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+A Runaway+
A girl sat at a table that was hidden in darkness, in the bar. She sipped out of what could only be a glass of water watching the cage match that was going on only a few feet away. It had only been two days ago she had left her home, fleeing from the life she couldn't bare to live any longer. She replayed what had happened over time that had led to why she left.
She was a normal girl yet at the same time you could tell she was somehow different. She had family and friends who loved and adored her. She also had enemies that hated her, for example her stepsister and stepmother. Sheri lived with her mother who was a sweet and caring woman but all the same she had some rough edges. Sheri loved the life she had and she wouldn't ever give it up no matter what but there is always bad things happening. One morning Sheri awoke in her bedroom to find she was levitating two feet above her bed but when she realized this she fell back down pretty hard. Sheri had totally tried to wipe it from her mind the rest of the day but it only was coming back to haunt her. That day she had frozen her orange juice as she had went to drink it. She had blamed it on the lunch lady who had been later lectured about having the temperature to low on the freezer. Another time that day was when Sheri had accidentally set fire to her pencil, which she had threw across the room. BIG MISTAKE. The classroom had caught fire and it had been blamed on the bad heating system in the classroom. When she had gotten home she had went outside to play with her dog, Demon, who was a Husky. When he ran to see her and she found him all dirty she held out her arms to hold him back but what she saw almost made her faint. All the dirt and mud that was on her dog flew off into the air. When she lowered her hands it all landed on a next-door neighbor and she had to keep herself from laughing at the state he was in.
When Sheri was at the dinner table eating with her mother and her mother's boyfriend she had somehow tapped into their minds without realizing it and began to hear the dirtiest thoughts and she swore she was about to throw up. She was so freaked out she ran to the bathroom and shut the door. While she was washing her face trying to figure out what was going on she felt something walk past her legs and on instinct she threw her fist toward whatever had been near her leg and found metal claws extending from her knuckles. What had scared her was her very own cat Mittens but thankfully he hadn't gotten hurt because he had jumped away in time. Sheri straitened her hand and the claws went back into her knuckles and the place where they had come out healed instantly. She frowned at this and said, "I can't be one. Oh my god what am I going to tell Mom. If she finds out I'm a mutant I'm for sure going to get kicked out."
Sheri was only fifteen then but now she was seventeen and soon to be eighteen in two months. She had overcome her mutation by hiding it from everyone but her father who was all but disgraced in her about it, in fact he had even found her spot a few miles away to drive up and practice them without people knowing she was a mutant. Sheri wasn't much of a girly girl, she was more of a rough and tough girl who didn't take any kind of stuff from anyone and loved doing guy things. Sheri even had known more about fixing things than her father did. She usually worked out in her dad's garage and that was how she had met Jason her crush. He was a sweet boy and one she considered an almost perfect guy but the problem was, her stepsister had her eye on him as well. Sheri would fight teeth and nails with her stepsister, Dawn, very often and most of the time Sheri won. Sheri had her alone time with Jason a lot and he even came to find out about her mutation and found it to be the coolest thing. He would sometimes even go to her practice area with her a couple of times to help her train and give her some advice on improvements. Jason and her were also big four wheeling fans and also loved to go driving around town for nothing than to just talk to each other, but then came that fateful day that had happened only two days ago that made her heart break.
Sheri had just gotten home from her soccer practice to find none other than Jason and Dawn making out in her father's garage. Sheri lost her temper and as Dawn pulled away and smirked at her she felt it only worsen. Sheri had made her way over to her and was about to strike out at her when Jason blocked her but that didn't stop her. She had merely sidestepped him and lunged at Dawn who was caught off guard. Sheri had begun to punch the crap out of her but somehow she had managed to get away and out into the back yard but Sheri only followed her. Dawn turned around and said, "You lost Sheri, and I have him. I'm the one he's kissing not you. After all those times you fantasized about him, I'm the one that ended up with him and the best part is you can't do anything about it." Sheri's father and stepmother had been alerted about what was happening and made their way out of the house and through the yard where they were.
"YOUR WRONG DAWNY I CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT," Sheri said and everyone watched in horror as her fists burst with flames that didn't burn her.
"I KNEW IT, YOU'RE A FREAK JUST LIKE THOSE ONES THEY TALK ABOUT ON THE NEWS. I'M GOING TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOU AND YOU'LL BE SO RUINED THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO SHOW YOUR FACE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN," Sheri struck out with a burst of fire from her hands. Her stepsister immediately fell to the ground and rolled around trying to smother the fire out before she was burned alive. She finally managed to make it to the creek and jumped. When she stood up Sheri froze her to the spot and then made her into an ice sculpture. Sheri came to a conclusion she was going to leave town. She began to make her way towards the house but she was beginning to grow annoyed by her stepmother's frantic yells to defrost her daughter so she finally froze her as well into an ice sculpture.
"Sheri where are you going, I'm sorry, please don't leave," Jason said as he ran up to stop her but she only turned around and punched him square in the face and he passed out from hard impact. She walked up to the house grabbed her bags and threw everything she owned in them while the whole time her father was trying to convince her not to leave as well and that they would come to get over it but she had made her decision. She was leaving and she wasn't ever coming back. Her father grabbed her arm to try and stop her from heading out the house with her bags but she only froze him as well. She threw her stuff in the car and then headed back in and began to rummage through their stuff trying to find any kind of cash she can. She finally left the house with about six hundred dollars in her pocket and with about twenty-five cents change.
She climbed into her silver Tracker and pulled out her keys and started the ignition and sped out of there. She never even looked back. She drove to the nearest highway and started north from her home state, Tennessee, and soon ended up in West Chester, Pennsylvania at a bar.
She was now still in West Chester at that bar relaxing from the long drive. She had stopped a lot on the way up to this point to enjoy some sights and relax one night at a very cheap hotel. Sheri was heading to Boston where she had just heard recently on the news that it was still giving out the cure. She hadn't gone the first time for two reasons, 1 she had liked her powers and at the time no one had knew about them, and 2 the whole fiasco with Magneto. Sheri was going to drive strait through the night today and hopefully reach Boston tomorrow. Sheri finished off her glass of water and got up and began heading out the door but was stopped by some drunken man.
"Hey darling want to have some fun," he asked in a slurred voice.
"Want a broken nose," Sheri said yanking her arm from the man's gigantic hand but soon she found a couple of his friends around her as well. They began to harass her. She yelled for them to leave her alone but they didn't. She thanked the lord that someone had stepped in and stood up for her.
"I think the kid said she wanted to be left alone," a guy said with a weird hair cut and sideburns.
"And what are you going to do about it if we don't," the man asked.
"You do it and you'll find out," the guy that was sticking up for her said. The other men just glared at him and walked away.
"That's what I thought," the guy said turning around to look at Sheri and asked, "Are you okay kid." Sheri nodded and said, "Thanks for sticking up for me, I'm…" Sheri stopped for a moment and realized that last night she had seen herself on the news as a runway and no doubt this guy could have seen it as well so she came up with her nickname, "I'm Hera."
"Weird name where did you pick that up," he asked. Sheri felt a sharp emotional pain as she remembered that that was what Jason had called her for her mutant name saying it fit well with her powers, sort of. She never found it to be.
"An old friend, it's a nickname, I don't like my real name. What's yours," Sheri asked.
"The name's Logon," he said as he sat back down in a chair and shook her hand. Logon looked the kid over and he couldn't help but think he had seen her somewhere before. She had light brown hair that went to her mid back with different brown colored highlights in it. She had peach colored skin and bright red lips that seemed natural. She seemed to be about Rogues height and size. She was wearing a pair of tight blue jean pants with a long, yet tight black Linkin park t-shirt, and she was also wearing a short black leather jacket. She also had on a pair of black-heeled boots.
"Well thanks again I better be going," Sheri said and headed out the door and towards her car. She got in and turned her car on. She put on her seat belt and then drove out of there without knowing someone was following her. When she reached a stop sign she stopped and looked in the rear view mirror to see a black car with tinted windows. She raised an eyebrow but shook it off and just leaned over and put in a CD with different songs she had on her computer that she had burned off onto it. She flipped through it and soon found her song, 'Bitch- by Meredith Brooks.' She began to turn her car left and soon looked back in the rear view mirror to find that same person following her and she once again shrugged it off again and to pass the time by she began to sing to the song that was playing on her radio.
"I hate the world today
You're so good to me
I know but I can't change
Tried to tell you but you look at me like maybe I'm an angel
Underneath
Innocent and sweet
Yesterday I cried
You must have been relieved to see the softer side
I can understand how you'd be so confused
I don't envy you
I'm a little bit of everything
All rolled into one
I'm a bitch, I'm lover
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I'm your health, I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way
So take me as I am
This may mean you'll have to be a stronger man
Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous
And I'm going to extremes
Tomorrow I will change
And today won't mean a thing
I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I'm your health, I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way
Just when you think you've got me figured out
The season's already changing
I think it's cool ya do what you do
And don't try to save me
I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I'm your health, I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way
I'm a bitch, I'm a tease
I'm a goddess on my knees
When you hurt, when you suffer
I'm your angel undercover
I've been numbed, I'm revived
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way
Ending in long music."
Sheri looked behind her again and found they were still right behind her. 'Now this is becoming ridiculous, no one will go this far and long behind me,' Sheri thought as she kept glancing behind her. She was about to pull the boldest moves she had ever done in her life. She turned the wheel all the way around and the car did the sharpest U turn it could do and then she sped off down the road and as she pass the black car she still found she couldn't see into the tinted windows but when she got far enough away from that car it did the same and her eyes almost fell out of their sockets. So they were following her.
"Shit," she mumbled under her breath and began to speed up and only found them doing the same. She looked down and made sure she had her seat belt on and then stopped right then and there. She was thrown forward but not far enough to hit the windshield or the steering wheel. She sat there for a second and rubbed her neck. She knew she had to have gotten whiplash from that but it was about to be worth it as she looked in her rear view mirror to see the black car pulling up. She undid her seat belt and then opened the door roughly and got out with a super pissed off expression.
"What in the hell is your deal," Sheri yelled as all four car doors opened. She watched as a naked woman who had red hair and blue skin all over got out of the passenger's side and smirked at her. She then looked at the driver's side and saw a boy about her age getting out. He had blond hair and a cocky smile on his face as well. Behind those two were two other people were. One was a girl with a tattoo on her face and another was a big guy that looked like he had a rock helmet on his head. Sheri knew she was in trouble now and more importantly these were mutants.
"I see you finally caught on," the blond headed boy asked.
"What are you doing following me," Sheri said with one hand on her hip.
"Doing our Job, we're here to get you and take you to Magneto," the blue girl said.
"Then you'll have to take me down in a fight," Isis said as flames danced across her hands. The blond kid smirked and said, "That's fine with me." He pulled out a lighter and flipped it open. In no time flames were dancing across his hands as well.
"To bad you can't create fire like I can Hun," Sheri said and threw her hand out and a blazing fire hit their car and it burst into flames.
"Magneto told you John not to destroy his car," the blue girl yelled.
"Yeah well it's her fault not mine," he said. Sheri was about to jump in her car but apparently the girl with the tattoo had the power over speed and she got behind her before she could even reach it and threw Sheri to the ground. Sheri slowly rose up and looked in time to see that John guy coming her way. She used her powers over earth to make the earth under his feet come up and encase in rock so he couldn't move. Sheri stood up and stared in completely shock as that one huge guy ran at her.
"Oh shit," Sheri said and quickly used her powers over air to fly herself out of the way. She hovered in the air and looked down at him and smirked as she said, "You can't reach me if I'm up here." John smirked underneath her and said, "he can't but I can, if you haven't forgot I still have my hands free." She watched in horror as a fireball was thrown at her. It hit her square in the chest and she was thrown not to far away. She got up and looked down at her shirt to find most of it singed and her bra was showing. She groaned in frustration and looked at him and glared and said, "You'll pay for that." She balled her hands into fists and struck them against the road and immediately a huge wave of earth was sent toward them and even more her car. She stopped it before it hit her car and sighed in relief and also watched as they all hit the ground hard. About that time she heard motorcycle coming from down the road. She waved whomever it was down and they stopped before the guys who were attacking her could get up. Unfortunately she found the person to be that Logon guy. He stared at her for a second, probably because her shirt was singed and you could see her black bra, and then said, "What's going on."
"Those, people are attacking me," Sheri said and Logon stopped the bike and got off. He had looked at them and said, "So you're attacking innocent people again." They only glared at him and then ran off toward the woods but before they left that John kid yelled over his shoulder, "We'll be back for you girly."
"I'll be counting on it Pyro," for a second the guys face seemed shocked but he quickly replaced it with a face of anger and ran off.
"You alright kid, did they hurt you," Logon asked looking back at her.
"I'm fine, other than having my shirt being burned and getting thrown around, I'm once again perfectly fine," Sheri said smiling.
"Um, why were they after you," Logon asked as they walked back over to her car that was still as it was unlike the black car that was burning.
"How the hell would I know but I do remember them saying something about Magneto wanting me though," Logon's eyes went wide and said, "You sure they said Magneto."
"Yeah, why, do you know him or something," Sheri asked.
"I do, I think you should come with me. If they were sent by Magneto then you're in danger," Logon said.
"Alright can you hold on a second I have to change my shirt? Damn I'm going to kill that guy if I get my hands on him again he completely ruined it," Sheri said as she got in her backseat of the car and began to rummage through a bag. Soon she pulled out a shirt and then closed the door that also had tinted windows and began to change. When she came out she was wearing another black shirt only this had the Disney character Tinker Bell on it in pink sparkles.
"You like black don't you," Logon asked. Sheri nodded and then said, "My least favorite color is pink but the only reason I got this shirt is because it had Tinker Bell on it with a pissed off expression and it was sort of black." Sheri shut her door and then opened the driver's side door. Logon got on his bike and yelled at her to follow him as she got in. She nodded and told him she would do so. After she started the car he slowly began to drive down the road so she could keep up. After a while of following him she soon found herself traveling on a back road. After a little longer she was driving through the gates of some place called, 'Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters,' or something like that.
I hope you liked it because I worked hard on it. I've been writing this a long time and I've actually already finished so heads up, I'm going to be putting a chapter up everyday at the most. Oh and if you don't like this story I don't really care but please do not flame me, keep those bad opinions to yourself because I'm not always in the mood to deal with them.