throne room to discuss the preparations. Before she left Lady Relena smiled at the twins, dropping into a low bow while displaying her ample bosom much to Wufei’s disgust. The blonde woman then rose swaying her ample hips and left the twins to their own devices.

Meiran rolled her dark eyes, rubbing Wufei’s shoulder to calm him down. “Are you okay, Fei Fei?”

Wufei sighed. “No, Ran. If what father says is true, we may be running out of time. I can’t marry. You know how I feel.”

Meiran gently silenced her older brother. “Come, Fei Fei. Let’s discuss this in closed chambers. Even the rocks have ears left to Lady Relena’s unholy alliances.”

Nodding in agreement, Wufei followed his sister to her bedchambers.

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Meanwhile, in the throne room, Shalamar was pissed. Lady Relena looked up from her report and felt pity for the troubled sultan. Those two headstrong children of his needed a swift lesson in respect to their father. Didn’t they understand that he cared about them? Didn’t Wufei understand with those beautiful dark eyes like onyx jewels and those sensual lips…er hmmmn…. “Milord, what is troubling you?”

The sultan sighed his disappointment. “Lady Relena. You are my most trusted of all advisors. I am desperate for a drop of wisdom from your esteemed lips.”

“Ah, milord.” Relena blushed prettily and bowed low before her lord. “You are too kind. My life is yours to command. What do you ask of me?”

“It’s this suitor business.” Shalamar growled. “Wufei and Meiran both refuse to choose a mate. Wufei…that boy slices princesses to ribbons with mere words from his forked tongue. Then he sics Nataku on the male suitors for Meiran. This scheme of their is driving me mad. I am at my wits end.”

Relena smirked. Ah! She saw the light switch within her mind so fast that her own eyes glowed in amusement. It was now time to end the weak innocent façade she had been portraying so brilliantly. “I can devise a solution to your problem, my lord, but…” Relena gazed intensely at the sultan’s emerald ring. “I would require the mystic jewel from that ring on your finger.”

The sultan eyes’ widened, amazed that Lady Relena would ask such a thing. The woman knew how much sentimental value the jewel meant to him. It was s gift from his dearly departed wife.

Relena rolled her eyes, knowing the sultan’s reaction was going to get them nowhere. Within Lady Relena’s left hand was her cobra head staff. The eyes of the snake were slowly beginning to illuminate, glowing brighter and brighter. Shamalar couldn’t tear his eyes away from the glowing eyes of the metal snake, becoming transfixed in their stare and becoming charmed by the dark magic. Relena gyrated herself along the staff until the sultan stood immobile. She smiled, knowing that her hypnotic spell of delight had worked. The sultan seemed to be smiling in his hypnotic state dreaming of yesteryears. A lone finger caressed the aged sultan’s face. “Now, milord…I require the use of the mystic green diamond….”

The sultan offered no resistance. He slowly pulled his most beloved ring from his hand and offered it to Lady Relena like a love token.

“Most wise, milord.” Lady Relena smirked, her eyes on the ring. “I won’t let you down.”

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Duo sat on the carpet and grew angry with each word that was read. He despised what Lady Relena had done to the sultan. He was happy the real Relena in this time was happily living with Dorothy as her assistant and was not evil. She could be evil when she didn’t get her way but that was Dorothy’s concern not his. His eyes wandered back to the book. He did not want to put it down for one moment. Seems the Relena of the story wasn’t done either. Not by a long shot.

Somewhere in a hidden room within the Winner mansion, Quatre and Wufei was watching Duo on close circuit tvs. Wufei kept smirking at each of Duo’s expressions while Quatre couldn’t wait until his part was read. Helping Wufei mess up the story of Aladdin in a way which would excite and humor Duo was a feat in itself. He was also willing to help a friend and helping Wufei with his valentine present was the most fun he had in a while. He smiled at Wufei and went back to hearing Duo read the story out loud.

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Lady Relena had instructed the sultan to sit back on his throne for a while and she would return with a solution to his problem. Checking over the sultan, Lady Relena made sure the spell was still place before she finally left. The sorceress then walked into another room, placing her hand on a particular spot on the stone wall and pushed. A low rumble was heard and the wall seemed to move revealing a hidden stairwell. The form of the young woman, her hourglass figure swaying in a seductive way walking downward into the darkness and seemed to disappear like a ghost. She was not afraid. She had been down this stairwell many times before. Down she walked, around and around the spiral staircase, humming a happy tune. A torch of flame appeared halfway, followed by others the lower she walked.

Finally, her silken shoes stepped in front of a door. She tapped it once with her specter and the door opened on its own. Here was her laboratory, her hidden sanctuary. The room was filled with various bottles, gases and cages. Within each cage, various animals, tortured souls that longed for freedom that only wanted some food and a bit of light. This was her secret zoo so she could perform her evil experiments to her heart’s content, her magicks and potions to aid in her conquests for her lord. Lady Relena smiled. She retracted that thought. She was only thinking about herself. Her lord never came in her mind since she was the true mind behind the kingdom. No one knew of the terrible experiments performed by her own hands to obtain power. No one, in all of Aquarba, knew the secret working of Lady Relena and she made sure to keep it that way.

“Pargan. Come here.”

There was a flutter of wings and suddenly a strange bird beaconed to Lady Relena’s voice. The feathers were not as full as they should be for a bird. It looked tired and aged long before its time. “Yes, mistress?”

“You will bear witness, my feathered slave. This ring of undying love will power my machine. This will reveal to me the one soul who can enter into the Cave of Wonders.” Relena’s blue eyes gleamed with insanity at the ring. “And with it, I will achieve my greatest wish…to be sultan.”

The bird looked on as his mistress skittered around the room. It was going to be a long night so he might as well be prepared for it.

To be continued….

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Author Notes: ^_^ Relena is a witch in this story. This is just a nice way of calling her what I really want to call her! Snicker!! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I’m still working on stories. I know I lot of you are saying “God lord woman! What took you so long?!?” I have only one answer: REAL LIFE!! ^_^