Duo Maxwell's Island: Episode 5
"Hey everybody!" Duo called out the next morning. "I think I found a way off of this damn island!"
Everyone perked up immediately and made their way over to the braided pilot.
Heero voiced a concern that he had been going over the whole time that they were there. "I wonder if OZ won yet? I mean, we can't do anything because we're stuck here."
"Of all the times those crackpot doctors had to get nice and give us time off...." Duo trailed off and threw a rock into the small lake that they did their washing and clothes cleaning. "And Heero had to go and insist that he knew how to drive a boat!"
"How was I supposed to know that a missle would hit and try to sink us. Don't blame me! Quatre was the one who suggested that town."
Trowa instantly rose to his koi's defence. All four of them began to bicker until Wufei cleared his throat loudly.
"What was your plan again Maxwell?"
Duo's large amethyst eyes blinked in confusion for a second before he remembered. "Oh yeah! We're going to build a raft!"
"A raft?" Quatre questioned. "Do you even know how far we are away from the mainland?"
Duo just dismissed that question with a wave of his hand. "We'll need to take supplies along. Wuffie-chan, we're gonna need your katana to cut the wood."
"You're going to use MY sword to cut wood?" Wufei said in amazement without even bothering to correct Duo's mutilation of his name. "My precious blade will be used in something other than slicing flesh?"
Duo nodded impatiently. "Hai. Unless you never want to have sex again. We're not giving you any and since you hate women..."
Wufei shuddered at the mere thought of getting his jollies with either Dorothy or Relena. Sighing heavily he adoringly stroked his sheath covered sword before handing it over. "Let's go."
***
Duo wiped sweat from his forehead and pulled off his white undershirt, tossing it to the side. It was several hours later and they still weren't anywhere near finished.
"Dorothy! I need some more vines!"
The Catalonia girl looked at him with disdain. "And?"
"GET YOUR ASS MOVING AND DO IT!!"
She gave him a heated glare before she moved off into the jungle.
"Hee-chan, I'm sorely tempted to just leave her here."
"Duo, at least she did help some. Relena hasn't done a thing." Quatre said, carrying some freshly cut planks over to Duo.
"You've got to remember, Little One," Trowa said in his quiet voice, "she is still tied to that tree."
"Yeah. I didn't want to hear her whine the whole time, did you?" Duo asked.
Heero shuddered at the mere mention of her awful voice and checked to see if Duo's knots would hold. When he talked during his work, things tended to not be of the best quality.
Wuffie grunted as he sawed at the particularly tough area. "Can we stop for a break? I'm the one doing all of the work! And besides, I need to sharpen the now dull edge of my katana."
***
A few more hours later had them looking at a now finished floating platform.
"As soon as we get back, I'm taking Shinigami and I'm going to KILL those bastard scientists!" Duo growled.
They gathered up all of the things that they were taking with them and piled it on the raft, tying it down securely. Everyone got on and Heero pushed it out, climbing on last.
"HEY! WAIT FOR ME!!" Dorothy screamed as she sprinted down the beach. She took a flying leap at the edge and landed heavily on top of Quatre.
The raft shuddered once and then the whole things collapsed under their combined weight, sending them instantly into the deep water.
Swimming to shore and dragging his things behind them, Duo collapsed on his back on the warm sand.
"Freaky Eyebrow Girl, I would kill you but I'm too tired."
"I can't beacuse my sword is now blunt!" Wufei panted.
"You gave me a bruise!" Quatre said as he examined his side. He tried to lunge at her but Trowa held him back.
"With his fair skin, you'll be able to see it very clearly," Trowa said softly.
Heero just glared silently as he contemplated ways to maul her once he felt better. He had swallowed a lot of water going down.
Duo sat up after a good five minutes and proceeded to wring the salty water out of his hair. "Man! Now I have to go and wash it again." He shot Dorothy a dirty look. "I should make you do it and comb it out afterward too." He sighed in annoyance and walked over to Relena's tree. "I guess I should let her down now. She should have learned her lesson by now."
He untied her and left her there to rub the feeling back into her numb arms and legs.
"You better had let me down! I am the princess of the Sanc Kingdom you know! You can not harm me!"
"Don't tempt me," Everyone, excluding Dorothy, muttered to themselves.
Duo grabbed the Catalonia girl by her shirt and dragged her up the path to the small lake. "You are going to wash my hair and make it good. It shouldn't take you more than an hour or two to wash it, comb it out, and braid it. And I want that braid neat!"
***
"Do you have any ideas to get us off this island, Heero?" Quatre asked about 15 minutes later. He had stopped pouting over his bruise and now was sitting on the beach trailing a stick through the sand, making patterns.
"If I did, they would have worked and we would be gone," Heero muttered.
Quatre rolled his eyes and moved on. "Tro-chan?"
"Gomen nasai Little One, but I am lost."
Quatre merely nodded and moved to Wufei. "Wufei..."
"Iie! Don't even ask!"
The small blond flinched slightly and looked to Relena. "Nevermind about her." Standing, he proceeded to stretch and yawn. "Well I'm tired." He shot a glance to Trowa and winked a little. The unibanged bishounen stood as well.
"I'm tired also...."
Heero looked up sharply. "If you want to go and have sex just say so. There's no need for you to try and disguise it."
"KISAMA!" Wuffie yelled before his nose began to bleed. "I UTTERLY DISPISE YOU YUY!!" He took off for the lake.
Heero smirked a bit before he glanced at Relena, who had a disgusted expression on her face.
"At least they're getting some."
And Trowa and Quatre were gone.
***
"ITAI! Stop yanking on my hair!"
Dorothy growled and spoke. "Did you really have to strip almost naked for me to wash your hair?"
"Do you have a better way to do it? We had to get into the water and I don't want my clothes wet!"
It had taken them almost the whole 15 minutes they were away to stop arguing and to direct Dorothy on how to do her task correctly.
Then Wufei came crashing through the jungle, clutching at his nose. Kneeling at the edge, he started to scrub his face.
"Hey Wuffie-chan! Did someone mention sex again around you?" asked the braided boy.
"K'so!" he howled as a fresh stream of blood gushed out.
"Why are you so uptight anyway?" Dorothy questioned. "I would think that screwing Treize would be an enlightening experience for you."
"You know too?!" Wufei shrieked.
"Of course." She rinsed Duo's hair a final time and started to leave the water. "Who doesn't?"
"You mean Relena knows as well?"
Dorothy snorted. "Relena-sama is in her own little world, you should know that. One where Heero is her prince, Duo is just a court jester, and they have about 6 children."
"Hey! I resent that!" Duo exclaimed. Then he cringed at the thought of half a dozen little Relenas. After checking his object of affection to make sure that it was soap free, he walked out and sat on a log. "Okay, now you have to comb it out."
Wufei thought about her remark about Relena for a little while. "6 little people with the personalities of both Peacecraft and Yuy combined would make the world a scary place indeed."
I'm working on the rest, just be patient! I'm also trying to find some way to get them to 17 or 18kb in size but I jsut don't have enough thoughts for this series.