Title: A Curandera's Tale
Author: WickedLoveChild
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to the creators of X-Men...help me out here...Marvel? Oh, and since I'm going from both the cartoon and the movie, I guess I'm also borrowing from 20th Century Fox. I think I got that all straight.
Summary: Oh, who am I kidding? I can't write a summary. Just please read? You don't have to leave feedback if you don't want to, but it would be appreciated.
Author's Note: I'm not too sure where this is going, but I just wanted to bring in a sassy female character since they didn't make Rogue too saucy in the movie like she was in the cartoon. I miss Remy so of course he's going to be in this story. And even though I may treat Rogue a little bad at times, she's still one of my favorites and I'll eventually make her happy in the end.
Tip: A curandera is like a Mexican female healer.
A Curandera's Tale
She looked down at her drunk, unconscious father lying on the lawn in front of their house with an overwhelming hatred and felt something inside of her just...explode. The internal explosion was so strong it brought her to her knees with its force. The power from that explosion danced along her veins to a beat that came from the Earth itself. The power filled her up, and she felt the welts up and down her back burn with a healing fire...welts that the man she called father made.
Then she watched in horror as the Earth began to open underneath her father with a deep rumble. She watched as her father awoke abruptly from his drunken slumber and struggled to get up. All of sudden the old, gnarly roots of the willow tree he was under grabbed his ankle to hold him to his place. He reached out a hand to his daughter, the daughter he had beaten since she was old enough to walk, and pleaded with her to save him.
She knew she should take his hand, but she didn't. Even through her horror of what was taking place she was woman enough to admit that she didn't give a whit that that poor excuse for a man was about to be swallowed whole be the Earth. And so he was. With one last desperate cry and a look of hatred thrown at his first born, but illegitimate daughter, Pedro Muñoz was taken into the Earth.
She was only terrified because she knew what was happening. She was coming into her powers...something she had known was coming.
She had just never expected her powers to be so strong...and terrifying.
Laughing Water Aguirre would carry on the family line of curanderas, but with a catch: she was also a mutant, as her father's death had just shown her. She knew she had made that happen, and to tell the truth, though it had been an accident of sorts, she wasn't sad that it had happened.
Sorry, I know this is really short, but it'll get longer.