Memories

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English is not my native language and there might be some grammatical faults! Sorry about that.

Chapter 4

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It didn't take long for them all to become completely wild. Raven had been the one to turn on the music before she had dragged Marie up and started dancing with her. The others had started to join in quickly afterwards, all of them messing around and simply having fun.

Marie had never been to a party nor had she ever in her life danced. However, Raven was quick to learn her how to and it hadn't taken her long before she could swing her hips around as if she had danced her entire life.

Hank was hanging on the chandelier, using his mutant feet, laughing as well. He had dropped his glasses a couple of times but Raven had, with some flirty looks and seducing moves, put them back on for him.

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At the moment, Raven and Marie were jumping up and down in the couch, Raven holding a beer in her hand, the both of them having the time of their lives. Angel was flying around, dancing in the air while Alex and Banshee were throwing things at Darwin in order to try and break through his skin that he had turned into something similar to a rock surface.

"What are you doing!?" said a voice that Marie recognized, making everybody stop doing what they were doing, turning around towards the wall where the window once had been.

Both Raven and Marie quickly jumped down onto the floor, a shocked look on their faces. Hank jumped down as well, adjusting his glasses before looking at Moira, Charles and Erik who were standing outside, looking at them.

Moira looked rather furious, her hands on her hips while Erik and Charles had unreadable looks on their faces.

"Who destroyed the statue?" asked Moira, pointing back at it.

"It was Alex," said Hank, making Alex glare over at him.

"You should be thankful. It wasn't exactly a good looking statue," said Marie before putting her hand over her mouth.

A small smirk appeared on Erik's lips as he looked at Marie. He didn't seem as angry as Moira was, at least.

"No! Havok! We have to call him Havok, that's his name now," said Raven. "And we were thinking…"

Marie, bit her lip as Raven walked towards the three of them, knowing that Raven had had too many beers already.

"You should be Professor X," said Raven, pointing at Charles who didn't seem all that impressed with his new name. "And you should be Magneto. Marie came up with that name."

Again, Erik looked over at Marie with yet another small smirk. Marie simply looked down at the floor in front of her.

"Exceptional," said Erik before looking back at Raven, the smirk gone.

Erik and Moira walked away, Moira looking rather angry while Erik and Charles looked slightly disappointed, Charles more than Erik.

"I expect more from you," said Charles, looking at all of them before following Moira and Erik.

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Marie woke up that morning with a slight headache. She hadn't had any kind of drink that had had alcohol in it the evening before which only made it clear to Marie that it was because of the vision that she had had.

With a groan, she sat up in her bed, stretching her back out. A soft knock was heard on her door before it was opened, revealing Raven with a soft smile.

"Hey… sorry, I thought you would be awake already," said Raven, taking a step back into the hallway again.

"No, no. That's okay, you can come in," said Marie, smiling as she threw her sheets off of her, revealing her pajamas which were an old fashioned looking, silk nightgown. "What time is it?"

"Half past twelve," said Raven, chuckling slightly at the shocked expression on Marie's face. "We were up quite late yesterday."

"Yeah… I suppose so," said Marie as she sat at the edge of her bed.

Raven closed the door behind her and sat down on the bed next to Marie.

"Sorry for… you know… yesterday," said Raven, looking down at her hands.

"Why are you apologizing?" asked Marie, her eyes on Raven.

"It was me who started it all. I turned the music on," said Raven.

"So? Turning music on isn't a crime. We all did what we wanted ourselves. If we hadn't wanted to have fun, then we could've walked away," said Marie, putting her hand on Raven's arm. "You have nothing to apologize for. Besides, I had the time of my life! I've never had that much fun ever!"

"Really? It wasn't anything special, you know," said Raven, finally looking at Marie.

"I know," said Marie, nodding. "It was for me, though. I've lived in a small cottage with my sister the majority of my life. I've barely had anyone to talk to besides her. The few times that I went with her to town was like an adventure for me. Yesterday was… just, wow!"

Raven laughed slightly. "Really? Well, for someone who's barely had any human contact their entire life, you're a really nice person. And a really nice friend."

"Thanks," said Marie, smiling softly at Raven. "It was a long time ago that I had a friend."

"I'm honored to be your first in a long time," said Raven, chuckling along with Marie.

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It didn't take long for the sun to go down again. Marie had wasted the entire day on waiting for Charles to start to help her with getting her powers back. However, he hadn't come. When she went down to eat dinner, it had been revealed to her that Charles, Eric and Moira along with some other CIA agents had been assigned a small secret mission. They hadn't told anyone else about it except for Raven who had been the one to tell Marie.

In the evening, Marie and the others had gathered in the same room again. However, this time they had fun in a more quiet way. Darwin and Alex were playing a flipper game that some of the CIA agents had put in the room for them while the rest simply sat on the couches talking.

"Oh, I didn't know the circus was in town," said a voice from the other side of the new window. Two agents were standing there, looking at them with a smirk on their faces.

Marie looked away from them and stared down at her shoes that almost were touching Hank's shoes.

"Hey, come on honey! Give us a little… uh…" said the agent, talking to Angel, as he used his hands to make it look like he had wings. "No? Go on, let's see the foot," said the agent, turning his attention to Hank instead.

He stood up, an exasperated sigh escaping him as he did.

"Yeah, there it is. Come on, Big Foot, let's go," said the agent as Hank walked towards the window and closed the curtains so that the agents couldn't see them anymore.

"They're just guys being stupid," said Raven as Hank sat down next to Marie again.

"Guys being stupid, I can handle," said Angel, looking at Raven who was sitting next to her. "I've handled that my whole life. But I'd rather have a bunch of guys stare at me with my clothes off then the way these ones stare at me."

Marie looked up at Angel.

"At us," said Raven.

The room went quiet again. Marie felt her happy spirit that she had had yesterday disappear as she thought about what Angel had said. They did look differently at them, the other CIA agents. Marie didn't like it. After all, they were still people. Just with some extra-

A sudden pain in her head made her gasp slightly and grab her head, losing the trail of thought that she had had before.

"Marie?" asked Hank, putting a hand on Marie's arm, worry in his voice.

"I'm fine… It's just… gosh, this light is so bright," said Marie as she tried to open her eyes but couldn't as every light in the room suddenly seemed to be a thousand times brighter.

"Marie, are you sure you're okay?" asked Banshee who was sitting on the other side of Marie.

"Yeah… it's… starting to go away," said Marie, as she finally could open her eyes again, though she still had to blink a lot.

"What happened?" asked Raven as Marie finally could see normally again.

Hank's hand was still on her arm, him still looking at her with worry in his eyes. Suddenly, Marie grabbed Hank's hand that was placed on her arm at the same time that she gasped again. Her eyes rolled back into her skull as she all of a sudden saw how multiple bodies fell to the ground, their screams filling her head. She started shaking slightly right before her eyes rolled back again, leaving her breathless and coughing.

"Jesus…" said Banshee, looking at Marie with confused eyes.

The room went quiet as Marie stopped coughing and an odd thud was heard. As if someone dropped something large on the ground.

Marie still had a hold on Hank's hand as she slowly turned her head towards the window.

"There's something happening," whispered Marie, Hank tightening the hold on her hand. "I saw it."

"That was a vision?" asked Banshee, earning a glare from Raven.

Another thud was heard, this time it was closer to the room that the young mutants were in.

"What was that?" asked Darwin, hearing it as well. "Something doesn't feel right."

Everybody looked at the window, not being able to see anything but the green colored curtains. As yet another thud was heard, Hank and Marie stood up. Darwin walked over to the curtains and quickly opened them, the rest of the group following him to the window, Hank and Marie still holding each other's hands for no particular reason.

They suddenly saw something up in the sky, making Marie put a hand over her mouth as she almost immediately realized what it was as she recalled it from her vision.

"What is that?" asked Darwin, pointing up to the moon.

Two men were hovering in the air, one holding the other. Suddenly, one of them disappeared which made the second one fall down to the ground with a thud. The same thud that they had heard before they had walked over to the window.

All of them jumped as the man landed close by the window. Suddenly, multiple men started falling all around the place. Hank let go of Marie and put his hand on Raven's arm, the six of them still looking out through the window.

A couple of agents ran towards their window, ordering them to step back. They all had guns in their hands and looked about ready to kill anyone that came into the garden.

"We're under attack!" informed one of the men before a man with red skin and a tail appeared in front of him, grabbing the agent by his t-shirt's collar, and then disappeared again together with the agent.

The agents started shooting all over the place as the red looking man appeared and disappeared all over the place. The window broke, again, as the man appeared by the side of one of the agents, grabbing his arm and making him shoot the window. The group of mutants inside had taken cover behind one of the couches as it happened.

On the other side of the room, there was another window where the fish tank was located. On that side, the sound of whirling wind was heard. Outside, there was a huge tornado looking thing, blowing away all the agents that at first had tried to fight it only to then run away from it. At the end of the wind, a man was standing, holding his arms up. All of the wind came from his fingertips, something that normally would've intrigued everyone. Though, not when that power was killing agents.

"Stay here my ass! Let's go!" exclaimed Darwin as he noticed how the red skinned man currently was slaying the agents with only a sword as his weapon and his tail, still using his teleportation powers whenever he needed to.

The six of them stood up and were about to run towards the door in an attempt to get out of there. However, they didn't really succeed in getting all that far as the agents stopped them, telling them to get back again.

"We can help!" exclaimed Darwin as he and the others tried to push past the agents.

A sudden explosion coming from the other side of the hall made them stop to try to push past the agents. Instead, the six mutants ran back into the room.

They could only watch as the red skinned man used his swords, teleportation skills and tail to kill the agents outside of their window. On the other side, the man with the wind powers already had killed all of the agents he could reach. He used the last survivor to break the window, sending him flying through it and making him land in front of Marie and the others, cuts all over his face and no indication of that he had survived.

The man with the wind powers, walked inside of the room, stepping over the glass while straightening out his suit. On the other side, the red skinned man teleported inside so that he was standing behind the group of young mutants, a smirk on his face.

The door that the group had just ran through opened and showed yet another man, an odd looking helmet on his head. They were surrounded.

Marie quickly wished for Charles or Erik to come and help them, however, she knew that that was impossible since the both of them were in Russia, doing God knows what.

"Where's the telepath?" asked the man with the helmet on, looking over at the red skinned man.

"Not here," replied the man with a Russian accent, before looking back at Marie and the others.

"Too bad…Well, at least I can take this silly thing off," said the man, before taking the helmet off and smiling at the young mutants again.

Marie immediately recognized the man from one of her visions. In fact, this had been the man that Moira had been looking at during her vision about her where she had been sitting in a car.

"Good evening," said the man, running a hand through his hair as he said this. "My name is Sabastian Shaw. And I am not here to hurt you."

"Freeze!" said the voice of an agent outside of the window close to the red skinned man.

"Azazel," said Shaw, not looking away from Marie and the others as the red skinned man teleported back out and swiftly killed the man, using his sword again.

"My friends, there's a revolution coming," said Shaw as he handed the helmet to the man in the grey suit while walking towards them, Azazel teleporting back inside the room. "When mankind discovers who we are, what we can do, each of us will face a choice. Being slaved… or rise up to rule."

This was the man that the CIA was fighting against. This was the man that rather would kill all the humans than make them see that mutants indeed weren't different. Marie could only look at him with disgust.

"Choose freely but know that if you are not with us then by definition you are… against us," said Shaw, looking at Marie who still looked at him with disgust. "So… you can stay and fight for the people who hate and fear you or you can join me and live like kings... and queens."

Shaw put his hand out, looking all over at the young mutants. Marie knew that no one would join him. Why would they? These people were all people who knew better than to want to kill all of mankind in order to be able to be who they were.

However, Marie was wrong. Angel placed her hand in Shaw's hand before walking away from the group hand in hand with Shaw.

"Angel?" asked Marie.

"Are you kidding me?" asked Banshee.

"Come on. We don't belong here," said Angel as she stopped and turned towards the group again, her hand still in Shaw's. "And that's nothing to be ashamed off."

Darwin put his hand out to Angel again, hoping she would rethink her decision and take his hand instead. However, she simply turned her back at them and followed Shaw over to Azazel.

"We have to do something…" whispered Raven.

They watched Shaw, Azazel, the man in the grey suit and Angel walk out through the broken window only to stop as they reached the middle of the garden. Darwin turned to Alex and whispered something to him. Marie didn't hear what but she figured it was a plan since Alex nodded his head before Darwin turned around again and followed Shaw and the others.

"Stop," said Darwin. "I'm coming with you."

Shaw smiled and walked forwards slightly as to greet Darwin into their group. "Good choice. So tell me about your mutation."

"Well, I adapt to survive. So, I guess… I'm coming with you," said Darwin.

"I like that," said Shaw, not noticing how the other young mutants lined up inside the room.

Darwin walked to stand next to Angel, taking her hand as the others also took each other's hands.

As soon as he had turned back towards the room he exclaimed: "Alex!"

Everyone inside the room, except for Alex jumped out of the way as red lightening appeared around him, which he quickly shot right at Shaw. Darwin turned his skin into rock again, placing himself in front of Angel to protect her from the lightening. However, nothing happened. As Marie and the others looked up again, they saw the red light enter Shaw instead of hurting him, which confused them a lot. Until, they realized that that was what his mutation was.

"Protecting your fellow mutants?" said Shaw, cocking his head to the side, sounding rather annoyed. "It's a noble gesture… Feels good," said Shaw before turning himself towards Darwin who tried to punch him.

Shaw blocked his punch and took a grip on Darwin's jaw, a red light appearing around his other hand.

"Adapt to this," said Shaw before placing his hand on Darwin's now open mouth as he pushed the energy that Alex had sent to Shaw down Darwin's throat.

Shaw quickly placed himself in the line again, taking Azazel's and Angel's hands before they all teleported away, leaving Darwin standing there, coughing slightly.

"Darwin?" asked Marie as they all stood up and walked to stand next to Alex.

He changed himself into silver right before a red light started cracking the silver from the inside. Darwin looked over at them and raised a hand. Why he did that, Marie didn't really know for sure. Maybe because he wanted help. Or maybe because he was telling them to stand back for a bright light erupted from him and soon, Darwin was nothing but a pile of ash.

Thanks for reading!

Don't know if this chapter was any good… It's a bit hard to write about action filled stuff. But, I did my best! (I hope)

Next chapter will have much more Erik/Marie, which I'm excited to write about! :D