Sup ppl, weeeell, um yeah, I like Rieju, he's a freak!!!!!! And this chappy's gonna be longer than the last one ^ - ~!!!!!
Burmese Bombshell, Siberian Silhouette: Predators of Fire and Ice
By: ME!!!!!!!!! THAT'S RIGHT, ME!!!!!!!!!!
Rieju locked the door to his room immediately after getting in and stripped off his simple white T-shirt and blue jeans, kicked off his boots, a gift from a former Russian army operative, and plopped on the bed in just his boxers. He stretched out on the bed, arched his back, and closed his eyes. He was only asleep for a few minutes before he was jolted from his sleep as he heard his sister scream from down the hall in one of her usual fits.
He growled and pressed a pillow over his face. Ever since they were little, she had never been able to control her emotions, when she wanted something, she got it, if she was the least bit upset, she'd cry until she fell asleep, and when she was mad, well, you knew it very, very well. It wasn't that she was spoiled, she just didn't know how to keep anything inside, she said what was on her mind and screamed at the slightest provocation. And she kept trying to eat people that she didn't like, which wasn't good either. She could never understand how he could always be cool, calm, and collected when she was screaming and hissing in the same situation. Genetics, he supposed.
He tossed the pillow to the side and sat up, not going to be able to go to sleep now, he didn't have Ieisha's kittenish ability of falling asleep whenever, he had lost that a long time ago. He looked around the room, now noticing the door to the closet, the wooden desk and chair, and that his bed clothes were a dark green.
He stood up and noticed the floor length mirror to the right of the bed and quickly fixed his hair from lying down and put it in a loose ponytail. He put his hands on his hips and tilted his head to the side and sighed. The stripes were a nice break from the complete white of his skin, but if only they seemed more natural, like Ieisha's did. It looked like they were painted on him, or tattooed rather than they had sprung up on their own.
He remembered the intense itching that had started soon after their 10th birthday, which continued for about 2 months before their skin started breaking out in the stripe-like rashes that eventually darkened to black and wouldn't go away. After that, their canines on top and bottom fell out and longer, more pronounced, sharper ones grew in.
He ran a hand over his stomach and smiled, they might not seem natural, but it did look…cool that the stripes also framed his abdominal muscles. He then frowned when he remembered when he and his sister, being completely comfortable with each other, had stripped down to nothing to go swimming in the freezing river by their home. She had laughed when she had seen that the rash had covered his entire body, and he now had stripes…everywhere.
He shrugged; it was six years ago. It didn't matter anymore.
He almost jumped when he a soft growling sound in his room then chuckled when he noticed it was only his stomach. He patted it and pulled on his clothes to go see if he could find the kitchen somewhere in the huge place that was now his home.
"I svear to you! She said she vas going to eat me!"
Rogue and Jean rolled their eyes again, "Yeah right Kurt, Ah don't think she'd actually try to eat you. Ah don't know if you'd even taste good."
Jean nodded and took a bite of the pizza that they had ordered after they had met their new classmates, "Yeah, Kurt, you actually think she'd want to eat you?"
They all jumped as they heard someone burst out laughing towards the kitchen door, and they all tensed to see that guy, Rieju, holding his stomach and laughing his head off, it would have been fine if only his teeth weren't showing like that...
He chuckled as his laughter died down, and almost started again at the looks on their faces, 'Who knew that Americans were so frightened of a few teeth?', "I am sorry, but you were talking about Ieisha, no?"
Kurt nodded, "How could you tell?"
He shrugged and smiled, more careful to keep his upper fangs hidden, "You vere talking about somevun trying to eat you. Ieisha has a bad habit of trying to do just that."
Jean's eyes grew very wide, "You…you mean she's actually eaten someone?"
He shook his head, "No, I vas there to stop here each time, but she did try her best to take at least a chunk out of them."
Rogue smiled, "Well, she sounds like fun. There's pizza on the counter to your right if you're interested."
He arched a brow, "Pizza?"
"You're kidding right?"
He shook his head, "No, I've neva heard of…pi…?"
Kurt shook his head, completely amused, "Pizza, it is a circular dish made out of bread, cheese, and tomato sauce, it also usually has toppings like meat on them."
Rieju looked interested, "Meat?"
Kurt nodded and pushed him towards one of the kitchen tables, between Jean and Rogue, and set a plate with a piece of pepperoni pizza on it, "This is pepperoni, try it."
He just looked at it.
Rogue nudged him with her elbow, "Go ahead, it won't bite ya."
"But how?"
Jean demonstrated by picking her piece and took a bite, "Like that."
He gingerly picked up his piece and took a bite, chewing slowly.
All three leaned in to see his reaction, then back when he swallowed saying, "This is good."
They let him try the other two kinds, Hawaiian and combination before Jean asked, "Um…Rieju?"
He looked at her and she almost blushed from the warmth in his eyes that seemed to always be there because of the coloring, "Yes?"
"Is your coloring natural?"
"Vhy do you ask?"
She looked at Kurt and said, "He said that your sister said that people from you come from would change their appearance to emulate gods and animals and creatures they felt they had a connection to, is that true?"
He shrugged his shoulders and took another bite of combination, "Yes, many of the people we associated with did change how they looked to get the power or spirit of the thing they worshipped." He looked at Kurt, "I see why she brought it up, you look like Vasili."
Kurt sat down at the table, "Who is that?"
"Somevun ve once vorked for. He had his entire body tattooed a similar blue and had his hands and face surgically altered to look like some demon he vorshipped in this old book that he alvays kept around."
Rogue frowned, "Y'all used to work for someone like that?"
He shrugged again, "Our real mutant traits didn't show until ve vere ten. After ve got the stripes and the pronounced canines, our neighbors started to be vary of us, but our mutha kept them from being cruel to us. Vhen she died soon after, ve knew ve couldn't stay there any more so ve vent to Moscow."
Kurt almost choked on his Pizza, he had been to Moscow, "You vent to Moscow on your own vhen you vere ten?!"
He shrugged again, "It vasn't like ve had a choice. After ve had been there for few days, ve vere approached by Vasili and Clay, his right-hand-man. Clay is a mutant who can mold his features and body into vhateva shape he vants, but he can alvays go back to his real form at vill. They came to us and asked if ve vere interested in vorking with them in their underground organization dealing vith everything from assassination to money laundering. They had heard about us because ve had killed two of their people already in their territory and they had to meet the two tiger children vith the pover to kill vun of their best men."
They all looked at him with shocked expressions, and he shrugged once again knowing the reason, "They vere going to try to rape Ieisha, vhat do you expect?"
They looked back at the table and he continued, "Ve accepted, after that-"
"They tried to put me into prostitution, and they started training him to be vun of their chief assassins for vhen he got older."
They all turned around to see Ieisha, now noticing that she wore the same white T-shirt, blue jeans, and boots as her brother, leaning against the counter and eating some pizza. Rieju was the only who had known she was there from when she had walked in about a minute before.
Rogue gasped now that she had gotten over her surprise at her sudden appearance, "They put a ten year old girl in prostitution?!"
She smiled and took another bite of pizza, "I said tried. It is kind of hard to rape a little girl when every time you go to touch her she takes a bite out of you. Some of them, before they got it through their thick heads that I vasn't going to cooperate, left the brothel minus a very important part."
The rest of them, especially Kurt, looked to Rieju to see if she was only kidding, and swallowed hard when he only smiled, confirming what she had said.
Kurt laughed nervously, that "important part" was something he liked quite a bit, "Um…vell…"
Ieisha laughed softly and took pity on him, "Ok, enough about that, I don't think that he could take anymore of story time, Rieju."
He smiled and was about to say something when Jean closed her eyes and put a hand to her forehead, "Ok, will do Professor," she looked to Rieju, then to Ieisha. "The Professor said that we should take Scott's car and go shopping for you two, but that you two should go see him first."
Rieju and Ieisha shrugged, and went to find the Professor's office again.
It took about twenty minutes, but they were soon there.
Rieju opened the door and they walked in, "You vanted to speak vith us?"
Prof. Xavier nodded and motioned for them to sit down, and they noticed two very strange looking watches on his desk, "Yes, it has come to my attention that you have no luggage with you, so I have arranged for Jean, Scott, and Rogue to take you shopping. These are…" He knew that the word would be lost on them, so he decided to explain it instead of giving them another strange term to get familiar with, "…watches that will be used to place a hologram, a fake image over you. Others will not be able to tell that it is a false image, so you can walk around as you wish. Please, put them on. The black one is yours, Rieju, and the golden one is yours Ieisha."
They both picked theirs up and fastened them on their left wrists, Ieisha looked hers over confused, "How does it vork?"
Prof. Xavier pointed to the small, silver button on the side of it and they both pushed it.
They looked the same, but without the stripes on their skin and in their hair, split pupils, the pronounced canines, and extreme coloring. Rieju was more natural colored, but still pale, had straight long white hair, and light, light brown eyes. Ieisha was a good four shades lighter, now with what would be seemed to be a healthy tan, with straight long golden hair, with some brown in it to look more natural, and bright light gray eyes.
They both looked to the mirror that the Professor kept in his office and were completely shocked, they looked human for the first time in their lives! They both looked themselves over, then the other, laughing at how…normal they looked.
The Professor smiled, seeing the way the siblings acted with each other, "I'm glad you're pleased with my settings. You can change how you look with the other buttons and dials, and if you ever need help with it, Kurt has one as well and I'm sure he would be more than happy to help you."
They gave him very grateful good-byes and hurried off to show their new looks to the others. The Professor was just happy to show them another way of looking at themselves, and wasn't the least bit worried because he could still feel the pride that they felt from being who and what they were.
Um yeah, good? Bad? Should I just bang my head against the wall til I forget how to type? Lemme know!!!!!!!