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Is This a Dream?
Chapter 4 – Stryker
Logan sat opposite Bobby trying to stay as calm as he could. This kid really did want to die. He must do otherwise he would have shut up ages ago.
His attention was ripped from the boy and his senses flared as he heard noises and smelt smells that had not been there before. He tilted his head to the side and held up his hand for the kid to shut up.
The sound of boots hitting if the floor – softly and carefully – and the sound of metal sliding against metal and the smell of paint and men assaulted his alerted senses.
"What is it?"
He gave some kind of reply but was too occupied to really pay attention to what he was saying.
Soldiers.
A horrible, glass breaking scream shocked Marie from her half asleep/half awake state and she curled into a ball and slammed her hands over her ears.
Whoa. What the hell is that? Logan groaned in her head.
Siren.
She recognised that shriek. A young girl had come to the mansion some months ago with the ability to reach unbelievable pitches with her vocal chords - the kind that could shatter glass and cause noses and ears to bleed.
But why was she screaming?
As soon as the noise finally stopped she darted from her bed and raced from the room not even stopping to cover her bare arms and legs.
She stepped into the corridor and found herself surrounded by screaming students racing past her. Everyone was panicking or giving it their best shot anyway.
She dashed down the corridor, the screaming and yelling of the other students ringing through her mind and making her own panic begin to bubble to the surface.
She pulled up quickly when she heard a low sobbing coming from somewhere. She looked around and spotting a table looked under it to see two of the smaller children curled up against each other as far into the wall as they could get.
"Holly, Steph come on," she gestured quickly for them to come out. She couldn't risk touching them with her skin showing.
She heard one of them squeal her name as she straightened up and they came crawling out.
I need to get them to one of the passages.
"Girls come with me,"
She could hear the movement of their small feet behind her as they padded down the corridor. Everyone had been so busy trying to get out the building they all seemed to have headed for the stairs leaving this bit of the mansion abandoned. She finally found the section of corridor she needed and threw her body against one of the panels making up the wall. It gave slightly and hissed to the side. She had never thought that she would have to use any of the passages when the professor had told her about them.
"Get in,"
She watched as the two small girls clambered into the wall and they both turned as soon as she had their attention she told them what to do.
"Now both of you follow the passage until you come out near the trees and run until you come to the houses. Go to the first house you see and tell them that you ran away from school,"
She watched as they both nodded their heads. She knew that they were frightened but she didn't have the time to make them better.
"Whatever you do DO NOT tell them that you are mutants," she stressed. She didn't know what was happening but she couldn't see whatever was happening going on at every school in the country. She watched them run down the passage and slid the panel shut looking around she slid a table in front of it.
She bolted down the corridor at the sound of screaming from the floor down below her.
I really hope that Steph and Holly get away alright.
She needed to find Logan. Logan, Bobby and John FAST.
She turned the corridor.
"Bobby!" she cried when she saw both Bobby and John coming towards her. She heard cries from behind them and turned back the way she had came.
"Come on, this way,"
She spun about to go back the way she had just ran when the decorative window was lit up by a torch from the outside. She could hear the sound of running from the floor below and she could hear a whirling noise. The window suddenly exploded sending glass flying towards them. She screeched and cowered away from the window.
They all turned and made for the stairs running down them swiftly.
Where's Logan?
They ran towards the front door and just as Marie's mind yelled at her that it was a really stupid idea the door burst open.
They stood there, all three of them like animals in the headlights – the torches of the soldiers blaring down on them.
Marie's anger and fright fused together in a second as they stood there – memories of Erik's life flashing through her head – and she quickly turned the key within her head that opened the door to Erik's power.
She reached out and every metallic buzz and field in the building registered in her mind - building a map in her head and making her finger tips tickle and itch.
She quickly found what she was looking for.
She could do nothing with the plastic casing of their lights but the batteries and wires...and guns. She waved her hand a feeling of calm – thanks to Erik - taking over her mind and dragged it from left to right. The weapons and torches went flying from their grip just as she heard a growl from above them.
She stood in shock as she watched Logan make quick work if the four soldiers standing in the door.
She had known this side of Logan existed ever since she had seen his memories but she had never seen it first hand and it was frightening.
Hi guys. Sorry this is so short but I hit a bit of a block but I'll hopefully come up with something fantastic and either add to this one or it will be the next chapter so keep your fingers crossed.
Once again sorry for the wait and rubbishy standard of this chapter.
Anyway feedback is nice as always even if I don't deserve it :)xx.
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Ps. Have started another Rogan "Tale As Old As Ti-Logan!" (Yeah weird title I know but it's all I have for now and the idea just came to me :-))