X- Men Evolution
Destiny Magics
A/N okay, next chapter. One Small Word's review seemed like she was pretty desperate for the next chapter, so here it is. I'll try not to disappoint.
Disclaimer: I do not own X- men: Evo.
10. Lurking in the Dark
The dragon yawned and blinked her eyes open. A streak of red light exploded in front of her face, assaulting her eyes. She sprang up. Something was very wrong.
Kurt stared in horror. He had woken up that morning to find a note attached to his mirror. At first he had dismissed it- a lot of the younger mutants liked to play tricks. The he looked at what it actually said, and his blood froze. What had really got him was the name it had called him. Only one person had ever called him that- they had used to tease him with that name. It was impossible for that person to have left it, so who or what had come? He read the note again:
'I saw you yesterday in your room with that girl. Cute scene, Kurti. But she was wrong. You are a monster, and I will prove it.'
Kurt swallowed hard and threw the note into an empty drawer in his dresser. This couldn't be happening, it couldn't be. He took a deep breath and shook his head as though trying to shake the memory of the note out of it. He resolved to forget the note, but he couldn't ignore his prickling fur, nor could he stop himself from thinking about the dragon's strange warning.
The dragon had been on the alert for about an hour. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Someone had commented to Kurt that he was later than usual when he 'ported down, but he seemed fine. The dragon lay on the floor of the living room, staring at the chattering TV without seeing it. What was the light warning about?
"Hey, Earth to Dragon!" the voice broke through her thoughts.
"Huh?" the dragon looked up to see Rahne grinning at her.
"I said, you don't have to sit on the floor. There's room on the couch, if you claim it before the others wake up and come down."
"Oh… okay." The dragon got up, but before she could move, the house shook- violently. "I don't think that was the usual breakfast stampede… was it?" the dragon asked. Rahne was already off the couch and moving to check the front windows.
"Oh, no, not the Brotherhood." She groaned. "It's Saturday." The dragon heard frantic activity coming from every room that belonged to students or teachers. Rahne headed for the entrance hall, with the dragon deciding to follow.
They reached the entrance hall and stopped. A puff of smoke and Kurt was there. Kitty dropped in through the ceiling. The rest of the students began thundering down the stairs. Rahne backed over to the side of the entrance hall and transformed into a wolf. The dragon blinked. 'Oh, that's why she smells canine!' the dragon thought. 'And why she laps her water!' Rahne saw her looking and flashed a wolfish grin at her. Then the doors were opened, and everyone rushed outside.
Confusion reigned. A lot of yelling and a few attacks were exchanged. Then a voice, someone from the other team, yelled out:
"Hey, hold it! We just wanted you to come out here because Lance said there was a dragon! We wanted to see if it was true!"
Things more or less stopped then, and all the X-kids backed toward the mansion. Rahne somehow ended up next to the dragon and looked at her. The dragon nodded and slowly wound her way through the crown to stand nervously at the front. Once there, she glanced up at the other, much smaller group of mutants containing four boys and a girl.
"This thing?" said a blond-haired boy. He looked at a boy with brown hair and a larger build- one the dragon recognized. "Lance, you can't be serious. This thing couldn't beat up a Chihuahua." Suddenly, the blond-haired boy was right in front of her, and he hit the dragon's head hard with the back of his hand. Taken by surprise, the dragon toppled over. She heard some angry yells and a wolf's furious growl from the crowd behind her, but before they could move, the dragon rolled back onto her feet, snapped her mouth open, and breathed a heavy stream of thick, dense black fog. The blond boy, too close and not expecting it, couldn't run in time. The others behind him, not having his speed, were enveloped as well. The dragon kept it going for a few moment, then stopped. Everyone who had been in her path (just the "Brotherhood", as they had been called) stayed in their positions for a moment as though nothing had happened. The blond boy was the first to keel over. Then one by one, the rest of them dropped like stones. The dragon turned around. Some of the X- kids looked impressed. Rahne, for one, had her head cocked to one side; mouth open, tongue hanging out, and was wagging her tail while grinning. But other X- kids were not impressed. Some just looked astonished, while others looked… afraid. Wolverine was looking at her distrustfully. Then Kurt 'ported beside her.
"Voah! Awesome! Vhat vas zhat… and exactly vhat did it do?"
The dragon gulped. "I call it Shadow Fire… and most of my powers have to do with either shadow, energy, or both, so the best way to describe it, I guess, would be that I send it out, and it sucks out the energy of those it passes over. It doesn't hurt them… just knocks them out."
"So cool." Said Kurt. The dragon looked around nervously. Everyone was still staring at her. This was her limit- she took off suddenly and flew out of sight. She flew in an open window, crawled into the first dark corner she found, shut her eyes, and literally melted away into the shadows as though she wasn't there. Just before she did, though, she asked the light, 'was that what you warned me about?'
'No,' the light told her. 'Keep watching.'
'Watch for what?'
The light did not answer.
Later, Kurt went in his room to find another note on his mirror:
'Nice try. Ignore me all you want, I won't disappear.'
A/N well, there. Send reviews if you're anxious for the next chapter!