Disclaimer: I do not own anyone except Vanessa and Karina.
Reviews:
Tolandiel: Thanks for your enthusiasm. I'm glad you enjoy my story.
Cera Kessinger: Thanks for Jubilee's powers. I really needed that, as you will soon see here in this chapter.
SmileyHalo: I believe you won't condone violence, though I, myself, am a pretty violent person. It's not much. In the later chapters, soon I hope, there will be another fight scene. I'll try to make it enjoyable, maybe, and somewhat graphic, since my specialty is description, or soy my friends say.>
wildpiratecelt: Who is the cloaked figure? Well, that will be answered at the end of the story. I'm sorry, but that's what leads into the sequel. Yes! You all heard me right! There will be a sequel. In fact, this is part one of three.
Mistress of Eternity: Me? My secret is to write five chapters first before you put it up and keep working on the rest while you edit and review and all that other stuff. So now you know what I do. That's why I'm really pushing myself to finish the 12th chapter for all of you. I want to keep my regular quota up, so I'm pushing myself. And that was not a measly 6-page chapter! My chapters are usually 5 pages. And as to who the mysterious lady is, well, not yet revealing that.
Dez: Thank you very much, Dez.
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"Shut up!"
"Make me!" A fireball spread in his hand.
"Pyro!"
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"Pyro!" Vanessa stood there, two long, wrapped packages on her back. John nervously flicked his lighter. She grinned evilly. He was still scared of her.
"Hey, John? Do you really like your lighter that much?" She held her left hand out. The shark's mouth wrenched free and snapped at John's hand. He dropped it fast and the lighter returned to normal. The groups of mutants joined Vanessa and powered up. Unbeknown to them, a slight haze surrounded all of them. Vanessa barely spotted a shadow in a hallway nearby, before she had to turn her attention back to John.
"Bitch!" He hurled a stream of fire from his already existing fireball at the girls. Vanessa recoiled, but the fire never reached them. A young girl, a blonde about 12-years-old, held her arms up. A crystal wall sprouted from the linoleum floor. Jubilee took this moment to throw a few sparks at him at his pressure points. John was stunned and stumbled back. The people around them paid no attention to the fighting mutants, almost like they never saw them.
"Just leave us along, John!" Vanessa called to him, but John scooped up his lighter and launched a fireball at her. The dragon on his worn shirt leapt out and swallowed the fireball. The head turned towards Pyro and licked it's lips; he whimpered, standing stock still.
"Now will you leave us alone?" Rogue asked.
"They're coming!" one of the girls hissed. She had split herself to watch the adults. The dragon returned to its home; the crystal wall melted.
Storm and Karina rushed over to them. "What's going on?" Storm asked, but one look at John explained everything.
"Come on, let's go." Karina took some of the younger girls to the exit.
"Girls?" Storm waited. Jubilee sneered and spat at his feet. Kitty and Rogue glanced at each other and gave John a slap on each cheek. Chii snorted. Then she leaned over and held out a silver nail. Slowly, a sharp claw came out and gently scratched his cheek. A small trickle of blood flowed down her hand.
"You'll leave us alone now, right?" Chii said with false sweetness. She leaned closer and spoke in his ear. "Give your master my best regards." Chii turned and left. As she walked through the haze, it dispersed and the shadow wasn't seen the rest of the day.
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"What was that about? I though we told you not to use your powers?" Karina practically yelled at the teenage girls in her car. Besides Rogue and Chii, Jubilee and Kitty were in the back seat as well. Karina was lecturing them about showing off and defying her and Storm.
"Look, no one saw anything. What's the big deal? He started it." Jubilee protested. She was a little ticked off that Vanessa had saved them.
Karina frowned. Jubilee had brought up an interesting point. "That was odd. You were using your powers clear as day, yet no one paid any attention."
"No one saw because there was an Illusionist's Haze. It allows most people to see what the caster wants them to see, or in this case, doesn't want them to see," Chii said dully.
"We saw through it just fine," Karina snapped.
"You were mutants and strong mutants, too. Only strong mutants can see past a lower level Illusionist's Haze. Although, the caster can cast higher level spells," Chii mused silently.
The car was silent, save for the whipping of the wind in their hair. Both cars entered the garage. "Most likely the Professor will give all of you a long lecture," Karina sympathized.
"I believe that you, Ms. Waters, and Storm have already lectured them enough. But I have told all the teachers to give them extra work for two months." The Professor met them in the garage. All the students groaned when they heard their punishment. Slowly, they made their way back to their rooms and dorms.
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Chii sighed and sat in front of the piano. She stretched her fingers and started off with a few minor scales. She racked her brain for something to play Her face brightened a bit as she placed her hands on the piano. She sang notes with her fingers and sang words with a voice, trying very hard to hit each note.
Pretend that the lyrics to "Rinse" by Vanessa Carlton are here.
"Hey, Vanessa!"
Chii stopped playing abruptly like a child caught with her hand in the cookie jar. It was just Bobby and Rogue. With them, though, was a guy she had never seen before. He was muscular and pretty fit with his close cut hair. He face flushed a bit.
"What?" They came in holding a drum set, complete with cymbals.
"Where do you want these?" He grinned sheepishly. Chii sighed and waved them over. They moved the drum set near the wall across from the windows and Bobby moved the offending chalkboard near the mural.
The new guy looked at it and whistled in appreciation. "Nice work, Vanessa."
She looked over at him. "How do you know?"
He smirked. "Word travels fast around here. You'll get used to it. I'm Poitr Rasputin." Poitr took Chii's hand and kissed it. Blood rushed to her face.
"Hey, lovebirds! Come over here and help out!" Bobby yelled at them. Chii glared and was about to say something rude to him, but stopped when he took out a black electric guitar with red flames on the base. He held it out to her and grinned playfully. She took it and strummed it, relishing the musical sound it made. Poitr sat himself behind the set of drums and started to experiment with different beats. Rogue had a keyboard in front of her and Bobby held another electric guitar, silver rather than the black and red.
Vanessa looked at them and got an idea. She started to play the first few lines of "We Believe" by Good Charlotte. Bobby and Rogue followed her lead, Poitr waiting for his cue.
Pretend that the lyrics to "We Believe" by Good Charlotte are here.
Chii looked behind her as the last chords faded and smiled. A new mural had been painted while they played. It show four people playing in a band, not too different from them. The contrast and blending of colors astounded her.
"Nice work 'nessa." Bobby said.
"'Nessa?" Chii asked. He grinned foolishly and shrugged. "It's Chii."
"Chii." Poitr tried it out and found it rolled off his tongue pleasurably. "I like it."
"Let's try one more." Chii told them. Bobby went over to a pile of instruments and pulled out a few microphones and stands.
"You know? Scott was pretty pissed this morning. Had all of us do drills while you girls were shopping." Bobby blanched.
"Why?" Rogue wondered. She pulled over a stool and sat on it.
"Scott caught me in here. I think Jean used to spend time in this room. I guess my interrupting this peace kinda spoiled his only place of comfort." Chii pulled up her mic. "You guys know 'The Middle' by Jimmy Eat World?"
"Hell yah!"
Pretend that the lyrics to "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World are here.
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I can't believe that we aren't aloud to use lyrics here! I see tons of song fics on the site. What's the point? I mean, really? Well+sigh+. But, yes. We needed some more conflict. A fight with John, a small love triangle between Chii, Kurt, and Poitr. It's going to be a short one, maybe. Sorry to spoil your fun. I still need to know if you like the name Chii or Vanessa better. Just leave me a review, okay? -Black Heart of Darkness