Switched Loyalties

I own nothing but the plot, my characters and this story, this came from my curiosity of what the X-Men universe would be like if Victor Creed/Sabretooth had become an X-Man instead of Logan 'Jimmy' Howlette/Wolverine. Enjoy and beware of the potty-mouth.

Rain pours and lightning and thunder clash on a rainy midnight as Victor tosses and turns in bed, he finally awakens from a nightmare he's been having for the past few days now about his days after the army and one day he wishes he'd forget, the night Logan gut his own son, Daken because he wanted to change his ways and become an X-Man and he left Logan's shadow Victor himself was powerless to stop him, now he loathes that day vowing not only to never to let himself become the beast that he looked at in the mirror every morning but to make Logan pay, even if it cost his own life. He gets out of bed, sleeplessly and walks over to a wardrobe and takes a long good look at himself in the mirror, before glancing at a picture on a small drawer nearby of Daken, Kurt and Evan smiling widely with their arms around each other, while hearing Logan's words from that day as an echo in his mind.

"Remember what you told me, Creed? Quod Sum Eris? It's your own fault, really, I've become the animal that you're trying to convince yerself yer not, and you know it as well as your precious X-Men! You're Xavier's pet!"

"No, I am nobody's pet!" he almost yelled but restrained himself from waking every mutant and telepath in the mansion as well restrain his rage, something he really needs to keep under control right now.

THUMP!

Vic turns his attention to the only door in or out of his room, narrowing his eyes he sniffs the air lightly catching the scent of salty tears and a BAMF! Sound which didn't even startle or faze him, he opens the door to find Kurt sitting against the wall near his door, dried tears on his face.

"Why are you up so late, Blue?" asks Victor almost afraid of the answer he'd receive "Couldn't sleep, today's ze day, isn't it?" asks Kurt obviously tired "I'm 'fraid so, kid" answers Vic, equally as stretches and bares his fangs wide in a big yawn but stops when he hears the cheery though tired giggle of Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde, who he (and Daken) always referred to as Kitten behind him, he turns to her with a smirk "Somebody's slept well" says Victor as she replies pointing and her roommate, Rouge, sleeping and snoring lazily "Nope, not a wink. Rouge's my problem, like, ever since Dakie (Daken) died, I swear she snores like some kind of dying animal!" The three peer at the sleeping southern beauty sleeping without a care in the world when they cringe from the sound of a crash in the room across from Kitty's and Rouge's only to hear pleasant accented Cajun cursing quietly in French.

Remy opens the door and smirks at Kitty "don't insult Remy's mon cheri like dat', Kitty, she's delicate" as he confronts the three and Kitty glares at him "You did not just call Rogue 'delicate', did you? Try sleeping an entire night with your mon whatchamacallit and tell me differently the next morning" she says as Remy looks at his sleeping (and still snoring wildly) belle tucked tightly in bed "When Remy heard dat', he coulda sworn dat was Peter" Remy says picking a few of his cards out of his shoulder length blonde hair.

After getting dressed, the group (Remy, Kitty, Kurt, Victor) made their way to the kitchen, but not before Victor was banging down on the door of another mutant as if the mansion was on fire, this adult Japanese mutant, Dairou (no last name since his memory on that in particular is worse than Logan's) took it even worse than Remy did, all they could hear was him falling off his bed hitting the ground hard then the cluttering and clashing of stuff inside, the door opens only for Victor to find two ridiculously massive Zweihander swords (made from God knows what), one inches from slitting his throat and the other inches from splitting the large feral's skull, but Victor doesn't even flinch, but smiles (weird, huh?), and Dairou's temper isn't something to take lightly, he's wanted by everyone, AIM, Hydra, and even S.H.E.I.L.D due to his unique ability to make a dangerous weapon from practically anything (you name it, he's made a weapon out of it) which makes him a living weapon, when he'd heard of his best friend, Daken's death and even worse that his father was responsible, he planned to find Logan and deliver his severed head to Xavier on a silver platter, but he knew Daken wouldn't approve of it, so he did nothing besides prove to the mighty Wolverine that he needed to watch himself around this mutant with a short fuse. He also respects Creed more than everyone (doesn't stop him from swatting at Creed as well when pissed, though)

"You should know better that to wake me at such an early hour, Victor-san…what do you want anyway?" snarls Dairou looking at them with his naturally red eyes peeking out from behind his long silky black hair covering part of his eye. "Breakfast?" asked Victor with a helplessly stupid grin as the other X-Men stepped away from the volatile man and Remy can't help but glare at Vic "Victor, Remy will never understand what the hell you find funny about a sword inches from slittin' your throat and another inches from splittin' you in half." Said Remy shaking his head as Vic just shrugged.

Suddenly Dairou makes the swords disappear and speaks again since Akihiro's death "My apologies, I didn't mean to scare you, I just haven't been sleeping well lately and I get antsy and more unpredictable when I don't sleep well…" he then looks at Vic with a combination on anger, sadness and …solitude, maybe? "…today's the day, isn't it?" he says completely calm compared to before as he puts his shirt on over his chiseled chest and abs as everyone nods "…then I don't think I'll be going on any missions today" he sighs sadly before putting on his most charming smile and follows everyone down to the kitchen, where his smile disappears just as fast as it came (or turned wicked at least) as he find Toad bravely (or stupidly) raiding their fridge, the others step back as Dairou approached silently and plucks a cast iron frying pan from the counter and holding it up before kicking the fridge shut almost on Toad's head as he retreats right into the frying pan, he lays on the floor as Dairou looms over him, getting angrier by the second (just to scare him) giving him an almost feral stare and growl "What the fuck are you doing in here, Toad?" he asks still calm as the stuttering toad scurried to his feet and looks up to the 5'2 man who looks like death if it had a face now "Well, ya know, just visiting friends?" he lied obviously and flinches Dairou tips the little man's head up to eye level "Do you know what day today is, boy?" he asks inches from losing what's left of his sanity "Uuh, the day Daken died?" Dairou nods at his correct answer "Right, which means you should return our food now and be on your way…while I still have a grip on my sanity" he explains lifting Toad with one hand off the ground as he twirls the frying pan in his other hand with a slightly evil glint in his eye. Dairou drops him, he rushes out the door, minutes after with one swing, throws it hard and listens for the impact, as his target was now out of sight and thought he was out of range.

{Bang} OW!

"Dat Wolverine better be on his P's and Q's with Dairou around, eh Sabes?" asked Remy comparing the two mutants, both known for their bad tempers, "wonder what we should do t'day?" "Feelin' for a daddy hunt, Dairou?"

"Yeah, Rem…that'd be fun" said Dairou who was now almost twitching with anticipation to see the face of his friend's killer again "But I think I just killed Toad, should we check on him?" Remy stops him "Nah, just don't be surprised if you see him again same time, same place and you didn't wake the entire neighborhood, but you woke up the entire goddamn mansion" Dairou only shrugs as they all lounge around the living room until the rest of the X-Mansion get out of bed.

Next to awaken was Kurt, who ports and stumbles into the kitchen sleepily looking for breakfast before even noticing anyone else there.

"Morning, Kurt-san, somebody's slept well" says Dairou not even looking at him "Morning" Kurt grumbles as he enters the fridge when his tail straightens for a moment as he now realizes that he isn't alone and looks at Dairou suspiciously "Vait, vhy are you up so early, Dairou?"

Dairou turns his head and looks into Kurt's grey eyes with his piercing red eyes, curious, but completely sane (…hopefully) which Kurt has grown used to "Daken" was all he had to say to snap Kurt out of his daze as the blue furred elf now came and sat beside him uneasy about the next question he was about to ask "Um, you're not gonna do something going to regret, are you?" Now Dairou was a little ticked, eyes now slightly flaring with rage "Oh, I'll do some damn thing, alright. Something I surely will not regret"

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Bayville, at one of the best bars in town (and regrettably one of James 'Logan' Howlette's favorites) Logan walks in and orders a beer.

"Hey, there partner. Need anything?" said the bartender as Logan walks up and takes a seat "Just a beer, bub" and looks up at the news on the television when suddenly he sees a shot of Victor and some of the X-Men just finished fighting and defeating Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants which he is a part of though he wasn't part of the fight, he growls insanely, not caring who's watching, squeezing and shattering the beer in his hand "Creed" he mutters under his breath before storming out of the bar with his claws popped out "This time, I plan to finish this". No one in said bar would be stupid enough to follow the feral or call the police.

Meanwhile at the X-Mansion, Xavier had just located Wolverine using Cerebro and telepathically alerts the X-Men.

"Victor" Xavier calls out telepathically linking the adult X Men members and teens "Yeah, prof?" the feral answers gruffly noting his dislike of telepathy. "Sorry to intrude on your mind, Creed, but I've located Wolverine, he is somewhere on the outskirts of town" Xavier continues as Victor's and Dairou's eyes widen at the news "You depart at 7, see me before you go, that is all. Jean, Victor you can take it from here".

"Let's all meet in the main hall, Jeannie." Victor talks to Jean via telepathic link "Right." She responds nodding as she and Rogue follows Ororo out of her garden. Kurt teleports there as Kitty phases through wall after wall and everyone else uses the door. Scott curses to himself as he leaves his room "That sunuva bitch had better not broken my bike" remembering that Wolverine stole his motorcycle to leave the mansion the day Daken died.

Everyone gathers at said location as Victor reveals his plan, while everyone, especially Dairou listened attentively growing even more unnerved by the second, until Kitty placed a hand on his shoulder, reassuring and calming him down…again. They move out with a team of Dairou (who refused to be left behind), Victor as leader, Shadowcat (due to Dairou's insistence), Nightcrawler, Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops, but they first went to Xavier's office.

"We're ready, Chuck." said Sabretooth entering the office followed by his team as Xavier sits behind his desk, sensing strange confusion in one of them who to his surprise wasn't Sabretooth, he turns to Dairou, they look at each other completely calm and Dairou showed no visible emotion "Dairou?" calls out the professor, to this Dairou raises an eyebrow "Yes, professor?" Xavier continues "Daken's death has hit you the hardest, since he was the one who both saved and spared your life by bringing you here and taught you English as well as other things, I sense great turmoil and confusion within your mind, though you are kindhearted, reserved and ill-tempered, I'm just saying, will you be able to forgive yourself by killing this man to put your best friend's spirit at ease?" there was silence…then he gives the others a "get out if you value your lives" look prompting Victor to guide everyone but the two out.

Dairou sits in the chair and faces Xavier looking like he was about to cry, but doesn't shed a tear "Please, professor, I can't allow him to get away with what he did to Daken, he was his own son, he was flesh and blood, I'll fulfill Akihiro's last wish even if I have to alone." The professor raises an eyebrow to the man "He was more than a friend to you, was he?" asks Xavier as the other man's head drops "I know I have my own children, but I've always thought of him and loved as my own" the man said as he pulls out a red string tying back his hair, leaving two strands framing either side of his face as well as a picture of himself and Daken from the day they first met which is strangely today, 5 and a half years ago. "Today?" the professor asks as the Japanese man nods lightly in agreement.

Screen fades to nearly 6 years earlier as Dairou narrated his back-story to Xavier.

A younger Daken sneaks away from Wolverine, walks up to Dairou and tugs on his shirt arm "Excuse me" says Daken, Dairou only looks at him, smirks and nods before going back to tinkering with some small things in his hand, to Daken's curiosity, he looks closer and asks "Can you even talk?" "Yes, I can" was the man's answer which startled Daken but he couldn't say anything when he saw that Dairou had not only made a rose from aluminum foil, but it's beauty could match a real rose "Wow" was all that Daken could say under his breath "You're the only mutant I've ever seen with the ability to create, instead of…destroy. I envy you" "Don't…" Dairou stops him, his rage beginning to boil, "…I hate people who use others, especially mutants, for their own evil deeds" he growls but Daken puts his hand of his shoulder and whisper into his ear "If you've ever heard of the X-Men, I'll be going to join to join them in a week's time, we can go together but don't tell my dad or we're dead". Dairou only nods in reply as Wolverine steps out with mixed emotions about a porcelain doll he got from a shelf "Hey, how much for this, bub?" Logan asks smirking to which Dairou replies with a half-smile "9 dollars, sir" and Daken looks at him with a raised eyebrow "I don't even wanna know…" and Logan answers "Good, cuz I don't feel like talkin' about it".

Daken just looks at his father with surprise "Are you angry with me, father?" Logan raises an eyebrow "No, Daken. You think if I were angry this dainty little shop could handle it?" Daken shakes his head as Logan pays for the doll and the two leave "Let's go, Daken".

Screen flashes back to present day.

"…and after they left, I packed my stuff and waited for him to return later that night…fearing the worst" said Dairou. "Fearing the worst? Didn't you tell your loved ones" asked Xavier "My family knew and accepted me, even when they knew I was a mutant but I was more worried about how Daken would be able to evade his father…" Dairou stops for a moment "I saw his eyes, he had now love in them for Daken or anyone else, that's when Daken came back into my store, ready to come here but I could see the worry and fear in his eyes. We departed after I left a letter, telling my loved ones where I'd gone then left and made it here two day later and it seemed the Wolverine hadn't followed us or caught on yet…" the professor stops him before he continues "You have a mission you must get to now and…you don't have to tell me this if you don't to but we'll talk when you return" Dairou gets up and smiles at Xavier "I'd like that" then he leaves and boards the X-Jet ready for departure.

Dairou get on the jet in a gloomy mood, which surprises no one, what surprised them though is the fact that he looked unsure and like he wanted to puke, since he hates flying even more than Sabretooth, who was clinging to his seat like his life depended on it, does.

"Um…are you okay, Dairou?" asks Kurt who was seated in the seat in-front Dairou's "I'm fine, Kurt. Just hate flying." "Then how'd you come here from Japan, I wonder?" asks Shadowcat, who sat behind him as Victor answers that question "Well, he sent his family to the U.S alone, then I had to go there and force him onto the plane to reunite them here, his wife, who is a close friend of mine, never complained about it cuz she knew how much I don't like flying either" that made Remy smile "then that means our skydiving trip is off?" The two mutants glare at him "Skydiving trip?" asks Victor. "What skydiving trip?! You wouldn't dare, Remy LeBeau" growls Dairou, both looking scared shitless of the Cajun's plans as the Blackbird departs and Remy replies mischievously "Oh, Remy dare."

Meanwhile, in a cave somewhere outside Bayville, Logan enters the darkness smiling wickedly at an unseen man chained up against the wall at the back of the cave where the sunlight couldn't reach him, he caresses his face only for the teen to snap and try to bite him, but Wolverine didn't support defiance, slapping him hard across the face with the back of his bare hand, before bringing a light up to reveal the blue eyes and brutally beaten and battered face and body of the very much alive Daken Akihiro.

"Stay awake for daddy now, Daken." smiles Wolverine as he chokes his son with one hand and forcefully caresses his face with the other. "I-I'll f-fucking k-kill you" threatens Daken tears streaming down his face, but Wolverine continues to smile wickedly "Too late for that, kid. Those idiotic so-called 'friends' of yours in the X-Men think you've been dead for nearly 6 years and you'll stay that way cuz nobody's lookin' for ya and nobody's comin' ta the rescue, which means…no interruptions" Daken's eyes widen as he sees that his father has several Tasers with him and wiggles and pleads to get free to no avail, he start trembling with fear as Logan stops choking him "No, please, I'll do anything you want, father, please don't" he pleads but Logan only smiles and growls lightly turning on one if the Tazers "There's only one thing I want, 'Bastard Dog', and that is to hear you scream for daddy" he turns the Tazer to Daken's beaten sweaty body, shocking him mercilessly as he wriggles even more to get free and his blood-curdling screams can be heard for miles outside the cave, but Logan doesn't care cuz he won't be found.

What will happen when the X-Men catch up to Logan? Will Daken escape his demented father? And what will Dairou do when he finds out what happens, will anyone be able to contain his rage? Find out next time. This is not one to miss!

Warrior-of-Darkness015 out.