Feral's Worst Nightmare Chapter 2
Real World – Mindscape/Inner World.
The fighting between the four for quite a while as Kurt, Kitty, Rogue and Storm were outside the closed Danger Room door, hoping that there would still be a Danger Room if they were ever finished. They were soon joined by Beast, who was hearing the ruckus from his lab, which was a ways away from the Danger Room and Jean who was just as sick as almost everyone else of their constant fighting.
Dairou sneaks out of the training area, leaving the three inside. He was wondering how to get rid of the Russian, so he could have the other two feral men alone. That's when Jean caught his eye, he didn't care how powerful a telepath she was, his mind wasn't easy to get into.
He smiles as he walks up to Jean "You must be the one I spoke to over the phone the other day." Jean nods "Yes, I'm Jean Grey. Come with me. Have you seen Ororo's garden yet?" Dairou shakes his head "No" as he thinks "Jackpot. If that made Logan-san angry, what I do next will make him erupt like Mt. Fuji." The two go to the garden.
Meanwhile, back in the Danger Room, Remy gets inside and shuts off the simulation, much to Wolverine's disgust as the three look at each other.
Sabretooth takes a head count "1" he says pointing to himself "2" he says pointing to Peter and "3" he says pointing to Logan and growls "Weren't there four of us in here?"
The three now have wide eyes as they yell "DAIROU!" they then leave the danger room to find the other outside, but no Jean and no Dairou. This annoys Logan, as Victor tracks their scents to Ro's garden.
Dairou is exploring the many beautiful, some exotic plants of Ororo's garden, when he hears someone yelling his name in the distance and the direction he just came from and smirks turning his attention to another exotic figure he thought should be in a garden, Jean.
"A beautiful woman like you shouldn't be hanging around a guy like Summers, you know." Dairou says softly in her ear. Jean blushes and replies "Why do you say that?" as Dairou answers still whispering "because I think I love you" He then kisses her lips before she could reply, just then Logan, Sabretooth and Peter were at the door.
The Wolverine's heart sank, in his rage he was about to tackle the shit out of Dairou until he pulls a dagger to Jean's throat. "Buh buh buh" Dairou says as he presses the dagger slightly on the telepath's neck and Logan comes to a stop "Wouldn't want my hand to slip now, Logan. One step closer, any of you, and she dies."
Dairou makes it out of the garden and takes advantage of Logan's anger and his weakness for this particular redhead and calls out to him "Follow me, if you can Wolverine and Sabretooth!"
Just then he bumps into Scott accidentally, subconsciously tightening his grip on Jean's neck. "Dairou?" Scott calls out trying to touch the man, who slashes at him "This must be the boyfriend. Don't follow me or I'll decapitate the girl and send you her head." He says as he knocks her out before tossing her over his shoulder and sprinting out of the mansion into the nearby forest.
"Jean!" Scott calls out as he attempts to chase them but Dairou kicks him in the head swiftly, knocking him unconscious. He then flees into the forests around the area of the mansion. There, he ties her to the trunk of a tree and waits.
Back at the mansion hours later, Scott awakens and attempts to follow Dairou. Only to be stopped by Sabretooth knocking him out again.
"Didja have to hit him so hard, Vic?" Logan says as he calls Hank to take care of him. "Well, how else would we have kept 'im there? He'll go after Dairou and die for something that ain't none of his business in the first place!" Victor argues.
"Good point but what do ya expect when they're so close. They even sleep together." Said Logan "I agree with Dairou on one thing, though. I do not see what she sees in the boy scout."
"You two can go try getting Jean back now, you know?" Hank McCoy informs them "Instead of trying to give my patients brain damage, you should see what Peter wants. He's waiting out there"
The two left the infirmary to find Peter, meanwhile, Jean was just coming to as she found herself tied to a tree and seemed to be asleep as he leaned against the tree.
"I have to get loose, come on, stupid rope." Jean curses herself for the rope not getting loose, as Dairou chuckles at her feeble attempts and looks up at her from where he sat "You're not getting away from me, even if you get loose. But, I have a proposition for you. I chose you because only you can help me."
"Help you with what exactly?" Jean asks. "With something up here..." Dairou looks at her tapping his forehead "My family's rich, I can give you whatever you desire. I hate them more than you."
Jean raises an eyebrow "I thought you had no memory of your family." Dairou shot back "I don't. But it's coming back little by little. I want back a particular memory. Do that and I can tell you something even Sabretooth and Weapon X (Wolverine) never knew...my past."
"Let me go first and I'll think about it." Jean said as Dairou raises a curious eyebrow and pull out his dagger, waving it before her with a smirk planted on his face "Alright, I'll let you keep thinking you're in control, even I have my honor but try to change my thoughts in any way and you'll be out, just as fast." He cuts the rope and sits across from her in lotus position.
"You'd have to guide me, by the way." Dairou adds as he takes deep, calming breaths and Jean freezes giving him a look like he was from another planet, she raises an eyebrow "How am I supposed to guide you through your own mind?"
"You'll see" was his final reply as Jean telepathically transports them into Dairou's mindscape/inner world.
Everything was engulfed in a white light and when it fades, Jean finds herself with Dairou in his inner world, a now abandoned Weapon X facility.
Dairou and Jean find themselves in Dairou's somewhat shattered mindscape. The see a much younger Dairou sitting at a table, busy at work doing one of his many jobs forced on him by his captors, Weapon X. Making medicines to keep the other 'test subjects' alive. At first he felt sorry for them as they were in chains as he wasn't but Sabretooth and Wolverine, his former comrades and friends, would torture him against their own will if he'd show any kind of remorse or humanity to his victims, forcing him to be colder than ice and devoid of emotion, especially happiness. However, since he is a wanted man and police and army has been ordered to kill him on spot if he is found in the outside world, where the powerless humans lived, he had no choice to remain as Weapon X's guinea pig for the perfect mutant weapon, but fortunately he was glad no one there cared for his existence. At this point he was feeling sorrier for Victor Creed than James 'Logan' Howlette or Weapon X as he was to be called now due to their own experience with the program, but that changed when he got a surprise and unscheduled visit by none other than Sabretooth.
Sabretooth smiles at him wickedly as he shows no emotion, since there was nothing that would make him afraid of Sabretooth and he won't be acting like he was afraid, not today...
Jean gasps as young Dairou is in serious pain as a younger Sabretooth holds him off the ground squeezing on his neck just to hear him squeal for mercy, but he refused to scream and not only because his airway was constricted and it was now impossible, but Sabretooth knew his killing intent was rising and felt his daily torture wasn't enough. "Well? Ready to scream for me yet?" Sabretooth smiles wickedly as his nails grew and stabbed into Dairou's neck.
Suddenly, Dairou kicked out, kicking Sabretooth in the stomach, but since he was physically smaller than him and had almost no large muscles, compared to present day, his foot merely bounces off Sabretooth's wash board stomach. Sabretooth pins him to the table "I'll cause you a lot of pain and make you scream for me, kid. One way or another." Sabretooth smirks as he forces Dairou to kiss him hard as Dairou struggles to fight back though it was futile. They were stopped by Wolverine's pained screams echoing through the base, Sabretooth stops and looks away as the scent of his younger half-brother's blood graced his nostrils. His claws change back to fingernails as he drops Dairou, he then smiles back at Dairou and growls "Back to work, kid. We'll finish this later when there are... no interruptions." He laughs as he walks out the door, not caring who heard him, not like they could do anything about it. He was Victor freaking Creed, for crying out loud and anyone who chose to oppose him would find themselves without a head and the people in control of Weapon X would hear nothing of it.
Dairou shuddered as he slowly got back to his feet. Even the test subjects were feeling sorry for him; sure they were tortured and experimented on painfully every day but at least they weren't spending the entire day with the likes of Sabretooth. His presence alone filled them with fear.
Dairou stands at the door as it opens to the sounds of fighting he turns to see Wolverine with a device on his head like the test subject fighting robots, but what surprised him more was the fact that his bone claws were now a glistening silver metal, which under further and secret investigation, he found out was called Adamantium which could cut through almost anything as he cut down robots like they were made of butter. The test subjects continued looking at him, showing an emotion for the first time ever as he walked away to his next job in sadness.
His next job was building the very robots that Wolverine were shredding earlier, but these were bigger, probably meant for Sabretooth Dairou thought, feeling rage again for the first time as a devious grin appeared on his face mirroring that of Sabretooth as he added a few surprise weapons in there for payback against Sabretooth. He intended to show Creed the true monster he'd be dealing with as he used his ability to build anything from nothing with the bullshit Weapon X called 'supplies' that he was given and after hours he finished as the robot looked just like the ones Wolverine fought, plus Dairou's hidden surprise as he intended for this robot only to drastically weaken Creed as he wanted the privilege of killing him himself, but the machine would still beat the shit out of him. He was assigned a guard, usually a more powerful test subject for this task, but this time he got Wolverine, who was writhing in agony across from him but it was quiet now and he didn't even notice him standing beside him staring at him and the work he was doing.
"What did Creed do to you, kid?" Wolverine asks "He's been in a hurry to visit you a lot lately." Dairou only glances at him "I can't tell you that. I don't want to watch him kill you." But Wolverine didn't care as he touched Dairou's shoulder, startling him "You needn't worry, I'm not afraid o' Sabretooth, if he wants you as much as I think he does, he's gonna have to go through me first." Dairou only nods in reply as Wolverine was now by the window looking as night drew closer. It eventually came which signaled it was time for bed.
"You should get some sleep." Wolverine says "I'll keep you company." Dairou makes his way to his room but couldn't help but wonder what Wolverine's plans were, but shaking the thoughts, he got into bed as Wolverine sat on the floor in the darkest corner of the room, writhing in pain. He wasn't loud enough for a normal person's ears to hear, but still there though it wasn't the reason Dairou could not sleep at this hour.
Dairou arose from bed to see Wolverine looking at him in a way he found uncomforting "You okay?" Dairou asks as the feral only nods in reply remaining silent as Dairou went back to trying to fall asleep, when the door suddenly slammed open and Sabretooth stood in the doorway blocking the doorway with a wild smile on his face, seemingly not noticing Wolverine in the room yet.
Victor walks to Dairou's bedside as he pretends to be fast asleep "Good boy. Don't move or I'll take pleasure in slitting your throat." Victor licked his lips as he touches Dairou's shoulder, but he didn't flinch and even though Victor couldn't see it, he was infuriating Dairou as his eye glowed furiously red in the darkness and Wolverine would be lying if he said he wasn't afraid if he was Dairou's target. He took this chance to attack Creed as he was about to climb upon Dairou, tackling him off the bed. "Dairou!" he calls as he attempts to claw Sabretooth to death as Dairou turns to him in shock "Yes?" as he continues to struggle against the much stronger Victor Creed "Get what you can and leave NOW! I'll be right behind you but don't wait for me." Dairou nodded as he got what he could and left.
Suddenly with that thought, Dairou pushes himself and Jean out of his consciousness with surprising mental strength and force, but before she was cast out completely, she was contacted psionic, and seemingly physically by a very strange Dairou, who seems to be aware of her presence in his/their mind and roughly the same in almost every way as Dairou is in the present. The Dairou she came here with had seemingly disappeared and this one desperately wanted back control, before Wolverine and Sabretooth finds them as she watches Sabretooth, Wolverine and Dairou that were part of the memory, frozen in time before Dairou pulls a vial of black liquid from his pocket, which was full of other vials of the same substance, opens it and chugs it with compete disgust of his face at the vile taste.
"Hey, you." The voice of Dairou calls out to Jean, she looks in his direction as he look like he's part of the memory "Who?" she looks around "Me?" she asks in confusion. Dairou looks at her, calm face but pissed off attitude "No, the fuckin' wall." He rubs his head in serious doubt before looking at Jean, who was staring at him oddly "You have to help me get out of here, before Weapon X and Creed finds you!" he falls to his knees begging Jean who replies "But, how? Sabretooth doesn't even remember who you are." Dairou's face becomes firm with anger as his eyes turn a brighter glow of red "Never mention that man's name around me again! Just try to convince him to let you come back here...alone." he snarls as they disappear. Jean wakes up to find the Dairou lookalike staring at her very closely and coming ever closer but before they could touch, Dairou forces her from his mind back to the physical world and her own body.
Jean glares at Dairou as he just looks at her like he's trying to get something out of her "I've helped you, now take me home." She says looking away from him, he tilts his head in slight confusion but remains silent rubbing his chin in thought "She knows something..." he thinks.
"Fine" he says finally "but I know Weapon X will never stop looking for me and will eventually find me if you're with me" Jean looks at him knowing almost instantly that he wasn't joking or planning on letting her go anytime soon "What're you looking for anyway?"
"The Phoenix Force. It's within you, right?" Dairou asks as Jean nods in reply before narrowing her eyes "So, you were sent by those Hellfire Club thugs!"
"Hellfire Club?" Dairou asks with a confused look which quickly turned to an angry glare as he grabs Jean's hand and lifts her off the ground "I work for no one. You got a bounty on your head though, and they'd pay a mightily hefty sum of money if I took you to them alive. Too bad they're a bunch of assholes, which always ends up releasing that monster inside you, intentionally or not, and then turn on me and kill me before losing control of said monster and causing the end of the world...again."
"How do-?" Jean was about to ask a question but Dairou answered before she finished "Like I said, for a bunch of self proclaimed 'geniuses' and 'world changers' they're all a bunch of assholes, almost as big as Weapon X in terms of stupidity, now come on." He gestured to Jean as he puts her down and picks up his stuff (and knick-knacks) and walks down a path through the forest leading to a waterfall "I'm getting too old for this shit." He mutters to himself.
"How old are you anyway?" Jean asks with a raised eyebrow following him carefully as he shrugs "Don't know" he answers nonchalantly "Pretty sure I'm about or almost Sabretooth's age but as you can see I don't age fast. I kept count until I almost ran out of numbers, got bored and stopped, what I do know though is that I'm now possibly even older than Creed is by now." Jean gasps both at Dairou and the magnificent waterfall they came to in amazement.
He then lifts Jean cradle style and walks towards the edge of the cliff side as Jean shook at his touch and the 100+ ft. drop to the bottom. "Away from the edge, please." She tries to persuade him without telepathy (mainly because it won't work anyway) as Dairou smiles and completely ignores her pleas before showing her how steep the edge is, then looks at her "If you don't want to...fall, trust me completely and hold on tight." He says as she shows no response and holds on tighter to him, he chuckles as he jumps over the edge and she screams, even after he lands making a crater in the ground.
"Oh, shut up, will you?" he growls as she stops screaming "we're already on the ground again, so you can stop squeezing me." He them drops her in the water, knocking her back to her senses, then walks to the wall of the cliff where he sat in silence for a while, meditating just to stay calm as to not hurt Dr Grey as she steps out of the water.
Sabretooth and Wolverine eventually come out of the forest on a cliff on the opposite side from where Jean and Dairou were. Dairou's eyes immediately snap open as he stares deeply into Sabretooth's green eyes, knowing almost instantly that he remembers why he should be afraid, no one else noticed but he was almost visibly shaking at the thought of fighting Dairou, who he heard was nicknamed Kaiju for his fearsomeness among other things. He didn't understand it himself, or cared but he knew Dairou's anger was set against him personally as the two scaled the cliff and Dairou watches them, not moving an inch himself before he gets to his feet and stretches, eyes still fixed on Sabretooth.
"You're in the way. This is between me and the wannabe wolfman over here, so get lost." Dairou turns to Wolverine who walks over to Jean "Knock yourself out, bub, but he's mine to kill." He smirks then chuckles before turning to Jean "You alright, Red?" She nodded "Yes, I'm fine, just surprised. I need to get into Dairou's mind; I saw something I think you'd like." She giggles as Logan only rolled his eyes and shakes his head "And what's that?"
Logan drops his mental barriers as he feels Jean enter his mind, immediately he saw the same memories that she saw from Dairou's mind. Logan's mind was racing at what he saw, enough that he wanted to kill Sabretooth now, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for Dairou. Meanwhile, Dairou was pissed and fully intent on shredding Sabretooth like used toilet paper but Creed only laughs and give him the same cruel stare and smile as that horrible day, he froze but it wasn't nearly enough to make him stop, if anything it only pissed him off even more.
"Ooh, I wonder why I ever let you get away from me." Victor sneered as Dairou looked at Jean's relationship with Logan and he had the nerve to touch him, Dairou swings his hand back at Sabretooth, narrowly missing to slash his throat by mere millimeters. He turns to face him and his stare wasn't anywhere near enough to scare Creed but it was enough to make him nervous as his fingernails turned to claws and he noticed a twinge of fear flash momentarily in Dairou's eyes, soon replaced by a rage beyond even his or Wolverine's.
Dairou only said one word as he put his psycho smile on "Kill" he said in a sort of monotone voice before charging at Victor and drawing his swords, they slashed each other good and Dairou didn't get anything serious as he managed to do a number on his opponent. He watched closely as Creed rips off what was left of his shirt, which was in ribbons as Dairou found himself, again intrigued by the feral man's rapid healing which by the looks of it was faster than his other new best friend, Akihiro. He points at the healing wound with an amazement Creed found awkward. Victor tilts his head, showing off his sharpened fangs "Problem?" he asked as Dairou replied "On the contrary, I'm even more excited now that I know you can heal yourself from my attacks, yet you still evade at best you can. Ready for more fun?" Dairou grinned wickedly enough to make Sabretooth hesitant for a moment before he grinned as well "I love my job."
The two charge each other again, as Dairou managed to spin kick him in the jaw and Sabretooth punched him hard in the stomach. The men stop momentarily and Jean saw her chance as she shouts "Now, Logan!" prompting the feral to attack Sabretooth, while Jean taps into the Phoenix's powers and obliterates Dairou's mental barriers and entering his mind alone. Dairou, who was about to walk over and bitch-slap Wolverine, frozen mid-step and didn't budge as did Jean as the Phoenix's aura dissipates around her.
Sabretooth quickly smacked Logan off him and to his shock, and he was really shocked, Jean and Dairou were like living breathing statues, they passed their hands before their faces, no reaction just to make sure they're not hallucinating themselves, until Nightcrawler popped in out of nowhere with Peter, Gambit and Scott, who tackles Sabretooth only to be thrown off.
"Shouldn't you be unconscious?" Sabretooth sneers at Scott, whose eyes began to glow behind his shades "No thanks to you!" He growls as Logan looks at Peter but directed his question to Kurt "Why'd you bring him, elf?" but Kurt only shrugs as Peter answers "The Professor insisted that I came, we need to talk, Wolverine" but Logan looks away from him "No."
Victor gave an annoyed growl and smacks Logan in the head, almost making land face first on the hard ground "Talk to him, Jimmy. NOW or else..." he trailed off looking at Scott crying over Jean...again as Remy chuckles "Remy still can't believe Logan's real name was Jimmy. Heh heh he-" He froze when Logan glared at him and growled before Peter walks away and he follows without a word as the three look on and Victor face palms and shakes his head.
"Well, you just can't stay away from me, can you now Cajun?" Victor folds his arms, tapping a clawed finger on his muscular arm as he looks at Remy turning red like an apple and the blue elf chuckling beside him "Wow, Remy" Kurt smiled "You forgot to mention something with you and Vi—Sabretooth. Wait 'til Rogue hears about this, she'll kill both of you." Sabretooth then walks over to him "Go on, tell her. She's had a history with me in the past, as do you and I can get into your bedrooms easily despite how much I want to slit her roommate's throat." Kurt looks back at him "Why?"
Victor gives him a disgruntled look Why?! He thought and asked "Does that girl ever shut up?" Kurt thought for while before answering "Nope" as Victor nods "Exactly my point. Remind me never to kidnap her again." He turns away as Kurt taps his shoulder and he looks back "But she can't stop talking about how handsome you are and your ripped chest and blah, blah, blah." Kurt rolls his eyes as Victor smiles "So you're saying she's in love with me? Does she think that's a good idea, what if I don't love her? Or maybe I will try to toughen up the tiny blabber-mouthed frail a little." he says with a devious smirk before thinking "Then again, I could just tape it and make Jimmy watch and squirm."
A/N – Next time, Jean vs Dairou inside his own mind, is he really a monster being used against his will or a man and can he really be trusted (NO obviously) R&R.
Warrior-of-Darkness015 out.