Thanks again for all the reviews, here's the next chapter.
I'm trying to get another chapter out this week because I'm going on a cruise this week and I'm not sure when I'll be able to post a new one. Pray my boat doesn't get pirated :D we're not going in that area but you never know.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Jester, Reform and my new idea of Toad.
---Warning--- this is a dark and painful chapter.
Even though they saw something similar less than half an hour ago, there was nothing to prepare them for what they now witnessed. Her body was once again changing, this time from a princess, into an abomination. Her bones were increasing and decreasing in different area, her skin stretching and breaking to try and cover her poor form. The poor child thrashed about in painful spasms on her bed, ripping everything she touched to shreds, her primitive instincts telling her to attack anything to stop the pain. Even her lovely hair was not spared, as she ripped it from her scalp The vibrant blood trickled into her eyes, the slight sting was a joke compared to the rest of her body.
Several of the mutants were either pale of sickly green. Kitty's face was hidden behind a flood of tears, it broke her heart to see anyone in pain but a child always hurt more. She made her way over and tried to place a converting hand to help convert Talise in her time of pain, only to have it phase right threw the thrashing child. With a boom louder than the thunder outside, both parents entered to see why their child felt the need to scream. With a scream of terror, Talise's mother ran to her daughter's side while her father merely stood in the door way, too shocked at his daughter's body to even move.
Talise, TALISE! What....what's happening to you?!
Mommy, Mommy...It hurts...IT HURTS SO MUCH. Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP PLEASE!!!
Her cries fell on deaf ears as her transformation continued. Her eyes turned blue to a muddy gray, her remaining hair turned into a swampy green, and her healthy peach skin transformed into a color similar to a plague victims. Once he had regained his composure, Talbot pushed past his wife and carried out the creature that was once his daughter.
So I'm guessing Cher, that was your "second form" yes?
Are all of them that horrible, what kind of the God would force that hell on a child.
Toad released herself from Gambit's embrace and made her way over to Kitty. She then wrapped her arms around Kitty's waist and placed her head under her chin, similar to a child hugging and converting a parent.
Its OK Kitty-Cat, I'm fine remember. This is all in the past, there was nothing you or anyone could have done.
Kitty, now calm and collective, wrapped her arms around Talise to return the hug. As the two female mutants a sweet embrace, Lance couldn't help noticing that Pietro's phone had captured this charming image.
Pietro! You can't take a perverted picture of this!
If I give you a copy, then can I?
.....................Give me a 2 wallet sizes........................
As Talise and Kitty separated, unaware of the boy's new prize, the the scene changed again. This time into the familiar study that Talise's wedding was planed earlier. This time instead of sitting by her father's side, Talise laid sprawled on the floor still shaking from her transformation. Her mother has tenderly rubbing her head, trying with all her might to convert her poor child. Her father on the other hand was poking the fire, gazing at it's brilliant flames as if waiting for it to tell him what to do next. All the other mutants knew not to say a word as a painful discussion began to unfold between Toad's parents.
This is all your fault.
What?
You heard me, you DISGUSTING WHORE!(he than slammed he hand across the fireplace mantel, shattering vases, urns and other priceless artifacts in the process)
Everyone in my family has been normal, BUT THEN I GET STUCK WITH YOU! I looked away when you gave me a daughter, and even when you gave her this, this...disease I still forgave you. (Talbot made his way over to his wife and with a clean swipe of the back of his hand sent her flying from her daughter's side)
Do you think Nakamura will allow this, THING as his new daughter-in-law?(he than picked up the battered woman by her shirt's collar, lifting her up so high that her shoes were an inch above the floor).
SLAP
His hand meet the right of her face.
SLAP, SLAP
Back in forth his hand met either side of her face, blood leaking from her nose as tears feel from her eyes.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THIS HAS DONE! THERE IS NO WAY TO HIDE THIS CREATURE, I'LL BE A LAUGHING STOCK! THIS WILL RUIN ME.
(his hands clasped around her neck, causing the petite woman gasping for air.)
daddy.....stop...I'm....
SHUT UP! I'M NOT YOUR FATHER! You're an abomination, a Freak! You're worthless just like your....
it was at this time Talbot realized his wife was no longer fighting for air. Her arms were dropped to her sides and her once blue eyes were blood red. Talbot released his grip as her lifeless body feel to the floor. Still stunned by his action he walked back to the fireplace, asking the fire was to do next.
Daddy.......is mom....mommy ok.
She's gone.
(with a speed that almost seemed mutant, Talbot grabbed the red hot fire poker and spun around to his frail injured daughter)
AND I TOLD YOU I'M NOT YOUR FATHER!
Talbot then forced the poker on to his unsuspecting daughter. Even though it was just a memory the scent of burnt flesh meet everyone.
BAM BAM BAM
her father repeatedly beat his daughter in the back, each time burning her flesh and causing her screams to echo threw the halls of the house. In a fit of rage, Pietro ran to Talbot and attempted to punch the monster. Trying with failed attempts to stop the madman from further injuring the helpless mutant.
Stop it you BASTURD!
Talbot, still fueled by rage tossed aside the poker and grabbed a piece of the broken vase. He took the sharp instrument and plunged it into his daughter's back repeatedly. An offset of blood phased threw the head of Pietro, the shock of her blood coming in almost contact with his face was the only thing stopping the speedy mutant from attacking. As the others continued to watched the man stab his daughter, the memory scene started to fade to black.
Everyone was in a state of paralyzed fear. Nothing could have prepared them for what they saw, the pain of a little girl having to hid who she was, seeing her future lost to her father's selfish wishes, the painful transformation brought on by her mutation, and finally witnessing not only her mother's death at the hands of her father, but the same man who's job in life was to protect her but to also have her death nearly brought on by him.
Before anyone could speak the scene changed. This time a nearly lifeless Talise was being dragged down a hall. She was held by either arm by men dressed in black, protective suits. Their faces were hidden behind dark visors, the men were so covered in black that it was impossible to tell if there were really people inside. They carried her down a stone, dungeon like hallway laced with bars and cells. Calls from the poor souls inside those cages could be heard, some asking for food, others asking for water or warmth. As they approach a cell they carelessly threw Talise in it, causing her to land flat on her back. The poor child was in so much pain that she couldn't even scream. All she could do was cry as she drifted off into unconsciousness. Her final thoughts were on the smell of her new location. It was a horrible combination of dirt, waste and something she couldn't figure out.
Death.
The others were so focused on the tragic misfortune playing out in front of them, they nearly for got their host.
You all can smell it too, since that smell is part of my memory that is why you were all able to smell those scents before. I was so inexperienced at the time I didn't know that I was stuck in a place that reeked of dirt, body waste and death. That place, that hell was called Hell's Birth.
Logan was the one most confused. What was he to do now. He knew his daughter had had a hard life with her biological father, but she never gave him details. As a man with a painful past he knew not to try and pry those details from a person, could be enough to push someone over the edge. But this, was he suppose to convert her, and how. She had been betrayed by the first man she ever trusted in her life. What was he to do no. But what caused him the most grief was the simple time line. She was ten years old when he meet her, in that same hell hole. So what kind of tortures had she endured for those six years. As the darkness started to take shape and form, he new the answers were about to make themselves know.
Well what do y'all think?
I'll try and post another chapter before I go on vacation but I can't make any promises. And encase you guys are wondering here is Talise's time line
age:
0-4: lived with her biological family
4: had her first transformation, like she went from a caterpillar into a chrysalis
4-10: was stuck in Hell's Birth
10: met Logan
13-16: went under cover as "Toad" in the brotherhood