Chapter Ten
SEVEN MONTHS LATER
Star yawned as she awoke from her perch on an old oak tree, she heard a sniffing sound and looked down to find a wolf pup looking back up at her. Star rolled her eyes and jumped down out of the tree landing right beside the wolf pup, "Tell Chan to tell Gambit I'm still ticked but I'll be at the meeting tonight." The wolf pup nodded and ran off through the forest growing into a cheetah as it ran. Star yawned again and did some warm up stretches before she slowly started to walk through the forest back towards France. She let her mind wonder the memories she had of the past seven months. First she had become a part of the thieves guild and was listed the highest member, second she and Gambit had found four other mutants and got them to join up with the thieves guild. There was Leah who was an animal shape-shifter, Chan who was a telepathic, Lava who could make, control and become part of shadows, and last but not least there was Trina who was a telekinetic.
"Star."
Star immediately stilled her ear's straining as she tried to find out where the voice had come from. She took a deep sniff. Nothing. She started to walk again when she fell clutching her head as pain radiated through her body so intense it felt like she was being ripped apart. A scream worked it's way out of her mouth and echoed through the woods causing several flocks of birds to take flight. Star gasped for breath, never before had she felt pain this intense not even when her body had been filled with metal. Something metallic tasting was coming up her throat she turned her head and spit. Blood, flew out of her mouth and splashed onto the ground only instead of being red it was black and golden with swirls of red in it. Star's whole body shivered as more pain racked her body, "I guess I won't make it to that meeting." Was the last thing she thought before she blacked out.
When Star came to she didn't move or make a noise instead she took a breath through her nose to smell if anything or anyone was close when she smelt only the forest she opened her eye's and tried to sit up. A heavy weight seemed to be sitting on her chest but when she looked there was nothing there. Star shrugged it off and then remembered where she had been heading, "Chan can you hear me? This is Star."
"Star where the heck are you? The meeting starting in three minutes and Gambit is about to go nuts. He keeps asking everyone if they've seen you."
"Tell him not to freak out and that I'll be there as soon as possible although I'm still in the forest so I don't know how long…
Star stopped her telepathic conversation with Chan when she remembered how she had teleported herself and Gambit around when she had first met him. Star took a deep breath and stood up then she focused on where she wanted to be and closed her eyes she heard a poof and opened her eye's she was right outside of the meeting place in an nearby alley-way. Star smiled to herself and started towards the meeting place glancing into the window of a nearby shop on her way past. What she saw startled her, black wings trailed behind her. Star glanced around quickly and seeing no-one she turned to face the window fully and mentally tried to open her wings, they flew open showing a wing-span of sixteen feet, she gave them a flap and her feet left the ground her wings carrying her twelve feet up in the air with a single flap. She really wanted to experiment with her wings but she remembered the meeting and pulled her wings in which lead to her second surprise her wings disappeared into her back leaving only to huge rip's in her shirt which they had apparently ripped when they first emerged. Star took a quick second to calm herself down before she quickly walked to the meeting place and walked in.