Chapter 4
I jerked out of my seat whenever one of the strange people came near. I felt disconnected from my brain, watching this body do things I didn't order it to do. Lifting a scaled and webbed hand was strange enough when I realized it was mine.
Eventually I began to click things together in my mind. I had been 'rescued' by these people, the X-Men they called themselves. An animal had found the facility and alerted these people. The animal was called Wolverine. I was different somehow, than before. I could feel it, but the funny thing was that the difference felt like it had been so long ago, I didn't know what it was. A blue animal called Beast tried to explain that I had been 'surgically altered', but he didn't know the extents of it. I was overwhelmed by all of the information the X-Men were giving me. They hardly talked to me, besides the bald one called Professor X and Hank, but by just being around me, I learned from them.
A short, burly man was heavier than all the others, because he held himself differently. He didn't talk, he just stared at me and the other passengers with obvious disgust.
The other passengers sat congregated in the back by me. They were different too. Different from the X-Men, but similar in a way. Five of them in all, three males and two females. All different from each other. One of the males looked like the woman in the reflection back at the broken place. He had the same multi-pupil eyes, webbed hands and feet, and ragged slits on his neck. I couldn't stop staring at him, he reminded me of someone I knew. He tried talking to me, asking how I was and what I knew about a star. I just looked puzzled at him and turned back to the front.
The two females sat next to me, and were different as could be. One, after trying to talk to me about the star again, finally introduced herself as Vlit Scarfli and the other as Callie Holmes. Callie just sniffed at me as if she couldn't understand why I was there. I just rolled my eyes on instinct. I don't know why I did it, but when I did Vlit looked at me as if she were trying to understand and started whispering with the reflection counterpart.
Callie narrowed her golden eyes and sat in silence for the rest of the trip. She was very little and petite, and looked as if she were only fifteen. Although, the shiny, golden fur that covered her body obviously made her different from normal fifteen year olds. Even worse, wickedly sharp nails painted black completed this shrink wrapped being of dominance.
Vlit was a different person altogether. She had dark skin and whenever she smiled, which was often, you could see the unnaturally sharp teeth filling her mouth. Her back was something to stare at, or more specifically, the wings placed there. They were bat like, the folds of skin connected to sharp talons of bone. I was sure when they were unfolded they looked even more deadly than they did now. Her head was covered in what looked like long fuzz of fur, the woman's fingers long and slender. I guessed her age at about twenty two.
The males were essentially the same, except as males of course. Vlit introduced each of them as Parker (a silvery and larger version of Callie), Xlide (a tall, muscled man with wings on his back. Instead of Vlit's bat wings, he had the softer wings of a bird), and Adam, the reflection's angry counterpart. Adam gave Vlit a nasty glare when she introduced him, as if she had done something bad. I didn't understand much of what they were talking about so I just observed.
Even more interesting, were my rescuers. Beast, the blue animal was a good example of this. There was a similar man like Beast, blue furred, but with three fingers on each hand, a tail, and burning eyes. The weighted man who gave me and the others stares was hairy, but not blue. Black hair covered his arms, the only skin showing besides his stubbly frowning mouth, since he was wearing a blue and yellow costume. A woman with dark skin and white hair kept looking over at us with sympathy and uncertainty while another red haired woman flew the metal contraption. A man with weird sunglasses was doing nothing I could see, since he sat in the front by the red haired woman.
I didn't like these people I'd decided. Too many different emotions to deal with. I didn't like it at all. I didn't know who I was, I didn't know who the X-Men were, and I most definitely didn't know the strange people who kept asking me about stars.