(72 REVIEWS? Wow! I'm really happy! Thank you so much to everyone reading this and sticking with me through it all! All the writers blocks and earthquakes, we still have all these amazing characters for me to write into the story of randomness. But noone has voted on my poll. If you don't vote, your opinion will not be heard!)
(By the way, if anyone cares, I'm still sick, not so happy about that. But I do have holidays! So I should be writing 5 or more hours a day, mind you, I have other stories, but this is the number 1 on my list XD But, GAH! ((It's Rant tiiiiime!)) A person just told me that I'm taking my Psychology class because I think it's "cool" even though 1). I'm possibly the LEAST cool person at my school and 2). I don't want to be cool! I like being me! Oh well, rant over.)

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"Alex? Teddy? Please wake up." Alley shook their shoulders after she woke up again. They were asleep. Or worse.
"Alley. I would like to meet you in person. Please step outside." The same voice that had haunted her drug-fueled sleep called her out, and she felt the urge to obey like she had the last time he had spoken. She wanted to stay in the relative safety of the cell, but she was too curious to not leave.
The light blinded her for a second until her eyes adjusted. She followed a long hallway until she got to a massive wooden door straight out of the dark ages. It opened by itself and she walked in, shaking in her metaphorical boots.
"Ah, Alley. So nice to finally meet you. I am King." A man, very tall and willowy, stepped out into the light of the office like room. Alley could not stop staring at him. He was perfect in everyway. Everything about him was light, from his long, pale blonde hair, which was tied behind him gracefully, to his white on white suit. His eyes were very radiant and grey, with no hint of evil in them, which Alley assumed there would be.
"Why am I here?" She demanded curtly, sudden confidence overtaking her normal shyness around new people.
King laughed. "Oh, if only you knew who I really was, you would be more respectful towards me."
Alley snorted ungracefully. "Who the hell are you? The Queen of England?"
"Oh no, no, no, my dear. I am much older and more powerful than your so-called Monarch." He walked towards her, reached to stroke her face, but it was as if an invisible wall blocked him from her. "You too, then?" He tutted and turned his back on her.
"Me too? What are you on about?"
"I am not able to touch you because you are innocent. I cannot touch innocence or pure souls."
Alley was just staring at the strange man, unable to comprehend the utter bull coming out of his colourless lips. "You're shitting me, aren't you."
King chuckled again. "Not at all, dear Alley. I just need you for your powers right now."
"My powers...?" She began to ask another question, but he was already taking away her shifting powers, leaving her weak and tired. But before she closed her eyes, she saw his true self, and she screamed.

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Aden sat with Corrie as she slowly woke up while Kaitlyn, Freya, Abby and Logan started gearing up to find the missing mutants.
"Aden?" She sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes. "Am I awake this time?"
Aden nodded and helped her sit up. "Damn, I hate when this happens." She muttered sullenly. She got up to check herself in the mirror and started clawing at her hair. "Damn regrowth! I only dyed my hair last week!"
Aden led her back to the couch to sit down. "Your hair's dark brown anyway, so it doesn't look that bad."
She started itching her wrist, where mild eczema had started to grow out of control on her arms, usually when she became stressed or scared. The last few weeks hadn't been kind to any of the mutant teens, with exams and training and such.
"I suppose. Hey, could you be a pal and grab me my moisturizer from my bedroom please?" She grinned at him, attempting to be as cute as possible.
He nodded and got up to leave. "I'll be right back."
"Thanks honey!" She was still scratching when he closed the door to the Professors office.

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"Hello?" DJ opened the door to Xavier mansion slowly, expecting there to be a voice, a person, or anything at all. It was eerily silent, except for a whisper of a voice somewhere in the darkened halls.
"Well, this is strange." Mia knocked on the open door a little louder. Nothing happened except for the distant voices stopping.
The walked in a little further, but Mia felt herself being drawn backwards and suddenly metal was at her throat.
"Who are you?" A gruff voice said. Mia would know that voice anywhere.
"Logan, put me down. It's Mia." She heard he put the claws away and turned to face him. "Long time no see."
He barely smiled, well, he never smiles anyway, but he normally did a little when Mia turned up. "Who's the runt?"
"Logan, this is DJ. DJ, Logan. She's a mutant. And apparently the rest of the students are playing hide 'n' seek?" She looked around hopefully.
"Nope. Everyone's missing, and we've finally got a lockdown on Angie's locket, which Charles put a tracking device in because she was worried."
"Turned out to be useful."
"Yeah, now come on. We need everyone we can get. Kid, what do you do?" He pointed at DJ.
She shurgged. "I can make force fields, disk things and stepping stones with my powers."
He turned to walk towards the garage, expecting them to follow. "Let's go."

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Maleo walked into King's office as Alley hit the floor. He was back in his human form, thankfully for Maleo, or he might have curled up and the ground and cried.
"Ah, Maleo." King's voice radiated calm displeasure at him entering. "Perfect timing. Take this girl and put her with the others."
Maleo picked Alley up and was about to leave then Lira and Nicolette entered.
"I didn't know this is what you were doing with the mutants!" Nicolette raged. "You're putting them into permanent comas because you're taking their powers! Why in the world would you of all beings need simple mutant powers?"
King laughed bitterly. "When they left me to rot in Hell, they took all my power and my gifts. I was left with nothing until a poor little demon girl came along, sick and helpless, who wanted to help me take over Earth." He took Lira's hand and kissed it. She looked about as scared as a worm in the jaws of a bird. "My little Queen of Darkness. Has she ever told you who she really is?" Lira hissed as he started to transform her from a beautiful girl into a black shadow of a human, with black glowing holes for eyes, and rotting teeth as sharp as a sharks.
Nicolette stepped back slightly. "You're really a demon?"
"She's the Demon Queen, straight out of Hell. And I was her king, until she met that insolent lowly elemental demon." He gave Maleo a twisted grin.
He quickly left the scene as Lira looked about ready to kill King and anyone standing close by.

(That probably made about as much sence as any episode of South Park. So... I hope you liked it! Seriously it's getting hard to write because I'm trying to draw it out for as long as possible without making it too boring. It's nor working, is it?)